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~ was Ill for months in the hospital. I
was delirious and could not tell who
was. All my marks of identification had
been lost and it was long before 1 had
strength to move, or the will to do SO. No
one knew me and as / was missing the
Army Bureau thought that was dead. AS
soon as could / came back to America to
find my wife.
Il found her yours!
Yet, rs was not dead, she was still my
wife. My love for her was az great as
ever-greater. because had been through
the furnace of war, where unrealities are
burned away and man learns to know the
TRUTH"
And 1t appeared, unlike Enoch Arden,
Curtis had determined to win back the
wife he had so strangely lost When he
at first appeared Mrs. Peel or Mrs. Curtis,
had tainted at the shock. Then she had
pleaded with him to leave her-to seek n
divorce. Curtis refused. and during the
weeks OF Peels absence he had wooed his
wife just as he had in the old days before.
At the last she had made her decision.
The old love she had pledged six years
before proved to be tho stronger. She
eloped with Curtis, her actual legal hus-
bandit
Peel for the second time stepped down
and out Of Esther's life. and gave her her
freedom by suing for divorce. The d.
vorce was granted recently, and now fash
ionable Carthage is again swapping the
toggery shops with orders for frocks to be
worn at Mrs. Esther Curts-Peel-C urtiss
third wedding.
When Peel's divorce petition was taken
before Judge Clarence A. Burney, the
Judge, after reading the plea scratched
his judicial head and adjusted his judicial
glasses.
This Is the most unique divorce plea
ever brought before me-" said the Judge.
at Is my belief that it is not necessary for
court proceedings to free Peel OF his mar
rlage obligations. However. am going
TO grant the plaintiff divorce. II may be
that sometime during the years to come
Peel may have a more fortunate matri-
monial venture, and in that case 1t may
ease the mind Of the future Mrs. Peel to
know that the present unhappy tangle has
been legally and entirely Strengthened
out"
To representative Of this magazine
Mrs. Curtis-Peel-Curtis said:
Few women have been called upon to
select between two husbands as l have.
In deciding my future l allowed only my
heart to be my guide. / am sure that
love Henry more than I do Eugene. Both
OF my husbands have been ideal men, and
reel mat nave mad more than my share
OF happiness, because have known each
OF these real men SO intimately
Mr. Peel, in obtaining divorce, again
has proved his sterling character There
are men In the world who would have re-
sorted to firearms or some other awful
means to have solved their problem.
Years ago. when first met Mr.. Curtis
and Mr.. Peel. my interest in both was
evenly divided. Then there came that
little something into my heart which made
the scales balance in Mr. Curtiss favor.
] realized I was in love with him. When
found that love for Mr. Curtis had crept
into my life to replace our friendship I
told Mr. Peel So He Immediately ceased
his attentions and left Carthage so that l
might be alone with my sweetheart
"Of course, was heartbroken when nv
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roamed the streets in search of his miss
ing wite: a trip to the old home in Ca,.
thage did nothing moro than 10 dcepen Tho
mystery. Mrs. Peel, so her mother said,
mad not written home for many weeks.
Then, one day, while walking the Kansas
CITY streets searching every face he
passed, his quest came abruptly and amaz-
ingly to an end.
lie stood face to face not only with his
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missing wife, but with the husband whose
place he had taken and whose hody should
have been nothing but bones in the sold.
ier'S grave in France!
Esthor!" was all that Peel could say.
could not help it, Gene" she said.
when Harry came back to mo know
that | loved him more than / did YOU
And he is my husband!"
1T was not my fault, Peel" said Curtis.
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Henry Curtis.
And after while the girls heart turned
to the latter. Peel, wishing them all luck,
hut no longer contented to dwell In a
place that could hold for him hereafter
only sorrowful memories, went TO Kansas
City.
All went we'll with the young Cutises
for little more than year and then the
world war broke out. From the beginning
Curtis was unhappy.
II must do my bit" he said.
''But you are an American, and what
about me?" she asked
"What about the wives of all those who
arc fghtng?" he replied.
A little longer Curtis stayed. And then,
seeing that his desire to take part in the
fight was too great to be borne. his wife
let him go. He donned the Canadian uni
form in 1915. and in less than two months
was sent to Belgium. His first letters to
the waiting little woman in Carthage were
filled with cheer and courage and vivid
accounts of the nobility of the service.
And then came letters telling her of the
hardshps he was suffering and how he
longed 10 return to their little rose-covered
nest in Carthage.
There came n time when weeks went by
without letter from him. And then,
after the second battle OF Mons. she re-
ceived from the British Government
brief message saying that her husband had
been gassed and had died In hospital in
France!
For many days after the, news had come
TO her, the shades of what had been her
love nest were tightly drawn and for long,
Mrs. Curtis closed herself there and
mourned tho loss OF the man who had held
what he thought his duty greater than
their love. And only after long, sad weeks
did she appear on the streets Of Carthage
In tho sombre black OF the widow.
Peel. learning OF what had happened.
hurried from his offices in Kansas City TO
extend her sympathy and, If he could, help.
And the first sight OF his old sweetheart
famed his love flame up afrcsh. He
stayed in Carthage, counting her cautious
ly. and after months Of wooing she began
to put aside her sombre garb for sayel
colors. The two We're seen driving about
the country roads In the moonlight And
at last. believing as did Peel. that Curtis
was dead and buried in the soldiers grave
In France, sho felt her old interest revv-
Ing in the rejected sutton. In September,
1916 she became Mrs. Peel.
They went TO Kansas City to live, TAX
ing quarters in the fashionable Metropolc.
Followed for the two. three full years of
perfect welded happiness
1t was in May, 1919 that Peel was forced
to leave his wife and 80 to California. The
stay proved longer than he had expected.
But each day brought letters from Mrs.
Peel telling of her lonesomeness and her
love for him. The letters suddenly came
not day by day, hut weekly.
Then, after another month, they ceased
altogether!
Although he had not completed his work
in tho West. Peel boarded a train bound
for Kansas City to quiet the fear and doubt
within his heart. Hurrying &c the Metro.
pole he found TO his amaZement that Mrs.
Peel not many days before had left there
and had gone without leaving n forwarding
address. For days the anxious husband
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Henry Curtis, the Husband
Who Was Thought Dead and
Who Won His Wife Back.

nRETTY little Mrs. Henry Curtis. OF
Carthage. Missouri. has just passed
through one OF the most puzzlng,
embarrassing and generally unique eI-
pcriences girl has ever had to undergo.
Mrs. Curtis had TO choose between two
husbands-not other women's husbands!
That. in these days, would perhaps not be
SO unusual No. Each was her own hus.
band, married in perfectly good faith and
botisof them well loved.
Indeed, TINT was ono OF the things that
made the problem so distressing. For, as
Mrs. Curtis says, each one of my hus-
bands was IDEAL"
The reasons for Mrs. Curtis's predlca-
mcnt were precisely those embalmed to
postcrity in that famous idyll of Tenny.
sons "Enoch Arden" Poor Enoch. it will
he remembered, wooed and won his vii
lagc sweetheart: then went to sea- was
cast away and after decent lapse CT time
Anne Lee, his wife, thinking him dead
married an older sutton
And Arden, returning. pceping through
the cottage window. saw them together.
realized the situation and determined, rs
Tcnnyson sings. Not to tell her. never to
let her know"
And disappeared silently into the night.
Mrs. Curtlss "Enoch Arden" did not
elect TO disappear into the night!
Instead, he stayed and won his wife
back again. How no did ii and the prog
ress Of the whole affair make one OF those
romances that are usually seen only in the
movies butt when occurring in real life,
have all the enthralling interest of flesh
and blood over canvas. screen and shadow.
II was six years ago that Esther Warren,
young, attractive. well born and of fam
lily accounted wealthy in Carthage, was
the belle OF her city. Rich miners from
the zinc flelds-for Carthage is in tho
worlds greatest zinc centre--country
swans and men from the big cities on
visits to the properties that netted them
millions, paid court to her. Among her
suitors were two upon whom she smiled
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Eugene Peel, Who Married
Mrs. Curtis, Believing, as She
Did, That Her First Husband
Was Dead.

husband first suggested that he leave
home and join the army, but after sober
thinking, and realizing what noble soul
he was for gambling his life to do his part
to free poor little Belgium. was consoled.
"Then came that awful death message
1t was months before realized that Henry
was gone and that I was really widow.
Then came Mr.. Peel with his expressions
OF sympathy. He was noble and did every
thing in his power to cheer ME.
"As tho days slowly passed my heart
became softened to my new protector. I
knew that could never love Mr.. Peel as
had Henry, but was young and felt that
If my first husband could speak he would
iell ME to marry.
after days OF coaxing l finally decide
to wed the second time. My honeymoon
with Mr.. Peel was ideal. and as look back
upon those days it seems as n dream
Then came the return Of my real lover.
was swept from my feet. 1t was like
meeting dear one returned from the
grave. He explained how the English
Government had caused our peculiar sit
uation. In my delight Of seeing Henry I
forgot Eugene!
Mr. Curtis and I finally decided to elope
and get away from it all. l realize now
that | should have written AMI tcld Mr.
Peel of Mr.. Curtis's return. but ! feared
what might follow. / decided upon the
easiest way and disappeared with my real
husband.
please say for me that Mr.. Peel is in
deed an ideal man and husband. I have
nothing but fondest rememhrances in my
heart for him. and can truthfuliy say that
he Will make perfect husband for any
woman. hope shall always be his very
dearest and sincere friend"
In his testimony in tho Circuit Court
when seeking divorce. Peel told the Jury
that his wifes conduct during those short
three years was perfect
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ORLEANS COTTON
REBOUNDS SHARPLY
Gain Over Mondays Close Aggregates
Over So a Bale.

New Orleans, Oct. ia strong ten
dency to react sharply from the de-
cline was in evidence in the cotton
market today and there were upward
movements on the opening and again
on the close which finally carried
prices about Sc a bale over the final
quotations OF yesterday, December
trading up to 1916 at it's best The
tone on. the close was strong with
prices at net gains of 10 to 122 points
The opening was active and higher
in response to a sensationally good
to private cablegrams, by hope of an
other conference on the coal strike.
After advances of los to 120 points had
been made, the market commenced to
sag under realizing of profits by early
buyers and nselling by traders who
were unfavorably impressed by reports
that French miners were demanding
higher wages and of a rather extern
sive short time movement among
South Carolina mills. Pressure to sell
finally became sufficient to pare
gains down to so points, but in the
latter trading the fear of bad weather
over the belt and reports from interior
points. that farmers were stubborn
holders of spots with picking cotton
at hand and here and there a move
ment in parts of the eastern belt to
quit ginning for 60 days, caused heavy
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Hazard, Ky, was increased from $780,
QUO to s25O,OOO, while another con-
c.rn at San Antonio, Tex. increased
from $4,000 to $4,000. In Jarrol.5s
Y, y, w Va, the prgaaizqticn OF a
Goa! company with 100000 oeP:'ai IL
noted.
Besides a textile concern in An
derson. S. c., increasing its capital
from $685. 400 to $500. 900, improve
ments 70 similar plants are 10 be
made at Alabama City. Ala; Elberton
Ga, and Philippi. W. Va.
An oil company. at Houston, Texas.
was incorporated with a capital Of sl.-
100000, and 100000 is the capital OF
a refining company at Scotts&rille. Ky.
There has been incorporated AZ
Hagers town, Nd, a company for the
manufacture OF harness to have a
capital of $4,000 while at Dallas,
Tex, a concern engaged in manufac-
turing saddlery has its capital in
creased from 500. 900 to 100000
Two hundred thousand dollars viii
be expended in improvements to a
cold-storage plant at Austin, Tex, ami
the organization Of a similar concern
at Miami, Fla, with a capital Of S4O0.-
600, is noted.
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STOCKS ON MORE
STEADY BASIS
Investment Situation Shows Marked
Improvement.

New York, Oct. 9.-FinanciaI-The
stock market was on a more stable ba-
sis today, althoug hthe aimless drift
of prices during the early and inter
mediate periods continued to reflect
economic readjustments at home and
abroad.
Labor unsettlement in England, aris-
ing from the coal strike and demons
trations Of the unemployed, caused fur
Their weakness in foreign exchange.
with the rate for British demand bills
falling almost to $40 TO the pound
sterling. A strong sidelight on do
mestic industrial conditions was seen
in the sweeping wage contraction for
September, payrolls in several lines
OF cotton and kindred manufacture
showing declines of % almost to 40
per cent.
Encouragement was found in the in
vestment situation, however, several
new domestic and foreign flotations
being oversubscribed. 1t was also an
nounced that a $40, 900, 900 loan to DEN
mark is to be consummated. With
drawal throug hthe local federal re-
serve bank of some 100000 of
treasury funds had no Visible effect on
the money market. Call money was
plentiful at per cent, and even 6 per
cent, before the close, but commercial
paper was light in demand.
Oils, shippings. fractions and sugars
furnished much of the days limited
momentum. Utilities were bought on
o favorable legal decision in Philadel
phia relating to higher fares, Will,
sugars were responsive to measures
now under way to relieve acute con-
ditions in Cuba. The few noteworthy
gains at the firm close included Uni
ted Fruit, Mexican Petroleum, Nickle
Plate, Sears Roebuck, Reading and
Retail Stores. Sales amounted to 1885,
900 shares. Bonds were active and ir-
regular during the early trading. Lib
erty issues yielding with the prominent
rails and industrials, but some of the
lost ground was recovered in the fina'
dealings. Total sales, par value, S13,
100000. Old u. S. bonds were I'M
changed on call.
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EASES A COLD
WITH One DOSE
''Pape's Cold Compound" then
breaks up a cold in a
few hours.

Relief comes instantly. A dose
taken evory two hours until three
doses are taken usually breaks up a
severe cold and ends all the grippe
misery.
The very first dose opens your
clogged-up nostrils and the air pas
sages in the head. stops nose running,
relieves the headache, dullness, fever
ishnoss, sneezing, soreness and stiff
ness.
Don't stay stuffed-up! Quit blow
ing and snufningl Clear your con-
gested head! Nothing else in the
world gives such prompt relief as
'Pape's Cold Compound" which costs
only a few cents at any drug store. 1t
acts without assistance, tastes nice,
contains no quinine-Insist upon
Papes!
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NOTICE TO MARIENRs.

Florida-Gulf CoastZCharlotte Har-
bor-Boca Grande Range Rear Beacon,
reported down October 2, will be re-
placed as soon as practicable.
No. AZ, 1920.
c. & G. Survey Charts 474, ITS.
Buoy List, 7th Dist, 1920 p 40.
Coast Pilot, Section E, 1916, p. So.
Florida-Apalachic Bay - Outer
Light to be rebuilt in new location at
outer end of pile jetty about Deem
Der Is, 1920.
No. AZ, 900.
C. & G. Survey Chart 1873.
Light List, Atlantic Coast, 1920, No.
1903
Buoy List, 9Th Dist. 1918, p. Il,
Coast Pilot, Section E, 1916, p. rs.
Louisiana-Lake> Salvador-Bayou
Villars Light-New structure erected
Fog Signal established October IL.
Light is 35 feet above water on arm
on post, on white fog-signal house, on
piles, in about three fourths fathom
of water, in location of present light.
Fog signal is a bel! struck by ma
chinery; stroke every 80 seconds.
No. 40. 1920. .
c. & G.. Survey Chart 1116.
Light List, Atlantic Coast, 1920, No.
211S.
Buoy List, Sth Dist. 1920, p. 40.
Coast Pilot, Section e, 1916. p. 121.
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Port of
Pensacola

Arrived.
S. S. Ariadne Irene (Br) Frederick
Gilmore & Co.
Vessels in Port.
S. S. Jedmoor (Br.), to John A. Mer-
rift e. Co.
S. s. G. A. Flagg (Am.) from Cuba
TO John A. Merritt e Co.
Ship Fiskjo (Nor.) from foreign
ports.
S. s. Neshaminy (Am) from Nor
folk to John A. Merritt & Co.
S. S. Anglo Saxon tBr.), to John A.
Merritt & Co.
S. S. Calno (Am.), from Mobile for
British ports to John A. Merritt g.
Co.
Barge Palafox fAm.), to Frank e.
Welles, repairing.
Ship Al pahoe (Am) loading by
Eitzen- Touart Company, consigned to
John A. Merritt e. Co.
Sch. Salem (Am) for repairs.
S. S. Domingo de Larinaga (Br.o
from British ports, to Frederick Gill;
more 0 90.
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MONEY AND EXCHANGE.
Observation-Disclosures:

Ne WORK, Oct. 19.--Prime mercan-
tile paper per cent. Exchange
heavy. Sterling, sixty day bills.
1886 3-4. commercial, sixty day bills
on banks. 1856 3-4; commercial, sixty
day bills. 3.36 1-4I demand. BAL Is:
cables, S51 rs. Francs: demand,
$40; cables, 6.42. Belgian cranes: de-
mand. 6.76: cables. CTS. Guilders:
demand 3065; cables, 3O.75. Lire:
damands, 3.77; cables. 3.79. Marks:
demand, 1.42. cables, 1.43. Greece,
demand. ga. New York eXchar
on Montreal 9 3-s per cent disco ..
Government bonds steady; railr dd
bonds irregular. Time loans ST -dy;
sixty days. ninety days. and six
months. 7 ga to s per cent.
Call money steady; ruling g Il;
bank acceptances Ia per cent
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SOUTH CONTINUES
CONSTRUCTION

Miami is to Have New Cold Storage
Plant.
Contracts were awarded last week
for the erection Of two large hospitals
in the South, to cost $500. 900, accord
ing to the weekly summary of indus
trial news published by the Man IiaL-
turers Record. One at Atlanta, Ga,
viii be a memorial hospital with a
capacity of 420 beds, and another at
Dcnison, Tex, with a capacity of 100
oeds will be erected for railroad en-
ployes. The erection of a church
building in Little Rock. Ark, is plan
I'D at i cost Of $25O,OO0.
The capital of a coal company in
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PENSACOLA
Receipts, spirits. 81; rosin, III;
shipments, spirits, none; rosin, $50:
stocks, spirits, 1864; rosin, 1926.
JACKSONVILLE
Jacksonville, Oct 19.-Turpentine
dull at no.. sales none; receipts, 354;
shipments. $50; stock. 22.764.
Rosin dull; sales, none; receipts,
LOGS; shipments. 2S2: stock, 92,SS2.
Quotations: WV and below, 1885.
SAVANNAH
Savannah. Oct. 19.-Turpentine dull
at 107 IL to ITO; receipts, 464; ship
ments, 257: stock, 21,719.
Rosin firm; sales, lis; receipts,
1906; shipments, 1.12s; stock. 51,2ss.
Quotations: B, d. E. 1895 to lilo;
F TO VIC, lilo; WV, Ills.
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FISHING FLEET.

Yakima, Virginia, Fish Hawk. Fran
els V. Sylvia, Mary E. Cooney, AL
Gina, Seaconnet, Clara NJ Littlefield,
and Emslia Enos, all of the Saunders
fleet.
Seminole, Culebra, Washable, Henry
P. Williams. Hope, Mineola, ArioIa,
all Of the Warren fleet
Smacks in Port.
Algon1a, Barcelona. Mary B. Greer,
Clara G. Silva, Caldwell H. Colt,
Osceola, Silas Stearns,% William Hays,
Rena A. Percy, all of the Warren
feet.
Maud F. Silva, Flora J. Sears.
Sheffeyld, Louise f. Harper, Ida S.
Brooks and Eesco, all of the Saun-
ders fleet.
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LAKE FRAzEE AGROUND.

Galveston, Tex, Oct. 19.-The
steamship Lake Frazee from Phila-
delphia to Houston with general car
go, ran aground today in the Houston
ship channel at Red Fish reef, IL
miles from Bolivar Roads She is re-
ported to be in no danger. The Lake
Frazee is operated by the Southern
Steamship company
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PROPOSED sAILINGs.

TO Bristol.
"a Steel Steamer" Fred'k Gilmore &
Co.. last half October.
To Antwerp.
S. S. Hutchinson, John A. Merritt
Company, soon.
To Matanzas and Cuban Outer Ports
S. S. Blaajfeld l." F'redk Gilmore
& Co., last half October and SEMI
monthly thereafter.
To Columbia and Venezuela Ports
Kingston Trinidad.
S. s. Fresdnes, Caribbean Steamship
Company, soon.
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short coverings which sent the mar
ket to a new high level for the day,
where it'stood us to 126 points higher
than the close of yesterday. The great
est firmness came in the last few min
utes of the day.
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Accept California" Syrup OF F5a
pniy-look for the name Californis or
the package, then you are sure youI
child is having the best and most
little stomach, liver and bowels. CHI.
dren love its delicious fruity taste
Full directions for chiid's dose on eacl
bottle. Give II without fear.
Motheri You must say California;
ADV.
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LEGAL NOTICE
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