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Matrimonial Adventures
Birth Stones
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George Kibbe Turner
Anttior of Tlio TiwkmaMora."
"Mrmorlm of a Undor,'
"Tlir Lflflt Christian." "Ilusui'g
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Copyright by Onltd Taturi Syndicate
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GEORGE KIBBE TURNER
Urorge Klbbo Turner started hl.i
)IU rnry career when he Ilrst tnmo
out of coIIckb. Ho Joined the staff
of tlio HprlnKflcltl lU-publU-nn ut a
very inodcat salary Ills noxt stop
wua to the Ulark t'at, In that duy
iv thin llttlo ningnslno which print'
fd Kiir(irlilriKly Interetitlnn ntorlca.
TlK'ii ono tln, an tho t'taraua Ih,
lint iiltu different In fact, Mr.
Turner wrote a novel for itcCluro's
MiiKRzinr, It had a New England
netting, and a political uncle, and
It irrolved wldn and Important
touirnt-nt. Therrafter for nine
years Mr, Turner wan one of the
lltt-rury Ktaff of McCIuro's Mann
2lno mid he wroto both articles
and fiction an a erent variety of
Olllljd tH.
Mr. Turner Is tho author of many
looln, short stories and articles,
but "HnK.ir'fi Hoard," a story of
the yellow fevnr cptdomlc In Mem
phlH, Tenn., filled with fact and
dramatic Incident, and "Whits
Hhouldcru" are guaranteed to Iteep
Mr. Turner conspicuously to tho
front In our literature.
In the story that follows, written
for the Star Author Buries of Matri
monial Adventures, the husband Is
drawn ns only a man keen In un
dtrntnnil!nK of men could picture
hltn. Tho side of marriage that
Mr. Turner presents in "Illrth
.Stones" Is novel and at the same
time universally appealing.
MAUV HTBWAHT CUTTING, JII.
These jewel brokers are nil over the
city In Maiden Lane, on the Bowery,
up n rutin tl Fifth avenue nil kinds,
for nil kinds of business buying or
selling! They're n wise crowd. They
huve to be. They set BOiue dangerous
propositions put up to them and
Mime wild ones, particularly In hard
times.
They had some extra wild ones In
thnt llnnnclal cave-In nfter the war
especially the Fifth avenue ones. Hnlf
the upper West side was fighting to
drive the wolf from the new limousine
door.
It wns n j,cnr ago last March at
Hie worst of It when this ono I'm
telling you of drifted into Harry
Volpo's place on Fifth avenue in the
late afternoon. Volpo was aloneIn
the ollh e, staring down out of his sec--wd-story
window on the two streams
jf niiloiiiohlie tops on the avenue.
"You the proprietor?" asked this
(ttrnngcr back of him at the entrance
a big, red-faced husky, with big
shoulders and a small nose and a red
necktie. Volpo ligurcd him right
away then as some sort of a con
tractor. "Sure," he said, coming over, dust
ing Ids hands. "What'll you have?"
"My mime's Coognn Dan Coogtin,"
said the big man, Introducing himself.
"Olnd to know you," snld Harry
Volpe, lzlng him up. "What can I
do for you?"
"What would you say this was
worth?'' Jald the stranger, reaching in
and dragging out a big diamond neck
lace that seemed to be lylug loose,
without ony case. In the right-hand
lower pocket of his coat.
"Wha you paid for It or what you
could rwtllzo?" Volpe asked him, still
sizing him up the way you have to
In that buolness. And went ovei It
with his glass and told him what he
might iirobably get If lie got n buyer.
"But sou'd hnve hard work finding
one Jut now for anything as big as
that. I know I wouldn't buy It not
now I
"Yon couldn't not If you wanted
to!" PnJd the other man. "I wouldn't
sell l for all the money In Wall
street. '
And tie looked as If he meunt.lt.
"But here's the thing I want to
know," he snld. "Could you pull out
enough stones from tills to stand for a
pledge for a ten thousand-dollnr
lonn?"
"Why yes probably," said Volpe.
"Though we don't generally want to
handle unset stones. "Because you
know !"
"They're apt to be stolen, huh? Is
that It" said the big mnn.
"Ycfili. They break them up out of
their settings, so they int be Identi
lied." "But you've got your setting here."
"I wasn't talking about this," said
Volpe. "I wns Just telling you."
"Well, about how many would you
Bay?" the customer asked lilm.
And he told hi in about a third of
thcpi.
"Now the next thing," said the man,
antlslled apparently, "is could you
take this; could you take that amount
of stones out of their settings, and
put back substitutes In their place
good ones, to they wouldn't be no
ticed?" "Why yes probubly. If I had the
Itlme."
"Now then another thing," he said,
Iflxlng his little blue-gray eyes on him
as If this wns Important. "How long
would bo the shortest time you could
do It In If you had everything all
ready and waiting to do It with? Take
ese out of their BeUlrujs nuil puj
the phoney ones in? Could you do It
In a day?"
"I might," said Volpe, looking them
over, seeing they were o. good stand
ard cut.
"Whnt'll It cost the whole thing?
Ten thousand for three months,"
asked the tunn, his eves boring In still.
And Volpe llgured out a good thing
on It nnd told him what he'd do.
"Hut now It's understood," said the
man "you'll hnve to have It ull done
In a day when I bring It In!"
"Why what's the great hurry?"
asked Volpe, looking at him, starting
wondering a little then.
"It's my wife. She'll want to wear
them. You know how women are!"
Volpe nodded. He knew some
things about tho women and their
freaks and whims. You do, handling
Jewelry.
"And don't call nic up at the apart
ment, either. I'll bring them In some
day soon I can't be sure Just when.
But I don't want you calling up my
wife. You know how women are
about such thlng !" he said again,
looking nervous Volpo noticed at tho
time.
He noticed thnt. You keep your
eyes open In thnt business and the
deal was queer on the face of It. But
It was no queerer than others he'd
had.
And of course, If anything sus
picious came up when he came In
again, that next week, Volpe would bo
right there watching before any
money passed.
But next week when the big man
showed up nguln with his big neck
lace in his pocket, to get his money
nnd have the substitution made, Volpe
was surer than ever of the thing for
one reason from tho way he acted
about the stones that were coming out
to lie there us a pledge for the ten
thousand.
"You'll have them all here tho
Identical same ones when C come
after them?" he asked looking red
nnd anxious. "There's no danger
they'll get mixed up any way?"
"Not a danger," Volpe told him.
"For It would mean something to
me If there was 11 mix-up on this"
h said. "They're our luck."
"Lucky stones, huh?" snld Volpe,
and Btnlled to himself when he had
gone surer thnn ever about tho thing
though curious nnturally on what It
wns nil about.
About two weeks afterward the man
showed up ugaln and wanted another
ten thousand on another third of the
6 tones.
Thnt was different.
"I thought you said ten thousnnd
was all you'd need," said Volpe study
ing him, thinking fast.
"I thought it was myself. And It
will be this time. But you know how
the contracting business is especially
now. Up and down. Mostly down!
But It will be ull right this time I
can promise you that."
"I guess you can when you get It!"
said Volpe to himself getting under
way behind thut soft, sweet Jewelry
salesman's smile.
"Have you got them with you?" he
nsked htm, smiling.
"No," snld the other man getting
red anil bringing in a new idea now.
"And I've got to gut you to do some
thing else this time. I've got to have
you iniike Unit next substitution of
stones for nit some night."
"Some night 1" said Volpe after him.
"Yes," he said, getting redder still.
"You knofr how women are when
they get an Idea In their head."
"What's tVIs?" said Volpe to him
self, with a sudden sinking spell
wondering what it was he had run
into.
"All right," he snld nloud smiling
more sweetly thnn ever. "Bring them
in."
"What night?" asked Volpe, more
and more pollto.
"I'll cull you up tills evening Just
before six o'clock, and tell you," he
said, "I might be able to get In to
night. I hope so."
"How'd ho strike you?" Volpe
asked hlB stenographer. She was
mnrU) him give np where It hnd come
from get somo reward In odvnnco for
turning up a sixty or seventy thou-snnd-dollnr
gem robbery.
He was all up In the nlr on the
thing nnd It was getting every min
ute nearer six o'clock. He was Just
about to tnke up the telephone and
call the detective bureau when the
bell rang Just beforo six and this
Coogan's voice cnnie, saying he'd be
down around nlno o'clock as nearly
as he could and to have eerythlng
ready.
"I'll have everything ready, don't
fret!" said Volpe which he did
down to the detective from police
headquarters that he planted In the
next room.
"You'll find probably he's n bad
one," said the detective, "most likely."
"He don't look so." said Volpe, "at
that. And we can't afford to force
things not till wo know."
"I know."
"Ami he's n big husky brute, you
want to take thnt Into consideration."
"Well, he don't want to get too
gny." snld this McConnell this detec
tive from the headqunrter's squad,
who wns quite heavy around the
shoulders himself.
And Just then the elevator door
clacked and their man's step came
echoing down the hnllwuy to the door.
He camo In a hurry still looking
nnxlous and excited, wiping off his
fotoheud with his handkerchief.
"Well, I'm here," he snld to Volpe,
as If he'd hud a hard time getting
there.
Volpe looked at hlrii agnln nnxlous
about him, ulwuys, when he wns out
of sight; nnd puzzled more, when ho
showed up nguln. He didn't look like
a Jewelry thief anything hut I And
yet you can't tell some of tho best
of them are that wuy. Innocence Is
their slock In trade.
"Got It with you?" asked Volpe
and got the thing In his hunds again.
It was ull the sumo as he had left It
the same fake stones among tho
real tho sumo odd setting every
thing I
"Now, I tell you," said Volpe, stnrt
Ing after It. "I haven't had time to
get that ten thousand yet. It was too
into when I got nround to the bank."
"You can give mo your check for
It," said the mini gazing at him, "can't
you?"
"I might, yes," ho answered, work
ing along. "Only my bnlunco won't let
int. not Just now. I'll hnve to go and
get tho money myself tomorrow,
maybe."
"Tomorrow! Mnybe!" suld Coogan
ufter him, his voice rising.
"And besides," said Volpe, "there's
another thing come up. My workman
didn't show up that I counted on com
ing to do the resetting for me."
"Didn't show up?" said the big man,
looking ugly now.
"So I can't pull the thing off for
you tonight."
"Not tonight!" said the man. "I've
got to have it tonight! That's all!"
"Say, listen," said Volpe next.
"What's tho hurry In this thing?"
"I've got to have the money, right
off that's what in my business! Or
I go broke. Bight now. Tomorrow?"
"I understand." said Volpe. "That's
all right. That's easy on that neck
lace, If everything Is the way It looks
on the surface. But what I mean Is
what's the hurry about this work of
mine on the necklace? Why must I
have It hack alwas on the minute?"
And he got no answer.
"In other words," said Volpe, com
tin' stronger, "what's the Idea of your
sililln in here bv nlclit with this
tiling, and having It to take away with
you in the morning?"
"It's my wife," said the big man
finally.
"Your wife!"
"I wouldn't hnve her know about
tills now not for tho world !"
"What is It hers, and not yours?"
snld Volx.
"No. It's mine. That Is, I paid for
It, afld gave It to her!"
"Oh!" said Volpe.
"A'i(l Just as soon
about as wise as he was, seeing them i com, right In my
coming In nnd going out.
"He's like tho rest of them nil over
the lot like the dandelions. He's got
something on his mind ull right. But
he's straight enough, I'll say. He's too
thick to be anything else.
"Will he be back again?" Volpe
asked her.
"He suro will. The battle fleet
couldn't chnse him away. He's got to
have thut money. Right now!"
Volpo thought the same. And the
man still looked honest to him, some
how. "But why nt night?" ho suld to him
self, when the girl was gone. "And
why this stull about the woman hav
ing' to have them? Does she wear
them at breakfast?"
He sat and flipped nwny a lot of
cigarettes out the front window Into
the avenue looking down, thinking,
as the lights came on wuitlng for six
o'clock.
And then he Jumped up on his feet
with n new Iden.
"Here," he said, getting hot In the
head. "Supposo this wlft business
was till u stall! Suppose he was
somewhere In a museum, or a store,
where he could hnve this thing Just so
long. And hnd to get It back nt such
a tlmol Thnt might be It!"
"He might Just hnvo 41 me enough
to have Just so many changes made In
the setting at night for Instance, like
tills and have It buck when things
opened up In the morning. And then
later he'd take another bite of It!"
said Volpo to himself, stnrlng at
his cigarette stnrtlng figuring the
chances of getting any of that ten
thousand dollars back If It was stolen
goods and they traced them buck to
him. ITe might get u chance to dicker
as collections
business I'll
Mnybo you
straighten It all out."
"Mnybe you will.
wor't."
"VImt do you mean?"
"'J, mean we'll know bettor when
we rut thut up to her!"
"IUit you won't put It up to her!"
said th big man, sticking out his Jnw.
"You'll Wt me huve It buck now!"
And V'Mpe stepped nwny from him.
"You'll ict mo hnvo It," snld the big
husky stepping toward him. "Now!"
"Yes, 1 will. Yes," snld Volpe rais
ing his voice, so the detective In the
next room would get It. "When you
put rrty ten thousand back In my
hand."
"You'll let me have it! Bight now!"
snld tho big mun getting red and
reaching over and starting to break
off tho hand Volpe had It In, Rt the
wrist.
That was the cue for the detective
In the next room.
"Just n minute !" he said, stepping
out.
And the big rough-neck looked buck
at hltn over his shoulder.
"What are you" snld McConnell,
"gelling threatening?"
"Who are you?" said the mnn who
claimed he owned the necklace, set
ting his small blue eyes on him.
And the ofilcer showed hl).
He stopped there, after a minute
his breath coming hard, and his face
getting mottled tho way those full
blooded ones do,
"Now, wliut's your gniiio?" said tho
otllcer. "You slip In here with seventy-live
thousand dollars' worth of Jew
elry loose in your side pocket. And
you want to huve it replaced by other
fako stuff. All In a night I So joti
can take theso substitutes right back.
too If ho got, him back in there und And wheu this niuu asks you for an
cxplnnntloR you beat him over the
hend and stnrt taking It nwny from
him- to run off with. What's the
Idea?"
The big man looked up nt him, with
his little eyes red like a cornered
bull's, and said nothing In answer.
"Now listen," said McConnell, the
detective. "You enn do one of two
things. It's up to you. You can show
us- take us around to your wife now,
at home. Or you can come with tne,
and have her give her explanation
to headquarters I"
And the blj fellow gave a groan,
too loud, almost, to be natural.
"I won't. I can't," he said. "It
might kill her. She don't know any
thing about this. She thinks we'ie on
the top of the world yet instead of
Just scraping bankruptcy 1"
"Tlu'te's others," said the detective,
watching hltn, "that have had to hear
It before!"
"Not the wny she Is," said the man,
who had Introduced himself ns Coo
gan. and went on and told them how
It was with her.
"I can't have her know," he said, "I
won't. Not till she's over It '."
"At thnt." said McConnell. gMng
Volpe a look again, "there's other
women have gone through with It
without being millionaires!"
"I know," he came back, "but It's
the s-jdden bump, coming Just now
when she's been thinking up to date
I ever thing Is going wonderful for us.
And then all ut once n rati irotn tne
top of the world I I enn't have It
not now. You know yourself how
women are on luxury, nnd all that!
How much more It means to them
und all that.
"And then you've got to remember
another thing," he said, going oy
when nobody answered arguing, with
the sweat pouring down his face.
"You know how It Is with the Ilrst
one! They're Beared to death, afraid
they'll die I"
"What does 'tho doctor say?" asked
McConnell, the detective.
"He don't seo It quite so bad as
she docs. But ho admits himself
we've got to bLV.careful. Help all we
can! You seo -you see how I'm
fixed," ho Bnid, arguing. "I wouldn't
take a chance with that little girl
for the world I"
And then he stopped for a minute.
"But where do tho diamonds come
in?" McConnell, the detective, asked
him. "The nocklnce?"
"That's our luck, she claims."
"Your luck?"
"Our lucky stones I You know lmw
women are about thlrrgs like that!
Superstitious all of them. I never
knew one that wasn't yet. And es
pecially now now ut times like this.
And then her fntlicr wns n sporting
mnn too. A kind of a high-class
sporting mnn."
"I see," snld McConnell, keeping his
face still. "And so?"
"So you see, don't you? You know
how women are over anniversaries
and all that. Diamonds were her
btrthstone. So naturally I gave her
diamonds. When I wns way up! I
gave her tills this necklace. Just to
show her and the rest of the world
how she stood with ye. You know
how women are how llioytv got to
show the neighbors tho !." women
If things are going right If you'te
prosperous. And what their hus
bands think of them!
"And there Is another turn to If
that she worked out In her head, be
sides what It meant to her giiod
luck and all that!"
"And thnt wns?" said MeConr.ell.
"That was that I was born In Apr'il.
too."
"April!"
"You know. Diamonds are the
blrthstone for April."
"No," said McConnell, the detective.
"I guess they forgot to tell me about
that."
"And then again," he was going
nlonjr. "You know. Next month!
That'll he April, too."
"I get you," Miid the detective, giv
ing Volpe another look.
"So there's three times It's said to
lie our lucky stone. You know the
way they figure the women on
things like that I"
And the detective and Volpe
swapped looks again.
"So that's how It Is about the neck
lace. It's her mascot. She's got to
have It with her all the time now.
From now on especially! That's why
I've hnd to como sneaking In here,
when I snw the chance."
"Oh, Hint's It," suld McConnell, the
detective, giving Voloe a comical side
look.
"For she's got to have It with her.
And more and more every day now, of
course. And then, naturally, she's got
to have It on her or she'll Just natural
ly die."
"Well, she can have It, can't she If
you can prove this up?" said the de
tective, looking over nt Volpe.
"Sure," nald Volpe.
"What good will that do after she
knew? She might as well have glass
bottles," said the man, and wiped the
sweat from his face. And McConnell
looked nt Volpe and Volpe looked
back.
"That's u new one," snld McCon
nell. "Don't you believe It?" suld the big
one, bristling up.
"I might, and then again I might
not. But thnt don't ninke any differ
ence what I believe. I don't hnvo to
believe. It's simpler than that."
"Simpler?"
"I'll know soon enough when I see
herl"
"But you won't seo her!" snld the
big man. "Not If I know It."
"Oh, yes, I will either with you
with mo friendly; or with you down
at headquarters whichever you like
UiSt!"
"You'll kin her," he hollerei
"Thnt's nil."
"Probably I will," said McCotniel
the detective, looking at Volpe, "I
there's anybody there to kill I"
But the big man took no notice ot
that crack,
"And If you do If you hurt her
any wny," he went on, "If you hnrm
her uny wuy, I'll get you I'll smash
you some duy, If I spend my llfo nt
It!"
"Come on," snld McConnell, tho de
tective. "Don't stnrt getting eurelrsi
again. You're not fixed right to get
rough. It's up to you. You can start
n war, or we cup all stroll over like
friends." (
"But she's In bed, with a headache." ,
"She'll have to get up then," said
McConnell, tho detective.
And finally he gave up, and th
three went over on the bus to Blver- '
side mid up Into the apartment nil
parlies watching tholr step, not know
ing Just what wns coming.
It wns ull right so far. It was hla
place all right and he had It fixed
up In stjle, too servants and all
that!
"Tell your mistress I've got to hnvo
her come out. Dress and come out
and see a couple of friends," he snld
to the maid almost chvklng over the
last word.
For McConnell, tho detective,
wouldn't listen, naturally, to bin go
ing In to seeing her alone to friitiic
up any story between them.
And finally, nfter some talk, sho
came out all silk and ribbons ono
of those light-hearted, heniiu-hulred
ones, that roll their own. But her
eyes kind of scared nt that.
"Oh Dan," she said, "what Is It? Is
anything wrong?"
"No, Hon." he said, putting her on
the shoulder. "No. Just some friends."
he said, choking on the word ugaln.
"All It Is, I wunt you to Just tell them
about your necklace."
"But what what " she said,
chasing her big brown eyes from ono
to the other.
"It's all right, Hon," said the big
fellow, calming her and looking over
at the other two with red murder In
his eyes. "You go ahead and I'll ex
plain to you Inter."
So she told them flnnlly about the
necklace nnd showed them the bill of
sale, anil the check she'd paid for It.
Her check he'd given her the money!
And they saw finally they were In
wrong.
She stood facing them looking like
a frightened kid.
"But who nre you?" she wanted to
know.
And her husband told her looking
first-degree murder at them while ho
talked, for she acted now as If she
was going to pieces. And they wore
afraid they'd got In n mess especial
ly McConnell, the detective.
And suddenly she broke down
seemed to throwing her nrms nround
the big man's neck.
"Don't, Honey.: said the big con
tractor, patting her with his big fin
gers. "We'll be all right. We'll mnko
It all buck ngnln."
"Sure," said Volpe, stepping for
ward, with the necklace In his hand
tr.vlng to fix It up with them. "And If
he wants the money the extra ten
thorium! It will be nil right '."
And she didn't say anything, hut
Just burled her head deeper In the
'big boy's shoulders anil murder
burning redder and i odder In his eyes
as he looked at them anil patted her.
"Ami If von want It the necklace I
to use to wear any time!" snld
Volpe. holding It toward her. like
candy to a kid, "you can huve It! We
can fit !t up all light If you want
to wear It as your mascot!"
He held It up to her und touched
her nnd she pushed It nwny.
"! don't want It !" she wild. "Take
It away! I wouldn't wear tne darn
thing on a bet!"
Aiwl all the three stood waiting for
her.
"Don't cry," said the big mnn, like
soincoody talking to some young kid.
"Don't cry. It's all right."
At that she looked up, and she
wasnt crying at all. She looked up,
hanging onto the buck of his neck,
staring Into his eyes.
"Did you do all that for me?"
she said, staring.
"What wouldn't I do for you, Hon!"
"Take tho chance of going broke
and till thnt?"
"But he won't" said Volpe, break
ing In again. "He'll be nil right. And
for the necklace," he said, offering it
to her again "we'll fix"
"Take It away!" she said, pushing
It off ugaln. "The darn tiling. I
never want to see it again !"
And the big man looked queer.
"How foolish you were," she said In
a kind of a sharp voice. "How crazy,
to tnke a chunco like thut Just to
keep me satisfied with that fool
thing!" she said In a kind of a harsh
voice. "I never want to see It again!"
Then before they got over thnt, all
nt once while they stood around
looking, she threw herself on hltn
again, and started crying as If her
heart would break ! And he putting '
her. nnd trying to comfort her to I
keep her from tearing herself to
pieces.
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only. Knelt unbroken pnekage contnlns
proper directions. Handy boxes of
twelve tablets cost few cents. Drug
gists also sell bottles of -4 nnd 100.
Aspirin Is the trade mnrk of Bnyer
Manufacture of Mononcotlcacldester of
Snllcyllcucld. Advertisement.
Bad Case.
Miss Catt Matrimony must
gone to her head.
Miss Nlpp Without a doubt,
still living with her husband.
hnvo
She's
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Thousands of women have kidney and
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Women's complaints often prove to bo
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If the kidneys nre not in n healthy con
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Pain in the back, hrntlnchc, loss of am
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toms of kidney trouble.
Don't delay starting trcabnt. Dr.
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Get n medium or large ctc bottie im
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However, if you wish first to test this
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Fixing the Dlnme.
"This paper says Hint, roughly
speaking, one jiinrrlage In three ru
sults In divorce."
"Yes. and It's the roughly speaking
purl tliht causes most of the trouble."
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Mother! Fletcher's Cnstorla hai
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A Road Mope.
"Yes, my auto turned turtle."
"Well, that wasn't much of
change; It was tortoise before."
If .Mm must kill time, kl
hire not on vice.
It on cul-
MRS. HIBKEY
SO WEAK GOULD
HARDLY STAND
Tells How Lydia EPinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Restored Her Health
nothing to cry about any more,"
And nil of n sudden she stopped
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"I'm not crying" alio said, "thnt
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"That way?" he said, looking down
at her like a man In a trance.
"I'm the happiest woman In the
world." he said, and started In crying
again tor the night apparently!
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Worceoter, Mass. "I had somo
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ana got so run-aown
nnu wcnK irom it
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helped me. I hap
pened to me'wt a
iricnawnonaa taKon
Lydia E. Pinkham'a
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S. Ludlow St, Worcester, Mass.
Lydia E. Pinkham'a PrivatoToxt-Book
upon " Ailments Peculiar to Women "
will bo sent you free upon request.
Write Ut Tho Lydia E. Pinkharn Medi
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