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let him in. They are so real she can al
most feel the dream kisses on her hair.
Love she divines is just ready to turn the
corner two blocks away"
Peggy" the man interrupted, 1T was
was terribly ashamed of them. as all Of
about the real-est love I've ever felt
that almost love in the old days for you,
dear.
But even with an almost love two
blocks away" Peggy started again, Its
still almost love. and two blocks away.
The loss of it at this stage of the game
is only sentimental sort of regret
never the big heart-ache-that the love-
arrived is, and
You don't mean," he was asking quiet
ly that's lot that might grow into the
True-Love."
Lots that might grow into the True-
Love-" she anticipated. gets interrupted
and the months and years go by and it all
ends"
How he questioned eagerly.
Like this" said Peggy splashing the
water gaily against the painted cork.
two good, unsentimental people who once
almost loved go unromantieally enough
a-fshinr'
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Concerning Our

mo. I don't mean near-love. That's
not it, Peggy protested as she flapped
the water with her fishing rod. and the
man lighted another cigarette
Then what do you mean?Y he asked,
"by talking about the people we almost
loved"
''Just that" Peggy told him. 1.-THE men
We women almost love-almost marry
then don't. The men who secretly adore
us and then drift into a semi-attached er-
er-you might say detached friendship"
ANY thing hemi, semi or demi, seems
always seems so sort of unfinished to
me-" the man demonstrated. Explain
further
IT'S interesting to speculate on" she
continued. after ell, | suppose when Il
woman gets along a bit in life-when
most of the best of it's back of her and
little to look forward to-she can retrace
such experience and get from what she
almost had, a greater satisfaction than
she does from the friendships-affairs-
that moves peaceably toward a church
cimax-the fish that get away"
She laughed .merrily and pointed to a
fhadowry pool, where her interference
had saved trout's life temperorarily.
The man smiled indulgenty as he looked
at her affectionately.
The fish that get away he repeated
after her. "YoU don't mean"
"Oh no-not at all--not at ALL" she said
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS his question.
Its not that. It's not a question of
either fish or man being landed. |
am thoughtfully asking you to consider
such trifles that go to make or mar or
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The man regarded her with half closed,
speculative eyes.
''Humph," he finally calculated
That's more than lot of people do. "
she read his thoughts again. but the big
fact remains"
What's the big fact as you call It,
in life, Peggy? DO you know it?" he
asked sarcastically.
She pointed to the pellucid depths of the
beautiful little stream; It's fern-bordered
banks its ever hanging grottees, musical
with sweet voiced note made the ripping
waters. Farther down there was a deep
voiced being chanted by a bullfrog.
Suddenly her eyes turned and she
glanced at the silly little fish who we 5
leaving all this by counting death alter
a tin bait on a barbed hook
That's life" she said finally Laugh
at me If you will"
Her face had grown quite serious.
Her eyes were of light and shade as
deep as the stream beside which they sat.
Most of us might have peace" she
resumed presently, "and rest and the
eternal things that we are born possess
ing, if we only had the Intelligence to
grasp it, but we leave it all and jumu
out, and spring and sprain our silly litte
hearts-for things os foreign to our needs
as that painted tin bait on your hook and
line is to that little old foolish trout's
real needs"
Then
Because she realized her words, sh,
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bors say look younger now than did
fifteen years ago. Mrs. SARAH R.
WHATLEY, Athens, Texas, R. F. D.
No. 8. Box 80.
We know of no other medicine which
has been so successful in relieving the
suffering of women, or received so many
genuine testimonials, as has Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
In nearly every community you will
find women who have been restored to
health by this famous medicine. Almost
every woman you meet knows of the
great good it has been doing among
suffering women for the past 80 years.
In the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn,
Mass, are files containing hundreds of
thousands of letters from women seek
ing health, in which many openly state
over their own signatures that they have
regained their health by taking Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
many of them state that it has saved
them from surgical operations.
II you want special advice write to
Lydia e. Pinkham Medicine Co. (cOnfl.
dentiaD Lynn, Mass. Your letter will
be opened, read and answered BY q
woman and held in strict confidence.
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charge woman's or mans whole ex-
isterce-"
For instance" he invited,
1--WE might take you," she began.
But DEAR" he demonstrated there )
nothing"
Certainly not" she agreed amiaby.
There's nothing"
There was you," he suggested freebly.
"Well yes she drawled. '"rhere was
you-finish what you started to say
"There was yet he started off
bravely once more" that summer at the
White Sulphur Springs. There's never
been a girl who meant to me just what
you did and
"What / almost meant" she inter-
rupted. "I'll begin right there to IL
lustrate what I've been talking about.
1 mean when | talk about the people
we almost loved. In your case, Pm a
brilliant example, and I won't deny
it, that l almost loved you, too"
IF they hadn't snatched you away"
he interpolated. land rushed you off
to Bar Harbor we'd"
probably be married" she finished
the sentence for him, "and we'd never
be enjoying this delicious afternoon, all
to ourselves. If wed married four
years ago"
Il think he observed that it was
a great mistake we didn't"
THE fact that we can sit up and dis
cuss it in such a cold blooded manner"
he said. proves that we parted at the
most seasonable moment We almost
loved, but--didn't"
"If that Bar Harbor trip had been
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"A1nost Loues" and Some Others

us are ashamed of showing our naked
thoughts
She blew her sylvan whistle again and
splashed the water and then turning 10
the man. looked him straight in tho face
and laughed aloud at his solemnity
Peggy" the man began suddenly,
don't you believe an almost love can be
revived and that
why revert to last years loves?r she
asked. "Our almost loves are always
things of the past cases of arrested senti-
ment. A strawberry pulled half ripe,
doesn't reach the maturity 1t might have
achieved under the first conditions. So
almost loves, the day after 1t becomes al
most love is foredoomed to stay just that
Sometimes as in our case it drifts into
good sort of comradeship-a friendship
strong enough to survive even the tell
ing influence of home thruths. but a mill
doesn't grind with water that is past
Just so the human heart can't turn its
clocks back four years. 1t would be silly
to try it,"
The man remained silent
I'VE are happier So" the girl went on
Most people are. You hear this woman
or that woman grieving over a first love
that didn't eventuate. It s grief for poor
ghost of yesteryear, Our almost loves
are loves that came so near developing
that they defy any exact boundary or
classification"
"Why they are so close to becoming
real loves sometimes" the girl continued
in the most animated manner, that a girl
gets up hesitating whether or not she
shall unbolt the doors of her heart and
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BY DOLLY DALRYMPLE

postponed one week longer he in
sisted. "and if you hadn't met Jack
Nelson, and If you hadn't gone home
afterward with the Jenkins girl for a
visit at their country home, and If
Anne Smathers hadn't been there and
if"
Goodness. John, you are working
that poor little old If nearly to death, .
she exclaimed.
"Well-if-if. OH you know I never
cared a rap for Anne Smathers," he
stoutly maintained, but you did care
for Jack Nelson"
Peggy made reed" instrument out
of two perfectly good leaves and blew
gay little note from it.
81 never really cared for him." she
said finally. mot even as much as /
cared for you"
The man puffed away persistenly at
his cigarette, while Peggys quick eye
caught the flash of the retiring trout
and she jerked the hook cruelty out
of the fishs reach.
I'VE really don't need the fish for
food" she said. 81 think 1t is posi-
lively cruel to take an ideal citizen
fuse to be party to his murder
You are fine one to fish with" Johr
retorted ironically. 'The big fellows az,
ideal citizens, and the little minnows--'
Are just little babies," she supple
mented, "and even a fish has a right tc
live a while before it's snatched into
eternity"
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ing work.
THE HEART OF THE NIGHT WIND"
BY Vingie Il. Roe. illustrated by
George Gibbs. Dodd Mead and Com
, pany. New York.
Like "The Maid of the Whispering
Hills"-a first book, by the way,
which brought its author no little rec
ognition-Vinoie r. Roe's new story
THE Heart of tho Night Wind is
laid In the very depths of primeval
nature. 1t is not however the Hud-
son bay country of the eighteenth CEN
tury, as in her first story, but the ST.
letz reservation in the Oregon forest
bordering the Pacific which Miss Roe
has taken for the scene of her new
story of modern times. But as in The
Maid of the Whispering Hills" this
new story has the same atmosphere of
virgin forest and primitive life in the
great "out of doors" For Miss Roe
is an ''out of DOORS kind of person.
She has spent the last six years in the
Oregon country, living the life of the
lumber camps. riding and tramping
through the forests. Dailys lumber
camp which she describes in her story
is a real one, though with a different
name, and ono In which she spent sew
eral months watching the big trees be-
ing felled and the great RATS starting
uoWn TO the sea. Here TOO she delVed
for all the romance with which such
life Is filled and Which she knows so
well how TO reproduce for her readers
The region of the Sletz and the va
quina is authentic; the landmarks and
names are for the most part real ones
1 The timber frauds which contribute a
large share to the development of the
plot are the real frauds that Francis
j. Honey unearthed some years back
and which caused a considerable scan
dal at tho time.
Miss Roe SAYS of the new story. "The
Heart of the Night Wind" II have
tried faithfully to portray The country
and its people, its beauties and its pee
cadilloes, its magnificent forests and
the charm of its mighty hills, its big
ness. its man-size labor and its wealth
! l hope the public viii welcome my little
friend Siletz as l lead her forward to
make her timid bow. for though she
| Is entirely a creature of my imagfna-
| tion, she is as real to me as many a
person of flesh and blood-nay, much
more so than many"
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"THE AMBITION OF MARK TRUTH
By Henry Russell Miller. The Bobbs-

by Henry russell Miller. The BobbS-
Merrill Company, Indianapolis.
Here is a story distinctly worth while
There is meat and back bone in it, To
use the authors phrase, it contains
big idea" striven for and attained by
two remarka BILE living characters.
A man struggling against his envi-
ronment; opposed by the great spirit
ual. social and economic forces about
him, attempting to acquire wealth and
prestige by his force of character his
perseverance and his strength in a
is pictured in bold relief in this power
full tale of right-now industrial and
social America. He is Mark Truitt
Beside this man, the author has
placed two women. The one has gone
untouched by cares and untried by
tempta tion, and sees in his achieve
ments only the possibilities for the full
filrnent of her own selfish desires. The
other is a woman who has toiled and
erred, trusting only that her sacrifices
will bring him ultimately to a great
happiness and bis goal She is Kazia
The first, unable to comprehend and
unwilling to help. retreats when her en-
couragement Is needed most and her
companionship alone can bring sweet
solace to the troubled brain and tired
body of her husband. Kazla comes to
him in this hour of need and with her
he foes on. They battle against sin
and shame; they strive against weak
ness, blighted hopes and physical suf-
fering. They pass through the human
souls battle and emerge later in life,
unscarred but chastened and ennobled
by it all.
In this story we have an ordinary
man and an ordinary woman, common
place enough at first, but developed
powerfully and consistently by what
they overcome into great personalities
So vital and human are they that be-
side them the usual novel hero and
heroine become little more than shad-
ows. The author has treated seriously.
yet skiilfully the cause of the indus
trial worker. 1t is song of steel,
sung by thousands, but led by this hero
Ic man and this heroic woman who fin
ally conquer by the dnt of their own
will. do others good and come into their
own.
The handling of episodes the devel-
opment of plot the naturalness, con-
sistency and variety Of character, scene
and action. the range, depth and realis-
tic interest of the story are all remark
able. The author knows the steel
world and he knows men and women
He has combined them into a serious
work of sustained purpose and made 1t
throb with vitality from first to last
1.-The Ambition of Mark Truitt' is like a
| true story-it seems all too dramatic,
too vital to be fiction. AS we behold
the unfolding of the careers of Truitt
and kazia we are overcome by the same
gripping human interest that holds us
! breathless to the stirring events of ac-
tual life.
In 'The Man Higher Up" Henry Rus
sci Miller presented to the reading
world study of contemporary big city
Affairs in America that took the coun.
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VS. Eyes" was begun July g 1911. and
finished April s. 1913. For almost two
years Mr.. Harrison worked eight hours
day, planning, writing and rewriting
his new book. Having won his audi
ence with "Queed." he might have fol-
lowed up that success six months later
with a new novel. popular in appeal but
mediocre in quality. This. however,
is not Mr.. Harrison's way Years of
newspaper training have taught him to
write quickly If need be- but his inten-
tion Is to create real literature. To
show the painstaking care with which
he works, one entire scene was rewrlt-
ten after 1t had been set up in type,
and notwithstanding the fact that the
manuscript was rewritten, revised and
remodeled many times before it was
sent to the publishers. No one read the
entire manuscript of "V VS. Eyes"
Even the typewrtten copies which We're
made were done in halves, each half
being done by different stenographer.
There are many people who "ought
to read "V. VS. Eyes" There are
many people who will read 1t. in keen
enjoyment of a good story remarkably
we'll told. l is a novel of far reaching
power and interest, broad in scope,
strong in characterization, deeply in
teresting in its appeal to people in all
classes.
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FRECKLES
Now Is the Time to Get Rid of These
Ugly Spots

Now Is the Time to Get Rid of These
Ugly Spots
There's no longer the slightest need
of feeling ashamed of your freckles, as
the prescription othine--double strength
is guaranteed to remove these home
ly spots.
Simply get an ounce of othine--dou-
Bile strength-froin your druggist and
apply little of it night and morning
worst freckles have begun to disap-
pear, while the lighter ones have van
ished entirely. 1t is seldom that more
than an ounce is needed to completely
clear the skin and gain a beautiful.
clear complexion.
Be sure to ask for the double
strength othine as this is sold under
guarantee of money back If it fails to
remove freckles.
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"v. VS. EYES"
v. v. = FL ES.
BY Henry Sidner Harrison (Author of
"Queed".) Houghton, Mifflin Compa =

BY Henry Sdner Harrison. (Author of
'Queed".) Houghton, Mifflin Compa =
ny. Boston.
When Mr. Henry Sydner Harrison
published "Queed' a couple of years
ago the entire literary world was IN
terested because of the intensely clever,
unique and original style of the story.
IT was read by thousands and there was
not dissenting voice as to the charm
of the book.
Naturally another novel from Mr..
Iarrisons pen was awaited with Keen
delight and certainly he could not have
sent out a more worthy successor than
~. VS. Eyes" which is the talk of the
DAY among "boolzy" people.
1t is an unusually fair representation
of a certain phase Of American life,
made all the more interesting and con-
vincing because 1t is uncritical.
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OUR OWN WEATHER"
By Edwin c. Martin. illustrated. Ha,
per Brothers Now York.

By Edwin c. Martin. illustrated. Har-
per Brothers, New York.
In a volume entitled 'Our Own
Weather" by Edwin c. Martin a sim
pie account is given of how the weather
comes about of its changes of aspect
from season to season: OF the signs
which announce it's activity, with scien-
tific explanations of winds, storms.
floods. cyclones, droughts, blizzards,
hot waves etc.
The book is very interesting because
If there is one subject above all others
which the public has more to say about
than any other 1T Is the weather.
Much valuable information is CON
tained in the volume and 1t is well
worth reading.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
"oUT OF THE ASHES.
BY Ethel watts Mumford. Nj


Yard and Company. New York.
Ethel Watts Mumford who is one OF
the most popular of present day writer's
In her new story, ''Out of the Ashes.
has given TO the reading public a pow
erful and striking story of life in New
York today. The hero is a finan.
cial power, the heroine is a charmipe
and fascinating widow with a mos,
lovable daughter The story show
how they are purified by the fires of af-
Fiction and suffering, and how "Out OF
the Ashes" a new life begins for then
both. Mrs. Mumford tells the story
which govern men and women, and her
analysis of the influences producine
the types of characters described in the
book Is subtitle and powerful. A most
charming story with most satisfae-
tory ending.
No book of the present day has been
more favorably received than "Out OF
the Ashes" and it's following ia Jeoion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
"A SUNNY LIFE:THE BIOGRAPHY Ol
SAMUEL JUNE BARROWS'

"A SUNNY LIFE THE BIOGRAPHY OF
SAMUEL JUNE BARROWS"
By Isabel c. Barrows. illustrated
from photographs. Little, Brown
and Company Boston.
1t would be rather difficult to define
exactly the position in life of Samuel
June Barrows SO diverse were his in
terests and achievements. Self-sup-
porting from his earliest days-for he
was a wage Garner at ight--largely
self educated. he was, in the prime of
his manhood. one of Americas best
and typical products. From a reporter
on the New York papers, and private
secretary to William II. Seward, then
secretary of state. he became editor of
the Christian Register, the Official or
gan of Unitarianism in America. Fif-
teen years later he exchanged the edi-
torial chair for seat in Congress and
at the expiration of his term, he en-
tered into his last great work as cor
responding secretary of the prison as
sociation of New York. At the time
of his death he was recognized as one
of the leading penologists of the coun-
try.
He was the fortunate possessor of a
character so lovable, so sunny, so rarely
fine that he accumulated friends as
some men accumulate dollars This ac-
count of himself, his life and his work
is written by his wife, who more than
any one else understood and apprecia-
ted his unusual nature. 1t is an in
teresting biography and delightfully."-
written, as Mrs. Barrows herself is no
novice in editorial work Those who
knew the man In any one of his various
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The story of 'V VS. Eyes" is the
story of the evolution of a girls ideal.
1t tells how Callie Heth, the lovely
young wording, learned to know life
through the eyes of the whimsical,
appealing "slum DOCTOR" V. Vivian,
He shows her realities where she has
known and wanted only what is arti-
fetal; he pierces her vanity and self
content, until at the end she in the best
and fullest sense finds herself" Sne
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standing. l wrote
to you for advice
and took Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound, and
some other things
tn a t you sugges-
ted. / must confess
that l am much bet
ter in every way and
have been relieved
of some of the worst
troubles. NV neigh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
APRIL PANHAsARD"

BY Muriel Hine (Mrs. Sidney Caxon).
The John Lane Company. New York
Lady Essendine is reluctantly com
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06

PHILOSOPHY

Ole Miss, hit aint de LIES
dat folks tells on er Man dat
is wurrisome ter him, but de
turrible fear dat Sumbody,
sum day, is gwine ter up an
tell de TRUTH on him.
YaSSum!
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Scaled Iins

From the Louisville Herald.
Patienee-It is said that to insure the
owner of a private shaving cup kept in
a barber shop that he is it's only user.
there has been invented paper cap to
cover it, which cannot be removed with
out breaking seal.
Patrice-Wonder why some Of the jeal-
Gus wives don't try that plan on some
other mugs2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
COM PLICATI0N
OF WOMAN'S ILLS
Yields to Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.

Athens, Texas" had complica-
tion of diseases, some of them of long
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
THE BUGLEs OF GETTYsBuRG. ,

| T I
BY LaSalle Corbell Pickett. lMts. Gen.
George e. Pickett). T. G. Browne & Co,
1875 Transportation Building, Chicago
'The Bugles of Gettysburg" by LaSalle
Corbe,l Pickett CMrs. Gen. George e.
PicketD is in the form Of a romance and
primarily commentaries the hftieth an
niversary of Gettysburg.
Coming from the pen Of the widow OF
the hero of that terrible conflict Il has
peculiar significance. Mrs. Pickett says
of the story: Il have put my whole soul
into this work. 1t is the song of the dying
swan. l have been living and breathing
the atmosphere Of II all, reading old let
ters written in the camp and ON the
march. before and after the battle. 1t is
all true" The book is written in a spirit
which will carry it to the hearts of all
north and south
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rs 1T ENOUGH" BY Harriette Rus
sci Campbell. Harper Brothers, New
York
THE CATFISH BY Charles Marriott.
The Bobbs Merrill company, Indianapolis.
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KNOWS many men, and many of them
love her-two most of all-but only ".
V. puts faith in her as a free and moral
being, and all that she ultimately does
is done that his faith in her may not be
disappointed. 1t is a big story, full
everywhere of moving and winning
humanity
1t may be interesting to Mr.. Harri-
sons large clientele to know that "V.
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capacities Will be glad to have this rec
ord of him. and the mere reader viii
find the book a stimulating and uplift-
ing work
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try by storm and assured his popularity
as a novelist.
In THE Ambition of Mark Truitt" he has
progressed by leaps and bounds 1t is
by far his greatest achievement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06


THE HUMAN SLAUGHTER HOUSE"
BY Wilhelm Lamszas. Translated from
the German by Oakley Williams. with
an introduction by Alfred Noyes Fred
erick A. Stokes & Co. New York
Within the past few months 10000
copies Of The Slaughter House." by VIII
liam Lamezus have been sold In Ger
many.
It has been Translated into eight Ian
guages. 1t is the sensation Of the year
in Europe and should be read widely in
America
It Is the atory of a civilian who leaves
his office desk. his wife and family and
marches out to a preseut-day war.
In 1t the author strips from war lis de-
ceptive glamor. Mechanical invention has
changed THE Field of Honor into "rhe
Human Slaughter House" Instead of the
bravery, strength and skill Of man against
man, war today means huge shells man
Cling dozens OF men. dynamite dropped
from aeroplanes flying by night, regi-
ment wiped out by pushing an electric
button.
The book is a direct and terrible appeal
to the conscience of civilization for re-
volt against the cumulative horror Of the
mechanics of modern warfare.