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Show c Im "Eirrn - i r- ti:,:es. i.emt.r. i:taii x .r - i b m arm r jn w m A s L tT-- ; -- QUIRKS x QUEER . IN HUMAN I R.' HARRY R TAI ITIN4 X Your Kidneys WNU 6frvlc r-v A Victory in Mud Must Function Properly For You to ba Well ITA EAVY V rains enubled King Henry of England, with a fore of 10,000 men to defeat a French army of 100,000 In the Battle of Aglncourt, thus preparing the way for an English prince to be crowned king of France and England. King Henry V crossed the channel to Harfluer In Normandy with 80,000 men, when the French refused to recognize his claim to the crown of France, In August, 1415. Besieging that place for Ave weeks he lost of his army by sickness and death, and was left in a perilous position as his ships had returned to England with sick and wounded. 8etting out on the march to Calais rnd relief, the king's army came upon the great French force at the village of Aglncourt. He disdained to surrender, although to fight, appeared So confident were the hopeless. French that they laid plans to put all the invaders to the sword except the king and a few nobles who were to be held for ransom. The battle was fought on ground rendered soft and marshy by long rains. The French army consisted chiefly of heavily armed cavalry, the archers. AftEnglish of light-armed er one volley of arrows, the English leaped to the attack with hatchets. The French advance had been checked by the mud Into which their horses sank to their saddle-girthIn this predicament they were g helpless before their foes, who soon demoralized the front ranks and swept the entire army Into disorder. Ten thousand Frenchmen were killed, including the flower of the nobility. The English were victorious. Four years later the assassination of Duke John the Fearless of Burgundy by a servant of the Dauphin Charles swung the Burgundlan party of France into alliance with King Henry V and the cotiquest of France was assured. The untimely death of Henry V the Prince Hal of Shakespeare's play robbed him of the final triumph, but his son, the Infant, Henry VI, was crowned at Paris as king of England and France in 1422 A. D. It remained for Jeanne d'Arc, the heroine of Orleans, to deliver France from the English. rich food and 1ATE hour, drinks are all hard on our kidney. It their action become iluggith, they do not thoroughly cleanse tho blood of poisonous wastes. Such impurities may make one dull, tired and achy, with often toxic backache, drowsy headaches and dizziness. A common ymptom of imperfect kidney function it scanty or burning excretion. Thousands have learned the virtu of Doan't Pilli, stimulant diuretic in these conditions. 50,000 users have publicly recommended Doan't. Atlf your neighbor! two-thir- ds vrrir '- ' - -. NM".-;:-- J 50,000 Users Endorse Doan's: tmbftrt cant end scaldinf I VALLEY t What visions of horror t hose words conjure up In the mind of one who knows anything about tills fnnious "spot In southern California visions of an Inferno of heat nnd thirst, n mirrnw vnllpv shut EAT ard .note ate WDit! It man i Kt'j wad IB iiac r iltnof f:nd l.ving f by I'Md irt m 11 below sea level, the low- est point on the American continent; I Ms of a white plain across which the heat res shimmer hikI (!an-e- , of of cool h which appear before the mirages of dying ej'es mock their thirst, then vanish, of a f lute,to harron f hind, wiiose terrific heat literally Is up men's blood in their veins and drives I' Dlad l'fore they die ; a plague spot to be S tlmofJ iratfi SCOTT WATSON ELMO By all living was Death Valley of creatures. Valley of yesterday. But the today is different True, the ' and the thirst are Mill there. Vit it is no ff a place to be shunned by nvan. Instead, now actually being opened to tourist slght-"trafic and Is being advertlned as a new ground"! And the fnvitnttnn tniirfsfa lsit DtH.th Vaii'y comes from no less a host the United States nntlonni ncri L.nr,.i Tha liiig announcement was recently made by n T. Mather, director of the service: M for ie accommodation par is of visitors I now being completed on the very edge of ibe 8 I ' fw nill,,s from Ryan. A magnificent "f the valley with its frame of Jnwed I ll hI1,J ff'lnnting colored clITs may be from p S fr yaii ihml Is $ 5 fees; tin- , d led the hotel. Imgements have ! various points '"" r "ie also been cmde for side of interest. One of the is Dunte's where rjenk, w elevation of (1,000 feet the' visitor may th Vf,lloy- - wllich at this point lies pet below sea level ravelers will he abI e to cet on a train In ? AnKeles about 6 m. and reach the hotel ; if! mnrnt.. S DeXt if In'rr "I,lnysroun(l" his already been opened lmrl t(' e exact but if you expect will have y I'o Ik , re V,,lloy 41,19 !- g.,j, , - Sfy ...be hill r h r" with . ltHi.. for "n that date the last Hereafter ' n ln tae faI1' always May Headline." For Death Valley. is In the win tor horinmna on "'"'ii ui ine fiununer sun ana IB, on out of the valley. bt l't t!ie f?'ri"li,r K:,y,ns ees- - "rt 0,,I-!n ""1,IIty'" of tlie'cae V , of 'ni!dity that kills. tvprJy, "m lnck 0L5n",ll,y ,s '"y .01 of 1 per cent. ,H1 ! 'ou that if you souse u b:ke( D , of wnter and .' pull one end out u Sfiibin? ,'ry tlmrougldy while von are ttl, r lll"f- fcr inV? 0r d,l WW handker-,am' h0la U UP- 11 19 (lry " I'le'stln, Jl,n,l' '"to water fully clothed and i l,(,ne ,,ry to Ihe last thread in hair ,, & It rR2 011 lllfi sl,n( nn1 ten win I"" ,"kl'l! hor,J- - Alfalfa cut In field v rur stacking In less than two yM ln reuth V!l!!(?y! katb Vntw . fti'l IIS n.'lllVA lllrlfiir K n (i Ihn Tiion n '". f nf .v,e x: - J rlr niln-Kua- spring ma f hlel"""81,1 mn P'l'l out from Galesburs.'. III.. fields. Late that summer r"'H'h Salt Lake City. Hah. ,1.- kri.... L" Vn" vj frp ti.i.i 'to Ran v r'ln'''f,(' e II -- -. 0 r,,iniiar niountam would lie beneath twenty si,,,.. ' JV'voda snow before lh tlio they could m"iilnln passes. TIipv wero uiirnoil. "f fate that had overtaken .he i.f i 11, f ""uer when d Wit 1 nU ,.,y loillicrn C'uli "'irnltt; ""s were Impnllcnt to wliSi oiJht nrgonatits, n'M'-- they ni'hmcf) of John Ijunt, who LV .ifo rn sof tier in ou-cried. bv. Death Valley I" she ..,,,. was named. ,,.un tiili occurred . ... AlUI'M.b' three-quarter- , And so it s , ol.nt of a have century ago, ,1 iVmil time to time in receui f peen ne." tho Tnv,.i,.ra fuan-somAs late as . Boi -John - Coilon hawker party Col. Pow jstepnens oi mm 111., and Lorenzo talk over their tnrin- " last living link wl.h the h jt-m- .. win 'r'U T n Oakland. Calif., at the di Last November, how-"!y hr l otl.h. Jayhawker, was recalled 2,,000-barrc- T r , BP,dn when danced in cel. mtr i ra u H'SI i. III Asn,., ...... slgmeil me , isi). , I first rly slllt(.,i tl-l- viihm)e 1!f,,avlng draughts m ...urn In y i" ora l pf Wells I stftveiJpe rll Death Mine. " f ami T.,ra inevpr,bpr yo on Bennett, W n l,f . waterhnle and i e the tlny d.'i;n-sMwhich gave th rv-tt- npw nrte;lan l v' It- In contracted to take them over the old Spanish trail to Los Angeles through San Bernardino. Progress was slow and some of the emigrants became dissatisfied. Having heard of a short cut leading west that would save 500 miles of their Journey, they decided, over Hunt's protest, to make the venture. The result was that shortly afterwards they found themselves In wh'it is now Death Valley, hemmed in by mountains through which there appeared to be no opening. There the party split. One group, 3G persons in all, young bachelors from Illinois who called themselves "The Jayhawkers," pressed on toward the mountains to try to find a way out of the trap. Some of them died of starvation, some of thirst and others went mad and wandered away to their deaths In the valley. In all, 13 of the 30 perished before they fought their way through to safety. In the meantime the rest of the party, iien with families, had found a tiny stream and there they camped to rest Rut their food supplies began to run low. Their oxen began to die and their wagons to fall apart In the blistering sun. So the leader, Asahel Bennett, sent two young fellows, Will Manley and John Rogers, forth to find a way out of this Bennett gave living hell. As they departed Mrs. of all she half rice of handful a double Manley had and silently pointed to the hunger-pinchemeanfaces of her children. He understood her and Rogers' efforts his of success the Upon ing. depended the lives of all the emigrants. return Then the party sat down to wait for the of the two scouts. A week passed two three At and still Manley and Rogers did not return. Asahel the end of the fourth week all except will Bennett's wife had abandoned hope. "They But they maintained steadfastly. she come back," one last desdid not and the party resolved upon stripping began They to escape. perate attempt schooners and the eanvas covers from the prairieemaciated oxen. their making pnek saddles upon returned! They And then Manley and Rogers of horror spent in the of days RPokp but briefly the next across to waterhoie struggling from one of miles of the Mojave desert, of the dead found bad along whom they the Jayhawker rnrty unrt food and- - most the trail But they way out of the found vit-of all they bad val'lev The'v gnldcd the party on the long climb of the I'anamint range which to tho the valley. As the emigrants upon down .rest and looked back Into the trap of - , lh,. Mory oi now , f in Industry that (h(1 am" - . v naming ... l.orax. whiJi ror.im I U pelpc.l ip al e discovered there. In Uc i i f,n,or..-i- . lv() Aiir,n Winters lived with his wife, Rosie, in a frontier home ln Ash Meadows, a tiny oasis east of Death Valley. To their home one day came a wandering prospector who told the Winters of the borax deposits in the state of Nevada and how a great fortune awaited anyone who could find more such deposits. Winters asked many, questions, Including the question of how a person could know borax if he discovered It. He was told that the best test was to ponr certain chemicals over the supposed borax deposit and then to fire it. If it were borax the chemicals would burn with a green flame. Winters had made many visits Into Death Valley, and after talking to the prospector was convinced that there was borax there. So he set out immediately, accompanied by his wife, and soon afterwards encamped on Furnace creek. In the marsh (which appears on Furnace creek in the spring) he gathered the most deposit. That night he made the test as the prospector had told him. There was a breathless moment of suspense and then Aaron Winters cried "Rosie, she burns green t We're rich I" The borax industry of Death Valley had come into existence. The next problem was how to get the rich borax deposits out of the valley. Out of necessity team wagons which are came the famous Inseparably associated with the name of Death Valley. For years this unique transport system brought the borax wealth out of Death Valley. Then the modern tractor wrote "finis" on another chapter of American transportation one whose like the world has never seen elsewhere. Thnt was written last year and It marked the passing of another era In the history of Death Valley. But borax Is not the only wealth which it contains. Gold was discovered there many years ago and it has been a favorite haunt for the e prospector, the lure of Its wealth being all the more attractive because of the dangers which guard it Remember the picturesque "Death Valley" Scotty, whose "find" there made him rich and who gained nation-wid- e notoriety by the freedom with which lie "blew" his wealth? Even more picturesque was another prospector who became known as the "Good Samaritan of Death Valley." Lou Westcott Beck was one of the great number who rushed to Death Valley at the news of Scotty's find. He nearly lost his life on Its barren wastes and when lie finally escaped he resolved to devote his life to saving others from (lie fate which he had so narrowly escaped in that dread region. Each summer Beck made a trip Into the valley of purple mist and great thirst, piling up rocks and placing signs on them to guide prospectors to waterholes, searching for lost travelers and guiding them to safety. For 13 years he did this work and during that time he and his companion, a Newfoundland dog named "Rufus," saved the lives of between three and four hundred travelers In the great American desertsthe Colorado and the Mojave ns well as Death Valley. Then ln HU7 Death Valley "got him" at last During one of his trips he came to a spring which he had always nsed and drank from it He offered gome wafr to Rufus, but the dog refused to drink. The spring had become infected. After a terrible trip to his home in Pasadena, where Mrs. Beck awaited their return, the "Good Samaritan" went to bed Hi nnd never rose again. The work which Beck Inaugurated has boo,, carried on by the United States geological survey until Death Valley Is now supplied with enough cl"n posts fo that It Is safe enough to trnvel for anyone who will use ordinary common sense and not take foolish chances. Those who iin not peon learn the truth of the prophetic waring of that "you can't fool with the desert. get yon every time." And now If von do of the I'lliled .Shite nrnounreinent hitont the even lhsi who "foul park service means that with her" have better than an even chance escape the dancers of thlj "land of thirst." likely-lookin- e old-tim- s g u auch a larerte There . did. They put ma in tine ahapo." DIURETICS The first Important "hands ucross the sen" movement, designed to cultivate more cordial relations between Britain and the United States, was n launched 50 years ago when the association was established, many men of prominence In both countries being Interested and enlisted to the support of the movement. In 1SSJ3 the league was formed at Stratford house In London for the purpose of securing tho ."most cordial and constant between nations which are closely allied In blood, inherit the same literature and' laws, recognize the same ideas of freedom and humanity, In the guidance of their national policy and are drawn together by strong common interests ln many parts of the world." Anglo-America- Anglo-America- n Fraf House Chat Ted unmarried woman wants An you on the phone. Bill How 'do you married know she's not ? Ted She said you are engaged. collector of King Edward II, A byTAXinsulting the daughter of Wat not to call you if If You Need a Tonic, Get the Best I Yakima, Wash. "I wish to certify that after using only four bottles Golden Medical Dis'f Dr. Pierce's covery I have been relieved of an I1 rundown feeling and loss of weight. After using the four bottles I gained 13 pounds. That was over a year ago and I have not lost a pound since. My blood was very thin and I was cold all the time. After using this medicine I feel fine and am not bothered with either the coldness or the rundown feeling." Mrs. Violet M. Palmer, 802 Broadway. When yon can quickly pick up and regain vim, vigor, vitality by obtaining this Medical Discovery of Dr. Pierce's at your neighborhood store, in tablets or liquid. Write Dr. Pierce, Pres. Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y., for free medical advice. run-dow- n Coon's Food Preferences In Belfast, Maine, is ti black an.l white coon kitten that loves above ail else a sultlne, preferring it to meat or fish, nnd will even uncover the cracker box and steal one in order to satisfy its taste. When the cracker is accompanied with a bit of cheese or an olive, so much the better. The kitten Is also fond of vegetables, especially spinach and cabbage. Its mother was born In a grocery store and IlveJ there, and during l.er three years ef existence ate nothing but hamburg steak, nnd never, as far as her master could determine, did she drink water r milk. The Sad Part "Where Is the young man you said gave such promise?'' "He began to slight his work; was continually tardy. I had to let hliu go." "He didn't give you a square deal." "That doesn't worry me. lie didn't u'ive himself a square deal." Important Life Rule I Pest of nil Is It to preserve everything In, n pure still heart and let there be for every pulse n thanks- giving, nnd for every breuth n song. Gesner. fk Monarch of Gems Fred Wells, manager of Premier near Pretoria, South Africa, one day In January, VM)", while on a slroll of Inspection, found what Is known as the Cullinan diamond. It weighed 3.0-1carats 14 pounds avoirdupois. Mine No. 2, Tha great valwe of d Once upon a time there was a young woman without 't en. 8 In the world. Then fhe l.iMi iht a p.jfr of lovely v.l.iie sl!k stocking. Del;.i Kews, l!j;h.-hearte- Bl!-An- c s in the relief of dlgeatlvedlsor Jcraef the atomacb and bowels is proved by its suoatsntlal Incrrssetn use every year for the pant ttilrty years. Promptly and property tsken we have nrver known It to fall. Send for free samples to Bcil & Co., Inc., Orangeburg, N. Y. Perfectly Hanajaas t Yonaf or Oid ( Familiar Story KIDNEYS For Harmony Between Britain and America The Birth of Democracy Tyler, a blacksmith of Deptford in Kent, first aroused the spirit of democracy in England and started contention between oppressor and oppressed, between capital and labor that was to develop Into the paramount political Issue ln most countries of the earth. . In 1381 parliament levied a tax of one shilling on every person ln England above the age of fifteen years. The Injustice of a tax that fell as heavily on the poor as on the rich stirred the British commons to deep resentment. When Wat Tyler heard that a collector of this tax had insulted his daughter he sallied forth with a hammer and knocked the fellow down. The peasants of Keut applauded and soon a great mob had gathered to defend Tyler against the king's vengeance. John Ball, "the mad priest of Kent," the first Foeiailstie reformer, had already gained a large following by preaching that property should be held In common. John Ball contended that Bible teaching did not contemplate a race of gentlemen and race of serfs, popularizing his theory with the Jingle: "When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?" Finding himself the leader of a hundred thousand enraged Kentlshmen, with Jack Straw, Hob Carter and Tom Miller as his lieutenants, Wat Tyler marched through England gathering adherents of John Ball's philosophy and killing every lawyer who fell Into his hands. Homes of stewards and records of manor courts were cast into flames. Noblemen Red from London at the approach of the peasants, who promptly took the, city. The young king. Richard II, addressed the mob from a barge on the Thames and later rode out to meet the rioters at Mile-End- , where he promised to free all serfs and give the peasants their land. Later the king encountered Wat Tyler, himself, and the mob leader behaved with such sturdy Independence that a knight In the king's train slew him. The king kept his word In part and eventually serfdom was abolished ln England. And the movement Wat Tyler headed, developed into a demand for the rights of man that has never slumbered since. : IbsterM'iIburnCo.li(i;.CUe.BuHalo.NY light-runnin- agaJ Md., sav DOAN'S Vlks s. :ngd; I STIMULANT well-aime- cud; WetoTr, .crow my beck thnt I couldn't bend or stoop. wii told to uae Doan't flllt end sha.ll always be glad that d t W. Cox. "Doan't Ptlts proved their valu to mo. My kitlneytacted ilugguhly and the lecretions wer H ;i l, fw.v.a OR k r. -- b K ... 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