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Show CHOOLBOYS LOVE IS CAUSE OF DUEL The domestic hog, grunting latliy about his pen, is as harmless a creature In appearance as can be Imagined. In their wild state, according to the reports of travelers, hogs are fierce and cruel, unrelenting in OLD FIGHT WITH first shots had gone wide, and as )3 17 YEARS she came Into the open their their fury, and will attack men when STOLS FOR SMILES OF pistols wers roused. Circumstances occasionally poised, She begged for PRETTY TEACHER. to be heard before they opportunity arise which show that this wild strain persisted in tbs has not been wholly lost, even in the fight most obese porker. The of eloquence her armistice arranges pleas Is best Mark and Carl Perkins, two Chicaattested by the fact that the pistols were put by. With an armed go boys, aged 11 and 14, while spendArrives at Scene of Contest Just on each side Miss Carson led gallant ing their vacation last summer on the way Is Fired and kfter First Volley their Grandfather Triggs farm In back to the village. She wheedled Her Plea to Desist Is them Into taking cozy hairs In her central Wisconsin, had an experience ie fab! r ter anfl and aiT F c Successful. er. sur, ranville, N. Y. Such valorous as inspired the knights of old to t to the death for my ladys hand and' iiij'1 . ilni t tided tom wrj front Unit id HUkt4 SU- ..... oil ti Sil- I loUt Onus IF nm MCtf eeDintg Uu 1 and each and he was madly In love, was therefore distracted when reached his ears a few was boasting of i ago that Daley success attending his courtship of pretty schoolmaam. Willard went ight to Daley with a demand to draw his suit. Daley demurred hatically. transpired that the lovelorn fair charmers !hs met at the to pay ie, whither they had gone r respects. Fast on the heels of ry words came a challenge to fight pistols. Plans for the duel were ussed In the bearing of Miss Car-an- d the gallants departed impetu-i- . Miss Carson was determined vert a fatality, but her suitors were er of foot than she In reaching a nlit clearing in the woods at the s ige boundary.' She was still a from the clearing when two s rang out She pressed forward ugh the woods with desperate en-- , screaming as she ran to distract attention of the duellists. Their 'non.- fitniu f leketii bun-yard- lUkt Stt 3 with hogs which they will not soon forget. Among the many delights which the farm afforded, the one which gave the boys the most pleasure, during the early part of the Bummer, was picking wild strawberries In a pasture a half-milfrom the house. The most convenient route to this field was across the hog pasture, a lot which lay between the "strawberry pasture" and the house. On these berrying trips they were often accompanied by Mack, a farm peared on the scene with his rifle. One afternoon, the week after their arrival, they started for strawberries, carrying with them two tin palls and a lunch which their grandmother had , put up for them. their grandfather called "Boys, after them, see If there are any gophers in those traps I set on the hill! The little pests are going to kill all the grass If I don't manage to get rid of them somehow. The boys went to the place indicated, and found the traps, nicely hidden, but no gopheis. "I guess it's too early. They e ten-acr- sev-mont- m tl nd and attends the at high school where Carson, 19 years of age charming, has taught for the past She smiled a Willard for ach is 17, e classes G. j Flora ad M Henry Willard Id Tlet i John Daley as, armed with pistols, aoimht a secluded wood on. the klrts of tho village, klc nil: An Adventure in the Hog Pasture. All for the Love of a Schoolmaam. parlor, and with tact and vivacity which charmed away their rancor she soon had them passing occasional words. Before they said their adieus she had exacted a promise that there would be no more murderous pistol ,5 J '4 f- e to Mark. Run and climb over the fence. Shall I take the berries? asked Mark. While Carl hesitated, a snout struck the back of his leg, and he heard hla trousers rip. "Run quick! he cried, and the next Instant was knocked down. A babel of hoarse grunts and the snapping of tusks surrounded him, above which rose the shrill squeals of the pig. Carl had clung to the stick, he laid about vigorand, ously, and soon had a circle cleared, round which the hogs stood with snapping, foaming Jaws. In this moment of relief he saw that Mark had reached the fence. He sprang toward the hogs that Btood between this and him, and beat them over the head. They gave way, and he started to run, when he was Jerked bark by something that tugged at bis hand. In the excitement he had slipped a finger through the ring in the end of the chain and could not withdraw it He was chained to the pig! The danger of the situation really came to the boy for the first time. He struggled madly to release his finger, but the ring had slipped above the knuckle, and his struggles only served to blacken and discolor the finger. If he was to escape he would have to fight bis way through. He could not run. The pain In his finger from the continual tugging of the pig was becoming excruciating. Slowly he moved toward the fence, now about a hundred yards distant, dragging the pig. The drove of hogs moved with him In a solid and constantly narrowing circle. To increase his difficulties, the dis- half-risin- 5V work. Granville is In the dark concerning the terms of the armistice, and signs which will betoken the accepted suitor are awaited with Interest. rk. SOARS SKYWARD in TALONSOFBIG Jd If dives IN EAGLE for fleeing rab- - tT AND, MISSING IT, NABS HOWLING CANINE. Liken eC it ; CHf lo ire , PH lief. ULLj lor. 0 I (to: Hint m a Tloi nl 1 nun tbou Eagle Rote with the Howling Dog. iahc m initi 53 .Hr ipte ivi I).1 itJ.U aewahoc, Me. Iliram Chase was )lng rabbits with his pet hound, rt, tho other day when be uoticed pge eagle loitering in the sky over-f- i Now and then the bird would r. d 19, AND AUNT, 57, ELOPE. Note Telling of Love and Aeking Forglvneneee. orison, Neb. Wilber Herbert. 19 old. son of a ranchman, William 'ert, living southwest of here near Wyoming line, and Miss Jessie herbee, his aunt, who Is 67 years ige, loNd from the home of the iig mans father. The fuel became "n only and they are now iand and wife If their plans have miscarried. "nng Herbert Bent his father a after ho had left homo telling that he and hla aunt wore In love each other and had gone away I' her to get married. Ho asked llveness. The father knew that H,,n and hla sister-in-lahad dis-'red, but he did not susiiect that f hud clos'd until ho received to-da- y 1 1 Herberts note to erbort Isa good looking, Intelligent 'g man and hla father had sent way to school with the Idea of 'ring hint for a professional life. " Wltherliee was not regarded as I Mtidsotno woman. Bhe taught lol for ninny years. Has Slept for Two Weeks. rysvllle, Kan. Miss llllma Ol- sehiMil teacher near Frankfort," luff ring with a dlseuso that phy-"n- s are umil-lto dlugnose. For u 'k she tins been In a somnolent 'iltlon, and It Is Impossible to ii"" her, Previous to the attack J" Olson was an unusually aethe come almost within gunshot; then he would mount so far into the blue that he looked little bigger than a robin. At this time Sport was running the most erratic rabbit that ever led hound a chase. Instead of progressing In a circle he scooted back and forth at all kinds of angles, until his trail was a study in geometry. Evidently the rabbit had something on his mind, and Chase rightly guessed that this was the eagle. It was nearly an hour before the hare dodged by within sight, and the hunter had an opportunity to fire at him. The brush was thick, and instead of killing the little animal he broke one of Ills back legs. It Is with these long legs that Mr. Rabbit propels himself, and with one of them out of commission he was forced to decrease his speed. The hound took advantage of this, and at the end of another quarter of a mile he grabbed the hare by the loose skin at the back of the neck. Sport was shaking the little fellow In a way to make the fur fly when the eagle shot down like a plummet. Evidently he intended to gobble up the rabbit. If he did he missed his calculations, for he set his talons firmly Into Sports side. The next Instant he rose with the howling and strug gllng dog hugging his tail between hla legs. Up and down the pair see sawed, while Chase rushed to the res cue, firing his gun as he ran. Getting directly under the bird and dog he let go both barrels, and down came SHrt. Two shots hit the dog In the head and some evidently perforated the eagle, for he shed a handful ol feathers. One of Sport's legs wat sprained, but otherwise he was not badly off for his sudden rise and fall Cat Savea Girl From Fire. Kokomo, lnd. Tom. a household eat, saved the life of Miss Bessie Jones, a niece of Mrs. Carl Spangler when the home of the Spangler family Miss Jones had a narrow burned. escape from death In the flames Just as the roof and floors fell In. She turned on a roaring Are In the kitch en stove, intending to "hake out an attack of the grip." hut fell asleep Slto was awakened hv the cat pulling at her dress. The room was filled with smoke ami the burning wood crackled with tin flumes. She ran to a small balcony, hut finding the dis tanre too great to Jump threw bed clothes over her head and passed Below along the hut ulna stairway. she found her exit barred by locked doors she herself had fastened. With severe Injuries to herself she dashed through a window, the cat escaping without a seiatch. Water Cura for Insanity. modern system of hydrotherapy, or the water cure system for InsanCop-It- n ity, will he Installed by Director In the Philadelphia hospital for the It Is claimed I hut In many Insane. cases of chronic Insanity a marked cure la Improvement und often a wrought. "Just as a .Tutkish bnth seems to absorb from the system the water treatpoison of liquor, so the ment seem to absorb the element which directly or Indirectly cause says Di. Coplln. "I have heart of cases when patients who had to Ik at rapped hands und feet when they In the hath, were so were flint much Improved after an hour or two that their violence disappeared." A d''d t tv f ' The Hogs Stood with Snapping, haven't come out yet, said Carl. The boys went on to the strawberry pasture. After their palls were filled, they sat down to rest, and suddenly remembered that they were hungry. They brought out their bread and Jam and cold chicken. Lets go back by the traps, said Carl, after they had finished their There might be a gopher In lunch. one now. The traps were near the center of the field. When they were near them they hear a pig squeal. The squealing Well, thats queer, grew louder. It must be hurt said Cari. Maybe it's lost, suggested Mark. They could hear hogs all over the posture grunting In response to the squeals of the pig. I Come on, Mark! cried Carl. He began to gee It. It's in a trap! run. holding the palls carefully so as Take them. not to spill the berries. he said, handing these to Mark, while I get It out. Its leg may get broken. He stooped to bend the spring, but the pig made such frantic efforts to escape that It Jerked up the stake which held the chain and hobbled away, with the trap clinging to Its foot. "Carl. Im afraid of the hogs!" cried Mark. They were Indeed acting strangely. They were running toward them from all quarters of the pasture, uttering a noise that was more like a roar than a grunt. Hogs?" said Carl, scornfully. Hogs won't hurt you. Hi, I can drive them may with this stick." lie picked up a stick and rapped a hog smartly over the back. The animal sanealed aid ran to one side. Ills confiMark was reassured. dence In his older brother was unlimited. Together they set out after the crippled pig, chasing It hither and thither, In and out of the drove of excited hogs. Finally Cat I caught the end of the chain and stopped Its progress, at which the pig squealed more wildly than ever. The old hog were uproar round making a deafening them. Even Carl began to get nervous. You'd better get out! ha shouted JHl ' - t Jaws. Foaming traded pig began to run about him winding his legs in the chain and threatening to overthrow him. Carl was becoming frantic. He struck a hog which was disputing his way, and saw hla stick fly to pieces. He looked up and cried aloud in terror. The fence was so near, yet be could not reach IL He could see Mark running about excitedly on the other side of the fence and whistling? Yes .whistling. terror-stricke- He was calling Mack. Carl turned eagerly toward the house and his heart gave a great bound. Help was coming! Up the long slope that led from the house Mack was coming like an arrow sped from a how. Would he be In time? Carl turned and began to kick savagely at the hogs. The frightened pig ran between his legs, and whirled him about, wrapping hopelessly In the chain. lie struggled to his footing, but fell under the rush of the hogs. For a brief moment they ran over him, and he covered his fare with his hands, expecting with each breath to feei their teeth. Then to his amusement they left him, and he was lying alone unmolested. Even In the sunshine, the pig had escaped by freeing Itself from the trap. The explanation for this came from an uproar at one aldo. In the midst of the drove Mack was spinning like a top, snapping right and left, a bleeding snout here and an ear there showing that these leaps wore not futile. At last the dog made a lunge at a particularly largo hog, and fastened so securely that h!s hold could not he broken. Tho aqueala of hla victim sent the fntlre drove flee Ing In terror down the hill. Carl got up slowly, crossed the fence, and sat down. The world seemed to be traveling round In a circle. Mark, the clouds, the trees nnd the twa palls of berr'r all seemed . a part of a huge I'm glud you didn't spill them, he Grandma Thon It said, thickly. suddenly became dark. When ho opened his eyes agatn was In the rool north bedroom, ana hla grandmother was rubbing his forehead with Brnlca. J. S. Ellis la Youths Companion. keep merry-go-round- Old Bottles and New Wine BY SHAN F. BULLOCK (Copyright, by Joseph B. bowleg.) the look which trlfiers had Twilight Was falling through autumn evening when we pushed out the black punt and set forth across the lake. We were gliding through the twilight and the creeping mist away toward Claekan and the cottage there, In which Daniel was to prove himself before us all. Daniel! How well we remembered him. How short a time it seemed since the days when he bad sat among us In the school house there among the trees. And now be was back from college; and every one was proud of him, and we, his old playmates, were going to hear him preach the Word. We made a goodly company. From far and near people had gathered to do Daniel honor. Claekan filled half the room; Gorteen gave its best and wisest In the second row from the table sat Mary, Daniels sweetheart, her father on this side, her mother on that Everywhere one saw familiar faces, stern and rugged, beaten with rain and wind faces that in the morning had looked up at the minister from the pews in Derryvad, and now were turned upon the door watching for sight of Daniel. Hush! The door opened, and a little procession caine In the preacher first, Daniel next, the family following after one by one to their places on the first form. There followed a hymn then a chapter from Isaiah, read well and feelingly; then a third hymn, and a shorter and more personal prayer. In which God was asked to bless the preaching of his word; then a minute of bustle, followed by a dead hush as Daniel rose. Ills face was flushed, his Ups trembled a little; slowly he read a text: Old things are passed away; behold, He reall things are become new. peated It as If to Mary and himself, and then closed his Bible, laid it on the table, and began. He opened confidently, with the surety of youth and the fluency of one well prepared. There was no halting; brimIn a breath he was white-hot- , ming with words. They came like a torrent pouring down a mountain, bo quick that one might hardly follow them, so Insistent that one almost felt them whirl. I sat amazed, whelmed (you have seen willows bent toward a stream, or a weed bowed toward the tun); and already Daniel was deep, on the and frowns had gathered brows of many, when of a sudden the glamour went, and 1 had plain seeing. What Daniel said 1 have long forgotten (though men at Claekan will repeat much of It to you even but given the text and the occasion, and you may easily guess the fashIt was just ion of his discourses. what you might expect of an ambitious youth gifted and not without education come fresh from the pastures of culture to shed light upon the darkness of his native hills. Three years ago Daniel bad left us, filled with those old thlugs; now, having browsed happily, he had come back Clackau shining with new thlngB. was a dear place, its people worthy; but time had moved on, leaving It Such changes bound In Ignorance. bad come upon the world; such wonders been revealed of late In the domains of knowledge! There was this wonderful theory of evolution. There were those extraordinary discoveries In science. There were these marvelous doings of the higher criticism. There was this new spirit of the age moving across the face of the waters. Back there lay those old a sad things; here among us were those wonderful new things, quick claiming, said Daniel, In a whirl of words, fullest consideration of all Christian men. To the consideration of these, therefore, Daniel passed; and before him we Ignorant loughslders sat dumb, our faces set and hard. Boldly he tramp-pleon our ignorance; boldly would lead us Into light All his learning and reading ho drew upon, striving to We were give us true knowledge. narrow, prejudiced, Intolerant; heboid this new spirit of the age which should make us free. All men were brothers. One Cbrtstlun soul was as good Our Ideas of religion ta another. Our conception of were antiquated. We had vain noGod wus childish. tions of heaven and hell; we read our Bible Ignorantly; wo had never grasped the real spirit of Christ's message d to the world. Had Daniel stood In some city puleverything he said pit, doubtless would have won approval; but he was preaching In a hlllsldo parlor to an Ignorant llttlo company, and he did foolishly, and we misunderstood him, tnd set our faces against him In pityThis our Daniel? This ing scorn. '.he man we hud trusted and loved? This the result of cdueallun and knowledge? Ah, the shame, thought we; and Daniel, reading our thoughts, majle, closed with a rush, and sat down. A stir pnssed through ua, like the fotng of wind among ripe wheat; then sprang Into commotion at the sound if one rising behind us In a far cor-aeWith one accord we awung ttound, and saw Henry Marvin him-sel- f -- he the shining light of wisest (i i teen standing by tho china hint, the other borrd, one hand ftooked by a thumb In an arm-holof h's walsieoa4 end on his fsce that r. e & i learned to dread. "Youil excuse me for a minute, sir, said Henry ta the preacher In that dry way of his, but I'm anxleu to put a question or two before w go." His eyes left the preacher and Youve been turned upon Daniel. said sayln' something about hell, Henry, his voice hard as an east wind "Am I right In understand' ye to believe there's still such a place? Ah! Around went we, engor f.c huve sight of Daniel.' He was still flushed. The preacher was whispering to him. lie shook his head and rose quickly. he answered, .without "Certainly, hesitation. I know. But like everything else. It's changed of lute, youd hv think in? Wed be foolish, you'd say, drawled Henry, "to call It a pit filled with fire an brimstone any longer?" Call It that, If you wish," answered I think of it as something Daniel. quite different. "Just so. Well, Its your the Scriptures; but sure, if youre right, dytn may cqrne easier. At this something like a laugh ran among us; hut Henry went on. ImThen, theres this new placably. Tell me, have ya heaven, said he. read the book of 'Revelations?" Revelations Is Answer me, said Henry. Certainly I have." "An ye think It foolishness? suggested Henry. I think it wonderful, answered Daniel. But. like much else in the Bible, It has been misunderstood. Men have read into it what Is not there. "Ah, yes; thats because were poor, ignorant folk, only able to take God's word for what we believe. Henrys Then youd disbeeyes narrowed. lieve the Bible? said be, point-blanI believe It with all my heart, I protest cried Daniel. I protest You mean the new Bible? I mean the Bible as It Is as God meant us to believe It. It's wonderful; and never so wonderful as when word-agains- k Answer Me," Said Henry. I want you to undei read aright. stand, said Daniel to ua all, that la no way" Keep to me," Henry broke In. Isn't every word in the Bible God's own truth? "Modern researrh has shown" Answer me," demanded Henry." I refuse to answer, cried Daniel, seeing at last where Henry would lead I refuse to be placed willfully him. In s false position. He spread hie I appeal to you all foe Jusarms. Have I said one word to tice. you No: but you've said 10.000 words, said Henry, raising his voice. An If you're not ashamed of them, then I'm here tellin ye that 1 am. Ye refuse to answer? Aye, because ye dure not. Ye protest? Yes, an so do I. Fifty years I've lived, an1 never before heard a minister of God make light of God's word. You are to come here preachin' atheism an heresy ! You to dare to match your lit tie knowledge against the truth ot You to talk s new Bible an heaven! a new religion an' I protest! I protest! cried Daniel. Oh. this Is terrible! Man, the terrlbto thing Is that I've had to alt listenin' to ye all this No, air, he time, answered Henry. said to the preacher, who had risen, "no disrespect to ye, but nothing more is needed 'cept to go our ways. An' may God forgive t:s If we've alnned to-us- this night." Then Henry took hla hat and went out. and one by one we followed him, leaving Daniel standing mule by th table, with Mary, his sweetheart, holding him by the hand. I am glad that Mary stood by Dan let. I have often thought that we treated him harshly. Hull, In those days and later. It may bo the old plain things were quite suffirlent foi our simple needs, and teacher ol new things we held In acorn. An surely there was truth In what th preacher Bald to Daniel that night when we all hud gone; Young man you have begun climbing the bill nl the top. Go down to the very bettoin nd begin again. |