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often he tries to quit, but goes at It
again. believe | care for him, but
care more for the other boy, who Is
a Christian and has a real good repu-
tatIon. This other boy has not been go
ing with me long, but says he loves me
dearly He has not asked me to marry
him, but | believe he will as he doesn't
know that | am engaged to anyone.
Do you think | should quit the old for
the new, or first find out whether !
can get the new and then discard the
old? Whom do you think can trustT
If the man to whom you are now
engaged CANDLES and promises to quit
after marriage, you need not expect
him to do So If he really loves you
stopped gambling before this. Gambling
is like drinking 1t gets in the blood
and makes a man forget himself and
everyone dear and near to him in the
desire to. gamble, Gambling is also
gambling has thrust it's tenacles seldom
can throw it off-unless he is bigger
man than he started out. Gambling
will cause him to run high temperature
whenever he knows a game is in prog
ress, and he loses self-control and be-
comes i'll unless he gets into the game.
thing he possesses is gone-and in nine
cases out of ten. the next step sees him
reaching into that which belongs to
someone else. The last picture is a
thief and an outcast. The only advice
am giving you in this is that II you
wish to marry and prosper you will do
better not to marry a gambler. Should
you decide to break off with this man.
tell him frankly why you are doing so
that you are thinking of the future
and can not see much promise of hap
piness and prosperity with a man who
CANDLES
Dear Mrs. Thompson-l am a girl q
years of age and have a boy friend
whom | love dearly. He seemed to
care a great deal for me, but now he
Is going with another girl and told
some of my boy friends that he loved
her better than he did me. But he
told me that he liked me better. Do
you think he does? He is a nice boy,
and | don't want to lose him. Please
tell me how to win him. | am five
feet. three inches tall. How much
should | weigh? KITTY.
There is little that you can do to
win this boy, since he seems TO have
had a change of heart and appears to
be what is known as a flirt. He is
lnConstant, inconsistent and untruthful. |
so you are doing pretty well to be rid
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A GOOD PLACE
FOR LOVERS
sf DR.. WILLIAM A. M'KEEVER,
Professor in the University Of Kan.
sas and an Educator of Nation
wide Repute.l p
20 Love that will not let me go,
rest my weary soul in Thee,

20 Love that will not let me go,
rest my weary soul in Thee,
! give Thee back the life oGe.
lIat IN Inlne ocean depths its flow
May richer, fuller be-"
~ eventide on the Sabbath tar
ried briefly in the vestibule of IL sub
urban church and listened to 50
Young people singing softly this old
hymn OF sublime sentiment. Young
lovers, they all were, each one
flushed with refined sense of the
presence of those Of the opposite sex
and ~ the same time glowing with
tn" Consciousness of the presence of
the Most High.
FIRST Of all. wish TO commend this
sort If thing, this vesper service, to
young lovers everywhere. Sunday
evening theaters are not in the class
with 1t as force for training and
refining the personality. The home
sick. the lonely soul. the wanderer
TAR from home-any of my youthful
readers who are out of touch with
religion.
! do not pretend to suggest the
particular church. Any church will
suffice Go out for few successive
''N'N''' " 'IlAilES W ltle NpSper ser
vice and il possible join in its Cers-
monies
60 Light that followest all my way.
yield my Pickering torch to Thee.
MY heart restores its borrowed ray,
mat in Thy sunShine's blaze its day
MAY brighter, fairer be"
Also get acquainted with some of
mo young men and women there.
make your own advances. Have
hearty hand-Clasp, refer to the pleas
Ur' or the hour and exchange bless
lnss with those near you.
TO the affianced young lovers who
are wont to overdO their secluded,
parlor-sofa style of Courting-to
these | commend the public Worship
as refiner and Conservetor of their
mutual affections. Likewise. the
Young who may be secretly watching
TOR the right one" to come by. There
Is scarcely a better place in the
world whereto one might go a-court-
ing than here among those Young
people who are drawn thither to en-
JOY the spiritual fellowship. To be
found there is something of first
guarantee of depth of feeling and de-
sire for personal righteousness.
Let parents everywhere heed this
suggestion and try to keen their
growing sons and daughters commit
ted to the habit of attending the
Young peoples vesper service.
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MAKING NAVY ATTRACTIVE

The cruise on which the Tennessee,
the newest American dreadnought is
about to start will help to determine
whether service in the navy can be
made so attractive that voluntary enc
listments will supply enough recruits
to man the ships Of the navy.
The Tennesse@s crew is note.
worthy in itself because Il u com.
posed principally Of natives of Tens
nessee who enlisted as D result Of the
appeal Captain Leigh made 20 the
pride of the state for which the ship
Is named. No crew of any ship in
any navy was ever better cared for
than the Tennessee's crew will be-
This circumstance is due in part 20
"a welfaEe fund contributed by the
citizens of Tennessee IN place II the
customary service Of silver.
But it is in helping the seamen 20
advance themselves that the greatest
reliance will be placed in She effort
tn make naval service popular. The
editor of the Tennessee Tar strikes
the keynote thus:
"One hour Of study a day will give
you:
Il. knowledge and skill that will
make promotions in ratings easier
and quicker and give yOu more Rarn-
ing power outside the navy.
80. All men on the Tennessee have
wonderful chance 60 learn. All
trades and professions are TO be
taught in a systematic way"
And the bluejackets will have be-
fore their eyes a practical example
in the person Of Lieut.. H. V. Barr.
He started as a ird-class appren-
tice, and he writes:
THE opportunities for advance
ment in the navy today are so much
greater than they were when | en-
listed that there is no comparison.
There is nothing to prevent a boy
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of him. I am sure there must be other
boys for whom you could care more
than for this undesirable specimen.
Forget him. or II that isn't possible
ly Indifferent to his attentions. Now
that you have asked for my advice,
take it. You should weigh 1913.
Dear Mrs. Thompson-I am a boy 16
years of age and want to 90 to school,
II hurts me to think that all the other
children get to 90 to school, but we
have to stay at home and work. am
only In the sixth grade. | have been
thinking Of leaving home and when 1s
years old Join the marines mes: Maybe d
you approve Of such an act7
DlSHEARTENED BOY.
1t is indeed too bad that boy who
wants to go to school is denied that
privilege. Do not leave home yet
awhile. Try studying at home during
the spare hours from your work Surely
your father will give you money with
which to buy books. If SO, you can get
good foundation at home. Think of
Abraham Lincoln. Thomas A. Edison
and other noted men who educated
themselves during their spare time Go
class with your brothers and sisters in
the evenings and help each other. Get
the books used by the county school
according to grades in which you and
your brothers and sisters should be;
study hard to master each subject
thoroughly. Determine to learn, study
at every available moment and nothing
can keep you back. If you can not get
the books let me know and 1 will make
an effort to get them for you. Nearly
everyone is willing to lend a helping
hand to an ambitious boy desiring and
deserving an education.
Dear Mrs. Thompson-l am a boy IA
years old and In love with my physical
culture teacher. She Is very young and
pretty Should | wait until | become
Of age to marry or give up the ques-
ton? sgd.
Never give up. Wait ten years to
marry.
Dear Mrs. Thompson-Where can
get information on poultry raising, as
wish book to guide me2 also
wish information on incubators.
CONSTANT READER.
Call on Goodwin institute library,
from which you can get the best in |
formation contained in government |
and other authorities on this |
subject.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-10-21

will be taken to discover whether a
person possesses false teeth or not
and IL so whether they are wearing
the latest style or last years model
Being naturally of a generous ma
ture, the suggestion Is made abso-
lutely free. gratis and for nothing"
to Mere France to have n gcndarmc
insert the index finger into the
mouth of the tourist and have the
latter bite. II the teeth come down
real hard and leave deep marks they
are genuine; II not they are artificial
and should I've Confiscated at once.
The casuist may object that this
rather strenuous mode has its dis
advantages; that it is hard on the
gendarme and not exactly pleasant
for the tourist especially IL the for
mer has had his finger in divers
plaCes-mustard, for instance. or
iodine, 1t is freely admitted that
nothing is perfect. and perhaps this
plan is susceptible Of improvements;
but who has n better one?
Since the Nolstcad act crawled in
the window French wines have
stalked dignifedly out Of the front
door. 1t - barely possible that vine
yardists, wishing port during the
prohibition storm--though even port
is forbidden think they have found
one in teeth. II is to he hoped that
they will not make as much noise
over it as the average genus homo
does when he or she starts In the
tccthnE business.
We have it on the authority Of
Mark Twain that American poll
ticians are among the most high
priced in the world, and all the world
admits that the American dentist,
though SO unpopular that no one
visits him willingly, is among the
best in the world. He is one Of
Americas proudest products; one of
her unsunE heroes, who is not neces-
sarily blue merely because he looks
down in the mouth.
Even though France slams tho
front door and shuts her doothlcss
mouth in our faces all is not lost; |
we still have markets. Britain takes |
her store teeth from us and asks |
for more as soon as she becomes aC- |
rustomed TO the new fit. Germany
'orgets kultur and forsakes sChreCk- |
lichkeit as she fits a set in upper |
and lower jaw, while South America |
bites Argentine bully beef and genu-
ne Russian Caviar--from Mainc-on |
New York and Pennsylvania made |
nOlars.
1t Is the same in the Orient. The |
pearls of Ceylon and the diamonds |
OF Golconda are not more sought |
after than the biCuspds of Massa-
,husetts and the incisors of New
Jersey. A prophet is in high honor
N the Far East if he comes from
IN American dental institute, and he
caps a handsome profit, too. We
an face the future unterrified and
wink at France unafraid for though
The does put her hands on her hips
md cry. "A bas lie false teeth Amer
caine," the average American can
ute safe in the assurance that our
eeth exports have doubled since tho
var.
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HOROSCOPE
FRIDAY, OCTOBER %, 1920,

Copyright 1920, by the Mcclure News.
paper Syndicate)
Good and EVIL planetary influence,
E y,niliIcl To-Day, according to astrology
while Jupiter and the sun are in he.
adverse. "'u9 al
III Is a most threatening sway for love
aitIalrS, inclining men and women to-
WARD foolish and even RECKLESS senti.
Gossip may be easily started dur
ing this government of the stars. for
jealousy is readily aroused when IRA
nus has evil power.
Trade and commerce should be rea
Sonably fortunate. New enterprises are
subject TO the best direction possible.
W ME big business is likely to benefit
from the planetary direction there will
ne lnuch distress among certain classes
of wage earners.
Ihis day should be an suspicious one
lor those who desire to push personal
ambitions
1t is lucky for all who seek employ
nneht IN shops or factories. There will
De many changes in personnel in long
established plants.
Jupiter in rising position and the OPP
position OF Saturn causes astrologers
TO propheSy that attacks on the gov
eminent at Washington will be made
even after election, for congress is to
be an exceedingly inharmonious body
Again the secrs give warning that
there may be a severe furry in wall
duration. e
New resources are to be discovered
IN the earth, much to the benefit of
the South
Railways continue under a menacing
sign that seems to presage trouble ar
fecting employees. Accidents are fore
Swallowed also.
Persons whose birthdate 1t is should
avoid changes during the coming wear
They have the augury of prosperity If
they remain in places in which they are
accustomed to work
Children born on this day NAV he
restless, sensitive and difficult to man
age, but they are likely TO have good
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Teeth

Lave so4 teeth False ones we
rFan. II Sou have You may keep
them ~ lar Ns FVance A. concerned.
for he ~iI have Nohe Of thcm in
The Gal'ic4a mouth. Hereafter il Will
"a iltEN - bring artificial teeth
u'o La Belle France, In all prob
ability tourists Will "a compelled T.
cheek their teeth at the dock before
sailing. The 10000 Americans Nv
ing in that sweet Fronce," as she
epic of Roland so frequently phrases
it, must buy teeth ut French make
or humble their toothless chaps. I'm.
portatton OF teeth must stop al once
or before then.
1t is not known just what steps
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from some day becoming command
erin chief of the fleet If he takes
advantage of chances to study and
keeps his record clear"
1t is believed that instruction plus
naval training will enable a young
man 20 get ahead in civil life after
he leaves the navy more quickly than
if he had remained a civilian. The
methods the navy is using to stimu
late enlstments can be followed with
special advantage on the Tennessee.
Therefore the results obtained from
the human element during the cruise
are expected to be as interesting as
the performances of her novel and
wonderful engines.-New York Here
alds
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YEARS AGO.
IN THE city of Duluth.
THE ZENITH city.
or THE unsalted Seas.
7 HAD a pal,
NAMED JERRY Squire,
JCST OUT of school.
AND WHERE we lived.
WAS ! boarding h'use.
WHERE BOARDERs came.
AND WENT away.
-
AND OTHERS came.
AND WE stayed GA.
ASO HOOKING back.
IT SEEMS 30 me
-
DESPITE TIL: FACE.
WE ALI. were pooH.
We FOI'E ND much JOY.
AND WINTER nights.
VIE USED 20 sing.
WITH .MANDoLTNS.
TO lead Che way.
AND SUMMER nights.
WE SAILED a boat.
AND SANG some more.
WITH MANDOLINS.
AND THEN at last.
CAME WANDERLUST.
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(REo. s. pat. OFF,
BY K.

AND CALLED to me.
AND JERRY stayed.
FOR TWO years more.
AND THEN he left,
THE WHICH I knew.
BECAUSE HE wrote.
AND YEARS went by.
AND HE lost me.
AND ! lost him.
TILL YESTERDAY.
THE MAIL man came.
down ~ .he hall.
WHERE =! now live.
AND LOOKING through.
THE IAiL he left
FOUND the name.
"F JOEL: ;: Squire.
AND I.D lived here.
FOR SIN month"; past
two FLOORS below.
WHERE JERRY Hives.
AND NEVER knew.
AND so last night.
I RANG his bell.
AND BRIDGED the gap.
OF TWENTY years.
AND FIVE years more.
1 THANK you. -
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LOUeS Man,. Man
Is SlaUe of ChanSe
BY MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson-l girl "a years old without
home and living with my sister. Two going with
and deeply interested i'll both of them. One of them
has been going with year and engaged be
ed in January He for and gets angry if he
catches company with other boys But he CANDLES which
4 nuit Il ,uea married
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goodby to the others. There had been
three raps-classic apparitions always
l believe, rap thrice when they wish
to enter your abode-they do not con
descend to push button; and then
she'd noiselessly whipped in and put
something in my hand
l became conscious of a hard object
in my fist; opened the fist and be-
held-the fatal box.
You could have knocked me over
with feather! Impossible that she'd
brought it back / dashed for the din
ing room where the light was and
pulled off the cover of the box. There
lay the diamonds!
With q sweeping gesture flung
them on the table-in one fell swoOp
I'd been tumbled off my lofty perch
and had become victim once more
just disconnected, worried victim, re-
sponsible for the fate of nations
And having thrown them down--one
of them fell off the tablet snatched
them up-mohsieur would return at
any minute for that private interview
with me, and now what was l to tell
him? l no longer had the gem-free
conscience of an hour ago-I had the
diamonds!
But / might have saved my ago
nies-monsieur did not return that
night--he had other fish to fry.
The canny cleverness of monsieur's
next move gave me when knew it
such keen intellectual Joy that / for
gave him everything.
He had argued it out thus: Either
l should succeed or I should fail with
Mrs. Delario. If failed it would be
for one of two reasons: either she de-
MED all knowledge of the diamonds,
or she had confessed to me yet had
been able to bind me to secrecy. But
in either case he would read my sue
cess or failure in my face the moment
he greeted me.
My face was blank. He hadn't ex-
pected to find it that way, but so 1t
was--not hint did / give him, first
when opened the door, or later while
talked with Claire. In fact, inside
of fifteen minutes he became con-
vinced that so far as was concerned
my mission was failure and was
hedging for time and unwilling to con-
fess it.
He was prepared for my failure-his
chance of trapping her lay in his See
ing her before could communicate
with her after seeing him. With
fake telegram, delivered by George at
a preconcerted moment to serve as
monsieur's excuse to leave the house,
and also as a pretext to leave Claire
in the house, keeping guard over Billy
and my self-none of the three Of us
suspecting it-lnOnsieur had taken his
waiting automobile and swooped down
on Mrs. Delario!
ITO BE CONTINUED
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knees and searching my face for the
assurance.
responded with something very
like a glare-Billy was really taking
quite a bit on himself Just them
hope | knew without being told by a
boy who went to school to me what
the common decencies of the case
we're! But all / said was: please
get it."
A few drops of ammonia on the tow
Ell and she gasped.A Then she MUIR
INJURED: ooh, mamma" in tragic ac-
cents, and relapsed again. l was
about to send Billy to the nearest doc
TOT he could get in captivity, when the
bell rang-George wanted to know
when the young lady would be ready
the shutters waitin' an he's in a
hurry"
BilIy-who answered the ring
snapped out: "Lct him wait-it's
what he's paid for. Go down and tell
him we're coming"
\ He slammed the door, for moment
forgetting Claire, and she started up
at the noise with her cry: "Oh, mann
ma |" and then seeing me: "Oh, you u
''Yes-I'm here" soothed. and
thought she was going off again and
gave her good smart swat with the
towel and a good sharp, "Claire!"
In spite of our assurances, it was a
good half-hour before she was any
thing like all right and we got CO.
herent account from her and found
she only thought something had hap
pened to her mother. 1t was full
three-quarters Of an hour before she
was ready to leave.
was more than half-minded to go
with her, and but for monsieur's explic-
it note-which / read again after
Claire came to her senses-I should
not have let her go off that way, even
with Billy, though knew that so far
as devoted perfect care went, he'd give
It to her as well as l. More accepta-
bly,, mayhap!
had growing uneasiness that
monsieurs surreptiticus return for
words alone with me marked change
in the current Of events. Had he al
ready discovered without my help that
Mrs. Delario had the diamonds? Had
he seen her since left tie house? And
was he prepared to drop on her with
the law? Certainly / had already no.
ticed he had about him the air Of
something he hadn't the night before
when he threw himself on my mercy
and implored me to help him.
He'd shed his pleading attitude
that was how summed him up in my
new impression; and when person
does that it's either because he doesn't
care or holds the whip! ] was bound
to see him and find out: and Claire
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MADE, DISCOVERY roo LATE
Detectives knowledge Really Did Him
Little Good After He Had
Acquired 1t.

While they waited for the train two
passengers entered into conversation.
Presently one disclosed the fact that
he was a detective, and the other was
greatly interested.
Il suppose you have an exciting
time u he exclaimed.
Eyes, / must say I have had my
share Of It," owned the sleuth.
discovered a great many gigantic
frauds, / supposeY
II should say So" the detective re-
piled. Between you and me. the most
complete case Of fraud ever saw was
a woman, young and pretty. I would
have been ready to swear she was an
angel. But she has a temper like q
whirlwind, and is as cunning as SER
penr."
How did you discover her true char
acter?'
II married her!"
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and Billy went away together, Billy
wearing a grim do-or-die, trust-me-ab-
solutely expression on his round young
face connecting appreciation of his
grave responsibility.
| When I'd seen them off in the eleva-
tor and closed my door / smiled. ]
wasn't sorry that Billy was getting a
wholesome nearness to the real thing
in women, albeit a very young one
but time would rapidly remedy that
difficulty; and as for Claire--well.
Billy was her first young man and l
through him. He might be a trifle
rough and unpublished on the outside,
but he was true blue.
There were three low raps at my
door. Or was 1t my door?
I listened--I must have been mis-
taken-though I'd only barely closed it
and was turning out the hall electric
The elevator that was taking Claire
and Billy down was still on it's way.
Could monsieur have walked up?
The raps were epeated--unques-
tionably on my door. Without wait
ing-or even thinking to call through
and ask who was there-I threw the
door open.
Mrs. Delario whipped in and closed
it behind her.
Her face was almost concealed by
a heavy black veil, but recognized
her and cried out, "Why, Mrs. Della
rio ~ in utter amazement. What I'M
der the heavens had brought her there?
She laid a black-gloved finger on
her lips to signify silence; she thrust
something in my hand she opened the
door and whipped out as she came,
shutting it in my face.
She hadn't uttered word-she had
barely caused a sound; even the door
closed behind her noiselessly. / tore
it open as my first impulse-when
got my thinking she'd be wait
ing for the elevator. In the few Sec
onds of my establishment she had gone.
I checked call to her--"Mrs. Della
rio"-and listened for descending foot
steps on the stairs but heard nothing.
sank into hall chair, quite I'M
nerved--coming on top of what I'd
been through that day, feel I'd have
had justifiable cause for faint on
my own account; only didn't swoon.
kept asking myself: If it weren't an
apparition how did she know which
door to knock at? | have no door
plate and she'd evidently not asked
George--he was taking the car down
witt. Claire and Billy at the moment
Mrs. Delario popped in. 1t didn't oc-
cur t. me at first that she'd probably
seen me. from the corner OF the stair
way close that door after saying