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HAD COME 3; JOHN ELKINS <<°opyrl«ht br W. O. Chapman.) •wmr fi' .. It .*V" * foil lo! my own shall come to me." The little thin woman in the rocker, darning stocktoga, kept saying this over and ovef Ul spite of the protest oo her daughter's face. "Well, why donl it come?" asked . Che girl starting to set the table. "Perhaps I haven't had enough faith. But I keep on trying." And the calm, sweet face again bent over the work with Just the faintest shadow •Cross the patient lines. > • "I know mother, you are a dear. I prish, too, I had more faith. But .some days I get Just desperate. The little, mean eighteen dollars a, week 1 elrn at that typewriter only keeps us alive. And tills street Is enough to give one rtervous prostration." f "My dear. I thought 1t was very ?;^j(iiet and decent" • ; _ "Yes--but I'm ashamed to ask any- '• ;-oie here. If we could only move Into 'ii • better neighborhood." ; , v '"But we couldn't afford it, dear." ^ "I know of sorpe new flats in Ben- 'Vfean place tor no more than we pay • fc»re." "How much room?" asked the " • •""Oh, two rooms, a kitchennette and bath." „ "But we couldn't do wrth that" "We could manage. And it's Just a •well entrance." "But here we have a little garden, : ltd--" • "And chickens,** finished Florence ||8gustedly. "Chickens thatk are an tkirful bother." "But they furnish us with nice fresh and--" • "And get into the yard next door. all right as long as no one lives there. But Just wait till there's a tenant, and there'll be a row. Ljidy G^ey Is determined to go over there." "Yes," sighed Mrs. Bennett, "I don't see what has got into th;it hen." "I know, mother, you like the little patch of ground and the chickens-- hat I do want some of the good times other girls have. I could go with tile people around here--but you knojv t don't care for them." 5 f'No, dear, you wouldn't be your Jpther's daughter if you did." . :iA fashionable neighborhood meant to the dwellers in this small city a cosmopolitan can well underlt was the sized place where calls on the new neighbor when movee Into the same block. Holly with the small, poor houses. In which the Bennetts lived was well- «!ch a reproach to mention in the good aoclety of Brentford. Poor little JQorencj Bennett, pretty, bright and well educated felt the ostracism caused by the neighborhood. On her father's death, three years previously, tetTLu them penniless, they had tioved to Brentford where an old |riend had given'Florence employment to hla office. She was now twenty gears old, and saw little prospect beyond the stenographer's small wages la her future. Office work was not te Dbr taste. "Yes, I suppose," sighed the mother, Vtyou might get to know some people riome of our own kind--if we lived a different street But I always be- . Ueve, dear, that what is oars will feme to us." "Yes, 1 know you love that old poem." "'For lo! my own shall come te ae!'" quoted the mother. "But not by way of Holly street" "Yes, even Holly street. Sttll If you want to move into one of those flats--" "You wouldn't be happy there, dear." Florence kissed the little wom- . an, choked down the sob in her throat, and went on getting the dinner. The next morning she turned back I as she was starting out. "Mother!" she called. "They are .painting the vacant house!" "Why, so they are! I guess we're going to have neighbors!" Workmen went in and out, and a man was preparing Uie ground for a small garden. "Ah, ha!'" cried Florence. "A'ow Lady Grey will have to go into retire inent, or lose her neck." "I'll watch her," protested Mrs. Bennett. "Well, I don't want your Job," laughed the girl as she swung off to the ellice. . , That evening a tale of woe awaited her. "Oh, Florence! Such a dreadful woman has moved in!. Just a common creature with a thick brogue!" "I told you your own wouldn't coppe to you by way of Holly street!" , Her mother being in the Joking mood, went on: "She spoke to me-- well, it was insultiutf!" ; "I foresee Lady Grey made the first call." "Yes, I thought I had stopped u;» that hole in the runway, but she got through, and the way that woman went for me. I don't know what we're going to do." Tvo or three days after this, as Flonme was taking a survey of the! *niaU grassy plot with its h:inlv annual* and shrubbery, a feiukiit' voice, hailed her over the' fence., 8'.le turned and saw the owner gazing a !i.t . "Say, miss," she a.I.ei, "iM - ty lfc..k afther "i hat l»»i» «•-' . or as thru' as I'm talkin' I'll look afther her mesllf. Here's the row of phlox all mixed up wid the 'sturtions, an' the sticks layfu" galley west It's enough to be thryin' the patience o' a holy saint, so It is ; Florence heard a door open on the I other side of the fence. i "Yes," she agreed. "I should think ' It wduld be. Mother thought she had j fastened in Lady Grey. I'm very I sorry. Did she get over there againT* "Whether t'was Lady Grey or Lady j White, she's a divil of a hen, an'- If | she comes over again, I'll--" Here the torrent of words came sud» denly to a stop with a masculine voice breaking in : "Margaret! Margaret! what Is the matter?" '•Well, if yer wantin' a garden, Just ye thry havin' It wid a hen!" "But the lady has said she was sorry." , y "Yes, Inded," said Florence,' "and I promise you you will not be annoyed any more." Here a rather good-looking: young man emerged from obscurity. More explanations followed, and the militant lady went into the house. When Florence related the incident to her mother, the latter rejoined: "I suppose she's taking boarders, and it'll be noisy and unpleasant with men running in and out." :• "I shouldn't suppose anything but day laborers would be likely to board In Holly street. But maybe he's a clerk on a small salary--still he spoke like a gentleman." "A clerk can be 9 gentleman." added her mother. ' ; "Yes." said the girl doubtfully. "He can be." It was really quite astonishing, the way in which the acquaintance over the fence progressed, till one day Mrs. Bennett invited him In. Florence found she was glad he had been invited. When she found she was something more than glad, she began to be supremely disgusted with herself. Where were her dreams of a finer, fuller life? To marry a poor clerk meant to go on living in I^plly street No. no, It was unthinkable. "This place must look very dingy to you after your shining new paint in there," she said to him. "No," he said, "it looks very cozy, very homey." He took in the ample library table, the shaded lamp, the books, and the good pictures on the walls. "It looks very much as I thought it would." "We've asked time and again to have this room papered and painted, but that miserable old skinflint of an owner won't do It It. seems lie had to, next door." "Did yon ever see the ownerT he asked. "No. I don't even know hla name The agent said he wouldn't" "I think he will," said the young man. tsotuj&ay, fbb.24, mr HMD When "Mr. Royal again found his voice he announced that he would bring his father to call. The old gentleman scrutinized his future daughter-in-law so searchlngly she began to feet uncomfortable. "Miss Bennett," he said, "I feel it is my duty to inform yon that this young mau has been telling you a perfect tissue of falsehoods." "Father!" interposed the young man glancing at the surprised face of the girl going white with the shock of the revelation. *s"t / "It's true he Is getting twenty-five a week, but as to a raise--" "if that's all," she cried, "I don't care. We can live on It If there's nothing against Mr. Royal's character--" " 'Mr. Royal,'" sniffed the old man. "You rascal! you didn't even give your right name." '"What?" she gasped. "Now. never mind. Miss Bennett! It was Just a part of his quixotic g&me. He wanted to see if you really cart d for him. You're the right sort. I shall !>e very proud to have you for a daughter. I trl«<d out Jack to see what he was made of. Now, I'm going 10 make him superintendent." ••fc>uiienni.endent!" she echoed incredi. lou.sly. " ' . . ' Yes, you see I'm the owner, and the old. skinflint who owns these hou;-e. All I have will be the boy's. Just now I w:.:it him to take a vacation-- for a h meymoon--and I want it to l.e^ln right away. v Come here and kiss your father!" • H'orenre somewhat d&zedly cumuli d. Then she glanced at her mother who had taken the old gentleman's outstretched h. ml. and she knew her own hail co.ue to her. , "Mr. Roytf! Bet how do k n o w ? * * * • "Well, yon see, I work for him fta the silk factory." "Does he own that, too? Well, he's worse than a skinflint!" "Mo, he's a decent fellow, If he is a millionaire. It's the agent who's to blame." The speedy way In which the cottage was overhauled, and everything done just as Florence and her mother wished convinced them that young Mr. Royal must have some "pull." The love route is sometimes subject to fluctuations, but this one seemed to progress steadily. One day he put the Important question: "I'm getting only twenty-five a week n«w, but I'm promised a raise. Would you be willing to live on that?" he asked. "I've got to think of mother," she answered. "If you'd let me go on with my typewriting--" "No, no," he demurred. "I want to be mothered a little, and I want to take care of you both. I don't want you to work in an office." "1 must say fdr a poor man, you have some foolish pride," she pouted. Then the next minute: "I don't care if it's only twenty, we'll manage." Old Palace Haunted by Caligulcft Ghost? In the northern angle of the Palatine JUU stands a palace, which the people of Rome believe to be haunted by the ghost of the half-mad Caligula, the emperor who surpassed even Nero in cruelty and bioodthirstiness, Pierre Van Paassen relntes. In the Atlanta Constitution. Though the guide refused to accompany us mid the halfmoldered ruins, we encountered do ghost in any of the historic halls, though we half expected to see phantoms repeat the ghastly scenes that were once enacted here. For here Caligula, reclining at the banquet table, burst out laughing, and when asked the cause of his mirth replied: "How easy it would be to have the heads of my courtiers roll over the marble floors." In thfs same chamber Claudius was feasting when he was informed that hfs wife Messalina was dead and received the news with a Jest, then ordered a slave to pour him a cup of wipe. And here also the same emperor devoured his fatal repast of mushrooms of which Tacfttn speaks, a dish prepared by his loving wife and niece, Agrfppina, in ordltr to make way to the throne for het floM Nero. * Curiosity Hat Playod Big Part in Program From time immemorial women have been branded as being more curious than men. Now we are told by a Loudon clergyman that men far outnumber women in the Inquiries they address to him during the "Question Hour" he has instituted at his church. One cannot say that one sex Is more curious than the other, but they are interested in totally different matters. Feminine curiosity is lightflearted. and less searching than masculine. Few women are ashamed to admit their desire to know the cost of a dress, but the majority would be reluctant to admit their ignorance of some important event in history. The opposite Is the case with most men. Tbey feel it is bad taste to be curious about personal matters, but they rarely mind asking for Information about public affairs. Curiosity often becomes a vice with some people. Most of us are familiar with old maids and bachelors who spend all their time probing into the affairs of others. Such people are an object of terror and dislike to the other inhabitants, and the originators, of countless petty scandals and quarrels. Lack of any real occupation drives them slowly, as they grow older, into Indecent prying into their neighbors' concerns. - We are apt to condemn Curiosity as an unpleasant quality, and few of us will acknowledge that we are led and tempted by it. We forget that It Is an instinct which is one of the most valuable and beneficial assets of humanity In the battle of life. It is the driving force behind the work of all scientists, doctors, and explorers. Without It the world would still be in a state of barbarism.-- Vancouver Province. DOLUUHI v M - DOUBLE • DUTjjT-DOLLAR i 09 AS < s it * < Q 58 a Athletic Writer se of his size and strength Dr. Samuel Johnson was advised by a certain luckless publisher to get a porter's knot and turn porter. Set upoti one night by four footpads, he Jcept them at bay until the watch came up. He frequently in his yonnger years walked from Litchfield to Birmingham and back again, a distance, of 30 miles, without fatigue, and in his trip to the Hebrides Boswell says that "ninetyfive days were never passed bjrany man in more vigorous exercise." He was » bold swftnmer, and though he (todinariiy moved like a matron!ed elephant, he at sixty-eight wrifceflA delightedly. "I ran a race tbis day and beat Baretti."--Scientific Monthly^ Uttl* li», the young Intellectual I He Is esthetic. He dwelleth among his kind ant! taffeeth confidently of his art He letteth his hair grow long and discoursed of Freud. He shaveth not, but he un>- derstandeth the futuristic. He laugfteth to scorn the conventions and pratetb of free love. He derldetfr industry. And yet, being hungry, he buyetb sustenance with money which his father hath earned. For he remain* eth esthetic only so long as he is com* tovtabfe. So we mock him, Knowing in our hearts that we, too, would be esthetic But for the absence of rich father* --Kansas City 'flmes. City** Glory Departed It Is no longer "Antioch the Beanttfof," splendidly situated though It Is. In the Thirteenth century it was still a considerable city of 120,000 inhabitants. Today ft. Is known as Antakla and Its population Is about 12,000. It nfeVet quite recovered from Its spoliation by the sultan of Egypt, nor has it made much effort to repair the damage done in 1872 by a severe earthfttftfce. Bikt ft will always be a piece off Interest to Christians for its many associations with the earliest periods et UMfir history. Wett Nantoi Quebracho, which holds the record flbr being the world's heaviest wood, {means "ax breaker." $ . ' Their Only LetHm Uve and learn Is good dope, but all a tot of boobs learn by living to that they can't learn anythfng. --Cincinnati inquirer. w ij PQ P O R % Pi SALT and PEPPER SETS, silver jOated.... SILVER, Child's Sets, ;V*^ FOUNTAIN PENS, Sheaff^-,.... . . L . CUFF LINKS, gold plated I . . . . . . . . WALDEMAR -CHAINS VANITIES and COMPACTS ............. P0CE:ET KNIVES, $1.W Value! ^... . BILL FOLDS SCISSORS, all sizes ... SCOUT MEMORY BOOKS .... ,... FRAMED M0TT0S CRYSTAL WATER PITCHERS ... WORD MUSIC ROLI^, SHEET MUSIC 91.W , . . i . .$1.00 1 *00 •4 s £ a 1 I s g s I to $1.00 OBhm* JUmtofor •4^1.00' . . fii.oo ..........y, • »f$1..00 "***^1.00 S1.00 '»'«*S1,00 ....$1.00 •^ 2 for $1.00 S for $1.00 egggar ill S: a w r* M e a u o t* ? I Jewelry, Music and Radio Shop Phone 123-J # , q JV • .• '• - v SHVTIOtt $ ITS - OTIIOd ' AX Ad ' HiaflOCI - Od - SSVTIOd $ DOLLARS DO DOUBLE DUTY DOLLAR DAY f M * $$ DOLLARS DO DOUBLE DUTY DOLLAR DAY Variation in The maximum weight of an object is at the surface of the earth. Weight above or below is less than at the surface. Immortal Verse "O Little Town of Bethlehem" wag written by Dr. Phillips Brooks when he was rector of a Philadelphia church. It was first sung on Christ* mas, 1868. The composer of the mn> •lc was the organist of Doctor Brooluf church, Lewis Reduer. Artmadillo Reproduction The armadillo bears its young la , lots of four, each lot being all males • jpr 1" f^rrnlT", Liberty. Public Sale George Vogel, Auctioneer The havinc «<old hi<? farm will sol! at PtrWi> Auetiory Thursday, March 3rd, -- at the hour one-thirty o'clock / in the afternoon of said~ day at said farm, located three mile% southeast of McHenry and about three miles northwest of Burton'#,, . Bridge and about six miles northwest of Wauconda and about six miles west of V< lo, and nine miles northeast of Crystal Lake. 19 HEAD OF LIVESTOCK Consisting of a fine dairy of T. B. tested cattle. Registered Holstein Bull, from a Federal Accredited Herd, "Prince 'Joan Walker," No. 507450 Holstein Fresian Herd Book. This bull is just two years old and a descendent of Eli Aaggie Fayne Johanna, the cow that held the world's record for milk and butter production as a three year old. , Registered Holstein Cow, five years old, No. 701868 Holstein Fresian Herd Book. , v' Hegistered Holstein Gov. four years old, No. 806293 Holstein Fresiaw Herd Book. 1 . Registered Holstein Cow, five years old* No. 786564 Holstein Fresialt Herd Book. Young Holstein Bull, 8 months old. T~ 12 High Grade Holstein Cewf, close springers and new milkers and tome with calves by side. J This dairy was just T..B. tested by Dr. Draper, County Verterin- Hftrian of McHenry County, and every animal has been T. B. tested at least twice in the last eight months. They are a lot of high producing cows and their butter fat tests has run as high as 3.8% at the Bowman Dairy company factory. They will be a great value to those who want dairy cows of high quality, and will make money for those who buy them. There will be attractive bargains here, and every fenimal will be sold to the highest bidder. These cattle should interest those who want to add some of the profit making kind to their herds. T^There will also be sold a heavy team of work horses. One black gelding, 10 years old, weight 1600 pounds. One black mare, 9 years old, weight 1500 pounds. FARM MACHINERY Set of double harness, iron wheel truck wagon with box, two horse grain drill, com planter, disc, hay loader. FEED A small quantity of seed com, about 3 tons of alfalfa hay. and a s quantity of straw in barn, and some silage. TERMS OF SALE All sums of $26.00 and< under cash. Over that amount, a credit will be given on good bankable notes, due in six months, with interest at 7%. No property to be removed until settled for with Clerk. L.D. LOWELL, Owner f * a r ^ w £ 3 ^ i r k . . . $1.50 cattle knife, with leather punch $1*00 $1.60 nickel plated 8-iri. trimming shear l.OO One qt. house paint, any color . . . 1*00 $1 fancy handled pocket knife- . • . .75 5-tine long handled Otsego manure fork 1.75 Two packages kafcowne . . . l.QO i I s s •- i; • ' ' •' • - " Other Barphts - Come in and See H. C. KAMHbLZ West McHenry DOLLARS DO DOUBLE DUTY DOLLAB DAT DQI&UtS DO DOUBLK DUTY D0LLA& DAY Sj i 5 < 8 I': i