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L. A?MU ^rESDUGQ fflTOTO Auxiioa s<slTE]iI B! *? mwo/sr/sr /9//i fiv MA 5 SYNOPSIS. -j- Archibald Terhune. a popular and in dolent young bachelor of London, re ceives news that he has been made heir to the estate of his Aunt Georgiana, with an income of $20,000 a year, on condition that he becomes engaged to be married within ten days. Failing to do so the legacy will go to a third cousin in Amer ica. The story opens at Castie Wyckoff. where Lord Vincent and his wife, frierds of Terhune, are discussing plans to find him a wife within the prescribed time. It seems that Lady Vincent is one of seven persons named Agatha, all close girlhood chums. She decides to Invite two of them to the castle and have Archie there as one of the sruests. Agatha Sixth strikes Archie as a handpainted beauty. Agatha First is a breezy American girl. Lady Vincent tells her husband that Agatha 8ixth already cares for Archie. He gains from Agatha Sixth the admission that she cares for him, but will require a month's time fully to make up her mind. Agatha First, neglected by Terhune. re ceives attentions from Leslie Freer. Four . days of the precious time have passed ""when Terhun is called to London on business. Agatha First, on the plea of sickness, excuses herself from a motor trip planned by the Vincents. CHAPTER V.?Continued. "Why, that's too bad!" said my wife sinceroly, though somewhat sur- j prisedly, "I'm awfully sorry, dear child, and we shall miss you, of course. But you mustn't think of ' ?? o P.A ,,T? gUillg II *UU1 ucau av,uco. Viv/ UJJ/ stairs and lie down a while, why don't you, and I'll have some tea sent up to you. It's awfully good for headache." And she spoke to the footman who waited at the door of the automobile. "I will, thanks. Sorry to miss the trip," replied the girl. "You're an angel, Agatha!" And with another farewell word or two we left her and had started on our way to Northbury. And now comes the very strangest part of this rather strange or at least unusual attempt to make a match and win a fortune for a friend at one and the same time on the part of Dearest and myself. By Jove, it certainly did give me a start when I discovered ?but this was the way it happened ?not to get ahead of my story. We had made a pretty quick run to Northbury and had been spectators at an exhibition of some rather fast cricket which I had been pretty keen about. The two teamB had played even until the second half, when Corcoran who was guarding the wicket for the Lowshires?but I don't suppose the details of the game are of very general interest, after all. OHH thin-r Vnif T'vo novor hoon nKlo to make Dearest understand it at all?I gave up trying years ago. It's the only thing in the world we aren't equally enthusiastic about. She won't admit it, but sometimes I'm afraid it's because she prefers the American game of baseball! Fancy! But of course if she does it's all the fault of that American stepfather of hers for bringing her up in the States. But then, naturally, he couldn't help being an American?I try to remem ber that! As I was saying, however, we had seen the match played to the end in h sRite of the languid interest dis v*played by the feminine members of our party, and had lunched at the Northbury inn. a jolly little den of a piace, ana at aoout nair aiter two were speeding towards home again. The roads were fairly decent, though there had been a good deal of rain lately, and the machine had been running along so smoothly that it did my heart good to see her. We had left the main road when we had passed Wye village, for one that led ! more directly to the castle, and had slowed down as the road turned out J to be rougher than I thought?when j the worst happened. I was driving i myself, and in steering to clear a i jutting tree I ran the big car straight | into the dickens of a rut and our hind i wheel went in to stay. I killed the engine at once and jumped out to see what was to be done, disgusted enough. I can tell you, though of course I couldn't possibly have known the thing was so deep, for it was half nuea witn water, l ms snort cut is ' a favorite one of mine, though my chauffeurs have often warned me against taking a big car through the woods that cover Wyckoff rise at this point. The trees are so thick and the road so narrow. The worst of the business now, as 1 soon found out, was that there was no Jack to be found in thie car's kit : of tool^j with which to raise her, and ! Is remembered with chagrin that I j had taken it out myself in hhnting 1 for something else and had left it in the garage. Even the satisfaction of blaming some cno else was denied me and I looked at Prderson, the chauf feur. in dismay. "What's to be done." 1 asked, but received ro help from that quarter, only a dismal shake of the head. Nevertheless assistance I did re ceive. though rather unexpectedly. The accident had occurred, as I have said, in the middle oT the woods just where two roads crossed, and stand ing at the entrance to one of these r roads I now observed a small boy, a little freckle-faced village lad, who stared at us as if he'd never seen an automobile before, and they're surely common enough: But it appeared that he had, for \ -when Freer remarked uselessly and obviously for the third time, "What beastly luck to have forgotten the Ljack. Nov/ if only it had happened out on the main road instead of in this short-cut, we would have stood a chance of borrowing one from an l ither car!" the little chap who was I standing by. came forward and in I formed us in a shrill childish pipe | that if it was another machine we wanted he'd seen a "big feller" come (through that same wood not a min ute ago and it had stopped not far iway. And he pointed a grimy thumb v over his shoulder toward the road \ that led to our left. k m SDtEO E$AS?Ik} I AO. AceATTDOA99 Ty cw/xw cosr/r/s/fr//r czrar &i/M//r "O, they stopped, did they?" I asked, and thought to myself with some sat isfaction that they were in trouble, too. The misery that so often at tends an automobilist is especially fond of company. "wonaer 11 tney a lenu us a jo^Ri I remarked aloud. "What kind of a machine was It, kid?" "A whoppin' bjg feller, red, like your lordship's," said the boy. Of course he Knew me, even if I aian t know him. He was probably the butcher's or baker's boy from Wye on his way back from the castle. "Sounds rather promising," said Dearest. "Do go and see if they can't help us out. I don't want Agatha Lawrence to wallc all that way home in this mud!" "Very well," I said, "but it sounds as if they were in need of assistance themselves! Why else should they want to stop in the middle of the woods? However, I'll make the at tempt. Freer, you stay by the la dies, and I'll go and see what I can do!" And just stopping to give the little boy a shilling or two for his T ^awti +V10 TUnnrl iuiui luauua, x obivug uwnu buv ?wv* road in the direction he had pointed out. I hadn't gone far and was Just wondering again what in the world would possess any one to push down so narrow a road in a big machine, when the machine in question came in sight. It was a big touring car, red like mine, to be sure, but an en tirely different make, and I stopped and stared at it in an overwhelming surprise. But not for any reason in connection with the automobile itself. It was the girl who was its sole pas senger that held my attention and caused my surprise. Sitting in the Agatha First Ros front seat, a light pongee coat about her, with an air of expectancy, as if she awaited the coming of some one not far off, sat Agatha First. Yes, the very same. As cheerful and as much herself as if she had not plead ed a headache as an excuse for not automobiling with us that morning. I stood stock still in the road as my unwilling eyes took in this amaz ing sight, and it was a full minute before my routed wits apprehended the significance of a man's checked automobile coat that hung over the back of the seat beside her. Evi dently she was with some one, which somehow seemed less extraodinary at the moment than that she should be alone. Her escort though not visible was apparently not far dis tant, for even as I stared, Agatha First rose in the machine displaying a huge bunch of wild flowers in her hands as she did so. and hallooed to called, "I don't want any more flow ers, I want you!" A laugh quite near at hand sounded for a response and I hur riedly started back down the road. I wanted awfully to see who the man that belonged to the checked coat was, but I wanted still more to es cape being seen either by him or by my eccentric guest. Miss Endicott. The possibility that I might fall in with the former returning from his little ramble, flowers in hand, almost made me run, and the fear that in looking for him. the latter was al ready on the point of discovering my retreating form, caused me to stick close to the roadside and the shelter of the trees like any thief or tres passer. And, by Jove! I didn't breathe freely till I'd sighted my own mnoliinfi stfindiner in the sunlieht at the cross-roads. It's a nasty posi tion for a chap to be caught In, eavesdropping, and if they had seen me they would never have believed I had not been spying on them. "Did you get a jack?" inquired Freer as I came up. He could see perfectly well that I was empty "No," I said shortly, too absorbed i In conjecturing the meaning of the strange discovery I had Just stum- j bled upon to invent any excuse foi?: the failure of my errand. "We'll Just have to walk home." I j said. "Pederson can wait with the car and I'll send him help from the I castle." And all the way home I pondered | upon my queer adventure. What j could Agatha First be doing In a j strange automobile in the middle of J the woods when she was supposed to I be ill at home, and who was the man ! who was with her, the owner of the J checked coat?' That was the most j mysterious part of the whole business j to me, and though I racked by brain i I could not possibly think who he might be! PART TWO. CHAPTER VI. It wasn't until later that same aft ernoon of our Northbury trip, when Lady Vincent and I had ascended to our rooms to dress for dinner, that I found a chance to tell her the news. I can always be sure of an uninter rupted chat with her then. "And so you saw her sitting In the automobile alone in the middle of the woods?" asked Dearest, when I had finished my breathless recital. "Yes,' that is as far as I could see, she was alone," I replied. "But you forget the man's laugh and the checked coat. There was a man with her right enough, and though I didn't think so at the time, I think now that makes the thing much more mysteri ous." "Of course there was a man with her," remarked Dearest. "It was a lover's tryst, as plain as plain can bef" Dearest is so romantic. But then at the same time I'll h^ve to admit she's nearly always right. "But who under high heaveq could it have been?" I cried, never more puzzled in my life. "We know it wasn't Freer; he waa with us all the time, and Terhune has been in London all day!" "He said he was going to be in London," remarked my wife with the slightest possible emphasis on the e in the Machine. / "said." I gaped at her a moment, then seized her shoulder. "Do you mean to say it was Archi bald?" I cried, "who was the owner of the checked coat?" "I didn't say," she replied, "only It does look a little like It, doesn't It? You see he couldn't go to the cricket with us because he had to go up to London, and she, because she had a headache. Voila tout!" "But we saw the wire," I objected. "Oh, as to that!" she said, " a tele gram's easily enough cooked up! He had only to write one himself and tell the station-master to send it over. We none of us examined it closely. It's an old dodge, you know." "So It is!" I cried, "and you're right. It must have been old Ter hune! What a dunderhead I've been i not to see it before! But I say," 1 added, less exuberantly as a thought struck me, "if that's the case, what does he mean by it, Dearest? What do they both mean by it, he and she? And what does it portend in regard to the match we're trying to make be tween Arch and Miss Lawrence? An swer any of those questions if you can! Wiseacre that you are, I be lieve you'll have to let me count ten on that!" "I'm afraid I will," she admitted, as puzzled as I was. "You see I never knew Agatha Endicott as well as 1 did the other five Agathas?as well as I do Agatha Sixth, and then you know Agatha Sixth has visited me before, and this is the first time I've seen Agatha First since we parted on the occasion of my marriage." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Caught! "Do you remember me buying a hail mattress from you the other day?" asked the lady. "Perfectly well, ma'am," was the re ply of the dealer. "Well, I've discovered that onl\ about one-quarter of the filling is hair." "Then you certainly do seem to have jne where the hair is short, ma'am." SOUTH CAROLINA # ?> 1,515,400 SOUTH CAROLINIANS. Spartanburg County Made Greatest Gain?Decrease in Others. South Carolina's population, ac cording to the census, is 1,515,400, an increase of 175,084 in the last de cade. This increase was slightly less than it was from 1890 to 1900, and it is not sufficient to entitle the State to n additional congressman under tl.? present basis of 194,000 to a representative and if the reap portionment is based upon a larger number, as is likely, there will be a reduction of one congressman from South Carolina. The largest gain was in Spartan burg county, 17,905. Next comes Greenville, 14,887; next Anderson, 13,840. Richland's gain is 9,554, and Charleston's 588. Fairfield county gains just 7. The counties of Bam bery, Beaufort, Berkeley, Marion and Orangeburg and Sumter lost considerably, in consequence of new counties being carved out of them. Georgetown lost 576. The full population by counties: Abbeville, 34,80't; Aiken, 41,849; Anderson, 49,568: Bamberg, 18,544; Barnwell, 32,209; Beaufort, 30,366; Berkeley, 23,487; Calhoun, 16,634; Charleston, 88,594: Cherokee, 26,179; Chester, 29,425; Chesterfield, 26,301; Clarendon, 32,108; Colleton, 35,390; Darlington, 36,027; Dillon, 22.615; Dorchester, 17,891; Edgefield, 28,281; Fairfield, 29,442; Florence, 35,671; Georgetown, 22,270: Greenville, 68, 377; Greenwood, 34,225; Hampton, 25,126; Horry, 26,995; Kershaw, 27, 894* Lancaster, 26,650; Laurens, 41, 550; Lee, 25,318; Lexington, 32,040; Marion, 20,596; Marlboro, 31,189; Newberry, 34,586; Oconee, 27,337; Orangeburg, 55,993; Pickens, 25,422; Richland, 55,143; Saluda, 20,943; Spartanburg, 83,465; Sumter, 38,472; on r\41 07 con. uuiuu, ? liiictiuajjui 5, o?,u?.u, Yory, 47,718. , Ten Bales on Ten Acres. C. G. Cochran, a well-known young farmer of Lancaster county, has ef fectually demonstrated this year .what may be accomplished by one man on a farm in this day and time of improved methods of jigricul 'ture. He prepared and worked himself 10 acres in cotton, from which he has gathered 10 bales. Such yields, and larger ones, are usually made by heavy fertiliza tion, but Mr. Cochran used only 300 pounds of 8-3-3 goods to the acre, the result showing that intelligent, thorough cultivation had much to do with the making of a bale to the acre. Aiken's Corn Record. Superintendent of Education Cecil W Sficlrr nf Aik-pn rrrmntv hns awarded to the boys of the corn club the certificates of merit. The following are those who received certifivates and their production of corn on one acre: Walter Fulmer, 144 bushels', Findley Carpenter, 108 1-2 bushels; Lucius Johnson, 85 bushels; Earl Tyler, 84 bushels; Lloyd Boylston, 81 bushels; Raymond Foley, 77 bushels; Crimmins Hankinson, 75 bushels. Lake City for Law and Order. Will J. Cockfield, a special police man, charged by the verdict of the coroner's jury with the murder of Henry Alfonso, a negro circus at tache. J. H. V. Gaskins, acting chief of police, is charged with being ac cessory after the fact. The evidence was that Cockfield shot the negro without provocation and that Gaskins lent him aid after he had fired the fatal shot. The people are determined that justice shall be done. Summary. The election on a bond issue of $10,000 in favor of the North and South Carolina railroad was held at Dillon and the election went against the issue by a vote of G1 to 32 Exum Goodwin, a 16-year-old North Carolina boy, a native of Wake county, was awarded the grand sweepstakes prize cup for the best single ear of corn at the UUI II UA}lU9ItlUil U"i 11(3 IIU1U III uu lumbia. The Women's National Rivers and Harbors congress in conven tion decided not to merge with the Federation of Women's clubs. The motion was defeated by a large majority. Among the officers elec ted was Mrs. Barton Miller, of Charleston, as president. A force has been put out by the new railroad company to run pre liminary lines for the extension of the Seaboard from Hartsville to Florence. In a few days the. choice of routes will be determined and I ho profile survey started upon. Subscriptions for I lie proposed $40,000 Methodist church at Marion has been raised and a building committee appointed. Result ol' Saluda's corn contest: To H. 13. White was presented the first prize of 630 in gold; J. E. Zeigler was awarded second prize, 620 in gold, and J. W. Marsh won I turn, $1 u in gold. .Mr. vvnitc made 92 bushels and 52 pounds. Mr. Zeigler, 85 bushels and 56 pounds. Mr. Marsh 85 bushels and seven pounds. Motor Car Service Popular. A new gas-electric motor car to be run between Greenwood and Greenville and Greenwood and An derson. will be put on by the Southern Railway before Christ mas. Superintendent Anderson has been in Columbia, in consultation with other officials in working out the schedules. The success of the motor car service between Anderson and Greenville, which was established several months ago, is responsible for. this new service. \ COLUMBIA AND CAROLINA SOUTH CAROLINA IN DEBT. County Treasurers Are Slow in Sending in Tax Money. The State of South Carolina will have to meet obligations to the ex tent of approximately $500,000 by January 1. There is only about $75,000 in the State treasury at present. The county treasures are behind in sending in the tax money to the extent 01 aoout as compared with this date last year On December 30 four notes ag gregating $400,000 will fall due. The interest on the State debt amounts to ?145,000. The running expenses of the State government for two months will also have to be paid. The sum of $550,000 has been borrowed by the State during the year. The tax levy for this year was 5 3-5 mills. It is.not thought that the next general assembly will have to increase this amount. The borrowing of money means that the State government has to mortgage its taxes for running*expenses. THE INCOME TAX. If Law Cannot Be Enforced It Should Be Bepealed. Complications as to the payment of income taxes in Greenville coun ty may cause the law to be repealed by the general assembly or some provision made for its strict en forcement. The county auditor of Greenville has reported the names of 15 from Greenville who have paid their income taxes. The income tax is on a graduated scale on all in comes above $2,500. Comptroller General Jones has a list of over 70 persons in that county who have been reported to him as being liable to the law. ' Last year the income tax amount ed to approximiately $20,000. The comptroller general is of the opinion that it should have been at least $50,000. He will recommend to the general assembly that unless some means be given him to enforce the law, that it be abolished L&t year the comptroller general wrote a letter to M. L. Gullick, the county auditor of Greenville county, giving him full instructions as to the coll'ection of income taxes. The large list of names was also sent to him. So far the county auditor has made no report-so far as is known at the office of the comptroller gen eral. A similar condition to that lof Green,ville exists in many 6f the other counties of the State. 1 Black Sheep of the FamJ*y. Richard Croker, who said when he was last arrested at Columbia, that he is a nephew of Tammany's fa mous chieftian of the old days, is again, in trouble, being arraigned in magistrate's court - on a charge of breach of trust. He was sent to the chain-gang for 90 days some time ago on the same charge. Saved All But $50.00. O. H. Hopkins, a negro preacher, of Sumter, after saving all his fur niture in a fire, discovering that his vest with $50 was missing, dropped dead. Summary. An official map issued by Com missioner Watson shows the new North & South Carolina railway line from Hamlet to Mullins. The line under construction from McBee to Florence is also shown. The Stars and Stripes are now flying from the flag staff of Sum ter's new postoffice in token of the occupancy of the building. The Merchants' and Farmers' bank of Fort Mill has been organiz ed with a capital stock of $25,000 Gov. Ansel May Get Judgship. Gov. Ansel stands a fair chance of being a member of the new court of. commerce, and that his name has been most favorably presented to the President for appointment. ft is known that almost a score of the governors have written person al letters to President Taft urging the appointment of Gov. Ansel. The appointment will very likely be made during the present week. The position carries a salary of $7, 500. Electric Liijhted Pullmans. All Pnllrnm sleenors on through I rains of tin- Southern and Seaboard passing Columbia, have boon equip ped .'.villi el.vtric lights. This is necessary, because these cars have to pass into I In* Hudson tunnel to reach tin* new Pennsylvania station in New York city. Heretofore pas sengers left the trains at Jersey City and used ferry boats to New York. Many of the day coaches operated out of Columbia by the Southern are also equipped with electric lights. Dream of Robert Hayne. That it was the dream of Robert Y. Hayne, the famous Carolinian. to build a line of railwav through ^ ? i /-* i: 11 * _ i ! stouiri ticirmmu. nir muuiuams tu j North Carolina and Ihence In the middle West, was tv forred in by I Alfred Thorn in concluding his argn-j menl al Columbia, on I hi* qni'slion I of competing liti?*s. He explained! that tin' Southern having acquired j ail except the South Carolina and Georgia lo Charleston, tln-n took Ihnf line. "And now." saidi Mr. Thorn "I his is given as our s/n." NEW ERA IN FINANCE &SCURACY AND PUBLICITY PROVES TO BE A POPULAR MOTTO. Prompt Response to Bold Move of ) President Vail.?"Accuracy" Reduc ed Western Union's Surplus $13, 000,000.?"Publicity" .Restored Con- l fldence and Its Stock Went Up. < Are the great financiers of the i counffy- beginning to see a new light? ^ Time was, until recently in fact, when i the men at the head of the big cor porations "kept their business to i themselves," as far as the law would i allow. Capable men at the head of the big concerns, long realized the weak ness of their position, but what was needed obviously, as in all great re- i forms, was an unmistakable occasion and a courageous man. The occasion arose In the purchase of the Western Union Telegraph company by the American Telephone and Telegraph company, and the man appeared m Theodore N. Vail, President of the purchasing corporation. It was last December when public announcement was made that the Gould holdings of Western Union had been taken over by the Telephone company. On account of the high esteem in which the management of the tele phone company is so generally held, great things were predicted as a re sult of the absorption of Western Union. By the press of the country the "deal" was most favorably com mented on, It being widely pointed out that under the direction of such men as Theodore N. Vail and his as sociates, the telegraph company was do una soon to worK itself into h . po sition where it could offer the public far more efficient service than it had ever before been able to offer. But a very few months had elapsed when it became apparent to the new management that a modern and up to-date appraisal of. the company's assets would make possible a far greater degree of efficiency of oper ation. "Here," they said to them selves, "we've bought control of this property and we know it's immensely valuable, but we don't know Just how valuable. These appraisals of real estate and securities owned were made a long time ago. If we have a complete inventory made of every thing we've got we can announce the XT ? vtl- -a l - * " iuulo iu ui?i puuuc, start a new set 01 books, and begin our responsibility to stockholders right there." . How Inventory Was Taken, x The most expert accountants and appraisers to be had were put at the task. Their labors lasted over eight months. Their report and its publi cation by the company marks an ep och In finance. It began by recommending an ad justment of the difference between the appraised and book values by a charge of $5,595,089 against sur plus. Book values of securities held "were reduced to market values, bad and doubtful accounts were "charg ed off," an allowance of $2,000,000 was m'ade for "depreciation," another of $500,000 for "reserve," and so on, until the old surplus of $18,867,000 came down to $5,136,000. - It required courage, the publication of this statement to stockholders, say ing In effect: "The property of your company has been reval ued: the surplus isn't nineteen mill ions, as you have been led -to be lieve, but five millions," but it was the truth, and President Vail did not flinch. "Accuracy ana publicity," he declared, was essential. "The stock holder has a right to know. The shares of this company are scatter ed from one end of the Union to the other. This is more than a private Ti 1- i. II 1 wjipuiaiiuu. it io a, gieai iiauuutu enterprise. The public is entitled to the facts." The report was ordered published forthwith. Financiers of the old school and speculators generally were aghast What would happen T Would the bottom drop out of Western Union when the shareholders realiz ed that their propetry was worth $13,000,000 less than they had sup posed? But the amazing thing happened. The stock went up and stayed up. The public had respond ed to this remarkable display of frankness and confidence; to the new motto, "Accuracy and Publicity." The full significance of the action of the new board is stated concisely by Harper's Weekly In these words: "Is this policy of publicity and of open-handed dealing with sharehold ers and public the forerunner of a similar movement on the part of oth er big corporations? Certainly it is to be hoped that it is. In the case of these big companies, dependent upon public patronage and doing busi ness under public franchise, can there be any question of the right of the people to know? "That right is being recognized. It is recognized now in this epochal act on the part of the telephone and telegraph interests. It is the dawn of a new era In oorpagqt|qq finance." Rider and Ridden. I never could believe that Provi- j ilence had sent a few men into the i world ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.?Richard Rum bold. Longevity In Birds. Wild geese have been known to live to the age of 100. and the raven commonly lives 50 years. A record is tn pxtar.t showing that a cock atoo once attained the ripe old age of 81 years. Timeliness. All measures of reformation are ef- . fective In exact proportion to their | timeliness; partial decay may be cut j away and cleansed; incipient error | corrected; but there i3 a point at ' which corruption can no more be stayed, nor wandering recalled. It has been the manner of modern phil j anthropy to remain passive until that I precise period, anil to leave the sick | to perish. ar?d the foolish to stray, while It spent Itself In frantic exer tions to raise the dead, and reform the dust?Rustkin. ONE WAY TO BE MODEL MAR /oung Son of Thrifty Mother Let* Light In. on Family Secret. "There's more than one way of betas i model man," remarked the youns: son of a thrifty mother to the girl jpon whom he was trying to make a good impression. . "How so?" asked the girl. "It's more or less of a family secret, but ever since mother's chatty chum came in and found me arrayed in an up-to-date overskirt, with mother 'on all fours at my feet with a mouthful of pins trying to make\t hang straight, I suppose the cat Is out of the bag and you may as well get it from me." In. the girl's eyes there was* an expression af mixed consternation and mirth. . "I have always been Blender, and since mother had no daughter on whom to hang her dresses and things, Bhe's used me for a model for the last five years. All she did was to put her what-you-may-call-thems that lace up uie uacK on me, puu uiem up 10 u?r own size regardless of my discomfort and begin to dressmake with my sylph-like form for a model. But when I got home from college this last time my waist had developed to unladylike proportions and mother has been forced to buy herself a pneumatic form to take the place of her model son. I'm thinking of putting this requisite in with my* specifications ma a husband," he added half seriously. Gems afc Poison Antidotes. Poison was the terror of the middle ages; it is natural, therefore, to find many remedies among gems?the ja cinth, the sapphire, the diamond, the cornelian, the ruby, the agate, the . toadstone, the bezoar stone were ell fi used as antidotes to poison. The man who has a good repute- v.;; tlon may not be able to realize the fun he might have if .he didn't, , i For OOLDS and GRIP Hicks' Capudutb is the best remedy?** lierea the aching and feverishneas?cures th* Cold and restores normal conditions. liquid?effects lmmediatly. 10c., and 60s. t drag stores.' * * Thorough. "You are an optimist?*' "I am," replied Mr. Duatin St&x. "1 not only hope for the best, but I practical arrangements to get it" Thousands of country people know that in time of sudden mishap or accident Hairdins Wizard Oil is the best substi tute for the family doctor. That ia why It is so often found upon the shelf. / Severe Punishment. Belle?And did you make her eat her own words Beulah?Eat 'em? I made her Fletcherize 'em. TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA AND BUILD UP THE SYSTEM Take the Old Standard UROVBtt TAbTJCLBtS THILL TONIC. Ton know what 70a arc HtUnt Che formula is plainly printed an erery bottl*, t ho wing It Is simply Onlnine and Iron In ? taste less form. Tbo Qninfne drives ont the maUiia and the iron buiins up- me system, doja uj ?u /i dealers tor 80 years. Price 60 cent*. None in Stock. A well-dressed woman paused in. front of the chestnut vender's stan<L "Are they wormy?" she asked. > ]l "No, ma am," he answered blandly. | "Did you want them with worms Acme of Cautiousness. - Seymour?Young Tlcer looks like a cautious man. Ashley?He is cautious; he's so can- ,7rj| tlous that he wouldn't ask the prst- - tlest girl in all the world to let.him see her home unless he had learned how far sway she lived. .... J The Big Show. The personally conducted tourists were viewing the Egyptian pyramids. "Goodness gracious!" ejaculated Mrs. Newrocks, "it must have cost a. pile of money to build them." "Surest thjng you know," said Mr. Newrocks; ''but don't imagine for a moment that any one tourist agency stood for all the expense?It waa probably a jackpot affair!" " \ \ 8aw Only Physical Idea. One of his friends once iisked Mr. Darwin's gardener about his master*? : health, and how he had been lately; "Oh!" he said, "my poor maatef haa L been very sadly. I often wish ha had something to-do. He moons about In the garden, and I have seen him rininc nnthlnflr before a flower for ten minutes at a time. If he only had something to do I really believe he would be better." ? -J THEY GROW Good Humor and Cheerfulness From Right Food and Drink. Anything that Interferes with good health is apt to beep cheerfulness and* good humor in the background. Washington lady found that letting coffee alone made things bright for her. She writes: .* t "Four years ago I was practically given up by my doctor and was not ex pected to live long. My nervous sys tem was in a bad condition. "But I was young and did not want to die so I began to look about for the cause of my chronic trouble. I used to have nervous spells which would ex haust me and after each spell it would take me days before I could sit up in a chair. "I became convinced my trouble was caused by coffee. I decided to stop it and bought some Postum. "The first cup, which I made accord Ing to directions, had a soothing ef fect on my nerves and I liked the taste. For a time I nearly lived on Postumi and ate little food besides. 1 am today a healthy woman. "My family and relatives wonder if I am the same person I was four years ago, when I could do no work on ac count of nervousness. Now I am do ing my own housework, take care of two babies?one twenty the other two months old. I am so busy that I hard ly get time to write a letter, yet I do it all with the cheerfulness and good humor that comes from enjoying good health. "I tell my friends it is to Postum I owe my life today." Read "The Road to WellvMe," In pkgs. "There's a Reason." Ever read the above lettert A new one appear* from time to time. Tk?y . are Rennlne, true, and fall of hnxuuL Intercut.