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tered suitcase, ran to the mine to
give final instructions and swung
aboard an eastbound train three hours
later.
Tom Carter's guess as to the state
Of affairs was amazingly near to the
truth.
Leila's Homecoming had been as the
return of loved one who has mar.
rowly escaped a torturing death in
some accident. Her parents and her
friends had showered her with atten.
tons and had sought in a thousand
ways to make up to her for what she
had undergone.
One Of Leila's first and most fre.
quent callers, at her fathers home,
was Halsey Brent.
Leila had never loved Halsey Brent.
She did not love him now. And she
was not even inclined to firt with
him. But she found It mildly pleasant
to be singled out for attentions by
this young Napoleon of finance for
whom a score Of girls were angling.
Wherefore she allowed him to call
whenever he cared to-which was
very often. a-
Mrs. Austin, more worldly.wise than
her daughter. was not minded to give
people cause for gossip about Leila.
So one day, when Brent called, she
contriyed to snatch few words with
him In private. before Leila came into
the living room.
"Mr. Brent" she began abruptly, 40
she greeted the caller. "You are com.
ing here rather frequently OF late. Az
q man Of the world you must under.
stand that my daughter cannot afford
to be put in false position In the
eyes Of our friends
MRS. Austin, have always loved
your, daughter. You know that.
love her now more than ever. Don't
misunderstood me. I've spoken no
word Of this to her. And shall not
until she is legally and morally tree
to listen to me-" z
you would have my approval and
her fathers" replied Mrs. Austin with
effusive heartiness. Z will write today
to Tom Carter and plead with him to
set her free for her own sake
Thank you. ten thousand finest.
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sho Found II Mildly Pleasant to Be
Singled Out for Attentions by This
|! Young Napoleon Of Finance.
and was from Nellie Collins. tho girl
hood chum who had been her brides
maid. W.
As she read, the gossipy scrawl Of
her chum seemed to lift 1.-THE tired
woman out Of her dull routine and
to watt her back to the nuff.brained
gayety Of earlier days.
She read slowly and with morbid
relish the entire rambling epistle
Then. ct last, she came to . scrubbed
postscript on q separate half.eheet
The postscript ram:
~ hear your old sweetheart, Halssy
Brent has cleaned up a million In q
war rnunitlon deal. Everything hi
,touohes turns to gold"
Tho silly lines burned themselves
into Leila Carter's brain. In q rush
they brought back visions OF wha,
might hare been iher's, Il she had no,
ireiected this Richer sHsethesxt,
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Fables Told Of tho Cat.

The cats. Of Alexandria were looked
on as 50 many images Of Meth, or the
Pallas Of SAILS, goddess worshlped
both by Greeks and Egyptians, and It
passed Into proverb with the Greeks
when they spoke Of two things being
unlike, to say that they resembled each
other as much as cat resembled Pal
las. It is to Alexandria that we trace
the story Of a cat turned into lady to
please prince who had fallen in love
with It The lady. however, when
dressed In her bridal robes, could not
help scampering about the room to
catch q mouse seen upon the floor and
when Plutarch was In Egypt It had nj.
ready become q proverb that anyone
oyerdressed was % awkward as q cat
In colored robe. 3
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Z ne could not resist the caress, nor
the tear.stained, appealing face.
So engrossed were they in their
reconciliation that they did not hear
q blackboard rattle up to the gate.
Only draft Of outer air told them
the cabin door had been opened. They
turned to see Leila's father and moth.
or standing on the Threshold.
With q cry Of welcome, Leila ran
forward TO greet the newcomers.
In the pleasure and excitement Of
the reunion she did not notice he,
mothers very evident repuls!on at her
surroundings. Not until Tom had car.
ried Mr.. Austin on to look at the mine
did the older woman speak her mind.
Leila" she began. III ! had
dreamed this was the way you had "a
live I'd never have had q peaceful
nights rest" Z
II have everything need" do
clared her daughter, loyalty.
you have . hundred times less
than any longshoreman's wife," posi-
lively denied Mrs. Austin.
1T can bear IT," returned Leila
with forced gayety, @you ought to BE-
able TO-"
But you can't! You're coming back
home with us. This very day!"
To fight back the craving to or,
out. Eyes! Yes! Yes!" the cir,
turned to the tub and began her neg
lected weeks washing.
Tom Carter. with Mr.. Austin, came
In from their visit to the mine. Mrs
Austin ran to her husband. \
i want Leila to como back with
us!" she exclaimed. Help me per
suade her."
my place is here" faltered Leila.
Your place will be in bed with a
dangerous Illness" returned her moth,
er, ~ this sort of thing goes on. Tom
can't you see how worn out and mis-.
cradle she is? You'll let her 20 back
with US for visit, won't you? I.
will do her worlds Of good"
She can 60" vouchsafed Tom, after
q moments unhappy reflection. "she
can 60. But only for a visit. Let that
Dc understood. As soon as I get on
my feet she is to come back to me-"
yes. indeed!" promised the delight.
Cd Leila. I'll always come back to
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you, Tom. Always. Whenever you
send for me-"
Four weeks later Tom Carter strobe
into his cabin. shoulders erect, face
aglow. Straight across to the. table he
went, found a scratchpad among some
odds and ends, and sat down to write
10 Leila. His hand fairly shook with
Joyful excitement as he began his fast.
scrawled letter.
"sweetheart-my own sweetheart
he wrote. Great news! Glorious
news! Wonderful news! haven't
written before because I vowed I'd
wait till could send good news
You've had too much Of the other
kind from me.
AFTER you left for New York ]
called the men together and had q
heart.to-heart Dutch.uncle talk With
them. ! told them hadn't cent, but
that was enough Of a mining expert
to know there was gold somewhere
In the Leila A. II only we could
blast our way through to It. Iasked
them to take q chance with me for
three months, without pay; promising
them double wages for the whole
time, II we should strike gold.
'"They accepted, after q lot Of per
suasion. And for the past four weeks
we've worked as We never worked
before.
"Toaay-iust one hour aeo-we
blasted our way into a vein that's
fairly bristling with high quality ore
It's . BONANZA, sweetheart! Tho big
gest strike Of the decade.
"It1l be q matter Of millions for US
There's no longer a shadow Of doubt
It's the real thing"
Then. folding the letter, he looked
about for an envelope. He could fnd
none. His search brought him ut last
to the dresser. 5ts 81
He did not find the envelope he
sought, but he found something else
In the top drawer. among some cloth.
ing, Leila had left behind in her hur
ried packing, he happened upon .
scrumpled half sheet Of paper-the silly
spostscript Of Nellie Collins letter
the postscript that told Of Halsey
!Brent's good fortune.
TOMS eye was caught BY tho words:
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F!FTA STORY.
Sold Out

oolu JUL
Leila Austin, during her 20 sheltered
years as well.todo mans only daugh.
ter, had never known an ungratified
wish. Poverty" and struggle" were
more words to her-words that car
ried no real meaning.
Perhaps that was why she refused
Halsey Brent and accepted Tom Car.
ter. Brent was rich and was grow.
ing richer day by day. Carter was q
mining engineer, boundlessly rich in
energy and hope-and all but bank.
rupt in everything else.
Mrs. Austin spent long and profit.
less hours in pointing out to Leila the
advantages Of marrying Brent and the
hardships she must face as the wife
Of q man who still had his way to
make.
Leila listened patiently-and mar
ried Tom Carter.
Her fathers wedding gift to Leila
was q check for $4,000. more money
than Tom Carter had saved in all his
Woodworking life. She Endorsed II
over to her husband and, with II,
Tom bought the controlling interest in
an Oregon gold mine.
This investment was not as rash as
Leila's parents and Brent thought. The
mine was one which Tom himself had
helped to develop and In which he
had boundless faith.
"It's a gamble, DEAR" he told Le,la.
"But then, so is everything in life. ]
know the region and know the mine.
There's a lot Of pay ore under those
gray rocks and It's only q question Of
time when someone will strike It. I'm
going out there and be my own super
intendent and manager combined.
With the money I've laid by from my
salary ! can keep the pay roll going,
Any day we may strike the right vein.
And when we do! Well, little sweet.
heart, Easy street will look like a slum
compared with our quarters. I'm go
ing to rechristen the mine. too. I'm
going to call 1t the Leila A. I"
Leila's eyes danced. Already she
was beginning to build air castles az
the wife Of multi.millionaire mine
owner
"It's only fair to tell you that It'll
be hard shedding for a while, dear.
Life out there in the wilderness is In
the rough You'll have to do all your
own work, and"
1T will be Just like one long pic
nic!" she declared. "1ll love it."
The westward journey was . do
light to them both.
With will, she set herself to learn.
ing her new duties as frontier house
wife. It was, as she had predicted,
zone long picnic"
Then. imperceptibly-day by day.
week by week-came subtle change
in both bride and groom.
Toms fiery enthusiasm for work
was not proof against months of dis.
couragement at the mine.
Leila. too. was finding that "one
long picnic" may in time bear Q
strange resemblance to "one long
nightmare" The tasks that had al
first seemed a Joke were now . dreary
reality.
So matters stood, one spring morn
Ing, when long-delayed letter reached
the cabin. It was addressed to Leila
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BITS OF
ST ATE NEWS

( ! d u \ , y q
Wheeling bought four Of the same
Kind Of IRE trucks Fairmont secur.
cd In cleveland the other day and at
tho same kind Of q bargain, but the
purchase has not been productive Of
unailoyed Joy in that town. The Tele.
graph, for instance. prints the follow.
ing:
Many business men who take
asdeep interest In municipal at.
fairs are asking why the rush in
calling a special meeting OF coun.
cil TO accept a present Of $4,000
that the II finland Truck Company
of Cleveland, Is breaking its phil.
anthrophic and metrophoric nee
to present to the city Of Wheeling.
Business men, as a matter of
fact are Bkeptical Of the offer.
They can't understand why com.
pany manufacturing fire appara.
tus would sell Wheeling FIRE
trucks worth $500 for $500.
The proposition doesn't have the
right kind OF look on the face
of 1t. Business men who do things
In a business way and who know
this 10 most unbusiness like
transaction are suspicious.
Must be Junk sure" said one
business man. It'll bet the city
doesn't save twelve thousand
cents. The proposition looks ridi.
culous on its face, kind Of a pen
ny wise, pound foolish kind Of a
thing.
IF the trucks were in good
shape 1t wouldn't be necessary for
the company to sacrifice them"
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-Tne stock you stole from III. Give
Il backl Give it bach. Issyis
"But Leila, r.
Here 10 the telegram you dropped
she hurried On, that VIM save you
the trouble Of . faisehccd. know
the Whole vie trick. And I want
back my Stock"
Her voice had risen as she reitsr.
ated her wrathtul demands. lts sound
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The letters contents seemed to
scar themselves into poor Tom Car
ter's brain in words Of fire. He tore
the paper into score Of fragments
in his first outburst Of indignation.
Then his eye fell once more upon the
postscript Nellie Collins had written.
And at once he saw the impulse be-
hind Mrs. Austin's cruel letter. Among
them these snug relatives of Leila's
were trying to make her forget him
and to marry her to o richer man.
He flung a few clothes into a bat
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-1our OLD sweetheart, Haise,
He read and reread The whole
scrawl. Long he stood there, move
less, the scrap Of paper in his hand.
He was reused, from his gloomy
rererie by the tolting Of the rural
free delivery buggy as 1t drew up at
the gate.
Leila's thricea.week letters had
been the only bright spots in Toms
loneliness. Eagerly he seized the one
letter the postman left for him today.
As he looked at It's superscription his
expectancy turned to chagrin. For
the letter was not from Leila, but
from her mother.
He opened 1t and read:
MY Dear Tom: am writing this
on my own responsibility and without
Leila's knowledge. She Ia slowly 70.
covering from that horrible life out
there In tho wilderness. But tho doc
tor agrees with Us that she must
never, never 80 back to It That Ii
why I am writing you.
7 assume that you are not alto
getherI selfish and that you have Lei.
las welfare at heart. Her experience
in the West proves how ill-nttod she
Is for tho br,itally rough existence Of
q poor mans wife. And, now that
tho mlne has failed, you are hopeless
ly poor and are likely TO remain so.
Are you going to force my fragile,
delicately nurtured daughter to go on
sharing your poverty and hardships7
II you do. she will die; or at tho very
least, she will become an invalid.
s"Or are you man enough to giyo
your wife her freedom. 80 that she
may sometime DO able to marry q
man who can give her the care and
the luxuries she crayes2
II you truly love her-if her best
welfare means anything at all to you
there can DO but ono reply to these
questions. You will give her up and
allow her to retrieve her ono miser-
able mistake. by marrying as her In
terest and Il think her heart dictate.
Think this over, very carefully,
and let your better nature guide you.
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Assistant Geologist David B. Roger,
from the office Of the State Geologist
at Morgantown, has established head.
quarters in Webster Springs. and will
be engaged for several months In con.
Quoting field researches concerning
the mineral resources OF Webster
country that will be used for the pre-.
paration Of complete County Geolo
igical Report.
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y. R. H. Radeker, of parkersburg.
has been named as head Of the board
Of trade Of New Castle, Pa, a city
tof some forty Of fifty thousand IN
Western Pennsylvania, according to
dispatches from that city.
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Service by Publication.

Tho unknowu heirs at law of Lands
Light, deceased, and The Paragon hennlhg
Com pauy It's successors or assigns, Will take
HoIice tHat on the 29th day of January, A.
n IgI6. Mary Justeen Subler dled her petI-
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County, Ohio, in case NO. 2O,1o6, against
them and each OF them, setting forth that
she is the owner in fee simple OF the north
half Of the northwest quarter of section 20,
tow nship IA, range 2, east, containing 6O ac-
res Allen Township, Darke County, Ohio.
That in l84g said lands Light INTENDED TO
convey the said premises to Dr. Gabriel
WiesSs. and by inadvertence or oversight Il
line or more Of the said conveyance was o.
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tee and she asks that said deed be reform ed
and the following words 1.-THE hrSt part ana
m Gabriel Miesse OF the County OF Darke
md State of Ohio Of" be inserted in the sald
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briel Miesse.
That Tobias Hiestand, q former g:Antee OF
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who duly assigned the same " The Paragon
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Notice is hereby given thht Charles MIL
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of the will of Mary N. Caryer, deceasea'
late of Allen Township.
Probate Judge, DarKe Co., ONO.
Ian. 27, 19l6-3w
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BRIEFS

John White of Coletown was
in Creenville Monday.
A. L. Mendenhall was a visit
or in Coyington Friday.
David Seman was in Arcanum
Friday transacting business.
Miss Hazel McKibben of Ross
burg was a visitor here Saturday.
+ T. o. Puterbaugh of Union
Citv was a visitor here Saturday.
Mrs. Hannah White visited
with.Dayton relatives over Sun
day.
Glen Valentine of Arcanum
was in the city on business Sat-
urday.
Howard Weaver is home from
Ann Arbor, Mich, on a weeks
vacation,
Mrs. Irwin McEowen of Ar
canum was visiting in Greenville
Thursday.
Fl, D. Baker and wife visited
with relatives at Bakers Store
over Sunday.
James H. Stoltz of Gettysburg
was transacting business in the
city Thursday.
Mrs. Richard Faulkner and
Miss Lucille Fitzgerald visited IN
Dayton Saturday.
Mrs. Don Williams anG daugh-
ter visited with relatives in Hol-
lansburg last week.
Miss Josephine Somers oil
Brookville was the weekend
guest of friends insthis city.
Charles Huffman of Arcanum
attended the Matinee Club ban
quet here last Thursday night,
Mrs. Hattie Banks of North
Star was visiting Mrs. Malinda
Sebring, on Martin street, last
week.
B. w, Logan and family re-
turned Monday evening from a
short visit with relatives near
Wapakoneta.
Thomas Robson, 72 years old,
who resided near Jaysville, died
Sunday evening and was buried
at Abbottsville yesterday.
Upon our roll of nonor touay
we can place the following NAM
ed patrons
L. L. Barrick.
Tobias Hiestand.
". c. Grossnickle.
VIM. Tenant, 72 years old, a
brother of Mrs. James Frost of
=, tl.is city, died in his home in Day.
ton, Ohio, Tuesday morning, and
his remains will be given burial
in Abbottsville cemetery Friday
afternoon.
A booster meeting Of the Y. M,
C. A. organizers was held at the
City Hall Sunday afternoon and
an organization effected. Prof.
Fred Rhoem was made chairman
j. and DR.. Frank Clear secretary.
A Ways and Means committee of
FIVE was also appointed.
AS E. B. Townsend, who lives
near the County Infirmary, was
returning home from the horse
sale last Thursday evening driv-
ing young colt and leading
l. 1