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tumorous ? tpartrarnt. V. 8. and D. D. "Some one wishes to speak to yoi over the telephone. Dr. Barnard," sal the call boy of the hotel where th new minister and his wife were stay ing temporarily. "Oh, yes!" saJd Di Barnard In response to a lady's vole which announced, "I am Mrs. Wegg." Dr. Barnard was not surprised, fo Mr. Wegg had asked him to deliver a address before the Y. M. C. A. and h ha/I nromlsed a reolv In a few days. "Oh, yes," he answered, and waite for an Inquiry concerning the address The inquiry came, but It was a littl different. '"Will you please tell me," asked th lady pleasantly, "where I can have m; poodle dog trained?" "Well, eh, eh, really, Mrs, Wegg, don't think I know," replied the as tounded clergyman. He was used t all sorts of demands, but this was th< strangest yet. "You don't know? Why, Isn't thli Dr. Barnard?" "Yes." "And you can't tell me where I cai get my dog trained?" the lady persist ed. "No. I'm very sorry, but I don' really know," replied the mlnistei apologetically, "but if you'll wait i moment I'll try to find out for you," he added, reflecting that this was t new parish, and of course If he was expected to know about poodles? He asked the hotel clerk's assistance and presently returned to the telephone He wae greeted by the sound of a muct excited masculine voice demanding "Please let me have the line a moment Mrs. Wegg!" It was the embarrassed Mr. Wegg who spoke, and who at once began tc offer contrite apologies to the clergyman with the explanation that the Wegg family had two sets of telephone instruments and that at the precise moment when Mr. Wegg. belo* stairs was calling Dr. Barnard, the clergyman, Mrs. Wegg. upstaire, wae calling Dr. Barnard, the veterinar> surgeon. It was a strange coincidence, and rather an unfortunate one. Mrs. Wegg thought. Still, it might have beer worse?if. for example, her husband had asked the veterinary to address the T. M. C. A.?Youth's Companion. Suppressed Information. In a small town In the heart of th? blue grass region of Missouri two veterans of the old guard were figuring again the battles of the sixties, says the Kansas City Star. The grenadiei of the north was shy an arm, whllt the musketeer of the south used e crutch. The fact that they had foughi on different sides made not the slightest particle of difference In their friendship. The Union soldier frankly admitted that Lee was a great general. Not t( be outdone In generosity, the southerner warmly praised Grant for his persistence. "Any other man but General Gran: would have committed suicide aftei the disaster at Cold Harbor," said h< who had been a rebel. "But he kept at It until Bob Lee hat to crawl back on Petersburg," returnet the Yankee, a trifle warm. "Yes, and Grant paved the way wltl his dead soldier!" said the southern er, his eyes glowing animatedly. "He got some few of you fellow: while doing it," retorted the soldier o the north, grimly. "What about Fredericksburg ant Chancellorsvllle? How many 'Yanks hit the dust there, eh?" "And how many 'Johnnies' at Vicks burg and Gettysburg?" asked the Un ion man, sarcastically. "I don't care?take It altogether, w killed more of you fellows than yoi did of us." "But we did whip you?you got b admit that." "Yes. I guess you did," replied th southern musketeer, slowly, "but i we'd a known how near you 'Yanks was played out we'd a held on on more day, and then where'd you beer I like to know? You kept It hid fror us, you did, and that's the smartes thing you did in the whole blame war!" - ? ? The Indexer. A foreign tourist who had receivei permission to visit one of the larg asylums for the insane in this countr was surprised at the neatness, quiet ude and good order that prevailed with in the walls of the institution. H asked if it was always like that, am the polite attendant who was showing him through the buildings said it was "We have what we cf 11 our vlolen wards, of course, but I presume yo would not care to see those?" i ininK noi. "It Is Just as well, perhaps. The are rather noisy, although, of cours< we exercise the same care In provid ing for the welfare of the Inmates tha you see In this part of the Instltutlor We also have a section where we kee; the Incurables." "These inmates, then, are considered curable?" "Their cases are at least hopeful." "I am greatly Interested," said th visitor, "but I will not take up an more of your time. You have othe duties to attend to, have you not?" "Yes, sir, this is merely one of m recreations. In one of the rooms of th main building I am engaged durini most of the time In pursuing what ma be called my life work." "You life work? May I ask wha that Is?" "Hadn't you heard?" said the at tendant, in a tone of astonishment. " am compiling an Index to Webster' Dictionary."?Youth's Companion. The Bolt Didn't Know. Attorney General Jackson of Ne\ York, was criticising in Albany a cer tain excuse that had been offered hln "It was a slim excuse," he said. "1 reminds me of the excuse of the light ning rod agent "In the day* when all the worl swore by lightning rods, a farmer ha two costly ones put on a new ban But only a week or two later ther came a violent thunder storm, th barn was struck, and In a few hour all thai ivmalned of it was a heap o charred black refuse. "Next day the farmer sought out th lightning rod agent. " 'Fine lightning rods you sold me! he shouted. 'Here's my new barn bee struck and burned to ashes!' "'What?' said the agent. 'Struc by lightning?' " 'Yes. sir; by lightning.' "'In the day time?' " 'No; at night. Last night.' The agent's puzzled frown relaxed little. " 'Ah,' he said 'It was a dark nigh wasn't it?' " 'Of course, it was,' said the far mer. 'It was pitch dark.' " 'Were the lanterns burning?' "'What lanterns?' "The agent looked amazed, incred UlOUR. " 'Why,' he said, you don't mean t tell me that you didn't run up lantern on the rods on dark nights?' iRiscrllattrous grading. IN COUNTIES ADJOINING. u d Newt and Comment Clipped From ^ e Neighboring Exchangee. LANCASTER. r< News, July 10: It has been suggested e that a monument be erected here to the memory of Dr. J. Marlon Sims, a ^ r son of Lancaster who achieved worldn wide distinction In his chosen profese sion. The suggestion is one that T should received the unanimous en-|~ a \ u dorsement of our people, not only of ' Lancaster, but of the entire state as * e well Little Otis, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Mehaflfey, of the mill village, e died Sunday afternoon, of dysentery ? and teething. He was one year and twelve days old. The remains were 1 were burled Monday afternoon at 2 " o'clock at Douglass Mrs. Eliza 9 Phillips, an aged lady of Flat Creek C 0 township, died last Thursday night. p Her maiden name was Hilton and she 5 8 was eighty-six years old. She was the widow of Burrell Phillips and leaves the following sons and daughters: 1 Messrs. John and Madison Philips, ' Mrs. Alex Deas, Mrs. James B. Neal and Miss Eliza Phillips, all of whom ' 1 reside In this county except Mr. John r Phillips, who lives in Rock Hill. The J remains were burled Friday at Pleasant Plains church Mr. Charles 1 Turner, a young man from Yorkvllle, p ' who until recently has been working for the Lancaster Telephone company, ' came near dying here Saturday night ^ from the effects of an overdose of mor1 phlne, which, it Is* thought, was taken p with suicidal intent. As soon as his condition was discovered antidotes were administered and friends and ac f quaintances of the young man kept a ' him walking: the streets all night long:. k ' It was not until late In the day Sun1 day that he was considered out of dan* ger. Some say that disappointment In * a love affair caused Mr. Turner to at- ( r tempt to take his own life, while oth' era ascribe the act to despondency 1 over financial troubles. CHESTER. [J Lantern, July 9: Mr. Joseph Mc' Lean, teacher of music In Agnes Scott ' college In Georgia, Is visiting Mr. . 1 Paul McCorkle Mrs. W. B. Stroup g 1 of Clover, came down Saturday even- ^ 1 lng and spent until yesterday morning at the home of her brother, Mr. J. F. Oates Capt F H. Barber was In Chester yesterday, notwlth' standing the ball game In Rock Hill. * ' He looks as young as ever Mrs. ' R. J. Stewart of Yorkvllle, returned 1 to her home Thursday after a two r weeks' visit to her daughter, Mrs. J. s M. Gibson and other relatives here. 1 Her grandchildren, Misses Ruth. Eth 1 el and Beatrice and Messrs. Clarence | ' and Walter Gibson, went home with y ' her on a few days' visit Mrs. J. A. Hedgpath of Clover, accompanied 1 by a grown daughter and four small- tj > er children, spent from Saturday un- t) til yesterday at the home of her fath- g er-ln-law, Mr. W. C. Hedgpath, and d left on the morning train for Black- ^ t stock to visit her parents, Mr. and r Mrs. J. A. Thomas and other relatives ' i near there Mrs. W. M. Kennedy e' returned yesterday afternoon from a h visit of several days in Yorkville 0 1 with Dr. Kennedy's parents. Dr. and , J Mrs. R. M. Kennedy of Newberry, who have been visiting In Yorkville, are " expected this evening to spend a few 1< days with Dr. and Mrs. W. M. Ken- j nedy Hattle, aged nine months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Street, p 8 died at 3 o'clock yesterday morning n . after a short illness and was buried p at Old Purity graveyard at 5 o'clock t yesterday afternoon. Funeral services i were conducted by Rev. M. L. Banks. v Mr. Street is section master on the v Southern with headquarters at Evans. ? It Is known to at least some of . - our readers that a man was in Chester . some time ago representing that he was agent for "The Etude" and other v journals. He was a swindler and, of v e course, never forwarded the subscrlpa tions collected. Mrs. A. G. Brlce has f Just received a letter from the pub- e Ushers of "The Etude." saying that the ^ 0 fellow has been caught at Albany, Ga., and sent to t.ie chalngang for one p e year Gethf.emane Baptist church c . on the York road about four miles e * from the city, a sanctuary famous ^ >' among the colored people, was destroy- (i e ed by fire last night, we unaersianu (> that services were conducted as usual c at the church last night and that the e a conflagration broke out shortly after t adjournment. There is considerable 0 (1 speculation as to the cause of the I blaze, some thinking that It might j have been of Incendiary origin. The , edifice, we understand, was completely destroyed. c d GASTON. ' Gastonia Gazette, July 9: John Keele, y colored, a member of the construction j gang, which is repairing the Southern's trestle over the Catawba river, ? near Belmont, was drowned Sunday ? afternoon while in bathing in the riv- j, g er. Keele was seized with cramps ^ while in the stream and drowned be- , t I, fore he could be rescued by his com- rj u rades Miss Maude Harvell and Mr. . Lawrence Jenkins, both of Clara Mill t neighborhood, were married by Rev. J. j * M. Downum Sunday afternoon. The j. event took place at the home of the j. groom's sister, Mrs. John Wilson, of the Trenton mill Miss Frances l" Abel of Lowryville, S. C., arrived yesp terday from Cleveland Springs, where she has been spending a short vaca- / ^ tlon, and will be the guest for several Hnva nf Mrs. William King Mr. John W. Abernethy died suddenly at e his home near Matthews Sunday about y noon. Mr. Abernethy was seventy-seven r years of age and is survived by seven or eight children. One son is Col. R y L. Abernethy of River Bend, this coune ty. The funeral services took place at s Matthews Tuesday morning at 10 y o'clock Miss Sallie Reynolds, age fourteen years, died at the home of her 1 parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Reynolds, near the Old Mill Sunday evening from typhoid fever. The remains were tak' en to King's Mountain yesterday morn8 Ing for burial Mrs. Carrie Costner, widow of the late Lee Costner, died at her home in the Union neighborhood yesterday after an illness of v several days' duration. The deceased was a young woman about twenty-two V years of age, and was before her mar* riage. Miss Carrie Flowers, daughter of Mr. Ambrose Flowers of Bessemer d City. The funeral services are being ^ conducted at Sandy Plains Baptist g church this morning by Rev. J. A. e Hoyle The report of Postmaster s Bradley shows the gross receipts of ' the Gaston la postofflce for the year e ending July 1st to be $11,191.01 an increase of $1,272.34 over the previous ^ year. This Is sufficient to give Gastonia a free delivery service and this ?- ncetrlnA oo? Ha/1 vihon tho town Cet.S IV .*?n > ivc v-uu Wt uuu .. I.V.. V..X- D ready for It Mrs. Luban Quinn died j at 11 o'clock Friday morning at her , home on the Wiley Hanna place be- ( a yond the Clara mill, aged about fifty- , t five years. The funeral services were j conducted at the home at 9 o'clock - Sunday morning by Rev. J. C. Gallo- , way, and the remains were interred at | Olney Presbyterian cemetery. Mrs. s . Quinn was a consistent member of the . A. R. P. church and is survived by , ? her husband, three daughters and one , son. who deeply mourn their loss. . ROMANCE OF A BIRCH. Tree, a Soldier's Present to His WarTime Correspondent. In the wide front yard of Captain oseph A. Humphreys, North Alabama treet, says the Indianapolis News, Is i large birch tree which attracts, by ts slender, beautiful trailing branches, he admiration of all passers-by and he possession of which makes the aptaln the envy of all his neighbors. 'It's called a Rochester birch," said he captain, "at least that was the lame given to It nearly forty years ago rhen I set It out, and there's a story, 'ou may call It a romance, goes with hat tree. "After the civil war was over, in fhlch I served four years and seven nonths, and came out a captain, I was t my mother's home in Missouri siting on the porch puffing away at a leerschaum pipe which the boys of my ompany had given me, feeling very roud and comfortable, when two oung ladles happened along to visit ly sisters. One of these young ladles, ressed neatly in a calico gown, struck le as pretty as a picture. She had harming manners, and then and there made up my mind to know her bet?r. My love-making was of the whirlind order. She couldn't escape, and i a few days we were engaged. Then e were married. We came on to Inianapolis, and In 1868 bought this lece of property. "During the war there was a good mount of correspondence between Iris here at nome ana uoy? m mc eld. They had never met each other erhaps, but It was all very pretty and mtimental and did the boys a deal of ood, serving to break the monotony f camp life. My wife, who had been school teacher, told me that she had irrled on a correspondence of this Ind with a young Ohio soldier whom ie had never seen, and when we were larried we wrote to him telling him t our marriage and wishing him all >rts of good fortune. "Well, In 1868, after we had bought lis place, we went to a nursery for a >t of fruit trees to set out It seems le nursery was run by my wife's war irrespondent, which we didn't know of t the time, and when he saw the name gned to the order he remembered us. o what does that chap do but send lat birch tree to my wife with his >mpllments, also a variety of rose ushes, with the request that she plant lem In remembrance of him and the itters which had served to lighten the ull hours of his soldier days. So lere's the tree nearly forty years Id; there's the little bit of romance lore than forty years old, and there's Irs. Humphreys sitting on the porch." IMMIGRANT AMERICANIZATION. vnty Scandinavians Prefer to Speak English After Their Arrival. Among the Immigrants themselves ie process of Americanization Is somemes extraordinarily swift, writes irander Matthews in the Gentury. It id not take long for Gallatin and .gassiz and Schurz to make themelves at home here, and the less glftd and the less well educated foreigner as an even stronger Incentive to get ut of his old-world shell. When the ite Prof. Boyesen went to Minnesota e was surprised to find that his feliw-Scandinavlans preferred to speak English even to him; and It was exlained to him that the use of their atlve tongues would reveal their easant origin, and thus testify to heir social inferiority to a gentleman . ho had been graduated from the Uniersity of Upsall, whereas the use of English lifted them all to the lofty taileland of American citizenship. The process of assimilation, 't fork now under our own eyes, was islble also to our fathers, and to our orefathers. Indeed, there is no strongr phenomenon in all the marvelous ilstory of civilization than this very irocess?than this Americanization of ountless aliens, generation after genration. with no violent modification of imerlcan ideals. Three centuries ago, men of sturdy English fiber began to ome in search of mental, religious and conomic freedom," as an acute stulent of social conditions has phrased f "Daring men in search of new ex terlences came as adventurers and llscoverers. Men of moral daring ame In search of religious and civic reedom. Men of industrial and comnercial daring came in search of larger opportunity. These men estabished ideals and set standards and reated tendencies for a nation." These tandards, these ideals, these tendenies still survive after almost three mndred years, modified a little, no loubt, but developed only, not radicaly transformed, and never renounced. I'he American of today, whatever his lescent, has most of the characterisics of the American of yesterday, deals endure, and aspirations have not >een blunted by time or turned aside >y alien influences.. ON BEING BORN POOR. V Rich Man Worrying About the Future of His Boys. "Do you know what's bothering me low?" said a man who has made ilmself rich and Is fast getting richer, iddressing a reporter for the New iTork Sun. "It's wondering what is foing to become of my boys. "I have four sons, all young and ill wholesome, natural youngsters lut if I keep on making money the vay I'm doing now I don't know what s going to happen to them when they jrow up. There's nothing like being 50m poor to give a man a real stari n life, with his feet fairly planted or :he ground, where they ought to be ind he learning to rely on himself. "I was born that way and I've always been grateful for it. If I had oeen born rich I think I should have neen more or less of a no account. 1 had to go out and hustle and work tc get along, and the habit of work ha? never left me since, as I hope It nevei Ail). "But how is it going to be about mj boys? They may come to think thai :hey don't have to work, which would t>e the ruination of them, or would it least put them out of the running kvith self-reliant, able men. "I'm sending them to public school t>r course, ana mere mey iruru u. urai jf things besides what they get out ol their books. They learn for one verj valuable lesson that there are other people in the world besides themselves, and that there may be plentj jf people smarter than they are, and that they've got to work if they expect to keep their end up. "Boys are democrats. You can't put on any lugs or airs If you expect to get along with the boys in a public school. If you want friends you've jot to be friendly. A good all-around start In life it Is for boys to go to a public school, and I hope my boys will aroflt by it. "But I suppose in time they'll go t< a private school, and then If thej want to they'll go to college, am there, what with their money, unlesi they should turn out to be very hard headed young men, they will come t< train with other young men with mon ey, and so get separated from the bull of their fellow students -and begin ti live sort of by themselves, and I can' imagine anything happened to i young man worse than that, his get [ ting away from the mass of his fellov i men. i "My boys have never known wha , It Is to be poor. They have alway had what they wanted, and unless should fall or bust up or something which I don't expect to do, I don't sei why they shouldn't always havi things, because as long as I had any thing I should be sure to keep them That's human nature. "And you see, there's the trouble They've got somebody to lean on, an< a man that doesn't have to Isn't ap to put out his own strength. The onl} way In which a man can ever amoun to anything Is by work, hard work. "The man that doesn't work dwln dies and comes to be of no account And I do hope my boys will want t< work. I don't care what they do 1: they'll only work at it, and work hari and faithfully. I think they're hand! capped as It is. Honest Injun, I thlnl It would have been better for them tf have been born poor, but I hope thej will turn out to be men." MARRIAGE AMONG ZULU3. Men Who Can Buy Half a Dozer Wive* Certain to Have Them. "Every grown-up native of Zululand, who has the twelve oxen necessary to buy them, has six wives," said Victor E. Nelson of San Francisco, tc a Washington Post reporter. Mr. Nelson fought with the Boers against th< British twenty years ago, and afterward spent three years in trading with the Zulus. This experience followed his service as member of the bodyguard of King Oscar of Sweden. Coming to America later, Mr. Nelson became a prosperous merchant, and e few years ago was made United State: consul at Bergen, Norway. "Yes," he continued, "everybody ii much married in Zululand, which occupies an area about the size of California, and sustains about 150,00( population. When the women art about twelve years of age they ar? purchased as wives at two oxer apiece. There is no ceremony and nt minister; the man who is charmed bj the beauty of the maiden pays th< price and gets the wife. Of course not every man has more than on< wife; only the more prosperous mer and the chiefs are able to malntaii six. Race suicide Is unknown anc each wife has several children. "In that country there are no lawi and no judges. Primitive method! and customs prevail, and the highes authority is the local chief. The peo pie live near to nature. The dress o: the men is confined to a girdle abou the waist, and that of the women ii not noticeable. Physically they are flni specimens of manhood and woman hood, having much the same charac Istics as the native Hawalians. "They worship the sun and snakes and it is a peculiar fact that thi snakes seem to reciprocate this #ndl: feeling on the part of the black peo pie, for they have never been knowi to bite them. When I killed a boi constrictor once it cost me severa bags of tobacco to square myself witl a local chief. Whenever a nativi kills a lion or a leopard he has to cu off the head and tail and present then to the chief of the tribe. This enable every tribal potentate to have severa lion heads as head dresses. The foo< is mostly confined to game and maize Funerals are long-drawn-out Journeys numerously accompanied, over thi land to a far away place. I once me one in the moonlight. The train o mourners were singing, in deep mu slcal tones, and the body was belni borne In a blanket between twi sticks. "The Zulus like to kill white mei bv wav of revenge for the way the] were treated when they first met thi English. I did not have very mucl trouble, because they threw bottles li the air and found I usually hit them and because I wore a bracelet give] me by a local chief. But I once save< the life of a young Englishman whon I found defending himself agalns nine Zulus armed with assegais. Rush Ing In on my horse, I felled the chief though not before gaining a scar ii the forehead which I carry to thii day, and helped to kill and drive of the others. The Englishman was cov ered with blood, but we rode all tha i night until we reached the clearlni where his parents resided. Thosi three years were stirring ones an( were full of adventure. I do not re ' gret any one of them I had In tha time of my youth." THE ROAD TO FORTUNE. One Boy Who Struck It by Making i Good Job of Sweeping. "The best boy I ever hired," said th< ' store manager to a New York Sun re ' porter, "was one I chanced to see once > sweeping off a sidewalk. "You know how many boys, an< 1 many men, for that matter, sweep t sidewalk. They leave a streak of dlr I here and there, make a poor Job of 1 generally, and pay no attention to thi ! passersby. They are slack and lndlf 1 ferent and they do whatever othe ' work they have to do, you can make ui ' your mind, in just the same way. Bu 1 this boy that I'm speaking of was mak 1 Ing another sort of a Job of It. - "He dug Into the corners up by th< building and made it nice and trin ' there, and then?working quickly, too? ' without losing a minute's time, hi ' swept the sidewalk absolutely clean and at the same time, as he worked ' he kept his eyes open, had somi ' thought for other people beside him self and some sense of responsibility He was a worker and a good worker You knew he'd do whatever else hi ^ had to do in just the same way. ' "About three months after that w< ' had occasion to hire another boy, am curiously enough, as it seemed to me that boy applied for the job. He dldn' need anv other recommendation to m< ' than the work I'd seen him doing sweeping that sidewalk, and we him ' him on the spot, and he's been wttl us ever since, advancing steadily. "What? No, he isn't a partner yet ' but he's getting on: and you can se it down as a simple fact that any bo: you see making a good square job o sweepin, off a sidewalK will do wel 1 anything he undertakes." W London has twenty-seven cab: and five buses for every 10.000 Inhab I Hants. Paris has forty-eight cabs am j only two buses for the same numbe: of people. Naples has fifty-five cab: ' per 10,000 persons; Genoa has tet buses for every 10,000. > RANGES PASSING AWAY. f I And Better Cattle Will Be Sent to a Market as a Result That most picturesque feature of "> cattle raising on the western plains? - the great "round up"?will soon be ? among the things of the past, says the a Kansas City Journal. The railroads' t are stretching their long lines through a the very heart of the range country, - and in place of the terminal station, v to which thousands of cattle were gathered from the surrounding coiint try to be shipped to eastern markets s. there will be many stations at conve- ( II nient distances and within easy reach I . I rl ImlnloklM or thot still prOD I b fatness from the buffalo grass, u The range "round up" was always - a thrilling sight. Cattle by tens of . thousands were sought out from the hills and valleys by scores of range !. riders, those bearing brands to be cut 1 out into herds by themselves, the fat t cattle packed into hundreds of cars to i be sent on their long, horrible journey t to the slaughter pens. There were many days of hard - work for the cowboys, followed by . many other days and nights of drink) ing and carousing, which lasted unf til the last train started on Its east1 em way. Then the range riders, cow boys and helpers mounted their ponies c and struck out for their various > ranges to spend months of hard and r lonely work looking after the herds yet to come. Qrass fat cattle are soft and lose flesh more quickly than grain fed animals, and the long drive from the mnore to the round-up station, the terror and crowding an the cowboys dashed among them, the yells and prodding with Iron-piked poles as I they were packed Into the cars qulck> ly reduced their flesh. The long Journey, sometimes as i much as 1,000 miles, with Infrequent - rests and Insufficient feed and water, i caused further loss of weight, and I these cattle often arrived at markets sad and sorry specimens to be con verted Into beef. The great range Is rapidly passing i and In Its place Is coming the fenced > pasture of the small farm. This change is gradual but rapid; irrigation ? is turning the great plains Into rich ' pastures and fields and grain and oth er crops are taking the place of buf' falo grass. s Cattle will be sent to market In bet ter flesh and shipments will be more i evenly distributed. Thousand of > range cattle are now sent to the corn r states every year to be fattened for ) market, but with the development and > settlement of the great range country i the grass-fed steer will soon be a cu? rioslty In the large stock yards. i ??-? I A8 A NOTE OF COLOR. 9 The Office Boy Gets a New Rating as 9 Comedian and Theorist. 1 In the sombre fabric of the business * world who Is It strikes the pleasing: f note of color?the stenographer? Nope, 1 answers Montague Glass In Success 9 Magazine. It Is the office boy. He i Is the unconscious comedian of the * mercantile scenario. The humorous " Journals are filled with his doings, and he figures prominently In the obituary '? columns of the morning papers. RareB ly does a successful merchant die but ^ what, among other life secrets, It Is " disclosed that he commenced work as 1 an office boy, and it is a fact that the 1 ranks of the millionaires are recruited ' more often from the humble bench In 1 the outer office than from the halls of e learning?this last a euphemism for * colleges. 1 The writer at various times has ats tempted to extract?that's the word? ' from the office boys he has encounter* ed a confession of their secret ambl'* Hons, with such responses as "Aw, cut ' It out!" or "Wot yer tryln' ter do?kid ? me?" One young man In the executive 1 offices of a railroad was more commu' nlcatlve. "T flnlr T'ri 11 lro tor hfi ftfl Gil A Udcici iilin * v* itnw ?v. ? f glneer," he said; "den I fought I'd like 3 ter be a brakeman; but now I'm gettln' so gosh blame lazy dat I guess I'll 1 be a station agent." f It seems to the writer that the mas Jority of office boys feel keenly the 1 responsibilities of their exalted destl1 nies, and resent accordingly any at' tempt to put them on record in a 1 fashion that might mar the biography * of a captain of Industry. 1 Of all absolute misnomers, by the * way, "Captain of Industry" is the " worst. In the dally life of the person ' so called. Industry', save in the smok1 lng of large imported cigars, plays no B part. Even his coupons are cut by the ' office boy, who, after all, first and last, Is the real captain of industry. In dignity, when the office boy cares 5 to assume it. he surpasses the carriage s caller in front of a dry goods store, and * the cook herself is no more difficult to fire. "I've quit," said the only hard-working member of a newspaper staff?the copy boy?to another of that ilk. "Whaffor?" he was asked. "Now?de old man insulted me," he 1 replied. "Wot did he do?" s "Now?he sez to me ten minutes ago ?he sez?'D' cashier will give yer yer ' time.' Ah' so gets mad an' quits, see!" 1 i t STRANGE COLLECTIONS. t ? Peculiar Ways and Means By Which Man?v la Raiaad. r Money is sometimes raised in very j, peculiar ways, and for no less pecut liar and maybe deserving objects, . says London Tit-Bits. For Instance, some little time since the collections s at the morning and evening services j at the parish church of Langwlth Bas_ sett, Derbyshire, were made on behalf e of twins who had just made their ap. pearance in the neighborhood. They were the offspring of a poor s widow whose husband had died only . a few days before. The sad circum. stances naturally appealed very . strongly to the sympathies of the e parishioners, with the result that the collections together amounted to the p fairly substantial sum of ?12 7s. It j would have been difficult to devote the , offertory to a more worthy object j than the benefit of the widow and the fatherless. According to the Pall Mall Gazette, j a collection was. rather more than two years ago. made in a place of worship in "gallant little Wales" for a very different object. It seems that j one of the Welsh regiments of soldiers had been perambulating In the nelghborhood for the purpose of beating up I recruits. The martial spirit for which natives of the principality have long been Justly famous seems to have been con1 splcuous by Its absence from this parI tlcular district, for only one solitary r recruit was induced to join. Morei over. Judging from the after proceedings. he must have been sadly missed. At any rate, the Sunday after h had accepted the "King's shilling, the officiating minister at the churcl at which he had formerly worshlppei rose at the appointed time and an nounced the object of the collection ii the following words: "And now, my brethren, we wil take up a subscription to buy th discharge of our unfortunate youn friend who has recently joined th army." It was a pity the amount tak en was not likewise chronicled. Concerts have been held to rals money for all kinds of objects at dli ferent times, but probably the Strang * ? - - ?'V* I s>V* aits* Vt An nntor eBL WiUS lllttl 1U1 nmui aui.ii 0.11 ciiisi talnment was organized at Brierflek in northeast Lancashire, some tlm ago. The concert was widely adver tlsed and with quite refreshing can dor the advertisements stated whu the object of the promoters was. This was nothing more nor less tha: the raising of sufficient money for th purchase of a wooden leg for one o the members of the congregation, un der whose auspices the concert tool place. It only remains to be said tha it proved a success and that the sun of 4? was realized by it for the objec in view. In the first year of the present cen tury one of the Paris newspapers; th Presse, created a mild sensation b; setting on foot a subscription for quit a unique object. It was to provld Queen Ranavalo, the ex-sovereign o Madagascar, with a new "real Paris dress. The unfortunate exiled queen ha< complained to some of her friends am sympathizers in the French capita that she had not had a new dress foi three years. Or. Osier Tabooes Soup. Dr. William Osier, to whom is accredited the oft-repeated and oft-denled assertion that people should tx chloroformed after becoming slxtj years old, is bitterly opposed to th? drinking of soup, according to th< statements of a New York merchant "My wife was a wreck from nervoui dyspepsia," said the merchant. "Several prominent physicians in Nev York had treated her without success and Anally I was advised to take hei to Baltimore to see Dr. Osier. He in quired carefully about her habits, am particularly her diet. We described i without going into details, but this die not satisfy the great physician. " 'Tell me what you have for dinner describing the nature of the courses tHair- nnmh?r ojirl ?n on." he Insisted. " 'Well, usually we start with somi good, nourishing soup.' I began. " "Stop right there,' Interrupted Di Osier. 'Soup must go. There Is i popular fallacy that soup is nourish Ing. That Is a mistake. It Is one o the most harmful things one can eat It Is worse than lobster. Of cours? there are times when a simple beef o mutton broth Is not to be condemned But as a rule soup Is positively dan gerous. It dilutes the gastric Juice and It ferments too rapidly to perml It to be easily digested. It is the great est cause of dyspepsia and nervou disorders. Vegetable soup should b thrown into the garbage pail, where I belongs, instead of being poured Int a delicate stomach. Half the nervou wrecks among society folk who llv well are caused by eating soup.* "Dr. Osier gave some other advlc which was followed by my wife in ad dltlon to giving up soup. Soup Is neve served at our table, and has not bee for four years. My wife Is well an strong today, and she can eat anythln on the menu except soup."?July Wha to Eat. itr At one point along the Australian coast the line Is unbroken by an stream for nearly 1,000 miles. IIM FUME HI FURNITURE, STOVES, Undertaking: Suppliei PAINTS, OILS, Etc. 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