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re he Bvenin ISSEN- ONE LEAVE (T To ME. Tig Fix Time 1 SAW 4M FIND ACERT AN HE Run INTo +415 House BEFORE, 1 Coup TAWE IT AWAY pind HIM fr dim treeP ]DORTER HAVE A Woria VWaily Magazine, NOW DONT Hotter DIDNT YA HEAR WHAT THE BOY SAID? He's GOTTA RIGHT To HAVE A Tite ANT HE? Sure He HAS! BITE OF HIS CANDY. ENGAGING DEFENSE spend any money while he was away, so when she wants to buy anything she just writes out @ check, M': HARSH told his wife not to Miss Perkins, who has been keeping company for the past year, says sho intends to bolt the regular family and start a home of her own. Lawyer Rasp says he does a lot of things morally wrong but he is a good man according to law. No matter how homely a girl is she never has to be without a sweetheart unless she marries one. Although Mr. Perks has ween living here only two weeks he has already acquired the small-town interest in other people's business, If wo didn't have any weather for a few days David Craum couldn't con- verse, because that's all he ever talks about “What ails Bur’ “He's mad as a haticr. He sent $2 in answer to an an infallidte recipe for curing bald head,” “Wwelr” “He got a printed slip which read ‘The only infa head is hair.” FARMER boy the people pass. Nearby wi ‘My! that popcorn smells good!" said the gallant. “What did that man want?” asked the storekeeper. “A chafing dish,” answered the clerk, ‘Well, and why didn’t you sell him one?” “He looked so desperate, I was afraid he TP was 1A. M. when the rakish gentleman ap- peared on the curb, ‘the Housekeeper, somewhat the worse for wear, ‘Cab here, cab!” he called. “Yes, sir; yes, 8 aa be stepped forward, att “well,” replied the rakish gentleman medita- tively, as he balanced himself against the lamp- pést, “wh-what shtreets ‘av you?” answered the anxious cabby, “Yes, air. What street, “Keep at work, children, “I know, teacher, I know “Well, Willie, what is it you know?" “How doth the bee, he acts right down on yer!” rare: N olden days the holidays and feast were marked in red letters on the calendar, Hence the expres “Red-letter da in peaking of some Joyous occa- sion, In our own time the term ‘Marathon has taken on a meaning of ite own, Ten years ago no one in the ‘What They Used to Mean, crowd would vo understood such @ phrase as “doing a Marathe A “elnch’ origin the plains and came from the “cinching,” or making sure, of the saddle girth, It is only a few years ago ‘hat lexloographers were fighting against putting such a word as “strenuous” in the dictionary, The ox. clamation “Oh, dear!" ts a corruption of the French term “Qh, Dieu!” which ia an appeal to God, The expression “The deuce!” has a like derivation, “deuce” being a corruption of ‘Deus,"” watin word for God, are The words respectively, de- and “hackney "and “hack” es of ab Cynicisms of a Business Man. EOPLE usually have the blues after skimming the milk of human kind- ness. she wants she An easy way to make uy stocks when they are them when, they are high. money {8 to] Jt's just human making $1 by work, While you may not be able to lead a man to water, you seldom have to ask bum twice to have a drink, ness of her than the face she se looking-glass Many a man has Jost his mental bale ‘ance by attempting to entertain two or more ideas at the same time, says the Chicago Tribune. married ts A woman once slave, Every virtue has its own flaws. PLAINTIF PRESENTS CASE advertisement of we for a bald and his best girl were seated in a buggy one evening in town, watching @ popcorn vender’s stand. Presently the lady remarked; “T'l drive up was contemplating suicide.” Remember ‘How doth the little busy bee "—— When « woman is unable to get what | tries to convince herself that Jt wasn't worth having after all, Nature to get more low and sell {fun out of losing $10 at gambling than It takes a girl to know that & photo graph that flatters her is a bette kee nthe PLAINTIF COLLECTS Paden LOOK aT Tat t THIS 15. NO PLACE FOR os Seer |) une A . ATHING a IT BLAME J owt, tn i cinen LISSEN- YouD ORTER Give ME A BITE OF THAT FOR SAVING You, YOU CER TAINY ARt DEPENDANT CONGRATULATED HEDIE, THEDE AN®|}"“Everybody’s Doing It!” BX -amatir) BY By Camichaet EVERY WHERE. BY EvBRYTDBovw. 4 AS yy PLINDERS Copyright, 1912 Presa Vubliai New York W Artistic Anecdotes. 3% (= Artist—I have met my New _Medel—And who wa the other one? Secretary of State, ‘Then and he war required to When the picture was Madero lifted his of the great Gonzale is a very tal man and stout, | stature stand neat to Madero | foe hen es to the top of. the observest Betty Vincent Advice to Love Other Young Men. “W. B.” writes: “If one young man ts paying a girl steady attention, ts it Proper for her to go out with other | young men?” Yes, if she has not given her promise |to marry, and coughed slightly A Sympathetic Burglar. 66] WOKE up suddenly tho other night and Bought T hearts burglar fn the room, Tat, up iu ved aud that awoke my shat i the do he accused me, bug, Said I'd 1,000 years, ‘ing & burgle WU, Ure sual, of hi un madam, didn't try, eard him T furt laid there | fam the aor and iy wife wan w ‘a whole day, and lavghed aux run down the street mad she didn't 9p ro was a married man," “HON. writes: "Is Altogether Different. GOAT OW, Rares” ml te departing physician ish irl, who was nursiog @ fas of tees, TU Use paling sashes again gt | 1 will be in at him a dose of this medicine ‘The hour for lis return arrived, ‘The phyetetan |once more visited the sick patient and found him No, It 19 quite uncalled for “2, X" writes: “When a young man|{®? young ladies {a introduced to a young lady, ts tt) Should I walk vetweon them [necessary for hin to shake hands with | outaide?” her?" tower He bad been op, sald the nune, fF)" 'No, unless she makes a motion to ao| — And did you give him the mediciuet? in. | 80 "L, ©." writes: “I am ninoteen, ar uired the pussled doctor, | _- for three years have been deeply at- Nora shook her head, “E. B." writes: ‘Tam a young mam tached to @ girl several years older Be aut aicets 8 m0 te sive it J Wm if! jin love with a widow much older than than myself, My friends sdv me to Minit he didn't say lis anw shakes tole tame, (myself. Bhe haw several children. Do give her wp, What shail I do? liel the nurse, confidently, ‘Hoe saji| YOU think our marriage would be: At least wait till you are of age, be- i blue turkeys wid straw | appy??" you bind yoursaf to any one for | | I doubt tt very much. | Hfe. ——_——— ste Diplomatic Compliments. ; “A, M v writen Wad 1a Y." writes: ‘Would . runk be marked with the imital ef he «to give @ mirl a DANCIB 1 MADERD, Bresiiant of Me maiden name or wit at of he i planned for a graduation the subject, band’s last nam Cabinet were phot ‘The latter save confusion F y proper. ‘On the outside, next the pay ho raids Ne not show to advantage we would s Ts A Point of Etiquette. t proper to give my card to a young man whom I meet for the first time at an Srlerielnmnentt | “J, ML" writen: "When T accompany | home from work, or on the ement all be dwarts, “Well as | \ime, “D cat | fnorme, wae nat at all iike another 1 | Tew aff and EB Madero retumed, “provided you Hand on your courteay at the fame Not the Proper Word. ID you send Mr. Drewer the samples he ahed fort? inquired the tailor Yos,” replied the our letter to bim, “trust thos Giandard A Long. Job. ABEL," eal loek,"* moplted the dear ett Woy, it waa 1 o'clock at laast.”* That was when he finished saying it," babi Btanderd. snd’ Times, ——»—— Debtors, Ahoy! MOEA SMITH, of dusky i ayinal health aut ities hat 8 mewher of whose family “) atoty comen to promptly tore dows aiw ‘The paticnt iu the Texas negren's home hed 19. covered, ‘The health officers came around to take down the gn, “Sholy youall atn't again’ to take down dat | sign the asked plainttrely, The replied in the affirmative, "Now, ain't dat too bad! Dero ala't been nacy etn rou Ais ce for weske while das Kain't youall leave it dere, pend, The aga waained, Louie ‘Bbuesday, duly 2, DEFENDANT PAYS CO6TS 1912 By Wells GOO SOO! (Coynright, 1911, te the Robbe Merrill Co.) BYNOPSIA OF PRECRPING CHAPTHNA, Mason Bilewoi ha ven ee ine fy, ihe fect frat" beh hla hands re Aniwer to an odd. advert feerls a rich std tan’ named Noh Sry pttern Mans a ainecnte pra Mason “ann hes Soot la toh that te teva for Rputtlonoconpte, the meets . Nancy, te “nieve, ‘ant “tia fiver with herat sa terman ioe Wyovers ka ty ‘short nimey to a Peennayl: iishien them t3 live & running stot ire erusively, ager In, het home, The erie rowllig near the house, pvr. a tit Et tment collar, andes ha ne} Bat Saar tate aSoon “how "her usele, ohratse wed ine detention as @ Minsrm swears erplaing how tinposadble facatic punish htm tuck a lep wold De. CHAPTER VI. (Continued.) Adjustment. IIRTHER either of us would or no, Nancy waa bound to me for all time, I had only meant to give all my help and all my love, but the eltuation had moved beyond my control, Because in the eyes of the world had lived not quite elghteen hours man and wife, as man and wife we must live Until death came to part us, But I bore her greater love than th I loved her too truly to be selfish very long. Perhaps, even yet, there was time to help her in @ more unselfish way, and to frighten Ephraim Bond into his senses, to punish him in eome Meaaure an he doserved. “Nancy,” I sak, “if our marriage was not legal, there is a way out for you yet. Searcely any one has seen us, scarcely any one knows that we have been here at all. Suppose that I wo back to New York alone and look into this business, If we were not really married T will yo to your unelo and tell him all that I now know, The witnesses of an illegal marriage would searcely be at much pains ‘to tell of what they saw. You could be happ: then, and free, for I could frighten your uncle into giving you anything that you wishes Nancy said nothing, but kept walk- ing slowly beside me, Far down the road I saw the dust of @ wagon. “We will have to stop now, If we are not going to be seen together. There 1s some one coming tn sight now,” 1 raid, “Are you “Are on. os ancy a thin, unhappy?” unhappy wit! “You know that I am not,” Tan awored. "I nover been #0 hap- sald Nancy, and her volee was very low but unafraid “Nancy!” T eried, and stopped short In the middle of the road, ‘The wagon wan coming over the ridge of the neat hin, “Well?” fald Nancy quietly, but I vole Bhook @ Httle “What do you mean?’ IT asked. You mean that you are more happy than you have been in’ year that is Isn't it?" don't know why, but T am more happy than I have ever been, more happy than T was when my father was alive to me.” “But-oh, you could not care to be near such aman as Tam, Happl- in nearness means love, and you never love such @ man,” ‘ould you love me? Her votce was very low Indeed now, “Love you? IT love tho very things you have touched, T have never done anything else but love you, and fight against it, since I saw you in the door: way, Whether you love or hate me, I can never do anything else but love you. God forgive me, how should f are to love you, and yet how can I help but lov “TL think I love you, too, Hush, dear; is not wrong of you to love m: Nancy!" Wait, Mason; T want to be very 4! have come so suddenly that T can ecarcely belfeve tt all, T must have @ Mttle time, a very little time, Mason dear, but I do not think that we need be afrald." ‘The wagon rattled up, and was past in a cloud of dust, IT was drunkenly Ajazy, and Nancy and I and the bright ! 4o not touch me ve You and love into my life country around us seemed hb. un realities; then, slowly, thin ght. jened themselves ab me, with a great effort I regained some self-com- mand, ery well,” I ead; when you have had time ¢o chink, but do not forget what you are and what I am," “T have never forgotten that, answered. “Then come,” I #ald; “we have more errands to do than we shall possibly | have time for.” So we walked along the road until we aw the town cradled tn @ Nttle valley at our foot, “CRITICIOM OF THA JUDICIARY” The Man in the Brown Derby A Great Sammer Story of New York “you shall tell me + YOUNG MAN, WERE Tt NOT THAT YOuR METHOD OF SETTLING ID Give You A Go0D WHAEINGT Hastings “I think that, heaven must be in @ valley," wald Nancy. Llooked at her, and smiled. “Heaven,” T sald, “ia not in any fixed place at all, but moves eneirctingly about the wan- dering feet of Love." And that was the last time on wll our walle that love wee mentioned between us. We did a great many errands, and it was very pleasant to purchase the Ittle homely things that go to make up liv- ing. We bargained, and bought ae if we had been buying pans and vege- tables all our Iives, and we returned » laden with the lightest and most neoss- sary of our spoil Once we were well home agete end Nancy was busy exploring closets, set: ting things to righte and plann’ Glsposition of the wagonload of that we expected the next day from the village, I thought it a gao¢ apportunity to get the broken derby hat from ite place behind the bua I ran down the lane, fearful that ehe that her thoughts whatever ‘unpleasant fore 1 they bad turned at the hat’s disco I reached tho ‘Mush alnoat out of breath, deciding, aw T fan. that 1 would put away the hat with the oe and necktie, to examine some closely. But, once behind the ate ont stopped, thinking that I had some mistake, But there could be no mistake about {t. This was the only clump of hydran- goas in our long lane. ‘The hat: had‘ @ishppeared. CHAPTER Vil. Confession. MD two hundred yards be hind the house was an orchard of old and contorted apple trees, and through the orehard ran a tumbling, gosvipy, Nttle brook, Wo found it as we were @x- ploring the place after breakfast. the next day, and such was Nancy's deMght with it that she would @o no farther, ‘ut must needs sit down under the ent tree by the water-slde to con plate ut lelmure thé fairyland spring hed left in passing. ney had brought with her a @imin- utive and dangling bag of pink flowered atik. Now, as with a Uttle sigh ehe sat down under the apple tree, she Opened it and took out a square of gm- broidery, and deftly threading an lm. Possibly small needle with a length of coarse silk, set about the absent com Pietion of some flower unknown: botany. T have often wondered If ganey work was not more adornment than employment, an unconscious and decora- foreign to ite ‘seor as earrings, and without ag Intent, serving much the seme Certainly as she sat there, fingers busy with the wofk, ¥ ought nothing on beaten or ome vould be inore charming. It scomed to me that nature ttweit hold its breath watching her, that all the tender new- born beauty about us was only frame 4nd background for her loveliness. The apple trees, gnarled with the whimelea: growth of years, twisted and roughened y and #un und frost, seemed to have laid a day utility, blossoms, every triumphant struggiing ine of them softened and disguised tn @ fresh, exquisite pinkness of bloom, as delicately nebulous and as dewy sweet as the cheeks of atill-dreaming, awakened dawn, The whole ot breathed of them, a faint, pervading eWoet that stirred the sefees ke @ fleeting momory of lost Eden, ‘Mme day was warm, and Nancy tea it with a dress of some Met, of cloudy turquoise blue, to me ry of marvelous perfection; for jow at the throat and caught r there by @ great, old-fashioned leaving her neck's soft Her head, bending over her work or raised in happy contempla- ton of the beauty about her, was by the half-broken sunshige, danced and siimmered on the Aye ting coppers 1, or making spun dMnty tendrils at her neds white nape As I looked down at her I forget 2 @ litte while my fear of her in the wem- der of it all was here and very lovely drove thoughts from my mind, She must have sean something of this, as she glanced up at me; for the color swept up over her white mest, turning her cheeks a deeper pink, em@ dyeing even the little coral ears, “Well, Mason?’ she asked, was only thinking,” IT repile®, t you are inexpressibly lovely an@ ~well, Tam glad that I asked 4 sterday, for I should never dare te sald Nancy, very softly, am bent with sudden industry over @er work. You know,” T said at length, to speak Py in net you ea would tell ae ett Be Continued.) roy) | touched