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Show THE JORDAN .JOURNAL, By Robert Stead ,.,._ .rn. c..,__.....n. n....,.,.,.. WNUServlee Cop~bt SYNOPSIS.-Lur e4 by bta fourJ'e&r-old pla7mate, Jean Lane, J'rank Ball, aced six, ventures - the forbt4c!en wiLll of a dam, Ia a amlll.l On tarlo town. Be falls Into the water -d Ia eaved from poaslble d-tla )l:r clinging to Jean's outstretched arms. Ne:~:t day Jeaa Informs him that because of their adventure of the dal' before he Ia In duty bound to marry her. He agrees when they are "grownups." With Jean's brother, J olua, also aged alx, PranK begins schooL Two years later they are joined by Jean and JJ'raak'a slater. Marjorie. A little later Je- confides to Frank. In vena, her hopes of some day becomlnc "Mrs. Hall." He accepte tbA "proposal.'' Frank Ia fourtee& ,..hea his mother dlea. The boys are eighteen when John's father Ia killed In an accident. Two yea.ra later Frank's father and John's mother are married. Dlssatlsfted with conditions, and ambitious, the two boys make plana to co to Manitoba and "homestead," the a-trls agreeing to co with them. They set out. At Rea-Ina they meet "Jake," who acreu to dnd them satisfactory homesteads. Be does so, and the two frlende llle claims on Sectiona Fourteen and Twenty-two. Jake sagely advises the adventurers In the purchase of supplies, and In a wagon drawn by a :yoke of oxen, and with a cow, the four arrive at their future homes. Construction of "shacks" and the maklnc of a carc!en are their ftrat occupations. A younc Ena-Ushman of the name of "Spoof" Ia a nelchbor. They call on Spoof, who Ia llvlnc In a tent. Spoof, on his return visit, dlscloa.. blmself as a man of varied social attainments. Frank's Jealousy ta aroused. Marjorie discoven that they have a new aelchbor. "He" turna out to be a Mrs. Alton, a widowed Encllshwoman. who, with her threeyear-old son Gerald. has taken up a claim. J'raDk and John leave the homesteads for a time to do harvest work for wacea on a longer-establishe d farm. They encounter Jake. who tells them of hla adventure Into matrimony. After two months' absence they Jean's return to their homes. eatllualaatlo welcome encouracea JJ'rank. The land sections begin to llll up with .. tuera of all naJake and hla wife tionalities. have located In the nelcllborhoocl. KrL Alton remain• atran&ely aloof. Winter seta ln. Frank an4 Jean enter Into a marriage enca&ement. It I• well understood that John and Marjorie are soon to be married. Frank almo•t loaea hla life In a snowstorm. Spoof ·4rlvea thirty miles to the nearest town to make arrancementa for a double weddlnc. Frank and John. for a joke. send Spoof on a fool's errand. throucll a storm. CHAPTER XI Continued -10"'Not a chance," her brother assured "But I'd give a dollar to be at :s............. .. "At Burke's? Why?" "Because, little Miss Innocence, of facts. First, there Is no such ~ tllln&: as a cogitation nut. and second. Is no such thlnr as a left-hand ~ llltenl,ey wrench." "But Jake IC&JDe tor It-be told "Exadl)'. That's why be told him." For a moment Jean's fnce was a as her mind unraveled the .,ll,ed threads ot Jake's little comedy. IUddenly her e;res blazed with a such as I had seen In them only before, and then, as now, It was Spoor that light had burned. "So you sent blm out on a dsy like " abe said, speakln&: slowly and >ttiro1ur:b teeth that were almost closed ~..._,., sent him out on a day Uke this, the untracked snow, bunting aometblng that doesn't exist. He and aomethlng he wasn't aent by Robert 8~ "Spoof? I should say he baa. By this time he's half way to Andy Smith's. Unfortunately I didn't have a left-hand monkey wrench," said Burke, with a chuckle, "but I reckoned likely Andy Smith would have one, having been a ship builder. Spoof wouldn't sta:y to ent, but be drank a cup of tea and steamed away." \Ve explained that we were tracking Spoof In case he became lost, but avoided any reference to the ultimatum that had sent us after him. Declining the in\·ltntlon of Burke and hls wife to stay and eat, we pushed on. About half wa:y to Andy Smith's we met Spoof coming back. Andy hnd not seen the joke when It was first presented, and In his analysis of it bad revealed It to Spoof as soon a!! be recognized It himself. This was fortunate for Spoof, as otherwise be would doubtless ha\"e been sent to Ole Hansen's In continuation of his quest. As Spoof came up to us his face twisted In a broad grin. "Did you get a left-band wrench?" we asked. "No. but I found out what a cogitation nut Is. This is It," and he tapped his head wlth his knuckles, "only It doesn't cogitate very well.'' The three of us linked arms, Spoof In the middle, and trudged back toward Burke's. "Mighty decent of you to come after me." said Spoof at length. "Yes, wasn't It?" we agreed. Luc:y Burke would take no refusal this time, so Spoof and Jack anlt I stayed for dinner. I had a feellng t11at this was bad generalship, and that we should be hurrying home, where Jean was doubtless waiting with rrowlng concern. I managed to mention my forebodings to Jack. "Don't you believe lt." he wbJspered back. "When a woman reads you the riot act go out and haTe a riot. Noth· ing makes her so unhappy as to suspect t11at her husband Is having a good time when she thinks he should be doing penance." After dinner Burke, with the lonellness of a homesteader to whom the visit of a neighbor Is something of an event. detained us as long as possible, QD one pretext or another, and finally, when we Insisted upon going, hltcbell up the mules and drove us back to Fourteen. It was dark by this time and the lamps were lighted. I noticed that lamps "'ere !let so that their yellow wedges of llg'llt thrust out Into the darkness from each of our windows. .Jean was at the door with the MUnd of our sleigh bells, and as I pas.'!ed close by her I scn1tlnl:r.ed her face for some hopeful sign. It was a blank wall. We made Spoof and Burke stay for supper, and no one hnd more fun over the day's evt"nts than had Spoof. Jean kept her Indignation well bridled, antl we were a haJlPy party, outwardly, at any rate. Spoof and Burke made lt up that they would drive to Jake's late that night, when he would be lbP llr.np have told the naked stan the Grief or Man. Let the trumpet snare the foeman to the proof1 have known defeat and mocked It as we ran. My bray [• may not alter or mistake When stand to jeer the fatted Soul of Things, But the song of Lost Endeavor that I n1ake I• It hidden In the twanalncs of the strings? . . . I Before long Spoof and Burke left on their errand of reprisal. Jean elected to go home soon afterward, and I ael'ompanled her to Twenty-two. She stood a moment with the door latch In her hand, as though debating with herself whether she should send me borne. "You had better come In," she said at length. "There are some thine• we should talk about." I closed the door behind me an<l J~an llehted a lamp and removed her wrapa. "Come and 11lt down." she sald, making room tor me beside her on a bench. I sat down beside her, and would have kissed her, but she drew rently awa;r. "Please don't, Frank," abe said, and when her e:yes met mine I saw a look In them as of some wUd thine wounded to the death. "Jean!" I ex:clnlmed. "Have I hurt you so?" "No, Frank, not you. But I am burt -burt," and she pressed her bands about her bosom ns though In physical pnln. "It Is so bard to know-to be sure--what Is right l" "How what Is right?" "In books-you will understand, Frank-it Is always so clear. One Is a hero; the other Is a vlllaln; It is so easy to know. But In llte-I don't suppose there are so many villains, after all. Thnt doesn't make It any easier to decide." "I'm afraid I don't quite follow you, Jean." "I 1mppose you don't, and I shrink from making It more clear to you. • • , I have tried, and tailed." "Jean!" "I thought our promise-my promise It didn't. -would bind me. • • , It won't. It can't." She withdrew her nrm, then quickly seized both my hands ID hers. "Ob, my boy, my friend, my chum!" she exclaimed, and little crystal wells gathered between her eyelids as she spoke. "How can I hurt you so! But nothing else would be honest. I hal• tried and failed. I lost my temper with you today over Spoof. You were playing jokes on hlm-maklng him the butt et your humor-your Idea of hu· mor-" "'h, eome now, slater, don't take It aerlousiJ. It Is just a joke." "It wUl be no joke If Spoof Is lost the prairie," abe returned ; "no joke any of us. For example, there will no marriage In this house, 110 far ns am concerned, If anything happens to tBI)OOf." "Isn't that rather mixing the Issue?" said, perhaps a Jlttle testily. "Spoof nothing to do with our marriage." but I have," she answered, pointedness that could not be make a mountain out of n ~iDolE!hlltl." Jnck told lier. sharply. "One think It was Spoof you were In with. ln11tead ot Frank.'' "It I discuss that at all I wlll disIt with Frank, alone," she r~ :t.n'""'"· with some heat. The color had lied her face for a moment come back in a fiood, filling her and forehead. overflowing down r'lllPe,ks f neck nnd Into her hnlr. If Jean placid, Jean the mild-mannered, the amiable was lovely, Jean the c iU~OUIBe<d. Jenn tl.e defiant, was adorI made that appraisal even In her eyes I read something to my death wnrrnnt. was quite serious in what I said, ...-~... " she continued. after a mn"If It makes any dlfl'erenee to perhaps you will follow Spoof. hasn't the prairie sense that yoq ; he may be lost by this lime. there Is no ground drift, his tr11cks will show. "Of course, lt :you think there Is nny I'll co." 1 agrE.>ed, eager tor a of an awkward position. and ital'entted at heart by a 11ense of the tbat bad occurred between us. lack and I set out to follow Spoof's We traced h1m wlthont dlftlto Burke's. ••lb.! Spoof been berer• we asked Amerlcn Aelghbor wbea he came toes In the warm sand nnd watchln~ the spray of misty diamonds from the waterwheel across the stream. • . "Spooky old machine. a banjo, I heard Spoof say at Isn't It?" length, and of a sudden I was back on Fourteen, and In the midst of a world which bad Its share of troubles. "Has an uncanny way of ripping up the past; tombstones, skeletons, everything." Then, to an Improvised ac· companlment, be began rec!t!n~ Kipling's poem to the banjo. "It was this poem,'' be explulneil, In the midst of his recital, "that caused me to trlng a banjo to Canada. Otherwise I should probably have shipped a plano, to the enrlelunent of the transportation people and my own turthE"r financial undoing. I must drop n. K. a line or appreciation.'' "Still, the plano case would have come handy," Jack suggested. "Yon might hnve put your house In It In bad weather." "Almost," said Spoof. But he was hack to his theme agn!n, nnd the wooden wall against which I leaned his trembled In sympathy with strings. "Haa Spoof Been Here?" We Asked Our American Neighbor When He Came to the Door. sure to be In bed, nnd stutr his l!tovepipe with a sack as a slight exchange of compliments. During the evening Jean's eyes nvoldP<l mine but I bud an uncomfortable fePiing that three of u<: were on a precipice which atrorded room for only two, 11nd that I was theo third. As the evening wore on Spoof In· slstecl that Jenn get out the banjo. 1 could see that she was In no mood tor music, but she played her part well. und ns their voices joined In "Old Black Joe•· and "Silver Threads .~mon~ the Gold" I could not help wonderln~ If she were as unhaPI:IY as 1 waR. After they bad sung for a whil<' <;poof took the banjo from Jean and .;wept hls lean, lonr hand with quick <i~lkate master strokes across Its strings. Under hla spell our littlt> bomt--Btead shack faded out In the blur lor Spoofs toba<'t'O smoke, and pres· ently I saw a little boy and girl sitting on the bank of a rher, dl'iln&' theU can be explained, to Jack and Marjorie. We must net Interfere with their marriage or their happiness. And Spoof must not know." "Spoof not know I How shall we pre,·ent-" "I mean he must not know whywhy our marrlnge Is post-Is otr. Don't you see, Frank ; Spoof must not know - I love him." She whispered the last words and turned her head away, as though ashamed ot her <"Onfesslon. "Not know you love him I Do yon mP.an that Spoof doesn't know :you love him?" "No, he doesn't, Frank." "And he hos not made love to rou r· "Not a word." I stoo<l pondering that fnct. It Spoof. without trying, could win Jean In competition with me, who hnd been trying my hnrdest, ::nd who had the advantage of nil the Intlmndes ot child· hood, wbnt would happen when he set himself to the business of wooing? Thnt he would do so as soon as he knPw the coa~t was clear I did not doubt for a moment. "I tlllnk I understnnd, Jenn,'' I said. as I turnt'd toward the door. "This happiness Is not tor me--lt was too much to be expected. I bad dreams- "I promise you nothing of thnt kind wlll e'·er hnppE>n again, dear; I prom• Ise It, I swear It!" "But that doesn't help, any. Don't you SE'e, it's not that I care--so mnch -about the joke-on anybody-but bees use I Jove Spoof." I hope I took the hlow like a gentleman. I had the advantage of bPing somewhat prepared for it. "I suspected thnt," I said at l~ngth. "I d(ln't want to stand In the way of your happiness." The.n I fell from the ht>rolc with a thuol. "Oh, Jl'HD.•Jl'an," I plealled. "why do you tum to Spoof, whnm y•m hardly know. and away from me? Hu •·e I fallen .;;o tar short-am I st~ little to be desired-that you should love a stranger in preference?" She pressed her hand against m:v I cnn't lltls. "Don't please. hl••ws wlntl the why me Ask explain. -why the flowers turn to the snnli~ht -I can't explain.. I would ever so IIlllCh rather it had heen you." "Then make It me! It is in your handii-" "No, It Is not. I can't chan;:re It. I have tried-and tailed. Of enur~e. I <'OUld murry you still, but you w•mltl not want me with a reservation In my heart. You would despise me if I marr!ed you like that." Beneath the numbing shock of theo fact that .T.-an was sllpping-ha!l sUpped-out of my life, 1 was conscious that her words were true. I should uot have wanted her-with a reservatlon. And so we sat In silence and In sull'erlng, with no snund about us exeept the ticking of the clock and the thumping ot our own hearts, until nt length Jean arose to rebuild the fire. 1 took It as my cue to leave. "Well, whnt Is to be done about ltr• I said. trying to speak In a mutter-offact way, although I ectt!~ not keep the tremhle out of my voice. "We must clear up the sltuutlon some way." "Yes. We wlll explain, so far aa It "Oh, Frank, Don't Go Like Thatl" She Cried, Her Arms Outstretched. Toward Me. dreams that are not golnng to be real· !zed, ever. I had pictures, but they must be torn out of my life. . . . I hope you wm be happy. Goodby." "Ob, Frank, don't go like that I" she erled, her arms outstretched towarll me. But I had no heart to prolong my torture In her presence. I closed the door behind me and went stum· bUng through the drifts toward Four· teen. CHAPTER XII Breaking the news to Jack and Marjorie was no easy task, but we got through lt some way. Jack and his sister bad an unhappy hour over It, but Jenn was adamant In her decision. There was to be no marriage, so far as she was concerned. It was out ot the question. "You are passlnc up as decent a chap as ever llved," Jack told her, "on a chance of Spoof, and you don't know that he even cares for you. Perhaps Spoors aJrectlons are already fixed. Ha,·e you thought of that'/" "Thought ot It I I've lain aw!'.ke nights, with burning eyes, and thought ot lt. But whnt can I do? I can't ask hlm." "You could mar:ry Frank, like a &UISible girl." •·J only wkih I could. But It Is out of tlle question." And with that the matter had to stand. Jean doubled her energies In helping Marjorie prPpare for the gTeat event, and while she tried always to greet me with a smile I more than once surprl!;ed a tear stE.>al i ng unbidden down bPr <'hPek. I refiP!'ted thnt If I wns sutrPrlug, JPan wns snffeoring, too, hut there was no comfQrt in that. And I didn't want Jean to suffer. why she should wring heor heurt over me, and yet rPfu~e to mnrry me, wns a twist in heor nature beyond my power ot comprehension. Spoof took the news with geonulnt> or well·fei)!uPd surprise. We me>rely explained !hut the wedtling wns not to be a double nne afteor nll; that .JPan and I hat! reconsidered mutt, r;., hut htr.lnrie would be mar· Jnt•l; nnd arranged. rled as "I sur. I'm ~orry to hear that-1 mean about you und .leonn. I pre~ume It Is only a posttJOnement?" But we gave hhn no answer to that question. an•l Rpoof. of course. did not pn·ss it. Christmas dny dawn{'<) hrlght and colt!, with a whip of northW!'St wint! and u Rkiff of loose snow sifting uero~the f1·m:en prairie:;. I found myo;elf lying awake In the morning, thinking of Jean, and of nil I hu<l hoped that day would mean to me. This was the dream thut was gone; the pleture I had hnd to tear out of my heart, oul~· It would not stay gone; 1t plagued me In my sleep. 1t haunted me in e\·err silent moment of the day. Tha• Jean should be so strong. so set, so lmmovable, and, as It seemed to me. :;o unreasonable; In spite of all her delicate wistfulness and strange uncommonnei!S of spirit-that was a side or Jean's character whkh all the yeurs ot our childhood and youth had not reI had not re,·enled to me. opened my suit i had acct>pted h'!r rll'l'ision. But the old picture would r•ome baek, und this Christmas mornlni 1111 it swam bef11re my eyea It I stirred within me an lmmeasurabl· pol~nnncy of spirit. "~Ierry Christmas[" ebouted Mar jorie, poking her head Into my room lllnrjorle was going through a time of stranil"ely mixed emotions. Her heart wns light on her own account and heavy on mine. and in these days she found the bridge between laughter and tears nn extremely narrow one. Per· haps It was for that rt>ason that ber shout of "Merry Christmas!" entled In something like a sob. and, with a little rush, she plunged onto my beod and : threw her arms about me; she wrapped them around my neck and shoulders I and drew my faee to hers. And as her 1 cheoek lay against mine a little warm 1 trickle ot moisture wended Ita way , down, upon, and across my lips, and I 1 felt her frame tremble as It rested 1 near rue. "Xot crying, Marjorie; not crying. on this of all morning-s!" I exclaimed, although my own throat was full. "Not crying. dear-on ~y account?" To that question she snuggled closer, and after a little I heard her wh!s- ' pering ln my enr. "It will come all right in time. brotber mine,'' she said; "all right In time. I can't thlnk-1 can't belien•-anythln g else. Don't you feel-don't you know-that It will?" And so to soothe her, nnd that her greatest day might not be spoiled. I said I knew It w<Juld come all right in time, but there was a stone between my lungs and a band of iron about my chest. Marjorie kissed me on the lips, then raised her !nee and dried her eoyes. Suddenly she sprang to her feet, and I could not but admit how very good she wns to look upon. Her dark hair hung loose about her shoulders; she allowed herself no curl-paper non· sense, and Indeed no device could have added to the beauty of her waving locks. She wns still In her nightdress, although she bad drawn on somethlnJ: warm about her feet, and, like the good wtte she was always to be, she bad 1tarted the fire-a duty which I admitted properly tell to the man of the bouse. Perhaps It is because a mnn should start the fire that he so great!)" enjoys having his wife do it. I could hear the poplar sticks crackling as I lay watcbln, her through moist and dreamy eyes. She was good to look upon; so ditrerent from Jean. but still se cood I "Hustle up, Frank,'' she cried, with a lUdden return to her normal manner. "We have a lot to do to•lay." It wns not untll after our midday meal tllnt I Y"!nt over to Twenty-two. Jean was In her room, but I mustered the spirit to chatr Jnck with such a mlngllng o:l' good wishes and humorous salllel! as my brain could command, and we finished the whole with an Impromptu sparring match In the middle of the kitchen floor. "\Vatcb your beak I" I commanded, "or I'll send yon to the minister with a busted mug," and 1 swung on him with enthusiasm. But Jack was handy \vlth his fists, and something thumped ln my eye like n piledriver. "Aha !" snld hE'. "The first ot the wedding decorations. Let's make It a pair." But at thnt moment Jean came out, lool.dng so radiantly sorrowful, It one can look that way, that the glory of .Marjorie sePmed as the glory of one ot the lesser planets against the sun. She cnme to IDe with an outstretched hand. "Merry Christmas, Franli;," she said, 'looking me squarely In the face. "Wh:y, what bas happened to your eye?" "I was just practicing," said Jack, "and I want to exb!blt this specimen ot my handiwork to Marjorie before we are m«rrled. It Is as well that she should understand-" But Jean was gone in quest of butter, with which she rubbed my swell· ing eye, and the care!'S of her ftogerl was worth the punch It had cost. It was now time to llltch the oxen to the rough sleigh or jumper which Jnck and I had built. Into this the four of us could with some difficulty be packPd, and as we reckoned It would take at !Past an hour for Buck and Bright to ~reak trail to Spoof's, we loaded np and started on our Spoof journe~· at a little before two. should ceremony the that inl'isted had take place at his house. It for .no other reason that theore might be n honeymoon trill as far as from Two to Fourtl'en. and the mlnistpr was expected at three. ;.s the snow-clad prnlrle cnpt by tn the lelsnrPiy plo<ldin~ of Buck and Bright the mound which marked :--:poof's hou!<e ami stable gnHiually de· flncd itl'elf ugalnst the bright gra~· background of the December aft••rnoon. Spoof had heen on the lookout, and while our oxen were still pufii11g and blowing- at a considerahle distnnrt" from the !'hark we saw him coming ovPr the drifts with his great, rr.pid , l:ngl ish stride. Ht' was hl.'sidc us In a few minutes. his wind-tanned face wreath ell In sllliles, his white te••1 h gleaming under u short, san<ly tun "'· tadll' to which of late he had been giving ~ome eneouragement. I Advanced Ideas in This German Prison At Ichtershausen nea r Arn,;tndt, in 'l' huringia, the pri.son is fl o pleasant that no one l1us ever a ttempted to es· cape frou1 it. Tl1e prison au t horities have made the vri.,;on life tolerable, humane and educational. In lhe first place thet·e are only 400 prisoner:;, although there are cell::; for ()20. "'lth· In the vri~Qn is a local court In whkb all misdemeanors arc judged hy four Pmplo~· ees, assi::;ted by two representatin~s of the convict~ . ..\lany of the sentenees impo::;ed by the judge are light· cr than those suggested by the convict>'. Bvery prisoner !s permitted to supplement the prison fare hy purchases from the outside. 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Got !I coyoteos one n1rht:· fur• brought $U1.60. Also 2-balt trapplnc oyatem. 'l~rapped 3 eoyotee one night, aame place. lllrd proof. Fqrmulas, lnstruct1Q1>8 and TraP• Free circular. pin~ Byotem U .60. GEORGE EDWARDS. LIVINGSTON, MONT. \\'ANTED-FLORI DA LAXD AND LOTI:l. Will buy your Florida land and Joto, ant Addree5 T. El. S~IITH, J>lae~ In •tate. 43 N. E. Second Street, MIAMI. FLORIDA. Purity of Cuticora TheMakes It UnneeDed For AllToilet Purposes - A New Precaution WOOl. YAR:S-4-ply gray, tot he.nd llnltWrite fer $1.40 per lb., poatpal<l. tln~. samples. w . D. N . Pre. Co., Mahtowa, MinD. L. D. S. Business College SCHOOL 01' El'fiCII!NCY All commercial branchee. Cataloar bea. GO N.Mala St. SAlT LAKI! CITY, UTAII W. N. U., Salt Lake City, No. !11-1t25. Not Enough lllnny are nmvineecl that the next wnr will he conductt·d by radio, in Applleant-llow much do I get for wlli( h t>H'Ilt persons enteoring ~~~ :\fan':; doing the weeping net In thl' show? Land ;:hould he C:lretul to nvoitl the 1\Iunnger-'l'hlrty -five cents an hour, ''-"irelt>~s entnn~Jements.-American LeAppi.-Whut? F'or crying out lou<fl gion \\' eekl~·. -Hamilton Iloyal Gai.Joon. Why have U RHE 0 ATI SM ? H, what a. wonderful feeling to be helps Nature build the red·blood-cella free from that miserable rheuma- that fight otr the lmpurltlea that cause tism. To know again the joy of limber rheumatism. Conquer rheumatism! s. s. s. baa 1 joints and active muscles-freedo m shown tho way. For generations from that agonizing pain! How often have you longed for S. s. S. has brought blessed relief and some relief as you suiicred torture comfort to thousands of rheumatic tTO BS: CONTINUED.) frc.m swollen, inflamed muscles and aufierers. 'Vhen the rich, red blood that joints-how often have yon said you S. S. helps Nature build goes oouraS. tor World the in anything give would Succea• Makea Elfort through. your syStem, it purifies lng co,mfort! hours. few a .!\lany people wunt to do thin~s that in your body. Rheumatl11!11 blood the ha.d you all that lm<_>w t But you d1dn are entirely worthy and approvuhle. rehet from thla nerve vanishes- skin blemishes disappear ~cal get ~o do to hut do not lmow how to act•ompllsb ~z.ckmg rn!sery was just to build -you begin to r;et hunthem. They luck the power or mnklni rich, red blood, did :you? You didn't gry again and enjoy en'urt, which Is the key to the whole know that rheum ntism had to be your food-strength and stopped from the inside by destroying power 11.11 your bodymatter. To try. and full 18 ht>tter tbllll the impurities that cause it-by build- you are vigorous- red- \.llll!#t..._.IIII!IAI not to ha \"e tried at all.· -Grlt. fnF:" mllllons of red cells in your poor, blooded and ready tor action. Know this joy of WP.alc blood, d id you? It Escapes "1\lature Lover~ Until you fill your system full of, living again! TakeS. S. S. and banllfi After all, maybe the lucklesl .. healthy, rlch, reod lllood you will never rheumatism! Get S. s. S. trom any drngg:lst. ftower wtl8 the one that was boru te end your rheumatis~. S. S. S. will IUrely help )'ru. That s because S.S.S. lar~er bottle 1s more economical. Wll&ll unseen.-Detrolt :Nc.o.,.·a .Will Jean chango her mind yet again-that's the big ques· tion. What's your guess7 . 1 ·u• on. |