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Show A KNOT OF RIBBON. A knot of Mil; ribbon, 1'hat doiled a snowy gown. And hid in the Mil, luul riug.tta . Of snunjr Ob, little face, with the glimmer Of love in your iweet, blue ryes, That were deep a the wavea of ocean. And bright aa the lumnitr skies. golden-brown- To think Did the rose apring from ymir lipe, dear? Thim lip so aweet and ted; Ar.' you evir lonely now, love, Powu in your quiet bid? have nothing lrft but the ribbon, And a Ires, of the aoit brown hair. To tell of tlie gentle maiden Wiio waa om ao aweet and fair I j A knot of ribbon; So dim and failed now; aud ia the me! Ah, lying Above the wearer a Wavvrlej Magazine. half-wor- you are gone forever. Keeling alone in your grave; While over your mossy pillow. The wild ruae gariauila wave. lu-o- OMK yeara ago, when ao had expired, and were supposed to have been poisoned. Now, If we had been wise we should have remained quiet. A mere smattering of law, which was all we possessed, Is dangerous knowledge for a man to act ou, and la pretty sure to get him into trouble. We knew that we had a right to kill a dog attacking our flock, and that we could legally collect double damages from tbe dog's owner; and as we thought we had good evidence that these dogs were the transgressors, we went immediately to McFadden aud demanded damages for the seven lambs aud two sheep killed. MeFuddcn threatened us with Ids ax, .aud his wife, declaring that she would scald us, put the kettle on a hot lire. Thpy were very angry over the loss of the two dogs, particularly of the woodchuck dog, which Mrs. feelingly asserted had kept the family in fresh meat all summer. Instead of obtaining damages from McPaddeii for our shcpp and lambs, he sued us fur poisoning his two dogs; and, unfortunately for us, we had supplied him with all the evidence lie needed. When nt Inst the case came to trial we found the law far different from whnt we had supposed It to he. The following points came out: First, the fact that these twe dogs eauie up and ate of tae dead sheep Hocks. not did prove that they had killed the On one of tue four farina was a fairaheap. comfortable old and lu the ly house; Second, as Aunt Deborah was our iprlng we weut there to live, having hired housekeeper, we wrre ns much aa an but housekeeper engaged elderly for her act aa if we had responsible woman we culled Aunt very energetic done the deed ourselves. Deborah. Third, although we had a legal right were seven or eight Our to kill dogs molesting our sheep, we none seme families, wholly prosperous, had no right to poisou them; and the slovenly nud shiftless; and they all proved fact of our having "laid out kept dogs. them snbjected us to a Within a radius of two mllca of our poIaon'V for of tine 50, and also to payment for we soon beep posture there were, were to be worth $5 had occasion to reckon, seventeen or the dogs, which each. eighteen dogs, Including four hounds, Fourth, glass, although not poison In and all exceedingly dear to their ownwas held to be poiers. There were "otter dogs and Its ordinary form, son to all intents aud purposes when "bear dogs" and "partridge doga, and amt put Into a great many very valuable "wood- pounded to a powder to for meat eat dogs chuck dogs." And many of these preFinally, as we weut home from the cious animals were fond of making nocturnal raids into our sheep pasture. trial, the victorious McFudden drove behind us nnd reviled us. Now, our legislators have not left ns Our owu mortification vrns slight, In darkness as to whnt steps may lehowever, compared with that of Annt gally be ta. en against mischievous Deb. when the results of her dog dogs. Whoever will xamlne the sta1 tute hooks of almost any State will physic were made known to her. would a for time she thought really Dud article limiting doga strictly, and fall sick of her lndignntlon, and we declaring that If n dog trausgressea the had some difficulty In preventing her edirta he may lawfully be killed, For from the McFaddens in per-sovisiting Massachusetts the conclusion Is that Aunt Deb's exploit cost ns extresa kill any person may lawfully of dogs nnd $101), In lines, passing dog "whenever anil wherever actly but onr lambs price wore not molestcosts, found. ed that season. That wns onr In the Orst spring after we had tak- one again crumb of comfort, for there reen up our sheep farm we bad HO mained not the slightest doubt that the lambs when the cheep were turned out two poisoned dogs were the offenders. to pasture on the third day of May. The flue for poisoning was for exposFour days later six lambs and two poison which other animals, or ing Bits of wool, mlralng. sheep wet human beings, night partake possibly bones and the remains of one sheep, all rather than as a punishment for of, found In seeluded places, showed that this particular mode of killing doga. soma animal had killed and eaten In law it Is a far less criminal ofthem. fense to poison n dog than to poison a Aa bears or wildcats were not num- sheep, n cow or a horse. For erous In that locality, we felt morally Indeed, tbe culprit, lu Mascertain that dogs had done the mis- sachusetts, may be sent to prison for chief, and we particularly suspected flve years, and in Maine for four years. two dogs kept by neighbor named Id tbe next summer tbe iheep of anmile distant One other neighbor named Fotbcrly came AIcFadden, living grna bulldog, the other a large mon- Into our Held, where potatoes and peas grel cur, one of the Lirhly esteemed were planted. They partook heartily roodchock dogs. of the green peas, and not only of My partner and fellow shepherd, them, but of Paris green, which had (Ward, carried two buffalo skins to the been sprinkled on the potatoes to kill pasture, hid himself In a damp of low potato bugs. Two or three of tbe sheep hemlocks, snd watched durng the fol- died; and mindful of the McFndden lowing night with n gun. resolved to triumph, this neighbor hoot any dog that came near the re- prosecuted us promptly for exposing almains of the sheep. lie saw none, poisou, and declared that he would though a Iamb was killed during tbe "land" us in Thomnston Jolt for It night in another part of the pasture. But this case went against Neighbor When dogs go sheep killing they seem Fotherly. In addition to the costs, he to revert to the nnnlng and slyness of had to settle with us for the peas at their wild ancestry. our own figures, and also to pay damIn all these vexations e had warm ages for a malicious prosecution, besympathizer In "Aunt Deb." She bat- cause of Ills threatening publicly beed doga on general principles, and for fore trial what be would do with ns. the special reason that on a number lie suffered to the amount of $150. of nlghta when the bulkhead door for In this rase it was held that the poichanced to be left open, some animal son was lawfully used. So It Is a very tale Into the cellar and raided her nice question when a man may lawpa of doughnuts, custard pies aud fully expose poison. If those sheep other eatables. had come into the field through the "Now, boys, Jnst you let me try my least neglect on our part, the result band on those dogs, she said, at tbe might have bee., more i.greeuble tc breakfast table. "I'll fix 'em for you. Fotherly. When It comes night you Just go to The year following our sad legal conbed snd sleep. I'll answer for the test with McFadileu lambs disappeared dogs. mysteriously week after week from "Go shesd, Aunt Deb, we said. "You our pasture. At first we suspected Ahall hare a lamb for every dog you human thieves, as uo trace of wool or hut a boy lames could he (list on-red-; dispose of. Toward night we saw her pounding whom we bad iiiiilived to watch resomething In an old mortar; nml Just ported that a large brown and white ":e wall, seized t dusk she went alone into the sheep foxhound had pasture. She had, nii hough we did a Iamb ami Jumped out with It. all lu not know it at t'1" pounded up loss than half a minute, lie Identiv j!h the poivder fied the hound ns tie property of one two gins lie' ile. 11'. il sb "diH-fori tnnins of the Clueker, a poor neighbor living Lalf n heep end the hnnh !;it killed. The mile away. The hound was the mother of flve next day we that the ear-ca- n of the sheep had lici-- taken away, puppies, and could obtain nothing, or and on the following day tiding came next to nothing, to eat at home. It that McFtddeu'e tut suspected dogs was doubtless a case of dirt necessity much waa euid about the "abandoned furms of New Knglaud, I formed with an. other young man what we tuuliuiuy believed to be rather a flue plan for eatabllahlng ouraelvea comfortably. We were then euleemen lu eue of the great atorea In Boalon. We were not altogether happy In our oclife. cupation, for we liked Aa we had bceu prudent enough to lave a little money, we thought we might look about, buy aomo old farm, itock It with aherp, ami live lelaurely gnd healthfully ou our mutton aud by the aale of our wooL We talked the scheme over through-gu- t one entire winter aud apring, und gpent car two weeks of summer, vocation driving through the northerly counties of Vermont, New Hampshire gnd Maine, In quest of old farm property. At lust we found In Maine what upluited us pretty well four run-ouland adjoining homesteads of about liX) gores each; aud we were able to purchase all for $2SIK). As there was much similar farm proiicrly near by, we could, If our experiment proved a success, add to our territory und Increase our clock. At the outset, and during the succeeding autumn ami winter, we purchased KKi sheep, which wo divided into four out-of-do- Mc-radd- t, horse-polsouln- on her part; and onr hired boy, who frequently visited tbe futnlly, affirmed that the Ciuckera shared tha Iambs which the hound captured. My partner posted himself behind the pasture fence with a gun loaded with buckshot, but on tha following afternoon tbe hound entered tbe pasture and caught a lamb before Ward could get near enough to shoot. Jumping the wall, tbe bound ran for home, half dragging, balf carrying tbe struggling lurnb. Ward gave chase, but was unable to come near the houud until It gained lta master's doorysrd, where It turned and faced him, growling savagely. Ward fired nnd the bound fell, just Its master opened tbe door and raised an expostulating band to prevent tbe shot. It Is evident that In tie excitement of the moment my partner had made n rather free use of his gun, but he had lu mlud the words of the law: "Any person may lawfully kill him whenever and wherever found. Clueker, the owucr of tbe dog. Incited by McFaddcn and Fotherly, took legal advice and began suit to recover damages for the v ilutvful killing of his foxhound, which he professed to value at S5J. A most siormy trial followed; and In the decision Ward wai held to be In fault In sliuotiiig tbe hound after its owner bad raised bis hand to forbid It; and there was u grave doubt expressed as to whether he had uot laid himself liable for unlawfully cntcriug Cluck-cr'- s premises with n gun, lu pursuit of tbe bound. In the end we paid $23 for the foxhound; but by a rather curious legal offset, damages to about that nmouut were allowed us for the lambs killed by the hound. The costs of the suit fell ou us. The court shrewdly looked out for itself as to that, Clueker beiug utterly Impecunious. The conclusion which we arrived at, nfier the above litigation. Is that as the law seems to be against cogs, the killing of one Is liable to prove a costly bit of vengeance. If a . neighbor's dog throttles our lambs, wo deem It far safer to shoot h'ta on our owu premises than off them, and positively unsafe to shoot him on his master's premises. The safest method of all Is to catch him In a trap at tlie scene of his depredations, then summon his master, and nt the sniue time Invite one or more cisinter-esie- d parties to ace and bear what takes place. In tbe State of Massachusetts, and 1 believe one cr two other States where dogs are licensed and taxed, the "dog law provides that any farmer meeting with lossca from dogs may file a claim, with proofs of loss, at tbe assessor's oilice, and be paid tbe amount cf bis loss out of the town treasury. Or, If ho chooses, be may briug an action against the owner of the dog and recover double, and lu tome cases threefold, damnges; but be eaunot adopt both methods. In Maine nnd most oilier States, however, tbe sufferer must bring the owner of the dog to terms, If bo can; be has no other mode of redress. In cases where two, three or four dogs, belonging to different parties, went off by night or day on n Joint foray Into a flock of sheet), It bas been hnld that ouch dog's owner was res'ion-tibl- c only for what his own dog killed or maimed, I anybody could find that out: otherwise nil were liable. Youth's Comjuu.ou. ry Z!at Twenty Ki.ilt a Day. Twenty hearty r.tcals a day Is tlie mM..jst claim of an appetite on exhibition at the College of Physicians and d Surgeons, New York City. Three students sat spellbound for two hours watching a phenomenon discovThis ered by Professor W. T. B ilk wonderful man," explained Dr. Bull to has stenosis of expcctaut students, the oesophagus with aesophageal diverticulum, or, lu other words, he ean cat without end. He'll never have dyspepsia, os food never passes Into his stomach by way of bis throat. How much be enjoys eatiug wo shall see later as be disposes of this food and drink wo have berm Hit life la sustained by liquids administered through a gastric fistula of his stomach. Whereupon the gastronomic marvel began devastating piles of food and buckets of drink. As be gorged the sack at tha base cf his neck began to bulge. Trofcsscr Bull explained that for ecouomy's sake the patient ate only six meals a day, but his capacity possibly was as great as twenty, and that the man had swallowed some add a year and a half ago which resulted In a contraction of the oesophagus, making It necessary for hitn to take his nourishment through a tube. Indianapolis bun-dre- TIMBER SUNK Tbe anti-wa- r feeling la very strong amoug the Russian students. i The actual number . Ferine i of naval and itary prisoners committed to civil prison! In Ireland during 1902 waa 327. mil- fay the Providence Journal: Everything possible should bo done, and at once, to lacrease tbe safety of human life ou American railroads, even If It bo found necesaary to adopt Senator Iloar'a suggestion and bind n railroad director to every cowcatcher. According to tha Kansas City Journal. ferrets are now making Ilfs miserable for the tax Jumpers in several counties In Kansas. This la n new scheme In Kansas. The ferrets per cent of nil taxes get twenty-fiv- e the tax dodgers dig make which they worked so well bee scheme np. The bas been tried It where counties In the eo far that it will no doubt apread to every county In the State, - i a Eayi the New York Globe: When high buildtbe modern our cities It was ing appeared lu nn Irrewould provo thought that it to lu lta fire barrier neighborsistible hood, and thus minimize the danger from great conflagration. In ordinary cases it may be able to do this, but when lire Is combined with high wind the skyscraper is unquestionably an added element of danger of almost Incalculable force. steel-skeleto- Chief Pidgin, of the Massachusetts Census Bureau, finds that the Irish born residents of this country rrv the most prompt aud unanimous In recur-ln- g the rig to vote. Ii spite of the disadvantages which the German Immigrants suffer on account of tli- - difference lu language, they are almost aa quick to ei .nd tae hallo: as tbe Hibernian lmmli'ra' ts are. Chief Pidgin discovers that not half the Canadians living In the United States are naturalized . m.rlc ns, and he finds a decided backwt-rdncsamong the Polish and Italian people. a RIVER BEDS. THE DAY Await ths Invent r at n Mettled The SALT OF THE AUCTION come over the hill. And up from the neighbonug vi hid To and bargain for end buy "If some schema could be devised, The last of my goods for sale! said George W. Noble, of Stillwater, at The poster out on the eountrcide tbe Piankluton, "by which the suukeu Said: "Everything must go! logs which fill tbe beds of rivers aud Rut Ill have to tern try eyea assy From one poor bid, know. creeks In tbe logging sections of this country could only be recovered, Im- One cheap little bid of a mother yoaag mense fortunes would be made. Aloug Who Uvea a mile to the writ: Croix waters It Is estimated She has come to bid my rradie ia the For the babe upon her breaat tbat logs euougb are embedded in tbe The cradle bought for a mother-bridsand of river bottoms to keep tbe mills And a babe of lore first dawn running for years. Under present con- Ill have to turn my eye when 1 hear That "Going goisb --gone' ditions the loss Is total, for no success- ta Uecover farmer-fol- It. I 8t e ful method bas ever been devised to effect tble saving. "Occasionally logs cut yeara ago are forced by the washings of floods from their asud beds end driven npuu tbe shorea, where the action of sun and wind dries them out sufficiently so that they will float down stream, but the precentage of logs recovered Is small, and millions of dollars worili of property is lost beyond recovery until some enterprising genius Invents a machine or process to recover tbe timber. "At Stillwater lugs occasionally come to the sorting booms bearing marks In use half a century ago, nml when tbey appear tbe old lumbermen grow reminiscent of men who have long been forgotten, but wbo were Important operators lu tbe pioneer logging days of Wisconsin aud Minnesota. "No possible estimate ran be made of the amount of timber thus lost, but lumbermen estimate that the rivers of Wisconsin, In the value of the logs burled lu their snutla, have fortunes of millions of dollars If the logs eotild be recovered. Of the billions of feet of logs floated down your principal streams year after year, a percentage are lost annually, finding graves In the 1ms been one of the sand. Wis'-onsiMg pine States, nml your Chippewa, Wisconsin, St. Croix nnd Menominee rivers and their tributaries contain fortunes in sunken timber. "Strange ns It may appear, the value of the timber la not lessened, even after It has been submerged for half or quarter of a rent my. Efforts have heen ocrnsionnlly made to recover sunken logs. At one time a company was organized nt Stillwater to dredtre streams and thus recover some of the timber, but tlie plan did not work with any great degree of sueeess, tills method being found ton expensive. Some one will come along some day with a plan, and this Immensely valuable product, row lost, will he recovered. Milwaukee Sentinel. ft Pan! and Minneapolis are the largest frog markets In tbe world. Tbe total receipts for tbe past year from the frog catchers o the State exceeded 000,000 dozen, requiring tbe ilaugh-ta- r of no leu than 3,000,000 frogs. Five years ago no frogs were shipped out of Minnesota. Now the business amounts to upward of $100,000 a year. Frogs are fiund In other States, but there are no frogs like the Minnesota product for the crlcure. This Is attributed to the clear, cool water which Is found In Minnesota's 10,000 l:iks in which the frogs live and have their nests. Wireless telegraphy Is rapidly com tag Into commercial utility In Germany, and large numbers of "spark as such telegrams are messages, are transmitted dally. There called, Is a service In operation between Denmark and Prussia, while two German steamers running between Kiel and Korsoer are equipped with Instruments, and maintain continuous communication with both German and Danish land stationa. The system emPrivate ployed Is tbe Slaby-Arcmessages are accepted at the two offices at Bulk, near Kiel, and on the Isle of Fehmarn. A fee of seventeen cents la charged for every message transmitted from one atation to the other. Irrespective of the number of words It contains, and It la thence dispatched to any part of Germany or Denmark at a cent a word. Within the memory of living men tho standard of wages at the time current have been unsettled throughout the country on at least three memorable occasions. Tbe discovery of gold In California in 1819, as a sequel to the war with Mexico, brought a revolution In prices. The Civil War, 18G1-6withdrew millions of men from ordinary pursuits and left labor systems to be replaced under rates Inflated by New a disturbed currency. The war with Tbs Mirror Xtnr Flatten. Spain, 1S88, with lta temporary diverBe happy, girls, you are prettier than sion of labor and Its territorial expanyou think! Is dissatisfied with sion, bas been too recent for lta effect Every girl who herself should remember that she Is to be fully measured. Besides these better looking than the kindest of look- influences, the coincident developments ing glasses bids her believe. of steam and electricity, aa applied to A mirror cannot flatter a face that and transportation, la in Its natural stato that is, not manufactures and intensified and diversified so Even the very best plate have made up. a has forma all which pale green oi labor that farm glass tinge, specialized reflects a color a trifle less clear than labor la no longer a distinctive term. the original. labor can no longer be Hair also has always a more glossy Agricultural without special discussed Intelligently sheen than the glass shows. If It i wavy, the glass never shows the best treatment of the peculiar forms Into of the waves, and If I! is s'lnisrlit, th" w hich It has become separated by con. the straight appearglass Increase ditlons of soil, climate, nml distance ance. . Ail from dense bodies of pcp'.!l.-t::.uiMore Important and to be letter remembered and carefa.iy treasured, this emphasizes tbe imperative need no one ever looks at the face so dosc'.y of education and training for the work or so critically ns the (inner of it of the modern farm, whrther In the looks nt the re lice lion In the glass. Blemishes thnt nre n gr.ef to a girl field with grain, stock, cotton, fruit, may pass quite imtwtleed by her dairy and garden product, or la the : 1 frlcndi rittsburg Dispatch. koUHj 5, IN A Wonderful XT o tor. Details are published of a wonderful new motor, invented by Ieter Tbornley, an English engineer. This invention Is considered of such Importance that Its development may result In express railway engines running at twice their present speed at only half the cost and In Atlantic liners crossing from Liverpool to New York lu three days. It Is almost small enough to be carried In n typewriter case. The new motor Is capable of developing fifteen hundred revolutions a minute, giving fifteen horsepower umW a holler pressure of 2nu pounds to the square inch. In even the best railway locomotive the strain is admitted after the piston has moved from five to right Inches ailing the cylinder. Mr. Thornley has devised a valve which will admit a given quantity of steam nt every of the stroke, and so nicely adjusted that the expansive force of the steam admitted is just sufficient to drive the piston at the end uf lta journey. By the most modest estimate the saving in coal Is twenty-liv- e per cent., while the simplicity of the motor Is such that the Initial cost Is much cheaper than existing types. New York Commercial. ITaklng It I'pan ITprwir. A young woman of resolute appear- ance from one of the hack townships presented herself at the Ciunty Clerk's office In the town of M . "Is this where they take out licenses for glttiu married? she Inquired. "Yea. ma'am, replied tbe clerk. Well. I want one. For yourself? "Course. My name's Mandy Sikes. Ills Is Rufus Millsap. Fin twenty-thre- e anil hes twenty-seveBoth of us Uvea in Illckry Holler. The blank waa properly filled out and banded to her. "How much? the asked. "Two dollars. She took two silver dollars out of a pocket In ber dress. "That's wbat I told him It'd be, she remarked, passing tbe money to tbe clerk through the little window. "It ain't me that's payin for this. It's him. lie was too bashful ta come and git the license himself, nud I wasn't going to let no mau's foolishness spllo a weduln. Carefully folding the document, she placed It in her pocket aud took ber departure. Youth's Companion. Varieties- - In Korea a serviceable umbrella costa about sixpence. Tbe covering la of oiled paper. Blindness la very common among tbe Moor. At forty-fiv- e their eyesight begins to fail. It Is said that this affliction la due to tbe excessive use of coffee. A firm with an odd name does business In Washington street, Buffalo. Tbe firm's name is English & Irish, nnd English Is nn Irishman, while Irish Is of English parentage. The bava. or weaver bird, of India, spends n good di'al of its time in ravelling ma:v:i:cth fireflies, which It fast-n- s to the sides of i!a nest with moist clay. t tin bnya's nest looks On u Iarl: like an clecitic lump. ui-Ji- In England telephone girls receive from 5i:u to $214 th first year, which U gradually increased to $233, the Isrk I remember how the song sf down la the eky eame trembling en The morning 1 brought the little In my wsgon out from town! The dailies curtsied along the roed And the thrushes took a peep I know they guessed that the tiny bed Was a neat for a baby's eleepl And while the larks and the thrashes pipit In the morning diamond-dewed- . The mother sang by her downy nett And the baby crowed and cooed; Till the babys fancy passed away One night on a starry gleam. And the mother followed him, to beat The end of his little dream! Whet need of a house and eradle newt What need of a nest for me? The silence is my only mate. And my babe is memory! young I give the crib to the mother With the babe on her breast at play But 1U have to turn my eyes, I know, SVben sue carries it away! Aloyaiua Coll, in the Housekeeper, When a "Constant Reader writes to ask whether he should eat with kulfe or a fork, you can't help thinking of the damage he must have previously done with bis claws. Yonili wants to write hie name up high I iinii's golden eirod to (Irik; j J B.u age is glad to write upuu The bottom of a chudc. , Judge. "You say you have shed real tears ia an"Not exactly, your urling? swered Mr. btormingtou liurnes; "but I have bceu tempted to wheu I tuts the box office statemeuLs. Washington Star. "Lurry, you've heard of this talk about 'race suicide.' What do yon think about It? "Well, sor, I think tho babies that oughtn't to be born are liorii tlie ofteuest, begobs! Chicago Tribune. "Wbat would you do, said the nervous person, "if a fire were to breakout iu your apartment bouse? "Id go right dowusiairs aud thauk the janitor," answers the mail who la always dissatisfied. Washington Star. What's tbe matter with your book, Scriblcr? It wes to have come out month ago. "I know; but It didn't fit tbe pictures that the Illustrators drew for It, so, of court e, I had to rewrite a good r&rt of it. Judge. This life is all a etrugg'e , Against the wenthir rale, i ! warm in irinur, IfAndifjiiiig il. insumuier kcqiiag Wuniiington Star. ' Mrs. Honeymoon Tin you lore me? Old Man tconlidcntially, from other She's asked you seat, to bridegroom) forty-sevetimes already. I get out here, but I'll leave the score with this gentleman by the window." Thu Wanderer. Miss Dora (to Major ruttcr, who Is playing an important match, and has Just lust his ball) Oh, Major, do come und take your horrid ball sway from my little dog. He won't let ms touch li, aud I know he must be ruining his teeth: Punch. "This, said tbe leading citizen, pausing before a large tree enclosed lu a fancy iron railing, "Is one of our little town's most treasured landmarks. "Indeed? asks the foreign visitor. "Was It planted by one of your Presidents or ia It where your mobs lynch their victims? Cincin- j n nati Commercial-Tribun- e. the Harried Dramatist. ia doubtful If the casual playgotv realises how many dramatists boost and shove their wives Into exalted places, far above those more talented actresses who have failed to reckon the advantages of matrimony. If Anns Hathewsy bad utilized the advantage of being Mrs. W. Shakespeare lu ths direction of stage cr.recr, her nsins would have come to uz as the patron saint of leading women. But among Americans the most difficult ease Is surely George 31. Cohan's. Here la n young man, who supplies himself and four others of his family with psrta nnd hns the further complication of a hrolher-ln-laaa manager. A mother and daughter can amicably adjust "lending lady honors, but a daughter has complicated things to ths extent that half of last season sister Josephine did not appear as one of ths Four Cohans, and this arason Mrs. George M. will disregard that fact entirely, and figure In the public eys ns Ethel Levey, star. When this popular family came to tbe Fourteenth Street Theatre wltb Running For Office, the press agent stood In ths lobby on the first night and handed typewritten slips to tbe critics, assuring them that there was only ons among the Four "leading lady Cohan. Mi Josephine and nnna o!lir had the right to eiaiiii that title, R'.tt If indication of stormy weather showed In the lobby, not so on ths stage. Cohans, cn and till. k;sed nml embraced when lowing to and In a box sat a y qng Cuban, fondly waving a ruse to "maiunin.'' when slis nppeared lit male attire lending a street parade. F. F.hlerkiu Fyles, lg Every liody'a Magazine. Senrews of It lu-la- w , |