ft* 1 l« $ INTEimATION^ FALLS P&ESS. —Carl's footsteps, his voice in her FOR HAPPY HOMES line nature One hour with Bob, the very ear—but when she started and THROUGH big brother, pr half that time with gazed around there was only the vacant popper, the hard-worked, would put office and the incessant murmur THE FIRE the prospective wooer in the right from the great city, which could not place. They skate over all the frills A LITTLE ADVICE TO MOTHER even sleep quietly. of manner the young man shows to AND THE GIRLS* The bodiless whispering had ceased the ladies they toss him in a blanket, By BRYANT C. ROGERS at last, but at about three o'clock in so to speak, and see how he falls. the morning a dull, persistent roar They crack open his head and look inside, began to hammer her ear drums. Her Prudence 3tandlsh Points Out 8ome and tap his heart (also so to Milly Hope had not slept well, as half-dazed brain became gripped by a Shortcomings Common to Her Sex speak) with a stethoscope. her dull, puffy eyea Indicated. Even spasm of terror. Was she going mad? —Proper Treatment of Father There is a good big thing in the balance. the coll of auburn hair, usually ar She abandoned the switchboard and and the Boys. Two big things—the happiness ranged with tantalizing grace, betrayed moved across to one of .the windows of the girl they love and the.vhonor the dlsdriler of her mind In Its glaring palely with the reflection oL A man who felt I had rapped:,hls of the family. They dont take hearsay careless disarray. -7 the street lamps. She looked down •ex rather sharply on one occasion, alone about the courting .young Seated before the switchboard, answering on the sidewalk far below—noted the said recently: man. They size him up With their sure calls,, taking down messages, stagnation, saw a solitary pedestrian "Your talk for father and the boys man knowledge of men, and he's got ringing up different offices in the and heard the tramp of his feet on was all right, but why not a little etiquette to be a pretty good thing to stand the yard, she attended to the necessary the pavement. Still the roar surged for mother and the girls? I test. If he does stand it, you may part of her work only. For once her against her ears. It was sinister. go into homes—" and then ensued a be tolerably sure that he will make voice, in repeating a call, was sharp She swung away from the front window chapter of the minor sins of my sex a pretty good husband for Lucy or and even Impatient. In all of her five and turned her attention to those which caused me to truly think. I Jane. If he doesn't stand it—well, the years as chief night operator in the commanding the freight yard. Down quicker he is gotten rid of the better. remembered the homes I myself visit Chicago freight house this had never somewhere in that intricate mass of of —my own short-comings, the doings But this nice sense moral discrimination before occurred. men and machinery was the yard foreman, of every female In my family. "Mother must sometimes be a matter Carl Meurer. There he was As the uien passed through the office Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound? We can and the girls'* must be talked to— of training for the father and brothers. king. Her heart swelled with pride, that evening, a few minutes before furnish positive proof that it has made many remarkable told how they must treat father, and If the men folks in the family but as abruptly contracted with jealous ten, to register on the big clock, the boys in order to be popular at of cures after all other means had failed. hear unlofty ideals, how r.a.n they each called out some salutation to pain. home and abroad. I must carefully examine encourage lofty ones? It is up to Milly, who was a great favorite. She suppressed the outcry of agony Women who are suffering with some form of female the motes in all the eyes I mother and the girls, then, to show Instead of responding, she shrugged that pressed against her clinched illness should consider this. know—my own included—and tell my the pattern of the man who is wanted or frowned or bit her lips in pretended teeth and forced herself to sit once women readers the little reasons in the family by only raising and for absorption. more at the switchboard. For a full As such evidence read these two unsolicited testimonial many great cases of domestic infelicity. welcoming decent and worthy men. "Don't sulk, Milly," bawled out the half-hour she settled down to routine There should be no drawing-room letters. We guarantee they are genuine and honest statements superintendent, as he paused on the work, but at last the nerve-ending roar chairs for the blackguard, however of facts. threshold. "Carl won't come back that seemed to permeate every corner C. D. Gibson has caricatured the vast his fortune. The man who has American mother and daughter, drawn any the quicker for your scowls, when of the room became intolerable. With gotten his money too easily, in some a Cresson, Pa.—" Five years ago I bad a bad fall, and hurt little Margaret has smiles to spare." truly pitiful pattern of the American a desperate gesture she sprang erect way at which the world looks askance, myself inwardly. I was under a doctor's care for nine weeks, papa. He is a tiny, worried, sad old She returned no answer, but applied and began to pace the floor. should not be encouraged as a visitor, and when I stopped I grew worse again. I sent for a bottle of man, burdened with the enormous responsibility herself &iore closely to her This could be no mere hallucination. lest the day come when, as son-in-law lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, took it as directed, of an extravagant family. duties. Despite her self-control, a She halted in the center of the and husband, he turn his hand to a and now I am a stout, hearty woman."—Mrs. Ella E. Aikey, tear splashed on the message she was The wife and daughters, are Junos office, then suddenly shrieked aloud deal that may land him in jail. The Cresson, Pa. recording. and Venuses, always dressed in the as the reason for this dreadful turmoil gay man, who is essentially a social "Snags, my child?" latest style, who may care for poor swept across her faculties, clearing Baird, Wash.—"A year ago I was sick with kidney and ornament and indifferent to the finer The gruff voice of Banks, "father" popper, but who certainly don't seem them instantly. bladder troubles and female weakness. The doctors gave me feelings of woman should also be of the machine shops—the oldest man to. They fly from dinner party to The freight house was on fire. up*. All they could do was to just let me go as easily as possible. tabooed if he has broken one girl at the works, was kind and did not ball, and sometimes drag the sad old panther-like spring across the I was advised by friends to take Jjydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable A heart, he is pretty likely to break his wound. Milly raised her wet eyes man, who would rather be at home, Compound and Blood Purifier. I am completely cured of my floor and one glance through the mutely. wife's in time. And as to mere talk with them. They scheme for a great ills, and I am nearly sixty years old."—Mrs. Sarah Ieighton. doors revealed sinuous coils of writhing He shook his head. of making a "good marriage," it is Baird, Wash. English marriage for Lucy or Jane, smoke ascending the air currents. "Men are funny brutes, Milly. Carl stupid in the extreme. The good and rejoice about the prospective castle How long had the fire been at Evidence like the above is abundant showing that the is fond of you, but he's like the rest marriage is the one which unites two and coronet, when, doubtless, poor work? Had she time to escape by the derangements of the female organism which breed all kinds of us. He won't stand for nagging persons suited to one another, which old pop would much rather have the stairs? Her foot was on the landing nor being hectored. I once was young bids fair to be conducted on the basis sensible young man from Chicago, of miserable feelings and which ordinary practice does not when it occurred to Milly that all of and now that I am old, I haven't forgot of peace, entire trust and eternal who is .bound to make his way, for the workers in the yard were in the cure, are the very disorders that give way to Lydia E. the girl I loved first and best. We good sense. his son-in-law. They spoil the spendthrift greatest jeopardy—trapped literallly Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. had a little difference Just like you So much for the matter of Lucy's boys in the family and make by the towering walls of the freight and Carl. W# never made it up. We or Jane's husband, no matter to what father, in every domestic coup, a unit. house. And Carl was there—Carl! Women who are afflicted with similar troubles, after were both to** spunky." class, so-called, they belong. Mothers She dashed across to the switchboard This overworked, unhappy, homebelittled reading two such letters as the above, should be encouraged He sighed nd slowly quitted the and daughters in any sphere must set and began notifying the men in father has his prototype in room. a high standard of moral excellence to try this wonderfully helpful remedy. the yard of the fire. She called up many classes. Something of the mother Thank heaven, she was at last for all men, and while they are doing Meurer as calmly as the othersheard may be found in every third wife, alone! How her head ached! She this they will be improving the home his slow, deep voice merging and the qualities of the daughters are For SO years Ijydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable condition, whatever it is. Compound has been the standard remedy for into a shout of excitement. Suddenly found everywhere, in the girl of medium female ills. No sick woman does justice to And now a word concerning the obligation her blanched face went whiter than means, in the bank clerk's herself who will not try this famous medicine. that every mother and daughter ever. daughter, the day laborer's. Extravagance, Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and owes to her home. Try, I beg of "Call up Miss Donnelly you can the madness to spend beyond has thousands of cures to its credit. you, to make it sweet and dear to your get her before any of the rest of us. ones means, is the American disease Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women men folks, for this is the only way to Hur—" of the moment the daughter of the to write her for advice* She has hold husbands and brothers. Don't But Milly flung the receiver from emigrant even grows up to despise guided thousands to health free of charge. always think of gallivanting, but strive her with a maniacal laugh and leaped the ways of her father. We are a Address Mrs* Pinkham, Lynn, Mass« every night to be so much to the men toward the door once again. swift and imperious race—the least WESTERN CANADA of your family that they will never So the little senseless chit was in little money and power, and we think Somewhat Disappointing. think of going outside for entertainment. peril—extreme peril, perhaps. So be ourselves IT. We fancy we haven't He was a doctor and was patiently & Make a pretty toilet for dinner, It! The ground floor might be a time for the old-fashioned, worrying waiting for his first patient. Thought What 1.1. Hill, the Great Railroad Magnate, and greet the toiler, husband or brother, mass of flames before she had an folk who gave us the start, whose he: "If the mountain will not come Says About Its Wheat-Producing Power I with smiles. Make them think always inkling. No one could reach her, hearts are often broken and whose to Mohammed, Mohammed must go The greatest need of this country that they are good and great, [United States] in another generation either, at this hour except over the means, big or little, as frequently to the mountain. And as patients will or two will be the proTiding and if they are not", I assure you they of homes for its switchboard in the main office, and ruined by our follies. Mothers must not seek me out I must needs seek people and producing will try to be this, and more, too. Milly controlled that. have money to keep up with the passing them out." He strolled through the sufficient for them. The days of our prominence The best husband and brothers you She hung for a moment above the show, daughters' fine raiment and cheap market and presently saw a as a wheat exporting country are gone. Canada could ever know, at any rate, they are well-like stairs, then skinned d'jwn amusement, whether school keeps or man buy six nice cucumbers. "Here's Pi is to be the great bound to be. wheat country." the broad steps. One flight was accomplished—another not, for bread-winning popper. And a chance!" said he, and followed him This great rail read magnate was begun—now home. Patiently he waited for four is taking advantage the more money they spend the more of the situation by extensive she was at the third landing. Jlere illogical they are concerning the eligibility long and lonely hours and about midnight railway building: to the wlieat fields the smoke was more dense. the front door quickly opened, of the young man who shall of W estern Canada. and the man dashed down the steps. Upwards of 125 Million She could hear the rending snarl of marry into the family. Bushels of Wheat He seized him by the arm and cried the flames catch a sickening whiff And here I come to the greaia»i A New Idea. earnestly: "Do you want a doctor?" were harvested in 1009. Average from the cellars where the stored merchandise danger that threatens both mother The idea of supplying each guest of the three provinces of Alberta. was burning. A burst of "No!" replied the man roughly. Saskatchewan and Manitoba will be and the girls. Now, if you want to with a perfectly new piece of soap upwards of 23 bushels per acre. fresh, outside air dispersed the "Want more cucumbers!" Tree homesteads of 1C0 acres, know what sort of stuff there is in a wrapped and sealed, steadily gains in and adjoining pre-emptions of smoke-clouds an instant. Milly gulped man you must set a man to watch 1G0 acres (at $3 per acre), are to favor, so that now the best grades be had in tiio choicest districts. greedily, was refreshed and, with returning WE FAY HIGH PRICES FOR HIDES him. Wise as they are, women don't of toilet soap can be bought in Schools convenient, climate and Furs, and sell guns and traps cheap. vigor, a full appreciation of excellent, soil the very best, know all the ins and outs of mascu­ "guest siz~." N. W. Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis, Minn. railways close at band, buildin? her own detestable conduct, passed lumber cheap, fuel easy to Set and reasonable in price, Philosophy and Religion. through her heart like the thrust of a water easily procured mixed The idea of philosophy is truth the Two Smart Costumes farming a success. Write as to sword. best place for settlement, settlers' Idea religion is life.—Bayne. of low railway rates, descriptive illustrated Had she time left In which to warn "Last Best West' (sent free the girl? 'on application), and other informa. tion, to Sup't of Immigration, PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS. She wheeled and took the stairs Ottawa, Can., or to the Canadian PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case Government Agent. of Itching, Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Piles in with frantic speed. The ascending Chaa.PnilBt,CllirordBIk.OraBdFort«,V.Bt 6 to 14 days or money refunded. SOo. flights seemed endless. To breathe J. M.Mae Lathi* n.ISo\ 11 (»,^Yutprtown,S.D, Lots of people will accept a favor E.TUlolBn.SlMukMngt.^t.riBl^llaa. meant acute pain—her muscles refused yon). who wouldn't take a joke. (TTse address nearest (4) to obey, her limbs to bear her up. Midway on the last flight she sank to closed her eyes. The sal*- tears Pettit's Eye Salve First Sold in 1807 If afflicted with} Thompson's Eyo Water her knees. A hot gust swept up from sore eyes, use £stung the lids. Only two of the years ago, sales increase yearly, wonderful K)0 the inferno beneath but it stirred her remedy cured millions weak eyes. All night shift must register. were W. N. U., Minneapolis, No. 14-1910. heavy limbs so that she could crawl druggists or Howard Bros., Buffalo, N. Y. late already. Why didn't they come? the remainder of the distance. —Carl .Meurer and Margaret Donnelly. When an aeroplane chauffeur drops Somehow she reached the switch-' A Remarkable Invention it's all up with him. board and stirred, schooling herself There was a time when Carl had to be rational, laying fast hold of her NO STROPPING NO HONING always come first and lingered as DON'T NEGLECT THAT COUGH reeling brain, she called up the superintendent's It certainly racks your system and may run into loijg as possible. That was before— Something serious. Alton's Lung Balsam will check office. Would the operator It, quickly and permanently. For sale at all druggists. before Margaret Donnelly came to act never answer—perhaps she—Margaret—was as typewriter in the superintendent's A brother is a young man who already past human aid— office. WORLD OVER flatters bis grown-Hp sister. KNOWN THE Finally Margaret's voice, barely The essence of bitterness lay in the recognizable, so hoarse and terrified, Pass Along fact that it was through her efforts reached Milly. that Margaret had come. She had "That isn't you, surely! Yes! Yes! been sorry for the girl—one of a big, We are safe here, but don't you know The GoodWord shiftless family. —you are cut off by fire, they say. Till her advent, Milly had been Poor, poor Milly—" queen of the freight house. She was That Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical The receiver fell from Milly's nerveless willingly worshiped. Little wonder Discovery is to-day and has, for over fingers. She had finished her that she became domineering even to work. She had fought the good fight. 40 years, been the standard Blood-purify Carl Meurer.. Margaret, on the contrary, Shelled er, Stomach Strengthener and Liver was bright and obliging, with a fire danced before her receding Invigorator sold by druggists. It's not seductive Irish tongue, and when vision, something snapped in her a secret nostrum but a medicine of Milly sent him to the right about for overtaxed brain and she lurched forward some trifling matter he promptly known composition a medicine so insensible, as a volume of smoke availed himself of the other, girl's good that the best physicans prescribe poured into the room. ready smiles and good-humored comradeship. It knowing that its ingredients, which The fire was a thing of the past are printed on its outside wrappers and when Milly, in the gray dawn, struggled The other mep in the yard where attested under oath, are the best known back to consciousness. he was foreman had widened the to medical science for the diseases for breach by teasing him about being She was on the lounge In the superintendent's which it is advised. "bossed." This was gall to the highspirited office, where she had been The great success of Dr. Pierce's' German. He would have borne by Carl after he had made a been willing to die for a woman, yet desperate dash through the blinding Golden Medical Discovery in curing weak stomachs, wasted bodies, he would not submit to leading smoke to rescue her. His usually weak lungs, and obstinate and lingering coughs, is based on the recognition strings. full, rosy face was blanched and of the fundamental truth that "Golden Medical Discovery"^ As Milly brooded over her troubles, ghastly as he knelt beside her. supplies Nature with body-building, tissue-repairing, musclemaking which had kept her awake all that "Was every one saved?" she whispered. materials, in condensed and concentrated form. With this Cloth Costume. Tobacco brown Home Dress.—For practical home day, a pretty laugh rang through the help Nature supplies the necessary strength to the stomach to digest serge looks very well made up like wear, no style could be more useful office, and Margaret pushed open the "Dearest!" our model, which has the skirt' cut than this, fn either firm cloth or cashmere. food, build up the body and thereby throw off lingering obstinate swinging doors and entered, followed "Why are you crying, Carl?" She walking length, and trimmed by a boxplait The skirt is made with a very coughs. The "Discovery" re-establishes the digestive and by Meurer. They made a simultaneous made an effort to rise her eys were down the front. The coat rather deep yoke," to which the lower part is nutritive organs in sound health, purifies and enriches the blood, rush for the clock to register on pathetic in their terror. "Was Margaret suggests a Russian in style it has slightly fulled, a wavy design in braiding time. Margaret did not speak to the not saved after all?" nourishes the nerves—in short establishes sound vigorous health. And a panel taken down back and front, forming the trimming. Tucks are operator, but with another laugh "Every one was saved, every one. If your dealer offers something "just as good*** it is probably and braided at the edges, with buttons made on the shoulders of bodice, I passed through the door of exit, followed But, Milly,- how near came to losing better FOR EQM—it pays better. Bnt*you ore sewn or in groups of threes, these while the front, back and over-sleeves by Meurer, who had taken no you!" of the cure not his greater profit* so there's nothing "just also trim the sleeve. Hat of soft felt, notice of Milly either. are braided, crepe-de-chine forming "It was worth while." Delicate coloi as good" for yon. Say so. trimmed with ostrich feathers. oh, distraction the under-sleeves and yoke. As the night wore Milly's wavered across her white face. Pr* ?.'?rce's Common Sense Medical Adviser, In Plain English or, Medicine Materials required: Seven yards She Imagined that Materials required: Seven yards Increased. "Worth while! Oh, Milly!" Simplified, 1008 m».._— 62 inches one-half wide, three and 48 braid, •he beards sounds that had no inches wide, *wo dozen yards "Yes, Carl because I found you," dozen buttons, one dozen yards braid. three-fourths yard crepe-de-chlne.