1 *** —n»Mira» r r~» ■■— * **--■■*■*■ > [1 N ©gyc jp*' MADE ME WELLfl^T K Mrs. Elizabeth Reuther, 1002 11th 7 Et., N. W., Washington, D. C., I writes: i> "I am pleased to endorse Peruna as a splendid medicine for catarrh and stomach trouble, from which I suffered for several years. I took it for several months, and at tho end of that time found my health vvaa restored and have felt splendidly ever since. I now take it when I con tract a cold, and it soon rids the sys tem of any catarrhal tendencies^’ Cripple Who Forgot “Can’t.” Twenty-eight years ago F. It. Big 'er, who is familiarly known as Bob ‘o hundreds of bis friends and admir ?rs in Kansas City, Mo., was conduc tor on a Western railroad. One day >n duty he suffered an accident that resulted in the loss of his right arm lust below the elbow and bis left foot Just above the ankle. Instead of bending or breaking tin ier tbp blow Bigler straightway began t most remarkable uphill fight—one that was destined to be of great im port to cripples all over the world, bet him tell you the story of that 3ght just as I persuaded him to tell It to me: “The first tiling a cripple should nake up his mind to do,” said Bigler, fis to forget there is such a word as can’t. The key to all doors is hot I will,' but ‘I must.’’’—American Magazine. A MINISTER’S CONFESSION Rev. W. II. Warner, Myersvillc. Md., writes: “My trouble was sciatica. My back was affected and took the form of lumbago. I also had neuralgia, cramps in my mus cles, pressure or sharp pain on the top of my head, and nervous dizzy spells. I had oth er symptoms show ing my kidneys were at fault, so I took Dodd's Kidney Pills. They were the means of saving my life. I write to say that your medicine restored me to perfect health.” Be sure and get “DODD'S,” the name with the three D’s for dis eased, disordered, deranged kidneys; A just as Rev. Warner did. no similarly y named article will do.—Adv. Latest Improvements. “I'll bet you do some cranky thing to make your wife begin the tirades you complain of.” ‘’Nothing in the cranky way doing. She’s a self-starter.” The Same Old Course. “I nni going to quit smoking for ever.” "Forever? What a lie!” "I think so, too.” Send 10c to Dr. Pierce. Invalids’ Hotel. Buffalo, for large trial package of Anuric for kidneys—cures backache.—Adv. In trying to figure out (he problem of life most men subtract what they own from wliat they owe. Standby for a Cold, These who object to liquid medi cines cen now procure Pcrima Tab I iota. Injured Pride. After a recent Zeppelin raid, wlier tie- worst was over, a resident went out into the town to see what damns*' laid been done. In tlie darkness In heard a group of women talking loud ly, and judging them a clue not to b< neglected uq followed them along ni entry into the back yard of a house The debate never censed, but he war unable to get the hang of it until out of tlie women—the most eloquent—up pealed directly to him. " ’Ere,’’ slio said, “do you call it fair? T” bond dropt in our yard, an’ a hobby’s gone and took it away—never even givi she a receipt for it. It’s our bomb."— Manchester Guardian. 10 CENT “CASCARETS” FOR LSVER AND BOWELS Cure Sick Headache, Constipation Biliousness, / Sour Stomach, Bad Breath—Candy Cathartic. No odds how bad your liver, stom ach or bowels; how much your head aches, how miserable you are from constipation, indigestion, biliousness and sluggish bowels—you always get relief with Cascarets. They inime diatel.v cleanse and regulate tlie stom ach, remove the sour, fermenting food and foul gases; take the excess bile from the liver and carry off the con stipated waste matter and poison from the intestines and bowels. A 10-cent box from your druggist will keep your liver and bowels clean; stomach sweet and head clear foi months. They work while you sleep.— Adv. & Oaks Impoverish Soil. As an Italian investigator lias given considerable time to the investigation of the reason for the failure of olive trees in the presence of oaks, and lit lias concluded that it is due to tlie im poverishment of the soil by tlie oak rather than by transmission of any spo cies of infection. / ■ ——1 - " ■ ■ ACTRESS TELLS SECRET. A well known actress gives the follow ing recipe for gray hair: To half pint oi water add 1 oz. Bay Hum, a small box of Barbo Compound, and *4 oz. of glycerine Any druggis^can put this up or you can mix it at home at very little cost. Full directions for making and use come in each box of Barbo Compound. It will gradually darken streaked, faded gray hair, and make it soft and glossy. It will not color the scalp, Is not sticky or greasy, and does not rub oft. Adv. Cats, unlike politicians, give voice to tlie most decided utterances while on tlie fence in tlie dark. The Quinine That Does Not Gause Nervousness or Ringing In Read Because of its Tonic and Laxative effect, LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE can be taken by anyone without causing nervousness or ringing in the head. It removes the cause of Colds, Grip and i Headache. Used whenever Quinine is needed. —hut remember there is Only One "Bromo Quinine” That is the Original Laxative Bronte Quinine This Signature on Every Box Canada’s Liberal Offer of r. Wheat Land to Settlers "ft is open to you—tc every farmer or farmer’s son —^ . mt, who is anxious to establish for wEsJ dEM j kimseR. a happy ^home and "pi B invitation this year is more attractive ( » I than ever. Wheat is much higher but Ar ^ & I ^er fertile farm land just as cheap, and W in t^ic provinces of Manitoba, Saskat- Wffj 3 | A K^l chewan and Alberta 8 m * ^ Aere Boirestadg Are Actually Free to Settlers BS * JS sod Other land Sold at from $15 to $20 per Acre WflM MraiSS^f ^idMM ti^ ■ "B The great demand for Canadian Wheat will WHJttwSEBI®'" BBaMBasHipilM1 mm\1 I *IU1 i'l keep up the price. Where a farmer can get _g near $2 for wheat and raise 20 to 45 bushels to 8KH/4fflrAt-’V"** clr v 1 ^he aero he is bound to make money — that’s gBSlFlifJ' A\^ JBqjAT what you car. expect in Western Canada. Won- BrolttW72 '-“OacvB derful yield* also of Oats, Barley and Flax. HjLwIitoflr mp ?8 MixaLJi/W Gom school*.clnin hus.marketaeoOTenlent,climate Hiyr fllA >' .tv* I c I) U$wv4r*3l ex.ve:ient. M ■ tary «ervIco Is not compulsory in Bwi'lfAlW S. TO" W Pa Canada bur there is an u mJt.ua 1 demand for farm WiViMK1! ■** ,N *1 x fflTri^H lat,or to replace the ujany young men who harts MillfllM.%, ~ vCtiLk*. k . \ • /hBLaltB Toiur.fearad for tho war. Writ* for literature anri BffiVNnUc&v 71 w oavn‘.'.; vtr< rsjo reduced railway rates to Supt. of MCTtVi^tyft\ w'4\ '‘e-pIkI M. J- Jefcastaae, Drawer 197. Wat-rtowa, S. D.; V,l3p W. V. Boaneit, Room 4. Bee Building., Omaha, Neb., By/.’[jkvkVvMJ^^^> a a it R. A. Carrot, 311 Jacka^o Street, St. FaahMiaa^^^^g^YtaJIWgBP^-^^A * A NOVEL By JAMES HAY, JR. i. * GARDEN’ CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY _ PROLOGUE. 1 The door shook, and there was the dull thump of heavy impact, as if the panels had been struck by a sack of meal. Old Sullivan, reading his paper ! , behind the flat desk in the far corner, •did not look up. That was the manner in which most of liis guests came in. Simpson, who had signed the register and was on liis way to the sleeping quarters, paused and turned liis purplish face toward the door that had been shaken by the blow. Keener witted than most of the derelicts who drifted into this house of refuge, he wondered whether the place could furnish him amusement. Also, he was making a mental bet that there could come in nobody more wretched looking than he. After a short, dead silence outside, there followed the sound of hard flesh and rough finger nails scraping and clawing on the woodwork. The door swung in very slowly, and that which had sounded like a sack of meal stood wavering in the opening, like a spectre, his right shoulder against the door jamb, his left hand still on the knob. He trembled visibly, and, without re moving his shoulder from the wood against which lie leaned, passed liis right hand wearily across his forehead, the long, pule fingers moving loosely against his coal black, tangled hair. He wore no bat. liis beard, a week old, completed the dark, circular frame for his dead white face, made all the i ghastlier by the big, fever lit eyes. The eyes were terrific. They had in ' them the flame of terror. It was ns if I the fierceness of it lighted up all rlie | badges- of misery that he wore. His | collar was gone, allowing the neckband of his shirt fastened with a bone collar button. The rusty coat hung open, ex posing a tear in his shirt just over his heart, and from the right cuff of his coat sleeve, as he moved his hand with tnat peculiar, crawling motion, dangled a long piece of cloth. His trousers, baggy and shapeless, flapped slightly us his knees knocked together. Hi's clothes, too big for him, made him look like a draped skeleton. His torn shoes spread out as if they had been filled with mush. The terror that was in his eyes was also in his heart. It was more ap parent, more real, than any terror that had ever faced Simpson the bum, or old Sullivan. It was something super natural—something ghostly. Simpson shivered. Sullivan, who had let his paper slide noisily (o the floor, got to his feet. "Hello!” lie said, trying to make the word a mere greeting. In reality it was a command to the stranger to speak, to banish the spectral impression. The trembling man sprang into the room with the agility of a cat, slammed the door shut, and fell hard with his back against it. He looked like one who has run a great distance and makes one last effort to escape pursuit. His burning eyes glanced at Simpson and then at the few articles in the barely furnished room, but they took no knowledge of what they saw. The flame of them, brilliant and steady went toward Sullivan. “What can we do for you?" the old man asked brusquely, disliking the bril liant eyes. The stranger, a grotesque flattened against the door, licked ills lips twice and tried to speak. When he did so, it was in a rattling whisper, and he moved his neck curiously as if his throat hurt him. "Help me,” he said, and there was in the whisper something that sounded unpleasantly like a whine. “All right!” Sullivan, having pulled himself together, assured him. "Come over here.” The visitor trembled as if invisible, Irresistible hands had hold of him, and again liis burning eyes surveyed the room blindly. He came away from the door with an infinity of caution, his breath audible in his nostrils. He came slowly, his knees half giving way be neath him. As he walked, half of the sole of his right shoe fell away from liis foot and flapped against the floor. His arms hung loose at his sides. ‘Will you”—lie said, whispering, when lie almost had reached the desk— “will you help—help me?” Although the whine of appeal was still in the whisper, there was, back of that, something which sounded like a new definition of despair. It announced that he had no hope of finding help. "Sure!" Sullivan answered him breezily. The stranger lurched against the desk and fell forward, the hardness of his bony elbows making a knocking noise. With his head bowed, his nose mashed against the hard wood, he flung up his right arm, his hand shaking, the fingers moving through the air with the slow crawly motion, and screamed aloud one prolonged nntp "He-ee-ee!" he lamented shrilly “I'm afraid of it!" lie lifted hia head so that it was flung far back on hi* shoulders, and stared at Sullivan. “I’ve run through the streets,” he said in a whisper, "through the streets and through the fields—1,000 miles! And it was always—always behind me. It held on to my shoulder,” He clapped his left hand to his right shoulder, hesitated a moment, and grinned sheepishly, trying to cover up his failure to capture that which threatened him. "Nearly got it then!" he declared. The whisper, more than the burning eyes, made Sullivan all sympathy' He held forward a pen and spun the reg ister around. “Can you sign your name?” h* In quired kindly. The stranger took the pen and pushed the torn piece of coat sleeve out of the way, preparatory t* writing. He paused, the pen wobbling in his hand, while a new and grayer horror spread over ids face. Then, with the new ugliness up on him, he began to laugh in a silly, scarcely audible, fashion. •My name?" he giggled. "Bomebody’s stolen it!” Then slowly, the words] cooling nnr by one through his vacu- j ous laughter: , "I—don’t—know—nay— name. Sort of joke. I don't know who i I am.” "Ml right,” Sullivan said lightly, tak ing the pen from the other's palsied fingers. "I’ll sign for you." lie wrote it down and spoke it: "John Smith There you are. That all right?" ’’Ifes." John Smith laughed vacantly and be gan to look around the room furtively. The tramp Simpson, who had been watching him with absorbed interest, thought that every bit of the man's personality had been concentrated into the uncanny fire of tlie terror stricken eyes. Jiut, apparently, thej- saw n. th ine. They entirely ignored Simpson's steady, searching glance. "Here, you, Simpson!" old Sullivan suddenly called out. "Get to your hunk! Don't bother this man!” The tramp went out through the oth er door; but, as he went, he looked back over ills shoulder at John Smith, and whistled softly to himself, express ing his amazement. The stranger had let his head go down against the desk again. Sullivan, watching the slinking shoulders, saw that he was sobbing. "How about you now. John Smith?” he asked, cheerily. "Keel better?” “Do 1?" the other returned, bewil dered, and lilted his head, resting his chin in tlie cup of his hands. 11c kept that attitude while Sullivan, recognizing the extremity of tlie man’s suffering, unlocked a small cabinet back of the desk and brought forth a flask of whisky anil a glass. Smith, watch ing him, sobbed once or twice con vulsively, while terror made new fur rows in ills features. Ilis eyes grew in brilliance. Sullivan, pouring some of the whisky into tlie glass, extended it toward him, with the pleasant invitation: "Take this drink. It's medicine now." Smith, Ids face writhing, his whole body jerking and contorted, fought against the agony of his fright. Then, by u supremo effort, he drew himself to his lull height, like a man about to ho shot, and put out a tremulous hand toward the glass. He tried to grin, but succeeded only in drawing his lips away from his teeth, as if they had been moved by strings manipulated from the back of his head. "Go ahead!” urged Sullivan. Smith took the glass in his right hand and immediately transferred it to his left. "Look," he said timidly. ‘T’ve got it— right here—right here In my hand.” He spoke now in a hoarse, deep voice, and put eagerness into his tone. "I’ve got hold of it—haven’t 1?" “Sure!” agreed Sullivan. "Drink it!" From somewhere strength came back to John Smith. There was in ills eyes force enough to compel the gaze of Sullivan, and there was in his backbone strength enough to hold him erect. His big, bass voice boomed like thunder. "Old man,” lie said, the’ glass entire ly steady in his left hand, "I've come down from high, awful places—places so high that the peals of thunder sounded no louder than a robin's call— so high that the pale ends of lightning whips cracked harmlessly against my eyeballs—so high that escaping souls went by me like thin, white flames!” He stood a moment rigid, his ardent glance holding Sullivan. '“Old man,” he swept on. "I've come up from the blackest depths of deep ness, where there was no life, not a hit, and yet worlds crawled in slimy, sickly motion, forever—here there was no light, and yet millions of miseries swelled into my eyes—where there was no sound, and yet the passing of every thought was a screaming curse. All! that's a tiling you'll know some day, that thoughts have tongues—shrieking longues that lash and burn and shrivel up the heart." He accomplished a smile, patronizing Sullivan. "Old man. you’ve never been where I’ve been. I've seen dead souls shroud ed in dreams denied—poor, still souls. I’ve heard dying souls sob and shriek when they were east over the edges of eternity. I've learned that spirits die. Consider that! Spirits sometimes die." He paused to set tlie glass on the desk, and the terror that had let him alone caught him up again, straining his limbs and making curious patterns on Ids face. “And I've come back—come back long corridors that lead to nowhere." he mourned, flinging his arfns wide. "I came because they drove me. They drove me with fear. They scourged me with terror. They whipped me witli sbane. A million bayonets always within a hair's breadth of my back— 1.000 swords, heavy as horror, dangling in the sunlight at the end of a silken thread—just above my ears!” The strength returned to his back bone. He stood erect. “They show me no mercy,” lie ex plained, tlie ghost of pride in Ills voice. "I asked none. I did not look hack or up. Without looking, I could see the bayon ets and the swords. Old man, for at least 1,000 years I've fled—fled with all tlie furies of hell at my heels.” He crumpled up on the desk, his misery-murked face in the cup of his two hands, and fixed the flame of liis eyes on the wondering Sullivan. “For God’s sake!" the old man cried out. "Drink the whisky! Here!" Smith began to laugh foolishly, a sound devoid of mirth or cheer, and, his shoulders sagging, backed away from tlie desk and the drink. He sood so a long moment, pointing a weak hand at the glass. "And,” he giggled, “I’ve arrived— after 1,000 years—I've arrived at that!" (Continued Next Week.) High Ambition, I'd Uke to be a fighter, and with the fighter* stand, and whip some other blighter, to music by the band. The fighter's life is sunny, when he has reached the top; some forty kinds of money, at intervals, lie'll cop. He gets v. roll that's bigger than you could carry out, when he consents to figure in tinhorn sparring bout. The most of us are striving, each day. the whole year long, that wo may bo surviving, and dodge the poorhouse throng. We must be most adroit, sir. and slave tile livelong day', if we would earn a kreut zer. or salt a yen awuy. Great men of skill and knowledge, can hardly earn their slaw, professors in the college, and people learned in law; and scien tists and thinkers, and eminent divines must feed their children clinkers—but huw the lighter dines! He works when lie gets ready, and then for half an hour; the money oomeR In steady, a brilliant, golden shower. I’d like to he a tighter, but I’m too fat to scrap; and so, as hungry writer. I'll serve my term, mayhap. A device nailed a detectature has been Invented to permit a man in one room to watch a cash register In another. l>r. John Quackenboss. of Hast An dover. N. H.. has used the same row* boat on Highland lake years. T Mm I alcohol-3 per cent. | S 1 AVefielablcPrcparationforAs-j similatintJIhcFood by Kcfirla _ , i S'. Thcrd^TroSotinfi Difies^n I I Cheerfulness andRestXontai® If !' neither Opium,Morphine nor Hi Mineral. Not Narcotic; | jht^ceamhHixianMR | It™ ^ \ if J&U- / I II I f£?/»TsUr J » "] IjSrfrrmr* fhwr • H I I A hdpful Remedy for J | Constipation and Diarrhoea, o j and Feverishness and I'j Facsimile Sidnatr«of j m dSfttfZ&M J : j I I j Exact Copy of Wrapper* wnmmmmwasmsmj For Infants and Children, Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria i — • , Jack’s Substitute. ; .Tuck attained IPs fifth birthday Inst ■ milliner and in the- fall attended school i Cor-the first time, wearing kilt skirts. ; Some of the larger pupils plagued him vliout wearing dresses, and it was not long before his pleadings for a retd ! ’.toy's suit were granted. lie was very proud indeed when he went to school a few days later arrayed in Ids knlck : (-rl)oekers. One of tin* girls wrote him a note saying lie looked like a little ! Stan. That night he was telling his mother about ir. j “Mother." said he. “Frances Wright wrote me a note telling me I looked : like a little man. and 1 wrote her one ; and told her site looked like a daisy, 1 only I couldn’t spell daisy, so 1 spelled cat." TAKES OFF DANDRUFF. HAIR STOPS FALLING i - Save your Hair! Get a 25 cent bottle of Danderine right now—Also stops itching scalp. Thin, brittle, colorless and scraggy ! hair is mute evidence of a neglected j scalp; of dandruff—that awful scurf. There is nothing so destructive to the hair as dandruff. It robs the hair of its lustre, its strength and ils very life; eventually producing a feverish- ; ness and itching of the scalp, which | If not remedied causes the hair roots ! to shrink, loosen and die—then the I hair falls out fast. A little Danderine | tonight—now—any time—will surely save your hair. Get n 25 cent bottle of Kuowlton's Danderine from any drug store. You surely can have beautiful hair and lots of it if you will just try a little Dan derine. Save your hair! Try it!—Adv. Rabbit’s Rise in Importance. When we used to gi> hunting down in tin- country, quail had to be mighty scarce before wo would waste any am munition on a rabbit. Sometimes, late in the day. we would kill three or four rabbits to give to the watchdogs on the way home to amuse them while we operated in the persimmon orchards, but that wits about the extent of our Interest in the rabbit. Rut times have changed. Fried rabbit nowadays lias assumed a place alongside of liver and sirloin and prime ribs an jus. Kan sas City Star. Garfield Tea was your Grandmother's Remedy for every stomach and intes tinal ill. This good old-fashioned herb tiouie remedy for constipation, stomach 11s ami oilier derangements of the sys tem so prevalent these days is in even greater favor as a family medicine than in your grumlmot tier’s day.— Adv. A man may lie the ifreldtect of IPs own fortune, but lit- can't induce the sua to shine in every room. When two women get wound up, an other is usually run flowu. A Great Discovery (Hr .1 11. WATSON, II. 11.) Swollen hands, ankles, feet are due to a dropsical condition, often caused by disordered kidneys. Naturally when the kidneys are deranged the blood is tilled witli poisonous waste mutter, which set tles in the feet, ankles ami wrists; or under the eyes in bag-like formations. : As a remedy for those easily recog nized symptoms of inflammation caused j by uric acid —as scalding urine, hack- j ache and frequent urination, as well as | sediment in the. urine, or if uric acid in the blood has caused rheumatism, lum- I bago, sciatica, gout- it is simply wonder- j ful how quickly Autiric acts; the pains I aud stiffness rapidly (lisappear. Take a glass of hot water licfore meals j and Autiric to (lush the kidneys. Step into any drug store and ask for j ■\nuric, many times more potent than j lithia and eliminates uric acid as hot 1 nqier melts sugar. _ Effect of Privilege. Senator Stulieriaivl of Utah wai alking about certain "privileged” per sons. “I'm a foe to all 'privilege,'" he said. ‘Privilege means trouble. It’s like the steamboat captain who bud the bar irivilege. “This captain, to whom all the prof ts went, shouted through his telephone 0 the engineer: “ Tor heaven's sake, Mike, slow her Iowa. We got 'em driukin’ line.’ ” Only about one-tenth of the vast nnounts of iron ore mined in Spain innnally arc utilized at home because >f the scarcity of native coal. ——-— — ..I..——.-a The first sneeze is the danger signal. Time to take— CASCABtAB^UININE The old family remedy-in tablet form—sufe, sure, easy to take. No opiates, no unpleasant after effects. Cures colds in 24 hours—Grip in 3 days. Money back if it fails. Get the genuine box with Red Top and Mr. Hill's picture on it—25 cents. At Any Drug Store ____________ \ Murjon*—"What do yoa thiak John Mid. Daddy, thru 1 tuld him that whan w* ware marrird I wanted a city rnidnin. a country place, «x autea and a lot of B-rvauuf' Daddy—•“Well, what did tW paragon Myt“ Marjeri*—"He aaid that if I would altep more oa my ngbt axle I wouldn't have each drenmn " Bad dreams are a good sign ol poor digestion, when the hard worked stomach begins to complain the whole system suffer* and we have constipation, offensive breath, dyspepsia and nil sort* of similar disorder* 1 every one of u hkb, if you did but knew It. cries aloud for Green's August Flower Which for 51 years has contributed to the health and well being of countless thousands every where. 25c. and 75c. ‘ FaRKER'3 HAIR BAL8AM A toilet preparation of merit. JTelps to eradicate dandruff. For Restoring Color and Beauty to Gray or Faded Hair. ftOc. and $1.00 at Drugyiata. M\ Rais and Mice ALWAYS USE STEARNS’ ELECTRIC PASTE U. S. Government Buys It SOLD EVERYWHERE —25c and $1.48 SIOUX CITY PTG. LO., NO. 2-1917. ^ v* v m A WOMAN’S BURDENS are lightened when she turns to the right medicine. If her existence is made gloomy by the chronic weaknesses, deli cute derangements, and [minfuldisorders that afflict tier sex, sho will find relief and emancipation from her troubles in Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. If she's overworked, nervous, or "run-down,” she finds now lilt- and strength. It’s a power ful, invigorating tonic and nervine which was discovered and used by an eminent phvsieian for many years, in all cases of "female complaints"and weaknesses. For young girls just entering womanhood ; for women at the critical ' change of fife;* in bearing-down sensations, periodical itains. ulceration, inflammation, and every kindred ailment, the " Favorite Preserip