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From Manufacturer to Consumer This beau tiful um brella with one of the latest frames, steel rod, silk or linen ^ cover, ship 's ped to you by express; sold every where for $2.50; our price to you, $1.25, either lady’s or gentleman’s. Our union taffeta silk soils everywhere from $5 to $7; our price ito the consumer, $1.98. This will give the people a chance to make a beautiful Christmas gift for one-half the retail price. This company was organized to protect ithe consumer against extravagant prices asked by the retailer. Bond us an order for your holiday gifts. ■When ordering mention whether for lady or gentleman. If not satisfactory in every way, pour money back on demand. CONSUMERS’ CO.. Sioux City, Ja. Night in a Marconi Station. From Pearson's Magazine. A night In the Marconi long distance I wireless telegraph station at South Wellfleet, on Cape Cod. is a night spent In a realm of wonders. It Is a night of mysterious sights and sounds emanat ing from things that are little known, from things that are ill advance of the age. Even the men who are employed ithere, whose duty It Is to receive and transmit these wonderful, winged air ] mescages over vast stretches of gray sea, have never become accustomed to the wonder, to the mystery of It all, and the Impression one gets of them at their work Is that of a band of men duly sensible of the fact that they are Jn close touch with perhaps the great est discovery of all time. The band of wonder- workers at South Weelfleet numbers eight men. They are the manager, Mr. Paget; an assistant manager; Mr. Bangay, chief electrician, S very able man, by the way; an assist ant electrician, two operators from the wireless telegraph school at Babylon, K ll; aa engineer, and old “Cap'n Bill,” late of the salt seas, whose duty It Is to guard the IncJosure and to see that strangers not properly accredited do not j—*—• the Marconi preserves. For there are rival wireless telegraph com panies, and Marconi has secrets that same of them would like to have. It Is not a large place, this mysteri ous operating room, where the operator now begins his work of talking to ves sels far out at sea, and every inch of ■paoe is utilised. There are mysterious Itanka of oil. and sheets of zinc, and strange appliances, and telegraph keys land aouuAers, and the like, and the con crete floor Is covered with rubber mats Kshlch wind In and out among the ap paratus In ways as devious as those of a labyrinth. Suddenly a little brazen bell clangs out a warning that some vessel wishes to talk. Far out at sea, In the dark ness, a thousand or more miles away, Boms man has pressed a key, a spark has shot to the masthead wires, and then another, and another—each spark starting In shoreward flight, dots and dashes which, being caught on the overhead wires, have been sucked down Into the operating room of the station, clanging the brazen bell In their course and then flashing through various ap pliances designed to record them. In the shape of sound, on the telegraph Instru ment. The message Is from the captain of the Umbria, and strange It seems to hear, as It were, a voice from the deep. Even the operator has never got over the novelty of this. Here Is the mes sage: "Report all well. High head seas. Nasty tonight. Sighted a derelict In mid-ocean. Spoke the Deutschland." Then comes messages from the pas sengers to friends and relatives ashore, and the mental Impressions all this arouses among the attaches of the sta tion are ever the same, night after night; their minds are carried far out over the dark ocean, out into the Invis ible beyond, and they picture the great liner rolling her lonely way among the gray-backed combers, the cabin light flickering fitfully over the waters, the officers on the bridge In their oilskins, with eyes straining for unseen dangers ahead. Started to Hie Fortuno by a Kitten. From the New York Press. Gathering from his practice ail in come large enough to permit him to own on auto In which lie goes to the (hornet of his fashionable patients, a young Boston doctor attributes all his good fortune—after his own inherent worth—to his kindness to a stray kit ten. After he finished his term as an Interne in a big hospital he put out his shingle, but his neighbors did not seem to appreciate his greatness and his funds were getting low. One even ing a kitten mewing plaintively and evidently with a leg broken strayed in to his office, and after the kitten a dirty faced urchin of C, who begged the doctor to help the suffering ani mal. It went against the grain of the rising light to begin his professional career on a cat, and he was about to refuse brusquely and turn the intrud ers out; but his heart got the bet ter of his pride and lie did a neat Job with splints and bandage. Just as he finished his bell was rung and a handsomely dressed woman came in. She asked for the kitten. The boy, she explained, was the son of her cook and was permitted to play with the pet. Through his carelessness the ac cident had occurred. The kitten, she explained, her eyes filling with tears, had belonged to her little girl and was the last thing at which the child had smiled before she died. The upshot of the bit of Burgery was that the woman sang the young doctor’s praises far and wide, and now he is thinking of get ting an assistant to help take care of his practice. «-«>— Compliment for Opio Read. Mr. Ople Read, the well known author of "An American in New York,” has given not a little of his time to platform work where ho takes a chair and s'.ts down among his listeners, lie says: "Abroad, lecturers and public speakers sit down be fore thetr audiences, and why should not ho put his audience at case. They get tired seeing him stand, and hope he won’t wear himself out, and then there Is a closer bond of sympathy and confidence between them." For many years past a great many stories have been told of Mr. Read, and here are a few of them: "Last winter I was lecturing out in Iowa and one miserably cold day as I sat be side the stove the door opened and a farm er came In pulling a large bag of some thing behind him. ‘Well,’ ho said, ‘I've been a reading your books and I promised myself if you ever came to this here town I'd bring you a bushel and a half of the finest wine sap apples on the place.’ "Another time I was down in the coun try where the Beene in one of »ny books la laid. Sitting idly by a little creek I heard a man call to another who was passing by, ’Read the book I loaned you?’ ‘Oh,’— ‘.mentioning cne of my st( rlj;)—‘Why, lhat ain’t no book at all. l’te heard lots of folks talk that way.' Well, that is about the best compliment I ever received." The Worm Turn*. I The m’nor poet brooded over his lemon I ade. | "Shh,” he said darkly. "Can you keep « | secret?” 1 "Till death,” his companion replied. I "Know then,” said I ho poet, seizing the j other’s wrist, "that I am to he avenged at last on the editor of the Trash magazine. 1 sent him a sonnet last week, and poi soned the gum on the return envelope.” And with a harsh, blood-curdling laugh the desperato young man passed out into the night. Roosevelt Teeth Going Dentist’s W*y From the New York American. President Roosevelt’s famous teeth are beginning to show signs of having passed their prime. So seriously have they been affected that the president re cently had a number of serious consul tations with Ills dentist, and he ha» spent much time in the chair while the surgeon has probed, hammered, brushed and Investigated. • President Roosevelt’s teeth are known from Sandy Hook all the way west ward until Sandy Hook is reached again. There Is no set of teeth better known in the world, and every one who has talked with the president recalls as one of the vivid recollections of the Interview the glittering, glistening, white and powerful looking teeth that give his face one of its strongest char acteristics. Te*n«»«e Praise. Dayton, Tenn., Dec. 11.—(Special.} —Among many prominent resident* to praise Dodd's Ki’duey Pills Is Mf. N. It. Roberts of this place H* toll* of what they have done for him, and hi* words will go deep into tho heart* of n 11 who are suffering In the same way. He says: “X wa* a martyr to Kidney Trouble, but Dodd’s Kidney Pills completely cured me. I shall always keep them on hand In case there should be any re turn of the old trouble, but I am thank ful to say they did their work so well there ha* not been the slightest alga of my old complaint coming bach. The pain In my back used to be terrible. If I got down I had a bard Job to gat straight again. But my back 1* Ilk* a new one now and I can stoop as much as I please. X don’t believe there ever was any medicine half so good a* Dodd'* ICldney Pill*.’’ An Awful Accident. From the Tattler. "Where's that funny cap with tht ear flaps you used to wear last year?” "Week sir, I havna worn It aln’ the accident.” "What accident was that, Donald?” “A shlntilman asked me to hae a drink, art’ I dldna hear him.” Laundering the Baby’a Clothes. Many mothers are not aware that 'chafing and much discomfort may be [caused the baby by tho strong alkalies in the soap with which the little gar Iments are washed. Hence the work ^should bo done at home uuder the moth er's directions and only Ivory Soap used. ELEANOR R. PARKER. The Woman and the Sultan. The story of an Interview that once took place between Mrs. Reader and the sultan of Johore, India, la thus related by Juliet Wjlhor Tompkins in her continuation of the mstory of “Ella Rawls Reader, Finan cier," in the October Everybody’s: “She named her conditions: the right to 1h«uo five million dollars’ worth of six- per cent. bonds: one hundred and twenty thou sand acres of land extending along tho one hundred and twenty miles of track; Un mines—but here royalty demurred a little; he though he would keep all tho tin mines. For the first time the young contractor slipped Into feminine processes of reasoning and set aside for a moment the urgent business-full enthusiasm of the promoter for the dismay of the human girl who sees her pet project In danger of fail ure. “ ‘But you are so rich, you know you don’t need all those mines,’ she argued, ’and we do!’ “The sultan conceded the mines. From an oriental point of view tho experience was perhaps cheap at the price. He con ceded tho live million dollars’ worth of bonds, tho one hundred and twenty thou sand acres of land. At the end of their three hours' talk Ella Rawls had In her possession a five-million-dollar contract to build a railroad across the state of Johore; and its ruler had secured, on fair terms, a means to wealth and civilization the need of which coul^ no longer bo Ignored. She had come to him at tho psychological moment, when the contract was ripe for giving; sho had shown herself clear-head ed and resolute, master of the facts and frankly open in her statements; sho had demanded much, knowing the value of what she gave, but there had been no sign of sharpness, of trying to steal an advantage. No doubt to a man accus tomed to be approached by Indirect methods, by gifts and flatteries, there was p. wholesome convincingness in this novel experience, a welcome promise of good faith. At all events* be accepted freely and wholly.” A BRAIN WORKER Unit Have the Kind of Food thn Noortihei Brain. “I am a literary man whose nervous energy is a great part of my stock in trade, and ordinarily I have little pa tience with breakfast foods and the extravagant claims made of them. But I cannot withhold my acknowledg ment of the debt that I owe to Grape Nuts food. "I discovered long ago that the very bulkiness of the ordinary diet was not calculated to give one a clear head, the power of sustained, accurate thiuking. I alwnys felt heavy and sluggish In mind as well as body after eating the ordinary meal, which diverted tho blood from the brain to the digestive apparatus. ‘T tried foods easy of digestion, but found them usually deficient lu nutri ment. I experimented with mauy breakfast foods and they,, too, proved unsatisfactory, till I reached Grape Nuts. And then the problem was solved. “Grape-Nuts agreed with me perfect ly from the beginning, satisfying my hunger and supplying the nutriment that so many other prepared foods lack. "I had not been using It very long before I found that I was turning out an unusual quantity and quality of work. Continued use has .demonstra ted to my entire satisfaction that Grape-Nuts food contains,'all the ele ments needed by the brain;, and ner vous system of the hard-worklng^pub 11c writer." Name given by Poatum ‘Co.. Battle CreekT Mleh’. There's a reason. Read the. little ^book, “The Road to WellvUla," 1b pkga. I THE MASTER OF APPLEBY ‘ ■ ■ ■ ■ —— By Fr&ncia Lynda. ■ 1 ■ — ■ < * CHAPTER XLVI.—Continued. I went on, drifting aimlessly from group to group, and dallying of set pur pose. If I had read Colonel Tarleton’s glance aright, the moments were grow ing diamond-precious; but as yet nei ther half of my errand was done. Come what might, 1 must see Margery again and have her tell me where and how to find tlie priest; and ’twas borne in upon me that she would come back to seek me as soon as she could be free of her partner in the dance. The forecast as to my lady had its fulfillment while yet the spinetter was striking out the final chords of the minuet. A lady dropped her kerchief, and I was before her swain in stooping to pick it up, As I bowed low in re turning the bit of lace to its owner, a voice that I had learned to know and love whispered In my ear. "Make your way to the clock landing of the stair; I must have speech with you,” it said; and for a wonder I was cool enough to obey with no more than a sidelong glance at my lady passing on the arm of iijiother epauletted dan gler. She was before me at the meeting place, and there w'as no laughing wel come in the deep-welled eyes. Instead they flashed me a look that made me wince. "VV'hat folly is this, sir?” Will you never have done taking my honor and your own life into your reckless hands?” 1 bowed my head to the storm. With the dagger of my miserable errand sticking in my heart there was no fight In me. "I am but come to do your bidding," I said, slowly, for the words cost me sorely in the coin of my anguish. "I had your letter, and if you will say how I may find Father Matthieu—” She broke me in the midst. "Mon Bleu!" she cried. “Could I guess that you would come here, into the very noose of the gallows? Oh. how you do heap scorn on scorn upon me! Once you made me give silent consent to a falsehood you told; twice, nay, thrice, you have made me disloyal to the king; and now you come again to make me look (he world in the face and tell a smiling lie to shield you! O, Holy Mother, pity me!” And with this she put her face in her hands and began to sob. Now we were measurably isolated on Now we were only measurably iso lated on the stair, and some sense of the hazard we took—a hazard involv ing her as well as Richard and myself —steadied me with a sudden shock. "Control yourself," I whispered. “What is done, is done, and the misery Is not all yours to suffer. Tell me how 1 may find the priest, and I will do my errand and be gone.” "You can not stay to find him now— you must not," she insisted, coming out of the fit of despair with a rebound. "He is in the town—indeed, I know not where he is just now. Can you not en dure it a little longer, Captain Ireton?" "No,” said I, sullenly. T have been living a lie all these months to the friend 1 love best, and 1 will not do it more.” Could I be mistaken! surely there was a flash not of anger in tlie eyes that were lifted to mine, the voice that said: "Then Dick does not know?—you have not told him?” "No; I have told no one.” "l’oor Dick!" she said softly. "I thought he knew, and I—” She paused, and in the pause it flashed upon rue how she had wronged my dear lad; how she hud thought he would make brazen love to her know ing she was the wife of another. 1 thanked God in my heart that I had been able to right him thus fur. After a time she said: “Why did you make me marry you, Monsieur John? Oh, I have racked my brain so for the answer to that question. I know you said it was to save my honor. But surely we have paid a heavier penally than any that could have been laid upon me had you left me as X was.” "I was but a short-sighted fool, and no prophet,” I rejoined, striving hard to keep the bitterness of soul out of my words. “At the moment it seemed the only way out of the pi of doubt into which my word .o Colonel Tarle ton had plunged you. But there was another motive. You saw the paper X signed that night, with Lieutenant Ty bee and your father's factor for the witnesses?" "Yes.” “Do you know what it was?” "No.” ” 'Twas tne last will and testament of one John Ireton, gentleman, in which he bequeathed to Margery, his wife, his estate of Appleby Hundred.” “Apple Hundred?” she echoed. "But my father—” "Your father holds but a conflscator's title, and It, with many others, has been voided by the congress of North Caro lina. Richard Jennifer Is my dear friend, and you—” "I begin to understand—a little," she said, and now her voi ; was low and she would not look at me. Then, in the same low tone: "But now—now you would be free again?" “How can you ask? As ’natters stand, I have marred your life and Dick’s most hopelessly. Do you won der that I have been reckless of the hungn ? that I care no Jot for my interfering life at this moment, save as the taking of it may involve you and Richard?" “No, surely," she said, still speaking softly. And now she gave me her eyes to look into, and the hardness was all melted out of them. "Did you com.1 here, under the shadow of the gallows, to tell me this, Monsieur John?" "There shall be no more half-confi dences between us, dear lady. I had my leave of General Morgar., on the score of our need for better Informa tion of Lord Cornwallis’ designs; but i should have come in any case—want ing the leave, my commission us a spy, ot any ether excuse." “To tell me this?” “To do the bidding of your letter, and to say that whilst i live I shall be shamed for the bitter words 1 gave you when 1 was sick.” "I mind them not; I had forgotten them.” she said. “But I have qot forgotten, nor ever shall. Will you say you forgive me, Margery?” “For thinking I had poisoned you? How do you know I did not?" “I have seen Scdpio. Will you shrive me for that disloyalty, dear lady?" “Did X not say X had forgotten it?” “Thank you,” I said, meunlng*lt from the bottom of my heart. "Now one thing more, and you shall send me to Father Matthieu. ’Tls a shameful t.klng to speak of, but the thought of it ran kles and will rankle till I have begged you to add It to the things ffargotfen. That morning in your dressing room—” She put hp her hands as if she would poslj the words 'back. "Spgre me, sir," she begged. “There are soule things that must always fee unspeakable between us, and that one of them. But if It will help you to know—that I know—how—how you came there—” She was flushing most painfully, and I was scarce more at ease. But having gone thus far, I must needs let the thought consequent slip into words. “Your father’s motives have ever been misundcrstandable to me. What could he hope to gain by such a thing?” I had no sooner said it than I could have bitten my masterless tongue. For in the very voicing of the wonder I saw, or thought I saw, Gilbert Stair’s purpose. Since I had not made good my promise to die and leave the es tate to Margery, he would at least make sure of his daughter’s dowry in it by putting it beyond us to set the marriage aside as a thing begun but not completed.( So, having this behlnd time flash of after-wit, I made haste to efface the question I had asked. "Your pardon, I pray you; I see now ’tis a thing we must both bury out of sight. But to the other—the matter which has brought me hither; will you put me in the way of finding Father Matthieu?” We had talked on through the meas ures of a cotillion, and the dancers, warm and wearied, were beginning to fill the entrance hall below. Our poor excuse for privacy would he gone in a minute or two, and she spoke quickly. "You shall see Father Matlhieu, and I will help you. But you must not linger here. In a few days the army will be moving northward—Oh, heav ens! what have I said!" "Nothing,” I cut in swiftly; "you are speaking now to your husband—not to the spy. Go on. if you please.” “We shall return to Appleby Hun dred within the fortnight. There, if you are still—if you desire it, you may meet the good cure, and—” A much-bepowdered captain of cav alry was coming up the stair to claim her, and I was fain to let her go. But at my passing of her to the step below, I whispered: “I shall keep the tryst— my first and last with you, dear lady. Adieu.” So soon aq she was gone I made haste to find Richard, having, as I feared, greatly overstayed my ap pointment to meet him at the door. He was not among the promenaders in the hall, so I began to drift again, through the ballroom and so on to where the spread table stood ringed with its groups of nlbb'lers. I had made no more than half the round of the re fectory when I saw Margery standing in the curtained arch, looking this way and that, with anxious terror written plainly in her face. “What is it?” I asked, when she had found me out. " 'Tis the worst that could happen.” she whispered. “You are discovered, both of you. Colonel Tnrleton was too shrewd for us. He has let it be known among the officers that there are two sides, in the house, and now—Hark! what is that?” We were standing in a deep window bay and I drew the curtain an inch or two. The air withotft was filled with the tra’mpling of hoofbeats on green sward. A light-horse troop was sur rounding the manor house. I drew her arm in mine and led her back to the ballroom; 'tuns now come to this, that, open publicity was our best safeguard. “We must find Dick,” said I. "Have you seen him?” "No.” Together we made the slow circuit of the dancing room, but Jennifer was not to be found. Out of the tail of my eye I saw a soldier slipping in here and there to stand statue-like against the wall. This brought it to a matter of minutes, of seconds, mayhap, and still we looked in vain for Dick. "Oh, why did you bring him here? He will surely be taken!” Her voice was tremulous with fear, and I answered as I could, being sore at heart, in spite of all, that her chief concern should be for Richard. But by now my purpose was well take„n, and though it appeared that Richard Jennifer was more than ever my successful rival, I pledge you, my dears, i had no thought of leaving him behind. So we made another slow ijound of the rooms, and whilst we were looking for Dick X spoke in guarded whispers to warn my lady of Falcon net's return. But the warning was not heeded. Her shudder of loathing shook the hand on my arm. "That man! Oh, Monsieur John! I fear him day and night! If X could but run away; but you are not finding Dick—we must find him quickly!” There was no other place to look save in the entrance hall, and at the door one of the two statue-like soldiers took two steps aside and barred the way. I faced about and we plunged once again into the throng, but not before I had a glimpse of Richard in the hall beyond. When the chance offered, I bent to whisper. "Dick is in the hall, looking for me, go you to him and warn him. I may not pass the door, as you have seen.” "lie will not escape without you," she demurred. "Tell him lie must. Tell him I say he must!” She glanced over her shoulder with a look in her eyes that made me think of a wounded bird fluttering in the net of the fowler. "Oh, 'tis hard, hard!” she murmured. I snatched'the word from her lips. “To choose between love and wifely duty? Then 1 make it a command. Go quickly!" She went at that, and I made my way slowly to the far side of the ball room, taking post in a deep-recessed window giving upon the lawn. Though it was January and the night was chill and raw, the rooms were summer warm with tlie breath cf the crush, and some one had swung the casement. Without, 1 could hear the horses of the waiting troop champing restlessly at their bits, and now and again the low gentling words of the riders. Why the colonel did not spring his trap at once I could not guess; though I learn ed later that he had magnified cur two man spying venture into a patriot foray meant to capture the whole household of British officers at a swoop and was taking his measures accord ingly. Twas while I was listening to the champing horses that I heard my name whispered in the darkness beyond the open casement. 1 turned slowly, and the nearest of the soldier watchers be gan to edge his way toward my win dow. " 'Tis I—Dick Jennifer,” whispered the voice without. "Swing the case •ment a little wider and out with you. Be swift about it, for God's sake!” “1 am fair trapped," 1 whispered back. "Make oft' as you can." "And leave you behind?" So much I heard; and then came sounds of a Struggle; the breath-catchlngs of two men locked In a strangler's hold, a Smothered oath or two, a fall on the tyrf under the window, followed by the Soft thudding of fist blows. 1 could it no longer. The edging soldier had come within arm's reach, and when I swung the casement a little wider, he laid a hand on my shoulder. “In the name of the king!” he said; and this was all he had time or leave to say. For at the summons I drove my fist against the point of his wag ging jaw, to send him plunging among the dancers, and the recoil of the blow carried me clear of the window seat with what a din and clamor of a hue and cry to speed the parting guest as you may figure for yourselves. The alighting ground of the leap was the body of Dick’s late antagonist ly ing prone beneath the window letfge; but the lad himself was up and ready to catch me when I stumbled over the vanquished one. ” 'Tis legs for it now," he cried. “Make for the avenue and the horses are the hitch rail.” At rising twenty a man may run fast and far; at rising* forty he may still run far if the first hundred yards do not burst his bellows. So when we had darted through the thin line of encircling horsemen and were flying down the broad avenue with all the troopers who had caught sight of us thundering at our heels, Dick was the pace-setter, whilst I made but a shifty second, gasping and panting and dying a thousand deaths in the effort to catch my second wind. "Courage!” shouted Dick, flinging the word back over his shoulder as he ran. “There is help ahead if we can live to reach the gate." But luckily for me the help was near er at hand. Half way down the box bordered drive, when I was at my last gasp, the shrill yell of the border par tisans rose from the shubbery on the right and a voice that I shall know and welcome in another world cried out: “Stiddy, boys! stiddy till ye can see the whites o' their eyes! Now, then; give it to ’em hot and heavy!” A haphazzard banging of guns fol lowed and the pursuit drew rein in some confusion, giving us time to reach the great gate and the horse rail, and to loose and mount the gray and the sorrel we had marked out. Whilst we were about this, Ephraim Yeates came loping down the avenue and through the gate to vault into the saddle of the first horse he could lay hands on; and so it was that we three took the northward road in the silver starlight, with the pursuit now in order again and in full cry behind us. ’Twas not until we had safely' run the gantlet of the vedette lines by a by-path known to the old hunter, and had shaken off the troopers that were following, that I found time to ask what had become of the men who had formed the ambush in the shrubbery. The old man gave me his dry chuckle of a laugh. “ 'Twas the same old roose d geer as the downcountry Frenchers 'u’d say. I stole the drunken sergeant's gun and two other, and let 'm off one to a time. ' As for the screechin’, one bazoon’s as good as m dozen, if so be ye blow it flrece emfugh.” “ 'Twas cut and dried beforehand,” Dick, explained. "J had an inkling of what was afoot from Ephraim, here, whom I stumbled on when I dropped from the stair window that Madge opened for me. He went to set his one man ambush whilst I was trying to warn you.” "So,” said I. “Our skins are 'whole, t but after all we have come off with never a word to take back to Dan Morgan-unless you have the word.” "Not I,” Dick said, ruefully. The old man chuckled again. "Ye ain’t old enough, neither one o’ ! ye, ez I allow. It takes a right old j person to fish out the innards of an inimy’s secrets. Colonel Tarleton, hoss, j foot and dragoons, with the seventh j rigiment and a part o’ the seventy-first, will take the big road for Dan Mor gan’s camp tomorrow at sun up. And right soon afterwards, Gin’ral Corn wallis ’ll foller on. Is that what you youngsters was trying to find out?” (Continued Next Week.I CARE OF PAVEMENTS. Heavy Loads on Narrow Tires Destruc tive to Streets. Asphalt Journal: Properly cared for, a good pavement should last for many years, and the real economy in work of this character is to build nothing hut i good, substantial pavements at the ' start, and then see to it that they are j protected front abuse and misuse. It is becoming generally recognized that the i most attractive and satisfactory pave- ! ment for all ordinary purposes is the t modern, up-to-date asphalt pavement, some of which has already been laid in (his vicinity, with the prospect that an other considerable stretch of it will be completed during the present season. The old theory that asphalt is not well adapted for standing the wear and tear i of heavy teams is gradually being dis- I carded, and the claim is now accepted that a good asphalt pavement, laid on a substantial foundation, will stand fully as much strain as any other kind of pavement, provided care is taken to in sist on wide tires for heavy loads. It is in accordance with this theory that the city of Chicago is planning to pave ail of its downtown streets with as phalt, which is far more noiseless than brick, block or cobblestone. It is a fact that is well understood, however, that the use of narrow tires for heavy loads is terribly destructive to any kind of street pavement, no less than to the maintenance of good coun try roads, and there is a gen eral tendency to require by law that all wagons and other vehicles used in transporting heavy loads shall be equipped with tires of specified width. A list of the leading cities of the coun try shows that most of them have or dinances which require a minimum of one inch to the ton for actual loads, while in many of them the specified width of tires is still greater. With the growing use of asphalt pavements, however, there is a general tendency to require all wagons that are used to convey ordinary loads to have tires not less than three inches in width, while in the cases of extra heavy loads the tires must bo still wider. In this city there is an ordinance which requires liies three inches in width for all loads of 3,COO pounds or over, hut this should be supplemented by a further require ment that extra heavy loads, such as coal, stone, machinery, etc., should have tires four or five inches wide, ac cording to tile particular needs. A Quaint People. From Andre Saglio’s "The Bigoudines" in the December Century: The heart of Brittany never changes, but Us face is rapidly losing many of its prominent char acteristics with the leveling influence of tho French repub ic. It is only far out. of tile beaten track, now, or on special occasions like feies, that you see univer sally tile costumes and customs of the old American peninsula. On.y an hour’s journey from Quimper, the modernized chief town of Finisu re, and you are among the Bigoudines. a people whose dress sug gests the Eskimos and Chinese, whose facts are strongly Mongolian in type, and ; wno in language, customs and beliefs ' seem to have no relation with the rest of France, More atm more the picturesque 1 problem they present Is coming 10 attract ; attention. Artists, students aim tourists alike are fascinated by it. --.—s-iU-s----— 1 The Atlantic, trails port line recently had four Similar sl ips LuUt —uvp in Belfast find tw -u T'ni^de dijjuc The A'merioan-huot tgdpa £dsi Ip,OCil), while the Bell's? <tnea cost Si-.lr.fimOO. A Valuable Agent. The glycerine employed In Dr. Pierce’s medicines greatly enhances the medi cinal properties which it extracts and holds in solution much better than alco hol would. It also possesses medicinal properties of its own, being a valuable demulcent, nutritive, antiseptic and anti forment. It adds greatly to the efficacy of the Black Cherryhark, Golden Seal root, Stone root and Queen’s root, con tained in "Golden Medical Discovery” in subduing chronic, or lingering coughs, bronchial, throat and lung affections, for all of which these agents are recom mended by standard medical authorities. In all cases whero there is a wasting away erf flesh, loss of appetite, with ■weak stomach, as in the early stages of consumption, there can bo no doubt that glycerine acts as a valuable nutritive and aids the Golden Seal root. Stone root. Queen’s root and Black Cberrybark in Promoting digestion and building up the eshand strength, controlling the cough and bringing about a healthy condition ‘i of the whdle system. Of course, it must not be expected to Work miracles. It will not cure consnmntijOii except in Its earlier stages. It Will euro verji severe, obstin ate, chronic coughs, bronchial and laryn geal troubles, and chronic sore throat with hoarseness. In acute coughs it is not-so effective. It is in the lingering coughs, or those of long standing, even when accompanied by bleeding from lungs, that it has performed its most marvelous cures. Send for and read the little book of extracts, treating of the properties and uses of the several med icinal roots that enter into Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and learn why this medicine has such a wide range of application in the dute of diseases, It is sent free. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffajo, N. Y. The "Discovery” con tains no alcohol or harmful, habit-form ing drug. Ingredients all printed on each bottle wrapper ip plain English. Sick peopfe, especially those suffering from diseases of longstanding, are invited to consult Dr. Pierce by letter, free. All correspondence is held a? stHctly private and sacredly conMeiitial. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce. Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Pier.ce’s Medical Adviser issent/ree on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send 21 one-cent stamp* for paper-covered, or 31 stamps for cloth bound copy. A Positive CURE Ely’s Cream Balm is quickly absorbed. Gives Relief at Once. It cleanses, soothes heals and protects the diseased mem brane. It cures Ca tarrh and drives away a Cold in the Head quickly. Be-UAW FFMFO stores the Senses ofSoiflil w 6» W litail Taste and Smell. Full size 50 cts., at Drug gists or by mail; Trial Size 10 cts. by mail. Ely Brothers, 56 Warren Street, New York* A Cillvillo Smoke Incidents “Thar’s a cigaret law in this town,” said the Billville marshal, “an' you're a-violat (n’ of it.” “I beg your pardon,” said the^drumm.er, ■‘but— you don’t want to deprivq a free dom American citizen of his liberty, do [’Oil ?” “No,” replied the marshal, “only of his cigarcts. You can’t smcke ’em on this de pot platform.” “Well, will you direct me to where I may smoke fn peace?” “Yes,” replied the marshal. “I’m pretty scrtain, from the looks o’ you, that you’ll t moke hereafter, but I won’t guarantee ' he peace when the smoke rises!” BALD HEADS COVERED tVlth Luxuriant 11,1 i r and Scaly Scalps Cleansed and Purified by ^ Cntirara Snap, Assisted by dressings of Cuticura, the great skin cure. This treatment at once stops falling hair, removes crusts, . tales and dandruff, destroys hair par asites, soothes irritated, itching sur faces, stimulates the hair follicles, loosens the scalp skin, supplies the yoots with energy and nourishment, ;ind makes the hair grow upon a sweet, wholesome, healthy scalp, when all else fails. Complete external and in ternal treatment for every humor, from pimples to scrofula, from infancy to age, consisting of Cuticura Soap, Oint ment and Pills, price $1.00. A single set is often sufficient to cure. Popular Measure. From the Chicago News. Thirsty Timothy—De party wot’ll giv bizzy wid de biriff is de one dat’ll git .my vote. Fuzzy Frederick—Wot do youse know erbout de tariff? ' Thirsty Timothy—I know dat I’m in ■favor uv puttin’ licker on de free list. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. K. Vv. t;love’s signature is on each box. 25c. He Was Safe. 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Whether a working shoe for the farmer, mechanic, miner or lumberman, or the most stylish and up-to-date shoe for Sunday wear and special occasions; whether it is shoes for boys anti girls, misses or ladies, every day shoes or dresg shoes, this big establishment has a well earned reputation for making excellent goods and for ustag only the best mate rials in the prq^fWtion of footwear. It’s trade rndrk, whiOh is stamped on the sole of every Mayer ghpe, is a safe guide t* follow when looking for reliable shoes. “Mayer School Shoes" arc known ev erywhere as the. ‘!gboe«Cihat wear like iron.” “Martha Wlllifilngton" is the name of the company's most popular comfort shoe, "made without buttons or laces, and for which there is a big tfethand .among ladies who seek CMW^ort. Mayer’s “Western I.Ady" jjmfM<s the most ap proved and ui>>6klatc Style in ladies* shpes ,:dn4 “Hoomjffit.” for then ;is whal heat dttSifrs evTtyivbftre Are ’wearing, Mayer shoes are sUDctfsd by leading abo* j..i—