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m CHAPTER XV--Continued. r . *'• '* --is-- it Hastening buck to the farmstead, I t tie secured a spade from the barn 'tll ! nod made his way quickly down to the ^ i beach by way of the road through the t cluster of deserted fishermen's huts. ; '^V1 Fifteen niirvutes' walk, brought him to the pool. Ten miautes' hard work with the spade sufficed to excavate a ? shallow trench in' the sands above high-water mark. He required as much time again to nerve himself to the point of driving off the gulls and moving £ho body. There were likewise crabs to be dealt with.'. . When it was siecotnplished, and. he had Iffted the last heavy stone Into place above the grave, he Vaded out Into the sea and cleansed himself as best he might, then tary down for a time in the strength-giving light, feel­ ing giddy and faint. tt . ,= What the gulls and the crabs and »-V t'j the shattering surf had left had been little, but enough for indisputable Identification. r 1 " -I Wjji.taker -had burled Dromtnond. I By the time he got back to .the a farm-house, the woman was up, dressed in the rent and stained but dry remnants Of her own clothing (for all their defects, infinitely more be­ coming than the garments to which she had been obliged to resort the li" previous day) and busy preparing " breakfast. "Well, sir}" she called heartily over her shoulder. "And where, pray, .have you been all this long time?" "I went for a swim," he said evasively--"thought it might do me good." "You're not feeling well?" She t. turned to look him over. He avoided 7^ her eye. "I had a bad night." ' I "Still got the hump, eh?" "Still got the hump." he assented, $ glad thus to mask his unhappiness. 5 "Breakfast and a strong cup of tea M or two will fix that," she announceU ; with confidence. His stout attempts to match her cheerfulness during the meal fell dls- ' mally short of conviction. After two or three false starts he gave it up . and took refuge in his plea of indis- 4 • position. She humored him with1 a covert understanding that surmised \ more in a second than he could have ;H compressed into a ten-minute confes- . slon. The meal over, he rose and sidled awkwardly toward the door. "You'll be busy for a while with the ; dishes and things, won't you?" he - . asked with an air meant to seem guile- less. "Olv res; for some time," she re­ plied qnwkljr. 7 "I--I think I'll take a stroll round the Island. There might be something Ube a boat hidden away somewhere along the beach." "You won't go out of sight?" she pleaded through the window. "It can't be done," he called back, strolling out of the dooryard With \ . much show of idle indecision. " p| His real purpose was, in fact, de- it',': . finite. There was another body to be f V- accounted for. I»i<' To his Intense relief, he made no . further discovery other than a scatter- V - log drift of wreckage from the motor- boats. He turned at length and 1 rudged wearily haok towacd the farm- , ' . -> house. , Since breakfast he had seen noth­ ing of the girl; none of the elaborate­ ly casual glances which he had from time to time cast inland had discov­ ered any sign of her. But now she appeared In the doorway, and after a : slight pause, as of indecision, -moved , down the path to m^et him, - - He was conscious that, at sight of ^her, his pulses quickened. Something fiSweried in his breast, something tight­ ened the musclea of his throat. The way of her body In action, the way of the sun with her hair . . ! Dismay shook him like an ague; he Jfelt his heart divided against Itself; "•he was so glad of her, and so afraid . . . He could not keep his eyes from her, nor could he make his desire be still; and yet . . . and yet . . . They paused beside one of the low stone walls and the girl sat down upon the lichened stones, then looked up to him with a smile and a slight movement of the head that plainly .in­ vited him to a place beside her. ! "I watched you, off and on, from the windows. You might have been looking for a pin, from your pains­ taking air, off there along the clMTs." He sodded again, gloomily. Her comment seemed to admit of no more compromising method of reply. "Then you've nothing to tell me?" He pursed his lips, depreciatory, lifted his shoulders not quite happily, nnd swung one lanky leg across the other as he slouched, morosely eying the sheets of sapphire that made their prison walls. There was a little silence. She watched him askance with her fugitive, shadowy, sympathetic and shrewd smile. "Must I make talk, then?" she de­ manded at length. "If we must, I suppose--you'll have show the way. My mind's hardly equal to trail-breaking to-day." "So I shall, then. Hugh . . She leaned toward him, dropping her hand over his own with an effect of infinite comprehension. "Hugh." she repeated, meeting his gaze squarely as he looked up. startled--"what'a the good of keeping up the iqake-believel You know I" The breath clicked in his throat, and his glance wfaver<?d uneasily, then steadied again to hers. And through a long moment neither stirred, but sat so, eye to eye, searching each the other's mind and heart. ' At length he confessed It with an uncertain, shamefaced nod. "That's right," be said: "I do know--now." She removed her hand and sat back without lessening the fixity of her re* gard. "When did you find it out?" » . "Tills morning. That Is It came to C&e all of a sudden-*-" His gaze fell; ii iS#*- iwr Ml "Hugh, that's not quite honest, know you hadn't guessed, last oivhl-- I know it. Hugh, look at me!" i. Unwillingly he met her eyes. | "How did you find out?" He was an irtexpe^t liar. Under the witchery of her eyes, his resource failed him absolutely. He started to repeat, stammered, fell still, and tljen in a breath capitulated. "Before you were up--I meant to keep this from you--down there on the °beach--I found Drummend." "Drummond!" It was a cry of terror. She started back from hlo, .eyes wide, cheeks whitening. - "I'm sorry . . . But I presume fou ought to kno,w. . . . "BUS body . ,. * I buried it*. . »" She gave a little smothered cry, and seemed to shrink in upon herself, burying her face in ner bands--an in­ congruous, huddled shape of grief, there upon the gray stone wall, set against all the radiant beauty of the exquisite, sun-gladdened world. He was patient with her, though the slow-drngging minutes duripg which she neither moved nor made any sound brought him inexpressible distress, and he seemed to age visibly, his face, settling in iron lines, gray with suf­ fering. At length a moan--rather, a wail-- came from the stricken figure beside him: "Ah, the pity of It! the pity of it! . . . What have I done that this should come to me!" He ventured to touch her hand in gentle sympathy. "Mary," he said, and hesitated with a little wonder, remembering that this was the first time he had ever cabled her by that name--"Mary, did you care for him so much?" She sat, trembling, her face averted and hidden. "Don't blame him," she said softly. "He wasn't responsible." * "I know." "How long hove you know?" She swung suddenly to face him. "For some time--definitely, for two or three days. Ember took him away, meaning to put him in a sanitarium. 'Dent Come Near Me, Hugh I Oeath." It's Stf -j. • - .... I don't understand how he got away --from Ember. It worries me--on Ember's account. I hope nothing ha« happened to him." . "Oh, I hope not!" "You know--f mean about the cause --the morphine?" "I never guessed until that night, after he had come down into the cabin to--to drug himself. ... It was very terrible--that tiny, pitching cabin, with the swinging, smoking lamp, and the madman sitting there, muttering to himself over the glass In which the morphine was dissolving. ... It happened three times before the wreck; I thought I should go out of my own mind." ~ ' Sh^ shuddered, her face tragic and pitiful. For a little she eat, head bowed, brooding. "Hugh!" she cried, looking hp to search his face narrowly--"Hugh, you've not been pretending--T' • "Pretending?" he repeated, thick- witted. % "Hugh, I could never forgive you if you'd been pretending. It would be too cruel . . . Ah, but you haven't been! Tell me you haven't!" "I don't understand . . . Pretend­ ing what?" "Pretending you didn't know who I was--pretending to fall in love with me just because you were sorry for me, to make me think it was me you loved and not the woman you felt bound to take. care, of, .because you'd-- you had-*" j* "Mary, listen to me," he interrupted! "I swear I didn't know you. Only, that night on the stage, as Joan Thursday, you were that girl aguin. I never dreamed of associating you with my wife. Dear, I didn't know, believe me. It was you who bewitched me:--not the wife for whose sake I fought against what I thought infatua­ tion for you. I loved--1 love you only, you as you are--not the poor little girl of the Commercial House." "I have loved yon always," she said softly between barely parted lips-- "always, Hugh. EvyMwhen I thought you dead . . I ^"ffld believe that you were drowned out there. ° Hugh! You know that, don't you." "I have never for an Instant ques­ tioned it." "It wouldn't be like you to. my dear; It wouldn't be you, my Hugh. ?lo ether man I ever knew--no, let me say it!--ever measured up to the i standard you had set for me to wor- t bis face burn- j ship. But Hugh--you'll understand, won't you?--about t'le ^ther#--!"* "I'lease." he begged--"please dont harrow yourself so, Mar#}" "No; I must tell you, . . . The world seemed so empty ahd So lonely, Hugh: I tried to lose myself In my work, but It wasn't enough. And those others came, beseeching me, and--ahd I liked them. I was starving for af­ fection. Each time, Hugh. It was the same. Dne by one they were taken frotrt me, strangely, terribly. Poor Tom Custer, first; he was a dear boy, but I didn't love him and couldn't marry him. I had to tell him so. He killed himself. . . , Then Billy Ham ilton ; 1 became engaged to him; but he was taken mysteriously from a crowded ship in mid-ocean. ... A man named Mitchel Thurston loved me. I liked him; perhaps I might have consented to marry him. He was assassinated--shot down like a mad dog in broad dayiight--no one ever kne\^ by whom, or why. He hadn't an enemy in *the world we knew of. . . . And now Drummond . . , !" "Mary, Mary!" he pleaded. "Don't '--don't--those things were all acci­ dents--". • •.. She paid h{m no heed. She didn't seem to hear. He tried to take her hand, with a man's dull, witlqss no­ tion of the way to comfort a distraught woman; but she snatched it from his touch. "And now"--her voice pealed out like a great bell tolling over the mag­ nificent solitude of the forsaken island--"and now I have It to live through once again; the wonder and terror and beauty of love, the agony and passion of having you tora from me! . . . Hugh! . . . I don't believe I can endure it again. I can't bear this exquisite torture. I'm afraid 1 shall go mad! ... Unless . . . unless"--her voice shuddered--"I have the strength, the strength to--" "Stop!" he cried In desperation. "You must not go on like this! Mary I Listen to me!" This time he succeeded In Imprison­ ing her hand. "Mary," he said gently, drawing closer to her, "listen to me; understand what I say. I love you; I am your husband; nothing can pos­ sibly come between us. All these other things can be explained. Don't let yourself think for another instant--w Her eyes, fixed upon the two hagds in which he clasped her own, had grown wide and staring with dread. Momentarily she seemed stunned. Then she wrenched it from him, at the same time jumping up and away. "No!" she cried, fending him from her with shaking arms. "No! Don't touch me! Don't come near me, Hugh! it's . . . it's death! My towch is death! I know it now--I had begun to suspect, now. I know! I am . ac­ cursed--doomed to go through life like pestilence, leaving sorrow and death In® ray wake. . V „ . Hugh I" She con­ trolled herself, a trifle: "Hugh. I love you more than life; I love you more than love Itself. But you must not come near me. Love me If you must, but O my dear one! keep away from me; avoid me, forget me If you can, but at all cost shun me as you would the plague! I will not give myself to you *o be your death!" Before he could utter a syllable In reply, she turned and fled from him. JSCHAPTER XVIi Capitulation. Grimly Wliitaker sat himself down In the kitchen and prepared to <wait the reappearance of his wife--pre­ pared to wait as long as life was 111 him, so that he were there to welcome her when, her paroxysm over, she would come to him to be comforted! soothed and reasoned out of her dis­ torted conception of her destiny. He pondered the situation for hours then he rose, ascended the 3taira» tapped gently on the locked door. "Mary," he called, with his heart In his mouth--"Mary!" Her nnswer was Instant, in accents sweet, calm and clear. " The breathless seconds spun their golden web of minutes. They did .not move. Round them the silence, sang like the choiring seraphim. . . . fTO BE CONTINUED.) LOVE'S CODE BY SEARCHLIGHT Ferryboat Captain Nightly Signals Little Deaf and Dumb Daughter. Searchlight flashes, mysterious and baffling, seen nightly for several weeks off the Richmond and Berkeley water fronts, which have puzzled East Bay residents and even made them uneasy, are now explained. They indicate no between a lonesome daddy and his lohesome little girl, the San Francisco Chronicle states. The daddy is Capt. H. F.* Dunnlngan of the Santa Fe ferryboat San Pedro, and the girl Is his twelve-year-old daughter Florence, a patient in the State Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind at Berkeley. Happily she re­ tains the faculty of sight, and nightly she sits, her nose flattened against the pane of her window, waiting for the messages that come to heir across mllef of land and water. There appears a finger of light, painting a half-circle against the clouds; daddy Is saying: "Hello." Three short flashes, "Love from dad­ dy." Then, as the San I'edro swings out of range, the light sweeps the sky; that means "Good-night, with lOve and kisses." But the most welcome of all the sly nais is the stream of light held stead­ ily against the window, through which peers the little face. That Indicates that daddy Is coming on his weekly visit, and then little Florence la In the height of bliss. New York.--tlnTess' something more drastic happens in Paris than has hap­ pened so far, the woman who wants to furbish up her gowns of last autumn and even last spring and* continue to wear them may do so without criticism. This does not mean that France has not shown to the American ^buyers an amazing collection of new clothes. She has featured the afternoon gown above the morning and evening ones, and she has not originated anything new in sports clothes except in the house of Chanel, where certain new touches have been brought out that will un­ doubtedly catch the public here. The Silhouette is still straight and slim. The dlrectolre, as was predict­ ed, is creeping in. The high empire waistline has several advocates among' the lesser houses In France, - The skirts shown in the last two weeks have been a trifle longer than usual, there has been more flat plaiting than bunched drapery and the use of expensive and ornate embroidery on chiffon continues. Much-Discus^ed Barrel Skirt. . " Of course, we are still talking from rumor* from cables and from the let­ ters of those who are entrusted with the mission of giving us advance Information according to their best belief. Bat from all these sources one gathers that novelty was cen­ tered in the barrel skirt and that the American buyers are not looking upon It with much favor. This does not mean that the barrel skirt will fail to be a famous creature of fash- Ions in America. It is too early to tell what will become of it. The ex­ clusive dressmakers ahd shops, you know, do not like to bring over in March what the manufacturers of in­ expensive, ready-to-wear clothing have exploited in January. Suits with barrel skirts are now selling for $80, and the man who has to pay $400 for such a suit in Paris, plus 60 per cent duty, may not even take a gambling chance at Its success over here. All Information points to the fact that belts will relieve the sandwich effect of pure medievalism. These belts are put above or at the waistline, but rarely below. The girdled hips are not to be featured. Belts do not con­ fine the normal waistline; they merely suggest it in a riot of color, embroidery and tinsel. Hang From the Belt. Another new touch is to hang a heavy chain or an ornate silken 1 cord from the belt at the side or in' the front, and linked chains are made to represent'the ornamentation worn by Henr£ VIII, only they are dropped from,-the waistline instead of from 1y« ftc French woman mal£es'no'pr<£ tense of running around the streets at ten o'cloot in the morning, as our multimillionaire fashionables do every day. A few of them walk in the Boia at 11 and on jthe Avenue des Acacias, but speedily retire for breakfast at 12:30. The brilliancy of the afternoon life begins at three o'clock, and it is from then until dark that women shop, go into the Bois and make their rounds of places for tea or dancing. They are constantly In the puhllc eye during those hours. They do not give lunch­ eons, card parties or afternoon wel­ ding receptions, as America does. They reserve all entertainment of that kind lor the evening. It may be that this season the French designer and the French woman have locked hands in making the afternoon costume the serious and brilliant one of the day. This idea suits Americans immensely, for there must be several thousand card parties' given on this continent every afternoon between four and seven, and what a French woman wears in the park in the afternoon, an American wears to an elaborate indoor affair with candles, chicken salad and closed curtains, but she wants eve- DESTROYER LOST WITH CREW iwlf m mmm ^mm mmi imfl v mm® "V\\ Colored silk in a new hat; It is of rope pYnk faille, with brim of upturn­ ing ostrich tips; the chin-strap of pink ribbon ends lit long streamers at the side. ning gowns, too, and yet we hear not a rumor of anything new, brilliant or stimulating being done along that lin<». One thing is true. Whatever we will have in the way of new evening fash­ ions, will be dignified and not frivolous. Satin will rule and silk net will hold its place. Embroidery will again be a feature, -done in tinseled threads and silk floss. The Chinese influence is al­ ready suggested by the house of Callot, which has made a crysanthemum eve* ning gown that is built of orange net, crystals and a mass of Chiifese em­ broidery. The question, therefore, that has arisen among the American women, who are excessively stimulated by the desire to see new clothes at this sea­ son, is whether there will be a striking novelty this month, and with it the shipments of American clothes. If not, can the dressmakers persuade women to keefr up the orgie of clothes buying which has gone on since last spring? (Copyright, 1917, by the McClure Newspa-, per Syndicate.) fell plot; they reveal no piratical ac­ tivities. They are simply a "love code"sS jng for afternoon gown, because New gown of biscuit-colored taffeta embroidered in blue, with immense sash lined with blue and finished em­ broidered ends. Notice the new short sleeves. shoulder to shoulder. Sturdy tinseled cord Is used to simulate tarnished sli­ ver for these chains. The reason given by the great French houses for the lavish and expensive afternoon gowns which have been shown In their exhibitions, Is that France bans the evening gown. Well, what has that got to do with America? one asks. Surely, the Paris designers know that the same social conditions do not preVall here as there, and that Americn, from one end to the other and then crosswise, has always been given over to evening gaiety. Paris has always had ,a strong feel- of the social routine of the life there. Fashionable Hours in Paris. Women of fashion, and all who can afford good dressing, center upon the hours from 3 to 6 and dress according- BEADS HAVE STRONG VOGUE SIMPLE AND QUICKLY MADE Appliqued Patch Embroidery Reeom- mended as Excellent Occupation for the Hours of Leisure. Simple work for busy hands seems to be^ in demand just at present. Ap­ pliqued patch embroidery^ is simple and is made quickly. To make center pieces, cushion tops, scarfs, tidies or chair backs, clothes bags, etc., plain linen or silk Is need­ ed, preferably linen. Circles of applique are cut from cretonne. { The design should be a large single flower or small spray in order to cut three-Inch circles. The circles are basted to the cloth and stitched on by machine close to the edge. Chain stitch around each circle with coarse thread, then run through with a white thread in what is called the blanket stitch, or whip it straight along the last row of stitches, catch­ ing It over and over. The white rolls in with the black and Is very pretty. A scroll Is. drawn in by cutting out a figure which looks well and then trac­ ing it off on the cloth. In a center piece six medallions are used, three In a pillow, three In each end of a scarf and three-In a chair back. To finish the edge, outline it as the medallions were outlined. Dots, which are often placed In" the center of the scroll work are made Off black In the satin stitch. No Previous Experience. Traffic Cop (to auuiist whose cat has Just been lu a bad collision ) -- "That's the most complete smush-up I ever fcaw." Autoist (proudly)--"Thank you And would you believe it. If* , |ki> first one 1 ever lutdl"--jpuck, More Than Ever Popular Across the Water Because They Are Made by the Wounded. Bead btigs and chains have never gone odt of date, and now that some of the soldiers in hospital are learn­ ing to 'make them they are likely to become even more fashionable than they were. People are getting tired of buying the rafiia baskets which the men make with , such skill and taste, but no woman can refuse a bead bag or chain. I saw a neck chain this week made by a French soldier which was really a small work of art. The color­ ing, the design ahd the fineness of the work altogether made it as decorative a note of color on the dress us could be desired. It was in rich blues and faint old rose, and It was worn on a plain gray liberty dress which hod straight, long lines and .no trimming. The bags are, of course, more ambi­ tious, but the men are tackling them bravely. Artists, who in peace time live pleasant, busy lives in their stu­ dios working at theU- pictures, are now, New peasant frocks are' so Simple they are almost nunlike. in many cases, giving up their days to nursing the wounded. Some do mas­ sage, others what they laughingly call charwoman's work to help the nurses, and it Is these girls and women who are teaching the soldiers some of the finest crafts. They buy one old piece of beadwork, and from It the soldier, with a sense of design such as many of them have, evolves several more, adapting them to the particular thing he is making.--London Queen. V Lines of the N^w Hats. Spring models in hats show radical changes from those of the -winter, such as low, rolled brims, medium high, soft, unllned crowns nod a continuance of the marked tendency to substitute curves for angles. Brims turned abruptly back from the face are still featured by many of the houses; J^ut these, unlike the winter models, m practically all cases show an even bulge or curve from front to back. Often the severity of the line of brim at top is softened by i«n edging or fringe of ostrich feather \>i by burnt coque fnsiHoned / into baud* Imitating fur. t London Announces Destruction of War Craft With All Handa in the North Sea--Several Other Vessels 8ent to Bottom by Submarines. «> London, March British de­ stroyer was sunk with all hands in the North sea on Thursday, the admiralty announced. It Is believed she struck a mine, the announcement states. Berlin, March 6.--An armed trans­ port steamer of 34,434 tons, with about 500 colonial troops, artillery and horsei' on board, was sunk by a German sub­ marine in the Mediterranean on Feb­ ruary 24, the admiralty announced. Some of the troops on board were lost. The statement reads: "German submarines have sunk the following vessels in the barred aorie of the Mediterranean: "February 17, south of Malta, trans­ port steamer of about 9,000 tons, filljki with cargo and escorted by other ves­ sels, steering eastward. , "February 23, transport steamer, about 5,000 tons, crowded with troops, escorted by vessels; transport steam­ er, about 5,000 tonis, with cargo, also escorted. "February 24, armed transport steamer, 34,494 tons, with about 500 colonial troops, artillery and horses on board; part of troops were drowned. "In uddition to the transport steamers reported sunk, 13 vessels, to­ taling 25,166 tons, were destroyed in the Mediterranean recently. Among them were the Italian steamer Oceania, 4,200 tons, with grain from America to Italy." The reported sinking of a vessel of 34,494 tons constitutes a record for the war, the largest vessel previously sunk being the Cunarder Lusitania of 30,396 tons. • - , ^ The vessel that seeihs more nearly to answer to the description of the "armed transport" of this size, said by Berlin to have been sent to the bottom, Is the Stateodam, which was building in England for the Holland- American line when the war broke out and was taken over by the British government. Her tonnage is given in the latest marine records as approximately 35,- 000. She is reported to have been in use as a transport. MIDDLE AGE Mk Quhm's Ought to Help You Over - uNhe Critical Period* Lowell. Mass. years I na 5 KILLED IN DETROIT BLAZE Firemen Perish Fighting Flames in Business District at Early Hour --Three Injured. Detroit, Mich., March 6--Five fire­ men lost their lives, three were in­ jured, when fire of unknown origin syvept through the five-story Field Cloak and Suit company building at 187 Woodward avenue, early Sunday morning. The blaze also worked through Into the top story of the R. H.s Fyfe company building to the south. Half an hour after the fire1 started the three lower floors of the Field building collapsed, carrying 20 firemen down In the wreckage. The fire was one of the mosf stub­ born In the history of the local depart­ ment. Estimates place the total loss at about $500,000. PERSHING TO VISIT MEXICO la Step to Re-Establish Exehange of Courtesies , Between Military * Chiefs of Two Countries. Brownsville, Tex., March 6.--Maj. Gen. John J. Pershing, commander of the southern department, who "arrived here on an inspection trip of troops in the Brownsville district, took what is said to have been the first step to­ ward re-established exchanges of courtesies between American and Mex­ ican military commanders by arrang­ ing to visit Matamoras, the Mexican town opposite Brownsville, probably tomorrow afternoon. Col. Tlrs&o Gonzales, commander In Matamoros. iilans tQ return General Pershing's call. WIFE AN&2 CHILDREN BURN Husband ' and Father Escapes by Jumping After Accidentally Set­ ting His Home in Flames. Lansing, Mich., March 6. --Mrs. Emelia Van Epps. thirty, and her two children, Louis, aged six years, and Everett, aged three months, were burned to death on Sinday when their home caught fire. Wilbur Van Epps, husband and father, was badly burned but will recover. , Van Epps, In Starting a fire, poured oil Into a &ove. The next Instant the hbuse was In flames. Kaiser's Last Trump. The Hague, March 6.--The news of the German Intrigue In Mexico caused a sensation here. It is regarded as a stroke of great good fortune for the cause of the entente, and as-strength­ ening the hands of Wilson. Viliistas Say Villa Is Dead. *E1 Paso, Tex., March 6.--One fac- ttftn of the Villa Junta Is authority for the statement that Villa has died from pneumonia In the mountains near Sun Andres. The other faction says 4»e is still alive. • • 1111 1 v • 11 . 100 Subsea Dreadnaughts. Paris. March 5.--Germany has a fleet of 100 battleship submarines, heavily armed and capable of bombarding sea- coast cities and fortifications. It 's said that the disclosure was made by Admiral Degony of the French navy. Hospital Unit Coming Home. Copenhagen. March 5.--The Ameri­ can hospital unit from Naumburg, In­ cluding Doctors Sauer of El Paso, Frick of New York and Nuraes Bertha Becht, Mary Caanard and Ailda Meyw mrm on their way honw * "For the last thrs* ,ve been troubled with the Change of Life and the bad feelings common at that time. I was in a very nervous condi­ tio? 2. with headaches and pain a good deal of the time sol was unfit to do ray w o r k . A f r i e n d asked me to try Lydia E. Pinkham s vegetable Com- pound, which I did* and it has helped me in every way. I am not nearly so nervous, no headacba of pain. I must say that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is tha*» best remedy any sick woman can take." --Mrs. Margaret Quinn, Rear 2G9 Worthen St., Lowell, Mass. Other warning symptoms are a sens* ©f .suffocation, hot flashes, fceadachea, backaches, dread of impending evil* timidity, sonnds in the ears, palpitation ©i the heart, sparks before the eye^,- irregularities, constipation, variable appetite, weakness, " inquietude, and dizziness. If you need special advice, write It the Lydia E. Ptnkham Medicine Co. (confidential), Lynn, Mass. MICE CARRY DISEASE Kill These Pest* By Using STEMNS' ELECTRIC PASTE U. S. Government Buys It SOLD EVERYWHERE -- 2Sc and tU» w m 3® Bpth Disqualified. • Old"Lady (inquisitive and plain, t*> young Civvy)--Young fellow, wl# aren't you In khaki? Young Civvy--For the same reasoii, my good woman, that you are not in • beauty show--a matter of sheer, ab­ solute physical unfitness.--London Tit- Bits. ! LOOK HI ' CHILD'S TONGUE B ctoss, feverish, give "California Syrup of Figs." • laxative today save* a side cl tomorrow. Children simply will noS take the time from play to empty their bowels, which become clogged up witl| waste, liver gets sluggish; stomac^ sour. «; Look at the tongue, mother! If coatf ed, or your child Is listless, cross, fev­ erish, breath bad, restless, doesn't eat heartily, full of cold or has sore throat or any other children's ailment, give a teaspoonful of "California Syrup of Figs," then don't worry, because It is perfectly harmless, and in a few hours all this constipation poison, sour blls and fermenting waste will gently move out of the bowels, and you have a well, playful child again. A thor­ ough "inside cleansing" Is ofttimes all that is necessary. It should be the first treatment given in any sickness. Beware of counterfeit fig syrups. Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle of "California Syrup of Figs," which has full directions for babies, children Qt all ages and for grown-ups plainer p r i n t e d o n t h e b o t t l e . A d v . , • * Presumptive Evidence. "Is he learning to read-law?" ' "I suppose so. He told me he was prosecuting his studies." 4 Pimples, boils, carbuncles, dry up sad . disappear with Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. < In tablets or liquid. --Adv. * ' ? Before marriage a w : n worrifif| ^ because she Is single - u. ; t-»>r ins*1 riage she worries be< i»e she i»a t. British soldiers writing 5.000,000 the front rs a week. ars When the stomach and Hvar •«* fe good working order, in ninety-nine cases out of every hundred general good health prevails. Green's August Flower has proren m blessing and has been used all over the civilized world during the last fifty odd years. It is a universal remedy for " itomach, constipation an<f stion. A dull head act weak stomach, constipation and nerv­ ous indigestion. A dull headache, bad taste in the mouth In the morning, or that " tired feeling" are nature's warn­ ings that 30metF 11 thing is wrcng in the digestive apparatus. At such times Green's August FSunm „iil t|uicn!> correct the difficulty and establish a normil condition. At all druggists* W dealers', iSc and 75c bottles. > Greens August Flower ! Children Who Are Sickly When your child cries at night, tosses restlessly in its slecr. is constipated, fev­ erish or has ayasplOESS of worms, you feel worried. Mothers who value their own comf ort and the welfare of their children, should never be without a box of Mother Cray's Sweet Powders for Children for use throughout the sea­ son. They tend to Break up Colds, relieve Feverish- ness. Constipation, Teeth­ ing Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and destroy Worms. These powders are pleasant to take and easy for parents to give. They cleanse the stomach, act on the Liver Tr»d« Mark, and give healthful sleep Don't accept by regulating the child's any substitute, system. Used by mothers for so yeart. Sold by all dnsrjrists. 25 cts. Sample mailed PRBR. Address. Mother Giay Co., Lc Roy, N. It. Be sure you ask for and obtain Mother Bray's Sweet Powders lor ChHdrsa. m * T f* £ < ' iV%* *• V. - . L'V ' ' ilM'