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wr' 4 PUT TO JE TEST By CLARISSE HORTON. "If you can love me without seeing me or hearing from me for a whole year, then I will marry you," she had said; and the year had passed and Rankin still loved her. He was standing by the same Adirondacks lake where they had mot twelve months before. It was a cool day in July; the wind was skimming over the surface of the water, the pines rustled, a loon was crying far away. Everything in nature had con rlKntii/1 /% mo Iro m? ~ inwuuu ivr maac inai Uttj UI1C iUl perfect remembrance. And It wis the same today as it had been. She v. as secretary to the president of a corporation. Rankin had learned, and she was recovering from a serious Illness. Their hotels were separated by half a mile of undergrowth which covered the projecting flank of Rig Mountain. They had met at the point of the lake where Rankin fished, and ho had ventured a "good-morning." After that their acquaintance was a rapid one, and love perched in the background till, growing bolder, he stood between them. Those days of meeting! That delirious happiness of love confessed! This was no flirtation. They were made for each other. Rut she would not tell him her name, nor let him come to her hotel. "I have a very good reason," she answered when he protested. "You must not try to find out anything more about me now. Rut if you can love me for a whole year, then 1 will marry you." "And never know who you are?" he cried. "O. I'm nobody mysterious. Just a plain workaday woman," she answoe ed, smiling. "And when the year has passed?" "I shall be hero next year. I shall wait for you here?let mo see, today is July 28. A year from today." And all his pleas were unavailing. Despair alternated with unspeuknble happiness. He praised her beauty, her eyes, blue as the lake water; her hair, soft as yellow silk; her gait, her scoiuiva, un intoxicated nun. She hoard his compliments musingly, nnd with a slight fuowu. "If you could lovo mo?I mean me, apart from these external things." Bhe sighed. "I adore you." insisted Rankin. That was cti their last day together. He KD3 Stood Staring at His Trophy. gathered her into liis arms and, kissing hor, know that his love was truly returned. A trout leaped in the lake among the lily pads, and ltankin drew a length of line from his reel. "I believe I'll have a cast for that fellow." he said, and raised his rod and threw it forward. The line caught behind him. Rankin heard a stitled cry and turned. Upon the barbed fly was mo girl's Hat, and, under it, a complete toupee of hair. Before he could stir, the girl, w'th a low cry, pressed her hands to her head and darted into the undergrowth. itankin hoard it crackle as she ran; then tho crackling died away and he stood staring at his hideous trophy. He understood now what she meant by her disparagement of his praises, and the remembrance, tho rising pity, made his love truer and more intense than before. During the year that followed, throughout the fall and the long, cold winter monthH he dreamed perpetually of a lake studded with sunshine and a girl who stood beside blm on its brink. Ho understood the shame In hor heart, her swift disarmament by his discovery of her secret. He longed for her. He looked for her on every street, but he never encountered her. If she came back now he would prove his fidelity. Hut he had little hope that she would come. Yet, bocause his love wns stronger than his disbelief, he stood upon the wooded point of the samo lake a year later and waited. The aun dropped in the sky, the loon called, a trout leaped among the lilies, and then, sadly, he turned to go. She wonld not come. He had known It; and something went out of his life like the sun that suddenly went oat of the sky. And then?she stood before him. "You!" he exclaimed, catching her by the hands and looking at her with stter Incredulity. .v* <; "You1." she answered, and the Joy in her face reflected that upon his own. "O, I never dreamed that you would come." "Then why did you come?" asked Rankin. Because 1 hud pledged my word," she answered. "But you?why have you conie here? Surely?surely?" her voice was tremulous?"that was all a jest last year." "I have come back to prove that it was no Jest," Ilankln answered. "No," she cried, antr her cheeks grew scarlet, "you have come back because you are an honorable man. You think you are pledged. I3ut you cannot want to marry me now." Her voice fell. "You can't want to marry me after?after that," she whlBpered. "Rut I do want you," he answered, >aking her by the hands. "I love you Just as much, I have dreamed of this meeting all through the months of our separation. Do you think my love is so weak that It is to be influenced by that unhappy accident? If you had never told me, but married me. and I had discovered it afterward, I should have been just as glad." She faced hiin squarely, looking full into his eyes. "Suppose I put you to the test," she said. "Dare you look upon me now?as I am?and then say that you wish to marry me?" "I am ready," Rankin answered quietly. "But surely it is not necessary to put me to such a test as that. It would only cause unnecessary suffering to you. Take mo at my word as I took you at yours." For answer she unpinned her hat I and placed it on the ground. Then she shook out her hair, fold upor fold of rippling beauty, till it enfolded her to the "waist. She sweyt it back carelessly and looked tauntingly at him. "Take it," she said, and held out the glittering strands. Rankin stood watching her, his arms folded; it was, mucvu, ino Dupioniu iesi 01 u man s love, to see his sweetheart disfigured, shorn, her boauty suddenly become grotesque. Suddenly, with an impetuous motion she flung hor arms round him. "O, my dear, I believe in you now," she cried. "Listen! I told you I had been very ill with typhoid last summer. They cut my hair when I was unconscious. Then 1 came up here to get well, nnd?and 1 wore a wig. And when you discovered my secret I tl.ought 1 would die of mortification. | That, too, was why I wouldn't tell | you anything then. Hut now, my dear, I don't have to wear a toupee, because ! my hair is mine?do you understand! I can't cause you any humiliation or regrets because?" "Because I love you," ar.swerec Rnnkin; und the loon's distant laugt seemed less Ironical than of usual. (Copyright. 1913. by tV. O. Chupman.) CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Texas has 1.034.000 milch cows. There are 721,81.1 hchool children in Kentucky. West Africa in 1912 produced 11,890 bales of cotton. One Oldham (England) machine shop employs 10.000 men. New York's mine output in 1912 was valued at $35,519,382. In 1912 some 751 ocean vessels were built in German yards. Missouri In 1912 produced 24,530 tons of harytes, valued at S117,035. Washington provides huge stationary umbrellas for trafllc politjpmen. The new Atlantic coast port of Uruguay is to be named Atlnntida Nebraska expects a 1913 wheat yield of moro than thirty bushels to the acre. German railroads in 1912 received i t.uvu.unu irom rreignt trainc. There are now more than two million farmers In the United States using the telephone. A press weighing 12,000,000 tons has been manufactured In England for bending armor plate. The newest skyscraper in New York is to be 750 feet high and to consist of 55 stories. It will be only E0 yards shorter than tho Eiffel tower. The foreign commerce of Uruguay in 1012 passed tho $100,000,000 mark, while more recent returns promise that during the current year even those figures will be exceeded. Every boat engaged in the Jamaican spongo industry has a water glass or pauo of glnss inserted in the bottom of a box or bucket, through which the sponges are readily detected. California prune exports In the ten months ending April 30, lO'J. were 106,000,000 pounds, and raisin exports 27,000,000 pounds, both being about forty per cent, more than in the previous year and about one hundred ner cent, more than in 1911. Heat Pointers for ? tonds. It's easy to keep cool and not. mind the heat if you know how. Here aro Borne hints from an English physician. "Being cool," he says, "is largely a condition of mind. Keep still, watch what you ent and drink, avoid meat, ventilate your clothes as well as your home, bathe freely and avoid extremes of heat and cold in the water. Kill the ily and don't get chilled at night. "If you are a blond, avoid the bright lights, becauRO they are rich In chemical ether waves. In persons that have considerable pigment In their skins? in brunettes?these short, rapid, actinic waves aro transformed into long and slow heat waves. These actinic wares have a deleterious effect on the nervous system of those whoso skin cannot reduce their potency. "Blonds should avoid sunlight as much as possible, and when they do go out they should wear colored glasses, hats with orange lining and their clothes outelds should be white, to reflect the heat rays. Their underwear should be colored, preferably orange or blue. This is to protect the skin.' WILD WOLF-DOGS ' AIM CHILDREN v Ferocious Pack Prey Upon Southern Missouri Farms. DEVOUR LIVE STOCK I Imported Russian Bloodhound OisaD pears After a Blood/ Lashing by i Master and Forms Alliance With Woif?Offspring Vindictive. Duenweg.^Mo?Stories of the marauding expeditions of a pack of wolve-dogs were given a new turn ( recently when four of the eight chil- , dren of William Gaither, a ptospect j driller living live miles southeast of Duenweg, Mo., were attacked by the ! beasts. The presence of their pluck; shepherd dog and their own couragi in asj sailing the animals with clubs utid stones saved them from injury Itoy i i Osborne. living five miles from Duen| VTo. ,.? ) less fortunate. A few week:; ago the animals treed him in a lone ! sapling in the prairie, where he remained u.itil morning, when he w:as able to summon help. The airinals' presence in the iso lated scrub oak and prairie regioL southeast of Duenweg known as th<Grove ("reek district dates back to a ; period about six years ago. and th . \ great-grandmother of the onlire pack ' was a ferocious Russian bloodhound , 1 imported by Joseph Walker, u mine operator of Duenweg, about eight l years ago. The beast could never bo i controlled, and Anally after the crea- I t ture had received a bloody lashing at | the hands of her master she dlsup- i i peared, and in the course of time \ thero was evidence that tho blood- I hound had formed an alliance with a wild wolf, of whicli there were a few 1 scattered specimens in the woods at the time. I Hut if the original wild wol\e* and | the original Russian bloodhound had | | been vicious, then their offspring be- ; came tlie acme cf vindiotlvenesH, ami J it appeared that their mission in life j was to avenge the beatings that the I j luckless bloodhound had received , ! during her brief but checkered career ' ! In the little mining city. Twenty farmers will vouch that the wolf-dogs carried off their chickens. ; f?k* WtmR1 Vi f&i, A. I S&if ! W f^ii; >> V-. s ] 1 ??I Attacked by the Beasts. hogs, sheep, and In some instances- , even went so far as to kill and mutilate horses and cows. The park of wolf dogs multiplied, the descendants ! from the original pair gradually tak lug more and more the appearance of n.wl - ? v?^r. UIKI IKJ.illlf, HUT <t i>]ll'iirUUCU ! wolves. W. Q. SteveRB. operator of the Betsy .lnne mine, which is in a lonely strip of woodland in the very heart of where the wild park is believed to make its rendezvous, says the creatures are to he seen occasionally, although the operations at the now property have caused them to seek more isolated regions. About a year ago the suffering farm era in that region organized thein selves into n hunting sound, and as the result of a week's crusade against the wild dogs thirty-five of the creatures were slain The few remaining I were not heard from for many months : until recently, when they began to ? reappear, and depredations among the ' sheep. cattle and chickens have again 1 1 hern reported. To exterminate the pack of wild ! dogs will be the endeavor of the farmi ers at an early date, .lust as soon j as they can find time from their crops ! they Intend to form Into a squad again I , KHin< iihuvii* i imrinpi iu i 111 llir I countryside of the brants that have i i caused ho much annoyance. Rapid First Aid. [ Severance, Colo.?Records for rapid first aid were broken when David Severance was pitched from a motorcycle through the front window of a drug store. He landed at the feet of a drug clerk, who reached for the liniment bottle while Severance was ( still on the fly. i Swarm In Hotel. Chicago.?lleea swarmed I n the Monnett hotel and the guests fled. - moving to other hotels for the night > 1ho manager sent to tho country for an apiarist. BLACK DOBBIN DIZZY 1 ON A HIGH TRESTLE Falls Wedged Between the Ties, and Holds Up a Fast Passenger Train. Minneapolis, Minn.?The manner In which a big black horse from a lumber camp, on pleasure bent, tied up ! the through Canadian Northern train between Fort Francis and Duluth, vvas | ' narrated by passengers who arrived 1 ! from Duluth. Frank 1'. Sheldon of I Minenapolis, who has banking and ! lllinlmr Intarncla ? % ? vevo 111 1IUI tlirill a* I 111 IIC* Rota. returning from International Falls, was of the rescue pr.rtv. Sunday off had made black l>obbin festive. As the moon rose he sauntered out of camp and went eastward along the ties. The Kiumont trestle j did not daunt his high spirits. He picked his way out. over the ties fifty or sixty feet, when, chancing to look down, he realized he was high above the ground. He grew dizzy, made a fulse step ; \ and fell wedged between the ties. , The wise old lumber horse did not Waited for Friend Man. struggle. He merely waited for friend man, and that he did not misplace his confidence was soon demon- ; st rated. 1 Engineer Ainsel lloeft was making up lost time out of Fort Krmnls hut I 1 n 1,600 pound horse* on a trestle in the moonlight was not to be over- ' looked. He stopped the train. Couduc- ' tor J. It. Gamble of Virginia lias had some horse experience and possesses some horse sense. With train crew and late smokers j among the passengers he was soon ' plunking over the trestle out to the j black horse. A small electric light | ! pole from the pile by the side of the ( track soon was called into play. Dobbin looked up confidingly, but I'M Rusha. head brakenian, took 110 ; chances. He promptly eat on the 1 horse's head Jack Rogers, roar . brake man, grasped the animal's tail: \ tli? fat man from the smoker who had enjoyed a hearty meal grasped the j electric light pole; the disgusted col- 1 ored porter patted the black horse re assurlngly. Others lent a hand, and, J prying and pulling, soon had the horse 011 his feet again. Quietly he j allowed himself to be led back over , the improvised hoard walk and in deep thought watched the train from , the roadside as it steamed out, forty minutes late, for Duluth. WINS RACE WITH BEE SWARM Colorado Man and Daughter Made Seriously III From Stings During Mad Ride. Denver, t'olo.?Only by turning on ill the power of her touring car were Miss Edith Welker, twenty-one, and her father, Edward Welker, able to scape a swarm of bees from Longinont to Denver the other day. They distanced the bees in a mad ride, but not until both had been stung 1 hundred or more times on their faces 1 and hands. They were seriously ill for several days. "We ran into the bees near La fay,?tte," said Mr. Welker. "My daughter was driving The top of our machine was up and the windshield was down, uid the motion of the car sucked the b'? * right into the body. "We tried to beat them away with a blanket, hut that did not help much. Me daughter stopped the car when wo tirst noticed the bees, but when we saw that we could not got rid of them I r>he turned on all the power and drove is fast as she could We eventually distanced tlieni." CIRCLED BY WHITE HOT STEEL Workman Then Keeps Tortured Body Stationary as Metal Burns Hole Through Leg. Burlington. N. J.?His clothes cut troni his body, when a broken coil of .1 huge spring, white hot from the tempering furnace, circled his form at the Riverside Steel Spring works, lames Waller had a narrow escape from death the ether day. His presence of mind and fortitude saved him. for. recognizing his danger, he kept his tortured body stationary in the middle of the glowing coils until fellow workmen cut the steel and released him. One end of tho spring seared a hole .hrough the tone and flesh of one leg the knee. WHENEVER YOU NEEI A GENERAL! 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"Not very well while you are sit- 1 ting on it." BEST REMEDIES FOR SORES AND ULCERS Mr. C. A. Butler, of Salem, Va? ! writes: "I can safely say that Han- ' :ock's Sulphur Compound is the best J remedy I ever used for sores. One of j my little boys, eight years old. had a solid sore all over his face, we tried ; . Jifferent kinds of medicine, but none seemed to do any good. Our son, I nineteen years old, had a sore on his J leg tor tnree months and nothing did tjini good. Wo used Hancock's Sulphur Compound on both and it did its work quickly and it was not over a week until both were well." Hancock's Sulphur Compound is sold by all dealers. Hancock Liquid Sulphur Co.. Baltimore, Md.?Adv. American View. ! "So you don't approve of those l.onion EufTragettes?" "I don't know much about them." ! replied Miss Cayenne, "but 1 can't lielp feeling that a woman who can't subdue a few men without the use :jf dynamite is something of a failure." Japanese Courtesy. A country where courtesy is a business. and business but a gentle avocation. reflects its peculiarity in the most trilling details of conduct. Such a country is Japan and such a detail recently came into notice when a cltv | electric bureau of Tokyo asked the patrons on its street car lines how they preferred to be addressed when It v.-a8 necessary to urge thetn to , "move up." Out of the 2,710 sugges- | tions sent in the Independent selects i and translates six. as follows: "Those not getting off, to the mid- ' die, please!" "The middle is more comfortable!" j "I'm sorry, but all move on by one ! strap!" "There's a nrettv jrirl nhmit : middle of the car!" "A pickpocket has just come 011 1 board!" The municipal authorities frowned j somewhat upon the last three sugges- i tions, hut the conductors will be j taught to use some of the other forms 1 Is it possible that the Japanese hope ! to enjoy an efficient traction service on such terms? 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