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Show THE SAUNA SI N. cluster of towering trees. Indeed, trees were everywhere about the farm, which had grown up in a regular sapa The Mardi Gra F '.TAX A UTAH Relief Is Found From Stomach Trouble The buildings were in ling forest. a ruinous state dupboards banging By H. BEDFORD-JONE- S loosely, roots dotted by gaping holes, Copyright by Doubieday, page & Co. rage people? They bought it Inno- doors and w indows long since gone. nope for the millions of unlortur.ate A peculiar smile twisted Leaving t lit car, Gramont, followed cently. CHAPTER IX Continued. men and women who are victims of bells lips awry. 13 In fact, they by t lie chauffeur, went to tiie front Hooks be 3 snorted the chief, bought it from a man named Ham- doorway and surveyed the wreckage stomach trouble is sounded by Wilinside. liam Floylen, of 16 Spring St., Bristol, leaned forward end Look mond. as tiie evidence will show very earnestly. What do you say, Hammond? Think Conn. Mr. lToylen was a victim of ! Do you beliexe in your clearly. here, Fell Ben Chacherre started, since lie had we can stop here, or go back to tiie stomach trouble In Its worst form, hut jier.it that Maillard killed bis father? sold that car himself. Then a slow hotel? It's not much of a run to was completely restored to health by I'ell was silent a moment under that i For Your Own Good Please Read Thera came into his thin features a town grin taking Tnnlac. lie says: Intent scrutiny. fireHammond wide a to of For fifteen I that pointed widened into a noiseless years had attacks "From the evidence. I nm forced grin Last fall I would often sit down and cry. and was Youngstown, Ohio. place facing them. stomach trouble, and had been in bed to feel mean and my back hurt against my will to believe it. he said laugh. began always blue and had i.o ambition. I can get this shack cleaned out in for three weeks when I me and I cou'.d hardly do my little Lit Master, you are magnificent!' he Of course, hell be able to was this way for over a year and kail got Tanlac, t.t last. about one half an hour this room, but three bottles built me up fifteen of housework. I was played out allowed myself to get into quite and roe. Well, if there is Homj.rce that he was not the Masquer on said, when I would just sweep one room anyhow. When we get a fire goin in pounds, and made a well man of me. condition. One day I saw your previous occasions; ids alibis will take ing further on hand, I shall go to bed. and would have to rest. 1 would have and I am now in the daily neper and and board advertisement windows tiie "An there, up excellent t said of steak and bat. Jachin to program. onions, one the point of the eating Up to put a cushion behind me when I began to take Lydia E. rinkl.ams we be to comfortable doors, ought and took ids hut from tiie desk, and feel just fine In every way. murder, his story is all right. And, Fell, would sit down and atnightl could not Vegetable Compound at once. I have I must get some enough. But suit yourself, capn! It's sleep myself. Undigested food ferments In the my friend, there is a chance a very sleep unless 1 had something under improved ever since taking the third funeral. your back. I had awful cramps every They left tiie office and the buildstomach and soon the entire system is Him. tenuous chance that his entire bottle and find it is the beet medicine my AH right. Go filled with Gramont laughed. 1 have ever takea. niontl) and wes just nearly ail in. Tanlac was depoisons. story is true. In that case, another ing together. Three hours afterward the dawn ahead and clean up, then, and if rain signed to restore the stomach to a Finally my busbana said to me one person must have appeared as the Benefited by First Bottle day, "Why dont you try Lydia B. had set in a cold, gray and dismal conus down we can camp here. Be Masquer, which seems unlikely healthy condition and build up tiie I inkhams medicine V and I said, 1 I was completely run down and sure vermin. and and look for snakes dawn that rose upon a city littered Or else." put in Ben Clmcherre, whole body. Millions everywhere have am willing to take anything if I could not able to do my housework. I just tloor seems sound, and if theres Tiie with the aftermath Lean of carnival. 1 acclaimed its wonderful power. Get a smoothly, the real original Masquer get well again. So took one bottle dragged myself around and did not it was, in sober fact. Wednesday and a second one and felt better and allowed up! have energy to get upwben once I sat bottle today. Thus far, the city iu general was igthe neighbors asked me whet I was down. I read advertisements of There was an Instant silence. Tanlac is sold by all good druggists. doing and said, uurely it must be do-iFell regarded Ids henchman witli norant of tiie tragedy which had taken Lydia E. Pinkhums Vegetable ComAdv ertisement. I have ju3t veil good all right in cur paper The Indiana Daily at tiie pound conclusion of place its Ben very Chucherre met steady gray eyes. finished my eighth bottle and I canTimes, and teamed all about it. I re gayest carnival season. Within a few t be look with almost a trace of Gentlemen of the Guard. not express to you how 1 feel, the ceived results from the very first bothours business and social circles The original function of the houseThe chief frowned darkly. way 1 would like to. If you can use tle and now I am doing all my own lie would swept by tiie fact of Joseph hold cavalry was to protect the kings this letter you are welcome to it and Yes, said the chief. "Thats the work, even washing and ironing, and if any woman does not believe what I I never felt better in my life. I tell size of it. Fell. Youre beepin' quiet Maillards murder, but at this early person, and Charles II saw to It that have written to be true, she can wiito all my friends it is due to ycu. Mrs. his life guards were recruited from old about the name of the real Masquer; point of tiie day tiie city slept. Tiie to me and 1 will describe my condia which Elizabeth Reinbold, 403 N. Pina carried moruing Even papers, tiie families. Cavalier today privates why? tion to her B9 I have to you. Mrs. Indianapolis, Indiana. were men of very good families, and Because," said Fell, calmly, I hap- news story that promised to shock Elmer IIeaelpy, 141 S. Jackson St, St,You should pay heed to the experistun tiie and were entire fine well uniforms were Their in community, the audipaid. pen to know that he was Youngstown, Ohio. ences of these women. They know not yet distributed. and finer swagger were an essential torium at the time of the murder. how they felt before taking the VegI was very nervous and runGrn-niobefore of Whitehall. .Rising of tiie Beu daylight, Henry Clmcherre stared splendor part Again silence. etable Compound, und afterwards, down, writes Mrs. I E. Wiese of and Hammond breakfasted early too. Their words art, true. 706 Louisa St, New Orleans, La. I tit tell, with amazement and admiraThey were called Gentlemen of tiie Guard. Text-Boo- k When the master and were off by six in the car. They tion in his gaze. 13. Private IMnkliams upon Ailments Lydia I. os. he lies magnificently ! he mur- were well outside town and sweeping Peculiar to VI omen will be sent you free upon request. V rite on their way to Terrebonne parish Cuticura for Pimply Faces. to tbe Lydia 13. Piukham Medicine Co., Lynn, Massachusetts, mured in French. To remove pimples and blackheads Well." and tiie chief gestured de- and the town of Pnrndls before they smear them with Cuticura Ointment. I guess that lets out the realized that tiie day was not going spairingly, to brighten appreciably. Wash off in five minutes with CutiInstead, it real Masquer, eh? cura Soap and hot yater. Once clear very cloudy and gloomy, No use remained assented Fell. Exactly, a chill threat of rain in tiie air. with Putnam Fadeless Dyes dyes or tints as you wish keep your skin clear by using them for it. name bis into Ill keep dragging Weather mattered little to Gramont. daily toilet purposes. Dont fail to inst work on this, chief, and if anyNOTHING WORSE IN PROSPECT When tiie excellent highway clude Cuticura Talcum. Advertisement COULD DO WITHOUT UNIFORM thing turns up to clear young Mail-lar- was leftfinally on and started behind, they I'll be very glad. last lap of their seventy-mil- e AT LEAST GUILTY OF LYING Youthful Fijian Proved Anew That Traveler Satisfied He Had Got Over ride, All right, grunted the cldef, and the they found tiie parish roads execrable the Most Uncomfortable Part of rose. Til be on my way. Necessity is the Fertile Mother noon was and tiie slow. Tints, His Journey. From going Invention. Refrained of Had Truly Clergyman lie departed. Neither Fell nor at hand when they at length pulled inBlasphemy, but He Had Sinr.ed moved or spoke for a space. n coul op A traveler from Fiji In tiie old days in Another Direction. W, S. Jnglis, tiie When at length the clang of the ele- to Paradis, the town closest to Lucie I.edanois bayou land. The rain was Think We Can Stop Here, or GO reports that nt times in tiie past orator, ti Id a railroad story nt a railvator door resounded through the deholding off. A clergyman who years ago settled Back to the Hotel? when tiie game was first Introduced road men's banquet In Scranton. serted corridors Ben Chacherre slipped stillToo cold to rain, observed Gra"There used to be a little line, b in Massachusetts once reproxed a tlieie the IiJ'ans used to get waves from his chair and went to the outer hotel-anof moss on tiie trees, we enn workman for mont. hit tiie Let's for outa lirane!. line about 12 miles pbrty some was lie in and while of cricket said, mildness, swearing door. Me glanced out into the hall, to eat. Ill have to initke up comfortable beds. Too bad plowing a new field. villages xx lit re it was tut so long, that was notorious for Its bumps, lying closed the door, and with a nod re- get something locate the land, which is somewhere youre not n fisherman, or we might . I guess readily quelled by law a match would general discomfort ijnd dirt. "Swear! said tiie man. turned to his chair. near town. get a fresh fish out of tiie bayou In! A train on tins line pulled into on end. swear ou'd be lor weeks, kept Well? uj) Jachin Fell regarded him I got some tackle in town," and j They discovered the hotel to be an Have they wore I Heir pails town one morning, late half an hour, Whereupon tiie preacher tool; the cidentally, with intent, searching eyes. Hammond ancient and grinned widely. structure, boasting prices on Hurried their naked, bootless legs as usual, and a man said us he ros and after occaon it, Indignantly to the throw plow strapped you any light Good work! Tiien make yourself of Lafitte and his buccaneers. worthy as a the witli Then, very ludicrous effect. But evi- and brushed himself off: denying tiie charge. sion? As In many small towns of Louisiana, at home and go to it. Weve most of field became more behe the Well, thank goodness, the worst cool usual of impassable, dently air impuFijians have no sense of rhaclierre's the food proved fit for a the afternoon before us. the ludicrous, for our traxeler further part of my journey is over. gan panting: dence was never in evidence when he however, Gramont left the house, and headed king. After a light luncheon of quail, Coin far? said another man. I never saw tiie like! I never saw reports: Another distinguishing talked with Mr. Fell. down toward the bayou shore. and illegal probably crayfish bisque, When he had gone once murk that rather amused me once up the like! llong Kong, China, said the first lie said, shaking his head. "No, that Gramont a He took from his venison, sighed letter regret pocket, house when was field lie boy. the round my chap." breathless, country stopped, Hammond worked on the car until he could eat no more, and sot about opened it, and glanced over it anew. It and added: Esau, came in one day with ids lmlr about nine oclock, then beat it to Ledanois where farm tiie an one him was old lay. written inquiring Waited Long for Fortune, letter, necesit I see find cot didn't 1 away from one side of his bond. There, you bed, guess. I quit the Job at ten, There was very little, indeed, to nearly two years previously by Lucie He might have been rich fifteen to swenr." like a somewhat weird part- looking sary and his light bad been out some time. Paradis, which lay on the bayou hut Ledanois. It had been written mere"No," said tiie other, hut youve ing, for tiie remainder stood up as years ago, but a Belgian who pnr-osm-il Well, master, this is a queer affair! well from tiie railroad. It was a ly in the endeavor to distract tiie away like a bass broom with bristles based a bond in MUM hadnt applied told moren 50 lies. Yon snid you There's no doubt that Gramont pulled desolate spot, and unkempt. thoughts of a wounded soldier, to never did see the unpainted saw five inches and like, yon long. 1 asked him what on for the list of numbers drawn in It, eh? The parish seat of Houma had robbed bring his mind to .Louisiana, away it all the time I was he had been doing anil he re- - state lotteries in 11)07. A poor man earth plowin'. You think so?" asked Fell. it of all life and growth on the one from tiie stricken fields of France. In Chacherre made a gesture of assent. piled: Sir, 1 am now a member of the; from the country happening to bo on tiie other, tiie new oil and the letter Lucie had described some of hand; A Lomaloiou Early. lonn, and we have in Antv.erji for tin first time for Beginning When the tree falls, the kid can climb district had not yet touched it. more interesting features of P.ayou tiie gas inA our was scouts to hair like this, as the1 many years, entered the offices of tlio of ! cut It city troop girl agreed Any fool can see that Gramont Southward lay tiie swamp fully Terrebonne the oyster and shrimp a store cannot get 11 sashes all tiie Uoisse Commuuale to see if the bond its by bolding treasury vas the man. Don't you think so creasing which he had taken out in the iotiu forty miles of it, merging by degrees fleets, the Chinese and Filipino vil- candy sale in he downtown district. A same color.' -- London yourself, master? into the Gulf. Forty miles of cypress lages along the gulf, the of 1003 Imd xvon a prize in the yearly one little newsboy approached Jachin Fell nodded. ragged marsh and winding bayou, uncharted, cypress swamps ; the bubbling founlottery. He thought that perhaps lie of the uniformed girls and asked for Yes. But weve no evidence evSport Costume. save h.v occasional hunters tains, natural curiosities, that broke a unexplored Inhad xvon 110 f ranch in this years 1 in of chocolate Kin this worth Maillard. dimes game? lies poker fudge. git against young erything sheriffs. No man up through the streams and bayous of or After waiting impudently while draw. Sam. 15 tiie took He laid down cents, Fariv in the morning Gramont goes to knew who or what candy quired searched tiie records lie might be in those the whole wide parish fountains that and started out. cashier tiie an' East send if yerself g't 1arbdis to examine that land of Miss youll xvns Informed that ids number had swamps, and no one cared to know. were caused by gas seeping up from 1 answered n Cactus Joe, a bathin' suit. dimes thought you just wanted The man who brought in fish or tiie earth's interior, and breaking been drawn in 1007. and that he xvtn "niebbe we'll let you sit In. scout. little said the worth, oysters in his skiff might he a bayou through. 1 Whats the idea of tiie bathin' entitled to a bonus of 200.000 francs did; that's your t'p. answered Gramont knew that plans were alfisherman, and lie might be a mur($10,000 at normal exchange rates). as lie darted out. In- suit? derer wanted in ten states. Furiosity ready afoot to tap this field of natural the youngster, sleeves ner no It aint got pockets News. was apt to prove extremely unhealthy. gas and pipe it to New Orleans. Oil dianapolis to tempt a man to hide out aces. Imagination. where chance lmd uli been Like tiie Atchafalayn, the state found, too. and Tommy, ace four, xvent wit li his sisBe to Cheated. Not Fortunes were betravelers find themselves abruptly or was noiv ter. early in ti e spring, to pick violet Parcel Post in New York. Grandfather and Betty were paythe Terrebonne ing made daily, and other fortunes elsewhere. dered in the xvoods near his home. One day, leave 600.(100 s n More raw! than to the packages visit patch, terry swamps have their own secrets and were being lost daily h.v those who ing a few xvcks later, be and bis mother York Newexery day. berries by pnrel pot dealt with oil stocks instead of with lie picked some small. luscious know how to keep them. accompanied some friends on an automanufacturing For tiie them clothing ami fed l'ttle tc tine girl. large Gramont Imd no difficulty in locat- oil. himself he found mmh larger ones. concern alone sends out as manv ns mobile ride. A the ear passed along it Those gas fountains did tiie work ! ing the Ledanois land, and lie found road bordered wi!h loeu 0 trees in full him for a few mo- :,0.(MKi n day, xdiile n Ig department And according to Betty watched that it was by no means in t He swamp. reflected Gramont. or Mother, I se 2.000 bloom. Tommy said: to 1.000 : from mails Grandstore ments, and then sai'i. gravely t!ds letter theres one of those founA part of it. lying closer to Houma, violets grow in' on trees. I more too. can eat the ones, large father, had been sold and was now included tains here in the hayou, close to her in tiie new oil distrirt; it was this porproperty. Just opposite tiie dock. she tion which Joseph Maillard had sold says. Tiie first thing is to find tiie off. dock, then tiie fountain. After that, The remainder, and the largest por- well decide if it's true mineral gas. tion. lay north of Paradis and ran If it is, then tiie works done for I'll along the west hank of tiie bayou for sure take a chance on finding oil near farm, it ! half a mile. A it was higli ground, with tiie timber Gramont came to the hayou and bewell cleared off and excellently lo- gan searching his way along the thick cated; but tenants were hard to get and high fringe of bushes and saplings and shiftless when obtained, so that that girded tiie water's edge. Presentthe place had not been farmed for the ly lie came upon the ruined evidences last five years or more. After getting of what had once been a small boat these farts, Gramont consulted with sited. Not far from this he found the Hammond. dock referred to in tiie letter; nothing "Ve'd better buy some grub here in was left of it except a few spiles proto stay a couple of truding from the surface of the water. Leek Fere, Fell! Do You Believe in town and arrange on if necessary, he But lie had no need to look farther. the farm, nights Ycur Heart That Maillard Killed His said. There are some buildings there, Directly before him, he saw that Father? so well find shelter. Along the bavou which lie was seeking. I edamus Hell are summer cottages 1 believe some along the bayou. A dozen feet out from shore the waunion of Nature, Science and the Farmer is c part probably say nothing of this murder of. them rather pretentious places ter was rising and falling in a continulife. for tu Hammond, and the chauffeur may and we ought to find tiie road pretty ous dome or fountain of highly In the gulden sheaves of living wheat, and in the wavnot bud out about it until a day or decent. It's only three or four miles charged bubbles that rose a foot above two they get few newspapers down out of town. ing, shimmering fields of barley Nature stores the vital tiie surface. Gramont stared at it. With some provisions piled in the motionless. He watched it for a space there. elements of human power and energy which Science concar. they set forth. Tiie road wound Drive down to Paradis in the morn-lefood. into Grape-Nut- s the famous body-buildin- g verts then, abruptly, he started. It was a Ben; get into touch with Hamalong the bayou side, past ancient violent start, a start of sheer amazeGrape-Nut- s with milker cream is a complete food, which mond. and discover what time Gra-s- r 'Cajun farms and the squat homes of ment and incredulity. contains all the nutrition (including the mineral elements) ii ii t Write me fishermen. Here and there had been got home tonight. He leaned forward, staring no longer v hat you find out. Then take charge jdaeed camps and summer cottages, required for making rich, red blood, and for building sturdy at tiie gas dome, but at the water of tilings at the Gumberts place. Make nestling amid groups of huge oaks and closer inshore. For a moment he body tissue, sound bone structure and strong, healthy sure that every car is bandied right. cypress, whose fronds of silver-granerve cells. thought that his senses had deceived moss bung In drooping clusters like him, then he saw that the A headquarters man from Mobile will tiling was The easy to baking process makes Grape-Nut- s here tomorrow to trace the Non- pale and ghostly shrouds. there indeed, there beyond any doubt and crispflavor sweet and that now tiie road delicious, Gramont Twelve digest develops that Watching closely, a of trace faint Iridescent pareil very light ness that has made this food a favorite the worlJ over. owns." suddenly found tiie landmarks that that played over the surface of the orChaeherre whistled under his breath. had been described to him, and water. 99 dered Hammond to stop and turn in W1 at?" (TO BE CONTINUED.) In a the fence which had once Jai'liiu Fell smiled slightly and at gap Yes. If Gramont remains been an entrance gate. Cleaning Hint. coddl'd. When youre cleaning house sprlnuie Here we are! Those are the buildat Paradis. I may send him on down there I in not sure yet. I intend to ings off to the right. Whew ! I should the clothes closets with a little water say it lmd been abandoned ! Nothing in which tobacco has been steeped and get roinething on that man Hammuch left hut ruins. Go ahead ! then sprinkle with a little spirits of Sold by grocers everywhere! mond. The latter destroys tbe Before them, as they drove in from camphor. Put you caut land him that way, Made fcy Postum Cereal Company, Inc., Battle Creek, Mich. the road by a drive, odor of the former snd together they master! He bought the car and a barn showed amid will prevent annoyance by moths. house, shed, ud Mia sold the car to the ga Thess Letters Recommending Lydia E. 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