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•":" *<,• y ^- V'--:.: '! "•"' •'• :\^' iL': rv--\^-'\ ' • • " "• •' V--' .-. y'•••* SPtlR®™ MHENRY PLAINDEALEB, MIIENRY, ILL. wMw £?SS2S85SSSg8SS«SSSS8SS2?2g2S8?2S8S2?SSSS85S5J The Romance of Elaine >V; Br Sequel to The Exploits of Elaine By ARTHUR B. REEVE The Weil-Known Novelist and the Cre­ ator of th* " Craig Kennsdy* Stories. Pmatd ia CoDaboratioa With (he Path* Player* aaj the Eclectic F3ai Cwspany CopfrithL 1914. by the S.»r Company. All Foreign Riehti Reserved. SYNOPSIS. A Detective Novel and a Motion Pic­ ture Drama «** The morning after the finding of Wn Fang's body and Kennedy's disappear­ ance. Marcus Del Mar swims ashore from a submarinrt »n the bay. His mission is to recover the lost torpedo. He soon wins tne confidence of Elaine. Later she is warned by a Uttie old man to be careful of Del Mar. X>el Mar at last succeeds In getting the torpedo, only to have it destroyed by th.~ little old man. Jameson Is captured' by Del Mar's men. Elaine rescues him. Lieutenant Woodward and his friend. Professor Arnold, attend a partv given at the Dodge home, where unknowingly. Del Mar drops a note which gives Elaine a clue. In her attempt to prevent his cutting the Atlantic cable she fa discovered and made a prisoner. Jame­ son, in a hvdro-aeroplane, saves Elaine from drowning. Elaine, disguised as a man. discovers the entrance of Del Mar's wireless cave. Arnold, by a "radio de­ tective," has discovered the wireless sta­ tion. Elaine Is saved by Jameson, both aid Arnold and Woodward in destroying the wireless station, but Del Mar escapes In a deserted hotel in the woods Elaine discovers Del Mar's men at work, is cap­ tured, but escapes. When the hotel is later attacked the men retreat to the woods, where they explode gas bombs, nearly causing the--dfeath of Lieutenant Woodward and his attaclcing party. Elaine receives a new searchlight gun from an unknown friend. While motor­ ing with Jameson. Elaine discovers a bomb hidden by one of Del Mar's men. They take it to Lieutenant Woodward who sends them to Professor Arnold's yacht. They are attacked by Del Mar and his men. The searchlight gun saveu Elaine and Jameson who reach the yacht safely. Del Mar appears with a subma­ rine and destroys the yacht with a tor­ pedo. Professor Arnold and his party escape. Lured by a woman posing as a inodiste Elaine la again captured by Del Mar and rescued by an old naturalist and Jameson as. she ia about to drift over a waterfall in a boat. THIRTY-FOURTH EPISODE THE HARBOR DEFENSE PLANS. Alone 1q the doorway before his rude shack on the shore of the prom­ ontory sat an old fisherman, gazing out fixedly at the harbor as though deeply concerned over the weather, which, as usual, was unseasonable. Suddenly he started and would have disappeared into his hut but for the fact that, although he could not him­ self be- seen, he had already seen the Intruder. It was a trooper from Fort Dale. He galloped up and, as though obeying to the letter his instructions, handed an envelope to the fisherman. Then,.with- CUt m TTCrd, MC goliOpcu a""tt)r agaiu. The .fisherman opened it quickly. In­ side war a photograph and a note. He read: FORT DALE. Professor Arnold: J. Smith, clerk in the war depart­ ment, has disappeared. We are not sure, but fear that he has a copy of the new Sandy Hook defense plans. It Is believed he Is headed your way. He walks with a slight limp; Look ^yt for him. LIEUTENANT WOODWARD. For a long time the fisherman ap­ peared to study the face on the photo­ graph until he had it indelibly implant­ ed in his memory Finally he turned and entered his hut. Hastily be took off his stained reefer. From a wooden chest he drew another outfit of clothes. The trans­ formation was complete. When he is­ sued forth from his hut again, it was eg longer the aged disciple of Izaak Walton. He was now a trim chauf­ feur, bearded and goggled. In the library of his bungalow, Del Mar was pacing up and down, now and then scowling to himself, as though there flashed over his mind stray recol­ lections of how some of his most cher­ ished plans were miscarrying. Still, on the whole, he had nothing to complain of. For, a moment later the valet entered with a telegram for which he had evidently been waiting. Del Mar seized it eagerly and tore 'open the yellow envelope. On the blank was printed in the usual way the following noncommittal message: Washington, D. C* August 12, 1915. Mr. Del Mar: What you request is coming. An­ swer to sign of the ring. SMITH. "Good," muttered Del Mar as he fin- J*hed reading. "Strange, what a little gold will do--when you know how to dispose of it." He smiled cynically to himself at the sentiment • • • • • • • ' At the little railroad station they were quite proud of the fact that at least two of the four hacks had been replaced already by taxicabs. It was, then, with some surprise and not a little open jealousy that they saw a Mew taxicab drive up and take tts stand by the platform. If the chauffeur, transformed from "the lonely fisherman, had expected a cordial reception, he might better have stayed before his hut, for the glances the other drivers gave him were as black and lowering as the clouds he bad been looking at. The new chauffeur got off his seat. Instead ot trying to brazen it out, he walked over to the others who were standing in a group -waiting for the ap proaching train whose whistle had al ; ready sounded. "I'm not going to locate here per­ manently," he said, pulling out a roll v 'h f bills as he spoke. "Leave any fare !|§tjgv* 1 claim to me," he added, passing ' bill of a good denomination to each of k, '<r, ?' the four jehus. jTv.-. • "All right, bo," they agreed. Thundering down the platform came the afternoon train, a great event in the town life. From the Pullman alighted a widow. In deep mourning. As she got off and moved down the platform it was ap­ parent that she walked with a pro­ nounced limp. At the end of the platform the chauf­ feurs were still calling, while the new­ comer looked over the crowd hastily. Suddenly he caught sight of the face of the widow. He stepped forward as she approached. The others held back as they had agreed and paid no atten­ tion. It was like forcing a card. He held the door open send she en­ tered the cab, unsuspecting. "Mr. Del Mar's," Bhe directed, simply. He pulled away from the station. On through the pretty country roads the chauffeur drove the heavily veiled widow until at last they came to Del Mar's bungalow. At the gate he stopped and ran around to open the door to assist his fare to alight. "Wait for me," she said, without paying him yet. "I shall not be long and I want to be driven back to tfie station to catch the four twenty-nine to New York." As she fimped up the gravel walk he watched her closely. She went to the door and rang the bell and the valet admitted her. Del Mar was still sitting, thinking, in the library. "Mr. Del Mar?" she Inquired. The voice was not exactly soft, afed Del Mar eyed her suspiciously. Was this the person he expected, or a "plant"? "Yes," he answered, guardedly, "I am Del Mar. And you?" The widow, too, evidently wished to make no mistake. As she spoke, she raised her hand. By that simple ac­ tion she displayed a curious and con­ spicuous seal ring on her finger. It was the sign of the ring for which Del Mar had been waiting. He extended his own left hand. On the ring finger was another ring, but not similar. As he did so, the widow took iiie ring from her own hnger and placed it on the little finger of Del Mar. "Good!" he exclaimed. The woman raised her thick veil, disclosing the face of--a man! It was the same face, also, that had appeared in the photograph sent to the old fisherman by Woodward. Awkwardly, the man searched in the front of his shirtwaist and drew forth a paper which Del Mar almost seized in his eagerness. It was a pen and i(ik copy of a government map, show­ ing a huge spit of sand in the sea be- a "Hands Up!" He 8houted. fore a harbor, Sandy Hook and New York. On it were indicated all the de­ fenses, the positions of guns, every­ thing. The chauffeur had no intention of remaining inactive outside while he knew that something that interested him was transpiring inside. He had crept up by the side of the house to the window. But he could see little and hear nothing. A moment he strained every sense. It was no use. He must devise some other way. How could he get into that room? Slowly he returned to his car, thinking it over. There he stood for a moment revolving in his mind what to do. He looked up the road. An idea came to him. There he saw a little runabout approaching rapidly. Quickly he went around to the front of his car and lifted up the hpod. Then he bent over and pretended to be tink­ ering with his engine. As the car was about to pass he de­ liberately stepped back, apparently not seeing the runabout, and was struck and knocked down. The runabout stopped, the emer­ gency brakes biting hard. • «! • • * * • Elaine had asked me to go shopping in the village with her that afternoon. While I waited for her in her little car •he cams down at last carrying a lit­ tle handbag. We drove off a moment .later. It was a delightful ride, not too warm, but sunny. Without realising it, we found ourselves on the road that Jed past Del Mar's. As we approachcd, I saw that there was a taxicab standing -in front of the gate. The hood was lifted and the driver was apparently tinkering with his engine. "Let's not stop," said Elaine, who had by this time a peculiar aversion to the man. As we passed the driver, apparently not seeing us, stepped out and, before we could turn out, we had knocked him down. We stopped and ran back. There he lay on the road, seemingly unconscious. We lifted him up and I looked toward Del Mar's house. "Help!" I shouted at the top of my voice. The valet came to the door. Hearing me, ,the valet ran "out down the walk. "All right," he^cried,^'i'U be there in a minute." With his help I picked up the taxi- cab chauffeur and we carrietfhim into the house. Del Mar was talking with a person who looked like a widow, when they heard our approach up the walk carry­ ing the injured man. So.engrossed had they.been in dis­ cerning what the stolen dbfciiment con­ tained that, as we finally entered, the widow had only time to drop her veil and conceal her identity as the rene­ gade Smith. Del Mar still held the plan in his hand. The valet and I entered with Elaine and we placed the chauffeur on a couch near Del Mar's desk. I remem­ ber that there was this strange wom­ an all in black, heavily veiled, in the room at the time. "I think we ought to telephone for a doctor," said Elaine, placing her hand­ bag on the desk and excitedly telling Del Mar how we had accidentally knocked the man down. "Call up my doctor, Henry," said Del Mar, hastily thrusting the plan into a book lying on the desk. We gathered about the man, trying to revive him. "Have you a little stimulant?" I asked, turning from him.' Del Mar moved toward a cellarette built into the wall. We were all watch­ ing him, our backs to the chauffeur, when suddenly he must have regained consciousness very much. Like a flash his hand shot out. He seized the plan from between the leaves of the book. He had not time to get away with it himself. Perhaps he might be searched. He opened Elaine's bag and thruBt it in. The valet by this time had finished telephoning and spoke to Del Mar. "The doctor will be hers shortly, Miss Dodge," said Del Mar. "You need not wait, if you don't care to. Ill take care of him." "Oh, thank you--ever so much," she murmured. "Of course it wasn't our ^fault, but I feel sorry for the poor fel­ low. Tell the doctor to send me the bill." She and Del Mar shook hands. I thought he held her hand perhapB a little longer and a little tighter than usual. At any rate Elaine seemed' to think so. "Why, what a curious'ring, Mr. Del Mar," she said, finally releasing her hand from his grasp. Then she looked quickly at the wom­ an, half Joking, as if the ring had something to do with the strange woman. She looked back at the ring. Del Mar smiled, shook his head and laughed easily. Then Elaine picked up her bag and we went out. A moment later we had climbed back into the car and were off again. e e e e * • * Having left us at the door, Del Mar hurried back to the library. He went straight to the desk and picked up the book, eager now to mak6 sure of the safety of his plan. 1 It was gone! "Did you. Smith--" he began has­ tily, then checked himself, knowing that the clerk had not taken the plan. Del Mar walked over to the couch and stood a moment looking at the chauffeur. "I wonder who he is," he said to himself. "I don't recall ever seeing him at the station or 19 the village." He leaned closer. "The douce!" he exclaimed, "that's a fake beard the fellow has on." Del Mar made a lunge for it. As he did so the chauffeur leaped to his feet. "Hands up!" he shouted. "And the first man that moves is a dead one!" Before the secret agent knew it both he and Smith were covered. The chauffeur took a step toward Smith and unceremoniously jerked off the widow's weeds, as well as the wig. At that very moment one of Del Mar's men came up to the secret pan­ el that opened from the underground passageway into the library. He was about to open it when ho heard a sound on the other side that startled him. He listened a moment then slid it Juat a short distance and looked in. There he saw a chauffeur holding up Del Mar and Smith. Having pulled the disguise from Smith, he went next around Del Mar and tok his gun from his pocket, then passed his hands ovor the folds of Smith's dress, but found no weapon. He stepped back away from them* At that point the man quietly slid the panel all the way open and silent­ ly stepped into the room, behind the chauffeur. Cautiously he began sneak­ ing up on him. As he did so, Del Mar and Smith watched, fascinated. Somehow, their faces must have betrayed tha} some- - " <, * < A- ^ *, yr ;?>, ^ ;-ri In Reality Watching Ms Clossly. n: *-.'v MAKE A STUDY OF GERMS pame from something In the air, etc. ; For the dead particles of the dust, such Scientists Have Ascertained Much About Which the World at Large ' Is Ignorant. f - H f c I s w o n d e r f u l l y i n t e r e s t i n g t o k n o w if certain disease germs are found and studied. Of course, it is under-p' y - m / i m: 'v't- r- Much midnight oil was burned by scientists during their experiments. As we know that germs grow and develop in moisture, a way to trap them was found, called the. plate method. Into shallow .glass dishes with cov­ ers a layer of gelatin is placed, this stood that they are so tiny as to be i being called t^e culture medium. This seen only by means of the microscope. diBh is placed (with the cover re- It was a startling fact to be told that; moved) in the all for five or more disease cawe from without the human : minutes, and the dust Eettles on the titofB within, ani that it moist gelatin and remains he-id there. If' as wood, hair, sand, etc., this is the end of the matter; but as the living disease germs touch the gelatin's sur­ face they find there their favorite ele­ ment in which to grow and develop, which thoy straighway proceed to do. Within a few hours tiny spots appear, which increase in size, and at the end of two or three days each little colony of germs numbers thousands. This fact gives us some idea of the vast number gersap UuU are U| tb« •air.: • •"* , 'i thing was wrong. For as the new­ comer leaped at him, the chauffeur turned suddenly and fired. The shot wounded the man. It was a signal for a free-for-all right. Del Mar knocked the revolver out of the chauffeur's hand. With a blow of a chair, the chauffeur laid out Smith, entangled in his unfamiliar garments, shook himself loose from the two oth­ ers, and made a rush for the door. Hard after him came Del Mar and the rest, Joined now by Henry the valet. One shot was left in the chauf­ feur's revolver, and he blazed away and leaped into the car. "He got me," groaned Smith as he stumbled and fell forward. On came Del Mar and the others. They caught up with the car just as it was starting. But the chauffeur knocked the gun from Del Mar's hand before he could get a good aim and fire, at the same time bowling over the man who had come through the panel. Off the car went, now rapidly gain­ ing speed. Del Mar had Just time to swing on the rear of It. Around the rapidly driven car he climbed, hanging on for dear life, over the mud guard and toward the running board. On sped the car, swaying crazily back and forth. Del Mar crouched on tho running board and worked his way slowly and peril­ ously to the front seat. Tho chauffeur felt the weight of someone on that side. Just as ho turned to see what it was Del Mar leaped at him. * * * • e e e Somehow Elaine and I must have been hoodooed that day. We had not been gone five minutes from Del Mar's after the accident to the chauffeur, when we hoard a mys­ terious knock in the engine. "More engine trouble," I sighed. Pull up along the road and I'll see if I can fix it." We stopped and both got out. There was no fake about this trouble or about the dirt and grease I acquired on my hands and face tinkering with that motor. "Hore, let me powder your nose, Walter," she said, undismayed at our trouble, gayly opening her bag. "Well --of all things, what's this, and where did ft come from?" I turned from the engine and looked. She was holding some kind of plan or document in her hand. In blank surprise she examined it. "What do you think it is, Walter?" she asked, handing it to me. I took it and examined it carefully. Incredible as it seemed, I figured out quickly that it must be nothing short of a plan of the new defenses at Sandy Hook. I foil to work again, eager to get away with our dangerous prize, Elaine now and then advising me. Finally I turned the engine over. For a won­ der it ran smoothly. "What's the matter now?" ex­ claimed Elaine, turning quickly and looking up the road along which we had just come. There, lurching along at full speed was a ear. Two men were actually fighting on the front of it, regardless of speed and safety. On rushod the car, directly at us. Just as it passod us, the chauffeur seemed to summon all his strength. He struck a powerful blow at the man, recoiled and straightened out his car lust in time. The man fell, literally at our feet. It was Dol Mar himself! "Why, what's all this about?** I asked eagerly. Before 1 could raise him up Del Mar bad regained bis feet. "Just a plain crook, who attacked me," he muttered, brushing off his clothes to cover up the quick recog­ nition of what it was that I was hold­ ing in my hand, for he had seen the plan immediately. "Can't we drive you back?" asked Elaine, Ha climbed up and sat on the floor of the roadster, his feet outside, and Investigators can go about with their little glass dishes--something as does a photographer, though Instead of pressing the button they merely raise the cover--expose the gelatin in the air five minutes and let nature do the rest. we drove off. At last we pulled up at the Dodge hall again. "Won't you come in?" asked Elaine as we got out. "Thank you, I believe I will for a few minutes," consented Del Mar, con­ cealing his real eagerness to follow me. "I'm all shaken up." As we entered the living room I was thinking about the map. I opened a table drawer, hastily took the plan from my pocket and locked it In the drawer. Elaine, meanwhile, was standing with Del Mar, who was talk­ ing, but In reality watching me closely. • • e * * * • TDown the road past where we had turned, before a pretty little shingle house, the taxicab chauffeur stopped. One of the bullets had taken effect on him, and his shoulder was bleeding. But the worst, as he seemed to think it, was that another shot had given him a flat tire. He jumped out and looked up the road whence he had come. No one was following him. Still, he was wor­ ried. He went around to look at the tire. But he was too weak now from loss of blood. It had been nerve and reserve force that had carried him through. Now that the strain was off, he felt the reaction to the full. Just then the doctor and his driver, whom the valet had already sum­ moned to Del Mar's, came speeding down the road. Tho doctor saw the chauffeur fall in a half faint, stopped his car and ran to him. The chauffeur had kept up as long as he could. He had now sunk down beside his ma­ chine in the road. A moment later they picked him up and carried him into the house. There was no acting about his hurt now. In the house they laid the man down on a couch and the doctor made a hasty examination, . "How is he?" asked one of the kind Samaritans. v "The wound is not dangerous," re­ plied the physician, "but he's lost, a lot of blood. He cannot be moved for.some time yet." e • • e • e • We talked .about nothing else at Dodge Hall after dressing for dinner but the strange events over at Del Mar's, and what had followed. The more I thought about it, the^more it seemed to me that we would never be left over night in peaceful possession of the plan which both Elaine and I decided ought on the following day to be sent to Washington. Accordingly I cudgeled my brain for some method of protecting both our­ selves and it. The only thing I could think of was a scheme once adopted by Kennedy in another case. I had a small quick-shutter camera that had belonged to Craig, and just as we were about to retire, I brought it into the living room with a pack­ age I had sent up from the village. As soon as Elaine had gone to bed and I was alone, I opened the package. Thore were the tools that I had or­ dered, a coil of wire and some dry cells. Then I went to the table, un­ locked the drawer and put the plan In my pocket. Although I was no expert at wiring, I started to make the connections un­ der the table, with the drawer, not a very difficult thing to do, as long as it was to be only temporary and for the night. From the table I ran the wires along the edge of the carpet until I came to the bookcase. There, masked by the books, 1 placed the little quick- shutter camera, and at a distance also conccaled the flashlight pan. Next I aimed the camera carefully and focused it on a point above the drawor in the writing table where any­ one would be likely to stand if he at­ tempted to open it. Then I connected the shutter of the camera and a little spark coll in the flash pan with the wines, using an apparatus to work the shutter such as I recalled having seen Craig use. Finally I covered the sparking device with the flashlight powder, gave a last look around, and snapped off the light. Up in my bedroom, I must say I new the- licenses or establish muni­ cipal theaters. A number of smaller Norwegian cities, as, for example, Vardo, Tromso, Fredrikshald and Notodden,. have al­ ready determined to municipalize their motion picture houses, and larger cities are now considering the ques­ tion. It is not a partisan question, for while the proposal to municipalize these theaters in Christianla was made Cs,.V" Municipal Movies. The Norwegian diet recently passed a law providing that the licenses of all motion picture theaters in the country by the Socialists, In Trondhjem a like shall expire in 1916. The municipal!-1 proposal orJjj^aUdvf U^ of ties will then be at liberty either to , the right 5 v , * % felt like "some detective uid I could not help Bi/ipping myself on the chest for tho ingenuity with which I had da- plicated Craig. In his bungalow, now that Smith had gone back again to New York and Washington, Del Mar was preparing to keep the Important engagement he had told us about, another of his ne­ farious nocturnal expeditions. He drew a cap on his head, well over his ears and forehead. His eyes and face he concealed as well as he could with a mask to be put on later. To his equipment he added a gun. Then with a hasty word or two to his valet, he went out. By back ways so that even in the glare of automobile headlights he would not be recognized, he made his way to Dodge Hall. As he saw the house looming up in the moonlight he put on his tnask and approached cau­ tiously. Gaining the house, he opened a window noiselessly, turning the catch as deftly as a housebreaker, and climbed into the living room. A moment he 16oked around, then tiptoed over to the table. He looked at it to be sure that It w*s the right one and the right drawer. Then hs beut down to force the drawer open. "Pouf!" a blinding flash came and a little metallic click of the shutter, fol­ lowed by a cloud of smoke. As quickly as it happened thers went through Del Mar's head the ex? planation. It was a concealed cam^ era. He sprang back, clapping his hands over hiB face.' Out of range for a moment, he stood gazing about the room, trying to locate the thing. Suddenly he heard footsteps. He dived through the window that he had opened, just as someone ran In switched on the lights. • • • • • • e Half asleep I heard a muffled explo­ sion, as if of a flashlight. I started up and listened. Surely someone was moving about downstairs. I pulled my gun from my pocket and ran out of the room. Down the steps I flung myself, two at a time. In the living room I switched on the lights in time to see someone dlsap* pear through an open window. I ran to the window and looked out. There was a man, half doubled up, running around the side of the house and into a clump of bushes, then apparently lost. I shot out of the window and called. I was not the only one who hoard the noise. The shots quickly awak­ ened Elaine, and she leaped out of bed and put on her kimono. Then she lighted the lights and came down­ stairs. The intruder had disappeared by this time and I had got up and was peering out of the window as she came breathlessly into the living rooisr. "What's the matter, Walter?" sbs asked. "Someone broke Into the house aft­ er those plans," I replied. "He es­ caped, but I got his picture, I think, by this device of Kennedy's. Let's go into a dark room and develop it." There was no use trying to follow the man farther. To Elaine's in­ quiry of what I meant-, I replied by merely going over to the spot where I had hidden the camera and discon­ necting It. We went upstairs where I had rigged up an improvised dark room for my amateur photographic work some days before. Elaine watched me closely. At last I found that I had developed something. As I drew the film through the hypo tray and picked it up I held it to the red light. Elaine leaned over and looked at the film with me. There was a pic- I Aimed the Camera Carefully. I ture of a masked man, bis cap down, in a startled attitude, his handt clapped to his face, completely hiding what the mask did not hide. "Well, I'll be blowed!" I cried in chagrin at the outcome Qf what 1 thought had been my cleverest coup. . A little exclamation of astonishment escaped Elaine. I turned to her. "What is it?" I asked. "The ring!" she cried. "I looked more closely. On the lit­ tle finger of the left hand was a pe­ culiar ring. Once seen, I think it wae not readily forgotten. "The ring!" she repeated.excitedly "Dr>n't you remember--that ring? 1 8J*W It on Mr. Del Mar's hand---at hie house--this afternqon!" I could only, stare. At last we had a real clue! In his bungalow, Del Mar at thai moment threw down his hat and tor* off his mask furiously. What had he done? For a long time he sat there, bis chin on his hands, gazing fixedly be­ fore him, planning to protect himsoU and for revenge. (TO BE CONTINUED.) air. Bauck, the mayor of Trondhjem jays great stress on the educational value of the cinematograph,;, he consid era it the duty of the city in the inter est of its youthful citizens lo cont|Xjl the performances of these theatersl Anything Personal? A story emanates front tke middlf West that a woman selecta copy of "You Never Know Your luck," thl recent novel by Sir Gilbert >'arh®r, ti send to a woman friend wLa h*d JjMit her husband! % ' • • Stop That Backache! » There'* nothing more discouraging than a constant backache. You are lame when you awake. Paina pierce you whe i you bend or lift. It's hard to rest and next day it's the same old story. Pam m the back is nature's warning of kidney ills. Neglect may pave the way to dropsy, gravel, or other serious kid­ ney sickness. Don't delay--begin using Doan a Kidney Pills--the remedy that has been curing backache and kidney treool* for over fifty years. Ail Iowa Case Mrs. M. Clinker, N. State St., Tama, Iowa, says: "My b a c k w a s w e a k a n d p a i n f u l and the pains ex­ tended up into my arms and shoul­ ders. I had to have help in getting up mornings and my back was so lame and stiff I could h a r d l y d r e s s . Doan' s K i d n e y Pills acted wonder­ fully, restoring:/me to good health. The cure has lasted." Get Doan's at Any Store, 80e a Bat DOAN'S VfJ IY FOSTER-M1LBURN CO, BUFFALO. N. Y. Everp JHcture Tells a Story" Wff ") * ^ t '--A •/• • I y A boy thinks when he reaches the age of twenty-one he'll have his own way, but ne usually gets ujaxri^d. 1 ~ . Correct. . "What Is one of the characteristics of the Indian race?" asked an instruc­ tor 1n the city college. "They play football to beat the band," replied a former De Witt Clin­ ton boy. Suspicious. "The cook is leaving tomorrow, John." "What's the matter? Don't we pay her enough?" "She says it's very strange that every time she has. an afternoon off our automobile is in the repair shop. She thinks we do it on purpose." BABY LOVES HIS BATH With Cuticura Soap Because 8* Sooth* Ing When His Skin Is Hot. These fragrant supercr&amy emol* lients are a comfort to children. The Soap to cleanse and purify, the Oint­ ment to soothe and heal rashes, itch- ings, chafings, etc. Nothing more ef­ fective? May be used from the hour of fftrth, with absolute confidence. Sample each free by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. XT, Boston. Sold everywhere.--Adv. Good Angel of the Aviators, There ia a French woman who hides her identity, who for months has been sending generous contributions of money through Le Figaro of Paris to the French army, and most partic­ ularly to the aviation corps. For some time no more money was forthcoming, but a few days ago the Figaro received this letter from her: "My savings are all gone, and I am grieved to the heart at not being able to help our beloved soldiers any more, especially our aviators. I wish above all things that the airmen should be warmly and comfortably clothed. But. in spite of everything, I have managed to do a little more for them. Please excuse me--It Is such a little bit." Inclosed with the letter was the French woman's check for $5,0(10. Lloyd's Misty History. Now that Mr. McKenna is looking to Lloyd's for a substantial contribu­ tion to the revenue from war profits it is interesting to recall that the greatest maritime institution In the world is named, not after a financier or shipowner, but after a humble cof­ fee-house keeper. Of Lloyd's history, says the London Chronicle, little is known beyond the fact that he kept a coffee house in Lombard street at the beginning of the eighteenth cen­ tury, which, from its proximity to the Royal exchange,/came to be the favor­ ite assembling place of the underwrit­ ers. , The first mention of his Louse oc­ curs In a poem. "The Wealthy Shop­ keeper," published in 1700: When to Lloyd's coffee house to go h« never fails , To read the letter* and.attend the sales In 1710 Steele dated some numbers of the Tatler from Lloyd's and Addi­ son also makes mention of the house in the Spectator. TURN OVER TIME When Nature Hints About the Foo*. When there's no relish to food and all that one eats doesn't seem to do any good then is the time to make a turn-over in the diet, for that s Na­ ture's way of dropping a hint that the food isn't the kind required. "For a number of years I followed. railroad work, much of it being offlice work of a trying nature. Meal times were our busiest; and eating too much and too quickly of food such as is commonly served In hotels and res­ taurants, together with the Bedentary habits, were not long in giving Jie dys­ pepsia and stomach trouble which re­ duced my weight from 206 to 160 pounds. "There was little relish in any food and none of it seemed to do me any good. It seemed the more I ate the poorer I got and was always hungry before another meal, no matter how much I had eaten. "Then I commenced a trial of Grape- Nuts food, and was surprised how a small saucer of it would carry me along, strong, and with satisfied appe- t'te, unti< the next meal, with no sen­ sations of hunger, weakness or dis­ tress as before. i have been following this diet now for several months and my Improve­ ment has been so great all the others in my family have taken up the use of Grape-Nuts with complete satisfac­ tion and much improvement in health. "Most people eat hurriedly, have lots of worry, thus hindering digestion and theretore need a food that is pre- digested and concentrated in nourish* ment." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle^ j Creek, Mich. Brer re«d tke nbejre letter* A •ec appear* lr«* time to time. are tnte. aad twll •( kilerra t. ' jc-'•