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~ NE of the outstanding fea-
lures of the new national
~ budget in it's importance to
the Soath is the Inclusion of an
item of $7.000.0oG for the contin-
uance of the work. on the Wilson
Dam over the Tennessee River.
Some $2S,00N,o 900 has already been
expended on the dam which is ex-
pected to be finished by 1925.
The construction of this dam,
according to Col. Hugh /. Cooper
the engineer who supervised it's
construction for the government,
will reduce the cost of living, so
far as power is concerned, $500,
600. a year to the people within
reachable distance of the project.
This plant controls territory
of 10000 square mics in seven
Southern States," said Col. Cooper
recently, mo private capital will
build any water power in this GO,
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LOANS made on improved farm lands
at cheapest rates for term Of 5, 7 or
III years with. prepayment. option
given. Money secured promptly. We
have now outstanding over $1,10O,-
10000 on farms in Sumter County
alone, with plenty more to lend.
MIDDLETON MCDONALD
Correspondent Atlanta Trust Com
pany in Sumter. Lee, Terrell, Schley,
ster Counties. 81 Planters Bank
Macon, Stewart, Randolph and Web
Bldg. Americus, Ga. Phone SO or
2l1.
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must carry are heavy enSlgh-but,
in addition to these, the climbers
will have to take a heavy motion pic
ture outfit.
Three of the naen-Bergues, Ian,
dry and Peryman- ascended Mount
Rainier, Washington, last winter
the first time that the climb was ever
accomplished except in summer.
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CATARRHAL DEAFNESS

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Of the mucous lining of the Eustachian
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have a rumbling sound or imperfect
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be reduced, your hearing may be de-
stroyed forever.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE will
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Catarrh. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
has been successful in the treatment OF
Catarrh for over Forty Years.
Sold by all druggists
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Your opportunity. First Tuesday
in Marchfi courthouse, Sale of farm
suitable for poultry, trucking and
stock raising. Iotsg of. timber. Run
Of Muckalee creek 5on east. Dixie
Highway on south. Improvements
good,-27-6t
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IN stores and had to
do heavier work than
my strength could
stand, and had to be
on my feet most Of
the time, Finally |
had to give up this
work entirely and
stay at home. Doc
tors medicine didnot
give me much relief,
a n d my m o tn e r
wanted me to take
lydia e. Pinkham s
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Common"
man with legs AZ long as Bream's
might well deposit cloak on a
berth and be back under the half-min-
(ute.
"Oh, yesi Breamf"
"Hellof
"while you're down there just CHR
rup little more to poor Pmky. He
does appreciate It soi'
Bream disappeared. It 10 mot always
easy to interpret emotion from glance
at 4 mans back; but Dreams back
looked ike that Of man to whom
the thought has occurred that, given Z
couple Of fiddlss and z plano, ~ would
have made = good hired orchsulza.
~How i your dsaf n1k1s deG ~ u
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~ALPHoNso.w

Mrs. Horace Hignstt, world
famous writer on theosophy. au-
thor OF THE Spreading Light"
ETC., ETC.. arrives in New York on
. lecturing tour. Eustace, her
son, Is with her. Windles, ances-
trail home Of the Hignetts. 10 his,
30 her life II largely devoted to
keeping him unmarried. Enter
her nephew. Sam, son of Sir NAL
laby Marlows. the eminent Lon
don lawyer. 1t Is arranged that
Sam and Eustace shall. sail to-
gether on the Atlantic the next
day. Enter Bream Mortimer.
American, SON OF . friend Of an
insufferable American named
Bennett who has been pestering
Mrs. Hignett to lease Windles.
Bream informs her that will
helmina Bennett Is waiting for
Eustace at the Little Church
Round the Corner. Bream him
self is in love with wilhelmina.
Mrs. Hignett marches or to Eus-
tace's room. The scene shifts
to the Atlantic at her pier. Sam.
heading for the gangplank, meets
q glorious. red-headed girl, with
whom he instantly falls In love.
though her dog bites him. Eus-
tace appears, heart-broken. II
appears that his mother had
"pinched his trousers" and de-
layed the ceremony. whereupon
Wilhelmina had declared the we'd
ding off. Sam In pushed over
board. has a desperate struggle
in the water with another swim
mer and reJoins the Atlantic at
quarantine. The red-headed girl
is wilhelmina Bennett-"Billie."
She halls Sam an = hero and in
PRODUCES Bream-
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ming or two singing sentimental bal.
lads. she accompanying him on the
piano and the rest Of the family sit
ting on the side lines to see that no
rough stuff was pulled Having noted
that she dropped her eye,eshes and
turned family pink when he came to
the "Thee-only thee" bit, he felt
mild sense Of encouragement, strong
enough to justify him in taking her
sister aside next day and asking II
the object of his affections ever hap
pened to mention his name In the
course Of conversation. Further pour
parlers having passed with her aunt,
two moro sisters, and her little broth
er, he felt that the moment had ar
rived when he might send her a vol
ume of Shelley, with some Of the pas
sages marked In pencil. A few weeks
later, he interviewed her father and
obtained his consent to the paying
Of his addresses. And finally, after
writing her q letter which began
"Madaml you will not have been In
sensible to the fact that for some time
past you have inspired In my bosom
feelings deeper than those Of ordinary
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starts the liver and bowels acting with
out gripping. Contains no narcotics or
soothing drugs. Say California" to
your druggist and avoid counterfeitsi
Insist upon genuine california Fig
Syrup" which contains directions
Advertisement.
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By P. 6. woDEHousE.

wayr inquired Sam solicitously. as he
fell into step by her side.
Much better now, thanks. I've
made friends with a girl on board
did you ever hear her name-Jant
Hubbard-she's a rather well-knowr
big-game hunter and she fixed uI
some sort Of q mixture for Pinky
which did him a world Of good.
don't know what was In 1t except
Worcester sauce, but she said she
always gave 1t to her mules In Africa
when they had the bolts it's
very nice of you to speak so affection
ately of poor Pinky when he bit you.
animal spiritsl" said Sam tolerant
ly." Pure animal spritsl like to see
them. But. Of course. I love all
dogs"
"Oh, do your So do II"
II only wish they didn't fight 30
much. I'm always stopping dog
fights"
Il do admire a man who knows
what to do at dog fight. I'm afraid
I'm rather helpless myself. There
never seems anything to catch hold
Of" She looked down. "Have you
been reading7 What Is the bookY
"It's a volume Of Tennyson."
"Are you fond Of TennysonT
Il worship him." said Sam reverent-
ly. Those" he glanced at his cuff
"those Idylls of the King l do not
like to think what an ocean voyage
would be II I had not my Tennyson
with me-"
"We must read him together. He Is
my favorite poetl'
"We will There IL something about
Tennyson.
"Yes, isn't there!. I've felt that my
self so oftenr
"Some poets are whales at epics and
all that sort Of thing, while others call
It day when they've written some
thing that runs to a couple Of verses,
but where Tennyson had the bulge was
that his long game was just as good
as his short. He was great off the tee
and a marvel with his chip Shots"
"That sounds as though you played
golf"
"When 1 am not reading Tennyson,
you can generally find me out on the
links. Do you playr
~ love It. How extraordinary that
we should have so much In common.
We really ought to be great friends"
He was pausing to select the best OF
three replies when the lunch bugle
sounded.
ooh, dearr' she cried. II must
rush. But we shall see one another
again up here afterwardT
"We WILL" said Sam.
swell sit and read Tennyson."
"Finel Er--you and l and Mortir
merT
"Oh. no, Bream is going to sit down
below and look after poor Pinky." }
"Does he-does he know he is7"
"Not yet" said Billie. "I'm going
to tell him at lunch"
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CHAPTER w

1t was the fourth morning Of the
voyage. OF course, when this story
is done In the movies theyswon't be
satisfied with bald statement like
that; they win have Spoken Title or
a Cut-Back Sub Caption or whatever
they call the thing In the low dens
where motion-picture scenario-lizards
do their dark work, which will run:
"And 90, calm and golden, the days
went by, each frauoht with hope and
youth and sweetness linking two
young hearts In sIlken fetters forged
by the laughing Love- -God"-
and the males in the audience viii
shift their chewing gum to the other
cheek and take a firmer grip Of their
companions hands and the man at the
plano will play Everybody wants a
key to my cellar or something equal
ly appropriate, very soulfully and
slowly, with a wistful eye on the half
smoked cigarette which he has parked
on the lowest octave and intends fin-
ishing az soon as the picture is over.
But l prefer the plain frank statement
that 1t was the fourth day of the voy-
age. That is my story and ! mean
to stick TO 1t.
Samuel Marlowe, muffied In bath
robe, came back to the stateroom from
his tub. His manner had the often
sivs jauntiness of the man who has
had q cold bath when he might spst
AZ. easily have had hot one. as
looked out of the portfolio at the shin
mering sea. He felt strong and hap
py and exuberant
II was not merely the spiritual pride
Induced by a cold bath that was up
lifting this young man. The fact wal
that, as he toweled his glowing back
he had suddenly come to the decisios
that this very day he would propos'
to wilhelmina Bennett. Yes, he woult
put his fortune to the test, 10 win o.
lose 1t all. True. he had only know
hsr for four days, but what Of that
Nothing in the way Of modern prog
ress is more remarkable than tn
manner In which the attitude Of you
lover has changed concerning pro
posals Of marriage. When Samue
Marlowe's grandfather had convince'
himself, after about year and hal
| Of respectful sloofness. that the emo
tion which he felt towards Samue
Marlow6s grandmothsr-to b Wa Low
he fsshion of the period compelle'
HIN to Approach The matter IN : round
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friendship. :" he waylaid her
In the rose garden and brought the
thing Off.
How different Is the behavior Of the
modern young man. His courtship can
hardly be called a courtship at all.
His methods are those Of Sir w. s.
Gilbert's "Alphonso."
Alphonso. who for cool assurance all
creation licks,
He up and said to Emily who has
cheek enough for six:
Miss maray, nmi,y' SAY yoys x. yso y%ordr WIN you
And Emily said: Certainly, Alphonso.
like q birdr'
Sam Marlowe was q bright young
man and did not require year to
make up his mind that Wilhelmina
Bennett had been set apart by Fate
from the beginning Of time to be his
bride. He had known 1t from the mo-
ment he saw her on the dock. and all
the subsequent strolling, reading
talking, soup-drinking. tea-drinking.
and shufie-board-playing which they
had done together had merely solidi-
fied his original impression. He loved
this girl with all the force Of fiery
nature-the fiery nature of the Mar
loves was a by-word In Bruton street,
Berkeley square = and something
seemed to whisper that she loved him.
At any rate she wanted somebody like
Sir Galahad, and, without wishing to
hurl bouquets at himself, he could not
see where she could possibly get any
one liker Sir Galahad than himself.
So, wind and weather permitting.
Samuel Marlowe intended to propose
to wilhelmina Bennett this very day.
He let down the trick basin which
hung beneath the mirror and, collect
Ing his shaving materials, began ia
lather his face.
II am the Bandoleroi" sang Sam
blithely through the soap. II am. 1 am
the Bandoleroi Yes. yes. am the
Bandolero
The untldy heap of bedclothes In thu
lower berth stirred restlessly.
"Oh, Cdr said Eustace Hignet,
thrusting out a tousled head.
Sam regarded his cousin with com
niseration. Horrid things had beer
happening to Eustace during the las
feS days, and It was quite pleasan
surprise each morning to find that hi
waA sttll alive.
"Fseling bad again, old manr
-T was feeling all right" replie,
Hignstt churiishly, until you begaI
the fArmyard imitations What sor
Of day Is itr'
~Gloriousi The sea -
'Don't talk about the seal"
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CHAPTER IlI-contlnued.

"Any special poetT'
swell, she seemed to like my stun.
You never read my sonnet-seQuence
on spring, did your"
"No. What other poets did she like
besides your
''Tennyson principally" said Eus-
tace Hignett with reminiscent
CULVER in his voice. "The hours we
have spent together reading the Tdylls
Of the KingP"
"The which Of whatr inquired Sam,
taking a pencil from his pocket and
shooting out cuff.
The Idylls of the King My good
man, know you have a soul which
would be considered inadequate by
4 common earthworm, but you have
surely heard Of Tennyson's Tdylls Of
the Kingr"
"Oh, those Why. my dear old chap |;
Tennyson's Tdylls Of the Kingr Well,
should say! Have / heard Of Ten
nyson's Idylls of the Kingr Well,
really! l suppose you haven't q copy
'There Is a copy In my kit-bag.
The very one we used to read together.
Take 1t and keep 1t or throw II over
board. don't want to see 1t again."
Sam prospected among the shirts,
collars and trousers In the bag and
presently came upon a bound
Velume. He laid 1t beside him on the
lounge.
Little BY little, bit by Bit" he said,
Il am beginning to form sort Of pic
ture of this girl. thisA7what was her
name againf Bennett-this Miss Ben
nett. You have q wonderful knack of
description. You make her seem so
real and vivid. Tell me some more
about her. She wasn't keen on golf. by
any chance, / supposer
II believe she did play. The subject
came up once and she seemed rather
enthusiastic. Whyr
"well, I'd much sooner talk to q girl
about golf than poetry"
"You are hardly likely to be in q
position to talk to Wilhelmina Bennett
about either, should imagine"
mo. there's that, Of course. ! was
thinking of girls In general. Some girls
bar golf, and then it's rather difficult
to know how to start conversation
But, tell me, were there any topics
which got on Miss Benefits nerves, II
you know what I mean7 1t seems tC
me that at one time or another you
may have said something that offended
her. mean, II seems curious that she
should have broken of the engagement
II you had never disagreed or quar-
relied about anything"
''Well, Of course. there was alwayi
the matter Of that dog Of hers. Sht
had dog. you know, a snappy brute
Of q Pekingese II there was ever any
shadow Of disagreement between us, Il
had to do with that dog. made rather
q point of II that I would not have Il
shout the home after we were mar
Red" ,k
| "I seel" said Sam. He shot his cuf
| once more and wrote on Il: "D0g-con
eilfate." Eyes, Of course. that mus
have wounded her."
"Not half 70 much az he voundet
mel He pinned me BY the ankle thu
day before we-wilhelmina and 1.
mean--were to have been married. I
y some satisfaction to me In m.
broken state to remember that 90
home on the little beast with consider
able juicsness and lifted him cleaI
ever the Chesterfield"
Sam shook his head reprovingly.
"You shouldn't have done thatw h
aid. He extended his cuff and adde'
the words ~vitslly important" to wha
he had juss written 1T was probabl
that which decided her."
"well, ! hate dogs" said Eustsc
Hisnett Querulously. Il remembe
wilhslmina once getting quite ~
nsvsd With me bscauss ] refused .
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Time to Call tho Cops.

At a party a necklace woman was
wearing was much admired. She took
It of to show II better and II was
passed from hand to hand. Later II
was not Forthcoming.
'The Joke has gone far enough" said
the host. II will put this silver dish
upon the table, turn out the electric
light, count 100 and expect to find the
necklace on the dish when turn mp
the lights"
When he turned up the light the
dish had also vanishedi
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step IN anu separate q couple OF the
brutes, absolute strangers to me, who
were fighting In the street. reminded
her that we were all fighters nova
days, that life itself was In sense 9
fight; but she wouldn't be reasonabi,
about 1t. She said that Sir Galahat
would have done It like a shot.
thought not. We had no evidence what
soever that Sir Galahad was evel
| called upon to do anything half as
dangerous. And, anyway, he wore ar
NOR. Give me suit Of mail reaching
well down over the ankles, and will
willingly intervene In hundred dog
| fights. But In thin flannel trousers
moi"
Sam rose. His heart was light. He
had never. Of course, supposed that the
girl was anything but perfect; but II
was nice to find his high opinion Of her
corroborated by one who had no rea-
son to exhibit her In favorable light.
He understood her point of view and
sympathized with 1t. An idealist, how
could she trust herself to Eustace Hig-
nett? How could she be content with
a craven who, instead of securing the
world in the quest for deeds Of derring
do, had fallen down so lamentably on
his first assignment? There was a
specious attractiveness about poor old
Eustace which might conceivably win
girls heart for q time; he wrote
poetry, talked well, and had nice
singing voice; but, as partner for
life well, he simply wouldn't
do. That was all there was to 1t. He
simply didn't add up right The man
a girhlike Wilhelmina Bennett required
for a husband was somebody entirely
different somebody, felt Sam
uel Marlowe, much more like Samuel
Marlowe.
Swelled almost to bursting-point
with these reflections, he went on deck
to Join the ante-luncheon promenade.
He saw Billie almost at once. She
had put on one of these nice sacky
sport-coats which so enhance feminine
charms, and was striding along the
deck with the breeze playing in her
vivid hair like the female equivalent
Of viking. Beside her walked
young Mr., Bream Mortimer.
Sam had been feeling a good deal of
a fellow already, but at the sight of
her welcoming smile his self-esteem
almost caused him to explode. What
magic there Is In a girls smilel 1t is
the raisin which, dropped in the yeast
Of male complacency, induces fermen-
tation.
"Oh. there you are, Mr.. NARROWER
"Oh, there you are" said Bream
Mortimer. with slightly different In
fection.
81 thought I'd like breath of fresh
air before lunch," said Sam.
"Oh, Bream !" said the girl.
"HelloT
do be darling and take this great
heavy coat of mine down to my state
room will your had no idea 1t was
so warm"
'T1l carry It." said Bream.
L Nonsense. I wouldn't dream OF
|burdening you with 1t. Trot along and
put It on the berth. 1t doesn't matter
about folding II up"
"An right" said Bream moodily.
He trotted along. There are mo
ments when q man feels that all ne
needs In order to be delivery wagon
is a horse and q driver.
HE had better chirrup to the doi
while he's there, don't you thinkY' sug
gested Sam. He felt that q resolutt
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Avwhat I'm trying - say r.
WA you marry msf's


5 VIZ men socortan what = q -
othr - ~ the hur1le bec1gA 1n1no
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judge Of Color Values.

"Why was Jim given the bounceT
Because he's color blind"
'How's that7"
swell, you see the new boss Is very
red In the face, and still Jim told him
that he was too green to teach him
anything"
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First Protestant Bible.

The only known copy of the first
Protestant Bible printed in Latin was
given to the public library Of Cam
bridge, Mass. recently by an anony,
nous friend.
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years ago, ana am
taking It now for the
Change Of Life and
other troubles and /
receive great benefit
from it. l am willing
to let you use my
letter as q testimo-
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truth. ] found your
booklet In my letter.
box and read It care
fully, and that is how
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Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-12-28

Al the foot Of the marble stairs
waited . solden car drawn By four
winged horses and into this the dwarf
stepped.
Not Q soul had moved to save her.
for all were stunned BY the sudden-
ness Of the attack and blinded BY the
darkness. Yet one there was who
for ~ the dwarf bore the princess by
him. the lad followed closely behind,
and hid himself behind the high oeat
which the others occupied.
In another Instant the hoeses were
cienv'ng the sky with their wings and
leaving behind the castle. from which,
they could hear . great tumult and
shouting arise.
The princes were running about
msdly seeking the one who had stolen
the princess. and the king sat ~ II
turned TO stone. The castle WAS
searched hi:h and low. but not
. trace Of the princess could be
found. Far away. mere speck In the
midnight sky. the dwarf WAS urging
his horses to their home Ia the crest
Of the great Black mountain. where
no one could scale the walls to rescue
any prisoner.
Jrm held on silently. TIE rush OF
air made his head swim. hut he
wrapped his arms and legs around
the seat posts. and WAS carried safe,y
along with the princess. About dawn
the horses stopped on = rock and ths
dwarf took the princes into . stone
chamber. which stood . thousand feet
above the valley below.
"You are my captive" said the
dwarf ~ he PLACED the frightened gir
within the room. "whea you coaseas
70 BE- my bride roo shall b. freed"
Then he went out. closing the door
and locking Il fast behind him-out
hs did not notice that in . dark cioset
In the hall nearby Jsm had secrstsd
himself - - TO be able to aid the
princess. Hut what could ~ do
here. hundreds of miles away from
home and the prinesss secured within
huge stoss wailsf
whiis ths dwarf ~ sisspans len
wsat oatslds bsnsath ~ wiadow ce
the prinesss and 80 thsre Q huge
hamaoek sviasiAs frso ths trssa He
called eplsiy te>has - lsap eat. ~
seoo1 . ao0est - he wisoow. tAeo
speaaG dewa. TAe seet. 1sn fes0s q
siik MA sad ~ rsllsd - ~ 0sss1
uaAas1a1. Qaiehly Len saa % ~
seabis aaA Aafaesssd ~ vtaesd
horsss 70 ~ giiAed car. TAe petacess
lsaped b snd jo0 toot ~ Dloee ~
sl1s hse.
., dawn ~ eas asigAtsd n ths
eseftyssd q tAs psiaesss' hems. And
~ ssgt nlsAs tAses was . weddias n
WAaeA len woe ~ 0oao eAA ~
Dslncoes ~ AaDpy brs1A
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