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London last August. papers were read and discussed by some of the great est specialists in the world. In the section of therapalies Prof. Gottlicb ef Heidelberg and Prof Janeway of New York read papers on the eompara lt -. values of cardiac remedies. Prof. Gott- iieb dealt with the matter from the lah- oratory and experimental point of view. and Prof. Janeway from that Of clinical observation. Prof, Gottlieb said that recently the phenomena of the action of digitalis on men had been observed by pharmacological methods, alterations of blood pressure and rhythm had been recorded, while pharmacologists had considered more than formerly the act ion of small doses of the drug. przs. JaneWay said that the indications for digitalis therapy had become increase
 ngly precise through the exact studs of the rhythm of the heart. One task for the future lies he said in the work ing out Of equally elaborate methods applicable at the be0sidc, Tor the studN of other fundamental cardiac properii,s than that of rhythm. tIe believed. how ever that no Improvement in iustTu= mental appliance could ever replace the skill and experience of master ciin- ician.
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woman thinks about the other woman sometimes, she confessed.
 Little Sarahin Ambrose waited. Was you wantin' me to say I didn't love her, honey, cause | cant. Would it a been talrer to you, I wonder. ef l hadn't had heart big enough for lovin someone be- lore ever | set eyes on you2 Sarah was young and needed me, and 1 reckon loved her all I was able to then, but there wasn't so much of me to love her with as there is now. You see, Emily darlin'. the dark waters has sort Ter passed over me, and l ain't in my springtime no more. Then lovin' and losin' does learn us a lot but l ain't never goin' to care fer nobody as l do fer you, cause nobody else'll ever understand me and match up to me same as you do." But here Ambrose. signing, pushed back his faded straw-colored hair with the old puzzled gesture. 'Still. honey, eff anything ever happens, | feel just obleeged to tell you. I reckon, I'm the kind that plumb couldn't live on this earth without lovin' some one"
 THE END OF HER HONEYMOON" By Mrs. Belloc Lowndes Charles Scrib-
 ner's Sons, publishers New York.
 Shrouded with mystery and thrilling from start to finish is the very clever story from the pen of Mrs. Bolloc Lowndes, entitled "The End of Her Honeymoon"
 As a matter of fact the honeymoon Is ended before it ever begins and the
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What Is WOrna11's
 Beauty bat Health
And the Basis of Her Health and Vigor Lies in the Careful
 Regulation of the Bowels

If woman's beauty depended upon cos metics, every woman would be u picture of lovlness But beauty lies deeper than that, It lies in health In the majority of cases the basis of health, and the action of the bowels.
 The headaches. the lassitude the sal low skin and the lusteress eyes are us- nally due to constipation. So many things that women do habitually conduce to this trouble. They do not eat care fully. they eat indigestble foods because the foods are served dainty and they do not exercise enough. But whatever the particular cause may be it Is inn portant that the condition should be cor rected.
 An ideal remedy for women. and one especially suited to their delicate re- uuirements, is Dr. Caldwells Syrup Pep sin which thousands of women endorse highly. among them Mrs. C. s. Vance, of 51 S Ray St, New Castle, Pa. At times she had spells of indigestion so severe that she thought she would die Syrup Pepsin reglated her stomach and bowels, and she attributes her excellent health to this remedy today.
 All the family can use Dr. Caldwell s Syrup Pepsin for thousands of mothers give it to babies and children. It Is also admirably suited to the requirements of elderly people, in fact to all who by req son of age or nilrmty cannot stand harsh salts. cathartic pills or purgatives These should always be avoided. for at
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THE LOVES OF AMBROSE


 By Margaret VandercooS. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. Doubleday Page X Co.,, publishers, Garden City, New York.
 Margaret w. Vandercook. the author of The Loves of Ambrose" a Kentucky story, is native of Louisville. She is T member of a little group of Louisville women who some years ago formed a little club calling itself the Authors club" and then set out ito live up to that title. To see how successfully he has done so one only needs to mention that the membership includes Alice Hogan Rice. George Madden Martin and Annie Fellows Johnson.
 Mrs. Vandercook, after some years life abroad now lives in New York, which she regards as the most inspiring city in the world for literary workers. She has written several tales for girls, but "The Loves of Ambrose is her first novel,
 May mornAg in the Pennyroyal coun- try of Kentucky-and Ambrose 1e and 6 feet 4 all leanness and quaint fancy, out to snuff the spring and hear things grow"-that is how Margaret Wander cooks story begins.
 q reckon there ain't nothin' sweet that don't grow in Kentucky" said Ambrose The story begins like opening a cottage window upon all the sweetness and charm of a Kentucky spring, 5 years ago The theme is that of David and Jonathan. complicated by Kentucky girls pink as almond blossoms in March and with deep brown southern eyes. Ambrose is in ap- pearance sort of young Abe Lincoln, bashful, poetic, homely-and dike all true southrons) very susceptible to girls. "I feel just obleeged to tell you, I reckon I'm the kind that plumb couldn't live on this earth without lovin some one" was Am brose's naive confession. How he was married four times Cat 19, at 27. at 5 and at 76) Is the thread of this little story. Ambrose is a quantly original hero. Woman is the nearest thing I've known on this earth to the angels, and I ain't been disobedient to the heavenly vision." Such was his apology.
 Another delicious excerpt from this charming story is as follows:
 'I am thinking about Sarah; every
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Price of Mental Anguish
Philadelphla Ledger.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
 Thanks to an Arkansas jury, we have the latest market quotations for mental anguish. It came about his way: A Jop- lin, (MoD grocer telegraphed his wife in Fort Smith asking when a friend would join him in Joplin. His wife telegraphed back that the man was all ready on the way, but the message when delivered read that the man was deal The grocer. who loved his friend. sued the telegraph company for damages when he discovered that the man was still alive. He insisted that nothing less than 5000 would compensate him for the grief that fortunately proved to be a futile waste of emotion. The telegraph company argued that as the man was only a friend and not rel atiVe the grocer could not have suffered any mental anguish. But the jury held a. different view. Ii evidently con tained some grocers who believed that the business of weighing sugar and handing out packages of spice is not inconsistent with the possession of the finer human qualities. With nice dis crimnation. however, it appraised the grief at the sum of s56. 70
 Now if such mental anguish as this
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"A WISE SON"
X WISE SON, By Charles sherman. Illustrated by Ar thur William Brown. The Bobbs-Merrill f-pr,pa Tt,1ianapn1fc

By Charles sherman. Illustrated by Ar
 thur William Brown. The Bobbs- Merrill
 Company. Indianapolis.
 The author of He Comes Up Smiling and 'The Upper Crust" has not set out simply to amuse- his readers in his new novel "A Wise Son" although one could ask for no finer entertainment than this delightful story affords
 For al the same time, the story car ries a lesson with it-iust an indication to he sure-but sufficient to quicken the readers interest from the first.
 In a manner which will offend none. but interest and impress all. this clever author reveals in d new way the world old dogma concerning the futiity of care less living, The morning after the night before. the 'periodcala and the "sprea' lost all their romantic luster. and the sound and impressive argument for sane. conservative, purposefu living. IS set forth in the lives of the ia scinaeing char acters in the book, strikes home.
 When "A Wise Son was still in page- proof form. a set of these proofs were sent to Bishop Frederick Nourtney of St James church. New York city, who is also president of the Church Temperance Society of the Protestant Episcopal
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can be appraised down to the fraction of a dollar. the Arkansas jury might be able to inform a curious and interested public what other kinds of mental ang- uish are worth, even though they be not caused by the blunder of any wicked corporation. There Is the grief, for in- stance. of MT. Flinn of Pittshnrg over tho sad fate of the people of Pennsyl- vauia His heart is torn when he thinks of all the injustice and wickedness that prevail because the halo wearers have not yet been called upon to make the shiftless industrious. and the improv tdent provident and those politically indifferent, enthusiastic followers of the distinguished faunal naturalist now travelling In South America. It must be possible to measure this great grief in terms of money
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Church of America. After reading the story the bishop addressed a letter to the publishers, part Of which is here given,
 so impressed was he with this bit of fic-
 ton that so successfully carried an earn est plea for better living with it, without detracting from the very enjoyment of the story:
 q have carefully read over the story
 "A WISE SON." and think that it will in a measure help the cause of temperance. perhaps chiefly by inducing some of those who afea1nore or less related to victims
 of strong drink to love them and treat
 them with self-denying helpfulness, in
 stead of self-righteously setting them at
 a distance and condemning them. The sin
 of drunkenness is so deadly, the evil
 wrought by 1t so widespread. and tine
 problem of how best and most wisely to deal with it and it's victims, so complex
 that every method which gives any prom
 ise of successfully combating it must be
 tried; and certainly love is the mightiest
 power known to man whereby those who are tied and bound with the chains of letters and be free"
 It is indeed rare, among the trihing in- consequential productions called fiction by courtesy, to occasionally run across
 story which is worth while both as a thought-inspiring work and a means of entertainment. Sucn a story Is A WlSe Son" and such books are rare. The sparkling humor which radiated throughout the pages of the authors two previous books is again apparent here The quick, invigorating action which caused the other two tales to move SC rapidly, is here to set this tale agoing
 The spice or life, thep lay of mirth, the appeal of tender pathos and the glow of fullest romance and love are woven into the fine texture of the plot.
 "A Wise Son. is a story of youth finding out and manhood realizing the obligation
 of man to himself and society. It is a
 marked step in advance of anything Charles sherman nas heretofore done In it he has preserved all of those inimtable
 qualities that have made his earlie,
 stories so entertaining. But he has learned to do more than entertain. He has learned how to teach. to invest his tales with a lesson without making them tire some. and that is the real art of the true novelist
 Impressive as the story is. one Is bound to chucSle. though at times one feels a lump rise n the throat and the very trace of a tear in the eye-and that Is the truest indication tfat one Is in sympathy with what he is reading.
 All in all, "A Wise Son may be said to be one of the most worth while produc-
 tions in the field of lighter fiction that has
 been published in long while.
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"OVERLAND RED. .

"A ROMANCE OF THE MooNSTONE
 CANON TRAIL" With illustrations by
 Anton Fischer. Houghton Minlin
 Company publishers. No. Park street,
 Boston.
 "Overland Red is an anonymous novel which the hackneyed phrase red blooded" fits like a glove. It tells of thrilling adventures, hairbreadth escapes of true love of the finest types of man hood. The scene is land in California, the country immortalized by Bret Harte. and altenates between the ranching country and the hidden eanons where gold mines are to be discovered.
 overland Red is tramp, a poet cowboy, T philosopher. In him the au-
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dous fortune in Wall street and watch her baffing with the bulls and bears to save the fortune of the man she loves and you will sense the atmosphere that surrounds this clever novel.
 Full of adventure, every situation a thrilling one. the roads can easily imagi what splendid story could be written with such environments and this the au- thor of "Merrilie Dawes has done.
 High society in New York is a side light for the more verile side of high finance but put together so slillfuliy and cleverIy are the two that the result Is quite an interesting novel from the pen of quite an interesting author.
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best their effect Is only for that day. while genuine remedy like Syrup Pepsin acts mildly but permanently.
 It can be conveniently obtained at any drug store at fifty cents or one dol- lar bottle. Results are always guar. anteed or money will be refunded. You will find 1t gentle In action, pleasant in taste. and free from gripping. and it's tonic properties have a distinct value to women. lt Is the most widely used laxative In America today and thousands of families are now never without it.
 Families wishing to try a free sam pie bottle can chtain 1t postpaid by ad dressing pr. W. E. Caldwell, il9 Wash ington St. Monticello. Ill postal card with your name and address on it will do.
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Diseases of the Heart

From tho Toronto Mail and Empire
 In these strenuou times when the hearts of so many men of affairs give way under the sustained pressure of work and worry, the treatment of car diac disease Is a subject more and more forced on the attention of physicians.
 At the congress of medicine held in
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SOMEBODY'S LUGGAGE"

By F. J. Randall. The John Lane Com
 pany, publishers. New York
 Once more Mir. Randall has produced a capital farce in Somebody's Lugga go" The story is that of a not ttoo scrupu- lous gentleman, who seized favorable opportunity of masauerading as the heir to fortune He soon finds himself beset by difficulties, and his remedies only plunge him into deeper complications. The trouble is caused by the popularity of a familiar type of yellow tin box, which is not always easy for the owner in each case to identify. The reader is carried along at top speed, and only pauses to laugh. As in his former book. Mir. Ran dall contriNes a delightfully."- ingenious de. nouement
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young bride who is called upon to suffer
 the poignant grief of losing her husband on the night of their wedding has more to bear than the ordinary mortal ought to be asked to bear.
 A bright, attractive young girl, married to the man she loves, starts on a honey
 moon trip and that evening misses her husband.
 | Search is instituted, but without avail. l Meeting with some of her own country men the bride tells them of her trouble | and immediately the whole country is reused by the sad news of the disappear ance of the groom, and every availing l sympathy is offered the bereaved bride. l In order to fully appreciate the clever details of the story the reader himself | must peruse the book but Sufficient it is | to say, that The End of Her Honey moon" is one of the very cleverest of all | the detective or stories of adventure that has been written for many moons. | Mrs. Lowndes has achieved distinct | success and her readers will be delighted
 with her thrilling story.
 THE MARRIAGE OF MADEMoI-
 sELLE GIMEL AND OTHER STORIES"
 By Rene Bazin. Illustrated by Edna K
 Hove. Charles Scribner's Sons, pub | fishers, New York.
 No French novelist of the past decade
 has more envlable reputation as writer of fiction than Rene Bazin 1 Fearless and with the courage of con viction. the author presents every phaze
 of life in the most graphic manner and | in nothing has a more vital represen- tation been made of French life and so-
 ciety than in "The Marriage of Madem- oiselle Gimel'
 | M. BaZin's manner of telling story
 and Interpreting French customs and life
 is very different from the average writer | of the day and the authors books give
 the greatest pleasure to all who like the
 unusual and the worth while in liter ature.
 | In regard to the manner which many
 of the writers of the present day employ.
 M. Bazin says: Our novelIsts, by occupying themselves with the unrepresentative part too ex- clusively, have created and spread a con
 ception of our country which is not only inadequate. but is also essentially false. | If I have held myself resolutely aloof 1 from the society novel. which I might
 have done rerhaps, as well as another, it I is because I desire to portray sweetness, purity and beauty of French family life,
 and not to perpetrate a gross libel upon
 it."
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thor has drawn a wonderful picture ot one in whom courage and daring arc strangely blended with a deep sentiment and affection erudely but forcibly eN- pressed. One might properly call him the David Harum of the plains. so pie turesque and varied are his stories, slm- iles and shrewd observations. The boo< embodies the creed of the west as ex- pressed by Rcd
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THE LOST ROAD

Nei-'oiU iidh utib DdNiS. liiuSlidltu by Wallace Morgan. Charles scribners S Sons. publishers New York Richard Harding Davis made his big sest hit with the Wan Bibber" stories
 some years ago, but he has lost none of his old time cleverness and dash and style in his latest collection of short
 stories entitled "The Lost Road" The book takes it's name from the first Of the stories. which is perhaps the clev- | crest, but 'The Man From Zanzibar" and
 The God of Coincidence" which Mir
 Davis says should have been called 'The
 Man in the Green Hat" come in for a deal of consideration.
 Each story is redoent of the charm ] that permeates all Mir. Davis writings and in The Lost Road' he has told an exceptionally good story of girl who didn't know love when she met it.. The heroine of this story meets man whom she likes tremendously. They played tennis together and hearts the old game of love-and then the
 man. who was captain in the United | States army. gave the girl the oppor- tunity of coming to the Phillpines as his wife. The girl gave this answer to his question of love: ''I don't know The captain goes away and the girl sends telegram to him that she has de- | cided to marry the other man. There is | nothing left to the captain except the
 memory of road they used to ride through the woods and the loving cup he | has won in the tennis mixed doubles. The | duplicate of which she possessed since I she had been his partner.
 1 Eventually the other man dies after doing all sorts of disgracefu things. and the captain sets out to find his girl When he does find her, through the loving cup l in the window of a pawn shop. there is a great surprise for the young man. But he ! finds that he has struck the right road iafter all.
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"MERRlIlE pAW Es"

"MERRIIIE DAWES By Frank H. Spearman. Charles Scrib- ner's Sons. publishers, New York.
 A striking and unusual situation is found in Frank H. Spearmans story en- titled 'Mcrrilie Dawes
 Place a young woman with a tremen-
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Here's to California,
 The darling of the west. A blessing on those living there And God help all the rest


 The darling of the west.
 A blessing on those living there
 And God help all the rest,
 For various reasons the author 0; overland Red' does not wish his name to be disclosed until some months after the publication of his book. He is, how ever, a novelist whose books have found favor. He also has been a tramp himself, and knows hobo life from the inside. In recent letter received by his publishers. he says:
 The pony Yuma mentioned in the story is my own cayuse, hroncho with repu- tation even here. where there are enough bad ones, the Lord knows. She ran away with me Sunday and used me up quite a bit. She is charmingly uncertain. and therein lies her bright particular charm. In other words, I am in a position la stand back of and close to any matter in the book for it has all been gained by individual and sweaty experience OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED (REVIEWS LATER).
 THE PRECIPICE." By Ella w. Peat tie. Houghton. Mifflin Company, publish CTS, Boston.
 THE LODGER." By Mrs. Belloc Lowndes. Charles Scribner's Sons. pub fishers. New York. MALE; X LOVE STORY. By Armis- tead C. Gordon. Charles Serbners Sons, publishers, New York.
 "KAzAN." By James Oliver Curwood. illustrations by Gayle Haskins. The Bobbs, Merrill Company, publishers. In- dianapolis
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THE LODGER." By Mrs. Belloc Lowndes. Charles Scribners Sons. pub fishers, New York.
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MALE; X LOVE STORY By Armis- tead C. Gordon. Charles Scribners Sons, publishers, New York
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"KAZAN." By James Oliver Curwood illustrations by Gayle Haskins The Bobhs, Merrill Company, publishers. h. dia Dolis
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OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED (REv1Ev

LATER)
 THE PRECIPICE. By Ella w. Peat tie. Houghton, Mifflin Company, publish CTS, Boston.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-04-18
NEWS SU N MARY

General.
Movie actor mauled by lioness and
dies later
Corporation Counsel Polk, who was
wounded by "A bullet intended for
Mayor Mitchell of New York. is re-
ported out of danger,
Ultimatum Is sent Huerta who must
yield by Sunday at @ p. m. or suffer
the consequences.
Aeroplanc fleet being prepared to
go into action I'm case of war with
Mexico.
At least $4,000 men can he thrown
into the field says Secretary Garrison.
Local.
Commercial club appOints commit.
tee to work for irrigation on reser.
walton.
High school wins another debate
championship by defeating Astoria.
Perjury indictments against Smith
and Stangier quashed.
Excursion to run to Thorn Hollow
Sunday. April 60.
Sophomore win annual interclass
track meet. .t
Moore and Jack held ineligible to
hold cOmmIssionership will appeal.