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After Others Fail r PETERSON'S OINTMENT JgL. ft "Tr Big Box 35 Cents The mighty healing power of Peterton's Ointment when eczema or terrible ^ Itching of slctn and scalp tortures you ^>^;!5is known to tens of thousands of peo- '|>le the country over. ft- T" For pimples, acne, rough and red . - - «kln, ulcers, old sores, piles and nil 4 f^,, jblemishes and eruptions it is supreme- ' ?y efficient, as any broad-minded drugwill tell you. She told him all about it. Inconsequentially, and he listened with genuine interest in his handsome eyes. Perhaps this artless revelation of a girl's heart was novel to a man who found the sex remarkable in all Its phases, perhaps with beauty like Ellen's opposite him. and a delicious breakfast under way. he would have found anything she said equally absorbing Warmed and contented, they went Out to the car again, and again Ellen .was wrapped In snugly, and, disguised by the big dark glasses. "Half-past two," said Gibbs. again at the wheel. "That means that we will run into the city Just about four 'clock." The car moved smoothly away over !he snow. Ellen was beginning to love the steady, gliding motion. She secretly wished that there was a longer journey ahead. The snow was surely coming; d^rk little cottony clouds were gathering ahead, and pressing low over the silent earth. There was no sunshine now. and the air seemed heavier and cold-' ,«r. The roads were almost deserted. "Never you mind, we'll beat It !** Glbbs, said with great enjoyment. "Look out for a signpost, and tell me where we are." "Columbus Circle twelve miles," Ellen announced, after a few minutes. "Twelve miles--well, we must look out for the Sunday speed cops now!" He slackened his pace. They were runtiing through a well-settled region. Ellen began to realize that the trip was almost over. The day had run away; a day always to.be a wonderful an-1 treasured, memory. Afterward, she tried to remember just how she was shaken from her musings. Like all accidents, the thing was simplicity Itself. They, were running parallel to a trolley track, on the wide street under the beginning of the elevated trains. There was a car «n the track a few hundred feet ahead, und next to the car a man driving an •enormous. team of horses and an empty truck. Both truck and trolley were traveling In the Bame direction as the automobile. The street wa% so wide that there was no question, even In Ellen's mind, of the propriety of passing, the car and truck, especially as the stretch of street beyond was absolutely empty. Gibbs turned his wheel toward the jleft, and was running unconcernedly %y, when the motormnn suddenly sounded an ear-piercing whistle--a ter- •rlflc, prolonged blast of the siren with which trolley cars are sometimes equipped In the country. The horses, with a wild plunge of terror, flung themselves straight across the path of the motorcar coming up behind them, almost unseating their driver, and tangling themselves In reins and harness. Glbbs jerked his car violently to the left, instinctively avoiding the plunging hoofs; there was a moment of horrible skidding and grinding In the snow that edged the ditch, then the roadster turned abruptly on its side, and Ellen was spilled out. with Gihbs on top of her. The girj had hardly time for a moment of hideous apprehension and panic before she was on her feet again, with his arm about her. laughing with the revulsion and the shock. The skid had saved them, for the car was turned at »n exact angle, and so had slipped with her lights firmly wedged against the further side of the ditch, and had no opportunity to turn turtle, as she must otherwise have done. For a few confused moments Ellen hid her dazed face In the fur of the man's shoulder; no, she really wasn't hurt, she had landed on her shoulder, honestly she was not hurt, it just burt her for a moment, that was all I And It had scared her-- Gibbs, reassured, began to nurse a wrenched wrist of his own. and to discuss the accident with the two carmen and the truck driver with the. usual anger and threats. What was the sense of blowing a whistle right into the horses' ears-- "You was passing too close 4o the edge of the road anyway!" shouted the motorman furiously. Upon Gihbs taking his number, he blew his whistle again, and banged triumphantly down the line. The tAck driver, a little frightened, standing at the horses' bead* «xpressed his satisfaction that the lady wasn't hurt, and drove away. "You've bust your front spring, mister," volunteered a youth gayly. "I know I have," Glbbs said savagely. "You poor little thing," he added tenderly to Ellen. "I've scared you to deatljJ" "Oh, It feels all, right, now," she said quickly, but she was white, and still shaken from the narrow es&pe. He read her expression truly. With only one worried glance at her, he set about extricating them from the difficult position as rapidly as possible. The gay -boy was left In charge of the car, and Gibbs caught up Ellen's suitcase, as. still In their heavy coats, they started on foot to the nearest garage. Fortunately this was not far away, and from here Glbbs sent mechanics back to the roadster, and engaged a taxlcab to take Ellen and himself as far as the subway at Van Cortlandt Park. Ail the while he was praising her, not only In words, but with his appreciative eyes, and In the sudden cheerfulness that the averted tragedy fnspired In him. He talked to her frankly and gayly; she was a good sport, she had really shown Incredible nerve. And they had had a great day, hadn't they?--since they missed the train from Hastings. "It's been a--wonderful da^P* she saidk hardly °above a whisper. Perhaps the man's first Impulse was to lay his hand over the small hand not far frpm his own, to say something that' should meet her mood It was not the only time that Glbbs Josselyn had had such an opportunity. It was the first move In a game that he had played with supreme success for many years. But he did not want to play that game with Ellen. There was no con* scious, idle filrtatlousness In thos$ lowered blue eyes, no coquetry in that honest little Irish mouth. It could bring her no joy, It might--it must Aunt Elsie and Joe and Even the Old Captain Listened to Ellen's. Tired and Excited Recital That Night. 'bring her pain--to know Glbbs Josselyn well. No, let her have this day's adventured to keep, an unclouded memory, and let' the story end here. She had played her part fairly, and he would play his, too. There was barely time at ?he train for laughing goodbys. Ellen glanced back when she had passed the gate: he was watching her. arid as their eyes met he gave her his disturbing smile again, and again raised his hHt. "He's thirty--or more, arid every woman he knows is in love with him," said Ellen to herself, settling down In the train. "It's been wonderful--It's been heavenly, and I'll never see him again!" the way back, for Ellen could not twist her sore shoulder into her dress, and came downstairs In her wrapper. Her aunt and the captain prophesied that It would get better immediately, and a day or two went by. Ellen lay patiently through the long daytime hours, and wept with pain to the night Mrs. Baldwin persisted that It was either a cold In the-shoulder, or a "wranch," or "the stlffneck." But she sent Joe for the doctor .after breakfast. and Elleh felt better when she knew Joe had gone. Her aunt aired the dining room, anticipating the call, and had everything In order long before nine. But It wan almost noon when the busy doctor came In. That was the beginning. Ellen, who had never been In a doctor's hands before, smiled up at him uncomfortably as his skilled fingers pressed and explored. She made a rueful face when she heard her fate. She must lie absolutely still for an unspecified number of days, perhaps a week. Mrs. Bradley afterward told some intimates that she mistrusted Ellen was In for ft bad spell when Doctor Older, who was fresh from the city hospital himself, said that he was going to see an old doctor in the city who was a spine authority In a day or two and discuss Ellen's case with him. . • • • ~ • • • • The preliminaries of a long Illness are almost always wretched for the patient. Ellen was suffering acutely, she was mystified and shocked, and she was heartsick at the hideous possibility she suspected under the young doctor's frankly troubled manner. Joe came In to see her for a few minutes twice a day. her grandfather once, her aunt kept the room clean, and brought her trays she could hardly touch. Fevered, restless, dazed with lack of sleep and with the effect of the medicine that controlled the worst of the pain, she would, stare at them dully. Gradually she reached the second stage, and. if hope died within her then, as to the future, at least she found the present more bearable. Not as a whole, for her soul shrank from the horror of the thought that she might never walk free and yonns through the garden, and into Main street again. A few days before Christmas the New York ^specialist came down, and was friendly and informal to a degree that enchanted Aunt Elsie. He could say little more than Doctoi Older. Miss Latimer had done something mysteriously harmful to one of the delicate vertebrae at the very base of the brain. It was an unusual case. The girl quivered into th§ Invalid's Invariable question. "Doctor--do you think--can you give us any idea--it can be cured, can't it?" Almost anything can be cured. Doctor Older tells me that you want to be an artist," said the specialist for answer. "Now, there's nothing to prevent you from going right on with your work here. Get out your pencils, and don't bother your head about your back! You're not having so much pain, now--" "Not unless I move," Ellen faltered, feeling the tears of bitter disappointment press behind her eyes. Doctor Older Immediately began to discuss a sort of harness he was having made for the neck, and when the city man had highly approved this experiment. the two went away. Only CHAPTER IV _ Aunt Elsie and Joe and even the old captain listened to ^lien's tired and excited recital that night; «he woman -exclaiming over descriptions of meals and clothes, the old man and the young anxious to grasp exactly what happened to the car, and Ellen sat up after the otheis had gone to bed and wrote a pretty note of thanks to Mrs. Rose. She sal« that she and Mr. Josselyn had had » "spill In the snow," but that fortunately no hum was done; It had been 4 lovely run After the letter was ^one she sat reflecting; could she with any pro prlety write Glbbs? She knew she could not. She knew mat he would read her motive In dolh* so as clearl as If she wrote the words: "I like you." I'm not mnrrled, a(nrl you're not married. I don't want to let you go. She gave up the Idea, and put her letter to Mrs. Rose by the clock, to be mailed In the mornihg, and went to bed. twisting and turning because the wrenched shoulder had begun to ache, but finally falling Into deep, exhaust ed sleep between the cold sheets, loo tired to dream. Joe mailed the letter the riext morn Ing. and stopped at the <frug store on been crashed and altered In the oae brief moment of terror and shock they had laughed over and so quickly forgotten? Suppose he said to himself that he was sorry, and It was a pity and nothing more? Then she would lose not only the future, but the bright and precious memory of the past Again, he might respond to the little appeal with all the generous ardor that she knew was in him, waiting to be stirred. He might come straight down to the house in Main street-- To find Aunt Elsie, opening the door, suspicious of his errand, and find the dining room overheated and unalred, and find Joe's boots oiled and drying by the airtight stove, and adding their odor to the other odors-- And to find Ellen,* his rosy < companion of the furs and the laughter, > small white-faced thing under a patchwork quilt, with brown leather straps under her chin-- Reaching this point in her thoughts," Ellen would give a little shudder. Better that he should never know. Better that she had never crossed his path, or he hers. But for that memorable week-end she might be going to the Yacht club dance with Wllla, Bobby Carnival, and the Henshaws tonlirht, she might be In the Mardi Gras Kermess that was to convulse and enchant the village next week. And summer was coming, a summer without driving and tennis and swimming for Ellen. She must He still, the old physical Joy In living gone, and the old peace of mind gone. too. For Robby and the Henshaws seemed changed now, and In the back of her heart and the back of her mind there lingered the disturbing vision that had displaced them: th,e memory of a cultivated voice; of deep kind eyes, and silver hair; of clever, groomed hands. There lingered the hurting knowledge that certain doors were closed to Ellen Latimer, that certain Hps spoke a language she could not understand, that there was a world, so near her own, where her mere youngness and good* ness and willingness to learn could win her no place. Other keys were needed for those doors, and through no fault of her own, Ellen had not those keys. Mrs. Rose had gone to Bermuda. The check for Ellen's expenses had arrived promptly during the first week of the year, however, ai d had been the cause of some serious debate in the Latimer house. Ellen wished to send It back, with a note explaining the circumstances. The warm-hearted Mrs. Rose might show her sympathy In some decided way, might even mention Ellen's sad situation In some quarter through which It would reach Gibbs Josselyn. But Mrs. Baldwin, quite unsuspicious of this vague thought In her niece's mind, suggested that the check simply be banked for the time when &llen could use it. No use distressing her generous friend with a tale of misery for which she was indirectly responsible, and which she could not help. Ellen agreed to this somewhat reluctantly. The girl hungered for the romantic and dramatic; life thrust her back resolutely Into the commonplace, do what she might But she was learning patience and self-control, coming to believe that what made for happiness and harmony here, in the old house, was her first concern. April was rainy, and May was rainy, but the miracle of the year went on despite the rain. A film of green showed on the irnrd dark earth of the garden and against the bare limbs of the trees, and sweet wild winds swept over the world with the odor of damp Furious Cloudburst* Flood Death Valley Although little rain falls in Deattt valley, so named from the terrible loss of life from heat which occurred there in 1850, cloudbursts of -the utmost fury are often experienced. The cloud ia always formed above the mountains, and after a time Its bulbous ' body strikes a peak. Floods of waters are released on the instant, and in waves of incredible size they-roll down Um cliffs and canyons. In an hour the face of a mountain may be so changed as to be scarcely recognizable. Even the lighter storms sometimes rip the heart out of a canyon so that only gulches and heaps of broken rock are found where once, perhaps, a good trail ^existed. One night a man named Carter slept In camp near the moutfTof Furnace Creek canyon with a "bug hunter," as the desert-tramping scientists are called out there. It was so hot that the naturalist could not sleep. About midnight he heard a roaring noise up the canyon, which, as It kept Increasing in volume, caused, him to look that way. To his surprise he saw, as he supposed, the sky between the canyon walls grow suddenly white. At that moment Carter rolled over, and the "bug hunter" asked him what ailed the sky. Carter gave one glance and shouted: "Cloudburst! Climb I" They scrambled up the steep wall as best they could. Just ill time to save their lives. Carter thinks the foaming wall of water that whitened the sky and swept everything before It was not less than 100 feet high. WRKS1EYS AfterEvery Meed KTs the ingest-In wit ag confection yoa can buy ifs a help to dftr&'* m S e a l e d in its P u r i t y \ick.\gt I Lowry't Stories Famous - The director of transportation of one of the big hotels here is James J. O'Copnor, known from coast to coast and in not a few places In Europe "Jim" O'Connor. His high-sounding title means head porter, which in turn means keeping a watchful eye on the baggage of the guests and looking after their transportation. Among those whose transportation O'Connor always handled were Henry C. FMck, head' of Carnegie Steel; Thomas Lowry, president of the Soo railroad line, one of the greatest story tellers he ever met; Sara Raymond, a Chicago lawyer, who weighed 350 pounds and had the heartiest laugh he ever heard. When he laughed at one of Lowry's stories the glasses on the back bar of the Holland house cafe Jingled like the chimes of Trinity.-- New York Evening Post. _ i i. . V' -• Explicit Directions The \Volverton8 lived In a cornfer honse so easily accessible from the street that they were continually being annoyed by persons ringing to ask where other people lived. At last the son of the house decided to put an end to the nuisance. "I think," he observed complacently, "there won't be any more folks asking If the Smiths, the Browns or the Robinsons live In this house. I've fixed 'em." ~ • * "What have jift# jSone?" meried Mrs. Wolverton. "Hung out a sign." **And what did you print on itT "Just five ^words," replied the son, proudly. " 'Nobody lives btrt -tout u»'J"--Philadelphia Ledger. . , Ellen, a little thin and lli*}p. but dressed and radiant had a comfortable chair under the lilac tree, and waved now and then at friendly passers-by in the street. She had a book, but often she sat dreaming blissfully, with the pages unturned, for hours at a time. No book was half so exciting as was a slow walk to the gate, with a stop on the way back to gather herself a dozen violets, or a plume of lilac. Spring had never seemed half so lovely, or the world so kind. s Now what? When does Prince Charming get bftck into the picture? Ellen knew the bitter desolation they left behind them; and the long hours I turnpd soil and bursting buds In their in the night she lay sobbing over what j wakein her dark hour she thought the i Then suddenly there were still hot death of hope. 4 days. All the windows were op$n, and The harness gave her blessed relief, acent of u,acs drlfted the although its ugly brownness. pressing ^ °MS®- up against her white face, was a hurt I',," to her girlish pride. And on Christmas day, with Joe's help, the doctor moved her down to the dining room, where a wide couch had been placed for her. After that, she came downstairs every day, and Aunt Elsie and Joe helped her tenderly ups'talrs every night. And there were hours, whole days sometimes between the moods of revolt and resentment, when she found a new, odd flavor of joy In her life. Almost every hour' something took ' her thoughts to Glbbs Josselyn and the adventurous da'y that had been ' her last day free from pain. At first It had seemed that he must know. , that he had a right to know, what the accident had cost her. She longed-- ah, how she longed, for his splendid concern and sympathy. There were whole hours when she lay and dreamed of It, his shock, his horror. his visits, and his flowers. Sometimes the wording of the letter she knew she would not write flitted through her mind. "Dear Mr. Josselyn-- I know you will be sorry-- something that seems to puzzle the doctors--the pleasant land of counterpane--" But she did not write. Pride kept her silent. - She would not send him the three lines that must buy his friendship. If that was to come ;to her. it would come. She dared not beg for it. 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It appears that about the year 1895 the empress had the Idea that her pearls were losing their color, so she consulted various experts on the subject among whom was an old Jew who suggested that the only means of restoring life to the precious jewels was to keep them soaked In water for a few months. The empress hesitated for a long time before following the advice and only decided to do- so In May, 1899, \\-J*en she entrusted the necklace to a monk in Corfu, where she went to stay from time to time In the beautiful Achilleion The monk, assisted by i Qreek fisherman, whose name Is unknown, put the necklace In a caje of rocks under the palace, and let It remain there for six months. In the course of the month of August the monk disappeared mysteriously, leaving the little that he possessed to a woman who died a few days ufter. In the month of September the empress was assassinated In Gene\a by the anarchist, Lucchenl, and in November the Greek fisherman was drowned at sea. It Is said that there Is one in- -habltant of Corfu who knows the secret, but meanwhile nothing has ever been heard of the monk or the pearls, which some people think are still hidden In the cave of rocks.-- Dayton News. Waves and Currents The difference between a wave and a current Is that a current Is a stream of water moving In the sea, while a wave Is merely a movement on the surface. The .water Itself does not advance with the wave (until It breaks), hot the watsr pt. tiw itar rent actually travels. Engliah Superstition There are many English superstitions connected with bubtes, the most Interesting of which being what Is known as "the christening bit." On the way, to the christening the nurse must take with her a small bag of biscuits, whlcrt she must offer to the flrst person she meets. If he refuses, the child will be unlucky, but If lie accepts, then good fortune wtU smile I upon the babe. 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