tn-m y Lv i i 'J m. w & Yx W .'-7 ivi TH T THE HALFWAY HOUSE A STORY OF THE PLAINS BY B. IIOUD1I, APTIIOR OF TIIK STORY OP THW CQWnOY C Dtrfichttd, 1903. ty D. Attltttn 6 Coiianr. frw 1'erA .j- r i '.r. i. : Mrs. Rosa Adams, niece of the late General Roger Hanson, C.S.A., wanls every woman to know of the wonders accom plished by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAn Mns. I'bckuam: I cannot nil -rnn with ncn and inl: what trood Ijydia B. Pinlclmm's Vegetable Compound did for mc, suffering from the ills peculiar to tho bcx, cxtrcmo lassitude and that all r;ono feeling-. I vrould rise from my bed in tho morning1 fcclinjr more tired than when I went to l)cd, hut beforo I used two bottles of Iiydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Cpinpound, I began to feel the buoy ancy of my younger days returning, became regular, could do raoro work and not feel tired than 1 had ever been able to do before, go I continued to use it until I was restored to perfect health. It is indeed a boon to sick women and I Heartily recommend it. Yours very truly, Mns. Rosa Adams, 819 12th St, Louisville, Ky." $5000 forfeit If original of abort letter proving genuineness cannot be produced, FItEE MEDICAL ADVICE TO WOMEN. Don't hesitate to write to Mrs. Pinkham. She will understand your case perfectly, and will treat you with kindness. Her ndvico is froc, nnd the address is Lynn, Mass. No woman ever regretted having written her, and she liaa helped thousands. CHAPTER I. 'asa' 4W WW u ffifltfestthev Is no Mnilroncn to the naerwoo wears 5 The Brazen Tonrjuec. Tho band major wns n poet. His tamo Is lost to history, but It deserves t plnco among tho titles of tho groat. Duly In tho soul of a poot, a groat man, could thero have been conceived hat thought by which the muBlc of triumph should pass the llttlo pinnnclo of human exultation, and reach tho higher piano of human sympathy. Forty black horses, keeping stop; forty trumpeters, keeping unison; this procosslon, headed by a mere mu sician, who none tho less was a poet, a great man, crossed the field of Louis burg as it lay dotted with tho heaps of slain, and dotted also with tho groups of those who sought their slain; crossed that field of woo, meeting only hatred and despair, yet leaving be hind only tears and griof. Tears nnd grief, It Is true, yet grief that know of sympathy, and tears that recked of othor tears. , For a long time tho linoof Invasion had tightened about the old city of Louisburg, and Louisburg grow weak er In tho coll. Tho wheat lay green upon tho fields nnd tho odor of tho blossoms of tho peach trees hung heavy on tho air; but thero was none who thought of frnUagc or of harvest. Out thero in front, whoro the guns wore pulsing, thero wejit on that grim mer harvest with which tho souls of all wore Intimately concerned. Tho boys who threw up their hats to greet tho infantry wero fewer thanthey had been before tho blossoming of the peach. Tho war had grown loss par ticular of Its food. A bay could speed a bullet, or could stop one. Thero were yet the boys. , Of all tho old-timo families of this ancient little city none hold position more secure or moro willingly accord ed than the Fairfaxes and tho Beau champs. Thero had always been a W-tt-KTU suckle. Had Mary Ellen's eyes not boon hid beneath tho lids they might havo Been a faco palo and sad as her own. They sat Bllent, for it was no tlmo for human speech. Tho hour camo for" parting, and ho rose. His lips Just lightly touched her check. It seemed to him ho heard a faint "good-bye." Ho stepped slowly down tho long walk In thp moonlight, and his hand was at his face. Turning at tho gate for tho last wrench of separa tion, ho gazed bach at n drooping form upon tho gallery. Then Mrs. Beau champ camo and took Ellen's head upon her bosom, seeing that now Bho was a woman, and that her sufferings had begun. CHAPTER II. EXCELSIOR BRAND POMMEL SLICKERS Man or cailtlle can not cet w et. EXCELSIOR BRUNO OILED CLOTHING For rJl fclndu of wort Warranted Waterproof. look for '.rtulc-raare. If not at dealers, write It. B. S.wjf P Ron, 6.1. Hf r. But cummig. saw. inr. The Players of the Game. When tho band major was tweuty miles away in front of Louisburg his trumpets sounded always tho advance. Tho main lntrenchments erected In tho defences of Louisburg lay at right angles to the road along which camo tho Northern advance, and upon tho side of tho wood nearest to tho town. In tho Holds both tho wheat and tho flowers wore now tratapled, and a thousand industrious and complaining bocs buzzed protest nt tho losing of their commerce, Tho defenses them selves wcro but earthworks, though skilfully laid out. Along their frout, well hidden by the forest growth, ran a lino of entangling abattls of stakes and sharpened Interwoven boughs. In tho center of tho Una cf defense lay tho reserves, tho boys of Louis burg, flanked on either sldo by regi ments of veterans, tho lean and black- haired Georgians nnd Carolinians, whoso steadiness and unconcern gavo comfort to moro than one bursting boyish heart. Tho veterans had long played tho gamo of war. They had long since said good-bye to their worn- hocro, dcp, encoring, a roaring wriT? of mecacp mado up of llttlo sonndn An officer sprang up to tie top of tho brtastworka and wnvad his ovrord, shouting out something which no on heard or carod to hoar. Tho lino in tho trenches, boys and veterans, ro nerves and remnants of tho columns of dofonse, rono and pourod volloy after volley, as they could, into tho thick and concoallng woods that lay boforp thom. Nono tho less, thero appeared Boon a long, dusty, faded lino, trot ting, running, walking, falling, stumb ling, but coming on. It swept llko a long serpent pnrallol to tho works, writhing, smitten but surviving. It camo on through tho wood, writhing.1, tearing at tho cruel abattls laid to on trap It. It writhed, roared, but It broko through, it swept over tho rail tencos that lay between tho lines and tho abattls, nnd still camo on! This was not war, but Fnto! Thero camo a cloud of smoko, hiding tho, faco of tho lntrenchmont. Thon tho boys of Louisburg saw bursting through this suffocating curtain a fow faces, many faces, long towb of faces, somo palo, somo red, eomo laughing, somo horrified, somo shouting, somo swearing a long row of faces that swept through tho smoke, following a line of Bteel a lino of steel that flick cred, waved and dipped. CHAPTER III. HAPPY WOMEN Mrs. Pare, wlfo of C. B. Paro, u promlne n t rosidont fl Olnsgow, Ky., Bnys: "1 war. fiuf fcrlng from n compli cation of kldnoy trou bles. Bo Hides a Imd back I had a great deal of troublo with tho secretions, which woro ex ceedingly varlnble, sometimes exces sive anil at other times scanty. Tho color was high, and pnssagos wcro ac companied Willi n scalding sonsntlon. Doan's Kidney Pills soon regulated tho kidney secretions, making tholr color normal and banished tho Inflam mation which caused tho scalding sen sation. I can rest well, my back Is Btrong and sound nnd I feel much bet tor In every way." For snlo by nil dealers, prlco CO cents per box. Fostor-MIlburu Co., l'uffrflo, N. Y. i tv 'l. " n. VST ic- "fch. e? Much Consumption Among Negroes. Consumption occurred rarely, If at all, among negroes In slavery, but now, after a little more than a quarter of a century of freedom, It causes moro deaths among them than nil the other contagious diseases combined. Tho negro rate from consumption .3 moro than three times that of tho whites. Mn. Wlns1ow- woormnsr Hj-rup. For children tecttitoir, toftens the cum", redact! rti Cauuuatloa.allayp pain. rurea wind colic. 25o a bottU, Don't treat your family like a lot of paupers, oven If charity docs begin at homo. Tho commuter who runs may rcad If ho succeeds in catching his train. Confidence is seldom lost, but often sadily misplaced. VASELINE. Everybody knows tho groat value of this remedy in tho household, but everybody does not know that tho imitations of it, which somo second class druggists dishon orably palm oil on their customors, havo littlo or no value. What should bo under stood by tho public is, that It is not a mcro ciuestion of comparative value between "Vaseline" and the imitations, but that tbo imitations do not effect tho wonderful heal ing results of tho world renowned "Vase lino," nnd that they arc not tho samo thing nor mado in tho sumo way. Besides this, many of tho imitations aro harmful, irri tant and not safo to use, while truo Vase line is perfectly harmless. Perfect safoiy therefore lies in buvlng only original bottles and other packages put up by tho Chesebrough Manufat-turlnir Co. Attention is cnlled to their Capsicum Vasb llno advertised in another column. A braye man's honor and a truo, woman's love havo no decline on the stock exchange of life. Took Ellen's head upon her bosom. It isn't always tho most paltable medicino that cures tho quickest. Lewis' "Single Binder" straight So eicar. The highest nrico So ciuar to tho dealer and the highest quality for the Lewis' Factory, Peoria, 111. smoker. Nervous prostration has a pretty hard Job when it tackles a man whose wife supports tho family. A paper dollar 1b said to last about Ave years unless It visits a church fair. Distance prolongs tho life of many friendships. mother nraT'a Sweet rowaen for Children, Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse Fairfax homo in Loulsberg only In the Children's Home la NewYprk, cure I ,.to nf r,nr,i Kirfav an,i the Constipation, Feverisuness, Had btomacn, Teething Disorders, move and regulatethe Bowels nud DestroyW-jrms. Over 80,000 tes timonials. At all Druggists. 25c. Sample FKKE. Address A. S. Olmsted, Leltoy.N.Y. A baby isn't necessarily afflicted with Jaundice because It's a littlo yeller. Don't mako tho mistake of giving a man advice which doesn't confirm his own opinion. ABE YOOK CLOTHES FADED T7ee Red Cross Ball Blue and make them irblte again. Large 3 or. package, 5 cents. When tho proverbial rainy day comes lots of men use borrowed um brellas. H - Babies cry most when they realize that they look like some of their relations. Colonel Fairfax, the leader at the local Dar, perhaps the representative la tho legislature, or in some- position of yet higher trust. Tho Beauchamps had always had men In tho ranks of the professions or In stations of respon sibility. They held large lands, and in the almost feudal creed of tho times they gave large services in re turn. It was considered a matter of course that young Henry Fairfax, son of Colonel Fairfax, should, after com pleting his studies at the ancient Insti tution of William and Mary College, step into his father's law offlce, even tually to be admitted to tho bar 'and to become his father's partner; after which ho should marry Miss Ellen Beauchamp, loveliest daughter of a family noted for Us beautiful women. So much was this taken for granted, and so fully did it meet the approval of both families, that tho tide of the young people's plans ran on with little to disturb Its current. Young Fairfax seemed, so perfectly to represent the traditions of his family, and his future seemed to secure; and Mary Ellen her self, tall and slender, bound to be Btately and r.t noble grace, seemed so eminently fit to be a Beauchamp beauty and a Fairfax bride. For the young people themselves It may be doubted If there had yet awak ened the passion of genuine, personal love. They 'mot, but. under the strict code of that land and tlmo, they never met alone. For two years Colonel Fairfax had been with his regiment, fighting for what he considered tho welfaro of his country and for tho Institutions in whose Justice ho had been taught to believe. There remained at tho old the wife of Colonel Fairfax and the son Henry, the latter chafing at a part which seemed to him so obviously Ig noble. Spirited and proud, restive un der comparisons which ho had never heard but always' dreaded to hear, Henry Fairfax begged his mother to let him go, though still she said, "Not yet." But tho Hues of the enemy tightened ever about Louisburg, Then came a day a fatal day fraught with the tid ings of what seemed a double death. The wife of Colonel Henry Fairfax was grande dame that day, when she burled her husband and sent away her son. There were yet traditions to sup port. ' Henry Fairfax said good-bye to Mary Ellen upon tho gallery of the old home, beneath a solemn, white-faced moon, amid the odors of the drooping honey- en. They had seen how small a thing Is life, how easily and swiftly to be ended. In front of the trenches wero other regiments, out ahead in the woods, un seen, somewhere toward that placo whence carno the steadiest Jarring of artillery and tho loudest rattling of the lesser arms. It was very hard to He and listen, to imagine, to suspect, to dread. For hours tho game went on, the reserves at tho trenches hearing now distinctly and now -faintly thq tumult of tho lines, now receding, now coming on. Those young men, who but lately had said good-bye to tho women of their kin, began to learn what war might mean. It had been heretofore a distant, unmeasured, uudreaded thing, conquerable, not to be feared. It seemed so sweet and fit to go forth, even though It had been hard, to say good-bye. Now there began to appear In the woods before the trenches the figures of men, at first scattered, then becom ing steadily more numerous. There came men bearing other men whoso arms lopped loosely. Some men walked with a hand gripped tightly to an arm; others hobbled painfully. Two men sometimes supported a third, whose head, heavy and a-droop, would now and then be kept erect with difficulty, the eyes Btarlug with a ghastly, sheep ish gaze, the faco in a look of horri fied surprise. This awful rabble, tho parings of the defeated line In front, dropped back through the woods, drop ped back upon the young reserves, who lay there In the line. Some of them could go no farther, but fell there and lay silent. Others passed back Into the fields whero droned the protesting bees, or whero bore and there n wldo tree offered shelter. Suddenly nil the summer air was filled with anguish and horror. Was. this, then, the War? And now there appeared yet other figures among tho tices, a straggling. lirnlron linn wlifli fall lianlr tialtn.l stood and fired always calmly, coolly, j at some unseen thing in front or them. But this line resolved itself Into In dividuals, who camo back to the edge of tho wood,' methodically picking their way through tho abattls, climbing tho Intervening fences, and finally clamb ering into the earthworks to take their places for the final stand. They spoke with grinning respect of that which was out there ahead, coming on. They I throw off their coats and tlghtoned their belts, making themselves com fortable for what time there yet re mained. At last there came a continued, Tho Victory. The bandmastor marshaled his m sic nt tho hoad of Uio column of oc cupation which was to march into Louisburg.- Tho gamo had been ad mirably played. Tho victory was com plete. Thoro was no need to occupy tho trenches, for thoso who lay In them or near thorn would never rally for another battle. There was no longer need for hurry. Before tho middle of tho morning tho lines would start on tho march of tho fow short mllc3. During tho delay n young officer of engineers, Captain Edward Franklin by name, asked permission of his colonel to advanco along tho lino of march until ho camo to tho earth works, to which ho wished to glvo somo examination, Joining his regi ment as It passed beyond tho fortifica tions on Its march. Tho colonel gavo his consent, not altogether willingly. "You may sco moro ovor thero than you want to sue, young man," said ho. Franklin Went on, following a near ly as ho could tho line of tho assault of tho previous day, n track all to bold ly marked by tho horrid debris of tho fight. Ab ho reached tho first edgo of tho wood, whore tho victorious col umn had mado its entrance, It seemed to Jilm that thero could havo been no such thing as war. Tho air was soft and sweet, Just cold enough to stir tho leaves upon tho trees and set them whispering intimately. All about was the suggestion of calm and rest and .happiness. Surely it had been a dream! Thero could havo been no battle here. This that had been a dream ,wa changed Into a horrid nightmaro at the young officer advanced into the wood. About him lay the awful evi dences. Coats, caps, weapons, bit ol gear, all marked and emphasized with many, many shapeless, ghastly things Hero they lay, these integers of the line, huddled, Jumblod. They had ah the contortions, all tho frozen ultimate agonies left for survivors to see and romember, so that they should nc moro go to war. Again, they lay sc peacefully calm that "all the lesson was acclaim for happy, painless war Somo lay upon their backs where tho had turned, thrusting up a kneo In tin last struggle. Some lay faco down ward as tho slaughtered fall. It was all a hideous and cruel dream. Surelj It could be nothing more. It could not be reality. The pirds gurgled and twittered. Tho squirrels barked and played. Tho sky was Innocent. I' must be a dream. (To be continued.) URSS&RAW FURS wauled Vat London ,lanurjiBt. Omwrara, Mimkrut, MlnV, Hknnk, Hxoconn nnd oilier. llllit mlt rlan rlit. Writs A. K. 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It'o not ttcntiment It'a not tho prico that makc3 tho moct intelligent and oucccBsful shots ohoot Winchester Factory Loaded Bhotgun Shcllo. u'b tho results they give. It's their cntiro reliability, evenne33 of pattern and uniform shooting. Winchester "Lender" ohslln.load cd with smokeless powder, aro the best loaded sheila on the market. Winchester ''Repeater" ehells loaded with nmokclesa powdir are cheap In prlco but not in quality. Try either of these brando nnd you will be well pleased. Bo Sure to ct Wlnchcotcr Factory Loaded shells TME SEIELL&Ttie CEBAHPBON& 5I.00T. WITH NERVES UNSTRUNG AMD HEADS1" THAT ACHE WISR WOMEN . BROMO - SEL.TZER TARE TRIAL BOTTLE IO CENTS. Negro Inventor's Good Fortune. Andrew Beard, a negro who has worked in tho machine shops of tho Ixnilsvlllo Si Nashville Railroad com pany, In Birmingham, Ala., for twenty yours, has just sold a patent for a car coupler of his own invention for $100, 000. In addition ho is to get a royalty on every coupler mado on his model for soventcen years. The man whoso wlfo makes It hot for him novor speaks of ber a3 tho sunshine of his existence. No Time for Kindness. Don't you think tho modern woman .is In danger of getting so busy she has no tlmo to bo kind?" asked a sweet old lady tho other day. "We hear so much about making every minute count and always having some work or course of study for spare hours and systematizing our activities that thero is no room left for wny side kindnesses. We get so tremen dously absorbed In our own affairs, so self-centered, so Intent on not missing anything that is going on, that we pass by a thousand little gracious act's that, If we had been living fifty years back, Instead of now, wo should have, thought of. It Isn't only the lanio tho halt and the blind that need our lovo. There are hundreds who ncvei fall by tho way or ask publicly for the cup of cold water, who yot are perish lng for lack of it. I think tho old fashioned woman had the advantagi over tho so-called new woman Ir quickness of sympathy nnd respond lveness." New York Tribune. A Technical Point. "You say your road carried a mlllior passeugers last year?" "Yes, Blr; and 1 can prove 1k" "You can?" "Yoh. sir.-' "Well, now, let's get right down to facts. Can you make two passungeri out of ono man?" "Of course not." "Xo doubt In some capes youVe car ried the same man flftoon or twouty times." "Unquestionably." "Well, dooa that mako fifteen oi twenty passengers of him?" "No-o." "In vlow of that, can you say that you've carried a million " But the railroad man retired an grily. He never did have any use foi a technically exact man anyway. To Cure a Coicl In Ono flay. Take- Lnxotivo Brotno Quinine Tablou. All drujrgUbi refund money if it f nils to euro. 20c Lamb with green peas suits somo men, but the wall street broker pre fers Iamb with greenbacks. The Use of Tobacco. Ono of tho most difficult things In tho world is to get any authoritative conclusion about the effects of using tobacco. Literature is filled with pcans in its praise and maledictions in equal measure. Some things, how-evc-r, wo do not know about tobacco: It costs a vast sum of money, is ono of tho most important industries in tho world, and nn important source of revenue to all nations. Americans consume 7,000,000,000 cigars annually, nnd the yearly Increase In tho con sumption is nearly COC",000,000. Smok ers uso 3,000,000,000 cigarettes annu ally, and consume In other forms, as in snuff, plug and smoking tobacco, 315,000,000 pounds, exclusive of tho tobacco exported and that used in manufacturo of cigars and cigarettes. The federal treasury lecelvos $65,000, 000 annual revenue from the tobacco tax, the manufacturers alone pay in dividends $10,000,000, and In wagos $50,000,000 a year, and the annual val ue of tho manufactured product In this country is upward of $200,000,000. The Doctor's Statement. St. John. Kan., Nov. 1C This town has a genuino sensation .in the case ot u little boy, tho son of Mr. and Mrs. William 3fcBrlde. Dr. Limes, the at tending physician, says: "Scarlet Fever of a very malignant type brought this child very near to death and when the fever left him he was serai-paralyzed In tho right leg and right- arm. He also lost hearing in his right ear, and his mind was much affected. "His parents tried another treat ment for a time nnd when I was re called I found that ho was having spells very like Epilepsy and was very bad and gradually growlns worse. I advised tho uso of Dodd's Kidney Pills and in a short tlmo the clhl began to improve. Inside of a week the nerv oub spasms or epileptic seizures ceased altogether." 1 Mr. and Mrs. McBride have mado a sworn statement of tho facts and Dr. Jesso L. Limes has ndded his sworn statement saying that Dodd's Kidney Pills and nothing else cured tho fits. 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PATENT Send tor int. 42nd Annlrcnary I look on Pat ent, containing nearly lix) llluttratlona of mechan ical niutennnu. and tamable law point for luYeii toraand manufacturer! i also an InteresUnK lint of laemlona FREE. Dmi't wait, write TO-DAY. MASON, FENWICK & LAWRENCE, Patent Lawyers, Washington, D. C. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. W. N. U., Omaha. No. 471903.