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kOTh up oat af tor *eo D*o load.
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of Imrnwr Or soo too puastiy
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ros so: 4 —oorh :hP hat sand, as
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amt. tastims o*~dk-.pntetd te the star- -
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th* •’.oJbKS oer* lor ai*d walked to
word to*** with t hr Mood taroiaf cold
to hi* - t \*!i was befor* t-m and
■topp-'C af th* ftr>- fit- . wiiskiop no
*-®ee* to lift hi* *T<s as ‘‘ ithMll I
strode post hits. AS *be *-*-roo4. a
4ctr* ke* her and. Xothaek-I s too
guards haired and placed tan »ith
his h. k *® tb* part Too &.'states
!» *•. ooood hand atd foot to the
wtah* !-* sfc3*t*-i hi* bead *t» that he
coaid took at hi* mojos*»
JSril oms stmiiorty fa—®d. wtth
has fore * j-ord portly toward him
Thru* so ne < :.*&;• s® hi* attitude
Has head t _sp m eofcly upo* his cheat,
as tf to oad f mated
Tk*- did 6 MOO*
JSuddeoir etery oerre to Xothajj«ef*
body kskped taiu- eir«ed act KM
Th* psords mere *®t*nt* their I
hose ' TO* fast not a as shcvisp it .
ed—tier »•*» map a»ay" His
Ih—lhahff mosrk* seemed ready to
horat 'Shear hoods Tb* hoot bn-aci*
tadssrssrt * the starry ptootc—a
ttet* shadow—'aod faded 1* the f»
toor* The soaod af oars become
MBt*r ood fomter Thee, ofter o lit- j
tie. tier* *o» »of ted hot* to him
from fa* oat ;o the iak*- a mat- s rake i
mM «r| of a *UC The Mor- I
wees puce * Tory sere oot to ;
__S They oer» cot—
A »• -t-e »}* a* t® km SMtiiBf bttc
or that he sooid hare cried otii if it
had nor her* for th* krt ’hat papr*-d
tam. it vos Xeft. speak: h* rooU;. <
iwfiMf
*Hes ore you- Sot*“
r« sealed
Hr could are Neff
o* him as thoopb rt mar as
la ok let
they »*r* pSaytti* a port
torf hot torn to O fuatrr U«e«*'~ j
he ehtrttM "Her* on 1. fcb.e aod
oliiitop I® talk and there too ore os
dank o* a mammy, and kwkisp for
oil the world as if you'd »*** o phost *
Toots the a»r:*r* Amt you plod
me r* hot p- r.p tr.> to shot*"
Nlttot . oodded
Th* Other s Twice to—ame »udd*’b)y
*Tts# i» *etv tba* The ocber \*t.
If* atai ** call tbe »*r»«tei Death’
1 is* aa»e»i„ac turn* a*. befaeeB
uk mad ttaamos aortiti* or • little
ia*e-r »*H le- a* dead a* thwack Ttocy !
bad £-WS a* ante boibta, Out only
hope real* SB tbe tart that 1 can urn
mj tafi Tbst • »tx 1 didn't let
Tbe* Iuk «brf b.i cac beraSiC •
If 1 bad 'be deril * own time
b~-;.-Bc it Iron. fa.Ii.tac witk a.* an: j
f«wgy W«t broke my Beck doiaf ft I
A ttttie later »ket we re aare Jew |
k_* aad tel* b>*« are oat. of beans*
HI be«rt emaidC for beip P* rllpt
wet ktieraat or banter - “
He m-utifed. mad a chill rat a* Xa
tkaBjr' i back a* be list et*ed to a
watrd boa! that came from far behind
tbem Y waa a b»»«KS- jrd!:c* aou&d
and bie face tcraed a an# chart’r
pmOar a* be caned iaautnacl* at Xeil
Hi* ammyrnmaum m*« tbe t'-rribie qcea
rw la ten far*
Y«diaa.~ be aaid "Tbeyre away
back la tbe iarM Her aoc • niaa
dowa a* u*" For a mooe-al be «m>
silent . tarmed to tbe tea
Fbern lb yam aotice any
'baar tbe way you're
bemad Nat —
Tbe fbriUiac ewtfteasH :n
Na ba wer. He aodd<d bi*
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you move your bead. But the very
uncomfortable thing just at this mo
m*ut is the way your feet are fasten
ed Isn't that so? Your legs are
ti-awn ba< k, bo that you are half rest
r g oe your toes, and I’m pretty sure
.r knees are aching right now Eh?
'Veil. It won't be very long before
your legs will give way under you
and the slack about your wrists will
k*-ep you from helping yourself. Do ;
you know what will happen then?"
He paused and Nathaniel stared at
him. partly understanding, yet giving
no sign.
"You will hang upon the thong
aboot your neck until you choke to
u*-atfc.“ finished Neil. "That's the i
straight Death.' If the end doesn’t I
ome by morning the sun will finish
the job. It will dry out the wet raw
: in- until it grips your throat like a
uand Pte T;ri: y w e call it the hand
a! Strang Pleasant, isn't It?"
Tue grim definiteness with which
h< described the manner of .heir end
added to those sensations which had
slready be, ome acutely discomforting
to Nathaniel. Had he possessed the
use of b:s voice when the Mormons
were leaving be would have called
; t them to ret urn and lengthen the
thongs about his ankles by an inch
or two Now with almost brutal
trackn^s.- Neil had explained to him
tne meaning of bis strange posture.
His knees began to ache An oc
casional sharp pain shot up from them
to his hips, and the thong about his
he k. w hich a: first he had used as a
sup;>«n for his c-hm. began to irritate
him At iimif he found himself rest
•g pen It so heavily that it short
ri.- d his breath, and he was compelled
Joy Shone in Her Face.
to straighten himself, putting his
shale ight on his twisted feet. It
cenjed an hour before Neil broke the
terrible siletH- again Perhaps it was
ten minutes.
1 m going to begin." be said.
Lis**r If you hear an answer nod
your head "
He drew a deep breath turned his
fa; c a? far «; he could toward the
shore, and shouted
"Help—help—help!”
Again arc again the thrilling words
burst from his ibroat. and as their
e< hoes floated back to them from the
forest i:k“ a thousand mocking voices,
Nathaniel grew hot with the sweat of
horror If :»e could only have added
ms own voice to those cries, shrieked
out 'he words with Neil—joined even
.h*v2!linglr in this last fight for life,
r. wo.Id not have been so bad But
» was helpless. He watched the des
jwratiot grow in his companion's fare
a- th-re catt e no response save the
lading echoes: even in the light of
the stars be saw that face darken with
s effort the eyes fill with a mad
light and the throat strain against its
>i.ok:cg thong Gradually Neil s voice
became weaker. When he siopp-d to
r>-st and listen his panting breath
came to Nathaniel itke the hissing of
sr<„n.. Soon the echoes failed to come
tiu k from the forest, and Nathaniel
(ought like a crazed man to free him
self. jerking at the thongs that held
: n» until his wrists were bleeding and
tic rawhide about his neck choked
him
No use!- be heard Neil say. *■ Bet
ter take it easy lor a while. Nat!"
Marion's brother had turned toward
lie. Uis head thrown back against
•i.* stake, his face lifted to the sky.
Nathan el raised bis own bead, and
locad that he could breathe easier. For
a l og time his companion did not
break -.he silence Mentally he began
counting off the seconds. It was past
midnight—probably one o'clock. Dawn
< *me a: half past two. the sun rose
an hour later. Three hours to live!
Nathaci"! towered his head, and the
rawhide tightened perceptibly at the
movement. Nell was watching him.
I m devilish sorry—for you—Nat—“
he said
Hi* words came with painful slowr
ceas. There was a grating huskiness
in hi* voice
“Thi* damned rawhide—is pinching
—my Adam s apple—"
lie smiled. Hi* white teeth gleam
ed. his eye* laughed, and with a
heart bursting with grief Nathaniel
looted away from him. He had seen
courage, but never like this, and deep
down in his soul he prayed—prayed
that death might come to h>m first, so
that he might not have to look upon
the agonies of this other, whose end
would be ghastly in its fearless resig
nation
A moaning, wordless cry broke
through the cloth that gagged him.
At the sound of that cry, faint, ter
rifying. with all the horror that might
fill a human soul in its articulate note,
a shudder of life passed into Neil's
body. Weakly he flung himself back,
stood poised for an instant against the
stake, then fell again upon the deadly
throng. Twice—three times he made
the effort, and failed. And to Na
thaniel, staring wild-eyed and silent
now. the spectacle was one that
seemed to blast the very soul within
him and send his blood in rushing tor
rents of fire to his sickened brain.
Neil was dying! A fourth time be
struggled back. A fifth—and he held
his ground. Even in that passing in
stant something like a flash of his
buoyant smile flickered in his face and
there came to Nathaniel's ears like a
throttled whisper—his name.
“Nat—”
And no more.
The head fell forward again. And
Nathaniel, turning his face away, saw
something come up out of the shim
mering sea, like a shadow before nis
blistering eyes, and as his own limbs
went out from under him and he felt
the strangling death at his throat
there came from that shadow a cry
that seemed to snap his very heart
strings—a piercing cry and (even in
his half consciousness he recognized
it) a woman's cry! He flung himself
back, and for a moment he saw- Neil
struggling, the last spark of life in
him stirred by that same cry; and
then across the w hite sand two figures
flew madly toward them, and even as
the hot film in his eyes grew thicker
he knew that one of them was Marion
and that the other was Winnsome
Croche.
His heart seemed to stop beating.
He strove to pull himself together,
but his head fell forward. Faintly,
as on a battlefield, voices came to
him. and when with a superhuman ef
fort he straightened himself for an
instant he saw that Neil was no longer
at the stake but was stretched on the
sand, and of the two figures beside
him one suddenly sprang to her feet
and ran to him. And then Marions
terror-filled face was close to his own.
and Marion's lips were moaning his
name, and Marion's hands were slash
ing at the thongs that bound him.
When with a great sigh of joy he
crumpled down upon the earth he
knew that he was slipping off into ob
livion with Marion's arms about his
neck, and with her lips pressing to his
the sweet elixir of her love.
Darkness enshrouded him but a few
moments, when a dash of cool water
brought him back into light. He felt
himself lowered upon the sand and
after a breath or two he twisted him
self on his elbow and saw that Neil's
while face was held on Winnsomes
breast and that Marion was running
up from the shore with more water.
For a space she knelt beside her broth
er. and then she hurried to him. Joy
shone in her face. She fell upon her
knees and drew his head in the hollow
of her arm, crooning mad senseless
words to him. and bathing his face
with water, her eyes shining down
upon him gloriously. Nathaniel
reached up and touched her face, and
she bowed her bead until her hair
smothered him in sweet gloom, and
kissed him. He drew her lips to his
own. ana teen she lowered him gently
and stood up in the starlight, looking
first at Neil and next down at him;
and then she turned quickly back to
the sea.
From down near the shore she
called back some word, and with a
shrill cry Winnsome followed her. Na
thaniel struggled to his elbow, to his
knees—staggered to his feet. He saw
the boat drifting out into the night,
and Winnsome standing alone at the
water-edge, her cobbing cries of en
treaty. of terror, following it unan
swered. He tottered down toward
her, gaining new strength at each
step, but when he reached her the
boat was no longer to be seen and
Winnsome's face was whiter than the
sands under her feet.
"She Is gone—gone—” she moaned,
stretching out her arms to him. “She
is going—back to Strang!"
And then, from far out in the white
glory of the night, there came back to j
him the voice of the girl he loved:
"Goodby—Goodby—”
(TO BE CONTINUED.!
LOVE TALES’
o/’JfcmXl
9^ THOUSAND
IMS'!
EW YORK—Tommy on '
the third express' ele
vator — Tommy with
the Arcanum button 1
in his coat lapel—whis
pered out of the cor- :
ner of his mouth:
"That clerk on the j
eighteenth floor has
cut out the young
lawyer on the twenty
third and he's going
to marry the black
eyed typewriter on the
eleventh just after Easter. She's the
second one in her family to make a
match in the building—Fifteenth?
Yes. sir—and her sister is going to
step into her shoes—Twenty-five. All
out—and I’ll bet she'll be lucky, too.”
Skyscraper gossip at the rate of
550 feet a minute as the elevator
runs. And in a social settlement of
..000. A thousand typewriters under
one roof’ A thousand, so they say
Who could count them? A battalion
of cashiers, secretaries, clerks, tel
ephone operators, manicures A hive
■n which there are more women and
girls than there are in Yassar or Bar
nard college, for the average of four
women to six men holds good in all
the big office buildings An establish
ment where ambition and romance
and integrity and cunning have office
and telephone numbers and energy
and brains look out across the long
corridors, where trickery in oTer
haste for the nimble dollar may be
dodging shadows—a business commu
nity screened behind Its own individ
ual doors and with its name in the
directory, in a way suggesting the
towering hotels with their rooms, en
suite and single, peopled by those
w hose names appear on the register.
Several regiments of alert human
beings matching wits for money—big
wits and little wits—and watching
for great stakes or small—control of
railroads and corporations and for
fortunes and ciTic honors and for
words of praise and favors and high
er rungs in the long ladder ot pro
motion.
While law and brokerage and pro
moting predominate, the industries of
the skyscraper are diversified widely
One may buy a machine for taking
the temperature of the water at the
bottom of the sea or wings for flying
machines, flour for health bread, or
blades for sawing walrus teeth Fruits
from Brazil are sold direct and rub
ber from the Orinoco is purveyed
from lump samples A doctor has a
consultation room and a dentist waits
at his tip-back chair Agents of for
eign governments drop in to order lo
comotives or contract for crops of al
falfa or outputs of shoe factories. Be
tween basemen: and sky one may ne
gotiate for almost everything
And. by the authority of the super
intendent, never a week without a ro^
trance.
They dig a hole In ground that Is
worth more a square foot than a farm
and more for any odd inch than it
costs to buy a horse and a cow. and
three normal cellars down they bolt a
foundation to nature's very backbone
and build In steel toward the clouds
two feet a day until the plans say
stop. By and by, when a hundred
thousand dollars have been multiplied
by the number of stories, the doors
are opened. Straightway and strange
ly, too. without creating a gap any
where in the city, a multi-commercial,
financial, legal and what-not. etc., fam
ily moves In with thousands of busi- !
ness children, and they call it "our
building."
As many people under one roof as
there are in some cities, more than
there are in some townships, as many
as there are in some counties, living
along miles of walled-in streets and
avenues. At eight in the morning
they are avenues of silence and there
are unlocked doors At S:45
the family comes marching in. a hun- I
dred to the minute, and the elevators,
forty horsepower to the car. are run )
nlng a floor a second. Elevator men
ride further every day than motormen j
on trolleys. They beat the guards in !
the elevated The total daily runs of
all the elevators In New York exceeds
a transcontinental trip. There may
be some veteran in the business who
knows what it is to have covered ten
times the distance around the globe in
a car.
A wholesome sisterhood of woman
here, but scarcely a brotherhood of
man. Sisters in a family of thou
sands chat and whisper and babble
and drop off into rival establishments
At lunch hour they leave a thousand
desks, meet again and babble and
whisper and chat: and again when
the rolltop of authority is slammed
down and the typewriter batteries
have become silent. They chat, but
never about business, for which qual
ity the woman who sits at a man's
business elbow is commended more :
than she will ever know. The gossip
of fiction, the sphinx of business.
One never goes shopping for legal
advice, for bonds, for architecture or
civil engineering. There are no popu- :
;ar shades in real estate or spring
styies in stocks. So along these in
door avenues business is largely con
versational In reaching out for money
the stenographic, telephonic and tel
egraphic agencies are forever kept ,
busy. The streets of Canandaigua or !
Port Jervis or Stamford do not ring
with half the hellos that go over the
building wires. Seventy-sev-n. on the
seventh, talk to Phiiadelphia. while |
eighty-eight, on the eighth, hold the
Boston wire Washington and Albany I
—...€
With a roof promenade and dancing there is a setting as romantic as a
beach or a moonlit park.
whisper without interfering with Bal
timore and New Haven.
And letters: Twenty-three times a
day bushel bags are filled at the mail
boxes—two bushels of letters an hour,
forty-six a day. and never any let up
Except for an occasional club note or
a post-card with a sentimental pic
ture and vague initials, all strictly
business—letters for money.
You can't measure prosperity un
der these conditions With a barroom
or a barber shop or vaudeville house
It is different. You can see the cus
tomers go in. Who knows how mac v
patrons, clients, accounts or w hatever
they may be. opened the second door
from the elevator on the seventeenth
floor? How much did they add to the
bank account of the man whose name
is In gilt on the glass* N'o one knows.
No one can know. It would be easier
to estimate the catch of a Gloucester
mackerel sloop riding tn the off-shore
fog. Men go in with money and come
out without it; others come out with
an idea and return with a check.
Except in a general way there is no
gTea; concern among those whose
names are not on the doors Books
are kept for failure as well as for suc
cess. A stenographer's notebook may
suggest increased revenue or It mat
not.
Business Is not always pressing
Men find time to fall in love between
3 a. m. and 5 p. m lust as they do
elsewhere between seven and eleven
in the evening.
With a roof promenade and florists'
booths and candy shops and the latest
waltz on tuneful strings in the res
taurant, and forty women—mostly un
der twenty-five—to every sixty men.
including slim youths in gay haber
dashery and tired business persons,
and corridors which if placed end to
end would stretch along Fifth avenue
from Madison Square to Forty-second
street—with this combination one can
see that there is a setting for the
romantic as good, perhaps, as a beach
or a moonlit park or a lake with lily
pads and canoes.
Even now they are arranging for
the early spring hops on the roof
These hops are naturally informal, but
■every little movement has a meaning
of its own. When from an adjoining j
roof one sees a youth and a white
shirtwaist leaning on the parapet it is .
evident that the young man's fancy
has turned to the thoughts long asso
ciated happily with the vernal season
The candyman is the first aid to
skyscraper Cupid. A small package
of cream peppermints first; later j
chocolates; then a pink or a rosebud I
:rom the glass case near the door,
and in order the large box of choice
sweets, ribbon-tied. The elevator man
—Tommy or any one of the others— )
whispers of the engagement- All very
pretty and proper
Four girls in one suite of offices
were married within two years •
Twenty and odd floors produced thirty
brides between Maytlmes. and of
course there were presents from the
man in the private office and mantel
ornaments or silver spoons from a
subscription list all along the line
down to the office boy. It has come
to pass with our changed metropoli
tan conditions that the sofa by the
parlor window and the gas a faint
blue flicker are no longer absolute
essentials. Lovemaking thrives among
ledgers and law books and ticker tape,
and Cupid has a seat at the typewriter
and loops a telephone receiver over
his curly bead.
Many of us are becoming unfamiliar
with she beauties of our fair city
Living, for example, on the ninth floor
and working on the fourteenth, a New
Yorker cannot be said to be directly
in touch with Manhattan Island. One
comes down from the upper realms
of an apartment house, disappears in
the subway and emerges therefrom
only to return to the familiar upper
atmosphere of the office building. The
dally routine is describing a letter
"T" the connecting link correspond
icg to the subway.
Preacre-s Free on This Boat
Preachers will be carried free on
the Mississippi river steamer G. W
Hill owing to a request made by the
late Capt G. W Hill, who died several
weeks ago at his home in Alton. He
was one of the owners of the steamer
and said that it had aiways been his
custom to carry preachers free on
any steamer of which he was the in
dividual owner, and he wanted his
boat to accord the same privileges to
clergymen as long as it bore his name.
Captain Hill said that he began that
custom on the first steamer he owned
and operated, which was on the Des
Moines river in Iowa in the early '50s
While on a trip down the river from
Fort Des Moines, now Des Moines, he
found that one of his most prosper
ous looking passengers was a preach
er. He at once refunded the fare,
which was $10. and ever afterward he
made it a rule to carry preachers on
the complimentary list.—St Louis Re
public.
He who is bent on doing evil can
never want occasion.
MEETING PLACE OF DANDIES
The Old Bell Tavern of Pall Mall—
Nell Gwynne’s Home in Old
Lcndor City.
The ancient thoroughfare of Pal!
Mall, which in its checkered history
has witnessed so many outward
changes and with whose very stones
one might almost say are bound up the
social records of a bygone age. its
romances and tragedies, its amuse
, ments and scandals, is about to under
go another transformation.
The Old Bell Tavern, standing at
the corner of what used to be called
John street, but which is now prac
tically Included in St. James' Square,
adjoining, is doomed to go the way of
many another building which, while it
survived in that region, formed an in
teresting link between the past and
the present. After having served the
agreeable purpose of a house of re- i
freshment for -enturies the tavern is
to be removed and in its place in due
course will uprise an automobile show
room quite in the modern style.
Among all the notabilities who
made Pall Mail their home Nell
Gwynne will always assert her own
place in the imagination ot the ro
mantic. Tradition has net always
spoken accurately as to the precise
locality pf the mansion which the
royal favorite inhabited, but it is now
pretty well accepted that the house
occupied the site on which now stands I
a part of the Army and Navy club
The residence sometimes erroneously
attributed to her was actually inhab
ited by another notable personage.
Moll Davis, a young actress whose
professional career, we are told, pre- i
sented certain features similar to '
those of Nell herself. But this house ;
on the north side of Pall Mall was
not the only one which Nell Gwynne
tenanted in the thoroughfare In .
K5T1, as we are told, she crossed to
the park side of the street.
Who can doubt then that in the days
before the club became an institution
the Old Bell, standing in the Terr j
thick of it all, was a favorite resort of
the citizen who walked abroad? There
men supported their port, discussed
the latest scandal of the day, tore I
reputations to tatters. A school for
gossip the place doubtless was just
as much as a shrine of Bacchus—.
haven of good cheer in daylight ac
dark. One can picture the compa.
?hat was accustomed to gather undt
the oaken beams of its low pitch
roof—the nsec who could quaff th.
wine and retail their story "with
air. So too can one bring to
the changing clientele of the ts\
as fashions altered and socie: t
grated further westward ant: re
ward. until a time was reached v.:
'gentlemen's gentlemen" famish
inconsiderable proportion of ;t.=
or nightly customers.—London T
graph.
Passing of Applejack.
Applejack is a back number in pc
sylvania. There was a tine vrie::
good old Presbyterian deacons a
elders of York county made enoug..
applejack—as they said—to sup:
themselves and the rest of the cone
ration." but that time is gone i
almost gone in New Jersey also,
last of the applgjack producing star.
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Ik
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thousands have it and
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want good results you
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m- t's Swamp-Root, the great kidney rem
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lar sizes. Sample bottle by mail free,
also pamphlet telling you how to find out
If you have kidney trouble.
Address, Dr. Kilmer A Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
ROMANCE OF COLD WEATHER
Mar. Saves Two Lives but Subsequent
Lionizing Is Much to His
Disadvantage.
Two lovers were strolling along a
canal bank on the outskirts of Paris
tbe other day when the woman sud
denly ran from her companion and
threw herself into the water. Though
but a bad swimmer, her companion al
once jumped in to rescue her, but ha
was unable to do so, and both were
In peril of drowning. At this mo
ment a stranger came along, and see
ing the struggling couple, bravely
jumped in and succeeded in bringing
both the man and the woman to the
bank, where they were soon revived.
A cheering crowd assembled to con
gratulare the rescuer, who. however,
showed great reluctance to be lion
ized. He was quickly walking away
when two policemen came on the
scene and insisted that the name and
address of so brave a man should be
taken. Their surprise was great
when they found that the gallant
rescuer was a burglar for whom the
police were anxiously searching. He
was taken into custody and will be
brought up for sentence. It is expect
ed that the gallant rescue will lead
to his dismissal, or at least to a re
duction of any sentence that might
otherwise have been passed on him
for his less heroic deeds.
Has Cardinal Gibbons' Approval.
Cardinal Gibbons, the highest au
thority of the Roman Catholic church
in America, has expressed his ap
proval of Tuberculosis day. which is
to be observed by the churches of the
Tutted States on or about April 30,
and of the general organized anti-tu
berculosis campaign, acording to a
report of an interview made public by
the National Association for the Study
and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
The interview was granted by hU
eminence to H. Wirt Steele, executive
secretary of the Maryland Associa
tion for the Prevention and Relief ot
Tuberculosis, and Dr. Charles O'Dono
van one of the leading physicians of
Baltimore. The Cardinal expressed
his entire sympathy with the plan of
the Tuberculosis day movement and
indorsed the program both of the
Maryland association s*id of the na
Uonal association.
Preponderance of Evidence.
“Sorry." said the constable, "but I'll
have to arrest ye—you been drivln'
along at the rate of id miles an hour.’'
"You are wrong, my friend." said
the driver. "I wasn't, and here's a
ten-dollar bill that says I wasn't.”
"All right.” returned the constable
pocketing the money. "With 11 to I
against me I ain't goin' to subject
the county to th' expense of a trial."
—Harper s Weekly.
Proof Positive.
“I heard he was in bad odor with
her family. Is that mieT'
"Draw your own conclusions. It was
a centless marriage.”
COFFEE HEART
Very “lain in Some People.
A great many people go on suffering
from annoying ailments for a long
time before they can get their own
consent to give up the indulgence
from which their trouble arises.
A gentleman in Brooklyn describes
his experience, as follows:
“I became satisfied some months
ago that I owed the palpitation of the
heart from which I suffered almost
daily, to the use of coffee, (I had beer
a coffee drinker for 30 years! but I
found it v ry hard to give up the bev
erage
“One day I ran across a very sen
sible and straightforward presenta
tion of the claims of Postum. and
was so impressed thereby that I con
eluded to give it a trial.
“My experience with it was unsat
isfactory till I learned how it ought
to be prepared—by thorough boiling
for not less than 15 or 20 minutes
After'I learned that lesson there wat
no trouble.
“Postum proved to be a most pal at
able and satisfactory hot beverage
and I have used it ever since.
“The effect on my health has been
most salutary. The heart palpitation
from which I u«ad to suffer so much
particularly sfter breakfast, has dls
appeared and I never have a return ol
it except when I dine or lunch away
from home and drink the old kind oi
coffee because Postum is not served
I find that Postum cheers and lnvig
orates while it produces no harmful
stimulation.” Name given by Postum
Co.. Battle Creek, Mich.
Ten days’ trial proves an eye openei
to many.
Read the little book. “The Road tc
Wellville,” in pkgs. “There's a Rea
son”
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