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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1913. 0 C^JNDOCTtP ta MISS LIZZIE O. THQMAc> "©E. M is. eej&Ej. December 14, 1913. Golden Text: Be sure your «ln will find you out. Numbers 32;23. THE EVENING TEN STORY DOLLARS .(Copyright, 1913. by W. Werner.) Last week was one that offered the visitor, .as well as resident of Atlanta, almost anything: lie, or she, wanted to se«* And it was hard to decide wheth er to devote a day to each thine or try to crowd as much as possible into one day and continue to hold on to the usual routine the other days. 1 phoned to The Semi-Weekly Journal office that I would spend Tuesday • at the poultry show and 1 hoped that 1 would meet some of The Journal readers there. But if any did go that day 1 failed to meet them. The display was excellent, and it seemed such a pity to me that thers were not hundreds of people wo live near enough to come in and spend the day and take in such an exhibit. Ten cents is all that the admission ever costs one and it matters not what sort of chicken, turkey on duck you arc raising there is a decided advantage in knowing whether it’s worth whie or not. Just now eggs are 50 cents a dozen and the scrubs you have fed all summer are not yet finding the time to leave off eating and begin laying. Many of these fine hens went right on laying In their little two by three pens. And jt’s a good thing to see the owners of such fine birds and get ideas on how they manage their poultry and eggs. One big dealer told me that half the farm ers’ wives who sent eggs to town put in clean and soiled, fresh and stale and the mixture kept them from getting a good price for the good ones. Had she used the soiled looking ones, and gath ered the eggs daily, those sent to mar ket would have commanded more. I saw Quality King, the $1,001) Orp ington. and ‘you can't tell me that all chickens look alike. His were as pretty as the feathers one buys in the hat shops. The' were white, fluffy and as fine as silk. “But looks don’t, count,” you say? \ Not entirely, but when looks, size and qualitv are combined value rises. Catch me putting $5 into a chicken, much less $1,000.” was said with the toss of the head by one woman.” Well, I’ll venture to say that Qual ity King’s pullets have paid for him already, to say nothing of his sons. 1 saw some, of those pullets and was told that the eggs from the eight hens that will 'be in the pen with him, when he returns home will sell for $2 each. That’s a nice little income isn’t it? My hens laid eighty eggs, each from Janu ary to July, and y.ou can see what they paid at . an average of .3 cents each as table eggs. There are some fine pouh try plantij in Georgia T am glad to say, seme that brought back all sorts of prizes from ..New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Tennessee. So there is not much us,e in looking afar off when you get ready to try some fine stock. And I believe that eggs and young chicks bought in the state will grow off better. I have eleven Reds that are a month old that are beauties. There were only eleven hatched and they are now comparatively out of danger though the old hen looks after them as carefully now as she did the day they were hatched. They came from a $5 setting of eggs ' and I am entirely satisfied with them. -■ ■ ♦ The second place- I visited this week was the child welfare exhibit. Not that it took a lower place in my thoughts, 4 but it was not ready for me as soon as the chickens were. Ten cent's was also the price of ad mission ‘there and its worth cannot be put in dollars and cents. The first room was devoted to baby’s earliest days. There was a plea for the child’s birth to be registered. Did you ever think about it? Ours is the § only civilized country that does not register births. Your fine horse, dog, hog or cow most probably has a pedigree, but how about your son or -daughter’s registry? There would be property- of value coming to many of. .us, probably, if we had the power to go. to the registry office and could prove ourselves the descendants of families that came to this country a hundred years ago and ceased to keep in touch with their kindred. Children would be protected in the child labor fights if they could show their certificates, and in the event of compulsory education they could claim their rights for the same reason. There was a star in one corner of the room that paled and shone at short in tervals, and under It was the statement that a baby died just as often as that star paled. That star was fascinating, no matter where I was it . seemed to me that just in front of me was the star that brightened and paled, brightened and paled, and told of the death of the ittle babies. There was another pic- .ure that taught a lesson every mother aught to know. The enemies of baby icod, I can't begin to name them here, •>iit the pitiful string of little children going: to their death from filth, impure milk, the wrong sort of food, bad air, neglect, starvation, impure water and the various diseases they bring on, was appalling. There were other pictures, too, and a trained nurse show frig how to dress a baby, what sort of cl^bes, bed ding and food to use, the sanitary and insanitary equipment for preparing milk and feeding a. baby. They also had devices for keeping baby out of mischief and entertained while its mother was employed. There were rooms given over to the kindergarten, to the Home for the Friendless and Children’s Home society. There was a splendid display of books for just such needs, sont by Carnegie library. The National Playground association had pictures of the boy on the streets and the same boy given a place to play, ru- la! school grounds and 'the recreations suitable, and how to change a “gang” ct little ruffians into something worth while. T am sorry that the display is not permanent, then visitors to Atlanta, parents and teachers, could get help from it. Some of these days maybe there will be such a place in this big city. Twice I .went to see the exhibit and was sorry that 1 could not devote a day to each section. I looked over the crowds that thronged it and failed to sec many young mothers. There were plenty of women whose children are in school, and the teachers had throngs of girls there, high school girls learning hygiene and home treatment and pre ventives. There were books and charts on consumption, typhoid fever, hook worm and measles. These should be in every home and, as long as the supply given me lasts, I will be pleased to send them to all who send me a two-cent stamp for postage. State plainly which disease and write your address care fully. 1 haven’t mentioned the canning clubs p.or corn show. Space forbids. Suf fice it to say that they are both a credit to the state. The. members'have some thing to show for time that so many of their companions wasted, and have formed habits, learned methods and made a success that the years ahead will magnify. We have a variety of good letters this week and I hope the questions this mother asl>s will be answered. - Faithfully yours, LIZZIE; O. THOMAS. HOW WE COOKED THE ’POSSUM Dear Miss Thomas: 1 hare read so many nice letters today that the Household wrote on Thanksgiving (hat I want to write you all about one thing 1 had for Thanksgiving dinner. Some time ago daddy caught a ’possum. He said. “I want to fatten him for Thanksgiving.” So lie penned him and’ gave him scraps from the table and persimmons until be was really fat. We called In an old colored man to do the butchering, and it was well done. He put him in salt water, said that was the way to prepare them. As 1 bad never cooked nor seen one cooked, I called In one of my neigh bors to assist in the undertaking. We par boiled him, then gave him a good coat of pep per and baked him a light brown. Now, this, in connection with the other good things we gathered off of the old farm, afforded us an enjoyable Thanksgiving dinner. I do tbink it was noble of the ruler or our nation to set apart such a day. While we know there arc many who do not observe it as Intended. Some do, and surely these will cause others to stop and think of (he blessing they are receiving daily that they had never thought of. Then they can’t help but thank God for His many blessings. As a nation we ought to be thankful that we arc in peace with each other, and with other countries; have plenty of food and raiment and to spare. It Is awful that Mexico can’t say this. If she could only see hefself as others see. her wrongs, surely war would cease. I’ve heard and read so much of war until 1 fully realize It is a terrible thing. Often 1 feel despondent and wish for things I have not; but when I begin to think of the many good things I am surrounded with it causes me to know that I should be more con tent. As it Is not all of life to live nor all of death to die, we should not study too much of worldly things. I enjoy very much reading the letters of the Household and Mrs. FeltoD. She gives such, good advice to young girls that it makes me dearly love to read her writing. If I conld write letters like 1 read it would be a pleasure to me to write oftener. Well, Christmas will soon be here again. I "ib close by wishing Miss Thomas and our Household a merrv Christmas. SARAH. SOME SERIOUS QUESTIONS. Dear' Household: By referring to The Semi- Weekly Journal of March you will find a let ter from our Texas brother entitled “Is (he Young Man Safe?” At this date I wish .to congratulate him upon his sane, sound advice to us as parents and to the boys at large for the lesson he has clearly explained to us. Now a word to the mothers. Can you in all your ways acknowledge Jesus Christ as your Savior and at the same time allow your girls to accompany just any young man to parties aim entertainments? Can you allow your jjirls to be set up as* a snare for the agencies or the evil one to be lempted of the world, *the flesh and the devil? Can you allow all of the curves of style and fashion to decoy your young girls’ minds away from the important subject that we have? Can we follow Jesus and allow Our dear ones to go in paths that lead to misery and woe? Mothers! allow your girls to grow up In the very clasp of dancing halls and all Ports of amusemnts, allow them the actress style of dress and hats, ft matters not how much it may disfigure the wearer, just so it “style.” I am sorry to say it but I am afraid that the little word style is a moral stumbling block to many a mother. Can you allow such, mothers? and say at the same- time that the Joshua and the people of Israel were flushed with wivtory after the capture of Jericho, and it came vqry nearly proving: fatal to them, as in many oth er instances. The City of Ai was before them; it obstructed their march, and it had tp be captured before they could advance, because it guarded one of the passes through the mountains to west ern Palestine. Like a wise general, Joshua sent spies to see what fortifications the city had, and how best to plan his attack, young lady Is safe? God bless the girls of our land and country. May they organize against any young man’s company that may have the taint of strong drink upon his lips, shake your head when he says let’s take an evening ride. Mothers, carry your girls to clean places of amusement, go yourself to the parties they go to and purify them of all that’s debasing. Also go to cburch. to Sunday school and keep in close touch wltb them; then our boys will have to come truly up to the scratch. Staod firm, ask yourself the one important question, “Is the girl safe?” Are we all going to be ready when we have finished our jour ney here on earth? In all thy ways acknowl edge him .md he shall direct thy paths. May God bless our Household. Sincerely. HOMER MASON. Gilmer, Tex. AN OLD FAVORITE RETURNS. Dear Household: I have beeu reading Our Household letters and have decided to write once more, and tell you sisters aod Miss Thomas about my flowers. I have been putting some stale 'manure around them to help them to stand the cold weather. 1 have not very many, but they have done so well this year. I don’t have good luck rotting them, they often rot. This spring after I had put in fresh dirt I put some snuff around them, and in a few weeks I put some more, aud they have bloomed all th summer, and are still blooming. I have some geraniums and five different cactus, there is only one of the cactus old enough to bloom, as I hhear that it usually takes (hern three years to bloom. One of them a pink one. ! bloomed in May, and is now blooming again now, and this is the 21 of No vember. I hope some of the "flower cranks” will come on and tell me haw to root geraniums without rotting. Write what kind you have, it maybe we -sisters could exchange cuttings. I have four different kinds of ferns and two kinds of be gonias, the maple and the rank. I have no pit. but keep my flowers on a table by a soutn win dow in the living room. They stay green and bloom some, through the winter, and are so pretty. The hardy kinds, such as hydrangea and honeysuckle I keep iu the hall and dining room. 1 think a school teacher has a good chance to do a lit of good. They are with so many dif ferent children, and the unmarried woman put her mind to her teaching, but the poor, harrassed mother, has so much to do that they really have not much mind to put anywhere. They have so many things to do they harrdly know what is right or wrong. They want to do right, but with a half a dozen children calling on her, one for one thing and another calling for something else, and If she has also a cross man to try to please, what can she know or dare to decide? If the mother of a big family had really to get on her knees every time she prayed, I fear she and her God would never get very well ac quainted. As to Mrs. Wiggins, I guess she acted about right. Her husband ought to have to do all of his work for the rest of his life, and the children turned over to somebody else. I pltty the poor stepmothers, they genrally have their hearts full aud their hands full, too,, even when they have good husbands. T hope all the writers will get their pens and write us a letter aDd mare the Household page what it used to be. With love to all, HEN RIETTA. Toccoa. Ga. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE QUESTION. Dear Miss Thomas: It must be true that we never miss the sunshine till the shadows come. And the shadows were pretty close and thick when Mrs. Wiggins left off teaching other peo ple’s children to assume the care of a home. That widower certainly met her when she felt about liked Evelyn Dan did the day she wrote her honest confession. 1 am forced to conclude that it was strictly a business with one and the vanity of the other was touched instead of her usual good judgment. Judging from the letter, Mrs. -Wiggins is a woman of culture anil was raised in a refined atmos phere. (but cynical and hardened by disap pointment). I believe that she went out of that sphere into a lower one, with the almost in evitable result, incompatibility of temperament. Had she married for companionship instead of for a home, he of her own sphere, would have given her a palace, a home, one that she could have made a type of heavenly bliss. As -it was, she went out of the surroundings in wlileb she was reared and she paid the price, and in her misguided judgment puts us all In the same class. Forgetting that the “potter has power over the clay.” etc. 1 atn free to admit that we are all made of clay, but he uses dif ferent grades. Evidently she got a poor grade. In conclusion, it is not with cynical indiffer ence, but with unfeigned regret that I t read the letters of disappointed old maid school teachers. They have only themselves to blame. If they would use judgment .and discretion they need have no hesitancy In taking up tbe work where the other women left off. Marry your social and intellectual equal, be a mother instead of a boss of his children, a companion instead of a drudge for him, and when cruel time puts wrinkles on your cheeks they will just be prettv dimples to him. ONE OF THE BOYS. WHO WILL ANSWER THIS { Dear Miss Thomas: I have for some time been an interested reader of our Household. I feel that it would be a great help to me aud all young mothers who read this page if the older mothers and those who have had ex perience with small children would give us some advice on training children. I am the mother of three small children and need all the good advice I can get. My daily prayer and greatest desire is that I may raise my children to be useful Christians. I will ask a few questious: How should a one-year-old child be taught to obey? 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They will have no trouble taking it, for the city is small and the people are very few.” No doubt, the men whom Joshua had select^! for this errand were trusted warriors; so without hesitation he ac cepted their statement of the case, but so as to be on the safe side, took 3,000 men and sent them attack the city. Much to their surprise, and his, they were utterly routed. The inhabitants of Ai resisted their attack, took the of fensive, and chased them from the gate of the city down to the quarries. Thirty- six of the Israelites were slain before they could get beyond the pursuit of their enemies. JOSHUAS PRAYER. The returning Israelites came like a bomb into the camp. Nobody was more surprised than Joshua, and he was more than surprised; for he was deeply griev ed; The news of the defeat spread through the camp like wild-fire, and in stead of arousing the people to renew the attack with greater vigor, it had just the opposite effect. They were ter rified. The Biblical expression is, very expressive. “The heart of the people melted and became as water.” Instead of being solid and firm like ice, they were ar yielding as water is to pressure from any direction. This was most disas trous as far as any further campaign ing was concerned. No one realized this more fully than did Joshua. He had had years of mil itary experience. No one knew better than the weakened effect of discour agement. He contemplated the situa tion. Here they were bottled up, so to speak. They were In the Plain of Jeri cho, but behind them was the River Jor don, and in front of them were the mountains, the only pass through which being guarded by the city which had defeated his invading army. But worse than all, his army was wholly discour aged and afraid. He knew that the news of this defeat would spread to other places in Canaan, and that it would not be long before the people from the hills and mountains, and passes, and plains, would be surrounding him, and the camp; and that no man, woman, or child would live to tell the tale. For discouraged as his army was, they would riot be able to resist any attack that was made upon them. Joshua and the elders of Israel, there fore, rent their clothes, put ashes on their head, and, after the Oriental man ner, mourned all day long in greatest distress. Then Joshua prayed. His prayer was one of the most curious mixtures of complaint against God, and desire for self-presejr^ation, fear, and a desire for the glory of God. that one can imagine. It was mostly selfishness. "Why did you bring us across this Jordon?” he said. "Oh! that we had stayed on the other side! What shall I say when the people turn their backs? The Amorites will surround us and wipe our names off the 4arth, and then what will become*of your name?” Joshua seems to have lost sight of God en tirely. When we read that prayer, we can easily see why it was necessary for God to urge him so many times, as He did when He appointed him to the leadership of Israel, to be strong and of a good courage; to be brave, and very courageous;, fear not, be of a good cour age. God knew Joshua;, He knew just where his weak points were. He knew that Joshua needed just this sort of admonition. GOD’S ANSWER. When Joshua had. finished praying, God answered him; but it was not the kind of answer that Joshua had been expecting, I think. Here is what God said; “Get up, what are you doing lying there? This is no time to pray. You might have known there was sin in the camp. Find the sin. and cleanse I want, you to notice that God gav„ no direction whatever for taking the city of Ai. He did not mention that at all. The thing that, was most important was for the sin to be found, and re moved. "util that was done, they could not ach i one step. Well, next day, according to di rections, Joshua gathered the people to gether. and consulting the Udim and Thummin, they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Juda^h. A Jewish tradition says that the jewel in the Urim and Thummin, which represented Judah, lost its luster. Then the families of Judan were taken, and the lot fell upon Zerah; and then on his household, the lot fell upon Zabdi, and of his families, the lot fell upon Varmi; then man by man was taken, and the lot fell upon Achan. I want you to notice how tender Joshua was. He turned to Achan when he was the one singled out from all the 3,000,000 people who were in the camp, and said, "My son, what have you done? Tell me the whole thins-. Make a full confession, and give glory to God.” I think Joshua’s tenderness had some thing to do with the full confession that Achan made. Had he been brutal and rough, Achan would most likely have denied everything; but his gentleness drew the best out of Achan and he made a full confession. He said. “I have sinned gainst God, and against Israel ” Notice the steps in Achan’s fall as in- dlcarted by his confession. I say, I cov eted, I took, I hid. These are the steps in every man’s sin, or every woman’s sm. Would God that we may realize that, so that we would catch ourselves seeing, or coveting, We may stop then and there. Then we shall live the life of victory. Joshua sent to Achan’s tent and found the Babylonish garment, and the silver and the gold, just as he had said. They were brought into the midst of the camp. Then Achan and his household, and his goods, with the stolen articles, were car ried into the nearby valley; and there, Achan was stoned until he died. The Babylonish garments and the silver and gold were also stoned, and a great pile of rocks was built up over him to ex press the contempt of the people for one who had dealt so foully with God and himself. Achan alone suffered punishment. The text is a little confusing; but when we realize that the law of the Jews did not let the man’s family suffer for his sin, and when we appreciate the significance of the singulars, which are here used, I think we may safely conclude that Achan alone was killed. While he paid tho penalty of his sin, he was saved, for he made a full confession of his sin against God. It was an awful loss and a great shame to his family, which must have been a sore trial to them to endure. Achan is not alone in his sin. There are others, if we could but know their whole history. Silk and silver have been the cause of many a man’s and woman’s downfall, and when their final records are written, this will be what shall be said of them: ‘They saw, they coveted, they took, they fled.” Until Achan’s sin is removed from your life, you 'cannot only have no power to overcome your enemies, but others will be made to suf fer, as Achan’s family did on account of his sin. lvathrine had put the $10 bill in the j small inside pocket of her blue serge j coat. She was sure of that. There was a walk of four lonely blocks between the “L” station and her rooming house, and she carried just the loose change in her purse and with a stout pin fastened the inner flap of the pockfct over the bill. And then two days later she de liberately left the coat in the cleaner’s shop, and left the bill in it. It made “Empty! Are you sure?” he asked. her heartsick. She had been two long months saving the $10. Eight dollars a week left small margin for saving alter room rent, ear fare and meals had been accounted for, apd it had vexed her to break into it to pay for cleaning the coat. She would never again sit beside Myrtle in a cafeteria. Myrtle was at the notions counter, which adjoined the hosiery, where Kathrinc was stationed, find Myrtle always spilled something at lunch. Once it was her coffee; but that time she only damaged her own clothes. Mostly it was bread or cookies, which are not injurious. This time it had been tomato soup. She had turned suddenly to look at Clara’s new style of coiffure, and swept the bowl of red, greasy com pound straight at Kathrine. It splat tered the entire front of her coat. Myr tle cried and offered to pay for the cleaning, but Kathrine knew Myrtle’s finances too well ^ to dream of allowing her. If Kathrine hadn’t been so upset over it she would have remembered about the bill. But she didn’t remember until she was taking off her shoes that night for bed, and then it was too late. And when she went to work in the morning the cleaning shop was not open. Kath- rine couldn’t risk being late by waiting. She reflected wrathfully that a cleaning shop wasn’t much of a place to keep its doors closed till 8:30, and she waited oil customers that day in an absent- minded fashion that was twice report-* eci to a floorwalker. That night she hurried from the car t< the shop and almost breathlessly de manded of the tall, thin, dark eyed young fellow to whom she remembered giving the coat. “Did you find that $10 in the pocket?” “I never looked in the pocket,” he said courteously, “but I will now.” And went swiftly to the back room, separated from the front by, a partition of glazed glass. He came out a moment later with the coat. She saw by his face that he had not found it. Mechanically she ran her fingers into the deep but narrow pocket. Empty! “Are you sure?” he asked, a bit doubtfully. “Absolutely,” she cried, so loudly that a small gray haired man sitting at a desk at the side of the store looked up curiously. * The young fellow cast a queer glance over his shoulder at him, and lowered his voice. “I’ll make inquiries,” he said, hastily. “Only two or three people have touched the coat since it was brought in. If you left it there, I am sure it will be found.” And then Kathrine, rather to her sur prise, found herself bowed out the door into the street. There she had a notion to go back. He had been too curt about ending the affair. She went to the room ing house that had been her only home since the death of an aunt. Her parents had died long before. The $10 was to have been devoted to a new suit. Now she would have to save again. She shua dered with dismay at the many weeks that she had already been saving. She was tired saving, scrimping, planning, Presently she forgot her personal affairs in another angle of the affair. She re membered the quick, suspicious glance from the old man, whd was evidently the proprietor. And the young fellow had acted queerly. Why, he didn’t seem to want the old man to hear her or him self. ^Why hadn't she complained to the old man? What a. simpleton she had been! Kathrine could hardly wait till the next evening. Her co&t was cleaned when she got there and boxed for her. But no $10 bill had been found. “And I am sure,” said the young man anxiously, “that it must have been lost before it came into our possession.” Kathrine looked at him searchingly. “Edwards,” called the old man harshly, “I wish you’d come here a minute.” “Presently,” impatiently. “I’m sure, * he began again hesitatingly. But he did not look at her, and he seemed em barrassed. Kathrine’s lips pressed tight ly together. If he didn’t appear guilty, then she never saw a guilty person. She opened her mouth to speak and then closed it, for there was something ap pealing in his glance. She couldn’t just analyze it. But he looked at her as though he wanted to ask her something. To her surprise she felt more hurt ana sad than angry. Of course he had stolen it. Her indignation swelled! He ought , to be arrested. She took a step toward j the desk where the gray haired man sat, then stepped back- He didn’t look, like a bad fellow! Perhaps he needed | the money. “But if you’ll give me your address,’ j he said abruptly, as though the words came out against his will, ‘TH let you know if it should turn up.” Katherine told him in a law, tired voice. Vmd he wrote it down. Then she took the cardboard box and went out. Maybe he would reepnt and send it to her—maybe— At this point Katherine laughed scornfully at her foolish imaginings and berated her self for not telling that, .young swin dler what she thought, of him. And she turned to go back. But she didn't. Instead she decided sorrowfully that if lie cared enough for $10 to steal it he might have- it. Only .she wished that he hadn’t been quite so nice looking. And the next gvening the landlady called her down to the goomilji fur- ished parlor, and he had brought it back. "All our fault.” he said easily. “One of the boys who attends to de tail work had found it and given it to the kookkeeper. The boy has been homesick ever since, and I supposed that he had gone home a day sooner. So I never thought of questioning him, although I asked all the others. And I am very sorry—” “Oh, it’s all right,” said Katherine, taking the money and Jooking specu latively at it. She was glad to get it back, but she wished with a queer aching of her heart that lie had never found it necessary to take it in the first place. 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With this new method you don’t have to know one note from another, yet in an hour of practice you can be playing your fa vorite music with all the fingers of both hands and play it well. The invention is so simple that even a child can now master music with out costly instruction. Anyone can have this new method on a free trial merely by asking. Simply write saying, "Send me tbe Easy Form Music Method as announced in Tne Atlanta Weakly Journal, f FREE TRIAL The complete system together with KX pieces of music will then be sent to you Free, all charges prepaid and absolutely not one cent to pay. You keep it seven days to thoroughly prove it is all that Is claimed for it, then if you are satisfied, send us $1.60 and one dollar a month until $6.60 in all is paid. If you are not delighted with it, send It back in seven days and you will have risked nothing and will b« under no obligation to us. What a splendid Christmas present this court* would make for some friend or relative who h fond of music but unable to play. As a special Xmas offer we will send, all charges prepaid, entire system as above on receipt of only $5 If it is not found satisfactory you can return it in 7 days and your money will be promptly refunded. This offer will be withdrawn Xmat Day—and should be taken advantage of at once Be sure to state number of white keys on your piano or organ, also postoffice and express office. Addresa Easy Method Music Company, 275, ClarK-j son Bldg., Chicago, 111. of the temptations that must assail a young man than of the dress that she could now begin to plan for. At 1 o’clock she yawne-d and began to undress. Life was very stale. Just working and eating and undressing and then dressing and eating and working again. And it didn’t promise to ever hold anything else. Katherine sighed disconsolately. What was the use of having blue eyes and a decent nose, even if your hair was rather short and none too thick? No one ever noticed you unless you were slit skirt and had flaming cheeks. She wound her watch and laid it on the dresser, brushed her hair; brushed her skirt, then her shoes. And then she remembered. She put her hand inside the lining of one small patent leather. The night before she took the coat over she had been al'raid to carry it longer in that easily accessi ble pocket and had transferred it to her shoe; and then had forgotten. “I am an absolute simpleton,” she gasped at her horror stricken image in the mirror. And silently she stared at the two $10 bills. He had not told the truth- Why had he come with that string of falsehoods? Kathrine’s cheeks burned. And it had been on the tip of her tongue to accuse him! Her eyes had accused him if her tongue had not. Kathrine went to bed with red cheeks. She got up in the morning with red cheeks. And that night she went, crim son faced, into the cleaning shop and handed back the $10 bill. “I—I found it, after all,” she said miserably. “You knew that it wasn't mine! Why did you?” She was surprised to see his face red den. Before he could speak the gray- haired man came forward and asked if he would be needed that evening. “No,” said the young man, “only don’t forget to mail those letters.” There was an authoritative ring to the young Voice that told of ownership. And the old man answered in a manner that told that he was the employe, not employer. Kathrine repeated, “Why did you?” as accusingly as she might have asked previously when she thought that it was taken. He evaded her eyes, reddened again, finally murmured, in embarrassed tone, “I—I wanted to get to know you—and I thought maybe that would be a good way. I’m—I beg your pardon.” He acted as guilty as a man might if he had stolen it. Kathrine laughed nervously. “It was rather an expensive way, I think.” “Not too expensive,” he said boldly.* Myrtle a week later watched Kath rine in surprise. “Why, I thought you were going to get a dark dress. You can’t wear that light silk to work.” “I don’t want to,” said Kathrine. There was a decided glad note to her voice. “I guess there’s other places to go, besides work.” HOW TO TREAT CROUP EXTERNALLY Rub Vick’s “Vap-O-Rub” Croup and Pneumonia Salve well over the throat and chest for a few minutes and then cover with a warm flannel cloth. Leave the covering loose around the neck so that the vapors inhaled may loosen the choking phlegm and open the air pass ages. Usually one treatment relieves in fifteen minutes. One application at bed time will prevent a night attack. Vick's will be found better than interffkl medi cines for all inflammations pf the air passages from head colds and catairh down to bronchitis and incipient pneu monia. Three sizes—26c, 50c and $1.00. (Advt.) $9-50 Christmas Offer $9j>? Our Annual Christmas Combination FEATHER BED, FEATHER PILLOWS. PAIR OF BLANKETS AND BOLSTER Greatest bargain ever offered. Featbcr Bed weighs 40 lbs., covered In 8 qZ. A. (j. A. tiering; pair'of G lb. pillows, same grade; Pair full sl/.e blankets and large, 0 lb. bolster. This combi nation would cost you at a retail store $17.00. AN IDEAL CHRISTMAS GIFT $10.00—2 Feather Mattresses, 1 Ticking—$10.00 Built for winter and summer use. One tddo a succession of soft, springy sections, snug and warm. Other side, firm, smooth and cool, for summer use. Weighs 35 lbs. Guaranteed for a lifetime. Something new. $6.35 36 LB. FEATHER BED $6.35 No excuse for not having a new, comfortable feather bed, now. All feather beds, mattresses, pillow was made from new, clean, odorless ami dustless feathers. Mattresses, beds and pillows ventilated and sanitary. All goods guaranteed. You must be satisfied or money back. Gash must come with orders. 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In church and secret orders he was a leader, being for years superintendent of the First Methodist Sunday school. He held high offices in Masonry, being the first worshipful master of the tri county Masonic convention, embracing the lodges of Whitfield, Murray and Catoosa counties. FEATHER BED BARGAINS Send us $10.00 aud we will sbipyou one first-class new 40-pound Feather Bed. one pair 0-pound new Feather Pillows ($3.50), one pair full size Blankets ($3.00), one dandy Comfort, full size ($3.00), all for only $10.00. All new goods and no trash. Biggest Bargain ever offered. Satisfaction guaranteed. This offer Is good for achort time only to advertise our goods. Mail money order now or write for circular aud order blanks. SOUTHERN FEATHER & PILLOW CO. Dopt. 1234 ^rstssboro, N. O. eibPairo/Pill We a|ain make our unparalleled offer of free pil 1 lews with your order enclosing $10 for our fa-' mous 36-lb. feather bed. 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