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ster. He lost his job after few weeks
illness and this meant further curtailing
of expenses. So he gave up his top
story room and managed somehow to
live in his Office. Still the neat little,
freckled Becky was faithful. She made
her appearance every noon and every
evening after work and together they
did enough with the mail-order work to
pay the rent.
One night, when Becky arrived at
Leinster's door, there was no one to
let her in. That was strange, thought
Becky, recalling that he always got
there ahead of her. However, she wait
ed. just as she was about to go the
tall, lank figure of Leinster, pale and
breathless, advanced down the hall
Becky's interest and curiosity held
her spellbouAd. 1t had happened, per-
haps, that one of his creditors had
served papers, or his father-who, in
Becky's opinion, must be at least duke
had further disowned him.
open the door, Becky" said Lein-
ster. handing her the keys. Il am al
most fainting." The Irishman fell into
a brogue when he was excited, and it
was positively dominant now.
Il have landed big contract" he
went on, "a contract for 5000 worth of
advertising. 1t is what have dreamed
of. ! got a chance to talk to one of
those big corporation manufacturers to-
day. Pve been hanging around the
place for weeks and at last they let me
talk, and / showed them that knew
advertising, that I did straight think
ing. and that knew human nature, and
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(OopyriGht, 01Al

- AY, honesti What do you know
about this "watchful waiting
~ business? If anybody asked me
as conundrum, my answer would be,
"a cat" Pussy is the great Little watch
full waiter when you come right down
to it. She don't do any rough work,
slamming in with battieax at the first
shake out of the box and mussing up
the whole place. She just sits down and
waitfully watches, as calm as a feather
boa behind bureau, but it's good-by to
little mousie just the same. 1t takes
time, but it ends with the rodent inside
the feline, just in the sweet old way.
The other way is the canine way. At
the drop of the hat it is 'Whoop-de-
deep and dog-yells ail over the prop
erty. There's no watchsul waiting about
dog. Head on one side, head on other
side, couple of whines as full of longing
as the alphabet is full of letters and then
it is Wow! Wow" and Towser starts
to dig. And that ends with the rodent
inside the canine. About the only differ
ence between watchful waiting and biff-
bang is whether the rodent wants to
end up inside a feline or canine. If
/ was the rodent I should worry! Gone
is gone, amt it?
1t was thinking about love and Perky
that set me on the trail of the above
straight hunch. I've been the retiring
little watchful waiter about long enough.
A girl that reaches my years and wis
dom can Just sit at her No 6 and whack
the keys and watch and wait, if she
wants to, and then what? Some sturdy
blond puts on two inches of war paint,
grabs a club and beats the fondly de-
sired into a helpless pulp and carries him
off and marries him before he comes TO.
And then the watchful waiter can shift
her chair two degrees north by east, aim
her eyes at a brand-new hearts desire, |
and go right on watching and waiting.
Nix on that for ME!
But there you are again! Just as like
as not if a retiring little rosebud decides
the watch-and-wait game is too slow
and uncertain and sloshes the contents
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could have given him few pointers on
gathering up, but was rather tickled
to see what an amateur he was at it. OF
course I came to as soon as he had me
gathered. let him get his arms we'll
hitched around me, and then / gave a
sigh and opened my eyes and smiled
right up at him. wanted to show that
now was happy and content. leaned
against him, with one foot in the paper
basket and my waist twisted askew and
my rosy locks over one eye, and looked
at him soulfully. Well, maybe not soul
fully, but, anyhow-you knowl I could
have taken one step backward and
dropped into his desk chair, but want
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- 9BR6ezn 5uzARRe BY Ellis ParksfRder
Suzanne On Watchful Waitings.

Say, it's not 50 easy deciding what to
do when girl makes up her mind to 60
after gent instead of sitting still until
he trips over her feet! This "get-out-
and-fetch-him-in" business reads nice in
the prospectus, but when you come to
look over the proposition you generally
find there's water. on the third level, or
the smelter is eighty-seven miles from
the mine, or something. If girl goes
right up to a man and says: Perky, l
love you. Will you be miner she's apt
to give him such shock she'll have a
corpse on her hands instead of a going
concern fit to pay the rent of seven
room-and-bath apartment. But I've
made a start. Perky hasn't saluted the
flag, but I've landed the marines.
l waited until Algy went out of the
Office and then l took letter Perky had
dictated to me and went into his Office
and laid it on his desk. Perky is the
easiest-going boss that ever yawned at
4 o'clock on dull day. If happened
to spell Contribution" with instead
of eight times in succession he would
change it with his pen and let it 60 at
that; but had my plan of campaign laid
out to begin with a weep, and | had to
rag Perky somehow. / just left out all
the middle part of his letter-about three
paragraphs-and spelled everything as
wrong as high-school girl could spell
it when she tackles words smaller than
psychology" and at the end l put
"Yuors vrey Turyly. Then l stood by
his desk and awaited the outburst.
. 1t camel Perky read the letter. He
began with his pen in his hand, correct
ing the spells as he came to them. Then
he hesitated, looked at the letter, tried
to find the part l had left out, and shook
his head.
Il fear, Suzanne" he said as gently as
a raindrop rolling down a slab of mar
bic, you have left out part of this let
ter"
Don't believe it," said.
81 think dictated something about"
he began again, as sweet as a maple
but l had to grab what could.
That's itp I says. Jump on me
That's all 1 get from one end of the
week to the other. Nag, nagl Kick,
kick! Nothing l do is ever right. Just
because I'm a poor workin' girl, you
think you got right to kick about
everything / do. You don't care wheth-
.r I'm sick or what You don't care for
anything but to have chance to kick
every time ! fetch letter in to you. I!
,an work and work and stay overtime
and
l dropped my head on his desk and |
let out few gentle made-to-order |
weeps.
Suzanne !" he says.
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they agreed to sign the contract They
are coming here tonight to sign. Go
get your dinner and come back as soon
as you can And, Becky, remember this
is only my Office. am staying at the
the Waldorf, if they ask"
Becky had planned to go to the opera,
second gallery, that night with her
hance, but it was easy 70 explain. His
mentality was of the variety that would
be convinced by the mention of 5000
contract, even though there was moth
ing in it for him.
When Becky got back from her
hasty dinner she found Leinster in
darkness and detection.
at is all up," he said. "The electricity
is turned off. 1t was only two months
overdue. Becky, when the men come
tell them l am dead or dying. 1t is al
ways some little detail like this that
balks me in the moment of triumph"
Becly's mind was working at actual
tiles rather than on the general propo-
sition of the elusiveness of fortune 81
will get candles" she said, "and then /
will explain" Before Leinster knew it
she had gone and was back again with
some wax candles bought with her own
money.
81 have settled it." said Becky, with
a tone of finality, as she placed the can
dies neatly in some empty ink wells.
"You must say nothing about it and
before you come in will explain"
Leinster knew that when Becky spoke
thus she was inspired, and he trusted
her. When the men arrived he had
Withdrawn from the room and Becky
was typing furiously by the light of
the candles.
"Mr. Leinster will be in-at once, gen.
tlemen," she said, showing them the
chairs. Then she lowered her voice.
Gentlemen" she said, there is one
curious thing about Mr.. Leinster. He
is afraid-not afraid, but depressed-by
electric storms. Say nothing about the |
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THE DISINHERITED
,... SON MAKES GOOD
By OSBORN MARSHALL

and he got job elsewhere as ship
ping clerk. In that position he got
enough to keep up the rent of the Of
fee, so that he could have an address
at which to receive letters concerning
mail-order scheme that brought in
about $40 a month. His creditors were
insistent, and it was for that reason that
the door of the Office never opened dur
ing business hours. Of course, Lein-
ster intended to pay some time, but he
could not face his creditors with an
empty purse. Therefore, in the dark
ness of every night Leinster would
steal into the Office and few minutes
later Becky would join him, and to-
gether they would carry on what little
business there was to be done. Becky
was engaged to be marr1ed to young
East Side lawyer, and after she and her
impecunious employer attended to the
mail and talked over the prospects of
business, Becky would meet her fiance,
who would escort her home to the East
Side, and John would climb to his little
top-story room to dream dreams of big
advertising contracts.
Of course, there wasn't cent in it
for Becky at the time, and she was
shrewd enough to know that the
were against Leinstet. But then
the cultured Irishman corrected her
English, taught her French expressions,
and gave her the advantage of his wide
travel an6 experience. As Beckys
lance told her, it was better than night
school, and he advised her to profit by
/. As the winter waned and spring ad-
vaneed, matters got worse with Lem
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well. you don't care" / sobs. "I try
and try, and-and all l get is rough tail
and-and abuse and-and-"
my dear Suzannel" says Perky, very
much distressed.
And throw my wages at me Saturday
night" ! sobs. That's all you care. You
treat me like dog, and when I can,
can't stand it any longer and-and
have to cry when you scold me. Oh
bub-bub-boo-hoo!"
He gave me one look and got out oi
his chair and jammed his hands into his
pockets. He starts walking up and down
the floor, frowning like man with a
note to pay and no bank balance.
"Now, see here!" he says, stopping be-
fore me. "You mustn't act like this.
You're overwrought about something.
You-you mustn' e mind about Algy."
l had to think that out, so just sobbed
pitifully while gave it a think. Algy.
before he got engaged to Gwendolyn,
was always proposing to me, and Perky
must have noticed. He had an idea l
was sore because I hadn't roped Algy.
Il don't care anything about Algy," I
sobs. 81 never did ca-care anything
about him. He gi-gives me a pain. But
when l t-try to please you so hard and
w-work my fingers off flor you and
you sc-scold me-Oh, bub-bub-boo-booT r.
Now, Suzanne!" he says. Listen to
mef
Il don't wa-want to listen to you'll" I
sobs. Il ha-hate your
That was going it pretty strong, wasn't
it? Anybody that reads novels would
have known what that meant. The girl
always throws out that hate business
when she's fairly dippy over gent. But
Perky don't read novels. He reads the
Business Chances" column of the daily
paper and the "Shatter Wall Street" ar
ticles in the magazine
You've got to get line on Perky to
understand what I'm saying. He's tall
and his joints are mostly eccentric joints.
He's got face like an inventor. Gener-
ally he looks as if he was looking at you,
but he's looking at something in the back
of his brain. You think he's looking at
your new brilliant barette and he's look
ing at plan for Perkins June-bug Ex-
terminator that is just beginning to
shape up in his mind. You've got to get
that sort of man out of the fourth di-
before you can get him to take
notice. 1t takes . shock to do it So I
just toppled over in faint. Believe me,
it was some imitation of the real thing
lay across the waste-paper basket with
my head under the desk as limp as
fresh-washed chamois glove.
Perky stood a moment and then he
did what any man would do. He bent
down and gathered me up IN his arms. /
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of her makeup box over her face and
starts out to club the dearly beloved into
wedlock, he'll rise up and scoot SO rap
idly that all she can see of him by the
time she pushes up her veil is black
speck leaping over the horizon.
l tell you, girls, it's hard proposition.
Ought the loving female heart to sit in a
trance and wait for lightning to strike,
or ought it to sally forth and grabl Be-
lieve me, I've decided there's nothing in
the watchful waiting game 1t is all
right when the object is Huerta bug,
nailed fast with Presidential pin stuck
through him into chair of state. He's
there and he's going to stay there as
long as you watchfully wait. But Perky
might slew off in the direction of some
Mabel or Mary, or May, and then where
would little Suzanne be? Shed be right
up in the front rank at the head of the
foolish virgin procession I've Wilsoned
long enough; I'm going to Roosevelt
awhile and see how If works.
Love and Mexican muses. don't work
out the same way. AS far as / can see,
it doesn't make much difference in Mex
ican muses. whether you waitfuly watch
or swing big stick. You can sit down
like a cat and wait until your Huerta
walks into the trap day after tomorrow,
or you can swing big stick and chase
him into it today-he gets into it just
the same. When what we don't like
about Mexican near-President is that
if he breathes, it is pretty safe to bet that
he's going to give offensc sooner or later
or get so full of air he busts. 1t is al!
right to wait to see if he busts, but the
chances are he'll breathe. He's got to
breathe. Mr.. Wilson's way was to sit
still until Mr.. Huerta was so full of air
he had to exhale and then jump on him.
Mr.. Roosevelt's way would have been
to jump at Mr.. Huerta with such
whoop that he would have scared all the
breath-holding power out of him. But,
say; wouldn't it be joke if, when our
little war pushed on to Mexico City, it
should find that Teddy had come across
lots and was there ahead of them. and
had annexed Mexico? Gee, I'd laugh!
That's what I'm afraid of about Per-
KY. I'm afraid that while I'm waiting
for Perky to breathe the sweet word
that would give me him or suit for
preach of promise, some female Roose-
5elt will come along and cop my darling.
From now on I'm the female Roosevelt
myself. Me for a strictly aggressive
,olicy. I've passed the word to my navy
department. to unplug the thirteen-inch
guns and fill the grape juice bottles with
irewater, and I've told my war depart
nent to take up another notch in its belt
md load with ball cartridges. And, say,
I'VE fired the first gunl
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ed to see whether he was just holding
me or holding me a little tighter than
that. II was a great chance for a bash
full man if he was really at all interested.
l could not decide whether he was Just
holding me or more. So I gave him a
little more time.
I'm sorry I jumped on you like /
did," says. Il was all worked up"
Well. he opened his bps to say some
thing and just then he happened to look
out of the window. Can you beat it?
Across the areaway, in window op-
posite, there were three Flossies and an
Algernon looking right down at US and
grinning. Perky turned as red as fire.
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candles. He cannot endure the electric
lights when a storm Is in the air"
Neither of the visitors recalled that
a storm was rising when he came in
but it was late spring and it was not i'm
possible. But they were impressed with
the air of Difference with which Becky
spoke of her employer. In a moment
more the gaunt, tall, and impressive
figure of John Leinster appeared and
the business talk began. That night
after it was all over and Leinster had
the papers in his possession which were
to put him on his feet and give him .
chance, Becky went home to dream Of
the interest that would accrue on 5000
The following noon, when she arrived
at Leinster's apartment Office, she was
impatient to hear his plans
"of course" she began in her bes.
business tone, 1T will first be pay of
the creditors and then"
"And then" interrupted Leinster;
Becky, there isn't going to be any and
then I've just signed a lease for q
suite in a downtown Office building al
$500 month, and now ask you to Cd
out and order the best giass-top ma
hogany Office table you can get. There
will be green rugs, too, Becky. You are
dreaming of interest, Becky? Why
that five thousand will just pay running
expenses for the first few months"
This happened FIVE years ago. Since
that time John Leinster has become one
of the most prominent men in the ad.
vertising world. He is advertising
counsel to two or three of the largest
manufacturing plants around New YorY
City, and his cleverness is of wide re-
pute. But Becky, little red-haired
Becky, is no part in it. She is living
over in. the Williamsburg district some
where. keeping house for her husband
the young lawyer, and she never dreams
that had it not been for her faithful.
ness John einster might still be
down-androutsr. n
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He ehucked me into the chair % quiefh
made my teeth rattle and beat il for the
outer Office door like a scared rabbit on
a frosty day.
Say! What I want to know Is thisl
If Perky didn't care for me At IN
wouldn't he have gone On Good Samari-
tanning regardless of the audience? Or
did he chuck me like that because I'm
nothing to him? I've got to find out.
I've got to discover whether I've landed
my marines on a desert shore or
whether they've taken Vera Cruz. I've
had three days of wstchful waiting in
spite of myself. Perky hasn't come back
to be dubbed, yet"
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Real Romances of the Business World

perish in the attempt. The incentive
was a letter he had just received from
home 1t was a notification that his
father had been knighted by the Eng
lish King and had refused the higher
honor of becoming baronet which was
held out to him because that distinction
was hereditary and John Leinster, ST,
had been unwilling to discredit the Brit
ish aristocracy by handing down a
The Washington herald., 1914-05-24
fOcpyisht, 1N4.)

@NE cold night six winters ago,
~ thin, very tall Irishman was
passing the night in the New York sub
way. He had been walking the streets
during the day and at night for the
price of . ticket he inhabited the sub
way. It was sheltered there, and if he
kept moving from one station to an
other there was no danger of having
The Washington herald., 1914-05-24
| lbaronetcy to such a son.

baronetcy to such a son.
John Leinster, jr, paled with shame
and rage as he read this disquieting let
ter. He was respecter of rank in spite
of his hail-fellow-weli-met manners and
his shabby clothes. The sting that came
with this letter was keener than the
drafts that blew into his subway refuge
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people ask him troublesome questions.
Clearly he was one of the city's down.
and-outers, but he hadn't the slightest
ambition to Join the ranks of the prefer
ably unemployed.
On this particular night, John Lein-
ster,. the tall, thin Irishman in question.
had made up his mind to make good or
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-11-19
Beware Of 0intments OF
Catarrah That Contain
MeaCurY.

As mercury will surely destroy Il e
sense of smell and completely derange
the whole system when entering it
through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except on
prescriptions from reputable physicians
as the damage they will do is ten
fold to the good you can possibly de-
rive from them. Halls Catarrah Cure
manufactured by F. j Cheney and COM
pany, Toledo, Ohio, contains no mercu-
ry, and is taken internally, acting di
rectly upon the blood and mucuous sur
faces of the system. In buying Hall g
Catarrah Cure be sure you get the gen
uine. 1t is taken internally and made in
Toledo, Ohio. by F. j. Cheney & Co
free. Sold by druggists.
Price rs per bottle. Take Halls fam
ry pills for constipation.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-11-19
Fairfield

A. Kellogg and sisters, the Misses
Mary and Kate, spent few hours
with Fairfield friends one evening re-
Gently.
Mrs. Sherm Luce and two daughters,
Mrs. S. M. Hull and Esther Luce,
were visitors here last Friday.
We have always been proud Of Fair
field, our home town and taken great
pleasure in the thought that we have
more fair women and brave men"
who for enterprise and good works
were not whit behind any other town
in the county according to - its pop
ulation. Election Cay dispelled
all our pulled UP feelings when we
learned that only about 40 ballots
had been cast at o'clock Tuesday.
We were ashamed that men who claim
to have any patriotism or love of good
government should be Indifferent to mat
ters Of go great mo nant as choosing
men to make our laws and stay away
from the polls. Two men from Porety
Flats walked to the town hall 81 miles,
cast their ballots and walked home.
We have that fact left to be proud of
still and hope the stay-at-homes will not
complain when they read the election
ret11FnG
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-11-19
MOTHER! II CRIL1S'S
TONGUE is COATED
If cross, feverish, constip At +,
ed, give California Syrup
of Figs

A laxative today saves a sick child
tomorrow. Children simply will not
take the time from play to empty Their
bowels, which become clogged up with
waste, liver gets sluggish; stomach
sour.
Look at the tongue, mother! If
coated, or your child is listless, cross,
feverish, breath lad, restless, doesn't
eat heartily, full of cold or has sore
throat or any other children's ailment,
give a teaspoonful of California
Syrup of Figs then don't worry, be-
cause it is perfectly harmless, and in
few hours all this constipation poison,
sour bile and fermenting waste will
gently move out of the bowels, and you
have we'll, playful child again. A
thorough inside cleansing" is oftimes
all that is necessary. 1t should be the
first treatment given in any sickness.
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups.
Ask your druggist for 5O-cent bottle
Of California Syrup of Figs, which
has full directions for babies, children
OF all ages and for grown-ups plainly
printed on the bottle. Look carefully
and see thai It is made by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Company. '-Advey-
tisement.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-11-19
SHE OBJECTED To
HOSPITAL TOGS

(From Evening Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
Because of her fastidious frame of
mind, Ethel Brooks, aged 18, will spend
the next thirty days in Jail, although
she has been given the privilege of en-
joying all the comforts and luxuries of
the county hospital. She was sentenc-
ed to the hospital where she threatened
to commit suicide, if sent to the home
Of her parents in Baraboo. At the hos
pital, however, she took a dislike to
the gowns worn by the patients and
also found fault with the fact that so
many foreigners were housed there.
Miss Brooks was about to run away
when she was arrested again by Deputy
Sheriff Cannon so that she would. not
become a frequenter of the streets.
She again declined to return to her
home when brought before Judge
Page.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-11-19
A big turn out is expected-a stock
re du sing sale in Baraboo
Nov .mber 18th to 18th
3 cash. Clavadatscher.

terms cash. Clavadatscher.
There are today sogfew Epeople that
pay any attention to a SO called ga e
and we therefore would impress on tie
minds of the readers, that owing to
over stock and for want Of shelf room,
we positively promise great price re-
auctions on all lines of over stock. T.
Clavadatseher. Terms cash. Sale
Nov. IA to 18th.
Saturday Nov. 14th will be the day
most complete and best assortment Of
bargains and sizes. Clavadatscher.
Sale will open Saturday morning at
$50 at that opening hour you
will find 80 of our best house dresses on
display, sizes 16, Is, 80, 81, 36, 80 and
40. Four of each size-sizes marked
on each dress. The first 10 taken or
bought will cost 25c. each. Any of the
balance of the dresses will be on sale
at SIC. Remember 10 women's dresses
at Csc. each.T. Clavadatscher -Adver-
ment.