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Show WOT WHAT HE HAD PICTURED 1 Athletic Girt Hardly tha Domeatio Jewel That Fond Fancy Had Pictured. HEWLETTS Nut lung ago a man married an athfine it would letic girl, thinking how e to have a wife who would be able to wait on herself aud build the fires. If neeessury, and keep the dust demon on the jump without bringing on an acute attack of nervous prostration. Said he to himself: A girl who swims and rows and plays a rattling 0riuT tr A.CfnCtua a good game of tennis, not to speak of her fondness for walking and driving, SYNOPSIS. Is sure to be a domestic jewel. If we happen to be without a servant, she Tim atory opens with the ahlpwrerlc of can keep the household machinery the steamer on which klips Oenevleva humming." Somebody must have told ImIIw, an American halreaa, laird an Englishman, and Tom Blake, that girl she was marrying a man with a brusquv American, were money. Anyhow, she hasn't been able The three were toaaed upon anpaaerngere. uninhabialand and were the only onaa not to dress herself without the assistance ited drowned. Blake recovered from a drunkof a maid, and the only time she has en atupor. Blake, shunned on the boat, ever badlhe broom in her hands was because of hie roughness, became a hero of the helpless pair. Tha one day when she picked It up to hit si preserver was suing for the hand of Englishman Hlaka started to swim back the cat with. If she'd cleun house for to the to recover what waa left. chip as much as half an hour she'd have to Blake returned safely. Wlnihrope wasted igr. ROBERT 1 J V. nEXXET uimmmemmTm c. jo AffES Win-throp- ALWAYS GOOD same, I guess we'll be ready for callers tonight." "How's that?" "Show you later. Pal, me b'y. Now trot out some nuts. We'll feed before we move camp." Miss is still sleeping." "Time, then, to roust her out. Hey, Miss Jenny, turn out! Time to chew. Miss Leslie sat up nnd gazed around In bewilderment. "It's all right, Miss Genevieve, reassured Wlnthrope. Blake has found a safe place for the night, and ha wishes us to eat before we leave here." "Save lugging the grub," added Blake. "Get busy, Pat." As Wlnthrope caught up a nut tha girl began to arrange her disordered hair and dress with the deft and graceful movements of a woman thoroughly trained in the art of There waa admiration In Blske's deep eyes as he watched her dainty preening. She was not a beautiful girl at present she could hardly be termed pretty; yet even in her draggled, muddy dress she retained all the subtle charms of culture which appeal so strongly to a man. Blake was subdued. His feelings even carried him so far aa an attempt at formal lailite-nes- s when they had finished their meal. "Now, Miss Leslie, he began, It's little more than half an hour to sundown ; so, If you please. If you're ready, e, hie last match on a cigarette, for which he go away to some fashionable springs scored by Blake. Their first meal to recuperate. And yet, to look at her, waswas a dead fish. The trio started a ten mile hike for higher land. Thirst atwouldn't so was she think deli you Blake waa compelled to tacked them. cate. Exchange. carry Mias Leslie on account of weariness. HE KNEW HER CHAPTER IV. Continued. At first hia throat was ao dry that he could no more than rinse hia mouth. With the first swallow his swollen tongue mocked him with the salt, bitter taite of The tide wee flowing! He rose, sputtering and and gaaplng He stared choking around. There waa no question that he was on the bank of a river and would be certain of fresh water with the ebb tide. Hut could he endure the agony of"his thirst all those hours? He thought of his companions. Good Ood! he groaned, they're goners, anyway! He atared dully up the river at the thousands of waterfowl which lined lta banka. Within close view were herons and black ibises, geese, pelicans, flamingoes, and a dozen other species of birds of which he did not know the names. But he sat as though in a stupor, and did not move even when one of the driftwood logs on a mud-shoa few yards oiiened an enormous mouth and displayed two rows of hooked fangs. It waa other wise when the noontime stillness was broken by a violent splashing and loud Biiortiugs down-streaHe glanced about and saw six or eight see-wate- She It's three o'clock. I'm going I shan't be more., my dressmaker. than a quarter of an hour. He All right; donft forget we are dining out at eight o'clock. to Educational Campaign Effective, In the states of the United States in which the most preventive work has been done the per cenlage of public funds spent is the highest, while in states where little or no effort has been made to prevent tuberculosis, and the treatment of the disease alone haa been considered, the percentage of public expenditures Is very low. For instance, ot the 1,600,-00spent in New York In 1909, nearly CO per cent, was from state and city s funds. In Massachusetts nearly was from public money; lu and In PennMaryland about one-hal- f, In Colorado, sylvania - three-fourthon the other hand, less than one per cent was from public money; in about 15 per cent., and In Arizona none at all. Thpse facts Indicate, the national association declares, that wherever m aggressive educational campaign has been carried on by private organizations, states and cities have beef I induced 1o make liberal appropriatl ins for the prevention of tuberculosis. 0 monstrous heads hint with the tide. drifting we'd two-third- - Cal-lfera- la - G30R3v7 GOGHS Szs Guar! The Army of Constipation would have been physically imiKisslble half an hour since. Blake's sunken Is Crewing Smaller Every Day. eyes lighted with hope. He burst CARTERS LITTLE through the last screen of jungle and LIVER PILLS am stared towards the palm under which they imnnaijhlit he had left his companions. They ealy gim relief were not there. they pcrBueady Another call from Wlnthrope dicam Caestipa-rected his gaze more seaward. The M3- two were seated beside a fallen palm, thaaior and Miss Leslie had a large round object raised to her lips. Winlhrop was asm, Mipitiaa, Sick Haaiacka, Sofia Ska. waving to him. SMALL PILL SMALL DOSE. SMALL PKK3 Cocoanuta! he yelled. "Conte on! GENUINE mud bear signature: Three of the palms had been overthrown by the hurricane, and when Blake came up he found the ground strewn with nuts. He seized the first he came to; but Wlnthrojie held out one already opened. He snatched it from him and placed the hole to his GOODS (IKE DYE FOR ALL XeYer had champagne IS fad, Mlliant volor, Mr par parkas al dratern swollen lips. If aut ta Mark and 10a alaun ruUir MiW ut half so delicious as that cocoa-nu- t aw will kr ml wllkdlracllun kw and voter mid.L tasted milk. Before he could drain the Darllngum, last of it through the little opening the husks torn from For Asthma, Bronchitis and Wlnthrope had of two other nuts, and the ends the Take convenient germinal spots gouged open with his penknife. Blake emptied the third before he SHike. Even then hts voice was Mow'd on and strained. hoarse trike Vui?" 1 couldn't help it." explained Wlnisi wvau thrope. "Hardly had you disappeared a hen I notice, the tops of the fallen 1 The relief is ns quick ns it is certain. and thought of the nuts. Tnre paints 1 Pleaiant to take end guaranteed was one In the gras-- not 20 feet from 1 absolutely free from opiates. where we lay." 1 An Drwniata. H aaala. . "Lucky for you and fur me. too, I guess," said Blake. "Wa wera kii DYOLA DYES DY-O-L- A all Throat Troubles lit i CURE nt Blake Pushed Out from Among the Cloee Thicket. three down for the count. But tok Wai down on the palm trunk beside aettlee the first round in our favor) him. How do you like the picnic, Miss I say, Blake. I be suggested, Jenny? "Miss Leslie, if you please, replied the girl, with hauteur. Oh, say, Mias Jenny!" protested Blake, genially. "We live In the same boarding house now. Why not be folksy? You're free to call me Tom. Pass me another nut, Wlnthroite. Thanks! By the way, what's your front name? Saw it aboard ship feel deuced fagged myself. Why not And when they awoke, Ihey were all dead men,' remarked Blake. By Jove, that sounds like a joke," protested the Englishman. "Don't rag me now." Joke! Blake. reiieated "Why, that's Scripture, Fat, Scripture! Anyway, you'd think it no joke to wake up and find yourself going down the Cyril" . Cecil, corrected Wlnthrope, in a throut of a hippo. low tone. "Hippo?" Dozens of them over in the river. "Cecil Lord Cecil, eh? or is it only Shouldn't wonder If theyve all landpd the Honorable Cecil? My dear sir, I have intimated be- and're tracking me down by this time." fore that, for reasons of er stale But hippopotami are not rarnivor-ou- s Oh, yes; you're traveling incog., in they're not at all dangerous, unthe secret service. Sort of detecless one wounds them, out lu the wative" "Detective!" echoed Winthroiie, In ter." "That may Is; but I'm not taking a peculiar tone. chances. They've got mouths like Blake grinned. "Well, It is rawthpr a nawsiy business for your honorable sperm whales I suw one take a yawn. Another thing, that bayou is chuck full ludship. But there's nothing like callof alligators, and a fellow down . on ing things by their right names." the Rand told me they're like the CenI dont quite tral "Right names er American gaviala for keenness to take you. I have told you distinctly a swimmer." nip Is Cecil name Winthroiie!" my They will not come out on this dry ! ! how lovely ! land." Bet they called you Sissy at "SupiKise Ihey won't tbere're no school. English chum of mine told me other animals in A fries but sheep, your schools are corkers for nick- eh?" names. What'll we make it Sis or "What can we do? The captain Sissy? me that there are both lions and told "I prefer iny patronymic, Mr. Blake, leoiiards on this coast." replied Wlnthrope. "Xicc place for them, too. around All right, then; we'll make It Fat. added Blake. "Lucky if that's your choice. I say, Pat, this these trees, for UK, they're night birds mostly It lint Juice is the stuff for wetness, if that Kami fellow didn't lie. lie was makes a fellow remember his gnib. a Boer, ko I guess he ought to know." Where'd you leave that fish? "To lie sure. It's a nasty fix we're "Really, I can't Just say, but It. must Could we not build have been where I wrenched my In for some a kind barricade?" of ankle." With a Guess we'll roost "You cawn't just say! And what in a tree." are we going to eat?" "But cannot leopards climb? It "Here are the cocoiinuts." seenia to me iliat 1 have heard " "Bright boy! go to the head of the How about lions? elass! Just take some more husk off "They cannot; I'm sure of that." those, empty ones." "Then we'll chance the coards. Winthroiie caught up one of he Just stretch out here and nurse that nuts, and with the aid of his knife ankle of yours. I don't want to be stripped It of its husk. At a gesture lugging you all year. I'm going to from Blske he laid It on the bare hunt a tree." likely ground and the American burst it oien with a blow of his heel. It was CHAPTER V. an Immature nut. and the meat proved to be lit'Ie thicker than clotted cream. The of Man. Blake divided It into three parts, handing Miss lslie the cleanest. Though his companions began with more restraint, ihey finished their A snares with equal gusto. Wimhrupe was ad far KTERXOOX nee, led no further orders to return to vii need and Wintlirope was bis husking. One after another the nuts were ciacked and divided aiming beginning lo feel anxious the three, until even Blake couM not when at last Blake pushed out from swallow another mouthful of the nmong the cIosp thickets. As be up-- ' club luscious ere m. pronrhed he swung an imshais-lfew bad be of green wood, pausing every Toward the cud Miss come drowsy. At Wliitlirope's urg- paces to test Its weight and balance ing, she now lay down for a nap. on a bush or knob of dirt. Blake's coat serving as a pillow. She "By Jove! called Wintlirope; "that's fell asleep while Winllimpe w,n yet not half bad! You look as If yon could arranging It for her. Uiul.e l ad bowl over an ox." turned bis back on her and was s'.iilng Blake showed that he was flatten'd. trail "Oh, I don't know, he resondcd: moodily at the hlpiMjpoiamus wliea Win thrope hobbled around and "the thing's blamed unhandy. Just the "O-h-- See-sill- best lie starting. "Is it far?" Not so very. But we've got to chase through the Jungle. Are you sure you're quite ready? "Quite, thank you. But how about Mr. Wlntlirope's ankle?" "lie'll rldo as far aa the trees. I can't with him, squeeze through though. "1 shall walk all the way," put In Wlnthrope. No. you wont. Climb aboard." replied Blake, and calchlng up his club he stooped fur Winthroiie to mount Ills back. As he rose with Ills burden Miss caught sight of hia coat, which still lay in a roll beside ilia palm trunk. "How about your coat, Mr. Blake?" she asked. Should you not put It on?" "No; I'm loaded now. Have to ask you to look after It. You may need It before morning, anyway. If the dews here are like those in Central America they are d darned liable to bring on ninlarial fever. Nothing mure waa said until they had crossed t lie oieii splice between the palms and the belt of jungle c along the river. At other times and Miss Leslie might have been interested In the towering srrew-palnifestooned to the top with climbers, and in the huge ferns which they could see beneath the mangroves In the swampy ground on their left. Now, however, ihey were far too concerned with i lie question of how they should Mneirate the dense tangle of which thorny brush anil creepers rose before them like a green wall. Even Blake hesitated as lie released Wlin lmiie and looked at Miss 1slle's costume. Her white skirt was of stout duck; but the flimsy material of her waist was for rough usage. 'Belli. r pul the coal on unless yon w:,ul to come out on the other side In lu'l dress." h- - said. "There's no use kicking, bill I wish you'd happened to have on Home sort of a jacket when we got spilled.'' "Is there no path through the thicket? inquired Wlnihrope. "Only the hippo trail, and It don't go our way. We've got to run our own line. Mere's a stick for your game ankle." took ilic half green Winthnqic branch which Blake broke from lb nearest tree and turned to assist Miss Leslie with the coal. The garment was of such coarse clot ti that as Win-lrope drew the collar close about her throat Miss Leslie could not forego a The linle grimace of repugnance. crease between Blake's eyes deepened and the girl hastened to utter an exexclamation: "Not so planatory It light, Mr. Wlnthrope, please! scratches my neck." (TO UK t'ONTIM'KD.) towards What In Whee! a whole herd of hippos!" he muttered. That's what the holes mean. The foremost hippopotamus was headed directly for him. He glared at the huge head with sullen resentment. For all hia stupor be perceived at once that the beast Intended to land; and he sat in the middle of its accustomed path. Hia first impulse waa to spring up and yell at the creature. Then he remembered hearing that a white hunter had recently been killed by these beasts on one of the South African lakes. Instead of leaping up he sank down almost flat and crawled back around the turn In the Sometimes a man Is as badly fright path. Once certain that he was hidcned by an imaginary snake as a den from the beasts he rose to his woman is by a real mouse. feet and hastened back through the jungle. Let none of you treat his brother in He was almost in view of the spot a way he himself would dislike to be where he had left Wlnthrope and Miss treated. Mohammedan. Leslie, when he stopped and stood . hesitating. I can't do it, he muttered; I can't tell her poor girl!" He turned and pushed into the thicket. Forcing a way through the tangle of thorny shrubs and creepers until several yards from the path he began to edge towards the face of the jungle, that he might ieer out at his companions unseen by them. There was more of the thicket before him than he had thought, and he waa still fighting his way through it when he was brought to a stand by a peculiar cry that might have been the bleat of a young lamb: lla ba! Whats that? he croaked. He stood listening, and in a moment he again heard the cry, this time more distinctly: "Blak! Blak! There could be no mistake. It was Winthroiie calling for him, and calling with a dearness of voice that 1tA Wln-llirop- See-seal- ?UFK Ofr tikjjy-AGUmN- Tttl you want a diamond you can If lat ono now at 9150.00 par earaL Aa long aa thay laat wa ara a limited lot from half carat atonaa to two carats. XX Each atone guaranteed of finoat cut, olaan and up parfacL 170 nan sau lass city utah f large Good seed ars Ik tree fseadslMe craps. 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Mr. Sherard was al his best at this dinner. In magazine circles bla mots" are still being quoted with laughter. One mot concerned the wine, a very rich and nutty fruit port which was served in English fashion, with the fruit and nuts at the dinner's end. All praised this wine. As for Mr. Sherard, rolling It upon his tongue, then swallowing It with closed eyes, he cried, ecstatically: It Klijm down like an angel In s pair of velvet trousers!" A A Pertinent Queation. noted clergyman was in his study daughwriting when his ter walked In and asked: "Wlmt are you writing, papa?" I am writing a sermon, daughter." How do you know what to write, papa?" "God tells me what to writob d daughter. After watching her father a few minutes the little girl said: Papa, if God tells you what to write why do you scratch some of it out? Sun Francisco Chronicle. Doubtful Statiatica. Maudie Fa, will our new mamma go mad after a while? Father What a question! Why did you think of such a thing? Maudie Well, 1 heard her tell the cook that hIio got badly bitten when she married you. Quilts. little girl was in the habit of tellHer auntie ing uwful stretchers. told her she could never believe her; and, to warn her, related the tale of A the boy who called "Wolf, wolf!" and the wolf really did come one day and ate up all the sheep. "Ate the sheep?" asked the child. "Yes." All of them?" Well," said the little one, I don't believe you, and you don't believe me. So there!" Harpers Magazine. liow He Wae Particular. Mrs. Myles Who la that throwing that kiss to? Mrs. Styles "It must be you, dear. He wouldn't be throwing me a Mss. Mrs. My lea Why not?" Crocodiles Along th Nil. Mrs. Styles Because it's my husAt the sound of the shot the whole Yonkers Statesman. of this hank of the river, over the ex- band. tent of at least a quarter of a mile, Looking Way Ahead. sprang into hideous IITe, and my comJones Always seems to be looking panions and I saw hundreds of croco Into the future." and sorts of all sizes, rushing dlles, Yes. He bought a house on easy madly into the Nile, whose waters shore were terms and a piano on the installment along the line of the white lashed into foam, exactly as a plan. heavy wave bad broken. it Was. It could be no exaggeration to say " Fancy old Fowder Manufacturer s that at least a thousand of these had been disturbed at a alngla Tom, of all people, going into the gunpowder shed with a lighted candle; I shot. Strand Magazine. should have thought that would be tha last thing he'd do." Wretched Pay for Labor. At a heaving last summer In London Workman Which, properly speak-l- n on the "sweating'' question, evidence 'twere, sir." was brought forward showing that Hand Made. fill women who sewed hooks and eyes She "Did you meet any new face on cards earned at an average a little over 75 cents a week. Another woman at the oiwra the other night?" llo "Oh, vcs. Some of them had was Instanced who worked from nine one morning until the next morning only Just been made that evening." Boston Transcript. and earned IIS cents in (bat time. It would seem belter to die. sau-rian- , aalllng Tit-Hits- ' |