THE OMAHA DAILY THURSDAY, MAY 17, mOO. 0 V Your Education is Not Complete Unless You Have a Good Dictionary High Schools everywhere are giving the finishing touches to the education of thousands of youg men and women. Parents should follow this up : with still further equipment. What would make so suitable a present as a Standard Dictionary? One of the most important needs in a student's life when he enters college, is a good Dictionary. We are orieri ng tne public sucn an opportunity as tney nave never naa betore ana may never nave again. Make your boy or girl a present of a 4 r r r r v : r : f Standard Dictionary, $8.00 One Volume, Bound in sheep, and One-third Below the Regular Price Here is what some prominent educators and professors say of The Standard: 0 '., 0 ; .;, 0 4, ,:, 0 v. roi.i.r.i.i:. : v s vi:vn: Council Mliifrs. Iowa, May (S, I UK). ; .Messrs. Funk A: WiikiiiiIIs. New York, 0 X. 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The Standard Dictionary is conspicuously free from these draw backs, and it cannot fall to command the approval and admiration of the en lightened English-speaking public the world over." i i '''' j' i 'i'i' ' ij y 4'i' i' ',4' ' &S' '! $i' - Megeath Stationery Company ,5, t t ' 1308 Farnam Street, Omaha, : : J II 1 i. : s,s?. ? $$ 4S$ I bo shot down from anibmh. Had I notloncnlnc wo bad to climb un three stono ! XOTKD (iOTHAJI CIIAHACTKII. llolelnR hcuxc. Purlins tho Journey she I 1112(1, ivi: l in CICWIUJAT. A MOUNTAIN SIREN. BY JOHN WINTIIUOl' (1KEEX. J)S $ "! 'V -t- 4 -i' (Copyrlsht, by tho Author.) When a man ban a story to tell I believe Jin should be permitted lo tell It In hi own nay, and that the render should not sneer nd crltlclso because tho toller must use mo personal pronoun and perhaps refer to bl perception or his prowess. If It Is his adventure bow can ho avoid aaylnK, "1 did thus or so?" If his couraRO pulled him out ot n tight plnco why seek to demean H? A man Is what ho 13. If things have harpened to him which may bo of Interest to others, let him wrlto of them as they took place, whether ho wns a hero or a craven. Your"ntlas"wlll show you that the eastern Carpathian mountains form a portion of tho boundary lino betweon Servla and Bulgaria, If you crosa nnywhero to tho north of rirot you must croas tbo range. In my wander ings afoot I had plunned to cross tho rango by the public road between Plrot nnd Nlssa, but for three days I was a guest at a poor llttlo -waysldo Inn In the shadow of tho foothills. This Inn differed In no degree from a hundred others, being only a wretched apology for a houso of entcrtaln tnent, but 1 had mado a long tramp and wanted a bieathtng spell beforo tho long and nigged ascent. Tho landlord was a silent. Tno'roso man, giving mo llttlo attention, and his wlfo was a sloven with n face which a enan would look at twlco only for Its wickedness. Tho beds and the faro were of tho meanest, but, as I had expected nothing better, 1 was not disappointed. On tho fcecond day of my arrival, as 1 vns walking along tho banks of a utream lialf a mllo from tbo Inn, nn Kngllsh pedes. rlan camo nlong. That Is, ho was u pe destrian In tho senso thnt ho was afoot. As foon as ho learned who I wns, ho told me that a couBln ot his had Journeyed that way threo months before, but had mysteriously disappeared. Tho missing man had been traced as far as Pirot. Ho was known to liavo set out for the mountain road, but lie could not bo traced Into Ilulgarla. Somo whern on tho mountain trail ho had van' lshed from sight. The story did not inter est mo overmuch. American nnd Kngllsh pedestrians abroad have a habit of dlsap rearing from tho world now and then, and It Is learned later on that they were tucked Rway In somo obscuro Inn or camped amidst pome old ruin. The searcher passed cn to my Inn and mado Inquiries, nnd two hours later Informed mo that he had secured no news. That evening a neconil searcher arrived. Ho was a native Servian, living at I.esko- vatz, and had been hired by a Frenchman to prosecute Inquiries regarding tho dlsap jiparanco ot n young man of 20 who wa:i making a pedestrian tour. Indeed, I soon recalled the fact of meeting tho young man nt Somomlrla two months previously. Ho bad headuj for thn Carpathians and Bul garia, and ho had also disappeared In the mountains, Even whon the two disappear ances wero coupled together I saw nothing alarming. It was not until tbo third day that I felt I had camio for speculation. Thon a police official, who had been sent out from Novlbasar by the widowed mother of a young man who had disappeared as mys teriously as tho other two, reached tho Inn. This young man, -who nlmply set out for a two weeks' tramp In order to boast ot having crorsed tho Carpathians, had been traced to within nvo mllii of the Inn, but the landlord nnd his daughter stoutly denied that ho had ever reached It. Thcro were roada by which ho could havo .branched oft and continued hU way, but yet the official ij, ( f, i;. VJ- i 'y ' was not satisfied. Ho frankly told me that ho believed young Hull had come to tho Inn nnd been mado way with for the money bo carried. I had seen nothing suspicious, and he had no raal grounds for an accusa tion, hut he went away saying that he would havo tho placo -watched. I was ready to take my departure on the fourth day, when thcro was a sudden ehango In the demeanor ot the landlord and his wife. All at ooco they became ob sequious and smiling and solicitous. A nlco lunch was put up for me. and they refused pay for It. I was given tho clearest direc tions and "was told that almost as soon as I had tK'gun tho ascent of the mountain I would find an Interesting ruin a little oft tho road. It was something I ought not to miss, and they kept extolling It until I promised to turn aside. I set off In good spirits, though wondering a bit as to tho sudden nnd singular chango In tho peoplo ot tho Inn, nnd by noon I had covered a dis tance of twclvo miles. I passed two Inns without stopping, nnd HkcwLso tbreo or four peasants' huts, and whon I sat down to rest It was on a largo stono by the roadsldo and clo'o bc3do onci ot tho branches of tho Danube. I nibbled nt lunch as I rested, and I had been sitting perhaps twenty minutes when a young woman with a flsh pole In her hand suddenly appeared. I gavo her goodday, as a matter of course, and was not much surprised when sho laid down her polo and enmo nnd sat beside mo nnd began to ask questions. Sho was a peasant girl of nbout 21, better dresjod and bet ter looking than tho average, and In ad dressing a stranger sho broko no rulo of conventionality according to tho peasant code. I Invited her to share my lunch, and presently wo were chatting away llko old acquaintances. In 100 Instances the peasants of Scrvla bad displayed more curiosity than a born Yankee, but this girl went deeper than any of them. Some of her questions were answered and some turned aside, but sho certainly came to know a good deal about me. I was a single man. and I had not com municated with my trlcndB for months. I wbh strolling from point to point to Btudy tne people nnd see tho country, nnd was not expected at nny particular point In Bul garia. Peasant though sho was, sho had the gift of n lnwyer In extracting Informa tion. An hour slipped away, and then n man nppeared. He was also fishing, or pretending to, and as he rame In sight she called him and he Joined us nnd was In troduced as her brother A glance from face to face made mo doubt the relationship. In may own mind I flsured that he was her husband. He tried to smile and show a pleasant face, but I Instinctively felt that he was n rascal. Ho had a furtive eyo and a bad mouth, and I though I caught signal between the pair. Such a thing as fear, however, had no place In my heart, I had no weapon aside from my stout stick, but I was ntrald of no man by daylight on a public highway. I was ready to movo on, when tho woman spoko ot the castle ruins. They were only ii step away, sho said, and If I missed thum I would be sorry forever after. Tbo man nt onco added his persuasion, but as 1 was ready to go with them ho claimed to havo loft his knlfo n hundred rods awaj1 and set out after it and left tho two ot us to walk on together. Trom tho moment we started I noticed a change In her. She looked nbout apprehensively, her laughter was forced, and her demeanor put me on jny guard.. It was, as It sho expected m to bo shot down from ambuih. Had I not been ablo to seo the old ruins alme.?t as soon as we started I should have doubted that they existed. As It was, I found my self 'wondering If this pair was In any man ner connected with tho dlsappearanco of tho tourists. 1 was on my guard for what might happen, and yet I did not betray rr.ytclf. I kept up the conversation as we walked nlong, nnd I am sure sho took mo for an easy victim. I rather expected to ho fired on from some rock as soon as we were off the road, but by and by wo heard tho man calling from the ruins, nnd I realized that tho ambush would bo there It any where. As wo halted on the plateau It was easy to make out that a vast building had stood mere once, l enould have slid a monastery, but tbo woman Insisted that It was a great castle belonging to somo mighty prince, and that It had besn destroyed by an earthquake. We wandered among tho acre of ruins as wo talked. As wo nearcd what must havo been tho rear of tho building, I found that the walls stood almost on tho brink of a precipice. Hcfore 'opening wo bad to climb up three stono! steps, nnd sho stood for a moment lcoklngj out and clinging to the wall for support. "You will see a fine view a fino view." she said, as ehe mado room for me. "Step out nnd look up and down." I did not step out. Tbcro was something so modern nbout that platform and It had been built so deftly that 1 feared It. I sim ply clung to the wall and thrust my head out and I wan looking up the valley when tho woman gave mo n push with all her strength. Her hand did not strike mo fair or my hold would havo been broken. I was whirled half way round and partly thrown down, but as I recovered my footing I swept hor aside with my arm and she went to tho ground with a scream. Next Instant the man camo dashing through the doorway I In the wall. He bad a knife In his hand and j he meant murder. I leaped down to meet I him, that I might havo frco play for my staff, and I bcllovo wo battled for ten mln- ut03. Still lying on tbo ground, the woman seized my legs and tried to pull mo down, but I kicked her away and gavo all my at- THE MAN CAMB DASHING THROUGH THE DOORWAY KNIKK IN HAND. us was what had been a large room, with three of tho walls yet standing. There wcro no less than nvo window openings, anil as I advanced to one of them tho woman ta!d: "No take this one. My brother has built a platform from which you can look up and down the valley for miles." A peculiar something In her voice caused me to glanco at her fare, and I found It palo and her features working In a nervous way. U was tho window, then, which was thu ambush? My heart beat against my ribs, but I meant to see tho thing to a finish. Tho man had called to ur, but we had not seen him sinco arriving at tho ruins. With a laugh that sounded more like a croak the woman pulled herself together and pre coded me, to tho wudow. To reach tb tentlon to tho man. Ayo! ibut that fellow was crafty and villainous and determined. Had I fought him with a knlfo he would soon havo nettled me. It was tho stout staff which kept him off and It was tbo staff which finally dealt him a blow that laid him out unconscious. I looked for tho woman as I stopped to breathe, but sho had disap peared. I went over to tho window and ex amined the platform and found that It was sustained by a lover which could be pulled out and allow the bottom to drop. As tho man begun to return to life I lifted up my staff and beat him 'till I was weary and then 1 went my way up the mountain road. That ambush had gathered at least three victims, but it was not for me to carry a mystery to the police and be detained In a filthy Jail for months or years, whllo they took their time to uolvo l Whnt Forty Yrarn of Thrift Ilroimlit to Apple .Mar'. Thrift tells. Apple Mary will prove it for you. Long ago say forty years ago thrift and tho greed of gain gripped tho hnnr, nt hni Gho i ... I n U ...... ' ... u, v u. uvt. .jmu nan ,,, iuu HHUIU ,UI IUIIU awaiting, relates the New York Journal. Rut It was fortune that should not como by any sudden climax. It meant hard, tor did, unflagging thrift. It meant to forego tho vanities of pleasure and dress. She won It. Yesterday the police arrested Applo Mary In Hanover square for begging. Rut that Is a mero detail neither hero nor there. It served, however, to bring out the fact that In forty years sho has accomplished her purpose. It means that today Applo Mary can write at will large figures "5,000 and that before them she can set this magic mark $. Applo Mary's real name Is Mary Ward, of somewhero In the counties of Ireland. Forty years ago, almost to n day, Slary Ward nnd her sister, Kate, stepped off an Immigrant ship at the port of New York. Mary was 19 nnd her sister 17. They were fresh colored, bright-eyed nnd beaming with hope. Fortuno did not come as quickly as tho 6angulno sisters expected. Marriage seemed tho easiest means or comfort, so tho wetker slater married. Mary concluded to keep on. Tho yoan passed ten years or more, maybe nnd sho wns no longer a girl. Rut sho had saved, not much, perhaps, but still something. In tho old Fourth ward was a politician who thought n great deal of Mary. Ho felt that ho would llko to do something for her. Ho asked whether thorn was anything In tho world by which ho might prove dovotlon and friendship. "Well," said Mury. musing, "you might get a body the right to soli apples nnd pasties down be Wall and Nassau streets." Ho got It. Thon ho went away. Mary opened her stand on the corner, nnd dis played apples as round nnd rosy as her own cheeks had been. They were good apples, and they sold. Meanwhile I'-.ry saved. Sho UBed to see her sister In ribbons nnd now hats and things llko thnt, but Mary had none. She had Instead pennies and dimes and quarters. After a whllo tho figure of Mary becamo familiar In Wall etrrct. The brokers nnd bankers got to know Apple Mnry. Riifscll Sago lias bouuht his luncheon 'more time's from Mary thnn a good many other mil lionaires havo bought theirs at Delmonlco's. Sometimes Mary's Influential friends gavo her a quiet tip on tho market nnd onco In a while once In a great while Mary took n flyer. Sho was never nipped but onco and that was on Rlack Friday, when one day sho was worth $30,000 and on tho next day exactly nothing at all. A few men blow out their brains on that occasion, but 'Mary began nnow. When ordinary persons mako n fortuno and retire they set out to enjoy thcmeelves. That's what Mary did, too, Tho brokers and tho bankers, tne treasury officers, the policemen and tho meascngor boys missed hor from tho corner. Somo of Mary'e old tlmo friends wero. a bit astonished subi'qucntlv te find Mary begging In the trot. When Mary, with outstretched palm, nppo-ilod for the mercy of alms, they expressr 1 th!r astonishment. "Suro, your honor," Mary nnswored them, "nnd can't a body enloy herself v. in wav or t'other?" A policeman raw Mary sta-wrln.-r Mcr-i? Hanover q'ia-o f.? Iiy. weighted down under a hoivy Joirt. On r.i.o nrni -.vi:e a basket laden '.v,th a vitiol nnsnrtmont t.t rubbish; things that n pauper would throw away, but etlll valuable to nno of Mary's thinking thrift. Vp nnd down the street she plied, wheedling and pleading for pen nies. She went eontentedly to the police sta tion and from there she went to the city lolglng hcuho. I'urlng tho Journey she clung desperately to her basket. At the lodging, when It was taken from her. It was found to be a floating bank. In a pillow ehani nt tho bottom of tlii basket were r,5G3 pennies. They weighed exactly twenty-thrco pounds and six ounces and wero of n total value of J5,'.63. Sewed to tho lining of her waist wero two $-0 notes, one $5 note, a $1 note and half a J2 note. Tbero was nlso the record of n roal estate fansactioa with Uiwton G. Kennedy. The mipcrlntcndcnt insisted upon thn money jplnc into the safo and Mary In sisted upon a counting nnd a receipt, it took four clerks half on hour to count the pennies. "Sure," raid 'Mary, "It was nil a body could make In a week." COST OK .SOITH Al'UlCAX Till I'. Plenty of Muiiey .-,ONiinry to .MnLr llii loiiru.-y. "Well," said tho man who know somrtH'ng about it te a Chicago Inter-Ocean reporter, "If you want to go to South Africa you havo got to havo money or you have got to swim. Swimming Is slow because It Is fi.OOO miles from London to Capo Town nnd -1,000 inllea from Chicago to London, or to Southampton, from which port the ehlps sail. You can go from tho other side by thn German Kast African line, 'but that takes you around to Delagoa bay only. There nre iocmI Kng llsh lines, but tho best nro tho Union i.ud Castlo lines, nulling every Saturday from Southampton, Tho fare from hero to Lon don is anything you wnnt to mako It from $C0 up. From London to Capo Town by Royal Mall ixmtn Is J200 tlrst class, $128 sec ond class, $C7 third and tho usual tlmo Is seventeen days. "Ry Intermediate boats first rlars faro Is $181, second $117, third $67 and tho tlmo Is twenty-ono days. If you want to camp out you can get nn open berth ticket for $52. Tho German lines so through the Mediter ranean, stopping nt Lisbon, Naples. Zanzi bar nnd other ports. Tho British and co lonial boato sail every two weeks from Lon don, as do tho Aberdeen boats, but thrso latter go direct to Port Natal. Reforo tho war you could get tickets direct from Lon don to Johannesburg vln Natal, but you can't now. The faro was $251 first class, $1C2 second and $103 third, with n JO per cent lefti rate by Intermediate boats. When you have got to Capo Town you will find rail road travel expensive nnd distances about ns stretched out as in tho United States. "For Instance, It is 1,01 ( miles to Johan nesburg and Jt costs, first class, $37 to get there, or nearly six crnts a mile, doublo the usual rate In this country. Second class was $39 and third $21. Time, two days. From Capo Town to Kimborlcy, which is now open, tho distance Is 017 ml Ice, and tho fare, first cIhss, Is, or was 'beforo the war, $10, second $27, third $13, and the tlmo wns a day and a half. From Capo Town to Iluluwnyn It U 1,360 miles nnd tho first c1rr3 faro Is $!0. second $60, third $28 nnd tho tlmo Is four days. That, you see, gives you plenty of time and opportunity to spend money for bed and board, though I don't bellevo they havo our kind of sleeping cars down there. Tho railway tlmo from Durban to Johannes burg was twenty-Hovon hours and to Pre toria twenty-nlno hours. Incidentally I may add that If you want to do any telegraphing you will find It somewhat expensive also, tho rato from Kngland to West African points running from $1.01 a word to $2.01, while to tho cast coast It runs from $1.21 to $1.3S. It Is a bit cheaper In South Africa, being 97 cents to Capo Town, Natal and tho South African republic and the Orange Free State and $1.01 to $1.07 to other polnte. Taking It nil In nil n man doesn't wnnt to start to South Africa with much less than $1,000 In his pocket If he expects to got back home again without having to work his way." Huropean expositions havo awarded their premiums to only one American champagne, Cook's Imperial Extra Dry. Try It. ' run Once I, n rue In Tlilm ('oiiii(i-), hut ) Mcnillly Hi-im-ciixIiik. I What In the matter with buckwheat? 'Cakes made of It and eaten warm nro re 'garded ns very nutritious anil are still n favorlto article of food with many thou- band3, but for nil that tho cultivation of tho grain Is steadily declining, it must be that a great many have stopped eating buck wheat cakes, rcporto tho New York Sun, for thero Is certainly a great deal le...s buck wheat to ho eaten than In former iI.ijh. Thlrty-llvo years ago tho farmers of our country sowed, every year, over 1,000,00(1 acres In buckwheat. Sluce then the crop has sometlmcn been larger. sometlme3 smaller, but, on the whole, the acreago and yield have been almost steadily decreasing. In 1898 the acreace was 078,332, only a little more than half that of thlrty-fivo years ar.n. and thu yield wns only 11,700,000 bushels, which wns Just abnut one-half the yield at the close of the civil war. No explanation of this great decline In buckwheat raising has been made. It Is probable, however, that the unreliability of tho crop, which Id sometimes large and some times small, without nny apparent reason for the variation, him discouraged a great mnny farmers. Another reason for the decline may bo tho larger use within tho pant fow yearn of cereal preparations, especially wheat, all of which ccmo under the general designa tion of hygienic foods. These preparations hno prcbably won many peteons from their allcglanco to buckwheat cakes. If buckwheut raising continues to decline, perhaps tho bees most of all will miss tlio fields, for they nro very partial to tho flow ers of thlti plant, which eecrcte a great deal of honey, that Is not, however, of tho Hist quality, as ovcrybody knows who has eaten It. Ruckwhont Ik not raised widely over tho world, and this fact makrs t decline In Amorlcn, whero It Is most largely grown, nil tho molt Intcrruilng. Russia and Franco nro about tho only couutrlra In Kurnpo that produce It, and Great llrltnln has never taken kindly to buckwheat cakes and Im ports very llttlo of tho grain. J. Q. Hood, Justice of th Rcaic. Crosby, Miss., makes tho following statement: 'I rnn certify that One Minute Cough Cure will do all that Is claimed for It. My wlfo could not get her breath nnd tho first doso of It relloved her. It has also benefited my whole family." 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