The Dustonian from Dustin, Oklahoma • 4

don't know though we sball probably find out soon enough But I don't care now that you are here" dear will you forgive me for this afternoon forgive you If take it all back hide hoofs and horns for ever cheek Jim stretched forward dizzily as if to follow bis disappearing enemy He heard the splaab of the water and saw the rowboat move out from under the stern but be saw no more He thought It must have grown very dark Dr Golden Medical Discovery tndlralM the polaoee lira tka MnoB by ruusloff Ui llrer Into fyioc and eartrlUDff IIm ttoud and ihflrsbf inviffonUnff th hol urn £bio BrroffltousdKtoMM Rtorlil niwr usinf ibjfl rwxeeelys ld by drutfgtoto always tlafe wily Why Scratch? 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You Lnow what was Jim suddenly grown serpent-like in craft turned his well-known ingenuous and Innocent expression upon her moment you left me up there In the pine grove I knew I do without did you because Jim prompted her Jlmsy you know" I Agatha loving bis teasing but too deeply moved too generous and sincere to play the coquette turned to him again a face shining with tenderness Her eyes like stars her lips all sweetness love James dear Something rose again in soft heart choking him As he bad thrilled to the unknown ecstasy in song many days before so now he thrilled to her voice and faca eloquent for him alone Love and its tower life and its meaning the long long thoughts of youth and hope and desire these held him in thrall Agatha was in his arms Time was lost to him and earth SPECIAL TO WOMEN Do you realize the fact that thousands of women are now using When Jlmsy regained sight and consciousness which happened not more than three minutes after be lost them he found himself supported affectionately against shoulder and a voice the Voice of all voices he most loved was in his ears "Here I am dear Do not die! I have come to stay if you want me' James dearest!" And bending over him was a face the very Viston of his dream at me speak to me James dear!" Thevolce was a bit hysterical but the face waa eloquent loving adoring It was too good to be true though Jim was disposed to let the illusion prolong Itself as far as possible He put up- his hand and smoothed her face gently In gratitude at seeing it kind once more Then he smiled foolishly great he remarked Inanely before thinking It necessary to remove his head Her face was still the face of tenderness full of yearning It did not change She took a handkerchief from her pocket and carefully pressed It to his cheek and chin When she took It away he saw that It was red what a mesa making!" he exclaimed trying at last to sit up As he did so It all came back to blm "the flying shadow the gun the struggle He leaned over to peer again through the crossed wires of the deck railing down Into the water He turned back with an amazed expression he jump overboard honest-true hanging on to that Neither Aleck nor Agatha could say nor yet Mr Chamberlain who had been searching the yacht Wherever it was the rusty marline-spike had disappeared The rowboat too had gone into the darkness Jim got up dazedly thiuking for a moment that it was necessary for him to give chase but be quickly sat down on the sail-cloth again overcome with talntness and a dark pall before bis eyes are not hurt Th mice was still tender and it was all fer him! As Jim hegrd it the pall lifted and his buoyant spirit came back to its own lie laughed ring-ingly no not hurt But what? Wbat did you wish to say it true? Are you here by me to Eor answer she pressed his hand to her lips Aleck and Chamberlain once assured that Jim was safe went below to make a search and Jim and Agatha were left together on the sailcloth As they sat there a young moon shone out delicately in the west and dropped quickly down after the lost sun the first moon seen said Jim we've watched the dawn" yes and such a dawn!" Little by little as they sat together the story of the fight came out Jim told It bit by bit not eager When it was done Agatha was still puzzled should he come here? What could he do here?" A Soluble Antiseptic Powder as a remedy for mucouq membrane affections such aa sore throat nasal or pelvic catarrh Inflammation or ulceration caused by female Ills? 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"I want you to go with me and look at a futurist canvas" we are both overcome?" EPILOGUE No one ever knew whether the accomplished Frenchman reached shore ultimately In the rowboat or descended to Sabrina beneath thp waves If that last hasty exit from the deck of the Sea Gull was also his final exit from life certain it is that his departure into the realm of shades was unwept and unsung The Btlck of dynamite was found after a gingerly search lying on one of the berths in the large cabin where it had been dropped by the Frenchman In his flight Jimmy Hamhleton did not let the shoe business entirely go to destruction though bis taste for holidays grew markedly after he brought his bride home with him to Lynn One year when the babies were growing up he ordered a trim little yacht to be built and put into her berth at Charles port She was named the Sea GulL chauffeur called Hand was her captain 'r T'-' Sometimes when James and Agatha were alone in the zone of stillness hung over the listening water there would rise a song clear and tirdllke: of my pain free of my burden of sorrow At last I shall see thee and again heart would rise buoyant free happy the heart of unquenchable youth THE END Just ss Effective WIgg Oh tired of life Have you a pistol you can lend me? Wagg No but I can let you have a chafing dish Philadelphia Record His Business the way that fellow has been talking to you I Judge he Is a hot air artist" "So he Is advertising agent for a new Ths Drawback don't like to attack a fat not a fat he la apt to offer a stout deliberate wide-eyed youth of the Heading-room "Ah good evening" you gre on your way to the Reading-room I wish to inform you that I have been obliged to lock up for tonight on account of an urgent errand at the village" Jimmy stared vacantly for a moment at the pale washed-out countenance of his interlocutor "I thought I'd tell you" the youth went on In his copy-book style "so as to save your taking the long walk I am the librarian of the thank you But I going to the Reading-room tonight I am on my way to the there's a large majority of people do go to the Reading-room first and the youth explained with pride "And some of them are not worthy of its privileges I am on my way now to prevent what may he a frightful accident to one who has enjoyed the benefits of our Jim gazed at the youth frightful accident! Then why In Heaven's name don't you hurry?" The youth exhibited a slightly Injured air but did not hasten was Just about to continue on my bq said it occurred to me that you might be interested to good of you But what la it ail about?" time ago a very profane and Impatient gentleman waiting for money to be telegraphed him from New York man go on! Where la know nothing about the movements of thla ungodly person hut It appears that today for the first time in its history the quarry up yonder has been robbed Circumstances lead the manager to suspect that this same gentleman was the perpetrator of the theft and I am on my way to further the ends of Justice" "No need to be so particular about calling him a gentleman But what la the 'accident' likely to be?" la feared that the thief may not he aware of the nature of the article he has stolen and it la very dangerous" "What on earth Is It?" is a fairly large-sized stick of dynamite" The youth might have been discussing a fancy dance so suave and polite was he Jim Interrupted rudely is it? Good If old Chatelard he ought to blow up Serve him surprised and pained at your words my dear friend No soul is utterly it is Which way did he go? Where is he?" don't know The manager sent me to inform the sheriff" "It won't do any good But better go all the same" The Judge In chancery went on his dignified way He would not have hurried if he had heard Angel Gabriel's trump The news he had brought was In the class to he considered important if true but there was nothing in it to alter plans He took the shortest cut to the shore found a flat-bottomed punt that was regarded by the village as general property and poshed off The Sea Gull was a tidy craft and looked very gay with even the half of her festival flags on view But the gaiety did not beguile dampened spirits He went aboard feeling that like to rip the Idiotic things down but the yacht at least offered a place where be could think The sunset light on the water blazed vermilion just the color that Jim all at once discovered he hated He looked down tjie companionway hut finally he decided to stretch out on deck for a few minutes rest He was very tired Off on the stern was a vague mass which proved to be a few yards of canvas carefully tented on the floor Some glmcrsck belonging to the ornamentation had been freshly gilded and left to dry protected hy an old sail-cloth This weighted down by a rusty marlins pike spread coucbwise along the taffrall and offered to Jim Just the bed he longed for He lay down face to the sky and gave himself up to thoughts that were very dark Indeed He had been thrown down unexpectedly and quite hard and that was all there was to It Agatha lovely hut Inexplicable maid was not for him She had been yes that was the word and he had been a fool that was the plain truth He might as well face tt at once He had been Idiot enough to think he might win the girl just because they had been tossed together in mid-ocean and aha bad clung to him Tbs world an ocean tt a spiritual stock-exchange where he who would win must bid very high indeed for the prizes of life And he had so little to bid! Communing thus with his unhappiness Jim utterly lost the sense of time The shameless vermilion sunset went into second mourning and thence to gray before the figure on the sail-cloth moved Then through senses only half awake Jim heard a light sound like a scratch-scratch on the hull of the yacht Chamberlain no doubt Just rubbing the nose of his tender against the Sea Gull Jim was la no hurry to see Chamberlain and remained where he was The Englishman would heave in sight soon enough But though Jim waited several min-utes with half an eye cocked on the stairway nobody appeared The wind still the sea like glass hot a sound anywhere Struck by something of strangeness in the uncanny silence Jim sat up and called There was no answer But la the tense stillness there was a sound and it came from below the sound of a stealthy tread Jim sprang to his feet and made the companionway at a bound He listened an Instant to make sure that he heard true cleared the steps and landed in the darkness of the ship's saloon As he groped along reaching for the door of the principal cabin the blackness suddenly lighted a little and a dim shadow shot cut and up the stairway physical senses were scarcely cognizant of the soft quick passing hut his thumbs pricked He dashed after the shadow up the stairs out on deck and aft There he was Chatelard armed facing hts enemy once more cool but not smiling desperately at bay Below him riding Juat under the stern of the yacht was the tender whose scratch-scratch had awakened Jim A man oars In hand was holding tbs boat close to the Sea Gull Jim saw all this during the seconds between bis turning at the stair-top and bis thiowing himself plump against the figure by the railing He was quick enough to pass the range of the weapon whose shot rang out in the clear air but he waa not quick enough to get under the man's guard Chatelard was ready for him holding his weapon high As he pressed forward Jim felt something under his foot He ducked quickly as if to dodge hand and on the downward swing he picked up the rusty marlinsplke It waa a weapon of might Indeed Jim's blow caused Chatelard 'a arm to drop limp and nerveless But in gaining his enemy's weapon Jim was forced to drop his own He put a firm foot upon the spike however while he held Chatelard at length and looked into his face we meet once more after all!" he cried "And once more I have the Pistol" Even as Jim spoke his adversary made a spring that almost enabled him to seize the weapon again Jim eluded hia clutch and quick aa thought threw the gun overboard It struck far out on the imootb water It waa a sorry thing to do as It proved for Chatelard watching his chance stooped wrenched the spike from under foot and once more stood defiantly at bay And at this point he opened his thin lips for one remark "You'll go to hell now you pig of an American after you Monsieur!" Jim cried and with the words his arms were about the other in a paralyzing grip Had Jim been as strong as when the two men measured forces weeks before In the of the Jeanne IT Arc the result might have been different But the struggle waa too long and Jim's strength insufficient Chatelard freed himself from hia antagonist sufficiently to wield the spike somewhere about Jim's head and there came over him a sickening conscious- ness that he waa going down He dropped hanging like a bulldog to Chatelard'a kneea but be knew be had lost the game He gathered himself momentarily determined to get on hla feet once more and had almost done It when sounds of approaching voices mingled with the scuffle of their feet and their quick breathing Before Jim could see wbat new thing waa happening Chatelard had turned for one alert Instant toward the port side whence the Invading voices came He waa cut off from the stairway caught in the stern of the yacht his weapon gone He gave a quick call in a low voice to the boat below stepped over the taffrall and then leaped overboard Dropped up on an elbow dazed and bait blinded btood flowing down Ala Survival of Old-Time Superstition Which Has Been Found Impossi-slblo to Eradicate tlon of the moon in regard to the earth either at any hour cf the day or part of the month (phase or of moon) or at any part of the year CHAPTER XXIV After You Montleurl Jim had no desire to create a sensation among his friends at the old red house but as he left the pine grove all his Instincts led him to flee in another direction He did not fully Teallze Just what had happened to him hut he was conscious of having (received a very bard Jolt Indeed The louse full of happy associations as it was just now too tantalizing a (place Aleck had won out and he and Melanie were radiating that peculiar 'kind of lover's joy which shines on the eve of matrimony Jim wished them well none better but be also wished they wouldn't make such a fuss over these things Get it done land out of the way and the less said about it the better In fact Jim's 'buoyant and sunny spirit went Into eclipse he lost his holiday ardor and trudged over the hill and into the shore road in a state of extreme dejection But he lingered on the way diverted almost against his will by the sight of fishing smacks putting into harbor an island steamer rounding a distant cliff and the Sea Gull lying motionless just within the breakwater Women may be unkind but a ship Is a ship after alL One can not nurse the psln even of a shattered heart when (running before a stiff wind with the spinnaker set and an open sea ahead The thought decided him The sea should be bis bride Jim did not stop (to arrange at the moment just how (this should be brought about but his determination was none the lams firm lie became sentimental to the extent of reflecting vaguely that this was Ibut philosophic Justice The sea had (not conquered him far from it (neither should She conquer him He (would follow the sea the path of gla-taonr the home of the winged foot and the vanishing sail the road to (alien and mysterious lands Thus Jimmy In reaction from the (Arctic douche to which bis emotional elf had been subjected He was flg-turatively speaking blue with tbs cold Ibut trying valiantly to warm himself As be gaxed at the Sea Gull asleep ion the flood tide cutting a gallant fig-ure in the glowing sunset be felt an overmastering longing to be aboard He wonld stay on the yacht nntll Chamberlain came at least possibly All night Having made up bis mind on this point James persuaded himself that ibe felt better Philosophy is a friend (n need after alL Why should one -failure In getting one's desires ernib the splrtt? He would make a rig hits bout-face travel for a year on a sailing vessel see the world That was at Hang the shoe business! Immersed In mental chaos such as these fragments of thought suggest 'Jim did not perceive that he was being overtaken until a slow greeting came to his ears evening friend It wag the Be Happy Today He that hath so many causes of Joy and so great Is very much in love with sorrow and peevishness who loses all these pleasures and chooses to sit down upon his little handful of thorns Enjoy the blessings of this day If God sends them and the evils of It hear patiently and sweetly for this day only Is ours We are dead to yesterday and we are not yet horn to the morrow But If we look abroad and bring Into one day's thoughts the evil of many certain and uncertain what will be and what will never be our load will be as Intolerable as it Is unreasonable Jeremy Taylor Breakfast A Pleasure when you have Post oasties with cream A food with soap and zest that wakes up the appetite Sprinkle crisp Post Toasties over a saucer of fresh strawberries add some cream and a little sugar Appetizing Nourishing Convenient Memory Lingers Ssld by racers Cnaal Oo Hattie Creek Mick Early Showed Heroism As a boy Rear Admiral Young who died last month showed qualities that were sure to put him In the front rank of hts profession As a midshipman he leaped overboard to rescue a seaman and before the boats could be lowered and rowed to him he waa three miles astern swimming and supporting the unconscious sailor Later when the ship Huron was wrecked on a reef off the North Carolina coast he and another man tried to reach the shore on a raft When the raft capsized he not only swam aahors hut dragged his companion to safety with him Then he ran to a Ilfs-tZTlng station broke Into bulld- Ittg- dragged out the apparatus and succeeded In saving 34 officers ---1 men out of a crew of a hundred and thirty-two For this act of heroism congress advanced him in rank and the legislature of Kentucky his native 41 made him an honorary member Youth Companion The Influence of the moon upon the weather was In ancient times assumed In much the same way as the Influence of the moon upon the tides of the sea was assumed There was no proper knowledge of the facts in either case and it was accepted in both cases merely because the regular changes of the shadow on the moon were used as the great primitive timekeeper and any frequent changes In other things must happen after some one or other of those regular changes The barbaric guess hoc ergo propter hoc" proved when careful study of the matter waa made and law of gravitation waa applied to it to he right in regard to the tldea but wrong in regard to the weather The of tbs sea tn a moving hood which passes as It were the face of the waters" twice (approximately) In the 24 hours is now known to be dne to the "drag" or gravitational attraction exerted on the heavy but mobile mass of the ocean hy the moon as It circles round the earth with a returning change In its relative position to earth and sun ths phases of which occupy a month But at hag no such action on ths flimsy vapors of tbs air An Immense number of exact numerical details depending on the weight of the moon its position and movements In relation to the earth at successive moments consequently of Its action In producing the tides of the sea have been ascertained with astounding accuracy At the same time astronomers and meteorologists (those who study the atmosphere of our earth) have come to the conclusion that what we call "the weather le not affected hy the post- Love of Books love my friends is yonr p-to the greatest the purest and ths most perfect pleasure that Cod prrparrl tor bis creatures It lasts when all other pleasure fads It will support you when all other recreations are gone It will last you until ycur death It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you Anthony Trollope Proeportty and Adversity Prosperity Is not without many fears and distastes and adversity not without comforts tad hopes.