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.-Uu?i IiiLLI ADV^iiliSulK Ncr )7ih. ?SG9. Fiction "USELESS JIM." By WILLIAM J. LAMPTON. Jim Doty was the son of industrious and thrifty parents, but he was no ex emplair of the doctrine of heredity. As a boy he haa gone to school because if he bad not gone there the traan : officer wouid have made existence else where uncomfortable for bim, and Jim dearly loved to be comfortable. ; At school it was easier to remain at the foot of his class than higher np, so he philosophically chose the easy thing and stuck to it Jim .was not a mis chievous boy or a bad one in any sense, becanse< those attributes require effort to maintain them. As somebody ?ad to be at the foot of tte class and there were those who were discontent ed there, the teacher accepted Jim as a special providence and made the most of him. "Ifs beyond me about Jimmie," bis mother was wout to say. "He ain't a bad boy nor np to no mischief, and you'd think when he went to school he'd leam his lessons just because he didn't want to learn notbin' else, but he won't learn a single thing, good or bad. He just seems to be everlastin' do less-settin' around and settin' around and settin' ?round. And I'm sure he don't get it from the Ander son side of the house neither." Mrs. Dory .was an Anderson, and this' conclusion of hers was an unsup ported animadversion upon Mr. Doty because that worthy man not only made a very comfortable living, but owned a small farm and had money laid away for a rainy day. When Jim was old enough to go to work his father secured a place for ' him to learn the carpenter trade, which was rather a surprising selection, as success in that depended upon a skill which did not appear to bc one of the characteristics of the young appren tice. .I put him at that," Mr. Doty ex plained to an inquiring friend, "be cause I've seen that boy set on a soap box in the shade and whittle fer six hours hand runnln'. Of course he never whittles nothin' out of the wood he uses np, bat I kind of thought may be he would learn to if I put bim at carpenterin'." Time, and not a very long time ei ther, proved the speciousness of Mr. Doty's logie, and Jim wa? ' no longer seen abont the shop where he had es sayed to bandle the drawknife and the saw. After this attempt to make a skilled . laborer of his son Mr. Doty thought possibly there might be an undevelop ed instinct for' agriculture in the youth, and Jim was sent to a farm not far from the village. His useful ness In that field was manifested with in three days by bis return to the parental root *~ "What's the matter now?" inquired bis father when Jim walked into the house at supper time and calmly took his accustomed place at the table as if he had not missed a meal. "Dunno," replied Jim unconcerned ly. "Old man Sparks sa d he reck oned the mortgage on the place was about all the load it could carry at present and he told me I oould go." Mr. Doty smiled. He couldn't be very harsh with his only son, because while he did nothing to add to the glory and honor and wealth of the name of Doty he did as little to bring shame or sorrow upon it -Mr. Doty recognized in Jim a negative blessing, and many fathers would be only too glad if they bad. such sons. By the time. Jim had leached his twenty-fifth year he bad. tried his band at every kind of work the vil lage and vicinity bad to plier, and he had acquired nothing except the title of ^Useless Jim." But Jim did not worry. He was a philosopher, and his good nature was Imperturbable. "Why the dickens don't you go to work, Jim?" said Hanks, the grocery man, one day as Jim sat on a salt bar rel in the shade chipping away at the ch'.ne with bis knife. "Got a job you'd like to give me?" responded Jim in a willing tone, and the groceryman disappear ec;. He might be anxious enough to see Jim have a job, but he did not care to' assume the relationship of employer. As nothing else of a permanent char acter offered itself, Jim concluded, en tirely on his own volition, to fall In love. They say an idle brain is the devil's workshop, and surely he found' a fine place for bis business in Jim. Why Jim ever fell in love nobody could say, and he did not know himself, nor did ne think it worth the effort to dis cover. It was enough for him that he was in love, and he was serious about it too-so serious, indeed, that he wanted to marry'the object of bis choice forthwith, thereby displaying a wholly unsuspected energy. This object was Mary Canby, the blacksmith's daughter and also the vil lage schoolteacher. She was pretty and bright and she liked Jim because, although disinclined to bodily exertion, he was not slow of wit and be could talk well. , "For goodness sakes, Jimmie," said bis mother-ehe called bim Jimmie, as if he were still a boy-"whatever do you want to marry for? You can't sup port yourself, much less a wife and family, and married women can't school teach to support their hus bands." "I dunno, mother," replied Jim, whittling a stick down to a fine point ' "Well, you ought to know," she said, letting her temper show itself. "You just can't marry, that's all. You're the uselessest thing on earth now, and married you'd be worse." "I guess there's, some m?e for me In the world, mother," Jim contended. "If there hadn't 'a' been what do you s'pose the Lord put me here for?" She looked bim over as he stood In the doorway the very pic ture of care less indifference and shiftless good nature. - Tren," sne replied, "he's the only one that knows, and he ain't told yet" When "Mary Canby disc avered that Jim was beginning to "act foolish" she promptly but kindly told .'him of ? the utter uselessness of his Suit ."Why don't you want to marry me, Mary?" he asked in- a dull, dazed way, as if not comprehending the full pur port of her decision. "We've always been friends, and you know you like me." "I know? Jim," she said gently, ''but like is not love, and one cannot marry without love." "Do you love anybody else?" he asked, quickening a little. "I've heard that yon thought a good deal of Jack M ur flu and him of you." Mary Canby was not coquetting with Jim Doty. "Yes, Jun, I do," she answered frankly, "and Jack and I are to be married as soon as school closes for the summer." Jim choked, and the tears came to his eyes. . "Mother said I wasn't any use in the world, and I guess I ain't," he said bitterly, hopelessly. "Oh, yes, ybu are, Jim," she encour aged him. "Your chance hasn't come yet, but it wilL" "I dunno," he sighed despairingly, and, turning away, he walked slowly homeward alone./ The village knew what was the mat ter with Jim for the next month or more, but it was considerate of his suffering, and he heard no jeering word nor the laugh that hurts. \ Two weeks before the school closed Jim was down at the railroad shops, where Jack Murfin was foreman. He was there chiefly because he did not happen to be elsewhere at the mo ment, and* he was sitting In the shade whittling. Possibly he was somewhat more active than usual and was think big, for he had just seen Jack Murfin walking across the yards toward a. gap in the fence, and he knew the date of Jack's wedding day. They were not friends in the sense of asso ciates, but , Jack did not care how much Jim enjoyed himself about the place so long as he did not interfere with business, and Jim had never been given to interfering with busi ness if it did not Interfere with him. Intent upon his thoughts, Jim con tinued whittling until presently he Was recalled to his surroundings by a shout of alarm. It was Jack's voice, and, looking through, the gap in the fence, he saw Jack lying across the rails with his leg twisted under him and his foot fast in a frog. He had passed out to the main tracks, and Jim heard a trahi coming. Quicker than he had ever moved before in all his stagnant life he cleared the space between them and stood in the track over his rival's body. The heavy engine coming down had been reversed, but too late, and no power on earth could stop lt But Jim never faltered. Lifting the pros trate man to a sitting pbsition, he wrenched his foot from the fatal clutch, andfwlth a giant's strength he flung him outside the rails. When Jim's body was picked up a few minutes later a little life remain ed-just a fluttering spark, but enough to give the light that never fades. "Jim! Jim!" cried Murfin, taking him In his amis. "Ifs ali right now, Jack," whisper ed Jim, opening his eyes and smiling. "Mary said I was some use in the world and my chance would come some time. Tell her" His words had come painfully and in gasps, and they stopped with the sentence unfinished. But Jack knew what to tell Mary. j An Early Riser. Mrs. Hicks-You mean to tell me that you have a servant girl who gets up In the morning without being call ed? Mrs. Wiekes-Yes. She's in love with the milkman. - Boston Trau acript Tho Wiso Way. "We should all strive to forgive our enemies." remarked the wise guy. "Yes: then they won't be so apt to get back at us." added the simple mug. .-Philadelphia Record. peeia ===o Blankets ai We are offering soi all-wool io 1-4, 11-4 Soul so have a line of comforts made of clean cotton fror need hesitate to'use these sanitary. We have marj goods, Resp< Get your Laundr 1908 Bann?r 1 ?sTotwithstandi business draw larger than ai We are bettei to serve you ii money's wort Agents for St ARRINGTON < Leading < 863 Broad St. ' Sierra Leone. ?lerra Xeone-knotfn to. iame as "the white n&n's grave"-viewed frbm the deck of ?n Incoming steamer presents an appearance distinctly attractive. As to climate, the sobriquet "white man's .grave" is sufficiently instructive. Suf fice lt to say that the first of the dally regimental orders ran thus: "Funeral parade at G:30 a. m. tomorrow," and it was seldom indeed that the parade was dismissed for lack.of a victim to the pestiferous climatic conditions. Indeed, so arduous became the duties af sepulcher that, whereas it was cus tomary in the beginning for the entire regiment and band to attend, only the company.of the deceased .and the firing party did so later on. Sierra Leone is infested with'snakes, large and small, j The former are of the constrictor spe cies; the latter are all extremely, ven omous. The most deadly of all per haps is the yellow Jack, a beautiful yellow and black reptile, whose bite is reputed to prove fatal within a space of twenty minutes.-Westchester Coun ty Magazine. What ls lt, a Lobster? That the methods of public school Instruction as applied in one city at least do not always meet the approba tion of the parents of the pupils was evidenced when a German man whose bristly''blond hair was standing per fectly erect with anger strode into a Baltimore school one day and, ap proaching the principal, demanded: "Vot is it. a lobster?" The principal explained in his suav est tone that a lobster was a species of shellfish. "How many legs has it-der lob ster?" Tue number of legs was promptly sifted. * r^ok here." exclaimed the irritated Teuton, "I vcrk for me in a big hurry, und if your teacher he cannot find petter dings to ask my boy- Herman how many legs has it, ? lobster, und make him come home to bodder his fadder mit questions, 'What is it, a lobster?' it is pad business!"-Llppin cott's. Saved His Rupees. During a great flood at Haidarabad a native banker, overtaken by the sud den rush of water, made his way on to a mound, where he was quickly iso lated. The water rose, and the bank er's legs were covered to his knees. "Fifty rupees (about ?3 7s.), 50 rupees," he shouted, "to any one who will save me!" When the water reached his shoulder he was shouting, "One thou sand rupees !" When enveloped to his neck, with death staring him in the face, he yelled: "Help, help! All that I have will I give to any one to save me!" -Shortly after the water began to recede. When once more he was covered only to his knees an offer of rescue came. But the banker, pluck ing up his courage, cried: "Keep tfff! Keep off! I will not give a rupee! and succeeded in making his escape free of charge.-St. James* Gazette. Origin of "Bonfire." ^ Stow, referring to the '.bonefiers which the citizens of ^London were wont to make in the streets on "the j vigiles of festinan daves and on the . same festiuall daves in the cuenings I after the sunne' setting every man be I stowing wood or labour towards them" and which were an occasion of feasting "and merriment, says that "these were called boneiiers as well_ of good amitie amongst uelghbours, that being before at controuersie. were lhere by the labours of others, recon ciled, and made of bitter euemies, loulng frlendes, as also for the vertue that a great fire hath to purge the in fection of tb? ;\vrr.'VI./mcbn Globe. 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