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Show LAYMAN FINDS faro no STOMACH CURE Good Christian and Family Man, But Had Poor Digestive Organs What I cornueT nut rr A.C sru.t.uMC SAIT vulsive grasp as she felt the pack leaders fling theiUMidvcK against the outer aide. But Blake bad lushed the bamboos securely together, and Hone of the beast a was heavy enough to snap the supple bars. Finding that they could not break down the harrier, iln-- began to scraich and tear at the thatch which covered the frame. Soon a pair of lean jaws thrust in and snapped at the girl's skirt. She sprang buck, with a cry: "IMp! Quick, Mr. Wlnthrope! They're breaking through!' Winihrope made no response. She stooped, ami found him lying Inert where he had fallen. She hud only herself to depend upon. A screen of sharp sticks which she had made for the entrance waa leaning against the lnuer wall, within easy reach. To grasp it and thrust It against the other framework was the work of an in- tln-s- Tlie atnry opens Willi the ehlp wreck of iI.ihaIi-vi.ii whii'li Mis mi American ,ord herewith: present mi Kiiullsliiiiiiii, uml Tuiit Make, "AH my life I had a bnmque were passengers. needed a laxative to tlirr-The wvrt- tnwml uimn mi umiiiiab-lti-- d cure my constipaInland uml were the only mu- - nut tion and stuniai'li druwnerl. Klnkn recovered from n drunktrouble. I couldn't en stupor. Kluke, shunned on the bout. eat a; I nf liis roughness, became a lieru t what 1 couldnt iik I in server of the hulpless pair. The did eat cut of my KnkhKtunun whs suing for llie hand of 1 tried aystem. Miss Ixislie. Kluke started to swim buck everything, because In t lie ship to what waa left. my work, engineer Kluke returned safely. Wlnthrope wanted Mr. Joseph Murphy on a railroad train, his last miiicli on a cigarette, for which thakes it nivemury that 1 feel strong and he was sourcil by Jllake. Their first meal welt finally It was my good fortune to was a dead tisli. The trio started a ten meet up With lJr. Caldwell's Syrup Pep- mile hike for higher land. Thirst atsin. through the recommendation of a tacked them. Kluke was compelled to friend. I took it and was cured. That is carry Miss I,eslii on account of weariomu time ago. but 1 am still cured." ness. He taunted Wlnllirope. They enIt can be bought of any druggist foi tered the jungle. That night was passed M cents or ft a bottle. Send address roosting high in a tree. The next morning they descended to tha open again. and a free test bottle will your be sent to All three constructed lists to sfileld themyour home. If thera la some mystery selves front the sun. They then feasted about your rase that you want explained write the doctor. For the advice or fret on cocoanuts, the only procurable food. Miss lieslle showed a likin ample address Dr. W. B. Caldwell. aid but detested his roughness, Caldwell Bldg., Monti cello, IU. they established a horns In some cliffs Blake found a fresh water spring. Miss A HOT ONE. Iieslle faced an unpleasant situation. Thsy plannnd tlielr campaign. Blake recovered hla surveyors magnifying glass, thus insuring Are. Ha started a Jungle Are, killing a large leopard and smothering several rubs In the leopard's cavern they built a small home. They gained the cliffs hy burning the bottom of a tree until it fell against tha heights. The trio secured eggs from the dlffs. Miss Ijealle'a while skirt was decided upon as a signal. Mias Leslie made a dress from the leopard skin. Blake's efforts to kill antelopes failed. Overhear ing s conversation between Blake and Miss Leslie became frightWlnthrope, ened. wlnthrope became ill with fever. the - lieln-HK- , Wlii-llii'ni- e, Aim-m-u- anythin CHAPTER XIV Continued. At noon, having learned that Wln-trope's condition showed little change, Blake ate a hearty meal, and at once net off down the cleft. He did not reappear until nightfall; though at Intervals Miss Leslie had heard hla step as he came up the ravine with bis loads of thorn-brusThis course of action became the routine for the following ten days. It was broken only by three Incidents, all relating to the important matter of food supply. Wlnthrope had soon tired of broth, and showed such an Insatiable craving for cocoanut milk that the stock on hand had become exhausted within the week. The day after, Blake took the rope ladder, as he called the tangle of knotted creepers, and went off towards the north end of the cleft. When he returned, a little before dark, the lower part of his trousers was tom to shreds, and the palms of his hands were blistered and raw; but he carried a heavy load of cocoanuta. After a vain attempt to climb the giant palms on the flar side of the river, he had found another grove near at hand, In the little plain, and had succeeded In reaching the tois of two of the smaller palms. Under his directions, Miss Leslie clarified a bowl of bird fat goose-greasBlake called It and dressed his hands. Yet even with the band ages which she made of soft Inner bark and the handkerchiefs, he waa the unable to handle the thorn-brusfollowing day. Unfortunately for him, he was not content to sit Idle. During the night he had cut a bamboo fishing pole and lengthened Miss Leslie's line with a long of plaited cocoanut-fllie- r catgut leader. In the. afternoon he completed hla outfit with a hairpin meat. hook and a piece of half-drieHe waa back an hour earlier than usual, and he brought with him a fish. His dnxen or more mouth was watering over the prospective feast, and Miss lAslle showed herself hardly lesa eager for a change from their monotonous diet. As the fish were already dressed, she raked up the coala and quickly contrived a grill of green bamboos. When the odor of the broiling fish e spread about In the still air, even sniffed and turned over, while Blake watched the crisping delicacies with a ravenous look. Unable to restrain himself, he caught up the smallest fish, hair cooked, and bolted It down with such hsste that lie burnt his mouth. He ran over to the spring for a drink, and Winihrope cackled ' derisively. Miss Leslie was too absorbed in her cooking to observe the result of She had turned Blake's greediness. the fish for the last time, and was about to lift them off the fire, when Blake came running hack, and sent grill and all flying with a violent kick. Salt!" he gasped "where's the salt? I'm iKiisoned! Poisoned ?" Poison fish! Dont eat! God! Wheres the salt?" The girl sinred at him. His agony was so great that beads of sweat were rolling down his face, lie writhed, and stretched out a quivering band "Salt, quick! warm waier sail! Tan ihere's none left! You remember. yesterday " "God!" groaned Rlukc. and for a moment he sank down, overcome by s racking convulsion. Then his jaw closed like a bulldog's, ami gritting his teeth with the effort, be staggered up and rushed off down iho cleft. Mr. likike! Where arc "Stop! you going? erresmed the girl. She sinned to run after him. but was bailed by an outburst of delirious laugbu r. Winihrope was si M l tig upright and waving bis feverbloiched bauds "III. bl! look at 'iua ruu! 'li's stant. Still she trembled, fur the eager beasts had ripped the thatch from the canopy, and their inthnist jaws made short work of the few leaves on her screen. Unaware that even a lion or a tiger Is quickly discouraged by the knlfe-llksplinters of broken bamboo, she expected every moment that Ihe Jackals would bite their way through her frail barrier. She remembered the sharpened stakes of her screen, hidden under the leaves and grasa of her bed. She groped her way across the hollow, and uncovered one of the stakes. In her haste she cut her hand on Its Are you building Collim Down I hope a new you didn't think I was building an old one. Another Instance. The Fiji cannibal reluctantly produced a quarter in response to the Lightning Calculator's pathetic plea at the psychological moment. II you would only cut out the boose," he growled, and pass up the crap and dice and the handbook thing, you wouldnt have to he touching your e so regularly." friends for a Ah! Youre like so many others, sighed the my Philistine friend, It seems ImLightning Calculator; possible for you to understand the eccentricities of genius!" Los Angeles Herald. grub-stak- 8avlng Hla Life. A story la told of an Englishman who had occasion for a doctor while staying In Peking. Sing Loo, gleatest doctor, aald hla servant; he ssvee my lifee once." Really?" queried the Englishman. Yea; me telllble awful," was the reply; "me callee In another doctor. He glvee me medicine; me velly, velly bad. Me callee In another doctor. He come and give me medicine, make me velly, velly badder. Me callee in Sing Loo. He no come. He save my life." Getting Even. William, aged live, had been reprimanded by hla father for interrupting while his father waa telling his mother about the new telephone for their house. He aulked a while, then went over to his mother and, patting her cheek, said: Mother, dear, I love you." Dont you love me too?" asked his father. Without glancing at him, William said disdainfully: The wire's busy." 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All unheeding, she sprang back towards the entrance. She Tha Girt Waa Now Frantic, got watU do for 1m! Run, you swine; ferorloua outburst of snarls and yells, flung themselves upon him. you Had It not chanced that Wlnthrope There followed a torrent of cockney abuse so foul that Mlaa Leslie blushed waa lying upon hla aide, with one arm scarlet with ahame as she sought to thrown up, he would have been fatally quiet him. But the excitement had so Wounded by the first slashing bites of heightened his fever that he was In a his assailants. The two which sought raving delirium. It was close upon to tear him were baffled by the thick midnight before his temperature fell, folds of Blake's coat, while their lead and he sank Into a death-lik- e torpor. er's slash at the vlctlma throat was In her ignorance, she supiiosed that he barred by the upraised arm With a savage snap, the beast's Jaws closed on had fallen asleep. shok-llvebiting through to the bone. At Her relief was for soon the arm, same Instant the fourth jackal she remembered Blake. She could see the tore ravenously at one of the outhim lying beside the pool or out on the legs. bare plain, his resolute eyes cold and stretched a shriek of agony, Winihrope With glassy, his powerful body contorted in started from his tonor, and si ruck up the death agony. The vision filled her out In a fury of pain and frantically with dismay. With all hla coarseness, terror. Startled by the violence of the man had showed himself so re- this resistance, the Jack unexpected so when sourceful, Indomitable, that ala leaped hack only to spring In she sought to dwell upon her reasons as the remainder of the pack to fear him, she found herself admir- again made a rush to forestall them. ing his virile manliness. He might be Wlnthrope waa ilaggering to his a brute, but he did not belong among when the foremost brute leaped feet, as and the Jackals hyenas. Indeed, him. He fell heavily against upon she called to mind his strong face and one of the main supports of his bamdisbeblunt she all but frank, speech boo canopy, and the entire structure lieved what her own ears had heard. came down with a crash. Two of the And anyway, without his aid. what jackals, caught beneath the roof, should she do? Wlnthrope had already howled with fear as they sought lo become as weak as a child. The free themselves. The others, with emaciation of bis Jaundiced feature! brute dread of an unknown danger, waa a mockery of their former plump- drew away, snarling and gnashing ness. Blake bad said that the fever their teeth. might run on for another week, and Wakened by the first ferocious yelps that even if Wlnthroim recovered, he of Wlnthrope's assailants. Miss lieslle would probably be helpless for several had started up and stared about In the days besides. darkness. On all sides she could see What was no less serious, though pairs of fiery eyes and dim forms like she had concealed the fact from Blake, the phantom creatures of a nightmare. she herself had been troubled the pant Wlnlhrope's shriek. Instead of spurweek with the depression and lassitude ring her to action, only confused her which had preceded Wlnthropes at- the more and benumbed her faculties. tack. If make waa dead, and she She thought it was his death cry, and should fall ill before Wlnthrope recov- stood trembling. transfixed wltb ered, they would both die from lack of horror. Then came the fall of the canopy. care. And If they did not die of the fever, what of their future, here on IBs erica aa he sought to throw It off showed that he was still ulive. In a thia desolate savage coast? But the very keenness of her mental flash her bewilderment vanished. The anguish so exhausted and numbed the stagnant blood surged again through arteries in a fiery, srinmlating (or girls brain that she at last fell into a her rent. Wltb a cry, to which primeval heavy sleep. The fire burned low, and shadowy forms began to creep from instinct lent a menacing note, she behind the bamboos and I be trees and groiied her way to the fallen canopy, rocks down the gorge. There waa no and stooped to lift up one side. Quick! Into the tree!" shp called. sound; but. greedy, wolfish eyes Still frantic with terror, Winihrope gleamed in the starlight. struggled to his feet. She thrust him Only the day before Blake had told towards the baobab, and followed Miss Leslie to store the last rack of the mass of Interwoven bant cured meat Inside the baobab. The dragging boos. Emboldened by the retreat of two sleepers lay belween llie fire and their qunrry, the snarling pack Inihe entrance to the hollow. Slowly In. Fortunately close to stantly began the embers W the tire died away Into thev were too cowardly to rush gray ashes, and slowly the night onre. and fear llieir spurred boldest of prowlers drew nearer. The victims to the utmost has.'' , the park crept rlos lo Miss and sttinibllns. tha two re! thlr way liared and back,, slid, willi teeth the baobab, and .Miss Leslie pushed to of her bristling, sniffed at llie headlong through the en skirl. Whether because of her heavy Wlnthrope ace. As he fell, she turned to face irn of the breathing or Ihe odor the pack. skin, the beast drew away, with an were Ht. the The foremost whine. uneasy edge of the bamboo frainewtuk, There was a pause; iheii. backed their eves close to the ground. Inliv three others, Ihe leader :i ppronrhed stinct told her that, they were to Imp. Winihrope. lie w.is mill ly.'ne in the Yih desperate strength deathlike tni'imr, and he lucked ihe she caught up tha canopy before her pnhertion which, in a likelihood, the like a great shield, and drew It In skin had given Miss Leslie. after her until ihe ends of the crossThe cowardly brnies took him fur hair were wedged fast against the b ad or dying. Tlmy staffed at him rides af the opening. Though It etned uni beid to f it, and tlicii, with a o firm, she clung lo it with a con- Inti-i.di-- e be.-isf- s rrr If so, ask about PINGREE. Merchants of all kinds are wanted there at onoe. Now is your opportunity. Write for booklet to W. H. Scott, Gen. Manager Pingree Towniite Company Idaho HMi Pingree, was none too soon. One of Ihe smaller or Jas. F. Burton, Secretary jackals had forced its head and one leg between the bars, and waa strugOgden, Utah gling to enlarge the opening. Fearful that the whole pack waa about to burst in upon her, the girl grasped the bamboo stake In both hands, and began stabbing and lungTHE SHORTEST ROUTE TO ing at the beast with all her strength. The Jackal squirmed and snarled and snapped viciously. But the girl was now frantic. She pressed nearer, and though the white teeth grazed her .18 VIA..... wrist, ahe drove home a thrust that a Into beast'a howl the snarls changed of i tain. Before she could strike again, it had struggled bark out of the hole, beyond reach. DEETH it soly S5 Miles fraa JAIBIDCE Tense and panting with excitement aad la aa Iks auia liaa af kstk tka Ssalkan she leaned forward, ready to stab at Pacific aad tha Warfare Pacific Railroad. the next beast. None appeared, and presently she became aware that the pack bad been daunted by he ex perience of their unlucky fcIlnw.eTheir RUBBER STAMPS SftWFSSBa (JHKCKH, Etc. Full snarls and yells had subsided to llna Rubber Trite Outllta, aad ouppliea in (lock. whines, which seemed to be coming receive Mall untrra pmmpt attention. from a greater distance. Still she SALT LAKK STAMP CO., Salt Lake City waited, with Ihe bamboo stake upA Practical Way. raised ready to strike, every nerve tense) the with A professor at a well knows engiand mtiacle of her body strain. neering college saya that but for ocin the applicaSo great was the stress of her fear casional Innovation and excitement that she had not heed- tion of learning, such as the followed the first gray lessening nf the ing, he would find It IflLrd to Judge night. But now the glorious tropical the extent of bis usefulness. This question was asked upon aa dawn came streaming out of the east Above and examination In all its red effulgence. "What steps paper: through the bamboo barrier glowed a would you take In determining the light such as might have come from height of a building, using an aneroid a great fire on the cliff top. Still barometer? tense and Immovable, the girl stared I would lower The answer was: out up tlie clefL There was not the barometer by a string and measjackal In sight. She leaned forward ure the string. Everybodys. and peered around, unable to believe But the night Just His Chance. such good fortune. prowlers had slunk off In the first Theatrical Manager. "I'm sorry, gray dawn. but there's no place for you la thla The girl drew In a deep, shudder drama; every part has been taken. lug sigh, and sank back. Her hand Egotistical Actor. "Never mind struck against Wlnlhrope's foot. She that. I'll create my parL t timed almut quickly and looked at Not Afraid of Slipping. hltn. He was lying iiion his face. She hastened to turn him iRion bis side, Michael Dugan, a journeyman and to feel his forehead. It was cool plumber, was sent by his employer to and moist. He was fast asleep and the lllghiower mansion to repair a wltb sweat. The great gas leak in the drawing room. When drenched shock of his pain and fear and ex- the butler admitted him he said to citement had broken bis fever. Ihigan: With Ihe relief and Joy of this disYou arc requested to be careful of relaxed covery. the girl completely the floors. They have just been jf Not observing Wlnibroie's wounds, which had bled little, she sought to "Thev's no danger tv me sllppln' on force a way out through the entrance thim," replied Dugan. "I bov spikes B was by no means an easy task to in me shoes." IJppincotl's. free the wedged fiinework. and when after much pulling and pushing, she The Devil and at last tore the mass loose, she found The Kind Old Gentleman What's herself perspiring no less freely than the matter my little man? Wlnthrope. ! I'm so The Utile Boy fTO UK CONTISl'KI'.i The Kind Old Gentleman' Well, INSISTED ON HOLE IN. COFFIN why don't you go Indoors? The I Jt tie Boy Vos muvyer says Through It Col. Butler's Triumphant shell warm me if I does. Sketch. JARBIDGE DEETH, NEVADA Buo-oob- Pigtail Should Protrude. Tli'iiuus lint ter. n colonel in the tiny of tin United States early In the iiliii'lecnili century, died in New Orb-in lsii.1 in the midst of his celebrated controversy with Gen. Wilkin son regarding the wearing of his qneii". Insi.-te-d on wearing his Col. my in In dishair In the obedience to Wilkinson's orders. Ar rnrding to ilerce Butler in his blog-t;by (d .ludnh I. Benjamin, while the was still raging Butler died and left directions that a hole should be bored In the bead of hla coffin and that ho should be borne to the grave with his triumphant pigtail protruding In tleflaiK-c- . The family tradition Is that these directions were carried ouL a A Revelation. "Ah. sir. we do enjoy your sermons," remarked n old lady lo a new curate. They are so Instructive. We never knew wliut pin was until you came to t Review. the parish." Sacred Ili-ur- The Retort Gallant. She (to partner claiming first dance) You are hii early bird, Mr. Glossiness He (gallantly) Yes. and by Jove! I've caught the worm. What! M. A. P. Would Start Her, My wife is prolonging her visit. 1 need her at home, but it seems use- less to write suggesting that she re- turn." "Get one or the neighbors to gest It." Kansas City Journal. sug- |