Jiumorous Jjcpartracnt. Poor Crop.?It was on a lonely road in the Tennessee mountains. A weary rider was slowly making his way up the steep mountain side, pausing now and then to rise in his stirrups and look about in search of some sign of civilization. Suddenly a turn of the road brought him face to face with a lank-sallow-faced mountaineer, seated upon the top rail of the snake fence, which bounded a poor little farm which had found lodgment on the mountain side. The rider paused. "Can you tell me how far it Is to Big Stone Gap?" he mquiieu. The mountaineer's lips moved in answer, but no sound reached the rider's ears. He moved over nearer to the fence and repeated the question. This time he could barely distinguish a whispered word or two in the farmer's answer. "What's the matter with you?" he inquired, dismounting and walking over to the fence where the old man sat. Can't you talk?" The old man looked pityingly at his questioner for a moment, and then, climbing down from his seat on the rail he walked up to the traveler and, putting his grizzled face close to his ear, whispered hoarsely: "Yis, I kin talk; but the fact is, stranger, land is so poor in these parts that I kain't even raise my voice."? TU DI + a Reading of Scripture. Here, says Harper's Weekly, Is the story of David and Goliath as it is said to have been recently told by the Rev. Billy Sunday, with appropriate gestures, to a rapt congregation of eight thousand: "And so David's pa comes up to him where he was working in the field and says: 'Dave, better go up to the house. Tour ma's anxious about the other boys fighting in the army, hasn't heard from them by 'phone or anything, and she'd like you should look them up.' So * ? klboa fn l>a ve nops UII a. UUUCJ anu i?-w .? the front, and stays there with his brother overnight. "In the morning old Goliath comes out in front of the Philistines and dares the Israelites to light him. " 'Who's that big stiff making all the big talk out there?' asked Dave. " 'Why, that's the head cheese, the big noise," says his brothers. " 'Why don't some one soak him one?* asks Dave. " 'We've all got cold feet," snvs the Israelites. " 'You fellows make me tired,' says Dave, and he pikes out to the brook, gets four pebbles in his shepherd's sack, slams one at Goliath, and soaks him In the coco between the lamps. Goliath goes to the mat, takes tne count, and Dave pokes him in the slats, chops off his block, and the whole Philistine gang' skldooed." A Mistake.?Bob and Jim were two Jacks-of-all-trades, and whenever possible worked together. One summer's morning Bob came round to Jim's house at the early hour of 3 o'clock, and, having managed to wake Jim, went inside. "Now, then," he cried, "hurry up; there's a big factory chimney wants pulling down, about a mile away from here, and I got the tip from the factory foreman that if we could knock twenty feet off it before the authorities were about it would save the factory the expenses of a scaffold, and it would mean a ?5 note apiece for you and me."What-ho!" cried Jim. "Let's go." Their destination reached, they climbed to the top of the chimney, and soon masses of brick work were falling to earth. A man who lived near was disturbed by the noise and started to make a fuss. "Here, Bob," cried Jim, "you climb down and quiet that fellow. Keep him talking while I finish this Job up here." So Bob climbed down and engaged the indignant man In conversation. Suddenly Jim heard Bob calling to him, and, looking down, saw his friend gesticulating wildly and beckoning him to come down. So down Jim came. "What's the matter?" he asked. "Let's go home, Jim, thundering quick. We've been puiling down the wrong chimney."?Tit-Bits. Biblical Teaching. ? Prof. Charles Zueblln of the University of Chicago was discussing at a dinner the Easter myths and legends of the world. "The legends that are beautiful ami immortal," he said, "have In them truths that we all, according to our kind, take home. That is true likewise of immortal works of art?pictures, niw-ma somrs For different DeoDlC they have different messages." "For Instance," said a young girl. "For Instance," smiled Prof. Zueblln, "in my native Pendleton some of the mothers used to cut the children's hair. They did it with shears and a bowl. The operation was often painful, and the result was never elegant. "In Sunday school a Pendleton teacher once told her pupils the tragic story of Samson and Delilah. Then she turned to a little boy. " 'What do you learn, Joe," she said, 'from the Sampson story?' " 'It don't never pay,' piped Joe. *o have a woman cut a feller's hair.'"? Philadelphia Record. Intruding.?It was hardly dawn, and the window was open. The intruder had clambered up the front porch, and the interior of the room looked Inviting:. He could see that it was the abode of some person of wealth. There were costly ornaments about the room, any one of which would bring handsome returns at a pawnbroker's. A gold clock ticked on the mantel, and a silver service glistened on the table. On the couch lay a man, sleeping heavily. His face was red and his hairless crown glistened in the first faint glow of day. "This is fine," muttered the intruder. ? V.nLlh.... ,1?i hlnir XZ*ciC3 a uaiuucaucu man moi v > * * p> The season Is opening in great shape." And the first fiy crawled over the window sill, and the season of torture had begun.?Denver Republican. Liked the Treatment.?A slater who was engaged upon the roof of a house in Glasgow fell from the ladder and lay in an unconscious state upon the pavement. One of the pedestrians in the street who rushed to the aid of the poor man chanced to have a flask of spirits in his pocket, and. to revive him began to pour a little down his throat. "Canny, mon, canny," said a man looking on, "or you'll choke him." The "unconscious" slater opened his eyes and said quietly: "pour awa,' mon, pour awa': ye're doein* fine."?Ottawa Journal. Jttisccltancous grading. c COST OF POOR ROADS. C li Waste of Labor In Hauling Our Crops ( to Market. It cost a little over a billion dollars ? to haul the farm crops of America to ? market last year. With good roads, v roads such as are to be found In some '! parts of America and In all parts of c France, the marketing of the crops e would have cost J400.000.000. Six hun- c dred million dollars per year then Is w the price we pay in this land of the free for having impassable roads. Did F ever a nation spend so much for so ? doubtful a luxury before? With Amer- a lean roads lying open and fathomless * before the eyes of' our foreign critics, what monstrous injustice it is to talk ^ of American dollar worship! ?VlO CJ MOB I men OI nuuuie age <-an a cvau v??v annual picnic known as mending the ^ roads. Just why it got that name no a one has ever explained, for in practically every case the picnic left the roads a in worse condition than before. The d law in many states prescribed that 81 each resident of a rural district must s' pay a certain road tax in labor each w year. The payment of this tax was d done under the supervision of a local c' officer, known as the pathmaster. The customary time of payment was in ear- e ly summer, Just before haying time, ^ when there wasn't much else for the ,r men and teams to do. The neighbor- ^ hood turned out with horses and ? ploughs and harrows, ripped up diverse ^ sections of highways which the year's y travel had packed to a more or less n navigable condition, rounded them up 01 nicely in the middle and scratched them " *~ Ui*??/vtno Vnn u'ptp ^ up Sinoom wun me luuiuno. never expected to work very hard at cl these festive occasions, and the pathmaster who insisted on real work soon d: found himself unpopular. It was Just t( as well, for since nobody had any w knowledge of roadmaking the more y' work the worse results. What some of these results were and v are we have vivid testimony. Across Iowa last winter the "racing" autos o: had to take to the railroad tracks, be- el cause the common roads were simply Impassable. Last March some misguided creatures began an automobile race from New York to Savannah, Ga. C It was Just at the opening of navigation on the country roads of the middle * * ? 4,l"v n ro fr\r\ t( soutn, tne time wncu mc iut??? thin for wheels and too thick for boats, w Across Virginia each racing automo- a: bile had an escort of six mules to pull u: it out of extra deep mudholes and to tl haul its emergency rations of gasolene. Usually this was enough; but when an tl auto was so thoughtless as to stay in bl the mudhole all night, the mule teams r( had to be doubled and all the negroes M of the neighborhood commanded to b; service before that particular contest- T ant could proceed. The racers aver- oi aged four miles per hour across the Old tl Dominion?a perfectly stunning rate tl of speed, all things considered. p: And yet the roads of American are tl vastly better than they once were, and to the improvement is going on apace, al The United States government is lending a hand by setting Its spare sclentlsts to work teaching the people of ir different regions how to make the best P roads at the least cost. The states are doing vastly more. New York In 1905 & voted to spend $50,000,000 on her highways, and while no other state is in- 'r vesting in roads at that rate all are doing something. Cities are finding it good business to n improve the roads leading out into the farming region; the farmers are be- ei ginning to tax themselves in a rational 11 fashion for highway improvement, and many philanthropists have passed by c< the conventional college and iiDrary ?? dons.tlon to spend their surplus funds cl on good roads. Historic mudholes are T being slowly filled up, stone and con- ai crete are replacing the crazy wooden 01 bridges, and a hundred Inventions have ^ been made to help get the best results for the lowest expense. hi Some of the last deserve attention. n' Macadam road3 have long been accept- ?' ed as the standard of highway con- U struction. But macadam roads of the ?l old pattern, with crushed stones eight *1 inches thick, cost from $6,000 to $10,000 per mile. Now it has been found 8' that three or four Inches will do quite *1 as wen, ana me cost is cui squamy in two. In some parts of the Central ai states, where crushed stone is rare, it c' has been found that the very clay which makes the roads almost impassable is a' the best track-making material when ,s burned. In yet other regions the far- n mers have discovered how to make p good roads by the simple expedient of rolling or dragging them after each ,? rain, and in yet other places a mixture ? of sand and clay, costing $300 or $400 a mile, is found almost as good as the best macadam. It is well that the roadmaking ma- ^ terials are abundant and varied. For there are roads enough in the United States to reach eighty-six times around the earth at the equator?and nearly ^ all those roads are bad. The advocates of good highway will find ample room ^ for their missionary enterprise for a s generation to come.?St. Louis Times. 8< G * L MRS. TAFT'S TACT. B . "b President's Wife Does Not Recognize jt Enmities of Roosevelt. a When the president and Mrs. Taft \v gave a large dinner party a few days tl ago in honor of the speaker of the a house and Miss Cannon, says a Wash- tl uigiuu iciier, society was given to un- u derstand that, although the president a may have had some heritages cast up- fi on him by the preceding administration, \v those of a personal character are not A going to be borne, If the diplomacy of fl Mrs. Taft can avert it. ei When the Tafts went into the White k House, society whispered among its tt own little circle its curiosity to know u just what Mrs. Taft would do about it recognizing those who were not in fa- ir vor at the White House during the g Roosevelt regime. It was not long be- Q fore society found out that Mrs. Taft K proposed to be as level-headed about c> that as about looking after her house- rl hold affairs, for almost the first distin- si guished guests to be received by the n president and his wife were Mr. and rl Mrs. Bellamy Storer. K The Storers had been persona non r< grata since the time when Mr. Roose- II velt had been placed in an embarrass- a ing position at Rome through Mrs. b Storer's supposed activities in behalf si of Archbishop Ireland for a cardinal- b ship. When they came to Washington a and called at the White House, society b stood aghast?not because it was not a all right, but because it was so unex- ti pected. t< Mrs. Taft manifestly does not intend t< to play political favorites. In fact, she w has not aligned herself conspicuously ir with the wives of men prominent in of- nr iclal circles. Her nearest friend Is llss Mabel Boardman, who, but for her onnectlon with the National Red Iross, would occupy a position of promn?nce only through her social afflllalons and wealth. Mrs. Winthrop Muray Crane, wife of Senator Crane of lassachusetts, is another close friend f Mrs. Taft, not because she Is the /ife of Senator Crane, but because she i a sister of Miss Boardman. Another lose friend of Mr; Taft is Mrs. Clarnce Edwards, witc of Gen. Edwards, hief of the bureau of Insular affairs, ^ho has absolutely no political conneclons, and still another Is Mrs. J. 'ranklln Bell, wife of thy chief of staff f the army. Both of the latter were ssociated with Mrs. Taft out In the 'K11 l*\r\l n ou Ail this does not mean that Mrs. 'aft is not gathering about her the rives of men conspicious in the politlal game. Her dinner parties have een given for little groups of senators nd representatives In congress and tielr wives, for men who are playing prominent part In the politics of the ay, and she is about to inaugurate a erles of smart garden parties on the auth lawn of the White House to rhich will be bidden members of the iplomatic, official and residential dries. Mrs. Taft evidently has seen the ame of politics played too long and as noted the consequences of affili&tig with one side or the other. If she as any mind to align herself with one f the many factions so eager for such Istlnction in Washington, she has not et given any intimation of It. She is taking an effort to bring all factions f society together and manifestly be eves the best way to do this is to keep way from the Interests of each little lique. Miss Ethel Roosevelt, the youngest aughter of the former president, Is ? come to Washington for a visit to Irs. Longworth, but as there are no oung people at the White House just ow, it Is possible that Miss Roosevelt's Islts to the executive mansion, If she takes any at all, will be merely calls f courtesy upon the wife of her fathr's successor. MISTAKES AND RESULTS. ommission of an Error Condoned, But Hiding It an Offense. Some years ago a superintendent >ok charge of a run-down factory, U Pnlllna In Plrfile MRKr i iICO uaiuco M. w zine. It had stopped paying: dividends nder the former superintendent. When le new executive investigated he >und out why. From top to bottom lat plant was a graveyard of errors, lunders, mistakes. Dead stock was >uted out here, spoiled work there, [uch of it had been stowed out of sight y men no longer with the company, he old superintendent had worked n the assumption, a very common one, lat efficient men make no mistakes, lat when a man is found in error it roves his inefficiency and that the ling to do then is to discharge him efore he can make any more. "When II these costly private graveyards had sen cleaned up (the company naa paia >r every one of them) the new superitendent made two rules absolutely lain to everybody In the place: First?Nobody will ever be dlscharg1 for a mistake alone. Second?Anybody will be discharged istantly for covering up one. When anything goes wrong In that ictory today the employee responsible sports direct to the boss. The mat?r Is talked over freely and fully. An rror Is considered valuable for the ght it will throw on ways of avoldig it next Mme. If the employee needs insure (and he often does) It is given sasonably and quietly. Then the Indent must be forgotten by everybody, hat plant began paying dividends ?ain In the new superintendent's secnd year and he Is now president of le company. Only the exceptional organization as no private graveyards, for perhaps ot one executive in 500 has thought at a method of bringing the errors to ght, dealing with them rationally and penly and regarding them as someilng inseparable from human activity. But the best employers, the manaers who are in closest sympathy with leir people, the superintendents whose orkmen regard them as big brothers nd the ones who have provided a lear, wide channel for every error to avel up to them from their humblest nbordlnate. The executive who punihes errors inflexibly is usually a bujaucrat. The subordinate who is comelled to bury his mistakes will even jally become good for little else, ne i a wise man who keeps that channel pen. LOOKING BACKWARD. /ives of Money Monarchs Live Morr Luxuriously Than Queens. "Believe me," said the woman who links, "I'm a little weary of rhapsoies over the supposedly superior Indulgence of the women of bygone days, /hy don't those so generous of praise ive modern women a chance? It is a irt of mental fashion to assume that George Eliot and George Sand and ady Mary Wortley Montagu and Lady ltssinglon and others like them were eculiar to themselves and their perils; that no woman of today can hold candle to them In any particular. I under if that's true. Seems to me lere are dozens of women In America lone who are every bit as clever as lose heroines of the past. Lady Monigu wrote delightful letters, but the rt of correspondence has not passed om earth, and surely the cultured 'Oman of today can be as sprightly s for novelists and essayists, they ourish in abundance in this enlightenned age. And when it comes to social nowledge almost any up to date hos:?ss is far ahead of those of yore. Plctre the wife of a twentieth century illlintiatra tn litra na rm^oriQ rllrl i days long gone, and not so very long one at that! Queen Caroline and ueen Anne and Queen Henrietta of ingland had a sad time of it when one ompares their lot with that of today's ich women. Marie Antoinette hud no uch luxuries as thousands of wealthy mtrons enjoy. Her best state carluge was a lumbering affair swung on reat straps, that run.bled over stones uglier than the rocky road to Dublin, r she hud known the solid comfort of really fine touring car she would have ecu much happier doubtless. The tate barge in which she was rowed laoriously along the Seine would seem mere scow alongside the swift motor oat in which Mine. Millionaire dashes bout In these days of useful invenons. Perhaps the society woman of day sighs for royalty, but if she had j have it in the days when royalty as real she wouldn't like It half as luch as being the wife of a money lonarch." MAKING OF MILLIONAIRES. It It Sometimes Done Honestly, Assertions to the Contrary Notwithstanding. A young man of Ideaa gave vent to a very extreme statement recently In the presence of several Intellectual people. "No man can make a million dollars honestly," he said. "There Is always some sort of graft and dishonesty about the accumulating of so much money." Then he was asked to prove his statement Edison, the Inventor, was cited. If he does not possess a million dollars, it is because he has not cared to keep what has come to him through his wonderful and beautiful Inventions. The young man confessed that Edison was free from any possible imputation of obtaining tainted wealth. The name of a woman was mentioned, who by a simple device useful to all womankind, which she invented and put upon the market, had accumulated more than a million dollars. Her generosity and big heartedness and modesty have kept her from shining socially among equals In a financial sense, many of whom are her inferiors in culture and charm. Her name, also, was scratched off the hlnrk list. Then there was a man who for years dug in the bosom of the earth with a pick, receiving the wages of the average miner. But he was an educated man, and he possessed a will of iron, besides that great trinity?hope, perseverance and courage. He was not satisfied to be employed. He prospected for months, and finally found a spot where he believed there was ore. He dug and found it. And he sold his claim for a million dollars. The company to which he sold it made many millions. What possible stain can be found on this man's money? Sewing machines, typewriting machines, reapers and mowers and a thousand other labor-saving and laborgiving Inventions have brought large fortunes of clean money to the makers and the exploiters. Besides this they have been spokes In the wheel of progress. Cyrus Field became a multl-mllllonalre man through his ocean cable?that blessing to the world. A few authors, painters, sculptors and actors have become wealthy enough through their creations to arouse the envy of observers; and many singers have accumulated fortunes. Jenny Lind was a woman of wealth when she retired from the stage; and who shall say that the money an eager public paid to hear her glorious voice was "tainted" when in her possession. Besides the money she carried back to her native home for her maintenance after she retired, a fortune had been scattered by her generous hands as she went along her kind and brilliant way. A vast amount of sensational and foolish talk is preached today about the honesty of poverty and the dishonesty of wealth. Many who preach this wholesale and undlscrlminating philosophy are unaware that they are acuated not by a desire to help humanity to higher ground, and to lead it away from the worship of the golden calf, but by ignoble envy and Jealousy. There are two crying evils which every human being needs to avoid in thinking, writing or talking of poverty and wealth. One evil is the worship of money success and the ready acceptance of the man of mere fortune as a desirable citizen, friend or leader. The other extreme is the branding of every man of wealth as a grafter and a dishonest and unworthy member of annlatv Rtnh neonle varv in moral worth and unworth as greatly as do poor people. It Is more unusual to find a really great character among the rich, especially those born to wealth, than among the tollers of earth, because work calls for concentration, and concentration leads to character building, yet great, good and unselfish souls are to be found In every walk of life, and the making of a fortune does not mean that degenerating of the character necessarily any more than the performing of a daily task means always sobriety, honesty and probity. In "Lee's Inspired Millionaires" occurs the following prediction, which may be well for us to read and consid er ctuciunjr. "I cannot help believing we have come to the point at last where, with two thousand years of the New Testament struggling up through the human spirit, It Is time for men to begin to believe that a man may be good enough to be rich, before our eyes. The very children can look up and see that times have changed. We are going to have more rich men in the world, not less. "What with the introductions of machines and of sudden inventions, millionaires cannot be helped. We might as well make the most of It. For every new value thrust upon the world some new man is going to be obliged to be rich, whether he knows how or not. There is no telling which of us shaJl be chosen next?If we keep thinking of things. And every man must be ready. The world must be full of visions. It must weld Itself great faiths for the rich. "I drink daily at this belief. I believe that the next Messiah that comes to the world is going to be a Messiah for millionaires. I believe the time is almost at hand when he will come to us. He will come rather modestly, perhaps, and he will be a silent, busy man; but when he dies and everybody turns his way and looks a minute, there will be a great village somewhere smoking up to the sky blessing him. "And slowly, when they look at him, everybody will know, and slowly everybody will begin to believe, that being a rich man is one of the greatest and most honorable of all the professions; they will see that a man can be rich and be a gentleman with his money?a gentleman down to his last dollar? that he can even be a great artist with It." Never was the world so awakened to the realization of what money properly applied to the needs of humanity can do us to day; and never were there so many people possessing money who desired to benefit humanity as now. They may not all show this desire wisely; but they are at least showing an unselfish Impulse, however, it may lack wise direction, ny ana Dy win came the men with both unselfishness and wisdom. Every decade will increase the number of generously inclined millionaires; and in another quarter of a century the rich miser will hide his diminished heud, and the selfish spendthrift, who uses his wealth in extravagant display, will be the exception. Generosity Is catching; benevolence is contagious; and rich people who do nothing for the progress of the world and the enllghtninent of the race, are beginning to feel ashamed of themselves. A great many men who gained fortunes dishonestly have gone to prison In the last few years; and it Is fairly well understood by the rising generation that dishonesty does not pay, and cannot long be hidden.?Ella Wheeler Wilcox. . TRICK SHOOTING. The Way Some of the Stage Feats Are Accomplished. When a champion rifle shot flres blindfolded at a wedding ring on a penny held between his wife's thumb and finger or seated back to her shoots, by means of a mirror, at an apple upon her head or on a fork held in her teeth, the danger of using a bullet Is obvious. None, of course, Is needed. The explosion is enough. The apple is already prepared, having been cut into pieces and stuck together with an adhesive substance, and a thread with a knot at the end, pulled through it from the "wings," so that it flies to bits when the gun is fired, is "how it Is done." Generally the more dangerous a feat appears the more carefully is all danger guarded against. In the "William Tell" act the thread is often tied to the assistant's foot. When, again, the ash is shot off a cigar which the assistant Js smoking a piece of wire is pushed by his tongue through a hollow passage In the cigar, thus thrusting off the ash at the moment of firing. A favorite but simple trick is the shooting ' from some distance at an orange held in a lady's hand. Great applause is invariably forthcoming when the bullet drops out on her cutting open the fruit. It is Inserted by hand earlier in the evening. Another popular trick is that of snuffing out lighted candles. Half a dozen are placed in front of a screen, in which as many small holes are bored, one against each candle wick. At the moment of firing a confederate behind the oho mi v hlrvws nut each candle with a pair of bellows. In most instances where a ball or other object has to be broken on a living: person's head blank cartridge is used and the effect produced by other means. A special wig with a spring concealed in it worked by a wire under the clothes is generally used, the confederate manipulating the spring simultaneously with the firing of the rifle. As the ball is of extremely thin glass, a mere touch suffices to scatter it. In these exhibitions some of the rifle "experts" invite gentlemen from the audience to testify that the weapon is indeed loaded. The cartridge shown looks very well, but it Is a shell of thin wax blackened to resemble a leaden bullet. It would not hurt a fly.?London Tit-Bits. COLUK WUHU3. Red Seems to Be the Favorite With Most, of the Great Writers. Upon tabulating the words used by Shakespeare referring to colors it is revealed that out of every hundred color words thirty may be classed as red. Next follow twenty-one white, twenty black, seventeen yellow, seven green and only four blue. Thus Shakespeare's favorite color word was red, and investigation will show that this is the characteristic color of nearly all great writers. For instance, it is the color word most often employed by Tennyson. In all great works of human Interest red predominates, as it is the color of the very strongest of our passions and Impulses?the color of hot blood. There is no color so warm, so full of joy ana life, so overflowing with vitality. Red is the color of glowing iron?of heat and passion. In nature red hastens the growth of trees, while at the same time it quickens all rotting and decay. Plants grown under red glass will grow four times as quickly as under white light, and grow to four times their usual height. Red in excess has an evil effect. For example, an excess of red llgh' nakes one irritable and nervous. In excess red produces homicidal mania?the desire to kill. The effect of red upon various animals is well known, it having the power of enraging the bull, the tleer and the turkey.?London Scraps. Curing Snake Skins.?According to the Indian Trade Journal of Calcutta, an Important branch of the chrome tanning department In Madras In the last three or four years has been the curing of skins both of wild ardmals and of snakes. The chrome tanning process Is well suited for the preservation of skins with their hair on, but it lends Itself equally well for snake skins. Large numbers of such skins, which are in large demand for women's belts, have been tanned, the principal skins being those of the python, the cobra and the Russel viper. The quality of snake skins varies considerably, and It depends upon the time which has elapsed since the reptiles last cast their skins. Plan for Summer Comfort Don't add the heat of a kitchei f^e to the sufficient discomfort o hot weather. Use a New Perfection Wick Blm Flame Oil Cook-Stove and cook ii comfort. With a "New Perfection" i Oil Stove the preparation of I daily meals, or the big weekly / "baking," is done without rais-^ ing the temperature perceptibly above that of any other room in the house. Another great advai V NEW PE yVick Blue Flai is its handsome CAB convenience of the i ^ top shelf for warminj U=|]% drop shelves for hi I I even fitted with rai / and can be had v ^ at your dealer's L_J\ or low?is then not smoke. Saf ^ If not at youi 2 V? SEEING THE PRESIDENT. J Demands Upon His Time Arduous and Unremitting. f Mr. Taft takes no luncheon. The Interruption which It has afforded to his ^ predecessors In office In the wearying V. task of seeing people, hour In and hour out, Is not for him. From 9 o'clock In f the morning until 3 to 6 in the afternoon, according to circumstances, he Is meeting a stream of people, single or (jf in committees, or in delegations, Introduced by senators and cabinet officers, or arriving at his portals with letters t of commendation, or presenting them- ^ selves on the basis of their personal acquaintance. No one sees him except by ^ appointment?bearing a few members / of the choicest inner circle?and yet ? among the callers by appointment waits of three hours are not unknown. ** To see him In an hour and a half after (| the time scheduled is doing well. A new piece of machinery in the handling m of the crowd has been devised. CUp- v tain Stone, the Pullman car conductor, whom President Roosevelt, taking a C fancy to, brought to the White House, is now engaged, nominally under the g title of chief usher, in opening and F closing a great double door between the cabinet room and the president's t real office. Through this portal Stone ^ admits in order the persons or groups who have previously been admitted to t the cabinet room by the man at its en- t trance, who has a list supplied each ^ day by the private secretary or, as oc- ft caslons arise, of persons who are to * be passed. Making an appointment ad- ? ? V?? ooKlnaf rnnm flflnt. L Ill 113 IIIC1II IV me vauiuvi w.... . V Stone, as he opens and closes these doors, Introducing to the president the persons who pass In, wherever necessary, represents a stage In the mechanism which had not been found necessary m by Mr. Taft's predecessors. And yet v Washington people are complaining i that Mr. Taft is to hard to get at; Is ^ not seeing enough people; is not mingling with the multitude as much as did t his predecessor. In fact, he does nothIng else for the greater part of his waking hours, and it is a terrible strain on any man. Hi The changed use of the telephone is not without its suggestlveness. Twen- ? ty years ago the White House contain- v ed just one telephone, standing against the wall in the northeast corner room, where the office telegrapher made his j headquarters. No one respended to It ft except during office hours. The pres- ^ Ident's wife used to send out a maid 4 to transmit a message, usually through / one of the clerks, perhaps twice a week. I No general appointments were made by * It except In the rarest emergency. Its J use was not greatly different from that 1 of a fire alarm signal. The White i House occupants, either of the family J or of the clerical staff, had acquired no I telephone habit and were virtually un- I educated to Its possibilities. What Is the slntuation today? The White ft House central, "Main No. 6," Is man- r ned day and night. The exchange con- f nects with virtually every room In the / mansion, in the office building and in I the stables; the man at Its switchboard | partakes of the nature of a private sec- / ''" tv TTnnn him is Doured a list of I appointments and he Is busy making Jj them. It seems as If the entire town were connected with the White House, I and also the larger centers of the coun- f try. The access of the telephone to the j old mansion has repeated the expert- / ence of the railroad. It has geared up # the wheel of business to a newly ac- j celerated speed, with the result that > the preasure upon the president's time I Is unremitting.?Robert L. O'Brien in > Boston Transcript. S A TIGHT LITTLE ISLAND. J ( Manhattan Deserves That Title?Space '# at a Premium. I Space on Manhattan Island, which is / a sure enough tight little Island, If ever l there was one, is distinctly at a pre- I mlum. The record price for real estate d In New York, according to Alcolm, was J $583 a square foot, obtained four years > ago for the southeast corner of Broad- Jj way and Wall street. I On March 13 last the Fourth Nation- f al Bank acquired the building adjoin- f lng Its own home at the southeast cor- ? ner of Cedar and Nassau streets, a plot 0 measuring 73.1 feet on the latter street ( and 73.2 on the former. / The average price a square foot was i close on $307, which figure has been jj beaten by only three other sales of real A estate In th'i city?the corner already I mentioned, and two small plots at the X southwest corner and the southeast J corner of Broad and Wall streets, which l j sold thirty years ago for $330 and $348 C a square foot, respectively. ? A fifty foot lot on Fifth avenue, at _ sixty-ninth street, is reported, as being | sold to EX H. Harriman, for a million y dollars?and such price is by no means *! rare in that section. 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