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But it dis appeared, gave place to a look of ner vous alarm, of terror even, at the rustling, or, rather, bustling, of skirts in the hall there was war in the very sound, and I felt it Mrs. Ellersly ap peared, bearing her husband as a de jected trailer invisibly but firmly coupled. She acknowledged my salu tation, with a stiff-necked nod. ignored my extended hand. I saw that she wished to impress upon me that she was a very grand lady indeed; but, while my ideas of what constitutes a lady were at that time somewhat be fogged by my snobbishness, she failed dismally. She looked just what she was a mean, bad-tempered woman, in a towering rage. "You have forced me. Mr. Black lock," said she. and then I knew for just what purpose that voice of hers was best adapted "to say to you what I should have preferred to write. Mr. Ellersly has had brought to his ears matters in connection with your private lire -that make it imperative that you discontinue your calls here." "My private life, ma'am?" I repeat ed. "I was not aware that I had a private life." "Anita, leave us alone with Mr. Blacklock," commanded her mother. The girl hesitated, bent her head, and with a cowed look went slowly to ward the door. There she paused, and. with what seemed a great effort, lifted her head and gated at me. How I ever came rightly to interpret her look I don't know, but I said: "Miss Ellcrlsly. I've the right to insist that you stay." I saw she was going to obey me. and before Mrs. Ellersly could repeat her order I said: "Now, madam, if any one accuses me of hav ing done anything that would cause you to exclude a man from your house, I am ready for the liar and his lie." As I spoke I was searching the weak, had old face.of her husband for an explanation. Their pretense of out raged morality I rejected at once it was absurd. Neither up town nor down, nor anywhere else, had I done anything that any one could regard as a breach of the code of a man of the world. Then, reasoned I, they must have found some one else to help them out of their financial troubles some one who. perhaps, has made this insult to me the price, or part of the price, of his generosity. Who? Who hates me? In instant answer, up be fore my mind flashed a picture of Tom Langdon and Sam Ellersly arm in arm entering Lewis' office. Tom Langdon wishes to marry her; and her parents wish it. too; he is the man she was confessing to me about these were my swift conclusions. "We do not care to discuss the mat ter, sir." Mrs. Ellersly was replying, her tone indicating that it was not lit to discuss. And this was the woman I had hardly been able to treat civilly, so nauseating were her fawnings and flatterings! "So!" I said, ignoring her and open ing my batteries full upon the old man. "You are taking orders from Mowbray Langdon. Why?" As I spoke, I was conscious that there had been some change in Anita. I looked at her. tube, to eater and so slowlr. ever a lamp flashed in at us, I had a glimpse of her progress, toward com posurenow she was drying her eyes with the bit of lace, she called a hand kerchief; now her bare arms were up and with graceful, fingers she was ar ranging her hair; now she was' straight and still, and soft, fluffy ma terial with which her wrap was edged drawn close about her throat 1 shifted to theopposite seat, for my nerves warned me that I could not long control myself, if I stayed on. where her garments were touching You must choose now! Woman or thing which shall it be? If It Is woman, then you have me behind you and in front of you and around youl If It is thing God have mercy on you! Your self-respect, your pride are gone for ever. You will be like the carpet under his feet to the man whose creature you become." She came and stood by me, with her back to- them. "If you will take me with you now." she said. "I will go. If I delay, I am iiwt y .ii.ii .. m. .-. . 1 - tuxm.it uui iuve me courage. And I am sick, sick to death of this life here, of this hideous wait for the highest bidder." Her voice gained strength and her manner courage as she spoke; at the end she was meeting her mother's gaze without flinching. My eyes had followed hers, and my look was taking in both her mother and her father. I had long since measured them, yet I could scarcely credit the confirmation or my judgment Had life been smooth and comfortable for that old couple, as it was for most of their acquaint ances and friends, they would have lived and died regarding themselves, and regarded, as well-bred, kindly peo ple, or the finest instincts and tastes. But calamity was putting to the test the system on which they had molded I looked away from her for the pleasure of looking at her again, of realizing that my overwrought ssnaes were not cheating me. Yen, there she was, in aU the luster of that magnetic beauty I can not think of even now without an npblazing of the Are which Is to the heart what the sun hi to a blind man dreaming of night There she was on my side of the chasm that had separated us alone with me mine mine! And, my heart dilated with pride. But a" moment later came a sense of humility. Her beauty in toxicated me. hat her youth, her fine ness, so fragile for such rough hands as mine, awed and humbled me. "I must be very gentle," said I to myself. "I have promised that she shall never regret God help me to keep my promise! She Is mine, hot only to preserve and protect" And that idea of responsibility In possession was new to me was to have far-reaching consequences. Now that I think of it I believe it changed the whole course of my life. She was leaning forward, her elbow on the casement of the open window of the broufdiam. her cheek asnlsst her hand; the moonlight was glisten ing on her round, firm forearm and on her serious face. "How far, far away from everything it seems here!" she said, her voice tuned to that soft clear light "and how beautiful It Is!" Then. addressing the moon and the shadows or the trees rather than me: "I wish f S .SVUQHbBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBbI ABBKSWBBBWrflVB ' 1 F Tfmmmmmmmmm9Lm mmVmmm M I : & ALrmmmmmmWLT'l'fLk immmWf. BBBBBWll I i Hi KnsslUmWuVi t "ft R'B: , 'llhVfr 1sBBnNur ' I GENTLY URGED HER FORWARD." their apparently elegant graceful lives. The storm had ripped off the attractive covering; the framework, the reality of that system, was re vealed, naked and frightful. "Anita, go to your room!" almost screamed the old woman, her fury tearing away the last shreds of her cloak of manners. "Your daughter is of age. madam," said L "She will go where she pleases. And I warn you that you are deceived by the Langdons. I am not powerless, and" here I let her have fasH iwlr is 4 a waj! ttAt KHUU. With startled eves 1 r'- "? " J"""-50" j li..,. . w . , m wmin i siop si nomine in pursu- L WaS advanci,1K t0" ins those who oppose mZ-at noth ing! ward me. "Anita, leave the room!" cried Mrs. Ellersly harshly, panic under the com mand in her tones. I felt rather than saw my advan tage, and pressed it "You see what they are doing. Miss Ellersly." said I. She passed her hand over her eyes, let her face appear again. In It there was an energy of repulsion that ought to have seemed exaggerated to me then, knowing really nothing or the true situation. "I understand now!" said she. "Oh it is loathsome!" And her eyes blazed upon her mother. "Loathsome," I echoed, dashing at my opportunity. "If you are not mere ly a chattel and a decoy, if there is any womanhood, any self-respect in you. you will keep faith with me." "Anita!" cried Mrs. Ellersly. "Go to your room!" I had, once or twice before, heard a tone as repulsive a female dive keeper hectoring her wretchd white slaves. I looked at Anita. I expect ed to see her erect defiant Instead, she was again wearing that cowed lock. "Don't judge me too harshly." she said pleadingly to me. "I know what is right and decent God planted that too deep in me for them to be able to uproot it But oh, they have broken my will! They have broken my will! They have made me a coward, a thing!" And she hid her face in her hands and sobbed. Mrs. Ellersly was about to speak. I could not offer better proof of my own strength of will than the tact that L with a look and a gesture, put her down. Then I said to the girl: Anita, staring at her mother's aw- ful face, was shrinking and trembling as if before the wicked, pale-yellow eyes and quivering, outstretched ten tacles or a devil-fish. Clinging to my arm. she let me guide her to the door. Her mother recovered speech. "Anita!" she cried. "What are you doing? Are you mad?" "I think I must be out or my mind." said Anita. "But if you try to keep me here. I shall tell him all alL" Her voice suggested that she was about to go into hysterics. I gently urged her forward. There was some sort of woman's wrap in the halt I put it around her. Before she or I realized it she was in my waiting electric "Up town," I said to my man. She tried to get out "Oh. what nave I done! What am I doing!" she cried, her courage oozing away. "Let me out please!" "You are going with me," said I. en tering and dostne the door. I saw the door of the Ellersly mansion open-1 tng. saw old Ellersly, bareheaded and districted, scuttling down the steps, "Go ahead fast!" I called to my I could go on and on and never re turn to the world." "I wish we could," said I. My tone was low, but she started, drew back into the brougham, be came an outline in the deep shadow. In another mood that might have an gered me. Just then it hurt me so deeply that to remember it to-day is to reel a faint ache in the scar or the long-healed wound. My face was not hidden as was hers; so. perhaps, she saw. At any rate, her voice tried to be friendly as she said: "Well I have crossed the Rubicon. And I don't regret It was silly of me to cry. 1 thought I had been through so much that I was beyond such weakness. But you will find me calm from now on and reasonable." "Not too reasonable, please," said I, with an attempt at her "A reasonable woman is as trying a an unreasonable man." "But we are going to be sensible with each other." she urged, "like two friends. Aren't we?" "We are.goisg to he what -we are going to be," said L "Well have to take life as it comes." That clumsy reminder set her te thinking, stirred her vague uneasiness la those strange circumstances to ac tive alarm. For presently she said; in a- tone: that was not so matter-of-course as she had tried to make it: "We'll go now to my Uncle Franks. He's a brother of my father's. I al ways used to like him brat sad arm do. Bat he married a woman nnnm thought queer. They hadn't much. so he lives away up on the West Side One Hundred and Twenty-seventh street "The wise plan, the only wise plan.' said I, not so calm as she must 'have thought me. "is to go to my partner's house and send for a minister." "Not tonight" ahe replied nervous ly. "Take me to Uncle Frank's, sad to-morrow we can discuss what to de sad how to.do.it" "To-night" I persisted. "We must be married to-night No more uncer tainty and Indecision and weakness, Let us begin bravely. Anita." "To-morrow," she said. "But motto night I must think it over." "To-night" I repeated. To-morrow will be full of its own problems. This Is to-night's." She shook her head, and I saw that the struggle between us had begun the struggle against her timidity and conventionality. "No. not to-night" This in her tone for finality. To argue with any woman in such circumstances would be dangerous; to argue with her would have been fataL To reason with a woman Is to flatter her into suspecting yon of weakness and herself of strength. I told the chauffeur to turn about and go slowly up' town. She settled back into her corner of the brougham. Neither of us spoke until we were r"'"g Grant's tomb. Then she started oat of her secure confidence in my obed ience, and exclaimed: "This Is not the way!" And her voice had in it the hasty call-tc-arms. "No," I replied, determined to nush the panic into a rout '"As I told von. our future shall be settled to-nicht That in my tone for finality. A pause, then: "It has been see. tied," she said, like a child that feels, yet denies, its impotence as it strug gles Jn the compelling arms of its' father. "I thought until a few min utes ago that I really intended to marry you. Now I see that I didn't" "Another reason why we're not going to your uncle's," said L She leaned forward so that I could see her face. "I can act marry yon." she said, "i feel humble toward yon; for having misled you. But it is bet ter that you sad I should have found out now than too late." "It is too late too late to go back.' "Would you wish to marry a woman who does not love yon. who loves some one else, and who tells yon so sad refuses to marry you?" "She had tried to concentrate enough scorn into her voice to hide her fear. "I would." said I. "And I shall. Ill not desert you. Anita, when your cour age and strength shall fail. I will carry you on to safety." "I tell you I can not marry you." she cried, between appeal and com mand. -"There are reasons I mar not tell you. But If I might yoa would would take me to my ancle's. I can not marry you!" That 'is what conventionality bids you say now." I replied. And then I gathered myself together and in a tone that made me hate myself as I heard it I added slowly, each word sharp and distinct: "But what will conventionality bid yon say to-morrow morning, as we drive down crowded Fifth avenue, after a night In f brougham?" I could not see her. for she fell hack into the darkness as sharply as if 1 had struck her with all my force fall In the face. But I could feel the ef fect of my words upon her. Full fifteen minutes of that fright ful silence before she said: "I will go where you wish." And she said it In a tone that makes me wince as I recall it I called my partner's address ap through the tube. Again that fright ful silence, then she was trying to choke back, the sobs. A few words I caught:. , "They have broken my will they have broken my will." My partner lived In a big. gray stone house that stood apart and com manded a noble view of the Hudson and the Palisades. It was. in the main, a reproduction of a French cha teau, and such changes as the archi tect had made In his model were not positively disfiguring, though amm ing. lamsu irirs md rotes Bne HOI will ask for bonds for a fighting plant ' Sidle Carpenter, aged 19. wffl he tried at Hastings for horse stealing. v In the vicinity of Bine HOI. wUter wheat Is said to he looking flne. V Mr. aad Mrs. Junes 8kma of Ge nevn last week celebrated their golden wedding. V Wm. I3ser. one of the earliest set tlers of Gag comity, died last week at Aiifrnff. " The commercial department at the Pern Normal school has adopted atav pUfled spelling. flcetts Bluff wss near a coal famine. but was tided oVer by a car purchased from the B. ft M. Women of the Firsts Presbyteriam church of CorumbusA la a . two days' sale, cleared 185 over ex- KNOWWHATYOUBUY Ymm Cm Sm Qmmiky Qmmmtity m fftc Locml PAIS TO HADE AT HOME The (To be Continued.) School And the electric was rushing up the avenue, with the bell ringing for crossings incessantly. She huddled away from me into the corner of the seat sobbing hysterically. I knew that to touch her would be fatal or to speak. So I waited. XXL MOST UNGENTLEMANLY. As we neared the upper end of the park, I told my chauffeur, through the The liaison Paternelle at Mettray, near Tours, France, where the sons of rich people between the ages of 12 aad 21 are incarcerated because they are unmanageable at home, is a curious in stitution. We were greeted at the entrance with a frontage of iron bars, says a writer in the Fortnightly Review. No bell was rungt our guide noiselessly inserted a gigantic key and we en tered a large hall. A long row of locked doors greeted us on each side, and n sallerv ran. nlng around the top of the hall re- peated the same thing. "These are J ing to pay extra for It They are es- their rooms." said our guide in an awful whisper. "They are shut up in there now they must not hear us." This grewsome hall oppressed one with n sense or doom and despair quite indescribable. No windows, no air from the syklight overhead. "They are permitted to so out onlv in charge of a keeper for one hour in the day: but I will show von how things have been arranged for them," he added. "There Is. I believe, one room vacant at the moment" A smalL bare celL Just He enoach to contain the narrow bed, small writ ing table two chairs sad a wimnt chest of drawers aad washstand. Iron inclosed the window; a padlock and chain enabled the door to be opened about four inches when required. "You see," our guide showed us, "by this means they hear the mttsen la the chapel without quitting their rooms." In these cells, he told us, the boys lived day and night, for two, three, sometimes for six or seven years. Profesosrs come from Tours and give them Instructions at the small writine table. Once a month they take a bath, more often if their relatives are will- corted to the bath by a guardian. The isoiauo of each boy is so thorough thtt two Wethers were once there to getner for two years without ev&r knowing it The price for the priv ilege of placing your son under this parental roof is 12 pounds sterling a month, all instruction being extra. The boys are known only by the number on their cell door, so that their sojourn at the parental house may not tell against them la after life. ."Their friends suppose them to be en voyage or in an English or Ger man family, learning the language. One invents a little romance, you see, aid oar guide. Water tends for S14.000 carried at Bloomlngtoa by a large majority. A system of water works win be pat In at once:' '" Dr. Clark of Stanton Is resting from the oldest boy slipped and fell the gun celved in a fall upon the Ice, are being attended to. The members of the Christian ad nee' church of Exeter have plans made and a location, for the building of a church this spring. Mrs. Lou Face has brought suit for $2,000 damages against the city of Beatrice, because of Injuries received by falling over an unprotected water Pipe. Roscoe Wortman and Frank Dewer. sons of two prominent farmers living southeast of Ashland, who ran away, from home shortly before Christmas, have been heard of in Kansas City. Alyonzo Neal. son of Mr. and Mrs. John Neal, who live south of David City, while out doing his chores was kicked by a colt breaking his neck. Neal was 35 years old, single, and the only support of his parents. Wlnfftld Ackley has begun suit la the district court of Adams county against the Burlington railroad to re cover $600 for the loss of some alfalfa through afire which, it Is alleged, was started by sparks from an engine. At a special election held in Bloom- ington the proposition to Issue bonds' for $14,000 for the construction of a water plant was carried by a large majority. Much rejoicing has been oc casioned by the result of the vote. A Are at Craig, destroyed the fol lowing business houses: Whitaker harness shop, the hotel, hardware audi Implement store, millinery store, bar ber shop aad lumber yard. The exact' cause aad amount of property lost Is not known. Miss Frasier. seed IS. whose home is at Missouri Valley, but who has been teaching near Scrinner, is missing. No one knew where she had gone aad her place as teacher was left vacant A' yooag man la the neighborhood Is also missing. All Indications now point to a great building boom for Cambridge during: If 7. Pinna are already under way for two new brick blocks, a mew marble front bank building, a new $25,000 brick hotel aad a score of 'modern residences. It Is reported that the beet growers of the Hershey district, which section comprises practically all the district Between North Platte aad Sutherland, have decided to organize, their object 'being to demand a flat rate of- $5 per ton ror the 1907 crop. A swollen and sprouted kernel of corn which had been in the windpipe of sixtoen-months'-old child of Mr. and Mrs. George Kessler. residing near Roseland, was removed and the child's life has been saved after it was given ,up' as lost by Its parents. Edward Larson Is In the county) jail at Columbus, charged with horse' stealing. His uncle, Charles Larson, 'Is the complaining witness. Be says Edward came to make him a visit and had become well acquainted with the horse, cart and harness, and coveted it so much that he took it and left Two of the discharged colored sol diers from Browaslvlle have lust been arrested st Rosebud, charged with In traducing liquor on the Rosebud In dian reservation. They give the names of Long and Williams. They have been jailed at Yalentln.e where they were formerly stationed. William M. Robertson, need flftv- seven, died at his home In Msdisoa.. Previous to his fatal Illness he was. a candidate for annointment as dls-' trict judge to succeed Judge Boyd, who will resign to enter congress. He, was once a prominent candidate for the gubernatorial nominaUoe.and was republican national committeeman for Nebraska In 1886.. Merchants of Nebraska aad other states will protest against the pro) posed change of rates on the railroad affecting the transportation of prem ium packages. Under the present rules premiums are allowed to go at the usual freight rate only In oatmeal. Under a proposed new rule they are to be allowed in every kind of food stuff that Is packed in packages. At Trueblood, a tinner employed by C. A. Newberry, at Alliance, was frightfully and seriouslv burned bv the explosion of a tinner's flrepot while work on a roof. Otto Kopp, a recluse, who lives near St Edward, was taken in custody by the deputy sheriff of Platte county. Koop has lately been taking an occa sional shot at his neighbors with m 30-30 Winchester rifle, aad recently he shot at George Blair, who was load lag straw in a neighboring field, which resulted In the authorities being noti ced. - alt at Heats. diss he Is iaterested Ja tatee quality, eaaatlty aad nrlee: gees into the store of his local mer chant he sees the goods that he is to pay for displayed before him; he caa determine whether the quality is first class, aad whether the eaaatlty is sR that Is claimed These two points settled, he should have a fair idea as to whether the price asked Is a fair one or not Bat how is it when he attempts to buy of the big mall order houses of the cities? The oary guide he has to the quality and quaatity they are offering is what the catalogue says, aad the catalogue Is prepared with the one ob ject la view of sellihg the goods. ! When the consumer hays of his local merchant aad finds the goods he has purchased were not as represent ed he caa 'promptly take them hack aad receive his money. When he buys of the mail order house in the large cities he has practically no recourse but to take what he gets and look pleasant at the results. It Is cheap goods and short weight that, is making mail order house profits. They caa buy hut little, if .esVssPsausV abmMwhssi sWuBBmsBh aVmsfm ssmYfF" theaaayeaei isesfeach ami saaraatess The directkms are always em the side, aad yoa have to hay a sea re I tunable package before yea csa madi oat what they are." A. G. Enderton. of Walter. OkmJ wriOag to the Shawnee. Okie, UaJeul 81gaaL says: , " The man order hewsesj are the worst offenders of .the pare food law that we have to' deal wttmJ They are the people who use sssvff weight ttm cams ami every year the ef deOsrs by taw I see saint at good oil is worth. Now; think that a mail good paint alas? "New like what is oat ef oil wells cast. Verr it not? That Is the on that m ami what about the psiat staff? "Hew, about Spsmlsh whitening, with jest enough white lead to stick it together? The question ef prompt delivery hs ralcm man order" patrons should rouridsr. It Is fiDed promptly. The reasom for this dewy Is that they do mot carry the goods hi stock, ami mast nurehase them after your order is received. Im" Chicago, for example, mo mall order house win seU to aay persem nvtmgj wuuin ine cuy omits, ana tae re for this Is that these concerns chase a large amount of the dise they are selling from the retal stores of the city, the proprietors ef which refuse to sell them the goods except upon the conditio that they, are mot to seU to the neonle of the city. When you order articles ef con siderable bulk they must he ordered of the factories after your, order has beea received, aad the result is that jarauBssv) .asSO 3lliilllii 111 vjVfj&jijiJM CT Xbi3 smaU BaLBmmr72BBBBKBBBmw Wsy?saOssssSsfc4ssnVJssn mfm mr The mail-order jeesenuwt Is enmhiftu. the lives eat ef sense er meai mercnams, ami nwnerees ef towns and villages as welt yeu sena a sonar to the mailerder heuee yen are set operettas, the lever that keens this deatli-oealfeifl machine en the move. -"-r"1" wwwwr While out hunting near Pickrell. George Mennisgs shot and probably iaiauy wounded his 8-year-old brother. The boys were crossing a poad whem the old boy slipped aad felL the gen being discharged aad the load of shot striking the lad In the thigh. . Refferee Poet, appointed to take tes timony In the lumber trust salt, has Jbumd sgslast the lumbermen on the? objection brought by them to the ad mission of evidence of a boycott by la other states who sold ' i yi I dealers. say, cheaper than your local merchant can. First-quality, standard merchan dise Is manufactured on a very nar row margin of profit but the man order house can win and pay big divi dends on enormous capital if they can sell to the people an Inferior quality and short weight quantity of merchan dise at the prices they ask. Your local merchant could do the same thing, but you would not bur the same goods of your local merchant that you buy of the mall order house at an equal price. Here is an Item clipped from the Parma, Mich, News which shows the nefarious system of the mail order concerns, and how they victimize their patrons: "A fanner purchased two sack or binding twine of a large Chicago cata logue house, and upon its arrival this morning a ball was unrolled and meas ured with a ball of Plymouth twine sold by local dealers, when it was found that the Chicago article was just 306 feet' short of that sold at home. There being ten balls in a sack, it will be seen that the farmer lost 42 feet or over a mile of twine on two sacks by not buying at home. Then. too. ine mail order house product was of an Inferior quality, being f all of knots, and one farmer standing near during the measuring process remarked that It would never work on a binder. Now we wish to ask you, does It pay to iraoe ac nomei it there is anyone who is skeptical of this story, just can and we win show you." Parma, Mich., News. Bankrupt stock, merchandise that reliable jobbers would not handle be cause of its poor quality, the refuse of the factories made over into rhMn merchandise. These 'are the things the patrons of the mall order houses are buying. Here is an extract frm an article that appeared in the Sioux Falls, S. D Leader which explains this point: The man order house selling vehi cles by the catalogue route. Is more than a pirate, it Is a turkey-buzzard. It takes the freaks aad faUures that have died forwent of real merit, and tries to stifle legitimate business by selling the embalmed remains at a re duced price. "The whole nefarious mail order sys tem. In so far as it relates to vehicles. slmost the exceptional order that Is is connected on the theory that It Is possible to take aa Inferior job and foist it oa a credulous people by means of a reduced price and the honest reputation established by the meritorious original which it shame lessly caricatures. These methods have beea crowned with success sole ly by reason of the fact that man or der houses put more skill, energy aad money Into advertising than do the manufacturers to whom the American people are directly indebted for the best vehicles oa the face of the earth. The man order business Is the snack doctor of commerce. It prom- you not only have to wait for a period of days aad weeks ami somntfmnn months before yon receive them, but they come to you piece-meal and yoa have to pay freight om a amber of shipments instead of on. one. Here is the wan of a audi order vic tim .taken from the columns of the Crookston, Mhuu Journal, which ex plains this point: Sir: I want to register rt Mt right here oa catalogue kM am. their misleading methods. I am frank to acknowledge that I have beea. duped to perfection. The only differ-t ence between me and the other vie-' tims being that I am a little deeper la and that I am willinr n wwiJ edge the com. To begin with, last fan I with her, who is now my wife, decided to - chase some stuff to furnish oar new nome. Accordingly we ttrdrma our furnishings of a catalogue house' two weeks prior to our marriage which we thought would he plenty of unw 10 gee tne goods around. But by the infernal planets let me ten yoa right here that all the correspondence diplomacy, appealing and pleading has succeeded ia landing only a kitchen table and later a mirror from Pitts burg. My wife tells me I ought to be thankful for these, for we no longer have to eat our meals on a dry goods box aad I caa look in th iin.. .., see what fools look like. w mBjrmoon nas seen a very dramatic experience; cooking om aa old gas plate, eating oa a dry goods box. sleeping om the floor sad borrow ing a few necessary utensils of friends and neighbors. No more catalogue goods for as. We hope to get enough more goods by April 1 to celebrate all fool's day In a fitting manner." "A VICTIM. Mr. Consumer, It is to your advas. tage ia many ways to bar goods at honest prices of your honest local merchant See what yoa are buying. Get what you are paying for. Keep the money of the community la which yoa live st home, aad hand up your town Instead of tearinr it 4nw ror tae oenent or the houses of the big cities. Timely Rssetotien. The occasion was the first day of the year, the time was the hoar in th evening when mellowing influences seem to he more powerful wkh mm men than with others, both combined to turn the thoughts of two acquaint ances, as they made their way home ward, to the mew year and its pmv slbilitles. "I am gwine to make a resolution; for the mew year." said oae with the) firmness that alcohol sometimes im parts. "What are yoa xwine to sank . olmttoms 'homtr inquired mis compan ion as he safely got over the curb stone oc the crossing. 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