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MARKET QUOTATIONS.
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Pinkham's VeSeta-
bic Com pound. |
then suffered terri
bly, every month. My
husband bought me
a bottle of it and it
h elped m right
away. Then after
my second child was
born ! had a female
trouble very badly
and | used Lydia E.
pinkham's Vepeta-
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A story of the self-sacrifce of DR..
N. ID. Hills, noted minister, has Just
come to light.
DR.. Hills gave up his pulpit and
took to the lecture platform in an eff
fort to pay off debts a~ggregating
100000 contracted by his two
nephews, who failed in the timber
business.
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mrs. BEIDEL
TELLS WOMEN
How Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound Kept Her
in Health for IA Years.

S~hippensburg, Pa.-"It was several
years ago that | started taking Lydia E.
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MANYTHOUSANDS
PERISH IN China
Fearful Loss of Life in Re-
cent Floods.
FIRE RAGING In CANTON
Wide Area of Flames, Together With
High Water, Handicapping the Work
OF Rescue-Much American Prop
erty Damaged or Destroyed.

49, S0'fNSNA ~
Hongkong, July 16.-Tens of thou
sands of natives are estimated to
have been drowned by the floods i'm
the Chinese provinces of Kwantung,
Kwangsi and Kiangsi, and the desola.
ton in the devastated districts is ter.
rible, according to the latest reports
reaching here.
A fre-swept area OF n mile and
raging floods are handicapping the
work of rescue In Canton. The city
is in darkness, the water having in
undated the machinery of the electric
light plant.
The last reports received here from
Canton before communication was crt
said that the Christian hospital was in
danger from fire.
Washington, July 16.-Consul Gen
eral Anderson at Hongkong reported
that Canton Is isolated except to pow
erful steamers, thousands having been
drowned and tens of thousands are
taking refuge on high places. Thou
sands of houses have been burned.
American missionary property has
either been damaged or destroyed
and foreigners are taking refuge at
the British consulate At Fuchow. No
Americans have been lost as far as Is
known.
The American gunboats Wilmington
and Colloa of the Asiatic squadron
are rushing from Hongkong to the
scene Of recen floods in China for
urgent rescue" work.
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WAR ZONE DECREE
WAS FIRST BREAK
Diplomatic Exchanges Follow
Ing German Order.
nNE BEFORE LUSlTANIA SANK

Gauses That Led Up to the Rift Be
tween the Two Governments and Ex-
cerpts From the Various Notes That
Have Been Exchanged-No lntima-
ton Given as to the Answer.
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From the German Governments Reply,
July 8. 1851 I'm the present war the
principles which should be the ideal OF
the future have been traversed more. and
more. the longer its duration. the German
government has no guilt therein. > : >
The case Of the Lusitania shows with
horrible clearness to what jeopardizing Of
human lives the manner of conducting
war employed by our adversaries leads.
sss German submarines Will be In
structed to permit the free and safe pas
g of such [American or permitted to
carry the American fiagl passenger steam
ers when made recognizable by special
markings and notification Is given a rea-
onabl time In advance.
The imperial government. however. con-
hdently hopes the American government
will assume to guarantee that these ves-
sells have no c~ontraband on board, de-
tails Of arrangements for the unhamper-
ed passage Of these vessels to be agreed
upon BY the naval authorities Of both
nt6nn
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Destruction OF the Lusitania.-The Brit
ish merchant vessel Lusitania was tor
pedoed and sunk by a German submarine
in the English channel May 7. 1918, when
more than 100 American citizens lost their
lives.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-12-16

You have Just come from Doctor
Bertie's" she inquired.
Eyes"
"And Charlotte doesn't want to
marry your"
Heavens and earthl" he exploded.
who put the idea into your head that
wanted to marry herr"
You did"-calmly.
Then, for PHYS sake, let me take
it out, quick. II / were the last man
on earth, Miss Farnham wouldn't
marry me; and If she were the last
woman, think I'd go drown myself
In the lake!"
The young woman of the many met
amorphoses was laughing again. and
this time the laugh was a letter-perfect
imitation of schoolgirl giggle.
MY" she said. How dreadfully
hard she must have sat on you'll"
please don't laugh" he pleaded
unless you are the heartless kind Of
person who would laugh at funeral
I'm down under the hoofs of the horses
at last. Margery. girl. Before you
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CHAPTER xxVllI-contlnued.

ID
After the introduction to Johnson
his hand had gone mechanically to his
coat pocket. The demon at his ear
was whispering kill! kim" and his
fingers sought and found the weapon.
While he was listening with the out
ward ear to Bainbridge's cheerful rem
iniscences, the little minutiae were ar
ranging themselves; he saw where
Broffin would step, and was careful to
mark that none of the bystanders
Noulo be in range. He would wait un-
I'll there could be no possibility or
missing; then he would fire-from the
pocket.
1t was Johnson who broke the spell
While cambridge was insisting that
Griswold should come in and make a
social third at the hotel dinner table,
the teller picked up his handbag and
mounted the steps. Griswolds brain
fell into halves. With one OF them he
was making excuses to the newspaper
man; with the other he saw Broffin
stop Johnson and draw him aside.
What the detective was saying was
only too plainly evident Johnson
wheeled short to face the sidewalk
group, and Griswold could feel in ev-
cry fiber of him the searching scrutiny
TO which he was being subjected.
When he stole a glance at the pair
on the porch. Johnson was shaking
his head slowly; and he did it again
after second thoughtful stare. Girls
void, missing completely now what
cambridge was saying. overheard the
teller's low-toned rejoinder to the de-
tective's urgings tits no use, Mr..
Broffin; I'd have to swear positively
to it, you know, and l couldn't do
that. No, don't want to
hear your corroborative evidence; 1t
might make me see a resemblance
where there is none. Wait until Mr..
Galbraith RECEIVERS; he's your man."
Griswold hardly knew how he made
shift to get away from cambridge
finally; but when it was done, and
he was crossing the little triangular
park which filed the angle between
the business squares and the lake
fronting residence streets. he was
sweating profusely, and the departing
fear-mania was leaving him weak and
tremulous.
Passing the stone-basined fountain
In the middle Of the park he stopped,
jerked the pistol from his pocket
spilled the cartridges from its maya
zine, and stopped to grope for loose
stone in the walk border With the
fountain base for an anvil and the loos
ened border stone for a hammer he
beat the weapon into shapeless inutill'
ty and flung it away
God knows whom shall be tempt.
ed to kill, next!" he groaned; and the
trembling fit was still unnerving him
when he went on to keep the appoint.
ment made by Charlotte Farnham.
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view avenue. striding along modify
with his head down and his hands be-
hind him, when be collided violently
with Raymer going in the opposite d.
rection. The shock was so unexpected
that Griswold would have been
knocked down II the muscular young
iron founder had not caught him
promptly. At the saving instant came
mutual recognition.
Hello, there!" said Raymer. "You
are the very man I've been looking for.
Charlotte wants to see you"
Not now she doesn't" was the
rather grim contradiction. Il have just
left her"
ooh"
There was a pause, and then Girls
void cut in morosely.
80 you did take my way out OF the
labor trouble. after all. didn't your"
Raymer looked away.
Il don't know just how you'd like to
have me answer that Kenneth. How
much or how little do you know OF
what happened?"
Nothing at all"-shortly.
We'll, ii was Margery who wrought
the miracle. of course. don't know,
yet. just how she did it; but it was
done, and done right"
"And you have asked her to marry
your"
Suffering Scott! how you do come
at man! Yes. asked her. If you've
got to know"
"Well?" snapped Griswold.
"She-she turned me down, Ken
meth; got up and walked all over me.
That's a horrible thing to make me
say, but it's the truth"
81 don't understand it, Raymer. Was
it the No that means No?"
81 don't understand it, either" re-
turned the iron founder, with grave
naivete. And. yes. guess she meant
1t. But that reminds me. She knew
was looking for you and she gave
me note--let me see, I've got it here
somewhere; oh. yes. here it is-gilt
monogram and all"
Griswold took the note and pocketed
it without comment and without look
ing at 1t.
"Were you going to Doctor Der
| tie's?" he asked.
II was. Have you any objection?"
mot the least in the world. It's q
good place for you to go just now
and l guess you are the right man
for the place. Goodnight"
At the next corner where there was
an electric light, Griswold stopped and
opened the monogrammed envelope
The enclosure was a single sheet OF
perfumed note paper upon which. with
out date, address or signature was
written the line:
"Mr. Galbraith is better-and he is
grateful"
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what spirit OF reckless DrdVauO De-
cause it was my home; ard you made
the decision apparently without any
consideration for me; without any
thought of the embarrassments and
difficulties in which it might involve
me-"
Truly. the heavens had fallen and
the solid earth was Keeling! Griswold
lay back in the deep longing chair
and fought manfully to retain some
little hold upon the anchorings. Could
this be his ideal; the woman whom
he had set so high above all others in
the scale OF heroic faultlesspess and
sublime devotion to principle? And
she was so much slave Of the con-
ventional as to be able to tell him
coldly that she had recognized him
again, and that her chief concern was
the embarrassment it was causing her?
Before he could gather the words for
any adequate rejoinder, she was going
on pointedly:
You have done everything you
could to make the involvement com
plete You have made friends of my
friends, and you came here as friend
Of my father. You have drawn Ed
ward Raymer into the ENHANCEMENT
and helped him with the stolen money.
In every way you have sought to make
1t more and more impossible for me to
give information against you-and you
have succeeded. can't do 1t now,
without facing a scandal that would
and without bringing trouble and ruin
upon a family of our nearest friends.
And that is why l sent for you today;
and why l say you owe me some
thing"
Griswold was sitting up again, and
he had recovered some small measure
of self-possession.
II certainly owe you many apologies
at least" he said, ironically. 81 have
really been doing you a great injus
tice, Miss Farnham-a very grave in
Justice, though not exactly OF the kind
you mention. think have been mis-
apprehending you from the beginning
How long have you known me as the
man who is wanted in New Orleans p
"A long time; though l tried not tc
believe it at first. 1t seemed incred
ible that the man | had spoken to or
the Belle Julie would come here and
put me in such false position"
Good heavens!" he broke out; "is
your position all you have been think
ing Of? Is that the only reason why
you haven't set the dogs on me?"
ct is the chief reason why couldn't
afford to do anything more than
have done. Goodness knows, have
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-12-16
CHAPTER Xxx.
Apples of lstakhar.

The swinging arc light suspended
above the street crossing sputtered
and died down to a dull red dot of in
candescence as Griswold returned
Margery's note to his pocket and
walked on.
There are crises in which the chief
contention looms so large as to leave
no room for the ordinary mental proc
esses. Griswold saw no significance
in the broken line of Margery's mes
sage. The one tremendous revelation
the knowledge that the dross-creat-
ing curse had finally fallen upon the
woman whose convictions should have
saved her-was plotting out all the
subtler perceptive faculties; and for
the time the struggle with the sub
merging wave of disappointment and
disbursement was bitter.
He was two squares beyond the
crossing of the broken-circuited arc
light, and was still following the curve
of the lakeside boulevard. when he
came to the surface of the submerg-
ing wave long enough to realize that
he had entered Jasper Grierson's por-
ton of the waterfront drive. The great
house, dark as to its westward gables
save for the lighted upper windows
marking the sick room and its ante
chamber, doomed in massive solidity
among its sheltering oaks; and the
moon, which had now topped the hills
and the crimsoning smoke haze, was
bathing land and lakescape in flood
OF silver light, whitening the pale yell
low sands of the beach and etching
fantastic leaf-traceries on the gravel
of the boulevard driveway.
There was no inclosing fence on the
Mereside border of the boulevard. and
under the nearest of the lawn oaks
there were rustic park seats, Jasper
| Grierson's single concession to the
public when he had fought for and
secured his property right-of-way
through to the lakes margin. Griswold
turned aside and sat down on one OF
the benches. The disappointment was
growing less keen. He was beginning
TO understand that he had made no
allowance for the eternal feminine en-
the idealized Fidelia-for the feminine
and the straitly human. But the dis.
heartenment remained Should he
stay and fight it out? Or should he
take pity upon the poor prisoner OF
the conventions and seek to postpone
the day of reckoning by flight?
He had not fitted the answer tc
either of these sharp-pointed queries
when a pair of light-hngered hands
came from behind to clap themselves
upon his eyes, and a well-known voice
said Guess"
"Margeryl" he said, and she laughed
with the joyous unconstraint of &
happy child and came around to si
by him.
Il was doing time out on the veran
da, and | saw you down here in The
moonlight, looking as If you had los
something" she explained, adding
"Have your
Il don't know; can you lose tina
which you've never had?" he returned
musingly. And then; Yes; perhaps
did lose something Don't ask m,
what 1t is hardly knew. myself"
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CHAPTER xxx.
Dust and Ashes.

A full moon, blood-red from the
smoke of forest fires far to the east
ward, was rising over the Wahaska
hills when Griswold unattached the gate
of the Farnham Enclosure and passed
quickly up the walk.
Since the summoning note had
stressed the urgencies, he was not sur
prised to find the writer Of it await
ing his coming on the vine-shadowed
porch. In his welcoming there was a
curious mingling of constraint and i'm
patience, and he was moved to marvel.
Giss Farnham's outlook upon life, the
point of view of the ideally we'll bal
anced, was uniformly poiseful and self
contained, and he was wondering If
some fresh ENHANCEMENT were threat
ening when she motioned him to q
seat and placed her own chair so that
the light from che sitting-room win.
dows would leave her in the shadow.
You had my note?" she began.
'Yes. II came while l was away
from the hotel, and the regular trip
of the inn brake was the first convey
Rnce / could catch. Am | later"
Her reply was qualified. THAT re
mains to be SEEN"
There was a hesitant pause. and
then she went on: do you know why
l sent for you to Gomez"
mo, not definitely"
81 was hoping you would know; Fl
would make IL easier for me You owe
me something, Mr.. Griswold."
Il owe you a great DEAL" he admit
ted, warmly. 1T is hardly putting 1
too strong to say that you have made
some part of my work possible which
would otherwise have been impos
sble."
Il didn't mean that" she dissented
with touch of cool scorn. 81 have M
especial ambition to figure as a char
acter, however admirable, in a book
Your obligation doesn't lie in the III
erary field; it is reAv-and personal
You have done me great injustice
and u seems to have been CAREFUL.
premeditated."
The blow was so sudden and s.
calmly driven home that Griswol
gasped.
AN injustice-to your" he protest
ed; but she would net lee Tim go on.
Yes. At first, ! thought & wa
only a coinoidence--yoBv coming {
Wahaska-but now / SNOW bettei
You came he-s. n Eoodnes. know
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tried in every way to warn you, even
to pointing out the man who is shadow
ing you. To do it, ! have had to de-
ceive my father. | have been hoping
that you would understand and go
away"
wait a minute" he commanded.
Let me get it straight! you still be-
lieve that the thing did was & Grim
inal thing?'
I'VE needn't go info that part of it
again. she returned, with a sort of
placid impatience. Once / thought
that there might be some way in which
you had justified yourself to yourself,
but now"
THAT isn't the point" he interrupted
roughly. What want to know is this:
Do you still believe it is a crime?"
"Of course, it is a crime; know It,
you know IL, all the world knows It."
Again he sat back and took time to
gather up a few of the scattered
shards and fragments When he spoke
II was to say: 81 think the debt is on
the other side, Miss Charlotte; think
you owe me something. You probably
won't understand when I say that you
nave robbed me of a very precious
thing-my faith in the ultimate good
ness of a good woman. You believe
you nave always belieted-that am .
criminal; and yet you have been weak
enough to let expediency sea- voui
bps. am trusT to nay Gods lnan you
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surelv Prize seareerow.

An American tourist bad been boast
ing again in the village inn. says Lon
don Tit.Bits.
Talking OF scarecrows." he said
with drawl. why. my father once
nut one up. and II frightened the
crows so much that not one entered
the field again for year"
He looked triumphantiy around MS
audience Surely that had settled
those country pumpkins.
But he was to meet his match.
That's nothing" retorted one farm
er. "a neighbor o mine once put .
scarecrow into his potato patch and \
terrified the birds 50 much ihat on
rascal az a crow who had stolen some
potatoes came next day and put then
beck"
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came, was wondering If the game
were at all worth the candle"
Her mood changed in the twinkling
of an eye. THE battle is over, and
won," she said, speaking softly.
Didn't you know that?" And then:
"Oh, boy, boy! but it has been a des-
perate fight! Time and again have
thought you were gone, in spite of
all could dol"
you thought was gone? Then
you know"
"Of course know; l have known
ever since the first night; the night
when / found the money in your suit
case. What a silly, silly thing it was
for you to do-to leave the Bayou State
Security slips on the packages!"
But you said"
mo, | didn't say; l merely let you
believe that didn't see them. After
that, / knew it would be only ques-
ton of time until they would trace
you here, and hurried; oh, hurried!
made up my mind that before the
struggle came, all Wahaska should
know you, not as bank robber, but as
you are, and | made 1t come out just
that way. Then Mr.. Broffin turned up,
and the fight was on. He Swallowed
you, and l Swallowed him-or had
Johnnie Fergus do it for me. | knew
he'd try Miss Farnham first. and there
was only one hope there-that she
might fall in love with you and so re-
fuse to give you away. She did, didn't
/ she?"
Most emphatically she did not" he
denied. You have greatly misjudged
Miss Farnham The reason-the only
reason--why she did not tell Broffin
what he wanted to know was a purely
conventional one. She did not want to
be the most-talked-of woman in Wa
haska."
His companions laugh was not
pleasant.
I'D rather be a spiteful little cat,
which is what she once called me, than
to be moth-eaten on the inside like
! that!" she commented. Then she went
on: with Miss Farnham out of it
and l knew she must be out of 1t,
since Broffin didn't strike-there was
still Mr.. Galbraith. You didn't know
why l was so anxious to have you get
acquainted with him, but you know
now. And it worked When Broffin
asked him to identify you, he couldn't
or wouldn't. Then came that un-
lucky drowning accident"
Griswold nodded slowly. yes. Mr..
Galbraith knows me now"
He Doesn't" she exulted. "He is
a dear old saint, and he will never
know you again as the man who held
him up. Listen: He sent for Broflin
this afternoon, and gave him a new
misunderstanding about bonds
in California. And he told him he
must go on the first train!"
Once more the castaway was run
ming the gamut of the fiercely varying
emotions.
Let me understand" he said. "You
knew had taken the money, and yet
you did all these things to pull me out
and make the holdup a success. Where
was your moral sense, all this time
little girl?"
She made a charming little mouth
at him.
II am Joan, and the Joans don't have
any moral senses-to speak of-dC
they? That's the way you are writing
It down in your book isn't it?" Then
with a low laugh that sounded some
unfathomed depth OF loving abandon
ment: 1T was game; and ! played
/ it-played II for all was worth. ant
! won. You are free; free as the afr
, Kenneth. boy. II Brofiin should cont
} here this minute and put his han'
ON your shouide-. you could look ~
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INTERNATIONAL
SUNDNSGOOL
LESSON

by f.. o. SELLERS. Acting Director OF
Sunday School Course of Moody Bible
Institute of Chicago)
Copyright, 1916. Western Newspaper Union.)