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VALHII 81 PHSO Tin ORC.
ConaeEya el meeanisr.no en buen estad

COnsdEvO Ell meeanismO en- buem estadO.
Norman. Ont, Enero Is de 1890.
w. H. CoMsTOCK, Morristown, N. Y,
Esfimado Sr.-Sus PdoFas de RalZ Indiana del d.
Morse para oganismo mejor regulator que puede
la huInanidad. La vida reloi; fragil
delicados mecansmOs pareula nsgncante de
un cuerpo extran0 adhere Ia mas pequena de
rledas cual ell resulad02-Primero solamenfe una
pequeha derencia percepbe; pero deese abanOnada
asi que crecend0 la obstruction La frreguaTidad
hacendose randa hasta que que pudo acilments
al epezr corTese necestaa enonees trabajo
cuidado para arregarlo. constitution humana-
I'm pequeno desarego abandona, Y aumenta
inpereeptbenente al principle despueS Tapez
que que pudo principle corfar de raiz muy
sejo odo el mundo que pufquen So ORGANISING tomanda
las Pd0Fas de Morse as conservaran vigory vitaidad
Il. F. HATWELLA
Ell salva-Csuar6Ii0 del viaierO.
Amagaadms Pond, ". s., Enero "a de 1880
w. H. CoMsTOCK, Morristown, NJ ?.
Muy ST. nio:-Por muchos amos he sido IN acerrimo
pardario de PdOras de 7alZ Indiana del Dr. Morse
porque cega Ia que tengo elias sno por
Ia conanza que para mi han heeho acreedoras por la
yalor mao. Mis- ocupaciones tales que paso muchO
tempo fuera de mi cOusderaria equ.
pale complete 81 me legaran faltar las PdoFas del De.
Morse,
Mr., MGINNIS
Un artfeuIO de lnerifO Sc vende biens
: BorzchoE7 Harbor, ". s., Enero IS de 1s9S.
W. H. CoMsToCK, Morristown, N. Y I
Aprecable Sr.-Esa carta es para certhcaF que soy
comeciante medecnas Patente incluyend6 varias
clases de Pildoras. Que vendo mas PildOfas de RaK
indiana de- Or. Morse que de odas las oras untRs SU
veua en- aumento.
4 [. NICHOLSON :
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THE IRON LORD
BY S. R. CROCKETT.
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BY S. R. CROCKETT.
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.opyrsh, 1907 by 8. R, Crockett, All Rights Reserved
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STOCKPORT.
Young.

stockport.---J. C. Silver shipped
three car loads of fat cattle Tuesday
to Chicago. Mr. Zacho went to Chi
cago with them
G. w. Stapp returned from WASH
ington state last Saturday. Hh will
remain until tbs first of March.
Mrs. Westover fell out of bed one
night last week and broke her hip. Be-
ing over "a years old, no hopes are
entertained for her recovery.
W. S. Whitaker, Vaughn ColemarA
and Charlie wheatev came home iris
dav from Anes college to spend ths
holidays.
Otto Warner and Fred Johnston ara
at home to spend Christmas They ara
taking course in the commercial COLI
lege at BURLINGTON.
Alvey Harlan left Staurda-. for Des
Moines to visit his family He is go
| ing to travel for a business house
Clay Phillips left on the morning
train Saturday for Des Moines to visit
! his son a few days.
| w. H. Thorlnbv and wife left fol
| their home nj Marietta. Ohio, last
| Thursday They have been making
an extended visit in the west, calling
at Stockport on their way home.
There will be a Christmas tree at
the opera house this evening
J. B. Fox has sold his home to C. R.
Johnston; consideration s2050 Mr.
Fox will purchase a lot and build him
a new. home.
J. H. McCarty and family left Sat.
i i1rday night for Chillicothe and vii
lremain over Christmas
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A Great Psychologist
Once Said the Way to Keep the Stom'
ach Healthy is to Exercise 1t.

But He Did Not Tell How to Make 1t
Healthy.
The muscles OF tae body can be de-
veloped by exercise until their
strength has increased manifold, and a
proper amount of training each day
will accomplish this result, but it Is
somewhat doubtful whether you can
increase the digestive powers Of the
stomach by eating indigestible food
in order to force it to work.
Nature has furnished US all with a
perfect set of organs and if they are
not abused they will attend to the
business required Of them. They need
NO abnormal strength.
There is limit to the weight a
man can lift, and there is also limit
to what the stomach can do.
The cause of dyspepsia, indigestion
and many affiliated diseases is that
the stomach has been exercised too
much and it is tired or worn out. Not
exercise but rest is what it needs.
To take something into the stom
ach that will relieve it from its work
for short time something to dlses'
| the food--will give it rest and allo"
it time to regain its strength.
The proper aid to the digestive or
gans is Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets
which cure dyspepsia. Indigestion, gas
(. on the stomach and bowels heartburn
| palpitation Of tne heart, and all stom
ach diseases
Rest and IMMIGRATION is what tbs
stomach gets when you use Stuarts
Dyspepsia Tablets, for one grain OF the
active principle in them is sut1lclent tf
digest 5000 grains OF food.
The tablets increase the low o
gastric juice and prevent fermentation
acidity and sour eructions.
Do hot attempt to starve ont dys
pepsia. You need all your strength
The common sense method is to di
gast the food for the stomach and giv'
/ it rest
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets do no
make the cure, but enable the organ
to throw off unhealthy conditions.
Perfect digestion means perfec
health, for under these conditions onl
do the different organs Of the bod
work right and receive the building
up material found in pure blood
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets is a ma
tural remedy and is specific TO
stomach troubles. The ahlest phys
clans prescribe them.
The tablets are pleasant to tn
taste. and are composed of fruit an
vegetable extracts, golden seal an
pepsin.
At all drug stores-5o cents pc
package.
4 Send us your name and address tt
day and we will at once send you .
mail a sample package free Addres
F. A. Stuart Co., $50 Stuart buildin'
Marshall, Mich.
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Rev. Patterson at eeIknap,

Belknap.--Rev. Patterson, financial
secretary OF the permanent fund of the
Iowa conference accompanied Rev. J.
A. Sinclair Sunday and filled the
Methodist Episcopal pulpit .the after
noon. Announcement was made that
the election of Sunday school officers
for the ensuing year would be held
next Sunday afternoon. The Shrist.
mas services are to be held this even
ing.
Word nas been received here of the
death of Shepherd Noggle, former
resident of this place at his home
| at Mcpherson, Kan.
Mr.. and Mrs G.. H. Johnson. of OF
tumwa, spent Sunday with F E. John
son and family.
| Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. Listor and little
! daughter. Mary. left Sunday morning
| for their former home at Sumner. Mo.
to spend Christmas.
Miss Emma Robbins and Miss Grace
Cree, of Bloomfield, were the guest:
Saturday Of Mrs. Belle Burns. Miss
Ribbins was on her way to Floris tt
spend Christmas.
Emmett Bacnman, who has spen
the past several years in the west
came home Thursday for Nevada t,
/ spend the holidays with his parents
MIR. and Mrs. Henry Bachman.
F. E. Putnam and daughter, Mis-
Wannetta, we're Ottunwa visitors tc
day.
| Miss Addie Comb spent few day
with Ottumwa friends last week.
Mrs. Sarah MCGEE, who has spen
several weeks in Perry township wit
friends, returned to ner home Wee
nesday and left today for Ottumwa t
spend Christmas.
Born, Tuesday, December II, 1907
to Mr.. and Mrs. j. 3. Johnson, a daugf
ter.
Mrs. Elliot Bachman and children
Leo and Howard. of Ottumwa, Cha.
! Wishard. of Beverly. Mo, Mr.. an
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CHAPTER XVII.
MThe Pits Afire."

There was but one way to the sur
face-at least one way that man
could use. John Roy knew that one
we'll of it was already dangerous
Only a few props. some light wood, in
flammable as matches, and long strips
of bratticing protected the other. 1t
was a matter of a few seconds at the
longest before the air shaft should be
attacked A man has but one life.
He will save that. All that he hath
will be given for it. And, for the
first time, John Roy knew how dear
his life was to him, when he glanced
upwards and saw that dull red glow
in the heart Of the binding reek.
Yet, doubtless $50 his conscience
argued), it was his duty to abide by
his signals. But his life-his life!
He was the only man who knew the
bells-the only man who could reply
to them. The "bottomer" is the man
at the helm. Only he can communi-
cate up that long incline, nearly a
third Of mile In length, with the
men in the engine house on the sur
face, whose steel levers, wire ropes
and electric signals control, in their
turn, the movements of the cage by
which alone safety can be reached
But his life-his life.
But John Roy did not happen to be
very brave man--less so than his
fellows-and the necessity Of choice
came upon him very swiftly indeed.
Stunned, bewildered not knowing
which way to turn, amid the binding
downpour of sitting smoke, and the
cracking of the fire eating its way
upwards among the timbers of the pit
John Roy acted as his master had
done, and leaped into the cage. HI
would have saved all, If he could
But himself first of all.
Hn stotd for a long moment witt
his hand on the bell lever, which OF
that side was still working.
Three boys were running towards
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ALBA.
friends.

AIbla-Mrs. Campbell, an aged lady
who makes her home with her son, r.
A. Long fell on the sidewalk yesterday
and struck the boards with such vio-
lence that her hip was broken. She Is
past seventy gears of age and is the
mother of ten children. Owing to her
advanced aya the recovery will be
slow.
There was a bad fight In one OF
the shacks at the town Of Hooking,
two miles south Of Abba, yesterday
and one man is in a serious condition
as result Tom Pierce and a number
Of others were in the place drinking
when they got into fight.
Pierce was struck across the neck with
the blade of d knife In the hands of
some person unknown and had the
blade penetrated one eighth of an inch
deeper he would have been dead man
and another murder would have had
to be recorded in the county. Pierce
had his wounds dressed and is In q
fair way to recovery. In the mean
! time the police are seeking the man
| who did the carving.
| County Attorney A. c. Parry is very
sick at his home on East Benton
street with tuberculosis and his
friends fear that the dissolution is not
far away. Such news is very sad to
the many friends over the county and
at places where he is known
Thomas Anderson. professor in the
college at Tarldo. Mo-. is at home for
a holiday visit with his parents. Mr.,
and Mrs. W. A. Anderson
The firm of Hammond & Worth
which has been in existence, for 9
number Of months, and who have beer
engaged in the music business. has
been dissolved. The business will now
be conducted by Mr.. Hammond.
Mrs j. T. Young left today for Chi
cago. where she will remain for sew
eral weeks at the home of ELLSWORTH
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Mrs. w. A. Wishard, Of near Bloom
field, and Miss Bessie Fleming, OF OF.
tumwa, were entertained Sunday by
Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Mccormick. Mrs..
Bachman and children will renaii, a
week visiting ier parents and other
relatives.
Clay McMains who is employed at
Cedar Rapids, is home to spend Christ
mas with her mother, Mrs. Maggie
McMains.
MI. and Mrs. Will Putnam, Of
Drakeville. spent Wednesday night
with Mr. and Putman's mother. Mrs.
j. N. Putnam.
Will DeMar, who is teaching school
In O'Brien county, passed through
here on his way homo Sunday to
spend Christmas with his parents, Mi.
and Mrs. William DeMar, of north OF
Drakesville.
A. D. Rayburn and sou shipped two;
car loads OF hogs from this place to-
Ottumwa last week.
The school was dismissed Friday for
a weeks vacation.
Mrs. r. H. Listor and Miss Eliza
! beth Ware were Ottumwa shoppers
| Wednesday.
j. M. Tarbill and Frank Shelton
were in Ottumwa Thursday on bust
ness.
Mrs. Clara Burkhalter. who mas
spent the past two or three months in
Trenton. Mo-, with her sister, Mrs.
G. w. Owens, spent a short time here
last week with Mrs. Saran MCGEE,
while on her way to her home in OF
tumwa.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Johnson and
two daughters. Of Danville, are spend
ing today at the j. E. Johnson home.
Mrs. Emma Hockersmith. Of Drake
Vile, was the guest Sunday night Of
Mrs Elmyra Morris, while on nels.way
home from visit at the Will Monroe
home.
Messrs. Clark White and Edgar
Costume, of Gospel Ridge, were Wis
itors at the John Diggs home Wednes-
day night and Thursday.
Mrs Salvin Mum and SON.. or near
Sherman chapel are spending the day
at the David Mum home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Post and baby
and Roy and Victor Post of Edison
Neb.. came in Friday evening for Wis
it with the Messrs. Posts father. Will
liam Post and with other relatives and
friends.
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CHAPTER XVIII.
The Battle With Death.


Above, in the faint misty sunlight
Of September the cornfelds all about
the tops of the nearer smoke a little
smutted by the bank furnaces, men
stood and waited for the end of the
consultation in the big room of 1.-THE
Offices"
Women sobbed dryly, low in their
throats, without ever putting their
aprons to their eyes. Mr.. Romer had
arrived. He was closeted now with
Mr.. James Kahn (who knew the pit
so well) with Hector McKill and Wal
ter Grinding, tie two general mana
gers. The conference lasted a long
time, and meantime down below men
and boys might be dying. The pit
men grew uneasy. They moved to-.
wards the pit head as il to make some
sadly needed a leader.
The women-folk, till now retained
about the "offices" by the superior
confidence Of the men OF the night
shift, closed In also The hours slip
ped on. Now and then James Kahn S
motor, with sudden coughing, follow
ed by a long whirr and "whoo,
would shoot out on its way to the
ISlcSl dDU OilCC, lcIu1 llills, w itS Stoi'i
where the whole earth about it
thrilled gently to its continuous pur'
ring.
1t grew dark, but that did not mat
| ter. 1t was always dark underground
and for that pit folks are prepare. Ev
erybody had lanterns and in the mild
September night they shone curiously
on the white blur which was the
white waistcoat of Hector Mckill
as he promenaded 1t among the anxi
GUS groups. advising them that, since
they could do no good, they must trus'
| in Providence, as he was doing
Neither they nor he could reach thetl
men down below. And he quoted
Scripture.
Even az he dribbled commonplace
suddenly woman broke down. Thi
weird, unforgettable thrill of the Irisi
"keen" went out on the still air, near
ly breaking the hearts Of those VIII
| heard It, Grief among the Scottish
| women was quieter. more patient
stiller. But even this changed whe,
it was found that all the men wer
not at the bottom. Some few--nine
; teen in aIl--had been in the shor
. cross-workings a little above the spo
; where the fire commenced. The
were soon caught, for they had nc
where to fee for refuge. For ther
there was not even the poor mocker
Of a half-blocked second exit Sc
when the first descent of the Gag
was attempted, the fire in these shor
cross chambers was already snlou
dering blaze.
), Then the bodies began to come III
Through all Kirktown the new
$ spread that they had found them
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him, crying out to know what was
the matter, They had just arrived
with their pony-loads, ready for the
trucks on which they we're to be con-
veyed up to the dock
"The pits afre. lads" cried out the
'bottomer," come away with me:
Jump In! Quick with you"
But these three lads (and this is
true ta!e) whose names deserve to be
written in golden letters, though no
more than children in years, return
ed to the faltering "bottomer" the
answer Of brave men.
No" they said we will gang back
and warn the men!"
But fear had fallen on John Roy.
The helmsman forsook his post.
Thrice he jerked the lever, and was
whisked away just in time for the
fire had caught the ventilating shaft.
He. escaped. and left hundred help
less men to face their fate-and with
them girl.
The three boys sped on their way
The weight of many lives oppressed
their eager boyish hearts The main
workings were far away. Breathing
deeply to give them vigour bending
low to take the awkward corners
leaping aside to avoid some laden
! wagon running toward the well
| they ran through the increasina
| smother. For already the air pass
ages we're tainted. and. instead u
| feeding the great pit with pure air
the downdraft was pushing the deadly
smoke, which men cannot. breathe
along all the working faces Of the pit
The boys raced, their backs hen
from their hips as they took one darl
archway after another. OF scrambled
| over dangerous heaDs Of rubbish !,
their zeal to be the first to warn theil
comrades.
THE pits aflre-run. mentor you
lives! Leave your picks!'
The last word clenched the matter
The men knew that only in the mos
4 perilous necessity would such an ad
vice be given them. So at the word
all along the long lines of half nake'
men, each man and boy dropped tn
tool he was using-pick or drill o
hammer or "ielleck,'' and ran as bes
he might for the bottom OF the il
cline.
But, when they arrived, they foun
only the red fire glowing sullenl
from high overhead down upon tn
dull waters of the 'sump," and tn
cage, which ought to have take
them to safety. gone with the pilot o
board
And yet. to the credit Of their mar
hood, their first thought was not fo
themselves, caught thus as it seemed
without hope. They thought of Vid
Bryan, whom they found standin
dazed beside old Dick Finnan. smilin
but q little dazed. she did not kno
! what it was all about.
"Eh, the poor lassie," they sal
among themselves, this is the ris
we hae to run. But its waur for he
that kens nocht ABBOTT the deep thing
O. the earth or the perils O. men ths
spend their lives there!"
, And above them, filing their onl
+ exit from side to side. the fire roare
blowing down it's choking breath upo
them, while the red eye among tn
smoke seemed to look at them eve
. nearer and closer.
Hear to me-" said Dick Finnal
; after a long look upwards. "lads "
: had better get to the prayin'! Yon
Death!"
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CHAPTER XVI, continued.)

CHAPTER AAVl., coHClnueu.J
Few of the men in that great No.
2 pit remembered as they worked, that
the yellow sunlight of the autumnal
day dreamed and slept in alternate
sunlight and shadow above
them that above was the
golden grain, and the long shadows or
the corn stocks. These were things
with which they had nothing to do.
They did not enter into their life or
experience. Even on Sundays they
hardly lifted their eyes to the fields,
but preferred to sit con their bunkers"
(Which is to say s'squattingO. their
backs to the nearest convenient tar
red fence-the pious among them with
their Testaments on their knees, and
the rest with a few packs OF cards,
so dirty that, at first sight. they
seemed to be composed exclusively II
aces of spades.
At most boy or two, holding the
cord of door, or guiding pony, felt
a twingle of heartache for the green
meadows and purple blackberries,
the clustering nuts in the CORN wood
where, sometimes, you had to run
from the keepers, and for the rabbits
that dotted and hoped about the
tolms Of the GleDe End, but they
were soon reminded that with these,
In this present life at least they, 10
more than their fathers. had any con-
Germ.
For at sixteen hundred feet below
the blackberry bushes and the redden-
ing haws, the pit hummed about them
like hive. That was their life's
work. There was little enough time
for thought-none for regret in the
turmoil of NO. 2.
The doorboys heard the whistle OF
the men running the coal trucks
through the dark passages, and. at the
signal, they threw open their doors.
Then. with a yell, furry Of sparks
as the brakes girded harshly on the
rails. and fierce gust of wind, the
long line of laden cars clicked and
jingled through the open doorway.
Sometimes, but not very often. ont
of the men, lying prone upon the ore
would wave a kindly hand to the LONE
some boy, lett there all day by him
self In the darkness.
And the light from their lamps II
their hats, striking on the dusky roo
above, appeared to his eyes to stream
backward, like the red .'skarrou
light Of an engines smoke-pennon, q
nights on the railway, when the fire
man opens his furnace door.
Suddenly that August day, as tn
boys were bringing their first load
of ore to the we'll OF the dock. TIL
"bottomer." John Roy, looking up
ward saw thick volumes of smoke roll
ing down the main passage of the in
cline
'The pits afire!" was also his CT
Instructive. quick, and terrible, a
that which ran sixteen hundred fec
above
He FASTENED to lay his hand on tn
little return cage" which had jus
come in. For as Kahn went w
swiftly hoisted into safety, tn
empty cage, descending, had passe
him on its little loop, midway, wher
two men were working at the lates
coal strike. They were about to drift
In order to catch seam which ha
"pinched out higher UP"
John Roy laid his hand on the doa
of the cage. It also had passe
through the fire, but as the flame
had not yet taken a firm hold on tina
side Of the shaft, owing to the vent
lating air blowing the other way,
was no more than bearably hot.
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regard to your
health, statis-
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splendid jokes.
get a free copy
of Hostetter's
Almanac from
your Druggist.
Also try the
Bitters for
Indigestion,
Dyspepsia,
Kidney Ills
Chiiis, Colds
and Malaria.
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provide a way of escape for these
men are responsible for the loss Of
sixty-three lives, and for this they
shall one day answer at the bar OF
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