REMEMBERING.
May, do you romemlxr the long af.
Or do you nt last forget
T»if meadows where winds of the South
land blew.
And perfumed nights d« w-wet
Are purple and soft and coaxing, 100,
As a mantle of fairy weav<j, >
And the whispering trees the moon shines
through
Where the night birds sit and grieve?
I remember It all; the wide spread oak
With its brand <>s stretc hed afar;
"Ti e look In your e yes, the words you spoke.
The sky and the single star
That hung a-close to the crescent moon
As it sale-d through pu space;
1 remember tin* night bird's plaintive
croon.
The look oil your upturned face.
The city afar »n silhouette.
The blooms beneath j our feet
The cricket's song seems sounding yet;
The jasmine's peiluns sweet
Comes flouting to me allowii tin- wind—
Cut yet—but , e 1 am old!
There are years, wide years, betw;xt me*
now
And you and the age of gold.
The age of gold, wean the blood wasted
A surging res is t less tide!
And H - feet impnilo'H w. scale the heights
That the years held all untried:
Ah. well, we dream ns an old dog hunts
in his sleep; but youth is tied!
Though 'tis sweet to remember the old, old
ways.
And joy sof days long dead.
—J. M l.ewts, in Houston Cost.
His Theory
Disproved
V
'ERGUSON knew at
last. For weeks he
hail quietly ad
mired the story of
Leah Kleschna.
‘‘Yes." he had as
s u r e ri himself.
"Paul Silvaine was
right. A thief has
a soul. You can
appeal to that.”
Ferguson had
known thieves and
worse. He had
heard their stories
from their own
lips often, and he
was rat her proud
of the readiness
with w h i c h he
could mark a crook
in the crowd. He
was certain, too,
that he had been
of service to the
under dog more
than once. Even
the harrowing breakdown of that poor
fellow whose contrition had led to a
confession of a weakness beyond cure,
and who was next day back at his old
trade—even that experience hail been
of value to the wreck of a creature
toward whom he had been tender.
“A thief has a soul." The words
went ringing through his ears now as
tie stood there at his window and
watched the moon struggling out from
the clouds over the lake.
“A thief has a soul." The words
clamored. He tried not to hear them.
He tried to tell himself the story just
as it had happened.
"A thief has a soul.” The words
would he heard, in fact — Ferguson
drew back from the window. Had
.some one spoken? The room wa»
quiet' even as they had found it halt
an hour a«o. How had it happened?
Two hours before Ferguson came up
from the depot. While waiting for a
ear a man came by whom he instinc
tively marked for a thief The man
stopped, perhaps to wait for a car. but
lie watched Ferguson. Ferguson met
T»is eyes frankly, and then he felt that
he was wrong. Those were not a
thief's eyes The man had a clean
cut. well formed face and a mighty
chest. His clothes were neat, not of
the best material, but neat, all save
the hat. a crush hat. drawn down low
tin front. It was the hat that led Fer
guson to think the man a thief. It
■was not honestly worn.
The man suddenly walked straight
up to Ferguson and spoke. It was a
ftearty voice and straightforward. The
adory was old. Hungry, tired, no
money. You could hear as much a
hundred times any night. hut not in
that language—well chosen, grammat
ical. polite. Thera were marks of good
breeding in it.
Ferguson remembered his own com
ing to Chicago and how near he had
been to this same condition. He had
made 50 cents stretch over three days.
This was a plausible story that the
man had told of his recent coming to
the city and his fruitless search for
employment in the fire insurance busi
ness, which was the vocation he best
knew.
tie took the man into a restaurant
and fed him. He knew of work that
he could do and would try him at it.
A man who can operate a typewriter
at the rate of 100 words a minute
would likely prove valuable in his
office.
There was a spare couch in Fergu
son's room, and he could easily accom
modate the man over night. Their
talk had revealed numerous favorable
signs. The man had been at Kentucky
Military institute, and one of Fergu
son's chums had likewise been trained
there. Thence came the discovery of
common acquaintances.
They went out on the car to Fergu
son’s place and went in talking earn
estly of the strike and of labor prob
lems generally. The man had no sym
pathy for the “scab.” and Ferguson
had less for the union teamsters.
They were absorbed and earnest.
Ferguson began at once making
preparations for the night, talking
meanwhile. He sat with a shoe in his
hand and his guest was standing be
fore him.
The change was like a flash, and
like a flash Ferguson’s flst had struck
out a fierce blow below the belt, as
this man suddenly dropped his voice
and reached for Ferguson’s watch.
The big. deep chest of the man went
shut like a burst balloon and he fell
over, quite unconscious. Ferguson
caught hint as he fell and in an instant
was crowding him out through the
open window. The body dropped heav
ily and never stirred.
“Every thief has a soul.”
Ferguson had no superstitions about
Immortality. What Prof. Munsterberg
has to say on that subject quite ex
pressed his own views, but the words
rang insistently as he looked once
more on that helpless thing below.
Fear he never felt for a moment.
What the world would say he little
cared. Whatever it was that troubled
him was purely personal—his own af
fair.
He sat long into the morning facing
that—his own affair. After all. were
they so different? Was he. the good
hearted benefactor of men and believer
in thieves’ souls, so very different from
the thief out there? Were they not
Hoth thoughtless followers of impulses
that needed only to be reviewed in the
mind to stay them from action? To
think afterward—even the philanthro
pist nuts! know the pain of that some
times. What was the right of it then
if this was all wrong?
Th“re was some one stirring below.
Voices came drifting in through the
open window. A growing grayness
anti the sounds of awakening traffic
told that the night was far spent. The
day was coming, and with it new fac
tors in this awful problem of life and
-perhaps death. Was it death that
he had brought to this other one. this
other who had come into his own life
unasked, unknown? And he. Fergu
son, who had willed him only good—
had he sent him out ir.to the great
silence, the silence more terrible than
that of night or of infinite space?
Ferguson did not move. He lay on
the couch and tried to sleep. Slowly
ne began to see the possibilities that
might grow out of this adventure.
Might he not be held responsible for a
crime? He began to see the thing
grow big. It was more than a personal
affair. He saw how it touched his
friends, his family, and it came over
him how it reached out and touched
all society. One has a deal more food
for thought if he will not think until
afterward.
He was roused early. An officer had
come to learn what had happened.
They had found Smith Wilkins, a no
torious criminal, lying unconscious in
the court below Ferguson’s window.
The man had been hunted for weeks.
There were dark deeds to his credit.
He had studied and improved himself
while in Joliet. He was clever beyond
most men.
He was dead.—Chicago Record-Her
ald.
RAISING FRUIT BY STEAM.
French Glowers Experimenting- in
Hope of Getting- Two Crops
a Year.
The French agricultural department
is w'orking on a series of experiments
suggested by a tire occurring in one of
the rural districts, in which the great
er portion of a small town was con
sumed.
The flames encompassed several
orchards, and it was lound that such
of the trees as were not scorched by
the flames put forth a second set of
buds and were soon in full flower.
Through a system of underground
steam pipes it is believed that two
crops a season may be forced in the
south of France and that the yield of
the orchard may more than repay the
cost of fuel.
The experiments, says the New
York Herald, are designed to start
tlie budding in the early spring and to
protect the second product in the late
fall.
Orange raisers in Florida frequently
resort to huge bonfires in order to
avert the loss of crops through sud
den frosts and possibly steam-lieated
orchards will become the proper caper
in the course of a few years.
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Assessor's Notice.
Notice is hereby given that I will
attend it* person, or hv deputy, at the
usual voting pla'vs in the various
townships in Independence county.
Arkansas, for the purpose of taking a
list of the real and personal property
of each resident of said township and
tne per capita tax of such as are liable
to pay t he same for the /ear 190a. on
the days and dates sped tied below:
Hig Bottom township, Newark,
Thursdav, Friday and .>at unlay. -July
6th, Till ami M it.
Mag ness township, Magness. Mon
day, July lmh.
| White Biver towship, 'I’uesdav and
| Wednesday, July lltli and 12th.
fturidi 11 township, Statesville. Thurs
day. Friday and Saturday. July l.'ith,
141 h and lath.
And at my office in Itatesville, July
IT tlx to 27th. after which time all per
sons failing to list will he subject to a
penalty.
You must assess in person Kiel)
person will l ave to swear to ids or her
assessment, and each person will he
required to give number of school dis
t, id. School directors will please fur
nish list of tax payers at precinct on
first day of assessment.
.1. d <'a i.dwkli.. Assessor.
Independence County. Aik.
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