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WELL 01 DAY IN BED THREE That Was the Life of Mrs. McAlister Until she Began Taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Wyandotte, Michigan. — "After my , baby was bom I did not do my own work .-■.| for six months and M J could hardly taka 1 always had a pain in my right side and it was so bad I was getting round shoul ders. 1 would feel well one day and then feel so bad for three j or four days that I ' would be in bed. One Sunday my mother ■ —1 -- ■■.. ■' came u> uco now a < was, and she said a friend told her to , tell me to try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vog- , ctable Compound. So the next day I : f)t a bottle and before it was half taken j get relief. After I was well again 1 | vent to the doctor and he asked me how 1 was getting along. I told him I was taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and ho said it did not hurt any one to take it. I am always recom mending the Vegetable Compound to others and I always have a bottle of it on hand.”—Mrs. Henry Hollister, K. F.D. No. 1, Box 7, Wyandotte, Mich. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound is a dependable medicine for all women. For sale by druggists every where. •. -1 Ancients Had More Than Fair Idea of Surgery Evidence that skull surgery ivus suc cessfully practiced by prehistoric peo ple in Michigan has been presented to tlu* American Association for the Ad vancement of Science by Prof. E. E tlroeniuan of the University of Michi gan. Pointing out that Michigan has been greatly neglected as a Held for lire'lloologlcal Investigation, he said: “In Alpena county, Michigan, sev eral trephined skulls that is, skulls Jnto which holes were drilled during 1* o life of the patient, have been re ported. One of them Is In tin* Univer sity of Michigan musoim and careful examination by anatomists of repute slums that a healing had begun after the operation and therefore the area of the practice of skull trephining must be extended far beyond Mexico.” Crow Trap* Tried Out In British Columbia, where crows have been damaging crops to a oonsid t ruble extent, an effort is being made to exterminate them by the use of crow traps. The crows have also been found to prey to an alarming extent on young game birds. Truth pre.ents only one face, hut lies appear in myriad forms. . Arc you ready to enjoy sociul duties, sports or recreations? [f not try Hostkttkii’s Cele brated Stomach Hitters, for over seventy years noted as a whole some tonic, appetizer und cor rective. At All Druggists JiL Tkt llotUMtr C*mM>r. CH-lSii Pitliburr P». One Secret ol Beauty Is Foot Comfort Frequently you hear people say, “My feet perspire win ter amt summer when 1 put on rubbers or heavier foot wear-then when I remove my shues my feet chill , quickly and often my hose teem w et through.' Inevery i^couiimn by tie usands now til-" Allen's Koul-rssetn 5thc foot-bath daily and then dust the feet and shake Into the short this antiseptic, healing powder. vat f uii inreciiuni vd Fai tags and a Foot-Kane Walking Doll sent Free. Address, Allen's Foot-Ease. Le Roy. N.¥. R INOL Soothinq And He&linq Promotes Skin Health “ Boschee’s Syrup for Coughs and Lung Troubles aSucceuful for 69 yean. 30c and 90c bottlea ALL DRUGGISTS ■ fc'....... Bhe ITtOJW HOUSE NOVELIZED BY EDWIN C. HILL FROM WILLIAM FOX'S GREAT PICTURE ROMANCE OF THE EAST AND THE WEST BV CHARLES KENYON AND JOHN RUSSELL i: Bill Cody initated Miriam into the mysteries of buffalo hunting. She had often seen vast herds of the great, clumsy brutes flee ing across the track and even, running ahead of the locomotive to veer away finally and thun der toward • the horizon. Mount ed cn a well-broken cay use, Miriam followed the hunters un til Cody’s diivcra had turned the herd, then guarded by one of Cody’s men, while the buffalo went thundering past at a long angle, raked by the rifles ol the hunters. Every hunter had ex tra rifles and a man at his side <o load for him, and shot almost us fast as his fingers could pull trigger. Miriam saw the charg- 1 ing beasts plunge ahead stumble, go down in strange sprawling heaps, to be skinned where they lay, and the meat to be loaded into wagons. In a few minutes th«* plain was dot ted with them. The sight sick ened her. It was not hunting as she had thought of the sport, but butcher’s work. She under stood its necessity. There wa; no beef except that which had to he driven 800 miles, from Texas. The men had to have meat. But she detested the slaughter ami never again ac companied the hunters. CHAPTER XII WOMAN’S WIT “Hurry up wid yer crawlin’ thovelers, me min are trendin’ upon the heels av thim.” Casey, strolling ahead, beyond the tongue of the rails, tossed this insult at Sergeant Slattery. The big sergeant straightened up, fire in his eye “’Tis me own good byes that V.ave been waitin’ half the day fer yc and yer gang of good-l'er nuwthins! Little blame to thim, though, with j'e promenadin’ along the grade, puttin’ on airs an’ t’ graces of a major .gineral.” “It’s indispinsaldc, I am,” returned Casey. “ ’Tvvas no later than yisterday that the gineral Buperintindcnt sint fer me. ‘Corporal Casey,’ he says, ‘Corporal Casey, I’ll have ye know,’ Ife says, ‘that th’ U. Pay is daypindin upon yer indust thry and intilligiuce,’ he says. ‘Ye must even drive ’em,’ he says. I misdoubt that the road could be built without yc, Mister Casey he says. ‘Th’ times is harrd an’ troublous an’ the m'n are grumblin’ I look to ye, corp oral,” he says. Slattery snorted derisively, swept his gang with an eye which unerringly spotted any slacker, saw that the work was going steadily, and seated him self upon j pile of crossties leaving the job temporarily to D nny O’Brien, his assistant foreman. "Whittling a pipeful from a black plug, he puffed awhile, then spoke his mind seri ously to Casey. “Pat, I do not like the looks of thinge at all, at all,” he said “For days, as ye should know there’s been little save grumblin’ and complaints among the min along the line. They’re a divil of a harrd bunch, the best av thim, an’ instead of gettin’ drunk at night like dacint Christians they assemble to iurso the road and all connected wid it. “They’re a mixed lot, Eyetab ians, Scandehovians and the breed of Irish we used to bang be th’ dozen in Galway to the glory of God and the preserva tion of th’ cows, the tatterdema lions of creation. Until quite rayciut it was aisy enough hand lin’ thim, but of late they’ve been in a black mood. Th’ In juns have got on their nerves what wid th’ constant scares and alarms. They’re grumblin’ and growlin’ ab nit th’ food, the weather, the wnrrk. There’s no gettin’ along wid ’em at *11.The worst of it is two months’ pay is overdue. Pay ear should have been here yisterday, and there’s no word av it.’* “I’m onaisy mesilf,” said Casey. “I’ve noted symptoms of the desaise in me own as simblage of selicted roughnecks and I’ve larrupted the ugly faces of half a dozen of thim. ' ’here’s wan, Tony Figallo, whose face I will yet hash in.” “Ye can’t hate ’em all,” said Slattery, sensibly. “They are too many. It’s like th’ arrmy days, with half a rigimint yearn in’ to mutiny because breakfast didn’t set well on their stom achs. Hut there was discipline in the army, while this scum is free and indepindent and can quit ' hen it p’azes thim.” They talked over the troubles that loomed, the discontent of the men, the rc: 1 hardships that faced them daily, the wild rumors that were buzzing through North Platte and along the line that work was to be suspended because no way had been found through the foothills yet far to the west end of track. Casey’s unconquerable optimism was inclined to make light of it all, but Sergeant Slat tery, older and more used to keeping his feet on the ground, shook his head. ‘‘I don’t like th’ looks of things, Pat,” he said. Schultz joined them and Slat tery whistled for Pinny. The four ate lunch together, in the lee of the stacked crox,sties pro tected from the bitter vind which drove across the prairio In the midst of the meal they were startled by the report of a heavy rifle, then a succession of shots; yells sweeping crescendo from the end of track, shrill ululating wnrhoops. The four scrambled to their feet, grabbed rifles and ran along the right of way, min gling with a hundred workman and two-score soldier guards who were dashing for the cross tie barricades always erected to serve as rude forts for the pionet r gangs. \ hundred yards south of the track a band of Indians, well strung out, raced their ponies at breakneck speed a* they shot arrows or fired their muskets at the fleeing men Two workmen were downed by arrows before the shelter of the barricades could be reached, one killed outright with a shaft through his ribs, the other wounded in the arm The raiders, about 50 Brule Sioux, well mounted on small rugged pomes, swept past the fort, yelling like demons. Sweep ing round in a wide circle, they drove their ponies back along the north side of the track, repeat ing the volley of arrows and lead slugs. They did little exe cution, depending almost alto gether upon their ancient wea pons, poor shots with the white man's rifle. In fiv • minutes they were gone, dots rising and falling against the horizon, the echo of therr exultant whoops faintly audible. Before they were out of sight, the men were back at work as if nothing unsunl had occured. The rhythm of labor was resumed. Snell small raids were common enough. Working and fighting on the Urnon Pacific were inti ma*oly and daily connected. In California the Central Pacific had almost no trouble with the decadent tribes through which it took its’line, but the Union Pa cific was built during the very years when the great plains were most disturbed and when hostile forays were most frequent. Prac tically the whole Sioux nation, of 10,000 fighting men, the cun ningest and liercest warriors of the plains, was up in arms again;-1 the iron invader, while the Cheyennes, less numerous hut only a shade less formidable, were pain ing red against the road and murdering grader? and surveyors who had ventured into their fastness. As a ru’e the construction gangs were able to take care of themselves, for the gangs were made up of large elements of the recently arrived Irish and of cool-headed and seasoned veterans of the Civil war. men who had served four years shouldering muskets in many battles. That night when Casey, Slat tery and their gangs rolled into North Platte they found the town boiling with excitement. In the main street a thousand workmen were milliug around agitators who were denouncing the road. A good deal of whis key had circulated and the men were in an ugly mood. With Schultz aud young Dinny, Casey and the sergeant shoved through the close-packed throng, getting many black looks, but avoiding trouble. Casey was itching for it, but Schultz cautioned him. “Dis iss no dime vor vighting, mein friend,” he warned. “Idt iss a dime vor goolness and gom mon sense. Doose mens are a powder magazine. One sparg and up she goes! Best go soft. Bick no vights, Gasey!” They made their way to super intendent Marsh’s private ear, a little anxious about “Miss Miri am,” but were reassured at the sight of the soldiers on guard. Marsh had thought it prudent to request a detail from the lieu tenant commanding, feeling that the sight of the army uniform would do more than anything else to discourage ex-soldiers from disorder. “It’s all right, Pat,” said Miriam, smiling at the sight ol Casey’s troubled face. “Nonj of the men has bothered us, but there’s bad news from back along the line. Father will tell you all about it.” Marsli appeared, face all lined with worry. “Bad business, boys,” he said. “A whole trail! was wiped out this morning only 30 miles to the east. The Sioux ambushed the pay train, wiped out trainmen and the military escort, killing every soul, burned the train and rode away with the payroll, more than $100,00(1 I in currency. There will bo hell to pay, I’m afraid. The men are talking it over now and the loud mouthed elements are work ing them up to trouble. “First word I got was a me* sage from a field operator. Thai young Virginian—what’s his name—the young fellow who was General Les’s telegrapher, always wears his eonfederatl uniform—got the 11 ash in my office about 0 o’clock this morn ing. I hurried a rescue train lack along the line but it wal all over when the troops got there. Nothing le!'t. but to bury the dead. Thirty good men butchered! “They got the story' from the paymaster who was shot full ol! arrows but still living when they* found him. The paytrain wa< making good time toward North P'atte when the engineer spot ted a small bunch of Indians a quarter of a mile ahead. There were half a dozen on each side of tin* track, mounted with a lar iat tight stretched between th'em, (Continued next week) BELLS ENABLE BLIND GIRL TO OPERATE PHONE St. Louis, Mo.—St. Louis lays claim to havfng the otrly telephone girl In the worlfl who Is totally blind. She i* Elsie Turnbull, who is In charge of the switchboard of a local business house. « Elsie operates a switchboard that has five trunks, or outside lines, lead ing into it. These lines, instead of heln j equipped with the usual blis ters, which sound-alike, have differ ent sounding bells which enable her to detect the line on which the call is made. Miss Turnbull la a graduate of the Illinois school for the blind. BEGGAR LABOR UNION Peking.—One of the most formid able “labor” unions in China is com posed of beggars. Begging is a rec ognized profession and tlie union has many blanch guiids to which the beg gars pay dues. The officials of the guild enjoy such power that they are enjoying the protection of the police Girl Clings to Roof With Tips of Fingers Woonsocket, R. I.—Yvonne Ar chambault, 10 years old, will proba bly never come closer to death than she was when she slipped over the utes hung 50 feet above the ground with only the tips of her fingers holding to the edge of the slippery shingle roof. A boy climbed up a porch railing and assisted the child in maintaining her hold on the roof until rescuers arrived on the roof above and pulled the child up. The Old Scoundrel. From Judge. Nancy—"Jedge. sah. l's don' cum fe* a devoree, fum mah man.’’ Judge—“On what grounds, madam?" "For Infidelity, sah." "Infidelity? Who Is the other woman In the case?*’ “Other woman, sah? Dey ain't no other woman, but ouah prechah don' to' me mah man am a infidel. ' Ttlt ‘ ... ~ i, kt '•••ip - • »'• _—r„ General Maurice Says Military Establishments Ruining Europe From the Omaha World Herald Europe is in a most distressing predicament as the situation fs described by Major General Sir Frederick Maurice. She has hold of the tail of the lion of militarism and doesn’t know what to do. She is afraid longer to hold on and “dassent” let go. Only some scheme of mutual agreement to armament reduction can resolve the difficulty and save the situation, he thinks. General Maurice’s summary of the present day situation is as clear and conclusive an exposition of the consequence of placing dependence upon great military establishments as the most in tense pacifist could ask for. Speaking before the institute of politics at W illiamstown, Mass., he frankly laid the blame for the conflagration of 1914-18 upon the huge standing armies main tained in Europe, breeding fear and hate, distrust and an over bearing nationalism until hell broke loose. Europe had staked her hope of security upon militarism and lost. The war left a legacy not only of staggering debt, ruined in dustry and unstable politics, but the burden and the throat of military establishments which offer today the most serious prob lem to a reconstruction of peace and real security. With the great armies of France, Russia, Poland and Italy, not to speak of the costly military establishments of lesser nations, Europe still feels the threat of another and perhaps even greater conflict impending. And this is not the least of the fears of the statesmen who are .at tempting to guide the destinies of the nations. They fear the rise of that sinister thing, the military dictatorship. It has alr«*dy raised its ugly head in three European nations and is a constant threat in others. So while none dares enter alone upon a program of armament limitation all fear the menace of keeping on in the way they are now heading. This diagnosis of Europe’s condition is all the more convinc ing and all the more worth heeding since it comes from a source not devoted to the cause of peace through armament limitation, but from one whose position in official life stands as sponsor for the military system. Having been chief of operations for the British general staff during the war, General Maurice speaks as one having authority. He is a military man with his eyes wide open to the consequences of an unchecked reign of militarism. The inference of warning which is brought us by the general may be accepted as timely advice. There is in America too an element which wants this country to grab hold of the lion’s tali and take the same precarious ride that Europe would be so glad to stop if it only knew how, and if the influence of the military system would lot it. Rear Admiral Phelps echoed the spirit of tliat element, when he scoffed at the general’s suggestion of mutual disarmament and offered the proposition that such dis armament must follow rather than precede the re-establishment of more settled economic and political conditions. TODAY BY ARTHUR BRISBANE What a nuisance the human body la, Through life It worries us with aches and pains and needs. The spirit Is so easily taken care of. It has no rheumatism, no teeth to ache, no gout, no hair to fall out. needs no clothing, eats nothing, supplies what little real happiness we have, and we soon learn to suppress that part of it called “conscience.” Even when you are dead, the spirit takes care of itself, goes off some where the body remains a nui sance. The simplest thing Is to burn it up, instead of leaving the work of destruction to slow worms, but many do not like that cremation idea. The Indian chief had his body placed on a platform in the air be yond reach of wolves, yet convenient for the “great spirit*’ to come and take him to the “happy hunting ground.” The Egytian king who had a great admiration for mountains because he lived in a flat country, piled up pyra mids of stone with a litte hole in which royal “spiced bodies” might be put. Reclus tells you in his admirable work on earth and its human beings, “L ’Hommen et La Terre,” how the Esquimos disposed of old people, not waiting for them to die. The elderly person, or perhaps a couple, are put in a little round hut of ice with no opening but the door. Out of polite ness, a little food is put in, not much. Then the door is blocked up with a solid ake of ice—no air can enter. The result didn’t worry the Esquinaos who had little imagination. At least his old people packed in ice will look natural when the ang£l Gabriel comes, whereas the rest of us, farther south, will be mere dust and ashes. * - P. A. Conne, able business man, once worked out a plan to endow cheerful Institution for the use of mothers expecting the early arrival of a baby. Comfortable reading rooms, fine nursery for any baby alread born, and brought along, magazines, books, ♦ flowers, fruits, absence from home worries for a few hours each day, some place to go and discuss with other ladies just how they felt and what they did, “when my first baby was- forn." That’s the plan. It would make a fine monument for any man. Most of us think about ,the poor tomb In which wornout car casses will be laid, instead of the liv ing mothers from whom all life comes. Some savages ate the dead. That seemed a simple, pious solution and nothing was lost. They even killed old people when they became useless and ate them. Napoleon lies in glorious state under the magniftcent gilded dome of the “invalides." The French na tion gave the place of greatest honor to the man that had killed the most Frenchmen—that has often happened In history. Rosseau lies In his plain grave on the isle Des Pins. For one serious person that visits his grave, a thou sand fools go to the grave of Napoleon to ponder on his “greatness." That probably suits Rousseau. Napoleon knew and said that without Rousseau, there would have been no Napoleon. Nobel, who Invented dynamite, left A Soul For Beauty. From Everybody's Magazine. A small boy stood on a bridge and flapped his hands vigorously as he watched the western sky which was dif fused with a dull, red glow. A near sighted stranger watched him for a time. “It does my heart good to see you ippreeiate that cloud effect,” at length remarked the stranger. “Yes, sir. It’s fine,” replied the boy excitedly. “The soul of a poet, ” sighed the stranger. "Do you often watch sunsets, my boy?” "Sunset, nothin’! Oee, mister, that's the schoolhousa burnjn'.” the millions thus acquired as his monument, to reward great scientists, thinkers and poets. His invention blew to piec s millions of bodies, its profits stimulate the finest minds, a fair exchange. Croesus, the world’s richest man, probably mde many plans for hla body, after death, and might have outshone in post mortem splendor even King Mausolus, from whom we get our word "mausoleum.” Imagine Croesus’ surprise whe he found him self standing on a gigantic pile of wood, waiting to be burned to death by King Cyrus, whom he had fool ishly attacked. Luckily for him, Croesus, remem being the prediction of a wise Greek, called out, as the smoke began to rise, "Oh, Solon, Solon.” This aroused the barbarian curoslty of the con quering king who had him taken down and asked him what he was yelling about and who that “Solon” was. That save Croesus for awhile. Ot least, that’s the story as Herodotus tells it. What did you think of doing with your burdensome body, or Is the subject too disagreeable for contem plation? It ought not to be, for it Is inevitable. We are here for a few years only, and shall be gone a long time., To this writer, cremation seems the sim plest, tidiest solution. Like having a tooth pulled. It’s socn over and it is easier for the survivors. This disquisition is suggested by a now item: “William Ricefeller Guilds mnsoleum—a tomb of 20 cata combs in Sleepy Hollow cemetery, Cost -250,000.” Gy "20 catacombs” the newspaper writer probably meant 20 little com partments to accomodate 20 bodies. What R gloomy social group. Death end what we call Its “horror” ought to he most useful. Every time a man thinks of death he should say to him self, “Merciful Heaven! I had bet ter stop thinking and get out and do something worth while, for I shall soon be gone, and they will be asking, “What shall we do with the re mains?” and "What did he amount to?” A Detroit woman marries a man on a bet and now is willing to admit shf lost.—Indianapolis Star. Mr. Ford says that we have entered “the flying era.” Was he referring to pedestrians.—Bellingham Herald. Tlie era flying offers hope. The fool driver won’t do it but once.—Memphis News-Scimitar. It is said John D. Rockefeller, Jr., now owns eight residences. Homes, sweet homes.—The Detroit News. We gather from the Scopes trial that the first woman raised Cain.— Goshen News-Times. As compared with New York, Chi cago enjoyed a respectable Sunday. In the “Windy City” merely a gaso line tank exploded, but in the metrop olis a still did likewise.—SanAnonlo Express. What the average man wishes to know is which side in China is mak ing the world safe for democracy.—• Warren Tribune-Chronicle. . The man who wears knickers with out any life insurance is neglecting his family.—Muskegon Chronicle. After climbing Into a parked auto mobile and playfully releasing the brakes, five-year-old Jennie Yerino, of Providence, H. I.. decided to see the thing through. She clutched the steer ing wheel gamely and remained with the machine while It ran wild down a hill and into a fence. She made several attempts at keeping the car in the road way,' and at one point shouted to a boy playmate to ' get out of the way." She was unhurt, but the wheels of the ma chine were broken. Using discarded automobile license plates, O ear Lemduhl, of Seattle, Wash., completed shingling his summer cottage. The plates bs^ the names of nearly every state ana. many years. More than 2,'tb'l were used on the cot tage roof.