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A* : THE THREE RUNAWAYS I By CARRIE LCUISA SHAW. I Covertly pulling back the window 6hade. Mrs. Carson watched Lila pass out of the gate and down the street, swinging her books. She could not deny herself what might be a last glimpse of the little blue checked ligure. 3IowI> she turned and walked to a desa that stood in the room. It was the one at which she sat each morning to write the household accounts. Today it. seemed to her the property of another. Every inanimate thing appeared to stand coldly aloof. Sho sat down and wrote, her hand trembling slightly: Jim Dear: rrk?A <a o crrojit Ipntrth of time, but i'. had been long enough to convince me hat I am a failure. The children will never accept a blundering old maid as their mother. That is why I uin leaving today for the West. Oh. if 1 could only have made them care for me?that was my greatest dream. I love them more than you can Imagine, but they will be happier without me. I have looked truth s juarely In the face fmd I know they want no substitute for that real mot tier, poor little things. After yoti have considered all things very carefully, you will see my viewpoint and realize that I have acted wisely. She folded the note, and addressed It to her husband. Three months of the only real happiness she had ever known, and her stronger self said this must be the end. It would be hard to leave them all, and the white, clean little house; but the futility of staying had come to her quite suddenly that morning. Lila?!.en, dark eyed, and reserved ?had prefaced a request with "mother." To Mrs. Carson "mamma" had somehow always seemed a sweeter, more intimate term. "Don't you think the word 'mother' a bit formal, dear?" she had ventured, with tact-beating heart. ) Lila looked up quickly. "Ill call you Mrs. Carson, then," she announced briefly. "It'a no use?no use!" a voice In her mini kept crying. "They may oven come to dislike you." There were two others?Fred, seven, and Alice, the baby. She k.ssed the baby, but shyness withheld her from caressing the two Impregnable little strangers who very plainly did not wish to be caressed. All her patient life she had longed for domesticity and little ones, but for years perverse necessity had kept her in the sohoolhouse of a middle West town. Some time after the sister's wedding she met Jim Carson, a widower, | ^ and after a brief but sincere wooing | ? h6 brought her East as his bride?a girl no longer, but full of the innocence aEd illusions of youth. The train she must take left at two. She plslf 2d the note in the center or the round table, and entered the bedroom?her bedroom and Jim's. Carefully she took her clothes from the closet and piled them on the bed. They were new, neat things that were her trousseau. In opening the top bureau drawer, a small package and a sealed envelope met her gaze. Both were addressed la very round, precise letters to "Mrs. Margaret. Carson." The writing was vaguely familiar. She tore open the letter first. It rfead: Pv' X V. Dear Mrs. Carson: I take my pen In hand to tell you that I am going to run away today. If my brother. Frederick Carson, will go. I will ! take him, too. You can keep the baby because you love her, I know you do be- j cause you kiss her and call her my little darling. Here Is your berthday presunt. I sowed on It every day after school so X could get it done by May I2th (twelfth), but it is not done yet. If you will kindly 1 Imbroldery the big green leef It will be j Cone. I a/n sorry you did not like for me j to call you mother. Ll'la Carson. P. 8.?I know you won't care because you don't love me. You never kissed me good-night In your life. "Mrs. Margaret Carson" drew a long breath, then almost reverently untied : the package. A largu cnshion-top, embroidered in ; bright red and green, unrolled to view. There must have been hundreds and hundreds of the crude little stitches, and the goods had puckered woefully; but to the recipient it was a glorious thing. And then, because she was a woman, ehe cried. Soon small feet came pattering through the house, and in a minute i Fred stood in the doorway. "K'n I have a doughnut?" he asked. "Ye?, dear, yes. Did your sister : come heme with you?" she queried I - eageriy. "Yes'ni. She's out in the woodshed. She wants me to run away with her, but I won't," said Fred vir- j tuously. "Don't tell her I told." In the woodshed she found her hiding behind a box. A bit of the blue checked dress had betrayed her. Silently the little mother raised and folded her In her crms. She kissed the flushed face several times. "My dear, dear little girl, you will not run r.way from mother now. Won't jou believe I love you?" The tone carried conviction. Llla glanced up shyly. "I thought sure you didn't And then you said you?you thought I was too tamlilar, or something, because I called you mother." The mother gave a wabbly little laugh. "I said formal, dear; but that only tneant I would rather be called mam* rjna. I like it better. Now I am going to give my babies their lunch," she paused, "after I have torn up a very foolish letter I wrote today." , (Copyright.) j % v * Nervous? # Mrs. Walter Vincent 0& %\ of Pleasant Hill, N. C., RJ writes: "For three sum- ? jg V mers I suffered from ?l nervousness, dreadful l@ pains in my back and (0\| sides, and weak sinking [(g) SjJ spells. Three bottles of wg Cardui, the woman's Ipjjs [ tonic, relieved me entireyr ly. I feel like another j (g)l person, now." [(g) TAKE 4^ ?1 A I..! %\ i WW s ^ The Woman's Tonic ^1 for over 50 years, | Cardui has been helping pv ! @)J to relieve women's un- |? S\J necessary pains and d?l building weak women up l^g) to health and strength. It will do the same for; j ?| you, if given a fair trial.' ; So, don't wait, but begin 4S ! taking Cardui today, for |@ yj its use cannot harm you, wjTt and should surely do you ill w. M | Without Casting Any Reflection. Young Mayor Hunt of Cincinnati said the other day of a notorious political boss: "They who call this fellow honest have to stretch the truth a little. They have to stretch like the old colored farmer of Paint Rock. "This old farmer said to a young chap: " 'Look heah, Calhoun, Ah don' min yore co'tin' mah gal Lillian, but Ah'd ruther you wouldn' come round mah house no mo'. " 'Time fo' de las' wot you' wuz heah, Calhoun, Ah missed s watahbucket, and de las' time de brulle wuz gone, and now, as Ah has use fo' de saddle, Ah'd ruther yo' wouldn' come round no mo'. 'Ah don' say you hain't honest, fo' Ah believes yo' is; but sich cu'iss things happens while you's in de neighborhood; so, jes' ter please an ole man, wot ain't enj-yin de best er health, please .don't come aronn' (lis house no mo'.' "?-Y<?/c Orleans Stale*. Mother of Eiqhteen Children. "I am the mother of eighteen children and have the praise of doing more work than any young woman in my town." writes Mrs C J Martin, Boone Mill, Va. "I suffered for five years with stomach trouble and could not eat as much as a biscuit without suffering. I have taken three bottles of Chamberlain's Tablets and am now a well woman and weigh 168 pounds. I can eat anything I want to, and as much as I want and feel better than I have at any time in ten years. I refer to any one in Boone Mill or vicinity and they will vouch for what I say." Chamberlain's Tablets are for sale by all dealers. O*-*" r\UI* PUft rxf TaIor\cs I Btaic vt vmu, v 11? i Lucas County, \ saFrank J. Cheney makes oath that he Is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing: business In the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HALL'S CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1SSS. (Seal) A. W. GLEASON. Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken InternaMy and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY A CO.. Toledo. O. Sold by all Drugrffists. 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Estate Notice. The creditors of the estate of Annie H Kennedy, deceased, are hereby noticed to render to the undersigned at Kingstree, S C, or to LeRoy Lee, her attorney, at Kingstree, S C, an account of their demands,duly attested, and all persons indebted to said estate are notified to make payment to the undersigned. Lyde N Kennedy, Kingstree, S C, Administratrix. September 10, 1914. 9-10-3t Registration Notice. The office of the Supervisor of Registration will he open on the 1st Monday in each month for the purpose ol registering any person who is qualified as follows: Who shall have been a resident ol the State for two years, and of tb( county one year, and of the polling precinct in which the elector offers to vote four months before the day ol election, and shall have paid, six months before, any poll tax then due and payable, and who can both read and write any section of the constitution of 1895 submitted to him by the Supervisors of Registration, or whc can show that he owns, and has paid all taxes collectible on during the present year, pioperty in this State assessed at three hundred dollars or more. H A Meyer, Clerk of Board. Brushes??Bri in great profusion fron will be on sa I TTl? 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