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I I J Try a. N< When things are unpromisi Brace up and take courage If up in the world you wot Then here's a sharp pointe Bg$S$S$S3SSS$3S3SSSSSSSSSSWSSSSttSS J Alicia's JI I Platonics. 1j By BEATRICE BENNETT. |< Copyright. 1907, by P. C. Eastment. Jj Deep down In her own heart every fvoman has a pet theory. It may have j been exploded a number of times to I her; apparent satisfaction, but secretly 1 and with feminine Inconsistency she clings to it , Alicia bad such a. theory, but she did not keep it buried in so ina6cessible a j dungeon as the bottom of her heart. ] Indeed, she wore it on her sleeve. Tt ] was her favorite theme of discourse, i and the more it was disproved the I more persistently did she revive it and ' champion it with her and promptly proceeding to disprove them, to that young woman's outward disgust and secret satisfaction.' Her hobby was platonics?specifically, platonlc love. "It has been proved to me conclusively," argued Alicia, with delightful confidence, as flanked on one side by the ample person of Richard Corrlgan and on the other by her squatty little dachshund Pretzel she strolled toward ho crroot ntnno p-nrrtpn sent near the t OgV4? o sundial. "Yes," her companion replied in doubtful acquiescence, "to you. But how about the other fellpw? Was he convinced?" "Dl6k, how silly! Who ever beard of platonic love that wasn't platonic on both sides? How little you know of I the subject!" scoffed Alicia with a mirthful little laugh. "And yet I have known you?how long is it?" "Seven months," promptly. "And you ride your hobbyhorse at least every other time 1 see you," he said, not without marked intent. Alicia assumed a wholly unsuccessful air of hauteur. "Oh. I beg your pardon. I'm very sorry I've bored you. I shall avoid the topic in future," she said distantly. "Not at all, my dear Alicia. I assure you It rather amuses rae," argued Corrigan, observing her aggrieved attitude with little discomfort to himself. "In fact, 1 don't know when any one subject has kept me interested for so long a time." "Indeed!" The comment was pregnant with feeling. It was the tirst time Alicia's self j styled philosophy had been so derided, j and it nettled her. "I should be apt to accept that as a compliment," ventured C'orrigan. lie ! had l>een watching her pull a crimson j rambler to pieces and scatter it over her tiny white shoes. Apparently she had not heard. "I say, Alicia," he persisted. "When you are ready to open a subject that may be of more interest than any I am able to suggest I shall be giad to talk to you," she said icily. Corrigan smiled broadly, but surreptitiously. Had Alicia seen him thus amused he would have been left with only the crimson ramblers for companions. "But, upon my word, Alicia, I am interested," he said earnestly. "I've never been so absorbed in a study in ray life. Why, my dear girl, if it weren't for my?my belief in platonic love I might never have known you so well." Alicia confronted him with a half smile that, even in its semicompietion, was most attractive. I ;w Tack. ^ ing, business slack, ; just try a new tack! jId suddenly rise, r, to wit: ADVERTISE! "That's the Irish ! you, Dick! You always manage to say something that will make the worst case of 'mad' turn to Joy," she said, removing her big droopy hat and daflgling it by the ' BtringB. "That's one reason why I love to be friends with you." "Then it is true that God Is good to the Irish," he laughed, and. subtle as it was, Alicia extracted the compliment and beamed good nature on him again. "You see. Dick," she began as if she 1 were commencing a fairy story to an Incredulous child, "It Is so?well, it is 3uch a tremendous comfort to be just , Friends with a man." "Yes," said Dick readily, "I'm friends J with several." "Silly! I mean for a girl. She can 1 go about with him, ask him to do this 1 and that for her and feel that she is not putting herself under obligatlonTLf she's only friends with him, whereas, if he's in love with her, he expects tier to marry him and?and it Just1 'j spoils everything!" "I'm Jolly glad I'm no^aentin^rpj^p "Too can have sentiment without being sentimental," she hastened to explain." And for some reason or other a flush stained her cheeks, and her eyes drooped. "It's Just as clear as?as mud." Corrlgan laughed In spite of his efforts to be serious. Alicia's eyes flashed. "See here, Dick Corrlgan, I believe you are making fun of me. Deep down In my own heart I know from your own actions and your whole attitude toward me that you agree with me. but Just to amuse yourself you make fun of me. I'm sure you like me." she went on, "Just as I like you, or you wouldn't seek me out and waul- to be with me day after day, as you do, and that?that very fact proves to me that you are In sympathy with my own attitude. We are friends, and you know it" she declared challengingly. Then she rose abruptly from the stone seat and walked over to the balustrade with her bpck toward him. "Come, Pretzel," she said Imperatively, as If calling her dog from a contaminating Influence. Corrlgan began to whistle very soft jy to nimseir wnue me smuu duicu dog eyed him accusingly. "Alicia," said Corrigan's deep voice fondly from the depths of the great stone seat He had not moved. And right here it might be observed that Alicia always selected picturesque settings for her discourses. The old garden. shady and secluded, breathing romance and the fragrance of roses, was ideal?for platonics. "Alicia," repeated Dick when his j first effort gained no response. With studied reluctance she turned j her head. "I'd like to ask a few quest ions," he j said, still somewhat indifferently. "I'll 1)0 glad to answer them." The frigidity of her tone moved Cor- I rigan almost to the point of turning up his coat collar, but his better judgment prevailed. "This old guy, Plato"? lie was beginning as he walked toward her. "Dick!" Her glance anil tone froze the words. "I'm sorry," he said contritely. "But, Alicia, I wonder if he ever knew the most beautiful woman iu the world? I wonder if he could have been with her almost daily for seven months? And yet. no, how could he? He lived B. C." In spite of herself Alicia dimpled. "It was beauty of mind, mental excellencies. that he admired," she remarked wisely. "Perhaps that's what I admire in you, but somehow I doubt it" "My mental powers are not wholly to be despised," pouted Alicia. "No. But an ordMry mortal canno i penetrate so daulif an exterior." observed Corrigan.W' \ Alicia looked ImAlently across the green. Somehow nf was oat of harmony with the aftMOon?disappointed In?In herself perh pi Corrlgan turned tc her quite suddenly. "See here, Alicia, do you like platoulc friends b Itur than anything else?" "Yes." she said^Bgj the syllable did not carry conrkj. I "Better than bands, for in stance?" Alicia's color deAl id. Things were more interesting anl all. "I never had one.lfiihe laughed, and her voice was a llttjl tremulous. "Then it's onlv fli-orv?" Corrixan stepped closer. .if "Of coarse." 3beJ?:>lled, looking up into bis now earnra^yes. "Listen." be sq flatly. 'Couldn't you be platonlc f 'HI with every one else but me. Alic She did not om' one the petals of hei* ( ? tumbled down her frock. Nlf "Couldn't you?" ^(jls big voice was vibrant with emotiS ' "I?I might." she innltted. "but first let me tell you I 1M yon better than fill the rest. I lika#ou better than I could a mere frlaTF I?I just hoped and hoped you A^ldn't agree with me, Dick." 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Warrants for pig are made oat irr nnlts of 600 tons, and payment lfc thadc for the warrants once a month. 8ho ild a man really want 600 tons of pig iron he obtains a warrant which autho rises him to take 600 tons out of store, ml be Trill be required to pay for the metal within the month. . "\ Supposing a man t lys in tie expectation that he will b > able to sell the pig iron at a higher p ice than is ruling, he buys warrants according to his means, and he has a month for things to mature. Should tl e price of pig go up during the month tie is able to sell his bargain to anotter man and he pocketa the difference, although he has never laid down a ay money in real coin. * Should things go wrong with him and prices go down, tlen he Is obliged to pay the difference between the price at which be bought Ibe pig and the price at which he is aljle to sell It, and so he sustains a loss.?London Answers. His Discovery. 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