| Ing a ttm* of It In there. Good ove
PICTURE SURE TO LAKE
' iiiuz. Mrs. Merritt, your husband I*
certainly making It warm for Mr
Written and Produced by Tom Mia
Slade."
Popular Actor, Haa Part Which
Indeed," laughed Mrs. Merritt, grat EXPERIENCE THAT WAS NOTH-
Just Suita Him.
tiled for the niomciiL
ING NEW TO GALLUP.
"Dear, dear!" ahe exclaimed aa she
Tom Mix has fairly outdone biniseli
watched Hayes gazing i Istfully at
Don t
ill the picture.
"The. Way of tin
Katherine and looking very handsome
and manly In hla well made evening Being Thrown Out of Places by Men led Man." which was written and pro
neglect
or
duci d by him It la lull uf life and ac
clothe*. "It'* quite like old time* to
Smaller Than Himself Seemed
your stom
lion such as only Tom Mix can In
see you together." Unhappy herself.
Somehow to Be Matter of
■ reduce.
There la wrestling, shoot
It gave her a certain pleasure to make
ach, liver
Pride to Him.
ing, riding, cuuoelng, etc. lu T ub
other people unhappy. The jealousy
when there
Illustrations from Photographs of the Stage Production
Mix
a
own
beat
style
The
story
la
ol
she had long felt for the younger and
"Some men."'observed Caleb Peas- a red man. a civilized Indian, whu
more beautiful woman found ezpres
is
indication
Oernast. l*u yraKU»»'« *!««>• Karemai by Per M BaUxu.
| slot) now In her purring tonea. as. with lee, critically, "c'n get a lot of com taken Into hla home a wounded gam
weakness. To
a
tort out of things that I couldn't find bler, allot while escaping the sheriff.
talking even more cleverly, Slade and amiable cruelty, she reminded them a mite of satisfaction In. Ain't you Tho gambler haa no honor and wins
SYNOPSIS.
i
of
their
earlier
Intimacy.
She
took
so
only invites sick
Katherine had come to a mutual un-
ever noticed It. Hyne?"
Daniel Slade suddenly advances from a i derstandtng. The more they saw of delight tn making Bob writhe and
ness. Take
Mr. Hyne regarded Caleb narrowly,
•ennileM miner to a raillionatra. He Is ' each other the more each became con- Katherine whiten aa she ret ailed their
in»bit!ou« to beeoma governor of tho
passionate young love when only tbe and shuffled hla feet In some irritation
Mate. Hla simple, home-loving wife fails i vtneed that their paths would Inevit
senator'* stern Interference had kept i "F'r pity sake, Caleb," he remarked,
to rise to the new conditions Slade meets ably converge.
Katherine, daughter of Senator Strick-
! them from wedding.
j petulantly, "If you've got anything to
Katherine talked animatedly and en
land, and see» in her all that Mary is not.
“Let me see." she recollected, "when say, whynl you begin at the beglnnln'
Blade decides to separate from hla wife tertainingly of social life abroad and
BITTERS
»nd takes rooms at his club.
of the gay ttmea tn Washington, and t was your confidante, you were and say It? I get all out of pattano»
twenty-one.
Katherine,
and
you,
Rob.
with you sometimes!"
Slade's heart warmed and his eyes
and let it help
CHAPTER V.
"Trouble Is with you. Hyne, you
dashed as he pictured himself a part were twenty-tour. I can feel Rob's
you
hand*
gripping
mine
yet
:
"O.
Fannie
—
Msry Slade sat down to the break of that charmed circle. With keen I please see her for me—the senator don't always agree with me about
health and
test table with a certain sense of be penetration he saw the longing of the doean't approve of it.' And the tears where the beglnnln' Is. but In this ape-
wilderment. It was the same this girl's nature, her iron will, her deter you shed on my shoulder. Katherine i <-lal case. I shouldn't bo surprised If
J
you
was
In
the
right
of
It
I
guess
morning as It had been each succes mination to gain social honors nt al —why. It feels wet to think of IL"
mebbe I did begin wrong end to. Well,
slve morning since Dan's departure. most any cost. He flattered btniself
"O! Fannie!" Katherine's voice wa< to begin right, then. I was down to
She could not bring herself to the real that when he said tbe word Katherine not as firm as usual.
Play With a Happy Ending.
Bennoch's store last evenin' when that
ization of the fact that Dan had not Strickland would be ready to cast her
"I
always
said."
the
woman
per
"Did
the play have a happy end
K
big Gallup critter came In after sulk
»me home—apparently did not Intend lot with his.
ing T' "You bet It did. Sumo uno In
From the smoking room of Senator elsted, "Rob. sho'll come home to you in'
ÍSa
R
gÿ
.
J
1
You know him that big feller
to come home.
In the end—"
the gallery hit the villain square In
from over Dllmouth Centre way Kith
She bad watted up the night he had Strickland's big house came the stri
"I think I'll go back and listen to
\f
* At
^k
the face with a tomato."—Houston
gone to the club. Just as she bad dent sound of men's voices, raised tn the discussion," and Bob flung dis er he was mad when he came In. or
Boat.
• sited up every night of their married excitement, and. It would seem, ac gustedly out of the room. At the door else suthln* didn't go to hla likin', but
1**
life, no matter where her busband claim. Now and again the senator's he almost collided with Merritt Kath before long we heard him and the
•«••••
was or how late be might be coming smooth, oratorical voice would sound ertne had hurried out to see a reporter clerk have a fuss over In the back part
dome. As tbs night hours lengthened and then Slade's slightly deprecatory, who wanted the wherefore* and tho I of the store That Is. Gallup was fuss
Into day she was forced to the con yet firm and pleased. Then would why* of the dinner party to 81ade.
In*, and the clerk was tryln* to pi! ctfy
Huston that Dan meant to stay away follow the patter of applause, laughter
"I can't possibly get away, dear." him You know that clerk the new
and
the
sudden
dropping
of
voices
that
tor the night. That he wouldn't be
Merritt ezplalned to his wife. "I've 1 one thnt's only been there a week?"
home at all through the day never oc signified earnest converse.
Mr Hvno nodded hla head assent
been buttonholed by some men from
To Katherine Strickland, sitting tn
curred to her. She reasoned that a
up the state. Shall you wait or go Ingly "Ho ain't much blgger'n a bunch • /
night's sleep would clear hie mind the softly lighted library adjoining, home—first?"
of radishes." he observed "He'd Stan'
and that he would have recovered every sound had Its meaning. Her
Mre. Merritt refused to be dis about as much chance In a fuss with
from his 'tantrum" the next day. But eves sparkled with keen Interest. In missed In that peremptory fashion.
Gallup as a sneeze In a gale of wind'"
Dan didn’t "run tn" that day nor the her cheeks «¡owed the deep rose of
Mr Peasloe smiled, but offered n
“I'll wait," oho returned with acid
acxt Tbe days had become weeks, excit *mcnt and exultation. In that other sweetness. "Then if you are not ready remark.
"That's the fellow." he
yet neither by telephone nor letter had room she knew they were making his I'll run along."
agreed. ”1 thought you'd seen him
tory. In that other room they were
be sent as much as a word.
"Slade's had an ovation tonight,” Wai. as I said, there they was dliput
Finally Mary had mustered up her putting up a man for governor, a man Merritt Informed her, nodding toward In', and Gallup glttla' madder every
soarage and telephoned his club. It she admired and who had aroused her the smoking room. “The big out-of- minute, and tho clerk seemingly tryln'
Tom Mix.
took courage for Mary to use the tele Interest as no other man bad ever town men are all here. Some of 'em to get him out of tho store peaceable
phone on any occasion. She was afraid done.
tho atfectlona of Hounding I'awn, the
In there yet. He's big, Fannie. He's like.
Nothing could stand tn that man's
»f the sound of her own voice the mo
big. We can't deny that. The brute
"Wai. we all of us crowded over -ed mana pretty aqunw. The Indian
ment she began to talk Into the trans way. she thought, with a catch tn her attacks hls point with all the force of
there
to see what 'twas all about The Jlacovera the gnmbler a treachery, and
mitter. This time she feared Dan’s breath, nothing could stop him now a sledge
hammer."
crowd seemed to hearten Gallup up ihrowa him, together with Bounding
displeasure and his possible harsh that he was fairly started. How dif
"Yes,
that'a what you lack— a nilte, and give him courage, h" Eawn. out of tho cabin
aeaa Mr. Slade was out. bsd left no ferent this domineering, forceful per punch!"
bla »Ite turned on him petu- ain't much moro'n half aa big agin as
Tlie years paaa. Bounding Eawn la
message, they did not know when be sonallty from Bob Hayes, tbe man who lantly.
the clerk, you know.—so he up and cruelly alaln by her drunken lover.
would return, was the disappointing had first won her girl's heart, and yet
"You're snowed under," she com maker a motion aa If he was goln' to The red man goes to the rescue. but
result as she bung tbe receiver on the for whom she had never been willing
arrlvee too late Ho makes a prlaoner
to renounce her interest tn the polit plained, bitterly. "If you'd taken my cuff the clerk
book.
advice you wouldn't have come to this
“ 'Twns all done so quick. Hyne, that at the drunken gambler, and tlea him
This morning, as the maid served ical and social life which obsessed her
Slade teed tonight. What's your pa I can't tell you the particulars but the to a stake for torture. The cloaing
her breakfast, she resolved to try with the same compelling force as It
per for." she demanded. "If you can't clerk went Into that big gump like a icene shows vividly the typical Indian
again The situation was getting un did Slade.
attack your rival candidate In Its col cooper going round a barrel I was -evenge, which the red man ezacled.
bearable. It was bad enough to live
With an effort she brought her mind
umns? Anyone would think you want standin' right by the back door, and the forfeit being the life of the treach
in the great bouse and be surrounded back to the present and to Mr». XVes
ed to make him governor—instead of It was a little njar, and when I saw erous gambler.
by servants with Dan there Without ley Meriitt, who had dropped In on
yourself."
the trouble cornin' my way I (etched
11m she felt like a prisoner of state her way from a dance to pick up her
Bathe your face for several min
"I can't attack him publicly." Mer tho door a kick, and stepped outside
and looked on tbe servants as so many husband.
Likas Railroad Atmosphere.
utes with Resinol Soap and hut
ritt retorted. "He'd put up glue f*c- I hadn't more'n got out before some
¡Silers
"You simply weren't listening to •
water, working the creamy lather
While It la the dream of thousands
torlee facing our property and. with
Leaving her breakfast practically word I said," Mrs Merritt complained a lake breeze blowing our way— thin' that looked like one of these it girls to ap|>ear In motion-picture
Into the ekir
with the fin
untested, Mary again ventured to the In her affectedly affectionate way. "I phew! My position Is very difficult. cross-legged sawhorses—all legs snd laanias, wear gorgeous gowna and
ger-tips. W
with Resinol s
telephone. With faltering voles she was asking If you know Mr. 8lade very Of course, election's a long way ahead, arms, you know—come out through play aoclety dames In general, there
Soap and more hot water. Finish
the door, and when It struck the gravel
repeated tbe number. "One-three-nine- well."
with a dash of cold water to close
but I’m the only stick In hls puddle." and came to a stop. I saw It was Gal a one photoplay atar who would rath
e
tour." with beating heart she inquired
"Yes,” Katherine replied, lightly,
the pores.
"Yes. you’re a big stick!" she lup. Yes, sir, that little clerk had er Jump Into a pair of tattered over-
tor "Mr. Slade;" with sinking courage "we know him very well."
Do thia once or twice a day, anil
taunted. "Why don't you do some throwed that big lummox out through alia and climb Into the oily cab of a
•he received the answer that Mr. Slade
"And does he ever mention his thing?"
you will l>e aatonislicl to find how
ocomollve than take part In the moat
tho door, and had scurcely turned a ntenae aoclety drama ever written.
bad gone out. leaving no message wife?" In Mr*. Merritt’* most perfectly
quickly the healing, antiseptic
"What can I do?" be groaned. 'Tv*
hair doin’ It.
Again and again during tbe day she feline manner.
Resinol medication soothes 'nd
Thia unusual peraon la Helen Holmes,
been told tonight by no less than four
"Wai, Gallup sat there on the tho actress whom the railroad men
repeated tho call, only to receive a
"Never once," admitted Katherine, men that they won’t support me again.
cleanses the pores, removes pim
similar reply. Tbe possibility of her without even an attempt at an evasion. And Strickland's speech Introducing ground kind of goln' over himself to out Weat have dubbed "The Daughter
ples and blackheads, and leaves the
husband having left such a message
find out where he was and what had if the Railroad.” Mias Holinea doean't
"And you have never met her?" Mr*. Slade was a masterpiece!"
complexiunclear freahand velvety.
to be delivered to her. whether he was Merritt wa* In her glory If she could
Sold br all drusglat*. Fur
free,
"Yea—Strickland's masterpieces are happened, and watching the crowd .-are what role ahe portraya— telegraph
there or not never occurred to tbe probe.
‘1x4, Ualllm.-r«. MJ.
concocted by hla daughter, we all that was slappin' tho clerk on the operator, fireman (or ahould It bo fire- a writ« 1« Dspl.T-W
•
truthful, simple-minded little woman.
back,
fellin'
him
how
neat
he'd
done
"No, I have never met her*
girl?), or substitute engineer, ao long • •«•• •• • •••••••*•••••••
know that. Just as I write your stuff."
But Slade did not want to be reached
"How extraordinary I My husband she finished with hateful emphasis on the Job Finally Gallup made up hie aa It enablea her to live In the atmos
by her, and If an untruth, more or —why, Wesley Merritt'* name spells the possessive.
mind what to say. Ha let go of hie phere of the railroad. The moat re
less, were necessary, the telephone hearth and home, domestic purity—
Shoe Brush on Auto.
"My dear, I wish you'd be more nose, that he'd been trying to twist mit drama In which ahe appears la
boy was easily bribed.
while Slade'*! They tell me he hasn't careful!” warned Merritt, making back Into shape, and spoke to the "Grouch, the Engineer." In which ahe
An ingenious brush for cleansing the
Meanwhile Slade was eagerly look seen his wife for weeks, snd It's town sure that tbe door leading into the clerk kind of contemptuous.
enacts the role of n railroad man a shoes la so mounted on an automobile
ing forward to his new life. Never a talk that he's living at his club. And smoking-room was closed.
” 'You needn't feel so sot up over widow. A railroad aerial atory la being footboard aa to be easily swung Into
position for use or out of the way be
man to waver, he did not once look to think he's never mentioned her to
"Your Message to the Farmer'—that throwin' me out of there,' he ■aya written around Mlaa llolmea, which neath the board.
back to the wife be had so coolly de you!"
made you famous! What did I ever 'You ain’t the fust man that's ever will be called "The Hazards of Helen."
serted. He was being dined and ban
Katherine had quietly rung for s get for writing it?" and with self satis throwed me out of places. I've been and will conalat of eplaodea, each com
queted and feted, being everywhere servant, and as Mrs. Merritt finished, fied deliberateness she arranged her throwed out by smaller men than you plete In Itaelf, allowing the hazarda
hailed as the candidate for governor. remarked casually: "Martin, see that self carefully in a low-seated chair be, time 'n' agin.' says ha. and he
encountered by Helen, who la a rail
He was sniffing the first breath of fu these letters are mailed at once."
looked at the clerk as If he'd reduced road telegrapher.
□ear the flreplace
ture glories with keenest delight. This
Unabashed, Mrs Merritt was moving
“1 never denied that you had a him to powder.
was the sort of thing that made a man eagerly about the artistic room, com man's brain,” placatlngly, drawllngly,
"And so,” concluded Mr. Peaslee, "I
Has Played Many Parte.
feel big! This was the sort of life to fortable in all Its appointments. Its mockingly, "darling."
concluded that Gallup thought he'd
lead—with men bowing and salaaming richness enhanced and mellowed with
In I-eo Willard, a handsome chap ol
"Yes—I'm tbe family mosquito 'hat come out of the affair with full as
all around him. He walked with a firmer age, a blend of color that nothing but buzzes behind your ears. God help
fine physique, G. M. Anderson has a
much credit as the clerk. And that
tread
His shoulders were thrown years can give.
us If it wasn't for me. Did you ask was what I was thlnkln' when I re valuable and versatile assistant for Enhanced By Perfect Physi
back a bit more arrogantly. His chest
Fannie Merritt was a decided blonde. the senator for the |10,000 1 want?" marked that some men could got sat the western productions. Willard haa
cal Health.
was more noticeable as be walked Her decision had been made more she demanded.
been cast at different times aa a half-
isfaction out of what seemed to mo
down the street.
breed
and
haa
played
"heavy
”
and
than ten years before. It was a de-
"He can't,” Merritt was huddled In there was mighty little satisfaction In.
The experience of Motherhood la a try
character parte In drama and come
The Innate conceit and self-esteem cisIon that, once made, must be th* nearest cbslr. The subject had
Don't It look that way to you, Hyne,
dies. He la a lover of animals and ing one to most women and marks dis
of the man made him overlook the fact ablded by, and the woman had been been causing him appetlteless day*
now that you'vo heard the whole autdoor sports and seldom misses a tinctly an epoch in their lives. Not one
that the party needed a rich man. He living up to It ever since, Her gown and sleepless nights. When a woman
was quite satisfied that he was being was the last word of sartorial elegance of Fannie Merritt's persistency and on't?" And Mr. Hyne grunted an as day in taking a long horseback ride woman in a hundred is prepared or un
boosted by Strickland and the others and style. Daringly decollette It clung tenacity wants something a man can't sent.—Youth's Companion.
an his favorite bay mare, always ac derstands how to properly care for her
because of bls brains, hie unusual abil to her long, svelte figure with loving get then that man Is very likely to be
companied by a pet collie. Willard self. Of course nearly every woman
Something From Nothing.
ity, his oratory and bls power to lead emphasis, and trailed round her ex nagged Into desperation.
enjoys his evenings and Bundays with nowadays haa medical treatment at such
You know that peculiar air that i pretty wife and baby, surrounded by times, but many approach tho experi
men. He was happier than he had quisitely dressed feet. Her hair did
“You look out, Wesley,” she an
been for years. Every day tbe new credit to the hairdresser's long and pa swered, alarm breaking the careful come o’er a tram load of passengers volumes of good books In one of the ence with an organism unfitted for the
trial of strength, and when it is over
life looked brighter and the old lesa tient efforts, and long, bizarre diamond modulation of her voice. "Thftt's the ton a wet day when someone endeav bungalows at Niles.
her system has received a shock from
desirable.
ors to find an extra seat.
pendants flashed and sparkled from first time he ever refused us.”
which it is hard to recover. Following
You could have cut It with a knife
If he gave a thought to Mary It was her ears. If ever a woman had become
Actresa a Glutton for Work.
“Ha's broke—dead broke. I don’t
right upon this comes the nervous strain
a passing one. Mary was "comfort a slave to her own personal pleasure know how he can keep this up The when a halo and hearty countrywom
Cleo Madison lias recovered from of caring for the child, and a distinct
able.” She had everything that money and dreBS, that woman was Fannie senator's nearly out.
That’s why an. laden with her market purchases, her tired spell and never looked better, change in the mother results.
could buy. The servants would be tak Merritt. Too self-centered and selfish he's sticking to Slade."
squeezed past the conductor Into tho
which is a wonder when one consld-
ing good care of her, of course. Of ever to crave motherhood, she lavished
There Is nothing moro cham Ing than
Interior of the car.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
srs that she has been rescued from fire
the lump in Mary's throat as she sat a kind of affection on a watery-eyed
a happy and hi-althy mother of children,
Regardless of the freezing stares
and water, been swung from a big
at tbe lonely breakfast table and as little poodle, which repaid her with
she deposited her vegetables, etc., crane, and, goodness known what else. and indeed child-birth under tho right
Wonderful.
she went through the still more lone lap-dog gratitude.
about her feet. One dried-up looking The amount of work this energetic conditions need bo no hazard to health or
Her soldier son In India had Rent
some ordeal of the formal dinner, be
beauty. Tho unexplainable thing is
man gazed irritably along the seated
Tonight she was restless and ill at
knew nothing. Of the woman’s aching ease. Like Katherine, her mind was a cablegram, and Mrs Blunderlelgh's line, and then, seeing no one elso« lady gets Into 12 hours Is quite re that, with all the evidence of shattered
markable,
but
she
still
refuses
to
voice
rang
with
pride
when
speaking
heart and her eyes bright with unshed full of one thought—Slade, Slade, Slade
Inclined to move, offered the buxum shirk either the labor or any of the nerves and broken health resulting from
an unprepared condition, and with am
tears as ahe tried to keep up before —but thoughts that took a different di of It to her Impressed neighbors. lady his seat.
risks.
"Yes,
they
be
wonderful
things,
they
ple time in which to prepare, women
the servants and make excuses tor his rection. She wae sick of his name,
she
»aid,
with
a
broad
"Nay,
lad,
”
will persist in going blindly to tho trial.
absence, Slade was heartlessly ob sick of hearing of bls money, sick of telegraphs," said she. "Just fancy, smile, "tha'd better alt down agon,
Carlyle Blackwell Well Supported.
livious Or perhaps It was self-esteem the talk of his power and of hearing it's come from Indy—all they thou Ah cannot see where's tha's gotten
Every woman at thia time should rely
Carlylo Blackwell haa turned out a
again, that made him unable to fee) him named as "the man of the hour.” sands o’ miles." "And so quick, too," oop from!"—London Answers.
good picture in "The Key to Yester upon Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetablo
for her—the self-esteem of the suc He was winning the very honors she put In her best friend. "Quick ain't
day,” and hla acting throughout Is Compound, a meet valuablo tonic and
cessful man who feels no wounds had coveted for her husband, and tak the word for it," put In Mrs. Blunder-
8urely
a
Wise
Guy.
lelgh.
"Why,
when
I
got
It
the
gum
tplendld. Ho haa boon well served invigorator of tho female organism.
whet fighting for wbat he wants, and ing them right out from beneath his
• A teacher In a Weat aide publlo by hla support, too, and Edna Mayo,
neither knows nor cares that others very eyes and nose. There didn't seem on the envelope wasn't dry.”
In many homes
school reports to us this actual Inci Ollie Kirby, Gypsy Abbott, J. Fran- once childless thcro
feel them. He bad a heart, but it was to be a doubt of Slade becoming gov
dent: On the first day of school a :1s Dillon, William Brunton, and Wil- are now children be
Explains Baseball’s Popularity.
unpleasantly like Pharaoh's.
ernor, the very position for which her
Nothing equals baseball as a popular now little girl Joined the class, Tho Ham Sheehan have all done excellent cause of the fact
But of Katherine Strickland's stat- husband had been striving for the past
that Lydia E. Pink
aesque beauty and her cosmopolitan six terms. Slade with hl* million* ■port. Baseball stimulates tho mind teacher asked the children what Work.
ham’s Vegetable
manner he was delightfully aware. needed the governorship no more than and invigorates, Instead of exhausts, caused the great European war. Tho
Compound makes
During the weeks since he had left a pampered child needs a new toy, the body. It can be played 1n any new little girl held up her hand "Do
Gives Actress Rare Chance.
home Slade had been calling regu while to her busband success or fail field, at almost no cost. Expense Is you know what it was, teacher?" Tho
Miss Stella Razeto, leading lady of women normal,
larly at the Strickland home, partly to ure this time meant either the retriev the handicap which keeps tennis and teacher said, “Oh, yes ” Whereupon Director E J. Laifalnt's dramatic com healthy and strong.
golf out of the running as great popu the budding scholar replied with pany, studio, Is at work In a special
consult with the senator and partly ing of his fortunes or his utter ruin.
If yon want special advice write to
The abetractlon of the two women lar sports, A baseball game may be crushing veracity: “Well, you’re the production called "Reparation." The
for the purpose of poeing for the bust
which Katherine was modeling. As was broken by tbe sudden entrance played In two hours an advantage wisest guy I've seen anywhere.” We foie demands much artistic work of Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confi
they sat hour after hour, he posing of Hayes.
which will ever make ft more popular are unfalteringly with the new little »acting character from Mias Razeto, dential) Lynn, Maae. Tour letter will
comfortably, she working deftly and
"Whew!” he whistled. "They're bar than cricket as an international game girl.—Chicago Post.
whose successes In such cases are too be opened, read nnd answered by ■
Woman and held lu strict confidence«
._d?F -i
rsll-known to dwell upon.
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