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I J. I LITTLE ROSIE'S FATHER 111 By L. M. STEVENS. ! A Two questions seriously troubled Rosie. Where was her father? Why didn't Rachel have a beau? Rachel, who was her mother, had long ago concluded the child was an oddity and paid little or no attention to her endless queries and singular habits, fr though oftentimes she would pause in w her work to gaze at Rosie, rocking to and fro, with a kitten hugged tight in her arms and singing in a shrill voice a quaint little song. Rachel invariably sighed. Her rela- . tion to her child was not of an inti- ,r mate nature. She was always too over-1 worked to encourage friendliness and, IT therefore, Rosie seemed strange and s< remote. Romance enveloped her and tl she lived in a world of her own crea- j " -? ? i 1 Vvl tion, iar removed ironi xier nuuiuio g surroundings. She went to the little whitewashed schoolhouse on the hill, ^ and at recess played with the children, but afterward she came home and sat on the doorstep alone. j " One day a little girl, who was ex-1 c ceedingly small, but very important ti because her father was the store-1 keeper, began to# swing on the school- ti yard gate and looked Rosie over with C contemptuous disapproval. ^ "Why do you stick after us?" she g asked. * 5 "I don't," said Rosie quickly, "and I ll think it's mean of you to say so." n "Oh, do you?" cried the little girl. "I'd like to know why, when my a mamma said It was a pity wo respectr ^ able children had to play with you, _ and that you didn't have a father, even, and?" "My father?" Rosie paused. She knew she could say one of two things. "He is away." she ended triumphantly. "Away! Is he coming back?" she asked, with newly awakened interest. "Yes," said Rosie, "he is coming back some time," and suddenly she turned and fairly flew down the sunbathed road. Rachel sat on the doorstep mending a garment She was thin and frail, with a pink flush on her sunken cheeks and a burn in her dark eyes. She smiled as the child rushed up and let her work fall in her lap. "Well, what is it?" she inquired, listlessly. "They all have 'em?where is my father?" she cried, In little pants. "When is he comin' back?" "Comin' back?" Rachel echoed in amazement "Yes. I told Mamie he was comin' j some time." i "Well, he's not"?an angry light _ darted in her eyes?"you haven't one, even, and tell her so if she asks you again. Little idiots," she added, more to herself than to the child. Rosie's arms had fallen limp at her J sides. Horror, astonishment and be lief successively came In her face. The next morning In the schoolhouse j several of the children were gathered t around the teacher, so Rosle shyly J n joined the group and heard the last part of the conversation. "Little Lucy Harlow is going tfl start to school today, and you must all be especially nice and kind to her, for she hasn't a father." Oh! oh! Rosle's heart beat tumultuously. At last there would be one of her kind. Lucy Harlow and her mother came In just before the last bell rang. Rosle did not attempt to probe the difference, but she knew immediately that Mrs. Harlow was curiously unlike the other mothers In the village. One evening Rosie stood at the gate, gazing up and down the road, until finally her diligent watch was rewarded. A man, wearing a shabby blue suit, a gay necktie, patent leather shoes, and carrying a traveling bag, ij walked briskly towards her. Rosle looked dubious. She knew she could not buy soap, gnd yet, o Prince Charming had been'' fbo long c In oomlng to allow him to escape now g that be stood upon their very thresh- a old. Rachel would soon turn the bend v. In the road, but until that moment she v had not considered that It would be a / very dirty, tired-looking RacheL A ? happy thought suddenly occurred to & hen. il "I tell you what!" Rosie raised her n shining eyes. "Come again Tx>ut dusk, j My mother will be home by that J tjme." "Well, I say you're an uncommonly r polite little girl. I'll be back," and to T Rosie's astonishment. Prince Charm- ' ing lifted his hat and went leisurely towards the village. B When her mother returned, she * bald: "You beat all, you queer little thing, p But I wouldn't dress for a soap agent or a prince tonight, why, I'm actually too tired to eat," and with a sigh she sank wearily on the steps. N , Down the road came the soap agent "I am selling soap," he began and ? stopped abruptly. , "FYank!" she cried, placing her ti hand to her forehead in a piteous ef- ^ fort to suppress her emotion. ti He gazed at her dumb-etruck, until si [the appeal in her faded, bitter face ,gave him understanding. "Tell her," said the soap agent and ei there was an unmistakable tremor in Jiis voice, "Prince Charming is here." M Possible Attraction. w "What's all the fuss about this Mona d< 'Lisa?" inquired the vaudeville man? * ager. sl "She seems to be getting plenty of advertising," opined his chief of staff, j ? "Well, I don't know who she la, but f( offer ber $500 a week and weTl take a chance." ' p IIISBAND RESCUED DESPAIRING WIFE fter Four Years of Discouraging Conditions, Mrs. Bullock Gave Up in Despair. Husband Came to Rescue. Catron, Ky.?In an interesting letter om this place, Mrs. Bettie Bullock rites as follows: "I suffered for four ears, with womanly troubles, and during tis time, I could only sit up for a little : 'hile, and could not walk anywhere at II. At times, I would have severe pains i my left side. The doctor was called in, and histreatlent relieved me for a while, but I was Don confined to my bed again. After lat, nothing seemed to do me any good, had gotten so weak 1 could not stand, nd I gave up in despair. At last, my husband got me a bottle of lardui, the woman's tonic, and I comlenced taking it. From the very first ose, 1 could tell it was helping me. I an now walk two miles without its ring me, and am doing my work." If you are all run down from womanly 'oubies, don't give up in despair. Try lardui, the woman's tonic. It nas helped nore than a million women, in its 50 ears of wonderful success, and should urely help you, too. Your druggist has old Cardui for years. He knows what I will do. Ask him. He will recomlend it. Begin taking Cardui today. TTnVe to: Chattanooga Medicine Co., Ladies' idvisory Dept., Chattanooga. Tenn? for Special iutructions on your case and 64-page book, "Home reatment for Women," sent in plain wrapper. E66-B Little Sunday. BY JOHN JORDAN DOUGLASS. Dis niggah do'n w'uk on Satur-day No, sun, nosuhree!* Kase all-week w'uk 'dout no play Hit do'n ergaee wid me. Satur-day's Li'l Sunday sho'; Big Sunday hit cum, too; De one's de heel an' tudder's de toe? Huh! dat ain' nuthin' new. Satur-days I des sets doun,. I's soht uv cullud Jew; An' I's pow'ful glad w'en hit roll 'roun' An' I jines de restin' crew. Ole 'omun she des drives ter town Ter buy sum calico; . But yo uncle Ef'um des mose eroun' Kase hit's Li'l Sunday sho' ? Columbia Stale. November 13. Just as soon as one begins to climb he ladder of fame some one is sure o want to burrow in. Estate NoticeThe creditors of the estate of Martha Gamble, deceased, are hereby notified o render to the undersigned, or to his ttorneys, Stoll.Stoll & O'Bryan, Kingsree, S C, an account of their demands, uly attested, and all persons indebted 0 said estate are notified to make paylent likewise. J P Gamble. Heinemann, S C," Executor. 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