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GOULDS PUMPS AND WATER SYSTEMS Write for booklet D giving details of our complete line of elec tric and engine driven pumps and water sys tems for every need. The GouId3 Manufacturing Co. Seneca Falls, N. Y. Slany of our worst troubles are those which we expect but never hap pen. ??? ? ? ? ?? ? my I ? CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP IS ! ? ? i CHILD'S REST LAXATIVE ! HURRY MOTHER! Even a fretful, peevish child loves the pleasant taste of "California Fig Syrup" and it never fails to open the bowels. A teaspoon ful today may prevent a sick child to morrow. Ask your druggist for genuine "Cali fornia Fig Syrup" which has directions for babies and children of ail ages printed on the bottle. Mother! You must say "California" or you may get an imitation fig syrup. Mothers, Do This? When the Children Cough, Rub Mutterole on Throats and Chests No telling how soon the symptoms ( may develop into croup, or worse. And then'9 when you're glad you have a jar of Musterole at hand to give prompt relief. It does not blister. As first aid, Musterole is excellent. Thousands of mothers know it. You should keep a jar ready for instant use. It is the remedy for adults, too. Re lieves sore throat, bronchitis, tonsillitis, croup, stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia, headache, congestion, pleurisy, rheu matism, lumbago, pains and aches of back or joints, sprains, sore muscles, chilblains, frostea feet and colds of the chest (it may prevent pneumonia). To Mother*: Musterole is also made in milder form for babies and small children. Ask for Children's Musterole. C' 35c and 65c, jars and tubes. Better than a mustard plaster i Sensible men are deaf to unjust criticism. Sore eyes, blood-shot eyes, watery eyea, ?tlcky eyeo, all healed promptly with nightly applications of Roman Eye Balsam. Adr. A man has a right to his ideals, but not to force others to live up to them. (V >. : L CORNS Lift Off-No Pain! Doesn't hurt one bit! Drop a little "Freezone" on an aching corn, lnBtant ly that corn stops hurting, then short ly you lift It right off \\flth fingers. Your druggist sells a \ tiny bottle of "Freezone" for a few ce^ts, sufficient to feraove every hard coy , soft corn, or corn between the tor and the foot calluses, without sor/ s or Irritation. :rA y=-?"?^? LEE SONG, THE CHINESE HATCHET-BOY ! ) By ALBERT W. TOLMAN (Q l>y Short Story Pub. Go.) LEE SONG, squatting at midnight In a back seat of the stuoker, drowsily inhaled the warm fumes of his cigarette, as he blinked 'through the lamplit reek on the lines of sleeping men sprawled along the sides of the car. His face, round. Unwrinkled. guileless, pro claimed him an ordinary Inoffensive Chinaman. ', ? Under Lee's feet lay his straw ex tension case. It contained a Testa ment and several Chinese tracts, but ulso the tools of his trade-\a bulldog revolver, a long, narrow knife and a stout cord. x A poor workman quarrels with his tools?but Lee Song never quarreled WitV his. The cord was new and un fraved, the knife ground keen, and every chamber of the seven-shooter loaded. It was Lee's attention to de tails, Joined with certain other admir able qualities, that had made him the foremost hatchet-boy of the Liu Kwen Tong. (v f , Lee Song was an artist, either at premeditated assassination or Im promptu murder. In his makeup was nothing spectacular, no boasting or bravado. Pistol-but^, and knife-haft showed no notches?but he never failed to get his man.) When the Tong semis Lee Song aft er you, vou are as good as dead al ready, and may as well get measured for your cottin. On this special night the hatchet hoy was bound for a certain city to Send a laundryman named Billy Wing to sleep beside his fathers. W by the Tong wanted Billy killed was Immit terial to Lee. His business was simply to obey, to strike like lightning, like lightning1 to disappear. The Job promised to be a simple ! one. Lee smoked dreamily.' His soul was at peace, sav;e when he thought Of his only son, who had died a month before. Every time the little white casket rose before Lee's eyes a devil who stood beside him night and day ran a sharp dagger Into his heart. So often had the devil done this that the spot was very sore. All night he Journeyed, sleeping and waking, and at early dawn came to the city where lived Billy Wing. There were few Chinese In the place, and Lee easily found B1U> s laundry. Entering, he made the opium smuggler's sign to the proprietor, w ho was wrapping up a shirt for a cus tomer. Billy signaled back, his eyes glittering. After the customer went out, he asked eagerly: "When?" V "Tonight at ten," answered Lee. Men who smoke Opium should not in cur the Tongas displeasure. The hatcliet-boy ran an experienced eye over the laundry, sizing it up for tii* kill and the get-away. Ah, yes, that back room! The job over, he could shed his false queue, shift Ills clothes, and slip out of town on a freight like a common' American 4rainp. As he started out of the door, a lit tle Chinese boy slipped in. The devil stabbed Lee sharply In the sore spot, for the lad was about five, Just the 1 nge his own son had been. The hatchet-man's heart warmed toward him, and he turned back. Billy was upbraiding the child for being late. "Son of a pig!" he screamed shril ly. "Where have you been so long?" With a buffet he sent him reeling into a corner. The little fellow picked himself up without a whimper, and disappeared into the back room, rub bing his head. Lee's fingers drew up toward something in his sleeve. He wished It were ten o'clock at ulght now. " 'TIs .Ting, the son of ray brother, who died with his wife of the fever iast spring," explained Billy. "Would the boy had died with them. He is not worth the food he eats or tjie clothes he wears. I can save no money while he is with me." Lee replied nothing. Hilly was go ing that night where money would not be> needed. All that day the hatchet-boy lurked in the outskirts of the city. He thought much of little Jing, and of Billy's cruelty to him, and the spot over his heart was very sore. But he could not kill the laundryman, until he re ceived final orders, at seven that night, from the Tong. Promptly on the hoiir he was at the post office. The general tfeilvery clerk handed him a letter containing a white sheet, entirely blank. Its upper right hand corner showed a slight nail-mark. This was made by the right forefinger of the chief of the Tong. It signified that Billy should live. Lee Song felt the devil's dagger again. He had planned that afternoon (to adopt little Jing, after Billy had gone to his fathers. Sorely disap pointed, he pondered, walking in the dusk. At last he came to a decision. He would kill Billy on his own ac count, and' take the boy. True, it was somewhat irregular?but the Tong's rules did not forbid the aveng ing of a private feud, and Song took Billy's abuse of Jing as a personal matter. At quarter to ten he started for Bil ly's laundry. A crowd of young' hoodlums on a corner hooted and bus tied the mild Chinaman, and turned him back. Song bore it meekly. Bur they would not have hustled him, haft they kccwn what lay hid in the secret pocket lip Ms broad sleeve. It was half-past ten before he tapped on the laundry door. Billy opened it quickly. "You are late," grunted he resent fully. He did not enjoy being cheateil of his smoke. "Be content," smiled Lee Song. "You shall have enough presently." In a box in the back room Jing lay asleep, curled up like a ?**ten.C Billy did not even look at him. Out uf his sleeve he shook two packets of opium. "Try this, before you buy," said he; and Billy snatched It greedily. < Each produced his pipe, and they began to smoke. For the first live minutes between whiffs, Billy talked of Canton; for the second live lie spoke occasionally in monosyllables; the third five he smoked in silence; suddenly the pipe twitched from ids fingers, and he tum bled back on the bunk. Surely, It was strong opium. Lee Song, watching him cat-like, laid down his own pipe, and stood up. The time had come for Billy to join his fa- | thers. There are pistol-Jobs, and knife-jobs and rope-Jobs. This was to be a rope job. From his sleeve Lee produced a cord. Skilfully slipping it round Bil ly's neck, be rolled him over on Ids face. \ Crossing the rope-ends the hatchet 'boy grasped one firmly in each hand. His arms stiffened. A strong, steady pull would soon do the business. But Billy snored peacefully on, Lee Song's gorge rose. Disgust pos sessed him; not pity, for hatchet-boys know no pity. It was a job for a nov ice, a bungler, unworthy a finished artist. . "Bah!" iie grunted. "It is too easy. I kill men, not,pigs." Contemptuously pulling out the cord he rolled Billy over again on his back. Then be stepped to the box where Jing lay curled, and shook him lightly. "Come," he said. The buy started up, looked at him a moment in sleepy wonder, then un hesitatingly stretched out his arms. The hatchet-man lifted him, and passed into the night. Two hours later Lee Song sat in the corner of the smoking car, bound for the great city. In Ids arms lay Jing, fnst asleep, one hand tightly clasping Song's right forefinger, that terrible finger which had sent so many Chinamen to join their fathers. Tl*e hatchet-boy looked down on the little Mack head in the hollow of his arm. He pressed the limp, thin body against nis breast, and felt the quick beating heart and the gentle breath ing. His room in Mott street would be brighter with this little fellow play ing Id rt. A wave of strange tenderness swept over l>ee Song. Again the devil stabbed him, but his dagger was blunted. The sore place did not hurt so much. His Hps were silent, but in his heart he s;*ld: "It is good to have a little boy." Made Up Her Mind to Show Those Jacksons 1r earlier days of eastern Indiana. wImmi the community physician acted as dentist, surgeon and sage, It was not infrequently flint his knowledge of the personal prejudices of families denied 1dm welt, the Indianapolis NeWs remarks. ft Is recalled by an early physician's son tfiat Ids father told often of how a cure was effected by a remark that now would come under psychological classification. Mrs. B , a member of a family known for its strength of character, which then was called by neighbors, "plain contrariness," was ill and had given up recovery. The family happened to have an inherent dislike for ull members of another family. The physician wisely thought of a plan. "Nancy,"< he said the next time be called <>n the woman who refused to. get well, "I was talking to Bill .Tack son today and told him you were pret ty; sick. He said: 'That's the way with them B s. they are always dyin* off.'" , "You Just tell Bill Jackson," she said hotly, sitting up in lief bed, "that there ain't nothin' the matter with Nancy B and that the B 's ain't no race to lay down and die like the Jacksons are." It is recorded in the case that Nan cy soon arose from her bed and lived in good health to an advanced age. ' Lovely Arithmetic A girl complained to her male com panion that she didn't like arithmetic. She couldn't understand it and didn't see the use of it. The young man said lie would teacher her. "Now," said he. "I kiss you three times on one cheek and four times on the other. How many does that that make?" "Seven," fyhlspered the girl disen gaging herself to breathe mo?i freely. "Well" that is arithmetic." "Dear me." said the girl. "I didn't think it could be made such a pleas ant study."?Philadelphia Inquirer. , j, Pot From Ancient Copper Charles M. Forsberg of Williams port, I'a., has in his possession a cof fee pot made of copper more than 400 years old. He made the pot from cop per taken from the roof of the cath edral of St. I'eter, In Rome, about 42 years ago, at which time replacement of some of the copper was undertaken after it had served nearly 400 years. The roof had been on since the build ing of the cathedral, In li>03. Com menting on the copper roof, he says I that the perfectly made joints Indi cated that the ancient roofers who did I the work were thorough craftsmen. Tj/ie (Copy for This Department Supplied bjr th? American Legion News Servtce.) PUBLIC CENEROUS IN GIVING TO FUND Marked success is being met with in the public appeal fOr the American Legion $5,000,000 endowment fund for the disabled and tlie orphans of the U orld war. Legionnaires and the gen eral public are giving generously of fine, effort and money to the fund. Many posts are raising their local quotas for the fund in a day pv two of effort. At t'orydon, Ind., Commander (.'. A. Keller and Ida post service officer raised the quota of in two after noons by their own efforts. Kvansville, Ind., home of State Chiijrmun Marcus S. Sonntag, raised nearly its entire quota of more than $1?">,000 in three days. Indiana was the first state to make the public appeal. The mine disaster at Sullivan, Ind-, in which fil men lost their lives shortly before the campaign, drove close home to the people of that slate the need of such work for the disabled and the orphans as the Le gion Is doing and as the fund is la temled to maintain. Kentucky was the second state to start the campaign, following a three-night radio barrage. Westlield, Ind., resorted to a? inter esting device la raising its quota of A Legionnaire remembered that there were precisely 2.">0 pockets in the machine gun belts used by the Germans in the war. The belt was placet! conspicuously in a store win flow. As Contributions <mme In, the pockets were stuffed with dollar bills. The qeota was quickly completed. Senator William B. McKinley of Illl nois was the first person) to make a large individual contribution to the fund. Lieut. Wayland Brooks, I>. S. C^, and Michael J. CuUen,. L>.. & O, pre sented the appeal for the endowment to the senator. They suggested that he contribute $2,(MX). He handed them a check 8or $f>,000. Brooks and CuU len are members of the COmbat Medal Men's association of (Chicago, which was the first organization in. BHinols to contribu&Ki A ('hitago newspaper feuture eot umn recently ran this: .? j " 'I bplieve,' says the T Believe' card, of the American Legion in its drive for a $">,000,000 endowment Stand, 'that the orphan children of those who made the supreme sacrilice for America are entitled ft* the same chamre Ln life which they would have received had not their fathers given their lives to the nation.' That's pretty easy to be lieve. Bat bellev'ng Isn't enough. We want: to do something besidies just be lieving. Therefore?now watch us closely, American Lpgion?we do l?ere and now gedunk $100 into said endow ment fund. Splash!" Tennessee's first contribution came from (Canada. It was a check for from railllp N. I.ibby of Lemiskaming. Province of Quebec. Libby is a for mer member of Hammond post, Kings' port, Tenn. Many governors and former gov ernors are interesting themselves ac tively in the endowment movement in their respective states. Among the honorary chairmen clfcosen are: Gov. Austin I'eay, Tennessee; Gov. Henry ?7 Fuqtia, Louisiana; former Gov. T&qmas C. McHae, Arkansas; Gov. TV. W. Brandon, Alabama; Gov; Clifford M. Walker, Georgia, Joint honorary chairman with Chancellor David C. Barrow, University of Georgia* Among the active chalrm# are: Gov. H W. Morgan, West Virginia; former Gov. Thomas E. Kilby, Arkansas; former Gov. Hugh M. Dorsey, Georgia. Open Coffin to Take Buddy's Finger Prints A coffin was opened recently at Pueblo, Colo., just as the grave yawned to receive It, to gei. the linger prints of a former service man to accompany his application for adjusted compensation. Friends of John McXichol, of Duraugo, Colo., were grouped about the-grave when an automobile drove up and a group of American Legion men stepped from it. They made known their re quest, which was complied with. During his last hours McNicliol's friends made out his application papers for compensation. He was so weak that he could only affix a scrawled mark to the papers in the presence of witnesses. At the last minute it was discovered that his finger prints had not been obtained and the posthumous fin ger prints were taken. To Bar Sectionalism in Teaching History At' a recent conference of the na tional executive committee of the American Legion, the committee en dorsed the movement for the publica tion of a popular history of the United States, which will be non-partisan and non-sectarian and will have the back ing of more than 300 history experts. The editor is Charles F. Home of New York university, late of the A. E. F. The purpose is to do away with sectionalism in the teaching of history. Legionnaires point out that today there are hundreds of histories, and children in different sections of the country are being taught history colored by local prejudice, the versions exactly contra dicting each other. Thousands Have Kidney Tronble and Never Suspect It I Applicants for Insurance Often Rejected Judging from reports from druggists who are constantly in direct touch with the public, there is one preparation that has been very successful in overcoming these conditions. The mild and healing influence of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is soon realized. It stands the highest for its remarkable record of success. An examining physician for one of the prominent Life Insurance Companies, in an interview of the subject, made the as tonishing statement that one reason why so many applicants for insurance are re jected is because kidney trouble is s? j common to the American people, and the large majority of those whoseapplica tions are declined do not even suspect that they have the disease. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is on sale at all drug stores in bottles of two sizes, medium and large. However, if you wish first to test this great preparation send ten cents to Dr. jtilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a sa'mple bottle. When writing be sure and mention this paper, i*5* " " i. * ' - (f \ Physique Value When Frank A. Vanderlip was-pre siding over the largest financial insti tution America has ever knuwn, the National City bank of New York, he said: "In picking a man for a highly re sponsible executive position, I always take into account both his physical condition and his physique. Unless he has built up a strong, healthy bo. y, I don't want hint, because during the terrible stress and strain of a great crisis, when you need his services most, he is likely to cave in." Hearst's International-! 'osinopolitan. Never Be Without a Bottle * ef Hanford's Balaam of Myrrh. Has pow erful antiseptic qualities; unexcelled for Cats, Burns. Wounds and Sores. 35c.?AdT. First Salt Made in 1791 Louisiana lias toe years been a source of salt la the L'uited States, j the first crude r-jJJniing having been ! done on a smalt scale in 171)1 from the i salt water springs in that state. The | Indians found their salt in this way. I however, long before the advent of ? the1 white man. In 1812 a more suc ; c?s*ful method was worked out. In ' f , ? ? ' . [ 1SG2, Binder the direction of pioneer | | troops ?f the Omfeiierate army, rock salt was discovered at Avery island, i Just ?"> feet beneath the surface of the ground. \ Ct>nst?p?tfon generally Indicates disordered ?tomach, liver and bowels. Wright's Indian Ve^etabte Pills restore- regularity without grlitliiR- 3T2 Pteart St... ft. T. Adv. Veteran Bandmaster Uoscoe (J. Ingrahaiii of Rockland, Sfainer at the age of eighty, is still a bandmaster and) as usual will lead Che Memorial day procession this year. Since he started his musical career 70 j years ago by playing In a comb band, he has organized more than fifty brass bands, taught more than 1,000 pupils and marched front , 12,000 to 15,000 miles In grades. KVery town in Knox county has organized a band under] Mr. Ingnihrtiu's leadership. 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