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' To tho houaowifo who has not yot fcocomo acquainted with tho now things of everyday use in the market and who la reasonably oatlBflod with tho old, wo would suggest that a trlul of Defiance Cold Water Btarch bo mado at once. Not alone bccaiiBO it la guaranteed by tho manufacturers to bo superior to any other brand, but because each 10c packngn con tains 16 ozs,, whllo all tho other kinds contain but 12 ozs. It is safo to say that tho lady who onco uses Dofianco Btarch will uso no other. Quality aud quantity must win. A light heart sometimes means a light bend. WaoOporM. Lewis' "Slnglo Binder," straight Oc cigar, conta moro tlinn other brands, but this price gives the denier a fair profit and tho smoker a better cigar. Thero Is reason for everything, but it is often inscrutable. Flattery Is seldom Buspected by tho eager recipient. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES color Bilk, Wool and Cotton at one boiling. If. a man has neither friends nor enemies ho has lived in vain. Mother Omj'i Street I'owrtera for Children. Successfully used by Mother Gray, nuno In the Children's Homo In Now York, euro Constipation, Foverisbness, Bnd Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulato tho Bowels and Destroy Worms. OverfiO.OOO tos-t'-Tionlals. At all druggists, 25o. Samplo FREE. Address A. S. OlmstoU, LoRoy, N. Y. A man never forgives a woman for being moro clover thnn ho things him self. Sarcasm has many admirers, but no friends. Platonic lovo is tho dried beef of eontinient Pi , 57 . i' l" Tho Champion Milch Cow. " Utlca, N. Y., 1ms recently won dis tinction through a Holsteln-Frlesinn cow, Sadlo by nnmo whlch.or perhaps mich a cow as Sadlo ought to bo re ferred to as "who" Is a rcsidont of that plnco. Sadlo has broken tho world's thirty-day record for milk giv ing and butter producing. In tho thir ty days during which Sadlo was put to tho test sho produced a fraction over 2,751 pounds of milk, from which wns extracted 123 pounds, 8V6 ounces of butter. In other words, tho milk that Sadlo gave during tho thirty days' contest would have been sufficient to drown her had it been tanked and sho thrown in, whllo hor month's sup ply of buttor, If packed In tho ordinary bricks, would havo served to mako around her a wall so high that sho could hardly havo jumped over it. A Cure for Rheumatism. Alhambra, 111., March 23d. Physi cians are much puzzled over tho caso of Mr. F. J. Oswald of this plnco. Mr. Oswald suffered much with Rheuma tism and was treated by doctor after doctor with tho result that ho got no better whatever. They 6ecmed un ablo to do nnythlng for him, and ho continued to suffer till ho heard of Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mr. Oswald began a treatment of this remedy, which very soon did for him what tho doctors had failed to do and they cannot understand It. This Is tho same remedy that cured Hon. Fred A. 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ALLIANCE, NEBRA8KA. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. A heavy carthquako shock was ex perienced at Whlto Sulphur Springs, Mont. A vein of sllca four feet thick has boon discovered near tho Mississippi river in Union county, Illinois. Tho Joint scale commltteo of the Iowa mine operators reached an agree ment affecting tho scale of tho First district. Tho legislative council of Arizona passed tho equal suffrage bill report ed frorx tho houso by a two-thirds ma jority vote. Tho American Br Id go company took forty men of Marietta, O., to tako tho places of the men who nro out on a sympathetic strike. Francis Whltmoro, an American about 30 years old, committed suicldo in tho Hotel Jardin at Mexico City by taking morphine. Salllo Harris, aged 107 years, died at hor homo in Bartlctt, Ohio. Sho wno born in West Vlrgina, nnd wa3 never sick in her life. Tv,elvo hundred employes of tho Chicago Shipbuilding company will resumo work Thursday aft-r a Btrlko of moro than bIx weeks' duration. Tho peoplo of Mamaroneck, N. Y., decided at their village election that they did not want tho $10,000 library offered them br Andrew Carnegie. A deed of record haB been filed at Pierre, S. D., transferring, for a con sideration of $1, all the lines of tho Elkhorn railway, to tho Northwestern. An eight-hour day and a wago sehedulo of 40 cents per hour will pre vail with all tho carpenters In tho building tradeB of Vancouver, B. C, after April 1. Tho name of tho new cup defender to meet tho Shamrock III, will bo Oli ver Isolino. This was officially an nounced by the secretary of tho New York Yacht club. Tho Rev. Dr. George D. Adams, formerly president of Des Moines col lege, has received a unanimous call to tho pastorato of tho First Baptist church, Williamsburg, N. Y. David Mitchell, probably the oldest man In Illinois, celebrated his 102d birthday anniversary on tho farm in Sheridan township, Ixigan county, where ho resides with his son. Harry A. Barrows, formerly dis bursing officer of tho census bureau, who was dismissed somo months ugo for embezzlement, was sentenced to three y.cars in tho penitentiary. Tho Grand Army men nro protesting against tho action of tho railroads in demanding a rate of $71 from Atlantic coast points to tho national encamp ment to be held at San Francisco In August. Tho Louisiana supremo court rend ered a decision sustaining tho right of tho legislature to pass tho Wilson law provding for separate accommo dations for white nnd blacks in tho street cars. Two hundred employes of the Iro quois pearl button factory, at Dubuque walked out when tho superintendent discharged members of a grievance committee who demanded tho dls chargo of a foreman. Tho body of Mr3. Angela Chabot was found at Fall River, Mass., under a building used as a fish roaikct. Tho head had been badly battored, appar ently with a club. Tho police aro searching for her husband, whoso re lations with his wife aro said to have been unpleasant. Tho houso commltteo of tho Mis souri legislature appointed to investi gate tho recent charges of bribery in tho legislature at Jefferson City found two witnesses who refused to testify, and tho committee reported same to tho house, the report being made a special order for Wednesday, at 10 o'clock. Tho Venezuelan government ac cepts without reserve tho protocols signed by Minister Bowen and tho representatives of tho powers at Washington. Proof of this was shown n the payment to the German minister of the first installment, amounting to about $70,000 of tho $340,000 pledged to Germany. Protest is being mado by. the wool growers of tho country and by west ern railroads over tho action of the eastern lines in raising tho rates on wool 15 per cent from Chicago to tho seaboard. Tho staple has heretoforo been carried on a commodity tariff, but is now placed in the classes. Washed wool Is first-class and un washed Is third-class. The Missouri senate passed the bill to assess rates railroad, telephone and telegraph companios for road taxes. Lehigh Valley onglnemen, yard conductors, trainniou switchmen and engine wlpors wero given a 20 per cent Increase In wages. The annual report of the Hamburg American Steamship company shows tho not profits to have been $4,039,0C0, against $4,838,030 for 1901. A divi dend of 4 per cent was declared, against G per cent in the previous year. THE LION'S WHELP A Story of Cromwell's Tlmo BY AMELIA E. BARR. Author of "Tho How of Orange Ribbon- "I. Thou and th OthT On.." "Th Maid of Maiden Lmnt." Etc. ("Copyright. 1901, by Dodd, Mead & Company. All richts reserved.) CHAPTER V (Continued.) The man and tho time and the place had met and there waB no doubt ing It. His words burned this assur nnce Into tho hearts of all who heard him, and when ho struck his Bword hilt to cmpha8lzo them, they answered with the same movement, unconscious nnd simultaneous. In somo remarkable way this tre mendous national crisis had become known in every corner of tho Innd. And tho very vagueness and mystery oi mo conviction Intensified Its im portance, for generally tho informa tion camo as tho wind blows, no nnn knew whence. At Swaffham and do Wick this fate ful feeling was accravated hv boon personal lntorests. To Mrs. Swaffham and Jane the coming battlo might mean widowhood and orphanage. To dO Wldf It mlirflt mnnn !, nvlMl of the family, root and branch, the ioss to tno lonely earl and his daugh ter of tho ono lovo on which Iholr future could build any hope. on tho third afternoon, there camo rumors of a great Parliamentary vic tory, rumors that Charles Stuart had been slain In battlo, suppositions and sumises innumerable and contradic tory. Jano went as nulcklv na nnsHl. ble to do Wick, for If Indeed thero nati ueon a Royalist defeat, Stephen do Wick might havo reached hnmn nmi life was hardly to be borne, unless somo certainty relieved tho tension cutting like a tight thong tho heart and brain. Tho neglect nnd desolation of do Wick Park bad In It something un usual; It was that strange air of sor row, now and unaccepted, which in sists on recognition. It hurried Jane's stops; she felt sure she was either "Jane, Janel Why don't you going to meet trouble or that trouble was following after her. She entered tho hall and saw a man In his stock inged feet softly descending tho stairs. Iie knew his name and his occupation and her heart stood still with fear. "Is that you, Jane Swaffham?" cried Matilda, running down stairs. "Come here, come here, come here!" and seizing her by the arm, sho compelled Jano to ascend at her side. Jane mado no resistance to such impetu ous, Imperative passion, and she was hurried up the steps and along tho corridor until Matilda suddenly stopped and threw open the door of a darkened room. "Go In, Mistress Swaffham," sho cried, "and look your last on one of Cromwell's victims." And Jano shook herself freo, and stood a moment re garding the placid face of the dead priest. "Oh, God bo merciful!" said Jane, nnd Matilda answered, "Yes, for men know nothing of mercy. Come, there Is more yet." Then she opened tho door next to tho death chamber, and Jane saw ly ing on a great canopied bed the dying earl. His lust breaths wero coming In painful Bobs, but ho opened his eyes and looked mournfully at Jane for a few moments. Then tho physician sitting by his side motioned authori tatively to the two girls to leave the room. "Ho is dying. You see that. He may live till morning no longer," said Matilda; "he Is only waiting to seo Stephen, and Stephen will never come." "What can I do for you, dear? Oh, what can I do?" "I will have nothing from you, not even pity. I never wish to seo your face again. And how poor Stephen loved you! And you you havo not a tear for his fate. I thank God I am not of your profession. I can weep for tho death of those who loved me." With these words Matilda turned sobbing away, and Jane, slowly at first and then hastily, took the road to Swaffham. For sho remembered that the news which had i cached do Wick was probably at Swaffham. So she mado all possible haste, and as soon as she reached homo she was aware of a change. Her mother camo quickly towards hor. Hor look was Hurried, but not unhappy, as she cried, "Havo you the news, Jane? 'Tis the groatest victory that bath ever been in England, Dr. Verity came nn hour ago, bo tired bo could scarce ly sit his horse. He has had a warm drink and Bleeps, but ho says no vic tory was ever like it." "And my father and brothers? What of them?" "Your father is well; Tonbert and Will have some slight sword cuts. We must bo ready to go with Dr. Verity to London on Tuesday morning. Your father desires It. To-morrow, being Sabbath, wo can do nothing towards our Journey, but on Monday all must bo finished." Jano worked rapidly. Her little box was soon packed, her room put in or der, when thero was a sharp, Impa tient knock at tho door. Before sho could In any way answer it, Matilda do Wick entered and throw herself on her knees at Jane's side. "You said you would help me," she cried; "you said you would, with heart and hands! Now, Jane, keep your word!" "What Is It, Matilda? What is it you wish?" "It is Stephen; it is his friend Hugh Belward. They are searching do Wick for them now. I havo brought them to you. Jano, for God's sake spjo them; not for my sake, not for pity's sake, but for God's sake save them! They aro now outside this door. Jane, Jano! Why don't you let them In? Oh, for God's dear sake!" "How can I do what you ask me, Matilda? Think of what you ask" "I know; I ask life for two poor souls ready to perish. Jane, there Is no time to talk. Let them through tho door." "I will call mother," sho said; "let them in until I bring her here." Then sho opened ine door, and Matilda brought tho wayworn, bloodstained, let them In?" fainting fugitives within the sanctu ary. Mrs. Swaffham was not long in an swering Matilda's petition. "Surely, surely, my poor lads," sho said piti fully, "I will find hiding for you." "God Himself thank you, madamc," sobbed Matilda. "Father said you would." "Yes, dearie, nnd Will shall saddle a horse and take you home." "No, no, no! It would then bo known I had come here In the dark. No ono must know. I can find my way and I must now go." "Tell your father that they who would hurt the young men must hurt me first." "It will be the greatest, the last comfort ho can have in this world." Then she kissed her brother, and with a glance of farewell pity at his com panion, went quickly and quietly away. "Go downstairs, Jane," said Mrs. Swaffhnm, "and If Dr. Verity Is wait ing, order supper to be served. I will bestow our friends in the oak room, on the west side of the house." To this room she took thorn, and then brought water and wino and bread and meat, and some of her son's clothing, showing them, also, that the wide chimney had, been prepared for such emergencies by having stout, firm, iron stirrups placed right and left at very short intervals. "By these you can easily reach the roof," she said. She kissed them both and poured out wine and made them drink, and then left them to cat and rest. In tho parlor she found Dr. Verity eating a beefsteak pudding and talk ing to Jane, who sat with a white and anxloiiB face trying to smile and an swer him. "Come and rest a little, Martha." he said. "And what think you? Here come a half-a-dozen riders awhile ago, seeking young do Wick. They said also that it wns thought Charles Stu art might be with him, and they would havo searched Swaffham high and low If I had not been here. I think wo will begin our Journey to London on Monday morning, Martha." "I cannot. If I had as many hands as fingers, I could not. You may keep watch and ward to-morrow and Monday, and it may bo well to do so; for, to tell tho truth, I trust neither men nor maids In tho kitchen. For a Parliament half-crown they would hide the devil. When was this great battlo of Worcester fought?" "Last Wednesday, on tho third day of this month." "Mother, remember how sad wo were all that day. You said to me, 'Jane, thero is death In tho air;' and tho men could not work, and they vowed the beasts trembled and wero not to guide or to hold." "The third of September!" said Mrs. Swaffham, "that was Dunbar day. A great victory was Dunbar!" "Yes; and now there is peuce." "Peaco comes too late for many a family. Thero are the do Wicks." "I am sorry for them, and I could bo sorrier If they had suffered for tho right Instead of the wrong. What will tho young lady Matilda do after her father's death?" "Her aunt, Lady Jevory, has been written for, moro than a week ago. Sho may be at do Wick even now. I think Matilda will make her homo with tho Jovcrys." "Then she goes to London. I know their great houso near Drury Lane. It has very fine gardens Indeed. And now, Jane, dear, little Jane, listen to me. You are going to tho great city, to Whitehall palace, to Hampton court, to tne splendor and state of a great nation. You will be surround ed by military pomp and civil glory nnd social pride and vanity. Dear lit tle girl, keep yourself unspotted from tho world!" "May God help me, sir." "And let not tho tale of love be gullo you. Go often to the assemb ling of the saints and catch the morn ing dew and celestial rain of their prayers aud praise." Jane smiled gratefully, and her eyes wero dim with tears as she laid her handB in Doctor Verity's to clasp her promise. Yet when she reached her room and sat quiet In Its solitude, no ono will blame her because many thoughts of lovo and hope blended themselves with the piteous oncs'sho sent to de Wick, and to the two weary fugitives under Swaffham roof. CHAPTER VI. On the Tide Top. The great day of triumph was over. Cromwell had entered London at tho head of his victorious army, and the city was safe and Jubilant. Standing at her mother's side, Jane had wit nessed from a window In tho crowded Strand the glorious pageant of Lib erty. And In tho midst of this Joyful tur bulence she had caught sight of her father and brothers and lover; her father's face sternly glad, like tho faco of a man who had fought a good fight to asMiied victory; his sons Imitating his bearing, as well as youth could copy age; and the young lord not far from them, proud and radiant and carrying aloft the colors of tho Com monwealth. As yet they had not met, nor had Cluny any certain knowlcdgo of tho Swaffham's location. Mrs. Swaffham had learned that Cluny Neville was personally objectionable to her hus band and sons, and, as she could not see clearly what road to take, sho very wisely stood still, waiting for some light and guidance. And It seemed unnecessary to trouble Jano's heart until thero was a positive rea son for doing so; yet her depression and evident disappointment fretted her mother. "What Is the matter with you, Jane?" she asked Irritably one morn ing; "you look as If you had lost everything in tho world instead of be ing as your father thinks, right on tho road to many a good day. I wouldn't throw such a damp over things If I were you." "You seem to have forgotten Cluny, mother." "He seems to have forgotten us; he might have called, I think." "Does he know where wo are?" "He could have found out. And, Jane, It Is not maidenly to take any young man so seriously as you tako Lord Neville until your father and brothers are satisfied." (To bo continued.) THE MODERN MAIDEN'S TRO PHIES. Spoils of Victory Carried by Society's Sweet Pets. Wo saw a damsel on the train a damsel fair to see; her bonnlo eyes were glad and bright, her smile was ono of glee. Her bonnet wns the proper shape, her dress tho latest mode but, ah, the buttons, pins and things her natty costume showed! Six army buttons on her cuff lent It a semblance gay. (They were no imi tations, for they shouted, "U. S. A.!") Adown the bodice was a row that glowed with polish great ten but tons from tho soldier blouse that's fur nished by the state. Four yachting pins, a Jeweled badgo somo hero's deed had won; a golden trophy given to some expert with a gun. A Harvard pin, a Princeton pin, Noithwestern pins as well; U. C, U. I., U. M. She must havo been a col lego belle! Three golden links, a Mason's charm, an Alpha Beta stud wo won dered then how many youths had found their names were mud! Her finger bore a graven tea! the size that's made for men, and on her collar wo discerned a college pin, again. About her hat there stretched a baud from some grim man of war. Wo wondered at the ribbon there, and what sho wore It for. And ns we gazed, a youth who sat beside this damsel fair gave her a badge from off his vest; she tucked it in her hair! Lo, tho poor Indian, savage, crude, ill tempered, hard to tame ho ties his scalp locks to himself and gloata o'er them the samel Mrs. F. Wrieht. of Oclwein. Iowa, is another one of the million women who have been restored to health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A Young" New York Intly Tells of a Wonderful Cure: " My trouble wns with tho ovaries ; I am tall, and tho doctor said I grew too fast for my strength. I suffered dreadfully from inflammation and doctored continually, but got no help. I suffered from terrible dragging- sen sations with the most awful pains low down in the side and pains in the back, bnd the most agonizing headaches. No one knows what I endured. Often. I was sick to tho stomach, and every little while I would be too sick to go to work, for three or four days ; I work in a largo store, and I suppose stand ing on my feet all day made me worse. "At the suggestion of a friend of my mother's 1 began to tako Liydi. 13. Plnklmin's Vegetable Com pound, and it is simply wonderful. I felt better after tho fint two or three doses ; it seemed as though a weight was taken off my shoulders ; I con tinued its use until now I can truth fully say I am entirely cured. Young girls who are always paying doctor's bills without getting any help as I did, ought to take your medicine. It costs so much less, aud it is sure to cure them. Yours truly, Adei.aidk PnAni., 174 St. Ann's Ave., New York City." fSOOO forfeit If original of about IttUr proving genuineness cannot be produced. Lillian Rusell II. Lillian Russell's 16-year-old daugh ter, Lillian Russell Solomon, Is now In Paris preparing for a stage career. Lillian IL is said to be even prettier than her mother at the samo age. She Is possessed of a fine soprano voice and dramatic talent of a high order. Sho may be seen on tho professional 3tage next season. AM. Ur-TO-OATE JIOUSKKEnPKKS Ubo Rod Cross Brdl Bluo. It mnkps clothes cloan and swoot as when now. All grocers. For a Job lot of New Year's resolu tion at cut rates, apply to any of your neighbors. Strange Facts of Wild Animals. Tho birth of a litter of lions at Ha Blomero park, a prlvato menagerie in England, leads ono of the English pa pers to note a fact that has for long puzzled biologists, and that is notor ious among those who interest them selves in the study of wild beasts in captivity, this being that nearly all the Hou, tiger and leopard cubs born in that country have a cleft palate, which prevents thorn from being properly suckled, nnd usually leads to their premature death. But, beyond this, a more astonishing fact still and one that also greatly puzzles bi ologists Is that whicji determines that of all the wild animals born in England those born In Bristol are re garded as the finest and as the most likely to live. So well known is this to professional showmen and menag erlo keepers that "Bristol born" is a recognized brand in the wild animal trade. Woman Abolitlonlst'3 Exploit. Miss Sarah E. Sanborn, who died at tho age of SO last week in Hampton Falls, N. H., was once tho heroine of an exciting abolitionist adventure. Her brother, Franklin B. Sanborn, of Concord, with whom sho was then Ilv ing, was outspoken in his utterances and work in suport of tho abolitionist cause. An attempt was made to kid nap him. Tho hack in which ho was to bo carried away was left standing at tho door. Miss Sanborn seized tho whip and lashed the horses till they ran away; then she helped her broth, er to escape. For this exploit citizens of Concord afterwnrd presented her with a pair of pistols. When it comes to helping the poor, actions speak louder than words. ' FOOLED THE HOSPITAL. fVas Pronounced Incurable, but Got Well on Pure Food. Sometimes in a caso of disease re sulting from tho uso of Improper food tho symptoms are so complex that medical science cannot find the seat of trouble, and even the most careful hospital treatment falls to benefit. A gentleman of Lee. Mass., says.: "On April 1st. 1900, I was sent homo by one of our Massachusetts hospitals, saying nothing more could bo done for me. I have been a great sufferer from nervous diseases and rheumatism and nervous prostration and had previous ly been treated at Sharon Springs and by a number of doctors without get ting much assistance. "One day I va3 feeling worso than usual when I read an article about your Grape-Nuts that Impressed mo o that I sent out for a package. I commenced UBing it at breakfast tho next day. "For fifteen months I never missed ono day. If you ever saw any ono grow htrong and improve it was I. I gained from 125 pounds to my old weight of 1C5. I win always bo a cripple from rheumatism, but other wibo I am so much improved that I now feel as well us any man In tho country." Name furnished by Postum Co., Battlo Creek. Mich. There is a recipe book In each package of Grape-Nuts that will in terest the housekeeper. -i J i V