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For Self: BY IZOLA (Copyright. 1911. by A "I'm positive it's - Ralph," Vera eaned forward in her steamer chair get a good look at the man who ha d Just passed. "lie has marched ar und about 40 times so far this mor ing, Phil, and I do wish you'd find ut for me." "I dn't know you were so keen on diggi g up Ralph." Phil's tone was a rr. re grunt of disgust, from the depth of his rug. "Didn't that die out at - nehurst last fall?" "Didn't w at die out?" Vera looked medita Ively and innocently out to Pea. "Weren't you eA gaged?" "Not exactly." "Not exactly? Up, n my word, Vera, you girls get on i V nerves. You think love's a Polo gine. When a chap conic's a cropper, \you lift your eyebrows, and say it's ktoo bad he can't play right. You kNow Ralph was awfully cut up after ".vo6 left, and-when did you see him las',t?" Vera rose, smiling mysterioubly. "Phil, it wouldn't be right fir me to tell you. It's bad enough t9 en courage those-er-polo players, iibut it's worse to give a "description'.,of how they took the tumble. Go an' find cut from the ship's list if it is Ralph; there's a dear. And it it is, look him up, and be nice." Most unwillingly Phil obeyed in structions. There was over six years between Vera and himself, and an elder sister has rights which even a fellow of eighteen has to recognize. Carefully he went over the list of first cabin passengers, but found no such name as Ralph Maynard. "He's In stateroom D, promenade deck, because I asked a steward," Phil protested. "Who's got that room --can you tell?" "Somerset Lane, for self and wife," the purser told him. "I think they're just married, and on their honey moon. "I don't believe it," Vera ssig, calmly, when Phil brought back the news. "It is Ralph. I know, now, Vera's Face Was a Study. TIf'anse I bowed to him as lhe went by the forty-first time, while you were gone, and he knew mec. Why should he ship under an assumed rrame?" "Maybe it's a secret marriage." g~gested Philip archly. "lie's a else 01(1 4og, anyway." "He is niot, Phil. It ever' there was an open-and-above-board, straight for ward boy, it's Ralph Maynard. Did it give the wife's name?" Phil shook his head. ".Just said for self and wife." "flut where's the wife? If he were on his honeymoon, would he be tramp ing the deck madly hour after hour?" "Maybe she's scasickc," Phil sug gested brightly. "I saw him talking to that old chap from Virginia in the smoker this morning, so on the way back up the companionway I ran into him and asked if he knew Somerset Lane. Hie said he did, that he wvas a bully young chap, and it was a shame his wife was so delicate that she had to keep to her stateroom all through the passage over," Vera's face was a study. She frowned and pursed her pretty lips tensely. Some way, she could not picture Ralph's wife at all. She could only remember the last night at Pine hurst. It had been in September. amt the Carolina beach looked wonderful ly fair in the rich, golden moonlight. Hatless, they had mounted horses and gots for a canter at low tide along the wet sands, far, far out, to what they called Lovers' Leap, It was a jutting headland of rock that cut off the beach. And it was here that Ralph had taken his chanee with Fate. She could see him still, bending toward her from hie saddle, his face a bit hard and tense in the cool moonlight, his eyes full of yearning. She had said no, of course--every. girl does the first time she is asked by a man -and if be had been older he would have understood the challenge i her eyes and words, and fought .the game out with her to its winning. She had wished him to win, but the next morning when she had risen she got the news of his departure for Npw York on the first train out And now he was on board, under an as~hmed name, in a- stateroom "for self anid wife." and Wife FORRESTER isoclated Literary Press.) "I say, Vera, here he comes," Phil said suddenly. "I'm going. Good luck, sis. You might offer my con gratulations with your own. They say lemons are good for seasickness." The next momdnt Ralph Maynard stood in front of her, cap off, very ' erect, and on the defensive, but with the same splenqid brown eyes that could plead a cause better thari all the lips in the world, she had once thought. "I would have spoken before, but you didn't seem to remember me, Miss Chalmers." "We've only been out one day?" She looked up with a smile, but it was not an encouraging smile. A girl does not feel sunny and sweet tempered towardl a man who takes unto himself a wife six months after he has made love to her. "I had not noticed you before." "May I take Phil's chair for a while?" "Surely, if you wish." She waited a moment, then said gently, very gent ly: "How is your Wife, Mr. Maynard?" "Good Lord, I'm not married," gasped the boy. "How can you ask that, when you know I never loved a .ay woman In the world but you, 5 Mera? Why, I heard at the last min- 0 uke you and Phil were sailing on this o boat for the Tuttle wedding in London ' and 'I caught it at the last minute, just 0 for the chance of even looking at 9 you." "Hven't you a wife in stateroom D, who is seasick and unable to ap- 4 pear during the voyage?" lie met her clear blue eyes un finchingly and tried to speak, but she ; went on. "Didn't you tell the old gen tleman from Virginia, in the smoker, o that your wife was delicate? Area't ; you registered on the list as Somer- ' set Lane? Oh, T4.lph, I never thought you could do such a t@Ing! And then to make love to me-" She tried to Ase, but he caught both her hands and helid her firmly. "Listen, sweetheart," he said. "I was fool enough to let you get away from me last fall at Pinehurst, but you won't this time. ' I arn registered as Somerset Lane. Don't struggle, please, till I get through, and the passage was booked/for 'self and wife.'" "Then where's your wife?" she flashed back. "She's a myth," he laughed. "It was too late to engage a regular passage on this boat. Everything was taken. t So I hustled to the brokers' offices C and landed a ticket and booking for s Somerset Lane and wife-" n "But who are they?" a "W\ho cares? I took the double it hooking, of course, far the chance of hi crossing with you. And I had to n carry it out, didn't I? I am Somerset J) Lane, pro tem. If my wife isn't sen. r' sick, where is she? I have to tell" something about her, or they'll accuse a toe of having thrown her overboard. t< Don't you see?" I Her eyes were full of mirth. "It's ti very suspicious." si "Not half so suspicious as it will d be wh'len I come hack on another boat hi under my own name, with another wife. Can you risk it, Vera ?" She hesitated and sighed, then laughed again. "I suppose that is really as near asy you'll ever get to a proposal. Ralph, a so I'll have to say yes. You may c book passage for self andl wifec on thec .return trip, but dlon't you dlare take it on this boat." e Hurrying Up Things. p "Yes, in this business we have to e hustle some," said the drummer, "but c occasionally I run across a man who v enn beat me at hurrying upl things. e For' instance, I got off at a small towni i in Indiana a few~ (lays ago( and, dlis- dI covering a good-looking girl, I flirted o with ber' a bit and received an invite o to call at the house that evening. Be- p fore I had been seated ten minutes the mother lookedl into the room. Five il minutes later the old nman took a peep. v At the end of 20 he entcred and asked C my name anid prospects. Becfore the a hour was up he was back to ask if I a loved his daughter. I had to answer o yes, and what do you suppose he d1id?" (1 "It's hardl to say," was answered. u "He telephoned at preacher and C brought him in to perform tho mar- I ringe ceremony, and when I begged for a (lay to think things over ho a bumped me out of the house, and next I morning saw that I took the train. He p said he was a ,born hustler, and h9 a dlidn't want a son-Ia-law who wasn" ni the same." Little Girl's Long Vigil. Forty hours on a cold, lonely mnoun- a taini by the side of her disabled eel lie, wvas the~vigil kept en Illgh moun tain, N. J., recently by Anna Martin. five yearft old. Anna's prIotector had fi been rendered helpless by a big boul der which broke both his 1hind( legs '/ and held him i'inned fast to the ~ ground. The rock was too largo for A nna to move, but hour after hour she stood by her stricken pet, giving what e comfort she could in endearing words - and caresses and bringing water to him in her hat from~ an adjoining spr-ing. 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Clark Howell of Atlanta tells o ie Psad case of an elderly darky Il corgia, charged with the theft 0 mrne chickens. rhe negro had t b isfortune to be defended by a younj nd inexperienced attorney, althougl is doubtful whether any one coukl ave securedl his acquittal, the conm ission of the crime having beer roved beyond all doubt. The dark: ~ceived a pretty severe sentence l'hank yo', sah," said he cheerfully Idressing the judge when the sen mee had been pronounced. "D~at'i ighty hard, sah, but it ain't any dung what I expcted. I thought ily, dat between my character and it speech of my lawyer dat yo'n mng me, shore!" HREE CURED OF ECZEMA "When a child, I suffered eight ears with eczema. I could not sleet night, and had sores all over my ciest. We had doctors and none mld do any good, until my mothei wthe advertisement of the Cuti, ira Remedies in the paper. We used 1e Cuticura Soap, Ointment and esolycnt, and they cured me of 3zemai. I also used thern on my five 'lidren. Two of them had eczema ery badly. When my children had azcma, I was not worried at all, aE knew the Cuticura Remedies would a their work. They had sores alt v'er their heads, their hair would fall Lit, and they wou-ld scratch all night nid day. They had it on their heads, ice, and in back of the ears so that I mnught their ears would drop off.I ashed their heads and bodies with uticura Soap and they are as clear a the driven snow. Cuticura Soai ndl Ointment also cured my children fringworm. I would not be without 1e Cuticura Relmedies. They aren onderful." (Signed) Mrs. Violet ole, 2G S. Rledfield St., Philadelphia, a., Oct. 29, 191-0. Cuiticura Soap and Ointment ar( yld throughout the world. Send te otter Drug & Chem. Corp., sole reps., Boston, for free hook on skir ad scalp diseases and their treat tent. Ask a favor or an enemy andi yor ill probably make a friend:l ask 0o friend you may make an enemny. [armaduke. WVrath and wine unveil the' heart 01 lend to friend.-Plutarch. win. 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Leaning far out of the carriage, the fine old aristocrat, thinking they were children, threw out a handful of pen nies, graciously exclaiming: "God bless you, my children!" An Astonished Boy. In lrebruary of this yea-r a WViscon sin farmer took his twelve-year-old boy a village for the first time, and there the lad saw a train of cars. tie was so astonished at the sight that he lost the power of speech for three weeks. If that youngster is ever taken to a circus or a zoological garden he'll surely be struck dumb for the rest o1 his life. His father's farm must be hidden away in a hole in the ground. He Was innocent. Johnny Williams had been "bad" again. "Ah, me, Johnny!" sighed his Sun iay school teacher, "I am afraid we shall never meet in heaven." "What have you been doin'?" asked Johnny, with a grin.-Harper's Month ly. Very Select. The landlady was trying to impress the prospective lodger with an idea or how extremely eligit>1e the neighbor hood was. Pointing over the way at a fine mansion, she said in a hushed wvhisper: "Young man, over there across the street there's seven million dollars!" And They Adjourned. The Mutual Admiration society met and was called to order. "WXhat of all the things in this world do you like best ?" asked the girl. angling for a compliment. "Beefsteak!" cried he, taking tun awarca, and a moment later the so ciety adjourned. So Familiar. "Yes," said Nagget, "a woman ua nlally treats her husband as the aver age servant treats bric-a-brac." "Go ahead," said the wise Mrs. Nag get. "What's the answer?" "W~hy, the more he's worth the more she tries to break him." SHIAKE INTO YOUR ShfOES Allen's F~oot-tEnse, t hD unisleptic powder. It'a t he greatest comfort discovery of t he age. A llen's Fo't liase msnakes tight, or new shoes feel ea*.y. it i s a certain relief forsweating, callous. swoillen, tired, acbing fcet. Atwaysuse It to nreak in New shoos. 'Try it forftsy. Sold everywhere, 25, cents. l)#on't etcet nysusttu e.Fo tIC10 trial pauckage. Getting On. "Well, little boy, dlid you go to the circuis the other clay ?" "Yes'm. Pa wanted to go. so I had to go with him." TO DRIVE OUT MAIA ANt iii I LI,) I!i' TIIE RYSTFr, I Take the Old Standardn GJ~ov10 '8TBTIH 8~ o)filAi' ON'lo. Yy u know what you are taking. Thle formula Is linly rinted on every bottle. showing it is simpl QnI'no arnd Iron In a taste teas fortn,. The3a Qiine drives out the malaria rn s h i ro y rls ice system. Bold by ail If thou knowest anything goodl ol a nuan, tell it ulnto others; if antyihing til, tell it privately andI prtudently to Ihimself.--Burkitt. For<'011)s and E111P Illeks' CArn-:r. is the he't remedy-re lIIeves the achinag andat feve-rishnesst'~i-- i'ures the Cold and rest oreu naormal0 ctond itionras. It'ii liqauid-effectsimmtediateliy. it0..,'25.,and M0e. A halting spe'e-n may be0 the result of a lame excuse. Garfield Teca regulates~ a lazy liver. -Jf you don't belit re hionesty is the best policy, try it. weak. nas "mrEanOVaNa Mtadea I -f A tA Dr. Pierce's Favorite, Pre Is the best of all medicines for the ou disorders and weaknesses peculiar to wo only preparation of its kind devised by a i ated physilan-an experienced and sk ie the diseases of women. It le a safe medicine in any condition o1 THE ONE REMEDY which containa and no injurious habit-forming drugs creates no oraving for such stimulanto THE ONE REMEDY so good that are not afraid to print Its every ia each outside bottle-wrapper ad al truthfulness of the same under oath. It is sold by medicine deulers everywher, get it. Don't take a substitute of unknow KNOWN CoMPosiTION. No counterfeit is as J who says something else is "Just as good i or is trying to deceive you for his own selfl trusted. He is triflng with your most g may be your life itself. See that you got S Market Hogs Much Lighter. The average weight of hogs market ,d in recent years is much lighter han in former years; in the decade 870-18S79 the average weight of hogs r_ Cilled during tho winter months in vcstern packing centers was about 175 pounds; in the decade 1880-1889 b5 poun;nds; I the I de 1880e1890 1899 about 239 pounds, and in the >ast decade 1900-1909 about 219 )ounds. In other words, hogs mar ceted between 30 and 40 years ago 0 tveraged one-fourth heavier than .q hose marketed in recent years. othi real nehl The Second Dimension. the It was on a little branch railway o n a southern state that the New bas England woman ventured to refer to he high rates. "It seems to me five rents a mile is extortion," she said, kvith frankness, to her southern cou ,in. "It's a big lot of money to pay if B3 rou think of it by the mile," said U the southerner, in her soft drawl; "but you just think how cheap it is by the hour, Cousin Annie-only ibout 35 cents."-Youth's Companion. 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