Investigation of the Packers.
Very general Interest has been mani
fested In the government investigation
now In progress Into the mode of con
ducting business by .the large packers
located in Chicago and elsewhere.
Much has been written upon the al
leged illegal ami improper modes of
business procedure connected with the
packing industry; but It seems that so
far no definite charge of any kind lias
been sustained and no proof of illegal
•r Inequitable methods has been dis
closed to the public. While a wave of
•evere criticism of this great industrial
Interest is now passing over tile coun
try it might be well to remember that
stlie packers have lmd ns yet no oppor
tunity to make specific denial, the
'ttpny indefinite chnrges of wrong do
ing having never been formulated so
that a categorical answer could bo
made.
The recent report of Commissioner
Garfield, which embodied (lie results
«f an official investigation undertaken
Iby the Department of Commerce and
'Labor of the United Slates, was a vin
dication of the Western packers, but
this result liaviug been unexpected at
tempts in many quarters to discredit it
Ivrere made.
In view of the situation ns it now.
»tends, however, attention may proper
ly be called to a few facts that owing
to popular clamor are now being ap[
Iparenlly overlooked. I-’air treatment
1n this country has heretofore been ac
corded to all citizens whose affairs ns
igume prominence in the public eye amt
leome of the facts that bear upon tin1
'relation of the packers to the com-!
Hmerce of the country may at tills time
Ibe briefly alluded to. It would be
Wlfflcult to estimate the benefits gulnei?
’by the farmers of the country result
ing from the energetic enterprise of
the packers, for whatever is of benefit
to the farmer is a gain to the entire1
icommereo of the country. And con
loected with their continuous aggres,
•five work no feature perhaps lias beei;
more important than their efforts in'
•Peking outlets nil over the world for!
the surplus producls of the farmers
Dur total exports of agricultural prodj
beta have gained hut little in the pns3
twenty years,nnd leaving out corn, tin*
total of all other farm products wa j
far less in 1903 than in 1891. But lit
(sacking house products there was coni
•Idcrablc gain during this period, be
cause ail organized anil powerful forei;
bas been behind them seeking new
•nd broader mnrkets.
Besides the benefits reaped by farm
ers on account of the enterprise ami
energy exercised by the packers in at
taining commercial results by foreign
trade, the great development in the
manufacture of packing house by-prod
ucts has added enormously to the
value of all live stock raised in the
United States. The waste material of
twenty years ago. then an expense to
the packer, is now converted into ar
ticles of great value and. ns an eco
nomic fact, this must correspondingly
Increase the value to the farmer of
every bend of cattle marketed nt the
numerous stock yards of tlie country.
Let these facts be remembered while
now it is so popular to regard the
4{rent packing industry ns deserving of
condemnation. At least it must be ad
mitted that, so far, there is no ade
quate reason for the almost unani
mous howl that may lie heard every
where in tile face of the Garfield re
port above alluded to which practical
ly exonerates the packers from the ob
-acure and indefinite charges that have
ibeen for some time past made the sub
•ect of popular comment.
Set Right.
Catholic Standard and Times: "I lmdiv.
•been Introduced to him live minutes be
fore he began to talk 'society.' "
• "And you didn't like that, eh?”
t"Of course I did. If a man's an Idiot
like to know It right away.”
i Private Car Hines.
, Tlie railroads seem very willing to
have the private car lines brought un
<8er the jurisdiction of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. A railroad
president Is authority for the statement
that lines are paid mileage, without
discrimination, and the question of ex
cessive charges Is a matter for the
«hlpper to settle with the ear lines, so
Sole as there Is no law to govern their
rates. Car mileage paying has been de
cided to be as legal us the payment of
rental for property.
Self Approving.
Washington Star: "Do you feel that
you did anything for the good of your
country?" asked the serious citizen.
"I don't know ubout that," answered
the congressman. "But I feel that I
have a better record than some In not
doing any damage.”
• 100 Seward, BIOO.
The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease
that science bas been able to cure In all Its
•tans, and that Is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure
b the only positive cure known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional dis
ease. requires a constitutloual treatment. Hall's
Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, acting directly
on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system,
thereby destroying the foundation of the dis
ease, and giving the patleut strength by building
lip the constitution and assisting nature In doing
Its work. The proprietors have so much faith In
|b curative powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that It falls to cure, bend
•ar list of testimonials.
Address. F. J. CHENEY ft CO., Toledo, O.
Bold by Druggists, 750.
Ball's Family Fills are the best.
Not Improving.
Boston Traveler: Kind Lady—Oh, my
What a pity to bear a child like that using
bad language!
\ Young jfopeful—Dat's not'ln. mam. He
:could cuss most as good as dat when be
wuz 2 years old. he's most 5 notv.
Mre. i. II. Clin, Everett, Pe.. sutrprrd yrerv
.wilh kidney end grovel trouble. Cured bv Dr. Devid
Kennedy's Fuvoruo Homed). Koudout, N. Y. fi.tIU.
Shopping in Rome.
Louisville Courier-Journal: "Ah. these
are re beautiful Roman fliltgree
combs," said the salesman, with gen
uine enthusiasm.
Mrs. Noorlteh was not visibly im
pressed.
"Show me some catacombs,” com
manded she.
No Class Needed.
Chicago News. Gunner—I think there
should be an authorship class connected
with every big college. I mean so stu
dents would be enabled to write fiction for
money.
Guycr—Fiction? S9y, did you ever sea
the letters the students write their par
ents when they need a check?
Getting Time.
Mine eyes have seen the fury of the Kan
sas man amuck:
tie u< giving every trust in sight a Jab
• or two for luck.
iatnd It's getting mighty nearly time for
• Standard OH to duck.
For he’s still rampaging on.
The Gotham Viewpoint.
Puck: Philadelphia—Have you read
Robert Herrick's new novel. "The
Common Lot”?
New Yorker—No. What’s it about?
Philadelphian—Chicago people.
New Yorker—Good title, eh?
Poet and Spring.
1 plucked-a quill from Fancy's ring
Vnd swiftly wrote "Reign, lovely Spring.”
It rained.
1 turned my Muse to softly sing
in accents sweet, "Hall, gentle Spring."
It ’’hailed.
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Handy Habit.
Boston Transcript: Hester—You'll par
don me for speaking of it*, but your fiancee
is the greatest girl to borrow things I
ever saw. She almost always lias some
of her sister’s clothes on.
Doliltle—By George, I'm glad to know
that: suppose she’ll keep on wearing her
sister’s clothes after we are married? Be
a big saving for me. won't it?
Enlightened!
Philadelphia Ledger: “Pa,” said the
little Kansas boy, "what does
b-o-o-z-e' mean."’
"That," refilled his gather, “Is an
eastern slang term for "spiritus frum
mtl.” _
A Tale of Buffering.
Oakley, Mich., May 8.—(Special.)—“i
could not sleep or rest in any place,”
says Florence (.’apen of this place in a
recent interview, ”1 had a pain In my
back and hips. If I sat down I could
not get up out of my chair. I was in
pain all the time. I got poor for I dill
not eat enough to keep a small child.
I could not rest nights.
“Then I sent for a box of Dodd's
Kidney Pills and went to taking them
and what do you think that very night
I went to lied and I slept till morning.
I got up and thanked God for the
night's rest and Dodd's Kidney Pills.
I know that Dodd’s Kidney Pills are all
that Is claimed for them.”
This is only one of the numerous ex
periences that show the way to build
up run down people is to cure the kid
neys. Thousands of people in every
Slate bear witness to the fact that
Dodd's Kidney Pills never fail to cure
the kidneys.
Never!
Cleveland Plain Dealer: “And do yon
mean to say, madam, that you and your
husband never had any spats?"
“My husband had a pair onee, sir, but
he gave 'em to the boy who sprinkled our
grass."
Mr*. Wln»low* boothiho stkcp ror Children
teething; Mittens the gums, reminoe tndeiximeuoa e1
*yr. |>eln. ouroe wind nnltr. ii cent' a bottle
BIBLE IN MANY TONGUES.
Its Enormous Circulation Through thv
World.
Century: Three hundred pillllon
copies of the bible have been printed
In a century.
The British and American Bible so
cieties alone circulate some 8,000,000 a
year. Forty per cent, of .the cost is re
covered from sales.
Often the payments were made in
curious substitutes for money, such as
cowry shells In Uganda, copra and ar- 1
row root In New Hebrides, swords, dag
gars, sandals, amulets, straw hats,
pieces of silk, eggs, butter, rotten
cheese, dogs' teeth, seabirds’ eggs and
other picturesque circulating material.
^Occasionally, even bibles were stolen.
Something like 2,000 colporteurs and
bible women travel In like manner to
outlandish places, "by railroad, car
riage, boat, bullock wagon, sleigh, bi
cycle. wheelbarrow, on mule jlnrlklsha
or afoot," to distribute bibles.
Bibles must be packed In water-tight
parcels to be landed through the surf
In Madras; they are made up in fifty
slx-pound packages to fit coolies' backs
In Annum.
A century ago the bible was printed
In forty languages. It Is now printed
In 450, and new ones are being added
every year. Sometimes languages are
practically made by the bible—that Is
to say, it Is the first book printed In
some obscure tongue, so rude that it
does not even contain words enough to
express thought.
Take, for example, the translation
just made for the Sheetswa tribe In
east Africa. They had no word for
Supreme Being, or home, father, heav
en, house and other ideas equally fun
damental. Other recent translations
have been Into Mare, Persian, Uganda,
Labrador-Esklmo, Kongo-Baldo, We
dan, Fang, Madurese and Nogugu.
And there are said to he on the bor
ders of the Indian empire alone 1(18
languages in which there Is no Chris
tlan scripture printed.
COFFEE HEART
Very Plain in Some People.
A great many people go on sufferin',
from annoying ailments for a long
time before they eau get their own
consent to give up the indulgence from
which their trouble arises.
A gentleman In Brooklyn describes
his .experience, as follows:
“I became satisfied some months ago
that I owed the palpitation of the
heart, from which I suffered almost
dally, to the use of coffee (I had been
a coffee drinker for 30 years), but 1
found it very hard to give up the bev
erage.
“I realized that I must give up the
harmful Indulgence in coffee, but I
felt the necessity for a hot table drink,
and ns tea Is not to my liking, I was
, at a loss for a while what to do.'
“One day 1 ran across a very sen
sible and straightforward presentation
of the claims of Postum Food Coffee,
1 and was so Impressed thereby that I
| concluded to give it a trial. My ex
perience with it was unsatisfactory
till I learned how it ought to be pre
pared—by thorough boiling for not
less than 15 or 20 minutes. After I
learned that lesson there was no trou
I hie. Postum Food Coffee proved to
j be a most palatable and satisfactory
hot beverage, and I have used it ever
since.
“The effect on my health has been
most salutary. It has completely cured
the heart palpitation from which I
used to suffer so much, particularly
after breakfast, an.l i never have a re
turn of it except when I dine or lunch
away from home and am compelled to
j drink the old kind of coffee because
j Postum Is not served. I find that
Postum Food Coffee cheers and invig
. orates, while it produces no harmful
J stimulation.” Name given by Postum
! Co., Battle Creek, Mleli.
. There's a reason.
Ten days' trial proves an eye opener
i to many.
Read the little book “The Road to
£ Wellvllle” In every pkg.
THE MASTER OF APPLEBY II
* > • • — ■ :. 1 „.■ := By Franci* Lynde. - - «*
CHAPTER VI.—Continued.
Although it was most terribly over
long in coming, the end of that black
day did come at last, and with it Bar-,
lus to fetch my supper and the candles.
You may be sure I questioned him, and,
if you know the blacks, you’ll smile
and say I had my labor for my pains
—tlv- which I bad. His place was at
the quarters, and of what went on
within thp house he knew no more
than I. But this he told me; that com
pany surely was expected, and that
some air of mystery was abroad.
When he was gone I ate a soldier's
portion, knowing of old how ill a thing
It is to take an empty stomach into
battle. For the same cause I drank a
second cup of wine—’twas old maderia
of my father's Iaying-ln—and would
have drunk a third but that the bottle
would not yield it.
it was fully dark when I had finish
ed, and, thinking ever on my plan,
would strive afresh to weld its weakest
link. This was the hazard of the weap
on-getting. With full-blood health and
strength I might have gone bare hand
ed; but as it was, I feared to take the
chance. So with a candle I went a
prowling In the deep drawers of the old
oaken clothes press and in the es
critoire which once had been my moth
er's. and Sound no weapon bigger than
a hairpin.
It was no great disappointment, for I
had looked before with daylight in the
room. Besides, the wine was mount
ing. and when the search was on the
hazard seemed the less. So I could
rush upon him unawares and put my
knee against his back, I thought the
Lord of Battles would give me strength
to break his neck across it.
At that I capped the candles, and,
taking post in the deep bay of the win
dow, set myself to watch for the light
ing of the great room at the front.
This had two windows on my side and
while I could not see them, I knew
that I should see the sheen of light
upon the lawn.
i rie mgnt was clear but moon
less, and the thick-leafed masses
of the oaks and hickories rose
a wall of black to curtain
half the hemisphere of starry sky.
As always in our forest land, the hour
was shrilly vocal, though to me the
chirping din of frogs and Insects hath
ever stood for silence. Somewhere be
yond the thicket-wall an owl was call
ing mournfully, and I bethought me of
that superstition—old as man, for aught
I know. And then I laughed, for surely
death would come to one or more of
those beneath my father's roof with the
compass of the night.
Behind the close drawn curtain,
though I could see it not, the virgin
forest darkened all the land; and from
afar within its secret depths I heard,
or thought T heard, the dismal howling
of the timber wolves. Below, the
house was silent as the grave, and this
seemed strange to me. For in the time
of my youth a wedding was a joyous
thing. Yet 1 would remember that these
present times were perilous; and also
that my bridegroom captained but a
little band of troopers in a land but
now become fiercely debatable.
It must have been an hour or more
before the sound of distance muffled
hoofbeats on the road broke in upon the
chirping silence of the night. I looked
and listoned, straining eye and ear,
hearing but little and seeing less until
three shadowy horsemen issued from
the curtain wall of black beneath my
vvi ndow.
It was plain that others watched as
well as I, for ut their coming a sheen
of light burst from the ofiened door be
low, at which there were sword clank
lugs as of armed men dismounting, and
then a few low-voiced words of wel
come. Followed quickly the closing of
the door and silence; and when my eyes
grew once again accustomed to the
gloom, 1 saw below the horses standing
iiead to head, and in the midst a man to
hold them.
"So!" I thought; "but three in all,
and one of them a servant. 'Twill be
a scantly guested wedding.” And then
I raged within again to think of how
my love should be thus dishonored In a
corner when she should have the world
to clap its hands and praise her beauty.
At that, and while I looked, the
lawn was handed farther on by two
broad beams of light; and then 1 knew
my time was come.
Feeling my way across the darkened !
chamber 1 softly tried the ddor latch.
It yielded at the touch, but not the
door. I pulled, and braced myself and
pulled again. 'Twas but a waste of
strength. The door was fast with that
contrivance wherewith my father used
to bar me in what time I was a boy
and would go raccooning with our
negro hunters. My enemy was no fool.
He had been shrewd enough to lock
me in against the chance of interrup
tion.
1 wish you might conceive the help
less horror grappling with me there be
hind that fastened door; but this, in
deed, you may not, having felt it not.
For one dazed moment I was sick as
death with fear and frenzy and I know
not what besides, and all the blackness
of the night swam sudden red before
my eyes. Then, in the twinkling of an
eye, the madness left me cool and sane,
r.s if the fit had been the travail-pain
of some new birth of soul. And after
that, as 1 remember, l knew not rage
nor haste nor weakness—knew no other
thing save this; that 1 had set my
self a task to do and I would do it.
My window was in shape like half a
cell of honeycomb, and close beside it
on the outer wall there grew an ancient
ivy vine which more than once had held
my weight when I was younger and
would evade my father's vigilance.
1 swung the casement noiselessly and
clambered out, with hand and foot in
proper hold as if those youthful flittings
of my boyhood days had been but yes
ternight. A breathless minute later I
was down and afoot on solid ground;
and then a thing chanced which I
would had not. The man whom I had
called a servant turned and saw me.
“Halt! Who goes there?" lie cried.
"A friend.” said 1, between my wisli
ings for a weapon. For this servant of
my prellgurings proved to be a trooper,
booted, spurred and armed.
"V^“e;od, I think you lie," lie said;
and l tier that he said no more, for he
wa f town among the horses' hoofs and
1 upon him, kneeling hard to scant his
breath for shoutings.
It grieves me now through all these
years to think that 1 did kneel too herd
upon this man. He was no enemy of
mine, and did but dir—or seek to do—
his duty. But he would fight or die,
land 1 must fight or die; and so it end
ed as such strivings will, with some
grim crackling of l ibs—and a hen I
rose lie rose not with me.
With ali the fierce excitement of the
struggle yet upon me, I stayed to knot
the bridle reins upon his arm to .make
it plain that tie had fallen at hi* post.
Thai done, I took his aword ss surer
Cor my purpose than a putwU and hug
sing the deepest shadow of the wall,
approached the nearer window. It was
open wide, for the night air was sultry
warm, and from within there came the
| clink of glass and now a toast and now
a trooper's oath.
I drew myself by inches to the
casement, which was high, finding
some foothold in the wall; and
when I looked within I saw no wedding
guests, no priest, no altar; only this: a
table in the midst with bottles on it,
and round it five men lounging at their
ease and drinking to the king. Of these
five two, the baronet and the lawyer,
were known to me, and I have made
them known to you. A third I guessed
for Gilbert Stair. The other two were
strangers.
VII.
IN WHICH MY LADY HATH NO
PART.
Seeing that I had taken a man's life
for this, the chance of looking in upon
a drinking bout, you will not wonder
that I went aghast and would have fled
for very shame had not a sudden weak
ness seized me. But in the midst I
heard a mention of my name and so
had leave, I thought, to stay and listen.
It was one of the late-comers who
gave me this leave; a man well on in
years, grizzled and weatherbeaten; a
seasoned soldier by his look and garb.
Though his frayed shoulder-knot was
only that of a captain of foot, 'twas
plain enough he ranked his comrade,
und the knight as well.
"You say you’ve bagged this Cap
tain Ireton? Who may he be? Surely
not old Roger's son?"
"The same," said the baronet, short
ly. and would be filling his glass again.
He could always drink more and feel
it less than any sot I ever knew.
"But how the devil came he here?
The last I knew of him—'twas some
half-score years ago, though, come to
think—he was a lieutenant in the Royal
Scots.”
Mine enemy nodded. "So he was.
But afterward he cut the service and
levanted to the continent.”
aThe questioner fell into a muse; then
he laughed and clapped his leg.
"Ecod! I do remember now. There
was a damned good mess-room Joke
about him. When he was in the Blues
they used to say his solemn face would
stop a merry-making. Well, after he
had been in Austria a while they told
this on him; that his field-marshal had
him listed for a majority, and so he
was presented to the empress. But
when Maria Theresa saw him she
shrieked and cried out, ‘II est le pere
aux tetes rondes, lui-meme! Le portez
vous dehors!’ So he got but a cap
taincy after all; ha! ha! ha!”
Now this was but a mess-room gibe,
as he had said, cut out of unmarred
cloth, at that. Our Austrian Maria
ever had a better word than “round
head” for her soldiers. But yet it
stung, and stung the more because I
had and have the Ireton face, and that
is unbeloved by women, and glum and
curst and solemn even when the man
behind it would be kindly. So when
they laughed and chuckled at this Jest,
I lingered on and listened with the bet
ter grace.
"What brought him over-seas, Sir
Francis?” 'Twas not the grizzled Jest
er who asked, but the younger officer,
his comrade.
Falconnet smiled as one who knows
a thing and will not tell, and turned to
Gilbert Stair.
"What was it, think you, Mr. Stair?”
he said, passing the question on.
At this they all looked to the master
of Appleby Hundred, and I looked, too.
He was not the man I should have hit
upon in any throng as the reaver of my
father's estate; still less the man who
might be Margery's father. He had
the face of all the Stairs of Ballan
trae without its simple Scottish rug
gedness: a sort of weasel face it was,
with pale-gray eyes that had a trick
of shifty dodging, and deep-furrowed
about the mouth and chin with lines
that spoke of indecision. It was not of
him that Margery got her firm round
chin, or her steadfast eyes that knew
not how to quail, nor aught of anything
she owed a father save only her pater
nity, you’d say. And when he spoke
the thin falsetto voice matched the
w'eak chin to a hair.
"I? Damme, Sir Francis, I know' not
why he came—how should I know?” he
quavered. “Appleby Hundred is mine
—mine, I tell you! His title was well
hanged on a tree with his damned rebitl
father!”
A laugh uproarious from the three
soldiers greeted his petulant outburst;
after which the baronet enlightened the
others.
As you know. Captain John, Appleby
Hundred once belonged to the rebel
Roger Ireton, and Mr. :#tair here holds
but a conflscator's title. 'Tis likely the
son heard of the war and thought he
stood some chance to come into his own
again.1’
"Oh, aye; sure enough." quoth the
elder officer, tilting his bottle afresh.
And then: "Of course he promptly
'listed with the rebels when he came?
Trust Roger Ireton's son for that.”
My baronet wagged his head assent
Ingly to this; then clinched the lie in
words.
"Of course: we have his commission.
He is on DeKalb's staff, 'detached for
special duty.’ ”
"A spy!" roared the Jester. "And yet
you haven't hanged him?”
Sir Francis shrugged like any
Frenchman. “All in good time, my
dear Captain. There were reasons why
1 did not care to knot the rope myself.
Itesides, we had a little disagreement
years agone across the water; ’twas
about a woman—oh. she was no mis
tress of his. I do assure you!’’—»this to
' quench my Jester's laugh incredulous,
i lie was keen upon me for satisfaction
j in this old quarrel, and I gave it him,
! thinking he'd hang the easier for a
| little blooding first."
Here the factor-lawyer cut in ar.x
! iously. "But you will hang him, Sir
, Francis? You've promised that, you
! know ."
I did not hate my enemy the more be
1 cause he turned a shoulder to this little
; bloodhound and quite ignored the in
| terruptlon.
"So we fought It out one morning in
I Mr. Stair's wood-field, and he had what
he came for. Not to give him a chance
j to escape, we brought him here, and
j as soon as he is fit to ride I’ll
i send him to the colonel. Tarleton
j will give him a short shrift, I
promise you, and then”—this to the
master of Appleby Hundred—"then
your title will be well quieted. Mr.
Stair."
And this the weather-beaten captain
roared again and smote the table til!
the bottles reeled.
"I say, Sir Frank, that's good—
damned good! So you have him
ci imped here in his own house, stuffing
him like a penned capon before you
wring his neck. Ah! ha! ha! But tis
to be hoped you have his legs well tied.
If he be any son of my old mad-bull
Roger Iretoa, you'll hardly hang him
peacefully like a trussed fowl before
the Are.”
The baronet smiled and said: “I’ll be
your warrant for 1:1s safety. We've had
him well guarded from the first, and to
night he is behind a barred door with
Mr. Stair’s overseer standing sentry
before it. But as for that, he's barely
out of bed from my pin-prick.”
Having thus disposed of me, they let
me be and came to the graver business
of the moment, with a toast to lay the
dust before it. It was Falconnet who
gave the toast.
"Here's to our bully redskins and
Iheir king—how do you call Mm, Cap
lain Stuart? Ocon—Ocona—”
j "Oconostota is the Chelakee of It,
though on the border they know him
better as Old Hop ' Fill up, gentle
men, All up; 'tls a dry business, this.
( Allow me, Mr. Stair; and you, Mr. —er
, —ah—Pengarden. This same old
i heathen is the king's friend now, but,
i gentlemen all, I do assure you he's the
I very devil himself in a copper-colored
i skin. 'Twas he who ambushed us In
j '60, and but for Attukullakulla—”
| "Oh, Lord!" groaned Falconnet. “I
say, captain, drown the names In the
wine and we’ll drink them so. Tls by
far the»’aslest way to stvallow them.”
By this, the grizzled captain's men
tion of the old Fort Loudon masacre,
I knew him for that same John Stuart
of the Highlanders who, with Captain
Damare, had stoutly defended the fron
tier fort against the savages twenty
years before; knew him and wondered
I had not sooner placed him. When I
was but a boy, as I could well remem
ber, he had been king's man to the
Cherokees; a sort of go-between In
times of peace, and In the border war*
a man the Indians feared. But now,
as I was soon to learn, he was a man
for us to fear.
" 'Tls carried through at last.” he
went on, when the toast was drunk.
And then he stopped and held up a
warning Anger. “This business will not
brook unfriendly ears. Are we safe to
talk It here. Mr. Stair?”
It was Falconnet who answered.
“Safe as the clock. You passed my
sentry ;r. the road'”'
"Yes."
"He is the padlock of a chain that
reaches round the house. Let's have
your news, captain.”
"As I was saying, the Indians are at
one with us. Twas all fair sailing in
the council at Echota; the Chelakees
being to a man Aerce enough to dig the
hatchet up. But I aid have the devil’*
own teapot tempest with my Lord
Charles. He says we have more friend*
than enemies In the border settlements,
and these our redskins will tomahawk
them all alike.”
1 made a mental note of this and)
wondered If my Lord Cornwallis had
met with some new change of heart. Ho
was not over-squeamish as I had known
him. Then I heard the baronet say:
"But yet the thing is done?”
"As good as done. The Indians are
to have powder and lead of us. after
which they make a sudden onfall on
the over-mountain settlements. And
that fetches us to your part in it, Sir
Frank; and to yours, Mr. Stair. Your
troop, captain, will be the convoy for
this powder; and you. Mr. Stair, ara
requisitioned to provide the commis
sary.”
There was silence while a cat might
wink, and then Gilbert Stair broke In
upon it shrilly.
"I cannot, Captain Stuart; that I
cannot!” he protested, starting from his
chair. “ ’Twill ruin me outright! The
place is stripped—you know it well. Sir
Francis—stripped bare and clean by
these thieving rebel militiamen; bare
as the back of your hand, I tell you!
I—’’
But the captain put him down in
brief.
‘ Enough, Mr. Stair; we'll not con
strain you against your will. But 'tis
hinted at headquarters that you are
but a fair weather royalist at best—
nay, that for some years back you
have been as rebel as the rest in this
nesting-place of traitors. As a friend—
mind you, as a friend—I would advise
you to find the wherewithal to carry
out my lord's commands. Do you take
me. Mr. Stair?”
The trembling old man fell back in
his chair, nodding his "yes” dumbly
like a marionette when the string has
been jerked a thought too violently,
and' his weasel face was moist and
clammy. I know not what double
dealing he would have been at before
this, but it was surely something with
the promise of a rope at the publishing
of it. j
So he and his factor fell to ciphering'
on a bit of paper, reckoning ways and
means, as 1 took it, while Falconnet,
was asking for more particular or
ders.
"You’ll have them from headquarters
direct," said Stuart. "Oconostota will
furnish carriers, a Cherokee escort, and
guides. The rendezvous will be here
abouts, and your route wll be the Great
Tra cp.”
"Then we are told to hold on all and
wait still longer?”
'That's the word; wait for the Indians
and your cargo."
Faleonnet's oath was of impatience.
“We’ve waited now a month and
more like men with halters round their
necks. The country is alive with
rebels."
(Continued Next Week.)
MAID AND MISTRESS.
Examples of Courtesy Should Be Given
Servants of the Household.
Cooking Club: It should be plain enough
that examples are as much to servants
as to children, since in manners and so
cial training servants are as children. If
the mistress be courteous to every mem
ber of her family, and they In turn to
her, the maid soon feels the atmosphere
of good breeding and unconsciously be
comes amiable and respectful. But let the
mistress speak sharply to her husband,
or scold the children in public, or let the
master constantly find fault in the pres
ence of the servant, and she will shortly
discover that courtesy is not one of the
essentials of the establishment, and will,
most likely, add black looks and uncivil
words to the general disharmony.
Servants being imitative, there is more
reason that the conduct of employers be
worthy of imitation. If the mistress of a
house be careful of her dress, her speech,
her daily habits, her handmaid will, in all
probabaillty. grow more careful of her
own. But the woman who comes to her
breakfast table with disheveled and rum
pled gown has no right to find fault with
the maid in a dirty calico and slovenly
shoes. I.ike mistress, like mai^ as well
as like master, lt>.e man. Unless a good
example be set there is no cause to com
plain of servants for following a bad one.
They would rather improve their condi
tion than degrade it. They would rather
be ladies than servants. Their ignorance
makes them mistake the false for the
true, the bad i*or the good. If every mis
tress would take pains to set a fair exam
ple to her maids, and aid them now and
then by timely and delicate hints, she
would soon have servants who would be
in fact the help they are in name.
The Reason.
Chicago Record-Herald: She—I can't
see why I ever eloped with you."
He—I can. I was the first fool that ever
asked you to elope.
Thirty thousand people a year are
going from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and
Iowa into the Manitoba wheat region#
[of CanaSa. j
GENERAL WEAKNESS AND FEVER
DISAPPEAR TOO.
How a Woman "Was Freed from Trouble*
That Had Made Lifo Wretched for
Many Years.
The immediate causes of headaches
▼ary, but most of them eomo from poor
or poisoned blood. Iu anaemia the blood
is scanty or thin ; the nerves are imper
fectly nourished and pain is the way in
which they express their weakness. In
colds the blood absorbs poison from the
mucous surfaces, and the poison irritates
the nerves and produces pain. In rheu
matism, malaria aud the grip, the poison
in the blood produces like discomfort. Iu
indigestion the gases from the impure
matter kept in the system affect the
blood in the same way.
The ordinary headache-cures at best
give only temporary relief. They deaden
the pain but do not drive the poison out
of the blood. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pi 1 ’a*
J on the contrary thoroughly renew the
blood and the pain disappears perma
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these pills an unfailing relief in head
aches caused by ansemia.
Miss Stella Blocker recently said: “Dr.
Williams’ Pink Pills did me a great deal
of good. I had headache nearly all the
time. After I had taken three boxes of
these pills I became entirely well.”
“How long had you suffered?” she
was asked.
“For several years. I can’t tell the
exact date when my illness began for it
came on liy slow degrees. I had been
going down hill for many years.”
“ Did you have any other ailments ?'
“ I was very weak and sometimes I had
fever. My liver aud kidneys were af
fected as well as my head.”
“ How did yon come to take the rem
edy that cured you?”
“ I saw in a southern newspaper a
statement of some person who was cured
of a like trouble by Dr. Williams’ Pink
Pills. My physician hadn’t done me any
good, so I bought a box of these pills.
After I had taken one box I felt so much
better that I kept on until I became en
tirely well.”
Miss Blocker’s home is at Leander,
Louisiana. Dr. Williams’Pink Pills are
sold by all druggists. Besides headache
they cure neuralgia, sciatica, nervous
prostration, partial paralysis aud rheu
matism.
THE NEXT MORNING I FEEL BRIGHT AND NEW
AND MV COMPLEXION IS BETTER.
My doctor says it acts gently on th« stomach. lirnr
sad kidneys and is a pleasant laxalive. This drink is
made from herbs, and is prepared for use as easily as
tea. It is called “ JLane’s Tea." or
LANE S FAMILY MEDICINE
All druRKist, or by mail 25 et». and BO eta. Buy it tn
day. l.ane’w Futility Medicine moves' the
bowels cat'll day. In order to bo healthy thia ia
■eeoasary. Addrooa, O. F. Woodward. Lo Hoy, N. Y.
Japanese Humor.
Count Inouyo, Japanese minister in
Berlin, was, according to T. P. O'Con
nor, M. P., once conversing at dinner
with the German chancellor, when
Count von Buelow said to the .Japanese
diplomat: “You must know. Count
Inouye, that we Germans are beginning
to be quite pr >ud of the Japanese. You
have gathered from us your tactics.
Your strategy is also German, and so
is your artillery. Nearly all your doc
tors have studied In Germany. You
have even imitated us by inaugurating
a social democratic movement in Ja
pan.”
"Most true. Count von Buelow." re
plied the Jajranese minister: "but there
is one thing we do not share with you.”
"What is that?” the German chan
cellor was rash enough to inquire.
"Why, Ihe fear of Russia," dexter
ously rejoined the diplomat.
Porto Rican Souvenirs.
Brooklyn Eagle: An attractive and
useful souvenir from Porto Rico, which
returning tourists are bringing home is
a guarda brisa. Its name signifies a
guard or shield for the wind, and it.
consists of a rather small crystal
shade for a candle. This is attached
to a candle stick and is quite orna
mental. Porto Rico houses are open to
the breeze to such an extent that these
guarda brisas are very necessary. They'
are also adaptable for summer cottages
'n this part of the world.
HAPPY WOMEN.
Mrs. Pare,
wife of C. B.
Pare, a proin
i n e n t resi
dent of Ulas
g o w, K y.,
says: ‘T was
s u ft e r i n g
from a com
plication o f
kidney trou
bles. Besides
a bad back,
I had a great
deal of trou
ble with the
s e c r e tions,
which were
exceedingly variable, sometimes exces
sive and at other times scanty. The
color was high, and passages were ac
companied with a scalding sensation.
Doan's Kidney Pills soon regulated the
kidney secretions, making their color
normal and banished ttie inflammation
which caused the scalding sensation. I
can rest well, my back is strong and
sound and 1 feel much better in every
way.”
For sale by all dealers, price 50 cent*
per box. FOSTER-Ml DBF UN CO.,
Buffalo, N. Y.
By All Means, Try.
Philadelphia Press: Mrs. Nexdore—Pva.
been thinking of having my daughter's,
voice cultivated. Would you?
Mrs. Peppery—By all means, if you have
! tried every other remedy.
1 find Plio'e Cure for Consumption the
best medicine for eronpy children.—Mr*.
F. Callahan, 114 Hall street, Parkenr
burg, W. Va„ April lti. 1801.
The present population of Great Brit
ain and Ireland is about 42.709.j0U4