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LOVE TESTED MB FOUND TRUE, A Fourth of July Story In Which Cupid Plays a Prominent Part. By MAY' HALSEY MILLER. [Copyright. 1909, by American Prosa Asso ciation.! That Chester Trowbridge was In love he would not acknowledge even to himself. ?Ie had first met Miss Collingwood at a tea given by one of bis a* ist gi:H friends at her studio, and. despite what Mrs. Tom had said concerning her frieod's beauty, he was unprepared for so much loveliness. He had been promptly Introduced by Mrs. Tom, who had made a particular point of making the two acquainted, and her eagerness perhaps accounted for a slight reserve in Miss Colling wood's manner toward the young man. wr the coolness might have been due to the mental attitude of a mucb admired "I had ho biiason to expkct TBIS." y-rfing woman toward all recent mascu line acquaintances. "Mrs. Tom has spokeu so often to mo of yon that I feel as if we"? "Mrs. Tom?" There was interroga tion in her tone and slightly raised ?yebrows. "Yes; Mrs. Tern?Mrs. Walker, of course. You see. Tom having beeu my chum since we were boys I"? "Oh, I understand." He did not eontinue the interrupted sentence, bur stood awaiting her pleas ure in the choice of a subject. "I suppose you are used to this kind ?f thing," she remarked at length. "Oh. yes." he replied Indifferently. Then, detecting a little smile of almost contemptuous tolerance on her pretty mouth, he wished he had answered d-fferently. "Where I live the young men have something else to do with their after noons." It was certainly not encouraging. They met often after that. It seemed to Trowbridge that the Walkers were1 constantly bringing them together. As time went on he found himself accepting Invitations on the chance of ?leeting Miss Collingwood. though be had decided from the first that he could under no circumstances, enter the ranks of her suitors. Among the few mistaken ideas Trow brldge entertained concerning himself was a belief in his own cynicism, wblcb was in reality the suppressed cry for love ami happiness. Chester Trowbridge was heart hun gry and did c<>l recognize the symp toms in the quickened pulse at the ?tfght of Caryl Collin; wood sod the feeling of general dissatisfaction when several days passed without seeini; her. He a< kn??w!edg<tl to himself thai ho was fascinated bj her beauty: that it was a pun- <!??!:.-!:t to biui to watch the varying.chauges of her expressive countenante It was the artistic de light that the sight of her beauty af r<?f-ded him thai made him soelc occa sion to meet her He had assured himself of this fact s?? often that he was almost ready to believe It, and so securely Intreuched was be iu bis determination not to woo a woman who could not return his affection |p some decree at least. >>o firm in his conviction that her own beauty must always count tno^t In the heart of a beautiful woman, that he altowed himself the sweet intoxication nt her presence whenever possible. Then one night when he chanced to be alone with her he fouad himself b?^gglng for her love or. in default of that, for permission to love her. "Such love as mine." he pleaded, "must be sufficiently fructifying to awaken love In the heart of any wo man." As she listened to him therp wr?a a look In her eyes that he had never ?reo there before, something that set his beart to wildly throbbing, and be fore he was conscious of what he was doing be found himself in possession | of bee band and pourlug out c?? her ait i the lovp of his starved heart. She tried to withdraw her hand, and j v\ Vn. she conld make him hear her she said quietly: "1 am sorry. 1 had no reason to ex- j poet this." ITo {julctly rrllTiquIshcvl Is<t u&hu ?oil rose to his feet. if people with symptoms of kidney or bladder trouble could realize their danger they would without loss of time commence taking Foley's Kid ney Remedy. Thi< great remedy stops the pain and the irregularities, strengthens and builds up these or gans and there is no danger of Brlght's disease or other serious dis order. Do not disregard the early Kvmntoms. Lowmau Drug Co.; A. 0. Dukes. Industry is the watchdog that keeps the wolf from the door. "Pardon me." he said, "though you must acknowledge thut I am uot with out excuse. It is but the common tribute to |a beautiful woman's charm that she has every right to expect." | "Yes." she replied coldly: "we will regard it simply as that?the tribute of an idler to the charms of a mere so ciety beauty." There was irony In her cool, even tones, while her eyes were looking straight into the dim ness of the room. The weeks wore on. and the Walkers removed to their summer home, whither Chester received a pressing Invitation to spend the Fourth of .luiy. so pressing. In fact, as to amount to a command. "Little Tom wants to see his 'Nunck en* Chester" had been the concluding words. Not versed in the ways of very small boys. Trowbridge provided himself with a supply oP crackers and fire works for the two-aud-a-half-year-old scion of the Walker family not at all commensurate with that young gentle man's years. He was entirely unprepared for tho sight of Miss Collingwood on the Walkers' broad piazza. "'Ere's Nunekeo Chester!" came In sweet Jubilant tones, and a little dy ing figure wltb flushed cheeks and tumbled hair precipitated Itself In Trowbridge's arms. ?'Hello, little man." and Chester lift ed him up on his shoulder. Raising his hat with his free hand, he made his way thus incumbered up the steps, the childish prattle relieving the situ ation of acute embarrassment "You have a rival in Tom's' affec tions." said Mrs. Walker to Miss Col lingwood. After dinner they sat on the piazza, little Tom being allowed to sit up later than bis usual hour in honor of Chester's arrival. The two gentlemen sat smoking and chrtting where the smoke of their cigars would not reach the ladles. Tom was running up and down the path in front of the house in all the exuberance of his few years. A boy appeared with a box the con tents of which greatly excited the child". Interest "Put the box down on the steps." di rected Chester, giving the boy a coin. "What's got in de box?" demanded little Tom, his face alight with Inter est "You'll see tomorrow." answered Trowbridge and then continued his conversation with the child's father. Little Tom. finding his quest for in formation Ignored and objecting to the delay arbitrarily imposed, promptly climbed the steps and entered into an investigation on his own account He removed the wrapping paper and with bis small, nimble fingers succeeded in pushing back the sliding cover, disclos ing to his ravished view various pack ages of different colors and sizes. These Invited closer Inspection, and he proceeded to take them out of the box and deposit them on the step beside him. Suddenly he came to something which seemed to afford him great sat isfaction and which he evidently thought he recognized, for he breathed ecstatically. "Rig cigar!" He put the large firecracker to bis Hps and began "mokln' like fader." In the fast gath ering twilight little Tom's motions passed unobserved. He glanced about him In proud con sciousness of his manly attitude, when his eyes were arrested by the sight of smoke issuing from his father's lips. He puffed aud exhaled "like fader" but without like results. A match was all that was needed, and this coveted article ho discovered under Trow bridge's chair, where It had been In advertently dropped. A moment sufficed for the match to find Its way into the chubby fingers of the baby boy, who scratched it and ap plied the flame to the fuse o;" the cracker, which immediately ignited. There was a rush of skirts, and Caryl Collingwood. who had heard the scratching of the match, dashed the cracker out of the child's hands and picked him up in her arms. In her haste she had uct noticed the direction of the burulng cracker, which fell into the box of explosives. There was a crackling and sputtering, apd the fly ing sparks flew to the crackers ou the step aud caught the soft, fluffy skirts of the young woman, the draft made by ber flying feet quickly fanning the sparks Into a brisk flame that leaped upward toward her face. Finding her self afire, she dropped the child on the grass and quickly retreated, to find herself In Chester's arms. He began beating out the flames with his hands. Walker coming quickly to his aid. tak ing off his coat as he ran. The flames were soon extinguished, but Miss Col lingwood lay unconscious in Chester's arras. Together they carried her into the house and laid her on the lounge in the library. Mrs. Walker had al ready telephoned for a doctor, but by the time he arrived the youDg lady had regained consciousness. She was car ried to her room and put to bed, while Chester restlessly paced the piazza, impatiently awaiting the doctor's re appearance to learn the worst regard ing the Injured girl. When he finally appeared Trowbridge eagerly questioned him concerning the extent of Miss Colllugwood's injuries and was much reassured by the doc tor's report that they were not serious and that she would be about In a few days. It was not till then that Trowbridge showed bis own bands, which had been causing him acnte pain, but which In his anxiety for Miss Collingwood he had scarcely heeded. ?li was lucky for her that you acted 60 promptly." remarked the doctor as he was dressing Chester's hands. "A moment more and she might not only haw been disfigured for life, but lost life Itself." At the time Chester pr.ld little at tention to the words "disfigured f\.v Mfp" FTe iheu^bt H rnorMv onp of Everyone would be benefited by raking Foley's Orine Laxative for stomach and liver trouble and habit ual constipation. It sweetens the stomach and breath, gently stimu lates the liver and regulates the bowels and Is much superior to pills and ordinary laxatives. Why not j try Foley's Orine Laxative today? j Lowman Drug Co.: A. C. Dukes. The two persons to whom a wo- j man's voice can bo sweetest are a j small baby she loves aud a large wo man she hates. j the possibilities, but Inter those words took on a dreadful significance. The Fourth was spent quietly at the Walkers'. Mrs. Walker devoting the whole day to MLss Collingwond, whom she regarded as the savior of her child's life, while Walker took Trow bridge out for a long ride in his new automobile. Chester sat alone on the piazza in the evening, when he heard bis name called softly. He rose and was about to enter the house through the front dour when he heard again: "Mr. Trowbridge. wou't you please come In bere for a moment?" "Where Is here?" he asked. "In the library." He quickly entered the room through the window and saw the form of Miss Colllngwoud lying on the lounge. Her face was partially concealed by a band age. She put out her hand as he ap proached, but when she saw his swathed Ip bandages she gave a low cry. h "Oh. I didu't know you were hurt!" she said. "It Is nothing." replied Trowbridge quickly. "I am very glad to see you downstairs so soon. I had thought It would be some days before you would be sufficiently recovered." "I could not rest another eight with out seeing you." she answered softly. "Without seeing me?" he repeated in surprise. "Yes. and thanking you." "Oh. that's all right!" he interrupted. "But that's not all. Won't you sit down? I can talk to you better when you are on my level," she said, with an attempt to speak lightly. He sat dowu on a low chair by her side. "I want to tell you that I misjudged you once." She spoke quickly, as if she feared her courage might fall If she did not get It over at once. "1 thought you a trltler, a mere idler, a dangler after pretty women and"? ^Was that the reason why you treat ed me so coldly?" he asked eagerly. "Yes: I didn't know?Mrs. Walker said"? "What did Mrs. Walker say?" "That you were a worshiper of beau ty, that your mother was a remarka bly beautiful woman and that you ex pected your wife to be as lovely." "But you are." he said quickly. "Yes; that's what I knew? No. uo, I didn't mean that"? "But what do you mean?" "A woman does not want to be lov*>d for her beauty aloue. Suppose sh?? were to lose it?" Her tone was almost eager. "My darling, then you could love me?" "You love my beauty"? "Because It is a part of yourself." "But if 1 were to lose it?" she whis pered. "Then should I love you the more, for I should feel that you were wholly mine." "But would I not be anyway?" Then he told her of his fears, of the complete surrender of his heart to her despite his determination not to permit himself to love her. and then when he had seen her quick action in the face of danger to a little child, her forget fulness of self, of beauty, of even life, he had realized that the wisdom of the heart is superior to that of the reason. She gave a low. happy laugh and pulled his face dowu to hers. "And I( loved you from almost the very first, but I. like you. fought against my love. I feared that I was loved for my beauty alone, and when "I WANT TO TKT.Ti YOU THAT I MISJUDGED YOU ONCE." this accident happened and my face was burned I"? Then Trowbridge remembered what the doctor bad said?that her life might have been the forfeit of her act and not only her beauty. "My poor little darling." he said, nestling her in his arms, oblivious of the pain In his bands, "you will be dearer to me than ever." There was a patter of little feet, a small form hurled Itself against the lounge, two chubby hands pushed Chester aside, and two fat arms went about Caryl's neck. "Take um off." ho said, pulling at the bandage. Chester seized his hands. "You will hurt .1 tin tie Caryl." he said quickly. "No. no. he won't hurt me: the burns nre really nothing! We'll take oft* the old things!" she said ami revealed n blushing face that had not been touched by the flames. "I wanted to be sure." she murmured. "I war. Jeal ens of mv own 'nee " Delay in taking Foley's Kidney Remedy if you have backache, kid ney or b'adder trouble, fastens the disease upon you and makes a cure more difficult. Commence taking Foley's Kidney Remedy today and you will soon be well. Why risk a serious malady? Lowman Drug Co.; A. C. Dukes. For mild easy action of the bow elso, a single dose of Doan's Recu lets Is enough. Treatment cures habitual constipation. 25 cents a box. Ask your druggist for them. "TIGERS" TO VOTE CHARLESTON AUTHORITIES AR RESTING ILLEGAL SELLERS. Injunctions Against Unlawful Traffic Are Disregarded or Evaded. Unique Situation in "The City." It wa3 learned Saturday that the magistrates of Charleston will is sue warrants op Monday for the ar rest of a number of blind tigers with the purpose in view of binding them over to the court of general ses sions. This is in accord with the strong protest which the grand jury made a few weeks ago on the meth ods of the operation of the dispen sary law in Charleston. The blind tigers are now lining up with the prohibition followers in Charleston. They make no secret of their opin ion that with prohibition they will be able to operate just as they please and that the city will not be able to reach them, even to the extent of fining them periodically, as is done, and thus collecting from them some revenue for what their unlawful bus iness takes away from the sales of the dispensary. The authorities are probably be ginning to see the error of their ways now and the law will probably be applied to the tigers. With the arrest of the blind tigers and com mitment for trial, things will be lively in Charleston, for the tigers have not been disturbed by such pro cess of law in many years. The ac tion will strengthen the hands of the State authorities and allow for the placing of a few more dealers in jail on contempt proceedings, for some of the enjoined people seem to think the supreme court proceedings a sort of a joke and pay no regard to the orders, their establishments running now as before, simply wltil a change of tho nominal proprietor and the place of business to some other stand in the immediate neigi borhood of former operation. * DOB EVANS URGES PATRIOTISM. Tells Naval Apprentices to be True to the Flag and Honor Women. "You ought to be proud to be in a profession which required you to die, if need be for your country," said Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, U. 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Orestes Ferrera, president of the House of Representatives, and Senor Monleon, a representative, as the out come of sharp words, which were ex changed on Friday between the two men in the House. Rapiers were used, and both Col. Ferrera and Se nor Monleon received slight injuries, whereupon honor was satisfied. The encounter followed a chal lenge sent by Col. Ferrera in con sequence of alleged offensive expres sions used by Senor Monleon on the floor of the House, when he accused the Speaker of lack of respect to the members of the House. Texas Giant Dead. Col. H. C. Thurston, known as the Texas giant, believed to have been the tallest American, seven feet, nine inches in height, a Confederate sol dier under den. Price, is dead at his home at Vernon, Texas, aged 77. He is the father of four children, one son being over seven feet tall. * Not the Body of Ling. 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