fThe Plunderers^ ^ BY C. J. CUTLIFFE HYNE. £ CHAPTER VL r I V E HUNDRED THOUSANt POUNDS IN GOLD. The little red bearded man had gone •lamming the door noisily behind him Shelf mopped his largo white fact with a scented pocket handkerchief "Do you think,” he said nervously, "dc you think we may trust him?” ‘To begin with, we’ve got to know, whether wo like It or not. He's noth ing to gain by pluylng traitor.” "But would he betray us In caso ot •uccess?’ "Perhaps," said Cambel, "ho won’t have the chance. Other hands on that steamer win have to share tho secret In Whole or in part. Perhaps they won’t ail of them come through It alive. If you remember that wo are plotting de liberate piracy on the high seas, you Will recognize that there Is precedent for a considerable percentage of casu alties. , The city man shuddered. Through the double windows came the sullen rear of a London street, and In Imagi nation he seemed to distinguish the bowl of tho crowd Joined In execration against him. HI# eyo fell upon a paper on the desk. It was the formal notice from her bankers that his wife’s account was heavily overdrawn. He lifted tho paper and tore It with his teeth, then •mote the table so that geysers flew from the Ink wells. But Ills passion found no outlet In words. He spoko In bla platform voice and said nothing about the prime compelling force. "Wo will not talk of these unpleasant details. If you please, Mr. Cambel. I— sny heart Is weak, I think, and they turn me sick. But, at whatever cost, no must go through with the affair. It ta necessary that I make a heavy coup within the next month, or the conso ces may be disastrous.’ armaduke Rivers & Shelf will go lawn? Quito so. I also am at the end ■ef my cash balance, so that money •eems to be the Impelling power for aach of us. And, after all, I suppose It's natural. Out of fiction men don’t gamble with their necks for the sheer amusement of the thing. They either do It for the love of place, or the love •f woman, or the love of gold, and of ths three the last Is the best prize to Win, because with It you can buy the ythers. But come, now, wako up, sir, |iot so sweet on this city atmosphere of yours that I coro to spend another morning down here If It can be avoided. How are you going to raise tho specie?" *Tll proceed about it at once,” said ♦Jhett pressing another of the buttons on his desk. "You may as well wit ness every step of the process." In answer to the bell Fairfax came Into tho room, nodded rather stiffly to Cambel and turned to Shelf with an ■expectant "Yes, sir.” In terse businesslike phrases his principal touched upon tho sliver crisis in America and the gold famine in the southern states. Th?n he explained the external view of his projected en terprise. "The Port Edes," he said, "Is In the Herculaneum dock, returned on pur hands today. Wire Liverpool at •nee nsklng for freights to Norfolk, Va., Pensacola, Fla,; Mobile, Ala.; or New Orleans p.\ lowest rates. .Ne\y Orleans Is her final port,'and offer that at 16 fper cent. less. Captain Owen Kettle «wfH he In command, and he sails In four days from now? b*<£!Wi>en you have deputed your clerks • to dB’thls, go yourself to the bank and .♦negotiate for half a million In gold to "be delivered on board the Port Edes f'ln dg£k. Tho Insurance policy on the »«miey will be deposited with th» bank rte secure them In full for the loan It self, and for their other charges the credit of the house will easily suffice. That clear?" *• "Perfectly,’ said Fairfax, ’but I should like to remind you of one thing—wharf thefts' at New Orleans are notorious, and you’ll have to pay heavily to In sure againSt them.” "1 know, more heavily than for risks •across the ocean and the run of the giver. uiiuerwrnei s two jusity nervous About those all nation thieves But In this instance I propose to save myself that fee and Insure In a different way. Sir. Cambel Is going out on the Port Sdes expressly as my representative, «nd 1 fancy that he and the captain together will be capable of seeing to Aaf« delivery. The ship’s arrival will be reported by telegraph from the pass at Mississippi mouth, and my New Orleans agent can calculate her ap pearance alongside the levee to a quar ter of an hour. He will meet her with rehlcles and a strong escort of deputy sheriffs as she brings in to her berth And take the specie boxes off by the first gangway which Is put ashore, and carry them straight to a bank. Does this strike you as a sound coursef” "Yes." said Fairfax thoughfully. "I Bee no undue risks. By the way, gs the Port Rdes is merely a cargo tramp And doesn't hold certificate for passen gers, I’m afraid the board of trade wouldn’t let Mr. Cambel travel by her Blmply as the firms representative. But that could be easily overcome.” "’Oh,” said Cambel, "I’ll sign on ar ticles In the usual way as one of the ship’s company—as fourth mate, say nr doctor with salary of a shilling foi the run. ’Tlsn't the first time thal pleasing fiction has been palmed upof A shipping master. It doesn't deceive Any one, you know, because the rate 01 wages gives one away at the outset toal shipplnq laws are obeyed, and sc tel shlping laws are obeyed, and sc verybody's pleased.” ,* Fairfax laughed and went Into the Bfflces, and Patrick Cambel turned t( the shipowner wltn a couple of ques tions. "To begin with," he said, ”whj Bid you offer freight to Norfolk am Pensacola and Mobile and those places' If you call In there, the natural thlnj kvould be to get the specie ashore ant express It by railroad direct to Nev Orleans. If you miss that chance am start carrying It round by sea, th' thing looks fishy at once. Now, flshl tieus Is an aspect which we can’t af ford In the very least degree. Th Swindle will call up quite enough sen Batlon In Its most honest and straight forward dress.” . “My dear Mr. Cambel, please give m credit for a little more finesse. 1 se the objection to Intermediate ports a touch as you do, but I merely mention «d them to Fairfax as a blind. To be jgln with, It Is a hundred to one ehanc against our getting any cargo consign ed to them at this season of the yea At all, even If wo offered to carry 1 gratis. In the second pluce, If It wa offered I could easily get out of it i Ht ways. Afterward, when the deplor able accident takes place, an lnqulr Into this will help draw off at tentton from your Floridian penlnsulr Any one inclined to carp will lnstantl be told that we were equally ready t put the specie ashore on the Vlrginl .coast if our cargo had led us then "What do you think of that now?" "Beg vour paraon. That's elea Bighte 1 enough and should work cor r ■ tly. But I fancy my other objec tion Is bett-r founded. What In th Aar. ■ of plague did you go and econ omlze overinsurance for? Why didn't you get the stuff underwritten slap up to the strongroom of the bank?" “To save £ 500. If you aren't going past the middle of the Mexican gulf, what is the use of wasting money by insuring further?” "Five hundred pounds In a deal of £500,000! A mere straw in a cart load 1' "That, my dear Mr. Cambel, Is busi ness. As I often assure my young friends commencing life, If one takes care of the pennies, the pounds take care of themselves. It Is by looking after what you are pleased to consider trivial sums like those that the firm of Murmaduke Rivers e supposed that sailor men rush to join a Craft of this sin ister reputation. They may be asses in the bulk, but they are only asses in part. They always try for the best berths. But because there arp not enough of these to go around, and because, thanks to tho Dago, and the Dutchman, there are not sufficient berths of any sort whatever to -supply all aspirants, it is always possible to [ man any vcessol which a board of trade i official will pass through a dock gates. Just as no man Is ever sucessful In anything without due course, so per > contra few sailormen are down on their luck except through some peculiar ■ trait of incapacity, so that on your unpopular ship, be she tramp steamer ! or eke weeping wind jammer, you do i not get much pick of a crew. You > have to put up with what other people • have left, and it uoes not take you - lotvg to find out that your beauties s have not been rejected for their ex ■ cellencles. ■ It was this way on the Port Edes. t Forward and aft, engine hold and pan J try, each man on board of her had his > private sea failing. Between them they - lack wakefulness, eye sight. decision, r strength of language, seamanship and - common sobriety. Among the deck ■ hands there were virulent sea lawyers; r in the stoke holds there were ames 9 damnees wanted by several govern 1 ments. The engineers were skillful in • gaining the smallest possible knottage per ton of coal; the mates were all r slipshod navigators, untrustworthy ■ even to correct a compass and useless ■ to drive a truculent crew. 9 Over all was Owen Kettle, master - mariner, and whatever his fallings I might be—and the Index of them tailed out—they did nut snow prominently at ! the head of such a ship's company. LJke all men In the merchant marine, he had been bred In the roughest school, but unlike his successful brethren he had not graduated later on : to the smooth things of a well manned passenger liraT. I4'or his sins he had remained the pitiful knockabout skip per, a man with knife edged words al ways ready on the lip of his teeth, a leaden whistle in one jacket pocket and a lethal weapon in the other. He was an excellent seaman and navigator, a man capable of going an entire voyage without taking off hla clothes or enjoying one watch of regu lar sleep. Taking Into account these qualifications, it may be understood that while In command at sea he credited himself with tho powers of 9. czar and was entirely unscrupulous In gaining ends which expediency or his owners laid down for him, and though not physically powerful he had the pluck of a dog and an unholy reputa tion for marksmanship. For the hand ling of such a menagerie of all nation scroundreldom and Incapacity as bunk ed In the steamship Port Edes no bet ter man than Owen Kettle breathed in either hernlshpere. The crew signed their marks on tho articles at tho shipping office In tho Sailor’s home and went grumbling to get rid of their advances. Later most of them turned up on the steamer, some with their worldly goods done up In dunnago sacks, which look to tho un initiated like pillowslips, some appar ently possessing nothing but tho I squalid raiment they stood up In. ' There was not one of them dressed like a sailor, according to the conventional j Idea. Yet most of them had made their bread upon the seas slnco early boy- j hood, which show's what conventional ; Ideas are sometimes worth. They were j most of them oldish men nnd looked I even older than their years. Tho engineers came on board early, for the most part In scrubby blue serge and sour black temper. They grumbled at the messroom In broad Glaswegian, prophesied evil (In advance) about the capacities of the messroom steward and ship’s cook, dumped their belong ings Into their various ronms and changed to apparel more suitable for tall twisting In the unclean regions be low'. Then they w-ent on duty, quar reled with the donkeyman who was making steam for the winches and pro men and trimmers Into watches and apportion them to furnace doors and ' bunkers. The three mates, tho boatswain and the carpenter were also on board be times, ^nost of them large headed with recent libations and feeling cantank erous accordingly. There was a small general cargo being shipped for New Orleans, and It gave these worthy of ficers ease to find occasional acid fault with the stevedor'B crew or the crane men on the wharf, but for the most part they shuffled about the decks In easy slippers, attending to tho various ship duties in massive sneering silence. Patrick Cambel came Into the chart roorti on the bridge deck, closing the door behind him. "A cheery, amiable crowd you’ve collected," he suld. “Aren’t they?" replied Captain Ket tle from a sofa locker. “They’re Just- a terror of a crew. You wait till we get to sea, and they start on mischief. My mate’s a cur. He wouldn’t stand up to a Chinaman. And the reBt of the after guard Is much of a pattern, picked that way on purpose Oh, I tell you, Mr. Cambel, that I stand alone, and I shall have my hands full. But let ’em start, the brutes! I’ll haze them. It Isn’t a new sort of tea party this with me.” "You’re going Into It with your eyes open anyway.’’ “Oh, don’t you make any error,” said Kettle. “I know my Job. And If I warn you it’s because you'll see things for yourself and perhaps Join In at them. I don’t go and tell everybody. Not much. They think ashore I’ve got a real soft thing on this tlma Why, do you know, Mr. Cambel," he added, with a thin, sour grin, "my old woman want ed to come with me for tho trip?” She said It was so long since she’s had a whiff of outside air that now I’d such a tidy steamboat under me she couldn't miss the chance. Yes, and she said she’d bring one of tho kids with her that Wanted to be a sailor, like hla daddy. I tell yon she was that took on the Idea she’d hear no refusal, and I had to write a letter to owners and get them to wire back a ‘No’ she could read for herself. It’d took well set to muslo, that tale, wouldn’t It? Sort of Jumpy muslo, you know, with a yo-heave humbug chorus to it, same as all sailors’ songs that you hear In the Cambel shrugged his shoulders. "What can you expect at the price?" he asked. "This Isn’t a £12 a month berth, and you've thrashed across Atlantic In a worse Bhlp for lees.” "Don’t yoQ mistake me,” retorted Kettle. Tm working for full value re ceived, and there’s many an old Ballot'd like to be In my Shoes If he only knew. I’m ntft. grumbling at the berth, only when a /ten's oh a racket of thlB kind it's a bfthard on him to have a wife and kids he’s fool enough to be fond of. It’s an ugly amusement lying to them like a play actor when^ySu know It’s ten chances to one ,yf)U'll • ever see English mud agulfl.'' That's the way It cuts.'though I -iMDPOBe you’ll think It aU a., Sailors grumble. Perhaps you aren't a married man?” 'No, I’m not.” (Continued Next Week.) INVENTOR OF ARTIFICIAL PEARL5* Silvery Lustre on 5 ^ond That Set • Bead Maker Thinking. From the New Orleans Times-Democrat. The string of artlflclal pearls was very beautiful. But for the regularity of the beads anyone would have thought It a rope of real pearls worth a king's ransom. "I'll tell you,” said the jeweler, as he wrapped up the deceptive necklet, "how the wonderfully perfect artificial pearl came to be Invented. "A rich French beadmaker—Sloise Jaquin—he lived in the seventeenth century—found a pond In his garden covered one morning with a lovely sil very luster. Amazed, he called his gardener, who said it was nothing— some albettes had got crushed, that was all. "Albettes were little silver fish— bleaks—the Leuciscus alournus. The gardener explained that If you crushed them they always gave the water a pearly sheen like that. Jaquin put on his thinking cap. "For six years he worked with beads and bleaks, wasting millions of both. But finally he achieved success, ffa learned how to extract the pearly lustre from the bleaks' scales and to cover a glass bead with It. "What he did—and his method Is still used—was to scrape the scales from the fish, wash and rub them and save the water. The water, decanted, gave off a lustrous fluid of the thickness of oil, a veritable pearl paint, a magic fluid that Imparts a lovely pearly sheen to everything it is applied to. “It takes 1,000 bleaks to yield an ounce of this pearl paint.” T ou"h. "I wish to complain," said the Easts, bride haughtily, "about that flour you sold me. It was tough." "Tough, ma’am?" stammered the grocer. 1*’Yes, tough. I made a pie with it and nj husband could hardly cut It." i :.'r j.. i. " *" ij »•* .. ... ! ■*■ \ *. **■ PUT UP HAY SHEDS. It Is surprising how many still cli'^g to the wasteful practice of stacking both timothy and clover hay' out in the fields. When lands were cheap, or when prairie lands were mowed, that might have been some excuse for it, but with good hay selling from $12 to $20 per ton it is wasteful, to say the least, to stack where much of the crop is wasted. If the barns will not take in the crop, put up sheds. These need not be expensive. The main thing is to have a good water proof roof. The sides may be protected, but get a roof over the hay by all means. Arrange a track with carrier and fprk, and the crop can be handled easily and quickly. WRONG PLACE FOR MANURE. One of my neighbors teiis me how he blundered last year in ham^ag out and spreading his manure. During the win ter the manure was hauled cict on the meadow land and dumped in 045 piles. It was coarse, trashy stuff and ra-rd to handle. During the early spring these piles were scattered with a fork, and such a mess he made of it. The manure was thrown haphazard, no attempt be ing made to cover the ground evenly, with the result that the spots of grass caine up too rank and, worst of all, where the hay was cut and put up, the rake gathered up all the trash and mixed it well with the hay. Of course it spoiled the crop for baling—and hay selling now at $22 a ton.—L. C. B. PRUNE THE TREES NOW. Show the boys how to prune. Take them out into the orchard and go over the apple, pear, plum and cherry trees, and explain why you do things. If your trees were properly trimmed when they were set out they can be kept in shape without much pruning. But, go over the trees every spring, using a sharp knife and pruning shears. Make clean, neat cuts, and if large limbs are removed use a saw. Cut out crossed limbs, thin out the top, but don’t cut off too many lower limbs. Keep the head as low as possible. A beginner must prune with a good deal of care. The aim should be to keep the trees shapely, and keep the fruit as near the ground as possible. FARM FACTS. Some people get into the habit of al ways putting off every piece of work for a day or two. There is one best time for plowing, harrowing and seed ing. If this time is passed by, it is not likely that conditions will be as favor abel again. Push the lambs now for the early market. Corn meal will fatten them up quickly and make nice meat. There Is a flavor about meal fed lambs that is not produced by any other feed. A neighbor of mine is trying for a bumper corn crop this season. The ground Is sod, manured last fall. In stead of planting In checks he has drilled in his seed, two and three grains in a hill, eighteen inches apart. This is rather thick planting, but as this ground is strong, with plenty of moisture, It ought to make a big crop. There is really no excuse this season for keeping old hay. Prices are very high, and everything should now be cleaned up and sold. It is a good time also to clean up the old stack bottoms. Make^a fresh start. Get rid of the hay worm's. The collars and saddle pads .should be cleaned every day to remove the filth. If they are left all gummed up they soon gall and make mean sores. Dust and sweat will ruin a horse's Shoulder in two or three days. The first cultivation does more to make the crop than all subsequent ones. This Is the only time when the shovels should run up close to the hills.. Lift up the shield and allow the fine dirt to sift around In the hills and cover up the weeds which are just starting, Trlln up the orchard now. This Is the time to cut out dead limbs. Trim to let In the sun; cut out crossed branches. Proper work done In the orchards now will show in the better quality of the fruit. The proper handling of 160 acres of land calls for thought as well as work. Most farmers know In a general way that corn is the crop to put on sod »d, and that oats should not be Oh too rich ground. But when to omit one crop and put In another, get ting the maximum yield from each crop is a big proposition. It Is well worth while to study every field and SSSaffi—-.-aw** Some men work like troopers, but they never accomplish much. They tnl/o time to thinlr onrl nlnn nnrl their hustling is really lost time. 4* ■ i. nwaiufirTrr Nagging a team is a poor way to get more service out of it, and tapping horses with the lines or whip does no good. The thing to do is to teach the horses to walk fast. Do this and they will give you all the work you want without urging. Keep all the birds, all the chickens and turkeys, and in fact anything that will eat bugs out in the orchard. They will find plenty of picking now. It’s bad business to crowd too many litters of pigs into one feeding pen. Pigs and sows need plenty of room, and out in the pasture is now the best plaoe for them to run. Don't scatter coarse manure on the meadows. Last summer a neighbor of mine spoiled his hay crop by scatter ing coarse manure early in the spring. When he came to rake off the hay he raked up all the trash and ruined his hay for baling. Keep meadows clean. April was a fatal month for young pigs. About the quickest way to lose money is to neglect the pigs when they come during chilly weather. Every pig saved until it is one week old is worth $2.50. Just count up and see how many you have lost by not having good quarters for them. We nave been growing such big grain crops for three or four years that we have n «cted to raise young stock. Th.-ie i» a scarcity of colts, calves and pigs. Make the next few months count in the breeding of ali ,.indi of stock | DAIRY NOTES. The poorest quality of butter la made during May. This is because cows are turned out to grass before j there is much nourishment in it and | usually grain feed is cut rfff. Grass is good, but it is a mistake to take away all dry feed. June is the best butter month and cows should be then at their I best. There is a greater demand for good ' dairy bred bulls this spring than there : has been for many years. This shows i that dairynrcn appreciate what is now j urgently needed to keep dairying on a paying basis. Fresh cows, especially heavy milkers, should be milked regularly. Frequent ly leaky teats result from compelling : a cow to go two or three hours over 1 her regular milking time. There is also danger of inflammation when the udder becomes too full. Dairying when properly carried on never fails. It is the business that invariably follows when other busi nesses go down. Corn growing and wheat growing in many sections is be coming less profitable. A good herd of cows, kept on these farms for a few years, will set things right again. It is surprising how many farmers are guessing the worth of their cows. No other business could stand such methods for any length of time, and we are now coming to a point where no dairy farmer can stand it. Feed costs too much and we are buying too much feed to not know Just what re sults we are getting. Many who would like to make butter for market during the summer months find that their product arrives in poor condition at destination. It is difficult to ship butter any distance without ice, and this, of course, the small shipper cannot get. If there is not a good home market, the safest plan is to sell cream to the factory. With the great increase in popula tion and the rapid rise in land values, the time is not far away when farm ers must handle $200 acre land and make a profit from it. That will call for closer methods, better cows, and more definite knowledge of breeding for results. This is the season when many trou bles come to the butter maker. Those who supply private trade and=»shlp In wooden packages get complaint'of mold Just as soon as warm weather strikes us. Soak the wooden packages In. a strong solution of brine before filling. This will check the mold and retain the flavor of the butter. The only way to kill oft the renovated butter plants Is to quit making such poor stuff that it has to be sold to these factories and worked over before it is fit to eat. When creamery butter Is selling at 25 cents per pound, one ought to be ashamed to have to sell 15-cent stuff. As the cows are cut down on their fodder and grain ration and are given the run of pastures we are apt to de» tect undesirable flavors, and the cream is more difficult to churn. As the grass becomes better the coiys will be more particular what they eat. so that off flavors will disappear. It will help matters If tjie creanrl Is churned at a lower temperature, say 60 or 62 degrees Fahrenheit. A subscriber asks what crop makes the best silage, and says that a neigh bor put up some clover last year, but did not have very good success. Good dent corn, with plenty of foliage, cut when the groin begins to glaze, makes the best silage, and It keeps hetter than any other kind. Clover will make good silage If it Is handled right, but It Is harder to keep In good condition than corn silage. Ther- trouble comes-in get ting it packed solid enough and in cut ting It at Just the right stage. The -first crop makes the best silage, al though on account of wet weather some prefer to put up the second crop. It should be kept In mind that the out straw and leaves are the rich est In nitrogen up to the time when grain begins to ripen. This Is the rea son that outstraw is considered more valuable than other kinds. Where the quality of the straw Is Important oats should be cut before too weil ripened. Sweet com is one of the best and most profitable crops for milch cows. Plant early and late varieties and the earliest should be ready to feed by July 15. This comes In right at a time when pastures are poor and when something is needed to keep up the Many plant pumpkin seeds with their corn. A better plan is to give up an acre or two or rich ground and plant the pumpkin hills about eight feet apart. Plant the field variety, give the patch some care and it will yield an enormous amount of fall feed. When remodeling the farm buildings is a good time to think about winter work. No wonder it is difficult to get hired help to do winter milking, when they have to do it where their feet and fingers are nearly freezing all the time. Good dairy farms mean prosperous owners, Increasing land values and thriving towns. Debts are promptly paid and the business men of the towns have good business. In fact good dairy ing makes all wheels go around. Early cut hay is liked best by the cows. It comes nearer to the green grass than the late cut hay and Is rel ished. The "late cut hay is all right when it is to be sold and shipped. Gentle handling of the dairy heifer will have a wonderful influence in making her a good dairy cow. Right here is where thousands of growing heifers are ruined. If she Is handled roughly she will be timid and appre hensive. When her calf is taken from her, she naturally connects her enemy with the theft. The result is lessened nr.ik flow, and unless very care fully handled she will dry up within tlx months. Treat the heifer In a way that gets her confidence. Keep <.n good terms with her all along, so that when j her first calf comes she will not worry [ when It is taken from b“'~ TO PLEASE THE MEN. The girl who wants to play the sum mer girl, or, in. other words, to select her summer wardrobe so that she will win the admiration of the men she meets, will confine most of her things to the plain white shirtwaist suits, made of percale, that can be laundered so that they will almost shine. She will have them made with big tucks across the front, long shirtwaist sleeves and with them she will wear stiff linen turnovers, embroidered, and little bow ties of black. To complete the cos tume she will wear sensible low cut shoes that could never in the world be accused of having paper soles or French heels, and a sailor hat. She will of course have a dress or two that is decidedly more feminine with its bewitching frills and flounces to slip on in the evening, but for long tramps over the hills, games of tennis,I sailing on the lake, or long afternoons spent lazily with books in the country, it is the shirtwaist suit that will seem much more consistent, and from man’s point of view, more sensible as well. Not Enough Evidence. From the Boston Herald. Not many years ago a prominent citi zen of Haverhill was arrested for the un-, lawful sale of liquor. On being searched, a half flash of brandy was found. That being the only evidence, the judge charged the jury. They had been out but five min utes, when they returned and the fore man queried: "Your honor, how do we know the flask contains brandy? I would like to take the flask into the jury room." He was given the flask, and soon the jury returned. "Have you agreed?” the foreman was asked. "We have,” he answered. "We And the defendant not guilty,” and exhibiting the now empty flask, he added: "There was not enough evidence to go around.” The defendant was discharged. SUFFERED TORTURES. Racked with Pain, Day and Night, for Year*. Wm. H. Walter, engineer of Chats worth, UK, writes: “Kidney disease* was lurking in my system for years. I bad torturing pain! in tbe side and back and tbe urine was dark and full of| sediment. I wa»; racked wtth pain day and night, could not sleep or eat well, and finally be came crippled and bent overwith rheu matism. Doan’s Kidney Pills brought quick relief, and in time cured me. Though I lost 40 pounds, I now weigh 2C0, more than ever before.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Jlllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Atchison Glebe Sights. If you can smile when your rival Is praised, you have tact. Nothing equals another love affair to mend a broken heart. As a rule, other people are the best Judges of your importance. Every man Is a coward, If you pro duce the proper brand of terror. One of the surprising things is tho respect a worthless man has for him self. A husband does a good deal of fuss ing, but his wife has her w# Just tho same. One thing a man can never under stand Is why his enemy has so many friends. The man who Is spoiled fcy a little popularity will never be spiffed by a lot of It. The radishes on the table always go a long ways If there Is anything else to eat. What a contemptible weakness char ity is, when it is felt for those you dislike. A woman's idea of wisdom is the ability to detect cotton In an alleged all wool fabric. Instead of envying the millionaires, invent an automobile that will work, and become one. It is usually the case that you can tell more about a question when you only hear one side of it. When a man says you are too smart to be fooled, look out; he is about to spring a scheme to fool you. When a husband goes out with his wife, she usually says of him: "He's acting perfectly dreadful today.” brakeman has a great contempt for tea, and also for breakfast foods less substantial than ham and eggs. If "you are a useful and reliable citi zen, you are patriotic enough without* shouting about the Stars and Stripes, j WENT TO TEA / And It Wound Her Bobbin. I Tea drinking frequently affects peo ple as badly as coffee. A lady in Salis bury. Md., says that she was compelled to abaudon the use of coffee a good many years ago. because It threatened to ruin her health and that she went over to tea drinking, but finally, she had dyspepsia so bad that she had lost twenty-five pounds aud no food seemed to agree with her. She further says: “At this time I was induced to take up the fatuous food drink, Postum, and was so much pleased with the results that I have never been without it since. I com menced to Improve at once, regained my twenty-five pounds of fiesh and went some beyond my usual weight. "I know Postum to be good, pure, and healthful, and there never was an arti cle, and never will be, I believe, that does s > surely take the place of coffee, ns Postum Food Coffee. The beauty of it all is that it is satisfying and won derfully nourishing. 1 feel as if I could not sing its praises too loud.’*' Read “The Road to Wellvilie,” In pkgs. “There's a Reason.”