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to the penitentiary for ten

sentenced to the penitentiary for ten
years
Innocent" insisted Ida, In tears,
And we know the guilty one."
you are sure Of that?" inquired
Jarnigan, eager and interested.
Yes, 1t was James Hope, the chief
clerk. He placed the guilt on my
brother. Ernest says he knows that
Hope has hidden the gems away until
he can safely dispose Of them. Hope
is bad man My brother found
letter to him, in which convict IN
the Ohio penitentiary charged MIN
with getting him into trouble, and
then leaving him to bear the brunt
or the crime. lie wrote that he lived
for but one thing-to escape, and then
he swore to kill Hope"
Have you that letter." asked jar
nigan
Yes" replied Ida.
"Give it to me. l want to think
over the case"
Somehow the progress Of "the case
furnished an excuse to the bank man
to call twice during the next week.
The one following he appeared with
suppressed excitement and satisfac-
ton in his manner.
Miss Dalziel," he said, as they
were seated alone, 81 have good news
for you The missing diamonds and
James Hope, the man who stole them
are in the hands of the police
And my brother?" cried Ida, clasp
ing her hands in suspense.
"Will be a free man within a few
days"
There the overcome young lady
tainted away, and, holding her IN his
arms and gazing on her lovely race
Jarnigan took final step-he KISSED
her
That letter." he told her later
gave me a clue. l acted upon the
theory that Hope was in mortal terror
OF the man he had sent to prison.
bribed a newspaper friend near the
Ohio penitentiary to print a story OF
the convicts escape l saw that Hope
got it. Our bank detective shadoWeo
him. He went to lonely house anc
secured the stolen gems. Thence ht
proceeded to railway ticket office
and then we nabbed him, finding the
gems upon him. The chain OF EVIL
dence was complete"
ooh, how shall we thank your
cried Ida, her eyes suffused WIFI
mingled tears Of JOY and gratitude.
Jarnigan, the man with no sentl
ment, looked her in the eyes.
by giving me your love, If you
can" he said, and for reply she
placed both her hands within his own
Copyright, 1912, by w. G. Chapman)
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ITCHING AND BURNING

Iberia, MOI was troubled with
scalp eczema for about five years and
tried everything l heard Of, but all Of
no avail The doctors told me would
have to have my head shaved. Being
woman, hated the idea Of that.
was told by a friend that the Cuticura
Remedies would do me good. This
spring purchased two boxes Of Cut-
cura Ointment and one cake Of Cuu-
cura Soap. After using one box Of
Cuticura Ointment I considered the
cure permanent, but continued to use
1t to make sure and used about one
half the other box. Now am entirely
well. / also used the Cuticura Soap.
THE disease began on the back of
my head, taking the form Of a ring
worm, only more severe, rising to a
thick, rough scale that would come off
when soaked with oil or warm water,
bringing few hairs each time, but n
few days would form again, larger
each time, and spreading until the en-
tire back of the head was covered with
the scale. This was accompanied by
a terrible itching and burning sensa-
ton. Now my head is completely well
and my hair growing nicely" (Signed)
Mrs. Geo. F. Clark, Mar. rs, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample OF each
free with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura, Dept L, Boston"
Adv
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Choose Neighbors With Hume.

"The subject Of neighbors is one on
which we are sensitive" writes Ag-
mes Athol in an article On Some
Things That We Learned by Renting
House in the Suburbs" in which she
advocates renting house before you
buy one in Suburban Life Magazine
''It is true that the people directly in
our rear are charming in the socia.
sense, but unfortunately, they spend
but six months time at home. On one
side of us are some poor but honest
neighbors, whose children have taught
mine innumerable little phrases with
which they startle us from time to
time My God! and I amt got
no and Come on, kids!' do not ex
ectly appeal to me. Perhaps l am un-
democratic. But even the most al
truistic would have to draw the line
at {. family of seven diagonally across,
who never miss a chance to knock the
baby down or make off with unwatch
ed toys. Our resolution to surround
our own back yard (When We shall
own one) with a hedge offers some
remedy; but what shall we do about
the neighbor on the other corner, who
has a rebellious cesspool?"
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BtrthpIace of BaonIpe

The Introduction of M. Sazanoff tc
the highland bagpipe at Balmoral was
1t Is said, not the surprise the High
landers expected it to be, the eminent
statesman remarking that a similar
instrument Is used In the south of Rus
STA, observes the Westminster Ca
zette. OF late musical antiquarief
have been looking outside Scotland
for the birthplace of the bagpipe, and
Maj. F. w. Won Herbert, a recognized
authority on musical instruments, an
Client and modern. has placed it some
where in the vast territory once ruled
by the Seljuks, the ancestors of the
modern Turks. On the authority of
Sir Alexander Mackenzie, the princi-
pal of the r. A NJ, the fiddle Is Scot
lands national instrument, and as a
Scotsman he recently declined any re-
sponsibility for the invent ON Of the
bas pipe.
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I've tried to be sort Of good to you
in my way, and"
Don't, don't!" she sobbed LET me
think a minute, uncle, dear. Oh, dc
let me Think"
Won't you say 1t for me, Gracie?'
pleaded Captain Eben. She hesitated
no longer.
yes, uncle" she answered through
tears. 'if Nat wants me he can have
me-"
Keziah clasped her hands. Captain
Eben's face lit up with great Joy
Thank the Almighty" he ex
claimed. Lord, 1 do thank you. Nat
boy, you're considerable older than she
is and you'll have to plan for her. You
be good husband to her all her days
won't We? Why, what are you waitin
for? Why don't you answer me?"
Nat groaned aloud.
"a minute dad" he stammered
Just give me a minute, for Heaven
sakes! Keziah-"
"Keziah!" repeated Eben. "Keziah ?
What are you talkin' to her for? She
knows there couldn't be no better
match in the world. You do know it.
don't ye, Keziah?"
Yes" said Keziah slowly 81 guess
i guess you're right, Eben."
"Keziah Coffin" cried Nat Ham.
mond, "do you tell me to marry
Grace?"
Eyes, Nat, Il think your fathers
right"
.'Then-then-what difference does
= All right, dad. Just as Grace says
Thank Cod" cried Captain Eben.
Doctor, you and Mrs. Coffin are wit
nesses to this. Therei now my decks
are clear and I'd better get ready to
land. Oracle, girl, the Good Book
over there on the bureau. Read me a
chapter, won't your"
An hour later Keziah sat alone in
the dining room. She had stolen away
when the reading began. DR.. Parker,
walking very softly, came to her and
laid his hand on her shoulder.
He's gone," he said simply.
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CHAPTER XII.
In Which Keziah Breaks the News.

IN winch kcZIdh Breaks the News.
1t was nearly five O'Clock, gray dawn
Of what was to be clear, beautiful
summer morning, when KeZiah softly
| lifted the latch and entered the par
sonage. All night she had been busy
at the Ham mond tavern. Busy with
the doctor and the undertaken, who
had been called from his bed by young
Higgins; busy with Grace, soothing
her, comforting her as best she could,
and petting her as a mother might
| pet stricken child. The poor girl
was on the verge of prostration, and
from hysterical spasms of sobs and
weeping passed to stretches of silent.
dry-eyed agony which were harder to
witness and much more to be feared.
1T Is all my fault" she repeated
over and over again. "All my fault!
l killed him! 1 killed him. Aunt Ke-
ziah! What shall l do? Oh, why
couldn't l have died instead? 1t would
have been so much better, better for
everybody"
DR.. Parker was very anxious.
'She must rest" he told Mrs. Cof-
mn Sne must, or h6r brain Will give
way. I'm going to give her something
to make her sleep and you must get
her to take it."
So Keziah tried and, at last. Grace
did take the drug. In little while
she was sleeping, uneasily and with
means and sobbings, but sleeping, new
ertheless.
Now it's your turn. Keziah," said
the doctor. you go home now and
rest, yourself. We don't need you any
more just now. Now you go home.
You've had a hard night, like the rest
of us"
How hard he had no idea. And Ke-
ziah, as she YEARLY entered the par
sonage, realized that the morning
would be perhaps the hardest Of ALL
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Thoughtful John Chinaman.

"The virtues of a Chinese laundry
man never have been half told" said
the woman. Not of my laundryman,
anyhow. He is such motherly old
soul. The other day he brought my
handkerchiefs home folded in two diff
ferent ways, some squared, some cata-
cornered."
"Why the different styles in iron
ipg?" / asked.
John pointed to the stack of cata-
cornered handkerchiefs. These holey,
he said. Then to the square pile,
These good. In big hully, not gettee
mix and go out with holey hankchef.
Kind old John. His idea was all
right, but doesn't keep me from get
ting mixed, for l can never remember
which shape means holey and which
means whole, so / am likely to dis
grace myself with a holey handker-
chief after ALL
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Groninu for q Genius.

Anybody, from the millionaire down
to a cook, can write a good play. This
is a fact, and must be true, because
all of them, laying aside for the mo-
ment their overmastering mode, will
tell you SO.
This is what the manager of a
great theatrical business in New York
said the other day.
"It is the hardest thing imaginable
to find a good play Our concern has
read a thousand plays year for the
last seven years, total of seven thou
sand and out Of that number we have
not found a single play worth using.
Anybody can write play but mighty
few can write it right. The Popular
Magazine.
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IT WAS EVER THUS
Another Proof of How Sentiment
Rules and Governs Even the
Most Dignified.
BY ALvAH JORDAN GARTH.

Jarnigan sat at his desk in the bank
supremacy satisfied with himself, with
the institution of which he was an
efficient and valued official, and with
the results of a good days work.
There was no sentiment about Jar
nigar, at least so he told himself.
System was his hobby Face, manner
and methods were all made subser-
Went to q dignified unvarying rule.
To Jarnigan men fitted into the bank
measure, or didn't In one case they
were taken into fostering financial
arms protectingly. Per contra. the
useless, the delinquent and the utter
ly bad were cast as rubbish to the
void
No scheming promoter or mot SUI
ffcient funds" man had ever put 1t
of the bank for sizing up borrower
just right, and shutting him off dead
short at the first hint of shrinking
deposits or insipid collateral. Two
or three cases in this category had
passed the shrewd cynosure of the
efficient cashier that day Jarnigan
had been congratulated for discover
ing a defect in a bond issue the in
stitutiOn had come very near han
ding. He felt pretty good, and rub
bed his hands together with pleased
sense of being a strict follower of
banking ethics, with no sentiment
standing between his good judgment
and the best interests Of the bank.
A bank book was passed across the
counter slab and directly under his
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that you may be. I shall pray for

that you may be. I shall pray for
that"
The note IL. to the floor with a
rustic that sounded loud in the still
ness. Then keziah heard the minis
ters step. She turned. He was NOV
ing slowly across the room.
John, what are you goin' to do?"
He shook his head II don't know
ne said. Go away somewhere, first
OF all, | guess Go somewhere and
and try to live 1t down. l can't, of
course, but l must try"
She put out her hand. II know it'll
be hard, she said, ''stayin' here.
mean. But your duty to others
Don't you think we've heard enough
about duty to others? How about my
duty to myself?"
1 guess that's the last thing we
ought to think about in the world, if
We do try to be fair and square. Your
church thinks a heap Of you, John.
They build on you You've done more
in the little while you've been here
than Mr. Langley did in his last fifteen
years"
You've never been asked to sit
quietly by and see the one you love
more than all the world marry some
one else"
How do you know / amt? How do
you know | amt dom just that now"
Mrs. Coffin"
John Ellery, you listen to me. You
think I'm homely old woman, prob
ably, set in my ways as an eight-day
clock. / guess l look like it and act
like 1T. But l amt 80 awful old-on
the edge of forty, that's all. And
when | was your age l want so awful
homely, either l had fellers aplenty
hangin' round and l could have mar
ried any one Of a dozen. This amt
boastin'; land knows Pm fur from
that. | was brought up in this town
and even when / was a girl at school
there was only one boy l cared two
straws about. He and | went to pic
mics together and to parties and every
where. Folks used to laugh and say
We was keepin' comp'ny, even then.
well, when l was eighteen, after ia
Their died, | went up to New Bedford
to work in a store there. Wanted to
earn my own way. And this young
Teller I'm tellin' you about went away
to sea, but every time he come home
from a voyage he come to see me and
things went on that way till we was
promised to each other. The engage
ment want announced, but twas so,
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Somewhat Lazy.

A lawsuit was recently in full swing
and during it's progress witness was
crossexamined as to the habits and
character of the defendant.
Has Mr. NJ reputation for
being abnormally lazy?" asked coun-
sci briskly.
We'll, sir, it's this way"
VIII you kindly answer the ques
ton asked?" struck in the irascible
lawyer. -..t.
We'll, sir, l was going to say it's
this way. don't want to do the
gentleman in question any injustice
And l won't go SO far as to say. sir,
that he's lazy exactly; but, If it re-
CURED any voluntary work on his
part to digest his food-why. he'd
die from lack Of nourishment, sir
London Answers.
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For upon her rested the responsibility
of seeing that the minister's secret
was kept. And she, and no other,
must break the news to him.
The dining room was dark and
gloomy. She lighted the lamp. Then
she heard a door open and Ellery's
voice, as he called down the stairs.
who is it?" he demanded. Mrs
Coffin?"
She was startled Yes" she said
softly, after a moment. Yes, Mr.. Ell
lery, it's me-
It's morning" said the minister
Are you sick? Has anything hap
pened?"
YES" she answered slowly, some
thin has happened. Are you dressed
Could you come down."
He replied that he would be down
in a moment. When he came he
found her standing by the table wait
ing for him. The look of her face In
the lamplight shocked him.
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To Pack a Trunk.

Take couple of horses the height
Of chair; they take up little space
in q storeroom. Use them TO set
trunk en- when packing it. 1t Will save
your wife many a backache and save
you or whoever removes it after it is
packed, from lifting it up from the
floor
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eyes. Usually chary of chances or
greetings that took time, and there
fore cost money, as was his wont,
Jarnigan was about to give the case
the attention it might require, when
he noticed that shapely gloved hand
had pushed the book over to him.
The bank man looked up sharply
to stare steadily. He was looking
Into the fairest face he had ever seen.
1t was that Of young girl, very neat
ly but plainly dressed. A wistful
mournfulness in her eyes seemed to
appeal for sympathy and kindly atten-
ton.
What is it, miss?" spoke Jarnigan.
a trifle less peremptory than was his
custom. "Ah, l see." he added as he
opened the book and found enclosed
a check for five hundred dollars,
signed Robert Dalziel."
Il see And this Is his bank book.
Very good" continued Jarnigan. HE
wishes to draw out his entire bal
ance and the check Is made out to
you"
the young lady. Il would like to have
the account carried in my name
now"
Gould not your brother come with
you-for purposes of identification?
my brother" replied the girl IN
voice very near to tears, "is-in
prison"
Jarnigan did not reply. He felt a
strange wave of pity sweep over him.
Then, methodically, az usual, he made
out a new book, and presented it with
the necessary documents to the girl.
HIM" he soliloquized, as she thank
ed him in low tone, and he watched
her graceful form clear to the door
way.
Somehow the incident fingered In
the mind of the bank man. Some
how, too, he hoped the girl would
come again Several days passed by,
and one morning an elderly lady pre-
signed by ida Dalziel." The receiv-
ing teller gent her to Mr.. Jarnigan.
THAT is all right" observed Jarni-
gan, scanning the signature, "but you
will have 70 be identified"
Il fear / do not know anybody
down town." said the lady. 81 live
with Miss Dalziel."
81 am sorry" said Jarnigan, "but
we have a strict rule as to strangers.
BY the way" and he felt conscious
flush. tell Miss Dalziel l will send
the cash by messenger, who will ex-
plain to her how she may %. X her
checks. so there will be no further
trouble when they come in"
All that afternoon Jarnigan was in
a strange mood He went to the bank
files. and got the card address of the
fair depositor He caught himself
thinking of her in the very midst Of
important business. Then he arrived
at a decision. He would take the
money to Miss Dalziel himself. Why
not?
Everything about the little fat and
it's two occupants bespoke refinement
as Jarnigan entered the Dalztel apart
ments. He was asked to sit down.
Before he knew 1t, his mission OF
business ended in an hours stay.
Miss Dalziel told a pitiful story.
Her brother, Ernest, had been for
years the trusted employe of large
diamond house One day he was ar
rested. Forty thousand dollars worth
Of gems were found missing. Dalziel
was accused A few small diamonds
were found in his desk, placed there
by some one, he declared The stolen
gems were not found, and he was
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Cultivate Sense of Humor.

A sense of humor is certainly the
salt of life, either CT the married va
riety or the plain, single existence.
1t certainly helps wife to laugh off
many a little bruise that otherwise
would grow into a fostering sore. To
see the funny side Of many of the
trivial annoyances of life at the time
they happen certainly eases tbs situa
ton
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Qualified.

WAS your son one of the popular
boys at college?"
Yes indeed. He was elected cheer
leader three times"
And what Is he going to do now?"
He is considering fine offer to
call carriages for leading catering
firm"
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just the same. We'd have been mar
ried in another year. And then we
quarreled.
Twas a fool quarrel, same as that
kind gen rally are. AS much my fault
as his and as much his as mine, cal
late. Anyhow, we was both proud. or
thought we was, and neither would
give in. And he says to me, You'll be
sorry after I'm gone. You'll wish me
back, then And says l, bein' a fool,
I guess not. There's other fish in the
sea- He sailed and l did wish him
back, but 1 wouldn't write fust and
neither would he. And then come an
other man"
She paused, hesitated, and then cor
tinued
(TO BE CONTINUED1
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A Good Plan.

"Springhill Is man who never tells
bis troubles
"HoI does he manage to get
along?"
He puts them to sleep with the
anesthesia of optimism"
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Scarce as Hens Teeth.

Mr.. Crimsonbeak-Tha bachelor
friend of mine Is looking for partner
for his joys and sorrows.
Mrs. rimscnbeak-Well, It seems
to me he's long time about It.
Yes; you see he's looking for a 81.
lent partner"
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Sure Sign

80 Green has been promoted
again"
Yes, but how did you known
81 just overlooked you knocking
him"
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Accounting for IL.

what makes Jaggs 80 chesty!"
1.-The only thing can think OF is that
he lives In a house with swell
front"
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Pardon others often. thyself never
-Publicus Syrus.
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Rather Strenuous.

did they kiss and make up?"
"Yes, and after they kissed, Bella
had to make up again"
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Goethe.

Method will teach you to win time.
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TIRED BLOOD
IMPEDES development

Copyright 1919 by the Tonitives Coz
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often held in check by Tired Blood
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Weak, Puny, Thin and Pale. No mother
need be told that everything depends
on the blood stream. All future health
and happiness, even life Itself, may de-
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v---~ Mothers, we rec
EGbM1s1WEN ommend Toni
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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-04-03
r. M. BUGG NERO. co.

to make them lawleSS and anarchist
ic. However ther is no class Of our
society that has a wholesomer res
pect for the regulating rules OF a
weIl-ordered society than the masses.
1t may be observed here. that in
proportion. there is far less
law breaking among the masses than
among the so-called higher Class.
Whatever real anarchistic spirit is
manifested in this country is among
the class of great wealth, which
seems to hold that their riches places
them above the rules. The masses
know that there must always be rules
for social regulation, but the spirit
that is now awakening among them
is that these rules must apply to all,
and that if these rules are good and
l.ecessary all social conditions can
and should be so regulated. The idea
;of mob rule, in the term now SO
commonly applied, does not frighten
Us at all, and those who are express
ing such fear of it are mostly con-
cerned over the danger that lies in
the abrCgation of great specia
privileges they enjoy when the mass
es come into their own.