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Novelization by Hugh C. Weir
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Story No. 8 Sauce for the Gander
It was a cherrily stimulating scene
, and certainly one less calculated to
serve as the background of tragedy
could hardly have been conceived. A
bright mid-morning sun splashed
down upon the shimmering asphalt of
the fashionable avenue, thickly dot
led with a stream of richly appear
ing vehicles. The past three or four
days had been dismally threatening,
and the lure of the cheery morning
had appealed to hundreds of shoppers
of the smart set.
Mary Burnett leaned back in the
cushions of her taxicab, and drew a
long breath of luxurious enjoyment
as her glance wandered back from
the scene before her to the face of
her chum, Mona Hartley, by her side.
"Isn't it just just heavenly?" she
cried. "There is no more beautiful
scene in the world to me than Fifth
avenue on a spring morning I"
Mona laughed.
"T.'it is because we happen to have
a fairly good purse, my dearl If you
didn t have money in your pocket, I
fancy you will find Fifth avenue just
the reverse of beautiful!
"You are growing cynical!" retort
ed Mary. "And. just to prove to you
that the store windows have no at
traction for me, I'll wait in the motor
while you do your shopping, and
spend your money to your heart's
desire! How is that?"
"But that is just what I'm not go
ing to do,' returned Mona, more
thoughtfully. "Do you know, dear,
that J 'm coming to take our work
more and more seriously? At first,
I think we were both a bit selfish in
our belief that because men had tried
to wrong our sex we had a right to
make them pay the debt in any way
possible. And then when we saw just
how much we could do, and how easy
it was for a woman with youth and
a fair share of good looks, to snare
the average masculine pursuer, and
when we made up our minds to use
ihese weapons for the good of others
as well as our own, we both had a
new viewpoint. And it was good for
us, not to mention the sundry ser
vices we were able to do for those
more unfortunate than ourselves. But
lately I have thought we could do
even more, and go even farther. Why,
we can make of ourselves soldiers for
the common good I We can be mod
ern Joans of Arc."
Mona stopped, with a bright flush
on her cheeks, and quite out of breath
from her unusually long and viva
cious speech. Mary surveyed her
wonderingly, and then caught her
hand.
"That is simply splendid I Why,
I am proud of you I And, of course,
we shall do just as you tay. You are
making me crazy to start. When are
we going to begin, and how?"
Mona smiled at the othcr'a enthu
siasm. "We will have to wait for circum
stances to give us the rue, as we
have always done. I don't think we
shall have long to wait."
The girl smoothed back her hair
and straightened her hat as the mo
tor came to a whirlwind pause before
the sober front of the exclusive Far
nam's outfitting stores one of those
great establishments of Filth avenue
which never by any chance display to
the curious public anything so vulgar
as a price tag behind their massive
plateglass windows. Mona waved
her hand to Mary and, crossing the
walk, was ushered by liveried at
tendant through a richly curtained
entrance.
Mary prepared for an indefinite
wait and settling herself more com
fortably on the seat resumed her
study of the passing throngh on the
walk. In the back of her mind were
still running the impetuous words of
Mona, and the girl's face clouded
thoughtfully a she scanned ttie new
possibilities which they opened up,
And then quite suddenly she was
brought sharply unright and found
herself bending forward through the
door of the motor, watching a drama
on the walk before her. Into tho
cheery panorama of Fifth avenue a
suggestion of incongruous tragedy
had thrust itself.
As Mary sat waiting outside, a
fashionably dressed young man, with
a sensual, rather supercilious face,
who was ambling idly down the walk,
had been brought to a sudden check
by a shabby youth of not more than
1 or JO, whose gaunt face bore strik
ing evidence of either great privation
or great mental shock. The youth
apparently had been trailing the
other, perhaps trying to brace his
shattered nerves to the point of an
interview. Now, with his fingers
gripping gn arm of the dandy before
him, he stood confronting him like
vume liaRgard Nemesis.
"Please, Mr. I aiillaw, listen to me 1
I have been following you fur an
hour! I knew you wouldn't are tne
at your office, anil J have simply got
to speak to you!"
'1 lie young man addressed as Laid
law struggled angrily, and one of
those crowds, which in New York
rm ti spring up like magic, began
t't surround the pair. Mary found
brr tirw for the ttimnrtil blotkrd, but
over the heads of the curious on look-;
rr ! roiild hear the freiuied vi.i.e
i I the shabby youth ited in shrill
appeal and then th sinmd of a vuilnti
"tttiifgle. I inally an ollu er, allrs. lr.
bv the light on Ihe walk, rame thny
ir 4 t:"-.Mii;i with a line disregard of
tin !:. y of iKoie who blmkfd his
l i!i lb nfiuer pnu'i. ed upon the
Irf'Mf of Of vi'ung man. ' j
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eyes was the glint of either fever or
desperation, or both-
"There there isn't much to tell,"
he began, stammering. It is just an
other case of the loan sharks 1' Dick
Laidlaw he was the man I tried to
talk to and his father have what
they call the People s Loan Agency
And and when my mother died, just
after I lost my job, and I had her fu
neral expenses to pay, I had to go to
them to borrow the money. I couldnt'
pay them when I couldn't find work,
and so they took an our little furni
ture and threw me into the street. I
tried to explain that it wasn't fair,
that I would pay as soon as I could,
but whenever I went to their office
they wouldn't see me. And so, I had
to wait until I could meet one of them
on the street, and this was my first
chance. I guess I had my trouble for
my pains!" he ended bitterly, "And
I ought to thank my stars that I
wasn t arrested in the bargain!"
Mary studied him thoughtfully and
decided that he was telling the truth.
She offered him money, which he re
fused proudly, saying he would work
but never beg. He did agree to leave
his address with .Mary and she prom
ised to help him.
Then Mary and Mona started out to
lead the I.aidlaws into their trap. In
the case of both father and son, there
was no wife to present an obstacle.
Mary Laidlaw, who had been the
mother of the hopeful Dick, had died
many years before, and since her
death, father and son had maintained
their own type of bachelors' cham
bers.
Armed with this information, the
?:irl next proceeded to ascertain the
avorife restaurants of the younger
Laidlaw, and as they expected, they
proved to be of that flashy Broadway
type frequented by men about town.
and the young ladies of the chorus. In
one gilded food emporium they finally
located him. The girls watched him
covertly take a seat at a comer table,
from which he rotild command a view
of the diners, without, himself, being
too much in the limelight. Mary
pushed back her chair and rose hur
riedly to her fret.
She put her hands to her litis as
Mona looked ud in surprise. "It is
better at present that he should not
see us together. ' I am going to rely
on your ingenuity to make the ac
quaintance of Mr. Laidlaw before he
leaves the restaurant! You will find
me at the apartment when you get
back!"
And before the other could voice a
protest, she was gone.
1'or a few mometns Mona sat idlv
drumming on the edge of her table,
and toying with her food, The prob
lem, which her thum had set her, was
not an easy one, to say the least. But
it suddenly occurred to Mona to try
the old lost money game, and as ex
pected the scene with the waiter soon
brought Dick Laidlaw to the rescue.
"Let me pay the bill. It will be a
pleasure I" said Laidlaw.
:lhe girl hesitated, then surren
dered reluctantly. "On one condition.
You must go home with me so that
I can pay you back at once.
He bowed. As you wish. He
drew out a bill, and handed it care
lessly to the waiter, who reappeared
as by magic at his motion. With the
girl at his side, Laidlaw passed out of
the restaurant, pausing in Ihe en
trance to call a taxicab. Mona took
a seat in a kind of constrained silence
while Laidlaw strove desperately to
maintain a conversation, which she
prevented skilfully.
As Mona was helped from the taxi
by young Laidlaw, she gave hint a
glance, which to him might have
spelled victory, but which in reality
was but a forced smile, and Mona
saw that the first act in her little de
ception had been successful.
By an arrangement with the super
intendent of the apartment house,
Mona and Mary had secretly installed
a busier under the runiier of the
stairway, so that should either re
turn suddenly with a stranger the
fact could be announced, thus giving
the girl in the room sufficient time
to retire.
Hardly anticipating that Mona had
been so successful in netting her vic
tim, Mary slipped into the boudoir
just as Mona turned the key in the
lock.
Young Laidlaw at first refused to
accept the money, but Mona, with a
charming smile, insisted so strongly
that lie was obliged at last to ac
cept it.
'May I call again?" asked Laidlaw.
as he left.
Suit yourself." Mona'a voice was
still icy.
tomorrow? asked Laidlaw ear-
erlv.
"Yes," said Mona hesitatingly.
The girl closed the door. For a
moment she stood listening, and then
as she heard the man turn, and slowly
make Ins way down the hall toward
the stairs, she (lew back into the liv
ing room and into the arms of Mary,
who was smothering a yawn in the
doorway of their bedroom.
"And now what of the next step In
our campaign?" aked Mary, as she
curled herself on the couch, with her
feet huddled up under the lacy robe
of her negligee. "We have only one
of our victims tilling, remember.
What of t!,e fattier?"
"Hut is up ia you," said Mona.
termrly, " u have left the har t
et part to rue I at. Haw, sr , mint
be your ta,k " s
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to have a better opportunity to land
old Laidlaw.
It was shortly before noon the fol
lowing day- that Mary, attired in a
trimly fitting tailored suit for the
occasion ascended the steps of the
Laidlaw residence and rang the bell.
She was admitted to see Laidlaw
after some ceremony.
"I I have come on a rather em
barrassing interview, Mr. Laidlaw,"
began Mary, timidly. She flashed a
bewitching glance at him from her
downcast eyes, and smiled again as
she saw the other's thin bps part
in a deprecatory grimace.
"Surely you can have no embarass-
ment in speaking to me, Miss ,"
Peter Laidlaw glanced at the card in
his hand, and finished with a little
bow, "Miss Davenport, I assure you
that you can speak with the utmost
frankness and confidence' to me on
any subject."
"Thank you," said Mary. She hesi
tated again, fumbling with her hand
kerchief. "The fact of the matter is,
Mr. Laidlaw," she continued nervous
ly, "I have come to you about your
son and my sister."
"My son?" Mr, Laidlaw frowned.
"And what has the youngster been up
to now?"
"Oh. he isn't to blame, not in the
least!" said Mary quickly. "I I am
afraid the fault is with my sister. You
see, he is infatuated with her, and
wants to marry her, and and she
isn't the kind of a girl that ought to
marry your son and heir, Mr. Laid
lawl' The girl's head sank and she
burst into tears.
"Please don't think harshlv of
for this confession. If you only knew
how I have pleaded with my sister
to mend her ways, I know that you
would sympathize with me! She is
an adventuress, a fortune hunter and
is marrying your son for his money.
It is hard hard. Mr. Laidlaw. tn
have to say such things about one's
own sister, but I could never rest
easily if I felt that I had allowed an
innocent young man to be trapped by
her. And she is beautiful much
more so than I am. I am the filain
one of the family."
I don t believe ill" said the elder
Mr. Laidlaw emphatically. "If your
sister is superior to you in looks, my
dear young friend, she, she-"
"You arc just saying that to get
my mind off my troubles!" chided
Mary. ' But you must take me seri.
ously, or it will be too late, and we
snail notn he sorry. You see, I had
to leave my sister some time ago.. We
were living together, but when I saw
that she was persisting in the habits
I was warning her against, and that
my pleadings were of no avail, I had
to part with her, hoping against hope
that the fact might help me to make
her see the error of her wavs. and in
duce her to repent and reform. But,
so tar, she lias paid absolutely no at
tention to my urgings, and although
we occupy apartments in the same
building, we see little of each other.
I wish it might be different. I would
give half my life to make it other
wise, but I have clone all that I could
do, and and now "
refer Laidlaw rose from hi rbair
just in time to catch the girl's hys
terically shaken form, as she gave
herself tin toa flood of racking tears.
He soolhed'her with nettinsr and
promised to call on her next day, be
stowing an admiring glance on her
as she left.
Peter Laidlaw. quite evidently, was
a man of direct methods. It was not
yet II o clock of the next morning
when, watching from the sitting room
window of the apartmesjt, now given
over exclusively to the occupancy of
Mona, Mary saw the limousine of the
elder Laidlaw draw up at the curb.
Mona let the bell ring for a full min
ute before she answered. There were
two reasons for her delay. The first,
of course, was the quite natural wish
to keep Laidlaw fuming below. The
second was the need of time to com
plete a striking change of costume.
Laidlaw paused stock still in the
doorway of Mona's sitting room, and
caught his breath quickly at the vis
ion lounging on a window seat be
fore him. Mona turned her head list
lessly. Lome tn, she said indifferently.
"Are are you Miss r Daven.
port?" stammered Laidlaw.
"Righto I" agreed the girl. "And
what can I do for you?"
"I believe that you are the young
woman to whom my foolish son has
been paying some slight attentions."
His voice was cold and cutting. "We
will get to business at once. What do
you want
I don t get vout" Mona deliber
ately extended her feet so as to ex
pose another inch of her silken
ankles. "If you are Peter Laidlaw
you must be Dick's governor. He has
spoken to you about me. Since von
are to be my father-in-law, you can
come over and kiss-we!"
Laidlaw glared.
"Kiss you!" he snapped. "You vix-,
en. You are just the type of woman I
that a foolish, headstrong boy would !
make a fool of himself over. And :
now, let us understand one another,
What is your price? How much do
you want to Irt my sou go?"
Mona's band reached deliberately !
Inward an electric push button at heri
side. I be mat) saw that the meant 1
to have turn ejected. ilh a mutter.!
ed impte. atioti, he turned short, and
strode toward the door
Mona was still bniy with hot water
and powder tag niaung ihe paint
when l'ie electric bell el her apart
mem rig aiiam, lliit tin fine ),,.
did not answer, even when it repeal
ed iiv summon a en.nd d a third
tune .Siterue. And tlieu iiink, im
paiient vlep sounded in the ball out
snide, and ! door was tbmwn f.pen
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moment be t.t4 surveying d tuont
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to give you up," sobbeS Mona. "He
thinks I am an adventuress, and a
vampire, and says you are another
silly boy who has been caught in my
toils I"
Dick's hands clenched.
"He shall eat those words! So he
came here to insult you, did he? We
shall seel" He paced back and forth
over the room, his face working.
"Even if he is my father, he has no
right to insult the woman to whom I
have given my love!"
"I can never forget it!" snapped
Mona. "Under the circumstances,
Dick, it is far better that we part."
She slipped off the diamond ring,
which had been his latest gift, and
held it out to him. "I am speaking
for the best! she insisted.
In answer young Laidlaw caught
her passionately in his arms, but she
drew away. His hot breath repelled
her. She sent him away. He was to
call again on the morrow.
Before the afternoon was over the
elder Laidlaw called at Mary's apart
ment, with the story of his visit to
the supposedly erring sister, and how
he had been received, bather and
son had a stormy interview as the re
sult and Mary was m tears before the
elder Laidlaw tore himself away.
Again the man tried to comfort her,
and again she permitted him to take
her into a paternal embrace, snatch
ing herself away, however, when she
realized the situation. Peter Laid
law tried to renew the embrace, but
something in her attitude warned him
not to attempt it again-
The next day he called again, at
tired as before in extreme' fashion,
and this time offered a large bouquet
of orchids in the hope that the gift
would help his young friend to forget
her troubles. She accepted it with a
gratitude that amply repaid the do
nor, and permitted the interview to
approach a degree intimate enough
for her to smooth the elder Laidlaw's
grizzled hair, and straighten his pur
ple necktie. It was too much. Again
Laidlaw's arms were about her, and
this time all suggestion of the pater
nal comforter had fled, Mary
snatched herself away, and for a mo
ment atared at him in seeming un
belief. "What have vou done? Oh, what
have you done?" she gasned.
Peter Laidlaw's glance fell, and his
hands opened and closed nervously.
The girl really loved him! He drew
himself more stiffly erect and cleared
his voice. ,
"I am older than you, my girl old
enough to be your father. But I am a
lonely man and need youth and gay
ety. If you will take me for a hus
band you shall never regret it."
"You marry you!" the girl gasned
"You mistake yourself, Mr. Laidlaw 1
I am afraid you nut the wrong con
struction on my loneliness and heart
hunger. I could never think of mar
rying you."
Laidlaw stared in genuine amaze
ment. She was actually refusing to
be his wife and the chance for a
fortune!
"But I really mean it, Mary Miss
Davenport. I am in earnest!
"So am II" said the girl. And Pe
ter Laidlaw was forced to depart with
his mind in a chaos, and realizing
that the girl had grown to temptingly
alluring that he would sacrifice half
his money if she were really his,
"He will be back," said Mary, con
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terview. "Mark my words!"
And again she was right. The next
day the elderly suitor called again,
only to be met with the same re
buff if a trifle less pronounced. By
this time father and son were com
pletely estranged, and Dick confided
to Mona his intention of leaving the
paternal roof and moving into inde
pendent quarters.
"The time has come for our crisis,"
said Mary, thoughtfully, when she
heard of this development. I shall
accept Peter Laidlaw when he calls
again and I'll leave the rest to you,
Mona."
' Mary was as good as her word. She
sent the elder Laidlaw away jubilant
so jubilant that he promptly sought
out his son, and informed him of the
glad news that he was soon to have a
young and beautiful stepmother. Dick
received the intelligence in dismay,
and an hour later was excitedly pour
ing out the story 1j Mona's sympa
thetic ears.
"Think what it will mean to us,
dearl Some designing woman has
trapped the old governor. She will
waste all his money end there won't
be a dollar left for us!"
"Why not follow your father's tac
tics to me and try to buy her off,"
suggested the quick-witted Mona.
"Such women always have a price,
Show her the money, real money
not a check!"
"By Jove, I'll do it! You are a
wonder, little one I"
An hour later young Laidlaw, with
his wallet newly repined, climbed out
of a taxicab before the apartment
house. A he did so he caught sight
of a familiar figure just disappearing
through the enlranrX It was his
father. Young Laidlaw ground his
teeih, and strolled thoughtfully
around the block, feeling sure that he
had the rash arguments at hand to
play his game.
Meanwhile the elder Laidlaw, in
Mary'a apartment was slipping an ex
pensive diamond engagement ring on
the girl's finger in spite of her pro
tests that the gift was much too valu
able. As he stepped back into the
hall, the door of Mona's flat opened,
as though by accident, and that saucy
young woman, aftired for the street,
stood confronting him.
"Oh, Mr,- Laidlaw," she said sweet
ly, "I have been thinking over your
visit to me, and I have come to the
conclusion that you are right in your
arguments to me that a marriage with
your son would only result in unhap
piness to both of us."
"In other words" said Peter Laid
law eagerly.
"In other words, if your offer to
take care of me still holds good, I
am prepared to accept it I But remem
ber, it. must be rash. If I am going to
sell the only happiness I have ever
known, I will not barter myself for a
check I"
"You shall have the cash!" said
Peter Laidlaw, grimly, as he hurried
from the house, so occupied with his
thoughts that he did not see the
dodging figure of his son behind the
corner of the building.
l ive minutes later Dick Laidlaw
was pressing the bell of Mary's flat.
The interview was short, and if not
sweet, at least was eminently satisfac
tory to both parties. When the
younger Laidlaw took up his hat,
Mary held twenty crisp $100 bills.
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At about the same minute another
interview of much, the same nature,
and terminating in an equally satis
factory manner, was taking place in
the apartment of Mona just across
the corridor.
"Understand," finished the elderly
Laidlaw, "that you relinquish all
claims to my son that henceforth
you will see nothing of him under any
circumstances!"
"Quite right," agreed Mona, as she
softly rustled the newly minted bills
which her caller had pressed on her.
And now, is there anything further?
"I think not!" said Peter Laidlaw
deliberately, as he stepped to the
door. The girl accompanied him
sweetly, saw him safely into the cor
ridor, and then started forward with
distended eyes. At practically the
same moment the door of Mary's
apartment had also opened for her
visitor, bather and son stood star
ing at one another, and at their
shoulders the two girls.
For a tense moment the tableau
continued.
And llien Mary whirled toward
Mona, "You- hussy!" she snapped.
"You vixen!" retorted Mona.
The I.aidlaws said nothing. With
out a word, Dirk clapped his hat
down onto his head, and strode to
ward the stairs. Has father hesitated
or a moment, and then followed
more slowly, his face contracted
thoughtfully.
An hour later parent and son, in the
privacy of the former's innermost of
fice, took reflective and melancholy
Astonishing Power of Iron
to Give Strength to Broken
Down Nervous People
riijrslelao j- Ordinary Nusjsled Iron
Hill Increase Mrerifth uf Kell.ste
Folk 200 'r Tent In Two
Weeks' Time In Manr
Instance.
New Turk, N. T, In a rerent discourse
Dr. K Bur, ll known spertsllst who
twilled widely both In this country and
K.urnpe. suM: "If you wr to rnnUs sn c
dial blond test on all jjeoplo who ar 111
you would probably b greatly aHionlohed
at th exceedlnaly lrs number who lcU
Iron and who ars III for no othee reisnn
thn ihe lui-k ol Iron. Tlie moment Iron
Ik siipill"d nil th.lr multl'ml" of danger,
ous symptoms dUnpjisr, Without Iron th
hluod at nr lo- the power to rhsnfn
Mod In'o living llssiio, and therefore null
ing you est do- ou sny good; you don't
ft the stri-ngin. out of II Vour food merely
throush your system like corn
lliniiigh mill with tho rollers mu wide
apart that Ihs mill tan t grind. As a r-
ii it of this continuous bl.io.l ind nrve
tarvttlnn, f.eopl beoms generally wenk-
nd. nervous and su run nown. ann rrs
rjuenily develop all sorts of condition ons
la too thin; another Is burdened with un
healthy fat: soma sro so weak they sn
hardly walk: some Ihlnk thy have d
bepala. kidney or liver trouble; aoina can't
alp at nlsht; others sre sleepy and tired
sll day; soma fuaay and Irritable; some
klnny and hloodleas, but all lack physical
power and endurance. In such rases It Is
worse than foolishness to lake stlmulstlna
medicines or nsrrotlo druaa, which only
whip up your fussing vital powers for th
moment, maybe at the espensa of your
lit laler on. No matier what any one
tnlls you, If you ar not aironsj and wll
you ow It'fo yourself to make the fol
lowing test, Bee how lung you ran work
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at each other blankly,
"It looks, governor, as though they
played you for the goat I" said Dick
with a groan.
In Mary's apartment the two girls
were busily engaged in arraying
themselves for the street.
"We win I" said Mona, for the
twentieth time. "We win, girlie I And
now
"What?" asked Mona, pinning on
her hat.
"Now, to give back the money to
the rightful owners. I have a list of
over twenty of the recent victims of
the Laidlaw loan office. Counting
the proceeds of the presents we have
received, we should net something
over $7,000. Kpt bad work at all, eh?"
THE END.
If Thr Told the Troth.
"Mr, Chulrmnn, I'm glad to say that I
ean't nrnkn an Interesting speech, but
even If I could I wouldn't wante It on so
min h lntelllicence as I see before me this
evening sitting, as you are, half dazed
with food, alcohol and tobacco."
"Well, good-by, Mrs. Dlajnondbark.
I've had a dull week-end. But I expected
It, anyway. One of the things we havn
to endure. Isn't ItT Hop you'll get a
better cook Iho. next time I come."
"You'd never know this was a second
hand car, would youT The engine hasn't
been touched fur five years, but a new
coat of paint has given It a fine appear
ance, hasn't It? Worth 175. Hell It t'
you for VK),"-Uf.
or how far you csn wslk wllliout becoming
llrd Nest teks two flve-grsln tsblets of
ordlnsry nuiated Iron Hires limes per day
sf(r niesls for two wseks. Thn tet your
trcngth sgaln snd eeo for yourself ho
much you hsva gained. I hsva seen doi
ens of nervous, run-down peoplo who were
ailing sll the lime double, snd evon trlplo
their strength snd endurance snd entirely
get rid of their symptoms of dyepepsln,
liver snd other troubles In from ten to
fourteen days' time simply by taking Iron
In the proper form, and tills, sfter they
had In some esses been doctoring fur
months without obtaining any liencnt. You
can talk nt you plesso about sll Hie won
ders wrought by new remedies, but when
you come down to herd facte there Is
nothing llks good old Iron to put color In
your cheeks snd good, sound, healthy flesh
m your hones. It Is also a great nerve
snd stomach strengthener and tns best
blood builder In the worm, The only
trouble wan tist the old forms of Inorgtinln
Iron, like tincture of Iron, Iron acetate, etc ,
often ruined people's teeih, upset their
stomachs snd were not asslmllsted, and for
these, ressons they frsuuently did more
harm than good. But with the discovery
of th newer forms of organic Iron sll this
hss been overcome- Nnxsted Iron, for en
ample, la pleasant to take, does not Injurs
tho teeth slid Is almost Immediately bene
ficial. KOTK Th manufacturers of Nussted
Iron have such unbounded ronndenr In lis
potency thst they authorise Ihe announce
ment that they will forfeit 1 100 00 to any
Charitable Institution If they cannot tske
sny man or woman under sixty who larks
Iron and Increase their strength 200 per
cent or ovsr In four weeks' time, provided
they hsva no serious organic, trouble. Also
they will refund your money In any case In
which Nuisled Iron does not at least
double your strength In ten dsys' time
It Is dispensed In ihla city by Hhermsn A
Mcfonnell I'rug Hlorea and all other drug
glsls. Advertisement.
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