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Thursday, February 25, 1937 THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. Beware Coughs DEPUTY OF THE DEVIL ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Copyright, Ben Ames Williams. ■ -= ====== ---- - By BEN AMES WILLIAMS ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ from common colds That Hang On No matter how many medicines you have tried for your cough, chest cold or bronchial irritation, you can get relief now with Creomulsion. Serious trouble may be brewing and you cannot afford to take a chance with anything less than Creomul sion, which goes right to the seat of the trouble to aid nature to soothe and heal the inflamed mem branes as the germ-laden phlegm is loosened and expelled. Even if other remedies have failed, don’t be discouraged, your druggist is authorized to guarantee Creomulsion and to refund your money if you are not satisfied with results from the very first bottle. Get Creomulsion right now. (Adv.) But Dan would not by words alone Nancy and I will get him ready. hands lifted, protecting them Only by the sense of touch could be daunted. His mouth twisted in Come back quickly.” against any least contamination. He the thing in fact be done. The bul a grin. “ I ’ D show you something He turned submissively away; said: “You know it’s hopeless, Mary let had ripped into Dan’s abdomen; Her heart leaped. She cried : about getting well that you never and then Ruth appeared, her arms Ann. We’re not properly sterile. its course must be traced and all “Father, he’s all right. See!” Infection— its ravages repaired. And to do Doctor Greeding fought back to saw before,” he insisted, laboring full of linen. Nancy, during what followed, had Nancy, with the can of ether in this, the eye was relatively useless; self-control; he began a swift ex over his words. “I’m—telling you!” Doctor Greeding shook with a no sense of dealing with the body of her hand, cried miserably: “I can’t it was necessary that probing fin amination. Nancy’s eyes blurred gers should seek out the rents that with tears, but she heard buttons murderous rage; Dan was like a Dan, whose flesh and blood she open this!” Trusting Ourselves yield, and the movement of gar scotched snake, to be crushed un loved. This was an impersonal task “Stick an ice-pick into it,” Mary must be closed. Most of us can fool ourselves der a grinding heel. The Doctor that must be done. She and Mary And Doctor Greeding thought, Without half trying. ments, and saw Dan’s white flesh, Ann commanded. “And—don’t touch and saw through misty eyes the looked over his shoulder toward the Ann stripped off his garments, and anything that we’re using after with a deep wonder, that his hands path along which Nancy and Mary while Mary Ann and Ruth lifted ward, Nancy. You’re not clean now. had never better performed their wound. “Does it hurt, darling?” she Ann had disappeared. There was no first his head and then his feet, Doctor—we’ll have to risk infec task than now. He had not even to one in sight. His eyes searched all Nancy slipped under his body tion.” Her voice broke for a min direct them with his eyes. pleaded. “Does it?” While he worked, a change by Dan shook his head, his white lips around; and then he knelt beside blankets and sheets to cushion the ute in something like a sob. “For grinned. “Not a bit,” he said weak Dan again, his countenance contort hard shutter on which he still lay. that matter, there’s, infection enough slow degrees took place in him. He “For thirty years I had stubborn constipation. Sometimes I did not go ly. “Tell Mr. Jerrell—it’s all right. ed If the man were not now dead, A pillow under his head ; then already inside him. Begin!” began to be able to look with a clear for or five days. I also had awful yet he must die! sheets over him, expertly slit and “He’s not ready yet.” eye upon himself and upon the gas four Accident!” bloating, headaches and pains in But Nancy called, from the path: folded to expose the field in which the back. Adlerika helped right away. Jerrell, somewhere above them, Mary Ann was white with des world. Now I eat sausage, bananas, pie, any standing over them, cried: “Dan, “I’m coming, Dan.” So Doctor Doctor Greeding must work. peration, white with haste. “Dan,” He saw Nancy clearly, and per thing I want and never felt better. I sleep soundly all night and enjoy life.” Once Dan whispered something, she cried. His lips moved. “Dan, if haps for the first time. He compre — I swear I tried not to. Something—” Greeding stood up quickly, brushing Mrs. Mabel Schott. his hands together, withdrawing weakly, and Mary Ann said: “Hush, it hurts, lie still,” she commanded. hended her love for. Dan, and he Mary Ann flashed one glance to If you are suffering from constipation, sour stomach, and gas dear. Rest!" ward him, reassuring, comforting. from the stricken man. “Nancy’s going to give you ether comprehended in all its implications sleeplessness, bloating, there is quick relief for you Yet he took only a grudging and “Where's—Nancy?” he asked. Then she watched Docto) Greed now. Just breathe deeply. You won’t her love for himself too. So many In Adlerika. Many report action In reluctant hand in what immediate minutes after taking just one “Here,” said Nancy, and touched feel it long." ing. He met her eyes and shook his times he had hurt her, wounded thirty dose. Adlerika gives complete action, ly followed. Thomas and Jerrell his lips with her finger; so that he her, frightened her; and yet always cleaning head in negation. your bowel tract where ordi Nancy came with the can, the pun laxatives do not even reach. Her cheeks flamea. She cried: and Nancy and her fathei worked was content. gent smell of ether preceding her. there dwelt in her a love for him nary Dr. H. L. Shoub, New York, reportât together. Thomas had brought one “You can help him! You .can op When they were ready, Mary Ann “Pour it on the towel, Nancy,” Mary that, no matter how often he “In addition to Inteatinal clnniing, Adlerika of the shutters used to seal the win said crisply: the growth of Interinai bacteria and erate!" Ann commanded. “Now lay the tow spurned it, was still ready to offer eheckt colon bacilli.** dows of the house in winter; and him tenderness and comforting. The doctor protested: “Hopeless! Give your bowels a real cleansing el over his face! ” And then, curtly, “ Go tell your father to hurry. ” they laid it on the ground, and man with Adlerika and see how good you And Doctor Greeding thought of feel. I’ve nothing here to work with.” her shoulder: “Ruth, scrub Just one spoonful relieves GAS aged as gently as possible to lift Nancy obediently departed. Mary over Mary Ann, so bravely steady now, and stubborn constipation. At all Mary Ann stood up. “We’ll man Dan your hands with soap and water and upon it. His breath whistled Ann went to the sink, and unaer the then alcohol. Don’t touch anything rigorously controlling all the sor Leading Druggists. age,” she insisted. “You’ve got to. through lips, and his mouth running faucet scrubbed her hands afterward. We may need you.” To row and terror she must feel, on Quickly. We can’t just—give up!” twisted, dry but he did not speak or He faced her. “Mary Ann,” he Doctor Greeding: “I’ll assist, do the slim chance that she might, by strength, save Dan. Of Mary Ann, said gravely. “If we could act in complain. everything I can.” They lifted him, and with Nancy RS. Maude Davis who loved Jerrell enough so that stantly, there might be a slim and “ We ’ ll have an explosion here, ” of 710 12 N. M her father at one end, Jerrell even after his shot struck down her Maple St., Spokane, chance; but as it is—to get him to and Thomas Doctor Greeding muttered. “These at the other, they car Wash., said : “When brother, she could offer him forgive the mainland, to the hospital, to ried the shutter fumes, and the stove.” I was a girl develop- and its burden ness and comfort with an unasked ing into womanhood I move him. It’s hopeless!” “It’s a gas-stove,” Mary Ann in kiss. across the court and through the was awfully nervous He added: “And even if there gate, and weak. I suffered sisted. “Not lighted.” and along the path toward the She loved Jerrell, would be happy from headaches asso were time, it would need a miracle house. They came to the kitchen “Coal fire in the water heater," with him. But—could she ever be ciated with functional to save him!” Irregularity and was underweight. I took he insisted. Ruth, and Margaret, the cook, with him if Dan, whom Jer Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a tonic Mary Ann held his eyes with hers. door. She said in a still fury: “We’ve happy had made all ready there. They and my appetite increased, then I gained in rell had shot, should die? “You can do miracles,” she said, bore Dan into the kitche.i, and laid weight and developed into strong healthy got to risk something!” And Doctor Greeding thought of womanhood.” Buy of your druggist her tones vibrant, compelling. “I the Doctor Greeding picked up a Dan, so near death now, whose shutter upon which he rested iem. But it wasn’t on the $+ table, and Doctor Greeding razor-blade from the kettle. It was crime had been no more than that ee. Oh, I’ve seen still hot enough to burn his fingers, Nancy loved him. And as Doctor your hands, your felt the hurt man’s pulse. and he dropped it, with an exclama Greeding’s thoughts thus spun and Nancy turned quickly to the serv erything you did! ants. tion. “Margaret,” she directed, swirled, he began to feel himself To Get Rid of Acid it you did! It was “you keep the kettles boiling. Ruth, “Careful!” Mary Ann cried in a utterly alone. By the interwoven and Poisonous Waste you.’ She caught deep exasperation. Your kidneys help to keep you. well loves which bound these others to ed them firmly, bring blankets and sheets ano pil by constantly filtering waste matter Doctor Greeding steeled himself; gether-Nancy and Dan, Dan and miracle for Dan,” lows. Lots of them. Clean ones. from the blood. If your kidneys get Don’t let them touch anything, the he picked up the blade again. He Mary Ann, Mary Ann and Jerrell— functionally disordered and fail to remove excess impurities, there may be looked at his hands. h felt himself hopelessly excluded. She spoke quickly to Nancy. wall or anything.” poisoning of the whole system and Old Margaret, white-faced but These hands of his were, miracu Their lives were full without him. body-wide distress. “Your father will have to operate, Burning, scanty or too frequent uri lously, steady. He studied them as There was no one to whom he, his here, at once. In the house. With steady, turned to the stove. Ruth, nation may bo a warning of some kidney though they belonged to some one life, was indispensable. No one now or bladder disturbance. plenty of light A table, some pale as death, departed to do as You may suffer nagging backache, Nancy bade her. Jerrell stood si else, astonished at their rocklike in the living world. persistent headache, attacks of dizziness, where.” lent by the kitchen door, waiting for firmness. Himself in turmoil, his getting up nights, swelling, puffiness He was lonely for Myra, for his Nancy caught strength from Mary under the eyes—feel weak, nervous, all body and his soul shaken as by a wife. Through all the years of his played out. Ann. She suggested steadily: “The commands; and Thomas went stol idly out of doors, a lumpish man not tempest, it seemed to him incredi In such cases it Is better to rely on a manhood she had been welded to kitchen. There’s a big skylight, and medicine that has won country-wide easily dismayed. Doctor Greeding ble that these trained hands of his his side. He realized, suddenly, that acclaim than on something less favor a long table." ably known. Use Doan’s Pills. A multi should be so still and sure. where she who had been flesh of Mary Ann nodded. “Perfect.” She looked around at them all—saw tude of grateful people recommend Dan’s chest was heaving, his his flesh had been torn away, there [ Doan’s. A sk your neighbori turned to Jerrell. She saw then Margaret, her back turned, busy at breath labored. His face was cov remained an open wound that would that he stood white and shamed the stove, and he said softly: “Nancy, and you, Ira, you’d bet ered by the towel. The fumes of never close. and sorrowful; and she went to him, If the Man Were Not Now Dead, ether filled the kitchen. Flesh of his flesh; and—torn away and rose on tiptoe to kiss him— ter leave me with him.” He might even now find the opportunity to do Yet He Must Die! touched his cheek reassuringly. They stood in a silent group, wait by his own hand! He accepted this ing; Doctor Greeding by Dan’s side, fact with all that it implied; and “Don’t—worry. You must—help what he intended. But Nancy answered stoutly: ana her arms above the elbow. She Mary Ann facing him across the ta he remembered with a wry smile ! us, Ira,” she said. “Get something ripped a sheet in half and folded to carry Dan into the house—some “I'm never going to leave him it like an apron around her shoul ble, Nancy at Dan’s head. Ruth, something Professor Carlisle had holding her scrubbed hands out in said, long ago. Something about I Nature can more quickly expel infection when thing so that he can lie flat. I will again. Never!" aided by internal medication of recognized merit Then Mary Ann, her hands full, ders, slit holes for her arms, made front of her, white and motionless, the unwisdom of supping with the telephone the nearest hospital. Ruth pin the sheet like an apron devil, unless one had a long spoon! came through the pantry. “I got behind. stood near, awaiting any command. Where is it, Nancy?” She then thoroughly He had paid no heed to that cau Nancy told her. Jerrell, instantly the hospital on the phone,” she re washed her hands with alcohol; Old Margaret, the cook, bowed her HAVE RECOGNIZED MERIT tion, at the time; but it was too ported. “ They ’ re sending every galvanized into activity, was al head, and her lips moved silently. bade Margaret empty the wa late for wisdom now. His fingers ready running toward the house. thing. Nancy, have some one meet then There was no sound save Dan ’ s ter out of the boiling kettle and set were already burned. Mary Ann looked at Doctor Greed the car at the landing. And I’ve it, with the things it contained still long, rattling inhalations; and the With a rising pride he watched ing. “You will need,” she reflected, been rummaging the house for clock ticked on the wall. these fingers of his, working here “these things.” And she named things we could use.” She spoke to steaming as they dried, on a chair “ He ’ s ready, ” said Mary Ann. by the table. Doctor Greeding and "FOUR so skillfully. Burned or not, they | them, in a swift catalogue. “Any Doctor Greeding. “You can begin Doctor Greeding’s thoughts began could still work miracles when he | TEASPOONFU with what I have here. By the time Nancy returned. thing else?” Mary Ann said briskly: “Doctor, to race. It was a moment before chose. Doctor Greeding said gently: you’re ready to close the wound, you can scrub up at the faucet he realized that, at her word, and And suddenly Doctor Greeding re the things from the hospital will “No, that will do. But—it’s no without command from his will, his alized that he did so choose; that there. Here’s alcohol.” have come. ” use, Mary Ann!” He urged: “Mary Ann, don’t hands had begun their business he wished, deeply and profoundly He said stubbornly: “Dar is The girl ignored his word. “I’ll here. and with a certain desperation, to have them send everything,” she sinking, Mary Ann. This is valor count too much on this.” She retorted: “I’m not count work now a miracle for Dan. He said, moving toward the path; and ous, but it is futile too.” CHAPTER IX ing, I ’ m not even thinking. I ’ m just wished it just as a man swept by a then, to Nancy: “While I’m phon She deposited her burden on the strong current toward the crest of ing, get water boiling. Get Dan on draining-board beside the sink and doing all I can. You must—do the Doctor Greeding, during tha i a cataract wishes to cling to the HEARTBURN FROM OVEREATING? the table. Find some razor-blades took Dan's wrist in her hand; and rest of it!” Nancy stood by uncertainly, and terminable time while he waited stout rope which chance has thrown —new ones, if you can—and put after a moment she said crisply: Hurried or overeating usually causesheart- Mary Ann said to her: beside Dan, with Mary Ann facing within his reach and grasp. To burn. Overcome heartburn and digestive them on to boil. And if you’ve some “His pulse is not bad!” him, and Nancy at his left drip save Dan might not suffice to — save distresses with Milnesia, the original milk “Nancy, you scrub up too. Scrub blunt-ended scissors. Or any scis Then, almost sternly: “Doctor sors will do. And thread, and big Greeding, I have seen you do mir your hands, hard, with the brush ping ether on the towel, felt him himself. Yet Doctor Greeding re of magnesia in wafer form. Thin, crunchy, flavored,pleasant to take. Each needles. And big spoons. Put ev acles. You didn’t do them with in and soap. Then wash them in alco self helpless as even the stoutest alized, with a sort of pride, that deliciously wafer equals 4 teaspoonfuls of milk of erything on to boil. But first come struments, and equipment. You did hol. Don’t touch anything afterward. swimmer must be helpless in the this did not greatly matter. It was magnesia.20c, 35c & 60c sizes at druggists. show me where the telephone is. them with the gift of healing that is Stand near us here, in case we full sweep of a mighty current. And of others he was thinking now. ■ As he had wished death for oth :— —............................- need you. Your father will tell you when at last he began, he watched I’ll call the hospital, and then I’ll— in you. You can do one now!” 8—37 like a spectator this conflict between ers, and even a while ago for Dan WNU—13 search the house, see what I can The man’s eyes flickered uncer what to do.” find. There must be first - aid tainly, in a sort of desperation; and She bound a strip of linen across his will—which desired Dan to die— himself, so now he wished life for things—” beads of perspiration appeared up Doctor Greeding’s mouth and nose, and his deed. He wished to bungle, Dan. For the sake of Mary Ann, They went swiftly together toward on his brow. He repeated after her, made Ruth do a like service for to be inept and clumsy; but de that she might be happy with Jer the house, and Doctor Greeding was like a lesson learned by rote: “I herself. And she showed Doctor spite himself, those long-trained An rell; for the sake of Nancy and left alone here beside Dan. can do one now.” Then his color Greeding the kettle and its con gers went about their accustomed her love; for Dan’s own sake, he The man stood looking down, his flamed, and he seemed about to tents. “I’ve boiled everything I tasks, seeking out the hurts that wished Dan to live! This wish was eyes brooding. His universe was speak, to refuse. But in the end, as found that you might usa,” she said. must be mended, discovering them like a humble prayer. • (TO BE CONTINUED) ALL chaos in this hour. The discovery though surrendering, he said de Her voice caught. “It isn’t much infallibly by touch alone. that Dan was not dead—though his cisively: “Quick, then!” COMFORTS of a kit, but I bent these big spoons wound must almost certainly prove AT RATES Mary Ann nodded; turned back to for retractors; and here are scis fatal—had struck Doctor Greeding the sink. “I found this can of ether, sors, and razor-blades. They’re dou Ancient Ceremony Amusing in a Modern with a shocking force. ALL in the bathroom closet upstairs,” ble-edged. You’ll have to be care English Setting at Lord’s Installation Dan, the rock upon which all his she reported. “It’s never been ful not to cut yourself! We've no CAN AFFORD hopes and plans were shattered, Dan opened. And here’s iodine, and al snaps, so you’ll have to catch the small vessels with thread as you go Lord Willington recently was in- ' taining “the franchises, liberties, whom he hated and whom he had cohol, and gauze for sponges—” Here are needles, and stalled lord warden and admiral of customs and usages of the ports.” meant should die—was still alive! Mary Ann went to the stove to in along. the Cinque ports by the grand « urt I The post of the lord warden is to And he had meant that Dan should spect the things boiling there; she thread.” She saw him waver, and she cried of Shepway, writes a London cor day a sinecure. It costs the holder die by Jerrell's carelessness, so that nodded, satisfied. And she turned Mary Ann would abhor the man. to Nancy, looked at her apprais ir a swift storm of determination: respondent in the Chicago Tribune. about $400 a year and there are “What’s the matter with you? You To have witnessed the installation various titles attached to it which Yet—here a moment ago—Mary ingly. Ann had kissed Jerrell on the lips. “Do you want to stay, to help?” act like a scared interne!” Her was to have seen the greatest pos are more or less meaningless. Even tones rang with scorn. “If you sible muddle of ancient and modern the “Cinque Ports” is a misnomer, She loved her brother; she should she asked. bungle this. I’ll see that the world in ceremony. A great gentleman since there are seven ports—Hast for his carelessness hate Jerrell. “Yes,” said Nancy. knows it. You can do thir; and with a notable record garbed in all ings, Dover, Hythe, Romney, Sand But instead, she had kissed him, in “You will stand up to it,” Mary you’ve got to. Doctor. You’ve got the finery of uniform that an ad wich, Rye, and Wincheless. comfort and in love. miral can boast; “barons” and The mixing of ancient customs Doctor Greeding could not recog Ann decided. “But first, send some to! Now come!” BROADWAY He said with a helpless gesture: “combarons” dressed in scarlet and costumes now meaningless with nize the world so long familiar. He one to meet the car from the hos & SALMON pital, at the landing. ” “The ether, Mary Ann. Who will cloaks with trimmings of blue and those modern elements for which felt himself under the glance of a Jerrell volunteered: “I'll go.” I give that?” gold and the arms of the Cinque can be found no ancient pattern is stem, condemning eye; he seemed SALMON He was grateful for even this | They were ready, scrubbed, stand ports on the shoulders; others in the result of the Englishman’s love to hear mockery in the air, and a & PARK small chance to be of help, hurried black knee breeches and white satin of pageantry and his passion for ing by the table. Mary Ann for a derisive laughter. still the romantic past. Sometimes it He spoke, without knowing it, away, and Mary Ann turned back to moment hesitated helplessly. Then: embroidered waistcoats; aloud. “He must die! He can’t Doctor Greeding. The man was still “Nancy will,” she decided. “I’ll tell others in black frock coats and top “comes off” successfully, some like one dreaming, bewildered, her how." To Nancy: “Take that hats. All were gathered on Dover times it is funny. live;” he muttered. Dan on the ground at his feet, stunned. Mary Ann, because she towel and fold it twice, and pour college close for the ceremony. The More Speed said stubbornly, without opening his knew exactly what she wished for, ether on it and then lay it across old court which had a real service “If I had a race hoss,” said Uncle eyes: “I’m not dead yet. Doctor!” commanded him in his uncertain his mouth and nose. Then a few to perform was held at Shepway And the older man said, crush- ties. “Go and prepare yourself,” drops afterward, whenever I tell Cross, but this modern one was held Eben, "I'd call it ‘Money,’ ’cause I under a marquee, where the lord don't know anything dat kin go ingly: “You’re badly hurt! Don't she directed. “We'll have to do with you.” out gloves. I’U contrive a inask. | Doctor Greeding stood with his I warden undertook the duty of main faster.” nurse any futile hopes.” CHAPTER VIII—Continued Constipated 30 Years From Girl to Woman! HELP KIDNEYS D oans P ills FOR COLDS Salico» Tablets
