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f7 . . , ... I So to the store she went, Ana spew ., Bm a t 1 1 L..-ln A flAAIl 1 occupation- -onrgtuu uuuuu&. i The Fate of a Letteir " By MAID MURRAY MILLF.l. , (CopyrlgM. oy ora run. Tom. dear, will you please post this iter for me?" Certainly. I am going by the of- ice any way. "I am so glad: that will give u leveral hours the start of one put In he corner box. Mrs. Jerome turned from the door prtth a sigh of relief. : "Thank goodness! That's disposed f. I hope she will get it promptly. Mow I will arrange that room." i "Hello, Jerome! Come with me to the club. I want to talk with you about I he new Radium Company. Tolan grasped Jerome's arm as he iwung around the corner, and with mt waiting for a reply the two men mrrled along,, talking earnestly of the jrospects of success in getting capi at to push their new scheme for the flomaetic use of radium. For an hour ; they talked with knitting brows and fenxious faces. Then Jerome arose. "I am going to New Tork to see about some business, and while there 1 will call on Manson. I am sure he "will join us, and that will mean clear , . sailing for us." ' "Yes; his money is worth much to Tub, but his name is worth more. When ;do you go?" 1 "In half an hour. If anything new - arises,' address me here." He pulled a card from his pocket; with it came a letter. His face fell. "By Jove! My wife asked me to hpoBt this. I'll not have the time now. Old man, attend to it for me, will . you?" . i "Sure." . t They partea, boarded a Jerome 'passing car for his train, and Tolan t walked in the opposite direction. His V brain was busy planning ways and f AA &LA JLf &S S toil it u w n m fli II WJ! U IQJ I vim mr$mm'wHri w. Post s i 1 4 AWVJk ii.!"Tom, Dear, Will You Please t- This Letter for Me?" ,- 'rt means to form the Kadium Company V 1 The available' ani unavailable mc ' 'i were rans?d around opposite sides of ;'ihis brain, and each talked teiepath I i cally of the proposed plan. I , I Absorbed in thought, he reached the i;t door of his office. 5 "Some important letters, sir," hi l inrrotarv Raid, as he entered. "Will : tt - you attend to them now? 4 "Yes. One from Harmon?" "Yes, Bir. He says he will take 3 100 shares of the stock at 50 cents on I the dollar. 1 "finnd That is encouraging. And f . i Riley?" I s I- "He says he can not see his way I Just now to take any." 1 I "Humph! Well, let him wait until f -l It Is at par." f t Rapidly he went through the letters Ik' h dictating answers to his stenographer. t i I All afternoon he worked, every nerve h ' I alert, as the American usually works. S 1 and when five o'clock struck he put on his hat and left the office with a i feeling of relief, taking a car home. ol "Did you bring the samples?" his II wife asked him, thrusting her hand i 1 into his pocket for them. Drawing r i " . j i- she went to a near-by restaurant for , ' ' lunch, and from there to the Thurs- I day Literary club, with several mem bers whom she met. j All thought of the letter had passed from her mind. The absorbing club questions were of more vital interest, and not again did It occur to her until she was on the car homeward bound. When Bhe opened her handbag to get a car ticket, the delayed letter stared her in the face. "Heavens!" she ejaculated under her breath; "what will Albert say?" "I am sorry I can not go," she heard a gentleman near her say to another, "but I shall have to return to my of fice to-night. I have some business which I can not postpone." An idea flashed through her brain. Turning to the speaker, she said: "Pardon me, Mr. Clark; I heard you say you were going back down town to-night Will you be so good as to post this letter which I had forgot ten?" "With pleasure." The outstretched letter was transferred to his pocket, and he was soon on his way to the office. Flinging aside his coat, he wnrirari hnrrf for three hours; then hastily donning it again, he made a rush for the last car home. As he felt for a nickel for the con ductor, his Angers closed on the fatal letter. He puzzled on the way home what to do with it, and a bright Idea occurred. As he left the car, he turned to the conductor and handed him the letter with a cigar. "You are going back to town," he said. "Will you kindly drop this in the postoffice as you pass? It is important and should leave the city to-night." The conductor good-naturedly sc ented the mission, and taking the white envelope gingerly between his i dirty fingers, slipped it In a crevice the car window, so its presence would remind him when he came to the postoffice. But a merry crowd, returning from an evening pany, boarded the car for the return trip the city, and in the bustle and good-natured confusion, the conductor forgot all about the ill-fated letter. The letter remained In the cracK above the window until the next even ing, when the jolting of the car shook t into the lap of Mr. Simpson, wno looked at It in wonderment. He puz zled his brain as to how he became .nenPEspri of it. and seeing it was stamped and addressed, he deter mined to slip it in the post-box outside the door when he came homo. Nine days later, Mrs. Jerome went to spend a social afternoon witn ner friend. Mrs. Simpson. The two lames were upstairs In Mrs. Simpsons sit ting room, and she was brushing and sponging her husband's coat. Giving it a vigorous shake, a letter ren oui uu the floor. She looked at the address. Dear me! Where did John get this letter?" Mrs. Jerome looked at It. "It Is a letter I wrote mother and gave my husband to post 11 days ago. 1 may destroy it now, as sue nas arrived." THE QLD UNIFORM By CHARLES FRASER ROSS. The great pride in life of Jed Rob inson was that his uncle Aimer had been a soldier and a brave one. It was at Pea Ridge that the now old man had saved the colors of his com pany through an act of unusual hero Ism and had won distinguished notice. Shortly after Uncle Abner came home at the cessation of hostilities, the widowed mother of Jed died. Un cle Abner was a confirmed bachelor. His brother had left nothing. Abner himself owned a little forty-acre plot of ground along the river just outside the town. He ran up a shack, made Its interior as comfortable as his limit ed means would allow and adopted Jed. . I It proved a' poor possession, and with the exception of about one-twentieth of its area the land was barren as a gravel pit It seemed as though in some original glacial convulsion na ture had made a dumping ground of this convenient and selected spot to pile up all the mongrel tailings of heterogeneous mineral veins. Dig where you would, the pick or shovel was sure to strike coal, or pyrites, or asbestos in masses that suggested the ground-off product of enormous rocks that had passed over the dis trict in remote centuries of the world's geological travail. Uncle Abner did his mil duty by Jed and kept him at school until he was eighteen. By that time the old man had become incapacitated for work. Jed gladly took up the burden of car ing for the little patch of ground. The vegetable garden, a few cattle and the sale of gravel and jsand to district contractors and the railroad LOVE IN A FOG By FRANK M. BICKNELU .W.V.W.W.V.. '.V.V.V.V.V. the conversation . had changed. He could not very well explain to hi friend, that grinding poverty had not admitted of his buying a decent suit ot clothes for ove two years, and the old ones were not presentable for A social function. "Why, yes " he hastened to say, aris ing and taking up the lamp and il luminating the obscure corndr ot the room. "It'a uncle's old unitorm stuffed." "i declare!" remarked Frank in genuine admiration. "It looks fine. Talk about old armor here's the real thlng-sometning limeiy ana natur. - . ghare biiu mo tins " vau , . . Judson Maxwell always gave some- i thing to the blind match seller at the ; corner for luck, he said. And Barney : O'Keefe, that husky, cheery beggar, always wished his honor good and plenty, and then a power more of it : ator of that. Maxwell was lucky in With that old gun if mI, ,.' LLilfl ' IB? "HTTSStel N. b .The corner post-box is safer than any man's pocket. J out a letter, ana seeing me naarem, ' " she exclaimed: v f "Why, Albert! What are you doing I with a ietter addressed to Mrs. Mary I A. Landon, Trenton, N. 1.7 j "Gee whiz! I forgot that letter. I ' Jerome asked me to post it You are ? oin down to-morrow; be a good girl and put it in the office so it will go " nromotly. I am afraid to trust my- . t self again with it I . "There must be a missing link be- 5tween a man's brain and a letter to be mailed. Yes. I will take it, or poor r Jerome's letter may never see 1 the Inside of a mall bag." When Mrs. Tobln started down tnwn the next morning, like a dutiful ' I wife who feels a Uttle pity for her hus .3 Surprise Dish for Diners. In one of lialzac's novels there is an incident in which a Parisian hostess elves delight in an elderly dinner guest bv always having an extra dish, by v.iiy of a s'.ui l'i o, for him. Something of the same sort was provided by the hostess of a iunohe-on jiarty at a Broadway hi tl the oilier day through the agency of the head waiter and the chef. "Canape a la Russe," the dish was called and in spite of gastronomic traditions It was the piece do resist ance of the meal. The canape was shaped like a pyramid and was com posed of such a variety or tnings mat It is not easy to rememuer mem an The base of the pyramid rested on s plaque covered with the grated yolks of hard-boiled eggs, bordered with the hearts of endive. The first layer round the base was composed of Diets or Russian herring, set in dainty strips of red pepper rinds. The next row above r-nnnUted of medallions ot caviare framed in strips of green peppers Next was a row of slices of hard-boiled eees surrounded by capers, this nulsn lne the base. The snarl or me pyra mid was composed or nrst a nne ripe tomato stuffed wltn celery mayon naise: next an alligator pear, then whole hard-boiled egg placed upright surmounted by a heart of lettuce, These were all held In place by a long silver skewer. "I'm Welcome There." h.nTn shortcomings, the letter was reposing safely in her handbag- On the car she met a neighbor who told her of some wonderful bargains she had found the previous day at Ross ft Co.'s. "Oh. yes; they are sure-enough bar gains. What do you think of real silk hose for $1.97. when that kind never ells for less than $2.00? They are beauties; I bought three pairs. And as tor lisle thread ones, wny, you can gei them as cheap as cotton. Everything Is marked way down; the floor walker said so." "Then I must go there," answered Mrs. Tolan. "I do need so many things Just now." Size of the Earth. - To be exact, the diameter of the earth from pole to pole Is 7.899 miles: the equatorial diameter being 7,925 miles. The slight difference of diame ter is, of course, owing to the flatten ing out of the poles. Output of British Potteries. The value of the output of the Brit ish potteries Is variously estimated at from $27,750,000 to $39,000,000. The notterles are located In various parts of the United Kingdom, including Staf fordshire. London, Bristol, Leeds, New octipin-Tvne and other small dis tricts. The bulk of the manufactories however are in Staffordshire, In the west of England, where extensive beds of clay and marl have been the basis of the Industry lor nearly io cen turies. It Is estimated that 80 per cent of the pottery manufactured in the United Kingdom is In this district Seek Aid of Government. The Society of German Engineers at its annual convention held in Dres den empowered its officers to negoti ate with representatives of the Prus sian Government of the German fed eration to make arrangements for the bringing out of the Technolexlkon, which the society was forced to give up about a year ago, on account of the great scope of the work, involving expenditures greater than the society thought it could consistently make. companies brought in a steady, though meager Income, barely enough to sub sist on. To make matters worse, in order that Jed might have an educa tion his uncle had mortgaged the Uttle place. It was only by exercising the strictest economy that Jed could manage to make accounts even up. Finally Uncle Abner took a wnim Into his head. Fifty miles away there was a soldiers' home. He startled Jed one day by announcing that he was going there. "I'm welcome there, k have a rigni to go there," he told his sorrowiui nephew. "Heres the point, iaa: us easier to feed one mouth than two. Let me have about a year or two with my old comrades, meantime reacn- lng out for the new pension increase. You work nard, and Detween us wen get the place free and clear ana m come back." A lonely life began for Jed. It had one bright spot. Once a week ne weni to the village church, once a month to the church social, and on eacn occasion he met Nettie wilder, it went no further than a mutually pleas ant acquaintanceship, but Jed cher ished hopes of the future when better times came along. Four times a year Uncle Abner came home for a week. These com- nnnionable visits Jed looked forward to with sincere longing pleasure. Such an occasion he was anticipating one evening, when there was a knock at the door and a bluff, hearty voice sang out: "Open up, there I'm nigh perished with the chilling blast! "Why, Frank Wilder!" greeted Jed, as he opened the door to welcome Nettie's brother. "Yes, I'm down from the city for a week, got lonesome and thought a chat with an old friend would do me good." Jed made his visitor fully comfort able. He piled the wood into the broad open fireplace, got out a pitcher of prime home cider and some wamuis and maple sugar. "I say." finally observed Frank, "why don't you come down to the house once in awhile?" "I I've been pretty busy getting things shipshape lor the v, inter, ' rath er lamely explained Jea, uushing up. "EsDecially the last month, for uncle is coming on his regular quarterly visit, you see." "Well, Nettie invited you to her birthday party and was quite put out because you did not come. Melio: Frank eave a start and a stare at something he had not noticed before i figure striding In the dim corner of the room. Jed was grateful that above the uniform, one mighty fancy old Uncle Abner was about to spring out in the full glory ot the battle field." "I thought it might please him," said Jed. "I stuffed the coat with straw and the rest .of it with sand. I'm proud of Uncle Abner, I can tell you, Frank," continued Jed. "Who wouldn't be?" replied Frank. "I hope he'll make his visit while I'm here." "Oh, yes, he Is due to arrive day after tomorrow," declared Jed. "I'd just love to have him once more go over that splendidly thrilling story of how he saved the day at Pea Ridge. I say, Jed, I'll come Saturday evening, and 111 bring Nettie. You know your uncle always made a pet of her." Jed fluttered like a timid school child. To see Nettie again to have her under the same roof! How he polished up the old tinware the next day! How he planned a meal out of the ordinary for those cherished guests, and when his uncle arrived the old fellow was wild with delight to give his favorite a glad reception. Frank Wilder was a mining engi neer In the city and an agreeable and instructive talker. Both Ned and his uncle were arrayed In their best and the house spick and span when, Saturday afternoon, Nettle and her brother drove up from their home, five miles distant. Nettie was ardent in her praises ot the orderliness and system of this typical bachelor's hall. She Insisted on helping Jed prepare the meal. It was the happiest moment ot his life, to view her dainty figure Hitting about the kitchen, keeping -up a string of pretty talk, all charming nothingness, but the sweetest of music to his eager ears. It was after supper that Uncle Ab ner, in fine spirits, was induced to re cite the Pea Ridge incident. In his excitement he used an old saber to illustrate an onslaught on the en my Alas! as an accidental swoop and dip came, thb steel blade swept across the knees of the sand-padded uniform. A black flood poured forth. All hands laughed at the ludicrous incident. "Why, where did you get this stuff?" i suddenly inquired Frank, who had cas ually picked up a handful of the sand. 1 "The hill is full of it," explained Jed. "Sort ot iron pyrites, isn't it?" "Pyrites!" shouted Frank, quite ex cited. "Why, it's tungsten, a good qual ity, too used for hardening steel and worth fifty cents a unit." "What's a unit?" propounded Uncle Abner. "Twenty pounds." "Why, we've got tons of It!" "Then you're rich!" declared Frank. "I'm chemist enough to know the value of this stuff." His opinion was correct and within a week brought results. A steel com pany bought the old place for a big sum and Uncle Abner did not have to go back to the Soldiers' home. They built a new house and Frank was a welcome visitor, and Nettie, too. And finally, in the course of time Nettle came to the home to stay and help Jed do the cooking for the rest of his life. (Copyright. 1916. by W. Q. Chapman.) of eood looks, and in being aDie to Prolong Life by Using GRIGSBY'S LIV-VER-LAX A Harmless Vegetable Compound With No In jurious Effects WARNS AGAINST HIGH HEELS Authority Points Out Danger of Fash Ion Which Just Now Has Strong Hold In Femininity. An eminent authority of the medical profession has again urged upon his brother physicians the importance of impressing upon the public the need of properly caring for the feet, not only so far as having shoes construct ed correctly, but also in urging every one to take a proper amount of foot gymnastics. "High heels," says the Journal of the American Medical As sociation in quoting Ritschl, "are par tlcularly dangerous and lead to In numerable bodily ills." The strength and well being of the entire body depend in a large meas ure on the condition of the feet, and their development In children should be watched with special care to avert Injurious Influences. High heels. Doctor Ritschl declares, affect injuriously not only the foot Itself, but throw the whole weignt- bearing mechanism more or less out of gear. By extending a moderately nign heel backward many muscular trou bles are automatically cured." spare from his prosperous business enough leisure to follow Prudence Hale across the Atlantic. But ne naa not yet been lucky enough to per suade her to be his wife. In the person of Albert Pierce, Max well had a formidable rival. As a fair-minded man Maxwell would have freely admitted that Pierce was quite as desirable a match for Prudence as he himself was; but as the young lady had steadily refrained from showing a preference for either suitor the two were now in London for the purpose of further urging their re spective Bults. All efforts at a viva voce declaration having been adroitly baffled by the still noncommittal fair one, they had finally come to the fol lowing gentleman's agreement: Each was to lay his heart, hand ana fortune at Prudence's feet by letter and the two sealed proposals were 10 ha mailed in the same box at the same time, namely, nine o'clock p. m. Mon day, November 25. Now as a matter of fact Miss rru dence was honestly in uoudc as io hether she cared more for Maxwell than she did for Pierce. She rather thoueht indeed, she felt reasonably 8ure Bhe would eventually nna ner life's happiness in becoming the wife nf nn of them, but which? Twice, thrice, she re-read each letter ana strove heroically with her indectson oulte in vain. By and by, however, as the fog without thickened, there rnma to her curiously enough the glimmering of an Idea. The Hales had taken apartments In Backville street. Maxwell was stay- In at a biK new hostelry In Northum berland avenue and Pierce at a fa- mnna old one in Brook street. It thus happened that the routes the two young men would have to traverse in reaching her from their hotels were about equally long and also about equally devious. In pursuance ot her idea an Idea which might or might not lead to satisfactory results she called up Maxwell on the telephone. "I have your letter, Jud," she told him, "yours and Bert's. Listen care fully. You will please leave your hotel this aftornoon at three o'clock precisely, and start for this house on foot. Walk the entire distance. 1 shall telephone similar instructions to Bert. You are to find your way to me through the fog.nnd the one who ar rives first well, 1 won t promiBe any thing now, but leave that for this afternoon if you don't both get lost in the fog." The fog had thickened to a "pea soup" consistency, and vehicular traf fic was nractically at a standstill when at 3:27 p. m., the Halo's panor maiu brought Prudence a card, and an nounced : "A gentleman to see you, miss. Prudence drew a long breath and hor heart began to beat with rather more than normal rapidity as she took the card and glanced at Its Inscrip tion. Was she glad or sorry to read the name of Judson Maxwell? Strange though it may seem, she was not yet sure of herself. She was conscious, hnwnvor. of wondering that he had been able to get to her bo soon, through a fog of almost midnight darknesB, and also of dimly fancying that his greater love had served him as a guide. Prudence!" He appeared at the door evidently In a fever of suspense, then, seeing her alone, he came for ward eagerly and took her hands in his. "Prudence," he repeated, I am first?" Yes." she replied, "you are first;" and now her unruly heart certainly was thumping at a scandalous rate. Out ot the dark fog light seemed sud denly to have broken. "Are you aren't you glad?" he asked breathlessly. "I I think oerhans I am," she answered rather haltingly. "Aren't you sure?" he demanded re proachfully. Gently she withdrew her hands from his clasp, and raising them, put them about his neck, then Bhyly drew his face down toward her own, now crim soning with a color that appeared to him of divine loveliness. She didn't say she was sure, but she didn't need to. Pierce came about two hours later he had gone badly astray in the fog- but he arrived in time to offer his congratulations, and to add, handsome ly. that as the best man had won the bride he hoped to be "best man" at the wedding. Does Away With the Use of Calomel Grimsby's Liv-Ver-Lax sold and reccom mended by Lake Pharmacy I 1 I Lebanon Co-Operative Medicine Co. r B Lebanon, Tenn. M m r mill n l in u .yi i iiy-j i it ii uv come to us 1 Don't let yourself run down. Almost every se- vere sicknesscould be avoided if a little medical advice I and the right medicine is taken in time. III!! Come to us for your medicines and drug store Jii I things and know that you will get tine right Kina ngm I prices too. l We keep right up to the minute and always have everything a first-class drug store should carry. WOODS' Drugstore! P PHONE 408 I' Rabbit Fur for Hata. . Rabbit for is said to be supplanting wool in felt hat-making in Australia, .-w factories are in operation. The fur la considered jnuch superior t ti.. r,.t Marino for this purpose. and millions of rabbit skin are used annually. Modern War Munitions. It takes three months to make a Qhronnpi .hell. Such a projectile nas the form of a cylinder, which, by the help of a time fuse, blows its neaa on at the instant desired, scattering 250 or more lead bullets. The smallest size used by the United States tor me three-inch guns such guns, as wen as howttzew, are employed for firing shrapnel eosts $SL World's Largest Auditorium. It is recorded that the Coliseum at Rome had accommodations tor l.000 spectators. Good and Bad Times to Sleep. Sleep is soundest on cool, clear, dry evenings, when there i little moisture In the air and some mild movement ot the pleasant, soothing atmosphere. On cloudy, warm, soggy or even snowy nights, other things being equal, sleep was fitful, restless and unsatisfactory. Alas, Poor Pittsburgh! "The old man was certainly wild to day," remarked the first Pirate as the last captive plunged from the plank. "What do you mean, wild?" Inquired the second. "Didn't he wafk seven men?" laughed the first offender. Buffalo Express. Pa's Opinion. "Pa, what is a cannibal?" "A savage who eats human beings, son." "Would a cannibal eat mamma, it he could?" I "He mieht. son. but she would be ' sure to disagree with him " Nothing New. South Sea Islanders are . . . In rr queer lot. iney "'-"J " "; hixh . taboo, mustn't be touched. "I see nothing strange about that It Is the same principle on wnicn w. carefully plant a lot of grass for peo ple to keep 03 of. Of the Same OpWilon. Mildred "Don't yon think Miss El derly looks much younger in her new hatT" Helen "Indeed I oo. Why. riMrd It makes her look but very little older than she says aha la." Jud-, Cost. Friend of the College ITesident "What did this beautiful dormitory coat yonr College President "Three doctor' degrees. One tor lie man that pot ap the money and the others tor two friends of nis. me- The Laundry Work Well. Barney, you brought me the finest kind ot luck; you were a friend in need that time if ever there was e." "Sure, yer honor, 'tis proud an' glad am I could help ye, though 'twas nothing at all I done worth mention. With me goin' over the route an' right past the young leddy's bouse twice a day, gettln' here an' back ag'in to me own home, 'twas as easy as winkln'." Yes, Maxwell always gave some thing to the blind match-seller Tor luck, and long- had Barney reason to remember fhe most profitable match he had ever had anything to do with negotiating. Thatjothers admire is the kind that will please you, and that is the kind that we do. Call us up The Lakeland Steam Laundry R. W. WEAVER, Prop PHONE 130 Hie Bare All Right. Johnny is a Uttle southern boy liv ing In Texas with his grandmother, who Is a Utile deaf. One day while he was playing she called to him sev eral times, but he didn't answer. nally she said: "Johnny, dont yo hear me?" and Johnny says, " 'Co 1 heah you; my ears ain't lame." Ne Use to Him. The prisoner threw the magaslaea across his cell In disgust, and cursed eloquently. "Nothln' but continue stories," he growled, "aa I'm to be sung next Tuesday." Chicago Herald. 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