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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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alone in the disordered, desolate room,
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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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