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Teas Conquest Of Rome.

OF all the c%onquerors that have
come to Rome no one has gained such
a complete victory as tea has won in
the Italian capital. Twenty years ago
the British and American tourists who
came to Rome were catered to in the
matter Of tea In a rather shamefaced
manner in the strangers quarter near
the Piazza di Spagna, and English
Tea Rooms" was the legend to be
seer in a few windows hard by Cook
& Sons offices.
Nowadays the palm lounges Of the
Grand and the Excelsio hotels at tea
time are two of the sights of Rome,
for all Roman society drinks tea
abroad in the afternoons, and there
are as many uniforms at 5 o'clock in
the big hotels as there are at shutdown
on band days on the Pincan hill. ALL
the big pastry cooks shops in the
Corso and the other principal streets
now have Afternoon Tea" in gold
letters on their plate glass windows.
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passion for her. They are not necess-
airy, they are all supererogatory, idle
words. To him also love had been
born in an hour. 1t had flashed into
existence as IL from the fiat Of the
Divine.
Oh, he had fought against it. Like
the cremites of old he had been
scourged into the desert by remorse
and another passion, but time had
done its work. The woman he first
loved had ministered not to the spir-
itual side Of the man, or If she had
80 ministered in any degree 1t was be-
cause he had looked at her with a
glamour of i~nexperience and youth.
During those five years of solitude, Of
study and Of reflection, the truth had
gradually unrolled itself before him.
Conclusions vastly at variance with
what he had ever believed possible
as to the woman upon whom he had
first bestowed his heart, had got into
his being and were in solution there;
this present woman was the precipitant
which brought them to life. He knew
now what the old appeal of his wife
had been. He knew now what the
new appeal of this woman vas
In humanity two things in life are
inextricably intermingled, body and
soul. Where the function Of one be-
gins and the function Of the other
ends no one Is able to say. In all
human passions are admixtures Of
the earth earthly. We are born the
sons Of old Adam as we are reborn
the Sons OF the New. Passions are
complex. As in harvest wheat and
tares grow together until the end, SO
In love earth and heaven mingle ever.
He remembered a clause from an an
Client marriage service he had read.
with my body ! thee worship" and
with every fibre Of his physical being,
he loved this woman.
1t would be idle to- deny that, i'm
possible to disguise the facts, but in
the melting pot Of passion the pre-
ponderant ingredient was mental and
spiritual; and just because higher and
holier things predominated, he held
her in his heart a sacred thing. Love
is like a rose: the material part is the
beautiful blossom; the spiritual factor
is the fragrance which abides An the
rose Jar even after every leaf han fad
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from the world, buried himself in this
mountain, and had stayed there deaf
to the alluring call Of man or woman;
he had had the courage to do that.
Wa 1t strength of mind she adj
mired? Enid Maitland vas no mea
Judge of the mental powers Of her
acquaintance. She was just as full Of
life and spirit and the Joy of them as
any young woman should be, but she
had not been trained by and thrown
with the best for nothing. Noblesse
oblige! That his was a mind well
stored with knowledge of the most,
varied sort she easily and at once
perceived. OF course the popular
books Of the last five years had passed
him by, and Of such he knew nothing,
but he could talk intelligently, inter-
estingly, entertainlngly upon the great
classics. Keats and Shakespeare we're
his most thumbed volumes. He had
graduated from Harvard as a civil
engineer with the highest shonors Of
his class and school and the youngest
man to get his %sheepskin! Enid Matt
land herself was a woman of broad
culture and wide reading and she de-
liberately set herself to fathom this
mans capabilities. Not i~nfrequently,
much to her surprise, sometimes to
her dismay, but generally to her sat.
isfaction, she found that she had no
L. " =.
plummet with which to sound his
greater depths.
Did she seek in him that fine flow
er Of good breeding. gentleness and
consideration? Where could she find
these qualities better displayed? She
was absolutely alone with this man,
entirely In his power, shut off from
the world and its interference as eff
fectually as if they had both been
abandoned in an ice foe at the North
Pole or cast away on some lonely is-
land in the South Seas, yet she felt
as safe as if she had been in her own
house, or her %uncle's, with every pro-
lection that human power could give.
He had never presumed upon the sit
uation In the least degree, he never
once referred to the circumstances
of their meeting in the remotest way,
he never even discussed her rescue
from the food, he never told her how
he had borne her through the rain to
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-09-26
Bio Crop Yarns Are Rlpe.

Secretary Wilson of the depart
ment Of agriculture was talking about
the record crops of 1912.
These wonderful crops" he said.
ARE almost enough to make you be-
lieve the cross-cut saw story.
"a farmer, you know, sent his hired
mar to a neighbours with a note say
ing:
Friend Smith: Will you please
lend me your cross-cut saw, as l wish
to cut a watermelon up SO as to get
1t into my dray?'
1.-THE neighbor wrote back:
Friend Jones: l would be GLAD to
lend you my saw, but same has just
got stuck in a canteloupe.'"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-09-26
Costs.

The justice of the peace scratched
his head reflectively.
There seems to be some dispute
as to the facts in this here case" he
said. THE law imposes a fine of SIS
for exceedin' the speed limit, but l
don't want to be arbitrary about it.
and if yell pay the costs I'll remit the
fine"
That's satisfactory to me-" said
Dawkins, taking out his wallet.
"All right" said the justice.
There's IS for the sheriff, IS fer the
%pros-cutin' attorney, S. fer the court
stenographer, S. for the use O. the
courtroom, an mytreg'lar fee o. $40
per case. Thutty dollars, please
Harper's Weekly.
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but there is a sweetness even in the
despair of the truly loving.
Enid Maitland, however, did not
have to endure indifference. or fight
against a passion which met with no
response, for this mar loved her with
a love that was greater even than
her own. The moon, in the trite aphor-
ism, looks on many brooks, the brook
sees no moo but the one above him
in the heavens. In n n his
merit in winning her affection for him
self from the hundreds Of men she
knew, was the greater; In many years
he had only seen this one woman.
Naturally she should be everything to
him. She represented to him not only
the woman but w%omankind. He had
been a boy practically when he had
buried himself In those mountains,
and In all that time he had seen no
body like Enid Maitland. Every ar
gument which had been exploited to
show why she should love him could
be turned about to account for his
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its crown Of sunny hair rising above
the rushing water. He had listened
to the roar Of the wind through the
long nights, when she thought him
asleep II she thought Of him at all,
and heard again the scream Of the
storm that had brought her to his
arms. No snow drop that touched
his cheek when he was abroad but
reminded him of that night in the
cold rain when he had held her close
and carried her on. He could not sit
and mend her boot without remem-
bering that white foot before which
he would fain have Frustrated him.
self and upon which he would have
pressed passionate kisses If he had
given way to his desires. But he kept
all these things in his heart, pom
dered them and made no sign.
Did she ask beauty in her lover?
All, there at last he failed. Accord
ing to the canons of perfection he
did not measure up to the standard.
His features were irregular, his chin
a trifle too square, his mouth a
thought too firm, his brow wrinkled a
little; but he was good to look at for
he looked strong, he looked clean and
he looked true. There was about
him, too, that stamp Of practical ef-
ficiency that men who can do things
always have. You looked at him and
you felt sure that what he undertook
that he would accomplish, that de-
cision and capability were incarnate
in him.
But after all the things are said
love goes where 1t Is sent, and
l, at least, am not the sender.
This loved this man Meth
er because nor in spite Of these
qualities. That they were might
account for her affection, but If they
had not been, 1t may be that that af-
lection, that that passion, would have
inhabitated her heart still. No one
can say, no one can tell how or why
those things are. She had loved him
while she ragged against him and hat
ed him. She did neither the one nor
the other of those two last things,
now, and she loved him the more.
Mystery is a great mover; there is
nothing so attractive as a problem we
cannot solve. The very situation Of
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-09-26

the lonely shelter Of the hills, and In
no way did he say anything that the
most keenly scrutinizing mind would
torture into an allusion to the pool
and the bear and the woman The
fineness of his breeding was never SO
well exhibited as In this reticence.
More often than not 1t is what he
does not rather than what he does
that indicates the man.
1t would be folly to deny that he
never thought Of these things. Had
he forgotten them there would be no
merit In his silence; but to rernem-
Der them and to keep still-aye. that
showed the man! He would close his
eyes in that little room on the other
side of the door and see again the
dark pool, her white shoulders, her
graceful arms. the lovely faca with
A AA VIA
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-09-26
CAREFUL DOCTOR
Prescribed Change Of Food instead OF
Drugs.

1t takes considerable courage for a
doctor to deliberately prescribe only
food for a despairing patient, instead
Of resorting to the usual list OF medi-
cines.
There are some truly scientific ply
sicians among the present generation
who recognize and treat conditions as
they are and should be treated, re-
CARELESS Of the value to their pockets,
Here's an instance:
-Four years ago I was taken with
severe gastrltis and nothing would
stay on my stomach. SO that / was on
the verge OF starvation.
Il heard Of a doctor who had a SUM
mer cottage near me--a specialist
from N. Y.--and as a last hope. sent
for him.
AFTER he examined me carefully
he advised me to try a small quantity
Of Grape-Nuts at first, then as my
stomach became stronger to eat more.
II kept at 1t and gradually got SO I
could eat and digest three teaspoon
fuls. Then l began to have color in
my face, memory became clear, where
before everything seemed a blank. My
limbs got stronger and / could wslk.
So I steadily recovered.
Now after a year on Grape-Nuts I
weigh 1853 lbs. My people were sur
prised at the way ! grew ieshy and
strong on this food" Name given BY
Postum Co. Battle Greek, Mich. Read
the little book. 1.-THE Road to Well
ville," In pkgs.
There's . reason"
Mvet reat the abeve lsfttrr A new
ona sppezfs from tfme - time, 1rHsz
r-e E~enuinet srne, ard feil ~ tnz4zH
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-09-26

the man, how he came there. what
he did there, why he remained there,
questions to which she had yet no
answer, stimulated her profoundly.
Because she did not know she ques-
toned Id secret; interest was aroused
and the transition to love was easy.
~Propinquity, too. is responsible for
many an affection. The ivy clings
to the first met tree" Given a man
and woman heart free and throw
them together and let there be decent
kindness on both sides, and II, ID al
most inevitable that each shall love
the other. Isolate them from the
world, let them see no other compan-
ions but the n man and the one
woman, and the result becomes more
inevitable.
Yes. this woman loved this man
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ilege. She scarcely thought Of him
longer.
She would not have been human If
her mind had not dwelt upon the
world beyond the skyline on the 9th
er side of the range. She knew how
those who loved her must be suffering
on account Of her disappearance, but
knowing herself safe and realizing
that within a short time. when the
spring came again, she would go back
to them and that their mourning
would be turned into joy by her ar
rival, she could not concern herself
very greatly over their present feel
ings and emotions; and besides, what
would be the use of worrying over
those things? There was metal more
attractive for her thoughts close at
hand. And she was too blissfully
happy to entertain for more than a
moment any sorrow.
She pictured often her return and
never by any chance did she think of
going back to civilization alone. The
man she loved would be by her side,
the church's blessing would make
them one. To do her Justice, in the
simplicity and purity Of her thoughts
she never once thought of what the
world might say about that long win
ter soiourn alone with this man. She
was SO conscious Of her own inno-
cenee and of his delicate forbearance.
she never once thought how humanity
would raise its eyes and fairly cry
upon her from the house tops. She
did not realize that yer she ever so
pure and SO innocent she could not
now or ever reach the high position
which Caesar, who was none too rep
utable himself, would fain have his
wife enjoy!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-09-26

That's what / saidi He couldn't
have done a better thing, Suppose the
serpent hadn't succeeded in tempting
Ever Where would I be? What would
have been the use Of me and lots Of
other folks pretty nearly as good as I
am7 1t makes me shiver to think Of
It! IL Eve had let out-on the serpent,
refused the apple. and sent him away
with d flea In his car, as some folks
lament that she didn't, she and Adam
would have remained in the garden all
their days in luxurious ase and alb
solutsly uuclad. And all s~ueessdlng
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-09-26

man. How l reylle the serpent"
Because he beguiled Ever asked
the modish little man.
AYE. surely!' replied the solemn
man.
"Pah!" was the modish mans con-
temptuous response. why the ser
pent couldn't have done a better thing
II he tried. Not in my way Of think
ing.
"eiri" exclaimed the solemn man.
giving the modish little man more
room,
"you hsssd mels declared re latter.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-09-26
erasped His opportunItx.

A Baltimore clubman telsl of two
convicts who met for a moment alone
in a corridor and took advantage Of
the fact for a hurried interview. Said
one, "How long are you in for?"
For life" responded the other.
"And how long are you in fort"
Twelve years." responded the 9th
er.
"Then," said the "%lifer," cautiously
extracting a letter from its hiding
place, as he glanced fearfully around.
take this and mail it for me when
you get out"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-09-26
ImmutabIllty Of Human Nature.

The doings and sayings Of the an
clients have a vital force for u.s.. and
are not mere lifeless records. simply
because Of the identity OF their mo
tives with our own. writes H. M. Chit
tenden In the Atlantic. The story of.
Joseph and his brethren, the fables
Of Aesop. the proverbs Of Solomon,
the philosophy Of Socrates. the say
ings Of Marcus AureIius, the poetry
Of Shakespeare, are as true for lis
today as they were for the world to.
which they vers given. Perhaps The
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generations would have lived the same
way-oneN race. one tongue and no
clothes! Gold-rimmed spectacies, may
hap. but no pantsi Turn that over In
your mind. sir Why, / tell you I
feel that | ought to do homage to the
serpent that tempted Eve and got
away with the goodsi That's what I
ought"
''Panganishi cried the solemn man.
Man. You are q serpent worship
pert"
'Nay-not sol" protested the
modisk little man. = am 2 tailori"
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highest value of the Bible Is the fact
that It's portrayals Of human nature,
though among d distinct and peculiar
race, and In an environment utterly
foreign to that Of today. are absolutely
faithful to our own times. And this lie
true es far back as we can catch the
faintest glimpse Of mans activities on
this planet. We study the anctent
philosophers and iind them likpslse
discoursing OF their ~ancients cary
much as we discourse Of them. "Kz:sz-
est thou not this OF old since meg Rxe
plAesd upon the sarthf~
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-09-26
Hairy Food.

A travelling man stopped at a hotel
recently, said the Cassidy Times. He
found a hair in the honey. He went
to the proprietor and kicked. II can't
help it." said the landlord. Il bought
it for combed honey" The next day
the travelling man found a hair IN the
ice cream, but the landlord said that
was all right, as the ice had been
shaved. Again he found a hair in the
apple pie. This surprised the landlord
greatly. Why" said he, they told
me those apples were Baldwins.'-
Kansas City Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-09-26
eerIlners Are spendera.

The people Of Berlin are becoming
freer spenders and less saving. &c
cording to figure Just published. The
number of depositors in city savings
banks has decreased $3.50 in The last
year. The amount of increase in de-
posits for the year, which is now $685.
900. is only one-third the amount paid
In interest.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-09-26
CHAPTER XIV.
The Mans Heart.

Now, love produces both happiness
and unhappiness. but on the whole /
think the happiness predominates, for
love itself II. 1t be true and high is
Its own reward. Love may feel itself
unworthy and may shrink even from
the uniatching Of the shoe lace Of the
beloved, yet It Joys In its own exist
ence nevertheless. OF course its
greatest satisfaction y In the return.
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Name Saved Him.

A man brought before the court in
Biddeford, Me, on a charge Of
vagrancy, when asked by the Judge to
give his name, answered, David Go
home" The judge contracted hin
brows. your Rst name again7" he
asked, "Gohoms,' was the reply. "All
right, go ahead" said the Judge.
''that's d new one on ma"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-09-26
INSPIRING Experlence.

A lady who must certainly have
been related to the late Mrs. Parting
ton recently returned from a seventy
day tour Of Europe.
To her friends she said with enthus-
iasm that of all the wonderful things
that she had seen and heard, she be-
lieved the thing she enjoyed most Of
all was hearing the French pheasants
sing the mayonnaise.-Youth's Com
panion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-09-26

whats a moral victory, pa5"
ANY fight you win where the loser
gets ali the money."-Judge.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-09-26

We seldom take a deep and vital
interest in the affairs OF u neigh
bors-unless they owe us money.
The Washington herald., 1912-06-25
PUZZLE ANSWERS
EXPECTED SOON
Hundreds Awaiting Date to Send
Answers in Herald Book
lovers Contest.

The hundreds OF persons who have en-
tered The Washington HeraId's Book
lovers contest, are impatIently awaiting
the arrival Of tomorrow, the first day
on which answers TO the sixty-five pug
Eles may be submitted TO the contest
editor.
Those who have entered the contest
are carefully reconsidering the answers
upon which they have decided, and are
preparing them for submittal to The
Herald. Five guesses are allowed for
each OF the sixty-hve pictures. At the
last hour many persons, who had de-
cided TO send in only one or two an
swers to each picture. have realized that
such procedure might mean their elimi-
nation. and have consequently prepared
the remaining guesses to which they
are entitled. The failure to take advan-
tage OF the fve allotted guesses is an
almost certain foreboding Of defeat
It Is expected that tomorrow morn
Ing's mail will bring to The Herald once
hundreds OF packages containing answers
to the puzzles. The contestants are
urged to place full postage upon their
packages, as carelessness with respect to
this point may result IN fatal delay. The
packages should be addressed plainly TO
the contest editor.
tl EOUh uGEllAllB " NAN NOAAN2N
will have until O'Clock on the evening
OF July to submit their answers TO the
pictures Contestants are urged to send
their answers early. It is by no means
too late yet to enter the contest. The
puzzle pictures may be purchased at The
Herald business office, and there IL am
pie time within which TO solve them.
Many magnificent prizes will be award
ed to the winners Of the contest. A
beautiful building lot IN Randle High
lands, valued at $500, is offered as the
first prize. Kingsbury inner-player pi-
ano, valued at $3.50. will be presented to
the winner OF second place. This instru-
ment is now on exhibition at the store
Of the Percy S. Foster Piano Company,
1880 G Street Northwest. A 500 library
Of choice books from Brentano's, Twelfth
and F Streets Northwest, Is the third
prize. The lucky contestant who wins
this prize will be given the privilege OF
making any changes in the selection Of
the books he sees At. Two hundred and
fifty dollars IN cash will be distributed
among the other winners in the form OF
credits at the Citizens Savings Bank. in
the Bond Building, Fourteenth Street
and New York Avenue Northwest.