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SYNOPSIS.
TJjo story opens with Hie Miipwroek of
tlit. stejmier on which Miss Genevieve
l.slie. an Arncnoan heiress, Ioril WJii
thror:. ail Englishman, and Tom Blake,
-i bruSQUo American. vtro passengers.
This thrco wen; tossed upon tin uninhab
ited island and were tin only ones not
drowned. Blake, shunned on the boat.
Ix-caure of Ids roiiRhness. became a hero
as preserver of the helpless pair. The
KnKHj-hmun was Filing for the hand of
Miss Lllc AVintlirope wasted liis last
match on a cigarette, for which he was
scored by Blake. AH three constructed
hais to .shield themselves from the sun.
They then feasted on cocoanuts. the only
procurable food. Miss Leslie showed a
liking for Blake, but detested his rough
ness. 1ah by Blake, they established a
home In some cliffs. Blake found a fresh
water spring. Miss Leslie faced an un
pleasant situation. Blake recovered his
MJrveyor's magnifying glass, thus insur
ing Sire. He started a jungle lire, killing
.1 large leopard and smothering several
-ubs. In the leopard'K cavern they built
.-t small home. They gained the cliffs by
burning tiie bottom of a tree until it fell
against the heights. The trio secured
-ggs from the cliffs. Miss Leslie's white
kirt was decided upon as a signal. Miss
I.slie made a dress from the leopard
hklu. Overhearing a conversation be
tween Blake and Winthrope. Miss Leslie
lioame frightened. Winthrope became
111 with fever. Blake was poisoned by a
nsh and almost died. Jackals attacked
the camp t.ial night, but were driven off
by Genevieve. Blake constructed an ani
mal trap. It killed a hyena. On a tour
ili trio dircovered honey and oysters.
Miss Leslie was attacked by a poisonous
snake. Blake killed It and saved its poi
son to kill game. For the second time
Winthrope was attacked by fever. He
and lilakc disagreed. The latter made a
strong door for Uio private compartment
of Miss 1c.slie's cave home. A terrible
.storm raged that night. Winthrope stole
into her mom. but she managed to swing
her door closed in time. Winthrope was
badly hurt.
CHAPTER XX. Continued.
"Oh. quick, Mr. Blake! build a fire!
It may be, some hot broth "
'Too late," muttered Blake. "See
here, Winthrope, there's no use lying
about it. You're going out mighty
soon. See if you can't die like a
man."
"Die! Gawd, but I can't die I can't
die Ow! it burns!"
He flung up a hand, and sought to
tear at his wounds.
"Hold hard!" cried Blake, catching
the hand in an iron grip.
Something in his touch, or the tone
of command, seemed to cower the
wretched man into a state of abject
submission.
"S'elp me, I'll confess! I'll confess
all!" he babbled. 'The stones are
sewed ia the stomach pad; I 'ad to
take 'em hout of their settings, and
melt up the gold." He paused, and a
cunning smile stole over his distorted
features. Ho, wot a bloomiif iark!
Valet plays the gent, an' they never
as a hinkling! Mr. Cecil Winthrope,
hlf yon please, an a 'int of a title
wot a Inrk! 'Awkings, me lad. you're
a gay 'oaxer! Wot a lark! wot a
lark!"
Again there was a pause. The
breath of the wounded man came in
labored gasps. There was an ominous
rattling in his throat. Yet once again
he rallied, and this time his eyes
turned to Miss Leslie, bright with an
agonized consciousness of her pres
ence and of all his guilt and shame.
His voice shrilled out in quavering
appeal: "Don't don't look at me,
miss! I tried to make myself a gen
tleman; God knows I tried! I fought
my way up out of the East End out
of that hell and none ever lifted fin
der to help me. I educated myself
like a scholar then the stock sharks
cheated me of my savings out of the
last penny; and I had to take service.
My God! a valet his grace's valet,
and I a scholar! Do you wonder the
devil got into me? Do you "
Blake's deep voice, firm but strange
ly husky, broke in uion and silenced
the cry of agony: "There. I guess
jou've said enough."
"Enough and last night My God!
to be such a beast! The devil tempted
me aye, and he's paid me out in my
own coin! I'm done for! God ha'
mercy on mo! God ha mercy "
Again came the gasping rattle; this
time there was no rally.
Blake thrust himself between Miss
Leslie and the crumpled figure.
"Get back around the tree," he said
harshly.
"What are you going to do?"
"That's my business." he replied. He
Thrust his burning-glass into her
Land. "Here; go and build a fire, if
jou can find any dry stuff."
"You're not going to You'll bury
him!"
"Yes. Whatever he may have been,
he's dead now. poor devil!"
"I can't go." she half whispered,
'Hot until until I've learned Do you
can you tell me just what Is para
noia?" Ulake studied a little, and tapped
the top of his head.
"Xear as I can say, it's softening of
the brain up there."
"Do you think that " she hesitated
"that he had it?"
Again Blake paused to consider.
"Well, I'm no alienist. I thought
him a softy from the first. But that
was all in line with what he was play
ing on us British dude. Fooled me,
and I'd been chumming with Jimmy
Scarbridge and Jimmy was the
straight goods, fresh imported mono
cle even when I first ran up against
him. No; this this Hawkins, if that's
his name, had brains all right. Still,
he may have been cracked. When
folks go dotty, they sometimes get
extra 'cute. The best I can think of
him is that losing his savings may
have made him slip a cog, and then
the scare over the way we landed here
:ind his spells of fever probably hur
ried up the softening."
"Then you believe his story?"
"Yes, I do. But if you'll go,
please."
"One thing more I must know
now! Do ypu remember the day
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Blake reddened and dropped his
imze. "Did he go and tell you that?
The sneak!"
"If you please, let us say nothing
more about him. But would you care
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to tell me what you meant what you
said then?"
Blake's flush deepened: but he
raised his head, and faced her square
ly as he answered: "No; I'm not go
ing to repeat any dead man's talk;
and as for what I said, this isn't the
time or place to say anything in that
line now that we're alone. Under
stand?" "I'm afraid I do not, Mr. Blake.
Please explain."
"Don't ask mo. Miss Jenny. I can't
tell you now. You'll have to wait till
we get aboard ship. We'll catch a
steamer before long. 'Tisn't every
one of them that goes ashore In these
blows."
"Why did you build that door? Did
you suspect " She glanced down at
the huddled figure between them.
Blake frowned and hesitated; then
burst out almost angrily: "Well, you
know now he was a sneak; so it's not
blabbing to tell that much I knew
he was before: and it's never safe to
trust a sneak."
"Thank you!" she said, and she
turned away quickly that she might
not again look at the prostrate figure.
CHAPTER XXI.
Wreckage and Salvage.
the wood in the cleft
sodden from the fierce
npour that had accom
panied the cyclone; all the cleft bot
tom other than the bare ledges was
a bed of mud; everything without the
tree-cave had been either blown away
or heaped with broken boughs and
mud-spattered rubbish. But the girl
had far too much to think about to
feel any concern over the mere dam
age and destruction of things. It was
rather a relief to find something that
called for work.
Not being able to find dry fuel she
gathered a quantity of the least sod
den of the twigs and branches and
spread them out on a ledge in the
clear sunshine. While her firewood
was drying she scraped away the mud
and litter heaped upon her rude
hearth. She then began a search for
lost articles. When she dug out the
pottery ware she found her favorite
stew pot and one of the platters in
fragments. The drying-frames for the
meat had been blown away, and so
had the antelope and hyena skins.
Catching sight of a bit of white
down among the bamboos, she went to
it, and was not a little surprised to'
Eee the tattered remnant of her duck
skirt. It had evidently been torn from
the signal staff by the first gust of the
cyclone, whirled down into the cleft
by some flaw or eddy in the wind, and
wadded so tightly Into the heart of the
'hick clump of stems that all the fury
jf the storm had failed to dislodge
it Its recovery seemed to the girl a
special providence; for of course they
must keep up a signal on the cliff.
Having started her fire and set on a
stew, she hunted out her sewing ma
terials from their crevice in the cave
and began mending the slits in the
torn flag. While she worked she sat
on a shaded ledge, her bare feet toast
ing in the sun, and her soggy, mud
smeared moccasins drying within
reach. When Blake appeared, the
moccasins were still where she had
first set them, but the little pink feet
were safely tucked up beneath the
tattered flag. Fortunately, the sight
of the white cloth prevented Blake
from noticing the moccasins.
"Hello!" he exclaimed. "What's
that? the flag? Say, that's luck!
I'll break out a bamboo right off. Old
staffs carried clean away."
"Mr. Blase just a moment, please.
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What have you done with with it?"
Blake jerked his thumb upward.
"You have carried him up on the
cliff?"
"Best place I could think of. No
animals and I piled stones over
But, I say, look here."
He drew out a piece of wadded
cloth, marked off into little squares
by crossing lines of stitches. One of
the squares near the edge had been
ripped open. Blake thurst in his fin
ger and worked out an emerald the
size of a large pea.
"O-h-h!" cried Miss Leslie, as he
held the glittering gem out to her in
his rough palm.
He drew it back and carefully thrust
it again into its pocket.
"That's one," he said. "There's an
other in every square of this innocent,
harmless rag dozens of them. He
must have made a clean sweep of the
duke's or, more like, the duchess'
jewels. Now, if you please, I want
you to sew this up tight again, and "
"I cannot I cannot touch it!" she
cried.
"Say, I didn't mean to It was con
founded stupid of me," mumbled
Blake. "Won't you excuse me?"
"Of course! It was only the the
thought that"
"No wonder. I always am a fool
when it comes to ladies. I'll fix the
thing all right."
Catching up the nearest small pot.
he crammed the quilted cloth down
within it, and filled it to the brim with
sticky mud.
'There! Guess nobody's going to
run off with a jug of mud and it
won't hurt the stones till we get a
chance to look up the owner. He
won't be hard to find English duke
minus a pint of first-class sparklers!
Will you mind its setting in the cave
after things are fixed up?"
"No; not as it is."
He nodded soberly. "All right,
then. Now I'll go for the new flag
staff. You might set out breakfast."
She nodded in turn, and when he
came back from the bamboos with the
largest of the great canes on his
shoulder, his breakfast was waiting
for him. She set it before him, and
turned to go again to her sewing.
"Hold on," he said. 'This won't do.
You've got to eat your share."
"I do not I am not hungry."
'That's no matter. Here!"
He forced upon her a bowl of hot
broth, and she drank it because she
could not resist bis rough kindness.
"Good! Now a piece of meat," he
said.
"Please, Mr. Blake!" she protested.
"Yes, you must!"
She took a bite, and sought to eat;
but there was such a lump in her
hroat that she could not swallow. The
ears gushed Into her eyes, and she
egan to weep.
Blake's close-set lips relaxed, and
'ae nodded.
"That's it; let it run out You're
overwrought There's nothing like a
good cry to ease off a woman's nerves
and I guess ladies aren't much dif
ferent from women when it comes to
such things."
"But I I want to get the flag mend
ed!" she cobbed.
"All right all right; plenty or
time!" he soothed. "I'm going to see
how things look down the cleft"
He bolted the last of his meat, and
at once left her alone to cry herself
back to calmness over the stitching of
the signal.
His first concern was for the barri
cade. As he had feared, he found that
it had been blown to pieces. The
greater part of the thorn branches
which he had gathered with so much
labor were scattered to the four cor- j
ners of the earth. He stood staring !
at the wreckage in glum silence; hut j
he did not swear, as he would have i
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done the week before. Presently his
face cleared, and he began to whistle
in a plaintive minor key. He was
thinking of how she had looked when
she darted out of the tree at his call
of her concern for him. When he
was so angered at Winthrope, she had
called him Tom!
After a time he started on. picking
his way over the remnant of the bar
ricade, without a falter in his whis
tling. The deluge of rain had poured
down the cleft in a torrent, -tearing
away the root-matted soil" and laying
bare the ledges in the channel of the
spring rill. But aside from an occa
sional boggy hole, the vater had
drained away.
At the foot, about the swollen pool,
was a wide stretch of rubbish and
mud. He worked his way around the
edge, and came out on the plain,
where the sandy soil was all the firm
er for its drenching. He swung away
at a lively clip. The air was fresh
and pure after the storm, and a slight
breeze tempered the sun-rays.
He kept on along the cliff until he
turned the point It was not alto
gether advisable to bathe at this time
of day; but he had been caught out by
the cyclone in a corner of the swamp,
across the river, where the soil was
of clay. Only his anxiety for Mlsa
Leslie had enabled him to fight his
way out of the all but impassable
morass which the storm deluge had
made of the half-dry swamp. At
dawn he had reached the river, and
swam across, reckless of the croco
diles. The turbid water of the
stream had rid him of only part of his
accumulated slime and ooze. So now
he washed out his tattered garments
as well as he could without soap, and
while they were drying on the sun
scorched rocks, swam about in the
clear, tonic sea-water, quite as reck
less of the sharks as he had been of
j the ugly crocodiles in the river.
For all this, he was back at the
baobab before Miss Leslie had
stitched up the last slit in the torn
flag.
She looked up at him, with a brave
attempt at a smile.
"I am afraid I'm not much of a
needle-woman," she sighed. "Look at
those stitches!"
"Don't fret They'll hold all right,
and that's what we want," he reas
sured her. "Give it me, now. I've got
to get it up, and hurry back for a nap.
No sleep last night I was out beyond
the river, in the swamp and to-night
I'll have to go on watch. The barri
cade is down."
"Oh, that is too bad! Couldn't I
take a turn on watch?"
Blake shook his head. "No; 111
sleep today, and work rebuilding the
barricade to-night. Toward morning
I might build up the fire, and take a
-nap."
He caught up the flag and its new
staff, and swung away through the
cleft
He returned much sooner than Miss
Leslie expected, and at once began to
throw up a small lean-to of bamboos
over a ledge at the cliff foot, behind
the baobab. The girl thought he was
making himself a hut, in place of the
canopy under which he had slept be
fore the storm, which, like Win
thrope's, had been carried away. But
when he stopped work, he laconically
informed her that all she had to do to
complete her new house was to dry
some leaves.
"But I thought it was for yourself!"
she protested. "I will sleep inside the
tree."
"Doc Blake says no!" he rejoined
"not till it's dried out."
She glanced at his fact, and replied,
without a moment's hesitancy: "Very
well. I will do what you think best"
"That's good," he said, and went at
once to lie down for his much needed
sleep.
He awoke just soon enough before
dark to see the results of her hard
day's labor. All the provisions stored
in the tree had been brought out to
dry, and a great stack of fuel, ready
for burning, was piled up against the
baobab; while all about the tree the
rubbish had been neatly gathered to
gether in heaps. Blake looked his ad
miration for her industry. But then
his forehead wrinkled.
"You oughtn't tove done so much,"
he admonished.
"I'll show you I can tote fair!" she
rejoined. During the afternoon she
had recalled to mind that odd expres
sion of a southern girl chum, and had
been waiting her opportunity to ban
ter him with it.
He stared at her open-eyed, and
laughed.
"Say, Miss Jenny, you'd better look
out. You'll be speaking American,
first thing!"
Thereupon, they fell to chatting
like children out of school, each hap
py to be able to forget for the moment
that broken figure up on the cliff toy
and the haunting fear of what another
day might bring to them.
When they had eaten their meal,
both with keen, appetites, Blake
sprang up, with a curt "Good-night!"
and swung off down the cleft The
girl looked after him with a lingering
smile.
"I wish he hadn't rushed off so sud
denly," she murmured. "I was just
going to thank him for for every
thing!" The color swept over her face in a
deep blush, and she darted 'around to
her tiny hut as though some one
might have overheard her whisper.
Yet, after all, she had said nothing;
or, at least she had merely said
"everything."
TO BE CONTINUED.)
Only Once in Awhile.
Once in awhile you'll run across a
woman who'd rather stay home and
darn, stockings than go to an after
noon card party.
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Put the pig bouses in good order for
the coming winter.
Cows that are allowed to go dry too
long never attain their best
Do not depend upon the frost-bitten
pastures, but begin with a good ration
in the stable.
Goats require more salt than sheep,
owing to the more astringent charac
ter of their food.
Every cow must go into winter
quarters in the pink of condition or
there will be a serious loss.
As the cold nights come, do not
leave the cows out to sleep on the
damp ground where they may be
chilled.
Nearly all vermifuges are more or
less poisonous in one way or another.
and gasoline, properly used, is not par
ticularly dangerous.
Telephones are becoming as com
mon in the country as mail boxes, and
save both husband and wife many a
day's journey to town.
For the long, round worms, which
inhabit the small intestines of the
horse, nothing proves more efficient
than spirits of turpentine.
For a family of young children
there is no place like the country. It
is their natural domain. Everything
contributes to wholesome growth.
An easy way to fight lice is to drive
down posts in the yard; wind an old
bran sack soaked in crude kerosene
about it and let the hogs do the rest
Better men and women are certain
to result from a rural childhood and
this is surely a big source of satis
faction to the wise mother on a farm.
The usual dose of gasoline for stom
ach worms is: Lambs, one-fourth
ounce; sheep, one-half ounce; calves,
one-half ounce; yearling steers, one
ounce.
Good country roads enable the
women folk to drive without risk or
discomfort to pay visits in the
neighborhood and to take an outing
when they like.
Pigs are not well protected by na
ture, and to thrive they must have
warm winter quarters free from
drafts. They must have a good range
for exercise, but they must have warm
quarters in which to sleep.
Cattle and sheep will often bloat
when turned onto clover pasture In
the fall. It is caused by their eating
too much of the green plant The
bloat may be reduced by giving the
animals subject to it some dry feed.
Regular salting also helps.
A member of the country life com
mission says the worst agricultural
conditions of this country are in the
south, because the farmers have
robbed the soil of its humus by grow-
ing cotton and tobacco exclusively for
more than a hundred years.
The brush-eating instinct of the An
gora goat is being successfully demon
strated on Lassen national forest In
California, where they are cutting
trails for fire guards through the
brushy areas on the slopes of the
mountains.
Good land and there are millions
of acres of it still available in this
country at a moderate figure is the
best form of insurance not only for
the family in event of your death but
for yourself during life, while you can
enjoy It to the full. No better legacy
can be left to your children.
It is estimated that conditions on
the farms of Missouri have improved
50 per cent during the last ten years.
The old-fashioned farmer, who used
to spend half his time shooting squir
rels in the woods, has taken to study
ing the agricultural newspapers and
college bulletins, and his wife and
children have learned that farm life
can be made pleasant as well as prof
itable. The rapidity with which tuberculo
sis spreads in a herd of cattle upon
the introduction of a tuberculous ani
mal varies greatly, but that the spread
may be very rapid cwas demonstrated
at the experiment station of the bu
reau of animal industry by exposing
seven healthy to three tuberculous
cattle In a large, well-ventilated sta
ble. At the end of six months the en
tire seven originally healthy cattle
had become infected with the disease.
Much of the dirt in milk comes
from the barn yard. The cows wade
knee deep in mud and manure and
carry this filth Into the barn on their
legs, tails and udders. It is difficult
to clean off and the careless milker
makes little attempt to protect the
constant shower of dirt falling into
the pail. The yard should be well
drained and graded up with cinders
or gravel. If drainage cannot be ob
tained in any other way, the rule
should be"to raise the barn and grade
up to it. Before milking the cows
should be gone over with a brush and
all loose particles of dirt removed.
This need not take more than thirty
seconds per cow.
A good swing stanchion Is not un
comfortable to the cow.
Gratifying the appetite adds greatly
to the thrift of the flock.
This is the secret of the successful,
money-making dairyman.
) No other animal is more particular
about Its rood than the goat
No ups and downs In care and feed,
but keeping everlastingly at it
We are not only feeding for to-day
or to-morrow, but for next year.
A small-topped pall would prevent a
large amount of dirt from falling into
the milk.
Planks laid over the cement where
the cows stand will prevent injury to
the animals.
The four dairy essentials are light,
ventilation, a proper floor and a com
fortable tie.
AH cows that are weak, extremely
thin and coughing must be removed
from the herd.
Ensilage furnishes an excellent food
to be used as a variety, during the
winter months.
A comfortable tie is only a little
more expensive than an awkward,
rigid stanchion.
Let the sheep glean over the grain
and corn fields if the land is free from
burs and cockles.
Don't forget the calves and year
lings. Don't leave them out In the
cold nights until they are pinched and
haggard.
Farmers who have given cowpeas a
fair trial have almost invariably con
tinued their use alone with their other
staple crops.
Pails, cans, strainers, coolers and
every other utensil that comes in con
tact with the milk should be washed
and sterilized.
Be sure that every ewe goes Into
winter quarters In the best condition.
If any are below the standard, nurse
and feed them up at once.
The King system of ventilation can
be installed by any carpenter or by
the farmer himself at the cost of a
few feet of lumber and a few days'
work.
Frequent plowing will give a larger
average crop with an equal amount
of fertilizer, but it costs more to pro
duce and is more work to harvest
With good grass land it is consid
ered that the plan of moderate top
dressing with chemicals brings a
larger income for the labor employed
than any other system of manage
ment The plan of hay farming with chem
icals has its attractions, especially for
the oldish man who desires to get rid
of the care of live stock, and to cut
down his labor outgo to the lowest
possible amount
Milk from unhealthy cows Is not
safe to use and only cows in good
health can make profitable use of the
food given them. The herd should be
inspected at regular intervals by a
competent veterinarian.
A garden of an acre, well tended,
will produce vegetables enough to sup
ply an ordinary family year in and
Tyear out, as well as to feed a flock of
fowls whose eggs may be traded for
groceries at any country store.
Each man who is to milk twelve or
fifteen cows will need to spend twelve
or fifteen minutes In cleaning them.
This cleaning is very simple and inex
pensive, and yet nine out of every tea
farmers scout the idea as prepos
terous. During the past year a woman who
has a house and lot on the edge of a
thriving country town In the south,
has, besides raising all the vegetables
consumed by a family of four, sold
$100 worth to the provision dealers In
town.
A stockman saved several valuable
calves that were down with the scours
by preparing a teacupful of wheat
flour and giving a tablespoonful every
minute. He repeated this two or
three times a day before feeding, and
diminished the feed one-half untif the
calf got well.
Examine the horse's teeth frequent
ly and find if they are in a good con
dition for grinding the feed. Many
horses lose flesh and are In poor
health simply because their teeth are
too uneven for proper grinding of the
feed. A veterinarian can file them to
the proper shape.
In beginning to feed new corn am
corn fodder to any animals feed on I
a small amount at a time, until tb
animals get used to it With horse
on dry hay and grain, gradually n
duce the dry feed and gradually ii
crease the new corn. New corn, stal
and all, is nutritious, easily digeste
and very palatable. Nearly all dome
tic animals will eat it eagerly, an
much good may be derived from it i
it is fed judiciously.
When the cows calve in the sprin
they generally milk well until the pas
tures dry up, when the flow of milk
quickly falls off, so that by the time
stable feeds begin the cows are al
most dried up. Now. if the cows come
fresh in the fall, they produce a good
flow of milk during the winter months
and in the spring when they are
turned on "grass this acts as a second
freshening and thus lengthens the
period of milk production.
UK TO
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Vienna. W. Va. "I feel thatlowa
the last ten years of my life to Lydia
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table Compound.
Eleven years ago I
was a walking;
shadow. I had been
under the doctor's
carehutgotnorelief.
My husband per
suaded me to try
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Com
pound and it worked
like a charm. It re
lieved all rny pains
and misery.
advise all suffering
women to take Lyuiaji iiatnams
Vegetable Compound." Mc&EaoiA
Wheaton, Vienna, W. Va.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics or harm
ful drugs, and to-day holds the record
for the largest number of actual cures
of female diseases of any similar medi
cine in the country, and thousands of
voluntary testimonials are on file in
the Pinkham laboratory at Lynn.
Mass., from women who have been
cured from almost every form of
female complaints, inflammation, nl-
cerauon,aispiacemenis,uoroia tumors,
irregularities, periodic pains, backache,
indigestion and nervous prostration.
Every such suffering woman owes it to
herself to give Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound a trial.
If you would like special advice
about your case write a confiden
tial letter to Mrs. Pinkham, at
Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free
and always helpf uL
JUST A SUGGESTION.
The Rejected One And Is this great
love of mine to be cast aside?
She (wearily) You might have It
stuffed!
New England Pie.
Some poor dweller in the benight
ed beyond of Chicago asks what a real
New England pie is like. It probably
will not help him to be told, but if
he means apple, it is like an essay by
Emerson liquefied with the music of
Massenet and spiced with the cyni
cism of Shaw; If he means pumpkin,
it is like some of Gounod's music
heard in a landscape all sun and flow
ers. It is too early yet to describe
the mince pies of 1909, but last year's
and last year was not an extraor
dinary good year were like an In
crease in salary, and a present from
home arriving on the day when one's
conscience was behaving Itself. Bos
ton Globe.
A Hero.
Tommy's mother bad made him a
present of a toy shovel and sent him
out In the sand lot to play with bis
baby brother. "Take care of baby
now, Tommy, and don't let anything
hurt him," was mamma's parting in
junction. Presently screams of anguish from
baby sent the distracted parent flying
to the sand lot "For goodness sake.
Tommy, what has happened to the
baby?" said she, trying to soothe the
wailing infant
"There was a naughty fly biting him
on the top of his head, and I killed it
with the shovel," was the proud re
ply. Exchange.
Mind Over Matter.
"Much may be done," said the Acute
Observer, "by an authoritative voice.
Now, If a man says to a dog: 'Come
here!' with a note of absolute author
ity in his voice, the dog comes im
mediately." "Yes," said the Traveler, "I've no
ticed it And it is especially marked
in oriental peoples. Why. when I was
in Khalisandjbaro, I beard a man say
with that authoritative note in his
tone: 'Oh, king, live forever." and im
mediately the king lived forever."
Carolyn Wells, in Success Magazine.
CAREFUL DOCTOR
Prescribed Change of Food instead of
Drugs.
It takes considerable courage for a
doctor to deliberately prescribe only
food for a despairing patient, instead
of resorting to the usual list of med
icines. There are some truly scientific phy
sicians among the present generation
who recognize and treat conditions as
they are and should be treated regard
less of the val:e to their pockets.
Here's an instance:
"Four years ago I was taken with
severe gastritis and nothing would
stay on my stomach, so that I was on
the verge of starvation.
"I heard of a doctor who has a sum
mer cottage near me a specialist from
N. Y., and as a last hope, sent for him.
"After he examined me carefully he
advised me to try a small quantity o
Grape-Nuts at first then as my stom
ach became stronged to eat more.
"I kept at it and gradually got so I
could eat and digest three teaspoon
fuls. Then I began to have color In my
face, memory became clear, where be
fore everything seemed a blank. My
limbs got stronger and I could walk.
So I steadily recovered.
"Now, after a year on Grape-Nuts I
weigh 153 lbs. My people were sur
prised at the way I grew fleshy and
strong on this food."
Read the little book, "The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs.
"There's a Reason."
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