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Show NOT WHAT HE HAD PICTURED Girl Hardly the Domestlo Jewel That Fond Fancy Had Pictured. Athletic f Ai Not long ago a man married an athletic girl, thinking how fine It would be to have a wife who would be able to wait on herself and build the fires, If necessary, and keep the dust demon on the jump without bringing on an acute attack of nervous prostration. Said be to himself: "A girl who swims and rows and plays a rattling good game of tennis, not to speak of her fondness for walking and driving, ' Is sure to be a domestic jewel. If we she a to be without servant, happen can keep the household machinery bumming." Somebody must have told that girl she was marrying a man with money. Anyhow, she hasn't been able to dress herself wltUout the assistance of a inald. and the only time she has ever had the broom in her hands was one day when she picked It up to hit the cat with. If she'd clean house for as much as halt an hour she'd have to go away to some fashionable springs to recuperate. And yet, to look at her, you wouldn't think she was so dell cate. Exchange. o -- v TT Tl 2L frL I' U "It was that magazine's fault. If It had not published an article on 'Home Atuioshpere for Business Women' it would never have occuricJ t my aunt that she had a mission in life." The bookkeeper lighted his pip and scowled. The assistant bookkeep He always er looked sympathetic. felt that half his salary was earned by listening to the bookkeeper's 'Aunt Nan had been living In a small town where the rent from her Chicago house sulllced for all needs. After reading that article she came back to Chicago, turned out her ten ants and started in to make a happy home for a librarian, a beauty doctor and a stenographer." 'I'll bet there was something do ing." There was right from the first. Aunt Nan had refused to rent a room to nie said I would be cutting out some homesick girl, pofiaibly, but the librarian, the beauty doctor and the stenographer were all strong In my favor I really am the only thing over which they have been unanimously HE KNEW HER enthusiastic." sniffed "Hut what about the home Ths assistant bookkeeper gently. atmosphere?" She It'a three o'clock. I'm going to my dressmaker. I shan't be more than a quarter of an hour. He All right; don forget we are dining out at eight o'clock. Educational Campaign Effective. In the states of the United States in r which the most preventive culosis work has been done the percentage of public funds spent is the highest, while in states where little or no effort has been made to prevent tuberculosls, and the treatment of the disease alone has been considered, the percentage of public expenditures is very low. For Instance, of the f 1.GO0,- 000 spent In New York In 1909, near ly GO per cent, was from state and city funds. la Massachusetts nearly two-thirds was from public money; in and in Penn Maryland about one-hal. In Colorado, sylvaola on the other hand, less than one per cent was from public money; in Cat lfernla about 15 per c?nt., and In Arl zona none at all. facts Indl cate, the national association declares, tfcat wherever J aggressive educatlonnl campaign has been carried on by private organizations, states and cities have bee Induced to make lib eral appropriates for the prevention of tuberculosis. anti-tube- HOUT the middle of Com1862. August. One K of the pany fifth hundred and volunPennsylvania teers, known as the f, three-fourths- 2 JMm-i:'Mw$- "Bucktail" regiment, of which I was a private, was detailed' as a The bodyguard of 1 j m rah " The Army of Constipation Smaller la Day Crowing CARTER'S UTTLE UVER if PILLS fW dent l'p to 18C4. owing to our vigilance and tbe protecting hand of Providence, our beloved chief had escaped the band of violence. Tbe back of the confederacy was broken, a good Ew an feeling J riDTFBNT pervaded all Washington quently the strict watchfulness and consepre- that had vailed grew Into laxity. This was the fatal period, for It was at this time that conspiracies were hatched and confederates overran Ma- - X the city, comparatively unmolested. The president and family spent the summer at the soldier's home, situated about three miles north SsBew SUa, titk flcaJac, of tbe city, and thltber the bodyguard always tM, bUlfMtMM, SMALL fWCl accompanied them. SUL fill. mmS1ALLDOS& beer GENUINE: It was Id tbe summer of ISM. while we were up at tbe borne, that an Incident happened that came very near culminating in just such an awful tragedy as followed only a few months later at Ford's theater. It was tbe custom of the president to remain late at war department when anything of great ftKK roR AiLonnim awtea. tbe was happening In the army, conImportance M mum, riiiwt stMl If nr t mnr tffH sulting with the secretary of war and trans mmWil MMIfitttllMUoa et--JlarllacUMi, V ItMM.t mlttlng and receiving dispatches, and after bis work was finished be would ride out to home. That summer he bad perFor Asthma, Bronchitis and the soldiers' refused an escort, Imsgining himself sistently all perfectly secure One night about the middle of August t was doing sentry duty at the large gate through which entrance was bad Into the grounds at the borne. Tbe place Is situated about a quarter of a mile off the Bladensburg rosd and Is reached by a devious driveway. About one o'clock I beard a rifle shot In the Tit of the rlty and shortly sfterwsrd direction 't tt Th rrncf t a fjukk could hear approaching hoofbeats. In two or I Pleasant la take and guaranteed three minutes the horse came Dear enough m.t absolutely hen from c ialc. that in the dim moonlight I recognized tbe 1 as rider aa tbe belated president. Tbe borne, a Sf f JIIImi wi r UL'5 i I rmi DYOLA DYES ttit V- tr i)rwr' Throat Trouble. Tak 5 jr f I kvcu tu (?u& tut wwaim n rwfc c-ru-m. w Vj c f xT h n'l m lmm: Presi dent Lincoln and continued In that ca pacity until bis assassination in the spring of 1853. During the three years of my stay In Washington, the most critical period of the nation's history. I saw and beard many things that have never found their way Into the publla Sometimes a man Is as badly fright prints. Some of the bodyguard were constantly with the president and his ened by an Imaginary snake as faintly, whether at fashionable levees, woman Is by a real mouse. receptions to foreign legations or priLet none of you treat his brother In vate Interviews. At all such functions a way be himself would dislike to be we were silent spectators of all that took treated. Mohammedan. place. We were always treated with the high est respect by the Lincoln family, who re garded us as a part of the household. Every private of the guard received the same attentions of courtesy as the most famous statesman or diplomat at the capital We all formed a atrong personal attachment for the president and when the grand old man laid down bis life In behalf of the cause that had been bis life work we felt as If we bad lost the dearest friend we ever had. During the first two years of our term of service the most rigid discipline was enforced. Sometimes we would be ordered to use extraordinary vigilance and to let no one enter the grounds of the White House without the proper passes and to be very particular as to who approached the president. Often the order would come for the guards on duty to be doubled. It was seldom that he knew the direct cause of these extra precautions, but we supposed that the officers of the secret service were In possession of Information of some plot that brooded harm to the presi- fCSOOKJdtf i f r v saw 3FA spirited one. belonging to Lamon. the marshal of tbe District of Columbia, was Mr. Lincoln's favorite saddle animal and when he was In tbe very er approached I noticed tbe that tbe president was bareheaded. After I had assslted him In checking his steed the president aald to me: "He came pretty near getting away with me. didn't he? He took the bit In his teeth before I could draw the reins" I then asked him where his hat was and he replied that somebody bad fired a gun off down at the foot of the bill, which scared his horse, and the lurch of the animal toppled his hat off. I led the horse to tie cottsge where the president and his family was staying. There be dismounted and went in. Thinking the proceeding a little strange, a corporal and I started In Ihe direction from which the report of Ilie gun had been beard, to Investigate. When we came to the place where the driveway n.eets tbe main road we found tbe president' hat -- a plain silk bat and on examining It found a bullet hole through the corner f the crown The shot had been fired upward and It was evident that the person who had fired It had secreted himself close to the roadside. We bed the locality thoroughly,, but listenod arid to no avail The next day I gave Mr. Lincoln his bat and railed his attention to the bullet hole. He unconcernedly remarked that It was put there by some foolish gunner and was not Intended for him. He said, however, that be wanted tbe matter kept quiet and admonished tis to say nothing about It. The next fall, after we bad taken up our winter quarters st tbe White House, a conspiracy to kidnap tbe president was unknowingly frustrated by us. Had tbe truth of the affair leaked out at the time It doubtless would hsve created great excitement Our quarters were Immediately In front of the south porch of tbe Kxecutive Mansion, a position which placed us at about equal distance from the treasury building on the east and the war and navy building on the west. Fof reasons at the time unknown to us we were ordered to move our guard tent and place It at tbe west end of the gravel walk, directly In 'he rear of the war department. While we stayed there feothfng occurred to arouse suspicion. Shortly afterwgrd we learned, however, that on the very night after we had moved tbe tent the confederates bad a plan laid to rapture the president. Tbe conspirators were to bide Id tbe sb rubber y and when tbe president came along er II a staHouse Wblte bles he always chose him. As horse and rid- gate 'vi J "The home atmosphere received Its, first setback when the librarian brought In wer piano. That was nothing, however, to the Installation of the telephone, which waa put in. at the urgent request of the beauty doctor. If Aunt Nun climbed upstairs to the attic tbe telephone bell would ring violently and down she would hurry, to learn that Mrs. Asterheldt wanted a switch sent home at once; a trip down cellar always meant my aunt's rushing back to bear over the phone that Mrs. Darker wanted to be maniand cured, shampooed, powdered puffed. Even after my aunt had gone to bed there would be hurry calls for the beauty doctor. About the only time tbe telephone bell didn't ring was when my auut sut down In front of it. "Originally no meals were to be served In the house, but the girls said it gave them such a homeless feeling to eat breakfast at the restaurant and they didn't care for much " "I suppose they assumed a "dry crust will do for me' expresblon?" Tbe bookkeeper nodded. "It won the day, too. Aunt Nan said she would give us coffee and Uiant and fruit for 15 cents. It worked Just two mornings, then the stenographer read a In all h book and cried for make-believ-e coffee; the beauty doctor decided to drink hot water and tbe librarian became addicted to the cocoa bablt. Of course. 1 stuck to coffee. Lreakfast hwariie a continuous performance of keirig four different drinks hot for one hour IS cents a head. "Aunt Nan had been brought up to look uMin Sunday as a day of rest, but It was considered by the librarian an appropriate day In which to practice ragtime. Moreover, ahe mended and Ironed all the remainder of the day of rest. Just where she was In my aunt's way, and as for the beauty doctor, she took In washing over Sun-daythere were always a lot of switches and puffs drying on the clothesline. I'gh!" "It must be rather wearing on yon." commented the assistant aa he glanced In tbe direction of the typewriters. "Well, it was at the close of one of tliPM long, sad days that my aunt sat in her rocker thinking what an angel child I was never wanting to Iron my handkerchiefs or wash my hair or run her sewing machine. She bad the walk they were to scire, gag and carry him Just made up her mind that she would across the river Into Virginia. Thence be was tell the girls to look elsewhere for to be taken to Kichmond or some other cod fed rooms and that she would run a erste stronghold, where be was to be held as bachelors' home, when I came down a hostage The members of the bodygusrd and ask'ed if she would let me have always supposed that the conspirators were a hot Iron, aa my tie needed pressing. frightened away when they saw our guard tent It was the last straw and she told us and abandoned the plan of kidnapping. all that we could get out. Not long after tbe attempted kidnapping an"I wouldn't feel so bad, but that tie other episode took place, which afterward was was so narrow. The girls won't speak found to have been planned by a band of assas- to me now and my aunt la going to sins who made their headquarter In the city rent her house furnished and go back Ilmirke. the veteran coachman, who bad served to Indiana." at the White House through Pierce's and Buchanan's administrations and thu far into Lincoln's, A Jewish Chautauqua. was taken sick and compelled to be off duty. Miss Jeanette Miriam Ooldberg of hima who Immediately stranger, represented self as an experienced coachman from Ualtlmore. Jefferson, Tex,, Is the field secretary applied at the White House and was employed of the Jewleb chati'auqua work. A as coachman. From the first he was domineer- course of study In Jewib history Is ho Join ing and after a fw weeks became so Important the first offering to those that he was discharged and IVourke reinstated. tbe society, then literature and the One night shortly afterward. Just about dusk, Plble. In some places the circles have the discharged coachman was seen sneaking been started In towns where there around the stables by some of the guard. Tbe were a number of Jewish peop1e but stables bsd been locked for the nlgbt and It was no church, and It has served to extend not supposed that he could do any damage and the religious services by organization. consequently the men who saw him did not go Tbe work Is purely educational. Miss to the atables. Presently tbe whole Interior of Goldberg says the effect of the work the barns was found to be on fire. Tbe guard Is to lessen prejudice, and as aa exwas called out and by dint of great exertion we ample says that a circle was formed saved the president's coach and team, but Tad In Hlble and history at tbe University Lincoln's ponies and Col. Hay's carriage team of the South last year. perished In the flames. The plan' was to have this man fire the The Stske. stables and thus to distract our attention. Dur"John D. Rockefeller snd bis p ing tbe excitement some of the conspirators were tor," said a New Tork broker. "wer feady to rush Into the White House and murder playing golf one afternoon as I drove the president, but instead of remaining In tbe tip from the station In the Rockefeiipf house Mr. Lincoln ran out among as and thus carriage. In ail probability frustrated another attempt at "They're very much exHted, 1 said assassination. to the coachman, for the two players What makes this appear more lifcei tin la were arguing hotly on the green. 1 the fact that, after the Incendiary was arrested gijess they muet be plaf irg fof mnejr he produced several witnesses, who later found "Tbe coachman shook his bead an I employment at Ford's theater, to testify that be frowned at me sternly. was down lo tbe city during the whole of the "Oh, tin' he said. "Tci oght ta evening. These were the persons who doubtless know they wouldn't plav for nnt.f. planned the final conspiracy that brought tbe If It's anything, It's a hymn book f Bible.' " great benefactor to tbe grave. |