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~â€"â€" 1( _ _‘ High Qualityâ€"Always /T3 t * | affords _ 4 ‘;")\ Q \benefi( as well ‘,‘L'\\ & â€" as pleasure. Old Lady ( to know, si gentleman." The drugs Women are herole creatures, Yesâ€" terday my wife sat and smiled and talked to a caller while a cake in the oven was burning to a cinder and sho knew it. Another sure sign that a fellow‘s get ting old is when he is no longer ac cused of inflidelity by a suspecting wife th e The first rule of business is not «pend more than you take in. A pretty girl is just the reverse of a guccessful bank. In her case, the highâ€" ér the principle, the less the interest. th In A Lady Laments. Ah! tell me, shall I love him less Because he stole a kiss; Bhall 1 begrudge one small caress No one will ever miss? "What we need is better distribu tion," said the bald man, as he pre pared to shave. vaugh, and Weep and t Or shall 1 lightly look away Excuse his brief digress, And tell him when he comes toâ€"day Of my forgiveness? I‘m quite annoyed about that kiss; Perhaps 1 shouldn‘t be. The reason for my pique is thisâ€" He did not steal the kiss from me fen The Alabama man who heard a snake say "Hello" must have been a lew drinks behind the rest of the boys. runners stuff on AFTER 14 _ |J;.. EVERY CxC~.ls MEAL Old Lady (to druggist)â€""I want a x of canine pills." Druggistâ€""What ‘s the matter with CGentleman (absently)â€""No, thank u; I was only looking for my wife." Nothing Special. Floorwalker (to gentleman who is indering about in a puzzled manner) "Are you looking for anything speâ€" < _\ â€" as pleasure. Healthful exercise for the teeth and a spur to digestion. A longâ€" lasting refreshment, soothing to T B A urie 1 The choice teas used exclusiveâ€" 1y in Salada yield richly of their delicious goodness. Say Salada. PT "CALADA" OWLâ€"LAFFS d at F few children get home in time venings to tuck their parents (On With Laughter) Sam To the Modern Girl. id the world laughs with you, 1 the rouge comes off. 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The jacket has igepr:::!rsve fii’ep;in ":tg c tanine rymgl a simple front closing, buttoning close ~ «ypy keep ‘outgn tl{i.s Brose."" he! to the neck and finished with a round cried shrilly. "I kin fight my own | collar. The sleeves are cut in two battles." pieces, and trimmed at the wrist with| I thought he was going to lose con-l buttons. The pockets are set in and trol of himself. Peck came around may be omitted. The twoâ€"pisce trou. the desk and the other men got “pz sers are cut straight and have side :’:gt' :tfr;ih;}:: \f:)m:llt'shibi(;'n s]t:ogal:%l;-fi elosing. No. 1182 is in sizes 4, 6 204| most grotesque, he was so litt‘e and 8 years. Size 6 requires 2% yards Of | threadbare and the other was so large 36â€"inch, or 2 yards of 40â€"inch maâ€" and round and pompous. | terial. Price 20 cents. | â€" Strugaeling to keen his voice steady,| p Minard‘s Liniment in the house. 1 wl tho + 4+ . cpaicr ) Abptt return mail Where Weddings Are Rare. {M) |\ _ The fishing that spring had not been very good. The water was still high, for it had been cold and the | woods were full of snow. But that |\night it grew warmer and began to rain. Outside my window I heard the south wind groaning, and the rain coming down thud, thud, thud. | "Fishin‘? Why, say, Ham Edwards | was just in and he says the creek is |a sight. It‘s rose more‘n a foot this mornin‘ already and some of them low ‘meadows is gettin‘ flooded." When I woke next morning the same J)ounding of the rain was going on and I looked out to see a saturated world and tho street imitating a river. For certain reasons, that scene there in the o‘:d hotel has remained in my mind. I rather enjoy thinking of it now. "You jest wait and see! I ain‘t lost my nerve. 1T‘:l get even with you yet. You‘ll pay me what you beat me outn and the folks in this town‘il laugh at you just the way they‘ve laughed at me all these years,. You see! My turn‘ll come!" This seoemed to strike the senator as even more funny. He simply exâ€" ploded. ‘"That‘s the taik, Ben," he cried. "Hurrah for you! You just try to get the best of Earl Bixby." He gave Hooper another mighty s.ap on the back. â€" "Ha! ha!l hal ha!" Bixby shouted as he went out the door. "Old Ben Hooper!" . i se 9 C Trembling from head to foot, the little man screamed after him, "Don‘t you forget now ; it‘ll be my turn next time." "Some rain!" I said to Peck when I came down to breakfast. "No fishâ€" ing toâ€"day. I guess,." . _ ;> ; > With his old hat knocked over one eye Ben stood, panting a litt‘e, trying to preserve his dignity. w I thought he was going to lose conâ€" trol of himself. Peck came around the desk and the other men got â€"up out of their chairs. Ben stood lookâ€" ing straight up at Bixby. It was alâ€" most grotesque, he was so litt‘e and threadbare and the other was so large and round and pompous. 4 There was an exclamation of awe. "Fifty thousand dollars is a sight of money to lose,"" murmured Ezra Mceker. . "Pshaw!" Bixby told him. “SQX I got a deal on now that makes fty thousand dollars look like fifty cents. If this deal goes through it‘ll put Woodstock on the map, because I live here, understand. It‘s one of the bigâ€" gest things that‘s happened in this part of the country for quite a while." "Oh, just a day or two. Ought not to have come up at all, but the missus wanted that new addition I‘m puttin‘ on started, and I knew the only way was to come up with the plans and see Clark about it. Have to explain every little thing to him. Well, good night, boys." % » "Good night, Earl." He moved through the group to where Hooper stood. _ 1% C "Od Ben Hooper!" he said again, giving Ben a dig in the ribs. "Ha! ha! halâ€"ha!" The phrase seemed to amâ€" use him. <I doubt if the man meant to be brutal. I really don‘t think he did mean to be. He was simply unâ€" conscious of anyone‘s feelings but his own. Struggling to keep his voice steady, Ben spoke at last. C Atae PEue! _ He sat back and blew out a great cloud of smoke. f I pricked up my ears. I‘d heard rumors of a big waterpower developâ€" ment and transmission line through the state with which Bixby‘s name had been connected. "‘W'ell, I got to get along," Bixby said, pulling himself up. varse "How long you goin‘ to be here, Earl?" one asked. "You‘re interested in water power, aren‘t you, Mr. Bixby?" I inquired. He gave a flip of his cigar and answered blandly, "Oh, some!" 3 A silence fell. The men, impressed, shifted in their chairs. On the outâ€" side of the Wroup stood Ben Hooper all, by himself. * M aa. J/2 1b PART 11 NERVE La By MARTIN KNAPP. _ "You wait and see!" he kept reâ€" peating. "I tell you that bridge won‘t |stand much; it‘s old. Them foundaâ€" tions on the west sideâ€"this town ‘ud ‘be cut right off if that bridge went. |You can‘t get over the east road, 1and you know what the road over ‘the hill‘s lHke." | _ The other men laughed. |__"Ez, you kin see calamity further | offn ani man I ever see," Peck broke iin. "That brid%e's been there twenty | years and it‘il be there twenty more. ]l guess." 1 ds . § t I walked out on the briifge and after which he wou.d laugh :.oudly. | watched the muddy water swirling!- Hooper, very red, by turns scratchâ€" just beneath it. Branches of trees, ing his head and slapping nis batterâ€" ! fence rails and other dsbris woere °4 hat against his knee, tried to make |caught against the abutments, cogâ€"| aAdequate replies, which trmailed off |ging the opening, and I thought iflineflectiyely. At last he was relicved ‘the water rose much higher that the from his predicament by having to bridge might be endangered. {meet the 7.29 from Brompton, and | _ When I got back to the hotel I men-|When he got back Bixby was gone. ‘tioned this and immediately started| (To be concluded.) _.‘"Well, somebody‘s slipped up,",. he shouted angrily «after a _ moment. "That‘s what you were paid for." He went into the booth which stood in the office and shouted at the toll operator, and eventually at some indiâ€" vidual named Stevens in Brompton, Of course all conversation immediateâ€" ly ceased, and, as Bixby by no means talked in whispers, it was impossible not to hq;r $ £°?Â¥$’:2922-. After liste! 1% or a few moments he bellowed: "What‘s that? The Conâ€" "Long diâ€"tance tryin‘ to git Earl Bixby," he to‘d us as he hung up. "Says Brompton wants him, and they can‘t git no answer to his house, so they want I should send word up to him to call ‘em. They say it‘s imâ€" portant." "Those fo‘ks in the city won‘t let me alone a minute," he pu%ed importâ€" antly.. "Wish I could get away for just a few days without bein‘ bothâ€" erfl:" so.idated is goinfi to put in a bid?" Again he listened, muttering "Umâ€" umâ€"um," and I saw him take out a handkerchief and wipe. his forehead. We sat around talking about storms in this part of the world and that. Ambrose Peck was just in the midd‘e of a tale of what his brother had seen out in California, when he had to answer the te‘lephone, and we hcard him say, "Yes, yesâ€"you can‘t, eh? Well, we got a gad storm up here. Iine‘s out of order most likelyâ€" sure, I‘ll have him call youâ€"â€"" _ "T‘il tell him," Seth Thomas offered. "I‘m goin‘ home to supper now and it‘s right on my way." C# Just as I was coming out of the dining room after my own supper I saw Bixby come into the hotel. _ tioned this and immediately started an argument among the men gathered around. Old Ezra Meeker prociaimed inâ€" stantly that that was exactly what he had feared for years. _ _ "Well, I guess not that. They had one though, ’loni in 1902, in just such a spell as this, but I guess we won‘t Between the village and the railâ€" road McClintic Creek comes winding down from the south along the level floor of the valley. Just below the town the hilis draw together, and the highroad, which, to the south, runs along the eastern side of the valley, crosses the old bridge there and joins the road on the west side at the railâ€" road‘station. Below the town, therefore, there is no road on this side of the valley. As a matter of fact, the east road was being repaired and all the travel up anrd down the valley was over the west road. To leave Woodstock you either had to cross the bridge to the station and take this west road, or else go straight east up over the hill behind the town, and this road in the spring was always in very bad condiâ€" tion. The natural course of the stream was distinguishab‘e only by the tops of alder brush bending dejectedly with the current. The road which crosses the valley is higher than the surâ€" rounding fields, and this formed a sort of dam of which the spillway was the opening underneath the bridge. w €BPCTC o Oy MA T Coucc o Afkatk now. It‘ll probably let up in a little while; it‘s rainin‘ too hard to keep up." “fiOli catastrophy ! I néver see anyâ€" thin‘ like it. The valley‘s commencin‘ to look like a lake and the water ‘n‘t far from the floor of tha bridge.‘ "Say, Ben, I guess iou better get your old boat out," Peck laughed. For a moment the old man‘s face broke into an eager smile, until he saw that the other was jofdng. "No," he said â€" disappointedly. "Guess it won‘t be as bad as that." Rather gloomily I sat around the hotel until, late in the afternoon, the rain ceased and a wet sun tried optiâ€" mistically to crowd through the lowâ€" ering clouds. Everyone came out on t'};e sidewalk to talk about the weaâ€" ther. As I came to the edge of the town} the valley spread out below me like | a steaming kettle filled with brown| broth. Mist rose languidly through] the thin shafts of western sun, and‘ what had been a meandering stream‘ edged with alders and an occasional| clump of willows, was a muddy river| flowing sullenly. Te * | I walked down the main street, which, at the edge of the town, turns to the left and then to the right again and runs across an old iron bridge to the railwa{ station on the other side of the valley. The valley here is rather flat and the hills on either side roll back with some abruptness. The village lies tucked up under the castâ€" ern slope, whereas the railroad hugs t}'\; shoulder of the hills on the west side. UP+ But it didn‘t let ur. It seemed to rain harder all the time. W..on Ben Hooper came back from the nineâ€" fortyâ€"five train he said: "Maybe we‘ll have a flood," I laughâ€" | First Sugar Mill. | _ Sugar cane was first grown is terâ€" ‘ritory now constituting the United ‘States in 1751, and seven years later ' the first American eugar mill was built | nearâ€" New Orleans. f The idea of Ben Hooper‘s running ‘the railroad seemed to amuseo him. He | kept adding other jocose remarks, ‘after which he wou‘ld laugh loudly. ‘ed worried. "Pretty bad rain we‘ve ‘had," he remarked Eresently. And ‘then, as an afterthought, "Storm ‘hasn‘t affected the trains any, has Though he appeared very much upâ€" set, it was obvious that this pracâ€" tical demonstration of his importance was not unpleasant. Sinking heavily into a chair, he Towered his tone and explained to me, "Got to have nerve to do business these days. Some fools tryin‘ to ho!ld up this deal I. was tellin‘ you about last night. You got to be on the job every minute." He lit a cifgar and sat back, slnpring the arms of the chair with his palims. He seemâ€" A man said "Guess not," and lookâ€" ed at Ben Hooper. * § Indirect Development. The eggs of the seaâ€"urchin and starâ€" fish do not hatch directly into forms resembling the parents, but give rise to young differing as widely from the adult as the caterpillar differs from the butterfly. Even among vertebrates, as in the case of some fish and all amphibians, the development from egg to adult is indirect. There are about eighty volcanoes in the Malay Archipelego which exhibit. distinct signs of activity. "No," ° Ben â€" answered . proudly. "Trains been on time all day." There were only two trains each way, but he spoke as though there were a dozen. "Water don‘t affect ‘em none on this side of the valley. "Guess I took a bad time to come up here," he complained as he came out of the booth, mopping his face. "Ain‘t it always the way? Man can‘t call a minute of his time his own when he gets tied up in business the way I am." * k it?" Bixby interrupted. "Ben ain‘t had a train late on the Chenango Valley branch since hc‘s been runnin‘ the road, have you, Ben?" _ Someone laughed, and Hooper ansâ€" wered mildly: "Them trains is most allus on time." "We‘l, you see that the nineâ€"fortyâ€" five is on time toâ€"morrow, Ben, or you‘ll get fired. See!" $ The person on the wire seemed to be trying to explain, but Bixby continâ€" uallg interrupted. "But they‘ll gum up the whole game," he kept cryini. "I got towget old of Jackson right away. hy didn‘t you Fet me sooner? Well, not very hard, I guess,. I been right here; it‘s too late now. I can‘t get in; about eleven toâ€"morrow is the soonest I can get there. You have him there sure." 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Worth, â€"then, is really the am of our usefulness to the world other people are not better becaus our being amongst them, then wo worthless. A man can get as m as he can carryâ€"and more than as so many doâ€"and beof no wort all. It is giving that makes hin value, Withholding is ever an poverishment. To live so that our low men and women may find easir is to live worthily. We are never so wrong as when we limit worth to money. After all, money is only a form of barter and is almost worthless of itself! Buttons, or hoots, or beads could be honored in the same way, though they might not be so convenient. One bit of paper is worth five do!. lars. Another bit is used for making a fire. One piece of metal is a sceptre for a king. Another of about the same length and weight is used as a poker Wherein lies the difference in these bits of paper and pieces of metal? Only the worth we set upon them It is a heartrending thing to have i said of us: "He‘s no use!" It mean that we have no place in the game that the world could get on quite a: well without us. Of course, it all de pends upon who says it! One migh say it and be no better than the per son about whom he is speaking; an other might misjudge us or do it ac cording to wrong standards. To judge hastily of amyone is unâ€" fair, but we all do it and we never quite value each other. To one who knows us we may be of preâ€"eminent value, and that brings out the bost in us. When you think of the value of a j son, what do you entertain in y mind? Do you think of his sal; position, family, upbringing, ho and car? A scoundrel may have these things, whilst one minus th is an asset to the nation and is e living to make men free. A man‘s worth does not alw: on the surface. HMow often w« it said: "You have to know } value bim." L. Curtis, of Horse Island, in the Disâ€" trict of St. Barbe, Newfoundland, On the bird was found a thin silver band inscribed with the words: "Inform Witherby High Holborn, London." On writing to Mossrs, H. F. & G. Witherby, 326 ‘High Holborn, London W.C.1, England, it was learned that this ring, No. 67,4238, was put on a young gittiwakegRissa tridactyla), on 28th June, 1923, on the Farne Islands. Northumberland, England, by one of Mr. Witherby‘s correspondents. The foot of the bird was examined and was pronounced to be that of a kittlâ€" wake, which agrees with Mr. Witherâ€" by‘s records. The record is extremely interesting, more especially as this bird is the first under Mr. Witherby‘s ringing schemeâ€"which has been in operation for 16 yearsâ€"repoited from this side of the Atlantic. "Yes?" he replied. "I‘ll bot it was a bargain‘ You have no idea of the value of money. I suppose you think you got something for nothing?" Her eyes gleamed for a moment. "Yes, dear," she said sweetly. "I got a present for you." Professions and possessions . selves never make men valu: is always what they are an: what they have which co men‘s worth. The most wonderful book in world declares that we are onl use as we "do unto others as we w they should do unto us." But we : always "be" before we do. Wort finst a matter of character and reputation. What we are, and what others,think us to be. The _ Canadian _ National Parks Branch, which keeps a record of all wild bird banding operations of in terest to Canada, has had brought to its attention an account of a bird loca‘â€" ly called a "ticklace," which was killâ€" ed on the 12th of August, 1924, by Mr. To thine own self be true, and follows as the night the day, T canst not"then be false to aay man. No wonder labor ts high, with so many good farm hands wwriting bad Bird Had Crossed Atlantic. 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