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BOWSER IS BOOB. J*" Phenomena Explained by His Wnrihv Snouse. THE EVENING BEGINS SADLY. fiut After Raving For Quito Awhile He Capitulate*, and Mrs. B. Does Not "Return to Mother*?The Waiting Gam* Wine Out. By M. QUAD. (Copyright. 1913, by Associated literary Prees.] * KNEW that I was in lor it 5 If Mr. Bowser came home feel^iog good natnred there might be only a few "bnmphs" of disgnst, out U tilings at toe omce uuu wrong then he would break loose. i had three hours in which to make up my mind, and when he arrived I had decided what to da Yon see, the other afternoon a messenger boy brought our cook a tele* gram to the effect that her sister, ten miles away, was very ilj and wanted to see her at once She was ready to leave in half an hour, and I took hold of the work and had a good dinner awaiting Mr. Bowser when he reached home. He entered the house in a pleasant mood, but uo sooner bad 1 broken the news to him about tbe cook than he said: thought it wns about time for another kickup! By John, bnt can't you keep a girl for fifteen minutes witfiour a row?" > "We haven't changed girls in five months." I replied, "and there would * "hp mm. dow8rk hadn't walked off. ' . y have been do change oaw bat for sickness. Annie will probably be twck in a day or^fcwo. Meanwhf'e I can do the cooking." r S "Meanwhile 1 have got to live on crusts and Loues and feel that things are upside down?" he growled. "If there's a worse run bouse in America I'd like to know where ifs located. Tba tsdk has no rick 6ister. She simliljfTpilif It'll' rm excuse to get away Ah year cooks do that when they cafii-ktand your ways." "What is vrioas.wtth my ways. Mr Bowser?' Mt;# Kicks. "Everything, foa crush a girl to the earth. ?<*? grind ber to a puip. . Ton are arooffrtf Wt& your nose cocked UP aul demaM that Eke get down on ber knees to you. I have always pitied tbezn from the bottom of my heart, poor things!" "That** probably the Itemou why two of tbem said yoa tohdfc googoo eyes and tried to flirt sad two ethers called yon an old ben and Ottrtto't stay even wbeD I offend to increase their wagesr "Woman. Uv? you know what yon are ayingr "I do." jt 4Tben. by tbe great born spoou. but fee I tike taking yonr ears! ! make googoo eyes at yonr cook! t try to flirt with her! 1?I"MBe calm. Mr. Bowser. There is no need of any <juarre! o^er this thing. 1 have made op my mind that you would come home to talk just as you have done, and I determined on my course. 1 have my trunk nearly packed." .1" ? * ? ? ..n.l'l! ?*/1 hAmu f/? VA111' OUU JTV-M H Jtv uvwv . ? iT mother?" > . j "I will." "And there'll be a separation and a divorce?" "Certain ly r* "And?and"? "And that's all. After three or four years you can marry some one who'll run your house to suit your ideas." "I was going to propose this very step. Mrs. Bowser, and it is the most sensible thing you have said in six months. Yes, divorce is inevitable; but of course, I sball see that you are well provided for as to alimony." Separation and Divorce. Neither of us ate any of the dinner 1 had been to such pains to cook. 1 left the table set and went op to my room and began to bang my trunk around, and after a few minutes. I slipped soft > ly downstairs to find that Mr.. P.owbc: had takes off his coat; rolled op bis sleeves and- was clearing off the tilAo and washing ' ftp. the dishes. "So it's separation and dlyoree."'be mnsed as be worked! . ."All right. It waa bound to come sooner or later, and why not now? When a wife will take a crowbar and pouDd on the piano to make her hard working ijiisUmuo 425 extra expense it's time there war a divorce. I've talked and talked, bat it has done no good. She's got some good points about be^fet If wtTl Tiave to be?have to be." He gnmibled away below bis breath while W was taking down the roller towel to use as a dish towel, and then I beard him say: "Wonder what the mother-in-law will say about it? I know, however. ? ? - l She'll give me an uwiui Shouldn't wonder if she'd come right down here and do her song and dance act and make it bad for me. She's got a way about her to make a fellow's hair stand up. Mebbe I was a little hasty ?niebbe so. If Mrs. Bowser hadn't walked off and left me to wash these dishes"? 1 had to go up to the sitting room to avoid disco rery, and twenty minutes later he found me there. . Neither of us spoke/ Both sat down and stared into vacancy. He Becomes Nervous. A woman can beat a man at a waiting game, and after a quarter of an hmrr I Hrod Mr. Bowser out. He be gan to shuffle his feet and twiddle his thumbs, and at length he got up and went into the library. I listened at the keyhole, and as he walked to and fro 1 beard him say: "She sits there like a bump on a log and says nothing. If she expects me to speak first she'll get sadly left" He was silent for a minute, during which be kicked the dictionary across the floor and banged a chair about, and then he resumed. | "Mrs. Bowser has got her trunk pack- | ed and will want to go in the morning, j and I don't know what in thunder I'm , going to da I can't get a housekeeper | in here, and I'll be hanged if I go to i a hotel or boarding bouse. What did i .she want to fire up the way she did | for? She knows my little ways and j has always put up with them till this time, but the minute 1 began to talk she said she'd been packing her trunk to go borne Xever was so astonished in my life, but of course, 1 had to fel: , her to trot along. By gum, by gum!" I heard him approaching the door. ! and I got back into the sitting room i^He came in after a moment trying hard to look careless, and after pacing j nD and down be took a chair and re- | " marked that it was snowing outdoors i . ,j I replied that it was possible. ? I. He said that we'd had very little snow thus far this winter. I replied that I hadn't been interfosted. ' He then took the cat on his lap and asked if I thought her eyesight was failing. He then skipped from cat to mother in-law and hoped she was well. She is well, thank you. He Gives In at Last. Then Mr. Bowser began to shuttle j and twiddle again, and in another min- j ute he rose up and returned to the 11- j brary. ' I took up my former position j just in rime to bear him say: "The old girl's got her back up for i fair this time. She ought to see that I'm doing my best to make up with her, but she won't have it Wonder it sbejexReets me to get.dovyn on my ' v < .-j-*t :_u_? a knees to ner: i womaoiru 1 uie iw it but it puts ine in a bole just the same. What in tbe old Harry is going to become of me if she goes?'* Then be got mad and kicked that poor dictionary back again and back and forth tbe other way, and it was two minutes before he went on: "Bowser, you are an old crank! Dnrn your cats, but why do you jump on anybody with both feet the way you do? You come home and find that the cook has been called away by sickness?legitimate sickness?and you immediately begin to blow and bluster and walk around ion Mrs. Bowser. Yes. you are an okl crank, and you've got yourself into a nice fix at last! What you want to do is to go right down there and chuck that woman under the chin and beg her pardon and? NO. you can't do that. You want to put on your hat and overcoat and go out and slam the door behind you. Shell probably get scared and come down off ber high horse and call you back, and then you can make up without loss of dSgnity." I got out. of the way. and Mr. Bowser pot his plan in operation. It didn't work. He stood on the steps for five minutes, waiting for a call, and when none came he re-entered the bouse with crestfallen demeanor. Hanging op his hat on the hall tree, be came bach into the sitting room and stood and looked at ma r I returned his gaze. "While rm an angel"? "Yes, you are that, and I want to Say"? J :.;-r ^ ; ^ "So do I. I'm not going home to mother in the morniDg." Then? Well, then. Mri Bowser and I had a happy evening together, and in his exuberance of spirits he lifted the cat to his shoulder and went dancing around the room like a boy ten years old. I think he'll be good for at least a A substitute in medicine is never for t.hp hpnpfit, of tha buyer. Never be pursusded to buy anything bat Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for coughs and cold9, for children or for grown persons. It is prompt and effective It comes in a yellow package, with beehive on carton. It contains no opiates. Take no substitute for Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. Harmon Drug Co. adv. ' Because Senator Appelt, supported Mr. Epward W. Hughes for Congress from the 1st District, as against Mr. - Wbaley, Mrs. Appelt. who has been postmaster at Manning for the past 19 years, has been asked to resign. This is civil service reform with a vengeance. The Commission* rs of the sinking fund sold last week $49,601 with accruI ed interest at 5 per cent for twenty years. Give me the every-day sort of a man, The feller who laughs wh? n glad. Give me rue open-faced, big-hearted man, The feller whoweeps when he's sad. m^ t.Vio man xxrl-in toro in of-. wliat. he.tninks, The teller whose word is pure gold. Give me the man who can always bo found, The feller who's not bought and sold, Give me the man who stands up to the rack, The teller whose spirit ne'er bends. Give me the man wno is there wi:h the goods, The'feller who 6tands by his friends. He may not be cultured or dandy in dress, 1119 Jarmn' may be purty 9iira. But if he has got the red blood in his vaiLS, You can bank" your la9t dollar en him Give me no fair-weather, rollicking friends, The fellers who flatter and fawn, Give me no "jolly-good-fellowship guys. Who fly when the bank roll is gone. Give me the man who ha9 hit all the bumps. The feller who has traveled with truth; Who knows what true pain and anguish can mean, . And i9 not discouraged forsooth. He may be a roughneck and cuss just a bit, And be some uncouth in his tone; But after the judgment I've got an idee You'll find him quite close to the throne. NO SUBSTITUTE COULD DO THIS No inferior substitute, but only the genuine Foley Kidney Pills could have rid J. P. YVallich, Bartlett, Nebr,, of his kidney trouble. He says: | "1 was bothered with bacdacbe, and the pain would run up to the back of | my head, and I had spells of dizziness. | I took Foley Kidney Pills and they did [ the work and I am now entirely rid of ! kidney trouble." Harmon Drag Co. adv. I % EXPOSITION TO BE READY. National Conservation Show To Make Record In This Resoect. , The hundreds of thousands of visitors from all parts of the country, and particularly from the Southern States, to the National Conservation Exposition can be assured of one fact even at this early date: That no matter how early they make their visit to the exposition after the gates are formally thrown open they will see the displays complete. Work is so far advanced now that everything will be ready on the opening day and the complete line of exhibits in all of the many big, whit* buildings, and in all of the various deI partments of these buildings, will ilke-. | wise be ready. I Too many times in the history of expositions in other parts of the country it has happened that the first weeks saw only a portion of the exposition complete. This will not be the case , at Knoxville. ' I Hair Tonic I ' -V Aster's Hair Vigor keeps the scalp dean ft ?" (i . /; ir'' ' X^'' | CCCUMPIA SC 1 * ?>i r t.mmma3 THE MOST COMPLETE LINE WE HAVE EVER SHOWN IN HARNESS, SADDLES, COLLARS, BRIDLES, ROBES, HORSE BLANKETS, ETC. We have a special home-mado slip Harness for one-horse wagon at $5a00i A Set of Buggy Harness for $10.00. We buy Hides, Furs, Tallow, Beeswax and pay highest market prices. Wilse W. Martin, 1116-1118 Plain Street, COLUMBIA - - S. 0. , HOW THIS WOMAN FOUND HEALTH Would not give Lydia ELPinkham's Vegetable Compound for All Rest of Medicine !- iL. 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