The Stroud Democrat (Stroud, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, July 25, 1913 Page: 3 of 8
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STROUD, 0 * L A.. DEMOCRAT
rSfecreterY
of Frivolous
Affain
by
MAyruiEiiii
COPYRKjlfT 1911
505B5-M£kKiLl COMPANY
Illustrations Ay
Y.L.EARNE5
Jo Codman and her slstor Lou 11® ar«
left orphans. Their property has been
• wept away by the death of their fa-
ther Hnd they are compelled to east about
for mime means to earn a living. Lou-
He answers an advertisement of an Inva-
lid who wants a companion. She declines
the position. Loulle advertises for a po-
sition as companion, and Mrs. Hazard
replies. She offers I^oulie a position as
her "secretary of frivolous affairs." Her
chief work is to steer Mrs. Hazard's son
and daughter in the right matrimonial
path. Loulle talks baseball to Hap Haz-
ard and also gains the confidence of Lau-
ra Hazard. The Due de Trouvllle Is be-
lieved to be Interested in Laura Mia.
Hazard, gives a big reception and I^oulie
meets many people high in the social
world. Natalie Agazzlz. to whom Hap
hAs been paying attention, loses an em-
erald bracelet during the reception. She
declares there is not another like it in
the world. It develops that Natalie has
lost several pieres of jewelry under sim-
ilar circumstances. Hap takes Loulle to
the basej all game. He tells her he Is
not engaged to Natalie and has been
cured of his Infatuation. The scene
changes to the Hazard country place,
where many notables have been lnvltea
for the summer. Loulle and Laura visit
the farm of Winthrop Abbott, an a"*"™/
In whom Laura fakes considerable Inter-
est. Due de Trouvllle arrives at the Haz-
ard place. Loulle hears Winthrop s mo-
tor boat out late at night. Next morning
the papers announce the robbery or sev-
oral nearby homes. Natalie accuses U u-
lle of stealing her ruby pendant Mrs.
Hazard assures Loulle of h« «« e
In her. Hap declares his love for Loulle.
She reciprocates, but will not admit It as
she fears what Mrs. Hazard will say.
Loulle is excused from dinner on ac™""*
of a headache. She is bombarded jNith
notes from Hap imploring her to see him.
Winthrop is arrested in the presence or
Hap unl Loulle. charged with robb ng
General Srhuyler's horn- and shooting trie
Keneral. A box of .towels Is found in Win-
throp's safe, among them an emerald
brnrelet exactly like the one lost t>> Na-
talie. Natalie apologizes to I-wlje '°r
cosine her of theft. I.oulle Is awakened
at midnight and finds Hap In h®r room.
Next morning Hap explains that he was
In pursuit of a mysterious woman he had
seen in th<^ corridor and who eluded nun
by passing through I.oulle's rooni Na;
talie identifies the emerald bract-let 'ou'Vj
In Winthrop's sate as her own. Loulle s
sister. Jo. arrives for a week S?ti5..l°lin
frowninshleld pays marked a«entlori to
Jo I.oulle watches all night with Natalie.
She sees Winthrop cross the lawn in the
early morning, shadowed by TJ'omas a
footman. 1-ouUe hears a noise In e gal-
lerv and goes to Investigate She slips
Into the card room and stumbles over a
bag. She starts to carry It to her room
anil Is surprised by someone In the hail
and falls downstairs. She breaks her
arm The bag belongs to John. Lonlla
again finds herself under susp eion Lou-
lle overhears Hap tell his mother that lie
Intends to marry I.oulle even f she is a
thief, which he doesn t believe. loulle
declares that she will not marry him but
Mrs Hazard savs Hap can have her if he
wants her Detective Adams is found
bound and gagged. Jo Is missing. Ths
detertlvo says she was carried off by
three men. Search Is led ty john who
It develops is in love with Jo. beveral
clues are followed without success. A
wounded man Is found by the roadside
Jo returns. Jo tells her story. She says
•he heard a noise In the gallery and
" ont to. Investigate. She surprised I'uo
a notorious 1 rench thier.
servant, and a third man re
- frame.
It. If by any chance I had re-entered
the house by the back door instead
of the front door after Mr. Abbott
went away, I would have caught them
going out. As it was, I came in the
front door, and so it came about that
I flashed the light in your face."
That seemed to be all of it. Mrs.
Hazard and I sat looking at each oth-
er with our mouths mutually open,
and simultaneously we closed them.
John said nothing; Hap sat pounding
one clenched flst into the palm of
his hand and grinning—I don't know
why.
"And now, de Trouvllle," continued
Thomas,—wasn't that an awful way
to speak to a duke?—"there remains
only to get an order from you for
the jewels in the safety deposit. For
your information I'll say that d'Aubig-
ny and two of his accomplices are al-
ready under arrest in the city, and
Mrs. Cutler is being—detained up-
stairs. It's all off. Give up. It re-
mains. too, for Mrs. Hazard here to
say what shall be done with you—
after all the stolen things are recov-
ered. I'm satisfied to get them. I'll
send you to prison for twenty years
if she wants me to, or I think I can
induce my people to let you go."
For the first time the duke spoke.
"I am at your mercy, Mrs. Haz-
ard," he said. "I deny nothing." And
he didn't have the least bit of an
accent!
Hap looked at Mrs. Hazard, Mrs.
Hazard looked at John, John looked
at the duke, and the duke looked at
me—appealingly, I thought. Jo and
I really were the cause of his down-
fall! Poor little duke! I was awfully
sorry for him!
"I think, under all the circum-
stances," John said slowly at last, for
he was holding in on his temper—
he was awful angry about Jo being
abducted—"that if His Grace returns
everything that has been stolen—I
think we are prepared to let the mat-
ter drop." I could have kissed him
♦for that. "He has been called to
Europe suddenly, and he will decide
to remain there for all time!"
"And the others?" Thomas queried.
"If either is brought to trial the ef-
fect will be the same."
"I mean all of them," said John.
And that's how that part of it ended.
apology. If §he had only confided in
me then, what a lot of trouble would
have been averted!
That night came Winthrop's arrest,
and finally the red-headed reporter,
who took her to the police station,
where she identified Winthrop's emer-
ald bracelet as her own. That threw
everything into confusion again. No
wonder Natalie kept her suspicions to
herself!
1 had a talk with Jo when John
and Detective Thomas went away to
town to bring from the safety deposit
the duke's loot. I tried to point out
to her how perfectly silly it was for
us to break out hearts Just because
two men who loved us had entirely
too much money, while we only had
an interest in a mine that might give
us just enough to buy two wedding-
gowns.
She sat with her hands clasped
loosely before her for a while, then
her e>elashes swept her cheeks
It just had to happen, Loulle,"
she said softly at last. "He's so per-
fectly dear!"
"'They always are!'" I quoted.
stairs; the night he kicked up the row
about the card room being locked. The
sapphire and diamond bracelet, which
she has lost at the Abercrombies', ap-
peared, and the bracelet missing at
Mrs. Loring's, the very first jewel she
had lost. The ruby pendant, which
made me positively shiver, came next,
and the brooch the duke had secured
the night he embraced her. Then
those other jewels lost oil similar oc-
casions.
At last John unfolded—the emerald
bracelet! "Not another like it in the
world," Natalie had said, "or so many
emeralds matched so perfectly." Yet
she had identified a family heirloom
of Winthrop's as her bracelet! If she
had only looked she'd have seen it
didn't have the patent clasp!
"I think you and Winthrop should
look up your ancestors," Laura re-
marked, "for way back somewhere
those bracelets were a pair."
Hap had me by my unbroken arm,
hurrying me across the strip of lawn
in the direction of the beach. We
clattered down the steps that led
I from the rocks above to the sand, and
DH OF LOBBY ENDED
With Democratic Administration
the People Rule.
IN SUCH PAIN
WOMAN TORE
HER CLOTHES
Testifies She Was Restored
to Health by Lydia EL
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
■ .v. i Malone N. V.,— "Lydia E. Pink-
!8!k'nK "!!!" ! W. Vegetable Compound ha, cer-
Privileged Interest# Will No Longer
Be Allowed to Direct Legislation
for Their Special Interests—
President's Position Right.
It begins to look as though "Prof."
Wood row Wilson knew what he was
I went down on my knees, seized sat down on the lower one
lobby. When the gang's confidential
agent turns btate's evidence and tells
a story of ten years' Interference with
law making—a story backed by let-
ters, telegrams, relumed checks and
receipted bills, even the most con-
firmed standpatter must admit that
the president's condemnation of the
pernicious activity of the lobby was
not a whit too strong
If Colonel Mulhall's story is true, a
| group of privileged manufacturers
d' Aublgn
mm-fng a "itVture from "a frame. They
seized her and raateh^ a prisoner In a
cottage in the wood. She shot her uruard
and cri'apfd. Ah she finishes her story a
Bhot is hoard in the Bal^rynI:with
Trouvllle is found on the noor, wun
Thomas sitting beside ldin holding a. re-
volver Thomas turns out to l>«* a de
tsctlve In the employof|mln.u«nce
mninnnv He clears *p the mystery or
tie Trouvllle
company hp cVp!1] . ,
the rohheries. D Aublgny,
ami Mrs Cutler, a guest In the house, aro
the thieves.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Mist Before the Sun. •
After all, our mystery was simple
when we had the key, which was
knowing who the thieves were. And
it was so easy to see how Mrs, Cutler
had stolen those first bracelets—at
the Abercrombie's and Mrs. Lorlpg's
and also the ruby pendant. But there
were a great many things we never
did know about, that we had to leave
to conjecture. For instance, we never
did know exactly how those duplicates
CHAPTER XXVII.—Continued. 0f tije 0j,j masterpieces were made.
"Oh, don't mention it," I gasped ex- : f01int Felix von Brunner who, by
eltedly "It Is of no consequence at j way, happened to be Mrs. Henry
all." Then another thought came to , Dy];eman's German count, tried to
me. "And you didn't suspect me of J eJtl>iain his theories of the substitu-
tive thefts?" I tion. There were photographs made,
He smiled and shook his head. ^ an(j t[le measurement of the pictures
"Nor Mr. Abbott," he added. "Our | tal!elli ttjPn all depended upon the
Insurance people keep pretty clone sklli of the copyist Hut we never
record of family Jewels of every kind, j did flmj ol,t how they reproduced the
and we knew from the very beginning L.0!ors so accurately without copying
her hand, and made her look at me.
"You're going to marry John," I in-
sisted. •
"Yes," she answered. Then: "I
can't help it, dear. He would not
have listened if I had said no, so I
didn't. We've both been going to our
doom for the last month—and we
knew it! Loulie, do you think any
woman can be sure of herself in a
month?"
It seemed so odd, Jo asking my
advice, that 1 stared at her with my
mouth open ill the way I'll never,
never get over.
I think a woman knows her mind
in five minutes," 1 said, grossly exag-
gerating. And Jo believed it!
1 don't know who told Mrs. Hazard;
1 guess she's wise enough to know
things without being told She came
in and perched on the side of a chair
hardly proportioned to her short legs
and held in on that chuckle of hers.
"I don't see how I'm ever going to
stand three weddings," she said,
"but—"
"Three weddings!" I echoed. "Then
Winthrop—"
"Yes, dear, It's settled. When a
man moons around under a girl's win-
dow at three in the morning it's time
— After all, what business have I to
Interfere with them? I married the
man I loved without the Interference
of anybody. Winthrop is a dear boy,
even if he does grew vegetables."
"I'm sorry I failed you," I told her,
"Failed?" she repeated. "Good
heavens, what have you failed in?"
"Everything," I answered, "except
getting Hap on the right track, and
even then you never intended that he
was to turn around and look at me."
"I should have intended It," she
said. "I ought to have had enough
foresight to see exactly what was go-
ing to happen. I'm Codman-mad my-
self, and was from the very begin-
ning." She chuckled, then she went
over and drew Jo's head against her
motherly bosom. "My dear, be sure
to pour the coffee for John every
morning, and you have my blessing."
And then—[ may just as well admit
it—we all cried.
When John and Detective Thomas
came back they brought a suit case
which they Insisted upon carrying up-
stairs themselves, right under the un-
suspecting noses of the newspaper
men scattered about the terrace. John
opened it and spread the glittering,
bewildering contents on,Mrs. Hazard's
desk. Jewels! Great goodness! The
kiug's ransom we have read about.
We stood and looked at them amazed,
and the most awful part of It was
that neither John, nor Detective
Thomas knew to whom at least a
third of them belonged. They were in
a series of little chamois cases. John
unfolded them one by one. Laura and
Natalie recognized Mrs. Dykeman's
"Now shut your eyea and put out who claim a vested right in federal
your finger," Hap said,
"Which finger?" 1 shut my eyes and
put out all my fingers to be sure of
the proper one. It's a blessing 1 had
broken my right arm.
"There! Now it's settled."
Hap extravagantly kissed the fin-
gers one by one as 1 opened my eyes
and looked at my ring.
Is it all really true?" I asked after
a while, and two tears threatened In
my eyes
"Is It?" Hap repeated softly.
I fumbled with the ring. Hap lifted
my hand and kissed it—the ring, I
mean.
"There's not another like it in the
world," he said. "See, the nineteen
rubies are you, and the twenty-two
diamonds are nve—"
"What's the big one in the middle?"
I asked.
"That's us," he grinned.
"There's not another like It in the
world," I whispered.
" Or so many rubies matched so
perfectly,'" Hap quoted.
And notwithstanding the seriousness
of the situation we both giggled. We
were awfully young! Hap put his
arm around me. There was no use
struggling against a kiss. I was on
the injured list anyhow, and he was
the best tackle Harvard ever had.
THE END.
taxation, banded together to enforce
their claims. They paid money, dl-
tainiy done me a lot
of good. I first heard
of it when I was a
girl and I always said
that if I ever had fe-
male trouble I would
take it.
"I suffered from
organic inflamma-
tion and would hav«
spells when I would
be in such pain that
I would tear my
clothes. One day my husband got tho
neighbors in to see what the matter wa
rectly, and Indirectly, to a long line of ^ut (^(.y could not help mo. My first
Republican congressmen. They were j thought was for Lydia E. Pinkham •
011 terms of confidential Intimacy with i Vegetable Compound and 1 sent my hus-
stand-pat senators, and with a former hand out for it and took it until I was en-
vice-presldent of the United StateB. tirely cured. 1 am a woman of perfect
They were the power behind the
throne throughout the Roosevelt and
Taft administrations They backed
the infamous robbery of the Aldrich
tariff, and lobbied for a tariff com-
hcalth and my health and happiness
came from Lydia E. Pinkham 8 medi-
cine. You may rest assured that I do
all I can to recommend your wonderful
medicine to my friends."— Mrs. Fred
mission as a means of heading off any Stone, Route No. 3, Malone, N. Y.
honest revision. They spent largo rp^e BUCCesB of Lydia E. Pinkham'l
sums of money to help their "friends Vegetable Compound, made from roots
and hurt thtlr enemies; and neither ftn(J herbs, is unparalleled. It may b«
in helping nor hurting did they pay with perfect confidence by women
"" who suffer from displacements, inflam.
mation, ulceration,tumors, irregularities.
THAT ABODE OF THE PAST
John Galsworthy's Charming Picture
of an Old Disused Southern
Landmark.
"Yes, suh—here we are at that old
time place!" And our dark driver
drew up his little victoria gently,
writes John Galsworthy in Scribner's.
Through the open doorway, into a
d'm cavern of ruined house, we passed.
periodic ppins, backache, bearing-down
feeling, flatulency,indigestion,dizzinesa,
or nervous prostration. Lydia E. Pink,
ham's Vegetable Compound is the stan-
dard remedy for female ills.
much attention to the ethics of politi-
cal controversy.
The lobby has fallen on evil days.
The new political leaders—Under-
wood, and Kern, and above all Wilson
—are men whom a trust agent cannot
even approach. This is sad enough
for the privileged Interests which
have managed this nation's affairs so
long To have that misfortune capped
by Inside exposure of lobby methods
Is downright disaster. iir«.wiu«iow Hooifctng for chiidm
The lobby's extremity Is the peo- | w*tbtn«, .oftfos tbo gum., r.duc.. tnlUmma-
ple'B opportunity.
Nothing 1* denied to well-directed
labor.—Samuel Rout.
tlou,allays palu.curcs wind colic JBc a butilmMl
A woman has to be pretty good at
figures to become a fashionable dresa-
Need of Currency Legislation
In urging currency legislation upon j m°a^er
congress at this session, President | —_—
Wilson is showing himself capable of j ( urr. old Sorts, Other Reined I Won't r«r«
tnkini? n look ahead The wont caara, no matter of how long
taKing a lOOK an HU. | B(an<Jlng rtrc, rllrod by lh«« wonderful, old re-
The Aldrich-Vreeland law, a make- ( nut>i« Dr Porters Antiaeptic Healing on.
shift patchwork designed to provide j pa,n
emergency currency In time of panic,
he same time.
I&c. 60c, $1.00.
expires by limitation in 1914—next
year X'nless congress inaugurates a
better plan the country then will go
back to the system prevailing In 19(17,
when practically every bank In the
T'nlted States suspended payment at
the same time.
To allow that to happen would be
The mildew and dirt, the dark, de- to put the fortunes of the administra-
nuded dankness of that old hostel, | tion and of the country in the hands |
Sure.
Oabe— Does absence make the heart
grow fonder?
Steve—YeB, of your creditors.
Gone Forever.
Mother (to little Ethel sobbing as
If her heart was broken)—Well, well,
what Is the manner, dear?
Ethel—Tabby got losted.
rotting down with damp and time!
of the Wall street clique that made ' Mother—Never mind, darling, we'll
that Mr. Abbott owned the jewels the
police found there."
"We were going to prove It, too.
John put In. "That was so simple
we didn't have to worry about it."
Now why hadn't he told us before?
Think of the heart-burnings and the
petty suspicions he could have pre-
vented !
"As I say, 1 knew these things, but
from the picture itself. After all,
though, the colors were not very ac-
curate. When the originals were
brought back from a cottage In the
wood, where they had been hidden,
and placed alongside, the substitutes
were so palpably fakes that it's a
wonder we had not discovered it long
before. Count von Brunner, whom we
had the pleasure of welcoming to
advertise in the papers for tabby.
Ethel (still sobbing)—She'll never,
never come home 'cause she can't
read.
And our guide, the tall, thin, gray I profit out of the needless crash of six
haired dame, who came forward with ; years ago. President Wilson Is well
such native ease, and moved before advised in taking time by tho fore-
tis, touching this fungused wall, that j lock and Insisting on the reform of
rusting stairway and telling, as it currency and the emancipation of
were, no one, in her soft, slow credit At any cost of personal ills
speech, things that any (me could see comfort, congress must take the same
—what a strange and fitting figure. wise view ; and pass a law that will
Ilefore the Rmell of the deserted, put it out of the power of money kings
oozing rooms, before that old creature j to have "stringencies" and panics to , yQU ha(1 up Bald the B0Cks was
leading us on and on, negligent of all order i guaranteed for three months.'
our questions and talking to the air, ! ~~ | "Well, what's tho matter with the
Stung.
"I want my money back for these
here socks," said the man as he hand-
ed the clerk a package. "The sign
as though v.'e were not, we felt such j Party Leaders Should Get Busy,
discomfort that we soon made to go 1 1'nlike the tariff, the currency Is not
out again into such freshness us there primarily In the hands of the house.
Hut. In the circumstances, the house
•IP
It wann't wise to tell them," Thomas j ],one Oak, waved Ills hand disgusted
continued, in the first [ lace, as long j |y at the lot.
as tho real thieves imagined some
one else was under suspicion it was
easier to keep watch on them. I fol-
lowed that line of reasoning through
out Everything else was compara-
tively simple after that extraordinary
session at dinner"—agi.in he sm
Ach!" he exclaimed. "Dey vould
not deceive a little child!','
Rut then none of us knew as much
about art as he did.
Xatalie explained her part of the
story to us. She had suspected Win-
throp of taking the jewels, as he had
where every ono told tluir schemes < ha(j the opportunity at Mrs. I.orlng's
for hiding their Jewels. If I had had the Abercrombles' and the reception
any doubts at all they were dissipated she had refused to answer those ques-
then. The persons who heard those i ,|ons the police put because answers
statements were only the guests in j im,st necessarily have implicated Win-
the house and threp servants, llur throp. How we had misunderstood
rows, the butler, myself and another ]lrr>
footman. It narrowed things down The first suspicion of the rial truth
Incidentally it made the final haul 1 cnme to her the night of Winthrop's
simple for the thieves." ! arrest, when she ami ills drace had
"Then." I put In, "If you did not sus i |lp(,n a|0ne on the terrace. Ills drace
pect Mr Abbott at any time, why h.t[j tri0(j |0 embrace her. She was
was It you—you followed him across j wearing only a brooch that evening
the lawn the night I fell down- bitf it was a very
was on that day of dismal heat. Then
realizing, it seemed, that she was los-
ing us, our guide turned; for the first
time looking In our faces, she smiled, |
and said in her sweet, weak voice, i
like the sound from the strings of a
splnnet long unplayed on: "Don* you
wahnd to see the dome room, an' all |
the other rooms right here, of this
old place?"
Again those words! We had not
the hearts to disappoint her. And as
we followed on and on, along the j
molderlng corridors and rooms where
the black peeling papers hung like
stalactites, the dominance of our
senses gradually dropped from us, and
with our souls we saw its soul the
soul of this old time place; this mus-
tering house of the old south, bereft
of all but ghosts, and the gray pigeons
niched in the rotting gallery round a
narrow courtyard open to the sky.
"This Is the dome room, suht and
lady; right over the slave market It
is Mere they did the business of the
state—sure; fee their face up there
in the roof—Washington, Hamilton,
Jefferson, Davis, Lee -there they are!
All gone—now! Yes, sub'"
We Stood
and Looked
Amazed.
He Was Handicapped
what constitutes news is n
mooted qu< -tion to the general
generally. The average news-
reader consider!! thai anything
in astonish-
hnndsome on
Something In the attitude of His
flrace, she snld, aroused her sus-
picions She knew she had the brooch
when she came upon the terrace; she
put up her hand after the embrace,
and the brooch was gotie Then she
remembered that it had happened be-
fore—-twice before nt Lone Oak, and
on him. I before that In town.
tand for a long once her suspicions were arousod
window abo\e. she could connect Ills Grace with ev-
erything she had missed except tho
"Yes. 1 understand," 1 Interrupted, ruby, the bracelet missing at the
"We. nil of us, understand.'
"Then be went away
add
then In tile gallery, but I didn't know
stairs?"
Every one looked at ill
ment. I don't know that any oue un-
derstood except Thomas
• I was making assurance doubly
sure," he replied I saw Mr, Abbott
as he landed from his boat, and
naturally curious as to what he was
going ta!do, I kept my ey
lie did nothing but
time and stare at
and
necklace of pear-shaped diamonds
and a Jeweled aigrette, the wonder of
two continents, which belonged to Mrs
Lorlng.
"That's a part of tbo first nortj
shore robbery," commented Thomas.
There followed other things no one
recognized.
If that Isn't Alice Ppabody's Alex
andrlte collar I'll eat. It." Laura said „
suddenly "and we hndn't heard a vet. an
Just
much
public
paper
that pertains to him personally Is the
most Important piece of news that a
paper cau print. A negro porter in
one of the popular Kansas City clubs
recently divorced, furnished an exam-
ple of one conception of news.
Approaching a reporter In the club-
rooms a few days ago, the porter re-
J marked:
"Say, boss, don't you all know I
! done got a divorce, and I ain't m en
single line about it In the pn;>pY
It been mos' two weeks '"
trange," the
to look HO-/
must take up the question first. The |
senate is occupied with the tariff, and 1
will not have time for anything else
until the tariff is disposed of. So that j
if the guess of six weeks or two
months for the passage of the tariff
bill through the senate proves cor- |
rect September 1, assuming that the
house meanwhile has agreed upon and
passed a currency bill, w'ill find cur-
rency reform still quite a distance
from goal.
The present Is thinking time for all
party leaders, whether Democratic,
Republican or Bull Moose, and re-
gardless of where they stand on the
question or tariff revision.
Roosevelt's Real Position.
Mr. Roosevelt probably thinks be Is
sn advocate of real popular govern-
ment, but in fact he is the champion
of a bureaucracy, and that Is very
close to centralized and personal gov-
ernment Five or ten years are as a
moment in tho life of a nation, and
ru 11 discussion and caut*nis expert
mentation are of the very essence of
popular government. The American
people will not lay aside democracy
and representative govemtnent In or-
der to realize the Ideal Roosevelt bor
rowed troin Henconsfield s novels of
Monarch and Multitude.
socks?" asked the clerk.
"I only wore them three weeks, and
I had to take them off and buy an-
other pair because this pair had Boles
In the toes," replied the man.
How Simple.
"My dear," said Mrs. Snaggs to her
| husband, "what is a canard?"
"IJon't you know what a canard Is?"
queried Snaggs, rather sneerlngly.
"Why, the word itself conveys Its own
meaning."
"Does it, Well, really. I can't see
It. What does it mean, dear?"
"Why, a canard i« something one
canardly believe, of course."
"Oh, to be sure! Why couldn't I
think of that?"
r
word about that being stolen." "Well, Rastus, that's
"I wonder if His drace embraced I reporter replied, trying
her to get It?" Natalie whispered to rlous 7
us. | "Can't you all put It In the paper
Gradually John came to Natalie's | now" ' he asked. " 'Tain't as how I
missing jewels; tho six bracelets, the cum to get the divorce that I cares
pendant and the rope "f pearls she to let people know about, but don't
\bercromhln«* and the very first miss- had missed from her Jewel box on you know, boss, that 1 meets a lot of
Thomas |ng bracelet stolen at Mrs. Loring's the night. Ilnp hnd Feen a woman's r uliud ladles every day that Jes' won t
... thieves were nt work She came to me Immediately after skirt Mrs Cutler's dlsnppcnr In'o speak to me, 'cause they think lis
the incident on th« terrace with an the card room fc* he came up the married."—Kansas City Journal.
Emphatically One-Man Party.
The Progressives says Chairman
Kills, don't permit a few men to get
off somewhere in a closed room and
fix up things for them You bet they
don't. One man does all the fixing
for the Progressive party.
"Something Doing."
So long as the senate committee In
vestlgated senators and representa-
tives It failed to discover that "numer-
ous and Insidious" lobby: but when it
began hearing evidence from men out-
side of congress, It quickly arrived at
some quite ftartling facts There are
now many Republican members of the
senate and house who are compelled
to "explain" things, and quite a isrge
number of men outside of congress
who seem to he Involved In unsavory I
tcnndals To use u slang expression, , i
there la something doing I V
A Triumph
Of Cookery —
Post
Toasties
Many delicioui diahes
have been made from
Indian Corn by the ikill
and ingenuity of the ex-
pert cook.
But none of these crea-
tions excels Post Toast-
ies in tempting the palate.
"Toasties" are a lux-
ury that make a delight-
ful hot-weather economy.
The first package tells
its own >lory.
"The Memory Lingers"
Sold t>y Grocert.
'ottua Cft*®! 0.*ni>«nF. Limi «
lUtllr MicK., U S. A.
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