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..............?......... I 5 A COMMON LAN6UA6E I By F. H. MASON. 2 a "For goodness sakeal If that old 'Mexican cow ain't been and gone and et my glory-de-John rose." I looked up from my gardening and aaw my next door neighbor?usually the moBt aimiable of women?literally nun muiguauuu, uu uer iruut 1 porch, while a cow was on the grass plot below, contentedly munching the last of tho Gloire de Dijon. Mrs. Farleigh took a pot containing u small, withered palm from the porch rail, heaved it at the cow, and exclaimed : "Drat the beast!" The pot broke Innocently some way from the cow, and the animal went over to it and examined the palm. It was too dry for her taste, however. She evidently preferred sweet, succulent rose bushes. "Shoo!" Mrs. Farleigh followed the exclamation down the steps, shaking her apron vigorously as she went. The cow walked leisurely a-way, notwithstanding the piecee of broken flower r pot that my neighbor Bent after it. "Ain't that the limit?" 1 had Intended to keep out of the controversy, and had busied myself behind a hakea, but a hakea forms a poor shelter, and this last remark was evidently intended for me. "It's hard," I replied sympathetically. Of course 1 said Just the wrong thing. Anything 1 might have replied would have been wrong to one in Mrs. Farleigh's mood. "Hard! Hard!" she shouted in disgust. "I wasn't thinking of the cow's digestion. It's my glory-de-John rose that worries me. I've tended it all winter, like a mother, and it was just coming into bloom. Them Mexicans have no right to keep cows in a respectable neighborhood." The Mexican was a bete noir to the neighbors. He had arrived recently, and bought four lots. On these he was keeping half a dozen cows, and running a small dairy farm. He seemed to be circumventing the city ordinance, which prohibited one person keeping more than one cow, by die tributlng the ownership of the animals among his children. The bad feature about the affair was that the family were casual about letting the cows roam off the premises. They had owned a large ranch in Mexico, before the revolution, and did not understand " '?teetag confined to four city lots. "It's too bad. Why don't you go over and see them about it?" I suggested mischievously, for I knew the Mexicans understood little or no English. "I will," Mrs. Farleigh said decidedly. "I have juet cause for complaint." "You surely have," 1 agreed. "It's the proper thing to do." Mr6. Farleigh trotted across the street, her anger rising as she went, and pushed the button beside the Mexican's front door. 1 was bad enough to take up a point of vantage behind a large leptospertv>tim e* ^^ 1 * * iu v, utLii uit: uunetujue, IOr 1 imagined my neighbor had not the Spanish. The Mexican woman appeared, and my neighbor started the attack. "Your old cow has been and et my glory-deJohn rose," Mrs. Farleigh shouted. "Gloria de Juan, eenora!" the Mexican woman, exclaimed, in surprise. Juan was her eldest son. "De waun seniora nothing. Your cow. cow, cow," each time she spoke the word. Mrs. Farleigh pointed a linger viciously at the offending animal, which was contentedly ruminating over the flavor of rose bushes near by. "your cow has been et iny glory-deJohn rose." The Mexican woman was clearly puzzled. "I^a vaca gloria de Juan! No, no. Ordena la vaca." "Can't vim savvv Eiirlish''' Mm Farleigh asked indignantly. "No hablo ingles." "You have no English, eh?" Mrs. Farletgh resorted to pigeon English. Tapping the Mexicaji woman on tho chest with a linger, Mrs. Farleigh demanded: "You no savvy?" "No sabo." "For the land's sake. And I've been and left my housework to come over here and give you a bit of my mind." The humor of the situation dawned on Mrs. Farleigh. She placed her hands on her hips, and, with arms akimbo, laughed uproariously. The Mexican woman stared in astonishment; then she caught the infection, and joined in the laugh. There, on the Mexican's porch, the two women stood, each seeming to try to outdo the other in her hil&riousness. After a time, they became week-kneed from the effort, and sat on the top step and continued to laugh, wiping the tears that ran down their cheeks with the corners of their aprons. They had found a common language. Snhsrr{hn r% Tho MhronJolo A I I THE UNDERSTANDING 1 '? I J By BLANCHE Q. ROBBIN8. J t The room was strangely familiar to e her, yet she knew she had never j t fore seen even the her as singularly "3 grate Bbe could see the dark green I Xsy* walls, hung with I l^^Tn /t?5? pictures done in 0 > I < sepia and dull A ] gray tones. )| J ( The bookcases ' ^ were filled with bodies, richly bound, j She was struck with the simplicity of the furnishings. Suddenly the fire flickered into life, | and the picture banging over the fire- j ] place caught her attention. It was ob- J ] viously a snapshot, enlarged but ex- < quisltely finished. It was a picture of a woman, her j motherhood stamped distinctly on her : beautiful face. She sat before an open | fire, the firelight radiating the laugh- . t ter in her eyes. | 1 At her knee stood a small boy, his j < bright eyes revealing the love of his , own little soul as he smiled respons- j ively. Suddenly she roused herself; stve had been dreaming. She was not pre- 1 paring an answer for the man waiting ' outside in the darkness. Denny Drown had asked her to marry him and she had promised her answer to- j night. j They had been running swiftly, i ( smoothly through the exhilarating air of the suburbs in Denny's car. Suddenly something had gone wrong. It had happened at the very moment when she should have been answering ! 1 Denny. ] He had brought her to this bunga- I ? low, asking permission for her to j ' wait there. ] He had telephoned to a neighboring i i garage for a man. They were now re-1 ' pairing the machine. In a few mo i ments he would return for her. How strongly at this monent all Denny could give her appealed to her! She was so tired?so nervously tired of her own life. Rut the other man! Somehow Denny , hacj guessed that the other man had 1 been something to her. For tonight he had told her, quietly, that the other ; man had failed again. Unconsciously, she had been waiting for "the other 1 man" to win success. A man's step sounded on the veranda?Denny had come for her and her answer was not ready. She heard the i , click of the telephone receiver in the , hall. A man's voice?not Denny's? j called Woodstock, N. H., on the longdistance. j , It was Phil Rerkley?the other man! J . She was wafting in his bungalow?to- j night of all nights, but she had to listen. "Hello, that you Mater?** "Oh, I'm?I'm all right. "Yes?a bit blue tonight, how did , you know?" "I hate to tell you, mamsy; but lt'8 j another failure." "No, I'm going to try again. Third time's trying, you know." "You're bo comforting, Mamsy, yes I'll succeed?some day." \ " " 1 "I wouldn't care so much if it s weren't for you and?that little girl." ] " t "Yes, she's waiting for me." < "Yes, there's Just the understanding j between us. Yet I trust her to wait. I Rometimen I think I must have ! drenmerl It nil " "Pood-night, dearest?" < ?? t Tn a moment the man would ring ' off. She must either hide or run. By ' the light of the flame she saw a door i leading from the room to the ve- ' randa. ' Rising quickly, she Btepped aoftly 1 across the room and out onto the veranda. Stumbling over the low steps, she ran breathlessly across the damp lawn toward the lights shining dimly In the road. f Pausing within the shelter of the f shrubbery, she called softly. "Penny!" 4 The man left the machine and came quickly to the lawn. "I>enny, won't yoti take me home now? Send the man with the ear to i the garage. I want to go now." c "What?" he asked perplexedly. 1 "Tired of waiting, Itcth? It won't be f ? nore than twenty minutes. It's too ar to walk. There's no other way but he trolley, and that's r?o crowded." "YeB, yes; that's what I want," she ntemipted; "the trolley?the crowds ?the lights." "But, Beth, we want to be alone toilght, dear; just you and 1?your aniwer?you promised me your answer onight," "Hush, Denny! I ought to have old you. I can't marry you. I'm malting for the other man. I've promBed No; it's not an engagement. ["here's?there's?Just an understandng." Copyright. 1914, by the McClure Newipftper Syndicate..) The Tapestry Mode. The Millionaire (declining to pur:hase post-impression creation)? Voth'n' dofrn'! Why, my maiden 1'nt cud d&rra a better picture ' that.?Punch. Danger of Too Much Talk. Don't talk too much. Just after you lave talked a man into buying, if you teep on talking you will talk him out )f buying.?Atchison Glebe. Defined. A literary genius is one whom na? :ure' lets in on the ground floor, and ivhom the publishers force to live in m attic. Costly English Port. More than $100,000,000 has been spent In bringing and keeping the port )f Liverpool up to date. At the Top and Bottom. Of all the people in Europe the rYench have the fewest children and he Irish the most. Motive Power In Norway. The greatest single factor In the possible industrial development of Norway lies undoubtedly in its cheap ind abundant hydroelectric power. The country having practically no coal resources, the Norwegian industries ire coming to depend more and more jpon the utilization of waterfalls as a primary motive power source. Double Work. "Why is it that a man won't wash his face with a washcloth?" demanded Mrs. Wombat. "Men haven't time for all that foolishness," said Mr. Wombat. "First you have to wash your face ancl then you have to wash the washcloth."?LoulsvTTTe - - Ceurier-J.QHR Q&L. Lost Opportunity. First Jew?"Dwenty years ago GoldBtein scld shoestrings on the corner und today he owns the corner on which he stood." Second Jew (excitedly)?"I'nd if he had valked up und down he mieht havo r?u-n whole block."?Life. Soldier's Most Trying Position. The average soldier finds the most terrifying position to be that of standing motionless in the front rank, exposed to the enemy's fire without being able to reply. The order to advance or to charge with fixed bayonets is then received as a release from agony. Movement, even into greater peril, distracts the mind and greatly reduces the mental anguish. Nn Chanr#? fof WIm A dealer selling cloth in a small '.own asked an Irishman who was passing if he would buy a suit length, tnd added: "You can have It for ten bob." To which Pat replied: "Hegob, sir. If tuppence would buy the makings t)f a topcoat for an elephant 1 couldn't Duy the makings of a pair of leggings 'or a canary this minute." Shrewd Elopement Trick. The newest elopement trick was recently worked in Switzerland, where the (tarents of the couple went on a trip to the top of a mountatu. While they were there the couple got a bobsled, coasted down the mountainside tnd were away on an express before Lhe parents could get down the mountain on the railway. Too Much for Him. A colored porter for a local druggist vas told to go to another pharmacy to tet some cimcifugo rasiemoses. He .tood. open-mouthed, and gazed at his 'boss," then asked: "Ain't thar any >ther name for dat?" Loses Its Charm. It's difficult for a newly married nan to generate much enthusiasm )ver his bride's beautiful hair after te has seen her pile it on the bureau or the aigbt. ? ! Agreement Reached' * in Mexican I'rlsls. j Mexico City, August 5.?Provisional President Carbajal and Gen. Venustiano Carranza, head of the Constitutionalist movement, today reached a full agreement concerning the turning over of the Government to the Constitutionalists. It is expected a general amnesty will be declared soon. Hos- I tilities were suspended today. All Europe is In Arms. On the one hand Austri-Hungary and Germany are opposed by Russia. France, GTeat BritaiiJ, Servia, and Montenegro. Italy has declared her neutrality, but is mobolizing. Belgium, Holland and Switzerland have mobolized. The German demand that the eBl pian govertnment should. ennit the free passage of German troops through Belgium was answered by hasty preparation to resist such an advance across Belgian territory. Sweeden has made no answer to inquiries from R~|ssia and Germany regarding her attitude, but is prearing to defend her neutrality. Japan is making ready to live up to her alliance with Great Britain in case of certain eventualities. Spain is reported to be preparing a proclamation of neutrality. Austria-Hungary for the moment has retired from her campaign against Servia for thp purpose of 'holding back Russia, and Servia has mobolized with the reported intention of invading Bosnia. Latest News from the Front. Brussels, via I'aris. August 6?1.38 111.?of > trriti iiiousanu Head and wounded is Ihe toll paid by the German army of the Mouse for its attack on Liege. The Belgians made a heroic repulsing the Germane after heavy and continuous fighting. The fortified positions of Liege had to support on Wednesday the general shock of the German attack. The Belgian forts resisted the advance fiercely and did not suffer. One Belgian squadron attache dand drove back six German squadrons. Eight hundred wounded Germans are being transferred to the city of Liege where they will be cared for. Prior to the attack on Liege Gen. Von Emmich, commanding the German army of the Meuse, issued a proclamation calling for an open road through Belgium for the advance of his forces, and suggesting that prudence would show it the duty of the "Tretm m wnnlii tr> arrpde to this to avoid the horrors of war. '' " The Germans committed repressions against the civil population of the town of Vise, eight miles north of Liege, burning the city and shooting many residents. Odd-Looking Shark's Egg. A Bhark's egg is one of the oddest looking things Imaginable. It is unprovided with shell, but the contents are protected by a thick, leathery covering, almost as elastic as India rubber. The average size is i! b7 2^ Inches, and It is almost Jet black. Quite Right. Teacher of Botany in Girls' School ?"Now for a. little review. What can you tell me, Mis& Smith, of the longevity of bacteria?" Miss Smith?"I? I don't remember exactly, but 1 think they are ionger than they are wide." Wise Johnny Smith. nioiuer, you Know me wa? me and Johnny Smith play I'm Indiana aa' he's soldiers?" "Yes, dear; what of It?" "Well, If I don't let him lick me every time we play, he 6ays 1 aren t ia*r<ntl? " fVntlirV Dog Had Appetite for Chicken. A chicken-stealing dog. in the Dumbarton (Scotland) district, recently occasioned some anxiety to a number of hen keepers. On a thorough search being made a number of fowls were recovered buried in a field. Some fowls were eaten, and those not required for immediate use were hidden. It was discovered that the cause of the trouble was a large black Dabra dor dog, which has been roaming the district at will for several weeks. Explanation of Potlatch. 1 Ths word potlatch is a corruption | of an Indian word common among the i Pacific coast tribes, meaning festival of gifts. At a patshatl (pot ...vui lcicuisuuu mo more personal property an Indian gives away, blagfe*' kets, ornaments, etc., the higher 'be stands in the estimation of his Aelghbors. and the more he expects to receive in return at the next, potlatch. The festival is also accompanied by music, dancing und feasting. Wanted every automobile owner in Cheraw, Cole Hill and Steerpen townships to show his love for "Good Roads" by sending Frank King, County* Supervisor, FIVE DOLLARS as his free-will offering to the National Cap to Cap Juniper Valley Highwnay. I>o it now, for five dollars worth of labor and clay looks like a mountain to the eople Who are trying to build this route. Summer Coughs Are Dangerous Summer colds are dangerous. They ....vw >v>r> Miauiy uua uuen lead to Berious Throat and Lung Trouble?, including Consumption. Dr. King's New Discovery will relieve the cough or cold promptly and prevent complications. It is soothing and antiseptic and makes you feel better at once . To delay is dangerous?get a bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery r>0c. and $1.00 bottles at your Drugr?0c. and ll.OObottles at your Druggist. thAK rtR XIV. Journey's End. Harrlgan dined alone. He was la disgrace; he was sore, mentally as i well as physically; and he ate his dinner without P?lioh I" ' . W..WM, 1U DUJI^IO U UtUl* ence to those well-regulated period* of hunger that assailed him three times a day, in spring, summer, autumn and winter. By the time the waiter had cleared away the dishes, Harrigan had a perfecto between his teeth (along with a certain matrimonial bit), and smoked as if he had wagered to finish the cigar In half the usual stretch. He then began to walk the floor, much after the fashion of a man who has the toothache, or the earache, which would be more to the point. To his direct mind no diplomacy was needed; all that was necessary was & few blunt questions. Nora could answer them as she chose. 'Nora, his baby, his little girl that used ^^k to run around barefooted and laugh | when he applied the needed birc^^^|H| How children grew up! And never grew too old for the birch I certainly never They heard him from the room; tramp, tramp, tramp. "Let him be, Nora," said gaa. wisely. is in a something. And your the easiest man to appros^^^^^^^^^^^^H he Mr. believed he some doing there believe you are am always only because I can was such your .1. Phones fi c j-J |HHH rM 1 M