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HUSBAND TIRED OF SEEING HER SUFFER Procured Lydia E. Pinkham’* Vegetable Compound, which made Hi* Wife / a Well Woman. Middletown, Pa. —“I had headache, backache and such awful bearing down pains that I could not be on my feet at times and I had organic inflammation so badly that I was not able to do my work. I could not get a good meal for my hus band and one child. My neighbors said they thought my suffering was terrible. “ My husband got tired of seeing me suffer and one night went to the drug ■tore and got me a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and told me I must take it. I can’t tell you *111 suffered and I can’t tell you all that your medicine has done for me. I was Catly benefited from the first and it made me a well woman. I can do all my housework and even helped some •f my friends as well. I think it is a wonderful help to all suffering women. I have got several to take it after see ing what it has done for me.”—Mrs. Emma Espenshade. 219 East Main St., Middletown, Pa. The Pinkham record is a proud and hon ©rable one. It is a record of constant wictory over the obstinate ills of woman —ills that deal out despair. It is an es tablished fact that Lydia E. Pinkham’* Vegetable Compound has restored health to thousands of such suffering women. Why don’t you try it if you need such a medicine? If you want special advice write to Lydia '£. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confi dential) Lynn, Mass. Tear letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman ana held In strict confidence. It Isn't half as far from virtue to vice as It is from vice to virtue. Constipation causes and seriously aggra vates many diseases. It is thoroughly cured by I)r. Pierce’s Pellets. Tiny sugar-coated 'granules. Ad». Sometimes a young lawyer makes good because he has a wife who lay* down the law to him. Nolle Prossed. Rastas had caught Sambo red-hand ed "Ah’e gwlne hab yo’ arrested foh •tealln’ mah chickens, yo' Sambo Washln'ton—dat's jess what ah’m gwlne to do,” said Rastus. "Go ahead, niggah,” retorted Sambo. ”Go ahead and hab me arrested. Ah’ll mek yo’ prove whar yo’ got dem chick ens yo'aelf!"—Harper’s Weekly. AMERICAN IDEA. American—What's your father’s bnnlne—T The Englishman—My-aw-f atha w -has aw-no business The American—Then what’s hie Craft GOOD NATURED AGAIN Good Humor Returns With Change to Proper Food. “For many years I was a constant ■offerer from indigestion and nervous ness, amounting almost to prostra tion," writes a Montana man. "My blood was impoverished, the vision was blurred and weak, with moving spots before my eyes. This was a steady daily condition. I grew ill tempered, and eventually got so uerv ©us I oould not keep my books post ed, nor handle accounts satisfactorily. 1 can't describe my sufferings. "Nothing I ate agreed with me, til! one day I happened to notice Grape Nut# In a grocery store, and bought * package out of curiosity to know what It was. "I liked the food from the very first, eating it with cream, and now ] buy It by the case and use It dally I soon found that Grape-Nuts food was supplying brain and nerve force at nothing In the drug line ever bad done or could do. "It wasn’t long before I was re atored to health, comfort and happl ness. “Through the use of Grape-Nuts foot my digestion has been restored, mi nerves are steady once more, my eye sight Is good again, my mental faculties are clear and acute, and 1 have becomi mo good-natured that my friends ari truly astonished at the change. I fee younger and better than I have for 2i years. No amount of money wouli Induce me to surrender what 1 hav gained through the use of Grape-Nut food.” Name given by Postum Co Battle Creek, Mich. “There’s a res eon.’’ Read the little book, “The Roa to Wellville,’’ In pkgs.” Brer read the above letter f A aei aae ’appears treat time te time. The are geaalaoi trie- aad tall of hams latereat. Adv. AMERICAN ARMY TO UNDERGO SHAKE-UP A Complete Reorganization Scheme Outlined and Com manders Named. Reorganization of the entire United States army on a tactical basis, ef fective February 15, is provided for in orders issued recently by Secretary of War Stimson with the full approval of President Taft. The most important feature of the reorganization is the creation in the territorial limits of the United States of three Infantry divis ions and one cavalry division of the army. Those divisions will be located in what will be known as the eastern, central, southern and western depart ments, with headquarters at New York, Chicago, San Antonio and San Fran cisco, San Antonio being the headquar ers of the cavalry division. The commanders of the tactical di visions will command the departments in which their divisions are located. Maj. Gen. Thomas H. Barry will com mand the eastern department, Maj. Gen. William H. Carter, the central de partment; Brig. Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, the southern department and Maj. Gen. Arthur Murray, the western depart ment. In addition to the departments with in the territorial limits of the United Htates, there are also created the Philippine department and the Haw aiian department, with Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell in charge of the former, and Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston in command of t lie latter. Numerous changes in assignments of general officers are also provided for. Hitherto there has been no tactical army organization higher than a regi ment. There have been no brigades or divisions existing in time of peace. Upon the outbreak of war, when an army was needed, It was necessary to create such an army under all the stress and hurry and excitement of such an occasion. Discussing the proposed tactical re organization, Secretary Stimson said: "At the outbreak of any war or upon any emergency requiring the use of a brigade or a division of reg ular troops, Instead of it being neces sary for the authorities at Washington to gather together and create such a force It will only be necessary to issue a single order, addressed to the com mander of the division or brigade in question, directing him to mobilize his force at the desired .point. The im portance of this single phase of the re form can be appreciated when It is re membered that In 1911 it required 16 days to create, gather together and mobollze a single division of about 12, 000 men at San Antonio, Tex. In 1912 It required the Bulgarians 18 days or two days more, to mobollze an army of approximately 270,000 men to cross their enemy’s border and beat into helpless ruin the Turkish army.” The new plan will not involve the Immediate movement of a large num ber of troops. The department Is study men the problems, and orders for such transfers as are necessary will be is sued later. Secretary Stimson believes that the plan of reorganization Is as thorough ly in accord with the views of the army us it Is possible for any such plan to be. IOWA ROADS COMPARED WITH THOSE OF OTHERS From the Road Maker. We are often asked how Iowa compares with other states with similar population and wealth In regard to roads. The fol lowing figures are from the reports on road departments and give a comparison of this state with other states In the mid dle weBt. The comparison with eastern states Is, of course, unfair because there the large cities pay taxes for the building of rural highways and Improvements are being made on a large scale. These figures are Interesting In demon strating what states like Iowa have done where the work has been systematically undertaken by an active highway com mission : Miles Improved State. Boad. Boad. Iowa .102,448 1,664 Missouri .108,133 2,733 Ohio . 69,439 23,462 Tennessee . 48,988 4,286 Oregon . 34,268 2,689 Texas .121,409 2,128 Illinois .94.141 7,924 Kentucky . 67,137 9,485 Michigan . 69,296 7,025 Minnesota . 79,880 6,247 Wisconsin . 68,693 10,633 California . 46,683 8.903 The Mute of the Incommunicable. An echo often have our singers caught And they that bend above the saddened strings; One hue of ail the hundred* on her wings Our painters render, and our men of thought In realms mysterious her face have sought And glimpsed Its marvel In elusive things: Mir shadow gathers and her fragrance clings To all the loveliness that man lias wrought. The wind of lonely places is her wine, Still she evades us, hidden, hushed, and fleet— A star withheld, a music In the gloom. Beauty and deutll her speechless lips as sign. Where silence Is, and where the surf loud feet Of armies wander on the sands of doom. —George Sterling in North American Re view. Th# Lues of Forbidden Fruit. F. G. Aflalo, In the London Academy. Since clgaret smoking is peculiarly injurious to the young, there Is much to be saki for drastic discouragement, but Americans go, as usual, to the other extreme and, In many of their cities, forbid the sale of clgarets to young and old alike. Who can have any doubt of the re sult? From being merely n pleasant form of indulgence when subject to no restraint, the clgaret, once proclaimed unlawful, becomes a passion, and noth ing Is easier, as I once proved during a stay at Seattle, one of the cities in which clgarets were banned, than to buy them under pretext of purchasing cigars, a little pantomime for the ben efit of purely apocryphal detectives. The strange mania for first making laws and then breaking them is purely American. _ i New Towel Ideas. i From Harper's Bazar, i Towels with embroidered, filet, or knitted I bands let in with the monogram above are extremely popular. Sometimes the ends • are embroidered with a scallop edge with l the monogram above, and sometimes there , Is a band of trimming above the hem stitched hem. Punch-work la used on 1 ton-els a great deal, too, and la very ef , festive there. 1 That’s a Fact. "It’s pretty rough on a woman who • baa children." r “How now ?’’ » "She can’t go to any of theae In toreating mothers' meetings.” CXTe, pys of (Pvue, (yl 7a/e gfa Maid and a ffnywayman (^y/op/tie^Ts/fer , Copyright, 1911, The Bobbo-Morrill Company SYNOPSIS. In the time of Queen Anne, Lady Pru dence Brook, widowed at 16 and still a widow at two and twenty, while Journey ing in a coach to London with her cousin P<*ggy, is accosted by a highwayman who, however, lakes nothing from her except a kiss. The two girls live with their grand mother Lady Drum loch, who. despite her reduced circumstances, maintains a gay social position in the court circle. Prue is small, gay, delightful, daring, ex travagant. and always In debt. She is perpetually pursued by ci’dMtoj’J and just now is in deep water for want a few guineas with which to buy. * gown by whose »aid she hopes to win na the queen’s favor, very recently lost * one of her mad pranks. She decides to visit Aaron’s, a money lender, and asks him to taae < of her debts on the strength of ne proaching marriage to Sir Geoffrey rse desert. Aaron Informs her. however, that Beau desert is himself head over heels "V0,,, and while Prue is still in his ofnce Geoffrey arrives. Prue at once secrets herself in a ®*°2|i and to her astonishment overhears Geoffrey ask for advances of money, on the strength of their engagement. Prue reads in a paper an account•P* trial and sentence of Robin Freeman tie. the highwayman who had kissed ne the moors, and that he is to bo hang Tyburn the following Monday. Suddenly she recalls that ac??l£!,l^iire legal custom the debts of a widow burled in the coffin of her husband. She conceives the whimsical marrying Robin in order to escape debts. Accompanied by Peggy she visits New gate prison and Robin, who is aire^y love with her, consents to the ceremony. Afterward Prue asks to be alone with him for a few minutes and allows him to kiss her again and feels pity for his ap proaching execution. Lord Beaucombe also visits Robin and Robin tells him that he has proof that Beaucombe is not the legitimate heir to the title and threatens if he is not re leased to see that proof of this fact gets to Beaucombe’s enemies. On Monday is Peggy suffering keenly because of her belief that Robin, now be ginning to be a hero In her eyes, is about to be hanged she is astonished at seeing him enter the house and is told that he has been reprieved and set at liberty. For his freedom Robin, whose real name is De Cliffe, agrees to make over to Lord Beaucombe a paper conveying his claim to the title and estate to him. He has no sooner done this than Lord Beaucombe treacherously tri^s to capture him. Robin by cleverly disguising him self In a borrowed coat and hat and using Lord Beaucombe’s horse, escapes. ■ i .— CHAPTER XXII, Continued. While he was speaking. ‘Peggie plucked at Prue’s sleeve and mur mured in her ear, "In the library.” with a glance and gesture that needed no interpretation. With an immense ef fort of self-control, Prue stopped long enough to compliment her friend on her new and gorgeous equipage, and then slipped away, with her heart throbbing in her throat, and ran down stairs, to find Robin awaiting her, rather inefficiently disguised in a gold laced velvet coat and a voluminous periwig, in which his marked resem blance to Lord Beachcombe struck Prue with absolute consternation. "Robin, Robin!” she cried, when the door was closed, "how could you dream of coming here, of all places?" ”1 have dreamed of nothing else," he replied. His eyes were glowing and his whole countenance transformed by a sublime transport of adoration. Few men are capable of this ecstasy and few women privileged to behold it; none. It may be conjectured, can resist Its enchantment. Prue, trembling with a strange Joy. yielded to the arms of her lover-husband, and there forgot every thing else for a few- blissful moments. “Dearest, you must not stay here,” she murmured, when he released her lips, "your worst enemy is in this house.” And in a few rapid words she told him of Lord Beaeheombe's search after the papers, his prediction of Robin’s visit and ids suggestion of us ing her as a bait to the trap lie pro posed setting for 1dm. "Go, now—at once, Robin, my hus band. and send me word where to come to you; it is safer so. Oh! I will come! you need not fear—you see, I do not even ask if you want ine to! Send for me, and be not too tardy about it—” "Tardy, heart of my heart,” he mur mured, with his lips to hers. “Every moment I spend away from you is an eternity In purgatory. If I must go, tell me that you love me, that I may have something to live upon until we meet again.” "Oh, I love you. Robin—indeed I love you—yet I take blame to myself for telling you so often, who have never yet said it to me. Some day you will, mayhap, remind me that 1 did all the wooing, and all the marrying, too! Nay, sw-ear to me, Robin, that thou’lt forget that ever I asked thee to marry me—” and she hid her face, all blusing with love and shame, upon his shoulder. "Forget!” he exclaimed. "If ever 1 forget, It will be because my body is dust and my soul In torment! Yet 1 cannot believe it. 1 fear to close my eyes in sleep, lest when I wake I shall find 1 have been dreaming—dreaming that these arms have held the dearest and sweetest woman in all the world and these most unworthy lips have beer permitted to offer her worship. Oh! 1 scarcely dare to say, 'I love you.' i would I knew some other word that could express the adoration that fills my heart to bursting! I loved you the moment my eyes fell on your ange face—from the moment I kissed you Oh! how dared I kiss you? Yet ! was punished! You cannot imagine the fire that kiss left in my veins—the un appeasable longing In my heart!” His lips were seeking hers again, but she thrust him away with tender vehe mence. "No, no," she cried, "don't stop te kiss me now. but go, while yet the way is open.” She had her hand upon the lock wher it turned gently and the door opened t few inches. The eyes of Lord Beach combe and Robin met over Prue's heat and the flash of mutual anlmosltj struck through her like an electrii current. She glanceel quickly from om to the other, and the secret of thel kinship revealed Itself so convinc lngly in the two faces that she dii not even feel surprised. It seemed ai If she must always have known tha they were brothers. The door closed again so swlftl; that the whole Incident was over bp fore any one could have drawn a breath. “It is too late,” whispered Prue, then threw herself into Robin’s arms in a kind of desperation that was half rapture. “He will betray you, but they must take me, too; I will not be sep arated from you.” “He will not come here for me,” said Robin, cool and practical in the presence of danger. “It will be best for me to go at once, before he has time to call assistance. I can surely beat off half a dozen of his lackeys singlehanded. If I give him time to set a posse of constables in wait for me, I may have more trouble with them. Farewell, heart of gold. I will send a safe messenger to you soon. Oh I must see you again very soon. I have so much to say to you—” “Yet, wait,” said Prue, detaining him. “Ret me think. I would not risk your life unnecessarily. Stay here and I will return instantly.” She was back in a few minutes, ac companied by a gorgeous vision of rich brocade and costly lace. These embel lishments fitly set off a stately figure that had once been slenderer and a charming face that showed few of the ravages of time and indeed had more than replaced the graces of youth by the archness and gaiety time had but enhanced. Barbara, this Is my friend, Cap tain de Cllffe,” said Prue. “We met in the north country. Permit me to present him to you.” Lady Barbara’s evident astonish ment did not affect the ceremonious ness of her deep curtsey, to which Robin, not less surprised by Prue’s maneuver, responded with a gravely respectful salute. “Methinks I have heard of your meeting with this gentleman—on Blackmoor,” said Barbara, with twink ling eyes. “I, myself, claim a dis tant kinship with the De Cliffes: what branch do you belong to, captain?” "I am an unworthy twig of the se nior branch,” replied Robin. “Ah. that accounts for your strong resemblance to the late earl,” said Barbara, seating herself near the win dow and so compelling him to face the light, while she cooly scrutinized him. “And if the present earl -were a hand some fellow, you would be like enough tor brothers. As it is-” “As it is. he hates me like a brother,” said Robin negligently, “and in that the resemblance between us is not be be denied.” “Dear Barbarba,” cried Prue, “let me make a confession to you. Captain de Cllffe is also known as Robin Free mantle, the highwayman.” "And when I told you so t'other day you pretended to be surprised,” cried Barbara reproachfully. “Little did X ever expect that my Prue would so deceive me.” “ ’Twas not to deceive you. dear Bar bara, but a roomful of curious gos sips. all ready to fall upon poor little me and tear my secret to shreds. Scold me as much as you will, some other time, dearest Bab. but help us now.” “Us?” cried Barbara, turning her shrewd eyes from one to the other with sudden enlightenment. “Aha.” she smiled knowingly, and Prue. blush ing and faltering, found no word to explain away her unvoiced suspicion. "I am glad, at any rate.” she went on rather dryly, “to find Sir Geoffrey’s nose out of joint. But if you want help, why did you not ask Beaehcombe. who seems all too willing to return to your feet, and who has already, if I am not mistaken, once rescued this gentleman from Newgate?" "Barbara, he wishes nothing so much as to get him back there. Scarce an hour ago he proposed to me to decoy him here that he might seize him and rob him of valuable papers. No doubt he would kill him if he resisted, or throw him into prison. So now. dear Barbara, help me to devise some way of getting him away from here unob served." "That is not difficult,” Barbara as sured her. "My new chair is ainplv large for two. If Captain de ClifTe will give me his arm. we will walk out of this house together and he can escort me home." "But Bab. if that wretch is on the watch, he may attack you. Remember, he has seen Rob—Captain de Cllffe, here and if you had seen his face as I did, when he looked in at the door. Oh. you may be sure that even you would not be safe at his hands, if you stood between him and the object of his hatred.” “I have a better plan,” said Bar bara, laughing mischievously, "and one that promises more diversion. You are tall, captain,” she looked him over with an approving eye, “a proper man, i' faith! Do you think you could be trusted to take the place of one of my chairmen? They are all six-foot men, chosen to match in size. I am very fastidious in such matters. Three are new to my service, but the fourth is a faithful lad. w'ho can be trusted to hold his tongue. In his livery you can defy my Lord Beaehcombe and his myrmidons and walk away under their noses.” Thlo lironoelUon n>nn ^ Dx. inis proposition was quite to Frue s taste and Robin, who was too anx ious to got away without causing her any serious trouble, to care much in what guise he fared forth, gratefully consented. So James was despatched to call Lndy Barbara’s man Thomas, to whom she conveyed her commands in the fewest possible words, and the two ladies withdrew while the ex change of costume was effected and the stolid Thomas, too well accustomed to his mistress’ whims to raise the least question, resigned his crimson coat and gold laced hat, his silk stock ings and buckled shoes, and even his powdered bob-wig, to the new chair man. By this time Prue’s usual afternoon court was assembling In far greater numbers than the little house could easily accommodate, and the rustle of brocades and the ripple of gay voices filled the air. Outside the library Barbara hesitated. "I think I will not go back to your visitors, Prue my tongue is apt to slip out of mj control and I might say something compromising," she said. Then, seeln§ the door open into the empty dining room, she went in, drawing Prue uft ■ er her. “Is it serious, child?" she demanded with a hand on each shoulder ant Prue's eyes vainly attempting to meei : her searching gaze unflinchingly, “h ' it possible that the heart that has re sisted 101 and skilled assault can hav< surrendered to the ’Stand and deliver of a brigand? Come, tell me every ■ thing!—if you are in love frith him—' “Oh! no, no!" cried Prue, shrlnkinf in horror from the extent of the revela tion she might be drawn into if Bhi began with such an admission. "Love! what nonsense—for a highwayman?” and she laughed, though with less than her usual abandon. "Yet he is a charming fellow," said Barbara insinuatingly. “He might have caught your fancy—but. in fact,” in a gay tone, 'Tm glad he has not, for to own tho truth, I am more than half disposed to carry off your highwayman and hold him prisoner for a day or two. ’Twill be safer for him and his adven tures will surely keep me entertained for a while—and, who knows? I might amuse myself by making a conquet of this gentle savage!” “Oh! Barbara, fie!” cried Pruet to whom the picture of Robin under the influence of another woman’s fascina tions was far from agreeable. “It is condescension enough for you to save his life—” “Condescension i’ faith,” laughed Barbara. "At least I can promise that my condescension shall end—where charity begins—at home! Eh, Prue? Well, I hear my new retainer in the hall, so fare thee well, dear Gossip,” and with a kiss on either cheek, she rustled out and was respectfully as sisted into her chair by Robin, who then took Thomas’ vacant place a,t the rear pole. The street was thronged with the equipages of Prue’s visitors and, ming ling with the crowd, Lord Beachcombe, closely followed by half a dozen lusty fellows, exchanged greetings here and there, without relaxing his vigilant watch upon the entrance. He scarcely vouchsafed a glance toward Lady Bar bara, and as she swung past him in her gorgeous sedan chair, with her four tall chairmen at full trot, she was so elated that she had half a mind to stop and speak to him. But wisdom prevailed with her, for once, and she contented herself with waving her jeweled fan in saucy greeting. He responded with a careless wave of the hand, and the next minute she was out of sight. CHAPTER XXIII. THE PARSON SELLS A SECRET*. As the afternoon progressed. Lady Drumloch's little house filled to over flowing. Reports of the adventures of the diamond necklace had brought a crowd of flattering, envious and above all, curious acquaintances round the dqlnty table where the cousins dis pensed chocolate and coquetry. Some vague rumors had reached Lady Drumloch, through Lowton, of a nocturnal exploit' by which Prue had distinguished herself In some myster ious way, but she was in absolute Ignorance of the actual facta, and had great difficulty in controlling her own curiosity, while maintaining an appear ance of urbane indifference under the crossfire of questions, congratulations, thinly veiled censure and half incred ulous comment by which the guests displayed their varied interest. It was in vain that Peggie used her ready wit to turn the conversation into safer channels; In vain that Prue vowed the whole thing a ridiculous exaggeration, and refused to be made a heroine or to be coaxed or goaded into compromising admissions. The necklace, she declared, had been accidentally carried away by some person employed at Marlborough House, who, becoming terrified by the possession, of tho dangerous treasure and wishing1 to be rid of It, had con veyed it to her as a sure means of get ting It back to the rightful owner; that she had brought It to the duchess and together they had returned it to the queen; and there, so far as she was concerned, Prue regarded the incident as closed, and was quite tired of an swering sillv questions and explaining things that really needed no explana tion. Would they please not worry her about it any more, but talk of some thing else? Still, it was not easy to change the current of conversation, for each new comer had some fresh rumor to be con tradiced, some new extravagance to be laughed at or some malicious inference to be drawn from Prue’s unwonted re serve, and her grandmother’s ill-con cealed annoyance. But if the afternoon wore away slow ly to Peggie and Prue, it was a long drawn torture to Lord Beachcombe, whose watch upon the house was never relaxed, notwithstanding the gibes of the gay throng as it passed in and out, marveling what kept Prue’s quondam lover hanging round Lady Drumloch’s door, and the rising murmurs of his followers, whose numbers had been re inforced by numerous loungers on the lookout for mischief or profit. A constant stream of guests, arriv ing and departing, passed before him; still no one at all resembling Robin Freemantle appeared. Dainty ladies in brocade and jewels passed in and out of the door, their servants being obliged to force a way for them through the gathering crowd of idlers. Beaux as dainty and as gaily costumed, handed them into their equipages, lisp ing quaint oaths and shaking their Jeweled canes In the faces of the over bold; still no Robin Freemantle. One after another the carriages rolled away, the chairmen trotted off with their fair burdens, the casual onlookers dis persed, and left the street to Lord Beachcombe and his noisy retinue. At last he could control his impa tience no longer. Hurriedly directing his men to keep vigilant watch for their quarry, he once more knocked for admitance and demanded a word with Lady Brooke. James, the imperturable, would have conducted him up to the drawing room, but he stalked haught ily to the library and abruptly opened the door—to find the room deserted. (Continued Next Week.) Japanese Health Rule*. From the New York Sun. The following rules for the general guld. ance of the people In health matters have been printed and widely distributed by the Japanese government: 1. Spend as much time out of doors as possible. Bask much in the sun and take plenty of exercise. Take care that your respiration Is always deep and regular. 2. As regards meals, eat meat only once a day. and let the diet be eggs, cereals and vegetables, fruits and fresh cow’s milk. Take the last named as much as possible. Masticate your food carefully. 3. Take a hot bath every day and a steam bath once or twice a week If the heart is strong enough to bear It. 4. Early to bed and early to rise. 5. Sleep In a very dark and very quiet room, with windows open. Let the mini mum of Bleeping hours be six or six and a half hours. In case of woman eight and a half hours is advisable. 6. Take one day of absolute rest each week, in which you must refrain from even reading or .writing. 7. Try to avoid any outbursts of passion and strong mental stimulations. Do not tax vour brain at the occurrences of in evitable incidents or of coming events. Do not say unpleasant things nor listen. If possible to avoid It, to disagreeable things. 8. Be married! Widows and widowers should be married with the least possible delay. 9. Be moderate in the consumption of even tea or coffee, not to say tobacco and alcoholic beverages. 10. Avoid placas that are too warm es pecially steamheated and badly ventilated rooms. Not An Asset. "They say my son is a credit to me?” ‘ Mine has never been anything but , a liability." Good Word for Snob*. From the Atchison Globe. A snob Is entitled to some credit for leaving you alone, which is more than :J»e i bores will do. VOICED ALL THEIR THOUGHTS Office Boy the Only One of the Crowd of “Mourners” Who Was Truth ful in His Speech. The treasurer of the bank was dead. Word had just been received over the telephone. It was shortly after busi ness hours, and as if by common con sent, all of the employes gathered together in a little group. "I feel as though I had lost a broth er,” said the assistant treasurer. “I shall never get over it,” added the cashier. “It makes me sick,” whispered the paying teller. "It is very, very terrible,” murmured the receiving teller. VP* “I shall think about it all night, remarked the bookkeeper. "It’s awful—awful!” said the clerks. There was a moment’s silence, then the errand boy spoke. “I wonder who'll get the job?” he chirped. Everybody gave an involuntary start. The errand boy had been a mind reader.—Puck. HANDS CRACKED AND BLED St Clair, Mo.—“My trouble began about fifteen years ago. It was what some claimed eczema. The form the disease worked under was a breaking out with watery blisters on my bands which would then dry and scale, and then would follow the trouble of cracking and bleeding, also itching and hurting. My hands were disfig ured at the time, and sore. The trou ble was very annoying, and disturbed my sleep. This last February It waa ever so much worse than before. I did not do all my work on account of the condition of iqy hands. I could not put them in water without mak- w ing them worse. I tried a lot of home v| remedies, also salves and liniments that claimed to be a cure for the trouble, but I did not obtain a cure. “At last I saw the advertisement for Cuticura Soap and Ointment. I sent for a sample. I thought they would cure, so I sent for a flfty-cent box of Cuticura Ointment and some Cut.i cura Soap. A doctor advised me to keep ahead with the Cuticura Soap and Ointment and they cured me com pletely. No trace of the trouble re mains-” (Signed) Mrs. Mary Taylor, Mar. 29, 1912. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post-card “Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston." Adv. Queen Victoria Detested Tobacco. The number of smoking rooms now distributed over Windsor castle would considerably astonish Queen Victoria, could she but see them. Her late majesty could never bring herself to do more than tolerate the weed in any form, and the smoking room was always relegated to a very distant part of her various residences. Nor were the guests permitted to solace themselves with a quiet smoke in their own apartments, as on their ar rival they were specially warned not to do so. m No, Indeed. w "Ladies are beginning to smoke cig arettes, aren’t they?” “No, indeed.” “But I am sure I saw a woman smoking one yesterday!” “But you said ladies.” LADIES CAN WEAR SHOES en« size smaller after using Allens Foot Ease. the Antiseptic powder to be shaken in to the shoes. It makes tight or new shoe* feel easy. Gives rest and comfort. RefuM substitutes. For FREE trial package, ad dress Allen S. Olmsted. Ls Roy. N. Y. Adv, Not Informed. “What do you think of the war?" “What war?” “The war in Tripoli.” “I really can't say. I haven’t seen any of the films.” PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS Tonrdruggist will refund money If PAZO OINT MENT fails to cure any case of Itching. Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to U days. 50c. Thought of It. For a thing that springs mostly from badly digested misinformation, public sentiment is amazingly often right.—Puck. CONSTIPATION" Munyon's Paw-Paw Pills are unlike all oth er laxatives or cathar tics. They coax the liver into activity by gentle methods, they do not scour; they do not gripe; they do not weaken; but they do start all the secretions of the liver and stom ach in a way that soon puts these organs in a healthy condition and corrects constipation. Munyon's Paw-Paw Pills are a tonic to the stomach, liver and nerves! They invigorate instead of weaken; they enrich the blood instead of impover ishing it; they enable the stomach to get all the nourishment from food that is put ints it. Price 25 cents. All Druggists I QUICK REU9 I _ _ EYE TROUBLES