Show J X f IIIIKJE Oh! man HEIR "Did you Located and the Set ting Proved a Fine Opening for a Hero By BRYANT C ROGERS get a soap that you'me walked stuff around here?" "Almost She Was what over!" a talk" under your nose Let’s have The talk resulted In a partnership They were to buy the JoBiah Flint hill and marsh and develop the minerals peat and other things The deacon had laid by some money In his better days He was besides the only man In the county who knew anything about Flint He knew that he had gone to Kansas and that he and his wife had died leaving a young girl behind them The girl must be of age by then She must have had a guardian but he had never made a move about the real estate The young man whose name was Edward Sweeny was to go to Kansas and hunt up Miss Sarah Flint and stick right to her until she accepted an offer Then Hardy and Sweeny were to buy it “What’s it wuth?” asked the dev con “A hundred thousand at least” replied Sweeny "And what do you think we can get it for?” ”1 think sheTl jump at a thousand” The deacon chuckled Then’ he Then he groaned Then he sighed went home and said to his wife: ‘Martha if me’n and another feller can get the old Flint place for $500 apiece and make over $40000 apiece out of It do you' think it would be wicked?’' "I should call it good bargaining” she replied! "It wouldn’t he laid up agin me?" "Look deacon they 'used to ralqp a heap of 'cattle sheep and asses in Biblical days didn’t they?’ “They did” "And they sold a heap of ’em?" “They must have!” "Well do you reckon anybody sold below the market price? Don’t you think they sold way above It when they got a chance?" "I should say they did” "Of course they did and there isn’t a word of criticism in the Bible about (Copyright by the McClure News- paper Syndicate) In the pioneer days of a certain western state a man named Josiah Flint took up eighty alpres of land Thou sands of other men took up land In the same state but there was no particular occasion that the act of so doing should pass Into history Josiah Flint could have taken lup forest or prairie land — acres that would double in value In a year but he passed them all by and selected the worst A portion of It spot in four counties was a hill and the remainder a marsh There wasn't even a decent site for a cabin on the entire claim Josiah on his marsh might raise huckleberries and blackberries on his hill but men said he could hope for nothing better If he had any explanations as to why be selected such a claim they were lost as time went on He and his fam II y lived in his moving wagon for a tew months and then passed on In ten years almost all the land In settled the county was except up Flint’s hill and marsh The nearest farmer opened a gravel pit at the base of the hill and sold enough to pay the taxes each year and constituted him' self the agent of the absent The coun ty wanted to drain the swamp and to cut roads but no one could find Josiah Flint The only information was that be had gone further west By and by in the village that had grown up two miles away there came to be such a thing as a real estate It was furnished with two chairs a table a Bible and Deacon Hardy The deacon was one of the first set tiers and a good man In connection with the real estate it" office was a department for the sale of "Ought we to tell the gal what has Bibles and hymn books and where one been diskivered on the place?" might subscribe for a Sunday school "Does a merchant tell us what his paper or donate any sura he chose to kaliker cost him a yard and ain’t they the welfare of the heathen of Africa dying and going to heaven every day?" There was another department deThe deacon's conscience felt balmy voted to the sale of garden seeds and after that and youDg Sweeny started roots and barks and In this departout to find the heir Luck was with ment a keg of root beer was always him He had located her whereabouts was invited on caller kept tap Every and was approaching the house where or to drink whether he bought land she lived when he beheld her coming not And lastly the deacon’s wife held towards him on a horse runaway herself ready to take orders six days a There was flne opening for a hero week for mottoes of: "No Place Like and he grasped It He caught the and Home” at very reasonable prices horse and saved Sarah’s life and had a money back if you were not suited A hero is a hero in every leg broken With all these departments in full state and county of our glorious Union swing the deacon ought to have been When he has a leg broken in playing r but he wasn't Why he his a he is taken to the house where part wasn’t was a matter that worried him the heroine hangs out and given the a long time and was still worrying hall bedroom until be can once more evewhen his wife said to him one jump fences This case was no exning: Love came and a marriage ception “Josiah you are honest and truthcame according to program ful and conscientious!” One day Deacon Hardy got a letter "I try to be Martha” was his reply with the Kansas postmark He read There are lots of other men who it and took it home and laid It before are not as you are” hie wife "Yes and I feel to pity ’em” ’He says he has found the helresB” T don’t think yon need to They she read are getting new houses and barns fine "Yep” and we are right hosses and planers "He says he saved her life” where we was!” “Yep” "Yes" sighed Josiah "He says they are married” 'And I’ve thought It all over and I "Yep" think I know what is the matter” “And therefore he’s the owner of the "I hope you do I didn’t hardly earn Flint place and don’t care about taking my salt this last year” Deacon Hardy did you in a partner "You are too good” have any partnership papers drawn up "Can a feller be too good?” so that you can hold him?” "He can and you are a living exam"No” ple of it You’ve got to be like most “Well you ain’t a fool! You are Just other men You’ve got to get the big a good man who is going to heaven end of the bargain” a streak of greased like lightning "But the Bible commands — ” when he dies and If I’m left behind “I know it does but you’ve got to and you I’ll forward your fried pork as same rest take your chances the Johnnycake by the first express!" They are trading and selling spavined cows hosses and right Hudson River Shad to go to heaven along and expecting You may have noticed that your when they die” “I've been thinking it over too" shad this year was wilted and tasteless and — I far from the fish upon which said the deacon "but I dunno childhood For I want to soar away on golden you doted In your but I’ll once you are right It Is not that you wings when my time comes old but that the best be snummed if I want to live the rest are growing those from our shad in the business of my life in this tumble old log house and fried salt own Hudson river have passed out and eat Last winter the shad fishermen put pork three times a day” But nothing The deacon was waiting for an op- out their ne'tsas usual The shad is a temperaportunity to be less good when a keen- happened mental beast and it was thought at blew of man twenty-tweyed young in weather would first a that change was His home town into the village But wintry spring bring him around fifty miles away and he wasn't saying And why he left it After hanging about for came and went without results and taking long now the oldest fishermen are selling four or five days walks out into the country he entered out and moving to other paters w of the fish famthistle the Just hy one Deacon Hardy’s real estate office afternoon and flung a chunk of marble ily has taken a sudden dislike to his old haunts every one is at liberty to on the table and asked: guess Probably the fact that each “Do you know what that is?” is becoming more “Looks kinder like marble" was the year the Hudson a sewer and less like a river baa like reply after inspection "Kinder like? Why man alive it’s something to do with the case At any rate here passes a really marble for sure And maybe you can What a pleasure famous institution tell what this is" It would be in future years to shake "It’s some kind of sile" heads before the younger generatour "You bet it is and it’s a kind worth over the decadent shad and sigh It’s peat And what is that?" ion money! York of a degenerate age! — New “I Bhould say it was clay” Tribune ‘And you’d hit it Fines kind of potAnd what’s this?” ter’s clay Pen Sword and "More clay" In some parte of Ireland It Is a cusIt’s brickmak-er’"You’ve hit it again tom among bank clerks to speak of clay and as smooth as silk Once one another as "officers" of the bank what’s this?” but little Jim Bbnder the recently Im"There’s sand and there’s gravel” waiter in a County And where did all ported cockney "Good gueBser Mayo hotel was not aware of this custhis come from?” tom relates the Saturday Journal "Dunno” "Have you seen any of our officers “Well It’s no wonder that all the asked a lordly flies in Benson county gather on you here this morning?” In the summer! Say you haven’t as knight of the quill of Jim a few days much getup about you as a blind ago Jim glanced keenly at his interrohorse!” "I don’t know why you talk to me gator “YuBsir” he answered promptly "it that way" stiffly said the deacon Isn’t minutes three ago since one of had a fortune “It’s because you’ve within your grasp for years and was ’em went out with hie sword be’lnd Ts too much of a mossback to know it! ear!” j theZmm - MAKING rminriL ey- EW PICKARD v f"'"'- ft COJDZf HOSPITAL Ancon C Z— All tho world gives to Col W C Gorgas chief sanitary officer and his assistants full credit for the wonderful work they have accomplished in making the Panama canal zone healthful and keeping it so All r the world that knows gives equal greater credit to those Amerlcap Itah lan and English doctors and soldiers in who sacrificed their health and some cases their lives to prove that yellow fever and malaria the two terrors of tropic America are transmitted by the bite of mosquitoes It la not my intention to tell over again of the latter story The devotion those brave men actually made possible the building of the Panama takcanal for their work has been en full advantage of by Colonel Gorgas and his forces and the zone ia now ene of the most healthful places to the world Before the coming of the Americans the isthmus was a veritable pest hole The French canal builders and their workmen and the laborers on the Panama railway died like files usually of malaria or yellow fever Today a fatal case of malaria Is a more the rarity malignant form being almost unknown and not a Bingle case of yellow fever has originated In the sone In several years The Stegomyla mosquito the yellow fever bearer has not been exceedingly hard to exterminate because it breeds and lives only near human When habitations the Americans had substituted a regular water system and underground sewers for the rain water barrels and the open ditches in Colon Panama and the other towns and had fumigated all the dwellings was pracStegomyla That job of fumigat- tically extinct i ik-T- Jil a Ancon Hill the way raised a great row the ignorant inhabitants of Panama They could not understand why they should be all moved out into the street and their houses filled lug by among with were inclined sistance until the matter In to the fumes offer zone and they forcible repolice took hand Much more difficult has been the task of eradicating malaria for the which makes a Anophellne mosquito specialty of carrying this disease is and of several varieties widespread (t is the female only that bites and she needs blood — preferably refl blood — for the development of her The eggs are deposited in a eggs Alow moving or stationary water and hatch outnto little larvae or "wrigglers” At least once in two minutes the larva must come to the surface o breathe and that is where the department gets it usually As one wanders about the zone he fees at the headwaters of every stream ditch or other water course at frequent intervals along its banks rnd at the edge of every pool a big tin can or a keg FYom this receptacle there Is a constant drip drip drip of lavaeide a black of crude acid carbolic compound caustic soda and resin This spreads out over the water an iridescent film and when little Anophellne larva comes up for air he meets a iwlft death To replenish these cans of larvaclde a small army of Jamaicans Is kept traveling about the zone and others go around with tanks ot the compound strapped on their Dacks spraying every pool they come to Another measure of extermination has been the draining and filling In of swampy ground and the straightening and clearing of water courses so that their flow will be too swift for The work of drainAnophellne ing and filling has been extensive and near the Pacific end of the canal has resulted In the reclamation of large tracts of land for building sites The third part of the campaign is the careful screening of buildings occupied by human beings Ordinary mosquito netting would not do and only copper wire will stand the climate there Consequently a fine meshed copper screening Is used If any Anopnellnes escape the larvaclde and succeed In gaining entrance to a habitation the mosquito-killerare summoned and seldom fail to get them Nine days must elapse after a mosquito has bitten a malarious person before becomes Infectious and this gives the mosquito brigade plenty of time to kill the Insects while they are aIeep on the walls The isolation of infected persons In the hospitals helps a lot for of course the mosquito cannot carry malaria until it has bitten a malarious person Rats that carry the bubonic plague and flies transmit various other diseases have received adequate attention from the sanitary depart ment aud dumb brutes are not neglected As an instance of the latter fact every and horse mule in the zone must be placed at night in one of a series of corrals established by the department and there it is fed anJ cared for the owner paying a reasonable fixed charge for the service These animals if left out often are attacked by a disease that is fectious and may be transmitted to human beings Besides that the native cannot be persuaded to keep his stable in sanitary condition Many other sanitary regulations are imposed on the people of the isthmus All garbage must be deposited in receptacles to be collected and by the department’s wagons burned in its crematories Chickens may not be kept within a certain distance of any dwelling Rain water may not be gathered and kept in That last rule is open receptacles act easy to enforce for the Panamanian prefers rain water for drinking purposes But all these are for the general good and the United States has the treaty right to attend to the t anitation of Panama and Colon as well as of the zone In addition to the two great hospitals at Ancon and Colon the department of sanitation maintains a dispensary with physician and nurse at of the every town along the route canal and at Porto Bello where the commission has a big done quarry The larger hospital on Ancon hill close to Panama in the spring of the Its year had about 900 patients wards and the residences of the physicians and nurses are scattered Inconpicturesquely though rather north veniently on the east and slopes of the beautiful hill and the with are filled grounds magnificent trees and lovely flowering vines and A little further around bushes tha hill is the hospital for the insane and it too is well filled for the Jamaican and Barbadian negroes go crazy at the slightest provocation In Colon stretching along the sea shore in the only pretty part of that flat city is the other hospital smaller but no less efficient and well manned than that at Ancon Its grounds ara swept continually by the refreshing winds from the Atlantic and many ot its wards are built out over the water Both hospitals are served by and surgeons corps of physicians mostly rather young but able ambitious and studious One mighty good thing the French company did was to establish a sanitarium on Taboga island and th Americans its value recognizing promptly reopened it for the benefit of white convalescents These may remain on the pretty island for two weeks paying room $2 a day for board and medical attention Taboga lies twelve miles due south of Panama and is as attractive a tropical isle as one will often see Its curving white beaches In little bays are ideal bathing places its lofty hills clad with dense vegetation affor the climber and ford occupation the small fishing village of Taboga is Gorancient and not uninteresting geous birds and flowers and luscious fruits are everywhere Nothing more can be imagined perfectly beautiful than an evening on the grassy slopes of the sanitarium grounds A myriad stars glitter overhead the Southern Cross and Canopus swinging above the southern horizon In the forest night birds sing and a variety of tree locust sends forth a clear musical note that can be beard a mile In the little public square of the village the native women and children are laughing and singing as the men set forth on fishing trips And off to the north this side ot the glow of Panama wink the light buoys of the canal’s sea channel If In later years Taboga does not become a favorite winter resort for wealthy Americans I shall miss my it that FIRED OF Millionaire Was HIS PEEVISHNESS the A western millionaire of the "newly variety recently came to New York and one of his first extravagant purchases was a pair of cuffllsks for which he paid $250 But the pride of possession lasted two days for one of the links only became lost High and low the millionaire hunted for it turning the hotel upside whole down in tho search but It was not recovered Hut he would not give up the search One evening a week later while giving a dinner party to a few friends and business associates he recounted the circumstances of his loss and concluded by saying: "Confound It don’t understand It Here I’ve spent a whole week hunting for that there missing link and still by crackey t can’t find It!" "Oh cheer lip" advised one of the men who was bored by the recital "Charles Darwin spent a whole lifetime In the same quest but he wasn't half as peevish as you are!” rich” True Business Instinct Topham’s was the smartest emporYou had to be ium for miles around the last word In "go” before a situation was obtained in that establishment Keen business men filled every post One afternoon when trade was In full swing an unfortunate customer fell down the first floor Btalrs “Help!” he groaned in agony “I do believe I've broken my leg!” A shopwalker Immediately flew to his side "Broken your leg sir?” he Inquired And then in sharp sympathetically clear tones: “Cork legs! Third counForward Miss ter to the right sir! Davis!" Late sure to BUIE AND RemlndeglThat He Alone In Quest of Misting Link Gently Not hours and a spicy breath tell on a man are D1SCDDRABED Mrs Hamilton Tells How She Finally Found Health in Lydia E Pinkham’s Veg' etable Compound Warren ribly with Ind — “I was bothered terfemale weakness I had pains and was not regular my head ached all the time I had bearing down pains and my back hurt me the biggest part of the time I was dizzy and had weak feel- I would ings when stoop over it hurt me to walk any distance and I felt blua and discouraged " I began taking Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and am now in' If it had not been for good health that medicine I would have been in my Mrs Artie EL gravo a long time ago Hamilton R F D No 6 Warren IncL Another Case “I write to tell yon: Esmond RI— how much good your medicine has done me and to let other women know that there is help for them I suffered with bearing down pains headache was irregular and felt blue and depressed all the time took Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and commenced to gain in a short time and I am a well woman today I am on my feet from early morning until late at night running honse and do all my own work I hope that many suffering women will It makes happier try your medicine wives and mothers”— Mrs Anna Han Rhode Island BEN Esmond I wT N U Salt Lake City No7 Don’t Poison Baby YEARS AGO almost every mother thought her child most have or laudanum to make it sleep These drugs wfll produce and a FEW DROPS TOO MANY will produce the SLEEP FROM WHICH THERE 18 NO WAKING Many are the children who have been killed or whose health has been ruined for life by paregoric lauda- num and morphine each of which is a narcotic product of opium are prohibited from selling either of tho narcotics named to children Druggists at all or to anybody without labelling them “poison” The definition of “ narco tio is : “A medicine which relieves pain and produces sleep but which in poisonous doses produces stupor coma convulsions and death" The taste and smell of medicines containing opium are disguised and sold under the names-o“ Drops” “ Cordials” “ Soothing Syrups8 etc You should not permit any medicine to be given to your children without you or your physician know of what it is composed CASTORIA DOE8 NOT CONTAIN NARCOTICS if it bears the signature of Chas H Fletcher Genuine Cnstorla always bears the signature of FORTY w i Sj Mine Found The Cinnabar mine in Nevada has been found after a search lasting more than thirty years The discovery was made some weeks ago by George Keough while searching for Strayed stock seven miles from Mina The discovery was kept secret until claims were staked and assays made of the ore showing it to run high in quicksilver the announcement of the Following finding of the mine a rush was started for the district in which it is located Hawthorne after finding the Cinnabar deposit became confused and lost his way on the desert He wandered about for several days and finally landed at New Boston formerly a thriving camp but now extinct He conducted expedition after expedition in search of the deposit but his He described efforts were fruitless the location stating that two petrified trees stood near the mound The stoae trees are to be noticed today as described by the old prospector who dies 13 years ago So Far Bill — I h3ar he Is preparing for one of those trips to the north or south pole Jill — How far has he got? Bill— Oh he’s written all the stuff! Perfectly Clear "Peters has a clear head” "Yes there’s nothing In it” Never any one Compliment "The English are a race” said a suffragette ing room of the Colony In the smokclub She lighted a fresh cigarette and: sipped her coffee “The English are ehe repeated "I went to hear Mrs om Pankhurst lecture in Woodstock my last visit to England and do how the Jolly old farmer chairman introduced her? Well this he said intending it for a commind you: pliment ” ‘Ladles and gentlemen you of Mr Gladstone the grand old1 man Let me now introduce to you the grand old woman”’ day I Brute! "My husband Is one of the most stubborn men in the world” “He can’t be any more stubborn than mine” “Oh yes I’m sure he must be Yesterday I had an engagement to meet him at three o’clock” "Yes?” “Well it was nearly 4:30 when I got there and he won’t admit yet that the rest he got while he was waiting did him good” Never Again "Going to get out here and stretch your legs?” asked one passenger of another “What place is it?" asked his companion “Chicago” "No I had one stretched what put off till tomorrow is willing to do for you to- x here once’' a man kicks because Occasionally his name la in the paper — in small type Pork nd oeans Delicious - Nutritious and nut-lik- e in flavor thoroughly cooked with j Plump choice pork Prepared the Libby way nothing can be more appetizing and satisfying nor of greater food value Put up with or without tomato sauce An excellent dih served either hot or cold Insist on Libby's Libby McNeill & Libby i guess ' i jL if j W |