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CHAPTER XVH.-Continued.

She led the way through the door
opening out of the hall to the right,
md, once inside. he stood awkwardly
'ooted to the floor. gazing about him
and at her and all the time trying not
% gaze. In his perturbation he failed
20 hear and see her invitation to a
seat.
Won't you sit down." she repeated.
Look here" he said, in a voice that
shook with passion. there's one thing
[ won't do. and that's propose to you
n the Office. That's why I'm here
Oede Mason. I want you. l just want
you"
So precipitate vas he, hat she had
barely time to cry out her involun-
.ary alarm and to step back, at the
same time catching one of his hands
as he attempted to gather her into
ais arms.
"Oh. | know I'm a sure enough fool"
he said. II guess I'll sit down.
Don't be scairt. Miss Mason, I'm not
real dangerous"
I'm not afraid" she answered, with
a smile, slipping down herself into a
chair.
It's funny" Daylight sighed. almost
with regret: here | am. strong
enough to bend you around and tie
knots in you. Here | am. used to hav-
ing my will with man. beast or any
thing. And here l am sitting in this
chair. as weak and helpless as a little
lamb. You sure take the starch out
of me-"
Il wish you hadn't asked she
said softly.
"Mebbe it's best you should know a
few things before you give me an an
swer." he went on. ignoring the fact
that the answer had already been
given. Il never went after a woman
before in my life. all reports to the
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WOMEN AND HEALTH.

Women are beginning to realize
more fully that good health il not to
be found In the use of cosmetics and
face powders. The appearance OF
health may follow facial treatment,
but health Itself lies much deeper than
the surface.
o important to the health of ev.
cry woman is regularity of the bowels
and digestive organs. The weary
eyes. bad breath, frequent headaches,
pimples n general air of Iassitude,
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.. Caldwelrs Syrup Pepsin. This
simple remedy Is far preferable to
harsh salts and catharttcs and violent
purgative waters hat disturb the
whole system without a%ffording more
b temporary relief.
DR.. CaldwelTs Syrup Pepsin is a
tonic laxative. mild in it's action,
pleasant to the taste and positive in
Its effect, Strengthening The muscles
OF stomach and bowels SO that after
a short time these organ 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. II you have never tried
it, write for a sample to DR.. w. B.
Caldwell, 201 Washington St, Month
cello, ILL.,; he will gladly send a trial
bottle without n expense to you
whatever.
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"a as Burning Daylight" celebrates his
9th birthday with a crowd of miners at
= ne be S,rrle Gty Idvol. The dance ., Leads 81,
9 staked. arm loses his money and
lis mine but wins the mail contract. He
ftarts on his mail trip with dogs and
ledge, telling his friends that he will be
\ the big Yukon gold strike at the start.
Burning Daylight makes a sensationally
apid run across country with the mail.
appears at the Tfvoli and is now ready
o Join his friends In a dash to the new
foid fields. Deciding that gold win be
'ound in the up-river district Harnish
,uys two tons of flour. which he declares
he big fiat desolate. A comrade discov-
.rs gold and Daylight reaps a rich har-
rest: He goes to Dawson. ecomes the
Ind defeats a combination of capitalists
n a vast mining deal He returns to
lvlization. and. amid the bewildering
complications OF high finance. Daylight
inds that he has been led to invest his
Eleven millions in a manipulated scheme.
de goes to New York. and confronting
us disloyal partners with a revolver. he
threatens to kill them II his money is not
'eturned. They are cowed. return their
fealings and Harnish goes back to San
francisco where he meets his fate In
makes large Investments and gets into the
political ring. For a rest he goes to the
country. Daylight gets deeper into high
nance In San Francisco but often the
zones him. Dede Mason buys a horse and
Daylight meets her in her saddle trips.
0ne day he asks Dede to go with him
IN one more ride. his purpose being to
isk her to marry him and they canter
Iway, she trying to anafyze her feelings.
Oede tells Daylight that her happiness
,ould not lie with a money manipulation
Daylight undertakes to build up a great
Industrial community.
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ALMOST CRAZY WITH ECZEMA

II, the undersigned, cannot give
enough praise to the Caticura Rem
edIes. | had been d%octoring for at
least a year for eczema on my foot. I
a tried doctor after doctor all to
no avail. When a young girl l 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 a doctor. He said 1t 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 to 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 oHs
o to another in the hope Of giving
me some relief. l would sit for hours
at a time in front of the fireplace
hoping for daybreak. The pain was
so intense | 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, l decided to
give the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment a trial. After using them
three days that night l slept as sound
as a silver dollar for eight long hours.
| awcke in the morning with but very
little pain, in fact, l 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. l
will be sixty-four years Of g my
next birthday, hale and hearty at pres
emit" tSigned) Mrs. Julia Fnnegan.
22S4 Hebert St, ST. Louis. Mo-, Mar.
Z. 1911, Although Cuticura Soap and
Ointment are sold by druggists and
dealers everywhere, a sample of each.
with S2-page book. will be mailed
free on application to "~Cuticura."
Dept L. Boston.
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thrummed overhead in the tree-tops,
and both paused to listen. A shower
of flying leaves enveioped them, and
hard on the heel of the wind came
driving drops of rain. He looked down
on her and on her hair. wind-blown
about her face; and because of her
closeness to him and of a fresher and
more poignant realization of what she
meant to him. he trembled so that she
was aware of it in the hand that held
hers. She suddenly leaned against
him. bowling her head until it rested
lightly upon his breast. And so they
stood while another squall. with flying
leaves and scattered drops of rain.
ratified past. With equal su~ddenness
she lifted her head and looked at him.
DO you know" she said. 81 prayed
last night about o | prayed that
you would fail. that you would lose
everything-everything."
Daylight stared his amazemeut at
this cryptic utterance.
That sure beats me. | always said
| got out of my depth with ONE
and you've got me out of my depth
now. Well. you've just got to ex-
plain. that's all"
His arms went around her and held
her closely, and this time she did not
resist Her head was bowed, and he
coulo not see her face. vet he had a
premonition that she was crying. He
had learned the virtue of silence. and
he waited her will in the matter.
| Thinoc had Pnrrn IN SItnh u nacS that
she was bound to tell him something
now. OF that he was confident
Il would dearly like TO marry you"
! she faltered, but | am afraid. | am
! proud and humble at the same time
that a man like you should care for
me. Blu you nave too much money.
There's where my abominable COM
mon sense steps In. Even If We did
marry. you could never be my IAN
my lover and my husband. You
would be your moneys a | know
I am a foolish woman but l want
my man for myself. And your
money destroys you: it makes you
less and less nice. | am not ashamed
to say that | love you, because | shall
never marry you. And | loved you
much when | did not know you at ell.
when you first came down from Alas
ka and | first went into the Office. You
we're my hero. You were the Burning
Daylight of the go~ld-diggings. the rar-
ing traveller and miner. And ,ou
| looked it. | don't see how any wSm-
an could have looked at you witfout
| loving you-then. But you don't Took
it now. You. a man of the open. Rave
been cooping yourself up in the cites
with all that that means. You are
becoming something different. sdfne-
thing not SO healthy. not so clean. not
so nice. Your money and your way
of life are doing it You know it. You
haven't the same body now hat you
had then. You are putting on fe sh.
and it is not healthy flesh. You TIRE
kind and genial with me. | know. hut
you are not kind and genial to all the
world as you were then. You have
become harsh and cruel. | do love
you. but | cannot marry you and de
stroy love. You are growing into a
thing that | must in the end despise.
You can't help II. More than you
can possibly love me. do you low this
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contrary Notwithstanding. The stuff
you read about me in the papers and
cooks. about me being a lady-killer. is
all wrong. There's not an iota Of
truth in II. | guess I've done more
than my share OF card playing and
whisky-drinking. but nj I've let
alone. There vas a woman that killed
herself. but | didn't know she wanted
ME that bad Or else Id have married
her-not for love, but to keep her
from killing herself. She was the
best of the boiling. but l never gave
her aay encouragement. I'm telling
YOU sal this because you've read about
X. and | want you - get 1t straight
rom me"
Il cant marry you." she said. Il
So YOU q great deal. but"
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! business game. This business-and
It's all perfectly useless. so far as you
are concerned-cIaims all OF you.
sometimes think it would be easier to
share you equitably with another
woman than to share you with this
business. | might have half of you. at
any rate. But this business would
claim. not half OF you. but nine-tenths
OF you, or ninety-nine hundredths. You
hold back nothing; o put all you've
got into whatever you are doing"
Limit is the sky" he grunted grim
affirmation.
But If o would only play thu
lover-husband that way. And now |
wont say another word" she added.
I've delivered a whole sermon"
She rested now, frankly and fairly.
In the shelter of his arms. and both
were oblivious to the gale that rushed
past them in quicker and stronger
blasts The big downpour of rain had
not yet come. but the mist-like squalls
We're more frequent. Daylight vas
openly perplexed. and he vas still per
picked when he began to speak.
You've left me no argument. |
know I'm not the same man that came
from Alaska. | couldn't hit the trail
with the dogs as | did in them days.
I'm soft in my muscles. and my minds
gone hard | used 10 respect men. /
despise them now. You see. | spent all
my life in the open. and | reckon I'm
an open-air man. Why. I've got the
prettiest little ranch you ever laid
eyes on up in Glen Ellen. That's
where | got stuck for the brick-yard.
You recollect handling the correspon-
dence. | only laid eyes on the ranch
that one time, and | so fell in love
with it that | bought 1t there and
then. | just rode around the hills,
and was happy as a kid out of school
I'd be a better man living in the coun-
try. The city doesn't make me better.
You're plumb right there. | know it.
But suppose your prayer should be
answered and I'd go clean broke and
have to work for days wages, Sup
pose | had nothing left but that little
ranch, and was satisfied to grow a few
chickens and scratch a living some
how-wouid you marry me then,
Dede?"
Why. we'd be together all the
time!" she cried.
Then was the moment. among the
trees. ere they began the descent OF
the hill. that Daylight might have
drawn her closely to him and kissed
her once. But he was too perplexed
with the new thoughts she had pu,
into his head to take advantage of the
situation. He merely caught her by
the arm and helped her over the
rougher footing, At the edge OF the
grove he suggested that it might be
better for them to part there. but she
insisted that he accompany her as tar
as the house.
d you know" he said. taking 1,
by and large. it's the happiest day OF
life. Dede. Dede. we've just got to
get married. It's the only way. and
trust to luck for it's coming out all
right"
But the tSars were threatening tc
rise in her eyes again. as she shook
her head and turned and went up the
steps
ITO Az TnNrINtIEnN
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Even Chances.

Anxious Old LADY, say, my good
man, is this boat going up or down.
Deckhand-Well, she's a leaky old
tab, mum, so l shouldn't wonder if
she was going down. But then. again
her bilers amt none too good. 30
she might go up.
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A Bad Outlook.

NO, l can't get up enough courage
to ask old Patterson for his daugh-
ter"
And why not?"
Because | am a builder OF abso-
lutely ~hreproof buildings and he is a
fire insurance agent"
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Didn't Understand.

The Farmer-Hev you noticed how
purity Silas Corntassle's daughter 10
getting 20 be-
The Parson (somewhat of AN art
ist)-Why, she's as beautiful as
Hebe.
The Farmer-No; she's a heap
sight purifier than he is. She gifts
her beauty from her ma
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Net Altogether.

Il say. doctor, do you see much OF
your patients nowadays"
We'll; you see, In a threat spe-
cialist. | see their heads and shout
derS only"
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No lnducement.

This is an unusually healthy sub
arb" declared the real estate man.
Then | guess W. won't sign a
lease" responded the lady. My aus
band is a doctor. you see."-Lou;s-
vile COurier-JOurnaI.
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Another New Play.

Really" said Mrs. Pozozzle 10 her
husband, I'VE must go and see Soth-
eru and Marlowe next week in Rep
ertoire.. I've heard SO much about
tina play. and I have never seen it,"
kansas City Star.
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One on the Conductor.

and give this lady a seat?
Fat passenger-Huh, Dots we're
you fool yourselluf! She amt a lady
she's my vifet
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A New Brand.

The judge-The prisoner seems
strangely e~xhilarated. What's he
been drinking?
The policeman-Why, he says nes
been takin' oxygin. yr honor. out IT'S
q brand | never heard OF.
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Who was that man | had for a
partner a: bridge last evening"
Hes = writer Of farces."
Il might have known it,
"Why?'
Ill made some might funny plays"
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1912-05-09

About once a msnrh the average girl
Of 10 Mee the eaiy man she could
ever love.
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He-Some preachers say dancing is
hurtful. Do yop believe dancing hurts
any one2
She-Yes; If you get your feet
walked on.
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Important to Mothers

fHfpOFtHnY 10 M0Vn6fS
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA. a safe and SURF remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Bears the ~ --
Signature of NzHZzLZM
In Use For Over 80 Years.
Children Cry for F1etcher's Castoria
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Dream Of marriage signifies mad
ness.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-05
WHISTLE HYMNS IN CHURCH
Boys Club of Twelve Also Gives
Official Yell.

Hackensack. Feb. (SpecaD Just be-
fore the Rev William Burd, pastor OF the
Methodist Church at Hllsdale, prepared
for his sermon this evening he clapped his
hands as a signal. and twelve youngsters
who had been occupying the front seat
stood up At that moment the pastors
wife. seated at the organ. began playing
Onward, Christian Soldiers" and the boys.
receiving A second signal. wheeled around
and marched 10 the platform. facing the
audience The pastor introduced the boys
as the ROYAL Whistling Club, and without
the slightest hesitation the boys gave their
club yell. Just as college boys are wont to
do at football game.
Then the boys proceeded 10 whistle
Stand Up. stand Up for Jesus and Won
derful Words OF Life" Mrs. Burd accom-
panying them on the organ. This innova-
ton at the church service was we'll re-
ceiyed. Despite the cold weather and drift
ing snow. the church was crowded 10 the
doors
THAT club yell OF the boys Is really In
tended for outdoors. but II has a Scriptural
bearing and significance, so 7 didn't think
there was any harm in allowing the boys
the privilege OF giving their YELL" said Mr..
Purd
New-York tribune., 1912-02-05
DELAYS RAILWAY PURCHASE
Service Commission Not Salts
fed with N. Y. G. and N. H. Plans

The Public Service Commission, I'd Dis
trct. has informed the New York Central
Railroad Company and the New York. New
Haven & Hartford Railroad Company that
the proof submitted by these companies on
applications asking that the New YORK
Central be allowed TO purchase the major
ity stock OF the New York. Ontario q
Western Railroad Company and the New
Haven TO purchase the stock OF the Rutland
Railroad Company is not sufficient and sat
isfactory TO the commission. and that upon
its motion a further hearing will be held
in Albany on February 10.
II is stated that in both applications the
proposed purchases are al prices above the
market value Of the stocks; both are OF a
bare majority of the stock and apparently
for the purpose OF control only; the business
prospects OF neither road whose stock Is
being purchased are such as TO warrant the
purchase as an investment: neither Of the
purchasing roads is In such financial situa-
ton as 10 warrant the purchase simply as
an investment and the condition OF both
roads whose stock is sought TO be trans
ferred is such financially that the major
iiy of control can easily and without such
violation of law az could be prevented hy
the courts. oppress the minority In carrying
out the plans Of the majority control as to
its entire system.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-05
SMOKER ARRESTED AT FIRE
Chief Kenlon Tests New Law in
Broadway Building.

. The thirteen story loft building al NOS.
lss and 63S Broadway was visited by It's
second fire in two days yesterday. and n
oidentalv. the blaze gave the Fire Depart
rnent 2 chance TO test the Hoey law. when
forbids smoking in buildings containing in
fammable materials or in buildings where
many workers are employed.
George s Vredenburg. fifty-one years old,
employed by Miller e. Maltbie, fire insur-
ance adjusters Of No. q William street,
was charged with violating the new law.
lie arrived at a very unpropitious moment
for just before mis- entrance Fire Chief
kenlon was engaged in a vigorous argu-
inent with member OF the firm OF Spin
Sarn Brothers. who conduct a millinery
store on the ground floor OF the building
concerning cigar which Mr.. Splngarn
had In his mouth. The intruder had just
succeeded in convincing the fremen that
his cigar was not lighted when Vreden-
burg came in sight.
me adJuster was smoking boldly and
frankly, and spingarn. anxious 10 divert
attention from himself. pointed ort the
ohender to Chief Kenlon. The chief Of
once called upon all the iremen in the
vicinity to observe tho smoke of the lighted
pgar. and then summoned Sergeant Pierce,
oi the Mulberry street station, 10 make the
arrest
Nrcdenburg was locked up on a charge
of violating the HCey law. Later he was
liberated on bail
The damage caused TO the loft building
by The two fires was estimated at 100000.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-05
WIFE NO. 2 STILL FAITHFUL
Larkin Never Knew He Had An
other Wife Living.

The knowledge that h,r husband had
committed bigamy-unknowingly however
in marrying her. has onk served to make
Mrs. William p. Larkin love him the more.
Last night the second Mrs. Larkin was
|. seeking TO console her husband at their
simple supper In their modest apartment at
NO. 40 Fourth avenue, when a reporter
called. Larkin. crippled from chronic
rheumatism, gray haired and kindly of
face, with great difficulty rose as the door
was opened
Iarkn, thinking his Wife dead, married
letter from his aunt informing him that
his wife was dead. but this letter he can
not find now.
God knows" said Larkin. that | hon
estly believed myself a widower when I
married again"
lie has been cited TO appear before Jus
tice Gerard this week for examination I'm a
proceeding brought by his former employ
ers 10 recover money paid by them on an
insurance policy TO wife No. /. In this
they are Joined by the New York Life In
surance Company. Larkln, who lost his
Job as watchman with the Metropolitan
Insurance Company after it was learned
ne had two wives. fears he may be arrested
as result of the judicial proceedings
Larkin left his first wife sixteen years
ago. few months later he found work
with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany under his own name. He had been
with that company fourteen years before
the first Mrs. Larkin, believing her hus-
band dead, filed her claim with the New
York Life Insurance Company. II paid her
$50 after making an investigation. Later
she collected sl.Oo0 from the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company.
She is living at I.indenhurst. Long Island
with her son. William p. Larkin. r., now
seventeen years old. The first wife, who
earns 5000 a year out of a novelty busi-
ness she conducts at Lindenhurst. will re-
turn the money received from the insur-
| ance companies II convinced her husband
is really alive