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Show John Henry on Ihe I waa her candy boy for sure. SAVED FROM DREAO FATE. Just then something snapped and the machine started for Portland, Kind Womans Assistance Meant Maine, on the basis of a mile In eight Much to Thio .1.1.1. Tramp. seconds. Clara Jane grabbed me around the A certain lady, noted for her kind neck and I grabbed the lever. heart and open hand, was approached The eccentric has buckled the not long ago by a man who, with I thlngamajlg!" yelled, pushing the tragic air, began: lever over to stop the carryall. A man, madam, Is often forced by The thing gave me the horse laugh. the of hanger to many things Jumped over a telegraph pole, bit Its from whip which his very soul shrinks way through a barb-wirfence and and so it Is with me at this time. Unless, madam, in the name of pity, you gve me assistance, I will be com pelled to do something which I never before have done, which I would greatly dislike to do. Much Impressed, the lady made haste to place In his hand a bill. As the man pocketed It with profuse thanks, .she Inquired: And what is the dreadful thing I have kept you from doing, my poor man? Work," was the brief and mournful reply. Harpers Weekly. , Benzine e hvgh Ctorgt V. Hobart Me much I ) dub named Mont baa been doing the ahlne spe- clalty around Clara Jane lately. He began to call evening and bring a bunch of ready-growflower with him a big a a hay atack. Then he'd apread around the parlor and tell her how he won the running Jump in the 01 Yale class, , , Aa you approached him from the front the flrat name you aaw was Clarence-Clare- nce Edgerton Montrose, Wouldnt that alap you! I don t think Clara Jane considered him the real kittens, but be could talk fast and use long words and she found him pleasant company. She said she loved to alt and shade her eye with the elght-dollafan I gave her and listen to Clarence Edgerton Montrose while he discoursed about Palestine and the Holy Hand. If he was ever there he went In a hack. That's the trouble with some of those college come-outs- ! The professors beat them over the head with a geography and then aa soon as they cross-countr- e Man-of-Wa- SAM TREATS HIS WORKERS GENEROUSLY. UNCLE In TO THE SECRETARY DIRECT GOOD TO EMPLOYES Matters of Vacations and Sick Leave Ho Might Be Termed Eaey" Policy of Retrenchment a Failure. Man Takes Complaint to Head of Bureau. "It Is very seldom, remarked an official of the navy department, that the secretary of the navy receives a man. but seccall from a retary Metcalf bad that experience business It was during recently. hours at the department A young bluejacket very much excited and apparently in trouble appeared in the 8 It costs Uncle Sam In the neighborouter-rooand asked hood of 16,000,000 annually for the secretary's Not Private many Seeielary Clark If lie couldn't leisure of his employes. secemployers Ireat their employes so have a private interview with the Secrebusiness. could on not Important many retary generously, In fact, afford to do bo. There are on the gov- tary .Metcalf happened to be disenernment payroll about 55,000 em- gaged at , the time and he said hel ployes, and their annual salaries ap- would see the man, The sailor went Bssrln mins Most of Into the secretarys private office and proximate about 260,000,000, wTmC.MfJ"" that seems W.sr. It trouble. of :i() days' told a yarn these employes are entitled to li Utu (jy MndlDf . twine. vacation annually. They are also al- he Is attached to Farraguts old flagHsrs u th proof -to,. OO pound! I'l.YMni--r..lowed to take 30 days' sick leave an- ship Hartford, now used by the midtwin squill ten nually on full pay. It Is estimated shipmen at Annapolis as a practical WWcfc ooutfttn foreign weJ '""I that 75 per cent, of the employes take ship, ami that he had walked from bismiito biit ui.uu vibm their vacations regularly, and many Annapolis (o Washington, a distance Jon ltWO foot for from , WESTERN MEN IN NEW YORK. lump, of about 40 miles, in order to lay hla take their full 30 days sick leave, ' ThrMhTJr Agsott for A treasury official with whom stagrievance before the head of the naval MdCoopsrW.oMlM).c.or. Writs or olt. Brains of Mountain and Prairla In De- tistics are a hobby has made a careful establishment Aeordlng to his story ut more the bluejacket was sick and couldn't mand In the Financial Center. computation, and says that than $6,000,000 of good government get proper food tin his ship. He said Ever since the early days, when D. funds go for "loafing siells'' of em- that the doctors had put him on a O. Mills, J. B. Ilaggin and Janies R. ployes. As he figures It. the govern- light diet, but that he was given nothKeene emigrated from California to ment work could be done with ing but regulation food, which was less the present number of too course for his delicate digestion, isew York, the metropolis has been drawing largely on the west and south employes easily. Or, taken in another and made him sick. The man was in form, the present force can do all the pretty bad shape, but whether it waa lor its supply of men who do things, lheodore P, Slum to, both a southerner government work lu Ilmonths, prole j due to Improper food or simply the and westerner, who has undertaken to ably in ten, for whirh they now re-- 1 result of his long tramp from Annapoaolve New Yorks great transit prob- reeive the 12 months' pay. He also lls It was hard to tell. Anyhow hla Lesdlaf Implement Dealers lem, is the latest importation la re- suggests that if the government work tale excited Secretary Metcalf's symUuhdil sponse to the call of the east Ceone T. Odell. Cener.i was done by contract It could be pathy and at his man the suggestion The promptness with which Thos. F. done for s the present was sent to the local naval hospital Ryan, of Virginia, turned the Equit- cost. HaiTha1ra LaK'- for treatment and observation, in adable Life Assurance Society over to and Mon,t Is There one feature remarkable dition to which the secretary said he Its policyholders, who now elect a maabout this vacation business," said would Investigate his complaint of imjority of its Board of Directors, and divested himself of the control of the he, "and that Is that the more salary proper treatment on the Hartford. DlamJ stock which he bought from Jas. H. a man draws the longer vacation he The case is unusual, in that the sailor Is of Hyde, and the success of the new takes. The ordinary employes get 30 man was able to present his case to We guarani management of the Society under the days' annuual and 30 days' sick leave, the head of the navy in person." sell re direction of President Paul Morton, if they can a doctor's certifisupply It own fault If you have created a demand for the strong cate. Many heads of White House Fun and Jollity. departments men of the south and west that Is take from satisfied. The to four months, and evening visitors who sit about greater than ever before. Under the do not havethree the lito fire" in account to the camp anybody. presidents Morton management the Equitable has made a better showing than any other It's a case where the little fish get brary do not have altogether a silent insurance company in the way of im- the worst of It, as usual. But the sub- - time of It, says a correspondent proved methods, economies and In- ordinate employes have no complaint There Is their own conversation and alien eoni a ed to emiloyes of rnll-- that of their host, and there Is the creased returns to policyholders. E. H. Gary, head of the greatest cor- roads and tuber concerns which are j occasional reminder that the younger Roosevelts are not far off. It's a good poration In the world the U. S. Steel large employers of labor. Co. John W. Gates, Henry C. Frick, When confronted with the vast sum halthy noise that comes from the Norman B. Ream. Wm. H. Moore and paid out for SALT leisure, government of- - hall on occasion, and the fact that it Daniel G. Reid are other westerners flclals made by two or three boys and a, the say payroll Is just the Mime who are among the biggest men In whether the employes worked ten dog or two having the time of their KNEW BETTER THAN THU New York. months or 12; that there are the big hallway without just many people to do the work and Humming Birds In England. just j raak8 It, In one sense at least, ap- - City Youth Could Believe Mich , Considerable Interest Is excited by T m,lch work to be done: that f they PealnR. The presidents children are There Was a Limit !t ,n " ., flve-dol-l- tao ,01.., ' S' (, The Eccentric Thlngarlngl Has I Buckled Yelled. the .(. lit) )(e ifll one-twelft-h then started down the road at the rate of 2,000,000 miles a minute. . Why dont you stop It? screamed my lady, friend. "Ill be the goat; whats the answer?" I said, clawing the lever and ducking the low bridges. We met a man on a bicycle and the last I saw of him as we whizzed by he had found a soft spot In a field about four blocks away and he was going Into It head first, We kept his bicycle and carried It dust as good as along on our smoke stack. the balance I couldnt stop the thing to save my life. absolutely everything we' Every time I yanked the lever the s your snap would let a chortle out of hla not puzzle department and jfly 400 feet straight through the air. We were headed for an old ash heap, and my market price had gone down to three cents a ton,, Dont Jump! 1 yelld to my lady friend, but the wind whisked the first half of my sentence away. Clara Jane gathered her .skirts In a bunch and did a flying leap out of LAKE CIUBtI the crazy cab. She landed right In the middle of Hed Speed Around the Parlor and that heap of fresh ashes and she Tell How Ho Won the sohva made good. Long Jump In the 01 Yale Claee. All I could see was a great, gray get a crowd around they begin to go cloud as I pushed on to the next stand. the humming birds now ten ,nonth Uncle Sam is ,ike the children of other sensible on view at About half a mile further down the to the places that struck them hard none the loser. Still, when a railroad African parents. the xoologlcal They are allowed garlens. Fifty-threroad the machine concluded to turn ,0,InRPr 8on of a well of or other est. I "'uk all the noise that they care politician of these big of labor employer finds tiny, birds Into a fragile were farm taken Chicago has and As an honest, hard the home yard give that I to of its present force of . on board from Venezuela; Provided it doesn't interfere with , much all of his life In thespent working man It folks a treat. many died i was my duty to put the boots to Edbig can do all the work it the comfort of others. No visitor is the lake, It went through a window In the on the voyage, but the fittest aun Pmi'lo;'PH and, consequently knot gerton and run him down the lane as 1 bt'8il,at t0 discharge the other worrld by it, for It quits The tie of country ways and thlna barn, out through a skylight, did the vlved, and 20 reached Regent's park t ,1" far as the eye could see. lnc e 8am 18 not 80 harsh- - He young8ter8 of the executiveearly. live. At the time of long ago he. visited a man he bin mansion 17 are writing 8o I framed up Clarences finish C ahowa In two large gloss en,Plo'e now and then g0 t0 bed early and get up early, but In Chicago, and who maintain i cages fur- with much attention to detail. uufaithfulnesa, but never simply hey do have a time of t while h hi they farm near I looked over Clara Janes dates because the employe ha. and awake, their to i.ted the youigSor com father nothing Hays it is ahead and found that Clarence had g00d thlng- lengthy stay. One day tlM Chi, rented the house for a Wednesday home time ago Secretary Garfield youth was wandering about tie t matinee, so I hired one of those horseI I a New ,n Gastronomic Line. )egan retrenchment" policy In the closely examining the too less carriage things and f the Interior. pulled up In He abol- - ,nL,cre8 exPprIcnce much difficulty aides of a certain trim weilmajd ..., , d';,iar,n"nt front of the windows Just about the new to or thre divisions in his of- - !" fl.ndlng d,8hp- - hut It took a fact fenced kindly their new surroundings, and time I thought His Feathers would round In the flnd live ong to delight the eyes of th work to the Indian tV.,rs,!a npgro a Washington cafe What are you searching be playing the overture. many b"W,,, dwellers In Ia",U Kt",aI ' offlee. smoky London.-- W I knew that Clara Jane thf day t0 Introduce a distinct asked the owner -- of the t , yould cann, C-rl,- . divl.L.n ,hlrt a luliilca, cel the contract with the mutt that Wh, Platea and tired traveler got off a'l ad windows?" asked Jimmv "n transferred to mixed In Just as soon as she saw the ndian . 1,1 ''an or land offlee, and sev- - ,tra " Bt the pcnnsj Ivania depot and and windows I automobile snap. Whv Jimmv Breathless, they stood at last upon c,al f them had their salaries in-- hettdd for an eating place which some I' haj stack. 'Look here, old mm I figured that the picture entitled the towering Adirondack peak. hanee acquaintance in the The True Lover Departure In the smoker claimed Jimmy; I may be oi There," she said angrily, we have ' illustration fa given. At himself spatina Dream Wagon would put a at the Kreen person from the city, but climbed all this distance to admire a crimp In rcrent session Clarence about the size of a barn tl he Was handed a menu card by I cant bluff wav Bar dthe beauties of nature, and we left olor. was made, of congress an ef- the interests ( fie t"--Hd door. 8' ter of viands. du! grow in the glass at home." economy to ,he ,lHr,h of wal"'8 wipe out all the outside It was my third or fourth time beWeekly. Tranquilly smiling, be shifted the pensioners from the f ,,,an-for anlrle and b- hind the lever of the busy barouche, ,Mlt Washington lunch basket to the other arm. enu. When sifted down it We Met a Man mo,m,al on a Toad as Assistant Garden. resrts. the management was found but I was wise that you pulled the Bicycle. "Never mind, dear." he said. It hat the bureau intended to lmt to ,he By actual Inspection of a big of employing plug this way when you wanted it to hula dance over the lawn, and then fell wont hurt us, Just this all bring hi clerks at the once, to drink nferred to. who was not toad's stomach it was found to .neR outside offices to go ahead, and you shoved it back In the well and stayed there, panting out of the bottle." Washington at the same or when you wanted it to stop. increased Heir,,"rdnI with either experience tain not less than 50 large grape as though Its little heart sabules. Figures were "As a matter When it came to benzine buggies would break. worms', 55 potato bug3, 60 sowing, w, produced He Wae the On to Blame. Perhaps show that instead of the i lu I felt that my education was trav''r. Inbeing angleworms, the with, by way of When I limped back to Clara Jane Illcks He first met his wife when crests of relating hls ex complete. the man only knew I was George economy It would really numerous flies and mosqui: the storm signals were flying. a one 0n Gjazazza, the real RotrfP fa rose the government more, so the sen dish o ,he card. After f ? Now lando. when I pulled up in front of She was away out on the Ice. multiply this, and 1 think finishing bUt U,r manla8 a hasty meal of a' defeated the bill. my lady friend's front gate. steak, fried potatoes will appreciate the value of u v The feather boa looked like the haw-se- r lsnthappy"00 ;ind coffee, 1 asked him what else he of toads on your premises, or My market price was 118,000 on a canal boat, hnd the ashes had Wicks Ah, I see. a Good Fishing Around number required, according to gM0d' ,m'anl,1 Capital. square Inch. for a dear. changed the pattern of her dress goods. d88r: services WV ii,ul In six minutes by the watrh Clara We were stingy talkers on the that may reasonably be orang-outanroad many votaries b. Wash A 8MALL SECRET. response jllBt as a pected from one toad. Suburb home., who ugion. find an.pl er f told him to Life. It will take me two years to square gel me some these da) s to gratify theiropp.rtul,jn(., conslderalde misgivings us to Couldnt Understand' th Taste bold.). This myself. what of doe mu apply to the game 8 would Great Land Owner. Hla Customers. fisheniien bring. A great uproar went Hereafter, me to the trolley! evpei-twith The Duke of Northumberland b Hy hen and he rod! set before Me to the saucy stage coach when casting me a hut to the common piece of largest land owner In England, every meringue oje Tim r..., Two men were discussing the I in due to gallop sway and away! var. worm fisherman, who If he estates stretch almost from sea to , ous enlarged food products now being No more benzine buggies for hande.riLrfi sin .er tingh s for white yours supplied und ho can ride 100 miles a(l in such variety and abundance. perch and cat-1sincerely! once d,'US!,,t leave hls own domain, h it wm day a One, grocer, said, I frequently Never again for the bughouse bar,c try slide to see a thousand Ilne ,7m pcarance he Is tall hnd thin, with" a package or so of any certain ouche! Not me. article from the Long bridge to Haa Seen Many Lands dish hair and flowing whiskers. before offering it to my I have only one and Races consolation: The trade, an, I in bridge. There will bo men the bo! Is in manner, and it that way sometimes form a diffeient In and chap we pried off the bicycle was Clarboats, on the wharves and many of the attributes of a P Idea than my customers have. ence Edgerton Montrose. filing front the sea wall and river n, ,iai k flgneiir. And he has all the f For instance. I thought I would It will take hint about three years i'H to the lot try of Hie Percy and keeps up to the ' "'1' some Postuin Food Coffee, to see within and two months to find all the the J spots This .1. rf. Frank N. Merer pHrV)l,rTr their Olympian traditions. H reason there was for such a call what perch season, but that foolish wagon knocked off him. ' for it. the fish are running' In once heard to say: You will agricultural department 'Tt smuil YhTs'y At breakfast I didn't like It and Meantime, I hope to bo Clara supper h8 Bo a long way back In our record completed a r n rk. !h -- i fast proved the same, so I naturally conjane's sugar buyer again. to fish for white hlna, And a Korea , cluded that my taste was (Copyright, 1901, by c, W. Dillingham Co Percy who was either Idle1" different anl he"l"u!im In religion he from that of the customers who spendthrift. Mother Not to Be Trusted. bought ns the big perch swim prosecution of hls . Ingito, like hls father, and be For a Chaaer 8h Wore One of Thoee it deep h right along. John Alexander Dowte had a grand catflesh are biting . ..Y'k JJ ron-- te un.i A day or two converted the duchess to bis Featherboaa. after, I waited on a specimens are caught. and some knack of putting things quaintly and lief. are They good a buyln W?a 2c ea lng. too, as they are the blue chun-noJane was down and In the kerosene forcibly. At one of hls last meetings and told I'akage I l couldn't l understand how he attacked the modern mother of sohas cats, ami they put up a fight caravan. Fishing Time. , u. one could fancy the taste of almost Some piscatorial equlvocator I'ostnm. as tlelonsly aa a ldg ciety, the mother who neglects her r Clarence hadnt arrived. I kuow Just what Is the mouth buy. mailer hilt are new to iitlI , 0r'alH the audacity to send mo a boeP Somebody must have put him next, children. she said, you put the coffee boiler he on I 1 said. Why, postcard made In the shape of I18 but knew where he lived and I figoverheard the the stove for Just Mystery In Shaving Day. d.t fish, fifteen minutes, and with a t "Well, we are going ured It out that after we came back most remarkable conversation be- ten minutes of duboiate stamp on "" report' 'that that time it slmm. red Southwest 111 Printed on one side was till: "" from Lonely Lane Id send the landau tween two nursemaids on a car yes1 route of hls more '"''"fa Washington ud perhaps five minutes novel ir it bulled visit to my sister." sskl a around and around the block he terday, xl"ileiices tolling about It don't let now if you will have it left to boll woman Jas while traveling Are Dh Of full you to turn on the sentier a In Into going a I whale," till made hint dizzy. camped pintle? said fifteen minutes after It commences Pennsylvania avenue to In the southeast ssctlon of Clara Jane was the feature of the the first nursemaid. appeal to the post offlee dn1 w 111 find a delicious the Jire boll, you Java like the other No, said the second, Ttc afraid I tnent win bo made. This U W' Fame. morning. beverage, rich in food value of gluten matter. N. Y. PreBS. ing u femnle friend, and threjldmi! She waa tba limit in ladies dress shant be there. and phosphates, so choice that you was. Oh. I know Why not? cried the first. And whfah K"e in for uplifting good. you wm haVt, t . will never abandon It, time. Tantalizing Mstsl. particularly For a chaser she wore one of (boss you so fond, too, of picnics and danc8td" bendy avoided when th, A rare metal you aee the great gain In health, which ha tlrF1 Her feather boas that feel cool because ing and young men and all that there! rlv,,oua name Then Is ..Jy . the on first woman sighed ell. I took another trial and sure t,n universal attention during the " ami said the Oh, other ao "f look warm. nursemaid. ft and they Td enough I Joined the Postum borons two koow he shaves on .1 years, while before It was W that when her music. Hli army for day. The talk Well, 1 turned the horseless gag Into dearly love to go; dearly. But, to tell ,,l"lgd theu life and branched seems good, worth off you ome Klf'1 the truth, I'm afraid to leave the Jy known outside of into living since disjointed the shell road and cut loose. th. discussion as to best tabllshm,Tof!!,ll ,H,ld laboratortea, I have gotten rid of my old time stomo days We were doing about 43 miles an baby with Its mother.' tantalum, . to hang out the wash "nl,ona academy 0f ait um ach and kidney trouble." and what a ,, ''.iia' by it discoverer. Ekelberg, hour and the birdies wore singing on f soup to feed con. the children during hi servulory, both Postum la no aort of medicine, but Where He Got It. ount of the a ay. govermeut funds. ,i ir)U'd by Mperlenced th.In tantalizing th "Phwere did yes git th black t pure food, liquid and this, eye?" togethet Clarence Edgerton Montrose was that she wishes to Rt dowl I extracting Fell on me bark." with a relief from coffee worked the fellows who heard the first rom It ores. Tantalum I on ,n house annals a working to shaft No. 3, back In the a,'lte i?", mi Yr the .m eye's not In yer back." There's a Reason." change. U,.W "h" hM Jardest aubatancea known, nd conscientious mines my lady frltiid told me so. ru'0V8d BBd "Nayther was th brick Kelly threw." Read Tba Road to WslMlls," la ceil. C"r nuhlteiit Use for aclentlfle Instrument cel t, of torlc 8b wan having t le time of her life. brated bv china a h'8' Cleveland laader. that has ev family Hlht,rfQK PUt. ' ,r rftrd the doubtle be developed In mansion. tnarkabl. degree. Engl neerlaf , Li W- aoda (Oiild itin iiffc 4 n'lil ,tne did. ok it three-fourth- 1 1 1 Die-tan- e five-sixth- s fr .'" o - J . i ! . SM thl 1 !, 1 TT'1 , v wty gas-engin- e V , Wl da l?'g oeisrrr s T,7' T 1 Jr to li! . one-cen- t ,,,!! iyu 1 1 2 S'ci" ttly Blue. fTor, Bill, jftfclk Utfuii |