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t FN 11. A l LydQQVe AllaS J:!? Carrots By Jane Osborn 5$ 't I (Copyright 1917. by the McClure NewBpa per Syndicate.) Bab was sitting darning socks In the mellow glow of the living-room table- licrht when Rnhhptto nnnpnrprt fit the door. Bab In a gray frock with a - white fichu, hair parted In the middle and spectacles on her little nose was demure. Babbette was resplendent, captivating. She made one breathe fast just to look at her, standing there with round, bare arms and round young body. Steve, reading his paper and sit ting opposite to Bab at the table, swal lowed hard and blinked. "What's the matter, dear," Bab asked, taking off her glasses and look ing at him anxiously. "Doesn't Bab bette's dress look pretty? I copied It after one In a shop window on the ave nue. We didn't think it looked home madey.w . "Oh, that's all light It's Immense' Steve hurried. "That's not the trou ble. I was trying to grasp the Idea that, that that girl there Is my daugh ter." Steve Nowell rose with his hands In his pockets and paced the room medi tatively for a minute, while Bab busied herself fastening the buttons of Bnb ette's gloves, tucking in a lock of hair . here and loosening a few there. Steve paused when he arrived before the mir ror over the mantleplece, peered In and then, striking a match which he took from his smoklng-coat pocket, lighted one of Bab's candles for orna ment only that stood in brass sticks on the mantleplece shelf. lie held this up to the side of his face and peered In. , No, there was not a gray hair In the bushy shock of auburn, scarcely a wrinkle, unless one could call, those few crows' feet the sort that gather, Steve assured himself, even on the faces of young men who are accus tomed to smiling with their eyes. He blew out the candle and clenched his right-hand fingers Into a fist and, with his left hand on his right biceps, felt his muscle. - Then he straightened himself up to his full six feet, stood on the balls of his feet and Inhaled as If 'to test his lung capacity. ! "It can't be," he told himself. "I'm ,not ready to be that girl's father I'm jtoo young. I'm only a boy and before many years I'M be a grandfather?- He looked at Bab sitting so contentedly by :the lamp. She had resumed her darn ing and Babbette was standing reading Steve's paper. Yes, Steve reflected, Bab was content to take a back seat. What was It to her that old age had tbeen forced upon them and that for all their days and nights to come they ! must sit there reading papers and ; darning socks or, if they did go out, be mere spectators at a play or opera? j "What on earth's the matter with ; you dad?" queried the eighteen-year-old daughter, glancing up from the pa per, and then, not waiting for him to answer, "I wonder where Goggles can be? " I was sure I'd be late and here he is keeping me waiting," she went on. I "Goggles, who's Goggles?" queried Steve. ! Bab and Babbette looked up In sur prise. "Why, Goggles is . Babbette's new friend with the eight-cylinder. It i makes It so nice for Babette." . i "Which Goggles or the eight-cylinder?" queried Steve. !- "Don't be silly, dad," said the re- ! splendent young thing, as she folded j her warm arms about Steve and kissed him on the chin In a thoroughly daugh- terly fashion. "I'm not a bit Interested . in Goggles but anyone would dote on ,hls motor." . j Steve caught the faint perfume In itoxlcatlng exotic that clung to his daughter's evening frock. When , he had courted Bab, he recalled, girls used 'some simple scent violet or Hly-of-the-valley. Those were simple days. What a thing It must be to be young, i Steve thought,-young when girls used 'perfume like that redolent of strange Eastern romance, Persian gardens In the moonlight, Indian temples and itropical islands. Steve's Impression twas not distinct but it was none the less vivid. And Goggles, Just because he had an eight-cylinder, could share the society of a goddess like Babette. Steve rubbed his eyes as if to wipe the film of twenty years of married life from them. What a thing to be young. again! he thought. Why, he was young. People often told him he didn't look thirty, and If It weren't for that lovely creature there calling him dad he . might sometimes forget' that he was nearer to the half century mark. Bab had run oft! to the telephone bell, and came back with the color of her pink and white cheeks heightened with rage. "Isn't it perfectly horrid?" she stormed. "It was Goggles and he's at 'Nellie Drew's and telephoned to say they'd stop for me. lie says he was at Nellie's for dinner and Shorty Tuck er, who was going to take Nellie tele phoned he had been detained and couldn't bring Nellie, so said he would have to bring Nellie and they'd stop for me. Why didn't he tell me he was going to have dinner there? Nellie's an old cat I oughtn't to say that of one of my own fraternity sisters, 1 know, but It was downright mean" Eibctto stopped suddenly and a loolc of Inspiration flashed across her face. "Dad," she cried seizing him In her strong arm. "You don't look thirty and you're a lot better looking than any of the other boys. You take me and don't let them know you're my father. None of these boys know you and the lights won't be bright. I'll call you Carrots 'cause you've got auburn hair, and it's a fad you know to call the boys some such name. Car rots Clay that's a nice name. No, you don't have to' dress come Just as you are and while you're putting on your hat and coat' I'll Just telephone In case Goggles and Nellie haven't 1 started and tell them a friend of mine jwho happened to be having dinner with me la bringing me,, and if they have started and do come,' why, mam my, you tell them that I started on with a friend of mine, who was anxious to take me; and tell them you're so glad it happened Just as It did because this friend of mine was anxious to take me. Dad, you're a peach. Mammy, don't be lonesome there's a dear." Carrots Clay alias Bab's Daddy alias Just plain Steve Nowell did as he was told, filled meanwhile with a thrilling consciousness that he was to be young again. lie wondered why Bab hadn't asked him to don his eve ning togs perhaps young men didn't dress for small dances in Babbette's set. At any rate he would dance with the girls and they would all be young and warm and glorious like Babbette. It, would be a renewal of his youth, only a youth more youthful and thrill ing than his own had been because these girls of the present generation were more magnetic, more primitive than girls had ever been before. Just for a night he would be young and then he winced a little at the idea he would come back and spend the rest of the nights beside the table with Bab In the gray dress with the capable white hands. Having no eight cylinder Carrots took Babbette to the house where the party was to take place In the street car and so fully was he taking the part thrust upon him, that when passen gers In the car looked with unfeigned admiration at the beautiful creature beside him, It was with the pride of a youth for a maiden, and not with fatherly pride, that he received the attention. "It's funny I didn't have to wear evening dress," Carrots remarked. "Don't they usually for dances?" Then It was that Babbette explained that It wasn't to be a dance he was taking her. It was to be a fraternity meeting, and all Carrots and the other boys had to do was to sit In the. down stairs reception room they could smoke if they wanted to while the girls had the meeting, upstairs. It wouldn't be more than an hour or so and If there were any refreshments left they sometimes sent them down to the-boys.-The boys -usually - waited right there instead of going home in the Interval, . because sometimes the ! meetings adjourned later and some times earlier. At half past nine that night Carrots had been sitting In a chilly, dimly lighted reception room for ah hour. From above came the delirious, Intoxi cating peels of laughter and music from. girls like Babbette. Beside him sat Goggles. In a straight-back chair across the room was Shorty, who had come late with the hope of taking Nel lie home eventually In spite of Gog gles. Other dejected young men sat on other . stral jht-back chairs. They had talked In monosyllables from time to time, but not to him. They seemed to regard him with sus picion and distrust. Eventually Gog gles broke the ostracism. "You're new at this, aren't you?" Carrots said he was. "You get used . to It," commented Goggles. "You got to do It If you don't somebody else will. There's al ways somebody else waiting Just as you were tonight to take your place, .and that always makes you sore. "It must have been nice," mused Shorty from across the room, "in the .days when our fathers and mothers were young before girls had fraterni ties and things. This way, for every dance they let you go with them you have to sit out an evening like this. But you have to do It." "Must be nice to be an old fellow and to have the girl you've been sitting around for all to yourself sitting somewhere near you while you are home and comfortable." That -was from Goggles. "You bet," agreed Carrots. An hour later Carrots and Babbette found Bab still sitting In the glow of the lamp. A neat pile of socks and Babbette's gay silk stockings were be fore her. Her eyes were heavy, but she smiled radiantly at their return. Steve pulled off his hat and before taking his coat off, rushed to her, lifted her to her feet and held her ileepy form to him. "Bab,, you're the Jeorest and sweetest in the world. It's rreat to be forty-five," Birds Help Farmers. Birds are almost as busy as bees, and their work In Increasing, crop yields is highly important,, says the Firesade. - One of the cheapest and most effective ways to fight Insect pests that annually take crop toll estimated at $800,000,000 is to aid In the preser vation of bird life. Such worms and bugs as infest our gardens are favorite food for bluebirds, robins and many other kinds of birds. Birds also eat thousands of weed seeds. True Economy, what is a practical "Pa, econo- tnlstr "A man who can get a dollar's worth jf anything for a dollar, my son." Life. POPE PLAYS JOKE ON ARTIST Quotes Bible Verse to Verify Genuine. nets of Potrait of Himself Execut ed by an American Painter; Tope Benedict is known to have a keen sense of humor. It has lately been expended upon an American resl . ueui in xiome wno tninss himseix a portrait painter, says a Borne corre-' spondent. This gentleman, with the best' lnten tlons, asked the pope for permission to paint his portrait, which would later grace the walls of the Vatican, alongside of the masterpieces of the universe. The pope granted the request, but stipulated that he should give only one sitting, and that the portrait should be finished by help of photo graphs. The portrait was finished recently. The. artist found It so good that he longed to have it shown first in Amer icai lest his fellow citizens should re proach him for hiding such a work vf art in Italy, without giving them a chance of admiring his genius. To this the pope graciously agreed. But the artist went further. As there are so many spurious por traits of the pope, would his holiness write a few lines to prove to skeptical Americans that the artist had really painted the masterpiece? The pope promised a few words In a few days. They arrived. To the painter's aston ishment and chagrin they proved to be from the Gospel of St. Matthew, chapter 14:27. They ran: "It is I; be not afraid." PRICES DURING CIVIL WAR Sugar $58 a Barrel, Rice $31.38 a Bar rel, Tobacco, Tea and Coffee Much Higher Than Now, . High as prices are, it may be some consolation to know that they are still below the Civil war records: Sugar then sold for $53 a barrel, rice at $31.33 a barrel, tobacco at more than double the present price, and tea at over $100 for a 25-pound chest - as compared with the present price of about $20. Coffee was then four times as high as it Is at present, says Les lie's. If the difficulty in getting hold of sugar makes the American people real ize we are at war, and inspires in them a willingness to follow Mr. Hoov er's suggestions as to economizing In the use of certain foods, It will have accomplished some good. While complaining of food scarcity, it is well for our people to know how little food others have. The' German ration contains .41 of a pound of body building . protein as compared with 1.03 In the standard ration. The Ger man ration Is not sufficient to main tain bodily health and vigor, but the civil population in the occupied dis tricts of France and Belgium have to exist on even less than this. Funds for Liza Jane. A long row of husbands sat In a mess hall and a sergeant was on the other side of the table with papers la front of him from which he from time to time read extracts, recites the New York Times. "Are you married?" - "I was married, but I ain't now." "Wife dead?" "No, she ain't dead, but we had a mutual separation." "Any divorce?" "No, sir, I could nt pay for a di vorce, but It Is all busted up 'tween us. Tlease don't put her name down." Her name did go down, and Liza Jane will be astonished when the next month rolls around and Uncle Sam hands her out $15, with a little memo randum -to the effect that this is ad allotment from her husband, and a lit tie extra thrown in to help her and Ue children, If she has any. That is not all. If he dies In battle, she gets t4,500, or possibly more. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children ' In Use For Over 30 Year Always bears the Signature of MORTGAGE SALE 'WHEREAS, default has been made in the payment of the money secured by a mort gage dated the 17th day of Augunt in the year one thousand nine hundred sixteen, exe cuted by Nicholas Sakwinski and Antoinette Sakwinski, his wife, of the City of Detroit, Mir.hi,fn. Ifirfw "hi rtn n rl h CKv of Ann Arbor, Mchlgan which said mort gage was recorded in the office of the Regis ter of Deeds of the County of Shiawassee, Michigan, in Liber 186 of mortgages on page 882-8 on the 23rd day of August, 1916, at 8:16 o'clock a. m. WHEREAS, the said mortgage has been duly assigned by the said Edwin P. Sherman to the State Bank of Byron, Michigan, by assignment bearing date August 21ft, 1916, and recorded in the Register of Deeds office in the County of Shiawassee, Michigan on the S4th day of August. 1910 In Liber 117 of mortgagee on page 8SS, and whereas the said mertgage waa duly reassigned by the said SUte Bank of Byron. Michigan by I. J. L. VanAlstine. Cashier of said State Bank of Byron, Michigan, -to the said Edwin P. Sherman by assignment bearing date the 29th day of September, 1916 and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for said Shia wassee County in Liber 117 of mortgages on page 836 on the 6th day of October A. D.. 1916, and whereas said mortgage was thereaf ter assigned on to-wit the 2nd day of Octo ber A. D 1916 by the said Edwin P. Sherman to James R. Blackwood of the City of Detroit, Michigan, said assignment bearing date the 2nd day of October, 1916 and being record ed In the Register of Deed s Office In said County of Shiawassee on the 6th day of Octo ber, 1916 In Liber 100 of mortgagee at page 456, and the same to now owned by him, and WHEREAS the amount claimed to be due on said mortgage, at the date of this notice to the sum of Five Thousand Three Hundred .r r. i,o (S:9IH (-)-" of f.rir.cljml and interest of which Five Thous and ($5,000.00) Dollars is principal and Three Hundred Ninety-one and 66-100 ($391.66) Dol lara to interest, and the further sum of Twen- ?r i 4(Jv-00l Do,lr- attorney fee stipulated tor In said mortgage and which is ij who, nount claimed to be unpaid on said mortgage, and. no ault having been instituted at Ian, n ik. debt now remaining acurcd by aaid . mort. or any part thereof, wherefore the power ox sale contained in said mortgage has become oprative. AND WHEREAS In said mortgage It wtu proviura ana . agreed by the fourth clause thereof that should default be made in the Davment of u nt.iim.i. --i i turing hereon, before th whole thereof be- tu'" or oi any installment of Inter est when the same becomes due and payable, when the same are payable as above provid ed, and should the same or any part thereof remain unpaiq XOr ine period of thirty days then and f wwm u .t . principal sura, with all arrearages of interest uau at we option oi said mortgagee, his legal representatives or assigns, become due and fr'? threfrora and thereafter although the period above limited for the payment of lu? ,ame nok then nav Pid. any. " """'u or in said note contained to the contra rv thaMnf In i.w standing, and default having been made in the payment oi vne wnoie oi the first and second semi-annual installments of interest upon i-aumo iKatro reape lively snd-th nam h v- mg Become flue and payable respectively as Drovided in aid mnrtjFr . .1 ty days having elapsed -since said installments ot. interest, respectively, should become due and payable, and the whole of each still re maining in arrears and whnllv r.u .u- said James R. Blackwood, the aaaiirnM nt 1(1 morttrair- hu latuut A A v. 1 elect and choose that the whole principal sum named in aaid mortiram nltk .11 . of interest thereon shall be and now is and is nereDy declared to be wholly due and payable at this time in the amount hereinbefore aet iorui. NOW THRRrFORir mII.. I. (.. that by virtue of the said power of sale ar.d by virtue of the fourth clause of said mort gage, oeiauit in me payment 01 interest as stipulated in said mortgage having con tinued for more than thirty (80) days and in mirauanca of th atafiit In annh and provided the said mnrtvnir. will h fnM closed by sale of the premises therein de scribed at public auction to the highest bid- aer at tne iront aoor oi the Court House in Corunna. in aaid Cnnnfw nt Rhl.in...u the 16th day of March next at 1 o'clock in the afternoon of said day. Central Standard lime, wnicn said premises are described in said mortgage as follows : The S. Vj of S. V4 of S. of all thi The S. of N. E. of N. W. and the N. , and the N. id E. A of S. N. 82$ acres E. lying W. v. H oi n. c and E. W. Zt OI IM. ML 4a and I that nart of K IL nt S V. of the Highway and all that part of the E. oi &. a.. Vi lying tL oi the Highway run ning Southerly across said last description except Piece in N. EL corner and niva in R E. corner, all in Section 11, Town 5, North itange a luutt, au or w. Vj of the S. W. of Section 12. Town 6, North Range 8 East, except 22 Rods North and South hv 12 Rnda East and West in S. E. corner commencing at N. W. corner of S. W. then S. W. in center oi nignway zi nous u., 51 Kods a., 65 Kods E.. 83 Rods N., 76 Rods to quarter line, W. ou Hoas 10 Deginning. Dated Detroit. Michliran. I)Hmh 7th iv 1 1. JAMES R.-LACKWOOD. tAKL O. UKAWW, Attorney for said assignee of said mortgage. Business address, 1638 Dime Bank Bldg., Detroit, Mich. MORTGAGE SALE Default having been made In tha enndi. tions of a certain mortgage made by Eli A. Benjamlne and Ada BenJamine. his wife. to Northrop, Robinson and Carrier, a cor poration organised under Michigan laws, dated the 4th day of April, A. D. 1917, and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for the County of Shiawassee, and StaU. of Michigan, on the ninth day of April, A. 1917 in Line-- 4t .urivMK"'. n 42n, on which mortgage there is claimed to be due at the date of this notice, for principal and interest, the sum of Six hundred eight ibu.uu dollars, and an Attorney's fee of twenty-nvo dollars, as provided for In said mortgage, and no suit or proceedings at law having been instituted to recover the moneys secured by said mortgage, or any part tnereor. Notice to Hereby Given. That bv virtue of the power of sale contained in said mort gage, and the statute in such case made and provided, on Monday the 11th dsy of March, A. V. 1918. at 10 o'clock in the fore noon, the undersigned will, at the front door or the County House in the City of Corunna, in Shiawassee County. Michigan, that being the place Where Uie Circuit Court for the County of Shiawassee is held, sell at Public Auction, to the highest bidder the premises described in said mortgage, or so n uch thereof as may be necessary to pay the amount so as aforesaid due on said mortgage, with six per cent interest, and all legal costs, together with said attorney's lee, to witt: The south eighty (80) acres of the south east quarter of Section thirty-six (36) town six (6) north range one cant (1), also lots ten, eleven and twe've in block four of the Village of Bennington, Shiawassee County, Michigan, according to plat thereof. A piece of land situated in the Township of Bennington, Shiawassee County. Michigan. commencing at the northeast corner of sec tion eight (8) thence running west on the line of the highway nineteen (19) rods, thence south to the line of the Michigan Central Railroad right of way, thenee North easterly along the line of the Michigan Cen tral Railroad right of way to the place of beginning. Also the land situated in the City of Owosso, Michigan, described as the north forty-four (44) feet of lot eleven (11) in block three (3) and lots seven (7), eight (8), eleven (11) and twelve (12) and the north forty-six feet four inches of lot' ten, all in block two (2) of L. Btruber's Sub Division of out lots thirteen (13) and part of out lot twelve (12) of Jennette H. Kelley's Addition to the City of Owosso, Michigan, according to the recorded plat thereof. . Northrop, Robinson and Carrier, Mortgagee. Warren Pierpont, Attorney for Mortgage. Business Address, Owosso, Michigan. Probate Order. State of Michigan. The Probate Court for the County of Shiawassee. At a season of the Probate Court for said Prunty, held at 'he probate office la the City of Corunn, on ttaefino day of December . A. D 1017. Fiesent, Matthew U isb. Ju'ga of Probate In the matter of (he estate of George Clau- cherty, deceased. , Frank R. Day, the Adm'nlstrator of aild estite having rendered a noal account to tbli Couit. It it ordered, that the !4tb day of January? nex. at ten o'clock In toe formoon. at aaid Probate office be appointed for examining and allowing said account. And It is f uribr r ordered, that a crpy rf tbls order be published three successive weeks, prtvicu to the said cay of bearing la the Uwoss Tlme, a neworapfr printed and circu lating in aaid County of fchlawassee. MATTHEW BUSH. Judge of Probate. . Claribil Galloway, Probate Register. OrJtr of Publication. The Probate Court fur the County oi Shia wassee. ; . a - At a session of the Proh t Court for said Count, hf Id st the Proba e Offl-e. 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