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ALMOST CRAZY WITH ECZEMA

i, the undersigned, cannot give
enough praise to the Cuticura Rem
edies. had been doctoring for at
least year for eczema on my foot l
had tried doctor after doctor all to
no avail. When young girl | sprained
my ankle three different times, paying
little or no attention to it, when five
years ago a small spot showed upon
my left ankle. l was worried and sent
for doctor He said it was eczema.
He drew a small bone from the ankle
about the size of a match and about
an inch long. The small hole grew
to about the size of an apple, and the
eczema spread &c the knee. The doc
tors never could heal the hole in the
ankle. The whole foot ran water all
the time
''My husband and my sons. were up
night and day wheeling me from one
room to another in the hope of giving
me some relief. / would sit for hours
at time in front of the fireplace
hoping for daybreak. The pain was
so intense l was almost crazy, in fact,
l would lose my reason for hours at
a time. One day a friend of mine
dropped in to see me. No more had
she glanced at my foot than she ex-
claimed: Mrs. Finnegan, why in the
world don't you try the Cuticura Rem
edies!' Being Disguised with the doc
tors and their medicines, and not be-
ing able TO sleep at all, decided to
give the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment trial. After using them
three days that night slept as sound
as a silver dollar for eight long hours.
l awoke in the morning with but very
little pain, in fact, | thought l was
in heaven. After using the Cuticura
Remedies for three months l was per-
fectly restored to health, thanks to
the Cuticura Soap and Ointment
will be sixty-four years of age my
next birthday, hale and hearty at pres,
ent." (Signed) Mrs. Julia Finnegan.
1924 Hebert ST., ST. Louis, Mo, Mar.
Z, 1911. Although Cuticura Soap and
Ointment are sold by druggists and
dealers everywhere, sample of each.
with 32-page book, will be mailed
free on application to "Cuticura,"
Dept. l., Boston.
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Must Have Had Money.

Having learned that his friend had
just married, Jacob decided to pay
him a visit. When he arrived at his
friends house and saw the bride he
was terribly shocked.
"Why, Joseph" he said, speaking in
a whisper, for the bride was sitting
near by, "she is not at all good look
ing"
mo-" answered Joseph.
And she has a glass eye"
YES" answered Joseph meekly.
Joseph" whispered Jacob again.
"she has no teeth"
"She will get set next week"
"She is almost bald too" added ia
cob, still whispering.
you may speak louder, JACOB" said
his friend, she is deaf too"
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under his gaze for so long that he
finally made up his mind that com
mon humanity required him to go to
her assistance.
He rose to his feet on the instant
and saw the woman also lift herself
from The grass as if moved by SINH
lar impulse In his intense preoccu-
patton he had forgot to observe the
signs of the times. sense of the
overcast sky came to him suddenly as
1t did to her, but with a difference.
He knew what was about 70 happen,
his experience told him much more
as to the awful potentialities of the
tempest than she could possibly mag
inc She must be warned at once.
on the higher ground without delay
His duty was plain and yet he did it
not. He could not. The pressure
upon him was not yet strong enough.
A half dozen times as he watched
her deliberately sitting there eating
he opened his mouth to cry to her.
yet he could not bring himself to it,
A strange timidity oppressed him;
halted him. held him back man
cannot stay away five years from men
and women and be himself with them
in the twinkling of an eye. And when
to that instructive and acquired reluc-
lance against which he struggled in
vain. he added the assurance that
whatever his message he would be
unwelcome on account of what had
gone before; he could not force him
self to go to her or even to call to
her, not yet He would keep her I'M
der surveillance, however, and If the
worst came he could intervene in time
to rescue her. He counted without
his cost, his usual judgment bewil-
dered. So he followed her through
the trees and down the bank
Now be was so engrossed in her
and so agitated that his caution slept,
his experience was forgotten. The
storm In his own breast was so great
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prised her at frightful disadvantage,
he knew instinctively, although the
fault was none of his, although he
had saved her life thereby, that she
would hold him and him alone re-
sponsible for the outrage to her mod
esty, and although he had seen little
at first glance and had resolutely kept
his eyes away. the mere conscious
ness Of her absolute helplessness APP
pealed to him-to what was best and
noblest in him, too. He must go to
her; yet stay, she might not yet be
clothed, in which event. But no.
she must be dressed, or dead, by this
time, and IN either case he would
have a duty to discharge.
1t deyolved upon him to make sure
of her safety; he was in a certain
sense responsible for it. until she got
back to her friends, wherever they
might be; but he persuaded himself
that otherwise he did not want to see
her again, that he did not wish to
know anything about her future; that
he did not care whether it was well or
III with her; and it was only stern
obligation which drove him toward
her-oh, fond and foolish man!
He compromised with himself at
last by climbing the ridge that had
shut off a view of the pool, and look
ing down at the place so memorable
to him. He was prepared to with
draw instantly should circumstances
warrant, and he was careful so to con-
ceal himself as to give no possible OPP
portunity for her to discover his
scrutiny.
With a beating heart and eager
eyes he searched the spot There lay
the bear and a little distance away
prone on the grass, clothed but wheth-
er in her right mind or not he could
not tell, lay the woman. For moment
as he bent concentrated, eager gaze
upon her he thought she might have
tainted or that she might have died.
In any event he reflected that she had
strength and nerve and will to have
dressed herself before either of these
things happened. She lay motionless
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-30
CHAPTER VI.

Death, Life and the Resurrection.
The man was coming back from one
of his rare visits to the settlements
Ahead of him he drove train OF
burros who, we'll broken to their work,
followed with docility the wise old
leader in the advance. The burros
were laden with his supplies for the
approaching winter The season was
late. the mountains would soon be i'm
passable on account of the SHOWS, In
deed he chose the late season always
for his buying in order that he might
not be followed, and it was his hab-
1t to buy in different places at different
years that his repeated and expected
presence at one spot might not arouse
suspicion.
Intercourse with his fellow men was
confined to this yearly visit to set.
Element, and even that was of the
briefest nature. confined always to the
business in hand. Even when busy
In the town ne pitched a small tent in
the open on the outskirts and dwelt
apart. No men there in those days
pried into the business Of other men
too closely. Curiosity was neither
safe ncr necessary. If he aroused tran
silent interest or speculation it soon
died away. He vanished into the
mountains and as he came no more
to that place. he was soon forgotten.
Withdrawing from his fellow men
and avoiding their society. this man
was never so satisfied as when alone
in the silent hills. His heart and spirit
rose with every step he made away
from the main travelled roads or the
mora difficult mountain trails
For several days be journeyed
through the mountains. choosing the
widest and most inaccessible parts
for his going. Amid the canons and
peaks he threaded his way with un
erring accuracy, ascending higher and
higher until at last he reached the
mountain aerie, the lonely hermitage
where he made his home There ht
reyeled in his isolation. What had
been punishment, expiration. had a
last become pleasure.
Civilization was bursting through
the hills in every direction, railway:
were being pushed hither and thither
the precious metals were being dis
covered at various places and aftei
them came boards of men and witt
them-God save the mark-womeE'
but his section Of the country hat
hitherto been unvisited even by hunt
ers. explorers, miners or pleasure
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cuApTER v fcontinued).

Suddenly the rolling thunder peals
concentrated, balls of fire leaped out
of the heavens and struck The noun
tains where she could actually see
them. There were not words to de-
scribe the tremendous crashings
which seemed to splinter the nils, 10
be succeeded by brief periods OF 81
lence, to be followed by louder and
more terrific detonations.
in one of those appalling alterna'
tions from sound to silence she heard
a human cry-an answering cry 10
her own? 1t came from the hills be-
hind her. 1t must proceed, she
thought, from the man. She could
not meet that man, although she
craved human companionship as never
before, she did not want his She could
not bear it. Better the wrath OF
God, the fury of the tempest.
Needless of the sharp note OF warn
ing, of appeal, in the voice ere it was
drowned by another roll of thunder
she plunged on in the darkness. The
canon narrowed here; she made her
way down the lodges, leaping reck'
lessly from rock to rock, slipping
falling. grazing now one side, now
the other, hurting herself forward with
white face and bruised body and torn
hands and throbbing heart that would
fain burst its bonds. There was once
an ancient legend, human creature
menaced by all the furies, pitilessly
pursued by every malefic spirit OF
earth and air; like him this sweet
young girl, innocent, lovely. erstwhile
happy, fed before the storm.
Then the heavens burst, and the
fountains of the great deeps were
broken open and with absolute lit
teralness the floods descended. The
bursting clouds, torn asunder by the
wild winds, driven by the pent-up
lightning within their black and turgid
breasts, disburdened themselves. The
water came down, as it did of old
when God washed the face OF the
world. in q food. The narrow OF the
canon was filled ten, twenty, thirty
feet in a moment by the cloud burst.
The black water rolled and foamed,
surging like the rapids at Niagara.
The body of the girl, utterly UMPIRE
pared, was caught up in a moment and
flung like a bolt from catapult down
the. seething sea filled with the trunks
of the trees and the debris of the
mountains, tossing about humanity In
the wild confusion. She struck out
strongly swimming more because OF
the instinct of life than for any other
reason. A helpless atom in the boil
ing food, growing every minute great
er and greater as the angry skies dis
gorged themselves of their pent-up
torrents upon her devoted head.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-30
THANKSGIVING PSALM
A Rhythmical and Grateful Chant.

A teacher in a Terre Haute public
school joins in the chorus:
Teaching is a business which re-
quires a great deal of brain and nerve
force, Unless this force is renewed as
fast as expended the teacher is ex-
hausted before the close OF the year
Many resort to stimulating tonics for
relief.
For s years / struggled against al
most complete exhaustion. getting
what relief could from doctors ton.
les. Then in the spring of 1908 /
had an attack of la grippe and ma
laria which left me too weak to con-
tinue my work Medicine failed to
give me any relief. a change of eli
mate failed | thought | should never
be able to so back in school again.
Il ate enough food 1.-THE ordinary
meats-white bread. vegetables. etc),
but was hungry after meals.
Il happened at this time to read an
article giving the experience OF an
other teacher who had been helped by
Grape-Nuts food. l decided TO try
Gsape-Nuts and cream. as an expert
ment 1t was a delightful experience
and continues so after year and
half of constant use.
First, l noticed that I was not
hungry after meals.
In a few days that tired feeling left
me, and l felt fresh and bright. in.
stead of duh and sleepy.
In three months. more than my usual
strength returned. and I had gained Is
pounds in weight
u finished the years work without
any kind OF tonics-was not absent
frUm duty even half a day
Am still In best OF health. with
all who know me wondering al the i'm
provement.
Il tell them all Try Grape-Nutsi' .
Name given by Postum Co. Battle
Creek. Mich. There's reason"
Ever read the above Ietterf A new
oae appears from time 10 time. they
are Eeauine, true. and fall 81 huaas
Interest.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-30
MILK for Flesh Reduction.

The simplest article containing com
pIete nourishment is milk That is DR..
Mitchelrs cure for obesity, bat he puts
his patients to bed while he gives it
to them An amount of milk sufficient
for the nourishment of healthy, ac-
tive person presents digestive difficult
ties for many. II is not the simple
solid mass of curds in the stomach.
Lime water makes it more digestible.
In the form of buttermilk. 1t is easier
to digest and makes a very effective
reduction diet 1t is wise to takS with
it a little gluten bread with butter,
since the fats have been removed from
the milk.-Harper's Bazaar
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sseething madness, and what was
harder, to l;eep the lifeless woman in
his arms from being stricken or
wrenched away. He knew that below
the nartaws where the canon widened
the water would subside. the awful
fury of the rain would presently cease.
If he could steer clear of the rocks in
the Nrcad he might win to land with
her.
Tt chances against him were thou
sands to nothing. But what are
chances in the eyes OF God! The man
In his solitude had not forgotten to
pray. his habits stood him in good
stead now. he petitioned shortly
brokenly, in brief unspoken words as
he battled through the long dragging
seconds
Fighting, clingig. struggling. pray
heavier the woman dragged in an I'M
conscious heap. II would have been
easier for him if he had let her go;
she would never know and he could
then escape. The idea never once oc-
Cured to him. He had indeed with
depended upon him all the old appeal
of weak humanity awoke quick re-
Spouse in the bosom of the strong.
He would die with the stranger rath-
er than yield her to the torrent or
admit himself beaten and give up the
fight So the conscious and the I'M
conscious struggled through the mar
row of the canon.
Presently with the rush and hurl Of
a bullet from the mouth of a gun,
they found themselves in a shallow
lake through which the waters still
rushed nightly, breaking over rocks.
digging away shallow-rooted trees,
leaping, biting, snarling. tearing at the
big walls spread away on either side.
He had husbanded some of his
strength for this final effort, this last
chance OF escape. Below them al the
other end of this open the walls came
together again. There the descent
was sharper than before and the wa
ter ran to the opening with racing
speed Once again in the torrent and
they would be swept to death in spite
of all.
Shifting his grasp to the womans
hair now unbound, he held her with
one hand and swan hard with the
other. The current still ran swiftly
but with no gigantic upheaving waves
as before. 1t was more easy to avoid
floating timber and debris, and on one
side where the ground sloped some
what gently the quick water flowed
more slowly. He struck out desper-
ately for it, forcing himself away from
the main stream into the shadows
and ever dragging the woman Was
1t hours or minutes or seconds after
that he gained the BATH and neared
the shore at the lowest edge?
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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Bad Teeth Go with Good aralns.

An English scientist has pointed out
that there are signs of steady de
generacy in two sets of organs vital to
the well being of the human race, and
the fall is most marked among the
western nations. The evidence is that,
coincident with the mental advance OF
man, there has been a diminution in
the provision Of teeth. In the ape.
the negro. and the white man, brain
and teeth are inversely proportional
to efficiency. Increase of cunning has
reduced the work of the teeth, and the
demand of the brain for blood has
starved the former; disorders of d.
gestion show that the balance is I'M
satisfactory.
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SYNOPSIS.

Enid Maitland, a frank, free and un-
spoiled young Philadelphia girl, is taken
to the Colorado mountains by her uncle,
Robert Maitland James Armstrong
Maitland's nrotege. falls in love with ner,
His persistent wooing thrills the girl pu.
she hesitates. and Armstrong goes east
on business without a definite answer.
Enid hears the story of a mining en ,g;e,
neer, Newbold. whose wife fell on en-.
and was 50 seriously hurt that ne Ts
rompelled TO shoot her to prevent her be-
Ing eaten by wolves while he went I oI
help. Kirkby. the old guide who tells tne
story, gives Enid a package OIL leI .t
which he SAYS were found on the dead
wornan's body She reads the letters ana
at Kirkby's request keeps them me
bathing in nountaing stream END Is az
tackled by bear. which is mysterlousiS
shot A storm adds to the girl terroi'
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Dlctopraph.

The photograph consists of a series
of sensitive metal plates set in a hard
rubber cylinder In It's elements 1t is
a telephone transmitter magnified.
Used in a business way 1t enables a
man to sit at his desk In his private
Office alone and talk off his CORE
spondence without the stenographer
being present The stenographer may
be in the next room or on the other
side of the building, but she hears the
words as distinctly as though she
we're at his elbow, and sets them
down The photograph promises to be
of great service in detective work,
and is already being used in that line.
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For Cure of Pneumonia

DR.. Serbert has since employed the
same treatment in 81 cases, one Of
which was extremely serious. since 1t
was a question of double complicated
pneumonia in a woman seventy-two
years old Al these cases recovered.
1t seem certain that the camphor pro
duced these effects, since there was
no real crisis. the cure being gradual
and slowly effected. - Philadelphia
North American.
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WOMEN AND HEALTH.

Women are beginning to realize
more fully that good health is not to
be foune in the use of cosmetics and
face powders The appearance OF
health may follow facial treatment
but health itself lies much deeper than
tk.- surface.
Most important to the health of ev-
cry woman is regularity of the bowels
and digestive organs. The weary
eyes, bad breath, frequent headaches,
pimples and general air of lassitude,
is in most every case due TO consti-
patton or Indigestion or both. There
are various remedies prescribed for
this condition, but the easiest, most
pleasant and certainly effective, IS
a combination of simple Laxative
herbs with pepsin known to druggists
as DR.. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin. This
simple remedy is far preferable to
harsh salts and cathartics and violent
purgative waters that disturb the
whole system without affording more
than temporary relief
Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is a
tonic laxative, mild in its action,
pleasant to the taste and positive in
its effect, strengthening the muscles
of stomach and bowels SO that after
a short time these organs regain the
power to perform their natural func-
lions without assistance.
DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is sold
by druggists everywhere in soc and
$1.00 bottles. If you have never tried
it, write for a sample to DR.. w. b.
Caldwell, POI Washington St, Month
cello. ILL.,; he will gladly send trial
bJttle without any expense to you
whatever.
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thoroughly understood and appreciat-
ed. and whose modesty he fain would
spare, having not forgotten to be a
gentleman in five years of his own so
ciety-high test of quality. that.
He climbed out upon the bank, up
rooted a small tree, rolled the bear
clear of the heap of woman's clothing
and marched straight ahead of him UP
the canon and around the bend.
Thereafter, being a man, he did not
faint or fall, but completely unnerved
he leaned against the canon wall,
dropped his gun at his feet and stood
there trembling nightly. sweat be-
dewing his forehead, and the sweat
had not come from his exertions. In
one moment the whole even tenor of
his life was changed. The one
glimpse he had got of those white
shoulders, that pallid face, that golden
head raised from the water, had swept
him back FIVE years. He had seen
once more in the solitude a woman.
Other women he had seen at dis
lance and avoided in his yearly visits
to the settlements. OF course, these
had passed him by remotely, but here
he was brought in touch intimately
with humanity He who had taken
life had saved It A woman had sent
him forth; was woman to call him
back?
He cursed himself for his weakness.
He shut his eyes and summoned other
memories. How long he stood there
he could not have told. He was fight
ing a battle and it seemed to him at
last that he triumphed. Presently the
consciousness came to him that per
haps az had 40 right to stand there
idle; it may be that the woman need
ed him; perhaps she had tainted in
the water; perhaps. He turned to-
ward the bend which concealed him
from her and then he stopped Had
he any right to intrude upon her
privacy? He must of necessity be az
unwelcome visitor to her: he had sur
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peal. The desperation in the cry left
him no moment for thought, the de-
mand was for action. The cry was
not addressed to him. apparently, but
to God, yet 1t was he who answered
sent doubtless by that Overlooking
Power who works in such mysterious
ways His wonder to perform!
He leaped over the intervening
trees to the edge of the forest where
the rapid waters ran. To the right
of him rose a huge rock. or cliff. In
front of him the canon bent sharply
to the north, and beneath him few
rods away a speck of white cleaned
above the water of a deep and still
pool that he knew.
There was a woman there!
He had time for but the sWiftest
glance; he had surmised that the voice
was not that of mans voice instant
ly he heard it, and now he was sure.
She stood white breast deep in the wa
ter staring ahead of her. The next
second he saw what had alarmed her
"a Grizzly Bear, the largest, fercest.
most forbidding speciman he had ever
seen. There we're few of those mon
sters still left in the range; he him
self had killed several.
The woman had not seen him. He
was a silent man by long habit, &C
customed to saying nothing, he said
nothing now. But instantly aiming
from the hip with wondrous skill
and a perfect mastery of the weapon,
and indeed it was a short range for
so huge a target, he pumped bullet
after bullet from his Winchester into
the evil monarch of the mountains.
The first shot did for him. but max
ing assurance double and treble sure,
he fired again and again. Satisfied at
last that the bear was dead, and OBJ
serving that he had fallen upon the
clothes Of the bather, he turned, de-
scended the stream for few yards
until he came to place where 1t was
easily fordable, stepped through 1t
without a glance toward the woman
shivering In the water, whose sensa-
ton so far as mere man could, he
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wiId SILK Worms.

The world is indebted to the Chin
csc for the discovery Of the virtues OF
the silk worm. Its product was I'M
known in Rome until the time OF
Julius Caesar. and so costly was the
material that even the Emperor Au-
relian refused a dress OF this iustrous
fabric to his empress. Now 1t is nur-
tursd In almost every country. and its
nroducts are within the reach OF all
BESIDES the several domesticated
species there is Wild silk worm
found In Central America, which
veaves q baglike structure two feet