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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-07-21
PLEDGES IN PARIS PAWNSH0P
Municipal Uncle Secured by False
Teeth, Dog Collars and Official
Scarf.

Paris.-The Mont de Pete, or pawn
brokers' shop, is In France an official
institution, instead of being operated
for private gain. Every month the
Paris municipal council publishes de-
tailed report dealing with the work
ings of the establishments under its
control, and as these documents are
compiled with much exactness, they
often make amusing reading.
The latest report indicates the ex-
traordinary variety OF articles pledged
with the municipal uncle" During
the month three people deposited COM
plete sets Of false teeth, and nine
parted temporarily with what are off,
cially registered as partial dentures. +"
The Mont de Piete received twenty
seven jesuites, from which 1t must not
be imagined that ecclesiascics can be
left in pawn, since the term Is slang
for dogs collar. Similarly the mari.
which figures on the official list, was
not husband, but a tool used by en-
gravers.
Another article pledged was the Off
cial scarf worn by deputy. But the
most extraordinary item Is undoubted-
iy two operating tables" II would be
Of some interest to know the reasons
for their presence.
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GOT THE RIGHT EXPRESSION
Experiment Was Painful to Tragedian,
but He Could Not Hesitate When
Art Gales Him.

Thanks" said the tragedian, set
ting down his glass and absent-mind-
eddy pocketing my change. which lay
upon the bar between us. Many
thanks for your good opinion. al
ways study from Nature-from Ma
ture, sir In my acting you see re-
fiected Nature herself"
TRY this cigar" said an admirer OF
Nature, reverently. Now, where did
you study that expression of intense
surprise that you assumed in the SEC
ono act?"
From Nature, sir; from Nature. RIO
secure that expression asked an In
mate personal friend to lend me five
pounds. He refused. This caused me
no surprise. / tried several more.
Finally, l struck one who was willing
to oblige me, and, as he handed me
the money, studied In the glass the
expression of my own face. | saw
there surprise, but 1t was not what !
wanted. 1t was alleged with susplc-
ion that the sovereigns might be bad.
was in despair"
"Weil?" said the other, breathless1y.
Then an idea struck me. | re-
solved upon a desperate course. | re-
turned the five pounds to my friend
the next day, and on his astounded
countenance saw the expression l
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-07-21
OF 6Oe55 -/zxn9Nk COM9AYy

slanted swiftly down. to climb once
more in a huge spiral to its high tower
of sky.
Perhaps it wondered, as its tele-
scopic eye looked down That had
been its choicest covert, that DISNEY
eled tangle where the birds held per-
petual carnival, the weasel lurked in
the underbrush and the rabbit lined
his windfalL Now the wildness was
gone. A pergoa, glistening white, now
upheld the runaway vines, making
sickle-like path from the upper ter
race to the lake. IN the barn loft the
pigeons still quarrelled over their new
cotes of fresh pine. and under clump
of locust trees at little distance from
the house, a half-dozen dolls cabins
on stills stood waiting the honey-stor-
age of the black and gold bees.
There were new denizens, also.
These had arrived in a dozen zinc
tanks and willow hampers, to the
amaze Of a sleepy express clerk at the
railroad station: two swans now sailed
majestically over the lily-ponds of the
lake, along it's gravel rim and a pair
of bronze-colored ducks waddled and
preened, and It's placid surface rippled
and broke to the sluggish backs of
goldfish and the flirting fms of red
Japanese carp.
The house itself wore another air.
Its look of unkemptness had largely
vanished The soft gray tone of age
remained, but the bleakness and for
lornness were gone; there was about
all now a warmth and genial bearing
that limited at mellowed beauty, fire
light and cheerful voices within.
Valiant heaved long sigh of salts
faction as he stood in the sunlight gaz-
ing at the results Of his labors. He
was not now the fippant boulevardier
to whom money was the sine qua non
of existence. He had learned a sover-
eign lesson-one gained not through
the push and fight Of crowds, but in
the simple peace of countryside, u1l-
vexed by the clamor of gold and the
complex problems of competitive ex-
istence-that he had inherited a need
"
been born to do.
"Chum," he said, to the dog rolling
on his back in the grass, what do
you think of it all, anyway" He
reached down, seized a hind leg and
whirling him around like a teetotum,
sent him flying into the bushes,
whence Chum launched again upon
him. like a catapult. He caught the
white shoulders and held him vise-iike.
Just about right, Ell? But wait till
we get those ra1blers!"
And to think" he continued whinl-
sically releasing him, that | might
have gone on, one Of the little-necl1-
clam crowd I've always trained with.
at the same old pace, till the Yer
mouth-cocktail-Palm Beach career got
a double Nelson on me and the umpire
counted me out. At this moment
wouldn't swap this old house and land,
and the sunshine and that 'gyarden'
and Unc' Jefferson and Aunt Daph
and the chickens and the birds and
all the rest of it. for a mile Of Mil
lionaires' Row."
He went into the house and to the
library. The breeze through the wide
flung 1bow-window was f1uttering the
papers on the desk and the map on
the wall was tapping sidewise. He
went to straighten it, and then saw
what he had not noticed before-that
it covered something that had been let
into the plaster He swung II aside
and made an exclamation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-07-21
CHAPTER XIX.
Mint.


A quicker breeze was stirring as
John Valiant went back along the Red
Road He had waited in the garden
at Rosewood till Shirley, aided by
Bmmaline and with RanstoRs anxious
face lowering in the background, hav-
ing performed those gentle offices
which a woman's fainting spell re-
quires, had come to reassure him and
to say good night.
AS he threw off his coat in the
bedroom he had chosen for his own.
he felt the hard corner of the Lucille"
in the pocket, and drawing II out. laid
it on the table by the bedside. He
seemed to feel again the tingle of
his cheek where a curling strand of
her coppery hair had sprung against 1t
when her head had bent beside his
own to read the marked lines.
When he had undressed ne sat an
hour in the candle-blaze, a. dressing
gown thrown over his shoulders, striv-
ing vainly TO recreate that evening
call. to remember her every word and
look and movement. For a breath
her face would flush suddenly before
him. like live thing. then 1t would
mysteriously fade and elude him.
though he clenched his hands on the
arms of his chair In the fierce mental
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-07-21
VACATION FOR HIS HORSE
Kansas City Real Estate Man Works
His Steed Only Eight Months
a Year.

Kansas City.-Four months out Of
every year are play months for Gypsy,
a twenty-year-old mare owned by
Frank d. Parsons, a Kansas City real
estate dealer, according to the Kansas
City Star. Mr.. Parsons has owned
Gypsy fifteen years ard he says her
faithfulness merits the best treatment
he can give her
Gypsy stands without hitchlng She
never complains, and is always ready
for work and, despite her twenty
years, is In rugged health. December
1 every year Mr.. Parsons has Gypsy's
shoes removed, and she is allowed to
rest four months. She has a diet of
rolled oats and alfalfa. A box stall is
her sleeping place and she has big
lot to romp in If she is so disposed.
Il am often asked how / keep her
looking so well when she is so old"
Mr.. Parsons said the other day. TITS
because of the humane treatment she
receives. Gypsy has pulled my buggy
many years and she earns yearly va
cation. She rests all winter, and in
the hot summer days sha has leisure
besides. II the day is hot I'd rather
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-07-21
Sake Scared Them All.

A I've boa-constrictor was found re
Gently in one of the CARRIAGES. at a
Paris railroad station When the
Iews spread. shop girls and portly old
gentlemen raced one another to :he
exit and there was a serious crush on
the staircase leading to the street
guard had found parcel on q seat
and was showing it to the station
master when the brown paper wrap
ping fell of and exposed a large
snake. apparently in a comatose condi-
...on- When the excitement caused
lad somevhat subsidized a policeman.
to make things safe. cut the snakes
head OF. The snake. which was eight
feet long. was then taken to tho near
est police station. and an inquiry Is
being made as to how II came in the
train.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-07-21
Korean Marrlaa.s.

Marriages between widows and
bachelors are very much in favor in
Korea because not nearly SO much
money is required from the bridegroom
al in the case of his marriage with a
young girl The impecunious bride
groom is scorned by the parents of the
girl and he is also unable to pay for
the elaborate wedding ceremonies
which must take place. AL Of chis he
escapes by running off with a widow.
1t happens in Korea, as in other coun-
tries, that the impecunious bachelor
is often more desirable from every
point of view but a mercenary one
than the well to do member Of the
community. Consequently. the widow
has way of attaching handsome
young husband to herself that might
well be envied by the young girl.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-07-21
SEEK HUNTERS AID

take a street car than hitch her up.
Last week / had her in harness only
ora day and she GATED in the shade
the rest of the time
THE flies never bother Gypsy in the
summer because i spray her twice a
day with preparation that keeps off
the pests and she will stand all day
without tossing her head OF stamping.
The hard pavement never hurts
her feet, either. because she has O
piece of sole leather next to her hoofs
and the shoes are nailed on the leath-
er. She hasn't had a sick day in years
and she never fails me.
Some day she is going to be too
old to pull me around and then she is
not going to get bullet OF be sent to
the dinky market, ara going to give
her freedom some day and let her close
her days in some pleasant pasture. A
horse will work without food until 1t
drops. It never complains and it puts
all its trust in its master A man who
wouldn't treat his horse right wouldn't
treat his family right"
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effort to recall it. Only the intense
blue of her eyes, the tawny sweep Of
her hair-these and the touch of her,
the consciousness of her warm and
vivid fragrance, remained to wrap all
his senses in a mist woven of gold
and fire.
.
Shirley, meanwhile, had sat some
time beside her mothers bed, leaning
from white chintz-covered chair. her
anxiety only partially allayed by reas-
surances, now and then STOPPING to lay
her young cheek against the delicate
arm In its lacy sleeve or to pass her
hand lovingly up and down it outline,
noting with i recurrent passion of ten
derness the transparency Of the skin
with its violet veining and the shad-
ows beneath the closed eyes. Emma
line, moving on soft worsted-shod feet
about the dim room, at length had
whispered.
You go tub bald, honey. | stay
with Mis- Judith till she go tub sleep.
yes, go, Shirley" said her mother.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-07-21
Old Enolish Custom ke,,t Tn

An ancient custom OF. the Clirque
Ports was celebrated short time ago
at Brightlingsea. Essex, England.
when Mr. Douglas Stone was reject
ed mayor. with old-world ceremony.
in the belfry OF the parish church,
Rev. Arthur Pertwee. vicar OF Bright
ingsea. being reelected recorder. Six
Iurats, or assistants, were also slecteS.
paying 8 fee OF II pennies .5rightling-
sea is attached" u the Cirque Port
Of Sandwich. and It's mayor is known
as the deputy, being deputy to the
mayor OF the latter town. The newly
elected mayor has to Journey to Sand
wich TO be invested with the chain of
Office. this chain being of very hand
some design Of gold oyster shells and
silver sprats. and having attached a
massive opal seal, supposed to be c7e
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-07-21
COURAGE,

The most indispensable and valuable
asset for the conduct Of lire is courage
courage 70 endure. courage to con-
struct and reconstruct, courage to 60
on. Without these how shall we do
more than drag out miserable exist
enee. moving from place to place, like,
tramps and beggars, living on the
doles fate offers US as we SLOUGH along
unprecedented ways? Could there
be better prayer for the opening
year than this? Give us courage to
be masters Of ourselves. courage to
swim agains- the stream. courage to
drown. wher our due time is come,
with serene hearts and quiet faith In
God" When that prayer is answered.
living deserves song and dying be-
comes an episode in the history of q
man. If religion did not more than
make this forward looking courage
possible. il would deserve our -ever-
ence ard pIrsuit.-Boston Transcript
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-07-21
DULL BRAIN LIKE DULL TOOL
Successful Merchant Tells How he
Develops Brightness Among Those
Who Work for Him.

It's always the dull tool that causes
trouble-and there's seldom any ex-
cuse for it Just as With dull brain
1t mixes up al idea OF speed, system
and results. II works to tie detri-
ment of an entire business. and sew
eral dull tools have been known to
destroy lucrative trade. Thus
Broadway haberdasher describes sew
eral recent failures in his business
Il always attempt TO employ the
brightest young men obtainable in my
business, from Office boy 10 depart
ment manager. l have found 1t pays.
Not that l always am successful in
finding the right person at the outset
But If new clerk appears naturally
dull. l begin 10 apply the grindstoi1e
OF perception to his blunt wits, and
nine times olit of ten have sharp
tool In a short time He becomes
part OF my machine that turns out
dollars for me with record speed
IF he's interested In the business.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-07-21
U. S. Forest Services Unique
Plan Against Forest Fires.
Takes Up With Manufacturers OF
Firearms and Ammunition Scheme
by Which Purchasers VIII 30
Reminded of Fire Danger.
CFrom the Forest Service. U. s. Depart
ment of Agricultural

From the Forest Service. u. s. Depart
ment of Agriculture
Washington. of the fact
that many forest fires are set through
the carelessness of hunters, campers
and others who go into the woods for
recreation, the forest service has
taken up with manufacturers CT fire.
arms a4d ammunition The question of
a cooperative arrangement through
which purchasers and users of guns
and cartridges shall be reminded Of
the fire danger
It has been pointed out that in the
lumber regions of the Northwest, for
example, manufacturers and other
business men have been having
printed or stamped on their station
cry and pay checks various crisp,
catchy statements about the loss
which the public suffers through the
decreased demand for labor and de-
creased money in circulation If tim
Der, which is the source of many of
the Northwest's Industries, is burned
up.
1t has also been pointed out that
in the East particularly many forest
fires are started by the carelessness
of hunters, who drop burning matches,
cigar or cigarette stumps, or pipe
Goals in the woods, or perhaps build
fire which is left burning when the
hunter goes on. Forest fires of course
greatly injure the interests of sports
men by robbiag the birds of their
proper cover. They also impair the
food supply of both birds and big
game, through the destruction of the
underground which furnishes browse.
berries and other foe i.
The eastern woods are exposed to
the danger from fires principally In the
spring and fall, when most of the
trees are bare and the leaves ON the
ground are dry. The spring fires,
many of which are due to trout fish
ermen, may destroy the eggs Of game
birds and even the young birds them
selves. Since trout fishermen are
likely to hunt in the fall, the same
individuals, II careless, may be a
source of danger at both seasons.
1t is suggested that the manufac-
turers of arms and ammunition ought
to be sufficiently interested In the
matter of perpetuation Of gam 10 be
willing to help in the c-mpaIgn
against forest fires. This help may
come through the printing of some
brief fire warning on cartridge boxes
or some slip to go with any hunting
or camping supplies which are fur
nished. Several manufacturers have
already expressed their interest in
the matter and their willingness to
help.
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YsYNoPsIs.


John Valtatlg1nneal rich society favorite.
suddenly AgdBtefg that the Valiant cor
poration, WINCH his father founded and
which aNagl the Principal source of his
iwealthnshAs lf3lyehi He Voluntarily turns
over ,ttfSe ply are Fortunes to the receiver
for tst sai sttfI5fFtI5h His entire remaining
possesst IS CfiSfSp of an old motor car. a
wiftffRa fe II f6 4rtt8 Damory court q neg
Damory court ny o Meets Shirley Dand-
cides qhA kSTs gbIHg 10 ike Virginia i'm
mepselEo. ShkleHSilpother Mrs. Dand-
ridge, and rMajor. Rristow exchange rem
iniscences dtzipgafEhich II is revealed
that theT p1aJnr. Yaliant's father. and a
man namedH Season were rivals for the
hand Of Mrs. cambridge in her youth.
Sasson and Valiant fought duel on her
account in which the former was killed.
valiant finds Damory court overgrown
with weeds and creepers and the build
1ngs In very much neglected condition.
He decides to rehabilitate the place and
make the land produce a living for him.
valiant saves Shirley from the bite of a
snake, which bites him. Knowing the
deafness of the bite. Shirley sucks the
poison from the wound and saves his life.
Shirley tells her mother of the incident
and the latter Is strangely moved at
hearing that a Valiant is again living at
DamOry court. Valiant learns for the
first time that his father left Virginia on
account of a duel in which Doctor
Southall and Major Bristow acted as his
fathers seconds
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Shirley, Who Had Again Seated Her
self, Suddenly Laughed, and Point
ed to the Book.

give YOU the roses already rooted
Ma Charles and Marechal Neil and
Cloth of Gold and cabbage and ram
blers. We have geraniums and
fuchsias, too. and the coral honey
suckle. That's different from the wild
one, you know"
you are too good! If you would
only advise me where TO set them!
But dare say you think me presum-
ing
She turned her full face tc him.
'Presuming!' You're Furnishing me
now for the dreadful way l talked to
you about Damory Court-before |
knew who you were. oh. It was IN
pardonable! And after the splendid
thing you had done-I read about II
that same evening-with your money.
I meant"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-07-21
FLIGHT IS POSSIBLE
Possibility of Oversee Voyage
Pointed Out.
DR.. Bal In Communication TO National
Geographic Society Says Trip in
HeavierThan-Alr Machine In
IS Hours ls Feasible.

Washington.-The possibility of a
transatlantic ocean flight In a
heavier-than-air machine in 10 hours
is pointed out In a Communication to
the National Geographic society at
Washington from DR.. Alexander
Graham Bell. inventor of the tele-
phone and former president of the
society.
THE distance from Newfoundland
to Ireland is less than two thousand
miles, says Doctor 22ccna This
means that if you &C at 100 miles an
hour you will cross the Atlsntic in 20
hours-less than day. VS. have fly.
ing machines that go at greater
speed than that We already have
machines that could cross the ocean
If their engines can keep going for 20
hours. OF course, these are excep-
tional machines, but even the ordinary
machines of today make so miles an
hour with ease.
Now, flying machine flies faster
as you go higher up. because the rarer
air offers less resistance to the mo-
ton, while the propeller gives the
same push with the same power, what
ever the elevation. AS you get into
the rarer air the propeller spins
around faster. A 50-mile-an-hour ma
chine flying two miles high in the
air-and we have machines that have
gone twice as high as that-will fly
much faster than 80 miles an hour.
Then at an elevation of two miles
high in the air there is constant
wind blowing in the general direction
Of Europe having velocity anywhere
from twenty-five to fifty miles an
hour
"As net result of all these things,
there can be little doubt that any or
binary machine that is able to sup
port itself in the air at an elevation
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cHAPTER xvIII-continued.

You are cold" he said isn't that
gown too thin for this night air?"
NO, I often walk here till quite
late Listenl"
The bird song had broken forth
again, to be answered this time by a
rivals IN a distant thicket my
nightingale is in good voice"
Il never heard nightingale before
l came to Virginia. wonder why it
sings only at night"
What an odd idea! Why. it sings
in the daytime, too"
Really? But l suppose 1t escapes
notice in the general chorus. Is it a
large bird?"
NO; smaller than a thrush. Only a
little bigger than robin. It's nest is
over there in that hedge-a tiny loose
cup Of dried oak-leaves. lined with
hair. and the eggs are olive color.
How pretty the hedge looks now. all
tangled with freely sparks!"
Doesn't it! Uncle Jefferson calls
them lightning bugs"
The name is much more pic,
turesque. But all the darky sayings
are. Do you find him and Aunt
Daphne useful?"
He has been godsend," he said
fervently; and her cooking has
taught me to treat her with passion
ate respect He's teaching me now
about fowers-its surprising how
many kinds he knows He's a walking
herbarium."
Come and see mine" she said.
'Roses are our specialty-we have to
live up to the Rosewood name. But
beyond the arbors, are beds and beds
of other flowers See-by this big
tree are speed-well and delphinium
The tree is a black-walnut It's a
dreadful thing to have one as big as
that When you want something that
costs lot of money you go and look
at it and wonder which you want
most, that particular luxury or the
tree. know a girl who had two in
her yard only little bigger than this,
and she went to Europe on them. But
so far I've always voted for the tree.
How does your garden come on?"
'Famously. Uncle jefferson has
shanghaied a half-doZen negro gar
.deners-from where | can't imagine
and he's having the time of his life
hectoring over them. He refers to the
upper and lower terraces as 'up-and-
downstairs I've got seeds. but it
will be a long time before they
flower"
"Oh, would you like some slips?"
she cried. COR. better still, can