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j- 11 -. CF AM JUFRDGAM A -A- - (Continued From Last Week. r ' 4Yes, lie said, "here with the karroo bushes and the red sand. Do you won der what I mean? To all who have been born In the old faith there comes a time' of danger, when the old slips from us, and we have cot yet planted our feet on the new. We hear the voice from Sinai thundering no more, and the still, small voice of reason is not yet heard. We have proved the' re- l! I - - . I. . , An n lvA . ugiuu our iuuuier iru us uu iu uc a delusion. In our bewilderment we see no rule by which to guide our steps day by day, and yet every day we must step somewhere." The stranger leaned forward and spoke more quickly. "We bave never once been taught by word or act to distinguish between religion and the moral laws on which it has artfully fastened itself and from which It has sucked its vitality. When we have dragged down the weeds and creepers that covered,, the solid wall and have found them ,to be rotten wood, we Imagine the wall itself to be rotten wood too. We find It is solid and standing only when we fall head- wug against iu y c ia 1 1 uccu luuiii that all risrht and wronsr originate in the will of an irresponsible being. It( Is some time before we see how the In exorable 'Thou shalt and shalt not are carved Into the nature of things. .This is the time of danger." His dark, misty eves looked into the boy's, .. . "In the end experience, will inevita bly teach us that the laws for a wiso and, noble life have a foundation infl nitely deeper than the fiat of my be ing; God or man, even in the ground work of human nature. She will tearh TJS that whoso sheddeth man's blood, though by man his blood be not shod, though no man avenge and no hell -await, yet every drop shall blister on bis soul and eat in the name of the dead. She will teach that whoso takes a love not lawfully his own gathers a IlL tjL. .1. 1 .4. 1 A. sower wiiu a poison ou us penis; mai whoso revenges, strikes with a 6word . that has two edges one for his adver sary, one for himself; that who lives to bimself is dead, though the ground is not yet on him; that who wrongs an other clouds his own sun, and that who eJns'lO secret stands accused and con demned before the one judge who deals eternal Justice his own all knowing 'elf.1-- "Experience will teach ua this, and reason will show us why It must be m t . A, 43 1 A 1 .1 1 V, our eyes, and no voice cries out: 'This Is the way. Walk ye in it! You are happy to be beret boy. When the sus pense fills you with pain, you build stone walls and dig earth for relief. Others have stood where you stand to day and have felt as you feel, and an other relief has been offered them, and they have taken It. "When the day has come when they bave seen the path In which they might walk, they have not the strength to follow it. Habits have fastened on them from which nothing but death can free them; which cling closer than his sacerdotal sanctimony to a priest; which feed on the intellect like a worm, sapping energy, hope, creative power, all that makes a man higher than a beast, leaving only the power to yearn, to regret and to sink lower In the abyss. "Boy, he said, and the listener was Hot .'. more unsmiling now than the ri I Fill BY CXLTVIS " Bfi y I fc! y ff fi ft. TALE Or UFB IN THE i BOER REPUBLIC. . " speaker, "you are happy to be here. Stay where you ara. If you ever pray, let it be only the one old prayer, 'Lead u not into temptation. '. Live on here qui etly. The time may yet come when you will be that which other men have hoped to be and never will b now." The stranger rose, shook the dust from his sleeve and, ashamed at his own earnestness, looked across the bushes for his horse. "We should have been on our way al ready," be said. "We shall have a long ride in the dark tonight." , Waldo hastened to fetch the animal, but he returned leading it slowly.. The sooner it came the sooner would its rider be gone. - i The stranger was opening his saddle bag, In which were a bright French novel and an old brown volume, He took the last and held it out to the boy. "It may be of some help to you," he said carelessly. ."It was a gospel. to me when I first fell on it. You must not expect too much, but it may give you a center round which to hang your ideas instead of letting them lie about In con fusion that makes the head ache," We of this generation are not destined to eat and be satisfied as our fathers were. We must be content to go hungry." He smiled his automaton smile and rebuttoned the bag. Waldo thrust the book Into his breast, and while he sad dled the horse the stranger made In quiries as to the nature of the road and the distance to the next farm. When the bags were fixed,' Waldo took up his wooden post and began to fasten It on to the saddle, tying it with the little blue cotton handkerchief from his neck. The stranger looked on in silence. When it was done, the boy held the stirrup for him to mount. "What Is your name?" he Inquired, ungloving his right hand when he was In the saddle. The boy replied. ; "Well, I trust we shall meet again some day, sooner or later." ne shook hands with' the ungloved hand,- then drew on the glove and touched his horse and rode slowly away. The boy stood to watch him. Once when the stranger had gone half across the plain he looked back. "Poor devil" , be said, . smiling and stroking bis mustache. Then he look ed to see if the little blue handker chief were still safely knotted. "Poor devil!" He smiled, and then he sighed wear Ily, very wearily. And Waldo waited till the moving speck had disappeared on the horizon, then he stooped and kissed passionate ly a hoof mark in the sand. Then he called his young birda together and put bis book under his arm and walked home along the stone wall. There was a rare beauty to him In the sunshine that evening. CHAPTER XVI. GKEQOKT FKiDS HIS AFFINITY. The new man, Gregory Rose, sat at the door of his dwelling, his arms fold ed, his legs crossed and a profound melancholy seeming to rest over his soul His house was a little square daub and wattle building, far out In the "karroo," two miles . from the homestead. It was covered outside v ith a somber coating of brown mud, two little panes being let Into the walls for windows. Behind it were the "sheep kraals" and to the right a large dam, now principally containing baked Henry Jones, of Zenas, Ind., saysi ' My sufferings were almost un bearable, and only persons having been afflicted with-this rare and dreaded combination of diseases can imagine what they were like. I was confined to my bed almost all the time,i My doctor finally acknowledged that neither he nor any one else could cure me. I would not give up, so tried dif ferent medicines, and finally be gan the use of Dr. Williams Fink Pills for Pale People. The first box of pills helped me some, and , I took some more. The second box began to produce the desired " result, and before I had finished the fourth' box I was at last a cured man. That was last March; ' and I have not been troubled with. .these diseases 1 since. Front Banner Plain. Dealer North Ver non, Inds , ' ; rr. "Williams Pink Pills for Pal People contain, in & condensed form, all the ele ments necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. Tbey are an unfailing specific for such dis eases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralytic, St. Vitas' dance, sciatica, neuralgia rheu matism, nerroin headache, the after-effects or la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms of weakness either in male or female. , .; xi Or. Williams' Pink Pills for iafe People are never told bjUe oozan orhuntfreO. but ahsajs In pack aesa. Atalltfraggtets. r (ttmtfrsmtl Dr7 wit Hams Medietas Compear. Xsaactaej. It. V., 63 CMts set hex, 6 sexs SZ.U. audi Far CT the little "kopW con cealed tie homestead and was. net ft elf an object conspicuous enough to roller the dreary monotony ox the landscape. . . ' ' - - Before the door tat Gregory Rose In bis shirt sleeres, on a camp stool, and ever and anon he sighed deeply. There was that la bis countenance for which' even hi depressing circumstances fail ed to account. Again and again he look ed at the little "kopje' at the nil pail at his side and at the brown pony, who a short way off cropped the dry bashes and sighed Presently be rose and went tntp his house. It was one tiny room, the whitewashed walls profusely covered with prints cut from The Illustrated London News, and In which there was a noticeable preponderance of , female faces and figures. A stretcher filled one end of the but and a reck for a gun and a ; little banging looking glass diversified the gable opposite, while In the center stood a chair and table. All was scrupulously neat and clean, for Gregory kept a Jlttle duster folded In the corner of his table drawer. Just as be bad seen his mother do, and every morning before he went out be said his prayers and made his bed and dusted the table and the legs of the. chairs, and even the pictures on the wall and the gun rack. "Y?: On this hot afternoon he took from beneath his pillow a watch bag made by his Bister Jemima and took out the. watch. Only half past 41 With a sup pressed groan he dropped It back and aat down beside the table. Half past 41 Presently he roused himself. He would write to bis sister Jemima. He always wrote to her when he was miserable. She was his safety valve. He forgot her when he was bappy, but be used her when he was wretched, - -...... lie took out Ink and paper. There was a family crest and motto on the latter, for the Roses since coming to the colony had discovered that tbey were of distinguished lineage. Old Rose himself, an honest English farm er, knew nothing of his noble descent, but his wife and daughter knew espe cially his daughter. There were Rosea in England who kept a park and dated from the conquest. So the colonial Rose farm became Rose manor in re membrance of the ancestral domain, and the claim of the Roses to noble blood was established In their minds at least ,;.-rf- v-- -; Gregory took up one of the white, tion he determined to take a pink one, s more suitable .to the state of his feelings. He began: - - ;. ; . Kopje Alone, Uonday Afternoon. My Pear Jemima ,- Then he looked up Into the little glass opposite It was a youthful face reflected there, with curling brown beard and hair, but in the dark Mud eyes there was a look of languid long ing that touched him. He redipped bis pen acid 'wrote: " When I look up into the little glass that bsngs opposite me, l wonder u that changed and sad, ic , Here he sat still and reflected. It sounded almost as if he might bo con ceited or unmanly to be looking at his own face in the glass. No, that would not do. So he looked for another pink sheet and began again. ; '; ' Kopje Alone. Monday Afternoon. Dear Sister It is hardly six months since I left you to come to this spot, yet could you now see rat I. know what you would say. I know what mother would say, "Can that be our Grr that thing with the stra$e look la his eyesrv Yes, Jemima, it is your Greg, and the change has been coming; over roe ever siace I came here, but it is greatest since yesterday, Tou know what sorrows I have pa see J through, Jemims; how unjustly I was always treated, st school, the masters keeping me back and calling me a block, head, though, as they themselvaa allowed, I had the best memory , of any boy in the school and could repeat whole books from beginning to end. Tou know how cruelly father always used me. calling me a noodle snd a milk sop Just because be couldn't understand my fine nature. Tou know how be has mads a farmer of me instead of a minister, as I ought to bare been. Ton know it all, Jfemima, and how I hare boras It all. not as a woman, who whines for every touch, but as a man should in silence. But there are things, thera la a thing, which the soul longs to pour forth into a kindred ear. Dear sister, hare you ever known what It is to keep wanting and wanting and wanting to kiss some one s mouth, snd you may not; to touch some one a hand, and you cannot? I am ta love. Jemima. The old Dutch woman from whom I hire this place haa a little stepdaughter, and her nam be gins with K. She is Englih, I do not know how her father came to marry a Boer woman. It makes me feel so strange to put down that latter that 1 can hardly go on writing E ! loved her ever since came here. For weeks X have not been able to eat or drink. My very tobacco, when X smoke, has no taste, and I can remain for so more than five minutes in one place and some times feel ss though I were really going mad. Every evening 1 go there to fetch my milk. Testerday she gave sae some coffee.,' The spoon feu on the ground. . Sbe picked it un. When she gsve it me, her finger touched mine. Je- mima, 1 do not know u I Untied it I shivered hot, snd she shivered toot I thought: "It is all right. She will be mine. She loves mei" ' Just then, Jemima, in earns a fellow, a great, coarse fellow, a German a ridiculous fellow, with curls right down to hia shoulders. It makes one sick to look at him. He's only a servant of the Boer woman a and a low. vulgar, uneducated thing that's never .been to boarding school in his life. He had been to the next farm seeking stteep. When ne came in, she said: "Qoed even' Ing, Waldo. Bave some coffee," and aha kissed him. All last night 1 beard notMng else but ''Have some coffee; have some coffee." If I went to sleep for a moment, X dreamed that her &nger was pressing mine, nut wnen I woke with a start I heard her say: "Good evening, Waldo. Have some coffee." Is this madness? v X have not eaten a mouthful today. Thia even ing I go and propose to her. If ahe refuses rat. I shall go and kill myself tomorrow. There is a dam of water close by. The sheep have drank most of it up, but there is still enough, if X tie a stone to my jeck. It is a choice betweea death and madness. can endure no more. If thia should be the last letter you ever get from me, think of me ten devly and forgive me. Without bee life would be a howling wilderness, a long tribulation. . She is my affinity; the one love of my lite, of my youth. of my manhood; tny Sunshine, my God given blossom. -. - . - : f They never loved who dreamed; that- they laved . once And who saith, 1 loved once. Koc angels, whose , deep eyea look down through i realma of light! '' Tour disconsolate brother, on what fa, In all probability,, the last and distracted night of his life, - Gasoosix SAaiainwir Boa P. a Tell mother to take care of my pearl studs. I left them in the weak band stand draw er. Don't let the children get hold of thenv P. P. a 1 shell take this letter with see te the farm. If I torn down on aoraer, you amy know C3' T2t wife feast vlmvlea on ber face, but She fc beam ckJbc CASCAKKTS aad they have all disappeared. X haa been troubled with constipation tor some time, but after tak ing tee lint Caaoaret X hare bad bo troable with this ailment. We cannot peak too high. If of Case reu.'? Fnxx Wabtmaf. MHUtnwwwi atii a-nitswoipaaa, jrsw . CANOV Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do ooa, jsever Bicaaa. weaken, or unpe, luc, aae, wo. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. St Hes tUmttr f wr Chief, n tri. aw Triu su ,Tlnf, Sold Sod guaranteed ty all drug. J I U-UftU givs to OIJKJB Tobacco Habit. ail up with your heart broken' nrolhar. , . v , . u, a, B. Gregory having finished his letter read it over with much approval, put it in an envelope, addressed it and sat contemplating the Ink pot, somewhat relieved in mind. " . The evening turned out chilly and very windy after the day's beat From afar off, as Gregory beared the home stead on the brown pony, be could distinguish a little figure In a little red cloak at the door of the cow kraal. Em leaned over the poles that barred the - gate and ; watched the frothing milk run through the black fingers of the herdsman," while the unwilling cows stood with tethered heads by the milking poles. She had thrown the red cloak over her own head and held It under her chin with a little hand to keep from her ears the wind that play fully shook it and tossed the little fringe of yellow hair Into ber eyes. "Is It not too cold for you to be standing hero 2" said Gregory, coming softly close to her. " "Oh, no; it is so nice. I always come to watch the milking. - That red cow with the short "horns is bringing up the calf of the white cow that died. gh$ loves it so, just as if ft were her own. It is so nice to see her lick its little ears. Just look!" "The clouds are black. I think It la going to rain tonight," said Gregory. "Yea,? answered Em, looking up as well aa she could: for the little yellow fringe.':.. . ,.f .'-2 , '''V:" "But Tm sure you must be cold." said Gregory, and he; put bis hand under the cloak and found there a small, fist doubled up, soft and very warm. He held It fast in bis band. "Oh, Em, I love you better than all the World besides 1 Tell me, do you love me a littler MYea I do," said Em, hesitating and trying, softly to free her band. "Better-tban everything; better than all the" world, darling ?? he asked, bend Ing downiso low that the yellow hair was blown into bis eyes. "I don't know" said Em gravely. "I do love you very much, but I love my cousin who Is at school and Waldo very much. Tou see, I have known them so long," . "Oh, Em, do not alk. to me so cold !y V Gregory cried, seizing the little arm that rested on the gate and press ing It till she was half afraid. The herdsman had moved away to the otbi er end of the "kraal" now, and , the cows, busy with their calves, took no notice of the little human farce.,, "Em, If you talk so to me I will go mad. You must love me love me better than all. Tou must give yourself to me. I have loved you since that first moment when I saw you walking by the stone Wall with the jug in your bands. You were made for me, created for me. I will love you;till I. die. Oh, Em, do not be so cold, so cruel, to mey He held her arm so tightly that her fingers relaxed their hold," and the cloak fluttered down on to the ground. and the wind played more roughly than ever with the little yellow head. "I do love, you very much," she said, fbut.I do not know if I want to marry vovl. I love vou better than Waldo. but I can't tell if I love you better than Lyndall. It yon would let me wait for a week, I think perhaps I could tell you.".;." . Gregory picked up the cloak and wrapped It round, her. "If. you could but love me as I love you f. he said. "But no woman can love aa a man can. I will wait till next Saturday. I will not once come near you till then. Goodby. Oh, Em," he said, turning again and twining bis arms about her and kissing her sur prised little mouth, "If you are not my wife. I cannot live! I have never loved another woman, and I never shall never, never!" "You make me afraid," said Em. "Come, let us go, and I will fill your pall." "I want no milk. Goodby. You will not see me again till Saturday." Late that night, when every one else had gone to bed, the yellow haired lit tle woman stood alone La the kitchen. She had come to fill the kettle for the next morning's coffee and now stood before the fixe. The warm reflection lighted the grave old womanish little face that waa so unusually thoughtful this evening. "Better than all the world; better than everything! He loves me better than everything!" She said the words aloud, aa if they were more easy to believe if ahe spoke them so. She had given oat so much love in her little life and had got none of It back with interest, : Now one said, "1 love yon better than all the world!" One. loved ber better than she loved him. How suddenly rich ahe was! She kept clasp ing and unclasping her bands. So a beggar feels who falls asleep on the pavement wet and hungry and who wakes in a palace ball with servants aad lights and. a feast before him. Of course the beggar's Is only a dream, i aad he wa&es from it, aad this was Gregory had caid to her, T will love you as long aa I live," -. She said the words over and over to herself like a song. , " , i "I will send for him tomorrow, and I will tell bun how I love him back," she said. ' - ' . But Em needed not to send for him. Gregory discovered on reaching home that Jemima's letter was still in his pocket, and ; therefore, much as be disliked the appearance of vacillation and weakness, he was obliged to be at the farmhouse before sunrise to post it. 'If I see her", Gregory said, "I shall only bow to her. ? She shall see that I am a man, one who keeps his word." ' As to Jemima's letter, be had turned down one corner of the page and then turned it back, levying a deep crease. That would show that he was neither accepted nor rejected, but that matters were In an intermediate condition. It was a more poetical way than putting It In plain words. Gregory was barely in time with bis letter, for Waldo was starting when he reached the homestead, and f Em waa on the doorstep to see him off. When be had given the letter and Wal do had gone, Gregory bowed stiffly and prepared to remount bis own pony, but somewhat slowly. It was still early. None of the servants was about. Em came up close to him and put her little hand softly on his arm as be stood by his horse. ;v.: T do love you best of all," she said. She was not frightened now however much be kissed ber. "I "tfish I was beautiful and nice," she added, looking up into his eyes as he held her against bis breast. - " ; - "My darling, to me you are more beautiful than all the women in the world, dearer to me than everything It holds. If you were in ,1 would go after, you to find you there. If you were dead, though my body moved. my soul wonld be under the ground with you. All life as I pass it with you in my arms will be perfect to me lt will pass pass like a ray of sun shine." . ; ' . Em thought how beautiful and grand bis face was as she looked up into It She raised her hand gently and put it on his forehead. " "'You are so silent, so cold, my Eml" be cried, "Have you nothing to say to me?" A little shade of wonder filled ber eyes. ' . "I will do everytbini? you tell me," she said. . What else could she say ? Her idea of love was only service. "Then, my own precious one, prom ise never to kiss that fellow again. . I cannot bear that you should love any one but me. You must not I will not have ItP If every relative I. had in the world were to die tomorrow, I would be juite happy if I still only bad you. My darling, my love, why are you so cold I promise me not to love him any more. If you asked me to do any thing for you, I would do It, though It cost my life!" Em put her hand very gravely round bis' neck, - . VI, will never kiss, him," she said, and I will try not to love any ono else "Oh, my darling, I think of you all night, all day. I think of nothing else, love, nothing else," be said, folding his arms about her. Em was a little conscience stricken. Even that morning she had found time to remember that in six months her cousin would come back from school, and she had thought to remind Waldo of the lozenges s for his cough, 1 even when she saw Gregory coming. "I do not know bow it is," she said bumbly, nestling to him, "but I cannot love you so much as you love me. Per haps It is because I am only a woman, but I do love you as much as I can." Now the Kaffir maids were coming from the huts. He kissed her again, eyes and mouth and hands, and left her. ' Tant Sannie was well satisfied when told of i the betrothment She herself contemplated marriage within the year with one or other of her numerous "vrijers," and she suggested that the weddings might take place together. Em set to work busily to prepare ber own household linen and wedding gar ments, Gregory was with her daily, almost hourly, and the six months which elapsed before Lyndali's return passed, as he felicitously phrased it "like a summer night When you are dreaming of some one you love." Late one evening Gregory sat by his little love, turning the handle of ber machine as she drew her work through it and they talked of the changes they would make when the Boer t woman was gone and the farm belonged to them alone. There should be a new room here and a kraal there. So they chatted on. Suddenly Gregory dropped the handle and impressed a fervent kiss on the fat band that guided the linen. - - "You are so beautiful, Em." said the lover. "It comes over me In a" flood suddenly how 1 love you." Em smiled. ' t , " . ; Tant Sannie says when I am her age no one will -look at me, and It is i States or Ohio, Crrv op Toledo, JUUCAS AJOTJTJTY. ; - , Fbabk J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the city of Toledo county and state afore said, and that - said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for ear' and every case of Catarrh that cannoV b cured by the use of Hall's UATABKtt OTJBS. Frank J. Chehey. Sworn to before me and subscribed in 1 my presence, this 6th day of December, A. U. SEAL I A. W. Gubason, . -Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure ie , taken internally and acta directly on the blood and mu cous, surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY ot CO.. Toledo. O. frue. My hands arenas sboft7aDtlTroad as a duck's foot, and my forehead Is so low, and 1 haven't any nose. 1 can't be pretty." She laughed softly. It was so nice to think be should be so blind. ; "When my cousin comes tomorrow, you will see a beautiful woman, Greg ory," she added presently. "She la like a little queen; her shoulders are so up right and her head Looks as though it ought to have a little crown upon It You must come to see her tomorrow as soon as she comes. 1 am sure you will loye her.? - ' . "Of course I shall come to see her, since she is your cousin, but do you think I could ever think any woman as lovely as I think you?" He fixed his seething eyes upon her. t "You could not help seeing that she is prettier," said Em. slipping her right hand Into bis, "but you will never be able to like any- one so' much as you like me." Afterward, when she wished her !ov er good night she stood upon the door step to call a greeting after him. and she waited, as she always did, till the brown pony's hoofs became Inaudible behind the "kopje," Then she passed through the room where Taut Sannie lay snoring, and through the little room that was drap ed In white, waiting for ber cousin's return, on to her own room. She went to the chest of drawers to put away the work she had finished and sat down on the floor before the lowest drawer. In it were the things she was preparing for her marriage. Piles of white linen and some aprons and quilts, and in the little box in the corner a spray of orange blossom which she bad brought from a smouse. There, too, was a ring Gregory had given ' her 'and5 a - veil his sister had sent,' and there was a little roll of fine (embroidered work ; which ;Trana bad given her, It was too fine and good even for Gregory's wifejust right for something very small and soft She would keep "it And she touched It gently with her forefinger, smiling, and then she blushed and hid It far behind the other things; She kqew so well all that was In that drawer, and yet she 1 turned them; all over as though she, saw . them for the first time and packed them all out and 'packed them all ip without one fold or crlmple and then sat down and looked at them. Tomorrow ; evening when Lyndall came she would bring ber here and show her all. Lyndall would so like to see It the little, wreath and the ring and the white veil! It would be so nice. Then Em fell to seeing pictures. Lyn dall should live with them till she her self got married some day. Every day when Gregory came home, tired from his work, be would look about and gay; ''Where is my wife? Has no one seen my wife? Wife, some coffee!" and $be would give him some. Em's little face grew very grave at last and she knelt up and extended ber hands over the drawer of linen. "Oh, God!" she said, "1 am so glad! I do not know what I have done that 1 Should be so glad. Thank y ou !" Continued next week. Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup is a remark able medicine. , A dry, tickliDg, hacking cough, the warning that cousumption lurks near, needs no other doctor but Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. It positively cures throat and lung trouble. 'About Dining Cars. The verdict given by the general pub lie that the great Rock Island route has the best dining car service in the world will not be disputed by patrons who bave used this lino. Thousands of let ters testify to this fact. A better meal cannot be secured in, any hotel or res taurant in the cities of New York , or Chicago than is used in the Rock Island Dining Cars. A la carte on all cars; a splendid lunch served on Colorado trains for 50 cents. ; ' 4 eton't ooooooooo J :,.,".-'.-. Are uaii nreinnr O O o To Tbe - $????????? IStDilflpS) fitaim O If so, arrangements should be made at once all the best bertha on the O O ships are engaged early the number of ships are limited nnd early rescr- O 1 rations, if not used, can easily be disposed of. Descriptive literature re- Q garding this trip can be had ; at myroffic;e.GEO. W. BONNELL, . Q a . V. . UU..VII avVMMrf Roy's Drug I4Q General Drug Business and Prescription Work. Paints, Oils, Glass, Ground Oil Cake, Etc, Prices low as the lowest. - ef-Roy'o, 104 North 10th To Care a Celd ta One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure, E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 25c. We sell -all kisds ct coal except post coal. , . - . tf jJercjins o Hyatt. ? m4 ro etleente ta tmXtX SI HAS ky I xpis,C.O. IhtUkJaetteesaMleaUae. Itiee. I aw tMMtn lasoe wtrmea ax greet beauty, peffeet roeewool finleh, ivey blgfcbr pQltaiied. Handsomely talelck aroand sound hole end Meld atrip ta hea, UaW4 bene Flncrbord eecuretol y tree. CmI with niaed trtia. latmJS carl BeaNtoa Sata. SBtarteaa aa4 aalMt Ha, tmi IimI itiaSel alit4 taUpkMM. A SKlil UBS!.OOKin, poaranl at wee sened. tarnished eewplete ianairast af brl a.BaKy ataal riftop M VaJeeMe teatreaUaa kaea wassa weaaa aj ooe BowtoaJay. KUXIirc THS BOTrt at iet etwees Sane end If found exactly as rrprrr.il and the sraetaat earrata fee ew saw kaard ef y the exprerw aent S3. OS less SBs, er $$, IS aaS axateaa saarv aJui alia enmnlcto estttt ia Toarsv hatlafao. ooa iruiurajnteed or money refunded tn full. SPECIAL PBEMIU5I OFFER. ZV&Z ss.as mkIi in ton we vrHl sire lastesrae1 VtaawbaarS Chart. It en eawato irnUe, benof aU aie. vtiSk harps and Bate is tsuf view, end ea e eaealy e juated to any fnoUar wrthout Jbaasst She twr ineDI!. WIWS ine one ainwaiavai aennBK wr one can leaora to plav arttaoot ute ax ea a Write for free mortiml icetrameat aa4 Astnlnirn. T.rrrxth laaf at lawaat VMlaaaat enema. SEARS, ROEBUCK A CO., CHIOAOO (SKA Its. BOkBICH tn. ara tbaraaflir "HaJe . a On.. a Little Oval Photos; 25c pe. dozens uabmets a.oa Per dozen. 1214 O Street The Rock Island Playing Cards axe the slickest you ever handled. One pack will be sent , by mail on receipt of 13 cents In stampSt A money order ex draft for 50 cents or same in stamps will secure i packs, and they will be sent by express, charges prepaid. Address, John oeoasuon, u, jr, a., kj. ru i, sx a cai- cago, ' . Hides and l7ool, D03S0N & LANDGREI1 Dealers in Hides, Wool, Tallow, and Furs. Send in your goods and get the HIGHEST majket price. 920 R STREET, LINCOLN, NEBR. A. D. Culp I Successors to ? John Wlttorff Joh Bavxs. 2 1 miii ra n iniT-rnnr-r" v uuLf & wiuuiirr Dealers in Liasors and ... CIGARS . Jug Trade . a Specialty. 1 Fine Hot Lunch 9:30 to 12. Saturday night 8 to 11 915 O STREET tot400 PAINLESS RI66S, The Dentist. EXTEACTION 141 So. 12th S., Lincoln, Gold Alloy, Filling. $l;d0 Gold Filling . $1.00 and up Gold Crowns . . $5.00 and tip Set of Teeth ...... $5.00 Best Teeth ...... $8.00 RIGGS, The Dentist, 141 So. 12th 6t. , Lincoln. Neb. The north, wiad shakes the leaves from ths ireee am....). - .viii i tu mim mnA If. mIm u -- AK.ic o m ui M, au wi . . m m""m w v 'HUGGIHG THE STOVE ant yonrcoal kow and be cuiarosTABza. Tie can serve you promptly. Be wusn and ax osreae of the Centcrvillo X Block Coal Co. 119 South 12th G7"Wejell tkhtthino in the Yard Phone 302 Office Phono 307 oox World's Fair and ' Exposition ai Paris O ????????? -ww.w-B OTa V , MHWIU i.v, eJj Store NORTH TENTH STREET, m c aT t PREWITT FINE WIS X kava acae "tteftrib it BSU JttP jaay Vasw ft i KTTsald by JLJrursrwts, 75c llUfs-VtssUf l3s am the fcset . W .iirV V .o'V --v -v -v. J h 1 1 " (' I. m firttte aw