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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1911-06-08

clothes quite hung on him. He was
of the story.
Max came to me while the others
were sitting around drinking night
caps and asked me In a low tone II he
could see me in the den: He wanted
to ask me something. Dial overheard.
ASK her here" he said. I'VE all
know what 1t Is, Max. Go ahead and
wen coach you"
viii you coach me?" asked. for
Mr. HARRISON was listening
THE woman does not need IT," Dial
retorted.r, And then, because Max
looked angry enough really to pro
pose to ME right there, got up hasti-
ly and went into the den. Max fol-
lowed, and closing the door. stood
with his back against it.
Contrary to the general belief. Kit"
he began, 81 did not intend to ask you
to marry me-
/ breathed easier He took couple
of steps toward me and stood with
his arms folded, looking down at me.
"I'm not at oil sure, In fact. that
shall ever propose you.' he went
on unpleasantly.
you have already done 1t twice.
You are not going to take those back,
are you, MAXI" asked. looking up at
him.
But Max was not to be cajoled. He
came close and stood with his hand
on the back of my chair. What hap
pened on the roof tonight?" he dc.
manded hoarsely.
II do not think It would interest
YOU" | retorted, coloring In spite of
myself.
mot interest mel am shut in this
blasted house; have to see the only
woman ever loved-really loved" he
supplemented. as he caught my eye.
pretend she is another mans wife.
Then sit back and watch her using
every art--all her beauty--to make
still another man love her. man
who thinks she is a married woman.
II HARRISON were worth the trouble.
would tell him the whole story. Aunt
Selma e-obliteratedl"
sat up suddenly.
III HARRISON were worth the trou-
ble!" repeated. What did he mean {?
Had he seem
81 mean Just this" Max said slowly.
There ia only ona unaccredited mem
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1911-06-08
BUSINESS WOMEN
A Lunch Fit for a King.

An active and successful young
lady tells her food experience:
Some years ago l suffered from
nervous prostration, induced by con-
tinuous brain strain and improper
food, added to a great grief.
II was ordered to give up my work.
as there was great danger of my mind
failing me altogether. My stomach
was in bad condition nervous dyspep-
STA, l think now and when Grape
Nuts food was recommended to me,
had no faith in it. However, tried
1t, and soon there was marked i'm
provement in my condition.
81 had been troubled with faint
spells, and had used a stimulant to
revive me. found that by eating
Grape-Nuts at such times | was re-
lieved and suffered no bad effects,
which was great gain. AS to my
other troubles-nervous prostration.
dyspepsia, etc.-on the Grape-Nuts diet
they soon disappeared.
Il wish especially to call the atten.
ton of office girls to the great benefit
1 derived from the use of Grape-Nuts
as a noon luncheon. l was thoroughly
tired of cheap restaurants and ordin-
airy lunches. and so made the expert
ment of taking package of Grape
Nuts food with me, and then slipping
out at noon and getting a nickels
worth of sweet cream to add to it.
81 found that this simple dish, fin.
ished off with an apple, peach, orange.
or bunch of grapes made lunch fit
for king, and one that agreed with
me perfectly.
81 throve so on my Grape-Nuts diet
that did not have to give up my work
at all, and in the two years have had
only four lost days charged up against
me.
Let me add that your suggestions
in the little book, Road to Wellville.
are, in my opinion, invaluable. espe-
cially to women" Name given by
Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich.
Read 1.-THE Road to wellville" in
pkgs
"There's a Reason"
Ever read the above letter. new,
| one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
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GYRoscoPE TO RULE WORLD
Inventors Hope by Its Aid to Make
Flight a Safe HabIt-Device to
Be Used In Autos.

A toy vender stood on the curb OF
the shopping district and shouted. In
moment the crowd gathered eagerly
and open-eyed about him. He picked
up a little, cubical pasteboard box
and stood It on the point of pencil
and 1t stayed there Next he caught
1t up by loop of thread. and it stood
out horizontally without support os-
tentatiously defying the law of gravi-
tation Then he performed his most
fetching miracle. He set 1t on an in
clined wire and down 1t went, pre-
serving It's balance with great dignity,
Then he opened the box and displayed
its contents.
Fifteen cents, ladies' and gents.
Step up and buy your gyroscope tops
three nickels, 15 cents" And the
crowd bought. For there is some.
thing irreslstibly fascinating about the
gyroscope top.
So a Connecticut Kankee of ingen-
ious mind thinks, and he is solving
the problem of safe flight In the air.
So little Irlshman in England and a
learned, practical German savant
have thought, too. The result of their
work and the work OF many others is
the coming age, the age Of the gyro-
scope. when by the aid of this marvel
Gus little instrument we shall fly safe
ly In the air. spin over the earth on a
single rail-perhapB on a single, big
wheel-sail the seas without rolling
or pitching dive down unafraid among
the fishes, revolutionize war, annihi-
late space-in short do a thousand
things of which we have only now
just begun to dream.
Stanley Y, Beach has Just con.
structed and patented an aeroplane
with gyroscope attachment to insure
perfect automatic stability. Ten thou
sand whirls minute of his gyroscope
wheel. he claims, will keep his aero
steady as a bird. The little gyrostai
will be the brains of the big mechan.
lcal flyer. 1t is the first of its kind
ever built and will probably reVolu
tionlze aerial navigation.
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could not refuse. with Mr.. HARRISON
looking on.
Rather negative" she said coldly.
THE lines are obscured by cushions
of flesh; no heart line at all. mentali-
ty small. self-indulgence and irrita-
bility very marked"
Jim held his palm up to the light
and stared at It,
"Gad!" he said Hardly safe for
me to go around without gloves. is
It'll"
1t was all we'll enough for Jim to
laugh, but he was horribly hurt. He
stood around for few minutes, talk
ing to Anne, but as soon as he could
he slid away and went to bed. He
looked very badly the next morning,
as though he had not slept, and his
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1911-06-08
CHAPTER xl.
I Make a Discovery.

Really, have left Aunt Selma rath-
err out of It. but she was important as
cause. not as result; at least at
first. She came out strong later
believe she was very nice old wom-
an. with strong likes and prejudices,
which she was perfectly willing to pay
for. At least, only presume she had
likes; know she had prejudices.
Nobody ever understood why Bella
consented to take Bettys place with
Aunt Selma. AS for me, / was too
much engrossed with my own affairs
to pay the invalid much attention.
Once or twice during the day I had
stopped in to see her. and had been
received frigidly and with marked dis
approval. was In disgrace, OF course,
after the scene in the dining room the
night before. had stood like a
naughty child. Just inside the door.
and replied meekly when she said the
pillows were overstuffed. and why
didn't have the linen slips rinsed in
starch water? She laid the blame of
her illness on me. as have said be-
fore. and she made Jim read to her in
the afternoon FROM book she carried
with her Coal Of Fire on the Do
mestic Hearth, marking places for
me to read.
She sent for me that night. Just
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clared, feeling for her handkerchief.
You can take care OF your own Aunt
Selma, Jim Wilson. 1 will never go
near her again"
What did you do?' Poison herr"
Dallas asked with interest.
"G-got camphor in her eyes," snuff
ed Betty You never-heard such a
noise. wouldn't be trained nurse
for anything In the world. She-she
called me hussyl"
You're not going to give her up,
are you, Betty?" Jim asked imploring-
ly. But Betty was. and said SO plain
ly.
Anyhow. she won't have me back"
she finished and she has sent for
guess!"
Have mercy" Dial cried, dropping
to his knees. "oh, fair ministering
angel, she has not sent for mel"
mo" Betty said maliciously "She
wants Bella-she's crazy about her"
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Der Of this household; Only one per
son, save Flanagan, who was locked
in the furnace room. one person who
was awake and around the house
when Annes Jewels went, only one
person in the house also, who would
have any motive for the theft
"Motive?" asked DULY
Poverty Max threw at me. ooh,
l mean comparative poverty. of course.
Who is this fellow, anyhow? Dial
knew him at school, travelled with him
through India. on the strength OF
that he brings him here, quarters him
with decent people, and wonders
when they are systematically robbed"
You are unjust!" said, rising and
facing him. 81 do not like MI Harbi-
son-I--I hate him, II you want to
know. But as to his being thief,
think it quite as likely that you
took the necklace"
Max threw his cigarette into the
fire angrily.
$50 that is how it Isl" he Knocked.
'If either of us is the thief. 1t is II
You do hate him, don't your
left him there. flushed with irrita-
ton, and Joined the others. Just as |
entered the room. Betty burst through
the hall door like cyclone, and col
lapsed into chair. She's a mean,
cantankerous old woman!" she de-
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1911-06-08
SYNOPSIS.

James Wilson or Jimmy as he is called
by his friends. Jimmy was rotund and
looked shorter than he really was, His
but people steadily refused to do so. his
art is considered a huge Joke, except to
himself, II he asked people to dinner ev-
eryone expected q frollc. Jimmy marries
Bella Knowles; they live together a year
and are divorced. Jimmy's friends ar
resp S;s to celebrate the rst a1 ,i
when Jimmy receives a telegram from his
Aunt Selma, who will arrive In four hours
"a. visit him and his wife. He neglects to
Into his confidence, he tries. to devise
some way so that his aunt will not learn
gests that Kit play the hostess for. one
night. be Mrs, Wilson pro tenn Aunt Sc.
lima arrives and the deception works out
~ Bella Jimmy's divorced wife, enters
the house and asks Kit who ls being "a
ken away In the ambulance? Bella insists
II is Jim. Kit tells her Jim is well and IS
In the house. HARRISON steps out on the
porch and discovers a man lacking a
card on the door. He demands an ex,
PLANTATION. The man points to the placard
and HARRISON sees the word Smallpox"
printed on II. He tells him the guests
cannot leave the house until the guaran-
lie their predicament. the women shed
tears. the men consider It a good Joke.
who is to prepare. the meals and perform
the other household duties. HARRISON nm
ally solves the matter After the lifting
Of the quarantine several letters are found
in the mall box undelivered. one is ad-
dressed to Henry Llewellyn. Iquique.
Chile which was written by Harpison,
ton. also of his infatuation for Mrs. VIII
son. Aunt Selma is taken III with la
grippe Betty acts as tbd nurse rno sba sa
him that Jim has been treating her out
rageously. HARRISON fully believing that
doesn't mean the things she is saying
about her husband Kit starts down
stairs when suddenly she Is grasped In
eral times. She believes that HARRISON
did It and is Inundated.
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CHAPTER X. tcontlnued.)

Betty is making no end of row."
Max said, looking up from his game,
because the old lady upstairs insists
on ohloroform liniment, Betty says
the smell makes her ILL.,"
And she can inhale Russian ciga-
rettes," Anne said enviously, and
gasolene fumes, without turning
hair call revoke, Dali You
trumped spades on the second round
Dial flung over three tricks with
very bad grace, and Anne counted
them with maddening elaboration.
Game and rubber" she said.
Watch Dial, Max; he will cheat in
the score If he can. Kit, don't have
another clam while am in this house.
have eaten SO many lately my waist
rises and falls with the tide
You have stunning color. Kit
Lollie said. You are really quite SUI
perb. Who made that gown"
Where have you been hiding, du
kleine7' Max whispered. under cover
of showing me the evening paper, with
a photograph of the house and cross
at the cellar window where we had
tried to escape. IF one day In the
house with you, Kit, put me in this
condition, what will a month do?"
From beyond the curtain Of sort
of alcove, lighted with red-shaded
lamp, came hum of conversation,
Bella's cool, even tones and heavy
masculine voice. They were laugh
ipu. I could fool nav ohf0 no IIa
was not even hiding his shame.
Max | asked, while the others
clamored for him and the game, has
any one been up through the house
since dinner? Any OF the men?"
He looked at me curiously.
only Harbison" he replied prompt
iy. Jim has been eating his heart
out in the den ever since dinner; Dial
played the Sonata Apassionata" back
ward on the pianola-he wanted to
put through one of Annes lingerie
waists, on a wager that 1t would play
tune ! played craps with Lollie, and
Flanagan has been washing dishes
Why?"
Well. that was conclusive, anyhow.
had had faint hope that 1t might
have been joke, although 1t had
borne all the evidences of sincerity.
certainly. But 1t was past doubling
now; he had lain in wait for me at
the landing, and had Kissed me, me.
when he thought l was Jimmy's wife.
Oh, must have been very light, very
contemplate, II that was what he
thought OF me!
went into the library and got a
book. but 1t was impossible to read,
with Jimmy lying on the couch CIV
ing vent to something between a sigh
and groan every few minutes About
IL the cards stopped. and Bella said
she would read palms. She began
with Mr.. HARRISON. because she de-
clared he had wonderful hand. full
OF possibilities: She said he should
have been great inventor or play
wright, and that his attitude to wom-
en- was one of homage, respect, almost
reverence. He had the courage to
look at me. and II glance could have
killed he would have withered away.
When Jimmy proffered his hand,
she looked at 1t icily OF course. she
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as had taken OF my gown; so
threw on a dressing gown and went
in To my horror, Jim was already
there At gesture from Aunt Sc
lima. he closed the door into the hall
and tiptoed back beside the bed,
where he sat staring at the figures
ON the silk comfort
Aunt Selina's first words were:
Where's that fibberty-glbbet?'
Jim looked at me.
"She must mean Betty" | explain
ed. "She has gone to bed, think"
let-her-in-this = room
again." she said, with awful emphas-
sis "She is an infamous creature"
"Oh. come now, Aunt Selma" Jim
broke in; She's foolish, perhaps, but
she's nice little thing. Aunt Sc
lina's face was curious study. Then
she raised herself on her elbow, and
taking fiat chamois-skin bag from
under her pillow, held 1t out.
my cameo breastpin,' she said
solemnly; my cuffbuttons with gold
rims and storks painted on china in
the middle; my watch. that has put
me to bed and got me up for forty
years, and my -$510.40l-taken
with the doors locked under my nose"
Which was ambiguous, but forcible.
But, good gracious, Miss Car
Aunt Selinal" exclaimed, you don't
think Betty Mercer took those
things?"
Mo- she said grlmly; 81 think
probably got up in my sleep and
lighted the fire with them. or sent 'em
out for walk" Then she stuffed
the bag away and sat up resolutely in
bed.
Have you made up?" she demand
ed. looking from one to the other of
us. Bella, don't tell me you still
persist in that nonsense"
What nonsense?" l asked getting
ready to run.
That you do not love him."
"Him?"
James," she snapped irritably. do
you suppose 1 mean the policeman?
/ looked over at Jimmy She had got
me by the hand, and Jimmy was ma
king frantic gestures to tell her the
whole thing and be done with 1t. But
had gone too far. The mill OF the
gods had crushed me already, and /
didn't propose to be drawn out hide
ously mangled and held up as an ex-
ample for the next two or three
weeks, although 1t was clear enough
that Aunt Selma disapproved of me
thoroughly, and would have been glad
enough to find that no tie save the
board of health held us together And
then Bella came in, and you wouldn't
have known her. She had put on a
straight white wooden wrapper, and
she had her hair in two long braids
down her back She looked like a
nice wide-eyed little girl in her
teens, and she had some lobster salad
and glass of port on tray. When
she saw the situation she put the
things down and had the nastiness to
stay and listen.
I'm not blind" Aunt Selma said,
with one eye on the tray. you two
silly children adore each other;
saw some things last night"
Bella took step forward; then she
stopped and shrugged her shoulders
Jim was purple.
ITO BE CONTINUEDJ
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quent passage Of the urine; the forehead
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A.AAA 49,.

Evelyn-They say there is only one
person in fifteen with perfect eyes.
George with uncommon fervor)-
In fifteen? There's only one in mil
lion!
Evelyn-There you go again, GeorgeI
Always flattering somebody!
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If thou knowest anything good of a
man. tell it unto others; If anything
ill, tell 1t privately and prudently to
himself-Burkitt.
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Best in the World.

Maud-What excuse have you for
doing such an unmaidenly thing as
proposing to Jack?
Ethel-The golden rule.
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The Cause Of Colds and q Safe Cure.

A common cause Of many solda is
the sudden checking Of the Unconscious
Precipitation by exposure % a change Of
temperature. Colds, whether takln2 the
form OF Coryza with sncezing. running
nose, and perhaps sore throat, OF with
chilly and feverish symptoms, should
never be neglected IN the eaFl.e.t
stages, serious illness often results
from such neglect
1t is well to get early to bed. 70 get
the body well warmed, and moet in
portant to have the bowels move freely.
There is no safer or better remedy 20
use at the beginning Of cold than
IL. T. Atwood s medicine. Two 10
four teaspoonfuls VIII quickly relieve
congested conditions, drive out impBu
ties from the system and ward OF fur
Their trouble. Always keep a bottle in
the house. Any dealer Will supply you
for thirty-fve cents. II you have
never used them, write today for a free
samnle to the L. F. Medicine Co, Port
land, Maine.
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Sadie p Williams of Nassalboro
has sued Arl and Bessie Wolmau III
Gardiner for $20,0uo damages BECAUSE.
she alleges. they sold her husband
Fred f Williams the liquor which So
siupeGed him that he lay in a roohess
shack from February - Ia March .
and lro2e his feet so badly that both
had to he amputated He is now "a
helpless cripple Mrs. Williams has
invoked the 5Sth section of chapter
% of the Revised Statutes which
gives Every wife. child. parent
guardian. husband or other person
who is injured in person. property.
means of support or otherwise the
right of action against the person
who. by selling or giving intoxicating
ton Of the person causing the damage
liquors contributed 10 the intoNica=
and the further right to recover az
tual and exemplary damages
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Woman, Lovely Woman
But Alas Without Beautiful Hair
No Woman Can Be Handsome

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LIST OF SPECIFICS.

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Among the men of national fam,
who will be heard in this State in tn,
interests OF the movement for the re.
'ehtlon of the prohibitory amendmenr
are Ex-Governor J. Frank Hanley O
indiana. who will speak under tn,
auspices of the State No-Licens,
movement. Ex-Governor Robert h.
Glenn of North Carolina. who will h,
heard under the auspices of the Chris
tan civic league of Maine, and Con.
gresham Richard p Hobson of Ala.
bama, who was heard in Portlano
with great interest last spring. by an
audience which packed jefferson
theatre to the doors. and who viii
again speak in the State under The
auspices Of the W. e. r. L.
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Tw Minute Cure for Cold IN
Head or Chest

Into a bowl three-Q quarters full OF
boiling water pour a teaspoOntul ot
Hyomei pronounce it High-o-me1
Put your head over the bowl and
cover both head and bowl With towel
Breathe the vapor that arises for
two miputes. and presto, your head
is as clear as a bell. and the tight
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It's a pleasant cure. You'll enjoy
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once its soothing, healing and bene-
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famed and irritated membrane Ask
F w. Bucknam for extra bottle OF
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Hnnniest Girl in lincoln.

A Lincoln Neb., girl writes. Il had
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began taking ChamherlaIn's Stom-
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The J. 5. Winslow & Co. of Port
land OWNS - vessels. which is said to
be the largest fleet of coastwise
schoonrrs in the world The latest
addition to the fleet is the -masted
school, the James W. Paul. Jr.. OF
Philadelphia. The Paul is practically
ii new vessel, as she was built in 1901
by Mckay and Dix at Verona She
is vessel of 1905 gross tons. her
length is 30 feet and she has a beam
of AZ feet The schooner is command
ed at the presnt time by Capt. Mech
and she will be used in the coal car
rying trade. While the Paul previous
to the purchase, WIS not owned in
Portland. she is we'll known. having
madw many trips With coal during
the past few years