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“She Black «*;: Wolfs Breed Copyright 1899 By Harris Dickson ^ ' _j "Well met, my dear captain; we go to the park, and would have you bear ua company. Where Is M. de GrevUle?” I explained as best I might hie ab sence, ai d followed them in iieu of bel ter employment, forgetting for a time the threatened fete. Before I could ex tricate myself, these new friends had led me Into a brilliant circle, and duly presented me to madame, who sat on a sort of raised platform In the center. She showed no traces of her recent anger and spite, vented upon that pa tient girl who now claimed ail my thought. Her ladies, some languishing literary notables of the day, and ofli c.ers. stood about discussing the news, and talked of naught but some fetch ing style or popular play, through all of which 1 struggled as bravely as my dazed condition would permit. It seemed I would never grow accustomed to the like, though it Is said many men find great delight In such gatherings. But one thing 1 searched for most eag erly. Behind niadanje’s chair, after a little, appeared the sweet shy face of my weeping Nlobe of the park. I felt she saw and recognized me, and tny face grew warmer at the thought. I made bold to ask one of the gentlemen stand ing near mo who the lady might be, and not desiring to point at her, simply described her as well as possible, and as being in attendance upon madame. "That, monsieur, Is Madame Agnes, wife of the Chevalier de la Morn; the wittiest and most beautiful woman at Sceuux. and the chilliest." Noting the change of countenance which I sought In vain to control, he went on banterlngly. “Beware M. le Capitalne, half the men at Sceaux are In love with her, but she has the execrable taste to pre fer her own husband. Such women de stroy half the zest of living. Beside, Jhe (“Ticvnlkr has a marvelous sword and a most unpleasant temper. Buhl how ludicrous It Is for men to anger at triflea.' "But,-' I faltered, "she seems a mere child " “Ym, but none the les charming," and he turned away to continue his Interrupted conversation with the dar ing young Arouet, the same who was to acquire universal fame under the name Voltaire. Thus rudely were tny new awakened hopes of love cast down. A wife, and the wife of a friend! She had spoken to me of "Charles," and of going with him to the colonies. A wife, yet for all that, I knew I loved her. They say the road to hell Is paved with good ■ Intentions. My Intentions were the best that ever made excellent cobblestones toward the Infernal gate. Only a few days and I would bo gone; i surely those could be passed through In peace. She was a wife—I would never let her know that all my heart was hers. This I determined. But man Is weak, and the very atmosphere of France dried up the springs of every honest impulse. Kverywhere was scoffing, raillery and disbelief. Honor, friendship and virtue were regarded as the vain chimeras of a fool. Why /should not I enjoy life while 1 might? Directly Madame Cbatrain entered without intruding, and composedly took her place among the ladles who .made room for her near Madame. Nothing in her manner bore evidence of her recent conflict. It was really marvelous how the life these women led schooled them to stoicism any Chdrtuw bravo daring the stake might envy, She nodded to tne gaily, and I stopped to touch her hand. "Where Is M. de GrevUle? Is he not to be with us this afternoon7” I looked her In the face, wondering, for could she not answer her own ques tion far better than I? She read my /weaning, but her glance never waver wd. ‘'Ah! There he is, among the gen tlemen. I feared he found Sceaux too dull after Paris, and he had promised us a bit of his work. You know he composes famous verses to some f&lr and distant lnamorta.” “Indeed, Madame, I suspected not his talents,” I replied. Our conversation lagged, for the programme had al ready commenced, and we gave our at tention to the reading of some curious ,1 'tiers, said to -have been written by two Persians of distinction then trav eling in Europe, which were being pub lished anonymously in Purls. At first, I could not bring myself to listen to •auch twaddle, dubiously moral, which, under tho gulBe of light, small talk, struck, at.' the foundations of govern ment, religtuos beliefs, and all which I -had before held sacred. Listening only to contradict. I grew Interested In •spite of myself, and only at some allu sion more than usually out of place, as It seemed to me, among so many ladles, did • I take my eyes from tho reader's countenance, and suffer them to roam about the company. Feeling again tho subtle Influence of Agnes' gaze fixed full upon me. It •caused my cheeks to flush, my knees to quake, and verily, my legs were as like to carry me away as to sustain me where I leaned against a tree. The girl was looking straight at me; I dared not return her stare which had •something more than mere curiosity in it, and disturbed me greatly. The reading was finished without my knowledge, a piece of buffoonery, or play acting gone through with, which I did not see, when my own name, called by Madame, brought me to my proper good seuse again. I found myself, before I was quite aware, bending before Madame and re ceiving her command that 1 should do .something for the amusepiem of the company "M. Jcrorno has favored us, you know—we have no drones here," she wont on pleasantly, "and It Is the rule at Bceaus that all must Join our tuerri jment." "Jerome?" I answered In a bewilder ed fashion, for 1 had no recollection ol seeing uoght he did; then l remem bered hearing him recite some lan guishing verses about a white rose, a kiss, a lady’s lips—some sighs, and such o'her stuff that now escapes me— but I had paid no attention to It ull Jerome, the villain, seconded Madamc's request so vigorously l could -not decline, though he well knew I was no carpet knight capable of entertain ing ladies fair on the tourney field o! <wft. “The captain sings divinely, Madami but is becomingly modest, us you see.' The wretch laughed In his sleeve; . could have strangled him. “Ah. so rare." she retorted, “yoi men are vainer than itoy ladles." 1 knew myself the target for dozeni of curious eyes, under the heat o •which I nearly melted awuy. 'S-ing, comrade, sing some sweet lovi glUty of a lonely forest maiden and he. lover, robed in tbe Innocence of Eden.” Had the fool no sense? I caught the j Imploring expression of Interest on the girl's sweet face behind Madame, and j determined at all hazards they should | not have the laugh at me. I saw It all ! then; they were In league with Jerome j to play a game of "bait the bear," with j me for bear. Ho I pitched In and sang, such a song I warrant as my lords and ladles had never bent their cars to hear before, a crooning death Incantation of the Choctaws, which fell as naturally from my lips ns my own mother tongue. Their laughter hushed, for even in the court of France, sated as it was with novelties, laying a world under tribute for amusements, that wild, weird melody never rose before nor since. One stanza I sang translated Into French that they might under stand ; ‘ Yuli! Listen. Quickly you have drawn near to hearken; Listen! Now I have come to step over i your soul; You are of the Wolf Clan; Your name Is Ayunl; i Toward tho Black Coffin of the upland, In the upland of tho Darkening Land your path shall stretch out. With the Black Coftin and the Black Slabs 1 have come to cover you. When darkness comes your spirit shall grow less and dwindle away never to appear. Listen.” And they did listen; yea, attentively did they harken, for a great pall of si lence lowered upon them, so new, so strange to them was the song. When I had quite finished, the soft Indian words dropping ns the splash of unknown, unseen waters. Madame be sought me with earnestness to tell her more, and the others crowded round to hear. I do not know what evil genius ' of folly prompted,the childish deed, but feeling safe In having found what we wanted, and moved more than I would admit by the now admiring eyes of the girl, I gathered up half a dozen daggers from the gentlemen who ■ stood about. Selecting those whose weight and balance commended them selves most to my purpose, I cleared a small space, and hawing sent a serving man for a pack of cards, chose a five spot and pinned it to a tree. Standing back sotpe ten to tifteeen paces, I cast the four knives at the corner pips in quick succession, piercing them truly, tliea paused a minute and cast the fifth knife at the center, striking ac curately between the other four. It was an act of ildc vanity, yet I hated for Jerome to taunt, me on the way home. By these petty means I gained a cheap applause from the belles and gallants at Bceuux, und Jerome opened not his lips to jibe me, as I feared, but like the rest, applauded. I had now quite regained my cour age, but for the girl. I loved to think of her as but a girl; that she was also a wife I barred out of our castle In Spain. Why should I be afraid of such a timid child? Verily, I knew not. My folly had one result I could not then foresee; It told some of those present, whose hand it was that had cast the hunting knife which struck Yvard. I did not learn this for days after. The approving and pleased look on the little lady's face fired me with an Insane desire to further win her notice, whereat I chided myself for a vain coxcomb, and drew Imperceptibly away from the company, until i gained a shady and secluded walk which led to a retired nook overlooking the valley. The quietude of the evening's close Jarred on my turbulence of spirit. For the first time a woman's voice lin gered In my ears after her speech was done, a woman's smile played as the fitful's summer lightning before my eyes. Oh, fool, fool! What place had women In a soldier's life. What a dis cordant harmony would one angel cre ate amid the rough denizens of Biloxi. So I reasoned, forgetful that reasons never yet convinced the heart. CHAPTER XVL THE UNEXPECTED. As one who pauses at the threshold of same fabled palace of the hourl, bo did I stop, bewildered by the beauty of tills virgin field of love, by fancy decked with blossoms, now spreading all the allurements of fetterless Imag inings before me. A sudden whiff brought me the perfume of her pres ence, and, turning, she appeared before me, whether In the spirit or the flesh, X could hardly tell, so transported was I by the swift changes of my thought, merging beauties ever tlew, ever spark ling, with those scarce tasted ones but jUBt discarded. Yet there she was, a dainty thing In white. White of dress, white of face, white of spirit In frightened tones of far-away sweetness, her voice mingled with the air, so low, so melodious one could scarce determine when she commenced to speak. "Monsieur, quick, listen. You are in danger. I was in Madame de Char train’s chamber and overheard. You have letters. M. de Grevllle will take them from you—for her sake—they compromise her. There is other dan ger," she spoke breathlessly on. “other more deadly danger lurking for you hero; I beseech you to leave—at once. M. do Grevllle will take those letters from you by force or guile. Oh, tarry not, there has been so much of blood, and this place so seeming fair; the assassin, the poison and prison houses.” The eloquence of fear trembled In her words. Half starting forward I drank In every syllable, not for the warning she would fain convey, but for their sweetness. All I could realize for the moment was that she had sought me, sought me freely. Then she was gone. Swiftly, noiselessly as she came, she disappeared. The dis tant flutter of her skirts among the sombre trees marked the path she went. Through It all I spoko no word, re turning, as one who has received an angel's visit, to my reverie. 1 was not sufltered long to spend my lime alone. The old beau, de Vlrelle, In his bluff and hearty way directed the attention of a party of ladles who were with him to where I hung over a mar ble balustrade enraptured at the broad expanse of valley, rosy tinted with the hues of ebbing light, boundless as the dint horizon of my own sweet dreams. "By my faith, captain, you should have heard the clamor over your de parture. Already famous, and so soon weary of your laurels. Ah! a tryst," he exclaimed. “Verily you do better than I thought.” for he had picked up a muslin handkerchief, edged with i lace, which sought In vain to hide Itself amor.;- the leaves. So busied had I been It escaped my notice. Instlnctlve 1 ly I reclaimed the prize and with no gentle band I doubt, for bis. touch and jeering manner desecrated the sacred relic of ray vanished saint. Do Virelle scowled somewhat at my precipitation, but, meeting a no less determined air, passed the matter by. His ladies affected not to see. They in turn plied me with inquiries about the savages in America, asked all manner of silly questions, and completed with their foolish simperings the disgust I already felt at such an Interruption to my thought. Yet so great is the force of novelty to women they clung about me as If X were some strange tame ani mal bi ought to Paris for their diver tisement. “Zounds, Margot dear," de Virellt blurted out aside, for even his dull senses saw I was not pleased, "our good Mollere must have had this her mit captain in his mind when he made Alceste to rail so at the hypocrisies of the world, and urge the telling of truth and looking of trutli at all times.” “How brutally frank! What bad breeding," assented that young woman. “This captain seems so full of weari ness at our coming, and lacks the grace to veil it decently; let us go.” Finding no hand of mine raised to hinder them, these fair dames and demoiselles, with many pretty pouts and flutters and flounces, betook them selves away, followed by their faithful squire. I began then to feel sorry at having disgraced Jerome's gentle teachings. The light dying away across the distant fields and streams, I resigned my soli tary communion and set out slowly toward the villa. The meaning of all the girl had said now forced Itself up on my attention. If this were true, and it seemed plausible enough in view of all that had transpired here, I was Indeed confronted by a new and serious danger. Happily danger was not a new fellow-lraveler; I merely turned over in my mind the best means to meet it. Going rather out of my way, I found the grooms without much difficulty, and telling them we were to leave Sceaux at once, ordered the horses sad dled, and made ready at a side door where 1 directed them to wait. My own mind was to tell Jerome nothing of It, but simply to mount the best horse and ride away alone—if that course became necessary. ******* I will break In a bit just here to speak of an Incident which occurred that very night In the modest boudoir of Madame de la Mora. Had I but known of It at the time, it would have saved me many weary months of suf fering. Madame Agnes de la Mora sat placid ly, her work basket by her side, busied about some luce she was mending. The chevalier studied a number of military maps of Louisiana at bis table. It was a pretty picture of domestic harmony, then quite unfashionable at Sceaux. A timid rap at the1 door, and a voice: "Sister, may I come in?” "Yes, child,” and her sister Charlotte slipped silently In and sat herself upon the floor at madame's feet. There was a striking similarity between the two. Madame, for all her dignified title, be ing but a year the elder, and she scant 20. Charlottee, somewhat slighter and more delicately colored, was even of greater beauty than her sister, with much promise for the years to come. To the casual observer, though, espe cially when viewed apart, they seemed almost reflections one of the other. There was something of a loving guardianship in the attitude of the eld er, of confiding trust in that of the younger, as she leaned her head upon her sister's knee in pensive meditation. “Sister, I must tell you of something; I know not that I did well or ill,” and she lifted her face with a surety of sympathy. “What is It, dear, what weighty mat ter troubles you now?” The chevalier looked up long enough to say: “Have you torn your frock, or only quarreled again with the good abbo over your task?” The girl very evident ly had nothing to fear from his harsh ness. “No! No! Don't tease; it's really important. This day at noon Madame Chartraln was In her chamber—you know the young man who came with M. Jerome?” de la Mora nodded. “The same I ran into at the door?” and she flushed again at the memory of our discomfiture. “Well, today noon at Madam Char train’s I heard that danger threatened him concerning some papers or some thing which he has—and Madame du Maine, too, they mean him harm; and —and—well, I told hint. Did I do ill, sister?" “What is that, Charlotte? Come here.” She crossed the room obediently and stood before him. The chevalier asked: "How did it happen, child? Tell me all about it, where you saw him, who was there, and all." So she went on to tell of her seek ing me in the park, und her hurried warning. “Well, what did he say to all that?” “He didn’t say anything; I gave him no chance; I Just ran up near him and told him as quick as ever X could that he had better go oft somewhere, and then—and then—well, I Just ran away again. He looked so startled and sur prised he could not say anything. When I turned again to peep through the hedge he was still standing there with his hands stretched out as If he would have liked to stop me, but I was already gone.” (Continued Next Week.) ■ — ■ A Plea for Good Manners. In delivering the Founders’ day ad dress at the commencement exercises In a schaol at LawrenceviUe. N. j„ Bishop Potter of New York, had this to say among other things: "We are getting to be in such a hurry In Amer ica that the ordinary civilities arc dis appearing out of our education and our life. When you have dismissed good manners out of society you have dis missed that beneficent and kindly in stinct toward your fellow man of which good manners ought always to be the expression.” "Genuine Panamas” 15 Cents. New liork Press: There are folk who profess a faith In the continuance of the Panama hat. We are told, however, that Its vogue Is ended. Those who own J50O ones do not care, because they can lay them on the shelf as Investments. The other day a smart boy of some 14 years did a rushing business In Cortlandt street with a stock of the cheapest rough straw hats Imaginable. They were nested to gether, making a pile a yard and a half high on the sidewalk. The brims were I deckle edged with a vengeance. He cried in strident voice: "Here's yer genewine I Panamas! Only 15 cents apiece! Guar anteed to be genewine Panamas! Fifteen cental" Too Far Advanced. Philadelphia Ledger: "What a tiny egg you’ve got there!" she exclaimed, over the breakfast table. "Isn't It cute?” "Cute!” be replied, when he had broken It; "I should say, rather, it la chic." _ _ _ \ Couldn’t Think of Pillar. Philadelphia Press: Teacher—And what happened to Lot’s wife? Scholar—She was turned Into salt. Teacher—Into a what of salt? Scholar—Why—er—a sort of Job lot a salt. 1 guess. I 1 Her Idea. Her Aunt—Now. I’m going to toll y ou all about my past life. Edith—Please don't. I don't care fo r ancient history. IT’S ROCKEFELLER AGAINST MORGAN Real Inwardness of the Contest for Control of the North ern Pacific 'T MAY CAUSE TROUBLE Explanation of the Detail of Relations Between the Big Financial Inter ests Involved in the Lines to the Coast. New York special: Unable to settle their difficulties in the stock market or through arbitration, John D. Rockefel ler and J. P. Morgan have carried the war for possession of the Northern Pacific railroad to the courts. As a result, there is danger of the great stock panic of May, 11)01. from the ef fects of which the market has never fully recovered, being renewed. Refusing to accept the distribution of assets by the outlawed Northern Se curities company, us planned by Mor gan and J. J. Hill. E. H. Harriman, manager of the Rockefeller forces, has asked the United States circuit court to compel Morgan to hand back to him the identical Northern Pacific stock which he testified under oath Morgan clubbed him into depositing in the mer ger. Harriman’s petition was filed in St. Paul late Saturday night. So secretly was it done that the fact did not be come known until yesterday morning. It was served on H. G. Grover, E. W. Bunn and George B. Young, attorneys for the Northern Securities company, and is returnable at St. Paul April 12. Battle Will Be Fiercely Fought. William D. Guthrie, Morgan's law yer, signs the petition with Judge John P. Dillon, the Roekefeller-Gould ad viser. Both are formally attorneys for E. H. Harriman and Winslow S. Pierce, who bring the suit as trustees for the Oregon Short Line, in whose treasury the Rockefeller shares of the Northern Securities stock are held. This Joining in the same petition of adverse lawyers is done to give the ac tion the outward appearance of a friendly suit, but the battle will be waged none the less fiercely because of this fiction. Harriman, as before said, has sworn he was clubbed into the mer ger, and Rockefeller has ordered him to get the stock back again. The formal demand is now made that the Oregon Short Line, as a stockholder in the Northern Securities, be permit ted to Intervene in the suit just decided by the supreme court and have the de cree modified so as to compel redistri bution of original stocks put into the merger. Buying of Union Pacifio. This movement explains much of the feverish buying of Union Pacific stock by Rockefeller and Morgan forces the last two weeks. It was decided ten days ago to carry the battle to court, and this has now been done. But before that decision was reached the buying of Union Pacific became heavy. Purchasing on the part of one wing of the Rockefeller hosts was due to the fact that they had sold great blocks of It in the belief that an adverse decision on the merger suit would break the stock market. When the market refused to break on the announcement of the merger deci slo there was a wild scramble to get this stock back. J. P. Morgan, observing the buying, also bought Union Pacific heavily for several days. At tho same time J. J. Hill went into the market as a pur chaser of Northern Securities. Fight in Market. AU stocks were so closely held, how ever. that both sides knew there was no hope of deciding the fight In the market at any price, so competitive bidding became quiet. It Is quite like ly, however, that the stock will be torn with a spectacular fight as soon ns the court has decided Harrlman's suit. Un til then neither side will know where it stands. If those who sold stock to the Northern Securities company get back In exchange for the canceled merger stock the same shares deposited origi nally, as Harrlmnn demands, It will give the Rockefeller party control of the Northern Pacific. When the Northern Securities com pany was formed the Rockefeller party which was made up of Harriman, George J. Gould and the Kuhn, Loqb & Co. factions, had control of the North ern Pacific, counting preferred stock. But the Morgan board of Northern Pa cific exercised its right to retire this stock and issue common stock in its place. The new common stock was dis tributed in the same proportion as the old common was held, and thus the Morgan party was left with a bare ma jority. The legality of this retirement of the preferred has been established in court, and this act cannot be un done. But the Rockefeller party at once laid plans to capture the Northern Pacific, which they accused Morgan of taking from them by sharp practice, j WUu the suit was brought by the at- j torney general of the United States to declaie the merger an outlaw, Rocke feller interests aided the government in every way with legal advice and evi dence. This was done secretly, of course. Rockefellers Begin Bear Raid. Believing they would win the right in the supreme court of the United States, the Rockefellers began the greatest bear raid on the stock exchange values that the world has ever seen, the ulti mate object of it being to force out Northern Securities stock in a long panic. This stock was snatched up as fast as it came out, and the Rockefel lers believe they have enough of it so t; at when it is resolved back into its original elements of Northern Pacific and Great Northern stock it will leave them in undisputed control of the Northern Pacific. The Burlington roa£ is also in the balance. It is held through bonds guaranteed Jointly by the Northern Pacific and Great Northern. Default by either of these companies in pay ment of its share of the interest of these bonds throws the road into permanent control of the company which pays. Thus Hill and Morgan, if they won in reducing Rockefeller to a minority in both roads, might let Northern Pacific default and thus capture Burlington absolutely for the Great Northern. Cause of the Panic in 1901. It was because Morgan refused to let Union Pacific share in the purchase of Burlington that Rockefeller ordered the rapture of Northern Pacific in 1901, Lhus causing the panic and the merger. For each $100 of Northern Pacific stock that was taken into the merger after the panic started on May 1 $115 if Northern Securities stock was Issued. For each $100 of the Great Northern there was issued $180 of Northern Se curities, Morgan and Hill want to cancel all Northern Securities stock, returning both Northern Pacific and Great North ern in those propositions for each share. Rockefeller insists that none of his friends want any great Northern stock. He wants each share of Northern Se curities stock traced back to its original elements. Harriman, acting for all the Rocke feller interests, held when the merger was formed $37,023,000 Northern Pa cific common stock and $41,085,000 pre ferred. Morgan-Hill interests had $42, 000,000 common stock. The balance of the $82,000,000 of common stock was so widely scattered that even the panic price of $1,000 a share on May 9, 1901, failed to bring it out. Much of this was later obtained by Rockefeller. Some was converted into Northern Securities shares. By retirement of the Northern Pacific preferred and sale of new com mon the Rockefeller was left with $82, 191.000 of the Northern Securities stock. Rockefellers in the Minority. This, converted according to the Mor gan-Hill plan, would return to Harri man only $34,794,000 Northern Pacific common out of a total of $155,000,000. it would give them also $24,887,000 par of the Great Northern stock, which they do not want. It would leave the Rockefellers in a hopeless minority in 30th the great properties for which they have kept the stock market in contin ual panic since May, 1901. If the Har riman contention prevails the $82,491, 000 Northern Securities will yield $71, 731.000 Northern Pacific. That the legal fight will be a long one is shown in J. P. Morgan’s plan to sail for Europe»4hIs week. He would not dare cross the ocean with a big fight about to be begun in the stock market. Danger in Shellfish. Harper’s Weekly: As a result, ot recent agitation over the communica bility of disease by shellfish taken from waters polluted by sewage there have been numerous investiga tions of the subject by biologists in Europe and the United States. The last report of the British royal com mission on sewage disposal consid ers in detail the progress made In re cent investigations, and states that there is no doubt that many cases of typhoi* fever, as well as other dis eases, are caused by eating shellfish obtained from waters contaminated by sewage. So serious was the evil, in the opinion of the commission, that the only satisfactory method of coping with it was to confer on some com petent authority absolute jurisdiction over tidal waters from which were taken shellfish for human food, in or der that no supplies whatsoever should be derived from polluted waters. The commission also realized that some definite standard of purity must be es tablished, as they were able to find bacillus coli, which is considered to indicate the presence of human pollu tion, in nearly all of 1,000 oysters which were examined bacteriologieally. As many of tiiese specimens came from waters known to be very pure, it presented a difficulty which will re quire further research to remove. It has, however, been demonstrated that shellfish should not be grown, stored or fattened in water to which any pos sible pollution may come. Not Regretful. "Do you ever resret the time which In your youth you devoted to recreation In stead of study?" "No,” answered the good-natured citi zen. ’’I once knew a man who read bocks all hts life and never played baseball or went swimming, or played marbles: and he wasn't much good.'' The tolls of the Suez canal in 1903 were t21.S00.000. I The Grizzly cf Old Days. St. Nicholas: In the old days, before1 the deadly magazine rifle was invented, hunting the grizzly was a very differ ent affair, and no animal the Amer ican continent was more dreaded, his fierceness and vital force when wound ed filling the most reckless hunters with a wholesome dread. It was not at all unusual for a grizzly with a bullet through his heart to pursue and tear to pieces the hunter whose long, single barreled muzzle loading rifle, with Us one round lead bullet; was alto gether inadequate for such" a contest, 'it Is a strange Thing, too, that while the grizzly bear is an omniverous feed er, living on anything from roots and 'nuts to steer and buffalo meat, he has never been known to devour human '/iesh. That Acid Trouble. Colusa, Cal., April 18.—Much nas been said and written recently about 'Uric Acid in the system; what causes ?t and how to get rid of it. It is known to be the first cause of Rheumatism and many other diseases, and lias therefore received a great deal of at tention from medical men. Mr. L. F. Moulton of this place claims that he has solved the problem of bow to get this acid out of the s.\ tern. He says; “I -had this acid trouble myself for lyears. At times the Kidney secretii us would be very profuse and at other times scant, but the acid was always my greatest trouble. Medicine failed to cure me till nt last I heard of a iremedy called Dodd's Kidney Pills, and after taking a box 1 seemed to lie entirely cured. However, it came back on me and this time I took several boxes with the result that I was com pletely and permanently cured. This was three years ago, and I have not had a single symptom of the acid trou ble since. I am 75 years of age, and I am well n« ever 1 was.” Chicago Tribune: "How is Jagway holding out on his total abstinence pledge this time?" "Total abstinence nothing! He eat* mince pie and sauerkraut three times a day.” Mrs. Winslows soothiwq btbcp ror Children teething; eoftens the gums, reduces inflammation al lays pain, cures wind coiic. 25 centr a bottle Tomasso Salvini will not come to the •United States In 190J, as previously an nounced. Old Sofas. Backs of Chairs, etc., can be dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS DIES. How the Jury Was Chosen. Rochester Post-Express: Apropos of ithe reappearance in the political arena jof ex-Lieutenant Governor Tillman, of 'South Carolina, there is an extraordi nary story in the Louisville Courier (Journal that throws new light on our Jury system and the practice of criml jnal law. According to our Louisville (contemporary there was never any doubt as to the result of the trial in ithe minds of the defense, and it goes (on to give the reason for this feeling of safety. As soon as it was known in what county the Tillman case would be 'tried, says the Journal, men represent ing themselves as agents for a picture enlarging establishment made their ap pearance in that county. There were la dozen of them, and each man carried with him as a sample of the work done by his house an enlarged portrait of Tillman, which was so natural that no ■one could fail to recognize jt. The agent treated the women with marked polite ness but always did business with the man of the house. After a few min utes’ conversation he w^ould display 'Tillman’s picture. This naturally enough would lead to a discussion of Ithe Gonzales killing, and by adroit (questioning—the agents were lawyers— the canvasser would soon- discover . whether the man was in sympathy with Tillman or against him. In this way the entire county was canvassed; not a house was missed; and when the trial was called the attorneys for the defense [were armed with an alphabetical list of ithe entire male population of the coun ty eligible for jury service, and opposite pach name was a memorandum showing Jhow he stood on the case. When a man was called who was marked “danger ous” on the list, he would he forced to state that he had expressed an opin ion, and was therefore ineligible for Service on the jury. This story, if true, furnishes food for thought. 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