iff S ft IE I f 7 $1.00 a Year, in Advance. FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY, AND FOR TRUTH." Single Copy, 5 Cents. ' - V.OL. XIV, PLYMOUTH, N. CM FEIDAY, JUNE 26, 1903. NO, 15, WANTED, .Wanted a Man who U gentle and just; A man who is upright and true to his trust; Who eai-es more for honor and love than for pelf, And who holds his neighbor as dear as himself; Who's sober and earnest, and merry and pay, Who cheerfully shoulders the care of the Whose principle's high, whose integrity's strong; h Who'd rather do right any time than do wrong, Yet who to a sinner shows sorrow and pity. )o von th'iik T might find such a man in the city? 0 J7 By W. f?o many others did. I know "Old Howls'' in a casual Avay, as a iioto broker of the meanest class. Ho Avas always un tidy, always in a hurry, never anyihing else but thinly clad, oven in the depth of winter, and car ried constantly with a loud laugh and painfully forced jollity that had Avon him his epithet, "Howls'' a haggard, hunted expression. Jacob Howells's reputation, even when' I first knew him on the Street, Avas quite "off color," and the color had worn off more and more as years went on. lie and I never had any business transactions for two reasons, both valid I had no spare cash to loan, and when I borroAved which was seldom it Avas not on collateral of the sort re quiring the big "shaA-e," out of which this man and his kind made their .sparse and precarious profits. It Avas growing dark on a raAV day last February that, crossing Nassau street on my Avay toward the elevated, I saw HoAvells in charge of an officer. Having heard that he had been con cerned of lato in several pieces of "sharp practice," the fact that ho avus now in custody did not seem surpris ing. I Avas going by with no more at tention than may be implied by a brief thought of commiseration ("Poor chap, I hope he'll get out of the scrape"), when I heard him say pleadingly: "For God's sake, Avait just five min utes more." His tone was so imploring, so pitiful, and it seemed so sincere as to some hope in a little delay, that I overcame the dastardly cowardice of prudence, turned right about, and Avent up to him. "Ik there anything I can do for you, Mr. Ilowells?" I asked, not, I fear, cor dially, but coldly, 'my manner instinct ively modulated as to imply that pre sumption on his part avouUI scarcely be tolerated. "Yes." he answered eagerly, "there is, if you are Avllling to take a little just a little trouble. As you see. I have got into a little scrape (he laughed grimly), and I have sent a boy for my laAvyer. I'm afraid it's so late lie's gone home. Noaa, would you mind, going to my fiat (he named the street and number),, and tell my wife 1 hat I have been called away sudden ly, bu.': Aviil bo back to-morrow and (he handed me a five-dollar bill) give her that." Of course I agreed to do what he wished, though his Jat Avas far over on the upper east side, Avhile my home was on the west. Howells clutched my hand hard, "Thank you; my God, !ut I do thank you," and Ave parted. 1 turned back doAvn Wall Street, and took the east side elevated at Hanover Square. While I waited for the train it began to snow, and by the time Ave readied Fourteenth street a heavy snoAvstorm had set in. At Fourteenth street there was a long stop, and at the end of pevhaps fifteen minutes the guard opened the door. "All out," lie shouted, "this car goes no further!" I soon discovered that there was a lire on the 'block above. The surface .line was blocked also, so I made my way across to the Set-mid Avenue line. There Avere delays here also, so that it Avas quite late before I reached the street Avhere Ilowells lived. In the meantime the storm had gathered strength; the Avind biew fiercely, and the mingled snow and sleet beat full into my face as I made my way tow ard the tall tenement to which I had been directed. I found the number at last; one of these immense, semi-gen teel apartment houses, a horror to look Tni IK ujpon, much more to be all one could Wanted a Woman no saint, under stand, But a womanly woman, who on every hand Sheds the lustre of purity, goodness and grace. Who carries her loveliness stamped on her face : Whose wisdom's intuitive, insight is deep; Who makes living sunshine where life'.? shadows creep; 'Who's poised in her little world's centre, and who Is gentle, responsive, and tender and true; Whose sweetness and graciousness fit like a gown, Do you think I might find such a one in the town? Metaphysical Magazine. ' i i i i rri r i i ii j J. R.oe. call "home." Pushing the button of the very topmost ilat. the door opened instantly, and, co-ercd Avith snow, I toiled up the- stairs. On the upper landing stood a Avoman, who ex claimed before she recognized me: "Oh, Jake, dear Jake, I am so re lieved " Suddenly she stopped, seeing a stranger, and. clasping her hands, her face, as I could see even in the obscur ity, turned ghastly white. "Is this Mrs. Ilowells?" I asked. "Yes," she gasped, evidently over come Avith apprehension, "yes; please tell me, have you word from iny hus band? Has has anything hap pened ?" As quickly as possible I relieved her anxiety by delivering my message and the bill. I would have gone then at once; but Mrs. IIoavcIIs urged me to come in. "It was so kind of you to come, and such a dreadful night. Mr. HoAvells is not strong. Girls (she con tinued joyously , your father is all right; ho Avas obliged to go out of town." I had not said this, but let It pass. The little room Avas a charming pic ture of modest refinement and home likeness. Two young women, who had been sitting by a lamp, one engaged in needlework, thi other, having laid down a book, rose and greeted me. Ladles, all of them, that was evident, as avoII a: AA'as the de?p affection al most adoration for the man whom, till that hour, I had known as one avIio could not have been classed as respect able, much less as a gentleman. It was noAv, hoAvevcr, quite apparent that desperate gap betAveen the man of the outside world and of the home, and the hideous struggle he was en gaged in Avith the Avoif of poverty and to keep the little family together. The next clay Ilowells came to my office. He looked even more disrepu table than ever after a night in jail, but his voice trembled as he thanked me. Then his tone and manner changed. "Well," said he, with a harsh, hol low laugh, "I got off this time; 'tis.n't the first, and 'tAvon't be the last. You know your Aesop the pitcher that goes often to the Avcll is bound to get broken some day." After this I used to do a little more than nod to Mr. Howells; in fact, sev eral times I even threw a little busi ness in his Avay. Once he came to me on a matter where I was really of very considerable assistance. When it Avas concluded he asked me to go out and take lunch with him. "Don't ob ject," he said heartily, "on account of its coming out of my pocket. It won't; the man I'm doing this for puts up, and this Aviil go in; besides," he added, consciously, "I'll not take you to any swell place " We lunched at a little place not "svell,"'but good in its way, and there he let out much of his heart to me. It AA'as pitiful to hear him tell of the miserable shifts and devices by which he gathered together the few dollars needful pitiful to me, knowing what the man's home life was. "Do you think I don't knoAV AA'cli enough Avhat people say of me? Yes, they call me a blood-sucker, and no, don't shake youv head that's not the worst; some will tell you I'm an out-and-out scoundrel who ought to be in State prison. But, Mr. ," he laid his. hand impulsively upon my arm, "I give you my Avord before my God that never in my life have I done a dishonest act.. Yes. I've been arrested more times than that once you know of; but it Avas always as a scapegoat for some oilier man's rascality. 'Hit him; he's got on friends!' that's the cry around Wall and Broad streets. What a dreadful business mine is! I know it; but I can't get out of it; I can't try some other more decent. God knoAvs I would if I saw ray way, but I don't. When a man's past sixty no one wants him. Besides, I knoAV this business of shaving third and fourth class paper clear down to the ground; I knoAV that and nothing else. Noav, this piece of business; how much do you suppose I'll net out of it?" "Two hundred," I suggested, know ing what his commissions ought to have been. "Divide that by twenty," said Ilow ells coolly. "What! a jackal like me get his full commissions; Not much; I'm allowed for expense carfare, this lunch and odds and ends; but before I got the job I had to agree to take an even ten. Oh! I'm not worrying; N it's the best day's vrork I've done in six months." From time to time during the follow .ing summer I saAv Ilowells, ahvays in haste, always anxious, but his greeting Avas ahvays a genial smile and a hearty "Good day." He never pre sumed upon my good offices. It was late one afternoon the following No vember that a messenger brought me a brief note from hrm. He was laid up, he wrote, with a bad cold, and there Avas a little matter of business ho wanted looked after. The papers inclosed Avere all in good shape. It Avas after business hours: but, in his calling they stay clown toAAn late. I did what ho asked willingly, col lected the amount, and sent it by the messenger. A week passed, and the same thing happened again. This time he Avrote at considerable length. He Avas very ill; too ill to be out such a harsh day. He had no one he could trust (the word "trust" underscored). Would I mind obliging him just once more? It was a beseeching almost cringing letter. He might have known mo better. I did the errand, collected $0, added $10, and inclosed a line say ing that I Avas glad to be of service, and that the ten was "at his entire convenience." The next day a postal came, undated, and the handwriting tremulous, hardly legible. It said simply: "O. K. Many thanks. You'll get it later." About a week after that, while I was sitting at my desk in the office, the door opened hastily and Ilowells staggered in. My first thought was that he had been drinking, for his manner was wild, his eyes sunken and bloodshot, and his usual pinched and haggard expression intensified tenfold. "Excuse me for one moment, Mr. ," he said, panting like a winded dog, "I'll get my breath shortly." When he had recovered himself ho began at once, talking very fast there Avas a policy on his life, taken out more than ten years before. Originally for five thousand, it would noAr be AAorth to his heirs upAvard of nine thousand. "The premium is due to-day; this is the very last day or the policy "will lapse. It mustn't lapse; that's the long and short of it. My family Avould get over nine thousand if I should die to morrow' if that premium is paid. If I should die to-morroAV," he repeated, choking. "I've got fifteen of it. Can't you help me out with the balance? For God's sake try and hcip me out " I did not keep him in doubt, but opened my pockcibook and counted out tlio twenty that he said was needed. Howells eyed the money as a famished man might food. As he clutched the bills, the man's joy seemed quite un speakable, lie did. however, manage to stammer out in the intervals of a fit of painful coughing what he called his "deep gratitude." "You'll get this back, good friend," ho said huskily at the door. "Never fear. If I pull through all right; if not well," and lie laughed hoarsely, "all right, any way. The fact is. I slipped out. No one knew I'd left the fiat or, for that matter, my bed. The doctor said if I came out this raw day it would be the last of Jake Howells. But if you knew, Mr. , how I've Avorked and scrimped and gone Avith out to save that policy for Polly and the girls, you'd say I Avas right dead right. They call mo a hoary old repro bate, but I say that Avas right dead right." About dawn the next morning IIow olls died. The grief of the three women avIio loved him Avas agonizing. If he had been the most respectable citizen it could hardly have been more so. In due time the policy was paid. Mrs. HoAvells sent for me, and gave me the thirty dollars. "Mr. HoAvells told me to be sure and repay you, and to say hoAV very, very grateful he was," she said 'be tween her sobs. As every man of letters must knovf and abide by perhaps at his peril morals to tales are quite out of date Inartistic though it be and unwise, ye1 the writer feels that he would bo false to a higher duty than that of providing an "a'aiiible" manuscript M: he lefl this brief; "jecord without Avord of com ment. Morals! Great Heaven! How certain, how numerous, how eager thej are, justling one another to be told to be stamped vividly, effectually upor. the cringing flesh of an age professing such high ideals in theory, and in prac tice crucifying them all! What righl had I to gratitude? As much yes. just as much as he to the opportunity to gain an honest livelihood, unvcxed by the ever-waiting spectre of tempta tion and of crime. The whole range and verge and scope of sociclogj' aye, and of theology, too are bounc up in the story of the "hoary olc reprobate," Avho yet, after all, followed the Master, and "gave his life for the sheep." ITcav York Times. HURDLE JUMPING. Kraenzlcln is the World's flfh ITardlo Champion and Iiecord-Uolder. Formerly, in the days of Tuffer nni" Stephen Ciiase, the hurdle race war even a prettier event than it is to-day as they skimmed the hurdle, and though they sailed over it very prettily, there Avas a distinct glide through the air and the motion Avas stopped after each hurdle. The science of hurdling now demands that the athlete get over the hurdle with the greatest possible speed, to flip himself over Avithout any glide in the air, and to so throw the feet and body that the very effort to clear the hurdle hurls the runner on to the next hurdle. This style, while not so pretty, is faster. ancl.Kraenzlcin must be given the credit for developing it to its high est form. Kraeczlein in topping the sticks Avould use his hip as a SAvivei, and throw the first leg over the hurdle, not trying to get distance on the farther side 'f the hurdle. His idea was to get that leg 0A-er as quickly as possible. The other leg followed after, but it AA'as not dragged. It was brought up smart ly, so that when his first leg hit the ground on the other side of the hurdle his other leg was in the position it should bo for the next stride. This is the leg motion, but the young hurdler will find that to get the above result he must use his body as a lever and his arms as a means of balancing and pro pulsion. When throwing the first leg over, the body is doubled up like a jack knife, as this not only helps to get the leg o-er the hurdle, but it aids 1 lie speed with Avhich the hurdler gets over. The right arm is thrown forAvard if the right leg is first over; the left arm is then brought up with a rush while the other leg is being swung across the hurdle, so that when the ath lete hits the ground after clearing the hurdle he is in the natural position for running, and can put all his effort to getting speed between the hurdles. The athlete should remember when going at the hurdle he should keep his chest squarely facing it. The body is the lever, and if it is not held straight when going over the hurdle the athlete will not alight squarely on his feet, and he will lose form and speed between the hurdles. In this event the runner should plan to take but three strides between hurdles. From G. W. Orton's "Training for Iaterscliolastie Atret ics" in St. Nicholas. Mr. I'necr'a Game. Seeing a friend step on the platform of a Aveighing machine, Mr. Pue;n stepped up behind him. "Let's see how much both of r.s weigh," he said. "All right," the friend said, dropping a cent in the slot. The indicator floAY around to the fig ures -t)7 and stopped. "How much do you usually weigh?" asked Mr. Pneer. "One forty-three. I guess. That's what it was the other day." "Then my weight is 15 1. Thanks." And Mr. Pneer' s countenance glowed with serene satisfaction as he stepped down Chicago Tribune. Large Poatofflce I'uslnps. The total business of all kinds, in cluding money orders sent and re ceived, transacted in the New York post office last year Avas more than s-j-jo.ooo.ooo. Opportunity. Opportunity knocks at every door. but seldom goes in and takes off her things. Chicago Ilecord-IIerald. . HUCKLEBERRY PIE. Now th's yere bill o' fare's, I guess. Considered purty fine Wit cav-e-air an' pom-de-tare An' fancy kinds o' Avine But 'long about this time o' year, Ye know, I kind o' sigh Fer jes' a good old-fashioned slab BV O' huckleberry pie. ' It didn't come in little strips Bat great, big, juicy slices, 'An' m my of 'em as ye pleased, With no regard to prices. It come about two inches thick An' crust! gee Avhiz! but my " J' Mouth's Avaterin' fer a piece o' mother's Huckleberry pie. Jes' like the cloA-er use' to c-mell'3 The Avay it use' to taste Seems as I kin feel it now A-rneltin' in my face Talk about yer fiyin' Averlgcs! ' Fill me up an' jet me dis Jes' full o' large black, juicy chunks O' hucklcbeirv pie. -William Lord 'Bccd, in Green's Fruit Grower. "I had to discharge my wife to-day." "What was the matter?" "She was horrid to the cook." Brooklyn Life. "The elopers have returned to ask your blessing." "Blessing, eh? How do they want it? In the form of an allowance, or a cash deposit?" Life. If everybody'd pay e-erybody as every body should Then everybody'd pay eA'erybody for every body could. Detroit Free Press. Customer "I Avant a ton of coal." Dealer "Yes, sir. What size?" Cus tomer "Well, if it isn't asking too much, I'd like to have a 2000-pound ton." Chicago News. Mrs. Gotham "Have you noticed Iioav that dog next door shows his teeth? I suppose he is a watch dog." Mr. Gotham "Yes; an open-face watch dog, I guess." Yonkers Statesman, A fellow Avho lived in NeAv Guinea i" Was known as a silly young niiinea, lie utterly lacked . ' Good judgment or tact For he told a svclt girl she was skuinea. Chicago Tribune.. Lou "Jane tells me that her fiance Is Avorth a hundred thousand dollars. Do you believe it?" Ella "He must be AA-orth more than that. Why, he paid taxes on twenty-five thousand Avithout a murmur." Judge. Beryl "Such table manners! Wiry, I hear that Jim eats the pie that his wife bakes with a knife!" Sibyl "If you saAv the pies you'd imagine he'd have to eat them with a saw, a chisel and a stone crusher." Baltimore Her ald. Gussie "Cholly says ho met you and aAV that you Avcmarked he was a puzzle to you." Miss Pepprey "Yes; he reminded me of the average puzzle the moment he AA'as introduced to roe. 'So simple when you knoAV it.' "Phila delphia Press. "Might I hope that if I asked you to marry me the answer would be favor able?" "Might I hope that if I said yes to your question you would really and truly ask me to marry you?" "Jane, be mine!" "I'm yours." Cleve land Plain Dealer. Harris "Walters has been looking pretty sad since his daughter got mar ried, hasn't he?" Correllr-"Yes; you see, he had no sooner got his daughter off his hands than he found lie would have to put her husband on his feet." ToAvn and Country. Mr. Pansy "Just think, I was told to day of a man avIio buried a Avife and tAvo children in the afternoon, and then Avent to the theatre in the eveniug!" Mrs. Pansy "And yet he wasn't in considerate; he Avas only an under taker." Toavh and Country. "That story," said Woodby Biter to the critic, "is founded upon fact." "It is plain," replied the critic, having fin ished reading the manuscript, "that you are the real hero of the tale." "What makes yen think that?" "I notice you have the courage to sign your name to it.'' Philadelphia Press. Kens Help a Church. A novel plan to raise money for church purposes has been successfully exploited in Lycoming County, Pa. At the suggestion of the pastor, the Rev. A. E. Co-per, the members of the La dies' Aid Society cf Christ Lutheran Church entered into a scheme to sell separately all egg. laid by their bens on Surdays and set nnde the money thus derived for the use cf the churc'j. The Tvouhlw -Alakrr, The fellow who aiways tells the truth may be depended upon to create a lot of 'trouble-Philadelphia Record.

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