Show l MAKING A VESSEL 0F SMOKE FOR EMPRESS A DEAD ANKSGlVlNO FtomTfca Two Boys Come leans Penniless Brothers Elder for from New and One Blind In In Good Health Employment Sightless ChrttUfSslm SmHmI Or- TERNAL God oflifeanJTnilliamllo Hungry Sad Plight— Searches Educate to Brother Chicago — Two orphan boys one blind and footsore bronzed and sunburned by the southern sun are In Chicago the elder searching for ' work to support and educate his sightless brother New Orleans their birthplace offered little hospitality and no future to the orphans and they departed for “the big city of the north” Penniless and hungry the brothers one leading the other slowly in Chicago s busiest thoroughfare were seen by a policeman who took them to the Harrison street station where they were given food and care by Mrs Alice Shanahan the matron The orphans are Joseph and Samuel Leonard 16 and 14 years old respectively Joe after he 'had fed his younger brother rubbed his eyes washed his face and then narrated his intentions and determination to give his younger brother a good education 1 don t care so much about myself but I want to see little Sam go ahead” said Joe “I came to Chicago to work for his sake I will do anything from peeling potatoes to scrubbing floors 8 8a6 I WU1 get ahead too” wMe hs elder brother told of their struggles in New Orleans the death of their father and mother and their trip to Chicago Sam placed his arm affectionately about his neck During their four days’ trip on freight cars Joe aided and watched over his afflicted brother and when they reached their destination he spent his last pennies to feed him while he suffered in silence “Seven years ago papa died and mamma followed him a short time later said Joe "Little Sara had been troubled with sore eyes and four years ago he went blind I sold newspapers and did odd Jobs so we could live Once I was taken sick so sick I could not work and little Sam had to live on the few dollars we had saved “We struggled along until two weeks ago when I ran out of work I couldn’t get another Job Wi had Often of bear nortu and lkotSsttcrjJy we decided to come here f “I had $3 and after I helped on a freight train I got on and we rode to Memphis I was so afraid that something might happen to I didn’t sleep muck “One night it got cod Wd I put my coat over Sam to keep Vy’arm A tramp was in the car and I was so sleepy I couldn’t watch him When I woke up in the morning he had left with my coat and $2 which 1 had in my pocket ' k JjliankTliee hi A “Soil Robbery” Only Peril — Disregard of Crop Rotation Laid to Syndicates — Wheat Won’t Go Below Dollar Mark Washington — Some day the steady increase of population in the United States is bound to overtax the ability of the farmer to provide for its sustenance but that day is remote in the opinion of Secretary Wilson of the agricultural department Nor will it be necessary he believes in the near future to import grain for bread notwithstanding predictions by certain men Everything says Mr Wilson depends on the' disposition of the American farmer to make the most of the resources of his land and to improve his methods of agriculture in accordance with the needs of the people The secretary also pointed to figures of crop production showing that the value of the American farm output in one year aggregated That was for the calendar year 1908 but the secretary was confident that having in mind the higher prices of the present the total this year would be as large or perhaps larger Experts in the agricultural department were at work he said preparing data for the present year and the result would be shown in his annual report next winter Last year not less than 60000000 bushels of durum wheat was grown in the United States and Dr Galloway who is making a special study of the possibilities of this grain says that at 21 stations in the west investigators were ascertaining the conditions best adapted to its growth Durum is a Siberian grain peculiarly fit for soil in fcirlfi consciousness of spiritual To seeTliy face mine TTiaH may calcli a turned alove epe is dear diviner sense To use m aid of mortals ontlie eartk 'sss'’ MS-- f Burning the boat designed to carry the spirit of the late empress dowager of China across the river separating it from the heavenly nirvana The boat cost about $37000 It was sumptuotsly carved and fitted out “Then we were put off in Centralia 111 and we had to wait nearly a whole We day before a train stopped climbed into a box car and got to Chicago A policeman found us and took us here “I am strong and healthy and I am Sam is going to work to help Sam pretty smart and I will soon make enough money to put him through school Oh if I get a job then we will get along flne” Their Pittfiburg Child Pa — Mrs Nate Vallone Twenty-Thir- has presented to her husband their 23td child a robust boy There have now been 15 boys and etght girls of whom ten boyB and three girls live The Vallones were to Vallone wants married in 1884 name the boy Bill Taft Vallone Dean Quits at 75 York — John Howard Van dean of Columbia college has presented his resignation to the board of trustees It will take effect next June when he will have completed the 75th year of his life and the 50th year of his service in the Columbia faculty New SECURES A FAMOUS CANNON Historical Society of Chicago to Make Home for Gun That Opened Civil War Chicago — The first gun fired in the civil war has reached what probably its last resting place in the museum of the Chicago Historical society on the North side Four companions which though they have not so clear a title to fame saw hard service in the civil war are having more difficulty in finding comfortable berths The gun£ were purchased by the Citizens’ association during the riots of 1877 and werdi' presented to Battery D of the Illinois: National Guard Up to a year ago tbV were in active use by the artillery' Jfcompany and then the government 'Jcame forward with some twentieth century equipment and the old guns were in the way The Citizens’ association was asked to help dispose of the relics and this organization offered them to the historical society The historical directors decided to accept the salute gun which opened the civil war but it did not want the others is SLIGHT rap at the outer door drew the attention of woman the “Come in” she called The door suddenly A trim young woOpened man stood at the threshShe looked around old and smiled and nodded “Good she morning” said and her voice was clear and pleasant "May I come in?” The elderly woman stepped forward Take "Why yes” she answered this chair Have you walked far?” “Only from the village The hill is a little steep I am not used to hills lately” She smiled and nodded again “You are very good” Bald the stran“I am not really so tired ger It was the dear old house that drew me In t thought I would like to come’ 'Our home Is an old one” she said with a little sigh "It needs many ImBut we haven’t provements the means to make them” 'So?” said the girl with a touch of sympathy in her voice “Perhaps these improvements would take away the dear old home’s niceness You do not live alone?” No there are two of us —my husband and I” “And the children — they are away then?” The gray haired woman turned back to the table “We have a child — a son He Is away” The girl arose quickly “Let me help you madam” She drew off her jacket and hung it on a hook behind the door “Ah you will see what a fine bringing up I have Is there not an apron I may wear?” The gray haired woman smiling hesitated There Isn’t much to do1’ she said “And we have no money to pay for A seed of native grasses which resist unfavorable climatic conditions Some of these have been tested successfully and soon there will be no excuse for the exhaustion of the northwestern wheat farms if which there is a small amount of ordinary prudence is moisture The agricultural depart- observed Mr Wilson asserts “Will American wheat go below ment has found that it will grow $17" the secretary was asked well west of the one hundredth meridian in the northwest which means "Probably not” he replied “but anywhere west of the middle of the there is no telling what might follow Dakotas and in the regions such a disturbance in the industrial of eastern Washington and Oregon and financial world as we had in 1907 help” “Let us not talk of It” cried the It has been already produced at a cost and if we meet such a crisis again it girl “I am not so very poor You will of 65 to 70 cents a bushel which is possible there will be me stay a few days Perhaps you let wheat” would return a handsome profit with will not like me at all” wheat above a dollar The gray haired woman smiled Danced His Rib Loose But the department does not ap“I think I like you already” she New Haven prove methods pursued by certain Conn— It was found said "Soil growers robbery” Dr Gallo- that while dancing the Salome dance The girl pinned up her sleeves on Great syn- at Yale field Saturday in the way calls these methods her fair round arms dicates are farming tracts of 10000 show given between the halves Now you will tell me what to do acres in wheat planting the crop of the game against Colgate Brevard and while we work we will talk You again and again without regard to ro- M Connor of Dallas Tex so exerted have said something about your son— tation himself that he broke a rib The Yale has he gone far away?” Secretary Wilson said he was send- Arctic club will now have to look for The woman looked at her with trouing experts to Siberia to obtain the a new Salome bled eyes 'It is an unhappy story” said the mother “My son quarreled with his father It was about a girl Our boy had gone away to the city There was so little for him on the farm His Steamer Lost In Great afternoon” Sandsucker father thought he was wrong to go said Capt Lewis in relaStorm Unearthed In Chicago But John was ambitious and there ting his experiences "We headed the was no chance for him here Sewer — Boat Identified And boat for the shore but the broke and we were drivenmachinery one day he came home and said he aground was going to marry And it came out Chicago— The sandsucker Dispatch a which disappeared during a storm in quite distance out was the that girl foreign and on the “The storm was one of the fiercest stage And when John’B father heard 1874 was discovered the other day by workmen engaged in digging a sewer on the lake up to that time It lasted this he was very angry To him the I gave my life preservat Fairbanks court and East Erie for 12 days theater is a wicked place It was in The woodwork and engine of er to a man who was my guest on the the way he was brought up Perhaps Btreet the boat were unearthed 15 feet un- boat and who was inspecting the ho Is too hard Anyway he told John I had difficulty in pump derground swimming to that the must give up the girl or he The identification of the missing shore I sank once but I finally would disown him And John is proud In reaching land too and they had words and John barge was made by Capt E R Lewis former master of the missing boat "We tried to raise the went away and since that day his faboat later was in sunk vessel October 1874 but were unsuccessful The storm The never spoken his name” She had ther has during one of the worst storms that almost covered it with sand and we suddenly put her apron to her eyes ever raged on Lake Michigan The decided it would be too dear dear son" she sobbed expensive to “My boat ran aground and Capt Lewis and raise it Later the lake in The girl’s face flushed She went that vicinfour sailors escaped by swimming to ity was filled in When I learned that to the weeping mother and touched the shore the skeleton of a boat had been found ner hand “We were pumping sand about a underground ' there I “Don’t cry" she gently said “Perit was mile from 6hore when the storm came my old boat and I wentthought out there and haps there is good news Look at me up suddenly about four o’clock in the Identified the remains” What do you see?” She drew back a ARE ENOUGH FARMS Secretary Wilson Says Be Long Before Grain Imported wlio liasl o sou! convened my Vessel Sunk 35 Years Ago little and her laughing eyes grew so rlous and she held up her pretty head a strong and "A young woman healthy and useful young woman — a good young woman believe me” The mother’s wet eyes stared at ' the girl “Why do you tell me this?” sha asked The mother took a step nearer “You!” she whispered “I see you guess” cried the girt "Yes I am your son’s wife!" The girl gently pushed the gray haired woman into a chair “Let me tell it all In my own way madame mother It is like this John married me one — two — three years ago Who was I? A poor girl trying to earn a living madame mother On the stage yes I will tell you how that was When we came to this coun- try my father was a carvef of wood and stone had a fine business Then he was killed in an accident and very poor my mother and I And so because we were so poor I sang for a manager and he gave me a place on the stage “And so because I loved John married and went away faraway into the desert and into the wilderness John had the fever and there-wa- s only me — I was doctor and nurse and all — and please God he did not die” The hand of the older woman stole into the girl’s and held it close "Then the luck changed John is made And pretty soon my big manager hopeful always patient always loving John — I ki3s his mother’s hand— ia rich quite rich” The mother arose “My boy Is coming home” Then her face clouded "But his father — he is so hard and unyielding — I’m afraid he has not forgiven him” “Leave him to me madam” cried the girl “Hush I think he is coming Not a word madam Leave him to me” The bent form of the tall old man" appeared in the doorway “Hiram” said the gray haired woman “I have a visitor here stay with us for a day or two” The old man looked at the girl curiously “You are quite welcome” he said The girl had left a bag at the sta- tion and the old man drove with her to get it And when she came back she waved her hand to John’s moth---' er on the porch and there was something more than a graceful greeting in the gesture “Wait good sir if you please” she said to the old man before he could drive away is Thanksgiving day May I ask a friend with me here? The good moth- er is willing" The old man nodded It certainly was a fine Thanksgiving The turkey was the tender spread est and all its train of accessory dishes the most palatable that culinary art could offer And presently when the girl had cast a final glance at the clock and another through the window the old man was bidden to the feast “You spoke of a friend” he said “Yes sir” she quickly answered "He will be here' Seat yourself Hark he is here” The outer door suddenly opened a tall young man stepped into the room and looked quickly about him With a swift movement he stepped to side and kissed her cheek and then drew back "John” the mother whispered but her eyes were on the stern face of the old man “Father” Bhe bravely said "this is my friend my dearest friend— will you bid him welcome?” The old man’s face was dark he hesitated his troubled look rested on the girl’s sunny face Then he spoke but his voice was hoarse and scarcely audible “Your friend is welcome for he slowly said At that the young woman cried out and ran around the table and put her' arm about his neck and kissed his wrinkled such a Thanksgiving” she murmured— W R Rose in Cleveland Plain Dealer T ) |