Show Ills INTERFERENCE There Was One Way the Engagement ' BY A Only Do you really love this man In the south? Be honest with me Betty please for I believe In you like 1— like I believe In God” he finished rev erently Out o MARIA CRAWFORD “You’ve always had all the money you wanted Theoren and you wouldn know how to get along without It" aid Betty decidedly "So It’s beat to consider our engagement at an end can’t marry you" Theoren Crane looked at the girl I—" Betty put her Theoren to her throat She seemed to be "Give me two days to think choking things over Then I will send for you Theoren” she held her arms out to him as he turned away to the door “Don’t lose faith In me not yet — not "Oh hand yet” she The next evening at dinner heard her father's voice calling her "In the kitchen daddy" she anMary swered "I’m getting dinner Susie James and my own maid rushed home an hour ago when the grocer's boy told them about that big fire in wonderlngly I’ll “There is only one way out of this the block where they all live engagement for you Just one” he re- hurry You won’t have to wai? long" Is that to "and acknowledge "Put more water In the soup” John pealed No rea other that you don’t love me Carter told her smiling at this strange con will hold with me” trick of Fate "for I’ve brought comBetty pondered a tiny pucker pany to dinner” She spoke with In her forehead All right" Betty was not per"You know there has an effort turbed "How many guests?" look Tom” She to at tried "One Mr Wilson from up country” been him but her eyes fell before the sud Mr Carter stood for a minute admirden fire In his own ing the slight figure in an evening "Well what of itT He’s a sort of dress pinned up carefully and partly half forgotten myth" covered with one of Susie’s big blue "Don’t these roses look real? He aprons has Bent flowers every day for two Betty served her dinner without any years” Her retort came Quickly Her apparent effort and found time to chat pride had been stirred gaily with her father’s rather silent "Do you mean to tell me that you— guest "Did you really cook this nloe dinyou of all women— would have allowed me to bold you In my arms and kiss ner?” Miss Betty?" he asked yielding you if you had not intended tB marry presently to her gracious charm me? Were you thinking of Tom "Yes We keep four servants but then?” this afternoon they all stampeded beTim girl’s defense was being swept cause of a fire in the block where they kway ruthlessly She felt the hot blood live Fortunately my mother trained me to be ready for Just such emertingle In her face “I don’t suppose you ever made a gencies” mistake and kissed the wrong girl "Now MIbs Betty is Just the sort of did you?” she asked slowly a girl I want for my — " What’s the matter? Your "Left me give you some more fowl?” “Be’ty! "atlier has told you that Uncle Henry begged John Carter hospitably drew up his will yesterday and left It was evident to the guest that his money to me provided that I don’t Mr Carter did not care to discuss proHe fessional matters at home with his narry a society woman has always been a crank on the sub- daughter so he immediately took up ject of marriage Thinks that women the worn topic of the high cost of livought to know how to cook and sew ing and run a house you understand is a shrewd "Betty manager" comwent to the ofiice and begged your fa mented Carter proudly "I hear other ther not to tell you Uncle Henry has men complain of expenses but Betty been In Australia for twenty years and is a good buyer and wastes nothing so I find that although I have every( e didn't know a lawyer nor anybody thing on the market my expenses household expenses are no more than Betty’s they were ten years ago mother married me when I was a poor struggling lawyer and we had to save in order to live so I suppose it is instinct in the child to economize” "I’m proud to know such a girl In these days of wilful waste and extravagant living You’ll make some man a mighty fine wife Miss Betty" A little later as the men sat smoking in the library Betty’s voice plaintively sweet In a tender love song made John Carter's heart begin to He remembered ache her assumed gaiety at the table and her brave attempt to take his advice without any apparent effort The tinkling of the door bell startled him from his reverie then the rustle of Betty's skirts and then Theoren Crane’s deep voice In the hall "Betty I' don’t care a hang about Uncle “How COST Many Guests?” else In this town Imagine how I felt when he came In to luncheon today and announced that he had been to Gustave Carter to have his will drawn up! To your father! I don't want his I can take care of you Oh money Betty dear I’ve been so happy Say It’s all a mistake I don’t want anything but you” hard and Btarlng in Betty swallowed the Are went over to herself every word her father had said at noon Theoren “Betty you must give up Crane" he had urged "The boy has a future and this old uncle of his has You mustn’t let a dozen millions maudlin sentimentality cheat the boy out of a fortune like that The old fellow loves Theoren and wants him to marry a quiet simple girl who is accustomed to do actual work houseYes I know it’s hold work he said hard on you for you are more than capable and can run this big establishment but Henry Crane demands that his niece shall not smack of the social world You’re like a beautiful orchid Betty don’t cry we’ll go abroad for a year Henry Crane would never beYou must lieve that you could work rot think of yourself in this but what this fortune will mean to him” Acts of heroism appeared easy enough to accomplish in the creatures of men’s fancies — in books — but when an actual experience came borne to an average normal girl it seemed too difficult for mortal endurance Betty wanted to cry out how dear he was — this man she was giving up for love of him He was so big and strong and capable of caring for her She would love him so that he would never the loss of money under the circumstances Bhe promised herself and Jhen the voice of her father speaking In a cool way of the material things of life smote her inner consciousness “You mustn’t let maudlin sentimentality cheat the boy out of a fortune like that” and Betty steeled her heart and determined to prove herself equal to faer father’s expectation and demand "If I ever marry I will marry Tom Nobody could love a woman any more than he loves me I am going abroad In ten days where I hope to study and travel and Improve myself I need it” "As late as last night you didn’t seed nor want anything except my Sore Tell me the whole truth Betty Why are you talking about Tom now? Isn't It because of Uncle Henryts will? Henry’s money Something tells me that you love me and that for my you are sacrificing yourself I couldn't advancement supposed I love wait for you to send for me you Betty You’re all I want In the world” to his ’Wilson turned questloningly host "Isn't that Theoren? Is that why you asked me to take an assumed name for the evening?” A few words between the men explained matters Henry Crane chuckcurling with laughter parted the tains at the door There stood his his young face drawn with nephew with the woman pleading Buffering of his heart Betty all the color gone from her pretty face was biting her lips to keep back the hot tears “God bless you both I nephew couldn’t find you a better wife In all Take her and the world than Betty I'll draw up a new will In the morning leaving the love I have followed all my life — gold — to my dear niece and nephew May I kiss her Theoren?” “Yes” said his astonished kinsman he Then as the older men withdrew caught the girl to his heart "Betty you’re the right girl for me am I the for man you?” right there’s never been anybody “Yes Oh what I’ve sufbut you Theoren fered trying to give you up because I do love you!” "Never mind It’s all over now sweetheart Some poet has said that tear lies In the petals of every rose Please God we’ve had our tear — now for the heart of the rose of love and life!” 1912 by Associated Literary (Copyright Press) Good Caricature duke of Sutherland In an the in New York condemned New York taxicab which is in truth contrast with the luxurious taxian outcabs of Paris and London rageously dear and outrageously ramshackle conveyance' he said "A New York cabby” characterized your New York taxicab very well when a lady repulsing him on the ground that she wanted a taxi he said: I’ve "‘Oh step right In madam just cleaned my cushions with gasoline and I'll guarantee to get stuck twice to run down a couple of old women and to charge you anything from $17 up’ " The OF ROAD IMPROVEMENT) Catarrh Constipation and wrest many years have Secretary Wilson Shows That 300000 Mllea of Public Thoroughfarea Need Betterment NEVER LET ROADS WEAR OUT Boston Man Returns From Trip Abroad and Telle of Superiority of European Highways Well satisfied that the European countries have little to teach this country In the way of manufacture of motor cars J H MacAlman president of the Boston Automobile Dealers' association returned recently It was a vacation trip for Mr MacAlman but be took care to note the state of the motoring Industry In the different countries and to observe the condition of the highways While praising the magnificent systems of highways In Great Britain and on the Continent where he found roads ev erywhere equal to our best he is of the opinion that the magnificent care that is taken of them The principal roads are under national control and are never allowed to wear out All along the main routes of travel there are posted at Intervals men who have a supply of road material at hand and when a hole appears In the road sur face the road repairers at once pound stone Into It and stop the wear The trafilc over these roads Is heavy but on none of them according to Mr MacAlman is the traffic as heavy as that over such a road as the Revere Beach of Parkway and other main avenues motor travel out of Boston What in struck him particularly forcible England was the fact that no matter where he wanted to go there were roads due to the fact that England has been building good roads for centuries while the good roads Idea in the United States Is scarcely a score of years old ARRANGING GRADE OF CREAM Lack of Quality Has Long Been Detrl ment to Dairy Interests of J the United States Increased attention is being given in districts to the grading of cream and the arranging of price schedules to conform more nearly with the real value of different grades of the product Lack of quality has long been a serious detriment to the dairy interests of the United States regardless of locality The of a higher quality of production cream by the Individual farmer has long been urged by the creamery operators as the prime necessity to the of better butter For the production most part however creamery (interests and creamery operators — even — under the plan have offered no particular Inducement to the farmer to Improve the quality of his product Producing cream under conditions and the most Improved keeping and delivering it in the best possible condition generally costs more work and more money than the production of an inferior product As long as cream is paid for on a flat scale at so much per pound of butter fat regardless of condition the great bulk of farmers are not going to spend money and effort to deliver a product at the creamery When however a price difference is paid commensurate with the real difference in quality the matter becomes a question of economics as' it properly should and there is a tangible object in delivering cream of high quality There is just as much good sound season back of grading cream as paying for it according to its relative value as there is in the grading of wheat and corn Storing Pumpkins in the Field You needn’t expect to reap much profit from gorging your hogs and cattle on pumpkins for a few days during the harvest season then cutting off their supply of this valuable feed for another whole year Store your pumpkins In the field Pile the pumpkins In a row as high and as wide as you viBh cover with hay and set up fodder on each side to a thickness of three or four feet This not only affords ample protection from cold but it enables you to form a most profitable balanced ration by adding “the fruit of the vine" as you feed out the corn and fodder Filling the Orchard vacant places in an orchard caused by poor stock injury In cultivation or borers it may be as well to fill In with younger trees up to the sge of about eight years After that time the older trees will occupy the ground so fully with their root systems that young trees set make very little growth and seldom amount to much when they arrive at a bearing age The According to Information Just made public by the director of the office of public roads Indiana leads all the states of the Union In mileage of imMost of the improved proved roads roads of Indiana and Ohio are comand were for the posed of gravel most part built by farmers In working out the taxes The eight leading good “roads states are: Indiana Ohio New Illinois York Wisconsin Kentucky California and Massachusetts The states which are leading in proNew are: road gressive building York Georgia Washington Missouri PennsylSouth Carolina Alabama vania Tennessee New Jersey Florida and Maryland movement That the nation-widfor the improvement of the publlo Is roads involves a large undertaking indicated by information just made of publlo tpi jla U S department Wilson shows agriculp fySecretary that 300000 miles of roads must be improved before the publlo road system caa be considered really efficient It is only within recent years that the movement for better roads has fores The consequences of gained delay are shown In the fact that there are nojv but 190476 miles of improved roads In this country These improved roads Constitute 866 per cent of the total mileage of all publlo roads imIt is figured proved and unimproved thaiWfc percentage will have to be increased to 20 before traffic can be moved throughout the country with the mihimum of wear and tear on horse wagons and automobiles The French system of roads long considered the best in the world was bonded by Napoleon III for and something In the neighborhood of $612775000 has already been spent on that system In this country distances it is owing to the great that close to $2000000000 probable will have to be spent before a proper road system Is developed While the amount necessary to perfect a great road system seems fabulously large It does not seem too large when It Is divided among the various states and spread over a period of ten or fifteen years five When It is considered that New York state has bonded Itself for $50000000 and that $5000000 a year is now being expended by that state it will be seen that a system soon be perfected were all might states to progress as rapidly South Carolina Alabama and Florida have also made great gains by roads and this is a building very cheap and satisfactory typs of road building '‘"1‘he Window Garden 8eason The window gardener’s year begins In September because that la the time to bring tender plants Indoors and because bulbs begin to arrive then v The ideal is to have flowers Indoors every day from the first frost of aus tumn until the last frost of alone will give flowers from to Easter Christmas A Iltle $2 collection of bulbs will give a spot of color dally If carefuly selected and but It 1b pleasant to have a managed roomful of bulbs — about 250 pots The most practical bulbs for Christmas bloom are Roman hyacinths and the paper white narcissus Chinese sacred lilies will alBo bloom then if protected from drafts For February plan to have crocuses For March and April plan to have tulips hyacinths and daffodils Asparagus Doubly Useful It replant Is hardy Asparagus quires six weeks for the seed to germinate and come up The young in rows as be cultivated plants may other garden vegetables and set in permanent rows or beds this fall or spring will are very hardy stand all klndB of treatment but will liberally to good treatment respond and thrive In one place for ten or twenty years The asparagus plant is The young shoots can doubly useful and the foliage be used for food Sprays of branches for decoration asparagus are equaled by few other plants for their pleasing effect in decoration Good Roads Good roads are essential to the success of the farmer the world over Poor roads are very costly they cause the speedy wearing out of wagons the and the failure to loss of animals market crops profitably Gooo roads ease in marketing mean a greater more longer wear of farm wagons Good roads profit and more comfort are not expensive all roads can be Improved at small cost in money time and labor Avoid Weed Growth If there Is any part of your garden or fields that you do not wish to grow or staple crops on do not vegetables allow It to grow up in weeds Weeds are obnoxious do not afford any profit or pleasure to the land owner and rob the soil of Its fertility Sow any unoccupied parts of your land In It will pay or other legumes you well been For I with the' problem of furnishing the public an internal catarrh remedy Peruna has been tho remedy that I hare devised and it has certainly relieved many thousand people yes hundreds of thousands of people of chron-lling catarrh Constipation was my chief difficulty In I often felt treating these cases that it would be better if a laxative element were added to Peruna I feared to do so however first because of the number of catarrhal patients who needed no laxative and second I was afraid of making such a radical change In a remedy that was already Thus it was that I condoing so well tinued to prescribe with the Peruna a bottle of Manalln to those who needed a laxative At last under circumstances explained in my booklet I was constrained to add the laxative element to Peruna This constitutes what la now known as the revised Peruna Now those who take Peruna will first find themselves promptly ieved of their constipation Second the catarrh will gradually disappear And once the catarrh Is cured the con8 B HARTMAN M D stipation leaves permanently Then if You have takYou are constipated you follow the advice given In my You book you will never have to take pills en laxatives a great many years have tried to select a diet that would any more Cathartics and laxatives In this you you can keep your bowels regular You wUl he permaignore have failed and were obliged to go nently relieved of both your catarrh back to your laxatives again This I and the constipation say has been going on many years and ComYou also have a slight catarrh in the manufactured by the head and throat You never imagined pany Columbus Ohio Sold at all that the catarrh had anything to do drug stores SPECIAL NOTICE— Many persona Inquire with the constipation Suppose I were The Peruna to tell you that as long as you have for They want the Peruna thnt Fathers and Mothers used that catarrh you will never get better to tAke Thetheir old Peruna Is now called Ka of your constipation Would you bel- turnoi If your druggist or dealer does not keep it for sale write the Katarno Company ieve me? Well whether you would Columbus Ohio and they will tell you all believe me or not it is the truth about it FEELING WAS WRONG BUMP Mistaken Phrenologist Sagacious as It His Conclusions Turned Out in The learned professor was giving his public lecture on phrenology and for purposes of demonstration he invited a boy to the platform says the After a critiNew York American cal examination of the lad’s cranium he turned to the audience: “Ladies and gentlemen” he said “the protuberance on this little boy’s head is remarkably well developed Is the bump of philoprogenitiveness In the present case It proves that the boy has an extraordinary love for his the boy:) Isn’t parents (Addressing Wrong Guess n that true Johnny?” Nan— I’ve seen your new young man hesitated a moment then Johnny and I should call him a diamond in the said: rough “Well I get along pretty well with Fan— Well he’s susceptible of some the old lady but the old man ain’t polish I’ll admit but you haven’t classsuch a much" ified him correctly he’s a Jasper “Why how is that my boy?” asked the professor "Well if yuh want me ter let It out Always the Way “Do you think a woman can kee the bump yer blowin’ about is where ” pop hit me yesterday wit’ a belt a secret?” "No she always tries to syndicate buckle” it"— Judge’s Library It Inexperienced In a boarding house for bachelors Amanda typical “Mammy” looked after the guests’ comfort In true southern style so well that one of the men thought he would take her away with him in the summer in the capacity of Toward spring he waylhousekeeper aid her in the hall one day and said: “Mandy do you like the country? she did Mandy reckoned "Would you like to go away with me this summer and keep house for me?” Mandy was sure she would Ho "Suppose I get just a bungalow you think you could take care of nicely by yourself?” Mandy gasped and rolled her eyes “ ’Deed no maesa! 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