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1 SPENDERS Br HARRY LEON WILSON Jk , Copyright, by Lotkrop Publishing Cobbpny. |§|^ CHAPTKB XX.--OoHTrarmn. . "You hear that, Billy? The court r ^reserved decision. Mr. Arledge has to lluy so many gold cigarettes and Tint- Ages and trouserings, and belong to l*0* mo many clubs, that he wants the court 4o help him chouse a poor grocer out ox his money. Say, Billy, that judge ' could fine me for contempt of court, aright now, fur reservln* his decision. J r |Tou bet Mr. Arledge would 'a* got my (decision right hot on the griddle. 1 d *a' told him: *ou're the meanest kind *>f a crook I ever heard of fur wantin' <to lie down on your fat back and * -«whiue out of payin' fur the grub you 3>ut in you? big gander paunch,' I'd tell ifcim, 'and now you march to the lock- nip till you can look honest folks in tthe face,' I'd tell him. Say, Billy, iome crooks are worse than others. " Take Nate Leverson out there. Nat* met up night and day for six years in- Tentin' a process fur sweatln' gold into <bre; finally he gets it; how he does It, . Nobody knows, but he sweat gold 18 4nches into the solid rock. The first dCew holes he salted he gets rid of all fright, then of coarse they catch him, ssnd Nate's doin' time now. But say, i got respect fur Nate since readin' Utaat piece. There's a good deal of a anan about him, or about any common Aurglar or sneak thief, compared to * €his duck. They take chances, say afcothin' of the hard work they do. ! This fellow won't take a chance and ^ . -won't work a day. Billy, that's the .©leanest specimen of crook I ever run * Against, bar none, and that crook is produced and tolerated in a place ; g h a t ' s s a i d t o b e t h e c e n t e r o f ' c u l t u r e And refinement and practical achieve­ ment' Billy, he's a pill!" "That's right," said Billy Brue, ^promptly throwing the recalcitrant ir j^rledge overboard. "But it ain't none of my business. I- llvhat r do spleen again, is havin' a jgrandson of mine livin' in a commun­ ity where a^man that'll act like that v fls actually let in their houses by hon­ est folks. Think of a son of Daniel JT. Bines treatin' folks like that as if they was his equals. Say, Dan'l had a line of faults, all right--but, by God! ; 3*e'd a trammed ore fur two twenty- V 4ve a day any time in his life rather'n "' *iot pay a dollar he owed. And think •#f this lad making his bed in this kind > «0f a place where men are brought up '• j* |o them ways; and that name; think «Qf a husky, two-fisted boy like him let- * 4in' himself be called by a measly llt- , os|le gum-drop name like Perclval, when v lie's got a right to be called Pete. And he's right in with 'em. He'd be Jest as, bad--give him a little time; And Pishy engaged to a damned for- •\ tune-hunting Englishman into the bar- „ , gain. It's all Higbee said it was, only it goes double. Say, Billy, I been I' • flhlnkin' this over all night." «»tis mighty worryln', ain'tIt, ^ i|{Jncle Peter?" "And I got it thought out" "Sure, you must 'a' got it down to ceases." "Billy, listen now. There's a fellow <down in Wall street His name Is 43hepler, Rulon Shepler. He's most the kiggest man downjthere." "Sure! I heard of him." "Listen. I'm gofti' to bed now. I •can sleep since I got my mind made tip. But I want to see Shepler in pri­ vate to-morrow. Don't wake me up in the morning. But get up yourself, And go find his office--look in a di­ rectory, then ask a policeman. Shep- ler's a busy man. You tell the clerk or whoever holds you up that Mr. Peter Bines wants an appointment with Mr. JShepler as soon as he can make it-- Mr. Peter Bines, of Montana City. Be there by 9:30 so's to get him as soon «s he comes. He knows me; tell him I want to see him on business soon AS possible, and find out when he can £ive me time. And don't you say to anyone else that I ever seen him or «ent you there. Understand? Don't ever say a word to anyone. Remem­ ber, now; be there at 9:30, and don't let any clerk put you off, and ask him -what hour'll be convenient for him. Now get what sleep's comin' to you. It's five o'clock." At noon Billy Brue returned to the kotel to %nd Uncle Peter finishing a hearty breakfast. "I found him all right, Uncle Peter. The lookout acted suspicious, but I caw the main guy himself come out Of a door--like I'd seen his picture in the papers, so I just called to him and said: 'Mr. Peter Bines wants to see you,' like that. He took me right into his office, and I told him what you «aid, and he'll be ready for you at two o'clock. He knows mines, all right, Out our way, don't he?--and he crowd­ ed a handful of these tin-foil cigars - on to me, and -acted real sociable. Told me to drop in any time. Say, he'd run purty high in the yellow stuff All right" "At two o'clock, you say?" -Yes." • "And what's his number?" J "Gee, I forgot; X can tell you, hough. You go down Broadway to at old church--say, Uncle Peter, ere's folks in that buryin' ground ieen dead over 200 years, If you can o by their gravestones. Gee! I didn't 'pose anybody'd been dead that long --then you turn down the gulch right opposite, until you come *o the Van- severe building, a few rods down on the left Shepler's there. Git into the Inicket and go up to the second level, and you'll find him in the left-hand hack stope--his name's on the door in letters." "All right And look here, Billy, pceep your head shut about all. I said last night about anything. Don't you Jever let on to a soul that I ain't stuck on this place and its people--no mat- iter what I do." "Sure not! What art you going to <do, Uncle Peter?" The old man's Jaws were set for tome seconds in a way to make B lly plrv« suspect In might %» suffering from cramp. - It nwl, however, that he had merely been thinking intently. Presently he said: "I'm goln' to raise hell, Billy." "Sure!" said Mr. Brue--approvingly on general principle*. flwrel Why not?** ' CHAPTER XXL UNCUS PETER INSPIRES HIS GRAND­ SON TO WORTHY AMBITION. On three auccessive days the old man held lengthy interviews with Shepler in the latter'a private office. At the close of the third day's inter­ view Shepler sent for Relpin, of the brokerage firm of Relpin & Hendricks. A few days after this Uncle Peter said to Percival one moriiing: "I want to have a talk with you, son." "All right, Uncle Peter," was the cheerful answer. -He suspected the old man might at last be going to preach a bit, since for a week past he had been rather less expansive. He re­ solved to listen with good grace to any homilies that migat issue. He took his suspicion to be confirmed when Uncle Peter began: "You folks been cuttin' a pretty wide swath here in New York." "That's so, Uncle Peter--wider than we could have cut in Montana City." "Been spendin' money purty free for a year." "Yes; you need money here.**"! "I reckon you can't say about "h©# much, now?" "Oh, I shouldn't wonder," Perclval answered, going over to the escritoire and taking out some folded sheets and several check books. "Of course, I haven't it all here, but I have the bulk of it Let me figure a little." He began to work with a pencil on a sheet of paper. He was busy almost half an hour, while Uncle Peter smoked in silence. "It struck me the other night we might have been getting a little near to the limit, so I flgureu a bit then, too, and I guess this will give you some idea of it Of course this isn't all mine; it includes ma's and Psyche's. Sis has been a mark for every bridge player between the Battery and the Bronx, and the way ma has been plunging on her indigent poor is a caution--she certainly does hold the large golden medal for amateur cross­ country philanthropy. Now here's a rough expense account--of course only HE BEGAN TO "WORK. approximate, except some of the items I happened to have." Uncle "Peter took the statement and studied it care­ fully. Paid Hightower Hotel 142,888 75 Keep of horses, and extra horse and carriage hire 6,628 50 Chartering steam yacht Viluca three months Expenses running yacht W. U. Telegraph Company....... Incidentals 24,000 00 46,850 28 32 65 £82,763 90 -* f' , V Total $1,002,259 08 His sharp oid eyes ran up and down the column of figures. Something among the items seemed to annoy him. "Looking at those 'incidentals?' I took those from the check books. They are pretty heavy." "It's an outrage!" exclaimed the old man, indignantly, "that there $32.50 to the telegraph company. Hows it come you didn't have a Western Union frank this year? I s'posed you had one. They sent me mine." * "Oh, well, they didn't send me one, and I didn't bother to ask for it" the young man answered in a tone of re­ lief. "Of course the expenses have been pretty heavy, coming here stran­ gers as we did. Now, another year--" 'Oh, tnat ain't anything. Of course you got to spend money. I see one of them high-toned gents that died the other day said a gentleman couldn't possibly get along on less'n |2,000 a day and expenses. I'm glad to see you ain't cut under the limit none--you got right into his class jest like you'u always lived here, didn't you? But, now, I been kind of lookin' over the ground since I come here, and it's struck me you . ain't been gettln' enough for your money. You've spent free, but the goods ain't been deliv­ ered. I'm talkin' about yourself. Both your ma and Pishy has got more out of it than you . have. Why, your ma gets her name in the papers as a phi­ lanthropist along with that--how do the papers call her?--'the well-kno^rn club woman'--that Mrtf. Helen Wyot Lamson that always has her nam* spelled out in full? Your ma is get­ ting public recognition fur her money, and look at Pishy. What's she gone and done while you been laxiri* about? Why, she's got engaged to a lord, or just as good. Look at the prospects she's got! She'll enter the aristocracy of England and have a title. But look at you! Really, son, I'm ashamed of you. People over there'll be sayin' 'Lady What s-her-name? Oh, yes! She h§s got a brother, but he don't amount to shucks--he ain't much mors'n a three-spot. He can't do any­ thing but play bank and drink like a fish. He's throwed away his oppor­ tunities'--that's what them dukes and counts will be sayin' about you behind your back." "I understood you" didnt think much of sis' choice." "Well, of course, he wouldn't be much in Montana City, but he's all right in his place, and he seems to be healthy. What knocks me is how he ever got all them freckles. He never come by 'am honestly, ! hot. mim* . •>** ' ** '< t. \ \ !,•**'• $<"$' V got caught In an explosion of freckles some time. But that ain't neither here nor there. Ha has the goods and Pish'll get 'em delivered. She's got something to show fur her dust But what you got to show? Not a blamed thing but a lot of stubs in a check book, and a little fat Now I ain't makin' any kick. I got no right to; but I do hate to see you leadin' this life of idleness and dissipation when you might be makin' something o£ yourself. Your pa was quite a man. He left his mark out there In that western country. Now you're here settled in the east among big people, with a barrel of money and fine chances to do something, and you're jest layin' down on the family name. You wouldn't think near so much of your pa if he'd laid down before his time and your own children will al­ ways have to say: 'Poor pa--he had a good heart, but he never could amount to anything more'n a three-spot; he didn't have any stuff in him,' they'll be sayin'. Now, on the level, you don't want to go through life bein' just known as a goad thing and easy money, do you ? . "Why, of course not, Uncle Peter; only I had to look around Some at first --for a year or so." "Well, if you need to look any more, then your eyes ain't right That's my say. I ain't askin' you to go west. 1 don't expect that!" Percival brightened. "But I am tryin' to nag you Into doin' something here. People can say what they want to about you," he con­ tinued, stubbornly, as one who con­ fesses the most arrant bigotry, "but 1 know you have got seme brains, some ability--I really believe you got a whole lot--and you got the means to take your place right at the top. You can head 'em all in this country or any other. Now what you ought to do, you ought to take your place in the world of finance--put your mind on it night and day--swing out--get action --and set the ball to rolling. Your pa was a big ,man in the west, and there ain't any reason as I can see of why you can't be just as big a man in pro­ portion here. People can talk all they want to about your bein' Just a dub-- I won't believe 'em. And there's Lon­ don. You ain't been ambitious enough. Get a down-hill pull on New York, and then branch out. Be a man of affairs like your pa, and like that fellow Shepler. Let's be somebody. If Mon­ tana City was too small fur us, that's no reason why New York should be too big." Percival had walked the floor In deep attention to the old man's words. "You've got me right, Uncle Peter." he said at last "And you're right about what I ought to do. I've often thought I'd go into some of these big operations here. But for Dike thing 1 was afraid of what you'd say. And then, I didn't know the game very welL But I see I ought to do something. You're dead" right" "And we need more money, too," urged the old man. "1 was reading a piece the other day about the big for­ tunes in New York. Why, we ain't one, two, three, with the dinky little twelve or thirteen millions we could swing. You dou't want to be a piker, do you? If you go in the game at all. play her open and high. Make 'em take the ceiling off. You can just as well get into the hundred million class as not, and I know it They needn't talk to me--I know you have got sorat brains. If you was to go in now it would keep you straight and busy, and take you out of this pin-head class that only spends their pa's money." "You're all right, Uncle Peter! I certainly did need you to come along right now and set me straight. You founded the fortune, pa trebled it, ana now I'll get to work and ro}l it up like a big snowball." "That's the talk. Get into the hun­ dred million class, and show these wise folks you got something in you besides hot air, like the sayin' is. Then they won't always be askin' who your pa was--they'll be wantin* tc know who you are, by Cripes! Then you can have the biggest steam yacht afloat, two or three of 'em, and the best house in New York, and palaces over in England; and Pish'll be able to hold up her head in company ovei there. You can finance that proposi­ tion right up to the nines." "By Jove! but you're right. You're a wonder, Uncle Peter. And that re* minds me--" He stopped in his walk. "I gave it hardly any thought at the time, but now it looks bigger than s mountain. I know just the things to start In on systematically. Now don't breathe a word of this, but there's s big deal on in Consolidated Copper. 1 happened on to the fact in a queer way the other night There's a broker I've known downtown--fellow by the name of Relpin. Met him last sum­ mer. He does most of Shepler's busi­ ness; he's supposed to be closer t< Shepler and know more about the In­ side of his deals than any man in the street. Well, I ran across Relpin down in the cafe the other night and he was wearing one of those gents' nobby three-button souses. Nothing Would do but I shpuld dine with him, so I did. It was the night you and the folks went to the {>pera with the Old- akers. Relpin was full of lovely talk and dark hints about a rise in copper stock, and another rise in Western Trolley, and a bigger rise than either of them in Union Cordage. How that fellow can do Shepler's business and drink the stuff that makes you talk I don't see. Anyway he $ald--and you can bet what he says goes--that the Consolidated is going to control the world's supply of copper inside of three months, and the stock is bound to kite, and so are these other two stocks; Shepler's back of all three. The insiders are buying up now, slow­ ly and cautiously, so as not to start any boom prematurely. Consolidated is 110 now, and it'll be op to 150 by April at the latest The others may go beyond that. I wasn't looking for the game at the time, so I didn't give U any thought, but now, you see there's our chance- We'll plunge is those three lines before they start ts rise, and be in on the ground floor." "Now don't you be rash! That Shepler's old enough to suck egg3 and hide the shells. I heard a man say the other day copper was none too goo4 at 110." BELONGED TO HERO MISS MARY LEE HAS RELIC* OF 1.'• GEORGE WASHINGTON. Tints Used t»y the First President During the War of the Revotu- : - thm to Be Sold for a '><- triotie Purpose. To help swell the endowment of the Confederate Women's home, at Rich­ mond, Va.--the charity that is dear­ est to her heart--Miss Mary Lee, the only surviving daughter of (Jen. Rob­ ert E. Lee, purposes selling two of the three camp tents used by George Washington in the war of the revo­ lution. They are among the most precious of the Washington relics, which were saved from the home of Gen. Lee at Arlington, when it was seised by troops of the northern arm­ ies following the expulsion of the con­ federate leader's family in 1861. The two tents, with' canvas and poles well preserved, are at present packed away in leather cases in the National museum at Washington. Miss Lee thinks that Independence hall, in Philadelphia, is the proper place for them, and efforts may be made by patriotic citizens of that city to pur­ chase one or both by popular subscrlp- tion. Notwithstanding that she is ap­ proaching her sixtieth year, Miss Lee looks to be many years younger. Her step is as sprightly as a girl's, and her face wears the accumulated tan of her long travels. Among the relics which Miss Lee especially prizes are several large .moss-agate buttons--each nearly an inch in diameter, with silver shanks, which she and one of her sisters dur­ ing a childhood's prank, clipped from one of Washington's coats, thus bring­ ing upon them a stern reproof from her mother and her grandfather, George Washington Parke Curtis. The buttons were never sewed on the coat again, and were the only part of the garment saved after Arlington was con­ fiscated by the government. In set­ tings of gold Miss Lee now wears them in the form of breastpins and pendants. "It has been In my mind for some time to dispose of the two 'tents, which I own, for the benefit of the Richmond home," said Miss Lee. "There were three tents used" by Washington in his campaigns that caihe into tho possession of my grand­ father, who was Martha Washington's only grandsoa. The largest, which was Waishington's mess tent was given to the government by my grandfather. "The ladies of Mount Vernon so­ ciety have asked if I would sell them the other two. But I do not think Mount Vernon the proper place for them. I have been told that certain wealthy men in the west will pay me any price for them, but I will not dis­ pose of them to any but a resident of one of the 13 original states. It was my idea to sell one to New York and one to Pennsylvania. I have fixed no definite price, but would like to secure about $10,000 for the two. aa that is the sum which I should like to raise for the Confederate home., 'There IS no place at which I should rather see at least one ot the tents than in Independence hall, in Phila­ delphia, beside the Liberty bell and its other historio relics." NO LONGER A PROPHB3T. * v Satf fcxpeHence Put Obed Smalt Out of Business.' There had been years when Obed Small had given the town the bene­ fit of his weather predictions; the for­ mer resident of Bushby remembered these years, and was not prepared for the unresponsive look which marked Mr. Small's features when asked what the prospects were for a good pic­ nic day. • "I've gA nothing to say about it,** and Mr. Small gased carefully dowit the road, on which there was nothing to be seen save dust and a small boy with a large paper bundle. "Why, Mr. Small, aren't you the town prophet, just as you used to be?" asked the former resident re­ proachfully. "I relied on you to tell me before I invited the young peo­ ple* A spark of angry recollection kin­ dled in Mr. Small's dull eyes. "If you had been here in the sum­ mer of. '02," he said, slowly, ' you'd know my reasons. If you'd seen Ma'am Gregg when she came at me, all sails set, for telling her Mary Jane that 'twas going to be a lovely afternoon for her to go riding with that young Simpson chap she was trying to get, you'd have known 'em. "Seems she wore her best suit o' Summer goods and a flower hat and a pink spotted veil all on my repre­ sentations of the weather. They set forth in an open buggy for Wilson's Lake, and a thunderstorm came up from over behind old Greenough's mountain, and struck 'em on the up­ per road, where there's no house for nearly three miles. "She's afraid of lightning, and had hysterics; besides which her clothes spotted and shrunk most fearful, and her hair came out of crimp; her hat flower ran, and so did her veil; and she lost the Simpson chap as the re­ sults, her mother said. "I moved my Bible and hymn book to the Marshaltown church a month later, so I shouldn't have to see that Gregg woman and Mary Jane every Sunday. I've suffered pretty well for my folly, I tell ye--and I learned my lesson once and for all. 'That boy coming along the road'll probably tell you a good deal more about the weather prospects in five minutes than I'll ever tell long as I live. So I'll bid ye good-day."-- Youth's Companion. But They Never Came Again. In a rural town in aa adjoining jur­ isdiction there lives an old lady who is the possessor of an economical dis­ position and two prepossessing daugh­ ters, who are belles of the to^n. Not long ago, on a Sunday afternoon, two youths with a decided liking for pret­ ty girls, drove out to see these two fair damsels. They were cordially re­ ceived, delightfully entertained, and when supper time came invited to par­ take of the evening meal. Supper over, they still lingered. Bed time came, they still tarried. The old lady, used to early hours, went to bed at nine o'clock, but the two young men found no fault with that.' Waking from a sleep of several hours, and seeing a light still burning the old lady called: "Matilda!" "Yes, mother." "Have the boys gone?" The boys, with nods and pantomime, besought Matilda to answer in the af­ firmative, so the daughter answered again: "Yes, mother." "Matilda!" "Well, mother?" "Wasn't them two ooys hogs for butter?"--Buffalo Times, Easy. "But how," asked the get-rich-quick man's assistant, "are you going to get the people to bring in their money ?" "That'll be easy enough. I'll have the word 'Bank' painted In, big gilt letters above the door."--Chicago Record-Herald. Barbers Gas Away. „ "Why don't you get a haircut?" "I will, some day." "You'll have to take gas when you do, I'll bet.'* - "Naturally. I'll have to go to a barber." l^eas- Surs. "Papa, what is a round of ure?" . "A round of pleasure is a round that some other man pays for."-- Houston Post. / • Doesn't Always Follow. *Tou. are so unlucky at cards you ought to be lucky In love." "I wasn't though; the first girl I fell in love with married me.**--Hous­ ton Post Sea of Galilee Ferry Line. The Lake of Gennesaret in Pales­ tine, called also the Sea of Galilee and the Sea of Tiberias, famed for the miracles Christ performed there, has Just been profaned by the appearance of a modern steamer, which will take passengers to the little villages on its shores.--N. Y- World. ^ ; Noises of London. Our immediate forbears complained of the cries of London, beginning with the sweep and the milkman in the morning and lasting until the evening bell of the muffin man, says London Truth. Now there is such a constant racket that the whoop of the sweep and the jodel of the milkman cannot be heard amid the din. Even the bar­ rel organ Is only partly audible be­ tween the roar of the trains, the hoot of the motor fire engines and the scrunching, grinding, brain-racking noises of the motorbuses. Traffic of the ordinary sort grows heavier and heavier with every year. Vans, drays, wagons, mllkwains are not only twice as numerous as they were five years ago, but they go about at double the rate of speed. It may be that the motor van was accelerated the pace by creating rivalry, but whether that be the cause or not, certain it is that [the leisurely jog trot of the dray or van is now replaced by a degree of speed that adds at least 200 per cent to the noise it makes. The cart horses In London must wonder why their wonted amble no longer satisfies their drivers, why they are now expected to tear along with the unwieldy bumping of the vehicle sounding crashingly be­ hind them, why the whip is plied so much freely than it used to-be:^ Su­ burbia is the prey of the motor fiend, noise and dust and horrid petrol smells are now the accompanlmqpts of every hour from midday to mid­ night Airs of the Parvenue. A family who had struggled many years in a poverty-stricken portion of the oity suddenly came into posses­ sion of an Income. They moved to a 4ittle place in the country and tried to impress their neighbors with their importance. They talked constantly of what "people in our position" should and should not do. Some of their city acquaintances came to visit them one summer and the little daughter of seven or eight waB showing them about the place. "What nice chickens!" exclaimed one of the guests when they reached the poultry yard. "They lay every day, too, I suppose?" "Yes," said the youthful hostess, who really knew nothing about it; "that is, they could, of course; but in our position they don't have to/* BOB CASE'8 TRIUMPH. TOYS FROM OLD BOXES. Story a Cripple's Dream Came True. That Baseball was in the air. And no wonder, for it was the afternoon of the great Igame between the Easts and the Wests, rival teams who for gen­ erations o£ Hillsdale boys had battled hard against each other. A low-lying common a--short distance from the town had amrays been the field of- action. Bobby Case, a cripple, was the first boy on the diamond. He walked from base to base and lovingly touched them with his foot. He was discour­ aged. "Gee, I wish I could play just once. It's such a bully day, too," he said. He then looked across the field. Not a boy wu in Sight, and he gave a sigh of relief. How ashamed he would have been to have let the fel­ lows know he had come early just to touch the bases. Bobby had never expressed a wish to the boys that he wanted to play ball, or even dreamed of doing so. Presently the noisy Whistling and calling announced the Easts and Hew 8lmple But EntertalnfaM Plaj* things Can Be Mad£ * No material offers better opporta* nlties for making amusing toys thas old boxes, wooden or pasteboard. ticularly happy is the combination of boxes and elastic bands, for by thi* means many toys of home manufise* ture can be made to move. The ide T fc, Z' J ' * i Made 8tatue Out a Hoodoo. An elderly man in Shrewslhiry, Eng­ land, was showing a couple of friends about the town. They tarried before the place where the statue of Shrews­ bury's great son, Darwin, sits and broods. "That," said the Shrewsbury man, pointing with a bulging umbrella, "is Darwin." "Yes," answered one of the visitors, after a rather unfriendly scrutiny, "that was hfm as said we all come from monkeys." "He did," went on the Shrewsbury man, "and I'll tell you another thing. Not long ago the Bteeple of one of our churches fell down. There are many as says it is< a judgment upon the town for putting up a statue to 'im." "** f ,rr> * :r Looking Backward. - i < l>o you ever look bsck over your jears and think how many times you have made a fool of yourself? --Man cos Times-Trlbuntt. s Putting Him Oout of Business. "The. municipality of New York ia engaged in a thorough investigation oi its bake shops." "They don't seem to want the cock­ roach to have any fun at all, do they?" The Church and the Masses. Speaking generally, the masses of our city people seem either to live volun-' tarily outside the pale of religious In­ fluences, or, if willing to come into fitful contact with such influences, to be but little attracted or affected by them.--Exchange. Thank You," He Said. Wests and their respective admirers. The opposing teams were well matched. Enthusiasm reigned su­ preme. But Bobby sat silent on the fence. He was called "hon. sub." for the Easts. There was a little argu­ ment, and the game started. The Wests had scored and the Easts had failed. Then the Easts l)eld first place, and then by some mysterious; chance the game became a tie. "If I could play just once," thought poor Bobby. It was Jim's turn to bat. The boy's freckled face was flushed with ex­ citement; he understood that so much, depended upon him. He grasped the old worn bat firmly in his dirty hands. He paused, then, strangely attracted toward Bobby, he looked at the little fellow. The longing in th^ boy's face stirred within Jim's, heart a deep un­ derstanding that startled him in its intensity. He dropped the bat, and held out his hands toward the beys. "Boys," he said, "I can't bat And, say, let Bob Case bat in my place." There was a deep silence. Such a thing had never before happened in the annals of Hillsdale's baseball his­ tory. The game tie! Did the law al­ low such a queer thing? "Why?" stan^nered the captain of the Easts. "Oh, Bobby can bat," replied Jim, wondering at his audacity In the face- of possible defeat. "Ive seen him bat. heaps of times, practicing In his dad's orchard." And this was true. "I say, fellows, he's a suh; so it's all square, you know." "Your arm tifed?" jeered the Wests' bleachers. xn tne meantime Bobby sat, con­ fused, on the fence. He was strange­ ly happy to know that he had even been considered by Jim, for he had no hope that his wish could be grati­ fied. "I'll risk Bobby," .continued Jim. "Please, fellows, say 'yes.' I'll run for him, too." •* "Go ahead!" shouted the Wests. "All right," answered the Easts, confidently. Another brief discussion of ways and means"*and Bobby was given a place of honor. Enthusiasm and dis­ approval were shown by the audience. But Bobby was confident He would show his comrades his worth. He assumed the air of a professional, even though it was his first public appearance. "Let her go!" he called. One strike, one ball--two balls, three balls, two strikes. Bobby was The He&e-Made Auto. * v reproduced here from the DelineatOS* are. easy to carry out , The automobile is a perfect toy, and simple of construction. It is made of a pas£gftoaord box, the wehels being! of cardboard* and the axles two knife- ting needles. The piece of elastic fur­ nishes the propelling power, as shows in diagram in the upper right-hand corner of the picture. To set the toy in motion, wind op the rear wheel until the elastic under* neath becomes quite taut, then set the automobile upon the floor, when it will travel rapidly the length of jth« room or piazza. The greatest fun, however, may be had by placing the auto, on 'the floor and then giving it a sharp push so . as to send it the whole length of th« room. The auto then returns to tho player. The motive power of both toys shown here Is an elastic band fas­ tened by means of sealing wax to tho / axle. "• ™ The toy may be put In motion by winding the rear wheel, ot^ it may be pushed across the floor, in which case, it may be seen, the revolutions of the axle cause the elastic to bo> •M ! "7^ »' 'I I > The Smallest Potted Plants. Germs n women collect what are supposed to be the smallest potted plants in the world. They are cacti growing in pots about the size of a 'thimble errs became suddenly Interested. One of the boys called out: "Casey at the Bat," then the others echoed the words. This encouraged Bobby; It was like his dream. Then Jim had said he could bat. The pitcher paused, measuring his opponent. Then Bobby hit. Such a ball--nothing like it in the annals of the Easts' history. Jim 'twas on second, third. What were the Wests doing, and where were their quick plays? The boys were wild. Jim had touched the hqme base. The Easts had won. "Casey at the bat!" the boys called over and over again. Even the Wests were obliged to acknowledge that Bobby tfas a "blinger." Bobby stood, bashful and very hap­ py, receiving the homage of his friends. They no longer considered him a "girl boy." He had had his chance and was now a "Casey at the Bat." The lonely practice days in his father's orchard had proved of some avail. Ho could bat. The Easts had won, and he had helped. "Thank you," he said, holding out his hand to Jim. "C»»ey at the bat" still clings (o Bobby Case. Though he caniot al­ ways play, the honor of that one day makes him happy and proud.--Detroit Fro* Press. The Pinwheel Auto. come taut and the toy returns of US momentum. The pinwheel auto Is made of a pasteboard box, both wheels of card­ board and axles of knitting needles. The pinwheels, which most children know how to cut, are cut from stiff paper. The little car is set in motion in the manner described above. When the auto is. going the pin- wheels revolve in the air, making ft pretty sight VtilT TO THE MOON! w "Mr. Moon, I just came up to aak • x j W1 if you won't sign the plgdge; I hear still alert and confident The WeachJ.faljlg ^ bad things about you every month."--Chicago Daily News. Modern Jauggernawt. Two hundred and twenty-flve per­ sons have b«en killed by street cars In duiing the last 19 months. As to Hissing. ; Hissing a presidential candidate fB' a state convention does" not necessari­ ly destroy his prospects. The source and motive of the hissing are to he considered. Also the fact that in the animal kingdom hissing chiefly enear nates from snakes and geese. Added distinction for the individual hissed may be the result. To be hated for fidelity to a great principle sometime* proves in the long run as advan­ tageous as to be applauded for deser­ tion of that principle. At all events^ the hissing of an eminent public o®- cer »who has contributed to his own state as much renown as any othe* man living or dead cannot be said to testify to either the good manner* the good sense of the hissers. Says Health Doea Not Exist/ Health, one of the big English an* thorities (Sir Michael Foster). puts does not exist. It is lik* happiness. Each has a goal or limit which, white seemingly attainable, eludes perfect possession. The body consists of % number of mechanisms *hich hav* the closest and most exAct relational and as they approximate *to harmony there is health, but when. there ts U1 health. Destiny Sticks Tight. As each goes his way destiny companies him.--'Ttonii Sa^Uig,, •y$. Vr:i, rl • ri.'S' v> . r " .. . . . . . **• v- . . .