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VIII. 9RkcllIO"

The storm passed and there followed the silences'
weird, uncanny, of dripping water OF moving
things underfoot. Ultimately she heard the Splash
ing of kindly American boots, and looking OUTSIDE
saw q wet specimen of Private Sammy, marching
philosophicay up and down on sentry CO. She
called to him, half hysterical, and he answered
her with cheering words Reassured. she waited
for her husbands appearance, wrapped IN an
army blanket chilled to the heart. Later, wnen
her husband and daylight had come, she learned
that she had been sitting opposite window Win
a lighted candle by her offering splendid marx
for the prowling Filipino sharpshooters.
This was an experience and one which the rat
gentleman in the bank had never imagined. 10
the army this ignorance and narrowness Is tncom'
prehensible. The agony and bloody sweat OF
hiding death had gripped him so often that Fri
vate Sam cannot understand why the gentlemen
who employ him for this class Of work do not
realize that there particular horrors connected
with it, Being of the army he does not speak OF
them but his gorge rises within him when tat
gentlemen sneer at the uniform which he has
made respected.
But he remembers the pursuit OF happiness
and the day comes when he is ordered home
Then it is that the army and its women, gathered
aft watch the walls of Manila fade from their
vision. The crowding thoughts chase each other
across their brains forming themselves into mem
cries, horrible and happy, of cholera and poisoned
bolo Of the perfume of the ihangihlang and the
love fourishing while the constabulary band
played songs of home, around the the Luneta-
San Francisco Call.
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lessly Pools were under the house ana cnoAeia
was unusually on the rampage Inc ram celo
down in such gusts that she had to fasten down
the windows. thereby making the house too dark
for reading purposes. SO the day long, Wnlle her
doctor husband wandered about through mud ana
rain with chlorodyne in hand, she peered tnroush
the Stats, gazing at the bamboo pal1ntrees "hlp
ping to and fro before the fury OF the s'o.m ~
the amounted time she prepared dinner She pro-
duced her row of cans. In her girlhood days
there was household joke, What we cannot eat
we can" Now as she gazed at the canned milk
the canned butter and the canned meats she
wondered if she could eat all they can Some
how or other the fleeing thought of the girlhood
DAYS made her choke. You see 1t was the ram
and the storm and the centipedes and things
which got on her nerves.
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A Benevolent Censor.

A trio of young ladies spent some
weeks last year at an out-of-the-way
village in the mountain region They
found the village postmaster quaint
old character, whose ways were as
original as they were startling. So
that the daily trip to the postoffice
became a real event
is there any mail for us, major p"
asked one of the young ladies, as she
appeared at the window one morn
ing.
mo, they amt thing for you-all
this mawnin', Miss Mary" was the re-
ply. They wasn't nothin' come for
you but letter that looked like ad-
vertisin', and SO I opened it, and sure
enough 1t waa jest some advertisement
about somethin or other, and says
to myself, says |, Now, Miss Mary
don't want to tote such stHH as that
home with her. and SO ! throwed 1t
"a the waste box"
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MlsHAP TO "JACK AND JILL
Certain Familiar Mother Goose Rhyme
Is Revised by Copy Read In
Newspaper Office.

Good nonsense grows out of good
nonsense. A writer in the Chicago
Tribune imagines what "copy-read-
err" in a newspaper office would do
with certain familiar Mother Goose
rhyme The copy-reader, who has
had a reporters training. and has
learned to write everything alike, sits
down for few moments, and reS1ses
Jack and JILL somewhat as follows:
Jack, aged seven, son Of Peter Jones,
29S Spring street, and Jill, aged six,
daughter of Mrs. Abigail Thompson
296 Spring street, at eleven o'clock
yesterday morning walked up the hill
near the junction of Blinker avenue
and Fordyce place.
For the purpose, as jill afterward
explained, of procuring pail of water
although the improbability of their
finding water at the top of a hill nat
urally suggests itself.
Jack, who was carrying the pail,
had started on the return trip, accom-
panied by the little girl, when he
stumbled, as is supposed, over some
obstacle in his path, and fell, his head
striking the ground with great vio-
lencs. Doctor Slack, who was at once
summoned, pronounced the lads in
Jury to be a fracture of the anterior
portion of the Uranium, and ordered
his immediate removal to Blessington
hospital.
And Jill, who had fallen at the same
time, either through excessive fright
or In consequence of having stumbled
over the same obstacle, but had re-
ceived no serious injury, went home
unassisted
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Romance of the Sweet Pea

yellowest bloom at present known is the creamy
Clara Curtis.
A novelty in the form of a striped flower was
offered in the year 1897 by Mr.. James Carter, and
in the year 1860 there appeared the first bloom
of the choice picotee-edged varieties which are
so popular today. The latter raised by Major
Trevor Clarke It was fine white flower with
an edging of blue and Major Clarke scored q
double triumph for his new flower also the
first sweet pea with blue coloring
The greatest revolution in the history OF the
sweet pea, however was inaugurated July rs,
1901, when at the National Sweet Pea society's
first exhibition held in the old Royal Aquarium
London, Mr.. Sas Cole, Earl Spencer's gardener
at Althorp park, displayed the famous Countess
Spencer beautiful pink variety with wavy
instead of the conventional smooth standard The
loneliness of the new form won the hearts Of all
growers at and during the last ten years so
great has been the increase of wavy or frilled va
rieties after the Spencer type that the latter now
rules the sweet pea world.
Some hybridsts engaged particularly at
present in adding to the list of marbled varieties
of which the bue-vened Helen Pierce is so choice
an example, and it is possible that much more
effort may be expended in future in the attempt
to produce flowers with a striking and delicate
venation.
Just few figures in conclusion, showing not
the least striking phase Of the romance Of the
sweet pea The Sicilian monks ponderously
named plant has become about 500 different vari.
cites grouped into II classes, according to color
Over the culture of these flowers a national soci.
ETY. numbering 93S members and mebracing 101
an1liated societies watches.
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The most highly regarded and widely grown
annual in Canadian gardens of today, no matter
where in this fiower-loving country the garden BE-
or whether it belong to cottager or man OF means
toiling clerk or park-owning municipality, the
sweet pea first came to from the Slcll1an nuns.
Franciscus Cupani, monk, who was also
botanist. sent the first seeds to England in the
wear 1899 consigned to an Enfield schoolmaster
named DR. Uvedae. The old Middlesex dominic
was both botanist and hortculturst, and he
grew the first sweet peas ever seen in England
Cupani called the plant Lathyrus dlstopiaty-
nhyllus hirsutis mollis ct odorus-an unW1edy
name out of all harmony with the winged grace
of the sweet pea. Later Linnaeus cut down the
clumsy designation to its present form of LatAy-
rus odoratus.
Or JJyedale found the seeds produced plant
with purple flowers and so here have the
color of the original sweet pea
The stock was gradually multiplied. and about
thirty years later one Robert Furber. Kensing-
ton gardener was the first to offer seeds for
sale
Progress in the production of new varieties
was slow in those remote days. and it not
Cunani's consignment of seeds) that any col
ors became known. In the year mentioned. how
ever. catalogue issued which described
black scarlet and white varieties
What became of the black and scarlet sorts, II
they ever existed in those true colors, is not
known. The black must have been deep purple
The blacklist bloom is still the dark purple Tom
Bolton In this connection. seeing that for years
mast hybridists have been trying to produce
pure yellow sweet pea, 1t may be said that the
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four or five inches long and connected
by thinner strip. Bend these wings
near their centers till what was, or
iginally the top of one becomes the
lower side, thus forming pair OF
blades like the propeller Of boat or
of an airship, for that matter.
Then take stick about eight inches
long and from an eighth to a QUAR-
ter of an inch thick and nail the.
wings to one end of it. This done,
hold the device with the wings up
and then stick between the palms VT
the hand, Give it twirl Or yH9l
with the last motion shooting it
forth into the air and you will be
surprised to see it sail straight for,
ward for distance of from 20 to
80 feet before it begins to descend
an inch
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-10-28
An ARMY OFFICERS WIFE

Her husband came in for dinner and rushed
away again. Whereupon little Mrs. Army Woman
went to her trunk and for the first time unpacked
all the finery of the days that had been.
81 found a dress which had worn at a dance
at the Preside the last time'' she said, and
cried and cried"
Before leaving the husband had pushed a chest
against the door, locking her in completely. this
being deemed the safest plan. Therefore on leav.
ing he had to crawl through the window, and as
he hung on the window sill she bent forward and
kissed him. Then she heard him drop with a
splash into the disease infested pools below Alto
gether it was nice spot for the pursuit of hap
piness as could be found.
Then she went to the loneliness and the dark
and the centipedes and cried. The wind whipped
the banana palms against the house, the rain
slashed down. she heard the lizards scudd1ng
around and big one outside, in mango tree,
cs1led "tuck-coo" so that she jumped up in fear
and alarm waiting and wondering.
All through the night she lived the horrors
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tor husband to Manila.
They were ordered at
once to a native village
up the valley, where a
company of infantry had
been stationed to guard
the water supply for Ma
Mia. The natives, you
see, had a habit of throw
ing the bodies Of victims
Of cholera into the riv-
ers and wells, thereby
making life most I'M
pleasant for those whites
who had to drink. Such
things are not mentioned
in the society reports OF
the press.
OF course the wife
could have remained be-
hind, but she did not.
She was possessed with
the archaic belief COM
mon to the army that
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also for washing.
There was so much
cholera" she explained.
The meals were Served
with wire lettings over
the dishes and above and
about them and around
them was the one thought
cholera. There were
other delights. The Moros
were out. A sentry had
been boloed. The roads
were knee deep in mud
and the rain poured down
in torrents.
There came a nlgnr
when the very soul OF her
was tried to its uttermost.
The rain had fallen cease
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-10-28
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

Made of awl-work-S Shoes.
Mean to a degree-The temperature.
If you multiply vowel by vowel.
what instrument viii you make p
Axe (AxE)
Which fruit is never single?-The
pear.
Which fruit revels in history ?-The-
date
Which tree forbids suieide?-Tbe
olive 90 Iive)
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Swimming Apparatus.

out with the same motion. When
the force of this movement is spent
her legs are drawn up again by a
strong elastic cable, also fastened to
the ankles and attached to the ap-
paratus above her head. The support
on which the swimmer" lies is ex-
tended far enough out to prevent her
arms going below the level of her
body, and auxiliary support limits the
downward movement of her legs.
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Mistaken.

Tommy has purpled eye;
Tommy has a battered nose;
Tommy has broken tooth;
Tommy has two crippled toes.
What's the matter with our Tommy?
What has caused him such annoy?
Tommy thought that he was bigger
Than the other little boy.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-10-28
Youthful Reason.

4 Sunday school teacher after
reading the story of Ananias and Sap
phira to the Juvenile class, asked:
Now, children, why doesn't the Lord
strike everybody dead who tells
lie?"
Cause" answered a bright little
fellow. there wouldn't be anybody
left, hardly"
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MOST INGENIOUS LITTLE TOY
Few Turns of Hands Sends 1t Spin
ming Across Room-fn Line
With Aerial Craze.

A most ingenious little toy that is
right in line with the present craze
for things aerial is that here depicted.
1t is so simple that anybody can make
it and it will amuse the children for
hours. Take strip of thin, light
metal-aluminum # you can get
piece of this, or celluloid Cut out of
1t pair of ,.lliptical wings, each about
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-10-28
A SURPRISE.

Young Benjamin was coming down
The stairs as youngsters do,
Pausing at every step to stamp
Upon each tiny shoe.
And peeping through the banisters
He laughed aloud In glee
And held his wooden elephant
That all below might see.
Alas! when nearly down. the toy
Fell from his needless hand
And crash upon the marble floor
With heavy thud did land.
A startled step did Baby make,
With terror in his eyes,
And he, too, landed with thump,
And that was the surprise.
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name who took the town Of Lungtungpen, ma
Kid as Fanus," and who prior thereto helped
the department of information Of the British en-
plre, with the judicous administration of his
cleaning rod. Which goes to show that between
PrNate Sammy and Private Tommy there is a
healthy Ango-SaXon understanding-par
as regards the treatment of black and brown
brothers
All this is merely preamble, but when the
MORO mas been carted away and the congressional
committee has committed itself and the garlands
are forgotten Private Sammy goes back to his
own life, which to him is highly important af-
TAR Somewhere, somehow, there remains in his
brain an impression that he is allowed the pur
suit of happiness-and he pursues it. He does
II in his own way and in divers places. The tur-
ouIent tides of Juan de Fuca, which by the
sun-cTested heights of Fort Worden, have heard
his raucous chorus; the watermelon patches dot
ing the desoaton of Fort Riley know his foot
PRINT On a Florida sandspit, in the SHOWS OF
Alaska. in the heat of the islands, he pursues it
and catches what little there is of it.
The world which praises and abuses him
knows him not. his life. The point of view
Is entirely different. ponderous civilian at
The window of the paying teller of local bank
observed officer in uniform standing behind
him
Well, l guess the country is SAFE" observed
the rotund one, gazing superciously at the uni
form
Thank you, sir" said the officer, saluting.
This officer was boy lieutenant and his sar-
casm was natural. For within his short space
OF years he had played with the fangs of death
and made snooks at the powers of darkness.
snort time previously, at Luzon, he was ordered
10 ind the bodies of two soldiers that had been
murdered. The orders were to find the bodies,
so Of course they went and did. With seven
troopers and a surgeon he pursued his way
through Jungle scrub and cholera infested lands,
without food. drenched with rain, sleeping IN
S"amps. They found them. One was tied awe
over reliant HILL after being slashed with
polo, and the other had been knitted and gagged
win portion of his own flesh. Presumably the
supercious circumferential gentleman did not
KNOW Of such things and-this is what stings-
mere seem to be so many citizens of the coun-
uF whose ideas of the work Of the army is equally
united Unfortunately, the men who do big
lungs cannot talk about them.
II follows that what the man OF the army mas
10 undergo so must the woman of the army Inc
outside world knows the army woman as sne Is
not 1t sees in her life succession or society
events and realizes not the horrible other SIDE.
mere is illustration:
Some years ago. in ''the days of the empire
little army woman went as bride WAs0 ner oo"
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the place of the wife Is by her
husband. So with him she plunged
through the jungle to the camp. She
was the first white woman In the
place and the only other one of her
kind was 20 miles away. The situa-
ton was decidedly pleasant. The
house was like an inverted waste
paper basket, a three-roomed BAN
boo shack set up on bamboo poles.
One room was dubbed the centips-
dorium because-well, because ev-
cry time the bride went in it she
found centipedes and other things.
There were other advantages. There
was no stove and the cooking had
to be done over hot Goals. Also the
water had to be boiled and par
boiled: not alone the water for
drinking purposes, but
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again. garlands are few, while con
greSsionaI committees are prolific.
The army knows that it is impossible
to explain to the gentleman from
Long Island or Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
that little brown brother, hopping in
and out Of the brush, fanatically desir-
GUS Of claWtng up an American citizen
with poisoned bolo, has little regard
for the federal statutes at large. And,
Of course, neither has Sammy, Jr., the
monumental gentleman who has en-
listed for reasons best known to him
self and whose duty it is to catch the
aforesaid Moro, and generally clear
the path for those that follow after.
Private Sammy does his work and he
does 1t according to circumstances
which are essentially nonpolitical.
Therefore it happens on occasionos
that the aforesaid Moro Is sent yeIp-
ing into eternity and Sammy Jr. re-
CARDS himself with a pleased grin.
Also circumstances force him to
other untoward steps. Once there
was famous soldier, Mulvaney by
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ments of stress, the
viewpoint of the
army is charming
" crude. Follows
then a historical
splurge. Also,
sometimes, a con-
gressional investi-
CATION, or mayhap
garlands and hon
ors and whatnots.
It depends upon
the circumstances
that is, the polit-
zeal circumstances.
To the men of
the army the gar
lands and friIls
are accepted with
childish delight.
Somewhere in the
bottom of his we'll
drilled and clearly
heart there is the
consciousness of
having done a big
thing well, and be-
Ing most intensely
human, he gives
ear to the praise
Of his fellow citi-
zen. And then
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-10-28

md somebody else does things
and behold, there spring up from
somewhere sundry happily profane
aoId,ery who carry civilization in
their cartridges and progress at the
mint Of the bayonet. For, in mo-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-11-04
N. |. WELLER HEAD
OF CITIZENS RELIEF
Philanrhropic Organization
With New Officers Ready
for Winters Work.

The officers who will head the Citi-
zens Relief Association during the
coming fiscal year of that organization
are Michael l. Weller. president; Mrs.
H. p. F. Maefarlend and DR.. William
c. Rives, vice presidents; Milton Z.
Allies. treasurer; and Walter S. Unord,
secretary
The election of these officers marks
the beginning Of another year OF &c
tive philanthropy for the organization.
During the fiscal year Just closed,
the association has aided .0Z6 families
with food, fuel, clothing. and shoes,
and has furnished Ill tuberculosis pa
ttents with milk and eggs The de-
mands upon the treasury OF the organ
ization were unusually heavy during
November, December. and January OF
the last year, owing to the severity OF
weather conditions and the high cost
of living.
The report Of the treasurer OF the
organization, Milton r. Ai'es, e. rthe
year, shows that the Citizens Relief
Association has received s7,7543S, and
disbursed $8.11S.S3 for fooJ supplies 10
the poor, milk and eggs TO tubercular
patients, fuel, shoes, and clothes, and
meals and lodging. =
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-11-04
AGREES THAT DUKES
ARE NOT WORTH A :
Lydia Lipkowska, the Russian
Singer, Says Geraldine Farrars
Estimate Is About Right.

BOSTON, Mass, Nov. dukes are
not worth a -." said Geraldine Far
rar when she arrived in New York re-
Gently for the season.
Miss Farrar is right" said Lydia
LipkowsIza. the beautiful Russian sing
err. who had read Miss Farrars CLASH
ficatiOn of dukes. What has a duke
but his title. and what good are titles in
these progressive days?
Il would not marry a prince or a duke
and leave the STAGE said Madame,
with much dignity.
Would you make the prince travel
all over the world with YOU II you did
marry oney' she was asked.
That's just what ] would do.
would make him carry the suit cases
and look after the luggage. l would
make him open and shut my carriage
door. ! would see that he waited for
ne at the theater and attended 10 the
business details. I would make him
work. and princes do not Ike 20 work.
Il would rather marry an American
than a prince at any time
Nine. LipkOWska is a beauty in voice
ana physical charms and does not wear
stockings
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tain dialect, when she tasted ice water
for the first time. adding in fear:
BE IL fifteen ter drink
DAYS and months passed, and the won
derful cure progressed so surely and
swiftly that even DR.. Sayre himself
could scarcely believe the evidence Of
his senses. Ply skilled manipulatiOns, the
muscles, bones, and finally. the limbs
themselves, were gradually twisted into
natural curves and positions. Through
feyerish DAYS and nights the child's feet
and legs were kept In tortuous plaster
casts, 70 be removed only for new ma
nipulations and 20 be put again into new
and still more painful casts The day
came, however, IT TIE end Of the twelve
month, when she was as straight as
other children.
Uncle" and "Auntie" Strecter again
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The Worlds Best Medicine

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left their little charges in the Children's
Home at Greensboro. and jOUrueyed TO
New York for Gertrude Mcintosh. Anx-
ious TO see the child provided for, they
haze in the meantime found home for
her, as they have found for 400 other de-
pendent Nortn Carolina children who
have come under their loving care.
The child, abandoned bv her moi her.
inmate Of a poor house, a home OF
charity. and wise in the knowledge OF
pain before her eighth birthday, will be
adODted by a wealthy South Carolina
banker and his wife
The kind gentleman my Auntie
Streeter told me about has brOuEhten
me through" she cOnfded 10 me timid-
w. His name is Christ Jesus