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Show - t r-- w i -. rf wM 1 '-- r- , k i Beautiful Home That Can Be Built far Comparatively Little; 8 a peculiar over one. to pass squeamish ness Now, the singular part of the whole thing, he continued, was that every man who held that coin in his hand had a long spell of sickness afterward, and some died. I saw Griffith a year or two later, and he said he had never fully recovered, and never expected tO- - ' - " t conception of the value of athletics will add dignity, Interest and standing, making it a factor second to none la the development of our civilisation. It will be a mighty Influence in ths creation of a new and superior type of men and women. That women are growing more and more to reallrt this is evidenced by the athletic tendency of the modern girl If the will com- 'Griffith got interested in that coin bine. therewith an Intelligent. - Effort tf TV pe w A beautiful home la not necessarily matter of larish expenditure of money with the modern principals of Imitative art governing the production of art, metal and stone work and with the assistance of the wonderful woodworking machinery we are enabled to reproduce from original designs results that a few years ago would have ' "been thtraghtof only by the- wealthy. Tet you secure the same results, the sublime purity of the designs, the lack of any attempt at undignified ornamentation, the fascinating repose of the simple outline, have a quiet, restful, homelike feeling that at once enraptured Us trr admiration of the taste and appreciation of the beautiful This is a square plan, yet a most beautiful, dignified and chaste eleva- tton. The first story of buff Yoman brick In white mortar and buff stone PC world Is Too Much witl'lli I w Ths world Is too mask with us late and -- soon. Getting and spending, ws lay waste our powers; Little we see In nature that la ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This sea that bares her bosom to the Tb ; andbannonlous when he heard what it had done, and after began to trace back Its history. He development, the results are bound remembered Cal Davis bad paid it to to be satisfying in the extreme. him, and asked him where be got It. Davis had got it from a man named Decline of German Jews A statistical return of the religions Holt, and Holt got it from .the guerrilla chief, Sam Hlldebrandt. professed' lb J the ' .German - Empire, Hildebrandt got the coin from a based on the census of 1900, baa reThe cently been Issued. It appear!, that Spaniard in a stage robbery. Spaniard told blm ths cols had been the number of Roman Catholics has cursed by the Pope, as it was part of Increased in a greater proportloa than d moon; wlnde that wtB be howling at all now !lke leplng And axa flowers; For this, for everything, we ere out of tune; moves ua not Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled tn a creed outworn. So might I, Blending on tht pleasant lea Have glimpses that would make m lees " fwtonv; a w.LS,,48f,raJWH Have eight of Proteus rising from the It -- Or hear old Triton blew hla wreathed horn) William Following hopes, he was sent out to "do a senIt embezzlement sational story. proved considerable of a puzzler and the assignment lasted several days Finally all bis fighting blood became aroused and h buckled down to the e enthusiasm mystery with his While rooting around and fidelity. night and day picking up loose ends of the story and running down Impossible clues, he accidentally stumbled upon s most peculiar fact which set him off upon a scent wholly out and beyond the lines being pursued by the other reporters and the police. Orders. BY HAROLD- - HUMR (Copyright. 190,' Pally Story Pub. Ce.) Dick had finally all the sentiment knocked out of him ao far as the busi- old-tim- fa reader Wjy Y7yriV a vision aahinf blue and whlte-- a black eyes and a saucy rosette of a mouth. He recognized her, as Alice the old Knox, the pretty daughter man and twin sister of ths subject of his story. She accepted hla stammered apologies demurely and passed on after a friendly word of greeting. This chance meeting gave Via a new viewpoint on his story and a most startling one. This' was Herbert Knox1 twin sister and heroes ceedlng fondness for the brother wsa a matter of common comment- - Could be break her heart? He had no compunction for the father who had humiliated him, bat could be be thw means of breaking the sisters heart? He glanced, up and saw her standing jeforq the door of the old mans roo- m- Sha w aaTjadtant 'fcn ff it - that moment glanced at him and gars him a saucy nod and amlle. That settled the fate of the story. He took It la both bands and started to tear1 it li xf p.eces, but a second thought popsesdedr him and he rose quickly and 'walked 0Ver to' where- - ebe-- stood. Will you hand this to your father when you go In? he said, steadily. Certainly." she replied. Then she ' vanished, leaving the room, cold and . dreary. Presently Dick was summoned into the Inner room, where he found thw old man' alone anu white and trembling. The daughter bad departed. "Is this story known?", be whispered, hoarsely. Only to you and me, replied Dick. It Is a scoop. 1 worked It np alone. Even the police do not suspect" The old man threw himself upon Dicks mercy and begged that the se cret be kept between them. I will fix up the deficiency In some way. be said, and send the boy away. My God, Horton, help me keep this from hit mother and sister. I know I have no right to ask hut it would kill them and I am it human and, by heaven, alr, you cam name your own price. Done," cried Dick. "You have thw copy. I have forgotten It" And your price? asked the father. I will denund later," responded Dick, with a It ahall be yours, whatever cost, replied "the old man, grasping hlaf band. " What that price eventually was story, the' gist of which thw reader 1 entitled to guess lnith ness was concerned. He bad come to tbo great city and taken a position as reporter on the Screamer full of enthusiasm In the work and a determination to succeed, and he had spared neither time or energy to make good. He bad been the first man down to report and last to go home, staying about long after he could have gone In the hope of catching a late emerHe had sought gency assignment. hard assignments which the older re- porter dodged. He had not minded the sneers of bis colleagues, buj It had Jolted hla faith when the powers that wers.utter-lignored his faithfulness and placed it not to his credit at all Dick felt the Injustice of it keen- ly, but the first real blow came when he bad spent four days and nights on elopement story and had fallen down while the Thunderer had all the details on the first page secured, he afterward ascertained, by wire from the Kansas City correspondent N HE WAS,. 1THE 80 RT and rewritten in the office to make it appear a local itory. He attempted Reeds Opinion of Ono to explain to the city editor, but was Waa Rather Too Effuslvo. "'Who cut short. Thomas B. Reed ha a I dont care a rap why you didnt of disagreeable acknack of disposing get It The fact remains that you few that public men poquaintances didn't-,- - You fell-doaadJbats all learned to their have as ssess, many what are to' there la It Results ' ' Jntense chagrin. ount and what i want is stories, not said ones" I was in this me Washington keep Tdy Qod, Horton, help explanatlonsT a man at the cluo, when Tom Reed Lis mother tnd sister I" , from This made Dick blind with fury, in was the czar of the house of repre asmdeh as be would! have willingly Ihe clue led him straight into a sentattves. He was holding forth with so startling as nearly given up hla day pit to wprk on' the earnestness on some theme to a group when crash camq , story. The final floor him. Before he knew whither of friends wben that man you see over Ws Jil Investigations were leading him he , .waa....Acr4:,Pt : there by the cigar counter pushed hla financial ".story" and - .found to tint stumbled fart "the he 'Wi: in Yha crod. grarid Reed -rtfli-ctthrough wy which lead non old "the seriously HfeQ, tie t sl paid effusively: f which Tiki concern !nf tbp Upon a man, " as .the city editor waa ;alka, backer of the paper was the domfnant was beyond peradventure the embez- ViJetlu, Tom, old boy, low do you do? in a manner that Rind the number of Protestants, hile the personality. " He worked out his story zler and that he had covered 'hie more was for the man than of a shake suswith as and Judaism Ingeniously OA. Increase la compared another theory crime so carefully by forgery that the Christian - prof essldns- baa been poypred the connection. . When the picion had not only been thrown upon for bfs hand and went on with hla our friend over there had very small. The Protestants num- stonq broke loose the next day and he several others, but bad been wholly talk, Vhen of out the crowd someone said: told was asoredged he In the In 1900, bered 85.231,104 diverted from him. Indeed, against attempted to Justify upon 81,026,810 In 1890, or an Increase of with more emphasis than courtesy dinary course of events he would have You ddnt seem to be happy , over Who is your friend,, any13.6 per cent; while the. Catholics that he was not responsible for the been the last person toward whom It him,- Itged. way? t could have been directed. , numbered 0, 327,913 in 1900, as against editorial policy, of the paper. rs Reed drawled out: Hei a fellow The discovery not only surprised What dye suppose we have 17,674,921 in 1890, or sn increase of and city editors and night edi- him, but It unnerved him. Herbert from New York who knows more men 15 per cent The number of professing Jews has only increased from 567,884 tors and managing editors here for? was the pet and Idol of his father and who dorft want to know him than any What you his appearance and record warrant- other mm In the United aiAtea." to 586,948, which gives a percentage shouted the city editor. and get ed all the pride and affection beout to Is for go In the are hired of 8.4. Of every 1,000 persons Flowtrs and Weeds of Ufa. em sup- stowed upon him. He waa a handare, Protestants, facts. Then if we want German Empire-62we see youth, unwilling And know. frank Everywhere youth, let some well and you 861 Catholics, 10 Jews, and3l of differapparently pressed ent or ssdetermlned religious Creeds. when we get so we are not competent filled with good nature and. gifted to pay th full price for success, tryHe bad gone ing to pick the flowers out of an octo run the sheet well turn It over to with high ability. a batch of cub reporters. I ought to through. the schools and - university cupation er a profession, but omitting ' A Queer Test firs you thats what 1 ought to do, with high honors and was of such ex- all that la lard, ugly and disagreeable. An old lady applied at, -and Ive a blamed good mind to do It, emplary character that he had never This la as If soldiers were to go maid. a for pfflee . ut I want' aTRlep J11 Just lay you- off loro a given his parents a moments uneasi- through a hostile country leaving a- ' ness. He had no bad tab Its. that any stronghold, e re and there, unconqueryearsof age,- week so you can have ofa- chance-teighteen and twenty-twduties over the youf one had ever heard of and was In very ed, to bar a 4 them perpetually' by g question who Is fond of mushrooms. study on thelrrcar and picking off their you then Ill and give fact a model young man. After his Fond of mushrooms?" inquired the and limitations, way to insure victory graduation his father, brushing aside men. The oUy agentr That is something..!., never pne more chance," Then the asother the as that on Is to 1 mercifully you go. - You must fellows' ed'him .the conquffwith guy from .suggestion my Indignation, about applicants. inquire himself tbs not in tis follow bad his enemy 'leave footstep,' la should who man appointed the lad dont understand. censor of the paper. had secured him a position in a great any part of pur kingdom. Dread of Well, I am very, fond of mushBo It was that Dlck became hard- finahClal'eBtAblishmenL drudgery mut be overcome. Grasp rooms myself, and there are so many came to me ened like thw others and worked for Dub about ln a cheap newspaper the nettle had. If you would rob It mistakes made. The Idea several years ago, and it was a dis- his salary, and not for glory, and took Jon and get worse offtheolder he of It sting. -- You must destroy 1 exclaimed weeds as you go, or soon there grows? I think not! pensation of Providence that It did, Alnt one in be no flowers; gtd without flowers ; or I should have been killed. 1 make Knox, Sr., with plrtL , a family enough to get on a dead one? cannot have frdt Success. my maid eat a portion of aH mushbefore rooms brought to my ..house Noslree, that boy Is going to hart c the benefit of my hard experience. any-ar- e Ladles Tilers Not New. Served, to me, I alwayi re' old 1 But he did much more and landed the lady. There were, i seems, ladies tailquire it, replied Herbert In a very good' position In bate lost two excellent maids from and tailor cade dresse in the or toadstools during the last five years, big Institution where there wai plenty days of Queen EUabeth. A contribuof chance to be pushed ahead. And tor of the Tailor and Cutter has been and, of Course, I could not think of mbahrooms Herbert had made good with his em- visiting Cumnor, and was shown a taking the ,xiskof eating adletter-writteunless I bad a maid to test them. ployers land bad been - rapidly Amy by. the 'was1 entrusted with Robsart until'le vanced efore !wr death at Nails. shortly -- Cure for Ingrown , a larganTdrew ,iv grave responsibilities Cumnor house, wbeh Sir Waller Scott . Tardif saystbat he ha been able er salary than his sire. And It was describe In "Kenlworth. It ws to to cure all cases of Ingrowing nail the one enthusiasm of the old mans" a Mr. William Emey, tailor 'at the without recourse' to thw knife. He Herb was forever on hi Tower, and refer b the alteration of life. proceeds as follows: With a flat probe tongue and forever In Tits mini a gown he was miking tor her, and or a match he slips a bit of cotton beIt waa to this fact that Dicks mind contain a promise to see him paid. tween the edge of theAiali and the reverted the moment .he realized the The unfortunate latjr died before thw HI Inflamed flesh. Another strip of cob significance of his discovery, old gown waa finished, xd the poor tailor ton is put along the outer margin of first Impulse was to save the had to wait for five year before hw was bethe that and awful area this space pit the ulcerated man from was paid by the ea of Leicester. of cotton, and tween these two strips opening under hla feet which Is occupied by the ulcer, Is But he had not spared him, Dick - Not Hector thought grimly, and had given him thickly powdered with nitrate of lead. one fine day On next time cold noUce that the very The whole Is covered with cotton and a flshenni McDonald, - The as he dressings the toe Is bandaged. Yon fell down, and thats all there be failed to turn In hla .story Highlands, of Scotland, western the be would discharged. found It he - is to day, and are repeated . , three out girls far a row in his took said Let him take hla medicine, every day until the Incarcerated edge as little responsibility as possible and a scroll arose and Suddenly boat I of thenall is plainly visible. Then, did as little work as was compati- Dick, setting his lips, ominously. In thlrtf feet of water. boat the npset law. of And of the Job. the nail Is ble with the holding of his will Jollow the letter with patience, the edge atl three McDonald contrived t4g Bo he went to the office, sat down lifted away from the flesh and a hit he became blase and lost most of bis o keel to on the returned s tjid a pass- lasses of cotton Is Introduced under It to e enthusiasm and Interest He and wrote his story: and then swam to an Islet some one, forsooth, there being boat, e good his pride in getting a scoop ing sever keep it up. As It grow It will gradufeet away. Heir h4 removed no plenty of inspiration both In the nov- forty-fivnor In turning in a good Story- beally take its proper position above the boots and lea!er clothsea his big elty of the facts, the sensational qualflesh, this having meantime shrank born reporter does that but he struck out or the girls, then and ing, that fact in Indifferent the of all, ity and best and shriveled by reason of the applicame as the others, stolid. carried one bf one to the be whom that the story cation of toad nitrate. ' McDonalds noble action havand more or less hopeless. mind in Dick knew well enough rock. finwas It When of scoop. clean waa a This was the frame under die notice of over-anit set hit ing been brought A dishonest man npecta stery which he found himself one line after ished be" read It Humane Society, that body Royal the Aa he honest man he encounters. noon when, as he sat chewing a cigar newspaper Instincts all aglow. awarded him Its medal. head copylost -to his the over '. hand it to rose and fuming Inwardly y r-y sptitHT-tlkr-sm- OP-MA- wnr ' ' 4 I;..,,... 1 an American booty captured by pirates in Chinese waters and sent to Rome as a peace offering. The cola was stolen from Rome by a Spaniard, and he, fearing to pass it gave it to his friend, who was coming to America. Hildebrandt nearly died of fever while carrying it and Holt died from some peculiar ailment which baffled the doctors. ' woods. What became of the coin I dp not water heat Plate and art glass, hot and modern plated plumbing. As good know, but every word of this story Is as a house can be built, complete out- as true as anything I ever told. Carside of hot water heat and plumbing, thage (Mo.) Press. trimmings The second story, old oak Umbered work, with buff cement panels corned. The roof Is of red Spanish tils The hall and three main looms are finished in mahogany with wood mosaic floors The walla are and decorated in pll; divans, book cases, buffets, etc., built In; second story finished in native hard - bar-lapp- ed 83,800. THIS COIN WAS CURSED. Art and Athletics. The universally Increasing attention now being given, especially in countries, to sports and to physical culture la a sign of the best omen. No class can have a greater solicitude for the furtherance of this movement than the artists, for- they cannot create, beautiful Anglo-Saxo- n . Misfortunes That Befell the Persons " Who Happened to Own it a tells of An old resident Carthage reporter for the Press a strange story of a, pursed coin. Among some money turned over to Dfck Griffith, "treasurer of Jasper county years ago, was a f 20 gold piece with a singular design cut It it The design represented a cross with snaker coiling around it The old resident says that when it was passed across the hand it caused out-of-do- -- forms without having beautiful forms around them from which to draw Inspiration, says a writer in Outing. The art of a nation Is a mirror of that nations Ideals, and faithfully reflects their slightest change. The new a - -- copy-reade- to-B- o hr-In- trinmtnjfln-Th- H ur old-tim- WWmNook W - dWd rbrv: i r S i n r KolTRgftffKt ' kt - i' - |
