The evening world. Newspaper, April 27, 1895, Page 5

‘ing into every fence-row, making ex Charms and Weaknesses of the Sex Are Set Forth, ‘To the Matter: T've beard that you wish for a poom; T wish 1 @ poom could write, To please you; bat both of our wishes I fear will be teft in @ plight. want you to help mo find my lost Angelina. 2 feet her last Thursday evening, about 10.90. @ Bisth Avenue “L’ car, © eross-seat in the same car, which it one, I ecarcely could write you « truly Good poom, fair lassie, unless ‘We both were in love with each other, ‘And beth could cach other caress; Ghe got off at Eighty-first street, Unepeakable folly, al4 not follow to And lived. Ah, perdition! if I shall have Jest her! But perhaps her eye will see this, and ‘Would flow from my heart to my handsome 1 send you some rhymes, but no peom, 1 ween, For you still are a stranger, fair maté of pinetecn. ‘Then feeling and fancy, from morning til! een, ‘ine rough your kindty columns she may ict eae now how I can find her again, and thus bri ‘But still tm your emile there's ouch friendship Dappiness once more to the heart of her ador- For me, tho’ a stranger to you, tag ALEXIS, T bet that my feelings and fancies ‘Will soon give me plenty to do! ‘With paper and pencil I'll always be seca Tuditing fond verses to Geareat nineteen! How Cana Ge the Baitor: 1 am a young girl of eighteen, and there te @ Poung man about the same age whom I met on @xeursion about two years ago, but to whom I Retuse Him! To the Eattor: T am a young lady, blonde, considered §004-looking. man, who persists In telling me thet would be @ blank without ma that I sweet emiles and my form could not be ex and all such talk as that. Now, @ habit of always wanting to kiss me when we moet, and on two occasions I have kissed him, Dut many of my girl friends say it ts very ‘wrong for me to let him do it. Will you plesse tell me how to refuse him? And is it very ‘wrong to kiss a young mant HAZEL EYES. Also Margie. I have a friend employed in tt myself. Bhe is @ bru fact, has not @ redeemi same place as Fo the Baitor: ‘Af gun and moon, with all the stare Should fade from out the kien; ‘My path through life could still be bright With the light of Maggie's eyes. ‘This maid, by any other name, ‘Would be to me as sweet, For though I call her my Maggie, ome call ber Marguerite. Dut I claim it ie @ case of Jolly. Do you he 1s Jollying met Not Smart Enoug! To the Editor: Another soul saved, and all on account false-hearted girl. I am a young man of twenty-nine, with a girl that {s sure thirty and has to FENTON. A White Plains Beau’ ‘To the Editer: 1 have an acquaintance, @ gentie- LYTTELTON L. BAKER quite Ute ry called 1 am en- gaged and he knows it, but he atill says he will win me, and if not he will drown himself. te, very short, and, in feature. I understand he telle her the same thing as he tells me, think ACTRESS, te Deceive Him. ot 8 about and have been keeping company wear Im reply to “Reggio and Juan,” would take! slantes to see. She declared that loved me ep the challenge and explain why we are no| dearer than any man that she ever knew, but “stingy.” Lat me give a stat I found that had deceived two young men, age White Plains young man's expenses. 1 and T left her, She was not smart enough to deceive me. Have I done right? TOMMY DARL 06 & week and has to pay $3 to the old lady to pay his board. His car fare, 60 cents, @omes out of the remainder, and when he has Dought six lunches, at 10 cents a plece (one in a boa), he has only $1.80 with which to feed the ehipples. Two theatre tickets cost at the very Yeast $1; car fare, 20 cents; ice-cream before geing in, 30 cents; supper after coming out, about © cents apiece; leaving a small balance on the wreng side of the ledger, to make up which he hes te knock down car tare by walking when fhe ought to ride. And yet you call us stingy @Qar spending all our money on you in one How Cor To the Edit April 20, would say that the man (if h how the lovesick maiden could fai such an egoti Tell the idiot he has a wheel he ts off his trolley. his head x. ING, She Love Such a Man? Replying to ‘J. L.'s effusion in your tesue of ee man and not born fool) must see that the poor Girl te head over heels in love with him, though tm love with jeal ass passes my comprehension. + that Y. One Grocer has been found who says he will not handle Royal Baking Powder! : eres is e interest to every housekeeper. It is that can make more money selling the other baking pow- ders! He says he can buy all other ders at from 20 to 50 cent. lower than Boval, wile lip alle hams at the same price. That means when the housekeeper buys some pees come tae te Borel ss pays the same price, but gets a powder cost to make and worth only half as much, . } \ It isa fact that the Royal Baking Powder is made from more highly refined, purer, and more wholesome ingredients than any other baking powder. Most of the others are made from alum. All of them contain adulterants or impurities. sn peeteey pen civare 55 tartar and as used in the Poval, cost more than im- pure cream of tartar and alum; hence the greater cost, as well as greater value, of the Royal, ; The grocer who says he will not le Royal Baking Powder because he can make more profit upon other powders proves to the 4 consumer, most conclusively, the superior value of the Royal over all other brands. YAL BAKING POWDER CO., 108 WALL 8T., NEW-YORK. The efiver busz saw in full whirl TALKS WITH THE LAWYER. Complications That F: jw Death When There Retate Lett. Te the Rditor: It parents are dead, and the oldest child ts of ‘age and married, can he claim the deeds, &c., of @ lot in c yt Can an uncle or aunt 1014 OF contest same? JW. e. The lot, if it was owned by elther of the parents, belongs to the children, whether of age or not, and neither uncle hor aunt has any claim upon It. Can [ claim moneys left by my first husband's mother? I am married the second time I have living, and all of her children are ‘Her nearest relative is a Qrat cousin. H.C, It your children by your first husband died before their grandmother you can- not. But if either of your children sur- vived her that child, as her next of kin, was entitled to all’ her property an through your child it now belongs to you, Money was left to ecven children by will. Three who were,of age received their full shares Of the remainder ove-half was put .nto the Lands of ® guardian to keep until Whe other children reached their majority, The +i belt was given to my father, who now claims he noed not give me any mon Tam ove of four, am nearly of age. What shall I do to get my money? R. First, go to the office of the Surrogate where the will was probated’ and ascer- tain the terms of the will and all the facts, including the accountings, if any, and the guardianship proceedings, Then if you find that anybody has custody of money belonging to you, Proceed against them. | owning real estate dies without makin nd child, Can the hui Felatives, mother, sister and brothers, claim @ share, or does the wife and child come in for all thé property? GRACE, L No. 2 They do. * you can Aman who dled, leaving widow and two children, Was © member in good standing of a beneft so- clety, whereby his widow was entitled to $500. ‘The society refuses to pay, claiming the man was over forty-five, tke age limit, when he joined. He was proposed for membership by @ friend, who is also dead. Do you think the society could be forced to pay his widow at least the amount of money he pald in for dues and as- Seeaments, of can oh» claim nothing whatever? EVENING READER. It depends largely upon the rules and by-laws of the society and the facts connected with the admiasion of the de- ceased to membership. It has been held ion knowing that cer- tain statements in an application for membership are false, If It continues to recelve aagessments irom the assured, will not be permitted afterwards to de: clare the benefit forfeited for this reason. eine If @ will goes through the Surrogal satisfactorily, can it be contested ven years afterwards? READER. Yes, any person interested, who during the seven years was under disability, such as being under the age of twenty- one, inaane or imprisoned on a criminal hi may apply to revoke the pro- ee A man died twenty years ago without will, and leaving widow, but no children. owned a house and lots valued at that time less than $2,000. His widow has lived in thie house ever since. Wishing to sell the property, which has doubled in value, she would like to know if her husband's brother's widow could take tworthinds, and If pot, what can she claim? ‘A WIDOW'S FRIEND. ‘The brother's widow has no legal claim upon this property. The present, holder ig entitled to her dower right during her life, and then the property goes to her husband's heirs. She had better not sell at present, as she can give no title unless the helra foln in the deed. If sne holds it @ little longer as owner she may establish a title In herself by wha is termed “adverse possession. omice a He it ‘A man signs a will before the witnesses enter nd somebody's going to be hurt. | the room. After they enter he pointe to hie a nature with a pen and acknowledges it to bey his In their presence. They then sign thoir names ag witnesses in bis presence Je such @ will legal? READER. It is, if the man, at the time, told the witnesses the paper writing was his will and asked them, to sign Jt. A married woman dies leaving no children. small sum of money. What doen tbo hi and who gets the reat? ANXIOUS, N.Y. The money goes to the husband, and he takes the house during his lif child had been born to t wise it goes to the wife’ L, B., Constant Reader—It your cousin, who died {a' Pennsylvania thirtcen years ago, lett « considerable estate. you can find from the regis- ter of wills of the county where he dled, to insu ty admini lett you deeds without loavea a will, search In the 4. You being the j tate Is yours. Judge.—Where a man dies inte nd children, one-third extate, ‘after paying debi all the residue gor shares. ee A LIFE nal goes to the widow, and to the children in equal YCLE. wre s ft 44 o With full alarm attachments. Equally safe for the rider and all who can get out of its way. Sey QUBSTIONS OF ETIQUETTE. The Rules Gover the Best Society. ‘To the Bditor: Is an answer required to breakfast card in- closed with wedding invitation, and if so should envelope be addressed to Mr. and Mrs, Blank who send Invitation? Also, what is dress for gentiemen at noon wedding and break- AN ANXIOUS IN 1, 2. Frock coat, gray patent leather shoe: trousers, ° of twenty-five years Invite @ young lady to the theatre without telling bis parents? Ld Yes; If he hag the price. Is it proper for a lady to take a gentleman's arm, of vice versa? UNDECIDED. A lady may take the arm of the man with whom she is walking in the even- ing, but not in the daytime. A man should never take a lady's arm. | should she take the precedence upon entering the room or staud aside and allow the other to enter? Does it make any difference if the caller be lady or gentleman? Are toothpicks any longer placed on the table? 0. W. De Ruyter, N. "J. 1. If there is a rack or table in the hail he may leave his hat on It, or if he Prefers he may hold it during’ the cail. If the caller ts a woman, let her take precedence you tn, | if a man, let him follow 8. No, THE BOOMER’S BABY. ““He Could: Laid the Little Fellow Away, Both were barefoot, tanned skin, the exe, reddened at its edges, t kempt hair and beard, the yellow, even teeth, the horny hands that of life spent in wresting a subi % Phey all looked tired. The horses walked with heads low hung and pendu- lous, slacked traces hanging by their Gripping flanks. The dog trotted under the wagon, looking if he had long ago grown automatic, or w: a@ part of the loaded vehicle and not a free agent. In the cool morning he had gone snift- he crisp, beside them they si eyes, much less g! nd attentive gaze t and prom.ses interest, No salutations were exchanged, man of the wagon: ‘Cai me how far 't Is to Kedah “ "Bout a mile," corner-stone. ‘cely turned at asks ues elimi Said ygurall cursions into field and wood, wading in antireten: prion wayside pools, challenging every pass- ng dog; but now he jogged along with weary feet and half-closed eyes, in a Way that told of a day of hard travel.| The’ tired dog do ‘The man that walked at the wheel had| under the wago! e thei a ittle lower, fa tired droop to his body. His clothes! Pung (herr heads a bttle lower. lay in creases about his shoulders and| sides, Tho red woman stirred in thighs, and these creases were marked | seat. took off her split suntonnet by the white dust of the Kansas road,|Tplling it up, put it behind her, But the figure that spoke most elo-| boots and up alon, quently of weariness was on the spring seat of the white-covered wagon. The | canvas cover had been turned back from the first hoop that held it over thelr heads, #0 that, now the sun was getting low, the weary, calico-bonnetted | the rock: woman might get the breeze. It came ¢ dry and warm over the rustling corn) ald, and jong dusty hedges, but ae was) Shney knew. he Mwai from | Mis glad to have It fan her sunburned cheek, | because so many like him ha ‘How much farther are you going to| along that way Guring the Spring Summer months. go?” this woman asked of the dusty|~ jut why did he — the boomer? m said the other. ‘Oh, I reckon so. I dunno." down in the the other, one could measure After going a they moved on. ps he said, over 'm obliged to yer. ther swered. But when the wagon “he'd ‘a’ Everybody, except knew it would be a I dunno." Before he answered | for month her he rubbed his hand across hi. grizzled chin and looked ahead down} Uncle that hill and up the next. His neck|!tself, Then, drawing a pension. was stretched forward and out, not|" How can. man thers, ’t Help It” Said Ben, as They Both had the| pale in color and | un- un- tell stence from the earth. As the wagon stopped heir e full front tions nary the tell - the "Bout three-quarter, ain't It, Joe?” dust tired horses and ving the and, The down at his dusty the dusty road, as! if he were wondering how much longer Then half shoulder, ‘an: had jolted down Into the hollow, said he of "More er them damned boom- bet- jouri, gone and Be- cause he was not at work, nor could be the long time before the red tape necessary Sam's official acts would unwind too, he suspected him of trailin’ ‘round unlike a turtle's. It gave him an eager|the yearth ‘less he's a-drawin’ pay? but baMed look as if he had long looked | W aes EO wand ou towards an object that constantly re- Rar heichin “tor mee tae ceeded. gion have that look in their faces. antot he suspocied, Fh, trey They had not noticed two men sitting | ear, ay and the roadside—one perched on a atone |cnant walted on the boomer with a Rat marked the corner of a section of !grace, for he looked long and bough the other seated on the grass. tle, blocking up the atr with t lit hi ons and buggies, and dogs, so in country and in town fhe boomer was damned. Beeing things in’their true light would have taught them this Was an unnecessary function If poverty and hardship and wearines: and sicknest ‘were not enough they might their curs dyin the sun, like @ great golden ball, was slipping down behind the green hills, ‘the boomer's outfit came slowly down into the scattered town, But the boomer's wife did not think of the sun jas a beautiful golden ball. Its hot rays | en on the Wagon cover all day. glad It was down, Ih a cottan wood grove by the springs, labout @ hundred yards from the big hotel, they camped. It was Saturday night, “It is only elght miles now to the Birip," the man sald. ‘We'll rest to: morrow." So all day Bunday the boom- er's. wife sat in or close around her wagon, She saw the country people come in crowds, drink and chatter and go. During the’ afternoon a crowd of Pretty girls came. One of them wore a white lace-trimmed dress, looking in it ‘oman born south of Mason line can look. That reminded Mary. She opened a small old- fashioned trunk that was In one corner of the wagon and handled very tenderly ' some littl rments there. hey were not purple and fine linen. One little own—the only white one—had pinned to fia'tiny sieeve a bit of lace. She would sew iton, But It was Sunday. Yes, but she must sew it on. To-morrow It might be too lat And it Id have been At last all the passers were gone, The boomers spread down their bed In the wagon, putting all their other pos- Sessions under the wagon, where they Were guarded by the dog, not weary and Nfeless to-day, but alert and belligerent Having stood'or walked about all day, the man was Weary and was soon fast asleep. But the woman was awake: | She had time to listen to the wind sigh- ing ainong the tall marsh grasses that grew In the lake bed, to hear the rustle of the cottonwood leaves, to wonder if the little birds, whose soft twitter c to her ears, had their heads unter their wings or were peering about in the dark- ness. She thought of her home back Jn the Missourl mountains. It had not been much of a home; she was an or- an who worked out, until the big sen had married her a’ year ago. She thought her life 4 dreary one as she looked back on it to-night: she felt very ill and miserable, and so fell a-crying. Hen was awakened, He brought the village doctor, a great, soft-handed, soft- voiced man. ‘He was as gentle with the wife and as tender with the child as if they had been folk. ‘The next morning the ladies at the hotel expressed themselves as amazed, shocked, used or Indighant The jority felt very righteous In the last sentiment, and expressed themselve: without reserve until one quiet woman \d; “Maybe the little boomer will do great work in the world, my dears. ‘When @ gentleman calls on @ lady should he [retain his hat of should the lady offer to take | it? If the lady of the house admits a caller TALKS WITH THE DOCTOR Adviee Given te terers Whose ‘To the Editor: Please publidh @ remedy for habitual constipa- ton, accompanied by violent headache. BROOKLYN READER. | You may find a good remedy in sul-! Phato of soda, Take one teaspoonful in | &@ gobletful of hot water an hour before breakfast every morning. eee Kindly give me a simple remedy for indigestion and belching of gan after meals a0 T Have your druggist prepare some) powders of pepsin, charcoal and bis-| muth, each powder containing two! grains of pure pepsin, two grains of willow charcoal and five grains of sub- nitrate of bismuth. Take one after each meal. Please tell me what to use for even that become Gasily inflamed from exposure to wind. CRA Bathe them several times a day with & saturated solution of boric acid in Tose water. . What te the beet kind of water for one who has theumatiom? Mi. 8. W. © Lithia water or lithiated vichy water. oe Tam troubled with @ sort of neuralgia of the face, caused by @ cold, Please advise a remedy. | H.C, L, Staten Inland, | Phenacetine is usually beneficial in] such ca: ‘Take from five to ten grains every three hours Please suggest a remedy for nervous dyspepsia im the case of @ person forty years of a A mixture composed of two drama of tincture of nux vomica, one ounce of tincture of colombo and three ounces of | compound tincture of gentian may be used with good effect. A teaspoonful ; should be taken in water ‘efore each meal. ew Please print the addres of the Woman's Has- pital. 1 @ Lexington avenue and Forty-ninth atreet. eee T have @ very annoying wart on one of my fingers. Kindly tell me how to remove it. COR. AL Soak the wart with acetic acid and apply lunar caustic Please give @ remedy for a hart callous on the sole of my foot. The callous containa e small corn-like kernel In iis centre Lan | Have your druggist prepare an olnt- ment according to the following for- mula: Salicylic acid, one-half dram. Chloral hydrate, five grains, Camphor, five grains. Simple cerate, two drama. Apply the salve at bedtime, cover it with a plece of cloth or plaster and leave it on all night. Goak the foot in| hot water next morning and the callous will probably come off. eee Please publish foot cough remedy. I have a pevere cough, accompanied with great dimMculty In raising anything MM. H. The following is a good remed: Murlate of ammonia, two dram: Fiuld extract of cubebs, two dramas. Brown mixture, two ounces, Byrup of wild cherry bark, enough to make four ounc: Take one t hours. poonful every three . Please publish a remedy for 1i oe estion. I have it very badl, fometimes I can hardly get my breath after meals. N.C., Jersey City, NJ. | Take fiye drops of tincture of nux| vomica in water before erating, and a powder compoxed of two grains of pure} Pepsin and five grains of subnitrate of! bismuth after each meal. You should | also avold haste in eating and masticate your food thoroughly. oe T would like @ simple remedy for bleeding from the nose, HARRY H., Paterson, 4 Extract of witch hazel and cold water | may be used with good effect. They | should be snuffed, as required. J, F. WHITMYER, M, D. QOOSSSoOSoooooooooooos Others May imitate A.B, C. Oatmeal: 090000000 | height j tial P IMPERIAL; MAIIYEE 10-DAY, r ITTEE ROWIN WOE MAKING A MAN TALLER. “Shorty' Needs 1-4 Inch im Stature to Get the Force. ‘To the Méltor: Th answer to ‘‘Shorty's request how to fi crease hia height one-fourth of an inch so that he can get on the police force, toll him to get a Solld oak bungstarter and give bodied longshoreman and have him strike Mow on top of “Shorty's* erantum, and 1 rant him a bump will raise that will bring hie ght to desired size. A PHUNYMAN. ee @ Will frequent the Bowery, ne to an able: . It Fepeated “log-pullings’’ he may attain the desired “Shorty”? after Or, let nim Inherit or marry cash, when he will cease to be “shot again, let him imagine himself @ copper, ‘Will be puted un to the wished for SAMUE! oe ON him to Kot the sole of his shoe Fa wig, that will make him LONGER. loa of or, and he ain T would advi thickened and taller. eee Hy going to bed and remaining there al weeks ‘Shorty’ will undoubtedly be one-fourth Inch tal+ ler for at least a few days after the ordeal. It he decides to give it @ trial would urge the advina- Dillty of having his measurement taken the morning of the first day after getting RIFF." . Ta Ike to advis So no height he ‘To get down at the shoe store, A pair of high-heeled shoes, Josim F. — Hint for Brookly: trotiey care pala- nd trolley care that carry mails as well as Dassengera Hut St. Louis bas gone @ step further, She boasts of @ trolley ambulance car.— Boston Globe. vo have trolley care pli No m Done. ‘The people would not for an instant Indorse Col. Waring's views, and they will commend the return of sense to Col, Waring which has Prompted him henceforth to keep allent on the fubject. Hie utterances have thus far done no uri ag ce) REMIER BRAND CALIFORNIA WINES, Produced from the best foreign {les of grapes, superior to double-pr imported. We being the produce our wines, «uarantee the purity. For medicinal purpe ommend the following wines: mier,” Burgundy, Vort, Sherry, and Brandy. 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Ma THE BUTCHER OF FIRST AVE! not the fr of parents too poor to inn.’ They had all But then that e e that was bo find room in the forgetten that, it seems. aid happen h ptesn hundred yearn’ ORE AS y grew very familiar with th und of the wind in the tall, salt is H and_anong the cottonwood trees. Th baby seemed to thrive; she was youn and strong. At the end of a week they ent op, ha The tail, green corn needed rain. The hot wind went rustling and whispering among its green blades and dusted the earth with its golden brown pollen, The | wheat harvest was over, and here and | there coud be heard the whir of the thrashing machine, There were reat orchards of apnies and peaches bending with fruit. There were miles of beautt- | ful, lose clipped hedge. ‘The hou Standing in unin-losed yards looked com- fortable and prosperous enough. | “Well, Mary,” said Ben, looking back to see her resting with the baby in the middie of the wagon, “this is God's country, ain't It? Five years from now we'll have a home like these right (Across here ir the strip. They tell me that ten years ago this country looked just like the strip does now. I tell you this Is a great country, where you can Bel a home for the askin’! I'm giad I'm j@ (Merican citizen, Iam. | On the State line between Kansas and the Cherokee Strip iy 4 wide road. ‘To this they came, There It jay-—the prom- ised land. ‘The long, soft swelling h were covered with the fine light green r Do you the beautiful ten- en “that comes to your fleds when the winter grain is just peeping up and the leaf buds are just bursting? When the bluebird and the martin are house hunting, with no smal twittering flutter of dainty wings? This is the green that carpeted the earth a8 Ben's glad sight could reac tree was to be seen, but he were along the streams. studied the Cherokee Boomer's Guide for nothin’ | Ben at last found a space to stop, |Like more pretentious house-hunters, he wanted pleasant neighbors. He lected a little place cut off from. the other camps by an arm of the creek The bed of the stream was dusty now. Water must be brought by the barrel. One big elm tree gave them shade, He staked out the team, buiit a fire, and, having given Mary her ts and crack and eaten his own bacon and bread,he sat down to smoke hunted fuel until dark, finding only enough sticks and twigs ‘to cook break- fast. Wood was scarce. In fact, | preel dry and | Then he | heavy boot on tongue of the wagon, "Yei is skase; water, too; o whew! Fact ‘Is, jeept, boomers. Plenty 0” them. Thia ole man over here pointing with his thumb, “he's been in seven booms, and he ‘lows he never saw such hard the prostrate siree; wood , too; and everything 1s 8 showing them. He's got nice hair, What's his name?” asked another, M she unewered, “Hew: born traveliin’ and he was goin’ to the Promised Lan’, the doctor said, and called him Moses, and Ben never ‘cared T call him Mosie’ when I think of him| said one. Job. 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New York axe, a 1A (AN'S reel cipe for Chesterfield formula for $1 for both, Latimer Co., ipbia, Pe | Ren naa tora Mary ¢ | Was nearly ali gon glad to get to work, “Yes,"" she answered, Seems to me like the bal wil to, tor Campin’ don't agree with iin. i pin’ Halt an hour before noon the times; and his seven daughters, they | ‘low the same.” His volce declared him to be @ native of the Tennessee moun. tains, but he s:oke with the iarge com- posure and cheerful pessimism that marks the Western man. climbed {nto Mis Wagon and rode aw aving them staring after him with the feeling as gettin’ bikger, but now he's Jes’ Baby, yer know." One of the sturdy little brown boys) pushed through the line of sisters, and, after putting his finger in the ‘tight grasp of the litthe Mo stood with legs) widespread, staring first at the baby and| then at its ‘mother “Ain't he might little?” said one of being Unexpected and undesired gue: . The days that followed seemed very: long to Ben. He felt a0 eager to do thing. All the men alone the line the younger sigters. “Well, che aln't month old-ain't geiin bias erihlern a oldest of the seven sil rly said the | It was seconded one moved fon be mad led. named no men Of the thou. ers made no. motions, but they put tn the mon sand men present none gave 50 cents, some gave as much : ‘That ed little enough to pay for hurrying up the opening. It was a pleas- ant Ume fora trip East. The President Waa away at his Summer home. ‘The Committee went first to Washington City, then to New York and back by way of Chicago. Did they hurry mat- The boom- | than | %. of the seven sisters went over to a-dyin’," | kneeling amid the litter of the { an arm around poor Mary. Pe tf In the midst of so much anger, to kein a foothold and live, Httle Mod ry «4 very indifferent to lite. He Is Ay wasping or nis mother's knee) She haa no thought but for Bi ia stood behind He was ‘The hour of noon was nigh. ed at early morning. Some went to work on the adjacent farms. Many went to the nelghboring town to talk and wonder when the nid be Opened. Many who hi ng ma- chnies drove across the prairie and came home at night with great loads of soft, light green h were common, The boomers would it, they said. Were more coming? Every day there came more wagons, more women, more merry, sunbrown: 8 he too little? all right?" asked ened look that t brown boy's mot she had spanked that young man with much enerey and then threatoned wiml- lar punishment to one «f the sounger sisters. Tt was this same girl who had asked if the baby was not "mighty Wttle” 1 they calle her She was rewarded ny an irate giance fron the elder, who turned the Lithe Moves seftly n his mother's knee ant said kindly: Don't you think hi Mary, With a iright: hed the heart of the n minutes before ters? When Ben got back to Mary he found her sitting against the elm tree with the baby on her lap. Ho had brought, be- sides the provisions, a Little tent. “I got a tent. Mary, for you and the Uttle kid to stay in ‘daya when T am away gettin’ hay, for 1 guess I'd better et Somme hay, too. some.” When it was put up and a bright fire crackled in front of it, Mary sat and All the £ has got the strip crowded | the thous eager men pushing for places ready to make the mad race for And there were women in ti and—let us be thankful that in chivalry is not yet dead—these men ave way and ylelded t Y tions in front, At last noon came, rannoa roared and echoed and re-eohoed the lines. Away rushed ¢ in frantle race for Bs each other in thi aad r3 ell knowing that throug aroun was, \trampl “haste, children, more tired dogs. Some went away in'disgust after a few weeks, even days, in some cases. At length Hen went away to town to buy flour and bacon, Mary went, in re- ponse to an invitat , to spend the with the seven sisters who had been {n seven booms. Their ages ranged from. ten to thirty, none had . Ithough there wer ables pl around. the family died in Oklahoma. lived in three tents and. half wagons, and, with plenty to wear, Ww not unhappy, elder’ smoked pipes. ‘The next ‘play. the fiddle.” A went barefoot All swore when th felt like not angrily hor obscenely, but merely’ as a relief when some sich casualty occurred ag stepping on a live coal or the waste of us water, or when one of the colts ut his nose into a pot of vegetables eet y to cool. To-day the calves had chewed up some clothing, and loud and long were denunclations of “wh left things st 0 M hangin’ out this domeatic when she ver with a bundle th ained the bab; ave her st ehair and t xP t half eclrele. 4 help man who never onders what the unwrapped baby ts lik Mary made a pretty picture as sh there in her shabby old brown. ur t just matched her soft ey i bretty hair, clinging tn tender Utile locks about her face and neck. Her eyes had that fine self-forgett ook that on pride of motherhood can bring. Sno w @ young thing, and had never noticed ever them hey knew of thelr neighbors stated the case truth- fully when he said, pausing with one & babe carefully, ao she did not reailze What @ poor morsel of humanity he | Yew, he Is mightily ‘ittle, ant re's and puny, but law! "hat ain't rot Took at Grover,” solnting to the tr boy, who still stood the laby, was this pore onct “Law, thava @ vhoppert wuz." sald Liz. : the sturdy rover ud to al rd by striking eut at tdz end ing: “I wuz, too; T know ! woz! then fell to ¢ ¥ likely, that “puny He w was sent tatoe=, but she mutter to herself as she 80; T bet it di Jan Mary lal@ her hand on th and with the other smooth m ligle Moses, wh n spite of the nalves w did look very [ttl Strange she had never noticed great tear 9 from the and dropped down ‘Thus was he baptiz n Ben 4 ore nt wn “He He never| In disgrac was heart went is ko mean,” boy's head. do the soft had’ fallen put Pp Yes, bh ‘ heart hi them, Iwer dollars » his jeans to get his to a crowd unoceupled talking. it strip. More 4 the same pened, and! tw Wagon, he wa gathered ino store. Af was sometaing speeches followed. All“ trend; the strip must bo re getting ve As he watched Ben prepare supper and felt very confortable an 80 hice to h home. The baby and weak now Were twice too large, to em,” she sald. At last the strip was to be opened, President and Secretary and Commis- rs had settled when and how it to be and ine land the day boomers had se now they swarmed. Along the line ail Was bustle and excitement. New pes ple came every hour. Young men rode aces up and down the dividing road to test the speed of their horses for the Iinportant Town - site schemers mixed with” tie settlers and reaped a rich harvest. The old man who had complained of the soareity of everything but boomers, had driven away over the hilla and not return red shoes ‘He'll grow w In th Ph But “they brought him in B /one night on a hay wagon with @ bulet- je in his he He was a's killed him," they hey buried him a week bs done it oner,, and somebody laid to one another, ax here he had camped obody knew who had had authority to pun minitted on the strip. 1 serve as a warning to until the guns were The wagons were lawn, The horses were The best one wax ‘The men were all Every one who had a pistol ed it about him; he hardly knew why, The soldiers rode up and down the line, The land offices were choked with perspiring men and weary clerks, and 1 and selfishness and prizes were to be won, But Ben was not in the crowd. the long journey to the prom after the’ weary waiting and |he now stood by Mary's sld little Moses. who li 4 faintly | the stifling ‘heat. Through alt hot Summer weather his bad struggled on, but wh Greed bore down, their fe | press and galloped before In rout, the smal to his mother's bosom, would never more be in ver the line alone, Hi i) it the sceret of why (sug In an tour the camp, wh been life and bustle, was deset still. Some forgotten chickens scratching in the straw; a lal munched some feed a fittle chil mercifully left him, The Di perched on forgotten, barrel | poles, peering among the rub 5 calling to one another. The seated | | wagon made a bier for the little He wore the red shoes and lace-trimmed gown, “Tse Sunday," Mary, moaned, ina’ t : ‘hey put him und side the long gra’ o be! liv it om pana We cs a little of the Th next day they started d ourl, After a few days overtaken by many others goli | with their eraving for land ti ie Fr ain't a-layin® he died, i | Mary queries | MANO, “hone; | baby. ‘Times-Herald,