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4 Heart Full of JOu
PPENED TO ITS OWNER

to her than all the rest Of the
world. But she is so happy that she
cannot help expressing some of her
feelings. And meaning nothing
more than good will to all men, she
puts into words and looks and deeds
some of her deep content with life.
Her emotionalism runs away with
her. And she feels as IL she were
belittling her love,
I'd agree with her IL she flirted
with this man and that--led each
man she met on to a show of inter-
est In her or tried to fan the flame
Of Tommy's devotion by proving To
him that her charm Is felt by others
than himself. But she doesn't.
Mabel merely let's off steam!
She cannot express openly AMI
simply all she feels for her own boy.
SO she Ia tender to old women, and
gentle to babies and generous to her
girl friends-and perhaps a little too
frankly friendly for good taste with
the mon who cross her path. But
her love for Tommy is simply flood.
ing over cverywhere-and the min.
ute Mabel realized that she didn't
limit her enthusiasm to her dealings
with men she felt better about II,
Tommy hasn't been heard from.
Lots hope he isn't like the girl who
complained to me that the man sho
adores Is too polite to her friends.
After all, the big love between two
10 sacred, 1t doesn't want to sub
ject itself to gossip and conjecture,
And when 1t cannot be announced
to the world II doesn't want to hint
of itself In public tenderness,
30 the next time the one you love
takes you to q party and isn't 30
devoted to you that the whole world
can guess your secret, just bear with
him or her. All he feels for you
and for your sake must not make
too obvious-may express itself In
what you can call phailandering or
flirting II you are not broadminded
and understanding. And IL you want
to you can build quarrel with your
sweetheart out Of nothing,
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The Story Of an Ambitious Young Sculp-
tor Who Goes to New York to Win
= His Way to Fortune.

of reason in his madness. But he
motored to the border city OF Do
troit, making that point the rendez-
vous for repeated impatient ven.
lures along the highways of west.
ern Ontario. He was drinking
heavily again. and his driving along
these highways was not always
controlled. This he realized when
he came to a sharp turn in the
Lake road a few miles east of
bennington.
There the highway, turning
sharply back from the eroded lake.
cliffs, formed an acute angle which
could be safely approached only at
a-low rate Of speed. But low rates
of speed were obnoxious to Donnie,
even in unknown territory, and the
result was that although he saved
his car from caroming straight out
over the cliff-edge, he went crash
ing and uncontrolled into the road.
side fence.
He climbed down from the stalled
car and walked unsteadily out to
the edge Of the cliff. There was a
sheer fall, he saw, Of almost 100
feet.
Donnie went on his way feeling
that all life was against him, that
nothing much remained to live for,
and that II wouldn't have mattereG
q great deal even IL he had taken
that final leap out over the cliff.
edge at Deaths Curve. Yet before
the end of an hour. as he sped east
ward he came face to face with
Torrie Throssel.
Go Be Continued Tomorrow
Copyright 1870, by Arthur strinxsr).
Publish by arrangement with IntsrnA-
ttonal Feature Service. Ins
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BOBBIE ND
HIS PA
BY William F. Kirk

~ A, ! sed to my dad last mite
wen I calm hoam from skool,
Pa, sed. what Is q civvick
spirit3 I guess that IL spelt rong. I
guess II is sivvick.
Well, Bobbie, sed Pa, sivvick spir-
rit mems love Of ones town In
witch one lives In. Pa sed. II II a
fine SPIRIT, on Of the few spirits
witch IL left to love, sed Pa.
Have you got sivvick spirr1t7 I
sed
will tell the wurid I have, sed
Pa. 1 am vary fond Of the city In
witch I dwell, almost a. fond a.
the city is Of me, sed Pa
Mercy. sed Ma, what q con-
seeted speech.
was only TESTING. sed Pa Cant
I Jest with Bobbie onst In q vile
without you ball-ing me out7
But you sey 30 many con -seeted
things, ed Ma I newer know wen
you are joaking q wen you are not
joaking, sed Ma. But / will admit
you have civvick SPIRIT, sed Ma.
For years. sed, Ma. you stayed down
town EVERY mite looking tho city
over. sed Ma
Them was the happy days. sed
Pa. OFT In tho Silly mite, sed Pa
fond memory brings the lite of
them days around me. sed Pa.
am glad they are gone, sed Ma.
A lot Of gents talks the time to love
thare hoams moar now. sed Ma. But
tell Bobbie about civvick SPIRIT or
whatever II Is, sed Nd.
Ali CRATE & good men, sed Pa, not
only love thare wtfes q children, eto.,
sed Pa, but they also love the towns
in which they live in. sed Pa, II 10
much the saim as love of hoam, sed
Pa. II Is q butiful q unseiflsh love,
sed Pa, like the love Of mother for
her child or like the love Of a wife
for a new hat, sed Pa.
Wen l git big / am going to have
q big civvick SPIRIT. am going to
love my hoam town q everything In
IL, chickens. Ca.
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He eschewed. II is true. the sterner
sports Of the polo-field and the
hydroplane. and his earlier expert
ments with racing yachts did not
lonk survive the discovery that
comfort on all such craft was re-
lentlessly sacrificed to speed.
Torrie Throssel had challenged
him, from the first. She had al
ways laughingly but alluringiy held
herself beyond his reach. She had
even hurt him, at times. by her
airy contempt evading his not I'M
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AND WHAT .HAPP
BY Beatrice Fairfax,
Who Occupies a Unique Position in
the Writing World as an Author
ity on the Problems Of Life.


the Writing World as an Author
ity on the Problems Of Life.
M ABEL came into my office
" the other day wearing an
expression so downcast that
I felt as II she had just lost her
last friend. And when laughingly
asked her II this were the case she
cried out desperately:
i've lost something worse-my
faith in myself"
My dear! This is serious" I
said. Let's see what we can do
to get It back"
I'VE can't" she mourned. I'm
a tickle. high strung. cheaply emo
tional girl, and that's all there Is
to IT,"
''Oh, no, there's more" insisted.
I've known you for two years. and
I've found you o fine, steady girl
with deep feelings and strong con-
troll over them's-
But that's just what 1've lost"
sho interrupted. I'm cheap
that's what ! am"
Then the story came out. Mabel,
II appears. has found her true love,
He's a fine young fellow, who 10
making his way In the world, and
making IL fast. But for the next
year he cannot afford to contem-
plate marriage and so he and Ma.
bel decided not to announce their
engagement, but to go on working,
each at his own profession, and to
wait until things were In a more
propitious state for founding tho
new firm,
And Mabel, ievins him with all
her heart, finds that out Of the ex-
uberanoe Of her feelings she is
likely to smile at this man and to
pat that one on the shoulder when
he does something she likes.
Now Tommy is not only reserved
but bit inclined to jealousy. And
when Mabel goes about bubbllng
and sffervesoing she ensws that
shs In hurting the ena vhA - dsarss
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of
-. the Famous
S<THE elder Dumas was not

SSTHE elder Dumas was not a
man." says Stuart Henry In
French Essays and Pro-
files" ''he was a force of Nature.
"A Frenchman 1 knew was in a
chalet in the Alps in 1850. A
storm-bound tourist rushed in and
insisted on dinner.
"Who was this irrepressible, aston
ishing stranger? my friend asked
himself. They fell to talking Of
literature at table. My friends fav-
orite writer proved to be Alexandra
: Dumas what youth could resist
1.-The Three Musketeers?" But at
this announcement the other, who
was much older, INDUCED in ex-
pressions Of disgust and wrath. He
disapproved of Dumas in round
terms-an author with no style, no
ideas, in short, an imbecile.
, when the young man had finally
ek hausted the list Of his good rea-
sons for adoring Dumas, the strang-
err broke out In roaring enthusiasm,
embraced his companion vigorously,
exclaiming:
"'My boy. I am Alexandra Du-
masv-to the utter amaxement and
delight of my friend"
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DO YOU KNOW
THAT

One feature of life in Bermuda
which always impresses the stranger
Is the prosperity of the natives,
white and colored alike. Distressing
poverty Is unknown, and even the
poorest families boast house and
garden.
The smoke nuisance" is found to
have been prevalent in London from
a very early time. and is 1878 the
use of coal was prohibited as harm.
full to health, while in 1907 a man
was executed for burning It. @....~s
Who invented the fan? Eve, said
the essayist. Venus, declared the
poet, oliver Wendell Holmes, when
she denuded one Of her doves, a fan
tailed pigeon, of his plumes. What
ever its origin, the fan has belonged
to woman alone.
It Is a curious fact that grains
ripen earlier In Norway than in the
south of Europe, an advantage due
to the long days and short nights Of
the summer in the north. Also in
northern Canada a similar condition
prevails.
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MILK IN THE
DIET
BY Brice Belden, M. D.


M ILk is considered a perfect
V food because 1t contains the
protein found in meat, the fat
In egg yolk and bacon, the sugar we
eat In resserts and otherwise, the
salt that we extract from fish. and
the water that we draw from the
spisot. And then there are the
vitamines. in which milk is pecu-
liarly rich.
The proportions of these oonsfitu-
ents are as follows: Protein q, little
over 4 per cent. butter fat q little
over . per cent. sugar a little over I
per cent, salt q little less than per
cent, and water 81 per cent.
A glass of milk is equal In nutri.
tive value to two large eggs, or y
large portion Of lean meat, OF to two
moderate sized potatoes, or five
tablespoonfuls Of cooked cereal, or
three tablespoonfuls of boiled rice, or
two slices OF bread.
In spite Of It's present high cost
milk In q cheap food. q quart Of Il
goes so far in the upkeep OF the
bodv And besides It's nourishiug
properties. It IL one of the most
easily digested Of all foods,
Two and a half quarts Of skim
milk contain almost az much pro.
tein as q pound Of beef and yield
about tho same amount OF energy TO
the body.
Tho number of germs In milk de.
termine its grade. They are an In,
dex a. to its sanitary quality, II
should be free from disease-breeding
germs, but under ordinary circum.
stances II contains some harmless
bacteria: In fact, some Of them arc
beneficial. But IL these germs are
found In very large numbers II
means that the milk has been i'm.
perfectly handled, contaminated
with dirt, and not been kept az q
shffioisntly lev tsApsraturA
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bral and -over-srtive parent, who.
after living a year and a half on
zweibach and peptonized milk. died
quite Unexpectedly and miserably
of malnutrition.
So Donnie became a spender. It
was all that he stood equipped to
become. and IT was all that was
demanded Of him. In this. how
ever. he betrayed nos particular
talent and even less originality. his
spending following the urban and
predetermined greeves of custom.
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Arthur Stngers e. THE WINE OF LIFE "s- James Montgo

sophisticated Vaccinations towards
some more and more personal en-
meshment. even hooking his slight
lisp and smiling at his vague and
visionary threats. e
A Subtle Appeal. \ ~.
And an he was more rudimentary
than he appeared. for all his ,crav-
ing to make life complex, he re-
acted to an opposition 80 novel In
manner quite to be expected. When
= wanted a thing, he wanted 1t.
The stood not unflattered by his
desperation, not unexhilarated by a
sense of power born Of her growing
mastery over his moods and move
ments. Nor was she, having known
poverty, altogether ignorant OF the
consultations of wealth. But when.
in his desperation. he even admit
ted his willingness to marry her.
protesting that he could stand for
the Reno racket" II he had to, she
really serious about her stage-work
and had known quite enough or
married life.
And what will you do?" Torrie
had calmly asked him.
I'll give you the biggest house
ON Ocean drive" protested Donnie.
That, Donnie dear, is not
enough" Torrie had just as calmly
replied, slightly in doubt as to what
particular city ocean drive might
be said to decorate.
He had failed in the first big
want of his existence. And as he
stood unequipped to face all sucn
failure. he eventually broke his
promise to Torrie and after twice
writing to her he fooled his huge
super-twelve up the valley OF the
Hudson toward the Great Lakes
He did not go directly into Can
ada, for there was still some trace
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BY Arthur Stringer

BY Arthur Strmger
weII-Known Author and Novelist d
Oountrywide Reputation-
ToRRIE stopped in her work and
glanced up at him, disturbed by
his sudden small body-move-
ment of misery. She smiled at him
companionably, but there was no an.
swering smile on his preoccupied
face. 49,. r.s
Here I am working my fingers
to the bone," she lightly COM
planned, "for a husband who doesn't
even care for me any more"
She laughed as she said it. but
her eyes became distracted as she
turned her face to the fire.
What makes you think that?"
demanded Storrow. almost fiercely.
as he caught her wrist in an iron
clasp.
Because you're so icebergy,"
she told him, looking down at the
wrist which he had imprisoned.
Els that the only reason?" asked
her husband. swinging her about
by the shoulders 20 that her eyes
faced his.
Its reason enough. when you
know there's a reason for the rea-
son." she graphically announced,
lowering her gaze before the sud-
denly unreasoning and masterful
stare Of the other. For something
far removed from the mere con-
seriousness of her beauty had fired
Storrow.
He knew a forlown craving to
bend her still to his will, to pro-
claim his mastery over the body
which housed the spirit which
denied and defied him. He was
swept by a sudden passion to make
her his, IL only for the moment.
She made an effort to thrust him
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Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. ]
was in bed much of my timewith pains
and had to have the doctor every
month. One day I found a little
book in my yard in Guthrie, Oklahol
ma, and I read It through and got the
medicine-Lydia e. Pinkham's Veg.
etable Compound-and took eight
bottles and used the Sanative Wash.
Iatonce began get stronger. Ihave
got many women to take It just BY
telling them what It has done Tor me.
! have a young sister whom II has
helped in the same way It helped me.
! want you TO know that / am Q
friend indeed, for you were friend
inneed. Mrs. GEORGE HARDER,
lO4a Byram st., Los Angeles. Calt
fornia. 3
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"A Stirring Narrative of the Influence of
.4,s Love on the Lives of Girl
and Man.

back. as he took possession Of her,
and stared up almost startled into
his stor1n-clouded eyes. But she
became passive as he caught her
In his arms and crushed her against
his body with his lips on hers in
an impassioned kiss which per-
picked her much more than It
moved her. Then she became
plant and relaxed In his clasp.
And he understood, as reason re-
turned to him. why she kept her
face averted from his eyes.
CHAPTER XVII.
1t was q week later that Torrie,
after one Of her solitary walks.
returned home later than usual.
Her air of suppressed excitement
alternating with periods Of abstrac-
ton did not escape the watch
ful-eyedy Storrow.
He had been prompted, at first,
to follow Torrie. But that was an
impulse which he dismissed, glad
as he would have been of the
chance to bring things to a head.
He hated the thought Of lodging
and skulking after her. And she
could not be watched forever. no
matter how he stopped to the tricks
and degredations Of espionage. The
situation, he came to feel, was some
thing which now lay in the lap of
the gods.
Torrie, in the meantime, had
twice secretly met Donnie East
man, and had twice returned home
from these meetings with a strange
ly contradictory feeling Of power
mingled With Illustration. Keen as
was her woman's JOY born of the
knowledge that she could control
a fellow-being, and a fellow-being
who had drunk deep Of life, by her
smile or trown, she was intim-
idatcd by the discovery that the
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Is Dramatic Story OF Girls Soul This Page Monday
The First Iron Boat

THE first iron boat built at Faskine, little vii
lage near Glasgow, and piled for many day the
Forth and Clyde Canal Previous to the launch, many
wagers made as to whether 1t would float not
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f.. Pinkha ms
Vegetable Com
pound. ] have
taken it of and
on for twenty
years and Il has
helped me change
from Q delicats
girl to q stout,
healthy woman.
When ! was mar
ried ! was sick al
the time until ]
tonk T.udio r.
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Where Women Propose

IN New Guinea it is always leap year. for in that isl
and the consider it beneath their dignity to
ce women much less to make overtures of marriage.
Consequently the proposing is left to the women to do
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AFRIENDI IN need
4 FRIEND INDEED
Writes Mira ardee Regard.
ing Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound I

Los Angeles, Caln.-T must ten
Won that 1 am q true friend to Lydia
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1922-04-06
What We Need Is Action.


There has been enough hot air
turned loose in Congress about the
Muscle Shoals bids, if it was har-
messed, to turn every wheel in the
world and then some. Most any
one with ordinary common sense
could have arrived at decision in
sixty days. While congress is
talking and killing time thou
sands OF men are out of employ
ment who might be employed if
congress would step aside from its
do nothing policy and concentrate
for short while so as to arrive al
something definite. 1t has been
clearly shown that the Alabama
Power Co., has no claim and is en-
titled to no consideration. Con
gress is supposed to represent The
people and the people are for the &C
ceptance of Ford's bid. Quit chew
ing the rag gentlemen. What tn,
people want is action.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1922-04-06
VITALITY
VITALITY!
VITALITY!
You Must Have 1t to Keep Your Job,
Your Friends, Nom
Happiness

Thousands of thoughtless people
needlessly let themselves run down
in health. The day comes when,
with a terrible shock, they suddenly
realize that they are permanently
broken in health. For your own
sake keep well. If you feel weak
or run down or do not sleep well or
are nervous and have a poor color,
don't wait until it is too late.
GUIDE Pepto-Mangan taken with
your meals for few weeks will re-
store your good health, give you
renewed strength and vitality fol
for your daily work. The healthy
life is the only happy life-do not
let it slip from you. For thirty
years Guides Pepto- Mangan has
been helping people who were run
Town back to health. 1t was made
famous by the medical profession
Sold by druggists in both liquid and
tablet form. Advertisement,
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1922-04-06
Dc sam sthIas.

Do something for somebody. spmoy
where.
While jogging along life's road,
Help someone to carry his bure EN-,
And lighter will grow your load.
Do something Tor somebody gladly,
Twill sweeten your every care;
In sharing the sorrows of Others,
Your own are less hard to bear.
Do something for somebody, striving
To help where the way seems long;
And the homeless hearts that Ian
guish
Cheer up with little song.
% something for somebody. always,
Whatever may be your creed
There's nothing on earth can hell
So much as a kindly deed.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1922-04-06
Hunts Negro With Gun; Cop
Gets Him.

DR.. ]. T. Walker, planter at
Crowder, Miss, came to Memphis
Saturday with blood in his eye and
| pistol in his pocket. He was
seeking a negro whom he had hired
is plantation worker and to whom
he had advanced money for expen-
Tha ,,orros- H. :, .,;,,f -,.>hi-.:.>-.-l
rfle money, decided not to 60 and
gave DR.. Walker the slip.
Walker spied his man Saturday
on s. Main st. and started after
him with the pistol. Patrolman e
Scott spied Walker and the pistol
He arrested the planter.
Meanwhile the negro escaped
Memphis Press Apr. 3rd.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1922-04-06
Notice of Sale.


VS..
w. o. Balm,
Under and by virtue of an
execution to me decte 4 by the
clerk of the Circuit Court of fish
omingo County, Miss, on a judg-
ment rendered in said court on the
4th day of January 1922 in favor
Of R J Raper for the sum of $253 so
with interest and cost against w.
O. Balm, | will on the lst day
of May 1929 offer for sale and
will sell to the highest and best
bidder for cash within legal hours
in front of the court house door in
the town of Iuka, Miss, the fol-
lowing described property TO sat
isfy the aforesaid execution. Lots
/ and 2 block in the town of
Leedy, lots 1, 2, B and 4, block 2
IN the town of Leedy, all that part
of the N. w. "a of section six,
lies south of the Iuka and Burns
vile public road except five acres
in the S. E. corner of said quarter
section known as the Stone lot,
also one acre more or less in the
S. w, a Of section %, township
one, andge nine, east and describ-
ed as follows, beginning at the
railroad right of way on the south
west side of the Miss, and Ala.
railroad at the Jacinto and Burns
vile public road and running
south west 100 feet, thence north
west to the railroad right of way
stake, also commencing at the
public road, thence north west
with railroad right of way fifty
eight yards, thence south eastward
to the public road. thence north
eastward fifty eight yards to said
beginning, also five acres more
or less described as follows, be.
ginning ar the north west corner
and running north 70 yards.
thence in ar easterly course to
the Corinth and Leedy public
road, thence south with the pub
lie road to the north line of the
town of Leedy, Miss, thence in
south westernly direction with the
north line of the town of Leedy,
to the north east side of the l. c.
r. R. right of way, thence with
the R. R. right of way to the be-
ginning point, all being In sections
70 and 81 township 3, range 9, E.
l will sell the above described |
lands subject to mortgages held |
by the First National Bank, |
Coriuth, Miss. and the Lynchburg
Shoe Co., and will convey only
such title as is vested in me by
the aforesaid execution.
This March 10Th, 1922.
31-4t N. L. Phillips,
Sheriff and Tax Collector. !,
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Trustee Sale.

|, N. L. Phillips, trustee, under
the provision of and by virtue OF
the authority conferred upon me
in deed of trust made by J. z.
Garrett, r. J. Brown, beneficiary
on.the oath day of Nov. 1919, t
secure a cer,ain indie btedness to
the said r. J. Brown which deed
of trust is recorded in deed of
Trust Book Ten, page 573, in the
Chancery Clerks office of Tisho-
mingo County, Miss, default hay
ing been made in the payment of
the indebtness and at the request
of the beneficiary, l will on the
9TH day of April, 1922, within 1e-
gal hours in front of the court
house door in the town of Iuka
Miss, offer for sale and will sell
to the highest and best bidder for
cash the following described lands
to-wit; The south side of the
northwest one-fourth of section 8,
township 8, range eleven, east,
containing thirty-one acres more
or less. The same known as tbe
Whitehead farm that r. ]. Brown
bought of G. D. Whitehead and
Murrell Whitehead, except that
portion of said tract that lies east
of the Iuka and PASSPORT public
road, now owned by V. E. Ware
The title TO the above land is
believed to be good but | will sell
and convey such title as is vested
in me as trustee. This the 14tb
day of March, 1929.
N. l.. Phillips,
2S at T,rstea