THE 01
BY DAVID
CIIAPTEIt XIX. (Continued,)
"Well," said Ilarvoy, "I'm leaving or
anything, and I don't know why or
therefore. I leave It to you, but don't
rou think It time you let me know some
thing definite'"
"You may think nio crazed, I dnre
liny," oald Jethroe, "hut 1 hare what
amounts to n fixed belief Hint If I speak
fny secret boforo tho tlmo I Hhall never
Ivo to profit by It. You Hhnll know nil
In Rood time, nud meantime you've onlj
ot to believe that I mean well by you.
tell you, Harvey, I'm going to make
Jrou the wealthiest ninn In the world. In
plx month.' we can be back, prepared to
buy up the Itothschlldn between ns, nud
When I'm gono you'll luivo my Hharc ns
Well na your own. TJiero won't bo an
Emperor, my lord, who'll take airs with
Harvey Jethroo tho younger."
Jefhrnn had bookod hlniHclf for the
v .yij." an I'.i-'vu-!((;), nud had entered
Jlnrvey under nu aliau also. He had
purposely choson a boat by which he had
tiever Railed before. Ilia coniidouco in
Ma dlsgulso wns Hhakcn, but ho wan pre
pared to fnco any and all suspicions
with a perfect effrontery. It would have
been a strong likeness Indued, which
would have convicted him ngninst the
absolute nniig froid of tho denial with
which ho wan ready. Ah it chanced, he
wnn not called upon for tho denial at
11. Tlicro wna n ntoward aboard tho
boat with whom ho hau traveled upon
another line, nud who from time to tlmo
looked nt him curiously. IJut If the stew
ard ever allied Jcthroo nud HIchardHon
in his mind nt all, ho niiiHt have dismiss
ed tho fancy liistnntly, for the Mr. Jelh
roo ho bad known wna i power in the
fitatc, nud n man reputedly made of
money, and why on earth Bhould a mill
ionaire have disguised himself and gono
under an nllnn?
Tho voyage passed without adventure.
The landing was an uneventful; the Jour
ney up country paed without recogni
tion or Incident which cmIIh for narration.
But at last tho two arrived at a station
with great hills rising on the far horizon,
and they pasted tho night at a weather
bonrd shanty of a hotel with a roof of
corrugated zinc, on which a rain shower
plnyed n thundering concerto as they lay
abed. Before thoy slept Jethroe had been
abroad bargain making, and in the morn
ing there were two wiry saddle horses
at tho door, and a baggage cart laden
With nil ninnner of bags and boxes, with
four upstanding mules harnessed to it. A
hnlf-brced had charge of tho cart, and
tho small cavalcade started In the cool of
tho day.
Nobody in tho sleepy township seemed
to hnvo noted either their coming or
f;olng. Thoeo who had Ijcen approached
n tho way of business had done their
little bit of trade and had thought no
moro nbout it. As to the business of the
travelers, whenco they camo and whither
they were bound, there was no more in
terest in them than If they had been a
lpnir of house flies. They came, they
Went out into tho desert unregarded.
There were a hundred places to which
they might hnvc been going, and the
people who mnde up tho township did
toot enro whether they were going to them
all, or driving out to die In tho wilder
teas.
This absolute Indifference suited Jetli
roc to admiration. Nothing could have
initcd IiIh purposo better, and ho mount
ed In high good humor.
"Ib tho time yet here?" asked Ilnr
toy, na they faced the vast prospect of
tho wilderness, which would hnve seem
d Interminable but for tho bluo barrier
ef the hills miles nnd iuIIcb nway. "Am
1 to know on what wise errand I am go
lag?" "Now's the time!" cried Jethroe. "I've
tnken pains to know that our guide be
kind us doesn't speak a word of Eng
lish, nnd here, nt least, we're pretty safe
from listeners. AH tho same, we'll ride
cut of earshot. I shouldn't be In tho
feast surprised to learn that one of the
Very mules was Little William In dis
guise." Ho put in apurs nud galloped for some
two or three buudred yards, nnd Harvey
followed his lead.
"Now," said Jethroe, turning on him
with n glittering eye, "I can tell you.
"I'm taking you, Harvey, to what poor
old Zelkar christened Diamond river, a
I dace compared with which Slubnd's vnl
ey wna not n circumstance."
"Who was Zelkar?" nsked Harvey.
He was mightily littlu moved ns yet.
"Zelkar," returned his uncle, "wns a
Hungnrlan Jew, who was famous in his
ny na n chess player nnd now famous
till ns a constructor of chess problems,
tie was not the discoverer of Diamond
Ever, nud ho never saw it, but he was
a sort of wny tho chronicler and carto
grapher of It. Let mo begin nt the biv
lr nlng.
"Game Wiley first enme out to Brazil
fears and years ngo long boforo my
fine. The natives were thorough-going
fnges then, but Wiley got along wth
'm well enough, nud he wns in this re
gion off nnd on for threo years. Got down
to the const twlco In all that time. Sec
ond time ho wns there back to somo
aort of wild approach to civilization he
Beets a fellow by tho namo of Knster,
Who was on the point of sailing for Eu
rope with the very first big diamond
ever found In Brazil. 'Is this diamond of
fours in tho rough?' aaya Wiloy to Kna
tar. 'Yes snya Kauter; 'but it's n fine
big atone and It bids fair to bo worth n
lot o monoy. 'I should like to look nt
ft,1 Bays Wiley, nnd Raster makes no ndo
bout the matter at all, but Juat unpacks
ia kit and shown Wiley tho stone, 'Yon
ian't mean to any that thing'a a dia
BE
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AMOPyi) RIVER
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MURRAY
mond?' says Wiley. 'But I do, rnthcr,'
says Knster. 'Well,' says Wiley, 'I'll
have a spell up country mil como bnck
nnd buy out the Ilothscbllds. I know
where there's thousands of 'em.' KnBter
nrgued that It was easy to mistake a
dlumond that Is, for an Ignoramus like
Wiloy, who knew nothing In the world
and cared for nothing in tho world but
big game shooting but Wiley stuck to
it, Ho know the boil of a drled-up river
up country which was strewn thick with
'em, He'd picked 'cm up, handled 'cm
and never dreamed that they had any
special value. Not a bit like diamonds
In n Joweler's window. It was likely
enough that Wiley thought they were dug
up already cut and polished.
"Well, Knster took his ono big stone
to Europe. It wan polished In Amster
dam, It H ilil for twelve thousand pounds.
That piceo of luck killed Knster; ho
couldn't stnnd It. He went on one un
bounded bender of n sprco nnd died bo
foro he hnd spent a quarter of the money.
Hut Wiley, meantime, went up country,
not believing much, so far ns I can inn Ice
out, In the diamond idea, but unite per
suaded, all the same, thnt If Knstcr's
stono was a diamond, ho could pick 'em
up like pebbles on n. bench. He wns
nwny this time nbout n yenr nnd n hnlf,
nnd when he got down to the const again
he hnd been very badly mauled. He had
got Into close quartern with a lion, nud
he was fairly spoiled for life.
"I enn't tell you half the story, but
tho natives had got fond of him tor
some reason or another, and they nursed
him and they pulled him round in a
measure, nnd they got him down to the
const again. The boast had spared his
vitals, but he had no use of either leg
or of his left arm. I never saw tho
man, but I know those who knew him
well, and they have told mo he hud to bo
carried about, and dressed nnd undressed
and put to bud and taken out again like
n baby.
"Wiley had plonty of money, and
could have gone homo and finished his
career; but Itrnzll hnd gut Into the soul
of htm. I shall die here. Harvey; I shnll
have to be In reach of the mountains
when my tlmo comes. Wiley stuck on,
and he wnH very queer. He used to Hugh
when he talked nbout it: but he told his
tale about tho river bed full of diamonds
to anybody who cared to hoar it, and tho
majority of people thought that on this
particular point his wits were turned.
"Well, now, old Zelkar comes upon
the scene. Zelkar, ns I told you, was
a Hungarian .lew. He had been In trou
ble with Kossuth ages ngo, nnd he had
been in trouble with Mnzzini. and he had
been In half the prisons of the Continent
for hatching treason of one- sort or an
other, and at last, by somo strangu
chance, he drifted out to Itrnzil, and so
on until he lighted on Wiley. I knew
Zelkar In Iris late days, as I shall tell
you when I come to my own share in
the story. Outside his politics he had
only one Interest in tho world; it was
tho royal game of chess. 1 do believe
that you might have lit a slow fire under
old Zelkar when once he hnd fairly set
tled down to n gamo he got so nston
Ishingly absorbed. Wiley turned out a
sort of protector for him, nnd a local
carpenter, who wns clever nt tho lnthc,
turned 'em out a set of chessmen and a
board; for there was nothing of that sort
to bo bought nearer than Ulo Janeiro,
and the two played together every day.
It camo out that Zelkar's great pnsslon
wns the making of chess problems, nnd
Wiloy set him to work nt It. AH the
problems you hnve seen and worked at
were mnde by Zelknr, but the old mnn
was kept In Ignorance of tho purpose he
wns working for. All hp knew was that
his patron Would say to him: 'I want you
to Invent me a problem In which the
black king shall be forced to such nnd
such a square.' Zelknr thought this a
mero caprice, and since Wiley nlwnys
gave him n gold coin when he hnd tested
nnd npproved the problem, It served his
turn bo well that he would hnve naked
for nothing better nil his life.
"Ho wns working two or threo prob
lems a week It wns no sort of task for
him, for ho had a perfect genius for the
work and nil on n sudden he made tho
discovery that ho was working on n plan.
Ho found one day in Wiley's room be
tween the title page nnd the binding of
n big Bible a sheet of cartrldgo paper
innrked out for n chess bonrd, and o-ich
of Its squares mnrked with a letter. Tho
whole nlphnbct was used up twice, nnd
as far again ns wns needed to cover ev
ery square on the board. He had In his
pocketbook tho roughly penciled notes of
his problems, and It occurred to him to
go over them. He found that the letters
on tho successive squares on which tho
black king stood In the problems ns they
came in order spelled out words in rea
sonable sequence. IIo took a uoto of tho
board, for the letters wcro distributed all
nbout it nt hnphazard. And so It came
to pass, ns they used to say In old times,
that when all tho problems were made
that Wiley wanted, old Zelkar had got
tho whole- inscription. Wiley, I ought to
tell you, professed to hnvo brought n
score .of the finest atones nwny with
him, but ho lost them when he got maul
ed by tho Hon. Tho nntlvea who rescued
him nnd took care of him hnd no idoa of
their value, and left them behind.
CHAPTER. XX.
"Wiley, aa I told you, hnd talked about
his discovery to anybody nnd ovcrybody,
but ho had never given a ghost of a hint
ns to where It Iny. Nobody could hnve
guessed within fivo hundred miles, even
If anybody bad tnken tie trouble. Moat
people took It for a cram, but eld Zelkar
believed It, and lie ni.nlw ull intae prut
lem drawings I have about me now, and
tho plau of tho board with Its letterings,
and he used to go about offering to
guide pcoplo if they would only find
tho money for the expedition and go
halves with him. He couldn't find a soul
to beliovo in him or his diamonds, nnd
when it enmc to Wilifj's knowledge thnt
the old Hobrew had offered to betray tho
treasure, lie swore he'd shoot him nt
sight. That kept Zelkar out of Wiley's
way, ns you may very well itnngine, and,
with his only patron gone, the problem
worker was so hnrd up that he was with
out food for days together.
"This is where 1 come In. In those
days -it's fifteon years ago now 1 be
longcl to a syndicate which had nrrans
td to prospect for gild. It wns n meas
ly sort of an nffnir. and it never camo
to much. It wna called the Ezeklel Com
pany, because an old Jew of that namo
had been Its founder. There were n doz
en of lis nltogether, nnd n bigger set of
cut-thronts thnn you could have found
among us was never seen in tho world.
The whole crowd of us wero down nt a
place called Ampslo together when I met
Zelkar, and henrd the story of tho treas
ure tho river-bed full of diamonds. I
laughed at It, ns everybody else had
laughed, and I chaffed old Zelkar nbout
it until I found that ho wns literally dy
ing of starvation. I fed him up, of
course, nnd we nil went up-country for
n week to look nt a pl'ice we'd heard of.
It turned out good for nothing, and wc
came back. Zelkar was on the bard pan
once more. Ho offered me his problems
on parchment, saying nothing, of course,
about their meaning. I didn't want 'em,
but finally, out of pity for the old chnp,
I bought 'em. The whole gnng of the
syndlcnto was there at tho time.
"Tho old boy used to hnng about nfter
this nud hint and hint nbout some mys
terious value that attached to his prob
lems until I was sick of him. But otio
day, when ho was bothering me, it oc
curred to me to say: 'Look here, old
chap, I know nil about it; you've sold me
Diamond river.' It was the strangest
thing that over happened In my life. It
wasn't even drawing a bow at n venture.
What I said hadn't nny real meaning to
myself. It wob a more piece of silly
banter. But I had no sooner spoken
thnn Zelkar let out a cry, and camo
straight for mo with a face as pale as
ashes. 'How do yon know?' says he. nil
trembling nnd slinking nnd staring. You
nover saw a fellow in such a state a
ho was. I looked at him very straight,
and I said. 'Well. Zelknr. 1 didn't know
nnythlng, but you've given me something
to think about.' He went away without
a word, but he sent me one or two of
the queerest looks I ever snw, and sev
eral of tho rufllans of the syndicate who
happened to be thero at the time wcro
quite fixed in their own minds that there
wns a good deal In It.
"The next thing I knew wns that
Wiley wns dead, and It was said that ho
had put his problems nnd his plan Into
tho hands of n young Englishman, a dis
tant relative of his, and had explained
everything to him. The youngster went
up-country, but the native tribes were
at war nmong themselves, nnd tho expedi
tion camo to grief. Problems nnd plan
wero lost In tho wilderness. The lad
wns shot, but he managed to send down
some kind of mutilated message. lie
had actually found Diamond river. Thero
was no mistake about that. Perhaps it
wns through his fever, or he may have
written In hnsto and flurry, but though
his one professed purpose In writing wns
to tell the wherenbouts of tho find, ho
gave no intelligence of it at nil. And so
tho thing died out. of remembrance for
years and years. I thought that Zelkar
must bo dead for a certainty, for tho
legend of a dried up watercourse full of
diamonds as big as pigeon's eggs was
common property, and ho would have
been able to find nny number of men to
back him. Thero were lots of men, too,
who know how Wiley hnd mount to lock
up his secret In the chess problem.
"It turned out that Zelkar was nllvo
nfter nil, but he wns ns helpless ns if he
hnd never hnd n inkling of the secret. IIo
had never had an inkling of the secret. He
In which he had kept a record of his
problems, but the theft was useless, he
cause the thief hnd failed to secure tho
key. When I lighted on Zelknr two
years ngo ho wns n wreck, senile, rugged,
homeless. He wna still maundering nbout
his river of diamonds, nnd would get a
drink from n new chum sometimes by
showing his key to n puzzle which every
body supposed to bo undecipherable until
the dny of judgment, no did not know
mo when wo mot, but he jumped nt tho
chnnco of selling his worthless bit of
parchment for n ten dollnr note. I didn't
net unfairly by him, for I bought htm
nu nunulty, which he didn't enjoy long,
poor old beggar!"
"But the Ezeklel firm, and Little Wil
liam, nnd Mr. Taylor?" nsked Harvey,
when his uncle had made a seeming end
of his story.
(To be continued.)
Tlio Koiort Courteous.
An excellent story nbout Jnmos Mc
Neill Whistler, which is thoroughly
characteristic of "tho gentle master of
all thnt Is fino nnd flippant In nrt," Is
going round In nrtlstb: circles. A cer
tnln gentleman whoso portrait Whe
ther had painted failed to appreciate
the work, nnd finally remarked: "Aft
er nil, Mr Whistler, you enn't call
thnt a great work of nrt." "Perhaps
not," replied tho painter, "hut then
you can't call yourself a grent work
of nnturel"
DrunknrdH Runt Ilniivt tn Onrrlnico.
In Denmark It Is tho law thnt all
drunken persons shall bo takon to their
homes in carrlngea provided nt tho
cxponso of the publican who sold thorn
tho last glasa.
A man mny be n hopeless Idiot, but
bo woman will admit it nftor bo hna
preposod iuurrlaiB to Juw
good ::
Short Qtorles f
In talking with n young Ynle grad
uate win) hnd been nt tho recent com
ni.ncpnicnt, u newspaper man nsked
whether lie bad beard nny ndverao
c jiutui.'iits on Ynle's acceptance of
Uockefellcr'a "minted money." "Well,"
bo sulci, "the only comment I heard
wns 'tnln't enough.' "
An extremely unintelligent rhlladel
ph a "icnciitor" wns arrested nt the
Inst eloitlon In the Quaker City. Ho
asked what crlmo was laid at his door,
and the policeman replied: "You are
;lmrgid with voting twice." "Charged,
am I? muttered the dozed prisoner;
"why," I expected to bo paid for luf
When In New York, P. Marlon
Crawford hns tils burherlng done nnd
bis boots blacked at his olllce. He nl
wnys bus the snuic men, and both nre
Italians. In engaging tho bootblack,
Mr. Cruwford usked him whero ho yvjz
born. "In Genon," wns tho answer.
"And what is your unme?" "Pntrlck
Murphy," wns the nstonlBhlng reply.
"Whero In tho world did you get that
nnmo?" nsked tho novelist. "I tnko-n
the nnine uftcr I conio hero, oo peoplo
thlnk-a I tho Amerlcnn," said the boot
black. A seulllng-matoh once took plnce un
der tho nusplces of the nthletlc as
sociation ut Oxford, tho contestants
being a Londoner, of tho Oxford crew,
and un Irishman, of tho Cambridge
crew. The Oxford mnn won handily,
ut no stage of the race being In danger
of defeat. So .euro was ho of win
ning the contest that in n spirit of fun
lie censed rowing several times, nnd
budo the Celt In tho rear to "hurry
up." When tho rnco wns over, tho
Irishman received n good deal of chaff
nt tiics bunds of nil, In view of his over
whelming defeat. But to this he mere
ly elevated hU eyebrows. "Sure," ho
llnally consented to reply, "I'd hnvo
beaten him easily enough If I'd taken
the long rests that he took."
Professor Nichols, the famous Cor
nell physicist, during the recitation of
a freshman class In natural philosophy,
observed n tall, lanky youth in a rear
seat, his head in a recumbent position,
Ids body in a languid pose, his eyes
hnlf closed, and his legs extended fur
out In an adjacent nisle. He wus
cither asleep or nbout to lose con
sciousness. "Mr. Frazer," said tho
great scientist, "you may recite." The
freslnnan opened his eyes slowly. lie
did not chnngo his somnolent pose.
"Mr. Frazer, what is work?" "Every
thing Is work,"wns tho drawling reply.
"What! Everything is work?" "Yes,
sir." "Then, I tuko it, you would liko
me nnd the class to believo thnt this
desk is work?" "Yes, sir," replied tho
youth, wenrlly, that desk Is wood
work." A literary man, who has seven chil
dren, recently purchased n country
pl.icc. This mau has rather atrenuous
Ideas nbout bringing up children, In
cluding cold baths nmong the things
that are good for them. One morning
he carried his youngest, a two-year-old,
to the creek near tho house', and
gnve him a cold pluuge. Tho child ob
jected, but the father soused him in
again, and plunged him under. At
this Instant a hand grabbed the Spar
tan father, and a neighboring fanner,
owner of the hand, roared at him:
"Here, none of that! I'll havo the law
on you for thlsl" "Aud," snid tho lit
erary man, "it took me half an hour
to convince that man thnt I wns not
trying to drown that child. Even then
ho wasn't wholly convinced. To tho
very last minute ho kept on ahnklng
bis head skeptically, and sayiug: Wul,
1 dumio nbout that. I dunno. You
got six besides this.' "
WHEN LOST IN THE WOODa
Keep Your VUh, Tuko Time, and, If
I'OBslbli'i I'olluw Btri um,
"Whut shodid you do If lost In tho
woods?" Young foresters tnklug tho
civil service examinations for govern
meut servico used to find this question
n favorite, says tho Boston Tran
script. Lutor, most of them hnvo hnd
more than ono occasion to put their
nnswers to a practical test" Ono ot
tho commonest experiences of pcoplo
who go to the woods Is to struy uway
from the trails nnd fumillar laud
marks and lose their bearings. Every
yenr brings its quota of stories of lost
men nnd women, of senrch parries
organized, of days spent in fruitless
quest, aud perhaps of the finding of
tho lost ones lu wretched condltlou,
ragged, starved, sometimes temporar
ily Insane from the fright nnd hard
ships. Such experiences bb these uro
usually duo to panic. They seldom
hnppcu to the mat) who Is able to act
with caluineua nud judgment. Summer
visitors to tho woods arc pecullnrly
likely to be lost, but so way nlso
pooplo who are accustomed to living
In the wood. No man In n wild coun
try la altogether certain when he goes
to the woods that bo will find his wny
bnok without dlidculty, s wnttcr Wow
ninny times ho tana been over th
sumo ground. A snow, a forest fir,
even a windfall in the forest, may
have obliterated bin guide marks and
changed utterly tho appearunca ol
tblngo.
Every mnn who goes Into tho woofli
should mnke up his mind that In ensi
he Is lost he will observe a few alu
plo common-sense rules of conduct Id
the first pluce, he should resolutely
refuse to be frightened. Tho imme
diate effect of the discovery that on
Is lost Is UBunlly complete dcmornllzn'
tlon. The victim falls into a pnul
of fenr nnd wants to extricate himseM
immediately. He runs about In dlfr
fercnt directions, hallooing, until, wha!
little 8cugc he hnd left Is completer;
gono. Avoid that. If you should ntisl
your trail or bo In doubt na to yoiH
whereabouts tho best courso la Qrtrt
to Bit down whero you nre and think
over mutters. It fs not a serious a
fnlr; be nssurod ef thnt. There an
few regions lu this country where a
man is not within n day's walk oj
some settlement nnd if the season W
summer you have nothing to fcaa.
Consider i.lse matter culmly; use ybw
4nr,yry nnd your reason. Mako ui
your mind about the proper dircctloB
to follow, then tnko your courso ani
rofuso to change It without good ani
sufficient cnusc. Don't hurry; taki
your tlmo nud when you feel ox
hnu3ted atop nnd rest. Don't try t
travel at night. A night spent out o
doors In the summer doesn't hurt any
body. If you hnve so lost the sense t
direction thnt you cannot make U
your mind wifat courso to take It U
usually best to follow a stream. It.
a rough country there Is nlmost aV
ways flowing water. Streams alwayt
lends to settlements. The way ma)
be long nnd the "going" tortuous, ba)
stick to your stream nnd It will bring
you out.
Keep your eye on the sun, If It li
out, nnd get your directions from it
Study the contours of the bills ani
monntnlns, the npper.rnnce of the ircei
and of the stream. Try to find some
thing familiar. D(?h'tlook for mos
on the trees to determine your direc
tion. It Is not a snfc wildo.
Don't throw nway food or clothing
In order to travel faster. You will
probably need both.
Keep your confidence. When evry
thing else Is gone, hold on to thnt
Getting lost in the woods is, nfter ah
under certain restrictions, 'a rnro kind
of sport,. There is ccrtnlnly excite
ment enough nbout it to stir the most
jaded, with plenty of opportunity foi
the exercise of coolness and common
sense. A country like the Adiron
dack's furnishes Ideal conditions fo
getting lost and getting back ngnla
Settlement Is nowhere so fnr awnj .
thnt you nre not within n few hour if
walk of n hotel or n summer cottag
nnd think of the romantic posalbili
tics of such nn experience.
Bo Kind to thn Whale.
Spenk kindly to the elephant
And gently to tho whnle,
And when you meet the jagunir
Plenso do not yank his tall.
Respect tho titter's feelings, deai
His whiskers do not pull;
Oh, let your heart with ktadllnesa
Bo ever, ever full.
Oh, do not pinch tho python
Or pouch the rattlesnake,
If you should hurt tho cobra
Ills littlo henrt would break.
Don't stick pins In tho crocodila
Or irritate tho yak;
Pray do not bru'ae the polar bear
By pounding on his buck.
Don't make tho lion cry, my child.
By walking on his toes;
Nor slight tho hippopotamus
By standing on his nose.
For nil good children, you must know.
Each morning gladly sing:
"Oh, Lelp me bo considerate
Of every living thing."
-New York Times.
Not a Willing VtuMn.
The nent, mlddle-nged mntron k
ed suspiciously nt the disreputable
looking tramp who hnd knocked at hoi
kitchen door. "What do you wunt,
she nsked.
"Would yo mind glvln' mo a plcc
o" plo, ma'nm?" be Bald,
"1 don't know about thnt. I can'l
suy I like tho looks of you."
"I kuow I ain't very preposseualirt
ma'nm, but It ain't my fnult I can'l
nfford to dress nny bettor."
"I'm not spenkhig of your clothei
ultogether. You don't look cVnn."
"I'm wlllln' to confess It, mu'nm. 1
guess I don't."
"And you don't look nn If you eva
combed your hair or took nny sort
of cure of yourself."
"Well, I reckon that's 'cnuso I Hti
close to nnturo."
"If you do," she snld, ns she went
after tho pie, "I'll guarantee It lau'l
nnture's fault i"
Not tho 8nmo Wlfto.
KilBon Gaylord'a wife used to fx
awfully stout, and now bIio la qulti
thin. What caused the change, I wo
der?
Marlovr Divorce. This lan't tfe
same wlf. Town and Country.
Almost anybody would rather ht
a toady Jab than steady work.
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