Over -Work Weakens
Your Kidneys.
(hbealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.
All the blood In your body passes through
Dur moneys once every mree minutes.
The kidneys are your
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Impurities in the blood.
If they are sick or out
of order, they fall to do
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Pains, aches and rheu
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cess of uric acid in the
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Idney trouble.
Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady
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hey had heart trouble, because the heart is
ver-working in pumping thick, kidney-
Disonea oiooa tnrougn veins and arteries.
Lit used to be considered that only urinary
ioics were m oe iracea to the kidneys,
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f you are sick you can make no mistake
first doctoring your kidneys. The mild
ft the extraordinary etlect of Dr. Kilmer s
Lamp-Root, the great kidney remedy is
n realized, it stands the highest for its
naenui cures oi me most distressing cases
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You may have a "Sii-iEE?
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L if you have kidney or bladder trouble.
I ntion this paper when writing Dr. Kilmer
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THE winter climate of California
is very delightful, especially at
the grent Hotel Balboa, but even
there clouds are not unknown and
storms occur at times. Similarly the
relationship between Col, Talbot and
his daughter Josephine was said by
their Mntimental friends to be a
beautiful one for they loved each
other devotedly, ami were seldom sep
arated nevertheless, it had its pert-
: ods of disturbance, when they failed
to apree, and when each sjxike freely
according to the family custom.
The colonel was n man of larpe
means, whose home was in an eastern
city. He hud taken a suite of rooms
in the Balboa for the winter, for a
party which consisted of himself, his
daughter, aged S3, and his siter. n
matron of about his own age. There
was also a maid.
The season was about half-over
when the trouble between the colonel
and Miss Josephine began. The storm
center at the outset was a certain
Marry Grandin. Some time Liter a
second area of disturbance was cre
ated around a Widow, a Mrs. Bronson.
but this was declared by the colonel
not to be a genuine casus belli, but
merely a counter-irritant- and an at
tempt to (ret up a side-issue.
"It seems very strange," said Jo
sephine, "that the person 1 line best
in all the world, my own father, is the
only one that thinks I u ii i a perfeel
fright."
"I don't think anything of the kind!"
cried the colonel, indignantly. "You
are an exceptionally handsome woman,
as your mother w is before yi it, ami I
know it. as well as- as yi u do." lb
finished with a n tin.
"Then why do you always assume
that every man that pays me the slljrl i
est attention does so merely becnuspof
your money'.'" She beamed on biln, at
one does who has scored,
"I don't assume it of everyone " be-
an the colonel.
"That is not rich and bald and stu
pid." "My dear," said the colonel, solemn
ly, "there are some things in this world
that ynur old dad knows a little more
about than you do, and monet i- one of
them, There are two pari lo (rettlnj!
rich. One is to make money, am! the
other is to hold on to it. The first of
these is easy enough, but the bccoi d
is deadly hard. Who was the Knirli !-
man who said that v
up in the morn in Lr i
and suddenly remei
place contained, acei, ; i .
tisties, over 60,(100 per
rob him if thev p-ot. a
ver
i k
i rl
of I'
that tin
ni; . .i police sta
ple who would
bance. It th rew
In in into a blue futilv? Now I have
some money, I admit; there is enough
to allow us- to take lire easy, and to
da pretty much as we please, within
reason. I have put it In (lie best pos
sible shape to leave to ion when 1 pass
out. But how long do you think it will
last, if some rascally young spend
thrift should have a chance at it. as
your husband? So I would rather sus
pect 91) innocent ones than have you
caught on the hundred! h cue w ho w ould
play the mischief with your happi
ness." "Vou must be pretty well through
with the DO," said Josephine.
"Like enough," said her father, "in
that ease our young friend Grandin
must be the hundredth that is spe
cially to be looked out for."
".Vow to go back to the point from
which this talk started," said Jo
sephine, "I believe I told vou t hat there
wias to be n Ashing party to-morrow,
and that Mr. Grandin asked Aunt Har
riet and me to go. What do vou
think?"
"Do just as you please about It," raid
the colonel. "You can'i lure me into
forbid d in"; things, so as to make in in-
I terestinsr.
I am merely giving y u n
Dodie, my dear, because I
little tip
love you."
Miss Josephine fliini' hi rsi ' f over the
nrin of the colonel's chair, and put her
arms alout his neck-. "Oh. dad, I love
you, too. Sometimes I almost wish
that there wasn't any money for ns to
get all mixed up about."
"Stick to that 'almost.' Dodie."
"And, say, dad, you don't mind n y
giving you a tip, do you'.'"
The colonel looked a little uncom
fortable. "It's about the widow, you know."
"Whom do you mean?" he asked,
with dignity; "Mrs. Bronson?"
"Who else? Vou are not interested
in more than one widow, are yon? J
heard the other day that her first was
a butcher. Think of it the poor little
lamb!"
"He was a Kansas Tilv meat man."
said the colonel, indignantly; "and I
sl"'ul1 think -vou 11,k1 our ai,nt nii
find eomeithinp; better to spend v
i
t me in than mere trosMp."
ht
our
gossip
Whenever the conversation shifted to
the subject of the widow, Col. Talbot
felt himself at a great disadvantage, as
is always the case with simple inno
cence, when it is called upon to face
adroit insinuation and the suspicion
that lurks ia a tone rather than in the
spoken words. Itist rue that he ad mired
Mrs. Ilronson, for she was pretty, and
dressed in modest, becoming style, and
sha was a bright and entertaining tnlk
er. Yes, he must admit that he llketl
her best of all the women at the Hal
boa; the others, who were of suitable
age for his companionship, wctc, too
dull, or were' taken up with daughters,
or dvoted to complaining husband's.
Her father had been a Loyal Legion
man, as he was, and ahe could remem
ber something of the war just enough
for him to fix her age at 15 yenrs lees
than his own' and this gave one fruit
ful topic of conversation. She admired
Scott and' Dickens, and disdained the
"new stuff," as he did. Longfellow waa
(V)
0
10
Iter favorite poet and hit. Her testes
ana interests were simple and domee
$ tic, yet she was greatly diverted by the
colonel's experiences in business nnd
vi
politics. The other women were civil
to her but a hm u1srtailt This mav
navf been due to the suspicious hints
let fall by Josephine and her aunt, or
it may have arisen simply from the
fact that she was a widow. All single
women and most married onea think
that the widow should take her place
on the funeral pyre, btsid the body of
the husband, after the Indian fashion.
When the Ashing part? had departed,
the next morning, the colonel betook
himself to the bowling-ulley, whither
none but a few old enthusiasts) ever
came. At one end of the long room,
In a little alcove, there was a window
that looked out over the ocean. The
widow was fond of this quirt, secluded
pot, and on days when Josephine- and
her unt wers away, the colonel usually
found her there. She had a soft crepe
shawl over her rounded shoulders, nnd
thei was busy over a headed purse.
She scarcely looked up from her work
ns he approached nnd seated himself
by her side. "Are yon going to play?"
she asked : nnd he replied, according to
the regular formula: "Presently, May
I sit here?"
"Certainly." She looked Innocently
beyond him, toward the alley. "Did
your daughter come down with you'.1"
Miss Josephine never played,
"She has gone fishing with her aunt
and the rest of them. Why didn't you
go too?"
As a matter of fnet the widow had
not been Inked, "I do not care for
Ashing," she said, and as she did so
sho baited her hook with a sweet
smile and threw It out toward him.
The colonel's, old heart gnve a youth
ful jump, and liis hand trembled a lit
tle, ns he readjusted his eyeglasses.
"I took pains to find out whether
you were to be of the party," said
he: "and when T found votl were not
o-ot x derlrlerl ft- 't T
for fishtng, myself."
It aU"iit half n n
! ret er.re
from the
ice of t''c
ty wnlkod
'tach men t .
. nnd Mr.
i rd moved
boat Innclinff to tlie
it t
llnlbon. As the fishing pn
this tllatnnee one smtill d
consisting of Mi-s Jnsephli
Grni din, fe'l so far behind
ily that even t'
Harriet glared l'i
v came upon th
Ornndtn vas mi
sympathetic
Ii at them
mi
ll s 1
Mr
rot i
er wno
did
was
too
I
von
re
much f
"People
that bl
fish
Kn vino-;
thick in
have not
- bo
w i t
hail a
rd
ib
" Vnj Mrrg to say?"
'Only the same thin
"You may say it jus
"1 love you."
'Wn'li faster! 1 enn
'kintr at us from the
father
of the
iri'cr
pin
ta."
"And the widow
him vrur
step-mamma that is to be."
"Don't vou dare to say it.
thorn;''! so, T would marry th
If
fin
mini that asked me."
"I will he the first."
"Oh, Mrs. Fuller, we have had such
a lovely day. Mr. Grandin and I
stopped to see If we could arrange to
have nil the fish we caught sent to
the poor people."
Next
morning
a letter nnd
w -
pa j
wh
litt
lay beside the i
he came down 1
iu advance of his
.1.
break fast n
I daughter and
sister. Tie recognlzi
dress on both -that
In the eastern city V
nnd he broke the
d the same m'-
of his attorney
here he resided
ral of .the letter
with some
eagerness:
"My Dear Colonel: T i:nt th stuff pr'rt- :
erl In the Times, Just ns you asked, Ihnuirh
they would not use your name. It t' lr''"
to you plainly enough, however. 1 don't ;
understand the aTime, but you probab'y
know what you are doing. Is tie r n I t
on In the nine Elephant? Should Tiwv i r '.
sell? Sounds funny to read that the f 11- ;
tire of the mine will affect your fortunes, !
remembering-, as I fln, how cleverly you
sneaked out of It unscathed a year ago,
"As yen requested, I have started an In- )
nulry about the young man Orandln, and
will be ready to report on him In a u w
days. What Is the matter? Another moth
at Josephine's flame? My dear f llow, I
have tuld you a thousand times that you
are too suplclous.
"Yours, A. O. W." j
Then the enlnnel unfolded the ut w i
paper nnd, finding the marked pas
sage, rend ns follows:
"Polities Ts Money. It Is rumored th ll
the true reason for the sudden Withdrawal i
of a well-known Itlz. n from the sena
torial race, nnd his di parture for California,
was not at all his frii ndehlp for the gov
ernor, as was alleged at the time, but I
the disastrous failure of nn enterprise In I
which he was financially Involved to a
v ry considerable extint. When the Blue j
Eh phant went to plec-s. the event w is not
SUpposi 1 to have any political SUgnlftcance,
but Its largest owner was known to be n
ci rt:iln colonel who Is now suddenly out Of
p. liti-s. It costs money to be a senator In
this Mate, nnd the pastime Is Well enough
for millionaires, llut a fortune that is re- ,
duei d to hare bonis, and which perhaps
sear, i ly exists at all, will not stand such a
strain."
The colonel smiled grimly as lie
read the article, and several times
during the course of the breakfast,
which he ale by himself, without
waiting for the ladies, he chuckled, ns
though Something on his mind was
affording him great amusement.
When -Miss Josephine and her aunt
came into the room he drew a long
face and, handing his daughter tin
paper with the marked portion ex
posed, he said: "Jt is out at last.
Excuse me, but I must go over to the
city to be gone all day. Don't worry,
my daughter; there is enough for us
to live on, in a way." Then he hur
ried out of the room.
"Oh," said Josephine, "it was only
yesterday that I said to father that
1 almost wished he would lose all his
money."
"How could you wish such a wicked
thing," cried her aunt, repronchfully.
"Now you see what has happened."
They were just beginning to read
the article through tor the third time
when Josephine looked up und said:
"H,ere comes Mr. Grandin."
"Hide it," said her aunt.
"Indeed I shall not. a intend that
be shall see it Arst of all."
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organs to carry off and keepthe system clearof all morbid, effete mutter This poison
afe. v...... i ml i..: 1. J i ,
; solvent, purifying properties, attacks the disease in the right way, ami iu the right place the blood and quickly neut- alutM
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the blooil iii a pure, healthy state.
Mr. J O. Mallrv, HJW. isth Street. Indisnlpolis, ind.. for eighteen month! was SO terribly aSlictrd
with Rheumatism he was unable to feed or dress himself. Doctors said his case was hopeless lir had
mot Any two prescriptions thai friends had given hiat, without the slightest relief few bottles of
S. 8. S. cured him pci uianently, end lit has nevet had a rheumatic pain Bace. Thi was ftr years ago.
We will send free our special book on Rheumatism, which should be in the hands
of every sufferer from this torturing disease. Our physicians have made blood and skin
diseases a life studv. ami will wive VOU anv information or nclvie wnntBrl t., mriia n,...
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"Good morning, Mrs. Rluke; good
meriting, Miss Talbot. May 1 sit
here? I did not sec you ladies aii-
w in re last evening."
"e played 'porrnr.o' in our rooms
with the colonel and Mr. Edmunds.
Do you play 'porrnao,' Mr. Grandin?"
"I tried it once. Mrs. Illnke, but 1
do not approve of a game where yon
lay down a card and say 'pona.o,'
with great triumph, only to have the
next person to you lay down another
Sard nnd say 'contra porrn.o,' and
take it all away from you, Where is
I me eo. one., ny t ne w nj I
"He has -one to the city for the
I day."
"There is something here that I
w i s li you to read, Mr. Gramlin," said
j Josephine, handing him the paper.
The young lutin read the article,
and brought his lips together in 0
bunch.
"This n fcrs to Col. Talbot, I take
it," said he.
I Josephine nodded.
"And il means that he has lost his
money '.'"
i Josephine nodded ngln, and her
aunt looked indlj into lo r coffee Ctlp.
"Does this involve you in anv way,
Mrs. lllake?"
"Not at all."
Mr. Grandin smiled cheerfully.
; "I suppose I ought to be decently
sympathetic," said he, "but it is des
perately hard work. This affects no
I one. it appears, but Col. Talbot, nnd
iti.v regard for him is entirely by
i proxy. I am ready to take his loving
: daughter's wind for it that he is u
delightful character, but he has
never shown that side of himself to
me."
"Bill it affects me," cried Josephine.
"Don't you see that?"
".Not a bit of it." said Mr. Grandin.
"I am going to take care of you, and
I have a great plenty." Mrs. Blake
looked up in surprise, and lie ad
dressed himself to her. "This is n
matter which I would have taken up
with Col. Talbot, if lie had ever given
me n chance, but his manner toward
me during the last, week or so has
been Blich as to make it impossible
for me to address him on any subject.
I don't blame him. I am sure that,
if I had such a precious object to
guard. I should be a Cerberus, too."
lie took a card from his pocket and
wrote some names upon it. "Here is a
bank." said he, "and a firm of attor
neys, and a w ell-known business house,
nil of tin in located iu the city where I
live. Xow if the colonel wishes, to
make Inquiry of any of these he will
find out, I think, all that he needs to
know about, me as a son-in-lnw,"
Mrs. Rloke picked the card up doubt
fully and placed it in the bag thai hung
at her side. She stood a good deal in
aw e of her brother.
Win n the young people were alone a
fe"W minutes later, Josephine said: "1
heard where you were last evening."
Grandill shoo.c hU head sadly.
"What a small place n big hold is,"
he said.
"Are you anxious to make yourself
still mure unpopular with my fa
ther?" "I Wanted to see what sort, of a
step-mother-in-law I was likely to
nave that was nil."
"What do you think of her?"
"I agree with you. She won't do
nt nil. Something must be bj Jovel
Where is that paper? Let me have
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oeauury a, numiwu, joig. uuemuiiiuu,
i3C -usuiiiuui acposueo in me joints, muscles and nerves, causing the most intense pain.
Rheumatism may attack with such suddenness and severity as to make within a few davs a healthy
active person helpless and bed-ridden, with distorted limbs and shattered nerves ; or it mav lie slow in
developing, with alight wandering pains, iust severe enough to make oue feel uncomfortable ; the t.-u-dency
in such cases is to grow worse, and finally liecome chrouic.
Like other blood diseases, Rheumatism is often inherited, and eiposure to damp or cold want of pmier
food, insufficient clothing, or anything calculated to impair the health, will frequently cause it to develop
V' j ' but more often llot uulil middle age or later. In whatever form, whether ucute T chronic,
'Xrited! Rheumatism is Strictly a Blood Disease,
and no liniment or other external treatment can reach the trouble. Neither do the preparations of ix tasli
and mercury, and the various mineral salts, which the doctors always prescribe, cure Rheumatism but
ruin the digestion and break down the constitution.
A remedy which builds up the general health and at the same time rids the svstem of the poi on n
the only safe and certain cure for Rheumatism. S. S S maita f r,v,t hrl ho-l. f ..I
it fur awhile, will you? I hat
idea."
lie took the paper and went
search of the widow, whom he
ently found sitting alone. She
attentions from vonng men.
iff in
pres
llked and
Grandin was a delightful talker,
A second letter from "A. II. W.."
which arrived a day or two later,
conveyed to the colonel .some informa
tion about Mr. Grandin that caused
him to open wine his eyes and whis
tle softly to himself. The colonel ;,s
not exactly a worshiper of wealth,
nut lie tiiiiml it easy to respect a n
who was worth several tluii 8 as much
money as he was, and he .started nut
immediately to apologize, ami make
nmeilds, In his search he en me upon
the wiili.w. bonneted niul cloaked and
accompanied by her maid,
"Good-by," she cried, airily; "I am
off."
"(Ml!" exclaimed the enlnnel. in as
tonish nun t . He had seen itl little
of her during the Ills! few days, but
had supposed that was due to acci
dent. "Yes. to the Plzurro and then haek
enst," she said. "Thank you and your
dear daughter and sister for being go
kind to ." Her manner was put-
roni.ing, not to say contemptuous,
and tl donel, who had grown ac
customed to her soft, confiding wnvs,
was too astounded to do nuythlngax
eept stare at her as she vanished
down the corridor.
Mr. Grnndin would listen
apologies or explanations, but
.1.. -..1 t 1
to no
grnsped
i or e.noiiei liailll tl II I SHOOK il
warmly. Then tiny had a brandy and
soda together.
"That newspaper story." said the
colonel, "was a fake, I did not los.
anything in the Blue Elephant."
"You didn't?" cried Mr. Grandin;
and he laughed.
"No.'' said the colonel; and he ex
plained how and why he had se
cured its publication, At this Mr.
Grandiii laughed n good ileal more.
"Vou see," said the colonel, "1 have
always had a horror of a marriage
in my family with any kind of a mer
cenary element in it. If such n mar
riage could be avoided by a little ruse
like that. I t! "hi I would be justi-
lied iu resorting to it. Don't you
agree with me'.'"
Mr. Grandin laughed again, but he
said t hat I ntlreltt ngrei il with the
colonel. He had heard of the wid
ow's departure, n little while before,
and he knew that that danger was
passed. He reserved his nrt ,,f the
confession, how ever, null
occasion when it might
San Francisco Argonai
me other
needed.
he
AM EVIi I o III si '.::
7 J4c '-'
,' . Air
Willie
bruddei
Marie
Say. Marie, 1 saw your big
.i.ss my big bister.
Dai's good. Now, let's piny
lid est an
I up brudder, Cin
cinnati Commercial Tribune,
a b i e ve me n I.
Through weary years he chased Success,
And never sei nnd to gain tin Inch,
Till, one day, his rich uncle (Hi ri.
Then on Success he had u dm h.
-Brooklyn Life,
More Dansreroaa,
Judge And you say lie had murder
in his eye?
Victim Xo, sor, I think it wua in
his bond. Thot's where he liilcl th'
rock. Chicago Daily News.
Effective.
"Funniman has a dry sort of hu
mor." "Yes; his jokes are. enough to drive
one to drink, if that's what you
mean." Brooklyn Life.
The Height nf Aitony.
He Did your friend, the soprano,
ever reach the high C?
She Yes, one day while she was at
the dentist's, 1 believe she did. Tit
Bits. Headache and Xeuratgl cured by Da
m" .s I'Ain i i 1.15. - une cent a uose
M$lors Muscles,
Shatters Nerves,
1HI ICI1S Jill I
V WlilltJa
Address, SWIFT SPECIFIC CO Atlanta Ga.
Comforted 1'npn.
A Well known business man, whoso
head i bare, yel who wears a luxur
iant growth of whiskers, was being
railed recently for lieilifj bald by some)
of his intimate friends in the pres
ence of his small daughter. Little
Mabel didn't understand that it was
all in jest, and ernwHi upon her
parent's lap put It. r arms about hit
neck and turned delimit J toward his
tormentors:
'My papa wtul rtivver hot-' his top
jlf
ur on his chin, u n.'n t oii. nana"
Cincinnati Emiui rer,
Ton Btrnnic n Teniplntlnn.
"Yes, George asked me how old I
would be on my i ext hirt lldaj "
"The impudent fellow! (if course
you said 19?"
"No, I said 20."
"Mercy, girl, you ain't hut 84!"
'ixo, nut i i'ge is going ii
n cluster ring with a cliu tin
for every jcar." Cleveluni
Dealer.
vc me
in It
Plain
Vol ll I l'i .'til.
Breathes there a n tl
Who in v. r to his hit in II
nd
"What dlil i s.,
I calli d tin tin i
Uut ion Joiirni
I i.
ii "i t
"I told her mother thai
as young as her daughter."
"That caught the old la
looked
I sup-
pose .
"Yes, but it lost me the daughter.
-The King.
I'eilluree nnrl Unseat,
The rabbit met th. llelKian hnro
And said with grand and lordly air:
"Wh. n pii dge of good luck m i n secures
My left hind leu's as good as yours."
Chicago Record.
It miieil lllltl,
Mrs. Casey (rending war news')
Wan soldjer wor murthnl wounded,
an' bis lusht winds won "Gimme
whisky."
Mrs. Dolun (whoso husband is at
the front) Hlvln hllp mc fnthcrless
ehiider; thot wur Put. Harper's
Hazur.
Bfo SttieiMire.
Jaggles That young poet his be.
come a fad and gits a dollar a head
from people to hear him mad hi- po
ems. That's an easy way to make
money,
Waggles Knsy? Say! 1 guess yen
never tried to rcud that felh w 's poetry.
Puck.
In Belf-Di "nise.
Tnwne I'm surprised tit you trying
to borrow a dollar from that fellow
Harduppe. You're Bttn Ij i t in such
aw ful need of niom y.
Browne No, but I felt sure TTnrd
uppe was, and I nu n ly anticipated
him. Philadelphia i'ri ss,
The I. ndiler of I'm ferment.
First Lawyer i'oung Blnckstone
has political OSplrntions, hasn't he?
Lawyer Why do you think
so :
First Lawyer 1 noOe he calls all
the barkeepers by their lirst names.
X. Y. Weekly.
Pn rs.
"Of course. John." s.i In his w i fc. "I'm
obliged to you for this money, but it
isn't nearly enough to buy a real fur
coat."
"Well," replied 1 ho brutal man,
"you'll have to make it go as fur as you
can." Philadelphia Press.
Rni'ii ii riiarloa.
Mr. Tranccr I'm sorry I'm such an
awkward dancer, Miss Perkins,
Miss Perkins Oh, you're doing fair
ly well, Mr. Pranoer, I've seen you
jerk around lots worse than this with
other girls. Indianapolis Journal. i
Jello, Ihe Vcw Desei I.
pleases all the family. Four Flavors
Leiuou.orangfi.rastJberry and straw
berry At your grocer's. 10 cents.
Try it to-day. . .
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