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"Yes."
 And she, this woman, is your wife?"
 "Yes"
 "She is pretty woman, verra pretty {; you not married long?"
 "No, only a few days; we had just come to the ranch when she was talk en away"
 "But, senor, why she go away if she be just married like you say? Why she leave you, an run off with Senor Macklin? She love heem better than you?"
 Love him! She did not run off. He stole her, he and four Indians, after leaving me for dead"
 "He not tell cet to me like that; he say she want to marry heem, an not you. That he took her to save her from you; that she would not let heem leave her. Then you fight, an so get keeled"
 Shelby laughed softly.
 "So that was Macklin's story, was it? We'll, it is not exactly true. I aip't saying she's in love with me, or nothin' like that, but she sure don't banker none after that chap. I'll tell yer why he took her-cause she's got bunch O money comin' her way down east that Macklin would like to get his hands on."
 "He marry herr"
 "That's his game, no doubt, if 1t works. If not, he'll evolve some other. I don't think he gives a cuss how it's done, so he gets it-he and his pre- cious father"
 She stared at him with lips parted.
 Maybe I see 1t more clear now" she exclaimed. "He not love her, then; he just want her money, bah I care not how he get that, if he not get her. You take her away, Senor Shelby, where he never see her again?"
 "Of course"
 "An' you keep her married to you"
 'I'll do the best I can. What do you mean, Pancha? Can you get us out of here?"
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"You lie hid, Senor, and trust all to me-"
(To BE CoNTINUED)
MADE EXCHANGE OF SWORDS
American Officer in Havana Was Not to Be Outdone in Courtesy by
 Any Cuban.

Maj. B. Ormande Power, United States army, says the most embarrass- ing moment of his army life was in 1898. The United States had just taken control of Cuba and Lieutenant Power was sent to Havana to see about taking over some property. While,in a restaurant he saw four Gu ban officers, immediately garbed. In true Latin manner they rose, bowed tremendously, and invited him to sit at their table.
 'Sir," said one of the officers. ris- ing. ''it gives us the honor very dis tinguished to have an American off, cer join us-to have the valiant Ameri- cans in control of our country. My feeling is so great that beg of you to give me the honor of accepting my sword.''
 With that he whipped out his beau- tiful Toledo blade. made of a steel the like of which no American ever possessed. As the young American awkwardly waited the Cuban stuck the point of his Toledo blade in the center of the table, bent it double. and as 1t whipped back into shape gra- ciously handed it to Power.
 Feeling It up to him to do some thing gracious. Lieutenant Power begged the Cuban accept his sword to establish relations further. With that he whipped out his $10 blade. bought from department store on the East side os New York, initiating the Gu ban, he stuck the point in the middle of the table, bent 1t double-and 1t stayed benti
 Without a tremor. Lieutenant Power calmly handed the blade. now bent like pretzel, to the Cuban, and made him, sweeping bow.-From the Am aroc. New Official Newspaper of the American Army of Occupation.
The Holbrook news., 1921-06-10
DdddyS
 R6EveniN9 Fairy Tale
THE BEETLES PARTY.
6JNARY GRAHAM BONNER - eoernohT n VIsIIhN NEVsRAPsE UNION -

"Good-day," said Mir Black Beetle. Will you come to my party?"
 Thank you" said Mir Benjamin Beetle, T will be glad to come to your party. And what time do you plan to have this party?"
 Right away" said MT. Black Beetle. Il see no reason for waiting"
 Neither do l." said MT. Benjamin Beetle. T like parties that begin at once and don't end for a long time. I trust yours will last for a long time. Mir. Black Beetle?"
 Tt will," said MT. Black Beetle.
 And nOw," he added, q must be asking the rest of my guests"
 May I help you give the invita- tions?" asked Mir. Benjamin Beetle. By all means" said Mr. Black Bee tie, and will be grateful to you for your help"
 Pray don't mention it." said Mir. Benjamin Beetle. "I will be much pleased to be of help"
 And may I help, too?" asked MT. Billy Beetle.
 yOu SdAO MI. AOAdNh Beetle, land will be just as grateful to you as to MT. Benjamin Beetle. q will be very grateful to both of you.
 T have lot of gratitude in my Bee tie heart, for you know if one feels lots of gratitude one is very happy"
 "What does all that meant asked Mir. Benjamin Beetle.
 Gratitude" said MT. Black Beetle, ''is another word for thanks. A crea ture who is grateful is a creature who is thankful or who wants to thank for many things.
 "One can't run out of gratitude or thanks like ladies can run out of eggs or butter or milk. They run out of such things when they haven't enough to last for all the meals they plan to have.
 "That is quite natural. But with gratitude 1t is different. Gratitude is something we can all have. How? By
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thinking of all the things which make us want to be thankful. "Of course we can't always say our | thanks, but even then we can feel gratitude or thanks.
 "We can't very well say thank you to the sun for shining or to the rain for coming when the ground is dry and needs a cooling drink. We can't very well say thank you to the flowers which come out in the spring and in the summer. We can't very we'll say thank you to the stars for blinking and twinkling and smiling at creatures by night.
 "The stars are too far away and so Is the sun and so are the rain clouds.
 But, just 'the same. we can feel thanks and feel gratitude. So you see feel a great deal of gratitude and thanks to my good friends who are helping me. And say so to both of you"
 Then the Beetles grinnod in their Beetle fashion and crawled off to ask the other Black Beetles to come to MT. Black Beetles party.
 All the Beetles came, and there were many, many Black Beetles at the party. MT. Benjamin Beetle and MT. Billy Beetle also belonged to the Black Beetle family, and they were very much excited over the party.
 The guests all had an extremely good time. They played games, they climbed on each others backs and had a gay Beetle frolic.
 They had good things to eat and some of them sang little songs, very funny little buzzing. squealing songs. which they all thought were very lovely.
 "There are some creatures" said Mir. Black Beetle, ''who think that the blue lake wonder. which Is surrounded by those blue hills, is the loveliest sight in the world, and others think the shadows which play over the lake are the loveliest, but to my Beetle mind there is nothing like gathering of the Black Beetles. That, to me, is a lovely, lovely sighti"
 And all the Black Beetles agreed as modestly as they could.
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TO FIGHT
 FOR HER BREATH
Nashville. Artist Tells of Terrible Suffering Experienced by
 His Wife.
HUSBAND GOES DOWN HILL
Finally Both Decide to Put TanIao to Test and as a Result Have En- Joyed Best of Health for Past
 Three Years.

Both my wife and myself have put Tanlac to the test and we call 1t the greatest medicine in the world" said J. T. Montamat, 1123 Third Ave. North, Nashville, Tenn, artistic sign painter for the Cusack Company. Mir. Montamat has lived in Nashville for nearly thirty years and is highly re- spected by all who know him.
 Before my wife took Tanlac she suffered so badly from gas on her stom- ach and heartburn that she often said she felt like she was smothering to death. She actually had to sit up in bed to get her breath.
 "Well, in a short time after she began taking Tanlac her trouble dis appeared and she was like a different person. Seeing the good results In her case, began taking the medicine myself and 1t soon had me feeling Ike brand new man.
 up to that time I had been trou- bled with indigestion. I had no appe- tite and the little I did eat seemed to do me about as much harm as good. I felt so tired and languid I hated to move around, and was get ting in such a rundown condition that 1t worried me-
 "Tanlac acted with me just like it did with my wife, and although that was three years ago we have enjoyed the best of health all along How ever, I keep bottle of Tanlac in the house all the time, and when l feel myself getting run down the medicine soon has me feeling all right again. I am convinced that Tanlac s with out an equal. Our friends all know how 1t helped us and I don't hesitate to tell anyone about it"
 Tanlac is sold by leading druggists everywhere.-Adv.
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preserxed Husband,s Heart.

The heart of John Baliol, lord of Barnard castle, who died in 1269, was embalmed and inclosed in an ivory casket richly enameled with silver. His affectionate widow. Devorgilla, used to have this casket placed on the table every day when she ate her meals, and ordered 1t to be laid on her own heart when she was herself placed in the tomb. She was buried. accord ing to her own direction, near the al- tar in New Abbey. which she herself had founded in Galloway, and the casket containing her husbands heart was placed on her bosom. From this incident the abbey received the name of Dolce Cor. or Sweetheart Abbey, and for its arms ''bore in chief a heart over two pastoral staffs, and in base three mullets of five points,"
The Holbrook news., 1921-06-10
In. Wonder of Euos.

One cannot find among the multitude of wonders in nature anything more marvellous than the development ot an egg, writes Elsa G. Allen in the American Forestry Magazine. Wheth. CT 1t be butterfly which fourishes for a day only to die after depositing its eggs, or a reptile which lazily leaves its eggs with only the warm sand to mother them, or fish. Ike the salmon, which, with incredible strength, jumps the rapids to spawn in the upper reaches of rivers, or most appealing of all, bird which builds beautiful nest for Its treasures. the egg in every case is structurally the same, and the miracle of life unfolds according to the same laws of cell division.
The Holbrook news., 1921-06-10

CT uttered a word until he had eaten his fill. Once Shelby caught his eyes looking across at him, but except for that one glance the fellow seemed oblivious of any other presence. Fin ally he pushed back his chair, pulled his feet around to where the butt of a revolver was within easy reach of his hand and his eyes glared straight into Shelby's face.
 Had enOugh?"
 "Plenty; Pancha is a good cook"
 ''She is that. Thought I'd wait till after supper before we talked busi- ness. Now, Churchill, or whatever your name Is, maybe you'll tell me where you got that bronc with Three Star brand on him?"
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soon found relief. Nov can do aII my own work and it is the Vegetable Com pound that has saved me from an opera tion. I cannot praise your medicine too highly and I tell all of my friends and neighbors what the Compound did for me-. - Mrs. MARGARET McCUMBER, 27 S. Frazier St., Georgetown, Illinois
 Mrs. McCumber is one of the unnum- bered thousands of housewives who struggle to keep about their daily tasks. while suffering from ailments peculiar to women with backache, sideaches, headaches, bearing down pains and ner- vousness, and if every such woman should profit by her experience and give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound a tritl they would get we'll
The Holbrook news., 1921-06-10

not look like the senor-vat vas ze funny name he call your"
 "Churchill."H
 "Shirchil-bah I not say eet verra good. Maybe you hay some other name I can say better? You tell me?"
 My given name. you mean; that is Tom"
 She laughed. shrugging her shoul- ders.
 'TomI Oh, know that; call you Tom. then. I am Pancha VillemOnte. Which you rather say?"
 'Pancha, of course; and who is Juan?"
 "Juan Villemonte; he is my broth er-he. You not know heem, then?"
 'No; we just met above. I had lost my way. and we ran into each other
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ing to stand still as he gazed-then the fingers of a hand grasped one of the wooden bars, and a face rose slowly just in front of his own. A whisper revealed the identity of his visitor.
 "Senor, come quietly to window; do not speak loud"
 "Pancha. youl You would talk with me, then?"
 q must know some things, senor; l must be sure," she said fiercely. "You tell me tonight the truth, senor; you not He to me-"
 "Not a single word," he assured her eagerly, his heart beginning to beat with new hope, his face advanced un- til only the bars divided them. q trusted you"
 "You are Senor ShelbZT' -
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"Because l Think You Are Straight" :" up there. He and Indian Joe were driving cattle, and brought me along with them.''
 Her eyes opened wider, and her hands interlocked.
 You not here before, then? You never in Wolves hole till now?"
 "No."
 "But why you come, then1 Why they say you ride with them? Madre de Dios! You know what zis place is?"
 "Yes. Pancha," he answered soberly, feeling her earnestness. 'T know. I came to help a woman"
 You tell them that? Indian JoeY' Not just as have you; let them believe I was in on the game being played. In fact, I didn't have to say much of anything. for as soon as I mentioned the name of Churchill. Laud seemed to understand. What I failed to make clear was that my object was to help her"
 "Why you tell me this?"
 Because you are woman, guess. and because think you are straight" l"
 She stared at him a moment in si- lence; then went over and stood with her back against the door. She was breathing hard, and her cheeks were red.
 "She come from a ranch on the Cot tonwood?"
 "Yes."
 Her white teeth gleamed angrily be- tween the red of her lips.
 An what this woman to you, se- nor? Why you care what happen to herr"
 Shelby looked frankly into the girls face, determined to risk all. suddenly convinced that this young Mexican had an interest in his answer beyond any mere curiosity.
 said quietly.
 "Youl her husband?" She almost screamed the words, advancing to- ward him fiercely. You not lie to mel They say to me you deadI They tell me that; they tell her that"
 "Who told yOu?"
 'Macklin; the Indians-all tell eet Running Horse, he keel you-like zis, seei"
 "Yes, he struck me all right, Pan cha; at least someone did, also they left me there. But was not dead"
 "An' what he want of her? What Senor Macklin want of her? You know that?'
 q know a little, but perhaps not all. heard two fellows talking about 1t; you know them, likeIy-Matt Han- ley and Hank Slagin?"
 She nodded.
 "Hanley had got Macklin drunk and pumped him. It's some matter of big fortune down East. It seems Macklin's real name may be Churchill. and if so his father is trustee for all this property, which really belongs to the woman. Macklin has got an idea he can marry her and so cop all the cOin."
 He marry herr"
 "That Is the way Hanley understood It."
 "Then your name not Shirchil?"
 'No; It's Shelby"
 And Senor Macklin-his name Shirchil?"
 'I reckon likely; I don't know.'
 There was a sound without and she sprang instantly aside to the table, busying herself furiously. Laud and the Mexican entered, throwing their saddles down noisily into one corner and without paying the slightest at tention to Shelby, prepared themselves for the meal. To the rather curt in- vitation of the former the ranchman drew up the bench to the table and joined them. Pancha asked her broth CT a few questions, but Indian Joe new
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Wnrkind.

Mary y-F-e-r-m-e-n-t, ferment: to work.
 Mamma-Now place it in sentence to show me you really understand It Mary-In summer love to ferment in the garden.
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Missionary Work.

Are you a Methodist, grandma?" ?" little Hazel asked.
 "No. dear" replied the old lady. "A PresbyterianF
 "No"
 "Baptist?"
 'No."
 Don't you belong to any churchT' "No, Hazel"
 "Well, grandma. don't you think it's about time you were catching on some where?" asked the thoughtful little missionary.
The Holbrook news., 1921-06-10

left Slde that l cOulo not walk across the floor unless I was all
 bumped over, hold ing to my side I doc
 toreCl with several
 doctors but found no relief and they said
 1 would have to have
 an operation My mother insisted on my taking Lydia E. Pfnkham's Vegeta- ble Compound and I
The Holbrook news., 1921-06-10
Trihe Ambiguous.

"Yes," said the storekeeper, q want a good, bright boy to be partly in- doors and partly outdoors"
 That's all right" said the applicant, 'but what becomes of me when the door slams shut?"
The Holbrook news., 1921-06-10

cuticura Soap for the Complexion Nothing better than Cuticura Soa9 daily and Ointment now and then As needed to make the complexion clear, scalp clean and hands soft and white. Add to this the fascinating. fragrant Cuticura Talcum. and you have the Cuticura Toilet Trio.-Adv.
The Holbrook news., 1921-06-10
"YoUl HER HUSBAND ?"

Synopsis.-Tom Shelby, a rancher, rides into the frontier town of Ponca, looking for a good time af. ter a ,ong spell of hard work and loneliness. on the ranch. Instead, he runs into a funeral-that of Dad Calkins, a retired army man of whom little is known. A girl, still in her teens. survives Calkins. Mo Carthy. a saloon keeper and Pom ca's leading citizen, decides that the girl, now alone in the world, should marry. She agrees to pick out a husband from the score of men lined up in her home. To his consternation. she selects Shelby. who had gone along merely as a spectator. The wedding takes place and the couple set out for Shelby's ranch. With them is Kid" Macklin, whom Shelby has hired as a helper. On the way the girl tells her husband her name is Olga Carlyn, and also tells him something of the peculiar circum- stances of her life. Upon their ar rival at the ranch Shelby is struck down from behind and left for dead. He recovers consciousness to find that Macklin and his wife have gone. He starts in pursuit He learns his wife Is an heiress, that her abduction has been carefully planned and that she has been
 taken to Wolves Hole, a strong hold of bandits and, bad Indians. Reaching Wolves Hole, he Is dis covered by Indian Joe and forced to accompany him into the Hole
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Had Enouuh of mad Kind.

"As a skilled laborer." said Uncle Eben, 'Pm entitled to a helper. but I'd rather go wifout dan have any mo such successful crapshooters as de last one"
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Keen the Chance.

'I say. porter. did you find $50 on the floor this morning?"
 "Yes, suh. Thank you, suh."
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ANOTHER WOMAN
 ESCAPES
Mrs. McCumber Avoided a Serious Operation by Taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
 pound in Time

Georgetown, nl.-"After my first baby was born suffered so with my
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ALIENS F00T-EASE
 FOR THE FEET

Sprinkle one or two Aliens Foot=Esse powders in the Foot Bath and soak and rub the feet. It tSxes the sting out of Corns and Bunions and smarting, aching feet. Then for lasting comfort, shake AZ lens Foot=Ease into your shoes. It takes the friction from the shoe, rests the feet and makes walking delight. Always use it for dancing parties and to break in new shoes. Over One Million Five Hundred Thousand pounds of Powder for the Feet were used by our Army and Navy during the war.
 Ask for ALIENS FOOT.EASE
The St. Johns herald., 1921-05-12

Lead us to it, Mac" someone cried gayly, "gittin' married is my long suit"
 "AlI right, boys," and Mccarthy glanced at his watch. "I reckon the preacher ought ter have her ready for the delegation by this time. How about it, Tom?"
 They moved slowly out, jostling each other, and indulging in horse play and rude jokes. none taking the affair seriously, but eager to learn how 1t would terminate.
 Mccarthy led the way, directly across the main street, and down the path past the dance hall, which by this time was in full blaze. Beyond they were plunged into darkness, but could see ahead of them the faint gleam of a light through the window of Calkins' shack. One or two sought to drop out, but Shelby cOllared them promptly, so that the entire bunch finally lined up behind Mccarthy as he rapped on the closed door. The preach CT opened 1t, his round face beaming benlgnantly in the glare of the single oil-lamr within, his bulk absolutely blocking the entrance. Beyond, those close at hand had a vague glimpse Of the girl, who stood back against the wall. staring toward them with wide open eyes. The Buffalo Gap man smiled blandly in welcome, impressed by the number of faces he SAW, and stepped heavily aside.
 Come right in, gentlemen" he ex- claimed, gesturing impressively with one hand, tour accommodations are not extensive, as you will perceive, yet ample, I trust. Just circle about the wall thereto the left, please You have explained the circumstances Mir. McCarthy?"
 Sure"
 'Very well, then" his voice assum ing a soothing tone. we need waste no unnecessary time in preliminaries have very frankly laid the entire
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matter before the young lady and have finally convinced her of the righteous ness of our purpose. Do f1tly express your state of mind, my childT"
 She lifted her eyes slightly, red flush burning on either cheek.
 "T suppose so; that's what you told me to say"
 Shelby, slipping in through the door last of all, had found a precarious seat on the sill of the window, where he had a full view of the room. His glance wandered appreciatingly along that solemn line of men backed up rigidly against the wall. They were an odd-looking bunch, crowded to- gether under the glare of the Oil-lamp, the most of them roughly dressed and unshaven and all of them visibly em- barrassed and a little ashamed. The girl stood alone just before them and to Shelby she appeared younger and far better looking than in the after noon. She would have been almost pretty but for the pathetic droop at the corners of her mouth and the re- bellious, sullen look in her eyes. The preacher spread his hands in disap- probation of her remark.
 "Oh, no, my dear," he protested. 'I merely labored with you and urged this upon you as the better course. even made 1t the subject of prayer that we might be divinely guided. It is now a matter entirely for your own decision"
 She looked from him to the row of breathless men facing her, impatient ly, her bosom rising and falling tu- multously.
 "And I've got to choose which one I'd rather marryT'
 "Wen, yes, that is the idea crudely expressed. Not that you are com pelled in any way; only we feel il highly desirable; that-well, perhaps I may say, 1t Is the will of God that you make some such choice"
 Her eyes wandered up and down the shrinking line, resting calmly on face after face. If she felt any humOI
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''You an' her are in eahoots for that money.
CT0 BE coNTINUED.l
Why He Liked That Club.

Bret Harte, though he was the his torian of the "Argonauts of 1S49," had no real love of yachting. Yet his fav- orite resort during the last years of his life was the Royal Thames Yacht club. He was once questioned about 1t, and explained:
 q never use a club until I am tired of my work, and want relief from it. If go to a literary club am asked all sorts of questions as to what l am doing, and my views on somebody else's last book, and to these l am ex- pected to reply at length.
 "Now, my good friends in Abe marie street talk of their yachts, don't want my advice about them, are good enough to let me listen, and I come away refreshed by their conversation"
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SOME SCHEME"

Synopsis.-Tom Shelby. rancher: rides into the frontier town or Ponca looking for a good time after a long spell of hard WorK and loneliness on the ranch. ln- stead. he runs into a funeral-that of Dad Calkins, a retired army man of whom little is known girl, still in her teens. survives Calkins. Mccarthy, a saloon keep CT and Ponca's leading citizen oe- cides that the girl, now alone In the world, should marry.