Show ¥" ’ill “T “Why I can’t say that I do" wai ' the hesitating reply “Never mind I’ve changed Had to wanted to" rattled on the stranger “See here” and be began to brin from his pockets bundle after bundle Saved in Face How Bank of bank notes “There’s $20000 Use It” of Frantic Mob of De"But my dear sir—" began the be wlldered cashier positors I said didn’t I?” Interrupt ed the Btranger unceremoniously ELMER COBB By GEORGE "But have no right the coudl Randal Webster the young and tfon the we is In — to receive depoa bank handsome president of the Bank of its” stammered the cashier Greenville opened the door of his "Call jt a loan then" said the stran He glanced Into the private office “I know all about your worry ger counting room and beyond It at the here It won’t last Keep the crowd jostling crowds In the street outBlde Pay them off'smlllng Then with a groan he sank to a chair goodnatured I’ll guarantee the run will soon stop1 the picture of despairing misery Then he lifted the satchel As it “It has come” ' he told himself in a harsh racking whisper— “the worst opened the startled cashier used ai he was to the sight of money uttered the end!" a great cry The man piled up bundle There came a tap at the door The after bundle of crisp green bank notes young financier sprang to his feet “Shove them up against the glass A brief vague hope gave him momenwhere they will show” ordered the tary energy Then his soul seemed to “Only don’t pay out any ol die within him as his cashier enter- stranger You won’t need to That ed the room with a face blanched and this heap pile the real cash paid out right along as his own soon will tame that unhily mob’’ “Any word?” Webster projected "Ten o’clock" announced the dumb hoarsely founded cashier "Open up" Mr Webster we must face “None The stranger drew to one side as the crisis the worst of rumors as to The astounded the solvency of the Institution have enjoying the scene Webster too busy to notice soon was got abroad A mob of depositors from him The eager crowd filed In the mills Is In front of the bank They are wrought jjp and dangerous They everybody was paid promptly Tbs threaten to smash every window and sight of the great bundles of bills beto have an effect Some Bbamed If gan blow up the bank with dynamite Others their money redeposited their money is not paid them promptcatching the infection of restored corn ly at ten o'clock” fldence did not aBk tor their money “Impossible!” gasped Webster “No one knows that better than my- at all Within an hour the news went self" responded the cashier In a hol- all over town that the bank waa safe With a great algh of relief Randal low tone "There Is no promise whatever that your messenger to the city Webster beckoned the Btranger Into will arrive before night Then It is his private room “Now then” he said “what does too late The train Is just in and neither man nor money has ap- this all mean?” The stranger laughed Then he peared" the banker’s band lit a friendly seized “How lnuch is there in the bank In grip ready cash?” “You don’t know me eh?" he said “Less than $10000” “Well I’m bringing you back some of “Pay It out to the last dollar as the bread you cast upon the waters If we can tide slowly as you can five years ago” over for a few hours the expected help "I don’t understand you” murmured may come” “And if It does not— and when the the puzzled banker “You was a lawyer then and you demoney gives out?” questioned the fended In the city a member of a gang cashier fearsomely Now do you re“Put up a sign and close the bank” of counterfeiters member?” Left to hlmBelf the young banker “Why yes” answered Webster reviewed the situation Energetic lm slowly “My name was Dallas — not now I’ve changed It You got me tree you It was my gave me a great lecture life chance and I Improved it I weut to my folks fifty miles from here A I have relative left me a fortune kept track of you I heard of your HEAD II Was ' trouble" “And you have saved the bank!” pried the grateful Webster “The gang believed a large amount of their counterfeits destroyed saved the satchel containing them" went on the man “I buried it That show money I took from the satchel is counterfeit The real money I drew from my bank early today to loan to We will burn the counterfeits you now they have served their purpose" An hour later the bank messenger came rushing up In an automobile with plenty of money to safely tide the bank over Webster paid back his grateful friend in need He did not tell even Down deep in his Ethel the story heart however he fervently cherished the gratitude of the reformed criminal who had saved the bank” at a critical Juncture (Copyright 1913 by W G Chapman) WOMAN’S With petuous f i a Groan He ambitious Sank to a Chair he bad gone be- yond his depth In an Investment sure to turn out profitable in the end A however had temporary complication tied It up He could not realize In ready cash under a week A heavy draft came upon the surplus funds depleting the bank reserve to a dangerSomehow a public ously low figurerumor of all this got out The report was current that the bank was going to fall Result: The frantic desperate mob of frightened depositors now clamoring at the great locked doors Webster had sent a trusted employe of the bank to a rich relative In the city He carried an urgent appeal for succor The messenger had not reported A graver shade of feeling covered the features of the young financier as be thought of the one dearest to him world— Ethel Morris In They were to have been wedded In a month but If the bank broke — then Webster PLACE IN NATURE Man With the Grouch Draws His Conclusions From Observation of Pet Pair of Geese “I don’t believe In suffragettes nor In the new woman” said the man with the grouch “They’re against the law of nature! “I'll tell you why it Isn’t natural' he went on “I’ve been observing life In the barynard and I’ve learned by analogy the real place of woman Jn the economy of life “My wife has started in to raise a couple of geese and they are the most human things you ever set eyes on She calls ’em Darby and Joan “We have no goose pond so we’ve sunk a tub in the backyard for the recreation of the two geese “Well Darby simply owns that tubl He waddles up to It very solemnly the first thing in the morning and takes an “Joan comes waddling behind him meek and and tries to follow exclusive famwell knew her proud He scolds her and her lord’s example ily would scarcely favor a discredited her back drives She obeys with bebankrupt It was a forlorn fight for coming feminine gentleness business preservation and love “Then with the utmost care and deWebster hurried Into the counting to take his He liberation Darby proceeds room as a great outcry arose bath and make himself beaumorning arrived was his messenger hoped It In the tub preens he feared It was new riot It lacked tiful Heandsputters time in his has a beautiful himself just five minutes of ten A remarkable lordly masculine way scene greeted his sight “When he has entirely finished he man A whiskered was talking to the excited crowd He cackles with glee comes out of the was waving a great bundle of bank sunken tub and waddles off to graze notes in one hand There was a on the new shoots of grass “Now that he Is through with the cheer In his other band the stranger carried au old battered satchel With tub Joan may have her turn She may have what 1b left now that her lord It he now pounded on the door master is quite finished and asI In!" must the “Let me In get "It's a lesson In wifely subjection tonished Webster beard him shout out “Don’t get to see Joan make her toilet and then and then to the people: scared Kandal Webster Is an honest waddle around contentedly In the mate man and the Bank of Greenville Is wake of her proud domineering "It goes to show what woman’s solid as a rockl" be acin the determined manSomething place In the world really should — ner of the visitor caused the watch- cording to the law' of nature” New man to open the door for him The York Telegram stranger helped him reclose It against New York Verdict the eager crushing crowd he deis Mr Webster?” “Wher The North Dakota man who spent “Ah there be is" and he his last dollar for a taxi to take him manded apnroachcd the counter and nodded to the poorbouse Is the champion to the wandering banker ’“Remembtr game sport of the western world— New York Press jie Mr Wehsterr NeW Yorfc Sales Agent Long tlve in Prison Reform OF NAVY FINGER PRINT BUREAU AC' Frederick H From Jails Mills Transferred Men to Responaiblt Jobs In and Spent Much Time Aiding Unfortunates v Banks New York— In 1881 a Chicago merT chant took a young man to the First National bank In that city and Introduced him to the president Lyman J Gage afterward secretary of the treasury as Frederick Mills chief clerk of the state reformatory at Elmira N Y ”1 want to get a position Mn your bank for a friend of mine Mr Gage" said- young Mills “He Is a man of experience and ability and has the best of references from the Bank of North America In Montreal where he was employed for several years" “Where is he now?" Mr Gage Inquired “He Is In the Elmira reformatory" replied the young man “He has just finished his term there and Is waiting to get a job in order to be allowed to leave” The bank president stared hard at hla visitor for a moment and discovering from his manner that he was serious resisted an Inclination to become angry but laughed long and loud Instead "Did you come out here with the Impression that the Chicago banks select their from the reformatories?" he asked Thirty years ago before the new ' Dangerous Talk “Mother I wish you wouldn’t mention dishwashing when George Is call Ing on me!” “Why not indeed?" “I don’t like It It sounds common" "Common eh? We have to eat don’t we?’ “Of course" “And George knows we eat and use dishes?" "That’s very true" “And George also knows that dishes have to be washed therefore somebody has to wash them?" “But mother —" "What now?" “If you keep on talking aobut George mhy discover that you maks father wash them and he may think the same thing is coming to him he should propose to me” — Detroit Free Press Surrounded ovsr 130000 cards holding a silent but by files containing of every man who baa enllBted in the navy since positive Identification 1907 J E Taylor chief of the navy’s finger print bureau Is becoming the terror of men who have provqd unfaithful In their country’s service In the four years the system has been In operation' 1700 men have been caught Of those apprehended last year many were deserters and others had been dishonorably and forbidden to discharged that the Elmira graduate should have livelihood through Mr Mills’ instrua place In the bank The man rose mentality and to men L the prisons to the position of head bookkeeper In who look to him for assistance on the First National bank of Chicago their release and was a trusted employe until his It was his success with the first two was born of science and penology health gave out a few years ago for whom he obtained emPresident Gage then sent m to a ployment that led Mr Mllla to keep philanthropy the idea of giving an seemed preposresort in California employment and took up the work health As an illustration of the terous to the average man of business ' care of him until his death of reform possibilities among men was not to be This Incident Is only one of many of punished for crime Mr Mills relates Young Mills however rebuffed He related to Mr Gage the the same nature that explain why it Is an experience In Chicago a few years story of the coming of the Montreal that Frederick Hamlin Mills who of- ago On this occasion be was asked bank clerk to New York to better bis fered his resignation as sales a rent of to dine with five one time convicts he fortunes and of his yielding to temp- the prison department- - of the state had befriended three of them from tation in the metropolis be told of tile recently in order to promote harmony the Elmira reformatory One of the opportunities he haJ for studying the between Superintendent of Prisons five was Jarvis then head bookkeeper other’s character In the reformatory Scott anu Governor Sulzer is a man of of the First National bank another office and be asserted his opinion These friends range was private secretary to the general many friends here was a chance for the bank presi- f m the penologists and students of manager of one the most famous raildent to save a human life from wreck of America and the rest roads In the country criminology a third was ’ Mr Gage argued the matter with of the world the prison officials the of a big coal company Mr Mills for half an hour and disUnited States and a wide church and and the others were the chief cashier cussed It with him for an equal period social circles to scores of of a manufacturing company and a and at the end of an hour promised who are today earning an honest theatrical manager TELLS OF POLE TRIP URGES BLUE DRESS SUITS Italian Nobleman 8ayS Conventional Black Is 8lgn of Artlstlo Decadence Here Hint Direct A stranger entered an hotel “Where’s the bar?” he asked of Pat who was standing at the door "What kind of a bar?” asked the lat— ter “Why a liquor bar of course What do you suppose I mean?" “Well" drawled Pat with a twinkle “I didn’t know but wbat you what you might mean a bar of soap" Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTOKIA a safe and sure remedy for Infants and children and see that It Bears the Signature of In Use For Over SOYears Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria Customer ' Prospective Small girl— Teacher did you say the lord makes babies too? school teacher— Yes indeed Sunday Small girl— About how much does he charge for one ’cause I want a baby brother awful bad Constipation causes and seriously aggraIt is thoroughly cured JTiny vates many diseases by Dr Pierce's Pellets granules Adv It Is far worse for a woman to marry a man she can’t love than it is for a man to love a woman he can’t marrymat Only One “BKOMO QUININE” took la LAXAi’lVH BKOMO OUIM1NH W OKOvtfi Cures for the etunature of in One Our Cures Grip in Two Days Cold Figuratively speaking a man and bis wife are one but the figures on the grocery hill are apt to disprove it It lent half as far from virtue ts vice as it Is from vice to virtue Amundsen Declares He Found It W® were five miles from the Boston— Duke Pompela Lltta of Ml Under a Hot Sun pole We ttra’rrled forward Skiing along under lan Italy who Is In this city as gueBt b blazing sun — that’s the word blaz- of the Twentieth Century club be made us hot We took off our lieves that the conventional ing— black eve Explorer and Party Reached Southern sweaters and silk coats and threw nlng clothes worn by American men Axle of Earth in Shirt Sleeves He Is on a the sleds them Still it was warm sign of artistic decadence Asserts In Story to Ch“The art of bejpg magnificent Is enwork even In our undershirts When we thought we had covered five miles icagoans tirely lost In America” he declared in we took another We an Interview “The only thing of coloi observation discovwere at 89 degrees 59 minutes Chicago — Roald Amundsen That In American life is the color of th ered the south pole in his undershirt left the pole a mile away We trav- hats of ladies They are wonderful The Norwegian explorer who on De- ersed that mile and erected a tent and Where do they come from? Even In Procured Lydia E Pinkham’ cember 16 1911 planted his coun placed a Norwegian flag on top of It Paris I have never seen such hats “But the men I pity them above what we believed waa the pole try’s flag at the earth’s southern axis Alwayi Vegetable Compound Is himself clothed they seem to gc somberly authority for this state- Itself which made His Wife “We remained life ment so I can It need not startle any one under through a£tne pole three sadly The sun was shining In a cloudless sky days and set up flags In all directions stand why perhaps they wear black a Well Woman and grays and browna to business Bui and the thermometer registered only Then we went miles beyond 15 degrees below zero This seemed the pole The land or the ice and even for evening wear they choose Middletown Pa— “I had headache black real warm and summery to a man who snow that covered it to an unknown backache and such awful bearing down bad become “I do not believe In this downward Inured to temperatures It depth still sloped Why can that I could not be on my feet at 60 and 75 degrees below during the seemed as If we were still going not the American gentlemen on pleas pains inflammation so antarctlo winter south But we were not We were ure bent relax? I should suggest s times and I had organic In taking two steps at dress suit of perhaps pale blue oi badly that I was not able to do my work Captain Amundsen was visiting Chi- going north could I not get a good meal for my has Ab he sat iu the University the pole we went both south and gray or with a fine stripe In the fu band cago and one child My neighbors said ' club Immaculate and smartly groomed north and I may say that at that ture” they thought my suffering was terrible as any dandy of the boulevards he point where all meridians converge “ My husband got tired of seeing me did not appear aa If he could be capaone stride would take us from the Blamed Carrier for Loss and one roller night went to the drag ble of anything so unconventional as longitude of New York to that of New York— “I want to know th® San Francisco name of the parcel post carrier whe store and got me a bottle of Lydia' E “There was no excitement when we ate the other half of this cake?” de Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and found ourselves at the pole” Captain manded an Indignant suffragette "ai told me I must take it I can’t tell you Amundsen added “No one danced or sne rushed Into the New York post of all I suffered and I can’t tell yon all that hurrahed I knew we would get there flee exhibiting part of a sponge cake your medicine has done for me I was We all knew It We bad never doubt“I suppose be got hungry while h® greatly benefited from the first and it baa made me a well woman I can do ed It It seemed a perfectly natural was carrying It around and kept nib all housework thing to be there We felt at home If bling at It’’ Postmaster Lowrie ex of my friends as and even helped some well I think it is a my we hadn’t got there there might have plained that the cake had not been wonderful women all to help some suffering been occasion for excitement” eaten but crushed Into crumbs I have g6t several to take it after see ing what it has done for me”— Mrs Emma Espenshade 219 East Main St Middletown Pa a The Pinkham record is a proud and honCost of Maintaining Training 8hlp for orable one It is a record of constant was St and Mary recalled the gun victory over the obstinate ills of woman Merchant Marine Proves Too Exboat Newport was substituted Th® —ills that deal out pensive for Results Obtained despair It is an esunlike her predecessor Newport ha® tablished fact that Lydia E Pinkhara’s New York— The navy of New York engines and she has proved to be i Vegetable Compound has restored mighty coal eater at a time when coal health will be put out of commission within to thousands of such suffering Is costly Also the board complained the year unless something unexpectwomen Why don’t you try it if you ed comes up to rescind the order parents persisted In looking upon th® need such a medicine? as a sort of reformatory which has just been Issued and the schoolshlp If where they could load bad boys and yon want special advice write to flag of New York will be seen no more E Pinkham Medicine Co (confLydia on the high seas or In the ports of get rid of them for half a year Is idential) Lvnn Mass Yonr letter will that were capable of handling be opened and the north At- hands the Mediterranean read and answered by a them without gloves if It was neceswoman and held in strict confidence lantic Capt Roald Amundsen the board has ap Ever elnce 1874 Now York has main- sary Accordingly the south pole in his un- tained a naval school for the training plied for a change In the city chartei discovering dershirt One would fancy he would of officers for the American merchant abolishing the naval school altogether have done It in evening clothes marine The fact that there was no “Our journey wae very pleasant” American merchant BY marine to speak DINNER PARCEL P0S1 Prompt Relief— Permanent Cure said the suave Norseman "We un- of did not at all prevent a great many CARTER’S LITTLE derwent no hardships to speak of We boys from attending the school and Guest Malls an Item on the had a little trouble getting over the cruising six and eight months at a Each LIVER PILLS never Menu le the Very Lateet Sofail Purely vegetagreat ice range of the Queen Maud time partly at the expense of the cial Novelty mountains at 85 degrees south but al- State partly of the city and partly of ble— act surely but gently on ter that we came out on a high plat- the nation — liver the Y N A Peeksklll “parcel post” eau ahlch eloped down in one smooth a In accordance with as a social nov- Stop after and unbroken expanse of bard frozen policy the United States navy dinner was Introduced dis- dinner snow to the pole has furnished a vessel and a comelty by Mr and Mrs A J Giles ol tress—cure £ x—jA “It was downhill all the way and manding officer for each of the naval Peeksklll who gave one In their horns indigestion AP" we were on skis So you might say schools of the coast states During the with a menu of foodstuffs prepared In Improve the complexion brighten the eyea we tobogganed to the pole The sled winter the ship lay at a pier in the distant localities and shipped to them SMALL TILL SMALL DOSE SMALL PRICE The housed over by parcel post dogs had hard work to keep up with East river comfortably Genuine must bear Signature ns to and furnishing a convenient and cozy guests mailed their contributions There were five of us — Ilolmer Hauschoolbouse for the boys numbering the dinner before starting for Peeksklll sen Oscar Wlstlng Sverre to enjoy the feast There was a largs HasBel from 100 to 250 who were students Olaf Bjaaland and myself We bad The board of education of New York roasted chicken from Bound Brook of the school N J corn bread and cheese from Virplenty to eat banqueting every day city has had charge on pemmlcan biscuit chocolate of Greater New ginia meat products from Chicago and since the organization O C and Da a The weather was York and It has grumbled occasionalfruit from Washington Bart Coof h Cyrop TuU Good 17m powdered milk fn thn Sold kf DraJnriMk We dripped with perspiration hot ly because of the cost of maintaining try from New York No food was pn even In our light clothes the schoolshlp A few years ago the pared by the host or hostess HUSBAND TIDED OF SEEING HER SUFFER GOTHAM TO GIVE UP NAVY Constipation Vanishes Forever |