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Joe Mahony was down from El
Dorado Saturday on business.
J. R. C. Thompton of Wesson
was here Sunday visiting his sons.
H. N. Thornton has moved to
Portsmouth, O.. to make his future
home. _
Dr. J. G. Mitchell was down from
El Dorado Sunday visiting his
brother, E. L.
Bart Mahony was down from
El Dorado Thursday visiting his
brother, Dr. F. 0.
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J. G. Williams of Danville, L.a..
has accepted a posit'on with the
Union Saw Mill Co.
Mrs. Roy White was at Strong
Monday visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs J. M. Nevels.
Mrs. Donald Russell and children
of Camp No. 3 are visiting with he/
parents at Lawson.
w F. Vestal and wife of Strong
■ - g’i ;sts of M. L. Phillips
. family here Monday.
Mrs. A. G. Stephenson left Mon
day morning for Hammond, La.,
to visit for several weeks.
For Sale Cheap A second hand
•f( igerator in fair condition.
C. B. Wood.
J. E. Taunton of near Strong
visited his daughter. Mrs. W. R.
Dickerson, and family here Sunday.
The Portfolio Club last Friday
donated $7.10 to the flood suffer
, ers. that being the balance on hand
in their treasury.
Cashier C. H. Murphy, of thr
Citizens National bank, and Attor
ney J. H. Green of El Dorado were
Uojjj^^egs^jjsitiirs in Huttig last
Saturday.
The Huttig Public school will
close a very successful term on
Friday, May 10. with a closing ex
cercise by the pupils at the Union
church.__
We treat Piles successfully with
out knife or chloroform. Refer
ence and information on application.
Drs. McCall & Williams,
Lawson, Ark.
Charles Saxe, lumber inspector
for International Harverter Co., at
the plant of the Wisconsin Lumber,
Co. here, left Tuesday for Chicago
for 30 days.
Huttig Rebekah Lodge, No. 66,
celebrated their anniversary at the
lodge hall Wednesday night b}
confering the Rebekah degee upon
five new members.
Sweet Bay Grove No. 145.
Woodmen Circle, treated the mem
bers of Sweet Bay Camp No. 41 1.
W. 0. W.. to a supper last Satur
day night which was highly enjoyed
by all the members present.
At a meeting of the school board
held last Friday night Miss Carrie
Harrell was re-elected principal
and Misses Mary Pope and Mary
Holman assistants for the next
term of the Huttig public schools.
A resolution was passed at the
recent judicial district convention
at Camden, condemning in the fu
ture the negro vote and warning
all counties that in the future any
township voting negroes will not be
counted. It has been the practice
of voting negroes in Calhoun coun
ty and we are heartily in accord
with the resolution and trust that
it will be rigidly enforced.
Postmaster Edward Morgan of
New York says that the White Star
liner Titanic had on board 3,842
sacks of mail when she sank. As
the standard ocean rr>ail bag holds
about 2.000 letters, it is estimated
that in all about 7*000.000 pieces
I of mail matter have been lost.
About 200 bags contained reg
istered matter and these sacks
contained on an average about 8.
000 letters each.
L. T. Hill, who is employed with
the government at lock and dam
No. 6 in the Ouachita river east of
Here, and Miss Ellen Jackson,
daughter of . Mr. and Mrs. Doc
Jackson of Juno, were united in
marriage at the home of the bride's
parents last Sunday morning and
will go to housekeeDing at Felsen
thal at once. The News joins
their many friends in extending
congratulations and wishing them
a happy and prosperous life.
Over 15.000 signatures have
b°en filled with the secretary of
state, considerally more than the
number necessary to initiate the
state-wide prohibition bill. But
the workers are not stopping with
enough. Supt. Barrett has several
thousand more names to file, and
more are being received almost
every day by the secretary of state
direct. There are still about 2.
000 petitions in circulation in va
rious parts of the state and most of
there will be returned with signers.
It is now confidently believed that
the number will reach a total of
os nnn
The Womans' Missionary Union
met in the parlor of the church
Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock
with ten members and one visitoi
present and one new member war
received. Meeting was opened by
singing Higher Ground and The
Way of the Cross Leads Home,
and a chain of prayer lead by Mrs.
Howard and closed by Mrs. Town
send. Our lesson was read from
the 1stand 2nd books of Chron
icles. Various business subjects
were discussed. We were well
pleased with our candy sale from
which we realized $18.95, which
will be used to buy fans for the
church. Mrs. Howard will enter
tain the members of the society
next Tuesday afternoon from 3 to
5 o'clock. All members are cor
dially invited to attend. Meeting
-vas closed by all members repeat
ing the Lord's Prayer in concert.
Adjourned Term of Circuit Court.
There will be an adjourned term
of the Union Circuit court held at
El Dorado Tuesday. May 28. for
the purpose of trying the following
cases which could not be reached
at the regular spring term:
State vs. Benzie Hinson, murder
in the first degree.
State vs. John Wysinger, grand
larceny.
State vs. Ellis Rogers, assault
with intent to rape.
Agnes Clower vs. St. L. 1. M. &.
So. Ry. Co.
.AINCOW is A BACK NUMBER
t Is Put Out of the Running by the
Varied Coloring in Men’s
Socks.
"The rainbow isn t in it now with
the socks worn by men," said, be
■ ween stations, an elevated railroad
■,uard t'b his neighbor on the platform,
snd he continued:
“Just glance in there, will you, and
'et your eye range along at the men’s
feet. Purple, green, yellow, blue, red,
gray, pink and black socks, and socks
of one color with spots of another and
socks with stripes in 'em and cross
bars and socks of various colors mix
ed, and I'll bet with all those colors
that knock heck out of the rainbow
you see that one pair there with no
color in ’em plainest of all? Sure, it's
that pair of white socks, the only
pair in the car: and you might 'rav
el here day after day and not see an
other pair.
“They tell me. and I can just re
member a little of it myself, that
there was a time when men didn't
wear anything but white socks. White
socks, and maybe some gray, and then
they came to black, but wlio’d have
thought they’d ever come to this? I
tell you—" and he broke off to yell:
“Umpty-ump stree—t! Uinpty-ump
stree—t!”
1‘The rainbow’s a back number
now.” he added.
SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I—The story opens with a
■cream from Dorothy Marche, a charrn
! ‘Hg debutume. in the opera box of the
wealthy widow, Mrs. ?>oris M ssioner, at
the Metropolitan Opera House in New
York City. It is occasioned by Mrs. Mis
sioner’s diamond necklace breaking and
scattering the string of rare and costly
gems all over the floor. Curtis Griswold
and Bruxton Sands, two society men.
both of whom love Mrs Missioner. gather
up some of the diamonds, but the gem
of the collection, the celebrated Mahar
anee, is missing. Griswold steps on the
apparent missing diamond and it crushes
under his heel, a Hindoo comes from an
adjoining box. and picking up a flake of
the crushed gem pronounces it a fraud,
not ^the genuine Maharanee, but—paste.
CHAPTER II The entire party proceed
'O the elegant mansion of Mrs. Missioner
wh< re she takes them to a room having
a saf • containing other diamonds. She
afterwards sends for a Mr. Rnseome, an
expert, who pronounces the stone-s al)
copies, substitutions, of the original gerns
CHAPTER III Bruxton Sands tele
phones police headquarters and two d«
tectives, Donne’ly and Carson, arrive on
the scene. They examine the safe and
decide that tlie theft of the original dia
| monds was accomplished by some one in
i the house. The servants are questioned,
without result. Then they learn that
Miss Elinor Holcomb, the confidential
j companion of Mrs. Missioner, has a dupli
••ate key to the safe and they send foi
h#r.
CHAPTER IV—The detectives incline to
the belief that Miss Holcomb is involved
in the robbery. They search her room
and in a cabinet, wrapped in tissue pi
per. they find one of the original dia
monds. Mis. Missioner protests that
Elinur is guiltless, but the delicate girl
is marched off to prison.
CHAPTER V* Meantime, in an up town
mansion, the Hindoo of the theater episode
who is known as the Swaini, and a Hindoo
prince, Kananda, discuss the arrest. They
are in the United States to recover the
Maharanee, which is a sacred relic of
India, and are puzzled at the discovery
of the imitation.
CHAPrI ER VI—Detective Britz, an ex
pert of the police force, now takes up the
l lnterviews Elinor who is pros
i trated by the cloud resting on her. The
| detective evidently believes the girl lnno
CHAPTER VII—Dr. Lawrence Fitch.
tne narve of Blinor, visits her in prison.
I? . 's re,na-nded for trial on suspicion of
[ being the thief. Britz talks encouragingly
i to Fitch ami asks his co-opi-ration in
running down the real criminal.
< HAPTER VIII—The detective advises
that F:iinor does not seek bail until they
have located tlie real culprit. He makes
a close investigation of affairs at tht i
home of Mrs. Missloner.
CHAPTER IX—Blitz learns that Mrs
Missioner while visiting Paris had tin
diamonds with her. He rabies the polle.
there and they ascertain that the dupli
cates were made from drawings of the
original stones. The person ordering the
substitutes gave the name of Elinor Hol
comb.
CHAPTER X—Tlie detective has an In
tervlew with Miss Marche. He learns
who of Elinor's friends ran draw He
clumsily draws a picture of the safe
Griswold offers to assist him, showing
Bkill as an artist. Eater as Ihe detective
is walking through Central Park he is
suddently seized and thrown into a elosed
automobile.
CHAPTER XI—A wild ride ensues and
Britz finds he has been made captive by
three Hindoos. He endeavors to escape
but Is bound and drugged.
CHAPTER XII—His captors imprison
Britz in a deserted house. He flnallv
manages to get free from his bonds, es
capes and reports at headquarters now
onvlm-ed that the Hindoos are materially
Interested in the case.
CHAPTER XIII- Pretending to he a
newspaper reporter. Britz Interviews the
Swam! as to the rare diamonds of India
After he leaves the Swaml Informs
Prince Kananda that he haj* penetrated
(he disguise of the detective.
CHAPTER XIV—Mrs. Missioner visit
Elinor in prison but is dissuaded fron.
balling her out until her innocence Is
proven. Rritz learns of an insane dia
mond expert on Ward's Island and asks
Fitch to go with him and Interview the
man.
CHAPTER XV-The Insane diamond ex
pert tells enough to lead the detective tc
helleve that either Griswold or Sands em
ployed him to make counterfeits of the 1
Missioner gems.
CHAPTER XVI—Griswold, interviewed
by Britz. intimates that Sands is on tile
verge of failure. He evidently wishes the
detective to helleve that his rival In love
may have something to do with the dla
tnond robbery.
CHAPTER XVII—Two Hindoos burglar
ize Ihe home of Sands, evidently thtnkine
that he may have the Maharanee dia
mond Britz capiures them and on one
discovers a note addressed to "Curtis"
and signed 'Mlllicent" which they have
found somewhere In their wandering
search for the gems.
CHAPTER XVITI The Sw-omi visits
Mrs Missioner and tries to solve the tin s
terv of the diamonds. Eater at his
own house he directs his Hindoo allies to
continue their search for tlie nivsterinus
ly missing gem.
1 H \PTE11 XIV Britz locates a woman
named Mlllicent ’'claim he He learns
that secretly she Is affianced to Curtis
Griswold.
"Death, when It rentes to myself,
Is the least of my concerns. You may
strike when you will. Your Highness.
I am a master of the faith, but, none
the less, a servant of the throne. My
Hie belongs to your royal father to do
with It as he pleases. And since you
I tell me that you are the long arm of
I the Maharajah, It Is at your disposal,
I too.”
rus taimur.-a irunuuou
of his own Oriental origin. The ve
hemence he had acquired in western
lands slipped from him like a loosened
robe. In an Instant, under his out
ward fronting of an Rnglish or Amer
ican man about town, tie repossessed
the composure of hi« race.
"Sorry.” be said with a little forced
laugh. "Hat her bad. you know, to
take things to heart that way, but
this really is a serious proposition,
and we mustn't fall down on it. As
we are so near success, I will tell
you It Is a question not only of piety,
but of politics. There Is a dash of
mild statecraft In It. The Maharajah
has a pretty well-rooted Idea that the
permanence of his reign depends on
restoring the diamond to the Temple."
The sage looked at him interroga
tively.
"Funny, I know,” continued Nandy,
“but, alter all. It Is the twentieth
century, and the P. and 0. boats take
| some pretty restless people to India.
THOte busy bodies have stirred uy a
good de.\l of discontent in otir part ot
the world, and my father is an ob
servant man ”
"I had no thought of giving up the
quest." the Swami explained. "All
I wished to do was to move more de
liberately. I believe we can recover j
the stone without great violence, and
I incline to these YVeste uer's views
far enough to think it wou.d I e t etter
for our religion, lor your fall and
for the brethren—to say nothing of
ourselves—if we could do so Th*
|
"I Had No Thought of Giving Up tha
Quest.
easiest war sotreMm*? really 1* th*
best.”
"I know nil that." Insisted the
Prince, "hut we have not the time
This hunt Is drawing close to a hot
finish. You forget thtat wo have the
cleverest detective in New York one
of the cleverest In the world—
to heat. If he got the diamond, he
would not recognize our c'aitn to It
for an instant. He'd turn it over to j
Mrs. Mlssloner, and we would not ■
stand the ghost of a chance in any
court of law This is a case whore
we must help ourselves to our own
Besides, there Is Griswold. How do
we know he Is not getting ready to
flee w ith the jewels tonigte ? They j
may be in his possession, or he may ■
have given them to the woman who
signs herself Milllcent.”
The Prince paused, framed h1s fin
gers tip to tip, and looked between
them at the note as if peering into a
crystal gazer’s globe.
“I am convinced the woman has the
necklace.” he went on. “Our men
have had time to search Griswold's
apartment from end to end. and the
other men's, too. If they found the
jewels in either place, we w'ouid know
it by now. Thp whole question pre
sents Itself c'earlv enough to my
mind The old French proverb holds j
good, rherrhez la femme."
The Swami arose. As he did so. All 1
re-entered the room with more i
salaams, and extended toward his j
master a silver tray on which lay a :
tiny scroll, written In minute tuero
glyphs of the Orient. The scholar \
broke the seal and scanned the paper j
swiftly. A slight exclamation be
trayed that the information contained
in the little scroll broke through even ■
Ills magnificent reserve. His hand j
trembled a little as he handed the ‘
paper to the Prince. A hurried read
ing sufficed to destroy all of that
young man's recently gained calm. He
fairly hurled himself into a sealskin
coat, and thrust his head into an
opera hat.
“QuickI” he said, ‘we have not a mo
ment to lose!”
it would have b< en well for Blitz If
the young photographer had acquaint
ed him promptly with the fact of the
disappearance of the Miilicent note.
The detective's acute intelligence
would have argued from that inci<tent
the need of even greater haste than he
was making in pushing his pursuit of
the Missioner diamond to a close. Bnt
Burlen, conscience-stricken though h»'
was. was loath to send the Information
to the Headquarters man urtfil he con'd !
have time to make further and more ,
exhaustive search of his shnp. as well j
as of the courtyard in the rear of the '
building on which its windows ?avp It
was dark in the court, and the Imper
feet light of his candle made his
search so slow that by the time he
was sure the note was gone beyond
possibility of its recovery, it. was too
late for him to find Detective Rritr at
Police Headquarters. When his me? j
senger returned with the remrt that
the Central Office man had left his
room, and that no one in the Mu'hcrry
street building knew where to find him,
Burlen became so alarmed that he
hastened to Headquarters to try to
take up the hunt for Britz from that
point. He was as unsuccessful aj; his
emissary, and he spent many anjious
hours in the waiting room hoping for
the detective's return. The photo en
graver tried to console himself with
the thought that the negative had born
spared, and he therefore had been able
to send to Britz's office the hundred
facsimiles of the "Curtts dear" niisilve
his customer had ordered. But it was
poor consolation when he recalled the
earnestness with which the detect He
had enjoined upon him not to le4 the1
original leave his hands. Burlen wan
an exceedingly uncomfortable youn§
man during: aft the time he awaited
the sleuth’s return. His discomfort did
not decrease as the hours dragged by.
But it would have been well for
Britz to have that knowledge in re
gard to the strange vanishment of the
Griswold note, it would have been bet
ter for Curtis Griswold If Dorothy
March had not become conscience
stricken in respect of him that same
evening For little Miss March, being
of Puritan stock, as soon as she per
suaded herself that she might have
made trouble for Mrs Misstoner’s ad
mlrer by talking too freely to the
bland man from Mulberry street in
the cozy corner of the KVirrest theater
resolved to repair the mischief as ran
Idly as possible. She. therefore, sen:
a little note to the clubman, asking
that he make it a point to see her In
the course of the evening: and in the
note she gave him a list of the several
functions she intended to take In
1 he ball Mrs. Missioner attended, and
at which Griswold scored what he re
garded as a distinct gain In parading
the wealthy widow before many of
their acquaintances as a receptive re
cipient of his attentions, was only one
of the affairs on Dorothy's list. Gris
wold received the note too late to
come up with Miss March before the
ball, so he decided to meet her at a
later dance. That decision upset one
of his plans—the most important he
had formed tn many months, although
lie did not know Its Importance at the
time. It had been his intention to gc
'rom the Fifth Avenue ballroom to the
Hotel Renaissance, and if he had not
received the note from Miss March, he
could haw done so even though he
might have escorted Mrs. Missions to
er home and passed a short time with
h»r in the interval.
Dorothy's request flattered the cluh
•ean's vanity so greatly, however that
ie did not hesitate tn defer his visit
n the Renaissance |n order to kec.)
Hue interesting appointment the debu
'ante, with more conscience than dis
•retinn. made for him. The conse
quence was that bv the time Gri ;
wold's Interview with little Dorothy
March was at an end. the hours ha I
vasspit beyond a point to which even
'is Ingenuity couM stretch rnnven
onal'ty far enough to make It practl
cable for him to see Mrs Delvoche
that night.
when Griswold found hPr S-he was so
impatient in adjust the harm she felt
she had done hint that she saw him
from her partner's shoulder before he
picked her out from a srore of other
comely young women on the floor.
Miss March instantly wearied of the
waltz to the dismay of the youth
whose arm encircled her. anil who
rather fancied himself as a dancer.
She lost no rime In having herself es
corted to a small conservatory, where
she dismissed her partner with scant
ceremony, and where, a few moments
afterward, she was joined by Gris
wold
Even then the dehutante's unwitting
tangling of the threads of Griswold'f
fate might not have had such influence
upon his future If she had approached
her subject with directness. Had she
told Griswold at once what she had
said to the detective concerning his
skill as a draughtsman, the clubman’s
suspicions would have been aroused,
and he might have taken steps Thai
would have had a marked effect upon
the development of the great Misston
er mystery. But Dorothy was too flut
tered. too prettily remorseful, to go
straight to the heart of the subject,
and In her innocent endeavor to post
Griswold in respect of her chat with
Britz without making him think site
was a gossiping little busybody, she
protracted Iter interview with the club
man through so many dances that
when It endptl Griswold persuaded him
self the morning would he aniplp time
to do that which he felt must be done
to avert the probable consequences of
Dorothy's glrtish frankness His van
ity again played its part. 'no. for when
he had thanked little Miss March for
what he pleased to consider her inter
est In him. and when Dorothy, having
signally failed to impress upon him the
impersonal nature of her conscience
stroke, found herself (n a further flut
ter of bewilderment. Curtis Griswold
proceeded to parane her up and down
the darning floor as effectively as he
had shown off the rich and beautiful
widow in the larger ballroom a little
fart tier up the avenue Griswold
prided himself on his versatility. He
argued that It was as easy for him.
as he would have expressed it to his
club Intimates, "to put a filly through
her paces" as it had been to advertise
the fact before ihe whole ballroom
that Doris Mlssloner. the fastidious
beauty and worshiped possessor of
many millions, apparently was on the
point of accepting him as her second
matrimonial venture.
/■» • i i m II -11 i i ' 11 I HU i .1 It! lnni'ni *
Ions stay at the dance. In his ride with
Dorothy to her home In an automobile
otherwise occupied only h.v a satisfac
torily self centered chaperon; and In
his waste of further time at one of his
eliths aft'-r parting with Miss March
and hep dnepna a waste of hours anv
one of which might have hern made as
useful to him as a year of ordinary
time He was further disposed to pro
crastinate In this crucial moment hy
the success of the Headquarters man
in throwing all suspected persons off
their guard by keeping Elinor Hol
comb In the Tombs. Through all his
work on the Mlssloner ease. Brit7 had
been beset with requests from Mrs.
Missloner, Sands and other friends of
the widow’s secretary, to permit them
to give hail for her. Sands and Mrs.
Mlssloner were particularly insistent
in their desire to see Elinor at liberty.
Fitch, though normally his wish to see
Ills fiancee free must have been
stronger than that of anyone else, was
partly reconciled to her protracted Im
prisonment bv the detective’s frequent
assurance of her ultimate vindication.
Moreover, the doctor, In consequence
of his work on the case with Brltz, had
direct knowledge of the importance
that the suspicions of others should
not be alarmed. He had been with the
detective when the card of Bruxton
Sands was discovered In the posses
ion of the old curiosity shop man; he
knew of the note addressed to "Curtis
dear' and signed "Mllllcent,” and also
of the desperate attempts made by the
Hindoos to find the diamonds. So Pitch
did not bother the sleuth as much as
did other friends of Kiinor's, and it
was well; for Britz several times was
at his wits' ends to dissuade Mrs. Mis
sioner and Sands from going to the
District Attorney and offering a heavy
security for Miss Holcombs appear
ance In the trial court. However,
Brltz had held them off. and it fol
lowed lhat Griswold nursed the delu
sion that Elinor and Fitch and Sands
were suspected so strongly by the
Central Office men that no search for
evidence against anybody else was in
progress. Donnelly and Carson also
had fostered that misconception on the
clubman’s part by their unabated ac
tivity in hunting proofs of the girl sec
retary's guilt. Those worthies spent
every day of their work on the case
In tracing Elinor’s past, and In efforts
to couple Fitch with her suspicious
theft of the jewels. Furthermore, be
ing the sort of men who would rather
win credit for detective work than do
anything quietly in the way of real
detection of crime or criminals, they
could not refrain from expressing their
belief in Elinor’s dishonesty at every
turn. They talked liberally to the sea
soned reporters In the newspaper
rookeries opposite Police Headquar
ters. to the newspaper men In the po
lice stations, and the magistrates’
courts, and to the several star repor
ters of the more enterprising papers
who had been assigned especially on
the case. Every word they uttered
hinged on their evidence In the return
of a verdict against Miss Holcomb,
and, with the exception of two or three
unusually sapient newspaper m»u who
discounted the opinions of Donnelly
and Carson because they knew Brltz
was doing the real work and Pecans#
Brltz bad as vet made no rev°'atlons,
the reporters quoted them at great
lenirth
Therefore, practically a'l the New
York papers published series 1n which
Fltnor Holcomb was triad. convicted,
and sentenced In advance of her ar
raignment for the theft of the Mission
er necklace. Over-enterprising Snndav
papers wept so far rh tn puhltsh pate
stories, purporting to be psychological
studies of the mental bent that made
the trusted secretary of a multimil
licnalre society woman, with a com
fortable career in expectation, throw
all chances to the winds by yielding
to a momentary feminine impulse to
possess herself of glittering baubles.
Those psychological studies were In
teresting to the multitude, and might
have been worth publishing had they
been based on either psytbonlgv or
truth. They had their effect on Gris
wold. though, and a conswpience of
that fact was that the clubman's rnfnd
was at ease so far as the possibility
that, he would be connected with the
disappearance of the gems was con
cerned.
So Grlswo'd did not go to the
Renaissance that nmhi, nor did lie dis
turb Mrs. Helaroche with a telephone
message although an internment stood
on a convenient desk In her houdnir.
and an extension wire connected tt
with a duplicate device that rested
on a little Russian table beside her
lied it would have been the work
of a moment for Griswold tn get into
'onversatlonal louch with Mrs. Dela
roehe. and he would have bad tilt ex
'’use of replying to her urgent and
somewhat petulant note—if h« had
received It: unfortunately for him, he
never had seen that missive. Kanafl
da's guess in regard to the activity of
his followers. Chunda and Gaxim. was
accurate, for these adroit Orientals
had stolen the missing note from Gris
wold's apartment before It came un
der the observation of Curtis dear.”
to whom it was addressed. Altogeih
er. once more, as he would have ex
pressed It, things were not ' hreaklng"
for the suave secretary of the Irrnptols
i Trust Company.
CHAPTER XXI.
Stop. Thief!
Mlllleent lteiaroche slept soundly.
Hers was the type of heautv that re
tains Its freshness through Indulgence
in creature comforts. Not all her
fondness for amusement could lead
her to rob herself for many nights of
the rppose she Instinctively knew was
essential tn the preservation of her
| charms She was the sort of woman,
past thirty, who retains a false youth
sometimes more effective than the tin
maturity which Is measured bv the
calendar Hpr complexion was a*
delicate as a debutante's. Tier eves
were brighter than those of the a vet
age athletic young woman, and no
silver thread shot the dusk of h»r
luxuriant hair. All this was due large
ly, she was convinced, to her llfe
i long habit of sleeping early and
cflen. and of resolutely refusing tp
let her slumber he disturbed by any
such napless things as dreams, which.
• Her all. are mere ghosts of thought
and too much thinking was not one
of her foibles.
(To Be Continued Next wuk.i
J You will find on sale at the
Union Saw Mill company store,
the Union hotel and Bell's cream
parlor four different local post card
views in colors. If these sell well
; the publisher expects to add sev
| eral other views to the list. 7 hey
! will be sold a two foi five cents.