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MILLSTONE AROUND THE NECK
Business Man Who Buys on Credit It
Really Borrowing Money and
i Trouble.
i He who Is in debt seldom smiles.
There are debtors who are certain
of their debts and never lose sleep,
but there are debtors by the thousands
who are forced into the money marts
and who emerge with momentary re
lief and a burden of interest on the
heart as well as on the money.
Debt makes many a line across the
face and brings age to a hurried
autumn.
The man who makes a debt should
be sure that he can smile after it is
made.
When the day of maturity begins to
round the home stretch and makes its
rapid strides to the line of maturity
when the debtor counts his dollars
that he thought would be on band for
his payments and finds that they did
not roll In as he expected when the
day of debt payment passes under the
wire and the man goes out to pay for
the race he seldom goes like the man
who has a bankbook in his hand for
'any emergencies.
, Debt hovers over a home as a pend
ing danger. Fretf ulness and worry take
the place of bright spirits. Sleep flits
around and will not settle to repose
on the slumberer.
Like death, the merchant and the
farmer who enter the lists of debts,
face the same penalties.
The well-fed man begins to lose his
buoyancy. His eye Is not full of mettle
and fire of former days.
The debtor feels guilty. Guilt will
not permit a clear countenance. It
tarries a shadow, however faint.
The man who buys on credit Is a
debtor.
He is asking the dealer to lend him
the money and he pays the Interest.
The dealer is not in business for his
health any more than the real money
lender. Ills interest is frequently lap
ger.
There Is a rule that men have found
for keeping a strong eye and a clear
conscience: Pay cash, keep the inter
est; debts will then not accumulate.
It is an easy rule to give, but, oh, so
hard to follow. Memphis News ScImi
Mr. Whales That Die for Love.
M. Edmond Perrier, addressing the
Academy of Science at Paris recently,
described a whale that voluntarily
ends its days when its companion dies.
A specimen has been preserved by M.
M. Anthony of St. Vaast, de la Hougue.
This sea mammal is extremely rare,
said M. Perrier. Despite its length of
16 feet, it almost always remains hid
den from the eyes of man.( Only 28
specimens of this kind of whale are
known, and this is the first time that
it has been preserved. It possesses
only two teeth, placed in the middle
of the Jaw.
M. Perrier said that these whales
come ashore only in couples. Should
the male die, one can expect to see a
femalo stranded soon afterward, and
vice versa. "Suicide for love," M. Ed
mond Perrier explained, with a smile.
Dog and Horse.
As compared with the dog the horse
Is a stupid animal. The animal train
er will tell you that in Intelligence It
is "nip and tuck" between the dog
and the' elephant, and that in com
parison with, either of these animals
the horse is nowhere. It is only in
his docllhy and affection that the
horse is the "animal next to man,"
and even in these respects the dog Is
a worthy competitor with him. When
it comes to "knowing things" our
faithful friend the horse is left far
behind by our other friend and com
panion, the dog.
The British Constitution.
In England there Is no such thing
as a constitution, as we understand
the word In this country. The Brit
ish constitution is merely a mass of
law, consisting partly of statutes and
partly of decided cases and accepted
usages, In. conformity with which the
government of the country Is carried
on from day to day. The constitution
of the United States Is written and
can be read In 20 minutes time, while
the British constitution is unwritten,
.save as it is -contained in hundreds
of volumes of statutes and reported
cases.
Captain's Kldd's Treasures.
Captain Kldd is supposed to have
burled a large treasure (estimated at
$10,000,000) on Oak Island, Chester
Basin, Nova Scotia. For more than
200 years people have been seeking
this wealth, but so far without suc
cess. In the unavailing search many
thousands have been spent. Private
individuals and companies have made
repeated attempts since 1795 and
Nova Scotia parties are now earnestly
engaged in the search for the burled
millions.
Had No Redress.
A farmer near Exeter had a flock of
turkeys which a train ran through,
V killing ten of them. He could not
collect damages because turkeys are
sot animals, and ho law docs not
require the railroads to fence against
birds, aeroplanes ; or '' balloons. Kan
sas City Star.'.
Rhodeslan Railroads.
With the completion, of the Ben
guella railway, from the Zambesi to
the Congo border, Rhodesia will have
a service of 3,500 miles of railroads.
SERIAL
STORY
Wizard
L. Frank Baum
(Copyright, by the Bobbs-Merrill Co.)
(Copyright, by U Frank Baum & W. W.
Dentlow.)
8YNOPSI3.
Dorothy lived In Kansas with Aunt Em
and Undo llonry. A cyclone lifted their
home into the air, Dorothy falling- asleep
amidst the excitement. A crash awakened
her. The house had landed In a country
of marvelous beauty. Groups of queer
little people greeted her to the Land of
Munchklni. The house had killed their
enemy, the wicked witch of Kant. Dor
othy took the wltch'a silver shoes. She
started for the Emerald City to find the
Wisard of Os, who, she was promised,
mlcht find a way to send her back to
Kansas. Dorothy released a scarecrow.
Riving- him life. He was desirous of ac
quiring brains and started with her to
the wisard to get them. The scarecrow
told his history. They met a tin wood
man who longed for a heart. He also
Joined them. They came upon a terrible
lion. The Hon confessed he had no cour
age. He decided to accompany them to
the Wizard of Os to get some. The scare
crow In pushing the raft became Im
paled upon his pole In the middle of the
river. The scarecrow was rescued by a
friendly stork. They entered a poppy
field, which caused Dorothy to fall
asleep. The scarecrow and tin woodman
rescued her and her dog from the deadly
flowers. The lion fell asleep and being too
heavy to lift, was left. On the search for
the road of yellow brick which led to the
Rmerald Cltv they met a wild cat and
field mice. The woodman killed the wild
cat The queen mouse became friendly.
She sent thousands of her mice subjocts
to draw the lion away from the poppy
field. Dorothy awoke from her long
sleep. They started again on the Emer
ald City road. They came to a fence,
painted green. There were farmers of
rrreen, houses of green and people dressed
n green. It was the Land of Os. They
met the guardian of the gntea. He de
scribed the power of the Wisard cf Oz.
All put on green spectacles as the bright
ness and glory of Kmerald City blinded
them. The wliard decided to receive one
of the party each day. All were put In
green rooms. Dorothy went to the throne
room. In a chair sparkling with emer
alds she beheld an enormous hend with
out body, legs or arms, bigger than the
biggest giant. "I am Os, the great and
terrible," said the head. Os told her that
when she killed the wicked witch of the
East he would send her home, The scare
crow, admitted to the presence of a beau
tiful lady, who said she was the wizard,
was promised brains when he killed the
witch. The woodman beheld a terrible
beast with a head of a rhinoceros and
five eyes. The wizard promised him a
heart If he would slay the witch. The
lion saw a ball of fire and a voice from
the object promised him courage If he
slew the witch. The search commenced.
The witch ,saw the party when It entered
her domain and caused a pack of wolves
to attack It. The woodman killed the
wolves. She sent crows which the scare
crow scared and killed, Iters were dis
patched next, but the woodman received
the. stings.
CHAPTER XII. Continued.
So the Wicked Witch took the gold
en cap from her cupboard and placed
it upon her head. Then she stood
upon her left foot and said, slowly:
"Ep-pe, pep pe, kakke!"
Next she stood upon her right foot
and said:
"HIMo, hollo, hello!"
After this she stood upon both feet
and cried in a loud voice:
"Zlz-zy, suz-zy, elk!"
Now the charm began to work. The
sky was darkened, and a low rum
bling sound was heard in the air.
There was a rushing of many wings;
a great chattering and laughing; and
the sun came out of tho dark sky to
show the Wicked Witch surrounded
by a crowd of monkeys, each with a
pair of immense and powerful wings
on his shoulders.
One, much bigger than the others,
seemed to be their leader. He flew
close to the Witch and said:
"You have called us for the third and
last time. What do you command?"
"Go to the strangers who are with
in my land and destroy them all ex
cept the Lion," said the Wicked Witch.
"Bring that beast to me, for I have a
mind to harness him like a horse and
make htm work."
"Your commands shall be obeyed."
said the leader; and then, with a
great deal of chattering and noise, the
Winged Monkeys flew away to the
place where Dorothy and her friends
were walking.
Some of the monkeys seized the Tin
Woodman and carried him through
the air untlLthey were over a country
thickly covered with Bharp rocks.
Here they dropped the poor Wood
man, who fell a great distance to the
rocks, where he lay so battered and
dented that he could neither move nor
groan.
Others of the monkeys caught the
Scarecrow, and with their long An
gers pulled all the straw out of his
clothes and bead. They made his hat
and boots and clothes Into a small
bundle and threw it Into the top
branches of a tall tree.
The remaining ' monkeys threw
pieces of stout rope around the Lion
and wound many colls about his body
and head and legs, until he was un
able to bite or scratch or struggle in
any way. Then they lifted him up
and flew away with him to the Witch's
castle, where be was placed in a small
yard with a high iron fence around it,
so that he could not escape.
But Dorothy they did not harm at
all. She stood, with Toto in her arms,
watching the sad fate of her comrades
and thinking it would soon ha ber
turn. The leader of the Winged Mon
keys flew up to her, his long, hairy
arms stretched out and bis ugly face
grinning terribly; but he saw the
mark of the Good Witch's kiss upon
her forehead and stopped short, mo
tioning the others not to touch her.
"We dare not harm this little girl,"
he said to them, "for she is protected
by the Power of Good, and that Is
greater than the Power of Evil. All
we can do Is to carry her to the castle
of the Wicked Witch and leave ber
there."
So, carefully and gently, they lifted
Dorothy in their arms and carried her
swiftly through the air until they
came to the castle, where they set her
down upon the front door step. Then
the leader said to the Witch:
"We have obeyed you as far as we
were able. The Tin Woodman and the
Scarecrow are destroyed, and the Lion
is tied up in your yard. The little girl
wo dare not harm, nor the dog she
carries In her arms. Your power over
our band is now ended, and you will
never see us again."
Then all the Winged Monkeys, with
much laughing and chattering and
noise, flew into the air and were soon
out of Bight.
The Wicked Witch was both sur
prised and worried when she saw the
mark on Dorothy's forehead, for she
knew well that neither the Winged
Monkeys nor she, herself, dare hurt
the girl in any way. She looked down
at Dorothy's feet, and seeing the sil
ver shoes, began to tremble with fear,
for she knew that a powerful charm
belonged to them. At first the Witch
was tempted to run away from Doro
thy; but she happened to look into
the child's eyes and saw how simple
the soul behind them was, and that
the little girl did not know of the
wonderful power the silver shoeB gave
her. So the Wicked Witch laughed to
herself, and thought: "I can still make
her my slave, for she does not know
how to use her power." Then she said
to Dorothy, harshly and severely:
"Come with me; and 'see that you
mind everything I tell you, for If you
do not, I will make an end of you, as
I did of the Tin Woodman and the
Scarecrow."
Dorothy followed her through many
of the beautiful rooms in her castle
until they came to the kitchen, where
the Witch bade her clean the pots and
kettles and sweep the floor and keep
the Are fed with wood.
Doorothy went to work meekly,
with her mind made up to work as
hard as she could; for she was glad
the Wicked Witch had decided not to
kill her.
With Dorothy hard at work the
Witch thought she would go Into the
courtyard and harness the Cowardly
Lion like a horse; it would amuse her,
she was sure, to make him draw her
The Brave Little Dog Flew at Her.
chariot whenever she wished to go to
drive. But as she opened the gate the
Lion gave a loud roar and bounded at
her so fiercely that the Witch was
afraid, and ran out and shut the gate
again.
"If I cannot harness you," said the
Witch to the Lion, speaking through
the bars of the gate, "I can starve you.
You shall have nothing to eat until
you do as I wish."
So after that she took no food to the
Imprisoned Lion; but every day she
came to the bate at noon and asked:
"Are you ready to be harnessed like
a horse?"
And the Lion would answer:
"No. If you come in this yard I will
bite you."
The reason the Lion did not have
to do as the Witch wished was that
every night, while the woman was
asleep, Dorothy carried him food from
the cupboard. After he bad eaten he
would lie down on his bed of straw,
and Dorothy would lie beside him and
put her head on his soft, shaggy mane,
while they talked of their troubles and
tried to plan some way to escape. But
they could find no way to got out of
the castle, for it was constantly
guarded by the yellow Winkles, who
were the slaves of the Wicked Witch
and too afraid of her not to do as she
told them.
The girl had to work hard during
the day, and often the Witch threat
ened to beat her with the same old
umbrella she always carried in her
hand. But, in truth, she did not dare
to strike Dorothy, because of tbe mark
upon her forehead. The child did not
know this, and ws full of fear for
herself and Toto. Once the Witch
struck Toto a blow with her umbrella
and the brave little dog flew at her
and bit her leg, in return. Tho Witch
did not bleed where she was bitten,
for she was so wicked that the blood
In her had dried up many years be
fore. Dorothy's life became very sad as
she grew to understand that it would
be harder than ever to get back to
Kansas and Aunt Em again. Some
times she would cry bitterly for hours,
with Toto sitting at her feet and look
ing Into her face, whining dismally to
show how sorry he was for his little
mistress. Toto did not really cars
whether he was in Kansas or the
Land of Os so long as Dorothy was
with ban; but be knew the little girl
was unhappy, and that made him un
happy, too.
Now the Wicked Witch had a great
longing to have for her own the sil
ver shoes which tbe girl always wore.
Her Bees and her Crows and her
Wolves were lying In heaps and dry
ing up, and she had used up all tbe
power of the Golden Cap; but it she
could only get hold of the silver shoes
they would give her more power than
all the other things she had lost. She
watched Dorothy carefully, to see if
she ever took off her shoes, thinking
she might steal them. But the child
was so proud of her pretty shoes that
she never took them off except at
night and when she took her bath.
The Witch was too much afraid of the
dark to dare go in Dorothy's room at
night to take the shoes, and her dread
of water was greater than her fear
of the dark, so she never came near
when Dorothy was bathing. Indeed,
the old Witch never touched water,
nor ever let water touch her in any
way.
But the wicked creature was very
cunning, and she finally thought of a
trick that would give her what she
wanted. She placed a bar of Iron in
the middle of the kitchen floor, and
then by her magic arts made the iron
invisible to human eyes. So that when
Dorothy walked across the floor she
stumbled over the bar, not being able
to see It, and fell at full length. She
was not much hurt, but In her fall one
of tbe Rllver shoes came off, and be
fore she could reach It the Witch had
snatched it away and put it on her
own skinny foot.
Tho wicked woman was greatly
pleased with the success of her trick,
for as long as she had one of the
shoes she owned half the power of
their charm, and Dorothy could not
use it against her, even had she known
how to do so.
The little girl, seeing she had lost
one of her pretty shoes, grew angry,
and said to the Witch:
"Give me back my shoe!"
"I will not," retorted tho Witch,
"for it Is now my shoe, and not yourB."
"You are a wicked creature!" cried
Dorothy. "You have no right to take
my shoe from me."
"I Bhall keep it, just the same," said
the Witch, laughing at her, "and some
day I shall get the other one from
you, too."
This made Dorothy so very angry
that she picked up the bucket of water
that stood near and dashed it over the
Witch, wetting her from head to foot.
Instantly the wicked woman gave a
loud cry of fear; and then, as Dorothy
looked at her In wonder, the Witch
began to shrink and fall away.
"See what you have done!" she
screamed. "In a minute I shall melt
away."
"I'm very sorry, Indeed," said Doro
thy, who was truly frightened to see
the Witch actually melting away like
brown sugar before her very eyes.
"Didn't you know water would be
the end of me?" asked the Witch, in
a walling, despairing voice.
"Of course not," answered Dorothy;
"how should I?"
"Well, In a few minutes I shall be
all melted, and you will have the cas
tle to yourself. I have been wicked in
my day, but I never thought a little
girl like you would ever be able to
melt me and end my wicked deeds.
Look out here I go!"
With these words the Witch fell
down in. a brown, melted, shapeless
mass and began to spread over tho
clean boards of the kitchen floor. See
ing that she had really melted away to
nothing, Dorothy drew another bucket
of water and threw it over the mass.
She then swept it all out the door.
After picking out , the silver shoe,
which was all that was left of the old
woman, she cleaned and dried it with
a cloth, and put it on her foot again.
Then, being at last free to do as she
chose, she ran out to the courtyard
to tell the Lion that the Wicked Witch
of the West had come to an end, and
that they were no longer prisoners in
a strange land.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
South Carolina Horse Swappers.
The horse swapper's business is
rather flourishing in this section Just
now. Many old plugs change hands
and many jockeys are made to rejoice
for a short while, at least until they
find out that the other fellow knew
something that he forgot to tell; then
he loses confidence in his former
friend and doesn't look upon him as
being the pink of perfection as he did
before, but they get better as soon
as they have time to think it all over
and realize that this Is not the first
time the trick has been turned, and
probably not the last. Perhaps the
other fellow will do the turning next
time. Calhoun X-Ray.
Steins Are Burglar Alarms.
In a New York rathskeller they
have devised a novel way to protect
the ornamental steins on the shelf
running along the. side of the room.
Each stands upon a burglar alarm con
nection and when one is removed a
contact is made, a drop falls on the
annunciator indicating the position of
tbe table and a bell rings. In a second
half a dozen waiters are In attendance
at that table and the stein goes back
on Its peg. The proprietors have lost
so many valuable pieces of brlc-a brao
that tbey were constrained to adopt
this measure. Since tbe alarm system
has gone into effect there have been
many surprises, but no losses.
Characteristics.
"He bas grandiose views, you say?
Dreams of future power and great
ness and wealth soon to be acquired?
Walks with his head in the clouds and
looks as if be considered tbe world his
oyster?"
"Those are the symptoms."
"Then he must he threatened with
softening of the brain."
"Nothing of the kind. He's a real
estate agent." . . .
A GREAT ANNOYANCE.
Kidney Disease Shows Many Painful
and Unpleasant Symptoms.
George S. Crowell, 1109 Broadway,
Helena, Mont, says: "I was troubled
with a disordered
condition of the kid
neys, some backache
and irregular pass
ages of secretions. At
times I was obliged
to get up out of bed
at night, and the
urine was unnatural
In appearance. On the
advice of a friend I
procured Doan's Kldne7 Pills and
began using them. This remedy helped
me at once, strengthened my kidneys
and corrected the disordered condi
tion." t
, Remember the same Doan's. Sold
by all dealers. 60 cents a box. Foster
Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Shoe Joke.
William King Where'd you get
those pumps?
Charlie Prince Oft a shoe tree.
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GOING UP1
City ways were not altogether new
to him, but, as he alted at the eleva
tor shaft, in one of Omaha's large of.
flee buildings, be said to his com
panlons.
"Well, I'll be hanged If that Isn't a
beater."
"Why, what?"
"Jubt look at that confounded rail
road advertising on an Omaha eleva
tor UP! What won't they do nextr
His companion replied, "Sh , Eh,
those letters mean 'up.'"
When I see that word, this Jlngls
always comes to my mind:
'Whenever the little word 'up yorj
see.
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You will see that word at almost
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try, but before you leave for the West,
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