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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01
FRANCIS LYNDE

She is just the same: lying there so
still that you have to look close to see
whether she is breathing. The doctor
says that If there isn't change pretty
soon, she'll die"
20 TOM"
He looked up at her with the old
boyish frown pulling his eyebrows to-
gether.
She's been good to God all her life;
what do you reckon He's letting her die
this way for?"
It was tet.ible question, made more
terrible by the savage hardihood that
lay behind it. Ardea could not reason
with him; and she felt intuitively that
at this crisis only reason would appeal
to him. Yet she could not turn him
away empty handed in his hour Of
need.
How can we tell?" she said, and
there were tearssin her voice. I'VE only
know that He does everything for the
best
Il wish you'd ask Him to let my
mother live!" he said. brokenly. I've
tried and tried, and the words just die
in my mouth"
There is a Mother Of Sorrows in ev-
"AAOAAA
peal of the stricken is never made in
vain. Ardea saw only boy-brother
crying out in his pain, and she dropped
on her knees and put her arms around
his neck and wept over him In pure
transport of sisterly sympathy.
Indeed and indeed will help, Tom!
And you mustn't let it drive you out
into the dark You poor boy! l know
you!"
He freed himself gently from the
comforting arms, got up rather un-
steadily, and lifted her to her rect.
Then the manly bigness of him sent
the hot blood to her cheeks and she
was ashamed.
20 Tom" she faltered: what must
you think Of mel"
IT think God made you-and that
was one time when His hand didn't
tremble," he said, gravely.
They had picked their way down the
leaf-slippery mountain side and he
was giving her the bunch Of holly at
the Dabney orchard gate before he
spoke again But at the moment OF
leave stalking he said:
How did you know what I needed
more lilsiH ally ILiill5 0ASC AZ GA NAA~
world, Ardea?"
She blushed painfully and the blue
eyes were downcast.
You must never speak of that again.
| didn't stop to think. It's a DahneY
failing, I'm afraid-to 90 things first
and consider them afterWard. 1t was
as if we were little again, and you had
fallen down and hurt yourself"
It know" he acGuiesced, with the
same manly gentleness that had made
her ashamed. Il won't speak Of it any
more-and III never forget it the long
est day live. Good-by."
And he went the ba elk way to his
own orchard gate, plun%ing through the
leaf beds with his head down and his
hands in his pockets, struggling as he
could TO stem the swift cHrrr ut TI'ch
was whirlrg him out beyuad all rhe
old landmarks. For now he was made
to know that hoyhood was gone, and
youth was going, and for one intoxi
eating moment he had looked over the
mountain top into the Promised Land
Of manhood.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

~ positively must go back. We have
company, and l ran away without say
ing word"
Anybody l known" inquired Tom.
Three somebodies whom you know,
or ought to know, very well: Mr.. Dux
bury Farley, Mr.. Vincent Farley, Miss
Eva Farley"
I'D like to know how under the sun
they managed to get on your grand
fathers good side!" he grumbled.
Why do you say that?" she retort-
ed. Eva was my classmate for years
at Miss De Valle's''
He made a boyish face of disap-
prevail, saying bluntly: Il don't care if
she was. You shouldn't make friends
of them. They are not fit for you to
wipe your shoes on
You ought to be ashamed Of your
self. Tom Gordon! Less than an hour
ago, we were speaking of you, and Of
what happened at Beersheba. Mr.. Far
ley and his son both stood up for you"
And you took the other side. reck-
on" he broke out, quite unreasonably.
1t had not as yet come to blows be-
tween him and his fathers business as
sociates, but it made him immeasura-
terms at Deer Trace Manor.
Perhaps l did, and perhaps I did
rot" she answered, matching his tart
Sess.
We'll, you can tell them both that
I'm much obliged to them for nothing"
he said, rising and going to the door
with her. They would be mighty glad
to see it patched up again and me back
in the Beersheba school,"
''Of course they would; so would all
of your friends"
But they are not my friends. They
have fooled my father, and they'll fool
your grandfather if he doesn't watch
out But they can't fool me-"
THAT is the first downright coward
ly thing I have ever known you to
say!" she declared. And I wish you
to know, Mr. Thomas Jefferson Cor
don, that Mr. Duxbury Farley and Mr..
Vincent Farley and Miss Eva Farley
are my guests and my friends!" And
with that for her leave taking, she
turned her back on him and went
swiftly across the two lawns to the
great gray house on the opposite knoll.
For the first fortnight of his mothers
convalescence Tom slept badly, and
his days were as the days of the &C
cused whose sentence has been sus-
pended. The time drew near when his
continued stay at home must be ex-
planned to his mother.
Ardea had gone back to Carroll the
Saturday before New Years and thers
was no one to talk to- But for that
matter, he had cut himself out OF her
confidence by his assault on the Far
legs. Every morning for week after
the Christmas day clash, Scip1o came
over with the compliments Of Nav
steh Majah," Miss Euphrasia, and Miss
Dabney, and kindly inquiries touching
the progress Of the invalid. But after
New Years Tom remarked that there
were only the Major and Miss Euphra-
STA to send compliments, and despair
set in For out of his boyhood he had
brought up undiminished the longing
for sympathy, or rather for burden
bearer on whom he might unload his
troubles, and Ardea had begun to
promise well.
(To be continued.)
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01
CHAPTER XII.

It was until late in the afternoon of
Christmas Day that Ardea was able TO
slip away from her guests long enough
to run over to 2pprise herself of the
condition of things at the Gordon
house.
Tom opened the door for her, and he
made her come to the fire before he
would answer her questions. Even
then he sat glowering al the cheerful
blaze as If he had forgotten her pres
erce; and she was womanly enough,
or amiable enough, to let him take his
own time. When he began. it was
seemingly at Il great distance from
matters present and pressing.
Say, Ardea; do you believe in mir
acles?" he asked abruptly. How 10
YOU account for them. Did God make
His laws so that they could be taken
apart and put together again when
some little human ant loses it's way on
a grass stalk or drops it's grain Of
So ar?"
4 don't know" she confessed. frank
". Il am not sure that l ever tried 10
account for them I suppose 1 have
swallowed them whole, as you say
have swallowed my religion"
We'll, you believe in them. anyway"
he said, land that makes it easier to
hit what I'm aiming at. Do you reck-
on they stopped short in the Apostles
tinle?
You are the queerest boy" she COM
merted. Il ran over here just for Il
minute to ask how your mother is, and
you won't tell me-
I'm coming TO that he rejoined,
gravely. But / wanted to get this
other thing Strengthened out first Now
tell me this: did you pray for my moth
err last night, like you said you would?"
You can be so barbarously personal
when you try, Tom" she protested
And then she added: But 1 did"
Well. the miracle was brought
Early this morning mother came 10
herself and asked for something to eat
Doctor Williams has been here, and
now he tells US all the things he
wouldn't tell US before. 1t was some
little clot in one of the veins or ar
teries of the brain, and nine times out
Of ten there is no hope"
20 Tom!-and she will get we'll
again ?"
She has more chances to-day of get
ting we'll than she had last night of
dying-so the doctor says. But it's a
miracle, just the same"
I'm so glad, And now really must
go home
What's your rush? I'm not trying
to get rid Of you now"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

etable Compound had helped her, and
I tried it. and after the third bottle
was cured. Mrs. ALvENA Spelling,
1868 Clybourne Ave-, Chicago, Ill
If you are i'll do ls9o not of drag along at
nO1iI an operation is necessary, but
build b up the feminine system, and re-
move move tho cause of those distressing
aches and pains by taking Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs
For thirty years it has been the stan
dard remedy for female ills, and has
positively restored the health OF thou
sands of women who have been troubled
with displacements, Inflammation, I'LL
ceration, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, bearing down
feeling, hatulency, indigestion, dizzi-
ness, or nervous prostration. Why
don't you try it2
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01
English Names for Towns.

Many names Of towns in England
have been appropriated for similar
use in this country. These names fire.
quertly indicate in themselves the orr
gin of the towns. For instance, names
ending in chester" or "cester'' or
caster" such as Dorchester, Worces-
ter and Lancaster, undoubtedly apply
to sites Of ole military settlements or
camps. and the termination is derived
from "castra," the Latin word for
camp. If the name Of a place ends in
coin" like Lincoln, then it, too, is of
Roman origin, because the Latin word
for colony is colonia. When the sylla-
BILE "by'' ends the word, like Rugby,
we then know that the Danes are re-
sponsible for the name, for the Danish
word for town is by.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01
Awful Prosnect.

One day recently clergyman was
performing a marriage ceremony al
the parsonage in the presence Of his
little son. The boy listened very at
tentively while his father pronounced
the couple husband and wife, then
going to his mother he said:
Mamma, when a man marries q
woman, must he live with herr"
Yes, dear" his mother replied.
The boy was thoughtful for q mo-
ment and then said:
Mamma, must papa live with all
the women he has married?"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

operation. I had
already had two
operations, and
they wanted me to
60 through q third
one. ] suffered day
and night from in
fammation and g
small tumor, and
never thought of
seeing q well day
again. A friend
told me how Lydia
e. Pinkham's Veg
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01
Family JOYS.

.eWhen you were counting me- said
his wife, you declared there wasn't
another woman in the world like me"
Yes" replied her husband, "and
I'm glad of it-for the sake Of other
men"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

To test the speed of projectiles
driven by modern high power explo-
siyes British scientists have perfected
a chronoscope which measures time to
The rafIlionth of a second.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01
THIRD
OPERATION
PREVENTED
By Lydia E. Pinkham'sV Veg
etable Compound

Chicago. I'LL want to tell you
that lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Scnr Irr did for me. / was 80 sick
tba+ two Of the best doctors In Chicago
sn;d would die If I did not have an
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01
All the Same to Him.

Wife-John, there's burglar going
through your pockets. John-An
right, You two fight it out between
Yourselves.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate and inv1g.
orate stomach, liver and bowels SuGar-coated
tiny RrauuleE, easy to take as candy.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething softens the gums reduces in.
nammaton allays pain. cures wind collie Csc bottle.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

How we dislike the dentist wh'
spares no pains.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-16
WOMEN AND THE BALLOT.

read some time ago a leaflet sent
out By some good, and cultured women
presenting a protest against woman
suffrage, says William E. Borah,
United States senator from Idaho in
The Delineator for August. One of the
arguments advanced was that but a
small per cent of the women vote in
those states where they have been Civ
en- the right to vote. This. as / have
observed the actual practice. is an err
ror. l think a remarkably large pro-
portion of the women vote when you
take into consideration. first. that it
is a new privilege against the exercise
of which stand the customs and ten
denotes and teachings from st. Paul to
the present day; second, that 1t is a
privilege still rejected and the use Of
which is still criticised by many good
women in the land, which both dis
courages and discredits its use. If
those women who speak disparagingly
of the privilege or of those who choose
to exercise it, should be found defend
ing the right and encouraging the use
of it by those who have a chance to
in few years of the failure to exercise
it.
But what shall we say of the thous-
ands of men among the most prosper
Gus citizens of the community who,
election after election, fail to vote 1t
is no unusual thing to find hundred
thousand men absent from the polls
in single state even at a presidential
election. Shall we take from the more
active, the more patriotic, the right of
franchise because the surfeited or
business-ridden or. politically discon-
tented remain away? hold it to be the
duty of every citizen to take an active
interest in politics, to study measures
and to vote. Instead of being an evil
dence of purity and patriotism to re-
main out of politics. it is generally an
evidence of utter selfishness or politi-
cal disappointment or an ostentatious
display of modern Phariseeism.
The good women surrounded by all
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-16
THE UNsPoKEN OAII.

From out the silence comes Turing song:
The great hills lift their voices and
their cry
Is heard through all Iife's turmoil; loud
and high
1t calls US to them, from the struggling
The bare, wide deserts. with their burn
ing sands,
Have poignant calls. which ali their kim
Their spell Of desolation and of fear
Has mighticr lure than all the yerdured
lands.
The lonely prairies, where the seas of
Unbroken sweep to the horizon line,
sign.
Calls to US always, though seas intervene.
The forests stately, beautiful, which bring
Down balm from heaven for every
weary soul
Their voices plead in every organs roll.
We hear their call in all the winds that
sing.
And the great oceans-midway from each
We feel their salt spray on our parch-
Their waves moan in each wind that on
By day and night they call-call and
beseech.
Through all the tumult of the street rings
clear
Their noiseless clamor and their voice
less cry;
The strong winds bring it; piercing,
sweet and high
1t calls-and all the soul awakes to hear.
New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-16

Theer is no past tense to a mother s
love, says the Parsons Sun.
When in doubt, don't act, advises the
Hill City New Era You can't be worse
off by not acting but you may ruin
yourself by wrong act.
If Marquette's business game, thinks
the Tribune, had an umpire with auth
ority to fine and penalize it would be
a good thing for all concerned.
John Macdonald, editor Of the
Western School Journal received a
letter the other day addressed, Profess
sor Doctor John Macdonald. And it
came from Boston, too. Editor Mac
letter may come addressed. Admiral
Colonel.
1t is a great relief to the Emporia
Gazette to be able to open a newspaper
and find no references to abysmal
brutes or hopes of the lily-wfite race.
Will Palmer has discovered like
ness between some folks and cucum-
bers. You don't expect them to agree
with you.
Brother Philander," said I to our
head deacon the other day, IT think
Brother Smooth is giving moro atten-
ton to his spiritual welfare. He seems
more humble than formerly and I
notice that he sits a little farther front
at all services. These are encouraging
signs" MY dear deacon" replied old
Philander with a wise shake of his
head, you should never test a mans
religion during the heat of a cam
paign."-Osborne Farmer.
Here is the most remarkable story
in the history of the world" write a
correspondent to the Atchison Globe.
II am married to second wife. got
along so poorly with my first one that
I am trying hard to get along better
with the second. One of my rules is
to give her a certain amount of money
every Monday morning, to spend as
she pleases. This morning, on leav-
ing for my work. offered her the US
ual sum, whereupon she said: I don't
need any; I have some left from last
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-16
GLOBE SIGHTS.
(From the Atchison Globe.)

After man passes sixty his mis-
chief is mainly in his head.
Many a man who thinks he is a
racer, is really only a sand hauler.
The morning after the performance.
an amateur always sleeps late to rest
up.
Anyone over eleven years old who
eats fried cabbage, may expect stom-
ach trouble.
How many real calamities can a
man stand at one time? We go down
at the third.
1t is always the case with the true
reformer that he either has too much,
or not enough.
1t always seems to US that a pacing
horse does twice as much work as is
necessary In travelling.
Why do they refer to thieves as
sneakthieves? Everybody knows that
every thief is a sneak.
Conceit is so universal and pro-
nounced, it must be great shock to a
man to be defeated for office.
You might not think it, but there
are people to whom feeling at home
doesn't suggest delightful sensation.
Considering the great prosperity
and the demand for help. we see an
unnecessary number of men sitting
around.
We try to be liberal in our views,
but we still incline to the belief that
no man should chew and smoke at the
same time.
The average man has about as
much use for gun as soldier has
for parasol; ever see soldier carry
a parasol?
Speaking of useless things there is
that question a barber always asks a
bald-headed man: "How do you want
your hair cut?"
When bill is presented to man,
and he looks it over carefully, he is
not trying to recall the items, but to
find an excuse for not paying 1t.
We rather like to see a woman hang
onto her husbands arm, if she does it
because she loves him; but we don't
like it IL she hangs on because he's
~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-16
QUAKER MEprTAr1oNs.
[From the Philadelphia Record.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
The only opportunities lots of men
have are homemade.
The statesman is out of job often
er than the politician.
The man who keeps his mouth shut
doesn't have to eat his words.
Lettuce is always punctilious in the
matter of dressing for dinner.
It is better to be a moral tightwad
than to squander good reputation.
It's no wonder money is occasional
" tight, considering how much of it
goes into the saloons.
The suburbanite who has just
bought a new lawn mower is bound to
be popular with his neighbors.
OF course the pugilist should stand
up for his rights, but it's the left that
generally hands the Knockout.
Wigg-"Those rain making schemes
never worked out, did they?" Wagg-
mo. If you want to be absolutely
sure of rain. get up picnic
Blobbs-'What did Cynicus say
when you told him you thought he
would make good husband ?" Slobbs
He simply said he thought he was
worthy Of a better fate"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.]
The supply of talk always exceeds
the demand.
Many budding genius has devel-
oped into blooming idiot.
A nagging wife makes her husband
forget his other troubles
Tips you get are almost as worth
less as those you give.
No other man appreciates a help
ing hand like a man in trouble.
The more a woman believes in men
the less she knows about them.
A man seldom makes the same mis-
take twice unless he is widower.
A girls idea of a good photograph
is one that doesn't look much like
her.
It's difficult to convince a man who
is broke that happiness can't be pur-
chased with money.
One often wonders why the women
members of burlesque show require
dressing rooms.
A woman's idea of an intelligent
man is one who can tell whether or
not her hat is on straight.
Poverty may be blessing, but ev-
cry man is willing to turn his share
of the blessing over to the other fell
low.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-16

Dr. Crumbine has asked county
health officers to please report all
cases of Anterior Poliomyelitis by
wire. They will. no doubt, II they sue
coed in spelling 1t.
Apropos that same Anterior Polio
myelitis; the health officers VIII PROB
ably spend so much time fighting with
the name. that they will have no time
left in which to combat the disease.
Mr.. Mott, assistant district attorney
of New York, intends to tie rev
knots in Big Tim Sullivan for holding
stakes for the B. r. Is this right, or
is it Mott?
Gratis have voiced a desire to vote for
Stubs in the primary.
Gift Pinchot is going to California
to campaign against Congressman NC
Kinlay. The mere fact is sun1ciently
funny, without trying to jar joke out
of it.
The Hon. Roosevelt said he would
not talk politics for two months. About
half the allotted time hath passed.
P. s.-But he did take time to as
sist in putting the Fritz on the fight
pictures.
NATURAL HISTORY desson VI
This is the noble HIPPOPOT
(But not the one that Teddy shot.)
The major portion of his face
Is but wide and vacant space
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-16

and happy homes may feel reluctant
to enter the arena of politics even to
the extent of exercising the right Of
franchise. But the thousands of wom-
en- who stand alone. and must depend
upon their own efforts in the struggle
for existence; who feel the injustice of
laws or the cruelty of policies; the
thousands of women who must Join
with their husbands in seeking homes
and educating families, these ought
not to be deprived of a voice in select
ing those who are to determine policies
and make laws.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-16
love for Music.

1t is true that this is not a demon
strative nature, nor demonstrat1ve
generation. Yet there are many men
and women still living whose memories
the Swedish Nightingale" was the
idol Of the hour; who can remember
the furore that her singing aroused.
Perhaps there are still living some of
the men whose hands took the horse
from her carriage and dragged her IN
triumph from old Castle Garden to the
hotel where she lived. At all events
they can remember that it was done,
and perhaps they. saw it, even II they
did not help to do it.
We do not take the horses from the
carriages of prima donnas any more.
The prima donnas now ride In costly
motor cars, and gasoline cannot be re-
moved with the same facility as
horses. Even if the singers still used
horses, it is doubtful if we should in
terfere. But though our ways of
showing it are less ingenious, we are
still as ardently the slaves of the great
magician as ever we were. we sun
greet with keenest interest the cabled
announcements of the discovery OF
some new wonder-worker in the field
of song or instrumental music.
No neither the magicians nor our
love Of their magic is dead. We may
be no longer moved either to BEHAVE
like children in our wonder at the wiz
ardry, nor to credit old wives tales re-
garding it sorigin. But we still love
above all things to sit beneath the old,
vet ever new, spell of the personal
mastery of the great musicians ana,
though we are less demonstratlve ana
more sophisticated than our forebears,
we are by no means stodgy or stofcal
when the enchantment has done it's
work.-A. E. Thomas IN success Mag
aZinR.