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. Bowser was more than half an
late In coming up to dinner tin
• evening. No explanations were
tnded of him, but at the dinner
t he said:
trs. Bowser, 1 met with a cave
called for all my pity."
Vas it a lame horse?” she asked li:
satirical way.
•on’t talk that way to me if you
t to hear about it!" raid Mr.
ser in petulant tones:
!ut you seem to pity everything
everybody.”
Veil, I was born that way and
t help It. It would he a great deal
er for you if you showed more pity,
is coming home ut the usual hour.
Missing the street I saw a lot of
dture on the sidewalk."
^es, the people were moving.”
‘■'hey were not moving, Mrs. B»\v
for they had no place to go to.
y could uot pay the rent the
tly landlord demanded, and so they
e evicted."
fes, you saw all this,” remarked
. Bowser.
Mid, of Course, I get olf the car to
what the trouble was. I saw three
ows seated on chairs and crying
f their hearts would break. There
a crowd around them, but no one
red assistance.”
Vo one but you?”
■Samuel J. Bowser tins never seen
erson In misfortune without offer*
assltance, and he does not want
>e praised for it."
How much did you give?” queried
. Bowser.
I did not give anything In a money
*, though it may come to that to
tow. The first thing was to shelter
II from the night blast I may to
■row spend the day In looking for
sett for them."
t am sure they ought to be very
ikful. There are many poor widows
town and they ought to find
nds.”
But I haven't told you all," com
ed Mr. Bowser. "As I came along
iw a horse barn for rent. I went
t to the owner and rented It for a
k, und I shall place tjie three
ows and their belongings hi the
1 for a day or two. It Isn’t Just the
'e for them, but people must bend
drcunistanees. 1 um now going out
earch of a moving van. aud I may
be home for three hours. The
own can go to a restaurant and get
*r while I am moving the furni
four errand of pity does you great
tit," remarked Mrs. Bowser, mak
a sudden change In her attitude.
Hint is what I like hear you
" said Mr. Bowser, taking new
■age. "If any newspaper man
es here you can give hitr. the full
Iciiiars. It won’t do a bit of hurt
iave It all In the papers. It will
e the rest of the people in town
amed of themselves. Don’t wait up
me, but go to bed whenever you
r. Bowser went down the street,
re he saw the evicted persons, and
Lot of Furniture on the Sidewalk."
- still sat around in a disconsolate
The crowd hud mostly departed,
not one of them hud put his hand
is pocket to aid the distress.
»ok here, woman," said Mr. Bow
as he came to the Hrst widow,
a can’t stay out here all night, can
r
)nt where else can I go?” was the
rtlon.
sn't there some houses to rent
* her down the street V
Its, I think so, but they want $20
onth, and the rent must be paid In
ince."
ere was an Invitation for Bowser
iut up $2°. but he didn’t take a«l
■gge of the golden opportunity- He
in reply:
have found you tempornry quar
to,. a day or two, and then we will
what can be done."
foe are a good man," replied the
9Wi "but where are the quarters?”
yell, they are In a barn, but It Is
ce clean barn and there Is plenty
oom.”
^hatt What!” exclaimed the
w move Into n barn! 1
k not! I am no horse to live In
— I jt hasn’t come to that yet!”
gnt, my go°d woman, what can we
-asked Mr. Bowser.
"I will tell you what we can’t do,
■ that Is stable me up like an old horse
I l>o you suppose I have come to eat
I log hay and oats! You ought to be
ashamed of yourself to come along
here with such a plan as that I”
“But you see—”
“No, I don’t see anything!” was in
! terrupted. “If I had $20 I could get a
i very nice house. There are four rooms.
I and they have just been repapered. It
! Is just the place for a poor widow.”
| Mr. Bowser passed on to the nert,
| and asked:
“My good woman, I come to your
relief.”
“Well, you are the first one who ever
did,” she replied. "I thought I would
have to stay out here all night, but you
are going to get me a house.”
"Madam, I have rented a bam for
you to stay In for two or three days,
and then you can arrange things. You
see, you can’t stay out here all
night.”
"You have rented a bam for me!”
sharply queried the woman. “What
on earth do you take me for?”
“I take you for a widow In misfor
tune. It is a nice, clean barn. It
smells of horse a little, but you will
“I’m Not a Horse to Live in a Barn."
soon got used to that. You see, we
can’t run around at night to find a
house.”
“But I will sit here all night before
I sleep In a barn! There are nice
rooms up the street about two
blocks, and I could move right In
there If I hud $18 In cash. You
don't know how nice those rooms are.
There Is running water, three front
windows to look out of. and the roof
does not leak a drop. I should he so
happy living there.”
Mr. Bowser hung on to his $1S and
passed on to the next. The third
widow was ready to say to him:
“•see here, Mr. Man, I heard what
you said to the other worneu, aud if
they are not horses to be tied up in
a bam you nwaln't think I am one! I
am Just as good as Urey are! And I
Imve never lived in a bam and never
shall!”
“But, you see, It Is a case of misfor
tune," softly replied Mr. Bowser.
"Then why don't you put your hand
In your pocket aud pay ray rent for a
month. There is a family up here who
will rent their parlor to me, aud I can
have the privilege of the kitchen. It
is a beautiful parlor, and there is gold
In the paper on the wall. All they will
charge me is $12 a month. Come now’,
what are you going to do?”
What Mr. Bowser did was to turn
away and tuke Ills road home. He felt
to pity, but not exactly $50 worth,
with the rent of the stable added to
that. As he entered the house and
sat down, Mrs. Bowser raised her eye
brows, as If nsking a question, and
he replied:
“I got there too late. A charity so
ciety had taken charge of the
widows.”
No Standardized Golf Ball.
An Interesting point In connection
with balls Is that tennis balls and
baseballs have both been standardized
much more than the golf ball. In golf
no particular brand of ball lias been
adopted, but In the last year the rules
have been changed by the United
States Golf association and the Royal
and Ancient In Britain, to specify that
a ball not smaller than 1.02 Inches
in diameter, nor more than 1.02 ounces
in weight he used In tournament gotf.
“The reason why no particular
make of hall lias been selected as of
Ik'iai in the golf field Is that only one
player uses the ball in the course of
the tournament," an authority said.
"In tennis and baseball there has to
be not only a standard ball, but one
of a particular make, because with
these balls the player is asking his
opponent to use the same ball. Your
Util may suit your style of play yet
send him off his game."—Exchange.
Fish That Fight Malaria.
A fish known ns Garabusia affinls,
which devours the larvae of the prop
agator of malaria, the Anopheles mos
quito, has been acclimatized In Spain.
Attempts to acclimatize these fish
In Britain, France, and Italy, hava
failed.
The fish, which were Imported Into
Spain by the American Red Cross, are
being sent In large quantities to the
malarial regions.
Japanese Trial by Ordeal.
Trial by ordeal still exists in some
purts of Japan. If a theft takes
place in a household, all the servants
are requested to write a certain word
with the same brush. The conscience
is supposed to betray its workings in
the waves of the ideographs written.
Tracing an Ideograph involves such
an effort of muscular directness and
undivided attention that the device
often leads to the discovery of the
guilty person.
REVEAL MINDS OF POETS
Nomenclatures of Serbian Cities and
Villages Show Character of Peo
ple In Striking Manner.
The names of the villages in which
our many friends lived and from which
they often walked 20 ratios or more to
1 be of use to ns I set down tn ray notes,
pnrtly because the words, In and of
j themselves, are pictorial and atmos
j pherie and partly because thetr menn
: Ing reveltls the essential, nutural
poetry of the Serbian mind. A few
: of the most striking ones may appro
priately bring this chapter of Serbian
helpfulness to a close, Caryl B. Storrs
I writes In Minneapolis Trlhnne.
Monastlr the metropolis of southern
Serbia means ‘‘the city of monks.”
Kremljuol where onr camp was lo
cated means “dwellers among quartz
ite” from the quuntles of quartzite
rock in the vicinity. The Slavic root
of the word Kremljanl, by the way. Is
the same used in the name of the
Kremlin at Moscow.
Other village names with their mean
ings are: Livonia, a proper name, sig
nifying a huge, virile fellow; Krosho
grad, a limestone castle; Erode, the
ferry over a river; Dobrovenl, people
living In fertile meadow lands; Vrbena,
the village of willows; Skoclvlr, the
village of cascades; Vodena, water
city; Lazac (Lozshatz), the sloping
mountain meadow cleared from forest;
Gornichevo, the village In the mountain
divide; Rosno, the new village; Sa
kuljovo, the village beyond the tower;
Bach, the village down in the kettle;
Vostaran, the village of fruit; Zha
bljani, the village of frogs; Kravari,
the village of cowherd era; Sorovich,
the village of sleet; Dragosh, beloved
village; Bistrlca, clear mountain tor
rent; Bukri, the vtilage on a water
course; Optlebarl, the dwellers among
many birds; Konjarka, creek that must
be forded on horesbaek; Sokol, moun
tain village, where only falcons can
live; Cuke, village along the range of
buttes; Kalanik, village of mud;
Linskovikl. dwellers amnne hazelnuts.
LANDOR HAD PROPHETIC EYE
Brilliant Englishman Correctly Fore
saw Dire Events of Which He Vain
ly Warned Hie Countrymen.
The pamphlet to Lord Liverpool and
the British parliament, written by Wal
ter Savage Landor In 1813, of which
two copies only are known to exist,
mokes highly spirited reading. In It
he sets out, with keen concern and
much energy of Indignation, to criti
cize the magnanimity with which Eu
rope, and more especially England,
showed themselves inclined to treat
Napoleon after the bottle of Lelpslc,
Napoleon whom Landor regarded an a
crlmlnul, fit only for the gallows. Of
Elba, he declared prophetically that It
was “a rat trap open at both ends, from
which it was Impossible that Napoleon
should not escape.” Was the congress
of Vienna, ho asked In bitter scorn,
with Its "well-dressed ambassador*
and Ingenuous state papers,” to pro
duce nothing more lasting than an
other treaty of Utrecht? Ho called In
vain for the temper o# Lord Chatham
which should deliver the country from
a mere “experimental peace.” With
in a year of Napoleon’s banishment to
the “rat trap open at both ends,” he
was back In France, and Europe was
once more plunged Into war.
Laugh Reveals Much.
There Is the man who is always smil
ing, whose whole person radiates af
fection and good cheer. His Is the
frank, open countenance that makes
and keeps friends, for he has the true
spirit of good-fellowship.
He Is the man whom you enjoy going
to with good news, and of whose sym
pathy you can bo sure when you are
In trouble. He Is the friend, always,
that everyone admires, trusts and
likes, jnst because he has the smile
that spells warmth.
A laugh Is a little thing, nnd appar
ently to Judge a man by his laugh
seems like making a mountain out of
a molehill. But “straws show’ which
way the wind blows,” and psycholo
gists assert that the little things ant
the real indices to character. So watch
out when your friends laugh, and see
If they are worth wl^ile.—Bchoboth
Sunday Herald.
Important National Parka.
Yellowstone national park was con
stituted by congress many years ago.
This public playground of the whole
people, now an object of Interest to
every tourist who visits the West, in
cludes the famous geyser district of
the Yellowstone valley and hundreds
of other interesting phenomena and
beauties of nature. The park has an
area of 2,142,7-0 acres, making It by
far the largest as well as the first of
the national parks of the nation. Oth
er important national parks In the
United States are the Yosemlte in
California, the Glacier In Montana, the
Ml. Rainier In Washington, the Sequoia
in California, the Crater lake in Ore
gon, the Wind Cave jn South Dakota,
ftie Platt In Oklahoma aud the Mesn
Verde In Colorado.
Hand Picked.
The young hride was enthusiastic
over her home and-Its furniture. It
had cost exorbitant prices because It
was hand made. To agree with It she
demanded hand-made curtains, sheets,
etc. Then carne the end of the honey
moon and the settling down to actual
living. One day the bride tripped to
market to buy her first chicken. “I
want a very good one,” she stipulated
;o the butcher. “I don’t care how
HOW HAILSTONES ARE FORCED
According to Theory, Electrical Action
la Responsible for Storms that
Frequently Do Damage.
The formation of hail through elec
tricnl action, according to one theory.
Is an Interesting and even wonderful
process. The wind draws out a cloud
Into a long, narrow' strip. In that
form, owing to the great amount of
surface exposed to the air, the .cloud
evaporates rapidly, producing Intense
cold.
Dry particles of snow are then form
ed, and these* by friction with the wa
fer drops, quickly become charged with
negative electricity. But the water
drops carry positive electricity, and
since negative attrncts positive a film
of water Is formed upon each snow
particle and Is Instantly frozen into
a layer of thin ice.
At this thickness its outer surface
remains moist, the water not freezing
so rapidly there, whereupon the elec
trical charge changes from negative to
positive and the particle Is repelled by
the water drops and driven to the
outer parts of tho cloud. Oere the In
creased cold covers It with snow, and
friction charges It anew with negative
electricity.
Repulsion Is now once more changed
for attraction, and the particle rushes
back Into the cloud, receiving upon its
surface another film of water, which
turned Into a second ice layer.
Thus tho growing hailstone darts
zig-zag through the cloud, piling up its
alternate layers of snow and ice, until
gravitation gains control ami sends it
with a jingling crowd of its fellows
spinning to the gronnd.
Few Fine Pearls Found.
New fine pearls are rarely found
nowadays because the demand has
been so great and the fisheries have
been worked so continuously that the
pearls are not given time to grow. Tf
a fine pearl Is bought. It Is rarely one
that has not been in the market for
many years and passed from one deal
er to another. Dealers today depend
to a large extent upon purchases of
pearls from collections of rajahs and
princes in India and of old families In
lihirope. They declare that every time
a large and really fine pearl appears
In the market a hundred wealthy per
sons bid for It. Consequently the best
pearls are beyond the reach of any but
the wealthiest people.
Quipa Which Tickle Traveler*.
Nature seems occasionally to have
been In an Impish mood of jocularity
when she was about her worjj of
shaping and molding things. For in
stance, why did she make the Dalma
tian side of the Adriatic one mass of
Islands and creeks, which are just so
many hiding holes for any power that
hes designs on Italy, and at the same
time lay the Adriatic seaboard of Italy
us bare and flat and plain as she could
plan It? Was it to make the Italian
people wide-awake and watchful and
resourceful? Besides, the modern
world In Its pride must never forget
that the peninsula produced the
Roman.
OCEAN’S LAW :>10ST STRICT
Among Fishcc the Important Fact of
Life Seems to 3e. “Eat or
Be C£i:n.”
In the Dublin museum a stuffed
angler fish, commonly known as a fish
ing frog, may l>e seen, Its stomach still 1
swollen by an enormous eo<l which it
find swallowed. In the stomach of
the cod were found two large herrings. I
In each herring were several sprats,
while each sprat. In turn, contained n
number of tiny crustaceans, or shell
fl.-.h.
In the salt seas. It Is eat or be *~aten.
The’ fishing frog, a fish shaped like s
gigantic legless frog, and provided with
n luminous bait which it dangles from
a long feeler over Its wide mouth, hns
the most prodigious appetite. As many
as 20 flounders have been found Inside
Kf«L_ Ish has Its special prey. Pol
lack assemble In- shoals and pursue
the close formations of young cod.
They surround the cod, drive them to
the surface and devour them. Whit
ing, in similar fashion, pursue and de
vour the herring shoals, while hake
food upon sardines.
Mackerel will eat any small fish.
They devour enormous quantities of
fry, being especially fond of young
mackerels. The John Dory’s favorite
food Is sprats, while rays are not par
ticular ; they will devour any Ush thnt
come their way.
Self-reliance.
Now is the time for every one who
wants work to think up something for
himself. Don’t depend upon somebody
else. The Integrity of life consists in
self-reliance. Be your own proprietor.
If it is of nothing else but an aero and
a little shop. We know the dlilieulty
and do not discard the sympathy. But
regard rather that independence and
high purpose that mnke up the real
manhood. Men will have to work for
others while time lusts, hut there is
nothing so noble in the hearts us the
aspiration to be one’s own man and
direct one’s own destiny. Society Is
divided in classes these days, each one
striving to outwit the other, hut the
grandest class of all is the man him
self. with his own destiny in his fists.
With nil our organized industry, there
never was a time when individual en
1 terprlso had a better chance than now.
If you are articulated in some great in
dustry, keep In the heart the hope that
you will be your own master some day.
—Ohio State Journal.
The Unknown Quantity.
When a tiling like that happens a
man does not know exactly where lie
Is or how lie feels. The largeness and
the smallness of the world amaze him;
I he mystery of life bewilders him; he
Is confused in flic presence of the un
known quantity. liow ho behaves,
what he says or does, depends entirely
upon instincts beyond his control. This
is what happened to Richard when he
heard the voice of Carols.—Henry
Van Dyke.
9
Pains
Were
Terrific
Read how Mrs. Albert
Gregory, of R. F. D. No.
1, Bluford. 111., got rid of
her ills. ‘‘During ... I
waa awfully weak . . .
My pains were terrific. I
thought 1 would die. The
bearing-down pains were
actually so severe I could
not stand the pressure of
my hands on the lower
fart of my stomach . . .
simply felt as if life was
for but a short time. My
husband was worried...
One evening, while read
ing the Birthday Alma
nac, he came across a
case similar to mine, and
went straight for some
Cardui for me to try.
TAKE
ARDUI
The Woman’s Tonic
"I took it faithfully and
the results were immedi
ate,” adds Mrs. Gregory.
”1 continued to get bet
ter. all my ills left me,
and I went through . . .
with no further trouble.
My baby was fat and
strong, and myself—thank
God—am once more hale
and hearty, can walk
mMes, do my work,
though 44 years Old, feel
like a new person. All 1
owe to Cardui.” For
many years Cardui has
been found helpful in
building up the system
when run down by dis
orders peculiar to women.
Take
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Tho Truly Wise.
:!e who has obtained any amount
3.* knowledge Is not truly wise unless
ho appropriates it and ean use it for
his need.—Dr. Jolm Brown.
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