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FIDO, JR. It By MARGARET L. AHERN f (Copyright, 1919, by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) For the third consecutive day Mar jorie Hill spent 15 minutes of iter noon hour gazing covetously in the store window. And for the third time Lieu tenant Dan Taylor, lunching alone at his club across the street, watched her with growing curiosity. Dan. the proud possessor of two gold service stripes and a wound stripe, was feeling rather bored after Itiv strenuous activities of the past year. This state of affairs was possibly due to the fact thHt there hail been no girl waiting for him “over here." His in terest was aroused now for the first time since his retuun home. “If it was a fur coat she was looking at so earnestly,” he soliloquized, "or a platinum bracelet watch, or a rose colored evening gown—I could under stand it. But it's a bird and animal store. I wonder if It’s a parrot or a canary she wants?” While he watched the girl went in side the store. Dan hastily paid his meal check and hurried across the street. He, in turn, stared in the win dow' at the miscellaneous assortment of livestock. On one side some tiny white mice were huddled in a squirming heap in a cage. “No girl in her right mind would even look at those things,” was the lieutenant’s sarcastic comment. On the other side of the window two white, curly-haired dogs frisked around. “Inane pups,” muttered Dun. “She doesn't look like the kind of a girl who would carry one of those toy lambs around.” In the center of the window was an iron cage, and presently its occupant —a small but very fat Boston terrier— was thrust in unceremoniously. The girl inside the store leaned over to play with him for a moment, and Dan had u delightful glimpse of rosy cheeks and brown eyes. When she left Dan followed iter through the noonday crowd until she entered a large bank building. A few minutes later the president of the hank was shaking hands joyfully with the lieutenant. "It surely does make your old uncle glad to see you again, Danny,” he said, “and if there’s anything at all I can do for you—” His offer was accepted with suspi cious alacrity. Dan explained glibly that he wanted to look over the con tents of his safety deposit box, and since his right arm was still lame, pos sibly lie could have the assistance of one of the clerks. For answer his uncle pressed a button beside his desk. A young woman appeared almost Im mediately. Dan, maneuvering to a po sition back of her, frantically sig naled to his uncle. The latter, hiding a smile, ilismissed—hls efficient em ployee with some casual instructions, and asked her to send Miss Hill to him. Miss Hill proved to be Ihe girl of the bird store. From her demure blush as she acknowledged the introduction to tile eager lieutenant, he suspected that she recognized him. It was ar ranged that she should work with Dan that afternoon at least; but lie made haste to assure ills uncle that thp clipping of innumerable coupons would probably nec-Msitate another full day’s work. During the afternoon a minimum of business was transacted by Dan and his acting secretary. However he found time to tell her of the big ken nels at his country place, and of his favorite pet, the ugly-looklng bulldog named “Old Ironsides.” “He'll try to— I mean, he could—eat that little chap in the blrdstore in one mouthful," said Dan. And Marjorie confided to him her longing to possess the “little chap.’’ She told him how she had figured that five dollars was u sufficient sum for such a tiny puppy, and how she had been saving up a “dog fund”; and then of her disappointment at learning that the small dog had a most distinguished and high-class canine family tree—tie lug a direct descendant of Itlngmaster I—and his present owners refused to part with him for less than twenty-five dollars. Needless to say, the puppy of unliu peachable ancestry disappeared from the store window the next day. When the president of the bank returned aft er lunch that noon, he found an un expected visitor tied to his desk. A note from Dan exr'alned the situation It read as follows: "I am paying inj charming assistant, not In coin of th< reulm but in the original way you set hitched to your desk. Don't dare re move him. He will be called for a B o’clock.” Dan’s uncle viewed the pup with t quizzical smile. Fortunately, he liket dogs. too. "I suppose,” he remarket thoughtfully, "that you have to be fet at more or less frequent intervals, 11 kt all Infants. Although—pardon m; rudeness, old mini-—irbin the contour of your small anatomy you don't look as though you had room for a drop more." An excited office boy was pres ently sent out to procure some milk for the puppy. Then, still holding Dim's note, his uncle sighed and addressed the pup again. “Perhaps you understand. Fido. junior”—a vigorous wagging of a di minutive tail testified that Fido, junior, understood perfectly. “You have been the cause of my nephew coining in here and taking my best stenographer.” N.W W. S. S. CcRTiF’CATE Treasury Department Authorizes De nominations of $100 to $1,000 for investors. The Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank has ordered from the Treasury Department a supply of the new Treas ury Savings Certificates, series of 1919, which on July 2d were authorized by the Department in denominations of $100.00 and $1,000.00 They are In registered form and are in addition to the 1919 War Savings Certificates pre viously issued. War Savings Stamps of the denomination of $5.00 are con vertible into these new securities which bear the same rate of interest as the Savings Stamps, 4 per cent, compounded quarterly. The $100.00 certificates are convertible into the $1,000.00 certificates and the limit of investment of $1,000.00 for each indi vidual, which is the feature of the Savings Stamp issue, is retained in the new certificates. Treasury Savings Certificates in the denomination of $100.00 (maturity value) may be purchased at the post offices of the first and second class and such other postoffices as the Post office Department may designate for that purpose. Both the $100.00 and $1,000.00 denominations may be pur chased at incorporated banks and trust companies which are agents for the sale of War Savings Certificates. , The new certificates will be issued only in registered form and shall bear the name of the owner inscribed by the agent at the time of purchase and will not be valid unless the owner’s names is thus inscribed. The certifi cates will not be transferable and will be payable only to the owner named thereon except in case of death or dis ability of the owner. The new issue is exempt both as to principal and interest from f“deral, state or local taxation, except estate or inheritance taxes, surtaxes and ex cess profits and war profits taxes. Treasury Savings Certificates will be redeemed at face value on January 1, 1924, and will be issued for the re mainder of 1919 at the following prices: $100 Cer- $1,000 Cer Month tificate tificate July. $83.60 $836.00 August. 83.80 838.00 September. , .. 84.00 840.00 October. 84.20 842.00 November. . .. 84.40 844 00 December. . .. 84.60 846.00 MAKE BIG SAVERS OUT OF "LITTLE SHAVERS” Greatest Education in the World Is Teaching Children How to Be Independent. Earn first, save second and spend third. That is the briefest and best rule of economy the world knows And every country in the world knows the rule better than America does. At the out set of the world war we were the most extravagant nation in existence. If | the world war brought no other good end, it showed America the value of ; thrift. From the least thrifty to the most, thrifty should be the American ambition, beginning right now. And there is no better plar-e to begin with ~ thrift than with children. Since the war furnished the realiz j ation of the need of thrift, and the j Treasury Department, through War I Savings Stamps, furnished the method of combined saving and investment, | it is up to the parents and the teachers of this country to see that the children ! take advantage of these opportunities. Through the Savings Division of the i Tenth Federal Reserve District every child in this district is enabled to ob tain a war souvenir ,in the form of a I hand grenade converted into a savings bank. In order to get the grenade hs had only to observe the above rule— earn first, save second and seend third. It is a simple rule and, if observed, will revolutionize American habits. It will change us from a nation of spend thrifts to one of thrifts; from dollar hounds to dime watchdogs; from waste to worth. The new slogan of the Tenth Dis trict is "Make Big SaverB Out of 'Lit tle Shavers.’ ” _ "Thrift is the surest and strongest I foundation of an empire; so sure, so I strong, so necessary, that no nation ■ can long exist that disregards it" — Lord Roseberry. HER MISTAKE By MILDRED WHITE (Copyright, 1918, Wootorn Newspaper Union) Janey snt a long while with the let ter in her hand. In fancy she was going over that long blissful time since she had met Robert and the tenor of her life had been forever changed. Before that, it was an un eventful routine. But after Robert’s advent, unrest had stirred within her, and dissatis faction with life's simple homeliness. Robert Tabor, city business man, bad bought as an investment, the great farm near .Taney’s home, and when the caretaker had been duly installed, Robert Tabor came out to look the place over. So pleased and Interested was he, that he lingered for weeks, seeking and finding hospitality In Janey's home It had never beeo her opportunity to hear at first hand of remote wonder ful parts of the world, for this en gaging man from the city had traveled and learned much. It was a never ceasing delight to ride over the farm lands, In his swift running car, or to drive at his side In a light carriage through th<* narrower paths. Janey’s guardian aunt was quite willing that this should be so, she had no wish to keep Janey forever at her side. All at once Janey had been ashamed of the simple cut of her home-made frocks, her lack of knowl edge of the ways of the great outside world. “I want to go to the city,” she con fided to her new friend. "I want to learn to be—like them.” “Clothes you mean?” Robert Tabor had asked, amused. ‘‘Clothes, manners, everything,” Janey declared. The aunt, much persuaded, arranged with an old friend in the city to have Janey visit her there, and Robert—as both now called him—continued kind with his attentions. In his care Janey visited restaurants, opera, thea ters; witli him she hud driven through the beautiful parks. “Oh! how I love it ail!” she said. Home seemed very dull afterward. Robert's visits to his farm were the only bright spots, and as fall drew near and these visits threatened to cease, Janey grew wan in apprehen sion. - ... With the harvest moon looking down upon them, glorifying their radiant faces—Robert had asked Janey to marry him and stie hud consented. Robert wanted her, he longed for her and despotic business held him tied in the city. Would she come for a visit to his married sister's home? Would she come? In a fever of Joyful anticipation Janey rushed to her aunt’s room to | begin preparation. Robert was pale and w-orried looking when tie met her at the station. Absently he glanced over the modish suit and list which had cost her aunt a forbiddingly ex travagant price. In tlie brilliant gathering which his sister generously arranged for Janey her fear grew, at his gloomy abstrac tlon. This taciturn man was a differ ent person certainly from the joyously enthusiastic master of the farm. And Robert's sister hud assured Janey that she need have no anxiety on the score of adjustability. “You seem to have grown up among us dear." she said. At the hotel dinner, smiling into her lover's eyes across the roses heap ed between them, Janey saw a shadow there. "You like all this, don't you?" Rob ert usked. “So much," stie agreed, ever eager to please. Futilely she asked herself each night in what she had tailed for her fiiance seemed to grow more distantly ab sorbed. Suddenly Janey longed with homesick yearning for the restful at mosphere of the country she knew, for the long walks through the silent places where she could think serious ly or find herself again. For Janey realized that her life of late had been but profitless effort to learn the part she would he expected to play in the future, and in sickness of heart she wondered if she would be able to cur ry that weary purt through with Rob ert always unappreciative at tier side. Frankly but with a tremulous catcli in her voice, Janey told him one day her problem: “I don't seem to tit in Robert,” she said, “no matter how bard I try. I’m a disappointment to you, I feel It. Take me back to the quiet place that ; I best know, and leave me there." Unbelieving, h« r lover stared into her face. | "But you used to tell me," he said "that you longed for the life of a city! : That Is why. after I had bought tlie farm, Intending to make it my head quarters, that I returned again to the business world, for your sake, Janey, because you said you loved gayety. My youthful years have been crowded gull of work and care. It was my dream that in early success I might find leisure, again to enjoy those things that 1 loved as a hoy. Hut without your presence I cannot now eHjoy anything. "Could you he happy with me out there Janey? When tired of fields and meadows, we would travel. Could you go back with me dear, to the furin?" Through tears Janey smiled at him. “Why Robert,” she said, “It will be Just like go -g straight back to Para dise.” In the 48 states of the Union thera are 2,989 counties. (Copyright, 19)9. by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) “Oh, surely I ought to get a letter from him today, exclaimed Alice, as she slipped on her hat to run down to the village postoflice. The clerk looked through the mall for her, just as he had done every day for over two months, hut there was none. Poor Alice turned away with a sinking heart. Would Dick never write to her? Certainly there could be no reason for such a long delay. It was about three months since she had an swered Ills lust letter, and yet there had been no reply. Here an awful thought occurred to her. "Oh—oh, 1 wonder—yes. Hint must be it! He has met some French girl over there that tie likes better than me. Why—why—ooh ! I'll never write to that boy as long us I live.” Khaki, Alice’s little Scotch collie, cocked one eye specula lively at his youug mistress. Never In all his puppy life hud he known tier to he averse to a romp with him, hut lately every thing was changed, liven his implor ing little tricks could not Induce her to cuddle him. Well, mortals were fun ny, unywuy; a mere puppy couldn’t Ire expected to understand them. But Khaki was lot the only one thnt noticed Alice’s abstraction. Her young brother Jack hud been taking account of affairs. “Probably she's in love,” he guessed. Well, something would have to be done. He simply couldn’t let such a state of affairs go on. “Golly, lately a fellow can't even ask for a single favor without having his head taken off,” lie ruefully com plained. Now, Jack was an observing boy, so it is not strange that be noticed how often his sister went to the postoflice for mail sin* never received. He was also a diplomat. “By the way. Alice, bow's Jack?" he casually remarked one evening. “How do you suppose I know?" she snapped. "1 don't know or I don’t tare." Sb that's where the shoe pinched. Well, he could easily llx that up. That’s what a younger brother wus for anyway. Dick Fale was resting one afternoon in a V. M. C. A. hut with a group of fellow engineers, but he was not en tering Into their discussions. On the contrary, he was thinking seriously of a certain girl way back in the States. “Wonder why she doesn’t answer my letters?” he questioned. "Possibly she doesn't receive them. No, that can’t he, for I've written every week for at least three months. Could it he —er—could it be that she prefers Bid Field after all? Well, no girl will make a fool out of tne if I know it. She’ll get no more lettets from me." No sootier had he uttered these words when Ids chum appeared with a letter for him. "Thought I'd bring It to you, Dick, as long us I wus coming this way. Why, man. wliat's the matter with you ?” It is no wonder the mystified fellow asked such a question, for Dick was ; dancing around with a lock of golden I hair dangling in his lingers. “She's willing! She's willing!” he ! exclaimed, “Oh hoy ! Just watt until I get back to the States. Hey, Fred! ; Want to lie my best man?” When Dick flrmlly quieted down he I explained to the (ttrious Fred the meaning of the strange lock of hair. fine evening they had been sitting i out on the porch, when Dick foollng I ly cut off a lock of Alice's hair. When j Alice was ready to answer In the af [ flrmatlve a question he had recently I asked, site could send him I lie lock of ; hair. Agreeing, Alice slipped the lock Into a book she was holding, thinking it to he a safe hiding place.” “And now,” added Dick, "as long as I'm going to he sent home soon I won’t let her know I’m coming, but will surprise her." After the wedding guests had all de parted. Jack, with Khaki as a compan ion. threw himself down on the lawn, a characteristic position of his when he wanted to think. “Gosh, Khaki, just look at that watch. Isn’t It a beauty?" lie chuckled reminiscently, “hut didn’t Sis look sur prised when Dick told her he received that lock of hair. Wonder how she guessed I did It though? We should worry. Khaki. If I hadn't tuken Cu pid’s Job, she would never have given me this watch. What about It. Khaki?” “Bow wow!” agreed Khaki. "Monroe Doctrine." Tin- famous doctrine, as announced by President Monroe In his message to congress in was a simple state ment of the attitude of this country toward the South American republics. Henry Clay had made an effort to have the Independence of these republics recognized, and In their Independ ence was acknowledged by congress. 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