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Mr. Bowser , Acts Fatherly ? . Z-r * """?? - - f T? Infant of a Neighbor (jives Him a Strenuous Time For an Hour. TRIES TO CARE FOR IT Nothing He Codd Do Wouid Restrain die Baby From Crying and Make It Go to Sleep. m-i ? {Copyright. 1906, by Homer Sprogue.] THE Bowsers had just finished dinner the other evening, and Mr. Bowser was about to take a seat on the &nt steps to snoke a cigar when Mrs. Taylor came down from the third house, bringing g her ten-month-old baby with her. There was to be a meeting of a chifrch committee three blocks away that evening, and she not only wanted to attend, but she wanted Mrs. Bowser's $ company. "I could have left baby home," she explained, "but Mr. Taylor had to go' out We can leave him on the divan here, and he will sleep right along till midnight I have never known him to m f it?f?rn ' t J **bi thundeb, but he's got a dimple in his chin! wake up of an evening in his little 0 life; He won't bother you for a single instant, Mr. Bowser. All you've got .J to do is to look in once in awhile and see that the cat isn't sucking his breath." "Why, of course," replied Mr. Bowser, who was feeling good natured toward the world. "I'll take just as good . gig fare of the little chap as you could yourself. Bless his lit.tle heart, but I wish we had fourteen like him! What a picture of innocence, he presents! No wonder it doesn't take the soul of a child over two seconds to go to heaven!" >jr. Left Baby With Him. "It's awfully kind of you." observed the mother, "but I shan't trespass on your good nature more than a quarter of an hour. I just want to speak about five words to two ladies." "Don't hurry yourself, my dear woman. Stay an hour if you want to. I'll have my eye ont for the cat. I'd be a happy father if I had a house full of such little angels to come home to. By thunder, but he's got a dimple in his chin!" Mrs. Bowser looked at Mr. Bowser ; ramer qouuuuh}, uui uc uiuiivu^u ?.wi her to go on, and she went. The baby i had been carefully deposited on the divan, and the cat located in the back yard, and then Mr. Bowser sat down to . ' his cigar. "How proud Jim Taylor must be over a kid like that!" he said between the puffs, but he only said it once. A vigorous yell from the back parlor lifted him up and carried him into the house on the run. Three other yells reached him before he reached the infant Its face had been as white as milk when he saw it last. It had also been as smooth as satin. Now he beheld it as red as a beet and as full of i .wrinkles as a washboard. "Here, what's the matter?" he exclaimed as he began to pat the little one's head in a fatherly way. Tells Grtw Stronger. The eyes came wide open, and the yells grew stronger, while the feet kicked out as if young Taylor was dancing a hornpipe. "I see," said the fatherly Bowser after standing and scratching his ear for a moment, "he wants to be taken up. Come up here, angel one." Young Taylor was lifted up. He was wide awake now, and. though he was no veteran, he was old enough to realize that there had been some crooked work going on. The nurse hadn't changed the infants in the cradle In order to work In her own offspring for a good thing, but he had gone to sleep in his mother's arms and wakened to And a baldheaded man hauling him around. He resented the change In a .way that made the welkin ring. Mr. Bowser tossed him up and down. Result?nil. Mr. Bowser chirped and clucked and .whistled. Result?more nil. Mr. Bowser then cantered him through to the parlor windows, singing as he went, but the youngster now felt himself to be master of the situa Hon, and he went in for a whooping old time. Kc 3-elled when he was held right aide up, and he yelled when he was held head downward, ne was being danced around the parlor when a man walked in at the front door. He was a strawberry man in search of a customer. He had only announced that he had large and luscious berries at the lowest price known for years when Mr. Bowser shouted at him: "Get out of here, you fool! Can't you see what trouble I've got 02 hand?" "I can see that you are trying to kill that kid," replied the peddler. "An old man like you ought to know better than to hold him suspended by one leg like that." "Get out with you!" "Oh, I'll get out, but don't you think you have heard the last of this. There"? a law to cover such cases as this. I could tell you how to stop his yelling in one minute, but I'll be hanged if I do!" Mr. Bowser danced the child before a mantel mirror. It was an insuit promptly resented. He ran with it up to the piano and swept his fingers over the keys. The baby kept time to the discord. From a back window he called on the cat to come in for heaven's sake and have his tail pulled and break up the monotony, but the feline refused to budge. Then he got his presence of mind. The most cantankerous infant ever born can be quieted' by a lump of sugar. Young Taylor was deposited on the divan while his protector hustled downstairs for the sugar bowl. 1 Had the cook been home she could have given him some useful hints under the head of how to care for young children, but it was her afternoon out. Gave Baby Some Sugar. It was granulated sugar that Mr. j Bowser brought up and filled the ba. by's mouth with. It was good s^uff, but his action was taken amiss. The baby choked and spluttered and coughed, and when his mouth was free once j more he made up for lost time. His | yells brought in a pedestrian, a roily poly man of thirty, who timidly advanced with hat in hand and said: "I heard the infant screaming as I passed, and I stepped in to see if I ] should call a doctor." "Doctor be hanged!" yelled Mr. Bowser at him. "What I want just now is a crowbar. Do you know anything about children?' "Having- never married, I can't say that I do." "What's he yelling about?" "Don't all children yell when they want to? It seems as if I once heard my mother say that that was the case." "Then go home to your mother and have her say something else!" "Yeth, thir; thirtingly, thir," nspea roily poly as he went. For forty long and never ending minutes Mr. Bowser sweat his collar and forgot the number of states in the Union. He cooed and cussed, he sympathized and swore, he bounced and tossed and dangled, and in plain English language he told young Taylor that he'd give .$1,000 for the privilege of hitting him just once with a hickory club. Threatened Baby's Life. Now and then the howls would cease for a moment, and the infant would gaze into Mr. Bowser's face as if wondering whether he was a cruel hearted villain or not. Ten seconds would satisfy him that he had made no mistake, and the howls would burst forth louder than ever. As a last heroic expedient he was laid on the divan and Mr. Bowser stood off and shook a fist at liim and threatened his young life. The thing was a dead failure. It brought j such shrieks that the infant was snatched up, and Mr. Bowser ran out on the front steps with him just in time to meet Mrs. Bowser and the mother. "The poor little darling! But did the great big man sit down on him?" cooed the mother as she received her offspring into her arms and started for home. "How long has he been awake?" asked Mrs. Bowser. "Were you speaking to me, madam?" asked Mr. Bowser as he gave her one ' awful look. "Of course." "Then I will consider your question in the morning after we have consulted our respective lawyers. Don't think this attempted assassination will go unpunished!" M. QUAD. Jast Like a Womun. The Man?I am surprised to see you reading a historical novel. Don't you find it rather dull? The Maid?Oh, no. You see, there is so much in it one can skip.?Columbus Dispatch. After the Agony. v The Author?So you've read my new novel. Did you like it? Miss Flighty?Oh, yes. I liked the eiul. I was so pleased when I came to the end.?Ally Sloper's Half Iloliday. Even Break. The Barber?Beg pardon, sir, but this Is a bad quarter. The Victim?Oh, well, don't you care. It isn't any worse than the hair cut you gave me.?Detroit Free Press. The Cotton Mill Boys. j j | About this time every election year S some of the candidates for office be- | come very much interested in the i "cotton mill boys" as they affection- j ately term the men who work in the j cotton mills and whose vote has grown to quite a considerable volume and become very important in elec- j tions. These candidates who never j bother about the "cotton mill boys" between elections suddenly come around and represent themselves as the life-long: and devoted friends I of the men who work in the mills. ' To hear them talk it would seem that they do not particuiary care anything about any other class of the population, but their whole souls are wrapped up in the welfare of the "cotton I mill boys" and they yearn to be elected to some office where they can do something for the mill people. Now, it is all right for candidates to go among the cotton mill men and make their acquaiptance and address j them on public questions and ask their support in the elections, but the candidate who puts it on two thick and makes too much of the "cotton mill boys" is doing himself more i harm than good. The mill people are not focls and they will not rush to the support of any candidate because he j tries to flatter and tickle them with < dim praise anu iait:ic3u. mcj aib | anxious to discharge the duties of citizenship by casting their votes for ' those they consider to be the best men to hold public office and represent" the people. They are pretty . well informed about what's what and I who's who and they know when a candidate is'making too much of them or promising them too many good things. They f know7 that there are many kinds of people in this country and besides those who work in the cotton mills and factories there are those who work in stores and offices and shops and in the fields and on buildings and in many other lines of activity and all those have their rights to a share [of representation in governmental affairs, and, of course, get - the same ^attention from the candidates and J from the public officials that the factory [people get. "The cotton mill boys" therefore, are quite sure to know when a candidate is overdoing the thing and endeavoring to appear more interested in them than he is in any other class of people. They are apt to be insulted that any candidate should put such a small estimate on their intelligence as to think he can capture their votes by such transparent tactics. The factory people are just as well able and fitted to pick out good men to hold the offices as any people are and no more so and they know it and no candidate for office will make any substantial progress in their estimation, and esteem by proceeding on any other theory.?Spartanburg Journal. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Revcard for any case of Catarrh that cannot b? cnred by Hall's Catanh Cure. F J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O. We, tfce undersigned, have knowD F. J Cheney lor the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all 1 usiness transactions and financial^ able to carry out anv obligations made by his fb m, WAXD1NG, KINNAN & MABY1N, Wholesale Druggists Tohdo. O. Hall's Catarrh Core is taken ii ternally, acting directly upon the blood end ma cous surfaces of ue system. Tes imonials sent tree. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation Found Dead in Coll. Lufkin, Texas, Aug. 9.?H. H. Tarwick and'Sam Chandler, white men confined in the" Angelina county jail here, were found dead in their cell this morning, the skulls of both men being crushed, and John Wilson held on a minor charge, and who was confined in the same cell, is charged with having'murdered his cellmates. While denying that he committed the crime Wilsonlhas made a number of conflict ' xi x I mg statements concerning me tragedy. He t declares that at one time during the night he discovered the men fighting and separated them. An earthen 'cupsidor found in the cell was evidently the weapon used. It is believed the men were killed while they slept. Card of Thanks. I take this method of expressing my thanks to the many dear friends who have so graciously and kindly assisted in the needed ministrations during the late illness of my family. These friends not only assisted in the needed minstration during the late illness of my family. These friends not only assisted in waiting on the sick, but like the good Samaritans they are, they helped in the cultivation of my crop and otherwise in various ways contributed to the advancement of our material interests. I assure all that my appreciation for these favors is the very highest, and I pray God's richest blessings upon each and everyone for the part he (r she performed. J. F. Fall aw. Gaston, S. 0., R. F. D., No. 1. J| 44 ^ || 1 If Anf55 I a jlSr vu& | says many a doctor to his i| fa lady patients, because he g| jg| doesn't know of any medi- Bg IS cine that will cure female fa Ef troubles except the sur- |i H geon's knife* || That such a medicine g] pi exists, however, is proved by Bj Ej thousands of cures made by h I Cures Womb H Disease 1 It has saved the lives of iqany |W weak, sick women and rescued oth- |fl ers from a lifetime of chronic sick- ftw ness. It will cure you if you will m only give it- a chance. Try it. Jg Sold by all druggists and deal- of ers in SI.00 bottles. Is GAVE UP SUPPORTER. B "I wore a supporter for four Jg years, to keep up my womb," ttl g| writes Mrs. S. J. Chrisman, of ? R| AUnnsville, N. Y. "My doctor said g ftp' no medicine would help me. After fA ?? taking Cardui 1 gave up my sup- IB porter and am now welL" cp QUEEE ADVERTISEMENT Former South Carolinian States He Will Not Drink. Savannah, G?., Aug. 9.?Everybody in South Georgia knows Ward Allen. He is a sportsman who kills more ducks each season than any two men in Georgia combined. TTa fnrmOTlTr lixrorl in Qnnf^ Pornlir O AVAUiVlAJ U T V\( 111 k/VUt'll VMA V1U. W I and later lived in Augusta. He came to Savannah probably 20 years ago and has been a hunter since that time. He is a crack shot and a good fellow. He graduated from the Charleston citadel and helped take South Carolina away from the rale of the blacks in the seventies. Ward had at one time had one failing?he looked too often on the wine when 'twas red. Now he has reformed and he wants everybody to know it. He accepts General Grant's view that a man who will not drink will soon reach the stage where his friends will respect him. With this end in view, Ward had thi& notice puplished in the local papers Wednesday: 4'The half century mile post on the road of life I pass today and am constitutionally opposed to celebrating the event with even one 'highball'?so don't ask me." And no body did. Morris Lodged ia Macon Jail. Macon, Ga., Aug. 9.?Joe Morris, the negro who is alleged to have attempted the assault and assassination of the family of Geo. Bloodworth near here on the night of July 29, was safely lodged in jail in Macon this morning. He was brought to Macon by Sheriff Wimberly, of Twiggs county, and Deputy Sheriff Everett, of the same county, who affected the negro's capture last night. A posse with dogs chased the negro for ten days. Morris denies firing a shot gun into the Blood worth dining room. Stomach Troubles and Constipation. ISTo one can reasonably hope for good digestion when the bowels are constipated. Mr. Chas. Baldwin, of Edwardsville, 111., says, "I suffered from chronic constipation and stomach troubles for several years, but thanks to Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets am almost cured." Why not get a package of these tablets and get well and stay well? Price 25 cents. For sale by Kaufmann Drug Co. Grandson of Hod Cloud Officer. Washington, D C., Aug. 7.?Among the recent recruits for the United States navy have been a number of young: Indians who were educated at the Carlisle Indian school in Pennsylvania. Edward M. Ellis, grandson of the famous Sioux chief is one of these. He is a petty officer. KILLthe COUCH m CURE the LUNGS ""Dr. King's New' Discovery /TONSUMPTION ,} Priea FDR I OUGHSand 50c & $1.90 ^OLOS Frea Trial. 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