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to want yea L ADLER Pres Adler MfflXo pr this Organ j won First Prize at the 81 Loula World' Fair A Guarantee ar : TEAS THIS MAIL OUT By HUGH 8 FULLERTON This Is a story which Is perfectly one of the proper to tell because bishops of the Protestant Episcopal church laughed until tears rolled down his cheeks over It and foigave the rector concerned The rector Is In charge of a prominent Chicago church and it so happened that he is and always will be a White Sox fan In the vestry are two more White Sox fans who shall be called Smith and Brown because they would never forgive the use of their real names The story concerns the time that the Chicago Cubs representing the NaSox and the White tional league league champions of the American met to decide the world’s championship There was civil war in Chicago that fall The Berles divided families and caused neighborhood riots Friends of a lifetime ceased to speak and good each others’ eyes citizens blackened foorsooth one In the street because thought the Cubs would win and the other picked the White Sox The rector and the two vestrymen had a box at all the games during the week — but alas! for them the final game of the wild and exciting series fell on Sunday and worse than that on a Sunday for which the rector had services matin announced special services Smith But for the special and Brown might have compromised their consciences and seen the game but knowing the rector would note any absence on their part they dutiduties fully attended their church The special service was over when Brown was unable to stand it any longer With Intensely solemn face he arose tiptoed down the aisle and made a quiet exit Once outside he dashed madly across the street to the drug store and reached a telelater he reA few moments phone face was His entered church wreathed with a beatific smile and as he carefully parted his coat tails and resumed his seat his chest overhung his body like a bay window and the absolute contentment of his smiling countenance was only to be Tivaled by a calf chewing a dish rag Brother Smith’s pew was directly across the aisle He was twitching with suppressed anxiety and seeing Brown’s face he could contain himself no longer but stretched his neck across the aisle and whispered “Who won?” His whisper was audible to half the church and the rector paused In his discourse “The Sox” replied Brother Brown his smile spreading and his exultant whisper penetrating even the choir loft For an Instant the rector was dazed A murmur ran through the church Make a cross In the circle for organs— or pianos both Or write your name and address on a postal card or in a letter stating which you want —piano or organ description Don’t enclose any stamp I pay all charges Write plainly Pres 2902 ChMinutStLulsvl lie CYRUS L "S I want your I want pictures and full dea- organ book cription cf your pianos J —or HIE ADLER FACTORY Wbere Wise People Bay i w y toHc07 w j Name Address State County ! this wtrnnr THE SALIRA pnsew 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Be Light Power & Milling Co- - and his has the score” Brown did not hesitate Swelling his chest further he proclaimed: “Eight to three” A titter ran over the congregation as the rector without raising his eyes Raid: “We will now sing the long meter doxology three times” GOOD THINGS TO EAT You can always find them at the old SAUNA MEAT & SUPPLY CO IEHI A tbonnn h Fruit eta y TETFRaOV complete lins You’ll always JR Proprietor of Mea's Groceries Green Groceries Fish door to the Bank find me In Call in net tasS mm flit-Ho- § Divided Families Series Riots Caused Neighborhood Then the little rector regained and said calmly: composure “And now that Brother Brown told us who won he might tell us Tho mer THE CAFFETERRA Rasmussens J For Choice Confectioneries Fresh Fruits Ice Cream Tobacco Cigars Stationery Old Post Office All Hours Restaurant Bakery Hlg “Little Alexander” Zwilling cherubic looking (not acting) outfielder of the Chicago White Sox is a native of Battle Creek Mich He probably could make more money traveling as an advertisement for the health foods of that place than he ever will at baseball He looks like the picture of Melllns’ food babies and Is ro plump and angelic iRipearing that the pitchers hate to strike him out But Manager Hugh Duffy decided Zwilling was too plump One afternoon Little Alexander was thrown out at first on an infield bounder which Duffy thought he ought to have beaten to first and he called the cherub “Here remarked Zwilling” he Get some of that “you're too fat weight oft and you’ll go faster” "Yes I will — I’m dieting now” remarked Zwilling Two weeks and Zwilling passed looked plumper than ever Toull have to take some of that weight off or I'll send you back to the minor leagues" cautioned DufTy “I'm dieting to take It off" responded Zwilling “What are you taking!” asked Trainer Buckner who had not been consulted In the matter “I’m taking nearly a pint of olive oil every day" said Zwilling spiritedly and wondered why “Buck" collapsed on the bench xcr— — czx The Bayou Bridge and Cupid By NELLIE i v CRAVEY GILLM0RE xv— I “Do get me out of this!" she InterWith head bent and Ups tightly comMatilda hurried swiftly past rupted petulantly pressed flinching with pain an Impatient the camp down a steep clay road and as she gave her foot on to the bayou bridge that led to twist rural delivery box No 33 on the other Full of solicitude Cheatham stooped side and with a few deft manipulations It was a gusty disagreeable day At succeeded In loosening the Imprisoned Intervals the rain whipped down In heel to a sheets “And now" said he rising and lookalternately slackening The wind ing ardently down Into Matilda’s desticky penetrating drizzle “don’t I deserve tore at the willow branches that dipped cidedly cross face into the stream and the waters of the something for that?" Ho eyed the letter covetously bayou writhed under its violence and Bhe an said across the agBut nothing Half way the bridge girl the did not yield up the letter either seized gressive guBt suddenly “It’s addressed to me isn’t It?" girl’s umbrella and flung It viciously in a crestfallen Into the turbulent black water Turn- urged Cheatham with a futile grasp at tone ing Involuntarily "Yes but— Oh!” Just at that Juncthe flying parachute Matilda abruptly twisted her feet sideways catching the ture nn accommodating zephyr lifted the envelope from her fingers and hpel of her boot In a crack between the planks Just then an angry tossed it out on the water where a current bore broke relentlessly upon the still more accommodating cloudburst unprotected head of the hapless pris- It swiftly Into the eddies Cheatham thrust his hands Into his oner and with hands tightly gripping the railing of tho bridge she waited pockets and stood staring at her comwith what patience she could mingled curiosity and alarm showing face on his mand for its fury to subside her ‘You — you’ve changed When at last she could your mind” get looked he said at last very gravely after his breath she lifted her head and about her struggling frantically to re- recent exuberance But to no lease the mutinous heel The guilty crimson flowed over Maavail Every Jerk and pull seemed to tilda’s face and without a word she make It that much more secure What turned and began to retrace her steps should she do? back toward the cam? with matched his Btep Cheatham She strained her eyes up and down the bridge in desperation but not a hers and they walked along In silence-foShe waithuman being was In sight several minutes heedless of the Then of ed fifteen mud slush and garminutes perhaps she stooped and made another wild ments of the inquisitive pedestrians effort to dislodge the boot In so do- who turned to look at them every now ing she wrenched her ankle so that and then As they came in sight of the campfurther attempts to free herself were Tho Vestry Fans With a ers’ and both painful and fruitless tents Cheatham paused terminable Cub game In honor of sigh she leaned against the railing looked Bternly Into the face of the girl the world’s series Chance permitted and bit her white Ups to' keep them at his side the rules governing the limit which from trembling “Look here Matilda" he said In a Is a quarter during the season to be Presently the wind fceased the rain voice that was different from any she broken and they were playing that shrank back Into the clouds “I and the had ever heard him use before grand old suicidal game of each ante lead of the sky broke up In patches of want you to be frank with me' If a quarter one dollar limit and all blue and silver With renewed hope you’ve made up your mind to turn me jacks and raising two or three times Matilda scanned the road from east to down I want you to tell me so bebefore the draw The New Yorker west And then' glory of glories! a fore I’ve made any more fools of mysat In to get his part of the world’s man was Just heaving Into view on the self" His lips shut with a snap and championship spoil and they observed brow of the hill opposite She watched the bulldog look came to his mouth hand him eagerly thankfully him approaching The third But as he was exclamation The “Mallory!" dealt he opened the pot for one bone came nearer near enough for her to eyes sharp Indignant but Matilda's right under the gun and he had three recognize the broad straight shoulders lifted their sober curtains long enough Tom nine spots Needham calmly and the massive head under the dripto emit a lambent little flash that was boosted It a dollar and after some nothing if not contradictory study Mordecal Brown gave It anoth“If you care to come into the camp with tilt er his threes The easterner until I can change these rags” Needham and Brown hoosted again “I think — I think we demurely fiblsted him - can talk better" The easterner a trifle dizzy only rehimself of his divested Cheatham mained and pushed two hesitating and rain coat and left it on a bench in the Needreluctant beans into the pot yard Inside he roamed about the ham raised Brown raised and Needlittle “reception parlor" of the tent ham staid and drew two cards while waiting like a caged lion for the girl Brown held his pat and the stranger to make her appearance drew two without helping his nines She came In at last gowned In some The stranger checked the bet Needwhite thing that Cheatdiaphanous ham bet a dollar Brown raised him ham thought made her look exactly Needham raised back and the stranger like a star floating In a gauzy silver with a sigh shoved his three nines into She was smiling and her eyes cloud the discard and swore softly at the as he held them to his own were soft “luck" Needham Brown raised and dreamy with their subtle confesraised and Brown after a second’s sion study called Cheatham reached forth eager arms “Whatche got Tom?” he demanded to draw her Into them but the apolo“Pair of fives” laughed Needham ingetic entrance of an “Just top you — pair of sevens” said dividual caused him to reconsider for Brown taking down the pot a moment For a moment the stranger stared “I bes pardon but somebody wish Then he remarked: Driscoll on de to speak to Miss “This is no place for a poker playphone” er” and crawled out “Be good enough" said Cheatham "to tell the gentleman that Miss DrisBig Bill Lange once the hero of Ancoll is— Is engaged" son’s famous Colts came east last'fall closed Whwn the door had been for the first time in 11 years to see Cheatham Was Swinging Down the he turned' humbly and obsequiously Clay Road the first world's championship series he ever beheld While in Chicago he ping Panama her eyes widened and to Matilda for corroboration The next minute he was holding the told the story of what he considered the blood began to pound In her white cloud against his breast andf the most freakish catch ever made throat and temples Mallory Cheatham “I made that catch on the old East- —the very last person on earth she the star seemed to have no objection to its new firmament ern park grounds In Brooklyn” said wanted to encounter! Bill "There may have been more In her hand was the still unposted Irishman wonderful catches but I think that letter addressed to him Philosophical It contained was the freakiest ever made and it only a few lines but It had taken her came Into a barber An Irishman saved us a ball game” half the night to make up her mind shop and the unsteady gait with which “The grounds at Eastern park were what to say and the other half how to he approached the chair showed that extremely long and not very wide say it She bad refused him firmly he had been imbibing of the produee and the center fielder could go a mile and finally He wanted his hair cut of the still back without hitting a fence If you Cheatham was swinging down the and while the barber was getting him I used to have a way of clay road with a freedom and remember agility ready went off into a sleep Hls head born of a light heart and a good digescoming In fast on a fly ball and sliding kept bobbing from one side to the to It if I saw I could not reach dt tion His gray cravenett covered him other and at length the barber In Well in this from chin to ankle and he twirled his game standing up making a snip cut off the lower part In Treadway was at bat and when he closed umbrella with his of hls ear The barber Jumped about rhythm got a good crack at a ball he would springing steps As he came to the and howled and a crowd of neighbors or drive It a mile or so out to center bridge he glanced up and stopped rushed In Finally the demonstrato right center so I played way out short tion became so great that It began to The sight of the girl drooping helpThey had a couple of runners on bases attract the attention of the man In and a long hit meant that would beat lessly against the railing her hair the chair and he opened one eye and us out' Instead of lifting the ball far straggling about her pale face and the the matter wid said out ks I expected him to do Tread- hat above It sogged into an unrecog“Good Lord!” said the barber yez?” a low hard line hit nizable mass of flowers and feathers way smashed cut off the whole lower part of “I’ve I thought I caused Cheatham to gUe vent to a straight In my direction "Have ear” yeT Ah thin go could reach the ball and went tearing prolonged whistle then swiitly double your on wid yer business — It was too long I saw I could In at top speed reach his pace to reach her side anyhow!” on and ball the When he was almost up to her Mawithout sliding kept is I was tilda’s face grew scarlet with blushes at as fast a gait as I could Each Inn “The Dickens Head” foot Held like a criminal in the pillory she almost to the ball when my A novel use for Dickens' stamp was caught some way and I pitched for- returned his look of consternation with I lost sight of the one of belligerent ward onto ray face silence suggested at the meeting of the Dickball entirely and threw out both arms After Cheatham comprehended the ens centenary committee at London wrote to save myself As I hit the ground situation a smile struggled through his Mr F Wells of Birmingham that although Charles Dickens was my feet flew up behind me Just as astonishment That “For heaven’s sake!” he exclaimed the best friend inn keepers and the ball went over my head ball hit right on my heels and popped censed vlctualizers ever had in “how under the sun —” no single inn In the kina'jhm bore at least 30 feet Into the air Ryan had “Or rather rain!” snapped Matilda been coming over fast to back me up with a 'defiant toss of her head that the sign of the “Dickens He to therefore If the ball got past me and he trotted made the brim of her hat flap ludicproposed tryel from In and caught the ball before it could rously against her damp and now Land's End to John o’ Groattf carrying hit the ground and retired the side very hot cheeks with him a stock of 1100 Dickens All I ever got sore about was that I But Cheatham’s eyes were glued to stamps one of which he intended to didn’t catch that ball between my the letter she held in her hand and affix to every inn sign en route thus an exultant light 'flashed into them as converting 1100 places of refreshment heels" he espied his own name (Copyright 1911 by Joseph B Bowie) in blotted into “Dickens Heads” In honor of the centenary — Loudon characters on the back of it great novelist's It Often Happens “Egotistical thing!” thought Matil- Chronicle “I thought you said you were get- da his face like book “I’m a reading In on the ground floor?” Then He Says Things ting refused you” glad "I was but the floor was rotten and "I was beginning to grow Impatient “Is Brunson a loud dresser?’’ I fell Into the cellar" of your answer dear" “Only when hls tie sticks” Knowing' baseball and being able to play It well does not make a man a good ball player To be that he must know these things and at the same time know his opponents The same thing applies to the other great American game poker as a stranger from a far land discovered during the world's series The stranger was a New York writer dispatched to travel with the Cubs In those hysterical jumps to and from Philadelphia lie has played poker from coast to coast but though he knew the game and could play It he had never played with the bunch of desperadoes that engages In the Hd" |