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Elam Harnlsh, known all tnrougn aim ka as "Burning Daylight." celebrates his 30th birthday with a crowd of miners at the Circle City Tivoll. The dance leads to heavy gambling. In which over 1100,000 Is staked Harnlsh loses his money and his mine but wins the mall contract. He starts on his mall trip with dogs and sledge, telling his friends that he will be In the big Yukon gold strike at the start. Burning Daylight makes a sensationally rapid run across country with the mall, appears at the Tlvoli and Is now ready to Join his friends In a dash to the new gold fields. Deciding that gold will be found in the up-river district Harnlsh buys two tons of flour, which he declares will be worth its weight in gold, but when he arrives with his flour he flnds the big flat desolate. A comrade discov ers gold and Daylight reaps a rich har vest. CHAPTER V.?Continued. Back In Dawson, though he remained true to his word and never touched hand to pick and shovel, he worked as hard as ever in his life. He had a thousand irons in the fire, and tney kept him busy. Heavy as were his expenses, he won more heavily. He took lays, bought half shares, shared with the men he grub-staked, and made personal locations. Day and night his dogs were ready, and he owned the fastest teams; so that when a stam pede to a new discovery was on, it was Burning Daylight to the fore through the longest, coldest nights till he blazed his stakes next to Discovery. In one way or another (to say nothing of the many worthless creeks) be came into possession of properties on the good creeks, such as Sulphur, Do minion, Excelsis, Sfwash, Cristo, Al hambra. and DooHttle. The thousands he poured out flowed back in tens of thousands. .? r mnMiv fViot winter of LJil W OUL1 glow la^iui; wmuv - 1896. Money poured In on Daylight from the sale of town lots. He prompt ly Invested It where It would gather mora In fact, he played the danger ous game of pyramiding, and no more perilous pyramiding than In a placer camp could be Imagined. But he played with his eyes w<de open. Corner lots In desirable locations sold that winter for from ten to thirty thousand dollars. Daylight sent word out over the trails and passes for the newcomers to bring down log-rafts, and. as a result, the summer of 1897 Haw his saw mills working day and night, on three shifts, and still he bad logs left over with which to build cabins. These cabins, land Included, sold at from one to several thousand dollars. Two-story log buildings, in the business part of town, brought him ' * ?- ?I. irum iony tu unj luuuoauu wv?*w*? apiece. These fresh accretions of cap ita] were immediately invested in oth er ventures. He turned gold over and over, until everything that he touched 6eemed to turn to gold. With the summer rush from the Out side came special correspondents for the big newspapers and magazines, and one and all, using unlimited space, they wrote Daylight up; so that, so far as the world was concerned. Daylight loomed the largest figure In Alaska. Of course, after several months, the world became interested in the Span ish War, and forgot all about him; but In the Klondike Itself Daylight still re mained the most prominent figure. CHAPTER VI. It was held ,by the thousands of oero-wurBiAiypius cuecutiquus uiat u<xj light was a man absolutely without fear. But Bettles and Dan MacDonald and other sourdoughs shook their heads and laughed as they mentioned women. And they were right. He had always been afraid of them from the time, himself a lad of seventeen, when Queen Anne, of Juneau, made open >and ridiculous love to him. For that matter, he never had known women. Born In a mining-camp where they were rare and mysterious, having no sisters, his mother dying while he was an Infant, he had never been In con tact with them. But it was left to the Virgin to give him his final fright She was found one morning dead in her cabin. A shot through the head bad done it, and she had left no message, no ex planation. Then came the talk. Some wit, voicing public opinion, called It a case of too much Daylight. She had killed herself because of him. Every body knew thl9, and said so. The cor respondents wrote it up, and once more Burning Daylight, King of the Klondike, was sensationally featured In the Sunday supplements of the United States. The Virgin had straightened up, so the feature-stories ran, and correctly so. Never had she entered a Dawson City dance-hall. When she first arrived from Circle City, she had earned her living by washing clothes. Next, she had bought a sewing-machine and made men's una pumas, lur capb, uuu ujuuocuiuc mittens. Then she had gone as a clerk into the First Yukon Bar^c. All this, and more, was known and told, though one and all were agreed that day light, while the cause, had been the Innocent cause of her untimely end. And the worst of it was that Day light knew it was true. Always would he remember that last night he had seen her. He had thought nothing ol It at the time; but, looking back, be was haunted by every little thing tbat had happened. In the ligbt or the tragic event, be could understand everything?her quietness, that calm certitude as if ail vexing questions ot living had been smoothed out and were gone, and that certain ethereal 6weetness about all that she had said and done that had b^en almost mater nal. He remembered the way she had looked at him, how she bad laughed when he narrated Mickey Dolan's mis take in staking the fraction on Skook um Gulch. Her laughter had beer lightly Joyous, while at the same time It had lacked Its old-time robustness. Not that she had been grave or sub dued. On the contrary, she had been so patently content, so filled with peace. She had fooled him, fool that he was. He had even thought that night that her feeling for him had passed, and he had taken delight In the thought, and caught visions of the satisfying future friendship that would be theirs with this perturbing love out of the way. And then, when he stood at the door, cap in band, and said good night. It had struck him at the time as a funny and embarrassing thing, her bending over his hand and kissing it He had felt like a fool, but he shivered now when he looked back on It and felt again the touch of her lips on his hand. She was saying good-by, an eternal good-by, and he bad never guessed. At that very moment, and for all the moments of the evening, coolly and deliberately, as he well knew her way, she had been resolved to die. If he had only known it! Un touched by the contagious malady himself, nevertheless he would . have married her if he had had the slight est inkling of what she contemplated. And yet he knew, furthermore, that hers was a certain stiff-kneed pride that would not have permitted ner to accept marriage as an act or phllan thropy. There had really been no sav XV M "Pnrough It All Moved Dayligh int* hor nft<>r all. The love-disease had fastened upon her, and she bad been doomed from tbe first to perlsb of it Six thousand spent the winter of 1897 In Dawson, work on the creeks went on apace, while beyond the pass es It was reported that one hundred thousand more were waiting for the spring. Late one brief afternoon, Day light, on the benches between French Hill and Shookum Hill, caught a wid er vision of things. Beneath him lay the richest part of Eldorado Creek, while up and down Bonanza he could see for miles. It was a scene of a vast devastation. The hills, to their tops, had been shorn of trees, and their naked sides showed signs of gor ing and perforating that even the 1 mantle of snow could not hide. Be neath him, In every direction, were the cabins or men. But not many men were visible. A blanket of smoke filled the valleys and turned the gray day to melancholy twilight. Smoke arose from a thousand holes In the snow, where, deep down on bed-rock, ' In the frozen muck and gravel, men 1 crept and scratched and dug, and ever built more fires to break the grip of the frost. Organization was what was needed, he decided; and his quick Imagination sketched Eldorado Creek, from mouth to source, and from mountain top to mountain top, In the hands or one ca pable management. Even steam-thaw ing, as yet untried, but bound to come, he saw would be a makeshift. What i should be done was to hydraulic the valley sides and benches, and then, on | the creek bottom, to use gold-dredges, t There was the very chance for another i big killing. He had wondered just ' what was precisely the reason for the I Guggenhammers and the big English 1 concerns sending in their high-salaried I experts. That was their scheme. Thai was why they had approached him for I the sale of worked-out claims and tall I ings. They were content to let the small mine-owners gopher out what they could, for there would be mil i lions in the leavlng3. ' rTt; y?\xr*r~ --- : : " IACK Mm/? or (Copyright. 1810, by th? Now Tork Horal (Copyright. 1010, by th? Maoillllan C And. gazing down on the smoky In ferno of crude effort. Daylight outlined the new game he would play, a game In which the Guggenhammers and tne pflst would have to reckon with him. But along with the delight In the new conception came a weariness. He was tired of the long Arctic years, and he was curious about the Outside?the great world of which he had heard other men talk and of which he was as ignorant as a child. There were games out there to play. It was a larger table, and there was no reason why he with his millions should not sit In and take a hand. So it was. that afternoon on Skookum Hill, that he resolved to play this last best Klon dike hand and pull for the Outside. It took time, however. He put trusted agents to work on the heels of great experts, and on the creeks where they began to buy he likewise bought Wherever they tried to corner a worked-out creek, they found him standing In the way, owning blocks of claims or artfully scattered claims that put all their plans to naught. Followed wars, truces, compromises, victories, and defeats. By 1898. sixty thousand men were on the Klondike, and all their fortunes and affairs rocked back and forth and were af fected by the battles Daylight fought. And more and more the taste for the larger game urged in Daylight's mouth. Here he was already locked in grap ples with the great Guggenhammers, and winning, fiercely winning. Pos sibly the severest struggle was waged on Ophir, the veriest of moose-pas tures, whose low-grade dirt was valu able only because of its vastness. The ownership of a block of seven claims In the heart of it gave Daylight his t, Hell-Roaring, Burning Daylight. grip, and they could not come to terms The Guggenbammer experts conclud ed that It was too big for blm to handle, and wben tbey gave blm an ultimatum to that effect he accepted and bought them out. The plan was his own, but he sent down to the States for competent engineers to car ry It out In the Rlnkabllly water shed, eighty miles away, be built his reservoir, and for eighty miles the huge wooden conduit carried the wa ter across country to Ophlr. Estl mated at three millions, the reservoir lielPlaiinedF How Sir William Hankford 500 Yean Ago Evaded Law Against Com mitting Suicide. Suicides often adopt lDgenloua methods, but the art of the felo de se seems not to have advanced material ly during the centuries. The modern case of a heavily insured broker who on a feigned hunting trip stood bare legged In a quagmire for hours and wilfully contracted a fatal pneumonJa 4 i L - ' i? -1 1 CAT i? mtucuea xa cleverness uy uuo uuv years old. The following facts are well vouched i for, and indeed were never ques tioned, says the Green Bag. Sir Wil liam Hankford, a Judge of the king's bench in the reigns of Edward III, Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI, and at the time of bis death chlel justice of England, was a man ol melancholy temperament. He seems to have contemplated suicide the greater part of his long life and during his later years the idea became a fixed purpose. The act was of peculiarly serious cons? quences in those days for the reason that the law treated it as a capita crime. The offender was burled ai the cross roads, with a stake driven through his body, and all his goods and property were forfeited to the crown, to the utter ruin of his family ?> NDON rtft cm oa \ uW/mv rom {src. u v;umi?u/ii omp?.ny, and conduit cost nearer tour. Nor did be stop with this. Electrlo power plants were Installed, and hla work ings were lighted as well as run by electricity. Other sourdoughs, who had struck it rich in excess of all their dreams, shook their heads gloom ily, warned him that he would go broke, and declined to invest In so ex travagant a venture. But Daylight smiled, and sold out the remainder or his town-site holdings. He sold at the right time, at the height of the placer boom. When he prophesied to his old cronies, in the Mooseborn Saloon, that within five years town lots In Dawson could not be given away, while the cabins would be chopped up for fire wood, he was laugbed at roundly, and assured, that the mother-lode would be found ere*that time. But be went ahead, when his need Tor lumber was finished, selling out his sawmills as well. Likewise, he began to get rid of his scattered holdings on the vari ous creeks, and without thanks to any one be finished bis conduit, built his dredges. Imported his machinery, and made tne goia 01 upun luiuicumici; accessible. And ne, who five years before had crossed over the divide from Indian River and threaded the silent wilderness, his dogs packing In dian fashion, himself living Indian fashion on straight moose meat, now beard the hoarse whistles calling his hundreds of laborers ? work, and watched them toil under the white glare of the arc-lamps. But havlDg done the thing, be was ready to depart. And when he let the word go out, the Guggenbammera vied with the English concerns and with a new French company In bid ding for Ophlr and all its plant The Guggenhammers bid highest, and the price they paid netted Daylight a clean million, it was current rumor that be was worth anywhere from twenty to thirty millions. But he alone knew just how be stood, and tbat. with his last claim sold and the table swept clean of bis winnings, be bad ridden his hunch to the tune of just a trifle over eleven millions. ' His departure was a thing that passed into the history of the Yukon along with bis other deeds. All the Yukon was his guest, Dawson the ? ?* Hn that nno seal ui iuc icon v 11/ uu u..v last night no man's dust save his own was good Drinks were not to be pur chased. Every saloon ran open, with extra relays of exhausted bartenders, and the drinks were given away. A man who refused this hospitality, and persisted In paying, found a dozen fights on his hands. The veriest chechaquos rose up to defend the name of Daylight from such Insult And through.it all, on moccaslned feet, moved Daylight, hell-roaring Burning Daylight, overspllllng with good na ture and camaraderie, howling hlB he wolf howl and claiming the night aa his, bending men's arms down on the bars, performing feats of strength, his bronzed face flushed with drink, bis black eyes flashing, clad In overalls and blanket coat, his ear-flaps dang ling and his gauntleted mittens swing* ing from the cord across the should ers. But this time It was neither an ante nor a stake that he threw away, but a mere marker In tbe game that j he who held so many markers would j not miss. (TO BE CONTINUED.) AS IT SOMETIMES HAPPENS. The man at the corner of the down town alley was selling some kind of cement It was worth 25 cents a bottle, as he explained to his hearers, but In or I der to introduce it he was making a I onaolol nrixn nf nno Himo trnC)l\ tdT thin |/V^IUi pi IWO V* VUV Vk UJ V| particular occasion only, and he guar anteed satisfaction or money re funded. "Wili it mend broken china?" In quired a lean, undersized man In the crowd. "It will mend anything but a broken promise or a ruined character. Say, my friend, here's a couple of sticks of 1 wood, fastened together at the ends. > If you break them apart I'll make you I a present of a bottle." > Carelessly the undersized man took ? the Joined sticks in his hands. Then be gave them a sudden, vlo lent wrench. i Bu they didn't break apart. > It 19 saddening to have to spoil a story in his manner, but sometimes, in the interests of historical accuracy. ' it bas to be done. lis Own Death Hankford made good use of bis wits and succeeded in accomplishing his purpose without incurring either unpleasant penalty. He gave open Instructions to bis gamekeeper, who bad been troubled with poachers in tbe deer preserve, to challenge all trespassers in tbe future and to aboot > to kill If they would not stand and give an account. One dark night he purposely crossed the keeper's path, and upon i challenge made motiona of resistance and escape. Tbe faithful servant, failing to recognize his master, fol lowed Instruction to the letter, aa wa8 expected of blm, and Sir William fell dead In his tracks. The whole truth of the affair was common knowledge, but It was impossible to establish a case of suicide by legal proof. The servant was protected by nis instructions. Hankford had hon orable burial and his estate passed to those whose Interests as heirs h? bad so wisely considered. The Remedy at Hand. "Is this the kind or weather you generally have out here in OregonV inquired the dyspeptic easterner. "This is about the kind we've had all summer," 6aid the hotel clerk. "Why don't you use the reca:i od It?" FROM THE PALMETTO STATE The Latest General News That Has Been Gotten Together For the People of the State. Union.?Another old Confederate soluier answered - the last roll call, when Mr. E. T. Sims of this county died at the home of his sister, Mrs. J. T. Davis, where he had made his home for the past year or two. He had been in declining health for some time. Charleston.?There is a rush move ment in rertuizer smpmenis ^ui ui Charleston now, the manufacturers here are feeling good over the big movement of cars which they are now Bending out. It is the opinion of fer tilizer men that the season as a whole will pan out pretty well in their line, as the demand for fertilizer is now strong, after holding back two or three weeks. Hampton.?The municipal election held here for intendant and wardens resulted as follows: W. A. McDaniel, 55; J. W. McGowan, 52; Mr. McDan iel elected Intendent by three voteB. R. H. Anderson, A. F. Yarley, J. F. Rivers and C. H. Cummings elected wardens over C. S. Blocker, R. H. Gibson, E. E. Folk and, E. B. Mc 5weened. Much enthusiasm w&b man ifested. Chester.?Gen. B. H. Teague of Alk n, commander of the South Carolina Jivision, United Confederate veterans, has appointed Capt. W. H. Edwards a member of the state pension board to succeed William Henry Hardin, de ceased. The pension board will meet as soon as reports from all of the counties are ready. Then Capt. Ed ^'3rds will formally enter upon his du ties. Abbeville.?After writing a letter to his wife, telling her he was short in his accounts and declaring "It is this or go to the penitentiary" Postmaster H. L. Marsh committed suicide oy tir ing a bullet into his brain. Marsh - ??? 71 vr?arg old and an old union sol dier and has been postmaster here twelve years. He leaves a widow and five children. Greenville.?Fire destroyed the barn of George Freeman of Taylors, eight miles north of Greenville. Four mules, two horses, two cows, two hogs, $2,000 bundles of fodder, a two horae wagon and a buggy and numer ous farming implements were con sumed by the dames. The loss amounted to some $2,000, with no in surance. The origin of the Are is un known. Orangeburg.?'Quite a number of en thusiastic business men and citizens gathered at the Court House pursuant to the call of President Cart, of the Chamber of Commerce, to discuss the matter of raising funds for the estab lishing of a school here. The trustees of the Orangeburg College, an institu tion under the auspices and manage ment of the Orangeburg County Bap tists, were present and participated in the discussion. LaurenB?The opening gun in th^ campaign to raise $55,000 in Enoree presbytery to go towards the endow ment fuml jjor ?he tjiree colleges of the synod was fired in the parlors of the First Presbyterian church, when a magnificent banquet was spread be fore representatives of a large number of churches In this vicinity. A speclaj ??!? n lortxa HalotroM/in 4k? nam vuuiauuug a *?? 50 uoi?h??ivh w?. Clinton people arrived jnst before th^ banquet began and remained over. Florence. ? The fioreftce County pension board held a meeting at the Qounty Court House here, and acted upon all applications for pensions that was submitted to the board, and also revised the list of those whose names were on the list during the past year. Several of the pensioners have died during the year. The board is com posed as follows: Evander M. Ervin, chairman; C. C. Hepburn, secretary; Dr. Peter B. Bacot, physician, and C. Edward Jarrott. Orangeburg.?At last there are slight signs that the United States Government will begin in the near fu ture the erection of the long promised public building for this city. More than three years have elapsed since the first appropriation was made for this building, and the indications now point to it? erection is the removal of the small brick office building, which occupies a portion of the lot purchas ed by the Government for a site more than two years ago. Walhalla.?John Simpson was lodg ed in jail here for killing George Sing leton. Both are negroes and the scene of the trouble was near Moun DAdf ey\rv?z* 10 miloa wadf nf Wo 1 laiu ivcnl, auiuc ain^o n vut vi. w? *** nalla. Gaffney.?The meeting of the coun ty commissioners of Cherokee county, held in this city had been awaited by Gaffney and Cherokee county people with considerable inteerst, as it was thought likely that they would, at this meeting, take up the matter of the ru ral police for Cherokee county and take some decisive action in regard to that matter. Columbia. ? The Richland county chaingang is now located as follows: Gang No. 1 on Garner's Ferry road, near Lykesland; gang No. 2 on Winns boro road, near Taylor's store, gang No. 3, near Eastover. Saluda.?A live stock association for this county was formed here with the following officers: J. O. Baggott, pres ident; J. A. Carson, vice president; C. C. Mathis, secretary treasurer. The purposes of the association as out lined in talks made by W. F. Bur leigh, assistant stato veterinarian of Clemson College, and Dr. J. F. Fahey of Spartanburg. n? TU/* f nvif V\ nt?! n ry r\ f flio ureenviiie.? l JJtT mi UICI iiife ui iiiv Rock Hill plan for cotton acreage re duction in this county has been placed in the hands of I). H. Traxler, who has appointed a committee consisting of about 50 live, energetic farmers to get signatures to reduction pledges. New berry.?The buyer who bought over 200 bales of cotton paid 10 1-2 onts all tound. instead of 10 cents as reported. The Newberry market has een at the very top ever since the oiicn season began; most of the time . the lend. There 19 a good deal of tt -n rtill in the hands of the farm j's or' the county. ; " .v.-- . . : - TO INSPECT GUARD ADJUTANT GENERAL MOORE WENT TO THE TOWN OF EDGEFIELD FIRST. ACCOMPANIED BY MCMASTER Particular Attention Will Be Paid to the Militia Will Be Inspected and the Mltltia Will Be Inspested and Report Will Be Prepared. Columbia.?Adjt. Gen. Moore left Bevei}ftl days ago for Edgefield where he inspected Company F of the Na tional Guar^- He was accompanied on the inspection tour of the state by Capt, George McMaster, U. S. A. Ev ery company in the militia will be Inonoof^ anil' o MTinrt nrpnarpfl Particular attention will be paid to 1 the equipment. ' -K The following is the-.. Itinerary of t the Inspection: Darlington 14, Com- ? pany K, Second infantxy; Hartsville, ( March 15, Company Q. Second infan try; Bennettsvllle. March 18, Com- , pany E, Second infantry; Chester- ( field, March 19, Company P, First in- 3 fantry; New Broojdand, March. 20, | Company M, Second infantry; Coram- , bia, March 21, 22, 25, 26, general head- j quarters; headquarters First brigade; headquarters Second infantry; Com panies B. C. and D, Second infantry; Conway, March 28, Company H, Third Infantry; Georgetown, March 29, Com- ' pany F, Third infantry; Charleston, , April 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, headquarters Third i Infantry; Companies A, B, C and D i Third infantry; Walterboro, April 9, Company K, Third infantry; Winns boro, April 10, Company M, Third in fantry; Chester, April 11, Company G, Firts infantry; Fort Mill, April 12, Company K, First infantry; Rock Hill, April 15, Company H, First infantry; Liberty Hill, April 16, Company B, First infantry; Yorkville, April 17, headquarters First infantry; Company L, First infantry; Spartanburg, April 18, Company I, First Infantry; Clif ton, April 19, Company C, First in fantry; Union, April 22, Company M, First infantry; Greenville, April 23, Company A, First infantry; Williams ton, April 24, band, First infantry; Anderson, April 25, Company E, First infantry; band, Second infantry; Lau rens, April 26, Company D, First in fantry; Camden, April 29, Company A, Second Infantry; Aiken, April 3, First company, Coast artillery , re serves; Lancaster, April 5, Second company, Coast artillery reserves. Should Be Handling More Cotton. Charleston.?Mayor Grace believet that Charleston should be handling 1,000,000 bales of cotton a year instead of under 600,000 and he proposes, through the ?ock commisson mainly, to* Solve what he regards as t^ blg g2|t_gb8$acle in getting that 1,000,W0 bales, by gettin# adequate terminal facilities. In a few days he will have this dock commission duly organized and down to work, and the railroads will be required to show cause why they are not maintaining proper ter minal facilities at Charleston. Freight Train Derailed. Columbia ? A southbound freight train on the Seaboard Air Line was derailed at Congaree Creek, half-way between Cayce and Dlxiana, and two coal cars with the caboose rolled down en embankment. The caboose caught fire and burned up, together with the larger part of the trestle. No one was injured in the accident. Both north and southbound trains were detoured via the Southern Railway from Den nark to Columbia. To Select Site For College Soon. Columbia?A matter of keen in terest to Columbia and throughout South Carolina is the selection of a site for the new woman's college of the Lutheran Church to be placed at some point in South Carolina. The new college will be erected at a coBt of about $200,000, and the competition from a number of South Carolina citiee is spirited. The committee delegated ;*> n?i.,r?K^ tu atriout tut? ant; iucl hi v^uiuuiuiq but no selection was made, the com mittee reserving its decision for a la k.er date. Manuals For State Corn Contest. Columbia.?The manuals for tht state corn contest are soon to be is sued by the department of agricul ture. Several hundred farmers of the state will enter the contest. This will be the only means for entering prizes at the National Corn show as there will not be a state exposition. The winners of the prizes in the state contest will enter their exhibits at the national show, which is to be held here during January and February of next year. Many members of the >oys' clubs will enter state contest. Fight For Tick Eradication. Edgefield.?Dr. J. Francis Fahey 01 the Uuited States bureau of animal industry, with headquarters in Spar tanburg. was n Edgefield looking over the field with a view of undertaking active work in tick eradication in this county. A mass meeting will be called in a short time in order to present the matter to the farmers and enlist their active co-operation. A representative of the state and one from the bureau of animal industry of the national government will prob ably be stationed here early in April I General Election at Gaffney. Gaffney.?The general election wai held in Gaffney and the new munici pal officers duly elected by the voters. The following is the list of those who 1 will govern Gaffney for the coming term: Col. T. B. Butler, mayor; al- ' dermen, M. V. Fitzgerald, Ward 1; P. V. Gaffney, Ward 2; J. A. Carroll. Ward 3; C. C. K'rby. Ward 4; G. M. Phiier, Ward 5; B. A. Holmes, Ward 6. They were inducted into office and | a council meeting was held, at which time the other officers for the ensu ing term were elected. rURNED BLIND ALMOST FELL flrs. Hansen Says At First Her Case Seemed Hopeless, bat She x Finally Won Out ' *' ' Mobile, Ala.?"For seven years,"; * says Mrs. Sigurd Hansen, of this :ity, "I suffered with womanly trout es, and, at last, was operated on. I felt better for a time, but soon I lad the same trouble as before. I had dizzy spells, and would turn blind and almost fall over. I had pains in my back and side, and ww aot able to work. Half the time I could not eat* any FOR GOOD MEASURE. breakfast, and I always felt weak and had a headache. One day, my husband got me a bot tle of Cardul, and I tried It 1 felt better, so I took some more. Now, I am well and feel fine. My ioctor says I am looking better than sver. I have a good appetite and sleep *elL It is all due to Cardul. I only wish V every suffering woman would tsy it rhey would soon feel as good as I lo." Ton may be sure, when Cardul wOl relieve and cure Such a serious case is that of Mrs. Hansen, that it will, much more quickly and certainly, help those women who have no serious lymptoms, but are Just weak and fog. Are you? $4#':. > " - 'M T?mmy?Say, Pop, does a 'When I ever get something for nothing? Papa?Sometimes, and a prison sen- >" tence usually goes with it. . rW Evidence. "What makes you think our great public men don't work as hard aitt they used to?" "By the photographs," Farmer Corntossel young feller the big men in politics i didn't take near as much time to git' v Conclusive Proof. "That expression, a 'human dyna-.,.; mo,' fascinates me." "It is very apt and vivid when ap plied to a man of boundless energy.'^ * "Tackblttors must be a 'human dynamo.'" "Why do you think so?" "No matter how cold the morninjjt, ' is, he leaps out of bed without ever ' . stopping to think the matter over."' $ Belated Information. Albert Morns tJagoy was oeiog con*' gratulated at the .Waldorf-Astoria la New York on the success of his "mu- iM sical mornings." "I Impute my success," he said, the fact that I engage no talent that I don't know thoroughly. In enter tainment, as In matrimony, knowledge J J is most Important." Then Mr. Bagby smiled and said; ^ "Two ladles were talking the other ^ day about the Chinese revolution. .The Jj? younger lady said: " 'Isn't It dreadful In China? A woman doesn't know her husband till - she marries him.' "The other lady, a divorcee, an swered bitterly: " 'I didn't know my husband till I. married him, either.'"?SL Louis ffijj Globe-Democrat. -.Va? A WOMAN DOCTOR Was Quick to See That Coffee Poison ' ( Was Doing the Mischief. I A lady tells of a bad case Qf coffee poisoning, and tells It In a way so sim ple and straightforward that literary skill could not Improve it "r hod naiirnlcto headaches for 11 ff? fears," she says, "and have suffered untold agony. When I first began to / have them I weighed 140 pounds, but they brought me down to 110. "I went to many doctors and they gave me only temporary relief. So I suffered on, till one day, & woman doctor advised me to drink Postum. She said I looked like I was coffee poisoneti. if - "So I began to drink Postum, and gained 15 pounds in the first few weeks and am still gaining, but not so fast as at first. My headaches began to leave me after I had used Postum about two weeks?long enough, I ex pect, to g'' the coffee poison out of my system. "Now that a few months have pasa ed since I began to use Postum, 1 can gladly say that I ^ever know what a neuralgic headache Is like any more, and it was nothing but Postum that relieved me. "Before I used Postum I never went out alone; I would get bewilder ed and would not know which way to turn. Now I go alone and nay head Is as clear as a bell. My brain and nerves are stronger than they have been for years." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. "There's a reason," and It Is explain ed in the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. Ever read <'ie abOYt letter? A one appears from time to time. They re frenuine, true, and fall of ha; Lateresb > -