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t FROM TfiL PL ~ 8 SYNOPSIS. Jackson Jones, nicknamed "Broadway" because of his continual glorification of New York'?> great thoroughfare, is anx ious to get away from his''home town of Jonesville. Abner Jones, his uncle, is very angry because Broadway refuses to settle down and take a place in the sui*1 factory in which he succeeded to his lather's interest. Judge Spotswood in forms Broadway that $250,000 left him by lits father Is at hla disposal. Broadway makes record time in heading for his favorite street in New York. 1 CHAPTER III.?Continued. A year passed. Broadway carried three bank accounts, two of them not very large and seldom checked upon. The third was in New York's all-night bank. He kept busy. "I feel as if I ought to see the sun rise often," he explained. "Sunrises are so beauti ful." He seldom heard from Jonesville in - these days. Judge Spotswood some times wrote to him,'his uncle never. For a time he had endeavored to keep up a correspondence with the girls, hut this had languished through his own exceeding occupation at more pressing matters and Josie Richards' sorrowful conviction that he did not tell her, in his brief, infrequent let ters, about all the girls whom he was meeting in New York. His first shock came when the All Night bank wrote him a letter, asking his to call and talk of his account, and this did not occur until four years ) had vanished in the haze of Broad way's lights. It made him sit straight in his'chair and blink as a eold dash from a seltzer bottle sometimes had ^ when he had needed It. Rankin, en tering, asked him if he had a pain. "You bet I have," said he. "And rm afraid It's serious." "Shall I call a doctor, sir?" "No, call a banker." Rankin, puzzled,- withdrew carefully. He ha^d learned to step with catlike tread when he discovered that his master was In serious mood. He had no wish to anger him. No butler in the history of butling had ever had a place" so utterly Ideal. Pickings nlmHfnl' Trnrlr +Hv5nl? nil Hfp had "been congenial for Rankin since he had encountered Broadway Jones. The day of the. bank's letter was the first after hej had reached New York when Broadway did not go about his gay and simple routine of up Broad way in the afternoon and down'Broad way at night, with movements to timed that they made long pauses near the Circle ' and near Forty-second street seem natural. He went home before five. When Rankin ventured to express surprise at his return to the apart ment at that hour, he snarled at him. "Go to the devil, Rankin!" he sug gested when he lingered. "Yes, sir; thank you, sir," said Ran kin and withdrew. He Teached the kitchen with a face so troubled that the Japanese boy, who had sought domestic iservioe here with (judging from his vages) the eom mendable intention of patriotically aending home, each year, enough American money to build a warship for his nation's navy, showed interest. 1 "W'at iss matturr, Ranekeen?" the aympathetic Oriental queried. "I know men," said Rankin, "and if > I didn't know that Mr. Jdnes is really a millionaire?made it out of chewing gum, his family, I'm told?I should say he was hard up." The Japanese boy stared politely; he did not understand at all. "Of course he's not hard up," Ran kin continued. "No hard-up man could have sworn at me as he did just now. It can't be money, so it must be women." "Limmin," said the Japanese, who had not mastered w's. "Lemons," Rankin granted. "You're almost right. I never saw a man more popular. He spends his mpney i like he didn't care for it, and does it well because that is the fact He doesn't care for it. I never saw a bed, I had a chance to see his arm. Quite muscular it is?Just as it felt when he was Joking with me." The next day, by chance, while visit ing the kitchen, Rankin had a sudden inspiration. "I wonder if he is in love?" he pondered. "That Mr. Hen riot that I attended Just before he married that grass widow was as ab * aent-minded?oh. quite absent-minded, > quite! Now, which one?" Rankin suddenly came to a stand in horror. Even to the small and very yellow cook it was plain that tragic thoughts had flashed into his mind. "I wonder," he soliloquized if it could possiDly De that terrible Gerard old woman. She's had her eye on him ever since the first night that she got a glimpse of him." As he spoke his master, as request FOR THE BIG CITY VISITOR Advice Given Those Who Only Infre quently Have to Leave the Home Town. Metropolitan blemishes and draw backs are not often emphasized by the class of business men who are per ' haps the most interested in bringing strangers to town?the hotel keepers. However, a New York boniface has had the frank and friendly inspiration to prepare a card of "doitfts" for pre sentation to each of his guests. An early suggestion has to do with watches and money. Don't wear your timepiece loose on a fob, and don't believe that a hip pocket is as secure as a bank. Why carry a roll, anyway, when the hotel office has a safe? Next, the affable stranger. Dont let him persuade you that he is an old frieDd. Next, life and limb. Don't believe that you are as swift as an automo bile. And don't tote a gun?"it is bet ter to run." Next, traps. Don't go too* confi dently into unknown places; the way v.. , ..... yWARVT\AR5. AY or GEORGE I ed, was talking with the first vice-pres ident of the bank. The man seemed } rather serious-minded, although on j that previous occasion when he had marked the beginning of their ac quaintance, when Broadway had gone to open his account with Just two hundred thousand dollars, he had been geniainy useii. "I merely wished to have a little talk with you?er?Mr. Jones," said he. "You know your balance is?er?run , ning rather low." "Is what?" said Broadway, in amaze ment. "Is running rather low." "You don't mean that I've?" "You've drawn rather heavily against it," ^ K * "But it was strong enough to stand a terrible strain." "Not quite strong enough to stand without a protest the strain to which you have subjected it, Mr. Jones. It's not exhausted, but it*B?" "Getting-tired?" Broadway himself I onnnHor? the words. "About that. You have not been having It written up, you know;"*1! thought perhaps you didn't realize the figures. I've had them all made out for you." Broadway took one swift look at them, then sank back in his chair and took a longer look at them. "Well, I'll be ? ?!" he ventured. ' "I was afraid you'd feci that way. I only thought you ought to have a hint of just how things are running. Young men lose track of things some times. I've known it to occur before." Jackson scarcely saw Broadway when he went out of the gray build ing, and it was the first time he had ever trodden Broadway without see ing and admiring It "Hello, Broadway!" cried a merry voice from just beyond the curb. It was a Monde voice, and issued from a natty little motor car with a sedan chair top. Broadway had bought that motor car and given it to the blonde voice. "Let me put you down some where V 'I'm not. feeling very fit. You might take me to the morgue." i "JumD in: well make it the Knick erbocker." But the Knickerbocker had no charms for Broadway a,t that mo ment. He made his stay as brief as possible in the bright restaurant "Dollie, darling," he said gloomily, "I don't need a restaurant,- todays I need a hospital. How would you like me, Dollie, honestly, if I was broke?" "You? Broke?" She laughed. "No; seriously. How would you like me?" "It's nonsense; but you know what Shanley does to broken dishes." "The ash can. Eh?" "It wouldn't be. for you, of course; but?what's the use of being Mr. Grump? Brace up? Come on up to Churchill's and we'll drinky-crjnk It outy-out," . But Broadway would have none of such a plan as that He went to his apartment, and. rummaging in every drawer and pocket, collected every bill which he could find. These were a hundred of them, ranging In all sorts of figures. and for all sorts of articles, from diamonds to gasoline, from .charity to faro. The arrival of the sympathetic Rankin, who believed his master had a headache, with a note from Mrs. Gerard, interrupted the bo>kkeeping which, for the first time in tiiNiife, Broadway had begun. It had noi" been encouraging, as far as he had gone. ' He read the note and found it to be an invitation. Deciding to accept it, he decided, also, that it must be the last one of the sort he must accept. It had become intensely plain to him that now had come the time when he must cease his gaieties and find more money. T-Ta u'qq Q crlnrwmv floniro of fnnnf that night, ahd his gloom grew with ' every aged smile which Mrs. Gerard 1 cast in his direction. It was plain enough to him, to everyone, that this < exceedingly rich lady, of uncertain age. regarded him with very friendly eyes, i She even sometimes called him "Jack son." Alter the dinner he took Robert 1 Wallace downtown with him in his ' sixty horsepower touring car. i "Mrs. Gerard," he ventured, "seems a well-preserved old?er?I mean that she seems well preserved." i "Well canned, you mean," said Wal- ] lace. "But too much chemical preserv p atlve in females is as dangerous as it is in food. How did we'happen to ; go there tonight? You roped me into ] that, Broadway. You didn't tell me i where you meant to take me. You ; merely said we'd go to dinner with some friends of yours." i "Well, she's a friend of mine." i I out. is not always so straight and simple as the way in. Yet, on the other hand, don't go to the harassing extreme of cautiousness and suspicion. The city is not bad just because it is big, nor is every one you meet necessarily a con man. Big cities, speaking bromidically, I are alike. Though no local hotel man hae yet issued a bulletin of warning, what will serve the denizen of Scho harie and Kinderhook in New York will also advantage the visitor from Chebanse or Pecatonica In Chicago.? Chicago Post. Hint for Parcel Post Users. A correspondent In the Jewelers' Circular complains that many jewelry manufacturers are sending by parcel post what are really sealed packages with an outer wrappir.* which gives them the appearance of being un sealed. Where there is no occasion for the post office department to open them, these sealed packages go through all right, but if for any rea son such packages are opened and the seals discovered, the jewelers re ceiving them are forced to pay full HALL wn m rv^H & \r fROf1 1 1.V/VI II u a . < Broadway defended rather hotly. An idea, so terrible that it was fascinat ing, had occurred to him. "She might have gone to school with your grandmother. It makes me sick to see her ogle you. I think she wants to marry you." Broadway burst into a laugh which he was well aware was quite too loud, too cackly and too hollow; he feared acutely that his friend would recognize its falseness. 'To marry me! Ho, ho!" Instantly his manner changedA "But I don't like the way you speak about her, Bob. Remember?we have Just enjoyed her hospitality!" , "Enjoyed it! Speak forTourself, old man! If I had known where you were going, do you suppose I would have gone with you? I can meet grand mother's schoolmates at the Old La dies' home. I don't have to go to din ? _~l4.lt 99 UtJX WILLI LL1C1L1. "Now, Bob!" Wallace burst into a laugh. '1 be lieve It is pure charity," he guessed. "You are trying to make others happy. You smile on her as you would throw a dollar into a Salvation Army cash pot around Christmas time." "Bob, I'm thinking about getting married." His friend sat straight and looked at him in dumb amazement for a second. "Married? And is grandma tn some way related to the bride who may be?" "Bob, I need?" He stopped. Almost he had told his friend he needed money; but he bad not the courage. To confess poverty on Broadway is like confessing mur der in a church. "Need what?" "A rest. I'm going to?er?take some sort of a vacation. Don't know what Maybe back to the old home. Anyway, you won't see me around for quite a little while." "Never mind, old chap! HI tell them all that you have had to go away on business. Go somewhere and get straightened out. You need It There's something wrong with you, or Robert Wallace. you would never have gone to that dinner where that ancient mariness could ogle you the way she did. "Well, you won't see me for a week or two." "Drop me a line If you want any thing." Jackson Jonefi went away early on the following morning. As ignorant of business and of business methods as a baby, yet he tried to scheme some way by means of which he might re coup his staggering finances. Wild ideas, all unpractical, whirled through bis brain. He must have money, that was cer- < tain. He had not the least idea of just how he had accomplished it, but be had spent hi$ patrimony?spent it all and more than all of it. If he had paid up the debts he owed?which all the world seemed glad to have him owe?that was the hard part- of it; everyone seemed anxious to have him first-class letter postage. "A few dayB ago," the correspondent relates, "I had a package sent me in this way. As the BeDder made a mistage In my name, the poet office authorities were not sure to whom they should deliver It, and, hoping to get a clue from the character of the goods, removed the outer wrapper and found the sealed package inside. Instead of nine cents for the five pounds, they made me pay 32 cents a pound, a total of $1.60.? New York Times. Exchanged "Blarney." An amusing incident occurred at Boyle, Ireland, Quarter Sessions, a few days ago. A witness in a case, a Mrs. Rock, was told by Judge Wajiely, that she was "a fine looking old wo man." "Do you know," she rejoined, "what I said to myself when I came into court?" "No," said his honor. "Well," she went on, "I said to myself you are the finest looking man I ever saw." "You make me blush," expos tulated his honor, amidst loud laugh ter, and Mrs. Rock went on to say she was seventy-five years of age, and never saw a Judge before. rH PHOTOGRAPHS 1SCENES IN THE PLA' ttY/Z/GHT, 'SG, BY GHLPJJJJHQ/MM < i en In rleht to them?he would have far less than nothing left For days he stewed above his fig ures in a room of which he kept close guard upon the key. He told liankin, who was curious, that he planned to write a book. "Indeed, sir? Fiction, sir?" "Fiction? Gad, no! Fact." "A book of travel, sir? I've traveled quite a bit. Perhaps?" "No. Or yes. Of travel up and down Broadway." "Splendid, sir, if I may be excused for taking, such a liberty. I'm sure no gentleman in all New York is more familiar with the subject, sir. I shall be glad to read it, sir. I'm sure it will be quite a revelation!" "Rankin," said Broadway earnestly, "if I wrote what I really know about Broadway it would be a revelation." He grew very serious, for him. "It would put some men on pedestals, and they would not be those who now stand highest. It would put some men behind the bars, and among them are some men who now are free to coihe ana go, with welcomes when they come and Invitations when they leave, in every place where people gather in this town." He burst into a sudden laugh. "Great stuff, eh, Rankin? When you Bay 'Broadway' you stir me up. I love it, hate it; it always fascinates me. There's no street like it in the world." i "If your book is like' that, sir, it will be a big success," commented Rankin, spellbound. It's going to be a fine bdok, Mr. Jones." "It won't interest Broadway. There's only one kind of book that Broadway cares about" "And what Is that, sir?" "Check books, Rankin. Now I'm go ing into?into-r-M He did not know just what to call the room which he kept locked. , "Your study, sir?" JfThanks, Rankin. Yes; I'm going to my study. Don't let me be disturbed." 'Til not, sir." When he left that "study" he avoid ed Rankin. His fingers were ink stained from calculations, his hair was quite disheveled, his eyes were wide and rolling. He could see no hope ahead. ^ He wrote a letter to his uncle ex plaining that Investments had gone wrong and that he needed a small loan of fifty thousand dollars for three months. He was sure that if he ?pt this he would be enabled to find some way out. By return of mail he had an answer in an envelope which strangely^ bulged. He opened it with trembling fingers and a package of Jones' Pepsin Gum fell out. "Chew this and fnrcret it " nnlH the cheerful note w^iioh Uncle Abner had wrapped round it It said further: "I'm going to Europe for five years. Don't bother me again. You've made you bed, now lie on It." , That was the last straw. Without the least jdea of what he wished to dp, the frantic Broadway started out to find some work by which, at least, he could earn honestly his board and keep. Wall street offered nothing, for when he went down to see his friends there his courage failed entirely and Instead of asking them to find a place for him he bought them, one by one, expensive luncheons. v He went to neighboring cities, hop ing there to find some means of get ting food to eat without getting it on credit, and there he had some strange experiences which lasted several days. But, while he Just escaped the uniform of the Salvation Army, he did not find work and wandered back to Broadway, the apartment and more debt. He had no profession, knew no trad a Half cra2ed with the obsession that he must no longer run in debt, he decided to sell out the fiat, dis cbarge the servants and do menial labor. Running through the list of his abilities be decided, with frank self-contempt, that abput the best which he could do was help in a hotel as bellboy. ' He knew top little absut mathematics to keep b<oks; he never would succeed as desk-clerk. But he could not bring himself to try to get a job of that sort?it would too often bring him into contact with the folk he knew. One afternoon, while wandering in an aimless funk upon a side street, he saw a card in front of an apartment house announcing that an elevator boy was panted. He rushed in with alac s* J / ii ' 44 my a.iiu ucici tuiiiciLiuii?ana ax me very threshold met Mrs. Gerard, who had been calling on a friend there. In stead of asking for the job he took a drive with her. It waB while this drive progressed that the sordid, vicious tempter defi WAS SERVED BY ROYALTY English Prince, Now King, Not Above Doing an Obliging Thing for^the Professor. When Professor Vambery, the fa mous Orientalist, whose death oc curred recently, arrived at Sandring ham on a visit he received a message that Queen Alexandra panted to see him. He decided to wash his hands flrat, so he went to his room and rang the bell to ask Tor hot watef. No one came, though he rang the bell repeat edly. Then there came a knock at the door and a youth entered. "Do you want anything, professor?" he asked. "Yes," replied the professor, "I have been ringing for some hot water." "Wait a moment and I'll get you some," was the obliging reply. The boy disappeared, returning in a few minutes with a large jug of hot water which he placed on the washstand. The professor thanked him and he withdrew. After he had washed the professor nitely seized him in his tolls. The an cient but yivaclous dame was very aname?mosi agreeaDie inaeea. one was not motherly; she was flirtatious. And she accompanied her coquetry by a shrewd exposition of the magnitude of her unquestionably enormous wealth. It staggered him. If he had not at the moment had a Bimple little Josie Richards' letter in his pocket he might have been swept under. A thousand times he had dis covered the necessity of assuring him self, as he traveled up and* down ^roadway, that he did not care for Josie Richards. She was not the sort of girl who captivated one who knew life as he knew it; she w$s dear, but she was simple, unsophisticated and what he most admired was wide so phistication; he thought as little of her as he could, but now she popped Into his mind and made him edge away from the aged, wealthy widow. When he went back to the flat he found awaiting him new sheafs of bills, npne pressing him?mere state ments. The rumor had not started that he was not good pay. Broadway still delighted in him, still endeavored to induce him to accept its credit. This gave him new distress; he knew him self?hp knfiw hp would eo out that night and ran more debts. Suddenly he knew -what to do. It came to him without an effort of the brain. It was a-tragic Inspiration. Without a word to Rankin, stealthily and secretly, he went forth into the afternoon in his smart runabout, still driven by the taxi-cabman, who now regarded him with something akin to worship, and sought a gunshop and a chemist's. In the former he made purchase of a large, grim, blued-steel automatic pis* tol of the largest caliber they had In stock, and secured one box of cart ridges. It seemed a waste of money, which by rights was definitely the property of creditors, to buy so many cartridges, for he should need but one!' However, he feared that to ask for one would pin attention to him and frus trate what he had in mind, so he put the heavy box into his pocket. It madtf" it sag outrageously, which very much annoyed him. No man on Broadway was more careful of his clothes. But what, after all, did a sagged pocket matter now? At the chemist's he secured an ounce of bichloride of mercury, which had. been fashionable of late among smart suicides. He had no difficulty in ob taining It This eased him and a fur ther satisfaction grew out of the fact that though it held potentialities as deadly as the automatic gun and cart ridges could hold It made a little pack age, not' heavy In the least, and so did not sag the other pocket, where he placed it very carefully. As he whirled uptown in the run about he frequently felt of the deadly things. ' He liked the feel of neither of them. The revolver was so hard and busl ness-like, the pill bottle was so slip pery, bo cold and heartless! What an end was this for Broadway Jones! Again seated in the little study, he solemnly reviewed his life. He sam no* points at which he had mad6 very great mistakes, save the important one of thinking that a quarter of a million is a lot? of money in New York. "I've been nothing but a piker,* he reflected, "and I've acted like the trade-marked article. I oughjt to get it in the neck and I am going to get it in the neck." y This unpleasantly reminded hjm and he caressed the^ neck wherein he was to get it Never,- in the past, when he had used that slang expression had it really suggested his own neck to him or any other actual neck. Now it made his fleBh creep and his blood run cold behind his collar. "Well, here goes!" he whispered, and took out a pill, afterwards arrang ing the revolver, which was already loaded. He held the pill between the fingers, of a tremulous left hand; gripped in his faltering right he held the weapon. "Here goes!" he said again?and Rankin rapped upon the door. Hastily he hid the dreadful evi dences of his dire intention. "Come In!" he feebly called. (TO BE CONTINUED.) In Praise of Poverty. It seems a matter of universal desire that poverty should be abolished. We | should be quite willing to abolish lux ury, but to abolish honest, industrious, self-denying poverty would be to de stroy the soil upon which mankind pro duces the virtues which enable our race to reach a still higher civilization than it now possesses.?Andrew Car negie. descended to pay his respects to his rcyal hostess, but after a few minutes' conversation he was surprised to see his "hot water" boy come up to the group. "Ah, professor," Queen Alexandra remarked, introducing the boy, "this is my son!" After that the professor nicknamed the boy, who is now King George V., "The R?yal Jug Bearer." French Humor. "French humor is a little too broad for us?and, when It isn't broad it is apt to be disgusting." The speaker was a playwright who has adapted so many French plays. She continued: "A Frenchman told me a Joke the other day. He said two rustic sweet hearts were walking out together. Th? girl remarked: '"I like you very well, Gaston; aL except those letters, G. S, tattooed on your hand.' " 'But,' said Gaston hotly, 'don't you know, my dear, that It's the latest style to have your initials on youi handkerchief?' * MAY WORK LIMESTONE BIOS Committee Makes Report and Officials May Investigate the Properties of the Beds. Columbia.?The committee appoint ed by the general assembly last ses sion to investigate the limestone and phosphate properties in the state re ported that it would not be profitable for the state to operate the phosphate properties at this time, but recom mended that the state geologist and commissioner of agriculture look into advisability of the state's acquiring limestone properties, in Cherokee county and of operating them to the advantage of the agricultural interests of the state. The committee consists of Senators McLaurin' and Hall and Representatives McQueen, Wilburn and Means. The report In part'follows: "On the 28th day of February, 1913, the committee organized by electing Hon. John L. McLaurin chairman, and W. S. Hall secretary. It was deter mined first to investigate the lime stone properties around Limestone Springs, in Cherokee county. It is probably well known that the, most ex tensive deposits of limestone in the state are found here. The grade of the limestone is high, and has . been used for commercial purposes for some 50 years or longer. The bed runs northeast along Limestone creek for about half a mile. Until recently the deposit has been worked by the Limestone Lime company and Gaffnay Lime company. The former operated three tubular steel kilns with a ca pacity of about 300 to 400 barrels of commercial lime per day. The latter company owns two tubular steel kilns, with a capacity of 250 to 300 barrels per day. The beds uncovered in operating the kilns show an almost inexhaustible supply of rock. The bed operated by the Limestone Lime com pany lies under an overburden of earth ranging from 15 to 30 feet in depth. At the lower plant of the GafTney Lime company the rock lies from three to six feet under earth. The product was formerly hauled to the railroad station at GafTney over a dummy or dinkey line about a mile r long. '''v v., . Develop Chick Springs. Greenville.?A development which is welcomed in the Piedmont section of this state is that being prosecuted by the Ghick Springs company, the pians qi iqjs company ueiiig to revive and conduct upon a large scale the Chick Springs resort. A contract has been let for ? new. hotel at the springs, improvements are being made on the grounds, and the hope is that by June 1 Chick Springs will be equip ped with the best of resort facilities. The company, composed mostly of Greenville men, will spend between $75,000 and- $100,000 in improve ments. W The hotel will be 300 feet' long, three stories high* with a roof garden, and will be of red brick pilasters with pebble dash panels. This hosie ry will contain about 100 rooms, all of which will have outside exposure. Moat of the rooms will connect with a bath. Adjoining the lobby, will be" parlors, lounging rooms, writing rooms, a mysic room and card rooms. A barber shop and a pool room wiH be located in one end of the struc ture. A feature of the first floor will be the dining room, with glass sides so arranged that the glass doors may >\*? fnlrinH hnrlr anil <fchufl add to the comfort of summer guests. On two sides of the dining room will be tiled terraces and theste will be used for dining purposes by those who choose pto pat in the open air. Three private dining rooms, so arranged that^they may be thrown into one, will connect with the main room. Elects New Officer*. Yorkville.?The board of trade held its regular quarterly meting recently and reorganized for the coming year. J. C. Wilborn is president; J. S. Mack orell, vice president, and A. T. Hart, secretary and treasurer. The director ate is composed of R. C. Allen, ,C. A Boney, T. H. DeGraffenreid, I. W. Johnson, G. H. O'Leary, J. P. McMus ray, P. W. Patrick and J. Harvey Witherspon. Many NeW Enterprises. 4 Elks Home- Holding company of Anderson has been commissioned, with a capital of $10,000. Business Men's club of Bamberg has been chartered with a capital of $500. Pendlrton Hardware and Mercan tile company has been chartered with a capital of $5,000 for doing a general hardware'business. R." and H. Drug store of Olar has been qommissioned with a capital of $500. Greenville Bowling Alley company has been commissioned with a capital stock of |3,000. Farmers' Tobacco Warehouse com pany of Sumter has been chartered with a capital stock of $15,000. Newberry Trust company of New berry has been commissioned with a capital stock of $5,000. W. G. Reid & So of Rqck Hill has been chartered, with a capital of $20,000. ' Wood lawn Park' corporation of Charleston has been commissioned with a capitol of $30,000. W. W. 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'4 out tonight and keep them out with Cascareta. Millions of men and women take.a Cascaret now and then and never know the misery caused by a,lazy liver, clogged bowels or an upset stom> * '//; ach. Don't put in another day of distress. ~ Let Cascarets cleanse your stomach; remove the sour, fermenting food; yvt, take the excess bile from y4ur liver - ^ and carry out all the constipated waste matter and poison in the bowels. Then you will feel great A Cascaret to-night straightens you out by morning. They tsork while " you sleep. A 10-cent box from any drug store means a clear head, sweet stomach and cleaq, healthy liver and bowel action (or months. Chil dren love C as carets because they never gripe or sicken- Adv. Reasonable Request. "Say, boss," said Hungry Hoher, "could J trouble you to give a fellow a little lift?" "What do yon want?" "I've got i enough money in, my pocket to tip the waiter, an' I was just wonderin' If you wouldn't give me just a little extra to buy a meaL" SOUND SLEEP _ 6MMTEB!E Lady Telli of Great Benefit Women Would Receive bj Following . Her Example. Renfroe, Ala.?"I want to ttftke a statement for publication," says Mrs. . __M H 1 _ ??J 2.^ Mtl L tL .. ? ?. J vine uwens, or uub piace, an it umj - .? ? be the means of relieving some poor,, boffering woman. ! I suffered terribly for years with many serlotis womanly troubles; and became so-weak and nervous, I eould hardly do anything. I had headaches, pains In my back and sides, and was always going to'the doctor, but never v: felt well. Finally,'my husband bought me two M bottles of Cardul, the woman's tonic. I commenced taking It, according to directions, and began feeling better. I am now on my eighth battle, and feel better than I have In years. I sleep soundly, have a good appetite, and no more pains. I never get tirefl of telling what your medicine has done for me, and. I am sure It will help other suffering women, as It did me. Cardul, the woman's tonic, and Thedford'e Black-Draught liver m&frH v ^ cine, are the only medicines, we keep In the house." If you suffer from any of the trou bles so common to weak,women, Try Mrs. 'Owen's advice?take CarduL For more than 6ft years, Qardul has been used with entire satisfaction, by thousands of weak and ailing wompa It will surely help you, too, ' j * N. B.- Wrtk h: Ladles' Advisory Dept., Chatt* nooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga- Tenn.. tea Special Instruction, and 6*-page book. Home Treat* \. '} meat for Wonmt," teat m plain wrapper, OB rcQuesi. Adv. Jarred the Old Boy. "Gladys said something to me the other night that smacked of innuen do," remarked Ferdy to Algy. "What was it, dear boy?" " , "Advised me not to stand tinder the , mistletoe. Said one . of the berries mlehi fall and fracture my skulL I call that unkind; eh, what?" ; ' IN PAIN WITH HEMORRHOIDS Biseell, Ala.?"I was troubled for everal years with protruding hemor- J, rhoids. They caused pain of the most ;;: 'k severe kind and some loss of blood. They wei-e so inflamed that the touch of anything against them was most intense agony. I got no rest nights and had to hare my legs and feet propped up in the bed. "I tried all kinds of advertised' . cures, and I was told that an opera- -/ ' tlon was the only relief. I suffered T oow fill odVArtlcib UiibUlU O^UUJ. A con vuw ment of Cutlcura Soap and Ointment and sent for a sample. I tried it and then procured a box of Cutlcura Soap and Cutlcura Ointment I was cured i Bound and well in-three weeks' time. A cake of Cutlcura Soap and two boxes Of Cutlcura Ointment accomplished what all else failed to do." (Signed) U R. Cook, Nov. 12, 1912. Cutlcura Soap and Ointment sold v. throughout the world. Sample of each free,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post card "Cutlcura, Dept. L, Boston."?Adv. That Week Didn't Count. Isaac (who had Just recovered from typhoid)?Doctor, you have charged , me for four weeks' calls; I vill pay for only three weeks! Doctor?But I called on you every day for four weeks, Mr. Isaac. Isaac?veil, aere vas one ween 1 was delirious and I didn't see yoa come in. 5 or 6 doses 666 will break any ease of Chills & Fever, Colds & LaGrippe; it acts on the liver better than Calo mel and does not gripe or sicken. Price 25c.?Adv. "The pen is mightier than the Bword," quoted the Wise Guy. "Yes, but the sword never gets a fel low Into libel suits," added the Simple Mug. 8ore Eyes, Granulated Eyelids and 8tle? promptly healed with Roman Eye Bal* iZLm. Adr. "I understand it is a very tearful play." "Yes; the management supplies fresh handkerchiefs after the second COLDS & LaGRIPPE One Advantage. Damp Drama. ICt."