IN REPENTANT MOOD
SOME LITTLE TALES NOT TOO
FAR OVERDRAWN. •
Oliver Lightfinger's Vain Regrets for
Misspent Life—When the Presi
dent of the Great Trust “Told
All”—Jack Black's Plea.
Oliver LIghtfinger, cashier of the
Widows and Orphans’ Trust com
pany, bad just reached the railroad
station with another man’s wife and
■what was left of the $198,000 he had
stolen. But on the advice of detec
tives he did not take the train he had
intended to. On the contrary he vis
ited Mulberry street. After a long
talk in a cheerless inner room he sud
denly broke down.
“I have done wrong,” he cried, “I
have done wrong! I have spent most
of the money. I have deserted my
faithful little wife. But I still love
her dearly. I will do what I can to
make restitution.”
, But he had nothing to restore, so
they led him away. As the cell door
closed on him he lifted up his voice
and wept. “Oh. I beg of you keep all
knowledge of this sad affair from the
people of the little town of Wonhoss.
I used to sing in the choir there, and
it. would break my heart if I thought
they found out about it.”
Willie Steel, head of the Aerated
Atmosphere Trust, after seven years
of vain chasing, had at last been
dragged into court. As the crowds
looked at the great magnate they saw
him suddenly arise, place his hand
on his heart and dramatically de
clare:
“I shall tell all!”
Then he sent for his lawyer, who
skillfully drew up a long statement
that contained many words and no in
formation. And when the judge and
jurors heard it and the people read it
they were as wise as they were before
the statement was made.
And the trust went on its way re
joicing. The consumers didn’t.
Tucker Ball had returned home
after a month's spree. Before going
on it he had taken from his wife
every cent she possessed. When he
arrived at the door a delegation from
the neighboring police station met
him and dragged him to court. As he
was led away to serve the 30 days on
the island presented him by the judge
he suddenly bethought himself of
something important.
"What, oh. what,” he cried, “will
my poor children do for bread now
their father is taken from them?”
“You should not he too hard on
me,” pleaded Jack Black, who had
killed a few men while pursuing his
vocation of holdup man, “as I now
see the error of my ways and have re
turned to the simple faith of my child
hood.”
For he figured that this plea would
make an impression on those who had
returned to the simple faith of their
second childhood.
When the judge sternly said:
“Twenty years, and I wish it lay in
my power to give you more,” Otto B.
Lynch broke down completely. He
had been convicted of bigamy, arson,
swindling and a few minor crimes.
’ This.” he said as he was led away,
“is what comes of me for deserting
the best little woman who ever
breathed.”
But when asked who she was he
could not readily answer, as there
were several of her and he had be
come mixed on dates.—N. V. Press.
Ubiquitous Japanese.
‘‘Japanese naval officers are ubiqui
tous," said ar. old traveler the other
day. "I was In London a few months
ago when I saw a dapper little man in
the uniform of a navy lieutenant on
the Strand. There was something in
his manner which caught iny atten
tion. and I wondered where it was
that I had seen him before. It. took
nearly an hour's hard thinking to call
it to mind, but I finally succeeded.
When 1 last beheld him he was a
wardroom steward on an American
battleship. I never see a Japanese
waiter or valet on board a man-of-war
or in an officers' club on a military
reservation but I wonder who he is
and whence he came.”
Superstitious Customs.
Many of our customs date back to
the dark ages and are based on super
stition. We sit up with our dead be
cause long ago our ancestors kept
watch by night lest evil spirits come
and bear the body away.
We shake hands with the right
hand because that is the dagger hand
and means that we disarm ourselves
in the presence of a friend.
We bow the head in passing others
because our ancestors were wont to
bow before the real yoke of the op
pressor. Men bare #their heads be
cause they had to unmask in the days
of chivalry before the queen of beauty.
Destroyed His Statue.
Within the last month there was dis
played in the fine arts hall of the
Toklo industrial exhibition a marble
statue of a young girl bending over a
flower which she held In her hand.
Its sculptor, Shikai Kitamura, becom
ing Incensed at the jurors who were
to make ^he awards, determined to
punish them by destroying his statue.
So he gat a chisel aud mallet, went to
the hall anfi knocked off the head and
arms of the stable before he could be
stopped.
AS THE BOY UNDERSTOOD.
Probably to His Mind Conflict of Au
thority Was Vital.
In one of the Atlanta Sunday schools
recently the lesson for the day had to
do with Mammon and the corrupting
influences of great riches.
Toward the close of the exercises,
says Harper's Magazine, the superin
tendent called upon the infant class
to repeat the golden text, which had
special reference to man’s inability to
serve his Creator and the money god
at one and the same time. The class
failed to respond as it should, when
the superintendent, noticing his own
young hopeful in the ranks, who had
that very morning been drilled thor
oughly on the text, called to him. The
response was immediate, though a
slight departure from the original, for
in a voice that tvas distinctly heard in
all parts of the room there came the
following modification:
“Ye cannot serve God and mamma!”
NO RELIEF FROM ECZEMA
For Over Two Years—Patent Medi
cines, Quack Cures and Doctors
Fail—Cuticura Succeeds.
“I was very badly afflicted with ecze
ma for more than two years. The
parts affected were my limbs below
the knees. I tried all the physicians
in the town and some in the surround
ing towns, and I also tried all the pat
ent remedies that I heard of, besidefe
all the cures advised by old women
and quacks, and found no relief what
ever until I commenced using the Cu
ticura Soap, Cuticura Ointment, and
Cuticura Resolvent. In the 'Cuticura
Remedies I found immediate relief,
and was soon sound and well. C. V.
Beltz, Tippecanoe, Ind., Nov. 15, ’05."
SETTING THE BRIDE AT EASE.
“Widder's” Sympathy Went Out to
Fellow Passenger.
A couple recently married had just
entered the train that was to bear
them to the mountains on their honey
moon, when they became aware of the
close scrutiny of them by a female pas
senger, who had evidently "spotted” a
bride and groom. The young wife, on
opening her handbag, let fall some
rice on the floor, and the woman
smiled. The other passengers regard
ed th*e couple with interest. Seeing
that the bride was every moment be
coming more flushed and uncomfort
able by reason of their scrutiny, the
woman in the goodness of her heart,
leaned across the carriage.
“Never mind, my dear!” she said.
“I'm a widder now, but by this time
next week I'll be in the same fix my
self! ”
The Modern Child.
Five-year-old Nellie had been
naughty all day. Finally her mamma,
a very portly woman, sat down and
drew the little culprit across her am
ple lap to administer the long delayed
punishment. Nellie’s face was fairly
buried in the folds of her mother's
dress. Before the maternal hand could
descend Nellie turned her face to say:
“Well, if I'm going to be spanked I
must have air.”—Harper’s.
What Caused the Lynching.
Out at Stafford the other day a
group of farmers met a train, and when
a tall, sunburned man stepped off the
car they all grabbed him and shook his
hand warmly. The man looked them
over calmly and then said: "Gentle
men, I am sorry to disappoint you. 1
know you think I am a harvest hand,
but you are mistaken. I am a light
ning rod agent.”—Kansas City Star.
Calf Like a Kangaroo.
More like a jack rabbit or a kanga
roo is a calf recently born in a western
state. Its front legs are quite a little
shorter than its hind ones, and it has
no tail at all. Instead of moving and
frisking about like its playmates, the
odd looking creature covers the ground
by leaps.
High=Priced Meat
may be a
Blessing
If it gives one the chance to
know the tremendous value of
a complete change of diet
Try this for breakfast:
A Little Fruit
A dish of Grape- JWuts and Cream
A Soft- “Boiled Egg
Some fiice. Crisp Toast
Cup of Well-made
"Postum Food Coffee
That’s all, and you feel comfortable
and well-fed until lunch.
THEN REPEAT,
And at night have a liberal meat and
vegetable dinner, with a Grape-Nuts
pudding for dessert.
Such a diet will make a change in
yvur health and strength worth trial.
“ There’s a Reason.”
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1 Around the Metropolis
What Is Going On in New York
City Told in Interesting Manner
PLANS FOR MAKING NEW
YORK “CITY BEAUTIFUL”
NEW YORK.—Plans for making
New York a “city beautiful” and
obliterating the ugly spots, including
Chinatown and other districts of the
East side, as well as to enhance the
famous old Battery, are now well un
der way. Civic organizations are
making concerted efforts to wipe out
these eyesores, which have come
gradually, and to which the public
has been accustomed. The Battery
will possibly be the first spot to be
improved. This, in its present shape,
makes anything but a beautiful gate
way to America for ships. The Bat
tery is now sadly torn up as a conse
quence of the construction of ,£he
great McAdoo tunnel and its green
sward is defaced by many unsightly
shacks, piles of lumber and what not.
These are visible to the eye of every
immigrant coming into the port and
surely when they view the landscape
they never look for the mythical
“gold” street, which years ago was
supposed to be paved with double
eagles. Some of the city beautifiers
THE hundred thousand Teddy bears
in the metropolis are on the verge
of panic. Though the nature-faking
controversy left them unscathed, a
newer and greater peril confronts
them. School teachers are declaring
that the Teddy bear is a menace and
must be abolished, and though the
board of education has taken no of
ficial action in the matter, and is not
likely to, the agitation against the
Teddies in educational circles is
growing very strong indeed.
The crusade against the Teddy bear
started recently, when a clerical gen
tleman came out with the statement
that in replacing the doll, the bear
was a pernicious substitute. For,
while the doll appealed to all the ma
ternal instincts of a little girl and de
veloped them along healthy and nat
ural lines, the Teddy bear did no such
thing.
Now the teachers have joined the
“McCURDY TRAIN” STILL
RUNS TO MORRIS PLAINS
DURING the peculiar eminence that
the family of McCurdy, of insur
ance fame, built up, the Delaware &
Lackawanna railroad paid tribute.
The McCurdy family lived at Morris
Plains, which is the next station on
the line of the railway named beyond
Morristown. The D., L. & W. ran
reasonably frequent trains as ex
presses to Morristown, several of
them without a stop from Hoboken to
the old capital of Morris county in the
evening and an equal number in the
morning hours from Morristown to
Hoboken.
About four years ago the McCurdys
applied to the railway company for
an express to leave Hoboken at an
hour when commuters could have lit
tle use for it, and that train was sup
plied. It leaves New York at 12:50,
runs to Summit without stop, and is
due at Morris Plains at two p. m. Its
schedule time is about 15 minutes
faster than any other fast train on the
JPIERPONT MORGAN, JR., is
• slowly getting into the harness
which his father is slowly getting out
of. Last year he had taken his fa
ther's place as director in only two
companies—the International Mercan
tile Marine company and the Northern
Pacific Railroad company. This year
he is on the boards of two others—the
Arcadia Coal company, of New York,
and the North Uritish & Mercantile
Insurance company.
Rut these facts of public record do
not indicate the extent to which Mr.
Morgan, Sr., has shifted to his son
the cares and responsibilities of his
Wall street office. For several years
the older Morgan has been trying to
remain more at home with his books
and art treasures, or on his yacht, the
Corsair. It has been a hard thing to
do, for the “old man," as the street
calls him, has been so successful that
even yet—ha was 70 last April—other
financiers, finding themselves iu a
are possibly going to step too far i*
the matter of revolutionizing the land
scape. There are a few of them who
would deprive Broadway of its beauti
ful electric signs. Think of the great
white way without its electric lights!
The thousands of incandescent lights
marvelously illuminate the thorough
fare and in artistically beautiful de
vices “bark” during the dark hours
for everything from the newest design
of a hatpin to champagne and corsets.
The lights should not be forgotten, be
cause they are the whole of Broad
way. Take them off the street and it
would resemble “Main” street in a big
country town. It is Riverside drive,
not far from the luxurious palace of
Charles M. Schwab, and certain parts
of Fifth avenue, where dwell some of
the wealthiest families in the world,
that improvements are needed. The
asphalt is in deplorable condition in
long stretches, making it dangerous
for traffic. Plans for paving the street
have been made and will soon be
executed.
TEDDY BEARS UNDER BAN
OF SCHOOL TEACHERS
fight. Little girls, they point out, for
merly got their first lessons in sew
ing through the natural desire to pro
vide their doils with pretty clothes.
The Teddy bear, however, does not
wear clothes, save possibly a ribbon
or sweater or cap, and so the up-to
date child who has discarded her
dollies for the intrusive bruin, has no
incentive to learn to stitch and make
button holes.
“The Teddy bear is not good for lit
tle girls,” said Miss Jane G. Close, a
supervisory teacher of sewing in the
New York schools. “The bear is
keeping the children from the pleas
ure of caring for a doll. He can't
wear pretty frocks and dainty under
wear, and the little girl who has him
for a pet gets no incentive to make
these things. Hence she loses the
education involved in dainty gar
ments. The Teddy bear is all right
for boys, but not for girls."
road to the same place. Even the
fast through expresses do not make
the time it does. But that is not its
central point of interest.
Leaving Hoboken at 1:05 p. m., it
carries daily but three cars, that are,
as a rule, absolutely empty in the
passenger sense, and, as it makes no
stops to take up others, it is, of
course, a losing train, making no
money for its operating company, but
preserving in a peculiar way the de
mand of an interested clientele. A
casual and .lonely traveler upon it,
noting its quality, asked its equally
lonely conductor why it was main
tained. He said it was right enough
while the McCurdys lived at Morris
Plains, but since they had left there
was no reason for its continuance, ex
cept that it carried a train crew up to
Morris Plains to return on an accom
modation. It is the peculiar illustra
tion of what scientists call the reten
tion of the original principle.
J. P., JR., GRADUALLY
TAKING FATHER’S PLACE
tight place, seek him out and beg for
his suggestions.
But J. P. Morgan,- Jr., will succeed
his father when he really retires from
his work. The son has been carefully
trained for the important position he
will assume in the financial world, in
college and in the office. He has been
employed in almost every capacity in
the big establishment and for several
years was the manager of the London
branch of the firm. He is 40 years
old, six feet in height and weighs 200
pounds. He always has been interest
ed in athletics. Football, golf and
riding have at various times engaged
his attention, but his chief delight is
yachting. However, with him it is al
ways business before pleasure, and he
has seldom taken a day off to see a
yacht race, and it is related that on
one occasion he asked the mangers to
l>ostpone a yacht race from Wednes
day until Saturday afternoon so that
he could be present.
CITY HAS NO CEMETERY.
Metaline, Wash., 22 Years Old, Never
Had a Death.
Spokane, Wash.—Twenty-two years
a city and yet no cemetery within a
radius of 40 miles, is the claim ad
vanced by the residents of Metaline,
Wash. To make the claim even more
remarkable, the city has been dead for
22 years, although it had great mineral
at its finger tips, awaiting its awaken
ing. But within the last week it has
shown signs of coming to its own.
Metaline is unique in many respects.
The absence of a cemetery is a case
In point. Colville, 40 miles distant, is
said to have the nearest cemetery. It
was solemnly told by old-time citizens
that there had been no funeral there
since the city was founded, and that
not one person had died of illness.
“One must go away in order to die,” is
the way they put it to one. They claim
sickness is almost unknown there.
“Dead Man's Reef,” below the falls,
has five graves along the shore, but
this is occasioned by drownings that
have taken place up the river toward
Newport, the bodies floating to this
point, where they are thrown on the
reef and are placed In the ground with
out funeral or casket,
Indications point to a great future
for Metaline. It is now wholly depend
ent upon the steamboats that ply reg
ularly between Newport and lone, a
distance of 50 miles. The boats can
not go below lone, which is five miles
above Metaline, the rapids impeding
further progress.
ATOMIZER ROUTS BURGLAR.
Latter Jumps from Window When
Girl Turns on Spray.
Chicago.—Congratulations are still
being received by Margaret Hobbs,
the 17-vear-old daughter of Roy Hobbs,
because she had routed a burglar.
Miss Hobbs and her parents had
been seated on their front steps for
some time when Miss Hobbs went in
to the house for a letter she wanted
to mail.
Suddenly there was a crash within.
Mr. Hobbs rushed into the house. His
daughter was standing near a window
holding an atomizer in her hand. An
odor of lilac filled the room. The win
dow was open.
“Oh, you ought to have seen him
run,” laughed the girl. “I guess this
gun of mine scared him more than he
did me.”
Miss Hobbs then told her father
that on entering the room she had dis
covered the burglar. She took the
atomizer. from a bureau and turned
the stream of perfume on the intruder.
He jumped through the window'.
The same burglar is believed to
have robbed several houses in the1
same neighborhood of small sums.
Miss Hobbs said: “I surprised him
as rtiuch as he startled me. But, oh,
it was funny. When he got a whiff
of that perfume I guess he thought
all the evil spirts were after him.
“Was 1 frightened? Yes, I was,
after it w'as all over.”
HOUSEKEEPERS FORM UNION.
Will Resist Exorbitant Demands of
Servant Girls and Fix Wage Scale.
New York.—To resist w’hat they re
gard as the exorbitant demands of
house servants, the women of Norris
town, *1. J., are planning to organize
a Housekeepers' Protective union, and
a meeting for organization will shortly
be heid. It is proposed that the women
shall each promise not to pay more
than a certain price for certain classes
of servants. In this way it is hoped
either to drive out the high-priced
servants or to make them agree to a
new scale of wages.
“The servant question,” one woman
deeply interested said, “is now oae
that brings no good to any one ex
cept the intelligence office and the
undertaker. It is emptying our
pockets, breaking up our homes and
making our lives such a burden that
it is- breaking down strong women.
"The servant problem must either
be solved so that people in ordinary
circumstances can employ them or
else we will become a people abso
lutely without home life.”
The women say that in 1901 wait
resses received $12 a month, while
the same class now demand $20 to
$25. In 1891 it was said a cook who
would do the laundry work received
$14 and now the cheapest wage a
cook will work for is $25 and she will
not do laundry work.
QUESTION OF HEN’S IDENTITY.
Man in Court Released When Mother
Proves Fowl Is Her Property.
Boston.—Upon the identification of
a hen, a big bufT-colored cochin and
eight fluffy little chicks, depended the
fate of John Cullen, of Hyde Park, in
Dedham court, where he was arraigned
on a charge of larceny. A number of
hen fanciers were in court. They sixed
up the hen’s legs, examined her bill
and looked over the chicks with a crit
ical eye, while Cullen waited in
anxious expectancy. The hen was
finally identified by Mrs. J. P. Cullen,
of Garfield street, the defendant’s
■ mother, and he was discharged.
Cullen was in Dedham with a hen
under one arm. A suspicious peeping
sound attracted the police.
“1 hain't seen miffin' or no chick
ens," said Cullen when accosted. In
spite of his protests one of the offi
cers thrust his hand into the man’s
coat pocket and found a number of
chickens.
Cullen declared that he found the
hen in the woods near rhe home of his
mother and that he was returning it
to her hen yard.
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Avgust Is the month of Internal
catarrh. The mucous mem
branes, especially of the bowels,
ere very liable to congestion,
causing summer complaint, and
catarrh of the hovels and other
internal organs. Pe-runa is an
excellent remedy for ail these
conditions.
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