Readiivf BY /' ,4 A V / V VC VI UKt of other good wells running rich. Salt Water Oil ought to go to eighty before closing." "Jim," I pleaded, "tell me Just one thing. Your advance information wasn't what they call a leak? Had you a right to take advantage >f what you knew?" "Why not?" demanded Jim. "I might as well make a fortune as the next chap. And if the dope Doris West's brother gave her was right "Doris West's brother?" "Sure. He's- the engineer -who ■went down to make the report Didn't I tell you that in the first place?" "Then it was Miss West who gave you your information?" (To Be Continued.) Advice to the Lovelorn "TOO MUCH 1\ I.OVE" DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: Some time ago I met a young man a few years older than myself. When we first met he came to see me about thee times a week. Then he told me he had accepted a position out of town and would only come into the city every two weeks. Now, Miss Fairfax, I have been going with this young man for six months. The trouble is that I am too much in love. At first he would tell me he was going to remain a bachelor. Then I would tease him in a friendly way. He is very proud of me. I know, and often speaks of my being friends with his sisters, who are married, but, of course, I will not meet them until I am engaged, and I do not know if I ever will be. I have many other boy friends, but cannot fret myself to become inter ested in them or to go out with them. Please don't think this is a trifling matter, as I am so changed and sad over it. Can't you give me an idea of what I can say to him so as to bring him to terms?. JO. T am afraid there is Inevitably a good deal of suffering when one friend falls in love first and has to wait for the other to catch up. The worst of it is that there isn't any way of accelerating the falling-in love process. And I am sure you will be happier in the end if you allow the young man's feeling for you to develop naturally and spon taneously. instead of trying to force it. It does take a good deal of patience and self-control, but I am sure you have these qualities. IS THIS A SIGN OF I.OVEf DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: If. when you meet a certain person of the opposite sex, you feel a strong attraction, would you call that^ove? It's an evidence of a certain kind of attraction. But I wouldn't call it love until after closer acquaintance. Daily Dot Puzzle 53 fi* .5o - st> Al 44 4fc I *4) *■' ,• -4o V i>- ? ... h 37 * Af ' • • • •& o 63 *35 ! *6l . •! - * ife 13 . V s - r #i4 - 6Z * •'5 - v *33 .13 *l7 - •21 v * 16 ' #3Z •22 ~ /X ym Draw from one to two and so on to the end. t ft Stop Itching Eczema Jj Never mind how often you have tried and failed, you can stop burning, itching eczema quickly by applying a little zemo furnished by any druggist for 35c. Extra large bottle, $l.OO. Healing begins the moment zemo is applied. In a short time usually every trace of eczema, tetter, pimples, rash, blackheads and similar skin diseases will be removed. For clearing the skin and making it vigorously healthy, always use zemo, the penetrating, antiseptic liquid. It is not a greasy salve and it does not stain. When others fail it is the one dependable treatment for skin troubles of All kinds. The E. W. Roae Co.. Cleveland. Q. - PLARRISBTJRG & TELEGRAPH THE HEART BREAKER A REAL AMERICAN LOVE STORY By VIRGINIA TERHVXE VAN DE WATER Dy VIRGINIA TERIIUNE VAN DE WATER. CHAPTER XL • As Tom Chandler started down the path leading- from the Brents' house he came face to face with Arthur Bruce. Arthur's day had been full of anx ieties. Not only had his father seem ed more ill than usual, but business affairs were in a discouraging tangle. So absorbed was the lover in his mus ings'that he almost collided with Tom before he saw him. That Tom Chandler should be emerging from Mildred's home took Arthur so much by surprise that he blurted out his astonishment. "Why—what are you doing here?" he exclaimed. Chandler's recent conversation had left his nerves tingling. For some weeks he had enjoyed amusing him self with Mildred, and her attitude toward him now awakened his resent ment. "I have been calling on Mildred," he retorted coolly. "And, by the way, allow me at present my congratu lations." "Congratulations!" Arthur repeated the word involuntarily. "Yes, on your engagement." Tom rejoined. "You betrothed has hon ored me by taking me into her con fidence to the extent of announcing the happy event to ine. I have, nat urally, congratulated her, too. But I must not detain you; I know she is expecting you. Good-night." "Good-night!" Arthur returned me chanically. He stood still for a full minute af ter Chandler had left him, then went up the steps, his mind in a whirl. "Hallo!" Mildred's light voice greet ed him as he entered the library. "Why—what's the matter?" Arthur In Trouble He kissed her before replying, but he did it with the manner of a man who has weightier matters than love making on his mind. "What's the matter?" the girl re peated. "I am a bit puzzled," he said hesi tatingly "Of course, Mtlly," with an effort to speak frankly—"you have a righuto do as you please—but we de cided—didn't we?—that, our engage ment was not to be announced for a while?" "Of course we did," she agreed. "You told your people and I told mine—that's all" A look of relief came to his face. Perhaps Tom Chandler had congratu lated him only with the hope of as certaining whether or not he was en gaged to Mildred. But it was an un derhanded way to learn the truth. If that was the fellow's object, he was DAILY HINT ON FASHIONS LIUFI® its. I 1/ I A PRACTICAL, SET FOR THE "LITTLE ONES" 2700—Child's Set of Short Clothes. This model comprises a simple dress with round yoke, and long or short sleeves, a style of drawers, comfortable and practical, and a slip with added skirt portion at the back and with or without ruffle. Cambric, lawn and muslin are good for the slip. For the dress, batiste, lawn, cambric, percale, flannelette, challie or cahsmere could be used. The Pat tern is cut in 5 sizes: 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years and 4 years. It will require for the Dress, 2 5-8 yards of 36-inch material. For the Drawers, % yard. For the Slip, Ift yard for a 2-year size. A pattern of this illustration mailed to any address on receipt of 10 cents in silver or stamps. Telegraph Pattern Department For the 10 cents inclosed please send pattern to the following ad dress: , 1 size Pattern' No Name •.. Address City and State i! a cad. The lover's face flushed angrily. "Why?" Milly questioned. "Has any rumor of our engagement gotten about " "Chandler spoke to me about it just now," Arthur Informed her. "I shall demand an explanation from him and mighty soon too. What right had he to say that you told him of it when you had not?" All the color left Mildred's cheeks. She was frightened. Her mind work ed quickly, and she foresaw the con sequences if Arthur should demand an explanation from Tom. Tom would tell the truth, and mercilessly. It would be wiser for her to forestall his action immediately, it was the only safe course left open to her. "Arthur," she said quickly, "I did not acknowledge to you that 1 had mentioned our engagement to Tom because it seemed dishonorable to him to explain to you why I men tioned it. Y'ou see, dear, I had to tell him in order to make him be lieve that there was 110 hope for | him." I.lke an Accusation The words were more like an ac cusation than a question, and she ans wered promptly: "I had to Arthur. Can't I make ycu see how necessary it was? 1 would have been very cruel to let him go on hoping and unless I hurt him he would not give up hope. So I had to hurt him. Hear, you see how it was, don't you?" '"Yes." si owl y and gravely. "I see * ou thought it was necessary Mildred. But I did not understand before. I knew that Chandler admir ed you, but I did not suppose tiiat it had gone so far"— She interrupted him sharply. "You did -not suppose that, any man but you cared for me like that? Well, you see, Tom did even more than you care for me, Arthur For he would trust me in the face of any thing. Y'ou wouldn't!" "Milly!" his exclamation was full or pain. "How can you say such a thing?" "Because it is true!" she insisted. iou are displeased and cross with me because I told an old friend cf my engagement when it was abso lutely necessary for his own sake that I do so." "I am not uispleased, dear, nor I angry. I understand all about it I now. But 1 was afraid that Chand ler might talk about it." I won't. I can promise you jhat. But," her eyes snapping, "what lif he did? It is not a disgraceful j secret. It seems a pity that you I should have asked me to marry vou if you are so terrified lest peo'ple suspect that you are engaged to me." Of course he had to protest and apologize and explain. He would an nounce the facts to-morrow if she wished. He had deferred doing so because he thought that a long en gagement would be hard for her. If she did, not mind, he surely did not. At last she forgave him and agreed that they would best wait for awhile longer before making the affair pub lic. t j "But. you need not fear that Tom will tell our secret." she assured lrm. "He's too much hurt. So much hurt, ih fact, dropping her voice to a con fidential pitch, "that he confessed to me that-he means to enlist very soon. I think that's pretty fine of him, don't you, Arthur?" To be continued. Socialists Hand Peace Resolution to Clemenceau Porto, Feb 17. A delegation from the Socialist conference at Berne call ed on Premier Clemenceau yesterday afternoon and handed him a resolu tion adopted at Berne and intended for the peace conference. The party was composed of Hjalmar Branting, pf Sweden; Arthur Henderson, G. H. Stuart Bunning and James Ramsay McDonald, of England, and Jean Longuet and Pierre Renaudal, of France. Premier Clemenceau received the document, which he promised to pre sent to the peace conference. He said the resolution contained points that were in accord with the views of the peace conference itself, and that there might be an interest in di rect contact between the delegation and the commission of the peace con ference charged with the examin ation of the different points contain ed in the resolution. Coal Land Valuation Raised in Schuylkill; Coal Companies Win Pottsville, Pa., Feb. 17. County Commissioners W. S. Leib, E. C. Brobst and Thomas Mac Donald yes terday announced that the tax rate of Schuylkill county for the en suing year will be seven mills, a reduction of one and one-half mills from last year. The commissioners say that has been made possible, notwithstanding Increased expenses, by raising the coal land assessment *50,000,000. This action is vertually /a victory I for the coal companies, as the An thracite Consumers League and the Tax Revision League asked that the coal lands assessment bo Increased jat least $300,000,000 and presented | expert testimony to show that this ■ would be a very conservative rate. LIFE'S PROBLEMS ARE DISCUSSED BY MRS. WILSON WOODROW | She was such a pretty creature I with lovely hair and eyes and a J charming smile—evidently one of those ingenuous, natural girls that you like at once—and the soldier with whom she was dining was a good-looking, well set-up lad. And they seemed to be having such a beautiful time together. It was plain that she was the memory he was going to carry with him to France. His mind would turn again and again, to, "Y'ou and the fountain's splash, And the song of the trees, The tilt of your hat and the flash Of your lips and the breeze, Scent of the smoke and sachet — Were your eyes hazel or blue? — Under'the lanterns a-sway, Summer and You! It was as pretty and romantic a scene as anyone would want to look at, and the most stony-hearted cynic could scarcely have observed those two, so delighted with each oth er, so happy to be together, and not have involuntarily and sympatheti cally smiled and then sighed. But—there is always a "but"— although I liked and admired that attractive girl, X wanted to go over and preach a little sermon to her, in spite of my horror of preaching. Really, though, she deserved it. . There was her soldier, immacu late, neat as a pin, shining from the top of his head to the toe of his boot. And she—well she was a bit sloppy. Her hair was lovely in tint, shone; her white georgette frock was but it had not been brushed until it pretty, but it was anything but fresh; her white shoes were soiled; and the gloves she threw on the table beside her would not have been countenanced in Spotlesstown. She wasn't keeping mi her morale half as well as he was keeping up his. He looked as if he thought ev erything about her was charming, but ho wouldn't always remain blind to her carelessness, and sooner or .later it would irritate and annoy him. He would notice that her petti coat dangled half an inch below her skirt and that her heels were run over and that she never used quite enough hairpins to keep her hair up. These trifles would get on his nerves, and he would . exaggerate them. Her besetting sin—that lack of daintiness—might very easily be come the little rift within the lute that by and by would make their music mute. My eye was caught by a para graph in a newspaper the other day. It stated that the Government insisted that the soldiers should be clean shaven for two reasons. The first was that a clean shave assisted the gas mask to fit more accurately; the second, that, it preserved the sol dier's morale. I hastened to ask a man if a clean sljfSve made any difference to his feelings and his outlook on'life. "I should say so," he replied. "When I obviously need one I feel like a hobo and I slink around like a criminal. After I've had it X am again a decent member of society and can look the whole world In the eye. No one has ever been able to explain the peculiar psychological effect of a clean shave, but every man knoxfrs that It exists. It is a tonic to the spirit and a moral sup port." A few moments after this con versation I met a woman I know. "You're looking very blithe and happy and good and gay," I said, "The world is evidently treating you very nicely." , She laughed. "I didn't think so this morning. I got up with the b'ackest kind of blues. I couldn't see a gleam of sunshine anywhere. So I took my invariable cure." AMIEST 49 RuddyCheeks—SparklingEyes —Most Women Can Have Says Dr. Edwards, a Well-Known Ohio Physician Dr. F. M. Edwards for 17yearstreated scores of women for liver and bowel ail ments. During these years he gave to his patients a prescription made of a few well-known vegetable Ingredients mixed with olive oil, naming them Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets. You will know them by their olive color. These tablets are wonder-workers on the liver and bowels, which cause a normal action, carrying off the waste and poisonous matter in one's system. If you have a pale face, sallow look, dull eyes, pimples, coated tongue, head aches, a listless, no-good feeling, all out of sorts, inactive bowels, you take one of Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets nightly for a time and note the pleasing results Thousands of women as well as men take Dr. Edward's Olive Tablets—the successful substitute for calomel—now and then just tokeepin the pink of condfc (ion. 10c and 25c per box. All druggists r FEBRUARY 17, 1919. "What is that?" I asked with in terest. If there is such a thing as a cure for the blues it would be eagerly welcomed. I wanted to be the lirst to give it to a waiting world. "The prescription is a simple one," she said. "It began with a shampoo. Then I had my nails manicured, then my hair dressed in the most be coming fashion. I put on all my most attractive things from the skin out, and then my best looking frock. By that time I ws humming a tune and i|Ue! that 'the world is so full of a number of things, I think that we all should be happy as kings.' " In the old days when they wanted to accentuate their gloom they re sorted to sackcloth and ashes. Isn't it natural that purple and line linen should have the opposite psychologi cal effect? Women are supposed to prize clothes because of vanity and love of display. Well, anything may be carried to excess, and a passion for dress is a mania with certain women. But I believe far the greater number HOW WEAK, NERVOUS WOMEN QUICKLY GAIN VIGOROUS HEALTH AND STRONG NERVES 7 A DAY FOR 7 DAYS A Vigorous, Healthy Body, Sparkling Lyes and Health-Col ored Cheeks Come in Two V\ eeks, Says Discoverer of Bio teren. World's Grandest Health Build er Costs Nothing Unless It Gives to Women tne Buoyant Health They Long For. 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