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The Essence Of Good Cheer By HOWARD FIELDING Cop,ight, 1904, by Chazes W. Hooke I T may be said of Charlotte Ware and Albert Tyrrell that they lost each other in .he darkness-the darkness of despondency. See- i ing them together in the old days, one I might have supposed that they were 1 bound by an agreement to commit sul- 1 dde instead of an engagement to mar- < ry. Charlotte was conducting the wom- I an's page of a little, hopeless newspa- F per, and Tyrrell was practicing medi cine, with mighty few patinents to prac- F tice it on. They used to lunch togeth er in a gloomy restaurant nposIte the hospital, with which Tyrt l had an I unremunerative connection, and Char- I lotte would describe the impending I bankruptcy of the newspaper, after 1 which Tyrrell would tell about a pa- i tient who refused to recover or die or pay his bill. So they went from bad to worse, and I each was a millstone upon the other's l neck, yet it is worth mentioning that I neither was originally of a despondent I disposition. They released each other E from the engagement about once a I week, but that never made the slight- < est difference. Finally . man died in London and left Tyrrell a little money. There were legal complications, and it seemed ad visable for him to go across the water to defend his rights. Of course he ask ed Charlotte to marry him, and she came very near accepting, but upon a practical consideration of the subject f they discovered that they had not mon ey enough between them to make the journey in good style and be safe against the chance of stranding in 1 London in case the payment of the 1 legacy should be deferred, as seemed quite likely. So Tyrrell crossed the c ocean alone. The legacy was involved in laby- F rinthine complications, but his lawyers F were confident of ultimate success. They proved this confidence by advanc- i ing from time to time small sums I which sufficed for a bare living, and c Tyrrell stuck to the quest. By and by I he began to practice medicine, and, I though he gained some small repute, I he made no pecuniary success. When F his earnings were fair he invested the money in his own lawsuit; when they were meager he managed to live upon 1 them. Meanwhile, of course, he had releas- 1 ed Charlotte from her engagement in C the bluest letter that ever crossed the I ocean. No old salt would have dared I to sail with it if he had known that it wsin the mall, for it was heavy with liard luck. Releasing a girl from an engagement I verbally across a bit of luncheon In a restaurant Is a very different matter from releasing her by letter across the Atlantic. This may be especially true when the young man in question is very good looking and has expressive eyes, in which his 'love and tenderness I may be easily read. That was the case I with Tyrrell. When she could see him Charlotte pitied him too much to care I what he said. But Tyrrell with a pen 1 was another man. She had to sit down L'Er WOULD mIscUSS THE FOLLr 01 THEIm OWN ooNDUcr.I all alone with his letter and fight every word in it. She became angry with bin-., hopeless about him, finally a lit Le contemptuous of his weakness. And so at last the correspondence ceased and the pretty promise they had made mn one bright hour amid the long gloom was broken. Tyrrell remained in England five years, and when he returned to Amer Ica he did not know whether Charlotte was dead or aliv'e, whether she had married or jilted the fellow who had been -a rival at the outset of their ac quaintance, whether she had preserved her prettiness or had faded early. She was nearing the calamitous age of thir; ty, that direful point upon the way of. life where youth crashes dowvn like a landslide and one looks back across a . wilderness from which the dream flow ers that never bloomed and the beau tiful trees that bore no fr'ult have all been swept away. To the questions above suggested Tyrrell knew not the answers. It would not be fair to say that he did not care, yet the truth is that his mind was upon another matter. He had just reached a settlement of his affairs In England, and his legacy had yielded .him little more than enough to carry him home. True, it had provided him Take Murray's Horehound, Mullein and Tar and stop coughing. 2,5c. for, large bottle. Your druggist or Murraya Drug Co., Columbia, S. C. Pat: "Sure, I'd lay down me i loife for ye, Norah. t *Norab: "But Would yez lay down a carpet for me, Patrick?" To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUI NINE Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W.-.Grove's signature is on each 3 vitn a part of his iiving during five 'ears, but who wants a living? What, s it good for? Nine days in ten out of hose five years Tyrrell would rather ot have had a living; he would have preferred a dying. He had come home by the malice of lestiny, as be viewed it. to face pre isely tLe same situation in this coun ry. Again he was named in a will; igain he must meet other claimants In he courts. The parties in each con est would be similarly situated. In eed, some of the same people would ippear. Tyrrell had emerged from his pre 'ous struggle with certain convictions Lnd nuggets of wisdom. He knew hat his own claim in both cases was >erfectly just, he knew that the dis utants could be bought out cheaply it ash could be used immediately, but hat after they got acrimonious from trife, and especially after their law ers had gained ascendency over them, settlement would cost more than it vas worth. He had only one near relative remain ng on earth, a sister whose pecuniary aterests were involved with his own in his new contest, as they had been in he other, but as she was married to a nan of some means he had not wor led much on her account. Upon ar iving in. his native land he learned im nediately of the death of his sister's iusband. This did not surprise him, or the last news that he had received n England had prepared him for the "vent. It appeared, however, that the tusband's estate had vanished at his leath, as so many others do, having been a pyramid kept balanced upon its pea by a constant, harrowing strug ;le and sinking instantly into oblivion vhen the sustaining force was with rawn. In short, he found his sister lependent-or about to become so-up in the dubious issue of the legal battle vhich he himself had come home to ight. His experience of the former contest iled him with cold fear, which was en times intensified by the knowledge hat a few thousands in cash would Lave set all right, and that he couldn't aise that sum, nor even 10 per cent f it, completed his panic. Behold him on a balmy day in June hivering with nervousness as the rc ult of an interview with his lawyer, vhom he had visited in the gentle nan's luxurious residence in a very ashonable suburb. Insensible to the olors of the blossoms and even to the teat of the sun upon his back, blind to he beauties of the town and deaf to he sound of his own name which ome one was calling after him, he odded on toward the station; "Bert Tyrrell!" cried the voice for the ourth time and almost In his ear. He turned and stared at two fine orses glittering in silver mounted har ess and then at a liveried coachman nd finally at a very charming woman a an open carriage. "Lottie!" he said in a dazed tone. Lottie!" She surveyed him with an amused nd quizzical smile. "You haven't changed a bit," said he. The words affected him with sur rise, first, because he fancied himself rown old and haggard, and, second, ecause Charlotte herself was so rad ~ally .different that the sight of her eemed to change all the world. Yet he ould not have expressed his feeling; he looked no older; she had not gained lesh. as pretty girls are distressingly pt to do. "Get in," she said. "We must have .good talk." He smiled grimly. "I was going to the station," he said, but if you know of an old man's home r a nice, well managed asylum" "Now, that's the same Bert Tyrrell rhom I used to know," said she, with .laugh. "I shall correct that habit in bout five minutes. Get in." As he climbed to a seat beside her Ia oriously, like a man of sixty, she gave he coachman the word "home." Then or the first time the elegance of the quipage and the simple magnificence 'f Charlotte's attire impressed them elves upon him. The blood fled away rom his heart and ting-led in his ears. "Really," he stammered, "I-I have Lad no news. I don't know what to call "Call me Lottie," she replied, "and elease utter the word cheerfully. You're tt altogether sorry to have met me, 'ou know." He made a melancholy effort to smile. "Fairly good," said she, "but you can t better. Try again." "You ask too much of me," he pro-. ested. "Not at all!" she cried. "I fought that oblem all out with myself nearly five 'ears ago. One may always be cheer He swept a slow, melancholy glance ver the elegant interior of the car lage, which at that moment swerved rom the road and passed through a tately arched gateway. A house was isible through the vistas of old trees. "In such surroundings," said he sad F "even I might smile." "Your surroundings do not matter in he least," she :otorted. "The smile ust come from within." "I remember that you used to write hat ort of nonsense for your wom n's page," said he, "but you never be ev~ed it." "I believe it thoroughly today," she eplied. "Yes, yes," said he as the carriage topped before the main entrance. 'Yes, I've no doubt." The broad veranda was liberally pro -ided with comfortable chairs, into one f'which Tyrrell sank with a sigh. "Please pretend that you are com-' ortable and happy," said Charlotte, 'and . a few minutes you will be." Tyrreli scowled. He was trying to magine thLe personal appearaiice of the nultimillonaire whom Charlotte had narried. Raw or Inflamed Lungs -ield rapidly to the wonderful ourative nd healing qualities of Foley's Honey nd Tar. It prevents pneumxonia~ and onsumption from a hard cold settled n the lungs, "My daughter had a rrible cough which settled on her mgs," says N. Jackson, of Dan ville, 1. "We tried a great many remedies rithout relief, until we gave her Fo sy's Honey and Tar, which cured her. old by McMaster Co. Silence may be golden, but on can't make an insurance agent "You must remember," said he, "tha [ know nothing" "That's it," she interrupted. "You know nothing. Neither did I in the old Jays, but now I do, and I will teach Vou." "Nothing of your story,' he added. "You shall hear it." said she. "Sonie what more than four years ago I be came very despondent over-something that happened." He groaned. "It was better so," he said. "What could I have offered you" "With a sort of satirical joy," she continued, "I began to write more and more of that matter which you have just called nonsense." "Cheerful living and that sort of thing?" "Yes," said she; "sugar coated lying, as you used to call it. And presently, my friend, I discovered that it wasn't I, TYRELL STEADIED HIMSELF AGAINST A PILLAR. lying at all. It was the solid truth. And it made a great hit, Bert," she added. "It made a tremendous hit in the paper. You will believe that when I tell you that they raised my salary twice without my asking." "Did you find out that the world was bright before or after those amazing occurrences?" he Inquired. "Well, really I've forgotten just when the true conviction came to me," she answered frankly, "but it must have been before I made any great success. One cannot write helpful words with out sincerity." "And you attained it?" "Bert," she cried, "when I found out how much good I was doing, how many women-and men, too-I was helping to a- braver, brighter, better life I knew that the truth must be in my own heart. Why, there were days when I received over 500 letters even before I left the paper." "Before your-your marriage?" "My marriage!" she exclaimed. "Why, bless the boy, I'm not married!" Tyrrell surveyed the palatial front of the house with the eyes of a dreamer. "Did somebody die?" he asked in a weak voice-"somebody who knew how to make a will, I mean?" "But I made all tMs money myself. I started a magazine. Haven't you seen it? I sent you a copy. And I have a tremendous circulation In England." He shook his head. She faced him with an enthusiasm that brought her to her feet. "You've no Idea of the good that I am doing," she cried. "Women from India, from Australia, actually from Greenland, have taken my letters of ad vice, In connection with the magazine, and have sent me words of thariks that have brought tears of joy to my eyes. I have a circulation exceeding 800,2~ 000." He brushed the hair back from his forehead as he stared at her. "But enough of my affairs for the' present," she continued. "Of course I had to tell you how I was getting along. You knew nothing of me, but 1 knew. all about you. I even knew that you' were sunk in your old time despond ency, and I resolved in the very deepest depths of my soul ,that I would cure you of it. I am going to give you some. ef my books to read" "And I'll read 'em, Lottie," he re plied, "for your sake, though nothing In this world can ever make me cheerful. But I'll read the books when I'm not tangled with these beastly lawyers." "You'll have no more trouble with them," said she. "I won't have my pu p1's mind distracted by all that dread rul business." "It can't be helped" "It has been helped. I have bought ip all the other claimants through your legal friend, my neighbor. But he was not to tell you of it." Tyrrell steadied himself against a pillar of the veranda. "Lottie," he cried, "you shouldn't have done this! Why-why did you do "That you might pay attention to my nstructon," said she. "I have helped those who were strangers- to me, scat-. tered over the world, and it, will gi arI if I cannot help my friend." "Illogical. woman:" he groaned. 'Don't you see that you have blocked your own game? Your experiment must* fal now." "Fal?" "Certainly. Your 'cheerful living,' or whatever you call It, can't do anything for me." "Why not?" she gasped. "Because I don't need it. If you ould do this for me, even though I -efuse it; if you could plan and work to make me happy-in short, If I am to you" "Just what you were In the old days, Bert." "Then," he cried, his face radiant with his reawakened love, "where does your confounded faith cure get a -hance upon a man so blessed?" Champion Linimpnt for Rheumatism. Chas. Drake, a mail carrier at Cha pinville, Conn., says: "Chamberlain's ~ain Balm is the champion of all lini ments. The past year I was troubled i great deal with rheumatism in my shoulder. After trying several cures the storekeeper here recommended th is remedy and it completely cured me." 'here is no use of anyone suffering !rom that painful ailment when this iniment can be obtained for a small mm. One application gives prompt elief and its continued use for a short ime will produce a permanent cure. 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