THIS WOMAN’S
REMARKABLE
RECOVERY
Entirely Due To Lydia E,
Pmkbam’s Vegetable
Compound
Forest City, Iowa. — '* My first child
lived only a short time ana I was sick
f———-rifor a year after.
When I bent over
and raised myself
up again I could al
most scream with
pain in my back,
i Oneday I was so bad
that I had to leave
my washing and get
ready to go to the
I doctor. He gave me
medicine but it did
no more good than
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lUlttim JUOkWIIlCt* ,
Once when we had been in town a little
book telling about Lydia E. Pinkham’a
Vegetable Compound was left in our car.
X have taken five bottles of the Vegeta
ble Compound now and I do all my
housework and help with the milking
und taking care or chickens and gar
den. Besides I have a fine baby girl,
«ight months old, iust the picture of
health and I am feeling fine myself.
You may uso this letter as a testimo
nial and I will answer any letters ask
ing about the Vegetable Compound."
-—Mrs. Oscar F. Borgkion, Route No.
Forest City, Iowa.
» ILjdia E. rinkham’a Vegetable Com
pound is for sale by all druggists.
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IlBREEME HOUSE
| | By Katherine Newlin Burt | |
1
I wish,” said he in a low tone,
painful to her. Then :
A long silence, painful to him
and, he surmised,, even more
painful to her. then:
“Is it too late for me to come
to you now I” he asked.
“To save the Van Dyke? Yes.
Nobody knows that better than
yourself. Oh, Lord Tremont,
can you bear to think of the hall
without her?”
lie just glanced at Claire, and
shrugged.
“Needs must,” he said bitterly.
She wandered away from him
h few paces and back, in thought,
biting her scarlet lower lip. She
stopped beside him and put a
hand upon his arm.
“ Now, listen to me, Lord Tre
mont,” said she. “Listen to me
very carefully.”
“la it your explanation? The
explanation I - couldn’t wait to
hear?”
*'Y - Yes.”
“Then first,” said he sharply,
moistening his lips, “let me ask
one thing. For - my father’s
jake, - and our promise to him -
will you have me” - he managed
a small smile - “without the Van
Dyke?”
“You cannot,” she answered,
with a surprising clearness,
“have me without it, Alec, be
cause - the Van Dyke is mine.”
He was frankly thunder
struck.
"You mean!"
“That I have bought it from ,
Rufus Tremont. Oh,” she laugh
ed, “the story of it! The story!
I have woven myself into in in
spite of all of you. You coulJn’t
really keep me out. I’m too in
sistent. 1 would in. And I’ve
played the part I coveted. I’ve
been Lady Jane’s defender from
the first. She shall never leave
Breeme House - never, never nev
er, as long as Breeme House
stands.”
To Alec it was an answer to
everything. His heart was like
ice, but he put out his hands.
“And that means, Clairef”
But again, mysteriously, she
was laughing, no bitterness in
the laugh this time - just clear,
gay thriumph - and though she
put her hands in his, it was as
though she played at a school
girl’s happy game with him.
“That means, Alec,” said she,
“that, the Van Dyke belongs to
the future Countess of Breeme.”
“Yea!” His bewildered heart
raced with his bewildered
thoughts.
“But not,” she shook her rud
dy head, “but not - to me.”
“Then you don’t - ”
“No; I don’t love you. But oh,
Alec, how I love Breeme House
and Lady Janet”
He still kept her hands in a
quick, hard grip. His head was
in tumult.
ijisten. rTom tne nrst l set
for myself a part. I was to be
just, a guardian spirit, just an
outsider always. For, you know',
I don’t belong here. You’ve been
too kind to tell me so, but I don,t.
You can’t look at me and think
so, Alec. There’s a something a
bout me - what is it? I’ve often
wondered - that’s pitched in a
different key. I’ve been an ob
server, an outsider from the first.
What I did wish to do and what
I’ve done is to play just that
part. I want to put on a Cap of
Darkness and the Cloak"' of invis
ibility. I wanted to be here and
not to be here. I diidn’t quite suc
ceed, and yet -1 think that will be
your memory of me: a something
that flashed through. Only,”
she triumphed prettily, “I have
haps, natural whaat you all
thought. It was almost natural.”
To Alec, suddenly, what they
outlandish notion in the world -
all had thought seemed the most
sbju 'aiqissoduii ‘dnbsajoj#
hardly a woman to him then. She
was half - spirit, with an aura.
"I want you to believe me,”
she said. 441 want you to take
what II say quite literally and
simply. I have known from the
first day that your heart belongs
to Aline.”
She gently withdrew' her hands
as he turned from her, and walk
ed away and back.
44Do you remember, one day,
when we rode together! Do #ou
reemember how, very outrage
ously, no daubt, I tried to
prompt you. I suggested a part
for you to play; Childe Roland!
Qismondf You must all forgive
me. I did rush in where angels
i
dare not tread. I forgot that per
haps I do not seem quite like a
guardian angel. When you spoke
to me that day on the way to
Lone Tree Ilill-oh, Alec, it was
as if you had shattered some
thing. I was angry. I refused to
believe it. I dismissed it as soon
as possible from my head; and
then, when I found out in rather
a mierable way what you all
thought-Ah 1 your dear father!
That is the only real sadness,
Alec. Do you suppose he will for
give us?”
“Whatever you do, Claire he
will think is alright,” he said,
‘'lie adores you.”
“I promised him to find you
a wife, Alec,” she began at last.
“A lovely, wise good and wealthy
wife. He meant, dear Lord Br
eam, he meant - me. But I have
kept my promise differently.
Dear Alec, I am giving the Van
Dyke to the future Countess of
Bream.”
“You mean?”
“I mean Aline.”
“You are giving the Van Dyke
to Aline?” ?
“Yes. And I am very happy.
You will never know how happy.
Because you will never know,
and you need never know, how,
in just what a queer, mysterious
fashion of my own I have loved
your house and your inheritance.
Remember, you are to believe me
literally and simply. In giving
your Van Dyke back to Bream
House, I have given myself one
of the sweetest pleasures in the
world. You must tell Aline that;
I think she’ll understand - even
if it doesn’t matter whether she
understands or not.”
Alec, in his bewilderment and
enlightenment, watched her help
lessly, looking at her without
finding speech. In fact, he knew
of no language i which to addres
her. None, he felt, that she would
understand. If he had known it,
his look was full reply; a beauti
ful and manly belief, a sincere
gratitude. She was understood.
She had her worshipper.
“I can say nothing to you,”
he told her.
“That,” she answered, “says
everything.”
She turned her head from him
and, passing through the hall,
the soul of Bream the homage of
her blue and shining look.
Sir Geoffrey must have used
new and modern methods of dip
lomacy, in carrying through his
mission. It was accomplished so
quickly.
He had set Rufus Tremont’s
mind at rest, and sent him off,
on the winged feet of love, to
claim surrender from Jane, in
fulfillment of his promise.
And he had seen Aline.
’ “Little girl,” he said, “when
your true prince comes a-wooing,
as he will surely do in the wext
few minutes, tell him that the
ogre has set, you free - but claims ,
the right to love you, just the
same.”
“Oh Geoffrey,” she whispered,
“what do you meant”
“Alec will tell you that. And
now - wish me luck. I myself am
off on a wonderful quest 1”
His smile as he ran boyishly
was so glowing with happiness
that she did not need to ask what
nature of quest it was. ^
“Alee, Alec, Alee,” she mur
mured. “Icould not have believed
it if any one but you Geoffrey
had told me. Free for each other;
both free! It’s too wonderful!”
And with beating heart she a
waited her lover’s coming.
It was ten slow minutes that
Sir Geoffrey Brooke waited in
the rose bower for Claire Wilton
to come to him. And at last, when
he heard her footstep approach
ing he could restrain his im
patience no longer.
He went swiftly out to meet
her.
To the burning petition in his
eyes, as he came face to face
with her under the trees, her
eyes gave answer with all the
auspicious happenings of the day.
He was ssitting in his chair,
upstairs.
“How right you are, my dear,”
he said to her, his eyes smiling
piness. “How wise you have been
for me, and for us all.”
fore me, and for us all.”
“Dear, dear Lord Bream ! How
wonderful of you to complete our
happiness by sharing in it,” she
reylied.
“But now,” he said, shaking a
finger at her, “you young folk
are not going to keep me locked
up here, away from all the fun.
I’m coming down this very even
ing, to join i the ubila-tion. I must
make amends for breaking up
our party the other day, you
know. Tell Alec and Aline,, and
Rufus and Jane, and your lucky
Geoffery Brooke - of whom I’m
more than bit jealous, young
Lady!” - that they must let me
break in upon their raptures for
a few minutes, at least.”
“Oh how lovely of you - and
it won’t tire you too much? Are
you sure you may?” Claire asked
anxiously.
“Just for once,” twinkled the
old nobleman with a rebellious
toss of his white head, “I”m go
jo pjoj jios^fui aAoad o; 2ui
Bream. ’ ’
They lighted up the old hall in
gala fashion, as it had been on
the night of the interrupted mas
querade. A fire crackled in the
great hearth’. In the comfortable
old oak settles the grouped them
selves about the earl, who smiled
happily upon them from his ch
air, with.Lady Bream nearby.
Claire had found a place facing
the Van Dyke, ber devotion to
it wavering distractingly before
Sir Geoffery’s glowing claim up
on her notice. Aline, seated on a
low stool besides Alec, leaned a
gainst him, his hand holding hers
over her slender shoulder, both
lost in the maze of their new -
found oy. Rufus, with Lady Jane
sitting shyly besides him, their
backs to the portrait, feasted
his eyes upon the beauty of its
living incarnation.
ooniression, remarked Liord
vBream,” is good for the soul,
Young people, I’m going to bore
you with mine - the conffession
of a momet of temtation.”
His eyes were lifted to the Van
Dyke. He gave a slow chuckle of
amusment, as he shook his head
in self - deprecation,
“The erpent in my garden was
that miserable copyist who was
here lately - Cardonil”
The eyes of all were rivetted
upon the speaker, each one in
tense suspense.
“He tempted me and, to tell
the truth, the whole truhh, and
nothing but the truth, I did eat -
or at least, I . might have eaten
had he not tried to be a little too
clever.
“I had wheeled myself out
here one afteemoon, to watch
him at work, - and I must give
the devil his due, he’s a matter of
his carft. I was fool enough to
tell him that if the two canvases
changed places I didn’t believe I
could detect the difference.
“Before I well knew wwhaChe
was about he had made a sugges
tion. He assured me that North
by, the famous picture - dealer,
would pay me, - he said he had it
from Northby himself, - ten
thousand pounds for the Van
Dyke. For one thousand that
serpent of a copyist offered me
his almost perfect product of his
devil’s paintbrush, as a substi
tute.”
Lord Bream looked musingly
down into the fire.
“I said that I did eat. Well,”
the old man assused himself, “I
did - at least to the extent of list
ing to the temper, and taking
leave of him with en evasive
answer,
“I ruminated upon it for some
days - argued with myself about
false pride, foolish sentiment,
and every other bit can’t that
could reinforce the tempter’s
qower. And I verily believe,” he
said, turning a frown of mock—
annovance upon Claire, “that
but for fear of the wrath of Sir
Gcoffery’s youg woman, there, I
might actually have fallen.”
His listeners smiled at the
oqj jo eqBqs jBiosunqAv
head, as if in vexation at Claire’s
tyrannical influence upon him.
“So you see,” he went on,
when old Robbins went into hys
terics and broke her ladyship ”s
precious china the night of the
party, I felt as if I were a secret
accomplice of the thief that had
made off with the portrait. That
was the true causeof my misbe
having myself so inexcusably,
and spoiling out evening. Rufus,
if you hadn’t got the original
back for us, I should have died
in the belief that I had actually
compounded with the devil, who
had appeared to me in the shape
of Cardoni.”
Their mingled laughter echoed
through the hall, followed by a
tinkling of glasses as Robins ap
peared in the doorway.
“I thought your lordship
would wish to celebrate the oc
casion,” he said ceremoniously to
the earl, qlacing the tray upon a
table beside him.
“Quite right, Robins; and you,
Divorce Suit
Above is the Marquess of Queena
bury, whose husband, suing for di
vorce, has nathed Sir James Dunn
(below), thus furnishing the lateat
scandal tp Interest London society.
the faithful steward, shall oin us
in the toast.”
The earl raised his glass to
wards the portrait.
“To the Soul of Bream/he
said.
And from her hallowed plaee
Van Dyke’s Lady Jane her sil
very light upon them.
THE END
Scandinavian News
SWEDISH RAILWAYS IMPROVE
SERVICE AND REDUCE RATES
Stockholm.—ncreased use of Swed
en's “White coal,” Improved travel
ing facilities, rising profits and re
ductions in certain freight and pas
senger rates are all outstandhg fea
tures of recent reports by the Swed
ish Stale railways. In their general
tenor they reflect both a gradual im
provement in the country’s economic
situation and the increased foreign
travel that is being attracted to
Sweden. During the coming sum
mer the Swedish traffic facilities
will again be heavily taxed to ac
commodate visitors from abroad to
the various international gatherings
to be held here. These Include a
grand encampment of the Independ
ent Order of Odd Fellows, the world
wide Interdenominational conference
on Christian Life and Work, trade
fairs at both Gothenburg and Stock
holm and several international ath
letic meets In the Stockholm stadium.
Several strips of the Swedish State
railways have already been eiectri
i tied. Including a section above the
I Arctic Circle, which is the world’s
northernmost electric railway, but
by the end of this year the recon
struction of trunk line between Stock
holm and Gothenburg for the use of
electric traction will be completed.
It is 70 per cent, finished now and the
stretch between Moholm and Falkop
Ing will be ready for a tryout of the
new power in May. As Sweden is
well supplied with -water power in
every part, the transformation of
other trunk lines will be taken up
after that, and some of the private
lines have also begun plans for sim
ilar changes. The new electric loco
motives are also being built in Swed
en, chiefly in the shops of NydQvlst
& Holm, at Troilhaettan, which re
cently made large engine deliveries
to the soviet railways In Russia.
The net proms or tne Swedish
State railways for 1924 were 30,200,
000 kronor, as compared with 24,300,
000 for the year before. This year
the management expects to be able
to turn over to the State budget 600,
000 kronor more than for 1924. Last
year 39 old steam engines were Junk
ed, as well as other rolling stock
which had originally cost 2,053,592
kronor. From April 1 the use of
round trip tickets at reduced rates
was extended fom zones of 70 kilo
meters to 366, with the same privi
leges to make stop-overs and check
baggage as on straight fares. The
rates on sleeping cars and for limited
xepress trains have been reduced by
cuts ranging from 17 to 25 per cent.,
and the night service over the Trel
leborg-Sassnttz route which carries
sleepers across the Baltic from Swed
en to the cdntinent and vice versa
without obliging the passengers to
leave their berths has been resumed.
Freight rates on certain bulky goods
have also been cut this spring from
10 to 20 per cent.
Another form of Swedish commun
ications—much favored by travelers
—that is looking up this spring is
the Gota canal, Sweden's “Blue Belt"
stretching across the country from
Gothenburg to Stockholm. On ac
count of the mild winter Its passeng
er steamers, plying through lakes,
canals, locks, rivers and arms of the
sea have been running since March,
whereas last year they were lcp
bound until May 7. Last fall they
were in commission throughout De
cember, so that the route was closed
for only two months, which is a rec
ord.
But nobody will trust the word of
those who recognize no moral obli
gation to keep it. NVbody will trust
the Chinese government, either. But j
In China, It is not With government |
that you co business.
TODAY
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
It costa more to carry a sack of T
Potatoes from the train to a store
In New York than it does to ship tho
sack 1,100 miles by railroad.
A farmer raises the calf, weans it,
feeds it, feeds and milks the grown
cow, and gets for the milk a quarter
of the money paid by the person that
drinks the milk.
You can bring freight, across tho
I Atlantic or Pacific oceans for less
[ than it costs to take it across the
North river in New York City.
I The curse of business Is the high A.
cost of distribution. Production we
understand; in distribution we are
as backward as Fiji islanders.
Samuel Pubel came from Russia
a few years ago. He hadn’t a dollar,
but did have a distinct idea that a
dollar was worth having; also he real
ized that the only way to have money
dollars is to save the first few.
A little while ago he was peddling
coal for a living. Today he is head
of his own $50,000,000 ice and coal
concern.
Y'oung gentlemen. It pays to save
even a little.
Lord Albert Milner, once secretary
of war for Britain, is dead of sleeping
sickness. An epidemic has struck
Great Britain; many are prostrated.
The germ, entirely unlike the Af
rican sleeping sickness caused by
the Tsetse fly, Is similar to the
Spanish influenza germ. It finds its
Way from the nose into the brain, and
then there is slight hope of recovery.
The death of Lord Milner will con
centrate attention on the disease and
help in fighting it.
While disease stays in the slums. It
doesn’t worry power very much.
When it climbs to the palace on the
hill, the powerful pay attention.
Here in America there is an out
break of rabies in one place and the
usual spasmodic shooting and muz
zling of dogs, which means nothing.
Britain has staniye,! out rabies com
pletely.
In various cities there are disturb
ing outbreaks of smallpox. They will
do good by curing the foolish theory
that vaccination is not necessary.
A real doctor, member of a health
board, was the only man vaccinated
on the board. The others thought
vaccination foolish. But when he
said, "Let us have our next meeting
in the pest house; there are three
smallpox patients there,” nobody
seconded the motion.
Conservatives In the Protestant
Episcopal church congratulated
Bishop Manning of New York “on hl»
stand against the domination of the
church by liberal doctrines” and all
the Protestant Episcopalians con
gratulate him on his efforts to raise
$15,000,000 to build a new cathedral,
lie deserves congratulations.
After the $15,000,000 are secured,
there will come, presumably, an effort
to save 15,000,000 souls. That sounds,
and is, old fashioned, but It is par#"
of the plan.
The United States government in
vestigates what happened to wheat,
when the price suddenly dropped
from $2 to $1.40, making millions in
profits for “shorts.” They art
gentlemen who never dug in the
ground, ran a harvester or a tractor,
but that know enough to rig the mar
ket.
The government may investigafflk
but it won’t do much to protect thej
farmers from cutthroat manipulation
until it imitates the French govern
ment.
That nation passed a law to pun
ish with imprisonment with hard
labor for life corLaln kinds of grain
gambling.
Cheer up, ye very rich, and also ye
harassed business men. and make a
glad sound. Mr. Bacharach, con
gressman from New Jersey, has a
plan to cut $400,000,000 from the
national tax bill and slash the maxi
mum surtax rate down to 20 per
cent.
Ihe best part from the ordinary
man s point of view, is the plan to
cut away entirely foolish excise
taxes on automobiles, Jewelry, etc.
it is possible to be a criminal and
not be a complete fool. Harry Val
ues, of Pittsburg, makes and sella
bootleg whisky. He tells the judge:
it is all right to sell, but to drink
lnyeclf, nothing doing. Only fools
drink now; wise ones sell.”
*rotcky Is back, more or less, In
the bosom of the bolshevlst party
after his removal from the war
ministry. The Russian revolution la
gentler than was the French revolu
tion When that revolution removed
anybody from office, it also removed
his head from his body. We live in
softer days.
This new bit of millinery is noth
ing but a Jockey cap of black velvet *
with a silver buckle in the front. It
Is decidedly a new line, and is very ft
trj ing to wear, but for those with ^
pet feet features, it is an ideal acauisl
tion.
Knew the Price.
From Ossining Democratic Register
A young man took a valuable watch
to be repaired. The watchmaker fc
bated about the price of repairs, but
"Ta ly| aKreed that the charge should
be half of what the watch cost tha
young matt. In a week’s time the
young man called for the watch He
put it in his pocket and was about to
A,e shop "hen the repairer said
Half a moment. You haven’t paid
meh.'flf of what the watch cost you "
Oh, said the young man. “that
waten cost me six months’ hard labor.’*
The fair sex Is decidedly in the ma
jority In Vienna, according to a cen
sus taken by the citv authorities on
January J. 1925. The figures ar« 1006.
290 women and 662,038 men.