Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-08-08

cannot deteriorate. Strength, favor
a-d0 sality are retained; air,
moisture, impurities are kept out
There are two kinds of spices-ToNE's and "others"
GrooeFs-TO cents
TONE BROS, Des Moines, Iowa.
PEELED to pay, but any action on their
part would be interminably slow.
Meantime, children were dying.
81 could clear out" said Hugo
slowly.
How many dodgers will come here
next Easter, when they find out this
as been turned in a 'ospital?'
That must be taken into account,
of course"
Sarah shook her head
81 shall appoint you matron, at
thirty shillings week"
well, sir, ask again, who's a-going
to pay for all this?"
"Mrs. Owbridge," said Hugo, "will
you let me discuss this with Mr.. Tis-
dale? It's not necessary to assure
him, is it, that as tar as fear of the in
fection goes YOU are far above any
such weakness? saw you coming
out of the Mowlands cottage yester-
day."
What. against my positive orders ?'
exclaimed Tisdale.
Well sir, to my notion the law O.
God Almighty comes before the law Of
man.
well sir, to my notion the law .
God Almighty comes before the law
of man."
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the room.
Teas very good" murmured Hugo.
Tisdale sat down.
I'll have a cup. Look here, I see
you know how to manage women?
You needn't shake your head. Soft
soap is necessary sometimes. don't
use enough of it"
Aren't you using some now?"
I'm cornered. Those confounded
Guardians! | can't wait till half the
children in Hernshaw are buried. And
our district medical officer-!"
This Individual Forester, also
| had made an inspection. AS a result,
very large quantity of carbolic acid,
not, properly diluted, had been
sprinkled in the small gardens about
the cottages. The acid had killed
every green thing it had touched, with
out, of course, doing a scintilIa of
good. According to Tisdale, crucifix-
ion was too easy a death for the med
ical officer. Hugo listened to keen,
incisive, convincing phrases, sensible
that the young surgeons enthusiasm
and indignation had fired a spark in
him.. For many years he had lived
with the people who gave, ungrudg-
ingly, their best as well as their worst
qualities to the pursuit of pleasure
He himself, after he left Oxford, had
undergone incredible hardships in
Thibet with no worthier object than
the Staying of some rare and inacces-
sible animals. In a word, comparing
himself with Tisdale, he arrived at
the conclusion that he had spared
neither himself nor others in the de-
sire to take life, while the surgeon
had been as indefatigable in his pas
sion-that was The right word-to
save it. Perhaps, for the first time,
he saw himself with the divine inner
vision shrunk to Hyde-like proper
| tions, the splendid man metamorphos-
| ed by his own act into an apish dwarf.
Look here" he saiI, slightly flush
| ing, scan be of any use, you know, in
carrying out your orders? I've been
worse epidemics than diphtheria
$50 Miss Vennable told me. Do
| you mean it really?"
Yes
Right! In the first place, if you
can, persuade Sarah Owbridge to give
up this house,
| 81 can"
Tell her she'll get her money in
] time"
"Ill make that perfectly clear"
Meanwhile, those Purkesses-'
what of them?"
| Again Tisdale exploded. Purkess
having taken the responsibility of
bringing thirteen children into the
world, felt that he had done more
than his part. Mrs Purkess, poor
SOUL with a weak mind in an exhaust
ed body. had discovered gin to be a
never-failing pick-me-up in domestic
emergencies. Three children in a con
dition that exacted unremitting atten
tion and care, were dependent upon
a father who couldn't stop awake if q
battle were raging after nine in the
evening, and mother who tippled
| JOY, it seemed, had passed the pre-
vious night in the cottage and had
announced her intention of passing
/ this one also.
"I'll take that job, said Hugo
TELL me exactly what to do"
A couple of hours later he tapped
at the door of a ramshackle cottage
prettily situated half way up the hill
with the pigsties and cess-pool of tbs
cottages just above draining-in obed
ience to the laws of gravitation-intc
the small hollow where 1t stood. Hugo
had admired this cottage from the out