BIG TIMBER BERTH AND W. SINCLAIR C*7fi<ltf. 191(5. hy Utti, IMM 6> Cx>. *- (Continued.) CHAPTER XV. i A Lost Illusion. Stella ha dnot minced matters with herself when she left Itoaring lake. Dazed and shaken by suffering nevertheless she knew that she would not always suffer; that in time she would get back to that normal state in which the human ego dili gently pursues happiness. In time the legal tie between herself and Jack Fyfe would cease to exist. If Monohan cared for her as she thought he cared, a year or two more or less mattered little. They had all their lives before them. In the long run the errors and mistakes of that upheaval would grow dim, be as nothing. Jack Fyfe would shrug his shoulders and forget, and in due time he would llnd a fitter mate, one as loyal as he deserved. And why might not she who had never loved him. whose marriage to him had been only a climMng out of the fire into the frying pan? So that with all her determination to make the most of her gift of song, so that she would never again be buffeted by material urgencies In a material world. Stella had neverthe less been listening with the ear of her mind, so to speak for a word from Monohan to say that he un-> derstood and that all was well. Three Generations of . Women The young women of this gener ation, their mothers and gr-ii'd mothers have proved from actual experience that Lydia E. Ptnkhain's Vegetable Compound overcome* the suffering caused by female ills tnd i ■••Mores them to a healthy cot.ui llja. This famous medicine con taitu ;io nj'rcotics or habit-forming drugs—but is made from medicinal roots and herbs, nature's remedy for disease. If you are suffering from any form of female ills, itj will pay you to give it a trial. City Physicians Explain Why They Prescribe Nuxated Iron To Make Beautiful, Healthy Women and Strong Vigorous Men NOW BEING USED BY OVER THREE MILLION PEOPLE ANNUALLY Quickly Transforms tlic flabby flesh, toneless tissues, anil pallid checks of wreak, anaemic men nad women Into a perfect Blow of health und beauty—Often Increases the strength of delicate, nervoua, run down folks 100 per cent, in two weeks' time. New York, N. Y. —It Is conserva tively estimated that over three mil lion people annually in this country alone are taking Nuxated Iron. Such astonishing results have been report ed from its use both by doctors and laymen, that a number of physcians in various parts cf the country have been asked to explain why they pre scribe it so extensively, and why it apparently produces so much better results than were obtained from the old forms of inorganic iron. Extracts from some of the letters received are given below: Dr. Ferdinand King, a New York Physician and Medical Author, says: "The e can bo no vigorous iron men without iron. Pallor means anaemia. Anaemia means ir#n deficiency. The skin of anaemic men and women is pale . The flesh flabby. The muscles lack tone, the brain fags and the memory fails and they often become weak, nervous, irritable, despondent and melancholy. When the iron goes from the blood of women, the roses go from their cheeks.. In the most common foods of Amer ica. the starches, sugars, table syrups, candies, polished rice," white bread, soda crackers, biscuits, macaroni, spa ghetti. tapioca, sago, farina, deger minated corn meal, no longer is iron to be found. Refining processes have removed the iron of Mother Earth from these impoverished foods, and silly methods of home cookery, by throwing down the waste-pipe the water in which our vegetables are cooked are responsible for another grave iron loss. Therefore, if you wish to preserve your youthful vim and vigor to a ripe old age, you must supply the iron de ficiency in your food by using some form of ttrganic iron just as you would use salt when your food has not enough salt. Dr. A. J. Newman, late Police Sur geon of the City of Chicago, and for mer House Surgeon, Jefferson Park Hospital. Chicago, In commenting on Nuxated Iron, says "It has been my particular duty during the past six years to assist in keeping Chicago's five thousand bluecoats In good health and perfect lighting trim so that they would be physically equipped to with stand all manner of storms and the ravages of nature's elements. Recently I was prompted through an endorsement of Nuxated Iron by Dr. Schuyler C. .Jaques, Vlßiting Sur geon of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, New York, to give it a trial. This remedy has proven through my own tests of It to excel any preparation I have ever used for creating red blood, building up the nerves, strengthening the muscles and correcting digestive Jisorders." . Dr. E. Saucr, a Boston physician R-ho has atudiud widely both In this :ountry and In great European Medi cal Institutions, says: "As I have said L hundred times over, organic Iron is he greatest of all strength builders, f people would only take Nuxated ron when they feel weak or run lown. Instead of dosing themselves with habit-forming drugs, stimulants md alcoholic beverages I am con- TUESDAY EVENING, Bringing Up Father m'm, Copyright, 1917, International News Service By McManus I| I I X° U OOV/in AND i ~~1118~7 I _' _J Iyj ' TH)b ,D\NT>( TOtSV<HT! £? I HATE TO x I HOPE DINTY W HOO*bE TONIGHT - I'VE 7-J- 1 " >_ C~ DE C-EiVE MAC<IE I \ HAS A, PA\p op j LOCK') I —— r BOT I SHOEAM- A, 1 ■' ON EVER\ - 'K~j±—i n "S£y r/'X V , —(Test) * S T J-C3 l ', -t • , • , /EOMfHBHUs I I . - ' • ' !___ V-—... Paradoxically, she hatl not ex. | pected to hear that word. Once in j Seattle, away from it all, there | slowly grew upon her the convic-1 tion that in Monohan's line avowal" | and renunciation he had only fol-1 lowed the cue she had given. In j all else he had played his own hand, j She couldn't forget Billy Dale. If | the motive behind that bloody cul mination were thwarted love it was! a thing to shrink from. It seemed to her now, forcing herself to rea son with cold blooded logic, that Monohan desired her less than he bated Fyfe's possession of her; that she was merely an added factor in the breaking out of a struggle fori mastery between two diverse and j dominant men. Every sign and token went to show that the pot of hate had long been simmering. She had only contributed to its boiling over. "Oh, .well " she sighed, "it's out of my hands altogether now. I'm sorry, but being sorry doesn't make any difference. I'm the least factor, it seems, in the whole muddle. A woman isn't much more than an in cident in a man's life, after all." She dressed to go to the Charteris, for her day's work was about to be gin. As so often happens in life's i uneasy flow, periods of calms are I succeeded by events in close se quence. Howard and his wife in-' sisted that Stella join them at sup-I per after the show. They were de cent folk who accorded frank admir Or. Schuyler C. Jaques, |. Visiting Surgeon of "St. Klizabeth's Hospital, New j 0tc HOU* York City, said: "I have /, never before given out I ""■">■* Nev "%J I an >' medical information m or advice for publication I 3 as 1 ordinarily do not be- IX. llove in it. But in the t A O /- S as . e T Of Nuxated Iron I f&z.- 'S \ "iced that in this way they couldgiven it \ 1 IS ward off disease, preventing it be- to my ill coming organic in thousands of cases pa t i - I I and thereby the lives of thousands ents with \ * M might be saved who now die every most sur- \ ™ A Q year from pneumonia grippe, kidney, prising an d\ 1 liver, heart trouble and other dan- satisfactory \ v gerous maladies. The real and true results. a n .1V. cause which started their diseases those who wlsli^ife was nothing more nor less than a quickly to in weakened condition brought on by crease ei r lack of iron in the blood. strength, power and TO? rsot long ago a man came to me endurance will find 7 .<• who was nearly half a century old it a most remark- 4 Jnlr and asked me to give him a prelimi- able and wonderfullv nary examination for life insurance, effective remedv." ' was astonished to find him with the blood pressure of a boy of 20 and as full of vigor, vim and vitality as a young man; in fact a young man he really was notwithstanding his age. The secret, he said, was taking iron—nuxated iron had filled him with renewed life. At 30 he was in bad health; at 46 he was careworn and nearly all in—now at 50, after taking Nuxated Iron, a miracle of vitality and his face beaming with the buoy ancy of youth. Iron is absolutely necessary to en able your blood to change food into living tissue. Without it. no matter how much or what you eat. your food merely passes through you without doing you any good and as a conse quence you become weak, pale and sickly-looking, just like a plant try ing to grow In a soil deficient in iron. If you are not strong or well you owe It to yourself to make the following test: See how long you ean work or how far you can walk with out becoming tired. Next take two five-grain tablets of ordinary nuxated iron three times per dav after meals, for two weeks. Then test your strength again and see how much you nave pained I have seen dozens of nervous, run-down people who were ailing all the while double their strength and endurance and entirely rid themselves of all symptoms o'f dyspepsia, liver and other troubles in from ten to fourteen days' time sim ply by taktng iron In the proper form And this after they had in some cases been doctoring for months without obtaining any benefit.. But don't take the old forms of reduced Iron, iron acetate or tincture of iron simply to save a few cents. The Iron demanded by Mother Nature for the red color ing matter In the blood of her chil dren is, alas, not that kind of Iron You must take iron In a form that can be easily absorbed and assimilat ed to do you any good, otherwise It may prove worse than useless. Many an athlete and prise-fighter has won the day simply because he knew the secret of great strength and endur ance and filled his blood with iron before he went' Into the affray; while many another has gone down in In glorious defeat simply for the lack of Iron." | ation of her voice and her pei i sonality. They had been kind to I her in many little ways, and she was I glad to accept. j At 11 o'clock a taxi deposited ! them at the door of Wain's. The j Seattle of yesterday needs no intro i duction to Wain's, and its counter. | part can be found in any cosmopoli tan seaport city. It is a place of j subtle distinction, tucked away on one of the lower hill streets, where after theater parties and nighthawks with an eye for pretty women, an ear for sensuous music and a taste for good food go when they have money to spend. Ensconced behind a potted palm with a waiter taking Howard's or der, Stejla let her gaze travel over the diners. She brotlght up with a repressed start at a table but four removes from her own, her eyes resting upon the unmistakable pro file of Walter Monohan. Ho was dining vis-a-vis with a young woman chiefly remarkable for a profusion of yellow hair and a blazing diam ond in the lobe of each ear—a plump, blond, vivacious person of a type that Stella, even with her lim ited experience, found herself in i stantly classifying. \ A bottle of wine rested in an iced dish between them. Monohan was toying with the stem of a half cmp | tied glass, smiling at his companion. The girl leaned toward him, .spoak i.ig rapidly, pouting. Mononan , D r N ' H : Homstlne, for ten years in the Department of Public Health and Charities of Philadelphia; said: "After carefuly examining the formula of Nuxated Iron I realized that here at last was organic iron—the only kind I could conscientiously recommend prepared in such a way with other in giedients as to be easily assimilated if L to act as a quick re vitalizer of the blood and a true Strength builder. Its administration In a number of stubborn eases where other tonics had utterly tailed only served to convince me absolutely „f the remarkable and unusual power of Auxated Iron. When I personally to " k ' found the rapidity with which my energy and endurance In creased most surprising. In my opin ion the widespread use of Nuxated Iron is bound to make a nation of stronger men. lovelier women and healthier children." 1 NOTE—Nuxated Iron, which is pre scribed and recommended above by physicians in such a great variety of cases, is not a patent medicine nor secret remedy, but ono which is well known to druggists, and whoso iron constituents are widely prescribed by eminent physicians both In Europe and America. Unlike the older inor ganic iron products it is easily as similated, does not Injure the teeth I make them black nor upset the stom- 1 ach; on the contrary, Mt is a most potent remedy in nearly all forms of indigestion as well as for nervous run-down conditions. The manufac turers have such great confidence in Nuxated Iron that they offer to for feit *IOO.OO to any charitable institu tion if they cannot take any man or woman sixty who lacks iron and increase their strength 100 per cent, or over in four weeks' time, pro vided thev have no serious organic trouble. They also offer to refund your money if it does not at least double your strength and endurance in ten days' time. It- is dispensed in this city by Croll Keller. G. A. Uorgas J. Nelson Clark and all good drug gists.—Advertisement. &AHRIBBURG &SSft* TEXJEGRAPHI nodded, draining his glass, signaled .1 waiter. When she got nto an elaborate opera clouk and Monohan into his Inverness they went out, the plump, jeweled hand resting familiarly on Alonohan's arm Stella breathed a sigh of relief ns they pas.sed, looking straight ahe.id. She watched through the upper half of the cafe window and saw a machine draw against the curb, saw the be scarfed yellow head enter and Mon ohan's silk hat follow. Then uhe re laxed, but she had little appetite for her food. A hot wave \or 'harried disgust kept coming over her. Very likely Monohan had put her in that class in his secret thought. She w.is glial when the evening ended and the Howards left her at her own dooistep. On the carpet where it had been thrust by the postman uoder the door, a white square caught her eye. and she picked it up before she switched on the light. And she got a queer little shock when ♦*e light fell on the envelope, for It was ad dressed in Jack Fyfe's angular hand writing. She tore it open. It was ittlo enough in the way of a letter, a couple of lines scrawled across the sheet of note paper. Dear Girl—l was in Seattle a few days ago and heard you sii'tt. Here's hoping good luck rides with yon. JACK. Stella sat down by the window. Outside the ever present Puget sound rain drove against wall and roof and sidewalk, gathered in wet, glistening pools in the street. Through that same window she had watched Jack I-'yfe walk out of her life three months ago without a backward look, sturdily, siletHly, un complaining. He hadn't whined; he wasn't whining now, only fling ing a cheerful word out of the biaiiK spaces of his own life into the blank spaces of hers. Stella fo'.t some thing warm and wet steal down her cneeks. She crumpled the letter with * a suaaen, spasmodic clinching of her hand. A lump rose chokingly in her throat. She stabbed at tie light s,wit<?h and threw herself cn the Led. sobbing her heart's crv in the dusky nuiet. And she c >uld not. have told why, except that sfce had been overcome by a miserably for lorn feeling. All the mental prop? she relied upon were knocked out from under her. Somehow those few scrawled words had flung swiftly before her, like a picture on screen, a vision of her baby toddling un certainly across the porch oil the white bungalow. And she could not beer to think of that. • * • * When the elm before her window br.'kc into leaf and the sodden win ter skies were transformed into a lurm spring vista of blue Stella was ringing a special engagement in a local vaudeville house that boasted a "big time" bill. She had stepped up. The silvery richness of her vo ce had carried her name already be yond local boundaries ns the siis ing master under whom she studied prophesied it would. la p -oof thereof she received during April a feminine committee of two 'rom Vancouver bearing an offer of S3OO for her appearance in a series of three concerts under the auspices of the Woman's Musical club, to be given in the ballroom of Van couver's now million-dollar hostelry, the Granada. The date was mid- July. She took the offer under ad visement, promising a decision in ten days. The money tempted her. That was her greatest need now, not for her daily bread, but for an accumu lated fund that would enable her to reach New York and ultimately Europe, if that seemed the direct route to her goal. She had no doubts about reaching it now. Confidence came to abide with her. She throve on work. And with in creasing salary her fund grew. C nit ing from any other souroe, she would have accepted this further augmentation of it without hesita tion, since for a comparative be ginner it was a liberal oflfar. (To be continued.) Don't Paint Cheeks Girls—Have Beautiful Complexion—No Rouge Don't use rouge, girls. It never looks natural. It is conspicuous. Kveryonu Knows you have it on. If you lack natural color and your complexion is pale, sallow or faded, here is a simple home recipe that will give you a soft, velvety p'each-like complexion in just a few minutes without hurting your skin and in a perfectly natural way. You need never use a bit of "make up" again. Get 4 oz. of Witch Hazel and 1 oz. -of Borated Mazba from Kennedy Cut Rate Store or any good druggist and put in a clean pint bottle. Then till up with boiled water. This makes a full pint of the very best complex ion beautitier you will ever find No rubbing .pr massage is needed. Just apply to face with a bit of sponge or absorbent cotton. Do this each morning or whenever you are going out and you will be astonished at the absolutely natural and refined beauty it gives your skin In less than five minutes and better still, it never injures t*e skin like rouge. j "THEIR MARRIED LIFE" f Copyright by International News Service !> Copyright, 1917, International News Service. I Helen followed the kindly con-j ductor's advice when she arrived i in T.'estslde, and walked down thej country road for a short distance, i The place was nothing but a railroad | way station and contained only ai string of shabby little frame houses.! In one of these she encountered nj nice-looking- boy who agreed to drive j her over to Waldron for three dol-1 lars. "Just got my car running to-day," I he volunteered, "you're pretty I lucky." ' Helen thought $3 rather a large| sum, but .after they had started and! saw the condition of the roads, sho; was more than willing to pay what! he asked for a safe delivery at her i journey's end. Babbie was waiting on the porch of the picturesque bun galow when Helen drove up. There was a homely attraction about the light streaming out over the porch and the glimpse of the cosv living room beyond with its shaded lights that cheered Helen considerably. Then she was seized upon by Babbie and kissed vociferously while Tom took charge of her baggage. "My dear," Babbie was saying. "I'll bet you won't want to visit me again in a good while, will you. I feel terribly about this." "Just thought of it about t o'clock," Tom said as they reached the warmth and quiet of the indoors. "I don't see how it happened, ex cepting that .we never think of peo ple coming that way; it's more con venient to trolley over from River side." "I did think of that this morning," Helen returned, "but I had my two bags and my e\tra coat and the ex tra trouble just didn't appeal to me at all." "But I should have thought that you would have discovered that the train had been taken off when you! bought your ticket," said Babbie. "That's just it," said Helen; "the; Fates were certainly against me. T I had Warren's mileage book and II was going to use it on the train from Westside." "And so you didn't discover It un til you wero on the train." "Why, no, I never thought to ash." "Why you poor child, and you must be tired and hungry. Never mind, Helen, you'll have a good rest up here, and I have some hot blue berry bread for supper. Tom and I are crazy about this rusticating. We feel as if we had never done any thing else." Helen deposited her possessions in the dainty blue and white guest room and did full justice to a deli cious meal. It was so different from the gay house parties down on Long Island that she remarked several times about it before the evening was over. "We thought we wouldn't ask an other soul," Babble explained, "you and I can visit so much better. It sepms strange though to have you without Warren." Helen thought, so too. The quiet ness of the place had made her lone ly even with the Bells, who were good friends and people she loved to visit. But she determined not to Daily Dot Puzzle .2 I 3 # • C 8 * B 4* * V- . c J 7" * 1 : 7 (• .J 4 v *> 37 22 • <3B j \ 21 ( i' X--7 * ,2S * 42 /W* 7 i - 2 °" , i think of home. After all Warren I was safely on his way to Boston by ~ now. He was probably reading in i. his berth. A little tight feeling gatli , ered in Helen's throat, but she reso lutely fought against it and for the j moment it was forgotten as the three ; of them engaged in a spirited game !of dummy auction. At 9:30 Tom : yawned. j "Bedtime, Helen,"' he- grinned, "you'll be getting your beauty sleep Up here all right." Half an hour later they were in their rooms and Helen was prepar ing for bed. That strange, lonely feeling was once more threatening her and she tried to reason with her -1 self. It must be the sense of isola | tion this place gave one, she thought, :j for .she had been in the country be- I | fore and had not minded it. She \ TO THE CIRL HE LEFT BEHIND: f \ Insure your "military man" / 1 against thirst and fatigue. / I Send him some I / WRIGLEYS \ M Early in the War the great value of \ I WRIGLEYS was discovered by the \ f Allied Armies. Books on the War, mag- 1 azine articles and correspondence to 1 the press, tell of its use by the allied I forces—tte comfort and refreshment I % It affords—the "pep** it inspires. 722 m V THE FLAVOR LASTSI J OCTOBER 16, 191** thought of Winifred and smiled con tentedly. Winifred would be all right with Mary, but Warren was on his! way to Boston and she would worry until she had heiird he was all right. | She turned out the light and crept I in between the covers. She had opened both windows wide and the j sound of the crickets filled her room I 1 with their mournful chirping. Then j r she snuggled closer down in lier pil- I l low and dropped nslcep. She awoke - what seemed hours later with :i| - start. She had dreamed, that some-I thing awful had happened to Wur > ren. She sat up in bed her heart! 5 benting wildly.' She wondered what; i time it was, and decided to get up. After lighting the lamp she dis-l , covered that it was only twelve I > thirty. Hours would have to pass' before morning and Warren's wire. i The sensation that she had for a mo- j - nient of suffocation, frightened her, I ' ntid then she realized that she must j ; not be foolish and allow her nerves . to go to pieces. She would get into i • something warm and read a while, i , She got out of bed and closed tl\e! • I windows and a moment later there! ! came a knock at the door. Babbio' i stole in at Helen's whispered "come," j wrapped in a blue dressing gown, i her dark hair hanging in a braid her back. "Can't you sleep, dear?" Helen shook her head. "I know I | am a fool," she whispered back, "but i I had an awful dream, and it lit'i j made me nervous." j "Shall 1 get into bed with you?" "Oh, that will be fine," Helen agreed. " Aren't the crickets sad?" Babbie looked at lu.r sagely. "Better not admit to Warren how much you miss him." she remarked. ! "He's probably fast asleep by now, i without a thought of you." 1 Helen laughed, but said nothing. (Watch for tlic next instalment of I tills interesting series.) RelyOnCuticura For Skin Troubles Soap 25c. Ointmnt 25 apd 50c. 7
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