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The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-07-09

FOR SALE-Good home In Snyder.
wei located In good ncighbor-
hood. w. b. Dane, Snyder. Tex.
Mrs. J. T. Roper and Mrs. II. Roper
paid the Signal an prrociated social
call Saturday evening.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-07-09

Meeting under special dispense
ton of Snyder Chapter r. A. NJ. Sat
urday night. July 10. to elect Of
fcers. Take notice and fail not to
be on hand. II. ]. BRICE, Sec.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-07-09

Mrs. ii. G. Towle and baby daugh-
ter returned Wednesday from Dali
las.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-07-09

FOR SALE-Good. heavy shear
oats. cents per bind. miles
southeast OF Snyder. w. d. Walton
phore eoasF3 4pd
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-07-09

WANTEE-To buy or lease ma!
baler in good condition. o. l.
Jones. fp
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-07-09

Mrs. Joe Cation of Wichita Falls Is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Patterson OF Route 2.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-07-09

Mrs. Emma Bibbie OF Sweetwater
came over Wednesday to visit her
daughter, Mrs. G. II. Leath.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-07-09

A. B. Eicke OF Arab route came In
Saturday and lined up with the Signai
subscription list.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-07-09
Important Summons

Born in Snyder last week to Mr..
and Mrs. J. r. Mize. boy.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-07-09

Cotton choppers wanted. AN. currie
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-07-09

Spectacles. II. u. Io"bE'
Optometrist.
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HOW DOCTORS
TREAT COLDS
and The FLU.
First Step in Treatment Is a Brisk
Purgative With Ca1otabs, the
Purified and Refined Calome1
Tablets that are Nausea
= less, Safe and Sure.

Doctors have found by experiences
that no medicine for colds and infu-
enza can be depended upon for full ef-
fectiveness until the liver is made thor
ough1y active. That is why the first
step in the treatment is the new, nausea
less colonel tablets called Calotabs,
which are free from the sickening and
weakening effects Of the old style calo-
mel. Doctors also point out the fact
that an active liver may go a long way
towards preventing influenza and is one
Of the most important factors in en-
abling the patient to successfully with
stand an attack and ward off pneu-
monia.
One Calotab on the tongue at bed
time with swallow of water-that g
all. No salts, no nausea nor the slight
est interference with your eating, pleas
ure or work. Next morning your cold
has vanished, your liver is active, your
system is purified, and you are feeling
fine, with hearty appetite for break
fast. Druggists sell Calotabs only in
original sealed packages, price thirty
five. cents. Your. money will be cheer
fully refunded if you do not find them
delightful.-(Adv.l
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Autograph Hunters Coup.

Autograph hunting sometimes
proves a most profitable pursuit. Lud,
ovic Picard, French Bohemian Of
the sos, made a steady income out VI
it for several years.
One of his most successful coupa
was accomplished with letter In
which he posed as "a member of tha
unhappy race of the unappreciated
who is meditating suicide and seeks
for counsel and aid in this hour of
sore distress"
This drew a number of celebrities,
including Beranger and Heine. LacOr.
daire sent him ten closely written
pages, which were promptly converted
into cash.
Dickens also fell a victim OF his
wiles and took the trouble to answer
him in French. Eventually Picard was
shown up in the press by Jules San
deau and had to seek another occupa.
ton. +
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CHAPTER XVI.

shall not pretend to give more
than an idea of the manuscript read
there by the fire that night. 1t was
narrative and reflection and contained
the story of the life of Arthur Dobson,
known to me heretofore as Mr.. Sid
ney. shall give extracts from it:
"a family is an odious imposition
of cruel conventionaT1ties upon indi-
viduals who, accepting conventions,
however odious and cruel, are helpless.
The bond of blood is one no animal
(animals being rationalistic) tolerates,
even recognizes, but it is imposed up
on human beings, who find that the
most antagOnistic natures must rec
oncile themselves to an arbitrary rule
OF life which can come only to hide
BUSINESS.
There were in our family two chill
dren, my brother Richard and myself.
Our parents were the ordinary folk
who marry and have a family. My
father was an uncommunicative man,
whether from a habit of silence OR a
lack of anything to say, I do not
know.
MY mother, as I recall her. was
gentle but, I imagine, futile. I think
If she had had a chance of establish
ing personality my silent, glu1n IA
Their had destroyed IT.
Orchard was my elder by two years
My father was wealthy, very W 3althy,
and Richard and were not disciplined
as to money. My father was not pc
nurious, but never knew a man who
obtained so little good of his money.
He had no social instincts; he had NO
joviality. I, ->.-
He fixed occasional osrentation-a
petty form of vanity and egotism. ]
regarded him, or my memory of him,
as wholly detestable "a sentiment
which will offend the sentimentally
conventional, Or the conventiOnallys sen.
tirnental. I know he was the last man
I would have chosen as a father.
(TO BE CONTINUED0
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more real help than all other medi-
cines put together. have taken
Golden Ne dical Discovery for
stomach trouble and it was excellent
for this ailment; it purifies ones blood
and seems to act upon, and build up
ones whole system in good, healthy
state. Golden Medical Discovery ie
a splendid family medicine and / take
pleasure in recommending it."-MRB.
J. A. BEAN, 1900 Highland Avenue.
Few folks or families now living have
not at sometime or other used DR..
Fierce's Golden Medical Discovery for
the stomach, liver or blood. Over
twenty four million bottles of this
tonic and blood remedy have been
sold by druggists in this country.
WEST FRANKFORT; KY.-wI can rec
ommend DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
most highly for they have been used
for many years past by my own people
and by my husbands and later on by
myself. / have never known such q
mild and effective remedy for sluggish
liver and constipation as DIR. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets. "-MRs. ADD1E
HARRoD, No. 606 Polsgrove Street.
These little, sugar-coated pills are
composed of Mayapple, leaves of aloe,
root of jalap-things that Nature grows
in the ground, and are sold by drug
Rists evervwhara-
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F*Only One Thing
Breaks My Cold"
:sThat's DIR. Kings New Dis
covery, for Fifty Years
a Cold-Breaker''

;TIME-TRIED for fifty years and
i never more popular than today.
Nothing but the relief it gives from
stubborn old colds, and on-rushing
new ones, grippe and throat-torturing
coughs could have made DIR. Kings
New Discovery the standard remedy it
il today. No harmful drugs.
Always reliable, and good for the
whole family. Has convincing, heal
ing taste with all it's good medicinal
qualities. At all druggists, 90 cents,
$3.50 bottle.
For colds and cozzQhS
New Discovery
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shock. Something's the matte: with
my world. 1t is not so bold or conf
dent.
what Tn getting at is this" He
held up the manuscript. 'This is Mr..
Sidney's diary. I have talked to Mrs.
Sidney. She thinks, as I think. that
you should read it. You'll probably
want to confirm what say. You'll
have to ask Mrs. Sidney. I know you
are itching to read it. also know
that if one Of your scruples inter.
vened, you'd let your itch go unscratch-
ed. But this is what I came in for,
and here's the manuscript.
''You understand that in. giving 1t
to you surrender Internationally. I
know it, but want friends The only
one had is dead; I must make other
ones"
EAe extraordinary fellow shook my
hand, left the manuscript in my lap
and went out, more pathetic figure
Of sorrow than ever expected to
see in Jed. =
went at once to Mrs. Sidney. Jed,
I said, had left the dry with me,
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6be Mystery Of
Hartley House

necklace in what had seemed to be a
baked sweet potato. found a gold
watch in box under a few leaves of
lettuce. Mrs. Sidney found merely a
note in bunch Of violets which was
given her with ceremony.
She read it and had difficulty to re-
main wholly composed. She arose and
went to her husband, taking one of
| his hands and putting an arm about
his shoulders. Then she kissed him
and stood moment before the fire
before she trusted herself to come
back to the table.
When the dinner was done and the
covers were removed, more wine was
brought in. A large Christmas tree
was lighted, and all the servants were
called. Each found valuable present
in the tree; each had punch from the
great bowl, and each, coming to shake
Mr. Sidney's hand, was given by Jed
an envelope which, / learned after
ward, contained a hundred-dollar bill.
There was no constraint and no
awkwardness such as might mark
such proceedings; the people Of the'
house knew Mr.. Sidney too well. One
of the maids kissed him, and then we
had them all doing it.
I was fearful that the excitement
would injure him, but he was placid.
smiling and happy. When we were
alone, we sat an hour by the fire, and
then dismissed every one peremptor-
lily.
Jed, who had been about his duties.
returned. The fire was tended. An
other bottle of wine was ordered. I
had my last look at Mr.. Sidney alive
as I stood by the door giving Jed
his final instructions for the night.
Jed sat in the armchair. All the
lights except one by Jed's chair had
been extinguished. The Persian cat
was stretched by Mr.. Sidney's. side.
The canaries were asleep perched on
the head Of his bed. The fire was
glowing.
Good night, Mr.. Sidney" said.
"Good night, Jed. A pleasant eve
Ming"
"Good night, DOCTOR" said Mr. Sid
ney. "Just minute, boy. Come here"
He reached out his hand.
"Good-bye," he said.
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CHAPTER XIV.

Mr.. Sidney died between three and
four o'clock Christmas morning. He
passed so easily that Jed. sleeping
in the lOunge-chair beside him, did
| not know that death had gone through
the chamber until an hour after the
event Jed awakened me. In the case
of such an expected happening as this.
the perceptions start slowly. The
fact that the benignity which so i'm
perceptibly had dominated the house
had ceased to exist took hours to as
sert itself.
Jed was composed when he aroused
me. Later. when the sun came up to
make radiant all the white witchery
the storm left, his sense of loss began
to assert itself, and acute as was the
grief in the house, none was deeper
seated or more profound than that of
the rascally old servant.
Mrs. Sidney accepted the event with
a serenity which discovered after
ward was born of a long-fixed resolu-
ton. For years her life had been a
denial Of her moral instincts-happy,
in spite of that, because of her great
devotion to the wonderful man she
loved. The chapters which he doni-
mated in her book we're ended. With
tenderness she laid them aside.
Isobel did not permit herself in
diligence in any weakness. What had
happened was written in the contract
of life. In later full knowledge of
Isobel,, I never ceased to admire the
wonderful acceptivity with which she
met her trials. Nothing came to her
with catastrophe shock. She had
reality within her vision, and she per
ceived
For myself saw the end of a mode
, Of life which, even when unhappy,
had been ecstatically so. My reason
for being in Hartley house lay dead
in bed.
1 should look back. I knew, many
times, as a struggling practitioner.
possibly in poorer districts of the city.
possibly in small town, to the
strange but beautiful time when / was
at Hartley. This experience would be
only an episode, remaining as the
memory of a time when my life halted
for wonderful moment, satisfying,
rich and joyful, and-having had this
moment-went on in the drab fashion
ordained for it. An occasionaT kindly
letter from Mrs. Sidney, or possibly
from Isobel, might quicken the mem
ory, but l and this period would fade
from their lives as it never could from
mine. I should be packing pill
case on late and improbable rounds
In that soul-destroying routine with
its ceaseless invasion of the Intimate
personal economics of uninterestfng
people, abnormaliy egoistic in the pain
of a small or large disorder-the
cherries life of q small physician.
serving his useful purpose. have no
doubt but how little serving his own
We got through Christmas day in
a dazed fashion. The necessary offices
for the dead compelled routine
which relieved >the tension. although
they contributed dulled terror toethe
day-those terrible. exacting practical
details with which some one in the
bereaved family must occupy himself.
Mortuary details are jocose to the pes
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I By
CLIFFORD S.
RAYMOND
-
illustrated by
IRWIN MYERS

simiSt. know no more comic figure
than an undertaken, no more gigantic
| shaft Of human egotism than a tomb
stone. - .f
Mr.. Sidney, we found, had left brief
but explicit directions for his burial.
This, in the case of q man with life
so well conceived, was strange, but
his wishes, as we found them, were
simple and startling. He was to be
buried by the river, close to the pool
which had been invested with the add
ed charm Of ghost-story. His grave
was to be marked by an unostenta-
tiOus stone. The inscriptions was to
be as he directed In a note in sealed
enclosure to be opened at the time
Mrs. Sidney thought appropriate.
1t might be, he had written, that
Mrs. Sidney would not want the stone
erected during her life. Her wishes
were to be consulted. When the grave
was marked, If it ever was, the in
scriptiOn was to be as he directed.
Mrs. Sidney, acquainted with the
terms Of this extraordinary mortuary
note, said that it was her wish to have
the sealed envelope opened Immediate
" and its instructions carried out.
Christmas night had set in, and the
place was a fairyland of glistening
white. Far-off-church-bells sounded
family across the snow. In the in
creasing cold, following the abatement
/ Of the storm, timbers in the old house
creaked and snapped, and when one Of
the people of the house, on an outdoor
chore passed within earshot, the sound
of footsteps was audible and the crisp
crunching which. even as does a~high
wind, emphasizes the comfort Of
secure and warm shelter.
I was in the Office when Mrs. Sid
ney's instructions to open, the sealed
enclosure were received.
proceeded to do SO. There was
q brief note, as follows:
I desire the marking on my gravestone,
when 1t Is put UP. to read:
ARTHUR DOBSON
Born May %. 1910
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All Run Down
N0WFeeIsF Fine
EafOnfC Ended
His Troubles

"Eatonic is the only thing I have
found to stop my heartburn and I
think it has been a great help in
nervous spells" writes G. G. Johnson.
An upset stomach may cause lots
of suffering all over the body. Eatonic
helps in such cases by removing the
cause OF the misery, because it takes
up and carries out the excess acid
and gases and keeps the digestive or
gans in natural working order. A
tablet after meals is all you need. Big
box costs only trifIe with druggists
guarantee.
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CHAPTER xIV-contlnued.

-1S-
He paused and looked at me as If
to see whether he was reaching any
hidden spring which if touched and
sprung would open the secret. He
did not believe was truthful,
mfr. Sidney's life is Open honorable
and full Of nothing but good for fifty
years back" Morgan. continued. 1--WE
have investigated very thoroughly.
But fifty years back, Mr.. Sidney dis
appears, evaperates. There is no Mr..
Sidney that can be found. We find
young man Of twenty, and nothing
back of him. There we stop. It is
blind alley. You come to nothing
but wall. That stopped investiga-
ton.
Nov, I go good deal by lunches
call 1t intuition, guessing, inspiration.
1t is not good detective method. I
don't claim it's good detective work.
never work on a bunch and neglect
rational method, but frequently
when I do work on bit of guessing
we get results.
i've been working, around here, On
guess that was so wild wien it first
started that it seemed too prepOster
GUS even for me. TIL tell you that we
are not Investigating Mr.. Sidney any
more. We are looking for another
person, and I believe we are going to
find him. Then, we are going to find
some one else. Doctor. I tell you, If
you don't know 1t, as you say, it is
the strangest case ever have known.
1t is one of hate. Mind, I'm only
guessing"
That touch was so impressive that
betrayed an emotion. He saw 1t.
81 had you there" he said.
"AIr. Morgan" I said, you will not
believe me, and for that reason it is
useless for me to say and keep on say
ing that 7 know of nothing here l
could help you on. You suggested
something to me just now, and you
saw that you had done so. But that
was because of a coincidence imma
terinl to what you cali case"
"Very we'll" said Morgan. 81 did
not expect to get ahead by coming
here, but want to be fair and reason
able. You do not know anything, but
I am not allowed to talk to any one
who might know"
."YOu have talked to Jed" 1 said.
''You cannot reasonably expect to be
allowed to annoy the ladies of the
house or to flutter the servants. Mr..
Sidney is very i'll and very weak.
Even you would refrain from intrOduc.
ing your case to him if you saw him.
If we seem to avoid your inquiries,
it is unfortunate. We have nothing
to avoid"
81 follow my hunch," said Morgan,
getting to his feet. "1f l am right,
something will be revealed hat even
could not compromise. I am afraid
you must prepare yourself for some
publicity"
II have told you before that you
must select your own course" I re-
piled, and Morgan took his leave, driv-
ing away through the snow.
We had our Christmas eve in Mr..
Sidney's room. He was very feeble
physically and could be raised on pill
lows In bed but nothing more. But
he was the spirit of joviality. He
had Jed sit in a great armchair by his
bed, and early in the evening he had
bottle of claret opened for him.
Nothing would do but Mrs. Sidney and
Isobel should have a bottle of Madeira,
and I had whisky toddy. A great
punch-bowl was brought in, and Jed
mixed gallons Of liquor and many
spices in it.
Four Of the men servants came. in
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Would it serve any useful purpose for
me to read it, or should 1t not go di.
rectly to the fire?
81 think you should read it, John"
she said. Il told Jed so. He is very
shrewd. His judgment. and mine In
this case agree"
went back to the Office, put a log
on the fire and sat down to read the
diary.
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I was holding that document, star
ing at it, and grasping for elusive
threads of perception, when Jed came
in. He carried a manuscript in his
hand.
Jed drew a chair up to the fire by
my side. 1t was with q strange feel
ing of relief that accepted the sig
nificance OF the manuscript he carried
I'm a strange man, DOCTOR" he said
by way of beginning. You'd never
understand me. I'm a strange man
and I do strange things I'm going to
do one now. I've seemed conscience
less, haven't II"
1--WE never tried to conceal my
opinion of you," 1 said.
mo, YOU haven't. 1 like a candid
man. That's why I've always liked
you, although I can't say much for
your intelligence. But you're honest.
I'm not honest, but Pm intelligent.
I've looked at my life as something
to make the best of, and I haven't
been foolish about scruples.
1--WE managed my chances, and I
have not allowed sentimentalism to
stop me when something real was to
be gained. It's a real world, not a
fanciful one That's the way think"
Half the people would be swinging
on gallows,'' 1 suggested, eff your ami
able ideas prevailed generality"
That's copy-book stuff that's so ir-
ritating," he said. 1.-THE only thing
extraordinary about me is my candor
My ideas do prevail, but the people
who adopt them have less frankness.
But what 1 want to say is that I'm
going to do a strange thing. You'll
probably think it an act Of cOntrition.
It isn't at all, but you'll think it so.
However, that's uni1nportant.
"You may not know it, but I was
very fond of Mr.. Sidney. He was the
best friend / ever had Or ever shall
have.
"Now, have guarded against act
ing impulsive1y or sentimentally. l
know I am in an acutely emotional
condition. 1 have guarded against
that. I am still considering the world
as a real world and myself as a real
creature in it. And here's the way
1 figure it. Mr.. Sidney's death has
taught me that materialism is not
enough 1t is necessary, but there is
something else. I've got to find an
other something else. That's more
important than any money or comforts
-physical-that / can find.
"Where is this something else to be
found again if not right here in this
family? I have determined to remain
in your service after you marry Miss
Sidney, and to take care of you and
her and Mrs. Sidney. I couldn't leave.
The roots are too deep. could be
cut down but not dug up. I'm too
old. So as real creature in real
world / consult my real good, now as
always. and / hope do not seem to
you to be acting sentimentally."
'You seem to me to be wholly crazy"
| said. when you speak of Miss Sid
neys marriage TO me, you are not only
ironic; you are cruel. I should think
that this particular day might make
you at least considerate."
You're the blindest man l ever
knew said Jed. "but I'm not dealing
with what you think but with what
know. 1 told you once your engage
melt was an unreal thing and that
did not consider it at all. Later
took that back. Now can tell you
that It is very real thing. but it Is
different now with me. have suffered
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WHY the Aspen Leaf ouivers.

The aspen leaf Quivers easily be-
cause IT is broad and placed on q long
very flexible stock. The UPPER part
of the stalk is fiattened and, being
at right singles with the leaf. is liajs'
to be moved by the faiptest breez%
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IN my family with
the very best of
results. I had a
girl tn at h ad
chronic bronchitis
and / never found
a myth in that
would give her re-
lief until I began.
giving her Doctor
Pierc els Golden
Medical Discovery
ar1 II ravo hoN
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large cups of punch before they went
out. Mr. Sidney evidently was deter
mined to corrupt the whole household.
Til never be able to give an ade-
ouate idea of the joyialfty of that
CHRISTMAS eve in the sick-rOom. Mr..
Sidney and jed had conspired for
some months to make a festival.
orr dinner. served in Mr.. Sidney's
rx,om. trought4 boar's head, carried.
~ laughing maid! Wine was sent
e., the servants. Iso5el found pearl
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Ask Your Neighbor!

ALTON PARK, TENN.-~ DIR. Pierce'e
medicines have been used q great deal
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1920-02-05
Rat stowaway in Airplane.

A stOwaway rat was found. or rath-
err heard, on the military airplane
which flew to India not long ago. 1t is
supposed to have boarded the machine
a Chobar. in Arabia, probably attract
ed by the food supplies the aviators
carried aboard the big bomber. That
rat became a nuisance, and, indeed.
potential danger. All the way to Kera-
chi ii could be heard gnawing some
thing. The question was-what? 1t
might be making a hole in something
very important! AT Kerachi an eff
fort was made to capture the rodent
or drive it off the machine but all at
tempts failed. Being an Arabian ma
tive, the idea occurred to some one
that that 1t would not be Injured to
cold, so the machine, on leaving Ka-
rachi, was taken to 10000 feet. This
did the trick. Frozen or numbed with
the cold. the rat evidently lost hold
and fell into space.