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THE SEMI.VVEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRA8KA.
The Last Shot
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FREDERICK
(Copyright, 1914, by
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SYNOPSIS.
At their homo on the frontier between
lie IlrowiiH and f5ry Mnrta Unllxnil and
her mother, entertalnlrifr Colonel Venfer
tlnr of the Oiay, e Captain T.anstron
of trip Browns Injured by a fall in hW
aeroplane. Ten year later. Wonlerlliifr,
tuimlnal vlro but real chief of ataff, re-enforce
Houth T.a Tlr and medltutca on war.
lie callfi on Mnrta, who la vliltlng In tlin
Jray capital. Hhe tell him of her tearh
ing children the foil I en ot war and mar
tial patrlotlnm, and bee hlrn to prevent
war while ha la chief ot ataff. On the
march with the (3d of the Ilrowiu Pri
vate Htronsky. anarchist, la placed tinder
rreat. Colonel I.nnntron liega him off.
Inatron calls on Mnrta at her home. Me
talks with Keller, tho pardoner. Mnrta
tells Lanstrnn that she believes Feller to
be a spy, Lnnstrnn confoMCn It Is true.
I.mutron shows Mnrta a telephone which
Feller has concealed In a secret paisase
under the tower for two to benefit the
Browns In war emergencies. I.anstron de
clares his lovo for Marta. Westerllng nnd
the Gray premier plan to use a trivial In
ternational nffalr to foment warlike pa
triotism In army and people and strike be
fore declaring war I'artow, Jlrown chief
of staff, and f.nnstrnn, made vice, discuss
the trouble, and tho Brown defenses. I'ar
tow reveals his plans to I.anstron. The
Oray army crosses the border linn and at
tacks The Hrowns check them. Artil
lery. Infantry, aeroplanes nnd dlrlKlbles
engage, fitransky. rlslnir to make the
anarchist speech of his lire, draws the
Oray artillery lire. Nicked bv a shrapnel
pllnter lie goes llerserk and flchtM"all
a. man." Marta has her first Kllnipse of
war In Its modern, cold, scientific, mur
derous hrutallty The Tlrowns fall back
to the Galtiitid house. Stranskv forages.
Marta sees a night attack. The Orayi
attack In force. Feller leaves his secret
telephone and goes hack to his guns.
Hand to hand fighting. The nrowns fall
tiafk again. Marta asks I.nustrnn over
the phone to appeal to Partow to stop
the fighting Vandalism In tho Oalland
fiouse.
CHAPTER XIII Continued.
Then a Btaffollleer nppeared In tho
doorwny. When lto saw a woman en
ter tho room lio frowned. I f o had rid
den from tho town, which was empty
of women, a fuct that lio regarded as
a blessing. If alio had been a maid
narvant he Would haVe kepi on Ills
cap. Seeing. that she was not, he re
moved It and round himself In want of
words as their oyes met after she had
emtio a gesture to tho broken glass
on the floor and tho lncerated table
'top, which said too plainly;
"Do you ndinlre your work?"
Tho fact that he was well groomed
-and freshly shaven did not In any wlso
-dissipate In her fcmtnlno mind his
connection with this destruction. He
ad never scon anything like the smile
which went with tho gesture. Her
oyes wero two continuing and chal
lenging llnmcs. Her chin was hold
high and steady, nnd tho pallor of ex
hauntlon, with tho blackness or her
hair and eyes, made hei strangely
commanding, He understood that she
was not waiting lor'hlm to speak, hut
to go.
"I did not know that thuro wat) a
woman herot" he said.
"And I did not know that officers of
"the Grays wero accustomed to enter
private houses without Invitations I"
he replied.
"This Is a little different," ho bogan.
Sho Interrupted him.
"Cut tho lnw of tho Grays Is that
homes should ho left undisturbed, iHii't
It? At least, It Is tho law or civiliza
tion, 1 believe you profeBH, too, to pro
tect property, do you not?"
"Why, year ho agreed. He wished
that ho could get a llttlo resplto rrom
the steady flro or her oyos. It was em
barrassing and as conruslng ah the
wblto light or mi impracticable logic.
"In that caso, please ploco a guard
around our houao lent soma more of
your soldiers get out or control," she
went on.
"1 can do that, yes,'' ho said. "Hut
wo are to mako this a staff headquar
tors and must start at once to put the
house in readiness."
"(Jeneral Westorllng'a headquar
ters?" she Inquired.
He parried the quostiou with a
trown. Stan-olllccra never give Infor
mation. They receive Inrormatlou and
transmit orders.
"I know General Westerllng. You
will tell him that my mpthor, Mrs. Gal
land, and our maid and myself are
very tired fiom tho entertainment he
has given us, unasked, nnd wo need
leep to-night. So you will leavo us
until morning and that door, sir, Is tho
one out Into the grounds."
The Btaff-ofllcer bowed and went out
by that door, glad to get away from
Marta's oyes. His Inspection of tho
promises with a view to plans ror staff
accommodation could wait. Wester
ling would not be hero ror two days
at least.
"WhowJ What energy sho has!" ho
thought. "I never nnd anybody niako
mo feol so contemptibly unlike a gen
tleman In my life,"
Yet Martu, returning to tho hull, hud
to steady herself In a dizzy moment
Against the wall. Complete reactton
had come. She craved sleep as If It
-wore tho one true, real thing In the
-world. She crated sleep for tho clarity
of mind that comes with tho morning
light. In tho haziness of fleecy thought,
'M slumber drew Us soft clouds
around hor, her last conscious vlslous
were the pleasant ouob rlslug tree of
a background of horror'; of Feller's
ismllo when he wont back to Ills auto
matic ror good; or Dollarmo'u smile as
the was dying; of Stransky's smilo as
lMlnna gave htm hope; and of Hugo's
tface as ho uttered his flute-like cry of
protest, lu her cars wore the haunt
PALMER
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ing calmness and contained force of
Lanstron's voice over tho telephone.
Sho was pleased to think that she hod
not lost hor temper in her talk with
tho fitnff-olllcer. N'o, she had not flared
once In Indignation. It was as ir she
had absorbed some of Lanny's own
soir-control. Lanny would approve or
her In that scene with an officer of the
Grays. And she realized that a change
had come over her a change Inex
plicable and telling nnd she was
tired oh, so tired! It had boon ex
hausting work, Indeed, for one woman,
though sho had been mound the world,
making war on two armies.
Tho general staff-ofllcer of the Grays,
who had taeted Marta's temper on his
first call, when he returned the next
morning did not enter unannounced.
Ho rang the door-bell.
"I have a mossngo ror you rrom Gen
eral Westerllng," he said to her. "The
general expresses IiIh deep regret at
the unavoidable damage to your houso
and grounds und has directed that
overythlng possible he done Immedi
ately in the way of repairs."
In proor or this the olllcor called at
tention to a group or service-corps
men who were removing tho and-hags
from tho first terrace. Others were
at work In tho garden Betting uprooted
plants back Into tho earth.
''Ills Excellency says," continued
tho ofllcer, "that, although the house
is so admirably suited for staff pur
poses, wo will find another If you de
sire." Ho was too polite and too consid
erate In his attitude ror Marta not to
meet him in the name spirit.
"That Is what we should naturally
preror," and Mnrta bowed hor head In
Indecision.
"Wo should havo to begin, installing"
tho telegraph and telephono service on
tho lower floor. at once," ho remarked.
"In fact, all nrrungements must be
made before tho general's arrival."
"He has been a guest hero before,"
she said remlnlscently and detachedly.
Her head dropped lower, In appar
ent disregard of his presence, as he
took counsel with hersolf. She was
porrectly still, without oven tho move
ment or an eye-lash, Other considera
tions than any ho might suggest, ho
subtly understood, held her attention.
Thoy wore tho criterion by which sho
would at length assent or dissent, and
nothing could hurry tho Marta or to
day, who yeatorday had beon a
creature ot revorlsh Impulse.
It seemed n long time that he was
watching that wonderful prolllo under
tho vory black hnlr, soft with tho soft
ness of flesh, yet llrmly carved. Sho
lifted her head gradually, her oyes
swooping past tho spot whoro Del
larmo had Iain dying, whoro Keller
had manned tho automatic, where
Stranoky had thrown IMlzer over tho
parapet. Ho saw tho glnnco arrested
and focussed on thojlng ot tho Grays,
which wna floating from a staff on tho
ouleklrtB of tho town, and slowly,
glowingly, tho light rippling on Its
folds was reflected In her fnco.
"Sho Is ror us! Sho Is a Gray!" he
thought triumphantly, Tho woman
nnd tho flag! Tho mutter-or-ract staff
officer felt the thrill or sentiment.
"I think wo enn arrange It," Mnrta
announced with a rare smile or aBsont.
"Then I'll go hack to- town nnd sot
tho signal-corps men to Avork," ho
said.
"And when you come you will And
tho house at your disposal," sho as
sured him.
Kxcept that ho was raising his cap
liiBtend or saluting, he was conscious
ot withdrawing with thodoforcuce duo
to a superior.
In placo of the smile, after he had
gone, ciuno a frown and a look In hor
eyes as if at something revolting;
then the smilo returned, to be suc
ceeded by tho frown, which was fol
lowed by an indeterminate shaking of
the head.
CHAPTER XIV.
Tea on the Veranda Again.
It was moro Irritating than ever for
Mrs. Gnllaud to keep pace with hor
daughter's Inconsistencies. Uoro wns
Marta saying coolly;
'"Unto Caesar tho things that are
Caesar's!' Wo have our proporty, our
home to protect. Perhaps tho Grays
havo como to stay for good, so
graclousness Is our only weapon. Wo
cannot light a whole army single
handed." '
"You have found that out, Marta?"
said Mrs, Gallaud.
"We havo four rooms In the baron's
towor and n kltchon stove," Marta pro
ceeded, "With Minna wo can make
ourselves vory comfortable and leave
tho house to the utaff."
"Tho Gnllauds In their gardener's
quarters I Tho staff ot tho Grays In
ours! Your rathor will turn In his
gruvo!" Mrs. Galium! exclalmod.
"But, mother, It Is not qulto ngreo
able to think ot three women living
In the samo house with a score of
strange men!" Marta persisted.
"I had not thought of that, Marta.
Of course, It would bo abominable!"
ugroed Mrs. Galland, promptly capitu
lating where a polut or proprloty wu
Involved.
When Mnrta Informed the officer
tho samo ono who had rung the door
boll on his socond vIslt-of tha family's
decision ho appeared shocked at the
Idea of eviction that wan implied. Hut,
secretly pleased at tho turn or events,
ho hastened to apologlzo for war's
brutal necessities, ard Marta's com
plaisance led him to consider himself
something or a diplomatist. Yes, moro
than over ho was convinced or tho
wisdom or an Invader ringing door
bells. Meanwhile, tho service-corps mon
had continued tholr work until now
there wns no vcstlgo ot war In tho
grounds that labor could obliterate;
and masons had como to repair tho
walls of the house Itself and plasterers
to renew the broken celllngH.
All this Marta regarded In a kind
of charmed wonder that an Invader
could be so considerate. Her manner
with tho officers In charge ot prepara
tions had the simplicity and ease
which a woman ot twenty-seven, who
Is not old-maldlflh because she Is not
afraid of a single future, runy employ
ns a serene hostess, She frequently
asked If thorn were good news.
"Yes," was the uniform reply. An
unexpected setback hexe or resistance
there, but progress, nevertheless. Hut
she learned, too, that tho first two
days' fighting along tho frontier had
cost tho Grays fifty thousand casual
ties. "In order to make an omelet you
must hreak eggs!" she remarked.
"Spoken like n true soldier like a
momber of the stnff!" was the reply.
In her constraint nnd detachment
they renllzcd hor conscious apprecia
tion of tho fact that In earllor times
her people hnd been for tho Browns;
but In her Hnshen of Interest In the
progress of tno war, flashes from a
woman's unmllitary mind, they judged
that her heart was with tho Grays. And
why not? Was It not natural that a
woman with moro than her share ot
Intellectual perception should be on
the right sldo? From her associations
it was not to bo expected that she
would mako an outright declaration ot
npostasy. This would destroy the valuo
and tho attractiveness of her conver
sion. Ueverenco for tho past, for a
father who had fought for the Browne,
ngalnBt hor own convictions, mado her
nttitudo appear singularly and deli
cately cprrect,
The War was a week old a week
which had developed other tangents
nnd traps than La Tlr on the morn
ing that tho tlrat Installment of Junior
ofllccrs came to occupy tho tables and
desks. Whero tho ramlly portraits had
hung In tho dining-room wero now big
maps dotted with brown and gray
flags. Portublo Held cabinets with
sectional maps on a large ecalo wore
arranged around the walls or the drawing-room.
In what had been the loung-Ing-room
ot tho old days of Galland
prosperity, tho refrain or hair a dozen
telegraph instruments mado medley
with tho clicking or typewriters. Cooks
nnd helpers were busy in tho kitchen;
ror tho staff were to live Ilko gentle
men; they were to have their morning
bnths, their comrortable beds, nnd
"Just Like Old Days, Isn't It?"
regular meals. No twinge or Indiges
tion or or rheumatism rrom exposure
was to Interfere with tho working of
tholr precious Intellectual processes.
No detail ot assistance would be lack
Ing to savo any bureaucratic head time
nnd labor. Tho bodrooms wero appor
tioned nccordiug to rank that of the
master awaited tho master; tho best
servant's bedroom awaited Francois,
his vnlot.
When llnuchurd, tho chief of Intelli
gence, who fought tho battlo or wits
and fplea against Lnnstron, came, two
hours before Wostorllng was duo, tho
last ot tho Btaft except Westerllng and
his personal aldo had arrived. Bouch
ard, with his Irou-grny hair, bushy oyo
brows, strong, aqutllno nose, nnd
hawk-like eyes, his mouth hidden by
a bristly mustache, was lean and sat
urnine, nnd ho was loyal. No jealous
thought ontored his mind at having to
serve a man younger than himself.
Ho did not servo a personality; ho
served a chief of Btuff and a profes
sion. Tho score of words which es
caped him ns ho looked over the ar
rangements wora all of directing criti
cism and bitten off sharply, as If he
regretted that ho had to waste breath
lu communicating oven a thought
"I tell nothing, but you toll mo
overythlng!" said Bouchard's hawk
eyes. Ho was old-fashioned; ho looked
his part, which was ono of tho many
points of dlffcronco between him and
LanBtron as a chief of intelligence.
It lacked ono minute to four when
Hedworth Westerllng, chief of staff In
narso as well ns power now, alighted
from the. gray automobile that turned
In at the Galland drive. His Excel
lency had not occupied his new head
quarters as soon as ho expected, but
this could havo no Influence on results,
ir he had lost fifty thousand men on
tho first two days and two hundred
thousand since the war had begun,
should ho allow this to disturb his
well-being or body or mind? His well
being or body and mind meant the ulti
mate saving or lives.
Confidence wns reflected lit, Wester
ling's bearing and In his smile of com
mand as ho passed through tho staff
rooms, Turcas and Bouchard In his
train, with tacit approval of tho ar
rangements. Finally, Turcas, now vice
chief of staff, and tho other chiefs
nwalted his pleasure In tho library,
which was to be his sanctum. On tho
massive seventeenth-century deBk lay
a number of reports and suggestions.
Westerllng ran through them with ac
customed swirtness or sirtlng and then
turned to his personal aide.
"leu Francois that I will have tea
on tho veranda."
From tho ract that he took with him
the papers that he had laid aside, sub
ordinate generals, with the gift or un
spoken directions which Is a part or
their profession, understood that he
meant to go over tho subjects requir
ing special attention whllo ho had tea.
"Everything Ib going well well!"
ho added.
"Well!" ran tho unspoken communi
cation of confidence through tho staff.
So well that His Excellency was
calmly taking tea on tho veranda! For
tho inderatlgable Turcas tho detail;
for Westerllng the front or Jove.
He hnd told Marta only two weeks
aso that ho should see her again ir
war came; and war had come. With
tho inviting prospect or a few holiday
momenta In which to continue the in
terview that had been abruptly con
cluded In a hotel reception-room, he
started down (he terrace steps. Above
the second terrace ho saw a crown of
woman's hair hair of Jot abundance,
shading a face thgt brought familiar
completeness to the scene. Their
glances met whero tho path ended
at tho second terrace flight; hers shot
with a beam of restrained and ques
tioning good humor that spoke at
least a truce to tho Invader.
"You called sooner than I expected,"
she said In a note of equivocal pleas
antry. "Or I," he rejoined with a shade of
triumph, tho politest of triumph. He
was a step above her, hor head on a
lovol with tho pocket of his blouse.
Ills squnre shoulders, commanding
height, and military erectness were
thus emphasized, aj was her own femi
nine sllghtness.
"I want to thank you," sho said. "As
becomes a soldier, your forethought
was expressed In action. It was the
promptness of tho men you sent to
look after tho garden which saved tho
uprooted plants before they wore past
recovery."
"I wished it ror your sake and eome
what Tor my own snko to bo the samo
that it was in tho days when I used
to call," lie said graciously. "Tea was
from four to live, do you remember?
Will you Join me? I have JtiBt ordered
It,"
A generous, pleasant conqueror,
this! No ono knew better than Wester
ling how to be one when ho chose. Ho
wns something of an actor. Leaders
of men of his type usually are.
"Why, yes. Very gladly!" she as
sented with no undue cordiality and
no undue constraint, quite ns If there
wero no war.
Neutrality could not be bettor Im
personated, ho thought, than in the
oven cleaving of hor lips over tho
words. They seemed to shy that a
mown niiu como nna gone ana a new
set of masters had taken the place of
tho old. As they approached tho
veranda Francois was placing the tea
things.
"Just like the old days, Isn't it?" ho
exclaimed with his first sip, convinced
that tho officers' commissary supplied
excellent tea in the field.
"Yes, for tho moment If we forget
the war!" she replied, and looked
away, preoccupied, toward the land
scape. If we forget tho war! She bore on
tho words rather grimly. The change
that ho had noted between the Marta
of the hotel reception-room and the
Marta of the moment was not alto
gether the work of ten years. It had
dovelopod since she was In tho capi
tal. In these three weeks war had
been brought to her door. She had
been under heavy lire. Yet this sub
ject of tho war was tho ono which he,
as an Invader, considered himself
bound to avoid.
"Wo do forget It at tea, don't we?"
ho aBked,
"At least we need not speak of it!"
ho replied,
"I ntn staying tonight. I was going
to ask It you wouldn't remain on tho
veranda whllo I go over these pa
pers. It It would be very cozy and
pleasant."
"Why, yeB," she agreed with evident
pleasure,
Turcas camo, In answer to Wester
ling's ring. Tho orders and sugges
tions on the tablo seemed to bo tho
product of this lnth ot a man, tho vice
chler, but n lath of steel, not wood,
who appeared a runner trained for a
raco of intellects In tho scratch class.
Ono by ono, almost perfunctorily,
Wosterling gave his asseut a3 he
passed tho papers to Turcas; while
Turcae'a dry voice, comlns from be
tween n narrow opening or tho thin
Hps, gavo his reasons with a rapid-
flrcr's precision in answer to his
chief's inquiries.
With each order somewhere along
that frontier some unit of a great or
ganism would respond. The reserves
rrom this position would be trans
rerred to that; such a position would
bo folt out berore dark by a reconnols
sanco In rorco, howevor costly; tho
rapld-Hrers or tho 19th Division would
bo transferred to the 20th; despite tho
37th Brigade's losses, It would still
form the ndvance; General So-and-So
would bo superseded after his fallurn
of yesterday; Colonel So-and-So would
take his placo as acting ma Jor-genoral;
moro care must bo exercised In recom
mendations for bronze crosses, lest
their value so depreciate that officers
nnd men would lack Incentive to win
them.
Marta was having a look behind tho
scenes at tho fountnlnhead of great
events. Power! power! Tho abso
lute power of the soldier in tho saddle,
with premier and government and all
the institutions ot peace only a dim
background for the processes or war!
Opposite her was a man who could
make and unmake not only generals
but oven the destinies or peoples. By
every sign he enjoyed his power for
Its own sake. Thero must be a chief
ot tho five millions, which were as a
moving forest ot destruction, and here
was tho chler, his strength reflected
in the strong muscles of his short
neck as he turned his head to llston
to Turcas. Marta recalled the con
tract botween Westerllng nnd Lan
stron as they raced each other after
tho wreck of tho aeroplane ten years
ago; tho Iron invincibility ot the
elder's sturdy, mature figure and the
alert, high-strung Invincibility of the
Blighter llguro of the younger man.
Ho had taken up a paper thought
fully nftcr Turcas withdrew, when he
looked up to Marta In answer to a
movement In her chair. She had bent
forward In n pose that freed her figure
from the chair-back In an outline of
suppleness and firmness; hor lips were
parted, showing a faint line of the
white of hor teeth, and ho caught her
gazing at him In a kind ot wondering
admiration. But she dropped hor eye
lids Instantly and said deliberately,
less to him than to herself:
"You havo the gift!"
No tea-table flattery that, ho knew;
only the reflection of a fact whose ex
istence hnd been borne In on her bj
observation.
"Tho gift? How?" ho .Inquired,
speaking to the fringe of hair that
half hid her lowered face.
Sho looked up, smiling brightly.
"You don't know what gift! Not
tho pianist's! Not tho poet's! Why,
of course, tho supreme gift of com
mand! rl he thing that made you chiif
of staff! And the war goes well for
you, doesn't It?"
Delicious morsel, this, to a connois
seur In compliments! He tasted It
with the samo self-satisfied smilo that
ho had her first prophecy. To her
who had then voiced a secret ho had
shared with no ono, as, his chest
swelled with a full breath, ho bared
another in the delight of tho Impres
sion ho had made on her.
"Yes, ns you foresaw as I planned!"
he said. "Yes, I planned nil, step by
step, till I was chief of staff and ready.
I convinced tho premier that It was
time to strike and I chose tho hour to
strike; for Dqdlapoo was only a con
venient excuse for the last of all tho
steps."
(TO BI2 CONTINUED.)
WORLD MISSION OF CHIVALRY
Of Much Worth If Only to Create the
Useful Romance of
Action.
Chivalry served to draw out and de
velop those free, bold spirits whose
talents could not have been evoked by
tho disputations of the schoolmen, nor
tho mortifications of the religious zeal
ots, says the Engineering Magazine. It
created a romance of action to match
the saint's moral paradise and ovokod
poetry and the arts to celebrate Its
charms. The love of the beautiful
which It begot caused a hospitable re
ceptlon to be given In Europe to the
refinements brought from the East by
tho returning crusaders, which caused
the first slight stirring of International
trade.
Tho enthusiasm which tho many'
sided ideal of chivalry evoked with
Its galaxy of virtues, may be seen, in
literature, In tho unfolding of the
themes of the simple Aryan folk tales,
and the prose romances of the twelfth
and thirteenth centuries, Into tho sen
suous beauty of Provencal poetry and
the (lellcncy nnd pathoB or Plutarch
und Dante. Chivalry embellished with
romance the lives or Its halMegendary
rounders, Charlemagne, Siegfried and
Arthur. It supplied the conception of
virtue sung In Chaucer's Pilgrimage,
Malory's "Morto D'Arthur" and Spen
ser's "Faerie Queene." In the world
ot action chivalry animated the cru
sades, dispensed Justice throughout
Europe for 400 years, purified court
life and made much of the warfare of
thn middle ages peculiarly humane and
noble. Its enthusiasm burned Into
brilliancy in such characters as Ttlch
urd and Blondel, the Black Prince and
his father, Tancred, Godfrey or Bouil
lon, Gastou do Folx, Bayard and War
wick, and In a thousand forgotten com
manders of the Templars, tho Knights
of St. John and the Teutonic Knights.
Speed of Run cf Stream.
A stream runs most rapidly one
fifth of tho depth below tho surface
and its avorago speed Is that of the
current two-fifths of the depth above
the bottom.
THIS WOMAN'S
SICKNESS
Quickly Yielded To Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
Bridgaton, N. J. "I want to thank yon
a thousand times for tho wonderful
good Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetabla
Compound lias dona
for mo. I Buffered
very much from a
femalo trouble. I
had bearing down
pnlns, was Irregular
land at times could
hardly walk across
the room. I was
'unable to do my
housework or attend to my baby I was
so weak. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound did mo a world of good, and
tow I am strong and healthy, can do my
work and tend my baby. I adviso all
suffering women to take it and got
woll as I did." Mrs. FANNIE COOPER,
R.F.D., Bridgeton, N.J.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
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Pinkhnm laboratory at Lynn, Mass.,
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For thirty years it has been tho stand
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write to Lydia 13. Pinkhnm Med
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PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
A toilet preparation of merit.
jieja i cnuucaie aanaruir.
I For Re tor ing Color nnd
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Wc. and 81.00 at Dru eclats.
Obedient Tommy.
"Now, Thomas," said the teacher, se
verely, "how ninny times must I tell
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your hand down and presently I'll hear
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Five minutes later she said: "Now,
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ed to say?"
"There was a man In the entry a
whllo ago," said Thomas serenely,
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SAGE TEA DARKENS GRAY '
HAIR TO ANY SHADE. TRY IT!
Keep Your Locks Youthful, Dark,
Glossy and Thick With Garden
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When you darken your hair with
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sponge or soft brush with it aud
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Gray, faded hair, though no dis
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eth's Saga and Sulphur and look yeara
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A Press Agent.
Mask Who is that fellow coming
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Wig- That's my press agent.
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