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Show SHE G'JAPmtt nuK - JoT HIM ON. THE HOOK. Maiden Well Knew Lover Could Not Resist Culinary Bait She Had So Cleverly Cast. i Tm HAD ' want Cheap Jewelry. to wear It, oa cOnatant annoyance avir, account of defects. Pay a reasonable Aries. and insist upon something good. Wy f us and rtly on our guarantes. H Is almost a disgrace domestic afJanet badjBfilded-th- e fairs o nhe family with whom she years that thenewg--of ttvedfor Intended marriage had much her Have the yffect of an earthquake. m4 an . you and David b'een engaged SAU tARS long?" ventured the mistress of the household "One week when -- next Sabbath comes," stated Janet, briefly. Artdcand had you any thought of s marrying before that? asked her 170 HAIR St ClltlTAft miB-tre&- J. (HARRY I 04-3- 0I ROBINSON Times I had and times I had not." said be Imperturbable Janet, as any person will But a month ago when I gave David a wee bit of the cake d been making and he said to me Janet, have you the recipe firm In your mind,' lass, so you could make tt if Mrs. Mann's book would be far from your reach? I knew 9 ell the time was drawing short. And when," said Janet, closing her I said to eyes at the recollection, him, David, lad, the recipe Is copied In a little book of my own.' and I saw the glint In his eye 1 reckoned twould be within the month he'd ask ATTORN! T AT LAW Jud ullSins, tall Lake City UADE DRUNK BY MOSQUITOES Pests, Not the Wild Animals, Are the Real Troubles of the African Hunter. mail The African mosquitoes Intoxicate They Inject so muita polsou Into fee that you are dated, your eyes roll 4 you stagger and speak thickly. In s word7 you're drunk," aald a missionary, la the Kyassa country I'd always etart getting ready for bed and the eseeqaltoes an hour before sunaeL Id at up my mosquito net with th care. Id clamp down Ha edgea with valises and boxes. I'd light Inside tt three green wood fires, filling It 1th a bluer smoke that all Insects ane supposed to loathe. I'd finally Id get in myself. moke big pipes of the black nqtjvs tehsny 0, and I'd long miserably la that hot, smoky atmosphere for the ' . , dawa. quit Despite all my precaution tM or 00 mosquitoes would get In side my net as soon as darkness fell. They were like a whirlwind la there. It coulda't have been worse. Tbelr ! and their nipping made me feverish made me really dellrioua at ' ttmee. 'At last In exhaustion I'd get a few heuro of troubled sleep, awakening for breakfast, drunk from the poison Injected' by hundreds of 1 tiny needled iete my veins. No, it Isn't the elephants or the giraffes that trouble the African bunt r but the skeetera. few. II 1 V' I A Cl XJJ HK Calf Skin club had as early for its week session and every mem her was In his accustomed place with Judge Grower In the chair When the routine business was fin ished the chairman rose and said We now will hear from Judge Stoakes who we trust has a story rela tive to circumstantial evidence Judge Stoakes " Judge Stoakes, a large man of dig Billed presence, whose silver hair alone bespoke hla 70 yeais, rose- - and began : ", My story Is of the troubled days la Missouri following upon the civil war, when factional rancor still ran high and the conqueror and the con quereej lived together In outward amity but with secret suspicion, 1 hadjusrbiing up my ahlngle In a little town In the southern part of the state which had been the hot bed of factional Warfare, now captured by Lyon, now held by Price, and repeatedly preyed upon by the roving bands of Irregulars of either side Among the most noted leaders of these latter was Col. Jim Farrar. Among the northern sympathizers he was Pompadour la a Talented Cat classed with Quartrell and the YounPompadour, a large Thomas cat gers, but when the struggle was over owned by Mrs. James llowe of Skew-hegsMe., is noted for bla Intelli- he settled down quietly In the little town of Cheater, and hla tall form, gence and sagacity. A short time ago he called Another his flowing moustaches, hla campaign eat to $1 aid to rid the house of a bat and long coat became him as the large number of mice. lie directed the costume did many another warrior of etrange cat to stand by th door lead-fa- g the lost cause. Cot." Farrar's householdconsisted Into th shed while he (Pompadour). slowly worked a string that had of but one daughter, 17 years of age, a plecs of cheese fastened to It, allur- and of that rare type of beauty which ing the mice Into the kitchen. That so often crops out in aq adventurous night 40 or SO mice were glal Ihcnwanir the soon the heart of sNrhie,awni I f Mr. Hows tires soma distance from every young man Iff allante. fell at the Brat glance, and aa I the postoffle and usually sends his mad by the last evening train. As took back down the long stretch of soon as be has his letters ready he years I can see the black hair, th tied them to Pompadour's neck and rosy lips and the flashing eyes of Lu-di- e U cat carries them to the postoffics. Farrar aa 1 watched her In silent adoration ie the meeting house, upon The Mills of the Coda. , the street or flying along on her pony They tell us that svsr so slight a which aeemed as full of life and change In the earth's tipping oa Its apirlts aa Its fair rider. axis brought The glacial period tht - Itwas wllentadorstlon upon the allowed up all Ilf la thsTjofOTIs psrtofu air for never aglancedld ths Ice crept down from th pole. Inch the fair Luclle have for any of us. by inch, foot by foot. When it right Hut when Melvin Leasure came to ed itself agala our present day broke, Cheater It wras different Something aadth river wore Its way through In her woman's heart must have th rock, draining ths mighty glaajers. drawn her toward him, for all the InSo lbs dawn of a new humanity la difference and all the acorn were which man, facing toward the Ideal of gone and they gave themselves brotherhood, shall' do justice and love to a love that quickly ran the mercy la upon us now. It la good, gamut from passing Interest to paswhen one gets impatient, to remember sionate devotion. that these things are so, that though The very mention of a aultor for ths mills .of Cod grind nlowiy they hla daughter's hand was sufficient to Jacob A, send Col. Farrar Into a rage terrible grind exceeding small. UUs in The Survey. to witness. He noted the growing Intimacy of Luclle and Lessure- with Mean 'Th Thing. A good many married men would re- jealous anger. But he could not watch bachelors-s- s a tax on Jter.always.And many a tlme- - when ha gard a 1st-o- n was away looking after the Interests Intelligence. of Jila extensive plantation near .the town we less fortunate youths saw Manicuring a Horse. A horae s hoof la really the-sa- me Lesgure starting on long walks with thing as ihe toe or finger nail of n the fair Melvin Insure Inherited all th beings, qr of animals having loe The hoof grows Just as a toe flrey Impulsiveness of a long line of nail does and- more rapidly oa- unshod French ancestry and- - was not the horses than on those wearing shoes. youth to brook long this uncertain Its growth la much faster on horses entente of his lovemaking He had a that are well groomed and well fed. big plantation several miles ffom apon an average of a third of an inch Chester and had moved Into town for a month. The hind hoofs grow faster the social advantages that looked than the fore hoof The toe of the large to us then, lie was amply able hoof being the longest part, it takes to support matrimony In a style equal laager for It to grown down there than to the best In the community. He at the heel. The new hoof grows out was handsome, studious and courtly any cracks or defects In the whole. n his manners and seemed to be ' gTsncfually working down to where eligible from any point of view. The ft can be cut off. Just as with human local Madame Grundy could And no i eason why Melvin Lesgure and Luclle finger nails. Farrar were not a perfectly matched Cold Storage Eggs. couple Some of those eggs now going Into "Hut the rock on which their happiold storage may never come out ness seemed destined to break was again, but wljl remain, like the gold reserve in the Hank of EDgtand.'as a as of the south unreconstructed and part of th capital stock of the cold uureeonstructable. Caspar d Lesaure, storage concern. Ja some future geo- "Melvin's cast his lot with had father, logical era, as they are dug up, the exhe north and had died at his own perimenters of the day can have great hts property defending loorway fun seeing whether or not they wlU of his adopted the enemies against hatch out Chicago News, dag . . v "Melvin Lessure was no match for Want a Ham Sandwich Mina. i Keally, w cannot fully express our Col. Jim In brawn or bluster, but he pleasure at the discovery, of a new hesitated not to go to him with his diamond field In South Africa Now, suit, and the storm he provoked I give as It was later reconstructed If a ham sandwich mine, near enough you. lo Macon for our children to work in. through the searchings of the law. rould b located, our happiness would 'Never, by the Almighty, never! be complete roared the colonel. Before I Would Macon News, See my daughter married to one of the Thera a Reason for It. accursed assassins of my country I When In actress get old enough to would slay her with my own hands. be willing to publish sll her love letGet out of my sight and never dare ters It may be taken for granted that to also your eyes to a daughter of th last of her copy was la several the Farrar.' - , t "yaar ago. - me. ly TO TOLD CUT1CURA. USE st . -- 4 my-aet- hu-ma- - -- -- In his brain to revenge himself upon her father both for his Insulting words and for the death of his own parent He had cut off a portion of her hair while she slept and dipped It In the blood of a lamb. He had also sprinkled blood over pieces of her, dress. The hatchet was easily procured, These he had placed In the cave during one of Col. Farrar's numerous absences from the house and there also he had himself emitted the moans which had been heard. He would have carried his hellish plot through to the end but that the colonels plea Jor forgiveness at the gallowg-u- nnerved him. This confession was made partly at the place of execution and partly afterward In the jail. As soon as It bepame clear that Lessure had an Important statement to make the sheriff turned to the colonel to take the Insignia of death from his head. Far rar, unobserved by all who were in tent upon the words of Lessure, ha4 The sunk Into a sitting posture. sheriff stepped up to him- and raised the black cap. He was dead. Lessure was Immediately placed her a plan which had formed Melvin stool face, clenched hands amp while Luclle threw her father's feet and weeiifcj begged and Implored him to kitate the harsh sentence. But peHast tier rudely from him with tse, and, turning to Lessure with fiiafcr In his eyes, said: "You dog! You wan 14 daughter you! Why, I shot'; off father down in cold blood becau bt differed with me politically. Df you thlnk I'll do less for you for hylni to rob me of my daughter? So It was you whifklfcd my returned LessuyX wwieeV father, wnwrarThCffulefor which by the tense fixedness of a stern.unldndlng resolve, 'Then, Col. Farrar I tdl you that I wil) have your daughterjand J will avenge my father. Are yoi mine Ull death. Luclle?' I am yours till death, sjd the girl as she went over and placed her arm proudly about his nsek. I Very little was seen of Lessure In town after that and it wu whispered that he was staying ootf on his farm and- to Lessure JxTenaihg"7"bIshard T colonels way. Young man, I have wronged About two weeks after hiq unsuc- you And I have no wish to leave this cessful Interview with Firrsif which earth with the 111 will of any man. was noised abroad as such things 1 ask your forgiveness for standing aye In a small town, Lucile Farrar between you and my poor child and disappeared, and the tongues began to for the death of your father which I wag in earnest When for S week believed to be In the line of duty toshe had not turned up ths towns peo- ward my country. Lessure trembled violently but did ple, who had little love for Ftrrar at best, were ready to believe siythlng. not reply or raise his eyes. The His threat against his daughter was march to the scaffold continued. A known and the bolder ones Id not deputy was forced to support the tothesitate to whisper that he had put tering form of Farrar uhlle the sheriff It Into execution. These hints took adjusted the black cap. Then the form by degrees and at last a withes sheriff stepped back and all was In came forward who told of passing the readiness for the fatal word when . colonel's .house.sicuated oa- - the-- edge .Lessure sprang forwards and .cried.ln of town, late at night, and of hearing an agonized voice: I low moans and pleading aloqe am guilty I . Stop! At last suspicion took such flered alone! "The officers of the law called him root that .the sheriff headed an Investigating party col. Jim was sway forward and demanded an explanation. and they had free run of the prem- He declared that Luclle was not dead but that they had run off and been ises. The search led to a cave In the married and his wife was then giving side of the hill, once used as a cellar In concealment In SL Louis, for fear but long since abandoned. There of the wrrath of her father and until they found torn pieces of' a dress, a he could' settle up his affairs and bloody hatchet and some tangled locks join her. But be had not divulged to of black hair "drenched with blood. The dress and the hair wore easily Identified as belonging to Luclle Far rar, the hatchet as the property of the colonel. When harged with the crime bis knees tottered ami he nearly fainted. Proper Respiration Adds to Each, But Is Too Llttlo UnderHe made no direct denial but moaned stood. and cried like a child During the trial that followed he seemed stunned There will he fewer flatchested woand oblivious to what was going on. men and much less nervous prostrA "'1 will admit that the courts of he loa'h to accept so tlnn when proper attention la giving Inadequate a cot pus delicti, but our to breathing, says an exchange. As blood was hotln those times and It Delsarte has said, there should be seems to me we hanged sore than strength at the center, freedom - at we da now Service wg( on the surface, and this freedom la but and he testified to the feet of the acquired bjr learning to use one's quarrel and the threat Cpon this lungs at will. By developing and enevidence and the prisoner! failure to larging them the thoracic cavity is Indeny they found their verdict of guilty creased. and upon the degree of this and fixed upon the dejth penalty. power depends expansion. As the day of execution approachla order to control one's nerves one ed" Col, Farrar continued la a state must learn to command one's Involunof almost total Insensibility, But tary muscles, awbich are diaphragm, when the sheriff came to rea(j the the heart and the intestines By death wafrant he roused nd raising breathing deeply and controlling one s his hand to heaven, said: , brekth and so Increasing one's lung "Before my maker DsweaAlhat 1 capacity, the heart action Is stimulatam guiltless of my child's doath.' ed. and this supplies the nerve centers They led him to the scaffold and with fresh blood, and the nerves act on the way he passed Melvin Lessure upon the muscles and the brain upon who was watching the scene like a the nerves am) muscles. bird fascinated by a snake. Col. FarIn order not to have any waste. of rar requested the Sheriff to stop, and nerve force, the chest should be kept keeptng-ourT5f-lrT- I Tortured Was Soon In- Been Cured of Dread Humor. I contracted ecxema and suffered Intensely for about ten months. At times I thought"! would t i aUh nry- self to pieces. My face and arms were covered with' large red patches, so that I was ashamed to go out. I was advised to go to a doctor who was a specialist In Bkln diseases, but I I tried received very little relief. every known remedy, with the same rcsultsIthoughtl would never getjyt- ter until a friend of mine told me to try the Cuticura Remedies. So I tried them' and. after four or five applications of Cuticura Ointment I was relieved of my unbearable Itching. I used two sets of the Cuticura Remedies, and I am completely cured. Miss Barbara Krai, IBghlandtown, Md., Jan. 9, 08 potter Drag tt Che in. Props, Boston. Corjk, Bole THE BUTCHERS NOT FAULT. lamb . you That Customer Mrs. 1 ever saw, Mr. Stlntwalte Tut, tut. Its that boy been loitering again. I assure you, when that joint left the shop it was the sweetst little leg of lamb you could set eyes on, and I gave him strict orders to deliver it at once because you wanted It young. largest and toughest under arrest. He blew his brains out in his cell that night with a pistol procured, no one knew how. Luclle went mad on hearing of the tragedy, and waa confined some time In a asylum. She recovered and ended her days In a convent. That, gentlemen. Is my story. There .was a stirring of chairs and a general lighting of pipes which had been allowed to go out In the rapt attention that prevailed while Judge Stoakes was speaking, when Judge Grower arose and said: I believe I voice the sentiments of the club In extending thanks to Judge StoakesT -- iCopy right, 1909, by Jose ph B Bowles.) BOTH STRENGTH AND BEAUTY Lee-sur- e, Had Ecxema and Diefigured But tense itching tent me, M. Stintwalte, wad" the ratS ( After Specialist Failed to Curs Hsr active by deep Inhalations, thus loosening thetenslon of unemployed members. The persistent and regular practice of.a breathing exercise will not only do this, but will give poise and Thejnoxemente-o- f A Case for Sympathy. Two matrons of a certain western city; whose -- respective --matrimonial ventures --did not In the first Instance prove altogether satisfactory, met at a woman's club one day, when the first matron remarked: Hattie. I met your ex, dear old Tom, the day before yesterday. We talked much of you. Ms that so? asked the other mau tron. Did he seem sorry when you told him of my second marriage? Indeed, Tie did; and said so most' frankly! . "Honest? "Honest! He said be was extremely sorry, though, he added, he didn't Lippin-cott- s know the man personally Magazine. 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