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stff-4Pt!"lt!Z THL NEWS-H&UAi J I iLLSBORO, OHIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1913. aiuj'i 'n jXOXOIOKCOX35 A QUESTION OF CASTE x if V By BELLE MANIATES. v 'XXvIvIvIOICvIvXXCi Thero was no reason, apparently, why those two people, Carter Johns and Cleo Rivers, should not have pur sued their friendship openly and free ly, but they had met in a most uncon ventional way, and there seemed to be a tacit, though unspoken, agreement between them that their meetings should be clandestine. Cleo was naturally interested and excited when she found the house next to theirs, which had been vacant for so long, had been sold and was to be occupied. Her first surreptitious inspection of one member of the new family was from a window overlooking their back yard. Johns, tall and straight, was critic ally examining and testing a stupen dous touring car. Clco's heart beat pleasurably. She was a born coquette, and presently, attired In the most delectable of white-embroidered linen gowns, white shoes and chiffon hat, she sauntered Into the back garden and began pick ing some flowers. Eventually she gave a sidelong glance. Cleo vas not conventional. "Won't you have a rose?" she asked. With eager baste and thanks he crossed the boundary line to the two gardens. "I think we should be neighborly," she said,, with a little laugh. "I quite agree with you," he replied, decorously, "and since there is no one present to introduce me, I will do my self the honor of presenting myself, Carter Johns." "My name is Cleo Riers," she said, with naivete. "Did you just move in last night? We heard the place had been sold." "We are only partly moted," he bald, smiling. "I was anxious to see if my new car came through safely. I think it is in good shape. Do you like to ride?" ' "Indeed I do!" she cried, enthusias tically. He couldn't tell afterwards how It really happened, or which one of them first made the suggestion, but, any way, he had an engagement to take her out in the autdmobile that night. lie was afraid she would think him presumptuous, but she had seemed pleased, and blushed as she told him bhe would have to meet him at the stable that "they" would never con sent. ' She looked very elegant in her dark attire, as she met him that night back of the stable. Thoy quickly sped away from the crowded streets, and when they came to a road that was free, Carter "let her out" In a way that was Intoxicat ing to Cleo. "He is simply grand!" she thought, with a little thrill of recollection when she was safely back In her own room. The next afternoon as she was walk ing through the park, he passed her In his bluish-white car. She bowed, and he lifted his hat courteously and passed on. Before he had gone very far his car stopped, and he got out to investigate the cause. She came on nnd up to him. "Something wrong?" she asked, shyly. "Not much out of gear. I will ad just it in a moment. May I take you home?" I "Certainly," she replied, joyously. Cant we ride out into the coun try?" he asked, entreatingly. She assented and they, rode on out into the open country, where spped limit laws were not enforced. They came home more slowly and senti mentally. And Cleo In her little white bed that night lay awake to live over and over again fhe joys of this beautiful and secreted time. They met chance-directed in many places, and the evening flights in -the big car were uninterrupted until fate in the shape of a settled rain preclud fd the carrying out of the usual pro gram. "There is a little summer house In our garden," he said, wistfully, as she came to the rear of the stable that night to tell him how disappointed she was. "Can't we have -a little visit there?" In the cozy little arbored house, listening to the so'ft music of the sum mer rain. Carter's felings reached a climax. "Cleo!" he murmured, "I love you!" But she had slipped from him and sped across the lawn. Sho spent the night crying over the inditing of a letter which she handed to him over the hedge the next morn ing. "I shouldn't have let you say that last night. It's all a mistake. The first time I met you I guessed what you thought that I was one of the family. I let you think so. I am maid to Miss Lorraine. Forgive me. "CLEO." i'resenuy a district messenger,' brought a note to Miss Cleo River. "Dearest Cleo: I am the chauffeur! Only the servants have moved in here as yet. Meet me usual place tonight, please, and let me say again what I did last night Yours always, "CARTER." More Serious. "We've been robbed!" announced the senior member of the West side meat market. "Every cent In the cash register gone, I suppose,?" his partner said. "It's worse than that! A side of ba con has been stolen!" Judge. rTfZT RTH ws persistent! FROM THE BEAR'S paw I I IN A TERRIBLE FIX v .jjf g $ By k. CUNNINGHAM. $ By ANNIE HINRICHSEN. $ By WILLIAM BLOSS. $ ::oIOKOIOIOKZZoS yIOIOIOIOX0XOiy iiozoioiiozoxoxoKi! Without question I felt like that unhappy principal In one of the fables of Aesop that long -eared and four-footed ass v. ho starved to death between two luscious and succulent bales of hay, unable reso lutely to declare himself upon which one first he would regale his appetite. It Is true I have but two feet. As to the length of my ears I 'am begin ning to entertain disquieting appio hensions. And yet, and yet, there are decis ions even more difficult to make than those confronting an umpire in a world's championship pennant battle. Of course as to the main point, I have known for three months It is necessary for me either to marry some dear girl with plenty of money of her own, or horrible alternative! -go to work, I have a cultivated disinclination to go to work for the mere base purpose of being paid for it. Wages is a word abhorrent to my bleeding. It smacks of the prole tariat, of the sordid, the lowly, the unbaked and soggy undercrust of the social pie. Father worked, naturally. Most lathers of any account do. I under stand. Good old dad!. He locked me out of the loaves and fishes cupboard all right and tight enough when he quit, hut I hold no grudge. In his day and in his way he was good to me. Here's to him. This is beastly heap sherry, but what can one drink, 'It to drink, on $3,600 a year? Mar jorle has $36,000. If she were my lance instead of my sister that would !je an income not half bad, for two people. I'm to have my $3G,000 per when I'm forty. Lord! Ten years to wait. What an age! That Is the reason tills marriage matter perplexes me. We must admit the nuptial necessity as a conditional and not a theoretic confrontation. The trouble lies in this there are two of them. I stand between them even as the Aesopian ass, unknow ing where to biowse. Charlotte Is fond of me, I know. She has more than as much as told me so. If only Grace Dalzelle had Charlotte's money! I am not quite sure how many mil lions Charlotte will have some day. It's something quite incredible. Old man Flaxhaver is still piling them .up, tlipy say. lies a grouchy old beast and has "views." Thinks men ought to work. Last' time I dined at his house he quizzed me about my "career." Said every American worth his salt ought to have an aim In life. Said dad was one of the best men he ever knew. Mind you, I can marry Charlotte all right enough, any old day, or night. She'll elope as fast as I'll take her. But I'm in doubt; I'm in doubt. Old Flaxhaver stickles for his paternal and parental authority. If he got his back up about thinkless tiieeild he might not get it down till after sackcloth and ashes had dona their awful worst to Charlotte and poor Charley Lavender. My predicament is really no less than sickening. Grace hasn't a cent, worth speaking of. Maybe $20,000 life insurance Dalzelle left her out of his wreck, after he had blown his brains out the day they sky-hlghed U. P. to 1,000. It's when I'm with Grace that I fully determine to tell Charlotte "there are Insuperable obstacles which must forever forbid our union" I have it written out, along those lines, and it isn't bad. And then, after I leave drace, and my hot blood cools and the sweet sting of her kisses no longer burns in ray mouth, I have to come down to earth and remember my duty to myself and, my family, If I should ever have one. It can't be expected it is a man's social duty to rear a lot of paupers. And this is Decision Day. Marjorle said she would give me until tonight to quit being a fool. Grace and Mar jorle are chums, you see. Sis says she will lend me $3,600 a year on my prospects If I marry "right." I know what that means. I might do worse than "rleht." If there's a nrettler girl in the world than Marjorle Lav-' ender It's Grace Dalzelle. And, then, I loye her. Though I am a loafer, she, too, loves me. She Expected It. The steamship moved slowly up the Narrows, abreast of Quarantine. There was a tremendous rattle and clank and splash. Aunt Drusllla called a steward, "What was that, steward?" she asked, "Nothln lad,, only dropped the an chor, ma'am." "I thought they would," answered Aunt Drusllla disapprovingly. "They've been very careless with It, I've seen It hanging over the side all day." The Doctor's Calculation. Foozle Doc Wobzle wants ter sel his auter. Biff What's the reason? .Foozle He Aggers that the one tba' buys it will be a steady patient evei after. CT) "I've often thought," said the girl who likes to talk, "that If everybody in the world had the persistency of a cat what wonderful things might be achieved! I have been moved to this philosophical state of mind by the career of Arthur, our alloy dat. " "I named her Arthur the first time I saw her because when I was quite oung there was a boy named Arthur whom I hated with such a whole soul cd hatred that even to this day the very name gives' me the creeps. Ar thur was the kind of cat you dislike violently on sight. She was lean and a mottled gray and one eye had a cast and she had the general air of a dissipated vagabond. "I can't Imagine what began the uplift In Arthur's soul. For some rea son she suddenly came to the deter mination to attain a higher social sphere and one day we found her comfortably disposed on our $100 dav enport in the living room. "Mother had the cook remove her and then she Bponged the ash dust off the davenport with gasoline. "That night Arthur mounted the trellis to thi"! upstairs windows and perched on the sills and sang mourn fully at each of us in turn. She was i regular feline soprano, because oth erwise she never could have got from window to window. When she war bled you were overcome with a sense of shame that you were repulsing her deep aftectlon. Somehow she man aged to convey that emotion. "In her broken hearted despair at our stonlness she extracted the, paper cover off the cream bottle at the back door the next morning and breakfast ed off the cream. The cook saw her departing, licking her whiskers, and threw a pail at her, which she nimbly sidestepped. "That night when my brother was dressing for a dinner party, he found Arthur asleep Inside his silk hat. He said that anyway he believed he would like to start the fashion of go ing bareheaded to dinner. So he de parted. "Within the next week Arthur had stolen the cream twice, eaten our canary, and scared father into a spasm because he stepped on her tall, not ex pecting to find a cat reposing on a corner of our best oriental rug. We began to get nervous because we nev- "Sang Mournfully at Each of Us." er knew what Arthur would do next or where she would choose to ap pear. "A man who was calling on me one night sat on Arthur. Now, there are many trials that a strong man can meet and endure with heroism, but I defy the bravest man to sit on an un expected cat and maintain a calm de meanor. That man bounced up four feet Into the air and then landed on the floor in a disheveled state. Who knows but tht it changed the course of my whole life.' because he was a nice man and 1 -rather liked him, and up to that point he had seemed to like me. However, being somewhat spoiled and popular, his vanity couldn't endure being made ridiculous and his demeanor toward me has no ticeably cooled since then. "After that I jammed Arthur Into a basket and carried her In an automo bile 15 miles awny and deposited her in front of a fur factory gray fur Is fashionable this year. Two days later I found her reclining in the middle ol a pile of lingerie just up from the laundry. She yawned In a bored way as if to let me know that she thought traveling a -frightful nuisance. "Arthur's complacency was infuriat ing. It never dawned on her that she wasn't wanted- She never realized that she bad a cast in her eye and that no figure and wretched hair, but she put on all the airs of a blue rib bon Persian and acted as though we were dying to have her around. "The night I had my most fashion able bridge party Arthur walked in, bringing one by one five of the worst looking kittens I ever laid eyes on, and deposited them at my feet. Sho had wished 'em on me! Now what can you do with a cat like that?" "Well," said the listener, "you might hire an ocean going steamer and drop her overboard In the deepest part of the Atlantic!" "Nonsense!" returned the girl who likes to talk, "She'd swim backl" Chicago Dally News. Gibraltar and I are partners. Gib raltar Is a dancing bear. Some peoplp might say I am Gibraltar's owner, but between him and mo there's never been a question of master and beast. We're partners, share and share alike. Wo walk from town to town. We hnve enough to eat, and there is no sweeter sleep than the sleep one gets under the stars. One day as Gibraltar and I were strolling along a country lano we saw a girl coming toward Ul She stopped a little way and called: "Will your bear hurt me?" "No. Indeed, miss," says I. "He's as gpntlo as a kitten." She came up to us and my! sho was pretty. Her eyes were like the sky and her cheeks were like the wild roses in the hedges. "Will he mind if I pat him?" she naked. She patted old Gibraltar's head arid pulled his ears. "I do love bears," she said. "What's his name?" I told her and she said that ws a beautiful name for a bear. I made him dance and she sat down by the road and laughed and clapped her hands. After awhile she said she must go. She dropped a dollar In my money basket and went her way. It was about sundown and we stopped at the first haystack and ate our supper and went to sleep. In the night I woke up. There were people on the other side of the haystack. A woman was crying: Then a man Bald he was sorry; that he couldn't help It; ho didn't love her "any more; change was the law of na ture and she must accept conditions. She said something about the love of the old days and the claim It gave her. That seemed to make the fellow tired and he said he didn't care for hash love. He asked her to give hi in something I couldn't hear what and she said she wouldn't, It was hers and gave a little scream. "Oh, you brute," she said. "You've broken the chain and stolen It." That woke Gibraltar and he groan ed. The man came around the hay stack. "What are you doing here?" he asked. "Sleepln'," I says. "Get out," says he. "This Isn't a hoboes' roost" Next morning when I woke up I saw we were near a house and wo ambled toward It looking for a break fast. It was a big house with a long porch In front of It and on the porch were a lot of people. It wasn't a farm house, as I had supposed, but some swell's summer cottage, and Gibraltar and I had butted Into a house party. When they saw us they called to us" to come to the porch, they wanted Gib raltar to dance. On the lowest step sat my little sun shine lady and beside her was the fellow I had seen the night before Near them was a tall woman with yellow hair. After Gibraltar had done his stunts I passed the money basket. The last person it came to was the fellow be side the sunshine lady and he was so busy talking to her that he never looked at what he pulled out of his pocket and threw Into the basket. I hung the basket on Gibraltar's paw and told him to make a bow. Ile'howed so low that the basket slid off and fell at the sunshine lady's feet. There was something In it which didn't look like money and she picked it up. It was a gold locket about the size of a half dollar. She opened it, and there was the fellow's picture and: "To Beatrice, from. George." She snapped the locket shut and handed it to the tall woman. "This is yours, I think," she said. The mart looked as it he wanted to smash things, Gibraltar and me par ticularly. The little sunshine lady put her hands In Gibraltar's fur and shook his big head. "Gibraltar," she said, "you havo done a great deal for me today and I thank you. old fellow1. Even out of the paws of bears " She kind o' choked then and I took up Gibraltar's chain and wo went off, When Snuff Was Useful. "Some people have the knack of doing and saying the right thing at the right time," comments Lord Ross more in "Things' I Can Tell." And as an instance of the value ofpresenco of mind in an emergency, he tells of a dog fight in Bond street, London. Two terriers that belonged to two socially eminent ladles had engaged in a businesslike tussle. The distracted ladles alternately made tearful but vain appeals to their favorites and to the bystanders. Just as the fight seemed about to ter minate fatally for one of the animals a blase-looking "chappie" elbowed his way through the crowd with a polite "Permit mo." He calmly surveyed the two strug gling dogs; then he produce a hand some gold snuffbox and taking a pinch of snuff from it ho dropped a little on tho end of each dog's nose. A fit of sneezing ensued, vblch compelled them to release their grip, and tho combat came to an end. With a polite bow to tha ladles, the strategist walked leisurely away. Youth's Companion. The Only Thing. "Well, I got something in free of duty?" "What was that?" ' The English cigarette I was smok ing as I left the dock." GOLDEN MILE OF KALG00RLIE Stretoh of Territory Has Featuros That Are Probably Unique In World's History. Kalgoorllo and Boulder, considerable cities which adjoin near where Pat Hannan scratched out his nuggets In the early days, are noisy with life and ambition; and as long bb the Golden Milo flourishes to sustain them they will continue to thrive and aspire In spite of the Immensity and horrible character of the desert land which isloates them from rivers and fcrtllo places and the bounty of & kindly soli. They run with the times; they pro vide themselvos with comforts; they amuse themselves; they are adorned; they regard their duty to the state and consider the future of their children's children, lue Golden Mile lies with- .a Sight of Hannah's old chum the smoke and dust, and black superstruc tures of a thin line of deep and vastly rich mines. One of the group not the pride of them all must produce 600 a day to keep the stockholders in good humor with its behavior; and the affection of the directors would be largely Increased it was estimated if a responsive good conduct should Increase even this gratifying yield to 1,000 a day. Roughly speaking, the Golden Mile and its lesser neighbors of Kalgoorllo the big shows, as dis tinguished from the Individual enter prises scattered broadcast over the country, which are called little shows employ 5,000 men and produce 3, 000,000 a year; and the whole field in which the Golden Mile 1b situated has from the first days of the Kalgoorllo rush, 20 years ago, produced almost 56,000,000, which, stated more Im pressively in dollars, amounts to $280, 000,000. It was pointed out by a fu rious young member of the labor party of West Australia that the wealth taken from these few miles of wilder ness which once were public domain equaled nearly 600 per capita of the maximum population of the dis trict. And consequently "Who gets It all?" demanded my informant. I could not enlighten him. "Stockholders In London," he snap ped, "who never saw the gold-fields!" Norman Duncan, in Harper's Maga zine. Presence of Mind. In front .of his Chelsea house Sir Thomas Moore had a garden and gate house, and, as there was a pleasant view from the summit of the gate house, he used frequently to sit there, accompanied only by his dog. Here it was that he was found one after noon by a wandering maniac, who crept upstairs and saw the feeble old man dozing. "Leap, Tom, leap!" he cried, and at the same time tried to throw him over the battlements. Moore had not physical strength enough to resist, but he had the wit to say: "Let us first throw this little dog over." The man immediately threw down the dog. "Pretty sport," said the lord chan cellor. "Now, do down and bring him up; then try again." While the madman went down for the dog More made faBt the door be hind him, and so managed to hold the fort until deliverance came. How Insects Acquire Caste. The various castes of social InsectB have different appearance, but It has been supposed that they are alike on leaving the egg, and develop their pe culiar characteristics artificially through differences in feeding or the action of parasites. Seeking to learn when the different forms of termites, or white ants, begin, Professor Bug nlon of Paris concludes that this the ory Is wrong. Among the several castes of this Insect, the soldiers are wingless and have very strong man dibles, and the workers, which build and bring food, have a different form, but neither reproduce. The caste known as reproducers, on the other hand, with a special development, ap pear to perform no part except perpet uating the species. The Investigation made with a number of species shows that the peculiarities of form exist In newly hatched Insects, and that there fore division Into castes, like that of the sexes, takes place before tho larvae are born. Harps of Old Still Sound. Surely a poet should be found some where, to sing with fitting sentiment the story of how archaeologists in Egypt lately have come upon ancient harps, three thousand years old, the strings of which are still intact and give forth musical sounds after thirty centuries of silence.' The poet above-mentioned should devote several lines to saying, poeti cally, that though we of today have seen sights the ancient peoples saw, though we have read 'their books, viewed their embalmed remains, thought their thoughts and retrod their pathways, never before have our modern ears listened to their musical sounds. Ancient music 1b almost a sealed mystery to us, even though a few written phrases have remained to be imitated on our instruments. But would it not give us a strange sense of nearness to them, of one-ness with them, to hear with our ears the same note that once calmed the rage of a Rameses! Boom! "That new maid at Mrs. Van Win kle's threw .some gunpowder in the stove by mistake and was blown through the roof. Poor girl!" "No, poor Mrs. Van Winkle. That's the fifth maid this year who has left her without giving .notice." Notice of Appointment. Estate of M. V. Williamson, deceased. William S. Halgh has been appointed ana qualified as Administrator of the estate of M. V Williamson, late of Highland County, Ohio, deceased. Dated this 26th day of November A. D. 1913. J. D. Wobley", Probate Judge of said County. Teachers' Examination. The Highland county Doard of School Ex aminers hereby gives notice that examina tions of Applicants of Certificates will take place In the Wastlngtoa School Building. Illllsboro, on the flrst Saturday of every month Patterson examinations will be held on the third Saturday of April and on the third Saturday of May. As prescribed by law, the fee for teachers examinations will be 50 cents, while, for Patterson examinations no fee Is charged. O. A. Tuneh, Sinking Spring, Pres. adv W. U, Vance, Illllsboro, Vice Pres. II. B. Gamjett, Lynchburg, Sec. Notice of Appointment. Estate of Henrv C. Bennett, deceased. L. It Duckwall has been appointed and qualified as executor of the estate of Henry u. Bennett, late of Highland county, Ohio, deceased Dated this 4th day of December A. D. 1913. J. B. WonLKT, Probate Judge of said County. Private Sale of Valuable Personal Property. Having decided to quit the road, building business on account of my other business taking all my time, will offer at private sale at my home in Reesville, Ohio, the following per sonal property : 1 Aurora Stone Crusher, 10x15, with 25 foot elevator, and all necessary ap purtenances, 1 Revolving Screen, 3 Stone Hoppers and Loaders for grading stone preparatory to building water-bound macadam road, 1 21" inch Hoist, ' 150 feet of 5 8 cable, 3 Steel Cars, 1000 feet of T-Ralls, 2 Steam Drills. All pipes and hammers necessary to complete the above outfit. 1 8 h. p. international Famous Gas oline Engine, good as new, 1 4-inch tubular Fump and 25 feet of 4 inch gasjplpe connected, 1 No. 3 Kelly Duplex Feed Grinder, good as-new, 1 No. 1 Blrdsall Clover Huller, Also 12-passenger Automobile, Stod dard Dayton 1909 Roadster, all in good repair, 1 BoardlngJCar, 8x18, equipped with cook stove, cookinglutenslls and dish es. The foregoing will be sold for cash or negotiable paper or exchange for property of equal value. - - s- Sald propertymust be closed out within the next GO days. Will be pleased to show prospective purchasers the above property. Phone, write or call on T. N. Beookbank, (1-15) Reesville, Ohio. For Every Living Thing On The Farm" Free ; a 500 1 page book oh the treat ment and care of "Evory Living Thing on the Farm ;" horses, cattle, dogs, sheep, hogs and poultry, by Hum phreys' Yetinary Specifics ; also a sta ble chart for realty reference, to hang np. Free by mall on application. Ad dress Humphreys Homeo Med. Co., Corner Williams & Ann Sts. , N. Y. adv Jack Deeds Congratulate me, dear 1 I have a'case at last. A rascal who forged a lot of notes has retained me. Young Wife Oh, Jack, how splen did 1 You must invite him to dinner. Boston Transcript. m British railway earnings decreased last year. The lossjwas due in part to greater use of motorbuses, tramways and automobiles. 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If you are run down and don't feel as young and chipper as you used to, give SEVEN BARKS a fair trial it will purify your blood, clear your system and brain, and make life worth living. It. is absolutely harmless, is highly palatable, and trill not disturb the most delicate stomach, t For sale at druggists at CO cents per bottle. Don't fall to tryit. Address ; LYMAN BROWN. 68 Murray SNewYwk;N.Y.- i til 3 . d