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CHAPTER XXVII Continued.
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"You're out of date," tlilH from tho
dealer In ranches. "You know tlio Htory
that was going around nbont Ills be
ing mi escaped convict, or something
of tlmt sort? It gets Its 'local color'
this morning. There's n sheriff hero
from bnck East Bomewhcn came In
on tho early train; name's Maeauloy,
nnd Iio'b got tho requisition papers.
But Smllh'B fooled htm good and
plenty."
Again tho chorus united In an eager
query.
"How?"
"Ho died Inst night n little past
midnight. They say they're going to
hury him out at the dam on tho Joh
thnt ho pulled through and stood on
Its feet. Ono of Williams' (jtmrrymen
drifted In with the story Just n little
whllo ngo. I'm hero to hot you oven
money that the whole town goes to
tho funeral."
"Great gosh I" said the mnn who
was crunching tho burnt bacon. "Say,
thnt'a tough, Blxby I I don't euro what
ho'd run away from back East; he
wiib a mnn, right. Ilardlug has been
telling everybody how Smith wouldn't
let the posse open Are on that gang
of hold-ups last Friday night; how he
chased across on the dnin stagings
nlono nnd unarmed to try to servo the
warrants on 'em and mnko 'em atop
firing. It was glorious, but It wasn't
war."
To this tho other mining man added
n hard word. "Dead," ho gritted;
"and only n few hours earlier the girl
had taken snap Judgment on him and
married Bomcbody else I That's tho
woman of it 1"
"Oh, hold on, Strykcr," tho ranch
broker protested. "Don't you get too
fierce about that. There nro two
Btrlngs to that bow, nnd tho longest
and sorriest one runs out to Colonel
Baldwin's place on Little creek, I'm
thinking. The Illchlnnder business
was only nn Incident. Stanton told
mo that much."
As tho event proved, tho seller of
ranch lands would havo lost his bet on
tho fuucral attendance. For s'omo un
known reason tho notlco of Smith's
death did not appear In tho afternoon
papers, and only a few pcoplo went out
In autos to sec the collln lowered by
'Williams' workmen Into a grave on
tho mesa behind tho construction
camp; a grave among others where
tho victims of an early industrial ac
cident nt the dam hud been burled.
, Thoso who went out from town camo
back rather scandalized. There had
been a most hard-hearted lack of tho
common formalities, they said; a
cheap coflln, no minister, no mourners,
not even tho poor fellow's business
associates in the company ho hud
fought so hard to.savo from defeat and
extinction. It was a shame!
With this report passing from lip to
lip in Brewster, another bit of gossip
to tho effect that Sturbuck and Still
Ings had gono East with the disap
pointed sheriff, "to clenr Smith's mem
ory," as tho street-talk hud it, called
forth no llttlo comment. In tho Ilophru
House cafe on tho evening of the
funeral day Stryker, the mining spec
ulator, wna loud in his criticisms of
tho High Lino people.
"Ycsl" ho railed; "a couplo of 'em
will go on a Junketing trip East to
clear hla memory,' after they'vo let
their wops' at tho dam bury him like
a yellow dogl And this Illchlandcr
woman; they say she'd known him
ever slnco ho and she were school
kids together; she went down and
took the train with her father Just
'about tho time they were planting the
poor dovll."
Three weeks of tho matchless Au
gust weather had slipped by without
Incident other than tho indictment) by
tho grand Jury of Crawford Stanton,
Barney M'G-raw, and a number of oth
ers on a chargo of conspiracy; and
Williams, unmolested since tho night
of tho grand battlo In which Sheriff
Harding had figured as the mnster of
tho hunt, had completed tho great
ditch system and was installing the
machinery In tho latoly finished power
house.
Over the hills from tho northern
mountain boundary of tho Tlmanyonl
a wandering prospector had come with
a vague talo of a now strike in Sunrlso
Gulch, u placer district worked out
and abandoned twenty years earlier in
tho height of tho Bed Butto excite
ment Questioned closely, tho talc
brlnger confessed that he had no proof
posltlvo of the strike; but In the hills
ho had found n well-worn trail, lately
used, leading to tho old camp, and
from ono of tho deserted cabins in
tho gulch ho had seen smoko arising.
As to tho fact of tho trail tho wun
derlng tale-bearer was not nt fault.
On tho most perfect of tho lnte-ln-August
mornings a young woman, clad
In serviceable khaki, nnd keeping her
cowboy headgear and buff ton-boots In
good countenance by riding astride in
a man's snddle, was pushing her mount
up the trull toward Sunrlso Gulch.
,Prom tho top of a little rise tho aban
doned camp enmo Into view, Its heaps
of worken-ovor gravel sprouting thick
ly wt mi., .villi growth of twenty
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years, and Its crumbling shacks, only
one of which seemed to havo survived
In habitable entirety, scattered nmong
the firs of the gulch.
At tho top of tho rise tho horsewom
an drew rein and shaded her eyes
with n gantleted hand. On n bench
besldo the door on the single tenanted
cabin n man was sitting, and she snw
him stand to answer her hand-wave.
A few minutes later the man, a gaunt
young fellow with ono unn In n sling
and the pallor of n long confinement
whitening his face and hands, was try
lug to help the horsewoman to dis
mount in tho cabin doorynrd, but she
pushed him nsldo and swung out of
the saddle unaided, laughing nt him
out of tho slate-gray eyes nnd saying:
"How often havo I got to tell you that
you simply can't help a woman cA of
u mnn's middle?"
Tho man smiled at that
"It's automatic," ho returned. "I
shall never get over waning to help
you, I guess. Have you comp to tell
mo that I can go?"
Flinging tho brldlo reins over tho
head of tho wiry little cow-pony which
was thus left free to crop tho short,
sweet grass of tho creek valley, the
young woman led tho man to tho house
bench nnd made him sit down.
"You nro frightfully anxious to go
and commit suicide, aren't you?" she
tensed, sitting besldo him. "Every tlmo
I como It's always tho same thing:
'When can I go?' You'ro not well
yet."
"I'm well enough to do what I've
got to do, Corona ; and until it's done.
. . . Besides, there is Jlbbcy."
"Where is Mr. Jibbey this morning?"
"Ho has gono up the creek, fishing.
I mnde him go. If I didn't take a club
to him now nnd then he'd hang over
mo nil tho time. There never was
another man llko htm, Corona. And
nt homo wo used to call him 'tho black
sheep' and 'the failure,' and cross tho
street to dodge lilm when he'd been
drinking too much!"
"Ho says you'vo made a man of
him ; thnt you saved his 11 fo when you
had every reason not to. You never
told mo thnt, John."
"No; I didn't mean to tell anyone.
But to think of Ids coming out hero
to nurso me, leaving Verda on tho
night ho married her I A brother of
my own blood wouldn't havo done it."
Tho young woman was looking up
with a shrewd llttlo smile. "Maybe
tho blood brother would do even that,
If you had Just made it possible for
him to marry tho girl ho'd set Ida
heart on, John."
"Pirilo!" growled tho mnn. And
then: "Hasn't tho time como when
you can tell mo a llttlo more about
what happened to mo nfter tho doctor
put mo to sleep that night at tho
dam?"
"Yes. The only renson you haven't
been told was becnuso wo didn't want
you to worry ; wo wanted you to havo
a chance to get well nnd strong ngnln."
Tho man's eyes filled suddenly, and
ho took no shame. He was still shaky
enough in nerve nnd muscle to ex
cuso it. "Nobody ever had such
friends, Corona," ho said. "You all
know I'd hnvo to go back to Lawrcncc
villo nnd fight It out, nnd you didn't
want me to go handicapped and hnlf
dead. But how did they come to let
you tako me away? I've known Mnc
auley ever slnco I was In knickers. Ho
Is not tho man to tako any chances."
Tho young woman's Inugh was
soundless. "Mr. Mncauley wasn't
asked. Ho thinks you aro dead," sho
said.
"What!"
"It's bo. You wcro not tho only ono
wounded in tho fight at tho dam.
Tliere were two others two of
M'Graw's men. Three days later, Just
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"How Often Havo I Got to Tell You?"
ns colonel-daddy and Billy Stnrbuck
wero getting ready to steal you awny,
ono of tho others died. In some wny
tho report got out thnt you wcro tho
ono who died, and that made every
thing quite easy. Tho report hns nevor
been contradicted, nnd when Mr.
Mncauley reached Brewster tho police
people told him that ho was too Inte."
"Good heavens! Does everybody In
I Brewster think I'm dead?"
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Nearly everybody. But you needn't
look so horrified. You'ro not d 1,
you know; and there wero no t i
nrles In tho newspapers, or anything
llko thnt."
The man got upon his feet rather
unsteadily.
"That's the limit," ho said defini
tively. "I'm n man now, Cororta ; too
much of n.mnn, I hope, to hide behind
another man's grave. I'm going back
to Brewster, today I"
The young woman mnde n quaint
llttlo grimace at him. "How are you
going to get there?" she asked. "It's
twenty miles, nnd the walking Is aw
fully bad In spots."
"But I must go. Cnn't you see
what everybody will say of me? that
I was too cowardly to face tho music
when my time enme? Nobody will be
lieve that I wasn't u consenting party
to this hide-away!"
"Sit down," Bhe commnnded calmly;
and when ho obeyed: "From day to
day, slnco I began coming out here,
John, I'vo been trying to rediscover
the man whom I met just once, one
evening over n year ngo, ut Cousin
Adda's liouso in Guthrlevlllo: I can't
find him he's gone."
"Coronnl" he said. "Then you rec
ognized me?"
"Not nt first But after a whllo
things begun to come back; and what
you told mo about Miss Itlchlander,
you know, nnd the hint you gave me
of your trouble did the rest."
"Then you knew or you thought
I was a criminal?"
Sho nodded, nnd her gaze was rest
ing upon tho nearby gravel heaps.
"Cousin Adda wroto me. But that
mado no difference. I didn't know
whether you had done tho things' they
said you had, or not. What I did
know was that 'you had broken your
shackles in Bomo way and were try
ing to get free. You were, weren't
you?" "
"I suppose so; In some blind fash
ion. ButMt is you who havo Bet mo
free, Corona. It began that .night in
Guthrlevlllo when I stole ono of your
gloves; It wasn't anything you Bald;
It was what you so evidently believed
and lived. And out here: I was sim
ply a raw savago when you first saw
me. I had tumbled headlong into tho
abyss of tho new and the elemental,
and if I nm trying to scramble out
now on tho sldo of honor nnd clean
mnnhood, it Is chiefly because you
havo shown mo tho way."
"When did I ever, John?" with nn
up-glanco of tho gray eyes that was
almost wistful.
"Always, and with a wisdom thnt
makes mo almost afraid of you. For
example, there was tho night when I
was fairly on tho edgo of letting Jlb
bcy stay in tho mine nnd go mad If
ho wanted to: $'ou lushed mo with tho
ono word that made mo save his life
Instead of taking it. How did you
know that was tho ono word to say?"
"How do wo know nnytblng?" sho
Inquired softly. "Tho moment brings
its own inspiration. It broke my
heart to see what you could be, and
to think that you might not bo it,
after all. But I camo out here this
morning to talk about something else.
What nro you going to do when you
are nblo to leave Sunrise Gulch?"
"Tho ono straightforward thing
there Ib for mo tolo. I shnll go back
to Lawrcncevlllo and take my medi
cine." "And after that?"
"That is for you to say, Corona.
Would you marry n convict?"
"You nro not guilty."
"That Is neither hero nor there. They
will probably send mo to prison, Just
tho same, and tho stigma will bo mlnu
to wear for tho remainder of my life.
I enn wear it now, thank God l But to
pnss it on to you and to your chil
dren, Corona ... if I cbuld got
my own consent to that, you couldn't
got yours."
"Yes, I could, John; I got It tho first
tlmo colonel-daddy brought mo out
here and let mo see you. You wero
out of your bend, nnd you thought you
wcro talking to Billy Sturbuck In tho
automobile on tho night when you wero
going with him to tho fight nt tho dnra.
It made mo go down on my two knees,
John, nnd kiss your poor, hot hands."
Ho slipped his ono good nrm around
her nnd drew her close.
"Now I can go b,ack llko a mnn and
fight it through to tho end," ho exulted
soberly. "Jlbbcy will tako mo; I know
ho is wearing himself out trying to
mnko mo believe that ho can wait, and
that Verda understands, though ho
won't ndmlt it. And when It Is nil
over, when they havo done their worst
to rac "
With a quick llttlo twist sho broko
nwny from tho encircling arm.
"John, denr," sho said, and her volco
wns trembling between a laugh and a
sob, "I'm tho wickedest, wickedest
woman tlmt ever lived and breathed
and tho happiest! I know what you
would do, but I couldn't resist tho
tcmptntlon to mnko you say It. Lis
ten: this morning colonel-daddy got a
nlght-lcttcr from Billy Stnrbuck. You
havo been wondering why Billy never
camo out hero to seo you It wns bo
cause ho nnd Mr. StllllngH hnvo been
I In Lawrenceville, trying to cleur you.
They arc there now, and the wire says
that Wutrous Dunham has been arrest
ed nnd that ho has broken down nnd
confessed. You ure n free man, John ;
you "
The grass-cropping pony had
widened Us circle by it full yard, and
tho westward-pointing shadows of tho
firs were growing shorter and nioro
clearly defined as the August sun
swung higher over the summits of the
eastern TImnnyonis. For th two on
the house bench, time, having all its In
terspaces filled with beatific silences,
had no measure thnt was worth record
ing. In one of the more coherent in
tervals It was tho man who said:
"Some things In this world aro very
wonderful, Coronn. Wo call them hap
penings, nnd try to account for them
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"Go Back Like a Man and Fight."
ns we may by tho laws of chance. Wns
it chance that threw us together at
your cousin's house in Guthrlevlllo n
year ago last June?"
She laughed happily. "I suppose it
wns though I'd llko to be romantic
enough to beltevo that It wasn't."
"Debritt would say that it was tho
Absolute Ego," ho said, half musingly.
"And who is Mr. Debritt?"
"He is the mnn I dined with on my
last evening in Lawrenceville. He hnd
been Joking mo about my various
llttlo smugnesses good Job, good
clothes, easy life, and nil thnt, and ho
wound up by warning mo to watch out
for tho Absolute Ego."
"What is tho Absolute Ego?" she
asked dutifully.
John Montague Smith, with his curl
ing yellow beard three weeks un
trlmmcd, with his clothes dressing tho
pnrt of a neglected camper, and with
a steel-Jacketed bullet trying to encyst
Itself under his right shoulder blade,
grinned exultantly.
"Debritt didn't know, himself; but
I know now: it's tho primitive man-
soul; tho T that is nble to refuse to
be bound down and tied by environ
ment or habit or potty conventions, or
any of tho things wo'ralsnnmo 'limita
tions.' It's nsleep in most of us; it
wasn't asleep in me. You made it sit
tup and rub its eyes for n minute or
two thnt evening in Guthrlevlllo, out
It dozed off again, and there had to
lie an earthquake nt tho last to shako
it alive. Do you know tho first thing
it did when It took hold again and
began to drive?"
"No."
"Hero is where the law of chances
falls to pieces, Coronn. Without tell
ing me anything nbout it, this nowiy
emancipated man-soul of mine mnde a
bee-line for tho only Absolute Ego
woman it hnd ever known. And it
found her."
Again tho young woman laughed
happily. "If you aro going to call mo
Hnnnn 1..w.nn mi'11 linirA fn mnlrn
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ti uii tu uiu dvhi uuivi ....j, ...... ........
Whereupon, tho moment being strict
ly elemental and snered to demonstrn
tlons of the nbsolute, ho did.
(THE END.)
World's BlrjQCst Fish Net
Tho largest flsh net In tho world
will soon bo In use in theso waters,
says the Avnlon Islander. It Is 8,400
feet long. 300 feet deep nnd has Ave
pursellko pockets mado of a two-Inch
re-enforced mesh. Two 80-foot tugs
nnd n fleet of small boats will occom-
puny tho net Tho equipment will cost
nlmost $100,000 to flsh for three
months. What chance' for its life will
nny flsh hnvo with such a net combing
tho channel day and night?
Diet a Matter of Habit
Our dally food Is to n Inrgo extent
n matter of prejudice and habit We
think wo must havo certain things be
causo wo always have had them. But
tho war has shown ub thnt by tho cx
crclso of intelligent planning wo can
cot the necessary nutriment for less
money than wo hnvo been accustomed
to spend. Knnsns City Star.
Important Point
She Would you marry a woman
who hnd sued another man for breach
of promlso?'
no How much did tnc court awarq
I you?
MHMnONAL
SBMMrSfllOOL
Lesson
(By III3V. 1 D. FITZWATEB, D. D.,
Teacher of English Ulblo In tho Moody
Blblo Instltuto of ChlcnRO.)
(Copyright, 1917, Vrtern Newspaper Union.)
LESSON FOR OCTOBER 28
EZRA
RETURNING
LON.
FROM BABY.
WESSON TEXT-Ezra 8:15-30.
GOLDEN TEXT Tho hunt! of our God
Is upon nil tliem for good that seek htm.
Ezra 8:22.
An Intervnl of some fifty years In
tervenes between the dedication of the
temple and the Journey of Ezra to Pal
estine. Some btlrrlug events in tho
world occurred In this time which
greatly helped the. Jews. It was dur
ing this time that the episode of
Esther's being made queen and the ele
vation of Mordecal occurred, which fa
vorably disposed tlio Persian govern
ment toward the Jews. The tlmo wns
auspicious for Ezrn to make his re
quest unto Artaxcrxes. Tho supremo
aim of Ezrn was the restoration of tho
true worship of Jehovah, for it is evi
dent that the work done by Zerubbabcl
had largely failed of Its aim. In order
that Ezra might be an clllclcnt Instru
ment In tho hands of God for the ac
complishment of this purpose, he "pre
pared his heart to seek the law of the
Lord nnd to do It, nnd to teach In Is
rael tho statutes and Judgments"
(7:10). There aro three stages In tho
experience of every true teacher. First:
to seek the law of the Lord. Second :
to do it. Third : to teach it to others.
The Inst is impossible without the first
two.
Tho royal commission granted to
Ezra embraced
(1) The return of all whose free will
prompted them to do so (7:13).
(2) Ezra's being given magisterial
authority over tho district "beyond thd
river" (7 :25, 20).
(3) Exemption from taxation to the
Levltes (7:24).
(4) Conveyance of offerings from tho
king nnd his olllcers (7:15, 10).
I. Register of Ezra's Companions
(1-14). Doubtless this Is n representu-
tlve list of those who jolued Ezrn.
There is clear Implication that the
twelve tribes are represented nmong
thoseawho returned. (Sco 2:70; 0:10,
17.)
II. Ezra Sends to Iddo for Minister
for the Temple Service (vv. 15-20). Be
fore tho Journey to Palestine was nc
tually begun, Ezra gathered about him
his companions who wero to accom
pany him, to see whether they wcro
representative. In this review he dis
covered that none of the sons of Levi
were in theicompnny. So he sent chief
men to Iddo, who wns doubtless tho
president of the school of the Levltes,
for ministers for God's house. In re
sponse to this appeal, 38 Levltes and
220 Nethlnlms Joined blm.
III. Ezra Seeking the Guidance of
the Lord (vv. 21-23). The Journey was
full of deadly perils. It lay through
a region Invested with Bedouin ma
rauders. Ezra, fully conscious of these,
und ashamed to nsk help of tho king,
proclaimed a fast, in which In deep
humiliation they sought tho guidance
nnd protection of God. This is n flno
illustration of the independence, nnd
yet dependence, of the men who fully
trust God. His chief concern wns for
the honor of God's name. He had so
confidently und repeatedly spoken to
the king of the divine sulllclcncy that
now to have usked for n guurd of sol
diers would cause him to blush with
Hhaiuc. In this critical hour they com
mitted themselves to the care of Him
who kcepeth Israel. Wo should begin
every Journey, every undertaking,
every new piece of work, every new
day by seeking the direction of God.
No friendship or business Interest ever
reaches Its best unless God's hand bo
in it nnd upon It We should not go
anywhere, engage In nuy business or
huve any friendship upon which we mny
not nsk God's blessing and nld. They
sought this for themselves, for their
children, nnd all their Bubstancc. Tney
knew thnt as soon ns they mado God
first his blesslnc would bo upon them,
j d 800U na thcy forso0k him hla
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nowcr WOuid no witnuruwn unu nia
wrntu Woulu do upon mem.
IV. Tho Treasure Committed to
Twelve Priests (vv. 24-30). Combined
with their fulth In God, wo find prac
tical business sense. Honest, trust
worthy, good men 'wero selected (v.
28). To such only should bo Intrusted
tho Lord's money gifts offered freely
to tho Lord by his people. Again, tho
money wns carefully counted nnd
weighed, nnd the amount set down.
Tll0 lllen wero nci,i accountable at tho
cnU of i,0 iol,rney for everything in-
trusted to them. Men ought to be held
to strict uccount for everything intrust
ed to them, to tho very last cent. The
men to whom this was Intrusted wero
holy; tho gifts wcro God's; they did
not belong to nny mnn; they were
churged with tho obligation to deliver
theso gifts before tho chief priests.
V. The Safe Arrival at Jerusalem
(vv. 31-30). Tho Journey lasted four
months. They carried with them mil
lions of dollars worth of treasure,
through n region infested with mnraud
ing Bedouins, yet God delivered them
from their hands. At the end of the
Journey they testified to tho faithful
ness of God In bringing them safely on
(v. 31). Tho sufo arrival at tho end
of each day's Journey is due to tho
good hand of our God upon ub. After
resting three dnys, tho treasure was
brought Into the temple nnd burnt of
ferings wcro mndo before tho Lord Jehovah.
A GUARANTEED REMEDY FOR
ASTHMA
Tonr mojit mtt Dl bktoidid br jonr drnralst
without nor qneuion If thl 'nrnrdr loe not br until
TrrrcatniirAttitiiii. HninclilulAiitlitiiit.lIny
Korcror Dllllrult, llrrnttiluv. No matter buir
Tlolent Uio attack or obnlnato tho cue
A OR. n.SCHIFFMANN'S W
ASTHMADOR
In etthor form (Cliinri-ttn, l'lim Mlitnro or Powder)
poaltlrel? kI?m INSTANT UUI.IHK In orerr cm
and baa f rmaneriUr cured thutianrirta nbo bad bi-r n
conalderrd Incurable, after having tried rr other
tneani of relief In mn tturiercn aw afforded an
opportunity of nralllng thcuianlrca of thla "Sinner
Unci" guarantor otfor as through purchasing from
tholr own regular llrufgiu, ther aro auro tholt
nioner will bn refunded by blm If tho reruodr falls,
luu will bo the holo Judgo ua to whelhor you art
boneQted and will set jnur nioner back It you ara
not. We dii not know of nur fairer propoaltloa
which we could uiaku.
R. Schillmann Co., Proprietors, St. Paul, Minn.
Lack of Restraint
Senator Chamberlain, defending the
food control bill, snld In Washington:
"How unmeasured the attacks on
this excellent bill have been I Now,
1 am like tho boy at the movies. I
like measuro and restraint.
"Two boys at the movies saw n
tragic picture play, and one of them
was overcome. He took out his hand
kerchief and wept and sobbed.
'"Why, Bill, ytt're bliibborlu'l" said
the other boy.
"'Well,' sobbed Bill, 'I like to see
n person show u little feelln'.'
" 'Feelln' I said the first boy. 'l-'eel-ln's
all right, but ye don't need to
wash yer face In It.' "
WOMEN SUFFERERS
NEED SWAMP-ROOT
Thousnnds upon thousands of women
have kidney nnd bladder trouble nnd
never suspect it.
Womcn'B complaints often prove to bo
nothing else but kidney trouble, or th
result of kidney or bladder disease.
If tlife kidneys nrc not in n healthy con
dition, they may cnuso the other organs
to become diseased.
t iou may Buffer a great deal with pain
in the back, headache, loss of mutation,
nervousness and may be despondent and
irritable.
Don't delay starting treatment. Dr.
Kilmer's Swnmp-Koot, a physician's pro
scription, obtained at any drug store, re
stores health to the kidneys nnd is just
the remedy needed to overcome such con
ditions. Get a medium or large bottle immedi
ately from any drug store.
However, If you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to Dr.
Kilmer & Co., Bingliamton, N. Y., for
sample bottle. When writing be sura
and mention this paper. Adv.
WOMEN SLOWER THAN MEN
Double the Number Required in New
York Banks, But Thcy Are
More Methodical.
There Is nt present no woman offi
cer of n New York city bank, und only
one in New Jersey, but If the wnr
lasts long enough It may well be, ns
It Is In Canada now, that the banks
will virtually be run by women. Al
ready, It is estimated, 20,000 women
have been taken on In tho Wall street
district since the United States en
tered the war last April, says the New
York Evening Post.
Women are slower, but more curc
fut, said an otllclal of the Mechanics
und Metals bank, so, although twice
as many women ns men are needed
to do the snme amount of work, tho
bank loses no money on extra salaries,
becauso the women save hundreds of
dollars which had to be paid to tho
clearing house for the men's mistakes.
Each mistake costs 1 and the records
show thnt bomctlmcs men's mistakes
cost 52.") or $30 a week.
The average downtown bank has
lost 20 per cent of Its men nnd taken
on 40 per cent women. The Mechan
ics and Metnls bank now hns GO
women nnd they are being tnken on
by tens or twenties ench week. So
far these 00 women ure taking tha
places of only 30 men, which shows
tho difference In rapidity, but the offi
cial of the bank pointed out that it
would bo n serious problem when tho
men came home for their Jobs.
"Our hope Is," he snld, "that tho
business will be big enough then to
uccommodute them nil."
A womnn's eyes never grow too dim
to detect the pnint on nnother's fnce.
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