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I used every thing imaginable and had one doc tor’s bill after another, but nothing cured It. Then the eczema broke out io badly bohind her ear that I really thought her ear would come off. For months I doctored It but to no avail. Then it began at her nose and her eyes were nothing but sores. I had to keep her In a dark room for two weeks. The doctor did no good, so I •topped him coming. “For about two weeks I had used Cutlcura Soap for her overy day, then I got a box of Cutlcura Ointment and began to use that. In a week there was a marked improvement. In *11 I used two cakes of Cutlcura Soap *nd one box of Cutlcura Ointment and my baby was cured of the sores. This was last November: now her hair Is growing out nicely and she has not a scar on her. I can not praise Cutl cura enough, I can take my child any where and people are amazed to see her without a sore. From tho time •he was four weeks old until she was three years she was never without the terrible eruption, but now, thanks to Cutlcura, I have a well child.” (Sign ed) Mrs. If. E. Householder, 2004 Wil helm St., Baltimore, Md., May 10, 1910. UP TO ALFRED. 1/ .'"T TTT5P Angel food cakes seldom make boys angelic. A good way to keep well is to take Otis field tea frequently. It Insures good health. A Success. Byker—I attended a successful sleight-of-hand performance last night. Pyker—Really. Byker—Yes. I lent a conjurer a counterfeit half dollar and he gave me back a good one. No Need to Be Good. A little Shaker Heights girl sue prised her parents last week by refus ing to be scared Into being good. "It’s no use telling mo Santa Claus won’t come, or that the angels will write It down in their book If I’m naughty( mamma,” she said. "I might, as well tell you that they think up In heaven that I’m dead.” "But why should they think that, dear?” "Because I haven’t said my prayers for two weeks.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. How Pat Proved It. An Irishman was once serving in a regiment In India. Not liking the climate, Pat tried to evolve a trick by which he could get home. Accordingly he went to the doctor and told him his eyesight was bad. The doctor looked at him lor a while and then said: “How can you prove to me that your eyesight Is bad?” Pat looked about the room and at last said: “Well, doctor, do ye see that nail on the wall?" "Yes,” replied the doctor. “Well, then," replied Pat, “I can't” —Chicago Tribune. Always Worrying. The late John H. Barker of Mich igan City, who left a fortune of over $30,000,000 to his 14-year-old daughter, was strongly opposed to speculation. “Do not speculate,” Mr. Barker once said In an address to young men. "Speculators stand on shaky ground They know no peace.” Mr. Barker smiled. “In fact,” he said, “a speculator !• always worrying about the money market, while his wife Is always wor rylng about the market money.’’ In Boston. Mrs. Beans—How rapidly Emerson grows! Mrs. Tod—Yes; he will be In short specs very soon.—Harper's Bazar. Great Home Eye Remedy, for all diseases of the eve, quick relief from using PETTIT’S EYE SALVE. All druggists or Howard Bros., Buffalo, N. Y, Policy. He—Darling, I would die for yon! She—Dearest, do you carry much Insurance? Many people have receding gums. Rub Hamlins Wizard Oil on gums and stop the decay; chase the disease germs with a mouth wash of a few drops to a spoonful of water. , In the fulfillment of duty we have a sense of blessedness, even In hours of weariness and simple endurance.— Taylor. ONI.Y ONK "BROMO OiriTaNK." Thai Is LAXATIVB BROMO GU1N1NK. Poo* fo» the (stgimturo of N. \V (JHOvK. Used the World over to t ure a Cold In One Day. 25c. 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THE ONE REMEDY so good that its makers ere not afraid to print its every ingredient oa each outside bottle-wrapper and attest to the truthfulness of the same under oath. It is sold by medicine dealers everywhere, and any dealer who hasn’t it can gel it. Don’t take a substitute of unknown composition for this medicine oh known composition. No counterfeit is as good as the genuine and the druggist who says something else is “just as good as Dr. Pierce’s’’ is either mistaken or is trying to deceive you for his own selfish benefit. Such a man is not to be trusted. He is trifling with your most priceless possession—your health— may be your life itself. See that you get what you ask for. ——.. , ———————r .1 _ i ————————————————J The Diamond Ship MAX PEMBERTON Author of "Doctor Xavier," "The Hundred Days,” etc. Copyright by D. Appleton & Co. CHAPTER XVI. The steamer, driving on rapidly to the westward, showed her hull very plainly when a quarter of an hour had passed, and was immediately named by Cain, the quartermaster, who was at the wheel, for a collier he had seen some months back at Cardiff. . She flew a Brazilian flag, sir, and carried a Russian ofelpper wjiat had a plefuVb nose.” said In' cheerily enough, "I remember the boys said that some xme tattoed a bit of a circus scene on his figurehead when he was took In drink at Rio last trip. I'd have knowed the ship anywheres by that doll’s house ,&baft the funnel. Leastwise, If there ain’t two of ’em, she’s the same.” His logic was commendable, and we questioned him. "Had she any arms, Cain?” "Nothing that I see, sir, saving the shovels.” “And you didn't know where she was bound to?” "They gave It as Rio. sir. I had a bit of a tumble-to with a Portuguese stew ard of theirs, and I give him Port Ar thur for himself. You come out to Rio,’ says he, ‘and I’ll d ■— n well pull Vour nose!’ It seemed to me a long way to go for the Job, sir, and that I could get It done cheaper at home. I never see him again, and next day the chip sailed.” We laughed at his manner of telling It, but the news proved acceptable enough. I had already come to a de termination, and this I communicated immediately to Larry. “We must stop them,” I said, “if we are to save Joan Fordibras; that steamer must not put her cargo on the deck of the Diamond Ship. The risk is small enough, captain. I think that a signal will do it—If not a signal, then u gunshot, anyway. Let us put it to the proof. The success or failure will mean more than any of you imagine.’' j He obeyed me without question, and we steamed straight for the tramp, steering such a course that we over took her on the port-quarter, and so were difficult to come at by any for ward gun. should she carry one. My own impression was that she did not. Her safety from Inquisitional officers in port would be better assured by the normal practice of ocean-going cargo boats. I believed that the quartermas ter had told us the truth, and upon that supposition I acted. “Signal to her to bring to, Larry!” I said, and he assented immediately. It was pretty to see our flags flut tering upon the breeze of morning, and to watch the commotion upon the deck of tho tramp. We knew that she had sighted us almost as soon as we set our engines going. The far horizon disclosed no trace of the Diamond Ship. We two appeared alone In all that vista of the rolling waters. Now the ship answered by demand ing our name and our business. We could make out the figures of two or three men upon her bridge; but the crew appeared an unusually small one, and the aft decks were completely de fierted. To their signal, we replied Im mediately: <1) That Imroth was flying from Brttlah warships. (8) That their own safety depended upon their Immediate submission. , Not the whole truth, perhaps, and ■ret, as I hoped, truth enough. It had been In my mind all along that the government would send at least a pa trol to the seas I had named. I could not believe that, after my revelations, 'ports would not be watched. So I signalled this message and waited with not a little expectation for an answer. To my astonishment, their captain’s reply was to ask mo to go aboard, meaning, of course, the master of the yacht. indicated the presence of Imroth's ves sel, and not of a British warship. “The game is up,” I resumed, “and your friend Is about to pay the price of it! If you wish to contribute your share, go on and join the fun. I don’t suppose the police care much about such riffraff as you have on board here. Get them back to Cardiff, and let them find new ships. You are thinking of the money—well, if you can fill my bunker yonder, I will pay a long price for the stuff you carry—down on your table In English sovereigns." At this, he regarded me very curi ously. A dull head Is often obstinate in suspicion. The fellow perceived his advantage, and could have pressed it. “Oh!" said he, “then you are short of coal?" “We arc short of coal,” I rejoined, my frankness astounding him; “the others have none to spare, and If we buy none of you, we must run to Porto Grande. In that case, you will carry this cargo back to Europe and be arrested when you step ashore." I found the Russian to be a low-wit ted, covetous fellow, not greatly to be overdrawed by threats, but exceeding ly susceptible to the substantial fucts of money. In the end, I bought what coal wo could carry from him at a price which I would cheer fully have doubled. And, inded, I do think it was one of the best day's work I ever did in all my life. To cut off Imroth’s patrol, to fill our own bunkers with his precious steam coal, carried at such a risk from Cardiff, to send the tramy steamer back again wheftce she came—even the matter of fact Larry could find no word to fit it. As for my poor friend Timothy, his emotions were altogether too much for him. “Docther,” said lie, “I doubt your salvation, and that’s the truth of it. Say that we are going back to dine on Imroth's ship, and I'll believe ye entirely. ’Twould not be more wonder ful than that which these poor old eyes are showing me.” I told him not to make a fool df himself, but to serve his turn as sen tinel, while we brought the yacht alongside the collier and took in coal from her. Treachery might yet be planned against us, though I doubted It. We posted an armed guard upon the bridge and stripped our forward guns of their covers—the swell ran kindly and the sea was like a mir ror. Hardly believing their own eyes, but obeying me nevertheless, our good fellows set to work like niggers and tilled our bunkers with the precious stuff. It had been at seven bells of the morning watch -when they began; it was three of the afternoon before they had done. The coal chutes with which the tramp was provided to All Imroth's bunkers now filled our own admirably. I paid the Russian captain honestly, and sent him at all speed to the eastward when the business was done. neiurn as you came ana keep your mouth shut," I said. "I will answer 1 for you to the police, should the need arise. It will be your own fault if it does." He thanked me with some civilty, and I could see that he now considered himself a very fortunate fellow. To be frank, I had dismissed him utterly from my mind half an hour after he east olT; and the excitement of the deal having passed, I called to our steward to bring me tea to the cabin and there we held a council, vital be yond any in its significance and its earnestness. For now must we decide, instantly and finally, what steps must be taken to save my little Joan from the devils of the Diamond Ship. How were we, the crew of a puny yacht, to bring that groat hive of ruffians to book? What course dare we risk? What hope had we of any assistance from the British or other governments? This is what we discussed when we had lighted our cigars and the tea was poured out. And this is much how the talk went: Myself—"We must first consider the threat. I believe that they are capable both of torturing and of killing Joan Fordibras if they are driven to it. But they will only do so in an ex tremity. She is their hostage. The mo ment that they harm her, they have done all that they can against us. If she be subject to insult meanwhile, well, they have to deal with one of singular courage and resource. It is a callous argument but that much we must ignore. My own idea is to lead them to the belief that we are watch ing them. If they run for South Amer ica, we shall fall In with ships bound for Rio and Montevideo. The malls to the Argentine have the Marconi instru ment. We can hardly fail to catch one of them. I would rather burn this yacht than turn back now.” McShanus—"The docther says the lady must put up with their insults, but ye can see the blood going and coming from his cheeks while he says it. I honor him for it. We want to get the girl off the ship and not to lose Imroth In the doing of it. 'Tis an employment for a Japanese wizard, faith! Here’s yon rogue running for a South American port, and when he's ashore, he’ll make money faces at ye. Toil yourselves that, and cry out against the governments. It’s all ye can do that I can see.” Myself—"I am far from sure of it. Timothy, but prophecy is of little help to us. We must follow those people, and let them know that we are fol lowing them. Impudence has stopped one of their fleet and may stop an other. I am going to see how far it helps me with Imroth himself,” There is much of which my log might speak to tell the history of the seven days which followed upon our resolution. We had pledged ourselves to harass the Diamond Ship by night and day; and bravely had we done so. Incessantly now the messages passed from our deck to hers by way of her flags and instruments. Threats, defi ance, insult—to these we became ac customed. A torture of suspense had been superseded by a dull submission to necessity. All this time we lay drifting some two or three miles, I suppose, from the great vessel which harbored the Jew and his company. Sometimes, when the night was moonless, we ran up boldly and spied the huge ship out, defying her untrained gunners, and learning what we could of that which passed upon her decks. There was a cabin aft, I remember, which I named as Joan’s; and I would place her therein, and depict her Ri my mind sheltered there from Imrolfc's anger and the in sults ol’ his fellows. Now, thus six days bad passed, and I will take you to the morning of the seventh, when, chancing to be on the poop at a very early hour, Balaam, our Scotch bo’sun, called by attention to the distant ship and to something which was passing on her decks. "There’s nan a pill for the parritcli the morn," said he in his dry fashion; "yon body's fired no gun, sir, since cuimi wuri me, i imomy, saiu L 10 McShaiiu.s; "don't talk about pistols, man! I.arry will stand by for danger. We could sink them in five minutes if we had the mind. It's as safe as Rot ten Row.” “No safe place at all for a man who Is susceptible to woman’s beauty. Go aboard. Ban, my bhoy; I’ll take your word for it when I come back!" Wo put out a gangway and lowered the lifeboat from the starboard davits. The collier, lylno- some 200 paces from our l ows, let down a pilot’s ladder for meu and I caught it as it swung, and climbed to her decks. Far down below me now. the portly Timothy asked me If I thought he was a bird. I left him. full of strange oaths, In the boat and presented myself immediately to the captain of the steamer. “Do you speak English?" I asked. He shook his head and said "Nitch evo!” emphatically. A phrase in German, ho- -ever, ob tained an immediate answer. I per ceived him to be a coarsely built man of some 50 years of age, his nose scarred roughly by a seaman's needle, as the Quartermaster Cain had told me, and his manner as threatening and full of bluster as his .master, Imroth, could have wished. “What's your business with me?” he asked, while his clumsy fingers fondled a revolver he carried in his breeches pocket. ‘To keep your neck out of the noose.” said I, without any preface whatever. “Your game is up and Val Imroth taken. That's what brought me here!" He spat on the deck and called a mate to him—another Russian no more beautiful than he. “What’s this man to me?” the cap tain asked. “Am I his servant?” “Undoubtedly, since you carry coal to his ship." “Suppose I tell you to mind your own business ?” T ain going to give you 10 minutes. If you are not steaming eastward at the end of that time, I promise you that I will most certainly send you to the bottom. Reflect upon it calmly. You cannot help Imroth, but may save yourselves. I'll tell you something else. If you have any coal to sell, I am a buyer. Now, do not finger that pistol of yours, for it might go off. and as sure as God's in heaven, if it did, this crew would be on the floor of the At lantic In less than five minutes. Rattle I your senses, my man, and speak up. If yonder warship spies us out. she’ll not dial so tenderly with you. What is Imroth to you, and why should you sell your liberty for him? Come, think of It I I am not a patient man, but I will give you time enough not to make a fool of yourself.” They were brazen words, upon my life! When I pointed westward to a loom of smoke upon the horizon scarce ly bigger than a man’s hand—when I did this, and spoke in the same breath of a warship, then, surely, the ingenuity of suggestion could go no further. As for tbe rascally Russian. I saw that he was struck all of a heap. His eyes had already told him that the,yacht White Wings carried machine guns and a tor pedo tube. Perhaps he argued that even If he raced for it. we could sink him before the Diamond Ship so much as sighted him; and this was to assume that a haze of smoke upon the horizon [yesterday mornin. Maybe 'tis pure joy | of heart. I'm not knowing rightly, but it's sufficiently remarkable, as you must be thinking.’ This was new, surely, and I gratified the good fellow my admitting as much. "Looks as though she was running a bit short of ammunition, Balaam," I said; "has there been anything else you have noticed?” "Naething in particular, sir. She’s fired a popgun or two, but maybe she’s over merry the morn. You can hear them _for yny£sejf. Bide here a mo rn? tit and Til show 'you.” He took his stand by the taffrail and pointed with a tarry hand at the distant ship. Day had broken propi tiously with a fleece of cloud high in the heavens and a shimmer of splen did sunlight upon the chattering wa ters. The Diamond ship herself lay dis tant perhaps a couple of miles from us. She hud sails set to prevent her roll ing, but not a vestige of smoke es caped her funnels, nor was there any indication of her being under steam. When 1 spied out her decks through my powerful glass, I perceived that they were crowded with men. “Good God!” I said, "they are fight ing among themselves! Go and call Captain Larry at once!” ’’Larry,” I said, when he came up from the cabin—McShanus upon his heels—"they are shooting each other, Lurry!” He did not reply Immediately, but, focussing his glass, he directed it upon the distant ship. Timothy, in his turn, took his stand beside me. "And of what would happen to Joan Fordibras if they quarreled amongst themselves?” ”1 dare not think of It, Timothy— she would be in her cabin. Good God! why do you make me think of it?” I stood by the taffrail to watch the puffs of heavy white smoke and try to depict the tragedy then consum mated on the decks of the Diamond ship. What a scene of horror and bloodshed It must be! I could readily imagine that there had been two parties, and that they had come first to words and then to arbit rament of deeds. Garry, t said. ' am going to se® what is happening yonder. Let Mr. Benson know tlint ,ro shall want all the steam he can give us. “It's staking much, sir." "Bo little. Larry, that we’ll have our breakfasts while we watch them. Ever. Mr. McShanus, you observe, is not dis turbed. 1 believe that he imagines himself in a theater.” But Timothy McShanus answered: 'Thdade and I do,” said he, “and no more disturbed than a man at a hang ing. Set a dish of parritch before ms and ye shall see. Faith! should I weep tears because one thief is cutting an other thief’s throat?” We laughed at this splendid earnest ness, while Larry went up to th® bridge; and Timothy himself came up to me and spoke a more serious word. "Ye are easier in your p he said, scanning my face clost... . tis good to see it, Ean, me bhoy! Ye don’t think Miss Joan will suffer, now, do ye?” "She will suffer, but only her fears. Timothy. The danger comes later,' when this is over. I do not think of it, because I hope to share it with her." "Good God! ye are not going on board, man?” ”1 am going on board, Timothy—that is, If my judgment leads me to be lieve it possible. I’ll tell you in half an hour’s time.” Taking my stand upon our forward bridge. I could clearly discern a group of men defending the fo’castle and an other in ambush behind the superstruc ture amidships. A powerful glass dis closed the prone figures of such as had already fallen, while the intervals,! when a restless breeze carried the haze of smoke to the eastward, permitted a fuller view of the spectacle, revolt-' ing in its detail. The villians were evidently enraged beyond all measure. I could see them in the death grip, here wrestling as athletes upon a stage, there fighting upon their hands and knees, as savages who cut and slash at the face and head and heart in unsurpassable lust of blood and life. But beyond this, the greater terror was to know that th® ship sheltered Joan Fordibras, and that she must be the witness of this debauch. What could it mean to such a one to suffer that? Again I say that I had no courage to think of it. We had come to no agreement upon the nature of our approach, or upon the limits which prudence should set to it. I left it to Larry’s wise head, and could have done no better. Not until we were within a cable’s length of their poop did he bring White Wings to—and there we lay, rolling to a gen tle swell, half the hands on deck, some on the rigging, two officers with Timothy and myself on the bridge, as amazed a company as sailed the At lantic that day. "The hands have mutinied and the dead weight is going under,” said Larry, with an Indifference to the suf fering we witnessed I had hardly looked, for; "I shouldn’t wonder if you are re sponsible, sit. A thieves’ crew Is for fair weather. Let a cloud come up as big as a man's hand and they’ll run for port though Davey Jones takes the tiller. They’ve had enough of it—any man could see that with half an eye. And God help Imroth if he hauls down his Hag!” (Continued Next Week.) No Doctor To Help Her Die. From Mack’s Monthly. Like many of the older set of southern darkies, when the civil war closed, Uncle Ephraim and his wife, Aunt Jane, as they w'ere familiarly known, chose to remain with their former mistress rather than to try their fortune elsewhere. Because of this fact Mrs. Smith was peculiarly at tached to her former slaves and saw to It that they stood in need of none of the ordinary comforts of life. Sickness, however, had laid hold on Aunt Jane and for days Ephraim had been kept away from the "big house." Early one morning, upon opening the rear door of her home, Mrs. Smith saw Ephraim ap proaching. Knowing that Aunt Jane had been sick, she said: "Ephraim, how is Jane?" “W’y, she’s dead.” "Ephraim, you don’t say so; is she dead?" "Yes, yes’m, she’s dead.” "When did she die, Ephraim?" "She died about midnight, last night." "Well, well, well—did the doctor get there before she died?" "No, m’n, she ,1es’ died by herself." Prohibition Everywhere. From the Washington Star. General Frederick Dent Grant, dis cussing the army canteen question with a Washington correspondent, said: "At any rate, canteen or no canteen, we should all remember that there’s one public house at least that we can all close. Yes, even in New York or Paris we can have prohibition.” And General Grant quoted with a smile the couplet: “There is a little public house which every one may close— It is the little public house just under-, neath the nose.” The Jordan is the most crooked river known, measuring 213 miles in a dis tance of CO miles. -*** " —^ CANADA GETS 1,500 TROPHY. NATIONAL CORN EXPOSITION, AT COLUMBUS, OHIO, AWARDS TROPHY FOR PECK OF OATS GROWN IN SAS KATCHEWAN. Again Canada is to the fore, and has secured at the National Corn Exposi tion just closed at Columbus, Ohio, the .magnificent Colorado silver trophy val ued at 51,500, for the best peck of.oats. These oats were grown by Nessrs. Hill & Son, of Lloydmlnster, Saskatchewan, and, as may readily be understood, were of splendid quality to have been so successful in a contest open to the world, and in .which competition was keen. At the same Exposition there were exhibits of wheat and barley, and in all these competitions, the grain shown by Canada secured a wonderful amount of attention, and also a num ber of awards. During recent exhibi tions at which grain from Western Canada was given permission for en try, it always took first place. At the Spokane Interstate Fair, last fall, where the entries were very large, and the competition keen, the Province of \ Alberta carried off the silver cup, giv en by Governor Hay, for the best statt» or province display, and a score ol orizes was awarded Canadian exhibl. tors for different exhibits of wheat, oats and barley threshed and in tlio sheaf. Vegetables also received high awards. A pleqsing feature of thes« exhibits was they were mostly mads by farmers who had at one. time been American Citizens and were now farm <ng in Canada. The Department ol the Interior is just in receipt of a mag> aificent diploma given by the Tri-State Board of Examiners at the Fair held in Cincinnati last fall for agricultural dis play by Canada. The Surveyor-General of Canada has (ust completed a map showing that a large area of land was surveyed last year in the northern portion of Sas katchewan and Alberta in order to ha ready for the rush of homesteaders to that district during the coming spring and summer. It is understood sun * reys covering several hundreds o| t thousands of acres will be made in addition to these during the coming summer. A return just issued by the Domin ion Lands Branch shows that 48,251 homestead entries were made Iasi 4 year as compared with 37,061 in 1909} 1 of this 48,257, 14,704 were made by Americans. North Dakota coming first on the list with 4,810, Minnesota gives 1,528, South Dakota 1,133, Wisconsin T45, Washington 730, Michigan 706, Jowa 645, while other states show less, hut with the exception of Delaware, District of Columbia and the Indian Territory, every state and territory contributed. The prospects for an abundant cro& tn all parts of Western Canada for 1911 are said to be excellent. In the districts that required it there was an ample rainfall last autumn, and the snowfall during the present winter is greater than in many previous years. Both are essential factors to the farm ers, who look upon the moisture that these will produce as being highly beneficial. A large immigration from the United States is expected, and the demand for literature and information from the va rious Government Agencies located al different points in the States is the greatest it has ever been. Since the above was written word has been received that in addition td honors won at Columbus, Ohio, Cana da won first and second on wheat and first and second on oats, as well as diplomas. Norman Cherry of Davis, Saskatch. ewan, who was in the reserve for first on wheat, secured the award, with G, H. Hutton of Lacomhe, Alberta, seo< ond. J. C. Hill & Sons got first on oats besides the silver trophy. G. tb Hutton took second in oats. WISE GIRL. "I suppose your sister is busily pre paring lor her wedding?” “Yes, she is up in her room now de stroyiug all her old letters.” Musi yon's Cold Remedy Relieves the head, throat and lungs almost Immediate ly. Checks Fevers, stops Discharges ot the nose, takes away all aches and pains caused l>v colds. It cures Grip and ob stinate Cough- and prevents Pneumonia. Write Prof. Muuyon, .Vlrd and Jefferson v Sts.,' Phils.. Pa., lur medical advice ot« solutely tree.