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t is a pleasure to comment upon the
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CHAPTER XI.IV.—Continued.
'• 'Tls your own folly,” I rejoined
hotly. "You should blame neither the
lady nor the man to whom she has
given nothing save—”
| "Save what?" he broke in savagely.
I recoiled on the brink as I had so
many times before. The months of
] waiting for the death I cra-ved had
hardened me.
"Save a thing you would value lightly
enough without her love. Let us have
done with this bickering; find the col
onel and ask his leave to go with me,
If you like. Then you may do the love
making whilst I do the spying.”
"No,” said he; “not while you stand
it upon.such a leg as that."
I reached across andogrlpped his hand
and wrung It. "Shall we never have
the better of thpse senseless vapor
Ings?" I cried. " ’Tls as you say; I can
neither live sane nor die mad without
another sight of her, Dick, and that is
the plain truth. And yet,, mark me, this
next seeing of her will surely set a
thing In train that'will make her yours
and not mine. Get your leave and come
with me on your own terms. Mayhap
she will show you how little she cares
for me, and how much she cares for
you.”
So this is how it came about that we
two, garbed as decent planters and
mounted upon the sleekest cobs the
regiment afforded, took the road for
Winnsborough together on a certain
summer-fine morning in January in the
year of battles, 1781.
CHAPTER XLV.
IN WHICH WE FIND WHAT WE
NEVER SOUGHT.
*Tis fifty miles as a bird would fly it
from the grazing uplands of the Broad
known as the Cowpens to the lower
plantation region lying between that
stream and the further Catawba or
Wateree; and Richard Jennifer and I
ambled the distance leisurely, as befit
ted our mission and disguise, cutting
the journey evenly In half for the first
night’s lodging, which we hud at the
house of one Phiibrick—as hot a tory
as we prenteded to be.
From our host of the night we
learned that within two days the Brit
ish outposts on the Wateree and the
Broad had been advanced; and that
there were rumors in the air that Lord
Cornwallis, who was hourly expecting
General Leslie with two thousand of
Sir Henry Clinton’s men from New
York, would presently move on to the
long-deferred conquest of North Caro
iina.
"Has Cornwallis lost his wits?” Dick
would say, when we were a-jug on 'he
southward road again. " 'Tis a braver
lordllng than I gave him cred
it for being—if he will put
his head in a trap that will
close behind him and cut him off from
his line and base.”
I laughed. “You may wager Jennifer
House against an acre of the Cowpens
that Lord Charles will do no such un
soldierly thing. If this rumor be true,
wo have heard only the half of it.”
"And the other half will be’—”
"That my Lord Cornwallis will do his
prettiest to pull the teeth of one or the
other of the trapjaws before he trusts
himself within them.”
Jennifer was silent for an ambling
minute or two. Then he said: ‘"Twill
be our teeth he'll try to pull, then. The
Broad is nearer than the Pedee; and
ours is the weaker of the twOjJaws.”
"Right you are,” said I. "And now
we know what we have to discover."
“Anan?” he queried.
“We must learn by hook or crook who
Is to be sent against Dan Morgan, and
when.”
“That should be easy—if the use of it
afterward be not choked out of us at
a rope's end.”
“We can divide the rope’s end chance
of failure by two. We may work to
gether as the opportunity offers, bul
once within the lines we must pass as
strangers to each other, or at most as
chance acquaintances of the road.
“Good,” said he; and then his jaw
dropped. "But what if one of us b(
taken? Never ask me to stand bj
stranger wise and see you hanged
Jack! ”
"I shall both ask it and promise t<
do the same by you. Your hand on 1
before we go a step farther, if yoi
please.”
“ ’Tls out of all reason,” he demurred
" 'Tis the only reasonable course. Be
think you. this is no knight-errant ven
ture; we are two of Dan Morgan’s sol
diers bent upon doing a thing mos
needful of the welfare of the countrj
and its cause. 'Tls a duty higher thai
any obligation friendship lays on Rich
ard Jennifer or John Ireton.”
At this he yielded the point, thougl
I could see that the proposal jumpei
little with the promptings of his gen
erous heart.
" 'Tls a scurvy trap you have sot fo
me.” he grumbled. “The risk is chief!:
yours, and you know it. You are know;
to Lord Cornwallis, and to God know
how many more of them, and beMke—
j The interruption came in the shap
! of a troop of redcoat horsemen gal
loping in the road to meet us, and w
j were shortly surrounded and pu
I sharply to the question. We answers
each for himself. Dick was a loyalis
from Yorkvllle way, eager to be set I
arms against the bandit Daniel Mor
gan. 1 was a refugee from "hornets'
nest” Mecklenburg, also bent upon re
venge.
The troop officer passed us oil, some
thing doubting, as I suspected. But w
I were riding In the right direction, an
he was unwilling to clog himself wit
a pair of plain country gentlemen hel
' in iersh as prisoners.
A few miles farther down thexroa
the same brace of lies got us safel
I through the loosely drawn vedette Itn
j and by evening we were in sight of or
goal
I Viewing it from the rising ground *
approach, Winnsborough appeared les
as a town than as a partly fortifle
camp. The few houses of the villas
were lost In the field of tents, huts ar
troop shelters, and measuring by tl
spread of these, it would seem that ir
Lord Cornwallis' army had been col
i siderably augmented since I had la
! seen it in Charlotte. I spoke Of thi
i hut Dick was intent upon the busine;
of the moment.
“Aye, there are enough of them, G<
knows. But tell me, Jack*-I'm new
this game—what's to do first when v
are among them?”
I laughed at him. “You are my troo
er commander/ Captain Jennifer. 'T
lor you to make the dispositions.”
I "Have your joke and be hanged
1 you. There are no captains here."
"if you leave it to me, we shall rl
i boldly to the tavern, put up as trave
- era, and listen to the gossips, each f
t himself," I'-aeplledi and this Is what '
3 did.
The village tavern, servilely bearii
; the'king s arms thinly painted oyer t
- palmetto tree of EOlith Carolina on, I
» swinging sign bohrtL was 4 miserat
doggery, full to overflowing with
riffraff of carousing soldiery. Separat
ing by mutual consent in the public tap
room, Richard and I presently drifted
together again at a small table in a
corner, with a black boy in attendance
to set before us such poor entertain
ment as the hostelry afforded.
"Well, what luck?” asked Dick,
mumbling it behind his hand, though
he might safety have shouted it aloud
in the din and clamor of the place.
I shook my head. "Nothing as yet, .
save that I overheard a tipsy corporal !
telling his tipsier sergeant that the ofli- [
cers would be holding a revel tonight
at a Tory manor house situate some
where beyond the camp confines to the
northward; the house of one Master
Marmaduke Harndon, if T heard the
name aright.” Then I added: “ 'This
rabble is too drunken to serve our pur
pose. ’Tis only the common soldiery, ]
and we shall learn nothing here.”
“There was at least one who was not i
a ranker,” said Dick, and there was
something akin to awe in his voice.
Then he leaned across the table to
whisper. "Jack, I've fair had a fright.”
I smiled. Fear, of God, man or the
devil, was not one of the lad’s weak
nesses.
"You may grin as you please,” he
went on; “but answer me this; do the
dead come back to life?”
"Not this side of the resurrection re
veille, if we may believe the domin
ies.”
"Then I have seen a ghost—a most
horrible mask of a man we both know
to our cost.”
"Name him and I will tell you wheth
er he be a ghost or no.”
”’Tis the ghost of Frank Falconnet;
or else it is what of the man himself
the fire hath left,” said Dick and I
marked his shiver at the word.
"No!” said I.
"I tell you yes.”
I sprang up, but the lad reached
across the table and smote me back
into the chair.
"Spftly, old firebrand; 'twas you who
said' the public matter must take j
precedence of the private. Moreover,
if this be Francis Falconnet whom I
have seen, your sweetest revenge on
him will be to let him live—as he is.” I
“I will kill him as I would a wild
beast,” I raged, thinking of that mid
night scene in the great forest when
my sweet lady had gone on her knees
to this fiend in human guise. “And so
should you,” I added, “if you care
^ught for the honor of the woman who
loves you."
But now It was this hot-headed Rich- I
ard I have drawn for you who saw
farthest and clearest.
"All in good time,” he said, coolly.
“At this present we have Dan'Morgan’s
fish to fry, and sitting here saucing this
devil’s mess of a supper with thoughts
of private revenge will never fry it.
Set your wits at work; Falconnet's
ghost has put mine hopelessly out of
gear. Ye gods! but ’twas a most fear
some thing to look at!”
I did not answer him at once, and
whilst I plied knife and fork for the
sake of appearances, l would think
upon what he had discovered. This
reappearance of Francis Falconnet was
not to be passed over lightly. What
would he do, or seek to do? Nay, what
devilish thing was it he might not do?
If the fire had burned his passion out,
it had doubtless kindled a feller blaze
of revenge. And if his thirst was for
revenge, how could he quench it in a
deeper draft than by harrying the
woman we both loved? 'Twas only by
a mighty effort that I could drag my
self back to Dick's urging and the
needs of the hour.
“To have some chance of hearing gos
sip to our purpose, we must make shift
to gain admittance to this officers’ rout
at the manor house," I said.
"The devil!” quoth Dick, “ I venture
that’s easier said than done—for two
plain country gentlemen.”
"Never fear; there will be others
there lacking fine clothes, and so the
throng be great enough, we may pass
current in It.”
Richard pushed his plate back with
a grimace of disgust.
“Let us be at it, then. Another
grapple with this pig-bait will finish
me outright.”
A half hour later we were tethering
our cobs at the already crowded hitch
ing rail in front of a goodly mansion
some mile or more beyond the camp
limits on the northward road; a ram
bling manor house to the full as large
as Appleby Hundred, with a shaven
lawn in front, and within, lights and
music and sounds of revelry.
"By the Lord Harry! but this
Master Harndon would seem to be
a man of substance,” says Dick.
, And then: “Can you pick out a
[ good horse in the dark, Jack? It
may come to a race for our necks,
by and by, and these cobs of ours are
. too broad-backed for speed.”
, I said I could, and so we went deeper
into the cavalcade at the hitch-rail
and marked out two clean-limbed
• chargers, a gray and a sorrel; this be
„! fore we gave the final touches to our
plan of action and passed up the broad
[ 1 avenue to the manor house.
I CHAPTER XLVI.
t ' HOW OUR PIECE MISSED FIRE AT
t HARNDON ACRES.
For a doorkeeper some one or an
- other of the officer guests had set a
■ sergeant on guard, but though the night
I was yet young the man passed us into
' the great entrance, hall with a hie
^ cough and a wink that spoke thus early
3 of an open house and freely flowing
it good cheer.
3 As we had hoped to find it, this
rout at Master Harndon's was a stifling
3 Jam, and a good half of the guesls were
y in civilian plain clothes, neither Paris
;, nor London having as ytft reached so
r far into the Carolina plantations to
proscribe homespun and to prescribe
f the gay toggeries of the courts. This
s for the men, I hasten to add; for then,
d as now, our American dames and maids
e would put a year's cropping of a plan
d tatlon on their backs, thinking nothing
e of it; and there was no lack of shim
y mering silks and stiff brocades, of hlgh
i- piled coiffures, paint, patches and pow
>t der at this merrymaking at Htundoi
9, Acres. i
is Lacking an Introducer, and wanting
moreover, nothing save the leave tc
d have standing-room In the throng as
o lookers-on, we gave Mr. Marmadukf
e Harndon, a sleek, rotund little gentle
man, smirking and bowing and tapplnf
>- the lid of his sliver snuff box, a widi
is berth, and with an agreement to mee
, later for the comparing of notes, Jen
to nlfer and 1 went apart at the door o
I the ball-room, each to lose himself ii
le the assembled company as an otte:
1- slips into a pool, namely, without ruff
jr | ling it.
re 'Twas easily done. Wlnnsborougl
j had by this time become a refuge cam]
ig for all the loyalists In the region round
re about, and there were many In thi
ts present company who were strungeri
le ./ms to another, uneasy,.shifting flgurei
a | in the gay throng, beneath the not'*
anke of haughty dames and prlnkipg
dandy officers. Beneath the notice, I
say; and yet I would qualify this, for
more than one of tie epauletted mac
aronis trod upon my toes or bustled
me rudely In the crush till X trembled,
not for my own self-control, but for
Richard's, making sure that the lad
was having no more gentlemanly wel
come than I.
‘Twas with some notion of finding
ampler room for my feet that I edged
away through the fringing wall-crowd
in the dancing room toward a curtained
archway at the back. As yet I had
overhead naught save the silly persi
flage of the belies and beaux—a word
here and another there—and I was be
ginning to fear that this was as poor a
place to look for information as was
the pothouse, when a thing befell to set
me a-qulver with all the thrillings the
human heart-strings can thrum to in
one and the same instant of time.
I had shouldered my way out of the
ball room medley and into the less
crowded room at the back. This proved
to be a rear drawing room serving for
the nonce as a refectory. There were
little groups and knots of chatterers
standing about.; fair maids, each with
her ring of redcoated courtiers, laugh
ing and jesting or picking daintily at
the viands on the great oaken table In
the midst.
Rounding the promontory of the ta
ble’s end to come to anchor in some
quiet eddy w'here I could listen un
noticed for the word 1 was thirsting
for, X must needs entangle the bu,tton
of ray coat-cuff in the delicate lace of
a lady’s sleeve in passing.
The wearer of the sleeve had her
back to me, and I saw the white shoul
ders go up in a little shrug of petulance
whilst I sought to disentagle the but
ton. Then she turned to face me and
the words of apology froze on my lips.
’Twas Mistress Margery, standing at
ease with—good heavens! with Rich
ard Jennifer and Colonel Banastre Tar
leton for her company!
Here was a halter, with a double
snaffle at the end of it, was the thought
that flashed upon me; and I was gath
ering my wits to brazen it out in some
such manner as to leave Jennifer un
attainted, when my lady gave a littie
start and a shriek.
“La, Mr. Septimus; how you stalled
me!” she cried. Then, with a tremor
of the lip or a pause for breath-taking,
she presented me: “Colonel Tarleton,
Mr. Septimus Ireton, of Iretondene in
Virginia.” And next to Dick; “Mr.
Richard, my very good friend, Mr. Ire
ton.”
’Twas done so cleverly and with such
an air that even Dick, who had known
her from childhood, was struck dumb
with admiration, as hts face sufficiently
advertised. And, indeed, I had much
ado to play my own part with any de
cent self-possession, though I did make
shift to bow stiffly, and to say: “I see
I should have brought the Iretondene
title deeds with me to make you sure
that I am not my rebel cousin John,
Mistress Margery. Your servant, Col
onel Tarleton; and yours, Mr. Rich
ard.”
Dick’s bow was an elaborate hiding
of his tell-tale face, but the colonel’s
was the slightest of nods, and I could
feel the sloe-black eyes of him boring
into my very soul.
Had my lady given him but a mo
ment’s time I make no doubt he would
have come instantly at the truth and
the little farce would have been turned
into a tragedy on the spot. But she
gave him no time. The spinet in the
ball room alcove was tinkling out the
overture to a minuet, and she laid the
tips of her dainty lingers on the colo
nel’s arm.
“This will be ours to walk through,
will it not, Colonel Tarleton?” she said,
playing the sprightly minx to the very
climax of perfection. Then she dipped
us a curtsy. “Au revoir. gentlemen.
’Tis a thousand pities yqu had not
joined sooner, and so had the red coat
and small sword to grace you here."
When they were gone Dick laughed
sardonically.
“Saw you ever such a cool-blood lit
tle Jade in all your life? ’Twas with j
me as it was with you; I, too, stumbled
upon them, and the colonel bustled me
and set his heel on my foot. I dare say
I should have had myself in irons in
another moment but for Madge. She
slipped in between and introduced us
as sweetly as you please.”
“Nevertheless,” said I, "the colonel
recognized us both.”
“No! Think you so?”
“ ’Tis certain enough to play upon.
What we do now must be done quickly
or not at all. What have you over
heard?”
He swore softly. “Never a cursed
word; less than nothing of any inter
est to Dan Morgan.”
“We must try again. ’Twill surely
be talked of here if the army is about
to move. Do you take a turn in the
ante-room and meet me in a quarter
of an hour at the outer door.”
I At the word, Dick promptly lost
himself in the throng whilst I made a
slow circuit of the refreshment table.
Once I thought 1 had the clue when a
girl hanging on the arm of an infantry
lieutenant said: “Will it be true that
you will presently go out to hunt the
rebels down, Mr. Thornicroft ?” But
the prudent lieutenant smiled and put
her off cleverly, leaving his fair ques
! tioner—and me—none the wiser.
(Continued Next Week.)
Girls and Their Education.
E. S. Martin in Harper's Bazar: And
! there conies in the special complication
] that afreets ..the education of girls.
: When you have a line girl with a good
! mind, who can learn anything in rea
i son, and he trained to almost any sort
! of useful labor, after her education has
I come to the point where specialization
' might begin, you have to lace the pos
sibility that by going on aniT giving her
i a special thing to tiling about and
worlt at, you may be aiding to divert
her from a woman's greatest career
| to one, notable it may be, but less sat
isfying and of less importance. The
risk—the apparent risk—is not that a
girl may know too much to marry, but
that during the years when marriage is
best, and easiest, achieved she may
be so busy with other concerns as to
miss meeting the man whom she ought
to marry.
For while It may be confidently as
serted that no mere intellectual pre
occupation is going to hinder a girl
' from marrying the man whom she
recognizes to be the right man if he
come along at the right time and sug
gests it to her, it is possible that she
may be too much preoccupied to recog
; nize him when he conies, and also that
! her work may remove her lrom the so
! eial point she would naturally occupy
i and cause her to miss meeting him al
together.^_
The House's Expensive Rugs.
The latest i jngrcssional fad is for
Persian rugs, three of which, worth $2.ui)0
each, are in the speaker’s lobby on the
bouse side. These are the finest rugs ever
1 seen in the capltol, being handsomer even
than anything on the senate side. The
rugs are so fine that some of the new
members showed an unwillingness to
i walk en them until they saw the pages
i and other nouse employes throwdng
eignret? and cigar butts on them. "We'd
i better take down some of these pictures
i oh the walls and hang up the rugs,” de
i dared Colonel Ike Hill, the democratic
. "whip" of the house.
A Deadhead.
Connie Mack, manager of the athletics of
Philadelphia, was talking about the dis
astrous games with the New York giants.
Suddenly the look of pain faded from his
face, and a gentle smile appeared.
“One funny thing, though," he said, “I
did see on that unlucky day.
"As the crowd was pushing and strug
gling to get out at the game’s end, a boy
bored his way to the fence, and began to
climb over it.
“A policeman hastened towards him.
“ ‘Hey, there, kid,’ he yelled; ‘none o’
that. Go out the way you came in.’
“But by this time the boy had reached
the top. He said, as he vanished on the
other side:
“ ‘This la the way I came in.’ ”
Danger of Realism.
From an Exchange.
David Belasco was talking about
stage realism.
"It may go too far,” he said. “It is a
dangerous thing.”
He smiled.
"A stage manager.” he said, “once
had a subordinate with realistic ideas.
The manager was producing a play
containing a snowstorm, and the sub
ordinate had charge of the snow.
“ ’Confound you,' said the manager,
at the end of the snowstorm scene,
'what on earth did you mean by making
the snow out of brown paper?’
“ 'Aain't the scene laid in London?*
asked the other.
“ 'Yes. But what of that?’
‘Well, that’s the color of London
snow.’ ”
Facts and Proof.
Hulett, Wyo., Dec. 4.—(Special.)—
An ounce of fact Is worth a ton of
theory and It Is evidence founded on
facta that backs up every box of
Dodd’s Kidney Pills. The evidence of
people who know what they do. Mrs.
Mffy Taber, highly esteemed resident
of Huldtt, says:
“I know Dodd’s Kidney Pills are a
valuable medicine because I have used
them. I took seven boxes and they
cured me of a severe attack of Kidney
Trouble. They relieved me from the
first dose, and when I had finished
the last box I had no pain and my
Kidneys are now acting properly.”
Dodd’s Kidney,Pills are now recog
nized all oyer the world as the great
est Kidney Remedy science has ever
produced. They cure Rheumatism,
Dropsy, Gout, Lumbago, Diabetes, Uri
nary and Bladder Troubles, Bright’s
Disease, and all disorders arising from
any form of Kidney Disease.
Beginning to Take.
Slodgers (hastily arising from redhot
car seat)—“Gee!”
Mrs. Slodgers—“What's the matter,
dear?”
Slodgers (gingerly scratching his
arm)—“My vaccination is beginning to
take!” _
rirs. Winslow’s bootuinq syuup ror CMMran
CeathinK; softens the gums, reducos inflammauon s'
'•«ys pain. cur«s wlml onHr* cpnt~ a bottle
Women’s Work in Big Hotels.
From Leslie’s Weekly.
The employes in the linen room in
a big New York hotel receive $20 a
month, with room and board, and their
hours are well regulated in most of the
large hotels. The parlor maid or maids
come next on the salary list, with $18,
room and board and the tips often
bring this sum up to $30 or even $50.
The maid’s duties are to keep the par
lor swept and dusted and herself tidy
and ready to attend the women guests
who desire her services.
The chamber maids, bathroom girls,
paint cleaners and scrub women (of
whom every hotel employs a small
army) each receive $12. The work of
the two last named is distinctly dif
ferent. A scrub woman would not think
of cleaning paint and a paint cleaner
would think that she was demeaning
herself in scrubbing the floor. Through
out the house the question of social
distinction is argued, the maids feel
ing above the bathroom girls, the par
lor maids above the other maids and
the linen room girls above the parlor
maid, and so on. Human nature is
much the same the world . -
In the parlance of hotel employes
scrub women are known as “sou
brottes,” the chamber maids are the
"chorus" while the parior maids are
called “show girls.” The “soubrettes”
begin their work at 1 o'clock in the
morning and do not finish until about
5. They scrub the floors and go
throughout the house with soap and
hot water. At the hotel Victoria—(the
exception among the various hotels
mentioned) the employes are permitted
to enter the help's dining room at any
time of the morning or afternoon be
tween regular meals and have a cup
of tea and a light lunch—a system
which has much to do with the con
tentment reigning among the employes
of this establishment. The cost is only
a trifle, and although the plan has been
in operation for some time those who
enjoy its advantages do not abuse it.
THE “COFFEE HEART.”
It Is ns Daiifft'rous ns the Tobaees
or YVlilBlty Heart.
“Coffee heart” is common to many
coffee users and is liable to send the
owner to his or her long home if the
drug is persisted in. You can run 30
or 40 yards and find out if your heart
is troubled. A lady who was once a
victim of the “coffee hairt” writes
from Oregon:
"I have been a habitual user of cof
fee ail my life and have suffered very
much in recent years from ailments,
which 1 became satisfied were directly
due to the poison in the beverage, such
.as torpid liver and indigestion, which
in turn made my complexion blotchy
and muddy.
“Then my heart became affected. It
would beat most rapidly just after i
drank my coffee, and go below nor
mal as the coffee effect wore off. Some
times my pulse would go as high as
137 beats to the minute. My family
were greatly alarmed at my condition
and at last mother persuaded me to be
gin tlie use of Posturn Food Coffee.
"1 gave tip the old coffee entirely
and absolutely, and made Posturn my
sole table beverage. This was ti months
ago. and all my ills, the indigestion, in
active liver and rickety heart action,
have passed away, and my complex
ion has become clear and natural. The
Improvement set in very soon after 1
made the change, just as soon as tile
coffee poison bad time to work out of
my system.
"My husband lias also been greatly
benefited by the use of Posturn, and
we find that a simple breakfast with
Posturn. Is as satisfying and more
strengthening than the old’ heavier
meal we used to have with the other
kind of coffee." Name given by Pos
tum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason. Read the little
book, “The Road to WsllrlUe,” In pkgs.
_
Are You Tired, Nervous
and Sleepless?
Nervousness and sleeplessness are us
ually due to tho fact that the nerves are
not'fed on properly nourishing blood;
they are starved nerves. Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery nuikes pare,
rich blood, and thereby tho nerves are
properl v nourished and all the organs of
the body aro run as smoothly as machin
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feel clean, strong and strenuous—you are
toned up and Invigorated, aftd you are
good for a whole lot of physical or mental
work. Best of all, the strength and in
crease in vitality and health are lasting.
Tho trouble with most tonics and med
icines which have a large, booming sale
for a short time, Is that they are largely
composed of alcohol holding the drugs in
solution. This alcohol shrinks up the red
blood corpuscles, and in wie long run
greatly injures the system. One may feel
exhilarated and better for the time being,
yet in the end weakened and with vitality
decreased. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical -
Discovery contains no alcohol. Everj&.y
bottle of it bears upon Its wrapper The \
Badge of Honesty, in a full list of all* its
several ingredients. For the druggist to
offer you something he claims is "just as
good ” is to insult your intelligence.
Every ingredient entering into tha
world-famed "Golden Medical Discovery”
has the unanimous approval and endorse
ment of the leading riiedical authorities
of all the several schools of practice. No
other medicino sold through druggists for
like purposes has any such endorsement.
The "Golden Medical Discovery” not
only produces all tho good effects to be
obtained from tho use of Golden Seal
root, In all stomach, liver and bowel
troubles, as In dyspepsia, biliousness, con
stipation, ulceration of stomach and
bowels and kindred ailments, but tho
Golden Seal root used in its compound
ing is greatly enhanced in its curative ac
tion by other Ingredients such as Stone
root, Black Cherry bark, Bloodroot, Man
drake rooto and chemically pure triple
relined glycerine.
"The Common Sense Medical Adviser,”
Is sent free in paper covers on receipt of
21 one-cent stamps to pay the cost of mail
ing only. For 31 stamps the cloth-bound
volume will bo sent. Address Dr. It. V.
Pierce, Buffalo, N, Y.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con
stipation. biliousness and headache.
THE BEST COUGH CURE
In buying a cough medicine, re
member the best cough cure,
Kemp’s Balsam
costs no more than any other kind.
Remember, too, the kind that
cures is the only kind worth any
thing. ■
Every year thousands are saved
from a consumptive’s grave by
taking Kemp’s Balsam in time.,
Is it worth while to experiment
with anything else,
Sold by all dealers at 25c. and 50c.
Stuffed Potatoes.
From the Boston Post.
Wash and wipe large, fair potatoes
and bake soft, cut a round piece from
the top of each and carefully preserve
It; scrape out the inside with a spoon
xvithout breaking the skin and set aside
the empty cases with the covers; mash
the potato, which you have taken out,
smoothly, working into it butter, a raw
egg, a little cream, pepper and salt:
when soft heat in a saucepan, set, over
the fire in boiling water, stir until smok
ing hot, fill the skins with the. mix
ture, put on the caps, set in the1 oven
for three minutes, serve in a heated
napkin.
Ruby Westwood, of Foxton. England,
is 11 years old and weighs 172 pounds.
An engine going a mile a minute gives
twenty puffs a second.
25lusltms of Wheat
<o the Acre
«$
means a productive
capacity In dollars of
Over $16 Per Acre
This on land, which has cost the farmer
nothing but the price of tilling it, tells ita
own story. The Canadian Government givea
Absolutely Free to Every Settler
160 Acres cf Such Land
Lands adjoining can be purchased at from |6 to
|io per acre from railroad and other corporations.
Already 1 75,000 FARMERS from the United States
have made their homes in Canada. Foruamphlel
** Twentieth Century Canada” and all intormatioa
Apftly fo- inform tion ' t* Superintend ntof Immigre.
tio. , Ottawa. Canada, or to E. T. holmes, 816 .JncknoB
St., Si. Paul, Minn.; J. M. MttcLnchlan, liox 116 Waton
town. South Ihikota, and \V_ V. Benneitt, 8<Jl New York
l.ife Building, Omaha, Neb , Authorized Government
Agonts.
Piousosay where yoh saw thl» advertisement*
FOR WOMEN
troubled with ills peculiar to
their sex, used as a douche is
cessful. Thoroughly cleanse
stops discharges, heals
soreness.
Paxtine is in powder form to be dissolved in'pore
water, and is far more cleansing, heaPng, germicidal
md economical than liquid antiseptics for all
TOILET AND WOMEN’S SPECIAL USES
For sale at druggists, 50 cents a box.
Trial Box and Book of Instructions Pre«.
Thx R. Paaton Company ®*»ton. Mam.
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