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? ??? Circus vs. Cookery By COLIN S. COLLINS Cnpuright. IMS, by J. IP. MulUr Jackson Peters regarded the girl by bis side almost with horror. "I cau't help what you think," she tried defiantly. "I Just cau't stand this sort of thing any longer." "You don't have to," he urged gently. "You just say the word, Sally, and I'll see your pa tomorrow." "Can't you understand, Jack Pe ters?" she cried, with a stamp of the foot. "That woman wouldn't let me take the high school course 'cause I'd be wantln' to go to college next, she said. She Just don't want to see me do anything grand; Just get married and settle down slaving for some man Just as I've been slaving for hor ever since pa married her." "Don't you think," he suggested gen tly. "that perhaps she means well? She's seen a lot of the world. Mebbe ! she knows 'twouldu't do no goixl." "There you go, preaching like all the jest," she stormed. "Some of these | days you'll wake up and Hiul me gone. I can lie as goo 1 as her." "I don't see why you want to go off and be foolish jest because you don't like Mrs. Burrows," he declared gently. "She means well." "I'm going to be like her," insisted the girl, pointing to a lurid poster rep resenting a young woman in gay ap parel standing upon the tip of her toe on the back of a spirited horse. "She was one of 'ein once. I guess I can ride that way as well as on a saddle." "Hull." in used Peters. "A girl as can cook as well as you ain't got no call to be trapesing round the country with a circus." Sally Burrows got down from the wall. "All the same," she cried defi antly, "I'm goin' with 'em," with a nod [ toward the circus {rasters. "I guess I j can cook for 'em until I can ride." She darted off down the road. Peters looked regretfully after her. He knew from experience the futility of seeking to overtake her. Things had been well between him self and Sally Burrows until her father had married a circus rider who had been thrown from her horse and left behind by tlie^how until her fractured leg grew "well. ? , Long before that time she had won the affections of Hiram Burrows, and she made him a good wife. Sally, how ever, had refused to accept her new mother, and there had been quarrels ever since Hiram had brought home his ] bride. The girl resented the intrusion of another woman in her mother's i place and her own dethronement as mistress of the house. Now she chafed to leave the quiet home and make a name for herself even as the rival had done, and Jack son Peters pleaded in vain. He had a strong ally in Mrs. Bur rows, who saw that the girl in a home of her own would be far happier than in her father's house, but this very alli ance was against him, and Sally from the barn saw him go into the bouse, and her slender frame shook with sobs as she realized that Jack was talking over her new idea with her stepmother. She did not, however, connect Jack son's visit with his departure for the county town the following day, nor did she realize that he carried with him a letter to the proprietor of Wells' Grand United Shows and Consolidated Men ageries; therefore It was with no sus picion that she regarded that gentle man's enthusiastic welcome of her proposition that she join the troupe and act as cook until she could learn to be a performer. "Just what I wanted," he cried Jo vially. "You've got the very build for n rider. We lay over here tomorrow, and I'll (rive you your tirst leasou in the afternoon." Sally wanted to wait, but Wells would take no denial. The show would stay on the grounds over Sunday, and there was no time to be lost. She could slip away from her people, und he could tell just what she could do. Her stepmother had driven over to the next town for a visit after the matinee performance Saturday, and there was nothing to hinder her from keeping her appointment with Wells. One of the women furnished her with a costume from her own wardrobe, and Sally, blushing furiously at the bloom ers, crept Into the ring. Wells was teaching his own daughter to ride, and to the center pole of the tent had been added a huge boom which reached out as far as the cir cumference of the ring. Front a pulley at the end of this dangled a rope with the horrible suggestion of n gallows, and beneath It stood a broad backed white horse. Ills back sticky with pow dered resin. A man in his undershirt and overalls, looking very little like the ring master of the afternoon before, stood talking with the tired faced clown. As she appeared he came toward her with a broad canvas belt. This they fastened about her waist, booking the ring at the back Into the dangling rope. The ring master lifted her to the horse's back, while the clown pulled the rope tight, and with a few brief directions about keeping her bal ance the ring master crncked the whip and the horse started ofT. For two or three paces she kept Iter balance, then, with a yell, "he realized that she was falling. Her feet went up and the weight of her body was thrown against the belt. They let her down, gasping for breath, until she clutched the horse's mane and could -egsln her footing Then the dreadful whip cracked again, and again she bung by the belt wildly waving her limbs. The boom was poshed a round ?o that she kept always ovei the baek of ti e horse, ami by au effort she recovered her bulauce, aided some what by the slackeuiug of the rope at the end of the "mechanic." Twice around the ring aud her am bltiou to lie a rider died within her She scrambled from the horse's back trying t^choke back the tears of hu milTauon. Wells was all sympathy. "Perhaps you might be better as an acrobat." he suggested kindly. "You'd make a good enough rider if you kept at It. I>olly. here, was worse than you when she started in. Wuut to try It again?" "I think I'd rather lie au acrobat," she ulmost whispered, trying to choke back the sobs. Acrobats were not left duugliug over a horse, and they hud a soft mat to fall upon. The clown led the horse from the ring, aud two men unrolled a felt pud | upon the sawdust. Even without the blue tights she recognized them us the acrobats, and she watched them curi ously us they fastened a rope about the belt. "Now, when we say 'Now!' "cautioned one, "you throw yourself forward just as though you were going to dive iutc water." She braced herself for the command. It seemed ages in coming, but at last she heard the cry and gave a jump forward. She felt the rojw around her waist tighten; she realized that she was spinning in the air, and then she laud ed on hands and knees on the pad. She had only turned twice, but It seemed as if slie had been revolving Iu space for an hour. For a moment she lay there, sobbing, tmiil the kindly farol woman took bet to the dressing tent. "It's harder work than you thought isn't it?" she asked kindly. "We all have to go through with that. I thought they were going to kill me before I learned to ride." Wells seemed disappointed, but not surprised, when he learned that she had abandoned a cireus career, but he was very nice about it, and she crept out of the tent humiliated and asham ed. Three months later Jackson Peters was saying good by to Mrs. Burrows before taking his bride to her new home. "Be a good husband to her, Jack," said the lady, "and if you want to hold her love never let lier tind out that 1 used to ride for Wells and that we had It fixed up for her." And Jackson, being wise, never told. Twelve Series of Perfume*. A leading authority on perfumes di vides the entire list into twelve series? (1) floral, as of the rose, violet and the like; (2) herbal, as of bergamot, mint and other aromatic plants; (3) the gras* series, comprising several fragrant grasses which grow in Ceylon or Iu dia, as the orange grass, which con tains an essential oil identical with that of the orange, and ginger grass which has the perfume of the giugei root; (4) the citrine series, comprising the orange, lemou and their combiua tious; (5) the spice series, derived from the clove, cinnamon, allspice and the like; (0) the wood series, as the sandal wood, sassafras, rosewood, which de rives its name not from the fact that it has the color of roses, but from the [ odor exhaled by it when freshly cut: (7) the root series, as the orris root and many others; (8) the seed series, as the caraway and vanilla; (1? the balm and gum series, of which there are many varieties; (10) all perfumes and es sences derived from fruits. The elev enth series consists of combinations ot the foregoing varieties, and the twelfth comprises all animal perfumes of what ever nature. How Ijiirfte IVew Zealand la. New Zealand is popularly supposed to Ik' n group of comparatively unim portant islands lying close off the coast of Australia and subject to what is vaguely termed "the Australian govern ment." As a matter of fact, It is about equal in area to the British islands, is distant some 1,200 miles from the neighboring continent, is an independ ent, self governing colony and pos sesses more beautiful and varied scen ery than any other single country of the world except the United States. This colony consists of two large is lands and a third small one. called Stewart Island, to the south. The two large islands n"e properly called the North island and the Middle island, but in ordinary language the Middle Island is termed the Smith island. As the South Island is nearer to the ant arctic circle than the North island, it has, especially In its southernmost part, a cold climate. The North island has a warm enough climate to cause the ole ander and camellia to bloom luxurious ly, and In Its northernmost part the orange grows well. Ancient Artists. Is it known generally that works of art were well [mid for in ancient times? A German review furnished recently some particulars about that question. Pol.vgnote of Thnsos, who lived about 450 B. C., refused, It is true, any pay ment for his works and declared thnt he was sufficiently rewarded with the title of citizen of Athens, which had been conferred on him. But such dis interestedness was seldom imitated. Thirty years later the painter Zeuxls of Ilerneleum was called to the court of Archelaus I., king of Macedonia. He received for bis frescoes In the [mlace of Pella 400 mines, about $8,000. Mna son of riathen paid $20,000 for a "Bat t! 't.lh Iho Persians," which he had or liens I from Arlstules, the leader of the Thehan school. Psmptiilus of Sycl one gave a course of lectures on paint ing. Each pupil paid for attendance one talent, or $1,200 a year. Apeiles re ceived twenty gold tnlents. about $240, 000, for a portrait of Alexander I? or dered by tlie city of Ephesus. CURES AFTER THE DOCTORS HAVE FAILED. RHEUMACIDE has cured thousands of cases of Rheumatism after all the doctors and all other means had failed. Rheumacide cured John F. Eline and others, of Baltimore, after the famous specialists of Johns Hopkins Hospital, the greatest hospital in the world, had failed. Rheumacide cured Austin Percelle. of Salem, Va., and D. H Olmstead. the Norfolk. Va? contractor, after they had spent large sums on other remedies and the doctors had given up hope. Rheumacide cured Mrs. Mary Welborn, of High Point, N. C., r ?_ ? ? ? J.. ? ? J f _ _ A A D U /?? >MM ^ .> oa ? #1 \AS E3 ot rncumausm sne naa vnaurea iui jficcio. i\meuniBvig? vui^u ?v i\. Hughes, of Atkins, Va., after the most famous New York specialists failed. There is a reason why it cures: Rheumacide is the latest discovery of medi cal science, and while powerful enough to sweep all germs and poisons out of the blood, it operates by purely natural m nods, does not injure the most^^icate stomach, and builds up the entire system. Q ^ SWEEPS ALL POISONS OUT OF THE BLOOD. c^ZToZ. A purely vegetable remedy that goea right to the seat of the disease and Kidney Trouble, cures by removing the cause. Your druggist sells and recommends Rheumacide. u, Grippe Sample bottle and booklet free if you send five cents for postage to All B,ood BOBBITT CHEMICAL COMPANY, Proprietors, Baltimore. Dleeeeer Almost a Miracle In This Case. Dillon. S. C . Aug. 18. Bobbitt Chemical Company: GentlemenIn September. 1899. I took rheu matism in a very bad form (inflammatory). In a month after the disease started I had to give up my work and go to bed. It continued to grow worse until my arms and hands were badly drawn, so much so that I could not use them. My legs were drawn back till my feet ;ouched | my hips. I was as helpless as a baby for nearly 12 months. The muscles of my arms and legs were hard and shriveled up. I suffered death many times over. Was treated by six different physicians in McColl. Dillon and Marion, but none of them could do me any good, until Dr. J. H Ewing. of Dillon, came to see me. He told me to try your RHEUMACIDE. He got me one bottle of the medicine and I began to take it. and before the first bottle was used up I began to get better. I used 5% bottles and was com pletely cured. That was years ago and my health has been excellent ever since. Have had no symptoms of rheumatism. Will say further that I began to walk in about six days after I began to take RHEUMACIDE with the aid of crutches; in about three months after I began to take it I could walk as good as any body. and went back to work again. Yours truly. JAMES WILKES. e- e- sr ?-? sr.?- ifr ?-? ar e-.c- n\c yjr > I A Happy | | New Year ? * ? it, f* U/ We [are still taking measures for , J Clothing That Fits W ?/ w v? Plenty Shoes for the jj !t Cold Weather jjj X _ _ w ijj- Ladies Ask About the Big Sale r{\ U, 't> | (iulley 1 I & Qulley ; J ^ <p ^ CLAYTON. - North Carolina ffli THE JOHN A. McKAY MFG. COMPANY Dunn, N. C., Jno. A. McKay, Sole Proprietor General Founders and Machinists. All Kinds of Machinery and Mill Supplies. Ovjr Swinging Saw Machine. Best andCheapcst. s-^The "McKay" Stalk Cutter Sold by us, Dunn, N. C. W. M. Sanders, Sinlthfleld, N. C. W. A. Myatt, Raleigh, N. C. The Adams Co., Four Oaks, N. C. Ashley Home & Son, Clayton, N. C. 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