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CHAPTER Vit,—Cent:- _ed.
She surrendered to the determina
tion ta hi* tum and they moved slow
If along the wU !..-•« s mg for any
*wu*d that Blight iroor frotc ahead of
them Nathaniel Lad already timed
hl» *iaa of Ktv*. From Marios i
»'ird» and the !:*• in which she had
utlan-4 theta he L; • a (hat it would
he ■a-itte tor t a a* It Lad lm-s for
Nell to urge her to Coe from the is
land Then remained but one thins
for Lis. to do. ao ho fell bach upon the
scheme which ha had proposed to
Kanos* brother lie realised now
that ho m.ght he compelled to play
the gams single Laud* d unless he
could actw assistant - from ouadiah.
Hit ahl; sad men W »re in the hands
»* the liunwot; XeO. in hia search
I'» the captured vessel, stood a large
rosace of artselug him that cleat and In
tnat •><« Kwlus’i fate would dep. cd
•a l_i:a time U ho could local- a
aa-ati boat oa the hart bark of Oba
dtaas. If ho could in some way lurt
V*rioa to >t— H«- gate an involuaiary
• Ladder at th- thought of using force
M«* the girt at hla aide, at the
thought <* Ur terror of those Cm
few moment*. her (druggie*. her
hruh a coaSdeace She believed in
him ao* file believed that he loved
b r. She trusted him. Tie warm
soil pnwre of her hand a* it dung
to hla arm In the Idarketnng glouis of
the for- st was evidence of that truft.
SV Poked into hia face annousl}. to
daimgty when they stopped to L.-t- c.
like a child who was sure of a
sire* per spirit at her side She L< Id
her breath when he b* Id hi*, she
i-»**trd • Lea he Ualoned. her feet fell
with velvet stiUt.es* when he stepped
with caution. Her cto.fidee.te in him
a as bke a bdatlW dream to X*.
iLu-iil and he trembled wh n he pic
tured the c- *trurtkc of it After a
little fee reachad over and a* if by o
rid-at (oarhrd the hand that was ly
ing ue hla ana; be dared more after
a moment, and drew the warm little
firs r* Mu bis pwd strong palm and
held them there, his soul thrilled by
their gentle swbtuurirenew*. And then
fa anothrr breath there came to still
M* Joy a thought of the terrible power
tit*' chained 'Ll. girl to the Mormon
king Me longed to if tk words of
• -.TWnrti to fur. to instil hope
ta her buaa. to ask her to confide in
him the secret cd the shadow which
hung ever her. but the memory of
what Sell had said to him held hla
They b*d walked in silence for
many minutes when the girl stopped
“It U uot very far now," she whis
pered. "Yon must go!”
“Only a little farther.” he begged.
She surrendered again, hesitatingly,
and they went on. more slowly than
b--!t -e. until they came to where the
Tath met the footway that led to
Obadiah's.
“Now—now you must go." whis
pered Marion again.
In this last moment Nathaniel crush
ed her band against his breast, his
body throbbing with a wild tumult,
and a half of what he had meant not
to f-ay fell passionately from his lips.
"Forgive me for—that—back—there
—Marion." he whispered. "It was be
cause 1 love you—love you—" He
fr > d her hand and stood hack, choking
th - words that would have revealed
hi* *-*•< ret. H lied now for the love
of this girl. "Neil is out there wait
ing for me in a small boat," he con
tin -;ed. {minting beyond Obadiah's to
the iak'- “I will see him soon, and
then i will return to Obadiah's to tell
you if he has l.-ft for the mainland.
.... re—
tonight""
"1 w ill promise."
"At midnight—"
* Yes, at 12 o'clock."
This time it was Marion who came
U# him. Her eyes shone like stars.
"And if you make Neil go to the
t . ind.” she said softly, “when 1
t you 1 will—w .11 tell you—some
; thing."
Ti. last word came in a breathless
">b. As the slipped into the path
that led to St. James she paused for
' a moment and railed back, in a low
! voice. "Tell WIl that he must go for
Winnsomes sake. Tell him that her
fate Is shortly to be as cruel as mine
tell L:m that Winnsonie loves him.
and that she will escape and come to
him on the mainland. Tell him to go
—go!"
h'he turned again, and Nathaniel
i stood like a statue, hardly breathing,
until th* sound of her feet had died
away. Th*-n he walked swiftly up the
fool path that led to Obadiah's. He
Jo-got his own danger in the excite
1 tnent that pulsated with every fiber
of I.: being, forgot his old caution
and the f. ars that ga*-e birth to it—
1 forgot everything in those moments
but Marion and bis own great happi
iiess. Neil's absence meant nothiug to
Oita now. He had held Marion in
his arms, he had told her of his love,
and though she had accepted it with
gentle unresponsiveness he was
thrilled by the memory of that last
look in her eyes, which had spoken
faith, confld* nee. and perhaps even
more What was that something she
»« aid tell him if he got Neil safely
away" It was to be a reward for bis
i*jwn loyalty—he knew that, by the
t-J! fearing tremble of her voice, the
sobbing catch of her breath, the
--irajiE' glow m her eyes. With her
brother away she would confide in
!.m ? Would she t*-il him the secret
of her slavedom to Strang? Na
tnanie! v: . c» i.s. ious of no mauness
j in the wild hope that filled him: noth
* in* seemed impossible to him now.
Marion would meet him at midnight
She would go with him to the boat,
and then—ah. he had solved the prob
lem' He would use no force. He
would tell her that Neil was in his
canoe half a mile out from the shore
and that he had promised to leave
tte .land for good if she would go
i out to 1.:o him good-by. And once
there, a half a mile or a mile away, he
WMUd t* 11 her that he had lied to her;
arid he would give her his heart to
trample upon to prove the love that
had made him do this thing and then
he w«. Id row her to the mainland
It was the sight of Obadiah's cabin
that broug t bis caution hack. He
j came upon it so suddenly that an ex
: clmmat.on of surprise fell unguarded
from Lis lips There was no light to
‘ betray life within He tried the door
and found locked He peered in
a: fhe windows, listened, and knocked.
I and at last i near
the path, confide nt that th little old
i councilor was s;il! ai St . ,es Kcr
’ an hour ho waited. From the rear of
Obadiah's home a narrow footway led
toward the lake and Nathaniel fol
I lowed it, now ae warily as an animal
' in search of prey. For half a mile
It took him through the forest and
I ended at the white sands of the beach.
In neither direction could Nathaniel
see a light, and keeping close in the
shadows of the trees he made his
way slowly toward St. James. He had
gone but a short distance when he
saw a house directly ahead of him,
a single gleam of light from a small
window telling him that it was in
habited and that Its tenants were at
home. He circled down close to the
water looking for a boat. His heart
leaped with sudden exultation when
he saw a small skiff drawn upon the
beach and his joy was doubled at find
ing the oars still in the locks. It took
him but a moment to shove the light
craft into the sea and a minute later
he was rowing swiftly away from the
land.
Nathaniel was certain that by this
time Neil had abandoned his search
for the captured Typhoon and was
probably paddling In the direction of
St. James. With the hope of inter
cepting him he pulled an eighth of a
mile from the shore and rowed slowly
toward the head of the Island. There
was no moon, but countless stars
glowed in a clear sky and upon the
open lake Nathaniel could see for a
considerable distance about him. For
another hour he rowed back and forth
and then beached his boat within a
dozen rods of the path that came down
^ from Obadiah's.
It was 10 o'clock. Two more hours!
He hail tried to suppress his excite
ment. his apprehension, his eagerness,
but now as he went back into the
darkness of the forest they burst out
anew. What if Marion should not
keep the tryst? He thought of the
spies whom Neil had said guarded the
girl's home—and of Obadiah. Could
he trust the old councilor? Should
he confide his plot to him and ask his
assistance? As the minutes passed
and these thoughts recurred again
and again in his brain he could not
keep the nervousness from growing
within him. He was sure now that
he would have to fight his battle with
out Neil. He saw the necessity of
coolness, of judgment, and he began
to demand these things of himself,
struggling sternly against those symp
toms of weakness which had replaced i
his confidence of a short time before.
Gradually he fought himself back into
his old faith. He would save Marion
—without Neil, without Obadiah. If
Marion did not come to him by mid
night it would be because of the
guards against whom Neil had warned
him, and he would go to her. In
some way he would get her to the
boat, even if he had to fight his way
through Arbor Croche's men.
With this return of confidence Na
thaniel's thoughts reverted to his
present greatest need, which was food.
Since early morning he had eaten
nothing and he began to feel the
physical want in a craving that was
becoming acutely uncomfortable. If
Obadiah had not returned to his home
he made up his mind that he would
find entrance to the cabin and help
himself. A sudden turn in the path
which he was following, however, re
vealed one of the councilor's window’s
aglow with light, and as he pressed
quietly around the end of the build
ing the sound of a low voice came to
him through the open door. Cautiously
he approached and peered in. A large
oil lamp, the light of which he had
seen in the window, was burning on
a table in the big room but the voice
i ame from the little closet into which
Obadiah had taken him the preceding
night. For several minutes he
crouched and listened. He heard the
chuckling laugh of the old councilor
—and then an incoherent raving that
set his blood tingling. There is a hor
ror in the sound of madness, a horror
that creeps to the very pit of one's
soul, that sends shivering dread from
every nerve center, that causes one
who is alone with it to sweat with a
nameless fear. It was the voice of
madness that came from that little
room. Before it Nathaniel quailed as
if a clammy hand had reached out
from the darkness and gripped him
by the throat. He drew back shivering
in every limb, and the voice followed
him, shrieking now in a sudden burst
of insane mirth and dying away a
moment later in a hollow cackling
laugh that seemed to curdle the blood
in his veins. Mad! Obadiah Price was
mad! Step by step Nathaniel fell
| back from the door. He felt himself
trembling from head to foot. His heart
thumped within his breast like the
| beating of a hammer. For an instant
there was silence—a silence In which
strange dread held him breathless
while he watched the glow in tne door
and listened. And after that quiet
there came suddenly a cry that ended
in the exultant chattering of a name.
At the sound of that name Na
thaniel sprang forward again. It was
Marion’s name and he strained his
i ears to catch the words that might
follow it. As he listened, his head
ihrust half in at the door, Obadiah's
voice became lower and lower, until
at last It ceased entirely. Not a step,
not a deep breath, not the movement
of a hand disturbed the stillness of
the little room. By inches Nathaniel
drew himself inside the door. His
heavy boot caught In a sliver on the
; step but the rending of wood brought
no response. It was the quiet of
death that pervaded the cabin, it was
i strange, growing fear of death that
entered Nathaniel as he now hurried
across the room and peered through
the narrow aperture. The old coun
cilor was half stretched upon the ta
ble. his arms reaching out, his long,
thin fingers gripping its edges, his
face buried under bis shoulders. It
| looked as if death had come suddenly
to him during some terrible convul
sion, but after a moment Nathaniel
saw that he was breathing. He went
over and placed a hand on the old
i man's twisted back.
"Hello, Obadiah! Hello—hello!” he
called cheerfully.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
The Surest Way.
Thief Justice Fuller's estate is Chi
cago real estate which he bought 40
<r? :>go and is now valued at $1.50'/,
000. This is the surest and easiest way
to get rich: Huy real estate 40 years
ago.—Kansas City Times.
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How Thackeray Lett America
Homesickness Caused Him to Sail
Suddenly Without Word to
Friends Who Were Planning
Big Dinner for Him.
When William Makepeace Thack
eray visited the United States for the
second and last time, in l$o5, to de
liver his lecture entitled "The Four
Georges," the two Americans who
were closest to him during his stay
were Parke Godwin, publicist and son
in-law of William Cullen Bryant, and
George William Curtis.
"The intimacy which we enjoyed
with Thackeray was due to the fact
that he made his headquarters while j
I in this country at the old Putnam’s
; -Magazine office, with which both Mr.
Curtis and myself were connected,”
i explained Mr. Godwin a few years be- j
; fore his death. “Sometimes Curtis !
and myself were enthusiastically
! agreed that Thackeray was the most ,
-delightful, lovable and companionable :
man we had ever met. But, probably, ;
just when we had arrived at this de-_ j
cision, Thackeray would be brusque !
and apparently cold toward us, and :
I there would be decided traces of
I cynicism or contempt in his nature.
Frankly, though we tried hard, and
had rare opportunities to do so, we
never fully understood him. I think,
myself, that he was .. man of moods,
or else he sometimes suffered from
ill-health, which he bore uncomplain
ingly, although bis relations with Lis
fellow men were affected by his phys
ical suffering.
“Thackeray, to the personal knowl
edge of Curtis and myself, did many
strange things while he was in the
country, but the most astonishing of
all his acts was the manner in which
he left America and his best friends
here. It w:.s particularly embarrass
ing to me; and it was an act that had
every outward aspect of cold and pur
posed discourtesy.
"After making a successful lecture
trip through the south, if I remember
correctly. Thackeray returned to New
York flushed with his success, and. in
that happy spirit, sent us word that
he would be with us for two or three
days before departing to fulfil some
lecture engagements in another sec
tion of the country. We were so re
joiced ever his success and his pres
ence in the city that we arranged for
a dinner in his honor, and Thackeray,
when he learned of our plan, was par
ticularly delighted . Nothing pleased
him more than a good dinner with
good company. He would sit the long
est at the table of any man present;
he was at his best around the festive
board.
“I was particularly active in plan
ning the dinner and extending invita
tions to it. The afternoon of the
great day I sent a message to Thack
eray’s hotel to tell him that I would
meet him there at a certain hour that
evening and escort him to the feast.
Pretty soon the messenger was back
with the startling information that
Mr. Thackeray was no longer stop- j
ping at the hotel.
“Much perturbed. I hastily made :
my way thither, and upon inquiry at !
the desk. I learned to my great aston- i
isliment that Thackeray that very
morning had suddenly signified his in- j
tention of terminating his stay there. ;
had his luggage packed, paid his bill !
and departed in a carriage. ‘Gone I
where?' I asked. And the proprietor
gave it as his opinion that the distin- i
guished novelist had sailed for Eu- I
rope but a few hours since.
“As quickly as I could I went to j
the office of the steamship line that
had a sailing that day. Yes. Mr.
Thackeray had arranged for accom
modations just an hour or so before
sailing time, and had barely caught
the steamer. Xo. he had not left any
message. Xor had he left at the hotel
or anyw here else any message for ce
or any one else interested in honoring
him at the dinner. He had departed
for Europe unceremoniously, and. ap
parently. in a most discourteous man
ner.
“Of course the dinner, minus the
guest of honor, was a flat failure. At
it. and for some time after. Curtis and
I were asked to explain Thackeray's
curious conduct. We didn't even try
to offer an explanation—to us his con
duct was inexplicable. But weeks later
I made some inquiries and was told
that Thackeray, the morning of the
festive day. was overwhelmed all of a
sudden with a feeling of homesick
ness. and learning that a steamship
was to sail that day. decided on the
instant to take passage by it to Eng
land. Perhaps that was the true
cause of his departure. But if it was
it showed him to be a man of whims
and moods, and that may explain
much that so many persons regarded
as mysterious or eccentric about
him.”
(Copyright. 1910. hr E. .1. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved.)
Human Postoffice Rewarded
Hew Boy Who Acted as Cupid’s Mes
senger for Thurlow Weed Became
Treasurer of the United
States.
Thurlow Weed must have been
about eighty years of age when I said
to him one day:
“An old friend of yours, Mr. Weed,
told me yesterday to ask you about
the delightful surprise you gave Mrs.
Weed when you took her with you to
Washington during Lincoln's first ad
ministration."
“Ah,” he said. 'It was a surprise !
and a delight for Mrs. Weed, and it is j
one of the sweetest memories of my
married life. I will tell you about it. j
"When I was a journeyman printer i
—for. you know, that was my trade—I
came to be employed by a man in a
little village near Herkimer. X. Y. Of
course 1 was only a hired man—in
reality not much more than a printer's j
devil, because all the odd jobs of the
shop fell to me. the only employe—and
so I was not of much consequence so
Douglas and the Clambake
Little Giant Mightily Pleased the Peo
ple of Norwich. Conn., by His
Tribute to the Native
Institution.
Stephen A. Douglas, known from one
end of the land to the other in the
days of his popularity as the “Little
Giant." was the first candidate for the
presidency to take the stump in his
own behalf. His determination to make
a personal campaign for the presi
dency was not entirely to the liking
of the conservative politicians of 1S60.
but I have been told that he excused
his action by saying that Lincoln made
his campaign for the same office, es
pecially in the east., before he was
nominated, and that it was vital that
some one in authority should reply to
Lincoln in that section of the country,
there having been no opportunity for
this to be done until after the presi
dential nominations had been made.
However that may be. I know per
sonally that the “Little Giant" gladly
accepted an invitation to speak to his
countrymen at Norwich, Conn., the
home town of William A. Bucking
ham. who a little later became one of
the great war governors of the north
—a town where Lincoln, in Febniary
of the same year, made an address
which many persons said later saved
Connecticut to the Republican party
in the ensuing state election by the
narrow majority of 541.
Great preparations were made for
the Little Giant's appearance in the
old town. In deference to his wishes
for a meeting in the open—the usual
type of political gathering in the west
; —a large common was selected for the
scene of the rally, booths were set up
j to purvey lunch, consisting principally
i of oyster soup, and it was arranged
that there should be a characteristic
New England clambake at the end of
the speechmaking.
It turned out to be a gala occasion,
j The farmers flocked in from miles
i around to see and hear Lincoln's great
j rival, and as they gazed on the little
| dumpy man with the great head, the
j great shock of hair and the barge. cav
ernous eyes thundering forth at them
from the speakers' stand, many were
the comparisons they drew between j
i him and the tall, gaunt, loose-jointed i
I rail-splitter most of them had seen and j
heard speak in the same town a few
! months earlier.
Yet for all the diminutiveness of
, stature. Douglas held the close atten
tion of the great gathering throughout
| his entire speech. My boyhood recol
| lection of that speech is that it was a
superb political and oratorical effort.
I but the impression that it made on me
j was slight compared with the effect
caused by the impromptu postscript to
the speech itself. His peroration de
livered with all that power of oratory
which he possessed to a superlative
degree, Douglas paused for a moment p
and smiled expectantly into the sea of I
upturned faces before him.
“And now that I have had the priv
ilege of addressing my fellow-citizens
of this historic town.” he continued. “I I
shall take advantage of the invitation
given to me to participate for the first
time in my life in a genuine New Eng
land clambake. Its aroma first reached
me while I was in the midst of my
speech. It has lingered in my nostrils
ever since. It has tantalized me great
ly. It is very inviting. And. with your
permission. I will now step down front
this platform and proceed to revel to
my heart's content in your famous
feast.”
A mighty shout greeted this unex
pected tribute to a much-loved native
institution. Then they took the Little
Giant to a place which had been pre
pared for him and feasted him. And
when he had had a surfeit he sighed
contentedly, beamed upon the gentle
men gathered about him in the tent
(my father was of the number) and
said: "Now. gentlemen, I shall go on
my way rejoicing."
vCepyright. 19X0, by E. J. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved.) I
Lord Clanricarde’s Plaque
This Example of Goldsmith's Art Is
One of the Greatest in
the World.
One of the greatest Cinquescento
Jewels in the world is the Clanricarde
plaque, owned by Lord Clanricarde.
who is known as the Hermit Peer,
and who claims direct descent from
the kings of Connaught. He guards
with Jealous care this precious ex
ample of the goldsmith’s art. keeping
it safe from possible thieves and the
common gaze in a bank vault, to
which he goes occasionally with great
secrecy to feast his etes upon its
magnificence. Some years ago, by
royal request, he lent it to an art
exhibition in London, where it was
admired and coveted by some of the
greatest connoisseurs of Europe.
The huge disk is as delicately
wrought as a spider's web. and rep
resents the figure of Hercules—wield
ing a diamond sword. The sword
blade is composed of a mass of per
fectly matched steel-white stones, and
a superb blue diamond scintillates
from the hilt. The present owner in
herited it from his mother, who was
a Miss Canning before her marriage
to the Irish lord, and the plaque is
practically priceless. Aside from its
value to collectors, and its worth as
a specimen of rare and exquisite art
it is incrusted with a fortune in jew
els.
Clever Method of Bribing.
One of the cleverest bits of elec
tioneering dodgery was devised by
an agent who had been forbidden
to corrupt the electors. He called
a meeting and attended with his
pockets full of gold. “I have to In
form you, gentlemen,*’ he began,
"that there is to be no bribery on
our side during this election.
(.Hear, hear!) For my part, I do
not intend to give away a penny
piece (Uneasy silence.) But 1
cially in the village. Nevertheless I
had not been there long before I was
greatly attracted by a young woman
upon whom I cast sheep's eyes at
every opportunity. I soon had reason
to suspect that she was not displeased
by my attentions, but after a while
when we had become so well acquaint
ed that it was plain I purposed keep
ing company with her. there were par
enta! objections, and I was practical
ly forbidden the house.
“But. the saying is. you know, 'Love
will find a way.’ In that village there
lived a barefooted, freckle-faced, tow
! headed boy of Dutch descent. But he
| was as bright as a new dollar. One
day I met him in the street.
“ 'Frank.' I said to him. ‘do you sup
I pose you could carry a note for me to
| a certain young lady so secretly that
j nobody but she would know it?’
“ 'I guess I could,’ he replied.
“'Well,' do you suppose you could
1 bring a note from her just as secretly?’
“ 'You try me and see,’ the boy said
“So I wrote a little note, discreetly
worded, and delivered it to this Cupid's
postmaster. A day later he came to
me with a note which had been en
trusted to him by the young lady.
I.ater in the day—maybe it was the
next day—I answered the note and
gave my reply to the boy for delivery.
In due time he brought me another
note from the young lady; and thus
we kept up a secret correspondence
that lasted until I proposed, when all
objection was removed to my paying
attention to the young lady. Xot long
after that we were married.
"Well, one time when it became im
perative for me to go to Washington
during Lincoln's administration I took
Mrs. Weed with me. 'My dear.' I said,
after we had reached there, 'I should
like to take you to the treasury de
partment. I want you to meet a gen
tleman I know there.’ And a little
later we walked into the office of the
treasurer of the United States.
"I took Mrs. Weed over to a desk at
which a gentleman was sitting.
" 'My dear, do you know who thir
! is?' 1 asked.
“ Xo,' she had to confess,
i " ‘What, you don't know our Cupid's
postman?' I exclaimed in feigned sur
prise.
"Yes. there he was—no longer the
barefooted, freckle-faced, tow-headed
little village boy. but a full grown,
handsome man—Francis D. Spinner.
And you can imagine the surprise and
delight of Mrs. Weed when she discov
ered in the treasurer of the United
States the boy who had been the dumb
and faithful little messenger of our
courting days."
Mr. Weed might truthfully have
added that, in return for the services
Frank Spinner gave him in his court
ing days, he took every possible op
portunity to befriend the lad as he
grew up. And it was upon Mr. Weed’s
recommendation that President Lin
coln named Mr. Spinner treasurer of
the United States in 1861, a position
that he filled with great credit until
1875. when failing health caused him
to retire voluntarily. It was during his
incumbency that women were first
employed as clerks in the treasury de
partment to take the place of the men
who enlisted in the Union army.
j I Copyright, 1910. by E. J. Edwards. A.11
' Rights Reserved.)
am afraid there are some d_j
[cals in this room, and that present
ly they will lay me on the table and
tafee 500 sovereigns out of mv pock
ets ” The nest few seconds he
spent upon the table.—London Chron
Lest He Go Hungry.
Sometimes men do things out of sel
1 fishness rather than out of kindness
Recently a club woman told (hi
story: IS
“An old couple came in from the
country with a big basket of ]unch Z
see the circus.
"The lunch was heavy. The
wife was carrying it. As thev crossed
a crowded street the husband held
out his hand and said:
“ ‘Gimme that basket. Hannah •
“The twor old woman surrendered
, the basket with a grateful look
“‘That’s real kind o‘ ye. Joshua/
: she quavered.
" ‘Kind!’ grunted the old man.
! ‘Gosh. I wuz afeared ye’d git lost’ ”
It takes a smooth tongue to side
i track a bill collector.
Doctors Said He WouidOie
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tors from far and near, but they said it
was no use to doctor as I would die any
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j taking half a bottle I felt better. Have
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Lack of Material.
“Barber.” said Reggie, taking his
seat in the chair, “it's too cold for a
close trim; give me a football hair
cut.”
“Great Scott, mister:” ejaculated the
barber. "You hain't got hair enough
for that!”
Got Her Easily.
“The psychological moment counts
for much in a love affair.”
“That is true. Ferdinand, for in
stance, asked father for my hand the
afternoon my dressmaker’s bill came
in.”
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
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infants and children, and see that it
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Familiar Talk.
“I see you have an actor chopping
wood.”
“Yes; he was in hard luck and I
gave him a job.”
“Is he going to stick?”
“He claims so. Says he is devoted
to his art.”
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Enlightenment.
“A burlesque,” said the occasional
theater goer, ‘Is a sort of take-off,
Isn't It?”
“It is,” replied Miss Cayenne, “if
you judge it by the costuming.”
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Drawing the Line.
“What do you think of the net*
problem play?”
"Nothing,” replied Miss Cayenne.
“It was bad enough to see it, without
thinking about it.”
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When people are doing kind actions
hey are always happy. It is the one
true pleasure on this earth.—M. Bertha
Synge.
The greatest cause of worry on
ironing day can be removed by using
Defiance Starch, which will not stick
to the iron. Sold everywhere, 16 oz.
for 10c.
You may tell what you think the
absolute truth, but If it conveys the
wrong impression it is not true.
WHV suffer with eve troubles, quick re
lief by using PETTIT'S EYE S \IAF. v
AH druggists or Howard Bros.,Buffalo,N~y!
If you fear to soil your hands in
helpfulness you may be sure vou are
defiling your heart.
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle.
The manly man makes altogether
the best woman's man.
Lewis* Single Binder, extra quality to
bacco, costs more than other 5c cigars.
There are many kinds of pleasures
and some of them aren't so pleasant. '
is Your Health
Worth 10c?
That s what it costs to get a_week’s
treatment—of CASCARETS. ^ey
on Ea°rS, than an-v medicine
Sickness generally shows
Bowtls and
It's si eas^ofr^h^ol^1,18
night and have help in the morning’
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