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liumorous Department. Placed Wife on Free List.?A very good story on ex-Governor Folk is told in Annabel Lee's Little Stories by Big Men. In fact, Mr. Folk tells the story on himself as follows: While serving my Btate as governor I often worked after office hours. At such times I decided to keep a rigid Quarantine in the outer office against friendly intruders. I instructed my office boy to say that I was "not in" to all callers, and prepared for a good evening's work. But much to my surprise I had more visitors than usual, and remonstrated with the boy. "They all say that they have an appointment with you and that you are expecting them," replied the boy. "Well after this just say that Vin not in." "But if they argue with me?" "Just tell them?'they all say that.'" "The new scheme worked well for a while and I was just beginning to T*?Knn nno PVPll COngTaiUJHle ui;a?u nu?? ing there called a lady to whom the boy said, "The governor is not in." "I know better than that," returned the lady, "go tell the governor his wife is waiting to take him to the theater." "Oh, they all say that," answered the boy. 1 shall not put on record what the lady said, but she entered my office unannounced. W Two colored men bought a piece of pork, and Sam, having no place to put his share, trusted it to Henry's keeping. They met the next night and Henry said: "A mos' strange thing done happen at mah house las' night, Sam. All myst'ry to me." "Wha* dat?" & "Well, Sam," explained Henry, solemnly, "dis mawnln' I go down in de cellar for to get a piece of hawg to' breakfas', an' I put my han' down inj de brine an' feels 'round, but dey ain't no po'k dar?all gone; so I tu'n up de bar'l, an, Sam, sho' as preachin', de rats had done eat a hole cl'ar froo de bottom of dat bar'l and dragged de meat all out!" J ooinnlch Sam was peirineu <mu ? ment for a moment and then said: "Why didn't de brine run out outen de hole?" "Well, yo' see, Sam," replied Henry, "dat's de myst'ry," it-*" When Willie's father came home to supper there was a vacant chair at the table. "Well, where's the boy?" "William is upstairs in bed." The answer came with painful precision from the sad faced mother. "Why, wh-what's up? Not sick, is he?" (An anxious pause). "It grieves me to say, Robert, that our son, your son?has bee.p heard swearing on the street. I heard him." "Swearing Scott! Til teach him to swear." And he started upstairs in the dark. Half way up, he stumbled and came down with his chin on the top step. When the atmosphere cleared a little. Willie's mother was saying sweetly from the hallway: "That will do; dear. You have given him enough for one lesson." it*" Uncle Joe Cannon, in a recent political argument, said: "That excuse is not good enough. It reminds me of a Danville bartender. He came to work in a Danville bar and as soon as he arrived, the receipts began to diminish. The boss at the end of the week said to the newcomer: " 'Look here, do you take money out of the till?' " 'Oh, no sir,' said the bartender. 'No, indeed, sir.' " 'Now,' said the boss, "you must be taking money. I know it.' " 'Of course, said the man, 'I take out my car fare every night.' "'Oh, you do, eh?' said the boss. 'And where do you live? In San Francisco?' " Her Threat.?A certain young couple who were married some months ago never had a cloud to mar their happiness until recently. One morning the young wife came to breakfast in an extremely sullen and unhappy mood. To all her husband's inquiries she returned snappish .answers. She was in no better frame of mind when he came home that evening for dinner, all of which mystified the young husband. Finally, late in the evening, in reply to his insistent demands to know what the matter was, the wife burst into tears and replied: "Henry, if ever I dream again that you have kissed another woman I'll never speak to you as long as I live!"?Exchange. W An old colored man. charged with stealing chickens, was arraigned in court and was incriminating himself when the judge said: "You ought to have a lawyer. Where's your lawyer?" "Ah ain't got no lawyer, jedge," said the old man. "Very well, then," said his honor, "I'll assign a lawyer to defend you." "Oh, no suh; no, suh! Please don't do dat!" the darky begged. "Why not?" asked the judge. "It won't cost you anything. Why don't you want a lawyer?" "Well, jedge, Ah'll tell yo". suh," said the old man, waving his tattered old hat confidentially. "Hit's Jest dis way?Ah wan' tuh enjoy dem chickens mahse'f!" The Real Reason.?James started his third helping of pudding with delight. "Once upon a time James" admonished his mother "there was a little boy who ate too much pudding, and he burst!" James considered. "There ain't such a thing as too much pudding," he decided. "There must be," contended his mother, "else why did the little boy burst?" Jamel passed his plate for the fourth time, saying: "Not enough boy."?Ladies' Home Journal. ***>* A Volo ot nHont Via r?r?oH in a nflnpr to his professor and was surprised the next day to have it returned with a note scrawled on the margin. He studied it diligently, but was unable to decipher the note, and so he brought his paper ^ck to the professor. "I can't quite make out what that is, if you please," said the student. "That sir," said the professor, "why, that Vi,*?.- 'I cannot read your handwriting.' practice?*? illegibly, sir, a very bad Exchange. pisffllancous grading. CEDARS OF LEBANON Sacred Grove Still in Evidence; But Disappearing. Wail, O fir tree. For the cedar is fallen, Because its glorious ones are destroyed ; Wail, O ye oaks of Bashan, For the strong forest is come down. Thus Zechariah lamented, and most of the famed cedars of Lebanon have disappeared from the slopes of Syria. Yet still some of the glorious ones of the forest rise proudly. In "Syria, the Land of Lebanon," Lewis Gaston Leary tells of a visit to the famous grove. The book is published by McBride, Nast & Co. His description follows: We had watered our horses, eaten the last olive and the last scrap of dusty bread that remained in the bottom of our saddlebags, and were shivering and impatient and irritable; for a sea of beautiful but chilling clouds was rolling around us, and as yet there was no sound of the faroff tinkle that would herald the ap proach of the belated mule tram j which bore our tents and food. Then, .suddenly, just as the sun was setting, a friendly breeze swept the clouds down into the valleys; and in a moment fatigue, vexation and hunger were forgotten, as we contemplated one of the most beautiful panoramas in all Lebanon. Before us the mountain sloped quickly to a precipice whose foot lay unseen, thousands of feet below, while just across the gorge, so steep and lofty and apparently so near as almost to be oppressive. toward Jebel el-Arz?the Cedar Mountain. The whole range was bathed in a wonderful golden hue, more brilliant, yet more etherial than the alpenglow of Switzerland. Soon the gold faded into blue, and that to a Tyrian purple, a color so royal that those who have not seen cannot beiipvo ro deeD and strange that, to those who have seen, it seems almost unearthly. One must gaze and gaze in a vain attempt to fanthom its unsearchable depths, until the purple darkens Into black and the watcher stands silent, as if the setting sun had for a moment swung open the door that leads into the eternal. "Where are the cedars?" I asked a member of our party, who had visited them before. "Over there, directly in front of you!" "But the mountain seems to be one bare, empty mass of rock!" "Look closer?yonder?where I am pointing!" Yes, there they are, apparently hung against the face of the rock in such a precarious situation that, a loosened cone would drop clear of the little edge and fall all the way to the bottom of the valley. You see just a tiny patch of dark green against the mountain side?as big as the palm of your hand?no, as large as a finger nail?like a speck on the lens of a field glass. Such is the first view of the group of ancient trees which are still known as the "Cedars of the Lord." ******** Grow in Solitude. When we reached the cedar grove the next noon, we found that our first impression had been wrong concerning everything except the supreme beauty of the mountain setting. Far from being situated upon a narrow shelf on a perilously steep slope, the trees are securely enthroned amid surroundings of massive grandeur. The watershed of Lebanon here curves around so that it encloses a tremendous natural amphitheater about twelve miles long and over six thousand feet in depth, with its inner, concave side facing the Mediterranean. Here, amid surroundings of rare beauty and yet of solemn loneliness, is set the royal throne of the king of trees. Just back of the cedars the mountains rise to an elevation of over eleven thousand feet. Around them is vast emptiness and silence. Xo other trees grow on this chill, wind swept height. Xo underbrush springs up among their rugged trunks. The last cultivated fields stop just below, and the nearest village is out of sight and sound, far down the mountain side. A few goatherders lead their flocks to a nearby spring that is fed by water from snow peaks of the Cedar Mountains; but at night the wolves can be heard howling hungrily, and by the end of the year the snow drifts are deep around the old trees and the passes are closed for the winter. Yet downward from the cedars is a prospect of warm, fertile beauty. You look deep into the dark green valley of the Kadisha, and then across the lower mountains, to where, thirty miles away, the "great sea in front of Lebanon" rises high up into the sky; and during orfe memorable week in the summer you can see, a hundred and fifty miles across the Mediterranean, the jagged mountain peaks of the island of Cyprus outlined sharp against the red disk of the setting sun. Beloved of the Prophets. When the Old Testament was writers wished to describe that which was consummately beautiful, rich, strong, proud and enduring, they drew their smiles from Hermon and Lebanon, and the climax of the "glory of Lebanon" they found the "cedars of God." Would they express the full perfection of that which was choice, excellent, goodly, high and lifted up, they pictured "a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a forestlike shade. * * Its stature was exalted above all of the trees of the field; and its branches became long. All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; and under its branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young. Thus was it fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches ? nor Was any tree in the garden of God like unto it for beauty." The cedar of Lebanon must not be confounded with the various smaller trees which in America are know as cedars. It is own brother to the great cedar or God tree of the Himalayas and the forest giant on the high slopes of the Atlas, Taurus and Amanus ranges. In the days when Hiram of Tyre provided timber for Solomon's temple, large cedar woods spread over Lebanon, and apparently grew also on the sides of Anti-Lebanon; but generation after generation these trees became fewer in number. Even in the sixth century, Justinian found it difficult to secure sufficiently large beams for the Church of the Virgin (now the Mosque al-Aksa) in Jerusalem. Many efforts were made to preserve the trees, which had long been considered of a peculiar sanctity. High up on the rocky side of Lebanon, Hadrian carved his imperial command that the groves should be left untouched. Modern Maronite patriarchs have excommunicated those who cut down the "trees of God." But the roving goats who nibble the tender young saplings have regarded neither emperor nor patriarch. Now there is little timber of any kind in Syria, and the profiles of the mountains cut sharp against the sky. Of the cedars there remain only seven groups, the finest of which is the one we are visiting, above the village of Besherrah. A Stone Wall to Save Them. A former governor of Lebanon, Rustum Pasha, protected the grove against roving animals by a well built stone wall, and in recent years the I number of young trees has conse quently slightly increased. But the really old cedars grow fewer century I by century; Indeed, young and old together, their number is pathetically few. Twelve of the very largest are usually counted as the patriarchs of the grove. The mountaineers say that these had their origin when Christ and the eleven faithful disciples once visited Lebanon, and each stuck his stafT into the earth, where it took root and became an undying cedar. In all there are about four hundred trees. A local tradition says that they can never be counted twice alike; and, in fact, I have yet to find two travelers who agree as to the number. It is doubtless due to the fact that several trunks will grow so close together that no one can say whether they should be considered as I a single tree or as two or more. When no fewer than seven trunks almost touch at the bottom it is quite impossible to tell whether they sprang originally from one seed or from many. Yet though the cedars are few in number, these few are kingly trees. Their height is never more man a hundred feet, but some have trunks over forty feet around, and mighty, wide-spreading limbs which cover a circle two or three hundred feet in circumference. Those which have been unhindered in their growth are tall and symmetrical; others are gnarled and knotted, with room for the Swiss Family Robinson to keep house in their great forks. Some years ago a monk lived in a hollow of one of the trunks. When you climb a little way into a cedar and look out over the whorl of horizontal branches, the upper surface seems as smooth and soft as a rug, upon which have apparently fallen the uplifted cones. Indeed, the close growing foliage will bear you almost as well as a carpeted floor. Eighty feet above the ground I have thrown myself carelessly down, not upon a bough, but Just upon the network of interlacing twigs, and rested as se curely as if I had been lying in an enormous hammock. Grow in Curious Ways. Most of the cedars are crowded so closely that their growth has been very irregular. Sometimes two branches from different trees rub against each other until the bark is broken; then the exuding sap cements them together, and in the course of years they grow into each other so that you cannot tell where one tree ends and the other begins. Just over my tent two such Siamese twins were joined by a common bough a foot in diameter. Near by I found three trees thus united, and another traveler reports having seen no fewer than four connected by a single horizontal branch which apparently drew its sap from all of the parent and foster parent trunks. Even more remarkable Is a cedar which has been burned completely through near the ground, and yet draws so much sap from an adjoining tree that its upper branches continue to bear considerable foliage. The wood is slightly aromatic, hard, very close grained and takes a high polish. It literally never rots. The most striking characteristic of the cedars is their almost incredib!. vitality. The oldest of all are gnarled and twisted, but they have the rough strength of muscle bound giants. Each year new cones rise above the broad, green branches, and the balsamic juice flows fresh from every break in the bark. * * * The single enemy feared by a full grown """lar id tVio t VinnHorhnl t "The voice of Jehovah breaketh in pieces the cedars of Lebanon." One or two trees felled by this power have lain prostrate for a generation; but their wood will still turn the edge of a penknife. Here and there, visitors to the grove have stripped off a bit of bark and inscribed their names on the exposed wood. "Martin, 1769," "Giradin, 1791?"the edges of the letters are as hard and clear cut as if they had been carved last season. A Thousand Years Old. Probably the wood is so enduring because it grows so slowly. When you are told that a slender shoot, hardly shoulder high, is ten or twelve years old, you begin to speculate as to the probable age of the patriarchs of the grove. On a broken branch oniy tniriy incnes in aiameier, i unue, with the aid of a magnifying glass, counted 577 rings?577 years. And some of the cedars are forty feet and over in girth! Certainly these must be a thousand years old, probably two thousand. We are tempted to believe that one or two of the most venerable were saplings when the axmen of Hiram came cutting cedar logs for the temple at Jerusalem. The most rugged and weather-beaten of them all, called the Guardian? surely this hoary giant of the forest has lived through all the ages since Solomon, and from his lofty throne on Lebanon has calmly looked down over Syria and the Great Sea, while Jew and Assyrian, Persian and Egyptian, Greek and Roman, Arab and Crusader and Turk, have labored and fought and sinned and died for the possesion of this goodly land! >t3T A Washington man celebrated the eighth birthday of a nephew of his Kir tnblnr* In J * ? 4 A ki.r uy Kirwiife uic iau iu luiitucuu ai a uifs hotel. The youthful guest had not noticed that at the end of the luncheon his uncle had tendered a $50 bill in payment thereof, but the boy did notice that when the waiter returned he brought with him a plate upon which was piled a huge mound of greenhacks and silver. With a long glance at the money the boy leaned towa?d his uncle and said: "If you please, Uncle Tom, I'll have a plate of that, too!"?Lippincott's. A NEW YEAR RESOLUTION This Article Won First Prize in Contest Several months ago the American Magazine offered a handsome prize to the person who would write the best story under the caption, "My Most Successful New Year Resolution." The following artice by Israel Katz, a Jew, was declared to be the best: Eleven years ago, on a cold but cleur and beautiful December night, an ocean liner entered the harbor of New York. Among the many thousands of immigrants on the ship was one Jewish boy on his way from Russia to the land of freedom. This boy was myself. Our boat lay in the harbor all night, and I shall never forget how I kept awake on deck watching the hundreds of boats passing by, the myriads of lights in the harbor, the Statue of Liberty with Its burning torch, and the mysterious giant *L/? Aiaf n w/ia 1 nrr t'liy lying UIL 111 me Uioiaav/C nuiuuig in its bosom so much promise for all of us. The following morning 1 was landed among the seething multitudes of New York city. New Year's Eve my brother took me down to see the crowds along the lower part of the Bowery, where the Trinity church stands. This was a revelation to me. Over in the little Ghetto town of Russia where I was born, the Christian new year was a day of fear and dread for us Jews. I remember how "they" used to march on New Year's day through the streets of our town carrying the holy images of the Greek church to dip them in the river while soldiers stood with their bayonets lined up in two rows to "inspire" order and reverence. We boys used to watch the procession from the distance with fear ness and oppression upon our young souls, for we were strangers in our native land, foreigners and outcasts in a land where our forefathers had lived for generations. Not one of us dared show himself upon the streets on such occasions. And here I was among people who called themselves Christians, and yet I saw welcome eyes everywhere. In fact, I was taken in as one of them. And for the first time in my life I felt no fear when the bells of Trinity church began to ring "the old year out and ring the new year in." I knew very little of New Year's resolutions then, for was it not "their" New Year,' and what had I to do with this outside world of my Christian enemies? But as I stood there with my head bare and with tears in my eyes while the bells rang mirinie-ht ft resolution beeran to grow within my heart, a resolution that was not made consciously and in cold reason as most resolutions are made, but that sprang up within me spontaneously, one born out of the welcome which I received for the first time from the outside world? the Christians. I resolved then and there to show to this Christian world that love, liberty, and Justice are never wasted even when given to a Jew. I resolved to take advantage of all opportunities offered to me for education and advancement so that I might become in time a worthy citizen of this great country, our country. The next few years were hard. The wolf had to be kept from the door, but the little spare time and money were used in getting an education. Every new book I bought was like a dear child to me and I used to sit late at night reading lovingly. At last the great day came, and my heart was filled with Joy and happi ness as I began my college career, determined to continue the struggle with eagerness. All barriers, I thought, must disappear before this iron will of the Russian Jewish boy, resolved on getting the education denied to him in the land of oppression. And two years ago, on a June morning, there was no happier and prouder young man in the whole world than I, as I walked upon the platform of the College of the City of New York to receive my diploma at the hands of a Christian, now no longer a stranger to me but a fellow citizen who gave me his wishes of love and affection and told me to go out into the world as a son of the "great metropolis of our country" and carry the torch of education, culture, and good citizenship among my fellow citizens. I knew then that a great part of my resolution had been carried out, and I hope to God that till the end of my days I shall continue to live in the spirit of that resolution and work IUI uic fcuuu ui my auuptcu uuuuiij', which is even dearer to me than if my ancestors had been of those who landed at Plymouth Rock. HERE AT HOME Yorkville Citizens Gladly Testify and Confidently Recommend Doan's Kidney Pills. 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' TOWNSHIP PREMIUMS | To the Clubmaker In each of the Nine Townships returning and paying for a LARGER NUMBER OF NAMES than any other Clubmaker in his or her respective Township, and not receiving one of the above premiums, we will give One 42-plece DINNER SET. OTHER PREMIUMS In addition to the foregoing offers on a competitive basis, we are also pleased to make the following offers for a fixed number of names. FOR TWO SUBSCRIBERS?A pair of Fancy Gold Handled 8hears, worth 50 Cents. FOR THREE NAMES?Three-piece Sewing Set?8-lnch Shears, 4| Inch ^ Buttonhole Scissors, and 4J inch Embroidery Scissors, worth $1.25. FOR FOUR NAMES?A Stylographic Fountain Pen, worth $1.60; a handsome Three-bladed Pocket Knife with name and address on handle, worth $1.50, or one year's subscription to Progressive Farmer. FOR FIVE NAMES?Five-Piece Kitchen Knife Set. worth $2.00, or a Gold Pointed Fountain Pen, or a Four-bladed-Pocket Knife, with name and address on handle. 1 FOR SIX NAMES?Eclipse Stem-winding Watch, Hamilton Model No. 27 22-ca'ibre Rifle. FOR EIGHT NAMES?An Ingersol Junior Watch, Daisy Repeating Air Rifle, Rapid Writer Fountain Pen, Hopf Model Violin, or an 8-inch Banjo. FOR NINE NAMES?One year's subscription to THE YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. FOR TEN NAMES?A Thirty-one Piece Dinner Set that retails as high as $6.00, a Stevens-Maynard 22-callbre Rifle, a Gold Mounted Fountain Pen, a j good Banjo, Guitar or Violin. J FOR EIGHTEEN NAMES?Two 31-plece Dinner Sets, same as given for J ten names, samnles to he seen at THE ENOTTIRER Offlee. 9 FOR TWENTY NAMES?A 42-piece Dinner Set that retails at $10; Crack- ? shot Stevens Rifle, a 10-oz. Canvas Hunting Coat, or a No. 1 Ejector SingleBarrel Breech Loading Shot Gun. ^ FOR THIRTY NAMES?Either of the following: A Single-Barrel Hammerless Shot Gun, a fine Toilet or Washstand Set, or a Hopkins & Allen, Jr.* 22-calibre Rifle. FOR FORTY NAMES?A fine Mandolin, Guitar or Banjo, a New York Standard Open-Face Watch, a Double-Barrel Breech-Loading Shot Gun. FOR FORTY-FIVE NAMES?One 112-plece Dinner Set, best American juality. FOR FIFTY NAMES?No. 2 12-gauge Feather-weight Shot Gun, worth 117.00. FOR SIXTY NAMES?One 130-piece Dinner Set, of best American make. TERMS AND CONDITIONS THE CONTEST BEGINS NOW and will come to & close on SATURDAY, MARCH 14T1I, 1914, at 6.00 P. M., SHARP. Each Clubmaker will be held individually responsible for the payment of 9 he amount due on all names returned by him or her. Where it is desired to liscontlnue a subscription before the close of the contest, the Clubmaker may lo so by paying the amount due at the time of such discontinuance. When a lubscription has been paid in full. It cannot be discontinued. The Clubmaker lowever may, if he sees proper, transfer the unfulfilled portion of the subscrlp- . ion to another subscriber, provided the person to whom the transfer is to be ^ nade was not a subscriber at the time the original name was entered on our >ooks. No name will be counted in competition for a premium until the subscrlpIon price lias been paid, nor will any premium be delivered until the Clubnaker has either paid er made satisfactory settlement for all the names on the ?lub. In cases of contention by two or more Clubmakers over the right to a lame, preference will be given to the one who pays for the name FIRST; but vhere both pay, we sliall not attempt to decide the matter except by crediting he name for one year for each such payment. After a name has been entered on our books, no transfer will be permited. This Is positive and emphatic, and where Clubmakers attempt to make uch transfers, they must concede our right to take such steps as may seem lecessary to protect the fairness of this provision. The Clubmaker who reurns names must pay for them. Clubmakers who try to return and pay for tames already regularly returned by others will be called down, especially if here is evidence of an understanding between the Clubmakers. This is not or the protection of the publishers; but as a guarantee of the fairness of the ompetition. Any and all Clubmakers will have the right to Get Subscribers Wherever rhey Can- It is not necessary that all the names shall go to the same postofIce. The fact that a name was returned on a certain club last year does not ;ive that Clubmaker a right to return it this year. * All subscriptions must be forwarded to us at the expense of those sending hem, and we will be responsible for the safe transmission of money only when t is sent by Draft, Registered Detter, Express or Postofflce Money Order. In sending the names, Always give correct names or Initials, and present ^ lostoffice address, and If possible say whether the subscribers are NOW taking A he paper. Careful observance of this will be the means of avoiding much rouble and confusion. In case of a tie for either of the competitive premiums, TWO WEEKS will e allowed for the working off of the tie. After the close of the contest on SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1814, at ? p. nu,-?? he price of a year's subscription will be $2.00, unless New Clubs are formed. L. M. GRIST'S SONS, Publishers YORKVILLE - - - - S. C. J