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VESs. sss sss 9tSsr gEur d0s sax a said Queen
able Duchess who held up her pet
poodle for admiration. "but where is your
BABY?"
This remark of Her Majesty travelled
rapidly through titled and aristocratic
circles and at once had a marked effect.
Very few dogs with bejeweled collars are
now seen peering out of the windows of
monogrammed limousines in London. It
is more fashionable now for a peeress to
take her baby out for an afternoon drive
and leave the dog at home with the maid.
Queen Mary decided that a public re-
buke was necessary and she looked about
for the proper opportunity. Dogs every
where-no babies. And the ostentatious
display of dog clothes, jewels and trinkets
shocked her.
In motors bearing the crests of Eng
lands noblest families Russian wolfhounds
staggered in costly fur coats, and Poms,
in elaborately tailored jackets with dainty
scented lace handkerchiefs for doggie's
nose toilet protruding from diminutive
pockets in their jackets, shifted the morn
ing air. In vain the Queen looked for an
infants face, although she knew some of
these poodle-loving women were mothers.
Absurdity had still dizzier heights to
scale. Trig, pretty kennel maids and other
attendants to wait upon his over-indugcd,
over.fed dogship, so the Queen heard, were
being added to the most fashionable house
holds. This at a time when millions of
British workingmen were idle and their
children suffering from lack of bread and
milk
Have the mothers of England gone
mad?" the Queen exclaimed, turning to
the Duchess of Devonshire, her new Mis-
tress of the Robes. Clearly, they need to
be taught lesson"
The Ladies' Kennel Club Show. at which
all the women of wealth and title displayed
their canine putocrats, furnished just the
opportunity she had been waiting for. Her
Majesty attended as her royal rank de
manded and as was her custom for many
years.
With quiet contempt the Queen watched
these dogs at their elaborately prepared
toilets She observed the spring mat
trcsses on which they slept and the elder.
down pillows on which rested their weary
little heads. Her eyes seemed to hnd
1odgment in the vacant spaces between
the wires of their dainty beds rather than
on the dogs themselves
Surely the Queen must he in pet y
so the Duchess of Newcastle and Lady
Wolverhampton and Baroness Burton, who
staged the show. thought. Something had
TO be done quickly to bring a smile to her
lips. Wolferton Dan one of King Georges
Labrador retrievers, who won two first
prizes. was rushed TO the rescue With
that the Queen snubbed the entire assem-.
blage, pampcred dogs and foolish women
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plight of slum children with. the lavish
dogs life" she saw before her.
Here was one of the Oxford street stores
displaying cute little bedsteads for canine
"plutes," complete with spring mattresses,
fine linen sheets, Whitney blankets, elder.
down quilts, laceedged pillows and silk
curtains. Her Majesty saw joke in all
this. For the first time since its founda-
ton In 1889 the big Founding Hospital
was appealing to her for aid, with a deficit
of $4,000 on the years working. This
was the hospitals reward for maintaining,
educating and making into useful citizens
no fewer than % 69S "unwanted' babies.
That very day lapdogs and prize cats
came under a fashionable cloud, and the
vogue for them had serious slump.
The "lion-lke" Peke of China tumbled
off its modish perch, and absurd values
we're brought down from 750 900 to
something like one-third, with few takers
even for the finest specimens, with heavy
shoulders, wellbowed legs and ample
name"
Then Queen Mary resolved to give the
babies OF humble mothers a real chance
Under her auspices Princess Alice. Coun-
tess OF Athlone, opened a Rabies Home
at Tower Cressy, Campden Hill. Here
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Mamma and the Baby Are Now Seen Where Few Weeks Ago
Her Ladyship's Dog Peered Out of the Window
of the Monogrammed Limousine.

alike, by quietly gathering up
her skirts and leaving the show.
No actress could have reg
istered disgust any better.
The Duchess of Newcastle
and Baroness Burton took the
cut deeply and were not
little upset by the royal dis
pleasure. Few people attended
the show after that, which re-
suited in a financial failure,
and Princess Helen Victoria,
the president, resigned in tears.
The next move was awaited
with interest and was not
long in coming. Her Majesty
opened her own baby show and
supported the movement of
the Countess of Athlone to loan
the infant babies of British
workingmen to wealthy and
chldless women. Under such
royal patronage rich and titled Queen
women have literally tumbled on !
all over each other to be th
among the first to take up this
newest of fads. and poodles
have been relegated to the back stairs
and servants quarters.
Perverted mother love has been turned
into proper channels, and tots from the
slums. borrowed from Infant Centres, are
engaging the affections of many womer
who formerly fondled mutt" Clean bills
of health are given by the institution doc
tors with these children and the real moth
ers are allowed to see their offspring when
ever they desire.
There were, of course, many rebels tC
Her Majesty's plan, but, on the whole
noble ladies have taken to the idea as {
novelty fraught with unknown possibili
ties. At the National Adoption Homes i
is most curious to see women of rank ant
wealth choosing their new infant pets
and II Is great fun to take these waif
home and dress them daintily, as well a
paying f25 for a new baby carriage, con
verting their lapdog nurses into infan
nurses, furnishing special rooms in tow
and country ransions, and generally pre-
pairing TO give the Queens experiment
whole souled trial.
Perhaps no incident had greater efec
in drawing the attention of Britain's Queer
to the ridiculous extremes that some o
the titled ladies of her encourage were al
tanning for their dogs than this
The Countess of MS Irish terrier wen
off his feed and was driven to the doctor
IN grand car, with footmen and all tn
panoply OF rank. Alfred Sewell, fashion
able veterinarian, saw at a glance that thi
was a case of overeating. After an owlisl
examination, with much head shaking ant
grave words, Sewell took in Lady M
terrier as boarder.
Tie him up in the yard, jim" he or
dered his gTinning man when her tearfu
ladyship had left. Just starve that fcl
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a half years, n a m e d
Alice Andrews, had
been fed in her own
slum home on sour
milk and beer, as we'll
as bones and scraps of
food picked from the
street garbage buckets!
Yet Alice attracted
Queen Mary's eye as a
lovely child in that
Stepney refuge. And
there were soon over
300 applications or
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LONDON, April 13,

<rT |ES, ! see your dog" said Queen
v Mary the other day to a fashion
n,,n he hor ,ot
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Great Britain Right. Reserved.
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platter of eggs with his right hand.
1t was unfortunate for Sam Larder
that he was 4 slow-going gentleman.
The platter struck him edgewise
over the eye when his six-shooter
had barely cleared the holster. The
siX-shooter thudded to the floor. Sam
and his chair went over backward
and lay togther in tangle amid
the fragments of broken platter and
the remains of several eggs. he was
unconscious.
Billy, arriving in Sans immediate
nelghborhood a split second after
Sam struck the floor, scooped up the
fallen siX-shooter and wheeled back
to face his other two enemies. But
they were too occupied to be an
immediate menace. Felix Craft was
sitting on the floor, clawing at his
eyes and swearing continuously. Tip,
coughing and sneezng, was not
swearing. Perhaps he had not suf-
ficient breath. At any rate, he was
on his feet, arms spread wide, feel
inc his way along toward the door
going into the hall.
Billy cat-footed np behind Tip and
snatched away his six-shooter. Tip
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his enelnies to do this thing was in
toIerable. There was a way out.
Every strait, no matter how close
and awkward it may be, has it's way
out.
He built many plans while he lay
there. But there was a flaw in each
and every one of them. Felix Craft
returned about the middle of the
afternoon.
AS the door opened and Craft en-
tered, Billy sat up. Have nice
time?" he drawled-
went through like clockwork,"
replied Craft, slumping into chair
beside the table.
Lord Almighty, I'm hungry"
Craft said carelessly, Got my more
eggs and ham, Sam?"
'If you want anything to eat you
can cook it youself," said Sam.
When Felix Craft brought the
eggs, he drew up at one side of the
table and Billy at the other. The
| platter of eggs was between them.
Tip looked on from his seat near
| the fireplace Sam lounged comfort
ably in his chair.
| Billy looked with a dissatisfied air
upon the eggs. Amt there any
bread, Felix? A III butter on the
bread wouldn't hurt neither"
So Felix made another trip to the
| kitchen. When he returned with the
bread and butter, Billy discovered
that the pepper had been overlooked.
For Gawd's sake, use salt on
| emf implored Felix.
Billy pulsed right back from the
|! table and refused to be comforted
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E q
Il want some pepper! Sam, you
lazy lump of slumgulhop, get me
some pepper, will you?"
NO., | won't. a'm{too eomforta-
BILE and you're too finicky."
Bill glanced across at Tip. you
going to refuse me, too, Tip, old cit
izen?"
No." said Tip, with weary air,
Il suppose not"
He arose and betook himself to the
kitchen. Returning with large old
fashioned tin pepper pot he thumped
it down upon the table i'll front of
the captive. There you are. Now
stop your squalling."
Thank you, fippy, | will, Yeah. I"
Billy scraped up to the table as
Tip turned away. whats the mat
ter with this pepper pot, anyway"
Tip turned to look. Billy picked up
the pepper pot slowly and stared
hard at it. Felix Craft craned his
neck.
Il don't see anything the matter
with it, said Craft
Don't you?" murmured Billy, his
! fingers busy, with the removable top.
Look here"
Sam Larder did not move, but both
Tip and Craft obeyed, In fact, they
obeyed with such good will that the
handful of pepper that Billy in
stantly swept into their faces busted
up their Iaostrils as well as into their
| eyes.
In throwing the pepper Billy had
employed his left hand This left
hand had not completed the motion
before BILLY was reaching for the
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"Look here, fellow citizens, who is
going to take my part in this stage
hold-up?" asked Billy.
81 WILL said Craft modestly. 81
rode your pinto out of town last
night, and l think l made a good i'm
preston. And | have more than a
sneaking idea l can get away with
the hold-up."
Don't doubt it," said Billy. Don't
doubt it for a minute. You've got
nerve enough, l know that, and
we are about of a size. I-uh--l
thought there was something famil-
lar about that vest you're wearing,
And are those my other pants you
have on?"
"They are, and your coat and hat
are hanging on hook in the
kitchen"
Il see l amt gonna get chance
for my alley a-tall, Who'll arrest
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spun round at the touch, but Billy
lodged away from the clutehing
hands.
Bang! A revolver bullet cut but
ton from his vest and tucked into
the wall at his elbow. Billy's sud
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By
WILLIAM PATTERSON WHITE


Continued From Our Last Issue.
The district attorney looked over
at RATE. 81 suppose we GOTTA
RATE came fatty to the point.
How about gettin' rid of Tip O'Gor-
an?"
Lessee waht Sam Larder and
Crafty say" the district attorney
offered uneasily.
No, not them, either of EN-"
Rafe declared firmly. "They are
friends of Tips"
RATE brought his open palm down
or his knee with crack like a pis-
tol shot. 81 got it"' cried Rafe. 81
got it! Wen get three of 'em at
one lick.
"We'll get Simon and that fore
man of his drunk. Well sick the
pair Of 'em on Tip O'Gorman.
They'll put the kibosh on Tip, and
the word will be passed for the
sheriff. He will go to make the ar
rest and they will plug him. Being
drunk, they will be desperate and
won't care what they do"
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CHAPTER XII

S1lfll L All.
SPRING was in the air, but win
ter still held sway in the heart of
Billy Wingo. He had not been able
to make up his difference with Hazel
Walton, or rather she had not made
up her difference with him.
Came night of heavy rain and
wind Billy Wingo, a lamp on the
table at his elbow, was reading a
Denver newspaper. A sudden gust
drove splatter of rain across the
windows. There was soft thump
followed by sliding sound against
the outsid, door. Some one uttered
in womain's voice muffled wall.
Billy went at once to the door and
lifted the latch. There. was some
thing lying on the doorstep and SILL
something Chat moved little. Billy
let the door. fly open. The some
thing was, a pparently a woman in
distress. Billy bent down, endeavor-
ing to slip his hands undr her should
ers. Billy bent a little lower and
Smash!
Hes coming out of it," voice
was saying. 81 saw his eyelids
flicker"
Billy kept his eyes shut, although
be was now completely conscious.
He believed he knew the owners of
thase three voices. Sam Larder,
Felix Craft and Tip O'Gorman. He
opened his eyes. Yes, he was right.
There they were, the three of them.
But it was daylight, and a day of
sunshine, too. And the last thing he
remembered was a night of wind
and rain. 'epa 0e ".ar ..1
"Glad to see you are coming
round" said Tip O'Gorman. How
pu feel-pretty good?"
pretty good-considering," repli-
ed Bill. where am | and how did |
get here?"
You're in my house." said Sam
Larder. "You were - uh = brought
here"
"Who was the woman?" inquired
Billy.
81 was the woman" replied Craft
demurely.
'That was one on me. But I'm
still wonderin' You fellers went to
lot of trouble to carry me clear out
here. suppose you fellers think
you'll be able to get Dan Slike off by
kidnapin' me-"
About Dan Slike, we don't care
three whoops in HE'LL" replied TIP.
Il didn't really think you did, !"
said Billy frankly, "but knowing how
you and Tuckleton ="
mo, no, Bill" interrupted Tip
hastily, don't go fussin' about Rafe.
ni1r hue &c With
are. Here's you"
"Bill, you left your office in Gold
en- Bar last night, and took your rifle
with you and both your guns" re-
sumed Tip. "You went to the stable
and saddled your red-and-white pinto
and rode out of town."
Several people saw yoa, saw you
so plainly that they could swear to
your identity on the witness stand"
That's good. Con, Tippy, old
settler. You've got to where me and
my gallant steed are a'skulking in
the underbrush with half the town
witching us like lynxes. What did
do next"
This afternoon you will hold up
the Hillsville stage"
will | wear mask?"
Naturally - and your horse will
be seen, your red-and-white pinto
that everybody knows. It's some
thing like the trick you worked on
Driver and Slike.
Everybody on the stage will be
able to swear to your clothes and
your horse and your guns. One of
your guns has a brass guard. That
gun especially will be remembered. !"
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den movement had saved his life. i
He leaped back another two yards
tc get cot of the smoke. and ! Z
crouched, balancing his tense body
on the balls of his feet.
Continued in Our Next Issue.
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RAILROAD SCHEDULES
Central Time,

= IOeHCTHI Ime.
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Americas, Ga.
The following schedule figures
published az information and not
guaranteed:
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me-my own deputies?" asked Billy.
"No, We'll do that. Here's the
story: Your horse gave out and
Sam caught you trying to rustic a
pony out of his corral. Sam threw
down on you, held you up and
when we, Sam, Craft and l, y'under-
stand, searched you, we found on you
couple of pocketbooks and Jerry
FERNS watch. Jerry's driving the
stage"
When am going-to be arrested
for rusthng one of Sans hoses?"
"Soon after Craft gets back from
robbing the stage"
Billy rolled. oyer. on, his stomach,
rammed his head into the pillow and
completely relaxed his body, but, al
though his breathing soon became
deceptively regular, he was far from
being asleep. He was thinking as
purposefully as ever he had in his
life. He had to escape. To permit
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J CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.

Arrive Leave
1855 pm Columbus-Chgo $40 am
1898 pm Albany-Montg'y 5:14 am
7:25 pm Macon-Atiants 6:37 am
Tbs pm Columbus 1880 am
1855 pm Albany-Moutg'y 2:14 pm
2:14 pm Macon-Atlanta 1:55 pm
1:25 pm Columbus $3.50 pm
lfO:O0 am Columbus 1890 pm
6:37 am Albany 7:25 pm
STA am Macon-Atlanta 1898 pm
$40 am Albany-Jaxville 11:55 pm
2:5S am Albany-Jaxville 1887 am
1887 am Chgo, st. L. Alta 2:5S am
1853 am Chit and Atlanta :5S am
(s) Daily; ID Sunday.
sEABOARD AIR LINE
Arrives Lesves
k.15 RichIand- Coils 1000 am
$40 pm C rdele-Savh. 1925 pun
1881 pm Richland-Montg'Y S:lO nm
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IlDDenS wearing that old three
cOlored dress. and if there isn't Mrs.
Tabby in her old tiger calico. Why
she does not wear red ribbon with
that dull cOlOred dress is more than
l can tell -..
'Oh. dear, here comes Mr.. Shook
ums,' said Pussy, holding her fan in
front of her face to hide her bushes.
II do hope father will not start a
quarrel with him; he never does a
thing, but father does not seem to
like him. | think he is very fine
hammered cat"
"Hush," said Mrs. PusSums, there
comes Mrs. Persian. My dear, our
party is great success, for never has
she attended a social affair in Kit
town before. She is late, of course,
but that is so every one will be able
to see her beautiful dress. Isn't she
sweet, dressed all in fluffy white?
OF course | think your dress looks
better with that touch of black, but
everyone does not have the same
tasty III CSSlLS. VI Nuui DC. to'u
evening, Mrs. Persian, so glad you
could come, and now we must begin
the party right away. We were wait
ing for you, my dear .- :
BY this time the lawn was well
filed and the Cat Brothers orches-
ira struck up a lively tune from the
top of the back fence, and off whirled
the dancers, making merry in the
moonlight.
But Pussy Pussums was not with
the dancers, and when her father
went to look for her, what did he
see but Pussy and Mr. SnOOkums sit
ting side by side on the back steps.
Mr.. PusSums growled and bumped
his back, but Snookums did not run.
He knew it was now or never, so he
jumped up and grOwled back, but he
stepped toward Mr.. PusSums and not
away from him.
You are just as big as he is" whis-
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n he Right Thing
Right Time


do not hesitate to contradict each other
whenever their own opinion differs
with that of the other.
Now, don't think just because your
husband doesn't rebel against your
habit of fatty contradicting him, that
he really is insensitive to it, 1t irri,
tates him, even if he doesn't seemingly
note it, and he would really enjoy be-
ing in your society little bit more if
you did not have this bad habit. So
often man begins to tell some anec-
dote or incident for the entertainment
Of guest, and before he has got fairly
under way the wife comes in with:
Now, let me tell that story. You're get
ting 1t all wrong" or "Well, that's
the first time ever heard that; you
must be dreaming" Such Interruptions
and contradictions are boresome to the
guests and irritating and embarrassing
to the host who is trying to tell the
story. And usually the point raised by
the contradiction was some trivial mat
ter that she might have let go unclial-
lenged, even if she did feel convinced
that there was some discrepancy about
1t.
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The Friendly |
Dbl By-
am Walter l. Robinson
HOME BOOKKEEPING
.as..sgI......f.ss.y...,.......n.i....,..

HON'T tumble your accounts.
- Whether one manages a big bust.
ness or has no greater financial prob
lens to solve than those in connection
with the management of home ex-
penses, he will assure himself of great
er happiness if he keeps books. Not in
frequently greater worries are expert
enced by wives and husbands as re-
suit of home management than come to
the executives of the biggest CONNER
cial and industrial concerns. This for
no other reason than that they never
know where they stand or where they
are coming out financially.
More than 1900 years before Christ
came into the world, crude methods f
bookkeeping were employed Searchers
in the ruins of ancient Babylon have
come across movable clay tablets, upon
which accounts were kept with exact
ness. Improvement in methods Of
bookkeeping has come through the ages
and there is no excuse for anyone in
this day having their happiness blight
ed by jumbled statements or no rec
ords of business or financial matters at
all. But that old nuisance, Careless
ness, results in inaccuracies, uncertain
t. and unhappiness for thousands who.
with proper methods of accounting,
would find it easy to wake ends meet
and be glad.
The United States government set a
good example for the people generally
to follow when it adopted budgetarH
plan and began making plans to know
where it was coming out financially.
Congress was slow to enact budget
legislation, though every President for
decades has urged its passing But
many who have criticized Washington
Legislators for inaction on this extreme
ly important matter year in and year
out are and have been just as negligent
in following an efficient budget system
in their own affairs.
Those who complain because of the
uncertainty of their financial pathways
would. in many cases. lift heavy load
from their shoulders if they kept ac-
counts and kept them right.
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Defense AGAINST Airplanes.

Beams of fire as means for rem
dering airplanes useless as weapons OF
war is the invention of a Yorkshire
(Eng.) research chemist. He claims
to be able to- destroy hostile aircraft
flying as high as five miles by means
Of huge flames of fire whose terrific
neat will dissolve the steel structure
Of plane. He proposes to project
the beams or flames somewhere in the
same fashion that ray of light Is
projected by searchlight. Instead Of
the ray shooting into the heavens, a
beam of fire which can ignite the OBJ
ject against which 1t is directed will
be under control. The liberation or
ignition of this gas will consume all
the aircraft over a wide area and in
varying attitudes.
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fuences that make for diStrust, dis
union and disaster, that the only way
to tranquility and prosperity for man
kind as a whole, lies In a return to a,
sacred observance of those principles
upon which we achieved our victory
the allied war aims. The calamities
which have since overtaken civiliza-
tion have been primarily due to re-
creancy TO those pledges"
Among the other definite steps
recommended by the war heroes were:
Full publicity for all International
agreements; faithful observance of
treaties; opposition to territorial ag-
grandizement. suppression Of move
ments to overthrow governments by
force; Qualification of exchange rates
and resumption of international COM
merce, with a proviso for suspension
of trade relations with countries main
tanning armies organized for agrees
sive purposes; and organization of a
news disseminating bureau to Offset
destructive and infammatory propa.
ganda.