Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 29, Number 35, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 28 April 1921 — Page 2

The DARK MIRROR Copyrtsat IMO hr the Author.

CHAPTER NINE The Changeling. -4 I. TRANSLATION. — l6 As on that first occasion when sleep *\had stolen upon and overcome her \nnn wares In the studio, her unclosing eyes comprehended only darkness absolute. Unlike that time, when she had roused Instantaneously, self-conscious-ness springing suddenly, full witred, full powered, clear,, out ofr-nightmare thralldom, now she awoke slowly and at expense of effort almost painful: senses and perceptions struggling long ..and arduously to break the embrace of a lethargy so deep and undisturbed that the self-sense had lain in It benumbed and stifled, like a seed that slumbers In thj pent darkness of the earth against the coming of the spring. In the confusion of those first waking moments she believed herself to be at home, In bed. But the darkness of her bedchamber hat! never been slieS; there was always a diffused glow from the lights In the street to temper It. Then she remembered, dully, the studio and the weariness that had neighed upon her In the afternoon. She must have slept several hours at the least reckoning, for It had been ■ % broad daylight when she lay down, the evenings were long, and It was now, Judging by the blackness of It and the silence, dead of night. But she looked In vain for the violet-tinted rectangle of the northlight And mysteriously the Windows were shut which bad been open when she stretched out to rest. For there was not only an utter absence of light but a smothering lack of fresh air. Her lungs starring, she lay for some time stupidly contemplating Jhe exertion that would be needed to rise and open one of the windows. Somehow she edfild not seem to nerve herself to It. She was feeling actually 111, squeamish. Her limbs were stiff and heavy, her hands hot, her cheeks and forehead afire, a prickling sensation afflicted her body, she was athirst and the taste In her toouth was evil ; and when she moved her head upon the pillow, pain like a brutal blow crashed from temple to temple and back again and , again, forc!ng.,.feeble fflypnp past her lips. Nevertheless 'conditions such bb these were unendurable. At whatever cost, she must have water and fresh air. ... She steeled herself and presently, by a supreme exertion of will power, forced herself to sit up. For the time being she conld no more. The pain rocked and smashed ahont like a mad thing, till ?he wondered would It break her skull. And as by degrees those transports subsided, she was taken with qualms of nausea. She must have kicked oft'her shoes 1n her sleep. At least, she could not remember removing them before lying -down. At all events —whatever had become of them —they were gone. Beneath her stockinged feet the floor was bare and rough, of unfinished wood. Now, there was a rng beside the dfvan, in the studio. And eVefl bad It been spirited away like her shoes, the studio floor was of hardwood neatly Joined and polished till Its surface was like glass. ‘ Then a hand that she dropped to the edge of her couch encountered the ■coarse ticking of an uncovered mattress, instead of the silken rug that clothed the divan.— i. Slowly It was borne in ujwn her that sh'e was neither In her Bedchamber nor In her studio. This conviction struck home to her understanding with a shock that brought her to her feet. What had happened? Where was she —and who? Was she Priscilla Maine, delirious? „Or was she Leonora —yet once again that puppet of her life In dreams, embarked upon some new and still more terrible adventure? But Leonora was no more . . . She took a blind step Into obscurity, and another, blundered into a chatr and knocked It over with a clatter. While slic waited, dashed, hands clutching wildly at vacant blackness, a key turned In a reluctapt lock, a door opened, closed, and was relocked. Priscilla failed to elicit more than a harsh. Inarticulate whisper from a swollen throat. A match rasped and spluttered In the murk, a gas-jet hissed from a wall-bf&cket, spreading a fan-llke flame with a body of ghastly blue and a border of tawny yellow. ■' It revealed a mean and ugly cubicle, perhaps six feet by eight, with dingy walls to whose crumbling plaster clung a few dismal rags of ancient paper. The single window was stoutly boarded on the Inside. The begrimed floor was a stranger alike to carpeting and soap and water, had apparently been so since time out_of memory. For furnishing there was a small table of painted wood, the overturned chair, and a scorbutic' iron bedstead with swav-hacked springs, a lumpy mattress and one emaciated pillow. Silent beneath the wheezing gaslight, the woman Inez bent upon Brlscilla a louring regard. 11. INEZ. "Well,” Inez drawled In overcolored Surprise, “would yon look who's here! As I live 'tis none other than the Duplex Kid —Little Nora of the Double Life—and Face!” „Arms aklmblq, with fleering mouth end hostile eyes, she waited hopefully for her gibe to draw the spirited respouse which might have been exMctad of Leonora, and so provide excuse for further Insolence. ■

She was disappointed. Her victim was too far gout) In wretchedness to know or care whether she were the butt of 111-natured derision. Added to the misery of her body, she had now to cope with an Intellectual confusion that seemed past raveling. She had fallen asleep in the tranquil spaciousness of her studio: she was awake In this confined place of unspeakable squalor. Sho had been free and alone: she was now In a manner Jailed, nt the mercy of this truculent vixen. No later than this afternoon “ she had been Priscilla Maine: tonight she was cast for the role of Leonora. Both hands clasping’her tortured head, as if to prevent Its splitting asunder, the girl stared at Inez with distraught eyes In a haggard countenance. “Thought you’d pay the old place a visit, did you? Found Flft’ avenue and all too rich for your stumuiick, I presoom. How’s It feel to be back on the farm? Like old home week, I guess.” Again Priscilln tried to speak; but her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth. The sounds, when at length they came, were unrecognizable its her Own voice. “Water!” she croaked —"in pity’s name—water!" Momentarily the other seemed of a mind to refuse her. Then, perhaps because she sawr she would get no satisfaction from her prey otherwise, she decided to indulge her. “Ail right, dearie; I’ll fetch you a nice long drink. Back in a minute. Just make yourself perfectly at home.” Deftly unfastening the door, Inez slipped out. Priscilla whs kept waiting a cruel time . . . Whether prompted by need for stealth or by common hatefulness seeking to prolong her torments, Inez chose to return noiselessly. Priscilla, sitting with"drooping head, had no warning till she heard the door close sqftly. Then, seeing Inez posed with her back to It, a large goblet of thick glass held high, the girl lurched to her feet and toward her. “Please!” Priscilla begged huskily. With a quick movement Inez placed the glass on the little table and met I’riscilla with a stralght-ann blow on the bosom that drove her reeling back to the bed, whose uprights she grasped to save herself a fall. “Don’t be in such a sweat. You'll get right—wbeiLyQjiixe done- what I want you to.” “What—what do you want me to do?” Inez tossed toward-her a bundle of garments she had brought under her arm. “I want that suit youive got on —It’s too d—n’ good for you—and your rings and that brooch and everythin’." HantF ’em over and you can have your drink.’.’ “I don't understand. You can't—lt can’t be possible yon mean to rob me?” “Sav. lls’n 1” With the stride of an Infuriated animal Inez crossed to her and stopped with her shrewish face thrust forward pugnaciously, not six Inches from Priscilla’s. “Pm goin' to have them swell duds and Jools If I have to rip ’em off your back with my own hands —and the skin.off your face, too. Get me? 1 mean every word of 1L You're goin’ to come down to where you belong this minute, and you're goin' to look the part, too, or my name ain't Inez. You’ve come the haughty over me for the last time.

“As I Live, 'Tis None Other Than the Duplex Kid—Little Nora of the Double Life.” ~ It’s my InninS now, and when I'm finished with you everythin’ 'll be perfectly even between you and Inez, forever and ever—ti-mefl 1” With trembling, awkward fingers Priscilla began to pluck at the buttons of her blouse. Inez retreated to the table, picked up the glass and rattled the ice musically wlthTn It. “Hurry, dear heart!” Priscilla removed coat and blouse and stepped out of her skirt, them lifted her hands for the glass. Her tormentor warned her off. “Walt—a—mln-ute! You’re forgettln’ them rings.” Silently the girl stripped her fingers, dropping their Jewels Into the greedy palm. Nothing muttered, so that she earned that drink of water. But yet once again was she put off. “Don't crowd me sol I might get

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nervous and spill somethin'. . . . Climb Iffto them clothes I brought you first—and If I was you I wouldn’t waste no time, neither. Can’t tell when Harry or someone ’ll bump In here catch you with nothin’ on but your pretties. And be thankful I let you keep them . . For an Instant, Indeed, thG woman seemed disposed to repent of that generosity, eyeing Priscilla’s undergarments of lactfand filmy silk. In fumbling haste Priscilla covered them with the cheap and none too clean cotton blouse, the shoddy and Illfashioned coat and skirt which Inez had brought her. At long last she had her reward. At first In frantic gulps, then more slowly If with no less avidity, she- drained the glass: while Inez at. the bed snatched up and packed under her arm the spoils of this her first victory over her rival. “Well, how about it, Nora? FeeUn’ chlrpier?” she inquired with magnanimity when Priscilla put down the empty glass. “I don’t know.” Priscilla's feet wove ■ uncertainly toward tlie bed. Too late she was realizing that the glass Mil held something more than mere water. She sat down suddenly and began again to nurse her head. “I’m Hi.” she murmured —"very ill. How did I get here?” “I guess maybe that's somethin’ you don't know.” Inez laughed spitefully. “And I don’t mind tellin': Harry followed you down Fift’ avenue ’safter,noon and seen where you stopped, up In McDougall alley. Then, he got" Charlie and left him to watch you while he ’phoned for the rest of the bunch. When it got dark and 1 everythin’ was quiet, they picked the ; lock, found you doin' a Itip van Winkle that looked good for twenty year, give you a shot of the hop to make sure you wouldn’t wake up at the wrong time, and brought you down here in a taxi. That’s your history up to date. Cheer up: the worst is yet to come. And when, it comes—grab this from me—innocent li’l Inez is goin’ to have a ringside seat.” “I don't understand . . The words-were barely audible; but the termagant heard. Her sneer darkened. “Well, If you gotta know, the bunch’s outside makin’ up their minds what to do with you. I haven’t got no Idear what they’U fine’ly settle on, but It'll be plenty, whatever It - is. If it was anybody else I’d feel sorry for them; but you— 1” Her laugh was harsh and Jeering. For sole response the cringing figure ou the bed suddenly sank in upon Itself, then over upon one side, where it lay sprawling, Inert, whites of eyes showing under half closed lids. Startled, the woman bent over Priscilla. But her breathing went on monotonously. She had merely fainted. 111. THE TRAP. The blinding prismatic glare that filled all space dwindled slowly to a hand’s breadth of particolored flame. Its thunderous roar to a snore: overhead the sertorous gas Jet by fits and starts hissed uml spat angrily. She had no means of knowing how long It had been burning; that is to, say, how long she had been insensible; but It was long enough, at all events', for the atmosphere of that stuffy’ hole to have grown sickening with heat and Its aggravation of the native stench. Her mouth’ and throat once more were parched. The drink brought her by Inez had served only to render her thirst more Intense: a matter of spitefal calculation, in all likelihood : even though diluted, alcohol In nny form Is no quencher of thirst, rather the contrary. Inez had not, however, reckoned with Its stimulating properties : I’rlscilla was no less unhappy In body and mind, on recovering from her swoon, but she felt stronger, better able to think and to work out thought In action. At present, however, two considerations dominated all others: her need of water; the necessity somehow to' escape from that place of terror and abomination. . . < She got np, unsteadily enough, padded to the door, and listened there with an ear to the joint between door and Jamb. Hearing what she believed to be a rumor of distant voices, nothing else, she laid hold of the knob and turnedit cautiously. A thrill shot through her heart when the door opened: Whether by design or Inadvertence, Inez had neglected to lock it! A peering reconnaissance showed nothing but gloom Immediately beyond the door. Trembling, the girl opened It wide. The light from the gas jet then revealed a length of malodorous hallway, broken by two more doors, both closed. At Its far end It turned off nt a right angle. What lay beyond was unguessable: there was no light. The air of the hallway was heavy with that subtle, sickly smell, alluring and appalling ... the breath of death. . . . She had smelt it before, somewhere, at some time Indefinite. ... At length she knew It: the reek of opium smoke in the den of Sing Ho, to which sho—or Leonora—hnd gone that night (so long ago!) to meet Charlie the Coke. She advanced one unshod, timid foot across the threshold, faltered, took another step and closed the door behind her, shutting herself out Into untempered darkness, and stole fear- 1 fully on, feeling her way with hands that brushed the walls. She drew near to the farther door. The voices became more definite. Seemingly several persons were closeted In that room, all tulktng at once,

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l,n discordant dissension. The notion came to her, waa entertained and established aa an Idea fixed, that If she could only win past that door, the rest would be eusy, an unhindered way of escape would open out to her. . . . She was within two paces of success when on especially violent wrangle ended In a harsh rasping of chair legs on a bare, rough floor; and In a sudden lull heavy heels thumped toward the door. .The girl shrank back, Instinctively flattening herself to the wall to one side of the door. This lust was thrown open, letting out a flood of gaslight and a choking gust of air heavy laden with tobacco smoke. A man came out, turning toward Priscilla’s recent prison. Blinded by the transition from light to darkness, he stopped and, cursing, put out a hand toward the wall. It touched Priscilla’s shoulder. She winced with a stifled cry of fright. Instantly the hand closed cruelly on her shoulder; Its owner uttered an exclamation of mingled wrath and satisfaction, and with one ruffianly swing sent her staggering lrito the room. Somehow she escarp'd a tumble, righted herself, stood eringlug, blinking, trembling. The door closed with a bang. The time of all pretensions to polish, an-

“Well, if tou Uotta Know,' the Bunch’s Oatside Makin’ Up Their Minds What to Do With You.” accents of the Nut, destitute for the nounced: * “Here she Is now I Caught her Just In time —tryin’ to do a sneak. Who left the door unlocked bn her? You, Inez?” • Coolly the voice of Inez replied: “Maybe I did—l don’t rememtJer.” “D—n' careless of y..u—" “Ah, shut up. What difference does It make? She didn't get away, did she? She couldn’t, net in a thousand years, without we let her.” (TO-BE CONTINUED.) TRICK HORSES POOR MOUNTS Trained Animals Remember and Respond to Signals They Have Been Taught to Obey. It Is not always wise to teach a horse to play tricks, as Is proved by a story told by an English army officer. John Leech's Inimitable circus horse .that Insisted on sitting down with his rider whenever he heard a band play was the prototype of a horse belonging to the officer .who. In a weak moment had taught it to rear up and “salaam” whenever he leaned forward to make a bow. It was’ all- very pretty -when the officer was out riding and met any lady of his acquaintance, but It became a nuisance when he was out pig sticking In India. He would lean forward to Ineet the rush of a charging boar with his spear—up would go the beast on end just at the moment when the man’s safety depended on his taking a true and deadly aim with his spear point. The consequence was that the ainmal’s legs showed many scars from boars’ tusks, and he was lucky that he did not end his career with his body ripped open. The officer had, too, at one time a fine but somewhat nervous charger. One day on a parade the mount suddenly gave way with the officer and quietly lay down. The rider thought for a moment he was 111, but on rousing him he Immediately sprang to his feet again, quite fit and well A week or so later when riding with afriend they stopped for a moment to admire the view, when down the horse jwent. It was evident to the officer that he had hebn trained to lie down at a given signal, tmt the man never could discover for the life of him what that signal was. Delectable Prerogative. During the reigp of Louis XII kissing was very popular at court. Every dance movement ended with every man kissing his partner, and no gallant thought of greeting a lady friend without kissing her on the lips. The sing; himself, enjoyed this to the full, and always kissed every pretty girl at bny dance or entertainment he attended. At social affairs It was a custom for courtiers to watch Louis, and when he was in high good humor ask such favors as they wished. ’ Early Fireworks. In Rome, at the creation of the popes, illuminated “hand grenades” were thrown from the tops of castles, and about the -cornmencement of the Fourteenth century fireworks had become an art In which Inventors displayed great ability In combining the powers of architecture, sculpture and painting. P Rulers’ Postage Privileges. The king of England pays no postage, which is perhaps Just as well, since he yearly receives about a quarter of a million business letters. The heads of nil kingdoms and republics enjoy similar privileges.

RAISE CHICKENS TO HELPINCOME Excellent Means for Providing Needed Comfort and Home Beauty. YOUNG WOMEN LEAVE FARMS Horn* Demonstration Agent* Exert Much Influence in Pointing Out Ways of Making Money or Producing Food for Family. (Prepared by the United States Depa. ment of Agriculture.) The service of the home-demonstration agent, who l supervised by the United States Department of Agriculture and the State Agricultural colleges.. Is not confined to the house, blit follows the woman Into the garden, the poultry yard, and dairy to assist her In outside tasks when these contribute to home comfort. Judgment as to relative values usually guide the home maker In determining the amount of outdoor work it is profitable for to do either as a moneymaking 'svaetne or as a means of producing food for the family table. Often when the woman lacks even small resources to bring needed comfort and beauty to the home, such industries as poultry raising and gardening provide the needed Increase in income from which all the family may derive benefit. It is poor business from every standpoint, however, If work out of doors means overstrained nerves and muscles resulting from an attempt to take on these duties without releasing any household tasks or If it means neglect of housework or sacrificing attention to children, thus lowering of Increasing the standard of living. Statistics show that young women are leaving the rural districts for the cities In larger numbers than young men. Where this Is true, the Influence or the home-demonstration agent has been most telling In helping young women tfr feel- their economic importance in agricultural and Home pursuits and in discovering ways of making Incomes on the land equal to those that could be earned in shop or factory. • Work With Poultry. Poultry work has been promoted In several states through demonstrations along lines of poultry selection, breeding, raising, feeding, housing, culling, canning, preservation of eggs, and cooperative, selling of poultry products. Many flocks have been improved when farm women have found thrSugh culling demonstrations that 40 per cent of the average flock Is nonproductive. Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Missouri and Vermont, carried on intensive' poultry culling campaigns in which the home demonstration agents played a prominent part,. Schools of instruction were held so that those trained might not only eliminate their own nonproducing birds but teach their neighbors through community demonstrations. In Missouri. 73,765 birds were eliminated from 1,593 flocks culled with an estimated saving of $50,161. In the

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Eggs Should Be Gathered Often. co-operative buying and selling of eggs. 8 cgnts a dozen more was received than on the local markets. Fewe.r Nervous Breakdowns. „ Community working and trading centers mean rauOh to rural women, not only from the standpoint of economy, time, money, and effort, but as a means of persuading the stay-at-home to walk through her gate and down the road to Join her neighbors Jn some task which Is made lighter through'co-operation, and from which she rqturijs -refreshed and encouraged with new' ideas and plans not only for her own housekeeping but for the larger housekeeping of her neighborhood. No amount of socialized work, however, takes the place of real recreation, as it looks too earnestly toward a finished result. Care-free recreation for the delight of the moment eases nervous tension, promotes good fellowship, and Is as necessary for the mental and physical polgeof men and women as it Is for boy Sand girls. Home-demonstration agents, where no other agency Is meeting this need, are co-operating with farm families In home and community recreation which Includes games, chorus .singing, dramus, and pageants. “v. Recreation Specialists. The extension department of the Montana state college, realizing the

Convenient Phone Pad. One of the most convenient memorandum pads for desk or telephone, it home or office, is that with n brass staud and a spring pencil attached. Substitute for Brush. A piece of sandpaper is a very good substitute for a wire brush In removing stahis from the bottom of a frying pan. - Dried fruits to Include raisins and Ktron keep best In a stone crock.

Importance of this, employs a recreation specialist whose work Is atlmulatlng a flue social-community spirit In many localities In that state, where homes are so far apart. Montanu Is thus putting Into practice a Conviction that Is growing everywhere—that, while It Is their first business to promote efficiency, this should be looked upon ns a means of stimulating a richer and more Satisfying rural life by freeing the homemaker's time and energy so that she may give attention to the attractiveness and comfort of her home, the training and companionship of her children, the enjoyment of books and neighbors, and the building up of recreutlonal, social, and educational life of her community. This will Increase the percentage of active thinking women of serf lee to society and reduce the percentage of passive slaves of routine, whose tasks cease ouly to begin ugaln with anew day. FAVOR PLASTERFOR FARM KITCHEN WALL Most common and Generally Satisfactory Material. Mortar Must Be Properly Mixed and Applied to Prevent Development of Cracks and Blisters—Light Colors Are Best. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) The commonest, and most generally satisfactory material for the walls and eefling of the farm kitchen Is plaster. The mortar must be properly mixed and applied to prevent the development of cracks and blisters and Injury to the surface finish. For the same reason freshly plastered walls should be allowed to dry thoroughly before the finishing surface is applied. Instead of plaster, some of the composition boards that do not warp may be used. They may be painted or papered and varnished, but before tills Is done nail holes should be filled with plastic filler made for the purpose. Steel wall and celling coverings are durable when they are kept well painted to prevent rusting by steam. Tile and vitrified brick, well glazed and matched, afford an excellent wall surface, but they are costly. Metal tiles are cheaper and nearly as satisfactory. The most desirable finish for walls and ceiling Is one that, will not peel or crack and can be easily washed or very cheaply and readily renewed. A good oil paint gives general satisfaction; it can be brushed off with a dry wall brush or cleaned more thoroughly with a damp cloth and mild soap. Wall pai>er, unless varnished. Is very easily loosened by the steam from cooking. A wall covering resembling oilcloth Is somewhat more expensive, but It is more durable, and has a smooth washable surface. Water must be used very sparingly on a wall covering of this kind, for if it seeps in the seams the wall covering will becomfr loosened. The best color or tint for the kitchen walls is determined by the location and lighting of the room, say household specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture. Light colors are preferable for dark rooms because they reflect and diffuse the light into darker parts of.the room, while dark colors ahsorh a much larger proportion of the light. Where the principal exposure Is toward the south, greenish grays are desirable, but If toward the north or east, with little opportunity for sunshine, the light yellows or creams are better. Two shades of brown often give a satisfactory finish.

GIVE PLENTY OF VEGETABLES Material Furnished to Growing Child for Forming Bone and Tissue— Mild Acids Helpful. Vegetables and fruits are now considered a_ necessary part of the diet of the child. The reasons are many, but most of them may be summed up by saying that they furnish material needed to form bfline and tissue and to regulate body processes. The mild acids which some of them contain help to prevent constipation; so, too, does the cellulose or fiber, especially when it Is raw, though Its value for this purpose may have been exaggerated In popular literature. Green vegetables are also a valuable means of Introducing into the diet mineral matters, particularly Iron, In a form in which the body can utilize them. Even at city prices green vegetables have been shown to be an economical source of Iron. Leaf vegetables, like spinach, beet greens, kale, etc., have recently been found to contain som§ of the growth-promoting substances that are found In milk.

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All game should be soaked In salt water over night before cooking. *- * '• To prevent wool gloves from shrinking, put clothespins In the fingers while they are drying. — • • * There is no better substitute for butter In cake baking than chicken fat. It Timy be used for any purpose for which butter Is used except on bread. • • • Electric cooking devices that can be used at the table make the Sunday evening meal pleasant, and permit tfie serving of hot foods quickly and informally. • • • The tough ends of steak may be made Into a nourishing soup. Bones may be used In the same manner. * • • To dry clean tatting or crochet, Which often becomes soiled In the making, use equal parts of salt and meal, rubbing the soiled places briskly. • • A straight edge on chiffon ar soft fabrics Is easily cut. If first pinned to s paper. The pattern Is then pinned to the material, and chiffon and paper cut at tha same time.

WIFE TAKES HUSBANDSAPVICE And It Made Well Again by Lydia E. Pinkham’t Vegetable Compound Springfield, Mass.- I ?‘The doctor tola my bus hand that I had to have an oper-

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■ation, otherwise I | would be a sickly I woman and could not I have any more chiiIdren on account of Imy weakened eonI dition. I refused to I have the operation. IMy husband asked Ime to try Lydia E. IPinkham’s VegetaIble Compound to see lif it would not help I me. For the first

four months I could do but little work, had to lie down moet of the time, waa nervous and could eat hardly anything, but my husband was always reminding me to take the Vegetable Compound, which I did. Os my eight children this last one was the easiest birth of all and I am thankful for your Vegetable Compound. I recommend it to my friends when I hear them complaining about their ills.”—Mrs. M. Natale, 72 Fremont St, Springfield, Mass. Sickly, ailing women make unhappy homes, and after reading Mrs. Natale's letter one can imagine now this home was transformed by her restoration to health. Every woman who suffers from such ailments should give Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound a fair trial. It is surely worth while. Too Good to Be True. Wife—John, a man called this afternoon and said he would supply us with enough electricity to- light our house, do all the cooking mid run the washing machine for only $1 a mouth. What do you think of that? Hub —You should have told him that when we want current fiction we’ll get It at the bookstore. —Boston Transcript. Every department of housekeeping 'needs Bed Bross Ball Blue. “Equally good for kitchen towels, table linen, sheets and pillowcases, etc. Doubtful Transaction. “I understand the Crimson Gulch posse took some bootleggers Into, custody." “Yes, sir,” replied Cactus Joe. “And it cost us citizens quite a sum of money, paid In advance, to persunde them rum runners to map .their route In this direction and get their stuff - confiscated."

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