NERVOUS , PROSTRATION May be Overcome .by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound —Thia Letter Proves It. West Philadelphia, Pa. —“ During the thirty years I have been married, I have been in bad health and had several at tacks of nervous prostration until it seemed as if the organs in my whole body were worn out I was finally persuaded to tty Lydia E. Pinkham a Vegetable Com pound and it made a well woman of me. I can now do all my housework and advise all ailing women to try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound and I will guarantee they will derive great benefit from it”—Mrs. Frank Fitzgerald, 25 N. 41st Street, West Philadelphia, ro. There are thousands of women every where in Mrs. Fitzgerald’s condition, suffering from nervousness, backache, headaches, and other symptoms of a functional derangement. It was a grateful spiritfor health restored which led her to write this letter so that other women may benefit from her experience and find health as she has done. For suggestions in regard to your con dition write Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. The result of their 40 year's experience is at your service. Drawing the Line. “Anyhow," snltl Funner Corntossel, "if we do take boarders this summer we won’t have any more of them slack presses around.’’ “What do you mean l>y 'slacker esses?’ ” “Girls that swing in hammocks an’ read novels when llioy ought to knit tin’ for soldiers.” You May Try Cutlcura Free Send today for free samples of Cutl cura Soap and Ointment and learn how quickly they relieve Itching, skin and scalp troubles. For free samples, address, “Cuticurai*ITept. X, Boston." At druggists and by mall. Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 50.—Adv. One Per Cent. “Take II from me,” said Ivy L. Lee, tile Ned Gross propaganda, n few days before ids departure for France— “take it from me, when yon bear, any thing generous or kind or noble on Germany's part, the thing turns out to be a misunderstanding, “It's like the talk between Skinner and Grabber, the two storekeepers, “ ‘Say, Skinner,’ Grubber asked, ‘what base o’ profit do ye work oil?’ “'One per cent,’ said Skinner promptly. “ ‘One per rent!’ said Grabber. ‘Holy smoke! That ain't no profit at all. Why, man. I run m.v store on a profit of 25, 40. yes,,and sometimes even 50 per cent.’ “ ‘Well, yer n greedy devil, then,’ said Skinner. ‘One per cent is enough fer me. If an article costs me n dol lar I let it go for two.' ’’ How Many Work Here? A visitor to (lie national capita) en tered one of the department buildings one day while lie was sightseeing. Fil tering a large room where he expect ed to see many clerks, tie was sur prised to ti in I only one occupying the numerous desks tlm! looked ns if Ihcy bad Just been vacated. No one was In sight but a Janitor, who was dusting and cleaning. Thinking to obtain some knowledge of the room, ils capacity unit use, be addressed her: “How many people work in here?” “Humph! Ahoti^hull' of 'em, 1 ’low.” The Right Talk. “What Is your business" ‘‘Helping with the war. I'm a piano denier on the side.” .. . ' VarDonands Saving of Sugar, Savins of Fuel, Use of other Grains withWheat -No Waste. Grape-Nuts answers every 1 demand. Its an economical, noun ishind and deli- || cious rood, a build- I er and maintainer || of Vidor and Health. || TYy it. 1 *There’s a fieeson’ [| f 1 I = THE TEETH OF THE TIGER V. by J MAURICE LEBLANC f— TRANSI.ATED BY ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATT03 • •—- ^ CHAPTER SEVEN. (Continued.) “It’s nothing,” he said. “I’m ail right. And you, Alexandre?” They helped the sergeant out. He had a few bruises and a little pain, but no serious injury. Only the chauffeur had been thrown from his seat and Jay mo tionless on the pavement, bleeding from the head. He was carried into a chemist’s shop and died in 10 minutes. M aziToux had gone in with the poor victim and, feeling pretty well stunned, had himself been given a pick-me-up. When lie went hack to the motor car he found two policemen entering par ticulars of the accident in their notebooks and taking evidence from the bystanders; but the chief was not there. Perenna in fact had jumped into a taxicab and driven home as fast as he could. He got out in the square, ran through the gateway, crossed the courtyard, and went down the passage that led to Mile. Levasseur’s quarters. He leaped up the steps, knocked, and entered without waiting for an answer. The door of the room that served as a sitting room wras opened and Florence appeared. He pushed her back into the room, and said, in a tone furious with indignation: “It's done. The accident lias occurred. And yet none of the old -servants can have prepared it, be cause they wore not there and be cause I was out with the ear this afternoon. Therefore, it must have been late in the day, between G and 9 o’clock, that somebody went to the garage and filed the steering rod three-quarters through.” “1 don’t understand. I don’t understand,” she said, with a scared look. “You understand perfectly well that the accomplice of the ruffins cannot be one of the new servants, and you understand perfectly well that the job was hound to succeed and that it did succeed, beyond their hopes. There is a victim, who suffers instead of myself.” “But tell me what has hap pened. monsieur! You frighten me! What accident? What was it?” “The motor ear overturned. The chauffeur is dead.” “Oh,” she said, “how horrible! And you think that I can have Oil, dead, how horrible! Poor mail!” Her voice grew fainter. She was standing opposite to Perenna, close up against him. Pale ami swooning, she closed her eyes, (daggered. Hi* caught her in liis arms as (die fell. She tried to release her-’ self, hut had not the strength; and he laid her in a chair, while site moaned, repeatedly: “Poor man! Poor man!” Keeping one of his arms under the girl’s head, lie took a hand kerchief in the other hand and \ wiped her forehead, which was wet with perspiration, and her pallid cheeks, down which the tears streamed. Sin1 must have lost conscious ness entirely, for she surrendered herself to Perenna’s cares without the least resistance. And he, making no further movement, be gan anxiously to examine the month before his eyes, the mouth with the lips usually so red, now bloodless and discolored. Gently passing one of his fingers over each of them, with a continuous pressure, he separted them, as one separates the petals of a flower and the two rows of teeth appeared. They were charming, beauti fully shaped, and beautifully white; a little smaller perhaps Gian Mine. Families. perhaps also a’•ranged in a wider curve. But what did lie know? Who could say that their bite would not leave the same imprint? It was an im probable supposition, an itnpossi ble miracle, he knew. *Aud yet the circumstances were all against the girl and pointed to her as the most daring, cruel, implacable, ami terrible of eriniinals. Her breathing became regular, lie perceived the cool fragrance of her month, intoxicating as the seent of a rose. In spite of him self, he bent down, came so close, so close that he was seized with 19 giddiness and had to make a great effort to lav the girl’s Jiead on the back of the chair and to take his eyes from the fair face with the half parted lips. lie rose to his feet and went. CHAPTER VIII. THE DEVIL'S POSTOFFIC0. Of all these events the public knew only of the attempted, sui cide of Mine. Fauville, the cap ture and escape of Gaston Sau verand, the murder of Chief In spector Ancenis, and the discov ery of a letter Avritten by Hippo lyte Fauville. * This Avas enough, hoAvever, to reaAvakcn their curi osity, as they Aveje already singu larly puzzled by the Mornington case and took the greatest inter est in all the movements, hoAvever slight, of the mysterious Don Luis Perenna, Avhom they insisted on confusing Avith Arsene Lupin. He Avas, of course, credited with the brief capture of the man Avith the ebony Avalking stick. It Avas also known that he had saved the life of the prefect of police, and that, finally, having at his oavii request spent the night in the house on the Boulevard Suchet, he had become the recipient of Hippolyte Fauville’s famous let ter. And all this added immense ly to the excitement of the afore said public. But hoAV much more compli cated and disconcerting Avere the problems set to Don Luis Perenna himself! Not to mention the de nunciation in the anonymous article, there had been, in the short space of 48 hours, no feAver than four separate attempts to kill him: by the iron curtain, by poison, by the shooting on the Boulevard Suchet, and by the de liberately prepared’ motor acci dent. Florence’s share in this series of attempts Avas not to be denied. And, noAV, behold her relations Avith the Families’ murderers duly established by the little note found in the eighth volume of Shakespeare’s plays, Avhile tAVo more deaths Avere added to. the melancholy list: the deaths of Chief Inspector Ancenis and of the chauffeur. IIoav to describe and bow to explain the part played, in the midst of all these catastrophes, by that enigmatical girl? Strangely enough, life Avont on as usual at the house in the Place du Palais-Bourbon, as though nothing out of the Avay had hap pened there. " Every morning Florence Levasseur sorted Don Yuis’ post in his presence and read out the newspaper articles referring to himself or bearing upon the Mornington ease. Not a single allusion Avas made to the firee fight that had been waged against him for tAvo days. It Avas as though a truce had been proclaimed between them; and the enemy appeared to have ceased his attacks for the mo ment. Don Luis felt easy, out of the reach of danger; and he talked to the girl Avith an indif ferent air, as he might have talked to anybody. But with Avhat a feverish inter est he studied her unobserved! He Avatcbed the expression of her face, at onee calm and eager, and a painful sensitiveness Avhieh shoAved under the placid mask 7fnd which, difficult to control, re vealed itself in the frequent quiv ering of the lips and nostrils. “Who are you? Who are you?” he felt inclined to exclaim. “Will, nothing content you, you she devil, but to deal out murder all round? And do you Avant my ideath also, in order to attain your I object ? Where difvou come t'roui land Avhere are you making fur?’* j On reflection, lie avhs convinced ! of a certainty that solved a prob ! lent which had preoccupied him { for a long t ime—namely, t ho mys terious connection betAveen his | own presence in the irausion in the Place du Palaise-Bourbon and the presence of a woman avIio Avas manifestly Avreakiug her hatred on him. lie now understood that be had not bought the house by accident. In making the purchase hi* had been persuaded by an anonymous offer that reached him iu the form of a typewritten prospectus.; Whence did this offer come, if, not from Florence, who wished to have him near her in order to spy upon him and wage war upon him? “Yes,” he thought, “that is where the truth lies. As the pos sible heir of Cosmo Morning!on and a prominent figure in the case, I am the enemy, and they are trying to do away with me as they did with the others. And it is Florence who is acting against me. And it is she who has committed murder. “Everything tells against her; nothing speaks in her defense. Her innocent eyes? The accent of sincerity in her voice? Her serene dignity? And then? Yes, what then? Have I never seen women with that frank look who have committed murder for no reason, almost for pleasure’s sake?” He started with terror at the memory of Dolores Kesselbach. What was it that made him con nect these two women at every moment in his mind? He had loved one of them, that monster Dolores, and had strangled her with his own hands. Was l'ate hoav leading him tOAvard a like loA'e and a similar murder? When Florence left him he Avould experience a sense of satis faction and breathe more easily, as though released from an op pressive aveight, but he Avould run to the windoAV and see her cross iing the courtyard and be still Avaiting when the girl Avhose scented breath he had felt upon his face passed to and fro. One morning she said to him : “The papers say that it will be tonight.” “Tonight?” “Yes,” she said, shoAviug him an article in one of the newspa pers. “This is the 25th; and, ac cording to the informataion of the police, they say, by you, there should be a letter delivered in the lTouse on the *n1 eVafd Suchet every 10th day, and the house is to be destroyed by an explosion on the day Avhen thi*. fifth and last letter appears.” Was she defying him? Did she Avish to make him,understand that Avhatevcr happened, Avhatever the obstacles, the letters Avould ap pear, those mysterious letters prophesied on the list Avhich he had found in the eighth volume of Shakespeare’s plays? lie looked at her steadily. She did not flinch. He ansAvered: “Yes, this is the night. I shall he there. Nothing in the Avorld v/ilh prevent me.” She Avas on (lie point of reply ing, but once more controlled her feelings. That day Don Luis Avas on his guard. He lunched and dined out and arranged Avith Mazeroux to have the Place du Palais-Bourbon av at died. Mile. Levasseur did not leave the house during the afternoon. In the evening Don Luis ordered Mazeroux’s men ,to f-olloAv any one avIio might go out_at that time. At 10 o’clock the sergeant joined Don Luis in Hippolyte Fauville’s- Avorkroom. Deputy Chief Detective Weber and two plain clothesmen Avere Avtih him. Don Luis took Mazeroux aside: “They distrust me. Oavti up to it.” ‘ “No. As long as M. Desmalions is there, they can do nothing against you. Only, M Weber maintains—and lie is not the only one—that you fake up all these occurences yourself.”_ (Continued ^ext Week.) AMERICA MUST MAKE HER OWN BASKETS NOW Washington. D. C.—War conditions have forced America to depend almost enclusivefy on her own resources for a supply of baskets, it Is revealed in a report of an investigation of the indus try made public tonight by the tariff | commission. Importation of cheaper baskets vir tually has stopped. Prior to the war i Germany was the largest maker of the ; commodity for the American tradl. . Then Japan, which had taken up the jtask after the blockade of the German coast, was compelled to relinquish a I large export trade in baskets to this ‘country because of an increase In ocean ! freight rates from $3 to $30 per ton. In tills country, says tlie cominis ! sion's report, scarcity of labor, strikes, i increased cost of material and higher wages have resulted in a rise in price of the finished article from ion to 200 I per cent. As a result, many of the large i commercial consumers are turning to j substitute containers mad" of papier i inache, pasteboard and wood veneer. Willow and rattan basket making 1 in this country is chiefly a household industry. The manufacture of splint, or i wood veneer baskets is carried on in factories, and in this line the American I manufacturer lias no competition from abroad. Liverpool. N. Y., with the sole I exception of New York city, turns out mde willow baskets than any other j place in the country. A pre-war out I put of between 10.000 nnd 15,000 doae. annually lias bee nexceeded materially in the. last year. j Girls In the ear department of the Standard Oil company struck at Bay onne, X. J.. because the foreman would not give them 15 minutes in the mqrn iug to put on their overalls Grouser*). They declared It took that long. The ! foreman would not bel!“ve It. They I must have proved their case, for th# [coowouiy gave la. AVIATION RECORDS BEING MADE DAILY Fliers on Texas Field Constant ly Doing What Has Not Be fore Been Done There. Dallas, Tex., (by mail!.—New achievements in endurance and alti tude tests at the Texas aviation camps have been recorded frequently this Spring. Some of the latest are re ported from Ellington field at Houston, where on a single day new camps rec ords for b6th height and endurance were set. An army flyer whose name Is withheld by order of the executive authorities at the post, climbed to 20, 000 feet, only a liitle less than four miles in the air. On the same day, a civilian .demonstrator for an eastern motor company remained in the air. with a passenger for nine hours and 03 minutes and descended only when his last drop of gasoline had been con sumed. The type of machine used in th* test for altitude, was withheld by th« Ellington Field authorites. The re > suit, they said was gratifying and o, great value in demonstrating the util ity of certain innovations and improve ments that have been under consid eration for some time. The climbing quality and power and speed developed exceeded expectations. In the endurance trial some of the officers had been of the opinion that the motor to he tested would stall be fore the gasoline in the tank was com pletely exhausted, while the manufac turer's demonstrator contended, of course, that the motor would consume every drop of available fuel. With a passenger he arose at 8:25 a, m. and stayed aloft until he volplaned to a landing at 6:18 p. in. without a hitch to interrupt his flight. The engine continued running without the slight est indication of stalling until the last drop of fuel in the tank was drained into the cylinders. River Jordan ivot a River. By Richard Newton, D. D. The Jordan has nothing to make it specially attractive beyond the historical associations connected with it. But as the stream that is woven In so freely« with the thread of the bible narrative, it wfll always retain the place has Jjeld so long in the estimation of Christians who visit the Holy Land. It is the only river of any importance in all that part of the country which the Jews occupied. And yet there is a great deal of truth in the description, which one ha3 thus given of it: “For all practical purposes to which a river is ordinarily applied, the Jordan is useless; so rapid, that its course Is to a great exteut a continued cataract; so crooked, that in the whole of its lower and main course it has hardly half a mile straight; so broken with rapids and other impediments, that no boat can swim for more than the same distance continu ously; so deep below the surface of the adjacent country, that it is invisible, and can only be approached with difficulty; resolutely refusing all communication with the ocean, and ending in a lake, the peculiar conditions of which render navi gation impossible.” With all these char acteristics, the Jordan, in any sense we attach to the word “river” is no river at all. Alike useless for irrigation and navi gation, it is, in fact, what its Arabic name signifies, nothing but a “great watering place.*’ The, plain of Jericho, owing to the want of culture and the neglect of Irrigation, has lost very greatly its former fertility. We found the ride across hot and uninter esting. and were not sorry w-ben we reached the banks of the sacred stream, and got our first view of its rapidly flowing waters, which are invisible till that position is gained. The banks of the river are fringed with broad belts of tamrisk, oleander, and willow trees, among which reeds and underwood spring | up so as to form impenetrable jungles, i These offer secure dens for the wild boar and the leopard, ami from these in former times, as the prophet says, “the lion would come up from the swellings of Jordan.” The New Wheat Crop. From, the New York Times. When the Kansas state board of agri culture, three weeks after the govern ment’s report for April l had estimated the coming crop of winter wheat at 560, 000,000 bushels, said that more than 3,000,000 acres of the winter sown fields in that state had been abandoned some feared that the yield would not exceed 500,000,000 bushels. But there are remaining in Kan sas, 6,310,000 acres, in which the plants are in fair condition, is almost twice as large ns the ha ryes ted—acreage there last year, and the indicted yield is 86,500,000 bushels, while the- crop in 1017 was less than 46,000,000. In most of the winter wheat states there has been marked improve ment since the government’s inquiry was made, and conditions warrant a prediction that the yield will not be less than 600, 000,000 bushels. There will be gains in the spring wheat states. When winter losses were fore seen, farmers were urged by the govern ment to increase the spring sown acreage. In reply It was said that the needed labor could not be obtained. From all the spring wheat states there were reports that acreage would be reduced. But now a statement published by a prominent west ern grain firm, based upon the inquiries of several hundred correspondents, says that in all these states acreage has been largely increased. This firm's estimate of the entire wheat area exceeds last year’s harvested acreage by 28 per cent. Addi tions to the spring fields promise to give a crop of 256.000,000 bushels. Last year's was 232,000.000. It now seems reasonable to expect 090,oo:>,00n in the winter states and a total of more than 850,000,000. Last year we had only 651,000,000. and this wrrs not much more than is required in normal times for our own use. Only by reducing consumption at home has it been possible to send to our allies what they needed. If 850.o00.unn bushels are harvested this year, there will bo an export surplus of £50,000,000 or even 300.000.000. Jn Canada also there will be gains. Acreage increase is 1!Px per cent in Alberta and 12 per cent in Manitoba. For the whole country an addition of at least per cent is expected. In England and Italy there has been preparation for crops larger than last year’s. Reports from all countries to which tile allies look for wheat point to a greater available supply. The Bolshevist Alphabet. Maynard O. Williams, in the Christian Herald. Samara, on the Volga, which is the Mississippi of Russia, is an American city of the Kansas-Nebrasku type, overlaid with a set of signs that look like a bilingual in the Latin and Greek alpha bets. with a few extras added to confuse the unwary traveler. “Homepa” is per fectly good English, especially if you see it, as 1 first did, in the two parts “home” and “pa.” But the Russian, analphabetic as he is. chooses to pronounce this word, which means hotel, as though it were spelled “nomera.” But when the well In tentioned Russian names k theater for un spoken drama with the suggestive title ‘‘Sphinx,” he starts it with a “O” and out side the entire Latin alphabet, in ord*l to convey his meaning. WANT TO SELL 3347 acres of old cut over timber land with fine growth of tame grasses, green pasture the year around; abundance of running wa ter, Vt mile to railroad and Auto Highway to Seattle and Tacoma. An ideal ranch for cattle, hogs and sheep. Price, $17 per acre, part trade, balance 10 years’ time. W. W. DER1LINGER 1112 No-Eye St., Tacoma, Wash. FIND NEW MAMMOTH CAVE IN CALIFORNIA V'iscilia, Cal.—Hidden deep in the re cesses of a hitherto practically unex plored section of t-he Marble, Fork of the Kewah river, almost within a stone's throw of the Black Oak trail and within eight miles of the famous General Sherman big tree, in Giant Forest, is said to lie, one of the mor service with Pershing in France are pushing forward from Detroit to an allied port. The convoy consists of ‘252 Packards and the trains are 24 hours apart. Except that they use their lights and are not bothered by sudden gusts of shrapnel or other attentions from Fritz, the truck companies arc proceeding as if in the im mediate neighborhood of the front. The soldier drivers, 78 men to a train, make camp b.^lhe roadside wdierever dawn greets them, cook their meals on field ranges carried in the trucks, .._ clamber into the 3-ton carriers for their * 1 day’s sleep. As soon as “breakfast” f*» finished in the evening, they swing the big khaki colored trucks into the road again and hit out toward the seaboard. Besides the equipment of the soldiers - there is a 15-day ration aboard for each man—the trucks carry loads of parts, also destined for the American expedkonary force. This is the first night run of a series in which the quartermaster’s department of the United States army is giving the drivers a foretaste of the work the> will be culled on to do overseas. The trucks are given the honor of pioneering the night drives. Another innovation is that each of these truck companies number* 14 more trucks than those which have been making the daylight run. The only undoubted notice of silk in ihe bible occurs in Revelations.’ xvii, I 12. where it is mentioned among the \ ■ treasures of the typical Babylon*. The spent yeast which collects in wf brewerieN and distilleries Is put ^Lj through a process which turns it out in the form of buttons, doorbell plates and | knife handle*. Formerly this left over j material was considered to he a both- | ersome waste; now it is utilized, every bit of IL At it is gathered from the vats the yeast is of a dirty, gray-brown color. Tlie first operation is to dye it and then to work it over until it a*- V i sumes the form of powder and can bo y \ hot pressed into any form. In thla stage It is -called “ernolith.” It may bo ; sawed, scraped, filed, drilled, engraved. , turned to an edge and polished.