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By M. B. MAN WELL
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CHAPTER VI.—(Continued.)
Diana, who feared him with an in
tensity that increased as time sped by,
was left more and more alone in the
little set of rooms at Montreal, until
life became a dull and hopeless bur- •
den for her. There was no ray of in- :
tprnst In her heavy face tonight as she
asked for her husband’s news. Paul
on the other hand, wa3 quivering with
unrepressed excitement.
“I have got a fortune in my fingers,
Diana—a fortune, I tell you!” he said
jubilantly, as he drew up his chair to
the little round supper table, from
which Diana had risen to greet him.
Paul had so often brought home
fortunes that seemed at his fingers’
ends—fortunes that crumpled into dust
ere they were grasped—that she felt
little or no interest in them now. She
was growing tired of the whole thing,
particularly as she was now cut oft'
from all participation in her husband's
more intellectual ventures.
“I ean’t see what good it’s going to
do you,” she said at last, when he had
explained. ”1 guess this girl ain't go
ing to die off to suit you, Paul, and you
can’t live on that bit of paper.”
“What fools women are!" savagely
broke in Paul. And his dark face took
on au ugly look as he remembered that
men, likewise, could be. fools, when
they saddled themselves with such
burdens as that of the heavy, dejected
woman opposite him.
“I’m going to Europe tomorrow—
to England,” he said shortly.
Diana looked up from her pie. "Shall
you be gone long this time. Paul?’’
"I can’t quite say,” slowly said the
scientist. "It will depend on many
things. But I promise you, Diana, that
I shan’t come back until I’ve got this
In my clutch in hard cash.” Paul’s
fingers played with the sheet of paper
outspread before him.
Diana Andsell shivered, and her
white, fair face grew still more pallid
In hue. That this man, her husband,
was capable of the vilest scheming to
win his way she already knew. Noth
ing was sacred from such an arch
plotter. And as she furtively watched
hfs frowning, dark face while he pored
over the handwriting before him, Di
ana told herself half fearfully that
Paul Andsell would keep lit* promise.
He would return to her with the for
tune, or he would never c<*tne back at
all.
CHAPTER VII.
* Tt was Christmas Eve, and true old
'oned Christmas weather.
. ue country round Temple-Dene
§%as glittering with hoar-frost, every
tree shining and sparkling in the sun,
every pond and stream and pool fast
bound in Ice.
The low, red sun of the afternoon
whs shining full on the old house, sur
rounded by the frost-silvered pines,
and its many windows twinkled a
brilliant welcome to the expected h
and his bride.
There had been a great stir, a sht
iner of wild excitement, under the old
roof during the weeks preceding
Christmas.
Lady Jane had done wonders in
freshening up the tarnished and faded
glories of the home. She had a free
hand, to be sure, in her wholesale im
provements; for could not Gervis af
ford to pay any amount of bills that
might ensue?
“If I could only rouse up poor dear
Francis, before they come home,” the
busy lady said, energetically.
But the master of Temple-Dene was
Hhe sole member of the house indiffer
ent to the advent of the heir and his
bride. Amid the turmoil of prepara
tion he sat listless and silent In his
library, “the world forgetting, by the
world forgot.”
If It had not been for Leila Des
mond, It would have fared ill for the
stricken man. The gentle-natured
girl, with heart full of womanly in
stl^ts, felt irresistibly drawn to tho
lonely, silent man. He and she had a
grief In common, and it bound them
HMflttherr. It was only at the sound of
SB&'s sweet voice, and the touch of
Cptla's tender hand, that Francis Tem
fjjPton over stirred from his trance of
misery.
Bui even Leila could not make the
unhappy man comprehend that Tem
pi*-Dene was saved, nor could he take
In the meaning of the light-hearted
preparations going on around.
“I’m glad, glad, that Uncle Francis
doesn’t care, that he won’t care!” said
little Syb almost viciously to her elder
sister.
The misshapen girl looked on almost
ss gloomily at the hurry and fuss as
did the master of the house. She
clenched her thin little fingers every
time the bland, self-satisfied tones, so
new in Lady Jana'S voice, fell on her
ear.
“Little Syb”—Leila turned her wist
ful eyes on the girl—“it hurts me when
you speak so!”
“Hurts you? Oh, I could beat you,
Leila, if I didn’t love you so dreadful
ly that I should kill anyone who struck
you! Hurt you? Oh, why were you
made so good and I'made so bad? All
the time I am wishing that some ac
cident will happen to those two—a
shipwreck or a railway collision—and
that they will never, never reach Tem
ple-Dene!”
• “Syb!" again cried Leila. And this
time she gathered the distorted little
figure on her lap, and laid ber own
soft round cheeks against the passion
white lips. “What has come to you,
niy dear one? Have you forgotten
that 'Love workcth no ill to this
neighbor, therefore love is the fulfill
ing of the law'? How can you ‘put
} on the Lord Jesus Christ,’ who died
i tor you and me, and for those who are
| coming home to us, if you let yourself
, say such things? I know it is only
saying them—I cannot believe you
think them.” I^cila’s fresh mouth
kissed the angry eyes.
But I do think them! I feel what
r say. Leila, what right has that Amer
ican girl to take your Gervis from you?
Everybody knows it was you ho want-'
ed all the time, not any other. And
everybody about the place is saying
so!” hotly said little Syb.
Hush!” Leila winced at Syb’s last
words. “As for her right, we must re
member every minute in the day that
God has given her that right as—as
Gervis’ wife."
Bravely the words came, but they
wrung the heart of the gentle speaker.
"And, Syb, can t you take it in, once
and for all, that we are not sent into
the world to snatch at as much hap
piness and self-pleasing as we can? In
order to copy our dear I.>ord, even
faintly, we must each give up some
thing, and go on giving up until the
cud comes. If Gervis had not given
up his—his wishes, the old home would
have been wrecked, his parents would
have been beggars. I—I think it a
great thing to sacrifice all yourself for
those dear and near. Syb, I could give
up anything for you.”
"Fore me? Could you, Leila? Such
a miserable, humpy, crooked little
thing as I?”
Syb’s lips quivered.
“What matters it whether our bodies
are straight or crooked? It is our
souls that will live by and by in Para
dise, if they are straight and true, the
homes of pure thoughts and gentle
deeds. Oh, Syb, try and cast out that
passionate nature of yours. And when
Gervis brings home his bride, let us
be loving and kind to her, a stranger
amid us all—think of it!'*
"But shall you, Leila?" Syb stared.
“Shall you really welcome her arid be
nice to her—you?” she demanded,
wonderstruck at such a possibility.
“God helping me, I shall,” gravely
said Leila, and she meant it.
It was not that her old love for
Gervis had died a sudden death; but
because he was now the husband of
another woman, bound to love and
care for her “until death them did
part,” that Leila could put him out
of her life, save as the man who had
saved his old home and his parents
from earthly ruin.
If Gervis could attain td such a sac
rifice as he had made, could she her
self not Imitate his self-abnegation in
her life? And the passion-distraught
llttl® sister must be brought round
somehow, and taught to welcome the
new comer into the family.
It was a difficult task to persuade the
ntamable spirit. Though Syb was but
thirteen years of age, she had a grown
up mind and one as distorted as her
poor little body.
“I should like to see her lying dead—
that American girl!” said the deformed
girl when Leila’s persuasive voice
ceased. "You see,” wrent on Syb, “if
she were dead, Gervis would have all
her money, of course, and he could
marry you.”
Leila groaned. This horrible. In
human wish was the only result of her
efforts to soften the ungoverned heart.
“That’s why I keep on v/ishlng
something would happen to them!"
vehemently Insisted Syb.
“Happen to whom?” Lady Jane’s
voice startled the sisters, and Syb slip
ped off Leila’s knee. “I've just had a
wire from Gervis. They are in Ijondon
and will be here today," she went on
hurriedly. “And they are bringing a
friend with them, a Mr. Ansdell. 1
fancy it is the same man w’bo saved
the whole train, you remember, from
a terrible fire in the midst of the prai
ries.”
“Yes, ‘Ansdell’ was that man’s name,
dear aur.iy," said Leila, "a well-known
scientist, Gervis said he was.”
Leila spoke the name of her lover
she had lost in a controlled, calm voice.
The help she had sought was vouch
safed her abundantly.
“Well, we must be good to him in
that case. But our house has been
filling up this week until there's hard
ly a decent room left for this stranger.
And, Leila, my dear, I want your help
again. Our arrangements are not
quite finished.”
Lady Jane rushed off as rapidly as
she had come.
There was to be a large party of old
and young on Christmas night at Tem
ple-Dene. For years there had been
almost no entertaining in the partially
ruined home. The Christmas gather
ing was, therefore, looked forward to
by the neighborhood with keen expec
tation.
“It is to be quite an old-fashioned
Christmas party, with a tree and blind
man's buff and romps—-neither mere
nor less,” Lady Jane warned them.
“It should have been, properly speak
ing, on Christmas eve; but our dear
young people will not arrive until that
day, so our merry-making must be on
the twenty-fifth.”
It was late afternoon when the fam
ily carriage, newly furnished, came up
the steeps from the roadside station,
and reached the Temple-Dene avenue
of tall flra, whose stately trunks were
mlding in the sun's dying glare.
"We’re at home now, Gladdy! We'n
on our own land at laat. Welcome,
dear wife, to Temple-Dene!”
Gervis bent forward and lifted In hla
the little hands lying listlessly on
Gladdy's lap. Perhaps, if they two
had been alone, he would have kissed
his welcome as well as said it; hut they
were not alone. Frtjm a corner of the
roomy old carriage a pair of dark rest
less eyes roved over the enow-covered
landscape.
Gladdy, at her husband's words, lift
ed her head to look out also, and It
was startling to note how she had al
tered. There was a peculiarly wasted
appearance and an unutterable listlcs3
ness not natural in one so young. It
needed a distinct effort for her to sur
vey her new home; to speak she made
no attempt. Gervis drew back disap
pointed.
"Haven’t you a word of praise, my
dear, for your own home?" he asked.
“It's all very nice, but it is so cold,
and I never liked pine trees,” Gladdy
forced herself to say. And she shiv
ered under her Parisian wraps and her
costly furs. "They always make me
shudder, they are so gloomy,” she add
ed piteously.
“She’s fearfully nervous,” thought
Gervis.
But there was no sign of it when
Gladdy stepped out of the carriage and
into Lady Jane’s widely welcoming
arms.
A self-possessed, wistful-eyed little
bride it was who lifted her cold cheek
for her mother-in-law’s kiss; a dainty
figure, in truth, in its costly furs.
But the face under the green velvet
toque, with its diamond buckle and
mxlding feathers, was not the face of
a shy, happy bride, and for a moment
I^iidy Jane stared, half puzzled.
Then Gervis was clasped in his
mother’s arms and held tight. If her
ladyship had a soft corner in her
worldly, ambitious heart it was for her
boy, the son who had done so much
for herself .and the old home.
The bride stood apart, a pathetic
little figure in her momentary loneli
ness. Leila, who had been shrinking
behind the person of l*ndy Jano, quick
ly noticed it, forced herself to go for
ward.
"May I bid you welcome? I am
I^ila. Perhaps Gervis has told you
that his cousins, Sybil and I, have lived
here since we were almost babies—
Syb, at least, was a baby.”
Leila's winsome, tender fare wa«
bent close to Gladdy, who was slightly
shorter in stature than she. Her low,
rich voice, with its caressing note,
stirred sometnlng in Gladdy’s heart,
and she moved eagerly forward—so
eagerly that their lips met in a cling
ing kiss before Leila had quite made
up her mind to greet the bride with
anything warmer than a stiff hand
shake.
"I didn’t know there was any Leila,”
said Gladdy, in her sweet, childish
tones. "Gervis did not tell me. But
I am so glad! Please take me away
somewhere. Let us go together, you
and I, I am so weary!”
Leila was startled. Go away to
gether, the bride and she! It sounded
bewilderingly strange.
And—and had Gervis forgotten her
so utterly that her name had never
been uttered to hia newly made wife?
The thought wrung her gentle heart.
(To be continued.)
FRUIT FLIES.
Small Imei U Among Canned Fruit on
the Shelve*.
Often housekeepers who do not take
sufficient pains with the sealing of the
cans of fruit they put away in the fall,
find on tho surface of the contents lit
tle, slender maggots, feeding on the
contents. These larvae are probably
of the species called fruit flies. They
belong to a class of insects containing
some,thirty kinds. The flie3 are light
brown in color. They are so small
that they are commonly thought of as
ordinary gnats. They are attracted by
the acrid odor of vinegar as well as
fruit. Stone jars simply covered with
a cloth to allow the fermentation ol
vinegar are easily invaded by the in
sects, which lay their eggs on th«
pieces of fruit that are projecting
above the surface of the fluid. The
hatching of the larvae is soon follow
ed by the formation of the pupae,
which are found on the sides of the
cans, usually. Some four days later
the flies issue and begin the round of
production again, multiplying with
great rapidity. It is a characteristic ol
the larvae of these flies to live only
in upper layers of tho fruit and this
fact makes it possible to save at least
a portion of the contents of the Jars.
Fruit put in cans and sealed up air
tight is safe. Eggs laid upon cloth
tops or near slight openings between
lid and can often hatch into worms
that find a way inside. Pyrethrum
powder used in the fruit room or cel
lar will have a good effect in clearing
out the flies and this, with the pre
cautions mentioned in connection with
canning, should rid a place of the in
sects.—George Edwin Black in Indian
apolis News.
Veterinary Surgeon's Hard Lark,
Veterinary surgeons are complaining
of hard luck. With the cable cars, the
trolley cars and now the automobiles,
their business has gone to the dogs,
metaphorically speaking. Soon there
will be as many surgeons as there are
horses. It is nearly as bad as that
now, and, as automobiles become
cheaper and the likelihood of airships
coming in to supplement them grows,
the prospect is not a bright one. Lots
of New York veterinaries are giving
up the attempt to make a living and
are coming west.
There are at present thirteen Incor
porated automobile clubs In the United
States.
State Capital Observations.
Expressions Emulative for the Good of
Republican Supremacy,
Lincoln, Neb., December 3, 1000.
Governor-elect Dietrich is starting
out on his career as governor of Ne
braska in a way and at such a pace as
to warm to the uttermost the cockles
of the hearts of those who are respon
sible for him being where he is.
He has already made some appoint
ments and in each instance the choice
has been a good one, and eminently
satisfactory to everybody, save, of
course those who bad figured on the
job aud made an error in calculation.
The remarks made concerning Mr.
Dietrich's appointments are exceeding
ly complimentary, and come not only
from his own political party people,
but also from the other side.
Governor Dietrich is a firm believer
in the efficacy of a board of control for
state institutions, and ho will incor
porate in liis message to the legisla
ture a very strong recommendation for
the passage of a measure providing for
the appointment of a board which
shall have the matter of purchasing
supplies for all institutions and the
disbursing of such as their especial
duty. Governor Dietrich has from the
outset declared most emphatically and
unequivocally that the state institu
tions must be managed in a business
like manner, and he has gone a long
way toward securing this desirability
by appointing ns heads of institutions
men whose honesty and fitness are
eminent to a very large degree. All
citizens of the state will undoubtedly
give to Mr. Dietrich their hearty sup
port in his efforts to place the state
institutions in the very best shape
possible.
The republican state offiecrs-elect
held a meeting1 at the Lindell hotel
Friday night last, and at this meeting,
after Governor Dietrich had announced
that he would appoint as the head of
the Bastings asylum forchronic insane
: \V. ]{. Kern of Wood ltiver, the officers*
elect went over the list of appoint
ments, and a long time was spent in a
discussion of political aspects of pat
ronage distribution. When the meet
ing was over. Mr. Dietrich announced
that he desired all applicants for posi
tions in the various state institutions
under the superintendents to make
their requests for place to the superin
tendents he has named. Be said that
he would not appoint any of the sub
orninates without the consent of the
superintendents anti that in the future
the word of the superintendent would
have the greatest weight with him.
1 This action is taken in accordance with
the plan of the governor to hold the
i heads of institutions responsible for
die work under their charge. The
number of applicants has become so
large that action of this kind was nec
essary for other considerations.
The question cf the governor's mes
sage was an important one before
the meeting. Mr. Dietrich is very
favorably impressed with tiie proposi
tion of lessening the number of dis
trict judges in the state and he has de
cided to advocate this measure in his
address to the legislature. He did not
state any details in connection with
this and will probably leave all such
matter to the legislature.
! In addition Mr. Dietrich announced
that he will advocate a bill providing
for the appointment of a supreme court
commission of five members for the pur
pose of clearing up the docket of the
supreme eourt. which has become con
gested. The demand for this has be
come so general that the governor will
advocate this measure for the relief of
litigants. Another meeting will be
held Friday, December 14.
Bt
A slight rest has been given to state
patronage but a constant endeavor is
being made to secure places though
the opinion is quite general that ap
plicants now stand but very little
show. A new proposition w liicli has
been sprung of late is that lady clerks
in the state house or the various de
partments where there is not strict
need of woman's work, are less benefi
cial than the work of men. It is
argued that women are in every sense
less of politicians than men and that
the reward of a man by a place when
lie is competent to till it will do that
much more good to the party. This
plan would receive the hearty indorse
ment of campaign managers undouht
i edly for the ladies have the reputation
of beiug less liberal with their ad
vances to the political funds unless the
the plan of the fusinists should be
adopted where there is no choice. The
; scheme to shut out the ladies will hard
ly win, however, for sentimental rea
I sons, if for no other. When the re
! port was known that a movement was
on foot to make some such demand,
quite a flurry was created in feminine
circles.
*. H
James Whitehead, register of the
United States land office at Broken
Bow, was in Lincoln recently.
“We feel pretty good,” he said,“over
the way Custer county went at the re
cent election. Our county was un
doubtedly the home of populism in
Nebraska. It popped in 1880 and has
been at it ever since with alarming
regularity. At the last election we
elected a republican state senator, F.
M. Currie, by 151 majority. Before
the nominating convention Mr. Currie
declined to be a candidate for re-elec
tion and offered to write out a check
for SI.000 if wo would let him off. He
believed another campaign would be
that much of a loss to him in his busi
ness. We gave Kinkaid, republican
candidate for congress, 34 majority.
Bryan received a majority of only 11,
whereas four years ago he carried the
county by over 100, and last year Ilol
f comb carried it by 000 majority. One
republican was beaten this year by
only 15 votes and he has commenced a
contest. Four members of the county
board were to be elected and we elect
ted all of them, giving us a majority
on the board.”
Mr. Whitehead says the Broken Bow
land ofliee. which was established in
1800, has done a larger business this
year than ever before. The homestead
entries for the past four months will
reach eighty for each month. The cat
tle industry is the great industry of
the county. The district contains
thousands of acres of grazing lands.
This land has been largely used for
several yearsand stockmen have grown
rich upon it. In that country there is
no talk of a clash between the home
steaders and the cattlemen.
Senator-elect A. It. Olesonof ruining
county, was among the legislators who
were in Lincoln last week. Mr. Ole
son is a bright young man who was
reared in Cuming county. He left his
home for a few months and was in
duced to run for office at Fremont,
where he voted. During that time he
visited his home in Cuming county
every week or two and in all that time
he kept his personal property there,
llis seat is to be contested on the
ground that lie had not lived continu
ously one year in Cuming county prior
to his election. He will have been in
the county one full year when betakes
his seat in the senate. Notwithstand
ing the contest. Mr. Oleson has en
gaged rooms at the Lindell hotel for
the entire session. He says he will be
in Lincoln all winter regardless of the
contest. A friend suggested that Mr.
Oleson had better prove his residence
in Cuming county and stand the con
sequences of voting Illegally in Fre
mont. Mr. Oleuf.n said he would not
mind a short f~ .prisonment for voting
at the wrong place, but he believed
the fusionists would not make any
thing by contesting his election for
the reason that on their side was a sim
ilar case, only a much plainer case.
)i h
The threatened contest of the seat
of F. O. Hawxby in the house has
been filed. Notice has been served
upon Judge Waters of Lancaster coun
ty that depositions will be taken be
fore him in the ease on December 8.,
Hawxby Is the student, a member of
the senior law class of the state uni
versity who voted in precinct A of
the Fourth ward last April. He then
swore that his residence was in this
county and it is believed by his op
ponent, T. .1. Crummel. thereby gave
up his residence In Nemaha county
where he was elected. The custom has
been to permit students to vote at
their homes even though they are
away the greater part of the year at
tending school. In this instance
Hawxby gave his residence with his
parents in Nemaha county to vote in
Lincoln. The settlement of the ques
tion promises to be interesting.
» *
Myron Wheeler, who has lately held
a position in the custom house at Ha
vana, is here In the interest of Melkle
john. A commodious furnished house
has been rented where headquarters
will be opened in the latest eastern
style. As to possible tie-ups, or the
probable strength of Meiklejohn when
the contest opens Mr. Wheeler will not
say. he intimated, however, that a
lively time may be expected.
» r
Tli? statement of expenses filed by
Mr. Edmfsten aggregate $10,3S1.55: of
that amount $1.913.07 is unpaid, while
the amount on hand is only $50.54
with which to make the deficit good.
It will thus be seen our fallen brothers
have trouble of their own.
•( k
Mr. Thompson arrived in Lincoln
recently from a trip over the state.
He said there was no change in the
situation. Matters are quiet now, but
they are gradually shaping them
selves as he believes satisfactorily.
Farmer*' Frlghteniome Interpretation,
A farmer in southern Missouri re
cently received some garden seeds
from the Department of Agriculture in
an official envelope, on the outside of
which was printed the usuifl warning:
“Penalty for private use, $300.” H«
immediately sent them back, with a
letter to the effect that he had not used
one of them and was not subject to
any fine.
Sudden Death at Chicago.
Twenty-nine cases of sudden death
in three days is Chicago’s recent rec
ord. Physicians say that great changes
; in the weather and temperature were
; in large part responsible for the
deaths.
Primitive Meamirlng and Weighing.
Vegetables are usually sold In piles
in Buenos Ayres, so that the purchaser
has to measure quantity as well as
quality by the eye. The butchers in
• that city do not sell meat by weight,
[ but at so much oer chunk.
Votingest Officer In the World.
Without doubt the youngest officer
in the world is the son of the Turkish
consul general in Taurus, Persia. Ho
is only two and a half years old. A
short time ago the wife of the Turkish
plenipotentiary obtained an audience
with the crown princess of Persia, and,
as is the custom of the country,
brought along her youngest son. The
princess and her spouse busied them
selves with the little boy, and the
prince took such an interest in him
that he made him an officer in the
Persian army, and himself fastened the
Insignia of rank on the bov's breast.
DUmlMfd for “Gouging.**
The secretary of the navy dismissed
from the naval academy last week, on
recommendation of the superintendent,
a cadet found guilty of '‘gouging,’*
wdiich is the slang for dishonesty in
work, in this case the copying as his
own of a theme written by another ca
det, and of falsehood. Fifty-six mem
bersof his class petitioned the secre
tary to exercise clemency, and are all
placed in the third conduct grade for
insubordination, which permits them
to liave liberty but once in four weeks.
When Her I.tick Cli.tngetJ.
An actress who is now acting in a
prominent New York theater found
herself so little in demand a few years
ago that she was about to abandon
all effort to remain in her profession,
lern how to manipulate the typewriter,
and seek her fortune in that line of
work. Just at the time when her pros
pects looked darkest, she inherited a
small sum of money which she had
never expected to get. It proved
enough to enable her to make a start
in the way she wanted, and after a
while she went to New York, where
she met with a degree of success that
no actress so little known had ever
enjoyed before.
Indian Pupil* In N>w York Hchooli.
The first Indians ever admitted Cr
public senool pupils in New York Cit>’
tre two who entered last week. They
are Buelah and Iiessie Dark Cloud.
Buelah is It! years old, and has attend
ed school in Montreal. Bessie, the
typical Indian child of the Sierras,
restless, quick, and gracious, entered
the kindergarten grade. Dark Cloud,
the father of tho children, has been
a model for prominent artists, includ
ing Remington and Deming. The
mother, a woman of much beauty, is
a full-blood Abenekl, and her husband
Is of the same tribe, and a well edu
cated Indian, w..o, during the summer,
“lectures” for medicine companies.
A miss is sometimes better than a
male.
The man with a pull—the street car
conductor.
Pleasure is but the refreshment that
cheers us in the pursuit of true hap
piness.
David R. Snovner or Orange, N. J.,
a lawyer who was convicted of embez
zling $1,375 from the estate of Cath
errine Breiit of Rock port, Ind., was
sentenced to six months’ imprison
ment.
AN ENEMY TO DRINK.
Om Woman Who Ha* Dons a Groat
lira! to l‘ut Down Thla Kvll.
Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 3.—(Spe
cial)—When the Independent Order of
Good Templars of Minnesota wanted
a State Organizer they chose Mrs.
Laura J. Smith, of 1217 West 33d
Street, this city. The American Anti
Treat League also selected Mrs. Smith,
as National Organizer. The reason la
not far to seek. This gifted woman
has devoted her life to a battle against
Drink and Drinking Habits. Her in
fluence for good in Minnesota is and
has been very far reaching.
About two years ago however, it
seemed as if this noble woman would
have to give up her philanthropic
work. Severe pains in her back and
under her shoulder blades, made Ufa
a burden and work impossible. Physi
cians were consulted, and they pre
scribed for Kidney Disease. Three
month’s treatment however, failed to
give Mrs. Smith any relief. Her hus
band was much exercised, and cast
about him for something that would
restore his good wife to health and
strength. He heard of the cures ef
fected by Dodd’s Kidney Pills, and ad
vised her to try them, which she did.
She Is now a well woman and says:
"Two weeks after 1 commenced tak
ing Dodd’s Kidney Pills, I felt mucht
better, and at the end of seven weeks
was completely cured. I have had no
recurrence of the trouble, but I taka
a pill off and on, and find that it keeps
me in good health.”
Dodd’s Kidney Pills are for sale by
all dealers at 50 cents a box.
They are easily within the reach of
all, and no woman can afford to suf
fer, when such a simple, and sure
Remedy is at hand.
Fortune is ofttimes kindest to those
on whom she frowns.
The Census of 1000.
A booklet giving the population ot
nil cities of the United States of 25,000
and over according to the census of
1900, has just been issued by the Pas
senger department of the Chicago,
Milrraukee & St. Paul Railway, and a
copy of it may be obtained by sending
your address, with two-cent stamp to
pay postage, to the General Passenger
Agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railway, Chicago, 111.
Mrs. Jones—Oh, doctor, is kdy hus
band still irrational? Dr. Dosem—
Extremely so. When I told him youi
mother was coming tomorrow h«
smiled.
CARBIDE.
Wo are the Nebraska selling agents
for the Union Carbide Co., manufac
turers of Calcium Carbide for making
Acetylene Oas. Order your supplies
from us. Pacific Storage and Ware
house Co., 912-914 Jones St., Omaha,
Neb.
It is far easier to sell a dog than It
is to give him away.
In Winter Cut Allen'* rool-Kate.
A powder. Your feet feel uncom
fortable, nervous, and often cold and
damp. If you have sweating, sore feet
or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Ease.
Sold uy ail druggists and shoe stores
25 cents. Sample sent FREE. Address
Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.
Corckscrews have sunk more people
than cork jackets will ever save.
It Is hard to avoid Indigestible foods on
Thanksgiving day. but it is easy to avoid
indigestion—take Garlield Tea, it cleanses
the system and acts on the llvsr, thus
promoting good digestion.
Every dog has his day and every
man has his hobby.
