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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1916-09-15, Page 7Pr don and ed `Doses a Iph 1 ester jOontlnued From Last Weeks Her most immexate reply to that wag another half hysterical outburst. m not quite sure." she giggled. "Fern and I have just be; i trying to recall it all, -but we Atte F remember the funniest things.° 't "You've mradc r fent or him and of :" charged Bert dolly. " e don't deserve -any }credit for Wit," snickered Molly. "lt.`s so easy."'. "The ,seas has taken, too much for vented," went on Bert, unsoftened by nth this hilarity and, indeed, Made duly more indignant by it. .•From what your father says. Sledge seems to be- tree -that our engagement is off and that he has been practically accepted." Mo11y put her hand over her mouth to, suppress a shriek and, running out into the hall'. called . Vern. The girls met halfway up the stairway. where 3olly explained the ;lad news. and Bert, stalking} stolidly out there. found them holding to the ::..° a to o: d er that their enjoykenee, ft.3ge's ob- tuse uoderstaieldate ear: ii net tumble them down On stilton it a; : sale back late the library and Werke.* nis shin on a rocker Molly returned to him pres- ently for more 'Toe been missing my red roses," she confe sed. "Now I suppose r11. get some more. What else''ioes he think?" Heaven knows," snapped Bert. "He says he's going to the theater, with you tonight. lie hat correct?" Malty gleefully itodded her head. "Did you forget that you were going to the club dance withme?" he indg- Itantly went on, feeling 1i shaking fez Thal time Molly shook her head, her eyes gleatoing with devilment, and from Fern, still on the stairway. there arose a wild peat Bert closed the library boors;, "I forbid it." he commanded. The change in Molly was so abrupt that it startled him into barking his other s€tin. First of all she threw open the library doors. knowing-,, however, that Fern by this time was back in the bond "You =ay do your forbidding to Mr. Sledge," she told him, with blazing eyes- ; "You were thoughtful enough to consider seriously sending me to idea. and now whatever follows is up DON'T TAICE CHANCES on_ a cut or skin injury becoming tfeeted by disease germs of which the air is full.! Use Zam- Buk immediately an injury is sus- tained, and you will have no fuer- ther trouble. Zam Buk is a Power- ful gerin-destroyer, as well as a powerful healer, and many a case of blood -poisoning could have been avoided tad the victim only taken the precaution to use Zam-Buk at first. Mr. J. Ir. Warren, of Renfrew, Ont., w rites "I cut the palm of my hand badly with a rusty knife, and as I was some distance from home I could not get it properly attended to, and my Viand quickly became stiff and swollen, to toe. diately I reached home I washed the wound with hot water and Zam- Buk Soap,. and then applled Zam— Bnk. This soothing , balm soon ended the paint gradually the swell- ing disappeared, and soon the cut was quite healed." - Zam-Buk is just as good for ec - Tema, old sores, ulcers, - boils, pim Iles, ringworm, piles and burns. 50e. box, a for $1.25, all druggists, or Zara -1311k Co., Toronto. go SLEEP c9ULD_NOT Bad To the thousands of ale who are tossing on sleepless beds night sdter • to wheeze eyes sleep not cagneg Milburn's Hem and Idem Pills oiler the blessing of sound, mfreshiug they restore the equWedtma of e denmged nerve centres, trestor- ing strength sad vitality to the Mir. As. txr McCutebecce Mt. . .B,, weeks: "I have been mrichttouhli- ed nerves, and could na *kap Forhow go to bed. 1 e tees t � axe side to the othetroefore I conld go for gyp. 1 would then walzupin .the end lie aloe iwig time Wore I would get to 1 thought 1would i y a Heart assi Nie r 3$ ihrjr were reetnnmended so 1: ightv. 1 nol►_grt" to ileep withrat an- towable; ,.;nerves atero quieted, cmc. rhea 1 fiei 9 1 to .sieep quWciy. *roue who their nems shotdd keep box on hand-" 'sHtNettle Pills ate RI cents per ben 3.hories for $1.25; at Shah= or niatled (erect on roodPle ewe lay The T. MilbornlCo., oranto, Ont. • 4 1: \/ u. r •`t h •. - • era I tbefore LO„ it;i.CNIO 104 Woman Made Well by litdia E 'Pinkham's yegetab e Compound. + surrabus,C3hio,-i"1 had almost up.• I had been sick for six yew: female troubl nervousness. a pin in my side and coin t : anything out' hurtin sto ash. 1 not bold at not ea kin of raw nor ii 4 esh me en. I' we 118 and would get so W attim 1 fell over. 1 began ,take Ly Pinkham's Vegetable mpo- ten days later I could e . t and it di hurt my, stomach. I ave take medicine ever since And I feel new woman. I now w . gh 127 so you can see what, , : . dune f already. My husband says he your medicine has sav my lif Mrs. d. S. BARLoW, 1 South 4 Columbus, Qbio. Lydia E. Pinkham's egetsble pound contains just the es of 'roots and herbs needed to . tore heal ' 'and strength to iheweaken - • organs F f the body. That is why Bari , a chronic invalid,recover so compl tely. It paysfor women ering fro ' any female ailments to ' t upon ing Lydia E. Pinkham's 'sgetaiiie pound. von with s and I had right not ith- my could ater any reit, t nor 178 tto that `a E. and not the e _a to me. 1 am going to the tbeate to- night with Mr. Sledge." "Molly, Molly, Molly !" hrieked ' ern, half running and half lumping, d s vin the stairs. "Run to the window, q is and see the parade! D-o-o-ohl- It's' coming here!" - Molly laid aside her j st indign; tion for a moment, feeling i tuitirely bat . a Sledge miracle was once plac in the neighborhood, and lanced ou of the window, as Fern, -urgling i a co- herently. flashed by on t r way to the door. Up the winding drive vay, one fol- lowing the other,were two of :the most beautiful little colonial coupes in the World, such cars a would make any girl go stark howlf g mad with ecstasy. Tbey were esa tly alike, ex- cept that the one in fret was bung With lace and filmy red Mks curtains, and the other had blue ith its fj iffy white. - Both the cues we to empty, ex- cept for the hard featur d men who were driving them, look ng as much out of place as a coal be ver in a lin- gerre bonnet. "The bine one's mine " exclaimed Fern. dancing up and dtwd in 'a de- lirium of joy as iilolly joined hex at the door, through the hangings of which . the girls now p ered out in frantic. impatience. "1 wonder what brings them he e? speculated Molly, dreadin the won "I t. - "I don't care'" returned Fern. "' hat blue ear's mine, and T grit cc. it. M fly. do you really suppose 1 could b a present?" "Certainly not." decided M sly promptly. "Oh, but aren't they ex quisite?" - "Exquisite ? They're the dear st. sweetest, darlingest little !things I ever saw!" cried Fern. "Thea only: thing - that's missing is that there should 1 e ti band leading them. Say, Molly," led here she sank her voice to a giggang whisper, `111 bet you that Sledge" "Certainly not!" interrited Mo alnmost fiercely. and then the. too. tied, and the two girls scattered a from the door as the chauffeur of red car who was the gentlemanly s man in disguise, dismoun$ed and c slowly up to the door. They waited in the library with the gowning and bewildered Bert while the thin butler with the' tall brow an- swered the Bell, and they distin tly heard the chauffeur ask *or Miss 1ar- ley and Miss Burbank. They waite in hell' frightened decorum tubile the hin butler solemnly brought khat mess: ge, and then, with no more ace of ex'ite- ment th8n if they had been drag ed away from a tiresome + rench les . on, they walked sedately in the hall. "Miss Marley?" observe that per .on, nodding to the right girl, "I have the pleasure of bringing out 4 very bea ti- ful little gift to yourselfnd Miss : ur• bank," and. here he nodd to the o el young lady, who was ho ding her oes to the floor by gripping them. - " he red lined one is for Mise Marley : nd the blue one for Miss Burbank." "T said the blue one w s miner,. : if sh:: •ked Fern, unable contain er= se: i ., ny longer. "I want, to ride in t 't - no •• t :,.: ovlooked longingly past the ser - sop .ioulder out at th red curta , ed car.. , d she felt that si k, sick se a- tion • f self abnegati n clamo 'ng with!,. "Who sent them?" she 'asked fain ly. "Your father," replied the consci - ce- less salesman, looking her more cle r in the eye than any honest man c • uld have done. "If you have the time we shall be pleased to give you a lesso in running them." Fern was halfway upstairs. `Do you want your gray coat or out furs, Molly?" she called nes she wen -"Something light," eepiied x11.11y, equally excited, running out to ins sect the e . ,with the gentle only sales „at rigs; *:;her elbow and . ighly pl sed et job. The ch ufenr in the hitt( _ 'waited with bright eyes. Fes, followed by Mina and an' i . maid, both of them too slow. to e. of any service, came cla ening on the porcb with two afters on coats two bonnets selected wi less disc ination than she had elver used tossed any of them to adoily. "I'11 bet it was Sledge," she whisp"eed as -tike rage and popped into the Noe car. Her coupe was the arst to down the sway, but t red followed In eteenserider. Batt ly. g• ay: the' les: me TUE I TJR.ON EX tine "edge of the pore • with -1i : = halite ra treed in his pock ts, area itched the end of the. worn being young Man If keen though , lioweve , after fifteen uinaetes of nu bness h : curled Ida m stacbe. took p the to ephone end ea led Prank M ley. "Di you make a p esent of wo au. totaobifies to the girls " be inqu ed. ` • "Did I wlat?" gas end Marie out of the midst o his plan, for ma , ling #the in oposed str et car co solidsdo, 'worth twenty Po' t:s' advan eon :his tock tc the up eta . syndicate. "I though not," returner! Be a very near! approach to prof didn't • I you'd waken our y" a. $5,000 = xtraya. ce of til " Y n't.. I . , derstancl you,,.. I Marie "Two ere about; e roar► you sett ledge "1 is feeling Ithin Mo *Vest* "Paip leer's j..=ale: care, F rte tell p �: • busy ledge. el 44 d pa y ho "Naw, hey'r e 'em "I ha eii't Y. still s ty. can't o trava ant y one oth" ut i the t•. inelo to 'cars fifteen o4 outer charge 0 them em. Pe onali ge fres possibl ' agr gerous i idigna "Leave that to they it my at once " n with al. a rig ank M Until „ hehilted.couple o autos t, with sty. "1 capital t $ort." uzzied c : see out a, 6, and s d t thinkhat d ni:ley, on rising me, Bert lir. I'll t Os fa-. y kept e located "Did you obiles to 'Sledge. Dp they Mar- heir's dig - on know }receive - t from I "I get X'm the` ap. You w; at 4 tt'e "Wel; '•I say nth a hick h nes, sconne do `early an cote,iaj. e ink rch, to door appy 0 e ley," dhue You sdnt.'em. tweaked " re ding by his fa y, Mr, edge, my da ghter presents f'that r than m self.". ". advise' Sled don't ke 'e do, close'your du. sent 'em, gru loss o: d b en appal d . arley h sour late oupes, t ' inslis his int in and th two s e red mitt drove u4i to t burs Bert G fuer gl ay. They ere dr rl each and ad no ttlpante. `Come and take a ride rt," .b Bed Molly, s full t t she bald absolutey forg • Turret : with him. w ich w deed. , `You can't ive, th Fern h d, emerged f ora he `I'm g ing to brave y di sae laug iugLy anndamced. spall go o the theater tonigh Jilmp an Molly's car, 3ert, a i rides kt a rocking chair." I' No, th le you!" ret reed ty. -"Tho e! cars are g ing`ba ealesroo . 1 felt sur that tiler bad not !given th m to otir• business e:rrangem nt of t iitg.: They are a present fro "Oh, please, no!" plc ded M a heartsick glance at ler re ed car. She bad loveit at npw,since she had lea ned to she adored it "How d you k they are from Sledge?'i "I suspected it from the be he sterni informed b r. "S. I apt your father." "'I said they were fro Sled Fern. "Molly. it was a fully inks; but i love him forrit-do "Wilt did. father say?" irony. Sledge, ordiality, is former click •of inng lit- uitalned e Marley, owed in vett by a other, oe- itl:y me, f delight • tten het •ablow • ugh." can ex' here," ithink 1 nmine, d try it.. ert cold - k jto the your• fa- ou after isfimo'rn- Sledge." Ilse. -with c rtain- t, but oW it, that ig k ,p g ,r lied e!' cried crtide of 't you?" mended .• "He is investigating.' - :Molly marched straight to th : tele phone and called up her fa he He talked to her kindly, Wisely •' n with deliberation, also like a man w + o had given himself plenty; of rim for thought. Bert stood at her e'bo v, lis- tening to one side of the con •er.atiou and piecing out the other witinf ul- Jy knotted tiitellect. Molly t • ed to im with calm -satisfaction. "Father saes that I ;am to co isider the cars as a Lift from trim,'' -he pride- fully! announced. 1 Fern executed the fall .fig re of a minuet and sang a merry tr • -la la all the wa through. Maly h 1pe t : !ler sing an dance the lasil fig ur "Thr cheers!" she exulte 'Now we may' keep our cars.'? "1 neer inter_ ded to give Min Ferre a.ffirmed. Befit - walked Molly lback t her fag's den. ', "11 hale nothing to glay ab ut what Fera do ," be firmly s nrtoun4ed, "hut- 1 but,1 have something to say a ut your conduct Yon can't shat you eyes tc the -fact that 'Sledge had given you this car, and he has -no right to de so." "My f .ther says thaI am to con sider th ear ; as a gift; crana him," re- peated oily' primly, bit with a snap in her a es. "That is only an evasion," Bert in- sisted. ns1 ted. "You have ally misled Sledge into the belief ��bat you intend to put yourself in the positihni of re- ceiving presents from im, and either thistJhing must be stop ed or there wil be: unpl-asai tness bet een you and me." 1 _ "Ther is one way w can Ileal that off'," Mi quietly ass ed "We can. bre k our engagem nt" - "Impo : sible!" immed ately j declared Bert _ft- Q, teiied. "I di n't mean any - Pk )SJTO R Had eak Back - -1I asi Kidneys. COULD it When the starts to that he -: it. functions pr On the e3 fills kit • ey trout Fran les:` w the w ved from Vora from to suffer cbll d 1 account of me togive said am kidneys is I cut sly -good ni banes of the .- 'Doan's box, or 3 box mailed T. Milburn When or LY lidOVE IN MED. b becomes wid aisL. sign >t i tp s a stye sig • are not performing then erly. - sign of backache Doan's should ;be taken and serious prevented. IN McInnes, Woodbine, S., it any - duty to let you derful results I have re - e usa of Doan's Kid longn time I had been out- back and kidneys. 1 o most at night, and some dip move in bed with the do no hard labor on y back. A friend advised van's Kidney Pills a trial, I did fir the pain in my nrk bark is strong, and any -hard labor and get - s sleep. I only used three ey » are b8 cents pet for. $1.25 at all cicalas, at. on receipt. of by The ited, :Toronto, Ont. direct specify "Doan's." thing like'tii t. Molly." and'le attempt- ed to take ' er hands and perform a little of the ovemaking which.. he bad teeeher negle ted. - "I mean t. though," she insisted drawing he hands away from. him "Our ' engag ment has only brought trouble to : verybody concerned ane has subject • me to more than one in 1 suit which had no right to expect If we dec e it off both you and fa- ther can go right back to where yor were 1111.% bu=fness• way." "It's "tate to for that" he assured I her, sitting -. own to reason it out• wit!=. her on the c mmiercial plane since she seemed to = let upon it "I could never res : ' the political, lriendshil which is nec : sary to my style of bust neao. My c • mmercial career in this city is at an end, and my social stand Ing- would b els*. Knowing this, "have been , correspondence with me people in : altimore. They have e magnificent easiness opening there tot me, but it es $100,000 to obtain con trol. of it. laid the -matter before your father, ang. --he Investigated it Our conclusitn is this -if we este close up our btisin ss satisfactorily here and he can sell : place we shall have ax the neighiber ood of $150,000 clear bet tw I us. - You and I are to marry, - gc to Maryland with your father, enter in business and take up the soci$: on- to winch we are entitled en I tak you there as my bride M i lly, every • ody's going to be vers lid of yo and I am quite sure that yo t will link the social atmosphere -e "Take this to Joe, and tell him to have it pleyed," he 'ordered. "Any- thing else you'd like, Miss Molly?" "I'm afraid to mention a wish for aear I'd get it," she laughed lu more or less embarrassment. But Fern, wbo was having the time of her life, gig- gled and, telling biro, to recall the boy, added a favorite of her own to the DMSical program. "You can Dave a good -nine roost any placedteSledge complinlented her, with a growing fondness for Molly's frien "You're A nice kid. I ought to ha iovited your gentleman friend along." "/ don't see arho it would. be," laugh: ed Fern, "Molly knows so many nice chaps, but the most Of them are such boys." "Excuse me a minute, girls," begged Sledge and unloomed himself frotn the background. "Where now has he gone?" wondered Molly, half amused and belt apprehen- 'He's probably xioticed that some girla have candy," surmised Fetn, who had. come to believe him infallible. "I hope he isn't going to order the spotlights turned this way," snickered Mali "He'd do it. I think. He's ca- pable of anything." "As long as it's nice," admitted Fern. "I'll bet you never had a man treat you with more respect." "That's true enough. He's rather a surprise to me in that He's a fine friend to have, Fern." Just as. the overture struck up Sledge returned to the box, followed' by a large handed. Marl of about thirty-five. whose face ana neck were red from much cheerful exposure to the weath- er. He had a merry blue eye and pom- Padour hair, and he wore diamond shirt studs and cuff buttons, "Tommy Reeler, girls," Introduced Siedge, "Miss Fern Burbank, Tommy. kiss Molly Marley." Mr. Reeler in great heartiness 'and In friendliness all unafraid shook hands with.both the girls and sat down .by Fern. 'ai'm in luck," he ccinfided to the crowd. "I was feeling lonesome enough to take ao,eirink when Ben dug me up and alipped me the news that he had a girl for me. How do you like our town, Miss Fern?" al love it," returned Fern, not dar- ing to look at Molly, whose brimming eyes She knew to be fixed upon her. Under the crescendo of the music the conversation became paired off, and Sledge, with complacent self ap- probation, watched the,couple In front of aim. "Toratny's a right guy," he confided to Molly. "Big contractor, paving and city puildings. Wife died last winter." "That was too bad," responded Mol- ly sympathetically. "She was due." declared Sledge. "I'd "Was she so dreadful?". Inquired Molly, forcing ber share of the con - "A. souse," , grunted Sledge. "Tom- my don't touch it, but she got a dif- ferent kind of a Hein.z on every "Drank?" guessed Molly, trying to remember for Fern's benefit. "For the family," Sledge corroborat- ed, "and all this time Tommy a decent guy. rife deserves a good wommar but great g for your little friend if she can aim." "I 'ne er heard Fern express a pref- erence or widowers," she suggested. "He's the same as not," Sledge as- sured er. "There's no kids. Tom - sage. "Me er a blond," Tommy ler eace. d before she coulel sten it tae ti Bee* iholtedeansund at Sledge witJe wan* =W-anitioadiled Ms head am- trawdtreetion gem fellatio: away?" asked Moat? beadhlg forward. But Fern certain me, and the play be- titaimibduponSledge*the sthsbene. (isatngt dectentrflekljed abet. } azybedy liked this :sort of tfgwg fete be It from 'him. to Interroae, '-oesrpleasme. Between. Meads, *eat* be came right back on the 11713-7-lapi aXtanged ,for Tommy and jto,seRhe the girls out to see the plant eia, the follow- reuldtavaltuess- as balcony na- danmet the West End club. Replan - pet Potted:el dab dinner for the day. after, and then reaching nonchalantly into hle aistcoat pocket he dropped lint* s lap a glittering bauble, w oo ed like a glass hickory nut "Ts* that down to Duvay's 'and tted. to your finger," be die c ed It up incredulously. It She .ouldu t he real! "Wli , It's a diamond!" she gasped s it I. y, fleshing and gleaining iu her and, n she, saw the 'perfect cutting - bn.odm:ve nidt.rful fire et it. Tire realliza- "It had better be or somebody goets o jail,' hie inaormed .ber.' ''Thai tock et n3e back the price of a house and "But, Mr. Sledge, 1 Can't accept this," ., he es, neatly essured him. tWh nht?" be demanded. studying She was panic stricken more by his look than his words. "It's t large for a ring, for one tale exPlained. dle She d cided to leave, out the question f goo tatth. "You leo idn't put a glove over it„" He loliked at it reproachfully. Here Wee a preposition attlifintied Nett Week. on wbicb site Book of Preserving Labels Free Carton of ic Suga Dreadful Paine All The Time Undl Took "PRUIT-A-TIVES". MR. LAMPSON "I suffered for a plumber *f y , with Rheumatism and Ataere ?aims Side and Back, from strains and. h...t lifting. When I had green up hope of eve being well again, a frienctreoommende the first box lien'. so muck bailer tba I continued to take them, and now aan enjoying the best of heath, tha to your remedy ". W. M. LAMPSON. 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