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A DEAD MAN'S MILLIONS- Modest women dread to consult a doctor about diseases peculiar to their They have a horror of private examinations and surgical operations. For reason treatment of dangerous derangements is neglected. But the Wine of 4 vl A STORY IN WHICH FACT jtj MDRMS THE BASE AND jtjtjtjfi jftjt FRAMEWORK FOR AN jtjWjfijt INTERESTING NOVEL. jtjtjt Sri to ui treatment, which can be adopted at home without the knowledge of any but the patient herself, is now coming into general use. Women who take II Wine of Cardui do not have to submit to a physician's local examination nor to a gical operation.

Wine of Cardui cures in the privacy of the home. No pub- Copyright lOOO by Press Co. CHAPTER. I. no cutting and torture and no physician or examination, while Wine of i is quietly building up and strengthening the female organs.

Menstruation The Will. A gulated, the drains of Ieucorrhcea stopped and the fallen womb restored to Its HAT you say is as false as It is 'I congratulate you. sir." now, you know; and that, with the $10 board "On what?" snapped Ramsay. Mr. Morrell pays, will keep us going niceiv." 'On your relationship.

Being next of kin "But perhaps Mr. Morrell won care to you come in for much of his wealth, I sup- move, or to live with us in our new home. You know he asked us to let him board here "For not one cent. That is, unless" as a favor because it was so near his studio. "Tnless?" Besides, where can we raise monev to imanly! You are an old man.

Joseph Ramsay. If you were not The terrible pains which rack the body are but results of the ailments, which so readily to the soothing properties of Wine of Cardui. The medicine that 5 you should not live to breathe that lander again." Louis Morrell'fl tall, slender form towered "That's what I want to talk over with move?" you. The old man's case was like this: A ring at the bell broke In on their talk. AVhen he was young and working as a me- When Edith opened the door no one was in chanic, he married a pretty shopgirl named sight.

Mildred Chase. They had one child, a A letter lay on the threshold, daughter. They quarreled and she left It was addressed, to her mother and con- him. taking the baby with her. It seems tained a receipt for the rent, he's remembered the woman and loved her "How generous in Mr.

Ramsey!" cried all his life; and spent a lot of good money Mrs. Lester, her pale cheek flushing. He trying to trace her." has taken this tactful way of letting us "He never found her?" we needn't go. But we must pay him "Never a clew to her. But in his will when we can.

just the same. It'san high above the shrunken figure of the Id "Wall street speculator as he said this. His fine eyes were ablaze, and his voice trembled In the effort to choice back his angrr. Old Joseph Ramsay smiled indulge ltly at the outburst. "Tour Indignation does you credit, my dear young friend," he sneered, "but wh.it was I to think? You are an artist.

Young men of that profession are seldom rich, or Miss Garlen will certainly help you. Try it! Rockford. Turn, August 16, 1 899. I have suffered Itom womb trouble for five years. Last spring a year ago I was bed-fast for six months.

I paid $52, to one doctor, and he said he had done all he could for me. I had about given up. but called another doctor who said I would have to have surgical treatment I decided I might as well die a natural death as that. I happened to get hold of a Ladies' Birthday Almanac, and decided to try your treatment In nine days after I commenced taking Wine of Cardui and Black-Draught I could walk across my room and in three weeks I made myself a dress. This was after my neighbors and even my brothers and sisters said I would never be any better.

I am now In good health. Miss S. E. GARLEN. For adrtoa hi eaaee reajaJrln special aireetlona, address.

(tvlng symptoms Ladlea Advisory Department, The Chattanooga Medicine Company, Chattanooga, Tana. oove renroaen as far as morals Ho I -when you came to me to-day and pall me leaves her and her daughter every penny our troubles. I told you Mr. Morrell brought the rent which Mrs. Lester and her loveiv of "is enormous fortune.

He directs that to jus. When Tie entered the house go. his executors spend 10 years ana any hciw sary money to find the Chase woman or her tiith turned away her face to hide the child. If, at the end of that time, neither crimson that rose to it. i.

.1 1 1. Half fin hn-ir 1 is found, the fortune win oc litrais came daughter have owed me on their rooms lor mix months, can you wonder that I doubted If you were moved by pure philanthrophy Kdith Lester is a very pretty girl, you know, and" "Speak her name again In that tone and I'll forget the difference in our ages!" cried -1 ana story of Mr. Ramsay's unexpected kindness was told to him hv tween Mrs. Perry and me." "Is there any clew I to these women's whereabouts?" uuni uengiiiea women "Up to this week there was There He did not show the exDected rtelirrhr aiorreii. JJon't you suppose I know the DENTISTS.

whole truth? I met Miss Lester hv chance is. now, however. Do you Know my at hearing Ramsay's praises sung, but heartiiy congratulated Mrs. Lester on her good fortune. a month ago.

I called on her and on hor JIrs- Perry?" NEW YORK DENTAL ROOMS. "I have met her here." Laaioa ientiste. Ktrnollshed bar 40 fa N. W. ear.

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reeling WB.ZM wksa Invalid mother. I found they were making the same silent, heroic fight against poverty that so many thousands of gallant women are waging every year in i.u.s great pitiless New York of ours. They had an extra room. Thinking to help them financially I went there to board. It was the only home I had ever known.

I learned admitted an elderly woman she greeted affectionately as Edith whom "auntie. colonial days when Indians were plenty and danger lurked everywhere. So the house has secret rooms and corridors ar.d Minnels and hidden wells and all such things around it. It's quite a curiosity. Mrs.

are oraorao. Largest and eldest dental aatak. lletiuient In the cltT. Wa sample ths most man In tba pre fesalon. AU work gaaracteed.

CONSULTATION FBDK. Do not look for cheap dan 1 1st bat coma to na and gat taUahia work at loweat prlcea. Opan Himdiy from, 8:0 ta 1 a at. Mrs. Lester also welcomed the newcomer eagerly end presented Louis.

"My sister. Mrs. Giles." she aalrl about the child spoken of in Mr. Jerome's will?" asked Creed. "It was to learn about her that I asked Mary's sister and niece here," answered Mrs.

Perry. "I'll ask them casually about Mary's past and see if I can't learn something. Besides, It anything should happen Mary it's well to have them here to prove it was an accident." "You're very wise," approved Ramsay. "There goes Edith past the window now. Call her in on some pretext." "Miss Lester!" called Mrs.

Perry. Edith was walking along the veranda and stepped in through the long French window on hearing her name called. She stood there, framed in the dark wainscoting, with a background of cool Maytide dusk, like some woodland nymph. Creed's eyes devoured her. "You called me, Mrs.

Perry?" she asked. Her old housekeeper. yesterday that they were tenants of yours Perry lives there. On the lace. Warts, rtolea.

Tattoo, Birth-mark. Wens, Scars, Btc, permanently removed. Flabby and dlscnlored comnlexlon corrected by electro-masiajre treatment. Deformity the NOE. BARS, MOUTH, LIPS, WRINKLES, corrected Mary Giles, lost her memory years ago In a fesv mlnutes she HAIRS She's a silly, old soul ana to ner Wehrly, M.

609 Chemical Building, Phono A 456. serving Edith and Lewis aione. Emay Hamm Cc Mary before, "She Is mam- lou never met Aunt did you?" asKed the girl, ma's sister, poor thing." does work well. Once in a while the woman gets a gleam of recollection for a moment or two. The other day I was out there and I spoke to Mrs.

Perry of Mildred Chase. Mary happened to be in the room and she was so startled by the name that she dropped her tray and burst into tears. The next moment she had forgotten why she did it. But it set us to thinking. We've Faaifaaa.

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CHASE, S. R. CO. SIXTH AND LOCUST STREETS. UULTLAJU A "Why 'poor "Beicause ehe's lost her memory.

She had a long illness years ago and her mind" his never been quite right since then. She has perfectly good sense and some- and that you had been dunning them for back rent. Not content with their assurance that they would pay you every penny In another month at most, you said there again this morning and spoke insultingly to Kdith to Miss Lester. She was crying when I came home. I made her teii tne the whole story, and then I came here at once to pay you your miserable money.

Give me my receipt and let me go!" "Good-by, my youthful philathroptet." laughed P.amsay. as he filled out the receipt. "It's a real pleasure, in these degenerate days, to meet any one so disinterested and generous. There! Jon't flare up again. Good-by!" Joseph Ramsay sat thinking for a moment after his caller departed.

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JAMES SOCIETY, 1181 BROADWAY. NEW YOKK. put two and two together and patched up times remembers "some portion of the" past rast events connected with vj.ie PROPER DIET FOR A YOUNG CHILD. life, till we are practically sure now that she is the missing Mildred Chase. All that remains is to make sure of that and to find what became of her child." "What part do you wirfh me to play in this drama of restitution?" "I want you to run out there with me this evening.

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for a moment or so; but usually events that have happened are a blank to her." "Why haven't I met her before? Doesn't she lived in town?" "No; she is housekeeper for Mrs. Perry, a rich widow who lives In a great, rambling, old-fas'iioned house up on the Hud-son. But, noticing the young man's air of abstraction, "all this doesn't seem to Interest you. It Isn't a bit polite to look so "I wasn't bored." denied Louis, starting up from hi3 fit of "If I told you what I was thinking of Just then you'd understand I was anything but bored." "Tell me. then," advised the rlrl.

"Is It so very Interesting?" "It is something that never leaves my thoughts, night or day." "As important as all that?" "Yes. All the world to me." "Youth will be' he quoted half you may be able to learn something by aloud. "And I'm getting old anyway. Weil! talking to the old woman." There are other things better worth whi-e. "You want to find out what has become Money, for one." of the child; and, first of all, to make sure And in pursuance of this idea he rang a Mary Giles is really the missing Mildred call bell on his desk.

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The new-comer's face was narrow and pale. He walked with a stoop. A shock of red hair covered his small head. "Sit down. Creed," commanded Ramsay.

"Is the outer office empty? All right. Sit "And then?" "And then." wh'spered Joseph Ramsay, looking keenly in the younger man's face. "Mildred must die a natural death." "I understand." "She is old and childish. Is It unlikely sh mli.hr wander Into the river, or into WUKKtP' PER though the average child whose diet is TOOTH win posltiTely remove the moat obstinate obstructions. Irregularities, from any cause.

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down. I want to t.a!k to you." His words and tone made the girl start. Creed seated himself fully on the some pond, at night, or fall downstairs and nnd again a faInt flusn roee to her cheeks, SETS regulated simply by Its appetite aoon shows the bad effects of such feeding. Study the needs of your little one. Some 3 OF TEETH GOLD CROWNS FILLINGS from 1.60 to OF PURE edge of a chair, with his back to the win- break 'her neck?" on 60 COMPOSITION FILLINGS PAINTI.K3S EXTRACTION children require more fat-forming foods "Only to tell you how glad I am that you can get out of town during this warm weather, tny dear, and to say I hope you'll be happy here with us." "I'm sure I shall.

It's such a dear, quaint old place. To-morrow I mean to explore some of those subterranean passages and secret rooms I've heard so much about." "I hope you will find them interesting. A great big place like this is lonely for a young girl." I'm used to 'being alone." "You've no sisters then?" "No, I'm an only child." "But surely you have cousins?" "None living." "Why, I thought Mary Giles your aunt had a daughter living In New York." "Aunt Mary? Oh, dear, no. She had one daughter, but Bhe died years and yeara ago." "You're certain." "Perfectly. I went to her funeral -with mamma.

I was a child then. It was let me see 14 years ago." "She died in New York?" asked Creed, speaking for the first time. "Yes," replied Edith, coldly. "I asked that," said Creed, after Edith had withdrawn, "so that we could prove the death by looking -up the city records of 14 years ago." "The coast is clear," exclaimed Ramsay. "Mary Giles alone stands between us and the dead man's millions." For an hour longer the three sat, their heads close together, talking in whispers.

Mrs. Lester and Edith retired early to the room set apart for their use. It was the room usually occupied by llary Giles; but Mrs. Perry had told the house-, keeper to turn it over to her sister and niece during their stay and had assigned to Mary a larger, more commodious room in the Colonial wing of the house. Hither the old woman repaired after kissing Mrs.

Lester and Edith good night. it was a long time before she could sleep. The new quarters and the joy and excite-rm nt of having her sister and niece under the same roof once more made her wakeful. At length she fell asleep, a happy smile on her withered face. She had slept thus for perhaps an hour when a faint noise made her stir uneasily in her sleep.

A sliding panel In the wainscot slipped back, and a dark, stealthy figure glided silently across the room to her bed. (To Be Continued In the Daily and Sunday Post-Dispatch Until than others, some require a greater pro dow, where the light would fall on his em- "Quite likely. She shall do so." pioyer's face and not on his own. "You will help me, then?" "Creed," began Ramsay, "in the five yers "With pleasure! I can trust to your gen- you have been my secretary you have erosity, sir!" ma th .1 nvi l.nan r-r. 1 "it's sioo ooft in vour Docket the day I Open Everrlnga till 8.

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SHOBER, DENTIST. should be entirely omitted from the bill of some ticklish jobs together, eh? Now, how would you like to help me out on a bigger scheme 'than any we've tackled yet? I'll be frank with you: If we fail It's State prison. But if we succeed and it's a sure thing It will mean a fortune to us both. "I am with you sir, whatever it is," refilled the secretary quietly. "I knew you'd be.

You're always devoted to my Interest, aren't you. Creed?" chuck The fat-forming foods should be butter. come into my snare of the old man's millions. Xow go and get ready for our trip to Mrs. Perry's.

VvTe may be there some days." As the secretary left the office Ramsay looked after him. "That young man will go far," he mused. "He's got a cool head on his shoulders. Xo flying out like a fire-cracker on all occasions, as Louis Morreil does. And speaking of Morrell.

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TAKE ELEVATOR. taken at ihe temperature of the atomach, fare. Following is one day's dietary for a child "I was thinking about you. Miss Lester Edith!" went on the man eagerly. "You must have seen you must have known that "Edith called Mrs.

Lester, opening the door; "what do you think? Aunt Mary wants us to go back home with her this afternoon and spend a week. Mrs. Perry has given her leave to ask us. The country air will do me a world of good. Shan't we go? We can get ready in half an hour!" Louis choked back a somewhat unconventional word at this interruption.

Edith, being a woman, gave no sign of disappointment at the breaking off of his proposal, hut hastened to help her mother prepare for the journey. Mrs. Perry had two guests at dinner that night. One was Joseph Ramsay, her cousin. The other was Creed.

After the coffee was served the three lingered long at the table. "Mary Giles keeps a lot of papers in that little tin strong box in her room," Mrs. Perry was saying. "I found it unlocked cream, rice, commeal and many vegeta of 10 or thereabouts: bles. Breakfast Baked apples and cream.

PENNYROYAL In building up your child use aa much w'heat germ, poached egg on toast of whole from the vegetable world as possible. led Ramsay In a tenderly affectionate tone. OVTIrf WokTlLlM. wrr EGYPTIAN TANSY mm eschewing altogether animal fats, and wheat bread. Dinner Mutton broth with baTley.

broiled "Especially since you know I've got that have not heard the last of me. But I can I. fall; powerful, harmlw ft0U tlator: renulU inimvilt mmd in milk, lettuce salad, tapioca pudding with littie paper in my safe that would send you let them and their love affair wait till tne to Sing Sing, eh?" Well, we won't talk of dead man's millions are mine!" woman's Mfanara whipped cream. Supper Stewed prunes, corn meal mush Meiauta Irregularities not takaa Internally, famous remedie guaranteed -Ana endorsed that. Just look outside again and see If the hr DDF I sieiana.

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Ohio. WORD from Mr. Ramsay yetr it He Couldn't Try It There. "None." Edith Lester's blue eyes filled sn. CHICHESTER'S dNUUSH PEnriYROJALLLS using olive or cottonseed oil for frying food, when frying is necessary.

Fresh salads are almost Indispensable, and fresh and stewed fruits should form some part of each day's menu. Give the child fruit on an empty stomach rather than at the end of a meal. Plenty of pure water is also necessary. It should, however, never be given at meal time. In the morning at rising, at night before going to bed, and wltliin an hour before going to bed, and within an hour before or after meals is the accepted time.

Children should never eat the flesh of young animals, such ae lamb or veal. Veal frequently produces acute indigestion. Pork Hare jiiw.t. ranaoi. i tor CHICHKSTEKS KNGLMIi outer office Is realiy empty." "It's all right, sir," replied Creed, as he tune back.

"Good. Now for my idea. Yoti are familiar with the details of my cousin. Paul Jerome's -will?" "Paul Jerome, the nvultt-mllllonalre, who died a few weeks ago? Was he your cousin?" asked Creed, who had known It for 9 ears. "My first oousla.

Creed. In fact I was his nearest relative I and 'Mrs. Xehemiah Perry." la HtU u4 old BMialll ban. with bin ribboa. Take other.

Bafaea Durmi aalKtltattaeie aad lalta Huf nf r. ms4 4k 1 From the Chlcapo Times-Herald. Clerk: I see that an eminent Chicago man ears the way to live 100 years is to go to work at 8:45 a. start for home at 12 have dinner at 1 p. take a nap until 3:15, and then read, talk or ride for awhile.

Employer: Is that so? Well, If you have any nation of starting out to live 100 years on that schedule I'd advise you to look over the "wanted male help ads." risht away. with unshed tears as she glanced about the to-day and opened It. The very first pa-tiny west side fiat she ad leaded to call per I came across was signed Mildred "home." Chase. I had no time to look further, for Then her eyes fell on her invalid mother, I heard Mary's stop on the stairs. But and again the tears welled forth.

those documents evidently belong to must be brave, mamma dear," she dred Chase, and Mildred Ciiase is no other said, forcing herself to smile. We can find than Mary Giles." a home somewhere. I am earning $12 a week "That settles Mildred Chase; but how i an 'mi. for Particular. TeetlseoaiaM as 'Keller for l.aa'lea.'to Uam.

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aledlaoa aaaara, PBILA. (Aa INDIAN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND BY A ST. LOUISAN ON ARKANSAS ROCKS. oi T7TTTM 1 11 AAA A oou 0 9 ox? as Eden Bluff Cave. The markings ara supposed to Indicate the existence of a gold mine and to define its location.

"For my own part I believe these hieroglyphics were placed there by the Indians. I lived in Monterey. Mexico, for two years built a foundry there prospected In the Sierra unit Saddle Mountains, and "At the base of this great bluff, only a few feet above the edge of the water, are certain mysterious markings, which have been known to be in existence 100 years. They occupy a space about 20 feet long and varying from two to three feet in height. These markings were made with a peculiar kind of red paint, which is not affected by the weather, and wheh has never changed color nor peeled off.

The oldest inhabitant cannot remember when they were not there, and even his if.ther knew about them and only thing of Importance wa found lnstd of the cave were Indications of alno. I have preserved eome of tha aamplea I was called home by a telegram concerning my daughter's illness, but expect to return there next month and explore still further. This ancient story may be true. "At tho baae of Eden Bluff I dug up both human and animal bones, decayed oak planks, charred pine knots and pieces of aiit'Jent pottery. "The hieroglyphic, which look like letters, are about eight In high.

The circle, suj posed to represent nun and moons. ara about live (lichen in diameter. The animals, which I think stand for the name of certain Indian chief, are about a foot long. "There are similar rnnrktn on rocka) three miles below Kden Bluff anU also thra and a half miles above." ago and woiked all summer In the vicinity, trying to locate this mine. Durng part of the time he lived in the cave at the top of the bluff and explored It In search of gold.

During the whole time he was there It Is not remembered that he spoke to a human being. He would not even reply when spoken to. Nothing of Importance came -f his work, as far as known, but It sho7 how widespread the belief Is that goM exists In that vicinity. "After I reached Eden Bluff I learned all I eoui.i about the cave, the supposed treasure and the lost gold mine. I secured the sei vices ef E.

U. Johnson, a native of Benton County, and we Epent three days In Kden IJJuff Cave. On the lat day, March 2. I h'de the copy of the hieroglyphics at th "f-se of the bluff which I hava pre-c-7td 'o tha Sunday Post-Dispatch. Tha Powell.

Director of the United State Bureau of Ethnology, which lead me to believe that my conclusion la right, and that the Indianr and not the Spaniards or Aztecs, are responsible for these marks. "From the side of the bluff several hundred tons of rock hava slumped off and fallen Into the river. This mass of rock is believed to cover up the entrance to a tunnel which led to the mouth of the mine 'which these hieroglyphics are supposed to 'tell about. Four years ago a Cherokee Indian from the Territory passed through that country, and he told some of the natives of a legend which had long existeil In his tribe, concerning Eden Bluff, a mine and this tunnel. "Tha Mexicans also havo some knowledge of such information or for a mysterious Mexican came there or ten yeara JAMES GROVES of 635 South Broad-way, foundryman and mineral prospector, recently explored a cave In Sden Bluff.

In Arkansas, which is aup-poaed to contain treasures burled there many years ago by the Spaniards. He was called back to St. Louis by the illness of Ills daughter, but eapects to resume the Vork of exploration in May. Gold is his object. He thus tells the atory of this mysterious cave and the peculiar markings by which It Is designated, which have been famous In that part of the country for a century: BY JAMES GROVES.

4 -URrNO the laat four months I hava I been prospecting for minerals. A Most of my time was spent In tha Molnltx of Flka'a Peak, Spanish Peak aad Pueblo, In Colorado. From there I went to Arkansas to visit the Kden Bluff Cave of which I had heard a great deal. "Eden Bluff overhangs the White River It Is located In Benton County, 33 miles northeast of Eureka Springs, and seven miles east of Rogers, which is on the Frisco Railroad. The bluff is almost perpendicular.

Its base Is in the water. The mouth of the cave is in the side of the bluff, about 35 feet from the top, on which are growing a few scattered pine trees. To enter the opening one must scale the side of the bluff, swinging down by means of a rope fastened at the top. It is an extremely perilous undertaking, for the river is more than 200 feet below and a single misstep or the slightest dizziness might cause the explorer to lose Ws hold and fall to certain death below. e.

lived for a while among the Pueblo Indians in Arizona. In these travels I learned a great deal about the Pueblo Indians and their customs, and saw markings very much i like those on Eden Bluff in Arkansas. This leads me to believe that these characters were made by them or by some tribe closely related to them. "Further than that. In the Public Library of St.

Louis, since my return, I have found tatements made by Government surveyors, with Illustrations, published by J. "v7. speculated on their origin. "In Arkansas there has been for yeara a legend that these markings were made by Spaniards at a time when the great country known as the Ixiulslana Purchase was under the control of Spain. Some date them back to Aztec times.

It has long been said that rold was hidden in the cavern known 4 1 1,.