Show she was not shocked at all— only ASSOUAN DAM IS OPENED deeply Interested “It was at Atlantic City I won’t Ancient Egyptian Rulne Submerged were almost We name her tell you Oil Becauee of an Irrigation Works— the oqly guests at the hotel at the end Coat 7' Million Dollars of the season We fell In love with each other we loved each other mad Cairo has Girl’s Fiance Makes a Confession Egypt — The khedive We were ly engaged Then she Assouan Dam the glgantlo went back to town and I like a fool opened That Surprises More Than works which cost Beven and lived In a fool’s paradise anticipating million dollars One Friend the time when I should meet her The work of adding twenty-sifeet again to ask her to fulfill her promise to the height of Assouan Dam which “Well the upshot was that she had By FRANK FILSON converted the River Nile into a great to me of mine cousin over a be it been Imagined lording you’ve “Fanny lake 350 miles Bouth of Cairo was beme for for the past month ever since Garfield Howard the wealthy manuto the conAccording gun in 11)07 your engagement to Edward Brooks facturer When I called at her home tract It waso be completed in 1913 But you can't do it any more” Bald she was quite frank about it She The undertaking has Increased the her friend Mildred Thomas holding said she had loved me and would have about ttoo and out her left hand with a blush Fanny fulfilled her promise but she had re- storage capacity times r about 9375000 cubic Upton seized it and dragged her solved never to marry a poor man” feet The extra supply of water thus Mil“The horrid cat!” exclaimed friend into the light On Mildred’s one milwill obtained third finger sparkled a diamond in a dred Indignantly slipping her hand lion acres of Irrigate about ‘ mainly government propInto his platinum ring I erty which heretofore has been ster“That broke the spell Mildred "Mildred!” excllafned Fanny kissing realized then that I bad never loved ile for lack of water It is estimated “Who is it?’’ her her I learned to laugh at my Infatua- that the annual Increase In the value “I mustn't tell you” answerd Mil“Now don't be angry dear betion for I saw her as Bhe was and my of the cotton crop will be twenty mildred cause you shall be the very first per- love was dead So don’t you be lion dollars Incidentally the Island of Phllae son to know It's a sacred promise— afraid In case we ever meet for I have seen her two or three times since just above the dam will be completefor certain reasons” then and there is nothing left In my ly submerged part of the year On “Oh I'm sure I don’t want to know Island are Ptolemy’s famous tern-the Mildred” said Fanny coldly releasing heart but aversion” putting up “Darling!” said Mildred the hand she held “Oh yes you do Fanny Now don’t her face for a kiss s "And I am forgiven dearest?” whisWe’re going to Listen! be cross have an engagement party on Satur- pered George for Now the listen “Absolutely day night and it will be announced And you are to come and be guests will be here In a few moments then I’m going to announce it and tell See?” told first all It’s name a “Well mollified a was them profound lltttle your Fanny secret JUBt as I promised you I want if you think It’s worth making a secret " — meet she my friend of to please your fiance all right” you to But she did not finish the sentence eald “But you know very well he has secrets he hasn't shared with for the maid opened the door and an nouced Miss Upton and Mr Edward you” Mildred darted forward and ‘Fanny!" cried Mildred Thomas in- Brooks embraced Fanny and shook hands dignantly Don’t with her fiance “Of course he has goose "I want to present my fiance” she you suppose he has been in love annouced dozens of times — rapturously in love triumphantly “Mr George Miss Upton— Mr Howard Howard and never told you a word of It?” "Fanny" Bald her friend Indignant- Mr Brooks Now you have got to ly “he told me that he has never been like each other as hard as you can In love in bis life before He has Fanny!” never kissed any girl but me” The last remark was almost an InRelics on Phllae Egyptian terjection for Fanny Upton had put "Booh!” said Fanny mockingly forth her hand as gingerly as though pie and other relics of ancient Egypt “Now Edward knew I was too sensible was were of porcelain and George When the erection of the Assouan to fall for that sort of yarn and he K But he didn't tell me all confessed stretching out his finger tips as though Dam was first proposed some engiNo sir and I’m going to find Out a he was afraid of never getting them neers insisted it ought to be made back again whole lot more before I marry him" higher even though Phllae would be “Mr Howard and I have met beBut classical sentiment Mildred remained coldly silent submerged said Fanny icily and it was several years prevailed “Oh Mildred here's a joke” said fore” ' You never told me “You have? later that archaeologists were com“Now are you her ''ersatlle friend Where?" pelled to give way before the obvious “I think It was at Atlantic City or fact that the dam would have to be thereabouts” said Miss Upton casual- raised before the great plan of makly ing the desert bloom could be wholly fulfilled (Copyright 1913 by W G Chapman) LIGHT HIS PAST NOT HARD TO Little ted TELL FORTUNES BIRTH Need for Soothsayer to Be FitWith Much More Than Ordinary Intelligence way to tell people’s fortunes Is have one list of characteristics use It for every one without the It Is bound to slightest variation succeed For Instance suppose and Hamlet had their fortunes I Imagtold by the same sothsayer ine he would have told Hamlet’s character as follows: not as are “You as fortunate you seem You have a great deal of sense but more sense than knowledge You can give admirable advice to other people Your Judgment Is excellent as regards others but bad as regards yourself You never value your own You are fond of your good advice friends You prefer to talk to action You suffer from Indecision You are fond of the stage You are susceptible to female beauty You are witty amiable and well educated but you You are superstilike coarse Jokes tious and believe in ghosts You can You often make people laugh to be more fooliBh than you are At other times you' will surprise people by your power of apt repartee to Your bane will be you£ inclination fat which will hamper you in fighting You are unsuccessful as a soldier but unrivaled as a companion and philosopher You will mix In high society have friends at court You enwill come off badly In personal counter and your final enemy will be The to and game for It? Let’s each write a letter ‘I have found to our fiances saying out everything and shall expect you What a joke to explain — if you can that would be Picture the poor men’s faces! Will you Mildred?” “It seems a shame” murmured Mildred “But I couldn’t bear to think he had deceived me Are you sure he has Fanny?” "My dearest girl of course he has And How old is he? never kissed anyone but you? Mildred And now’s you certainly are simple the time to show him you aren’t as and he’ll think simple as he thinks Is it a barall the more of you for it gain?” It was It was not without many Thomas that Mildred misgivings mailed her letter to George Howard but Fanny’s hints were eating into She must know her soul like vitriol now whether her lover ever had been In love before That would be dreadful Still she might forgive it but she could never forgive deceit When the letter was mailed she wanted It back and all that day and the next she listened in terror for the postman’s whistle On the third day CVlday the answer came — a hasty coherent letter full of “I shall tell and reproaches you about what you refer to when I call tomorrow evening” he wrote “and I shall come half an hour before the party in the hope of gaining your forgiveness before the guests arrive” Mildred was looking her prettiest arrived He when George Howard looked so haggard and mournful that with she could hardly find words which to greet him Bitterly now she repented having been persuaded by But Fanny to play that foolish Joke she must play her part through They sat down very soberly side by side in room Ur empty reception “I’m going to tell you everything “I did Mildred” said George humbly not wilfully deceive you for it was only because I had put the memory two summer of that mad years ago out of my mind and heart and dared not recall it even to myself She as the only woman before you” “Go on” murmured Mildred and to she discovered that rrri s' a king” Now Imagine him Baying exwrCiy the same thing to Falstaff Doesn’t It fit him just as well? Can’t you Imagine Falstaff saying: "He has hit me off to a T” and Hamlet murmuring: “My prophetic soul!” In fact I believe fortune telling after that of medicine to in the world be the finest profesion and the easiest — Metropolitan Reprinted by Request An editor in the Blue Grass state has been trying for a long time to Inject himself Into politics and get electAt last he was ed to something made a delegate to the state convention of his party The day on which convention opened was also the the date of issue of his militant weekly newspaper and ln the excitement of the moment he had forgotten to write He was his usual burning editorial reminded of bis dereliction just as be was leaving town for the convention “Oh” he said to the genial factotum of the mechanical department "Just reproduce last week’s editorial and state that it Is reprinted by request” The Intelligent foreman followed Instructions and the editorial was served up to the amazed readers under the startling caption: “Reprinted by Request of the Editor” Why He Quit Working Womao (lecturing tramp) —You should work If only to Bet a good example to others Tramp — I did that once mum an’ the poor feller wot took the example worked so hard he died er t'rv(v’ prostration ANNOUNCED IN THEATER Kaiser Resorts to Novel Method to quaint Public With His Jubilation Ac- London — The Mall’s Berlin correspondent says the Kaiser chose a the birth novel method of announcing of his fifth grandson The audience had just assembled at the Royal opera bouse when Count In the von Ilulsenhaseler appeared royal box and rapping for silence with the gold stick of office said: “His majesty has designed to command me to Inform the public that his royal highness Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia has become the father of a son” An outburst of cheers which greeted the announcement was 'mingled with the roar of guns which at the same moment were firing a salute in honor of the youngest Hohenzollern ANNOYED IDEA OLD G0LDE That He Knew From Experience by No Means lege Education Unfitted Boy for Work Col- "Woodrow Wilson naturally believes a college education for boys and girls alike” said a banker at the Princeton club In New York “Mr Wilson lunching with me here once said in hls quaint way that the old Idea about a college education unfitting a lad for work had quite died In out “We no longer hear” he declared like that of Gobsa Golde “When Gobsa Golde’s son he explained “desired to go to Princeton he said to the old man: " ‘Pater is It true that boys who go 0 college are unfit for work afterward?’ “‘Of course It ain’t true!’ snorted ‘Why I’ve the old man Indignantly got a Princeton graduate runnin’ my freight elevator two of my best coal and A a Harvard B's heavers are Yale B S is my star truck driver’ ” “stories ETERNAL LAW No Hurry for That Vehicle A old lady In a hurry to mount a tram car held up her umbrella and shouted to the driver of a “Stop! passing vehicle Stop!” to which the driver replied "Don’t be in a hurry mum It ain’t your turn yet” It was a hearse FOLEY PJOTVHUS Backache Rheumatism Kidneys and Bladders CURE YOURSELF Certainly Not “Sir are you opposed to votes for women?” not but If women had “Certainly would the ballot then suffragettes ' want It too” — Illinois Siren of Oonst patlon and PI los A lady offers f re© nval uable Information tot offere re attor having permaThis offer is the outcome of nently cured herself vow after having tried all other remedies In wain ”UUAkH Doili Oakland latff Addreta La confidence ' P&tityE?&Salve RELIEVES 80RE EYES c 3 n For Infants and Children The Kind You Have OF CONTRARIES Always -3 ALCOHOLPER CENT AVegffable Preparation Tor As similating iheFoodandRegula-tmthe S tomachs and Bowels of Bought Bears IInf vTSlCIt i Vd n Chili Promotes Digestion Cheerfulness and Rest Contains neither OpiumMorphine nor Mineral of Not Narcotic Atpt tfOM DrSAMVEimCTEt JKunp&in Jlx Srnm Sd Mwst ftppfrmtttf BiCarfauiUSfcUf Harm Setd ClarSitd Wmkyrtem ffavor A perfect Remedy In Use forConstipa-lio- Sour StomachDiarrhoea Christmas hints ?’’ "Of course I do" "Do you? the least hint Why makes my husband so mad!” “Pooh! you don’t know the combination I tell my husband I don’t want what I do want and then I get Worms Convulsions Feveri slyness and LOSS OF SLEEP Facsimile The It" Signature Centaur For Over of Thirty Years Company NEW YORK Her Great Love They had already celebrated the fact that the mistletoe hung In the hall and now they were occupying not only one settee but also the entire drawing room "Could you love me darling” he murmured as the thought of that sprig of mistletoe came to him again "if I possessed only one coat in the wide wide world?” She looked up into hls eyes as she framed her reply "I could” she said "If I knew you had sacrificed the others to buy me a new dress!” 3T5H35EST Guaranteed c 5 under the Foodaw! 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It’s absolutely send a cent First M D — We your youailment Don! Magazine DrXeClercMecL have yet to break the news to hls FRKH Co Havers tock ltd Hampstead? k© relatives — Life Almost Thrown Away HOWARD E BURTON aThveemY‘d’ born "The fish I had from yesterday Gold Specimen prices: Gold Silver Lead The Kind ' Presently the Kaiser appeared In wasn’t fit to eat I was obliged to Silver Gold Zinc or Copper Mailing and full pries list sent on application the royal box with his family Prince give It to my servants!” — London "What would you recommend as thtf envelopes Control and umpire work solicited LeadvUl© and Princess Eltel Friedrich Princess Opinion fish diet for sailors?” Reference Col Carbonate National Bank Victoria Louise Prince Adalbert and "Roe of course" Prince Oscar and the cheering broke desis t0 bur Of Court? 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