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Teacher Takes to Attic.

quainted with the place. She expect.
ed to find some carpenters at work
making repairs upon the interior Of
the school building, but while the door
of the building was unlocked and ajar
there were no workmen about, they
having, as she subsequently learned.
gone to another schoolhouse down the
pike several miles to attend to some
work, expecting to return to the Ole
ona school in the afternoon. The men
had left their dinner pals there.
When Miss Roper entered the room
and found it deserted she decided that
she would turn her attention to sweep.
Ing the floor, and swung the door shut
In order to get the broom which she
thought must be behind 1t. The door
changed shut and fast, for the spring
lock had made her prisoner without
any key with which to unlock 1t.
Realizing her predicament, the young
woman set about to find a way by
which she might release herself from
her lonely prison. The only way she
could accomplish this, as she saw. was
to take small ladder with which the
workmen had reached the attic, and
which still stood in that position, with
its upper rung reaching the opening
into the dark apartment. where extra
books and other accouterments were
kept, and which looked to the timid
new teacher as though it was a very
likely place for bats to roost, and IL
she could move it to one of the win
doWs 1t would afford her an opportuni-
ty to get down to the ground.
Just then she heard sound in lit.
tie room off from the main apartment.
and at the next instant she was over
whelmed with fear at the sight of q
full grown black bear that came shut
fling out toward her. The animal had
evidently been attracted into the
schoolroom through the open door.
and. finding the workmen's dinner
buckets, had been INDUCING his appe-
tite In cake and other toothsome del
icacies.
But the sight of the young woman
and the piercing shrek she uttered as
she beheld the animal and recognized
that she was locked in the building
with him rather startled Bruin, and he
'etired to the other apartment. In the
meantime Miss Roper. seeing a way Of
escape up the ladder into the attic,
climbed up there. bats or not bats,
and once up on the rickety floor she
drew the ladder up to her, so the bear
would have no chance Of getting her.
She struggled with the little attic win
dow until she got it open, and then
began her vigil for help.
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The Brioht Side.

But we must always look on the
brigh: side," said Mayor Grice of Fort
Wayne, discussing a party setback.
I'VE must all take lesson from
Hiram Husk.
Hi Husk, you know, visited Long
Island last week, and had his pocket
picked at side show.
81 should think" his wife sneered,
on his return home, that you'd have
a purity poor opinion Of Coney arter
bein' robbed OF your purse like that!
Ives, that's right said Husk; but
come out better'n some folks did,
Why, Maria, the old bankers ward in
the piece, beautiful That's, had all her
jools swiped, and the bankers wife
throwed vitrol In his face durin' the
same act had my wallet stolen.'"
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NIsn At LAST CAME TRUE.
Arbuthnot Witheredoe Had Long
Wanted to Be Alone With
u Genevievo orandlIot.

WELL" said Arbuthnot Witheredge,
Il am in luck to find you alone. this
evening""
o." replied Genevieve Grandilot,
do you consider it lucky to be alone
with me?" :.
why shouldn't r.
IL don't know. I have never
thought about it before"
Haven't you ever wished that you
end might be all alone togetherf
why should I wish that"
Il don't know. / wish you y had
wished it,
Have you ever wished it7"
"A great many times" ,,.:**f
'Why?" - '*"''
Can you ask me why!"
Perhaps I could-could guess"
would you care II should tell you
why?"
IL don't know. Do you think I
ought to let you tell me why?"
Il wish you would. I am going to
tell you It is because H."
Because you what?"
II wonder If you will hate mo after
] have told you? Rather than have
you decide that we can no longer be
friends, I would carry the secret to
my grave"
20. please don't do anything like
that. / am sure l shall not hate you.
I could never hate you, no matter
what happened"
: do you mean that. Miss Grandilot
-Genevieve?"
''Of course. Why shouldn't r.
Il shall risk all. then. and tell you.
I have wanted to be alone with you be
cause-because love you-because
have wanted to ask you to be mine!"
Then the beautiful girls mother
stole away from her place behind the
curtain and tiptoed up the back stairs
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Saooino Wire Saves Baby,

Conshohocken, Pa:-Because chick
en- wire on the premises of Patrick
Harkins sagged William Rorick be-
lieves his baby's life was saved. The
child leaned from a third-story win
dow to watch Harkins' chickens and
pitched out. In falling the child struck
the top of the wire fence, and be-
cause of its sagging it acted as a net,
and aside from bruises and pair Of
black eyes the baby was not hurt.
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BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

Jerusalem.-Of all the nationalistic
strings within the breasts of men
today, the most romantic Is the long
Ing OF devout Jews to get back for
themselves the land of Abraham and
David. All Christendom is interested
In this project Some schools Of
Christian theology stake vast prophetic
issues upon it.. Statesmen of Europe
are interested in it as one solution
Of the question OF what to do with the
Jew, who has been made unwelcome
in all their lands. Whatever be the
reason for the well-nigh universal
sympathy with the Zionistic aspira-
ton, the news has doubtless been re-
ceived with regret that the Young
Turks have formally and oficially an
nounced that the immigration Of Jews
into Palestine must cease. Moreover.
1t IL intimated that those already here
must CO.
That Is the latest development in
Zionism; but 1t must be remembered
that Zionism is part and parcel of all
high politics, and the end is not yet.
It is not at all impossible that the
reason for this recent adverse Pro-
nouncement is nothing less than the
failure Of the French loan to Turkey
Let nobody think that the Zionists
are merely a company Of pious Jewish
expatriates, signing for the land of
their fathers. They are the bankers
Of Europe and the men who often say
the deciding word in affairs of ma
tons. l have reason to believe that
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afternoon at the waiting place" py
the stones of the old wall of tn

aIteTuOO0 8C the W81llH& place. "
the stones of the old wall of tn
temple.
Successful Jewish Colonies.
Both the Zionist movement and the
Jewish Colonization Society have es-
tablished colonies in various parts Of
Palestine. Their contention that some
what of the ancient fertility and pros
perity of the land may be restored is
doubtless correct. Better government,
and better agricultural methods will
revolutionize conditions here, as else
where throughout Turkey. But thus
far there has been no conspicuous
success attending the purely agricul.
tural colonies. The Jew has been too
long away from the soil for that. In
the best of the farm settlements, near
Jaffa, the colonists make use of Arab
labor. Their own aptitude is for
trade.
At Zamarine, in Galilee, one of the
old Jewish settlements, which has
been in existence for more than twen-
ty years, the people, mostly Rouman-
ians, are on a basis of self-support,
except for some slight assistance for
the school. Their industry is wine
making. They have quite an Euro
pean community in the midst Of Syria.
The order and cleanliness is in sharp
contrast with the conditions in IT,
berias. However, the latter is deeply
religious, whereas one old Hebrew
told me that the Zamarine colonists
have no religion. Surely, though,
there was nothing less than a relig-
ious motive back of the words of the
village druggist as he told me that
the people made modest living; mot
so good as we could make in America.
but then. we are in the Promised
Land, you know"
There are now about two-score Of
Jewish colonies in Palestine, not to
mention those in adjacent lands. The
most successful of all is in the Island
of Cyprus The leaders are giving
more and more attention to the crea-
ton Of self-supporting bodies, in an
effort to restrict the hurtful effects Of
indiscriminate charity. These leaders
are too powerful to have all that they
have gained thus far sacrificed to Tur-
kish politics. The Jew is in Palestine
to stay, even though the present re-
suits of Zionism have not fully justi~
fed all hopes.
Copyright. 1911, by Joseph b. Bowles.)
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Postal Innovation.

The new American system of letter.
grams is responsible or an innovation
which has been recently put into op-
GRAFTON in England by the postoff1ce
authorities, by which the advantage of
the delivery of a letter on Sunday
Is secured at the expense of trifling
fee. It is simply necessary to write
on the envelopes: ITO be telephoned
on Sunday" and adds an extra half
cent of postage for every thirty words
or fraction thereof Then the postal
clerk at the receiving Office calls up
the person addressed by telephone and
conveys the message without leaving
the postof11ce. If enough postage is
included, the same message may be
delivered by telephone to number OF
different parties in the same city.
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udonyms of Women Writers.

The preference Of many women
writer's for male pseudonym is
doubtless a survival of the old super
stition that to engage in the task Of
authorship was 'unwomanly." The
Bronte sisters set the fashion in ap-
pearing as Currer, Acton and Ellis
Bell respectively. Their example was
followed by George Eliot. But George
Is name to which the distressed lady
novelist flies as to a city of refuge
We have had George Egerton, George
Fleming, George Pastor and a host OF
others. Then, too, there have been
John Oliver Hobbies, Ralp Iron, Frank
Hamel and Frank Dandy.
On the other hand Mr.. Oliver MADDOX
Hueffer shares with the late William
Sharp the distinction of a feminine
disguise, for he was known to the
novel @reading public until quite re-
Gently as Jane Wardle
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stand back of the Jews, as France
stands back of the Roman Catholics,
Russia back of the Greek church, and
America and Great Britain back of
the Professionals.
Will Jews Be Driven Out?
In spite of the late vigorous pro-
nouncement from Constantinople,
there is little likelihood that the Jews
now in Palestine will be driven out.
Their consuls will protect them in
their property rights. However these
rights may have been obtained. their
present legality cannot be questioned.
X will be strange to all who know
Turkey, and the common methods Of
bringing things to pass hero, If the
number of Jewish colonlsts does not
steadily increase. As one said to me,
rather cynically. There is as much
bribery as ever in Turkey, only the
prices come higher" This I hasten to
explain, at least in part, on the ground
that the Young Turks are obliged to
work with the tools that they find
ready to their hands.
The natural increase of the Jewish
population of Palestine must be CON-
paratively small, as so large percen-
tage of the colonists are old people
who have come here to end their days.
These are the more religious element,
and they are largely Spanish and Rus
sian and German Jews. The number
of old persons to be seen in Jerusalem
Is a sight full Of significance and
pathos.
jewish "Portions" and Paupers.
That religious zeal is a prime factor
In the Jr4aizing of Palestine is EVIL
dent at a glance. TIE men wear a dis
tinctive garb, of which the round felt
hat, worn in the hottest weather, with
white cap underneath, is the most
characteristic feature. This is also
worn by the boys. Even more strik-
ing Is the curl in front Of the ear,
which is In compliance with rabbi
meal teaching against trimming the
hair. 1t must be confessed that this
gives a decidedly other-worldly ap-
pearance to the male Jews, especially
since they generally affect the long
cloak or gaberdine.
Most of these persons depend upon
aid from outside of Palestine for their
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maintenance. It is a very small al
lowance, and so most of them live in
very meager style. The statement has
been repeatedly made to me in the
Holy Land that Zionism has pauper-
lied the Jews. Certainly their ply
siognomy does not reveal the traits
Of alertness and aggressiveness which
characterize the American Jew. If it
be true, as commonly stated, that ev-
cry Jew here receives his portion"
from abroad, the effect has been mani
testify deleterious. Able to subsist on
pittance, the incentive to indepen-
dent labor is removed, with the result
that nowhere in Palestine, outside of
exclusively Jewish colonies, are the
leading business men Jews. There is
more successful business enterprises
among Hebrews Of any one of a hun
dred streets in New York than in all
of Palestine.
One reason for the bitter complaints
of the Syrians at the presence of the
Jews Is that the latter are not DEEPEN
dent upon their labors for a liveli-
hood, and are also able to exist on
very low scale, and so are able greatly
to undersell the natives in their little
shops.
Ghettoes in Jerusalem.
The crowding of the colonists into
ghettoes outside of Jerusalem is an in
teresting example of the force of
habit. There Is no need here for over
crowded quarters; each family could
have it's own vine and fig tree by ex-
tending the Jewish quarter a little
further outside the city. Generations
of congested living In the ghettoes of
Europe, together with the necessity
for crowding close together for mutual
protection, are hard to escape. So the
Holy Land today contains a state of
affairs such as it never before wit
messed in its long history.
Nor are the Jewish quarters of the
cities Of Palestine such as would in
cline one to optimism concerning a
Jewish state. Tiberias, for example,
is predominantly Jewish, yet it Is one
of the dirtiest and least attractive
towns in all the land. This is not a
racial fact, but rather an illustration
Of the statement that it is the eccles.
iastically earnest, and the aged and
the sorely stricken, who have fed to
the haven of the Promised Land.
In Galilee heard the lament that
the most ambitious Of the young men
are leaving Palestine to go to Amer
lea, that other Promised Land of all
the world. The younger generation,
was also told, have not the interest of
their fathers in religion. The most
representative Jew l have met here.
from the American standpoint, was a
traveller from New York City. At
Jaffa he ran across an old woman who
was having trouble with her transpor-
tation. He took her in hand, with gen.
tie insistence, saw her aboard her
boat, changed her third-class ticket
for a first, and had her put in
cabin alongside his own, in all re-
spects caring for her as tenderly as
a wealthy son could do. Yet she was
of different land, race and religion
from himself. I prefer to regard him
as typical of the future of his race,
rather than the illfed, strangely-clad
sealots whom one may see any Friday
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Zionism has been an important factor
in the recent hidden politics of the
Turkish Empire. Some Of the leaders
of the Committee of Union and Prog
ress arc Jews, and Salonika, the head
quarters of the Young Turk party, is
the home of an influential body Of
Jews who, several generations ago.
embraced the Moslem faith, although
they are commonly regarded as being
better Jews than MOslems. In most
unexpected places the Zionist cause
has allies, and one trained observer Of
events at Constantinople said to me,
you will never get hold of the true
inwardness Of this Turkish situation
until you unravel the relation of Zion
ism to IT,
Zlonlsm and Abdul Hamid.
For the present, the Jews have lost
Whatever their influence with the
Young Turk leaders, they have, on the
whole. preferred the regime of Abdul
Hamid. A member of the central
Zionist committee told me in Berlin
that Zionists would rather have the
old order than the new. His was the
first downright defence of the deposed
monarch l had ever heard. The rea-
sons given were, first, that the Turks
have ever been kindlier to the Jews
than have the Christians: and, Sec
ondly, that Abdul Hamid permitted
the Jews to settle in Palestine, and to
acquire land.
Legally, no Jew is permitted to live
In Palestine longer than three months
Upon entering the country he is
obliged to surrender his passport, and
receive temporary red passport. AS
for acquiring property, that also Is
and long has been interdicted. But
one well-informed Jewish leader at
Jaffa merely shrugged his shoulders
when I brought up this subject, and
said, I'VE have golden key that can
unlock any door in Turkey. Practical
~, We have found no difference be-
tween the old days and the new In
either case we have to get what we
want by 'backsheesh.'
Theoretically. there are no Jews In
Turkey; practically, there are more
than a hundred thousand in the Prom
Used Land. In the past Ave years the
number has increased fifty per cent
When the constitutional party came
into power, with its avowals of COM
plete religious and racial liberty, the
hearts of devout Jews and their
friends everywhere leaped with exul-
tation; this meant the advent Of the
long-expected day when the Children
Of Israel should be free once more to
settle in the land of their fathers.
Zionism's heralded day had dawned.
Now these hopes have once more
been dashed. AS of yore, every Jew
who enters Palestine must do so by
bribery and stealth. Those without
passports must buy them; and CON-
mon report has it that there used to
be lively traffic In American pass
ports in this country. That has been
almost, If not altogether, broken up by
the vigilance Of the consuls, and the
requirement that every American
citizen securing a red passport shall
deposit the original one at the con-
sulate. Each nation must look after
its own nationals In Turkey, and, un-
fortunately, there is NO one nation to
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An Intimate Acquaintance.

Mabel am sure he must have
loved her very dearly.
Maude-I should Say so. He mar
ried her in spite ct the fact that he
had been out In tie rain with her all
one afternoon, was seasick with her,
and saw her Unexpectedly at home
the morning after a dance.-Puck.
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The Trouble With Arbitration,

Arbitration as substitute for war
fare will do excellently," said Gen.
F. D. Grant. at a banquet at West
Point, provided the contending ma
lions don't show the spirit Of Com
modore Vanderbilt's tenant.
Commodore Vanderbilt used often
to arbitrate his tenants disputes, and
one day two farmers called on him in
his function of arbitrator.
''The commodore, before conserving
to act, put to the first tenant the
necessary question::
"'Now, Henry, If I consent to ar
bitrate, will you abide by my deck
sion?'
THE farmer. hard.headed old fel-
low, answered thoughtfully:
"'Well, commodore, I'd like to
know what 1t is first"
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70 Mend IN Umbrella.

TO men an umbrella that tears
loose from the rib at the point, when
you are on the street and needle and
thread are not available. close the UNI
brella and bringing the cloth in po-
sition, insert a small hairpin in the
hole Of the rib, and wind securely
round cloth. This first aid to the in.
jured" is 80 efficient you will be tempt
ed to leave it permanently.-National
Magazine.
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Jane Jones said to me: There amt
no use in fussin' about the weather.
It's here today an gone tomorrow, ike
most things about which We stew m
fuss an worry an complain.
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Selling the Opportunity,

Crabshaw-f you insist on this
new gown I'll have to get it on credit.
Mrs. Crabshaw-As long as it's &C.
ing to be charged, dear, I may as we'll
get a more expensive one-Life.
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tons. If you sus-
pect your kidneys,
begin using Doan's
Kidney Pills at
once.
e. r. Wilson,
Emmettsburg, To-
wa, says: II was
completely laid up
with kidney COM
plant and infam-
matOrv rheuma.
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Terrible SUIT ering|'
Eczema Al, Over Baby's Body. !.

Eczema Al Over baby's BODY.
when: my baby was four months I'D
his face broke out with eczema and Il
z:en 01th: Of 'eS ,l hi; face : hands and
eczema spread all over his body. We had
to put q mask or cloth over his face and
tic up, his hands,. Finally we gave hin
Hoods Sarsaparilla and in q feT monthd
he was entirely cured. Today he is Z
healthy boy" Mrs.. Ines Lewis, Barring
Maine.
Hoods .Sarsaparilla cures blood diseased
and builds up. the system.
Get it today in usual liquid form a
cbocolated tablets called 0areatabo. 1,
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ARE YOUR KIDNEYS WEAKf

There are two ways to tell If you
have weak kidneys. The first is
through pains in the back. The Sec
ond by examining the kidney secre-
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Perhaps the most Of us would be
different II our neighbors were what
they should be.
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Die. AZ Rationale Bite.

Dies Of Rationale Bite.
St. Joseph, Mo-Mrs. Elizabeth
schmelebeck. IS years old. died as the
result OF q bite Of rattlesnako,
which attacked her in her garden.
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tism. My limbs and feet were terri
bly, swollen and so inflamed could
not walk for days. After doctors had
failed to help me, began using Doan's
Kidney Pills. Three boxes cured me
30 completely that have not had the
slightest trouble SINCE"
when Your Back Is Lame, Re-
member the Name-DOAN'S. SOC
box at all stores. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y.
Where It Belonged
where are you going?"
ITO fetch some water, SOFT"
What. in those disreputable trous.
ers?"
mo, sorr, in this ere pail."-Lon-
don Opinion.
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|;Il|]] an AZ

Young Turks Halt Zlonlsm-Decree
That Attempts to Secure Holy Land
by Jews Must 30 Thwarted-Jews
Glimpse Of Palestine.
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It's awfully hard for girl to forgive
the right young man for not kissing
her.