KEXANSYILLE. NC?.Ta CAr"
Edwin Qzlmr
Philip Wylie
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copyright, W4, by Bdwla Balmer ud Philip Wlle-WNU Service
THE STORY FROM THE BEGINNING
Dr.?n. ..A 'aIP 0,r Hendron, American solentlst, torn, 100
SS?tS!-IISS,'.'ViB!fc 8hlP Ju.t b.for. co.mlo collision that wipes
fit. . ,th' Und on Bron Beta. The appearance ot what looks
mic: rii:.?na W,h,eh P" without m.kln an attempt toco"
thth,fU "J"" : of alarm. Th. nsweomers
- i! .nLi!'" 5lon ",r Pt. that their visitors mar
- Hiv , E"ot J""'. irplan. flight, home upon a
aZ.Z. 7L ,Z - , umo nati an iridescent Un .bubble.
Amon their And, In the oltr, la an edible Brain millions of bushels. On
tneir way back they stumble upon the eamp of more than 100 persons who
left the earth whan their did. In a umik Bn... nhi- w V- T.
i?!3j!U t0 H,",ron' C"P Tony, and th Utter tells th
" . X, " inj. inrai mat nussian, Japanese and Gar.
roan Communist have reaohed Bronson Beta and probably sent the mys
terious plan to sor on their eamn. Bn.'. .. i. v "
enemlev but all reooyer. The Asiatics make an aerial raid. Tony and his
' ai.il,-. T- , . . .f wrrinc aiomio blasts from tbo Space
Bhlp 1 1 propulsion tubes. Bendron's health failing-, he orders Tony to remove
everybody to one of the Sealed Cities,, which Is done. Hendron dies on the
way. Th Americans And they derive their power of light and beat from
tii i otnr "Hy. the Atia tics control it and plan to frees
, --- ..... i" uuriuB ma inunmi coia winter, von Belts, a leader,
disappears by spies within the city. Drake and his companions learn how
-ri wn srvuwn Deigns iwut motor-ariven vehicles. i.1
. Some one entered. It mi Eve;
and be arose, awaiting her. ... His
mood bad retarned to readiness for
her; and she was calmer than be
fore, and quite collected.
"What are these, Tonyr ' She
haps than did you,'? the English girl
said, "the importance, ot solving
quicaiy tea secrets ot the original
civilization. And they went right
at It" , -
"How did they learn r -
"From repairing and patting Into
operation what seems to have been
gated at the exquisite little Images lnatrnctlon machine for the chlk
u ni nana. :!;?. CiX
, . -ion .na ue, x.r
Why, they took like' ushabtin,
, ' ; . Tony." . . ,,w 5, V .
. . "That's - Itl !. The Answerers,1
,-. weren't theyt The Respondents.''
" "res," she said. Th Answerers,
the Respondents for the Dead. For
when, "a man died, .the Egyptians
coma not believe that he would not
be called upon - to continue . bis
tasks as always hejbad done them
In his life. So they placed la his
. tomb the : "Answerer" to-, respond
when he was called upon, to per
form a task after he was dead.
t . liinHwr. tit A ' m1 M.1.Jt
to: the statuette i Tf I am called,
w wnuunf uyuu w - uo . any
v'ork that la to ba dona ' ho th
Dead .., . 'vr thou. Shalt substitute
thyself for:- me at all : times, to
cultivate (the neld, , to water the
shores, to transport sand to the east
to the west, and say "Here am I; I
am here to do Itl"
"I see," said Tony, Thank ydu.
. I remember. I hope your father can
feel I am bis Answerer, Ere,"
- He knew, then, why be had not
left the Hall of Authority to ride
. the ramps of the city : Cole Hen
dron, would not have done It
y:j ,:. (e ;T,r ;; .';
" "What weapons did the Mldlan-
Ites find In their dtyf
" "Practically none. None at all,
tbat I know of." Lady Cynthia cor
rected.
She had returned from her 'tour
with the technicians, having demon
strated all She. bad learned of the
manner of manipulating electric
. locks, taps, pumping apparatus and
other mechanisms which now were
capable of being operated. V
we entered,"-Eliot James reminded
Tnnv. W have Mm on", nnthlno-
like a weapon except some imple
ments in what must hare been a
mUseam-here." -
. "The people of Bronson' Beta!"
pronounced - Duquesne, "seem ' to
hare had no need of war In their
later development v Whyt Because
morally they bad passed beyond It?
I do not believe It Other causes
and ' conditions 'f ' Intervened. . No
greater. authority upon human de
velopment than Flinders . Petrle
lived on earth ; "and what did he
say? ;.i:i"'fe.;5''5r ,V'
" There Is no -advance without
strife. Man must strive with Nature
or with man, If be Is not to fall
back : and degenerate.' - Certainly
these . people, ma , not degenerate ;
there la no sign In this dty but of
a struggle, magniflque epic I . But
not of man against man. It was, of
course, of man against Nature
even against the drift Into the dark
ness of doom which they saw be
fore them. , 1 , . "
"In comparison with this struggle,
strife between , themselves became
puny Imbecile. Long ago, long be
fore the drift into the dark, they
ceased to wage war; and so they
left to our enemies none of- their
weapons.;:::;y-':''i''...v-v! v.
"They ' left material,' however,
which could .be nsed as weapons,''
the English girl corrected.
- "Most certainly ; the gas-the gas
that was merciful anesthetic for
the Vanished People, probably." -"How
: much progress," Tony
naked the girl, who had been a
prisoner In the other city, "did your
itors make In reading the records
f the Vanished People?". ,
"Very considerable, I am sure,
y brought over from earth an
'tii'y strong stal of linguists.
' f t med to have realteed, even
i : .x t' an dSd our i ir or s r-
dren of this planetmachines wblcb
In form are very unlike but In effect
are : like talking motion pictures.
The machines Illustrate an object
and prlnt.and pronounce a word at
the same time. X have shown ML
Duquesne similar machines found
here." ,
Tony arose. The Implications of
what he heard were so tremendous
that he could not think of them
without , confusion. Be 'put them
aside for the moment .
He passed up and down, "What
was on that lake where your Space
snip feu?" he asked the English
giri.
Nothing. It seemed to have been
burned over all around the border.
The water was fresh."
nan 01 you, . you said. - were
drowned?"' '
"Nearly halt"
"All the survivors of the crash
were captured?"
Tea: and when I escaped. I flo
ured that three hundred and ten of
us were living.. She repeated the
figure she had given la her" first
account.
And hdw many were they tout
captors our 'Mldlanltes'?"
"More than; our number, consid
erably, They never said how many
they were, nor gave us a chance to
count them. They , were always on
the move." . ,
"Where to? Ton mean they vis
iter several other cities?"
"Oh, yes." ,
i "How many?" '
"As many as they could find and
reach. ' 'And I believe tiiey could
have fourd all within reach. For
they had a globe of this Planet
heard about It; but' they never let
any or us slaves see It"
"What else could you nick nor1
"They said that one city waa a
good example ;,. of every other.
They're all complete, and all similar
to a genera way."
Tony gazed out of th window.
More and more- of the vehicles of
the Vanished People were appear
ing on the ramps and the streets.
The sun, the small clear, sun. shoos
aown inrougn tns nuge transparent
dome. He swung back! ?:s; vJiW
'Did they find bow the air was
kept fresh In the cities when they
were fully populated?"
Tesr and they even Operated
some of the ventilators though It
was not . necessary with so few pea-
pie in the city, of course, 'The Orig
inal People had huge apparatus -for
what we would call alr-condltion-
Ing, and for heating the sir. Th
Asiatics, of course, were especially
interested in tbaf ,
The heating, eh? Did they think
the planet was drifting again Into
me coiar ?';: i?;';'
That" said Lady Cyhthia. "sure
ly worried them. They had their
own computations, but they repeat
edly asked what ours were. They
were and are, 1 am sure especial
ly careful with our scientists. They
sren't sureTyou see, that this planet
will stay llvably near the sun," .-, ;.
"Were your scientists the Eng
lish, I mean surer asked Tony..'
They said they were We'd go
out Into the cold, nearly as far as
Mars-r-and then come back.",
Tea,"! said Tony. -
-That's what you think here. Isn't
itr the girl appealed. .
Intentionally Tony waited until
Duquesne replied. "It Is upon that"
said the Frenchman, "that we rely.
Now may. I ask , something? Did
these people your captors, those
Midlanltes find any trace as to
where the builders of these mag
nlikjue cities and the other Inhab-I'-
'Us went?"
". tl Constantly ; they t.:ked
about It Where were they? Where
did they go? . And did any sur
vive?" ''i'i'';::'
"Precisely,",: 8aI4?buque8ne. i
"We shall taame this city," said
Tony suddenly, "Hendron. Hendroa
I pm sure no on objects. . ; , I
thank you ," he said to the English
girl, "for all you have told us, Of
course we will bare much mors to
ask; but not now." -
1 He left them and went out" Now
he had need, as he bad not before,
for an Inspection of the city. r -'
Jack Taylor, seeing him, stopped
one of the ears and took Tony In
with him. "Dizzily they spun up a
twisting ramp and shot out upon a
wide boulevard. They pulled up
after a couple of miles, which had
been coursed In barely minute,
beside s building et one of the
guarded gates. - On the far side of
Its entrance lobby was a dining
room where a score of women were
letting out upon tables the square
metal plates upon which the Other
People had dined perhaps a million
years before. 1 vi ".nv
Tony got out and went In. : He
smell ed the aroma from a caldron.
of stow, but he. was not hungry. . ,
Hlgglna was there eating-exclt-
sd to be sure, but eating.
Tony I" Hlgglns called. "Tony I"
he beckoned, rising.
Tony sat beside him. Tve been
two . miles underground I" Hlgglns
reported. Two miles I Maltby got
the lifts working. I took a -chance
on one. Two miles down. Wonder
fuL Temperature rises sll the
way." .5.5 d:;, t:-;. :,
Tony whipped Ws thoughts to this
problem. Temperature rises? ' How
could it r Didn't this planet cool
agek agor -
"Not to the core. Only the crust
Two miles down, It was a hundred
and six ' degrees Fahrenheit I
brought back well, you will see."
"Whatrx ,
Samples of what-they tried to
True. But : win find ample
evidence la i. . ire and wash
marks to shovv t at the air In the
city was frozen. Sea It Is not heat
ed air from the domed city wblcb
has kept these Immense subterran
ean warehouses warm." Hlgglns
shook his head. "Kaaium."
"Radium r Tony repeated.
. "Radium. Deep ; In this planet
'Only radio-active 'minerals could
maintain .heat, inside a planet dur
Ing untold ages, of drift through
frigid space. - So we may conclude
that the Interior of Bronson Beta Is
rich In such minerals." .
Then It must be dangerous"
, Hlgglns shrugged. "The presence
of beat does not, mean that rays are
also present They are doubtless ab
sorbed by miles of rock. Hundreds
of miles, may be. But the beat Is
there, the activity of radium; and
the rocks carry the beat almost to
the surface." . . . v
There was silence In the group.
Tony addressed a bystander. "Jim
get Duquesne. Tell him to turn the
power station over to Klein, and
investigate this. .Take Hlgglns with
you.T.: fTyt-ik -
. Higgins. started away with Jim
Turnsey, talking excitedly.
: Before noon, people began to cot
lect for; their next meaL No one
orougnt any information about Von
uciu.; o unu vHiusnea. tsut an
other clue to the possible existence
of living people Jn Hendron bad
been ; discovered. . Williamson, ex
ploring with a searching party, had
found three beds , that had been
slept to. He hadbeen led to the find
by an open window In a building on
the northern edge of the city.
Whether , the beds had afforded rest
ing places; for. the Other People
after the city was built, or for
scouts from the Midland te camp, he
could not be sure., -
Tbree beds, . with synthetic bed
covers rumpled -upon them. No
more. . . -
The vast dining room was filled
n 1
1 .
Blowlna Up 8klns Which Buoy a Yellow River Raft
preserve below, or store for them-1 the sun cams directly overhead.
selves, some of It preserved, some i xwenry or the women waited on
of It not; some sealed In naked rock I table, Plates of stew were served.
close to the surface and allowed to then coffee in stemmed receptacles
get terribly cold; some stored In which had bandies for five fingers
meuu . containers ana placed . at I UT? nugwsa unie amerent rrom no-
strata where some heat would have
endured and did. There la enough
stuff under this city to feed a Chi
cago for years generations. I can't
mm
Two Tiny Images of Men Man Not
; of the World, but of This Planet
Decors ted th Desk, On Stand.
g st Each of th Far Corners of
, th Desk Top, i , - ' i
estimate how -long that la. If the
stuff remained edible. The meat
must be decidedly questionable."?
-Meatr.. ,
"From what animals I can't say:
the vegetables from what plants I
am unable, to guess. Some of It
may not be digestible by us. -gome
may be poison, well discover. But
some must be edible, for I've eaten
some and J still feel line." .1
CHAPTER X " ' N "
man ; fingers, , evidently, for they
were awkward to Use.
.. After that Tony, rose and spoke.
my mends," be said, "we are
safe. Our security Is due to the
eourage and Intelligence of our dead
leader. No praise Is adequate for
him. I shall not attempt to reduce
what Is la your hearts to words..
Prodigious labors, great dangers,
even tbe dangers of battle and peril
of annihilation1 st the perihelion of
our orbit lie ahead of us. Unknown
conditions, diseases, poisons, threat
en, ns. ( Enemies may lurk among
ns. As evU sad ; Dwthl aggrega
tion of fellowmen Is striving and
planning now to conquer ns. Mys
teries of 'the most appalling sort
surround us. Still Cole Hendron
faced calmly both hazards and enig
mas as awesome. We must endeav
or to emulate him. And cn this
afternoon we shall pay a last hom
age to him.
"I have prepared the earth to re
ceive him. I bare named' this city
for him, I shall ask you to remain
Inside. the protecting dome of this
city standing on the ramp of the
western skyscraper while Cole
Hendron Is burled. I do not dare to
expose you all. The following will
accompany me to the grave." .. He
read from a paper: "Eve Hendron,
David Ransdell, Pierre Duquesne,
Eliot James and Doctor Dodson. His
pallbedrers to the gate will be the
men whose names I have Just read.
and also Taylor, Williamson, Smith,
Hlgglns and Wycherley,
''We will march from here to the
gate. Ton will follow ; Eve will
open the gate."
Once more, before Cole Hendron
Conqueror-of Space was . borne
from thn Rnll nf KMenpA. thej mnslff
j nvr wMii J .1.. . . I . . . . ..
"- mull mo auurcase 10 or Bronson Beta Durst lortn. Maic-
the hall with Hlgglns. - In the by once more made rise the tre-
hall a half -dozen square glasslike mendous tones from the throats a
containers, each about two feet high million years silent to sing Cole
end a foot In Its other dimensions. Hendron's reaulem. Then the bear-
bad been set on tables. Covers I ers of the body descended the stair-
seajed them hermetically. Their
contents were visible; meat Indeed
a. reddish lean meat hot unlike
beef and a lighter, meat In small
fragments; and vegetables one ap
peared as long yellow cylinders, an
other as pink balls not unlike rad
ishes, a .third streaked with yellow
and green and of an Indeterminate
lumpy shape.f,l.-i,?,' :C;i.';:;;i
Tony tl: regarded 1:' the v exhibit
thoughtfully. They covered tbelr
cities, ;. They stored food supplies
for a prodigious time.-. Tbey must
hare prepared for the journey Into
'"Of, course," said Hlgglns. .iSJ;
. irai wuoro art) ueyr
I do not know.".
UV UIOTI, V. . ; f,--J;"v' ''!...
"And the heat Increased iwlth
depthr ftiHikv-iM?;h:
"Probably' the same system that
ugnu the cities heated, the store
rooms, so the precious food there
would not at first freeze, crack Its
containers and spoIL : .
Possibly," said Hlgglns. 1 am
a plant biologist, not an engineer.
But I -would venture to disagree.
even so. - ,
"Why?"
"I saw no evidence of heating
mechanisms. Ventilation, yes. Heat
no."
"But the air It's warmed," Tony
persisted.... v ".'" ': ' ; . .-.
It wasn't Observation showed
the air on Bronson Beta was frozen
sollrtis It approached our sun."
We couldn't make observation
under the domes,"
case of the majestic building.
Over the body of the great leader '
was placed an Immense black tapes
try a hanging taken' from - the
great hall In which he had Iain..
-' The procession reached tbe street
amid muffled sobs and the sound of
At tbe gate. Ere pulled the con
trol lever. Hendron's closest friends
and his daughter marched into the
open.;; -;
It was cold.
The mourners filed up 's great
spiral, ramp and stood watching;
Tony beside Ransdell, at the bead
of; the bier, walked with his bead
down.- Ere came last Ion regal
figure.
.They surmounted the knoll.,' The
body was'. : lowered. They stood
around the grave, shivering s Ut
Jtle In the cold. '
The Greatest American,". Tony
sald..at'last:' .
..The ', greatest ., man," said Du
quesne, weeping openly.' -
-. V r (TO BB) OONTINUXD.) ' , , "
- .... ... . : K.
';' Bnllfrogs Good Jumpers '
The atze of the bullfrog's legs Id
comparison to the rest of its body"
make possible, .the long, ' .powerful
leaps they take when pursued. But
possession of enormous legs has Its
disadvantages, too, ' from a frog's
point of view for because 'of them
their owner has: mors enemies to
contend with. As frogs' legs go,
none sre considered mora delicious'
by connoisseurs of this choice food
than those of the bullfrog, which Is
much sought after oa this avount
Frlred- br National Geosraphle Society,
rTBEAMLlNB trains and giant
airuners recently bare been
in the spotlight In America
itaiy is still applauding an
alrminded son who sped through the
air more than 400 miles an hour a
short time ago: and Great Britain
is just quieting down after cele
brating the rlctory of her flyers
who won the London-Melbourne air
race. In Germany streamline trains
sre Unking additional cities as
quickly as the new type transporta
tion equipment can be manufac
tured.
Modern transportation, this. But
one can still find types of transpor
tation facilities, even in the world's
largest cities and their rural neigh
borhoods, that were In use decades
and eren centuries ago.
There is not a sizable town In the
United States In which one cannot
hall a taxi, and In many of them
charter a plane; yet the top-hatted
cabbie, whose pompous figure held
sway over traffic on boulevards In
the gay nineties, has not been en
tirely shelved. These "taxlmen" of
another era hare Jealously watched
as new traffic lights hare been In
stalled, traffic bines hare been
painted to keep modern motorists
from crushing bumpers and fenders,
and streets have been widened and
trees sacrificed to make room for
more of their rirals; yet tbey still
constitute something of a traffic
problem.
Ox-Drawn Vehicles.
Within sight of concrete, 40-mlle-
an-hour highways, and less than
hundred miles from Washington,
D. C, and Annapolis, Md., ox-drawn
rehlcles still lumber along ; while
In the Isolated mountain regions of
the West sure-footed burros and
pack mules continue to be the only
companions of many rugged pros
pectors.
Millions of risitors arrive at At
lantic City by automobile, airplane
and train, yet to see the "sights"
along tbe Boardwalk, tbey hire
three-wheeled rolling chairs. Oth
ers arrive at Bermuda aboard pala
tial steamships but take to bicycles
and horse-drawn carriages to tour
the Island.
What traveler leaves Durban,
Natal, without employing a Zulu
rlkshaman? The dark-hued tribes
man In gay-feathered headdress
and scant clothing. Is one of the
colorful features of the South Af
rican city. In remote Szechwan
province, China, wheelbarrows,
which are the local transports,
have worn ruts In flagstone pave
ments; In Sumatra, If one goes na
tive, he must travel In a buffalo
drawn cart whose thatched top Is
shaped like a sway-backed horse,
and Is pointed at each end. In Pa
lermo, Sicily, the purely Sicilian
way to get about Is by native cart
a two-wheeled vehicle on whose
Bide panels are gayly depicted Bible
scenes and Sicilian panoramas ; and
In Ireland, the Irish Jaunting car
on which passengers sit back to
back and face outward lends atmos
phere to a tour of the Emerald Isle.
Llamas still carry loads in the
Andes, and elephants still are fa
vored among the tiger hunters of
India. In spite of progress in Bel
gium, the morning milk Is still de
livered by dogcart at many a door
step, and dog sleds are yet the
most dependable transportation In
the Icy wastes of the Arctic and
Antarctic. The tired explorer enjoys
comfortable travel In a hammock
like chair borne by native porters
In central Africa; the mountaineers
Of northern India and western
China employ the yak as their beast
of burden ; the camel still plods tbe
caravan routes 01 norm Africa,
Arabia and central Asia; and the
carabao (water buffalo) is the de
pendable draft-animal of the East
Indian Islands.
"Floating Population."
Land transportation Is ot no In
terest whatever to millions of Chi
nese. Children are born, grow up,
marry, carry on tneir lives, and
work aboard the sampans of China's
floating cities.
Most of the great river cities of
southern and ' central China hare
such a "floating population," but
the boat dwellers of Shanghai and
Canton form large communities In
themselves. A trareler of sufficient
energy could laboriously progress
for miles by Jumping from the deck
of one sampan to another, t y : !'
i, Like the Dutch banal boat dwell
ers, these river folk are race unto
themselves, apart from the common
ran of their, fellow men. In many
cases tbelr mode of life" bas been
banded down from, father to son
for generations, when China's teem
ing acres became overcrowded and
expensive, and a growing commerce
demanded river transportation In
eren larger volume, many ingenious
Chinese combined business ! with
economy and took to living aboard
tneir tmy craft
Although - business might call far
and wide along the numerous rivers
and canals It was the urge commer
cial centers at the mouths of mighty
streams that' offered the most lively
carrying trade. Hence these cities
early became headquarters for the
water dwellers.
The rlverman often made long
voyages up country, but he always
came home to roost Hence the
dirty, evil-smelling stretches of
river and backwash surrounding,
such centers as Canton and Shang
hai, and eren around Hongkong
and Singapore, became tbe natlre
heath of an army of sampan dwell
ing Chinese, who from childhood
bare known no other life.
The risible means of support of
these communities Is the carrying
trade from wharf to wharf, and
from bund to steamer or Junk,
across river and up canals.
Barnyard Afloat
Some sampans house petty mer
chants and peddlers who carry on a
small trade In the necessaries of
life from boat to boat within the
water colony Itself. Occasionally a
craft Is filled to overflowing with
huge white ducks which 'fatten In
the daytime on the tidal mud flats
or harvested fields, and at night
walk a gangplank back to their
floating barnyard. They proceed,
one by one, In a quacking and push
ing single file, each hurrying not
to be the last duck aboard. The re
turn home in the evenings is some
times hastened, it is said, by giving
the last duck a sharp crack with a
switch. The awkward procession
soon learns the trick and a comic
tumult arises not to be the unfor
tunate tail of the procession.
Chinese sampans are marvelously
easy to handle, being the product
of generations of adaptation to en
vironment They dart like water
spiders here and there amidst the
harbor traffic, clustering like barna
cles around the great steamers an
chored offshore. With lightning
swiftness, they flee In droves be
fore an approaching storm, each
knowing as If by Instinct his own
place in the quiet reaches.
In spite of the shirting needs of
commerce, family life aboard pro
ceeds about its dally routine as
usual, albeit in rather more cramped
quarters. Clothes, regetables, and
babies are washed side by side in
the stream and the cooking is done
abore a diminutive brazierlike stove.
Growing children help with the
handling of the boat and cargo, and
grandmothers In blue cotton ragged
garments smoke long-stemmed
pipes. At night' all draw together
and neighborly chatter from boat to
boat sounds like that of a newly
arrived flock of blackbirds. The riv
er folk are poor but' extremely
cheerful, especially over the eve
ning meal.
Lights from great modern liners
shine across the harbor and music
from an occasional gaily decked
pleasure' barge floats from the mid
stream channel. In few otner
places lurks so strongly the spell
of the East
Raft Transports.
On the shallow, shifting Hwang
Ho, or Yellow river of China rafts
are the principal means of trans
port especially for freight cargoes.
There are two types of raft: one
using as buoys inflated sheepskins,
and the other, large ox-hldes which
are stuffed with wool and then tied
up to keep them water-tight The
sheepskin rafts vary In size, accord
ing to the use for which they are
Intended, ranging from as few as
12 to 15 skins on tbe small one-man
rafts. For the large rafts some 120
ox-hldes are used.
The ox-hldes are carefully treated
on tbe Inside with salt and oil This
treatment . not only preserves and
waterproofs them - but also keeps
them flexible. There Is no extraor
dinary ' technique required In the
construction of a raft Poles are
lashed together, foaming frame
work to which the"bl
skins are fastened.
Moslem Chinese, who form a con
siderable percentage of the popula
tion, of Kansu province, : are the
rafts men on the Yellow river. A
sturdy people, they stand well the
hardships of river life. It Is far
from an easy life with all the con
trasts of heat and cold and -the
Strenuous labor Involved rn handling
tbe clumsy transports through , the
rapids: or .freeing them, once they
bars stranded on a sand bar, The
bides or sheep-
No Better Investment
,; f Than Well-Kept GarJen
i The Ideal garden Is planned and
managed, as was the first of all gar
dens, by man and wife together.
Man Is useful for the forking and
spading, and for some of tbe heavier
work, but It Is the housewife who
knows the comparative value of veg
etables, and the need of variety In
th varAm nrodnrp- y :
She knows , what .herbs must be
grown for flavoring, what Quantities
of early roots, peas, beads and sweet
fnrn nuchf tiv ha nlontMf 1
Such weighty problems as the thick
or thin sowing of lettuce seed, of rad
ishes, of early onions; of the, best
way of guarding cauliflower and cab
bages from defiling butterflies, are to
be settled only by patient consulta
tions together. I '
And the satisfaction of 'growing ;
one's own "garden stuff" and enjoy-
ing It at meal time is simply Immeas
urable by purely practical standards.
. as a measure or economy, as a .
means of real relaxation, as adding :
to the pleasures of tbe dining table, '
as Increasing the beauty and actual '
..Inn rt t,A MM n n .1 t. .1.
neighborhood, one of the best Invest-
ments about the place Is a neat pret .
ty, well-tended garden! Montreal
Herald.
Naming No Names
To become, a great orator Demos
thenes put a pebble in his mouth.
Sometimes we wish our would-b
orators would try a cobblestone.
Boston Herald.
Regular Elimination
The proper ns of Thsdford's
Black-Draught (for constipation)
tends to leave th bowels acting
regularly. It is a fine, reliable long-
established family laxative.
1 have used Thedford's Black
Draught fully thirty years," writes
Mrs. J. E. McDuff. of Elgin. Texas.
"I had trouble from constipation is
why I first began the use of it, and
as it gave perfect satisfaction I do
not see any reason to change."
Another good tiling about Black
Draught that helps to make it so
popular it ia NOT expensive.
THEDFORD'S BLACK-DRAUGHT
PROSPECTIVE MOTHERS
Lynchburg, Vl "Befcra
my fint baby came I ins so
weak and exhatuted and
had pain in my back and
aide. Frequent headaches
bothered me, too, but all this
muenr patKd away after I
tued Dr. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription. All during the
remainder of toil period I was
In good health, doing my
Bnlll, in, i mnA ... 1 ...
was bora In ..splendid health . and has
2nd. St, co J. B. Noel. All druggist?
Cumtiicomrci
So svp uuf Ouitnenc
Containing emollient and! healing
properties, they soothe and comfort
tender, easily irritated skins and help
to keep them tree from irritations,
WATCH YOUR
KIDNEYS!
Be Sure They Properly,
Cleanse the Blood
YOUR kidneys are constantly fil
tering impurities from the blood
stream. But kidneys get function
ally disturbed lag In their work
fall to remove the poisonous body
wastes.
Then yon may suffer nagging
backache, attacks of dizziness,
burning, scanty or too frequent
urination, getting up at night,'
swollen feet and ankles, rheumatla
pains; feel "all worn out."
Don't delay! For the quicker you
get rid ot these poisons, the better
your chances of good health.
Use Coon's PiU. Coon's are for
the kidneys only. They tend to pro
mote normal functioning of the
kidneys; should help them pass off
the Irritating poisons. Doan't are
recommended by users the country
over. Get them frdm any druggist.
DO AII'S PILLS
WNTJ4
1785
NEUTRALIZE
Mouth Acids
by chewing one 01 jjj ,
v ? more Milnesia Wafer
men, , however,
friendly.
are happy , and