T x- .1 . HALF RATliS. Via Wabash Hallrond, th World's Fair Line. "Last to leave First to arrive." Leaves Omaha 5:55 p. m. Arrives St. Louis 7:00 a. m. Special rates: New Orleans and re turn, $29.50; Sold April 11, 12 and 13, St. Louis and return, $ia.50; sold April :S, 27, 2D, 30, May 1. New Orleans and return, $29.50; sold May 1, 2, 3 nnd 4. Smoothest, shortest and quick est south nnd southeast. All in formation nt City Ticket omce, 1C01 Farnam, or address Harry E. Moores, G. A. P. D., Omaha, Neb. Raised letters are for tho benefit of the blind, but raised checks are not. Ask Tonr Dealer For Allon'a Foot-Rm. I A powder. It rests tho foot. Cures Cornt, ' Bunions, Swollen. Horo, Hot. Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Eano makes now or tight shoes easy. At all Druggists nnd Bhoe stores, 25 ceuts. Ac cept no substitute. Hnniplo mailed Frbb. Address Allen S. Olraatod, LoRoy, N. Y. Misfortunes usually come In pairs, , but tho first ono enmo in an apple. ) All Up to Date Housekeeper tn Defiance Cold Water Starch, because it ! la better, and 4 oz. more of it for same ' xnonoy. , - i A profit Is not without honor save on a best-selling book. Statu or Ohio. Citv or Toledo. I i I.rcAS County. f ss FrnnV J. Chenej makrt oath thai he la the senior partner of the tinn of F.l. Cheney A Co.. doint . huainns in the City of Toledo, County and State j nforr&aid. and that said tit in will pay the sum ot ONB HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and etery rasn ot Catarrh that qannot be cured by the tits of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FKANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my Piesence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. tcA, , A. W. GLEASON. 1SFM-J Notary Public Hall's Catarrh Cure 2 taken Internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the I system, bend lor testimonials tree. F. J. CHENEY 4 CO.. Toledo. Ohio. Sold by DriiKciMi, 7fc. Hall's Family Tills are the best It's a long page that has no turn ing. Insist on Getting It. Some grocers say they don't keep Da flanco Stnrch. This" is because they have a stock ou hand of other brands containing only 12 oz. in a package, which they won't bo able to sell first, because Dellauco con tains jo or. tor me same money. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 111 oz. for i same money t Then buy Defiance. Starch. Requires no cooking. Genius consists In making the other ' fellow do the work. No ono Is able to discover that a rich man is a fool until after he loses his money. What men want Is not talent, It is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor. Lytton. Largest Woma Land Owner. Mrs. King of Corpus Chrlstl, Tex., owns more land than any other wo man in tills country, perhaps in the world. Her holdings are not less than 1,300,000 acres, located In tho counties of Nueces, Hidalgo, Stnrr nnd Cameron. Her lato husband, Captain King, was one of the old-time cattle barons. Mrs. King has about G5.000 cattle grazing on her broud acre3. Un der the tomis of her husband's will tho estate must not be divided until his oldest grandchild conies of age. Mrs. King has ono son and three mar ried daughters. Would Breed Hardier Cattle. Henry C. Moore of Sioux City be Hveves that It Is possible to Interbreed tho Arctic muBk ox with cattle of tho temperate zone, and that the stock bo produced would be able to with stand tho severe winters of the Uni ted States. He has been In communi cation on the subject with Peary, the Arctic explorer, who is favorably Im pressed with the Idea. "The vast loss of the present season among herds on the western ranges," said Mr. Moore, emphasizes tho necessity of trying to infuse hardier blood into American cattle." PRIZES TO COOKS. 97,500.000 In Cash to Be Distributed. Between now and July 1st, family cooks, whether employes or the mis tress of tho household, will be follow ing tho plan laid down for improve ment in cooks in a contest for 735 cash prizes ranging from $200.00 to $5.00 offered by the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd. Tho winners must show improve ment in general cookery as clearly stated in the rules for tho test. No one has to buy or pay, anything whatever. It is simply an earnest ef fort on the part of Mr. Post to stimu late the household cook to more care ful and b Wilful cookery. To have light, Bweet bread and rakes Instead of heavy, sour and in digeFtlble things. To have no more greasy, burned or drled-out meats. To have properly made Coffee, Postum and tea. To have delicate and diges tible, toothsome desserts and a table, clean, tasty and a pleasure to look upon. And so $7,500.00 in actual money will be spent to encourage the cooks of tho country to better effort. And you housekeepers, please forever abandon the term "hired girl." Teach your rook the dignity of her profession, call her the cook. If her duties includo other services, well and good, but don't detract from her professional title by calling her the "hired girl." That term doesn't fit a good cook. A certificate bearing tho large seal of the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., will go to each of the 735 winners In this contest. Theso cer tificates or diplomas will bo as valu able to the holders as a doctor's sheep skin Is to him. A postal card to tho Cooker' Dept. No. 349 of the big pure food factories of tho Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., at Battle Creek, Mich., will bring a sheet of plainly printed rules for the contest THE LIONS WHELP A Story of Cromwell's Tlmo BY AMELIA E. BARR. Author of "Th Dow of Orn Ribbon." "I. Thou and the Other On," "Tho Maid of Maidorv Ltmo." Etc (CopjrrUhr, 1901, by Dodd, Mead & Company. All flihti reserved.) CHAPTER VI. (Continued.) "I have only been In London three days. 1 was 111 at do Wick. I became unconscious at my father's burial. You remember Anthony Lynn, tho tanner and carrier, Jane?" "Yes." "Ho has bought do Wick from tho so-called Parliament. He was very kind to me, nnd ho knew his placo; but on my fnlthl I nearly lost my senses when 1 saw him sitting In my father's chair. Well, then, I am now In London, and all ronds lead from London. 1 shall not longer spoil my eyes for the Fen country. But, oh, lane, tho melancholy Otiso country! The black, melancholy Ouse, with its sullen water and muddy banks. No wonder men turned traitors In it." And Jano only leaned close, and closer to the sad, sick girl. Sho un derstood that Matilda must complain n Httlo, and Bho was not unwilling to let the dreary meadows of tho Ouse bear the burden. So the short after noon wore away to Jane's tender mln lstrntions without one cross word. Early in her visit she had yielded to Matilda's entreaties, had sent home her carriage, and promised to remain all night. Sho dismissed Delia, and herself undressed her friend as tender ly as a mother could have done; and when the tired head was laid on tho pillow she put her arms under It and kissed and drew tho happy, grateful girl to her heart, and said some of those sweet, foolish words which, alas! too often become a forgotten tongue. Matilda answered them In the same tender, broken patois "Dear heart! Sweet heart! Darling Jane! Go to the little drawer In my toilet table and bring me a picture you will find there. It .Is in an ivory box, Jane, and here is the key." And Jane went and found the miniature she had once got a glimpse of, and she laid It in Matilda's hand. And tho girl kissed It nnd said, "Look here, Jane, and tell me who It Is." Then Jane looked earnestly at the handsome, melancholy, haughty face; at the black hair cut straight across the brows and flowing In curls over the laced collar and steel corselet, and With the gallant she lifted her eyes to Matilda's, but sho did not like to speak. Matilda smiled rapturously and said: "It is not impossible, Jane, though I see you think so. He loves me. He has vowed to marry me, or to marry no one else." "But but he cannot marry you. He will not be allowed. Half a dozen kings and queens would rise up to pre sent it for I am sure 1 know the face." "Who is it, Jane? Whisper the SvordB to me. Who Is it, dear heart?" And Jane stooped to the face on the pillow and whispered: "Prince Rupert." And as the name fell on her ear, Matllda'B face grew heavenly sweet and tender, she smiled and sighed, and softly echoed Jane'B last word "Rupert." CHAPTER VII. Two Love Affairs. Matilda's confession brought on a conversation which lasted many hours. The Real of silence having been broken, tho sick and sorrowful girl eagerly took the consolation her confidence procured her. She related with an Impulsive frankness often with bitter, though healing tears tho story of her love for the gallant Royalist leader. "Jane, think of my father and mother dead of grief, and of my three brothers two slain in battle, one wandering, I know not where. Re member that with my father's death died all my own hopes regarding ray lover. And when father had been three days In his grave, and I lay at point of death, Anthony Lynn came wjth his Parliamentary' title to our house and lands. I was at his mercy, at his charity, Jane." "Well, and If so, many favors he and his have received from your fam ily. All ho Is worth ho owes to your father." "He was kind and respectful; I am Tery sensible of that." 1 Then, speaking with her old per tmptorinefcs, she said suddenly. "But for God's sake let mo ask when you heard anything ot Princo Ru pert?" "You know that ho was mado ad miral ot tho Royalist navy; but, In deed, ho is said to bo nothing elso but a pirate, robbing nil ships that he may uupport the Stuart family at Tho Hague." "He is tho bread-finder of the King as well ns his defender. So much I know, nnd 'tis well dono In him." "Tho latest news Is tho drowning of Princo Maurice." "That is tho worst of news. Rupert loved this brother of his so tenderly. They wero not happy apart. Poor Rupert! That affliction will bring him to shore, and then what will tho King do for money?" "Ho Is said now to bo In great need of It, though Princo Rupert sent horn, a rich prize this past summer; and 'tis further said he resigned his own share of it to his cousin, Charles Stu art." '"Twould bo most like him." This conversation hnd many sldeB and deviations, and tho night was far spent when Matilda was willing to sleep. And In tho morning, while they ate breakfast together, the sub ject was renewed; for sorrow is sel fish and Matilda forgot that sho had never even asked after the welfaro of Jane's family. Jano returned to her homo soon after breakfast, and her mother met her with a smiling face. "I was go ing to send tho coach for you," sho said, "for there Is to be company to night," and then she looked at Jane so intelligently that the girl under stood at once what was meant. "Is It Cluny?" she asked, blushing brightly. "Yes. He has asked for an Inter view with your father, and I suppose that it Is granted, for 1 was told of the matter." "Mother, dear, will you speak In our favor?" "If needs be, Jane. But I am of this opinion some one has spoken already." "Do you mean the Lord General?" "I wouldn't wonder If ho has said Royalist leader. the two or three words that would move your father more than any woman's talk or tears. Keep your bravery, Jane; father likes women that stand up for themselves." It was evening when Cluny came, and he was taken at onco to the room In which Gen. Swaffham was smoking hid good-night pipe. "Good evening, sir," he answered to Cluny's greeting. "Sit down. You have requested speech with me; talk straight out, then." "I am here, General, to ask for your daughter's hand. I love her. I have enough for our necessities and somewhat for our comfort and we are both willing to take love as secur ity for our contentment." And though the words were bucIi ordinary ones, tho young man's heart throbbed In them, and the father felt It. Gen. Swaffham looked at Neville silently for a few moments and then said, "I will not be unkind to either you or my daughter; but there must bo no leap in tho dark, or in a hurry. Take five years to learn how to live together fifty years. I waited six years for my wife; Jacob waited four teen for Rachael." "Sir, we live not by centuries, as Jacob did If It would please you to say two years," "I have said five, and verily it shall be five. Cannot you wait and serve for five years? If not, your lovo Is but a summer fruit, arid Jane Swaff ham Is worthy of something better." "Sir, I entreat. I am no coward, but I cannot bear to think of five years," "I have said my pay. There Is nothing to add or to take from it." Then Cluny perceived that entreaty would only weaken his cause, and he advanced and offered his hand, say ing, "I am much In your debt. sir. 'TIs more than I deserve, but Ixjvc must always bog more than his des ert" And Gen, Swaffham's voice trembled poreeptlbly as ho answorod: "You have tlmo and opportunity to win your way to my heart, then I will give you a Bon's place. Go and ask Jane; she will tell you I have done kindly nnd wisely." And Cluny bowed and went silently to soek hiB be trothed. "Your father sbj'b wo aro to wait ilvo years, sweet Jane; and 'tis a hard condition. I know not how I am to enduro It." And Jnne smiled nnd began to talk over with hor lover tho hard condi tion, nnd somehow it became an easy and reasonable one. They booh Baw It through Lovo and Hope nnd Wis dom, and so nt the beginning ot their probation, they rejoiced In tho end of It. Life soon settled Itself to tho now conditions ot tho SwnffhnmR. Tho General, in splto or his wife's and daughter's disapproval, bought tho Sandys Houso near Russel square, and some ot tho most preclouB heir looms of old Swaffham wero brought up to London to adorn It. Mrs. Swaffham was well content In London. Social by nature, fond of Iho stir nnd nows ot life, enjoying oven tho Bhadow ot her old friends' power nnd splendor, nnd taking tho greatest Interest In all public events of tho time, sho was plensed rather thnu otherwlao at tho Lord General's determination to keep her husband near li tin. Neither was Jano nt all nverso to London. Cluny wns In Ixnitlon, nnd Mntllda -was there, and most of tho girls whom sho hnd known nil her llfo long. And If Jano accepted will ingly this change of life, Matilda took her phase of It still more cnthusl nstlcnlly. Sho was not long In discov ering that It was in her power to bo virtual mistress of tho Jovery man sion. Her youth, her beauty nnd her many sorrows Inclined Sir Thomas Jovery's heart to sympathy, and this preios8es8lon grew rapidly to devot ed affection. Sho was considering one morning a string of Orient pearls, wondering If they could bo worn with her new damasso gown, when Jano entered her dressing room. "Jnne Swaffham,' Bhe cried with delight, "I'll Bwear I was just wishing for you. Stephen Is here. Will you seo him?" "I will not," answered Jane posi tively. "1 will not come to question about him If he 1b discovered. Do not ask me to put myself In such a strait. Matilda. It Is far bettor I should bo ablo to say, l have not seen him.' " "Jane, 1 will tell you a piteous tale. TIs of our lato Queen. Sho 1b so wretchedly poor, and since her son returned to their miserable Httlo court In the Louvre, bo broken-hearted, 'twould make you weep to hear ot her. Stephen enmo with Sir Hugh Belward to get some money on Bel ward." "How docs Sir Hugh Belward hopo to got money on Belward? Ho Is pro scribed." "His younger brother Joined tho Parliament, and ho left tho estate In his care. And his brother has turned traitor to him, and would give him nothing but permission to rldo away as secretly as ho came. But oh, Jane! the poor, poor Queen!" and then Ma tilda went into some details of tho piteous straits and dependencies and Inftulia tho widowed woman had been obliged to bear. Jane listened silently, but thero wero tears In her eyes; and when Matilda said, "I have given her tho jewel tho gracious King sent me by my beloved Princo Rupert, and nlso, what moneys I could get from my Undo Jevery," Jane ndded: "I have ten pieces of c:M that aro altogether my own, I .vill glvo them to her. I will send the gold by a sure messenger to-day." Matilda did not urge her to remain, and Jano was eager to get away. When sho reached home, her father waB walking about the parlor and talking in nn excited manner to his wife. Ho showed much discontent, and as ho walked and talked ho rat tled his sword ominously to hit words. (To bo continued.) HE STOPPED THE BELL. Applicant Had Good Right to Demand a Free 8eat. Tho requests for theater favors In tho small towns are very troublesome, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. Every person of local standing feels that he has a right to admission at least, while the trustees and tho constable feel that they are entitled to private boxes. 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