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GOOCH In Business for Your Health "Is the Place " MlitSShri t : . : : : OXFOR^. E. <3. OXFORD CNAUrAUQtM, NOV. 7,3 AND 3 INVESTMENT ^ yoMr ^ ^ ? ^L/^OUR own home is an JL ideal investment, always under your personal protec tion, adding to your enjoyment while it adds to your wealth. But have you protected that in vestment against deterioration? Permanence costs but little more than temporary construction. Ask the help of your building material dealer. He knows the best types of construction and the best materials to use. ATLAS PORTLAWnCtWEXTl ^// 77%%5M72% wjietA, &C. - .. . THE NOVELETTE A WINNER OF PRIZES (By H. Irving King) Charles Macklin had just won a cup at polo. His yacht had won a) race that season in the twenty-foot ciass, Corinthian crews ,and Charles was Proportionately puffed up. There were no shrinking violets mingled " ith the victor's bays worn by Charles Macklin. He was now ex patiating to Ciara Fontain upon his latest victory. W hy, Clara," he said at last, 'you don't geem to care whether I won the cup or not. What is the matter? You were pleased enough when I won the yacht race.'' Yesi," replied Clara, "and I am glad you won the polo cup. But I have been thinking lately—beginning to see things in a different light." "Why—why," stammered Charles in alarm, "you haven't ceased to love me, have you?" "No," replied Ciara, "but I am be ginning to wish—or forgive me, Charlie—but 1 am beginning to wish I had loved a different sort of man." Charles gasped, speechless with astonishment. He—the triumphant yachtsman, the victorious polo play er, the young millionaire fairly mob bed by mothers with marriageable daughters; the socially impeccable, the morally co^rest! Clara went on: "I mean that you don't accomplish anything worth while. You win yacht and polo matches, but in the larger affairs of the world, in the real business of life, in the things which really count— what part do you play? In com merce, literature, the arts and sciences, public life you have no part at all. You did not even accumulate the money you spend—it was left to you. "Great Scott!" cried Charles. "What do you want me to do? I am not silly enough to think I can write a book or paint a picture. I never was much of a sharp ip the scientific line at college, but if you say so I'll go in for bacteriology or electricity, or something of that sort. They can't be very difficult, judging by some of-the johnnies I've seen mess ing with 'em." Clara laughed. 'That shows how little you really know about such things, said she. "We'll skip the arts and sciences—but why not go in for politick? There is a great field for a young man like you In Ameri can politics today. Look at—" And she named several young men of wealth and social position who had gone into politics and made their rep utations— The idea caught Macklin's fancy at once. "By Jove!" cried he, "great idea. Thanks for those words of wisdom, Miss Clara Fountain, I'll show you whether I amount to any thing or not. Salute the next Gover nor," And Clara made her salute— one. two, three kisses. "Just as soon as you succeed, Charles." said she, "we will be mar ried. No need to wait until you are Governor—I will be content to be State Senator Macklin's lady." Mack line's announcement that he was go ing in for politics was) felt by John Henry Parmlee, the district boss of Macklin's party, to be a special inter vention in his behalf of whatever gods there be that preside over the devious ways of political bosses. A little deal was on by which the State senatorship from the district was to be swapped by Parmlee's party—which was strong enough in the Senate to get along without it— for certain concessions with regard to the city ticket. As a ^ matter of fact, Parmlee's war chest was in anything but a ple thoric condition anyway. So when Macklin, with his millions behind him, announced to the boss that he was about to rip things wide open in the political world. Parmlee could have hugged him. Macklin was nominated on the reg ular ticket for State Senator and they faked up a reform party out of respectable imbeciles and disrepu table political discards which in dorsed Macklin's nomination. "I've got them on the run," the en thusiastic Charles told his admiring Clara. "Get your wedding dress ready ahd pick out a house at the capital for next winter." At last came the election. As Charles, at his headquarters that night, read the return^ as they came clicking in on the private wire his wonder almost overpowered; his dis may. ' ' < Not a eqg had slipped. "I had a wild idea that I was running for of fice," said Macklin. "But was mis taken—the other fellow was doing the running; I was standing still." - One of the boss' henchman who was disgruntled at not getting a cer tain job he had asked for and who, rather liked Macklin, "put him wise" as to what had happened to him. "Played you for a sucker, slf," said the henchman, and explained.'. Clara came to see the defeated candidate, full of love and sympathy, j M "Never mind, dear," said she, "if you have lost the senatorship you have won Clara Fontain—and I am not as important as the senatorship?" "A thousand timeg more impor tant," replied Charles, "but I intend to have you both—you hrst of-course. Come and sit on my knee and let's ) t ji ... . . - .— talk about the wedding/' "And you wiii leave horrid old politics alone, won't you?" asked Clara. "Not much, I don't." said Charles, "but I shall get into the next cam paign with my eyes open. 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