Bxpeet Big Sale of Red Cress Seals. 'I'^The campaign for selling Red Cross seals this year will be carried on In practically every state and territory in the United States, and even In Porto ltlco, the Canal Zone, Hawaii amd Philippine Islands. No less than 100,000 volunteer agents, Including department, drug and other kinds of stores, motion picture theaters, Individuals, and others, will be engaged In the work. Before the sale is completed, & It Is expected that at least 100,000,000 That's the kind —Lobby's seals will have been printed and distributed, There isn't another besides several million posters, display cards and other forms of sliced dried beef advertising literature. (^rV\UOHATt KESTER. like it. Good? It's the inside cut of the finest RED, ROUGH HANDS MADE IM/SRJYMO/FS BYDLMEIYIU. beef sliced to wafer thinness. SOFT AND WHITE Cofrmnt*t t&t JteOoMUMtMHti Coma**? For red, rough, chapped and bleeding hands, dry, fissured, itching, burning 8YNOPSIS. "Please God, we may yet put our from the room and the Judge dismissed where he had said good-by to Betty palms, and painful finger-ends, fingers pn some ylllaln who does," the servants. scarcely a week before. of with shapeless nails, a one-night Cuticura The scene at the opening the story Is said the judge. Sliced "Well, what do you think, Price?" The two mea had paused by the laid old In the library of an worn-out treatment works wonders. Directions: Outside it was noised about that asked Mahaffy anxiously when they door. They now advanced. One was southern plantation, known as the Barony. Soak the hands, on retiring, The place is to be sold, and Its Judge Price had taken matters In were alone. gaunt and haggard, his face disfigured Dried Beef history and that of the owners, the In hot water and Cuticura Soap. hand—he was the old fellow who had "Rubbish! Take my word for It, by a great red scar the other was a Qulntards. Is the subject of discussion by a Jonathan Crenshaw, a business man, Dry, anoint with Cuticura Ointment, been warned to keep his mouth shut, Solomon, this blow Is leveled at me. shock-headed individual who moved stranger known as Bladen, and Bob stands supreme. The tasty and wear soft bandages or old, loose and who had never stopped talking I have been too forward In my attempts with a shambling gait. Both carried Yancy. a farmer, when Hannibal Wayne Hazard, a mysterious child of the old gloves during the night. These pure, dishes one can make with it since. A crowd collected beyond the to suppress the carnival of rifles and both were dressed in coarise southern family, makes his appearance. library windows and feasted its eyes sweet and gentle emollients preserve crime that Is raging through west homespun. are almost numberless. Yancy tells how he adopted the boy. Nathaniel Ferris buys the Barony, but the on the back of this hero's bald head. the hands, prevent redness, roughness Tennessee. You'll observe that Miss "Morning, sir," said the man with Let's see! There's creamed Qulntards deny any knowledge of the One by one the house servants were and chapping, and impart in a single Malroy disappeared at a moment boy. Yancy to keep Hannibal. Captain the scar. "Yancy's my name, and dried beef, and—but just try Murrell, a friend of the Quintards, appears ushered into the judge's presence. night that velvety softness and whiteness when the public Is disposed to think this gentleman 'lows he'd rather be and asks questions about the Barony. it. Then you'll know 1 First he interrogated little Steve, who so much desired by women. For she has retained me as her legfC adviser Trouble at Scratch Hill, when Hannibal known now as Mr. Cavendish." la kidnaped by Dave Blount, Captain had gone to Miss Betty's door that probably she will be sei at liberty those whose occupations tend to Injure The Judge started to his fteet. Murrell's agent. Yancy overtakes Always Insist on Lobby's morning to rouse her, as was his custom. when she agrees to drop the matter the hands, Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Blount, gives him a thrashing and secures "Bob Yancy?" he cried. the boy. Yancy appears before Squire Next he examined Betty's maid Ointment are wonderful. of Norton's murder. As for the "Yes, sir, that's me/" The judge Balaam, and is discharged with costs for then the cook, and various house servants, Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold Don't accept just as good." From boy, they'll use him to compel my silence the plaintiff. Betty Malroy, a friend of passed nimbly around the desk and •he Ferrlses, has an encounter with Captain who had nothing especial to tell, throughout the world. Sample of each relish to roast, from condiment to and inaction." The judge took shook the Scratch Hiller warmly by Murrell, who forces his attentions on but told it at considerable length and conserve, the quality of Libby's a long breath. "Yet there remains one free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address her, and is rescued by Bruce Carrington. the hand. "Whore's my nevvy, sir?— lastly big Steve. Ready-to-Servo Poods is always Betty sets out for her Tennessee home. point where the boy is concerned that post-card "Cuticura, Dept. I* Boston." what's all this about him and Miss Carrington takes the same stage. Yancy "Stop a bit," the judge suddenly interrupted superior. And they don't cost one completely baffles me. If we knew and Hannibal disappear, with Murrell on Betty?" Yancy's soft drawl was suddenly the butler in the midst of whit more than the ordinary kinds. their trail. Hannibal arrives at the home Prize Winner. just a little more of his antecedents eager. 9f Judge Slocum Price. The Judge recognizes "What are these cups for?" asked a his narrative. "Does the overseer always it might cause me to make a startling in the boy, the grandson of an old "Please God we'll recover him Put up in sterilized glass or tin well-dressed man of a jeweler, pointing time friend. Murrell arrives at Judge's come up to the house the first and radical move." soon!" said the judge. container* home. Cavendish family on raft rescue to some lonely silver cups on the thing in the morning?" Mahaffy was clearly not impressed Yancy, who is apparently dead. Price By the window Carrington moved counter. "Why, not exactly, sah, but he come Breaks jail. Betty and Carrington arrive by the vague generalities in which impatiently. No harm could come to at Belle Plain. Hannibal's rifle discloses At Every Grocers "These are race cups to be given as up this mo'ning, sah. He was talking the judge was dealing. lome startling things to the judge. Hannibal the bojr, but Betty—a shudder went prizes." and Betty meet again. Murrell arrives to me at the back of the house, when "There you go, Price, as usual, trying through him. Libby, McNeill & Libby in Belle Plain. Is playing for big "If that's so, suppose you and I race the women run out with the word that to convince yourself that you are Itakes. Yancy awakes from long dreamless "They've stolen him." Yancy fepolce for one?" And the stranger, with the Missy was done gone away." sleep on board the raft. Judge Price the center of everything!" he said, in with conviction. "I reckon they've Chicago makes startling discoveries In looking up cup in his hand, started, the jeweler "He joined In the search?" a tone of much exasperation. "Let's land titles. Charley Norton, a young started back to No'th Carolina with after him. The stranger won the cup. "Yes, sah." planter, who assists the judge, Is mysteriously get down to business! What does this him—only that don't explain what's —Keystone. assaulted. Norton Informs Carrington "When was Miss Malroy seen last?" man Hicks mean by hinting at suicide? that Betty has promised to marry come of Miss Betty, does itf" dnd he asked the judge. film. Norton is mysteriously shot. Mpre You saw Miss Malroy yesterday?" dropped rather helplessly Into a chair. light on Murrell's plot. He plans uprising MINNESOTA EYE, EAR, NOSE AND "She and the young gemman you of negroes. Judge Price, with Hannibal, "Bob are just getting off a sick bed. THROAT HOSPITAL. fotched heah were seen in the gyafden "You have put your finger on a visits Betty, and she keeps the boy He's been powerful porely It consequence Capacity 45 beds, strictly modern, as a companion. In a stroll Betty takes along about sundown. I seen them point of some significance," said tie ibj with Hannibal they meet Bess Hicks, of having his head laid open specially equipped for the care of eye, myself." of judge. "She bore evidence of the daughter the overseer, who warns and then being throwed into 'the Elk ear, nose and throat diseases. Rates Betty of danger and counsels her to "They had had supper?" shock and loss she had sustained t* reasonable. For further particulars, leave Belle Plain at once. Betty, terrlway river, where I fished him out," explained "Yes, sah." aside from that she was quite as she their carriage it stopped by Slosson, address Supt., White Bear Lake, Minn., Cavendish, who still continued fled, acts on Bess' advice, and on their "Who sleeps here?" has always been." or physicians in charge. A Good School the tavern keeper, and a confederate, and to regard the judge with unmixed "Just little Steve and three of the "Well, what do you want to see Betty and Hannibal are made prisoners. Drs. Beaudoux & Wheeler, astonishment, first cocking his shaggy LARGE ATTENDANCE. LOWEST RATES. The pair are taken to Hicks' cabin. In an women they sleeps at the back of Hicks for? What do you expect to 833 Lowry Building St. Paul. almost inaccessible spot, and there Murrell head on one side and then on the Thorough Work. Practical Courses. Accredited the house, sah." learn from him?" Coniaes: Preparatory .Commercial. Shorthand, Stenotypy, visits Betty and reveals his part In other, his bleached eyes narrowed to a Teachers, High School, Scientific, Musis,. the plot and his object. Betty spurns "No sounds were heard during the "I don't like his insistence on the Whyf Penmanship, Agriculture, Steam and Gas Engineering. his proffered love and the interview is slit. Now and then he favored the night?" Regular tuition, S1.00 per week: board, tL9&* idea that Miss Malroy is mentally unbalanced. "George, don't you think, now that ended by the arrival of Ware, terrified Free Tuition to one atndebt from eacbr austere Mahaffy with a fleeting "No, sah." at possible outcome of the crime. Judge It's a question of some postoffice. Write for catalog. Address your salary has been raised, we can Prictj, hearing of the abduction, plans action. glance. He seemed intuitively to understand SOUTHERN MINNESOTA NORMAL C0LLE6E, have an automobile?" the comradeship of their BOX 830, AUSTIN, MINNESOTA "Oh, I suppose we can have one, if degradation. CHAPTER XXII. we wish, but why be so common?" DAISY FLY KILLER & "Mr. Cavendish fetched me here on fiiei. Neat, clean 01* his raft. We tied up to the sho' this I namental, conrenlenV The Judge Takes Charge. V'v To be sweet and clean, every woman cheap. Last* all morning. It was there we met Mr. All work on the plantation bad should use Paxtine in sponge bathing. scaioa. Kad« of" Carrington—T'd knowed him slightly metal, cant spill ortt*over stopped, and the hundreds of slaves— A-.. It eradicates perspiration and will not soil or* tyack yonder in No'th Carolina," continued-Yancy. men, women and children—were gathered all other body odors. At druggists, Injurs anything. Guaranteed effectives 25c a bo* or sent postpaid on receipt of a^out the house. Among these "He said I'd find Hannibal Sold bydeater»or price by The Paxton Toilet Co., Boston, with you. I was counting a heap moved the members of the dominant I sent prepaid for U.- Mass. EAKOLD SOXSBS, 1*0 DaKalfc in., Brooklyn, V. T- on seeing my nevvy." race. The judge would have attached himself to the first group, but he Carrington, no longer able to control Pa's Rather Indefinite. heard a whispered question, and the himself, swung about on his heel. WONDERFIL CURES FOR RHEUMATISM "Pa, what is an anachronism?" li answer: "What's been done?" he asked, with MADE BY THE "Oh, that's something or other "Miss Malroy's lawyer." fierce repression. ."What's going to be KNEIPP HYBROPATH imart people are always finding in Clearly it was not for him to mix done? Don't you know that every Shakespeare's works. Now, run along SANATARIUM •with these outsiders, these curiosity second is precious?" ind play." seefcers. He crossed the lawn to the "I am about to conclude my investigations, PLYMOUTH AND PENN AVIS. N. house, and mounted the steps. In the sir," said the judge with MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA Cole's Carbollsalve doorway was big Steve, while groups dignity. Relieves «nd cures itching, torturing diseases of the skin and mucous membrane, of men stood about in the hall, the Carrington stepped to the door. a euperior Pile Cure. 85 and 50 cents, by ..PARKER'S hum of busy purposeless talk pervading After all, what was there to expect of Iruggists. For free sample write to J. W. HAIR BALSAM Sole A Co.. Black River Falls, Wis. the place. The judge frowned. Planum and beautifies th* bih these men? Whatever their Interest, Promote* a luxuriant growth. This was all wrong. it was plainly centered in the boy. He Bewr Tails to Barters Qns Business Practrce. Hair to Its TontldU Colas, "Has Mr. Ware returned from Memphis?" passed out into the hall. Prevent# hair fall far. "Thev"new actor in this compaey he asked of Steve. As the door closed on him the judge certainly knows how to act on people's "No, sah not yet." turned again to the Scratch Hiller. feelings with fine touches." KODAKS AND FINISHING "Then show me into the library," "Mr. Yancy, Mr. Mahaffy and I hold "Yes he used to be a dentist." Any size 6 exp. film developed 10 cents, said the judge with bland authority, your nephew in the tenderest regard 10 or IS exp. or film, pack 20 cents. 1 KREQEL PnOTO ARLOR3,«29 Hennepln surrendering Ms hat to the butler. he has been our constant companion Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children Ave. .Minn. ,46 E. 7 th St. ,St. Paul. "Come along, Mahaffy!" he added. ever since you were lost to him. In teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle. They entered the library, and the this crisis you may rely upon us we DEFIANCE STARCH eaMe8ttoworfew'tha^nicerbclothes ataichsa are committed to his recovery, no Judge motioned Steve to close the One way to lose a friend is to engage door. "Now, boy, you'll kindly ask matter what it involves." The judge's in a political argument. W. N. U., Minneapolis, No. 33-1912. those people to withdraw—you may tone was one of unalterable resolution. CASTORIA say it is Judge Price's orders. Allow no one to enter the house unless they "I reckon you-all have Deen mighty have business with me, or as I send good and kind to him," said Yancy for them—you understand? After you huskily. have cleared the house, you may "We have endeavored to be, Mr. bring me a decanter of corn whisky— Yancy—indeed I had formed the resolution •top a bit—you may ask the sheriff legally to adopt him should you to step here." not come to claim him. I should have For Infants and Children. "Yes, sah." And Steve withdrew. given him my name, and made him The judge drew an easj-chair up to my heir. His education has already The Kind You Have the flat-topped desk that stood in the begun under my supervision," and the center of the room, and seated himself. judge, remembering the high use to Always Bought which he had dedicated one of Pegloe's trade labels, fairly glowed with "Are you going to make this the philanthropic fervor. excuse for another drunk, Price? If ALCOHOL—3 PER CENT so, I feel the greatest contempt for "Think of that!" murmured Yancy Avertable Preparation for Assimilating you," said Mahaffy sternly. softly. He was deeply moved. So was Bears the "Hicks Says Miss Malroy's Been Acting Queer Since Charley Norton iheFoodandttegulating Mr. Cavendish, who was gifted with The judge winced at this. Was Shot." Stomachs and Bowels of the a wealth of ready sympathy. He "You hare made a regrettable thrust out a hardened hand to the choice of words, Solomon," he urged Signature "I'll see the oversea—what's his delicacy—the law, sir, fully recognizes Judge. gently. name?—Hicks? Suppose you go for that. It seems to me he la overanxious "Shake!" he said. "You're a heap "Where's your feeling for the boy?" him!" said the judce, addressing the Promotes DigesHon,CheerfulnessandRest.Contains to account for her disappearance better than you,look." A thin ripple sheriff. "Here!" said the judge, with an eloquent neither of in a manner that can compromise of laughter escaped Mahaffy, but the gesture, resting hie hand on his The sheriff was gone from the room no one." Opium .Morphine nor Mineral ft judge accepted Chills and Fever's heart. only few moments, and returned Not Narcotic proffered hand. 'He understood that with the information that Hicks was "If you let whisky alone, I'll believe CHAPTER XXIII. here was a simple genuine soul. sou otSAwamam down at the bayou, which waa to be you otherwise what I have said must "Price, isn't it Important for us to Awywfcii WMiCAMM dragged. •tand." The Judge Finds Allies. know why Mr. Yancy thinks the buy "Why?" inquired the Judge. They were Interrupted by the opening XbtMbSa/b The door opened, and th4 sheriff In has been taken back to North Carolina?" "Hicks says Miss Malroy's been acting of the door, and big Steve admitted slouched into the room. He was chewins said Mahaffy. mighty queer ever since Charley Carrington and the two men of long wheat straw, and his whole "Just what kin is Hannibal to you, Norton was shot—distracted like! He whom the sheriff had spoken. appearance tfas one of troubled weakness. Mr. Yancy?" asked the judge resuming says he noticed It, and th&t Tom Ware "A shocking condition of affairs, Use his seat. noticed It" Mr. Carrington!" said the judge by "Morning," he said briefly. "Strictly speaking, he ain't none. A perfect Remedy for Constipation "How does he explain the boy's disappearance?" way of greeting. :, "Sit down, sheriff," and the judge Sour Stomach.Diarrhoea, That he come to live wltti me Is all "Yes," said Carrington shortly. Indicated a meek seat for the official Worms .Convulsions .Feverishness owing to Mr Crenshaw, who's a good For Over "He reckons she throwed herself In, "You left these parts some time ago, In a distant corner. "Have you learned Loss man when left to himself* but he's and OF SLEEP. and the boy tried to drag her out, like I believe?" continued the Judge. anything?" he asked. got a wife, so a body may say he never he naturally would, and got drawed "The day before Norton was shot. The sheriff shook his head. Facsimile Signature of *,'il la left to himself," began Yancy and hi." I had started home for Kentucky- 1 "What you turning all these neighbors Thirty Years then briefly he told the story of the "Humph! I'll trouble Mr. Hicks to heard of his death when I reached out of doors for?" he questioned. woman and the child much as he had step here," said the Judge quietly. Randolph on the second bluff," explained Twt "We don't want people tracking in told it to Bladen at the Barony the CENTAUR COMPANY, 1 'There's Mr. Carrington and a Carrington, from whose cheeks and out the house, sheriff. Important day of General Quintard's funeral. NEW YORK. couple of strangers outside who've the weather-beaten bloom had faded. evidence may be destroyed. I propose The. judge, his back to the light and been asking about Miss Malroy and He rested his hand on the edge of At(i month *. old examining the slaves first—does that his face in shadow, restep his left elbow the boy seems like the strangers the desk and turned to the men who meet with your approval?" jy 1 on the desk and with his chin knnwed her and him back yonder In had followed him Into the room. "This 'Ok. I've talked with them they sunk in his palm, followed the Borate* No'th Carolina," said the sheriff as he Is the gentleman you wish to see." he Guaranteed under the Roodrtj don't know nothing," said tlM flfctrUB. Killer's narrative with the cloaeM N* turned away. said, and stepped to one of the window* tentlon. one dosR't fcwir nothlaffcf "Ml theteT TIi* sheriff went Exact Copy of Wrapptr. overlooked the terraces TNS WNTtlM MWUV, MM MM *ITT. W»M 77 ?j:. k,.