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I Poor Dear Emily.
I By IZOLA FORE8TER
fOopyrldge, 19X7, by the McClure
Newspaper Syndicate)
l-UDLT BREBLEY had been a sper
cial care on the entire family's
' mind ever since she had passed
thirty without appreciating the prtvileges
and honorB of wedlock. Brothers
and sisters fell In love and married
from the Greeley homestead with cue
tomary regularity through Emily's
girlhood and young womanhood. And
Emily helped them start off In life
with tact and cheerfulness. Though she
had "chances," she .cast them aside
and hiked life's highway In a state of
solitary enjoyment and freedom that
left the family stunned with helpless*
"I don't see why I should marry,"
she would say buoyantly. "I've never
seen any man whom I would want
to spend my life with. I am perfectly
contented and happy. Why are
you all In such a hurry to get rid of
Therefore It came as a shock when
Emily announced that she had drawn
as first-prize In a puzzle contest a
homestead grant out in Idaho.
"I am sure It must be a very charm _
it,!? it i -m 11..
1115 yiatc vu iavo in, otiiu jcjiuuy, utxy
plly. "I think I shall put In goats, Angora
goats. The government says they
V eat the underbruBh and I think thoy
are decidedly picturesque. If you get
tired of them, you can use them foi
doormats. I shall go In for all kindb
of Intensive farming and do everything
except take summer boarders."
"But you can't live out there alone,"
said Mr. Greeley, blandly. "Be reasonable,
my dear Emily."
"With a big dog and a revolver I
can live anywhere," replied Emily,
calmly. "You will remember, father
dear, that on mother's side of the family
1 have pioneer blood In my vclno,
even if you do come from an F. F. V.
I firmly believe In Providence, and it
Providence has seen fit to drop three
hundred acres of virgin woodland and
' otherwise at my feet, I shall pick
them up and say 'thank you.'"
Just three weeks later, Emily took
her departure, accompanied only by
Tink, her big collie, and a grand-new
automatic. Four days later she stepped
off the train at Arapahoe, Idaho,
and sized up the aggregate of local talent
visible to the naked eye. There
wprn thrflft rarrflvllB mm hnolrhnnrrl
and four broncos. Her two trunks and
four packing cases occupied the baggage
truck. Five Individuals sat thereon,
alternately chewing or smoking and
gazing past her with Intent at the far
I * horizon line of mountains.
K' * It was not Arapahoe's custom to exhibit
curiosity over female strangers,
C j yet Emily was good to look upon lu
WjS her trim linen suit.
Mftp'Sy "Is there such a' thing as a hotel
In this place?" she asked of the five,
tollectively. "Where Is a person supposed
to put up, and does anybody
know where Ballyho Gutch it?"
There was a stir of interest among
the five. Spike MacDoguall rose and
came toward the lady settler. He
explained, courteously, that Arapahoe
had no official place for housing transient
guests, and that the gulch was a
matter of sixteen miles northwest, but
that, if she wanted to, she could probably
put up at the Kenton place, four
* miles out of town. Spike added, modi
confession:
"I branched oft on to Flossie Smith,
I Mangle," said Paula, "for whenever I
think of my time in Washington, hers
1b the figure that stands out more than
all the rest, perhaps because her personality
was unique to me.
"But the person who interested both
Alma and me most at this time was
Tom Perry. Tom was one of the dearI
est men I over met and, drunk or sober,
he was always kindly, always
ihnnivhffitl fllmona o crnnflnman
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"He had one of the most brilliant
minds I have ever encountered when
It was not befuddled with whiskey. At
that time he was only 28, with all the
world before him. He could write better
and more pungent English than
any newspaper man I have ever kiK'Wn.
He loved his friends and enjoyed their
Boclety, and all his Instincts were of
the highest. But, when these spells
came upon him periodically he would
go away from everybody and Just
drink until he knew nothing?hardly
that he was alive.
"One day Jeff got hold of him before
he had begun his tramp to the lowor
levels. He was still at the Willaril although
he was preparing to go out
Jeff told me afterward he had a lot of
trouble gating him to stay In the hotel.
He found Tom had a pile of letters and
telegrams from his paper which he evi,
dently had not read.
'"I'm goto' out. jus goln' out, Jeff,
to get a story,' he said thickly, 'end
then I'm goln' to resign from the d
paper. Some gink discharged me this
morning and I'm goin' to show hlui and
resign this afternoon. That is the
way to do it, Just resign.'
"Jell said that poor Tom went on In
| : this pathetically ridiculous way until
he got him full of bromide?and then
Pbe took him for a motor ride. After
that he was very repentant
'"What will the girls think of me,
Jeff?" he asked.
I "'They are like all other good wo-j
men?they are ready to forgive almost
anything In the man they love, provldI
ed they do not suspect that he loves
k ... anyone else.''
f, '"'I'm not fit to love anyone, Jeff,'
I V said Tom, 'let alone allowing anyone to
& love me. Why, Jeff, If I thought any
woman cared for me I'd go and jump In
jS'Vthe rlverA
. "'He looked at me so pathetically,'
g&sald Jeff when he was telling me about
(pit, 'I thought perhaps a jolt would do
1$ him some good.'
I' " "Well, Tom,' Joff said, "you had
B? better do It right away, for you must
> know Alma loves you so well the Is
Ei heartbroken at your drinking so much.'
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NEW YORK, May 4.?Skirts which
are fitted by shirring are considered
very smart as a contrast to the thousands
varieties of plaited mpdels.
A charming summer skirt of striped
green taffeta Is decorated with lmestly,
that he'd take her over In the
carryall, and they could manage the
two trunks on top of the carryall. The
packing cases would have to come
later.
Emily hardly heard him. Her attention
was fixed on a man who came at
a dead gallop down the wide, dusty
Btreet. He was tall, broad-shouldered
and heavy set. Even the pinto
was heavy set, his legs bowed under
him, and he had wary eyes as he drew
up short at the hitching rail In front
o fthe pine board station. The newcomer
and Emily looked each other
over with calm, approving scrutiny
before he sauntered into the telegraph
office. She caught his deep baritone
voice perfectly, as he gave his message.
"You can wire back East to those
sons of guns that land transfer up
at the gulch has been declared illegal
by the court here and It don't hold
good. I am prepared to protect my
rights on It In any and all ways. Sign
it Scott King."
Emily's hazel eyes narrowed and
5 OF A WIFE 1
hung his head. 'Do you really think,
Jeff, she could care tor a poor stick
like me?' he asked, and then he added
more than halt to himself 'She would
be a very foolish girl to do so. Why,
Jeff. Alma Huntington is the only woman
1 know that has a man's brain
and a woman's heart which Is too
splendid a combination to waste upon
me.
"'Don't you believe it, Jeff. She
can't possibly care for me. Why, man,
she has seen me drunk.'
" "Women have loved drunkards before,'
answered Jeff. ^
" 'But they were not the kind oi women
that Alma Huntington Is,' was
his answer.
'wtiy aon t you Draco up, stop
drinking and aBk her to marry you?'
" 'I can brace up?I can stop drinking
any time I want to,' he altlrmed.
"'Let's see you do It, then,' said
Jeff.
" 'Don't you think I can? Well, I'll
show you all I can and in the meantime
you can all go to the devil.'
"After this Jeff could do nothing
with him, and It was over a week before
any of us saw Tom Perry again.
In the Interim many things happened
to Alma."
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1 COME CVeR AMD
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ifTSoo KNOW HOW
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GREEN TAFFETA SKIRT
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mense shirred pockets applied with
the stripes running across the front.
Pussy willow silk, georgette satin
and various rough oriental silks are
preferred to cotton for cool summer
skirts.
she pursed her lips. As she climbed
into the carryall beside Spike she asked
casually who the young man was
on the strawberry pinto.
''That's King, former owner of the
Caribou ranch up In the Ballyho Gulch.
He lost it one night in a poker game
with some strangers, and they turned
it over into cold cash with an eastern
syndicate running some advertising
scheme. It ain't worth much, only
that ;Scott is terrible set on getting it
back, and it looks like the court is on
his side."
Yet Emily went on her way, knowing
full well that it was the Caribou
ranch that had come to her through
a stroke of Providence.
Three months later she rode up the
mountain trail from the gulch beside
Scott King. She rode cross saddle,
not as she used to ride on the roads
around Boston. It was a tanned, healthey
Emily, who sat her in her saddle
with surety and confidence and listened
to Scooty's arguments with a smile.
"It's no place for a woman to live
alone," he said. "I've stood all this
nonsense about your being a free and
capable individual who can look after
herself quite as long as I'm going to.
You used me for a doormat ever since
you came here, Emily, and took my
land away from me."
"I didn't take it away from you.
I won it in a fair, legal contest," responded
Emily clamly, "and I'm quite
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uapauie ui tuning tare ui uiyocit. *
think'your timber men are bluffing. If
they try any midnight excursions over
my line, cutting out my best trees,
they'll get all that's coming to them. ,
I've stretched barbed wire now where
they don't expect it, and fixed up every
other little feminine contraption
for safety that I can think of. If any
of them come to harm I can't help
it. I've warned them."
Scott looked at her helplessly. She .
had no idea what she was up against,
he thought All of Ransom's lumber
gang that had warred against him for
four years to get a grip on the mountain
timber bad sworn either to get
the best cf her or to take revenge in
their own way, and the worst of it
was that Scott himself, big as he was,
had no control over her. She would
do Just what sho willed to do, and
nothing he said, could convince her of
the imminent danger. For about the
fiftieth time he started to tell her the
type of, a man she needed as a protector
and husband, and Emily smiled,
dubiously, when all at once the pinto
pointed its ears and whinned aniously.
As they camo into a clearing where a
sudden vista of the mountainside open- 1
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sd up, Scott caught sight of a lifting
iring of smoke. '. "* *
"They're started It," he cried. "Ton
ride hack and rouse everybody on the
oad to Arapahoe. Ill get the Benson
)oyg and fight this."
"But I want to come, too," Mia
Emily.
"Tou do M I tell you," he retorted,
shortly, end tor the first time in
her life Emily Greely obeyed a man.
In fact, she realized as she rode along
what a relief it was to find a man
she could obey.
It was a week later that the family
received the announcement of Emily's
marriage to one Scott King.
"The ranch was his in the first
place,'' she'wrote. "He lost it and I
won it Now he's won me, so we're
partners in a fair deal, and I'm coming
East this year."
HERE ARE GOOD BILLS
OF FARE FOR 2 DAYS
Housewives havo not always the patience
to figure out new sets of menus
to meet the new price conditions. Here
are bills of fare for two days. They
have been tried, tested, and found
good. They contain a maximum amount
of nutrition at a low cost.
Breakfast.
Milk, oatmeal and raisins, and toast
for tho children, with coffee and sausages
added for the adults.
Luncheon.
Thick pea soup with salt' pork,
graham bread, oleomargarine, apple
sauce ana ginger oreaa.
Dinner.
Beef stew with onions and carrots,
hominy, coffee for adults, milk and
milk toast for the youngest child and
tapioca pudding with dried apricots
and brown sugar sauce for dessert.
in making a stew a comparatively
small amount of meat may be used, for
its savory or flavoring value, and the
vegetables and cereals served with it
increased in quantity.
Breakfast.
Bacon, fried cornmeal musb, molasses,
coffee; milk for the children,
with plain mush for the youngest.
Luncheon.
Potato soup made with skim milk
and onion for flavoring. Oatmeal cookies
and stewed prunes. Graham bread
and oleomargarine*
Dinner.
Pork and beans, one dill pickle
(bean soup for the children), tea
(milk for children), and brown bread
and oleomargarine with "Brown Betty"
for desert.
MORE DOCTORS FOR ARMY
CLARKSBURG, W. Va., May 4.?
West Virginia has an active Medical
association and the physicians and
usrgeons of the state are represented
on the State committee of the National
Defense Council. For the purpose of
enlisting physicians in the army medical
reserve corps arrangsments have
been made in the Surgeon General's
department of the United States Army
for the establishment of stations
throughout this state where physicians
will be examined.
U. S. SENDS FIRST
NURSES TO FRANCE
GRACE YOUNG
IRMA "MCTZMER
Misses Youn and Metzner are
Among the first Red Cross nurses to be
sent to France as official representatives
of the United States hospital
No. 4, of Cleveland, with unita from
other large cities.
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OUR buyer's trip to Ne1
purchases of
Suits,Co;
At this time of the seas
Fall Models, they are pai
and Summer Garments a
Mr. Osgood has taken
ceived today, are marked
i
Suits
There are no less than 60 different
models In silk taffe'tas,
silk and wool Jersey, serge, pop
lln, gabardine and twills. The
regular prices would be about
a fourth to fa third more, now
on sale at
14.75, 19.75
24.75
i
3-Piece Suits
New daring and withal very
serviceable, can be used as separate
dress, separate coat or
suit
| 29.75
I HEALTH HINTSlI1
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Rabies Is not a disease confined to f
dogs and common only during the socalled
dog days of summer, contrary 1
to popular belief.
It may occur among humans or ani- I
mals at any season. Like other infections
it is caused by a germ coming t
into contact with and growing in any t
break of the skin or mucous surface.
Usually the.infection is direct, arfrom t
the bite of an infected animal. Less f
frequently, infection occurs from rub- s
bing a break in the skin or mucous f
surface over some material coated
with the germs. d
No dog bite should be lightly regard- f
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BIG DIFFERE
IN CONDI
W. D.
Gives Kar-Nak Cre<3
Gentlemen:?I have had kidney tri
had severe pains In my back, I suffer
Indigestion. I have taken one bottle
all of the pains In my back and my kl
Is much better now and my indlges
Kar-Nak. ,
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Kar-Nak laids digestion.
Kar-Nak tones up the liver.
Kar-Nak regulates the bowels.
Kar-Nak strengthens the appetite.
Kar-Nak banishes sick and nervoi
KarNak Is a stomach land nervous
dren as well as old folks. Kar-Nak 1
formula and all persons that are au:
ness, headaches, rheumatism, liver <
ness, sleeplespncBB, bloating, In fac
stomach and nerves should go at t
where a special representative of thi
He will be gad to explain how It woi
61.00 the bottle and your money bi
you.
Go to the Mountain City Drug Co.,
Tl /I- UA?<.V?.4 Q4
jjrug LiU>, iiicttuoub UIH
On sale at Mannington by tl
FAOW MUCH MILITARY PI
GOOVHZSS, HEiWl.l IT'S CMlS T?B
HOW MOCH WTiwa
Looks UkE. OW THAT
rn * 1r Jmm ' WWW m toac
His FA-meg-j that was ^-?
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HE HO
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QjuaBy
w York this week resulted in
.i- n?n^/.A
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son when Most manufacturer
ticularly anxious to dispose
t a discount in price.
advantage of such offers, tl
and ready on sale.
Coats
Coats of fine velour, poplin,
Poiret Twills. Silk and Satin. !
The styles are the best and the d
most popular of the season. The c
colors are plain and high shades. t
Worth a third more, now on a
sale at u
10.00,14.50
19.75
Military Caps
Have you seen them?
I fk>n. .Tnffrp wears one
and now the country is
following suit. Come
in and try it on.
id. It may be Insignificant or It may
ie deadly.
A dog that has bitten & person
hould not be killed unless It Is iuiposlble
to catch it or confine it without j
urther danger. ,
When possible the animal should be
ocked up for observation.
Everyone bitten by a dog should
tare the wound dressed by a physician.
Bites on the band or face are paricularly
dangerous and should be
reated at once.
People have been taught to believe
hat a dog suffering from rabies has a
ear of water. This is not true. A dog
ifllcted with the disease will drink
reely and will swim streams.
The attack lasts but a few days but
luring that time the animal's capacity
or harm is almost unlimited.
NCE
HON OF
JIORRISON
lit For His Relief.
suble very bad for a long time. I
ed some with stomach trouble and
of Kar-Nak and It has taken away
dney trouble is gone; my stomach
Uon has been relieved thanks to
W. D. MORRISON,
State Street, Fairmont, W. Va.
/
is headaches.
i tonic. Kar-Nak Is good for chils
compounded from the wonderful
Xering from Indigestion, biliouslilments,
kidney trouble, nervoust
all run-down conditions of the
>nce to Mountain City Drug Co.,
s Kar-Nak Chemical Co. is now.
rks. Come in and try & free dose,
ick if the medicine falls to help
/
opposite Court House or the Hall
le Prescription pharmacy
JOMISE.)?BY BLOSSER
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several advantageoj|$l
SmBSKM
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s begin operations on |
of their present Spri^||
lie1 shipments were re?
'' 'V ttsgH
Silk afternoon dresses, ,?m- |
ng frocks and white gnaduation I
Iresses for the miss. Every ne# J?
oncelvable style is here and no II
wo are alike. The prices a^.'tij
.bout one fourth less than r^f ]
ilar.
"
" IV s
Georgette Crepe In wliite I
and flesh, frilled and embroW- J ,
ered styles worth more. '
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HEALTH QUE8TI0N8 ANSWEMB^I
H. G. F.?"There 1b a small luatfr J
about the size of a pea under thr HMM
ariu. is mis any wing to oe aiarmea
about?"
Tbe lump is evidently an enlaqpd 9
lymph gland. Its Importance anifTSrtJM
ousuess depends upon the cause. $K|Rfl
would'have to have an ezamit^tUott to ?
determine that.
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ODD, I8NT ITt iS
GARY, 111.?Gary hotelB are so CftnriH
ed they are packing them In dqa|^fl
beds.
&.UUU.UUU Ceint !
p Lifted RigMffUH
? ;'3,
Try % Drops of Magie "Getrit." ; . :
There's a wonderful dlfferenoe fcfcaw
tween getting rid of a corn naWdMH
the way they used to try to get now
of it only four or Ave yatfiffHH
"G?ts-it" has revolutionised jlKB
history,
"&m? Jnit 8 Drop* of 'G?t?-It,' ImB
Tomorrow I'll Jolt Fool ThatCOHM
Eight Off- onl If* Gone!?
today that acta on the new ]nH
ciple, not only of shriveling UP {*
corn, hut of loosening the corn oHglEj!
ao loose-that you can lift It nH
off with your fingers, Put t drops of
"Gets-It" on that corn or callus to-i
night That's alt The eoyaTsH
doomed sure aa sunrise.
or trouble, or sorenebs. You do
away once and for all1 with toe- aS
bundling bandages, toe-eating MlvwH
and Irresponsible- what-nots. Tryjffl
It?get surprised and lose a contH
"Gets-It" Is sold everywnsN^MNH
a bottle, or sent on receiptof ndofH
hv 15. Lawrence tc Co.. Chlrnon.
Sold In Fairmont and recommsnfiMMg
as the world's best corp rflmBafiliBM
Fairmont Pharmacy, Crane's DraggS
Store, J. H. McCloskey ft Co., 1T?jB
Drug Co., and the Mountain City DnujM
Company.
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