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Us Boys

RIDGE was over for the after
X noon. Georgina Elliston paused
- in the hall of the club talking to
her young friend. Myra Keeling. Mrs.
Elliston had been losing with bovine
contentment The stakes for which
she played were of no Importance to
her. All her life she had had more
money than she wanted to spend. She
also happened to possess the sweetest
temper in London. Myra Keeling,
girl of 20, who played badly and
could not afford to play at all, had
won a little and was rather pleased
about it.
"Myra, dear" said Mrs. Elliston.
i've got my car here. | don't want
to go home yet. Can't take you
somewhere?'
Myra laughed. Its awfu1ly kind
of YOU. You could take me some
where, but 1 don't think you'd like
it,"
Nonsense. / like everything.
Come along. Where do you want to
gog"
mo. IS, Paisley buildings, Higham
street, Cricklewood"
Mrs. Elliston repeated the address
to the footman who held the door of
the car open for her. AS the car
made it's way slowly through the
crowded traffic of Knightsbridge Myra
said to her. You're splendid. You've
not even asked
asked what?
We'll, does one go to No. 18 Pals
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can come in with me and listen while
you are doing it?''
'Will you tell me your names and
the name OF the person who sent you
here?.
Myra glanced at Mrs. Elliston, who
nodded. This Is Mrs. Elliston I am
Miss Keeling. and it was Lady Fell
mersham. who told me to come to
YOU"
II remember" said Mrs. Hope; her
ladyship will have found the necklace
by now"
She has said Myra.
Come in. please said the old
woman She showed them into a
clean and commonplace sitting room.
She herself sat at a table without
looking at them.
THE TEST
Give me your glove" she said.
She held Myra's glove in her hands.
She pressed 1t against her forehead.
She stroked it: then she began draw
ing lines with one of her knitting
needles on the tablecloth. Her eyes
grew CLASSY Mrs. Elliston, who had
not sat down, watched her smilingly
and a little superciliously.
The old woman began to speak:
This is very clear and bright" she
said. Il can see bedroom: 1t faces
west; the walls of 1t are painted
white; on one Of them hangs framed
water color sketch of you. Yes. 1t is
your room: it is a clever sketch. not
quite like you; the eyes are not suf-
flciently animated; you were fond of
the man who painted 1t, but nothing
come of it. On the manteipiece there
is a silver clock; 1t is very old, and
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her own advantage she would lose
she says"
Mrs. Elliston was still uncon-
vinced. My dear child,' she said,
that old fraud whom we are going
to see has not got the power. Of
course But II she had 1t and could
lose 1t by making a fortune she
would be very glad of the chance"
But there's another thing" said
Myra eagerly Il have been told
that when the power is used In
that way it is not in the least to be
depended upon
That l can quite believe, or II 1t is
used in any other way either"
You wait and see what she says
about me-
~All right. 1t will be rather sport
anyhow"
Paisley buildings do not possess the
luxury of lift, and the two women
had to climb three flights OF stone
stairs. They rang at No. IS. and the
bell was answered by a little old
woman who held some knitting in
her hands. She was neatly dressed
in black, and her most noticeable
feature was her eyebrows; they were
unusually thick and shaggy.
Can see Mrs. Hope?" asked Myra
cheerily.
Il am Mrs. Hope"
That's all right. want you to
read my future. suppose this lady
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think the work is French: 1t has
the figure of a sleeping cupid on the
top of 1t. I can hear it strike. 1t Is
now striking seven
Mrs. Elliston glanced at the watch
on her wrist; 1t was exactly o'clock.
II can see only two colors in the
room, white and very dark blue
Prussian blue, l think it is called.
Now it fades away"
Mrs. Elliston sat down now and
watched with breathless excitement.
She had been in Myra's room often,
and the old woman had described 1t
with perfect accuracy. Myra had
fallen in love with that silver clock
in an old curiosity shop. and Mrs. Ell
liston herself had bought it for her.
The old woman went on drawing
lines with her knitting needle in 81
lence. At last Myra spoke In rather
II you can to read my future now"
al look and look and see nothing"
said the old woman. There was long
pause, and then she added, speaking
very slowly and distinctly, "Before
that silver clock ON the mantelpiece
strikes you will be dead.v
Mrs. Elliston sprang to her feet.
For once she was really angry. You
wicked old woman. she said. How
dare you try to frighten people in
this way? 1t Is disgraceful."
The old woman rubbed her eyes.
why did you wake me?" she said.
IT might have seen something more
Come said Myra; I'VE will be
going She laid her half crown on
the table and they went out of the
fat and down the stone steps to-
gether. Mrs. Elliston had turned
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Tomorrow:
In the Pirate S Cave
JESTINGS

ITO succeed am referring to
financial successfully one quality
suffices, the quality of smartness. And
how, dear friends. would we define
smartness?"
Bishop Blougram, who was deliver
ing a lecture in Duluth, paused and
smiled. Then he said:
'.The smart man, dear friends. is he
Who is able to put the shoulders of
others to the wheel"
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NCkJ WhAtCs hyid was ctiiA pei
composed"
THE TRUTH
THAT old woman ought to be
shown up" said Mrs. Elliston. Its
lucky she was talking to sensible
people. There are some girls whom
she might have frightened to death.
OF course. you don't believe word
of it, I'm going to take you back
with me to dinner. Myra. You can
phone your people and we'll forget
all about this old horror"
In the car Myra said: Il may as
well tell you that the old woman is
right You heard her description of
my room?''
"F1uke" said Mrs. Elliston
II don't think so. There was too
much detail for a fiuke. and 1t is
quite true / shall be dead before that
clock strikes nine. 1t was a most
charming present you gave me, and
love 1t. 1t has only one little defect
which l have never told you about
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THE TRUTH

very white; Myra was still perfectly
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-28
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-16

Johns wet lashes until he could let
me speak. and | was melted into his
very breast itself.
Molly" he said when enough ten
dcrness had come back into his arms
to let me breathe, you have almost
killed me-
YOU" / exclaimed. crOwding still
closer. or at least trying to. It's not
you. it's l that am killed. and you did
it. know you don't really want me,
but can't help that I'd rather you'd
do the suffering with me than to do
it myself away from you. I'm so hun
CRY and thirsty for you that-that
can't diet any longer" l put the case
the strongest way | knew how and got
a swooning. maddening. luscious re-
suit.
Want you. Molly:" he almost sob
bed. and l felt his heart pounding
hard next to my shoulder.
Yes. want me- | answered. with
more spirit than breath left in me. Il
refuse to believe you are as stupid as
/ am. and anybody with even an ordi-
how hard | was fighting for you. l
feel sure left no stone Unturned.
Some of them / can already think
back and see myself Juggling at and it
makes me hot all over. I'm foolish
and always was. so I'm to be excused
for acting that awful way. but you
are to blame for letting me do it. I'm
fA hn ich
for not having been stern and stopped
me. You had better stop me some now
anyway. for if | go on loving you as
have been for the last few minutes
it will make you uncomfortable"
Peaches" he said after he had hush
ed me with another broken dose of
love as large as he thought | could
stand-I could have stood mOre!-"l
am never going to tell you how long
/ have loved you. but that day you
came TO me all in a flutter with Al
Benefits letter in your hand it is go,
| ing to take you a lifetime to settle for
You were mine-and Bill's. How could
I you-but women don't understand!
| ! felt him shudder in my arms as
| held him close. l was repaid for al
| those tiresome exercises I had takeI
| by the strength to crush him against
my breast almost as hard as he crush
ed me. Our combined strength was
terrific. dangerous TO life and ribs, bu
! heavenly
Don't women know. John|' l man
aged to ask softly in memory of a lik'
question he had put TO me across tina
bread and jam with the rose a-listenin:
from the dark.
What brought me to consciousness
was his fumbling with the buttons Il
the waist of that blue muslin relict o
sentiment. | had fastened but one
and the lace had got caught on hi
sleeve buttons.
PLEASE don't button me into his pos
session." l laughed under his CHR
I'm still scared to death of him. an
you haven't hid me YETI
Molly be asked this time with
heaven laugh. where could you b
more efectual;y hid from Al Bennett
than in my arms?'
1 spent ten minutes telling Bill
what hippopotamus really looks Xix
as put him to bed. but later. much a
i should have liked TO. couldn't cor
sumo that horrible dinner that l ha
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-16

voice that always makes his patients
glad to take his worst doses. He got
his blessing and me-with a warning.
A lovely night wind is blowing across
my garden and bringing me cOngratu-
lations from all my flower family.
Flowers are q part of love and the
wooing Of it, and they understand. |
am waiting for the light to 20 out be-
hind the tall trees over which the
moon is stealthily sinking. He prom
Used me TO put it out right away. and
I'm watching the glow that marks the
place where my own two men crea-
lures are going to rest. with my heart
in full song.
He needs rest. he is so very tired
and worn. He confessed it as stood
on the step above him tonight after
be had taken his own GOOD night from
me ont on the porch. When he ex-
planned to me how bis agony over me
for all these months had kept him
walking the floor night after night. not
knowing that | was waiting cor the
light to go out. | gave myself sweet
ness mat am going 20 say a prayer
for the last thing before I sleep. !
took his head in my arms and pressed
his chseb down against Rllly,s .slee;'
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-16

looking up into his face with an ex-
preston am glad can never forget.
1t killed all my regrets on the score of
his future.
1t took two good looks to take him
all in and then | must have missed
some of him. for all in all he was so
large that he stretched your eyes to
behold him. He's grown seven feet
tall. | don't know how many pounds
he weighs. and l don't want anybody
ever to tell me.
i had never thought enough about
evolution to know whether | believed
in it and woman's suffrage. but | do
now. l know that millions of years
ago a great big distinguished hippo
potamuS stepped out OF the woods and
frightened one of my fOremOthers so
that she turned tail and fed through a
Ithicket that almost tore her limb from
pimb right into the arms of her own
mate. That's what | did / caught
that blue satin belt together with one
hand and ran through my garden right
over bed of savage tiger lilies and
flung myself into JOHN Moores ONCE,
slammed the door and backed up
against it.
He's come" 1 gasped. And I'm
frightened to death, with nobody bur
you to run to. Hide me, quick. He's
fat, and | hate him. | was that
deadly cold you can get when fear
runs into your very marrow and con-
geals the blood in your arteries.
Quick, quick" l painted.
He must have been as pale as was
and for an eternity of a second be
looked at me. then suddenly heaven
shone from his eyes and he opened his
arms to me with just one word.
"Here?"
! went.
He held me gently for half second
and then with a sob which felt rather
than heard. he crushed me to him anC
stopped my breath with his lips oil
mine. | understood things then tina
/ never had before. and felt that wis
guardian man angel take his finger
from mine and leave me safe at last
| raised my hand and pressed it aCains
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-16

altar number two they would get into
trouble and fuss along the road. But
come on in, both of you. and help me
get this marriage feast ready, If must.
The day is going by on creased wheels,
and can't let Mr.. Johnson's crotchets
be neglected, Al Bennett or no AL
Bennettr'
And from then on for hours and
hours was strapped to a torture
wheel that turned and turned. minute
after minute, as it ground spice and
sugar and bridal meats and me relent-
lessly into a great suffering pulp
Could / ever in all my life have hun
gered for food and been able to get it
past the lump In my throat that grew
larger with the seconds? And If Al
fred's pudding tasted Of the salt OF
dead sea fruit this evening il was from
my surreptitous tears that dripped
into 1t.
1t was late, very late. before Mrs.
Johnson realized 1t and shooed me
home to get ready to go to the train
along with the brass band and all the
other welcomes.
l hurried all I could, but for long
minutes 1 stood in front of my mirror
and questioned myself. Could this
slow, pale. dead eyed, slim, dropping
girl be the rollicking child of Molly
who had looked out of that mirror at
me one short week ago? Where were
the wings on her heels. the CLINT in her
curls. the laugh on her mouth and the
devil in her eyes?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-16
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-16

Helped prepare at the Johnsons' in the
shelter of Johns arms. and | had to
face Alfred. Ruth Chester was there.
and she faced him too.
A man that can't be happy with a
woman who is willing to fulfill his
destiny" doesn't deserve to be.
Then we came over here. and John
had the most beautiful time persuading
Aunt Adeline how a good man like Mr..
Carter would want his young widow to
be taken care of by being married TO a
safe friend of his instead of being
fiighty and having folks wondering
whom she would marry.
you know yourself how hard time
beautiful young widow has. Mrs.
Henderson" he said in the tone of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-16

Croquettes, like all foods fried in
Crisco have their own true flavor. That
|1ardy' taste is absent.
Crisco digests with ease. 1t is fad
fat. The "Crisco Process has made
this possible. 1t delivers the cream;
that is, the richest, most digestible solids
from vegetable food oils. Think of the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-16

place on my breast over my heart ana
put my lips to that drake tail kiss spot
that has tempted me for | won't say
how long Then fed, and so did he.
had about decided to burn this
book, because l shan't need 1t any
longer, for he says he and Billy and
are going to play so much golf and
tennis that | shall keep as thin as he
wants me to be without any more melt
ing or freezing or starving. but per-
haps he would like to read the little
red devil. DO you suppose he would?
THE END.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-16
Leo Broken During Parade.

Springfield, ILL.,, July 16.-Captain
John S. Nagel, assistant surgeon Of
the Second Illinois regiment, had his
leg broken last evening on the parade
ground at Camp Lincoln. His horse.
becoming frightened during the regi-
mental review of the troops by Gov.
Dunno, reared and fell backward.
The captains right leg was caught be-
meath the animal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-16

ly around me. I had fastened the
neck button and was fumbling the
next one into the buttonhole when
suddenly heard laughing. excited
voices coming up the side street that
ran just under my west window.
Something told me that Alfred had
come on the o'clock down train in
stead of the 6 o'clock up. and l fair
ly reeled to the window and peeped
through the shutters
They were all in laughing group
around him, with Tom as master Of
ceremonies, and Ruth Chester was
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-16
LEAF TWELFTH.
Melted.

q LOWLY at last 1 lifted the
NJ blue muslin twenty-three inch
gS5S5spSl waist shroud and let it slip
.eszl over nv head and fall slim
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-10
A Great Victory for Southern
Women
Women

The Georgia House of Representatives to be congratulated
in had the and decency to extend the
of its hall the Georgia Woman Suffrage Association
session the Capital of the State though
sary doing sharply to rebuke rank stupidity and lack OF
judgment in the Senate.
The of suffrage in Georgia is In its infancy
perhaps but already is sponsored by number of the most
intelligent and progressive women of the State.
Unquesonaby the will stronger and stronger,
time and neither bgotry-even in
Georgia Senate-win to stop It'll
The original purpose of these Georgia evidently
to force the issue of suffrage the Georgia
Legislature at this time They merely seeking suitable
place hold night sessions They turned to the State
Capitol AS THEY HAD RIGHT TO DO in seeking that place
The Senate however with that shortsghtedness char
actec of stupidity declined extend the courtesy asked
it-and thereby it made the of suffrage
before the people of Georghe people WHO MAKE
and UNMAKE LEGISLATURES AS THEY PLEASE!
these circumstances the the House extending
of Hall to the suragists be otherwise
than distinct VICTORY for the Suffrage Association
of Georgia
in way, the very first and pioneer victory for the
the Soutmade emphatic extraordinarily
able by the foolish and silly action of the Senate.
The Georgian ventures this prediction Before the
membership of the present Legislature entirely dust woman
suffrage viii be established POLICY AND PRINCIPLE of
every State in this Union
Those Georgia, farsighted fairmnded enough
to see it NOW, then will have cause to rejoice.
Those who thrust themselves in front movement
destined to be irresistible the flow of the tide
whelmed
The of suffrage has been strengthened rather
han weakened Georgia by the unpatrioc and IN
10y action of the State Senate.
hat the House promptly and emphatically repudiated
Senate action speaks well for ITS of justice right
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-10
Who Is Responsible for Such
Creatures as David Lamar?
Who bot the Big Men, Who Are Willing to Learn from Vermin
How They the Rich Men, May Boy the Peoples Representa-
tives and Thwart the Peoples WHIP
Copyright
Copyright. 1879

You read the story of David Lamar known the Wolf
of Wall Street. whose meteoc in Atlanta in 1892 still
remembered by many persons here.
He told the Senate Lobby Investigating Committee at Wash
ngon other day that he had called big with plenty
money pretended that he Congressman This Congress
That and offered to stop legislation that the people de-
manded.
would this mans life has been of perpetual
scheming While in Atlanta his business dealings of such
arrested indicted and forced to seek other
fields.
Of recent years appears this individual Lamar has been
busy telling big New York how he could prevent inter
ference with this trust railroad combination some
other piece of financial dishonesty
He used different names probably used different voices
talking telephone He made fools of some of the big men,
and they now FEEL FOOLISH as the story comes out
It is rather disgusting story of lying and at
tempted cheating with possible bacmai attached Some of
the unpleasant words in the dictionary describe Mr. Lamar
very accurately
But words just as dsagreeabe would describe accurately
the men money power who listened to Lamar and listen
to others like him.
big whom this country and its citizens have made
rich were willing bride legislators not willing to defeat
the peoples will by underhand methods, NOT WILLING TO
USE THEIR DISHONESTY GOT MONEY TO BUY D1SHON
EST LEGISLATION there would not be such men as David
Lamar urging buying of dsreputabe public officials
cialy adapted to the doing of dirty political work
Lamar and the vermn like him are not very important
The important man the of money power and posi-
on the who has excuse for being brbeve cheat
the people, the who listens at the telephone eagerly
while the vermin representing themselves dishonest Con-
gressmen consideration to cheat the public and rob
the public and help dishonesty and buy legislation
The big who do deny that they trusted Lamar that
they MIN the telephone and heard what he had to
say made full explanation of their conduct or sat
isfactory explanation
The ordinary citizen would not listen to who called
on telephone tell him how he might rob his neighbOr
house
Why does the big of Wall Street listen patiently and
aentivey while the vermn tell him how he rob the
pie of their legislation cheat the people of their will and add by
continued bribery to the fortune already acquired?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-10
Man and Wife Should Decide Own Differences
No Person Capable Give Counsel Couple Regarding Difficulties

viduals save in the general way of
character building which is the
real work of the race.
The correspondent SAYS:
Il am q married man with two
children and earning a good sal
airy, but separated for some years,
owing to not being able to get
along in harmony, Recently my
wife called upon me and implored
that l commit infidelity in order
that she may secure a divorce
from me, as she has an oppOr-
tunity to marry. l agreed to do
so if she would compromise by
giving me one of the children, but
she absolutely refuses, offering as