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CHAPTER XIX.

"Let her" was correct; but the time
came-and it came in the spring of
the next year-when it was no longer
a question Of Georges letting his
mother come home. He had to bring
her, and to bring her quickly If she
was to see her father again; and Am
berson had been right: her danger of
never seeing him again lay not in the
Majors feebleness Of heart but in her
own. AS it was George telegraphed
his uncle to have wheeled chair at
the station, for the Journey had been
disastrous, and to this hybrid vehicle,
placed close to the car platform, her
son carried her In his arms when she
arrived. She was unable to speak,
but patted her brothers. and Fanny's
hands and looked Every sweet" Fanny
found the desperate courage to tell
her. She was lifted from the chair
into a carriage, and seemed little
stronger as they drove home; for once
she took her hand from Georges and
waved 1t feebly toward the carriage
window.
Changed" she whispered. $50
changed"
"You mean the town." Anderson
said. "You mean the old place is
changed, don't you, dearY
She smiled and moved her lips:
eyes"
It'll change to happier place, old
DEAR" he said, "now that you're back
in it, and going to get well again."
But she only looked at him visit
fully, her eyes little fatigued.
When the carriage stopped her son
carried her into the house and up the
stairs to her own room, where nurse
was waiting; and he came out mo-
ment later, as the doctor went in. At
the end of the hall stricken group
was clustered: Anderson and Fanny
and the Major. George, deathly pale
and speechless, took his grandfather's
hand, but the old gentleman did not
seem to notice his action.
sWhen are they going to let me see
my daughter?" he asked ENORMOUSLY.
''They told me to keep out of the way
while they carried her In, because it
might upset her. wish they'd let me
go in and speak to my daughter. l
think she wants to see me-"
He was right-presently the doctor
came out and beckoned to him, and the
Major shuff1ed forward, leaning on a
shaking cane; his figure, after all it's
years of proud soldierliness, had
grown STOPPING at last, and his I'M
trimmed white hair struggled over the
back of his collar. He looked old
old and Invested Of the World-as he
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It was the voice of tile nurse speaking
to Fanny Minafer, and the next mo-
ment Fanny appeared in the doorway
making contorted efforts to speak.
Anderson said weakly: Does she
want us-to come in?"
But Fanny found her voice, and ut
tered long, loud cry. She threw her
arms about George, and sobbed in an
agony of loss and compassion:
"She loved your she walled. "She
loved you'll She loved you! Oh. how
she did love you'll"
Isabel had just left them.
Major ANDERSON remained dry-eyed
through the time that followed; he
knew that this separation from his
daughter would be short; that the
separation which had preceded it was
the long one. He worked at his
ledgers no more under his old gas
drop-light, but would sit all evening
staring into the fire, in his bedroom,
and not speaking unless someone ask
ed him a question. He seemed almost
unaware of what went on around him.
and those who We're with him thought
him dazed by Isahel's death. guessing
that he was lost in "reminiscences and
vague dreams. Probably his mind is
full of pictures Of his youth, or the
Civil war. and the days when he and
mother were young married people
and all of us children were jolly little
things-and the city was a small town
with one cobbled street and the others
just dirt roads with board sidewalks"
This was George Amberson's conjec-
ture, and the others agreed: but they
were mistaken. The Major was en-
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WHY DRUGGISTS RECOMMEND
SWAMP ROOT

For many years druggists have watched
with much interest the remarkable record
maintained by Dr.. Kilmer'S Swamp-Root,
the great kidney, liver and bladder medi-
cine.
It is physicians prescription.
Swamp Root is a strengthening medi-
cine. It helps the kidneys, liver and blad-
der do the work nature intended they
should do.
Swamp Root has stood the test of years
It is sold by all druggists on it's merit
and it should help you. No other kidney
medicine has SO many friends.
Be sure to get Swamp Root and start
treatment at once.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer Co.. Binghamton, N. Y, for
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
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STOMACH TROUBLE
Can Now Eat ANYTHING

Grand Rapids, VISIT have used DR..
Pierce's medicines and found them very
eight years. l had to be very careful what
I would eat or would be down sick. /
suffered something terrible about year
ago. started to take lDr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery and two bottles put me
in fine condition. ] can eat anything and
not feel distressed. had taken many
medicines previous to this and had doctors
prescribe for me but nothing seemed to
give me any relief until started taking the
Discovery. It gave mo great relief
take pleasure in recommending IT, MRS.
EMIL OESTREICH, 212 14th Ave-, Norths
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The Magnificent Ambersons 4 p ss'ta


He was loud in praise Of the house
after Eugene arrived, and gave them
no account of his journey until they
Eugene's library, gray and shadoWy
room, where their coffee was brought.
Then, equipped with a cigar, which
seemed to occupy his attention, Am
berson spoke in casual tone of his
sister and her son.
II found Isabel as we'll as usual, ;"
he said, "only I'm afraid as usual
isn't particularly well. Sydney and
Amelia had been up to Paris in the
spring, but she hadn't seen them.
Somebody told her they were there,
it seems. They'd left Florence and
were living In Rome; Amelia's become
Catholic and is said to give great
sums to charity and to go about with
the gentry in consequence, but Sgd
ney's ailing and lives in a wheel chair
most Of the time. It struck me Isabel
ought to be doing the same thing"
He paused, bestowing minute care
upon the removal of the little band
from his cigar: and as he seemed to
have concluded his narrative Eugene
spoke out Of the shadow beyond a
heavily shaded lamp: "What do you
mean by that?" he asked quietly.
"Oh, she's cheerful enough" said
Anderson, still not looking at either
his young hostess or her father. AT
least" he said, "she manages to seem
so. I'm afraid she hasn't been really
well for several years. Of course she
makes nothing Of it, but it seemed
rather serious to me when noticed
she had to stop and rest twice to
get up one short flight of stairs In
their two-fioor apartment. / told her
I thought she ought to make George
let her come home"
Let her?'" Eugene repeated in
low voice. .'Does she want to?"
"She doesn't urge it. George seems
to like the life therein his grand,
gloomy and peculiar way; and of
course she'll never change about be-
ing proud of him and all that-he's
quite a swell. But in spite of anything
she said, rather than because, know
she does indeed want to come. She'd
like to be with father, of course: and
think she's-well, she intimated one
day that she feared it might even hap
pen that she wouldn't get to see him
again. At the time thought she re-
ferred to his age and feebleness, but
on the boat coming home remem-
bered the. little look Of usefulness,
yet Of resignation, with which she
said 1t, and it struck me all at once
that I'd been mistaken: / saw she was
really thinking of her own state of
health
II see," Eugene said, his voice even
lower than It. had been before. And
you say he won't let her come homer
Anderson laughed, but still contin-
ued to be interested in his cigar. "Oh
/ don't think he uses force! He's very
gentle with her. I doubt if the sub
ject is mentioned between them, and
yet-and yet, knowing my interesting
nephew as you do, wouldn't you think
that was about the way to put it?"
Knowing him as l do-yes," said
Eugene slowly. Eyes, / should think
that was about the way to put It."
A murmur out of the shadows be-
yond him-a faint sound, musical and
feminine, yet expressive of notable
intensity - seemed to indicate that
Lucy was Of the same opinion.
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cines but nothing seemed to give me any
relief. One day saw DR.. Pierce's medicines
advertised and got a bottle of Golden
Medical Discovery and it began to help
me. ] felt that had some other weakness
so got the 'Favorite Prescription and the
Pleasant Pellets also, and these medicines
cured me completely in just one year when
had doctored Eve years before. feel very
grateful to DR.. Pierce for my good health
and keep his medicines in my home for
immediate use. consider they saved me
lots of suffering and doctors bills as well.
have recommended Dr. Pierce's remedies
TO many people and will gladly reply to
anyone wanting to know about these medi-
cines and what they did for me. MRS.
e. ]. BALDWIN, 246 Norton Ave.
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GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER.

Constipation invites other troubles
which come speedily unless quickly
checked and overcome by Green's
August Flower which is a gentle Taxa
tive, regulates digestion both in
stomach and intestines, cleans and
sweetens the stomach and alimentary
canal, stimulates the liver to seerete
the bile and impurities from the blood.
1t is a sovereign remedy used in many
thousandsIof households all over the
civilized world for more than half a
century by those who have suffered
with indigestion, nervous dyspepsia,
sluggish liver, coming up Of food, pal
pitation, constipation and other in
festival troubles. Sold by druggists
and dealers everywhere. Try bottle,
take no substitute.-Adv.
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once Too MANY Sometimes.

"If we had two heads" remarked
the man on the car, wed have more
trouble getting them to track than W.
have With our feet."-Toledo Blade.
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Not Sure About It.

you are giving your daughter mu-
steal education, aren't you?2
sssWelL can't say that exactly, but
( afA paying for one."--Boston Tran
script.
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Only doctor OF long experience
can look doleful when an epidemic is
brewing.
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The sHoRrHoRN Is tho
re- Breed

Shorthorn cattle are par
ticularly adapted to the
needs Of the farmers, re-
gardless of location. They
are of quiet temperament.
They take on flesh quickly,
the COWS are as q rule lib
era1 mixers. They have
an inherent quality and
reach an excess of weight
at maturity. They ara
hardy and thrive on the
ordinary roughage pro-
duced on the farms and
ranches II nays 70 rrnw
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Tor about nv6 years.
Had several good
doctors but kept get
ting worse all the
time. Some said /
had consumption:
some one thing. and
some another. /
finally made up my
mind they did not
know what did all
me. I began to
think / was never
D0inO IN oct batfer
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George" would do-when she and her
son came home. ''They'H find things
pretty changed, Tn afraid" Fanny
said. eff they ever do come home !"
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Sick for Five Years
and Given Up

Pontiac, Mich.:-"A few years ago =
vas IL very bad state. had been sick
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ANDERSON went over the next sum-
mer and Joined his sister and nephew
in Paris, where they we're living. Elsa
bel does want to come home," he told
Fanny gravely on the day Of his re-
turn in October. "She's wanted to for
long while-and she ought to come
while she can stand the Journey
And he amplified this statement, leav-
ing Fanny looking startled and solemn
when Lucy came by to drive him out
to dinner at the new house Eugene
had just completed,
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English Training School for Mercantile Marine

practical instruction under the master
and mate of that vessel.
The training OF trimmers Is carried
out at tho local gas works. where the
youths handle coke and coal in top
heavy bRrrows, the balancing OF which
teaches them how to handle barrows
on board ship. They are taught to
clean fires and stoke, sometimes under
the instruction OF the engineer of the
Mantis, and how to raise and keep
steam and banking fires.
The mess receives special attention,
a good wholesome diet being supplied.
A room Is provided for reading, writ
ing and games after the evening meal,
and once a week the boys have an en-
joyable concert
As a result OF its first three months
work the school shipped l2o graduates
IN variety OF vessels ranging from
TIE finest mail steamers to coasting
GOLFERS. The reports from the cap
tains and officers of these vessels tes-
tify 10 the efficiency of the training
special mention being made that the
beys are good hsimsmsn.
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CONFERENCE of the Board

CONFERENCE OF the Board OF
n Trade and Ministry OF Shipping
OF England decided in the latter
part of 1918 to institute n new system
OF training youths for sea service so
as to meet the present and expected
shortage OF men in the mercantile ma
rine. Premises for the sea school were
secured at Gravesend, both ashore and
by taking over the trimming ship Stork
at Hemmersmith and moving her to
new moorings.
The school at Gravesend was opened
September 23 and training In knotting,
splicing. boat handling. rowing. swim
ming. heaving the lead. knowledge OF
the compass, steering, signalling,
cleaning of brasswork. Scrubhlng. pre-
pairing and serving the mess. coal
trimming and other practical duties
aboard ship was at once commenced.
The minimum physical standard of
candidates is feet az inches in
height and chest measurement 81
inches The age limits are 10 to IS.
Applicants found satisfactory on these
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THREE TYPICAL SPECIMENS Of the
PRIMITIVE PEOPLE WHOM STEEANSSON CAME
TO KNOW and ADMIRE for THEIR WRTuReS

three bearded men, are very much
alike, though no two Of them rave
the same mother, and all resemble
closely an Icelander I know, Sigur-
jon Sveinsson OF Mountain, North
Dakota. as he looked about 1895.
The one that looks like a
Portugee' has hair that curls a
trifie-about az much as mine.
Zone woman Of about twenty has
the delicate features one sees In
some Scandinavian girls. and that
I ave seen in only one Of the half
white girls to the westward Mac
kenzie River), and In her to a less
degree than here. know over
twenty halfbIoods lin the Macken.
zie district and Aiaska), and none OF
them resembles a white man In par
ticular-most of them could pass
for Eskimos among either Eskimos
or whites II no particular attention
were drawn to them, but no one
could fail to be struck by the Euro
pean appearance Of these people
(the Victoria Islanders).
More will be written of their eyes,
&C. after I have had better oppor-
tunities of seeing them"
IN. ,;,,,a ,aaa, ,,r =, ,,,oh a,.-
a,tr,a, aa ,hts ,,,r,,.haa 80 800
cor,,or, a,,ar nv return N .,c,yII,za,
t,on" vb.n E,ronoan coh,e, and
Am.r,oar ts,..-anhs cI,r,orea .t.Le,
90 io,,d,y ,hst ~ times alr,os,
dopbted had seen what 7 had seen.
Thera we've sc,entif,c weight anf
revered 400 behind the names n,
nanv of those who argued conclu.
siyely on the basis of a iudic,ous com.
biuation of what they knew and die
not know to the conclusion that VIVA,
is could not be. They argued SO deftl,
| withal that 7 who came from the place
they theorized about felt somewha,
as I used to feel as an undergraduate
In college when listened TO philo'
| sophical demonstration OF the non-ex
istence Of the matter that had 4
kick to convince myself that wha
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merely dress and talk and act like
Eskimo" And so 1t seemed to me.
1t is hard, looking back over a gap
Of time, to call to memory even the
intense feelings with which we meet a
crisis In life. That morning, when the
nine men and boys or the village stood
before me in line on the ice In front Of
their huts Of snow and skins. knew
was standing face to face with an
important scientific discovery.
From childhood had been familiar
with the literature OF the north;
knew that here and there a thousand
men Of Scandinavia and of England
had disappeared into the northern
mists. to be hid by them forever from
the eyes OF Europe. And when I saw
before me these men who looked like
Europeans In spite of their garb OF
furs I knew that had come upon
either the lat chapter ana solution Of
one Of the historical tragedies OF the
past or else that | had added a new
mystery for the future to solve-the
mystery of why these men are like
Europeans II they De not of European
descent.
But although the situation appealed
to whatever there was in me Of the
poet and theorist I had to remember
that my supply of writing paper was
limited and that the definite recording
Of my first impressions OF facts was
more important than filing the pages
Of my notebook with speculations.
My diary entries are seldom verbose
and often disjointed; they are never
written with an idea that they will be
| published unchanged; there are cryp-
| tic sbbreviations and missing verbs
and yet I shall quote here a portion OF
my entry for that May 16, written
blond Eskimo" The annexation.
absolutely needed to make the rest
Ineligible are supplied In parentheses
The Dweilers on the Frozen Sea.
| Il now understand why the Cape
Bexley people tthe first Eskimos
discovered by us) take me for an
| Eskimo. There are rec men here
| whose boards are almost the color
| Of mine and who look like typical
| Scandinavians. As Natkusiak says:
! Three Of them Look like white fore
mast hands on a whaler. and aren't
| they huge! And one looks like a
Portugee,' cPortugee' is the word
used by the American whalemen
for natives OF the Cape Verde
Islands.
| Among the Cape Bexley people
| lad noted that large number of
men have a few light hairs In their
mustaches and. more rarely. in their
boards. Some have mustaches to be
described as DIX brown. 9O'hing I
have never seen In the weG Mac
kenzie River or Alasks). Here Un
Victoria Island). however. are men
with abundant three inch long
boards. n light brown In I cir outer
parts but darker toward the middle
of the chin. The faces and pro-
portions OF the body remind one of
'stocky,' sunburned but naturally
fair Scandinavians. They (the
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ent capacity OF the school is 200. Great
care has been shown in the selection
OF candidates.
Ship owners. showing their interest
in the matter, have loaned the school
fine ship models. Steering is taught
by the use of q moving stand In the
school, the training being completed on
the Board of Trade launch Mantis by
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New Exhibit Tells All About Teeth

IT HERE'S a new exhibit at the
American Museum OF Natural
History that tells a great deal
about teeth-about their structure. To-
cation. mode OF implantation. growth
and replacement. with special refer
ence to the teeth OF mammals.
Many kinds Of teeth are shown in
the exhibit. from the curious. compli-
Gated apparatus called the "Arlstotle's
lantern" in vogue among the sea
urchins to the ereat. cruel fang Of tho
lion. The Aristotle's lantern OF the
sea urchin consists Of five pyramidal
jaws. each carrying q long slender
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tooth OF continuous growth which
moves forward in the Jays as It De-
comes worn away at the point.
The horseshoe or king crab wears
his teeth on his legs, at the first Joints
OF which Is a series of splnes and
sharp points. The lobster does his
ffetchcrising with teeth which are ito
be found on his fourth to ninth ap-
pendages. Some OF these teeth are
adapted TO SELLING the food. others to
grinding IT. The exhibit also reveals
the little known fact that the beetl"
and worm boast teeth as useful and
efficient a. any -'--------.
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heads are given their applica ton and
medical certificate forms and must
PASS the Board OF Trade eyesight tests
for form and color.
Those whose papers and tests are
satisfactory are registered and each Is
given a rotation number which de-
termlnes his priority in entering the
school as vacancies occur. The pres
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has a right TO have blue eyes, as far
as we know-his eyes should be as
brown and his hair as black as those
OF the typical Chinaman), some of tn
men eradicate their boards (pull out
the hairs by the roots, as many In
dian tribes do also), but OF those who
have boards a good many have light
brown ones; no one seen has light
hair OF the golden Scandinavian type,
but some have dark brown and rusty
red hair. the redness usually more
pronounced on the forehead than on
the back OF the head; and perhaps half
the entire population have eyebrows
ranging from a dark brown 20 light
brown or nearly white. A few have
curly hair.
suggestions Of European Race.
1t is. however. not only the blond
ness of the Victoria Islanders that
suggests the European. but also the
form OF their heads. as shown by my
measurements of adult males. Typi-
ca,ly we think Of the Eskimo as mar
row Of skull and wide Of face: In
other words. his face Is wider than
his head. This fact Is scientifically
expressed by a facial index" of ovev
100; while II the face Is narrower
than the head the index will be less
than 100.
The proportions Of the head are con-
sdered by most anthropologists an
excellent test TO determine what race
a group OF individuals belong to. In
summary published by the American
Museum of Natural History Prof
Franz Boas gives the following facial
indices for supposedly pure oloodet
Eskimos:
| Herschel Island, l01; Greenland
1906; Baftin Bay. 1902: Alaska, lo4; East
Greenland. 1902; Smith Sound, 1902. Ir
the same paper he gives the following
indices for persons OF mixed Eskimo
and European descent: Labrador, So;
West Greenland. s5.
My own measurements Of 104 mer
OF Victoria Island give an index Of 81
which places the Blond ESkimos'
when judged by head form exactly
where It places them when Judged by
complexion. in the class with person!
who are known to be Of mixed Eskimo
and white descent.
In other words. while they are Es-
kimos In language and culture, anC
while some Of them are Eskimos II
physical appearance also. there arr
among them a large number OF indi
viduals possessing greater or less re
semblance to white men. But thes
are people who In recent time have
had no contact with whites that would
change their physical type; theI
whence could these European Xix
characters have come? Can they b
accounted for historically?
To understand the historic possibil
ity Of European contact with the cen
trial Eskimo we must go back thou
sand years In the history OF the Scan
dinavian countries.
Shortly before $40 A. ID. Iceland wa
discovered by Norwegian navigator
and a few years earlier some Iris
monks had occupied small island Jus
south OF Iceland. The rapid settlcmen
of Iceland was favored by the war
OF conquest waged by Iiarald, who wa
naking siassA the frst-iAlk a
united Norway. and driving out tn
petty Kings who formerly had bee
independent rulers Of separate terri
tories.
When Harald, who made himsel
first King OF united Norway. drove GU
the many lesser Kings. the latter scat
, tered L, France and England, but per
, haps the largest number. with thei