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No. 52. POINTE-A-LA-HACHE, LOUISIANA,.• SATURDAY,.l ".... DECEMBER. . . 27, 1913...... l .. n ni - l-- - n n- nn --- n .1-mu Vol. V:

and fear, he grips them until cent more than last. year in the Unit- wouldn't ride dat oxen if I neber ride memoments I lay panting on the straw. he needs. He needs protein to build with rage for his greediness ed States, India, Japan and Egypt. again!"-. TiThen I crawled up to the tie-piece of a nman's frame and he needs a larger Ithe punishment e a him. LATEST NEWS. Old Plantation Days. This was a decisive angwer from one ththe rick and looked down on my tor- proproportion of it.than the average adult overovertakes FOREIGN NEWS. whowh knew more about Abel than any mementor, and over at Tom and Princee requires.req He also needs fat and By Archibald Rutledge. on STATE, NATIONAL AND FOREIGN Rebel General Villa ordered Chihua- one else; but in those days we seldom aiand the men, who had been thorough- i-stastarches to furnish the heat and en- hua rebels to stop looting. tootook anything as decisive. - lyI alarmed by my danger. ergergy burned out in his ever-active body "Take One." III. BIG ABEL.. ' This is the believed result of the "Can you get a rope Ovqr his horns, "Can you come and get him now,r, aniand to keep his tissues plump and STATE NEWS.- On the plantation Miss Lyddon, a capable member of United States protest against Spanish yo we had a fine Prince?"Pri I persisted. P1Prince?" I called. rotrounded. While he needs much pro- M The Louisiana delegation protested U. yoke of oxen named Cain and Abel; the board of directors, was received property seizure. The negro assented; hie went into a It was getting too dark to see very ytein,tell do not expect him to get it all I against the internal revenue commis- Pt butbui by some at the Old Ladies' Home, after a six Villa's rebels are recruiting Federal perversity of nature, it smallsm. shed near-by, .and brought out a mmuch, but I saw the gleam of Prince'ss fromfro meat. Indeed, it is much better at ti ruling taking the levee, drain- - sioners' wawas not Cain but Abel that was the plow-lineplo with a slip-knot in the end. teteeth. thatthe no small part of this nitrogenous monmonths' absence in California, with an deserters. "Villa proclaimed amnesty 3 age, school, good roads and reclama- wicked one. Bulls are usually consid- "Abel's bex (vexed), but I'll try," foc , of welcome that she We climbed the fence, and crossed the ,"food come from milk and eggs, cheese, excilexcited flutter tion bonds income. The protest was to surrendering Federals. S'On Sunday 500,000 rounds of Gen. ereered dangerous animals; a cow with a litt ththe boy said. be,beans and peas. If he has plenty of afailefailed to understand till she found she based on the grounds that such board little "hog-crawl" that separated the 3was expected to solve a mystery. young calf is likely to be fractious- stastable-lot proper from the large en- As he climbed through the fence the thesethe rich and relatively cheap foods was bonds are State political sub-division i MMercado's evacuating Federals artil- as she should be;. but the ox has be- closurecl where the big rick and all the otother negroes poked fun at him. he will not crave meat so inordinately r"It's"Ii my box," eagerly explained bonds and exempt under the income lealery ammunition was found in an east- col f Miss Sophy Osborne, "my box from come a symbol of harmlessness, delib- cattlecal were. Some of the wilder ones "Lemme hold your hat, Prince," oneLe as some growing boys do. The boy Miss tax law terms. elern Chihuahua lake. eration,ers and pastoral peace. Yet when ran out of the gate when they saw ofr them said. needsne a large quantity of carbohy- California!Call The card doesn't say who The ruling has been suspended un- Helegraphic and railroad communi- an ox does acquire truculent traits, us r sent it, but we thought perhaps you'd us coming; others stopped their feed- up Abel's ears .with straw, so { drates.dri That is why his demand for sent til January 10, to allow Attorney Gen- cecation has been etxended as far west he is one of the hardest brutes in the "Stop ing and eyed us with 4ittrust. he coming!" anotherr brabread and butter is limited only by thee kncoknow. The most beautiful oranges eral McReynolds to pass'o, the sub. aoas Minaca and as far south as Berme- animalanI kingdom, to manage. He has he can't hear you But Big Abel did noe deign to give 3 sishouted. supplys, "athand, and why he uses al-I- and grapefruit! Dozens of them! Most ject. . jillo.ji" the stubborn spirit of the mule, the And3 a third cried, "Prince, I will me .His-indifference, the I most as much butter as. bread. Lett as Ibig as melons! I haven't tasted Ashton Phelps, a New Orleans finan- SGen. Villa expects soon to have Chi- uncertaintyun of a colt, and the cun- us a glance. tell3 your pa that I was the last one to his d anything so good since the 'Burry Dan. slzsize of his great body, and the wide tE t him have all he wants. By the pound anyl cial and cotton expert, has been men- Lhihuahua, Sonora and Sinaloa as freely ningnix of a swamp pony. , swsweep of his scythelIke horns im- stsee you!" bubutter is expensive, but it is pure, , jo' Ipears in the old garden at home." tioned as a possible Reserve Board ap-. . open01o] as in times of peace. Big Abel was a handsome creature, Lwholesome food, andd he can use it MissM Lyddon's face lighted sudden- pointee. Raoul Madero, the murdered Made- pressed us as much aiopen hostility Iwalked rBut Princestraight was across not the daunted; lot toward he wirei with a frosty gray .coat, a fine neck, e ly. "Pears! Beurre d'Anjou pears!" Sumner A. Cunningham,` editor andj~ rcro's brother, conferred with Villa up- a i wouldwe have done. Totl and I stopped eAbel.:w I admired his spirit, but doubt-d readily.th' It will not make him ill; quite ly. a lean but powerful body, and the contrary. And do not be afraid Sophy, did you proprietor of "The Confederate Vet- .0oon a civil government formation. the wid- at the bars, .but Prince, carrying the A of she exclaimed. "Miss est and longest horns I ever saw;; rol susugar and sweet foods. Sugar is a ever put a basket of pears on the side- eran," died in Nashville last Satur-- Juarez, Mexico, reports fruitless ne. rope, slipped quietly into the lot, pass- eied his wisdom. eve, some of his ancestors 1walk by your gate, with a 'card on it gotiations for the $250,000 paid release probably lived ededY the other cattle, . and walked Sudenly Big Abel heard the step true, concentrated food. Give him can- wak day. .g< in Texas. This ox had a sinister.repu- sta s saying "Take one"? .Robert Sterling, Louisiana Conserva- .01ofof Villa's Chihuahua prisoner, Luis tn straight up to Big Abel behindb him, whirled, and with head `ddy for dessert. He craves it and his says ' tation among the negroes, and con- r down, plunged for the negro boy. He r e"Years ago, when there was a good to thee TTerrazas, Jrl He ran, his hand caressingly over d e craving is natural, not abnormal. The tion Commission agent, reported 'sesequently we looked upon him with dtook Prince by surprise. The boy hes- b '' Before adjournment until April 2, the huge ox's side, str0ked the bowed t< boy's instincts will lead him to choose iel Miss Commisfon that some neat Plaqueminee 1914, the Mexican Congress approved distrust and just a little superstitious eitated, called out a protest, then a th yield, I always did," admitted ' deftly over the it athe all-around diet he needs. To limit plen, sugar houses discharged daily more lI dread. When we mentioned this dis- neck, set the noose Sophy, wondering. "There'd be than 20 gallons of acids into the ditch.L| tUthe Belgian syndicate concession to horns,he drew it taut, and pulled Abel'sa tlthreat to the ox; and not until the ahi-t- his choice to a few articles compels ty tot put up and give away, and a good trust to Prince, the negro boy would amal was almost upon him did he turn him unconsciously to overuse the one and so I'd put out a bas- es and canals emptying into the Grossee C(construct 5,000 miles of narrow gauge great bulk toward himjas if he had a n emay lover, laugh in his quaint manner and say gr he likes the Tete section bayous. The daily aver- rf.railway. grievance against the .x. These tac- aand run. best. To regulate his,diet ketfulketi each day while they lasted. that Abel just looked ugly and could gri But1 he -did not have a fair start. to the tastes or foods of his father orr People seemed to appreciate them; age sugar house acid discharge in tenI The Tampico rebel defeat is ascribed no tics won the favor of teieold monarch, e to the Federal gunboats and Federal notdo help the way he looked. But we mother is cruelty and will probably the gallons.- Fish have been killed in large tc Prince's judgment; at, the wwho followed Prince .with a mingledd BigE Abel gained on' him, and just be- re the workmen going by would tuck one doubted result in an undernourished child. If in numbers. Lfield artillery sustained bombardment. cattle feared Abel; only recently hea air of stateliness .and :meekness. foref~ Prince reached the fence, the ox in their pockets, and nod, and smile ca ifovertook him. I saw the burlyJhead go x grown people )wish to experiment on n up at the windows, and my! the boys!" The Lafayette Parish farmers form-t- The rebels always possessed the ha :Tom and I were.som :what jealous of trlower;o then there was a swift and sick- i, railroad yards and retreated victorious- hadsti rushed a young steer against the - Prince's- courage and lshamed of. our 1 new foods o She broke off and smiled reminiscent- ed a Farmers' Marketing Association, re they have the right to do She straw-rick, and had gored him cruel- Pr - so, but they do not have the right to ly ofLafayette. - lyly, taking every locomotive and most ly. own timidity. But we,need not have'e eening sweep upward, and Prince was in Sly. ly. . or inflict their ideas of what is good for Congressman Estopinal wrote Fer- I1of,- the rolling stock. been ashamed; for Bi 'Abel regardedd asent flying over the top rail of the th i"I met a Dulverton boy In Califor- -On Tuesday Villa officially Plantation fields are wide, and plan. be e them on their growing children. Good nando Estopinal that the War Depart- decreed Prince with more. favor than he didd ffence. I gulped hard when I saw it, fo of it is what nia,"nia said Miss Lyddon, "who told me a the confiscation to the rebels of all the tation fences are far apart. Along. the .ofor food in variety and plenty ment is opposing the general's bills for tl rother persond. Prince led Abel up to f I was to blame for what had hap- th about that basket; he ofte4 hadn't any c-Luis Terrazas, Sr., and Enrique Creel banks of the ditches there are heavy ot1 '` the child needs, and'it it is provided abc in front' of the fack. L through, hee ppened.' To my relief, other breakfast In those days;. He . a public highway thickets where an ox could browse the bars;. then, crawli.g .however, I sawL hishi taste will not be abnormal nor will oth son Barracks for military reasonsa CChihuahua banks, mines, vast areas oft handed nie the rope. 'dBgAbel raisedd IPrince get up, apparently unhurt. Once hi told me how mean he used to feel b.- unnoticed until you came face=toface hi it more his teeth gleamed. ce his astonishing appetite result in more toie alone. - lands, thousands of cattle, homes and head, with its magnificent a cause sometimes he'd fill his pockets.. wiwith him. And it was one of our fears his .great, than healthy rapid growth. can ppersonal effects. .horn•; and looked globmily at us. When the negro wags saw that he instead of taking one, but he was so . thatthl some day Big Abel would catch ho *y was none the worse for his adventure, The rebel confiscated property was My hungry he couldn't help it. He owns NATIONAL NEWS. - e decreed to be given us off our guard or corner"us;. we "Shall w:• ride :hih:Tom?" lie hu to the widowp and Us .d they began to chaff him again. a ranch now, and I feel prettysure-"'' 1 President Wilson, seeking three, orphansd caused by bloodshed among co,could guess what would happen then, vovoice, I know, hinted that we should t W "What was Baboons at Home. a"The poor, poor child!" broks in -i 2 weeks' rest; reached Pass Christian, 0 On a small farm there would probably .nnot. your hurry, Prince?" " Mississippi, Christmas. ' the -Mexicans. i"Prince, suppose- y try him first,"", aasked one. MiSMiss Sophy, pitifully. "To think of -. ' To check the runs on Mexican be persons within call, but the chance k We can 6nly learn the nature and his The Wetsern Union b'elgraph Com- kmybrother suggested : "I neber knew you could jump like Ldhis only having pears to stay his poor banks,. particularly on the Bank of of such a thing on the plantation wasa4l *ethat before," came from another. disposltion of an animal pany installed a 12-operators-Mexican. b -Prinice dissented •? and Abel were t like the ha-a s"Uttlittle stomach for school! Oh, why: London & Mexico, Huerta remote. Some of the negrbes would toA third' said, "Prince, there's Abel 'boon from a study-of its behavior In a didn'tc I know, and feed him up?t Oh,:i Gulf-Hotel telegraph offic L decreed a be far out in the, pine woods,' dipping gogood- friends; he said, titnot even he 5. legal holiday from Monday, December .glooking for you." ;wild state. Ferw persons ever have a I ninever felt so mean-how could I ever' The Postal Company Installed a 5- 11 Bhad .ever taken the liberty of riding l gt have ,said: 'take one?' Tell me his turpentine or splitting rails; others ha chance, for such, study, and -operator-Mexican-Gulf-fHtel telegraphh 222nd, to the end of the year. i : according- ha would be down in the rice ields, or hi The ox:had been glaring sullenly iati ly, an intelligently observed account The Bank of London & 1-Prince; but now he turned his attei= o office. ..." : . Mexico,. with to learn ."f'Abel's mighty art . ," he final- I name, my dear, and I'll write today to C.deposits of $3,000,000, capital of $22,- acacross on the island. We had :of the animal's actions becomes of in- S Maryland Congressman.i Lewis ex- d Sliysaid. -•t , tion to me again, -and hinging back te Sthanklhm,and tell him that I hope hisik e io000,000 and surplus and profit account idependence from those great spaces ly tdmorosely across the. lot, took up his'. terest..The author of "Animal Life In h•austively analyzed his proposal .for 0 Mean'hile the huge ?x stood beyond lewatchr under the rick.::`. fu Spockets- were.etzra big and plenty of!. $16000,000,~i is the second largest bank andth those generous distances;,: from. 5Africra," :Maj. 3.i Stevenson-Hamilton, Post Office Department dp eration of $ the 'vast forests of pine on the: oie thSthe bars, silent an;itotionles.--He ' 'em, and that he tilled themb full, every in Mexico..:... . furnishes the .following results of his ' :the cud.a. MypJosition was aidicnin ui.onTo tdhnke t T: cast a few p was on the other. - SIt long after sunset, and the peo- 'diof aiit :jtiei6 ersjaid racts of delta land ttple at the house- would soon .be It Is most tion's telephone lines would cost lessIs t1the Ojinaga Federals action. asuddenly. -."I'm not going to let won t interesting and instructivere thethey return to me after many days a• tLate .one afternoon in February Tom that I to watch, froma some concealed posi w-h than $900,000,000 and present no great-,t Ignacio Bonillas, Constitutionalist old fraud back me down." . ddering where whole crate of grapefruit o0much '.-- Le Secretary of Comunications, an- andan I were down at the.. stable-lot, Tom and I were. And tion,t the social life of a .troop of ba- for er. financing difficulties than did the S With that, be put one foot through I:hhere I was, besieged in a straw rick b "for so little!" which at that time of day was the e-by a truculent old ox.= I was humill-clboons,. who fancy themselves unob- Panama Canal. ' nnounced the practical restoration of i thefence and stooped down .to get be- I b* little al Northwest Mexico rail and wire com- liveliest place on the plantation. The th r,ated, and yet I dared not come down. served. Perched about at Intervals i "Much maya mean little, and After an all-day joint Congressional ? tween the bars.:. But he niot get ,far, ItaThe rick was in the 'middle of the lot,• e, munication. horsesc were being fed, the cows were V among the rocks are some of the old-d. mayma mean much," murinured Miss: Committee currency. bill conference, a for I cried to him and Prince caught 'I )r ddon. milked, and the hogs were fight- t atand I'could out tnove in any direction er males, evidently on the lookout for the measure went to the House, wherece Meixco City official advices report betbeing pulled -him Iback.- -,Abel a ing and squealing over their share Ott his coat and without attracting the at Miss Sophy did not hear. "It so it was favorably approved by a vote ofAf IFederal successes at Tepic and Mazat- had made a.lunge at him, and One of AfI stThe negroes began tonotice drift awayof Abel. to- eLdanger.a Behind them walk and squatid lovely to. have something 'of my own to rice flour and chopped sweet potatoes. h a heterogeneous mass of females and lo' 298 to 60.. lan, on the Pacific coast of Mexico. rig -the sharp horns had rasped againstward their homes; after a time only y share ag~ain," she said, happily. "You'llo Even the half-wild hogs that we'had th k of young animals. The females employ sha The conferees fixedthe regional bankLi Emperor Menelik, of Abyssinia, is ratl. The ox raised his head, shook ] s,stay to supper and try a grapefrait,::. Lk officially dead. caughtca in the woods, and that ordinar- the capital at $4,000,000. Regional bank a He. w Prince and Isaac remained with Tom; themselves in various family tasks, sta of The Mexican Banco Central refused ilk it, and gazed defiantly at us. blew reandI since the negro boy had been dis- and squab-b- wolwon t you?" members must invest six per cent of ily were silent in their pens, were now and the youngsters, playing 1bold enough to grunt with the other otout his breath angrily. HIs feet were aigillusioned as to his relations with the bling, chase one another rounql to a capital in Regional Bank stock. tto redeem State Bank notes. A run bc set apart;, he was braced for anything i e shrill accompanimeni of chattering hogs. . Bilbo, of Mississippi, said in Neww Iresulted. he :that we might.bring against him. big1 ox, there was on one to help me. NonCoile e Men.: "- Government lack of funds is the re- SFather usually let all the stray cat- t- We were afraid of Big Abel.: . screams. , Orleans, in reference to the Vicksburg- s, do,. As I sawI was father pondering coming whatdown Ithe should path 1tel from the woods come into the en- SHerbert Spencer, one of the re"allyg Hobbs-Bilbo bribery charges: "It is Iported cause of two serious Federal te It,upder the great oaks,. He was carry- two of the latter, in the Plantation negroes,l Ith Possibly Burns & Co, frame-e- ttroops mutinies. closureci and spend the. cold winterS vl~Meanwhile the course of a rough-and-tumble, ~jostle of modern times, declined-:• -simply a Brewer, e retu*nitng home through the twilight,. ing a basket that, has I afterwards a Le-great minds up, to eliminate me from Mississippipil Government failure to pay the Fed-L nightsni beside the big rick of riced gatheredre to see what was going on. Sagainst one of the older males. Imme- 7 oflearned, contained a few choice ears Sthe offer of an uncle tosend hlmto.:: eral soldiers caused the Federalevac. st.straw. The poor creatures were glad g diately the latter's attitude of digni- asthCambridge, and starting. In at the age.:s politics. ' - th luation of Chihuahua. t We felt. ourselves in the position of "Iam going back to Vicksburg with I to come; during the gireater part of fled quiscence vanishes, and he turns ig Huerta has failed to raise European t showmen, who, having :collected a of lint;corn that. he had picked for worked until .he •as- a carload of dynamite, and I am going ,the year the woods are lush and 'green, rwith a roar upon the imprudent juve- of seventeen, feel bound to produce some en-n- moverseed, toand the thatforeman, he was Henry going Snyder, to send by Stwenty-asix as an engineer on the Loneii to. explode it under Brewer, Burns & loansI to meet the January interests on biSbut in midwinter they yield almost noo crowd,c Sniles, who hastily retreat with shrieks .tertainment -:-Old Isaac, a:plantation adPrince. Tom went forward to meet Sdon and Birmingham Railwy.::i ,Co." obligations. food. Among the hungry, furtive new- of fear. Now and then a mother finds do n- The American Smelting & Refining ci Abel was the ruler. Onee *sage,ededged near the bars, and peered the theory SI Horce B. Walmsley, a leading mem- gcomers, Big e through at tne ox.i i.--:... , it necessary to chastise her offspring,g,orof ItDarwin was he withwho theenriched doctrine of the t xdCompany, Aguascalientes smelter will e' father, and explained the situation to hiberof the Wisconsin Bar, pronounced ( 1 evening a large, unmarked bull cameIs "-This Abel,", he -aid, apparently to or to wreak.vengeance upon one or of csclose January 1st. i him. I could not see the expression the January 1st Wisconsin eugenics c in from the woods and disputed hise himself, Iibut .chiefly '-for our benefit, t,on father's face, but Iheard his laugh other of the unattached hobbledehoys yg"i'"survival fluence on of educationthe fittest.," hiras andbeen his more:.: in-:i'i Thero English Cabinet decided not to tio title; but after a pitched battle; the I who, she guesses, 'meditates imposing flu law useless because .a man and a wo- Id"takes his name' from the Bible, butut ring out. Then he came up to thelbars asmarked than that of any other man idsanction British official participation astrangersl was willing to withdraw, and " injuring it. The air resounds m -man can live together as mates, and re his meannesis from the debil. What tand held out an ear of corn' '" ppon or ,. accepted with cringing deference the h mn.of his time. the law cannot reach them. in the San Francisco 1915 Panama-Pa- a S "Come, Abel!" he .-called, in Swith shrieks, shrll cries, and occasiuon- o chicie Exposition. P aa yyou gwine to, do to him, Mas' Tom?" the 1arly action in the Senate .oi the permission of his conqueror to eat of W-e don't. know exactly," Tom an-n-softest, most persuasive voice, "Come;, al bass grunts. ,4Budapest The late was Professorthe foremost Vambrey of Oriental of . of Paris, reports Presi.l,. li little straw out at the windy end of : proposed constitutional amendment to "Le Matin,'" ' Abel!'" Suddenly from one of the guardsEhescholars.. He could speak and write•:. enfranchise -women is expected bybydent Poincare, of France, desire to of... theti rick. . " ' i swered. adfticially exchange visits with President - To our surprise the big ox obeyed;d; comesc a single deep, hoarse bark. The sco- twelve Asiatic and nlne auropean. Senators who favor the proposal and t On this particular afternoon, Tomnm Isaac grunted his understanding of he- slowly crossed the lot and took the Ig the situation,. "Prince,"he said, "you - he females catch up their young oft-s tongues. He wrote a whole library? -women suffragist leaders. Wilson.of the United States. anda I had determined to test the big tl otempting ear. While Abel was rolling I be President Yuan Shih-Kai openly ap- o In better turn dat oxen loose." ng spring; the rest-of the band, with one SoftObooks on philology and travel, but, I._ - Senator Thomas, chairman of the P- ox's temper, but we were uncertain b it ,. accord, scuttle out right and left, and o edproved abolishment of the Chinese b ig .But with a shake of his head, in his mouth; father took the dang.- committee in charge of the proposed e how to proceed. We had been talking ling rope in his hand, and made aa in a moment there' is nothing to beabe Ls writer in the BostonaGlobe lately: college until : Samendment, expects to bring it up as Parliament. abouta it for several minutes when we ePrinceF disclaimed all responsibility.- of the cedar posts.' said, "he never went~ to rk Fire damaged the famous Ports- h le At last, in sheer desperation, I pro, hitch round one S een except one or two of the larger ndhe went there to teach." 5- heard Prince, who was in the stable -i soon as Congress settles down to work Igposed a foolhardy-plan, for lack of a Then hecalled me to come down. - males, who .walk quietly off,'now and -= 'afterthe Christmas holidays. mouth, England, dockyard last weekIk l4loft racking down the horses, talking p SHe did not scold me wheni the fence tht en satopping to glance back, and to Despite' this, he was noted as being ialto the extent of $2,500,000. The cen- t hebetter- way to satisfy the curiosity of and most brilliant ': The State of Missouri won a final ,- to his father, who was milking the b resonant warning barks. one of the boldest rethe negroes' who now stood ranged dwas once more between me and Abel.e .utter their bprofessors in the world. WThen ,he: n. tury-old semaphore tower, which in thee butt-headb cow in one of the spare t' victory in the two-cent railroad passen i1 fle merely said, "You boys ought notnot If you run quickly forward and climb er,pwas the age of the average undergrad- *.. en pre-telegraph days was the great sig-g- stallss below. ."l'ngoing to tryto beat old Abel to ger and maximum freight rates when- said,. "Prince, you to tease an allimal. An anmial hasSto some coignlo vantage you will per-wiuadte he was working as a tailor's ap*.' onnaling station between the English ox," Will mIthe straw-rick,"I ouno sense of humor. Big Abel is all Kansas City Judge Smith McPherson h "Dat Big Abel is a nean haps be in time to see the whole band a lesfleet and the Admiralty, was burned. , aehold him here against the bars till l Sright; but he's touchy. ai :dismissed without prejudice the cases. d. said, from beside the cow. "Dem wide - Don't bother to prentice. water the iNestor ngMany valuable models of old warships, y adget through te fence. I.just want to erscampering off. The infants cling to piedOn this side of the S filed by thirteen railroads enjoining * horns signify dat he jest expatiate and 8 him again, or he may get-vicious." theirt.. mothers' backs, thesnattached is.records relating to Nelson and earlierr prevaricate all over the country." clear, that's all. Then orof American writers, William Dean :i:. the State from enforcing the rate laws. get through- Before we went up to the house, Jse,uveniles race ahead, and the three or iheHowelIs,o has no degrees save honor-.,:: Figuresli he periods and other old naval relies weree Prince chucked. "I don't 'fraid him,'" turn him loose, and I'il show you a oit world production for the a each of us fed the pacified ox an ear four fathers of families bring up the i nt destroyed. - da race." ary ones, Yet no man in the oountry i-.present year cabled to the Department 1al Mexico City advices report a last ,he said. "Abel and Prince been friends r wu'weof father'streated seedAbel corn;with respect,even after and that heat reara at a more deliberate pace. of Agriculture from the International tever since hatchet was a hammer." ""Take care, boss," old Isaac. cau- iofs more highly educated than he. netioned..: "Abel might show you a race." he Apparently, however, the cunning of It is said that when he was editor of S Institute of Agriculturg at Rome, in- Saturday.renewed rebel Tampico at- t"Some of these days he's gwine t never molested us again, . i the baboon has limits, as the occa- the Atlantic Monthly he was walking he tack. - m Will's answer. ..There was ~ general murmur of dis.[is. __ Scluding the principal countries of the hammer you," was hesent among the negroes, who, much as sional success of one of the methods t northern hemisphere,.were as follows:ts The underwriting by an internation- SWhen Prince came down from the a & What the Growing Child through the grounds of Harvard one enthey loved. excitement,. did not wish them alive proves. The dayd with James Russell Lowell. To All wheat, 3,569,000,000 bushels, beingng al group of bankers to the Mexicanin loft, we called him out. He had been t Sof catching or ye,government, sufficient to meet the Jan- SNeeds. .... practise is to put a few mealies, or the poet he expressed a regret at not . ..8.9 per cent more than last year; rye, Saboon companion in all our escapadeses toI see me' .take the risk of being some similar delicacy, inside an or- h uaryuss bond interest payments was ar- usually ready dygored, But I ha`8 made up my mind. having gone to college. - 1,828,000,000,. ' bushels, 1 per cent less r- and adventures, and was ing"That regret is unnecessary" said )00ranged in Paris, through? the Banque st.I crawled through the. fence, andwas dinary gourd, and leave an opening than last year; barley, 1,524,000,000 e for anything that we might suggest. I )enLowell. "Had you gone to college you astde Paris et des Pays Bas. only large enough to admit the open -bushels, 7.7 per cent more than last But our plan:surprised him. i about to call to Prince tO let Abel The appetite of a growing boy is aa hand of the animal., - .igfree,' when the ox broke:away fromombel constant source of astonishment to his have lost your originality, your " year; oats, 4,571,000,000 bushels,. 2.3 Wm. Bayard Hale, Wilson's Carran- n"Prince, we're going to tackle Big/f ckmother, and the ease With.which hishe The first paity'that: comes along freshmight outlook on life. Yoa might have ire-za ambassador, and President Wilson per cent more than last year; the fore- a Abel to-night," .said .Tom. thet bars aid wheeled on m, 'So quick he soon-discovers the hidden treasure,.ire,become academic, imitative." "sTackle him?" Prince asked. : ngconsumes more food than the adult going including the production inAus- us- conferred on the Hale Constitutionalist was' he that hliecame near: stabbing as.members of the family donvinces herult. Some of the smaller ones are prob- uncolleged :: e'sme with 'the first sweep of his horns. Another example ofthe the traveler and tria, Germany, Belgium, Denmark,rk, investigations. - whether he'sI her ably wrangling over lt, when a big bigman is Jack London, ire-Havana reports the Cuban House of 1 "We want to find out >wI did not know that an animal of hishisthat his tastes are abnormal She for- Spain, France, Great Britain and Ire- o bad or not," I explained. "We know I] or- males steps up, drives them all away, sth-Representativel' approval of a $10,000, ntsize could be so quick. I had no sy, author whose work is so popular at : land, Hungary, Italy, Luxemburg, Neth- you aren't afraid of him, and we want no gets that in the second period of rap- m.chance to get back tjhrorugh the fence. aP and begin~, to examine the gourd on erlands, Roumania, Russia in Europeppe000 loan by a two-thirds vote. The billill to see whether he's afraid of you.; ce. Id growth that comes early in the present. London saved enough money ser-went to the Senate with the apparent red"'teens" Nature is making every efforthe his own account. After turning it (sixty-three governments); Swltzer- mt What do you think?"] a glinipselOf the scared to take him through college, but when :.: ad,facesI had of.fleeting the negroes, aid of the faith-th-to build a perfect individual and needsort round and round, and inspecting it , land, Canada, United States, India, Ja- possibility of amendment increasingng "Abel is all right," Prince replie&, I all the he. got there he thought the college. / t),the loan to $15,000,000, as requested 's ful Prince struggling to get throigh agh help she can get. She cannotds from all sides, he at last squeezes his thedid not provide enough opportunity : ..pan, Russia in Asia (ten governments), ed with his inevitable grin, "but Aabel's I not hand into the hole, and grasps the : Algeria and Tunis. ... by President Menocal. - ' as build without a wealth of material, prize. Presently, to his annoyance, hehe for learning, so he left and matriculat' . horns are mighty long.". :. ,: the fence in time to eatclh the rope asire-and so every boy who is physicallyial, 'The total production of sugar beets ipefled madhly. for my nly place of safe- finds that,:although he could put'his.hs ed in the school of the wide, wide .: eni Brown (in the middle of tall shoot- "We thought you might get a irope pm thity, straw rickl, tilrtyiyards away. illy was 64,992,000 short tons, 2.5 per cent t i round hist horns for us,.Prince," Tori a-. more active than his father and meo.no. hand in: with a struggle, it in quite im-imandworld, Eliha -. Burrltt was one ofithe most.: len-ing story)-Hardly had I taken aim aiRe I artuntely' just•':o where I I ther, who is using his brain for study i.. i more than last year, in Belgium, Den- "and then we could-we udy possible to withdraw it, clenched and at the lion on my right when I heard suggested, the wishedgo. 4Nete: nindof tlierick ickand growing rapidlyblesides, needs an andlearned men America has produced..: '•-i'.-'..mark, Spain, France, Italy, ' Nether.lera rustle in the jungle grass, and per- ichabundant supply of food.~ What shouldan full of mealies. He gets angry, and Ida,ceived an enorm6us tiger approach oner-could- well, tie him up 'close to the ly,Before he was thirty, he had mastered: : ILande Roumania, Switzerland, Canada, en fence and curry him, or put a bridle onwilaon stodt hickory 4ve Obout whichch- this'food id struggles furiously, but ineffectually,'kefifty languages, Yet he was a black- United States, Prussia, Hungary, not he him and ride him." .. :"I.- be?' -Should his diet be lim- niot my left.- I now found myself on the tltsra 8wathiin. oie howir reach- iuIted Or his taste qutestioned? Geneialim until the watchers arrive and make rrssmith, whose :'student's lamp was the '-including Croatia and. Slavonia. horns of -a dilemma!'" - ahd Abel. I grasped it, and occurs nd At this laSt suggestion. Prince •i buf-ed ne ly seiakingi,s ioC Hae needs al .:kindseral him an easy prisoner. It never cot-which ,Interested did yogi Little shoot Boy-first, theOb; lion and or theforge and his desk an anvitL"-Frio - The total production of cleaned cot-1 or bawedb ~ rwmsefu o Sft us ntm ad to him to pen bs hanana nd let the prte the tUger oirthe dtlemma .?" "i t yl hesap? e e the Philadelphia North AmericaIl.- 4~ptQ1:n~~6~~rs~ *Ing J-rar~ -';~.LIF * tns-~~i~~~:;