Show ' qftss3?gz- -- —--jz: AZALEAS UE3STE (Copyright J BLipplncott by it’s no use l couldn’t part with that up yonder not If your wife has took a dozen notions to It and you was to pay me $10000 an acre Why man I don’t want your money I’m 46 years old this fall I've got enough to last and there an't a chick nor a child to leave It to and that hill— well It’s no use that’s all The place ain’t good fcr raisin' much just pines and berry brambles and them there white azalles but when It comes my turn to die I want fern to leave me there See that place where the trees grow thick an it’s dark an’ cool an’ still - That’s it! That’s where I’m goln’ to lie Tour wife Bhe fancied that? Peculiar ain’t It? Women folks likes tight most always light and sunny parts though once I knowed a girl — but that was $0 years ago Buy half my hill you say? No you can’t have half an inch! I tell you once for all you can’t buy half an Inch! Mebby you city folks can’t understand but I’ll tell you what there’s things up here that money couldn’t touch and that there spot is one of ’em Confound It man I’ll tell you why! You see Twas more than twenty year's ago that I come here to see a friend o’ mine named Ephraim Jones You know Eph Jones? Well that’s odd ain’t It? He an’ I was chums This place was mighty then Those cabins there was full of folks an’ men was takln fortunes out o’ quartz most every day The schoolhouse stood up yonder bear my hill an the teacher's name rv 'riA for Qod’s 8ake Gone Wrong?” What’s "Why Man —well that don’t matter anybow I I couldn’t say what she was like couldn’t tell a blind man what a lily was! Vdur cities never grow that kind no more than they do or rhododendron flowers Well we were — friends We used to go for white azalles Bhe an I up on my hill when school was through It wasn’t my hill then not till long after when she’d gone away and yet we called It "ours" We UBed to sit there where the trees grow thick an’ plan out what the years would bring We’d sit there till the shadows came an’ shut the world away an’ then were glad for all the night an all the stars seemed made for Just us twol The nested in those trees an’ when I’d say I loved some one they’d always ask me: "Who?" And so the summer slipped along an’ time come for me to go I was to fix a little home an’ when next the white azalles bloomed to go back for her again Well first she wrote mo regular every week and then her letters got to soundin’ queer like one who laughs an wants to cry an’ then— well then they stopped Those were busy times with us but I wrote by every stage One evenin’— ’twas along q May an I was potterin’ round at dusk up the chores— I saw a man come down the trail The man was He never said Ephraim Jones a word—Just reached out an’ took my band an’ wrung It hard an’ kind o’ choked By and by he said: "Look here old man it takes an awful blast youknow to shatter out that hard gray rock bo you can get the gold Well the good Lord blasts us bard sometimes — perhaps to find our gold" Then he told me how her father’d In debt an’ gone away an’ left Jot mother sick an’ them two little sisters on her hands with nothing but the money from her school how she Co) had tried to keep It from me all those weeks and then— a man had come a Judge from heaven knows where an’ old enough to— Say stranger be this sun too hot You look so kind o’ faint an’ fuddled out Perhaps you’d rather have me stop my yarn? Go on? Well there ain’t much more to telL her The Judge he come but she said always "No” He told her how he’d take ’em all an’ make her mother well an’ send the glrle away to school an’ do a heap o' things Then winter come an’ they hadn’t even wood nor clothes nor things to eat The mother blamed her some an’ cried the little girls both teased an’ coaxed an’ the Judge— come every day And so the winter turned to early spring but things weren’t better much One evenin’ Ephraim come across our hill an’ found her up there where the trees grow thick The leaves were cornin’ on the white axalte plants an' her hands were full of little tender shoots "Go take him these’ she said "and say when they bloom I’ll be his bride My mother and the children need mo most my duty is to them!” Well the Judge he married her an' took ’em all away And I? I’ve got them little dry shoots yet— an’ shall have always too! Ephraim went down lo see 'em once —he knew the Judge you know They were livin’ In a splendid house with The Judge carriages an’ everything was doin’ all he could but money can't buy love! She seemed so kind o’ sweet an still like a lily that’s been picked an' taken from the sun There was a baby too a puny mlts — her baby — an’ she called him—Joe! guess the Judge he didn’t know what for but It was — me! What is It stranger? Be you ill? Perhaps the air’s too light up here an’ your heart ain’t Well to go on he died did little Joe an’ she sent Ephraim word The white azalles was In bloom an’ I got most a hundred sprays an’ Eph he took ’em down The little chap had lots o flowers all boughten ones you know but mine the mother took — an' — ’em held close an’ cried (Confound this smoke! It’s gettin’ in your eyes?) Well after that they went away somewhere in foreign parts and that was — 16 year ago! The Judge if he's now must be as old as — you! The pines keep stagin' on our hill an’ everything grows just the same ai when we two was young an’ some day — Say you’ve seen quicksilver In with gold? The part that isn’t used rolls down the sluice In little shiny balls but when they meet they form a whole so well that nobody can tell which is which The gold divides it mebby by an’ by' but each takes somewhat of the other’s part an’ holds it till they meet again to give it back with Its own self besides Well heahts Is just like that You see I couldn’t sell the place — It’s "ours!” In this world she’s the judge’s wife but in the next — she’s mine! man for God’s sake what’s Why gone wrong? She’s what? She’s what you say? The Judge? Your—wife! Consumption man? Dear heaven be more kind! Say mister that clay hill Is — yours I’m goln’ — I’m goln’ away You’ll pay me? No You’ve paid a thousand You’ve times brought her back — to You die tell her this: A queer old chap rough as the gray rock peepin’ through the hill says the owls have always nested where the trees grow thick an’ the white azalles have waited —20 year! Aquarium 8eal’s Joke Scores of visitors to the aquarium Battery park are victims every day of a peculiar joke and the perpetrator is an old seal This big fellow has a tank to himself and he swims about quifetly enough until a crowd collects at the rail to watch him Then he swims over where the crowd Is thickest suddenly rears his body out of the water and falls back "kerplunk” The water splashes ten feet In the air and everybody in the vicinThe old seal ity gets a ducking dashes to the other side of the tank and seems to enjoy watching his victims mopping the water from their faces The victims usually collect at a safe distance and wait to enjoy the discomfiture of the next crowd — New York Bun In "De man who is lookin’ foh trouble" said Uncle Eben "generally finds It But be mos always doesn manage to meet up wlf de particular kind he felt competent to manage” STOCK BARNS to Conform to Require ments of Payne Law Issued Amended V BY HELEN ELLSWORTH WRIGHT I toll you stranger KNOX’S FINE SECRETARY :fEu Ur £ i'j&f V sww ' f ' ' ’($ - by Wiao Treasury Acting Secretary Reynolds Sends Ou4 Regulations Governing Free Entry of Domestlo Exported and Then Brought Back Here V' 'ss' rY Copyright by v i £J '''’si Tlr7sK"®i r 1 r Fawcett Philander C Knox secretary of state In President Taft’s cabinet Is a lover of fine stock and on his beautiful country place near Valley Forge Pa he breeds the best of cattle The stock barns there are Ideal in construction and arrangement STOP BURYING ALIVE after they had been placed In the Campalgn Started in England to waiting mortuaries Curious cases of death counterfeits Prevent Premature Burial were narrated by Dr Hadwen from London — The appointment of a professional verifier of deaths In every coroner’s district to remove the haunting fear of being buried alive experienced by many nervous and aged people was one of the Interesting suggestions made by Dr Walter Hadwen in his evidence before the departmental committee appointed by tbo home secretary to Inquire into the law relating to coroners’ Inquests The establishment of waiting mortuaries where the professional verifier would watch for positive proof of death was another of Dr Hadwen’s These woul4 be pleaspropositions ing places with ornament and flowers like those in Munich And Berlin The evidence he had collpcted went to show that there was no definite undeniable proof of death apart from There were InIncipient putrefaction stances Dr Hadwen told the committee of persons who had come to life his own experience During the Gloucester smallpox epldemio of 1896 a child believed to be dead of confluent smallpox was removed from hosNext day a pital to the mortuary gardener passing by the window of the mortuary heard the cries of the child The little one was carried back to the ward and recovered In another case Dr Hadwen had been attending a child of three suffering from convulsions with subsequent exhaustion There seemed no hope of recovery and he left the little patient one night thinking he had seen him r for the last time Next day when the doctor reached the cottage the blinds were drawn and the parents were weeping by the side of the little body which lay covered with a white sheet and the undertaker was expected to bring the coffin In a few minutes Looking down at the supposed dead child the doctor fancied he could detect the slightest movement of the chest He tried the pulse but failed to detect a beat A stethoscope revealed a heart beat and after hot flannels had been applied and the body massaged for three hours the child was able to take nourishment FORGETTING MILKMEN Appointment of a Professional Verifier of Deaths In Each Coroner’s District Suggested In Report to Home Secretary I ART OF WALKING Invaluable Therapeutlo Effects of Pe destrlan Exercise a Discovery of Recent Hygiene London — “Walking Is going out of fashion If something is not done it will soon become a lost exercise” declared a physician who supporting the Lancet’s contention affirms that the 111 effects arising from a lack of healthful exercise — due to laziness and to the motor car tube and other con veniences of travel nowaday — form one of the greatest problems of the moment as regards public health “Young men ate forgetting how to walk” he added “Yet walking Is undoubtedly the exercise for city men However busy they are they can find the short time dally which la the only demand this exercise makes Its very simplicity makes some people discount It and turn to elaborate exer clses Yet It is nature’s exercise ’One of the most striking discover ies of quite recent physiology is con nected with the therapeutic effect of walking The action of walking — not to use too technical terms — pumps energy through the frame as does no other means known to science The walkers are the health winners and it may be said that walking has a moral effect not less destinct than its physical effect “A great employer of labor has said that all his foremen over a long succession of years were country-bremen and he attributed their success solely to the fact that they walked to their work with the result that they arrived beyond comparison more fit and vigorous not to add more punctually than the ‘trammers’ ‘Bouts of a most praiseworthy zeal for exercise— Swedish exercises exercises American exercises —come over people and these play their part But they are rarely practiced largely because they are dull and at the best they are no proper substitute for the natural and it is now discovered the irreplacable exercise of walking" Defy SAVE OHIO BABIES City Ordinance of Allaying for the Purpose Suffering Among Children Lorain O — For the purpose of allaying any suffering due to the of milk and to save’ any infants whose lives may be dependent upon fresh milk the law and the milk famine were partially broken here by the milk dealers Mayor King declared that he would arrest any dealer who delivered milk without a license To obtain a license it was necessary for the dealers to obtain their milk from whose cows had passed the dairymen tubercu-litest This the milkmen refused to do and when It was made compulsory by a city ordinance the dealers decided to boycott the city As a result the 30000 residents of this city were without milk About 60 per cent of the usual supply is now being delivered Gets 2740 Pennies Mason City la— An express package containing 2740 pennies is Just now disturbing Merchant Liebsohn of Bancroft The pennies came from Iowa but there Is no way of finding out who the sender was He paid 43 cents express charges and then put the pall on the floor When Liebsohn broke the cover out rolled the pennies in every direction Clerks and assistants went to work counting them and found the above number No one owes him conscience money he is not given to tricks of any kind and he is very anxious now to get a soothsayer to explain this mystery The pennies have been deposited and will be held until further s Robber with Good Points clerk In a downtown banking-housaccused of robbing his employers sends them a letter of advice to change their bbokkeeplng methods so as to prevent future thefts Must be Don’t think a man Is always in the some good points about a man who wrong because he doesn't agree with can be so considerate for others— ' York New Herald you A A Washington D O— The customs regulations governing the free entry! andl of domestlo products exported afterwards brought back to this couni try amended to conform to the rei quirements of the Payne law have been issued by Acting Secretary of the Treasury Reynolds As a result of a recommendation made by the attorney general about a year ago exporters of domestlo whisky will have to produce a sworn certificate declaring the whisky to bsN in the same condition as when ex ported in order to obtain entry of the goods free of duty The new law exempts domestic an provisions imals from the They when returned to this country will have to pay the same duty when Ths reimported as foreign animals regulation permitting the entry free of duty of domestic animals exported for racing and exhibition purposes ll not affected by the other provision Moving picture films of Americat manufacture are entitled to free In portatlon after having been exported only if they are damaged or lighi struck so as to be unsuitable for an) other purpose than the recovery ol the constituent materials The new regulations also provids for the entry duty free of iron or steel drums used for the shipment of acids of either domestic or foreign mantu facture which shall have been actual) ly exported from the United States Preparatory to the collection of ths tax placed upon foreign built yachts by the Payne tariff law Acting Secre tary of the Treasury Reynolds tor warded instructions to the collectol of customs at New York to inquire of owners of such yachts whethei they desire to pay the tonnage tax of $7 a ton annually or the ad valon em duty of 36 per cent of the ap praised value of the yachts at ths time the duty is collected by Yachts chartered or owned Americans for a period of six months will hereafter be appraised at the first collection district in which they arrive The next tax is to bs collected on the 1st of September and the customs officials are now prepar tag a list of the foreign built pleasure) boats owned or chartered by Amert cans Internal revenue collectors have been Instructed to canvass their re spectlve districts and obtain for the treasury department a list of the corporations which will be subject to the new corporation tax embodied In the Payne tariff law Included In the list the will be information regarding amount of the capital stock of the corporations and their places of busl ness The corporations are divided into five classes — financial and com mercial Industrial and manufacturing public service mercantile and miscelThis information is to be laneous gathered preliminary to the determin ation of the regulations of the colleo tlon Of the corporation tax TREATS SICK BABY ON CAR Father of Eighteen Familiar with Children’s Aliments Saves Infant’s Life New York— James Maher Is the father of 18 children and what he convulsions know about doesn’t measles mumps whooping cough and Buch things wouldn’t take a doctor Maher also is inspector long to learn for the Coney Island & Brooklyn railway A young mother had a young baby In a street car the other afternoon and the infant got convulsions and the mother got hysterics and the other women in the car got Into the street The motorman stopped the car "Here” yelled Maher as he gol aboard and took in the situation "get to that drug store on the corner quick and bring back some mustard and a dishpan of hot water" The motorman soon was back with them Maher swiftly took the baby’s clothes off and had its feet In a hot mustard bath while the women gathered about and wondered why none of them had thought of "You've saved the kid’s life” said a surgeon from Senev hospital it Buying Warship for Greece Seattle Wash — Members of the local Greek Catholic church raised $1 000 and turned it over to their pastor to assist in building of a battleship to be given to Greece in case of war with Rev M G Andreade in Turkey charge of the fund said that had been raised by $35000 Greeks in this county sv |