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Universal Cooler la moderate in price, negligible in upkeep coat/ purchasable on easy terms. "See Universal Qtotef today Hie Universal Cooler Mb a Universal Need. '• ~£%,r r- 660 is a prescription for Golds, Grippe, Fin, Dengne, Btttons Fever and Malaria. It kills the geoaa. See the Universal Cooler on Defla* onst ration at our Stora H• Iji?# #' micii & Co. <©. 1»IT, by D. J. Walsh.) ANGELA TREVOR had known Keith Gordon since the seventh month of her existence. Her mother related laughingly how Mrs. Gordon had come with her baby boy to call and how Angela and Keith had stared at each other, gurgled, and finally fought over a pink teethlngrbig. Angela was now thirty-one but she had no Intention of marrying her old playfellow. He was only Keith of the teething-ring episode, Keith who had been so handy making a snow man, Keith who had helped her in geometry, and Keith who was still so useful when It came to entertaining her friends. There had never been anybody she liked better, but still she did not like him enough. And Keith, she was certain, felt the same way about her. Neither did he make love to anybody else. No brother and sister could ever have been more casually devoted, more unsentimentally fond of each other. If Keith dropped in for *> evening Angela did not find it necessary to change her dress or rearrange her hair for him. He took her as he found her. Sometimes he played cheas with her father, sometimes he gossiped with her mother, sometimes the four of them tried a game of Uridge. Occasionally he took her somewhere, but usually the whole "bunch" was Included. Altogether, she accepted Keith as a comfortable bit of furniture in her life. If he had not been there she would have missed him. Seeing he w».s always available she accepted Mm as a matter of course. Tonight he had telephoned, asking her to meet him at the Stockford at seven for dinner and a concert afterward. She had accepted and then had sat calmly down to chat with Mrs. Ualway, who hud run In, and to embroider a bit of lingerie. Mrs. Galway did not leave until six, and then Angela had to make such a toilet as haste would penult. She left her hair as it was, dabbed on a bit of powder, slipped into her black crepe--it wasn't the most becoming frock she had, but it was the easiest to don and she felt that it would do. Her father, of course, would take her to the Stockford; but her father was late home from the office. There was another delay, the car wouldn't spark or something. But at last she was on her way. At 7:15 she walked Into the Stockford, feeling sure that even though Keith had waited he would not mind. He wus waiting, and she sailed hastily up to him with a smile and explanation. "We got In a pocket-at the*corner of Cherry and Market," she said. "I'm sorry, Keith." "Nothing matters so long as you have really arrived and safely." She had expected that All the same she thought he seemed annoyed. And then she saw that he was not alone. The girl who stood near him really belonged to him. A lovely girl, sh,e was, slender, exquisitely gowned, every dark hair delicately in place, perfect of poise as one who is entirety sure of her appearance. "Miss Mary Ives," Keith Introduced them gravely. Mary Ives! Not Don Ives' little girl grown into this vision of young womanhood ! Why! Don had been something of a beau to Angela when they were fourteen. It was a shock, but she braced herself to meet the consequences. How had Keltlf'come by this girl, anyway? "You didn't tell me--" she murmured reproachfully. "I didn't know. Don telephoned that he had a business engagement while In town and asked me to loek out for his little girl." He smiled at the little glrj and she smiled back *dorably--at him. "I had already £sked you so I thought that between Us we could give Mary a very good time." ° Angela was not sure of that. From the look in Mary's eyes she was convinced that Mnry could have had a better time witu Keith alone, and she bt'gun to feel uneasily that Keith was going to enjoy Mary a lot more than she wished he would. There was another thing, too. She felt mightily uncomfortable when she saw herself presently in the many mirrors of the Stockford dining room. No doubt of it, she looked tousled. The contrast was terrible--she waa common in appearance, Mary so fresh and charming. .Everybody was looking at Mary; Keith looked at her, too. It was a bitter hour for Angela and growing more bitter with each moaaent. Mary could laugh and talk. Mary--she knew with that sixth Seuse of women--Mary loved to see Iter squirm. And Keith did not know ahe was squirming j maybe he did tiot care. - When aha could not cavitary Inquired tenderly: 'Headache, old dear?" Stressing th« •'old" ever so little. The concert afterward ! It aeemet' Mary was studying music and she had :jthe patter of the profession. Angela, whose knowledge, though considerable, lay In other directions, sat silent, and distraught. She began ta hate the blithesome Mary; she began to hate Keith. No 1 If she had hated Mm ahe would not have suffered aa deeply. It waa over at last Keith took her home In a taxi--accompanied by Mary. What would they say and do when she was no longer with thetttf She had never dreamed that she hal such a rampant imagination. She cried on her pillow like a little glrti Fot she knew now that she loved Keith. How else could she feel than the way she did? It was terrible next day. They were nearly through dinner whan her father remarked casually: "Keith said he was coming up this evening." That waa all, bat the world whirled in rosy waves. Mother was kind. "If you want to fix up a little, dear, III do the dishes. There aren't many. Mrs. DIx cleared everything up before she went home." Nobly, however, Angela did her share. Then she flew to her room. She did her hair over and stuck a comb In it, ahe freshened up her face, she put on her newest and bluest frock. And then she looked at herself, long and critically, in the glaaa. It paid to take pains. He was in the living room talking to her parents when she came down. She felt his eyes appraise, realized that the mere fact that she had adorned herself for him meant something new and delightful to him. Never before bad she paid him the compliment of such attention. He rose from the davenport, smiled, put his arm about her and drew bar down beside him before the delighted eyes of the older couple. "Some time, do you know," he said musically, "I think Angela and I are going^oJ>e something more than old playfCTiows?" As his eyes questioned her Angela spoke daringly, breathless. "Perhaps we are now," she said. When Horace Fletcher Scared Hungry Guests Horace Fletcher, who ardently urged everyone to live to extreme old age by Indefinite mastication, so that the word "fletcherlze" Is now definitely fixed in the English language, and who himself died comparatively young, once gave a dinner to which he invited a number of well-known men at Yale, Including President Hadley, Professor Lounsbury, Walter Camp and John Hays Hammond. Knowing his hobby, the guests naturally wondered what they would get to eat. At the appointed time they were shown into a private room at the Graduates' club In New Haven, where they were not surprised to find the table set with the severest simplicity. Instead of china, white crockery was used, and the chief table decorations were three large crockery pitchers filled with ice water. At each place was a crockery saucer containing a shredded wheat biscuit. The guests sighed. Their worst apprehensions were being confirmed, but just as they had sadly taken their places the head waiter came to the door and announced that by mistake they had been Shown Into the wrong room. Then Mr. Fletcher appeared, and, with an inimitable twinkle In hit eye, led his guests into another private dining room, where a most sumptuous repast had been provided. British Museum Midi Yields Rare Articlef ' The mall man with the most lntei^ esting route in the world is the on« who drops his bag at the British museum each morning. And the contents of that bag make far and away the most extraordinary postal delivery received by anyone In England. Each delivery Is a veritable grabbag in curios. Gems, stones, arrowheads, old books, rubbish, shells, bits of leather, fossils, postage stamps, llva animals, stomachs pickled in alcohol, coins, butterflies, weapons, bones--- this Is the sort of ragbag collection which the museum officials discover with almost grotesque excitement upon opening the mail in the morning. Though there is seldom anything of decided value, the mass of stuff is always sorted out and weeded carefully for any rare and valuable curl* Most of the senders expect no acknowledgment or reward--In fact, there is no return address on many, of the parcels. Evidently they do It for fun. But is it? Ask the postman. ^ BMP SCOTT WATSON III. Blackboard Pnya Penalty QRIMINALS though they were, the average pirate uaually had twe virtues, at leapt--bravery and loyalty ta his associates. But ('apt. Edward Teach. Blackboard, was not troubled by an excess of the latter. He wus an accomplished hand at the dcfcible-croas. Upon one occasion he decided to get rid of his crews and keep all .the booty they had accumulated for hlmaeif. So be wrecked hU own vssssl and one of bis sloopa and on the other he and his closest friend* sailed away, leaving their unfortunate fel- Iowa marooned on a sandy Island. Then he aalled to North Carolina and with cool effrontery surrendered himself and 20 men to Charles Eden, the governor of North Carolina, who secured a royal pardon for the pirate. They became Intimate friends and it seems that the governor and hia rotary, Mr. Knight, became partners In crime with the pirate. Soon after Blackboard's laat marriage--hia four teenth, by the way, he took ta the sea again, plundered half a dosen ships la the Bermudas and returned to share the spoilt* with tba governor. Far several months Blackboard's ships lay In the Plmllco river, robbing every ship that entered and occasion ally going ashore to rob the planters. Finely the situation became so unbearable that the colonists appealed to Governor Spottawood of Virginia to rid the coast of the marauder. Spottawood acted promptly. He aaat a young lieutenant. Robert Maynard. with two sloopa to do the job. On November 21. 1718, Maynard discovered the pirate at the mouth of Ocracoke Inlet. .Blackboard had been warned by Secretary Knight, so that all of his crew was on hand to help him defend the new schooner which he had. As Maynard's shlpa closed In. Blackbeard sprang to the rail and shouted 'D--n you for villains, who are you? And from whence come you?" "You may see from our colon we are no pirates," retorted Maynard. "Send a boat aboard!" roared the pirate "I cannot spare my boat, but I will come aboard of you as I can witli my sloop," replied the lieutenant. Seizing a bottle of whiskey, Black beard drank from It and shouted thi% toast: "Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarter or take any from you!" Maynard's reply to this threat was "I neither ask for, nor will I give you any quarter." Alter a short and bloody fight at close range. Black beard boarded the lieutenant's vessel and It was a hand-to-hand battle between 13 Englishmen and 15 pirates The two commanders crossed swords and after wounding the pirate In no leaa than 25 places, Maynard pierced his throat with a lightning-like thrust of his sword. When Maynard sailed Into the Chesapeake bay on bis return to Virginia the head of Blackbeard was swinging by his long hair from the* bowsprit end. llll. WMtarn Newipapar UdIm.) Their Own Risk Sinners walk in slippery places and they cannot sue anybody for damages When they fall.--Boston Transcript. N i»»*• * :£ ik 'Is?* k'- A ' k&ii** .... UaUA aapijavviUtCO IrllC? V CIAUC VI ®*ir farmers to the community and to the nation. 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Henry Williams, nineteen years old, of Baltimore, Md., read about that and surmised that he might do better, He did by pushing in forty-six sticks before he had a mouthful. The chewed gum was examined to see that no untouched sticks were concealed within It, and it was found to be all that could be desired. The forty-six were reduced to one mass of plasticity, weighing exactly tiro and one-quarte* ouncea. ; Batteriea. Tubea and Batia Aceeaaoriaa Plana 48 tGopyrifhted '1926 by Universal Cooler Carp.) Origin of Unlucky 13 Tito origin of the anathema attach* , jing to tbe number 13 has been traced to Scandinavian mythology, wherein there were twelve demigods until Loki. the sinister. Intruded blmaelt making tbe unlucky thirteenth, aaya the Dearborn Independent. ^• Iiwww of Life- Cheerfulness ig to life what perfume I to the flower.--Forbes Magaslne. Strength in Unity The expression, "United we atand, divided we fall," was used in a poem entitled "The Flag of Our Union," by George Pope Morris. The earliest use of the words In America was in Dickinson's "Liberty Song," first published in the Boston Gazette on the 18th of July 1788. The thought expressed In the lines, however, is much older. and may be found in the early Roman poems. Bit Too Even disposition Is destraWe M the bridge table, but not just the kind of an even disposition referred to by the "wife whan she described her hue* band as always grouchy In the morn* tag. . Ambition and Experience At twenty our ambition la to conquer the world; at forty It IS saMa way to gat the car paid for, ( trouble money