Show f If If wVT1TwVT1TVVVVTPVVww NAVAL 1 flf flf VVVVVVV"VVTT AIDE TO THE PRESIDENT From the Hand of Life By Clinton Dangerfield (Copyright by J Once there were two men who had rendered such service to life that she resolved to grant them any favor they might ask and so advised them Now the two men were brothers and above all things in the universe they desired happiness and bo determined they would ask a gift which should render Happiness forevermore enamored of their Company Therefore they wended together their way to the templo of Life the goddess and unto her they cried — “Oh Life we are resolved to ask you the gift that delights Happiness that she may be willing to remain with us” And the goddess answered: “Many have thought so to hold her Be it as you will” Then the elder brother said confidently: “As I have already health and many talents only one thing more is necessary to keep happiness with me Give me gold and in such quantities that if I live a hundred years I cannot spend it all” Smiling a little the goddess said “Thou hast it" Th£n came the younger brother and his voice was low and troubled for he knew the thing he was about to say would bring on him the ridicule of his elder but finally he said — “Thou the give me the undimmed sense of wonder” And as the goddess answered “It is thine” the elder brother fell into exceeding mirth and cried — “Thou fool! But I will have pity on thee and thou shalt share my Bold” But the younger said — “Nay buy the maiden Happiness with it" And the two went their separate ways agreeing that in ten years they B Lippincott Shah’s Missing Pearl Garment to Go to Miss Anita Stewart f rence of things Therefore whenever the dawn blushed in the east he stood in a kind of maze colors inrapture as the creased and then faded into the blue And of the perfect day he then vent gladly to his fields knowing that fresh loveliness would greet him on every side For his ears caught each intonation from the thrush’s notes as greedily as though the bird were but newly formed from Eden’s clay and he marveled over the commonest flowers on the wayside as he had not done since the days of his early childhood The strength of the great horses that drew his plow Bmote him with its grandeur and as he followed the furrow ahd thought how the Creator was dally calling fresh wonders Into being for the eyes of man he shouted aloud for the beauty and fascination of the world And the next year he took home a vilife and the wonder he first felt that to sweet and perfect a woman should love him remained with him always and the two were never weary of Therefore it gazing on each other is clear that this man was indeed a sovereign among men for the commonplace knew him not though fools thought hedwelt Jn the midst of it and routine left unharmed his thrilling soul The very ferns at the waterside were to him an unfailing miracle and it is no strange thing that entered in the maiden Happiness the cottage and abode contentedly with the man and his wife But when the ten years were over the man remembered his tryst and of presented himself at the temple Life and called affectionately-“Art thou here oh my brother?” Out from among the pillars came a harsh voice “Nay not he but I who represent him” and forth came a figure terrible to see so gaunt w’ere its features so haunting its heavily circled eyes The younger was displeased and 6aid curtly: “I do not accept thee in my brother’s place Why Is he not here?” “He could not come” “Why not?” ' “He is dead' "Dead!” him” I “Aye— slew “Thou hast dared! Who art thou? And the other turning away said indifferently: “I am the companion of kings am Ennui” TO BE SAFE I FROM ACCIDENT Statistics Show That Traveler Takes Fewer Risks Than He Who Stays at Home He Took Home a Wife would meet in the temple of Life and compare their fortunes Immediately the elder brother set to work and fron Parian marble he built a palace of astounding splendor and filled it with all manner of loveliness and carpeted it with rare eastern carpets and over the carpets glided slaves bought with his money who sang like God’s own nightingales And when he went abroad daily his car was drawn by horses bred in the coats of silk had they and desert feet swifter than the swallow’s wing when he turns southward Also this man gat unto himself friends or those he called such and the world named his palace the "Garden of Delight” But Happiness the maiden dwelt not there neither heard she the honeyed voices of the Blaves from those tblnlng walls Now the younger brother who had also health and good understanding went to fertile lands and built him a cottage and sowed and harvested and thereby got his bread To the neighbors around him he seemed an ordinary man' Only the little children who in part shared his gift only they and the goddess of Life knew that his life was an exquisite series of delicious surprises Tor this man’s eyes were opened because his sense of wonder was unblunted and not defiled by the recur Europe Has Mystery In Announcement That American Girl Is to Receive Missing Treasure When She Marries Miguel Co) Probably the majority of people ii asked what they considered to be the safest Bpot for them to be in would by reply: “In bed or in an the side of the fire” But they are The risk of injury is quite mistaken much greater than if one was traveling by ship or rail The curious fact is mentioned that according to statistics 60 per cent of accidents happen while the victims are at home or in the street the explanation being that a man when going a journey or entering upon a hazardous undertaking exercides special care thus escaping injury but while at home or taking exercise vigwith ilance is relaxed familiarity common dangers breeding contempt Probably the safest place on land or sea is the deck or cabin of a ocen liner A railway carriage is also an exceptionally safe place This is so clearly recognized that accident insurance companies can afford to double the compensation when accidents occur on railways or tramcars Certain companies will inat presure commercial travelers miums appreciably lower than' those insurcharged by general accident ance companies A man may undertake a journey around the world with a comparativeBut extreme care and ly light heart vigilance are needed should he venture to hang his pictures or walk down his own stairs The perils of the streets in our big cities are of course so well known that there is no need td comment Most people imagine that thereon they must be fairly safe in bed - Yet accidents happen even there Not long ago a wealthy man was seriously injured by being burned by ' a bottle after he had retired to rest The moral is of course that whether a man lie sit walk drive or engage in any occupation or sport he ia always exposed to the risk of accident and should take his precautions accordingly— World’s Work N Lieutenant Lieut Willard Commander Leigh H Palmer U S N who has succeeded Simms as naval aide to President Taft S TARSRETACKiNG man Navy of Leiperville in front of jumped Short 1500 of Sailors Now an approaching train on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad to save the life of a Authorized by Statutes goat belonging to his neighbor which had wandered on the tracks Seeing the animal’s danger Dougherty Large Enough to grabbed the goat from the track as Man New Warships Unless Old the train was within a few yards of 0nes Are Laid Up — Injure him Young Officers The goat is a general pet among the children of the neighborhood and — The navy department Washington ones would be knowing that Is confronted with a probable reducif “Billy” was killed Doughtion of the enlisted force through fail- grieved act the erty performed daring seaof ures to on the part men and enginemen now in the servWhisky Cask Explodes ice as well as the pronounced deReno Nev — A nearly empty whisky crease in the number of new enliston the sidewalk in Carson City ments This condition the authorities barrel attribute to the increasing demand endangered the lives of four young men George Robsen Richard Pope for moderate Is well as labor occasioned by the rising tide of Will McQuarrie and Russel Ldmerton business activity throughout the coun- were standing talking when one if them lighted a cigarette and threw the try The present authorized strength of match into the hunghole of the barrel the navy’s enlisted force is 44500 It exploded one end going through The naval authorities had contemplat- the balcony over the sidewalk and Robed urging to congress an increase of other parts striking the men sen had two fingernails torn off Lam 5000 in the next report of the department It is questioned whether a erton was hit on the head by a flying request for even half that number can stave Pope was thrown against a ' large window breaking it and Mcreceive executive approval At the present rate of falling oft in Quarrie was thrown to the ground enlistments and it is Guards for the Blind practically certain that there will be less than 40000 sailormen London— Through the intervention wearing Uncle Sam’s livery on January 1 1910' of the board of trade the Great EastAlready the navy is 1500 shy of the ern Railway Company has withdrawn authorized strength and the reduction the demand that blind passengers continues day by day should be accompanied by guardians According to the naval officers or required to make a special conthere will not be a sufficient number tract of men to man the new ships now reapproaching completion without ducing the crews of the minor cruisers or putting several of the older ships out of commission altogether They do not approve of laying up the new ships As fast as completed they will Experts Discover They Are More in Spread of Bubonic go into commission and into active Plague Than Rats service It is said that even the newest ship Washington — Marine hospital servwhen placed “in ordinary” deteriorthat ates much more fapidly than when at ice experts who discovered sea This is particularly true of their ground squirrels are an agent in the The only course open to the spread of bubonic plague on the Paengines cific coast assert are even that they navy is to send the veteran ships back to the navy yard to be partially dis- more insidious and difficult to deal mantled and laid up until the stato with than the rats that for a time threatened San Francisco and ' the of the national treasury justifies further increase in the cost of maintain- other large cities seem to become have particuThey inthe the and navy ing projected larly infected in Contra Costa county crease in the enlisted personnel Those mast hurt by the enforced and if given the chance it is feared retirement of a part of the fighting will spread the infection throughout force are the younger officers of the the west The ground squirrels have been long grade of captain and commander There will be fewer chances for them a nuisance on the Pacific coast and at to exercise the command rank that various times have caused great damThe squirrels have has been the ultimate aim of all the age to crops hard work up through the grades from been regarded as good eating up till In the regions where they recently midshipman to lieutenant commander most them salted abound have people The vessels most likely to be ' removed temporarily from the active list down in large quantities for winter are the veterans Oregon Indiana Mas- and have regarded their meat as a of diet article sachusetts and Iowa This will re- staple It was discovered during the earlier lieve the pressure by reducing the necessities of the line of battle fleet in part of the crusade against rats in San Francisco that the matter of seamen by over 2600 The placing of four or five of the the ground squirrel could be infected smaller cruisers out of commission by the same flea which caused the would give opportunity for further spread of the bubonic plague among economizing to the extent of about the rats As early as 1903 the case of one man was noted In Contra 1800 men Costa county who died of the plague RISKS HIS LIFE FOR GOAT’S without having been in any of the larger towns but who was known to Man Jumps In Front of Train to Save have been hunting ground squirrels the Children’s Pet Which Had Sergt Rupert Blue of the marine Wandered on Tracks hospital service noted this case and as other cases developed suspicion ' ' Chester Pa— At the risk of his was more and more directed toward own life Charles Dougherty a vouna the squirrels First a boy and several Force Will Not Be tllittle i London — Europe has a mystery in the announcement that Mrs James Henry Smith has purchased the pearl robe of the former shah for her daughter Anita This ia a marvelous garment composed of thousands of pearls and no trace of it can be discovered in Persia since the shah ceased to rule The story goes that Mrs James Henry Smith heard the erstwhile monarch was anxious to dispose of much of his personal property In jewels rather than that they should go to his successor and that she promptly sent an agent to interview him on the subject as she desired Anita to have some wedding present the like of which no bride of this century was ever able to display The story also says that the gem the “World of Light” is also in the possession of the mother of the future This she proposed to have princess set in the center of the amazing tiara which is to be one of the scores of gifts this adoring mother will give to her daughter At Tulloch castle where the and Mrs £mith are now entertaining Dom Miguel the fiance there is a host of French artists in frocks and millinery designing the trousseau They have brought with them from Paris exquisite silks satins and brocades not to speak of specimens of priceless laces and embroideries hats and cloaks Mrs James Henry Smith and her daughter decided that they would not break up their house parties by rushing to and from Paris for to the trousseau so they arranged bring Paris to Scotland instead One whole wing of Tulloch castle has been set aside as show rooms Mother fiance run daughter and through every morning to inspect the fresh “creations” which have arrived or to give an order Several hours each day have to be given up to fitting by the prospective bride She says she is weary of it and will be thankful when the wedding is over if only to escape from the tyranny of the dressmakers whom she considers veritable martinets Mrs Smith is now more reconciled to the marriage than she was at first and sha is throwing herself heart and soul intb the preparations According to present arrangements the wedding is to take place in London Although the reigning house of Portugal has been at daggers drawn for years with the family of Dom Miguel of Bragan-zyoung King Manuel and the future bridegroom are the best of friends and it is expected that the ruler will be present The bridal dress is being made after the style of those worn by royal brides with a cut neck and Lace which short sleeves belonged to Marie Antoinette and was purchased by the late James Henry Smith for his wife when they were or their honeymoon will compose it Pest Spread by Squirrels other men who had been hunting them were attacked by the plague and finally an examination was made showing conclusively that the squirrels were the hosts of the flea From this time on a war was waged against the ground squirrel regular shipments of them are made to the laboratory of the marine health service in San Francisco where they are examined as carefully as are the rats when there is a suspicious outbreak of the plague One hundred and seventy-eigh- t infected squirrels have been discovered and this alone shows the danger the hunters run in collecting the specimens Aged Couple Wed In Boat Massillon 0— Mrs Anna Devore aged 62 thrice a widow and for 24 years the occupant of a canal boat has married Jacob Eckert aged 78 who for the past eight years has been an inmate of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ home in Marion Ind The couple knew each other years ago but then she would not entertain any proposals of marriage A second attempt on the part of Eckert to win the woman’s love was successful The couple will reside in the bride’s canal boat She gets $20 a month rent and he draws $20 a month pension from the government This the bride says will keep them comfortably The Witching Kind “Pa what are the witching waves T “Those that the women wear my son after their hair has been marcelled” — Exchange |