Show r EVIDENTLY NOT 7 The New Manager By Mary Barrett Howard V 1912 by Associated Literary Preaa) Mrs Amos Rood was bustling happily about her neat kitchen her pleasant face even more beaming than usual “Amos is sixty years old today" she explained to the milkman from of cream whom she bought a besides the customary pint of milk “an’ I’m goln’ to get an extra nice (Copyright Willie keard of Fay Kerr — I guess you never my pa's Famous Freckle BURNING ' ITCH WAS CURED "I deem It my duty to tell Pbout a cure that the Cuticura Soap slid Ointment have made on myself My tron ble began In splotches breaking it right In the edge of my hair on the forehead and spread over the front part of the top of my head from ear to ear and over my ears which caused a most fearful burning Itch or eczema “For three years I had this terrible breaking out on my forehead and scalp I tried our family doctor and he failed to cure it Then I tried the Cuticura Soap and Ointment and used them for two months with the result of a complete cure1 Cuticura Soap and Ointment should have the credit due and I have advised a lot of people to use them" (Signed) C D Tharrington Creek N C Jan 26 1911 Itching jcalp— Hair Fell Out “I will saf that I have been suffering with an itching on my scalp for thepast few years My hair fell out In spots all over my head My scalp started to trouble me with sores then the sores healed up ajid crusts formed on the top Then the hair fell' out and left me three bald spots the shape of a half dollar I went to more than one doctor but could not get any relief so I started to use the Cuticura Remedies I tried one bar of Cuticura and some Cuticura Ointment Soap and felt relieved right away Now the bald spots have disappeared and my hair has grown thanks to the Cuticura Soap and Ointment I highly recommend the Cuticura Remedies to all that are suffering with scalp trouSamuel ble” (Signed) Stern 236 Floyd St Brooklyn N Y Feb 7 dinner" The 12 o'clock whistle bad sounded The peach meringue pie which was to be the crowning touch of the feast had been brought from the pantry and set the roast chicken upon a side table was done to a turn the tomato bisque was ready to pour into the tureen and as every housewife knows tomato bisque will curdle if allowed to stand “I do wish Amos would come” the little woman fluttered “That cream o' tomato won’t be fit to eat” Glancing uneasily out of the window she started at sight of a curiously familiar yet unfamiliar figure coming slowly up the street Sure that bowed bent old man could not be Amos! He had never looked like that even when his rheumatism was at its worst But the next instant she had flung open the door and was running down the garden walk alls you “Oh what is it — what Amos?” she cried putting her arms about him to help him up the steps “Don’t be scared Lucy— I ain’t sick” the man said with a brave attempt at a reassuring smile But once under the shelter of his own roof safe from prying or pitying neighborly eyes Amos Rood broke down altogether Sinking into a chair he dropped bis head upon the little table so gayly decked in honor of the day with heliotrope from the garden beds and Mrs Rood’s '1911 Cuticura Soap and Although Ointment are sold by druggists and dealers everywhere a sample of each book will be mailed with to "Cuticura" free on application Dept L Boston A girl may laugh at love but later she may realize that there is nothing better to cry on than a man’s shoulder A lyn postal card to Garfleld Tea Co BrookN Y asking for sample will repay you Half a loaf is better than & loaf the bread some bakers turn out IOWA of Will VHt AGAIN freed From Shooting Pains Spinal Weakness Dizziness by Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Found the Solitude He Craved cherished and his “wedding” a big shrunken frame shook with Ottumwa Iowa— “For years I was man's painful tearless sobs His wife his silently unclasped female constant sufferer from almost a a clenched from letter which fingers trouble in all its dreadful forms bore the seal of great corporation all and as she swiftly scanned the few pains shooting she wailed over my body sick curt ’lines it contained headache spinal aghast: “O Amos it must be a mistake! The weakness dizziness wouldn’t take your company pendepression and everything that was sion from you just because you are horrid I tried many able to earn a little something extra now and then?” doctors in different “It's the new manager Lucy" Amos parts of the United States but Lydia E Rood responded dully “He’s trying to Pinkham’s Vegeta--e cut expenses and he says it’s no part policy to pension Compound has done more for me than of the company's men” the doctors I feel it my duty to tell the little woman My heart is fall of )u these facts Pinkham’s to E echoed with atitude Lydia "I hysterical laugh Compound for my health”— Mrs guess I know what you suffer Amos arriet E Wampler 624 S Ransom even on your best days But don't you treet Ottumwa Iowa worry dear — we’ll get old Dr Moore to write that new manager a letter Consider Well This Advice No woman suffering from any form that will make him ashamed of himself” female troubles should lose hope do mite of good “It wouldn’t she has given Lydia E Pinkham's Lucy” the man said shaking i)le head egetable Compound a fair trial "He says he's got proof I can earn a Thia famous remedy the medicinal to— but — I’m if a mind I’m from derived of which are good living itive roots and herbs has for nearly afraid I can’t I’m pretty good at figvalua-- e urin' and when the merchants here irty years proved to be a most balled up they’re of the tonic and Invigorator get their accounts Women everywhere ’em apt to send for me to straighten organism out but it's hard for a man of my age sar willing testimony to the wonderful to get a steady job even if I could rtue of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegeta Pere Compound keep It up day in and day out If yon want special advice write to haps I was foolish to snap up those rdla E Plnkbam Medicine Co (confl chances to add a little to our inYour letter will come sntial) Lynn Mass And yet” be added with a read and answered by a i opened sigh "that pension wasn't a very big oman and held In strict confidence one for two people to live on" “I should say it wasn’t!” agreed DAISY FLY KILLER K5f STtmi Si “I call it pretMrs Rood vehemently or flics cla n mental convenient on fiercely she went Laati all ty doin’s!” ebeap m Mad "Here’s you all broken down" and all iiaaei motal can't aplU or tip was so small or those years your salary over) will not that though I've been as saving as I Injur anything effect! va Guaranteed to Sold by dealers or knew how we've just managed tent prepaid for II pay for this place and put a few hunT Bnokljra BASOLD SOMSM IN DXeik At dred dollars in the bank” “We'd never have done that much NR SALT A ALL CULT SALE— iron r h cellars barn ( a If It hadn’t been for you Lake Oily Uuhs Lucy” her Srcb stock mach EVANS Boa 219 Chicago a husband said gratefully "You’re master hand at contriving But It ain’t the company’s got faut that all crippled up with rheumatism so’s I couldn’t do my work" “I’d like to know Amos if it ain’t Rood!” she flashed “I’d like to know if you wa’n’t kept all those years In a damp underground office and not allowed half the help you’d ought to have had?" “Well well Lucy" the man saljj “The company was good pacifically to me that time 1 had typhoid ten years ago Didn’t I get three months' leave of absence with full pay and passes for us both so we could take a nice trip?" “Three months’ leave In twenty-fivyears!" moaned Mrs Rood “And now that new manager's going to take know you away your pension think I'm awful Amos but I just hate that grasping greedy old company that works Its men to death just the so’s to way It does Its poor horses save a little more money!” “It hurtB me to hear you talk like that Lucy” Amos Rood protested loydoes the best It ally "The company can— It has troubles of Its own" "Well I won’t say another word If should Amos” the you don’t want little woman promised brushing tho “I ain’t angry tears from her eyes afraid but we’ll get along some way It me mad to think how Just made little the company seemed to appreciate how honest and faithful you’ve Now you come and wash up been and eat your birthday dinner before It's all spoiled” But though Amos Rood valiantly attempted to do justice to the little feast it was evident to the anxious wife who watched him that thedalnty viands that she had prepared with such care were as dust and ashes to his palate He looked stunned and blow bewildered by the unexpected which had been dealt him and as he pushed back his chair from the table he said slowly: "I’d calculated to finish up that Job but when of Brown’s this afternoon not I got that letter I sent ’em word to expect me — I didn’t feel equal to But I’ll paint tacklin’ figures today done s them you wanted Lucy It’ll be quiet out tuere in the barn and I — I want to think things over" Mrs Rood looked after him wistfully "I guess maybe he would be better by himself" she thought humbly “I wouldn’t wonder If my everlastin’ gabble bothered him some when he’s got things he wants to think over Well I’ll fly around and straighten up so't will look pleasant to him when he comes In an’ maybe If I was to fix that chicken into a scallop he’d relish He didn’t eat scarcely it for supper a mite o’ dipner” But although Amos Rood had found the solitude these was he craved something terrifying to him in the emptiness of the great barn and as he resolutely set himself to the task of painting the “storm doors” he had mentioned he began to wish vaguely that old Dolly were still alive to stamp her iron shod feet and to nicker to him socially from her stall Then with a sudden pang he realized that he was glad that the old Jiorse who had been his and Lucy's for so many frfiend and companion years had died last month for bow could he have brought himself to sell was broken home when her their little from his The brush dropped up? nerve'ess hand as he muttered yes it would come to that! manwould said they that Lucy age some way but Lucy with all her cheery common sense and thrift had a woman's ignorance of the grim fact that two and two always make four and never by any chance five or six Perhaps by selling their little place and living on the proceeds they might for a few manage to keep together years more but the end was inevitable Sooner or 'later Lucy would sisbe obliged to go to the ter who had never attempted to conceal her conviction that the pretty have better done energetic girl might than to marry Amos Rood As for him there would be nothing left but the shelter of the county poor house In to the snap-“Something seemed-man’s brain Why shouldn’t he quietly get out of it all while there was still something to keep Lucy from enon a woman like prostire dependence Jane Thorn? She perous for him he knew but would mourn death Is easier to bear than some other things Suddenly he paused arrested in hi on grim preparations for the deed which he was resolved “Amos! Amos!" his wife was call- ing Ten yes five moments more and he would have been forever deaf to that and Lucy would have tender voice come and found him — he shuddered He had been with a sick repulsion selfish— cowardly— mad — But Lucy’s light feet were running along the garden paths and she was calling again: Amos Oh do "Amos! please hurry!” to the The man stumbled blindly door The next Instant he was standing In the warm sunlight he had never with Lucy’s thought to feel again arm: about his neck her happy tears upon his cheek joy“Oh Amos" she was bubbling general ously “the superintendent It’s perfectly himself Is in the house! him swear He to hear says lovely the new manager has exceeded his authority altogether and that the company does know how to appreciate faithful service such as yours has i been! And only think Instead of tak--! ing away your pension he Intends tc increase It! well be Why Amos rich!” i 'x z ttm piMim Children Cry for Flotchor’o mil v ALCOHOL iAYvVWV''v: The Kind You Have Always In use ior over SO years Bought and which has been has borne the signature of and has been made under his per since its Infancy sonal n Allow supervision no one to deceive you In this are but AQ Counterfeits Imitations and Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children— Experience against Experiment 3 PER CENT the FoodantfRtguta andBowclsif lingtlie Stomachs What is CASTOR1A Promotes DigestimuChceifa ness and RestXontalns ndttw OpiuntMorphine nor Mineral Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil Pare It gorlc Drops and Soothing Syrups It Is Pleasant contains neither Opium Morphine nor other Narcotlo substance Its age Is Its guarantee It destroys Worms cures Diarrhoea and Wind and allays Feverishness Colic It relieves Teething Troubles cures Constipation assimilates the Food regulates the and Flatulency Stomach and Bowels giving healthy and natural sleep The Children's Panacea— The mother's Friend Not NAnc otic Jkjiif0rJlkS®tW7HE3t Bafhk It JtlxJama MirHtSiHs It jtiaiScrd fettj b'maStrJ- - Aperfcct Remedy Sour StomachDlarrtwea Worms jConvnlsionsIevensk ness end Loss of Sleep Tic Simile CASTORIA GENUINE ' ALWAYS 'Bears the Signature of of Signature NEW YORK Exact Copy of The Kind Yon Have Always Bought In Uso For Over 30 Years Wrapper The First Consideration Andrews some years ago an were and his plowman from the seashore They were behind the target on the but hidden by a bank of sand from a party of volunteers who were A stray bulthen on foot at practice let struck the plowman ou the leg and he immediately dropped exclaim“I’m shot!” ing: Without more ado the farmer scrambled waving up the bank and his hand to the volunteers shouted: lads ’’Hey that will ye? stop You’ve shot a man and It mtcht hae been the horse!” — London At old LANDLORD THE OINTAUA Know What It Was Senator Duncan U Fletcher was at a dinner In Jacksoncondemning ville an orange grower who had failed “The man failed” he said “through He lays the blame on ither Ignorance but his Ignorance alone is at things fault He is as ignorant of orange farming as the tramp was of Industry "You’ve heard of that tramp perHe wore on his face a sneer of haps? derision and scorn ‘“Work?’ he said ‘Work? What Is it — an herb?’ ” Didn’t His Mistake Gertie — Angry with him? Why he a lovely poem to her Rose — Yes but she never read it She tore the whole thing up in a fit of anger He called It "Lines on MabM’s Face" wrote Enigmatic how Is that new baby to your house?” “It’s a howling success" over say- Some philanthropist rtould offer a reward for a college that doesn’t need the money Now DOCTOR’S Gets Along SHIFT Without it A physician says: “Until last fall I used to eat meat for my breakfast and suffered until with Indigestion the meat had passed from the stomaok s “Last fall I began the use of soon breakfast and very for found I could do without meat for my body got all the nourishment necesand since sary from the then I have not bad mny indigestion and am feeling better and have increased in weight “Since finding the benefit I derived from I have prescribed the food for all my patients suffering from and also indigestion or for those recovering from disease where 1 want food easy to take and certain to digest and which will not overtax the stomach “I always fiad the results I look for when I prescribe For ethical reasons please omit my name" Name given by mail by Postum Co Battle Creek Mich The reason for the wonderful and the easy mount of nutriment Is not hard to digestion of find In the first place the starchy part of the wheat and barley goes through various processes of cooking to perfectly change the starch Into dextrose or In which state It la ready to be easily absorbed by the blood The' parts lu the wheat and barley which Nature can make use of for rebuilding brain and nerve centers are retained In this remarkable food and thus the human body is supplied with the powerful strength producers so easily noticed after one has eaten each day for a week or ten days “There’s a reason” and It Is explained In the little book “The Road to WeUvIlle" tn pkgs above letteef A new Evr riMl the time to time They appear from oif true and fall of human are Pennine t Latere! Spared NSW YONK OITV COMPANY mtfriiii W" KNEW THE GAME St farmer carting sand ‘‘I sz His Tenfcnt the Enumeration and of the Yearly “Bluff" Hardly Suitable Settlement Worker — Since meat is so high why not use vegetables? Mrs Grogan — They doq’t do a black eye no good Just one cup of Garfield Tea taken before “I have called to collect the rent” retiring will next day relieve your system said the landlord gently and thoroughly of all impurities “Yes” replied the lady of the house Now before I give you “come in Nothing succeeds like the efforts ot some people to be disagreeable the money this month I — " “Just a minute madam” said the landlord “I pan save time for you Getting things without paying for I know the parlor Isn’t fit for a pig them Is some men’s idea of economy to live in the dining room wall paper is a shock to people of refinement the kitchen walls are a disgrace and the back porch is a menace to life and I’m also aware that you won’t of My limb stay here another month unless the wallpaper In the back bedIn a room is' changed to "something delicate pink and I’m next to the fact that you’re ashamed to have people 100k at such gas fixtures as I have provided I’m going to paint the front and back porches and let it go at Let Me Send You A Treatment Chinese Herbs Free that” "Thank you very much” said the “You have saved me a lady meekly lot of trouble That Is all wo really to have done but I was expected afraid that' I should have to make the same old bluff to get that much out of you” — Detroit Free Press That Was Different A stern father who had repeatedly told a young man who was paying his addresses to his daughter not to visit the hovse again without his permission which he never Intended to give when he answered was surprised a ring at the doorbell late one evening to see the young man waiting on the step “Sir" said he In anger "didn't I tell you not to call again eh sir?’’ “Yes” said the young man “I know but I didn’t call to see your daughter I came on behalf of our firm about that little bill" ” “Oh — stammered the stern father "call again will you?” Four Dollar for a Cake of Soap an Soap has never been considered but now that notion extravagance flnee the new French may change imported sorps are costing from two lo three and four dollars a cake They are however deliciously scented and one may take pardonable pleasure In Each cake using such toilet article conics In a little box and Is satin covered they are quite a suitable Item for the traveling bag of the bride for which the most exquisite trifles are always sought out Entirely Practical "Son I hope you are engaged to a practical girl” “Oh she’s very practical dad She drives her own car and she can take a motor apart as well as any expert In the business" The Paxton Toilet Co of Boston Mass will send a large trial box ot Paxtlne Antiseptic a delightful cleansing and germicidal toilet preparation to any woman free upon request Wonderful Far To one man or woman In each locality will be given free a proof treat went of Lee K Chin’s wonderful Chinese Roots Barks and Herbs This proof treatment which Is offered without one cent of coat has been used In China for over lour thousand years and has cured more men and women than any known treatment now In existence To prove what this wonderful treatment will do the Doctor la offering a free treatment so that the skeptical may see and the doubters be convinced A cured patient is a doctor’s best advertisement No matter how many other treatments you have tried no matter how many other doctors have failed Lee K Chin stands ready to prove to you at his own expense that his remedies will do the work Sit down NOW and write Lee K Chin Hall Safe Building San Francisco telling him In your own words just how you feel and from what you suffer most He will then send you a treatment prepared to meet the requirements of your case and which will convince you that you are not In the Incunihle Btate but can and will be cured This treatment will be sent to you In a plain wrapper with the poetage paid Don’t put this matter off until tomorrow Just because there Isn't paper or pencil handy Look one up now and writs Immediately This Is YOUR opportunity 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