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tumorous department. Free At Last.?It is the custom among some of the New York theatrical managers occasionally to entertain the members 9f the local ball teams at their theaters. A young recruit from the high grass joined the Giants one day and that night went with his a nlov no cilPHts of flew icaiiuiiaico w M -? o ? ?I the management. The piece did not appeal to the men, though, and they failed to applaud with any degree of heartiness. After the curtain fell John McGraw, their manager, scolded them for this lack of warmth. "Here you fellows come in here free and have the best seats the house affords, and then you sit stock-still like a row of dummies!" he said. "I hope this doesn't happen again." The very next afternoon one of the veterans hailed the youngster at practice on the Polo Grounds. "Well, kid," he said, "more big doin's tonight! Mac's going to take us to Bill Brady's theater." "What's the show?" asked the green hand. "The show," said the veteran, "is Bought and Paid For." "Thank the Lord for that!" said the youngster fervently. "It it's rotten we won't have to applaud."?Saturday Evening Post. Groundless Fears.?Senator LaFollette, discussing reciprocity at a dinner in Madison, said with a smile: "These fears are groundless. They are groundless to the point of being ludicrous. They remind me in fact, of Calhoun Clay. "Calhoun Clay was a waiter at a seaside restaurant. The white glare of the sundrenched beach injured his eyes and he had to consult an occulist. The occulist fitted him oift with spectacles, and as he left the shop with the spectacles on his nose, he gave a great start and halted before a huge and extraordinary machine. "Calhoun stared in awe at this machine for some time. Then he said: " 'What's dat. boss?" " 'That,' said the occulist solemnly, "is an opthalmometer.' " 'Sho,' muttered Calhoun, and he backed further away, his eyes still fixed upon the formidable Instrument? sho', dat's what Ah wuz afeared It wuz!'" Perfect Titles.?Franklin P. Adams, the New York Mall's paragrapher, has a fad. He collects appropriate names. He thought he had reached the ultimate limit when he heard that Constant Agoney was a woodchopper In Clinton county. New York, who suffered from chronic rheumatism and had fourteen children; and that Judge Rainey Wells, living near Coldwater, Galloway county, Kentucky, was a leader of the Prohibition forces in the blue-grass state. But now he knows better, for some kind friend sent him the printed advertisement of a tourist hotel In Switzerland. The name of the chief guide was Hugo Furst. The name of the proprietor was Constant Sauss. And the very next day he discovered that the firm of O'Neal and Pray sold prayer books in a New England city.? Saturday Evening Post. His Reason.?A banker In central Kentucky was in the habit of wearing his hat a good deal during business hours as in summer the flies used his bald plate for a parade ground, and in winter the cold breezes swept over Its polished surface. A negro workman on the railroad each week presented a check and drew his wages, and one day as he put his money in a greasy wallet, the banker said: "Look here, Mose, why don't you let some of that money stay in the bank and keep an account with us?" The darky leaned toward him 'and with a quizzical look at the derby the banker wore, answered connaenuauy: "Boss, I'se jes' afeared. You look like you wus always ready to start somewheres."?Harpers. Not Easily Stumped.?When the Reverend John McNeil was holding revival services at Cardiff a young man one night, thinking to perplex the preacher, sent up a note to the platform with the request that the followfng question might be publicly answered: "Dear Mr. McNeil?If you are seeking to enlighten young men kindly tell me who was Cain's wife." Mr. McNeil read the note, and then, amid breathless silence, said: "I love young men?Inquirers for truth especially?and should like to give this young man a word of advice. It is this: Don't lose your soul's sal vation looking after other people's wives."?Ladles' Home Journal. Seasonable Hints.? Frosted ears should be rubbed with snow until the circulation returns. A newspaper folded into an oblong shape and thrust under the back of the vest makes a good substitute for an overcoat. When starting on your winter vacation don't forget to take along a good coal-oil stove. It will heat your cottage or tent at a cost of only a few cents a day. As a cold weather game tennis is better than golf. It affords more exercise. Foot stoves are useful, but they are cumbersome When vou go to see a foot ball game it Is better to wear overshoes. Carried Too Far.?He had an invarlble way of asking the wrong question or making the wrong comment. So it was. when at a dinner party his neighbor, a lady, said to him: "I am a thorough believer, you know, Mr. Smith, that men's clothes should match their hair; a black-haired man should wear black clothes, a brown-haired man should wear brown clothes. Don't you think so." "That may be," bungled Jones, "but suppose a man is bald?" Home Industry.?The retired coal dealer was seleetine his librarv. "Will you have these books bound in Russia or Morocco, sir?" asked the dealer. "But why," said the patron of literature, "can't you have 'em bound right here in Chicago?"?Exchange. Had Been Both.?A clergyman who advertised for an organist received this reply: Dear Sir: I notice you have a vacancy for an organist and music teacher, either lad or gentleman. Having been both for several years I beg to apply for the position. ^ftisccUatuous Reading. WITH NEIGHBORING EXCHANGES Notes and Comments About Matters of Local Interest. Gastonia Gazette, Sept 24: Masters Hubert and Harry Huffstetler, Mr. Harry Dickson and Mr. Charles M. Robinson went to Raleigh Sunday morning where they will take the Pasteur treatment as a prevema tlve for possible infection from rabies. I They were accompanied by Mrs. L. C. Torrence, grandmother of the Huffstetler boys, who will remain with them during1 the three weeks they will be in Raleigh for treatment, and Mr. Parks Huffstetler who returned to Gas- ( tonia yesterday morning. Last Mon- , day one of Mr. Huffstetler's mules, j which are housed when not working, in ( the barns at his home on South Tork ( street, began to act strangely. Dr. Parker, the veterinary surgeon, was called in and diagnosed the animal's | trouble as rabies. The mule apparent- ( ly grew worse and on the following day ( was paralyzed, following which it was . killed. Its actions were so suspicious j that Dr. Parker removed its brains ( and sent part of them to the Pasteur , Institute at Raleigh for examination t and part to the Kansas City Veterinary college for the same purpose. The Ral- ( eigh institute reported that no traces ( I of rabies were found but the Kansas ( City college reported that traces of , the disease were found. As a result of the information from Kansas City the , boys and young1 men went to Raleigh to take the Pasteur treatment. None of them was bitten by the mule but each had a scratch or sore on the hand and had come In contact with the mule at the barn In some way or other. Chester Reporter, Sept. 24: A threatened strike among the spoolers at the Springstein Mill was adjusted today and the workers in this department who walked out Saturday returned to work at noon today. Secretary H. S. Adams when spoken to about the matter this afternoon said the trouble had been satisfactorily adjusted, and the mill was running on full time in the effort to catch up with orders.... Prof. R. J. Herndon, of Yorkville, who will have charge of the music during the Chester County Fair, Oct. 22, 23, and 24, was in the city Friday making arrangements for a Fiddlers' Convention which he proposes to hold at the opera house on the evening of Oct. 23rd. Prof. Herndon is already in communi cation with some of the most skillful fiddlers in Chester county, and will endeavor to arrange a program to interest the big crowd that will be in the city at that time. Prof. Herndon is a most accomplished cornetist, and one of the features of the evenings entertainment will be several cornet solos. Dawson Johnson, colored, was committed to Jail yesterday afternoon by Deputy Blndeman on the charge of drawing a pistol on Mr. Marion Guy. When spoken to by Mr. Guy for an act of Impertinence, the negro cursed the white man, and when the latter made towards him drew his pistol. PARCELS POST IN GERMANY. It Has Tremendously Developed Traffic Among People. One of the most striking things to an American when he first sees a German railroad is the immense quantity or pacaages inai are oeing luaueu turn unloaded from the trains. Special cars are carrying nothing but these packages, and sometimes three or four such cars are seen on the same train. An inquiry as to what all this is, brings the information that it is "packet post," and then it dawns upon him that this is what we have been beseeching congress to establish at home and that he now has an opportunity to see it in operation. He now begins to watch with more care to see how parcels post works and what it carries. At the railroad stations in the larger cities he sees long rows of covered postofflce wagons loading and unloading packages of all sizes, kinds and description, and he immediately decides one thing ?whatever else may be said about namla nost. the oeoDle here use it and use it freely. At my boarding: house in Central Germany I asked my landlady where she got her butter, which was of excellent quality. She told me it came from Holstein, in the northwestern j part of Germany, 200 miles away. I asked if it was expensive to have it 1 come so far, "Oh, no," she said; "We have it come by post and have gotten it every week for several years from the same man. You know that we can send a package by post up to five kilograms (11 pounds) to any place in Germany for 50 pfennig (12 cents)" I then understood why I had seen such quantities of packages in the railroad c stations and so many parcels post wa sons on the streets In the cities. I be- 1 gan to inquire about how commonly it was in use for the marketing of farm 1 products. Here in Halle, whlfh Is a j city of about 200.000 population, in the central part of Germany, I find that it < is a very general practice for the fami- 1 lies to get a supply of butter, eggs and poultry sent to them every week 3 through the parcels post, and they are delivered to their door just as a letter * would be. We may theorize about how the * profits of the middleman can be reduced and the expense of distribution decreased and the distance between the producer and consumer shortened, but c where are we to get a more simple and effective solution than by establishing 1 a parcels post? What will do more to 1 reduce the cost of living to the man in the city and to increase the income of the farmer than to have them deal 1 directly with each other through parcels post? What are some of the facts f about the parcels post of Germany and what is her experience? 1 For over a hundred years Germany has had a parcels post of some description and since 1873 the present very effective and successful system. At first, charges were made for sending packages according to their weight and the distance they were to go. This resulted in an endless amount of figuring for the postal clerks and a disproportionate charge for small packages that were only sent short distances. Then the charge was fixed according to zones, that is, a uniform price was charged for' the first five 8 miles until the distance reached thirty miles, and then it was raised every ten miles until 100 miles the rate changed "for every additional twenty miles. While this was a decided improvement, it still involved a great deal of calculation, and in 1837 a flat rate of twenty-five pfennig (six cents) per package up to the weight of five klllograms (11 pounds) for a distance not over ten 1 miles was fixed. For all distances over r ten miles a uniform rate of fifty prennlg e (12 cents) was charged for packages up to the weight of 11 pounds so that j today the coat of sending packages under eleven pounds in weight is as uniform In Germany as letter postage except that for distances of less than ten miles it Is only half as much as for longer distances and you can send in eleven-pound package across Wne German empire for a little over one cent per poUnd and it will be delivered just as a letter. For packages over eleven pounds the rate Is fixed according to the weight of the package and the rtlatnnm it is to ern. The rate is uni form up to 100 miles and is increased for distances between ten and twenty! miles, twenty and fifty miles, 100' and 150 miles, and is uniform for distances over 150 miles. What can be sent by parcels post? Practically anything but explosives, although the postal authorities may refuse to accept very perishable products, and at their discretion may increase the rate up to one-half the original rate for very bulky packages. The packages are delivered and taken for shipment in the country Just as other mail is handled and in most parts of 3ermany two rural deliveries a day ire made, In all cases at least one. Moreover, packages may be sent colSect through the post, and will be delivered, collection made and remitted to Jie original sender for a small fee. On the streets of Halle dozens of parcels jost wagons can be seen at any time >f the day making their deliveries, and >n each wagon is a sign, "Packages re:eived." and anyone having a package :o send needs only give it to the men >n one of the wagons. When one sees vhat a convenience the parcels post is tnd how much It means to the ecolomic prosperity and welfare of both ;he man on the farm, and In the city, t is hard to'realize how any interests lave been strong enough to hold back egislation establishing it in our own :ountry. It is a thing that must come md the sooner the better for the pubic. The holiday season that is just past las given an opportunity to see the rnrcels post working at full capacity, doming and going on every street :ould be seen the parcels post delivery vagons piled high with packages. Two nen with each wagon one as driver, he other as deliverer, rapidly dlstrlbiting Christmas packages to rich and >oor alike, for everyone here uses the larcels post to sena pacKages aiiu hlnks no more of it than of sending: a etter. What a contrast it has been to >ur American method of having all our packages handled by express compares. At home in Columbus, O., I live ust outside of the zone in which the express companies make deliveries (an irbitrarily fixed district of very limitid area) and each week I get a basket >f butter, eggs, poultry, etc., sent from ny farm some thirty miles away. The basket must not only be taken to the ixpress office some five miles from the arm, and sent by express to Columbus at a cost of thirty cents, but I nust go to the express office in Columbus and get it. With a parcels post luch as Germany has the basket would ie taken from the farm by the rural nail delivery and delivered to my louse in Columbus, and it would cost welve cents instead of thirty. Such a convenient method of translocation naturally has a marked inliipnee on thp various industries and H no one is it more important than in igrlculture. Here it works both ways ?it furnishes the farmer a convenient ind cheap method of getting his prolucts on the market and an equally food way of getting his supplies from ;he city. Among the agricultural products that ire sent by post, butter ranks first esjecially from northeastern and north?rn Germany. It is sent to the large fities of central and western Germany. In the railroad station in Berlin of the ines coming from eastern Germany, :housand8 of packages of butter are landled every day. At the minimum *ate of the German parcels post which illows five kilograms (11 pounds) to je sent any distance in the empire for Ifty pfennig (12 cents) the cost of :ransportation is a small matter, conlidering that the package is both .-ailed for and delivered.?Hi. C. Price n Rural New Yorker. From An Oriental Scrap Book. Japanese children, between the ages >f six and ten, have to attend elemenary schools for thirty-two weeks a 'ear. Japanese sovereigns form an unbro cen dynasty since 660 B. C., and the jresent emperor is the one hundred ind twenty-first of his race. Only thirty years ago Japanese solliers wore huge grotesque iron-mask lelmets in order to frighten the eneny. Indians believe the waters of the langes to be sacred. China's estimated popuiauon creeds four hundred and seven millions. Japanese houses are never more han two stories in height. Chinese emperors are never menioned by name from the moment of heir accession, and are generally aluded to by some such title as "Lord >f a Myriad Years" or "The Son of -leaven." Japan's first railway was opened in 1872. Chinese consider filial piety the lighest virtue. A good tea-picker can pick from wenty to thirty pounds in a day. A famous Chinese proverb says, 'Everything is easy at first." Opium is used as a medium of ex:hange in some parts of China. At the close of the war with Japan, he Chinese navy practically dlsap>eared. Mount Morrison (14,300 feet) is the lighest mountain in the Japanese emlire. In India and Egypt buffaloes do lorses' work. There are nearly four thousand niles of railway in China. Five feet is the average height of a Tapanese man, and about four feet sight inches of a woman. The Chinese language has thirty housand characters, and there are six lifferent styles of writing. In the event of war Japan could place upward of a quarter million men n the field. The first newspaper In Chinese was published In 1870 at Shanghai. In Japan, dancing plays a very important part in the education of boys ind girls. In the Turkish navy there are about hirty-one thousand officers and men ind nine thousand marines. It Is estimated that In Japan there ire no less than two thousand seven lundred and fifty different species of vegetation. In 1907 there were four thousand ilx hundred and ninety-one miles of >rlvate railway, and three thousand >ne hundred and sixteen miles of gov rnment lines In Japan. Magriamity owes no account to >rudence or its motives. (Vauvenar CAMPING IN THE WILD8. No Danger From Baast or Reptile if They Are Let Alone. That wild animals prefer to let man alone If man first lets them alone is the conclusion of two authorities, who have come in personal contact with the denizens of the wild. It so happened that when Harriet Chalmers Adams, the intrepid explorer of South America, gave an Interview a short time ago, Herkimer L. Adams, just a man of the same name and not related to her was passing through New York on his way back to his Arizona mines. It so happened too, that Mrs. Adams conclusion concerning the fear that wild beasts have of men and the safety of men In their haunts, when not meaning to harm the wild creatures, were also Mr. Adams' conclusion, and he desired to give testimony to the same effect. Harriet Chalmers Adams bases her statement on her own experience rather than upon the records of hunters and the knowledge of writers. Mr. Adams Is also guided by his experiences In describing the tendencies of the reptiles In the Arizona desert and savage beasts In the Rocky Mountains of the early days. Mr. Adams spent a great many years as a mining prospector before he became a mine owner. This Is what he said about his observations in the unpeopled country: "wnen i went aown to Arizona twenty-five years ago I was quite accustomed to the thought that there was no danger to a man anywhere that was not frequented by men. I had no apprehension of wild beasts, because I had been sleeping five years In the high places of Colorado, and I had felt perfectly comfortable after the first few months that I slept out in my blankets. "At first I used to build barricades, sometimes almost a stockade, to protect me over night, when I was on my way back Into the hills, but this got to be a grievous burden of labor. After a while when I found that my security was never questioned by bears or mountain lions, which hunters since then have spent much time In running down, I began to lessen precautions until finally I simply threw my blanket on the ground, rolled up In another one and went to sleep for the night without a thought of danger. "No danger came to me. I used to feel it near at times, when I became accustomed to my surroundings, and I have seen the shadow, even the eyes, of a bear in the night. I also found evidence of his presence when I awoke in the morning, but I got so that I really felt a sense of security all the time. Naturally, I felt a little uneasy when I felt something was moving in the thicket close to me, and sometimes I got up and moved about or Waited awhile to get an assurance that I wab again alone, but in a little while the nervousness would wear off and I would drop peacefully to sleep once more. "This may sound peculiar, but It was not at all peculiar out there in those days. All the old prospectors did the same thing and I presume they are all doing it yet in the unbroken wilds which they are exploring. "I- started to speak of Arizona, particularly, and I just gave that glimpse of my previous life to show you that I was quite hardened to the outdoors and to the idea of putting my trust In nature. I could not, however, reconcile the thought to reptiles which the feeling within me suggested were covering the alkali desert like flies on a table. "I had a sort of friendly feeling for wild animal9. I never harmed one as one never attempted to harm me, but I lost my nerve in the presence of rattlesnakes, tarantulas, centipedes, scorpions and Gila monsters. I was certain my life was in my hands, and I had to guard It every minute with those things about. "V hen I first started back from the Gila river I kept my eye on the ground and constantly side-stepped. I expected something to come out of every hole and I thought that a centipede or a tarantula was lurking behind every atnnp T wmilH hnva hopri nfrfllri tn kick a pebble In my walk, so I carefully chose my steps. "I was surprised on my first day out not to have caught sight of a living thing, not even a coyote. I felt no greater assurance for that when night came and I built my little fire, preparatory to getting supper and making camp for the night. I thought those poisonous things were surely waiting for me to get settled before coming to the attack. I reasoned that they must lie dormant all day, and that their activity must continue through the night and that hence I would be surrounded by goodness knows what number and how many different kinds. I always had believed, and, in fact I had been told that the desert was alive with rentiles. and I thought that I was he rolcally braving a great and neverending peril. "I had come prepared by carrying the biggest pack that ever I carried. I had fairly groaned under the load all that day in the burning sun. A shrewd Yankee trader at the Indian station back of the river had fitted me out for desert travel, and no tenderfoot from the effete east was an easier victim for him. I had the snake fear and he catered to it. "Among other things in my pack was hair rope, and I had enough of it to move a house. This was to be spread in a curl around my camp, and the limited area I was to occupy was to be inspected carefully before I lay down my blankets. I had been instructed about this. I was to avoid animal holes, snake holes, and above all, to keep a distance from the water holes, because there the deadly things foregathered to slake their thirst. "I was expected to brush aside every stone and be sure that I had clear ernnnrt whorp no vcnnmnua thine enuld lurk unseen. Then I could curl my hair rope so as to make an inclosure, as over this no reptile could crawl because the pricking of the hairs would alarm and discourage It. "I had been camping out this way for several weeks, getting more and more surprised at the absence of visitors, and without hearing any hissing sounds of the enemy and it was beginning to dawn upon me that, perhaps, the rattlesnake and Gila monster were not much different from the Rocky Mountain bear in not regarding man as their prey. "I was not prepared to resign my precautions, however, till one day when I was approaching the Colorado river region, not far out from Yuma. I ran across a group of miners, just about breaking camp to move off after breakfast. "I noticed how lightly they traveled. There was not a hair rope among them or anything more than I had been accustomed to using for convenience sake in the Rocky Mountain country. "I expressed surprise and when they saw my outfit they laughed. They believed that I was a blooming tenderfoot " 'They sure got you fixed out right,* the old man of the party said. "I learned then, from him that he had carried a hair rope, after he went down there, much longer than I had, and Just as I had learned to trust the bears In nit; nuiKico lit; nuu ictu iitru IIUIII cxpcrience not to bother about rattlesnakes nor other poisonous creatures. " 'They're more afraid of you,' said he, than you are of them. In fact they don't want anything to do with you, and If you give them a chance they'll get away. Don't sit on 'em, walk on 'em nor chase 'em. Don't try to kill 'em. Let 'em go. You can't kill 'em all, so what's the use?' "I always have been lmpre sed by that statement It Is the crux of the whole situation. The wild things and the deadly things become the foe of man when man begins the pursuit of them. When woods begin to ring with the crack of rifles and when civilization crowds them back and every hand Is raised against them the flght that man begins may go on. The instinct of self-preservation will cause these otherwise harmless creatures to strike wnen tney nave tne advantage. "That's the way it seems to me. I'm not taking issue with the facts of natural history and possibly I am mistaken, but my conviction is the result of observation and experience and you see, that the experience of Mrs. Adams, a pioneer explorer, Is the same as mine. I wouldn't like to sleep out in an ordinary field in a settled country where there were either rattlesnakes or bear or panther astray, but I would have no hesitation, no aprehenslon, In lying on the ground where those things abound in a wild and trackless country where few men havexplaced their feet."?New York Letter. THE BLACK SQUAD. Grimy Vulcans That Feed the Fires on Ocean Liners. An inferno, all smoke and heat and fire and nakedness, is the stokehold of an ocean liner. As you enter it, picking your way over the burning ashes, the hot blast from the furnace mouths smites you In the face; it scorches your eyes and sears your lungrs with every gasping: breath you draw. Tour impulse is to turn and fly. Life seems impossible in such an atmosphere. And yet the inferno hums with life and strenuous, almost savage, industry. * Opposite the huge boilers, quivering with suppressed power, like so many chained giants, are the figures of men as if carved in ebony, glistening with the sweat that streams from every pore. They are working furiously, with muscles swelling and knotting as if they would burst through their sheath of skin?humans in quick succeeding poses of fierce labor which would delight the eye of the sculptor and baffle his skill. Oathering up a shovelful of coals, each man propels them with a quick forward thrust of the body into the white hot heart of the furnace and with a dexterous turn of the wrist spreads them evenly over the fire. Then quick as the eye can follow, another shovelful succeeds and another, as if life itself hung: on the breathless swiftness of the sequence. Such is the stokehold in which the vulcans of our mammoth liners and battleships feed the greedy furnaces, which keep the propellers revolving to the tune of twenty knots and more an hour?the men of the "black gang" who, clad in trousers almost as black as their grimy bodies, and with a filthy "sweat rag" loosely knotted round their necks, toil thus for four hours at a stretch, until the last "ounce" is taken out of them, and they crawl back to their quarters for a well earned eight hours of rest If a fireman faints, overcome by the heat and exhaustion, he is quickly laid asiae in some corner, wun a nine Letuu water dashed on his face, and there he is left until he "comes round," while his fellows ply shovel and "slice" (the latter to clear the fire periodically from refuse) with a fiercer energy than before, adding: the fallen man's labor to their own. The moment he recovers consciousness he struggles to his feet, seizes the shovel and is at it again. "Go off watch?" Not he! He's as good a man as any, and the fireman never knows when he's beaten. To call such men heroes Is no abuse of an often misunderstood word. They are not only the last word In human grit and pluck?for your fireman . will die rather than give in?they are heroes who face death every time they * - - 41 -4 -1 J ? ? enter me siuKeuuiu. no iigimicaiKu./ as other men would sit down to their dinners. At any moment a fusible plug may fly, a boiler tube collapse, a gauge glass may splinter, and the captain may have occasion to "regret" that some good man or other has fallen a victim to his duty. His ship may be sinking, the lnrushing water swirling knee deep over the plates on which he is standing, but no thought of the boats and an escape to life Is for him. He must stick to his nntit thp in at flr# is drawn and If he has time to race up the escape ladder to the boat deck well and good. If not?the odds are all against him?he goes down, a "mute, Inglorious" hero, to his death. It is all part of the day's work for which he draws his meager pay, with a cheerful acceptance of the Don't Fool Thinking The CHEAP Drin The Best Is Always the Che; Shoes, Groceries, Hardware, E printer who offers you Cheap .1 T (exactly wnai iic acno it's "cheap", you will get "ch is what you bought. And you going to judge you by the Sta is all they have to judge yo VILLE ENQUIRER your Si get Quality At a Fair PriceYou and Your Business An; make a pleasing impression. L. M. Grist's J YORKVIL fact that hla life will be ahort and certainly not merry, for you And few stokera who have pa88ed their forty-flfth birthday. It la not only that the fireman's muscles and stamina must bear this inhuman strain. He must watch the gauge glasses with the keen eyes of a lynx to see that, the line of bubbling beads never rises above or falls below the level that denotes safety. He must know his boilers as a jockey knows his mount; which of them requires coaxing and which requires forcing to stimulate Its sluggishness, for boilers, It Is said, have as many whims and caprices as a woman. On the whole, the stoker Is no unamlable man. He may growl at his food, though he often faxes "like a fighting cock" aboard; he may have a vocabulary which would make the average bargee green with envy, but he will laugh you to scorn If you suggest that his work is too hard and that he is not "game" to the backbone.?London Answers. A Kansas Cyclone Story?"I have seen some hard winds out in western Kansas," Abe Peters says to Tom McNeal. "There are some things that an old resident learns out there from observation and experience. One is that when you are facing a hard wind keep your mouth shut. One day I was travelling with a tenderfoot from the east. He was a long, slender man about six feet and three inches long and about six Inches wide. He had no more meat on his bones than a fork handle and was about the most emaciated looking person I ever saw. As I was saying, one day we started to ride across the prairie when the wind came up in our faces, blowing at the rate of a hundred miles an hour or so. That .tenderfoot opened his mouth to say something to me. I heard him make a curious noise and looked around to see what was the matter and saw that he had inadvertently swallowed about six or seven barrels of wind. He looked like an inflated air cushion and seemed to be about four times the size he was naturally. It seemed to set him sort of crazy and he Jumped out of the buggy. When he lit on the ground he bounded into the air like a rubber ball and then went bounding across the prairie like a tumble weed before the wind. At the end of three miles he fell Into a canyon where the wind couldn't hit him and stopped, but it was a week before he was back to his normal size."?Kansas City Star. Virginia Justice.?We are accustomed, In America, to look upon the English criminal courts as examples of what is possible in the way of convicting the guilty under a system giving the criminal less "rope." Yet Virginia with a system no better than that of other states, subject to the same causes of weakness, manages to convict criminals with encouraging regularity. Whatever the causes may be, the success^ of Virginia courts In punishing guilty persons constitutes an advertisement of Virginia that reaches from coast to coast, and even to other countries, and cannot fall to interest persons who read it. A state which does not turn loose its criminals when once It lays hands upon them Is a good state In which to build a home?the home of a wage-earner or the home of a gentleman of leisure who desires to live where the government for whose maintenance he pays taxes will give him value received.?Louisville Courier Journal. ? The Pee Dee presbytery has voted against the removal of Chlcora college from Greenville to Laurens. At the meeting of the board of trustees of that institution held last July it was decided that the trustees themselves would not move the school, but would leave the final settlement of the question to the seven Presbyteries of South Carolina. They were called upon to vote on the matter and the Pee Dee presbytery which met in Dillon county, was the first to express its choice. A majority of the presbyteries is required before any action be taken. The reason for the proposed move was to free the institution of indebtedness. The citizens of Laurens were to raise $75,000 in cash and provide a suitable site for the college buildings and campus. AGE NO BAR # v^wllU lm E4iaihl?. cvgr/ouu/ u'....... m Old people stooped with suffering', Middle age, courageously lighting, Youth protesting impatiently; Children,,unable to explain; All in misery from their kidneys. 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