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I" T m. pan M 4 la4m.tHtwr. i BBajBanmm jj 999tf V0f t)f fMsaSSaBBgf (1 lit Ml HENRY WALLACE PHILLIPS I . ' COPYRIGHT. 1002. BY McCLUHB. PHILLIPS t COMPANY Miss Mattle spoke of sleeDlne qd- talrs, because she could not rid berself of the fear of somebody com ing la. "I know Just how yon feel about that," said Red. "My hair used to be on Its feet-most of the time when we were In the hay camp at the lake beds. Gee whiz! The rattlers! We put hair ropes around but Ibem rattlers liked to squirm over hair ropes for exercise. One morning' I woke up and there was a crawler on my chest -Tor God sake, Pete!' says I to Anteloge Pete, wuu was roueoj up nen me, come take my friend away!' and I didn't holler very loud neither. Pete was chain lightning In pants, and he grabs Mr. Battler by the tail and snaps his neck. but I felt lonesome In my Inside till dinner time. You bet! I know lust how you feel exactly. I didn't have a man's sized night's rest while we was In that part of the country." It struck Miss Mattle that the cases were hardly parallel. "A rattlesnake on your chest, Willi" she cried; with her hands clasped In terror. 'Oh, it wasn't as bad as It sounds. He was asleep, colled up there to get warm sharpish nights on the prairie in August but darn- it, Mattle," wrin kllng up bis nose In disgust, "I hate the sight of the brutes!" "But yon wouldn't be afraid 'of a man, Will r "Well, no," admitted he. "I've nev er been troubled much that way. Yon see, everybody has a different fear to throw a crimp in them. Mine's rattle snakes and these little bugs with forty million pairs of legs. I pass right out when I see one of them things-.- They give me a feeling as If my stummlck had melted." "Weren't the Indians terrible out there, too?" asked Miss Mattle. "I'm ure they must have been." "Oh, they ain't bad people If yon ase 'em right," said Red. "Not that I like 'em any better on the ground than In it,", he added hastily, fearful of betraying the sentiment of his country, "but I never bad but one real argument man to man. Black Wolf and I come together over a matter of who' owned my cayuse, and from words we backed off and got to shoot ing.. He raked me from knee to hip, as was kneeling down, doing the best I could by him and wasting ammuni tion because I was In a hurry. Still, I did bust' his ankle. In the middle of the fuss a -stray shot hit the cayuse In the Dead, ana no oroakea witnout a remark, so there we were, a pair of fools miles from home with nothing left to quarrel about! You could have fried an egg. on a rock that day, and it always makes you thirsty to get shot anyways serious, thinking of which I hollered peace to old Black Wolf and told him I'd pull straws with him to ee who took my canteen down to the creek and got some fresh water. He was agreeable and we hunched up to each other. It ain't to my credit to say It, but I was worse hurt than that Injun,. so I worked bim. Ha got the short straw, and bad to crawl a mile through cactus, while I sat comforta ble on the cause of the disagreement and yelled to him that he looked like a badger, and other things that an In jun wouldn't feel was a compliment" Bed leaned back and roared, -i can see him now putting his hand down so careful and turning pack every once In awhile to cuss me, Turned out that it was bis cayuse too. Feller that sold It to me bad stole It from him. I oughtn't to laugh over It, cot I can't help but snicker when I think bew I i did that Injun.- Generally speaking. Miss Mattle baa a Uvelysene of hnmor, bat the Joke of this was lost on ber. Her educa tion bad been that getting shot was far from funny. "Why. I should have thought you would have died. Will!" what! For a little crack m ue ler cried Red. with some impatience. "Yon people must qui easy u uua Mnntrr. Die nothln'. One or our bova came along and took us to camp. and we was np and doing again la no time. 'Course, Black WoU has a gam leg for good, but the worst that's stuck to me Is a yank or two of rheu matism In the rainy season. I paia wolf for his cayuae," be finished shamefacedly. "I bad the laugh on him anyhow." ' Miss Mattle told him she thought tw waa noble of him, walcfe trumn Bed took as medicine and shifted the nhiact with speed to practical anaira. He asked Miss Mattle bow much nos er she bad and bow abe managed to maka aot. NOW. It WSJ M Of tb) canons of good manners In Fatrfleld sot to speak of material matters, per- baps because there was so umm terlal matter In the commmolty. bat wiaa- uatUaL doomed to a irksome. Betty economies, had longed for a aympatnetJs ear to pen Into It a good koaest complaint tt bs tog to do this and that the eooid not uctly go this far witn txwsa wiu, bat she could say it was pretty hard to get along and gave some details, fcbe felt that she knew aim so rery well in those few boors! Bed heard wit nods of assent He bad scented tbo mndltloea at eoee. ' It ain't any fan skidding ea the this lee." said he when they had ecm dnded the talk. Tre bad te eosrat the beaae I pot In the pot, end n made me bate ariUmetie worse than wheal I wwat ever yoeder to scboeL WoD, them days kayo gone by for yea. Mat-rja- He reached down and, polling at a greea roO. slapped It ea the cen ter table. "Blew that ia and limber p sad remember that there's more behind lt- Wea MatHCs pride rose at a leap. ' -Win." she said, "1 tope yon deal ttlaa rv told jm this to get meoey from yea." He leaned forward, ptrt his hand ea bet sboaktor and held ber eyes wit a tborlty. "And I hope, Mattle," said be, "that yon don't think (hat I think anything of the kind." , The cousins stared Into each other's eyes for a full minute; then Miss Mat- tie spoke. "No. Will," said she, "I don't believe yon do." , "I shouldn't think I did," retorted Bed. "What In thunder would I do with all that -money? Why, good Lord, girl, I could paper your; house witn io Diiisi jnow yon try to oy them green kites, like I tell you." Miss Mattle broke down. The not ful ly realized strain of fifteen years had made itself felt when the cord snap ped. "I don't know bow to thank you. I don't know what to say. Ob, Wil Ham, it seems too good to be true!" "What yon crying about Mattle?" said he. In sore distress. "Now bold onl Listen to me a minute! There's something I Want you "To do for me." "What Is itr she asked, drying ber eyes. -" 1 "For dinner tomorrow." be replied. "let's have a roast of beef about that size,", indicating a washtub. The diversion was complete. "Why, Willi What would we ever do with Itr said she. "Do wltht? Why, eat It!" "But we couldn't eat all that!" Then throw what's left to the cats. Yon aln'tHgolng to fall down on me the first favor I ask?" with meek seri ousness. r "You shalf have the roast of beef. Tears to me that you're fond of your Itomach, Will," said Miss Mattle, with a recovering smile. "I have a good stomach that's al ways done the right thing by me when I've done the right thing by It," said Bed., "And, moreover, Just look at the constitution I have to support But say, old lady, look at that!" pointing to the clock. "Eleven-thirty; time de- Pant people were putting up for the night." The words brought to an acute stage a wandering fear wmcn naa passed through Miss Mattle's mind at Inter vals during the evening. Where was she to look for sleeping accommoda Hons for a man? She revolted against the convention that hi her own mind as well as the rest of Fairfield forbade the use of her bouse for the purpose, Long habit of thought had made these niceties constitutional. It waa almost as difficult for Miss Mattle to say "I'll fix up your bed right there on the sofa" as It would have been for Bed to pick a man's pocket yet when she thought of his Instant and open gen erosity and what a dismal return therefor It wonld be to thrust him out for reasons which she divined wonld have no meaning for him, she heroical ly resolved to throw custom to the winds and speak. But the difficulty was cut In another fashion. "There's a little barn In the back- yard that canght my eye," said Bed, "and If yon'Il lend me a Diamr.ec i n roll it out there." . "Sleep In the barn! You'll not do any such thing!" cried Miss Mattle. "Yon'U sleep right here on the sofa or upstairs in my bed, Just as you choose." "If if s all the same to yon, I'd rather not Bo help me Bob, I'd smother in here. Had the darnedest time coming on that ever was-botels. Little white rooms with the walls coming In on yon. Worse than rattlesnakes for keep ing a man awake. Reminds me of the boapltaL Horse leu on me once ana mashed me no so that. I bad to be sent to get puttied up again, and I never, struck such a month as that gjnee I was bom. The doe told me I mnstat move, bnt I told him I'd chock bim oat of the window If be tried to stop me, and np I got rd have gone dead sure If they'd held me a week more. I speak for the bam, Mattle, and I speak real loud; that la, Z mean) to say I'm going to Bleep In the barn unless there's somebody a heap larges than yon on the premises. Now, there's no use for yon to talk I'm going to do) Just as I ssy." "Well, I think there Just dreadful!" aid Miss Mattle. "I'd like to know what folks will think of me to bear I tamed my own cousin oat In the barn." Her voice trailed off a little at the end aa the gist of what they might say if be stayed In the kosse oc curred to her. "WeO," she continued, if you're set I suppose I can't object" Mlas Mattle was not a good hand at playing a part Tin set" said Bed. "Get me a blanket" As she came In with this be added, "Say. Mattle. could yon let me have a loaf of bread? rve got a habit of wanting omethlng to eat la the middle of the night" -Certainly! Don't yon want some better with It? Hers, IT1 tx U tor yon en a plate. . -No, dont waste dish washing, m bow yoa bow to tlx It" He rot the leaf of bread In halt polled eat a por tJoa of the soft part and tiled the bole with butter. -There we are. and aothlng to bother with afterward." -There a right smart aottoa, WO, art yeon want a knife." , In answer he drew oat a leather from hat breast pocket and opened It With la was knife, fork, spoon and two fat boxes for salt and pepper. Tee sa. rm txed." said be. -Isat that a rate trick?- eke cried admlrlagty. "Tea "re ready for sees jrjtktag." -tare." oaid Bed. "ew. good night id tody." He beat dowa to so eat wral a fasbton that Miss kUttto bad kbmtd km kef ere eke knew what eke TJoare to the kara, tkreagk the soft tm ma- went Bed. whiatnag a If exiean lev eeag asoac mat on Itka Mattle stood ta the half mam and Helena! W1 ad etarUghtand the eotm or aewere tMM ! ta adore. The oualat ead patty tana rose eae ran. MUt Utattle ttocd in the half opened door ana unenea. lilted along as It listed without re gard for law and order. It struck Miss Mattle to the heart. Heregirlbood, with Its misty dreams of happiness, came back to her on the wings of music. 'Isn't that a sweet tune?" she said, with a lump In her throat Bhe went up into her room and sat down a moment In confusion, trying to grasp the reality of all that had hap Dened. In the middle of the belief that these things were not so came the regret of a sensitive mind for errors committed. She remembered, with a sudden sinking, that she had not thank ed him for the necklace. And the mon ey lay even now on the parlor table where he bad cast It! This added, the physical fear of thieves. Down she went and got the money, counted out to her unmitigated astonishment $500 and thrust It beneath her pillow, with a shlverr She wished she had thought to tel bim to take care of It ant sup pose the thieves were to fall on him as he slept? Bed's friends would have spent their sympathy on the thieves. She rejoiced that the money was Wbere.it was. Then she tried to re member what she had said throughout the evening. "Well, I suppose I must have acted like a ninny," she concluded. "But Isn't he Just splendid!" And as Cousin Will's handsome face, with Its daring, kind eyes, came to ber vision she folt comforted. "I don't believe, but what he'll make every allowance for how excited I was," said she. "He seems to understand those things for an he's such a large man. Well, It doesn't seem as If it could be true." With a half sigh. Miss Mattle knelt and sent np her modest petition to her Maker and got Into ber little white bed. In the meantime Bed's actions wonld have awakened suspicion. He hunted around until he found a tin can, then Ut a match and rummaged the bam amid terror stricken squawks from the inhabitants, the bens. "One, two, throe, four," be counted. "Beckon I can last out till morning on that Mattle, she's white people-Just the nicest I ever saw but she ain't need to providing .for a (nil grown He stepped to the back of the bam and looked about him. "Nobody can see me from, here," be said In satis faction. Then kaseraped together a pile of chlpe and sticks and built a fire, filled the tin can at the brook, sat it on two stones over the Are, rolled himself a cigarette and waited. A large, yellow tomcat came out of the brush and threw bis green headlights on bim, meaowlng tentatively. "Hello, poesy!" said Bed. "You hun gry too? Well, Just wait a minute and we'll help that feeUng. Like bread, pussy r The cat gobbled the morsel greedily, cams closer and begged (or more. The tin can boiled ever. Bed popped the eggs in, puffed his ciga rette to a bright coal and looked at bis watch by the light "Goal Ten min utes more new!" said be. "Hardly seems to me as If I could wait" He pulled the watch out several times. "What's the matter with the d-n thing? I believe It's stopped," be growled. Bat at last "Timer be ebouted gleefully, kicked the can over and gathered up Its treasures In bis handkerchief. "Now, Mr. Cat we're going to do gome real eating," said be. "Just sit right dowa and 'make yourself at home. . This Is kind of fun, by J Inker Down went the eggs, and down went the waf of bread In generous auces, never forgetting a fair share for the cat -Woosh! I feel better!" cried Bed, 'And now for some sleep." He swung up Into the hayloft, spread the blan ket on the still fragrant old key and rolled kimeelf up te a trice. 1 did a good turn whoa I came oa be mused. "If I have got only relation, she's a dandy-eo pretty and quiet and nice. She's a marker for all I've got le Mattle." The cat came up, purring and -mak ing broad." Ho sniffed feline faabloa at Bed's face. - Tool Shoo! Go "way. paaey! Set tle yoereeif dowa and wen pound ear ear for another forty mOee. I like yoa tret rate when you dont walk ear my He stretched and yawned enor- mooaly. -Yes, sir, MatrVs an rlgbtr aid be. "A-a-a-n if And Cheats teaches Bed wee la the land of dreams. Here, back la God's country, wtthfas miles of the place where ke was bora, the waaaerer laid aim dowa again, and la eptto of raid and foray, wkadry and poker cards, wear and tsar, hard ttmeo and, hardest tost of afl, etjedea fortuae, ke was meek the laVPVlestTssV fcsxaMtig. (VftsaVMsaa Idevflaaay-care boy wke had left there twsmty-fear years, aga. ' CHA.FTXB T. mrxt SBoraJng when Bed woke arrows of aaoottag thiaagk the kotos to Id bara, ead ewtslde Ike bird life, the twittering sad rtk-ptag. the taaat wktaOe a ad the werbje, the cackle and the pempsae crew, were to fan chorea. -Whore tm I at thie timer said ke la rh view. "Oh. I re Gw3a i -1 a member!" and his heart leaped. "I'm in my own home, by the Lord!" He went down to the brook and washed, drying hands and face on the silk neckerchief, which Is meant for use as well as for decoration. In the' meantime Miss Mattle bad awakened with n sense of something delightful at hand, the meaning of which escaped her for the time. And then she remembered and sprang out of bed like a girl. She weut to the window, threw open the shutters and let the sdrrhig mornlug air flow In. This had been her lmblt for a long time. The window faced away from the road, nud no one could see who was not on Miss Mattle's own premises. But this luornlng Ited had wandered around. Stopping at the' rosebushes, he picked a rose. "That has the real old time smelt" he said as be held It to his nose. "Sweetbrlers are good, and I don't go back on 'em, but they ain't got the fram these fellers have." Bud In band, he walked beneath Miss Mattle's windows, and he was the first thing her eye fell upon. Her startled exclamation made bun look up before she bad time to with draw. "Hello, there!" he called Joyfully. "How do you open up this day? Yon look pretty well!" be added, with a note of admiration. Miss Mattle bad the wavy hair which Is never In better order than when left to Its own de vices. Her Idea of coiffure was not the m,ost becoming that could have been selected, as she felt that a "young" style of halrdresslng waa foolish, for a single woman of her years. Now, with the pretty soft hair flying, her eyes still humid with sleep and a touch-of color In her face from the surprise, relieved against the fleecy ahawl she lad thrown about her shoul ders, she was lncontestably both a dis creet and pretty picture. Yet Miss Mattle could not forget the bare feet and nightgown, although they were bidden from masculine eyes by wood and plaster, and she was. embarrassed. Still, with all the supersensitive fan cies, Miss Mattle had a strong back bone of New England common sense. She answered that she felt very well Indeed and, to cover any awkward ness, Inquired what he had In his band. . "Good old rose,'; replied Bed. "Old time smeller better suited to yon than to me ketch!" At the word he tossed It, and. Miss Mattle caught It dexterously. tBea had an exceedingly keen eye for . some things, and he noticed the certainty of the action. He bated tumblers. "A person can do things right If they've got minds that work," waa one of his pet sayings. " 'Taint the muscles at all; It's in the head, and I like the kind of bead that's In use all the time." Therefore this small affair made ImnMMlnn -mi him "Why, yon could be a basebaU play or," said he. "I used to play with Joe when was a girl," said Miss Mattle, smiling. "I always liked boys' play better than I did girls'. Joe taught me how to throw a ball too. He said he wouldn't play with me nnless I learned not to "scoop If flrl fashion. I suppose yon wlU be wanting breakfast" There was a bint of sarcasm in the doubt of the Inquiry. "That's what I do," said Bed. "Yon must Just bustle down and get things to boiling of I'll throw bricks through the windows. I've been np for the last two boon." "Why, I don't believe itr said Mlas Mattle. "No more do I, but It seems like It,1 replied Bed. "Don't yon want the lire started? Come down and open np the bouse." When Miss Mattle appeared at the door In be strode with an armful of wood, dropping It, man fashion, crash. oa the floor. "Skip out of the way," said be. TU show you bow to build a fire." (to as coma uxd.1 Aoqurttad. MagistrateTea will admit that you entered tbe boose of the prosecuting witness by tbe door at a o'clock In the morning? prisoner Yea, your honor. "What business bad you there at that time of night?" "I thought It waa my own bouee." "Then why did you, when thie lady approached, leap through the window. Jump into tbe cistern and bide your- eelfr "Your booor, I thought It was my wife." Eternity. A Salvation Army preacher in one of kie talks exclaimed to his beererai "Eternity! why, don't you know the meaning of that word? Nor I either, kardly. It Is for ever and ever and Ave or six everlastings atop of that You might place a row of figures from bore to sunset and cipher them an up, and It wouldn't begin to tell bow many ages long eternity la. Why, my friends, after millions and trillions of years bad rolled away to eternity It would be a hundred tbouamaS million of years to breakfast ttina'-Lsndoa atxprese, The totueaee of Pee, "As the modern world of letters kaa mainly goes to Keats to lean style the pcrfecOoa of word and phrasing ae It has gone to Poe to lean tone, tbe troths of keeping aa atmosphere la a. Pee did aot set himself to write copy book maxima of moral, tty," obsorree Charles Leonard Moore ta the DkU, -bat the total effect of his work to that of loftlaeas and aobtllty. His men are brave, and his woman are pas. He le tbe least vulgar of anor torn. Perhaps If books bare any ef fect at afl his toad to truthful toe eeaaMve, to Death Per a Kies, Tbe rules sad rearnlattoae wbJck aav guie to Prance are strict whoa esuiparet wttk these of Tsiglend and America. Oa (he efher kaad. oeanpared with the social laws of toaia. I think those of Prance an favarahle to the tonne SOa I have paraaaal knowledge of a ease la a young apaaiaa gal anoc awr- kissedby a ta ec this smell todlserettea. kfe bed keen made uafroarshle try retaOvea. Paris Letter CKXX)C)OOOOOOCOOOCXXXXXXXX)00 I Washington Letter. OOOOOOOOOOCX)C)COOOOOOOOOOOO Washington, February 19, 1908 "If ever there waa an opportun ity for Democratic victory thia is it," said a prominent Democratic mem ber of the Senate today. "Why tht Republicans are fighting like the famous Kilkenny cats. The Preai dent and Taft are determined that their policies shall triumph, regard less of the welfare of the party, and the opposition would rather split the party wide open than endure another four years of Rooseveltism, whether it it administered by Teddy himself, or by Taft, The latent plan of tbe anti-Roosevelt crowd is to carry the Republican National Con vention with 'rjlton borough' delegations fromdhe South which can be count ed on to vote against Taft and " for such other candidate as will pay the highest price. These delegations are almost entirely composed of negroes who will sell out at the drop of a hal, Dut there is no danger of their selling to the Taft people because the Taft crowd has not got the price, M on, we uu mis siue can look on with entire equanimity. I hope, in deed that they will succeed, for the American people will not eland for that kind of politics and it will mean the election of Bryan, surer than fate." Senator Stone of Missouri, talking or toe professed intention of th democrats to revise the tariff, said today; "Did you notice how Mr. Cannon treated those members of tbe National Manufacturers' Association who came to Washington to ask Congress to appoint a ! tariff com mission? They came at the instance oi Senator Beveridge. They were all Republicans who have enjoyed thi benefits of protection until they have got enough and they want little bit of the tariff wall shaved off ATid yet Cannon treated them'witl contempt. Now what have we to ex pectif the Republicans win the next election, Cannon will be Speak er again and he will be just as much of a stand patter as he is today. The people have got to elect a Demo cratic President if they want tariff revision, just as they did in 1892. This talk of Republican tariff revision is all a bluff." Senator Aldrich is driving his fi nancial bill through the Senate with his usual skill. The Democrats are all opposed to it and many of the Republicans are against it, but they are afraid of Aldrich to a man and the Democrats, who constitute only " " . a o . a one wira oi tne upper bouse, are powerless to do anything without the help of the Republicans. The President has announced that he favors the Aldrich bill and when Aldrich and the Preaident get to gether no Republican dares raise bis voice in protest. The ami-Bryan Democrats very nearly executed a neat little coup the other day. They purposed to elect Rep. Ryan of Virginia to the chairmanship of the Democratic Congressional Committee. It -was a little scheme of Thos. F. Ryan of New York, who is a distant cousin of Rep. Ryan. Some oi the members of the Senate learned of tbe game Mr. Ryan of Interborough Railway fame was putting up however, and blocked it in the eleventh hour. It looks very much as il the coun try was going to be burdened witb another and more than ever Infam out pension bill. This is a bill to pension every widow of every men who served,90 days or longer in the Civil War, and to raise tbe pensions of all widows from 18 to 112 a month. 8peaker Cannon is back of the bill, which will coat the country about $12,000,000, a year id addition to the 1151,000,000 it is already spend ing for pensions, but they say that Mr. Cannon thinks it will help bim to gain the Republican presidential nomination and as he does not have to pal the bill be considered it cheap at the price. Of course most of the real widows of veterans are dead, that is women who were the wives of veterans daring tbe war, but this bill gives pcnsjoDS to all that host of young women, many of them of not to enviable re putations, who bava married old soldiers many years their senior ia order to secure the old mens pen sions afler their drain. Ml, Bryan bat declared in favor of the guarantoe of all deposits In national banks, these to be secured bv a sort of ioouraoos fund to be ac cumulated by a tax on all deposits to be paid " Into the national treasury. Tte Democrats - In both houses of Confront tavora this scheme and an earnest effort will be made to add it as an amendment to tbe Aldrich bill, but as tbe bankers are o pposed to it it will probably fail. The Secretary of War has issued a gen era! order creating a Division of Militia in the War Department. This division will have charge of all the relations of the militia to the regular army, such as joint manoeu vres, etc It is to be in charge of Col 11. M. Weaver who is known to many national guardsmen as the of ficer who had charge oi the joint manoeuvres of the militia and the Coast Defense Artillery, last sum mer. Hitherto, Colonel Weaver has been assistant Chief of Artillery. If Democrats quarrel often, it takes Republicans to quarrel bitterly. The spectacle of , Senator Foraker de nouncingthe President, of a Repub lican Representative denouncing Mr. foraker, and Of the President putting the Senator from Ohio in the already overcrowded Ananias Club, are distinctly ttepuniican and are typical of the brotherly love which at present characterizes the Republi can party. Tbe Marck Smart Set It is safe to Bay that a more strik ing story than "Simeon Tetlow's shadow," which Jeannelte Lee con tributes to the March number of The Smart Set, has not appeared in any recent magazine. It grips the reader's attention from the very first sentence, and in quite a remarkable manner retains tho interest to tbe rery end. Especially notable is this noryel in that it contains no love-story whatever, but the dramat io interest is so intense and tbe swing of the story so rapid that the reader is carried along breathlessl y to the denouement. The short stories cover a very wide field. Edwin L. Sabin in "Tbe Elopement" writes a delicious American satire; "Monsieur Patri- que," by Maude L. Radfivd, is ex ceedingly droll; "The Cynic," by the well-known English writer, Mm. Henry Duleney, is on 9 of that author's most finished bits of work; Wireless" by Alice Leal Pollock, is a one act play, powerful and un usual; "The Exquisite Reveng V by Algernon Boyeeen, deals with a unique situation which U handled almost with the skill ol Henry Jam . Other interesting fiction is by liar rietGaylord, Mary Glascock and Burton Bias. Thire is on) Ql'm Carman's always delightful e-iaay, "An Old-Fashioned Enence," which anyone should read, not only tor its charm of style, but for its ker nel of truth. Cbaoning Pollock con tinues his clever dramatio articles and the poetry is extremsly good; Venita Seibert, Arthur Davison Ficke, Clinton Scollar.l, Archibald Sullivan, Ludwig Lewisobn, fSl Barker, William H. Iltyne and Tbeodosia Garrison are among tbe peots represented. Mr. W. W. Ashe, son of Capt. S. A. Ashe, of Raleigh, was recently sppointed State forester for Nortn Carolina, He is a State University man and has done exceptionally gopd work with the national forest bureau for several yeara. His first e work as State forester will be tbe examination of the lands in eastern Carolina, especially those owned by the State board of education, at to the value of timber on them. He will also investigate lands now prac tically denuded of timber witb e view of determining the practictbil- ty of replanting them. Secretary Taft haa ordered that herealler none but Americans sbsll be put on the "gold rolls" of tbe iatboiiam canal commission. Tbe ef fect of this order will be that skilled aboronthe isthmus will be Ameri can citizena cocb foreigners at may be among those now employed, and those numbers include a doxen na tionalities, will not be disturbed, but ss fast as any vacancy occurs these will be filled by Americana The omnibus bill, carrying a total allowance of 1 315,245 in payment of claims for stores and supplies fur jiished by Ibe army of tbe UniUd Stales during tbe civil wsxjclaimttl of volsftteer officers for service pay and claims by churches, colleges and other eleemosynary societies, pesed the House of Congress a few days ago. North Carolina claims in the bill aggregate 11,200. Nine miners were killed and one was probably fatally injured Monday a weak by an explosion of gu in the mine tf the Moody Coal Company, at South Carroll ion, Ky. Tbe mine is a small one and only 13 men were at. work at the time of the explo sion. - - iaasaaBaBBsaaaBBBBSBaaeBsBasaaaaanaBi Is It Your OwnHair? 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