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ooh. he can come too," spoke Ara.
bella, making bow to Fido Flip-Flop.
So Uncle Wiggily introduced the dog.
gle to the chickie girl, and the chickie
girl to the doggie.
Then they went on together to the
party which was held In nice big
chicken coop. ..
Oh, l wish you could have been
there! 1t was just too nice for any
thing! Sammie and Susie Littletail
were there, and they yere so glad to
see Uncle Wiggily again. He said he
hadn't been very lucky in finding his
fortune so far but his rheumatism
was not much worse, and he was go.
ing to keep on travelling. He sent his
love to all the folks and said he'd be
home some time later
Then, Of course all the other animal
friends were at the party and they
played g;.mes-games of all kinds, in.
Guiding new one called please don
sit on my hat, and I won't sit on
yours" 1t VISA too funny for any
thing. really it was. e..
Then, Of course, there were good
things to eat. Buddy Pigg passed
around the Ice cream, and Just as he
was handing a plate of it to Jennie
Chipmunk it slipped mean the ice
cream slipped-and went right into
Uncle Buffers lap. But the old goat
didn't care bit. He said it remind
ed him of a pail of paste, and he ate
the ice cream, and Nurse Jane Fuzzy
Wuzzy got Jennie some more. 81.
Then Flip-Flop and Uncle Wiggily
l. did some of their tricks and every one
said they were fine, and they thought
1T was the best party they had ever
been at. :.--'" q. ,''' ~. @.G*-
|, But all Of sudden, just as they
were playing the game called Jump
on the piano and play queer tune, "
there came knock at the door
who's there?" asked Arabella
Chick.
81 am answered voice, ''and I
want Uncle Wiggily Longears instant
ly! He must come with mel" And they
all looked from the window, and there
stood big dog, dressed up like SOL
der, and he had gun with him. And
he wanted Uncle Wiggily to come out
and everyone was frightened, for fear
he'd shoot the old gentleman rabbit.
But please don't get alarmed.
wouldn't have that happen for worlds.
and in the next story, If catch a fish
in the milk bottle and he doesn't bite
my finger, I'll tell you about Uncel
Wiggily in parade. And it will be
a Decoration day story.
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. LITTLE BENNY'S
: NOTE BOOK
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. . . . . .
Pop, wunt to do sumthing to make
some money dooring vacation, I sed to
pop yestidday.
Good, bravo, thunders. Of applause.
sed pop, there are lots Of little things
you Good do In the summer to ern lit
tie money for yourself the idea does
you credit and your future Ions br1toe'
ly ahed, wy, all the worlds richest men
ust to make their own vacation money
wen they were boys, look at Rockinfel-
Ter. look wat he did to make a few
pennies when skool shut down for the
summer .-t
Well, wat did he do? I sed and pop
sed, He got 100 people to promise to
save him all their broken shoe laces
insted of throwing them away and he
went GROUND collecting them 8 days
week, because shoe laces wernt made
very strong In those days an enormiss
quantity Of them broak. and young
Rockinfeller took them all home and
sewed the broken peeces neetly to.
gether and sold them as End hand shoe
laces or perhaps I shood say End foot.
G wiz, sed. ,*
Ixackly, sed pop, and look at Roth
child the CRATE banker, look how he
made vacation money as a boy. 49,.
How, sed.
He scraped the salt of all his pref
zels and sold it to the naybers as
table salt, sed pop.
G hem ust of ate awful lot of pref.
zels, sed. 49,. -..-.. ~. ~ &c.,.
He did, sed pop in fact he spent all
the money he erned that way purt-
chasing more pretzels, but the prin.
ciple Is the same no matter how he
used the money. and then take Car
negie, wen Carnegie was boy he ust
to make quite little money doorins
the summer by sharpening pencils for
the clerks in his unkles real estate Of
fee, he was a wonderful pencil sharp.
>ener, he sharpened them so we'll the
points wood brake at the slitest pres
sure so he always had plenty Of werk
to do.
Well I'm thinking OF better way
than that. know how wunt to make
money, I sed and pop sed, Good, an
ideer is the basis of every human
achievement, watts yours?
wunt to raise pigeons, wunt half
the setting room to raise them in, |
sed. 5000.
This conversation may now be re-
garded as definitely closed, sed pop.
Meening coOdent do 1t.
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Prevents Infection.
Sloan's Liniment applied to sore
cut wound or bruise prevents infection
and blood poison. 26c.
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married life by turning the old folks

Married life by turning the old folks
out In the cold.
THE most reckless thing in the
world is q reckless marriage.
Marriage cannot be success
where manhood Is q failure
The woman who marries for fame
or money ought not to whine II she
dnds herself miserable.
II have q poor opinion Of tho man
who seeks for popularity by retailing
a long list of questionable illustra-
tons which are a reflection on mother,
wife, sister and fair friend"
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Away Win EN-!

ONCE | VISITED an olds lady-no, she
wasn't 50 old. come to think of It.
she merely seemed 30, because she
was always complaining. Well,
while T sat with her she showed me
some Of the pamphlets she got from
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Throao 0a0dy the n0strun,s. They
wiH play hauoc aoith your system,
medicine houses and doctors, and
goodness knows where else, telling
her how to recognize symptoms and
what medicines to use to cure them.
She was sure I was getting bron-
chitis and she knew that something
else meant paralysis-and she kind
ly loaned me a dozen or SO of her
pamphlets. And when glanced
through them, I found, had be-
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ueved. that possessed unmistakable
symptoms Of everything from
measles and mumps to cancer and
typhoid fever-though I never get
III from anything! Poor lady. she
did love to worry over herself, while
the wrinkles came and her mouth
dropped from imaginary pains, and
her poor digestion struggled with all
the things she gave it to cure her
Imaginary diseases.
For, Of course, she drank quarts Of
curatives and preventives Of heaven
knows how many ills-none Of
which she had. s~ +.
Throw most of your medicine
closet away-if you possess one any
thing like this. You don't want
medicines; you want simple food.
lots Of pure water and long walks
and exercise In the fresh air. You
want daily baths and cheerful So
ciety-if you want beauty.
Don't feed yourself too many medi-
cines. Your medicine closet needs q
few good anti.toxins, laxative. q
gargle, alcohol to rub in to prevent .
cold, an antiseptic, and some bicar-
Donate of soda to ease the occasional
Indigestion pains. Brandy or am
monia for fainting spells IL good to
have also. ~.
And you'll get along fine then.
Don't overload your stomach with
medicine; you don't need most of it.
Questions and Answers
Have derived mwch bsnehe from yosv
Beauty Chats ard kiNdnesS in many Of
your replies to fTtsnds Of mine, and am
also q constant reoder Of tho Chcts N.Y.
self and thought you'd osk fSvor Of
gov. Can gov 0ipe me tho name Of
scented be0nf We had some many years
goo, but I'Us for0ottsr. their name and
thought yo1 might BE- able to inform MO-
Sylvia. .-.as ~. -.
Rsply-lsn't there bean on the mag
nolia tree that smells good? So many
frasrances come in bean form it is hard
to say Just which one you may refer to.
Tell me what you wish 1t for. and perhaps
l can give you more definite Information.
salsbury-Keep the hair cut several
years more, 4 child Of ten can wear her
hair that way for a long time to come.
Shampoo with tar soap to overcome dry
ness occasionally rub olive oil or vaseline
into scalp. Take her to an electric needle
specialist for tho wart and for the freckles.
when she grows UP, she will not play in
the sun and the freckles won't trouble 80.
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Not a Bite Of
| Breakfast Until
You Drink Water
Says a glass of hot water and
phosphate prevents illness
and keeps US fit.

Just as coal, when it burns, leaves
behind a certain amount of incom-
bustible material in the form of ashes,
80 the food and drink taken day after
day leaves in the alimentary canal q
certain amount of indigestible mate
rial, which if not completely eliminat-
ed from the system each day, becomes
food for the millions of bacteria which
Infest the bowels. From this mass of
leftover waste, toxins and ptomaine-
like poisons are formed and sucked
into the blood.
Men and women who can't get feel
ing right must begin to take inside
baths. Before eating breakfast each
morning drink a glass of real hot wa
ter with teaspoonful of limestone
phosphate in it to wash out of the
thirty feet of bowels the previous days
accumulation of poisons and toxins
and to keep the entire alimentary
canal clean, pure and fresh.
Those who are subject to sick head
ache, colds, biliousness, constipation,
others who wake up with bad taste,
foul breath, backache, rheumatic stiff
ness, or have sour, gassy stomach
after meals, are urged to get quarter
pound Of limestone phosphate from
any druggist or storekeeper. and be-
gin practicing internal sanitation.
This will cost very little, but is sufn-
cient to make anyone an enthusiast
on the subject.
Remember inside bathing is more
important than outside bathing. be-
cause the skin pores do not absorb
impurities into the blood, causing poor
health, while the bowel pores do.
Just as soap and hot water cleanses,
sweetens and freshens the skin, so
hot water and limestone phosphate
act on the stomach, liver kidneys and
bOwels.-Adv.
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IS CHILD GROSS,
FEVER|SH, SICK
Look, Mother! If tongue is
coated, give california
Syrup of EiQS."

Children love this fruit laxative"
and nothing else cleanses the tender
stomach, liver and bowels so nicely.
A child simply will not stop playing
to empty the bowels, and the result is
they become tightly clogged with
waste, liver gets sluggish, stomach
sours, then your little one becomes
cross, half-sick, feverish, don't eat,
sleep or act naturally, breath is bad.
system full of cold, has sore throat.
stomach-ache or diarrhoea. Listen.
Mother! See If tongue is coated, then
give a teaspoonful of California
Syrup Of Figs" and in a few hours all
the constipated waste, sour bile and
undigested food passes out of the sys-
ten, and you have a well child again.
Millions of mothers give California
Syrup OF Figs" because it is perfectly
harmless; children love it, and it new
er fails to act on the stomach. liver
and bowels.
Ask at the store for 50-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. Adv.
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men should want in his office-wou-
dered whether he had been recognized
there in spite of the secluded table he
had picked to escape observation. Was
It possible that this young bounder had
seen him talking with the dancing girl,
and recognizing him from his numer-
GUS pictures in the paper, had come
up here to be ugly?-possibly with an
attempt at intimidation-at blackmail?
He was alarmed for the moment, but
was quickly treasured as the tiny.
eyed one told his story.
"Are you Mr.. Bell. the district at
torney"
mo. Mr.. Bell has been called sud
denly away, and won't be back until
the morning. I'm the assistant dis
trict attorney-acting district attorney
at the present time!"-here, Bells
words acting district attorney in
name only" flashed across his mind
and made his checks flush-"My
names Mason-Ellis Mason, Can 1
help your"
"Well, you'll do" said the pink-faced
ono. in a hard patronizing voice. Its
this way. I'm a clerk in Marser &
Barnes - mercantile insurance
Green's my name-Ralph Green.
don't claim to be an angel. have
my fun like the rest Of them-no bet
ter, NO worse. ! don't kick when
lose fair; but 1 do kick and kick hard
when / get buncoed-and I've been
buncoed-buncoedf for fair"
Here he told Ellis the story; told
him tho story he already knew, told
it from beginning to end, and we shall
take it up with Mason where, for us,
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Tho Dancing Girl at Sid Dodge's
Place.

fact that he was keenly alive to every
move in the room.
The music again started, this time
In brisk, accentuated tarantelle;
there was a flash of red from behind
che palms, a clicking of castanets, and
out on the raised dais flashed a slim
wisp of girl, and flung herself with
abandon into the spirited dance Of
Spain. Her face wore rapt, set smile
rs Of perpetual pleasure, her every
motion betraying how we'll she loved
this rhythmic expression-her express
sion of the beautiful. The music ceased
suddenly. bravely, in q spirited crash
mixed with the smart double-stamp of
the dancers heels on the floor, and the
thrilling cluck of the castanets-there
was again that subdued applause
again the resumption Of conversation,
and the dancer, painting and flushed
beneath her rouge, came down from
the dais, and curtsying Familiarity,
threaded her way between the tables.
Bhe stopped at one with word of
familiar greeting on her lips and sat
aown.
The young man in the corner
watched her and her companion as
the gliding waiter carefully wiped the
bottoms of their liquor glasses and set
them down. The girl seemed laugh
lngly to propose toast that met with
the approval of her friend, who
laughed heartily. The man she was
seated with was a flabby, pink-faced,
tiny-eyed individual, his light brown
hair combed smoothly back over his
head and accentuating lack Of fore
head that he had done better to have
left covered. The second drink was
brought, disposed of in as short order
as the first. and the girl again seemed
trying to persuade the tiny-eyed man
Rcross tho table His wavering YVES
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For every possible dream you will
always find someone who knows the
answer. Superstition seems ground
ed into our composite natures. But If
the subject should take hold of you
and if some omen should worry you
there is a simple way to shed your
distress and turn all bad luck into
good luck.
This nystem ID recommended by the
best of authorities and has never been
known - fail. 70 turn everything to
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Bid Dedge's place was running full
blast Courteous, sbsequious walters
old soft-foeted from table to kitchen
and back again, bearing in their
miraculous arms dishes adroitly
chefed for the dissipated palates of
epicureans-drinks cunningly mixed
by the highest priced experts in the
city. No expense was spared at Sid
hodges place-the stakes were too
big to skimp on the details that made
Dor tone.
The room was filled with the strange
murmur of many voices, high, low,
soft, musical, harsh, droning-all con-
rr1suting to an incessant mingling
drum so meaningless in the abstract
so pregnant with meaning in each in
Fdfvidual group. Bright lights made
soft by artful globes hung suspended
Trom the frescoed ceilings by massive
linked chains; and mingled their mel
slowed radiance with the rose-colored
glow OF the numerous silk-shaded lamps
that dotted the tables, and made pale
Faces seem glowing and warm. Luxu-
x1ous carpets catered to daintily
shed feet; bright silver cleaned in
well groomed hands and clicked an &C.
compartment to the incessant click Of
long-stemmed, bubbling glasses.
In one end of the room, from be-
hind line of spreading palms, rose
the rhythmic pulsing, passion-laden
usrains of Pagliacci, and died out in
a plaintive wall of cello and viol, as
though surfeited with the luxury of
dts own sweet sadness-died out amid
the appreciative applause of subdued
olapping and the slightly swelled MUIR
nur of approving voices.
No one seemed surprised when a
aow, artificially constructed door in the
wall near the palms swung back on
noiseless hinges, and young man
entered in evening dress. Why should
they? They had all come in that way
all this well-groomed company of
dissipated midnight diners, past the
watchful, scrutinizing gaze of the
lookout on the silent street, down a
flight of dark steps, up another flight
that twisted and wound its way to
that noiseless door-A foul stem bios
soming exotically in that dining room
of mingled rose colored lights, soft
voices and sweet music.
To the young man who took unno-
eiced his place at snug table in far
corner, the artificiality of all this
superluxury was Immediately evident.
The richness of the room SO out of
keeping with its dark approach-the
flushed. eager faces of the diners, the
too courteous solicitude of the oily
waters, pointed Enthusiastically to some
secret vice as yet unseen. He gave
his order to deferential waiter, and
again turned his attention to the room
and its guests, his deep-set, Swallowed
eyes and pale, thoughtful. distracted
expression concealing effectively the
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world. And now We shall sss how ths
plot worked out.
vi
The next night Ellis and Marion
took . long ride in his motor car.
They returned late, and he fingered q
few fond minutes before leaving her at
her stoop. He came back toward his
car. whistling softly, happily to him.
self, his hands stuck deep in his
trousers pockets, his mind lost in the
reverie his whistling belied.
A short sharp cry, as If of someone
In urgent distress, brought him back
to consciousness of outward things,
and he looked up in startled surprise
to see a young woman staggering On
the sidewalk, as IL about to fall.
He rushed up and caught her quick
ly, half carrying her back to the stoep
from which he had come The woman
had deep black veil on, a veil that
entirely concealed her face: but she
was otherwise dressed In unrelieved
black. SO the veil was not provocative
of any thought on his part.
eff you will come into this house,
miss. we can send for DOCTOR"
"Oh, I'm all right. thank you," she
said weakly. Just a weak spell. l
get them often. l won't trouble you
further. You're very kind. / will go
home" She started to walk away
from him. but again staggered weakly
q a 70 Fol ~
caught and steadied by Mason. I
He helped her into his automobile
and started for her apartment on the
upper West side. She seemed to grow
worse as they went along, and when
they arrived her seeming plight made
it necessary that he carry her up the
stairs.
When they arrived at her room
| after painful climbing of steps she
suddenly recovered sufficiently to rise
and take off her hat and veil, and he
was shocked and incredulous at rec
| ognizing Clarice Adair, dancing girl of
the cafe he had raided two nights be-
fore. Her recovery was now extraor-
| dinarily rapid, and he was suddenly
panic-stricken as a realization of what
this all meant came upon him. She
smiled at him mockingly as she be-
gan to take Off her outer garments.
He had not long to realize, however,
| for in another moment the door was
thrown rudely open, and two men
entered.
"You will come with u.s." one O;
them said, shortly.
But, L"
I'VE cannot listen to explanations.
Besides" looking meaningly at the
half-dressed woman in the corner.
'I'm afraid you'd have rather a job
of it."
The plot of ellison and his tools had
worked
WI.
Came the day of trial; the trial of
the young assistant district attorney,
| accused Of contributing to the de-
linquency Of dancing girl. Clarice
was the complainant; District Attor-
ney Bell the prosecutor. Sid Dodge.
the jury hxer. and Mason, the defend.
ant. What If he did have a good at.
torney? What il he did get a jury
disagreement? His reputation was
blackened forever.
Into the surge of his despair came
the thought of Marion-his Marion.
He turned his footsteps in the direc-
ton of her home. When he arrived
there the butler barred his entrance,
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Emblem of South Africa

The springbok. which has been
adopted for the device of the South AT.
rican contingent for Europe, was so
named by the first Dutch settlers from
q habit of suddenly leaplng in the air.
and is the characteristic antelope Of
the Union. 1t occurs almost every.
where, from the Cape to Rhodesia.
Prodigious herds of springbok some.
times travel through the country in
dense masses that sweep away 6ocks
OF sheep or goats, and even carry with
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cIariee Overcome by Remorse, Attacks
Dodge.
and the iron entered deeper into his
soul.
Marion" he cried out wildly.
Marion, oh Marion. you don't believe
Them"
But the echoes OF his mad, despair.
ing cry were the only answer he re-
ceived.
VIII.
Sid Dodge wrestled madly, fearfully
with the woman before him, in the
rear room Of his cafe. She broke
loose once, and with fierce, wild ges-
ture, took up great vase and
brought it down with terrific force
on his shoulder. just missing his head
He closed with her and took her both
soft yielding arms in his gripping fin
gers and slowly forced her back into
chair.
Slowly the struggling figure in his
grasp relaxed, and became limp in the
chair. Slowly there pervaded that
face a horrible agony Of powerless
despair. Once her hands raised and
tried to cover her face, and her
shoulders hunched as she shrank deep
into the chair as though trying to
separate herself from the dread of
her thoughts. Thoughts Of the man
she had ruined, the girl whose dream
of love she had blighted, thoughts of
the putrid vileness of her own lying
soul! And now the light, and the
realization that she would have ever
more to pay!
That evening Charles ellison spoke
long and earnestly at meeting of the
Commonwealth club. on the necessit.
for sincerity in all of lifes undertak
WHO PAYS?
(End of Ninth Story.)
The next story u 1.-THE Pomp O
Earth"
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Putting 1t UP to Father.

After several unsuccessful attempts
to draw her husband into converse
ton at the restaurant, the wife dis
covered the cause of his abstraction
to be a beautiful girl dressed in black
and seated at a nearby table.
IAN attractive widow" observed the
wife, coolly.
Eyes, indeed, very attractive wild
ow." agreed the husband. entlmsias-
ticaEy.
Yes" sighed the win. Il wish /
we're one."-Ladies' Home Journal
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Always Answer to Dreams

your advantage and enjoy the fullness
of the earth there is just one thing tc
do. 1t is quite simple, but it will of.
set any evil influence that has been
working against yoa.
This bit of knowledge comes down
from the ancients. Here it is:
Wear a piece of Noral around your
neck and you can't 60 wrong.
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Royalty FOND of Strong Drink

"Cobblers and tinkers are your true
ale drinkers" yet Merry soe downe,"
so called 'foY. IA slides downe mer-
rily." has not lacked for royal patron
age. Queen Elizabeth pronounced ale
IAN excellent wash" and likes. it so
strong" Lord Burleigh writes: There
is no man able to drink it." And
CathGine-ahe worst and the wtsest-
had no small partiality fbr the brew
of Burton, which even in her day was
imported III great quantities into Rus
sta.
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them entangled lions. These curious
migrations are inspired by an instinct
which tells the hungry herds where
rain has lately fallen and caused new
growth of grass.
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s'Fn'>'Saeme" relieved Of my sur
fering. It is agreeable to me for
you to publish this letter. l am glad
who are suffering as have done that
| obtained relief by using Dodd's Kid
ney Pills and Diamond Dinner Pills.
Dodd's Kidney Pills soc per box at
your dealer or Dodd's Medicine Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y. Dodd's Dyspepsia Tab
let's for Indigestion have been proved.
soc per box.-Adv.