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erled the visitor gushingly. T Coprright, 1913, "by The Pree Publishing Co, (Th York World), MR. JARR SETS OUT ON A TROUBLE HUNT. oe SCOTT! What do you want to go on the stage for?" asked Mr. Jarr, No, he wasn't speaking to Mrs, Jarr, addressing his remarks to the and young Mrs Clara Mudridge- “Because I know it is my forte! olared the lady. “Then hold the forte," remarked Mr. Sarr. “Now, you mind your own business and don’t meddle in affairs that are no concern of yours!” said Mrs. Jarr sharply, for this conversation was in the Jarr apartments the other evening. not meddling. I'm dragged cried Mr. Jarr, “Here are beth you dames"— des 4 Mr. Jarr. “Here are both you dear, Geligtttul ladies nagging at me to bring in @ Yiddish-Irish song and dance man and moving picture piano player to tell you how you'—here he indicated Mre. Muériige-Smith with a jab in the afr of his “Now, Mr. Jerr, I think !t most un- kina of you to endeavor to crush my talent. Let me live in a Realm of Art. I care not how hard the way, I will mount to the etars through aiMculties!"” forefinger—“‘can get on the “Oh, bowh!" eaid Mr. Jarr, “I never saw the beat of you women! The bet- ter you have it the worse you think you have it. What YOU need ‘s work!" ‘@he's perfectly willing to work. Diin’t you hear her say 60?” cried Mrs. + who, womanlike, sympathized with aN her friends’ temperamental longings. “Oh, yes, Mr. Jarr, PLEASH help me! 'Leok at Duse! Look at Bernharit! Took at Nasimova! Look at Maude “And what I want to my to you ie, aren't there enoush foolish, stage-struck girls who have to do something to support themselves, Without you, a full-grown woman, a married woman with a good ‘home and a rich hushand—getting the craze?" “Clara hasn't any children. I don't he Evenin mignonette and bleeding-heart design, and Angelo Dinkston—Michael Angelo Dinkston—you remember him—he called on us since—then going to high school {in Brooklyn, borrowed a china furnace to burn them for me, and upset it and burned his hands terrioly and | set fire to the house, And the piano, which was being bought on instalments jand wasn't insured, was the only thing that wae eaved. Art? Ah, what will we not endure for ant “We will not endure anything,” sald ‘Mr. Jarr, “However, as your husband” —this wae to Mre. Mudridge-6mith—"Is my boss, and I am in duty bound, asa loyal employee, to do him all the harm T can, cost him al the money I can, worry him es much as I can—I'l) intro- duce you to the only real, lve actor I know—Mr. Sidney Slavinsky stage name Mr. Sidney Slavin.’ “Does he look like Donald Brian?” asked Mrs. Mudridge-Smith clasping her hands. “Donald Brian ie 80 grace- ful, @0 taking!" “I think you'll find young Mr. Slavineky—Glavin, I should. eay—has taking ways, too," eaid Mr. Jarr. “Go on, as you will not be warned by me, go ahead and have your own way!" “I'm glad one woman is having her own way,” eald Mre. Jerr. “It's @ tough deal for old man Smith. I'l bet he won't like it?” sald Mr. Jare, ghaking his head. “Gee! Much as I dislike the old geewer, I feel for him; because I wouldn't wish a stage-struck wife, a matinee-idot-worshipping wom- an on anybody." “Oh, ét'e too bad about youl eald Mrs. Jarr. “If olf men will marry young women, what else do they ex- Dect?" “Am T to throw my Ufe away on him stmply because I married him? Am I to deny myeelf my career?” .asked: Mra. Mudridge-Smith, » “You'll lose your gilt-edge meal ticket,"* sald Mr. Jarr warningly. “Old man Smith (and: I have known him many years), la a firm old chap; he hae a will of fron, World D WELL! Yourke READY AT LAST. LON 1 wont ou gue NOW,ARE You QUITE SURE You dpacdiad Ae: &ATCHED THE Nine aily MagagTRé. Mond G-o-o-d N-i-g-h-t! 3% ( Lives By Alma Woodward Copyright, 1012, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), 2. BLUFF. HEN the mighty armor plates of bluff fall from a man's sides and his real self, in all its unadayned pettiness, stands minutes, men can’t understand. Then, to complicate matters, this same nished to the king‘s taste, inside of ten It’s just one of those Uttle, daffiing twists of feminine nature that OO i eee -_———. te 1 ee ris inte On (The Hew Terk Wer ) RUN BACK, ) IN THe LEFT JUST HAPPENED To THINK 4 THE DINING ROOM WINDOW 15 OPEN-AND Look AT THE FIRE IN THE G@O-o-D N-I-G-HT! Fables of Everyday Folks By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1912, by: The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), THE STINGY FELLOW. NOE upon e@ time there was a @tingy fellow, You know him. You have seen him OFTEN. Dickeng knew him But, Ssh! .- § Biggest Cowboy Story By Carolin Lippineets Company.) ING ORAPTERS. . equa’ Gusie instinctively hates Amith, nck, are an ercemurte it ‘ous hie eR, acho ndtans ‘eremen, Mt, tie alvence of White Aatelone, Lived there,” mith, om the wey hh, has innntered White ‘Antelope be body. ‘The ajuaw discovers the secret, but Pothing. Smiths falle, horelesaly im love with Dora, But he tries to hide Ne feelings . for _polley’s eake, makes love to the squ who 7 to be the; a eine: Amith and one of t Indians steal a steer to au; the ah table, Baume mupects the theft ont to Me Arthor ercret ambition te be « white woman instead to bunt for her relat int Knock sounds at the door, CHAPTER VI. (Continued) The Great Secret. UBLE opened it. In ludicrous contrast to the timid rap, @ huge figure that all but Milled it framed in the doorway, It waa “Babe” from the Bar C rangoh: “Baby” Britt, curty-hatred, pink. cheoked, with one innocent blue eye dark from recent impact with a fist, which @ave its owner the appearance of @ dlestpated cherub, “Bvenin’,” he said tremulously, his one, “I lost @ horse’—he began. “Brown?” interrupted Sule, with eus- piclous tnterei “With @ forehondt "You" “One white stockin'?* “Uthsnuh.” state at a theatre-in the talcony—oc- casionally. And he even went ao far as | must. to take @ taxtoab for THREE squares. He didn’t eleep that night. Now tt also happeng in the couree of eryday events (and nobody knows any “Kind of @ ret-tatl?” “Yop.” “Lett hip knocked down?” “Rabe,” nodded, “Saddle-aore?” “That's tt. Where did you see him?” “L didn't seo him.” 4 “Awew-w,"" rumbled Babe’ “Teacher! Dora Marshall's door opened in re- lusty call, ‘in ats-l young deputy, MITH Since “The Virginian’”’ e Lockhart © crimp {a them two for this.” He shouldered his bianketse sheepishly and went out. 99 CHAPTER VII. Cupid “Wings” a Deputy Sheriff. LDING home next morning with his R bed on @ borrowed pack horre, morose, his’ mind occupied with divers plans for punishing the cow- Dunchers who had spoiled his evening and made him ridiculous before the Schoolmarm, “Babe” came upon some thing in @ gulch which caused him to Tein hie horse sharply and swing frem the raddie, With an ejaculation of aurprise, he Pulled @ fresh hide from under a pile of rock, dt having been partially uncovered by coyotes. The brand had been ent out, and with th sight of this signif- cant find, the two cowpunehers, thetr obnoxious joke, even the Scholomarm. ‘were forgotten; for thore was @ new thief on the range and a new thief meant excitement and adventure. Col, Tolman's deep-act eyes gittteret when he heard the news. As Runaing Rabbit had ead, on the trail of @ cattle thtef he was as relentless as a dlood- hound. He could not eat or sleap in peace untt! the man who had robbed hin: was behind the bars. ‘The Colonel was An old-time Texas cattlioman, and his herts had ranged from the Mextean border to the Alberta line. He had made and lost fortunes. Die ease, drouths and blizzards hed cleaned him out at various times, and always he had taken hie medicine without @ whim- eyes roving as though tn search of some , Peri but the loss of so much as a yeari- ing calf by theft threw him into e rage that was like hysteria, iia Ml shook he eat down at his desk and wrote a note to the Stoch- ar in the|men'a Association, asking for the ser- vices of their best detective, It meant four days of hard riding to éeliver the note, but the Colonel put tt into ‘Babe's’ hands as if he were asking him.¢o érop {tin the mail box around the corner, “Go, and git back,” were his laconic fagtrections and he turned to pace the oor, When “Babe” returned some eight days later with the deputy sheriff, he found the Colonel atriding to and frd, his wrath having In nowise abated, The cowboy wondered if his employer had been walk sald he stood before tite old cattleman. Pi “Ralston?” The Colonel rose on his toes @ trifle to peer into his ace. “Not Dick Raleton’s boy?’ od aix-foot deputy smiled, He never gives tn, once woman, who woul@ cast a men from He at's only with men and in bugle ness,’ eaid Mre. Jasr. eaid Mrs, Mudridge-Smith. 0 % very well. real reason why) j@ who maery each The Colo hand ehot out tn greet- eae treats CRONIES | hash Srey lose as ees slicrat alalitansey her heart because Re tries to bluff her, Ghligde) iM |Gwun never warseuretiic ce OTHER ing. reer.” remarked Mrs, Jarr. Mrs. Ji Mra. Mudridge-Smith |Cumbs to the annesthetio of teneeect,| Mil aid hint in putting the bluft over “Bcrooge.”* Dooyis see them. ‘This being the case, |therdby serving notice upon the School. | “Anybody of that name fe pretty near “Gaal rie lbepaey seplliared poh bareot hari aie ocatwese word it is the tgai {0% every one of thelr acquaintance! Gome of us call they were married, marm that he had “come fo eet n|like lin to me. Many's the time your often thought that T made a great mis-) “Oh, In the business worl ke How often have you met @ woman who sings aloud her husband's glories, her husband's valor, her husband's and I have eaten out of the same frying pan. “So I've heard him id wave that crushes to atoms the timid, spell.” In social cire nm Then she tasted @ little eomethin; ft Ja tika | @o; \he@ahootinarm Srooght Nee. née take {n giving up my Art, as T did.” othere of us, char-|the etingy side. How to coum the “Your art?” asked Mr, Jarr. untmagirative competitor. ined. say. (tably inclined. | pennies was her particular performan explained to Mr. | «Does he know you're down here on “You know well how beautifully T) “It's only men of weak will who can {cles tt has reached ite senith | gentle understanding, and then foes call him “a it-|Wnon the bill of the butcher te watch she n+] ig sone use1 to palnt sea scenes on sea shells out-stubdorn a woman. Strong-minded| But—to the woman who pind Be ts | Home to tell him what « dub he is? the close." But! baker, the candlestick maker came tn| tended to ave mest se! and flower, | “ihe young man shook hie howe tnd woodland svenes on wooden men give into them in everything.” her heart—bluff in the pop Quit is | She will give Otte of local color to his the fact remainalng poured over every ITEM and was {tat yea i rsretloggte pager a Cees pitquer'” retortel. Mrs, Jarr. “I So Mr. Jarr went out to look up Mr.|the unpardonable sin, She’ ¢ alll ntories just to help the general effet, upon her . he was BTINGY. | continually bemoaning the anewera, No neod to look up} One cold Saturday night he came the dictionary for;homo expecting to find “Allce-niteby- what that means. /the-fire’ on the job, awaiting him with Sometimes it 15) hie slippers and hte eventme Paper, But mean enough to mean ANYTHING.| ho found the proverbial note telling the (Peay parton the pun.) tale of her miserly existence with One beautiful moonlight Wednesday | him—"Home to Mother. while out enjoying the FREE air, Metle| Ie read tt over and over and thought Cupid came along, aimed his arrow at|and thought He began to eee that he loqor of the stable emanated—hung over Mm and—to make @ long story short—|iad EXISTED rether than LIVND. the rang of his chalr, and to waton the he was tn love. (Of course, aa far as| Ho wae almost human, #0 old Colonel [Seiioolmarm's hand plying the needle the nature of a selfish, stingy fellow is| Remorse was not an urwelvome visitor |on that almost sncred sofa pillow, capable of loving.) at hie lonesome atock-taking of ife.| “Your work must be very Interesting, Bhe was a very nice girl. For, in the| Il wondered if he had really been too [Mr Dritt.”" mggested Dora course of human events oppostte types| inisy guarding hia ewn stinginess, (Ade eae: planta?” are in the HABIT of meeting, Bo it| He realined that it wae wise to bel st. "Hii; considered going to call hie bluff. came to pass that the chotoe of the|cuireful, economical, But a atingy man} “1 guouldn't say it wae.” To keep the love of women, oh, you stingy fellow fell on a big open hearted, |ia ANOTHIK story, Perhaps he un-| “tut you like tt?" men, make your life « serial of confes. (loving, charitable and kind human. derstood in time, and perhaps he won k. else, but not bluff. The mother instinct makes women yearn to protect and cherish a man who is weak, {1 or “down and out.” Let ‘him come to her In full confession and she will open her arms, pillow his head on her breast and lavish upon him all her love and devotion. But let him coat his ‘down-and-out- ness” with a veneer of bluff, and when she finds him out she'll help his enemy push him under and giggle as him down! It'e the same spirit that makes her say to a would-be confidant: ‘Don't be afraid to tell me EVERY- THING, dear, You know I'll never breathe a word of it!” And {f the confidence most likely @he won't ev. der, tapering fingers—the emaliest, the most beautiful hands, he firmly believed, In the whole world. Tt {s not easy to carry on @ spirited conversation with Mr. Britt. At dest, his range of topics was limited, and in hin present frame of mind he was about jas vivacious as a deaf mute. was quite content to alt with the high heels lof hia cowboy hoots—from which a faint and laugh loudest and longest when at last, by tortuous paths, he has reached the point. But when he starts in to en- tertain when they're tete-a-tete she'll yawn audibly and drawl “My dear, that etory’s got whiskers!" No, It fen't really bluff that etuns her love for him; {t ts the fact that he tries to bluff HER, the other half of his soul! But bluff can be kept up for a limited time only, and, then—“oh, what a fall je seeS) was there, my countrymen!” Talk about the eawomd of Damocles— Way, It Isn't in it with that dreaded future moment that the bluffer kn Inevitable—the moment when the; paintedt a whole et of china, too, in a Sidney Slavin—formerty Slavinsky. ‘The Colonel looked at him keen'y. “Had a falling out?” No; scarcely that; but we couldn't agree exactly upon some things, #0 I struck out for myself when I came home from college.” “No future for you tn this sleuth- ing business," commented the old man tersely. “Why didn't you go Into eat- tle with your daa? “That's where we disagreed, sir. 1 wanted to buy Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers When He Doesn’t Propose. I the great majority of cases a young man who loves The Colonel “I can believe that “Over there the range is going fast, and it's ght and scrap and quarrel ali the time to keep the sheep off what ttle there t# left; and then you ship and the bottom drops out of the mar- ket as soon as your cattle are loaded. @ girl enough to wish her to marry him tells her so— {n short, proposes. Every ndw and then some girl writes me a lettor #2me- thing Ike this: “A certain young man has called on me regularly for some tine. He has also taken me out, given 1s complets, “Not by a high ktek!* ® | hing upon which| There's nothing 4n tt; ft ‘i . breathe sion. Acknowledge humbly your shost-| So he went into the counting bustness| her back. If there waa one ~| don't like sheep any better than the Hie esndy aed Gals me other attentions, E like im YePE | ood eis. wus tf phe thinks aometnt |comings—even enlarge ried Gio chan lesush oo tee'ald ANY. othec, He really] MORAL: MAN WANTS DUT LITTLE | Mr. Dritt prided himeelt more than an | Ger non there HO. U nging gl lageed: “How oon t Gnd out tthe really one] Ole insld out on her” the whole|the woman who loves you will help bought a few carnations (they were|HERE BELOW NOR WANTS THAT | ter, It was upon kn 7 per his language to his company. 4 going broke tn cattle because PNA A Mc ah aL arti Pa a atahbokn’ocina Cnemal an pes ti enoy wuraW nro-ege > ORE ded knowingly—"and I don't beleve et ad, do | he'll ever give in. Geen ent aol: Sieme 'he: F “NO: T don’t think he will, and Fm ‘ Gazette comes reg’-| sorry for his sake, because Re'a get yeny Wee te comes TOC >| time too cd to wortyy” “Worry? Cattl community will have that story, gar-' you bluff where bluff helps! B Toddles #4 (-a=Re: ‘cheap. ) ie He also bought @ couple of [LITTLE STINGY. By P. L. Crosby My dear, !f he does care, you will have no diMculty in learning of the fact. It will be eet up before your gaze in large headlines—sooner or later, The hesitating young man elther wants to get better acquainted, or he is screw- ing up his courage to an avowal of his affeotio If, after a reasonable length of time, your friend hag not asked to be #2m thing nearer, you are safe in assuming that he “doesn't care THAT way. Walt a bit. ‘The poor fellow !s proba- Jealousy. bly ecrewing up his courage. “B. H." writes: “My flance te ex- ime But you have no church or social privileges?” “What's that?’ “I gay, you have no entertainment, are here for.” “Have you any suspicions?” ‘or opportunity for amusement,| “No. I don’t believe T can help you tremely Jealous, and has twice post-| ‘\B. E." writes: “T ace a good deal of a ee ee i any. Tho Injuns been good ae ple aimee poned our wedding because of quarrels Young man, and I think he cares for “Oh, my, yeu" Ms, Brkt declared | we sent Wolf Robe over the soe, Don’t on this soore. Do you think I shall be|me. How shall I Induce him to ay eo?” heartily. ‘We has a game of stud | hardly think It's Injuns, Don'tqknew happy with nim? Don't try. If he does care he will tell poker nearty every Sunday mornin’, and | what ta think. Might be some of Koes (n the atlerncon, Mormon outfits going north. Mii “Ain't he sparkiin'? whispered use! some of these nesters off in the hills, acroas the room to Dora, who pretended | sight be anybody hear, “Ta he an old hangg” u in due time, |\Change of Heart. “TH, M." writes: “I have been in love It 19 very doubtful. I think you would be wisor to break your engage- = ment now. “R. P." writes: “My flance and I are visiting my brother. Is {t proper for with @ girl for over @ year, and until recently ehe said sho cared for me. Youre ve (GNORANTIST Guy | EVER aro fond of horses?’ inquireé the Schoolmarm desperatety, tom." He “Looks like !t. ta the brand out fand buries the hide: be ‘The Colon ra fh vi hy | a has nothin’ en adie | gan pacing the floor, ‘Cattle Shaves ‘ nen, without giving any reason, she {qual 4 atatement. by ED eerie Rahs Male ge eh ‘a the two men to go out without met - | sea ene no tonewy loved me What | ['Leastwave, unless they come from the | Ata Tengte Unale Kot te be Mapped Me © Yes, once in « while, €0 long as yOu! an Tor" jBuffato Basin country. Then I whore | ning on every cattle eange once tA ATO'DOt really neplected. I think you must accept the young MAG a Tee Bie at Uae, Mate et ar Se | even years {ite the only way to hold lady's decision, It ts better that her Lo! |, aubse mw ‘te tength of |'em level wn there on °P. Di" writes: “Wil @ difference in | “hence uf heart onturved: tatore maton [ney and, Ths that there. Tiffal> | Grande we rode Away add deft fourteen HAPPY | of after marriage he went on earnestly, |of ‘om «winging over the bluff. It's got if two persons care about each other?" — nothin? but intred to be done tn all cattle countetes, and ‘There ts always an extra element of| “x, Mf," writes) “A young man has They're treach'ro's sinen they've started in here—wall, risk {n such marriages, but they fre-| long been intimate with our famlly, and | that ever wore balr, overdue by two years.” The quently turn out well paid me more or less attention, But he | cted his words with the de- —_ has never asked me to marry him, How ; oR." write: young man has shown me in nearly every way that he loves me, but he has not proposed, What shall 1 do?" shall I find out {f he 1s serfo If he wishes to marry you he will ask you, 'f he doesn't propose, you can do nothing to make him, tve click of a riot gun. So Dick Ralston fr. rode the range for the purpose of getting the lay of the try, am, on one pretext or another, ed the squalid homes of the nesters, but nowhere found anybody or anything ieee n the least susplclous. He learned of SnD ad oe you've! the murder of White Antelope, and of | i i U | dizen ther bine Mdiw Well | the “queer actin’ bug hunter and } Do You Like Raisins? They're Nutritious. : ine ie iy, "Wat | the “oun se hunter and is pane enn nnn AANA AAA AAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY S| a re he cate, rather generally ed that Me- a : e i 1 spolla| Arthur wos a desperado of @ new ant isan satoniahing amout of /of raising ts the result of the rapid tn- ; us eae | ata ea ee See nent drowder >a Iltile]orease in domest oduetion, which mua cRew } : "chs 1 see we are Just beginning | first attained commercial tmpartance UP IM GOIN 10 GET : i f a cow and to wive the dried grape Its just due in} the early ‘70s, The American raisin tn- ASuin Uinta ‘a cow and this respect. The ra.sin product of this] dustry had its beginning in the great TO WEAR EVER ¥ RK 9 worth watehing.” country 1s growing prodigiousiy and the|San Joaquin Valley and certain coun- DAY * 0? a nat the MacDon- Amorican raisin {8 now being shipped ties in Southern Californta, which {s : "a the Stusbon- to countries from which we formerly | still the chief producing area in the drew our supply wimost exclusively, More than $1,000,000 worth of raisins! crop was but 120,000 pounds, while in} | United States. In 1873 the California GIT CHER OLD man! ton had at e, because suspic 4 her own fol. ® f. » w of ¢ hi ad eve were exported from the United States | 1910 !t had grown’ to 112,000,000, ’ WE'LL STAND Itowas ar ¢ a shadow af Geupt SAG ae tn the last fiscal year, the quantity, 18,-| While thego figures suggest a growing ILLGITME FOR Wir hai oh upon the p98 Aaa ee eee £00,000 pounds, being far in excess of the| consumption of raisins in the United | OLD Man YAP! I'M GOIN TOBE A SOLDIER the work of a day or & week, but some- total exported in any earlier year, eays| States, the per capita consumption is AW! TCOULD Lick ANY GODY Then o times of montha; and when evidence of the Philadelphia Inquire: atill but one-third as large as in Great Of the 2,600,000 pounds imported last! Britain, The per capita consumption of SUT I WouLDN'T LICK you~ SUT THEN YoU musTN'T ) beef was found upon the zed that his efor! | RFRA hat viclr ‘or some time to year, Spain, England, Asiatic Russia raisins in the United States in 1910 was | ClO ME HoH? | BETCHA rown agninat shah ict Seen ae the and Asiatic Turkey were the chief| but1% pounds, compared with 6 pounds WE GOULD Lick Evenvatt hen pened A fe | eecamenalé rence thet Gpenien aaa mnOn gources, These figures contrast with|in the United Kingdom. Dr. Josiah HUH? ~ an’ -RYBOOY ht fell upon the griuing a took at the bad hombre who ue thowe of 1884, when of nearly 64,000,000! Oldfield, D, C, L., Oxford, places rai ‘ AN AN’. tataa At ia Min omnia [rated as a tmg-hunter—tug-hunter, tt pounds of raisins imported Spain was| first among all known foods and su- What's that?’ The Schoolmarm| should be explained, being a Western credited with 4,560,000 pounds, England | perior to grapes “bepause the sugar has 8,600,09) and Italy nearly 2,000,000 pounds. ‘The marked falling of jn importations been thoroughly matured and ripened and transformed ready for digestion,” yoked wonderingly at the bundle, Awety-w!?) Mr. ery coi Yusion, “Ite my bed. 11) put ri d ae A Rl a term for any stranger engaged in scion. Britt replied, in an-|tifle pursuit (Te Be Continued.)