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CAT DIDN'T COME BACK AT LEAST NOT TO DOMICILE WHERE IT BELONGED. Its Disappearance Something of a Mys? tery to Mr. Jones, Though He Is a Roast of Besf to the Good. It was found necessary to do away with the family cat because she had developed Reruns and the doctor said It was dangerous for the children. Hut this cat was the children's particular pet, so It was decided simply to havo her disappear, with no funeral or flow? ers or juvenile tears or a tombstono in the back yard. Accordingly the animal was chloroformed snd then Mr. Jones did the remains up In a neat parcel of convenient shape and took them along whin he started for his place of busi? ness In the city In the morning, Intend? ing to drop the package In the river. In the train before the river was reached Mr Jones saw the package re? posing In the rock above his head and determined that was a good place to leave it So whon ho started to get out of the car he did not take the pack? age dowa. "Hey, there, Jones! You're leaving your package," called out a friend. So Jones turned back aud got the pack ago. On the boat he was surrounded by a number of friends and realized that to drop the bundlo overboard in their presence would require a lot of expla? nation and doubtless result In more or less joking at his expense. So he took the package to his office with him. He ssw the Impossibility of disposing of It there and determined to get rid <>' It on tho boat during the trip back home. But there again he was surrounded by his friends of the morning trtp and took the packago to the train with him. An attempt to get off the car without It resulted just as It had In the morn? ing. Mr. Jones thus found himself returning to his home with tho bother? some buudle and he knew tho children would meet him 01 the front porch and iu iet on knowing what it was. Accord? ingly he made his way home across the back lots, deposited the bundle on tho kitchen porch and finally got to the front of the house without detec? tion Fifteen minutes after he had seated himself on tho front porch with the solution of his great problem the cook appeared. Mrs. Join s." s\ld ehe, "what's dat extra roast of beef out on the back pochf Mr. and Mrs. Jones both went back. Sure enough the bundle contained a six pound roast of beef. It only remains to say thin story Is a true one. The thing happened as here written. Mr. Jones is etlll wondering whether the nan with whom he somewhere ex? changed bundles had much difficulty in disposing of the remains of the dead cat. Many Like Smith. Robert C. MrCr-ady. a well known life guard of Long Hranch, recounted some of his experiences as, brown and sturdy, he pared the wind-swept beuch. "No. no." ho said, "the average per? son you rescue doesn't glvo you a sj k for a million or offer you a part? nership in his firm. The average per? son you rescue Is llko Smith. A Philadelphia watchman saved Smith's life one winter night when he fell off the Race street wharf. The watchman plunged iuto tho icy water after him and only got him out after ten minutes' terrible work amid the floating Ice. Hut Smith took tho thing as a matter of course. 'I'd a' done all right alone If I'd 'a' becu able to swim,' be said "A month or so later tho watchman asked Smith to help him move a pack? ing case. Nit; said Smith. 'I ain't no horse.' " 1 done moro for you.' ssld the watchman, 'one night when you were drowning.' M Yes,' said Smith, hotly, 'and you're no gentleman to cast It up to me now ' " How Cobb Got Fired. Many years ago t rank Parker was the telegraph editor of the St Louis Chronicle. Om of in* valued corre? spondents was lrvln S t'obb. who then added to his Income by putting u Pa duct I dste lino gftf bin tWtion. One day \>bb sent in a particularly ^ i story. Parker printed It That night the hose came in swluglng his head like a semaphore "Lookout," the boai said, . kipping a syllable here and there MLot kut this! Whst suborn* d perjurer ha'i this sort Of a pipe dream'.*" Parsal toM Mam. "Fire hi in," said the boss, passion? ately Don't wait for a letter, flfl him bv wire Da i' now " So !'ai I it H> and by he re? ceived a reply from Mr, Cobb, In which the latter was ?Oseewhal plain? tive. "I'm not complaining about being fired." Cobb wrote "But I've been working for tOOf sheet for six months and I think it's hard luck to be fired for the only trae alary I ever sent you "? Kansas City S'ar Yes. John Barrett iy gejetod as telling students at the BUae Rleetrtcal lehool thsf tho future id the Halted States is Sjgggjysjel And after that the be. i put on i heir rubber gloves and shook iiH.'i'h with the ||eg wire seat the glad tiding* Lethe title Couiier Journal, PROFIT SHARING WORKS WELL Method of Stimulating Interest of Em? ployes in Business Is Growing In Populsrity. Rusiness as formerly conducted on a modem scale permitted that ac? quaintance between employer aud em? ployed which became a personal bond and attached the worker loyally to the establishment. This is impossible with the giant concerns of today, and the progressive among them are look? ing to the principlo of profit sharing to Interest tho employe in his work. In England, where the plan ib much in vogue and tends to become the set- j tied practice, the profit sharing sys? tem is expected to enable tho small shop or factory to compete, by reason of tho more zealous endeavor of the employed, with the huge establish? ments; and it seems not unreasonable' that It may have this effect. Many j corporations in Our own country have worked out satisfactory profit s.iaring plans, or are experimenting to that end. A carpet company of Yonkers distributed $65,000 to employes last year. A big insurance company has inaugurated a retirement pension sys? tem which gives the employe 1 per j cent, of his yearly earnings multi? plied by tto number of years ol serv? ice. A Now England manufacturing concern, after allowing a liberal re? turn to capital, gives all its surplus to its employes; and various other plans aTe being tried. Reyond much doubt these will become the universal practice in the future, when the men whose great ability can make huge en? terprises successful have como to find the higher pleasure in serving human? ity. Heretofore in world history human development has been toward indi? viduality, and this was facilitated by everything which tended to exalt and aggrandi/.e self. Up to a certain point it was necessary and good; bit be? yond that, development to the ideal type of man is retarded. It is along tho altruistic, not the egoistic, lines that further progress must be made. Tho present disposition of directive heads of great concerns to serve them? selves first and pass out to others what remains, If anything, is illus? trated by the seven directors of a large KlU York company, who vote themselves each a salary of $30,000 a year, though the stockholders would seem to be getting nothing since a de fielt of $2.000,000 was reported in 1911. This kind of profit division has always heretofore been most in evidence, but will not always be. Faculty for Managing. Anyone who has to manage men or things must bo able quickly to bring order out of confusion. Test your friend's talent in this respect by writ? ing on your paper five words of a spe? cial class, such as tho names of five flowers, or of five animals, or of five famous poets, with the first letter al? ways, in the right place, while tho order of tbo other letters is changed. Tho person on whom you are experi? menting knows only to which class the words belong?whether thoy are tho names of animals, or of flowers, or of poets. See how long it takes him to write the five correct Werde in plr.ee of the misspelled ones. The ani? mal card may read, "Tetrul, etalenph, dykeno, serdip. galllro," and tho vege tabl card, "Veloti, diloffad, melap, moroshumu. cuttnesh." Some persons will bo ablo to read at once: "Turtle, elephant, donkey, spider, gorilla," and the other card. 'Violet, daffodil, maple, mushroom, chestnut." Others who have no talent for rearranging tho elements of a confused situation will stare at the words, unablo to make any sense of them.?Youth's Companion. Rock Paintings In Tunis. Rock painting* of an interesting kind In tho Mouth region of Tunis ara described by M Henri Roux ami pub? lished in the Revue Tunlslenno. One of these was noticed on a rock wall In tlM HJehel Hllji. which probably rep? resents a combat of men in conven? tional drawing and animals which it is dltnc.lt to identify. The age of this painting raises quite a controversy among scientists, and some think that It is contemporary with the Berber civilization, that is, intermediate be? tween the stone ago and the age of metals. According to this Idea it be? longs In the last part cf the neolithic period. Rut M. Roux wishes to place It at a more aucient ejioch and ( lass It in the middle or first part of the neolithic period, it being due to a civ? ilization which is more ancient than the Herbers, and M. Gebert also thinks that it is the work of negroid people to whom are due the flints of the neo? lithic age found in North Africa. How Queen Rules King Emmanuel. The QSJ4 gQ of Italy, discussing smok? ing with Queen Mary of Great Britain, remarked vlvaelotitly; "I can overlook many faults in a man. und make many allowances' tor hi* shortcomings, "One fault In a man. however, I can B4 v er forgive, and that is his not flunking Whenever King Emmanuel ieemi annoyed i give bin his plp< ; when be la good-tempered I get aim a elgarettt . ?hen i want bin to do something very particular 1 offer him a cigar "With a pipe I can eonaole him; with a cigarette i can delight him; but with a cigar I can lead him any? how and anywhere.'4 Marking Time. "You profCI parades to Ipeechei in Impreoelni your rlewa?" "Yee, it s much more Interesting to see how long it takes | procession to I I some point than to see how long if lal I \pi ech to do the same lb ig." LIKE CUT FROM KNIFE GUNSHOT WOUNDS CAUSE LIT-, TLE PAIN WHEN INFLICTED. Many Cases Where Soldiers Have Been Wounded and Didn't Know It?Explanation of Suffering Caused by Amputation. "I was shot in Cuba in '98," says a well known army officer, "and I did not know it for a while. It was not, of course, a pleasant situation. It; war just like the sting of a pin or a knlfo when the skin is broken. It was nothing to knock a man down. I knew of many cases during the war with Spain where a man did not know ho was shot until somebody showed him the blood running down his shirt or trousers." Similar testimony is afforded by an army surgeon, who has served for many. years. He treated many gun? shot wounds during his time and was himself shot, a circumstance that qualifies him to give a doubly expert opinion. "A minie ball passed through my left leg at Shtloh," says this surgeon, "and I did not experience any particu? lar sensation except, perhaps, one similar to being jabbed with a sharp pointed knife. I felt the ball go through tho skin, but it gave no sen? sation in passing through the muscles. , That, of course, is on account of the greater number of nerves in the skin as compared with the muscles. Tho ball pased almost entirely through my leg and was removed a consider ! able time later, but I suffered almost no inconvenience. "The wound, of course, swelled, aa any wound of the kind will; but I should imagine that tho bullet now in use would cause much less trouble I and pain than the old round bullet, as the sharp point of the conical bullet enters the flesh very readily." There is a great deal of misappre? hension as to the intensity of tho pain caused by the entrance into tho human body of various objects. Many persons fancy that if a man is shot at all he must therefore suffer intensely. The reverse is true. A slight wound, a mere abrasion of the skin is some? times far more painful than a wound caused by the entrance of a bullet directly into tho muscles or even into a bone. The skin is filled with nerves, and when any of them are torn by the ball tho pain is extreme. If the bullet plunges directly through tho skiu into the body, the only nerves disturbed are those in the comparatively small space the bullet strikes. Since there are few nerves in the muscles, the nerves of the skin convey the sensation of pain to tho brain. In the same way the greater portion of the pain experi? enced in the amputation of an arm or a leg is occasioned when the skin Is cut, and the subsequent cutting the muscles and the sawing of the bone, in which all the pain is pop? ularly supposed to be centered, amount to little in comparison.?Har? pers Weekly. Demoralized by Autos. In a recent lawsuit the counsel for tho defense nearly precipitated a riot la the courtroom by declaring that ten years ago he would have put cred? ence in the testimony of the witness under examination, but now he felt compelled to doubt it. "I meant no retlectlon on the char? acter of the witness," he apologized later. "He is not an intentional pre? varicator; his judgment has simply been corrupted by automobiles. "In addition to all the conscious mendacity the motor car 1b responsi? ble for it must also be saddled with tho blamo for a lot of unintentional lying. ! "For one thing, it has entirely de? stroyed man's sense of speed. Before its advent any man who knew any? thing about horses could gauge pretty accurately tho speed of a passing ve? hicle. Now a horse trainer himself is apt to be off in his calculation. Auto? mobiles whizzing past at tho rate of j fifty miles an hour have so unsettled hll 6ense of comparative values that he couldn't tell Just by looking wheth? er a horse was traveling ten or twenty inilcs an hour." Clergyman's Pun. A clergyman who had worked for many years in a certain wild section of the country, was being queried by a brother as to the church which made most appeal to the people in that region. He answered that the Baptists had been most successful in making converts. The questioner mado some objection to the practice of total submersion, which was the only bap? tismal ceremony recognized in the country. It seemed to him supercroga toiy. "Ah, yes," remarked tho clergyman, "I grant you that tuch a ceremony may appear to you to be unnecessary according to the Scripturee, but an Intimate life among theso people has convinced ino that for most of them total submersion is not to bo classed as a work of super-Irrigation."?New York Evening Post In Moment of Inspiration. The present Lord Tennyson tolls In his charming biography of his falher. the late poet laureate, that he wrote "Crossing the Bar" in a few minutes He had been down to Sol coiiibe, near Holt Head, where thero Is a bar which makes a curious moaning. He sat on the cliffs liston Ing to it. but it was not until long Afterwards that the groat lyric came? "like a flash of inspiration." i IX) Tili; RICH INDIAN. - OH Wells Are Making the Creeks Rivals ol' the Usage*. Guthrie, Okla.i March 25.? In the more recently developed Cushlng oil ?eld the land is too poor to induce even land hunters to buy it from the government at $1.^5 an acre, plus the entry fee. This Held is the north end Of the (.'reek nation. The Indians of the Snake elan, I Were mostly full bloods und vicious? ly opposed to any scheme recognising the government of the white man. They not only refused to recognise the allotment commission but when the attempt was made arbitrarily to allot them any land they started) what is In history known as the| Crazy Snake war. Thus it was that nearly all this poor land around Cushlng was listed in the record of the "forced allotments" to the mem? bers of old Crasy Snake's band and those of other towns in active sympa? thy with the It has heretofore been Claimed that the Osages were the wealthiest tribe j of Indians in this country, and the oil j development in the Osage country has. added immensely to their great! wealth. But the present indications; are that the Creeks will soon lead them, the difference being that all Osages share alike In their wealth, while it is largely the individual mem? bers of the Creek tribe who are be? coming fabulously rich. The Osages have spent half a cen? tury In frugallty, have been shrewd and close in their treaties and deals with Uncle Sam, have never drawn all their interest even from the great Osage fund which the government holds In trust. But their more indif? ferent neighbors are outstripping them In the race for great wealth and it is without any of the usual ele? ments of mad excitement which usually go with such incidents. %a I There is living near Creekola a ten year-old ^irl whose grandfather was a slave. She has more Indian than n? gro blood in her veins. She is listed on the freedom roll and the Commission s.ivo her 1G0 acres over mar CUShlng. She has never even seen the land. But B. B. Jones se? cured a lease and went to work and tiie first well he put down proved one of the greatest gushers In the mid continent field and while this one gives her an income of $112,000 a >ear Jones is Koing after other gush ers on her land and when he has it fully developed she will be among the most wealthy women in the world. On one of the back streets in Musk ogee is a little shop of a Syrian pedler who with his wife drove an old horse and n i>? dior's cart Into town a few years ago. He began work ins that country and saving every dollar he could. His great ambition was to become the owner of a little land. His scant savings would permit him to look only at the very poorest and lie finally got hold of an eighty acre piece among the hill and gulches over east of Cushlngi paying $1.00 .in a< re. But today, with only two com? pleted wells, he is receiving a royalty of $10,800 a month. Comb and Extracted Honey. At the present day honey is placed On the market in two forms?in the Comb and extracted. Strained hon? ey obtained by mashing or melting combs containing bees, pollen, ami honey, has rightly gone out of use. Extracted honey is simply honey thrown out of the com'? in a machine (ailed a honey-extractor. The combs are n VOlved rapidly, in a cylinder, ami ct ntrifugal force throws out the honey. The comb remains to be re niled aRain and again. For this rea? son extracted honey is usually sold at less price than comb honey, because each pound of comb is made at the expense of several pounds of honey. Ever Think of This? A man who never laughs may be very seriouj minded; and on the other hand he may not have mental energy enough to try to understand a joke. FACING A FAMINE. An untimely biting frost effectually completed the mischief done earlier toy the insect enemies of Mr. Barden's potatoes. The tops of tho plants, which had served as pasturage for the pests, were entirely destroyed, and With them Mr. Barden's hopes of a ?rop. H? was not selfish, however, i)nd could think of others in the hour of adversity. Going to town in the afternoon, he was accosted at the post oflieo by James Hayes, an intimate Acquaintance. "Hello, Giles! How's everything up to the corners'.'" "Trouble enough, Jim, trouble enough!" was the gloomy res] mse. Ten million 'tater hugs and nothing for 'em to eat!"?Youth's Companion. The stringent requirement of tin forest t -rv i< e ihnl ail sheep be dip i ed before entering tho national for i |< has practically eradicated scab i on t hose are ?s. REBELS WIN VICTORY. _ ri:in;KAl.s RETREAT AFTER RAT? TLE AT GUERRERO. Guardiola Evacuated Town, Having P'Mtted inn Men as a Desperate Rear Guard. Zapata, Texas, March 25, via Rider to Laredo, Texas.?The battle of Gm i*rero near here Monday resulted in the retreat of the Mexican fed? erals under Gen. Guardiola, number? ing about 1*00 men, it is said. Guardiola stationed 100 men on house tops at 1 o'clock in the morn? ing to cover his retreat. For three hours these men held the position, most of them and possibly all of them in Ignorance that they were making a perilous stand or covering a retreat. Meanwhile Guardiolas main force got safely away in orderly formation. A federal sergeant who escaped to the United States was authority for the .statement. He stated that Guar? diola was willing to sacrifice the lives of l'?0 of the Twenty-ninth infantry to save the larger portion of his com? mon 1. I These men, said the sergeant, were I disposed along the outskirts of the town and on house tops, where they kept up a furious rifle fire, under rove;* of which Guardlola'a retreat Wa executed rapidly. It was not until ' 4 oclock that the band of too real j iaed that they were lighting alone, facing a constitutionalist force of \ much greater .strength, which was 1 equipped with cannon and two ma i chine guns. Consternation imme ditely spread among the handful of defei der.';, who scattered in all direc? tions followed by a rush of constitu t tionalists. .Some of the federals were killet . some captured, six crossed into ' the United States and the others were said to have escaped into the hills on the Mexican side. Th ? sergeant said it took him about two lours to reach the Rio Grande, eight miles from Guerrero, in his own flight, where he was overtaken while Standing on the bank by a squad of Constitutionalists. He had his gun Strapped onto his back, and dived into the liver, the constitutionalist* bring iit hirn. Hi' was taken out nearly drowned by Mcxieans on the Ameri? can side. At headquarters of Gen. Antonio Villaieal constitutionals declared near Guerrero the number of rebels killed was nine, with 4 1 wounded. The federal loss was unknown but was estimated at 50. A large number of ' bodies were found in the hills near Guerrero. The attack was wholly a surprise to the federals, who had ex ] pected to meet the constitutinnalists nearer Matamoros, which was the ob? jective point of the campaign. The I rebel shrapnel was placed with such accuracy that he federals were forced ; four tunes to change the position of their artillery, eonsisting of two can? non and two machine guns. Guerrero, a town of 2,^00 people in peaceful times, is now occupied by three families, all others having sough' safety on the American bank of the Rio Grande, where they live in crude tents. The frequent change* in the city's military residents have resulted in every one being driven from the town. House; have been ransacked and fur? niture scattered in the streets. The work was done, it is said, by both fed? erals and rebels. All buildings in the town ; re constructed wholly of rock. A Famous Business Training Institu? tion. Elsewhere in this paper you will find an advertisement of the Masteat Bowen Uusiness College, Columbia, S. C. Trie college has been in continu? ous progress tdr the past twenty years and is the oldest business college in South Carolina. It has the distinct reputation of having the very best fa? cilities for business training to bo found anywhere in the South. A large number of the graduates of this college are holding responsible po? sitions at salaries ranging from $1, 500 to $5.000 per year. The oppor? tunities now for business Students are even greater than ever before. If you contemplate pursuing a business training course in the future, or if you are interested in such a course i write u? the manager of the Macfeat Bowen Business College, Columbia, s. C\, for particulars and your request will Im- promptly and courteously j complied a it h, Fifteen small saw nulls ate cut? ting timber from the Powell national forest in southern Utah, more than loo mil's from the neareal railroads. They are run by settlers during time that can be spared from tho crops, and BU| ply local needs since there is no opportunity to ship timber in or out. its keeping tie- tin t hack, hut think what it's doing to tin- llshlliV 11 i reensb >ro l tally News. I Caruso is to receive $3.000 a night under the terms of his new contra t He must have threatened to jump 1?' the Federals. Detroit Free Press PREPARING FOR HORSE SHOW. show ring am) grand 8taxd being pit ix shape for show. Sale Limited to One Thousand Season Tickets at One Dollar?Must Be Secured from Ladies of the Trinity Methodist C hurch. Preparations are going merrily on towards getting everything in readi? ness for the horse show. The grand stand is being built, the fence around the grounds has been completed and the show ring is now being put in condition for the exhibition here on April 7th, Ith and ath. Mr. J. E. Booth of the Board of Directors has had charge of put? ting the grounds in order for the horse show. When this work was j turned over to him he went to ^vork ; w ith rapidity. Already the fence has j been completed. The grand stand Will be completed by next week and ' the show ring is now having the fln , ishlng touches put on it. i Mr. C. H. Deal contracted for the , building of the grand stand which Will be built of best pine lumber and is built with an idea of permanency, [as such things go. The stand will be forty by ninety-live feet and will have a capacity for seating seven hundred ' persons. j The show ring is larger than the 'ordinary show ring lor a b >rs'- show, lit is 300 by 125 feet and inclosed I by a suitable railing. The show ring j is jeing put in condition by Mr. W. J. McKain and will also be completed in the next few days. in connection with the show ring and grand stand are the forty or fifty stalls, which will be built on the grounds to care for animals . ^ring bad weather. While it . impossible to say yet what loer. entries will be made It seems that there will be a good num , her. Much interest has been shown by local owners, who have been prac? ticing and training their animals on the course for several days. Another feature of interest in con? nection with the show which has not been mentioned before is the sale of I scats. There will be put on salo one j thousand season tickets at one dollar I each, to be sold exclusively by the ? ladies of the Trinity Methodist I Church and those who wish to g-5t season tickets should make arrange t meats to get the. tickets from these j ladies. Tickets of admission to the ; grounds will cost fifty cents. Ladies are admitted to the grand stand with ; out extra charge, gentlemen pay 26c I additional to entrance price. School children will be admitted to the . grounds at half price. Rates 'or 1 parking space at tho ringside for au | tomobiles and carriages will be an? nounced later. ? ? j . T. C DE LEOX DEAD. lie Once Conducted Magazine In Bal timore. Thomas Cooper Do Leon, formerly well known in Baltimore, author of i numerous books, the more popular of i which related to the Civil War? "Four Years in Bebel Capitals"? died last Thursday in Mobile, Ala., aged 75 years. Blindness during the ; closing years of his life did not pro |vent him from continuing his liter? ary work. i He was born in Columbia, S. C, May 21, 1839, and was educated in \ the schools of Washington, D. C, at Rugby Academy and in Portland, Maine, to prepare for higher studies at Georgetown College. He was then ; lor a timo connected with the Topo ) graphical Navigating Bureau in i Washington. In Baltimore he con? duct! d the Cosmopolite Magazine for a yetr or more, beginning in ls05, and afterward was engaged in jour? nalism in New York before going South to become managing editor and later editor of the Mobile Hegi&ter. I He then became editor and owner IOf the Gossip and the Gulf Citizen of Mobl e. In that city he was lessee of i the Mobile Theatre from 1873 until 1885. Mr De Leon organized the Mobile Mar?li Gras carnival in 1873 and for tho next 25 years managed that event He invented and designed similar carnivals in IVnsacola, Vicks burg and Baltimore (the oriole), also the centennia! in Albany. N. Y., in 1886 and planned and carried out other big celebrations. He turned to writing books and plays in 18S7, but la liOJ lost his sight and became known as "the blind laureate of the Lost Cause." His books ueve many and some of his plays, tragedies an 1 other pieces have been produced bs prominent actors. Xo higtu r compliment has been paid to the Panama canal than tho decision lo deepen its ronr.petitor ??t sue/. Hem '/.J. to 3? feet.? New York \\ ol id. T?dtacco plai ts have been consider? ably injured by the late tresses, t>ut there will be enough to go around we hope. The Manning Times.