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COULDN'T STAND
ANY EXCITEMENT
Buffered From Nervousness and
Weakness and Would Just
Go to Pieces, If Excited,
Writes Georgia Lady.
Winston, Ga.-"I am taking Cardui
tight now," writes 'irs. Alice Green, of
it. F. D. 1, this plare. "I 'suffer very
nuch at ily . . . 1 from nervous
-ness and weakness. This is the third
time .I have tikei it. The first time
was about four years ago. . . - Iid
>a great deal of haldache and was so
nervous gill the time that I couldn't
stand any excitement at all.
"If I got excited I would Just all give
way and go to pIeces. My sister-iln
law told 1me tirst Ilou t Cardul and I
-began to take it. I could 11el a big
.difference in my strengti Ibefore I had
taken a whole bottle. I was abolit well
by the tdie I limd takn 3 or .1 holtles
arnd I soon got so I could (o till my
work.
"The second time I took it wa*,s last
fall. . . . I think I overworked picking
Cottoni and doing mily housework. I got
so bad that I suffe'redl very badly at my
. . . So I began taking ('ardii again.
I took 3 holies IntId I inniiidiately be
gan to imlprovei 11tnd fil ell et than I
had in a long !Itile. I weighed 154
when I fInIshed taking it, more than I
hbad in t long time."
Cardul, the woman's tonie, has won
the confidence of its users by the re
sults whlih they obtain. Try It.-Adv.
Whole Truth of Buddhism.
)iiiniii Zensil, a great Biddhist
priest. one lived on top of t tree in a
iountain: so people nicknaied himn
"owl priest." Someone interrupted I
his italittions o(- (lily with the fol- 4
lowing (lestion:t
"What, in a inutshell, is the truth of
Bulddhal's re01lgon'?"
"Eischew all ,Ins, and practice aillI
viruies," replied the priest without
openting his eyes. 1
"Oh. i that all?" said (lie man snr
castically. "Even a child of three years
cnit say that."
"Yes, even a child of three years can
say tIlt," rejoined the priest, "but tin
old man of eighty years cannot put it
into practice."-Tokyo Advertiser.
GREE'S AUGUST
FLOWER
Has a Record of 50 Years of
Success
Correcting impurities in the stomach,
gently acting oin the howels. Stirs
up the liver land makes the despondl~
enit dyspeptic enjoy life. It is high
ly r'confluendedl for bililuCsns, ind(1
g(estion, etc. Alwtays keep a bottle of
August IFlower hanudy for the first
symtom~tIa of these dlisord(ers5. You may
feel fine today, butt howv abouit tomuor
rowv? Rlemtember that "an outnce of
prevention Is worth a pound~ of cure,"
and that it is hot ihi paitu and expen
sive to be sick. For' sale biy druggists
in all pairts of the elvilIzed world in
25 and 75 cent bottles.-Adv.
Quits.
The hours were flying by, and still
Al gy, t he bore, iremai ned wi th hier.
"D~o you like music?" she iuquired,
listlessly.
"Yes," helie C~ld. "I ant always
catried away by muisic."'
Shie flew to thte piano and played
several tirts. Then she I trned and(
looked at him.
"Are you not gone yet?"
"No," lie answered.
"Blut you told me that music al
ways ('arried you auway?"
"Yes," lie etrteitd, "hutt I said mu
sic."
THE BEST BEAUTY DOCTOR
Is Cuticura for PurifyIng and Beauti.
tying the Skin-Trial Free.
For cleansing, purifyinug and beauti
'tying the complexion, hands and~ hmair,
Cuticura Soap with touches of Cuti
curat Olnttment now and then afford tihe
most effective pr'epatratiotns ait the mini
mum of cost. No mtassaging, steamning~
creaming, or waste of Itiae.
Free samlll)e echl!l by mauii with Book.
Address 'postcard, Cuticura, Dept. I,,
Iloston, Sold everywhere.-Adv.
H is R esolve.
"Now they saiy our food iufliuences
.our moodis."
"I'll quit eating bluefish then."
Infections or infiammations of the Eyes,
'whether from external or internal causes,
are' promptly healed by the use of Roman
Eye Balsam at night upoil tetring. Ad,.
That which is not good for the
*swarm is not good for the bee.-Mar
~US Aurelius.
What hass been'your favor ite Spring Ma.
i l Pt Srn TTe are tomuie a
wo a txaaAs
ahnd S4a thaag.wth a frlade s
c4'REX DBIS
.Auhorof"The Spoilers,""T
The Silver Horde,'
MRS. AUSTIN IS ACCUSED
BY HER DRUNKEN HUS.
BAND OF BEING TOO
FRIENDLY WITH THE
STATE RANGER.
Mrs. Alaire Austin, a hand
solii yoting mlatron, mnistress of
Las Palnas: ranch. gets lost in
the Texas desert and after an
all-aiy si ruiggle wanders into
the little camp of David Law,
a range oflicer hunting a Mexl
enn mu rdterer. Circumstances
fiorce lier to stay there over
night and all the next day. Law
vatches his man and kills an
other, then escorts her home.
CHAPTER IV.
-3
At Las Palmas.
Although the lower counties of
outhwest Texas are tlat and badly
atered, they possess a rich soil. They
re favored, too, by a kindly climate,
ubtrople in its nildness. The Ric
xrande, jaundiced, erratic as an in.
-alid, wrings its sifron blood from thi
lay blutYs and gravel canyons of the
till country, but near its estuary winds
luletly through a low coastal plair
%'hich the very impurities of that blood
yive richened. Here the river's banl
ire smothered In thickets of huisache
pbony, mesquite, oak and alamo.
Railroads are so scarce along thi
livision of the border that to trave
rrom Brownsville north along the ill
ternational line one must, for severa
hundred miles, avail oneself of horseq
mules or motorcars, since rail transpo1
tation Is almost lacking. And on hli
way the traveler will traverse whol
counties where the houses are jacal
whte English Is a foreign tongue, an
where peons plow their fields wit
crooked sticks as did the ancier
Egyptians.
That part of the state which lie
below the Nueces river was for a tin:
disputed territory, and long after Te:
ans had given their lives to drive til
eagle of Mexleo across the Rio Grand
much of it remained a forbidden lam
Even today it is alien. It is a part <
our Southland, butt a South di(Yerer
to any ot her that we have. Within
there are no blai'ks, and yet the white
ntutmber b)lit one in twenty. The rer
are swarthy. black-hairedl men wl
spea':k t hi Spanish tongue and wvho.'
elttzenship) is mostly a matter of for:1
TLhe stoickmin,t pushIng ahead of ti:
nesters mmnil the tillers of the soil, wet
the iirst to invade the lower Ri
Grande, and among these "Old E(
Austin was a pioneer. Like the othe
cattle barons, he was hungry for Iarn
andi toolii it where or how he coul
Those were crude old (lays ; the l
neer's who pushed their herds into tI
far lpastures were lawless fellows, rut]
less, ai'quisltive, mastered by the et~
pire-buliler's urge for acres and sti
more acres.
As other ranches grew under tI
htandus of such unregenerate owners,
also under "Old Ed" Austin's nmanag
maent didi Las Painmas increase at'
prospter. It comuprised an expanse
rich river-land backed buy miles
range where "Box A" cattle lived at
bred. in his later years when the ol
man handed Las Paimas to his so
"iYoung Ed, as a wedding gift, ti
ranch was known far and wide for I
size and richness. Las Palmais hii
chatnged greatly since Austin, setnlc
ptainfully scrawled his slanting sign
ture to. the (deed. It was a ditfere:
ranch now to what the old muan hta
known ;indleed, it was doubtful if 1
would have recognized it, for' even t1
house was5 new.
Alaire had sonme such thought
mitnd as she rode up to the gate<
ihe afternoon following her depart u
from the water hole, and site felt
thr'ill of lpridle at the acres of sproutim
corn, the dense green field of alfal
so nicely fitted between their fenc<
'they were like clean, green squares
matting spread for the feet of sumnm
A Mexicant boy came running to ca
for hter htorse, a Mexican woman gr'et
ed her as shte entered the widec, co
hail and went to her room. Dolor
fixed a bath and lai out clean cloth
with a running accompaniment of cht
ter Concerned with household affair
She was a great gossip, and possessi
suceh a talent for gaining informath
that through her husband, Benito, ti
range boss, she was able to keep h
mistress 10 fairly intimate touch .wi'
ranch matters.
Alaire, as she leisurely dressed hi
self, acknowledged that it was good
feel the physical comforts of her os
house, even though her homecomli
gave her no especial joy, She made
H h
4Osl
I/ Iron Trail,"
Etc.
solitary state, presiding over ati empty
table. Tonight, Ed was at home. It
was with a grave preoccupation that
she made herself ready to meet him.
In the dining room, Ed acknowl
edged his wife's entrance with a care
less nod, but did not trouble to re
move.his hands from his pockets. As
lie seated himself heavily at the table
and with unsteady fingers shook the
folds from his napkin, he said:
"You stayed longer than you intend
ed. Uni-ni-you were gone three days.
weren't you?"
"Four days," Alaire told him, real
Izing with a little inward start how
very far apart she and Ed had drifted.
She looked at him curiously for an in
stant, wondering if he really could be
her husband, or-if he were not some
peculiarly disagreeable stranger.
Ed had been a handsome boy, but he
was growing fat from drink and s6ft
from idleness; his face was too full,
his eyes too sluggish; there was an
unhealthy redness in his cheeks. In
contrast to his wife's semi-formal
dress, he was unkempt-unshaven and
soiled. His preparations for dinner
this evening had been characteristically
simple; he had drunk three dry cock
tails and flung his sombrero into a cor
ner.
"I've been busy while you were
gone," he announced. "Been down to
the pump house every day laying that
new intake. It w%'as a nasty job, too.
I had Morales barbecue a cabrito for
my lunch, and it was good, but I'm
hungry again." Austin attacked his
meal with an enthusiasm strange in
him. IHe was a heavy and a constant
(-drinker at all times. What little ex
I ercise he took was upon the back of a
- horse, and, as no one knew better than
I 'his wife, the physical powers he once
had were rapidly deteriorating,
By and by he inquired, vaguely:
g "Let's see.... Where did you go
e this time?"
, - "I went up to look over the Ygnacio
ci tract."
hl "Oh, yes. Think you'll lease it?"
,t "I don't know. I must find some
place for those La Feria cattle."
s Austin shook his head. "Better leave
e 'em where they are, until the rebels
take that country. I stand mighty well
C with them."
"That's the trouble," Alaire told
1 him. "You stand too well-so well
f that I want to get my stock out of
t federal ter-ritory as soon as possible."
t Ed shrugged carelessly. "Suit your
a self ;they're your' cows."
t~ The mecal wvent on with a desultory
flow of simall talk, during whlich the
Shusband indulged his thirst freely.
Alair'e toldl him about the acclident
to~ her' hmorse and the unpleasant ordeal
esihe had suffer'ed in the mesquite.
SI"Luck-y you found somebody at the
water hole," Ed commented. "Who
was this ranger? Never heard of the
fellow," he commented on the name.
T."Ihe rangers are nothing like they
"Tihis fellow would do credit to any
organization." As Alaire described
11how~ expedlitiously Law had made his
1
it
in
in
r.I
t
s"Who Was This Ranger?"
s. arrest and handled his man, her bus
d band showed interest,
n "Nicolas Anto, eh?" said he. "Wh<
me was his comupanero'?"
~r "Panfilo Sanchez."
h Ed started. "That's strange! The;
must have met-accidentally."
r--"So they both declared. Why di4
to you let Panfilo gbV5'
mn "We -didn't need him hem'e, and h
ig was too goed a man to lose, so-" Et
it found h a wlfe's eyes fixed upon him
ir, land dr'opped his own., "I knew 701
ih we4aesadda Mai hr
Dxclained, testily, "Wiatc are you look-|j
Ing at?"
"I wondered what you'd say."
"Eih? Can't I flre a manl without a 1
ong-winded explanation? Just because
've let you run things to suit your- j
elf-" . 1
"Wait I We had our understanding." 1)
Linire's voice was low and vibrant. t
It Wits my payment for living with 1(
ou, and you know it. You gave me 4
he reins to Las Palmas so that I'd I
ave something to do, somitething to
ve for and think about, except-your e
etions. The ranch has doubled in
alue, every penny is accounted for, y
nd you have more money to spend
a yourself than ever before. You have
io reason to complain." -
Austin crushed his napkin into a ball
nd flung it front himt ; with a1 scowl
te shoved himself back from the table.
"It was an Idiotie arrangement, just
lie samne. I agreed because I was sick.
)ad thought I was all shot to pieces.
But I'm all right now and able to run -
ny own business."
"Nevertheless. it was a bargain, and
t will stand. If your father were alive
e'd make you live up to it."
"You talk as if I were a child,"
iouted her husband ; and his plump
race was apoplectic with rage. "The
iltle is in my name. How could he
miake me do ainything?"
"Nobody could force you," his wife
sauld. quietly. "You are still enough of
a man to keep your word, I believe, so
long as I observe my part of our bar
gain?"
Ed. slightly mollified, agree4l. "Of
course I am ; I never welched. But
I won't be treated as an incompetent.
and I'm tired of these eternal wrangles
and jangles."
"You have welched."
"Eh1?" Austin frowned belligerently.
"You agreed to go away when you
felt your appetite coming on, anI you
promised to hIve clean, at least aroind
home."
"Well?"
Alaire went on in a lifeless tone that
covered the seething emotions within
her. "I never inquire into your actions
at San Antonio or other large cities.
although of course I have ears and I
can't help hearing about them; but
these border towns are home to us.
and people know me. I won't be hunill
inted iore than I am; public pity is
hard enough to bear. I've about
reached the breaking point."
"Indeed?" Austin leaned forward,
his eyes inflamed. His tone was raised,
heedless of possible eavesdroppers.
"Then why don't you end it? Why
don't you divorce me? I never see
anything of you. You have your part
of the house and I have mine; all we
share in comnmon is meal hours, and
and a mail address."
Alaire turned upon him ey-s dark
with nisery. "You know why I don't
divorce you. No. Ed, we're going to
live out our agreement, and these
Brownsville episodes are going to
cease." Her lips whitened. "So are
your visits to the pumping station."
"What do you mean by that?"
"You transferred Panfilo because lie
wias growing jealous of you and IRosa."
Ed burst into sudden laughter.
"There's no harm in a little flirtation.
Rosa's a pretty girl."
ills wife uttered a breathless,
smothered exclanmation ; her hands, as
they lay on the table cloth, were tight
ly clenched. "She's your .tenant-al
tmost your servant. Whtat kind of a
tian are you? Haven't vou any de
cency left?"
"Say ! Go easy ! I guess I'm no dif
ferent to moset men." Austin's utnpleas
ant laughter hatd been succeedhed by a
still more unpleasant scowl. "I have
to do something. It's dead enough
around htere-"
"You must stop going thter'e."
"Hlumpht ! I notice you go whlere
youj please. Rosa and I never spent a
ntighit toge'tther in thte chaparral
"Ed !" Alaire's exclamation was like
thte snap of a whip. Site rose and
faced her husband, quiverIng as if the
lash had stung her flesh.
"That wvent home, elh? WVell, im no
fool I I've seen something of the world,
and I've found that women are about
ike men. I'd like to have a look at this
David Law, this gunman, this Hand
some Hatrry whlo waits at water holes
for ladies in dlistress." Ed ignored his
wife's outflung hand, and continued,
rnockingly: "I'll bet he's all that's
manly atnd splendid, everything that
I'mu not."
"You'd-better stop," gasped the
woman. "I can't stand everything."
"So? WVell, neithter can I."
"After-thtis, I thtink yout'd better
go-to San Anttonio. Maybe I'll forget
before yo come back.",
To this "Yotung Ed" agreed quickly
enough. "Glood !" said he. "Thamt suits
me. I'll at least get a little peace at
my climb." Hie glowered after his wife
ats she left the rootm. Then, still scowl
ing, he hurchted out to the gallery
wheve the breeze was blowing, andl
flung himself into a chair.
* * * * * * *
Ed's marriage to Alaire had been in
evitable. They had beent phaymnates,
and their parents had considered the
union a consummation of their own
lifelong frIendship. Upon her mother's
(deathi Alaire had been senit abroad, and
there she remained while "Young Ed"
attended ao eastern college, For any
child the experience would have been
a lonesome one, and through it the
motherless Texas girl had grown late
an imaginative, sentimental person, liv
Sing in a make-believe world, peopled.
for the most part, with the best
I remembered figures of romance and
fiction, There were, of course, some
few flesh-and-blood heroes among the
I rest, and of these the finest and the
,noblest had been "Young E~d" Austin.
a When she came home .to marry,
SI Alaire was stilt very much of ai child,
hand shea till-cnldmda 3d hp. knlh.
ts for him, lie was captiva'ted by thlo
plendid' handsome girl, whom he re
lembered only ats a shy, red-headed
ttle comrade.
As Las Paimas had been the elder
'ustin's wedding gift to his son, so
,laire's dowry fromi her father had
ien La Feria, a grant of lands across;
te Itio Grande beyond the twenty
'ague belt by which Mexico fatuously
trives to guard her border. And to
,as Palmas had come the bride and
room to live, to love and to rear theit
lilldren.
But raroly has there been a shorter I
oneymoon. seldom a swifter awaken
ig. Within six Imionths "Young' Ed"
ad killed his wife's love an 1 had him
elf become an alcoholic. Other vices
o multiplied that what few virtues
he young man had inherited wero
oon choked. To the bride the truth
and conie as a stunning tragedy. The
vreck of her hopes and glad imagin
ngs left her sick, bewildered. in the
ace of "the thing that couldn't."
Nor had the effect of this transfor.
nation in "Young EM" been any less
tinfil t'' - ''"'. When the truth
4 1
She Rose and Faced Her Husband.
was borne in upon him unmistakably
and the girl-wife remained firm in her
refusal to divorce her husband. the un.
derstanding had been reached b3
which the management of Las Painas
was placed absolutely in her hands.
Of course the truth became public.
as it always does. "Young Ed" Aus
tin's life became a scorn and a hissing
among his neighbors. They were not
unduly fastidlous, these neighbors, and
they knew that hot blood requires more
than a generation to cool, but every
thing Ed did outraged them. In trying
to show their sympathy for his wife
they succeeded in wounding her more
deeply, and Alaire withdrew Into her
self. She had changed. The alteration
reached to the very hone and marrow
of her boing. At first the general pity
iad wounded her, then it had offended,
and finally angered her. That people
should notice her affiletion. partIeu
larly when she strove so desperately
to hide it, seemed the height of inso
lence.
The management of Ls Pa':'as was
almaost her only relief. Ilnving sprung
from a family of ranchers, the work
camne easy, and she grewv to like it-as
w~ell as she could lIke anything with
that ever-p~resent pain In her breast.
L~as Palmias had1( prosper-ed to adm111ira.
tIon,. andit La Feria would have pros
paired equally had1( it nIot b~een for the
armed unrest of the country across the
border. No fluer stock than the "Box
A" wvas to be found alnywh~ere. But
Alaire had( riot coanhed her efforts to
cattle ; she had1( imp~rovedl the breed of
"lBox A" horses, to)o, and( hand1( in hand
withl tils work she had carried on a
series of agricultural experimients. For
instance, she had star'tedl a. grove of
paper-shelled ipecans, which was soon
duec to bear ; the ranchhouse and its
clump of palms was all but bhidden by
a forest of strange trees, which were
reported to ripen everything from
mothballs t.o bicycle tires. Blaze Jones
was perhaps responsible for this re
port, for AlaIre had shown lhim sev
eral thousand eucalyptus saplings and
some ornamental rubher plants.
"That Miz Austin is a money-makin
piece of furniture," he once told his
(laughter Paloma. "I'm no mechanical
adder-I comit mostiy on my fingers
but ther and me caiculated tile profits
on them eucher - what's their namo
trees?-and it gave mie a splittin' head
achle. She'll be a drug queen, sure."
"Why- don't you follow her exam
ple?" asked Paloma. "WVe have plenty
of land."
rDouble complications develop
for Mrs. Austin in quick order.
IThe next installment describes
Iher encounter with a Mexican
officer who becomes wild about
[her and mpkes trouble.
(TO B1C CONTINUED.)
Real ApprecIation.
Ella was arrangng her mistress'
hair one afternoon when she men
tioned that she had heard Miss Allen
sing in the parlor the evening before.
"How did you like her, Ella?" asked
the mistress.
"Oh. mum," sighed the maid, "it was
grand! 'She sung just as if she was
gargling I"
The Way.
Bystander-"I suppose you would
like to take a ride without worrying
about tires and the like?" Motorist
(axing puncture)-"You bet I
would." Bystander-"Well, here's *
car ticket."-'Qhanarrat
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Suffering.
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was very irregular
and would have ter
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could hardly take a
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would be so misera
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doctored part of the
time but felt no
)hange. I later took Lydia E. Pink
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elt a change for the better. I took it
mtil I was in good healthy condition.
recommend the Pinkhan remedies to
1 women as I have used them with suchs
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4. J.
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