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Edgefield Advertiser Published Weekly. EDGEFIELD, S. C. BRIEF NEWS NOTES FORJE BUSY MAN ?HOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OP THE PAST WEEK TOLD \H CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest From All Parts of Warld. Southern? On? hundred and lorty-eight new basics, with aggregate capital of $10, 400,000, were organized in the ten Souhtern states between January 15 and April 15 of this year. The new Institutions, with their capitals, are divided among the following states: Alabama 15 banks, capital $1,605,000; Florida, 10 banks, $43,000; Georgia, ZS banks, $1,350,000; Kentucky, ll banks, $450,000; Louisiana, 8 banks, $210,000; Mississippi, 9 banks, $7S0, 000; North Carolina, 12 banks, $1,230/ OOO; South Carolina, 20 banks, $1,210,-1 OOO; Tennessee, IS banks, $2,330,000; Virginia, 10 banks, $440,000. All the old officers of the Confer ence for Education in the South were re-elected by the delegates attending the annual convention in Jackson? ville. Fla. The officers are: Robert C. Ogden, New York, president; Wick liffe Rose, Washington, vice presi dent; William A. Blair, North Caro lina, treasurer; P. P. Claxton, Ten nessee, executive secretary. Members cf the executive committee chosen are: Joseph Cook, Mississippi; S. J. Brooks, Texas; J. Barwell, Louisiana, and A. A. Murphree, Florida. Secretary MacVeagh, speaking be fore the South Carolina Bankers' as sociation in Summerville, S. C., made a plea to the Southern states to break from one-party mle and become bi ipartisan in their politics for their own i?ood. He declared it to be of fun damental importance that any party isoveraed nation should have two available parties that the political .life of all the people shall bs at :its best. "Two parties with at least fairly equal chances of governing are required in the work of governing the country, Doth locally and nationally," he said. Hon. J. C. G roner, leader of the In surgent Tennessee legislators, who have been spending the past week in Decatur and Birmingham, Ala., ar rived in Knoxville, Tenn. He came from Birmingham on account of sick ness, ind is armed with a physician's certificate stating that he is in no condition to attend to his duties as a legislator. Mr. Groner says the i Insurgents are enjoying life in Ala bama; that they intend to stick General Of all the methods adopted by the Camorrist prisoners to excite sympa thy or incite a riot, none surpassed ta novelty and effectiveness that ot Gaetno Esposito, who, at the end ot a mad harangue, tore a glass eye from his head and, hurling it at the feet of the president, stampeded the court. Then he fell in a faint, and President Bianchi suspended the sit ting. According to the state, Esposi to, who is known as a usurer, is a dangerous malefactor. President Diax of Mexico ordered the release of Edward H. Blatt and Lawrence F. Converse, Americans, who were arrested by the government troops and imprisoned in Juarez. It was asserted in defense of the men that they were arrested on American soil and taken into Mexico by force. Against the advice of Superintend ent Hotchkiss of the New York de partment of insurance and of its trustees, the Equitable Life Assur ance society, by a vote of its board of directors, elected William A. Day, Ju Pierpont Morgan's candidate, to succeed the late Paul Moiton as the president of the society, at a salary of $50,000 a year as against the $80, ?00 a year paid to Mr. Morton. No vice president was chosen to succeed Mr. Day. The board also went on record in favor of mutualization. The excitement caused in the Unit ed States by the news that the re ply of President Diaz to the demands of President Tait was of a defiant nature, brought a quick change on the part of the Mexican government. Dispatches telling of President Tafi's refusal to be stampeded into an un friendly act had much to do witn moderating sentiments of President (Diaz' advisers. General Madero's de mand that President Diaz resign to prevent an attack on Juarez was greeted with derision in Mexico City. Human flesh ls being s?ld in Man churia, where the plague continues to abate, according to advices brought to Seattle, Wash., by the Japanese steamship Kainakura, which departed from Yokohama on March 28. Martin W. Littleton of New York ?as been invited to address the Ten nessee legislature and has accepted. A contract was closed at Paducab. Ky., by the Planters' Protective asso ciation with the Italian Regie for C.OOO hogsheads of tobacco at an average price of ll 1-4 cents per pound. It is one of the largest contracts ever undertaken by the association. Boston's lobster famine has been broken by the arrival of the steamer Boston from Yarmouth, X. 3., with 1,200 crates of the crustacean. The catch off Nova Scotia :? reported suc cessful. liundreds of persons are expected to be disfranchised as tte result ol' an investigation into vote-buying in laurens county by the grand jury sitting at Louisville, Ky. The inquiry was ordered by Circuit Judge Hannah This is tho tenth county in Kentucky 1n which such an investigation has been ordered in the last month. Mere Investigations will follow. The Chase cotton mills in Burling ton. Vt, will be shut down until busl ness conditions improve. Serving short measure in beer and ?he deception of the public by filling glasses with a froth so as to form what is popularly known as a "col lar" has just been adjudged an of fense punishable by imprisonment by tte criminal court at Munich, Ger many. The tenant of a beer house, who was charged with defrauding the public in this way, was sentenced to six weeks in jail and a fine of $750, and five of his waiters to terms of from one to three weeks in jail. Pub lic indignation led to the suit Investigation of the charges made recently at the Methodist conference at Saratoga, N. Y., by Rev. O. R. Miller of the New York Civic League, that a two hundred and fifty thousand dollar fund had Deen raised to force a Sunday baseball bill through the New York legislature, was concluded by the senate committee on privileges and elections. It is understood that the senate committee will report to the senate that no evidence has been adduced to support the charge. Many cotton mills in Fall River, Mass., were shut down. Work will be resumed every Monday morning, but it is possible that most of the coarse goods mills will continue on a short time schedule, probably clos ing Thursday night and reopening the following Monday. Some of the com panies, ?owever, will continue on full time. Washington. The formal launching of the boom of Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio for the presidency took place in the rooms of Senator Pomerene of Ohio in the senate office building. Sena tor Pomerene sent out a call to all the 16 Democratic congressmen from Ohio to attend the meeting to dis cuss the outlook and devise ways and means of promoting Mr. Harmon's chances. All members of the Ohio ? socratic delegation were present, ! and it was stated by those friendly that a unanimous declaration in his favor will be made, probably next week. The majority of the congress men said they believed that Champ Clark, rather than Woodrow Wilson would be the most formidable com petitor for the nomination against Harmon. The Canadian reciprocity pact was passed by the house by a vote of 269 to 89, all the Democrats except 10 voting for the measure. A majority of the Republicans present and voting voted against it, the number of repre sentatives favoring being 67, while 78 Republicans and Aiken of New York, a "black sheep,' were against it. To Leader Underwood is due a large share of credit for the successful work. He displayed rare skill as the Democratic floor leader and engineer ed the bill to final passage with con summate ability. Former Speaker Joseph S. Cannon held the floor of the house in oppo sition to the Canadian reciprocity agreement for three hours and in a vigorous attack on President Taft'v pet policy, insisted that the proposed legislation was inimical to the farm ers. The gentleman whom Henry Watterson of Louisville, Ky., referred to as "that magnificent old repro bate" displayed his proverbial vigor and powers of endurance under the strain of three hours' continuous speaking. The majority report of the ways and means committee on the so-call ed farmers' free list bill, submitted to the house by Chairman Under wood, is a merger of Democratic po litical argument and an analysis of the proposed duty exemptions. The report shows that the bill would re duce the tariff revenue $10,016,495, based on the importations for the last fiscal years, an amount desccribed as inconsiderable in comparison with the great saving from the additions to the free list provided for." The house committee on expendi tures in the navy department, in its inquiry, decided to request from Sec retary Meyer information as to the number of employes, the expense of the department for the five-year pe riod beginning with the Spanish American war and for the past five years. Later the committee propos es to take up consideration of a navy reorganization plan. Provision for in creasing the officers and decreasing general expenses of the staff to $2, 000,000 is made. A proposition for an armistice pending negotiations for a settlement of Mexico's internal troubles was re ceived by the department of foreign relations from Washington, presum ably from Dr. Vasquez Gomez. A reply was returned, in which it was indicated that the government looked with favor upon the suggestion. The armistice proposal appeared to be a direct outgrowth of the battle of Agua Prieta, and the cons?quent los3 of life and bodily injury occasioned in Douglas by the fire from the Mexi can side. It points specifically to the dangers of international complications which might follow a continuation of the conflict. President Taft feels that he has done personally all that can be done by a chief executive to control the situation along the Mexican border. He and his advisers believe that now congress must say whether the situ ation is grave enough to warrant in tervention and its consequences. Through the state department the ad ministration played what might be re garded as its last card. It reiterated in no uncertain fashion the represen- . tations made to Mexico a few days ago, that affairs like that at Douglas and Agua Prieta must not be repeat ed. "An invasion of Mexico designed for a limited and temporary purposo might be like touching a match to a tinder house." Senator Bacon of Georgia, ranking minority member of the senate committee on foreign re lations, thus epitomized the sentiment cf leaders or both parties in tho two branches of congress. While recog nizing the gravity of the situation in Mexico, congress is satisfied that the president is doing everything that can be done under the circumstances and nowhere is there seen the slightest disposition to embarrass him or his p'Ogram. SYNOPSIS. James Wilson or Jimmy as he ls called by his friends. Jimmy was rotund and looked shorter than he really was. His ambition In life was to be taken seriously, but people steadily refused to do so. his art ls considered a huge Joke, except to himself, if he asked people to dinner ev eryone expected a frolic. Jimmy marries Bella Knowles; they live together a year and are divorced. Jimmy's friends ar range to celebrate the first anniversary of his divorce. Those who attend the Party are Miss Katherine McNair, who every one callB Kit Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Brown, the Misses Mercer. Maxwell Reed and a Mr. Thomas Harbison, a South American civil engineer. The party ls In full swing when Jimmy receives a tele gram from his Aunt Selina, who will ar rive In four hours to visit him and his wife. Jimmy gets his funds from Aunt Selina and after he marries she doubles his allowance. He neglects to tell her of his divorce, as she is opposed to lt. Jim my takes Kit into his confidence, he tries to devise some way so that his aunt will not learn that he has no longer a wife. He suggests that Kit play the hostess for one night, be Mrs. Wilson pro tem. Kit refuses, but is finely prevailed upon to act the part. Aunt Selina arrives and the deception works out as planned, as she had never seen Jim's wife. CHAPTER III. (Continued.) "It might be scarlet fever," Max broke in cheerfully. "I say, scarlet fever on a Mongolian-what color would he be, Jimmy? . What do yel low and red make? Green?" "Orange," Jim said shortly. "I wish, you people would, remember that we are trying to eat" The fact was, however, that no one was really eating, except Mr. Harbi son, who had given up trying to un derstand us, considering, no doubt, our subdued excitement as our nor mal condition. Ages afterward I learned that he thought my face al most Iragie that night, and that he supposed, from the way I glared across the table, that I had quarreled with my husband! ."I am afraid you are not well," he said at last, noticing my food un touched on my plate. "We should not have come, any of us." "I am perfectly well," 1 replied fe verishly. "I am never ill. I-I ate a late luncheon." He glanced at me keenly. "Don't let them' stay and play bridge to night," he urged. "Miss Caruthers can be an excuse, can she not? And you are really fagged. You look it." "I think it is only ill humor," I said, looking directly at him. "I am angry at myself. I have done some thing silly, and I hate to be silly." Max would have said "Impossible," or something else trite. The Harbi son man looked at me with interested, serious eyes. "Is it too late to undo it?" he asked. And then and there I determined that he should never know the truth. He could go back to South America and build bridges and make love to the Spanish girls (or are they Spanish down there?) and think of me always as a married woman, married to a dilettante artist, inclined to be stout -the artist, not I-and with an Aunt Selina Caruthers who made buttons and believed in the Cause. But never, never should he think of me as a silly little fool who pj'etended that she was the other man's wife and bad a lump in her throat because when a really nice man came along, a man who knew something more than polo and motors, she had to carry on the decep tion to keep his respect, and be se date and matronly, and see him change from perfectly open admira tion at first to a hands-off-she-is-my host's-wife attitude at last. "It can never be undone," I said soberly. Well, that's the picture as nearly as I can draw it; a round table with a low centerpiece of orc?ids in laven ders, and pink, old silver candlesticks with filigree shades against the som ber wainscoting; nine people, two of them unhappy-Jim and I; one of them complacent-Aunt Selina; one puzzled-Mr. Harbison; and the rest hysterically mirthful. Add one sick Japanese butler and grind in the mills of the gods. Every one promptly forgot Takahiro in the excitement of the game we were all playipg. Finally, however. Aunt Selina, who seemed to have Ta kahiro on her mind, looked up from her plate. "That Jap was speckled," she as serted. "I wouldn't be surprised If it's measles. Has he been sniffling, James?" "Has he been sniffling?" Jim threw across at me. "I hadn't noticed it," I said meekly, while the others choXed. Max came to the rescue. "She re fused to eat it," he explained, dis tinctly and to everybody, apropos ab solutely of nothing. "It said on the box, 'ready cooked and predigested.' She declared she didn't care who cooked it, but she wanted to know who predigested it." As every one wanted to laugh, every one did it then, and under cover of the noise I caught Anne's eye, and we left the dining room. The men stayed, and by the very flrmnees with which the door closed behind us, I knew that Dallas and Max were bringing out the bottles that Takahiro had hid den. I was seething. When Aunt Selina indicated a desire to go over the house (it was natural that she should want to: It was her house, in a way) I excused myself for a minute and flew back to the dining room. It was as I had expected. Jim hadn't cheered perceptibly, and the rest were patting him on the back, and pouring things out for him, and saying, "Poor old Jim" in the most maddening way. And the Harbison man was looking more and more puz zled, and not at all hilarious. I descended on them like a thunder bolt. "That's it!" I cried shrewishly, with my back against the door. "Leave her to me. all of you, and pat each other on the back, and say it's gene splendidly! Oh, I know you, every one!" Mr. Harbison got up and pulled out a chair, but I couldn't sit; I folded my arms on the back. "After a while, I suppose, you'll slip upstairs, .1 ICUmR ?TA&CA?Er* rim, ETC; LlcoAffvwr' " the four of you, and have your game." They looked guilty. "But I will block that right now. I am going to stay -here. If Aunt Selina wants me, she can find me-here!" The first Indication those men had that Mr. Harbison didn't know the state of affairs was when he turned and faced them. "Mrs. Wilson Is quite right," he said gravely. "We're a selfish lot If Miss Caruthers is a responsibility, let us share her." "To arms!" Jim said, with an affec tatton of lightness, as they put their glasses down, and threw open the door. Dal's retort, "Whose?" was lost in the confusion, and we went into the library. On the way Dallas managed to speak to me. "If Harbison doesn't know, dont tell bim," he said In an undertone. "He's a queer duck, In some ways; he mightn't think lt funny." "Funny," I choked. "It's the least funny thing I ever experienced. De ceiving that Harbison man isn't so bad-he thinks me crazy, anyhow. He's boen staring his eyes out at me-" "I don't wonder. You're lovely to night, Kit, and you look like a vixen." "But to deceive that harmless old lady-well, thank goodness, it's nine, and she leaves in an hour or so." But she didn't And that's the story. CHAPTER IV. The Door Was Closed. It was Infuriating to see how much enjoyment every one but Jim and my self got out of the situation. They -'That's lt!" I Cr howled with mirth over the feeblest jokes, and when Max told a story without any point whatever, they all had hysteria. Immediately after din ner Aunt Selina had begun on the family connection again, and after two bad breaks on my part, Jim offered to show her the house. The Mercer girls trailed along, unwilling to lose any of the possibilities. They said afterward that it was terrible: She went into all the closets, and ran her hand over the tops of doors and kept getting grimmer and grimmer. In the studio they came across a lifo study Jim was doing and she shut her eyes and made the girls go out while be covered it with a drapery. Lollie! Who did the Bacchante dance at three benefits last winter and was learning a new one called "Eve!" When they heard Aunt Selina on the second floor, Anne, Dal and Max sneaked up to the studio for cigarettes, which left Mr. Harbison to me. I was in the den, sitting in a low chair by the wood fire when he came In. He hesitated In the doorway. "Would you prefer being alone, or may I come in?" he asked. "Don't mind being frank. I know you are tired." "I have a headache, and I am sulk ing," I said unpleasantly, "but at least I am not actively venomous. Come in." So he came and sat down across the hearth from me, and neither of us said anything. The firelight flickered over the room, bringing out the faded hues of the old Japanese prints on the , walls, gleaming in the mother-of-pearl eyes of the dragon on the screen, set ting a grotesque god on a cabinet to nodding. And it threw into relief the j strong, clear profile of the man across from me, as he stared at the fire. "I am afraid I am not very interest ing," I said at last, when he showed no sign of breaking the silence. "The ? -the illness of the butler and-Miss ? Caruthers* arrival, have been upset- ? ting." He suddenly roused with a start j from a brown reverie. j "I beg your pardon," he said, "I- i oh, of course not! I was wondering ; if I-If you were offended at what I | said earlier In the evening; the-- i Brushwood Doy, you know, and all j that." S "Offended?" I repeated, puzzled. "You see, I have been living out of the world so long, and never seeing any women but Indian squaws"-so -there were no Spanish girls!-"that I'm afraid I say what comes into my mind without circumlocution. And then-1 did not know you were mar ried." "No, oh, no," I said hastily. "But, of course, the more a woman Is mar ried-I mean, you cannot say too many nice things to married women. They-need them, you know." I had floundered miserably, with his eyes on me, and I half expected him to be shocked, or to say that married women should be satisfied with the nice things their husbands say to them. But he merely remarked apropos of nothing, or following a line of thought he had not voiced, that lt was trite but true that a good many men owed their success in life to their wives. "And a good many owe their wives to their success in Hie," I retorted cynically. At which he stared at me again. It was then that the real complexity of the situation began to develop. Some one had rung the bell and been admitted to the library and a maid came to the door of the de*1. When she saw us she sto: "ed uncertainly. Even then it struck me that she look ed odd, and she was not in uniform. However, I was not informed at that time about bachelor establishments, and the first thing she said, when she had asked to speak to me in the ball, knocked her and her clothes clear out of my head. Evidently she knew. "Miss McNair," she said in a low tone, "there is a lady In the drawing room, a veiled person, and she is ask ing for Mr. Wilson." "Can you not find him?" I asked. "He ls In the house, probably in the studio." The girl hesitated. "Excuse me, miss, but Miss Caruth ers-" Then I saw the situation. "Never mind," I said. "Close the door into the drawing room, and I will tell Mr. Wilson." But as the girl turned toward the fed Shrewishly. doorway, the person In question ap peared in it. and raised her veil. I was perfectly paralyzed. It was Bella! Bella in a fur coat and a veil, with the most tragic eyes I ever saw and entirely white except for a dab of rouge in the middle of each cheek. We stared at each other without speech. The maid turned and went down the hall, and with that Bella came over to me and clutched me by the arm. "Who was being carried out Into that ambulance?" she demanded, glaring at me with the most awful in tensity. 'Tm sure I don't know, Bella," I said, wriggling away from ber fingers. "What in the world are, you doing here.? I thought you were in Europe." "You are hiding something from me!" she accused. "It is Jim! I seo it in your face." "Well, it Isn't." I snapped. "It seems to me, really, Bella, that you and Jim ought to be able to manage your own affairs, without dragging me in." It was not pleasant, but if she was suffering, so was I. "Jim Is as well as he ever was. He's upstairs somewhere. I'll send for him."" She gripped me again, and held on while her color came back. "You'll do nothing of the kind," she said, and she had quite got hold of herself again. "I do not want to see Ulm: I hope you don't think, Kit. that I came here to see James Wilson. Why. I have forgotten that there ls such a person, and you know it." Somebody upstairs laughed, and I was growing nervous. What If Aunt Selina should come down, or Mr. Har bison come out of the den? "Why did you come, then, Bella?" ? inquired. "He may come in." "I was passing in the motor," she said, and I honestly think she hoped I would believe her. "and I saw that am-" She stopped and began again. 'I thought Jim was out of town, and [ came to see Takahiro," she said brazenly. "He was devoted to mo, md Evans is going to leave. I'll tell (rou what to do, Kit. I'll go back to Lhe dinir.g room, and you send Tal:a. :hcre. If any one comes, I caa slip into the pantry." (TO BE COXTI.NUED.) PEAGE REIGNS IN OLD MEXICO ARMISTICE SIGNED AND COMBAT ANTS HAVE OPENED PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. THE BLOODY WAR IS ENDED General Madero and Representative of Mexican Government Exchange Messages-Terms Will be Liberal Diaz Will Not Resign. El Paso, Tex.-An armistice affect ing the district between Juarez and Chihuahua and west of the latter city, was made effective in an exchange of Identical letters signed by Gen. Fran cisco I. Madero, for the rebels, and Gen. Juan Navarro for the govern ment. The truce provides that there shall be no movement of troops of either side during the period of the armis tice and that provisions and medi cines may be brought to either camp from the American side without pay ment of duty. It is noted that Ojinaga, where a small Federal force is besieged, is not covered in the armistice, the insur recto activities in that district being largely independent. It is expected that in the event of the settlement of thc rebellion in Chihuahua, the situ ation at Ojinaga. and other scattered places throughout the repubiic will receive attention. The moral effect of the cessation of hostilities in Chi huahua is regarded as certain to make settlements in other parts cf the coun try simple. Actual peace negotiations preceded the armistice. It was known that a truce was agreeable to Madero and a telegram from the City of Mexico in formed General Madero that General Navarro had been instructed by Pres ident Diaz to enter into the pact. The concessions which the govern ment is willing to make have been known for two weeks to General Madero, ever since Frederico Moye, a business man of Chihuahua, visited General Madero at Rancho Bustillos. They were discussed at the meeting by the various leaders and members of the peace mission. Those present were : Francisco Madero, Sr., father of the rebel leader; the latter's brothers, Alfonso, Gustavo and Raoul Madero; Pascual Orozco, the original field leader of the revolution; Pancho Villa, former bandit and present staunch supporter of Madero; Guizep pe Garabaldi and General and Senora Madero. The latter named is account ed a warm supporter of taking Juarez and then talking peace. PARDON REFUSED STRIPLING "Unwritten Law" Excoriated by the Chief Executive of Georgia. Atlanta.-In denying the application for pardon filed by Thomas Edgar Stripling, former police chief of Dan ville, Va., under sentence of life im prisonment for the murder of William J. Cornett, Governor Brown in a re view of the case, excoriates the "un written law," which Stripling pleaded in justification of his act as euphem ism, presenting, when unmasked, "the hideous features of anarchy." ? "One of the most dangerous evils menacing our institutions is lawless ness," declares the governor. "The mob executing in wild disorder its victim and the individual wreaking bis own revenge for wrongs real or imaginary, the man or interest treat ing with contempt the laws of the land and trusting to gold or 'influence' for safety, are striking manifestations of this spirit of lawlessness." Strip lings record since his escape is also severely criticised, having killed one man and injured two others while act ing as chief of police. Place of General Conference Y. M.C. A. New York.-Asheville, N. C., June 9 to 19, was the place and time chosen for the Southern General conference for student, city, rural and industrial associations, at a meeting here of the national board of Young Men's Chris tian associations. An Unprecedented Situation. Washington.-The Democrats of the senate may be called on to arbitrate ' the differences between the Republi can "regulars" and "progressives" over the question of committee as signments. This unprecedented situation was freely predicted following the ad- , journment of a meeting of the Re- . publican committee of the senate, at which the demands of the "progres- . sives" for the right to dictate one fourth of the Republican members on all committees was turned down. Apology Dees Not Suffice. Washington.-Ai apology from ( Capt. John M. Bowyer, superintendent ( of the Naval academy, to Miss Mary H. Beors and her father, Prof. Beers,, ot Yale, has been obtained by the , secretary of the navy for a slighting , remark about Miss Beers made by some one at the academy as a result j of her attendance at a recent hop there. Miss Beers was governess in the family of Lieut. Tarrant, and her escort was later informed that he should not have invited the young woman because of her position. Confesses to Los Angeles Dynamiting. Los Angeles.-Under the surveil lance of armed guards, John J. Mc. ?amara, secretary of the International ? Structural Iron Worker's Association , and his two alleged confederates, . James McNamara and Ortie Mac- , Mingle were brought here to answer to the charge of having dynamited ( The Los Angeles Times building Octo ber 1, 1910, and causing the death of 21 men. Capt. 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" OF COURSE. know the pistol was loaded, yet the dealer who sold it to you says you did not pay for it. Prisoner-What's that got to do with it? The Magistrate-Well, if you didn't pay for it, then the dealer must have charged it for you. DAME NATURE HINTS When the Food ls Not Suited. When Nature gives her signal that something is wrong it is generally with the food; the old Dame is always faithful and one should act at once. To put off the change is to risk that which may be irreparable. An Ari zona man says: . "For years I could not safely eat any breakfast I tried all kinds of breakfast foods, but they were all soft, starchy messes, which gave me iistressing headaches. I drank strong coffee, too, which appeared to benefit me at thc time, but added to the head aches afterwards. Toast ar"* coffee were no better, for I found ^'<s toast pery constipating. "A friend persuaded me to quit cof fee and the starchy breakfast foous, and use Postum and Grape-Nuts in stead. 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