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Show 7 V. V . HAND 1 By Annie Hamilton Donnell Copyright, by Joarph B. Bo V Jeffy frit better about that band when he kept It .In hie pocket. He couldn t are how black It waa It had looked very black when he abut It up there, two hour ago. He remembered It now with a little ahudder That nuraerv aoap and water a little tempered with heat might poaalbly hare made it look lean guilty had not to him did not occur to him borne. , coi-pan- cajt-erate- pose" the One With Spectacles, kindest one. When Elizabeth had the croup he came and when ona mother was tick. He was lie Yes to was the But now of that always smiled. course now he wouldn't smile " It was too early for office hours, bet tie One With Spectacles was at - r self-mad- e They Took Him Out Through Scuttle. DANCE DEVIL OUT OF TOWN. London The devil was given chance at the Flora day festivities at Helston this vear. It was the original version of this fete that every citizen of the quaint Cornjsh hamlet should join in the furry dance'mnd romp in the front and out the back door ot every house in the town. There Is a quaint little legend, purely a Cornish superstition, that the devil visits Hel ston once each year and one story ot the origin of Flora day ts that the dance was created that the citizens might assemble to sing and dance until the devil was run out of the place. Hut this year, the town having grown to such proportions that It would take tdo long to carry out the original custom of the fete. It was agreed that the procession should romp through only a small number of the houses. This gate the devil an even brak. Arguments on food are interesting Many persons adopt a vegetarian diet on the ground that they do not h;,e to feel that life lias been taken to feed them, nor do they fancy the thought with His Coffin Near at Hand. cially constructed coffin to be used for his body when he dies, and from present indications he expects to shuffle off this mortal coll within a short time. The coffin was constructed by his own hands, and this Is the second box he baa built to be burled In. The first box, which was In some respects similar to the one just completed, was given to a neighbor for the burial of relative, as no coffin could be secured In time to bury the remains. The second box Is filled with equips funeral. His ments for a .clothes,., In., bleb he , wauls - to - be, dressed, have been packed In the box, with a quantity of tobaoco to them. keep Insects from destroying All that Is required to complete the This Is now outfit Is a white shirt. being made by a woman. Tip Wilson, who lives near the town of Harned, is 85 years old and has been married twice. Both wives are dead, but a number of hia children nre living. He baa written a number of sheets of paper with Instructions to be carried out In regard to CAUGHT THE FAIR CULPRIT. Hrw th Naval Officer Recovered Hia Lost Buttons. FROM WAR How Flat Watches Took Place of th Turnips. Old-Tim- e When the neat man takes unto him-se- lf a watch as thin as parchment ha little thinks that that thin watch results from army regulations Up to the time of the Allies taking Paris the ordinary watch was convex in shape and called from its outline a The officers of the Russian "turnip. and other armies objected to thiB because Its bulbous form made the uniform of a man on parade look untidy, whether It were carried In the coat or the fob. Here In Paris, however, they found that the watchmakers of the Palais Royal had contrived a chronometer which got over the Flat watches were the fashion In Paris. The English when they appeared la the streets of the french capital marched In not in gnm drenn uch as the others wore, but In the raiment which they had worn on campaign. . Great waa the impression which theif habiliments created. But they at once adopted the smart flat watch and brought It back to England on for our own manufacturers to Standard. dlffl-cult- y. hls funeral. He makes a request that hla sons dig hla grave. At first he requested that they dig It a certain depth and then make a tunnel, and bis remains were to be placed in this tunnel. Later be changed this plan and said that the tunnel shopld be left out, as it would require too much He does not, under any cirwork cumstances, want to be under obligaMr. Wilson is in tions to any one good financial condition. He lives by hlinself in a log house which is. said to be IPO years old. He is a prosperous farmer lie sleeps In the same room in which his coffin rests on two chairs A few years ago he was said to be the strongest man in thU section of the country. Being perfett physically, he made a reputation for hla stiengtb. It is said that Ills sons will carry our his requests as to hU burial. Mr. Wilson goes out to the spot selected for his giave. beside that of hnTsee-onwife, and says he talks to her every day. Mr. Wilson takes pleasure In showing his ioftn to those who call at hia home to view it. l He Sleeps SL SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. liml People of Cornish Village Carry Out Queer Old Custom. Cart-fu- 170 It happened on one of the United State cruisers now at Hampton roads, aye the Washington Herald. A lieutenant, bavins met two verv charming tsdias while ashore, Invited them on board for luncheon They came and wove shown over the ship They lingered lcng In the lieutenant's room, which waa daintily furn'-hed- , and they admired his photographs of home. Whan he was summoned on deck he left them there. Returning, he took them to luncheon and. haviur to go gn himduty jn the afternoon, he evcu-ieself ao aa to get Into uniform Alas' be found that everv huiton on his beat coat had been cut off aud then he remembered that one of his fair gueats has been rather importunate on the souvenir question He got her alone after luncheon and accused her of the theft and after some prevarication she confessed that the buttons were in her corsage. With some firmness the lieutenant led the culprit to his cabin, pointed silently to the denuded coat on the bunk, produced needle and thread and, going out, locked the door on the outside. In half an hour he returned, unlocked the doorf found that his coat Was once more in excellent order and then, with great gallantry, bowed the lady over the side. She has not been Invited to luncheon " tho on the same ahlp since. shouted down Soon foot steps, were heard and Rickard, laughing popped out of the dark hole Mrs. Rickard lauehedv too.' when she put her arms around the big man's neck. "I raised 57 varieties of rows down there on the fouith floor," said Rickard. "If any Apache Indian yelled the way I did 1 II buy him a drink and a dinner. I tried to break this scuttle open, hut the arpcnter qaR wise and made It too strong, so the telephone was my only refuge." When Rickard a p tea red on the atreet the crowd, which had learned of the affair, cheered for several minutes, while Mr. and Mrs. Rickard waited for a cab. MEAT OR CEREALS. All first-clas- i ' copy.--Lond- Photographing the Mirage. The photograph represented a palm grove, a lake and a caravan of laden Arabs moving camels and whlte-rohcIn stately wise across the pale desert. That Is a picture of a mirage, or fata morgana, said the traveler. "1 took It ti the Sahara, not far from There was' really nothing there but sand wastes on wastes of sand, but my dazzled eyes saw that mirage and my camera saw it, too. This is the only mirage picture I have ever got. I have tried In Ceylon, In Egypt and in Morocco to photograph various mirages, but always In vain. There are scarcely six mirage photos in existence." d Tom-boukto- Paddy and Taxes. voice from the Jungle of Burma Is heard In the following letter from a missionary correspondent to the Christian Herald: The Lord has sent me $10 from a friend In New York, which will buy thatch for the three native houses and an addition to this one I live In and pay for Its transport here besides. Another gtft also came and with it I have paid this new man's wages for one week, bought s small supply of dried fish, paid for a fresh supply of stamps and left a little for dally needs. Our store of rice is fast melting away and dally the prayer la offered at morning and evening worship, before the children and heathen visitors, that the Lord will aend money for more rice, for paddy and for the taxes, which are now A due. Dreary Guest Chambers. Who does not remember the guest chamber In some old country house, Fight Duel with White Hot Irons. ' a place with damp sheets and an atPittsburg Louis Yourick and Adam mosphere like that of a vault? Such Bulick. former cavalrymen and ex- rooms are hotbeds of neuralgia and perts tn fence, fought a duel with pneumonia, writes Dr. William 8. white hot iron bars In the mills of the O'Blrge in Health. Carneg1e Steel company. . .. . Musi., Good For .Liver, ,,.. . Iaa-f4r4t- .f funBuHcfe'Tracl'hltf-deWhere the trouble is physical, such Yourick's shoes. Yourick became infuriated as a result and, leaping to as failure of an organ, Indigestion, the furnace, palled out a white Iron congestion of the liver and so on. bar. BuUck also got one of the bars strong, firm, martial music will give best results, according to Dr. Latson, and rushed an Yourick. Each time the bara came together editor of Health Culture. For this there was a shower of sparks, and class of treatment the key of C major each time one of the bars touched the is particularly recommended. opposing fencer there was an odor Alt in a Name. The bars' slowly of burned flesh. Thoma's Justice, colored, was up ft cooled as the men's strength waned, trial and he said to the judge Fi but were still red hot when the two de Lawd Mister sake. don Jedge, Anally fell from exhaust lon, gimme .what my name call fer! " A - laats Constitution. ,f -- o our reputation tor fiuarantood by and euccoeetul bust nee extending through half . a century. A FASHION sen Hie M of eating dead meat. On the other hand, too great consumption of partly coolfed. start hy oats and wheat or white bread, pastry, etc,, produces serious bowel troubles, because the bowel digestive organs (where starch Is digested), are overtaxed and the food ferments, produc. Ing gas. and microbes generate ,i the decayed food, frequently bringing on peritonitis and appendicitis. Starchy food Is absolutely essential 'bo the human body. Its best form Is shown In the fjiod "Grape Nuts," where tSe starch Is changed Into a form of suear during the process of Its manufacture. In this way, the required food Is presented to the svstem In a form and Is immediately made Into blood and tissue, without taxing the digestive organs. A remarkable result In nourishment cm 'tnriftfninrtbe tillage' In' a'atate ts- t)tamwir"the' pemtr using TTi bordering on Intoxication, he put the Nuts gains quickly In physical and major's saddle oq the horse facing to mental strength. Why In mental? the rear. When the horses were Because the food contains delicate particles of Phosphate of Potaih obbrought up for a fresh start the major. tained from the grains, and this unites Instantly discovering the mistake, de with the albumen of all food and the manded the reason for It. combination Is what nature uses to reAn sure, said Pat, a tittle terri-thfled an' shure, major, an' I didn't build worn out cells In the brain This Is a scientific fact that can kaoa which way you waa going!" An explosion followed the majoi easily proven by ten day's use (1f waa satisfied and Pat escaped puna "There's Reason ' Grape Nuts. Read, "The Hoad to Wei Mile," jn ishment. Harper's Weekly. pkgs. 1 d ' Question of Interest to Persons. from a thoroughly ovelry house. Our goods r eomi But he couldn't open did his yell attract any attention Rickard Going to another office, burst ojien the door and telephoned to hia wife. The little woman bustled downtown and xut a policeman and a squad was summoned They got a ladder and tried to span the space between the Rickard place and an adjoining house They failed. "Let's get up this adjoining house and hteak open the scuttle of 23," she said I'p went the little body of rescuers, and over the loof, the woman in the van. The policemen ripped open th build-anima- e i beyond the den !! A If It the front door, nor y -- Your Watch fa Worth More cold water the merchant made it fit and he was out In the spacious rooms d n j MANUFACWILLIAM RICKARD, TURER OF METAL WORK, RE-- ' MEMBERS HIS OLDTRADE. ' Forty-G-ecou- , some-- o' A ICElr n-- j got When the old lady put her head or Of the window and Inquired of tb railway porter what the tral m was stopping for the young thought he would have a little fun the old lady's expense. 'Engine was out late last nigh ma'am. be remarked with a sml "so she's got a thirst on her morning: they're giving 'er a drop Tit-Bit- I at) on Ill be ready In a minute. "Well, be spry about It You're going to the One With Spectacles, 1 sup- ESCAPES FROM DEPT 4 - "Ah' It's water. said the old lady. "If you'll wait a mlnutte, ma'am, whethtr be grinned. "Ml Inquire TELEPHONES WIFE FOR HELP they're givln her port wjne. the answer, "Never mind. eame 1 don't you trouble, young man, thought perhaps by the way wei Through Scuttle She, with Aid of Pobeen getting along she was run on lice, Gets Husband Out of Big London sloe gin! Office Building, Where He Wae Imprisoned. INSURANCE LIFE ACTIVITY. New York. Practically Imprisoned Th Nsw York Life's Business Nearly lu the den adjoining hia office and Up to the Legal Limit. by anvils, furnaces and Inst runients reminiscent of the days beThe New York Life insurance Com fore he waa wealthy and when hia pany announces that Its new paid hands were calloused by pounding business duriug the half year Justenf white William Rickard, manuIron, waa ed ovei seventy million dollars facturer of ornamental metal work, As the new law allows no life the other night gained his liberty by to write sover one hundred and making a key to the lock which stood r year, it would ay between him and a fifty millions long morning's pear that this company is working rigll. to the limit. The New nearly up It was about six q'clock when Rick-aiYork Lite gained such headway be went Into his den on Weat tore the law was passed and suffersd street. Near- - by are- - his ef-so IIMI". i o:ui uratlVely, from the Arm ca. and on various floors his facstrong investigation, that the question tory apparatus. Rickard's books with Its management has been how to needed attention and he decided to keep business down to the limit, rath- take them Into the den, which few er than how to reach It. No other have entered. , employes company la writing nearly as much On a dusty table Rickard placed as the law allows. The New York the books. A safe stood upon one Ufe has evidently become a prelde, and numerous models of ornafixed company. mental work on the other. The cobThe company's payments lo policywebs that were ostracised from the holders during the six months end main offices swung from the moldy It is afters ing June 30 were $21,660,761. man Rickard, a interesting to note that this amount who had forged his way up to riches was almost equally divided between from the Iron foundry, was at home payments under policies maturing bj in this environment. death and payments made to living The half hour sped by, and then Thus, while death Rickard, satisfied with the result of policy holders. were claims $11,180,626, the amount his lonely work, put on his hat and paid for matured endowments, annuoat, and went to the door It was ities, trust fund Installments, for pur locked from the outside The watchchased iiollcles and for dividends was man, every one believing evidently Modern life Insurance, as had left $10, 180, l'3. the establishment, had closed piacticed by the best companies, etn every door. Rickard yelled lustily for braces a wide field, and covers many while. There was no answer but a contingencies. It Is money saved for hollow echo from the gaping forgeln the aged, as well as money provided the corner. for the families of those who die preRickard's keys had been left out' maturely. side and the watchman had taken hem, believing his employer had forEuropes Extinct Aurochs. to thrust them Into his pocket. Professor A. Martens of Magdeburg gotten on the door and hurling Pounding has reviewed all the early literature of shoulders against It proved futile. and documents relating to the famous Rickard sat down and pondered. Then wild oi of Europe, the aurochs.' or he made an Impression of the keyhole, urns, and shows that It was not Idem and, starting up the old blast furnace l ty, "$5,000 wont pay for the he used to pump before he wore alco lived la Europe in the "boiled" shirts, he laboriously contime of the aurochs. It Is on record structed a key. that a herd of thirty anrochses were After a few plunges of the key into living In Poland In 1564. In 1627 anrochses a few were atill In .existence, but the race baa since become extinct The typ- KENTUCKIAN SLEEPS IN ical color of the aurochs waa black, ROOM W1TH H1S COFFIH but. there waa a gray variety in Po- ) land and a red one in Germany. ' j TIP WILSON OF OWENSBORO 18 Unkind Advice. ALWAYS PREPARED FOR HI8 Two Irishmen were eating thefr BURIAL IN 8TYLE. lunch, when one asked the other? Pat, an wnstbeyon thinking about?" Owensboro, Ky. Ilreckenrldge counPat replied: "Shure, Mike, I was has one of the most remarkable ty me how I would be getting known clothes over me wlnge when I would inhabitants in Kentucky, as T'ncle the Tip" throughout country to heaven." get Mr. Wilson has become so "You would better be thinking how Wilson. well known by his peculiar Ideas that you would be getting your hat over hia home Is visited by many people your horns when you get to the other out of meer curiosity. place, answered Mike. Ally Sloper. Uncle Tip has just completed aspe- Generous Mr. Kraft. ' "Mr Kraft, the merchant." said the college president, "has offered to donate $3 non for a new building to be known as Kraft hall "But. said the dean of the fioul-tv- , $"$3 000 wont pay for the building we want. Oh no .You see. Mr. Kraf' generous offer Is contingent upon our securing donations of $10 000 each from ten other public spirited citizens" Philadelphia Press. He put out hU hand to Jeffy and amlled but that waa before he kcew. "Why, Jelly, this you?" he aatd. What can I do for you? Jeffy t retched out hie right hand and abut hia eyea "Cut It off an' cast It Into Hell Fire. he said rapidly "It would be over soon if you kept jout eyea ahut an now never budged Of course nobody had aeon when be The One With Spectacles started aild hi while nightgown over his a very little, but recovered himself How else tb next Instant little feuM-rand waist lie proceeded to he keep his hand that hand amine the small hand gravely. In bis pocket, he meant to, all night? 'll doe look pietty black, he said In a in a piofesslonal tone 'Jeffy lelt better about It there "Been offeud sense It was In prison, where hands Ing you, has It?" that that you know ought to he In "Ob. no, Kllzabeth please hurry' for their sins In a sense I'd rather you d do It f rast,M trembled he seemed to be making teparatlon the little voice Not exactly to Kllzabeth no o. but 'You ate sure you want It done? atill Jeflh twisted about under his .'tetter ihink twice You won't be able little while covers miserably That cut your m(.a, you knw hand hurt him maybe because It was ; Jeffy knew. cramped and stiff, mabe not. Mayle" 'Or write In your copybook or play because- - that wondered If Jeffy ball" Elisabeth ached there Or play ball oh But the small Of coirse. KIlzaleth was to blame hand did not waver. right xit ill. she waggery little All at once. "I know, Jeffy said ' lying there In the dark. Jeffv remem It'll be pretty hard to button your bered how very little Elizabeth was of course" Her head Just came to the edge of the buttons, ' Of course dining room table, youre pretty little "And it takes two hands to whittle whou ytu have to stretch up on tip If you say so " Still, too to see what tbeie Is going to be Jeffy nodded Something waa the for dinner. Perhaps when you were as little as that you'd have meddled matter with his voice, It would not K with your big brother' things -- voir Well, Ihen, steady' It's going to might have of course now then!" hurt, Hr was verv tin Elizabeth and Jeffy' The hurt of It woke Jeffy. Somewaa her btg brother Jeffy was seven lie had alway rather domineered thing awful seemed to have happened over Klixalo ih, but he had never done and H required a little time to realize Then he remembered that before Oh, no, no, I tell you' what It was He Ills hand oh, how It ached' Never abow I wonder '' the little shuddered as he drew It painfully out "IW boy n bed thought, among the other of its cramped pnaon, and It made hlin rather faint to look at It thought: 'I'm going in and ae," he said with "Why! Jeffy laughed aloud in his a little pteruonitoiy shiver of dread. relief. Why, the little calloused brown Kllzabeth. because she was so very right hand was there! It felt numb little, slept beside mother's bed In her lu some parts and throbbed In others, dainty white crib Jeffy could see but there It was! Not cut off nor the whiteness or It shining faintly cast out You could pinch It and wrigthrough the dark. He crept toward It gle It you could cut meat with it. On the edge of It whittle with It button buttons anyvery' quleilv nettled Kllzabeth snugly, just her thing! The One With Spectacles was small, serene face In Its mellow radi- only a dreadful dream. ance. Jeffy oould see It distinctly. In mothers room next door, ElizaShe waa lying on that cheek. He beth was singing to herself. Her litcould not se It at all. The other tle, thlnr clear voice piped up joyouscheek was fair and sweet, with a dim- ly. Elisabeth sounded happy. Jeffy bad ple In as though a dream-ange- l been there and kissed It S minute ago and that, were the print or the klsa. The "big brother" stood looking at It with a strange Impression that Ellz- . abeth was turning the other cheek 4 rtwwwsiieo pn .'guilty face. Somewhere downstairs a step sounded and-- disturbed Elizabeth la bet sleep. She threw up both small hands, then with a restless little heaving of round body and white covert, turned over on her pillows. "H shows!" gasped Jeffy, and fled hark to his own room In horror. He hsd seen tittle parallel red creases In Kllzabeth'a cheek that cheek. He did not for a moment doubt their origin ' It shows! It shows!" he gToaned In the awful loneliness of night. Perched on the side of his bed with bis little lean, bare legs he thought about what the Bible said Jeffs thoughts did not quote ver "Soa Me," Elizabeth Smiled ball m "If thy right hand strlkeat thy als sat up on the bed he haif slept all ter, cut It off an cast It into Hell night outside the covers, slanting Fire," he repeated under hla breath, across them and listened eagerly. "an' there ahall be gnashing an' Then if Kllzabeth was happy, she there shall be gnashing." she wasn't unhappy. She hadn't laid Is He shuddered. The precise signifianything up. 1Wbaps If he were to cance ot gnashing puxxled him a little, go In there now and say: '"Elizabeth, but it meant something swtul awful' I'm aorry I'm sorry I'm Sorry" An' cut It off meant oh, oh! lerhaps If he were to lo that, she Ur-ir- ! softly shuddered Jeffy, would forgive him. You couldn't tell thinking how hot hell Are must be till you tried. You were to cast It Into Hell Fire, Jeffy tried. He slid softly to the where there 'would be gnashing If It floor sod softly across the floor to ever strurkest thy sister. The Bible Kllzabeth She was sitting with her said you were. And It had struck little hare feet out b tween the bars of her crib, swinging them to the time her, It hsd struck Elisabeth. The darkness seemed to grow dark of her music. Jeffy caught the glints er, the stillness stiller In Jelly's room of morning sunsh'ne In her yellow The little figure on the bedside hair and thought how beautiful they were how beaut ful Kllzabeth was swayed unsteadily swayed again fell backward on the quilts Jeffy Before he got . i her his heart had her la Its arms hugging her was very tired. It tires you to to what does It tire you to do? Yes "Elisabeth, ruvsorry Im sorry xh, yea. that An it makes you tlreder I'm sorry. Ell abeth!" be cried. The feel sorry so aw ful gay little soni. ended suddenly and the still to to--o or gay little sieger whirled about. Some one seemed to be speaking In "Sos me." Elizabeth smiled. the room, but there waa no one there. Jeffy could see, for it had grown light, Which Way as it many lamps had been lighted. The story Is told of a major who - Or else it waa one great lamp, the sun. was In. command of troops who were Could It be morning? The voice in In the pursuit of some called out and now It seemed to he eh me he arrived at outlaw. a village to dls hts own voice calling to him. cover that he was too late to Come, Jeffy, time to go," It said, them, and finally ordered theintercept horses "The sooner yon get It unsaddled and fed. brssqnely. over wfth the better. I suppose you Now the major's hostler was a son know that?" of Ireland, .Ignorant of everything per shivered Jeffy,' answering taint ig to the equestrian art, and. n - wine I lr - "t iter Polnttd Retort. THlk OFFENDING i I s V 7 t- . , |