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DROPSY.
How a Terrible Case Was Cured After
Doctor’'s Treatment Failed.
Michael J. Sharp, 139 Maryland Ave.,
Rosebank, N, Y., says: “l had ja
tense pains through my back and
my feet swelled so I could hardly
walk. The slightest touch left a mark
on the skin, showing
plainly that I had
dropsy. Whenever I
caught cold, I lost
control of the kidney
gecretions. My phy
pician stated nothing
would save me but an
operation. It was my
good fortune to hear of Doan’'s Kidney
Pills and under their use I gradually
grew better. The frequent flow of the
urine was corrected, the brickish sedi
ment and gravel disappeared and the
color became natural. I recommend
Doan's Kidney Pills in the highest
terms.”
Remember the name—Doan’'s.
For sale by druggists and general
storekeepers everywhere. Price boc.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
THE DARWINIAN THEORY.
Count De Bree—l would like to
show you my family tree.
Miss Gottrox—Oh! please do; I've
never seen a cocoanut tree!
THREE CURED OF ECZEMA
““ghen a child, I suffered eight
years with eczema, I could not sleep
at night, and had sores all over my
chest. We had doctors and none
could do any good, until my mother
saw the advertisement of the Cuti
cura Remedies in the paper. We used
the Cuticura Soap, Ointment and
Resolvent, and they cured me of
ecgema. I also used them on my five
children. Two of them had eczema
very ba®®y. When my children had
eczema, I was not worried at all, as
1 knew the Cuticura Remedies would
do their work. They had sores all
over their heads, their hair would fall
out, and they would scratch all night
and day. They had it on their heads,
face, and in back of the ears so that I
thought their ears would drop off. I
washed their heads and bodies with
Cuticura Soap and they are as (lean
as the driven snow. Cuticura Soap
and Ointment also cured my children
of ringworm. I would not be without
the Cuticura Remedies. They are
wonderful.” (Signed) Mrs. Violet
Cole, 26 S. Redfield St., Philadelphia,
Pa., Oct. 29, 1910.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment are
sold throughout the world. Send to
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., sole
props., Boston, for free book on skin
and scalp diseases and their treat
ment.
Strange Children,
George Bancroft, the historian,
used to relate with gusto a joke that
he caught while trotting to school
along a Massachusetts country road.
It was about old Levi Lincoln, says
Percy H. Epler in “Master Minds at
the Commonwealth's Heart.”
The old gentleman was nearly
blind. A flock of geese was being
driven gobbling up Lincoln street,
L.eaning far out of the carriage, the
fine old aristocrat, thinking they were
children, threw out a handful of pen
nies, graciously exclaiming:
“God bless you, my children!”
And They Adjourned.
"The Mutual Admiration society met
and was called to order.
“What of all the things in this world
do you like best?” asked the girl,
angling for a compliment.
“Beefsteak!” cried he, taken un:
awares, and a moment later the so
ciety adjourned.
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
‘CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Bears the -
Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
Hypnotic,
Margaret—l think Mr. Baker couild
easily hypnotize people.
Katherine—Why do you think so?
Margaret-—He often holds my hand
till it falls asleep.—Puck.
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It is difficult to convince the head
of" the house that two heads are bet.
ter than one.
Garfield Tea corrects constipation by
arousing the digestive organs to their in
tended activity. Composed of Herbe.
Your wife, as well as your sins, will
find you out
‘g}flmmv ROBERUS mnmzmmvw
AUTHOR f{‘“ THE CIQCULAQ STAIRCASE™
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3 SYNOPSIS.
James Wilson or Jimmy as he ‘s called
oy his friends. Jimmy was rotund and
looked shorter than he really was, His
ambition in life was to be taken seriously.
but Peoplo steadily refused to do so, his
art {s considered a huge joke, except to
himself, if he asked people to dinner ev
eryone expected a frolic. Jimmy marries
Bella Knowles: they live together a year
and are divorced. Jimmy's friends ar
range to celebrate the first anniversary
of his divorce. The party is In full swing
when Jimmy receives a telegram from his
Aunt Selina, who will arrive in four hours
to visit him and his wife. He neglects to
tell her of his divorce. Jimmy takes Kit
into his confidence. He suggests that Kit
%n[); the hostess for one night, be Mrs.
ilson pro tem. Aunt Selina arrives and
the deception works out as planned.
glm'l Jap servant is taken ({ll. Bella,
immy’'s divorced wife, enters the house
and asks Kit who 18 being taken away In
the ambulance? Belle insists it is Jim.
Kit tells her Jim is well and is in the
house, Harbison steps out on the porch
and discovers a man tacking a card on
the door. He demands an explanation.
The man points to the placard and Har
bison sees the word “;mallpox" printed
on it. He tells him the guests cannot
leave the house until the quarantine is
lifted, After the lifting of the gquarantine
several letters are found in the mail box
undelivered, one is addressed to Henry
Llewellyn, Iquique, Chile, which was
written by !?nrhhnn. He describes mi
nutely of thelr incarceration, also of his
infatuation for Mrs. Wilson. Aunt Seclina
is taken {!l with la grippe. Betty acts as
nurse, Harbison finds ?(lt sulking on the
roof. She tells him that Jim has been
treating her outrageously, Kit starts
downstairs, when suddenly she {s grasped
in the arms of a man who kisses her sev
eral times. She belleves that Harbison
did it and is humiliated. Aunt Selina tells
Jimmy that her cameo breastpin and
other articles of jewelry have been stolen,
She accuses RBetty of the theft, Jimmy
tells Aunt Sellna all about the strange
happenings, but she persists In suspecting
Betty of the theft of her valuables,
Harbison demands an explanation from
Kit as to her conduct towards him, she
tells him of the incident on the roof, he
does not deny nor confirm her accusation,
One of the guests devises a way to escapse
from the iouse. They set fire to the re
ception room and attempt to leave the
house from the rear. The guards dis
cover the ruse and prevent them from
escarlnf. Max finds Anne's pearl clasp
gln n Jimmy's studio in a discarded coat.
immy {8 suspected of the theft, but de
nies the accusation, Kit finds a watch
hanging to a pillar in the basement and
with initials T. H. H. engraved upon it,
She opens the case and finds a plcture of
herself that had been clipped from a
newspaper,
CHAPTER XVI.
- .
| Face Flannigan,
Dinner had waited that night while
everybody went to the coal cellar and
stared at the hole in the wall, and
watched while Max took a tracing of
it and of some footprints in the coal
dust on the other side.
sedid not go. I went into the library
with the guilty watch in a fold of
my gown, and found Mr. Harbison
there, staring through the February
gloom at the blank wall of the next
house, and quite unconscious of the
reporter with a drawing pad just be
low him in the area-way. 1 went over
and closed the shutters before his
very eyes, but even then he did not
move.
“Will you be good enough to turn
around?” I demanded at last,
“Oh!” he said, wheeling. "“Are you
here?”
There wasn't any reply to that, so
I took the watch and placed it on the
library table between us. The effect
was all that 1 had hoped. He stared
at it for an instant, then at me, with
his hand outstretched for it, stopped.
“Where did you find it?” he asked.
I couldn't understand his expression.
He looked embarrassed, but not at all
afraid.
“I think you know, Mr. Harbison,” 1
retorted.
“l wish I did. You opened {t?”
“Yes.”
We stood looking at each other
across the table. It was his glance
that wavered,
“About the picture—of you,” he
sald at last. “You see, down there
in South America, a fellow hasn’t
much to do evenings, and a—a chum
of mine and I-—we were awfully down
on what we called the plutocrats, the
—the leisure classes. And when that
picture of yours came in the paper,
we had—we had an argument. He
said—" He stopped.
“What did he say?” '
“Well, he saild it was the picture of
an empty-faced soclety girl.”
“Oh!” 1 exclaimed.
“l—l maintained there were possi
bilities in the face.” He put both
hands on the table, and, bending for
ward, looked down at me. “Well, I
was a fool, I admit. 1 sald your eyes
were kind and candid, in spite of that
haughty mouth. You %ee, | said I was
a fool.”
“l 1 think you are exceedingly rude,”
I managed finally. “If you want to
know where I found your watch, It
was down in the coal cellar. And if
vou admit you are an idiot, I am not.
I—l know all about Bella's bracelet
and the board on the roof, and--oh, if
you would only leave—Anne's neck
lace—on the coal, or somewhere—and
‘et .'.’__n
My voice got beyond me then, and I
dropped into a chair and covered my
face. 1 could feel him staring at the
back of my head.
Knocked Out “Sam Langford
“Here is a good fish story,” said '"f
imaginative member of Mr. Boldt's
staff at the Waldorf the other day, ac
cording to the New York Sun.
“You know that glass tank in the
grill room where the trout are kepi’
Well, in the lower tank was a large
trout which the walters have been
calling Jack Johnson. In the smaller
tank above was a smaller trout that
the waiters called Sam Langford. Be
- “Well, I'll be—" something or other,
! he said finally, and then turned on his
' heel and went out. By the time 1 got
’-my eyes dry (yves, I was crying; I al
'wayo do when d am angry) | heard
Jim coming’ downstairs, and 1 tucked
the watch out of sight. Would any
one have foreseen the trouble that
watch would make!
Jim was sulky. He dropped into a
chair and stretched out his legs,
looking gloomily at nothing. Then
he got up and ambled into his den,
closing the door behind him without
having spoken a word. It was more
than human nature could stand.
When [ went into the den he was
stretched on the davenport with his
I face buried in the cushion. Ht looked
absolutely wilted, and every line of
lhlm was drooping.
| “Go on out, Kit,” he said, in a
' smothered voice., “Be a good girl and
f'don't follow me around.”
{ “You are shameless!" 1 gasped.
l"l-‘nllmv vou! When you are hung
| around my neck like a—like a—"
| Millstone was what | wanted to say,
| but I couldn’t think of It.
' He turned over and looked up from
| his cushions like an f{ll-treated and
| suffering cherub.
| “I'm done for, Kit,° he groaned.
| “Bella went up to the studio after
we left, and investigated that corner.”
“What did she find? The necklace?”
I asked eagerly. He was too wretched
to notice this.
“No, that picture of you that I did
las! winter. She {8 crazy-—she says
she {s going upstairs and sit in Ta
kahiro’'s rcom and take smallpox and
die.”
“Fiddlesticks!” 1 sald rudely, and
somebody hammered on the door and
opened fit,
“Pardon me for disturbing you,”
Bella sald, in her best dear-me-I'm
glad-I-knocked manner, “But—Flan
nigan says the dinner has not come.”
“Good Lord!” Jim exclaimed. “1
forgot to order the confounded din
ner!"” '
It was eight o'clock by that time
.and as it took an hour at least after
telephoning the order, everybody
looked blank when they heard. The
entire family, except Mr. Harbison,
who had not appeared again, escorted
Jim to the telephone and hung around
hungrily, suggesting new dishes every
minute. And then—he couldn’t raise
Central. It was 15 minutes before we
gave up, and stood staring at one an
other despaliringly.
“Call out of a window and get one
of those infernal reporters to do some
thing usef®®for once,” Max suggested
| But he was indignantly hushed. We
would have starved first. Jim was
peering Into the transmitter and
knocking the receiver against his
hand, like a watch that had stopped.
But nothing happened. Flannigan re
ported a box of breakfast food, two
lemons and a pineapple cheese, a
combination that didn't seem to lend
ftself to anything.
We went back to the dining room
from sheer force of habit and sat
. tween the two, so ran the grill room
‘gonlp, there was much feeling.
| “The chef at the grill was making a
’ lobster a la Nevwburgh when the water
'in the tanks was being changed, and '
| an attendant put Jack Johnson in the
upper tank. Just as soon as he sight
ed his enemy Jack made a dash and
caught him with his nose under the
stomach. There was a swish, and the
smaller fish flew out of the water and 1
THE OLNEYVILLE TIMES.
You're Unlucky, I'm Thinkin'”
gtudio after
around the table and looked at the
lemonade Flannigan had made. Anne
would talk about the salad her last
cook had concoted, and Max told
about a little town in Connecticut
where the restaurant keeper smokes a
corn-cob pipe while he cooks the most
luscious fried clams in America. And
Aunt Selina related that in her family
they had a recipe for chicken smoth
ered in cream. And then we sipped
the weauemonudo and nibbled at the
cheese.
“To change this gridiron martyr
dom,” Dallas said finally, “where's
Harbison? Still looking for his
watch?
“Watch!” Everybody sald it In a
different tone.
“Sure,” he responded. “Says his
watch was taken last night from the
studio. Better get him down to take
& squint at the telephone. Likely he
can fix it"”
Flannigan was beside me with the
cheese. And at that moment I felt
Mr. Harbison's stolen watch slip out
of my girdle, slide greasily across my
lap, and clatter to the floor. Flanni
gan stooped, but luckily it had gone
under the table. To have had (it
picked up, to have had to explain how
I got it, to see them Ury to ignore
my plcture pasted In it—oh, it was
impossible! I put my foot over it
“Drop something?’ Dallas asked
perfunctorily, rising. Flannigan was
still half kneeling.
“A fork,” 1 said, as easily as 1|
could, and the conversation went on.
But Flannigan knew, and I knew he
knew. He watched my every move
ment like a hawk after that, standing
just behind my chair. 1 dropped my
useless nupkin, to have it whirled up
before it reached the floor. 1 sald to
Betty that my shoe buckle was loose,
and actually got the watch in my hand,
only to let it slip at the critical mo
ment. Then they all got up and went
sadly back to the library, and Flannl
gan and I faced each other,
Flannigan was not a handsome man
at any time, though up to then he had
at least looked amiable, But now as
1 stood with my hand on the back of
my chair, his face grew suddenly
menacing. The sllence was absolute:
I was the gulltiest wretch alive, and
opposite me the law towered and
glowered, and held the yellow remnant
of a pineapple cheese! And In the sl
lence that wretched watch lay and
ticked and ticked and ticked. Then
Flannigan ereaked over and closed the
door into the hall, came back, plcked
up the watch, and looked at it
“Youre unlucky, I'm thinkin',” he
sald finally. “You've got the nerve
all right, but you aln't cute enough.”
“l don't know what you mean,” |
quavered “Give me that watch to re
turn to Mr. Harblson "
“Not on your life” he retorted
easily. “I give it back myself, like I'm
going to give back the necklace, If you
act like a sensible little girl"”
I could only choke,
“It's foolish, any way you Ilnok at
It,” he persisted. “Here you are, lots
of friends, folks that think you're all
right. Why, | reckon there isn't one
of them that wouldn’t lend you money
if you needed 1t so bad”
“Will you be still 1?” I sald furiously.
“Mr. Harblison left that watch-—-with
me-—an hour ago. Get him, and he
will tell you so himself!"”
“Of course he would,” Flannigan
conceded, looking at me with grudging
approval. “He wouldn't be what |
think he fg, If he didn’t lle up and
down for you" There were volices In
the hall. Fannigan came closer. “An
hour ago, you say. And he told me
it was gone this morning! Its &
landed In the lobster a la Newburgh
that the chef was making, spolling
the dish absolutely and of course
bringing about Sam Langford's de
mise.”
“Say, is that true?’ queried a by
stander.
“Well, it's plausible, isn't {t?”
Nothing is easier than fault find.
ing; no talent, no selfdenial, no
brains, no character are required to
set up In the grumbling business
Robert West.
losing game, miss. I'll give you 24
hours and then-—the necklace, If you
please, miss."
CHAPTER XVII,
A Clash and a Kiss,
The clash that came that evening
had been threatening for some time.
Take an immovable body, represented
by Mr. Harbison and his square jaw,
and an irresistible force, Jimmy and
his weight, and there is bound to be
trouble.
The real fault was Jim's. He had
gone entirely mad again over Bella,
and thrown prudence to the winds.
He mooned at her across the dinner
table, and waylald her on the stalirs
or in the back halls, just to hear'her
voice when she ordered him out of the
way. He telephoned for flowers and
candy for her quite shamelessly, and
he got out a book of photographs that
they had taken on thelr wedding jour:
ney, and kept it on the library table,
The sole concession he made to our
presumptive relationship was to bring
me the responsibility for everything
that went wrong, and his shirts for
buttons,
The first I heard of the trouble was
from Dal. He waylaid me in the hall
after ‘dinner that night, and his face
was serifous.
“I'm afraid we can't keep it up very
long, Kit,” he sald. “With Jim trafl
ing Bella all over the house, and the
old lady keener every day, it's bound
to come out somehow. And that isn't
all, Jim and Harbison had a set-to
today--about you."
“About me!" 1 repeated. "Oh, 1
dare say 1 have been falling short
again. What was Jim doing? Abusing
me ?" :
Dal looked eautiously over his shoul
der, but no one was near,
(TO RE CONTINUED)
THEY LEARN BY EXPERIENCE
Data Collected by German Naturalist
Show That Animals Often Become
Wiser Than Their Parents,
A German naturallst has been col
lecting data to show that animals learn
by experience, and thus, in gome In
stances, become wiser than thelr un-
Instructed parents,
Game animals of all kinds, 1t ap
pears, have learned the range of mod
‘nr‘n rifles. Greyhounds quickly learn
to let rabbits alone, and foxhounds
pay no attention to either rabbits or
hares. Killer whales and gulls follow
whallng vessels, just as vultures fol
low an army. Crows begin to accom
pany the chamols hunter as soon as
they have seen the result of his first
successful shot, and rough-legged buz.
zards follow the sportsmen after
winged game,
The number of birds that kill or In.
jure themselves by flying against tele.
graph wires 18 much smaller than It
used to be. The fact is also brought
out that birds and quadrupeds have
learned to disregard passing rallway
trains, as horses quickly cease to be
frightened by automoblles. Instances
of the Intelligent selection exercised
by sheep dogs are famliliar to all
NOT OVERESTIMATED.
“Let me tell yo';i, 'aentlemen." sald
the earnest vegetarian, who was lee
turing before the Butchers' assocla
tlon, “that there is more energy con
tained in a single banana than there
is In five pounds of the best beel
stenk.”
Instantly a storm of protesting and
derisive hisses broke forth from the
indignant audience. DPBut avove the
nolsy rasp could be heard the sten
torian volce of a husky-looking Indl
vidual shouting: "“The man Is right!
The man s right! DBut he falls to
allow o-nmu(h.mmrgy for the fruit |
know from my own personal experl
ence that a mere {rqction of the out
side of a banana contains sufficient en
ergy to take the best wrestler in the
world off his feet.”
Some Pacullar Bells.
In ecountry parts of Italy, where the
peasants are poor, baked earth has
been utilized to form crotals to hang
on the necks of their eattle, and In
Beotland and Ireland old bells are still
extant that consist of four thin plates
of iron bammered and riveted to
gether, One at Antwerp glven by
Charles V. Is made of copper, sllver
and gold and s valued at $lOO,OOO,
Consistent,
“Senator.” sald the reporter, “may |
ask how you made your first thou.
sand?
“Yer, sir,” responded Senator Graph
ter; “l made It In the same way that
I made all my subsequent thousands.”
Awed by the arrog®ce of hizs man
ner, the reporter refralned from head
ing the story of the Interview “A Con
fesslon!”
Comparing Notes.
The motorist and the aviator met
tor a confidential &fat,
“That's a fine machine you have™
sald the admiring aviator,
“Yes, 1t is the greatest farm wagon
buster in the country. And how about
your asroplane?”
“Sh! Best chimney buster in the
world, old ’:blp. o
\ A Modern Vacation,
“How are you golng to spend yout
vacation this summer?”
“I''m going to pick out some sum
mer resort hotel with a small dining:
room, and then every noon when |
fight my way into It, I'll just limagine
that I'm at the coronation.”
"Tis not only the grave that parts
us from our comrades and lovers; we
lose them on the way; they broaden
and narrow away from us, and we
from them. |
z\u your o‘m for an Indepens
LADIES iiiicimsidiars sl st
AW ARD'S (O, Na. & MW".
GET INTO BUSINESS a 1 tmd s ’H
annually. Uriginawr Co,, 331\“-". ‘o'l
STUDENTS WANTED it o™ Y eannns
free, Address Veterinary Colloge, Terre l’.fll‘.‘fl.
Hamaarin! Thompson's Eye Wate:
Consolation,
Mrs. Newgold (in the pleture gal
lery)-—This, Aunt Eunice, is a real
old master,
Aunt Eunice—Well, 1 shouldn't care
If it was; it's just as good as some of
the new ones.—Life,
Very Select,
The landlady was trying to impress
the prospective lodger with an idea of
how extremely eligible the neighbor
hood was, Pointing over the way at a
fine mansion, she sald in a hushed
whisper:
“Young man, over there across the
street there's seven million dollars!™
An Astonished Boy.
In February of this year a Wiscon
sin farmer took his twelve-year-old boy
to a village for the first time, and
there the Ind saw a train of cars, He
was 8o astonished at the sight that he
lost the power of speech for three
weeks. ; ‘
If that youngster is ever taken to a
elrcus or a zoologieal garden he'll
surely be struck dymb for the rest of
his life. His father's farm must be
hidden away In a hole in the ground.
Appalling Excuse.
“This s the NAfth time you have
been brought before me this term,”
sald the judge, frowning severely upon
the prisoner at the bar,
“Yes, your honor,” sald the prisoner.
“You know a man is judged by the
company he keeps, and | ke to be
geen talkin' to vour honor for the
sake of me credit”
“All right,” sald the judge. “OfMcer,
take this man over to the Island and
tell them to give him a credit of 30
days.”"—Harper's Weekly. . Y
The Second Dimension,
It was on a little branch rallway
iln a southern state that the New
England woman ventured to refer to
the high rates. “It seems to me five
cents a mile Is extortion,” she sald,
with frankness, to her southern cou
sin.
“It's a big lot of money to pay If
you think of it by the mlile,” sald
the southerner, in her soft drawl;
“but you just think how a cheap It Is
by the hour, Cousin Annle—only
about thirtyfive cents.” Yoyth's
Companion,
BUSINESS WOMEN
A Lunch Fit for a King.
An active and successful young
lady tells her food experience:
' “Some years ago 1 suffered from
nervous prostration, Induced by con
'tinuous brain strain and lmproper
! food, ndded to a great grief,
| I was ordered to glve up my work,
' s there was great danger of my mind
'funlng me altogether, My stomach
! was In bad condition (nervous dyspep
'sia, I think now) and when Grape
' Nuts food was recommended to me, |
' had no faith in It. However, | tried
“t, and soon thero was a 4 marked im
provement In my condition,
! “I had been troubled with faint
| spells, and had used a stimulant to
'revive me. 1 found that by eating
Grape-Nutg at such times 1 was re
' Heved and suffered no bad effects,
| which was a great gain. As to my
| other troubles—nervous prostration,
' dyspepsia, etc.~—on the Grape-Nuts diet
they soon disappeared.
“1 wish especially to eall the atten.
tion of ofMce girls to the great benefit
I derived from the use of Orn\pe-!\'utn
'aB a noon luncheon. [ was thoroughly
tired of cheap restaurants and ordin.
"ary lunches, and so made the experi
ment of taking a package of Grape-
Nuts food with me, and then slipping
out at noon and getting a nickel's
, worth of sweet cream to add to It
« “I found that this simple dish, fin.
ished off with an apple, peach, orange,
| or & bunch of grapes made a lunch fit
‘ for a king, and one that agreed with
" me perfectly,
. "I throve so on my Grape-Nuts dlet
' that 1 did not have to give up my work
at all, and In the two years have had
' only four lost days charged up agalnst
me.
. "“let me add that your suggestions
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