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I. WINNING A WELCOME
f By BLANCHE HARPER.
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"Well, what have you there?" exclaimed
Mrs. Morton as Marjory, all
oat of breath, enterea me room.
"Wait and see," mysteriously answered
her daughter as she undid the
rwrapping paper.
"A canary!" cried Mrs. Morton.
-^ What will you bring home next?
?N^vhere and how did you get this bird?"
"Dorothy sent for me this morning
and said that although she was all
ready to go to Atlantic City she
couldn't leave until she knew that her
bl#d would be cared for during the
summer. Her relatives absolutely refused
to take the poor thing, and she
'declared that if I was any kind of a
friend this was my opportunity to
jjrove It So what could I do?"
"But, my dear, we never owned a
bird. We don't understand anything
about their food, drink, bath or habits.
* And every one says a bird is a dreadful
care?they're always catching cold
or molting or something."
"I know. I told Dorothy all that and
so she gave me written instructions,
cautioning me to follow them implicitly.
'
"Listen!" said Marjory, unfolding a
slip o|< paper. "riath Mondays and
Thursdays. Cage to be covered at
8:30 each evening. Small lettuce leaf
Mondays and Wednesdays. Sliced ap'
pie on Tuesdays. Fresh seed and water
daily. Cage cleaned daily. And
1,1)00 other directions."
-It's an imposition!" declared Mrs.
Morton. "It's not necessarj^for Dorothy
to promenade the boardwalk at
Atlantic City while we sit at home and
worry over her pet."
After Morton had worked an hour
that evening adjusting a bracket for
the cage he said peevishly: "One does
Impose on one's friends abominably.
Here we have a rank outsider simply
Jthrust upon us through no fault of our
??me People ha*e?well, what
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everlasting singing."
Marjory's married sister soon ran In
with her pet kitten, as was her cua|
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"What Have You There?"
torn. She was greeted with a scream
from Marjory. "Mildred, don't you
dare to step into this house with that
cat! Can't you see Dorothy's bird?
Please, please go home?quick!"
"Very well," answered Mildred in
icy tones. "If you care more for Dorothy's
silly bird than for me and my
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you any more with our unwelcome
presence." Then the irate sister
marched out of the room.
"I wish I had never seen that horrid
bird or Dorothy, either!" lamented
Marjory.
After two months' absence Dorothy
returned and claimed her canary. The
first evening after Jhe bird's departure
Marjory noticed that both her father
and her mother kept gazing at the
empty bracket where the bird had
1 swung and sung.
Presently Bert exclaimed: "It beats
all how empty this house seems without
that bird!"
If Aninntr OH'Otf O tflOP "T'tTQ
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had the blues all day," she said. "I've
missed Dickie so. If Dorothy had been
the least bit appreciative she would
have let me keep him a few weeks
longer, anyhow."
The next morning Morton on hie
way to his office stopped at a bird
6tore and purchased a canary.
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xited to the cot- |
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Tarboro, N. C. 9
l Columbus, Ga. H
Mrs. Morton, before keeping her appointment
at the dressmaker's, went
to a bird dealer's and purchased a
canary.
Bert, recollecting the empty bracaett,
on his return from business
dropped in at a department store and
purchase^ a canary.
Marjory, by this time firmly believing
that no family is complete without
a bird, took her savlnge and purchased
a canary.
That evning each member of the
family entered the dining room carrying
a bird cage. Then they all beheld
a canary in a cage that was hanging |
on the bracket. There was a card
attached to the hook. On It Dorothy
had written: "I hope this bird will
partly take the place of the one you
so lovingly cared for."
"Let's keep them all!" exclaimed
Marjory.
"All but one," amended Mrs. Morton.
"Mildred confided to me this morning
that she has given Mopsy away, as she
thinks she would rather have a bird
than a kitten for a pet."?Chicago
Daily News.
How Money Value Decreases.
.Statistics show that a little over 40
per cent, of the money spent for food
in New York shops, which supply the
family table, goes to the distributors,
the Cincinnati Times-Star correspondent
states. If you pay a dollar for
fish you only get 54 cents worth of
fish. People who handle the fish, after
It has been caught, get 46 cents of
your dollar. You get 55 cents' worth
rtf voootoKloo fr\v o Hollar nnH thP nPfl
pie through whose hands the vegetables
have passed after leaving the
farmer's get 45 cents of your dollar.
This is an average calculation, covering
all the city shops. The ratio is
cruelly higher in sections where poor
people are compelled to buy in very
small quantities. In some parts of
the town the housewife's scant supply
of cash brings her only 40 per
cent, in food value. Handlers and deal!
ers get more than half of the money
| she doles out to feed the hungry
mouths at home.
Use for Sawmill Waste.
Sawmill waste of Douglas fir, of
which an enormous quantity is found
In the western forests, is being used
to make paper pulp by a mill at
Marshfield, Oregon
CUPID 'WID A UMBRELL'
By ROSSER W. COBBE.
"Aw, lace It out, Cal. Gee?It makea
me sick to see dem big lobsters bunt
be ball."
Jimmy spoke to no one in particular
?to everyone in general. You do not
have to be introduced to open a conversation
at a baseball game.
"Hit it?hit It. Run, you ice wagon,
run. Police?police?stop dat guy?
he'll try to make a homer out of a
single."
Jimmie stopped suddenly, feeling
that everyone in the stand was looking
at him. Then he said In a more natural
tone of voice to the man who sat
beside him:
"Dat guy is always overrunln' de
bag. He'll get caught directly and de
Sox need dis run. Dey'll lose today,
dough, I e'pose. Dey always do on
Ladies' day. Gee, it's goln' to rain."
Rain It did, and as the shower grew
In violence, the umpire "called" the
game for 15 minutes, at the end of
which time, no cessation In the downpour
appearing to be likely, he faced
the grandstand, hat In hand, and made
this announcement, in his deep, foghorn
voice:
"Game called. Rain."
Then he solemnly walked to the
clubhouse, preceded by the players
and followed by the jeers of the crowd.
Meanwhile, Jimmie of the bleachers
had not been Idle. Beneath the grand
stand he had ten or twelve more or
lees disreputable looking umbrellas,
and these he now drew forth and proceeded
to brush and "slick-up." Rain
on "Ladles' day!" Why It was like
finding money, and when the crowd began
to come out of the main fexit, Jimmy's
profits began.
"Umbrell's. Qe? a uiqbrelT. Dont
let de ladies get wet. Yesslr, one dollar.
One bone. One buck. Cheap at
any money In dis kind o' wedder."
He was offering the last one to the
crowd.
"Yes, ma'am. One dollar. No,
ma'am, dat's what I get for dem. Only
80 cents? Can't help It"
"But you are surely here every afternoon,
and tomorrow I'll come and
give you a .dollar beside. See?this Is
all I have." The young lady emptied
the contents of her little parse Into
her hand.
"Nix. I hold dat kind o' talk before,
audi It don't sound no goodrto
me."
Then Jimmie looked up Into her
face.
"You don't look, dough," he continued
with surprising frankness, "as
dough you'd do a guy out a anyt'ing."
Just at that moment "De Ctyy" came.
That is what Jimmie called
him afterward. He was big and broad,
and young and good to look g&tJimmle
thought, and without a glanc# at the
gin ne saia:
"What do you want for the umbrella,
kid?" I
"I don't know whedder It's fer sal*
or not," Jlmmie answered.
"Here's a dollar. Hurry up." Jlmmie
looked at the dollar and was nearly
loet. Then he looked at the girl,
and?
"Nope. Dis lady is buyln' dis."
"Oh, I beg your pardon," de Guy
said, and then both he and the young
lady turned red, coughed and looked
away. Then Jimmie with that great
head for business, which will some
day make his name well known, made
a proposition.
"Maybe you two live clost to each
odder, an' 'f y'do w'y don't you go
home togedder?"
Then events began to happen that
kept Jimmie "guessing" for many a
day. He was telling his mother about
it that night at the supper table.
"Den I guess de two o' dem knewed
each odder, 'cauee de Guy says, kind
o' stiff like:
": 'F I mite be p'mitted, Miss Gray,'
and' she seemed willin', only she
wouldn't talk. So I seen dat dey was
goin' my way, so I butts in. I says:
""Wot did you runt o ae game:
and de Guy 6avs:
" '0. all rite.'
"I says: 'It was a sham? dat Cal
got put out o' de game. He might 'a'
made do winnin' run.'
"Den de Guy kinda looks at de
Fairy, an' says:
" 'Dat's the same way wit' me, son.
I was in 'de game' once, but I got 'put
out' just w'en I tought I was makln'
de winnin' run.'
" 'Oh,' I says, 'you play too? What's
your posish?'
" 'Well,' he says, * used to play foiet,
but I guess I'm on de bench now.'
"Up to dis time de Fairy ain't said
a woid, but now she butts in.
" 'Say,' she says to me. "In a ball
game don't dey never give de players
anodder chanct when dey've been put
out o' de game?'
" 'Nope,' I says, 'it's against de rules.
De rules says dat de umpire can't
change his decision.'
"'Well,' de Fairy says, 'ain't dere
ever any 'ceptions dat proves de rule?'
" 'Not in baseball,' I says. .
j "'Well,' says she, and she looks del
Guy right in de face, 'dere may not be<
in baseball, but dere is in life.'
"Well, you ought to 'a' seen dat Guy.f
He don't do a t'ing but dig down in!
his jeane an' hand me a big five-spot,,
an' grab me by de mitt an' shake itj
up an' down, an' slap me on de back
for a fare-de-well, an' says:
" 'Good-by, ole pal. Good-by, ole>
Cupid wld de Umbrell.'"
(Copyright, by Daily Story Pub. Co.)
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Dividing Line of Safety.
A man may believe all a woman
him and still be safe as long as
from believing the things
!1 him.
Kickers, Too, In Those Days.
The habit of finding fault with the
poetofflce department was just as pronounced
a century ago as at the present
time, as is evidenced by the following
comment printed in a Boston newspaper
100 years ago: "The mall of
yesterday brought neither letters nor
papers south of Hartford, Conn. The
Infamous conduct of the postofflce department
deserves the severest legislative
animadversions. There are now
due in this town, at this most interesting
moment, two mails from Washington
and one from New York. For
thin v?T*tious and fraudulent delay
there 1b not even a plausible pretext.
, The roads were never better, nor la
the cold so Intense as Is common at
this season. Whether the mall contractors
are bribed or whether the
postmaster general or his subalterns
retard the mail to favor their own
peculations It Is not for us to determine;
but that there is unfair play
somewhere It Is impossible to deny."
No Faith In Rain Makers.
One reason for Sir Robert Ball's
ridiculing of the idea that the moon's
phases affected the weather was the
stupendous eruption of Krakatoa in
1883?to which he devoted a large
amount of consideration. That unparalleled
explosion, in August, 1883, scattered
the "greater part of the island to
the winds and cost 35,000 lives. It
shot into the upper levels of the atmosphere
cubic miles of finest dust of
pumise, such as all volcanoes in eruption
vomit forth. This dust was carried
by atmospherlo currents round
the globe, not once or twice, but flvo
or six times, producing over a large
part of the world wondrous sunsets for
several months; but marvelous as was
the outburst, it caused no great rainfall.?London
Telegraph.
' Hi. '
Hard r|ihSiwpM>?4?e>*iSg, Aflfl -
One hundred years ago a force of
British and Indians attacked and captured
Fort Niagara, on the Canadian
frontier. The American garrison was
surprised before daybreak, the sentries
overpowered and the fortifies- tlons
stormed. Three hundred prisoners,
3,000 stands of arms and an lm- ' A
mense quantity of stores were cap- v
I tured. In retaliation for the burning
of the Canadian (village of Newark by
i the Americans the victorious British,
j after capturing Fort Niagara, began to
ravage the American frontier and
' gave to the flames the thriving towns
. of Youngstown, Lewistown, MancheaI
ter '(now Niagara Falls) and the Tub
I corora Indian village in Niagara
county.
Girls Do the Courting.
Burton Holmes says that the nar
tlves believe in certain forms of worn1
en's rights in the Philippines, espe!
cially when it comes to choosing a husband.
For instance, the Bontoc Igorotes
leave all the courting to the girls.
While the worldly goods of the proposed
father-in-law have some bearing
; upon the ardor of the youqg lady's
! wooing, still there are certain require|
ments which must be lived up to by
the young man, namely, he must either
have secured the head of an enemy
' or he must be in the employ of an
American; In other words, he must
1 either be a brave man?according to
; Igorote standards?or he must be in
a fair way to attain a good living.
Written While You Walt.
As far as imagination goes, E. PhllI
lips Oppenheim is probably one of our
most accomplished authors. He admits
. that bis novels are not constructed
- ? ii a A *
with any enori?mey grow. ah i
have to do," says he, "is to think up
the barest outline of a plot, find some
congenial place to settle for a while,
get a stenographer who is good at taking
rapid-fire dictation, and let 'er
go!" The imaginative Mr. Oppenheim
got the idea for his latest (at the time
of going to press) story, "The Double!
Life of Alfred Burton," while eating &j
mutton chop in a Strand restaurant.
Japanese Life Insurance.
The total outstanding life insurance
policies in Japan aggregate approximately
$425,000,000. The increase in '
business for the prfsent year has averaged
over $6,006,000 a month, and
It is estimated that^t the end of 1913
the total life ine|$ance business effective
in Japan will'amount to fully
$500,000,000. There are now thirtysix
domestic life insurance companies
doing business in Japan. >