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lP5 rv?; mwh W-iMi tes F fe tespj VUiieH -viN mm km mi km-mMmMk Burdens Lifted lririnn Weary n the hack that bears the burden of kidney ills. There's no rest nor peace for the man or woman who has a bad back. The distress begins in early morning. You feel lame and not refreshed. It's hard to get out of bed. It hurts to stoop to tie your shoes. All day the ache keep: up. Any sudden movement sends a sharp twinge through the back. It is torture to stoop or straighten. At night the sufferer retires to toss and twist and groan. I Jackachc is kidney ache a throbbing, dull aching in the kidneys. To cure backache you must first cure the kidneys. Plasters or Hnimcnt3 won't do. You must get at the cause, inside. Boasts Etidney Pills Cisre Sick Kidneys Six Months of Misery Doan's Kidney 'Pills Drouqhf About m Complete Restoration. CHARLES EASTER. E. LnrtiRt fit.. Watvkn, III., way: "In thu mmmi-r of lft4 I wa nttAckcl by pains in Xhf. nmall of my hack and ah tho tintn paHowd. the troublf. irHTe;ifttil unt il my vvhnlo rilit typ wan af frctcd. Kr hix month I amid tint sit in n chair and I wan una bio to nl?p nights. I Umt forty pound In wriuht and wax so lama and nor that I could not rathe my hand to my fa fi I waft languid, had no rfurffyand was bnthend by a nhnrtncKii of breath. Lfurintr all that time I doctored and ud a (frt-at amount of medicine but to no avail. Somet tmea t ht-rn man an alcnont complete retention of t hn kid my ai-cre-ttons and there, wu much sediment in tn m. My wile finally pemuaded mo to try loan' Kidney IHU. 'i'hey gam ma auch prompt r:lief that i continued taking thi'ru and gradually my condition improved. The tronbla with my kidneya wan corrected nnd my acheaand pa in wer a removed. Iam ho grateful fort hi cure that I cheerfully recommend lHan' K idney I'tll toother persona au tiering from kidney complaint.1 a ; V- WBCMN'S Sold by aU VltWoiirKi& Sleveuinu's Cuv at Misery, VL Stevenson, writing In 1S33 to George Meredith, In an eplatlu quoted In hU "Letters," says, with heart teaching pathos: TTor fourteen years I have not had day's real health. I have awakened -rick and gone to bed weary, and I lsave done my work unflinchingly. I hv written In bed and written out of tt. written In hemorrhages, written in ictncBg, written torn by coughing, 'written when my head swam for weakness, and for so long, it seems to jm, I have won my wager and rccov rd tny glove. I am better now Btsv been, rightly speaking, since first X am to the Pacific and still few re the days when I am not In some SpbjaWJ distress. And the battle goes arjt a or well Is a trifle bo that it . t was made for a contest, and tbs) powers have so willed that my battlefield should be this dingy, in Ctorlous one of the bed and the physic ftarttle. At least I have not failed, but I would have preferred a place of trampetlngs and the open air over my Conlda't Stand Satire. A burglar while attempting to rob a JMoated bondholder of Maryville by ntlaCake got Into the humble residence an editor next door. ' After unsuc cessfully fumbling about for suitable MMets for some time be disgusted t observe the tenant ot I .J bouse sit ttug up In bed and laughing at him "Aren't you old Sklndersen. the capl "Callst? Inquired the housebreaker. "Nary time," chuckled the Journalist Ta the editor of the Screaming Ka- Jerusalem!" said the burglar, look fog at bis stemwlndor. "And here I've Teen waollriB four precious hours on . tils branch almshouse. I say, old oolll driver, you never poko fun at yur subscribers, do you?" "Not the cash ones." "Exactly," said the burglar, taking t bis wallet. "Here's six months sabacrlptlon to rail this thing square, It there's one thing on earth 1 can' astaad. it's satire." Londou Tlt-BIts. OrlaklnsT and amoklasi In Korea. The Koreans are inveterate smokers f green tobacco, which they use in yfpes with tiny bowls and stems tw or three feet long. They stick their 9pes down the back of the nock when mot using them. There is a deal of drinking, too, though they have many proverbs against it "Heaven and earth are too na1l for a drunken man," "White wUlty makes a red face," "There is mm bottom to the arpetlte f jr drink." TrylatY to Esroorais lllm, "O. Ouy, you mustn't allow yourself n reared by papa's piercing eye." "I'm not so, much afraid of that, El loda, as I am of his rutting 'nos!'" la tho Ung A to. Benjamin. Kranklln, full of his cachrme for drawing electricity from th clouds, had dropped In at a hard war at ore. -Well." said the salesman, "what Is itr WIro. nlease," answered Benjamin. "In a moment," the salesman said, turtilnir to wait on a woman customer who f-ud Just come In. Even In those days, as we learn from f.h, ti e man who was In a hurry tho I usy slir.al sometimes. Chicago Tribune. (Fac-simi'e ol the genuine ,p.u!at(e nV..' :y n-.luccj.) HOW TO TELL WHEN THE KID' NEYS ARE DISORDERED I'alnful Symptoms Backache, sldfl nclic, pains when (looping or llftlnir, sud den sharp twlnccs, rheumatic pains, neu ralgia, painful, scanty or too frequent urination, dizzy spells, dropsy. Irlnnrr flymptoma Discolored or cloudy urine, trlno that contains sedi ment. Urine that stains the linen. Pain ful passages. Blood or shreds In the urine. Let a bo'tleful of the morning urine stand for 14 hours. If It shows a cloudy or fleecy settling, or a layer of fine grains. Ilk brick-dust, the kidneys are disordered. A Trial Free Cutotitthi9 0Jui)on, mail It to Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. A free trial package of Doan's Kidney Pills will be mailed you promptly, C. N, u. KIDNE dcalcrsV Price 5o ccnts !FosTER TryirvnsK-w.'. ZST3 '"I! iiijwisiinimii Klrenglh at Varlons Ages. j According to excellent authority the muscles, in common with all organs of the human body, have their periods ot development and decline, our phys ical strength Increasing up to a cer tain ace and then decreasing. Testa of the strength of several thoutwnd individuals have been made and the following figures are given as tho averages derived from such tents: The lifting power of a youth of 17 Is 280 pounds; In his twentieth year this Increases to 320 pounds and In the thirtieth and thirty-first years it reaches Its height, 363 pounds. At the expiration of the thirty-first year the strength begins to decline, very grad ually at flrBt. Dy tho fortieth year it has decreased eight pounds and diminution continues at a slightly in creasing rate until the fiftieth year is reached, when the figure is 330 pounds. Subsequent to this period strength falls more and more rapidly until the weakness of otd age is reached. It Is found Impossible to obtain trust worthy statistics of the decllno of strength after the fiftieth year, as the rate varies greatly in different indi viduals. Tho Msu-ol-Msr Bird. Tho frigate pelican, or man-of-war bird, Is usually met with by traveler In tho tropics. Although wljen stripped of Its feathers It Is hardly larger than a pigeon, yet no man can touch at the same time the tips ot Its extended wings. The long wing bones are ex ceedingly light, and the whole appa ratus of air cells is extremely devel oped, bo that Its real weight Is very trifling. It flics nt a great height above the water, aud from that, elevation pounces down on fish, especially pre ferring the poor, persecuted flying fish for Its prey. According to some au thors, the nnme of man-of-war bird was given to it because its appearance was said to foretell the coming of a ship, probably because the frigate pell can and real frigates are equally ad Terse to storms, and both like to come into harbor if the weather threatens. Mixed. , A sergeant was once drilling a squad of recruits. Thsy were Incredibly ig norant. One of them could not tell his right hand from his left. The ser geant proceeded to teach them and at last attained some degree of success. Sergeant Now, yer blessed Idiot, hold yer bands tn front ot yer and twist tham round one over the nther Stop! Now, which is your left hand and which Is your right? Recruit (looking at his hands for a moment) I'm blowed if I know. I've gone and mixed 'em! London An wers. Tho Australian State ot Victoria spends neurly ISOO.OOO a year In Its warfare against the destructive rubblu Dolly's Retort. "I won't wash my face!" said Dolly defiantly. "Naughty, naughty," reproved grandmother. "When I was a llttl girl I always washed my face." "Yes, and now look at It!" Every body's. Advanced Thought. "Doctor, tow do you account for the existence of rheumatism?" "Tho mind, my dear air. evolved the disease to fit the word." Twice-Told Testimony A Wonderlul Cure Fully Verified Dy Iho Test ot Time. MRS. J. M. BARNHART, 112 N. Jack St., Frankfurt, Ind., says: "Several years at 1 was run ning Into Ilrisht's disease. My body bloated a trrat deal and I had such turrible pains in the small ol rr.y back that I could scarcely stand. I rested poorly and the kidney secret ions contained a sediment, also bring distrcsHintf in pjHsaffo. I tried various prepa rations but steadily srew worse and when Doan's Kidney Pills were brought to my attention, I pro cured a supply. Tho contents o( the first box did me so much good that I continued taking the remedy until I was cured. I gave a tublic statement on July l1), 1T06, recommending Doan's Kidney Pills ai d now I can add that I have had no need ol a kid nry remedy in over a year." Tftai Doan'i Kid ney Pill Yourself tarn - MaBURN"Cfi. - Buffaro:'N .Yi! Proprietors ., A QUEER WEDDING BINO. An African Tribe Whose Wives Wear n Henry Itrass Ornament. Among the Dayanzl, who live for many miles along the upper Congo, there exists a strange custom which would seem to make life miserable for the married women. Brass rods, which are the favorite currency in the coun try, are welded into great rings around the necks of the wives. Many of these rings worn by the women whose husbands are well-to-do weigh as much as 30 pounds, and this burden must be carried around by the poor women as long as they live. Frequently one sees a woman whose neck is raw and sore under the heavy weight, and in places the skin Li rubbed off. This is a sure sign that the ring has been recently welded around her neck, for after a timo the skin be comes calloused, and then the strange ornament produces no abrasion. But the weight is an inconvenience; they never get used to it, and It U a per petual tax upon their energies. In ev ery crowd ot women may be seen a number who are supporting the rings with their hands, and thus for a time relieving their weary shoulders of the heavy burdens. It may be said that with every movement of their bodies tho rings give discomfort. Once on, It Is no easy matter to get them off. The na tives have no euch thing as a file, and though they can hammer a lot ot brass rods Into 'one, It Is very difflcut for them to cut the thick mass of metal In two. Women who Increase largely In flesh after the rings have been fasten ed on their necks are In danger ol strangling to death, and Instances of thU sort have been known to occur. Yet these women regard the cumbrous ornament with pride. Imagine that It enhances their importance and beauty, and wear the burden with light hearts. Trapping the I'araoa. William Morris did not always get his jokes right end first. In a biogra phy of her huBband, Mrs. Edward Burne-Jones tells of the ease with which he reversed them. A dinner gatherlug bad all been ask ing conundrums. "Who killed bit brother CalnT asked Burne-Jones. Morris fell Into the trap at once. "Abel!" he shouted. Later In the day he came In laugh ing. "I trapped the parson, by Jove!" he exclaimed. "I asked him, 'Who killed his brother Abel? " Vain,' he said at once. "Ha! I said. 'I knew you'd say that. Every one does. I came away and left him puzzled enough, and I doubt It he's found out yet what the Joke was." lalCitto. Teacher As 1 have been telling you, there are two general clusses of work ers. Tommy, does your father make bis living by using bis brains or by Using his muscles? Tommy Neither n, ma'am. He's a polUreinan. Chi Cago Tribune. t'BDrentedltated Sarcasm. Eminent Musician Among my pro. inuiinnll friends I Reporter (gasping) Professional menasi are may uvingr Backs If Ihe'fiin FtsViurK An Unexpected Promotion. Benny's Intellectual achievements were far from notable, but in the eyes ot his small sister he was none the less a wonderful personage. She keenly resented allusions to his lengthy stay in the last desk row at school, although Benny himself took quite a cheerful aud philosophic view of the matter. Une afternoon the little girl ap peared, flushed and panting, In the li brary doorway. "Daddy," she exclaimed, "you prom ised Benny a dollar when he got .moved off tho bottom bench, and now he's up In the next row with me and " Benny himself entered Just then, in his usual unconcerned way. , "Why, what's this I hear, my son?" his father welcomed him. "I'm very glad you've worked your way up" The boy started uncomprehendlngly. Elsie says you're In the second row now," his father continued, in explana tion. "Course!" returned the youngster. Imperturbably. "We're all In the sec ond row the bottom bench's being painted." Slightly Acquainted. Aa an Instance of the "marrying In haste" principle that obtains In some American cities an English lady who visited Chicago relates how her maid, who accompanied her, quickly became Imbued with the desire to Decome Mrs. Somebody. One morning she appeared before her mistress and, with glowing eyes, announced that sho had named the day and would btccciia a wife at the end of the week. "Are you going back home, then?" the lady asked. "Oh, no, ma'am; It's an American gentleman," replied the maid. "But, remonstrated her mistress, "we've only been here a fortnight." "That's no matter. He wants th wedding to be on Saturday." "Well, can't you get him to postpone the marriage Just a little till I can got another maid?" "Well, ma'am, I'd like to oblige yon; but, you see, I don't feel well enough acquainted to ask him to do that," London Answers. - Fall of Meanlnsr. Richard Croker, a few days before his departure for Florida, was a guest f honor at a dinner at the St. Regis. Mr. Croker, praising Judge Gaynor's oratory, said: "His oratory Is so concise. He packs so much meaning Into so few words. He is like the old clerk whose master said to him: "'John, that's a very shabby offloa coat you're wearing.' " 'Yes, sir,' said the old clerk, mean ingly. 'I got this coat with the last ralso you gave me.' " Is This Troef "Why don't the common people get more?" "Because they don't exist as a body. Every individual thinks he Is slightly superior to the general run of human ity." Louisville Courier-Journal. Wayside tcisasslifi. Ruffon WrstsSchoilts? Schmltsl Where have I heerd that name? Ssymold Storey Don't ye rlckollectl n's the man that tnsde SiKb Francisco famous. Chicago Tribune, 0 The Quest of Betty Laocey Hy MA.GDA Coryrictit. 1909, by W. G. Chapman. CopjrriRht In Great BrtUls rilAPTEU XIII. (Continued.) "Your tiiinif?" tisked Mmrls. "Hi" fionl," nnswt r cl the black. "Just I'.c oi." "Aiiierlciin?" risked I-arry. "I've llvcl there." volnitcircd Tle noMl. "Win -re ore we goin imw?" "Anyvliro to get away lricn them," replied Johnny. "Then don't so far to tho iIkIU. Turn nt the next cror.slii',' ther now turn to your h it aaain see'.' Beyond those hills we'll lind a snii deli'.e' Here wc are!" The motor wheezed nnd tiruntej mid turned uwkwardly into the debouch ment of the mountain side. "How'd you come to K''t In such n scrape?" asked Larry. "Ever see that woman before? Do you know her at nil? What was her animus?" Benonl nodded. "Yes. I gave her passage money to go back to Maine to her family once, and she gambled it away. Then she came to trio again, and wanted some more money nnd I refused to give it to her, and she's hated mo ever since, I guess. I hadn't seen her for years." "Like a woman," commented John ny. Larry smoked In silence, till Benoni asked: "Exploring? Or Just touring?" "How long since, you've been in the States?" asked Johnny. "Juft came from there a week ngo,'' replied Benonl. "Then you heard of the Wayne mur der mystery, of course? Well, we're hunting fur the abducted Miss Lan cey. Wo think she's In Africa here." Benonl raised his woolly eyebrows. "You're a nice hunt," he observed. "Have you any trace of where sho might be? Africa is very large, larger even than your vaunted Su'.e of Texas." "I know," responded Larry, curtly. "But If a man's heart's in the hunt he doesn't stop to reckon tho length of the chase." Benonl smiled. "You are related to Miss I.ancey?" "Not yet," said Johnny. "He's Just hoping that way." Benoni sprung out of the car. IIj paced by its side nervously for a few seconds, and then stopped beside Iar ry. "I am black, as you see." spoke Benonl, "but I own the blood of kings and my mind has been subjected to a thorough course of education In Euro pean universities. I am in Africa now on an errand similar to yours. I am seeking my wife, Meta. Unlike you, I have an Inkling as to whore I may find her. Perhaps the woman you are hunting for is not far away from Meta. Will you Join forces with me? I am single handed, and I may need foreign aid men I can trust!" Larry nnd Johnson grasped at the straw. It was something tangible any way, in this great wanton waste of sun and sky, desert and barbarians. And far more likely of result than th neatly red-taped government assist ance that had been proffered them. So they made a compact with Be nonl. It was taking a long chance with a stranger, but the boys had learned that long shots frequently won when the short arc failed altogether. The three were to meet at the detih on the morrow early before the sun waxed unbearably hot. Benonl told them to leave behind all luggage; that he would attend to all of that, and to take with them but a nominal sum of Ooney, If any at all. "You can both ride?" he questioned. "Well, I'm not much at it," confess ed Johnny. The black surveyed the small red headed man half contemptuously. "I know what you're thinking," blurted out the American. "You're thinking that barring the color of the skin and head that you've got me beat on being a man. Perhaps you have. Anyway, I don't grudge you anything, and you needn't me!" They rumbled into town as the false dawrn broke. Benoni left them at the corner of un obscure street, and Larry and Johnson took Sulveier back his auto. Sulveier was not yet home, so they wont to tho cafe, where they had left him early in the evening, and found him there drowsing. "What a shame," groaned Johnny. "How can a man with a mind do such things as this "' "Y'ou never did," said Harry, quietly. "Here, let's take him home. Come, Sulveier, come on, we've got something to tell you." CHAPTER XIV. ' Benonl was waiting at tho defile. With htm was a small Arabian serv ant. Benonl himself was astride i magnificent black horse, and smaller mounts were saddled for the two Americans. Tho little Arab rode a wizened but sturdy beast and led the pack horse by a short tether. The black was still more of the physically perfect by daylliht than ne had been under the lamplight and tho luter gleam of the moon, lie was eve.n yet more taciturn. 1-irry and Johnson jogged along side by side, llononl paced them, at times making far excursions ahead, returning with foaming horso and hushed face. At noon they stopped beside a scant little creek for rest. Tho sun was un endurable and despite their visored and veiled helmets. Johnny and Barry were suffering terribly from sunbur.t and their hands were blistered from the reins. "ha Mttle am', -nread their '.alli ed for tl.em b id 'nt over rest .ti 'Juu hoi hes, w :.:'" a few roj2 ,ils lunt. 1'et.oc.l ptoiibccd healing salve Slid showed '..- 'o i am;i.inl".i ov to relieve th w rn of their .'ist ess. The tropical !.... nl:ij ;d in heat, si lence and hall -vl.itiibtr. At S o'clock Benoni roused the l.Hlo cir.ivan, and after a hasty supper, to! I them to make dy for u lon. '.. 1 ride. Ail nU;h tin v Jo.irneyed. Vhr ugh desert wastf' -wid over rocky .itnesses, up (teep mountains and ucroas half-stagnant, shullow rivers. And even when the dawn came there was no resting. The horses. Jaded ari'l covered with a i ojI' i o ' dust and 'wm, stuck theii r. WEST Iif 'istlessly to tho hilly slopes. Larry was weak as n woman, and Johnny too worn to talk. The sun centered tho ky when Benonl let them halt. They were just past a strip of desert waste, and near a tiny oasis of parched gras and scrawny palms. A murky pool of water miclied them with resemblances of Apollinaria, r.eltners. Ice-flushed lemonades and carbonated beverages to be quaffed ill the blessed land at home. Johnny, exhausted, had dropped from his horse and was trying to drag him self towards the muddy pool. Benoni was as unshaken as the palm tree standing motionless in the desert calm. He pulled Johnny up, bolstered him along with a draught from his flask, und set him to rights generally. "How are you, Morris?" he nsked. "Oh, fair," replied Larry. This gaunt American found it hard to admit phy sical inferiority to the black. ' "We can rest but an hour or two," volunteered Benonl, curtly. "Then we must go on." "But where?" asked Larry. "I con fess I wanted to go Into darkest Afri ca, but this affair Is growing too shad owy for me. I don't caro about being handled like a packinghouse cow!" Benoni turned a reproachful eye upon him. "I have promised to help you find the girl you seek, can you not rely upon me? I know my Africa, I am trusting you, and trying to repay you for aiding me to escape from that cafe mob that corral tilled with worse than the beasts of the jungle drunken, infuriated swine that once were men." "Hello, what's this?" nsked Johnny. "I'm always finding things now ain't I? Look at this, und in the desert, too!" Ho held up to view a plumo pigeon. Apparently it had been hurt in a fight with some heavier denizen of the air. Kor it was qnite dead, and its head was severed almost from its body. Benonl reached out his hand for the bird. "Doves like that nest in but one place in all this continent," he remark ed, and his face became ashen gray as he noted the odd markings of purple and brown on its snowy breast. "Only one place," ho repeated. Johnny had been turning the bird over and over, rumpling up the help less wings. Something caught his oy, and he held -the dead dove out with up raised wing for the others to see. Scratched on Its wing in rude letters they read: "Betty Laneey, Africa!" "Betty!" cried Larry. Then he seiz ed Benonl by the wrist. "If doves like that nest In but one place on this con tinent, take us there, take us at once. What place is It? Where? Would she be safe? Or in the hands of savages?" "That is where we have been trav eling to, my friend," answered Benonl. "I had suspected, but I had not cer tainly known. We will not even rest for the hour, if you wish." "I must." answered Johnny. "Safety razors! I'm beat out. I'm not a camel In the legs, if I can go without a drink for six months!" "Tell me, tell me something," plead, ed Iarry. But the sands were not more silent. Benonl made but one reply. "I dare not. It might destroy all hope!" Day after day, clinked off this ardu ous travel. Once they met a caravan and Benonl bargained for fresh horses. The erstwhile novelty was succeeded by a feverish unrest. Both Americans were dead with fatigue, the little Arab stood the Journey well, and Benonl was In the pink of condition. Ten days later they found a second pigeon. This ane was alive and fluttered to their very luncheon table. Larry cov ered It with his hat, and bent its wings back fiercely only to And a bitter dis appointment, for there was no message traced upon the wing. Two days later they reached a native village, hanging tassel-like upon the borders of an immense jungle. Benoni hired beaters to break tho way for them, and for a week they Journeyed In a setting of tropic grass and dusky skins. One morning Larry awoke to find the camp deserted of all but Be noni and Johnny. The horses were gone and even the little Arab had dis appea red. "What! are we lost in this Jungle? Betrayed and deserted?" questioned Larry. "No, indeed, I sent them away. We cannot leave here till nightfall, so sleep again or lounge till I return," re plied Benonl. "I will be back in a few hours." Divesting himself of his garments, Benonl swathed his loins with a girdle of flexible grass, and strode away in to the fastnesses of the thicket. Larry roused the sleeping Johnny rudely. "Firehead, get up, and tell me what you think of it," he commanded. Johnny, roughly disturbed from dreams of home, kicked viciously tn Larry's grasp. "Can't you let a fellow sleep when he's having a pleasant dream?" he de manded. "You're worse thun an alarm clock! " "Look around and go dream again," growled Larry. Johnny sat up. "Safety razors!" ho cried. "What's become of them?" "What's going to become of us?" grunted Larry. "Benon! said he'd be back." "Then I think he will," allowed Johnny. "Did ho leave us anything to eat?" "There's soma dates, that confound ed meal cake they make in this coun try u..." some f.gs," itemized Larry. "ar.(, t y, Johnny, thes' ;ok like hen' ibs!" "Well, you can fimpl them, ' won't!" declared uhn iv, with visions of t!;e Ktoa.achie m- el that had be set him early on the route, thanks ro an overly curious appetite. "I'll stick to tho viands that have come the least near to killing tno during our African '-jro.-rlnatloh. Were we foo, ti come, t rr, or not?" Oh, I don't know, quit your kick ing," said larry. "I suppose If Be nonl don't come back we might stay here all night." I reckon we z.'V added Johnny. (grvnly their meal finished, they fell to play lng mumblo-pcg In the clearing where camp had been struck. Mumble-peg felling as a tlmo-klller, they tried roll ing marbles out of the soft clay, end had put up a very passable game or T "Mlbs" when they luard a rustling end crackling In the brush nnd foliage around them. "Bets on u lion," said Johnny. "h, make it a cannibal king or a boa constrictor," suggested Iirry. "Something novel!" Benonl appeared at the edge of the clearing. "Larry wins," was Johnny's greet ing. "I bet on a lion ho said 'twas u cannibal king approaching." "I'm neither," answered Benonl. "I want to sleep. I worked all night while you fellows rested. Will you keep watch for me? Wake mo nt tha slightest sound. Anil if I'm not up '. y starlight, cull me tin .1. Don't forget." Long before that hour, though, the great black was up and ready. All of their luggage he stacked In a great heap nnd set tire to It. They waited till the pile gave signs of thorough Ig nition, then led by Benoni the trio set out through the jungle. The walk was a light for breath There were briars that pricked, gnats that stung, knotted vines that trippcvl unwary feet. Sometimes the foot stepped upon a sodden snake, causing the reptile to coll around tho ankle In a horrifying snarl. But Benonl paused for nothing. With one arm plunged forward, with tho other he grasped hold of Larry and bade him pull John ny in their wake. This nightmare struggle lasted not longer than a quar ter of un hour, but when they had come out of the Jungle Larry was i- " " uiB winu una Johnny was too far gone for words. A tramp over an arid plain brought them to a loathsome, turgid stream. Prom a small cove in the bank Benonl punted out a flat-bottomed scow with small sail. He leaped Into It and bade tho others follow. Then began a pull to which the struggle through the Jun gle was-as child's play. The days and the nights had all the furies' tortures far outdone. And through It all they lived! This was the wonder that came to Larry afterward. Eor they fought hand to hand battles with snakes and hideous water reptiles, fat crocodiles leered at them and more than once sent them scurrying high on the bank. Once the punt overturned and Benonl stood breast high in water, a black, slimy ooze that reached to Harry's chi:i and almost overflowed into his mouth. Poor Johnny, the shortest of the three. was carried off his feet and almost drowned, but they got ashore somehow, hut all their food except two tins of biscuits in waterproof canisters were soakrd. This happened their third day on the river, and they had yet anoth er day's travel ahead of them. The next day the rains commenced and the river teemed with the floods. Benoni moored the punt at the mouth of a cave that yawned from a little hillock on what had once been the river's bank. (To be continued.) JAPAN'S ANCESTRAL GODS. nnnklncr lllrn n 1 I .1 . . Quaint Ceremony Performed livery ai Yeara Since A. I). OOO. One of the most marvelous mani festations of patriotic and religious enthusiasm in modern Japan was oc casioned recently by the transference of the imperial shrines at Ise to their new tablernaclcs just completed, the London Standard says. This remark able Shinto festival may be witnessed only every twenty-one years, when the temples of the ancestral gods are re constructed and the sacred objects are removed to their new abode. The Ise temples have been thus renewed every score of years since A. D. 690 at least and for how long before that no c-e knows, the present occasion being the fifty-seventh rebuilding on record. Such a periodic reconstruction will appear quite necessary when It is rec ollected that on these shrines no mor tal hand Is ever permitted to execute repairs. After they are built the gods of the nation take possession of them and thenceforward they are not touch ed till they go the way of ail thlng3. At all times Ise is the niecca of the Japanese patriot, but on so notable an occasion as this thousands flock from all parts of the empire. The work of rebuilding the sacred shrines begins almost as soon as tho last reconstruction is complete by the appointment of an imperial commis sion intrusted with the Important en terprise. Every stage is marked by religious ceremonies, from the felling of the trees to the driving of the last nail. The completion is emphasized by a special festival of purification, after which the temples pass from the hands of the commissioners to the priestly custodians of the imperial 1 shrines. Finally comes the great festival of removing the ancestral gods and the sacred treasures and relics to the new "holy of holies," which took place this month. It is computed that no fewer than 40,000 persons were present on the night of the actual removal. Though the august spectacle takes place at night, the preparation for It appears to go on for two or thren days previously, but the ceremonies of the notable day Itself are the most Interesting. The day opened with the appearance before the new temple of a specially chosen virgin, who went through a peculiar ceremony of bury ing in the ground before the shrine a Jar containing offerings to the god of earth. This observance is Intend ed as an act of thanksgiving for th successful completion of the new abode of the ancestral gods. Later in the day began a long pro cession of priests in gorgeous robes of green and gold, chanting weird litanies and motioning sutras to the strains of archaic instruments. It is affirmed that the service has In no respect been changed dining the last thousand year-. With tho "oUMnz down of darrnef i came : frea funct'vu f MMiio.ul. A dVuel' i:ent of pi les, v i Jfj oy a princely representative of the im perial house, went Into the soon to be abandoned shrines to examine the treasures and to measure the sacred fabrics. As the latter are reputed to be more '.h.vx 330.000 feet u 'ength, this was no small matter. la Self-I)efre. "You didn't really need a wig." "I was driven to It. ::ew tha bar ber "7.""'t try to sell mi anv tonlce or ha'. restorer." Loulavii:. Courler I ( w Wly iiuo wV hxai or clung , 0r v-a ot 4;er caupetloa (