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Woman 7e0t How $5 V/orlb of Pinbham’s Corvpour.i Made Her Well. Lima. Ohio.-" I was all broken dowr. In health from adisplaceraent. One of my lady friends enroot" see me and sbo ad vised me to com mence taking Lyrtia E. Pinkhatn’a Veg etable! Compound ;.r.d to uso Lydia E. Pink ham’s S3nati ve Wash. I began tak ing y.itir remedies and took 55.00 wort !i and in two months was a well woman after three doctors said I never would stand up straight again. I wus a mid wife for seven years and I recocamera.' d the Vegetable Compound to every wo man to take before birth and after wards, and they all got along so nicely that it surely is a godsend to suffering wcmcn. If women wish to write to me I will he delighted to answer them. —Sirs.Jennie Mover, 342 E.North St., L,ma. Ohio. Women who suffer from displace ment , weakness, irregularities, ner vousnrss, backache, nr bearing-down pains, need the tonic properties o! tha •roots and herbs contained in Lydia fci. Pinkham’a Vegetable Compound. u COCKROACHES oT3 easily killed by using Seams’ Electric Pasta Full direction® in 15 languages Sold everywhere 25c and $1.00 U S.Government Buys It Arras Before the War. 'i . n strii s arc an longer woven in An;: hill (lie city tvns ;l thriving ih ili'h : i i mum uni t nl the niilhrcuU of llm war. ils < liicf articles of iiimnifac l In 11._ hosiery, iroiivv n<rc, nil prod i •• . sugar aii<! .Milltiral tmplc uii'ir. . I:< ihi Petite pint n and III 1 Grand p \ i: ■- liimsis name curious ari'hl ' . .| r< Ii—; nl the period of Spanish i" mallhi in thw Hovoideeiuli century 'a - of liovvn 'Ion ' vvlinsr uppvT ■ ■ ■» prnjooi l.ovond tin foundation v and arc supported hy pillars v i,rli form aremles aver the side v.idUs P.’imalh i!m '.(reels nr" liu.e < l!ar- or magn/ine.-j which were orig inally ifiiarrics. The Hotel do Viilc i' an iiitcrv sling siMccnth century f•'’i!11• i wi;'i a In lfr;, 2-to feet high, in which hangs u "real nine-ton In'll e ll d " .Inyell,se.” Not So. "v ill grnnijuni,' i \viul:i’a'rt little M. . ret. vvlio had (icon runnna ring tlirnugi. mi old liuremi drawer in the a'lic. "Wlmt u curious old l;ev lids Is 1" 'Vo. ill iir." replied licr "rnnd mm Inr. ‘Tlml tv n.' tour grandfa ther's tup h!<ey." "And yon liei'p it in memory of (ho old days'.'" "No, my dear. In nieninrv of l In’ old nPrlits." True, True Ham Aeler 'Tis hitter cold with out. Ilnoh Without vvdial V I'urelnc Protean Those mulergttr incalv. There is mi harm ia a mini's'posing as : - aim ir lie I- self-supporting. A NOVEL By JAMES HAY, JR. GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOCBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1U15 <'IIAPTKfi XXII (Continued). i “Who financed your campaign?| Who sent von to the Senate? Who > owns your senutorship now?’’ He i; m ! ed again. “Who told you to, forbid dohn Smith this house?! Who ordered you to do it.?-' The senator moistened his lips • V'.tli His tongue. 'Young man,’’ he said, at tempting lie- insolent tone, “you are crazy, insane!’ Waller laughed again. "Don't say that to me,” he commanded. “1 tell you I’ve got the goods on you. Whiffen Mc ncnroyd did the work -the great! and sublime YVhiffen McNearoyd! You and be made the political bar gains alter you and Whiffet-., and Silas llnt.erby, and Horace (.Jar don, and l.aitw Demonet held 1 lie ’conference that saved you from bankruptcy. If you want, more, I’ll give it to you, the details Silas I’nterbv. the distiller; Hor ace (iardon, the bottler; Harry Demonet, another distiller, and W h i He u oh. the sweet scented WhifVeri - their jack-of-nil-trades in crooked work Whitfen, the! man who could buy a volt or steal j a legislature as remorselessly and! as quickly as he could starve a I child or send a widow into the I it reet !” I Million protested: “ Nothing but a stling of names ' It’s all gibberish and stuff!" , Cholliewollie snapped his fin gera and drove hi. right list i.do| 11ll1 palm of hi left ha: <1 v, it h a resounding tlnvaek. - "Oil, you big four fha h !" lie j said harshly . "Vo'i hypocrite blood sueker in 1 iie dark sin:: t in se-Tet piaei . drinker of \ i 1 <• Maters eater of umdean S';»■ > • 1 ! Owned, body and soul, by the v.liiskv trust! People tlirou up their hands i:i holy horror and as v how whisky kerps itself iu <rcnched. You're the answer to that. They do it through men, through things, like you. They go out into the siaie and bay you'. i buy you where they please, buy you like cattle on the hoof, and itheir they pack von up and keep you in cold storage until they need you, until they dress you up in the clownish costume of a would-be statesman and send you to Washington! They buy you and use you, use you until you haven’t a backbone left! Pah! Yon, \ou old man Mallon ate the worst of all of tlmm. You cap them all. You strike against your daughter's happiness when they call! A senator, a sjatesman! That's enough to make the gods laugh!" The senator started to-rise, but Waller thrust him buck into the chair. I "Now listen to me!" The young : man's tone Mas matter-of fact. cold as steel. " From • now ou, your attitude toward the relations ( whatever those relations may be , bet ween your daughter and Mr. John Smith undergoes a complete reversal of form." It was evident that Mallon saw ; the futility of resistance. "What do you ask." he in quired. I.is voice shaky. "I’m not asking anything.’ i Waller replied. “ I am Idling you things. Some day, when I have • the time, I may print a list of the members of congress polluted by | this whisky ownership. Put. foi | the present, 1 merely tell you that you arc ic cease interfering with | John Smith. And todav you will : give out no denial of this reporter : engagement. Does that go?" ! "Oil. Mallon evaded, "I don'1 want any argument here about “The society reporters, Mis: Whiting and Miss Hubbard," an nminced Wales, holding aside tin hangings to admit the two women At the same moment Edith am Mrs. Kane entered through thi music room door. Smith turnei to speak to 1 Item. Step into the music room, Mr Smith. We can’t have a seem here, Mrs. Kane suggestei quickly. Smith, without a moment's hesi tution, followed her advice. II made his exit without having lieei seen by the reporters. CHAPTER XXILI. Miss Whiting and Miss Hut bard made what might have bee 18 termed a breezy entrance this, in spite of their physiques. .Miss Whiling was tall ami thin, and she had a restless, mechanical uili. i I manner was one of forced 1 1 usi 1'i‘ims.s, a nervous, iu eU'eetivr pretence of great energy, which made her seem birdlike in the way in which she moved and darted about. Each of her ges tures was a sharp, stabbing mo tion. Miss Hubbard was a trifle thinner than .Miss Whiting, and seemed, with the exception of an expression of complete resignation to an unkind world, a pale like ness of her companion. “This is Senator Mallon?" Miss Whiting began the conversation with a group of people who, be cause of the sweeping emotions they were then enduring, thought of nothing to say. “And Miss Mai Ion?" She bowed to Edith. “How very, very nice! How very nice!” Mallon murmured something about being glad to see Miss Whit ing and M iss I Hibbard. “We came to get the denial of the engagement story” Miss Whit ing's words flowed from her bird like throat. “You see, in a story like this, the young lady, the heroine, becomes the most inter esting personage in modern life. She is discussed over the teacups and across the wine glass. And details are essential.'' "So very essential. Myrtle.” .Mbs Hubbard agreed with her friend. "Yes. If she likes immortelles better than rases, for instance,-'or if she had a favorite 'mg doll when slm was a baby, or if she believes onions quiet the nerves -anything of that sort, senator, is absolutely i ssential.” "If you will permit me. Miss Whiting.’’ Waller stepped for eword. prepared ;o make a snggi" i ion. • i 11 -.1 oi:<• indi11'"if, . 11'. \\ alii ph-asc, she av •-it on, again devot ing her attention to the senator, “it would :.o improve 1l;e story if we knew ivliss Million's views on marriage. Has si in ever read any l books on trial marriage, for in j stance, or does sin- admire the i feminist movement ‘! Yon know, i they say the feminist:- don't ho | lit-. i■ in the marriage ceremony. it's unite shocking, i know, but jin tlu-se days things have to lie ! shocking in order to lie inti re.t , ing. Ami details are so essential j I'or i The two reporters had been j standing near the door through I which they had entered. Alisa I Whiling’s frantic fishing for do ; tails was ended, necessarily, when I the hanging were lifted om-e more I by Wales. ' I beg your pardon. Miss Atal j Ion. ’ he said, “but Miss Alary I ic-slie wishes to see you —one of die Thursday young ladies.'’ ! “Oh, I bad forgotten,” Edith reproached herself. “Tell her to : wait a moment in j But the visitor evidently had I thought she was to follow Wales. , She came past him slowly, almost 'timidly, and. Avhen she saw the i group in the room, stood, a fear ' ful, shrinking figure clothed ir i black, just a step over the thresh old. Wales dropped the hanging* behind her and disappeared. "I ~! wanted to see Miss Alai Ion." she said in a colorless, un ’ j certain tone. “I am Aliss Alallon," Edith toll 'her, and started toward her witl 1 the intention of asking her to ivai ' in another room. But the ncAvcomer hurried t< j meet her and clasped her hand. “Oh,” she said, sobbing a little ' “I'm so glad! So glad!” Edith felt that the girl's hand trembled. Her plain, felt sailo • hat Avas rusty on the edges of th * brim, and her black suit was shall by, ill-fitting. But she was not i l girl. She Avas a woman of 27 oi possibly, 28. That was evident ii • the pale face, a face which hail i: it too many lines, as if the year * had been far more heavy tlm happy. Her black hair Avas don ' in exaggeration of the prevolin e mode. Her eyes, Eilith though [1 afterward, were uncanny. The looked old and very worn, as i they had seen many places an many different kinds of men an i Avomen. And yet, for all their Avi: u dorn, they looked, also, like deptl ’of sorrow. The wisdom she had I gained was not such as to quiet! | the sobs in her throat or to make j her hands eease trembling. Kor a moment Edith forgot the ! others around her. “Ah,” she said kindly, “yon 'are troubled, aren't you? Come with me, won t youV” As the two women turned to-) ward tin* door into the hall, the! change in positions made Mary Eeslie face the music room. Her eyes vested on somebody beyond the doorway. The click in her throat was audible to every body in the room. It sounded as! if her leaping heart, had crowded the breath from her body. Kor an instant she stood, her face blank from sheer incredulity. Even her wise looking eyes wore blank, as if i hey had been curtained. She! .-lipped both her hands from I Edith’s grasp and let them fall, [ limp, at. her sides. Her lips' shaped a slow smite, and light i e line back to her eyes. She leaned j toward the music room and held out her hands. They trembled. I Every bit of her trembled. To the others the thing was big, I crushing, grim. All of them —even I the society reporters—knew that I they looked on a tremendous I scene, something vital, stark. In; the dead silence they almost could j hear the footfall of tragedy, so; entirely did the emotion of the* shabby looking, black clad woman dominate their minds. Her thin, white hands trembled j oddly before her for a few mo-| mcuts b"fore she let them drop; again,lo her sides. She still leaned to war;! the music room. “Why," she said in an awed, wondering voice hardly above a whisper, ‘"there's Jack!” ’1'he smile stayed on her lips and went up into her eyes. Mrs. Kane was the first to find voice. Edith’s fascinated gaze was, like the strange woman's to ward the music room. “What did you say?” Nellie asked, her voice strained. “There he is in there,-' Mary, le slie answered. She did not shift * her gaze, but she brought both her : hands up to her chest and folded 'them there. The gesture looked !>ke mute prayer. Million, appreciating at last u hat the scene meant, took one lep lowed the doorway through which the Woman's steady gazg | went. “Mr. Smith! he called out I loudly. There was a brief nause. during | which the others could sec tlint ..Mary ;i:v 1 Lditli's eyes followed' ! She progress of some one toward i ; !n> doorway. The suspense, cruelly heavy.; | living on all of them. Smith appeared in the doorway • land can " into the room. 11 is ex J pression was < ne of curiosity. He i 1 looked first n 1 Kdith, then at Mary i Leslie. Kvidentlv, he had not I heard what Mary had said about ! him. i Mallon turned to .Miss Leslie. “Well?’' he questioned her a lit tie sharply. She held out her hands toward i the agitator again, supplicating. 1 him. I “ It is Jack !’■’ she said, music in liter voice for the tirst time, like (the whisper of happiness. Her | eyes had never left him. He looked at her gravely. It was apparent that he was utterly | bewildered. "My name is John,’’ he an swered firmly. Her hands were still toward him, trembling, white, and thin. 1 “And 1 am Mary,’’ she said 1 simply. He answered her with two | slow words, i “Mary who?’’ j The smile gradually faded from i her face. It was as if it brutal, ir resistible hand slowly dragged I down into the mud a beautiful i thing. “You don’t know me?" She said that in a curious, frightened way. She seemed to ! view tiio thing in ijome strange, : detached manner, as if she rno l ehauieally calculated the degrees i of her own sorrow. There was in j her question so much panic, and at .[the same tiine^o much flat disap j pointment, that she might have q I been a musician testing a few -! mournful notes on a flute. There >, was in her tone all the flutes of - fear. ii “No," Smith replied very quiet , ly: “I don’t think I do.’’ i “But you must!’’ i She made the words a lamenta s tion. i A little pallor came into his e face. y “But l don’t—really," he eon t tradicted lier again. y She let her hands fall again f slowly, making the gesture do 1 quent of complete surrender, and 1 ceasing to stare at him, surveyec i- the others a little blindly, s “He says he doesn’t know me!’ • she mourned, addressing nobody ] definitely. Smith, quiet and dignified, looked at her intently. “That is true,” he told her gently.- ” 1 do not know you. 1 do not, 1 assure you.” She returned his intent gaze, hut she seemed to be frying to look within herself, to examine her own processes of reasoning, P> assure herself of her own sanity. Tliere was in her glance incredu lity, distrust of herself and of j him. “ Do you mean to say.” she j wondered in a low voice, "you wandered in a low voice, “you don t remember me you don't remember Shanghai the time vve Were there six years ago?" Smith drew himself more erect. Waller thought he braced himself, like a man fat mg bravely a. great and unexpected torture. “1 do not,” he repeated. Waller stepped forward ami ad dressed alary Leslie. “May I suggest, madam,.' he said firmly, “that rliis is hardly tin1 place for a discussion of this sort?” Sue took no note of him. “•lack, you do remember,“ she said to Smith, her voice raised. “You must, remember!” Entreaty vftts strong in how words. “If you don't, l.’ll remind you.” She took one short, timid, creeping step toward him. “You remember Oharlie s place-—and .losie the Spaniard and the boats down on tiie river in the moonlight" her voice broke on that “You re member thy boats down on the river, don’t you?” fie stared at her, and paused before he could find words with which to express some of the things that wont whirling through his brain. His gaze was enough to explore her very soul. Waller turned to him. “Oh, come, old man!” he im plored, “This won’t do at all. Wliy listen to such a thing?” Mallou contradicted the sugges tion. "We'd better listen.'’ be said roughly. "It won t do at alt!" Mary ac knowledged Waller finally. "Well 11 won't! Her anger was for Waller, not for Smith. Thar was ([idle evident. “I’ve found this man again, and you say il won't do!" Scorn and contempt made her words quick, strong. "He i ran away from me- ran away!” She struck her thin, white fists to-' ! gather. “Do you know what that means? I tell you 1 axil his wife—■ 1 was She turned suddenly to Smith and implored him with out stretched hands. "Why do you stand the’’e and pretend that what, 1 say is not lirue?” She sobbed once. “Oh, : why V' To that he made no answer. For i i,he moment his mind was busy i with Edith, who stood back of the (other woman, her hands eienched j in from of her, her face a colorless. ( model for grief. “Yon can't, deny it, can you?'" j Mary Leslie challenged him, per jsoual anger against him lively in her voice at last. “Why don't iyou speak?” i He stared at her fixedly. His nostrils dilated with the rapidity of his breathing. 11 is features twitched as if the gray fingers of the pallor that was upon him twisted them sharply. “Tell me!” she begged, seeing his suffering. “Don't you know jme?” He answered her with a great ! effort: j “I don’t know,” he said, hoars ness in bis 1 hroat. | He heard the half audible cry from Edith, and, without looking at her, saw that she winced as if j ! she had been struck. A smile of | derision was on Mallon's face. The two reporters stirred slightly, an Iticipating even a greater sensa j tion than that which they had .just witnessed. Mrs. Kane went dose to Edith and put an arm about her waist. Mary Leslie fell back from (Smith a step and wailed: "Yon don’t know?" They watched him as he stood, , drawn to his full height like a (man facing execution. Waller broke in again, i “This is a frame-up!” he de clared angrily. "That’s what it is —a frame-up! Old man, don’t fall • j tor it! i Smith did not answer him. “What do you mean?" Mary’s - thin, wailing voice tried to break (Smith's silence. “What do yon > I moan—you don’t know?” Waller grasped his shoulder. -[ “Don't pay any attention to (her!” be begged. "This is a , frame-up. 1 tell you. Come with - me!” ,, “Don't!” the plaintive voice 1 persisted. “Don't! Don't run away from me again!" {ConMmjtd Week j HERMANS SHIP DEAD TO Oil REFINERIES Bodies Sent From Front to Fac tory, Where Fertilisers Are Made From Fats. Cable in th*1 New York Sun. 7 on don -That the Germans are sys tematically collecting the corpses <>f their dead and shipping them to ren dering plants where they are subjected to a process for recovering the oils and fats for n ? ns fertilizers, seems in ' ia ably borne out by the latest information. When such stories were first pub lished they were generally disbelieved'. AnK'n'i an * onsuls formerly in Germany who arrived i*mre after their recall said the Germ: ns were distilling nitroglyce rine from the corpses and so obtaining the es i-mails of explosives. Boast of Efficiency. It n rw develops that the German eei -« rs are allowing the German pa p<s fo j.’-'nt accounts of and even to hoist ihi ii the efficiency which al low noi hing to be wasted. The Belgian newspaper. BIndependence Belgo, of April 10 prints an account of the in dustry in which it says: '.V h;:ve long known that the Ger mans stripped their dead oeliind the firing lire fastened I hem into bundles ef : iiroe r four bodies with iron wire .■ini di. ■ itched these buniites to ;!ie r or. Until recently Trains laden •\Jfh tiie dead were sent to a. town near ' .imp ■ and a point near Brussels. Much surprise was miiised by the fact that oj i ;e traffic has proceeded in rhe direction of Gerol.-.tein. and that on < : h wagon vvaa written l>. A. V. G. "German science- is responsible for the idea of the formation of the* I''1'*:.tsala* Abfails Verwert ungsgesell - sehatr. or German Offal Utilization cnv.iany, Limited, a dividend earning ennn-an v with a. capital of $240,1)00. Tho cld 'f fa. iory has been constructed 1,000 v.". dt ... .lie railway -•onneeting Sr. Vith. fu-ar the Belgian frontier, with Gorolstein, in the lonely and little fre Mi * nted Eii'ei district southwest of Uobientz. Guarded By Live Wires. “The factory deals especially with the dead from the western t»ont. If the results are as good ns the company ho per. another will he established on tbc* eastern front. The factory is in visible from the railway and is deep in the Tore- t country. Electrically Charged wires surround it. A special double track leads to it. The works a!-' n!mui; TOO feet long, 110 feet broad and li;e railway runs completely around l hem. 'Tim trains arrive full of bodies which an* unloaded by workers who !i\«* at \):•* works. The men wear oil skin nvoi a'is masks with mica eye pier *s ant are equipped with long hi a. hod po|#»s They push the bundles of undies to an endless chain which pick • them up by means of hooks at in terval.-: f i:\vo foot. The bodies aro transpo! mv an endless chain into a <;•_•. narrow compartment, where » •*.' pa**s through a bafh which disin - ; ♦ m They go thtough a drying .. t n ! are automatically carried to a i. voat cauldron into which they are dropped by an apparatus which de ta< lies rlu*m from the chain. T1 remain six to eight hours in I hi' caardt on. where they are treated ny • , which i r *aks them up while fii •> ai-i* slowly stirred by machinery. The fa*s arc* broken yito stearine, a< Turin of tallow and oils which require to redistilled before they can be used. Distillation is carried out by boiling t• j*• oil with carbonate of soda and some part of the byproducts re sulting is used by the soap makers. The relr.md oil is sent out in small casks like those used for petroleum and is yellowish brown. Refuse Goes Into Sewer. ' The fumes arc exhausted from tho hui I cling by e lot: trie: fans and are sucked through a great, pipe to tho northeast - < ra corner, where they are condensed uni th refuse resulting is discharged m:o a sewer. There is no high chim m v, a. t tic boiler furnaces are supplied with, air bv electric tans. "There is a laboratory, and in charge nf the works is a chief chemist with two assistants and 7<S men. All the em I'ioyes are soldiers attached to the Kigkth Army ' «n-ps. There is a sa.na loriurn near the works, and under no : retest is any man permitted to leave. They are guarded as prisoners at this appalling work." The London Times reproduced the forego»ng aecount Monday, hut it; was ,n horrible that is seemed unbelievable. The Tim - today presents evidence to prove Us truth, printing photographic far.- iiuilrs of a news article in the 'Her ein L<•bale.nr.eiger of April 10 which re erred to the "corpse exploitation ea . a b 1 i s h n. on t (k ad a v e r verWert u n gsa ti - stall.) It ays: •The tats here are turned into lubri cating oils and everything else is grt»e:'d down in the rr.ill, the hones int » • o\vd* which is used for mixing with .. T- food and as manure. Nothing * an 0* vermilted to go to waste." Tn«> case seems completely establish 'd by American. Belgian, Dutch and anally by German testimony. The L<m lon and Rtris newspapers • <li accept the story as true after careful investi gation and print editorials on it. This Chanqinq World. From the Chi< ir » Nrw:«. Soon aft* r his arrival in Washington Mr. Balfour. British secretary of foreign if fairs and Tad «>f tin- <'>nnV.Lslon now visiting the Lnited States, .aid with co .-1 i -a to the transformations caused by war: "l doubt if von'can fores- c v.hat fundamental changes tho v ..<r will br eg uito your ordinary lid \\ « in 1-3ngland look ha k with amaxeim tu at. the vital rhaivges during our last fO months «*f mobilisation. and unrtgine that many of the changes w haw non- through. c<> salutary own for themsclv* ■ atone, will be repeated here." The world has changer! much since the opening of the v. as at the ho-imunr of Vugust. V.dl. Its in--tituticus doubtU-ss will he modified oven more as a result of levelopmmfs following tin definite-ending m!' the « nMiet. The trend of events due to the *dfoi?s of the men \vl o will tlireet tin' governing j ► > 1 - - i • • during fhe ap proaching period of nati*mal mi l interna tional reorganivsat !-*n is likely to have a powerful infiuenc-e on the human race f*»r centuries to come. Now it ever is a time for men of vision and high purpose t > strive after ratm-al idealism n gov rtinmnt spiking thus to neutraliser* to- terrible heritage of >, if. ishhess. suspicion and hatred front v;hP h mankind long has suffer'd amf still if fe-5. The Hint That Failed. From the Boston Transcript. Bailer (waiting for an invitation) Tvo o’clock! I fear L am keeping you from jour dinner. Hostess—No, no; but I fcar that wo are keeping you from yours. Got His Number. From the Pitt Panther. Pittsburgh Man (telephoning \»« i.on* Island from New York)—Ton con;* • Wi;\. in Pittsburgh wo can telephone to Dade a for a nickel." Central—But this Is a long distance call. _ _ _ Vegetable «ilk, which, likti >;ilk cot ton, is valuable only for stuffing, is made from the seeds of a BsasiVian tro*.