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EXPERIENCE
Brings a Ray of Hope to
Childless Women
Lowell, Mass.—" I had anemia from
lie time I was sixteen years old and
iwas very irregular.
{If I did any house*
I cleaning or washing
II would faint ana
have to be put to
bed, my husband
thinking every min
Jute was my last.
IAfter reading your
1 text-book for women
I took Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegeta
I ble Compound and
•used the Sanative
Wash, and .have never felt better than
I have the last two years. I can work,
eat, sleep, and feel as strong as can be.
Doctors told me I could never have
children—I was too weak— but after
taking Vegetable Compound it
strength
ened me so I gave birth to an eight
pound boy. I WHS well all the time, did
all my work unto the last day, and had
natural birtn. Everybody who knew
me was surprised, and when they ask me
what made me strong I tell them with
great pleasure, 'I took Lydia E. Pink
nam's Vegetable Compound and never
feit better in my life.' Use this testi
monial at any time.
"—Mrs. ELIZABKTH
SMART, 142 W. Sixth St., Lowell, Mass.
This experience of Mrs. Smart is surely
a strong recommendation for Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It is
only one of a great many similar cases.
The Rural Cynic.
"Hiram." said Mrs. Corntossel. "the
hoarders will soon be along enjoy in'
the fresh air auU ,adiuiriu\ the *cen
ery."
"I suppose fso. 'Bttf my suspicion
Is that whlie t*iey tuIR about air and
scenery, whtir's on their minds is
Jfeeepifi* down the cost of ^vin'."
ASPIRIN
Name "Bayer" on ^Genuine
ihrrtitng! t'nless you see the name
"Bayer" on package or ou tablets you
•re not getting genuine Aspirin pre
scribed by physicians for twenty-one
years and proved safe by millions.
Take Aspirin only as told in the Bayer
package for Colds, Headache. Neural
gia. Biitnmntlnm Kacache. Toothache,
Lumhagba'nd ffr Pain. Handy tin
boxes of twelve Bayer Tablets of As
pirin cost few cents. Druggists a!*o
sell larger package ,. Aspirin is the
trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of
Monoaeeticacidester of Salicycaetd.—
Adv.
Greatest Ztnc Mines in Je~cey.
greatest /Jnc mine in the
world, located Tn Sussex county. New
Jersey, IIHH been worked almost con*
$iUUOiMly since colonial (lays.
i -'r A Lady of Distinction
Is recognized by the delicate fasclnat-
log influence of the perfume she uses.
A bath with Cutlcura Soap and hot
water to thoroughly cleanse the pores,
followed by a dusting with Cutlcura
Talcum powder usually meajis a clear,
aweet, healthy skin.—Adv.
Avoiding the Novelty.
•They liave a new phonograph**
"All rijght. Let's stay away until
the novelty has wo'*n olT."
No sense of economy reconciles a
man to a squeaking half sole.
Find the Cause!
ft isn't right to drag along feeling
-half sick. Find out what is
you feel BO badly and try to
it. Perhaps your kidneys are
that throbbing backache or
-sharp, stabbing pains. You may
Burning lameness, too, headaches,
dim spells and irregular kidney action.
Ow Doan't Kidney Pills. They have
ed thousands of ailing folks. A»k
your
neighbor1
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CM AFTER II
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"Father and 1 are to stay here— V
"What else can you do?" He went
back to his traces and drew the sled
100 yards farther. He didn't wem to
see the gaunt wolf that backed off
into the shadows as be approached.
He refused to notice that the pack
seemed to be steadily growing bolder.
Human hunters usually had guns thAt
could blast and destroy frm a dis
tance but even an animal intelli
gence could perceive that these three
seemed to be without thia means of
Inflicting death.
A wolf is ever so much more intelli
gent than a crow—ye» a crow shows
little fear of an unarmed "man and Is
wholly unapproachable by a boy with
a gun. The'ugly truth was simply that
In their incre rslng madness and ex
citement and hunger, they were becom
ing le*s and '«\ss fearful of these three
strange humans with the sled.
It was not a# good place for a camp.
They worked a long time before they
cleared a little patch of ground of Its
snow mantle. Ian cut a number of
saplings—laboriously with his ax—and
built a tire with the comparatively
dry cor? of a dead tree. True, It was
feeble and flickering, hut as trood as
could be hoped for. considering the
difficulties under which he worked.
The dead logs under the snow were
•Tnked with water from the rains and
thaws. The green wood that, he cut
smoked without blazing.
"No more time to be lost," Dan told
Snowbird. "It lies in your hands to
keep tlie fire burning. And don't leave
the circle of the fire light without
that pistol in your hand."
"You d«'!! mean," she asked, unbe
lieving, "that you are going to go out
there to light Cranston—unarmed?"
~"Of course, Snowbird. You must
keep the pistol."
"But it means death: that's all It
means. What chance would you have
^against a man with a ritle? And as
soon as you get away from this lire,
the wolves will tear you to pieces."
"And what would you and your fa
ther do. If I took it? You can't get
him Into a tree. You can't build a
big enough fire to frighten them.
Please don't even talk about this mat
ter. Snowbird. RIv mind's made up. I
think the pack will stay here. They
usually—«iod knows how—know who
Is helpless and who isn't. Maybe with
flie gun, you will lie able to save your
lives."
"What's the chance of that?"
"You might—with one cartridge—*
kill one of the devils and the others
—but you know how they devour their
own dead. That might break their
famine enough so that they'd hold off
until I can get back. That's the prize
I'm playing for."
"And what if you don't get back?"
He took her hand In one of his. and
with the oilier he caressed, for a sin
gle moment, the lovely flesh of her
throat. The love he had for her spoke
from his *\ves—swh speech as no hu
man vision could possibly mistake.
Both or' tkem were tingling and breath
less with a great, sweet wonder.
"Never let those fangs tear that
softness, while you live." hte told here
gently. "Never let that brave old man
on the sled go to his death with the
pack teat 1
lie at him: Cheat 'em.
Snowbird! Beat 'em the last minute,
if no other way remains! Show 'em
who's boss, after all—of all this for
est."
"£ou mean—?" Her eyes widened.
"1 mean that you must only spend
Mie of those three shells in fighting
off the wolves. Save that till tlie mo
ment you need It most. The other
two must be saved—for something
else."
She nodded, shuddering an Instant
at a menacing shadow that moved
within 60 feet of the tire.
"Then goodby. Dan!" she told him.
And she stretched up her arms. "The
tiling I said—that day on the hillside
—doesn't hold any more."
His own arms encircled her. but he
made no efTort to claim her lips. Len
nox watched them quietly in this
moment of crisis not even pretending
fio look awav. Dan shook his head to
her entreating eyes. "It isn't just a
kiss, darling." he told her soberly. "It
goes deeper* than that. It's a symbol.
It was your word, too, and mine and
tvordh can't be broken, things being as
they are. Can't I make you under
stand
She nodded. His eyes burned. Per
haps she didn't understand, as far as
actual functioning of the brain wap
concerned. But she reached up to
him, as women—knowing life in the
concrete rather than the abstract—
have always reached up to men and
•he dimly caught the gleam of some
eternal principle and right behind his
words. This strong man of the moun
tains had given his word, had been
witness to her own promise to him
and to hersjelt and a law that goes
down to the roots of life prevented
tiltt from claiming the kiss.
Many times, since the world was
aap. comfort—happiness—life Itself
have been contingent on the breaking
»f a law. Tet In spite of what seemed
ttntn^o sense, even though no punish
w«mm1 forthcome If it ware
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THE HERALD ADVAHOE
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The Voice of the Pack
By EDISON MARSHALL
broken, the law/has been kept. It was
this way now. It wouldn't have been
ju.*t a kiss such as boys and girls have
always had in the moonlight. It meant
the symbolic renunciation of the debt
that Dan owed Cranston—a debt that
In his tuind might possibly go unpaid,
which no weight of circumstance could
make him renounce.
Ills longing for her Hps pulled at
the roots of him. But by the laws of
his being he couldn't claim them uutu
the debt incurred on the hillside,
months ago. had been paid to take
them now meant to dull the fine edge
of his resolve to tarry the Issue
through to the end, to dim the star
that led him, to weaken hiiu. by bend
ing now. for the test to come. lie
didn't know why. It had its fount in
the deep wells of the spirit. Common
sense can't reveal how the holy
vman
keeps strong the spirit by denying the
flesh, it goes too deep for that. Dan
kept to his consecration.
lie did, however, kiss her hands,
and he kissed the tears out of her
eyes. Theiv he turjjed into the dark
less and broke through the ring of
the wolves.
CHAPTER III.
Dan Failing was never more thank
ful for his unerring sense of direction.
He struck off at a forty-five-degree
angle between their late course and a
direct road to the river, and he kept
it as if by a surveyor's line. Ail the
old devices of the wilderness—the
ridge on ridge that looked just alike.
Inclines that to the casual eye looked
like downward slopes, streams that
vanished beneath the snow, and the
snow-mist blowing across the face of
the landmarks—could not avail
against him.
A half dozen of the wolves followed
him at first. But perhaps their fierce
eyes marked his long stride and his
powerful body, and decided that their
better chance was with the helpless
man and the girl beside the flickering
fire. They turned ba?k, one by one.
Dan kept straight on arid in two hours
y
"Keep the Fire Burning."
H»wwed Cranston's trail. He dfdn't
doubt but that he would find Cran
ston in his camp, if he found the camp
at all. The man had certainty re
turned to, it immediately after setting
fire to the buildings, if for no other
reason than for food. It isn't well
to be abroad on the wintry mountains
without a supply of food and Cran
ston would certainly know this fact.
Dan didn't know when a rifle bullet
from some camp In the thickets would
put an abrupt end to his advance. The
brush grew high by the river, the ele
vation was considerably lower, and
there might be one hundred camps out
of the sight of the casual wayfarer.
If Cranston should see him, mushing
across the moonlit snow. It would give
him the most savage joy to open tire
upon him with his rifle.
Dan's keen eyes searched the thick
ets, and particularly they watched the
sky line' for a faint glare that might
mean a camp fire. He tried to walk
silently. It wasn't an easy thing to
do with awkward snowshoes but the
river drowned the little noise that he
made. He tried to take advantage of
the shelter of the thickets and the
trees. Then, at the base of a little
ridge, he came to a sudden halt.
He htf) estimated just right. Not
two hundred yards distant, a camp
Are- flickered and glowed in the shel
ter of a great log. He saw it, by the
most astounding good fortune, through
a little rift In the trees. Ten feet on
either side, and It was obscured.
He lost no time. He did not know
when the wolves
camp would lose
about Snowbird's
the last of their
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cowardice. Yet he knew he rau«t keef
a tight grip on his self-control anc
not let the necessity of haste cost bin
his victory. He crept forward, step
by step, placing his snowshoes with
consummate care. When he was one
hundred yards distant he sew that
Cranston's camp was situated beside
a little stream that flowed rhto the
river and that—like the mountaineer
lie was—he had built a large lean-to
reinforced with snowbanks. The fire
burned\at Its opening. Cranston was
not In sight either he was absent
from camp or asleep in his lean-to.
The latter seemed the more I'kely.
Dan made a wide detour, mining In
about thirty yards behind *he construc
tion. Still he moved with Incredible
uition. Never in his life had he pos
sessed a greater mastery over hi- o*»«
nerves. His heart leaped somnvhat
fast in his own breast but thi's was
the only wasted motion. It isn't ea^y
to advance through such thickets with
out ever a misstep, without the rustle
of a branch or the crack Of a twig.
Certain of the wild creatures find If
easy but men have forgotten how itl
too many centuries of cities and farn s.
It is hardly a human quality, and a
spectator would have found a rathet
irhastly fascination in watching the
lithe motions, the passionless face, the
hands that didn't shako at all. But
there were no spectators—unless the
little band of wolves, stragglers from
the pack that had gathered on the hills
behind—watched with lighted eyes.
Dan went down at* full length upon
the snow and softly removed his sn.uf
shoes. They would be only an impnll
ineqt in the close work that was sure
to follmv. He slid along the snow
crust. cTear to the mouth of the lean-to.
The moonlight poured through
showed the interior with rather re
markable plainness. Cranston was
sprawl-*d. half-sitting, half-lying on a
tree-bMgh pallet near the rear wall.
There was not the slightest doubt of
the mnn's wakefulness. Dan heard
him st!r. and once—as if at the mem
ory of his deed of the day before—he
cursed *n a savage whisper. Although
fee was facing the openii-g "7 the lean
To, lie was wholly unaware of Dan'r
present. The latter lwd thrust his
head a* the side of the opening, and
it was in shadow. Cra.-jston seemed
to be hatching the great, white snow
Oelds that lay in front, and for a mo
ment Dan was at loss to explain this
seeming vipl. Then he understood.
The white field before him was part
ol the long ridge that the three of
thVm would pass on their way to the
valleys. Cranston had evidently an
ticipated that the grrl ard the man
wculd attempt to march cut—even if
he hadn't guessed they would try to
take trie helpless Lennox With them—
ant he wished to b" prepared for
emergencies. There might be sport to
hav« with Dan, unarmed us he was.
And his eyes were full of strange con
jecF.irts in regard to Snowbird. Both
wou be exhaust
ed now and helpless—
Dan's eyes encompassed the room:
the piles of provisions heaped against
the wall, the snow shoes »eside the
pallet, but most of all he wished to
locate Cranston's rifle. Success or
failure hung on that. He couldn't
find it at first. Then he saw the glit
ter of its barrel in the moonlight
leaning against a grub box possibly
six feet from Cranston and 10 from
himself.
His heart leaped. The best he had
hoped for—for the sake of Snowbird,
not himself—was that he would he
nearer to the gun than Cranston and
would be able to seize it first. Bui
conditions could be greatly worse than
they were. If Cranston had actually
had the weapon in his hands, the odds
of battle would have been frightful'y
against Ian. It takes a certain length
of time "to seize, swing, and aim a li
fle and Dan felt that while he wou«'d
be unable to reach it himself, Cran
ston could not procure it either, with
out giving Dan an opportunity to leap
upon him. In all Irs dreams, through
the months of preparation, he had pic
tured it thus. It was the test at last.
The gun might be loaded, and still—
in these days of safety devices—un
ready to tire and the loss of a frac
tion of a second might enable Cran
ston to reach his knife. Thus Daa
felt justified in ignoring the gun alto
gether and trusting—as he had most
desired—to a battle of hands. And he
wanted both hands free when he made
his attack.
If Dan had been erect upon his feet,
his course would have been an Imme
diate leap on the shoulders of his ad
versary, running the risk of CranstoB
reaching his hunting knife ia time..
But the second that he would require
to get to his feet would entirely offset
this advantage. Cranston could spring
up, too. So he did the next most di&
arming thing.
He sprang up and strode Into the
lean-to.
CYO BE CONTINUED.)
Fails Excavate 30-Mile Chasm,
The waters of the grand falls of
Labrador have excavated a chaaw 30
miles long.
When Satan needs a good man Is
tha business he Dicks out i i»*fer.
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And in all three cases it was the
same mule,—New Orleans Times-Pica
yune.
The Invalid realizes that he Is on
the high road to recovery when he
sees the doctor's bill.
The Alps mountains harbor more
than 1,000 glaciers.
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PPRBH
AFTER EUERY MEftL
Mint leaf* peppermint or lus
cious Juicy fruit* either
fiavor is a treat for your
sweet tooth.
ail are equally fiood for
you. Teeth, appetite and
digestion ail benefit.
Your nerves will say "thank
you/' your vim will respond.
wRIGLEV'S is liked for what
it does as weil as for its BEG
value at the smal! cost of 5c.
SEALED
TiGHT
3 i! ill fir
Friends Tell Good Story on Lawyer
Who Has Risen to High
Position in State.
Col. W. II. Holmes, state superin
tendent, of game for the department of
conservation, was admitted to the bar
o reaching his majority. His first
case was to prove that a certain mule
belonged to a certain negro. lie won
the case.
Subsequently in another mule case
I:e proved the animal belonged to an
dSher negro. Then he was elected dis
trict attorney, and the first case he
lad to prosecute was one concerning
ft imile. The mule had been stolen and
was over the Jine in Mississippi, lie'
was going to abandon the case, when
one of his former clients approached
him and said.
"Cunnel, ef I was you all, I'd go
after dat mule. Dat's de mule been
suppohtin' you evar since jTou was a
lawyer."
KEPT
RIGHT
AND IT WAS THE SAME IViULE FAMOuS OLD CHUfiCH GONE
Its So Easy to
Make the Change
There's no bother and no
sacrifice in turning away
from the ills which some1
times come from tea and cof-,
fee,
when you decide on.
POSTUM CEREAL
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TRen you. have a rich, Pull-bodied
table beverage which fully satisfies
the taste —and there's no inured*
ient to harm nerves or digestion.
Thousands have changed to Fostaa
as die better meal-time drink
and they don't turn back
Suppose you try the change for
ten days and note the resulu
*There's a Reason Hrlbstam
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Flames That Consumed Historic
Washington Edifies Also Destroyed
Relics That Were Priceless.
St. Paul's parish church, in Rock
Creek cemetery, the oldest church in
Washington and one of the oldest in
the United States, was recently de
stroyed by fire. The interior of the
building, valuable memorial windows,
old relics and paintings were burned,
and the four walls of the structure,
erected in J77G, were all that wus left
of the historic edifice.
Among tlie historic relics destroyed
by ihe fire was a large folio Bible,
which was contained in a glass case
near the chancel. The Bible was
bought in 1T27, was used for many
years and was paid for by the con
gregation with tobacco. With the
Bible, also destroyed, were two large
folio common prayer books, the price
for which, according to records at
the church, was a quantity of to
bacco which was to bring" not less
than "Id per pound."
The first*faster service to be held
in the present, territory of "the Dis
trict of Columbia took place at old
St. Paul's church. Rock Creek, in I7VI.
Knowledge ts power. The more a
man knows, the more he can enjojr
life.
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