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(ContiniHMl from Yesterday)
"Go on an' read it!" she com
ma tided.
Mickey obeyed. As he finished she
faced him in wonder.
"Why they ain’t a damn bit of
sense to It!" she cried.
"Course there ain't!" agreed Mickey.
"Course there would he no sense to
anything that wasn’t about you!"
"Then what did you put It there in
my place for?"
"I didn't! I’m trying to tell you!”
persisted Mickey.
Peaches shed one degree of royal
hauteur. “Well why don’t you go on
pn’ tell, then?"
“Aw-w-ah! Well if you don’t
maneuver to beat a monoplane! I’ve
tried to tell you, and you won’t let
Die. If you stop me again, I’m going
to march out of this room and stay
'til you bawl your ees red for me.”
"If you go, I’ll call Junior!" said
Peaches instantly.
“Well go on and call him!"
lie turned, his heart throbbing, his
eyes burning w-*«h repressed tears, the
big gulp la his throat audible to
Peaches, as n«.r la n wall was to
him. He whirled and dropping on his
knees took her in his arms. She
threw hers around Ills neck, buried
her face against his cheek, and they
cried it out together. At last site
produced a bit of linen, and mopped
Mickey’s eyes ami face, then her
own. While still clinging to him she
whispered: "Mickey, I’m jus’ about
dead to have it be the Herald, an’
the front page, an’ you, an’ not
about me!”
"Flowersy glrl, I’m just as sorry as
you are," said Mickey. "It was this
way: I was just crazy over things
our editor-man did. that saved our
dear boss and the lovely Moonshine
Lady who gaye you your Precious
Child and her ‘darling old Daddy’
from such awful trouble it would Just
Skilled them; honest it would Lily!
When our editor man was so great
^^^fuiire, and did what he didn't
I^Wiit to at all. I went sort of wild like,
anil when l was off for the day and
got. on t lie streets, everything pulled
me his way. I was anxious just to
see him again, and if I’d done what
1 wnnted to, I’d a-gone In the
Herald office and knelt down, and
said: 'Thank you, oh thank you!' and
kissed his feet, hut of course I knew
men didn't do like tHat. mid it. would
have shamed him, but I had to do
something or burst, and I went run- I
ning for the office like flying, and
my mind got whirling around, and
that stuff began to come.
“I slipped In and back to his desk,
like I may If I want to, and there
he sat. He had a big white sheet
just like this before it Is printed,
spread out, and a pencil in his fin
gers, and about a doyen of lus best
men were crowding 'round with what
they had for the paper today. I’ve
told you how they do it. otien. and
when 1 edged up some of the men saw
me,1 They knew J had a pass to him,
so they stepped back just as he said:
•Well boys, who's got some big stuff
to fill the space of our departed
scoop’.'’ That ’departed’ word means
lost, gone, and it’s what they say
about people when they—they go for
good. Then he looked up to see who
would speak first, and noticed me.
’Oh there is the little villain who
scooped our scoop, right now.’ he
said. “Let’s make him fill the space
he’s cut us out of.’ 1 thought it
was a joke, but I wasn’t going to
have all that bunch of the swellest
smarties who work for him put it
clear over me; I’ve kidded back with
my paper men too long for that; so I
stepped bark and shot it at him, that
what’s printed there, and when I got
to the end and invited the fellows
to ‘Whoop,’ Hily, you could a heard
them a mile. I saw they was starting
for me. so l just slung in a ’Thank
you something awful, boss.’ and
ducked through and betwen, and cut
for life; ’cause if they'd a got me, I
might a been there yet. They are the
nicest men on earth, but they get a
little keyed up sometimes, and a kid
like me couldn’t keep even. Now
that’s all there is to it, Idly, honest,
cross my heart! I didn’t know they
would put it there. I didn't know
they thought it was good enough. I
wouldn't a let them for the life of
them, if I’d known they was going
to.”
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SUGAR 85c
PEACHES i^:nB™d; 85c
PF A Del Monte Branc, A E a
I C H It V No. 2* 2 can. 3 for 9 V V
Puritan Malt PH:;Jn 53c
Ckinnor’c Macar°ni»spaghetti 04 a
OnllMlCl v Noodles, 3 pkgs. fc: aVV
finkola Coffee $1.00
Mazola Oil £.t. $1.69
Campbell’s l:::i!otip'25c
D D IK II F 0 Santa Clara, finest 4 7a
r 11 w Ml t w quality, 3 lbs. for. . ■ I If
Our counters are loaded with bargains of all
kinds. Buy now and buy liberally. It will cer
tainly pay you.
Creamery Butter T 49V2C
■ Cream Cheese r:xUTie,n..291/2c
Fancy Cooking Apples, 7 lbs., 25c
Fancy Hot House Leaf Lettuce,
2 bunches.5c
Fancy Mich. Celery Hearts, 2 for 25c
Ex. Fancy Sunkist Oranges, doz. 29c
Chickens, home dressed spring, lb.23^c
Pork Loin Roast, extra lean, lb. . . 12aC
Pork Chops, extra lean, lb.15c
Steer Pot Roast, choice, lb.10c
Fresh Pork Shoulder, very lean, lb 93c
Young Veal Roast, lb.12jjC
Young Veal Breast, lb.8£c
Bacon, Wilson’s, Swift’s, 1-lb. cart’n 35c
Bacon, Dold’s Sterling, extra lean 23^c
Breakfast Bacon, sugar cured, lb 17jc
FROM 8 A. M. TO 12 NOON
Dold’s Sugar Cured Picnic Hams 10;{c
“You jus' said it once, Mickey?"
inquired Peaches.
"Jus' once, Flowersy girl, fast a* I
could rattle."
"It's twice as long as mine ever
are," she said. "I didn't see how
they'd ’memhered.”
"Oh, that"’ cried Mickey. “Why
honey, that's easy! Those fellows
jump oij to a thing like chained
jightning, and they got a. way of
writing that is just a lot of little
twists and curls, but one means a
whole sentence—they call it 'short
hand'— and doing that way, they can
set down talk as fast as anybody can
speak, and there were a dozen of
them there with pencils and paper in
their fingers. That wasn't anythii g
for them!"
"Mickey, are you going to learn to
write that way?"
“Sure!" said Mickey. "Before I go
to the Herald to take my desk, and
my "sigriment,’ I've got to know,
and you ought to know too; 'cause
I always have to bring what I write
to you first, to see if you like it."
"Yes. if the mean old things don't
go an' steal my place again, when
you don't know it,” protested
Peaches.
“Well, don't you fret about that,
Wednesday aOZ’ I
and Saturday j
Lee L. Larmon
1822-24 Dougla* St.
said Mickey. "They get away with
me this time, but they won't ever
again, ’cause I'll be on fo their tricks,
gee? Now »ay you forgive me. and
eat your dinner, ’cause it will he
spoiled, and you must have a goad
rest, for there’s going to be some
thing lovely afterward. Tou ain't
mad at me any more. Idly?"
"No, I ain't mad «t you, but I'm
just so—"
"Wope! wope!’’ cautioned Mickey.
Peaches pulled away Indignantly.
"—so—so—so estremely mad at
those paper men! Mickey, I don’t
think i'll ever let you be a Herald
man at all if they're going to leave
me out like that!"
‘‘What do you care about an old
paper sold on the streets, and ground
up for buckets, and used to start
fires, anyway?" scoffed Mickey.
“Why don't you sit up on the shelf
in a nice pretty silk dress and be a
book lady? I wouldn't be In the
papers at all, if I were you."
"No, an' I won't, either!" cried
Peaches instantly. "Take the old
paper an’ put what you please in It.
I shall have all about me In the nice
silky' covered book on the shelf; so
there, you needn't try to make me do
anything else, ’cause I shan’t ever!”
"Course you shan’t!” agreed
Mickey.
He went back to the dinner table
to find the family finished and gone.
He carried what had been left for
him to the bark porch, and eating
hastily begun helping to get tilings
in place. As always he went to
Mrs. Harding for orders. Slip was a
little woman, bo very like his mother
in size, colouring, speech, and man
ner, that -Mickey could almost for
get she was not truly his, when every
hourshemnde him feel her motherly
kindness; so from early habit It was
natural with him to seek her first,
and do what he could to assist her
before he attempted anything else. All
the help Peter had from him came
when he found no more to do for
Mrs. Harding. As he washed the
dishes while she sat sewing for the
renovation of the house, he said to
her; "When you dress Lily for this
afternoon 1 wish you'd make her just
as pretty as you can, and put her
very nicest dress on her."
“Why Mickey, is some one com
ing?" she asked. .
“I don't know,” said Mickey, ''but
I have a hunch that my boss, and
Miss Leslie, and her father may be
out this afternoon. They have been
talking about it a long time, but I
kept making every excuse I could
think up to keep them away.”
"Why, Mickey?” asked Mrs. Hard
ing, looking at him intently. She
paused in her sewing, running the
needle slowly across the curtain ma
terial,
“Well, for a lot of reasons,” said
Mickey. "A fellow of my size doesn't
often tackle a family, and when he
docs, If he's going to be square about
COAL
Colorado Lump
Smokeless
Sootless
Per Ton
Delivered
Positively the Highest Grade of Colorado Lignite
at. 9146 “Dealers in Good. Coal” at. 9146
Our average cheek is
28 cents. The chart
below, based on the
auditor’s report of
our books shows the
exact cost of Welch’s
service, as well as
the very small profit.
•See foot-note.
.14<* Haw material i
.056 Labor
.010 Laundrv
.010 Gas
.006 Electrieitv
.007 Ad vertising !
.014 Rent
.028 Replacement,
office arid
general
expense.
.009 Profit
.280
28c
Our Average Check |
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“How can you sell such high
quality food at such reasonable
prices?” This question is asked 11s
many times every day and the answer is,
“You, our customers, make it possible.” As
shown by onr auditor’s certificate, our actual
net profit last year was less than 1 cent (’.00981
per meal and our average meal check was 28
cents. In other words, you receive 27 cent#
worth of food and service out of every 28 cents
spent.
This could not be done in
feeding only 100 or 150 people
daily, ns the profit would uot pay
even a good manager's wages any more than
one could run a street railway with 100 cus
tomers per day.
But, when you patronize us
in many thousands daily, you
yourself, enable us to buy Skookum
apples in carload lota, to contract for carload
lots of Omar Hour, Criseo shortening, Mazo!a
Oil, Libby’s Melba Peaches and every high
grade article that is used by the best hotels,
and private clubs, at prices where we can af
ford to give quality unexcelled by any hotel
and at lower prices than if purchased in dozen
or 100-lb. lots—
—We bake this Omar Flour
rand sun-kissed fruits up into the
best pies and cakes and pastries wa
know—mostly frmn old home recipes.
—We serve it on Syracuse or
tthonango china—with real high
grade silverware—to tlie best class of
trade in the city. There is real dignity in
eating in one of our places because you know
you have the best that can he purchased.
Six Conveniently
Located Restaurants
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MftTIt—Following eatrarf li from statement «l H. (i. flell, nuilltori
Having made a complete audit of the hook* of the Welch restaurant s'stem such »»
1 h.ne done every year, I hereby certify that the net profit a* shown on these books fw
the year 11>22 was ninety-right one hundredths of n rent ( 'WSi per meal.
(SignedI H. fl.
it, lie has got to no a lot or tnniK
lug. One thing w is that it's haul for
me to get Lily oul of my head like I
first saw her. 1 guess I couldn't tell
you so you’d get a fair Idea of how
dark, dirty, alone, and little, and
miserable she was Just with all my
heart 1 was ashamed of her folks, and
siek sorry for her; but I can't hear
for anybody else to be! 1 didn’t want
any of them to see her 'til she was
fell, and fatted up a lot, and trained
'til how nice she really is shows
plain, it just hurt me to think of
it."
"1'm m uh!" agreed Mrs. Harding,
differing emotions showing on her
face. "I see, Mickey.''
"Then," continued Mickey, "I'm
sticking sore and mean on one point.
I did find her! She Is mine! I am
going to keep her! Nobody in all
this world takes her, nor God in
Heaven!"
MACARONI^
“Mickey lie careful what you say,"
she cautioned.
"I don't mean anything wh ked,”
explained Mickey. I'm just tilling
you that nobody on earth can have
iier. and I'd fight 'til I’d die with
her before even Heaven gets her. I
don't mean anything ugly about it.
I'm just telling you friendly like,
how I feel about her."
“I see Mickey." said Mrs. Harding.
"Go on!"
"Well, lots of reasons,” said
Mickey. “She wasn't used to folks,
so they scared her. She whs < rnzV
with fear about the Orphlngs’ Home
getting her, while I wasn't any t<><!
suie myself. 1 flagged on<- Swell
Dame, ami like to got caught in a
trap and lost her. Then my Sun
shine Nurse helped m« all 1 ..led,
so Hot knowing how much women
were alike, I didn't care to go rush
ing in a lot on Idly Just to find nu',
She was a little t jo precious to ex
periment with.
(Continued in Monday Morning Iter.)
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WALNUTS
English Soft Shell; lb.—
35c
RAISINS
Best Seedless or Seeded
2 pkgs. for
29c
CORN 53c
PEASs,w Ti: " 53c
Mountain Lion,
3 (an* for /QL
PUMPKIN “S"' 25c
CODFISH 37c
OATMEAL »s; 10c
Soap Chips---23c
OLD D UTCH C LEAHSER 3 for 2 9 C
Baking Powder 29c
PRESERVES ~ 36c
, ' Fruits and Vegetables 11,1 ..— (
GRAPES1-~29c
0RANGES“53c
LEMONS 29c
Sweet Potatoes "F 25c
Head Lettuce 15c
CABBAGE Perib.2 V^c
SOAP. Pearl White, '°,!r 39c
COFFEE, Forbes’ Quality values. ^39c
RELISH* Diamond “H” Sweet Relish 10 Oz. Jar'I 7 (J
nilTTC n Fairmont’s Kirschbraun’s IT O
IjU I § * “Better Butter” “Ideal”
OnllD Omar Wonder 01 CO 24-lb. Q0a
rLUUn* 48ib. sack 01-Du sack uDC
PORK SAUSAGE. M~?» ar 27c
I ADD Morris “Supreme” Leaf Lard J& 4
LflnIJ,g-lb. pailsH I C
E 3J D O Fancy Cookies—Assorted O £%
B llBElUO l ib. pkg., Iten’s special MMV
PECAN ROLLS,
ELGIN Nut Margarine Elgin Quality 30c
Skinners -s
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battled.
DDT An fresh bread daily
DUlAIJ “Faultless,” “Butternut,” “Miikcrust"
