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Mmmi itaari ^-htdottdo GOOIOTDP Author d 7 i urrment. u/v ar t SYNOPSIS. Archibald Terhune. a popular and In dolent young bachelor of London, re ceives news that he has been made heli to the estate of his Aunt Georglana, with an Income of $20,000 a year, on conditior 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 Castle WyckofT, where Lord Vincent and his wife, friends of Terhune, are discussing plans to find him a wife within the prescribed time. II seems that Lady Vincent is one of sever 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 guests. Agatha Sixth strikes Archie as a handpainted beauty. Agatha First Is a breezy American girl. Lady Vincent tells her husband that Agatha Sixth 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 Terhune is called to London on business. Agatha First, on the plea of cjujiwiesa, trJWL'ustra aerseu lixjm cl jhvw? trip planned by the Vincents. Later they see Agatha First picking flowers with a strange man. The Vincents discuss Agatha's seeming duplicity. The follow ing day the party visits the ruins of an old convent. Terhune continues his at tentions to Agatha Sixth. CHAPTER VII.?Continued. Freer had returned from his visit to the ruins and was endeavoring to Interest the rest of us. Arch and Agatha Sixth and Dearest and my self in a dissertation upon rose-win dows, when Agatha First interrupted us by running up and exclaiming: "Do come and see the waterfall. Pederson says there's a beauty over there in those woods!" She had been down to the road with Eomething or other from the spread, where the au tomobile and the chauffeur awaited Dur return. "A waterfall!" said Archibald. "Dear me! How Jolly! Let's go and see it!" "Come on, then!" cried Agatha First, pausing and looking at him expectantly. He rose obediently, but before ho could more than utter the words "Delighted, I'm sure!" Agatha Sixth had risen also, and was now confronting him, as she coldly and haughtily reminded him that he had promised to go and look for wild flowers with her. It was putting the old boy In an awkward position, I ad mit, but that's no excuse for his sub sequent behavior. A tactful speech would have saved the day, but that something perverse about him, which he has In common with most men, made him want most at that moment the girl who wanted him least. And that girl was certainly Agatha First, for without waiting to see whether he came or not, she had run off by her self, all eagerness to see the water fall Without considering the rashness of such a speech, Archibald repl' .. to Agatha Sixth's rebuke by remarking casually: "So I did promise to go and look for wild flowers, but I didn't know about the waterfall then; wouldn't you rather come and see that first?" We shuddered to hear him, Dearest and I. It was pretty bad, you know. Yet. as I say I thought I understood just how he came to say the fatal words?just what spirit prompted him. But Dearest thinks not. She says that he's far too cal culating?far too much on the look out for his own interests to run the risk of losing Agatha Sixth deliberate ly. She. thinks he was only embar rassed. But we both thought that the most peculiar thing about the whole affair was the fact that Agatha First, having left the group immedi ately her unfortunate invitation was given, must have been quite Ignorant of the trouble It had caused. She seemed, indeed, the whole time to be absolutely oblivious to the situation In regard to Agatha Sixth and Ter hune. And this was the more ex traordinary because any one else, any Impartial observer with his eyes open, must, it seemed, have been aware of an affair of some kind or other between the two. But Miss Endicott, it appeared, walked with her eyes shut, like a person in a dream, her thoughts upon some other , world or scheme of things removed irom ours. As matters stood, however, the re sult of the waterfall proposition and Terhune's mismanagement of the crisis it brought about, was a flat re fusal on the part of Agatha Sixth to accompany him anywhere, and hi3 frightened and tardy pursuit of Agatha First, who was beckoning him to follow from the edge of the woods. By, Jove, it made me feel Inclined to go after him and tell him what I thought of him then and there, Misa Lawrence looked so forlorn and wretched as she watched them disap pear into the woods together. "The beast!" I began, "he ought to be?" But Dearest Interrupted me, and I realized it was because the young lady was still standing within earshot. "Don't, Wilfred!" she said, "Agatha doesn't mind a bit?do you, dear?" And she smiled confidently and encouragingly into tne otner "woman's face. It was the required tonic evidently, for Miss Agatha Law rence?sometimes called Agatha Sixth?at once controlled her quiver ing lip with a display of self-com mand upon which I inwardly compli mented her. It's a trait of the Amer ican girl, I think, that fine self-con trol, and something that I admire greatly in my wife. "Of course not," she replied stead ly, and turning upon the bewildered Freer, who was standing by, with the sweetest possible smile, asked him If he would mind hunting wild flow ers with her. The invitation, I need not say, was accepted with servile gratitude by that undis criminating and impressionable young man. Like the little dog under the table, Freer was never too proud to partake of the crumbs. v.c.c/fAPMT wmmn/rjfiur at/m/r' My wife and I left alone, she broke at once Into lamentation. Her plans were all going astray, she declared. Match-making was perfectly horrid and she would never, no, never, un dertake it again. As for Archibald, she gave him up. She couldn't under stand it, at all. Why couldn't he make up his mind which girl he wanted and stick tc it? A man who only had ten days in which to choose a wife had no business to go on as he did. Why, she'd never get him married, and he'd lose his fortune! But that wasn't the most important point to be considered by any means. What bothered her most was that poor Agatha Lawrence had fallen in love with the marplot, and so far as she could see?and this in spite of her best efforts?the poor girl was des tined to lose him after all! O, it was really too bad. Terhune was too, too trying! I must really speak to him and find out what he meant by playing fast and loose like that! I give you my word I've seldom heard her go on so about anything. She really felt distressed by the unaccount able and rather mysterious color our matrimonial project had assumed, and was much concerned for Agatha Sixth's happiness. The other Agatha we did not seem to be as interested in somehow, as she had neither a hus band or a fortune at stake with which to enlist our special sympathies. "After all, Wilfred," she said, heav ing a deep sigh, "the course of true love never did run smooth!" "Nor yet the course of true match making!" I answered and we strolled down the side of the little hill where the picnic had been to go and look for wild flowers ourselves. CHAPTER VIII. "Here You've Gone and / confidentially with Terhune. He and I were walking home, as seven was rather a crowd In the machine and we wanted the exercise. "What in thunder do you mean by It?" I demanded when I had finished setting his erratic and inconsiderate conduct before him in its true light? excepting, of course, the details of the incident of the automobile in the wood, and our later discovery of the checked coat in his closet. All refer ence to this little episode and the suspicions of Dearest and myself in regard to his connection with it, I had felt obliged to omit. We had de cided not to mention the subject to him as we had after all only circum stantial evidence upon which to base our belief that Terhune had been Agatha First's companion that day. For, after all, the checked coat we found in his closet might only have resembled the one I saw in the car, and he might easily have owned one of the ki.ad without our ever having seen it. Our friendship with Arch was too dearly prized by us to risk falsely accusing him. And then I couldn't help feeling that after all I had rather surprised them when I had come upon them in the woods, and in seeing what I was not meant to have seen, had rather played the spy, how ever inadvertently it might have been done. And I did not relish making use of information so obtained. It was better, much fairer to Arch, we decided, to act simply aB if my dls covery naa never Deen. "Here you've gone and asked us to help you," I went on, "in the matter of getting a fortune, net to mention a wife, and when it's made as plain as it could well be that Agatha Sixth is the girl for you and you admit fancy ing her yourself, why, then, what do you do?" I stopped and faced him. We were crossing Hartsmere common and the castle was already in sight, and his eyes fell before my just in dignation. He didn't seem anxious to tell me, so I set to and told him my self. "Why, you go and spoil It all by flirting with Agatha First, nov don't you!" "Spoil it all?" he asked without looking up. "Yes," I affirmed impa ? --r tlently, "that's Just what you're doing. I should think you could see you're jeopardizing your chances with Agatha Sixth every time you so much- as glance at Agatha First, and really, when you consider that you've asked the girl to marry you and are sup posed to be awaiting her answer with all a lover's Impatience, it doesn't look well. It doesn't really! What do you want to do it for, anyway?" I paused In my tirade, but he made no motion to answer. "Why, it's plain loony of you!" I exploded in my irritation. "For a man in your position, it's posi tively suicidal to fool the way you're doing. I shouldn't wonder at all if Miss Lawrence refused you eventual ly, and then the game would be up indeed!" I "What game?" said Arch, If you please, just as if he didn't know wnat I was talking about. "Why, your aunt's property in Au stralia," I bellowed in his ear. "You can't inherit it if Agatha Sixth, won't marry you, can you?" "Can't. I?" he said simply, as if it didn't matter at all, and I nearly lost my patience. "How could you?" I returned. "The time's up in two days; is it likely you could get anyone else to marry you in that length of time?" He looked up. "I shouldn't care to marry anyone else," he said. "I hap pen to care about her," and his ex pression was so earnest and sincere I had to believe him. "Well, then, for heaven's sake, make a little more effort to convince her that you care!" I advised, but more gently, and we walked on in silence. I brofce it first, as he didn't seem in clined to talk. "Honest, old man," I said, "I wish you'd tell a fellow what you're up to! I hate to see you ma king a mess of this thing, for no good reason. If you didn't like Miss .Law rence it would be different. But you're self-confesBed as to that, and It's es pecially hard to bear when Dearest and I have been doing our very best to help you. Tell me what it's all about, can't you? Why will you per sist in running after Agatha Endicott just at this critical stage of the game?" "My dear fellow," he replied, "I'd tell you everything In a minute if there were anything to tell. But there isn't, not a blooming blessed thing; I deny your last statement, however. ? h-& ?' ^sked Us to Help You." I can do that much for you. I am not running after Miss Endicott, not the least bit In the world. I give you my word I'm not!" For a moment I felt a curious sense of positions reversed, as If some time not long ago I had been the one to speak so to Terhune, and he to lec ture me. He is older than I and has always been the one to look after me, not I after him. And this feeling al most Impelled me to drop my in quisitorial tone. But I thought of the automobile in the woods and the scene I had stumbled upon and grew firm. Really It was too much. I couldn't let him string me like that! "I don't know what you call it," I retorted indignantly, "but whether you think so or not, you're with Agatha First all the time lately. Why can't ?nii lot lior otnno nnH 't.PTlfl Rtrict.lV to /V/V* *v^ * business?" (TO BE CONTINUED.) A Fat Reducer. Before starting to starve or drug off your extra layers of fat try the effect of this simple exercise, which is a great reducer of adipose tissue. Standing with knees close together, rise on the tips of the toes, and, at the same time, elevate the chest and force down the palms of the hands as if pushing hard on a board. Bend the hands up slightly so the muscular strain comes on the fleshy part of the hand close to the wrist Do this whenever you happen to think of it during the day, and you will soon notice a decided differenco in your flesh, particularly in a promi nent abdomen. Make Use of Spare Time. Young man, don't sit with folded nanus, caning on iiercuies. Help yourself. Take an hour every day from your frivolous pursuits, employ that hour profitably on some hobby, and If only of ordinary capacity you will master some science. Try the ex periment. Even though you may now be an ignorant man, you may become a well-informed man in ten yeara Hundreds who have had no better op portunities than you have risen abov^ the commonplace. But they made more of their spare time. English Women Smoke Pipes. The latest fancy of the woman smoker is a pipe?not the tiny affair | that Bufflces for the Japanese, but a ! rood-sized brier or a neat meer schaum. The pipe Is boldly carried | along with a gold card case and chain purse. For some time now the cig arette has given place to a cigar, I small in size and mild in quality. Women said they were tired of the cigarette, and wanted a bigger smoke. ?London Mail. Cripple Rides Bicycle. danrtra Anetov ntroA 15 a fHnnlf* of Leicester. England, is one of the most remarkable cyclists in the coun try. Both his legs are withered and useless, but the Leicester Cripples' Guild has provided him with a two wheeled pedalless machine, with a padded tube covering the axle bar. Across this he lies face foremost, and with wooden clogs strapped to his hands he propels himself along the streets and roads in a marvelously rapid manner. He has complete con trol of the machine, his hands acting as pedals, steering gear, and brake i combined. Too Ardent a Lover. Georgotto Fontano, an embroiderer who lives In the Rue Sevres In Paris, has found herself condemned to a month's imprisonment for what seems to her a harmless act She was going home from a concert a few evenings ago when she decided ihe would like to see her fiance. As he happens to be a fireman whose tatlon is In her own neighborhood it occurred to her it would be very easy Mm tr> >iV?r bMp hv hreak bU DUUluavu * *?** vv ?? tng the glass of the fire alarm and sounding a call. She did so anr In a few moments Ore engines came from several direc tions, all laden with firemen, of course, but alas! her fiance was not among them, and more than that all the fire men were angry, and before she knew what had happened she was taken to a magistrate, who proceeded to make the course of true love run unsmoothly by sending her to prison for a month in spite of her tears and protests that *he thought It would be a simple way of bringing her fiance to her side. NEW SAWS BADLY NEEDED The Old-Fashioned Ones 8omehow Don't Seem to Fit Into Mod ern Situations. I "You know all the copybook, Mc [ Guffey's reader line of talk about ta i king the advice of one's elders?" be gan the sad-eyed, undersized little man on thfe car. "Sure you do. Now let me tell you something. See that big apartment house over there on the right? And that little business block right next to It? "Well, there weren't any apartment houses or business blocks on it when I first clapped eyes on it. It was a howling wilderness, in fact, and you could almost chase rabbits up here. That was about eighteen years ago. 1 had a hunch then?and I was only eighteen years old at that time?that this land would some day Jump In value by leaps and bounds. When I was twenty years old I came Into a bunch of $15,000. I went to my guar dian, an old man, pretty prominent In estate management and wisdom at that time, and I told him I wanted to soak the whole $15,000 in this block of ground I pointed out to you. The block was then on the market for exactly $15,000. The old gentleman I pooh-poohed me. " 'Go away, boy,' he said to me, with a patronizing smile. 'You don't know what you want. It's my duty to save you from such wild notions as this one you've got into your head. They'll be shooting rabbits and squirrels out there on that plot 50 years from now. G'way.' "I argued it with him, and he sat down on me. Then he went and in vested my $15,000 at three per cent. "Three years ago the man* who bought that same diock oi grouna iur $18,000 sold it for about $200,OuO cash, and he's now cruising ovor in the Mediterranean or some place or other, while I'm taking my wife out for nickel car rides and wondering where my $15,000 went. t "There's got to be a new set of wise saws invented for twentieth cen tury consumption. The McGuffey's reader kind are moth eaten." T1 Against the Pc A disagreement about adyer with a "weekly" Journal. Following It, an attack on us their editorial columns; sneering we made particularly regarding We replied through the regula the "weekly" thought we hit ba< hard and thereupon sued for lib< The advertisement the "weet us about claimed that in many ca dicitis an operation could be av continuing indigestible food, was bowels and taking a predigested Nuts. Observe we said MANY cases Wouldn't that knowledge be i - ? t&Ofie WHO iear a Burgeuu a auiio death? The "weekly" writer said that We replied that he was ignorai He was put on the stand and admit he was not a Dr. and ha< knowledge of appendicitis and r gated to find out If the te3timoi our Co. were genuine. A famous surgeon testified tl operation was required Grape-Nu obviate it. True. We never claimed that when was required Grape-NutB would i The surgeon testified bacteria [ ed to bring on an attack and grown by undigested food freque We claimed and proved by c experts that undigested food responsible for appendicitis. We showed by expert testimon cases are healed without a knife, ping the use of food which did nc when food was required again It to use a predigested food which tax the weakened organs of dige When a pain in the right' side not always necessary to be nisi i Lightning Change. The Manager?Can you make quick changes and double In a few parts? The Actor?Can I? Say, you know the scene In "Love and LobBters," where the hero and tlie villain are fighting, and a friend rushes in and separates 'em? Well, I played all three parts one night when the other two fellows were 111. Holidays In the States. Washington's birthday is a holiday In all states. Decoration day in all states but Florida, Georgia,*Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texaa. Labor day is observed everywhere. Virtu ally every state has legal holidays having to do with its own special af fairs?battle of New Orleans in Louis iana, Texan independence and battle of San Jacinto in Texas, Admission day in California* and so on. Missis sippi is like the federal government in lack of statutory holidays, but by common consent Independence day, Thanksgiving and Christmas are ob served. A new one is Columbus day in a few of the states. Planting Wedding Oaks. Princess August Wilhelm, wife of the kaiser's fourth son, has set herself the task of reviving one of Germany's oldest customs, that according to which newly wedded couples immediately af ter the marriage ceremony plant a cou ple of oak saplings side by side In a park or by the roadside of their na tive town. The town of Mulchausen, in Thurin gla, Is the first to respond to the prin cess' appeal. A municipal official ap pears at the church door after every wedding and Invites the bride and bridegroom to drive with him in a car riage to a new road near the town and there plant oak saplings. The tree planting Idea was started by a former elector of Brandenburg with the object of repairing the rav ages caused by the 30 years' war. The elector forbade young persons to mar ry until they had planted a number of fruit trees. . Two Very Old Ladiae. We have heard a great deal lately about long-lived people, -but it is prob able that the oldest two people in the world today are Frau. Dutklevltz and another old lady named Babavaslika. The former lives at Posem, In Prus sian Poland, and was born on Febru ary 21, 1785. She Is therefore one hundred and twenty-flve years old. The latter, however, Is nine months her senior, having been born in May, 1784. She is still a fairly hale old woman, and for nearly one hundred years worked in the fields. Her descendants number close on 100, and these now make her a joint allowance. She lives at the village of Bavelsko, whose neighborhood she has never quitted during the whole of her long life. She remembers events which happened at ha hoiHnnlne' of last centurv much more clearly than those of the last 40 years.?Dundee Advertiser. An Alaskan Luncheon. RunnerB of woven Indian basketry, with white drawnwork dollies at each of the 12 covers, were used on an oval mahogany table. The dollies were made at Sitka. In the middle of the table a mirror held a tall central vase of frosted glass, surrounded by four smaller vases, all filled with white spring blossoms. The edge of the mirror was banked with the same flowers. Four totem poles were placed on dollies In the angles made by the runners. Place cards were water colors of Alaskan scenery. Abalone shells held salted nuts, and tiny Indian baskets held bonbons. The soup spoons were of horn, several of the dishes used were made by Alaskan Indians, and the cakes were served on- baskets. DnlnrAn i ne menu was o.o iuhuito. x uuoUU a la Bering Sea (halibut chowder), Yukon climbers (broiled salmon, po tatoes Julienne), snowbirds avec auroraborealis (roast duck with Jelly), Shungnak river turnips, Tanana beets, Skagway hash (salad), Fair banks nuggets (ripe strawberries ar ranged on individual dishes around a central mound of powdered sugar), arctic slices tbrlck ice cream), Circle City delights (small cakes), Klondike nuggets (yellow cheese in round balls on crackers), Nome firewater (coffee). ?Woman's Home Companion. nat Suit >stum Cereal Co., to Bring ( tlslng arose hospital and at the risk Plain common sense appeared in is to stop food that ei at the claims digested. Appendicitis, r papers and ;k rather too si. dy" attacked .ses of appen oided by dis ihing out the [ food Grape not all. a comfort to as they fear was & lie. it of the facts, compelled to I no medical tever investi lal letters to lat when an ts would not an operation )revent it. germs] belp bacteria was ntly. >ther famous was largely Then, when food is r< digested food. Grape-I you know it to be predi* before taking). We brought to Cour from New York, Chicagc who swore to the analy that part of the starchy barley had been transf* kind of sugar produced digesting starch (the lai Some of the State ch the "weekly" said Gra; called a "predlgested" f< it was digested outside The other chemists sa been partly or half dige was commonly known as Splitting haira about ? It is sufficient that if food is "predlgested," it stomach and bowels th part is predlgested. To show the facts w< Darlington, former chiel of Health, Dr. Ralph W. Chicago Laboratories, ai If we were a little se tion of a writer, self-con appendicitis and its cau public will excuse us, in our head. Mr. C. W. Pos ,y that many but by stop it digest, and was helpful did not over stion. appears It Is tied off to a L study of food, food dige the conclusions are indc best medical authorities Is it possible that 1 suggesting, as a Father one of the family wbo an side: "Stop using the gravies, mince pie, chee Largest of Whales. Th? largest whale of Its type of which there Is scientific record was captured recently off Port Arthur, Tex. He measured sixty-three feet In length, and was estimated to 1>e about three hundred years old. Cap tain Cob Plummer, mate of a United States pilot boat, sighted the monster In the shoals off the jetties, and the crew of his vessel captured the mam mal. The huge body was towed ashore, exhibited and much photographed be fore being cut up. Bankers and Bank Notes. Four men, three of whom were con nected with brokerage concerns In the Wall street district, were discussing United States paper currency and the disappearance of counterfeits. "We are so sure nowadays," said one of the party, "as to the genuineness of bills that little attention Is paid to them in handling,, except as to de nomination." To prove his assertion he took a $10 yellowback from his pocket, and, holding it up, asked who could tell whose portrait it bore. No one knew, and by way of coaching the broker said it was the first treas urer of the United States. Again no one knew the name. "Why, It's Michael Hillegas," said the man proudly. "But In confidence, I'll tell you, I didn't know it five minutes ago."?New York Tribune. An Unnecessary Confession. A hearty laugh was occasioned at tho Birmingham police court by a pris oner who gave himself away in a very delightful manner. The man was the first on the list, and the charge against him was merely one of being drunk and disorderly. He stepped into the dock, however, just at the moment when the dock officer was reading out a few of the cases which were to come before the court that morning, and a guilty conscience apparently led him to mistake these items fcr a list of his previous convictions. He stood passive enough while the officer read out about a dozen drunk and disorderlies, but when he came to one "shopbreaking" the prisoner ex claimed excitedly, "That was eight years ago, your honor," Everyone be gan to laugh, and the prisoner, realiz ing the blunder he had made, at first looked very black indeed, but finally saw the humorous side of the matter, and a broad smile spread over his face. His blunder did not cost anything.? Birmingham Mail. DIFFERENCE IN THE RACES Mexicans In the Main Unjust in Blaming Americans for Lack of politeness. All the Mexican correspondents who have written on the subject of why Americans are not better liked by Mexicans agree that it is largely a question of a lack of politeness on the part of the foreigner here, and in some cases an ill-concealed contempt. The latter Is inexcusable, and certaln lv must emanate onlv from inconsld erate or poorly educated persona, from which no nation Is free. Politeness, however, is largely a matter of form and training. It is undeniable that the Anglo-Saxon salutations, methods of expressing thanks and apprecia tion, etc., are simpler and shorter than the Latin forms. To many who have all their lives been accustomed to the briefer Saxon ways, an attempt of the more elaborate Latin politeness seems, for them, nothing short of af fectation, and they simply cannot do It. There are exceptions among Amer icans and Englishmen who readily adopt the courteous phrases of the Mexicans and use them naturally, but they are the exceptions. And it Is difficult to see how this can readily be changed. Our Mexican friends' should understand, on the other hand, that if Anglo-Saxon? do not, as a rule, go through as many social formalities as the usages of the land prescribe, they mean no offense thereby. They are accustomed to taking a good many things for granted that their T.?Mn cousins eive verbal assurance of. Naturally, It Is the duty of the outlander to conform as nearly as he can to the ways of his adopted coun try, but human nature and settled habits are pretty hard to make over, particularly unless you catch them while they're young.?Mexican Her ald. for Lib< Ltd., Gave a Spit Out Facts of death be cut. shows the better way rldently has not been squired, use an easily "Juts or any other if jested (partly digested t analytical chemists > and Mlshawaka, Ind., sis of Grape-Nuts and part of the wheat and armed Into sugar, the In the human body by food, etc., etc. then when ag Nuts because Or should tl a hospital ant! We have kni approaching s appeared by tl No one bett skilful physicifc throes of acul of prevention Just plain ol nowadays. ge part of food). emlst8 brought on by pe-Nuts could not be sod because not all of the body. Id any food which had isted outside the body i "predlgested." he meaning of a word. ' only one-half of the Is easier on weakened an food In which no 3 introduce Dr. ThoB. t of the N. Y. Board Webster, chief of the id Dr. B. Sachs, N. Y. vere in our denuncla feased Ignorant about ise, It Is possible the view of the fact that t, haa made a lifetime stlon and effects, and )rsed by many of the of the day. we are at fault for and Mother might, to mounced a pain in the food, greasy meats, se, too much starchy ' This trial is pure beyoni It is partly Appendicitis" gesteTlooB"! It is not al* it is best to When ready gested food, it is palatabl It will pay fl heavy breakfai food but seleci tain the elemc the body. Ma] breakfast of 1 two soft boiled cocoa, milk or The question does not contf requires for th< of Its purity, paper articles. Good food Is body Is also li "Thi Postum Bat 1 Takes Himself Seriously.. Nicola Tesla, dining by himself In hotel's great dining room, takes a table where he can be seen. Through- t out his meal he wears a deeply stu dious, a completely absorbed, attitude. He may bring to the table a portfolio filled with papers. These he may scan with prolonged solemnity. In any event, he sits an eloquent tableau of profundity.?New York Press. Rat Bounty Excites Merriment. Seattle, fearing the introduction of bubonic plague by rats, has offered a bounty of ten cents a rat. This movee Tacoma, safe from Infection from the sea, to raucous laughter, and the Led* . ger says that the bounty, "though not ^ intended for rodents of Tacom^ Everett, Belllngham and other popi> lous and busy 'inters, baa bien UnA ing its way into the pockets of -non residents of Seattle for nro-resMent rats. But the Joke would L?? on. us If it were found that our rat popular ' tlon had found its way into tho Seafc tie census.' Pretty Good Definition. We hear some funny things in Fleet street sometimes, and the following definition of the height of aggravation, by a gentleman In rather shaky boota. whom we encountered In a well-known hostelry the other day, struck ua aa being particularly choice. "The 'eight of haggravation, gentl?? men," said this pothouse humorist, set ting his pewter on the counter' and looking round proudly, with the air of one about to let off a good thing, "tha 'eight of haggravation?why, trying to ketch a flea out o' yer ear with a pair of boxin' gloves."?London Tit Bits. Before Days of Free Preaa. Many of the restrictions that ham> ered the influence of the press malned In force until the close ot.ujjfr eighteenth century In England. It waa not till that period that newBpapera obtained the right to criticise the pol icy of ministers and of the king. Mr. Walter, the first editor of the London Times, was prosecuted for censuring the dflke of York. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $250, stand .In the pillory for an hour, be imprisoned for a VAor nnH oHvo RAnnrltv for his COOd behavior for seven years. The order with regard to the pillory waa can celed, but ne had to serve nis term la Jail. French Official Etlquet. The wives of the new French minis ters share In the honors conferred on their husbands, the degree of defer ence due to them being minutely es tablished by the "protocole." Whea the wife of a minister enters a room, if any deputies' or senators' wives are present, they are supposed to rise and remain standing until she is seat ed. Other ministers' wives may rest In their chairs, but should the prime minister's wife arise they also must stand to attention. And even lime. Briand (If there were such a person), would have to show similar deference to the wife of the president of the chamber. With her, according to the protocole, "e'est la representation na tional qui entre, le suffrage unlver sel la France."?London Chronicle. Vivid at Least. Dr. Hiram C. Cortlandt, the well known theologian of Des Moines, said In a recent address: "Thomas A. Edison tells us that he thinks the soul Is not Immortal; but, after all, what does this great jrizard know about souls? His forte 1* elec tricity and macnlnery, and when he talks of souls he reminds me Irresist ibly of the young lady who visited the Baldwin locomotive works and then told how a locomotive is made. " 'You pour,' she said, 'a lot of sand Into a lot of boxes, and you throw old ?? a a fn m b aa QLUVtJ UUO CUiU luiugo 1UVV t* j.v&&uc*v>v? and they you empty the molten stream into a hole In' the sand, and everybody yells and swears. Then you pour it r out and let It cool and pound It, and then you put It In a thing that bores holee In it Then you screws ^ to gether, and paint it, and put steam in it, and it goes splendidly; and they take It to .1 drafting room and make a bluep rtnt of it But one thing I for got?they have to make a boiler. On* man gets Inside and one gets outside, and they pound frightfully; and then they tie it to the other thing, and you ought to see it go!'" el ?ndid Chance , which has not been digested, ain ready for food use Grape it is easy of digestion?" ie child be at once carted off to l uut; own of many cases wherein the^ igns of appendicitis have di?^ le suggestion being followed. ?r appreciates the value of a in when a person Is In the awful te appendicitis, but "an ounce is worth a pound of cure." d common sense Is helpful even demonstrated Grape-Nuts food I Question. predlgested. generally has rise from undi raya necessary to operate. stop all food. to begin feeding use a predl and strong In Nourishment, ne returns In health to quit the Bts and lunches and use less t food certainly known to con mts nature requires to sustain r we be permitted to suggest a Crult', Grape-Nuts and cream, L eggs, and some hot toast and Postum? of whether Grape-Nuta does or tin the elements which nature i nourishment of the brain, also will be treated In liter news important and its effect on the mportant. ore's a Reason" Cereal Co.. 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