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‘Ideealet us hurry oh," she replied.
now serious for the first time. But
their imOgress was but half as rapid
'Waughthey made all speed possible
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as it had been before wandering from •
the trail. _ Brush heaps barred their:
way and fallen trees too high for her
to clamber confronted them ita nearly
every turn, while through the gloom
ad falling snow they could scarcely
See a yard in advance: Half an hour
'passed, and the labored breathing of
the girl as she followed in his tracks
bespeaking a pace' to rapid, he WAS
at the point of ceiling a halt when the
woods broke before them and overhead
= he saw, not the black roof ca the forest
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- him in their shrouds were the ghostly ad rfenuine "Bayer Zablets of Aspirin"
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Stepping beyond the tree he search- shapes of half a dozen buildings. in a "Bayer" Package plainly, marked
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ed for their continuation bathe snew With a deeply -draw breath of relief he I with thesafety "Bayer Cross,
was trackless and he paused in be.. led her on until all at once there Gamine "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin"
wilderment And just as he had loomed before them that for which he are now Made in Canada by a Canadian
readied the conclusion. that she must had -hoped. Scattered throughout 'the CamaarhY• No German interest what -
have vanished into the air, from above pineries are • scores of ,abandoned log -
him there came a small voice half ging camps, and it was upoti one of
plaintive, half mocking, that called; these long -deserted places of former
"Here 1 am mister," and looking up '
.industry that they had chanced in
he saw a snow -shrouded `figure huddl- their band rambles. Joyfully the
ed in the slanting tree top .a dozen
feet above his head. She had become
tired front her run, chanced across this
fallen trunk with its comparatively
easy incline and, scrambled lip it to
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towards him her sob hair glistening'? -11,1a -scooped the eneW from a fallen
beneath the him,
as be paused upon trunk and they seated themselves up-
on it, and here they ate the chilled
t h tel -tar: sohnollyd 1.1 0 p e
that you will sleep durich rested ' for the better part
Soundly, Rap upon the door of the of an hour, ; The food and respite
I cook shanty should you become alarnp brought them newatrength and a pipe -
ed. But of course there can be nothia ful of tobacco comforted the man
Tablets without "Bayer Cross at to ' alarm raa."
, ',ate not Aspirin at all
leader struck a' match and bade her.
follow han.
The refuse of a deserted kitchen lit-
tered the floor. Battered pots and
pans unworth the carrying away, a
"spider" -with a broken handle, barrels
safety among the branches, and he
and shrunken pails confronted litre but;
smiled to himself at the figure he
. must have cut from her viewpoint as by the .aid of more matches he saw
- he Crept around beneath her with nose that the wood -box was well filled.
Selecting a piece of pine for a torch
almost in the sirow. He seated him-
br he lighted it and entered the bunk -
self upon a log and looked up at
'house with the blaze held high. Dis-
"Well!" he exclaimed after a mom -
carded blankets, ragged but still ius-
era's pause.
able in case of emergency, abounded
"Quite well—thank you," came the
upon the deacon seats and bunks and
answer to the accompaniment of a
chattering laugh: "Only somewhat the sight of the mammoth heater in
the centre of the room brought him
chilly. Won't you come up?" -
joy. Here they could at least be safe
, "Better come down. It's snowing up
and fairly comfortable until morning,
• there," he suggested. She shook her
head and a feathery puff toppled from and with, no further ill coming. from
the -mishap than a night of acute
- her red toboggan cap onto his uptarned
face.
"No. I am afraid of the wolves."
He answered her with a trace ..of the
half meckerY with which she had first
seluted him. "is it possible? Now do
you know from the way they ran I
had supposed you were chasing them."
Then arising he went clamberieg up
the incline his rubbers gripping the
rough surface firmly; and reaching
her held out his hand. "Come with
me," he commanded.
For an instant she peered. into his
face through the semi -darkness and
then uttered a= little triumphant
laugh. `I thought I recognized year
voice. I know you in spite of your
• s disguise. Your are the one who—"
"Yes, I know," he interrupted e
trifle Impatiently because of the late-
ness of the afternoon and the real
necessity that they lose no, time.:
"The last tie saw you I helped you
• upt.I . Now am going' to help you the lighted window by the growing
down. Take my hand and feel yours blizzard the flekes seemed iphosphoree
way with your feet: If you slip I'll
catch Yela" scent streaks that merged with clouds
' of clim, 'meteor -like dust as the wind
"Then yau may be sure I will picked up Whole 'snow -banks bodily
not slip." and hurled them by. Although it was
He secretly wished that she would, still but early evening, beyond the
but nothing came of it and a moment glow of the candle the outside world
later they were upon the snow.' Be- was but a' snow -swept darkness, yet
neath the closely woven canopy of
.within the narrow light circle where,
- evergreens it was almost dark, an. • the snow -bound .pair sat the rude
it was only after a sharp- search that
the Man was able to ferret put hi
tracks of aye rainutes before. "Kee
-close behind me wed tell me how it
worry for the girl's father, To start
a fire -in the heater was but the work
of a smoky minute, and together they
seated themselves upoia the benches
and watched the first pink blush of
the roaring iron monster blossomdinth
the red of a rose. Then aeOusing bins -
self and. searching 'further with - his
torch, the man found a lantern with a
broken chimney containing nearly half
a candle within it, and this he lighted:
and set Upon the window sill close:
beside her. Outside ,the logs the acrest.
was roaring like surf upon a rock
beach, and once from out of the heart
of' the woods there was borne to them
by the whipping gale a howl that °made
eacli look into the other's eyes with a
meanina imiles And in truth, the
thought that two feet of solid logs
separated them from all that howled
d roared without was cause for
Bing.
• The snow feilfaster. • Whirled past
corner was almost inviting. • Neither
woreep _nor Ten had spoken. for man
minutes'alse sitting- with his -eyes fas
enednpan the snow gusts that whirled
happened as we go," he suggested as by the -pane. and she with her chin
. he started back along , the way they in •her .palma and an expression ofz,
had come. 1-
' wistfulness hi here eyes, that, were
She followed him. "I 'bad • gone •overhung and shaded by long - dark
over to visit Mrs. Evers whose hus- .- lashes ale ferns overhang and shade
• band has a small farm over easta deep forest pools. Her lips were tight -
She is the only woman I know' a- ly closed and her fpreaead wrinkled—
round here and we visit back and 1 in fact her whole attitude so thought
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forth SometimeS. It is only. Ithree 'bound that the minaturning from the
, miles from Archer to 'their house and snowflakes to her became instantly
I can walk it in a hour, when the trails
are goocL We did not notice the Marne
coming this afternoon and I talked on
until the snow began to fall: Then I
can e ae quickly as I could to -get
• ner for -daddy. I had not gone far
w -h n I met some woldrea They were
ry impudent and did not get- out of
y way when I ordered them to. .
"shooed" them and shook skirts
but they only grinned at me—such a
disagreeable grin. Tien I screanied
in their faces as loud as could and
they hoWied Most dreadfully. I must
confess that became a little fright;
enact and thought I would go down the
deer trail and go aroimd them, but
they came along on each side of me
,until all I could think of was Little
Red Riding aleod. I was watching
them instead Of the trail and tripped
and fell and they acted so • pleased to -
see nie down, as if they were going
to leap on me, that I jumped up and
ran as fast as I could although I
knew it was feolisla • They kept on
. trotting! beside me and when I got,
to that tree I daubed it and waited
for you to come. It was their eyes
and teeth that frightened. ma—they
were perfectly wolfish."
"You waited for me!" wondered the
stooping leader. "What on earth made
you think I would come ?"
She chuckled. "Well, of course I •
meant 'you' in the plural sense of all
mankind. I knew some of. you men
would come and drive thern away be-
cause women don't get eaten up by
svolves any more to amount to much. with snow he filled one from a drift and
Where do you. suppose they are klow?" set it upon the stave.
."Good cooa?"- he inquired anxious-
ly. •
"Magnificent."
He sincerely hoped that shwas, for
the inadequacy of larder and utensils.
demanded that cunning hands -should
do :the eninistering. With his pocket
knife he opened the tomato can, while,
the girl scrubbed the potatoes and
onions irip cleanliness. Then he One- •
ed the ham under her directions and
watched her admiringly as With sleeves
tucked up she hovered 'about the.
stove With testing fork.. But at the
end of what seemed eternity, potatoes
and ham, onions .and eomatees passed.
her rigid inspection, and with each
dish served hot and hunger inspiring.
them they . sat dawn to the feasting
board- he at the • end of the: long
inquisitive,
'You seem to be thinking very hard.
about soxnething.,a he ventuted at last.
"And I am," she rejoined quickly.
• "May e ask for what?" • .
"You may. I ate thinking of -my
stomach. - It is a vacuities!". .
- He got nape his feet, suddenly re-
alizing that he also wished very much
to eat. "If you Will come with me we
will forage," he said. Instantly she
was at his side and together - they
croseed the:gale-swept aissegearay and.
entered the cook shanty., There she
topic the lettere froire him and held it
.high while he searched the shelves:
=among the Odds and eitd.s, bringing
forth from time -to- tiriee hidden treas-
ures;- first a can af tomatoes that had
been, overlooked by the departed oa-
cupants and 'upon. which -theydpounaed
greedily and disputed:as to who should
have the larger share. Note followed
a few spoonfuls of salt mired in the
'bottoms of as bag, and carefully hoard-
ing this ;they descended to the root
-cellar-where they found a dozen pota-
toes not much the worse fer ege, as
many onions it fair repair and a Pea-
eion of a smoked ham, mold -encrusted
without, but still.wholesome about the
bona All these treasures they .bore
aloft and scattered upon the long table
beside the salt and tomatoes as the
gross results of the search. From.
out of the. tin litter he selected a few
of the least battered dishes, bent
them back into a semblance of shape,
and having scoured them - thoroughly
Wilson halted and ldoked about,
then drawing his clasp knife cut a
stout sapling. to the length of a staff
and began trimming it. "Oh, sneak-
ing off in the brush somewhere. They
won't came near us," he rejoined ab-
sently. The glen eyes . were watch-
ing him narrowly.
`Then why are you cutting that
cudgel?"
"For a Walking stick The Waves
' are the least of my troubles. But
• .there is something else that is really
worrying me. I can't find the trail."
"The`n we are lost," .she exclaimed
with. a matter-of-fact air that caused
him to turn his face away to hide its
smile: -
"No, it is not quite as bad as that.
We are not lost—we, are right here.
The trail is lost." table like a feudal lord within the
"Then I suppose we Will have to sit great banquet hall of his rough castle;
here in the snow' all night." Wilson
negatived 'with his head.
"We will have to do a good' deal
more than that. Hear those pines
rustling—feel that puff of wind! It
is coining from the north and that
means it is going, to be bitterly cold
before long. We will have to keep cm-
moveng, at least as long as we can see.
well enough to keep from running to things. Then, we may strike some
-old tote road that leads to town. Tell
me if you get too tired and we will
stop and build a flre. But we had
better keep on going until you are
pretty well played out Besides, your
father will be rather worried, you
she at his right as lady over all, his
faithful ally and wiSe counselor. Then
they ate, and ate.
She asked him. how he liked her
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mightily, but -With dread of the dark -
She told him that she would and be nese a long night in the snow upon
fiessed without. "Then we will meet them tiles/ arose mid stiffly plowed on.
at the breakfast table. Good -night.", For another hour they made as good
I -"GaAs/light.
the morning, but at the end of that '
speed. as they had averaged during
timeealthough she struggled her brav-
est, nature began. to fail her and the
1 giralagged until the pace degenerated
IMornieg carrxe, gray morning, with to little better than a crawl. At three
the wind fled into the south but the o'clock, and but a moment after she
snow still falling.' heavily. Barbara
was preparing the Morning meal from
the remnants of the night before when
.• CHAPTER VI
had once more' flatlY refused to eitl er
pause or permit him to assist her, she
sankelitnelY in her tracks without a
Wilson came into the cook shanty, somica her head pillowed upon. the .
snow covered, froth It short scouting snow. Wilson had long feared that
expeditipn. They breakfasted as they +his Minute. would come, and now was d
had supped, diScuasing the situation beside her almost before she struck
ever, all rights beteg purchased from the pro and con. The man summarized the 'yielding mass.
United States Government -
s were conditioni. He kneeled and rested her head in
• During the war, acid imitation
sold •as Aspirin in pi"It has been snowing like this for the crook of his elbow. Her eyes Fere!
other contll boxes and varjous ainers. The aBayer Cross" is eighteen balite and it is new nearly half closed, her breath comingin gasps
your only way of knowing that you are knee-deep on the level, and. the Lord. and her bosom heaving spasmodically.
getting genuhie Aspirineproved sole by only knows its 'depth where the drifts He withdrew the arm that supported
millions for Headache, Neuralgia, Colds, I have formed. Anyway, they have her and her head toppled against his
Pain .generally. . I house.' I inight,be able to get through • nearly unconscious = and incapable of
c imbe o e ears o, very
d t -breast where she lay eaterly spent,
Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neuritis, and for
larger razed `‘aayer" leakages can be my time and picking my route, but ' drew the blanket alase around her, as
as far. as Archer by taking other than involuntary movement. Be
Handy tin boxes f 12 .tablets—alsa !. the snow
oxes o
had at 'drug stores. I I don't believe any woman could last he had aerre earbee in the tley, and
Aspirin is the trade mark (registered long in the -Ilea of going that is be- making hr as comfortable as he could •
in Canada), of Bayer Manufacture of tween here and town. So thereit is
Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid. <, and here we are"
"And just.where i `here'?"
"I dent know exactly, but I have
recovered my bearings to a certain
extent. • I should guess that 'here' is
not over five miles from your home as
the crow flies. But it would be con-
siderably further along the route one
twhoinug.,,
ldshave to pick to get around
"Yoe know the right direction, then,
should you deeide as start?" •
"Approxithatelyr think I could
hit it 'close enough fer all practical
purposes. But it might take me all
day to make it, and that would leave.
you alone meanwhile .and nearly all
to -night while they were coining, back
after, you." The girl lost no time in
expresgng her views on that sale-
ject.
-F`I would not, stay here alone that
length of time, if the snows were as
deep as the deluge. I know I would be
safe enough, but the loneliness of it
would be unendurable.' I would rather
flounder through the 'drifts until I be-
corhe exhausted, rest for a while and
then go on again untiLl finally reeched
somewhere. And besides, poor daddy
will be nearly insane. 'Until he gets me
back: We must try' and break
throrigh."
The man -weighed matters upon las
mental scales. It might be days be-
fore the searching patty, now undoubt-
edly upon iteway happened to stumble.
upon this half-forgoften camp far
from any direct trail, while as for
himself, as able-bediea a man as the
woods knew to sit halplessla within
doors and wait to be;rescued from a
snewbank would not only be.the super-
lative -of ridiculous, but Would make
ban forever the laegaing. mark of the
wciods. Still, the saltation had its dif-
ficulties. inaemu.caal she had de -
'dared that: she eieeeirld eastareinain 14;
hind, he mist' takeZhOt.With him. Yet
he scarcely sale lioae he eo-Uld accom-
plish' that1 all derattded mienher
• strength and eta/Tana.
They finished, their meal and. arose,
Wilson buttoning his maehinaw elosely
about him and lidding . her paipare
for the journey,-, which She did' by. a
slight shortening of her walking- shirt
and putting on her cap and mittens.
Then rolling up the inost serviceable
of the blankets which he slung over
his shoulder and thrditieg kt piece of
meat and a couple ' of 'boiled potatoes
into, his pocket they, plunged, waist.
deep into drift that lay jast.beyand the
passageasay.•
,
,- Save in narrow area :s wheFe.the gale
howling down the forest Alleyways lied
swept the sneer aside like a stiff broom
and left the lower. arewth eiposed,
the brush bad disappeared entirely, or
at best stood with but its tips above,
the surface like the &Igen of a drewn- •
•ing man who clutches at the empty
air. Smothering masses of feathery
softness had transformed the dark
green roof of the .forest into a blur
of white from Which puff ball's
noiselessly. The .blaeksmith shop; the
lowest of the buildings; was but :a
mound; the clearing d'spotlese smooth
billowed sea. Wits* • two yards - in
advance of the girl, plowed a deep trail
around the drifts while she, hampered
by skirts and inferior length of limbs
followed laboriously. 'When, as often
happened, he floundered into .e. hole he
. .
cooking, purposely letting • her long'
lashes fall and coquetting. with - an
onion as theugh it had been the cherry
at the bottom of a glass. The 'en-
thusiasm of his reply was botuidless
as his heavily ladan fork paused mid-
way in its upward flight. -"Immensely.
Never have I tasted 'its equal, even hi
alley chop houses whose fame has
gone around the world." He ceased
speaking abruptly, for the, long lashes
had flown -upward And she was looking
at him steadily.
. 4 did not lendW that road monkeys
dined at such places," she . returned
with a queer smile and a aaight ema
phags upon the obnoxious ,tatle. The
man flashed, self angry at his slip.
' "They dont,"„he muttered.
"Then you have not always been- a
ioad inonkey," she breathed . as if
greatly relieved. "What were you
aefore .you became one?"
"Leave off the 'road' and ytiu -have
youreaswer." • The tinge.of sharpness
in his reply told her that the question
had annoyed him and her enjoyment
grew accordingly. Deliberately she
'
baited- nhanISsuppos,
• e you used to fre
.
quent such places in your 'salad aollege
days before your father disowend you
With a sixpence because of your reck-
less eating debts. That is the . way it
usually happens, you know.. Only ia-
steaa of going west as a cowboy -a)
I ' ter become ae great cattleman, you
me north to become a rich road
monkey." Her smile was of the friend-
lieet and her inflectiOns-the most in-
nocent, but the taunt in her eyes
challenged the impatience that ' had
been bellied his last words. He be-
came nettled., .
"You have guessed wonderfully.
ut of eourse those ' were --freshman
days for me and you were preparing
for Vassar. , I think I remember meet-
ing you., A band of us escaped from
our reservation one evening and came
over to your town, and. by some won-
derful - coincidence fell in 'with yoer
bevy. We all took the war path to-
gether. The fearful ice cream orgie
that followed ruined me."
She nodded in the most matter-of-
fact aray .possible. "Of course. I
remember you distinctly now You
were a great athlete or something. or
other, land when our joint war party
was discovered.—goodness how fast
you ram"
"Almost as fast as though I had.
been hasing a wolf," he returned.
malici usly. ,
She smiled sweetly. "Much faster.
Did you run all the way up here?"
He refused sto answer, and during
the • reet af the meal ate -with few
words uttered, While the. girl wonder-
ing if she had really wounded him
watched him covertly. The meal
finished he washed the dishes for her,
and as there was no cloth at hand,
dried them by turning. them- upside
down - over the stoae. She was still
sitting, on the bench ;before the table
and he saw her endeavor to hide a
.yawn. •
"I will get a ;couple of blankets
and sleep here in the cook's bunk by
the stove. You take the bunkhouse
and the lantern." he said. She nodded
her approval, admitting that she -was
tired and arose promptly. Screening°
the lantern from the wind of the pas-
sageway he escorted her to the ad-
joining building. hung the light upon
a peg and gathering ap his blankets,
stepped back to the entrance. She
was ,standing by the heater, her back
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scanned he silent, trackless forest
that lay i front -of Min. He did not '
tail* thatit could be more than a
mile to hie house, but she would not
be capable �f further exertion for
hours—perhaps days—and the early
darkness was already beginning to
gather. To leave her alone in the
snow while he went on, trusting to
chance to get back to her before she
froze was not to be thought twice;
while to carry her the distance that
lay between where he kneeled and
Archer would be an almost Ilerculeae.
feat under the conditions that existed,
yet, ether he must do it or else, build-
ing a fires watch over her through the
fifteen hours intervening until morn-
ing. Aud to exposure like that he
dared. not risk her in her exhausted
state Most of all sae needed food, hot
drinks, the warmth and' comfert • of
a bed, and these he decided Ishe should
have if human effort could take her to
them. Could he have slung her over,
s back after the manner of an Indian
man carrying a papoose his labor
uld have been lightened a half* but
h had no means of doing that, so he
raised her in. his arms and started on.
At the end. of two hundred yards
she opened her eyes and 'feebly beg-
ged to be • allowed to make her own
way, and, in order to humor her Mid
convince her of the folly of the 'request
he placed her upon ber feet. Instant-
ly her strengthless limbs gave way!
and .only his arm about her waist pre-
vented her from falling. In thie .posi-
tion he held her while he took a mom- •
ent'e breathing spell, after which, he
raised her and despite her protesting
struggles carried her on, seeing that
she had fallen asleep in the 'Midst of
her assurances that she was now able
to walk nein. He did not succaea in
getting quite ,as fez this tline aslaion
the first effort. The clutch. of the
athaidaa araaabeaffilialge tipOlritliti
and the dead weigat 'of - her body tug- I
ged at his arms Suiceasingly. A hun-
dred and fifty wading steps he made
and then was forced to lay her gently
upon" the snow until returning breath
and strengtb. promised hien brief aid During the war there were nearly
again. So on and • on in steadily di- IviT0a0ri,060us0
minishing stages, his breath labored women.o ccu pa t employedion s , nnn c Francer e
increase
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and painful, his knees trembling Mel ,
, over 200,000 over the number. em
his arms threatening to leave theivaployed in normal times.
sockets beneath the numbine strain, 1' A worearas capacity as worker is
Wilson toiled as gamely as he had long , 'estimated at from '75 to al) per cent
ago in that never-to-helot:gotten rim. ',as compared to that of a man workea.
Time and again aespair was upon him 4 successful campaign is being wag -
when after a breathing spell be 'ed among the women bookbindery
stumbled about feeble effort • to workers in Jacksonville, Pia, and
raise her, yet, each time the more nearly every worker bas become a
strongly -recurring fear of a night in !member of the 11/1i0TI, -
the snow, coupled with the thought of
her own dauntless • coure,g,e that had
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brief interval of kneeling and he had
to exert all his, strength to arise a-
lone. And at that thotight pf how
short the distance was to a more -
sheltered place and how little -strength
it would take to bear her there, a feel-
ing 'almost of savagery earose within
him at his impotence. "I'll make it if
it kills me," he muttered, and pulling
her up ahrost lands over hand he got
her free of the snow. Then like a
drunken man he went sth gering on in
his last effort of the daj. And then
s he reached the se 't, the trees
pened before him as tho gh there was
o such thing, as sa fores upon earth ;
d the half dozen lightsof Archer
a 'tided close before his yes.
(continued Next l'iVeek)
NEWEST NOTES OP SCIENCE
A, Patent has been 'granted fora de-
achable rale sight coated with a light
dieting pigment so it can be seen at
*gbt.
A Seattle inventor has patented e
ewspaper stuffing machine that aoes
he work of fourteen men in placing
ections of paper together. •
French scientists have obtained 14
er cent. of sugar and 60 per dent. of
leohol from a cactus the grows pro-
ifically in Algeria.
For bathing infants a cabi-
et has beep patented
ended over a bathtub fo
ended basin' holding a b
Paper was Made from
bia more than ten petn
he method was introduc
n the thirteenth centur
A new eleetric-,bicsrcle
arried on the front for
ewel in the back to mak
rear light as well.
A Pennsylvanian has
awn mowee with eormu
bat are intended to h
elle was arobably gresates%
matliematicia,n of antiquity. He watt
inspired primarily by the 'tweet pare
science, rejoicing in the truth be-
cause it is the truth and feeling a
certain contempt for the applicattoass
a truth in the way of supplying our
grosser needs; and yet he was .
great practical inventor and had a
wide range of knowledge of phone-
mene. He founded the theory of
hydrostatiee and contributed effec-
tively to the initial development ot
mechanics and of astronomy."
And of Fermat:—
"He seems to have cultivated oere
tain parts of raa.thematics for -the -
pure love of their beauty. Frobeilal
he was hardly conscious of motive el
all, since his activity was so -needy&
spontaneous, and gave new in:ipotesi
to certain isolated studies."
Newton, the- writer thinks—.
"was undoubtedly moved *insarillx
by a desire to understand and hikes,
pret natural phenomena. ,To thioebei.
thre, therefore, we owe his
of the differential and Anteigrell
calculus (shared with Leibnits), the
f of celestial Aleohardes sat
rational mechanics in general, emit
the consequent development of ale.
plied raatliematics in many Beide est'
selenee."
_ Why Marry?
At a "husband's night" of s am.
mares club a feature of the enter-
hich, Ig ex- ta...zaent was the answering by the
use, a sus- men, on slips of paperi, of they/yaw
by. 'Wm, "Why should a. wane= inagradr.
rags in Ar- and by the women. -of the quetlite.,
les' ago and 'Why should a Man ma,rry?" A Prise .
into Europe was offered for the beet answer tee .
each of these questions The beet
Neap to be Ittaleg answer was - adjealged te lrol
has a red this:, "Because in thateWay a 1701111111111
it setae as wins perfootion"—a kid of doable-
/ - edged leompliment to each sex. Mil
invented a ir0111411's prise went to this knanierel
'il know no reason why a maw Amoeba
id and 'if self-effacement
lEaaalara—al bite of sitbtie fesalnies
ated blades
self-effacerient that seemed so ine-
ough blades of grass th t would slip
awarding committee. The shortest
usual la these days that it -"kit" the
'hrougle slanting blades.
4..annir!hvaeari.,tievdgaiiyne4th...44e 41Uteeli.
ent juice from: persim on
A•mathed for extract ea haying answer given. to the question, "Whig
an astrin-
y, States,. cause eatereaceer, not autiotriness., ill *II
many." The, longeet was alive 4114a,
should a wom.an marry?" was, eill.
. , . _ ; nappiness.oy marriage a, woman coo-
is6k- fiV,..etw° , object of life; and in sacrificing her
nillion young persimmon - trees. ' - I
stablished at the -univeraties of aam-1 fairs
Chairs of aere,na,utics have deem ' . . . .
eharacter on a man. and 'wing
ridge and London and various aero- 1 !At wfueuifrkiererown t:rsestit;iture, wratoluer tkeheapeetfaciii:
autical scholarships have been insti-
ted in England. . tion, "Why iliould a Mall 161217?"
and opposite it simply drew a,pictsioa
of a pretty sere Another *rower te
the same Atm 13. was; "To save that
extra- tho d on his inemne tai.d•
THE TOLL OF WAIL
dri'ven .her ;on until uncon-
sciousness came, nerved his benumbed Fifteen mum Grave as Result of
muscles andi brought bun ev.entual
of her courage before; had eiever ad- • Conflict
,success. He had never seen a woman
There hwie been busy days in the
harvest fields of death lately, says
mired. one half as much. And while
the Thrift Magazine. Fifteen million
her beauty was beyond all controversy, -new-roade graves are Scattered over
it -was fully matched by .her indornit- the lends of the earth or hidden away
abTe courage and cheerfulness under in the depths of the seaa • =
circumstances when many a ina-n would ,From the best inforin.ation obtain-
nitiv-erelasiisdtadnorre. beaten n tohewkiiiiimewperbiGw
eghtieg men are as follovis: Ger-
rig able the total death statistics of
Ger-
miserable she had been when he had Many, 2,000,000; Aut3tria, 1,000,000;
found her at nielitfala roosting in the Turkey, 250,000; Bulgaria, 150,000;
treetop with the hitter cold of dark- Russia, 2,500,000, France, e 1,300,-
riess clpse at hand and the gaunt 000; Great Britain, 800,000; Italy,
-brutes eniffine at her form so. close 500,000, and the United states, 50,
-
happened, hand at utterancelaugh forced up- 0440. In addition to which there are
turned about, floundered out again and anedin: Yht.tml.eervafisr. s
chose another course,.going frequently from between teeth that chattered with
back to her side to assist her after a
"fall. It was severe work even for him
with his strength and leg reach; for
the girl it was next to impossible.
Her deep breathings were. distinct to
his ears, and several times he paused
to ask her if she would not stop for a
brief rest but each time she said "No'
and courageously struggled on, An
hour of einterrupted wading pasSed
and he estimated that they had put
a. mile behind them, when an ex-
clamation from behind caused him to
wheel about and he saw that she had
again fallen. Instantly he was at her
side; But so .acute had ,ber exhaust-:
ings of breath become that instead
of assistingher to her feet he forced
• her to remain sitting in the 'MOW.
And though both were perspiring free-
ly from -their' exertions as they halted,
scereely,a minute had bassed in an -
activity before the razor-edged air had
and . the
s "had. set
e blanket
it snugly
about her, and commanding that she
Cut • through their clotlue
Chill. moisture of their sr
them shirring. ale (Ire*. t
from his .shoulders, wrappe
sit still for a while went el
making a trail. • Fifteen mi
she had • caught up with hi
Floundering and wallo
brieflly at times that she mi
her breath, they struggle
noon came with perhapsba
tance coverect But the g
,her determination and cl. en
manifestly walking upon the verge of
domplete exhaustion. His isympathy
for her was great, and that she man-
aged to retain her cheerfulness to the
extent that she did,- astonished him.
Physicaly she mirght collapse and men -
corn or corn between the toes„, and the tally she might despair, yet the smile
wiy ahead
utes later
g, halting
ht regain
on until
the dis-
rl despite
ance was
'cold and fear. Then, too, their atua-
tioa in the deserted cam -p had been try-
ing to her—would have been to an
woman of refinement—yet • she ha
turned it into a jest, and had carrie
the 'jest through to the end withou
faltering. Arid last of all herstruegl
through the snow that.very day! We I
she had .taught him a lesson whi
he would always remember, for h
too, would hereafter meet the lee
able with better grace. Why not
pentanee. with a smile as well as wi
a frown? Blessed be she for h
tearlings.
calluses, =without soreness. or irritation.
Freezone is the sensational discovery
ef Viucinnati genius! 1, It is woederfu1.
was almost as ready wen her lips
aa when they had sat at ease behind.
the log walls of the camp.
The ..sun sinking behind* a rid
left him leahing against e tree
his right arm hooked around it
support as his left encircled his b
den. He had done his best, but the
the millione who save tb e blood of
their hearts for • Belgium, Serbia,
Roumania, Montenegro and other
countries. Se, if all the soldier's.
could come marching back from their
graves to -day, they would form an,
army not less thaii 9,000,000 strong.
And who Can count those other
millions Who have been -butchered in
their homes, or hate starved, or have
perished at sea; or the millions more
that still must go frdm wounds, lack
, of food and broken hearth?
Even the pestilence of influenza,
th
or
darkness was but a matter of min
ad the forest seemed as endless a,
the beginning. Hp drew off MS
'tens and felt for her, cheeks
wrists. They' were cold and he
ANENT roams.
Qiiacks ,and Doctors In the' Dark
Ages.
Do you regard 'cold -cream as as
• ultra -modern palliative?,
Or pure food and drug laws' as a -
comparatively recent type of lees-
Iation?
Or the familiar "cure ail" ail an
up-to-date quack device tor the
twentieth century credulous?
You are wrong.
Most people at some time or 4,2*-
. other use cold cream. It seems -quite
a modern luxury, indispensable ahke
to peer' and pert and adapted, to
many and varied uses In fact, on.
traveler tells recently of baying
some of his cold erea-m eaten by if
fat, hungry valet in Germany. flot
we are ine,lined to regard it as a fahty
modern product And yete 413ZgUell..
tum Refrigerans," cold ream, has
come down to us from Roman day&
The first formula is attributed tee
Galen, who lived and wrote in the
second century. What we use to-dayl
is practically the same, though "Doe -
tor" Galen's original forraula, Sas
imitated and "improvOd" hundreds
of Etmthapeesr.or Frederick II of SicilY, in
1240 or 1241, published the first pure
food and drugs act. He was about
700 years ahead of Dr. Wiley, for
he specified strict regulations of the
standard of drng purity, and proVid-
ed for drug inspectors, and fined all
offenders. '
The practice of medicine Was alas
4e. are told by medical scientists, regulated )k PhYslelau was reettredli
great
ithwagrir fan successtotboaZabeer. nEvterya. tbeefhoreavehea codluipidomastudfroy mmedieble;a universigzthenii
lowed by some kind of pestilential he took a .three-year course in the
disease, and, while the curse of in-
fluenza, which has caused a death
roll of 6,0 0 0,0 00 human beings, can-
not be charged directly to the con-
flict, a ;very large percentage of the
fatalities must be se listed. This
school of medicine and one yen*
practice under a practicing physi-
cian. Special post -graduate west
anatoray was required if he was et
do surgery., ,
.M1 this was in the so-called "dal*
7. disease is knowa to be at least ii00 ages" - Even the fees of RhYsletalms
Years old, but never before has it and pharmacists were strictly reign -
I assumed such malignant form be- lated by law and vrere in purchasing
na cause the war had brought about a value about the same as the charges
down at once and began chafing t em general' condition of low physical re- of the present day. 1: 11
sat
sistatice among all niankirelnot allowed to Own drug stores
as he gazed at the unutterable wear -
drug adulterators were severely
iness of her fa.ce with its sweeeing 1 Isiggerers. with. -
lashes now resting .upon her cheaks. i In the Scientific Monthly Prof: Mithradatium was the nr
great antidote of Rome
tvFboregirningetful
woefarihrtss°17s haelaTtowsten1 oeurt- RDCarmic
1 of Illinois, differeiatiatet among and
. hael, of the University
It had from 40 to 50
to her in deepest sympathy. " oor characterizes several if the world gredients' feW of NV h i*
tee
girl," was his thought "How s me famous mathematiciane. M e d i ci nal value
these drugs sr
man will long for you one of t ese "We begin with Eaelide' writes
. ,e
days. How he -will strive for ou, Dr. .Carmichael: ho y.
and if he wins—gods' What a * "hIt rema.inett
at extent he was an orig-
he will get." Andromarhu-
To w
e !nal investigator is unknown, but he
not
otherwise his elethents t,Alc)ntilhch':1,stal,.,(7
he looked aroimd in a last survey.11
was too dark for :.
.
- him to carry her
The chafings warmed her wrists and , nragthe twhoarkve inede important contribu-
It
tive°ollsula
of his predecessors.- It is ‘.-")11:‘,;ue
quickly have supplante4 - '3--
any distance further, yet cord
reach the other 'side of the ridge pott clear that he took delight both in
whicb they now stood they wceil be the -beauty of the content and of the P.
shelterea frora the north 'Wind and form of his work and that hede- r
there he would make his night Ere. . veliMed- it Pri14a:rilY fr°311'the ic`te 01
Once more he tried to lift her but his I 'truth for its own sake."
legs seemed to have frozen stiff inbis et ATchimedes.... he says:-
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