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DAY AND PRAISES
NEW FEMEDY
in Bed for Months s He Was Too
Weak to Stand Up.
TAKES HYPO-COD
REGAINS HEALTH
“1 certainly am : indebied to this new
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Gilbert, 12069 Battery Ave., Baltimore,
Md. “It put me back on my feet
seventy years of age, I'm
every day and feeling fine.
“For months I was spending most
of my time In bed with two doctors
part of the time. Nervous indigestion
had made me so weak and bad I could
hardly stand on my feet. I had a had
cough too and pains in my chest and
a general breakdown kept me away
from work and in bed for months. My
appetite was gone too, but Earle's
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appetite and with plenty of strength
and free of all those old troubles I've
been working regularly since and
praise Hypo-Cod to the sky everytime
1 get a chance. It does the work and
it is pleasant to take too,” continued
Mr. Gilbert,
Good health, more strength, better
appetite, strong lungs, steadier nerves
and richer blood means better work,
easier work and more fun out of life
and it costs very little when you stop
and think.
Earle's Hypo-Cod Is simply a newer,
more modern, more powerful tonle
and is so pleasant to take even chil
dren love It and elderly folks say it
agrees perfectly with the weakest
stomach. See formulas on bottle. Drug-
gists, chemists and experts assert it Is
an ideal tonic. Drop in at the drug
stare tonight and get hottle or two
and give it a trial.—Adv.
working
A Fresh Start
“Jack's married.”
“Got through sowing his wild oats,
eh?
“No, %'s already started a new crop
with his wife's money."—Boston Tran
script.
Important to all Women
Readers of this Paper
Thousands upon thousands of women
have kidney or bladder trouble and never
suspect it.
Women's complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result of kidney or bladder disease,
If the kidneys are not in a healthy con
dition, they may cause the other organs
to become diseased.
You may suffer pain in the back, head
ache and loss of ambition.
Poor health makes you nervous irrite
ble and may be despondent; it makes any
one so.
But hundreds of women claim that Dr.
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, by restoring
health to the kidneys, proved to be just
the remedy needed
conditions,
Many send for a sample bottle to see
what Swamp-Root, the great kidney,
them. By enclosing ten cents to Dr.
Kilmer & Co. Binghamton, N. Y. you
may receive sample size bottle by Parce'
Post. You can purchase medium and
large size bottles at all drug stores.—Adv.
Silliness Discouraged.
“There's one thing 1 like about the
fdea of women in politics,” remarked
Farmer Corntossel,
“What is that?”
“They Bre not likely to encourage
any of these fool election bets about
people's not shaving until one candi
Cate or another is elected.”
Catarrh
Catarrh is a local disease greatly nflu.
enced by constitutional conditions
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE is a
Tonle and Blood Purifier. By cleansing
the blood and building up the System
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE restores
normal conditions and allows Nature («
do its work
All Druggists. Circulars free.
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Locating the Heart,
“Home Is where the heart 18" re
marked the man of sentiments, “Yes,”
commented Mr. Bildoo; "but 1 wish
my landlord wouldn't keep my heart
in my mouth”
A Lady of Distinction
fs recognized by the delicate faxcinat
ing influence of the perfume she uses
A bath vith Cuticura Boap and ho!
water to thoroughly cleanse the pores
followed by a dusting with Cutlcurn
Talcum powder usually means a clear
sweet, healthy skin.-—Adv.
This Fitch a Fighter.
Muskellunge sometimes run up to
one hundred pounds in weight, says
the American Forestry Magazine, and
to land one with rod and line is a fea!
not to be forgotten in a lifetime.
One dose of Dr Pesry's “Dead Shot” ex.
oe Worms or Tapeworm [ts section upon
he Slamat and Bowes is beneficial. No see
dose or after purgative necessary. ~~ Adv
Jud Yunkine.
Jud Tunkinse says the old-time
statesman who sat down and wrote out
hig speeches with a pen wouldn't stand
any chances whatever in these days
of handshaking.
““INURI
URI,
~ Morning «
eepYour Eyes
Sloan Slept Habirhy
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CHAPTER XVIii—Continued.
El
“There was & lot of malevolence In
{ Mr, Sidney's tone, a tremendous
| amount of hate. Richard Dobson ut-
tered the quivering, quavering little
ery again and started to run. As he
got under way, he shrieked. It sound-
ed like an old woman's shriek,
“Mr, Sidney started after him. He
had that cane you saw him take out
of this room. That was the one he
| was beaten down with,
“1 think for a moment he wanted to
kill Richard. He flourished the stick
and yelled, Richard, being In a fren-
zy of fright, was stronger on his legs
than his brother. He was off into the
bush. Mr. Sidney stumbled and fell.
He got up rather slowly, as if he were
either hurt or as If his strength were
leaving him. 1 could hear Richard
shrieking farther off In the bush.
“When Mr. Sidney got up, he turned
toward the house, and I ran to beat
him here and found you.”
Jed rocked a while, and I did
say anything.
“1 am decldedly shaken)”
after a while, “I was very fond of
him, and I am a useless old man, an
alcoholic of no account except to him,
nnd he is dead™
“There is only one thing to do,” I
gald. “Richard Dobson must be on
his way to freedom tomorrow. We
shall have to see to that"
Jed aroused himself for an Instant.
“You copy-book moralist!” he sald.
“You would interfere with a genial,
lovable man's magnificent hate Just
because he 1s dead and your scruples
have tmportant. You ought
Let the brute Diek Dobson
rot in prison. It's his
“It can't be done, Jed,” 1 sald. “To-
morrow we'll go to Alwick prison and
explain.” .
- » * * * . .
not
he sald
become
to choke.
desert.”
For me to act without telling Mrs,
Sidney was Impossible, and It was al-
most impossible for me to take the
subject up with her. I saw her only
for a moment, told her that, being ae-
quainted with the facts, 1 thought 1
knew what the conscience of the house
would require.
Her world had been destroyed ; her
light had gone out. EBhe had no pride
for herself; she shrank from the pos
sibility of a hurt to Isobel, but I had
judged the conscience of the
correctly. She would have protected
Mr.
fustice in the world
in her own esteem,
justice could be
house
that was her
tut now he
done,
sin
was dead:
I did not want to act without Iso
bel's knowing what I was doing. i
hoped she would of what 1
intended to do. though 1 Intended to
do 1t whether she did or not. 1 had
to tell the story.
“You are right,
i “But how magnificent
He was stark Nemesis,
purest justice there is!”
She wns a bit ecstatic. They teach
young ladies too many generalizations,
1 thought There was no rhapsody in
this: it was ugly.
Jed had one more fash of spirit as
we started for the penitentiary.
“You poor old copy-book fool of a
mornlist ' he sald. “Why can't your
insignificant conscience be satisfied
without doing a lot of damage tr -n
good end? Hang you moralists! You
areck life. Richard Dobson can't eo
Approve
John," she said
father was!
the cleanest,
tain
vam
Mr. S.dney Started After Him,
outside the penitentiary. He has no
money, no way of making aay, ns
place to go. no friends. You +e go-
ing to throw him out of his home.
You »re going to torture hin with
the knowledge that his life was wasted
in prison when he wa< a free man in
sw. You are going to destroy “ie Sid-
sey family.”
“Richard Dohgon saw his brother”
I snidd, “that night at (he pool”
“He saw a ghost.” asserted Jed, "Or
H he n't see a ghost, |» must went
to «tay in the penitentiary. If he
knew It was his brother, why didn’t
ne demand an inquiry and his fre
dom? Either because he saw n ghost
ar he does not want his freedom. You
A
££
"
’
Wee
can have it either way you want. You
are going to force him out of the only
place he has to live, and ycu are go-
ing to give him the tragedy of know-
ing that his life was woecked”
“He Is a rich man,” 1 said “Half
the old Dobson estate 8 his, An of It
is his. His brother was legally and is
now actually dead”
“You are a worse man than I was,’
suid Jed. “I never interfered with Mr.
8 dney's scheme of punishment. You
are trying to. His scheme was just”
“What's the use of this debate?” 1
exclaimed. “You are morally incapa-
ble of right doing”
“And you are a foolish collection of
plous axioms” sald Jed.
When we came to the penitentiary
eptrance, we encountered Morgan of
the Metropolitan agency.
me.
“You had me fooled.” he said.
really thought you didn’t know."
“1 did not know,” 1 sald.
“Didn't you!” he exclaimed.
are hore to see Richard Dobson, 1 fol-
lowed my hunch. [I have the answer
to the thing. 1 know why this man
Sidney never was younger than twenty
years. Yon are to see Richard
because you are representing
Arthur Dobson.”
“Arthur Dobson is dead.”
“1 know he is—a8 a name;
fs nlive as Sidney.”
“Mr. Sidney is dead.” 1 salds “We
have come here to tell Richard Dob
son that he ean go free. 1 did not
know who
last night”
As Morgan stood before
penitentiary steps, 1 thought how true
had been my conception of him as
the inevitable. Mr. Sidney had out-
played fate, but it was by using the
trump card death,
Morgan's face showed some unpleas-
aut lines,
“What do you mean, that Sidney is
dead? he asked.
“He died Christmas night. 1 read
his diary last night. Jed gave It tO
me. It Is the one Dravada tried to
steal. We came here at once to fell
Richard Dobson.” :
“Let his brother Arthur tell him
Richard Is dead.” sald Morgan, going
on down the steps. “But I am not
through with you people. Publicity is
“yx
“You
here
but he
He got into an sutomobile, and was
driven away,
“Something always happens to these
sald Jed savage
young
shut
consciences,”
fellow. Now mouth
inside here”
The warden told us
Dobson had died the night before. He
had sustained a great shock the night
he walked out of the penitentiary and
was found on Mr. Sidney's grounds
The adventure not only overtaxed him
physically, but it had affected his Im
agination, When the
him. after the message from Hartley
house, he was Incoherent and io a fe
keep your
He never regained strength or ra-
tionality. He had been quiet at times,
but at other times was in delirium.
When delirious, be suffered chiefly
from the delusion that he had seen
his brother's ghost.
He died slowly and In great misery.
the warden sald.
“Now keep your mouth shut
fool” Jed ordered
ding me in the ribs,
The warden was affected by the
news of Mr. Sidney's death. He re.
membered him as the pleasant’ man
who had called one day. It seemed to
me that our visit, so shortly after Mr.
Sidney's death, must appear as a thing
strangely without purpose to the war.
den, but Jed was so apparently right
in asking for silence at this time that
I yielded to hia prugential course.
The right and wrong of the Dobson
Affalr was in the grave. Our depar
ture from the penitentiary was awk.
ward, 1 thought. The warden did not
seem to find it so
On the way back Jed presented, vi
elously. the sharp edges of our trouble.
“You have that fellow Morgan to
deal with,” he sald. "If you are going
to be moralistic, you will ruin the lives
of two ladies who have trusted you.
Morgan has to be bought. You are not
doing anyone any hurt now. You are
not keeping an innocent man In the
penitentiary. You are not disturbing
justice or defeating punishment. You
are taking the surest means to the
protection of the innocent by bribing
this man to silence.”
Of all the obvious things I might
have sald to this man who for a long
time had terrorized the Sidney house.
hold. none seemed pertinent, They
would have been imprecations and re
pronches, They would have denit
with the past. He, as if he had a
clean slate, was dealing with the fu.
ture. It did Mrs. Sidney and Isobel
no good to tell Jed that he had been
a rascal and was unfit to advise,
“If you go to Mrs, Sidney" sald
Jed, “she will sacrifice herself and
everyhody else, Go to Miss’ Sidney
and tell her that the family must pay
Mr. Morgan £20000. Hell want $50.
000. He'll take twenty. Give It to
him in five annnal Installments, At
the end of five years he'll be harm.
less. You and Miss Sidoey will have
you
by merely prod:
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areal
yy bed dh it
established yourselves, and Morgan's
story will be a dried-up walnut.”
The proposal was so repulsive that
I did not answer Jed. He sald a great
deal more in a great deal of bitter.
ness, chiefly against me and what he
conceived to be my moralistic ideas.
When we had returned to Hartley
house, Jed sald:
“Do at least one thing,
Sidney what she prefers.”
I had no right and no inclination
to make a decision which concerned
the family and not me. I did not want
to speak to Mrs. Sidney—Jed was
right, her conscience might permit
only the answer which would expose
the family to consequences, 1 spoke
to Isobel.
We compromised with Morgan. Jed
again was right. Morgan wanted $30.
000. He took $20,000.
Isobel had been insistent. She had
been impatient of any suggestion that
there could be anything immoral or
dangerous in such compromising. Fem-
inine mosals are selfishly protective
of things near and dear. A general
ized immorality, an upembodied Im-
morality, is to women unimportant, It
is less than unimportant; it is lnpos
gible; It does not exist. This is a
part of the Instinet which nourishes
and protects the infant
“1 don't understand
John,” she said. “Is there any ques
tion in your migd that we ought to
protect my father's memory and my
ask Miss
you at all,
You admit
this man Morgan can
things we hold dearest,
that a small payment can
that even now
the
You admit
protect these things.
the one thing of which we
mit that we
any harm by
man Morgan.”
Of course, 1 had to give in.
using it to bribe
CHAPTER XVIIL
Mr. Ridney was buried by the pool
on a bitter afternoon when the spow
creaked underfoot, and the sun, In a
cold blue sky to the southwest above
the hills across the river, could hard
iy be regarded as a warm and sustain
ing star,
The servants were pall bearers—sad
ones: and we had the chaplain from
the penitentiary to read the service
in the room Mr. Sidoey had used. The
sun came in the southwestern win.
dows, and the canaries sang. Algol
was afraid of strangers and hid him.
self. Otherwise It was Mr. Sidoey's
room.
We carried the coffin the half-mile
in the bitter cold to the grave which
had been dug by the pool with mat
tocks through the frozen earth. Mrs
Sidney took my arm, but walked the
distance bravely. Isobel went as if
she were a clear-eyed Spartan girl ac
cepting life without a quaver or whim.
upon the terms offered. We left
the remains of our gracious gentleman
there,
80 genial a man could not die. He
still pervaded the house. He had im
pregnated it. His death could not de
stroy his influence. Even his room,
his death chamber, remained jovial;
but Algol attached himself to Isobel
and could not be parted from her, He
went to her room that night.
Necessity and delicacy both sup
gested that 1 go away for a while the
following morning. It was necessary
for me to establish myself in the city
in material and physical facts of lodg
ing. and so forth, and delicacy Intimat.
ed that I was an alien in the house.
hold upon a strangely fictitious stand.
ing.
I went away in the early morning.
leaving word that 1 would return in =
day or two to say goodbye. I came
back the evening of the second day
by automobile from the city. 1 had
been impelled to go back and had so
far resisted the compulsion that 1 had
missed train time. Then the Impulse
reasserted itself so irresistibly that 1!
took an automobile for the 40-mile
ride.
Jed smet me at the door.
diality was unforced. It was the din
ner hour. Jed suggested either some
biscuits and sherry in my room or an
omelet with mushrooms. Mrs. Sidney,
he said, had been Spartan, but was in
collapse. Miss Sidney was somewhere
about—he did pot know where,
1 did not want anything to eat and
went toward the library. Isobel was
sitting there by the fire,
1 had often seen her thus before. It
was. one of ghe familiar pictures 1
should remember. There were proba.
biy a half dozen others—none better
than this,
She looked up as 1 entered.
“1 am glad you are back, John,” she
said.
1 could think only of a common:
place,
“1 did not intend to disturb you” |
sald. “How is your mother?"
tterly and happily stupefied,” sald
Isobel, “Her pain waits for her”
“And yourself?” J
“1 ean't find a tragedy In 1" whe
maid. “1 feel a sense of terrible bu:
inevitable loss. 1 had reconciled my
self to it. 1 can't be a sentimental reb
el against life. His life was happy tu
per,
His cor
the end. He would bate us If we
&
7
were morose, Please sit down, John.”
1 did, in a comfortable chair. We
looked at the fire,
“I'l be saying good-bye tomorrow,
I said.
“What are yon going to do?”
“I have made some arrangements
I'l bulld up a small practice, I
go to a small town. 1 think
would suit me. I havel't the
ment for a city. It is chill.”
“You have really set yourself back
by coming here,” she suggested,
“Possibly,” 1 admitted, “in
material ways; but 1 have
wonder time of my life here,
rifice was cheap.”
“But it was a sacrifice?
“In a strictly pragmatic
yes.”
“You think of it as a sacri
“I do pot. I think of
lived the
The sac-
fice?”
it as my real
“You Presume That | Am Not in Love
With You”
iife.
the sacrifice.”
John"
“1 presume 80,
think otherwise™ ®
women, John ¥™
“1 have no ideas of women.
not presumptuous or, in that
egotistie™
“Ses, you are.” she sald,
*] don't think you are right in say.
ing that."
“Sou are presumptuous shout
“1 am wot!” | exclaimed
pride.
“Nou are,” she said. "Yon
that I am not In love with
(THE END).
I am
me.”
in hurt
you."
WANTED T0 “GO IT ALONE”
Many Years Age Misspurl
Her
Declared
Ambition to Become an In.
dependent Republic.
ting up as an independent republic
all by herself, The Session acts, state
of Missouri, 1838.18%9,
morial to the congress of the United
It tells of an expedition
to Santa Fe in 1812 from St. Louis,
though it is not specifically stated that
they went over the Ranta Fe trail
tain many Interesting resolutions and
of political and historical subjects
of 1820 starts with the preamble that
and establish a {ree and independent
Missouri,
Missouri was one of the pivotal
states In “the history of this country,
It was made such In the ancient fight
in congress over the slavery question,
which took up the admission of free
and slave states and considered the 4
balance therenf In congress. Migsou-
ri was also a pivots! state In yet an
other and larger sense--ghe wae the
jumping-off place for that wild and
unknown country called the Wild West
«the land west of the Missouri river
She made the midway point hetween
the frontiersmen of Kentucky and
those of the great plains, occupying a
generation of history herself as »
frontier commonwealth,
Value of Snakes.
Most people have a decided shrink-
ing from snakes, which is not to be
wondered at in tropical countries
where thelr bite is venomous and nften
fatal, But the grass snake ought not
to be confounded with the rattiers
cobrae or pythons. It is Ms harmieew
to humanity as a frog and a good dea!
No greater enemy to
field pests. They keep down the num
bers also of such other peste as mice
shrews and other small rodents. Bu
as slug destroyers they deserve to he
sight, which is their usual fate.
i
GREAT BENEFIT
South Carolina Lac Lady Suffered Un-
til She Couldn’t Stay Up or Go
Anywhere—Tells How
Cardui Helped Her
Get Well,
Batesburg, 8. C.—In telling how ghe
found relief from troubles that had
caused her much suffering, Mrs, E. E.
this place, says: “Each
My limbs would ache
wouldn't be able
no matter what 1 wanted
to do, or where 1 wanted to go. My
people tried giving me different medi-
get any better,
“Some one told me of Cardul, god 1
began to take it. I noticed it helped
me. I kept it up. After a few months
For about
six months I used it, before . . .
“I found I was all right, and from
time. I have taken It
or two in the winter,
especially when I have been exposed,
it the best thing a woman can take to
tone up the system, keep off nervous.
ness, and the appetite. I
certainly know it has been of great
benefit to me.”
If you are weak, nervous,
nerecse
or suffer
troubles such as Mrs.
Oswalt take Cardul, the
Woman's Tonle,
All good drug
me
ntions,
ists sell Cardul—aAdy.
Savages Pogr Physically.
The na if the Afric
instead of being the lusty
fiver «
fon. are for
lmaginat
physically below par
are malnourd
physic
and marked
mon
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If Japar
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§
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Examine carefully every bottle of
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tcher’s Castoria
Turni ing the Luck.
In Yorkshire, country folk
their thumbs “to turn the
meet 8 single magpie.
Scotland a magpie
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of the inmates,
TOSS
luck”
In
seen pear a dwell
Anoint the eyeilds with Roman Hye Bal
sa at night. and in the morning your eyes
will feel refreshed and Stranatheney ——h dw
What She Hunted.
“Do you ever go hunting?” asked a
“No,
reply.
“Your wife?"
“Yos.™
“What for?"
“Oh. for burglars fire, or pare-
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ways hard to tell In advance. "Hous
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Mra. Chas Cook,
$16 Queen 81, Alex-
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wer
and
ornings x was
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