Verdict for Dr. Pierce
AOAISST THI
Ladies Home Journal
Sending truth after a He. It li an old
maxim that a lla will travel aaven
leagues while truth Is sotting lta boots
on," and n doubt hundred o( thousands
of good people read the unwarranted and
Unalicloui attack upon Dr. It. V. Pierce
and hla"Favorite Prescription "published
In the May (toot) number of the Ladies'
Home Journal, with its great black dis
play headings, who never saw the hum
tie, groveling retraction, with lta Incon
spicuous heading, published two months
later. It was boldly charged In the sland
erous and libelous article that Dr. Pierce'a
Favorite Prescription, for the cure of
woman's weaknesses and ailments, con
tained alcohol and other harmful Ingredi
ents. Dr. Pierce promptly brought suit
against the publishers of the Ladles'
Home Journal, for 1300,000,00 damages.
Dr. Pierce alleged that Mr. Bok, the
editor, maliciously published the article
containing such false and defamatory
matter wit the Intent of Injuring his
buslnestfurthermore, that no alcohol, or
other (Usurious, or hablt-formlng, drugs
are. orycr ivere, contained In his "Fa
vorite rresoflptlon"; that said medicine
Is mid fp6m native medicinal roots and
contalj110 harmful Ingredients what
everad that Mr. Bok'i malicious state-
were wholly and absolutely false.
Wliilm c'-nmeil that jt-'i'1 iun..-jiinam sl
These facts were also proren In the Trial or
the action In the Supreme Court- But the
iiuslnexs of Dr. I'tarre u greatly Injured by
the publication of the libelous article with
Its great display heading, while hundreds of
thousands who read the wickedly defamatory
artlfle never saw the humble groveling- re
traction, set In small tyre and made as Incon
spicuous as possible. The matter was. how
ever brought before a Jury Jn the Supreme
Court of New York State which promptly
rendered a verdict In the Doctor's favor.
Thus his tradu-ers came to grief and their
ba slanders were refuted.
'aaaenaera for Train.
The average number of passengers
In each railroad train In the United
State In 1004 was 8.23. This repre
sents a growth from about 30 a train In
1898, but la still far below the devel
opment attained abroad. In 1808 Ger
many carried an average of 71 persona
1n each train, and India had the large
figure of 189. The development of the
electric railway in the United States
and the frequent train service help to
beep down the average. On each of the
212,000 miles of railway In 1904 there
were carried on an average of 104,198
passengers. That Is to say, the aggre
gate passenger mileage of the country,
according to the Railway World, divid
ed by the mileage of the track, gives
the figure named. In Germany, as far
back as 1898. this figure was 342,000
persons; In France It was 283,000 In
1897; In India, 2S9.000, and In Aus
tria, 214,000. The figures for Great
Britain are not obtainable.
Remarkable Echoes.
President Murphy, of the Chicago
National League Club, told at a base
ball dinner a remarkable echo story.
"There was a man," he began, "who
bad a country home In the CatskilU.
He was showing a visitor over his
.grounds one day, and, coming to a hilly
place, he said:
" There's a remarkable echo her.
If you Btnnd under that rock and shout,
the echo answers four distinct times,
with an Interval of several minutes
between each answer.'
"But the visitor was not at all Im
pressed. He said, with a laugh:
'"You ought to hear the echo at my
place In Sunapee. Before getting Into
bed at night I stick my head out of
the window and shout, "Time to get
up, William!" and the echo wakes me
tip at seven o'clock sharp the next
tnornlng.'" Detroit Free Press.
Not Love, bat Dsilsni,
"That's Mr. McFront His daughter
Ts one of the most charming "
"Yes. I've beau out at his house and
be has asked me to call again."
"Get out! You can't make me be
lieve you call on his daughter "
"Xo; I didn't call on his daughter,
but to collect a bill." Philadelphia
Press.
Iter One Thought.
"Mm-m!" mused tbe doctor, with
serious face, "the glands of yotii
throat are coated "
"The Idea!" gurgled Miss Woodby.
""Stylishly coated, I hope." Phi Iadel.
phlu Press.
Drawing the Line.
"I like to believe that all men are
honest," said the moralizer.
"Same here," rejoined the demoral
izer, "still. I alwaya draw the line at
taking the same patent medicine for liver
complaint that I uso for toothache, no
matter bow the label reads."
STOMACH PAINS
. i
Or Williams' Pink Pills Brought Re
lief, and Curs for Splitting
Headaches as Well. j
Dr. Williams' Pink Filla, a remedy
which has been before the American peo
ple for a generation, is still accomplish
ing wonderful results aa la evidenced by
the following interview with Mrs. Ra
cbael Gardner, of WiUey, Kaus.
"It was very strange," she aays, "I
never ooold tell what caused It aud
neither could anybody else. For a long
time 1 bad bad spelta with my stomach.
The pain would commence about my
heart and was so deadly agonising that 1
would have to soreeui aloud. Sometime
it would last several hoars and I would
have to take laodaunm to stop it. Be
sides this I bad a headache aim out exu
ltantly, day aud night, that nearly erased
me, so you see I suffered a great deal.
And when I think of the agouy I en
dured it still makes ins shudder.
'Doctors,' did you say? Their medi
cine made me sicker. I couldn't take it
and I kept growiug worse until a friend
advised me to take Dr. WiDlama' Pink
Pills, and I did. I began to fael better
and was soon wholly con verted to this
w oti Aerial medicine. It Aid see more
good than I bad ever hoped for. I base
ou with the pill and now I rsonuaai
them to all who suffer."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pin have eared
severs cases of iudigeettait, Monaleasness,
iaflaeaaa, headaches, UeWasa. Uaa
bago, sciatica, neuralgia, narraasneat
and spinal weakuess. The gnaalse Dr.
Williams' Piuk Pills are guaranteed to
be free from opiates or any harmful
drugs and cannot injure the meet delicate
system. At all drugglsta, ar from tht
Dr. Williams Medicine Co.. Schenectady,
K.T., postpaid on receipt of price, tC
cents per box, sis boxes lor 13.60. I
IDreiracjunAjrinip.gjDYj'a'ii.JQur.niij
th'-v werq Ivrrod to ackiiotf ledge tliat Ui' V
jiaij ubtaim-daijiflvyes, ijf " r a.vut l'r,
Rerintlon " fnTfii "eminent chemists, all of
F. J. Fnrrnr of Trey, X. II., has a
crimson rambler rose luish which has
6,10 blossoms on It, by actual count,
which took four hours. The largest
cluster has fifty single roses In It
Among Kuroean States Russia has
the longest telegraph lines, a total of
109.375 miles. Next Is France with
IK1.750 miles, Germany with S.1.7."0
miles. Great Britain with 49,373 miles.
More than twice as many telegrams are
sent In Great Britain as In Germany,
and nearly double the number In
France.
All the stores and other places of
business In Garden Plain, Kan., ceased
business for three days recently, and
the whole town went Into the Ileitis to
help the fanners harvest their grain.
The merchants say that the trade has
been so good since they have reopened
t!iat they are sure they have not lost'
through closing.
A Maine woman owns the best pro
tection ngnlnst the ubiquitous fly. It Is
nothing but a simple hornets' nest, that
hangs Just outside the Louse door. Its
Inmates are so tamed by the kindness
of their owner that they never molest
or sting her. Not a lly has entered the
house since the installation of this
unique flytrap.
William Rowe, a merchant In High
land, Doniphan County, Kan., says that
the fanners around there do nearly all
thek shopping after supier, and that
they come to town as lute as 8 or 9
o'clock and that the buying Is often
kept up until after 11. The practice
has become so general that there Is lit
tle country trade during the day.
A letter has Just been received in
Montpelier, Vt., that was mailed In Ire
land, fifty-two years ago. It was sent
to Montpelier, but from there went to
the dead letter cflloe, where It has re
mained. The letter was mailed to
Catherine Burgeu by her daughter, but
as Mrs. Burgen Is dead, It was deliv
ered to the sender's sister-in-law when
she was found by the faithful dead let
ter office.
A bald-headed resident of Xorth
Adams has Invented a means of pro
tecting his head from the files. The
device consists of a piece of cardboard
through which a hole is cut the size of
his head, and over this Is pasted sticky
fly paper, sticky side out. An elastic
cord holds the contrivance In place.
The man says the flies do not detect
the deception until it Is too late, but
shoot for the shining surfaces with as
much avidity as they do for the most
polished pate.
IS A "CHEERFUL LIAR."
nmirirlxt Melon funtomera by Pre-
tciiAliiss to Have III.
A pale, weak girl entered a downtown
drug store the other day, says the ev
York Press. She seemed about to col
lapse. The proprietor assisted her Into
n chair and prepared a mild Btlmulant
for her. The druggist's manner was so
sympathetic that a little later she con
fided to him that she suffered with her
heart and feared she had not much
longer to live.
"Heart disease?" Inquired the drug
gist genially. "Why, I have heart dis
ease myself have had It for years,
That's nothing. I don't worry myself
about it I don't look like a man with
a load on his mind, do I? You proba
blv think that you are liable to drop
off any time. On the contrary, any doe
tor will tell you that the averageperson
with heart disease generally lives to a
good old age. The very care that a suf
ferer from heart disease takes of him
self or herself is calculated to lengthen
his years Indefinitely. You see a man
with a weak heart naturally is careful
of himself a bit, he doesn't commit nny
excesses, never overdoes anything, lives
In moderation and thus keeps his vital
ity unimpaired. That's all you have to
do, Just take care of yourself. What":
the use of worrying.
The druggist's cheerfulness was In
fectious, the genial Interest of his talk
made depression appear foolish, and
j the girl soon began to look more hope
ful and even smile. Arter tno druggist
had gayly chatted with her a while she
rose and walked out of the store with
linn step.
This druggist, though he would scorn
the Idea If suggested to him, Is a bono
factor to humanity. He Is a believer In
the power of cheerfulness, and the
good that he does In his peculiar way
Is not easy to estimate.
Keeping Cool.
A popular article of household furni
ture among Americans In the Philip
pines Is said to be the "refrigerating
stove." This stove Is designed to keep
people cool lnse-id of hot. Just as we
heat our houses In the States in winter
with coal stoves, so the wanderer who
has set up housekeeping In the Philip
pines cools his house with a cold stove.
These cold stoves are made to look
something like an ordinary stove, aud,
being fed with ammonia and chemicals.
give out radiations of cold waves In
stead of heat. One can Imagine a fam
lly gathering nroimd the refrigerating
stove for coolness on a hot night In the
Philippines Just as on a cold night In
tho States they had been accustomed to
gut her around the parlor stove for
warmth.
Mun and Woman.
How rnodent man is look at him ;
Tliree letters spell his name ;
And his creator, higher still,
Is pleaied to have the same.
But gentle woman look at her;
For goodness' tuikea alive!
She'a not content with ouly three.
But spell her name with five.
William J. Lnmpton in the Bohemian.
Startled the Iloctor.
An Aberdeenshire doctor who recent
ly attended a woman was somewhat
staggered at receipt of tbe following
epistle from Her: "Please come and
vaccinate the child you gave birth ta
last week." Caledonian Medical Jour
nal.
Don't be mad If you are Interrupted
when yon are talking. It may have pre
vented you from saying something fool
Ish.
Borne people always tale advice from
a stranger.
AGRICULTURE IN HAWAII.
Roll anil
A Climate Adapted ta
the
Caltlvatlon of Tohaeao. '
Tobacco crowing and other agricul
tural pursuits In Hawaii are treated
of In a report that has Just loen Issued
by the department of agriculture, says
the Washington Star. The report goes
Into great detail as to the growing of
tobacco and the preparation of the soil
and the curing of the crop. The re
sults of a number of experimental
plnnts are given and the conclusion
drawn Is that the soil of Hawaii and
the climate and rainfall are all adapt
ed to the cultivation of n high grade
of tobacco on a paying basis. It Is said
that there are 100,1 H acres of land
adapted to tobacco growing In Hawaii,
with considerable tracts In the adja
cent Islands. The cost of producing to
bacco Is put as low as from 2 to 2
cMn'9 a pound for the green leaf. It
Is said, however, that the fields have
to be poisoned before planting, owing
to the prevalence of the cutworm, Japa
nese beetle and other Insects. ' Direc
tions are given In detail for doing
this and the process Is said not to be
expensive.
Considerable attention was given by
thp experiment station to the growth of
rubber. It Is thought that owing to
the subtropical character of the climate
probably only two varieties of rubber
will thrive, the Assam and the learn
trees. Both of these are doing well
and one company on the Island put In
100,W0 seed trees last year and expects
to have half a million growing In two
years.
The bee-keeping Industry In the Ha
waiian Islands represents an Invest
ment of approximately $150,000. With
the exception of a few Japanese who
are engaged In the work individually
ou a small scale aud certain others who
produce comb honey for local con
sumption, the Industry Is In the hands
of three corporations, one of which
equals In production the combined prod
uct uf the other two. It is apparent
that with the completion of the plans
of expansion now under way by these
corporations the next year or so will
see the various honey-producing locali
ties of the islands well covered and
the limit of production attained.
WALKING ON HOT STONES.
Mu of Tahiti - Still Believe I
Ma arte, It U Said.
In Tahiti men still believe In magic,
according to the World To-Day. At
certain celebrations they make a bod
of red-hot stones. A necromancer raises
his bamboo wand, moves It slowly from
side to side, mounts slowly to the top
of the causeway, stands for an Instant
with arms raised aloft, lips moving rap
Idly ; then deliberately and carefully
steps from stone to stone. A second
time he crosses the path of red-hot fire,
followed by his four disciples.
Through an Interpreter all are urged
to have faith and tread the necromanc-,
er's fiery path. A young Frenchman
steps forward, defiantly twirling his lit
tle mustache; an American tourist fol
lows; then one or two natives, whose
daring Is applauded by their fellows.
Once more the necromaueer steps up
the Incline of the causeway, always
waving his wuud. With set Hps the
novices follow, shrinking fearfully at
first, then proceeding with confidence,
shading faces and eyes from the fierce
radiation of the heated sNmes. Ac
complishing the transit, they show that
their shoe soles were not even singed,
but they offer no explanation further
than, "Don't ask me how It Is done; I
can't understand It."
A bucket of water Is brought, one of
the red-hot stones dropped Into It and
up spouts a cloud of steam. The ne
cromancer walks through the crowd,
offering himself for inspection and for
touch. Like the three children of holy
writ, "uimiu his body fire has had no
power, r.or Is a hair of his head singed,
nor has the smell of fire passed ou
him."
Not All In the Air.
The Incident below which Daniel
Colt Oilman, LL. D., late president of
Johns Hopkins University, has Incor
porated In his recently published sheaf
of remembrances, "The Launching of a
University nnd Other Papers" could
not happen at the present time, when
each new Institution of learning has Its
millionaire sponsor. It belongs to tho
pioneer period of education, when start
ing a college meant breaking the wilder
ness. A gentleman, President GUman says,
once Introduced himself to Dr. Day,
then president of Yale, as chancellor of
a Western State university.
"How large a fuculty have you?"
President Day Inquired, with genuine
interest.
"Not any," answered the Western
gentleman.
"Have you any library or buildings?"
"Xot yet."
"Any endowment?"
"None."
"What have you, then?" persisted
President Day.
The visitor's countenance brightened.
"We have a very gixid charter," said
be.
Where Nature Stopped.
Tho single woman was protesting
against increased water rates, and the
town clerk was waiting his turn, but
not expecting to get It.
"It's a shame, anyway," she con
cluded emphatically, "to have to pay
for what nature supplies so bountiful
ly." "But nature doesn't supply the pipes,
ma'am," replied the town clerk.
Youth's Companion.
Quite So.
Mr. Dresser Your hat looks very
well with that wing In It.
Mrs. Dresser Yes, but It weuld look
better with two wings In It
Mr. Dresser Oh, that's merely a
matter of a plnlou. Philadelphia Led
ger. Not Heart.
"Kver have any heart trouble?"
"Noe, It la all liver and prune trou
ble at our boarding house." Houston
Post.
A cranky old bachelor says the Lord
probably made some girls homely be
cause there were not enough cbaperones
to J" round.
AN EXAMINATION,
In common with others of her sex.
Isabel Melntyre with n'-iidemlc honors
tj spare and a degree fr.un a foreign
university relied on the tternnl fem
inine intuition to take her through the
complexities of lire as the housekeeper
has to face It. "When the accnsioii
arises I .iball !o equal to It," quoth
Isabel, eot.ndently.
The oeci-slon arose when her friend
Harriet Jaiies fell 111. Isabel imme
diately volunteered her services, which
were accepted, and with copy of the
"Odyssey" in the original and a recipe
for deviled lobster In her suit case, she
duly set forth for Seymouth. where
Harriet passed her summers In a re
deemed farmhouse. At the last moment
sho tucked In Anatolo France's latest
romance, reflecting sadly that poor
Harriet niliiht not be up to classics;
women so ijften deteriorated after mar
riage. "Now, my dear," said laaliel, at the
bedside cf the Invalid, "what can I do
for you? Do you think you would like
a little deviled lobster?"
"Ixlstfci'! Why, we're a hundred
miles from the coast; we never have
lobster."
"Oh!"
"There's really nothing ; nurse does
everything. Unless "
"Yes. What Is In your mind " Isabel
asked, encouragingly. "I've some book
In my bag. Perhaps "
"Oh, no, I can't bear to have any
bodv read aloud," declared Harriet.
"That's tho reason nurse sent .lee
away; he would read to me. It was
his Idea of first aid to the convalescent
to read the Iwoks he wants to get
through this summer."
Harriet laughed weakly, then went
on:
"Of course nurse Is dear, but she
keeps Bridget so busy washing and
boiling for the air Is the only thing
she doesn't Insist on sterilizing that
there's no tlmo for housework, and I
Just know Joe's den Is a sight. I can
see It with littlo mounds of cigar
ashes and big lumps of clay caked to
gether on the enrpet."
"And you would like to have me
make it all nice?" hazarded Isabel.
"Oh, If you would ! I'm sure I could
sleep to-night If I knew that room was
clean and In order."
Two hours later Isabe!, aching In
every Joint and sient In spirit, tiptoed
Into the Invalid's chamber. Harriet's
eyes were closed, but she cpened them
quickly.
"Was there much dirt?"
"Very little, I should say. One of
the drawers In the high-boy half full,
perhaps."
Harriet looked puzzled. "Did you
sweep the drawers In the high-boy?"
Isabel looked pained, even vexed.
"Certainly not, Harriet. I put the
dii-t I got off the floor in tho high boy
drawer, out of sight." Youth's Com
panion. FREIGHT CARS WITH HATCHES.
New method of I'nloadlnar Found
lceary or HallroniU.
Of recent years models of boats In
use on the great lakes have been chang
ed In the effort to facilitate the opera
tion of loading and unloading, with the
result that where formerly a boat was
tied up at the wharf for days at a time
the same labor Is now performed In n
few hours. The carrying capacity of
tho craft for the season Is greatly In
creased, says the Philadelphia Xorth
American.
The changes are of such a character
as to not readily be noticed by the cas
ual observer and they generally con
template a redesigning of the Interior
construction so as to permit of the
practical removal of the deck in order
that the big machines used for unload
ing may eat their way from one end of
the boat to the other with the least
possible delay.
So successful has been this Idea that
it has been found profitable to extend
a similar scheme of construction to
freight cars. Box- cars are now being
Lullt with an opening in the top Just
like the hatch of a vessel.
The opening Is ten feet wide, and
extends the entire width of the car.
It Is covered by a door which Is slid
aside on a cog track and the freight
can be removed from the Interior of
the car through the opening much more
easily than through the usual side door.
The latter Is still provided, as well as
th hatch.
A number of these cars have been
constructed by an American car-bulld-Ing
firm for the Tehuauteiiec railway of
Mexico and are now lu operation on the
tracks of the company. This line en
gages principally In an Interoceaulc
business.
The Beat Poller.
Having picked up a fat roll of bills, a
boy diligently sought and found tho
owner.
Counting tho bundle carefully, the
owner put it In his pocket
"My son," he said, benignly to the
boy, "I am rejoiced to see that you are
guided by lofty principles and as an
earnest of my approbation shall refrain
from chaivlug you Interest for the tlmo
you have had my money." Phlladel
plila Ledger.
Where Amber la Pound.
j no snores or me name sea are
the world's principal source of amber,
Here a large number of people earn a
precarious livelihood gathering the pre
cious substance along the shore. At
some points along the coast divers
search the bottom of the seu for lumps
of aaiher hidden In the seaweed or
Jammed between rocks. The largest
piece ever found weighed eighteen
pounds, valned at $:i0,O()O. It la now
In the Royal Museum lu Berlin. Tech
nlcal World.
Aa I'afalr Advaataa-e.
"Mrs. Xagg Is tbe most Inconttistent
woman I know."
"How's that?"
"She had the words 'Rest In pacce'
carved on her husband's tombstone, yet
she visit the grsve every day." Trans
lated for Tales from Metgmdorfer
ItlHlier.
It some people should maa It a ru'o
to pay as they go they wouVflv.ever et
very far r;ay from home.
THE MITTEN.
(There was the ring of steel-shod feet.
There was the winter sun's Inst glow
That lighted up the happy fleet
Of skaters flitting to and fro;
Their w the sound of voices low,
I heard Dsn Cupid laugh lu glee
I, victim of his dart and bow
When Betty gave the mitt to me!
Ah, me! she was so small snd sweet.
Her lips like roselcsves o'er a row
Of pearls, her hair like ripened wheat.
Her voice that seemed to me as though
Some fr-o(T orgnn's note did blow.
That I fell straightway on my knee,
With pulses nt fortissimo.
When Betty gave the mitt to me!
Oh, ssk mn not did I retreat,
For I am not a tnnn to go
Because a woman might repeat
A naughty, willful little "No !"
We lingered 'till nipht's portico
Fell wide; what must your wonder be,
Thnt I should stay on with her so,
When Betty gave the mitt to me!
L'envoy.
Ah. Prince, 'tis vain to hide. I know,
What eyes ns keen s yours must sec;
Her hand was there Inside (ohn!)
When Betty Raw the mitt to me!
Yellow Book.
v
Tom's Money.
r-r-:--M--!r':--:--:--:--!-'
US. LAUCHTON had found
what she had been looking for
nil her life the man under
er
bed.
lCvcry night of her nearly thirty
ears of existence this pretty little per
son bad stooped on her knees, before
saying her prayers, and had Investi
gated the space beneath her bed ; had
then peered beneath the dark recess of
tbe dressing case, and having looked lu
the deep drawer of the bureau and Into
the closet, she fastened her door, and
felt as secure as a snail In a shell. As
ho never, In this particular business,
seemed to have nny confidence In Mr.
Iaughton, lu spite of the fact that she
admired him aud adored him, neither
his presenco nor his absence ever made
any variation In tho performance. She
had gone through the motions, however,
for so long a time that they had come
to be In a manner perfunctory, ami the
start sho received on this night of which
I speak ninde her prayers quite Impos
sible. What was she to do? She, a cow
ard par eminence, known to be the most
iuorous of the whole family ; and here
she was now, the two maids away In the
little wing, locked out by the main
house, alone with a burglar, aud not an
other being nearer than the works, a
half-mile off.
How did this man know that she was
without any help here? How did he
bapicn to be aware that Tom's money
was all lu the house? If that money
was taken, nobody would believe the
story ; Tom would be cashiered ; he
never could live through the disgrace;
he would die of a broken heart, and
she of another. What a mischance for
her to be left with the whole thing In
her hands, her little, weak, trembling
hands Tom's honor, his good name and
his success, their fortune, the welfare
of the whole family, the livelihood of
all the men, the safety of the enter
prise! What made Tom risk things so?
It was worse than any loss of money
to have such a wretch as this so near
one, so shudderlngly, so awfully near,
to be so close as this to tbe bottomless
pit Itself!
Light and electricity are swift, but
thought Is swifter. In the fraction of a
second Mrs. Laughton was on her feet,
and before a pendulum could have
more thun swung backward, she took
the light brass bedstead and sent it
rolling away from her with all her
might and main, leaving the creature
uncovered. He lay easily on one side,
stout little club in his hand, some
weapons gleaming In his belt.
You look pretty, don't you?" paid
she.
Perhaps this was as much of a shock
to the man as his appearance had been
to her.
"Oct up," said she. "I'd be a man If
I was a man. Get up. I'm not going
to hurt you."
The bleu of this little fairy queen of
a woman, almost small enough to bavo
stepped out of a rain lily, hurting him!
But It was so different from what he
had been awaiting, that It startled him.
He was ou his feet now, towering over
ber.
"Xo," said he, gruffly; "I don't sup
pose you re going to hurt me. And I'm
not going to hurt you, If you hand over
that money."
What money?" opening her eyes
with a wide sort of astonishment.
"Come! None of your lip. I want
that money !"
Why, I haven't any money! O yes,
I have, to be sure, but "
"I thought you'd remember It" said
the man, with a grin.
"But I want it!" she exclaimed.
"I want It, too!" said bo.
"O, It wouldn't do you any good,"
he reasoued. "Fifteen dollars. And
It's all the money I've got In tho
world!"
"I don't want no fifteen dollars," said
the man ; "and I don't want none of
your chinning. I want the money your
husband's going to pay off with "
"O, Tom's money!" In quite a tone of
relief. "O, I haven't anything to do
with Tom's money. If you can get any
money out of Tom, It's more than I can
do."
"Yes, I see, you little hen-spa rrer,"
bis eyes coming back to her from a sur
vey of the room, "that you've got Tom's
money In the bouse here and would like
to throw me off tbe scent."
"If I bad," said she, "you'd only get
It across my dead body!"
"Oorue," said he, again; "I've had
enough of your alack "
"You're not very polite," she said,
with something like a pout.
"People In my line ain't" ho an
swered, grimly. "I want that money!
I'd rather come by It peaceable," ha
growled, "but If "
"Well, you can take It; of course,
you're tho stronger. But I told you be
fore, It's all I have, and I've very par
J
ticular use for It You just ait dowti 1"
aha cried. Indicating a chair, ulth the
air of really bavins been alone so long I
lu these desolate regions as to be glad
of having some one to talk to, and
throwing herself Into the big one op;st
slte, IsH-ause In truth she could not
stand up another moment.
"There It Is." said she, "right under
your hand all the time. You won't
have to rip up the mattress for It, or
rummage the clothes press, or hunt
through tho broken crockery on tho top
shelves of the kitchen cuplmard," sho
ran on, as If she were delighted to hear
the sound of her own voice, and could I
not talk fast enough. "I always leave
my purse on the dressing case, though
Torn has told me, time and again, It
wasn't safe. But out here" I
"Stop!" thunderwl the man. "If you
know enough to stop. Stop ! or I'll cut
your cursed tongue out. That's not what
I want though I'll take It. I've told
you, time and again, that I want the
paymaster's money. I'll put daylight
through that little false heart of yours,
If you don't give It to me without five
more words "
"And I've told von lust ns often that
I've nothing to do with the paymaster's
money;' and with tho great limpid tears
overflowing her blue eyes. Rose Laugh
ton k:-ev that the face sho turned up
nt b in was enough to melt the sternest
bent going.
I you mean to tell me " said be,
evidently wavering and possibly In
clined to doubt If, after all, she were
not telling the truth.
"I don't mean to tell you anything
she cried. "You won't believe a word
I say. and I never had any one to doubt
my word before. I hate to nave you
take that fifteen dollars, though. You
never would In the world, If you knew
how much self-denial It stands for.
I'.very time I think I would like an
lee cream, out here In this wilderness.
I've made Tom give me the price of
that. There's onlv nowder and twee,
ers and frizzes lu those boxes." as be
went over the top of the dressing case,
till koeolnir a lookout on her. That's
my laces, and I wish you wouldn't fin-
ARB YOtT BLUFFING ME?
ger them ; I don't lielleve your hands
are clean. What makes you look at
me so?" For the man had left his search
again and his glance was piercing ber
through. "O, your eyes are like augurs
turning to live coals!" she cried? Do
you look at your littlo children the
same way?"
"I ain't got no wife or kids."
"I'm sure that's fortunate,'' said Mrs.
Laughton. "A family wouldn't have
any peace of their lives with you fol
lowing such a dangerous business. And
they couldn't see much of you either.
"Look here!" cried the man, bis pa
tience gone. "Are you a fool, or are
nmi Klnfflnir niA? I've hnlf n mind tn
knock your head In," be cried, "and
hunt the bouse over for myself."
"You wouldn't find anything If you
did," ehe returned, leaning back In her
chair. "I've looked often enough, when
I thought Tom bad some money. I
never found any. What are you going
to do now?" with a cry of alarm at his
movement.
"I'm going to tlo you hand and foot"
"O, I wouldn't! I'd rather you
wouldn't really! I promise you I
won't leave this chair "
"I don't mean you shall."
"O, you can't treat me so?" she ex
claimed, lifting up her streaming face.
"You don't look like a person to trout
n woman so. I don't llko to bo tied ; It
makes one feel so helpless."
"What kind of a duiu fool be you,
anyway?" said tho man, stopping a
mnnient to stare at her. And he made
a step then toward the high chest of
drawers, half bureau, half writing
desk, for a ball of tape he saw lying
there.
"Oh." she cried, "don't! Don't o
w Pn, n,orev- ni,o don't im
4 1 1. tern f n liiliKf llit VralfA till It U'DI
like the wind in the chimney. "Oh,
please don't go there!" at which, as If
feeling morally, or rather Immorally,
sure that what he hid coaie .'o' was
In that spot be seized the handles of a
drawer, and down fell the lid upon bis
head with a whack that Jammed his
hat over his eyes and blinded him with
pain and fury for an Instant "I
knew It I" she cried. "I knew it would !
I told you not to go!"
"You shfct your mouth quick!" roar
ed the man, with a splutter of oaths.
"That's right," sb said, ber face like
a pitying saint's. "Don't mind me. I
always tell Tom to swear when he
Jams his thumb. I know how It Is my
self when I'm driving a nail.
The man went and sat down In tbe
chair on whose back be hud been lean-
lug.
"I swear, I don t know wnat to mane
of you," said he, rubbing his head rue-
fully
"You can make friends with me,'
said she. "That's what you can do.
I'm sure I've shown you that I'm
friendly enough. I never believe any
barm of any one till I see It myself,
I don't blame you for wanting the
money. I'm always lu want of money.
I've told you you might take mine,
though I don't want you to. But I
shouldn't give you Tom'j money, even
If I kuew where It was.
Tom would
kill me If I did, and I might as well
be killed by you as by Tom and bet
ter. You cau make friends with me,
nnd be some protection to me till my
husband cornea. I'm expecting him aud
Jules every moment."
The man started to bis feet
"Do yoi see that?" he cried, holding
his revolver under her noe. "lAok
light Into thai gun! We'll have no
mora fooling. It'll be your lust look.
If yotl don't tell me where that mon
Is before I count three."
"I've looked Into those things everj
since I've lived on the prairie," said!
she. "And I dare say It won't go off
mine won't Besides, I know very well
you wouldn't shoot a woman, and yotij
can't make bricks without straw; and,
I've told you I don't kuow anything'
about that money."
"You are a game one," said lie.
"Xo, I'm not," she replied. "I'm the
most tremendous coward. I'm alone a
great deal, and I quake at every sound.
every creak of a timler, every rustle
of the grass. And you don't know any-
thing about what it Is to have your:
heart stand still with horror of a wild
beast or a wild Indian, or a deserted-
a deserting soldier. There's a great
Apache down there now, stretched out'
In his blanket on the floor before the
Are In the kitchen. And I came up
here as quick as I could, to lock tho
door neiuiui us and sit up till Tom
came home, and I declare I never was
tnauKiui in an my lire as l was just
now to see a white face when I looked
at youi
"Well, I'll be-
!"
"See here, little one, you've saved
your husband's money for him. You're
n little Uoubie-handrul of pluck. I
haven't any Idea but you know where
It's hid but I've got to be making
tracks. If It wasn't for waking that
Apache, I'd leave Red Dan's hand
writing on tho wall."
And almost while he was speaking he
had swung himself out of the window
t,,e veranda-roof, and had dropped
to the ground nnd made off.
Mrs. Laughton waited till she
thought be must be out of bearing,
leaning out as If she were gazing at
the moon. Then she softly shut and
fastened tbe itash, and crept with shak
'n& "mb to tnb door and unlocked It
and fell In a dead faint across the
tnresnoid. Ana mere, wnen ne return
d some three-quarters or au nour later.
Ulom round ner.
"O Tom!" she sobbed, when she bo- .
came conscious that she was lying In
bis arms, bis heart beating llko a trip
hammer, his voice hoarse with fright,
and he Implored her to open her eyes;
"Is there an Apache In the kitchen?"
The Housewife. )
PUR8E A TREA8URE TROVE.
Finder, Trolley Ku and Pollca
W ran ale Over 8 Cents.
A witty little Irishman and a Metro
politan street railway Inspector spied at
the same Instant Monday a purse In a
seat on a Lexington avenue car crossing
42d street. The Inspector reaohed for.
it a second too late, says the New York
World.
"Here, you'll have to give that up,"
demanded the Inspector.
"You don't say," said the man with
the treasure trove already In his pocket.
"Remember the Maine."
Tho conductor of the car took a standi
beside the Iniector and then the motor-
man tumbled off bis platform with con
troller bar ready for action. But th
three street car men could not feazo tha
little Irishman. The Inspector finally
summoned a policeman, after traffic bad.
been blocked so long that passengers la
about twenty stalled cars were thinking
about getting out to foot It ;
The policeman advised the purse Und
er to give It to the Inspector, but be
was firm, and so policeman, inspector
and purse finder five minutes later were
standing before tbe desk In tbe East
01st street police station.
Me name's Tom Malloy," said tho
on of Erln- "and rd llke to ay
I've lost a lot of things In me time, but
I never had the strong men In brass
buttons worry me finding thlm."
The desk eergennt told Malloy that
he would either have to give the purse
Into the custody of the railroad em
ployes or the police. He explained that
under the law Malloy could claim the
purse In five years If the lawful owner
did not recover It before then.
"Well, thin, own It up," aald Malloy,
passing the purse over the desk to tho
sergeant. It was a black leather recep
tacle, with a near-gold rim, and It loos
ed plethoric.
There was a craning of necks as the
sergeant unclasped It aud shook out 3
cents.
The sergeant shook with laughtef.
The car Inspector looked sheepish. Mal-I
loy was ready to ngut.
''Say, Malloy," said the sergeant, "lfl
nobody claims this purse before July ,
1011, you go down to police headquar-l
ters and they'll give it to you.
"Sure," snapped Malloy. "and H may
be worth me while, If I have no mor
business on me hands then than you
have to-aay. uut i iu
stamped, witn neaa peraeq u uC ..ur.
Hla Little Joka.
On a Western railroad there is
brakeman who has lost the foreflngei
of his right band. Tbe ' wouderfu
works of nature along the road, saysr
the Denver Xews, keep the brakemanl
busy answering the passengers' que
tlons.
One day, after the brakeman baa
been pointing out the window and ex
plaining the scenery, one of the pas
sengers whispered to the conductorl
"Conductor, can you tell me how tha
brnkeman lost Ida finger? He seeni4
to be a very nice fellow. It seems
pity he should be crippled."
"That's Just It, ma'am. He Is a good
fallow. He la so obliging that be Jusl
wore his finger off pointing out th
soen,,ry ttiong the line,
Uood-Hearted
Boarder I'll pay you very soon-
am going to be married,
Landlady Oh, don't do that. Ml
Hardup Just on account of the few do
lars you owe me. Translated for Tale
from Meggendorfer Blatter.
Prefer the Moaer.
"Rlchly's children are all quarrelltt
over bis estate."
"Wby? To see who'll get bis va!
able art collection?"
"No. To see who won't get It" I
I trolt Free Press.
At tha Pleale.
Tommy Oh, ma! Here's a lltt
green snake!
Mamma Keep away from It, def
It may be Just as dangerous as a ri
cne. Cleveland Leader.
It's easy to see the polut ot a jg
that Is on th other fellow.
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