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Show 'Vs- - t. ii f.r LYDIA OF TB 8! 8 PIN Examined By Your Doctor Take Salts to Wasfi Kidneys Back Pains You or Bladder Bothers fly HONORE WILLSIE tfl br Frcdarlrk CHAPTER XI Mr:..!.. flew llchtly by, lightly Lydla, too, In spite of the heavy the dys for se-r- the carried of Levlne's plotting. t The !iy before they broke cump, I.ydla's old squaw appeared and asked for Charlie Jackson. Charlie and Kent were cooklDg dinner. "Pear me," said Miss Towne, "tell him to Hike the poor thing away, Lydla." "He must feed her, first," exclaimed over to Lydla, leading the old Indian shelter. the cooking Kent and Lydla exchanged glances as Charlie led the squaw Susie, he called her into the woods, after Lydla Jiad heaped her old arms with Kent and Gustus had put the food. dinner on the table and they all were seated at the meal when Charlie returned. "What did she want, Charlie?" asked ' Oig'a. "You wouldn't care If I told you," "But," he replied Charlie, grimly. burst firth suddenly, "some day you white will pay. Some day the Japs or the Jews will do to you Americans whnt you've done to us. "Look here, Lydla, I.evlne Is up to some new cussedness. Old Susie came on him In council the other night with In the six of the worst She lost her head and recurvation. began to Jaw him so she didn't find out what It was about. And he's getting the last of my timber now. Lydla, you've g"t to help me. When you home, talk to Levlne." "Ottlng the last of your timber!" exclaimed Kent, t . "Yen. the law lets 'em get the 'dead iiid il..'.vn' stuff and who's going to iwntr It's fresh stuff that he cut this mm:mr and will get out next winter?" 'T.ut how does he come to be taking your wood? Why don't you go to see fchn yourself?" asked Kent either of those :"I can't answer Charlie, sullenly. U"fis," replied Tie two young whites thought of the aMaek on Irvine, and looked at nrh other apprehensively. "Won't the Indian agent stop him?" "tsked Lydla. "I!! Why. he's deep In the mire himself with Pave Marshall. My God, Margery Marshall went to New York on a Mind Indian boy's pines! Lydla. nie! They belong iave my pines to my tribe. My father was going to WV! .imrtt'ti three years ago to tell the President about the graft when they shot him from ambush. If I put up a fight, they'll shoot me. Lydla, won't yuu help us?" Ni'iiher Kent nor Lydla ever had He was fen Charlie thus before. neither arrogant nor sullen. He was pleading with a tragic hopelessness that moved his two hearers prohalf-breed- s tt fr foundly. I will try," cried "nti, Charlie! Lydla. "I truly will." "I knew yorj would." said Charlie, huskily, and he turned back abruptly to the ramp. stared about her. Supposing, thought, that she owned a hundred acre of this pine land. She f"'C"t Kent and concentrated every fT'i of her mind on sensing what land ownership would mean. And ml Vnly there stirred within her a ri !' for acreage, for trees, soil, f'!h!n mid shrub, a wide demesne t!.Ht should be hers and her children's I.yi!',;i h r. i fti to talk to her from her "Arc you really going Kent roused Le-!t'- -r reverie. 'e: I'ldn't I promise to?" food It'll do." grunted K' ' "And If you tidl him we over-r I f in, In the woods, I'll be sore." "! don't see why." nfier I finish 'high srliooi. I'm going to tel! hltn I know, to make 1' l t tne In on the deal. I,ok here, I f I. don't tell him I was with you, "I tf m , "r.'"-:iue- i h M.W," "ti. all right," replied Lydla. rross-"Kor goodness' sake, don't let's " hl.oiii it any more. I don't see 1,1 v men always have to be plotting! tolng back to camp and help Rt?Is, the m ner lap next afternoon, with a book ing herself and the waffles for supper. and Adam at her feet, when Indiscriminately. Perhaps it was this ne stopped ror sense of Indignation that made her cmiea. amjiiuu i"1" , . , a chat . t, ,th v less patient than usual with what she before coming up to greet Lydia. was to consider the foibles "He is awful homely. A regular old of thegrowing male sex. At any rate, she prefarmer," she thought, comparing him cipitated her carefully planned conwith the elegant Gustus and with versation with Levlne, when the four Kent's careless grace. of them were seated on the back steps, Awful glud you're after "Hello, Lyd! supper. back!" The others were listening to Lydia's He sat down on the step below her account of her tour with J leg! The end Justified the means. She heaved a great sigh of relief. "Well, then, I don't have to worry about that Hny more," she said. "Only, I don't dare to think about those starving old squaws, or the buby that froze to death." "That's right," agreed Levlne, "Don't think about them." If there was still a doubt in the back of Lydia's mind regarding the Investigating and Lydia wrinkled her nose. He carreservation, for a time, at least, she ried with him the odor of hay and Charlie. succeeded In quieting It. "I shouldn't say It was the best Idea horses. One of the not unimportant results "How's your mother?" asked Lydla. In the world for you to be wandering of the camping trip was that Lydla through the woods with that young rediscovered the pine by t he gate. It "I'm coming over, tomorrow." "Mother's not so very well. She Indian," was Levlne's comment when was the same pine against which she works too hard at the blamed can- Lydla had finished. had beaten her little fists the night "I don't see how you can speak so," of Patience's death. ning. I told her I'd rather never eat cried Lydia, passionately, "when this it than have her get so done up." She liked to sit on the steps and stare at It, dreaming and wondering. "I'll be over to help her," said Lydla. minute you're taking his pine wood." "We had a perfectly heavenly time For the Indians and the pines were "Lydla 1" said Amos, sharply. In camp, Billy." "Let her alone, Amos," Levlne spoke now unalterably associated In Lydia's on "Did you?" asked her caller, Indifquietly. "What are you talking about, mind. The life of one depended that of the other. Strange thoughts ferently. "Going to try to sell fudge, Lydia?" this winter, Lyd?" perhaps not altogether cheerful "The Indians are people, Just like and wholesome and "I don't know," Lydla'a tone was thoughts for a girl "and tis," she cried, you're treating mournful, "Daddy hates to have me. them as If they were beasts. You're of Lydia's age. So It was probably well that Marrobbing them and letting them starve ! about this time began to show gery I Charlie showed the Oh, I suw them a certain Margery-esqutype of Lydla and me sore all to eyes, poor things In her heart, In spite of attention. coughing and eating dirt. And you're her mother's teachings, Margery had making money out of them! Maybe uhvays shared her father's admiration the very money you paid our note with for In her childhood It had Lydia. was made out of a starved squaw. Oh, been a jealous admiration grudging, I can't stand it to think It of you !" seemed like actual dislike. But that Lydia paused with a half sob and as Margery developed as a social fafor a moment only the gentle ripple vorite and Lydla remained about the of the waves on the shore and the same quiet little dowd, the Jealousy crickets were to be heard. Levlne. el- of the banker's daughter gave way to bow on knee, chin on hand, looked liking. through the dusk at the shadowy Therefore, several times a week, sweetness of Lydia's face, his own Margery appeared on her bicycle, her face calm and thoughtful. embroidery bag dangling from the "You're so good and kind to me," handle burs. The two girls would Lydia began again, "bow can you be then establish themselves on cushions so hard on the Indians? Are you by the water and sew and chatter. One day Lydla said, "I wish we had stealing Charlie's logs? Are you, Mr. hardwood floors like yours." Levlne?" "What kind are yours?" Inquired "I bought his pine," replied Levlne Margery. quietly. "Just pine, and kind of mean, splin"He doesn't believe It He thinks tery pine, too. so afraid you're stealing. And he's "Upstairs at Olga's all the floors of you. Why does he feel that way, were that way," said Margery, "and Mr. Levlne?" they had a man come and sandpaper "Lydla! What're you saying!" ex- 'em and put kind of putty stuff in the claimed Amos. cracks and oil and wai 'cm and they "Keep out, Amos," said Levlne. look fine." "We've got to clear this up. I've been "Gee!" said Lydla. thoughtfully. expecting It, for some time. Lydla. "I'll do It! And I'll cut our old years ago before the government be- -room carpet up Into two or three gan to support the Indians, they were rugs. Llzzie'll have to squeeze enough All Lydia "Oh, Right," Replied a fine, upstanding race. The whites out of the grocery money for fringe. Crossly. could have learned a lot from them. I'd rather have fringe than a fall were brave, and honorable, and coat." Now I'm growing up he seems to be They and In a primitive way, thrifty. Amos, coml&a. home a night or so moral, getting sensitive about my earning Well, then the sentimentalists among later, found the living room floor bare money." and Lydla hard at work with a bit whites devised the reservation "He's right, too," said Billy, with the And of glass and sandpaper, scraping at allowance the and system. system a note In his voice that Irritated Lythe Indians have gone to the devil, the slivers. dla. asked Llzitie from "Ain't It awful as whites would under like cirJust You know Just about Itl "Much you room. "She would do It." to human the has dining cumstances. being Any try to make your clothes and buy your "Lizzie's complained ail day." said or he degenerates. school books on nothing. Dad's Just earn what he eats "She doesn't realize how our save those Indians to Lydla. way The only afraid people'll know how little he like 'poverty and destruclooks house out. Is kick them The earns, that's all. Men are selfish up thereones to live and be assimi- tion' with other folks'. I'm compared will strong riff" some to style Into It, If I get our civilisation. The weak going Astonished by this outburst, Billy lated Into have to tear It down, oh, daddy, don't whites weak like will die. Just ones turned round to look up at Lydla. She you get sick of being poor?" was wearing her Sunday dress of the do." "and I "Yes," said Amos, shortly, In"But how about Charlie's pines?" year before, cheap cotton that she had a silly girl to wear yourthink you're him think outgrown. The young man at her feet sisted Lydia. "What makes self out on this kind of thing." did not see this. All be observed were you're stealing them? And he says Lydla sat up and looked at him. She the dusty gold of her curly head, the that when the pines go, the tribe will was growing fast and was thinner rleBr blue of her eyes and the fine set die." than ever, this rummer. "If mother of her heud on her thin little shoul"I paid for the pin." Insisted Le- was alive," she stld, "she'd know exders. vlne. "An Indian has no Idea of buy- actly how I feel," "You always look Just right to me. ing and selllnz. It's a cruel Incident, Suddenly thre came to A inns' memLyd," he said. "Listen. Lyd. I'm not this breaking up of the reservation, ory a weak and tender voice, with con going to be a farmer. Tin" but it's like cutting o!T a leg to save trallo notes In It like Lydia's, "Not he a fanner!" cried Lydia. the patient's life. Sentiment Is wait- "Lydla." be said, abruptly, "make the "After all you've said about It!" home over If you want to. my dear.' ed." "No! I'm going In for two years' Lydla was turning over In her mind and he marched out to the kit,! en to law, then I'm colic Into politics. I Hip scene In the woods between John wash and take off his overall. It took Lydla several day to comtell you, Lydla, what this country and the half breeds. That, then, wn needs today more than anything Is a part of the process of removing the plete her task. When It was d 'lie the young, clean politician." "You mean you're going to do like Mr. Levlne?" God forbid!" exclaimed the young men llk man. Tm g"hK bo and heck." And paused by Irvine. The lireek sphinx was not a monu- was modeled after that of the reigning looked at Lydla dreamily, "I'll be govof ment, like the surviving sphinxes of monarch, or sometimes from that ernor and maybe more, yet." the Greek of a queen. creature was She persistwhat's changed you?" T.ut I'gypt. Of the numerous Kgyptlan sphinxes ed Lydia. mythology, having the body of a Hon. serthe most celebrated and rn.ark able, "The Relit about the reservation, the wings of a bird, the tall of a t Sphinx of Gl There's something wrong, pent and the head of a woman. She of course, Is the mostly. a riddle, as a with the r.ch, Thcbans of the among pyramids lying government presented you know, in system all the necropolis, From Inthat allows conditions like that. It's uceordlng to the legend, ami slew It. guardian those who were unable to guess scriptions found on this famous monagainst American principles." m and In cha- ument when the dut of ga at It She solved length, was forgot Impressed. Rdlpus Lydla and In a cliff It of over cleared from front the herself cast she away the of barnyard. grin that Billy smelted 1S1I, the figure Is taken to represent Well." she said, "we'd all be proud died. Somewhat similar composite figures llarmachla, a special form of the sun of you If you were I'residenl, 1 can familiar In Kgyptlan art bodies god. are tell you." -voice was lions with heads of ither animals be!" of Billy's Would you will you wait or of men. The Creeks called th'Lydla. "Then, F org noble pleased. we have and sphinxes, representations for tneT M. Whistler, the artist. wh James EgypTo the adopted their term. "Walt for your were artis- was noted for his peculiarities, on one "Yes, till I make a name to bring to tians, however, the figures en art an Imaginary ani- occasion was wu'.klng about tic conceptions of you." lo acwith eyeglass gallery, gating mal believed to be a favorite Incarna"Look here. Lydla flushed angrily. Another at tion the artist, picture. The pbaraohs sun god. to be tion of Ite, the Billy Norton, you don't have of who knew him slightly, was sllllt.g In ilesecnduiits be the held to were known we've silly, afler all the years in earth. the ceiiter of the room wi,n a friend each other. 1'tti only fifteen. Just r" He, and bis representatives bliu ni.d begged en Int int0 For that reason the face of a sphinx approached member lhat, and I don't rPP Whltler. treiii.g tery duction to wait for any man. I'd as soon think to be able to grant his friends proud as for you, of walling for for Adam, request, he rose stnl approached the Baldneu and Bromt anbow." American. new day. every learn We something with dignity, and without 1'llly "Hh. Mr. Whistler." be n!4 a little a cloe discovered n word sirode down the psth to the Thus a scientist has 'excuse me, this la my and nervously, hair of loss the between gate and thence up the road. Lydla kinship It." Mr. friend. Is to say stared after Win Indignantly. "That the growth of brains. tsThat In bis slow march Intelhalted Whistler more man headed bald old farmer!" he said to Adam, who the and then looking room, around the brother. . lectual than his well thatched wriggled and slobbered, sympathetic-allyhis shoulder and casting a over back bald But the Perhaps, perhaps. rapid glance st H, he replied, "oh, still to prcva It, She was still Indignant when John yeadd men have wall, U dusau t matter." Philadelphia Inquirer. Levlue arrived and found her toast "'1 it o driver arrived with the csrry-a- t nine o'clock the next morning. at mid afternoon, Lydla was ,;d at the gate, where Adam took po. , , !),, n f,f jiPr The hi.ti-- e seemed small and dingy. Lvdiii dropped her suitcase In the k!M,rt,. "I" Just got to train old Mule," - Mid. "so that she won't leave her d cnrp't sllppera and her apron In il.. mldd'e of the kitchen every time of to.- out. I do w bad lh firnlture Instead of this I) tl iT i Ml-,!- ever-Isvfiti- g dd tnahogRDy. I Just gues got to be some reforming In hoinr, (hi fnimmer." Arno tame In th rate ahortlv after It l ydla wn waiting for him at the front dor. He looked suddenly tr.'-and old to Lydla and she l"-c- . him ery tenderly. It required ! th supper hour and all the of the evening to tell the tory at the camp and to aower LU-- " and Amos' question. There ero efveral did not eptsoa lydla - rib ; tj,,,t pf tt,e half breed council In ti e wod. for example. Lvfl'a was sitting on th froot X. StokM I C.) Flush your kidneys by drinking a quart of water each day, also take salts occasionally, says a noted who tt.lls us that too much cracks were still prominent and the rMi food forms acids which almost oily finish was spotted. But in Lydia's puraly.o the kidneys In their effort. eyes it was a work of art and she cut tu expel It from the blood. They bethe old carpet Into three parts with come KluATijlsh itlid Weaken: thell you enthusiasm. She sewed the fringe on limy suffer with a dull misery In the the rugs, on the front porch. Sitting kidney region, sharp pains In (he back ho, she could xee Margery when she or sick headache, dizziness, your appeared far down the road. On the stomach sours, tnmruo is coated, and afternoon on which she finished the when the tat her is bad you lutvn last of the rugs Ohaille Jackson and rheumatic twinges. The urine get-- j not Margery appeared. cloudy, full of sediment, the channels He admired the rugs und the gleam often get sore and irritated, obliging of the shining floor through the doorvoti to seek relief two or three times way. Then, without preamble, he during the night. asked, "Did you talk to Levlne, To help neutralize these irritating Lydia?" acids, to help ili'anse the kidney "He be Just and Hush off tho "Yes," she said. body's urinous waste, doesn't see It any way put his, Charget four ounces of .lad Salts from rhy lie! He Insists that the only way to here; take a taldespootiful save you Indians Is to make you work pharmacy In a glass of water before breakfast for a living." a few days, and your kidneys may "He's doing It all for our good, for net tine. Tbl.s famous salts I then huh?" sneered Charlie. from the ncbl of grapes and made "He doesn't pretend. He says he coint'.tiiod with lilhla, nml lemon Juice, wants the land. He's paying for It, h:;s been used for years to help flush though." also "Paying for It!" cried the Indian. and stimulate sluggish kidneys; "How's he paying for It, do you to neutralize the atdds In the system so they no loiu-v- r Irritate, thus .often know?" relieving bladder weakness. "No, and I don't want to know! Jad Salts Is Inexpensive, cannot InI'm tired of hearing things about Mr. Levlne." jure aid makes n delightful efferveslithlu-wate- r drink. "I don't care If you are," said Char- cent lie, grimly. "You might as well decide l if1 'jtom right .now whether you're going to take him or me for your friend. You can't ... have us both." "I wouldn't give up Mr. Irvine for I Quidt ivciicI A plrnrant effective iftup. s anyone on earth." Lydia's voice shook JV: anil tiOc tfrt l'lSO'3 rurrmWiii, "And I don't with her earnestness. 1 Uront and Cheat see why I have to be dragged Into this business. I've nothing to do with It." A 11111 II I I. Cmtl'l KXION I. rnii'r II K. n.rhUH.Ui'l.A hhm "You have, too! You're white, and Dr. C. II lliy.iiiril.-u.iI pi. VV, tliirtiiio. rrr l.o. It's every white's business to Judge In this. Tou'll be taking some of the profits of the reservation If It's thros-open, yourself." "I "I will not!" cried Lydia. wouldn't want an Inch of that land." Then she caught her breath. Something within her said. "Wouldn't, eh hanrlem oil has been a worldnot the vast acres of cathedral pines, wide remedy for kidney, liver and you thought of as yours, at camp?" bladder disorders, rheumatism, She flushed and repeated vehemently, "Not an inch!" uric acid conditions. and luir.bago Charlie smiled cynically. "Listen, Lydla, I'll tell you how Levlne pays for bis Indian lands." HAARLEM OIL patient's MriAaf-mr- 3W , r CHAPTER XII The High School Senior j "Years ago," began Charlie, grimly, "my father foresaw what the whites None of the other were trying to d full bloods hAVrH him. Father was the chief of the tribe and he called council after council until at last they all decided he'd better go to Washington and see If be could get help from the Indian commissioner. Kven then John Irvine had a following of He fold the yellow curs to kidnap my father and he'd see If ha r half-breed- i j correct internal troubles, stimulate vital organs. Three sizes. A'l ilriiggiMs. Insist en the original gen'jine Gold MkdaU ' Fattest Empire Knight Maul I'omare, minlMt-- of health lu New Zealand for the last 11 years. Is reputed iii I. Mhe most eorpiilent knight of the l'.iiti--emidre. Tradition In New Zialato! requires lhat at least olio luehd'cr of cabinet should lie a Ma. ill. nlnl r.Jiiare lills Hint ride, lie n - u by profosjin. a gra of the I'hherslly of l 'liicagn. I'liy-lt-ia- DEMAND "BAYER" ASPIRIN Aspirin Marked With "Bayer Cross" Has Been Proved Safe by Millions. Warning! 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Invalids' Hotel Fierce, President n won-(l-'tfu- t.!r'-ngt- ;r-a- re 1 MS X living- f lie If 1 Srrlc rNU Have Kidneys Up an Aful Fight and Thsy Killed Hinv." "Fathtr Put could make him more reasonable. Ro the half breeds laid III amhiith the day father started for Washington. Father put up an awful fight an I they killed him!" I yd;, dropoh. I'hiirtle;" cr'-ping her setth g "Hh, Charlie 1" 'Yes." Mid the Indian, (Moely, "and d n't there be was lelne tu'Kh my fathers murderer as if he'd fired the shot. Of roiire, cth Irg was ecr done by the authorlt:e I! was bushed up as an Indian n. twenty then, 1t.lt in) s!'er, she sn4 ahs she found out about rpn.e in and set t're to bis bne ona night, lhink!t g she'd burn Mm U Instead of that, she Just death. siared Ids old hired tn.in. ubo was r from home. drnr.k. l evlne was Hut he's a devil. He found out It as my sister end h told ber tha y she ru!d keep frota retnj was (o sell him all tr rrw jailed Ho she ffia, for a hundred dollars.. but she shot St dm thai Thankg!vtii blfchl when he'd been st jmur hwu. a cx x 7 IX W S.i (TO ItuSaK In N. Y.. au I reelv good al advice. f: e Have o'i evr tried I'r Pierre's Pleasant pellets for the stomach ai.d D.e tit boeU IC Your dealer has them--fi- n Pellet. vial. cents, in handy r '. thmigh jit b Irritated trA throat, Ilne 1 j P rr'.ieva the breath with s BOOKS 41 Ilia So. Irnipie, W. N. U, Sflt Xcaa 1'cm ret I'onk Co, Salt Lake City. Utah Ut C ly, No. |