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BY MARY gEVEREUX •VTTH fLLUSTSATIONS BY DOM C. WILSON CCcpyrxg*?, J9oa, by Itffe, Srotm, or*/ Company) Off/ £>/&& PexrMPcfj CHAPTER XXVII—Continued. He had missed the picture from its place over his hearth at Barataria; but, knowing there were others like it, he had no thought that he was looking upon what had been his own. Presently, with a sign indicating re lief, Jackson handed the last paper to Claiborne, and leaning forward, with his elbows upon the arms of his chair, said, his voice showing more of contempt than anger, “Most edifying -assortment of reading, to be sure, Capt. Lafitte. Are these all—these lour papers, two of them addressed to jou, Capt. Percy's instructions to his eubordinates, and the proclamation to the people of this state?” "These are all, general; and they contain all the information within my power to give you now,” Lafitte re plied. Claiborne began to refold the pa pers, while the general turned to La fitte. It is a fine offer you have received —all you can possibly desire.” ‘I wish—will take, nothing that England can ever have to offer me,” l.afitte added, with sudden fierceness. “I hate the nation, and its ways! Nothing could induce me to accept, row or ever, any terms from the Eng lish.” The first unguarded evidence of any thing like cordial liking now manifest ed itself in Jackson's face. Yet there was nothing of this in his voice as he said. “May I ask. then, Capt. Lafitte, if possibly some motive of personal re venge brought you here to-night with u renewal of your offer?” Lafitte's face flushed through its Fwartness; then it paled, and grew stern. “I understood that you needed sol diers—most of all, artillerymen; that you also needed arms—cannon and muskets. I came to offer all I have left of men and resources, for your use, and that of Louisiana. I ask no pay for myself—only for my men. if you will; if. not, then I will try to take care of that, and they are yours with out pay. The one thing I demand is what I have stated already—a full par don for my men and myself—a pardon for all offenses or alleged offenses against the laws of this state or of the 1 cited States.” "Assuming,” said Claiborne, ‘‘that everything is as you say, and that your proposition is accepted, what se curity have I, as governor of this * ^tate, and responsible, not only to its gard to it. My knowledge of the coun try is not entirely complete, and I wish to obtain all possible information respecting the roads and waterways.” “I shall be happy to serve you. sir, to the best of my ability; and I thank you, gentlemen—both of you, for the favor you have shown me.” The sudden huskiness of Lafitte’s firm voice was the only indication of his pent-up feelings, as he added, "To night, Gen. Jackson, I thank you in words; but I hope to soon manifest my gratitude in a more substantial form—one that shall cauase you no regret for the justice you have shown to Jean Lafitte of Barataria.” He left them—his departure being as rapid and quiet as had been his ap pearance; and Jackson, turning to Claiborne, said, with a smile of grim satisfaction. "I believe that we can save New Orleans: and if we do, by thg Eternal, a good share of the cred it will belong to the men whom I called ‘pirates and robbers,’ and ap proved of your hanging!” CHAPTER XXVIII. The December sunshine lying about La Tete des Eaux gave a warmth and brightness that would have made the season of the year scarcely to be real ized by one born to New England's ice and snow; and the cold breeze stirring among the trees would have been but the frosty breath of early fall, turned by the sunrise to dews that drenched the grass and few fallen leaves. Gen. La Roche was hurrying through breakfast, while his saddled horse, in charge of a mounted negro, tawed impatiently as he stood wait ing for his master. La Roche had returned home only the day before, for a brief visit, and to assure himself that all was well with his household, consisting now of his sister, Lazalie. and Rose de Cazeneau. Even at this, the last hour of his stay, some of the items of news he bad brought from the city were being discussed and enlarged upon. *'A curious change of affairs,” re marked Madame Riefet, “that Gen. Jackson should now be trusting so much to the Baratarians, who, only last September, were denounced by him, as well as by every one else.” The general laughed. ‘‘Well—yes. In September they were ‘pirates,’ and ‘hellish banditti;’ but in Lecember they are privateers, and their leaders are gentlemen. Yet I Extended both hands, which Lafitte grasped cordially. people, but to the President, that you will fulfil your agreement?” Jackson, with an impatient glance at Claiborne, started to speak; but he checked himself as Lafitte answered coldly, “My personal manhood and honor. Ask any merchant of New Orleans with whom I have had deal ings if ever I failed to fulfil my con tracts. Ask any bank in New Orleans if my paper has ever been dishonored. No man. woman or child, white or black, who knows my name, but will tell you that 1 always keep my prom ises.” •Well answered!” And Jackson, every vestige of reserve now swept away, arose from his chair, and com ing around the table, extended both hands, which Lafitte grasped cordially. Claiborne’s manner underwent a marked change, although it was still somewhat formal as he said, “Capt. lafitte, I cannot do otherwise than be lieve you to be sincere, and to admire the motives which have led you to take this most honorable course. I hb pleased to be able to recognize In you a good and loyal citizen: and my proclamation against you will be re voked in the morning. Meanwhile, in token of amity between us, here is my hand, sir.” Lafitte, after a moment's hesitation, took the extended hand, and bent his head with a coAtesy cold as that v hich had marked Claiborne’s former n anner. Jackson, evidently determined not to accept the governor’s attitude as a criterion for his own, said, with in creased friendliness: “Capt. Bafitte, I shall commend you to the President, by the next post, and furnish him with a full statement of this matter. But” —glancing at the clock on the mantel opposite him—“it is late, and I must return to headquarters. I shall look for you to report to me at nine in the morning, to talk over matters in de tail. I must know precisely as to the amount of assistance I am to count upon from you; and there are other things about which I wish to consult you. I understand that no man is so familiar as yourself with the country to the south and southwest of nere. Is this true?” “Yes, general, as I think I may say without egotism.” “So I supposed; and I shall have seme questions to ask of you in re- j can assure you that they are brave fellows and tremendous fighters, and just the men needed now to help save New Orleans.” Then, while folding his nakpin, the general said animatedly. ‘‘How could I have forgotten to tell you a most surprising piece of news about Capt. Jean? That young man is a puzzle to me.” ‘‘What now?” asked Lazalie with marked interest, as La Roche pushed Lack his chair and looked at his watch. ‘‘Just this,” answered La Roche, smiling at her, and then glancing at the others in a way to show that he was about to startle them: “It appears that Capt. Jean has the honor of a per sonal acquaintance with Napoleon.” “What!” chorused the thee amazed hearers; and Madame Riefet murmur ed. in an awe-stricken tone. “Capt. jean knows the French emperor!” La Roche nodded. “But he is emperor no longer, my dear, nor was he such when Lafiite knew him.” “But how can such a thing he possi ble?” Lazalie began when Madame Reifet, having recovered herself, in terrupted with: “Tell us all about it. Philip. How could he know Napoleon, and where did you hear such an im probable story?” “From himself,” was the laconic re ply, accompanied by a look of great satisfaction. The general was filled with exulta tion at his ability to give his sister— who had frequently expressed her dis hke of his intimacy with Lafitte—a piece of information which he was quite aware would, with her—a wor shiper of the illustrious Corsican— place the Baratarian leader in a po sition second only to him whose ac auaintance he could claim. “I cannot credit such a thing,” she declared. “You could, and you would, had you been where I was, to hear what he said to Gen. Jackson. It came about i:i this way: A week or ten days ago, Lafitte rendered an important service, of a private nature, to Claiborne, and tne governor urged him to name some thing as a reward for his services. What Lafitte asked was a picture of Napoleon, which it seems was his own property, although he was not aware of it at the time. It had been looted Ly one or our men during that Sep tember attack on Barataria. and Clai borne had rescued it, being about aa fad over Napoleon as you, yourself, sister mine; and Lafitte had seen it tanging on the wall of the governor’s study. “The other day, at headquarters. I was present when Jackson and Lafitte were having a conference, during which the general spoke of the mat ter, and rallied Lafitte upon the senti mental price he had named for so val uable a service; he added that prob ably, like all Frenchmen, he made ‘a sort of male Madonna out of Na poleon.’ *‘I wish you could have seen Lafitte’s face when he answered. ‘I revere him as the man I have known and loved since I was a young boy, and who has been as truly my guardian angel aff ever a good Catholic could pray the Holy Mother to be.’ And I wish you could have seen Jackson’s face as he heard it.” Madame Reifet gasped, and the two girls exclaimed in amazement. “It was in France, then, that Capt. Jean knew him?” Madame said won aeringly. “Naturally, Louise, as Napoleon has never been in this country.” The gen eral now consulted his watch, and added, “I must be off; and, by the way, let none of you mention the sur prising fact that I have just related, as it might not be pleasing to Capt. Jean. He said no more than I have re peated. and was unmistakably averse to enlarging upon the subject.” “He always seems averse to talking of himself, or of his past life,” Lazalie said, as if thinking aloud, while they rose from the table; and Madame Riefet remarked rather severely that it was perhaps because there was some disgrace connected with his past, and that this it might be which had made him leave France. The look of resentful indignation which this uncharitable comment brought to Mademoiselle de Caze reau's face was softened somewhat when the general, laying a hand on either of his sister's plump shoul dcrs, said, as he kissed her cheek, "For one so naturally kind of heart as you are, Louise, it is curious what wrongful things you occasionally think in regard to other people.” After he was in the saddle, and the ladies were standing on the veranda to see him depart, he warned Lazalie that, for the present at least, she should confine her aquatic excursions to the immediate vicinity of the plan tation. Then, observing the perturbed expression his words had brought to Madame Riefet’s face, he added that they were not to worry about the Eng lish, as the latter were not at all likely to appear in the neighborhood of Lake Eorgne. (To be continued. ) WHEN AN ELEPHANT GOES MAD. Becomes Embodiment of Blind Fury and Destructiveness. A mad dog. a mad horse, a mad bull, these are awkward customers to deal with, but what would you say to a mad elephant! And it is every bit as terri ble as it sounds. “An insane elephant,” says a famous hunter of big game, “is the embodi ment of blind fury and destructive ness. Sometimes the madness is only temporary, caused perhaps by a fit. It then becomes a matter of strong chains and careful watching. “An elephant which, for some cause, becomes permanently mad, must be shot without delay. Otherwise it will break loose, roam the country as an outcast of fiendish temper, killing and destroying wherever it goes. “Acute disease will often drive an elephant into insanity. So will a gun shot. I once killed a bull elephant which for weeks had been raving mad. When I came to examine the body, I found that a heavy ball had been fired by some bungling hunter into the base of the elephant’s right tusk, shattering the ivory, and driving jagged splinters into the sensitive flesh of the lip. It must have caused exquisite pain, but, like human toothache, it could not kill. No wonder the poor brute had gone mad."—Montreal Herald. Conductor Has Reward Coming. The combination of strike, rain and crowded surface cars has been hard on women and children who must travel up ard down town. A mite of a girl stood in the rain at Thirty-third street and Broadway for more than an hour on Wednesday night, trying to get a car up town. Finally a blockade caused a car to stop near her. The conductor was on the rear platform, so hemmed in that he had not collect ed a fare for twenty minutes. “Mister Conductor,” said the child, crying “I’ll give you a dollar if you’ll let me on.” The conductor grasped the roof of the car. pulled himself up and, stand ing on the dashboard, lifted the weep ing little one into the place he had made vacant. Then he transferred a nickel from his trousers pocket to the coat pocket where he kept the com pany's money. “I want your number.” said the girl “I won’t ever forget you, and I'll em broider you something nice.”—New York Sun. A Natural Inquiry. The simplicity of some former in augural happenings is illustrated by an odd story which has been revived and is going the rounds at Washing ton. It was originally told by Freder- i irk Douglass in his lecture on John Brown. Just after his first inaugura tion President Lincoln was one day blacking his boots in democratic fash ion when several foreign diplomats called and caught him in the act. One o" them remarked, sneeringly: “Mr. President, in our countries the chief executives do not black their own boots.” “Indeed,” said Mr. Lincoln, v ith evident curiosity, “whose boots do they black?” The Handlebars. Not long ago a goat was purchased by Dr. Cartright for his children’s amusement. The afternoon of its ar rival, according to Lippincott's Maga zine, little Mwgaret, aged 3, went into the yard where her brother was playing with the prize. After a brief inspection of the animal she ex claimed : “Oh, George, let me hold its handle bars!” Designed \Jniform and Flag for Confederates 77*T THSET JT^IGS^ HGS/GJVTlD JSfy' SZ&. /Z4&SCS&1LL .'Y/CU&q 'JXTS.'GWZZ? OjT 772T -?Xi\72ZlE&fZF J-Z^G slAZ? UKZfn&T Nicola Marschall, the Prussian Artist, Who for Mere Than Thirty Years Has Lived in Louisville, Prepared the Drawings at the Request of Mrs. Napoleon Lockett in Marion, Ala., Where He Then Resided. In a well-known business building in Louisville, Ky., is a time-stained room rich in its memories and tradi tions of the old South. It is the art studio of Nicola Mar schall. portrait painter and designer of the uniform and flag of the Confeder ate states. From his Prussian home, where he was trained to the painter’s art, he came to America at one of the most picturesque periods of this coun try's history, the gold fever days of 49. The story of how Mr. Marschall came to design the uniform and flag of the Confederacy is best told in his own words: "I came to this country.” he said, “when I was 18 years of age. I land ed in New Orleans and made my way to Mobile, where lived a relative. I met him on the eve of his departure for California. “My kinsman tried to persuade me to join his mining party and go to California. But I was then as far away from home as I cared to be, and de clined. I became acquainted with one of the teachers in a female seminary at Marion, Ala. I became a teacher there, and taught painting, violin, pi ano, guitar and the French and Ger man languages. “My studies in Europe of drawing and painting now served me well. I came over here on an old sailing ves sel, and well do I remember to this day how I had to draw the picture of every member of the crew, from cap tain to humblest sailor. I had been in this country one year when my broth er arrived here from Prussia. “In 1857 I returned to Prussia and remained two years, continuing my studies of art. It was while passing through Verona, which then belonged to Austria, that I saw the uniform which years later was to furnish me the design for the Confederate uni form. “In Verona one day the notes of martial music came to me. A party of sharpshooters belonging to the Aus trian army were passing. “ ‘What splendid soldiers, what no ble uniforms!' was my comment as I saw them. They were dressed in a striking uniform of gray with green trimmings. The green denoted their branch of the army—sharpshooters— and their rank was indicated by marks on the collars of their coats, bars for lieutenants and captains, rtars for the higher officers. “I returned to America in 1859 and again located in Marion. There I painted many portraits of the wealthy. “Mrs. Napoleon Lockett, a beauti ful woman of an old Virginia family and the wife of a planter, lived at Marion. Her eldest son married the daughter of Gov. Moore and one of her younger sons married one of the younger daughters of Gov. Moore. “Soon came the first notes of war. Mrs. Lockett was as loyal a daughter as the South had. She came to me one day and said: ‘Mr. Marschall. we have seceded, and the Confederate government wants a flag. Will you make us a design? It must not be too unlike the United States flag, but different enough to be distinguished at a distance.’ “I took pencil and paper and made three different designs. The first was of two red* stripes and one of white, with a blue field bearing in the upper left-hand corner seven white stars, in dicating the number of states that had then seceded. The second design had the field of stars at the extreme left of the white stripe instead of the top red stripe. The third design had the two full red stripes at top and bottom, the white stripe in the middle, with the blue field and white stars in the center.” The first design, made by Mr. Mar schall. was adopted by the Confeder ate government. This flag—the Stars and Bars—was raised on the staff above the Capitol at Montgomery, Ala., on March 4. 1861. by Miss J. C. Tyler of Virginia, granddaughter of John Tyler. Continuing his narrative, Mr. Mar schall said: "Mrs. Lockett thanked me for the designs, and started to go. Then she came back, adding: ‘We also want a design for a uniform, Mr. Marschall. Can't you suggest one? ‘‘The thought occurred to me of the gray uniforms I had seen worn by the Austrian sharpshooters. I made sev eral rough sketches, indicating the gray color, and also the colors on the collars to denote the branch of the service—buff for officers, yellow for cavalry, blue for infantry, red for ar tillery, etc. "It did not occur to me then that I had done anything worthy of note. 1 simply made the sketches at the re quest of Mrs. Lockett. I knew no more about them from then until I found that the uniform and one of the flags had been adopted by the Confeder acy.” When war was declared Mr. Mar schall enlisted as a private, going with his command to garrison the forts at the mouth of Mobile bay. He served time and then returned to Marion on a furlough. While at home, on the ad vice of a friend, he employed a substi tute for a year and three months. Then came the call for more volun teers. and again Mr. Marschall enlist ed. this time in the Second Alabama regiment of engineers. He served with Col. Lockett, a son of Mrs. Lockett, under Polk, just preceding the fall of Vicksburg. Mr. Marschall served then in the Confederate army until the cur tain fell at Appomattox.—New York Herald. MEN WITH STRANGE POWERS. Belief in Supernatural Strongly Preva lent in Tibet. India and neighboring countries are the home of mystery and the black arts, and devil possession is spoken of and believed in there as much now as it ever was in Palestine in the days of holy writ. Even in the centers of civilization there are fortune tellers and wonder workers to whom super natural powers are attributed by those who scorn superstitious belief. Says a writer: “Tibetan pedlers have af . firmed over and over again that, liv ing in the mountains near the city of Lassa, there are men possessing extraordinary powers, distinct from and far higher than the ordinary lamas of the country. “These men cure the sick by giv ing them rice to eat which they crush out of the paddy with their hands. They perform many other remarkable feats. We are told that a young Ben gali in 1882 testified before a number of respectable witnesses that, while' traveling in Tibet, in the neighbor hood of the lake of Manasarawara, he met one of these men, accompanied by a number of chelas, or pupils. The master saluted him, and. finding that he had nothing to eat. gave him some ground grain and tea. “As the Bengali had no means of obtaining fire the master called for some fuel and kindled it by simply blowing on it with his mouth. He also cured a sheperd who was brought to him suffering from rheumatic fever then and there, by giving him a few grains of rice crushed out of paddy, which he had in his hand.” Every Little Helps. The Hon. Michael J. Murray of Bos ton tells an amusing story at the ex pense of President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard. One day a graduate of the Harvard medical school met the president on the street for the first time since his graduation. While in college he became well acquainted with President Eliot, and the latter readily recalled his name upon the chance meeting. “I have something to say to you, President Eliot.” remarked the gradu ate. “Yesterday I made a will, and after I had disposed of all my worldly goods I had inserted in the will an other clause. By that clause I left my brain to the Harvard medical school.” “Well.” was the answer, “I thank you.” Then, without meaning any sarcasm, the president continued: "Every little helps.” Coincidence in Historic Names. Two historic names appear in curi ous proximity in Spring street, near Macdougal, New York. Over a restau rant window is a sign bearing the name Aaron Burr, almost directly ap pears the inscription, “Alexander Hamilton, carpenter and builder." What makes their proximity still more interesting is the fact that the en trance to Aaron Burr's country place, Richmond Hill, was, years ago, just above where the intersection of Spring and Macdougal streets is now, a short distance from the signs still bearing the two historic names. Burr is said to have passed out of this gate on that fatal morning when he went to Weehawken heights to fight his mem orable duel with Hamilton. TRAITS OF GRAY SQUIRRELS. Migrate in Armies, Losing Thousands on the Way. Early writers tell of wonderful mi gration of American gray squirrels, which must have arisen from the rapid increase and consequent overcrowd ing of a locality. Thousands of this species would start off in a regular army, all moving in the same direc tion and with considerable rapidity, allowing nothing to stop their onward march. Although these little animals have an extreme aversion to water and do not excel as swimmers, yet, whenever a watercourse, no matter what width, barred their progress they would not hesitate for an in stant, but plunge in and struggle des perately for the opposite shore, seiz ing upon anything in the way of float ing sticks or chips to assist them in the passage. Unless the river was very narrow by far the smaller percentage of the band reached the farther shore, the rest becoming exhausted and drown ing. These armies never seemed tc reach any destination, but gradually their numbers would decrease bj death from drowning and other hard ships, until the band faded entirely away. Gray squirrels, generally four in a nest, are born in March or early in April. They never venture forth from the nest during the first month anc are attended alone by the mother. She takes this task upon herself from choice and does not allow another squirrel, even her own mate, to ap proach the nest. Saves All Her Gold Coins. It is said by her most intimate friends that Lillian Russell has never been known to spend a gold coin. In the years of her stage career she has accumulated a large number of gold pieces of every description, and they are treasured as carefully as her jew els. This practical hoarding of gold by the actress is not due to any supersti tion, but to a sentiment of some pecu liar nature. During the tours of the former Weber & Fields company to the Pacific slope the actress received a large share of her weekly salary in gold. Every coin was dutifully added to the collection, which has now as sumed the proportions of a modest for tune. The Papal Flag. The papal flag is comparatively un familiar outside of the Eternal city. The war flag of the defunct temporal power of the pope was white, and in its center stood fig ures of St. Peter ard St. Paul, with the cross keys and tiara above them. The flag of the merchant ships owned by the subjects of the states of the church is a curious combina tion, half yellow and half white, with the design of the cross keys on the white. In the banner used by the cru sader king of Jerusalem, Godfrey, the only tinctures introduced were the two metals, gold and silver, five gold en crosses being placed upon a sil ver field. This was done with the intention of making the device unique, as in all other cases it is deemed false heraldry to place metal on met al. Jealousy to “the Limit.” A young man was jealous of a girl he adored. She was a bit more co quettish than other girls. “Your eyes can flirt in all d'rections,” he said one day, and cut them out “Yon might wave your hands to some body,” and cut them off. “With your feet you can make signs to some one under the table ” and cut those off. “I forgot that you can also speak,” he remarked three days later, and tore her tongue out. “You shall not smile,” he said, and knocked her teeth out. “So, I am a bit quieter now,” he re marked the day after he had cut her hair off, and for the first time he was going to trust her to herself. “Now she is ugly, but still I feel she is quite my own,” he said on leaving her. But when he returned the girl had disap peared—she had run away with the proprietor of a show—From the Fa bles of Eugen Heltai. Apology of President Morales. Two American women who have just returned from Santo Domingo had an audience one forenoon with Presi dent Morales, who apologized for his appearance. “The fact is. ladies.” said he. “I was so very busy yesterday and this morning that I have not had time to be shaved. They tried to assassi nate me, you know, so I hope you will * rlook my appe&i f;ce." The Mystery of Health. Whenever any one is released from jail or penitentiary after a long sen tence, we read that while he was in poor or downright bad health when he entered he comes out as hearty as a brick. Yet almost without exception jails and penitentiaries are insanitary, sunless places, with no facilities for precautions usually taken by those who wish to get or keep healthy. The mystery lies in two words—regu larity and diet. The first is, perhaps, the more important. Clock-like regu larity; everything done on the second and on the same second every day; a recognition of the fact that the body is a machine. Then, as a supplement to this, a simple diet—plain, not too varied—enough to eat. but not too much.—Saturday Evening Post. Rhode Island Legislators. In Rhode Island each town and city elects a Senator, no matter what its population. West Greenwich has a population of 600 and a senator. Providence has one representative in the Senate and a population of about 200,000. -MY WIFE’S PEOPLE COMING.1 -We have had a splendid winter” in Western Canada. Canada’s inrush this year is wonder fully great and considerably ahead of any previous year. It is always inter esting to those who contemplate mov ing to read expressions of opinion from those living in the country, it is therefore our pleasure to reproduce the following, written to an Agent of the Government and forwarded to the Immigration Branch of the Depart ment of the Interior at Ottawa: Birch Hills, Sask., Canada, Feb. 1, ’05. Dear Sir:—I take pleasure in drop ping you a few lines to let you know how we are getting along up here and how we like the place. We have been here close on to a year now and think the place is fine. We have been cut every day this winter working in the bush getting out logs for buildings, etc., getting rails for fencing. We have not suffered with the cold as much as we did in Chicago. My lit tle boys are out every day with their sleighs having a good time. The low est the t^nperature has been this winter is 34 below, and it is very still, no wind. We had a splendid summer. We put up about 50 tons of hay and will have about 30 tons to sell. Hay brings $8 per ton now and will be higher in the spring. We have 20 acres broke and ready for crop. We worked on the Can. Nor. Ry. for awhile this summer and am just 3 miles from the R. R. and town site. The steel is all laid to within 2 miles of the river and we often see the train bringing supplies for the Eridge. My wife's people are coming up about May. I wish you would write them and if there should be any one coming to Prince Albert that could do with a half a car let them know. The homesteads are all taken up within 12 miles of us. I often think if this land were only in the States what a rush there would be. It is the rich est land and most productive I ever saw, and the climate is O. K. I know that people back there that I write to do not believe me when I write them what a splendid winter we are having. They think we are all frozen up. We have only about 8 inches of snow, and there are cattle on the range that have not been rounded up this winter. Day after day the Ther. raises up to 50 and 60, and I don’t believe we have had a day this winter that it stayed at zero. My wife says that we used to think that zero was cold in Chicago. But we don’t mind it one bit. Christmas night we went out and drove 5 miles with our 3 little boys, it was 20 be low, and there was not a whimper from any one of them; I’d hate to do it in old Chicago. Well, I guess I will close, and you can tell any one in the U. S. that they cannot do better than come to the Prince Albert District. I remain. Yours truly, (Signed) J. D. Head. Properties of Crystals. Although minerals are not credited with principles of growth and living yet they do possess most interesting structural, physical and chemical properties. If a crystal be broken oi mutilated in any way whatever, it pos sesses the power of repairing its in juries during subsequent growth, This capacity for healing, as well a» enlargement has been pointed out by many scientific authors, and is be yond the power possessed by plants. Normal Death Without Pain. Normal death, if the phrase be per mitted, is a painless occurrence, u» ually preceded by gradual loss of con sciousness entailing no more suffering than going to sleep. It is not merely that the pain of death is trifling as compared with the physical pain of a scald—it is non-existent.—Dr. Salee by, in the Academy. BABY'S AWFUL ECZEMA. Face Like Raw Beef—Thought She Would Lose Her Ear—Healed Without a Blemish—Moth er Thanks Cuticura. “My little girl had eczema very bad when she was ten months old. I thought she would lose her right ear. It had turned black, and her face was like a piece of raw meat, and very sore. It would bleed when I washed her, and I had to keep cloths on it day and night. There was not a clear spot on her face when I began using Cuticura Soap and Ointment, and now It is completely healed, without scar or blemish, which is more than I had hoped for. (Signed) Mrs. Rose Ether, 291 Eckford St., Brooklyn, N. Y.* If they are bright with hope there is no lurking spot for despair. Many Children Are Sickly. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, Cure Feverishness, Head ache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Dis orders.Break up Colds and Destroy Worms. At all Druggists',25c. Sample njailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Temper your feelings to the condi tion of the one who has offended. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the dl» eased portion of the ear. There Is only one way eure deafness and that Is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of tbo mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube Is Inflamed you have a rumbling sound or Im perfect bearing, and when It la entirely closed. 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