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Member of the Bertpps North Wert Leawue of Newap Entered at Seartia, Wash By mall, out of etty year, 08 The Bear That Walks Eastern hemisphere will No Sign of Strength N would paint the situation in Mexico, the fact sticks uncomfortably out that Car- fanza has failed to restore order in the O MATTER how optimistic we may militia be, or with how roseate a brush we Officers in southern republic They say It looks at present as if the lawless election plan guerrilla warfare in that country would more or less continue indefinitely, or until some new td $ welltin leader arises who is strong enough, per sonally, politically and financially, to weld the guerrilla bands into a cohesive mass, which will mean another bloody revolution. Financial and trade conditions are un- usually depressed, according to reliable reports, instead of being on the up-grade, as would be the case if the Mexican people had confidence in the permanency of Perareh's reign. It is doubtful if the reported to the man who beer for the the national read. Here Is revolution be headed if thi ” the hour will show up. Then, bang! re Carranza is a weakling. A weakling cannot be made into a warrior by Uncle Sam or any one else. WHY DO miliionaires have the film burned ‘whenever they pose for the movies at Paim Beach? Yes, we really want to know, < (7, 3 — Dear Miss Grey: As my atten-;nice and clean and pleasant and | tien has been called to a communi-| cheap at our house and (because of Ts in your columns by “A. C. the “angel we were entertaining”) “" | would like to say that, being my mother would get out some “the daughter of missionaries, and choice jelly and marmalade and being associated with that order an expensive roast, which we a and its workers, | have alittle could not afford every day, and g, information myself. | afterwards we would hear of the did a little traveling, “extravagant way in which the mis ‘but there was not much luxury sionaries lived.” Luxuries? Yes. Often on Sabbath evening, when mother had to go to church, we children had, as a special! treat, crackers and milk for supper. Buffalo milk, too, and blue at that, but it was MILK, and we did mot have that every day. too expensiv 1 am afraid “A. C. T.” did not “inspect” missions much in Canton, or else he might have noticed the great asylum for the insane which our missionaries support. Before they opened this work, the insane had absolutely no care and were even carried to the woods and tled to trees and left to die. If he had tried to, he might have seen the home for untainted chil- dren of lepers which only mission- embarking on a sailing vessel at in 1852, they were fi reaching Hong Kong, after ® stormy trip. All @rinking water was carried in ‘i from Boston. And they ; in Canton 17 years before Jeaving for a real vacation. Servants? | Yes, they had three and paid them 10c apiece a day, but this ieft my mother free to do the work her ‘society sent her to do. | They did not send her to China wash dishes. Luxur t Yes, | remember about the tux- wries. When some “globe trotter” Manded, he would come to our house —there was no hotei—and it w CASCARETS” CONSTIPATED . 4 Cascarets Gently Cleanse the Liver and Bowels, Stopping Headache, Nasty Breath, Sour Stomach or Bad Colds. trreate = = | ee | —_— =— — — = aA _ ~ Better Than Salts, Oil, Calomel or Pills for Men, Women, Children—Never Gripe—20 Million Take one or two Cascarets to night and enjoy the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel cleansing you ever ing. Stop the headache ness, bad colds and bad days | fit and ready for work or play bilious Feel Cas “ carets do not gripe, sicken or in rienced, Wake up feeling! convenience you the next day lke head wili be clear, | salts, pills or calomel. They're fine! grand, your Syour tongue clean, breath sweet, Mothers should give a whole Cas *stomach regulated and your liver|caret any time to croms, sick, bil oom thirty feet of bowels active. | ious or feverish children because it wand get straightened up by morn-' jure * ASCARETS WORK WHILE YOU SLEER The Seattle Star Reform That They’ll Not So in Thi ASHINGTON have gressman Kahn of California, who wants officers instead of election. state are already required to gain their commissions by competitive examin wn mer encampment the highest commission. We, of this state, should be glad that the examination method. MANY PARAGRAPHS from the president's preparedness apeeches ought to be read and re- “We who are trustees to re the damage is done must take counsel with one Felix Diaz will amount to much. Diaz is looked upon with suspicion by all another how we shall hands. But, sooner or later, the man of be prevented from the efficacious performance CHANCE FOR a quarrel! with Woodrow when he says that expediency didnt enter into the making up of the United States RI ap thenantnry FORTS seem to be 2 good ike fireproof bulldinge—ell hunkydo: til the right sort of fire starts, be $a @ box at any drug store now | will act thoroughly and cannot in- Punitaned Datiy a wy T G Publiening Co Phone Maia #400 Like a Man Swallow ; ‘ a j ERE’S a reformer who is edging his HE Russian army under Grand Duke H Beda AGA DBE iiiolie heart be Nicholas is steadily pushing its way. 1. he's for a diet that most of us can I thru Asiatic Turkey Prebizond, it is re buy ny of us can raise with spade ported, is being abandoned by the Turks ee Er and the Slav forces will use this im P Housel Grubb, “Potato portant city and harbor as a base for ng” of Colorado, calls attention to the peure operations fact that there is a great increase in the While the fast developing Russian disease arterio sclerosis coincident with Movement must be an ever-present the decline in consumption of potatoes Menace to Constantinople, yet it is from 314 bushels per capita to 2 bushels probable that the grand duke is really This dread disease, says “King” Grubb, making his thrust at Adana, or some is due to lack of alkalinity in the blood point on the Gulf of Iskanderm, this Eat potatoes! F being the line of least resistance, as well Téa iach: tobecco-~artetto -acteros as the nearest route, from the Lake Van say the profe nal medics fegion to the Mediterranean. If success potat urter sis, says “King ful, the Turkish empire in Asia will be Grubb, Suffering humanity will turn to cut in half and the sultan’s main army Grubb. We never knew a man to give forced back upon Constantinople, there to up his tobacco to avoid arterio or any remain until the finish of the war. If other sclerosis. We know many men who victory should perch upon the banner of will take a potato recommendation to the allies, Russia's age-old dream will their bosom. More power to Grubb! have been realized. The bear will have We understand that he already has much its front paws in warm water. Russia, potatoes a world unto itself, will dominate the ‘State national guardsmen no quarrel with Con chosen by examination the national guard of this tion the states where guard bec fa litical football fact that some sta bought the most barrels of that in is used, t mes in companies during the sum usually was elected to guard of Washington uses one from his Kan: City talk ir the world when e to it that we shall not a Jaries thought of opening, and thus | saving hundreds of innocent beings from untold suffering. | Then, If he had gone further, he would have seen that the mission.| | aries take time to care for hundreds |of lame and blind and sick | | Or. Bash to do her laundry work, [nor scrub her floors or even cook! | her meals. We want her to use her! skill and time and talents in heal-, | Ing the sick and training Chinese! Girls to do the same. If “A. C. T." had tried to look up the missionaries in India, he might have seen my friend, Or. Alien—no, she would have been too busy. She had 10,640 sick people outside to doctor last year and 892 in her |own hospital, while 655 times she, | performed serious operations. | This would seem to be enoug! for one woman, but she also moth- ers and supports six famine orphans and Is educating these out of her big (7) salary of $650 per year, | | | wonder if “A, C. T..” when he | was in India, went with Mr. Sam|/ Higginbottom to his leper ayslum at Allahabad and helped him care} | for and bind up the terrible sores! on these sufferers? Would any) one but a missionary love and care| victims of such a loath-| se? LAURA PRESTON CAMPBELL. Dear Miss Grey: What do we | thing he could possibly do. To Cunthin. Grey A Novel a Week adard, bleh! THE RANCH AT THE WOLVERINE Start It Today » alse movel, complete t 1 thie paper | By B, M. Bower—Copyright, by Little, Brown & Co. | = Neo 1 8 full teetatt | if iow ment wi jo you every day || NEXT WEEK, “THE OUTSIDER.” BY LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE RARAARAARARAAAARRARARARARAL | ) hat time. You wero his{ttally. “I'm willing to give you thatyand fell ~ haa While he studied the peck, cgi chance, such as it is, And if you're| Ward sprawled among the rocks, Thie Ie a part of a book- sie A ’ reo-| “Wa ‘6 |lucky enough to win out—weil, I'd| dazed. The shock of the fall took sized, popular novel being { me pend Mp ge ee ed tent “Shut up. 1 Just wanted to see ladvine you to do some going! South| him out of bis fit of abstraction, run complete thie week In || iin ee idle while he gazed un-|!f you'd changed any in the last| America t# about an close as you'll|and he pulled away from Rattler thia newepaper. Others are | te the sacee wae > te wan| seven years, You haven't, unless ho Well, s0-long.” as the horse scrambled up. He to follow from week to week, | Seeinely at the het Oe ind waw; {!t’s for the worsé, Do you wast to! Ward had not ridden a hundred|tried to reramble up also. * * * beginning each Monday and { “ *°rY ey helt that oe vt other| know what I'm going to do tO | yards before he heard Buck seres Ward sat and stared stupidly at ending each Saturday. A {/*% hell made by men, | you?” hysterically for he He grinned |! left leg, where, midwa COMPLETE NOVEL {Men munt dwell in torment Ward, you wouldn't Gare shoot la>uriy’ with hie eyebrows finahoa|tween his knee and 1 EVERY WEEK! If you want , Seabeck’s brand was a big V. &) me! With the record you have ther and that hard, strained|turned out at an annatur back coples of the paper, or bad brand to own, Kince Mt favors) got, you wouldn't stand" kin his eyes still, “Let him hol-| He was not far from the ca If you are not @ regular eub- révision at the hands of the un ‘Who gave it to me, huh? Well, yee genet” he eritted Do him |could get there by trawling ecriber and wish to ead. {\scrupulous, Th cattle were Sea) you can rest eusy on one 65 g00d, 4 n him!" | what then? vantage of thie feature, call { beck cattle, and their brand had/I'm not going to shoot you. I'm Until distance and the interven He reached out, took the this paper's circulation de {| been altered or the right slant) going to take you out somewh ing hilla set a wall of silence be.| #04 led Rattler a step ae i partment. {of the V had been extended a little/and hang you ltwoen, Ward heard Buck screaming |that he could grasp the stirrup, {/and curled into @ 6, #0 that in time! “Ward! You—you Ala oe 4 amine Then, with pain-burried, jerk a . 0,” |in fear of death; screaming becaus ptr ale a moms | the brand would stand casual In I told you, seven years ag 'g|ho had not seen Ward take his movements, he pulled the sad- ges |xpection as a YG monogram—|went on Ward steadily, “that 1d) 0) and alice the rope upon the| 7% 9nd flung it beh a buck. (Continued from Our Last teeua) | Ward's own brand, ‘The work was| ee you hung before T was thru| Knife and alioe the rope upon the| ira, Ho slipped off the bridle | FTER that the days drifted) crude—purposefully erude. with you. Remember? the h “ “"\flung that a the le, and or purp 1 4 think of running you In |the weight of a rabbit Rattler 1 iS os quietly and grew nippler at | he sat there and tookéd over], id think of running you in| gave Hattler # slap 0 imp pach end d laste e| vies and givin ou a taste of hell yo , " i he horse moved awa iddte: Fen And lszler tn the the fence and saw himself a con | nol . Dut "as usual you've gone CHAPTER X wash "efter him w middle; which meant that the short! victed “runtior” ‘They would bo) "ell But, as usual, youve gone Sotane. isle Reate ared after him | wit summer was over, It was some ‘ : ar his) a” , f St Wan’ Dat cote whee Mikes | ART NAY, v0 eal 3 turned loose on the range near M8) inst never did me any particular | past noon nen Ward self,” he said and balanced upog time In the lattor part of Septem |ciaim, and they would be found be-| harm and 1 don't want. to hand|fode down the steep lope to the | Mit tight ina Wille be SWUR ber that the doctor said mommie} the scabs had hatred over, them anything if 1 can help {t, 80|Creek bank just above his cabin, |Ui* Tent a ths oat ‘ rg re a bospital—-Bolse, since Ward stared at the altered brands} yy) just string you up—and leave He wan sunk deep in that mental | Ward crawled there on his hand, she had fri 9g there. And there) ang wondered what he had best do Ja note saying who you are, and| depression which so often follows | .n4 one knee, dragging the broken | was a terrib le, nerve racking Jour-| and then quite suddenly, in his de*/that you're the head push in this|C!0se upon the heels of a great out jeg after him. In half an hour or” ney to the rallread. And whee | eration, he decided upon some| rusting business, and that you burst of paaslon Mechanically, SOty us rested’ hie’ artab oa a 0 Volverine thing. “They started this game,"|helped spend the money that|twitched the reins and sent Rattler | own goorstep and dropped his pers ancy, there was no Billy Loulse-|no told tymsolt grimly, “and they|Hardup bank Jost a while back; |own the last shelf of bank—and|Soiting face” upon them. te lay John Pringle and Phoebe told him) needn't aqueal if they burn thelr /and a Ald not look RP, £0,800 Just | there a long while, in a dead tain later dey capety seepenone Ce aoe f You can't prove it! You—" fe was. Rattler was a well!“ Atter a while he moved, lifted later development f ‘i : t ree, since he was Ward oe me Ward was not an adept with a! “I don’t have to prove | ne , nig head, end. erawied farther al 2 r fron he wan honest, authorities will do all that when beyed the rein signal and| on the step, reached the latch i CHAPTER VIII. n might say of him.|they get the tip I'll give them ped off a twofoot bank into s/ 554 opened the door. “You Won't Get Me, Again” But he knew how to Ue down an/ And you, being hung up on a limb t of loose-piled rocks that slid | sh Ono day, late in the fall, Wardlanimal, He worked fast—no telling|somewhere, can't very we treachorously under hie feet sure: | PACS ff was riding the hills off to the north| what minute someone might come |Your pardners the double-cross; so | footed tho he was, he stumbled (Cortinued in our next issue) and wert of his claim, looking at/and catch him—and he did his work | they'll have a fighting chance to the condition of the range there and| well, far better and neater than had | make thelr getaway j keeping an eyo out for Y6 cattle.| nis predecessors | He went out and ed up the} U 10 He had bought another dozen head) When he left that corral, be| horses to the door. He came back of mixed stock, over toward Hard-!gmiled. Before he had ridden very ®4 #tarted to untle Buck Otney * up, and they were not yet t the/tar up the bluff, he stopped, looked feet, then bethought him - the point of straying off their newldown at the long-suffering cattle. *tatement he had promised to <O jy Write, He got a magazine and range. One could read thetr brands casily | & sae Aomsaeiaae ana mrots By sheer accident he rode up toltrom where he sat on his horse, | tore out the frontispiece and wrote the canyon where the little corral|phey were not blotched; they were | "ever ' cial A om pl 7 oe a lay hidden at the en nd look 7 Glatine t they 6 no Kt, where aper was mth ay Siiden envten'end, ane} very distinct. I were DM ond white | n. y., wensdy—mr willium everly ; lived in the bronix & finnally they, down Ho gaw that there were cat: y¢s within that corral. There were oe . | | : 4 How's that?” he asked, holding! wig tives over In hoboken wishes | bitched up in dubbel harness. le within it, and two men at work other brands which might made| yy the-paper so that Buck could me . oe | now r, mr everly said to hit there. And by chance he lifted his!of a Y6 monogram, by the judicious | ryaq what he had written, “I|M!® youngest son wasent so blamed | 94"0" cat: mr everl) sald to BAS eyen and saw the nose of @ horse | addition of a mark here and a mark beyond a jutting ledge 60 yards or the 0 away, and the crown of a hat) showing just above the ledge; a! Ward knew that Buck Olney lookout, he judged instantly, and| would discover the re-branded cat pulled Rattler behind the rock he/ tie, and that Olney, being no fool, had been at somo pains to ride|would realize that whoever had around |done the trick was onto his game Ward was a cowpuncher. Heltt would be easy to reason out that knew tho tricks of the trade so well /the man most interested waa the that he did not wonder what was one who had discovered the hidden going on down there, He knew. | corral, Knowing bis man, Ward A man walked out into the cen: kept on the lookout for him, but ft ter of the corral and stood there|was not until a week Inter that, re in the revealing sunlight, Ward's turning to his cabin one noon, he e bored like gimlets thru the came up behind Olney sitting on a space that divided them. Instinct- poulder, the cabin door covered| ively his hand went to the gun on) with a gun his hip, But before he could shoot! “Throw up your hands!” Ward his tricky brain snapped before his|catied sharply, when his firet flare | eyes the face of Billy Louise. He lowered the gun. Billy Loutse had talked to him very sertously one day about this very possibility. pore. Buck Olney jamped as tho a ye! low-Jacket had stung him He She had made him see that shoot-| led ff his lip curled again as he walked be- re eee ae oath ona) tind: Atm to che Goer | | He helped Buck Into the saddle | took fn re and go on|and hobbled Buck's feet under the| Get up from ther otro thy your horse, grasped the bridlereins, and ing this man would be the worst | shoulder, grunted an oath, lifted his hands high fm the quiet He slid the gun «back into Its sunlight holster, and dismounted, with a/ giance toward the place where the|aown ta the shack lookout was stationed. He was! hands up.” sure he had not been ween, and #0 as he spoke he crouched behind a aplinter of rock and watched but hin Instinct impelled htm closely watch Buck Olney. tolwith his hands trembling in the jar upon either side of his head Another man came into view.| “Take down your left hand and down there in the corral. Ward/open the door.” Rave a little anort of contemptuous! puck did so and put his hand surprise when he recognized him.|up again without being told The two tn the corral came out and) “Now go in and stand with your closed the gate behind them, mount+! race to the wall.” if he did, ft might easily be “I'll keep cases some mynelf, you reptile,” he muttered under his breath. “You won't get me again,! ff that's what you've got in mind.” lfriend to yuh in apite of th you've got that I ain't done nothing" “No, lourled They went on, and presently ‘That's right, Ward, and IT can Ward was looking at their backs! prove it as they rode over the ridge. After; Ward snorted. “You proved it minute or so, he mounted and old-timer, when you laid up the rode down to the corral. Five dry cows and two steers: this shack, ready to get me when snorted at his approach and crowd-|1 came out. J sabe now how it ed against the farther rafls. Ward|happened Jim McGuire was found gave Rattler a touch of the spurs,| face down in the spring behind his rode close to the fence, and stoodjshack, with a bullet hole In his behind a rock with your sights « WHO CAN DOUBT SWORN TESTIMONY OF HONEST CITIZENS? SEVERE KIDNEY TROUBLES YIELD TO POPULAR REMEDY For nearly nine years I was a great sufferer from what my doc tor said was Kidney trouble and my blood was out of order; endur ing all that time excruciating pain in my back and across my bowels. 1 was drawn down #o that I could} » time ago I was taken with trouble which caused me up my work as blacksmith my appetite and could not lost sleep, from the dreadful pains that would come over me, from my kid- neys. I was treated by a physician for about three months, He could think about it? Are women uncon-|oniy walk with my hands on my|not help me, so finally he prescrib jsclously getting @ corner on the | knees, My doctor said he could doled Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root. I [matrimonial market? 1 will sug-| nothing for me. I tried many|started taking same and before 1 gest to “Bungalow” that any man should have no difficulty in finding a splendid woman. In America the | great wave of migration is rebound. ing threateningly after striking the shores of the Pacific. And what i |“the high cost of living’ but anoth er name for famine—the cause, per-| haps, of so many bachelors. The majority of women propose to a man in Buch a way that he [believes he did it himself, But |why criticise the women? T are about Girls to every three) men in this country. It is reported that soon there will be boatioads of European women coming over here to mak their homes with us. What does this mean, fair readers? Just scan over these facts; There are about) 8,000000, men fost in the war.| | There are about 1,000,000 widows | left homeless, and about 5,000,000 girls left loveless, There about 6,000,000 girls to 1,000, young men in the warring coun- tries. Take It from us, girls, you had better take advantage of this year's offerings and pop the question| with a vim that will land you the| | “bacon,” or you will be left to join the “also rans” or go over the pond and get what's left of an al ready picked-over rush sale. Ge ee It’s your last chance. WILLIAM STEVENS,” are | javall had finished taking the first bottle gan to eat and sleep better han IT had in a long time. I con but all to no me about Dr. | 1 and aa Tit else that I kinds of medicine, A friend told Kilmer's Swamp-Root, had tried everything eard of, I bought a bottle of} wamp-Root and it did wonders lor me. 1 prize it higher than any other medicine, and I shall recom mend {it to my friends. I wish to add right here that after using Swamp-Root for two months I be gan to straighten up and am now tirely cured and took on consider able weight, Tam now back working at my trade again and never felt better in my life. I apprectate what Swamp Root has done for me and will rec. ommend ft to any one who suffers with their kidneys. When physt sound and well, and fee! ike I|ctans fail to give relief and then might live a long time yet to tell|preseribe Swamp-Root, they sure what your medicine has done for; know of its merits Tam me. Very truly yours, Yours very truly 8. A. HAL T. ©. CLAY, | Henrietta, N.Y, 750 Sugar St Marion, Ohio, | gtate of New York } State of Ohio | |County of Monroe [** Marion County [ | 9. A. Hale, of Henrietta, N. Y,, Personally appeared before me| being duly sworn deposes and this 19th day of December, A. D, 1914, T. C. Clay, who subscribed to the above statement and made oath that the same ts true in sub stance and in fact says that he is the person who wrote the foregoing testimonial let ter to Dr. Kilmer & Co., and knows Subseribed and sworn to before CHARLES W, HABERMAN, me this 20th day of July, 1909, Notary Public, | MORRIS T. GRIFFIN, Marion Co,, Ohio, | Notary Pubile. Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For You Send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co,, Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample size bottle, It will convince any one, You will also receive a booklet of valuable information, telling about the kidneys and bladder, When writing, be sure and mention Department R. Regular fifty-cent and one-dollar size bottles for sale at all drug stores, tinued to take same until I was en-| Jof rage had cooled to steady pur-| Ward came still closer Buck got up awkwardly and went |Hardup, leading Buck's horse be He had no plan.! stumbling down the steep slope,|bind him | CHAPTER IX, | “So-Long, Buc jnounced, stopping under a cotton-| © fdea|Much in so short a time. 1 never| Would have recognized the tones as| of course not.” Ward's Mp |! | trail terness | } bit the facts stated therein to be true. | Jand flung the noc ain't In the mood to sit down and write a whole book, so | had to boll down your pedigree. will do the business all right, don’t you think? Buck read with staring eyes looked {nto Ward's face, and open ed bis Hps for protest or pleading Then he followed Ward's glance and shut his mouth with a snap Ward loosened the that bound Buck to the cha Then he took * rev and b 4 it in his left hand, while with his right he undid the rope which bound Buck's hands Stick your hands out in front of | you,” he commanded, “You'll have to ride a ways; there isn't any gal lows tree In walking distance.” Ward tied his hands before him and told him to get up and go out to his horse. abject submisstveness, and Ward's the short rope in his hands. jounted Rattler, Without a word, © set off up the rough trail toward “This is the tree.” Ward an wood that flung a big branch out Ward {ndicated Over the narrow cow-tra{l they were Ted { hoaen the | traveling. forming most marvelous ¢, ed, and rode up toward where the! which wall. He had chosen the , jon hundreds of Giveased folk every| OOkout Waited spot where he could reach easily). Ward dismounted with a most | year. Y| After they bad gained the top's ema! coll of rope. |businesslike manner and untied | Our hospitals do not close for va.| Ward beard the murmur of their! «prop your hands down behind| Buck Olney’s rope from the sad cation. If “A. C. 7." went to Pekin| Yolces. Once he caught the unmis.| you.” He apent a busy minute with |dle. | “I cant spare mine” he ex ngpe thd: nes of the H lained, laconically. He had some he could have see S ine | tRkAble tones of the man he would/ine rope before he pushed Buck | Pla! , Sesh busy eo oa ae ana like to kill. “ITl keep cases and\oiney roughly toward a chair trouble in fashioning a bangman’s clinics and patients. sit him.” Plotting against some! “i¢ 1 turn you loose, Buck, what|/008e. se | The members of Westminster! 20°" devil, as usnal, Ward thought,| wi you do? Ward asked tn a/ Ware let me go : ‘church In thie city, who contribute| *®4 wondered ff the man knew hel curious tone | Ward started. He bry = know it was toward her support, do not wien | Hived in this part of the country; | “1¢ you—Ward, I'll prove I'm a|that a man’s voice could change so He never coming from Buck Olney's mplacent lips. “Ward, I'll never—T'll leave the leountry—I'll own up to everything Tl tell you where some of th cached in that Hardup There's enougt EB street. I'll Huck Olney got it ther the fires of Ward's wrath. A man does not brood over treachery and wrong and a blackened future for jyears, without storing up a good many things that he means to say to the friend who hag played him false. Ward stdod up and let the rope forgotten from his hands while he told Buck Olney all ngs he had brooded over tn bit He had meant to keep it but ft was another in of bottled emotions, and with his offer treachery, had mon. Ward to put you on Easy hot from all down Buck, of pulled the cork When Ward felt fairly sure of himself again, he lifted his hat to wipe off the sweat of his anger, gave a big sigh and returned to the tying of the hangman's noose. When he finally had it fixed the way he wanted it, he went close over Buck O1} an ney's head. He glance upward, took Buck's horse by the bridle, and led him forward a few steps, so that Buck was di rectly under the overhanging mb. Then, with the coll of Buck's rope in his hand, he turned back and t |squirmed up the tree-trunk until he had reached the limb. Ward tled the rope securely, leay ing slack to keep Buck from chok ing prematurely. He fussed a min ute longer, Then he crawled back the trunk of the tree and slid down carefully, so that he not frighten the pinto. He went up and took the hobble joff Buck Olney’s feet, felt in the seam of his coat-lapel, and pulled out four pins, with which he fasten: ed Buck's “pedigree” between Buck's shrinking shoulder-blades. “Sorry I can't stay to see you off,” he told Buck, maliciously ‘I've decided to let you go alone Jand take your own time about starting. As long as that cayuse |stands where he Is, you're safe as a church, And you've got the reins }you can kick off any time you feel \like it. Sabe?” He studied Buck's |horror-marked face pitilessly. “You've got about one chance tn a million that you can make that pinto stand there till some one comes along,” he pointed out, impar- Buck obeyed with) the| of a fresh) inquiring | would | But that | |soat of my pants that tobias everly is in for a bunch of good wallops|everiy chirped, we will go for 1 am from his step ma if he don’t watch | ankshious to take the little mother- less children in my arms so they the kids all flocked into the par- when there new & they gave her the dear children, there pa said, this is the new mother { brought | ‘Relief for Catarrh | Sufferers Now FREE 8° You Can Now Treat This Trouble in Your Own Home and Get Relief at Once. i] deal, | brite and quick to spill his talk & mrs everly who is mr everly’s 4 wife thinks #0 too becaus she will \ children & { know you will like sertainly got away to a bad start/tnem, they are that brite and on the wedding day & fd bet the| smart out mr everly’s ist wife has been dead a long time & he thought it was about time to give his kids anuther ma, & get a wife to keep hisself from being so lonesome all last summer @ fall be was coming over to see @ dame that my r you j fo A SELLING TOBACCO CURE IN A LIGAR STORE —— “Just our cat (night four she now go over to our nest in hoboken & you will see my lovely all rite, honey bunch, the 24 mrs susie gave her new ma her mitt & « smack on the kisser, but to- bias woodent come neer, he just stood over on the oth room getting a good eyefull now tobias, his dad said, don't you Iike your new ma | ©, 1 gess { like her all rite, tobias | ansered, stung, for she aint new at all ANOTHER VAUDEVILLE and round the barrel his awful fate!—From a serial a British weekly perhaps.) “Making getting acquainted with those fasb- fonable people next door?” "—About Town. was married to him, we went home ma kicked in onet over side of the but pa, you sure did get johny OPPORTUNITY Rory, with the madness wound his legs round and waited in legs, ir, (Rubber GOOD BEGINNING any progress toward a little. Their cat invited over to a musicale last How the By the new wrthod the mose and throat ave treated by fective local remedy atnved directly to the amc meme branes. The Elixir, taken into the stomach, has @ dinect mfuence upon fhe mee Cons membranes of the body and cures the dix ease by remow~ tag the cause, Careful experiments and investigations have shown that as the troubles were expelled from the nose and throat, the real cause of the disease was overlooked stronger and in hort time the Catarrh would retur than ever. Mr Gauss has gone way ahead of ordinary methods of treatment and remedy that Removes the Cause and Immediately Gives Re- lief to the Nose and Throat f Scranton, Penn... ments, he used this new method entirely clear and free and I am isease any more Treatment is worth its weight in gold." Temporary relief from ways, but the New Combi be accepted for permanent results, Sarah J. 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Stopped-up noses Constant “frog-in-the- throat” the Nasal discharges Hawking and spitting Snoring at night Bad breath Frequent colds Difficult breathing Smothering sation in dreams Sudden fits of sneezing Dry mucus in nose and any of the other symptoms that indicate approaching or present catarrh Send the Test Treat- ment FREE Cc, E, GAUSS, 8592 Main S¢., Marshall, Mic&® mbined vt spirits again, shown, So, without or obligation to me, . the Treatment