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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-15
CHAPTER XXX.

~HEY came face to face in the
81 hall of the Grand hotel Dun
combe had just returned from
his call upon the marquisa
Andrew was leaning upon the arm OF
dark, smooth shaven man and had
apparently just descended from the
lift At the sound of Duncombe's lit
tie exclamation they both stopped
short Andrew turned his heavily
spectacled eyes in DuncOmbe's direc-
ton. but 1t was obvious that he saw
nothing
"You here. Andrew
"Yesl Why not?"
The tone was curt. almost discour-
teous Duncombe understood at once.
"Let us sit down somewhere and
talk for few minutes" he said. 81
did not expect you You should have
let me know thnt you were coming"
AnG'n'v ihugned Q lite D'e.-'ly.
81 scarcely .pr WV" IL Su:d. ITO
tell yoa tLe t..u;h, j ser - advantage
to either of us in anV - '-cours"."
Duncombe took him by the arm and
led him toward the smoking room.
ANDREW" he said, perhaps I have
behaved badly-at least from your
point of view, but remember that
warned you. Let US sit down here.
Who is your friend?"
"Neyer mind" Andrew answered.
You can say what you have to before
him. He is in my confidence"
Duncombe glanced around. The man
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cover the trurn.'. .s
Duncombe turned sharply on his heel.
"And you, Andrew" 49,
81 wish to do you justice" Andrew
answered coldly, land am willing to
believe that you have faith yourself In
the extraordinary story you have just
told us. But, frankly, think that you
have been too credulous."
Duncombe lost his temper. he turn.
ed on his heel and walked back into
the hotel
"You can go to the devil your own
way" he declared.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-15
Will Spend $4,000 in Giving Medical Tr
Absolutely Free to Suffering Women.
Will Be Sent to Every Woman Who is Ailing.
Why Men Desert Wives
Eighty Per Cent of the Wife Deser.
tions and Divorce Due to Fe-
male Weakness.

/ should have taken better care of
myself, i suppose. / was sick and suf-
fering. No one but woman can ever
know how i suffered. i was irritable
couldn't be to my husband the wife
that 1 ought to have been. He, being
man. couldn't understand. We drifted
apart. He sought his pleasures else
where. Finally there was nothing but
the divorce court that could settle our
That's the sad story that eight out of
every ten women who have passed
through the ordeal of the divorce court,
as well as the countless thousands of
deserted wives who are not divorced.
know deep down in her heart was the
real cause of her trouble.
A sick wife, neglected home. and
the publicity and disgrace of the court
room to end ii all. There wouldn't be
half as much talk of the divorce evil in
the world if only every wife and moth
er would realize her duty to preserve
her health and strength.
No woman has the right to expect her
husband to devote his leisure hours to
his home and her when she is leading
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Mrs. Miller'S aid and advice is as free
to you Gods sunshine or the air you
breathe. She wants to prove to you her
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you just surely as it cured her years
ago in her humble cottage.
If you are a sufferer from any female
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| Put Your Faith in Mrs. Miller.
My word that my home treatment
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4 They took it of their own free will and
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D.. Presbyterian minister. .-.-.e---
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How to Cure Any Case of Piles.

,lieve that this remedy has cured more
bad cases of piles of all kinds than all
the so-called pile cures" and doctors
in the country. y cure with my rem
edy is speedy. It's safe and it's lasting.
The intense torture, the burning. smart
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feel better right from the start Send
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for yourself.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-15

l want to tell you fatty and plainly
that any woman. or man either, for that
matter. who suffers from any form OF
piles, may place their faith absolutely in
my treatment They won't be disap-
pointed. It's intended for piles as well
as the diseases peculiar to women. 1t
heals diseased membrane surfaces, no
matter where located, and l verify be
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-15
A Million Women
Bless Her Name
Grateful Letters from All Over the
World Tell of Wonderful Cures
with Mrs. MiIIer's Mild
Home Ire atn1en nj

over n million women have already
accepted Mrs. Millers generous offer to
give free to every sufferer regular
treatment of her mild home remedy
From every civilized country come
thousands upon thousands of Kind
grateful letters from ladies whose
hearts overflow with gratitude because
TINS pleasant vegetable remedy has re-
stored them To old-time health and
strength.
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(To be Continued
Plenty Of Trouble

is caused by stagnation of the liver
and bowels. To get rid of it and
headache and biliousness and the
poison that brings jaundice, take
DR.. Kings New Life Pills, the reli-
able purifiers that do the work with
out grinding or gripping. Csc at all
druggists. (
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Send No Money Just Your Name and Address,
If You Are Sufferer From Any
Woman's Disease or Piles.

In the past few years Mrs. Miller has
given $4,000 in sending medicine to
afflicted women.
Several years ago Mrs. Miller learned
of a mild and simple preparation that
cured herself and several friends of fe-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-15

$4,000 more to those who are suffering
and unable to find relief.
Mrs. Miller's wonderful remedy is es-
pecially prepared for the speedy and
permanent cure of leucorrhea or whit
ish discharges, liberation, displace-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-15

After trying
one bottle of
the Il t t e rs,
you will be
ii r N | v con-
WINGED that it
is t he ly
medicine you
need to pre-
vent
Sick Headache
Sour Risings,
Indigestion,
COstiveness
and Malaria.
Try it today.
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This Noted Divine Says
Free Treatment Coupon.

This Coupon Is good for a full
sized regular 50-cent package of
Mrs. Miller's Mild Home Treat
ment. Just fill in your name and
address on dotted lines below and
mail at once to Mrs. Cora b. Mil
Ter, 1896 Miller building, Kokomo.
Ind. and you will receive the
remedy in plain package at once.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-15

~ HEY came face to face in the
hall of the Grand hotel Dun
combe had just returned from
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-12-22
Stated in Cold Fiqures.

1t costs on an average about $3.50
to cure an incipient consumptive or
to care for an advanced case of tuber
culosis until death. If he is left in des-
titute circumstances without proper
attention he will surely infect with
his disease at least two other persons,
and possibly more. Considering that
the average life is worth to society
In dollars and cents about $1,000, the
net loss which would accrue to COM
munity by not treating its poor con-
sumptives in proper institutions would
be, for each case, including those who
are unnecessarily infected at the very
lowest figure, $4,250. On this basis, if
the poor consumptives in the United
States who are now sick were segre-
gated from their families, and either
kept in institutions until they died, or
else cured of their disease, the saw
ing to the country would be the enor-
nous sum of $1,275, 100000.
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Passports in Turkey.

Before visiting Turkey one gets an
exaggerated impression of the strict.
ness of the passport regulations. but
in reality they are nothing more than
another device for raising revenue.
To explain this l just mention that
before travelling in Turkey one must
get license (tezkereh), costing about
five shillings and sixpence, which has
to be vised at various places en- route
and for each visa fee is demanded.
If one r. 'ceeds without visa a fine
Is sooner or later extracted from one
In order to stop people travelling with.
out license a police official examines
and enters in book the particulars
of all passengers by train, if anyone
is found without a tezkereh he is re
moved from the train and fined. but II
is only on the trains that any super
vision is exercised. On the caravan
roads one is never asked, so that il
one wanted to travel unknown to the
government it would only be neces.
sary to go by road-Wide World
Magazine.
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The Vacant Chair.

What sad memories linger around
the old vacant chair. Sitting in the
middle of the floor, with plaintive
hook about its frayed and seemingly
weary back, it brings back tumultu-
Gus riot of sad recollections that time
can never efface. Volumes of bitter
anguish come to me when I arrive
home in time to catch the milkman
swiping the loose furniture around the
place, and take off my shoes to avoid
publicity, and strike my best toe
against the rocker of the old vacant
chair. Then, forgetting for the mo-
ment my unclad feet, I kick the chair
on the other rocker. That is when
the sadness and suffering that fingers
around the old chair comes out with
an extra edition and great chunks of
gloom settle over me like herd of ILL
natured fiies.-Oregon Journal.
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SOUNDS LIKE A FAIRY TALE.
THE FARMERS OF CENTRAL CAN
ADA REAP WHEAT AND
RICHES.

Up in the Provinces of Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta, the prov
inces that compose Central Canada
have such quantity of land suitable
for the growth of small grains, which
grow SO abundantly, and yield so hand
somely that no fear need be feared
of a wheat famine on this Continent.
The story reproduced below is only
one of the hundreds of proofs that
could be produced to show the results
that may be obtained from cultiva-
ton of the lands in these provinces.
Almost any section of the country will
do as well.
With the country recently opened by
the Grand Trunk Pacific, the latest Of
the great transcontinental lines to en-
ter the field of the development of the
Canadian West, there is afforded added
ample opportunity to do as was done
in the case cited below:
To buy a section of land, break it
up and crop it, make S17,550 out of
the yield and $10,SS0 out of the increase
of value all within the short period
of two years, was the record estab-
ished by James Bailey, well known
farmer within a few miles of Regina.
Mr.. Bailey bought the $40 acres of
land near Grand Coulee two years ago.
He Immediately prepared the whole
section for crop and this year has 600
acres of wheat and 40 acres of oats.
The wheat yielded 1885 bushels, and
the oats yielded 1850 bushels. The
whole of the grain has been market
ed and Mr.. Bailey is now worth SIT $50
from the grain alone. He bought the
land at SIS an acre, and the other
day refused an offer of $35 an acre,
just SIT advance for the time of his
purchase. The land cost $11,32O in
the first instance. Here are the fig
ures of the case.-Land cost, GAO
acres, at SIS, $11,32O. Wheat yielded
1875 bushels, at "a cents a bushel,
$16,695. Oats yielded ALSO bushels
at % cents a bushel, 1855. Offered
for land, $40 acres at $35 an acre,
$22,400. Increase value of land, s10,SSO.
Total earnings of crop, $17.550, togeth-
er with increase in value of land a to-
tai of $2S,540.
1t is interesting to note the figures
Of the yield per acre. The wheat
yielded S91s bushels to the acre, and
oats 1857 bushels to the acre. The fig
ures are a fair indication of the aver.
age throughout the district.
Agents of the Canadian Government
In the different cities will be pleased
to give you information as to rates, etc.
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Fishing Extraordinary.

Representative Flood of Virginia
tells a good story in which one of
the characters was Gen. Reuben Lind
say Walker of the confederate army.
On one occasion the general was wait
ing for his breakfast, and his faithful
negro servant had gone to catch some
fish for the feast. When the servant
was away an unusually long time the
general called to him impatiently:
''Why don't you come here with that
fish, SAM"
Sam in the meantime had caught a
founder, which is white on one side,
with a whiteness that looks like raw
fish meat.
"Al right, Massa Reuben!" called
out Sam. Use comm des ez soon ez
kotch de uvver hat O. dis here fish"
Washington Times.
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COUNTRY CLEARLY AT FAULT
Provisions for Taking Care of Unfor
tunate Tuberculosis Victims Are
All Too Meager.

The National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculo
sis states that there are in the United
States at least 100000 consumptives
who are so poor that they cannot pay
for proper medical treatment in tuber'
cluosis sanitoria and hospitals. Some
of them can pay small amounts
week for their maintenance, but the
great majority of them cannot pay any
thing. For this large class of pa
tients the entire country has provided
only 10000 beds for the free treatment
of tuberculosis. In Alabama, Arkan
sas, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Mon
tana, Nevada, North Dokota, Okla
homa, Oregon, Philippine islands
South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West
Virginia and Wyoming there is nc
place where the consumptive without
means can be treated but in the jails
or the insane asylums of these states,
and in most cases he will get no treat
ment there. Sixteen other states pro-
vide less than so beds each for poor
consumptives. In only two states,
Massachusetts and New York, have
beds for needy tuberculosis patients
been provided, so that at least one
in ten may find a place for treatment
In many of the other states not one
in fifty of the destitute consumptives
can find a bed in a hospital or sana
forum.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-12-22
GOOD WORK is LOVED WORK
And Therein One Should Find the
Contentment That Is Chief
Part of Life.

If a man doesn't love his work, he
had better get something else to do.
But the trouble is that such people
will hardly love any kind of work.
The trouble is in them. They lack
intelligence. If they knew enough
to know good work, they would soon
learn to love it. The manualtrain-
ing scheme has this in view-to sur
round the job a man is doing with
such intelligence and taste as will
make it attractive to him.
"The man who is in love with his
job gets more contentment out of life
than any other" says Brander Mat
thews; and he gets a great part of his
contentment in doing his work right.
No man can love his work who shirks.
No man can be contented who is dis
honest about his work. This is shirk-
ing or doing it negligently. So these
things always go together-honest
work, contentment and love of the job.
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Some Strange Condolences.

Isaac B. Thatcher, clerk of Wash
ington. has returned from a visit tc
Isaac B. Thatcher of Easton. Pa. The
name is not the only coincidence. Roth
are civil war veterans Each married
a woman named Mary. Each mana
wife's maiden name was White. Each
mans mother bore the Christian name
Hannah. Each has son Charles. Al
though they have traced their respec
tive ancestry back for five genera
lions. they have been able to establish
no relationship. Twelve years ago a
cousin of the Washington Thatcher
riding on train in Virginia, met the
Easton Thatcher. The two began to
correspond. and this year the Easton
Isaac B. Thatcher invited the Wash
ingtou Thatcher to visit him.
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The Execution,

In home where the mother is
somewhat aggressive and the father
good-natured and peace-loving, a
child's estimate of home conditions
was tersely expressed the other day.
While dressing, the mother paused in
the act of putting on her shoes and
said: Il certainly am easy on shoes,
l have worn these for four months l
don't know what you would do, John,
IT were not. l am easy on every
thing" The little girl looked up from
her dolls and remarked: Except
father."-Success.
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THAT LOST PUPPY
THE STORY OF A SEARCH, WITH
PROPER RESULT.
Household Pet Had Left Train Of
Devastation as He Went on His
joyful Way-CIaim of Owner
ship Postponed.

The puppy was missing-our own
title KiddO, and none knew where he
night be. In fact we felt it would be
EASIER to tell where he might not be,
With a choice limited to the stable
:upola and the bell tower on the en-
CINE house.
Search Of his favored spots revealed
dim not. Under the house we found
he feathers of a chicken we had be-
ieved long since safely inferred. Frag
nents of a napkin that had blown
from the clothesline showed that he
lad been there, but our dear little
puppy was nowhere in sight.
Out in the alley we found where il
mis- innocent play he had carried the
cooks best apron and made strings of
1t. Poor little dog! He had to have
something to amuse himself with.
Our neighbor, Mr. Burns, came to
he back fence and rested his coatless
arms upon it,
Have you seen our dog?" we asked
linn. Mr.. Burns considered.
w nat SUI VI d Jug WdS me- nS
asked. "A little, fiea-bit mongrel with
stub tail?"
We Indignantly replied that he was
1 fox terrier with a pedigree as long
rs the laws of the Modes and the
Persians
Il seen him." said Mr.. Burns. "He
chased two OF my settin' hens off tn
hest and busted half the eggs. If ever
[ ketch-"
(Which way did he go?" we asked
Mr.. Burns smiled grimly.
Last l see of him." he said, "he
vas travelin' due west an half brick
Was follerin' him pooty clost." Then
We left him considering which way
was west.
They had seen him at the drug
store. He had managed to get his
head caught in a jar and had fright
sned an old woman so badly that the
doctor had to be called just because
be approached her without removing
the jar
Have you seen our little dog?" we
asked the grocer down the street.
IF he was you'n,' said the grocer.
you owe me for a whole cheese.
Some darn little snub-tailed beast ate
the wood off new cheese and got into
1t before we saw him.
THAT wasn't our dog" we assured
him. Our dog hates cheese-won't
stay in the house with it, in fact. But
which way did that dog go?'
Following his directions and fol-
lowed by his suspicious glances we
went down the street again. Far
down the street we beheld a small
and hilarious crowd.
Approaching, we saw the cause. A
little stump-tailed fox terrier, pain.
fully like our own lost pet, had
paused at secondhand store and had
pulled down a string of shoes that
were on exhibit outside.
These we was doing his utmost to
destroy, manifesting the liveliest sat
lsfaction at any progress made
At our approach he fed and we
knew whose dog he was. But as we
had to pass the druggists and the
grocer's and our neighbours home we
were not sorry, for there are times
when one does not like to claim even
a pedigreed dog, and this was one of
Decentralization News.
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HABITS CHAIN
Certain Habits Unconsciously Formed
and Hard to Break.

An ingenious philosopher estimates
that the amount of will power neces-
sary to break lifelong habit would,
II it could be transformed, lift a weight
Of many tons.
1t sometimes requires a higher de.
gree of heroism to break the chains of
pernicious habit than to lead q. for.
horn hope in bloody battle. A lady
writes from an Indiana town:
From my earliest childhood was a
lover OF coffee. Before was out of my
teens / was a miserable dyspeptic, suf,
fering terribly at times with my stom.
aeh.
I was convinced that It was coffee
that was causing the trouble and yet
! could not deny myself a cup for
breakfast. At the age Of So was In
very poor health. indeed. My sister
told me was in danger Of becoming
q coffee drunkard.
But 1 never could give up drinking
conee for breakfast, although It kent
me constantly i'll. until tried Postum.
I learned to make It properly according
TO directions, and now we can hardly
do without Postum for breakfast. and
care nothing for coffee.
Il am no longer troubled with dys.
pepsia, do not have spells of suffering
with my stomach that used to trouble
me so when drank coffee"
Look in pkgs. for the little book, The
Road to Wellville." There's a Reason. Sc
Ever read the above letterH A new,
enc appears from time to time. They
interest. - :
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Detected.

The consul in London Of a continen-
tai kingdom was informed by his gov
eminent that one of his country
women, supposed to be living in Great
Britain, had been left million of
money. After advertising without re-
suit, he applied to the police, and a
smart young detective was set to
work.
When a few, weeks had gone by his
chief asked him how he was going on.
1--WE found the lady, sir"
"Goodi Where is she?"
"At my place. got married to her
yesterday"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-12-22
Now and Then.

He is capitalist now in an Ohio
town, but he was not always thus.
He has progressed along various lines,
and one mark of his progress is the
open-back shirt, comparatively mod
ern invention. To this he is yet new,
and recently commented upon it to a
friend who was in his room while he
was dressing.
Look at me-" he said, sticking his
head through his shirt. when came
to this town 1 hadn't a shirt to my
back, and now-now, l haven't back
to my shirt"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-12-22
500 Reward. 500.

The readers Of this paper will be pleased to learn
that there at least dreaded disease that science
has been able to cure in all its stages and that
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surfaces Of the system. thereby destroying the
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strength by building up the constitution and assist
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One Hundred Dollars for any that It falls 70
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Address F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. O.
Sold by all Druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.