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BREW INHERITANCE i Cam Midi Uwytf famou By HAOU CARTIK. ,; W$ "Yes, tM Brent cam. mad m mT "ymous, It suppo" wM th oW Jkyw thoughtfully. "At an" rate, I am Burp that It was th foundation of. jay w . tunos. Also, It gave me more , re 1 f happiness than" any cft J hare under taken. You we, -youa Mrs. Brent deserved the Inheritance, if ever any woman deserved om. She kad actual ly redeemed her hwkHd, had mddo a man of him Wtkt me tell the story in my owa way. "Theodore BreeAwas ono of those pompous, self'SttffJcient, heartless, and withal scrupulously honest men whom, Massachusetts used to turn out In tfie middle of the last century a sort of (transplanted survival of the John Bull type. I believe it. Is still flourishing in the old country, He had two sons? Ralph and Jack. Ralph inherited his father's business 1 instincts and was slated for succession to the company after the father's death; Jack was a spendthrift, a Wild1 young fellow who was dismissed from Harvard, drank, gambled, and broke his father's heart what there was 6f it. Withal, he had done nothing worthy of being dis inherited. Howrfver, his father sent him west for Ave years to make a man of himself, falling success in which operation tho money was to go entire ly to the eldor brother. "When Jack Brent wrote home, a couple of years later, that ho was mar ried to an actress, the father, with, the old prejudice against the stage, wrote back informing his younger son that he had cut him out of his will for good and all. He politely invited him to go to tho devil and told him never to show his face In the east again. "Ralph was not quite so quiet as his father imagined. In fact, where Jack was open-hearted and open-handed, Ralph was close-fisted and secretly, and that was. mainly tho difference between them. Jack liacl never had a chance. When old age softened the old man's acerbity somewhat Ralph began to, initiate him Into tho pleas ures of life. Among other things, he inspired him with, a passion for motor- "Her Soft. Voice' and GentletVWayc Went Right Into. My HeartRfc cars. A strango fancy. in; an-ojd "man but wo lawyers are used to these strango streaks iff human nature. , "They wero on an automobile tour "when tho accident occurred. The car ran into a dltch1somewhero along the houndary between two stated of the middle west, and both men were killed. Witnesses proved that tho father died instantly, while Ralph Brent lived Just ten minutes longer than his father. "That was where I carao Into the story. For the will was so drawn that if tho father died first all tho property valued at about six millions Went to the son and his heirs. As thero wero no heirs this meant that somo distant relatives would inherit it. If tho elder son died first tho will "became null and void,, and tho proi erty went to Jack, who was then ranching in California, His wlfo bad made him a successful man in a small way but I wanted her to get the' money with all my heart. And I did not want it to go to tho flock of vul tures who camo out of tho uttermost parts of Massachusetts, greedily de manding their moiety. You see, I had sought out and found Mrs. Jack, and her soft volco and gentlo ways went right into my heart, and stayed thoro. And the thing that most astonished mo wag that Bhe did not seom to caro whethor she got tho monoy or not, "Well; tho case camo up for trial. Ferdinand Qulpp, tho famous legal light, appeared for th.o claimants, and tho decision seemed Inevitable. Wit ness aftor witness swore that Ralph Brent had survived bis father by sov eral minutes. I went homo feeling pretty bluo tho ovenlns aftor th.o other s(do had rested itu case; and yet, tho harder I thought, and tho more hope less our chances seemed, tho moro I determined that Mrs. Jack. Brent should get what 6ught to havo been coming to her. "We had offered to compromlso for a quarter share, rod our offer had been most impolitely laughed, at The claimants ea)d sure of their case, m did' Qulpp, 'who toUMed KrA Jack unmercifully, drtmed out heitVTpat Into the light, and .. W 4eftlft lng actrees and a worth! I uracil to tb Might of the opposlaf "Ac Lre mid, 1 went home and thought and thought and thought, and at hurt I don't kMW why I got out my hfcr map ot the United States and pond ever it. Then I got nty state a and pored Over that. I had heped he areata some effect br th mint ;wheli I had noted namely, that tho (twe men had died in different states. n fact tho road Was the dividing lino, Ralph Brent fell into one state and the father in an adjoining ono. But that didn't seem of any particular value merely curious. "I dozed off in my chalr-rand, sud denly the- significance of thoso maps came to me in tho middle of a dream in which Qulpp and I were fighting for the possession of a ghostly carburetor, which persisted in trying to get into Qulpp's pocket. I jumped up, yelling like a madman. " 'Your Honor,' I said, next day, 'tho defence "1 bring forward no wit nesses. Wo accept the contention that the father died beforo tho son. But I wish to point out that thoy died in different Btates.' "Here I brought out a map and cross-examined a few of tho witnesses of the other party. Nobody saw the significance of tho event "'What is your point?' asked tho Judge impatiently. , "'This,' I answered. 'These states nro divided on somo maps by a thin lino of red. It does not run parallel with any meridian it Is a purely ar bitrary lino, zigzagging from right to loft as men havo drawn it It signi fies that tho standard timo Js. one hour later on one sldo of tho boundary than on tho other. So the father died somo fifty minutes after tho son.' "And tho court went wild. "Yes, I don't mind admitting that wo compromised rather than fight tne matter out in tho higher courts. But It was for half and half, not three quarters and a quarter. I said that this caso was the foundation of my fortunes, didn't I? You see, after Jack Brent died I Oh pshaw I come homo to dinner and lot mo introduce yon to my wife. But don't mentidi tho Brent caso to her." (Copyright, 1912 by "W. O. Chapman.) FOOD WE ALL USED TO HAVE Remerribranco of Childhood Feast Spoiled Wealthy Man's Expensive ' and Weil-Ordered Dinner. . Zona Gale, writing a story called "The Bridge" in the American maga zine, presents a broker named Casso day dining at his club in New York. While ho dines, Cassoday is visited by a mental reincarnation of himself called Littlechild. The story then goes on: " 'What's this?' said Littlechild over tho soup. 'Green turtle. But I remem ber the. chicken soup we used to have the day after mother had had boiled chicken dinner and dumplings. What'B that? I don't know "sole." Tho fish wo used to have was baked browner out side and whiter inside, with no hot gravy oh, not like this at all What's' that? Mother wouldn't have done any filet tricks. But I can smell the roast beef when sho was thickening the brown gravy Just after she took the pan out of the wood stove oven don't vou know how we stopped to sniff with every armful of wood we brought in? Endive? I' can't place it you know we used to run out and pick the lettuce last thing beforo wo sat down at table wo got It from, the shady part of tho patch toward the well-house. 01ace what? Yes, but don't you re member her apple puddings with cin namon in the sauce? Apples off the seedling that grew by the corn crib ' ; "Cassoday pushed back his chair. . '"Wasn't it right, Bir?'" asked the waiter anxiously." '"Devilish right, thanks,'" said Cassoday. , Sleeplessness Cures. If you aro troubled with sleopless ness, try ono of the following simple remedies beforo going to a doctor with tho plea that ho give you something to make you sleop: Drink a glass ofwarm water before going to bed lnstea'd of the usual glass of cold water. Sip it slowly, and if pos sible eat a small biscuit or cracker with it Avoid all mental exercise for at least half an hour before retiring; allow tho brain to rest and becomo calm beforo you attempt to Bleep. Stand beforo an open window and breathe deeply, inhaling through tho mouth and exhaling through tho nose ; then Ho down and continue doing this until sleep overtakes you. Keep tho eyeballs looking down, or roll them from one sldo to tho other, counting each time they movo. This is tho nrlnelplo by which wo are told to count sheep leaping over a log. Tho Bound of water dropping Blowly into a pan or tho ticking of a clock will occupy and quiet tho brain, and looking steadily at ono object or a point of light will bring tho blesslnf of sleep to weary, wakeful oyos. Profits In Forestry, Tho Vanderbllt oxperlmont in fojes. try near Ashevllllo, N. 0., B.eoms to bo turning out very well. By a salo mado of largo timber on 68,000 acres of mountain forest land at $12 an aero, or $810,000, to Louis Carr and W. P. Docker, Oeorgo Vanderbllt will re ceive a profit of 080,000 on an Invest ment of $130,000 mado twenty yeare ago when ho bought this land at $2 an acre. Ia addition to this he retains the land itself and all timber uuder fourteen Inches in diameter, Tho pur chasers have twenty years, in which to remove the 250,000,00 fe. of iliimbor estimated to oe on me tract Mr, van derbllt retains about 15,000 acres im 0REAT 8Etf$E OF FEELING Mareue Cewld Tetl Where H Wae hy Ihttttof Hta Hftd Hrt f Cw Window,' One of two darkies who run a bootblack "parlor" in partnership was bragging of his wcll-dcvelopcd sense of touch, particularly in tho matter of moocy. ITo boasted that ho could tell tho denomination of any United States coin by feeling it Hisiuartncr wearied of theso boasts ancf came back with this: "Your aenso o' feclin, ain't noth ing to my friend Marcus. Him and mo used to work on tho Pullman down through Kansas. Marcus had, been on thiB route for about ten, years. Ono night when wo waa both, a-sleepin', 'long around midnight, I wakes up and I shakes Marcus, and I says, llarcus, "whero aro we?' An Marcus ho jest rolls over and sticks his hand out tho window and ho says, 'We're goin' through Oswego " PAWNSHOPS FOR AUTOS. Tho Mont do Pieto, tho great pawnshop of Paris, is taking thdught for those of its patrons who may bo automobilists or aviators. Its au thorities are now negotiating for tho acquisition of an immense garage, capablo of holding 2,000 cars, so that peopld who pawn their automobiles may b6 able to leave1 them there and thus ayoid the present expense of at least six francs a day which pawn ing an automobile has hitherto meant.. Space will also be provided for aeroplanes. New York Sun. IDLE DREAMER. "Jilks is a theoretical philanthrc pfgf "How is that?" "He's always talking about the good he would do if he had a mil lion dollars." HI3 METHODS. "I know a man who has the knack of putting anybody at all on an easy footing at once." "How does he do it?" "He makes such good shoes." STAYS AWAY. '"Pipkins says he always feels do trop at a suffragette rally." "What does he take for it?" "The absent treatment, usually." THAT SOLO. "Miss Schreecher was asked to favor us with a song." "And did she respond P' "Yes, but it wasn't a favor." LIGHT BUSINESS. '12 What are you doing now? '11 Working in a match factory. '12 How's business? '11 Light. Harvard Lampoon. QUITE EVIDENTLY NOT. "Is your son going to marry a provident youner woman?" f "I'm afraid not. Sho?s going to give up her job." Political Styles. "Who's going to head tho local ticket?" "The boys want a change." i "Yes, I know. We've been having a Judgo and a colonel. I suppose this i year's styles call for a professor am? I a surgeon, hey?" v A Side Issue. "The operation was entirely success ful. The doctors found exactly wha they wero looking for." "But the patient died." "Suppose he did. What did that havo to do with tho success of the operation?" Its Imitation. "How fashion does follow the events of tho day." "What's Btruck you In .fashions Just at present?" "Tho way we are having aviation food prices." Its Class, "That military company has been or. dercd out to bo vaccinated." "WJll tho order be to present arms?" Get your Job Printing dH at thi For ShIr Py W. H. CO0B & CO PROBLEM OF PICKLES How Careful Teaching Brought Student to, Front. y Q. A. TURKINGTON. It was the first day of tho fall term and Bethel's vlllago high sohool was filled oven to tho front row. The chairman of tho school commltteo en tered for a moment after tho opening exercises, surveyed the scholars hur riedly, and as ho left remarked in an undertone to the now teacher that sho must not be bothered by that boy in tho corner front Beat "Ho can't learn, you know. Wo put him In this room Just becauso he seemed to fit theso .seats better than those in tho lower grades. Ho comes from a good-for-nothing family about five miles out He isn't really bright or he would have learned something by this timo," and ho tapped his fore head Blgnlflcontly. "Just give him books and let him alone. Guess that will bo tho best way" And tho chair man smiled himself out of the room. Pickles' attention was divided that first morning between gazing dreamily at a United States history lying open before him, and at Miss Stone, who to him was a person from another world. Indeed, Bethel Itself had not had so trim and dainty a "high school" teach er for many years as waB this girl Just out of college. When she became awaro that two largo brown eyes wero studying her intently she turned upon Pickles a smiling look of interest She wondered that such thoughtful eyes should belong to a boy who was mentally deficient Pickles was conscious of the smile, but looked around to soo for whom It 1 was intended. When ho reallzod that tho pretty toachor had smiled at him, as she had at the other hoys and girls, ho met her eyes In surprise, while a deep red flush crept slowly to his cheeks. And as the late afternoon sun fell across tho schoolroom and played upon his desk a warm glow stole into his heart That afternoon on his way home from school, after the first mile, he loft the road and walked along by the brook, for Its babbling and gurgling kept him company. He often followed this brook for miles on hot summer days and again in the spring when it was loud and noisy with the melted snows. He had never had a playfellow and scarcely ever talked to anyone. His blind old grandfather, whose mind and body failed a little week by week, only occasionally talked to him now of tho "ba-ars" that used to come in the pasture. It was a familiar sight to the neigh mors, as they rode to the village, to see Picklos, ragged and dirty, seated on a mossy stone gazing intently at the water as it gurgled and sparkled past him to the valley below. At the end of the first month of the fall term Bethel had awakened to the fact that pretty Miss Stone was an un usual person. She ruled her' little school with a smiling firmness that had surprised pupils and parents alike, and she had seemingly disregarded the committeeman's Injunction to "lot Pickles alone." On the second day she had called on him to recite his his tory, and as the room tittered hyster ically, she had turned upon them with blazing eyes and so stern a rebuke that they were shamed Into silence. Sho had observed that PlckleB never brought a dinner pall, so she decided to eat her lunch at tho school room and pend Pickles to her boarding place for It This gave her the excuse she wish ed to repay him with a share of her ample warm lunch, and to talk with him about his lessous. She had made up her mind that Pickles was her mis sion In Bethel, and that nothing should prevent her from proving that the boy was not really stupid only neglected and underfed. PIckles had days when neither his mother nor Hiss Stono could hold him to his school work; days when he would leave everything and ramble oft to follow the brooks. Neverthe less, task' after task ho mastered, so that Miss Stono finally ceased to be surprised when ho know his geogra phy or history lesson. Sho refrained from calling on him to recite often, for at those times ho seemed wholly overcomo with embarrassment But his papers became more nearly cor rect and neat It was evident that In preceding years, when ho had seemed to bo gazing emptily at his books, he had actually learned much of thoir contents. t It was customary in Bethel at the end of the spring term to hold general school exercises, which included tho graduation of the senior class and the promotion ot tho pupils in tho other classes. When it becamo certain that Pickles had a mind and was trying to apply It as ho had never beon expect ed to beforo, Miss Stone made a re solve Pickles should bo promoted. A week' before tho day of gradu tion, school was dismissed early and tho five members of tho school com mltteo mt in Miss Stone's room to slgu the diplomas of graduation and the certificates of promotion. With the formality of a few questions and answers the diplomas of graduation wero all duly signed, and tho Ink was drying on the first certificates when Mr, Brown halted at tho names of James McCloskey. "James McClos key," he questioned, "I don't remem ber any bucu boy In this school." "Perhaps not by that name," and Miss Stone colored and hesitated slightly "Tho boys and perhaps some who are. . not boys call, h(m Pickles,, but this Is tho name'' by which 'you should know him; of: course." Mr. Brown paused with hia pen in midair as it in doubt then blurted, ' TOUCH OF GREEN OR YELLOW 1 Either Cetor It Popular With Thoee Who Want Just a Touch to Re l Have Qombrnes8. Havo you noticed how many ot those who want a noto of color with their navy bluo and whlto and black and white effects, havo chosen yellow or green? Just now, perhaps, any other cholco would seom a llttlo banal. Ono girl who was wearing a modish dark bluo charmeuso had tho dark bluo feather, hazily swirling around her hat of finest block pedal straw, punctuated every hero and thero with roses or vivid orange. It sounds startling, but the effect was elegant Another girl gowned also in dark bluo charmeuso, woro a hat of straw of tho same Bhado, around which woro beautifully arranged feathers of a lovely Jado green. It is Just that par ticular green that ono seems to want with the dark bluo frock Just now. Tho amber necklaco and the Jado necklace aro the color notes one seoa and admires frequently. SERGE COSTUME. This is a useful costume of navy Jlue serge. The skirt has a prettily shaped panel with two buttons each side of the lower part. The little loose coat has collar, re- vers and cuffs of white cloth. Hat of dark blue Tagel, trimmed with a white feather, mount Materials required for the costume Five yards 46 Inches wide, one-quar ter yard 40-Ipch cloth, six buttons. SMARTEN 'UP THE SUNSHADE Good to Remember, as They WIN Probably Be Needed for Some Time to Come. Is it .possible that the shape of tho umbrella is changing perceptibly after so many years during which It has gone its tranquil way? The new form Is not so flat, and. has rather moro of tho droop of the genuine mushroom. Obviously they are Inspired by tho ri diculous cloche and pagoda outlines assumed by very mundane parasols this season, yet they are themselves not in the least exaggerated; but by way of being an agreeable novelty. With little trouble or expense a par asol may bo wonderfuMy smartened up, or even one of last year's may bo brought up to date. Making a gauging from four to eight Inches deep of chif fon or the finest soft silk or satin of the exact shade of tho parasol or if a shade paler. Sew this on to tho in side edge, allowing a little of the gauging to come below the edge. Along the center of tho chiffon may bo sewn a narrow silk cord decorated at Intervals with tiny colored satin roses tho effect Is very pretty when pink roses aro used on the black gauging of a satin parasol. Either lace or fringe may bo similarly used. Millinery Styles. Wings and fancy feather pieces, In infinite variety, aro expected to score heavily, and many effective nov elties aro in ovldenco, says tho Dry Goods Economist. Prominent among theso' are polka-dotted, fan-shapod feather pieces. A brown plush model with an evonly rolling brim Is trimmed with two brown feather pieces with white polka dots. One Is placed flatly under tho brim on one side, tho. other poised on the edte. Two-toned effects In wings that is, sides 'of contrasting color-continue to be well llkod and aro vprlr-sV' c ployed to harmonize with, two-toner effecta in shape. For instance. i-U1 j satin model with a black velvet !fxvs I 1)ig will have a blue wing trlr?xmnj wlth black facing. Long, slim 'ftfcVjH ot pieces are especially pronitnVu' Sometimes these are placed flat'r o the brim or else shoot up directly i froat FARM LOANS Low Rate , of Interest We are in position to make loans on improved farm lands in Christian county, in any sum, $3,000 or over, on shorft notice. Your note will read to be repaid at the end of ten years, with the privilege of paying $100 or more at the end of the first year and on any interest period there after. IVL M. GRAVES & SON, TRENTON, KY. C. 0. Wright J. C. JOHNSOIT Wright&Johnson REAL ESTATE AND LOANS. Special Attention Given Farm. Properties. 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