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Show r I f K JV , d t'l 1 . S' . of r WNU Service. i' 4- . a . tf ' 1 two u mil MID HELP Banished by Jjieir Sickness Pinkhams Vege-tabl-e Lydia E. By FRANK H. SPEARMAN , , - O-- I d Box 208. Hrt Nina Matteson, If It had not been N. Y.. writes for your medicine, I could sot have Ox-or- ; .f f ! Compound t Copyright by Chtrlcl Scribnor v Son. . . done my work as It hould hare been done. Mother told me of Lydia E. ' - ' STORY FROM THE START John Selwood, gentleman gam, bier and manager of a .stage tine at Sleepy Cat, dSmcA1 upon a settler whose wagon has mired In a creek. He helps get the out- fit clear, after picking up a girl's shoe and being attracted by the 's supposed owner thereof in (the settlers) wagon. Moses McCracken, a youth. Is robbed of f 600 In a Sleepy Cat, gambling Selwood forces the swinden. dlers; Bartoe- and Atkins, td return the money. Fyler opens a Big dry goods store, with .Haynes running a naock auction. Selwood learns the girl whose' shoe he picked up Is Christie, Fylers daughter. Selwood makes and Christie's acquaintance warns Fyler that Atkins Is a crook. . Starbuok, head of the crooked attracted, gamblers, tries to Ingratiate himself with Christie. The girls mind Is poisoned against Selwood. Fyler Is beaten and robbed. Christie, ' seeking Doctor Carpy,- - meets Sel- wood and informs him that Atkins has thrown her father out of his store, claiming to own It Fyler Is not badly hurt. With his two companions, Selwood drive? .Atkins and Haynes from Fylers store. Christie, who has an aversion for gamblers, turns against Selwood when she learns he Is a gambler. , ' Fy-ler- - CHAPTER IX ' 10--' Continued ! The young gambler meant to trim (him; and all that had gone before was only preliminary to what was now In hand. From the moment Selwood had sat Into the playKhe night before, he had done little more than to study Roper? game. Roper liked d the game Selwood meant ethat he should meant that hltr phoffid be firmly, established. The general t continued to win, until Within half an hour of breakfast, When a bad streak cost him- - heavily. Overconfidence led him. for , Just a two-hande- confl-vdeue- little .whjle toovfar afield; that mys-terlo- agency of chance, pokerTuck, momentarily deserted Trim. In a fit Of pique, the general, trled to discipline It to drag It rudely bqek to hi? aid with the mortifying fehnlt that In half a dozen hands lie fust "every dollar he had rqadeln the ealy uloruffyt lipurs. Solwooa was sliowlrigfiis fedth. " Nor was the strategy lie hiade use of altogether In the monotonous turn of the cards and the bet against 'the iifiseen. lie reasoned Would lose thuf .before General-Roper- : his winnings he must first lose his temper; this the. six disastrous hands had cost him. Rut now the general like a prudent soldier, fie drew into his shell, silent and crabbed, and Selwood stuv that something was ornecg?,sar.v to encourage litm. dered breakfast, and while it .was being prepared the general' won some i consolation pots. The meal was brought to the door by the housekeeper, Margaret Tiyde. pale, silent, emotionless. The better part of the pot of strong coffee was conceded by Selwohd," who 'took only a cupful to Roper. The general lighted a fresh cigar from the big box. tilted hack in his flimsy chair, and looked his opponent carefully over. Selwood, calm under the inspection, while Genonly toyed, thoughtfully eral Roper smoked with the cards on the tnhle before 'him. When Roper was ready to resume he, himself, drew a sealed pack of new cards from his pocket. .Lets have a fresh- - deck, young man, he said Indifferently or with an air of Indifference as he produced them, It seems As if I cant rememher your name." It ought not to be hard for you fo rememher,". was all .that Selwood retorted. Rut the remark was unnoticed, as Selwood meant It to be. .When d Roper brought out his Atvn cards, without comment took the cards they had playing with threw them in a corner, and opened Ropers pack.' The play .went on. , Within an ')our Selwood had his game where he thought' he could manage it. When Roper played for safety, Selwood was patient"; when the genera dashed at him headlong, Selwood stopped the charge and exacted his pound of flesh. By ten oclock that morning Roper realized die. had found a man his superior In nerve and his equal In straegy, and, Ids anger was the anger of thattnaster of' fence who realizes that his sill' has , been matched and his rapier outpointed. Rut the general lacked the caution to profit by his discernment. Kgged on by that arch enemy of us all; vanity, he pressed his enemy. Selwood recognized the symptoms as the beginning of the end. Ropers recklessness was stimulated designedly by minor successes, and his holies were repeatedly dashed by staggering 'losses. ' He was gently lecoyed Into boldness and brutally punished for his temerity. His discomfiture was studied and his feelings trodden underfoot. In no other possible way could his pride have been so hifmlliated and 'his pretentious iiuiocragy abashed. He rose from the' tabH at noon although Selwood offered -- to play longer If he exhausted physically, his wished eyes on fire, his voice' shrunken to a rasping treble, a beaten .man. It was not the money lost though he had been completely cleaned out but he ' nerve-wearin- g . Set-woo- 1ei -- had been mastered at his own game ' and he knew It; ."Get my I O Us together, and see what I owe you," he said brusquely as he pushed his chair back. "Look here," he hdded Insolently Selwood In leisurely fashion was - casting. . up where did you learn big accounts to play poker?" Selwood did not take the trouble to look up. Among the thieves and cutthroats at Thief Rlver be answered with no lack of curtness and a complete' indifference to the result of xhls words. Why?", he asked . In turn and with no less of Insolence. " Dont you like my game? Whats your business? demanded Roper. The general had cast aside the mask of suavity worn for so many hours; Selwood met his rudeness with rudeness. Iiaytng poker," he reported, Indifferent .to results. What!" exclaimed Roper, kindling. "Do you 'mean to say .you're a professional gambler?-- 1 That sounds like it, doesnt It?"- You Insult me, .sir!" . exclaimed ' Roper with 'an oath'. ' '"You Insulted me when you refused to play with my canjs. You, called for your own, didn't you? And I cleaned you out with yotir ow'n." Roper flew Into a passion. Do you play with marked curds? e he thundered. . 'Selwood was impassive. Nobody vvould need riiarked cards td piny with you, General," be returned. I play with marked cards when I play with thieves they furnish them." Wentworth! Carpy !"' roared Roper. "Come la 'here!" The two men appeared at the- - door together. What do' you mean?" he demanded with a string of expletives, "by,!runnlng In a professional gambler on tne for a gentlemens game of poker? Carpy . looked blank but the look was mostly nskutaed. Has lie clenned you. General? he asked, with medical Innocence. blurted out Roper, VWentvyorth," you told The he was your superinten, dent here. , Dash It, he Is, returned , Wentworth testily. Last time you were up here you cleaned out 'Dave Tracy. You werent so blamed particular then lwlrt!m'youipluyeld pokfr wlttf." about In a tantrum; I've been played on taken In by a common card sharp I've been robbed." Selwood,' who- - had been sitting as an unconcerned listener, slapped the cards with which they had been playing sharply down bn: the table. lie rose instantly ,ar.d confronted Roper. I wouldn't, call ,a .mqn.of your years a liar. General. Rut you cant crawl away after a gam? with me with any such word ns robbed " Why you blamed old martinet c shouted Carpy angrily. Hold on. Doc! Hold Jour horses! The Interposed Wentworth hastily. general 13 my guest were gentlemen here." . ' i suppressed. Carpy could not-- , l Every man on the Mountain divide," he thundered at Roper, would call you a liar If you called John Selwood a crook " . Selwood put up his hand. He was white with anger. Til, do the talking, Doctor,", he said. 'The, men watching him. made no further .at Vempt to Interfere. Roper, sullen glared at him Selwood pointed to This man" Roper "calls me a Card sharp lie has good reason to a, better reason than he knows!". He was looking as he spoke "at Wentworth and Carpy and directed, his words to, tlTen). "I want to tell you, gentlemen, who that man Is" his finger pointed remorselessly at Roper. "And I . want to tell you who I apt. That man sent my father to his death at JJte hands of Indians ! That man tried to, send my mother and me to the same death. That man put a stain on my mothers name. He sent me out Into the. w orld without u name,' If thaf mans word Is good he shot the words out like bullets m.v father.. .never . married my mother! K Damnation!" shouted Carpy, enrage?!. Why don't you kill him?" . Selwood went steadily on. Ill tell you that, too. I came out on the l)i vide ten -- years ago.- - I was fifteen years old. I went to this man up at 1dm v lw I was he the Fort-t- old cursed me. The only man on the whole trail that showed me honest kindness was-- , the old man who lies down there in the tent Dave Tracy. Dave Tracy was a gambler; lie could teach me no trade but his own. lie ne'ver tried to make a gambler of me I liked It, I I made one of myself drifted Into It; I expect to die In It I dont excuse It. I dont .whine about know me. It. I know' the cards-the- y Theyre false friends like all friend-wit- h you when ytm viln, against you When you lose; But I dont .forget what that man has dune !q me ami mine. You ask me, .Carpy, why I dont kill him its, because, his son, ' I ieut Henry Roper, w;i,s jn7 father !" An Instant of silence, terrible to followed tbe astonishing sustain, words. Roper, .apoplectic with emotion,' started and clutched at his shirt ' collar. Before any one could reach him he fell heavily to the floor. 1 Wentworth and Carpy, with much lifting and tugging, curried Roper to the bed in Carpys room, and while the doctor administered restoratives, Selwood, assured .flfaf no fatal issue threatened, went down-stair- Went- s, worth joined him' presently with the news that Rojier had recovered com sclousness and had been given a sedu-liv' t - that. , She consented. Frying Pan, the orderly, arranged things. At) old1 sergeant, devoted to Father; rode out with him one afternoon after antelope. Mother rode out later alone. Frying Pan met her, ahd they rode down the .river 'together and met Father. Frying Pan and the old sergeant were taken along for witnesses. ' They made the effmp ancf found the black-robMy mother belonged to his faith, lie made necessary Inquiries, told them he would 'marry them, and askeu them to come tack- - the following day for the ceremony,. .They begged to be married at trace. , "Night had fallen. It was raining to beat hell. But that wild night, In thgt .little Indian camp and in that d before the downpour, pa'dre, vvifh Frying Pan, the sergeant, md the" Blackfeet lighting the scene with pitch-pin- e torches, my father married my mother. They got hack to the fort. Came next day the orders to start. There wexe only jialf as , many men. fit as should have been sent against the meanest Indians ever ' bred In the Rriekies. My father was-ngreenhorn he protested. .The old man. was Iron he listened to nothing.. He waited a few days and sent him out with fewer men than he would have had . a week earlier. . In old scout the mountains Any enn tell you the story of that fight. Henry Roper iollowed the Crows a week, and surprised them at daylight, up past the lava beds, In Crawling Stone wash. My father attacked. Colonel Ropers scouts, who were no good, had. reported that the war party numbered fifty but a - bigger pnrty had Joined them, and there proved fo be three hundred warriors In the wash t Ropers men- were surrounded , in thirty minutes. r IIe saw what he was up against, lie knew' tlfere was ' orily 6nV thing - ... gray-haire- - , d her back to St. Joe .with her tw babies. 'She' was put In charge of two drunken : troopers to' be taken down the fiver to. a landing wbere a steamboat, caught on the river the fall was going to St. Louis when the -- ' went out." ice The surgeon wrapped my jnotner and the babies up in furs and niade her as 'comfortable as possible old and Roper came to the hospital 'then to slue refused, , offered, her. money; touch It A snowstorm set in after we blizgot started. By noon If wAs a zard. The troopers lost their way and drove backward and .forward alj .day. the trail, By nightfall, they had found 1 but they ' were drunk.' When they struck timber along the breaks above the river, wolves got their wiqd and followed them. The horses got scared ; the men whipped upadd In a few minutes the team was rqnning away. The sleigh bounced along on ,the trail, struck a sharp turn, and my mother with the babies In her arms was thrown from the sleigh. twenty feet down. Into a river br,eak filled with snow the wolves followed the horses. s. It wns close to 'a village- of Man-danThe Indians heard the noise mothers cries, dragged and heard.-mher out of the snow with her children ' and got her Into a tepee; they were kinder than the whites. They got my mother and her babies to the boat, and she reached the farm of her married sister In Missouri. But the hardships and exposure of the trip were too much for her. She lived, with w hat had come to her from her father, till we were twelve years old never well, hut devoted td .her children. After thaf my. sister and I went to live with our aunt.' Her first husband had died. Her Second husband was a hard taskmaster he. made s earn our keep.. Three years of It was enough for me. It was tori' much-m- ore than I ought tove tried. You ran see. for yourselves, . gentlemen, theres not much underpinning to me. I couldnt stand plowing from daylight to dark; Im' not lazy, I .dont' believe but .tt., wasn't Jp me. to rio heavy farm work, and I told my unql? eo. He didn't care much; t Vas table' Compound, and I had read In papers:. different It bad done bo-for-e, y ,what for different women. She wanted me lor"- trv .1 A ecr my hus-- , band got me. pne bottle at1 first; then f .. took two others. Now' ' am feeling j ' again. quite strong of - Adams, - Mrs,- - Ernest Tanguay four-yearMass., says ehe wa? Ill for. and could not sleep nights or go out on the street She read About the .ego- -' table Compound and decided faking eight bottles she it After to do all her work and go any- - . where and Is quite herself again. This dependable Vegetable Cora- - s pound is a household word In thousards 'of homes.. The fourth generation !i now learning the merit of Lydia EC Plnkhams Vegetable Compound. For more than half a "century,, this , reliable medicine has been. used by 'women with Very satisfactory results. If the Vegetable Compound bks h?lne,i other women, why shouldnt It help you? " s to-try- - at- e was-.-abl- . -- ' Cleansing Mercury : The bureau of standards says that a: simple way tA remove 'dirt , from mercury Is" to shuke the mercury vigorously with some cane sugar; after ? which the miVhl Is filtered off through a pinhole In the bottom of a. paper J cone. . The Whfl operation, may be repeated If, necessary, . Instead of fii-- . terlng through, a pinhole, the mercury." may be squeezed 1through several "" thicknesses of cloth. . A misers fade Is- - like- a bank . , i note f - It means money.. every line In - bleeding- Vege-v- , Pinkhams ; - Ladies Can - Wear Shoes one size zmaller and walk or dance ; in comfort by tuing Allan a Foot-E- it . , i tha Antiseptic Healing powder tq (hake into yoiir hoei. - gaid pn no! much goijA fo arbcyly,'was Igoodby who to dash always for hack a make the ,lpva ;beds. toy aunt, few liirin abSfit jVtroz&l got1 like a mother toW, ran Vway 'rind ' hever joined a party,, of emigrants headed .through. The old setgeirnt--- I shot through the for th? mountains. t : , got his nam-vv- as L , head. Frying Pan was left for dead I fell In with Tracy, He was the on the 'field. M.v father cHd not reach first man I met In the high country the lava beds. He fell at' the Jiead of who didnt try to get the best of me ids men, in Crawling Stone wash; his I drifted here and there with him, bn I always bad Ifl mind to hunt up body never was recovered. Selwood paused. Gentlemen. he Colonel Roper and tell him nij ald, wiping his forehead; this cham- mothers story after she left. In lat. pagne Is for everybody, I .drink It bemy mother asked me- to promise to cause It steadies me. I can't drink do that much, and I had promised. whfsky. Its funny, bull whisky makes I found him at the fort again he m? W ant to kill somebody. had been sent biick'tRere. I told' him . So my father didn't come back. who I was. lie .flew4into a rage and Sipallpox broke out again that fall at said my mother and .her babies perthe fort." My mothers 'father took it ished In the blizzard that set In the and died In a week. - My mother-wa- s day they left the fbrt, and told me I 'eft alone. She was a thousand miles was an impostor (lists what I got, ' from any woman. she felt she could gentlemen, when. I w as less than sixKrrnto. Dont be afraid of the cham- teen, from my 'own grandfather! pagne,' gentlemen; X tells you, It will Tracy made the 'trip' up, to the fort , t with me. Pd told Typey that If. my ; steady you,. They watched the gambler pour and grandfather would take me I should Srlnk glass after glass 'of the heady quit him. He agreed that would be ''rench wine rbut seemingly . without right. i v effect on the Iron restraint under Id thought the old wretch, might which he held himself. have softened with the years; ray he re- mother told me he would ; Tracy said My mothers condition, sumed, ..forced her to go to my grandhe would that It wasnt In human father. She told her story.. He asked nature to act the way he was aetbg for her proofs buzzards were pickforever. He has a fipe manner, Jou ing them In the Crawling Stone wash. know when I first Apnt'ln he talked He told my mother his son had so nice I hoped he rnlgbb ask me to never married her! He did, so, help stay. But when he heard my story me God The post surgeon wns more well, you know the rest. merciful. He defied the old man, took I told him I'd come 1ack tome duy care of my little mother at the hospimake him eat his words. He orpnd tal ; and of- - all the damnable things dered me off the reservation. Tracy In a woman to could that and his deck of cards were that happen for distress, my poor mother "gave birth me : I dropped- - my fathers waiting name and a a am twins-I. and, to boy that took my mothers here. I am. ,. .. girl, boy. You know how I struck It a few Even that didnt soften the old ago at Thief River. Dave Tracy years .wretchs heart, lie was. only broken was down and out. He thought tf he over the death cf his handsome son. could iiou.se started here, he a get uo My mother had place In his grief. could get on ids feet. I backed him Her very presence at the fort Seemed why shouldnt I? VPhett we took to irritate him. Before the snow was the trail, I slept under his blanket., ( oft the ground he arranged, to send . (TO BE I , ;For Indigestion, Dyspepsia, wt. , Relieves. .Distress pfter. Hurrjgd Meals or Overeating. Being a gentle laxative, It keeps the digestive tract working normally. At all Druggists. - 30c &:90c C. G. CREEM, Inc. WOODBURY, J. , t- , -- f , be well ; they would be married, anyway, and there would be hb more' ' trouble.- J It all sounded good to ftiyr, mother; the little Crow expedition was to be a' holiday affair soon ovAr, "military hopors, brave young husband and all - Carpy came down within half An hour arid, accompanied by Wentworth, went at Selwood? request to his room. There Selwood sat down before a supply of champagne. I told you tlia bare fact of this mans relation to me. he begap, adBut you are dressing the two men. entitled to more. My father was Lieut. Henry Roper; my mother was Annie Selwood; she. was the daughter of a post trader at old Fort Pierce. Young Roper fell In love with my mother His father, then Colonel Roper, commanding officer there, was violently angry he wouldnt listen to their getting married he thought - a post trader's daughter yvasnt good enough for the Roper blood; but that didn't chill the young couple. Their one object In life was to get married. It would be a poor kind of a man, gentlemen, that wouldnt speak well of his own mother who wouldn't deal gently with her weaknesses and draw a veil, If need were, over her mistakes. rut, gentlemen, I want to say, Im not called on to apologize In any way for my little dead mother. She was a whip of a girl, eighteen She years old. lie was twenty-one- . weighed ninety pounds when Henry married her only-- - ninety Roper pounds, but every ounce of that ninety i- Iloper-stampe- ' "Sent My Father to Hia Death at the Hands of Indians" , . pounds was true Womanhood, as you hear me; and slit knew what was due to herself. And I can say no word against my dead father he knew what was due to the woman he loved, and respected It. She was the better educated, he was the older and I know nothing of either of them but what Is to their .honor and mine. There were few chances at the old fort, In those days', to get married, and if there Is on? thing for which my father should be" blamed it was that he was afraid of his o.Vn father and let him bully him.- - But In spite of the bullying he wouldnt give up the girl ; and to break rip the attachment, this old man arranged to have his son transferred to Fort Calhoun. Before the transfer order came, and while the young couple were growing desperate over their situation. a party of Crows started pn the warpath. Colonel Roper ordered s a troop of cavalry out after the Crows. It happened just .when there was an outbreak of smallpox nt the fort. It was light, but many of the men were down; the captain who would have ordinarily commanded the expedition was xlovvn. My father was assigned to the Job of punishing the will say when you up-stai- Crows. - - , - e , BOOKS"Sm? -- 1 1 CONTINUED.) Crystal "Said to .'Hold Worlds Oldest Drink In the Academy of Natfirai Sciences there Is what is Philadelphia thought to he the oldest drink in the world, unless there are some older ones embedded earth, which Is ,where this one came from.. It. is. a specimen ef calcite crystal In which there is a Cavity several lnMieg long and In this there is about a half a gill of liquid, presumably, water. . The Jn, stitutlon Is the oldest In he country and the specimen has been there ul most from the beginning, but, until potently. It has never been on public view. During Its stay nt trie academy there has been no noticeable (litniuu tlon of. t.Iie matetial Incjogetl in, the specimen. There. are. other such sped mens, but this Is the largest' known and has qualities which" nak It quite valuable In the eyes of. thqfAcleptlsts, who are watching it to see If the con tents become changed In any way This was uncovered in Rossie, N. Y.. In e in im In one variety of blue quartz from Bucks county. Pennsylvania, In addition to the bubble there are minute crystals which are constantly In "motion, which has" possibly been continuous fyr millions of , . year?. Money '. Durable Tobacco paper currency can be made from the waste cuttings avid 'stems of tobacco, it. Is reported from Europe The waste from tobacco factories Is first treated ty a chemical process to render It tough rind pliable. It Is then run through special machinery to cut It fine and is used as a substitute for the more costly waste linen rags. - Deadliest of Shakes The cobra Is the dead lest oi mi snaaes. If it fop? or five persons in a short period, the sixth bite Is not necessarily fatal, otherwise the victim dies lu a few minute - Deseret Book Go, ' U East. So. Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah Vitaglass in Greenhouse . earlier start of his To force an fear-de- ft this year. W. Kerr Rustoll, M.' B. D . S. of Edinburgh, .planted seedlings vitaglass In his greenhouse. lie " reported that' the vitaglass plants ger- s initiated before and showed much taller, and sturdier, growth. Mr; Russell is part author of Ultra-ViolRadiation and Actlnotberapy." He, suggests that greenhorisen be equipped ' with vitaglass and that the glass would v be especially adaptable in the raising of early struwberrles. tlie-other- , - ., - Judge by the) Flavor , ' She I hppa you1 like the-elgnrsj 1 gpye you, dear. I bought them at ' the grocerV, Where? At the vegetable rnun- , wMbies- ter?-vRoS- fori . he had to wait for men. Colonel Roper, like an old blunderbuss, sputtered around trying to burry things up, but a week slipped away before they could get a handful of men ready. Father, of course, was likewise Impatient to be off and greatly elated and before he got away something else happened. Father had tn orderly a half-bree- d Chippewa Indian who was to act ns guide. lie had been brought up among the Sioux, and his name was John Frying Ian. Frying Pna learned from friendly .Indians that a black-robmissioner was traveling with an escort of Blackfeet into the mountains, and that the party was camped at vvlmt was 'called Old Mission, twenty miles down the river. My father went td my mother with the ' . ,V. . news. He asked her to go with him to the black-rob- e and be married. When he came back he would tell his father, have It out with him, and all would "But of disfiguring blotches and 'irritations. Use : - .Transbrtpt FOR , . CASTORIA s Prepared Especially' for Infants and Children of AU Ages ' , Mother I Fletchers Castor! a has been in use for over 30 years as a pleasant, harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Teething Props and Soothing Syrups. Contains no narcot-- . Ics, Proved ' direction are on each package. "Physicians everywhere It. 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