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ED FROM T/tt PL; 1 CHAPTER I. 1 Back of the massed red-brick and clapboard buildings forming, in Jones ville, Conn., the extensive group de voted to the manufacture of Jones' Pepsin Gum, was the abandoned power house, wherein were housed the water wheels which once had furnished force to drive the factory's machinery. The stream's diminishing flow, the in creaseu neeas ui iuv uuomcDo, auu vuv economy of steam all had militated to ward industrial abandonment of the old building. Small boys never fished there, for the sluice-waters were too swift, loaf ers never idled there, for the watch men of the mills were too strict in their guardianship; but lovers some times wandered there, of moonlight nights; and in the afternoons, when the academy sessions had ended. "Broadway," really named Jackson Jones, but nicknamed "Broadwky" be cause of his continual glorification of New York's great thoroughfare, which he had seen upon occasion, sometimes went there "to get away from Jones ville." This afternoon he was to teach two Jonesvllle girl friends new dance steps which he had learned in New York city. Later, dancing these with him at the Odd Fellows ball, they would confound an ouier suio Jonesvllle. The gitls came promptly. Clara Spotswood was the daughter of the lo cal judge, Josie Richards the daughter of a recent manager of the gum fac tory. Her father was now laid up with rheumatism, and Josie was in training for a bookkeeper's post in the great enterprise which swallowed most of JoneBville's youth of either sex, as soon as they left school. "Now this step, girls," Broadway said in preface,' "was invented on Broadway for use upon Broadway by Broadway people. Don't mistake it for a quiet nap. It's not a sleep-dance. It was not dreamed out in Jonesville." "And was everybody dancing it?" asked Josie. "Every girl I saw," he answered. He 1 t 1.1M Wa Va,! af. JJaa uet'u ItSUUlg Ul a, uan 11c uau at tended in New York, but not quite all lie might have told about it. "Every one I saw, but one." "And was she dancing old style?" "No; she was being carried to an ambulance. She had just sprained an ankle." "Oh, Jackson, you're tpo funny!" "Thanks for those kind words." He watched them whirl together for a moment. "No; not quite that way, Broadway Jones. Clara- Don't give a Broadway step a Jonesville twist; you want to give a Jonesville step a Broadway polish." Breathless they stopped their ef forts. "Oh, you and your Broadway! You're always talking about Broad way !" "Clara," said Jackson very seriously, "ha-ro you ever seen Broadway?" "You know I haven't" "Well, if you had, you'd never see another place you thought worth see ing." "Oh,you and your Broadway!" Josie \ Richaris was an extremely pretty girl, more serious than Clara, who was fluf fy. "Nc wonder the boys all call you Broadwiy!'" "I supiose a minister is proud when people c41 him 'doctor,'" was the an swer. "Vhen people call me 'Broad way,' I fe4 about like that." 4Td ratter folks would call me An drew?Jacfeon," remarked Sammy. "Andrew?Jackson?was a?statesman ?not?a?sreet." , PLUTARCHON THE SLIT SKIRT Garment Is lescribed as Being In Vogue in Times of Lycurgus theLaw Giver. We must rerad Plutarch. We must reread some of the other so-called classics?and no for antiqufty'B sake, either. Thomas )wen of Topeka in forms us that weire centuries out in saying the slit skU is only 1,200 years old. Speaking of lycurgus the Law giver and his tlmt, Plutarch relates (so writes Mr. Own): "The sktrts of th habit which the virgins wore were ot sewed to the bottom, but opened athe sides as they walked, and discoveid the thigh, as Sophocles very plain! write: [ ''Still In the light d?s struts Her mlone, [Whose opening folds dltfay the naked thigh.' " This passage of Plutrfch is well [wurth looking up for moi than details of costume?800 or 900-ears before the Christian era, says a riter in Col jlier's Weekly. You may lad there of [the complaint made that^omen hi WADDMRS \Y CT GEORGI "Your?er?little brother," began Broadway, but, not being eloquent by nature, he left the sentence incom plete. "He thinks he'll be a Caesar. He wants to kill some boys by strategy, for he's too fat to fight." The girls laughed again. Now they had begun the pleasant homeward walk along the high road to the border of the village. "Can you come to supper?" Clara asked. "As long as I can't eat on Broadway I'd rather go to your house than to any other place I know," said Jackson. "But I've got to go home first This collar's wilted." He was the only boy in Jonesville who would have thought of that; he was the only boy in Jonesville who owned a pair of patent-leather shoes. AlS they passed his uncle's residence tha old man, who was his guardian, caught a glimpse of him through an opening in the neglected shrubbery on the great lawn, and sent a serving man to bid him enter. Jackson made a wry face for the benefit of the girls, as he said good-by to them, promising to appear for sup per at the Spotswoods'. He carefully obeyed the summons, but it irked him. Hi? uncle always irked him. He be lieved, and there were others who be lieved, that his uncle trifed to irk him. They never had got on very well to gether; the old man was hard, con servative to the point of stubbornness and opposed every young idea, particu lorlv tr> p?? vftiiritt Man which *M* VV VT V* J ^ vhuq awvM - ' ? chanced to have originated in his nephew's brain. ' Weil, Jackson," Baid his nncle sour ly. "Well, Uncle Abner." "Ready to settle down in Jonesville, are you?" "Now, uncle," said the youth protest ingly. "Your father settled down here, I settled down here, and you'll have to settle down here," said the grim, un lovable old man. "You have obliga tions here. The Jones Gum factory has built this town, and is responsible for it You will have charge of the factory before long." Jackson writhed. He didn't wish to have charge of the factory. "It's not good business, uncle," he had once told the man who now sat a+orino- of him mrwirlHv '"Thov'll think it was the gum that made him bald. Poor grandfather was too bareheaded to be a good advertisement for any thing, except?an Indian." "Why an Indian?" his uncle inquired without suspicion. "As an after-taking 'ad* of the best scalper-in the tribe." This irreverence had abruptly end ed that day's interview , . But this evening Abner Jones was busy with more serious thoughts. "When are you going to work?" he crabbediy demanded. "I don't see?" "Jackson, every Jones for two gen erations has learned the sum business be/ore he was as old as you; but you, foolishly indulged by your father?I have never seen such madness as the way he brought you up?have come to manhood knowing nothing of -it. Don't you ever wish to settle down?" "Not yet," said Jackson, boldly. "I'm too young." . "You're twenty-one." "I'm twenty-one; but I've lived most of the time in Jonesville. That makes me just fifteen so far as actual age goes?and yet the time seems longer than it is," said the irreverent Jack son. "I'm almost discouraged. I'm free to tell you, Jackson, that, if your father's will had left me any opportunity for doing so, I should see to it that, when I pass to my reward, you would have no share of the great business which you hold in such contempt" "Pass on to your?er?yes, sir," Jack son murmured. k v "I have had tales brought to me of some things you have said about Jones ville," said the old man bitterly. "You have compared it most unfavorably with that modern Babylon, New York." "Well?er?uncle, you know New York Is?well, more metropolitan. "Jonesville is metropolitan enough. Jonesville is a pleasant little town, built by the industry and brains of the members of your family, sir?in both of which you seem to be most singular ly lacking; and, while it has fewer people than New York, It has more vir tues. You will be the only Jones re maining after I have gone. I am far from well. I?" Instantly the young man was con trite. He had no wish to hurt his I uncle's feelings. "I'm sorry, sir, If you are feeling 111," those times were too bold, too mascu line, to prone to make themselves mis tresses of the houses they inhabited; and even "they wanted a share in the affairs of state." Aristophanes satir ized feminism in a comedy that is now 23 centuries old?and still acted! If you have time to do only "timely" reading, you would better cut out the periodicals and read the Greeks. To them we owe (wrote Wilde) "whatever is modern in our life"?including the slit skirt. Imagination. An obsolete form of power, at one time used In making countries, religion and literature, but now superseded by the higher psychology. In former times imagination was employed by children in playing games, and in the making of mud pies out of mud and real soldiers out of wood. It is the father of many dead heroes, among whom may be mentioned Theseus, Jack the Giant Killer, King Arthur. Caliban, Robinson Crusoe and Santa Claus. It 'is still discovered In the extremely young. At one time, when man was crude, imagination was HALL wn :m.Comn ^ he said, respectfully, "but, you see, you've always lived in Jonesville?a great drain on a man's vitality. I didn't mean to say a word to bother you." But the old man was not to be paci fied; his face continued stern. "It is less your words than what seems to be your disposition which annoys me," he burst forth. "Is there nothing serious in you?" "I guess I'm pretty young to settle down. Perhaps that's what's the mat ter." "I had settled down and had com plete charge of the bookkeeping depart ment of this great enterprise before I was eighteen. You might begin to take life Beriously." "You can't take it any other way in T ? M juneBvmc. "I feel that I should tell you vari ous details of the business, for my days here may be numbered." The youth looked deprecatlngly J around the dull old library, feeling, in the earnestness of hjis revolt, that if his own days in Jonesville were but numbered it would give him great re lief. Even death, he thought? "I'm sorry you're not well, sir." "We are but shadows cast upon the stream of life. Mere shadows, Jack son." Jackson gazed at him with careful eyes; that his mouth was also careful was entirely proven by the fact that It said nothing. A careless mouth might have remarked that his old uncle waB a pretty solid shadow, for he weighed close upon two hundred pounds. "Your father," said this very robust invalid, "had some tendencies which I now see in you?exaggerated iii you, Jackson. He, too, was frivolous; he, too, longed for the flesh-pots of New York." *i AtrAa " tiA colrl frro ttoItt X ilUTCI U1U, Oil , UT3 OaiUf 61 uttij. "I wish I might feel sure of that," said Abner Jones. "I should feel Burer of the safety of the gum." "I shall never harm the gum, sir." "You must not only never harm it; you must help it. Let me tell you, Jackson?there is a trust in the gum business?" ( "Yes, sir, I've heard of it." It would have been remarkable if he had not. For two years the air of Jonesville had been full of timid ru mors of the gum trust. The whole town was fearful that the great Jones factory might be sold to it and closed. "After I am gone they will endeavor to secure our factory and business," Abner Jones went on. "I shall never let them have it. ' You must never let them have it. Of your pride in the Jones gum?" "It's surely been a handsome little money matter,' nroaaway graxueu. "I do not like your language," said his uncle, "but the meaning of your words is accurate enough. It has made money. It still continues to. make money?as an independent gum. It?" Broadway was getting fldgetty. The Spotswoods were waiting supper for him. Mrs. Spotswood was a plump and cheerful housewife, who doted on the recipes he brought back from New York upon the rare occasions when his uncle let him go there. "It would make more, uncle, wouldn't it, if it lost its independence?" he in quired. "The plan of the trust is to take it from the market. Thev have not thought of continuing it as an indi vidual product They merely wish to eliminate it utterly. This would free their other products of its competi tion." "Did some one of them chew it?" his nephew inquired earnestly. "Jackson, you should be ashamed! They merely wish to take it from the m? ' "it so that it no longer will affect thfcw?" "Yes, I've heard." He had?a thou sand times* "That is the reason I am anxious that you should begin to show some vital interest in our splendid enter prise. It must be protected at all haz ards. It should be the pride, as it has been the fortune, of the Jones family." "Honest, uncle, I don't believe I know enough to go into the business. Aren't you afraid that it would spoil the sale of the gum if anybody should find out I helped to make It? That worries me. The gum must be pro tected. I leave it to you, uncle. I?" "Jackson, you are frivolous. You are a tremendous disappointment to me. You?" "I don't want to be a disappointment, but I'd almost rather be a disappoint ment than a gum-maker. I'd?" "Go!" said his uncle angrily. "I?" But Jackson did not hear the re ' mainaer of the sentence. He had heeded its first word. I thought to be serviceable. The notion, I however, along with mythology and I other follies, has long since been ex ploded, the greatest efficiency having been demonstrated to lie along the lines of least resistance, which in cludes among other things, playground supervision, department store tactics child labor, white slavery and curren cy reform.?Life. According to Statistics. In London they tell of a man with a serious disease of the throat, who con sulted a specialist. The surgeon rec ommended the -emoval of the larynx, an operation which the patient feared might prove dangerous. The surgeon, however, smiled reas suringly, and said: "Oh, no! You are quite sure to re cover." "But," persisted the patient. "I un derstand that this sort of operation is very serious indeed." "My reason," continued the surgeon, "for saying that you are sure to re cover iB this: The mortality is nine teen out of twenty, and I've had nine teen deaths already." 1 SCENES IN THE PLA' )OFy#/GHr, /SG, 0Y G.W. DJUJJMWAM t CHAPTER II. "I should enjoy the supper better," Broadway said later at the Spotswood family table, "if everything I chew, after I've seen uncle, didn't make me think of gum. I wish there was a way of eating without chewing." They all laughed, but not very heart ily. Gum was a sacred word to them also. It was to every one in Jones ville. "Let's talk things over after sup per," said the judge. Then, after they had gone into his/stuffy little study: "Broadway, I've been talking with your uncle." "That's one reason I would never study law. You have to do such dis agreeable things. I've been talking with him, too." The judge laughed very briefly, very dryly. "It's not politic for you to speak that way, my, boy. The old?er ?your Uncle Abner will be sure to hear of it." "Must I pretend to love him?" "Er?It might be better to." "Judge,"/ said Broadway solemnly. "I'm a pretty good little amateur actor, but there are some parts I'd never try to play. One of them is that of loving nephew to my Uncle Abner Jones." Judge Spotswood sighed. know, my boy, and I don't know that I blame you. I only wished to say that as a matter of expediency?" "I don't know just what expediency means, but if it has anything to do with Uncle Abner I don't want to." '\Well, he said today that he hadn't any hopes of you. He said he didn't think you'd ever settle Vdown. He doesn't seem to know where you get all your wild ways from. He is shocked beyond expression to find that your young friends all call you Broadway. It's worrying your uncle." "What will he propose?" "If you won't go into the business, he will try to buy you out." Jackson looked at him in dumb de light. "For money? Ready money?" "Yes; it's what I'm afraid of, Jack son. Be careful how you sell to him." "I'll be careful that he pays me. That's all I care about." "Don't be in a hurry. What I'm afraid of?but I ought not to talk in this way. Abner Jones has never done me an ill turn. Of course your father was my client?" "And dear uncle put hia hooka into my dad whenever he could get them caught so's he could pull, didn't he?" "He is a shrewd businesa man. But don't eell, Jackson." The judge was clearly ill at ease. "If I don't sell, will I have to turn to and make gum?" "You ought to. A goose that lays a golden egg should be well cared for." "Let uncle raise the poultry. I'd rather sell the eggs." "But, Jackson?" "Judge, will you come to see me in New York?" The conversation had brought Jack son Jones to sudden realization of the fact that in eleven months or less he would be twenty-two, and that, as soon &8 he was twenty-two, he would be free, according to the terms of his dead father's will, to spend his own exactly as he pleased. "I suppose you'll go there just as soon as you are master of your for tune." The boy leaned forward eagerly. "When will It happen, judge? Will It be on the midnight that begins my birthday, or the midnight that It ends with? Quick! I've got to know." "Better wait till the next day, Jack son. That's the safest. Oh, -I know you'll go! But don't sell to your uncle. Promise me." "When will he make me the^ofler?" "Before your birthday, Jackson." "Is it as close as that? Is liberty as close as that? I hadn't realized! Couldn't we get him to talk to me to night about it? If I agreed to sell to him for half, would he agree to let my birthday come at once Instead of when it's scheduled? Would?" The judge was laughing, somewhat ruefully. Jackson Jones amused him, always; to some extent he could sym pathize with his revolt against Jones ville. He himself had revolted against Jonesville in his youth, but there had been no fortune coming to him with the arrival of his manhood to release him from the hated village. And, be sides, he was uncomfortable tonight. He wondered if he ought to tell Broad way what he had learned. "Will you consider me your law yer?" the judge asked. "Consider you my lawyer, judge? Of course you are my lawyer. Weren't you my father's lawyer?" "Not always; I did not draw his PLAYED TRICK ON PARTNER Neat Way in Which Ikey Secured Silver Spoons Which His Com panion Had Purloined. Two gentlemen of the light-flngered fraternity, who were in the habit of visiting dinner parties in hopes of picking up something, were one even ing Just in time to see the tableB cleared; but Ikey, the smarter of the two, succeeded in purloining five sil ver forks, which he Immediately pock eted, to the envy of Moses, his pal, who asked him to share. "No, my boy. You should be smart," was the answer. During the evening Moses was ask ed to sing, but refused, saying he was no singer; but if they cared for a lit tle conjuring trick he would entertain them for a few minutes. The company was delighted, and Moses asked for five silver forks, which were soon brought. He then placed them in his Inside breast pock et, and, gently tapping them three times, he exclaimed: "Presto! Fly! Change! Gone! Now. if someone will, for instance. And in other things your unci#?well, if your father had but listened, as I hope you'll listen, his brother Abner never would have?" "Sure! I know. And you've already been my lawyer. Didn't you get me out of jail thee in New Haven? Imag ine being locked lp In New Haven! And I'd only dropped a melon from the window. If the chief of police hap pened to be going by, was that my fault? I'd have eaten the melon 11 it hadn't been so spoiled. And still they locked me up! They made a criminal o'f me! It's bad enough to be a crim inal, but to be a criminal imprisoned in New Haven?heavens! Suppose a man should be locked up In Jonesville! Why, he'd die of shame." "Well, if you accept me as your law yer, when your uncle asks you to sell out your Interest in the Jones Gum company you will refuse. When you do that, he'll try to bind you not to sell out to the trust as long as you both live. I hope you'll never sell out to the trust, but don't sign any pa pers, Jackson, although you know what the trust purchase of the factory would mean to Jonesville?and to all of us." "I'll not sell out to the trust, Judge, but If my uncle?" "He'll not offer you a fair price. He'll want to get a bargain. And remem ber that the company will get richer every year." "But the trust may bust it" "I hope you'll take that chance, my boy, rather than ever be a party to ruining the old home town." "All right, Judge. I won't Bell to Uncle Abner?anyway, Just now. I won't need the money. There's enough uuimiig 10 iiiw lu tievy m? dubj xui a while." "Jackson, I wish you might feel dif ferently about the itarting of your life as a grown man. If you oould culti vate a feeling of responsibility?" "It bores me. I could never even spell It" K | "I'm afraid it does, Jackson,' and that worries me. But?" "You'll come to New York, some time, and?and?" "Jackson, I'm afraid I shall." "And keep It secret that we're either one of us from Jonesvllle." "Jackson," said the judge, reproving ly, "you'd better get along toward home. And don't think too much about those lights. Broadway, .like every other Btreet, is safer in the daytime before the lights are lit" "The lights are Broadway's eye*/1 Judge Spotswood. said the young man. "Until they're lighted, Broadway is asleep, and you see only men and women on it." "And what do you see later?" "You can search me for the name. But they're several degrees beyond mere men and women." After he had left the judge, Jackson found It quite impossible to go sedate ly home, as he might possibly have done on almost any other night He often went to bed in Jonesville, he ox plained upon occasion, because he could not bear to stay awake there. He said it made him feel ashamed. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Some 280 British cities miinininQl m o T?lrof Hahooo muuivi^ui uiai not uvuouoi will kindly look iDto my friend Ikey'8 inside breast pocket he will find them there." A gentleman obliged, and Ikey, ex tremely flustered, produced the forks, to the great delight of the company and Moses. Emigration From Scotland. The tide of emigration continues un abated. Thousands every week con tinue to leave London, Liverpool and Glasgow for Canada and Australia. There is every indication that the year 1913 will beat every record in the re cent history of emigration, and that before the end of the year 300,000 will have left these shores. And what Is even more ominous than the quantity of the emigration is its quality. It Is the young men, the enterprising and the energetic that are leaving, rt Is the old men, the women and children that are left behind. Some of the most beautiful districts of Scotland are be ing depleted. Whole cities, like the old country town of Jedburgh, are left desolate, and houses are crumbling even in -he main streets.?London Ev eryman, SOUTH CAROLINA ESTIMATES FOR RUNNING EXPENSES EX CEEDS REVENUE. CONSIDER THE TAX QUESTION if All Estimates Asked For Are Allow ed Taxes Will Have to Be Raised Two Mills to Prevent Deficit in the Treasury. Columbia. ? South Carolina faces a grave problem, acordlng to the estimates of expenses made by the various state officials and heads of departments In the matter of ap propriations and income for the year 1914. According to the comptrolei general If the general assembly manes all the appropriations asked for, the tax levy will have to be seven and threetenths mills as against five and one-fourth last year. Comptoller General Jones says that the state's revenue for 1914 from taxes estimated and based upon the present assesment of $296,441,120, at a rate of five and one-fourth mills on the dollar would be $1,556,315.88. To this he adds the ' estimated income from sources other than taxes such as insurance license fees, fees of ; the secretary of state, corporation license fees, income tax, support of the rail road comlssioner, etc., to the amount of (310,925. Mr. Jones says: "And we have a total estimated revenue for ordinary expenses for 1914 of $1,867,-" 240.8. "The estimated levy of five and one-fourth mills is the sa^ne as lqst year. It will he seen by reference to the amounts of appropriations asked for, $2,478,440.32, that they will ex ceed the estimated revenue oi the state under a levy of five and one' fourth mills by $611,^99.44. If you made all the appropriations asked for, it would be necessary to make a rate of seven and three-tenths mills on the dollar to raise them. This does not take into consideration the one mill state tax, which will raise $296, 441.12." The amounts asked for In the va rious ptate departments for 1914 are as fol/ows: Governor's office I Secretary of state Comptroller general .... Insurance commissioner.. State treasurer Supt. of education.. Adjutant general Attorney general Railroad commission .... Chief game warden State Librarian Public buildings State electrician 19,005.00 State Geologist 5,000.00 Department of agriculture 15,920.00 Judicial department ..... 100,895.00 Board medical examiners 3,000.00 Health department ...... 31,720.00 Tax department ' 88,319.82 University of S. C 183,582.19 Winthrop Colleger 193,848.00 The Citade 37,600.00 Institution Deaf, Dumb and Blind - ' 75,046.98 S. C. Industrial and Me- , chanical College .... 15,000.00 Hospital for Insane 386,424.28 S. C. Industrial school.... 68,000.00 State penitentiary 6,750.00 Other charitable and penal purposes .... 2,805.00 Pensions ' 250,000.00 'Historical commission ... 5,270.00 Interest on bonded debt.. 266,658.38 Elections 45,785.00 Catwaba Indians 9,750.00 Expenses general asembly 61,814.73 Confederate / Infirmary .. 25,000.00 Board of fisheries 9,400.00 State hospital commission 125,000.00 State house and grounds commission 6,350.00 Med. al College of South Caroina 36,300.00 Miscellaneous 259,175.19 O AnO AAl\ 94 i uiai Some New Enterprises. A commission has been Issued to che Rodman-Brown Company of Ches ter, with a capital of $50,000, to do a general mercantile business. Peti tioners are J. L. Rodman and L. E. Brown. A charter has been issued to the Black-Frasier Motor Car Company of Columbia, with a capital of $2i>,00G. Officers are J. M. Black, president, and J. G. Frasier, secretary and treas urer. A commission has been issued to the Reeder-Newton Furniture Com pany of Greenville, with a capital of $6,000. Petitioners are W. J. Reeder, L. H. Wod and R. L. Newton. A charter has been issued to the Sowell Grocery Company of Kershaw, with a capital of $12,000. Officers are R. L. Sowell, president, and John R. Faile, secretary and treasurer. Wilkerson Mercantile Company of Hickory Grove has been chartered with a capital of $12,500. A commission has been issued to J. W. Baughman Company of Wagener, with a capital of $15,000. Petitioners om t w naufhmnii and O. L. Baueh man. Columbia.?The Columbia Chair Company has been chartered by the secretary of state, with a capital of $50,000, to manufacture and sell Turai rure. Officers are Logan C. Murray, l.iesident; It. F. Warfteld, vice presi dent, and E L. Augustus, treasurer lad secretary. Killed When Buggies Collide. Greenville, S. C.?A htadon collis ion ot fwo buggies a few evenings ago just beyond the city limits re sulted in the death of W. A. Griffin, a prominent Greenville man, and in the serious injury of an unknown negro who was driving for Mr. Griffin. The other buggy contained three negroes, said to be drunk and drivtojj at a rapid rate. Mr. Griffin was well known in this city and had many prominent connections in this part of the state. He is survived by hi* sridow and four children. HEN LOVE It is cruel to force nauseating, harsh physic into a sick chiid. Look back at your childhood days. Remember the "dose" mother insisted on?castor oil, calomel, cathartics. How you hated them, how you fought against taking them.' With our children It's different Mothers who cling to the old form of' physic simply don't realize what they do. The children's revolt ls?well-found ed. Their tender Uttle "insides" are Injured by them, y x If your child's stomach, liver and bowels need cleansing, give only deli cious "California Syrup of Tigs." Its action is positive, but gentle. Millions of mothers keep this harmless "fruit laxative" handy; they know children love to take it; that It never fails to clean the liver and bowels and sweet*, en the stomach, and that a teaspoonful given today saves a sick child tomor row. Ask at the store for a 60-cent bottle of "California Syrup of Figs/' which has fall directions fot babies,.children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly on each bottle. Adr. So Kind! MIa she good to the children?** "Very; she lets them do everything their father doesn't want them to do." y" BAD CASE OF DANDRUFF _____ Else ell, Ala.?"I bad a very bad cas? of dandruff on my head. I was to*>$ mented by itching and my l^air began to come out by the combftds. I al- ' most became frantic, fearful . that I would lose all of my hair which was my pride. There were some pimples on my scalp and I scratched them un? til they made sores. My hair was dry and lifeless. '7 saw the advertisement of Cuticura Soap and Ointment and sent to ,my druggist for. three cakes of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment I washed my scalp with warm water strong with the Cuticura 'Soap and dried, afterwards applying the Cutl cura Ointment, working It In the scalp slowly with my fingers. After using them for several days my hair began to stop coming out The dandruff all disappeared and in less than four weeks a cure was accomplished per manently." (Signed) Miss Lucy May.. , Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post> card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston."?Adv. The girl who persists In doing more than her share of the' courting Is apt to break into the spinster class. mm Dr. Pierce's Pellets, *111011. sugar-coated, easy to take as candy, regulate and invig orate stomach, liver and no web. Do not gripe. Adv. It's the unexpected that often hap* ' ; pens, even when we bring it qn tmr* selve8. \' Trapped. His Wife?I met our maid Anna ' Just now on the street and she pre tended not to see me. Her Husband?Tou ought to poipt out to Anna the impropriety of such conduct His Wife?But how can I? Yon see, she had another girl with her, and it was quite evident Bhe didn't want her friend to know she was working for a woman who wore a two-dollar-and-a- j half hat." What It Coming? Whitney Warren, at the recent New York horse show, nodded toward a i Tjm jV-.i'f L i young man in tight! morning coat and y ; rakishly tilted top hat, and said: "That young millionaire has already , vjj had three wives. Yet he is received, ':.ri; yet he is even lionized, everywhere. What is the world coming to?' * .i c "What is the world coming to?" Mr. --f '-:'5 Warren pursued. "As I look abont me at the tolerant, the too tolerant so ciety of today. I think of the horse thief. " 'Yours ifl a very serious crime, my man,' a judge said sternly to a horse thief. 'Fifty years ago it was a hang ing matter.' * " "Well, your honor,' said the horse thief, calmly, 'fifty years hqpce it mayn't be a crime at all.'" WONDERED WHY. FnimH tho Anawnr Wax "Coflss," ? ' Many pale, sickly persons wonder for years why they have to suffer so, ' and eventually discover that the drag ?caffeine?in coffee is the main cans? of the trouble. "I was always very fond of coffe9 ' and drank it every day. I never had much flesh and often wondered why I was always .so pale, thin and weak. - "About five years ago my health completely broke down and I was con fined to my bed. My stomach was in such condition that I could hardly take sufficient irouriBhment to sustain life. "During this time I was drinking coffee, didn't think I could do without it "After awhile I came to the conclu eion that coffee "was Hurting me, ana decided to give it up and try Postum. When It was made right?dark and rich?I soon became very fond of it "In one week I began to feel better. I could eat more and sleep better. My sick headaches were less frequent, and within five months I looked and felt like a now being, headache spells en tirely gone. "My health continued to Improve and today I em well and strong, weigh 148 lbs. I attribute my present health to the life-giving qualities of Postum." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well* ville," in pkgs. Postum now comes In two forms: Regular Postum?must be well boiled. Instant Postum?is a soluble pow der. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly In a cup of hot water and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage Instantly. Grocers sell both kinds. "There's a Reason" for Postum. . ^