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WOMAN OF HONOR By MAY ENDICOTT. "My wiffe." said John Andrews to bis stenographer, "is a good woman, and it would break her heart to realize what I have long since realized? that we were never meant for each other." Esther Sinclair made no reply, but bent over her notes. Only the heightened color in her face revealed her emotion. She did not like to hear her employer speak slightingly of the pretty, simple little woman who had once come into his office, spoken kindly to her, and chattered in her irresponsible way until it was time for her husband to take her homo. Yet, after all, Esther had long ago realized that there could be little in common between her and Andrews, whose forceful personality demanded that sympathetic understanding which it was not Mildred Andrew's to give. They two had been associated together in Andrew's work for nearly alx months. She had liked him in I. ~ ? ? -1-- A puard. lest by a chance word, even ft look, she should betray herself. And so the days passed. It happened at last, though. The struggle was an intense one. She had not realized how it had depleted her of her strength. She had fought, fought, in the hope of being able to retain her position there, and the inevitable reaction came. Rising to go home one evening, she suddenly fell to the floor in a dead faint created by atter nervous exhaustion. And when consciousness came back to her she found herself seated in a ohair and Andrews bending over her, and his lips were pressed to hers, and his hands clasped hers tightly; and she, too weak to resist, lay there passively in his arms. At last she gathered strength to rise. She stood up; she looked at him and he at her. Both realized the tragic nature of the passion that had come into their lives. Neither spoke, for there was nothing to say. "Qoodnlght, Mr. Andrews," she said at last, moving with an effort toward the door. He bowed his head and she went home. Not to rest, though. All night she lav in a fever, and in the morn tag she was flushed and delirious, and for many days thereafter unconscious of realities. Andrews had left flowers for her every day, and once, after she began to mend, little Mrs. Andrews called on her and spoke of how much her husband valued her and of the gAp that her illness had created in his work When tho little woman had gone Bather vowed that the past should be forgotten. wa8 not to be- A letter - diijo from Andrews, full of passionate love. He must seo her, he said. Life without her had become unbearable. Their lives must lie together; and If she tried to escape him he would follow her to the ends of the earth, If necessary, to And her and claim her. Esther road the letter thoughtfully, and once again the memory of her Pfc love for hlro was strong within her. uuvtiivi/ iuu UIUUIC111 BIIU BUI UyUH on him, and be had singled her out from among a host of applicants, apparently without a moment's hesitation. He trusted in her completely in her share of the difficult work which he performed as secretary to the chemical company. But her woman's instinct had surely told her, during recent weeks, that something more than esteem was growing up between them. This was the first occasion on which Andrews had ever hinted at domestic unhappinesB. She knew tlje depth and intensity of his nature. She went home to pass an almost sleepless night. Sho reviewed all her past. She was already thirty years of age; no love worthy of the name had ever come into her life. And she could not hide from herself thu knowledge that Andrews and she were made for one another. She could give him Buch [She Tore Andrew'# Letter Into Fragments. devotion as was his need. If onco she tot herself dwell upon the image of him that was enshrined In her heart. She fought ugainHt this awakening love. Dav after dav found her on her * i i . ?She knew that she loved him, spite o. dishonor. It was not the opixilbn ol the world for which Bhe cared. Bui there rose up before her eyes the picture of innocent, pretty, pathetic little Mrs. Andrews. She could not provo a traitress to that little woman, whose whole life was wranDed around the man she loved. She tore Andrew's letter into fragments and sat down to compose her answer. In it she said that they must never meet again. She acknowledged her own love for him, but?but? She could not finish that letter. She tore it in pieces also. Then a wild idea came into her head, born, perhaps, of the delirium through which she had passed. She took her pen again and wrote him as effusive, foolish letter Buch as must, she knew, disgust a man of Andrews's depth of feeling. It ran like this: "Dear friend of mine, "Your letter is no surprise to me, I, too, love you. O, the sacredness and mystery of such sublime love as ours! I have been waiting ever since I saw you for you to tell me that you were not indifferent to me. You are the moat wonderful man in the world to me, you are my god, with your tall, straight figure and magnificent eyes. And your hair curls In JuBt the way that I have always liked a man's hair to curl. Now that I know you love me my heart beats so fast It makes me dizzy. I am looking forward a thousand times a day to our next meeting, when you can kiss me again like you did that time and tell me that I am whollj* yours for ever." No one could imagine what it cost Esther In Holf-resnept tn o.-rit? thnt letter. And when It was written she sent the landlady's daughter out to mail it, lest she should be compelled to recall it. It was the memory of little Mrs. Andrews that enabled her to accomplish her task. And when she had finished a great peace came into her heart. She knew now that it was irreparable, that never again need she see Andrews, that he would seek, and perhups find in his wife's love those qualities which he had discovered in her. On the following evening a letter was received by her in answer. In It Andrews said briefly that he was sailing for Europe with his wife, upon a three months' holiday. He enclosed her a check for her salary during that period and regretted thnt there would be no further need for her services. Esther tore up the check as she destroyed Andrews's letter. Then she sent out for a newspaper and studied the advertisements for female help wanted. (Copyright, 1913, by W. O. Chapman.) DAY OF THE BUTLER PASSING /arrogance, insolence and Ignorance Arc the Causes an Englishman Gives. Mrs. Goliglitly rejoices In her butler and "second iuslde man." She wishes to run her household on the English plan, or she remembers Mrs. Edith Wharton's earlier stories in which n butler always figures, also a bishep. But we learn from England, writes Philip liale in the Boston Herald, that the reign of the butler is passing. A rash Journalist ascribed his undoing to his arrogance, Insolence and ignorance. W. Holdaway, who describes himself as a butler, answers In a gallant manner. "Dealing with illogical women does not conduce to a compatibility of temper or efficiency. A lot of money Is wasted on finery, while a request for the house, such as cleariing utensils, is greeted with black looks and 'Why do they wear out?' " And Mr. Holdaway remarks that if the old type of butler has deteriorated so lias the old type of gentry. Domestic service is not worth the candle; the navy is to be preferred. "As for gambling and drinking below stairs, upstairs sets the example." Is it possible that tho old family, crusted, gouty butler in England is passing? In the old fashioned plays hq was delightod with his "I have known master, forty years, man and boy," etc.; and there are fine butlers in fiction. One of the best is the father of Ethelberta in Thomas Hardy's romance, who is proud of hia daughter's literary fame and enjoys the discussion about her while ho stands near the dining table. Then there is tho butler in "Our Mutual Friend," who pours out the wine with the air of a disapproving analytical chemist. Wo do not see how any American who in his boyhood saw ail at table helping themselves, spearing a potato or n doughnut with a fork, or asking a neighbor to hurry up and pass the butter, can view his butler or his valet without a quavering voice and a trembling of the knees. Octave Mirbeau's "Journnl d une femme do charabre" is widely known. We should like to read the memoirs of a butler in an "exclusive" American house hold. Can Get Along Without Eggs. If It were not for the widespread belief that eggs cannot be dispensed with ns an article of diet, we should never have heard of the 700,000 members ot the Housewives' league engaging in "a 30-cent egg war." But the belief is not altogether well founded. Eggs are highly useful, beneficial, nutritious, but not indispensable. But eggs are popular because they are easily prepared. It is less work and It takes less time to boil an egg than to broil a steak for breakfast. In that simple fact may lie an explanation of the great demand for eggs and of the ensuing excitement when prices rise. ^ / . > THE FORT MILL TIMES, FORT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA folic AKnnt Dnrtnnf lA/nrl rlinn ot tka tt/Kifa Uniion I viiv nuuui I Ivuull L VlUUUIIiy CI I |IIC VVIIItO IIUUOU WASHINGTON.'?A Btory of how the "CousinB club," as the many relatives of tho President and Mrs. Wilson are beginning to call themselves, or! ganlzed into a little reception committee and did their best to make the diplo mats "feel at home" at the wedding At the White JcOUSirtS CLUB I House the other day. was told by Mrs. George * Howe of New York, one of the cousins. 'ft^^ Mrs. IIowo is the wife of Qeorge Howe, who / Sni: vjT lived for a long while with the president before be w?nt into the White House, and whoso educaM^ii?? tlon WRS superintended by the president. E jSVJFNsiS " "I was principally impressed at the wedding fby tho ease at which every one seemed to feel. If \^Kj^PI TiHl notw,tbstnnding the 'grandness' of the occasion. Co/ K 111 There was nothing solemn about it, except the Vm I A I we<*ding procession and the forming of the line ' c\\l 'or l'ie recePHon 'n *bo blue room, llri '1 If I "We kept the fun up until 9 o'clock at night. " was just like a great, big family party in the V. l_//i 1 X emit It i u'ou c rt m n U' Vtnt attrnrlooil that t Vin Hin nifled Marine band should play turkey trotting music for us to dance with in the east room, but they did, and Lieutenant S-intelmann and his musicians seemed to enjoy it as much as we did. They laughed and played on and on. "You know, Nell,' as we call Eleanor Wilson, is just crazy about dancing. f_id she is a very flue dancer, too, one of the best I ever saw. When the music had been stopped for good she waved her hand appealingly to Lieutenant Snntelmann, and he laughed and led the band again for us. "We all danced, including the bridesmaids, who were showing every one the dull geld-chased bracelets they had been given by the bride. A great many of the diplomats danced with Margaret Wilson, several of them ambasseI dors, and Bhe was greatly teased by all of us when she was lucky enough to :atch the bride's bouquet. You know, it Is a superstition that the girl who catches the bride's bouquet at a wedding will be the next one to bo married among those present. "There was a lot of simple fun like that and mlchlef. In which all the young folks joined, the older people sitting around and chatting. Just as would ue (linn? ui u parijr ui noiiie. i ne preaiuani aian i aance, oui hp sloou in one of the doorways of the east room for a long while, watching the fun and laughing and joking with every one. "Most of us had supper and dinner and lunch combined at the wedding breakfast. That kept up a long time. There wasn't wine, but we had fruit punch Instead. Visitors Are Attracted . by Squirrels in Parks OMR day," said a visitor in the capitol grounds the other d ty, "the famous O pigeons of Venice which tl*ck in so great numbers around tlio Cathedral of St. Mark will have to look to their laurels. These widely known birds may divide the honors of the admiration of tourists with the little gray squirrels which are fust be- A riow ci* c/vcant) coming an Interesting and picturesque feature of ^ ' IcHahny Washington's many tine green spaces." f As far as tourists are concerned, here tn Washington. many of them are beginning to take pho- ) ') tographs of the little animals. Just as nearly every man and woman who visits Venice brings away snapshots showing some member of the jnuiy tossing orenu cruniDS or someming eise 10 <a ->w. ~e,. I the great llocks of birds, so are the tourists who stroll through the cnpltol grounds, the Smlthson- Ct lan grounds and other parks taking photographs ? of some one ctooping over and holding out a pea- "ZZL - VJEq nue to the snappy little gray animals which are fast losing their extreme timidty. - ' In his native lair the gray squirrel is about as wild as any animal alive. Hunters who depend upon a gray squirrel or two for breakfast know very well that they will run to cover at the slight sound of a snapping twig; and for that reasoa a wet day is much belter for hunting them than a dry day, as the crackling icaves scare a squirrel Into his hole in the tr?e. However, Washington's squirrels are becoming as friendly as house pets, and the sight of one of them eating from the han-5 of a tourist is a revelation to tho Virginia or Maryland mountaineer, who has to stay as quiet us a stone statue in order to get within shooting distance of one. The gray squirrels are looked upon by the park authorities! here as wards of the nation, and a comfortable sum of money is spent every winter 14 order to obtain food to keep the little pets from dying in the snows. Old weather ; shnrps look upon the squirrels as indicating the coming of a hardtvlnter tho j way they hide nuts. Just at this tirno the squirrels are showing unusual ! activity in making caches of peanuts, which is looked upon by the woodwise as a sure sign that there will be long-continued snows. j Club Formed for the Interior Department Employes FOR some months Secretary of the Interior I-ano has been working on the organization of a club for the interior department employes. He believes i that a closer association one with another of the workers of the great Interior department would redound to th<> benefit of all i fftpygfr-NevER win. >?I concerned. Secretary Lane met with a good deal ASSOCIATE /\fty ) ot opposition at first, because there are so many COty/MOfS ^ I kinds of people drawing so many kinds of salaries EMPLOYES J 'n lll's big department, and the social lines are NEW: f\ ' drawn very clojely about certain salary grades In > !a a" departments In Wnshlngtoq. You could hardly ? q SH V expect a $900 clerk to associate on terms of intlmacy In social life with a $1,200 clerk, and so ^3*Vrvi on' Swpretar>' I-ane asked one little old lady, who belongs to the Cliff Dweller class of Washington JnUr" ?or, in other words, a "befo" the war" society mKjgj woman who now works In government employ and ?j^H takes in boarders for company?if she would asslst in organizing this social club of the Interior department. Tho aristocratic old lady very snappishly informed him that she would not; that she was in the interior department for the purpose of earning money", and that she was socially superior to most of the employes. The secretary met up with a good many setbacks of this kind, but in his genial way has been able to smooth out the difference between those social sets and has rounded rtiern ipto a homogeneous body, and the Home club is now an assured fact. Nearly 1,000 men and women are already part of the membership, and it is thought that it will be fully 3,000 when the club is finally established. Felines Are Vain? Prize Winners Flee Publicity PRIZE-WINNING cats on exhibition at the show of the Washington Cat club object to having their pictures taken. Tho appearance of a newspaper photographer with his little black camera was the signal the other da, for a genera* exodus of tho high-priced felines, who are now looming the streets of the capital. fMY (2AT" The next day nearly the entire police force was ^ out MfJirtlllllR 1VM tuc nuiumia, ?>wnc jui;niv uuio s j ^ were busy treating bites and scratches on hands /*>j$LMrrn nnd arms as a result of the scramble that was /'YfT made for the cats as they gained their freedom. Several persons w^re severely bitten. ^J:xChampion 1-ady Sonla, a high-priced Persian cat owned by Mrs. F. Y. Mat his of Greenwich, Conn., Is one of the missing anlnmls. She was A\ d' * Ujja valued ut $300 and around her bushy neck was a ^T?W?I $1,000 collar of torquolse, sell and gold. Four felines were lined up In front of the camera, and as the photographer said "Hold still, now," the C f's .cats Jumped. The last seen of them was when they disappeared through the door. Miss G. Taylor or Syracuse, N. Y., was the most seriously hurt In the attempt to hold ths cats. She was bitten and scratched about the bands and arms and had to be treated at a hospital. ' - / " HoTHi White Men Rare in This South Sea Country. _ . . . * I Is Today the Same Paradise Which ; Cook Found It, When a Century and a Half Ago He Put Into Pao-Pao to Water Ships, New York.?To the average traveler Tahiti remains the lie inconuu., Tho tourist is not expected there; he is regarded with suspicion. He demands a oam-iuo?arucie undreamed or in the island philosophy?he demands a reasonable degree of promptness in the crvery-day affairs of life, he makes other and extraordinary demands. ' When "ho realizes that nothing what- i ever has been done for his amusement or edification, that to the islanders the outer world from which ho comes ex- j ists only in the imagination; when he realizes these things?as soon he does ?it is then that he learna to content | himself with things as they are, and to admire the beauties of the place as nature made?and has left?them. There are no towns upon Moorea. 1 White men are a rarity. It is today the island paradise which Cook found it when, a century and a half ago, he put into Pao-Pao to water his Bhips. j Today, also, the native lives the life ' he did then?the native?ignorant, un- ' civilized, if you please, but with a voice and manners, a gift of hospital- ' ity, which put the white man to shame. Here, more than elsewhere, he seems himself a part of that haunting beauty which surrounds him on every hand. Here, when the day is done, under the cocoanuts and the bananas, ''betwixt the sun and moon upon the shore," the traveler?if ho is fortunate enough to have the entree?sits him | down, as honored guest, among the retainers of the native chief. Mounted upon n native pony, and in the cool of the morning, he baa coursed the wil<T~ pig in the shadows of the great crater; l_l_ " ? * Summer Visitors to Tahiti, . valley. The afternoon has found him ava-fiahing in the inland lake. Now 1 the shadows are falling, the magical j afternoon mists are over the peaks which climb steeply upward before him, and the short twilight is at hand. Presently, the tropic moon will rise to take its course directly overhead, making the weird vistas about him light as day again. He hears the voices about him, prattling in the melodious Maori tongue, and. afar off, the thunder of the surf upon the distant reefs. Ha rlnana Vila ovna nnd drAnmn /v# ? tomorrow llko today, and then of still other tomorrows. He has eaten the fei?the island Lotus?and, If he dreams of home, it is as some place which?perhaps?will know him no more. THE END TO A FAMOUS SCOUT Oliver Wiggins, a Denver Pioneer, Dead at Ninety Years?Friend of Kit Carson. DenveY.?Oliver ("Old Scout") Wiggins, one of Denver's most famous early frontiersmen, died at his residence here. He was ninety years old. Wiggins came across the plains in 1838. For a number of years he was a member of Kit Carson's famous company of frontiersmen and served under Carson in the Mexican war, wliero he was wounded at the Rattle of | Monterey. His cabin was one of the first built in Denver. From 1848 to 1858 he was employed as scout, guide and hunter for the immigrant trains across the plains and his knowledge of the frontier extended through the length and breadth of the Rocky mountains. TRY GIRL OF 13 FOR MURDER A Canadian Child Accused of Beating a Playmate to Death With an Iron 8hovel. Prince Albert, Bask.?Kathleen Olka, thirteen years old, of Wakawa, charged with the murder of her nlne-t year old playmate, Julia Jennings was put on trial here. The girl is accused of killing the other child by beating her on the head with an iron shovel while they were walking together about eight miles from Wakawa last June. After tho killing Kathleen returned to her home and told her mother that her companion had left her. The following day the body of the child was found on an abandoned homestead. Diphtheria Traced to Pencils. Sufheld. Conn.?Lead pencils, distributed and colleoted each day in a school here are blamed for an epidemic of diphtheria among the pupils. . ; BUMPED HIS SELF-CONCEIT - Young Lady's Reason for Choosing || Escort Not Exactly What He Had Imagined It to Be. Mr. I Hunk (we've got to call hlra that because he's really a very decent fellow, and he'd kill us if we told , his real name) Is first tenor in a gleft club. He sings in a choir, too. Everybody likes him. The other night a bunch of young people met for a social session at & certain house in the suburbs. They ate and danced and they sang. And when it was all over the prettiest young woman there?she hadn't been escorted thither by any chosen cavalier?said: "I walk home, but it's a lonesomo walk and I'm afraid. There have been holdups in this part of town. So I choose Mr. Blank to see me safe home." On the way home Mr. Blank was considerably swelled up. The prettiest girl had chosen him from a crowd of personable bachelors, and his feelings of self-satisfaction were excusable. He couldn't resist saying: "Why did you think I was the strongest and bravest man there tonight?" "I didn't," answered the girl. "I picked you because I knew you could holler the loudest!"?Cleveland Plaindealer. THE RIGHT SOAP FOR BABY'S SKIN In the care of baby's skin and hair, Cuticura Soap la the mother's favorite. Not only is It unrivaled In purity and re'reshing fragrance, but its gentle emollient properties are usually sufficient to allay minor Irritations, remove redness, roughness and chafing, soothe sensitive conditions, and promote skin and h&lr health generally. Assisted by Cuticura Ointment, it is most valuable In the treatment of eczemas, rashes and Itching, burning infantile eruptions. ^Cuticura Soap wears to a wafer, often outlasting several cakes of ordinary soap and making its use most economical. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address postcard "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston."?Adv. Tea From Coffee Leaves. "Tea, as everybody knows, is made from leaves, while coffee is derived from berries or beans. Just here is where something has been overlooked, in the opinion of a scientific investigator. The loaves of the coffee plant are not only available for making a beverage, but they possess properties which make them more valuable than the coffee bcaiiH. In appearance and fragrance the dried coffee leaves very much resemble those of the tea plant. An infusion of them being made, Just as in the case of ordinary tea, an aromatic beverage is produced that is blLter to the taste, but not disagreeably so, and which contains almost as much thelne as real tea, while thefe is a much smaller proportion of tannin. It may yet be possible to grow tea and coffee 011 the same plant. COLDS & LaGRIPPE 5 or 6 doses 666 will break any case of Chills & Fever, Colds & I^aGrlppe; it acts on the liver better than Calomel and does not gripo or sicken. Price 25c.?Adv. Something Lacking. Mrs. Murphy labored In the hot sun over her washtubs 0iile Mr. Murphy ; sat on the woodpile and Razed into space. His inactivity finally became I more than Mrs. Murphy could bear? at least, in silence. "Why don't you climb down ofTn that woodpile and help me with these clothes?" she inquired in no gentle tone. - Mr. Murphy slowly shifted his gaze and directed it upon his laboring spouse. "Why, Mary Ann, can't you see I'm busy?" he drawled. "Busy?" snapped Mrs. Murphy. "What doin'?" "Why, I'm thinkin", Mary Ann." "Thinkin'?" she repeated. "With what?" j For any cut use Hanford'a Balsam. Adv. Heading Him Off. " "Heaven lies about us in our infancy.' Now?" "So does our father. Were you going to tell me something smart that your little boy had said'" "All I have to say to you, sir, is ! eood-dav!" I Mrs. Wlnslow'n Soothing Syrup for Childra , (eethlnK, miftrna tbe (pimsi, mluceH ioHnmnw tlon.allayn palu,cures wind colic,36c a bottlejft Suits Him, All Right. Mrs. Enright ? She says small checks will be in fashion for new fall suits. Mr. Enright?Thank heaven!?Puck. For sore feet rub on Hanford's Balsam. Adv. The Reason. "Mabel is always in a pet." 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