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THE ALTO HERALD. ALTO. TEXAS.
Any
Ctiitdren need not stea)
your heat+h
There should be no health penalty
attached to motherhood. There isn't
among rea!!y healthy women. Ex-
pectant mothera who think of the
baby'a health aa well aa their own,
ahould take a good vegetable tonic to
protect the two lives—Dr..Pierce's
Favorite Prescription. All deaiera.
Every package of it containa a
Symptom Blank. Pill it out and mail
it to Dr. Pierce'a Clinic, Buffalo, N.
for FREE medical advice.
Don 'f Co to Extremes
7o Consftpofion
When bad breath, or a coated
tongue, biliousness or headaches
warn of constipation, don't take
violent purgatives. There's no use
when a candy Cascaret wiii stop the
troubie in a jiffy; wiii cieanse your
system pieasantiy, and compieteiy.
The reiief you get so promptiy
from Cascarets is tasting. Cascarets
are made from cascara, a substance
which medicai authorities agree ao-
mtaHyNfrenp;?tetts iftc boMefwmsctes.
80 Cascarets are a biesstng to otd
foiks with weakened boweis; to
chiidren; to anyone in need of es-
tablishing regniar bowel habits.
Ten cents a box—aii drug stores.
DRAUGHT:
Hour*
Base
Muscu!ar-RhemmaHc
Aches and Pains
T^RAW them out with a "counfer-
frrtfonf." Distressing muscuiar
tumbago, soreness and stiifness—gener-
ally respond pleasantiy to gnod oid Mas-
tcrolc. Doctors cat) tt a 'countcr-irri-
tant," because it gets action and is not
just a saive. Musteroie helps bring sore-
ness and pain to the surface, and thus
gives naturai reiief. You can feci how its
warming action penetrates and stimu-
lates btood circulation. But do not stop
with one appiication. Apply this sooth-
ing, cooiing, heating ointment generously
to the aifcctcd area once every hour
for jSrc /touri. Used by millions for
over 20 years. Recommended by many
doctors and nurses. ....
Keep Musteroie handy; jars and tubes.
To AfoMers—Musforofe b cho
made In tmMcr /ornt /or /'aMc!
otMf imoH chiMrcn. A^&/of CAd-
dren'^ MMjfero/e.
Beggars Can Choose
Their Advantage
"Short words are the most force-
ful."
"Most useful to husbands, too."
"Eh?"
"You can get them In edgewise."
Need for Growth
Fond Mother (holding baby)—How
big his ears arc.
Fond Father (hopefully)—Muybe
he'll grow into them.
"I Was Fagged-Out
most of the time and suffered from
terribie headaches. It was almost
impossible for me to puii through
the day. G.F.P. was the only
thing that heiped me. This fine
toaic is marveious. I owe my
present robust health and abun-
dant energy to St.Joseph's G.F.P."
St. Josephs
CRR
&%e*%o7%afz;o &o?%c
A Keen Observer
Moore—When does a woman reaiiy
begin to get old?
Watson—When she moves iter mir-
CHAPTER X—Continued
—17—
Wiii was oniy aiightiy aware of her
weeping. He seemed to have entered
into a new and stimulating plane of
existence. He had passed out of the
rote of adorer and slave for Ernestine,
he thought, with some indefinable vex-
ation at her in his heart. He feit
himself a man grown now, and fuii of
sap. A wife was oniy one part of the
complex and fascinating business of
iiving.
He was late at the oHlce in the
morning, as they had overslept. There
was something heavy against the door,
so that he couid scarceiy open it. and.
on entering, he almost felt over the
lifeless form of John Poole.
He had come back to the oiilce after
ids birthday party, and had been at
work. The iight stiii shone over his
drawing board. He itad died here,
aione, and Wiii, even in that first
shock, was fuii of the knowledge that
his death had come, not aione in the
night but with the loss of ills gift.
Yet on the druwing board was a pic-
ture—his last, it was different from
his other work. It was a bend in the
stream with a great tree overhanging
the water and the meadow beyond
and the figures of haif a dozen smaii
boys naked and white in the sunshine,
playing about the tree and on a spring-
board caught beneath a great root.
There was in it no mockery, no satire,
no downing. It was simple, kind.
Staring at it, before iie went to give
the alarm. Will felt sure that this
work of the skilled pencii was the ex-
ternalixation after half a century of
some remembered sceue of his boy-
hood.
Will grieved honestly for John Pooie
and thought ofteu and mysteriously
about thut last picture. If John Poole
could draw like that, why had he
never done so? The answer to this
was disturbing.
Wiii established his rights to Poole's
cartoon ideas ouiy to tind them worth-
less. Contracts ran out, strips piled
up unused, und lie found hlmseif work-
ing against a vust indifference, more
crushing, more impenetrable than that
which he itad fought for a place for
Poole's strip. But his new inner
activity carried with it such personal
joy thut he couid not be sufficiently
chagrined by the coilapse of his busi-
ness enterprise and the danger to his
income.
Sm.Hpox Eastern Piagu.
Smaiipox is still one of the prin
cipai causes of death in China and
India.
CHAPTER XI
The Rift in the Lute
'I think you'd better go to i'ustano's,
don't you, Ernestine?" Wiii asked one
night in June. The chiidren sat at the
supper tabie with them, aud the heat,
turning more sultry ^wlth dusk, was
aiready stltilng.
said Kmestine, a quatity of famttiar
bitterness in her voice.
Wiii made no answer for a moment,
then he said, with more gentleness
than had become his wont, "I think
perhaps it'll be a goqd thing for uli of
us. It wiii give me a chance to work
out some ideas here in the house alone,
and it wiii be a rest and change for
you. Anyhow, kitten, dou't you think
you couid dispense with a iittie of the
heavy irony? If I want you to stay
in Chicago it's in the hope that you
wiii die of the heat, and if I want
you to go away, it's to rid myseif of
you. Let's think about only the chii-
dren."
"Wrong again," said Ernestine, and
iaughed unhappiiy.
They were poor again now, and it
was so hot. It was necessary for them
to go either to Pastano's or to mam-
ma's, and this fact spoiied the pros-
pect of a summer at the lake. She
wondered why she was reluctant to
leave Wiii when they rubbed each
other so raw!
It was not iike it had been, that
other iiard time, when they were close
—heart against heart, sharing every
thought and feetlng. I'or now, she
was poor, but he was not. Site was
iooking upon the face of poverty thnt
John Poole had depicted for her years
ago when site was a careiess bride.
]!ut Wiii, either because of ionger and
cioser acquaintance with Lack, or,
more probably, because of his own
secret happiness, was not dismayed—
was, in fact, unfeeiing.
Aii day iong, with the front bed-
room door shut, he worked in there on
drawings which he would not iet her
see. but which he couid not seem to
seii. Their dlfiicultles, her fears for
the future, did not pierce him. He
was intoierably good-natured and
happy. Ernestine was filied with a
deep despair and vexation with him
that he coutd be so casual.
As she sat, trying to swallow a
iittie of the food she had prepared so
carefuiiy, Ernestine saw ahead of her
a iong vista of the years in which she
washed and ironed Will's clothes,
tended to his bodily needs, for food,
for comfort, for sex, and was for ever
outside the circ)e of his reality, a per-
son whom ite saw oniy to forget when
ids glance ieft iter. She couid bear
any hnrdship, and pain. ]iut to do
without iove—this she could not hear.
"I reaiiy don't see why I shouldn't
go to mamma's." she said. "AH those
slliy old quarreis with I.oring—what
do they amount to? Hut mamma is
going to have guests aii summer—and
you don't want me to go there."
"I don't enre what you do," he said
stiffly. "Only lit never go to Lake
Haven again." "
"I'ii go to Pastanois," she said iist-
lessiy. "I'ii write tomorrow."
Th* day came when Pastanog big
Margaret Weymouth
Jackson
iimousine with the swarthy chauffeur
stood at the door for them, to take
them to the train. Ernestine was ad-
monishing the chiidren about keeping
ciean, and Wiii put his arms about
her, so practicai and stern in her
motherhood.
"Why are you aiways so sore at
me?" he asked, and kissed her averted
cheek. "You're so strange, and so dlf-
ttcuit. I know it's hard for you, but
I'm doing all I can."
"Are you?" she asked, and smiied
in a secret annoying way.
Wiii's temper rose within him.
"You think I'm not?"
"Did I say that?"
"Yes — practicaily — yes, you did.
Your tone—"
"Oh. then I must bo carefui even of
my tones?"
He tiung his hands up in a gesture
of despulr. and made no further effort
to woo her. After a moment she
turned to him with her great tragic
eyes.
"You know that I don't care how
poor we are. I can do without every-
thing—you know it isn't materia!
things."
But WIH hnd withdrawn bis effort
at conciliation. He knew thnt she was
talking about bis secrecy over his
^7
derstand by what steps they had come
into this intpasse. Yet there they
were. The condition, however unreai
its beginnings, was now reai enough.
It was beyond her knowiedge, or his
either, that the rift in the iute had
been simultaneous with the awaken-
iug to activity in Wiii of a true crea-
tive gift.
H. Almost Fel! Over the Lifeless
Form of John Poole,
umswuts?. no mum. .not .aha
with iter what was so ephemerafiLnt'
a stray thought in his own head de-
stroyed it. He couidn't taik about It.
Aii the strong Instinct of self-presrva
tlon for the gift that was devcle ipn
within him forbade it utterly. Cim
processes he was trying to put won
paper were nebuious. He was acutely
fearfui for thetii. If Ernestine <iid
not like them, they would be destroyed.
"Don't open that suitcase, Peter."
said Ernestine, and they went out and
got into the car, bags and aii.
They met Madame Tastano and Iter
tali, slient, handsome husband, whose
expressive eyes glanced at once Into
Ernestine's with a penetrating ionk.
Wiii went into the coach with thetu,
kissed them nli goodby, and went away.
The chiidren waved to him from the
windows, but he did not iook bn<k,
hastening off through the gate, Ids
very back eager and relieved.
Ernestine ieaned hack against the
cushion and closed her eyes against
Madame Pastano's friendly curiosity:
Through everything that had happened
to them they had been in, iove, untli
these iast few months. Would she
ever have Wiii again as she had had
him once—his tender love, his gentle
passion, itis strength? Not if she kept
on striking and wounding him, cow
mon sense told her. But she sighed
with bclpiessness. In the face of her
knowledge the starvation at her heart
for the oid iove, the oid confidence and
affection between herself and Wilt,
she couid not controi iter pride, liar
desire for revenge. The word brought
her up short. Itevenge? What had
site to revenge? \VIII hnd not imrnietl
her. Bewildered, she could not uq
CHAPTER X!!
The Death Car
"If you came home again your fathet
would ntake a settlement upon you.
He thinks you fear that the, money
would destroy your marriage. Hut if
you came home, ite would do it for
you."
"I stbuldn't leave Wiii. I'm stlli of
the same mind thut money doesn't
solve problems."
"But, Kmestine, think how nice it
would be for you to be home again.
It Isn't as though you were happy. We
ran see that you aren't. We can all
see such a change In you this summer.
And another baby! Of course, It's
your own affair, but Lillian and your
mother would be so delighted, it's
Impossible for us to bo friends with
Will. We've tried—"
Ernestine smiled scornfully and
idanced at I.oring with such disdain
that lie (lushed.
"Xevcr mind," he said, "you don't
Itnow how we have tried. You don't
linow. Will doesn't appreciate you at
'it!!, i don't care what you say."
Tltey were iylng in the sand on the
beach at I.attgley iake. Mrs. I'tts-
tmm's gaudy white nnd green summer
imusc reared its red roof back of them.
The water was very shaliow at. this
point so thut the children could run
in and out of It.
'Oh, Ernestine, if you wouid come
home, we wou!d be so good to you."
boring's voice implored iter.
"We?" she asked, turning to iook at
lilm. "Is it that you want me back
In the family circie or that you want
to break up Wiii's bome?"
"i think he is by way of breaking
up tils own home," he said siowiy,
weighing bis words, moving cautiously
against her loyalty to Witi. "I under-
stand that he hasn't written to you
since you came down here four weeks
ago. Maybe he wouldn't be sorry to
be free."
Ernestine iaughed at this, and he
said solemnly:
"At this time such negiect must
seem cruei to you."
"I wish," she exclaimed impatiently,
"that people were able to ignore my
so-cailed 'deiicate condition.' After
tli, Will has his own probiems. Let's
"ot talk about it. Probably he hasn't
written because hj itas no news to
write about."
Loriug was per dstent and presently
iie tohk up the 'amttor ttmiln from a
.f.
This Week
4 ARTHUR BRtSBANB
OlJ-Age Pensions
Why Not Hunt Go!d?
Bad News Comes Out
Making Flying Safe
Calvin Coolidge has written his
opinion that old-age pensions are not
advisable. Says he: "What a seif-
respecting people really needs is not
a system of old-age pensions but a
popuiation made sufliciently skliled
by education and sufficiently con-
trolled and weli disposed by the heip
of religion, so that oid-age pensions
would be a superiiuity. Un)ess reai
reform comes from within, the proh-
iem wiii never he soived."
Education may some day provide
for old age. Meanwhiie, what "self-
respectlng old people" want is some-
thing to eat, and a place to sleep out-
side of the poor house.
They have plenty of reiigion, but
can't eat it, unfortunately.
After you have taken aii the work
out of an old horse, you shouid either
knock him on the head or feed him.
After It has taken a!! the work out
of old men and women, the!r country
can't knock them on the head and,
therefore, having had their work, it
ought to feed them.
The world needs more gold, and
may get it. France and Uncle Sam
now control the world's supply, France
with the highest per capita goid re-
serve. Hard times have sent pros-
pectors back to idlls and mountains,
their "good times easy jobs" in cities
having vanished. You see more and
more of them traveling the western
desert country, each, In his years of
prospecting, probably passing great
fortunes a dozen times. To prospect
is one thing, to find is another.
These men often spend a iifetime
without reward. More money has been
put into gold mines and gold hunting
than has ever been taken out. But
even the oblest prospector never !ooks
discouraged. Hope Is back of the sun-
burned face and gray beard, and for-
tune is aiways Just ahead. You needn't
feel sorry for him. Trying Is the only
thing In life worth while—possession
is nothing. And he is trying, and fuii
of hope. A young gentleman spending
his dead father's money in a fashlon-
abie gamhilng house might weii envy
the oid prospector seeking a "grub-
stake" for just one more trip.
t's wonderful what a Httie money
can do for chbdren. I've noticed
Elaine every tint. I've been down this
summer. She's sJ happy here—by the
coo) water—"
Ernestine wondered why she lis-
tened to him. Ceiftalnly the child bad
responded to the opportunities of the
lake shore, the sleeping porch, the cooi
nights and sunny days. But not even
for Eiaine would the go back on Will
—on her marriage.
If only Wiii \sould write to her!
Her Mnging for some word from htm
was intoierable. She feit that if she
did not hear from him she would leave
the chiidren behind and go to Chicago.
Twice she hnd made all her arrange-
ments for such a trip, hut both times
pride had held her back, if anything
happened to him, the neighbors would
know. She wrote to Mrs. I'ryor once a
week or so. Wilt wanted to be alone.
He wanted the tie between them to be
in abeyance. She could not go after
him. Not now.
"Oh, Ernestine, my dear little sis-
ter," I.oring piended with her, seeing
her tears, being unable to suppress tils
feelings. "Why do you keep yourself
tied to htm, when he itas brought you
oniy nnhuppiness? You have done
everything for him—everything. What
have you had from your marriage but
poverty and child-bearing ami distress?
He needs to iie wakened—be doesn't
realize what you have meant to him.
She was listening to hltn now, for
the first time, and her heart trembled
under the dark suggestions of bis
words. If she could hurt Will, as iie
had hurt her!
(TO BE COXTtXt.-ED )
Rothschild Maxims Put in Alphabetical Order
Dozens of these sad statements wlli
come out, and the fooiish wlli say:
"Everything is going to the dogs, I
shaii sel! what I have." The fact fs
that things are coming back, having
"gone to the dogs" last year.
If you are wise you win itoid what
you have.
The heaithy man has his iittie iii-
nesses, Uncie Sam has just had his.
The situation is described by Otto H.
Kahn, accurately, thus: "In a few
years we shaii iook back and Hnd it
hard to believe that the best American
properties once soid at today's ridicu-
lous prices."
The following maxims were hung
In Baron Rothschild's bank where he
could show them to ambitious young
men: Attend carefully to detaits of
your business; Be prompt in all things,
Consider weli, then decide positively:
Dare to do right, fear to do wi tug;
Endure trials patiently; Fight Hfe^t
battles bravely, manfully; do not Into
the society of the vicious; Hold In
tegrity sacred; injure not anothers
reputation, nor business; Join bumfs
onty with the virtuous; Keep yotjr
mind from evil thoughts; Lie not f<t'
any consideration; Make few aciinant
ances; Never try to appear what yfj't
are not; Observe good manners; l'!)s
your debts promptiy; Question not tb
veracity of a friend; Itespeet th"
counsei of your parents; Sneritl^
money rather titan principle: 'l'""$!i
notf taate not, handle not Intoxlisitl^M
drinks; Use your leisure time for Iji
provement; Venture not u"<" ih
threshotd of wrong: Watch e. ! d
over your passions; Extend to every
one n kindly salutation; Yield not to
discouragement; Zealously labor for
'be right.
Michigan'. iron-Mining Are.
The iron mines of Michigan are
!" the Upper Peninsula, near the
shores of Lnke Superior and near the
Menominee river, particularly In Mar
luette, Baraga. Oogeblc, Ontonago.
iron, Dickinson nnd Menominee conn
'!es. Some of the chief mining towns
!"'e Iron Mountain, Ishpemlng. Negnu-
lee, Crystal Falls. Bessemer, Iron
Mlver, ironwood, Michiganuno, Iiepub-
Mc, etc.
Showing True Coior.
In a will you throw off all the sham
md pre)* nse of a complex world. A
i^n's will reveals character as n"
'lee dor""'")! c n.—American Mag
Television, which means "seeing
afar," has its real beginning, and in
the usual way. Men made tools of
bronze to k!U each other more easiiy
than with flints, and the iron age came
to supply better kiiling toots. Now
bronze and Iron are useful apart from
klUing. Television is used to fiash
stock quotations, a whoie row of
them, to any earthly distance in a
fraction of a second, making the stock
ticker as old fashioned as the stage
coach. Young Mr. Vincent Astor,
catching turties on the Galapagos
isiands, could have on his yacht an
Instrument that would show him, be-
fore any Wall street man could know
it. that iie made a mistake buying
sugar stocks.
Later television wilt he useful apart
from stock speculation. Some Ein-
stein, Moses, Malmonides or Spinoza
of the future may be seen and beard
by the whoie world standing on Mount
Ararat, sending out a message of
vital importance that nobody but him-
self wlli understand.
Gandhi Is freed by Britain after
nine months in a comfortable jali,
and is said to Hnd freedom oppressive.
Leading 320,000,000 Asiatics Is not an
easy task, when 00,000,000 of them
Insist on kllilng the others, and there
is no particular place to which they
can he led. Drive Britain out of In-
dia and mlillons would die off or he
kitted off every year, and Gandhi, tn-
telllgent and well meaning, knows it.
Of all sctentlfic discoveries made
accidentally one of the strangest
comes from Jotiet. Iil. Doctor Weaver
ordered a transfusion of "parent's"
blood, !n the case of tt tlfteen-year-old
glri suffering from Infantile paralysis.
Another doctor misunderstood him
to say "parrot's" blood, and accord-
ingly made a transfusion of blood
from tiie heart of a iiving parrot.
Doctors say the chiid ia getting weii.
A thousand doctors wiii exclaim
"bosh."
(Q. ! 9! 1. by King Ft.turt. Syndic.!., i<*.)
Idea Worked!
Wise mothers find the things that
keep chiidren contented, weii, happy.
Most of them hnve found they can
depend on one thing to restore n
youngster's good nature when he's
cross, fretfui, upset.
The experience of Mrs. Wm.
Charieston, 903 Ciimore Ave., Kan-
sas City, Kans., is typicai. She says:
"I have used California Fig Syrup
with Annie and Biiiy aii their iives.
Whenever they're constipated or
biiious it has them comfortabie,
happy, in a jiffy. Their wonderfui
condition proves my idea works."
Physicians endorse the use of pura
vegetnbie California Fig Syrup when,
bad breath, coated tongue, duiiness,
feverisitness, iistiessness, etc., show
a chiid's boweis need heip. Weak
stomach and bowels are toned by
it; a chiid's appetite and digestion
are improved.
Thepenuine aiways bears thename
CaHfornfa for your protection.
CALIFORNIA
FIG SVRUI*
LAXATlVE-TOH!C yb' CH!LDREMj
Wise men that Invest In American
va!nes, foolish people that gamble !n
those valnes, will probably be deceived
as to real conditions during the next
few months.
The bad news of 1930 will come out
now, In the corporation reports show-
ing what happened, profits down,
gloomy change In earnings. And this
(iinne thnt do not reaMze
conditions.
Famous For Colds
Lax-ana (double strength) hag
proven so effective in breaking up
cotds that it has become famous
the country over. This doctor's
prescription combines best coid
medicines with quick-acting laxa-
tives. Over-night resuits or your
money back. At aii drug stores.
Human Nature to Spend
If some mysterious Santa Claus
were to double the per capita
(amount of money hold by each per-
son), the first thought of most citi-
zens wouid be how to get rid of this
inconvenient addition. A few days
after the increase came the money
wouid have disappeared into two
chnnnels—buying expenditure and
hank depositing. Such a rush of buy-
ing would immediately cause much
higher prices.
SaentzA
S3
POR COMSTtPATtOM
peenamint
Deadiy Virtue.
There are certain virtues which,
unless checked by a strong sense of
genuine vaiues, become deadiy.—
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