Show room where she aat at work next He was pale and stern lookmorning He forced a smile as if asking a ing Hilda reluctantly touched welcome the hand he extended He tried to reBut His Methods Were Bad and tain It but she arose to her feet so“I heard of your having quite-Then Love’s Young Dream cial time during my absence" insinuated the manager “Hilda” and he Comes True came a step nearer and his eyes had an eager sinister glow “the time has HIGGINS BY SELINA ELIZABETH come when circumstances force me to I reveal my feelings towardB you “Don’t stand in your own light HilI wish Mr Armitage is a rising man of have spoken to your mother da and many a girl would conbusiness you to become my wife" “Oh Mr Armitage!” breathed Hilda sider herself lucky to receive the at“You must not— that is tremulously tentions he has shown you” his attentions are more I cannot —cannot ever marry you" “Mother I suppose” sneered “Because the than distasteful to me I cannot bear with a to even have him speak to me" dark scowl “you have manager new “There are a good many reasons taken up with this employe why you should encourage him” de- Macy?” It was coarsely said Words and clared Hilda Mason's stepmother Hilda bridled The girl’s lips closed tightly A wor- manner were offensive “Mr Armitage is a gentleman and ried anxious look came over her face she said She put on her wraps and left her a dear friend of mine” as though defending him humble home for her dally work staunchly from aspersion The worldly advice of her stepmoth“He shall not remain here long to er bad made little impression upon Mr James Armitage was prac- cross my path!” cried Armitage savHilda He was in full agely “Come Hilda be reasonable” tically her employer he added in a pleading tone “At least charge of the silk factory ot Meserve & Co one of several operated by that consider my appeaL I truly love you Hilda’s father had been I can give you comfort luxury a sowealthy firm cial position far beyond your own" engineer of the plant half his life time He could not but note firm denial Her brother Boh was in charge of the A smaller brother was in her eyeb more than that positive shipping room It maddened him Armitage errand boy in the office Hilda had aversion light agreeable work in the sample de- sprang towards Hilda and threw an arm around her partment “You shall become It was only recently that the Masons my wife” he had felt that prospects were brighten- cried “I am not used to being crossed ing for them A strike sickness the in my plans Girl do you understand failure of a bank carrying away their that I hold the welfare of your famI can turn you and savings had brought about a hard ex- ily in my hands? Now with all hands at your father and brothers out of your perience work the future looked encouraging positions Only love me and they Bhall bad come to the plant be well taken care of” Armitage From the first In an excess of emotion the manager about a year previous He attempted to’ kiss Hilda bad felt repelled by him Hilda With a a had hard cynical face He was piti- Bcream she beat his face with both her less in his exactions with the workers hands and Hilda had He was a widower “That will do" spoke a calm but heard that his wife had died of a masterful voice and Armitage was broken heart hurled to the other end of the room had a “You!” panted the manager recogseemed to take Armitage fancy to Hilda as the thoughtless Mrs nizing young Macy his eyes blazing Mason put it in her shallow way with fury “You are discharged from When on two occasions recently he my employ Out of here at once or 1 had asked permission to take Hilda to will have you thrown out” “Your employ?” places of entertainment she had not repeated young enjoyed his company and was glad to Macy “My man I advise you to get to the office and be ready for an acget home again “I wouldn't wipe my shoes on the counting of which will be demanded wretch” a discharged office girl told you by my father the owner of this Hilda meeting her on the street “He business I have telegraphed him and He discharged he will be here tomorrow Is a snake a tyrant A discharged girl employe gave us a hint of your double dealings in dividing sales 1 came here profits with our clients under an assumed name to get the details My correct name is Victor MAN OFJUSINESS Like the craven he was Armitage slunk from the room With a slight twinkle in his eye young Meserve turned to the astonished Hilda “Miss Mason — Hilda” he said “judging from what you just told that man you Intend to remain a spinster Still recalling your kind words about myself I must hope that you will allow mb one favor” “What —what is It?” faltered Hilda red as a rose “To ask your parents if we may become engaged" was the earnest reply and Hilda did not say him nay (Copyright by W O Chapman) Turkey Stuffer “These scratches on my face" he “don’t indicate said that I am unThey indicate that I happily married am a turkey stuffer “High grade turkeys are brought up to the proper degree of corpulence by hand stuffing That is where I come in With a short cane I stuff their food down their throats twice They exThey object to this dally postulate with beak and claw Hence Armitage Slunk From the Room me out of sheer meanness and all the girls despise him One good thing— these scratches he won’t be here long” “What do we stuff our high grade “Why not?” asked Hilda Well their morning I turkeys with? “I shan’t tell you but you’ll pee do hope you are not falling in love meal is ground pea flour and olive ' oil Their evening meal is wheat with him” Sometimes for a Hilda protested Indignantly She boiled in milk we stuff our evaded Armitage and twice when he prominent millionaire with chestnuts called managed to be out of the way turkeys exclusively You’d hardly believe boiled in milk Hence her stepmother’s advice A new interest came into the life of what a delicious nutty flavor this Hilda one day Armitage passed gives “But it’s hard work the work of a through the sample department accomYour assistant holds athletic young turkey stuffer panied by a man The latter seemed interested in the bird’s legs you hold its head everything he saw Something about with one hand while you thrust the Hilda held his food into its mouth with the other the neat graceful glance She noticed it and flushed and then you shove the bolus down but his look was so pleasant she could where it belongs with a short cane not feel offended The turkey gives you many a nip “He is a Mr Harold Macy" a com- many a scratch during this forcible A turkey stutter’s job is no panion told Hilda “He has come well feeding to Mr Armitage recommended and is sinecure” going to be a kind of an overseer" was absent for several Under Difficulties Armitage Improving Few cities are doing as much builddays Inspecting another mill It waB a happy week for Hilda The new em- ing as Buenos Aires easily the largest south of the ploye passed through her department center of population frequently From the first he had a equator and the fourth city of the but such work pleasant word for her Then he began western hemisphere to question her about her work and its goes on under difficulties in that part The iron steel details One evening he was strolling of South America past her home when he met her There and cement are imported chiefly from was a band concert going on in the England Germany and France with public square The young man asked some from the United States The for her company there Both enjoyed pine and spruce lumber used comes Sand from this country and Canada the concert Mrs Mason gave Hilda a great lecis brought across the wide estuary of ture when she got home “Spoiling her the La Plata from Uruguay because SomeArmin chances” “out of respect for Mr it is very scarce Argentia itage" were some of the pointed times bricks are ground up and used Tiles for phrases she used But Hilda could not as a substitute for sand help thinking of the manly young fel- floors and roofs are imported from had France and Belgium Most of the low whose bright natural ways builders’ book and hardware of plumbing opened a new chapter in the comes from Great Britain a little beher young life A few evenings later young Macy ing imported from the United States called at the Mason home But for the And thousands of buildings are rushed in a was Mason a of Mrs looks city it up every year booming glum second happy occasion for Hilda’ It under these conditions she made her happier still when Instruction ends in the schoolroom fanciod she noted 6viYthing in his eyes that told he was thinking of her but education ends only with life and is to untold nature to with a warmer sentiment than of sim- education strengthen good and conquer evil to ple friendship returned came into tfce give self help — F W Robertson Armitage GETS HARDEST JOB i J P TUMULTY AS PRESIDENT’S PRIVATE SECRETARY MUST BE “MAN UNAFRAID” MEETS PRESS OF WASHINGTON Woodrow Wilson and All Othsrs Prediet Hs Will Make Good In Filling Position Which Requires Infinite Tact BY GEORGE CLINTON — Woodrow Washington Wilson’s present executive secretary who has been appointed as his future private secretary Joseph Patrick Tumulty has been in Washington as the guest of the National Press club There was a large gathering of correspondents and of others to meet the man who in a way will be second in command at the White Houes after March 4 If Mr Tumulty can remember the names and the faces of of the public men and Washington correspondents who greeted him here he will prove qualified to a conprobably siderable degree for the dutlee ot the office which he will assume on the It is said that ths majority of the members of the ways and means committee Is favorable to its adoption If It shall become the law it means that the plumage o' no bird which occurs in America and which occurs bIbo in other can be imcountries It also ported into the United States will mean the shutting out of the of scores of feathers scintillating birds not natives ot America but whose plumage n part is from that of the birds oi this country This provision of the law probably will save from extermination millions of humming birds now killed nd sent Into this country to gtatiiy the tastes of women to whom “money is no object" Congress is taking an Interest in the preservation of bird life Ths McLean bill giving the agricultural to regulate department the authority the Bhootlng seasons in tbe United States and to forbid under the federal law the killing of useful species already has passed the senate and may pass the house at this session If in the hurry of things the bill does not pass it will be Introduced again immediately after the convening of the extra session It is left to congress however to strike the deadliest blow at tbe plumage traffic It is apparent through the tariff laws that one blow not vital will be Btruck and that the deadlier stroke will be reserved until humanity and educational effort have been given a little longer lease of time for continued earnestness of endeavor V T Hornaday of New York Zoological society and T Gilbert Pearson secretary of the National Association of Audubon Societies have been telling Mr Underwood and his ways and means colleagues some facts about the feather trade tbe John Burroughs naturalist Is here doing what he can in his forceful missionary way to turn the heart of congress to the humanities of the case and the head of congress to Its necessities first Tuesday of the first spring month It may be that at one time men were ot the given to the underestimating necessities in the case of a president’s private secretary He is more to a president than any cabinet offioer and he can make or unmake friendships for his chief faster than any man who sits at the president’s round table The personal equation figures more largely in the success of an administration than anything else to which mathematics lends Itself for a figure speech Mr Tumulty is a Wilson Favors Publicity Amer lean of Irish lineage Democratic It ought not to leaderq In Washingtake him long to learn the names and ton hear that It is Woodrow Wilthe faces of the men who will call son’s Intention to make publicity If he la not as quick one of the efforts of his administraupon his chief in learning their foibles their tempertion The president-elect’reticence aments their crotchets their strengths concerning present matters of burning and their weaknesses he may be In public curiosity and bis disinclination trouble before tbe administration la to take the country into bis confidence three months old Being all things to on cabinet matters makes the promise all men is seemingly an essential In of future publicity seem a little a private secretary to the president of strange but publicity in legislative matters has been marked In New Jerthe United States sey since Mr Wilson became its govHow He Can Make Good ernor and it is said that be has found Everybody says that Mr Tumulty It to be a public benefit is going to make good and everybody Mr Wilson’s first pronouncement in He has had numerous prehopes so of favor publicity after he should bedecessors in office within the last ten years He will find that like them be come president was withdrawn somewhat hastily The open door plan muet accustom himself to what may which he advocated was really a pubbe called a “dignified humility” in the but he found out perhaps presence of men who modestly think licity plan themselves the great of the land The from Mr Taft in part and certainly and representatives member of congress who has a bill for from senators the building of a postofflee in the that If he tried keeping the door open flood county seat is just as big a man In the the all would set in and swamp him and connected with tbe persona House as senator whom White the has White House seniority if not qualification Jf Mr Wilson intends to live up to made tbe head of the finance committee No member ot either house has his publicity promise it means that he will talk freely to visitors and except more than one vote and the enmity of a congressman who has made no in certain cases will waive the rule It means may cost a that “all is In confidence’’ big mark on legislation ho will tell the newspapers presidential aspirant the electoral vote also thatwhat he thinks on public affreely of a state The secretary of the president of fairs &Dd perhaps that he will allow If this the United States must be the “man the use of the direct quotation unafraid” There are scores of things latter course shall appeal to him he upon which he must speak for the will depart at pretty nearly a right from the path followed by most president and be must always speak angle with the certainty that his speech is of his predecessors unThere is a law in Washington to go unchallenged by his chief There but stronger than any statute written have been one or two secretaries who declined on any occasion to speak for that the president is not to be quoted the president preferring to go to him This does not mean that what the president thinks or what the president en every trivial matter The president do does not get into tbe newhas a lot to do and he cannot act at til Presidents talk freely to times as chief executive and as pri- spapers of the newspaper correspondents some vate secretary to himself and do so with the understanding unMr Wilson it is said has a request to the contrary is faith in Mr Tumulty If less direct that may bs he did not have it he probably would given hut not what they say in quotation marks not have made his present secretary used How Roosevelt Gave Hie Views his future secretary Mr Tumulty if President he follows the example or is allowed Taft has departed from to follow the example of some of his the rule of no “quotes” a number of predecessors in office will be on many times Mr Roosevelt lived up to it subjects great and small the mouth- pretty rigidly and yet his views were piece of the administration He must given more freely than those of any Se- man who ever sat in the White House keep his tongue from tripping cretaries have succeeded in doing jhls Mr Roosevelt believed in publicity through long years and the strain ot Newspaper accounts of happenings to precaution seemingly has not worn come “given on high authority" or by “one qualified to speak for the adminaway their health istration” were printed frequently and Feathers and the Tariff and served the ends of bringing even It 1b possible probable freely of the United expressions of support or opposition that the congress States may interpose its authority from the publicto and it was Roosevelt’s know how the public to change utterly the fashion in desire always It Is believed In Washington that Does it seem that this felt woman’s hats if Mr Wilson intends to use publicity Is a trivial nr ter to take up the attenfollow the personal will he as agent an tion of the careful law makers of the land? The legislators apparently do rule of Roosevelt pretty closely in the not think so and a good many ot them matter It is not expected that he use the "quotes" but that he will say that the agricultural interests and will all persons who love nature will rise reach the same end by the Indirect to call them blesBed if they enter method Taft entered the When President with legislative Intent into the realm White House there was for a time aof Dame Fashion It is possible that the ways and lmost a complete reversal of condmeans committee under the leadership itions Mr Taft said little to members of Oscar W Underwood will make of congress which he showed any deup its mind before 'larch 15 to ask sire to have printed and for a long congress to prohibit the importation time he virtually declined to see any In into this country of all feathers for press representatives stationed except those ot Washington It did not take the premillinery purposes the ostrich of domestic fowls and of sident long to come to the conclusion or had he If made a he mistake If the committee which that game birds frames tariff legislation shall take this did not reach this conclusion himself action it will mark the final step of some of bis friends reached it for him and following its reaching the public success in a crusade which had its ginning in the’ parlors of a few Amer- was allowed to know something directican homes about fifteen years ago ly about what the president thought It is probable that for the present ought to be done Mr Taft has been a congress will content itself with a great believer in the plan of going to provision in the tariff laws which will the people and telling it first hand prohibit tbe importation “of the plum- His publicity trouble was that travel age of American birds or of plumage as much as he did there were long indistinguishable from that ot Amer- periods of time when he was comican birds including aigrettes crude pelled to remain in Washington and and manufactured” the people had to wait for their infohowever finally What the Provision Would Do rmation Publicity Tbe insertion of this provision into came Into Us own in the Taft admithe next tariff law has been urged and nistration Hi— Dr Hartman’s Plain Talk to Young Men My plain talk to young men is my yon in the name of thousands of othlast article certainly brought out er young men like myself” To this letter I replied: I many responses from young men My Dear Boy: — I cannot tell take this means of answering them much good your letter has done briefly for the benefit of other young me To know that I am arousing me men who did not write One the young men in matters of right writer says: with gratitude and en“I was greatly Interested In your living fills Imewant to help you Write I wish I was thusiasm talk to young men any time you wish and I will constrong and well as you describe your- me sider your letter strictly confidential self to be I am going to begin at and Follow give you prompt reply oace and follow your advice and take advice I gave in my article Whencare of myself as I ought to I will the ever you have occasion to consult me quit the use of all stimulants tea and further Let us be do not hesitate I will take coffee go to bed early If friends will be obedient to the cold water towel bath every morn- me as a sonyouought to be I will be ing I want to live to be old and faithful and true to you as a And I shall also useful like you to be Yours sincerely S B M D Columbus Ohio keep Peruna at hand In case of slight Hartman ailments as they may arise I thank Peruna is for sale at all drug stores BOY PAID FOR HIS WHISTLE Father’s Instructions Right but Made No 8ort of Hit With the Teacher Obeyed All a Hardly “Is there any way you can suggest by which we can cure her of her infatuation for him?” “OM yes that’s easy Just—” “I mean without letting her marry him?” It all happened in a wayside village She was the village schoolmistress Important to Mothersbottle prim and proper but a bad hand at Examine or carefully every settling accounts with the local trades- CASTORIA a safe and eure remedy for men he was ten years of age one of Infants and children and see that it her pupils and son and heir of the Bears the jttC' village grocer Signature of “Tommy” she yelled in class one In Use For Over 30 Years morning “don’t you know it’s rude to Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria whistle in the presence of a lady?” Tommy was not abashed nor chasWhile the season’s always open for tened few of tbe hunters “But dad told me to whistle” he re- fortune hunting are good shots plied "Your father told you to whistle DrPlerce’s Pleasant Pellets regulate and InvigTommy?” queried the school teacher orate stomach liver and bowels In considerable doubt Adv tiny granules easy to take as candy He said when he sells you “Yes’m people are usually happy but anything we’ve got to whistle for our notSilly all happy people are silly money” Tommy then took up a conspicuous Mrs 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