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GOOD FRIEND TO WOMEN That's What Mount Pleasant Lady Says Cardui Is and Tells What It Did for Her. A Mt. Pleasant, Tenn-"As a girl I 'was always well and hearty," says Mrs. M. E. Rail, of this place. "I have always been accounted healthy. I -never felt any trouble like . . . weak ness until I camte to the change of life. I was about forty-five when that be gan. I think I would have died had I not found out what a good friend to women Cardul Is. "I suffered a great deal. I had a number of fainting spells, and . . . would be obliged to lie In bed a week or two at a time. I never liked to lie in bed because it interfered so with my work. The swimming in my head was nearly continuous. I could not stoop down it would make ine so dizzy. I think I used Cardul off and on for two or three years, using In that time .about 8 or 10 bottles. I began to feel the improvement in health before I had taken one bottle, but kept on tak ing it until I got in perfect health. "Had it not been for Cardui I know I would have been dead. . . . Now I am 62 years old, and weigh about 175, and am in the most perfect health." Give Cardul a trial for your troubles. It should do for you what it has done for thousands of others. Adv. Hight Hear a Few. "Henry," said Mrs. Twobble, "I hope you won't tell any risque stories at the master plumbers' banquet to night." "Of course I won't my dear." "That's right. I'm proud of you, Henry.' "But I (are say I will be aIble to tell some corkers after I attend that baI quet." YOU MAY TRY CUTICURA FREE That's the Rule-Free Samples to Any. one Anywhere. We have so much confidence in' the wonderful soothing and healing proper ties of Cuticura Ointment for all skin troubles 'supplemented by hot baths with Cuticura Soap that we are ready to send samples on request. They are ideal for the toilet. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L. Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv. Where it Couldn't Be Sedn. It was a hot hummer day-with that peculiar kind of heat common to the Atlantic slope. Five big, stout gentle men were going to the top of a New York building. The sweat was pour Ing from their foreheads, and their handkerchiefs looked like Coney Islanad baithing-suits hung out to dIry. "I wish there was ai beer saloon in this eleva tor," remarkedi one fat gentleman. "Yes, boy, you ought to have a keg of beer aboard this elevator," chimed In another. The boy looked at the five fat mn and then remarked, solemnly: "Oh, I guess there's over a keg of beer in this elevator now." "CASOARETS" FOR LIER,_BOELS For sick headache, bad breath, Sour Stomach and constipation. Get a 10-cent box now. No odds how bad your liver, stomach or bowels; how much your head aches, how miserable amnd uncomfort able you are from constipation, indiges tion, biliousness and sluggish bowels --you always get the desired results with Cascarets. Don't let your stomach, liver and bowels make you miserable. Take Cascarets to-night; put an end to the headache, biliousness, dizziness, nerv ousness, sick, sour, gassy stomach, backache and all other distress; cleanse your insidle organs of all the bile, gases and constipated matter which is producing the misery. A 10-cent box means health. happi ness and a clear head for months. No more days of gloom and dlistress if you will take a Cascaret now and then. All stores sell Cascarets. Don't ,forget the childlren--their little in sidles need a cleansing, too. Adv. Not Far to Go. "DJo youi suppose5 thits wh'iole couni try wvillbe muobilizedl In case of war?" "WVhy not? It is already automo EIXiR BABEK A GOOD TONjo And Drives Maiarta Out of the Systema. "Your 'fabeks actslike magic - I havegiven5 it to numerous peopie in my pariah who were suffering with chills, malaria and fever. Iree ommend it to those who are sufferers and In need of a good tonio."-Rev. 5. Szynmanowskt, St. Stephen's Church, Perth Amboy, N. g. Elixir Blabok, 5Q cents, all druggists or by Pa 1Pos r idfrom Kloose weki C., Cupid makes a mistake when he crafts a bud on an old shrub. AA SIDNEY SURRENDERS, BUT V AND K. DECIDES TO LEAVE LOTTA LAYS A TRAP FO Sidney Page is a hospital nurs flant young surgeon; by K. LeMoyn by Joe Drummond, an old school ii he makes honest love to Sidney, he Carlotta Harrison, another nurse whi Moyne, who is a famous surgeon disl himself. Joe has een rejected, an knows anything about LeMoyne, exc stallment opens, Wilson is proposit CHAPTER XIX-Continued. -15 "You are not a child any longer, Sid. ney. You have learned a great deal in this last year. One of the things you know .is that almost every man has small affairs, many of them some times, before he finds the woman he 1 wants to marry. When he finds her, the others are all off-there's nothing to them. It's the real thing then, in stead of the sham." "Palmer was very much in love with Christine, and yet-" "Palmer is a cad." "I don't want you to think I'm mak ing terms. I'm not. But if this thing went on, and I found out afterward that you-that there was anyone else, It would kill me." "Then you care, after all I" There was something boyish in his triumph, in the very gesture with which he held out his arms, like a child who has escaped a whipping. He stood up and, catching her hands, drew her to her feet. "You love me, dear." "I'm afraid I do, Max." "Then I'm yours, and only yours, if 1 you want me," he said, and took her in his arims. He was riotously happy, must hold her off for the joy of drawing her to him again, must pull off her gloves and kiss her soft bare palms. "I love you, love you !" he cried, and hent down to bury his face in the warm hollow of her neck. Sidney glowed under his caress-was rather startled at his passion, a little ashamed. "Tell me you love me a little bit. say it." "I love you," said Sidney, and flushed acarlet. But even in his arms, with the warm sunlight on his radiant face, with his lips to her ear, whispering the divine absurdities of passion, in the back of her obstinate little head was the thought that while she had given him her first embrace, he had held other wvomen in his arms. It made her pais sive, prevented her complete surren She broke the news of her engage ment to K. herself, the evening of the same day. The little house was quiet wvhen she got out of the car at the door. Harriet was asleep on the couch at the foot of her bed, and Christine's rooms wvere empty. She wvent upstairs to the room that had been her moth er's, and took off her hat. She wanted1 to be alone, to realize what had hap pened to her. A year ago her half promise to Joe had gratified her sense of romance. She was loved, and shte hadt~ thrilledl to it. But this was different. Marriage, that had been but a vision then, loomed large, almost menacing. She had learned the law of compensation: that for every joy one pays in suffering. Women who married wvent down into the valley of death for their children. One must love and b~e loved very ten dlerly to pay for that. The scale must balance. Iharriet was stirring, across the hall. Sidney could hear her moving about wvith flat, inelastic steps. That was the alternative. One mar ried, happily or not as the case'might be, andl took the risk. Or one stayed single, like Harriet, growing a little hard, exchanging slimness for lean ness and aumterity of figure, flat-chest ed(, thin-volced. All at once it seemed very terrible to her. She felt as if she had been cati.ght in an inexorahle hand that had closed about her. IHarriet found her a litt le limter, face down on her mother's bed cryIng as if her heart wvould break. Shet scoldledl her roundly. "You've beeni overwork Inmg," slhe said(. "You've been getting tinnei'r. Your I mieaisuriemieiit 4 for thati stil showed it. I have'i neveri atpprioved of this hospitaili taIning, and after last Jlanuary She couldl hardly credit her seinsts when Sidnuey, stIll swollen with weep Ing, told her oef her engagement. "But I don't understand. If you care for him and lhe has asked you to marry him, why on earth are you crying your eyes out?" 2 "I do care. I dIon't know why I cried. It just came over mae, all at onice, that I- It was just foolishness. I am very happy, Aunt Hlarriet." Harriet thought she understood. The I girl needed her mother, and she, liar- I riet, was a hard, middle-aged wcman 11nd a poor substitute. She patted Bid- 3 .iey's moist hand. "Il guessa 1 undersand," she aid. "I'ln R/4P AMTAM/A 4TRATDL fITH AN UNEASY FEELING, "THE STREET"-CAR R DR. MAX WILSON loved by Dr. Max Wilson, a bril 1, a roomer at the Page home; and late. Wilson is fickle, and while carries on a sneaking affair with ) is jealous and dangerous. LI ,uised, keeps his love secret to I is acting strangely. Nobody pt Doctor Wilson. When this in Lg marriage to Sidney. ittend to your wedding things, Sidney. We'll show this street that even Chris Ine Lorenz can be outdone." And, as in afterthought: "I hope Max Wil son will settle down now. - He's been lone too steady." It was bite' when K. got home. Sid ICy was sitting ol the low step, wait ng for him. With a long breath )f content, K. folded up his long length )n the step below her. "Well, dear ministering angel," he ;aid, "how goes the world?" "Things have been happening, K." He sat erect and looked at her. It vas a Moment before he spoke. He ;at looking ahead, his face set. When, ifter a moment, he spoke, it was to orestall her, after all. "I think I know what it is, Sidney." "You expected it, didn't you?" "I-t's not an entire surprise." "Aren't you going to wish me hap )iness?" "If my wishing could bring anything rood to you, you would have every hing in the world." His voice was not entirely steady, mt his eyes smiled into hers. "Am I-are we going to lose you oon?" "I shall finish my training. I made hat a condition." Then, in a burst of confidence: "I know so little, K., and lie knows so much! I am going to read and study, so that lie can talk to me about lils work. That's what marriage ought to be, a sort of partnership. Don't you Lhink so?" K. nodded. His imind refused to go forward to the unthinkable future. In stead, he was looking back-back to those days when he had hoped some Lime to have a wife to talk to about is work, that beloved work that was to longer his. And he had lost her ibsolutely, lost her without a struggle :o keep her. Ills only struggle had een with himnself. to rearmeme that he rnd nothing to offer but failure. Sidney's eyes were on the tall house ICr'oss. It was D~octor Ed's ev'ening cke hour, and1( thriouigh the open win-. low she could see a line of people vaiting their turn. They sat immnobile, nert, dloggedly patient, until the open "I Loe o,"SidSdny 1so h akoliedo rm - heJl r hi twr.hecnut '0rom "I shal bo j st acrss the Str e, hesi ts.. " errth n Ia ' thehosptal. Her ve You, aiud Sitepuz But, ater caior siaence, he aotsl lunesad hers. ''heae hadaln It the I.mting tos tehusevn." sne "Shavll you md verymuch if I el "uht Ie wil tiing ofrginds awa?" "y one hikn ofhas alws .. 'ooier here any more. I have always received infinitely more than I have paid for, even In the small services I have been able to render. Your Aunt flarriet is prosperous. You are away anid soiie day you are going to be mar ried. Don't you see-I 1111i not needed "Thiat does not lmean you tire not wanted." "t shall not go far. I'll always be neir enotgh, so thiat I niii see you" he changed this hastily-"sothat wI can still neet and talk thin-: over. Old friends ought to be like that, not too near, but to be turned oi when needed, like i till)." "Where will. you go?" "The Itosenfelds are rather in straits. I thought of helping thetu to get a small house somiewhere and of taking a room with them. It's largely a mat ter of furniture. If they could furnish it even pliinly, It Could be (one. I haven't saved anything." "Do you ever think of yourself?" she cried. "Ilave you always gone through life helping p)eople, K.? Save anything! I shoutld think not ! You spend It ill on others." She bent over and put her hand on his shouldor. "It will not he home without you, K." To save him, he could riot have spok en Just then. A riot of rebellion surged up in him, thiatt lie must lot this best thing in his life go out of it. To go V ... goo "it Will Not Be Home Without You, K. empty of heart through thle rest of hit days, while his very arms ached to holt hier I And she wvas so near-just above: with her hand onl his shoulder, he wistful face so close that, without. miov Ing, he could have brushed her hair. "You have not wished me haippines: K. Do you remember, when I wais go Ing to the hospital and you gave mne t h little watchi-do you remnember what you 8aid?" "Yes"-huskily. "Will1 you say It again?" "ut that wats good-bye." "Isn't tis, In a1 way? You1 are., go ing o leve u, ad syit . "Go-y daad-Gdbes/o. CHAPTR XX Th(noneeto inyse gItgWemlNt was Home Wotomd Yor, K. year.y Wofn.. chainoghude the elayf i das obliged to vr admise to h olta hert wAnd hest was soenuine-ly inbove wivten fnsetsohl--s fart wsthoe cok beuseh The wshedre wapplo e carefulyo ketalso fol~r wheney'ws sa aThe hepitl int approave rof enI gageent wateen youreembed th saf.i you ay diorgaiin"bd o "Ivernpt through a iicutee of workto iluais and palpytated whe"h "God-bys dre aundgd gret knou. bylr anou et of uiio, dhnhe ws en thgehoue. Shes noroe his rin for i Kem. hadpsoned hai nleavtng unil wasrriehd toppd thimargumethan itewa besslike way. g"nifeyo insist (WCnfeltefs-i famrl." he ad "at'until; aetember he aso for botr' ade daoent beteunti fall." ii ti stf. twated fliorgai"thegs," ado dt ishier u o inyi h n .iohnny Ro'usenfeld hati ll hat iti. twird, Sher fomed wa'it t1 wdon ho. hears his prase freung vigrewto knowa bynuot of nit he was wenh ig the thre hose.y She .wox Wins ringuont. "uTlue wheia 'nal't htr dnect," ad Wiel Ko. "and w host utie tim eacomng unti Gdl Sidney ttad bemt. inoment, and opr ii n i'rlte's1( t so tiuhoflentrglleui i her--bilyesftr iy. hIf yor mintist 'ine not~g i merlyo tJidaloptl. gShe fon hstefol ftnlcte ignord. "wit at hei Siet eber. 1leetstfo'badr gagoemnt.gi tiad eihrthor'ta Wilon. wul ot fairy iesily-~i'tat, .in aI s en,. het worldiiaey th e coi lytity I5'.tney wastlllayn gam lI her owns wth dfreruent wleao. Asa shet ptinne offerIt ae itorantg that "'ler mtho wlasFa ad t' simp idenoug .A and ''ast goig troug theit poless fa erigtatfro aii sen'iat i(afthe ei.' ceal ciot aeeta~ hntit.n.e Sunim. faati terne is a long step back. He had to endure the good-bumored contempt of the older men, the patronizing listric, f.ions of nurses as to rules. Carlotta alone treated him with def erence. His uneasy rounds in Carlotta's precinct took on the state and form of stalT visitations. Sie ihittered, cajoled, looked up to him. After a time it dawned on Wilson that this junior cub was getting more attention tIhn himself; that, vhierever lie happened to be, somewh'ere in the offing would be Carlotta and the Lamb, the latter eyeing her with-worship. Her indilference laid only piqued him. The enthroning of a successor galled him. Bet ween them, the Lamb suffered mIghtily--was subject to frequent "bawling out," as he termed It, In the operating room as Ie assisted the an esthetist. lie took his troubles to Car lotta, who soothed hIm in the corridor -in plain sight of her quarry, of course -by putting a sympathetic hand on his sleeve. Then, one day, Wilson was goaded to speech. "For the love of heaven, Carlotta," lie said impatiently, "stop making love to that wretched boy. He wriggles like a worm If you look at him." "I like hIm. He is thoroughly genu ine. I respect huim, and lie respects me." "It's rather a silly game, you know. Do you think I don't understand?"' "Perhaps you do. I-I don't really care a lot about him, Max. But I've been downhearted. He cheers me up." Her attraction for him was almost gone-not quite. He felt rather sorry for her. "I'm sorry. Then you are not angry with me?" "Angry? No." She lifted her eyes to his, and for once she was not acting. "I knew it would end, of course. I have lost a-a lover. I expected that. But I wanted to keep a friend." It was the right note. Why, after all, should lie not be her friend? He had treated her cruelly, hideously. If she still desired his friendship, there was no disloyalty to Sidney In giving it. And Carlotta was very careful. Not once again did she allow him to see what lay In her eyes. She told him of her wor ries. The Lamb was hovering near, hot eyes on them both. It was no place to talk. Sidney would be at a lecture that night. The evening loomed temptingly free. "Suppose you meet me at the Old cor ner," he said carelessly, eyes on the Lamb, who was forgetting that he was only a junior interne and was glaring ferociously. "We'll run out Into the i country and talk things over." She demurred, with her heart beating "What's the use of going back to that? It's over. isn't it?" tier objection made him deternined. When at last she had yielded, and lie made his way down to the siloking room, It was with the feeling that lie had won a victory. * * * * S K. had been uneasy all that day ; his ledgers irritated him. 1Ie haid bieen sleeping badly since Sidney's announce imtent of her engagement. At live o'clock, when he left the otlee, lie found Joe I l)rummond vaIhing outside on the "Mother said you'd heenm usp to see me14 a ((4111le4 of timeis. 1 t ho'ught I'd comie aroundl." K. hookd:'t at his watch. "Whatdo (1y;ou say to a walk?'' "Not out In the cotuntry. I'm not as muiscuilarI as you aire. I'll go about towU for a half-hour or so." Thus forestalled, K. found lis sub ject hatrdl to lead upl to. But here again J1oe met hiimi more than half-way. "Well, go oni," lie said, wvhen they oiunid thiemiselv'es in the park ; "I guess I know wh'lat you aire going to say.' "I'm not golig to preach, If you're (expectliig that. Ordnarlly, if a manil inists on msaking a fool of himself, [ let himn alone.'' "Why make an excepton of me ?" "One r'easoni Is that I happen to like you. The other reason Is that, whether youI mmit it or not, you are acting like t younig IdIot, and aire piuttinig the r'esponibilIty on the shoulders of somI eone. else." "She is responsible, lsmn't slie?" "Not In the least. How old are you, Joe?" "'Twent y-thiree, almsost." "Exactly. You are a man, and you sire actling like a bad boy. It's a dis appiloitmient to mei. It's morfle thtan that to Sidnecy." "alchi she ('ar('s !She's gintg to '"Thiere I; is) no announcemeInt o (f aniy she'll lie happIliy-not ' Ii'd 44)t her tonuight 1usdl tll her whas~t 1 kno1w, Thei' tlden, t huss bo rn in hii ove'r wrou'ightt bain, obst'ssed htimt. lie .,Vsyne was unesy'. lit' wa no ht c'r t ha t boy's .tt'men haduu anly ba ijnuat.13 sn l d tr ia Events of the most amazing and momentous character are recounted in) the next install mont. Things happen which change the whole course of life foe LeMoyne, Doctor Max, Sid. niey, Joe Drummond and some others. It is the climax of the story. (TlO lIE LONTINUED).) TI' prote'ct hiables from dlrafts w~hien iteinig carr'tiedh in auttmobile, i' min44 turn'S foldIing Lop hasi been Iivennta'I WOMEN OF MIDDLE AGE Mrs. Quinn's Experience Ought to Help You Over the Critical Period. Lowell Mas.-"For the last three years I have been troubled with the Chan'ge of Life and the .-ad feelings common at that time. I was in a very nervous condi. tion, with headaches and pain a good deal of the time so I was unfit to do m work. A frieng asked me to try Lydia E. Pinkham 5 Vegetable Com poqnd, which I did and it has helped me In every way.' A am not nearly so nervous no headache or pain. I must say that Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound is the best remedy any sick woman can take." -Mrs. MARGARET QuiNN, Rear 259 Worthen St., Lowell, Mass. Other warning symptoms are a sense of suffocation, hot flashes, headaches, backaches, dread of impending evil. timidity sounds in the ears, palpitation of the heart, sparks before the eyes, irregularities, constipation, variable ppetite, weakness, inquietude, and izziness. If you need special advice write to the Lydia E. Plnkham Medicine Co. (confidential), Lynn, Mass. 'Twouin't Help Him Any. "I've noteeil one thing while Jour neying tirougi tlls valt. of tears." "Praiy entiligltenl ime." "You never healrd 11 henipecked 11nn11 ried man excusing hintelf on the ground ilint he is too proud to tight." GAS, DYSPEPSIA ANDINDIGESTION "Pape's Diapepsin" settles sour, gassy stomachs in five minutes-Time it! You don't want a slow remedy when your stomach is bad-or an uncertain one-or a harmful one--your stomach is too valuable; you mustn't injura it. Pape's Diapepsin is noted for its speed in giving relief; its harmless ness; its certain unfailing action in regulating sick, sour, gassy stomachs. Its millions of cures in indigestion, dyspepsia, gastritis and other stomach trouble has made it famous the world over. Keel) this perfect stomach doctor in your home-keep it handy-get a large fifty-cent case from any dealer and then if anyone should eat something which doesn't agree with them; if what they eat lays like lead, ferments and sours and fornis gas; causes head ache, dizziness and nausea; eructa tions of acid and undigested food remember as soon as Pape's Diapepsin comes in contact with the stomach all such distress vanishes. Its prompt ness, certainty and ease in overcoming the worst stomach disorders is a reve lation to those who try it.-Adv. *'ven minarige will not enre'. 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It is a uiveursali remedy for woak tstica rconst ip tioan: iu n rv tasto in the mouth in (lhe morning, or that "tired feeling "are nature's warn.. Ings that somnet hing is wrong In tihe digestive apparatus. At suach~ times correc'ti te dlmcsait and taih a normal condition. t all druggists' or deaers', 25c and 75c bottles. SGreen's August Flower