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SYNOPSIS.

Archibald Terhune, popular and IN
dolent young bachelor Of London, re-
ceivss news that he has been made ,.h neir
to the estate Of his Aunt Georgiana, WIN
that he become engaged to be married
within ten days. Failing to do so the
legacy will go to third cousin IN Amer- Irer
Where TIE Iord sf"EY Tnesnt SRsns and Sis WIFE
Of Terhune, are discussing plans 70 nnu
him wife within the prescribed time. II
seems that Lady Vincent is one OF seven a
churns. She decides to invite two OF them
to the castle and have Archie there as
one of the guests. Agatha Sixth strikes
Archie as handpainted beauty. Agatna
Vincent tells her husband that Agatha
Sixth already cares for Archie. He gains
from Agatha Sixth the admission that
she cares for him. but will REQUIRE q
months time fully to make up @ her ahire re-
Agatha First, neglected by Terhune, re-
ceives attentions from Leslie Freer. fous
days Of the precious time have passed
when Terhune is called to Lonoon On s
business. Agatha First. on the plea or
trip planned by the vincents. Later they
see AGATHA First picking flowers with
strange man. The Vincents discuss
Agatha's seeming duplicity The. The fotio%, oi w
old convent. Terhune continues his at
tentions to Agatha Sixth. Then sudoeny
he transfers his attentions to. Agatha
First. Vincent scores him for his appar-
ent fickleness. The last evening OF the
time allotted in which to become engaged
arrives. The following day Solicitor Burns
will arrive from London. and the Nln-
cents are anxious to consummate the en-
gagement. Vincent discovers Agatna
First and a man with his arm around
her waist Vincent decides that the man man
must be Terhune. The next morning Ter
hume and Agatha First are very frlendLy
at the breakfast table. while Agatna
Sixth seems somewhat displeased. soliei-
tor Burns arrives. The Vincents are
anxious. In an interview of Vincent , ano
his wife the latter cries in desperation
over the puzzling condition OF aHalIs.
Solicitor Barnes arrives. The Vincents
are anxious Will Terhune report an az
,fianced or a free man? Terhune teils
Lord Vincent that he proposed to Agatha
Sixth and that she had refused to marry
him. Terhune declares that II he cannot
have the woman Of his choice that ne
will sacrifice his aunt's fortune. An auto
mobile arrives. Murray Brancepeth.
Young man who resembles Terhune. steps
ont OF the machine. He has been In love
with Agatha First. and was the man IN
the checkered suit. 1t now lacks three
minutes of the time that Terhune mas for
announcing his engagement. vincent
rushes Terhune to urge Agatha Sixth TO
accept him. Solicitor Barnes Is notified
and the ceremony Is performed.
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He's deuced popular with men, certain
ly, and is unanimously returned by his
borough every election. And then, as
another excuse for what might other
wise seem his uncalled for interfer,
ence in this affair, rather think he
fancied he was doing Dearest and my
self a kindness in informing us OF the
true inwardness of the situation, that
we might at least be able to act with
our eyes open. That he meant well,
felt no doubt.
Nevertheless, could see that the
part of informant was distasteful to his
wife, who, in all probability, had been
the means of delaying execution OF
that duty so long.
These things having become clear to
us. we also perceived that the Hon.
Cecil Chiltern could not possibly be
aware of that mornings events, the
elopement of Miss Simplin and conse-
ouent sanction of Brancepeth's uncle
upon his marriage with Agatha First.
So. with one voice and mind, we un-
dertook to enlighten him, Brancepeth
and Miss Endicott having grasped the
object of his visit on the moment OF his
arrival.
81 feel it my duty" Chiltern began
again. then paused. He seemed to have
difficulty in proceeding, with all our
astonlshed tidingful eyes upon him, but
we let him get no further.
its all right! Don't worry. Have
some lunch, do, Cecil, old boy. You
look done!" added young Murray cor
daily. And 1t was a rippin' hot day,
too.
But Cecil was not to be beguiled.
"I feel 1t my duty" he reiterated
manfully. But we would have none
of 1t at all.
"oh, hang your duty" urged Brance'
peth. lightly. Its all right, / tell you
We're gong to be married, Miss Endi'
colt and l." i,
Miss simplin eloped this morning,
supplemented Agatha First.
And my uncle has given US MS
blessing" finished Brancepeth: And at
this astounding intelligence Chistern
succumbed entirely and was as clay IN
our hands.
seizlng him each under an arm we
had him sitting at the table In no time
Brancepeth was even solicitously tuck
ing napkin under the dignified gen,
tleman's chin when he came TO anu
pushed him aside with frown.
Take that thing away" he said;
I'm not child!:'
Then he caught his .--wife's eye as
Agatha Fourth, very seautitui IN ps,e
blus outfit placardt,d d down the mldaie
with lace, was .sraciously allowing
Dearest and Aga;ha First to seat mel
at the table, and they laushed-;he twe
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Agatha Sixth.

neck, it was Dearest who was falling
on Agatha First's neck.
BY Jove! 1t got rather tiresome,
though once in a while, for change,
they'd all three get up and clinch SO
tight couldn't for the life of me have
said which was my own wife.
We couldn't get anywhere at all with
the meal, and Brancepeth and began
to feel quite left out, they kept 1t up
so. But when we attempted to fall on
the necks> of Solicitor Barnes and old
Chiltern. respectively. just by way OF
getting into the game, we were rudely,
and l may say almost violently re-
pulsed, so that we were unable to find
out what the fun was in that sort of
thing at all.
1t was only when we had quieted
down somewhat, the girls and Brance
peth and myself, that Solicitor Barnes.
who had heretofore been giving his
undivided attention to his luncheon,
condescended to speak.
Where are Mr.. Terhune and his-ah
-er-fancee, if may ask?" he said.
"One would have supposed that my
clients nephew, Mr.-ah!-Mr. Ter
hune-would have had more curiosity
as to the exact value Of the property
to which he las only just become
heir"
81 suppose they're still standing on
the stairs, just where we left them,"
said my wife, ecstatically. 1.-The
dears!"
mot very comfortable place to
make love in l should say" comment
ed the solicitor dryly--he was bache-
lor himself. But l presume they hard.
ly realize where they are, poor things"
And his thin lips parted slightly in
smile of infinite pity.
But nobody else at the table seemed
at all to comprehend his sarcasm.
Quietly, unobtrusively, my wife and
exchanged glances, and irritatingly
enough Brancepeth and Agatha First,
and even the impassive Chiltern and
Agatha Fourth did the same. We none
OF us saw anything at all queer or out
of the ordinary in the conduct OF
Agatha Sixth and Terhune. You see,
we'd been there ourselves.
And as needle to its magnet, so did
the hands Of Dearest and myself, as we
sat cat-a-cornered at the table, seek
each other under the cover. And with
that clasp the last remnant of the Ill
feeling the exciting events of the past
few days had tried to make between US
vanished, and vowed, as lost myself
in the depths of those dear gray eyes.
that even as 1t had been our first mis-
understanding, by Jove! 1t should oa
our last.
THE EMO.
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BRIEF news NOTES
FOR THE BUSY NAN
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
WORLDS NEWS EPFT0MIZED
Complete Review Of Happenings Of
Greatest Interest From All
Parts of World.
Southern.

Ten thousand aouars in currency
vas stolen from mail pouch in tran
sit between Tampa and Clearwater.
Fla. The theft was discovered wheI.
the mail pouch reached ST. Peters
rurg. The pouch had a slit in one
side eight inches long. The register
ed package had been torn open, the
money extracted and the casing push
ed back in the mail bag. The money
was shipped from Tampa by the EX-
change National bank and was con-
signed to the Bank Of Clearwater at
Clearwater, Fla.
The Merchants sld Miners Trans
portation company was fined s2O,OOU
by Judge Emory Speer in the United
States court at Savannah, Ga, pur
suant to is conviction for violating
the act of the interstate commerce
act. The company was convicted OF
having Disseminated on rates on
grain shipped from Philadelphia to
Savannah and Jacksonville, Fla. Mil
Ter & Miller were found not guilty
The eSaboard Air Line and the At
lantic Coast Line railroads were fined
$4,000 each.
Declaration of the pacific intentions
of the administration toward all tne
world and a tribute to the bravery
and self-sacrifce OF the South are the
features OF letter addressed by Sec
retary of War j. NJ. Dickinson, him
self Southerner, to an organization
of Confederate veterans in Fort Worth,
Texas, which offered its service as
infantry to "our common country
The offer came from the Fort
Worth Confederate Garys," the letter
stating that by unanimous vote the
organization had directed its officers
to tender service "for duty as United
States soldiers on the Mexican bor-
Ger, or in any other capacity as vol
unteers in the present crisis involving
the welfare of our common country.
In a letter to the veterans, thanking
them for their offer, Secretary Dickin-
son says: 'It is gratifying to have
this manifestation of patriotism from
Confederate veterans
A new pest, a jointed worm, is de-
stroying the cotton crop in the vicin-
ity of Berclair, Texas. One planter
reports 400 acres destroyed in night,
with 600 additional acres threatened
The insect is active only at nighl.
Population statistics for the thir-
teenth census announced included the
following: Canton, Miss, 1920; Lau-
rinburg, n. c.. 1922.
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II LIE LuslLn cutters nave tAS-
wav the American man will wear req
brown garments this spring, and his
coats will be built with narrow Shout
ders, without padding or canvas to
speak of and shaped to the back. This
is the revelation mace at the semi
snnual exhibition of the American
Cutters Club in New York.
E S. Hastings, executor of the es-
tate of the late Grover Cleveland, and
in charge of Mrs. Cleveland's personal
affairs, issued the following statement:
TIE paragraph appearing in one oi
The weekly society publications sug
gesting that there is an engagement
of marriage between Mrs. Grover
Cleveland and Professor West oil
Princeton is net only without the
slightest justification, but is fully re-
futed by the fact that Dean West has
wife living.
Judge Noyes of the United States
circuit court in New York handed
down decision refusing to quash tae
second cotton pool indictment
against James A Patten, Eugene G.
Scales, Frank B. Hayne, William P.
Brown and Col. Robert NJ. Thompson,
the leading bull" figures. He sus-
tanned certain technical contentious,
and dismissed others. The indictment
charges conspiracy in restraint of in
terstate trade in cotton, on which the
defendants must stand trial.
The Diaz cabinet resigned in q
body at q special meeting of that
board. The reason given for the ac-
ton in an official announcement is the
belief that it will contribute to the
establishment of peace and facili-
tate the reforms which are in contem-
plation. General Diaz thanked the re-
tiring members for their efficient and
patriotic cooperation in the past and
announced that he would postpone his
acceptance or rejection until later.
Out of the tangle OF financial trans
actions which were first made known
by the collapse of Joseph G. Robin 5
chain OF banks, ruined by skyrocket
fnanciering, the grand jury drew the
Indictment OF William J. Cummins, di-
recting head of the Carnegie Trust
company of New York, for tae alleged
larceny OF s335,0OO from the institu-
tion year ago. Arraigned in court,
Cunmins pleaded not guilty, with
leave to withdraw the plea. Bail was
fixed at $4,000 and given at once.
Mothers who wished to follow the
latest fads in the nursery, must equip
their. children with printed labels
bearing the words, mo Me Bese"
(dcn't kiss me). The tags are the
result of an European campaign
against the promiscuous kissing OF
children. The wording is in Spanish
because the idea is said to have orig
mated with Queen Victoria of Spain.
On hygienic grounds, so the story
goes, the queen directed that her three
children should not be embraced
Shattered by veritable storm OF
shells, the old tattleship Texas rests
on the mud of Tangier Sound. off the
Virginia coast. The veteran of the
United States navy sank under the
spectacular craftsmanship of her new.
er sisters. The broadsides delivered
by the battleship New Hampshire at
a varying distance OF from to Z 1-2
miles were Considered remarkable by
ordnance officers. More than one'.
third of all the shots were said to
have, gone true.
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of them-Agatha Fourth relievedly
Chiltern trifie shamefacedly.

OF them-Agatha Fourth relievedly
Chiltern a trifie shamefacedly.
'Tt seems my fervor Of duty was
quite wasted" he said. "But, upon my
word, meant well. Mrs. Chiltern and
did our best to persuade Miss Endi-
colt, there, to give the thing up long
ago, until matters arranged them
selves. But she was very aeadstrong,
very indeed" And he shook his head
whimsically at his late guest and
smiled. She smiled back at him.
"And you see 1t didn't do any harm
after ALL" she told him brightly, my
being headstrong. Everything has all
worked out for the best!"
"Rather!" remarked Brancepeth, ard
emily, and threw her glance that
made her fine color rise.
For myself, l never felt more bril-
liant, and Brancepeth We'd with me in
getting up would-he humorous tele-
grams, first t, TIE ,hune's Aunt Georgy,
and then to Miss Simplin, apprisins
them of the beatifc state Of the matri'
monial prospects of himself and Arch.
"It's pity they can't be here to
share in the Joy which has been the d.
rect result of their handiwork," said
young Murray, to whom, and to his
flancee, we had confided the sentimen-
tai situation between Terhune and
Agatha Sixth.
"Rather!" said. Their presence is
the only thing lacking to make this
particular soiree as good as the third
act Of well balanced comedy, where
all the characters appear at once and
compose themselves into statuesque
groups about the stage"
YES" he agreed, "but If we're going
to have all the characters in our play
appear, we ought really to have invited
Mrs. Armistead and the three other
Agathas with their American husbands
for luncheon, to make 1t quite COM
plete.'
Right" 1 agreed, enthusiastically.
81 say, wouldn't that have been jolly?"
And We laughed delightedly. l was so
elated over everything in general, and
the outcome of Dearest's and my
matchmaking schemes in particular,
that was amused at anything at all.
But If Murray and were hilarious
you should have seen those girls!
Their consciences seemed to be worry.
inc +bon, for come reason for every
half minute they'd get up and embrace
each other and ask each other to for
give them. If 1t wasn't Agatha First
who was falling on Agatha Fourtn'a
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Washington.

A delegation OF negroes, headed by
John G. Napier, register OF the treas
TRY, and Whitfield Mckinley, ,collec-
tor of the port of Georgetown. D. c.,
called at the white house and thanked
President Taft for his action in send
ing a letter of confidence to Booker
T. Washington.
President Taft sent for Japanese
Ambassador Baron Uchida to felici-
tate with him upon the ratification
of the new treaty between this coun.
try and Japan. He took advantage
of the occasion to set at rest once and
for all the stories which have been
published from time to time during
the past two weeks that back Of the
administrations action in sending the
troops to the Mexican border was
motive of precaution against some un
expected treacherous act by japan.
Nathan Bedford Forrest of Mem.
phis, adjutant general Of United Sons
of Confederate Veterans, is in Wash.
ington to confer with officials of the
Southern Commercial Congress re-
garding his permanent association
with the work of the congress subse-
quent to the Confederate reunion, to
be held in Little Rock in May. James
Shelby Thomas, dean of the Virginia
Christian college of I.ynchburg, will
become commissioner of education OF
the Southern Commercial congress-
Sunday work in postoffices through.
out the country is to be discontinued
so far as is consistent WITH the ia
cilitation of the transmission Of mail
In the important postoffices only such
work as will prevent congestion and
delay of mails must be done. Mails
will be received and dispatched as
heretofore, while arrangements will
be made for limited delivery
through the general delivery windows
The distribution of mail to boxes and
special delivery will be continued.
The governments receipts from in.
ternal revenue are at their higl-water
mark. During the fiscal eight months
of the present fiscal year $199,837 ,OSO
was collected
The census bureaus report shows
the cotton crop of 1910 to be 1891.
563 bales, counting round as halt
bales and including linters, compared
with 10,396,20S for 1909. Included in
the statistics for 1910 are: Linters,
397,592 bales; sea island cotton, go.
36S bales; round, 112,SS7 bales. The
average gross weight of the bales is
5O1.2 pounds for 1910, compared with
1866 for 1909. Expressed in equiva.
lent 50O-pound bales, the 1910 crop is
11,9G9,757, compared with 10,315,3S2
for 1909. Cotton estimated by gin.
ners and delinters as remaining to be
ginned amounts to 7O,169 bales.
The so-called Mexican situation
cleared considerably IN Washington.
The attitude of the United States
government has been made plain, and
there need no longer be any doubt,
it was stated by administration off.
cials, as to what policy the president
has in view. So long as Americans
engaged in lawful pursuits are not
molested, and so long as American
property rights are protected, Mexico
need not be alarmed by the reports
CT an American invasion which have
been spread in various quarters.
There will be no move toward the
Mexican border
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.N1AzzN .oaeaaZWw Na1N AG1lllN'

next county had arrived In our midst,
unheralded even by the noise OF their
motor car, which now made itself plain
ly audible as 1t chugged its way slow
ly to cur garage, 80 intent had We been
upon the telling Of Agatha First's and
Brancepetb's tale.
Friends" said Chiltern in the wear
led. bored tones that have become ha-
bitual to him as chairman of innumera-
BILE political meetings, I'VE have come
to tell you"
1--WE feel it our duty to tell you." put
in Agatha Fourth.
THAT you are undertaking great
responsibility in allowing our former
guest, Miss Endicott, to receive the at
tentions Of" There he stopped short,
for he seemed to perceive for the first
time Brancepeth and Agatha First,
seated TRANQUILITY side by side at the
table. But In spite Of this damper, he
struggled bravely on with what lie had
evidently come with his mind made up
to say. BY this time we, Dearest and I,
had gotten an inkling of what that was.
He had come, we could see, to warn US
against encouraging the affair be-
tween Brancepeth and Agatha First
the report having at last reached him
in some way CT other that 1t was be-
ing carried on more furiously than
ever under our protection, but we had
no doubt, however, that, aside from his
personal interest In putting stop to
the thing, the man was convinced that
he was acting for Brancepeth's inter-
ests as vel, in interfering, since it
had been true enough that the lad was
so placed that he could not well afford
to offend his uncle. Chiltern is fine
fellow. all right, but he's a good deal
older than l am, and conservative in
private life as well as public. But in
spite of his tendency to preach, and an
obnoxious habit Of expecting everyone
to toe the mark as vigorously as he
does himself, rather like the old cock
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General.

After October l it will be unlaw'
ful to have common drinking" cup
in any park, public building, factory,
rheater, school, railroad station or
ferry house in New York. A regnla-
lion adopted by the board Of health
rates the common drinking cup as a
public nuisance and prescribes penal
ties to prevent its use. Commissioner
Lederle, in commenting upon the new
ordinance, points out that the pub
lie drinking cup is now regarded as
the most dangerous carrier OF infec-
tious diseases.
Aviator Louis Breguet at Douai,
France, made record performance
when he carried II passengers in his
monoplane, distance of two miles.
The flight was made at height va
ryins from fifty to seventy-fve feet.
The total weight of the twelve per
sons was 1885 pounds, and the COM
tined weight of the machine and its
occupants was 2,6O2 pounds. The
best previous performance of the kind
was NJ. lie Martin, who took up seven
passengers 4 fve-minutes trip.
Russia is on the point of address
ing to China an ultimatum fixing q
date for entire satisfaction of her de-
mands. The Chinese replies to Rus.
sia's notes dealing with the demands
of Russia in Mongolia, have been de
scribed by the Chinese government as
conciliatory, but the text in each case
has been unsatisfactory to Russia, be-
cause it has evaded the point at is
sue. The Novoe yremya, in an arti,
Gle, which betrays the irritation OF
the government, accuses the Chinese
of mockery.
Provisional census returns estimate
tine population of Austria at 2S,567,
SOS, an increase of 2,417,190, in ten
years.
Five hundred thousand dollars
100000 a year, to advertise the
South, with the Southern Commercial
Congress as a clearing house, was the
figure decided upon by advertising
agencies of the Southern states.
The strike against the Adams Elk
press company in New York, which di
rectly affected the Wells-Fargo com
pany and the United States Express
company, was declared off a, meet
ing of the strikers. Mayor GaynoI
had previously notified the strikers he
would see that policemen accompa
MED all wagons, because he did not
believe the strike was warranted.
Booker T. Washington, who was as
saulted by Albert Ulrich in New York
received letter from President Taft
in the president handwriting, in
which Mr.. Taft expresses his conf
dence in Washington.
Benjamin D. Greene is free. Tried
convicted and sentenced, with John
D. Gaynor, for the embezzlement oi
government funds at Savannah, and
confined for four years behind the
gloomy walls of the local Federal pris
on. the white-haired old man mas al
last paid to the uttermost farthing the
price society has demanded of him fo'
the crime.
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Why Maria Laughed.

Hiram paused at the door and hold
ing up a steel trap. said:
"Mariar, when you see this trap
again it will have skunk in it"
Fifteen minutes later he reap
peared
"Mariar," he yelled, "you come here
and loosen me out of this alfred
trap"
And then he got mad at "Mariar"
because she laughed.
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