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she was sure you enjoyed each Others
company Whatever is the matter,
honey" Miss Selma Lue's exclama.
tion Of solicitude was caused by n
expression Of CONSERVATION on Misa
Cynthia's face which was IN turn
caused by the sight Of the artist com.
ing from around the corner Of the
barn. Miss Selma Lue was uncon.
scious Of his approach: so n Miss
Cynthia acted. she must act quickly.
Grasping the bow NJ the back Of her
waist. she gasped a PIN" and van.
ished toward the rear OF the gro.
Gerry.
In my cushion. child" called Miss
Selma Lue. who thought catastrophe
threatened. and she turned 10 speak
10 Mr. Dobbs. who was coming up the
street with tin bucket In hia hand,
evidently In ouest OF rome sort Of
provender. His errand attended to.
Miss Selma Lue started back To the
aid Of Miss c. nthia. when she was Or.
rested by Mr.. Alan's remark that he
had thought he had seen some one
sitting on the steps with her. Miss
Selma Lue's sense Of propriety for.
bade any mention Of Miss Cynthia
and the pin. 30 she seated herself On
the steps TO await that lady's reap.
pcarance.
WAS you sick last night." she In
quired interestedly. ignoring his rs-
mark. Il seen your light burning prst.
~ late and ! hunted up the pepper.
mint and campfire bottles before I
went TO bed. for ! kinder looked fer
you TO be took down with Q spell Of
collie. Seems as n raw potatoes
might swell In the stomik. am sor.
~ Miss cynthie's cooking didn't turn
out better. but Of course she
meant for the best. Cookins
don't always come 10 q woman young
In life: II has TO be sorter lived 10 BY
experiences, Miss Selma Lue spoke
In an ordinary tone Of voice. for she
WAS under the Impression that Miss
Cynthia had retired TO the little bed
room. and she could see that the door
vas shut. In reality the eulprit vas
seated on q box Of cans behind The
molasses barrel. well within range q
the conversation.
Ito he Continued. J.
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rurri-c csmsss-'ss late psrsa

rurwi~c cswsts-'ss late psvte.
TIE vellknown Landscape architect.
Howard Evarts Weed. writing h Sub
urban Life for November. says tAss
there can be but one solution a. the
old graveyard problem. and that b 10
make the graveyards into psbie
parks. Continuins. he says: TIE city
Of Gait. Ontario. has solved the peoh.
lem In . most interesting way. end
the exsnrIe msy well BE- followeA ~
other cities Some years eso there
was an abandoned graveyard. just a.
Joining the business district. whi~A
was taken In hand By the park boavl
and made into public park. TIE
monuments were gathsrsd toeethss
and used 10 make the supports q .
pereoia. Wills the hsaAstonss vero
placed between these supports. fseir 3
both inside and outside. This peseosa
has . cement noor Some Of the 10
scriptions can b. read quite plainly.
but othsrs are too wsathsrbsafea -
BE- made out. Lincoln PARK. Chicsgo,
was once . graveyard. EastsiAs pavk
Of lansing. Mich. vas The AreG esmo-
tery Of that city. and . public play-
ground In wabash. Ind. wss 3 grsve
yard until two years ago"
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SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER Miss Selma Lue. spinster
grocery-stOre keeper Of River Blum and
guardian angel Of the community, pre-
sides over an impromptu day nursery Tor
the babies Of the neishborhood IN the
rear OF the place. Her charges are kept
In soap boxes and are known A. Tue
''Soap-Box Babies" The fact that she
10 single makes her somewhat OF an oo-
Ject OF sympathy to the motnsrs, although
possessed Of stronger maternal tnstinct
than many Of them. One OF her tnu-
mate friends 10 Miss Cynthia Page.
daughter OF Widow Page. who lives In the
whits-pillared house on the hill.
CHAPTER H-Cynthia visits Miss Be-
lima and learns that she has taken anoth-
sr Soap boxer In. Alan Kent young
artist who wishes to establish stuoio
In her barn. Their first meeting 10 none
too cordial when Blossom. Miss Lues
adopted baby. and one Cynthia 10 very
fond Of shows an evident preference Tor
Alan. When Cynthia leaves. Alan learns
more about her and hears that her moth
er one Of the first families Of the place.
b land poor and In danger OF losing the
old homestead.
CHAPTER IHI-Alan 10 struck with
Cynthis's beauty and sweet character OUT
she avoids him. selisa tells him how
she came to settle down on the biun
eight years before when she came from
Warren county and exchanged her msa-
ger savings for the store 30 the former
owner might take his consumptive wife
further west. She Immediately turned
the store into . haven for little ones.
CHAPTER Iv.-Cynthia tells Miss Be-
lima Of an offer from a land company TOR
their homestead which greatly troubles
her mother but she fears the offer must
b accepted. The heavy mortgage leaves
no other alternative In sight. They visit
Alan's studio In the barn loft during his
absence where Cynthia admires the paint
inGs and finds one OF herself from
sketch Alan had made unknown to her
Alan's father 10 Q wealthy business man.
and the sons love for art instead OF
business 10 highly displsssing to ths elder
Kent.
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WsrmIns HUMAN OsSy.

Prof. Richard Won zsynsk a. tie
University Of Prague has discovered
. method Of warming the intsetog a
the human body By electricity. 4 gal-
vaate csrsset y sssA = convey 49,
to any part oe the Orgasism vtshoue
any other feeling thss % aosesah1e
sensation of warmth whsss The olee.
tricity enters and circulatss tAruugA
the body. The treatment is said 70 b
particularly sficacious In diseases oe
the joints and muscles. sout. rheuna-
tisn. neuralgia and many forms a
headache. One application gives 10
stant relief and continuance of the
method. II 10 stated. In many casss
has produced . complets cure.
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CHAPTER VI.
A Pin and Q proposal.

IN uHu y VF0po6aV.
''Don't you know every woman's heart
Is soft towards counting whether she's Ia
II or notT'
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Wide Open.
stood dumb. She had forgotten
where Miss Selma Lus had said the
oatmeal and milk we're kept!
In Q panic she began . hurried
search and II took her Just ave min
utes to exhaust the possible hiding.
places Of milk and oatmeal In the
River Blufi Grocery. She even tipped
up the vinegar jug and turned on the
molassss spigot. No milk and no oat'
meal!
In the meantime the plaintive walls
from the back Of the store had devel'
opsd into the roar Of hurricane
which swelled by the instant but new.
Or sbbed. The sight Of the bowl ana
the spoon which Miss Cynthia had set
on the stool before them vas the red
rag to their rage. The two Flartties
had settled down steadily to the bust.
ness Of making an uproar. and - they
screamed each kicked the foot OF his
boz with maniacai strength. Clemm's
wasted no force In any exercise save
that Of the vocal chords. and shrili
and high she shrisksd. each output
more startlins thAa the last. Pattss
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is sof, towards courtinx whether she's In
II or not7''
Miss Selma Lue
Good morning. Miss seliny Lus!
lest run In to git some nutmeg. q
pound Of sugar and . quart Of kero-
sene to make up some apple-pies for
Mr. Fenney's supper: he do love EN-
So"
There never was such . hand ~
you fer pies, Mis- Kinney. honey. I
recommended you about II to Mise
Cynthie not a week ago. told her I
would ~ yeu 70 show her how vhsdF
"
"Well. We was stalking that over
last night. me and Mary Ellen Dobbs." +"
interrupted Mrs. Kinney. and We
think II II fine fer Miss Cynthie ter
marry him. even n hs n . painter;
cause when pictures 10 dull he can
Git signs and sich to do to keep 90
ing. When will II be. Miss seiiny
Lue?" And she gathered the bundles
In ono arm and balanced the oil-can
IN the other hand. ready TO hurry on
a. soon a. she had extracted the NOR.
sci Of news she had run upon.
why. Mis- KINNEY. never heard"
Miss Selma Lue's eyes were wide with
astonishment.
We'll. I think II was. to say the
least. disrespectfri in him and her not
TO have told you him a-living In your
own barn and she 30 appearing TO he
loving Of you all the time. I hate TO
think she's deceitful girl. but must
say ! did mistrust that nowerEarden
hat when ! seen II the other day 90
by with Ethel Maud and Bsnnis
Dobbs."
Il don't know what you mean. Mis-
Kinney. by speaking 90 about Miss
Cynthie. They don't nothing In this
world hurt me like hearing one Of ny
friends make light Of another" And
Miss selinn Lue's Irish eyes snapped
Law. Miss seliny Lus. I didn't
mean no harm! II Jest"
Il know you didn't. Mis- Kinney.
honey. but sometimes little criticiz-
inss ny the track and run into some
body that's easy hurt" said Miss Be-
lima Lue.
well. Jest seen them setting here
In the door yesterday when you was
up the river with the Dobbses and
they was - thick a. two peas In .
pod. her a.laushins and him a.talking
FER all he were worth. You may not
know courting when you see n. Miss
ssliny Lue, not having ever been"
."Mis' Kinney. child. don't you know
every womans heart 10 soft towards
counting. whether she's IN II or not
and every mans. too. for that matter.
though they tries hard to hide ~ II
amt only on count Of my pitiful his
tory with Adoniram Millsaps or ycur'n
with Mr.. Kinney that We likes 10
watch the doInss OF young folks and
talk EN- over-it's horned In women
10 hatch out and hover lovers match.
ings and the clucking over en- 10 part
Of the good times Of life. was Jest
a-ssying to-
"Miss seiIny Lue!" screamed Ben.
nie from the Dobbs' front stoop.
Como quick. como quick; Ethel
Maud's caught her hair In the grape
vine and's hanging By H. shs was
eating 'em' Mas sick!"
Miss Selma Lus hurried with al the
speed possible 70 the relief Of the
young Abaalom. and Mrs. Kinney cali.
ID amer her. Re sure and rub cam.
phire on the roots." whether Of the
vine o. Ethel haud's hair she did not
say.
whsn she rsturnsA b the grecsry
half IN hour later Miss Selma Lus
sosnd Alss Cy.sAia cn!llaG q Ass
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MADE WITH CHEESE
REcipG ron PARMEsAN chges1
NooolGs.

Melt Two Ounces es 0ut.ss. oneAsee
Cup es Flour. Msssvrs u Min.
Three GeVs and Pour ovaeee
oS the paemesaN.
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hIs sh,ay csss.

hls oh,Ry cssl
"we1." said the man With The ohtuy
coat. = guess IN have 10 paint hsr.
I've taken II 10 the taller. but 10 says
he can't 10 anything With n. He eayo
the nap o. whatever Il 10. IL voplly
surface, b al wors o6 and it's cotton
underneath and yoa east q anything
with that. You can sronge Il aa1 tale
little of the shine % Il. but ~ u.a-
ute yos sst back h II. rub n aoainse
s0msthing. Il ests Ill shiny aeain.
aal tAat know 10 - Q fa<t Az sov
guess ril have 70 paist ~.
'0As looAs BOO - u she voo voss
nishe1. as1 vhat IN Oo1ng y - y
70 81 . s0ail 90 q dull 1nieA no1oe
without any vasaish b n 80 m -,
iag 70 ~ tAal AFst - ~ GDoesee.
aal u Il weshs sll stgAe thseo n =.
ing 70 paint ~ ~ evss. eoat
stasl . sAiny ssaa; nssl Aavo -
lull anisA ssosAew.:.
m 0svuaA.
~Do1 ~ sal1S- aaheo u Unnnn,
Oss ~.
.Yss, tahs IN Ieeoas-s
~oA. m ~ q 1uly. I ~ -
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The Growing Test.

Abou Ben Edict-may he never die
Awoke one night from dreams OF hot
mince pie,
And saw sort of vision in midair,
With misty robe and floating golden hair.
uooa gracious mel! Ben Edict said,
The Vision smiled,-Ben Edict he smiled
too.
Sir" said the Vision, with charming
pout,
They tell me that romance is dying out
And so I'm canvassing a little bit
Just to investigate the truth of it,
1 must be through my task ere dawn ar
rives.
write the names of men who love their
wives"
That's rhe" cried Abou, put me right
up topi'
Nay not so fast" the Vision said. lust
stop
And think a minute, sir, for you must
You sometimes speak to her in snappsh
tone;
You let her do too many household tasks
You never give her money till she asks,
You throw the Sunday papers on the
floor
And you forget to close the front screen
Oh, no, Ben Edict, you're a hopeless
guess III go away now from this
place
Hold on" cried Abou, ''let me have a
sayi
I like to have her buy hats. anyway"
The Vision stared at him. Their wagged
each wing,
And passed away as quick as anything
But when that list went to the printer :
shop
Abou Ben Edict's name was at the top,
Carolyn Wells in The Delineator for
January.
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The standing answer. since the days
the present generation of middle aged
We're in the ella ssroom. TO tae question
What is the population of China ?
has been 400.0oo,O00. This has been
disputed by some self-styled authori-
ties, and it came TO be believed quite
generally that probably this estimate
was exaggerated. Within the year the
Chinese government, through the Gus
toms department, has made an emu
meration of every district of the en-
pire. The report shows a total popu-
lation of i39, PA, 900; which seems to
be about half the population of the
United States greater than the largest
estimate of statisticians in the past
Ii may therefore be set down with
some confidence of accuracy that the
Celestial empire harbors nearly one
third of the population of the earth.
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of candy. YOU may watch him going
through the performance of rubbingI
shis feet together, one pair after anoth-
er, Ike the man who rubs his hands
together, and do YOU know what he is
doing? He is rubbing off these dis
ease germs. and the filth ne has coll
leeted, and scattering it in minutest
particles upon the food You are to-
eat, and then he goes on collecting
more, which he will soon pause to rub
off in another spot. which may this
time be on your bald head or ii may
be on fruit in show window along
the street
DR.. Lederle has opened a campaign
of the right sort. May the people APP
prove him. and God speed him in his
work. until all sorts of foods that are
to be handed ont. to human beings at
least, may go as directly from the oven
or other process of making into closed
receptacles of some sort (glass cases
most naturally for show purposesl and
there can be kept until clerks with
clean hands and clothing take il out
and wrap IL up for the purchaser. II
is matter in which the public may
Well interest itself. When il is con-
sidered in its proper light, there will
be revolution in the handling of food.
and then people will wonder how they,
in these times, ever tolerated such
conditions as exist today or could
ever swallow a morsel of food that
had gone through the processes of
filth accumulation such as we find in
all sorts OF places in this and every
other city of today.
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The Naive Liquor Dealers.
portland EXPRESS A advertiser

tPOftland Express Advertiser
In our school days. we were all
taught, as were the generations before
US, to beware of Greeks bringing gifts.
Men familiar with political matters
have long learned to distrust the
statments of political opponents. and
this is particularly necessary, when
those opponents are financially inter-
ested in any suggested change in pub
lie affairs.
1t is to be noted that the liquor in
terests are protesting vigorously that
they are not devoting their energies to
the repeal of the Prohibitory Law in
Maine. That fact of itself is enough
to constitute a warning to our people.
When the liquor people proclaim that
they are satisfied with the present
conditions in the State. it is time for
us to be looking about us and observ-
ing what is really going on beneath
the surface among their advocates and
henchmen here.
1t is a notorious fact of history to
be ascertained easily by any who de-
sire. that the liquor interests have
fought with all their power every
move that has been made toward
prohibitory legislation in every state
in the Union. They have fought
every step taken to restrict their
traffic; they have fought ward option;
they have fought local option; they
have fought county option; they have
fought state wide | prohibition. with
every force which was at their com
mand, including the battles which
have been conducted for wet and dry
territory, under these various option
plans. They have long been at work
to create anti prohibition sentiment in
Maine. and it is only necessary to ask
thinking men if it is reasonable to sup
pose that, after expanding money and
effort without stint, to oppose both
prohibition and restriction of the traf-
fic they should suddenly abandon all
this effort in the State which gave
prohibition birth.
The people of Maii,e will not be
hoodwinked by any public profession
of disinterestedness ou the part of the
liquor people in the summer campaign
in the Pine Tree Statf. If no other
proof were needed, the fact that for
months every newspaper editors desk
in this State, including that of this
newspaper. the position of which has
been so well known at home in this
matter, has been floodeH with the lit
erature of the Model License League
Ii the liquor people ar9 not interested
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Editorial Comment
State Auditors Campaign Literature.
(From Staples State Chat in Lewis
ton JournaD

(F'rom Staples State Chat in Lewis
ton JournaD
Another of those unique contribu-
tons entitled the State Auditors re-
port to Gov. Plaisted has been issued.
In reality it should be entitled the
State Auditors monthly contribution
to campaign literature. The sum total
OF the report for May indicates it is
said a marked Improvement in the
financial condition of the State. The
people of Maine now know that there
never was any trouble with the finan-
cial condition of Maine outside of the
Democratic orators and that the pres
ent Legislature appropriated the larg-
est sum ever appropriated by any
Legislature in the history of Maine eX-
ceeding Gov. Cobb by over two mil
lions of dollars and exceeding Gov.
Fernald by over $4,000. State Audi
tor Stevens May report makes much
of the fact that $29S. 4SS.39 of back
bills have been paid. Marvellous,
Two years ago Gov. Fernalds admin
istration had also paid one emergency
lot of 5000 in back bills and much
beside. In May, 1908, Gov. Cobb had
paid many old bills. The total reve-
nue. of the State for April was 1894 1909
and the cash on hand was 1914 .509.93.
Would it have been any less had Gov.
Fernald been in office? And is it not
true that the practically entire over
lay of bills which this administration
is paying is for permanent improve
ments, State Capitol, Insane Hospital.
Home for Feeble Minded, to the relief
of this oIrni or rat lion and for which
it should pay its share2 In short, the
extravaganza" issue is dead. The
people were fooled once by the COW
cred bridge administration and never
again.
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national platform of 1903 TO maintain
protection To the country's industries
equal to the difference in cost of pro-
duetion at home and abroad.
Are cattle, sheep and hogs. wheat,
oats, butter, eggs and potatoes con
trolled by trusts" asked Mr.. Baehel-
der of the Democratic senators as he
referred to the Democratic platform.
IF not why put them on the free list,
instead of on a revenue basis as your
platform demands" The fact that a
80 allied farmers free list bill' had
been introduced, he said was an adj
mission that the farmers would be i'm
jured. Mr.. Bachelor presented labels
to show that articles used by the
American farmer bore an average tar
if tax of from 20 to SO per cent. more
than that paid by the Canadian far
mer.
The free paper interests behind the
other trusts and middlemen are now
attempting to bully the Senate fl
nance committee into hastily recon-
mending the bill for passage by the
Senate as il came from the House.
The whole attitude is, and has been:
We can pass it and you cannot help
yourselves: sit down and cause us as
little trouble as possible!" 1t will
perhaps be passed by the Senate, I'M
der the threat of being recalled in an
other extra session if il is left over to
next session and consideration by the
much heralded tariff experts. But, as
leading grangers said in Washington,
Monday. somebody is going to be held
responsible for it.
Admitting that even the progress
sives' may wish to repeal the law af-
ter trial, those who are so doggedly
pushing it through seem to be taking
long chances in backing a theory.
They say it can be repealed in one
Congress if necessary. Can it? The
administration is accepting Demo-
cratic strength to accomplish its pur-
pose; can it undo it's work with the
same power?
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Thank Heaven for a Beginning.

in New York, DR.. Lederle has begun
campaign against the exposure of
food in the streets. A few months ago,
the Kennebec Journal called attention
TO conditions of this sort-that food
which is intended for human consump-
ton should be left open to every
draught with the filth and germs that
are borne in on the winds and on the
clothing and hands Of those who gath
er over it, some of them handling it
with the same appreciation of the
niceties that COW or a dog might be
expected TO exhibit toward the food
which other beings are TO eat. In bak-
cries, restaurants. and on shelves in
other public places, are all kinds of
pastry exposed invitingly for sale and
to the hosts of filth which are brought
to IT ON every breath. and from every
touch, to say nothing of fruit and veg
etables which can be rinsed and In a
manner relieved of some of its bur-
den of microbes, ii seems worse than
filthy to expose pastry and candies In
open places to be coughed over. and
handled by Tom, Dick and Mary as
their natural misunderstanding of the
decency of things may lead them.
1t is nothing less than an outrage
that substances such as raw meat,
fish, cut fruit, candy, beverages and
pastry of various sorts are being
hawked in the streets, or exposed on
stands or in open show windows
without any protection from the stree,
dust, flies or other filth floating
through the air. All dust, especially
In drs season OF this sort, is full OF
filth and contains millions of disease
germs, while flies are foul with al
sorts of uncomfortable filth. One OF
the hardieaps Of the fly Is that hi,
feot are sticky. He has to go through
life very much like a man with a pail
OF heavy shoes. laden with sticky mud
As the fly walks over various form.
o. filth on which he is pleased TO max,
fimrelf familiar. ne accumulates. az
those sticky feet of his, all sorts o
Disease germs, and when he stops. DC
essioaaily, upon dopghnut o. q piec,
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The Bangor News in the entertain
fire that it is now running daily tells
good story in regard to c. j. Lynch,
the Park street marketman. Mr..
Lynch had gone int his place of bust
ness to save his books and was about
to depart with the contents of the safe
under one arm and valua BILE piece of
mechanism, an electric meat cutter,
under the other. when his pet cat. a
magnificent and highly intelligent
creature chased his heels meowing
piteously. One look was enough. Mr..
Lynch cast the $50 machine aside.
grabbed up his pet and made his es-
cape just in time. for the flames Lad
already invaded the place.
A Buxton farmer predicts that this
will be a hard summer for the farm
ers. Forty years ago April was as dry
and the weather conditions identical
with the month just passed. That
summer there was only a little hay
cut. The price The following winter
was $40 ton. No feed was to be had
in The pastures and butter was so
cents a pound.
The old freak of the Machias river
boiling up, which occurrence has not
taken place for several years. is re
ported to have been witnessed with
renewed force Monday Afternoon. The
remarkable phenomenon is said to
have taken place at 80 p NJ. with q
heavy southwest wind blowing when
in the center of the river a short dis
lance below the clam factory a foun-
tain Of huge size shot up into the air
and for five minutes or more volumes
of water We're thrown 30 feet above
the surface of the river The water
was mixed with an oily substance,
whoch gave forth :. gaslike odor,