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Show I THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSVILLE, UTAH After Every Meal Phe Prodigal Village AFriendof theFamily " Over fifty years ago a young physician practiced widely in Pennsylvania and became famous for his uniform success in the curing of disease. This was Dr. R. V. Pierce who afterwards established himself in Buffalo, N. Y., and placed one of his preserip- tions, which he called his Golden Medical Discovery, in the drug stores of the United States so that the public could easily obtain this Very remarkable tonic, corrective, Dr. Pierce and blood-make- r. manufactured this Discovery from roots and barks without alcohol a corrective remedy, the ingredients of which nature had put in the fields and forests, for keeping us healthy. Introduce pure red blood into the system, and health is assured. When you out of sorts, blue feel and despondent try the energizing influence of this reliable tonic. You can obtain Golden Medical Discovery in tablet or liquid form at all drug stores, or send 10c for a trial package to Dr. Pierce's Laboratory in Buffalo, N. Y. run-dow- n, Conventional Indoor Dree. Did you ever have an ambition to do something in life? Yes, mutn, said the supplicant for broken victuals. What was it? I wanted to be a drum major and strut around In one of them pretty red uniforms with gold braid on It, but the only uniform I ever wore was a striped one. Birmingham Age-IIeral- By Irving Bacheller t two Name on Genuine Bayer Beware I Unless you see the name Bayer" on package or on tablets you are not getting genuine Aspirin pre- scribed by physicians for twenty-on- e years and proved safe by millions. Take Aspirin only as told in the Bayer package for Colds, Headache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism. Earache, Toothache, Lumbago, and for Pain. Handy tin boxes of twelve Bayer Tablets of pirin cost few cents.' Druggists also lell larger packages. Aspirin Is the trade mart of Bayer Manufacture of of Sallcyllcacid. Monoacetlcacldester Adv. Wonderful. We just heard a young lady a wonderful young man took wonderful play in a wonderful bile and she had a wonderful Wonderful use they make Louisville word wonderful. say that her to a automo- time. of that Courier-Journa- l. Watch Cuticura Improve Your Skin. On rising and retiring gently smear the face with Cuticura Ointment. Wash ofTOlntment in five minutes with Cuticura Soap and hot water. It is wonderful sometimes what Cuticura will do for poor complexions, dandruff. Itching and red rough hands. Adv. The finest iron In the world is obtained from the mines of Dannamore, Sweden. Feel All W ora Out? infectious Hu a fold, grip, or other disease sapped your strength? Do you suffer backache, jack ambition, feel dull and depressed? Look to your kidney! Phyrioum agree that kidney trouble often results from infectious disease. Too often the kidneyi are neglected because the sufferer doesnt realize they have broken down under the strain of filtering disease created poisons from the blood. If your back is bad, your irregularly, and you feel all run down, use Doan't Kidney Pflli. Doon$ bare helped thousand -- ill your neighbor! John A Uuh Casa H. Whit- fanner, E. First North St., Utah, Ephraim, saya: Mr kidneys did not act at all right The secr--tocf tions passed I hadjUi freely and severa , to ret up v times each night Colds settled on m Backache kidney. tree Wed me and momiBgi I felt laxre nd tore. Tnrw boxes of Doans Kidney Pills completely relieved me and I haven t had any trouble since. Cat Deess at Aay Stem, 0e a BdU lock, 4 , f DOANS jaiv FOSTER .MILEURN CO-- . BUFFALO- - H. Y. Nlght ssd Morals jf Hoorn w TOUR jrvirC tlLJ Strong, Hoalthy . If they Tire, Itch, Smart or Burn, if Sort Granulated, useMurin. often. Soothes, Refreshes, Safe fo Infant cr Adult. At all Druggists. Write fc Free Eye Book. f!iss E? luHf UwOdw Dm hel.rr ii SON dvi t ( tir the snap j mb finger whether I get pour job or not. I feel like lapin' ojf for the summer and takxn' a rest. Well, g 7 ahead. Ill pap the bills. the ropes eame and 1 The first speaker is William Snodgrass, the village carpenter, and the second Mr. J. Patterson Bing, the rich man of Bingville, and their words give rou a hint of what high wages, profiteering, H. C. L., unrest, gross materialism and other direct and indirect result of the world war did to this typical American community. Of course The Prodigal Village ia much like the prodigal ton. It had to quit its joyrid ing in the course of time. And then It had to get hack to normalcy just as we all are getback. ting Irving Bacheller wrote this thoroughly American story. Enough said. garden. There were 111,1111 window', each with a vain head looking out of It. Suddenly half a dozen of tho'e merry people would rii'li into the air and lill It with their trolie. They were like a lot of laughing sohooHwws 'kilting over invisible hdi' and hollow'" With a pair of tield glasses, w lueli Mrs. Crooker had loaned to him. Boh Moran had learned the nest habits of tin whole summer colony In that won derful garden. All day he sat hy tin open window with ids work, an air gun at ids side. The rohins would shout a warning 'to Boh when u cat 'trolled into that little paradise, i hen he would tlrop his brushes, seize Ills, gun and presently its missile would CHAPTER ONE go whizzing through the ulr, straight against the side of tlie cat, who, feelWhich Introduce the Shepherd of ing the sting of it, would bound the Bird. through the flower beds and leap over the fence to avoid further punishThe day that lienry Smix met and ment. Bob had also made an electric embraced Gasoline Power and went searchlight out of his father's old up Main street band in hand with it is hunting jack and, when those not yet forgotten. Their little journey policemen sounded their produced an effect on the nerves and alarm at night lie was out of bed in a the remote future history of Bingville. jiffy, and sweeping the tree tops with a broom of light, t tie Jack on bin They rushed at a group of citizens who were watching them, scattered It forehead. If he discovered a pair of hither and thither, broke down a sec- eyes, t he stinging missiles flew toward tion of Mrs. Rlsley's picket fence and them tn t lie light stream until the Inran over a small boy. At the end of truder was dislodged. Indeed, he was their brief misalliance. Gasoline Power like a shepherd of old, keeping t lie seemed to express its opinion of Mr. wolves from ids floek. It was the Smix by hurling him against a teleparish priest 'who first railed him the In the wild and running Shepherd of the Birds. graph pole Just opposite Ids window was the park until it cooled its passion in the fountain pool. In ttie language of Hi- stub of uu old pine partly covered ram BienkinsoD. the place was badly with Virginia creeper. Near tin; top Yet Mr. Sinix was the smlxed up. object of unmerited criticism. He was like many other men in that quiet village slow, deliberate. hnrtfHess and The action of his Inwas not at all like that of a tellect gasoline engine. Between the swiftness of the one and the slowness of the other, there was a wide zone full of possibilities. The engine had accomplished many things while Mr. Smlxs intellect was getting ready to begin to act. In sneaking of this adventure, Hiram Blenklnsop made a 'wise remark: My married life learnt me one tiling," said he. If jou are thlnkln of hitchin' up a wild horse with a tame one. be careful that the tanie one is the stoutest or it will do him no good. The event had Its tragic side and whatever Iliram Blenklnsop and other citizens of questionable taste may have said of it, the historian has no Intention of treating it lightly. Mr. Smix and his neighbors fence could be repaired, but not the small hoy Robert Emmet Moran, six years old, the son of the Widow Moran, who took in washing. He was in the nature of a sacrifice to the new god. He became a beloved cripple, known as the Shepherd of the Birds and altogether the most cheerful person In the village. Ills world was a little room on the second floor of his mothers cottage overlooking the big flower garden of Judge Crooker his father havMother," He Said, I Love Pauline." coachman ing been the gardener and of the Judge. There were in this room of It was a round hole and beyond it a small cavern which held tlie nest an old pine bureau, a four-pos- t a pair of flickers. Sometimes the of a an armchair by the Window, aat with her gray head profemale on sat clock that nickel small rpund the bureau, a rubber tree and a very truding from this tiny oriel window of talkative little old tin soldier of the hers looking across at Bob. Pat name of Bloggs who stood erect on a Crowley was in the habit, of railing shelf with a gun In hla hand and wfes this garden Moran City, wherein the was known as Woodpecker Towalways looking out of the window. The stub and er the path as day of the tin soldiers arrival cotwhile widow's the avenue, Fifth hlrii disand Mr. named had Bloggs to was as referred City always covered his unusual qualities of mind tage and heart. He was a wise old soldier, hail and the weathered shed as the It would seem, for he had. some, sort tenement district What a theater of unpremeditated of answer for each of the many questions of Bob Moran. Indeed, as Bob art was this beantifnl, big garden of I who felt knew, he had seen and suffered much, the Judge There were those his Bob life was bat for Moran, sorry back and to traveled Europe having with the Judges family and been sunk fuller and happier than theirs. It Is for a year In a frog pond and been doubtful If any of the worlds travelever saw more of Its besnty tran dropped in a Jug of molasses, but ers he. df look his had all It kept through 0 He had sugared the window-sil- l Inextinguishable courage. The lonely had he bes that company always with the lad talked, now and then, The Ktter round, nickel clock or the rubber tree and wasps and butterflies. the Judge since him had interested or the pine bureau, but mostly gave of them called had stray thoughts his confidences to the wise and genial of at Auchorus loved He God. the arthe When spring Hr. Bloggs. winrived the garden, with Its birds and gust night and often sat by tils tree of to the the dow songs listening flowers, became a source of Joy and the' and and crickets Sitseeing lad. katydids companionship for the little lanterns innumerable flashing firefly to nsed he ting' by the open window, talk to Pat Crowley, who was getting among the flowers. His work was painting scenes In the the ground ready for sowing. Later especially bird tricks and atflowers garden, of the he slow procession titudes. For this, he was indebted to passed under the boys window and Teeted him with Its fragrance and Susan Baker, who had given him paints and brushes and taught him olor. to use them, and 0 an unusual how were friends most intimate But his aptitude for drawing. ie birds. Robins, In the elm tree Just One day Mrs. Baker Drought her him woke every window, the eyond made he When lit daughter Pauline I to her a pretty gnusi morning. d ASPIRIN Irrtrf rii'emriit. wnli the aol of which spannod his room, the to him. hcht.nc . n Ids hands h ini olatuonn.: fvr wi!t tlio ntul ernmbs wimti lie was Wont to feed them. Indeed, little Boh I m no Moran soon learned the t i e of ewiv feathered tribe that e imped in the gaid. n lie ootild sound t lit pan pipe of the robin. Hie !.ur llute of Hie oriole, tpe rioi'V guitar of the hoholmh and the little pieeolo of the f these dear song sparrow. Many fi'emU of hi' i'.iiih' into the room and evplored t lie mhher tree and sing ill it' brain he' A colon v ot b.nn 'wal lows lived under the eao' of tho old weathered 'hod on the tar 'ido of tho a LIKE THE PRODIGAL Copyright, good-nature- bed-stea- d, flower-borde- the-bo- y 1 Still 5c WRIGLEYS has steadily r price. kept to the And to the same high standard of quality. pre-wa- other' goody lasts so long-co- sts So little or does so much for you. No found a new joy in sunhing flower forms am) In imitating their colors on canvas Now, indeed, there was not a happier lad in the vtlinge than this young piisntier in ope of the two tipper bedrooms In' the Mmill cottage of the Widow Moran. True, lie had moments of longing for his lost freedom when he heard the shouts of the hoys In the street ami their fiet hurrying hy on the sidewalk. The steadfast and couguess rageous Mr. Bloggs had said : we have Just as much fun as they do, after all Book at them roses." One evening, as ids mother sat reading an old love tale to the boy, lm stopped her. Iqve Iauilne. "Mother," he said. Do you think It would lie all right for me to tell her? said the good "Never a word, e see Its tills way, my litwoman. tle son, ye're like a priest an It's not the right thing for u priest." "I don't want fo lie a priest, said he impatiently. "Tut, tut, my laddie; hoy! It' for God to say an for us to obey," site answered. W'ben tlie widow hud gone to her room for tlie night and Bob was Blinking It over, Mr. Bloggs remarked t tin t in his opinion they should keep up liielr courage, for it was a very grand tiling fo lie a priest after all. Winters lie sent deep In hooks out of Judge Grookers library and tending ids potted plants amt painting them and the thick blanket of snow In the garden. Among thedmpplext moments of his life were those Hint followed h! mothers return from t tie post office with the Bingville Sentinel. Then, as the widow was wont to nay. In was like a dog with a bone. To him. Bingville was like Rome in tlie ancient world or London in tlie British empire. All roads led to Bingville. The Sentinel was in the nature of a Imbit. One issue was like unto another---a- s like as two chaws off the same plug of tobaccer," a citizen had once said. Anything important In the Sentinel would have been as misplaced as a otnnnn in n meeting-bouse- . Every week of gossip, balloons cn the it ucht toy the thistledown events which were floating in the still air of Bingville. The Sentinel was a dissipation as enjoyable and as Inexplicable ns tea. To the little Shepherd, Bingville was the capital of the world and dir. J. Patterson Bing, the first citizen of Bingville, who employed eleven hundred men andjiad four automobiles, was a gigantic figure whose shadow stretched across the earth. There were two jieople much In his thougflt and Pauline 'dreams and conversation Baker and J. Patterson Bing. )ften there were article In the Sentinel regarding the great enterprise of Mr. Bing and tlie oria! suecesse of tlie Plng family In the metropolis. These he read with hungry Interest. HI favorite heroe were George Washington. 8t. Francis and J." Patterson Bing. A between the three he would, secretly, have voted for Mr. Bing. Indeed, he and hla friends and intimate Mr. Blogg and the rubber tree and the little pine bureau and the ronnd nickel clock had all voted for Mr. Bing. But he had never een t he great man. Mr. Bing sent Mr. Moran a check every Cbrtstma and, now and then, some little gift to Bob, but hla char-Itie- a He were strictly impersonal. used to ay that while he waa glad to help the poor and the sick, he hadn't time to call on tfiera. Once Mrs. Bing promised the widow that he and her see Hob on husband would, Z2 little The Shepherd Christmas day. asked hla mother" to hang his pictures on the walla and to decorate them with sprigs of cedar, ne put on his starched shirt and collar tod silk hla h tie and a new black The Christmas him. mother had given bells nevtr rang so merrily. Handy to carry beneficial of flavor- -a In effect-f- ull solace and comfort for young and old. 1 THE FLAVOR LASTS 1 Sound FRECKLES L the Tims to Git Rid of TkoM Uib Soots, of Thera' no 1on.r tho sMfht.it feeling nih.m.d of toyour freeklea, tvns Otbln yamova doubt, ilrunftb guarnt.d thi. hom.ly spots. Simply get an ounco of Othlno doubl.s tnd Apply Ir.n.lh from your Hill, of It night ond morning nnd you that even th worat fr.ekl.ar should .00 n have begun to dlaapp.nr, whll. tb light. no. a bav vanUh.d .ntlr.ly. It la aaldom that tnor than on oune la n.cd.d to eom. pl.trly clear th. akin and gala n baautlful clear complexion. He aura to aak for the doubt atrangth Othlna, aJ thl. la Mid under guarantee of remove to fatla It It freckle. money back ni1 th It Cat-sid- Wbut did he ay, Mike? lie said that I carried more osseuS matter above the shoulder than finy other man in the works." Boston Transcript. Stung! Mrs. Grubb so angry with Why you? It seem that the coo she lured away from me Is notrsutlsfactory. I KILL RATS TODAY drult, . Snowshed coif-eret- e 11 important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of GASTORIA, tha, famous old remedy Tor Infants and children, and see that It Bears the Signature of In Use for Over 80 Year. Children C.jr for Fletcher Bj Using th Cenulft STEARNS ELECTRIC PASTE Tim guaranomd kinat" for Rata. Mica, Cockroach, Anl and Watcrboaa Um gratal known Ilf dlacaaa. They doatmy both food and poswriy. Htaaraa' Vlmsrla Paata Ama tbM Mato to fmaa UM building for water and fnwb air. amf n as Highway. Tlie wooden snowtdieds of the Southern Pacific railway across the Sierra Nevada mountains may beoolm highway for motorist. It has been proposed to reconstruct these of iim frame the top roadway for automobile. REintmotion TOR 1 Two die, THAN TRAP B8R-UKTT- CR la U language In every box. to kill M to AS fata Me and tlAO. Hnoogb (I, H. Government boy It. Cuticura Soap For the Hands 13 IDEAL Saap 25c, Ointment 25 and 50c, Talcaan 2ac. PARKERS HAIR BALSAM ralUai Raetorwa Color and Han and Faded to Beauty Cray at and Imyywtjv It ff lwox Cbtn. W T emevi - Cas tori Oaneru-tnnaHa- to Reumvm enmA CUV HINDERCORNS , atnna ail yam, mam eefwt to tia Ne fret, make w.lktag ear. Ito by ml r at twun, glam. 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Ne Stre-t, dork Ztt Fulton Brooklyn, SANTO OOMIXCO IT'. ef PATENTS - Oataaraatosahla I lb', 12G MAmfOTn JACKS a fnr you, a At Vf. l pe low jack Leder Ivea 1 lieptiA, . Colamab, Watloi Patent Lawyar.WaahiOgma U. C. Advitoand book lrM Blgbaatiafaransaa ttav)M na u- 7k the make. (TO BE CONTINUSU.. Different Anyway. a great compliment foreman paid me today, boasted Sure No 1 Everyone Plaunbl. How did the ltnprelon get about thut George Washington never told a lie?" asked the Inquisitive person. Some people credit tlie cherry tree story for that," said Mr. Duhwnite, "hut I suspect Georges reputation for veracity Is due to tlie fact tliat he never said. Ive bad my car six months and it lias never been In a repnlr simp." W. N. U, Salt Lake City, No. 14 -- It |