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elda Dameron MEREDITH Coprricbt. 1904, by CHAPTER VI. (Continued.) Merriam tapped his riding coot with he whip he had kept In his hand. "Yes: the war's over." he said, "our war. There's been another since, but It's preposterous to call that Spanish dress-parade and target practice war." The two men went out together, and Major Congrieve twitted Merriam bout the thoroughbred's pedigree. Til see you again before you go, Luncheon to-morrow at the Tippeca noe Club? That is well. Good-morn ing!" As Merriam rode out toward the street. Captain Pollock came from one of the storehouses and walked briskly across the grounds In the direction o the olllce. A curve In the path brought him face to face with Rodney Merriam who saluUd him with his right hand. "Good-morning. Mr. Merriam!" and the young officer lifted his hat Captain Pollock's eyes followed the houseman to the gate. "I don't know who you are, Mr. Mer rlam, or what you do," he reflected "but the sight of that horse makes m homesick." "He's a nice little fellow," Merriam was saying to himself, as he passed the gate and turned toward the city. "He's a nice little fellow; and so was his father!" As the thoroughbred bore him rap Idly back to town, ROdney Merriam Beveral times repeated to himself ab stractedly: "He's a nice little follow CHAPTER VII. It Is no longer so very laudable for a young man to pay his way through college; and Morris Leighton had done this easily and without caring to be praised or martyrized for doing so. He had enjoyed his college days; he had been popular with town and gown; and he had managed to get his share o undergraduate fun while leading his classes. He had helped in the college library; he had twisted the iron letter press on the president's correspond ence late into the night; he had copied briefs for a lawyer after hours; but he had pitched for the nine and hustled for his "frat," and he had led class rushes with ardor and success. Pie had now been for several years !n the offices of Knight, Kittredge & Carr at Mariona, only an hour's ride from Tippecanoe; and he still kept in touch with the college. Michael Carr fully appreciated a young man who took the law seriously and who could sit down in a court room on call morn ings, when need be, and turn off a de murrer without paraphrasing it from a text-book. Mrs. Carr, too, found Morris Leigh ton useful, and she liked him, because lie always responded unquestioningly to any summons to fill up a blank ut 3ier table. Young men were at a pre xnlum in Mariona, as in most other places, and It was something to have one of the species, of an accommodat ing turn, and very presentable, within telephone range. It was through Mrs. Carr that Leighton came to be well known in Mariona; she told her friends to ask him to call, and there were now many homes besides hers that he vis ited. An errand to a law firm In one o the fashionable new buildings that had lately raised the Mariona sky-line led him one afternoon past the office of his college classmate, Jack Balcomb. ".I. Arthur Balcomb" was the inscription on the door. Leighton had seen little of Balcomb for a year or more, and his friend's name on the ground-glass door arrested his eye. Two girls were busily employed at typewriters in the anteroom, and one of them extended a blank card to Mor ris and asked him for his name. The girl disappeared into the inner room and came back instantly followed by Balcomb, who seized Morris' hand, dragged him in and closed the door. "Well, old man!" Balcomb shouted. Tra glad to see you. It's downright pleasant to have a fellow come in oc casionally and feel no temptation to take his watch." Morris cast his eyes over the room, which was handsomely furnished. There was a good rug on the floor and the desk and table were of heavy oak; an engraving of Thomas Jefferson hung over Balcomb'g desk, and on the opposite side of the room was a table covered with financial reference books. "What is your game just now, Jack, if It isn't impertinent? It's hard to keep track of you. I remember very well that you started in to learn the wholesale drug business," said Morris. "Oh, tush! don't refer to that, as thou lovest me! That is one of the darkest pages of my life. Those peo ple down there in South High street thought I was a Jay, and they sent me out to help the shipping clerk. Wouldn't that Jar you! Overalls and a hand truck. I couldn't get out of that fast enough. Then, you know, I went to Chicago and spent a year in a broker's office, and I guess I learned a. few up there. Oh, rather! They sent me into the country to sell mining stock and I made a record. They kept the printing presses going overtime to keep me supplied. Say, they got afraid cf me; I was too good!" "What's your line now? Real estate, mortgages, lending money to the door? How do you classify yourself?" "You do me a cruel wrong, Morris, a cruel wrong. Y'ou read my sign on the outer wall? Weil, that's a bluff. There's nothing In real estate. And the loan business has all gone to the bad people are too rich; farmers are rolling In real money and have it to lend. There was nothing for little Wil lie in petty brokerages. I'm scheming promoting and I take my slice off of everything that passes." "That certainly sounds well. You've learned fast. Y'ou had an ambition to le a poet when you were In college. I think I still have a few pounds of your verses In my trapi somewhere."" "And then, you remember." Balcomb went on, in enjoyment of his own rem iniscences, "I wooed the law for a By NICHOLSON Tlx Bobba-Marrill Co. while. But I guess what I learned wouldn't have embarrassed Chancellor Kent. I really had a client once, didn't see a chance of getting one any other way, so I hired him. lie was a coon. I employed him for two dollars to go to the Grand Opera House and buy a seat in the orchestra when Sir Henry Irving was giving "The Mer chant of Venice." He went to sleep and snored and they threw him out with rude, Insolent, and angry hands after the second act; and I brought suit against the management for dam ages, basing my claim on the Idea that they had spurned my dusky brother on account of his race, color and pre vious condition of serviture. The last clause was a Joke. He had never done any work In his life, except for the State. My client got loaded on gin about the time the case came up on de murrer and gave the snap away, and I dropped out of the practice to avoid being disbarred. So here I am; and I'm glad I shook the law. I'd got tired of eating coffee and rolls at the Berlin bakery three times a day. One of the typewriter operators en tered with a brisk air of business and handed a telegram to Balcomb, who tore it open nonchalently. As he read it, he tossed the crumpled envelope over his shoulder in an absentminded way. Then, to the girl, who waited with note-book and pencil in hand. "Never mind; don't wait I'll dictate the answer later. How did it work?" he asked, turning to Leighton, who had been looking over the books on the ta ble. 'How did what work?" 'The fake. It was a fake telegram. That girl's trained to bring In a mes sage every time I have a caller. If the caller stays thirty minutes, It's two messages in other words, I'm on a fifteen-minute schedule. I tip a boy in the telegraph office to keep me sup piled with blanks. It's a great scheme. There's nothing like a telegram to create the impression that your office a seething caldron of business." "You have passed the poetry stage, beyond a doubt But I should think the strain of keeping all this going would be wearing on your sensitive poetical nature. And It must cost something." Tt does, but Carr keeps a whole corps of rascals to spread apple-but ter on the Legislature corn-bread." You'd better speak to him about it. He'd probably tell Mrs. Carr to ask you to dinner right away." "Oh, that will come in time. I don't expect to do everything at once. You may see me up there some time; and when you do, don't shy off like a colt at the choo-choos. By the way, I'd like to be one of the bright particular stars of the Dramatic Club if you can fix it You remember that amateur theatricals are rather in my line." He looked at his watch and gave the stem-key a few turns before re turning It to his pocket You'll have to excuse 'me, old man. I've got a date with Adams. He's a right decent chap when you know how- to handle him. . I want to get them to finance a big apartment house schenvj. I've got an idea for a flat that will make the town sit up and gasp." "Don't linger on my account, Jack, I only stopped In to see whather you kept your good spirits. I feel as though I'd had a shower bath. Come along." Several men were waiting to see Bal comb In the outer office and he shook hands with all of them and begg them to come again, taking care to mention that he had been called to the Central States Trust Company and had to hurry away. He called peremptorily to the pass ing elevator-car to wait, and as he and Leighton squeezed into It, he con tinued his half of an imaginary con versation in a tone that was audible to every passenger. 'I could have had those bonds, if I had wanted them; but I knew there was a cloud on them the county was already over Its legal limit. I guess those St Louis fellows will be sorry they were so enterprising here we are! And then in a lower tone to Leigh ton: "That was for old man Damer on s benent. uia you see mm jammea back in the corner of the car? Queer old party and as tight as a drum. When I can work off some assessable and non-Interest bearing bonds on him, It'll be easy to sell Uncle Sam's Treas ury a gold brick. They say the old man has a daughter who Is finer than gold; yea, than much fine gold. I'm going to look her up, if I ever get time. You'd better come over soon and pick out an office. So long!" Leighton walked back to his office In good humor and better contented with his own lot CHAPTER VIIL Well, I butted in all right" said Balcomb, cheerfully. "I suppose you're saying to yourself that It's another case of the unfailing Balcomb cheek." 'You're a peach, Jack, and no mis take, ag I've said before. I wish I had your nerve 'But say, they Just had to have me in this show! It proves how every little thing helps as we toil onward and upward. Y'ou know I was tenor on the glee club at college, and you'll remember that when we came over to town and gave that concert for the benefit of the athletic fund I was a winner, all right. Well, I'm going to throw my whole soul into this thin,; "You'll leave an aching void If you do- Thanks, kindly. As I was saying. I'm going to do myself and Mrs. Carr proud. She's one of the grandest wom en we ever had In this State. Mm Carr knows that all this woman's suf frage business is so much Thomas Rot She works her sisters Just for fun, and they never catch on a little bit She Just has to be president of things, and she's an ornament In the community." Leighton thanked his stars that Mrs. J carr had discovered nor tenor without his Klp. He and Balcomb were Stan 4 lng In the Carr library, where the la.it undress rehearsal of "Deceivers Ever' was about to begin. Leighton, who was stage manager, also sang In the chorus, which appeared In one act ft foresters and In the other as soldiers. Mrs. Carr always had a reason for ev erything she did. Her reason for in slating that the Dramatic Club, of which she was president, should give a comic opera was thoroughly ade quate, for at this time she was exploit ing a young musician who had lately appeared In Mariona, and who was not, let it be remembered, a mere Instructor in vocal music, but a composer as well He was a very agreeable young man who wished to build up a permanent orohestra in Mariona, and Mrs. Carr was backing this project with her ac customed enthusiasm. Nothing could help matters forward so well as a so clal success for Max Schmidt. He had written an opera, which many mana gers -had declined for the reason that the music was too good and the book too bad. "Deceivers Ever" was the name of the work, and Mrs. Carr was preparing to produce an abridged version of it on the night before Thanksgiving. The scene was set in Germany, and there were six men the gay deceivers all of them officers in the army. The chief girl character was the daughter of a new commandant of a post, but at a ball given In his honor she changed places with her maid, and no end of confusion resulted. Mrs. Carr had urged Zelda to take the principal role, and Zelda had consented, with the un derstanding that Olive Merriam was to be elected a member of the club and given a part In the opera. While Leighton and Balcomb stood talking in the library, Herr Schmidt, in the drawing-room, lectured the rest of the company in his difficult English. He .now fell upon the piano with a crash and nodded to Zelda, who began one of her solos. When tills had been sung to his satisfaction, the director called for Olive and Captain Pollock, Pollock was greatly liked by the people he had begun to know in Mario na. The men about the Tippecanoe Club had the reputation of scrutiniz ing newcomers a little superciliously, in the way of old members of a small club, who resent the appearance of strangers at the lounging-room fire side. But Pollock fitted Into places fts though he had always been used to them. He told a good story or he sang a song well, when called on to do something at the grill-room Satur day nights. Mrs. Carr had given him one of the best parts in the opera. The young officer and Olive carried off with great animation a dialogue in song into which Herr Schmidt had been able to get some real humor. "You haven't told me how much you like my cousin," said Zelda to Leigh ton, when he at down by her in an interval of parley between the director and Mrs. Carr. "I expect something nice." Isothlng could be easier. She s a great hit! She's a discovery! She's an ornament to society!" "Humph! That sounds llko sample sentences from a copy-book. A man with a reputation as an orator to sus tain ought to be able to do better than that." "Not having such a reputation "Not even thinking one has " "Oh, I'm conceited, am I?" "I hadn't thought of It before, but no doubt it's true," said Zelda, looking across the room to where Jack Bal comb was talking with his usual vi vacity to a girl in the chorus whom he had never met before. He was per fectly at ease, as though leaning against grand pianos In handsome rawing-rooms and talking to pretty girls had always been his mission in life. Morris did not follow Zelda's eyes; he was watching her face gravely. He had tried in many ways to please her, but she maintained an attitude toward him that was annoying, to say thj least. (To be continued.) BATHING TROUBLES IN JAPAN Unconventional Bathroom Arrange ments In Country Towui), The bath In Japanese inns was ofter. something of a difficulty; says a writer in the Worldwide. Once we were in vited to bathe in the kitchen, where the steaming bathtub stood amidst a little group of men, who had gathered In the room in the evening to gossip and smoke. Often the bathshed had no door, and when it had it was not Infrequently a glass one. Much as the country folk of Japan stare at foreign ers, they do not, however, take ad vantage of ' these defenseless batb rooms, so that the anticipation was al ways worse than the event. Often at the busier inns, two people have to bathe together. I have often been invited to share the bathroom with a Japanese lady guest. To avoid this awkward necessity, Z and 1 usually went to the bathroom together, and It was on these occasions that our little dog proved himself so useful It is impossible to take anything but a cotton ukata to a Japanese bath room, as there Is scarcely ever a dressing room attached to the bath rooms of the country Inns, and the room itself is wet everywhere and con tains neither peg nor shelf in fact, all Japanese guests divest themselves of their garments outside the door. So we generally tied our moneybag round the dog's neck. He was a most fero cious little watchdog and never al lowed anyone to enter our room in our absence without a noisy protest. Had we left him loose he would not have permitted anyone to enter without get ting bitten. Plctarea and Print. "I see you have sent for a lot of seed advertisements." 'Yes." answered Mr. CrossIoU. "1 always read a lot of catalogues." 'You are fond of gardening? 'That isn't gardening. That's art and literature." Washington Star. The turkey's real name was oocoo- roo, by wmcn it was known to the Cherokee Indians, and so called from Us call GIRLS PENNED IN CAR TWO TOTS PRISONERS, HUNGRY AND THIRSTY 72 HOURS. Rids from Buffalo to Hoboken Where Searching Railroad Officials Find Them Unconscious Vic tims of Boys' Prank. New York. Two small girls who were penned In a pitch dark refrlgera-. tor car by boys whose sense of humorj was abnormal were found lying In the car when it reached Hoboken from Buffalo. mv A -l- 1 A. 1 1- A i uey wwr not uuib w wain, ii wtusi some time before thye could speak They had been seventy-two hours without food or drink or sufficient air. That they were alive at all was a thing to wonder at. Mary Monl Is 10 and Nelsle De For- ko la 8. Both girls live at 21 Indiana street, Buffalo. The two girls used. every day to run around the Lacka wanna freight yards In Buffalo. Boys of their age and older hung around the freight yard. One morning a couple of these boys shouted out to loa gins: ney: meres oananas iu that car. Want some bananas T Back in that car you'll find some. G'wan in." It was an empty refrigerator car to, which the boys . pointed. The two girls clambered Into it and began po king over the floor. They beard the heavy door bang to and found them' selves In blackness. They rushed for the door and pounded on it They could hear the boys outside laughing n derision. the car door and the girls got fright ened. Tbey screamed a little and kicked with their bare feet. Pretty soon they heard the voices of the boys and knew them to be trying to open the door. The. door never budged. A little longer the two girls kicked and beat upon the door. Then Mary Moni heard Nelsle fall upon the floor of the car and begin to sob. Tbey heard an engine puffing louder every second. Bang; Mary was bump ed to the floor. There was an inter val of several minutes. Then the en gine chugged, the car gave a Jerk, and in the darkness they knew them selves to be moving. They were mov lng rapidly now. Mary coaxed NeUle up into a corner. They sat there and sobbed as the train sped. After a long time thye felt hollow and hungry. Mary and Nelsie ex plored the floor of the car. They found nothing at all. The two girls found they were to be without food or wa ter. Besides, it was so hot and stifling they found it a labor to breathe, and moving about was ex hausting. They lay perfectly still therefore, and In time the first faint ness of hunger left them. But It was intolerably hot, and thoir thirst grew. It was night now The beam of light was gone. Yet neither girl slept The roar of the train was loud and steady. Great tears rolled down their cheeks. During the first night Mary made a useful discovery, the only relief they hit upon the whole Journey. She im parted It at once to Nelsie. You take your thumb and catch the tears on' it Then you sip the tears. They are salt and inadequate, hut they cool the mouth. In experimenting with this discovery they passed the rest of the night At length the beam of light ap pared, red and pleasurable. All that day the two' lay on the floor of the car, Jolted each minute and turning from side to side. Then night came on. It is possible the girls slept fit fully, though they could not recollect having done so. The second morning found them a little weaker. They no longer spoke to each other in one syllable words. Nelsie tried to repeat a prayer. She repeated "Ave Maria" to herself several times. Then came night and as the beam of light faded Mary's consciousness faded, too, and Nelsie, who could cry no more, lapsed Jnto quietness. But when the two girls didn't come home the first night their parents had gone anxiously to the police. Some were found who had seen the children in the freight yard. F. H. C. Schoeffe. chief special agent of the Lackawan na, thereupon telegraphed Chief Beat ty of the Lackawanna special police In Hoboken to peer Instantly into ev ery empty that reached Hoboken. For two days not an empty car reached Hoboken without being examined in a hurry. On the third when a string of twenty-five empty cars came rolling in Yardmaster Dutton. who happened to be moving about the yard, pounced on refrigerator car No. 6986 and pried open the door. H Jumped Inside. There In the corner he found the two barefooted girls black with dirt. Nel sle was unconscious. it took the doctor two hours to bring both girls to. Dog Bites Off Boy's Tongue. Philadelphia. Pa. Feeding bis pet dog in a novel way, allowing the ani mal to take bits of food from bis mouth. Francis Zoraskle, six years old. of 438 Wharton street, lost the tip of his tongue. The dog clipped off a bite tn taking the food. The boy was taken to Mt Sinai hospital, but Is. not seriously hurt. Pussy's Rival. nEg it's singular how those old writers live on and on. I can under stand it in Plutarch's case. F0ggWny Plutarch, especially? Flggi His lives outnumber those of a cat RAPID maRket for poultry Quicker Bird Can Be Brought to Mar ketable Size, Greater Profit and Fewer Losses. I always push my young stock along as rapidly as possible until marketed, or until brought to maturity, says writer In the Baltimore American, This it pays to do, even when I must buy feed and at a high, price. The quicker a bird can be brought to mar ketable size or to the productive stage the greater the profit, to say nothing of quicker returns and shortened risk, Rapid growth Is always cheapest and quick returns most satisfactory. There are always fewer losses In a flock kept growing vigorously than in one al lowed to drag, and a shorter period in which chicks are a possible prey to hawks, rats and other enemies. My young stock Is never stinted After it is removed from the brooder I continue to feed regularly and as generously as before. Feed for a con slderable time consists largely of coarsely ground grains or fresh, sweet milk. For this I like corn and wheat principally at first. Later I add other grains, often omitting the wheat or feeding it whole by itself. Rye. al though chicks will not eat It whole, Is excellent cracked with other grains. Barley, also peas in small quantities, is good. As chicks become larger whole grains are gradually substituted for cracked. Rye, if fed whole, is cooked. In this shape chicks are greedy for it, and It furnishes excel lent food. AH summer I like to feed a little soft food now and then, either ground feed, shorts or bran, wet with milk or warm water. Grit I keep con omiiiijr ueiore my nocK, also pure water. GREAT VALUE OF DAIRY SIRE Important That Calf Should Have Good Parentage on Both Sides Pure Breed Are Costly. (By R. B. Roe.) Raising the heifer calves of good, high-producing cows, is a great funda mental requisite for the best and easiest improvement of a dairy herd. But those calves will take their qualities from both parents, and it is equally important that each calf should have good parentage on the male side. But an inspection of many dairy herds will show that compara tively little attention is paid to the quality of the sire. I have too often seen herds in which the heifer calves were raised for future cows, but in which the bulls used were miserable little scrubs. and weaklings, obtained by simply saving a grade calf from the herd. And of many other sires, fairly good as individuals, nothing Is known of the actual milk production of their female ancestors. There are as I view it two princi pie reasons for this. One is that un der the custom of selling the calves for veal It does not make much dif ference about their breeding. But as this custom must be changed by suc cessful dairymen and the best heifer calves raised for cows, It becomes nec essary to provide good sires. But another great reason Is that the pure-bred sire costs more money. Underlying both these is the funda mental reason that many dairymen do not yet realize the wonderful Im provement that can be wrought by a good head of the herd. Good Fly Remedy, The following Is recommended as a good home-made fly remedy: Resin, l4 pounds; laundry soap, two cakes; fish oil, half pint; enough water to make three gallons. Dissolve the resin in a solution of soap and water by heating, add the fish oil and the rest of the water. Apply with a brush. If to be used as a spray, add a half pint of kerosene. This mixture will cost seven to eight cents per gallon and may be used on cows or calves. One-half pint of this mixture is con sidered enough for one application for a cow; a calf, of course, would re quire considerably less. Two or three applications a week will be sufficient until the outer ends of the hair be come coated with resin. After that. retouch those parts where resin has rubbed off. Making a Garden, Keep the hoe going in dry weather and you will not need the watering pot often. The wheel hoe will save many a backache and do the work of three hand hoes. Plant the rows all one way north and south so the sun can strike both sides. Do not plant short rows, but let them run the whole length of the garden if need be why not? Wild strawberries have the most delicious flavor. They are easily transplanted to the garden. Spray Your Trees. Spray your trees, fruit or no fruit. It will take grit, grace and greenbacks to spray a fmlt tree without the fruit in sight It's the next crop or crops that should Interest you now. Be hopeful, be faithful, be timely, if you wish to be a successful orcbardlst. The apple crop will be a short one In 1910 and not so evenly distributed as in 1909. Look for optimistic re ports from the fellows who have axes to grind. Rape for Lambs. A good growth of rape is fine for the lambs, but some say when it is sowed In the corn it does more Injury to the corn crop than it has value. How about It? SYMBOLISM DID . NOT APPEAL Belinda Rejects Proposal of Charlla to Be Joined Together Like Hands of Clock. "Charlie," sorrowfully sighed the yqung lady In the parlor of the con crete house, on Washington avenue, "It Is nearly 12 o'clock." ' "Yes, Belinda," was the breathing response of her poetical companion, who was sitting on the sofa beside her. "the minute hand Is drawing closer and closer to the hour hand, and when the time of midnight is chimed the two hands will be even aa one. Oh, darling Belinda," he con tinued, as he literally simulated the action of the minute hand, "may not the coming together of those twOi bands be symbolical of us?" She broke away and stood firmly on, her feet. "No, Charles Henry Smith," she retorted, angrily, "those two handa' will remain as one but a single sec ond, and then the minute hand will di vorce Itself and go on Its way alone. No, Mr. Smith, a minute hand that doesn't stick isn't the kind of symbol ism I want!" Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyea. Relieved By Murine Kye Remedy. Try Murine For Your Kye Troubles. You Will Like Murine. 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That soT" 'Yes, it will take you all that time to give dinner parties to the relatives and friends who believe they ought to be invited to test your wife's cook ing." Effective Methods. Wunder Stayler is successful as a collector of bad debt. Waring That's because he takes a tent with him and camps out in front of the debtor's door. A Painful Fact. It takes a lot of waiting to bob up precisely at the moment a certain girl comes along. Bad Breath "For months I had great trouble with my stomach and used all kinds of medicines. My tongue has been actually as green aa grass, my breath having a bad odor. Two weksago a friend recommended Cascarets and after asing them I can willingly and cheerfully say that they have entirely enred me. I therefore let you know that I shall recommend them to aity one suffer ing from such troubles." Chas. H. Hal. pern, 114 E. 7th St., New York, N. V. Pleasant. Palatable. Potent Tut Good. ' Do Good. Never Sicken. Weaken or Gripe. 10c 26c. 60c. 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For over 57 years it has been making people well and keep ing them so and it will do as much for you. Try a bottle today for Indigestion, Dys pepsia, Biliousness, Cramps, Diarrhoea and Malaria, Fever and Ague. It never fails.