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Secret of I Keepinb a F Secret 7oW fry a Young Wife Who Found no Difficulty in Keeping Her Marriage from the World for Four Years. | And Here Narrated - ?a SH! Don't breathe it to a soul, but listen? The man who started the story about woman's inability to keep a secret deliberately broke the ninth commandment with malicious intent, or else he didn't know the species. Woman can keep a secret. That she can has been practically and theoretically demonstrated: The "nay" of any disagreeable and contrary minded person will not be heard amid : present plaudits and affirmative acclaim. The libelous statement of the t original man is obsolete. Woman, lovely woman?Woman, with all her faults?(These aro new and very original remarks that ure absolutely necessary for the success J of the story)?Woman?she of the , erstwhile weaker sex -run keep a se- I cret. The wordH ha,re a joyful sound ; to sufTrnge-enlightenpd ears. i Know woiuun c:in keep a secret, because I've seen one who did! She V ?pt it lor lour years and thus j disproved the old theory. For years woman has been trying, more or less successfully?generally less, but don't tell anyone?to live down the slanderous Implication. For generations it has been a stumbling j block in the path of- all feminine prog- I ress. Now it no longer exists. The entire sex is vindicated and a pretty ; little bride, a matron in Newark. N. J., ' has suddenly found herself famous. She really and truly kept a secret. There wero three others in the secret. but they don't count. They wero mere men?the bridegroom, the best man and the minister. With tho usual short-sightedness and scepticism of man, every one of them fully believed he would tell. Forced to Answer an a Duty. Rut she didn't. Now she almost wishes she hud. For when it Anally caine out. she was kept busy "shooing" j away anxious inquirers who sought to J know how it wasi done. One of them wouldn't "shoo." The question was | too vital. The fate of a whole suf- ' fering suffrage world might rest in the , iinswcr. To get it was u duty owed to j humanity. The "shooing" gradually ceased The little bride smiled her most winsome smile. Her husband was coming up the steps armed to the teeth? with most interesting* brown paper parcels, mutely suggestive of belated wedding gifts and something good for eupper. He was hospitality personified. His smfle was all-embracing Under its influence the woman who had kept a secret was moved to relent. The next scene discovered the prin, ctpals seated in easy chairs in a cozy apartment where all things were new and Invishly tagged "with best wlsheu." A great silence reigned. The woman who had kept a secret was giving practical demonstration of howshe had done it. She was saying nothing. Hut at last? "Tell her, Mabel." It was the voice of mere man. It was more of a suggestion than a command, but it had a good, reassuring sound. Kvidentlv tli?? '??i lzed that even though silence might I have Its value in keeping a secret. j feminine perfection has not yet risen ibove the curiosity mark. This is still I unaffected by modern improvements j and must be sutisiied. For the Good of Humanity. So. for the good of humanity, Mrs William Wack, teacher in the Ham- ; burg school of Newark, told Ten Hest ! Ways of Keeping a Secret. First, don't tell. Second, don't belong to u bridge whist club. Third, don't have a confidential friend. Fourth, don't appear superior to common mortals who haven't a secret, and don't think that everybody is just dying to know it. That's five in the negative. The others?oh. talkative woman, pause; read, j mark, learn and inwardly digest the words of the oracle: When you have a great and mo- i mentous secret, don't think about it. i Ho natural. Cultivate calmness and ! vo.won KUtwl onm,. . . |>IU OXIII. luii^riiui | ULl'UJia- I tion and stick tc It. Almost anything i will do. If you enn't tench school. | teach politics. Chock off each succeeding day of the secret with feelings of pride that you've kept it so long. and. lastly, lie sure your mother is trained i in the same art. Some mothers are not. Mrs. Wack's ! mother wus. If she hadn't heen the secret of the marriage of her daughter, Miss Mabel Garrabrant to William Wack, clerk in a New York national bank, would have ceased to be a secret j three years ago. That was when Ma- j bel broke the news to mother. For a whole year, however, she had never told a soul. "It was very easy," she remarked : **1 Just didn't tell; that was all." Perfectly Simple. How perfectly simple and practlc 1 Die: Anyoouy can learn it without oven taking a lesson. , i A i * V *-J.t I / 3 "1 never had any desire to toll." cbn- , tinned Mrs. Wack, with a mischievous I twinkle in her blue eyes. "It always | seemed to nie that it was nobody's i business." The remark was not meant to he rude. It was merely expressive. Mrs. ' Wack said so. "The longer we kept the secret.' she observed, "the easier it was. It's j really just a matter of practice. A? i llrst 1 had to be a little careful how I i referred to our trip to Hlizabeth?" "You know wo were niahriod over at ; Klizabeth." interrupted Mr. Wack. ra- | diant with happiness and quite ready ' to tell all he "knew. His wife resumed , the theme. "1 told my mother I was going to a little social affair. I had to cive some ' reason for dressing up', you know." Of course this was the truth. Mow could a wedding bo anything else j than "'a social affair?" Resides that Mabel had on her very prettiest dress ?a blue silk -with a corsage bouquet of lilies of the valley and bride roses. To see her no one would ever have dreamed that she was going into training as a long-distance secret j keeper. Certainly there was no Indication of poverty. It was the poverty fairy tale followed by one of great wealth suddenly acquired that made Mrs. W'ack almost decide never to reveal to the world ' whether or not it really hurt to keep a secret. Refutes Gossips' Tales. "The gossips said we kept our marriage a secret because Will was not over rich just at that time," she exclaimed ulmoHt tragically, and William joined vigorously in denouncing as untrue all the many statements to that effect. "I was in just as good a position to innrrv four v?:iri ucn I " ? day," lie announced. "It wasn't poverty but a desire to please Mabel's parents that made us keep, the secret. They wanted her to teach school, and she wanted to teach. I didn't want her to teach, and so we decided to wait until she was willing to give tip " That was enough. It brought the > young wife again out from the realms of silence. "Until Will was willing to let tne keep on teaching." she observed. "Now that he says I may, I rather j think I'll not teach loner than next I June." Suffragettes should not lose the > moral of this tale. The woman who i can keep a secret is sure of victory. j I I know, for Mrs. Wack said so. "It is natural lor me to be reticent." she explained. "That's why it was easy for me to keep a secret. I can- : not recall an instance when 1 felt the least inclined to tell." Think of it, O daughters of Eve! What heroism to compier even the in clination to embroider a "W on an in- ; conspicuous wash cloth! What self- 1 sacrificing devotion to principle that, for four years could undergo the privileges of Ituth and resist proclaiming from the housetops, "Ills people are my people and my mothi r is his mother-in-law! " All honor to the Newark woman who so tactfully divined the time to keep silent and the time to speak. So far as it is known, only one otlie.r pioneer has preceded her into the 1 realms of secrecy. That one is the immortal bard who wrote the pathetic stanza beginning with the soulful line, "I 1/ no it.' comofhintr I uton't ^11 " It was just that way with Mrs. 1 VVack. With William it was different. : He couldn't keep a secret. "I haven't told Mabel yet," he willspered. "but the boys at the bank presented me with a purse this afternoon?" Mabel reappeared and the whisper j ceased Mr. and Mrs. William Wack of Newark. N. J., are not living in the lordly splendor that the alleged fortune made in Wall street would indicate. Neither have they ever been much impoverished They are just | two very agreeable and unaffected | young people, housekeeping for the i past few weeks in a eonimod ? cs j apart melt In an old-fashioned house, j \ ) / occupied on the first floor by Mrs. ' W.n-k's girlhood tri? ml but not her confidante She never hud one. Their First Meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Wank met at a party at I'ncle George's?William's I'ncle George?in 190G. They were very youthful, so they waited two years bofore slipping quietly into the state of silence and connubial bliss. After four years they emerged First came the announcement cards, then the searchlight of publicity. Kven the faithful keeping of a secret has its consequences. "It's been worse than a church wedding." sighed the aggrieved ones, re trenching themselves behind wedding rrift^J rovinlviwl i tool'L ? loet cf o mi before surrendering to the attacking party. "We never wanted to appear in print. "We"? It was no use. The citadel was taken and the Wacks surrendered. Mrs. Wack modestly admitting that for five years sin- has played the or gaa in the Union stn et M E. church of Newark; that ilurold <\ K. Foeller. the Columbia senior who enacted the role of best man and helped keep the secret four years, is now in btisl noss in New York; that. she. herself, is a suffragette and that she has been more harassed since she told her secret than in all the four years of ' keeping it. Lucky Hill! Even the lee man will never know how much Hill paid the Elizahctan pastor' The bubble of the witch's cauldron has broken. Secrecy is no longer a lost art, but a discovery.? Marie Coolidgo Ttask in New Yorlc World COAST GUARD DESERVE PRAISE Very Little Is Heard of Men Who Suffer Hardships to Save Human Lives and ProDertv. Housed snug by the fire, safe from the gale that whistles in the eaves. It's hard to realize that such a winter ns this brings no "piping times o' peace" for those who stand at the very door of the perils of tho sea to save what they may of human life ami property. Of the army and the navy unending tales are tcljl In a I thousand papers and magazines, but of the stalwart corps that braves the lonely dangers of our coast we hear j little or nothing. Yet an army of over in.nou men stands watch, and watch about to tend the lights and buoy or hasten succor to those who go down to the sen in ships Tonight though the winter star.'ight or the driving storm the beacons flash their warnings from the rocks and shoals and ruddy lights gleam in little gale-swept stations on the sand where the surges pound and pound and pound?little stations where nenr the socket-gun and motor boat there sit quiet men watching and waitir ; for the flare of the rocket, or the helpless shout that tolls tie r patrols of a ship in danger on the shore Then conies the call for brain and brawn and bravery greater than ever sighted a turret gun 01 faced a bullet. Out with the boat, Into the surf and over the har. Out with the gun ..ml the rocket to send her a line* Stand ay to man the breeches boiiv! Waist (loop in me winter son. what matter if the \\ in<l drives sand and snow and spuno till It raws the faro and hands are numb with the biting cold'' There's life aboard that ship; and her. are men for you. Philosophy. Lot us learn to be content with what we have. Let us get rid of our false estimates. s?>t up all the higher ideals?a quiet home; vines of our c wn planting; a few books full of the Inspiration of genius; a few friends ; worthy of being loved and able to love us in turn; a hundred innocent pleasures that bring no pain or sorrow: a devotion to the right that will never swerve: a simple religion empty of all bigotry, full of trust and hope and love?and to such a philosophy this world will give up all 'hiempty joy it has.?David Swing f >.& 4 Backache M Nothing ages anyone more quickly than weak kidneys. II is not alone the aching back, the stiff, painful joint*, but the evil effect of bad. poisoned blood on the nerves, the vital organs and the digestion. The condition of the kidneys makcB good health or ill-health. ( The kidnevs are the filters of the blood. Active kidneys lilter from the blood every day over one ounce of poisonous waste and pass it off dissolved in the urine. If the kidneys are weak or diseased, only part of this filtering is done anil the blood is heavy with uric acid and other poisonous or waste matter. Instead of being nourished by the blood, the nerves and vital organs are irritated. and the circulation, digestion, etc., are disturbed. If your back aches constantly, if your joints are stiff, lame and painful, suspect the kidneys. Kidney sufferers are likely to feel dull, heavy, restless at night, rheumatic, dizzy at times, subject to headaches and annoyed with sharp, piercing pains that i.i.iiw nm k. mi iiiiHin anu resi uiqiossioie. Moan's Kidney l\!ls are the best-recommended and most widely used remedy for weak or diseased kidneys. They act quickly: contain no poisonous nor habit-forming drugs and leave no bad nfter-alTects of any kind just make you feel better all over. MATERNAL INTUITION. . p> ' * i -- i ,Mrs. I'ig?Now, Curly, when you're at the party 1 want you to behave like a perfect hog! If your appetite is not what it should ho | perhaps Malaria is developing. It ifl'eets J the whole system. OX I1)IX1\ will clear nwav the germs, rid you of Malaria and generally improve your condition. Adv. Eager for His Rights. As little Freddie had reached the mature ago of three, and was about to discard petticoats for manly raiment in the form of knickerbockers, his mother determined to make the occa- \ sion a memorable one. The Hristol Times tells what happened. Tho breakfast table was laden with good fare as the newly-breeched 1 Infant was led into the room. "Ah." j cried the proud mother, "now you are a little man!" The fledgling was in ecstasies. 1)1 splaying his garments to their full ad- ] vantage, he edged closer to his mother, and whispered, '"Mummie. can I call pa Mill now?"?Youth's Companion. FACE DISFIGURED WITH SKIN TROUBLE 3107 Foster Ave., Baltimore, Md.? ' "About five months ago little blisters appeared on my face. They looked like blisters from lire burns. They Itched and burned something terrible, which caused mo to rub them and they burst, then sores appeared which dis- ! figured my face. My face was all full of sores. The disease spread from my face to my neck and back. When anything touched them they would burn and stick to my clothes, which kept me from sleeping and made me suffer terribly. "I used home remedies and I used a salve but it did no good. I suffered about three months then I saw the Cuticura Soap and Ointment advertised and I thought I would send and get a sample and try them. I used the snmple of Cuticura Soap and Ointment and they helped me a great deal, KO T honcht onmo ntwl *io/wl tl...??? < two months and they completely cured me." (Signed) Edward V. Thomas. Mar. 26, 1912. Cutlcura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each freo with 32-p. Skin Hook. Address post-card "Cutlcura, Dept. L, Hoatoa." Adv. Wanted Slavees for Missouri. On January 27, 1778, Don Hernardo do (Salver., governor of the Spanish province of Louisiana, which included Missouri, petitioned the king of Spain for aid for the settlers along the Missouri river and Mississippi river in Missouri. "The said inhabitants," lie wrote, "in order to promote the cul lure of these plants (flax and hemp), would desire that the compassion of the king should deign to provide then: with negro slaves on credit, for whom they may pay with the crops afore said." Hi* Status. "That inan 1h something more than a more marine." "Do you mean he Is an ultramarine r* To prevent Malaria is far letter than to cure it. In malarial countries take a <io?e of OXIDINK regularlv one eaeh week i and nave vonreelf from Chills* and Fever and other malarial troubles. Adv. It tak ? a sharp inan to make a tool of a dull one. ? * i < v akes Anyon ? r,.- rr.tr. - c. j ju'vcrj ? mure i euj u Ofpry j f WPBaa? ! linn ???? our Back is Lame?Remember the 'S KIDNEY" I . Price 50 cents. fostcr-Milburn Co? Buffalo, Mi Easier and Pleasanter. Talking: of ladies' shortcomings re...iio b ?i ..# - I > umo ?* j i * v cuvij uruiu ui *i liir^i' and determined-looking woman who wore* a very large hat one evening at the theater. "Madam," said the attendant politely. *1 must request you to remove ; your hat. It is annoying this gentleman behind you." The massive lady turned and haughtily surveyed the complainant. "I)o you mean that little weedy, undersized creature?" she asked. This gentleman behind you." the attendant correctpd her. The lady settled herself In her place. "You will ilmi it easier and pleasanter." she said decisively, "to re- [ move him!" Beans in His Head. Two beans, one of which had sprouted into an embryo plant, were : removed from the head of a Mexican laborer at San Bernardino. Cal., by a ) Iihvsieisin KYir innntlio tlm mini K.wl complained of seven? pains. The beans had entered his head through his left ear. The growing plant was 1 yearly an inch long and apparently had flourished in the ear tube. A Household Remedy. Which works from outBide. CIIESTOL (Chest Ointment) will relieve quickly croup, coughs, colds, pneumonia and all affections of chest and throat. Vso freely and RUB! RUB! ! Rl'15! Now sold by all medicine deal ers. Should he in every home. Burwell & Dunn Co.. Mfrs., Charlotte, N. C. Adv. This Is Unkind. Tommy?l'op, what is a free ; thinker? Pop A freethinker, my son. Is any j man who isn't married. Philodelphia I Record. For SI MMI.lt HEAD ACT IKS llicKs' ("APITPINE Is the best remedy? no innttfr whut causes tliem?whether from the heat, silting In draughts, feverish condition, etc. Kb-., 2>o and M>c per bottle at medicine stores. Adv. Doubtful. "Have you a good cook now?" "I don't know. 1 haven't been home ' since breakfast!"?lxutdon Opinion. ITCH Relieved In 30 Minute*. Wool ford's Hunitnry I.otlou lor nil kinds of contagious llcb. At Druggiuts. Adv. The flirt is always practicinK a i game she never intends to play. Sirs. Winalow'n Soothing Syrup for Chile! 'en teething. softens tin- gums, reduces inlluiutnif tion, at lay h pntn. cures wltid rolli'.S.V u buttle Atfv. The sting of defeat outlasts the sweets of victory. Marnina Says "Its Safe for Li? CHUdreny^. CONTAINS \jff opiates I. it. ?. - * >1 ! !! I tOO pounds of on Ordinary PortMlzef (tmiuc i-S-2) Both 0? <? ? f FILl.Ett I CQillcd "C1 ' SU l-l.S I n rr b aVfJOV soda | fertilizers ia i.BS | 1 i are very \ ACID I V j>noapMATS W M 6o mu Hswuuj?g?awrar i 1 If you prefer 9 tilizcrs, insist on /t.mTtvwt.;rxii'4ulY Potash in them 1 as well as to raise contain more than three times as It was found years ago that the com posit ion of the crop is not a sure guide to the most profitable fertiliser, but itd<><?not take a v.-ry smart man to figure out that a well-balanced ferltllier sbaalif coatala at lent aa much Potash aa Pbaspborlc Add. Insist on having it so. If you do not tind the brand you want, make 1 \ Talk to your dealer and ask bim to car tock or order it for you. It will pay y For particulars aa GERMAN KALI WORKS. In Mosadaock Hock, Chicago. III. laak A Trast Kit EadnMt. rihBBBHBaSEBaA IH DfitCoQffhHTrnn. TutM Good. 11m El * j In tlmt. Bold bj Drorrlfttt. Kd yij.i:?4.iiH:ifviinTT^| ^ The following case is typical of iffccted by Doan's Kidney Pills. cstimony the best evidence. WISHED FOR ^ured After Doctors Gave Up Hop* G. W. Ii. Nesbitt, Marion, Ky., says: 'Kidney disease had made me n ehroain nvnlid. 1 couldn't set out of bed for two reeks nt a time and no tongue could de- s|^^H cribe my suffering. J often wished that leath might come and end my agony. The lidney secretions were thick and heavy ind the color of blood. My sight had al* nost failed. My limbs were badly swollen nd the doctors said I had dropsy. They leld out little hope for my recovery. 1 ouldn't raise my arms above my head, in act. my side was almost paralysed. I ind lost all hope, when a relative told mn 0 try Doan's Kidney .Pills. I began tn niprove from the very first dose. Before had finished one box of Doan's Kidney 'ills. I was greatly relieved of the pain ind as I continued using them. I was ovcroved to see the dreadful symptoms from vnich I had suffered so many yenrs. leavd ne, one by one. In three months I waa 1 well man, attending to my work. _ I am irmly convinced that Doan's Kidney Pills arc the greatest remedy in the world or diseased kidneys." 'ILLS <jy N Y Pro Surprised. "I nrn going to bring my son up so that like George Washington he can say: 'I cannot tell a lie.'" "Why, I thought you were going to bring him up to follow In your footr stops?" A great minority of summer ills ?e* due to Malaria in suppressed form. Laasitndc and headaches are but two symptoms. OXIDINR eradicates the Malaria germ and tones up th?j entire system. Adv. Turn about is fair play?except when applied to a hand organ. J Make the Liver Do its Duty Nine times in ten when the liver to right the stomach and bowels are right. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS gentlvbut lirmlv com-^ ? pel a lazy liver to^HMf 'ADTCD^Q do its duty. ^P 1J1TTLE stipation, ln-^jjK WW |IVER digestion, Headache, ~ and Distress After Eating. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. Genuine must bear Signature FREE TO ALL SUFFERERS If you fcfl "iml of sorts"?"run down"or-'?ot the blues."sufTnr from kidney.bladdnr.nnrvouadlfirasoa, chronic wv?kni'swi. ulcers, skin nrupllons.plIrs .Ac., wrlto for njy KKKKbook. It Is the mo*. instruct!** medical book erer written. It tells all about thesw .1 im'rm'h undthn remarkiiblncn res effected bjthoNaw Krrn.h Iteraedy "TIIKRAPION" No. I.No J, No.? and you ran decide foryoursnlf If It Is the remedy for your ailment. Don't send a cunt. It's absolutely r'llKK. No ' fol1ow-up"clrculats. Dr.I.eClnrr .Mrvd. Co.. Haveratock ltd., Ilsmpitasd, LmSm, Sag. gs&asa Hsis'Sfpa- i M|MHrciSCIwiur< aud bwuitifles th* tote HI "> ni- >1* a bunnsnt growth. 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'Sw - I rcvly-miied fer- .wmT.0> M iiavmg cnougn i i>otash i to raise the crop the price. Crops much Potash as phosphoric acid, i car by adding enough Potaali to make It right. To increase the i'otash 4% per cent, ((or cotton and grain), add one bag Muriate of , l'ot.ish per ton of fertilirer; to increaae it 9 per cent, (truck, potatoes, tobscco. corn, etc.). add two bags Sulphate or Mar late > per ton. Zjgt?& Potash Pays id prices writ* to * c*a 42 Broadway. Now York If.. Ssvaaaah, 6a. WMtasy tak IHg.iwtrta?.la , Atlanta. 6a. Ain-n * inert no MulTccureiiChronlr Ulcer*. Imhi* * ''' r*':'^I,??folnu?i;if?rii,V?rlfo?i rirnrn,Intlolcnt I lrnr?,M?rrnrlsl Ulcer*. WhileSwelling.Milk l.er,?>rrrSor?i?,?ll?Mi?fM. HtuiiMs BMkUl fr?s. J.T*. Al.l.BN. Deo*. All. (Ju Paul. UIba