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MOTHER!
Child’s Harmless Laxative is
"California Fig Syrup”
Even constipated, bilious, feverish,
or sick, colic babies nnd children love
to take genuine “California Fig Syrup.”
No other laxative regulates the tender
little bowels so nicely. It sweetens the.
stomach and starts the liver and bow¬
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counterfeits. Insist upon genuine
“California Fig Syrup” which contains
directions.
Would Prove Theory
Old Roxley—If I consent to your
marriage with my daughter, what do
you propose to do for a living?
.lack Poore—I will immediately be¬
gin to demonstrate that two can live
as cheaply as one. We won’t ask for
a cent more than you allow her now.
Danger
"I’ve toH9 you before, Gerry, I can¬
not marry you.”
“If you don't take care, dear, you’ll
(efuse me once too often!”
An Unexcelled Remedy
for Cuts, Burns, Wounds and Sores. Han¬
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Busy Woodpeckers
Woodpeckers are ruining the tallest
flagpole In the United States. It is
340 feet high and Is at. Camp Lewis,
Wash, A Illicit Coating of tar will be
tneured on the pole to discourage the
birds.
Colds Grippe Fever
Co Stop them today
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Report Discovery of
Vast Marble Riches
Members of a Chilean hydrographic
commission, roving among the islands
off Cape Horn, have discovered vast
quantities of marble, said to equal in
quality that of Carrara. The marble
was found in a group of lonely islands
to the north of Punta Arenas, near
the straits of Magellan. According to
tile report of scientists attached to
the commission, small islands in the
vicinity are made up entirely of pure
marble. Resembling marble palaces
in appearance, the islands have in¬
dented harbors that permit the en¬
trance of ocean liners. Several of the
larger Islands are said to be made up
of pure white marble, their peaks
nearly half a mile high, glistening in
tlie sun so clearly that sailors miles
away have mistaken them for snow¬
capped peaks. Tiie islands lie about
thirty miles off the regular ship routes
through the straits. It is claimed that
enough of the highest quality of mar¬
ble exists to supply the demands of
South America for centuries, and It
can be cut at a very low cost.
Good health depends upon pood digestion.
Safeguard your digestion with Wright’s t’a In¬
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No wise man ever wished to be
younger.—Dean Swift.
From School Teacher
to Great Eminence
A young man who was brought up on
a farm, qualified for district school
teacher, then man¬
aged tosaveenough
money to put him
_ mm thru medical col
^ lege.
Later, he moved
to Buffalo, N. Y.,
and today the name
of this man, Dr.
R. V. Pierce, Is
known throughout
the world. His
Golden Medical
Discovery is the best known blood med¬
icine and tonic. More than fifty million
bottles have been sold. If your dealer
does not sell the Discovery, In liquid
or tablets, you can obtain a pkg. of the
tablets by sending 65c to the Dr. Pierce
Tllnle, in Buffalo, N. Y. Also write for
free medical advice.
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DEVIL
OF THE
SAHARA
By J. E. PEMBER
<(€) by Short Story Pub. Co.)
s —LINK-CLANK! clink-clank!
| Three men crouched In the
V j shelter of a hut made of
sheets of corrugated iron.
They did not stir. They scarcely
breathed. The thermometer Indicated
a temperature of 135 degrees.
Before the door of the hut rose a
skeleton tower of iron beams. It re¬
sembled the derrick of a Pennsylvania
oil well. Over a wheel at the top of
this structure ran a wire rope which,
descending perpendicularly, disap¬
peared within a well-like cavity some
twenty inches in diameter. The other
end was coiled around a drum oper¬
ated by an electric motor which auto
ma tically started—stopped—reversed—
stopped—started. Up and down, up
and down, moved the cable with mo¬
notonous regularity. "Clink-clank!
Clink-clank !” It was the only sound
that disturbed the intense, suffocating
stillness.
“Clink-clank! Clink-clank!”
This particularly undesirable spot
upon the world’s surface was marked
on the map of the new Trans-Saharan
railway as Station 15-M. The railway
was the latest audacious engineering
exploit of the French. It connected
Algiers in a mathematically straight
line with Timbuetoo, and was expected
to bring the riches of the eastern Su¬
dan to the Mediterranean shores. Sta¬
tion 15-M was full four hundred miles
north of the southern terminus, in the
hottest heart of the great Sahara, just
under the line of the tropic. The
three men In the hut were drilling an
artesian well that, when pierced, would
create an artificial oasis. The drilling
apparatus would work for hours with¬
out Beileau, the chief, touching a
lever.
Beileau was an old gray man, wed¬
ded to one idea, the success of the
Trans-Saharan. Littlefield, ids assist¬
ant, was an American, young nnd en¬
thusiastic. Colet was a student of the
Technological school, who acted as
helper and general utility man.
' "Ah, how Infernally hot this is I”
muttered Colet at last, ns he tried
vainly to find a pluce where It was a
degree or two cooler. “What wouldn't
I give for a good swim now!”
“Keep still, there’s a good fellow,”
expostulated Littlefield, "You are
kicking up tills dry sand nnd It won't
settle again in a dog’s age. Don't
knock all our grub over, either. There 1
you’ve gone and done it!”
For Colet had given another roll nnd
dislodged a (die of boxes of provisions
which, with a 'miscellaneous - lot of
clothing and instruments, came crash¬
ing down in a heap.
When they had been restored to
their places Beileau awoke from a
troubled slumber. He glanced at ids
watch and then, pulling his coat collar
up to shield Ids neck from the solar
heat, crossed the interval between the
hut and the tower.
"Four thousand feet,” he murmured.
“Decidedly in 48 hours we ought to
reach the water-beurlng strata.”
By turning a lever he reversed the
electric apparatus rapidly and the
drum began to wind the wire rope.
Then the machinery stopped and the
heavy metal drill emerged from the
black depths of the well, bringing with
it a volume of dark earth.
The engineer fingered the soil. It
was loose and friable.
"We have not yet reached the belt
of clay which confines the subter¬
ranean reservoirs,” lie said.
Once more, with a humming sound,
the drill vanished into the depths.
"Clink-clank 1 Clink-clank I"
When the sun declined it was ob¬
scured by a curious mouse-colored
cloud rising from the west.
“Can it be 0 thunderstorm?" asked
Littlefield.
“Worse,” answered the chief; "it
is a sand-storm.”
With incredible swiftness the “Devil
of tiie Sahara” advanced. Where the
three men stood a deathlike stillness
prevailed. The outlines of the tower
seemed drawn in sepia on a back¬
ground of fiery orange. Long, snaky
fingers of smoke came reaching out
over the sky, wriggling fantastically.
Then a wall of gray mist came
sweeping over the desert, and the awe¬
stricken beholders saw the sand caught
up in vast, whirling columns. A dull,
booming sound, like that of breakers
on bidden reefs, smote upon their.ears
“Inside and close the door!” shouted
Beileau. Tiie engineers hastened Into
the Imt and secured the door.
In a moment, it seemed, the storm
was upon them. The atmosphere be¬
came black as midnight.
For a moment it seemed as though
they were to be buried deep in a liv¬
ing grave. Then, ns quickly as it
came, the simoom fled away, and the
sun, now red as blood, threw his level
beams across the plain. The drilling
apparatus was not Injured. Its deli¬
cate machinery was so protected that
the sand could not reach it.
Then a terrible discovery was made.
Colet, hts throat burning with thirst,
approached the tank which contained
their supply of water. He found the
tap open and the tank empty.
The lad gave a cry. His companions
rushed to the spot. “All gone—
wasted I” he moaned.
It was true. Not a drop remained.
When the pile of supplies tiad fallen
over, the tap had been knocked open
and the thirsty sand had drunk the
precious liquid.
“If the train doesn't get here to¬
CLEVELAND COURIER, CLEVELAND, GEORGIA.
morrow we shall be in a fix,” observed
the assistant engineer.
Beileau shook his head. “The sand¬
storm has blocked the rails,” he said.
“No engine can pass until the plows
have made a path for it. Tiiat wili
take many hours."
“Let us walk to the next station,”
suggested Colet.
“It is 200 miles. If one of us tried
it he would perish before he had ac¬
complished one quarter of the dis¬
tance,” replied the, gray chief. His
eyes turned toward the drill.
“There is one hope, then I” cried the
American, following the direction of
his gaze. “If the drill reaches the
water-bearing levels in time we shall
be saved.”
The old engineer bowed his head
silently.
“Clink-clank ! Clink-clank!”
The long night had dragged away
and the garish sun shot into view
once more. The three men, haggard,
gasping, with parched throats, avoided
meeting one another’s gaze. The drill
had gnawed its way deeper into the
bowels of the earth, but there were no
signs of water. The frightful agonies
of prolonged thirst had set in! The
victims neglected to note the passage
of time, but lay in a sort of stupor.
At intervals the chief tested the bor¬
ings. "It will soon be over, one way
or the other,” lie whispered to his as¬
sistant.
Towards tiie middle of the after¬
noon Colet collapsed with all the
symptoms of violent sunstroke. His
face became almost black. Ills pulses
beat furiously. “Water!” be muttered,
with cracked lips. His companions
turned away. Then followed delirium. 1
He murmured of running streams and
splashing fountains. Death conies
quickly when the thermometer murks
135 degrees on the Sahara. The poor
lad suddenly sprang to his feet, and,
staggering from the hut, he put his
palms together above ids head and
dived, as one dives from a river bank,
headlong Into tiie black shadow of the
tower, streaming across the sand.
When Littlefield reached him he was
dead.
The sun completed its circuit and
snnk like a plummet toward the west¬
ern horizon. Beileau and his assistant
feebly tried the boring again. The
drill was withdrawn with some diffi¬
culty. When it came to the surface
It was coated with stiff clay, cool to
the touch. The old engineer pointed
to it. He could not speak. It was a
question of a few hours now.
Beileau, completely exhausted, threw
himself down on the sand at the door
of the hut nnd seemed to sleep. Little¬
field, lying flat on his back, tried to
gaze through the gray depths of the
zenith. Suddenly, far above, he per¬
ceived a black spot that hovered and
circled in a wide orbit. It seemed
be watching intently. A sickness of
utter horror and despair came upon
tiie young man.
He approached his chief and toncb^J
the shoulder of tiie stiil form. There
was no response. "Beileau!” he ex¬
claimed, with hoarse emphasis. No
answer. He passed his hand over the
temple fringed with gray locks. The
flesh was chill and harsh. The heart
had ceased to beat. The old engineer
had passed away as peacefully as a
baby goes to sleep within its mother's
encircling arms, Tiie drill never
stopped.
“Clink-clank! Clink-clank!”
When Littlefield opened his eyes
again the lids seemed to grate heavily
upon the halls. He looked up. The
gray sky was gone and the odious
black spot with It. It was night, nnd
over the velvet depths of space the
Imperial tropic stars were passing in
majestic procession. They shone with
wonderful brilliancy.
The young engineer gnzed drowsily
at them. He felt strangely comfort¬
able as he lay there upon the sand.
The tormenting thirst had ceased. He
did not even feel surprised when he
found that his Jlmhs had lost the
power of motion. Life seemed con¬
centrated in a small area of the brain
just behind tiie eyes. He perceived
nothing but those glorious wheeling
stars—some red, some blue, some of a
yellow luster.
Then came fleeting visions of a far
distant landscape. A New England
house, white elapboarded, with prim
green shutters—great elm trees over¬
arching, and the continual gurgle of a
brook, flowing underneath a plank ^ot
bridge—all the odorous sweets
June were in -the air, and he was
walking up the path. A slight girl
stood at the gate and stretched out
her hands to him, smiling angelically
with brown eyes that looked clearly
into Ids own.
"Harry," she said, and her voice
sounded like the far-away tinkle of a
silver bell, "you have come at last.”
Then the light went out like a glow¬
ing coal, and only the great calm, des¬
ert stars looked down pityingly.
“Clink-clank! Clink-clank!”
But when the day came again the
great drill had ceased Its clanking. In
those hours of darkness the waters
under the earth, liberated from their
prison, bad burst with impetuous force
through the veut, tossed the machine
aside, and the first rays of the sun
were reflected on the ebullient flood
that bubbled up from the well, gushed
in rainbow spray around the iron posts
of the tall derrick, filled the hollows
beside the track with crystal pools,
and then hastened by the three dark,
silent forms that heeded it not. before
plunging once more into the sands
that gave it birth.
The Authority
Tommy—Dad, will you do this lim¬
erick competition for me? It says
they’ll give a hundred dotlars for the
last word.
Dad—I should give it to your moth¬
er to do—she's better at it than I am
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Wrong Number
“Say, boss,” said the new order
clerk, “here’s a lady on the phone with
a liver complaint. What’ll I tell her?"
“Tell her this Is a grocery store,”
replied the boss. “What she wants
Is a doctor.”—The Progressive Grocer.
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First and Last
“I swear you are my first love!’’
“What about Tullta?”
“Oh, she was my last!”
To be loved, be lovable.
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REDUCING
Hiram was not feeling well. So he
went to the doctor.
“Buy a car," said the doctor, “and
get out more. You ought to take off
a lot of flesh.”
Speaking of the results obtained by
this prescription, Hiram said: “I got
a car and got more. I got out six
times in one block and took off flesh
In four different places. Once I got
through the windshield. That seemed
to take off the most flesh.”—Brooklyn
Standard Union.
It Went Wrong
"You are really engaged to her?”
“Yass. I tried to make her think
I was proposing without really pro¬
posing, don’t yon know—just to find
out what she’d say.”
“And what did she say?”
“Funny thing! By Jove, she made
me think I was proposing.”—Sidney
Bulletin.
Safe and Sane
Joe—What happened to you?
Moe—They were lowering a safe
and it fett on me.
Joe—And there was no one there
to warn you?
Moe—There was an officer, but he
told me to walk on the safe side of
thp street.
PULLED OUT
"You And It hard to get out of bed?”
“Yes; my bed’s so soft every time I
try to drag myself out I slip back."
The Right Peg
A peg that’s round won t fit, I’m bound
In any hola that’s square;
But if a boy that’s square Is round
He’ll fit In anywhere.
Give It a Tanning
Foreigner—I want to buy some
strong rope—my cow he changes his
hide every night.
Dealer—How’s that?
Foreigner—One night he hide In the
creek, other night he hide In the
thicket. Want to tie him up.—Good
Hardware.
Warning
"You are charged with having
Ihrown your wife from the window.”
"I did It in a moment of abstrac¬
tion.”
“Well, be careful in future. You
may do it as somebody happens to be
passing!”
Reason Enough
“Why do we say the sun sets In
the West, William?”
“If we said anything else people
would laugh.”
PERFECTION
She—What’s your Idea of a perfect
! marriage?
i He—You and me.
Ouch !
’Mid Arizona’s deserts.
Are things for us to frown on.
They grow the finest cactus
That ever I sat down on.
Naming the Twins
“What has become of the fine old
names of Prudence and Patience?”
the old sage was asked.
“They wouldn’t be appropriate
these days.” he replied. “If I had a
couple of daughters I’d christen them
Extravagance and Hysteria.”
Eyes Only for Each Other
“Theirs was a case of love at first
sight."
“Yes, I should judge that very lit
tie foresight was displayed.
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