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ffMMMMMKMKKXKMKHMMXKKM W fill W W Ml t . X X X ft w u n X FRANCIS LYNDE CopyTlcht. 106. br Francis Lynd H X X X X x- CHAPTER XX. Whon Tom. seated on Salndln, over took Ardea on tho morning after the nljrht of offenses, she greeted him qulto R8 If nothing had happened, challeng ing: him gaily to a gallop with tho val ley head for Its goal, and refusing to be drawn Into anything more serious than Joyous persiflage until they wore re turning at a walk down a boulder strewn wood road at the back of tho Dabney horse pasture. Then, and not till then, was the question of Nanoy Bryerson'a future suffered to presont itself. "I thought of It last night."-said-Ardea, nodding toward a cabin, near the Major's kennels. "It Is Just the. place' for Nancy, If she can not, or will not, go back to her father. After break fast, I shall send Dinah and a man up lo set things In order, and she can como as soon as she Uke3. She won't mind tho loneliness. Japheth will go after her when we are ready; and If you are prudently wise you will havebuslneas In South Tredegar for the next few days." "That looks like dodging; and I don't like to dodge." "You will have to do many things you don't like," she remarked. "But you shall be permitted to carry your full share of the burden. I mean to let you give me some money, If you can afford It, and I'll spend It for you." "Charity Itself couldn't bo kinder," he asseverated. "And, luckily, I can afford It, But " He was looking at her wistfully, and the old longing for sympathy, for the sympathy which has been quite to the bottom of the well where truth lies', was about to cry out against this riv eting of the fetters of misunderstand ing and false accusation. "But you would rather spend it your self?" she broke In, fancying she had divined his thought. "That can not be. The one condition on which I shall con sent to help is the completest isolation for Nan. You must promise mo you will not try to see her. I am hoping against hope that none of the Mountain View avenue people will find out what you did last night" "I'll keep out of her way, if you can keep her out of mine. All I care Is to know that she is comfortably provid ed for." In the comment of the simpler-minded" Gordonia fo'lk, the Iron -master's son Jjad finally "made it up" with Nancy, ana1 here the note of approval was .iot wholly lacking. There were good liearted souls to say that boys will fc toys, and to express the hope that Tom would go on from this beginning and make an honest woman of Nancy by marrying her. But Tom did not know of It. Ho was In the crucial month of the panic, year, striving desperately to maintain the foothold given to him by tho plpo castlng invention, and he had little time for the amenities. So it came about that he escaped for the moment; or, which was quite the same, he did not know he was pursued. Another Northern city, with Its full complement of grafting officials, was In the mar ket for some train-loads of water mains, and again Thomas Jefferson was fighting the old battle of con science against expediency, this time in tho evil-smelling ditches where the dead and wounded lie. "You are sure you went Into It thor oughly, Norman?" he demanded of his lfeutenant, when the latter returmd from a personal reconnaissance of the field. "The break they are making nt ub seems almost too rank to be taken at Its face value." "Oh, yes; I dug It up from the bot tom," said the henchman. "It's rotten and riotous. The political machine runs the town, and the bosses own the machine. So much to this pno, so much to that, so much to half a dozen others, and we get the contract." "That comes straight, does U?" "As straight as a shot out of a gun. They got together on it, eight of the. big bosses, called me in and told me flat-footed what ve had to do," said the salesman. "Oh, I tell you, those fellows are on to their Job." "No chance to go behind the returns and stir up popular indignation, as we did In Indiana?" suggested Tom. "No show on top of earth. The rJriu owns or controls two of the dailies, and has the other two scared. Besides, they've Just had their municipal elec tion." To prepare for the new exigency, Tom took the afternoon local for South Tredegar. The lump sum required for the bribery was considerably in excess of his balance In bank. Notwithstand ing the stringency of the times, he made sure he could borrow; but it was In some vague hope that the moral chasm might be widened to Impassi bility, or decently bridged for him, that he was moved to state tho case In do tall to President Hennlker of the Iron City National. Mr. Vancourt Hennlker could dig ditches, on occasion, making them too vast for tho boldest borrower to cross; but Tom's credit was gilt edged, and In tho present Instance the prosldent chose rather to build bridges. "We have to shut our eyes to a good many disagreeable things In business, Mr. Gordon," ho said, genially didactic, "Our problem In' this day and genera tion is so to draw tho line of distinc tion that these necessary concessions to human frailty will not debauch us; may be mode without prejudice tq that high sense of personal honor and In tegrity which must be tho corner-stone of any successful business career. This state of affairs which you describe is deplorable most deplorable; but well, v may think of such obstacles as we do of toll-gates on tho highway, The road is a public utility, and t should be free; but wo pay the toll, under protest, and pass on." yff Hennlker was a large man, be- nlgn and full-fa vored, not to-sayiunc-s tuous; nnd his manner In ' delivering an opinion was blandly .Imprcsslvo. tand convincing to many. Yet Tom was not convinced. "Of course, I camo to ask for tho loan, nnd not specially to Justify It," he' said, In mild Irony which was qulto lost on the philosopher. In tho presi dent's chair. "I wasn't sure Just how you would regard It If you should know the object for which wo are borrowing, and this high sense of personal honor you speak of Impelled mo to bo alto gether frank with you." "Quito right; you wero quite, right, Mr. Gordon." said tho banker, urbanely! "You aro young In business,, but. yoii, have learned tho first lesson In the book of success to be porfectly opon and outspoken with your banker. As I have said, the Yenallty of theso men with whom you are dealing Is most do plorable, but There was some further glozlng over of the putrid fact, a good bit of'lt, and Tom sat back In his chair and listened, outwardly respectful, Inwardly hot hearted and contemptuous. Was this smooth-spoken, oracular prlnco of tho market-place a predetermined hypo crite, shaping his words to lit tho money-gathering end without regard to their demoralizing effect? Or was ho only a subconscious Pharisee, self-deceived and complacent? Tom's thought ran llghtnlng-Uke over the long list of the Vancourt Hennlkers: men of tho business world successful to the Croe sus mark, large and liberal benefactors, founders of colleges, libraries and hos pitals, gift-givers to their fellow men, Irreproachable In private life, and yot apparently stono blind on the side of the larger equities. Could it be possi ble that such men deliberately admit ted and accepted tho doublt standard In morals? It seems fairly lncredlM-. and yet their lives appeared to pro claim it. Having obtained the sinews of war, Tom kept the appointment with Nor man, and their Joint discussion of the business situation made him too late for the early dinner at Woodjawn. To complete the delay, the evening train lost half an hour with a hot box at a point a mile short of Gordonia. Two things came of theso combined time killings: a man in a slouched hat and tho brown Jeans of the mountaineers, who had been watching tho Woodlawn gates since dusk from his hiding-place behind the field wall across tho pike, got up stiffly and went away; and Tom reached home Just In time to Intercept Ardea on the steps of the picturesque veranda, "Been visiting the little mother?" he asked, when she paused on the step above him. "Yes no; I ran dver to tell you that we moved Nancy to-day." "Oh! Well, that's comfortable. Sho was willing?" "Y-es: almost, at first; and altogeth er willing when I told her that I that she " There was an embarrassed mo ment and then the truth came out "Perhaps I should have asked you first: but she was quite satisfied when I told her that she owed her changed condi tion to the person whose duty It was to provide for her. You don't mind, do you?" "No, I don't mind," he said, absently, and the under-tHought dealt savagely with Nan with a woman who, for tho sake of the loaves and the fishes, and the shielding of the real offender, would, suffer an Innocent man .0 go to the so cial gallows for lack of the word which would hatfe cleared him. He laughed rather bitterly and added, out of the heart of the under-thought: "I'm glaJ I'm not naturally Inclined ,to be pes simistic." "What makes you say that?" "Because, after hearing" he Changed his mind suddenly, and transferred tho hard word from Nan to Mr, Vancourt Hennlker "after what I've been hear ing this afternoon I find myself more in tho notion of weeping with the an gels than of laughing with the devils." "What has happened?" she asked, sympathetically alive to his need !n one breath, ' and keenly apprehensive for her own peace of mind in the next. "An exceedingly small thing, as tha world's measurements go. I was In town, and made a business call on Mr. Hennlker. He's a member of your church, isn't he? I needed some money to bribe a lot of pplltlcal grafters In n Pennsylvania city whero I'm trying to sell a bill of water-pipe. I went to Mr. Hennlker to borrow It" "And, of course, he wouldn't let you have It for any such wretched' pur pose!" she flamed out. "No, you are mistaken; It's Just tho other way around. I told him what It was for. hoping rather vaguely, I think, that he'd sit on me and make tho crime Impossible. But he didn't. Ho took the troublo to try to explain away my scruples; made.lt seem quite a virtu ous thing before ho got through. You wouldn't believe It now, would you?" "But, Tom! you didn't take the mon ey?" "How could I refuse so good a man 7 Norman Jb on hJs way to Pennsylvania at this present moment, with a letter of credit In his pockot big enough to make the mouth of even a professional graft er water. At least, I hope It is big enough." She was hurt, shocked, horrified, and ho knew It and found pleasure of a cer tain sort In tho knowledge. When a man has done violence to his own best Impulses, the thing that somes nearest to tho holy Joy of penitence Is the un holy Joy of making somebody else sor ry for him. There were unmistakable tears In her volco whon she said: "Tom, why havo you 'told me this this unspeakable thing?" "Why I guess It was because I wnted to ask you how you supnosed the Mr. Hennlker kind of men auarf tura tnings with their consotenoct CT don't they havo any consclcnco." "Whnt can I say to holp you, Tom? I would do anything that a truo rnonci may bo!" "There might havo been a thing! but you haye mado It impossible No, don't freozo mo again It's tho last time. If I could have wbn your lrfvo but what Is the us.s of trying to put it lrt words; you know you havo always known. And now It Is too lato." For a slnglo Instant Vincent Farloy's necr Traco coal lands trembled In tho balance AnSna forgot him, forgot Nan, thought or .nothing but tho passlonat'o yoarntnn that was drawing her Uko gripping hands toward tho man who had barod hfi Inmost heart to her. "It Is not too late for you to bo a man, noble, upright, honorable. Lot tho world find that for which It Is looking, my friend my brother: tho strong man nrmed who can stand whero othora faint and fall. Oh, I wish I knew how to say tho word that would make you tlje man you wero meant to bo I" When It was said, sho was gone and tho sound of the closing door was In his carB when ho turned and went slowly down the driveway and out on the white pike, lying Uko a snowy rib bon under tho Decotnlr sfars. On tho highway ho hung undecided for a mo ment; but an hour later, William IJtyne, driving homeward Trom South Tredegar, overtook him plodding slow ly southward far beyond tho head of Paradise; and It was nenrlng midnight whon ho tvnn hack, naclns steadily paat the Deer Trace and Woodlawn gates and holding his way down tno piko 10 Gordonia. Tho railway station was his goal; arid when ho h'nd aroused tho sleepy night operator and gained admittance, ho sat at the telegraph table to write a message. It was to Norman, ad dressed to Intercept tho salesman r.t the breakfast stop. "Cancel Pennsylvania dato and como In, at once to take managership of plant," was tho wording of It; and at the breakfast-tablo the following morn ing Tom announced his Intention of leaving tho Industrial plow In tho fur row whllo he should go to Boston to complete his course in tho technlci school. (To bo continued.) TVny-Ko or WucU-ICot Every town has Its right to pro noun cn its name in Its own way, but Texaris never seemed to get together on the pronunciation of the name "Waco." Years ago Texas was repre sented by two rather ancient sena tors, one of whom called the town "Way-ko," whereas the other insisted It was "Wauk-ko." The reading clerk had a merry time. If the word were read one way tho opposing senator would make a com plaint, and vice versa. It recalls tho time when Arkansas was represented In the senate by Garland and Walker. One Insisted that the state should be called "Arkansas," just as it Is spelled. The othor always Insisted upon "Arkansaw." John J. Ingalls, who was presiding officer of the sen ate In those days, had the matter down to such a nicety that ho would recocnlzo the one as "tho senator from 'Arkansas,'" and the other as "the senator from 'Arkansaw,' " being verv careful to give each Benator his favorite pronunciation. Washington correspondence St. Louis Star. ' The New lien. ""Of the lato Atherton Blight, one of tho founders of fashionable Newport, a Philadelphlan said at tho Rltten house Club: "Mr. Blight was amused by the antics of the militant suffragettes. At a Christmas luncheon at the Bellevuo he once sat next to a lady with suf fragette notions. Plovers' eggs, hard boiled, formed one cqurso, and the lady called Mr. Blight's attention to the high cost of plovers' eggs this year. " 'Even though, she said, 'they have to be shinned from England, I don't see why their price should have near ly doubled, do you?' "'Well er not exactly, murmured Mr. Blight, 'though they do say that tho hen nlovera have taken to acting very oddly of lato strutting round, and growing topnots and spurs, and even trying to learn to crow.'" CourtHhlp CIum for Jap (ilrU. Janan has killed the last doubt as to Its modern progress by the' organ ization of a "class or courtsnip" ror girls in each of the secondary schools. The Japanese maidens aro taught that if they "should bo so unfortunate as to fall in love before becoming en t?n ere u they must conceal tho fact. Above all they must remember that women never propose. Another thing, they are warned that well bred girls do not exchange photographs with their admirers. In Japan until now there haB not been any troublo about courting, and this Is tho first evidence that tho Japanese maidenB need In struction in affairs of the heart. ClasseB to the contrary, however, tho point Is maintained that there Is not a Juliet under tho sun who does know tho exact formula for dealing with a Romeo. KntflUh Wdiiiiiii Visitor. An English visitor in this country lb Lady Coleridge, widow of tho late lord chief Justice of England, who died In 1S91. Sho was Miss Amy AugUBta Jackson Lawford, and sho was Intrust ed to his caro returning homo in Eng land after a visit in this country. Thoy foil in lovo with ono another on tin trip across tho ocean nnd the marriage resulted. Sho haa not visited tho coun try since. Huil lluve, "Who was 'Tho Woman with tho rornent'B TongUO?' " ' The Woman with the Sorpent Topgue?' That must nayo neon cioo paira." Houston Post. A new putty knife, tho Invention of a Now Yorker, has a scraper attached xnayo tho Burclus DUtty. II'S LAST Weasel Moro Than Match for Air Prowler. Tragedy of the Woods That Shows Small Anlmnl Has courage nnu Is Slow to Lose Prcscnco of Mind. m nninml 1b nioro dainty or more tvi.imm in his hnbltfl than tho wen- TT otnnls tho froSllOBt CKKH, HO- IcJts tho tendorost chickens of tho brood nnd will somotlnios Itm sovenw for a slnglo meal, sucking tho warm blood and eating only a small bit of tho llesh. Tho fact that tho weasel Is Bly and cunning doos not detract In tho loast from hla courage. Ho ntlcks not at nt'.ncklng an onemy much larger unci ntrongcr than hlmBolf, and novor Iobob his wits ovon In moments of groat peril. Tho following Is a case in point: Tu-n wood ciittors wero eating tholr midday meal upon tho bordor of a for est In New York stnto whon thoy no ticed n largo hawk circling In tho sky ovorhcad. ovldcntly with hla oyo unnn Romothlntr nonr thorn. Ho was gradually narrowing his circles whllo approaching tho ground, nnd It was apparent that ho would Boon urop upon his victim. Cautiously tho men Invostlgaioa, and presently thoy camo upon a wea sel Btrotchcjl out upon tho warm Fldo of a log not far away, probably huh- nine himself after a long mornings sIpod. for tho weasel does his work nt night This was no doubt tho proy off wblch tho hawk had a mind to niako hla dinner, but tho woasol qui etly blinked at tho sun, either uncon scious of tho dnngor or Indlfforont to It. Just then tho hnwk camo gilding down swift nnd sure nfl an arrow, seized tho wcosol with his powerful talons and roso ngoln almost, porpon- dlcularly. It looked as u mat weasoi s finish wero close at hand. Soon, however, tho rnovomonts of thp big bird becamo strnngo nnd un natural. HIb wings workod rapidly and convulsively, as If making a groat effort to BUBtnln flight. Then ho be gan to sink, slowly at first and with frequent recovorles, till, finally, ho fell straight like a plummet to tho ground, (load. From undor tho out stretched wings of the hawk cropt tho weasel, apparently unharmed. It was plainly to be aeon what had hanncned. Tho weasel had aulckly stretched his long- supplo neck up un der tho hawk 8 wing, stuck his teeth Into a vital part and sucked out tho life blood. Tho muscles of tho hawk relaxed as the blood was rapidly drained. There wns a last desperate effort at flight, tho wings flapped uselessly In the air and tho heaviness of death brought him swiftly to tho ground al most upon tho apot whoro tho weasoi had been baaklng In the aun. THE FIRST LIGHTNING HUD Dohemlnn Prlost Antfrdntwd Franklin In Exporlmonti With Conductor for Lightning. Though Franklin will contlnuo to receive tho honor tlint la hla duo nn tho Invontor of tho first prnotloal lightning rod, tho study of ntmosphor. Ic electricity gooa bnck nt lonst to tho tlmo of TuHIiih llosllHus, who porishod In an nttmiipt lo "draw ilro from tho sky." Clccuo, In ono of hla orations ngnlnat Oatllno, calln atten tion to tho destruction of tho glldocl stntuo of UomuhiH by llghtnlnfj ns an evil onion. A lightning bolt vividly doscrlbcd by Virgil In tho eighth book of tho Aonold dnmngod tho hind legs of tho bronzo Cnpltollno Wolf, nnd tho visitor to tho Cnpltollno Mu- nniitil IfldnV Call Still (HflCOm thO mnrks upon tho motnl. A loarnod priest by tho namo of Dlvlsch la nnld j to havo orcctod tho llrf t lightning con-1 ductor In Europo. Ho Bot It up nt ! Promllz, Ilohomla, In 1704. and It wan J 130 foot high. Though tho Emporor I Stophon nnd tho Emproaa Mnrla Tho-1 rosa publicly proclnlmod tholr conll donco In tho Invontor, a most dlna trous drought that nflllctod tho coun try a year lator wna nscrlbod by tho superstitious populnco to tho now fnn- glod dovlco, nnd Dlvlsch wna com-, nollod to tnko It down. It Ib not nrob- ; ablo that Franklin was ncqunlntod ' ! with nlvlscb's oxr)orlnipntt FASHION HINTS One Piece of Good Fortune. Secretary of War Dickinson, who Is authority on lore and munnors of tho southern negro, tells this Btory to show tho colored man's quaint senso of humor: John G. Lethar, n business man of Nashville, wns walking along tho strpot one day, when ho mot Sllns Green, an old negro ho had employed at various times. Silas scorned lo ho swathed in bandages from head to foot, nnd ho was walking with a per ceptlblo limp. "Why, whnt'a tho matter with' you?" asked Lethar. "Lawd, Boss, ain't you dono hoonl do news?" quorlod Silas In disappoint ment "No," rf-iMod lethnr. "Tall me about It, Silas?" "Well, Doss, you boo. It wna thlc way. Ah waa pulntln a Iiouhb roun' byuh, an' Ah wna high up on a scaffo!'. Do scaffor broke, an' Ah foil. Lnwd, Hobs, It wna awful, tur'blo! Ah brok this hyuh lef wrlB', an' Ah skun my lof lalg up hyuh 'bovo do knoo, an' down hyuh Jos' 'bovo do anklo Ah broke riiy lalg. An' Ah snoc' Ah would hab dono kilt myso'f of It hndn' boon fo' a pllo ob brick what broko my fall eomo." Tho Sunday Mngazlno, This afternoon gown of vclvef, which it quite the thing for cliewy wear, shows n pretty watt, effuct. The lapels are of fatin, put on wrong-sitle-up fashion. The ovcnklrt arrangement it nlca novel. Compelled. "Havo you alwaya boon In tho show business?" I asked tho slx-foot-olght contortionist. "Oh, no," ho hastened to Bay, "I bo gan work as a commercial traveler. and was on tho road selling goods for llftoen years." "Then what in tho world put It Into your head to bocomo a contorltonist?" I questioned. "I was compollod to bocomo ono," ho told mo, hlB volco vibrant with what, I Bubsoquontly learned, wna resent ment over past ImpoBitlona, "I was compollod to become ono by tho little, measly hotel beds I had to sloop In." Tho Cost, Seymour I don't bellovo that Wall man haa a Blnglo onomy among all hla neighbors; overy ono of thorn apoaka of him aa If ho wero tho boat man In all tho world. Aanloy Well, I gueaa that's right; but Wallmnn hna to pay protty high for tholr good opinion; every year ho ban to invoat in a now lawn movor. When They're About. "Sho looks very Borlous." "Yea, but thero la nothing sorlou about her uaually, a couplo of como wi . rivals for her hand." Mtan Trlok to Play on Rival. A characteristic nnecdoto Is told of f'herublnl, tho most Jealous of tho Ir ritable genus of composers. Ho had hton prevailed upon to bo proaont nt tho first ruproaontatlon of tho work of t confrere, and, during tho flrat nqt, which wero much applauded by tho public, ho hnd kopt a gloomy allenco. Tho third act wns loss favorably ro '' Ived, nnd a certain panaago oapoclal 'v seemed to cast n cold blanket over "i" spectator, whon tho old mnostro, the'tuctonlBhrnent of his frlonda, waa "fn to applaud hoartlly. "Do you really like that duo?" nskod on of Utem; "I 'should havo thought It waa ow of tho poorest and coldest In tho whole opora." "You Idiot," aiiHWorod tiip mapatro, with gonnlno nnlvoto, "don't you soo that if I did not applaud ' he mlxht poxKihly out it out?" Too Quick With Scorn. That marvoloua story of tho British oxpodltion to Now Oulnon, with Its discovory of a now pygmy raco, re minds a writer that in tho past atny-nt-homo peoplo havo aomotlmoa orrod in treating travolora' tnloa with acorn. Thoro waB, for inBtnnco, tho doflcrlp Hon by JnmoB nruco in 1770 of tho barbnrous Abyflalnlun custom of eat ing raw moat cut from tho living nnl mal which was rldlculod by ovorybody. Yot Ilruco has ovon rocontly boon proved right. When Paul Du Clmlllu oxplorod onuatorlnl Africa in lfifll and doscrlbod tho wondorful gorlllaa nnd nlso tho nation of dwarfs thoro ho was discredited nono too politely by tho British Hoynl Geographical society. Yot Hiibsoquont explorers amply vindi cated his voracity. No Cause for Comnlalnt. Customer I ordered a gallon of Irish whisky last wook, nnd I find that what you sent mo wbb jnado In Now York. Doalor Well, I don't boo whoro you havo any kick coming. Isn't Now York rlah enough to ault you? One I heory, "I wondor why tho, doctor alwayii wants you to Btlck out your tongue?" "Probably to cut short a lot of gab, my dear." wnaiord ,d t to al 0fl9 of over rJJ this 40 yoara I D WHUn, tenant Par ft Milllln nM ,!n,,t aot onco hn rmn.., Wreit, Quito n. t.... " on. against which wo nro .,J'rtt aro Inn 1a uro lWlTik.. ftd bunions m 0f 7 "H tcnlnrr nf n, . lv Prodis with tho PaeullarirL?M cannot .t, ',B naM twjl Bet thorn a little tooL? little too wld6 it V'SI Itvn ' 11 " til UihTJ Qweden'i ChTT. . Th A nfc....l. I .... . rC" B0l tutoV in k ";:Bi lo Borvtc f-n '.l .rltOii 11" Slljw to Uk'an &rBi,H routo Id tlin tJ nlant, and so th l4 farm to farm nW fv.!' J tin the Chun.,;. :;BD.or bythe8amoroute.-Wla, Tho Humoroui and the Wl-t.iJ Tho humorouti .tor, ! I M work of nrl lice .j , .rli nnd tho wlttv ia-... ..J it The art' Him TV Mory-undcrxtnnd. ' own K ...v,iv.u, luiu aai remained ii Mark Twain Sown Oat, uiiii, miner, - nnid Anputci FrHi twelve yonra oM. n m Ing punched Sobrwllan ClandJtS toon yenra old. for bAln in ' of n packet of n0o of th, 1 iwuituu ni'luvilinRT fit Mm 1 ...... . ... . T H na wnon i wnHpieit"-.MfM Cnttte Prom tH Tho cnttlo raised on He frfcpjl ino annnra aro Known to be of i quality and nro PSfmatM it ! houd. With n little t cienlflt during tho dry season their ttsta might rapidly bo JncreiuM imo Soudan region might bccoiza i M of second Arr' ntlnn, (,' Above All Othert Tho dcepcBt coal mine liwul bort, Belgium, S.G00 feet ittv. I biggest dock la nt Cardiff, nnd tho atrongcat electric Hjbtlu tho Sydner liehthouia. An-.!. whllo tho largest llghlhome Hi Capo Henry, Virginia, belnjllll high. Very Fait Tho electric ventilating fane! wnll of tho restaurant iru round. A jrentleman vhohiil oxtrcmoly well aat looking at Iti flomo tlmo. "Walter." he con&ii at last, "that clock's fattr-Posl Dally Thought Thnnch we nonr Into the Itm though wo ahould sink Into tie liff wo never go out of ourieli;. nlwnya our own thought mnr c'elvo. Con",',, i Big Bank's Buslneu Mtthca- j Boforo discounting nnj p?r. tlnnk of Rnclnnd require! t la , I O f I at nnmA nnft I rauit bo tho ncreptor It itWoaWJ : over ?1 50.000 0'K) In Will okw i xiod nocurltles nf nil kinds. No Humiliation In Apo!W ir you mnlco a mwa -' i hnalrnte to tW ! it ...in mnVc vnn blrirer, broiser. prm-, and mil prove you aca j ctond of a c'': i i. a.Mnm Harmful. No lln enn h'-rt a mu WJJ time. Thero Ib lime " ' , your tlmo trying to cortc. Itiolf will clronll'ce a H ngnlnat tho ar-rnr.. JiiaiArHFP FUR CO. ..7i i . ...nKlriwI a pci'! J.a o rt ririt and front Sl..l- ..hi HI ., Ilt Dr.Hhu sen K'wt',T. iVTiHra EVE DOOKH am - cjw Murlnooitoi"--