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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT November 15, 1000. The Shrub That Broke Away i6trif.ct-rt, -Alter i juier," fay E4U Jurt Ktl VTi3 Mart La Jacobin looked ont of fcr ttlrd-floor kitchen window, she maw, far bkw. a tiny area whr sttc a slz& .trub. Tfce busn was stunted, for &..-u still tf-ry yousj ft had Ln atrscSr by Ilttclcj;. The stroke had mxpp4 t t-et bkl, and now ft dragged 5te!f a!ot yrar by year. Tbe latiiord tecded it cartluliy aucd tad Wjtd it to the hous by a rtcit rope, wtkJj left a arar all arocnd it. For thU urjTortacjtte. asder which tie laui'llrrd" cJtSckena eackled as they craubed for acsle-morraa the livelong day, the clrl on the third floor felt a Pca!!ar gjjspathy asd when she saw ft Lkwsora fa the few days between sj'rlcg acd summer her heart said; "Your rodn days may still return." In the EseastJrne she lived another year doing her duty as a good child shoald. fche had come to the old Jac bw&s lat in their life, had been brotrtht tsp here with anxrous care and tf er jx-rmSlted to leara them. Through sartsg and inheritance the e c prelections old people, who sprang frotzt s.tapi. stork, had acumalated a tidy sum. They wet Martha to a good school and taqght her to play on the piano, asd when they went walking in the park on Sundays, she was between thtra that everybody might e that the Leaullfal girl be longed to them, her parents. She was cver permitted to go out alone after dark, though L lovt-d the hours when zeaaklad goes is chase of the pleasures of the citht, 2i.e&s! The world!" sighed the old man costliuialiy. Ratb-r tbe men. suggested his wife, who in her struggle for exis tence tad never known another than her tushacd: and with these exclama tion points Martha was to rest con tent. Bat Martha Jacoea hail a school mate who had gone out into the world to earn her living. She wrote fan tastic tale of her freedom and the aid ppl shook their heads and re JoJced that, thanks to their savings, their chi id ce-d not know the world. But Martha Iocj;-d for liberty, too- for tin time ha she might pas the twilight hosrs below In the freedom of the city. One day the friend came to visit hr. She wore a tilted hat. her hair was red, and her manner of spch bad chasfed. And ail three stared at her. The old man tried to act like one who unientuoA fjeh thirgs, but that an gered his wife and roused her peasant nature. Cariosity already shone In Martha's eyes, and she drew her friend away Into her little roota. The old people would have liked to hear what was going on. but the girls spoke In whUpers ani sometimes Fanny laughed aloud- For days Martha could do nothing and her mother's taunts only angered her. At last the climax came and her parents forbade her Fanny's company, who had many a spare hour in her freedom. Martha waa a dutiful child whose will her mother had whipped away together with little stubborn Res. So Fanny left and did not write, sved Martha did not write, and all waa A few months later, j'it at l-aster- , time when fresh curtains had beta put cp in Jacobin's three rooms, when tee floors had been frenhly oiled and the baking was about to begin, the old lady took to her Led, and as the holiday stole slowly hack to the week-day, she died. When she was buried and tee rit!xns on the wreaths began to be weatherworn, the grief was no longer so very far from con solation. It grew more tender, as friendly people say. a d permitted other thoughts to Lake their accus tomed p lares. And mj. slowly, freedom bejran. And down below the shrub was in bloom ta its modest strength. - The house is so emyty now." the old ma cften complained, and one Say the girl. In her longing for a third person, answered. "We could rent a room." Ad the man. who had al ways let his wife think for him, hung pasiejvard register oa the wait "lat is jour business." he said to his daughter, after some hesitation. I will not bother about anything. And he sat In his hack room and smoked and rejoiced that Martha dis posed of the applicants and that he could liv as b-fcr. when his Stlna put his cup before him for breakfast. hood. i life55 i m wk m. t .an The system is weakened by the changes that are taking place, and it is often at tiai tUfe that the deadly consumption fastens upon its victims. Tbe caae of the majority r-f weaknesses of women can be traced to this critical f rkJ of the girl's life. -Abaci tventn mr ray tfaxfeur, i ts l4 WUt : w ti aa4 trl bx cosl.t:on u t!.i m burh foaraiiy called all ran down. We were, f noan. wwcrwd auat inr. nj m ioyed ibe bt phys.clana to attend her. Ttky tuilNl be an4 aiUiouga they dl J eTeryinin possible, gave her ta tmtmt Bna " prrtnt- Tbe late Dr. Angel bad first called my aticjoa to V. WUiai' fiiik WUe tor le People, and my wife had heard tie ware a f.M to&ir. w decided to try them for my daurfiter. A'e did eo, si taatde ( tfct .e the primary cause of br trouble was removed and & sbosed a dwided rain ta health, strength and fieb. A cx-t fr.aay f-eo j will hay a medicine aod take a few doet. Then If ttey i.rm ticx rtired lttr throw It a14 a do good. or take 1( epaxrnodicHlly. Mfm k-rtierad la m tmtr trial la strict acrorSan? with directions and our faith flaa raa rwarcd. for h was great.!? baneftied by tbwtn. Her color came to t.r rhrk ad sb nuoilnaed to f slo tn weight and arrngtb. Bo you see tof h myatrasd my wife htie la i'r. Wiiliaist' Fink Pill for I'al People sd he foand them a wonderful tnedldne. V"e Lavo told a great many pcof aJbot them axtd hae tn glad to do eo." igi-:i (jtoa'.r lorcsa. l Lincoln Are Cortland, N. Y. fe&icrUi4 and gwom to beor Ue this SC'tb day of June, 1WJ0. k . C. Pabsons, Aolary Publia. Br. Williams9 Pink Pill fer Pais People sisst tf al aw.cwKl ta twt aoMpahl em mJpt of price. SQ cents a box. or six . ei tttr eoil in twik t toy tbe u. by addrtaslog Dr. WilUame MfenM taar, ixMMcuf, St. Y. and after supper dominos, as usual. Martha Jacotsea rented the room to a librarian. ' She blacired his boots and brought him his breakfast and he always walked before her. This an gered her at first, but then he grew to seem a part of that liberty In which her friend was so happy.;-' Her boarder left early in the morning and only returned at night. He never noticed her, but she studied bin, and when she cleaned his room she rummaged among his books and pictures, partic ularly hia books. Her mother had al ways begrudged her her reading and had obliged the girl to knit or crochet every cloth In the house. But now as freedom drew near, she sat reading all through the long summer afternoons in tbe little back room, so full of com mon places and pipe-smoke, where the henpecked family pictures and gaily- icoiored genre heads hung in their gilded frames and an old wreath of hair Comers that her mother had wov en long ago. In those golden days of old. when girls, they say, were differ ent. Of one book of modem poems Mar tha never tired. As she read her senses gradually awoke and she felt her heart beat. She looked for the song of the shrub, for It would surely have been a fitting subject, But she found none and had she not been living In the commonplace room one must surely have sprung from her own soul. She could not bear to part with the book and. girl-fashion, copied the poems on the kitchen table, while her father took his after-dinner nap, because nothing had ever been written at the Jacobsen's which father and mother had not insisted upon seeing. So the book was not returned to Its place, and one evening the librarian looked for It. He called Martha into the room and asked her. She blushed and he understood. . -oh-." said he, "it doesn't matter. You can have it again if you enjoy it. But do you grasp the real meaning of those verses?" "Yes," answered Martha Jacobsen, and raised her large eyes, full of long ing. "That surprises me." "I clean your boots, and you show yourself before me in your shirt sleeves. I live on the third floor of a house that smells of poor people; my father shuffles across the floor from morning till night in felt slipper:.. What then can I understand of poetry, beside which is drawn a flower with a thin, trembling stem that seems to bear it away Into another world? That is what you meant, Mr. Sellburg, is it not?" "I did not mean to anger you. I did not know you. You will no doubt find many other books that please you on ray shelves. Only don't touch the phil osophy. Woman should feel, God knows with what power, but brood and analyze she should not." Martha made no reply, but looked at Alex Sellburg as though to say, "Can't you see It is this very woman's destiny of feeling that la killing me?" Then she rushed Into the kitchen, threw open the window and looked at her shrub. Sadly enough, however, the shrub looked back at her, for the wind was blowing his poor branches about his weakened frame. "That is dying, thought she, "and I too. Fanny was more fortunate. My mother could net endure that showy hat. If mother had read the poems." It was only a few evenings later that a friend came to visit Alex Sellburg and Martha brought up beer and glasses. Her sleeves were still rolled up a little from the evening dish-washing, and It pleased the young man to clasp her wrist, The warm grasp felt good and a half laugh played around her mouth. She glanced at Alex Sell burg and he was looking at her as if curious to see what would happen. Then she tore herself free and slipped away Into her alcove next to the rented room, with so thin a partition be tween that every word of the conver sation was clearly audible. "Iretty girl." said the stranger. "Child of decent people," was the answer. "Too bad." laughed the other. -What? That Miss Jacobsen has re spectable parents?" "Her expression was not that of the i tiaq. pijq-.siuaaBd-atqBpadsaj too close. Her smile was half expec tant. Some girls you know do not thrive on respectable families. They fade away in their pious respect for In herited propriety and respectability. They sometimes fall far from the parent-tree the lusty little crickets." Alex Sellburg did not answer, and Martha ran to her father who wanted Weak twris Tarents, look to the health of your daughters as they approach that perilous period of their lives when they undergo that marvelous transformation from girlhood to woman Guard them closely, their whole future depends upon tbe care you rive them. who was then in her sixteenth year, thin, without utreugth or vitality. In a. I How's This! We offer One Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable In all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their Ann. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price, 75c per bottle. Sold by all drug gists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. to play dominos and have his evening grog. Then the days passed and autumn came. It rained a great deal and the rain left the shrub naked and pitiful. "Some day you will be like that," said the unhappy girl to Herself, and for days she would speak no word to her father, but had been accustomed to talk to his Stina from morning till night. Suddenly she would throw open all the windows. The old man buried himself deeper in the smoking coat, which Stina had mended with purple thread and asked peevishly: "Why, my dear Martha?" "Air, father, air. I don't know how you and mother stood It here all your lives." "Should get married, Martha. Then you would not bother about fresh air. When you have children you will un derstand how mother and I could be happy, with the air not quite so clear." "Marry! Marry one of our acquain tances who cannot even write correct ly. Cook and sew for such a man. No, father, rather than that I'd stay here with you in the back room. Here at least I have my shrub that pines with me." "High-strung minx," was the old man's answer. Now the conversation turned upon marriage at least once a day, until at last Martha listened in silence. But one evening at dominos Father Jacob sen suddenly announced his own in tention of marrying again. He' al ready knew whom and what she had. Naturally they would need the spare room and the doctor must leave. Mar tha said nothing, for she believed her father talked for effect as her mother had not been dead a year. But her heart stood still when at noon a few days later he took out his funeral coat and his funny, old-fashioned silk hat and his only pair of kid gloves. "Father, what are you going to do?" She' tried to take off the coat from which he, embarrassed, was brushing specks of dust. "Why, you know what the other evening and now I want to look in at her house. You see I don't know her yet. She Is Mason Berut's cousin and has a little money." "Father, you wouldn't! You don't need money. You have everything. And think of mother." "Mother! She was a good woman. She cared for my comforts and knew my habits. But there, this is no love story that it need annoy mother." "But, father, you have your habits." "Habits! A sullen, high-strung daughter I have. Th windows al ways wide open and not a decent word the whole day long. Can't even make a grog that's fit to drink. If that is comfort and habit " "Father." But the old man went, turning in the doorway to say that Martha should give the doctor notice, because he would need the spare-room again. He had not returned when night came. In the meantime, the girl sat in the boarder's room and tried to think, to plan something definite for her life, now that she wa3 free and without the duty to her father that had bound her to her home. Free! That helped her to conquer the bitterness she felt at her father's folly. Below the street lamps burned the stories Fanny told came back to her sweet stories from nights of freedom. When it was quite dark, Alex Sellburg came in. "I am here," said somebody In an unsteady voice as he opened the door. "Miss Jacobsen, you? ' Something wrong?" She laughed: "Oh, yes, doctor, you are to leave. Father is going to marry again and his wife needs another room for her honored guests." "So hum I like it here hut of course that does not alter matters. And that seems laughable to you?" "Now I am free. Without father or mother. I had a schoolmate. She, too, had no connections, nobody bothered about her. She was pretty and sang the best in thB class. After that she learned dancing." "And you?" "I am pretty and I am free. This time it will go worse with the shrub than with me. For that is bound to the house with heavy cords, and will remain so." Sellburg did not want to light the gas. He thought of the worldly wis dom of his friend and of the pleasure that might come to him. If he lit the gas, the-fever would pass away. "Yes, you are beautiful," he said, and came close to her. ."And I wish to have my golden days like the shrub in the springtime. I wish to have sometning out of your songs." He was standing so close to her that he could feel the trembling of her limbs. He was no better than the av erage and would gladly have reaped his share from her longing for happi ness. And so he took her hands and pressed them. And then she stood perfectly still, waiting. But because the girl no longer stirred, nor said a word, Alex Sellburg dropped her hands. If she had thrown herself on his neck why then. And so he lit the gas and because something must be said, he asked after Fanny. "Your friend is of the variety, is she not?" "She sings and dances, and says she has--she enjoys life more than one of vs." ' "But for how long? Miss Martha, I t ae a poem here I am going to read to you. Why do 'you .stand there in the middle of the room? That Is un comfortable and we have begun the sort of friendship where you may be comfortable, so " He pushed a chair up to the table for her and began to lock for the book. He was glad they were out of the dark. The girl began to interest him,' as a study. And later i when she, like a thousand others, had passed the crisis he wished to be the "good fellow," the ideal treasured In her memory. ! ;;"."' "Do you wish to listen, Martha?" She laughed. He palled her by her name so suddenly. Again a round nearer" happiness, Fanny would have said, who understood every step. "Fanny's song?" she asked. "Perhaps. -1 think it fits one and all," and he began: "Every day when the snn is down- -I deck myself in; my purple gown, Pnrple shoes and' yellow hose ; Oh, 'tis my mirror alone that knows. My cheeks and my Jips I tint with red. And now I dance, half alive, half dead. Till the curtain falls 'mid wild delight And I am queen of the world tonight." "Yes, that is Fanny. And how you read it!" She bent far over the table and her eyes danced. "The song is not 'finished," and he continued: " "But at that hour at break of day, I dress myself in a dress of gray ; . And often has a sad, sad morrow Dawned on a night of deepest sorrow, From city to city, aimlessly, I wander, since he deserted me ; " And on a pale face falls the light ; " Of the sun's rays, golden, bright" And then comes the first verse over again, Martha." The girl laughed at his compassion, impudently, boldly, wantonly. That was it! To danco for life or death, and to the end. And then he began to relate to her stories of the gutters; stories that would have made a lantern wink. ,.- "You look at life from your quiet third-floor as with a bird's eye, Mar tha. You talk fantastically of golden days. You must jnarry, marry some good, loving man.' In my ideas of a woman's life I am still very old-fashioned. I do not like emancipated wom en, because in some critical moment the sensitive, emotional woman's na ture is bound to break out and then such a woman too easily becomes a caricature y He turned the pages of Fawbowsky's "Songs for the People," and went on: "Here Is Rimer's 'Cottage Love Song. " He pushed the book across the table to her and said as her glance ran along the lines: . "You say youf shrub is tied to the house. Otherwise it would have per ished long afeo. It could never have withstood the first strong gust." He stretched out his hands across the table and looked at her earnestly. "If only she does not go astray," he thought. After that they did not talk much. Their hands were clasped and they looked at each other until the man began to fear for his strength. "I have an appointment with some friends. I suppose it is time I start. Good-night, Miss Martha, and tomor row you can tell me if I really must Then he went away r but not to join his friends. He sat alone in the cor ner of a cafe and looked at the girls who, at this late hour, stepped in laughing. Many of them wore hats tilted over their pretty faces and it was easy to tell tq what class they be longed. . One was giddier than the other, and Alexu. Sellburg thought of the dress -of gray that succeeded the purple in the morning "came vale." "She shall not go astray. Through me she . shall not go astray," he re peated to himself. When the night air made all eyes weary and the little girls yawned and their friends blushed under their big hats, the librarian went home. ; Up there on the third floor every thing was still, but it struck him how Impure the air was in the hallway. And with that it smelled so of the little cor ridor lamp and the kitchen and the old man's pipe. He thought about what Martha had said of the flowers of the "Maderus," the flat-leaved, wide open flowers that a thin, trembling stem, seemed to bear into another world. And that night he dreamed of the shrub and thin-stemmed Cowers and of Martha who wore a hat like the girls of the midnight. A few weeks later Alex Sellburg packed his things and Martha helped him. As she handed him the book of strange poems, he said, without look ing up, "Keep it, Martha, and when the desire for golden hours comes over you think of the evening when I read you that other poem. You know "But at that hour at break of day I dress myself in a dress of gray" "Do you really wish to leave your father? You say that the woman -who is to be your mother is kind-hearted." ; "Yes, kind-hearted and common.. She suits my father exactly. I need not fear for him, nor have I any fear of a stepmother. Something else drives me " "The longing for freedom, Martha?" "I have a position. When am I free? Only evenings." - "Yes, evenings," he repeated, and went on with his packing. . She thanked him for the book and talked of having her own little home, now. She said it as though to invite him to look at -her temple of freedom. But he said -nothing, because -he thought again that stie should not be led astray by him.. When he had fin ished his packing and already taken up his coat he handed her his address "In case something should come here for me, by mistake, and and in case you need any advice, Martha." When he had gone and she stood alone in the disordered, desolate room, Martha shrieked aloud. Her father was out, as usual, so sne might spend cora "I hare gone 1 days at a time wlthont sv Meat of th bowels, not belDg able to move them except by using hot water injections. Chroutc constipation for sevea years placed me to tbls terrible condition; during that time I did ev ery tblotf I neard of but never found any relief; such was my case until I began asing Ca SC A RETS. I dow bave from one to three passages.a day, and If I was rlcb I would give S10U.U0 for each movement; it la such a relief." ' atmierL. 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Yours gratefully, Mrs. H. H. Overmann, 2865 Wlnslow Ave., Cincinnati, O." Mr.L.G.Vandegrifi Carrollton, Ga, writes ; "I endorse your Peruna. I had a little girl afflicted with catarrh and her rage. And that she did. For the first time her oppressed nature claimed Its rights She had pictured the leave taking as the beginning of a secret like those Fanny had so often had. She wanted only this one, just one blossom from the shrub. And the end? For the end, the far distant end she had ureamed of the "Cottage Love Song." Why not? The poem of the girl who on a gloomy morning put on a gloomy dress, certainly, did not suit her. - i "Some Sunday, at twilight he will come," she thought, and this thought comforted her. Three weeks after the anniversary of her mother's death was her father's wedding, a small, de cent, quiet wedding at which Martha could be quiet. As it grew dark, Mar tha kissed her father, who was touched, and tried to hold her and went away. She looked out of the kitchen window once again at the shrub, whose golden days would soon return. .It was still fast bound. From morning until night Martha worked in a doctor's office. She wel comed the patients and helped clean the Instruments and hand them to the doctor. She heard many a cry and saw many a tear in the course of a day, and in the evening srae was weary from the pain of others. But Sunday was her day. Then she cleaned her room against the time at twilight when Alex Sellburg would come. When the long hours of waiting had passed she took up her book and was sadder and more weary than on other days. The blossoming time nad passed and the July dust covered all tne trees of tne big city when, after' one of those patient Sundays, she went out upon the street. She wandered aimlessly about until late that summer's night, but she was sad no more. The men's glances and the brilliant Sunday with its loud beer-garden music and some thing she had seen in passing, excited her. And so somebody found her. Af ter that she did not wait on Sundays. Somebody took her, Sunday after Sun day, to the loud music. And so it came to pass that she liked the strange hats whose waving plumes and flowers nodded tremblingly to all; and the faces of the merry girls who bind up their hearts to be boautiful. One damp evening in the early au tumn, an evening that washes the dust from the half dead leaves, Martha was again walking the streets aimlessly. "Miss Martha," said someone, pass ing close to her. - She was silent and hung her head. "Why will you not know me, Mar tha? Is that friendship? Still she did not raise her head, but said, bitterly: "I have thought so often that you would come, I could think of nothing else." "I thought it was better not to come, Martha. You know why. It would not have been for your good." She wanted to say, "And so another came," but was ashamed. "Has all been well, with you?" asked Sellburg, bending down to her. "Has your freedom brought you golden days?" "It has brought me the story of the purple dress and the gray;" she drove the words out, and then stood still. She had raised her head, but nobody could look into her eyes for they were cov ered by the broad, round shadow of the flower-bedecked hat. "Astray, in spite of all," thought the man. "Thank God, not through you." How should he know that, In very truth, it was through him? "Can I help you, Martha?" What else could he say? "Help mel No. now it Is too late. I will help myself." She wished to go on and he did not detain her. At that awful moment he could do nothing. Tomorrow he would go to her Martha did not turn back; She walked and walked, tireless, though weary; and so she came to the old quarter where her father lived. Since her departure she had visited the old people once a week, at most, and of 7 I ' have had two physicians to treat her and found no relief. After using two bottles of your Peruna she is sound and ten only the . locked door greeted her, because the young wife, fifteen years his junior, haa given the man a taste for life again. And bo it was today. As she glided down the steps she met the landlady in the hallway. She would not let Martha go until she knew how much the hat cost and the jacket, silk embroidered. And Martha as Red af ter the' children, ani lodgers and then after her shrub. ' "That is dead. Miss Martha. ; You re member the storm a while ago. Well, that broke the rope and that same night the shrub fell. It was a sad looking bush, yet pretty In spring." "Too bad," said the girl. "It made me happy to see its blossoms. And now good-night, Mrs. Weinke; give my love to father and mother and tell them I am going away early tomorrow morning. I nave taken another posi tion. I will probably be here soon again, though." : The woman was called away, and Martha walked back the whole way. She could have taken the street car, but then -so many eyes would have looked at her again; perhaps some body would have smiled a meaning smile, and she could not have defended herself against, all those eyes. Sne had on a French flower hat and walk ing alone late at night, she was as free as a bird. Once in her room she put on her sim ple, old morning dress and took out Alex Sellburg's book. She read poem after poem, but could not weep, al though she longed to wash the burden from her heart with tears. She had no more strength in her soul. After wards she wrote a letter, put It with the book and wrapped them up. Alex Sellburg received the book and the letter and nobody else could have understood . the strange, . indistinct writing. .. . "From city to city, aimlessly I v.auder since he deserted me." it said. But he who had deserted the girl was not he whom she had loved first, i'he first one had not come for fear of going one day with an evil conscience. He had remained the vir tuous man. But the other, who came in his place, had gone now, too with out remorse to another. And Alex Sell-' burg understood; iae letter closed wiia these words: "The little bush is broken, too, down to its poor roots, because it broke away from the house. And that is the story of a girl, whom you knew." And during his dinner hour the li brarian went to look for Martha Ja cobsen. But the room In which she had lived was already prepared to re ceive a new lodger. , "The Jacobsen has gone, after her r add lea. "Tbe ctaioni Is a wonder."iranchestr (N.H.)Ur4on. "Sears. KoebucK & Co. is one or tne largest nouses or its kind lu Chicago." Chicago Inter Ocean. "Tbe bit? cataloRXte forms one of the finest jobbing me diums that could possibly be sent into a di trlct. " Boyce 's Monthlv. "Their catalogue is a vst department store boiled down." Atlanta Constitution. The catalogue is certa-inly a merchandise encyclope dia." Chicago Kp worth Herald. - - . 8cer&. Roebuck & Ou. have taken the first rank in trade, and their advertisements are aj authentic In every detail and claim as an official state document." Home and Farm, Louisville. Ky. - A law should be Dasaed compelling: the Use of this cat- alosrae In all public schools. The Hon. O. A.. Southcown uiv tf-u.r'i n ,inkTP Tiini'Mi vum nil aiMil.ill WE CorLD Ql OTE THOr4AS OK HIMILAK AX - twti niLk Kuutc inc am ' ' ' SEARS, ' ROEBUCK & CO. (Inc.), CHICAGO, ILL. well. I am now giving It to my othef children.; ; . Mr. Joseph Kircheneteiner,87 Croton street, Cleveland, O., says: 'Wo have nsed Peruna for eight years as our fam ily medicine. During the whole of that time we have not had to employ a phy sician. Oar famly consists of seven. . and we also use it for the thousand . and one ailments to which mankind U liable. We have used it in cases of scarletf tvert measles and diphtheria. Whenever one of the family feels In the least 111, mother always says: 'Take Peruna and j you will be well, or if we do not happen to have any, 'We will have to get mora Peruna.' Peruna Is always satisfactory in colds and coughs. Children are especially liable to aut catarrh. Indeed, most of the affections of childhood are. catarrh. All forms of sore throat, quinsy, croup, hoarseness, and laryngitis are but different phages of catarrh. . i These affections, in the itcuta form, may pass away without treat ment, but they leave a foundation for chronic catarrh in later years. IS yen a slight cold is acute catarrh, and ren ders the mucous membrane of the head and throat more liable to chronic ca tarrh afterwards. The child is con stantly asaiied winter and summer, with catarrh. Affections of the stomach andbo web), colic and diarrhoea, are due to ca tarrhal derangements of these organs. A great many families are learning by bitter experience that these affections must be promptly treated or the child's health Is permanently injured. Pernna is tha remedy. No family should be without it. As soon ati tha symptoms of cold, cough or any other affection of the throat or stomach is noticed, Peruna should be given accord ing to directions. A vast multitude of families are relying entirely upon Te runa for safety in this direction. There are no substitutes. Peruna Is the only systemic catarrh remedy known to the medical profession. That Pernna can be relied upon is evi denced by the great number of testi monials which Dr.Hartman is receiving daily. Only a very few of these caA be published. Only one in a thousand. Every household should bo provided with Dr. Hart man's free book on ca tarrh ; also "Facts and Paces," a book of testimonials concerning Peruna sent free by The Peruna Medicine Co., Co lumbus, O. summer lover, I suppose," suggested the "landlady." "Had such an honest father, too," she added. "Poor shrub," Sellburg wanted to say, but, of course, he was silent and went on his way. But all that day and the next it seemed to him as though there glided beside him on the street a girl wear ing a plain gray dress; a girl with a pale, worn face. - To Car Cold In one Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund .he money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's sig nature is on each box. 25c. M SEHD 110 MONEY cui una u out ana sen a to us, it your helKht, weight, nasntwr of l.i - chei around body at wa.ivtaod butt, length oi klrt In front f l-oin ,(( co Dotcom, .na we will tend ymi Our Kw, P.rf.it rilUn WATfl fROOF sklBTAKDCAPErrrM l. O. I., aulM! ta iMlatka. Yu earn esatmlae and try Itaa at your expreM o(hce, and If found the most styllah water proof auit you rvtir saw, tb equal of aoythlnfr you cotitd uti maae si tores times oar price, p.rlor to m.ttr,rol ..It. that Mllfeaarally at fS.00 to SKl.OO. tk.a VT pr, arm! l H 8rKmL OKKKHl Rl eOKTHIi0. 6 q flF rl'KTK SKIRT Al CAFK, 0t?J snd exprem charge. THftl SUITS re inaa rreca bm extra dual ity waterproof raaheoera aacklntoah eloth, In Hack or nvy blue, lined with e it ra qual ity plaid waterproof lining. p la llacS with aa aitra qaaltty watrrpraaf llnlav. made with doable cape, velvet collar, extra well finished throughout. Skirt Latnat atyla, aiJoUble at waUt, button Sawa either aMa, extra aaaiit plaid waterproof Hir. Sixes to fit a waiot from (2 to SO Inches. Buttons concealed by deep fly. Can b worn in place of or over an ordinary akiit. A 2.Sb faahtonable suit for rainy, nnaty Bad a'opoy weather such as was never before offered. Caps only, SI. tot aklrt only, SI. tO. Far free elotk aaatplm af erj thliia; la auckla. leahea, write far cample book He. Sla. addrwa, SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., CHICAGO, ILL. $Q QK HEAVY RAINCOAT yWIW Mea'a Hesular -IO.v Heavy Wets at 11 lack and tola air it at Waterproof Double Breaa 01 RAINCOAT AND MACKIXTCSHtS ILOhlX. OUT AT S3.95. SEND NO MONEY cut tn ik ad out and send to us. state your height aaU weight, state num. ber of iiKuies around body at breaat, taken oer vent, under coat, cloae u p under arma.and we will tend you thla coat by expreos C. O. l.. subject to examination, fcxamlne and try It on at your express office, and II found exactly as represented, the moat wonderful value you ever saw or heard of, and equal to any water proof coat yon can buy fir f 10.00. pay taaexprea attest ear ; QC aaSeioreee apeelal after prteo... yJ-JJ efcar.. THIS MACKINTOSH is tbe luteal liMJt cj .c, kuij iiujnr, ixiade f roiu aa extra quai)t.t ktan wei4 Tyler lateenes lrk Materyroaf Beckl. mm, ei'.ner oiacic or blue, on of the finest heavy wool waterproof fabrics on ttie market. Haa aa extra quality fancy plaid waterproof lln jjt. made In the latest BOX COAT fc'l TLB, as II lu.trated, double stitched throughout, velvet collar, ventilated arm holes. Is suitable for both rain or overcoat, s-uaranteed the greateat value ever known. FOB fkKK ilAftH BAJtPLkS V Ul'l ACKllTOflHkg, write fr8AarX Butts tie. SS. Address, SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., CHICAGO, ILL. $2 t. .2- 4-POUND GATALOGUE FREE Tins BIS CATALOSri COSTAIHS OTKK l.ftOO PACB8 it is Oxl liilchea tn alia, contains over 100,000 aaotatfeae, 10,00 Ulaetratleaa, and In the IAR3IST. MOST COMPLETE AND LC WEJT-MICEO CATALOGUE EVER PUILI8HE0. -the lowest wholesale Chicago piices on KVEUYTU1NO, I actual ua everything1 in Grooerlea, ltrag-e, lry Ooeda, otlaaa, (lot kin. Cloaks, Breseea, iloota and hhoee, Watchcn, Jewelry, Hooka Hardware. Ptovea, Agricultural Implement. Furniture, Harare, Baft - flea, fee win Machines. Crocker jaaeieal laetrunaentA, x aralaalas; Ooeds, Uoaa, Kevel vors, r lahlaat Tackle, Bleyclea, l'hotorraphtc tiooda, Ktc, Kte. Telia jut what your storekeeper at borne must pay for everything be bays, and wlj prevent him from overchanrlnir you on anything you buy. Explain Juat how to order, how much the freight, express or mail will be on any thing to your town. Tke hl seek easta aa aae delleri tine saataee alaae Is t! ceata. ItlaaaraeweataletaeBa. 110, aad rraat! laaprs.rd n.r upritn odltlaa, breaitktrlrktaptedate, eoataiaaeverTthUi(iaaawieSaarrallaaSwlate and la good tor an entire year, ending Bep tern ber 1., lt01.fc nilfl FDFP nCrmi Cut lb,a adTertleoeot oot, eend tees UUll rtiCC UrrCns wltkleeatlno.taa;e.taa.p.to helpT pay the T cents paatage. and the big book win be sent to you I k I srauOl, peatpeM. The book Itaelf is free, ami we only auk the 1 a eeata to help pay the? centa poatage, and If you don't, think It 1 worth one hundred times the l&eeats you send, as a puhteti the lowest wholesale prices on everything, sajree aad wld ImatedUtel retnra raw lit, WHAT THE PRESS SAYS ABOUT THIS CATALOCUE. Itlsaraonumentof businessinfonnution." MlnneapoliHi Miun.Tribuna, -iae mau oraer ousiness uas certainly reached the highest degree of perfection yet attained tit thia well known and always popular etttabllKhment oi! Sears, Roe. buck fc Co. BoHton (Maaaathu.setU) Houpebold. "The thousands of people employed handle tbe immense business transacted daily with the precUin f cloak work." American. Nation, Watervllle, ilalne 'Bears, Roebuck A Co.'s sruarantee Is as good as a govw ernment bond." New York lJeoplc' Home Journal. "A visit to the mammoth establishment of Bcara. Boe bock 4 Co. is a revelation of whs t modern and up-to-date business methods include." Chicago Con key's Ho me I journal. t """"u" aiunuitn ua tne protection given ail customers haa made the name of Sieara. ltoebuck Co. a EXTRACT. MN'T FAIL TO hE l& CE?IT ikiuhhuiu w,ni. -rniiaaeipnia (l a.; sew l l a rt.i wa x x -M-iiJU, rusii'Alv, Addresn,
