PlAIISMOUIIIMVSIIfRIIlD R. 0. WATTERS, Business Manage! PLATTSMOUTII. . . NEBRASKA cr d THE LOVES of the LADY ARABELLA By MOLLY ELLIOT SEA WELL (Ui)r right, 1UU, Bolti-MiTrlllU.) SYNOPSIS. At 14 your of nun Ailmlriil Sir IVtiT kNlmw'M nrplicw. Ulihiinl (ilyn, f-1 1 ilivply In lnvi! at Hi si ..-1: t wlih I.Hdy Araln-llii Klnriniinl, w ho hiih m'mI IiIh ut- U III lllllH. lllll, llll Illlllllll, WHS KlVl'll it licrtli (m 1 1 1 Ih ) 1 1 1 1 1 1 it n nil the AJiix by IiIh iiim'Ii. illi M t-rtjoii, ni'iln-w of Kir I'lmiiiKM Vet n. in, lii-tiiMiK til" boy' pill. Tln-y atti-niliil u tlnMliT where Hawk hIhiw'n ihiIii'w kiiw Lady Ariilii'ltu. Wr nun tni't l'lillli Ovi-rimi, ntxl In Iliu- for Sir Tliiiiiins Wi-iuhi'm estiii Tln-y ulint a ilud wl i it-It was liiti-n iitli-il. Vernon Uvi'l'tnn it ml IlllwkMliau'H nephew found thenmelves ntliiirteil hv pretty l.iidv Aru hellu. The AJax In linliln ilereated Kreiic'li wiiihIiIiin In the Mediterranean. Hlelinnl ilyy tint 2.0110 l.l lze In. .lie . He wiih railed Inline hv I.iuly llawkxliliw It he was ii limit to "lilnw In" IiIh purnliiKN with Vernon. At H HiiwkHliHW party (ilyn dls I'overed that Lady Arabella wh h poor lint pei'KlHtent Kiilnliler. lie talked iniieli wllh her toiihIii I Hiphiie, l,Hdy Aralielln HKlllll Hliowed love for UimilllK. I .liter lie held (Ilyn anil Overton pi Ihiiiiith, tluiH JelnyliiK the duel. In the Overton-Vernon duel, neither was hint. I.iuly Aru hell i hiiiulllaieil Itli hunl hy her pninkK. Hu h. lid and Mllex hIiIiii on u fll-iile. lilliH wiih eaptnreil hy Hie I'reneh. Sir I'eter ariiiiiKed for IiIh cm-Iuhik'1. Ilapli ne Hliowed h IlkliiK for (ilyn. who wiih I hen 1 yearn of ui(e. ( il 1cm was releaned. .illeH anil Klrlnird planned elopeinentH. Hlr I'eter ohjecled to the plan to wed I 'upline. Hy i lever i uhi h tilleH Hint llleh siid elopeil wllh I.Hdy Aralielln nml liaphne, renpeetlvely. The latter pair erp inarrled. Daphne wan pleuHed; Arn lelln raved In miner. When the par ty returned, Arabella asked Kir 1'etrT to 'aid In prnHcfiiilnK lle In rourt on the 'linrtte of roiiiiiilttlnir a capital rrlnie. All intended the trial. t'pon ArahellH'H tentlniony tilled wiih ronvleted and m-n-lenred to be banned. Hlr I'eter vlHlted the prime of WaleH In effort to secure a pardon for tilleH. Aralielln threw herself hi the feet of Overton, whom nlie had loved for many yeiir.i. He Hpurned her. CHAPTER X. Continued. Arabella turned polo, anil replied: "1 was summoned an a wit liens. 1 was obliged to testify." Overtoil Biild nothing. Then Sir Thomas, taking snuff with his usual grnce. remarked: "I llHtened with attention to one law breaker praying for another lawbreak er. Of course, you know, thit nieetltiK of yours Is seditious and many a man has been stood In thn pillory for It." "And one man," replied Overton, "Jesus Christ, was crucified for it." lie turned, and with me, took the path back to the. tavern, I heard, us we went on, an altercation behind me, and involuntarily, nfter we had gone some distance, 1 looked back. Lady Arabella was struggling 'in tho grasp of Sir Thomas Vernon, while Mrs, Whltall looked on, and wrung her hands. Sir Thomas, however, was no match for Arabella's young strength. She broke away from Mm, and, run ning after us, caught up, panting and breathless, with us, as we entered the little grove. And then I saw an almost exact representation of the scene when Giles Vernon had insanely iyid with unmanly groveling and violence pleaded with Arabella for her love so she pleaded with Philip Overton. She held htm by the arms, when he would have thrown her off. "Philip! Philip!" she cried. "I did it for you! I determined to make you rich, great, even if you refused my fortune. Sir Thomas can not live long. Surely, you can not reproach me, if all the world does. The stupid, stupid world thinks I did it under the Infill ence of Sir Thomas Vernon; but no, It was not hate for Riles Vernon, It was my love for you, Philip Overton, that made me appear at the York as sizes." "Remember yourself," said Overton to her, sternly. "Others besides your self see your degradation!" "It Is no degradation to lovo truly, to love as I do. Speak but one word to me, and I will become a Methodist like yourself. I, too. will go among the poor, and serve and love them; and I will even love Ood for your sake!" The awful grotesqut-ness of this, the blasphemy of It. was altogether unknown to her. She continued wildly: "Does not my soul need saving as much as those clods you have been praying with?" "You blaspheme!" replied Overton, casting her off. And, to make the resemblance be tween her own unwomanly conduct and the unmanly conduct of Giles Vernon the more singular, she recovered her self, as he had done, In a single mo ment of time. She laid her hand on Overton's arm, and looked keenly Into hl3 eyes. Her glance seemed to en chain him, and to set her free. She breathed a long sigh, and. tinning, gazed about her, like a person nwuklng from a nightmare. Then, with per fect self-possession, she dropped a curtsey to us both, and suld, in Imr natural, playful manner: "Mr. Overton, I see I have neen mistaken. I should have tried to cheat the law by not appearing when I was summoned; or, 1 should have testified falsely. And for my Indiscreet conduct Just now, let me tell you, for seven years I have been undur a spell. It Is now broken forever. Tltaniu once loved Hottimi, the weaver; but not al ways. I bid you good day, Capt. Philip Overton, and you. Mr. Richard (Ilyn. And I trust (!ll's Vernon's life may be Faved, if only to keep you, ('apt. Ovpr ton, as poor us you deserve to be. For myself, I phall shortly marry perhaps, Sir Thomas Vernon thon. neither of yon will get the estatei. Rood morn ing!" And she was gone, flying along the field, with a white mantle streaming after her, and her flight as rapid as the swallows In spring. CHAPTER XI. At 12 o'clock that night Sir Peter ar rived at the tavern, and with the pardon. The expectation of his coining-, and the greater matter upon which we were engaged, prcM'titod my mind from dwelling lunger upon the strange scene 1 had witnessed between Over ton and I.iuly Arabella, Overton did not speak her iiume to me, and showed much sympathy for us. When Sir Peter's chaise drove up to the door of the Hear and Churn, another chaise with four horses was waiting, and Into It we huddled, bidding Overton it hur ried farewell; and In another moment we were ofT for York, the horses doing their best. Sir Peter then told me tho circum stances of his visit to Windsor. The prince, who was always most powerful when tho king was on the verge of madness, saw his father and found him comparatively rational. The story be ing broached to Mm, he appeared in terested, and even grew more col- lected as his attention was chained. Ho recalled ut once Sir Peter llawkshaw and tho capture of the Indomitable and Xantlppe, and corrected the prince when he spoko of Sir Peter as vlce ad mlral of the White. It was a very easy matter to get his signature to the par don, and the necessary seals and for malities took some little time but no trouble, and when Sir Peter presented himself at the castle on Sunday all was prepared for Mm. We felt now comparatively safe. There was Hit It doubt that we could reach York at least 24 hours In ad- EMS "Mr. Overton, I See I Have Been Mis taken." vance of the date set for the execu tion; our letters would precede us, giving positive assurances of hope; and we looked for no accidents, linvlng a new and strong chaise. After Sir Peter had told nie his story, I told him mine about Lady Arabella and Overton. He was not much imbued with the kind of religion thut Overton preached, although ho swore roundly by church and state, and was always a great churchman when he was slightly In liquor, which did not happen often. He therefore condemned Overton's sermon, which I tried to repeat to Mm, as a damned, beastly low sort of religion, unfit for a gentleman to practice; but he ad mitted that Overton lacked neither brains nor courage. For Lady Ara bella, though, he had the stern disap proval of an honest heart, and In his excitement swore bolh long and loud because of the short-sightedness of Providence In permitting such women to exist for the undoing of his maj esty's officers of both services. We made gtxxl progress that night anil the next day. which was Monday, and began to have strong hopes of reaching York Wednesday night. Hut on Monday, in the afternoon, the weather maidenly changed, a violent snowstorm set in, and our postboys willfully, I think, drove us ten miles out of the way, near n tavern where they hoped, no doubt, we would agree to stop until the storm should bo over. Hut Sir Peter, putting one of his great horse-pistols to the postboy's head, forced Mm to turn back to t ho high read. We lost throo hours by this; and when wc got to our next posting stage, our horses, engaged two days ahead, hud been taken. We got others, after a frantic effort, but at theend of that day's Journey we saw our mar gin of time diminished exactly one half. I shall not attempt to describe the fierce and gnawing Impatience which consumed us, nor the awful and un spoken dread which began to over shadow us. Sir Peter was a man of stout heart, and had no more notion of giving up at this stage of the affair than he dreamed of surrendering when he saw the Indomptable to windward and the Xantlppe tu lee rrd. The weather, however, grew worse Instead of better, and even four horses couP scarcely drag us through the ill mire made by the snow and rain. Im spite of all we could do our progress diminished, although at no time did It seem hopeless, until O, Ood! 20 miles from York, at midnight on tho Thurs day. Sir Peter himself suddenly gava out; the Ftrain had proved too much for his brave heart and sturdy frame. It came as tho hoises were wallowing along the road In the darkness, and I, holding; my watch in my hand, was glancing at It every ten minutes, by the feeble light of tho traveling lamp. I spoke to Sir Peter ns he lay back In the chaise wrapped in boat-cloak, and got no' answer. He was uncon scious. Without stopping tho chaise I got some brandy, which I tried to pour down his throat, but could not. I grew much alarmed it was not like Sir Peter to refuse good brandy, and ns v.e were passing a farmstead, 1 stopped the chaise, knocked the people up, and bad Sir Peter curried Into the house, l met with kindness, and I re paid it with coin of tho realm. Sir Peter soon revived, and his first words were: ' Push on, my lad. Don't wait to re pair damages." I found that his seizure was really trilling, and he assured me ho would be able to resume the Journey by day light, the farmer agreeing to furnish him horses; so, In half an hour I bad again taken the road. And ten miles from York, the chaise broke down! I had the horses taken out, and, mounting the best beast, made for York at the top of his speed, which was poor the creature was already spent with traveling. It was just daylight, and streaks of golden glory were lighting up tho pallid dawn; 1 urged the poor beast onward. Seven miles ho went, then he dropped dead, Just as the sun was gilding "tho spires of York cathedral. Hefore me, along the rond, jogged an Itinerant tinker on a rather good-looking horse, tho tools of a tinker's trade hanging from a moth-eaten saddle. I was young and strong he was middle-aged and Ill-fed and feeble. 1 ran up to Mm, holding five guineas In my hand. "Lend mo this horse to rldo to York!" 1 cried. The man, astonished at my abrupt address, stopped, but gave me no an swer. I made my own answer, though, by drugging him oft the beast, dashing tho flvo guineas on the ground, and clattering off, throwing away the tools and kettles as I galloped along. tTO JiK C'OXTINl'KD.) INHERENT LOVE OF THE SOIL. Characteristic That Is the Most Deep ly Planted In Mortals. The first man was a gardener, we aro told. Certain It is that the first men were tillers of the soil, after they ceased to be wandering warriors. That is where we get our love of na ture, declares a writer in the Kansas City Journal. That is why we build parks and have flowers clambering about our premises. That Is why we are strangely at peace when wo get out Into the mountains and lose our selves among tho fragrant woods. That is why we loathe at times the smell of paint that is on civilization and long for the perfume of the lire that Is close to the green leaves and the wild flowers. That is why wo are 60 happy when we camp out and why we aro so reluctant to return. That is why our earliest recollections of the "old farm" are the sweetest and ten derest of our lives. That Is why we crack a joko at the "simple life" and "back to nature" and all that when somebody Is around and why we know, away down In our hearts, that the simple life is tho life most worth I living and that we cannot get closo I to anything sweeter or purer than na- tore, "Mother" Nature, whose sons ! and daughters we are, from whom we I may wander far, but to whom we re- turn ns prodigals, finding the prodl I gal's welcome and the prodigal's i peuce.. Discussed Over the Prunes. "Why Is it. Miss Willing, that fat men always have (he prettiest wives? I seldom see a Jolly, fat mun with an ugly, cross looking wife. Hy Jove, those fellows just go in and win the pretty women every time." "Well. Mr. Hamnierslee, I can ac count for that. You see, a husband rhould be a sort of bromide, should have a soothing effect. Fat men aro placid, calm, Jolly and good providers. They like the good things of life them selves, and they like to see their wives well dressed, and to sit down to a good table. No wonder women like them better than they do lenn, dyspeptic, nervous, cranky men, who find fault, nag, and are stingy. Men like this want a lot of waiting on and attention, they are generally jeal ous and selfish. Fat men hate a fuss, seem to understand that wives are as fond of being spoiled and of having good clothes and good dinners as other women are, and hence women natu rally marry men of this temperament." First Aid for British Army. The Hiltlsh army Is considering tho adoption of the I'termohlen system of first aid surgical dressings, which have been lu use In the Dutch army for several years. Tho packets are small arid light. One dressing Is so designed that a man cun unpack and place the antiseptic pad upon his wounded arm by using tho other hand only, the packet being unloosened by pulling certain strings with tho teetti and slinking tho dressing out of the containing paper. It consists of a square pad. to which are attached i'lindages, and these being milled ! apart enable the dressing to bo fixed I hv wiMinnlnu- not I n l,.i tl.,1 tt.ltK .r.nt .... .. . .''.tn i.... .IV u KlfUI celerity. The hrger packets contain two similar dressings, which cau bf applied to the orifices of entry and exit of a bullet. Clf7 ? AND CHANICS HANDY CONCRETE MIXER. Apparatus Works Simply and Is Inval uable for Use on Small Re pair Jobs. . , ... ... , ... Aii invention oi lnucii luiercsi to contractors, especially those who no j a great deal of small work, is the port able concrete mixer designed by a Texan. This apparatus works very simply and Is invaluable for use on small operations or repair work, where it would not pay to use one of the cumbersome and expensive power machines. The mixer consists of a large iron box ut either end of which are wheels, which revolve upon an axle that runs through the box and on which the latter hangs loosely. Across the front of the re ceptacle is a sliding bar with a slot In the outer end adapted to receive a spoke of the wheel on that side. In side the box are bars, which act as churns as the machine Is being moved to and fro and mix the concrete or whatever plastic material is in the re ceptacle. The whole top of the box Is a lid, which fastens by hasps. The Mixes as Wheels Revolve. machine can be easily operated by one man, who has only to shove It about to mix the material Inside, NOISELESS CLOCK IS MADE. Timepiece, Which Is Absolutely Silent, Will Run 1,000 Days Without Any Human Aid. A clock, which Is absolutely silent, so that not the slightest ticking Is heard, that is guaranteed to go for 1,000 days without requiring the slightest hitman attention, and that will keep correct time In any position even upside down such is the liu reka electric clock recently invented by an Englishman, and w hich was sub mitted for the inspection of the king by Mr. Sigismund Kutnow, chairman of the Eureka Clock Company. The simplicity and science of the mechanism of the invention are re markable. This clock is an entirely new de parture. It Is as unlike the old time piece, with its weights, wheels and pendulums, ns can possibly be imag ined. Its dial hands are moved by direct Impulse from the electric current. Hitherto, attempts at making a self winding clock have failed, owing to the complexity of the mechanism. There is, however, practically no mechanism, In the ordinary sense of the word, in the Eureka clock; such works as It has run on bull bearings large enough for a bicycle, so that the friction is almost nil. Drying Plaster. The plastering in new houses is being dried by a new apparatus so effectually in three days that excep tion In favor of the method Is being made by the authorities In places having in force the German law for bidding the use for residence of any house until It has been built six months. The apparatus employed is a coke stove, with a number of small tubes surrounding the fire-box, and with supply pipes leading dry air from outside to these tubes. As the fresh air rapidly passing through the tubes becomes heated, It rises and passes along the celling and walls. It ab sorbs and becomes saturated with moisture from the plastering, then sinks, enters the fire-box of the stove, and escapes with the coke gases Into the chimney. The current of heated dry air not only carries off the damp ness very rapidly, but furnishes an abundance of carbonic acid to harden the mortar. The effect Is exactly the same as that of slow natural drying, and the rooms are made speedily habitable Instead of being unsafe to live in for many weeks. Copper Is Precious Metal. In this almost universal age of elec tricity copper lias become one of the most Indispensable of the metals. If civilization to-day were confronted with the ultimatum. "Give up your gold or give up your copper," prob ably the world's gold mines would he deserted In preference. Last year the production of copper In the United States exceeded by far that of any other year In thn history of the metal. The year's totals mj complied by the geological survey was 942.570,721 pounds. In this produc tion Arlzonu territory led with 232, f)0::.C.rl pounds, and Massachusetts with 222.503.Gfil pounds. As against this production of the refined metal, the apparent consump tion was 479,!55,:ilS pounds. From re turns made by the smelting and refin ing companies the stocks of refined copper on January l. 1'jOii, snowed n decrease of 3,SG,0:i7 pounds over the stocks of January 1, HELP FOR WASHING DISHES. Kansan Designs Combined Dishpan and Drain That Will Save Time and Towels. The hurabl but Important operation of dish washing has been greatly fa cilitated through the genius of a Kan san. This man has designed a com bined dishpan and c.-aln that will Water Flows Back Into Pan. save both time and towels, as it per mits the water to drip off the dishes before they are dried. The utensil is made for use only In its dual capacity. The dishpan is cut away to allow ono end of the drain trough to enter it. This trough rests on legs which give it n downward ulant toward the pan and In the bottom Is a rack on which the dishes are stood. This rack is raised slightly, so that the water which drips from the china, glass, etc., runs back Into the pan. in this way the dishes are rendered comparatively dry before the towel is applied to them, with the result that thoy ran be completely dried much more speedily than when taken directly from the rinse water, and the towel does not become hopelessly saturated, as by the old-fashioned method. WALKING-BEAM POWER PUMP. Home-Made Contrivance for Supply ing Water for Ranch by Horse Unaided. The accompanying sketch shows a novel horse power pump which is used on a ranch in Oregon. This pump con sists of a walking beam 20 to 25 feet long, which Is connected at one end Horse Pumps Water. to the pump rod and at the other end to the shaft of an old mower wheel says Popular Mechanics. This shaft Is lengthened out to about twelve feet and bent Into the shape of a crank near the end opposite the wheel. The bearings for this crank are made from a piece of bar iron V-shaped with a fiat bottom. This Iron Is bidted down loosely to a piece of timber fit ted into the ground. The horse Is hitched on near the wheel. The V shaped bearing turns as the horse walks around In a circle and the crank makes a double stroke for every rev oltition of the mower wheel. Where a well is deep two mower wheels may be put together to add tractive weight A horse soon learns to operate thifc pump without a driver. Wireless and Safety at Sea. "Of late, too, nnother and powerful safeguard has come into use," writes L. Frank Tooker In an account in Century of new and old devices foi navigating In fog and darkness. "II one enters the wireless telegraphy loom of a transatlantic steamer lit will find on the wall a rectangului chart crossed and recrossed by man) black lines. Across It also runs one broader line in red Ink. On the mar gin of the chart are marked the days of the week. It Is the wireless guide for the current month; the red line gives the course of the steamer, while the many black lines crossing It indicate to the operator at what hour of each day of his passage he will probably pick up the wireless messages of other ships crossing that month. The ship, one sees nt a glance, Is scarcely ever out of touch with other ships through which dis aster may come; and with this knowl edge of constant intercommunication the feeling of security Justly grows." A New Lifebelt. Though numerous appliances have from time to time been contrived for the purpose of superseding the famil iar type of lifebelt, the latter still ro tains its popularity. Yet It possesses well-known disadvantages. A new do vice has now been evolved by an In ventor of Antwerp. The belt comprises two buoyant cushions, which aro de signed to lit upon the chest and upper part of the buck respectively, connect ed by straps passing over tho shoul ders. The cushions aro held firmly In the requisite position byn belt, which passes round the waist and fastens with a buckle. In this manner tht wearer's head Is kept well above wa ter and there is no possibility of Ms equilibrium being upset. AN EASY WAY. How to Cure Kidney Troubles Easily and Quickly. It Is needless to suiter the tortures of an aching back, tho misery of back aches, rheumatic pains, urinary disor ders, or risk the danger of diabetes or Prlght's disease. The cure is easy. Treat the cause the kidneys with Doan's Kidney Pills. II. Mayne, Market St., Paris, Tenn., says: "Weak kid neys made my back stiff and lame. The urine was cloudy and irregular and I had to get up many times at night. I lost en ergy, became weak and could not work. Doan's Kidney Pills removed all the trouble and re stored my health and strength." Remember the name Doan's. Sold by all dealers. 50 cent3 a box. Fob-ter-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Unkind. Author Don't you think my latest article exhaustive? 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Lydia E. l'inkham's Vegetable Com pound, made from native roots and herbs, contains no narcotics or harm ful drugs, and to-day holds the record for tho largest number of actual cures of female diseases of any similar medi cine in the country, and thousands of voluntary testimonials are on file in the rinkham laboratory at Lynn, Mass., from women who liave been cured from almost every form of female complaints, inilammation, ul ceration.displacements.iibroid tumors, Irregularities, periodic pains, backache, indigestion and nervous prostration. Every such suffering woman owes it to herself to give Lydia E. rinkharn's Vegetable Compound a trial. If you would like special ndvloo nbout your rase write a confiden tial letter to Mrs. IMiikliani, nt Lynn, iHass. Her advice Is free and always helpful. Food Products Libhy's Cooked Cornet! Beef There's a marked distinc t i o n between Ubby's Oookod Oorned Boot and even ;the best that's sold in bulk. 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