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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-28

his bushy brows and are all tender and
full OF sorry for US.
Il can't help it." gulped In my
sleeve. II did used to like Alfred Ben
nett. My heart almost broke v'ben be
went away. used to be beautiful and
slim, and now feel as If my own fat
ghost has come 10 haunt me all my
life. l am SO ashamed! IL a woman
can't cry over her own dead beauty.
what can she cry ever" By this time
! was really crying.
Then what happened to me was that
Dr. John took me by the shoulders and
gave me one good shake and then
made me look him right in the eyes
through the tears and all.
"You foolish child" he said in the
deepest voice I almost ever heard him
use. You are Just a lovely. round.
luscious peach. but II you will be hap
pier to have Al Bennett come and nnd
you rs slim as a string bean I can
snow you how to do It VIII you do
Just as l tell your"
Yes. l WILL" ! shifted In q comfort
ed voice. What woman wouldn't be
comforted by being called a luscious
peach7" looked out between my en-
gers to see what more be was going
to say. but he had turned TO a shelf
Npd taken down two books.
Now" he said in his most business
Ike voice. as cool as a bucket Of wa
ter fresh from the spring. ut Is no
trouble at all to take OF your surplus
ayoirdupOis at the rate OF two and a
half pounds a week II you follow these
directions. AS I take II. you are about
twenty-five pounds over your normal
weight. It will take over two months
10 reduce you. and we will allow on
extra month for further identifying,
20 that when Mr.. Bennett arrives he
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-28

in itself. I was so interested that I
read on and on and forgot it was al
most toast-apple time.
OF course anybody that is anybody
would be interested in Father Tiber
and the old Coliseum. but what made
me forget the one slice of dry toast
and the apple was the way he seemed
TO be connecting me up with all those
wonderful old antiquities that had new
er even seen me. Because Of me he had
felt and written that poem descriptive
of old Tiber, and the moonlight had liz
up the old Coliseum just because I
was over here lighting up Hillsboro.
Tenn. with Mr.. Carter dead. OF course
that is not tie way he put it all, but
there is no place to really copy. what
he did say down into this imp book.
Anyway, that is the sentiment be ex-
pressed when it is boiled down and
sugared off.
That's just what I mean. Love boil
ed down and sugared of is mighty apt
to get an explosive flavor, and one had
better be careful with that kind If one
Is timid, which I'm not As l said.
also. am ready for a little taste of
lie, so read on without fear; and. to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-28

when be seats her IN their pew at
church and once at little Mamie John
son when she gave him a flower
through their fence as he passed by
one day last week, but never thought
I should have one all to myself But
there 1t was. a most beautiful one
long and slow and distinctly mine-at
least didn't think much Of 1t was for
Billy. l sat up and blusbed as red all
over as / do when ! first hit that tub
of cold water.
81 hope you'll forgive an intruder,
Mrs. Carter. but how could a mortal
resist a peep into the garden of the
gods IL he spied the queen and her
faun at playa" he said in a voice as
wonderful as the smile. By that time
1 had reefed in my ruffles around my
feet and pushed In all my hairpins
Billy stood spread legged as near in
front of me as he could get and said
In the rudest possible tone of voice:
Get away from my Molly, manr
! never was SO mortified In all my
life. and l scrambled TO my feet and
came over to the fence to get between
him and Billy.
TITS a lovely day. isn't 1t, Judge
Wade?" ! asked with the greatest in
terest. which didn't really feel in the
weather, but what could I think OF to
say? A woman Is apt TO keep the i'm
age Of q good many of the grand men
she sees passing around her In queer
inches IN her brain, and when one steps
out and speaks to her for the FIRST time
It Is confusing. OF course 1 have
known the Judge and his mother all
my life. for she 10 one of Aunt AIDE
lines best friends, but ] had a feeling
from the look In his eyes that that
very minute was the nrst time he had
ever seen me. 1t was lovely. and
blushed some more as put my hand
mp to my cheek so wouldn't have to
look right at him.
About the IovelIest day that ever
happened in HIIlsboro." be said. and
there was still more of the delicious
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-28
PROLOGUE.

Molly was the foiresf and n1er-
krfesf of Widows-ond The plump
est! That foo, foo solid flesh
wos fhe cause of all the trouble.
Molly loved Alfred Bennett in
her girIhood days. NON he was
coming home distinguished
diplomat and wanted TO see Mol
Iy in the same blue muslin dress
(woist measure twenty inches)
which she had worn at their fen
der parting years before. So
Molly had to groU slim as a
string bean in Just three months.
And. as she had at least four
su:tors, the melting process-o
fairly complicated business
was often interrupted.
The gay. irresistible Molly, oil
sweetness ard spice and every
thing nice, Is a most fetching
heroine. and the longer one knows
her The more ones admiration
grows. She has wit o-pIenty and
very keen sense of humor.
Furthermore, no one can tell
just what she will do next. To
Thopsodfxe, she is-6ut wait, let
the wffchins Molly tell her own
story herself
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-28

In m any homes
once childless there
are now children be-
cause of the fact
that Lydia E. Pink
hams V ege table
Compound IN a k e S
WON en- norm al,
healthy and strong.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-28
LEAF FIRST.
The eaeheIor,s euttons.

? IES. ! truly think that in all the
world there is nothing SO
"a dead as q young widows de-
ceased husband. and God
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-28

be fair, Alfred had well boiled his own
last paragraph. 1t snapped, and l
jumped and grasped both. I almost
thought I didn't quite like it and was
going to read it over again to see
when there came a procession from
over to DR.. Johns, and I laid the
bombshell down on the bench.
First came the red setter, that is al
ways first with DR.. John, and then he
came himself, leading Billy by the
hand. 1t was Billy, but the most sub
dued Billy l ever saw, and 1 held out
my arms and started for him.
"Wait a minute, please. Molly" said
the doctor in the voice he always uses
when he's Furnishing Billy and me.
"Billy came to apologize to you for be-
ing rude to your-your guest. He told
me all about it. and think he's sorry.
Tell Mrs. Carter you are sorry. son."
When that man speaks to me as If
were just any old body else i hate
him so it is wonder don't show 1t
more than / do. But there was moth
ing to say, and looked at Billy, and
Billy looked at me.
Then suddenly he stretched out his
little arms to me. and the dimples wink
ed at me from all over his darling face
IT, H.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-28

buI. as CTUei Ceatn as freezing Is.
it doesn't compare TO the fortunes OF
being melted. Judy administers ii TO
me. and her faithful heart is so wrung
with compassion that she perspires al
most as much as ] do. She wrings
linen sheet out in a caldron of boiling
ngony-and then more and more bian-
let windings envelop me until I am
like the mummy of some Egyptian 81.
antess. ! have ice on the back of my,
neck and my forehead and murder for
the whole world in my heart. Once
got so discouraged at the idea of hav.
ing all this hades in this life that l
mingled tears with the beads of per-
spiration that rolled down my cheeks.
and she snatched me out of those
steaminS grave clothes in less time
than 1t takes to tell 1t, soused me in a
tub Of cold water. fed me a chicken
wing and hot biscuit and the infor-
nation that was good looking
enough for anybody to eat up alive
without all this foolishness," all in a
very few seconds Now, have TO beg
her to help me. and heard her tell her
nephew. who does the gardening. that
she felt like an undertaken with such
goings on. At any rate, If it all kills
me it won't be my fault If anybody
has to lie in saying that I was beau
tiful in DEATH"
But now that more than a month has
passed, really don't mind it so much.
feel so good and strong and prancy
all the time that | can't keep from
bubbling. I have to smile at myself.
Then another thing that helps is
Billy and his ball. / never could real
~ play with him before. but now l
can't help it. But an awful thing hap
pened about that yesterday. We were
in the garden playing over by the lilac
bushes, and Billy always beats me.
| because when he runs to base he
throws himself down and slides along
! on the grass on his little stomach as
| he sees the real players do over at the
! ball grounds. Then all of sudden,
before I knew it, just did the same
thing, and we slid to the fowerpot
we use as base together. each on his
/ own stomach. anu WHAT Billy
but begin right there on the grass the
| kind of a tussle we always have in
the big rocking chair on the porch!
Over and over we rolled, Billy chuck
ling and squealing. while l laughed
myself all out of breath. I'm glad |
always would wear delicious petit
coats, for there. looking right over
my front fence, I discovered Judge
Benton Wade. ! wish I could write
down how felt. for I never had that
sensation before. and don't believe
I'll ever have it again.
have always thought that Judge
Wade was really the most wonderful
man in Hillsboro. not because he is q
Judge so young in life that there is
only q white sprinkle in his lovely
black hair. that grows back off bis
head like Napoleon's and Charles Yves
ley's, but because of his smile. which
you wait for so long that you glow all
over when you get 1t. have seen
him do it once or twice at his mother
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-28

Ito be continued.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-28

/ red devil-l'm glad I've
lNSSfS written 1t at last-of a book
- is the fifth. 1t says:
"Breakfast-one slice Of dry toast.
one egg. fruit and a tablespoonful of
baked cereal, small cup of coffee, no
sugar. no cream" And me with two
Jersey cows full of the richest cream
in Hillsboro, Harpeth valley, out in my
pasturel
'Dinner-one small lean chop. slice
Of toast, spinach, green beans and let.
tuce salad No dessert or sweet" The
blue grass in my yard is full Of fat
little flyers. and I wish / were a sheep
If have TO eat lettuce and spinach for
grass At least, I'd have more than
one chop Inside me then.
"Suppsr-slice of toast and an ap-
pie" Why the apple? Why supper
at all?
Oh, I'm hungry. hungry until ! cry
in my sleep when | dream about a
muffin! | thought at frst that getting
out Of bed before my eyes are fairly
open and turning myself into circus
actor by doing every kind of overland.
foot. arm and leg contortion that the
mind of cruel man could invent to tor
ture q human being with. would kill
me before | had been at IL a week. but
when ] read on page sixteen that as
soon as all that horror was over ! must
jump right into the tub OF cold water
| kicked. metaphoricaIly speaking
And I've been kicking ever since. liter
aILy to keep from freezing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-28
EXPERIENCE
OF MOT ERHOOD
Advice to Expectant Mothers

The experience of Motherhood is try
Ing one to most women and marks dis
tinctly an epoch in their lives. Net ono
woman in hundred is prepared or I'M
derstands how to properly care for her
self. OF course nearly every woman
nowadays has medical treatment at such
times, but many approach the expert
ence with an organism untitled for the
trial of strength, and when it is over
her system has received shock from
which it is hard to recover. Following
right upon this comes the nervous strain
of caring for the child, and distinct
change in the mother results,
There is nothing more charming than
happy and healthy mother Of children,
and indeed childbirth under the right
conditions need be no hazard to health or
beauty. The unexplainable thing il
that, with all the evidence of shattered
nerves and broken health resulting from
an unprepared condition, and with am
pie time in which to prepare, women
will persist in going blindly to the trial.
Every woman at this time should rely
upon Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, a most valuable tonic and
invigorator of the female organism.
In many homes GES@SSS
once childless there NTsZ/@%AN%fN
are now children be- lW n EAW
cause of the fact "a %W 1T
that Lydia E. Pink ~ y II
hams V egetable ~ NJ Il IL
Compound IN axe tM ZsSsSfR> I'M
women normal, SgENeIkfEIhl
healthy and strong. SS w. - 80
II you want special advice write to
Lydia z. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confi-
dentiaD Lynn, Mass. Your letter will
be opened, read and answered by a
woman and held In strict confidence.
Advertisement
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-28
LEAF SECOND.
T&iN
love Letter, Loaded.

Above Letter, Loaded. ~
T 1HE very worst page in this red
/ red devil-l'm glad I've
5SzSN written 1t at last-of a book
49, is the fifth. 1t says:
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-12
SCORN ROSENWALD'S
MONEY; IT'S TAINTED,
ASSERTS c. T. BRADY

KANSAS CITY, March 11.-De-
nouncing the grinding methods by
which julius Rosenwald's millions have
been piled up, Rev. Cyrus Townsend
Brady, of st. George Episcopal church,
demanded that Kansas City reject the
$4,000 contribution to the welfare
campaign of this city.
The revelations before the O'Hara
commission in Chicago, DR.. Brady de-
clared, make it incompatible with civic
decency to accept any part of for
tune tainted with the suspicion that it
had been amassed at the sacrifice of
the virtue of girl workers.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-12
LAUDER BRINGS LAUGHS
DESPITE DEATHS VISIT

Harry Lauder and his company pro-
duced laughs from Atlanta playgoers last
night and gave no intimation that some
thing of sorrow existed among them.
Willis Whalley, trombone player in the
company's orchestra, after completing his
work in connection with the afternoon
performance, was stricken with a sudden
attack of heart failure while strolling on
Marietta street about SIS o'clock, and
died within few minutes in the ambu-
lance which was hurrying him to Grady
hospital and to succor. Whalley was about
40 years old, He is survived by family,
which lives at 2471 Eighth avenue, New
York, and to whom will be sent his body.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-12
No BULL MOOSE
PARTY IN HOUSE
ProgreSSives viii Form No
Third Party in Congress. But
Join G. O. P.

WASHINGTON, March ll-Therc
will he no third party organization in
the house, according to the admission
Of progressives today. There may be a
few congro ssmen who viii style them
selves progressives or Independents. but
they viii not form any organization.
and il was further learned that the
majority of the so-called progressives
will enter the Republican caucus to be
called shortly before April !.
These progressives will refuse to he
bound by any of the actions OF the
caucus. and if any attempt is made to
bind them to a program they viii walk
out. II is understood that the Repub-
licans will make 40 attempt to en-
force any binding agreements on mem
bers who enter the caucus and. in fact,
It will merely amount to a conference.
There viii be almost no opposition to
the designation Of James r. Mann OF
Illinois, as minority leader. Some at
tempt may be made. however to ere
ate committee on committees for as
signing committee memberships. simi-
lar to that which exists on the Demo-
cratic side of the house
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-12
News and Reviews
Of th> TheaterS
LAUDER CAPTURES ATLANTA.

Harry Lauder, the one and Only, re
peated the famous and oft-quoted act of
Julius Caesar, in Atalnta yesterday-he
came. we saw and he conquered The
large audience at the Atlanta theater last
night laughed with Lauder, loved with
him spent a rolicking, happy -go-ucky
hour when all personal cares were forgot
and nothing mattered but the jolly Scotch
mans songs and chatter
LADDERS songs are inimitable He has
often been initiated, in a way. but no one
ever approached him. You're My
Daisy. "ROamin' in the Gloamin," and
his Old-time success, Il Love LaSsie,"
were the best of last nights repertoire,
and the most representative of Lauder 5
art. His representation of the cavalry
man was the most pleasing of his sew
eral personiticatiOns, and the cleVerest, if
tong, The Safest o. the Family seemed
not quite up to LADDERS standard-or,
rather, unsuted to his merry mOod-but
every other number sparkled with humor
and glee, and made life easier for all who
heard them.
the audience called No. MOI" when Lau-
der suggested that possibly they had had
enough. Never did an hour pass more
swiftly or pleasantly to most of them.
Harry Lauder is an artist whose per
sonality makes his work unique, as well
as the most finished and perfect of its
kind.
In addition to the famous Scotchman,
the show last night was composed of
several pleasing vaudeville features. We
of this portion of the bill. and several
other good acts were given, among them
Mile. Bertha and her violin and Mana
and her partner In skating novelty.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-12
Civil Service Tests
For rAllPOstmasters
Favored by Burleson
Postmaster General, However, Is
Not Very Positive About
First Glass Offices.

WASHINGTON, March l1-Postmas-
ter General Burleson today expressed
himself as being heartily in favor OF
President Taft's order placing fourth
class postmasters under the civil service
and added that he did not think the for
mer president had gone far enough.
while the policy of President Wilson S
administration with regard to postmas-
ters has not been fully determined said
the postmaster general as he left the
cabinet meeting, Il have no objections to
saying that President Taft's plan has my
hearty approval and Endorsement. How
ever, l do not think he went far enough
"Postmasters of the second and third
class also should be placed under the
civil service and possibly even those Of
the f1rst-c class. This would effectualy
prevent the employment of politicians as
postmasters and would work for greatly
increased efficiency.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-12
COED FLEES FROM
NORMAL SCHOOL IN
MOTOR CAR TO WE'D

ATHENS, GA, March 11.-Friends of
Miss Made Belle Cape of Talking
Rock, Ga. and George B. Davis, Of this
city. were surprised today at the an
nouncement Of their unceremonious
marriage Sunday afternoon.
Miss Cape was a student at the State
Normal school, and her family ana the
authorities of the school knew nothing
of her intentions. Davis is an employee
of the Georgia railroad. He met his
bride here some time ago.
Sunday they decided on romantic
marriage, so, meeting at the home of a
mutual friend, they outguessed the
school authorities and their friends by
autoing to Center, a nearby suburb
where they were married.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-12
VAN is BACK.

Billy b. Van and the Beaumont Sis
ters, and a bunch of other girls and
comedians, are back at the Lyric, to be
there all this week.
And they have brought with them "A
Lucky Hoodoo" Van is the same ire
pressible imp of old, and the whole com
pany made friends of last nights au-
dence from the beginning.
"a Lucky Hoodoo' is in two acts In
the first Van is property man in a
vaudeville theater. He mikes the acts
up and runs the place generally to suit
himself and incidentally makes lot of
fun.
In the second act he is the office boy
of a seer, Madame Holdemdigits, and i'm
personates the fortune teller, getting a
lot more fun out of this.
A big, bunch of well -costumed chorus
girls help Van and his show, and the
Beaumont sisters look splendid and sing
and dance we'll
A feature of the show Is the song
"Lovey Lane" accompanied by the Tan
go dance rendered by Miss Jeanette
Reynolds and Joseph p. Dolan.
The show is well worth seeing, not only
for its fun, but for its musical numbers
as well
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-12
BEBAN A REAL TREAT.

The big feature of the Grand. vaude-
vile bill this week is George Beban, in
his rewritten version of The Sign of the
Rose" All the intense pathos of the
flower shop scene is retained, the story
is entirely connected and interesting, the
support Is splendid, and Mr.. Beban as
the grief stricken Italian father is the
equal Of his more pretentious work in the
three-act play. 1t is not necessary to
have seen the big play to thoroughly un-
derstand and enjoy the vaudeville version.
Last nights audience gave him a splen-
did ovation at the close of the act
Beginning with McClain and Mack, in
the unfortunate opening position, and pre-
senting a snappy musical act, on to Lowe
and Sterling, a ragtime duo, featuring a
very pretty girl, then Bert Melrose, who
falls from the top of four stacked tables,
and who has a ridiculously funny line
Of silent comedy, then Nellie Nichols well
known here as the girl who sings the song
wherein she wants to know what Is her
nationality, and the O'Meer sisters and
a young man (name not given) who do a
classy tight wire act featuring dancing
cn the wire, the bill has something all
the way which is pleasing. For one
thing, it has more girls that are good
looking and shapely-and this helps lots.
This weeks bill is almost wholly good,
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-12
BUSINESS NOTICES.
DON'T LOSE YOUR HAIR
Partisan Sage Stops Falling Hair in
Two Weeks. or Your Money
Refunded.

Look at your comb. Hair coming
out pretty fast. isn't it?
Getting so thin on top that you are
commencing to feel rather fidgety.
Perhaps you are even beginning to
worry?
Don't worry; don't despair: don't
lie awake nights: don't walt an
other day. but go to the drug store
aud get a large bottle Of Partisan
Sage II will only cost you 80 cents
aad before you have used il a week
YOU win say it is worth SO.
The people in Atlanta and vicinity,
and especially the readers Of The
Atlanta Georgian, ought TO know
that Partisan Sage is guaranteed to
stop falling hair. to cure dandruff
to stop itching scalp.
As a hair dressing, and especially
for ladies of refinement it has no
equal. II has a most delightful yet
delicate odor.
1t will in one weeks time. change
harsh. unattractive hair into lus-
trous and luXuNant hair The wom-
en- who use Partisan Sage never
fail to add wonderfully to their at
tractiVeuess.
81 have used and seen used sew
eral hair tohiCs and so-called re-
newers, but never had any come to
my notice that can ever compare
with Partisan Sage It leaves the
hair clean fluffy aud silky. aud does
not leave one particle of stickiurss %
Mrs lda Wilcox hu, dresser.
tuldvafrr. Mics
PaH-au SIs, Is -ulU DO, Jacob,
Tru stores auj I.ug store, and
toilet goods counters everywhere
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-12
RECEIVER FOR TAYLOR
GROCERY co. APPOINTED

H. A. Ferris has been appointed re-
ceiver for the Taylor Grocery Company,
which today filed papers In bankruptcy.
The company operates stores at 4S7
Capitol avenue and So Orme street. The
petitioners are G. B. Taylor and H. S.
Taylor. Fl. S. Taylor filed suit for
personal bankruptcy at the same time.
He asked for exemption Of $1,000
The liabilities of the firm are $979.5O,
with no assets. Mr.. Taylor's personal
liabilities are $1,S9S.5O, with no assets.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-12
ANOTHER GOOD TABLOID.

Ehe Forsyth IS offering ''Whose LIttle
Girl Are You?" as its tabloid for this
week, and three good audiences enjoyed it
yesterday and last night.
The tab is in two scenes in college
and all the action takes place in one
day Whose Little Girl Are You?" runs
mostly to songs and girls. There are
about ten chorus girls and as many prln-
cipals and they are kept pretty busy
rendering ten feature and song numbers
nearly all of which were well received
A surprise feature was the song from the
box by a pretty principal with the chorus
girls fling down the aisles to the stage
This number almost stopped the show last
night. so well was it received.
Whose Little Girl Are You?" will be
given at matinee and two night per-
formances all week.