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Show PITY THE POOR MILLIONAIRE. Back to the Old Home BY ELIZABETH (Copyright, ROBBINS by Joseph B. Bowls.) Miles Torrey had not written when he was coming home, for he dearly loved a surprise, and so there was nothing for it but to walk the two miles from the railroad station. When he reached a certain rise In the swamp road he paused to take an observation. There, over across on the Bridge road, was the old Torrey homestead, looking exactly as It had always looked. Farther on Were the Gilsons' roofs, then the Witherelis' ) ever were with the country, and wouldnt come back for anything. Maybe so, she assented, doubtfully. But you will be seeing them pretty soon, and can find out all about It. Did they say anything about coming back?" Mrs. Torrey asked Miles on his return from a visit to the Caswells. "Uncle Nathan did, after we left Aunt Marys. They want to come and chimneys, and away beyond the un- camp odt in their barn next summer, painted corner of something that must he to work for the neighbors. I guess be the little new chapel his mother the boys dont think much of it, by the had written about. On the nearer side way he brightened up when I said was the Harwood place, and nearer Twas a good scheme and we'd lend yet, the Caswells' barn, which, from em the furniture for it. I made up my this point, he remembered, shut oil the mind then and there that they must view' of the house. have this house. Well give em tbe Miles continued on his way with a biggest kind of a surprise. In March came Miles Torrey with feeling of lively satisfaction in findMother wants you ing so few changes after five years an invitation: absence, so when he had turned the both to come out and stay over Eastcorner and come to where the Cas- er Sunday; the new chapel Is going to be dedicated then. wells house ought to be, and there And I am going only its blackened timbers lying to take you there In my new automoon the ground, he was a good deal bile. shocked. The Journey was interrupted halfWhen and how did it happen? way by the rain, and Miles and his he asked his mother, after he had en- guests had to spend the rest of the joyed to the full hef astonishment at afternoon at a hotel. At nine In the seeing him, and each had inquired aft- evening, however, the rain had entireer the others health. ly ceased, and they started once more. It was three months ago, in Sep- The air was warm, but there was a tember, just after that last letter I great deal of water standing on the Dr. road, and that and a dense fog made sent," Mrs. Torrey told him. Burrell came along one day and said it necessary to proceed at a snail's old Jed Washburn had been sick, all pace. tumble-alone there in his Aunt Mary and Uncle Nathan's down but place, and they packed up cheerfulness was unimpaired, some things and started right off to Miles was disappointed and disgusted do what they could for him. This was all so different from what Aunt Mary and Uncle Nathan, all he had planned. over! exclaimed Miles. Then suddenly the fog suggested an "They think the chimney must have idea. He would still let them think been burning out, and somehow set they were going to visit his mother, e to the woodwork inside, Mrs. Tor- and let the situation reveal itself as At any rate nobody it would. lie could not be a witness rey went on. saw the smoke in time to save any- to the surprise, but wouldnt it be trething, and everything was flat when mendous! Here we are at last. said Miles, they came back. Too bad, too bad! said Miles. I bringing the automobile to a stop. suppose they went to live with the And it is as. I feared; everybody is abed. boys? Dont wake her up! they both beYes, though I couldn't find out from their letter which one they're with. sought him earnestly. You jest show Neither Mary nor Nathan- were very us to our room, and we won't make a much for writing. bit more noise than we can help. Perhaps theyll build again. A Sabbath quiet brooded over the Oh, they can't! They were too good hearted ever to save much, and house when they awoke in the mornOutside they could hear birds ing. there W'as no insurance. chickadees, bluebirds, a If isn't likely that Kd. nor Gib can singing a nuthatch. I robin, them Miles reflected. help any, They talked awhile in whispers, Theyre two as good fellows as ever then Uncle Nathan said: Dont you spose we could get up real still and slip out and over to the old place? Seems 'sif t would make it seem more like Sunday somehow. I don't see why we couldn't, Aunt I W'onder if we can Mary answered. see it from here. She got up and Went to look, out of one of the front windows. She held the curtain farWhy! ther aside and looked harder. Why, I can't make it seem light. Why, Naas the sun burst forth than! the sun is rising over across the road ia the west, or else I'm losing my mind! Uncle Nathan sprang out of bed and stared out over her shoulder. It aint the Torrey place, he said, slowMiles has been playing some Joke ly. on us. If I didnt know It couldnt be, I should think He went to a window on the other side. Mary come quick! he cried, exIts o r elm tree, and our citedly. barn; the Torrey place Is over there, and their house is gone! Aunt Mary sank into a chair. "What does it mean?" she asked weakly. I don't know," he answered, bePaused to Take an Observation. ginning to dress in feverish haste. lived, but they were never moneyThey were both dressed, when a makers. I would bave stopped to large piece of paper, half under the see them as I came through the city, dot r, caught their attention. A3 Uncle if I hadn't been in such a hurry to Nathan's name appeared on it, ho get home. But I'm going again soon, opened and read it. to talk with an architect. Mr. and Mrs. Caswell: This home everthin in It Is yours, a free gift An architect? Mrs. Torrey's face and troin your many friends. flushed. She had always wanted a "They moved the Torrey house ewer new house one in which the south here and fitted it all up for us, said side was not almost wholly taken up Uncle Nathan in an awed voice. with entries and stairways and closets They looked at each other as if stuna house with a bathroom and bay ned for a moment, then Aunt Mary windows, and possibly a little conservthrew lieiself into Uncle Nathan's atory. Was her wish to come true? arms, and they cried together. or was Miles thinking of getting marHow He was the first to recover. ried? ridickerlous for us to stand here Yes, mother, I've made my pile he said. Come lets exout there, and you're going to have plore. your house. Aunt Mary wiped her eves and folWhere are you going to have it? lowed hint into the kitchen. Where the house is now' Is tie Just like our old one, for all the And the slghtliest spot on the farm, isnt It? world!" said Undo Nathan. What will you woodbox fu'l of kindlings, all ready to Yes, I think so. do with this house? start a fire." Tear it down, I suppose, he an''They went over the house togethswered slowly, though I kind of er. I see how twas," said Aunt Mary hate to. As long as the house Itthoughtfully. They were both silent for several self was like the oid one, they thought minutes, then Mrs. Torrey cried out they'd make the rooms as near like as suddenly: Oh, Miles! Why couldn't they could, and everybody helped. it be moved over to the Caswells? That grandfather clock must have He was alert in an Instant. That's come from Jed Washburn you know so! he exclaimed, and not let them his and our'n was jest alike: the sitknow anything about it till 'twas al! ting room carpet is the one Busan Wouldn't it he gnat!" Withercll had in her spare room we ready for "But could it be moved, with this bought em ofT the same piece: the big chimney and all? Mrs. Torrey paper is some SIlus Crane had left on asked anxiously. his hands when he failed up five years Pshaw, yes! I'd risk Andrew Hale ago; Dr. Burrell give that old desk to move anything on top of the earth." why! I can tell where 'most every Then thats settled, said Mrs. Tor- single thing come from! Then with grateful hearts they rey happily. But, mother! Miles laughed in the walked along the road they had travmidst of it. "Maybe they don't want eled so many times before, to meet to come back. IJkely as not they're their old neighbors and join them in Vetter suited with the city than they the Easter service at the new chapel. d I METHOD He Sighs for the Br:a'cfasts and the Appetite cf his Youth. Terrapin is all light, and. said the sated millionaire, I like lobster and canvasback duck, but still I don't be- lieve I get half the pleasure out of the fine things I eat nowadays that I used to find in the plain food that wo had years ago, in the days when we couldn't afford anything else. I'd give a million dollars er, er er humm l:a, half a million anyway, if I could have now such a breakfast as I used to have when I was a boy, if I could have how the same appetite to eat it with. We used to live in a house without any heat above the ground floor, and I slept in a room that was colder than Greenland, In a feather bed under about seven million patchwork bed quilts, and Id sleep ten hours In a bed like that, as snug and warm and comfortable as anybody ever did under swansdown coverlets in a warmed room, and then I'd get up in the morning and go out and chop a few cords of wood before breakfast, and then come in feeling able to tear the world fcpart and with an appetite that nothing less than good, substantial food and plenty of it would satisfy; an appetite the satisfaction of which was a grand and stirring joy. For breakfast on winter mornings we were likely to have pork chops and buckwheat cakes, and such chops and such cakes! Not little, thin, dried-up- , , lean, tasteless chops from a kitchen half a mile away, but big, thick, fat chops of home-fepork, fresh-cokeand sizzling. And the cakes! Not half heavy, paste-coloreinside, thin, dull, lifeless and tasteless cakes, just warm, but buckwheat cakes light and fluffy and brown and generous in dimensions, and all crinkly and crispy around the edges and good all through, and so hot and steaming when they came on the table that you had to look out ami not burn your mouth when you began to eat them. And those chops and those buckwheat cakes we used to eat, with the pork gravy on the cakes! A breakfast fit for the very gods, though one must he a god, to be sure; he must be well and strong and fit to enjoy it. Grateful am I that I can bring back even in recollection the joys of an e breakfast of pork chops and buckwheat cakes. half-cold- d d d old-tim- Loyal to Columbus. The most popular man in New York, living or dead, seems to be Christopher Columbus, remarked the man from the south. I base my conclusions on the quantity of flowers that are offered up to his memory. No matter what time of the day, week or month you happen to pass a Colum bus statue you see bouquets and wreaths piled up at its base and twined around Columbus feet and legs. Except on special holidays, such as the Fourth of July, Decoration day and notable birthdays, nobody ever thinks of smothering the effigies of Washington, Lincoln and other national heroes in floral tributes. For a long time I could not understand this striking partiality to the discoverer of our country. Upon inquiry I learned that there are several societies American and Italian which donate a certain sum of money each year for jthe decoration of Columbus . and it is the treasurers duty to see that the prescribed quantity of flowers is provided. Rare Pilgrim Fish Caught. Another Breton fishing town u has had a novel experience of its own. One of its trawl boats, the Saint Louis, has just returned to port, not with the heavy cargo of sardines that aii the good folk so much desired, but with a catch of an entirely unwonted and unwelcome kind. This took the form of a monster fish measuring not less than 25 feet in length. The fish is one of the "pilgrim kind, and is associated with tho shark family, though said to be less ferocious than tho ordinary shark. An the monster Is very rarely seen, but little that Is definite is known of him. The incident has no parallel within living Breton memory, London Globe. Head Waiter Loses Out, About (lie meanest man I've seen yet," said a head waiter yesterday, was a little chap that blew in here Saturday. He looked to he from some little town, and I guess his trip to Cleveland was about the biggest thing he had ever done. I hadn't more than seated him, until he pulled out two or three coins and handed aie a quarter. I guess it mude. him mad when ho found out that I wasn't the man that waited on him. Before he gate to the man who took his order, he called me over and said I would have to give him buck that quaiter. Don't you think that was a shabby trick tor a man to do? Cleveland Dealer. any-tilin- g Method. y He says tilings that are wondei fully apropos,' said one occa-ieiian- statesman. Yes, answered the other; like our parmt at home. he's It doesn't know much, but what It docs know It keeps repeating until some circum- stance arises that makes the remark seem marvelously apt." A Maxim Contradicted. for noth"You can't get sono-thlning in this world,'' said the reujj-madproverliiaiist. Cant eh? rejoined the man who had been to Monte Carlo. "You ought to aee what the dealer takes In on the uuucfet at tie rouUtto table." e IN HIS SOLICITUDE. Wiiiien Deep Interest in Piaymatea Health Explained. This story is well in keeping witL the spirit of the age, says the New York Tribune. A Bronx man tells it about his little boy. The neighbors young hopeful was very ill, and Willie and the other youngsters In the block had been asked not to make any noise in the streets. The neighbors bell rang one day and she opened it to find Willie standing bashfully on her front steps. How is he he inquired in a shy whisper. He's better, thank you, dear, and what a thoughtful child you are to come and ask. Willie stood a moment on one foot and then burst forth again, Im orful sorry Jimmys sick. The mother was profoundly touched. She could find no further words to say, but simply kissed him. Made still Jolder by the caress, Willie began to back down the steps, repeating at intervals his sorrow for his playmates illness. At the bottom step he halted and looked up. If Jimmy should die, he asked, kin I have his drum?" to-da- FOR SELFISH ENDS. The Efforts Being Made by the American Medical Association. The Political activity of the American Medical Association has become so pronounced as to causa comment in political circles especially as the the avowed purpose of the Doctors of the Regular or Allopathic school, of which the Association is chiefly composed, is to secure the passage of such laws as will not only prevent the sale of Patent" medicines, but will restrict the practice of medicine and healing to the schools now recognized. This in many states would prevent the growing practice of Osteopathy, and In nearly every state would prevent the healers of the Christian Science and mental science belief from practicing those sciences in which the faith of so many intelligent people is so firmly rooted. The American Medical Association has a Committee on Legislation, and the committee has correspondents In practically every township seme 16,000 correspondents in all. This committee at the last session of the American .Medical Association held in June of this year expressed a hope that a larger number of physicians than heretofore will offer themselves as candidates for Congress at the first opportunity. In its annual report this Committee said: To meet the growing demands of the movement, however, particularly if the work of active participation in State legislation is undertaken, a larger clerical force must be employed. This is almost the rst time in the history of the United States that any organized class has frankly avowed the purpose of capturing legislatures and dominating legislation in their own selfish interests. The American Medical Association has about 65,000 members of whom 27,000 are fully constituted members and the rest are members because of their affiliation with state or local societies. The Association owns 1 real estate in Chicago valued at and its total assets are Its liabilities, at the time of the annual report which was made at the June meeting, amounted to only The excess of assets over $21,906. liabilities is increasing at the rate of about $30,000 a year, and the purpose of the organization is to dominate the field of medicine, and by crushing all competitions by securing the passage of prohibitive legislation, compel all of the people of the United States to pay a doctors fee every time the most simple remedy is needed. " $111,-781.9- $291,-667.S- Patron Saint of Lawyers. This story is told at the expense of Francis H. T. Maxwell, a lawyer. The members of the Taunton, Mass., Bar association thought they ought to have a patron saint, but after much wi angling they could not hit upon any particular saint. Finally a committee, of which Mr. Maxwell was a member, was appointed to make a selection. They made a trip to New York, and there visited a gallery where most of the saints were carved In marble. It was derided to leave the selection to Mr. Maxwell, and after making the rounds he placed bis hand on one in a group of two. This one will do," he said. He had his hand on the devil, whom St. Michael was driving before him. well-know- No Peace Conference. "Are you going to stiilte, nia?" asked the little boy, as he tremblingly gazed upon the uplifted shingle. Thats just xv hat I'm going to do." Can't we arbitrate, ma, before you strike? I am just going to arbitrate," she said, ns tlie shingle descended and raised a cloud of dust from the seat I am just of a pair of pantaloons going to arbitrate, my son, and this shingle is the board of arbitration. I NORTHWEST NOTES Greek laborer who has been working on a section gang for the Southern Pacific at Verdi, Nevada, was struck by a train and fearfully mangled. son of J. F. Russell, the ranchman of the Allen, a Clarks Fork country near Cody, Wyo., w'as kicked to death by a horso last week. son of William The five year-olGeorge of Laramie, fell from a wagon and the wheel ran over his head, tearing the scalp loose and removing one ear entirely. Somewhere in the desert near Mt. Brougher a meteorite fell one night last week. The fall was seen by hundreds in Tonopah, and a search may be made fc It. John Luther, a ranchman living nea. Laramie, is quite ill at the hospital In Laramie with ptomaine poisoning, believed to bave been received from eating canned tomatoes. During the progress of a race war between Greek and Italian employes at Bucktown, Colo., Joseph Musago was shot in the head and is now at the hospital in a seiious condition. Through the accidental discharge of a pump shotgun, Mrs. Nellie Rockel, a member of a hunting part, was shot and instantly killed about twelve miles east of Denver, in Adams county. During a fight over a game of billiards at Billings, Mont., Joe Lawson struck Charles Fisher, knocking him against the wall and breaking his neck. Law'son is in jail awaiting triaL Mrs. W. B. Howard, wife of a prominent resident of Jansen, Colo., is in a critical condition at her home as the result of a shock from a bolt of lightning which struck their home during a storm. Eddie Harriman, jr the son of E. II. Harriman, the rnilioad magnate, recently fired an engine the entire distance from Laramie to Rawlins and unaided succeeded in gm.ting in on the dot. Perry Roberts, Jiving near Laramie, Is in a hospital undergoing treatrpenl for broken ribs, one of the bones puncturing his lung.- - He fell iron a :cad of lumber and the wheels of the wagon ran over him. Francis H. Cook, a Spokane pioneer, has secured a patent on a device for transferring the mail and baggage of railway passengers to and from mav-intrains without stopping at stations or slacking speed. W. M. Brown, Wells-Fargagent at Tallac, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, has departed for parts unknown and it is also asserted that he took several thousand dollars of the companys money with him. While attempting to steal ducks from the ranch of W. A. Wiisey, near Reno, Nevada, a young man whose name the police have been unable to obtain, was shot in the hark and quite painfully wounded by Wiisey. B. F. Caldwell, a forest ranger at Pinedale, Wyo., for several years, has resigned because he could not consistently carry out the orders of his superiors and do justice to the stockmen and small settlers. Because he had been notified by the mayor to get out of town, coupled with the fact that his sweetheart had gone back on him, Oscar Jones, a man of I.as Animas, Colo., sent a bullet through his brain. The plumbers of Butte have won their strike, the master plumbers finally acceding to the demand of the union for $8 a day The plumbers have been receiving $7 a day, for which sum they struck several months ago. Joe Lafleur, a typical bad man, was killed by Deputy Sheriff Emerson at Arwood, Nevada, while resisting arrest. Lafleur atacked the deputy with a knife, stabbing him in the shoulder, and was shot by the officer. Freeman Charles of Council Bluffs, la., who is visiting at Piedmont, Wyo., while hunting accidentally shot himself In the left foot, in dieting' a painful but not dangerous wound. Two toes will probably be amputated. By the bursting of a stedi.i pipe al level of the shaft on the the Nevada Smelter & Mines Coipmations Tybo property, at Tonopah, J. Jensen,J. M. Savage and Frank A. Woodwa,.were so horribly scalded that they may die. Jennie Galloway, a nogress, accused of attempting to blackmail Frank Vor-liea prominent merchant of Colorado Springs, by threatening to abduct hib children if he did not give her $100, has been hound over to the district court. windmill Falling from a sixty-foo- t and for almost four days lying on B.e ground helpless, with both legs uniltcn and unable to summon assistance, was the experience of Thomas Rafferty, tin elderly farmer, who lives near Fort Morgan, Colo. A party of Rock Springs people wi!) make an attempt to climb Fremont's peak, tlie highest mountain in Wyoming. They have taken along ropes hooks and other mountain-climbinparaphernalia, and expect to succeed in scaling the heights. Enraged from a slap in the face, W. W. Wilson, a drillman who has been employed by the Utah Const motion at Chllroot, Nevada, shot and almost Instantly k'lled James Slim Moon a construction foreman who has been employed on the Western Pacific at Winnoinnrcn. Gib :n Deputy Constable who shot aud killed R. E. I!. Mamne-Ha mining engineer, in the redll-- ut dis triet of Goldfield, has been held to the district court by Justice of tin fence llcnlcy on this charge of mm dor, pit mediately following a verdict rendered fey a coroner's Jury . MAN-A-LI- N A well-know- n d Copyright 1M, br The Maotlln Co. UAH-A-L- o well-know- 60-fo- An Excellent Remedy for Constipation - There are many ailments directly dependent upon constipation, such as biliousness, discolored and pimpled skin, inactive liver, dyspepsia, overworked kidneys and headache. -- g is M and Remote constipation al! of thess ailments dis- appear. can be relied upon to produce a gentle actionof the bowels, making pills and MAN-A-LI- N drastic cathartics entirely unnecessary. A dose or two cf n Is advisable In slight febrile attacks, la grippe, colds and Influenza. Man-a-li- THE MAN-A-LI- CO., N S. COLUMBUS, OHIO, U. A. Bobbin Boys Wages. John B. Lennon, treasurer of the American Federation of Labor, delivered recently an address on strikes. Turning to the amusing features of the strike question, Mr. Lennon said: i remember a strike of bobbin boys, a just strike, and one that succeeded. These boys conducted their fight well, even brilliantly. Thus the day tiey turned out they posted in the spinning room of their employers mill 9 great placard inscribed with the Vords: J'he wages of sin is death, but the wage of the bobbin boys is worse. . Stopped Seeing Things. Enthusiastic Nature Lover (to Reformed Tramp) Ah, my friend, how well you must know the face of nature, and know it in all its moods. Have you ever seen the sun sinking In such a glare of glory that it swallows up the whole horizon with its passionate fire? Have you seen the mist gliding like a specter down the shrinking hillside, or the pale moon struggling to shake off the grip of the ragged storm cloud? Reformed Tramp No, sir; not since I signed the pledge. Horrible Example. said Mrs. Strongmind, "I want you to accompany me to the town hall evening. What for? queried the meek and lowly other half of the combine. I am to lecture on the Dark Side of Married Life, explained Mrs. S., and I want you to sit on the platform and pose as one of the My dear, Its a Good Time now to see what a good staying breakfast can bo made without high-price- Meat TRY A A Dish of A Lillie Fruit, Grape-Nut- Soft-Boile- d s and Cream, Egg, Some Nice, Crisp Toast, Cup of Postum Food Coffee. snow-cappe- Places of Interest Neglected. Two of the most attractive places for Instruction in New York city are the Metropolitan Museum of Art and tho American Museum of Natural History. yet there are thousands of residents of New York who have never been In them, and more than half of their dally visitors are stiangers in tho city. Few Runaways In New York. Although New York Is a hitching posticus city there are fewer runaway horses in its streets than In tho average city of one tenth of Its . Thats all, and all very easy of digec-tlo- n and full to the brim with nourishment aud strength. REPEAT FOR LUNCHEON OR, SUP-PEand have a meat and vegetable dinner either at noon or evening, as you prefer. Vie predict for you an Increase in physical and mental power. There's a Reason. Bd h lii(i lipniih H.tHnV' W f h il k, hi ikg Tti . Ita4 t |