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ram news u—»■. OMmlCMm Wssnialas Tlnssb ^ - wTSeVEr Far the second time (a tare year* •mm h)dmvi p«noa hai lU^ptd ft 91 jM4 bill ea the Easter contribution plate at 8t. Luke's Episcopal church, tn Ermaston, Hi. Tha ptiae for the largest shade tree In tha United States has bean award ed ta a ralley oak In Call fomle by the American Genetic association. Tha tree ia 17 feat and S inch an in cir cumference and la 111 feat high. Because his common law wifo, Catherine, put n wiggling aal in his whisky bottle and consequently gave him n most disagreeable shock. John W. Haas, a policeman of Harrisburg, Pa., haa asked tha court for a divorce After some little discussion tha London war office baa settled tha sax of tha Zeppelin and hereafter wilt re fer to tha German dirigible as "ha” or "him” In tha official statements. A battleship still will l>a considered a "she.” The exploeion of a rubber bad) with which aha was playing la a school yard in Bayonne, N. J., has caneed the strange blindness of Panllns Belton, aged tan years. What/jhhetance con tained In tha hall caused tha injury haa not bean discovered. The town of Clatskanie, Ore., haa decided to rent oat its city Jail. Tha hostile has not been occupied for \ more than a year. The pound, unused for some time, also will he ranted to relieve the financial stress that exists in tha affairs of the town. ' William Shankle, of Bloomfield, Hd, gars a dinner recently in honor of the birthday anniversary of his father, eon and grandson, all of them haring bean born on tho tame day of the month. The father, Philip Shan klc, is 76 years old, the son XZ, and the grandson 7. Although hi* wealth Is estimated to he more than $90,000, Zachariah Taylor, 70 yean old, a farmer who lives nut Waynseburg, Pa., is In jail serving time because he refused to pay a Ane of $26 and costs lit an action is which ha was found guilty of ma licious mischief. Taylor was arrest ed for using a lane belonging to a neighbor. A carpenter at Medford, Mass., has ■pent ten years in constructing a small mahogany table which contains 2$ secret drawers, which cannot be opened anises certain skilfully con cealed buttons are pressed. Besides the 29 dry wars hidden in the table, there are taro shelves, live covets and one door The table Is two feet two Inches square. A sensitive horse, with a dislike for cigarette smoke, attacked Edgar Ak ers, of Los Angolee, Cal, and bit him on the right hand. Akors blew the smoke of a cigarette in the horse’s face and the animal, wity an angry squeal, seised him by the right band. Akers managed to free his band but not until the horse's teeth had torn the flesh from the Angers. The smallest money order ever made by an express company office la Oklahoma City, Okla., was secured recently by a woman who wished to pay two cents she owad to a mail or dsr bouse. In order to collect the sum the house spent a taro-cant ■tamp. The money order coat three cents, making the total exp anas of the transaction seven cants. Through the madias sf a dream, Mrs. Harry W. Warn, of Williams, Pa., found the will of her late has 'hand who waa baHevad to have died intestate. While preparations wars being made to appoint an adminis trator, Mrs. Whin drsamad that a copy at her husband’s win would be found at a former homo, among noma old papers. A search waa made and the missing document found. The wilt left tha entire estate to Mrs. Warn. - .... I . MW m courwnip \c jotin, P. L. Yatee and Mies Kate Rehgor, both eg Rutherford, Tann., decided that the time had come to coocomato their marriage, the ceremony. taking place at the office of • Justice, N. B. Johnson. The bridegroom gave his age as «7 aad the bride U. Their courtship began in school days. Yatee aaid after his marriage that he had never believed ho could afford to wed until ho had paid for 1JIN acres of lend, had *10,000 In a bank and bed built aad furnished a home for hie bride. AH this be did end married. Perm land values la the United States are ieeraaelng almost by leaps ■ aad bounds. Figures Just made pah* , lie by dm Department of Agriculture Shaw that values, taken aa a whole, Imnml K.7 per seal In the last 4 years aad lli par root last year. The vmloe of farm lands without hapten meats la estimated at |4AM par asm; compared with 944.M a year age, $MJ1 two yearn age, 08.10 three years age, aad IMJt four yean age. The p mesa tags of in ernes in the far western states wag 1L I TU WIDE WORLD. Dr. Ben jam In Kby, a druggist of Harrisburg, Pa, rnmtiy died frees a heaserrbage brought on by a tooth brush bristle, which lodged ia bis throat. As a result of a tie vet# fa the re cent election of a mayor at Tates CKy, 171 „ Dr. C C. Halley and Jay MrToachlia drew lets to settle the contest. McLaughlin won end will eorve the two-year term. Three million pairs of Onsssch boots for the Busaian army are boiag manufactured in England. The order is the largest placed since the begin ning of the year and will require 300,000 sides of leather. The German federal council has is sued aa order regulating the sale of soap, soap powder and other sapo naceous compounds. The council also is preparing to eonaervo the supply of print paper and to regulate its con sum ptloti. After tying themselves to their cots with stripe of sheets, Henry Hallman and Abraham Scott, of Harrisburg, Pn-. attempted to commit suicide by setting fire to their beds in the county jail. They wero rescued after they had been burned about tha anna and legs. The Rev. J. Thomas Evans, “kiss ing pastor" of Cedar Grove. H. J., has been figuratively but not literally kissed good-by by his congregation. Ha was ousted by a vote of 62 to 27 because Re has been too free with kissing among young If dies of the congregation. Charles A. Newton, of Oakville, Wash., a student at the University of Washington, claims the world's cham pionship for cross-cut sawing. Now ton cut a fit-Inch log in four miaotes aad KO seconds, defeating Nelson Knight, a logger from Malone, who had won the con tost for six years. Dr. Bussell H. Can well, of New York city, has completed sa investi gation of 4.Q4S American millionaires and finds that all but SO of them start ed life aa poor boys aad all bat 40 of them have contributed largely to their communities. He found that osdy ana rich man’s son in 17 dies wealthy. The explosion of a shell said to Have been from one of the guns of tbs old battleship Maine, blown up<ki Ha vana harbor, killed Jobs H. Busch, of Wakefield, Maga., and caused probably f**el injuries -to bis seel, John. Mr.' Busch was ptdking at the shell with a steel instrument when it let loose. Seven Villa follower* who were cap tured following the raid on Columbus, N. M., were sentenced to die by Judge Edward L Modler, sitting in Deming, N. M. Tbs prisoners pleaded that they were ignorant of where they were going at the time of the raid and that they were forced to follow Villa under penalty of death. ■- Stella Kulkinskl, a Slavish girl of Chicago, aged nine yean, gave up her life to save two playmates, one of them bar brother, and the other a neighbor’s child. They ware walking on the tracks when a fast freight bora down upon them. Stalls threw her brother and the other child down an embankment to mfaty but wsa kill ad hsrsatf. To test the new state law maldag H illegal for white persons to toach "ogross, three bubs from St. Joseph's convent, at St. Augustine. Fla., have bean placed under technical arrest. They were allowed their freedom on their own recognlaanoe. The thargse were brought by earveral negroes, who declared tho case would be carried to the Uaitde State* Supremo court. Jacob Rosenthal, vt Philadelphia, didn’t want to work in the winter be cause it woo too cold, nor in the sma n«r because it was too hot, so Judge Brown recently soot him to the coun ty prison until he Can furnish rani ae tata security to insure the payment of fire dollars a wash for the sup port of Us wife and throe children. According to tha wife, Rosenthal has eroded work for the last tun yean. Treasury department officials arc of the opinion that the income tax now being collected will exceed (100, 000,000, or an increase of 92I.OOOXIOO over last year's cotlocticms. Tha in eraasa la attributed by treasury of betels to the greet business and in dustrial expansion which has taken place in the country's past year of prosperity. The return*, It Is said, base disclosed many surprisingly larga incomes among nan hi the lower i walks of Hte. A pearl, estimated to hare been termed 1,090,000 /years ago and said to be the oldest specimen of its kind in the world, was fsund bp Stanley C. HcroM, a student at Staafbtd uni versity, Cal. Tha pearl w(U bo pro pearl, oyster and cochol-dhsg, in which K was embedded, reached Stanford hi a consignment of goolagii material from the react cf tha state of Week hkftM. He pearl has MtUe rataa as a gam. i OUT or m BILKNCK. And you’ve gene to jrwr bad ad rant? Wban tha shadow* earn# and tha light baa rone O'er the rim ad tha Golden Weit, And a elivery beam of tbe MN creeps in Aa if in aimleaa quest? What do yon any Whan a kindly voice that you item to know I Out of tha shadows a peaks soft and low "Wall, what did you do today?" Oh, what eaa you aay whan you’re alone With the Master of all tha taaka? How much of a ain do yon have to own When the voice of tha Master asks— How many things have you left un done Your studied answer makes? What da you say Whan out of the shades of the ailcnt night Tha Master spanks with tbe Master’* right: "Wall, what did you do today?" 'Thrice blest is he od the humble way Who sinks to hla bed of rest— The rest he earned with a toiling day With lore of hie labor blest— Who hears tha voice of his Master ask and 'truthfully aay "My beat!" The man who eaa aay I’ve trod tha way ad my bast Intend, IV* helped a friend ami I’ve made a friend > To "What did you do today?" —John D. Wefla in Grit. The Weather. Ua fa naan in tha country, aa tha sea [ soaa go and coma, la purty much like othar folks,—we're apt to grumble some! The spring’s too baeWard fer ua, er too for’ard—ary one— We’ll jaw about it anyhow, and hare our way or none! The thaw’s sat ia too soddent: or tha front's stayed la tha toll Too long to gtra tha whaat a chance, and crop# ia bound to ypoil. Tha weather's aether moat too mild, er too outrageous rough And altogether too much rain, er mat half rain enough! New what I’d lika and what you’d Lika is plane enuff to aaat _ It's just to have old Prerwidenoa drop round on you and me 1 And net ua what our views is trst re gardin’ shine er rain. And poat’en when to shat her off. er let bar on again) And yit Td rather after all con siderin’ other chorea I' got on band, a tendin’ both to my affarea and yours— I'd rather miss tha blame I'd git, a-raling things np there, And spend my ex try time in praise and gratitude aad prayer_ Jamas Whitcomb Riley. DIDN’T HAVR TUBERCULOSIS. Strange Caee ef Fayetteville Man— New Getting Well. Mr. Virgil Kelly, a former dtiaea of Fayetteville and president ef the KaOy 8u (pander Company whan it wee operated hart, haa lost paaawt through a alngnlar and vary trying experience, bet bit many friend* will be glad to know that ho la not much the won* for wear Sometime age Mr. Kelly began having hoeaorrhagea, ead Atlanta phyaleiaa* told hhn that he had tnberenloaia. Of ouuitt title diagnosis of hi* com much dtproonod Mat, and bn.pt once went to a sana torium in Lower California. The phyaleiaa in ittrgi of the ■anatorlom thoroughly ■»—WH Mr. KoQy end told him that ha did not havo tuberculosis. Still tho hmaor rhagea continued aad tho patient waa in the low ground* of laapalT until ftnaU- the phyticiaa operated on hia throat and foond habedod than a plea* of glaao thiee-qoartera of aa ineh long aad aa large aa a good aixed tooth pick, which wet extracted, and, lo, Mr. Kelly has had a* man hemorrhage*. Bo uyt ho ha* not tho Watt idea how tho gtam got in Me throat, bat ha it Indeed happy to have H out and to know that he is not a victim of the dreodarf malady tnbtg* cuioaio. Ho lo doing wolt, aad rapid ly recovering from tho bad tSoota af hit singular oocldowL—FayettortDo Observer., yjtonatattnc& IwAnpAm/Nmi 'H&MSr* LONNIE HAMMOND , Everythin* In Han't ForaltWntft TMEOFQnrS BLACK DRAUGHT Mr. Ckaa. A. 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