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,253an who crinkled the funny; paper,
rend 'laugh'ouVloadatithe pictures.
r5t np, yawned and went to bed. The
cian who had v been writing letters at
ae table followed , him. The circle
-arrowed,5 each man drew" up nearer
"fixe stove, and sought to forget the
iSreather outside J Just such a night as
-jpse would choose ' for ; "recalling
2dngsVand -an. ideal crowd for ex-
-thangig confidence because nobody
2aiew,anybody else; nobody cared very
- :Einch about .such small details as
jiames" and- addresses The . secure
cenfie of comfort and companionship,
-3rew . out of - being : well housed on
jtach an awful , night, -and a kinship
-ssritli all, with none too familiar. -
ftobody was disposed -to be .very
talkative The man who sold satin and
gfpr, remarked casually that he had
4Sot gotten any letter from, but would
-icadoubtedly get It In the morning.
' 5Zo newff-is always good news," he
ald, and settled more deeply into hii
hair. " ' :- v::'" ;'V :" J-:-.
That's the way of a family man,
the tobacco drummer remarked. "Now
ake me for instance. I haTent a liv-
iag - relative except a cousin on my
soother's side, she's and old maid, and
-.. teaches school.. I usually take r my
-Thanksgiving dinenr with her, but just
nrrote her the other day? I could not
et around to it this year. Hate to
SSfiss itrtoo!"
The negro came, and filled up the
tore with coal, and retired, and no
cne spoke for a long time.""'
-"Why did I never marry?" Well, 'I
come very near it once. But as
jaear it as a fellow evercomes not to
Sxt married.
- He blew rings thro rings with a
.jgreat show of unconcern, and no one
questioned himT - . .
She was as sweet a little girl as
you ever saw7 Prettiest pink cheeks,
Jjrown eyes, crimpy brown hair, and a
jtieer little dimple in one side of her
tface that, came and went when she
'tatted. ;
"Gentlemen, I went with- that girl
steady for near on to two years. - She
jlaiew I was foolish about heri and I
-tSJnk" she thought a good deal of me,
jSmt we never did mention'the subject
"I was young, and a little bit bashful,
, -fssxd thought anyway there was plenty
- f time. Was mighty well satisfied to
-letthfpgs drift. " - ? ; -
, Finally there was a new fellow
-Came Ato our place, and all the girls
considered him quite a catch. - Hewas
at,
and they
young and good to look
Just naturally liked him.
."Well sir, he just went crazy over
my girl. . Seemed to be a case of love
at first .sight, as they call it, tho I
never did set much store by it, myself.
I didn't think she cared , very much
about him, fact is, I was sure she did
n't. yShe had such a , cute appealing
way of loking at me. with the color
deepening in her cheeks just as much
as to say she would, trust me to the
end of the -earth, and nothing could
; "I shail never forget that" night, as
we ' came o . nback from . church.. The
moon was shining. I though I had
never seen just such moonlight. Bright
as day outside. We lingered along the
lane like young lovers will, you know,
not caring much whether we ever got
home pr not. and finally we got to
talking about well Arts one thing
and another, and I told her I loved
her, and took her hand in mine, and
finally she promised to marry me, but
knew that her father would never con
sent.. . ".-;' - ' , '-J -
"We had been reading one of those
t)ldEnglish novels about people being
in love, and eloping, like they.used to
do in -the - face of parental objection,
and that made me think of it, so J
.bucked right up and askef her if she
would't elope with me. - ' - ' ' "
?She was romantic anyway. and
full of odd notions, and I could see she
was struck with the idea. , So we went
on talking and talking about, it, and
finally when we got tocher "gate, we
had it all planned, and we. knew we
never could have, found a nicer night
We planned to run away to the next
town,' ride horse-back, you know, and
get the magistrate to tie the knot
then come back and get forgiven. I
was going to get the horses Teady and
put a ladder up to her window, like
they did ' in the story-book. ; we
planned it all fint. . I left her there,
she planning to raise the window when
I set up the ladder.
. Long just before midnight, I set the
ladder up to the window, but she did
not appear. "My "heart was beating fit
to kill me by choking me to death. r J
threw up a handful of gravel, but still
she did not appear. ' ".. ."
"I grew more nervous, and finally, I
went up.: There. were two windows on
the same side of her room, and not till
I got to the . top did I notice that the
other -one - was ' wide open,- and thero
was a ladder leaning against it
"I ; began to; suspect well, lots . of
How much do you suppose it costs
you a year to repair your wagons and
harness on account of bad roads? How
much does it cost you a year for shoes
and clothing that are ruined by your
children-wading through the mud to
school? How much does It cost you a
year for "medicine to cure your .child-
InprovCEseiits in South Here TIiaa
Doubled Kortli Carolina II-s Spent j
- C1C5,CC3 in Ten ITonths. ; ; .
WashingtonVNovqmber " 14.- -Speak
Id g of the advantages of, Good Roads
and of what Is being done in; that di-
rpctf onT Secretarv: of Aericult ire Wilr
son declared .today that nea rly $44,-
000,000 was expended during he pres
ent vear for. (rood roads in tbd South
ern' States .alone-The secret ary will
ren's colds contracted ,;in wading
through the mud to school? How much
of a damage a year 13 the mud that
prevents your children from 'attending
ttTToVs of TduoattonrHVrch tte subject at the good roai,
nmflU-tn'imii 4s mriv rrtrtrn? ti nr-" ConaTess ..to'' be-r.h'eld-.-: ; next'Mfwk - in
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venting your - reaching market. with ' IUclunond;.": T0
your produce? Tou are perfectly will- "Through its bureau of good' roads
reapers ana mowers ,anQ ouier iarm
inachiriery Yott; are - willing to : pur
chase carriages and ' harness; f At the
prlcpptatoes 'are-.; today;Jione-load
would be theaverage farmer's ,tax-f or
ten years -for good roadsX JAt the end
of that time the roads would be good,
ind you could vote tq .rescind the law
If you wanted to and yoi would have
your good -.roads and no tax; for thirty
or forty years, the balance of-, our; life,
Selected.; " --t
things. I came : down my- ladder and
went up ' the , other- oner and one look
inside showed . me that theT; room was
emptf : 5; 1 r--i'-.f4I
was so scared that I called the
whole family before I-thought. '; Then
I had to explain the situation, and
they were frantic. We found a note
pinned to her pincushion i explaining
that she had gone with the other fel
low. That he asked her first and
when I asked Iter she thought, it" would
bo a good idea to have me find the lad
der and help the family solye the prob
lem of the "Bird-having flown' as the
story-book said. V ' - "
"I found out then that..the old man
had kind of . been expectingthat she
would marry. -me, and had " no subjec
tion at all . " -r '
v "I think to his day that girl thought
the most of me." I- just waited a little
too long to - ask her. And . anyway
they named the baby after me and he
calls me "Uncle." -,r r v r ; V :
" Marriage is just a lottery anyway,"
the night-clerk remarked, v ns the
guests rose to retire. :::'-L- l . V-"-
Stlefes
Mrs,- J. F. Daniels, of
Sip, i Ky witesi .I was
so sick for 3 or 4 years,
I." had rto hire V my ; work
doneV ' most of- the time.
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ment of of Agriculture has been stim
ulating the nation-wide movement for
better highways, sending 'outiTeipfrif
enced engineers to conduct demonstra
tion work- and a force of traiae4 nien
to' give illustrated lectures7 v
Reports to the department;' snow
that the ;$44iOOO,OOQ;spentiSurine
first ten months of . this calendar year
was divided as' follows r . ' ' j : 5 '
.Alabama; $3,484,000; ' Arkansas $2,-;
450,000; Delaware, $430,000; Florida,
$1,505,000; 3e0rgia, $2,500,000; .Ken
tucky, $2,500,000 ; Louisiana, ' $1,132,
354 Maryland, $250,000 ; " Mississippi
$3.130,000; - North. Carolina, $4,505,000;'
Oklahoma; $1,505,000; South Carolina;
$1,100,000; Tennessee, $3,900,000; Tex
as, . $7,600,000 ;x: Virginia, $4,004,000 i
JVst Virginal, $1,625,000. : : .
"The 'A department - is - co-operating
with State or local authorities in prac
tically every State,; anoT reports show
that over $20,000 miles of Toads -were
built during the past twelve months
' A few," years v ago. the department
conducted an investigation to deter
mine the conditions of roads through
out the country. The result showed
2,151,570 miles of public highways of
which 7.4 percent, were, improved;
while there were 'in the sixteen States
of the South, . 685,151 niiles, of which
only 27,185, or 3.87 per cent;, were im
proved. ' :-Ap - . '. .
"Since J904 the annual expenditures,
of- money vfor road improvements In the
nation has doubled and in the South 4t
has more- than doubled . - The move
ment for good roads is going to benefit
the farmer in getting is products to
market; expeditiously . in all kinds - of
weather at 'a reduced cost; is going;'to
increase; the value of lands; and will
give . his children better school facil
ities Good roads . will ; particularly
prove beneficial to the farmer of the
South where, apart fronf the staple
crops the soils will produce almost
everyknown crop and especially late
winter and early sprlngrarieties when
transportation from , farm to.. railroad
is rendered difficult owing to the cut
up an,d . rough condition of unimproved
rOadS.'; t - - V- yf ..f ; J 'y 'i
"For demonstrating purposes the de
partment recently - laid over 1,000,000
square yards of object-lesson roads of
nearly every type of; road, , and our
road experts are constantly -at their,
work in all parts of 'the. country, while
the laboratories are testing ail kinds
of possiblematerials in order to se
cure the best improved materials for
road constuction.'" '
BUTLER BROTHER
. ' GENERAL .COKTRACljORS :
.'' W04 NEVAYOnK UFE BUILDING - "
' fSt. Paul, Minn.. January ' 10 T ; 1910
AlphVPortland -OeoouJb Jpo. ,
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"Everr carload "was carefully testedJJ
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-one barrel;rejeated. ; ;
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Cincinnati overthi-ewj oss Cox and
his Republican ; machine, but President
Taft didnt have a hand In. it' even af
ter condemning it. He . .could have
strengthened himself, in the eyes t3f
the country had he gone to Cincinnati
ana voted for the overthrow of the cof
mpi political machine. .1 - He was too
much of a partisan to' vote right, and
so it was good that he lost his vote
and lost friends among many good Re-
pUDUcans in his city. - 1 .a
At Akron, Ohio, some time aro. Prea
Ident Taft denounced Cox and his Cln
cinnati ".machine' When he voted last
luesday he voted with Cox for the Cox
crowd. He could have done better, for
independent XRepublicns appealed to
him, before the election, vto ' aid in putH
ung an. end to the Cox ruie. On the
Saturday before the election,-while he
was in Washington and- getting ready
to go to inemnatt to put his foot-in
it as usual. President Taft 'received a
telegraphic message from twelve
prominent Cincinnati Republicans
protesting against endorsement of the
Cincinnati ticket r : ?
The President had ' previously en
dorsed the machine in a letter to for
mer Mayor Julius Fleischmann He
wrote tharityoHticlan that he would
vote for i; the Republican munlcinal
tick If he were permitted to , vote.
Of course, lie was. permitted to do so:
Land he voted on the: Iosiri? rWa ' wih
thousands of " Republicans Voting
against him. i: The teleCTaphic messafp
which the President ' receiver! -hefn'ro
going to Cincinati. read as follows: . ..
.. we, Independent Republicans-wbn
have always bepn your sincere friends
and supporters, believe that you '; have
Been, misinformed as to the facts, and
wo do not agree with Mr. Fleischmann
that conditions haveimateriallv chang
ed since -yohr famous Akron . speech
On the contrary i the same politcai
leaders whom yoii denounced then are
still in ,contrc! of the . .Rennfclf n . nr.
ganzation.""' ' iAt&M:-' , A r.
Evidently. I resident Taft has done
himself harm in -theeves 'of a
number of Cincinnati; Republicans, not
to mention.- the country, a Marsre. Wil
mington Star.-? i A r , ; ;
Keeping the Dollar at Ilome. .
Ten years ago a Parmer put his inltt
ials on a Dollar Bill. The next day he
J went to the nearest town and spent it
j with a Merchant. - Before the-year was
out he got the jDollar?BUI Back; Four
j times in six years the Dollar came cak
I to him for produce, and three times he
heard of it in the pockets of his, neigh
ibors The last time he erot it back was
four years ago He sent it to a Retail
Ma4l Order House : He has never seen
that Dollar' since, nor never will. -That
Dollar will never pay any more School
orRoad Tax forhim wil Inot build or
brighten, -any of 'the - Homes o the
community. - He sent it entirely out of
the circle- of usefulness, to Himself and
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