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The new model million- dollar snow-white bakery in which they are made, testi- es to a purity and clean- liness which is absolutely unique in modern biscuit making. , 58A ` en5_r,ine is 0d and z'A(l(I)`.`3S.. 1------------------ Uranus, 0110 of the most explos- (i s i 1 1 ' 1 ' * 1ve b0] 0 11 t] c lc-a\c1s, 1s castmg 8. close and f`1c-ry eye upon this planet. Next _\'ear..U1'anus will be :.. ..,...:...m+mn \\'1H1 Am1a1-1us and planet. next }'Cal7..L1'aI1L1a wxu uru `in conjunctlon wlth Aquarlus ltlns fact alone is to be reckonedi with. " "f'--...1_ 1,-. :u1n~nnnLV;I\('I` nnf-fnny ' Through the invention of a stok4 ing device by a Swedish engineer 1.3 tons of pulverized peat have been [made to produce as much power in locomotives in Stvetlen as one ton of coal. - H A on. . _ California is increasing } eultivatlon. wAmmm AUCTIONEER Dunlop St., I Make a Specialty of Farm Stopk Sales. of Canatia. l s Ca- 'ou will 1. your Hall S "et rid Ionials, Barrie cottom (3:;t ;a1'rI1 11 s Ca- olc-on ever Dollars :u1ar.s I`o1edo,_ :C0, ITS The Hindu .~.'t1'11L-k his own breast! si}_,rx1iIiea11t1_\'; Thy 1.'uith'f7ul servant 1'emain_s,` sahib. Die i't"th'ou wi'lt,! but leave her to R-anjab. There is] but `one bu1let'1ef't. It is for you.! You, must 11ot be here to witness the death Ranjab, thy servant; shall in- _flict upon 1101'. ,Shoot th_\'Sell.` now, if so ithbe, but spare thyself the ">si<,`:I1t of - He did `not finish the fsentence, but his strong`, bony n- gjers went t1n'ou;:h the motion telling: more hoi'1'ib1e story than words ieould have expressed. There was no 1nistakin_ his 1neaning;. He had. `elected himself hc-1' e;\'ee11t1o11e1'. A [1 ' 1 I :1 1 1 ' rtment is unization. 1,1ishing of 3: Romans. lens to F0 the an- -"No! No! Not that! `he cried,! and as tho \_vc1'ds 11111;: out, Yvonne 1'o111ov0d 1101' 11o1'.1.'ifi0d g'aze-f1'o111 the blot of red and fixed it upon the -`face 01' 1101' 1111511111111. She st1'aig'11t- `ened up slowly and her arms fell: limply to 1101' sides. ' . I ; It was 111ea11t, 1'01'- me. S}100 c,| James! she said, almost. in 3, whis-.| per. 7111 TI 1 9 1' Il_,_1 ,L The `.U.i11du's 5.-`1'asp ti5_:'hte11ed atl the <'o11\'11lsix"0 1no\'on1ont of his mastc1"s hand. His fi11g`e1's "were like bands of steel. W zzma uvqq I ,,-`,z,1 ,,_!,:,,.. ..W...\. IALJ \,.\\.\xlllvLUlIl.1- s_A g:hast_1y look of cd111p1'e11e11sio11 itted across B1'o0d s face. For a. second his mind slipped i'1'0m 0110 He knew this man of his. He re- n1embo1'(!d the story of anothC1' kil- 1ill}_`,' in the hills, of. India. His gaze went 'f'r0m the brown 1 a11'z1tic s'1"acc nto the white, tender, lovely throat `of . the w0m`an-and 21 hoarse gasp tiiroad to anothm" more a.p])a.11i11f".` i I bi"oko tfrom his lips. -1z\r I xv n `Y . -1 III! 1 " - 1 HUSBAND IIBJEBTS T0 0J |{T|0N l.l.l\L.' |}(lIl\|n3 \II. BL\J\.vlo ` . _Sh0ot! she _1'epcated, ralsing` her vo1ce. Save yourself, for 1f Des Moines,lwa'.- Four ysars ago I was very sic nd my life was nearly , annnf Tho dnnfnrn 1 W85 very SICK '- l_.lu uly nu: was ucuu, spent. The doctors stated that I would never get well with- o u t a 1: operation and that without it I would not live one year. A My husband objected to any ` ' operation and got I Pinkham's Vegeta- o le Compound. I took _ 1t and commenced to get better and m now well. am stout and able to do y own housework. I- can recommend e Vegetable Com- pound to any wom who is sick and run down as a wond ful strength and health restorer. M husband says I would have been in grave ere this son, 703 Lyon St., De oines, Iowa. gme some of Lydia E. M -n-:--.. ....I-....:M-:nn I-n-Am-Ira-in-,al nnm-a.., SON, TU5 Lyon Din, .IJI= QJLVIIIGU, a.vvvu. Before submitting tovgsurgical opera- tion it is wise to try (`build up the its derange- * 'WritetotheLyd1a. Pinkham. Medigstne 69., Izynn, ` `.101.- THURSDAY, APRIL Wife by Lydia E. Pinl-:h'n s Vegetable C?mpound ' organiza- ro as far (`II I Copyright. 1914. by Dodd Mead and Co. By George Barr McCutcheon- Phone 298 _, __, 7-67,- - CHEVROLE/l`" is not doing bu ess on its reputation but on its V merits. I want you to 1ook't;his car ver;ask questions: invesigate and DURABILITY there is no car an pr enb on`the market that is near- " ly it~s'equa.l i value. A Let me have a talk with you be`ore you decide on a car you must come to the conclusion tha%or QUALITY, COMFORT, and Blackls White G. B. M:cLean ` A Eemarkable Car` -t_a Remarkable Pric: With the Electric Starter, Light . No extras needed to run` this Car '27%h, 1916'.` DEALER; nn an Lax. Cluist H1 udch 0 punqm 1829. - hol is (lead I shall kill you `With my own hands. This is your cl1a11ce- shoot! ' 1n n 1 1 .1 Brood s ng'c1's rel-a.\'ed their f.l`1'i]) on the 1'e\'0lve1'. A Iicrco, wild hope took all the stren_g't11 -out of his body-he ;:1'ew faint with it. t6f`.\.1 `Ln 1.- .....M. `L. J-._~.1l T aunuu \,uu1\1 He j_~;la1ved at uuvp xtuxkvo I the half averted `face, .conl'oundcd by the most ex- traordinary impression that ever had entered his incomprehensible brain. iSomethin_s;' .stra11;re and wonderful was transpiring before his very eyes -soinethin_2: so marvelous that even he, m_\~'sterious seer of tl1e Ganges, was stunned into complete amaze- ment and punbelief. -That strange, uncanny intelligence of his, bornof a ~thousandAmysteries, was being- tried beyond all previous occasions. It was as if he, now saw this wo- lman for the first time--ias if he had ynever looked upon her face before. !A mist` appeared to `envelop 11er and 'tl11'o11_e.'l1 this veil he saw a_ face that lwas new to him-the face of Yvon- ine and yet not hers at all.- Absol- ute wonder crept into l1is eyes. I As` if impelled by the power of `his gaze, she faced him once more. For what `seemed hours to hin_1, but lin reality only seconds, his search- lin}_,>' eyes looked deep into hers. He [saw at last the soul of this woman and it was not the soul he had known as hers up to that treme11- dous moment. And he can1e-to know that she was no longer afraid of him or his powers. His hand low- ered, his eyes fell and his lips`n1ov- ed but there were no Words, for he addressed a spirit. All_,_the venom, lall the hatred ed from his soul. His knee bent in-sudden submission, and his eyes were raised to hers once more, but now in theirxsomber depths was the delity of the don`. fin ml... .-...:.'J .....'l 1...... n4- Annn 3 7 God, he-.he ean t be dead! I have `not.-killed him. He `shall not die-he-shall n0t-.- I<.`linu'i115_-; the 'Hindu aside he threw himself `be- Iside the body on the oor. The re- volye1* as it dropped, was eaug`-ht" in the nimble hand of thedHi11du, who itook two long` swift strides toward the womantwho now faced him in- il :_"1'eat light in his eyes as he stood over her {Ind she saw death sta1`1ng_,~' ,eut upon her. ` I D"; ..1..p,1:.1 ..~:_ -.....:1 m... .....,. stead of he1',h~usbax1d. There was iuuu utruu u.\,.1o But shodid not quail. She was gpastall that. She looked st1*aig_2-lit Iintol his e_\'0sT1"o1' an instant and then [as if puttin_v; him out of her tl1oug_1'l1ts 'cnti1'oly, turned slowly toWa1' the two men on.the' floor. ' The man half raised the pistol, but some- thing` stayed his haiid-so1netliin_u; st1'011_;"o1" than nioro pliysical `oppos- ition could have done. 11' 1 1 n 1 In : 1 uu11uua "us buy AAu\41Lv`y U1. U110 EH15- Go atonce, She said, and `her voice was as clear as a bell. : I 'n:' 1 . .1 T7, ,1 ,1 ! vusuu nu: Ins.) \.41\IlA/I. ac (Ir Mull. 1 He shot a swift" glance at the pros- tmte` Frederic and straightened- his tall gureas would a soldier underv orders. 'His- `understanding gaze sought her again. There was ,anoI;h'- er command in [her eyes. He plac- ed the weapon on the-table`. It had been a distinct command to him. un.-'. _.a ___ ___-11 , -. n -. -1 \JAA\.I u;. uh.) "as: um 10, BUG atuu monotonously. ` ` Go ! With incredible. swiftness he was gone. The curtains barely moved as he passed between them and the heavy door. made. no sound in open- ing and closing. There was no one in the hall. The sound of the shot had not gone beyond the thick Walls of that `proscribed room on the top oor.- Somewhere at the rear of the house an indistinct .voice was utter- ing` a jumbled stream of French. 1l'..-_-. --._'____L__ _. ""1 l~l.\;\.4AL CA4 \.LlDIIl1l\Jl.l Ulllllll One of us will us Go! `IT-H1` . u.......Il:`l..`|.. ..-.`. 111?.` u "tLlllIlL\4\L DULUGILI UL xrcuuu. Many minutes passed. There was not a movement in theroom. Brood, beside the outstretched,gure of his unintended victim, was staring at the graying face with Wide unblink-7, ing eyes. He looked at last upon the features that he had searched for in vain through all the sullen years. There was blood on his hands and on his cheek, for he _had listened at `first for the beat" of` his heart. Afterward his agonized gaze had gone to the bloodless face. -There "it was arrested. A dumb "wonder pos- sessed his soul. 4.He. knelt there pet- - ~1'.'iedA;b3"7; the -iishook --`of -L discovei'"y.;_'I'n' the-,-dmi- ht:-he 110- Ian er 5 been for the has be- rc1iab1_e Catarrh he Mu- Poison` the dis- '11s Baygld St. 1UJ1l\Jl.l UULAJAJACLLJU LU` 111111. use it, she said 3117 `(In I 9 7 ' He had forgotten the woman. She was standing just beyond the body that stretched itself between them. Her hands were clasped against her breast and }1er eyes were lifted heavenward. She had not moved throughout that age of oblivion. 11 1 UAlLlIlIi,ll\.ILII.I I/Jlllla u,:.\. \lL u,unLva.uAAo He saw and suddenly became 1+};- id.. Slowly he sank back, his eyes (listended, his jaw d1'0pp_ing`. He put` out a hand and save(l'himscl1": {'1-omfalling;, but his eyes never left the face of the woman ` who praye(l-wh0.'se wvhole being was the`. Amate1-.ial representatioll of p1'aye'r. But is was not Yvonne, his wife, that he saw st:1mling there. It _\\'us :mother--Matilde "T.\I_V God, `.\[atil<`.c -- ".\I-atilde! F01'r_~'i\'0! F01`;:'iV'0! ' = T SIm\'Iy her 0_`.'(-s Iowomd until Urey fell full upon his strivkm 1"u(:e. ` ,Am I :;'0inu= 1:1:i he \\'hispe!'- ed hoa1'sol_v. .`\.'s` ho stared, tho (lol- I-cate w:1i1_fa(so_o`i' )Iatil'de b({ to fade am] he n::ai11 saw the brilliant. 1mdin1m0d features of Yvonne. God in hcavxl, it was Matilde! Y\'11at'a(`c111'so(1 trick of- He S])1'l1lf.;` to` his feet and advanc- ed upon her, actually Steppi11g' ae- ross the bod_v.o't' his son in his reek- less haste. Far many seconds they stood with their faces close tog'ether, he stariilfz wildl}', she with a dull look of agoiiy in her eyes, but un- 1'lincl1ing'. \Vhat he saw eaused an icy chill to sweep through his tense body, and :1 sickness to enter his soul. ,He shrank back. ' \Vho---who are you?. he cried out in sudden terror. He felt the pi-esmiee of Matilde. He could have str(:-tehed out his hand and touched her. so real, so `vivid was the be- -lief that .8110, was actually there be- fore him. l\Ia'til was here-I saw her, before God. I saw her. A11d-and now_it is you! She is ;"t,i1' here. I can feel her hand to11chT.1;; mine--I can .feel-no, again. I-- T H ' - . She wont on ina (leadly 1110110-I ,to11_e. You intcmlcd the bullet for me. It is not too late. Kill me, if you will, I will give you the first. c11ance'---takc it, for if you do not I shall take mine. '[1-r -r n '1 '11 T 1 All these years he had been blind, all these years he -had gone on curs- ing his own image. V In that over- powering thought came the realiza- tion that it was too late for him to atone. His mind slowly st1'ug'g'le(l out of the thrall that held it stupi- ved. He wasilooking at his own face--dead! He would look like that! Matilde was gone foreve1'---the eyes` were closed-but he was there,`going' grayer and grayer of face all the -time. * ` LT -. The cold, 1it'olcs;~: voice of Yvunvm was` speaklng,-' to h1_m, I111s1 thzm ever before. //-ur .-1 1 1 1 (`H 1 \. V L: |J\4l.\I1 Lo Matilde has been 110170. She has always been wlth lmn. She is al- ways near you, James B1'ood.v `(T1-'I4..L r\`:I\ "nu ,.n...n..-"777 ipment to work in the pri_cc::;" \V(L'\'O 1A\.(tL Jun, uuluna J.JL\J\.l\I- o >\VlIat -- are - you +- say1nj__-,'? `Ito qaspecl. She turned Wearily .awz1_\' and pointed to the woafpoll on the table. `\Vho is to use it, you or 1,? He opened his mouth but uttered no sound. His power of speech was 5_>;one. A rn ' n - 1 11 features of Matilde, but his own, and his heart was still. In that re- \-'ealing moment he realized that he had never seen anything in Freder- ie s countenance save the drak, nev- e1'-to-be-1"or;'otte11 e_\'es-an they were his Matilde 's. Now those` eyes were closed. He could 11ot see them and the blindnes-s was struck from his own. He had" always looked in- to the boy s e_\'e_s-he had never been able to seek ;farther than those haunting`, inquirin_:: eyes-but now he saw the'lean,- strong jaw, and the rm chin, and straight nose and the `broad forehead-and none of these were Matilde s! These were the features of a n1an-and of but one man. He was seeing himself as hp was Whenhe looked into his mirror at twenty-one! ' v :11 .1 1 1 11 II `I auuxx um. . iI-I cannot kill you---I cannot kill the woman who stood where you are standing a moment ago. Matilde was there! She Was alive, do you hear me! Alive and ah! The ex- clamation fell from his lips as she suddenly leaned forward, hci-`intense gaze xed on Frederic s face. III`! 1 f bane IAACLK U1]. ;'1.uu\.,.l.1\4 0 Lawn: _ -See! Ah, see! I prayed and I have been answered. See! God in heaven, see!- T_T.. J..-......\J 1?-.....'l,...2,.7,. .....u. 1-vvnuan uuvv |J\.1\.aAl- (LlAbJ\V\z1\1lAu \J\/\4I \.Avu 1.1; He turned. Frederic s eyes were open. He was looking; up at them, with a piteous appeal in their depths --an appeal" for help, for life, for consciousness. (117 `I 1013 `I, ', 1'.1,_,'I UUJIDULUILDIIUDDO He is not dead! Frederic, Fred- eric,Vmy son- He dropped to his knees and frantically clutched at the hand that lay stretched out be- side the limp gure. -The pain- stricken eyes closed slowly. Q..w......... 'l....\IJ- 1..-miiln D-ul\I\A T-Tn DI/ll.UI\C1l C. CD VLUDUKL DIU VV 1. 0 Someone knelt beside Brood. VH saw a slim white hand go out and touch the pallid brow. I shall .save your soul, James` ' ' `I ' 1 '1 `\ '1 IO - Ulll-ILIII UIIG P(I!lII`~` llL\lVV 0 I save your James Brood, a voice was saying, but it seemed far away. He shall not die. Your poor wretched soul may rest secure. I_' shall keep death] away from him.. You shall not have to `pay for this--no, not for this. The bullet was meant for me. II owe my life to him, you shall owe his to me. But you have to pay a greater debt than this can ever be- come. He is your son. _You owe another for his life-and you will never be out of her debt, not even in hell, James Brood. 'o1.....I-. 'm.....1....:..2,. ........ . _______ __'_] LIL IICJI U (11105 JJL \J\J\.la Slowly Frederic s ~eyes opened again. They wavered from one face to the other and there was in them `fh `unsblvable mystery of divina- ~rt_ion, ' Dthe} !1i dgroppgd once rm: NORTHERN ADVANCE -----.1; ' crossed an altar ys burn- more,'B1'ood s manner underwent tremendous"change. The stupefa tion of horror and doubt fell awe in a flash and he was again t} clear-headed, indomitab1e- man ( action. The blood rushed back 1 his veins, his eyes ashed with t} 1returni_ng' re of hope, his voice W: stc-ady, aharp, commanding. .UU.|. .lI.0 [X18 uarxenmg landscape." . Hear we see every substantive neat- lytted with its adjective, every one of which is entirely superuous. We `late chiey concerned to know what :11: the evident crisis, the young wo- f_man did. It is unkind to arrest her Tin her walk in order to call our at- 'tentlon.to the facts that the room was richly furnished and the curtains were heavy. Some of these cases are chronic, and the `sufferer can use nothing but adjectives which have so * long been joined together with some ` noun that no man can put them asun-v ; der. In these cases evening clothes are always immaculate, thuds are dull A and sickening, reports (of firearms) are sharp. Kipling is Blamed The present war has been _respon- sible for a violent outbreak of a:1jec- ; tivitis among correspondents and de Waltzes are dreamy, I scriptive writers, not to mention ex- ' perts and the constructors of leading; articles. . has the battle line in Flanders been labelled -as far flung. (I thank thee 'not, Kipling, for teaching our young `writers that word!) Any activity . shown in entrenching or fortilying is pretty` certain to be feverish. A retirement by the allies is born"; by the enemy it is sullen." And let us not forget the generals are always attended by a brilliant staff. Sc-me thousands of times stub .. V more insidious than that of using ad- There is a curious discrimination between a `feat of arms on sea and on land. On land it is heroic, at sea daring. If any correspondent uses the word heroic in connection with a` sea affair or daring" to qualify some exploi; on land, it is safe to put him down as a blundering novice who does not know his business. But it is the maddening repetition of far ung that offends us most. ' I Sad is the Prospect. We are not hostile to the adjective assuch. In fact, we look upon it as Artemus Ward looked upon baked . beans, which in an immortal passage he pronounced a cheerful fruit when 1 used moderately. Strict moderation I in the use of adjectives should. be the rst lesson impressed upon-all.` young writers. There is no habit jectives where there is no need. It , grows upon the victim till he Writes 2 himself into an acute attack ofad-I jectivitis, and can no more do with ; out the qualifying words than the dope end can clowithout his syringe ' or the alcoholic without his bottle. - Little by little he sinks into a- state when he can no longer control the 5 ow of adjectives, when he dribbles 1 them continuously in one unbroken ` stream. `Then the proprietors of`the_ fiction mill pounce upon him, bristling with contracts and fountain pens and . checks on account. Before the wretch- 7 ed creature has realized the serious- ness of his position he.nds he has signed ' to write eight serial stories ; at year for the next quarter of a cen- tury. Young writers, take warning! < -London Globe. 1 plauding the deeds of daring and ortitude that its sons have been per- 'orming in all quarters of the globe during the war, it should be of inter- at to them to know that one modest y of English blood has been up- holding in the Russian army the tra- ditions of the service. John Wilton, "a frail boy of seventeen, secured, by special permission of the Czar, the right to serve in the ranks of one 01. the famous regiments of the Petro- `grad Guards. For six months he took part in practically every big battle in `which the famous corps was engaged and these battles- were practically continuous. He was with the party of scouts which penetrated to the nearest point to Cracow and was at one time within eight miles of the` city. Vanna uauu; vvuuu ,L1lU Jaxxuau puuuu 1_u . I 1 `K7114-nn a` ronnso van is an nia- `caused much favorable among Russian oicers. `mending ofcer of his regiment. `M1"oung Wilton s` record was such; that. after six months of service he was promotedand became an ensign strictly on the basis of merit of such ` a nature that his activities-came re- peatedly to the attention of the com- At the end of ve months he was in com- mand of the mounted scouts of the regiment and since becoming an of- ficer he has twice been recommended for decorations for "services in the eld. His latest feat was the with- drawing, from under a heavy re, of his command T of scouts, which had been ambushed by a squadron of German. cavalry. The `young oiilcer conducted this operation so skillfully that he extricated his command with the loss of only one ~man. He has become well known to his re ' t, and the example of the young ` :- $ishman_ rising ' from the ranks ihas corng,-at I We have come to the conclusion that the main trouble with most 01 our young writers is inammation oi `sundry parts of speech-notab1y oi the adjective-and in this disorder we have ventured to attach the name "`8djectivitis." In aggravated cases` the patient is unable to use a noun without burdening it with a qualica ltlon. Au thus: She walked across the richly furnished room, pulled aside the heavy curtain and gazed out into the darkening landscape. our ma non nun :-11 auahufonfixyn nan! Writing from Petrograd, the special porrespondent of the London Times said: . While ,the `British public 13 Lu-u--I:.uupIu'o\nu `Inn Jnnn ni Jnurucr oi-all Every Staff is BriIIiant"--M-sch Ful Over Modern Epidemic-Perils of Young Writers ` WAR .Frall'English Lad Rises In czar-`all Army From Ranks the heavy use-cleam : us have RUSSIA'S BRITISH HERO R ADJECTIVITIS smzss MANY scmmas (To be continued) .J.1A\; DUDIRJKL La aw 3 t 1itab1e- :1 t me, W ,. uxxu u,- pefac- away 11 the n of wk to 211 the 30' W115 ' St. Louis, M0,, A1:-il 2-1-Ame1'- ica will not be drawn into War this year, but look out for 1917, said` Miss Alice B. Hazard _ of Kansasu City, a charter member of the Amer-| ican Academy of Astrologians. Hf1...'m..; ,1:,.;....1....`-,.- ..1......_ ._..._.l J.\,tLl.l 4z.\.uf\.1uA|IJ U1. ILDDIULUBIGHD. ` Great disturbances always occur: when there are many eclipses of the: sun and moon, she said. .When the battles of \Vaterloo and Auster-' litz `Were fought there were seven. 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