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dlihe .11Matchmakers ay Constance Were),Mackay. Copyrighted, 1908. by P. C. Eastment. It was during the first course t Helena Brent made her ertrance, all the boarders at Mrs. Penningto table looked up with soup spoons s pended. The dingy background of dining room wall heightened ra than diminished Helena's beau Against its dull tan and brown putt her supple young figure stood like brilliant bas-relief. So Professor Macklyn thought as looked at her quizzically from beh his steel rimmed eyeglasses. She w youth personified, and youth was a premium at Mrs. Pennington's, wh elderly bachelors and maiden lads and middle aged married couples s ped nightly on the viands Mrs. P nington sparingly set forth. Helena Brent was different from these, and Professor Macklyn's o 4 middle aged heart was -going out to in furtive sympathy when he can the stealthy glance that little M Eustis sent to the other end of table, where sat Ramsay Sturgis, only young man in the house, a plea ant, frank eyed, broad shouldered low for whom Professor Macklyn always felt an instinctive liking. The professor's glance followed M Eustis' and rested there, while Ra say Sturgis imperturbably went with his dinner, unaware of any hov Ings of romance, for as the professo looked quickly away again his eyes f a second time encountered those Miss Eustis, and in their depths he u the light of a born matchmaker befo her lids drooped and hid the tiny spa She had a tender heart, this littl Miss Eustis, in spite of her prim, ap isterial ways, and when the profess) let himself into the chilly board! house hall a few evenings later found her there on guard. From the parlor came sounds of clear soprano voice, and presently a other voice, undeniably masculin joined in. Miss Brent and Mr. Stu gis were singing a college glee, MI Eustis held up a warning finger. "Don't disturb them," she begged "It's so difficult to become really a qualnted in a house like this, and the are getting on famously. She told m last night that they had discov quite a number of mutual friend They are both from the west, yo know, and strangers to New York." The professor disavowed any inten tion of entering the parlor and, leapt]; back against the wall, with his book balanced on one arm, listened content edly to the music. Miss Eustis listened too. Into daily routine of her life had com something bright and vital, and he faded face glowed under the new Im petus. The professor likewise felt a sud den quickening impulse. There was certain relish and novelty in playin the role of matchmaker- It occurred to him that he bad kept too steadll to bis books, and now a voice withi him that he had long believed ellen cried out for life and companionship He turned to Miss Eustis. "What do you think they'd say to a (waters?" theater party and aters?' he demanded whisperingly. Miss Eustis' eyes widened. Sbe caught her breath. "Why, professor," she gasped, ""I didn't suppose that you"— "Knew what the taste of a good time was? Well, I did once, but I've been a bookworm these many long years, and it's time I learned the flavor of festivity again." It was a flavor for which Helena Brent and Ramsay Sturgis were both equally keen, and so a radiant party of four clambered down the slippery, sand strewn steps of Mrs. Penning - ton's boarding house into the crisp wintry starlit night Through the hardening process of uneventful years Miss ' Eustis had reached a dreary apathy concerning clothes, but as it dawned on her that the theater party was only the first of a long series of occasions when she would be forced to play the chaperon her wardrobe began to receive partic- ular and minute attention. Her hair was loosened from its se- vere little knob at the back of her neck and curled softly around her temples as it had not done since she was a girl. A stiff, uncompromising walking hat was\replaced by a toque mysteriously competed of violets and tulle. Nor was the professor to be left be- hind in his sudden orgy of fashion. His rusty overcoat gave way to a hand- somely tailored garment of black. His loose, uncertain colored neckties were removed and succeeded by the crisp- est, moat up to date adornments the haberdasher's window displayed. "We owe It to our young people," be declared as he and Mise Eustis strolled through the park one February after- noon. A little way ahead of them walked Helena Brent and Ramsay Sturgis. Every now and then Helena's laugh- ter drifted back to them, mingling with Ramsay's happy tones. The young man's salary had been doubled within the month, and Helena had begun to embroider initials on certain filmy mus- lin with a furious zeal. The professor looked questioningly at Miss Eustis. "What do you think?" be queried. "I don't think! I knowr' she answer- ed, and then added in evident trepida- tion: "But perhaps I oughtn't to have told yon. I fancy the dear young things want to keep their secret a lit- tle while longer, and Helena hasn't hat and n's us - the tiler ty. ern a he Ind as to ere ee up- en - all wn her ght has the the s- tel - had iso m- on er- r or of w re spar e in - ng he a n- e, r- ea • c- 7 e eyed s. u g e the e r a g 7 n Ossa cnnaren are * engrossed w their love affair that they haven't ti for anything practical." "We might look up the things befo hand, and then when the young peop are ready give them the benefit of o superior wisdom." the processor su gested. After that, on Saturday afternoon be add Silas Eustis roamed to far pa of the city to f?trniture, china and p1 ture stores and to bra's shops dow on the east side. There were bookstoms, too, whe the professor reveled. What, he qu tioned, could give more cheerful a pecte to a room than volumes of lim red leather and andirons of hammer brass. They even found an apartme which combined the amazing trilo of cheapness, beauty and light. It was when they were secretly joking over this discovery that th bomb fell. Miss Brent accosted MI Eustis at the hour of kimonos an candlesticks. "I've come to tell you," she said sim ply, "that I'm going to bo married." "1 knew it all along, dear," said 11 tie Mise Eustis, and kissed her. "Th professor and I consider Mr. Sturgis splendid fellow." Amazed laughter broke In rippl across the face of Helena. "Mr. Sturgis!" she cried. "Why, hos perfectly funny! Didn't you know h was engaged to a girl out west? II told me so the first night I ever me him. And he knows my fiance, Mr Holbrook. That's what we used t talk about when we went walking." "Then you were nothing—ever—b just—friends?" Miss Eustis' voice wa very faint. She was wondering dimly how she was ever to break the news to the professor. "Nothing but friends," echoed Hele- na Brent, and, with an odd little twitch of her !fps, she bent and kissed Miss Eustis again. At breakfast Miss Eustis intimated to the professor that she bad some• thing to tell him which was of su- preme importance, and they sought the nearest avenue of the park. Spring was in the land. The green grass was like a verdant shadow on the brown earth, and by the fountains sparrows were twittering noisily. An ungovernable lump rose in Miss Eus- tis' throat. The only romance at which she had ever assisted was at an end. Briefly she told the professor, while he listened, agitated, disappointed and dismayed. "Then it's all over?" he said. All over." "And I had thought of them in their ga own home with all the tbinwe chose around them." "Oh, so had I!" The professor looked at Miss Eustis. He had been realizing of late how pretty she had grown, with the deli- cate, fragile prettiness of a late sum- mer rose. It came to him with a sudden, star- tling wrench that he would miss their walks and drives as he had missed nothing else in his meager, lonely life. There rose before him the vision of the house that they had planned together. His hand closed over hers. "Elizabeth," he said, "as matchmak- ers we're a distinct failure, unless you're willing to retrieve It by marry- ing me. For, after all, that house that we dreamed of Is our house. Our hearts and souls went into it, not theirs!" She had meant to light the flame for others. Instead It bad been lighted for her. She gave the professor an il- lumined look. "I believe it is so, John," she said softly. "But, oh," she added a mo- ment later, "they'll say it was they, not we, who made the match!" "Let them say!" returned the pro- fessor happily, itn me re - le ur g - a. its c - n re es- 5- p ed nt gy re - e ss d • t - e a es e e 0 spoken to me about it. But last nlght— I couldn't help seeing it—there was a diamond ring on her bureau in a little white satin case." The professor beamed. "And of course they'll go to house- keeping. Ramsay has always said that if be were married he'd have an apart. mehat" "There will be furniture to see to, end china and kitchen ware, but the An Important Personage. An inquiring person in England came upon a veteran soldier sunning himself in front of a public house in Devon- shire and begau to question blm about his campaigns and the leaders he had fought under. "Did you ever see Wel- lington?' asked the person finally. "Did I ever seelWellingtonr" repeat- ed the veteran, with a superior smile. "Why, I was lying on the ground at Waterloo when I 'eard the sound of 'oases' 'oofs, and then a voice called out, 'Ie that you, Saunders? "I knowed the voice in an instant it was the Dook of Wellington. " 'Yes, sir,' aye I, most respectful. "'Come 'ere,' says the dook. "I riz, reluctant, from the ground, for I was tired out. "'I want you. should go back 'ome,' 'e says. "'Why?' says I. "'Becos you're killing too many men,' saps 'e. "And back 'ome I went," concluded the veteran, shifting his "game" leg into a more comfortnble position. Murder in Germany. Germany distinguishes between two kinds of murder—one, premeditated and intentional, is punishable by death; the second, Intentional homicide with- out deliberation, is punishable by penal servitude for from five to fifteen years. Dueling In Germany is a mtsdemeano of a special kind. Who kill°his oppo- nent in a duel is not charged with murder or manslaughter, but with dueling, the punishment for which is detention in a fortress for fifteen years. —London Chronicle. Ruffled His Feathers. Artist (showing friend his master- piece)—New, my boy, that is a picture, If you llke—real and natural. What do you think of it? Friend—Capltall Cap- ital! So lifelike! Such light and shade! I don't think I ever saw a bet- ter picture of a battlefield. Artist— Great Paul Rubens! That's not a bat- tlefield—that's a basket of frult!—Lon- don Standard. Reduction, The old nag was jogging up the hill with the elopers. "Yes," sail the old nag, "it Is rather tough pulling them up to the parson- age, but it will be easier coming back." "How so?" queried the friendly goose at the roadside. "Why, can't you see that after leav- ing the parsonage two will be made oner'--Chicago News. ETIQUETTE IN KASSALA. A Chat Between u Male Heathen and Two Native Ladies. Some of the traditional observances in the polite society of other lands af- ford, in addition to amusement, con• siderable opposition to the free inter• course to which modern conditions have accustomed us. Mra. Speedy, one of the first English ladles to visit Kassala, gives a good Instance of this in her "Wanderings In the Sudan" when relating bow she and her bus band received their first callers. Their patroness was an Italian lady who had long been a resident of the city. "in the morning a rap came to the door," writes Mrs. Speedy, "and on opening it 1 saw madame, with two Arab women, standing outside. She in- quired cautiously it Charlie were with- in, and on my saying that be was she made a sign to the two ladles, who drew the thickly concealing shawl still more closely over their hidden faces and moved off to one side In the pas- sage, turning their backs to the door way. "She then explained to me that they were of very high rank and of a very strict sect and must on no account be seen by a strange man, especially not by one who was of another nation and an infidel. They were, however, very anxious to see me and had come to dc me that honor, and if Charlie would not object to go below or into some other room for a few minutes they would make their visit very short "I represented the state of the case, and he at once consented to absent himself, hta only regret being that he should not have a chance to converse with these ladies, as there were many things which he wished especially tc know and which he was not likely to have any- opportunity so good as the present for ascertaining. In turn, i represented this side of the question to madame, and after much hesitation and whispered conversation in the pas- sage a compromise was effected. "It was arranged that, :completely veiled, the ladies should enter the room, not venturing to turn their heads in the direction of the masculine hen - then, and that he should before they entered turn his back to the direction by which they world come in. "This was all strictly carried out and thus, back to back and a considerable distance apart, an edifying conversation went on for half an hour, questions being put in bland, inquiring tones and dulcet replies given, which appeared to be quite satisfactory to both parties." The Longest "Straight." To the Buenos Aires and Pacific railway belongs the peculiar distinction of having on its system the longest straight stretch of railway In the world. The length of this is 2051 miles, and it is situated on the main line, between 158 and 3881/4 miles from Buenos Aires. The straight was for- merly broken by reverse curves form• Ing a detour around Lake Soria. The longer portion was then 175 miles long and was even then the world's record. The lake having, however, practically dried up, the company suppressed the curves, and the cutoff was opened to service on Oct. 15, 1907. It seems that when the line was set out in the sev- enties, at which time the country was in the bands of the Indians, after leav- ing Junln, which was a military out- post and the Last point of contact with the Buenos Aires civilisation. a course of aboutwest-northwest was set and the line run straight across the Hat pampas until It met another line about sixty miles long, which was pushed out east- ward from the western terminus, Villa Mercedes, There were no obstacles of Importance to avoid, and hence the phenomenal bee line.—Engineer, Cain's Wife. "I never discuss marriage," Bald the late General Fitz-Hugh I.ee, "without thinking of nn old colored preacher In my state who was addressing his dark skinned congregation when a white man rose up in the back of the build - "'Mr, Preacher,' said the white men. "'Sir to you,' said the parson. " `Mr. Preacher, you are talking about Cain, and you say he got married In the land of Nod after he killed Abel. But the Bible only mentions Adam and Eve as being on the earth at that time. Whom, then, did Cain marry? "The colored preached snorted with unfeigned contempt, "'Ruhr be said. 'You bear dat, bred- eren an' sisters? You hear dat fool question I am axed? baln, he went to de land o' Nod, just as de good book tells us, an' in de land o' Nod Cain gets so lazy en' so shlf'less dat he up an' marries a gal o' one o' dem no 'count pore white trash families dat de inspired apostle didn't consider flttln' to mention In de holy word.'" Exchanging Amenities. A blatant sample of the loud voiced, self conscious, look -at -me variety of man took his seat In a bus and called to the conductor: "Does this bus go all the way?' "Yes, sir," responded the conductor politely. "Does It go as far as Oxford street? I want to get out there." "Yes, sir," was the reply. "Well, I want you to tellwhen we get there. You'd better tick a stamp on your noee or put a s w in your mouth or tie a knot in one of your lips, so that you won't forget it" "It would not be convenient for one in my position to do so," said the con- ductor courteously, "but If you will kindly pin your ears round your neck I think I shall remember to tell you."— London Screps. Moral Idiots. A good many people still hold the no- tion that all persons are equally good by nature and might be equally good actually had they but the will to be so. They fall to see that men are born with all degrees of moral capacities and in- capacities and some of them wholly lacking in that regard, just as they are born with all degrees of intellectual en- dowment and some of them with none whatever. A man may be an idiot marshy as well as intellectually.— Strand ,Magazine. ENGLISH RED TAPE. War Oiloe Methods and the Test of a Mountain Gun. The story that a gun of marvelous possibWties invented in England may be sold abroad owing to the apathy of the powers that be is not altogether surprising. Whitworth refused Napoleon III.'s Mier of ;50,000 a year for life to go to Parts and manufacture his cannon for the French army, but perhaps our war office was not so faddy then as now. Some little time ago a new gun for bill fighting was offered and was sent out to Indiaa to be tried. It was drag- ged up steep hila, rushed down rocky defiles, left for a week at a time In mountain torrents—in fact, submitted to all the testa which a veteran officer accustomed to war with the hill tribes could suggest The report was satisfactory in every respect, but a war office genius bland• ly asked If the gun had been dropped down a precipice. it had not. The war office was horrified and amazed at the neglect of so elementary a test The gun was now dropped down a precipice with the inevitable result— its internals were irremediably dam - ow was it possible, the war office asked, to accept such a weapon? And the army of India was left to potter along wltlitobeolete weapons because this new arm would not stand impoe• Bible testa.—London Sketch. AWAY BELOW ZERO. The Awful Cold That Correa With Eighty Degrees of Frost. s. It i'difficult to form any conception of the degree of cold represented by 80 degrees of frost that at times prevails In certain parts of Russia, Sir Leopold McClintock tells us bow In one of his arctic expeditions a sailor was foolish enough to do some outdoor work at precisely this temperature- His hands trose, and when he rushed into the cabin and plunged one of them into a basin of water so cold was the hand that the water was instantly converted Into a block of ice. At 25 degrees, Dr. Kane says, "the mustache and underlip form pendu- bus beads of dangling ice. Pat out your tongue, and It instantly freezes to this icy crusting. Your chin has a trick of freezing to your upper jaw by the happy aid of your beard. My eyes have often been so glued as to show that even. a wink was unsafe." During a theatrical performance giv- en by the crew of his ship at an Inside temperature of 30 degrees "the con- densation was so excessive that we could barely see the performers. Their hands steamed- When an excited Thes- pian took off his coat It smoked like 11, dish of potatoes. Any extra vehemence of delivery was accompanied by vol times of smoke."—Pearson's Weekly. A Wrong Diagnosis. The small boy with the big bundle of papers was observed to be moisten- ing some of his stock in the street fountain. "Ab, my lad," said a benevolent old gentleman, "it does me good to see such an illustration of cleanliness." "What do yer mean, boss?" asked the boy as be stared up IR wonder. "Why, aren't you trying to wash the mud apote off the edge of your Mors r' "No, boss; you are way off. Yon See, some of dese papers is two weeks old, an' if I dampen 'em up a bit peo- ple will think they are just from de press an' never think of lookin' at de date. Good graft, old sport! Say, some day when I am a captain of in- dustry I'll give you a job." But the benevolent old gentleman had fled.—Boston Post An Ode to His Washerwoman. Even In the face of financial ember rasament the Yale student refuses to be downcast, for when the florist threatens suit if hls bili Is not paid or when In walking through the city streets the student sees bis newest shirt adorning the grinning face of his washerwoman's young unhopeful It Is not his nature to spill a bottle of Ink on a dissertation on the subcon- scious relationship of poverty to vice. More likely he will go whistling back to the campus and put to the tune some such verses as appeared In the Tale Record of years ago under the title "Owed to My Washerwoman'" I promise thee that some day I win Dome In answer to thy ort repeated dun, And in thy eager hands I then will lay The dollars ten I've owed for many a day. I will not censure the. for ripe and tears. For e'en the socks that now thy husband wear& Tee, some day In the dim futurity I'll pay it all. I promise thee. And so he wilt set the whole campus laughing. If not to paying their bilis,— E. R. Embree itt Bohetnlan. Pries of His Treason. Benedict Arnold Bled In London June 14, 1801. His life after his treason was a most unhappy one. Ile was avoided by men of honor and on many occa- sions deliberately Insulted. He re- ceived s constdernhle sunt of money from the Rritlsb government and made several Unsuccessful attempts to en- gage In business In British America and the West Indies and finally re- turned to Lond•n,, where he died in Obscurity. His see"nd son, born in 1780, entered the ttrltlsb army In 1798, *erred with credit In many parts of the world and three years before his death in 1854 was made a Ileutegant general.—Household t'ouhpnalon. Running 'Jo Risk, "What," asks tete maiden aunt, "go- ing to marry that Mr Newwun? Why, you hardly know the man, (moppet. In tbe few days you base been ac- quainted with him you cannot possibly have learned anything of bla family or antecedents or habits or personal cir- cumstances," "That is true, Aunt Keturah. But you have ;Maya told me that no wom- an who knows anything about a man will marry him.". --nacres Magazine, The Three Periods. Jima—There as three perleds to a man's lite when he does not under- stand a woman. Grayson—And they air? Inds—auteen be knows Ler, who be knows bet and afterward? The Tailor and the College Humorist. Perenniti victims of the humorous paper at Yale are the familiar campus characters, Jim Donnelly. the police- man; Pop Warner, the "teeming ex- pressman," so calked because be deliv- ers his goods in an automobile, and Roseuberg Sons, the suit pressors, about whom, In a Pegasian flight of i distress at the time of the junior prom., the Record uttered these wing- ed words: Oh, Rosenberg, dear R000nberg, Thy sons well neer forget. That suit of clothes, God only knows. I'm wafting tot them yet 1'11 miss that train. 1'11 go Insane And rip and tear and cuss. Just out of reach There goes that peach I've missed my chance to fuss. With this same aul't presser as hero, the story is told on a popular pro- fessor that in leading chapel one morn- ing he stopped short, leaned over -and whispered excitedly to the choir, "What's the name.ef that song, 'Press On. Christian a So1'dier, Press Onr " r "Rosenberg!" came from a dozen men at once. "We'll sling three stanzas of Rosenberg!' said the leader, with ec- clesiastical assurance.—E. R. Embree In Bohemian. In a Nitroglycerin "Hill." In the "danger area" the severest discipline Is maidtained• All entrances are carefully guarded by searchers, who rigorously examine every indi- vidual that desires to enter, relieving him of any metallic objects that may be carried upon his person, together with matches and other susplcious ob- jects which upon coming into contact with the dangepous chemicals used in this zone might provoke serious trou- ble. No matter how often an employee engaged within the hill may pass in and out, every time he enters he must submit to this preliminary and essen- tial operation. There are also some 500 girls employed, and these are un- der the charge of matrons. Ilnlrpins, ordinary pins, shoe bottom+, metal pegs within the soles of the sheet+, knitting and other needles are all religiously barred. Their hair is tits) with braid or ribbon, and, as with the male em- ployees, every time they enter the "danger area" they are similarly searched by the matrons. — Scientific American, A Hard Knock. Railroadclaim agents have little faith in their fellow creatures. One sald recently: "Every time I settle a claim with one of theme hard headed rural residents who wants the railroad to pay twice what he would charge the butcher If he gets n sheep killed, 1 I think of this story. Illustrative of the way some people want to hold the rail- road responsible for every tjecident, of whatever kind, that happens. Two Irishmen were driving home from town one night when their buggy ran into a ditch, overturnetd, and they were both stunned. Whit; a rescuer came along and revived them tate first thing one of them said ivas, 'Where's tbe train? 'Why, there's no train around,' be was told. 'Then where's the rail- road?' 'The nearest railroad is three miles away.' he learned. 'Well, well,' he comruenfetl. '1 knew it bit ns pret- ty hard, but 1 didn't aultpuste it knock- ed us. three miles from the track" "— Argonaut. The Page Between. A New Orienns Wolin n. well known for her work for charity. recently nc• cepted an invitation to i't,eak at an anti -tuberculosis meeting. On the plat• form she fouud herself settled between a bishop and a rabbi, and the tone of the meeting seemed to be rendered ex• trewely solemn by the combination. In order to lighten the solomnity, She Bald, turning to the rabbi, "Do you know, I feel as if 1 were n leaf be- tween the Old and the New Testa- ments." The rabbi turned a and eyed gaze upon her. "Yes, madam," he said, "and, if you will recall, that page is timidly a blank One." She Was a Bit Bashful. Mr. Peet. a very diffident man. was unable to prevent himself being Intro- duced One evening to a fascinating young lady, who, mtsundersianding his name, constantly addressed him as Mr. Peters, much to the gentleman's dis- tress. Fleetly summoning up the cour- age, he earnestly remonstrated: "Oh, don't call me Peters. Call me Peet!" "Ah, but 1 don't know you well enough, Mr. Peters." said the young lady, blushing, as she withdrew be- hind her fan.—London Telegraph. The Onion In Cooking. The greatest of French cooks, being asked to give the secret of his success, answered: "The very foundation of all good cooking is butter and onion! 1 use them In all my sauces and gravies. They have the effect of making a cus- tomer come back for more. Butter without onion will drive the customer away after a few days. Boll the onion till it melts or entirely disappears; then add the butter and call the mix- ture stock."—Exchange. His Bachelor's Degree. "Pm so happy," said lairs. Oldcastle. "My son is to got his bachelor's degree this year." "Is he?" replled her hostess. "Well, I can't blame you for feeltn' as you do about it l never thought touch of that snippy Wilson girl he's been gotn' with. How did you get the match broke off?"—Chicago Reeord-Herald. Artificial Fries. Dame JuHina Berner', prioress of the nunnery of Sapwell, near St. Al- bans, England. was the author of the first book on angling in the English language, printed in 1496. She gives a Wt of twelve files, and now, after a lapse of more than four centuries, arti- ficial flies, constructed after her formu- las, would prove es successful as any of the up to date creations. Helpless- Ella—What a helpless girl she cal Stella—Yes. if somebody should pro- vide the mistletoe and furnish the man she couldn't do the test. Caaadiat 4Oollrler• ea....... The End Came Another Way. A. distinguished actor was one time engaged at one of our leading previa - fiat theaters in a drama in which he attempts an escape from a convict pris- on, first by getting rid of his fetters by means of a 8le and lastly by getttna over the prison wall- In the act of doing this be is shot at by a warder and killed. One particular night the drama had run its usual course up to the point where the actor attempts the escape over the prison wall- The warder, as usual, presented his ride, but instead of a loud report nothing but a faint clicking sound was heard. The tide was lowered and after a brief delay again pointed, but with the same dis- appointing result The audience now began to hiss and jeer. The disgusted actor then got orf the prison wall and, staggering toward the footlights, exclaimed, "It's all up— I've swallowed the filer and tell prone on the stage amid the laughter and ap- plause of the audience. — Pearson's Weekly. Bachelor Seal Skin. "This skin," said the furrier, "came from a young seal bachelor, a youth ignorant of love and of life." "How do you know?" the lady asked. "By its fineness, its perfection," he replied. "The pile, you will note, is like close cut velvet. Only bachelor seal skins have such a pile. "The bachelor seal," be went on, "has a rather sad lite. The big bull seals 1n the seal islands have each a bousehold of fifteen or twenty wives, but the young bachelors must herd by themselves. Let one of them at tempt to marry and straightway a bull slays him. Not till he is big enough to fight and conquer a hull—not till he is fourteen or fifteen years old—can he know the delight of settling down In a home of his own. "Ile leads a hard, ascetic, celibate fife, only in the end as like as not to make a lady a very fine cost. All the very fine coats, I repeat, are made from the unhappy bachelor seals."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Jack Tar and the Actor. A famous Irish actor of the eight- eenth century named John Moody early in life, before he went on the stage, had been to Jamaica and work- ed his passage home as a Bailor before the mast. One night some time after be had been engaged at Drury Lane when he was acting Stephano in "The Tempest" a sailor In the front row of the pit got up and, standing upon the seat, hallooed out, "What cheer, Jack Moody—what cheer, messmater This unexpected address rather as• tonlsbed the audience. Moody. how- ever, stepped forward and, recognizing the man, called out: "Tom Huilett, keep your jawking tacks aboard. Don't disturb the crew and passengers. When the show is over make sail for the stage door, and we'll finish the evening over a jug of punch. But till then, Tom, keep your locker shut." Moody, It is related. was as good as his word. - Cornhill Magazine. Financial Expedient. Shoeblack—Shine. sir? Four sous? Passerby—No. thank you. Shoeblack— Two sous? Passerby—No. Shoeblack— For nothing. then? Passerby — All right, if you like. Shoeblack (after having finished one shoe)—It's 0 sons to clean tbe other, sir.—Nos Lotaira. HERE AT (HOME. Hastings Citizens Gladly Testify and Confident! Recommend Doan's Kidney Pipe. It is testimony like tl.e following that has pieced Uoen's Kidney Pdls so far above competitors. When pet►plr hen- et home raise their vide,- in praise than' is int room It -ft fur doubt. Iteall the public gatemen( of a Hastings citizen: Andrew Olson, sh,+e merchaut. Weal ht urth ;street, Hestings, !Bina., says. "1 have suffered for muni yeors froth n latae beck. 1Cht•u Standing erect I w,.ul,l t,ardly be able to bead over. and after .icing down for s.'me time it was with neat difficulty that I was Able to striae 5ev'•rel years ago Donn'. Kidney Pilin were brought to my attention ,tad i began to uke them. Thr) proved so satisfactory in my case that i have been Tom mendilig them to any friends every ncc. 1 know Doan's Kidney Pills to be » re able remedy. anti am coufldeat !het they ill give aattafnctnry results to al,y one if akin carefully es direcu'd " For sa by all dealers. Price SO crate. Foster-hii turn Co., Buffalo. N Y.. sole agents . the United Stan's. Remember the me—Doom's—and take no other. E STATE OF DECEDENT. State of Minnesota, county of Dakota —as. In pmbate 00u11. In the matter of the estate of Christian F. Hever. decedent Letters or administration this day having been granted to John F. Meyer It Is ordered that the time within which all creditors of the above named droedrut may Present claims agaloat hisestate in this court be. and the same hereby is, limited to alt moptbs from and atter the date hereof: srd that PN day, the 16th day of October. 1908, at 9:30 u ol.ck t. m , In the probate oourt room at the a or,• house et Haattnva• 1. said 00untt•. be and the -ome hereby Is dyed and armlet.] u the Ono. ad place for bearing upon and the esatulne• lion. adjustment. mid ailowatoe of such (data. .- shall he presented within the time afor•aald Let notice hereof be given by the publication d this order in The Hastiest, Gazette, as pto• vlded by law. ».i, -f March teth, 1968. its the court. THOR P. MORAN. isoat.l 46•lw ...dee or Peet,. '60FAR UI,)CiiaFREE whist • $Mt{er Caw Senora la WESTERN CANADA 1.......Graiirceew 0 to Btsete atMrieat toW AFM 4a0a h�e a00� i ei Deb tw the Acre. TWer fee Fsaeiae Beide d Illeadto tise� FREE. Gid taws with Low Taxation. 1141100414 lalkoad adCbarch ` Stiodse C snakinodlike and g Rates. Gaups. ail lladotm he ail Productions. Gerrie for ttetBraW iwa.teaste . Some of thelchoiceat grain -producing lands to aaskatcbewansad Alberta may DO. be.c mired in these most healthful and prosperous sections seder the !!dated llogesteasl Relations by which entry may be made by proxy (on certain conditions), by the father. mother. son, dn,ghter, brother or sister of intending homesteader- -4 Entry fee In each case 1.110.00. For pamphlet, "Last Best West," particulars as to rate.mutes, best time to go and where to locate. epply to E. T. HOLMES S15Jackaon Street. St. P..ut. Minn. Canadian Government Agent SUMMONS. State of {since: its, county of Dakota —ss, se. District court. Ors.ludlolal district. John Pelee. plaintiff, vs. William L. Ames, Herbert Ames, Amelia Ames, Emma H. Ames, Jobs Ames. Reginald Hall Ames, Eleanor Inc., OliverAmes, Luella B. Ames, Luella Ames, RutbH, Anes, Susan Trench, the unknown hien of Ol1,er Ames. deceased, Albion P. 1lamilton, the unknown beim of Altaira Prlsbta, deceased, also alt other per- sons unknown, claiming any Ight, title, ea me. interest, or lien It the real estate de- scrtbed le the complaint herein, defendants. The state of Minnesota to the above named defendants: You. said defendants, and each of you, are hereby sum,, oned and required l4 1.116wer the 'SI complaint of the plaintiff herein, which com- plaint it on ale In the office of John Bartz, clerk of said court, and to serve a copy of your answer to the sold complaint upon the sub- scribers at their otace in the city of Hastings, to the county of Dakota and state of Minnesota, is Milo twenty, days after the service of this +rrmvior�and If ys upon ou falltolve ana ert he`said comm hlatat wlthln the time aforesaid, the plaintiff erein will apply to the court for the relief demanded in Ms said complaint, together with the costs and disbursements of this action. Dated February 8th. 1908. HODGSON t LOWELL. Plaintiff's Attorneys, First National Rank Building, Basting., Minnesota, NOTICE OF LIS PEN DENS. State of Minnesota, meaty of Dakota.—ss. Dla:riet court, Orst Judicial distract. John Pelee, plaintiff. vs. William L. Ames, Herbert Amen, Amelia Amen.. Emma B. Arnes, John Amen., Reulneld Hall Ames. Eleanor Ames, 011ier H. Attlee, Luella B. Ames, Luella Ames, Ruth Ames, Susan Trench, the unknown heirs of Oliver Ames, deceased. Albion P. Hamilton, the unknown belts of Almtra Brlablo dtoe»sed, aiso all other per- sons ankuown, claiming any right. title, estate, luteree., or lien In the real estate de- scribed In the oompleint herein, defendant*. Notice/. hereby given of the pendency to the sboeeoourt of an action between the above named plaintiff mud the eboye named defendants. That the object of said action is to determine en) and all claims of the defendants In or to he lands herein described. and to bar and et• elude the defendant.. from any and all such claims, end to quiet and perfect the title to said L ndsfa the plaintiff Said lands are situate le Dakota County, Mln- nr-ora, and are described ns follows...wit: Thr north one hundred end twenty acres of the southwest quarter of section thirteen, township one hundred and fourteen, range nineteen.. Dated February 8th. 1905. t l ew HODGSON t LOWELL, PI»iaHQ's Attorneys, Hastings, Minnesota. NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE. Whereas, default has occurred in tis • condi• tions of a certain mortgage, bearing fiat • Novem- ber 8d. 19.8. made. executed. and delivered by ty't►Rain lichwtglrr and Christina F Schwegl•r, his wife. as'morttragors. to Jacob Leuf as morl- gegee, which said mortgage wax duly rcorded in the office of the register of deeds in nod for the county of Dakota and state of Minnesota, on the tth day of November. 190.5. fu Book 91 of Murtaegex, on page P41, and, wbereas, there is claimed to he due. std et the date of this nouns is due, on Raid mortgage and the indebtedness secured thereby the auto of right hundred, seyeuty-ane and 38IVO dollars (Os7188) dollars, . d no action or proceeding at law or other. wise has been instituted to recover Bald wort - gage debt or any part or portion of the same. Now, therefore, natio' is hereby given that pursuant to the power of sale in said mort- cage Contained an. the statute In such case made and provided, the said mortgage will be foreclosed, and the promisee therein and here- inafter described will be gold at pubilo vendue by the sheriff of said Dakota Comity. at the north front door of the eourtbou e. in the city of Hastinp5R,s, said county, on the 41st day of April. 1ot`iltlely the! moutttthe tthat shell then be due on geld mortga e, together with 'he costs a5d et. • etre of sale. including the sum of fifty dollars attorney's, fees stipulated in said mort- gage tole paid' n case of f.•reclosure. The lends described lis said mortgage and so to be sold are actuate In Dakota County, Mln- eesota, end are described as follows, 10.0.11: Commencing fifty elk and two-thirds t5e51 feet south of the northeast ournerof block fifteen 1161. village of Farmington, Minnesota, them:* west across lots one 01. two t41. ■ud the e M- ot sold block fifteen ,15). one hundred and right, t1POt feet. thence south Otte six and two - third. 16651 feet, thence test our hundred end . term , tiw,l feet• thence north to place of begin- ning Iltty-alt and two thirds t563(,tteet: the same beteg the center oor•third of lets one M. two on. end three 431. of block fifteen (15), village of Farming",n, Minnesota. on Ole and 1 reoord to the register et deed's aloe In and for Dakota t,iounty, lttnnrRela. Dated thin 98th day of February. 1908. JACOB LEUP. Mortgagee. ifot»wtr & Lovett., Attorney. for ortgegee, )tasting•, Mitotaot.. 84-e,, ESTATE OF I►EnEDENT• State of Minnesota, county of Dakota,—ss. In probate a,urt. In the matter cf the estate of John H. Bryant. decedent, Tte *tate of Minnesota to Norman L. Bryant, Olive Skelton, Henry L. Bryant, W. A. Bryant, B. A. Br) at. Dora Weatberwax. Florence Whaler, and ■llraps Interested In the granting of administration of the estate of said decedent: The ppeetition of Margaret Young having been died In Dila court representing that John H. Bryant. then a resident of the county of Loa Angeles, state of California, died In. testate n the td div of Apri . 19(8, end prating hal Leiters of admintgiralloo of his estate be stran'ed to Joie h tt Pottgleaer, and the court twinng and ,he time sad piece for hearing aid t.etltioo. Tb. retort.. yon. and each of ,on, are ber•by cited and required to show cetne, 1f any y05 have. before this court at the probate court morns In the ooarthoe... In the city of Hastings. In the county of Dakoto. state of Mlrlae,ota, o. the 30th 'day o1 March. 1905- at 9:31.1o'ckook a. m., why arid petition should not beg anted. +Mines. the Judge of said 00511- sad sal of +aid e0urt. this 1d day of March, 141. 10008 gut ! THO8. P. MORAN. 543w Probet,tr Judc.- 1''. M. Carus Alt rn.y for Petitioner. St. Peal. Minn. ESTATE OF DE El ,ENT State of Nbn'rsots count, .n Dikotta.—wa to t•robate evert. l,.tG« matter ut the t•.tat• or J. F. J.;hnsos, Iwke.."nr*J 1'.J010•0.d•43e,lent Letters a' tarnen'or, tt'l• de, t,.,eio. heti n,ed ' .t. h• i,, ', .t 1.11 rn 0d i appea,nyt bet',M11 ,! o ele.,o • t'" there I. "t b, 't is ' an. rtel J,:1 its. „ , u ,• L rv., i. • n.j f+ v ,,, he • -0 - - tin:. a►em *.rad the et e - 1' t„;,',..i1u :u t and all..u•nc. of si.ch whpesewed••1+btu the rims r • id 1,1 a..tlor hereof be given hv• the pubtloal los 'hie order la Th.- Hosting. Gazette e. prorld- '1 l.r law. Dried Mare, lath. 1 . il% theoeett THOS. P GRIN. 1l.. a 1 116.3w Judge of Probate. fin•„t., !e 1 d AOld paps* toe sale at The Goat* te'