Claremore Progress. And Rogers County Democrat (Claremore, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, September 9, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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COAST of CHANCE
SYNOPSIS.
At ■
private view of the Clistwurtli
psrsotmi c"ta|r. lo Ik* ■old at aiu-tluti. the
Chmworlli rlim. known na the Crew Idol
mysteriously disappears. Harry Cress j.
who wan present. describes the rln* to
his Hsncee, Flora (Jllm-y, and her i lmri
•ron. Mrs. Clara Hrltton. M« I veins like a
£Sr.r."!K,0f'' '— «tirul sapphire
tlu- head. Mora meet* Mr Kerr.
JLin!!", <lub ,n dis-
SS?V?5 l «PI'r"r',,>" of the rillK the
Wn!"l °f J"*1!?.'' thief, Karrell
WanU. are recalled. Mora has a f*n.v
ifc1 ]a ^ an<1 Kl*rr knu« «H>meti inir
about the myntt rv " — •- •- «•■ -■
•" has met >|
palely pink !n lb* warm refla tions of | be liard lo bide the great flash of the | wan too much lo be alone with In the , tlon am ,
the red velvet curtains Jewel. And besides. she didn't truat It. dark! She readied out softly, aa if aa If ah
And what could Clara have seeu, If She couldn't tell In what direction It she feared to disturb some threaten- French
cool and smooth and burnlahed
p «he had spent tbe night, like a
slie had Been at all. but Flora a little I might not strike out a apark of horror I Ing presence lurking around her'and I ^cura f' I nJnnl'"'!"0 ,
Pill. r than usual with a hand that next. lit the small night lamp on the low w« U ,,nh«M J ,h « nT '
trembled; and what worse could Clara i The rustle of final departure was all tabic by her bed. The shade was yel-' - - - thing. Flora was
conjecture than that she was being I over the liouae. Tbe people In the low. and that contended with the
silly about Kerr? She turned slowly box were stirring and beginning to j blue of tbe sapphire, but couldn't
toward him, and looked ut him with a stand up: and Mora saw Kerr turn j brenk Its light. With the first flash
courage that was part of her fear. | and look at her. She wanted some of ltd splendor In her face she felt
Harry snmewher
return ■
Pera that U
Flora to a Chinese goldsmith's to buy ....
^gagement ring An .x.juislte sapphire
J™*? a hoop of brass, la selsetad. Harry
Sy '""r n°t t° wear It until It Is reset
I «pH^"r'Tlmf eeema to cast
r_"p 11 - r Mora. Hhe iieeontes uneasy
bo* partT ' ' Hera meets Kerr at a
CHAPTER VIII.—Continued.
Hut wasn't she. in a way. being Hilly 1 one
about Kerr? What had become of his | Ker
expression that had threatened her? I turn
There wan nothing left of It but her large and adequate, but because she j marlile top—fell with tbe sapphire
< turn V lulun ♦ {n t r > v*> u ^ i > ■ n f limi«l>t <. I... ..... > l.lm I _ ll -.41 ' r.. _ ■ ■• >.
to stand between herself and
Kerr, and It was to Harry that she
turned: uot alone that he was so
certainly threatening her She shook; lo_„ ..
the ring quickly off her finger and It ..0.
fell with • light clatter on the table's
taken aback
"Why, Clara!" She was blank with
astonishment. She sat up. flushed
and tumbled, and still blinking
hope I didn't keep you . knocking
own violent impression. I thought she saw in him an inclination
And yel the thing had actually hap- , to step Into that very place where
l>cned. Its evidence was before her.
He had been silent. Now he was talk-
ing. He bad been absent. Now she
thought she had never seen him more
vividly concerned v.ith the moment.
Yet for all Ills cool looks and diffuse
talk around the box. she felt uueaslly
that hi>; concern was pointed at her.
and that he would never let her go.
He only watted for tbe cover of the
last net to cotue buck to her single-
handed.
She would have deflected his attack,
but It was too quick, too unexpected
for her to do more than sll helpless,
and let him lift up bur left hand,
delicately between thumb and Unger,
as if in Itself It was some rare, fine
curio, and, bending cloae. contemplate
the sapphire unwinkingly. She had
ihe wanted hint. She saw he was a
little sullen, and though she didn't
nuspcct hint quite of Jealousy, she won-
dered if he had not a right to blame
her for the appearance of flirtation
that she and Kerr must have pre-
sented. Then how much more might
he blame her for what she had actual-
ly done—for deliberately showing the
sapphire to Kerr' The very thought
of It frlghtoned her. She talked the
face down, and all ita light hidden
She took It up again a little fearfully,
as If It might have got some harm;
and tigain' while she looked at it It
feemcd to her that nothing that hap-
pened about this jewel could be too
extraordinary. If only It had been
less wonderful, less beautiful, she
would not have felt so terribly afraid!
She put It back on the table and for
a moment held her hand over it, as
If she imprisoned a living thing.
Then, without looking again, she
harder, she even took hold of Harry's | got out of bed and went to the win-
nrm to be aure of keeping him there | dow. It overlooked the dark steep of
She felt of the stone. She drew off
her glove and tried to look at It in the
dim light, but couldn't get a gleam out
of it. She was as Impatient for the|an instant when she thought she must
lights to go up that she might secret- cr> oul- bul l>ow impossible in the aw-
ly be cheered by its wonder, as she
had been that afternoon to get back
from the luncheon and make sure it
was still In the drawer. She must
aee It In spite of Clara at her right
band, whose little chiseled profile
might turn upon her at any moment
a full face of Inquiry.
She held her left hand low In the
shadow of her chair: and If. aa the
lights went up again, there was any
change in the sapphire, it was merely
a sharper brilliance, as If, like an eye.
It had moods, und this wns one of lt:<
moments of excitement. In Its ex
traordinary luster It seemed to pos
■ess a beauty that could not bp val-
ued; and she wanted to hold it up to
Kerr, to see If she couldn't startle him
out of his mood—to see If he wouldn't
respond to It, "Yes. there is more in It
that you can touch."
She turned to him with the daring
flaali of timid spirits. It was so sharp
• motion that lie started instantly
from his reverie to meet It, but ills
alacrity was mechanical. She felt
the smile he summoned was slow, as
If he returned, from a long distance.
■ little painfully to his present sur-
roundings.
such a way as this.' he said, and left
the statement dangling unanswerable
between them. It sounded portentous
—(lnnl. She couldn't answer She
could only look at him with a reflec-
tion of ber trouble In her face.
"Are you surprised that I thought of
that?' he inquired "It's not so odd
as you seem to think that I should
want to see yon again. I don't wanl
to leave it to chance; do you?'' He
shot the question at her so suddenly.
The intermezzo was playing, and to! w<tl' "urh u eye. and such dry
■peak under the music he leaned so' gravity of mouth, that lie had her
close bis shoulder touched her chair. ■*«lniisKi«,ii out of her before she re-
Through that narrow space between I "n* °f '•* meaiiing
them, almost beneath his eyes, she """"
moved her hand—a gesture so sllshtly
emphasized as to seem accident. He
had started to speak, but her motion
ful publicity of her place—a pinnacle
in tbe face of thousands! And after
the first fluttered Impulse came a cer-
tain reassurance in such a frank and
trivial action. For all Its Intensity,
how could it be construed otherwise
than a lively If unconventional Inter-
est? It must have been her fancy which
had discerned anything more than
that, in his first look. And yet, when
he had laid her hand lightly bark, and
readjusted his monocle, and looked
out. away from her. across the black
house, she didn't know whether she
was more reassured or troubled be-
cause he had not spoken a word. Yet
the next moment be looked around at
her
between ber and what she was afraid
of. as they came out on the sidewalk
and stood waiting In the windy night
for the approach of their carriage
lights.
Row upon row of street lamps
flared in the traveling gusts. The
midnight noises of the city were at
their loudest: and half their volume
seemed to be a scattered chorus of
hoarse voices yelling all together like
a pack of wolves. What was this fresh
quarry of tbe press. Flora wondered,
that made It give tongue so hideously?
She had stooped her head to the
carriage door, when Harry stopped
and took one of the damp papers from
a crier in the pack. She saw the head-
line it covered hnlf the sheet—the
great figure that was offered for the
return of the Chatworth ring.
CHAPTER IX.
Illumination.
when the two ideas had co-
"We shan't meet every evening In I al, acrd ln h*r mllld Flor rouldn't be
sure It had been some time In the
first dark hour that she had spent
the garden, the moving trees and the
lighter plane of the water. She
leaned out, ftr out. Black housetops
marched against the bay, and be-
tween them, light by light, her eyes
followed the street lamps down to the
shore.
Ob. to escape out of this window
into the Innocent, sleeping city, away
from Ihe horror at her back! To look
in from the outside and be even sure a consolation. The number of Imlta-
there was a horror! And If there was.1 tloD* solng about and tbe way people
"Oh. no. Indeed; only three taps."
Clara looked straight through Flora's
astonishment, as If there had been no
such thing in evidence. She drew up
a chair and sat down beside the bed.
It was a rocking chair, but It did not
sway with her calm poise.
"It Isn't so very late," she said, "but
I have ordered your breakfast. I
thought you would want It if you had
that ten-o'clock appointment: and
there is something I want to ask you
before you go out. Had you any Idea
the Herrlcks were in Htraita?"
"The young Herrlcks?"
"Oh. no! The old Herrlcks, the Her-
rlcks, Mrs. Merrick whom you so
much admire! Of course, one Isn't
told; but they must be, to be willing
to let the old place."
"Not the San Mateo place?" said
Flora, with a stir of interest.
Clara complacently nodded.
"Why, I should lore that!" Flora
frankly confessed.
"Well," Clara conceded, "at any
rate we know It's genuine, and that's
to run away into the wide soft dark
But there was another way to be
rid of It. The real Idea occurred to
ner. How easy it would be to take It
—that beautiful thing—and throw It:
throw It as bard as she could, and
let the night take care of It. The win
dow was open, as if It stood ready,
and there was the ring on the table
She went to It, looked at It a moment
without touching it. holding her hands
■way
Then with g little shiver she backed
away from it and sat down on the
foot of the bed. She looked pale and
little, as If the eye of the ring, bla
zing under the feeble lamp, like the
pick them up Is appalling! While I
was getting that rug for you at Vigo',
yesterday, Ella Duller came in and
bought three imitation Bokhara., with
the greatest enthusiasm. She buys
quantities, and she's always taken in.
It Is enough to make one nervous about
the people one sits next to at dinner
there. One cannot help suspecting
them of being some of Ella's bargains.
I wonder, now. where ahe picked up
that Kerr."
This finale failed to take Flora off
her guard. "At any rate, he Is odd
enough to be genuine." she said with
a gleam of malice.
' Ob. no doubt of that." Clara mildly
assented, "but genuine what?"
"Why, gentleman at large," said
Flora, and quickly wanted to recall It,
for Clara's glance seemed to give it a
double significance. "I mean." she
added, "Just one of those chronic trav-
elers who have nothing else to do.
and whose way must be paved with
letters of introduction."—she flounder-4
ed. "At least, that was the Idea he I
gave of himself." She broke off. doub- 1
ly angry that she had tried to explain
Kerr, and tried to explain herself. |
when the circumstances required noth-
WORTH
MOUNTAINS
OFGOLD
During Change of Life,
says Mrs. Cbas. Barclay
Granltevllle, Yt. — "I was pwtiw
through tbe Change of life and .uffetJ
1 front perroniDM
and other annoying
symptoms, and I
^"trulr sav that
1 .y dia E. I'i nkham'a
\egetable Com.
Pound has prorsd
worth mountains
of fold to me. aalft
restored my health
and strength. I
never forget to tell
friends what
LjdiaE. Pinkham'i
has dona for ma
ing of the sort. She was sure Clara ; on™* this trying period. Complete
rr.„rrHr~.-. I
™i> . ."ond um, lo troubif'JSb'if'iJ'Ji?
5 *moBg the ot rod thl< letter."—Mm- Chas. BajicijS.
and white jewels she was expecting tc E-F D .OraiUtenile, Vt.
ee another color. To Flora's palpi No other medicine for woman's «"■
tatlng consciousness this look made a *>al receired nch wide-spread and aa.
perfect connection with Clara', next 1 pusllfied endorsement. JJo othern*4-
remark 1 e'n« we J ow of baa such a record
.... . .. ' of cures of female ills as has LydUK.
manners are odd I'inkhAm's Vegetable Compound
enough. There was a minute last For more than 80 years it haa beaa
night when he was really quite start- curing female complaint* such aa
ling." Inflammation, ulceration, local weak-
Flora felt a small, wann .pot ot | t^2!%irrSSfc!!2S
color increasing In the middle of each w,
ml , . to.
to draw in courage Then Clara had 1 thmnoh th Mrind nf* TtJl
really seen! That smooth, bllndlsh
look of hers, last night,
everything! ... _
"I am afraid he annoyed you, talnaor ?old * to suffering
Flora "
The girl looked Into the kindly so-
licitude of Clara's face with a hard.
almost passionate Incredulity.
"These continentals," she went oa.
now lightly swaying to and fro In her
chair, "have singular notions oi
American women. They take us fot
savages, my dear."
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Then Clara had I throng
It costs but little to tryXydla K
rin Wham's Vegetable Compound, aod.
as Mm Barrlarsays.lt la "worth moan.
taini nt ' fit s 11 ffapfn>«
wide awake In her bed. There had I <>v" eye. had sapped her fire and
been two ideas distinctly. Two im
pressions of the evening remained
with her: and the last one. the great
figures lhat had stared at ber from
the paper, the fact that had been Har-
ry's secret, made rommon now In
round numbers, had for the moment
swallowed up the first.
For all the way home that sum was
kept before her by Clara's talk She
remembered nothing of that talk ex-
cept that It hadn't been able for a
moment to leave the Chatworth ring
alone It had been aimed at Harry,
but it had fallen to Flora herself to
Then when are you at home?" he
asked her: and by his tone, he con-
veyed the impression that he was only j answer Clara's quick speculations, for
making courteous response to some | Harry had been obstinately silent.
seemed to stop his tongue. He looked 'nv'tntlon she bad offered him: though. | 'hough not indifferent, as If in his
hard at her hand, and something vlo-' wtle" ahe thought, she had not offered j own mind he was as unable to leave It
lent in his intentness uiade her clutch ■ lt- *,p K°t 11 °"t of her. \ alone as Clara. One with silence.
the Bide of the chair. Instantly she SI,P answered somewhat stiffly: j one with her talk, they had written
met his look, so fiercely, cruelly chal ^'days. second and fourth 1 the figures of the reward so blazingly
lenging, that it took her like a blow I looked at her with a humorous i ln Mora's mind that for the moment
For a moment they looked at each I twl8t of mouth. "What? So seldom?' she could see nothing else Yet now
ether, her eyes wide with fright, his' Sh«' impotent if he wouldn't I he was alone her first adventure re- | that of some unheralded deity, who
narrowed to a glare under the terrible be *n l hed; but at the worst she eurred to her At soon as she was there who could tell her?
Intentnesa of his brows What had wo"ldn't be cornered "Oh. dear, no— quiet In the dark there came back, She tried to summon a coherent
youth. She hugged her arms around
her updrawn knees, and resting her
chin upon them eyed the sapphire
bravely.
"1 suppose you know I can't throw
you away," she murmured, "and yet I
can't keep you!" She pondered, cbin
in hand. To take it to Harry' That
seemed the natural thing to do—the
simplest way to^be rid of It. She hes-
itated.
"If I only knew! If I only were
sure! She locked her fingers closer,
staring hard. If it had been the whole
Crew Idol, the tindismembered god
himself, then there would have been
less terror, and one plain thing to do.
She looked hard at tbe sapphire set
ting, as If she hoped to discover upon
Its brilliance some tell-tale trace of
old soft gold; but there was only one
great, glsssy. polished eye. and out of
what head it had come, whether from
the forehead of the Crew Idol, or from
ahe done? hut people who come at other times
She was as shaken as If he had '"I"* 11 chance."
seized hold of her. If he had snatched ' "Does that mean that I may lake
the ring off her finger she wouldn't I mine to-morrow?"
have been more abocked. The whole j He was pressing ber too hard. Why
box must be transfixed by him. and ' was he so anxious to see her. as he
the whole house be looking at nothing had not been the first night or yester
but their little circle of horror! She dsy. or even ten minutes ago? She.
with reminiscent terror the look that j thought, but again It was only s flash
Kerr hsd given her in the box. She I out of the darkness.
was afraid of the meaning of his look > "Ken-
ready for lt. She was braced
for anything but the fact which ac-
tually confronted her—that no one
had noticed them at all. It was mon-
strous that such a thing'could have
keen without their knowing! But
there was no face in all the orchestra,
the crowded galleries, or the tiers
of boxes to aflrm that anything had
happened; no face in their own box
had even stirred, but Clara's, and
that had merely turned from profile to
the full, faintly inquiring, mild, and
who, ten minutes ago, would have
been glad, now wss doing her best to
put him off She was silent a mo
mcnt. considering the conventions, and
then, like him. she abandoned them.
Without a word she turned away from
him. Her only desire now was to
evade him, lest he should force her
out of her non-committal attitude. She
wanted to shield herself from further
pursuit.
She drew ber glove over the ring.
The lights were imminent It would
c?
which she didn't understand. It only
established In her mind a great sig-
niheanee for tbe sapphire. If It could
produce such an expression on a hu-
man face It had given him more
than a mere expression. It had given
him an impulse for pursuit, ss If.
like s magnet, ft was fairly dragging
him. He had covered his impulse by
bis very frankness, but she knew he
had pursued her—lhat for the matter
of seeing her again be had hunted her
down. And what bad followed? Why.
she was back again to the great fig-
ures In tbe paper
At first it seemed as though she had
taken a clean leap from one subject
to another. She had la no way con
nected them. But all at once they
were connected. She couldn't aepa-
rate them. She didn't know whether
she had been stupid not to bare seen
them so before, or whether she was
stupid to see them so now. For the
thought that bad sprung up In ber
mind was monstrous It startled her
to broad awake that she sat up in bed
to meet it tbe more alertly.
The room was dark except for now
and again the yellow square of light,
from some passing cable car. traveling
along the ceiling Tbe four wall,
around her. their dark bulks of fur-
niture and light ripple of moving cur-
tains. shut her up with this monster
of her mind. It bad sprung upon her
from the solid actualities of the night.
And, yes. of the day before—and the
night before that. Oh, she had known
well enough that there had been some-
thing wrong at the goldsmith's shop.
She had felt ll even before she had
seen the sapphire; and afterward how
It had held them, both herself and
Harry! To have moved Harry It must
be something indeed' Had be sus-
pected It then, or had he only won-
dered ?
If he had suspected why hadn't he
spoken of It? Well, her appalling
fancy prompted, hadn't be spoken of
It?—though not to her. There flashed
back lo Iter ihe memory of him there
in the back of the shop with the blue-
eyed Chinaman How furiously he
had .issalled the little man' She
could be slniost sure that the mon-
strous Idea which had Just overtaken
her had. however fleetlngly. flashed
before Harry's mind In the goldsmith',
shop. But surely ho couldn't have en-
tertained It for a moment. That was
Impossible, or he would never have let
her take the sapphire—Harry, who
had seen the ring, the very Crew
Idol itself, within the 24 hours
Why, he know, more than
I." She looked at tbla stupidly for a
moment a. If it were too large to take
In at once. Of course be roust have
known! Why hadn't she thought of
that before?
What series of clrcumstancea might
have led up to Kerr's knowledge she
could not dream He was one of whom
nothing was incredible. From the
first moment his face had shot into
the light, from the moment she had
heard his voice, like color In the level
voices around him, she had been be-
wildered by his variety.
And where, she asked heraelf In a
summing up, might auch a man n£
be found? But there were few places.
Indeed, in even the broadest plain of
possibility, which could hold knowl-
edge of so particular and piercing a
quality as his look had implied. There
had been so much more than curiosity
or (urprlse in it. She could hardly
face the memory ot It. so cruelly lt
had struck her There was no doubt
In her mind that Kerr had seen the
ring. Somewhere ln the pageant of
his experience he had met it, known
It—but what he wanted of it-
She broke off that thought, and
looked long at the Uttle flame of the
lamp It was strange, but there was
no doubt in her mind but that he
wanted It. Thai had been tbe strong-
est thing in his look. She felt herselr
picking her way along a very narrow-
path. one step over either edge of
which would plunge her chasms deep.
Now she snatched at a frail sapling to
save herself The fact that Ken-
knew her .tone didn't prove It belong-
ed to the Crew Idol. And If It didn't
—If It wasn't the crown of the heath-
en god. then her whole dreadful sup-
position fell to plecea. But she hadn't
proved It and the simplest way wa.
Just to ask Kerr Her chance for that
was the chance he bad fought so hard
for. the chance of their meeting the
next day
It seemed it should be simple it
should be easy to race Kerr with her
question, bul she was possessed by
the apprehension that It would be
neither. Would tbe question she had
to ask be a safe thing to give him?
And If she dared undertake It and
should be overpowered after all—then
everything would be lost.
CHAPTER x.
1
OLD SORES CURED
fT tducted with I
ThMptM'iEytVatar
Some men are self-made and aoma
others are wife-made.
Mtny who need to smnke 10c cigala
•ow buy Lewis' Mn.-lc Binder straight Cm.
Best men are molded out of faulta.
—Shakespeare.
fierce' i'cilru. Tiny logai >
mnia.
Surprised.
"I have succecded In tracing my an-
cestry back through ten generations"*
"Without coming to a menagerie?"
Get a Move On.
The Loafer—Alas! my ship doesn't
eome in.
The Heal Man—Tben get a move oa
and help some other fellow unload
English aa She la Spoke.
Chinatown Visitor—John, sabee. see
acreen—how much sabee want for
him?
The Chinaman—What's tbe matter
with you? Can't you speak English?
Judge
Not to Overdo It.
Lily—ree gwine to a .'prise party
tonight. Miss Sally.
Mias Sally—What will you take for
a present?
Lily—Well, we dldn' cal'late oa
takln' no present Yo' Me. we don't
wan to s'prlae 'em too much.
Inatantly the Mat Hla Leak, te Flarsaly, Cruelly Challenging.
"A little heathen god curled rouad
himself with a big blue atone on the
lop of hla bend." Harry hadn't aald
what sort of stone It waa, but Kerr
hud said It was a sapphire. There
was a sapphire on her. and now. She
touched It with hor finger tips cau-
tloualy, aa If to touch something hot.
So near to her! In the eame room
with her! On bar own hand! It
A Lady Unveiled.
She wakened In the morning to
some ono knocking She thought the
souud had been going on Tor a long
time, but, now she was finally roused,
it had stopped Thl* was odd. for no
one came to lier in the morning ex-
cept Marrlka, and It waa tlreaome to
be thus Imperatively beset before ahe
waa half awake. Now the knocking
came again with a level, unlmpatlent
repetition, and ahe called. "Coma la!"
at which Clara, la a pale morning
gowa. promptly entered—aa appart-
Candy and Athlotlaa.
The value of sweets aa a part of the
dally ration of the soldier la well
known. Now the director of the gym-
Malum of the I'nireraity of Michigan
announce, that sweets shall figure la
the menu 01 men in athlotlc training
They must be pure sweets, howerer,
and the director declarea that If thta
purity la aaaured they make good mus-
cles. clear 'yes. good complexions,
good digestions, and good me*. The
director's recommendation Is backed
by the leading coach of the school,
who has gone so far as to tell the girls
of the basketball team to eat all the
pure confectionery they desire. This
loae not mean that gumdropa are to
be carried on the football field, as arc-
tic explorers carry them tc the re-
gions of Ice. Thla ruling, however,
cught to be exceedingly popular among
the basketuall teams of collegiate
young women.
Cot Rid of Him.
Judge Walter Evana of the United
Statea district court ought to be In
tbe diplomatic service, his friends say.
He i. known as a man of rare tact.
Tbe other afternoon Judge Kvans had
gathering of Masonic brethren In
hi. chambers at tbe cu.totn bouse. Be-
fore the meeting opened an outsider
strayed Into the room. The outsider
showed no signs of going, and. as the
meeting waa a private one, the Ma-
sons began to wonder how the out-
sider waa to be got Hd of. Judge
Evans was equal to the occasion
Approaching the Intruder, he ahook
him warmly by the hand. "Are you a
Mason?" he naked.
"Scrry. I'm not." replied the out-
elder.
"Well," obeerved the judre, "I waa
going to aay IX you were we would be
glad to have you remain "—Loutavilla
Times.
Explains Hla Seedness.
"I understand that you never taate
liquor."
"No. I am tbaakful to aay that I
have alwaya been abstemioua."
"Do you ever uae tobacco?"
"Never la aay form."
The Styllah Fisherman.
, One of th« guests at a fashionable
summer resort in West Virginia got
himself up In hia best "Oahtng toes"
and atarted along a certain trouatatq
atreats.
Meeting a native, he aaked: "Hon,
my good man! Kindly tell me whether
It would be worth my while to try
Bshing In this vicinity."
Tbe nat'v* regarded him acornfulty.
"Tb. flshln' ain't good," he Onafly
said, "but I ain't informed as to how
you values your timeLlpptncott'a.
LACK OF MONEY
Waa a Godsend In Thla Caaa,
It la not always that a lack 01
money I. a benefit.
A lady of Green Foreat, Ark.. <
. « uau/ ui uircu run'bi, ata., OVn
You have alway. been atrletly her health to the fact that she could
' "UPPOM?" "ot pa, in advance the fee dex^r
Absolutely
"8ay. tell me one thing. Have yea
been good because you fouad It aat-
isfylng to be ao. or becauae you
hoped to be rewarded for your good-
ness ?"
"In the first place I waa good he-
cause 1 wanted to marry ay em-
ployer's daughter, and after I got her
I had to be good to hold my Job."
•lack Bear Their Maeeet.
ed by a specialist to treat her for
atomach trouble. In telling of her
case she saya:
"I had been treated by four differ-
ent puyslclana during 10 years sf
stomach trouble. Lately I called oa
another who told me he could not cure
me; that I had neuralgia of the atom-
ach. Then I went to a specialist who
told me I had catarrh of tbe stomach
1 and aald be could cure me In four
months but would have to have hla
I could not ralae the
my extremity I
A black bear I. the much priaed get ™°ney down ' f°,ul
of the United State, war.blp Virginia I "U.
This bear has been taught to .moks '? Postam-
a pipe and to perform various oth" 80 k,t0p^ fS'f* "d "A™ PomU
trick., and Is very fond of taking his ,horou«h, ,rJ*l nd the re.uMa
.eat in a bucket. He dearly love, g.7 | "L "T,
ting in tbe way of the hoee when the nl*bt' °me,h'"K 1 ih*d doao
deck, are being wa«hed down and for « lon* "X .tom-
remorlns him frnm tl>« « ■>. .1—--. . * gone and I am a d iff or eat
removing him from the scene always
means a rough and tumble, which the
animal to all appearancea thoroughly
enjoy..—Wide World Magaxlne.
The Vanlehlng Impoealbie.
About a century ago an Kngllah
court, considering an agreement In
whtcb It waa provided one person
should do a certain act In Oxford and
on the aame day a certain act In Lon-
don. declared tbe contract Invalid aa
being Impoealbie. the distance being
too great for a nan to travel la one
day. The faataat trains between Ox
ford aid London aow conaume just
one hour aad fifteen
Uer'e Weekly.
woman.
"I dreaded to quit coffee, beci
avery time 1 bad tried to stop It I suf-
fered from .evere headaches, .0 I con-
tinued to drink It although I hud rea-
son lo believe It waa Injurious to ns,
and was the causo of my stomach
trouble and extreme nervousness. But
when I had Pdbtum to shift to it waa
different.
"To my aurprlae I did net mlaa cof-
fee when I began to drink Postuai.
"Coffee had been steadily und atirw
ly killing me nod I didn't fully raaMaa
what wu doing it until I quit aad
changed to Postuin."
■ree read the itne Isfteet A new
freai Use te 11m, Ttsi
lew. aad Mt ef brnmmm
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