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Show " 'They do not says Melllnger. One evening he told us. " 'Roys.' says he, 'I've deceived you. "'Then listen," goes on the Latin of a painted butterfly I'm the man prompt. 'The musics are of sufInstead In the Kldneya, BloatBackache, Pains hardest worked man In this country. ficient prettlness, but not of necessity, ' ing, Etc., Overcome. "My Job Is private secretary to the Let us speak of business. I well know president of this republic, and my du- "Why we are here, since I observe my A nurse la expected to know what ties are running it. I'm nut head- compatriots. You had a whisper yesto do for common ailments, and wom lined in the bills, but I'm the mustard terday, Senor Melllnger, of our proen who suffer back we will speak out. in the salad dressing. There isn't a posals. PI ache, constant lanlaw goes before congress, there isn't We know that you rVind In the presicomand other guor, a concession granted, there Isn't an dent's favor, and we know your Inmon symptoms of By ADA MAY KRECKER will ha Import duty levied, but what II. P. fluence. The government complaint, kidney he cooks and seasons It. In changed. We know the worth of your ' Melllnger should be grateful to the front office I fill the president's services. We esteem your friendship Mrs. Minnie Turner, NLY in rare and luminous minds seems to arise the idea of Inkstand and search visiting states- and aid so much' Melllnger raises his of E. B. St., men for dynamite; In the back room hand, but the governor mnn bottles as of laws to the career character and they beauty applying for Okla,, dictate the policy of the government. him up. 'Do not speak until I have O. HENRY By are applied in the fine arts; of molding life as an art object, pointing out the way " 'fioys, I'm to hold a soiree this done." to find quick relief. Mrs. Turner used with faithful adherence to the principles of symmetry and evening with a gang of leading citi The govenor mnn then draws a Loan's Kidney Pills for a zens, and I want your assistance. You package wrapped in paper from his proportion; or fulfilling the noble precepts of Stobeus that backache, pains In the sides and bring the musical corn shelter and pocket,; and lays it on the "table --by "all the parts of human life, in the same manner as those of k.dncys, bloated limbs, etc. "The way ICopyrlglit, by Bliori blorieu Co., Lid.) give the affair the ouslde appearance Melllnger's hand. tLey have built me up is simply mara statue, ought to be beautiful." I looked in at the engine room of of a function. There's important busiIn thnt you will And one hundred a velous," says Mrs. Turner, who is fine cri Hlooni field Cater Manufacturing ness on hand, but It mustn't show. J thousand dollars in money of your the the formulated who was I'ascule It exquisitely burse. "My health improved rapidly. was can talk to you people. I've been country. You can do nothing against (Ltd.) for the engineer terion of conduct and appearance that obtrudes nothing on the Company live boxes did so much for me I am K i .1 f ,.i .1 .. lruif.. pained for years on account of not us, but you can be worth that for ua. it." about telling everybody spectator, but, as occaavjn makes meet, reveals accomplishment h betwcen tha tluie he 8hut down having anybody to blow off and brag Cio back to the capital and obey our Remember the name Doan's. Sold in everything. "We should not," he said, "be able to say of a man, He uteam and waBhed up that I coveted, to. I get homesick sometimes, and Instructions. Take that money now. by all dealers. EO cents a box. Foster- I found Klrksy resting, with his I'd swap the entire perquisites of We trust you. You will find with it a is a mathematician, or a preacher, or eloquent, but that he is a gentleman Ullburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. office for Just one hour to have a work you .. .. , Bald. ..hut stein and a caviare sandwich some- paper giving in detail the ... It is a bad sign when, on seeing a person, you remember his book. I would Tla will be expected to do for us. Do not Would Be No Change. use it, bids to be colder where on Thirty-fourtstreet, and have the unwlBeuess to refuse." During the presidential campaign prefer you to see no quality till you meet it and have occasion to "Did I ever tell you," began Kirk- stand and watch the street cars go the question of woman suffrage was for fear some one quality prevail and designate and designate the man Henry stooped and got a record much discussed among women pro and T 1. 1... - uuv ! nn on, I ttfn sy honorably, "about the time Henry by, and smell the peanut roaster at from the basketful we'd brought, slid - ; ll.:..l. w.m nunc umcsa mm a uuhk Huv.ot.v,.., Horsecollar and me took a phonograph old Giuseppe's fruit stand.' uiaiuijr speaker con and at an afternoon tea the con It in the phonograph, aud started off. to South America?" and I felt asham Yes,' said I. "there's the caviare at It was a cornet solo, very neat and versation turned that way between let them think it." and dropped into Billy Itenfrow's cafe, corner of Thir beautiful, and the name of It was lives that I ed of my subterfuge, the women guests. It seems beyond the powers of the present order to produce . . 1ia1i- - h. lHnkftrl toward ffiA and " "Are you a woman suffragist?' are Home, Sweet Home." Not one of symmetrical with resiicct to man's several natures his physical, nis me. God knows. It,' iterrupls Mellln them fifty-od.asked the one who was not interested. men In the room moved seems be "Henry and me met at Texarkana ger, 'and if you'd told me you knew while It was playing, and the governor "Indeed, I am not," replied the othei mental, his moral, his bodily, his intellectual, his spiritual. Jt tons Invented have Itenfrow I'd figured out this phonograph Hilly most emphatically. mnn his eyes steady on Melllnyond our age to make men whose accomplishments are so versatile, whose and scheme. He had $360 and i had $288. of ways of making you happy. Hilly ger. kept I snw Melllnger's head go upl lit "Oh, that's too bad, but Just suppoa now can flexible that so manners and so and conversation they eloquent The phonograph tdea was Henry's, but was my side kicker in New York tle Ing you were, whom would you sup little, and his hand came creepinto any mold and perfectly, proving poets when poetry is in question, I took to it freely, being loud of ma- That is a man who never knew what ing by port in the present campaign T" away from the package. Not un am I was. Here crooked working til the last note sounded did anybody "The same man I've always support painters when art is discussed, orators when eloquence is, musicians, ath chinery of all kinds. "We bought a fine phonograph In Honesty for a graft, but tltat man stir. And then Homer P. Melllnger ed, of course," was the apt reply letes. Yet it is ideals for men like these that our present educational mod I get loses money on It. Carrambos! Texarkana one of the best make takes "mjr husband." the bundle of boodle and els seem to nurse. And it is to men like these that the civilization or. and half a trunkful of records. We sick at times of this country. Every slams tip it in the governor man's face. Taking No Chances. Greece in the zeuith of her glory gave birth. The sages and statesmen of packed up and took the T. and P. for thing's rotten. From the executive That's my answer," says Melllnger, New Orleans. down to' the coffee pickers, they're "What did Barker do when he dis those private secretary, 'and there'll be andays were athletes and artists as well. "We lauded on a smiling coast at plotting to down each other and skin other covered that bis wife and chauffeur in the morning. I have proofs a town they denounced by the name, their friends. If a mule driver takes of Ilierocles, the Greek disciple of Pythagoras, in dad planned to elope In his car?" against every man of conspiracy man "He-oile- d off his hat to an official, that as near as I can recollect, of It thoroughly, and put it interpreting the golden verses of his teacher, reasoned Is over, gentlemen." show The you. 'Twas a palatable enough figures it out that he's a popular Idol, in first-clas- s shape." 'There's one more act puts In tho that the body was the temple of the soul, then subor a revolu to to sets at. his stir look and up pegs place servant, i governor man. "You are nnrrnn vnrRNRl.P dinate thereto, and the bouI was the Bhrino of the when Ton frfl eia o.mlii ..n l.y uikings fewdose "Henry skinned a twenty off his tlon and upset the administration, it's believe, employed by the president to roll, and received from the bureau of one of my little chores as private sec copy letters and answer raps at the no luxvi ivi ilj , it naa iaiwl, w.v.v.v.w, 4 MXof Tits lurga UJO Dotlitia rs in, cuwiwm. i rmju, iivm-mercenary dispositions a paper bear- retary to smell out these revolutions door. I am governor here. Senors, noblest and honors be first accorded that the spirit To consider anything Impossible ing a red seal and a dialect story and and affix the kibosh before they break- I call upon you In the name of the service and culture, that the lesser powers of the soul out and scratch the paint off the gov- cause to seize this man.' that we cannot ourselves perform. no change. 4l.A ltsv.lt' tlrt Vi 11 rt ilrcfv flf. all .rtnlnn.l "Then we got the consul full of red eminent property. That's why I'm iwi.v xh ai. .a.., a.. mv J, That brindled gang of conspirators M. Wln.Iow'. Soothln, STTT.O. and struck him for a horoscope. down here now In this mildewed const shoved back their chairs and advanced wine, be lowest the place, occupy instruments, given district of the He was a tbin, youngish kind of man, town. The aovernor In force. I could see where Melllnger the least thought. I should say past fifty, sort of French- - and his crew are plotting to uprise had made a mlntake In Not to make allowances for the massing his and one of names, their I've got every Irish In his affections, and puffed up a grand-stanweaknesses of others. so make as to enemy to to the listen phon with dlsconsolatlon. Yes, be was a they're Invited I think he made another one around their flattened kind of a man, in whom ograph OnnttDBt1mi Miikriinil urtfravai.-- a mnnr sHom Some men tie compliments of H. P. play. II but we can pass that, Melllnger's li, In. I'triw I Itiumutfhly run-.loo; la them I'll M. the That's get way toto drink lay stagnant. Inclined flosmal fcilii. lbaturtlal corpufingers or pin the ends of their cravats Idea of graft and mine being different, lence and Yes. I think he was a bunch and things are on the program to estimations and points The greatest necessity in a woman's according get her so they will remember to mail the a kind of misery. Dutchman, being very sad to happen to them.' of view. life is love. to letter their wives gave them to post or "We three were sitting at table In and genial in his ways was only one window and of ' The marvelous invention,' he says. the cantlna of the Purified Sarnts, doorThere remind them of buying three-quarte- rs In that room, and they were In and poured out wine, Lat a yard of the silk sample they were given 'entitled the phonograph, has never Melllngersome front Here was fifty-odthe end, worried; I was thinking. in men before Invaded these shores. The peo- looking In a bunch to obstruct coming " he by Mrs. Man to match. a say sharp crowd,' 'They're ple have never heard IL They would of Melllnger. You may But a man I know has a better scheme not believe it if they should. Simple-hearte- d kind of fretful. 'They're capitalized the legislation was three of us, for me and there say children of nature, progress by a foreign syndicate after rubber than cither of those time-honordeclared New prolnry. simultaneous, never condemned them to accept and they're loaded to the muzzle fur York has and the Cherokee Nation In This fhA City cesses of stimulating recollection. on m Malinger. inrk or f.n.on,nfi aa An nvir- bribing. I'm sick.' goes sympathy with the weaker party. man is head of the business promotion k- ture an(j might Incite them of comic opera, I want to smell bust "Tln-it was that Henry Horsecol At wear and River again. can By BETTl BEFFIL But suspenders to a bloody revolution. you rmrtniont of a big mercantile institution a point of disorder and Inrose to lar Job. I like feel throwing tip my experiment. Tbe best chance times admirable, the ad Jle is ever on the lookout for ideas on how try the showing, tervened, sort be you bave is that the populace mny not but I'm d n fool enough to vantages of education as applied to to make, business better. He makes it n wake up when you play. There's two of proud of it. "There's Melllnger, the. American Indian's natural inter-lec- t says the consul, 'they may take they say here, "Por Won! you can't and native refinement He stood point to ask every man lie meets at least two questions. lie gets ideas ways.' like I'd million." a It. They may becone Inebriated with touch him with smoothed bark bis hair on and from men in all walks of life. up attention, like an Atlanta colonel list to take that record back and show It each side with his hands as you have He talks with the conductor on the car or the newsboy on the corner. en I tiir to "MarchlnK Through Georela to Hilly Itenfrow some day, and lhat seen little girls do when they play. He watches the street fakers for new ways of catching the attention of or they will get excited and transpose tightens my grip whenever I see a fat " behind 'Oet me, both of you," Bays with an ax and thing that I could corral just ny wins the public. He has a lot of things to remember. Hut lie docsn t bulge the key of the music Henry. and one In my latgtsft. losing a In eye the into dungeon. yourselves For sore throat, sharp pain 'What Is it to be? I asked. ana his pockets with memoranda. Nor does he stick pins in his necktie. appears shaky. "Mellinger ter case, says the consul, 'I'll do my in lungs, tightness across the "'I'm of neck going to buck center," says the He simply writes each idea on a postcard. duty by cabling to the state depart hreaka his class acalnst In his football Idioms. 'There chest, hoarseness or cough, Henry. bottle. the and the I'll Stars and ment, wrap And then he mails the postcard to himself. -lave the parts "with Sloan's I says to myself, "White man. If I ro Isn't a tarkle In the lot of them. Keep around you when you come to And when he fits at his desk he finds the postcards he has mailed to Stripes Liniment, You don't need to be shot, and threaten them with the not mistaken there's been a bait laid close behind me and rush the game "That cultured Red Msn exhaled an rub, Just lay it on lightly. It himself the night before. Kach bears a suggestion that may be valuable vengeance of tbe greatest gold export out where the tall of your eye could of sounds with bis mouth seat the to see It arrangement on reserve financial and earth. The instantly penetrates to his department. Sotnc of the ideas lie has pent to himself in this way -to arrsnge- - lhat caused the Latin aggregation to' f the trouble, relieves congesThat Is full of boles according bullet now,' night flag says have added thousands of dollars to the profits of the firm. tion and stops the pain. tbe consul, 'made in that way. Twice tr.enta, me and Henry took the phon pause, with thought fulness and hesibefore says the consul, 'I have cabled ograph to a room In a 'dobe bouse In tations. The matter of bis proclamaHere's the Proof. our government for a couple of gun-- a dirty side street, where the grass tion seemed to be a cooperation of Mr. A. W. Price, FredonU. Kan, Thc proportion of girls to boys dealt tniats to protect American cHlxens was knee high. 'Twas a long room. the Cherokee college yell with the IJnl-tnaSloan's V : have art far a var, and find M aa eicet-fcwith in Chicago juvenile courts is at lesxt The first time the department sent me lit with smoky oil lamps. There was Carlisle war whoop. He went at the of chairs and a table at the chocolate team like the flip of a litf hint, for aore lhroa,theat pains, 50 per cent, higher than any other city tn a p,r"1 arum boots. The other time plenty tle boy's nigger shooter. His right coida, and bay fever atiark. A few man named Pease was back end. hei the United States, For this condition 1 colng to be executed here. They re and by the Invitations to the elbow laid out the governor man on drop taken on aufrar tp cough, i!v tag and aneeting laaumly." blame local industrial conditions and laj-ir- y ferred that appeal to the secretary of musieale came sliding In by pslrs and tbe gridiron, and he made a lane the the crowd that a woman agriculture. Let as now disturb the threes and spade flushes. Their ce1ora length of in many homes. could bave carried a stepladdr senor behind tbe bar for a subse- was of a diversity, running from The girl problem is much harder ti quence of the red wine three days' smoked meerschaum to a through without striking anything. deal with than that of boys. "Thus soliloquised tbe consul of patent leather polish. They were ss All me and Mellinger bad to do was kangaroo to me and Henry polite as wsx, being devastated with to follow. It is much more difficult to help a girl Sore-to"In five minutes we were out of that Horsecollar. enjoyments lo give Senor Mellineer who has once gone wrong. The condiand at th mllHary headquarunderstood t street their a we the good hired evenings, "Hut, notwithstanding, tion is one that ought to cause general room that afternoon In the Calle d Spanish talk I ran a pumping engine ters, where Melllnger had things his JUDCE t. B. LtNDSEY is easier to ue than porous Ion Angeles, the main street that runs two years In a Mexican silver mine, own way. alarm. mt Jamilt ttmrt The net day MelllngT takes me docs and acts along tbe shore, and put our trunks and had it pat but I nevr let on. quicker plasters, industrial conditions rrirJ The leading and "em bad of and I come, Henry to one side and begins to k here "Maybe fifty natclogupthe pores of the in. shed tens and twenties. to work at early sjres and at less than "We were rubbing tbe dust off the sealed, when In slid the kfhg bea, th It ban cfHw " 'I want to buy lhat phonograph." machine and getting fixd to start governor of the dlMrlet. Meiiinrer reroly f r wa- forces tlwm into a life overfilled with temptation. I. ' bronchitis birn and eseorted he the at says. I liked that last une It him met door, a when a'hm. next business tbe big. day, made orphans and Within 10 yar. 3?,(KK) children have and all inflammatory man in white lo the stand. Whn I saw that Latin played. Now, you boys better go back white f.nelooklng iiaea of tha home, fe,r they'll give you trouble here brought into juvenile courts as dependents as a result of explosions and rlntn stopped at We door and looked man I knew that Melllr.r, prlvste throat and diet Ma before I can get the screws put on 'em. on danees all had the and We In. the extended areretary, Invitation, ill break CtlUT arvI'lf'IllS in mine', iuuiihs vi mimn vmii'i n.i ,r iktii atii)iji-f ti card takn. That was a big, squashy If yon happen to ever see Itiily Renfrow he walked Inside and sized us up. In owners. mine by "'New Yorkf he says to me finally. man. the color of a rubber overshoe, scain. tell Mm I n coming back to an atjf.k of croup, " 'Originally, and from time to time in courts a Manv of these, through force of nereity, arc later and he had sn eye tike a had waiter's. New York as "on as I csn make a ulinil kill any kind of nnra'jia or rheu I says. off It "Mfilineer explained, fluent. In the stake honest rHT 'Hatn't ru.bd delinquent. " This is more money says , than matic pains. 'when yon Castilian Idioms, that his soul was he, "'It's says simple, fc ATI Urmr-gtmknow how. It's the fit of the vst diseoneerted with joy at Introdurins tbe maehine Is worth America's 'Tis government expense money rieht snywhere to his renpec! friend They don't cut In the days of my lioyhond down on rie.fS,Sfte,HlC9. not vests. Invention, the wondr of the says Meiurigor. 'snd the government's Coats b;it else. greatest maybe, 8 S'oaa, Dr farm in middle (leorpia thj pond pfr,p-alnie"The white man loks at Henry aee. Henry got the cue and run on getting the tne grinder cheap sn elegant brsssband record and the "Henry snd I knew that pretty well, universally !qt on feather 1h1, HnrRcrollar and hesi'afp. r The Initiated we never let Homer P. MeIing! became but 'tarn festivities and they are still iwl to a great extent. Injun' "'Injun says en ho near h" er man had a bit of KneNsh under know that we ta4 the Yrt Can Shave Yowrself WHh says ""Melllnger ,, j KttryUxly thought them fine, was carpe to lfire his graft P. MelHngT. Hoys, yon're roneivntpd. Ms hat, and when the music NO STROPPING hO HONING on cold w inter night, the feather of You're babes In the wood without a tliofced off he says: "We laid low on'il the day th Cr-r r th r ree fine. steamer or and raeias, erie tak.on When he saw "Ver It's a softmM that ronduml to cay sliunlttr. chaperon referee, toy duty the bacb me boat the so esplen-t'.ff- the I'll knock out Afrerlcan to the start gntleemen, yon gotng. I did not dream of finding the feather went down and stood l.i to as and rdsyee." moosie In launch and Henry the proper you -WOWJJOVER KNOW TlfS bed of my youth snywhere in Kuroje, but limps The table was a long one, and the e?g of the water. The captain pellueid wster of Fore toe kangaroo if to be christened, and You'll have tUnrr snd me sat ft the end of it grinned when he saw us. on a recent visit to a small town in GereoTernor sat a! come with me I'll break a bottle neitt the wall. TI "'I ton you you d he waltin', hi PAhKfcH many I came across the exact counterpart you'll avs. 'Where's the Hamburger maof wine across your bows, according fhn other end. Homer p. Melir:gf BALSAM MA! of whit I had often refed upon in the If 0. W. TILfAIK chine?" stood at the side of It I was to Hoyle.' Melll: Cr was roin "'It stays leMnd to Af "Home, "Mine and Henry's tnony was coun- wodrl.g days of my t my hood a great, hig, when home the Home his on crow, was n band'e Homer P terfeit. Iw-g,p.t Everything of feathers that, tidding to the downv "'1 told yoa ao," says the captain man coi!d f,nd roi' taletit suddenly opened the srrlees. That Meilirigr ! hollow . i "-'- , nf with a nidim-in n.n in ti ! "Tral governor man was suitable again. "Climb In the boat' i i of bills In his clothes whre Herman) HI PflTi j'T'oie oi " "And that," said Kirsky, "is the way WUard couldn't have conjured side. for uprisings and pelicies. t Jndge he the fitlicr on me (rtthns kind of who took and Henry Horserollar Introduced man, a me was could founded He have ready tr.elet. sn a me a eld to find thi reminder oi tiygone rpoeh m the ftmk It own t time. the thorie.graih In that Latin country bad left his and universities . enonph 1 ,1 i .1.11 U. i f. ,i wwHi i linn 1,1. me uiu aim "'Do the Amerlcsa senors under along about the vicinity of Boutb old world, and on inqoiry, 1 icarnca u.m buy the colored voe of his country. America. Henry and me wondered what bis atand Spanish? I in rural Germany. graft was. A NURSE'S EXPERIENCE. 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