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CHAPTER XXIX.
Less than a week later, one early
afternoon, the members of the house
hold at La Tete des Eaux were start
led by the booming of cannon in the
direction of Lake Borgne.
What nad happened was this: An
English fleet, with twelve hundred
men, had, with the intention of throw
ing an attacking force across Lakes
Borgne and Pontchartain. sailed into
Lake Borgne and opened an attack up
on the Americans, whose presence
was a surprise to the enemy, as Capt.
Lockyer, commanding the latter, had
understood that this point was de
fenseless.
A fierce battle followed, resulting in
a partial victory for the English, who
were now masters of Lake Borgne.
It was the Shapira who, late in the
afternoon, brought this news to La
Tete des Eaux.
The house was soon in a bustle of
preparation, the inmates packing has
tily the few things they were to take
w ith them in their flight, and conceal
ing such property as would be likely
to attract thieving bands among the
enemy, who would, with little doubt,
visit the plantation, as Shapira report
ed the woods about Lake Borgne to be
filled with British soldiers.
Madame Riefet. when not absorbed
by other matters, did not hesitate to
express her reluctance toward accept
ing the assistance of this swarthy,
brigandish-looking man, whom she
had never before seen, and whose
very existence had been unknown to
her.
“I know something of him.” spoke
up Mademoiselle Rose. “He is the
man of whom grandpere' rented Ka
nuahana. Didn’t you know it?”
“Yes.” Lazalie added, before Mad
ame Riefet had time to frame a fitting
reply, ‘ and we have seen him many
times about the woods here. Rose
and I once saw Captain Jean talking
with him; and I think he is very oblig
ing.”
‘‘But all this he tells us of a cave,
where we can hide, right here on the
plantation, yet which no one has ever
heard of before, and no one, except
ing Captain Jean and himself, seems
to know anything about, sounds very
strange and incredible. Did your
grandpere know of this cave, Mig
nonne?”
“I do not know, but I think not. 1
never heard of such a thing. Yet,
madame, it surely is safer to trust this
man, who tells us that Captain Jean
sent him, than to stay here and risk
visit from those dreadful soldiers.”
‘‘We dare not stay, and so we must
“Surrender, you
trust him.” said Madame, with a.weak
attempt at resolution, as she slid a
jewel-box into the bundle Violet was
preparing to fasten.
Old Ztney had come over from
Kanauhana, having insisted upon be
ing taken away with her beloved
young mistress; and now she entered
the room to announce that Captain
Jean was below stairs.
Never had his arrival at the planta
tion been so welcome as now. Mad
ame Riefet, catching up her out-of
door wraps from the bed. ordered that
the various bundles be brought down
stairs; for the phlegmatic Barbe had
finished tying up the last one as Chloe
handed Senorita I.azalie the lace
scarf for her head, while Ma'am Brig
ida was fastening the long cloak she
had insisted that her nursling should
wear.
“You may feel yourself fortunate,
Madame Riefet, that >x>u are able to
leave here by daylight, and not, like
some people I know, be roused from
sleep to find yourself a prisoner in
English hands,” said Lafitte, as they
joined him on the stairway.
As they were descending the stairs,
he called to Shapira, who was stand
ing on the veranda, and then hurry
ing down, gave the latter some in
structions which the others did not
hear as they passed out of the house
and faced the slaves, now huddled in
to a terrified mass, with their faces
full of despairing expectancy.
Some of the women began lament
ing wildly when they found that they
were not to go away. But Lafitte, in
his usual authoritative fashion, quiet
ed the hubbub, and ordered Shapira
to take them to the Colonneh, which
—as he now decided—was not to be
used as a hiding-place for those whom
he himself had, so unexpectedly, been
able to assist.
One of his owr craft, commanded
by Baptistine, was tying off the Owl’s
Point* awaiting the signal which
would announce the coming of Lafitte,
who, bent upon a private mission in
the neighborhood, had not reckoned
upon the present denouement.
But now, in view of all the circum
stances, he considered this, the boat,
a more desirable means for conveyng
the Lulies directly to Shell Island,
where now were only old Sciplo, Ju
niper and the hoy, Nato.
Waiting therefore until he saw Sha
pira start for the Colonneh, followed
by t\ie now quiet slaves, Lafitte, who
had T^eantlme “xplalned his*plan to
his own charges, told them to follow
him, and set out hurriedly in an op
posite direction from that taken by
Shapira and his dusky retinue.
The forest was darkening with late
afternoon shadows as the fleeing par
ty followed, in comparative silence,
the tall form that led them.
At length the party emerged from
the deeper shadows of their wooded
way, and came into a cleared space,
where the knoll known as "The Owl’s
Point” projected into the bayou; and
halting here. Lafitte looked about him,
while the others stood grouped a little
distance away, awaiting quietly his
movements.
But before he could give the signal
to Baptistine. whose craft was con
cealed around the bend of the bayou,
two men burst from the cover of a
thicket opposite Lafitte, a gun w’as
leveled at his breast, and a hoarse
voice shouted, "Surrender, you cursed
pirate!”
Rose de Cazeneau, with a wild cry,
rushed between the weapon and La
fitte, while Barbe, who had been star
ing—as though he were a ghost—at
the holder of the gun, echoed the (
shriek of her mistress.
"Do not—do not shoot your child!”
she screamed; and, at her words, old
Zeney, who stood nearest the strang
er. gave him one searching look, and
rushed in turn between her mistress
am! the gun, just as it shot out a jet
of flame.
A second report mingled so closely
with the first as to make them seem j
but one; and Zeney, with the man
who had shot her. fell to the ground.
All had happened so quickly that
Lafitte, who was, for an instant, un
nerved by Rcse de Cazeneau’s effort
to save him, had scarcely time to
craw a pistol before his unknown as
sailant fell, as if from the discharge
of his own weapon, which had killed
Zeney.
In their surprise and fright, and by
reason of the confusion, no one except
i Lafitte had comprehended any mean
ing in the words which followed the
wild cry of Barbe, w ho now stood sob
bing hysterically, with her arms
around her half-swooning mistress,
while Lazalie, with dilating nostrils
' and blazing eyes, sought to release
berself from Madame Riefet.
Baptistine. who had heard the shots,
reached the shore in a small boat
pulled by some of his crew, soon after
Shapira appeared at the edge of the
thick woods from whence had come
the bullet that had killed Zeney's slay
er.
The English sailor, at Lafitte’s com
cursed pirate!”
mand, new surrendered his arms to
Shapira, and was promised freedom,
m exchansft for a truthful statement
of the motive which brought his com
panion and himself to the spot.
He said that the other man had been
unknown to him until that same morn
ing; and all he now knew of him was
that he was a scout, picked up from
among the Indians, and bought to
seine the English. Capt. Lockyer,
who was in command of the English |
fleet upon l.ake Borgne, having
learned that Lafitte was in that vicin
ity. had selected this scout to find and
capture the man upon whom he longed
to execute personal vengeance. His
orders had been to bring Lafitte to
him, alive, if possible, and dead,
rather than not at all; and the sailor,
having been one of the crew who
rowed the British officers to their
mortifying conference at Grande
Terre, had been sent with the scout in
order to identify Lafitte.
Such was the end of the man in
whom Barbe had recognized the bril
liant officer of former years—recog
nized, despite the shock cf grizzled
hair, and the changes wrought by time
and a lawless life in the face and
form that had tempted the new year’s
elopement.
Meantime, Baptistine had landed;
unweaving his men in the boat, he
canm leisurely to where Lafitte was
questioning the English sailor. The
Baiatarian’s shrewrd eyes had glanced
ever the scene; and the fallen bodies,
the group of excited women—all that
he saw, told his alert perceptions
what had presumably taken place,
while the sight of his commander,
standing unharmed, and Shapira's at
titude, as he leaned upon his gun, as
sured him that the danger, such as it
might have been, w’as past.
Hence his nonchalant, strolling gait
to where Lafitte stood.
The latter saw him at once, and in
terrupted himself to bid Shapira see
that the sailor awaited his further or
ders. Then drawing Baptistine aside,
he gave him instructions in regard to
placing the ladies and their maids
aboard his boat.
“But it seems very dreadful to leave
poor Zeney lying there,” said Rose,
with a tearful backward look, as La
fltte was assisting her into the small
boat.
“It is not possible to d(^otherwise,
child,” he answered gentlj^ightening
his pressure upon the small hand he
was holding. “All that can be done
for her now, I will see !s done befora
I join you. Will you not trust me to
do that?”
The expression of the tear-stained
eyes raised to meet his look answered
him without the need of speech.
“You are not coming with us?” she
began, when Madame Riefet inter
rupted her with a shrill—“Not coming
with us! Oh, Capt. Lafitte, we can
not go without you. And these
strange men! Indeed”—now angrily
—“we will not!”
He had put Rose aboard the boat,
and turned to assist Lazalie, while he
answered Madame Riefet’s outburst
calmly, although there was evidence
of impatience held in check.
“I intend to escort you personally
to Shell Island, madame; but it is
best that you all go aboard the boat
my captain here has waiting around
the point. Fe will take you to it, and
then return tor me, as I have a duty
here which I cannot very well perform
until you and the other ladies have
gone. There may be other English
men prowling in the vicinity: and the
sound of the firing may bring them
this way. If this should happen, I
can manage matters to far better ad
vantage by knowing that you are out
of harm’s way ”
Madame made no reply, but permit
ted him to place her in the boat.
Ma'mam Brigida followed her, Violet
coming last; and the sailors pushed
off as Baptistine sprang aboard.
“Why does not Barbe come with'
us?” Madame Riefet demanded ab
ruptly. as she saw the French woman
walk to where Shapira was bending
over the body of Zeney, intending—
as ordered by Lafitte—to carry it into
the woods for burial.
LaSite answered from the shore,
“Barbe will come with me; there is
something I wish her to do. Madame
Itiefet, if you will kindly permit.”
He had, unnoticed by the others,
laid a detaining hand on Earbe's arm,
and whispered, “I wish to speak with
you; wait here until the boat returns.”
She gave no sign of having heard
him, but stood silently, until, as Violet
was following Erigida into the boat,
she turned ar.d walked over to where
lay the dead.
(To be continued.)
AN ACHIEVEMENT CF SCIENCE
Mental Processes in a School for
Idiots.
Driveling idiots, if taken at an early
age, can be made useful men and wom
en, writes Stephen Smith, M. D.,
LL. D., in Leslie's Magazine for
April. The methods of one institu
tion for idiots which I visited can
be* cited: The instructor arranged
several idiots of the same grade on
the floor, and, cofnmencing with a
newcomer, he gave the child its first
lesson by placing its hand on a dumb
j bell and striking the bell with an
1 other. The child started and invol
untarily removed his hand from the
bell. The exercise was repeated sev
eral times, and this was the first les
son, and was regarded as very satis
factory. The second child had been
under instruction for six months, and
he noticed the descent of the bell in
the doctor's hand, and withdrew his
hand from tiie bell before it was
struck. The third child had been un
der instruction nine months, and when
the blow was falling he withdrew
his hand and also the bell, and
there was a faint smile on his face,
the fourth child had been in the
school two years, and showed his ad
vancement by imitating the awkward
ness of the other boys during the
exercises. When the doctor ap
proached him he seized his bell and
struck the doctor's with a loud laugh.
Thus the rudimentary and dormant
nerve-cells had been aroused to ac
tivity; first the censorv nerve centres
of touch were stimulated and began
to enlarge; then the closely affiliated
centres of sight were excited; still
further the process of stimulation
| proceeded, until the higher groups of
! nerve-cells were arounsed, and the
ric-ntal process of tracing cause and
effect began, and the driveling idiot
! became a reasoning being.
I
Duly Qualified Kisses.
Some individual with oceans of time
on his hands has conceived the idea
of hunting through the works of Eng
lish novelists for the purpose of find
ing all the adjectives used to qualify
the word kiss. The result is as fol
lows :
Cold, warm, icy, burning, chilly,
cool, loving, indifferent, balsamic,
fragrant, blissful, passionate, aroma
tic. with tears bedewed, long, soft,
hasty, intoxicating, dissembling, deli
cious, pious, tender, beguiling, hearty,
distracted, frantic, freslvas-the-morn
ing, breathing fire, divine, satanic,
glad, sad, superficial, quiet, loud, fond,
heavenly, execrable, devouring, omi
nous, fervent, parching, nervous, soul
les*. stupefying, slight, careless, anx
ious, painful, sweet, refreshing, em
barrassed, shy. mute, ravishing, holy,
sacred, firm, hurried, faithless, nar
cotic, feverish, immoderate, sisterly,
brotherly, and paradisaical. The task
seemed interminable, and he gave up
at this stage.
Australia’s Rabbit Plague.
The last spell of heat cleared off a
multitude of rabbits directly around
Broken Hill, and although there are
still many about, they are not nearly
so plentiful as a few weeks ago.
However, apparently there has been
no diminution on the holdings a few
miles from Broken Hill. At one well
known station the lessee has been
trapping the rabbits at the tank Wien
they come to drink. In this way no
fewer than 35.000 rabbits have been
exterminated at one tank in a fort
night. A cartload containing 700 rab
bits, was put on the scales and
weighed one ton.—-Melbourne Argus.
Historic Thimbles.
In Mrs. Vanderbilt's collection of
thimbles, which is the envy of her
friends, there are several that are not
only very beautiful, but historically
valuable as well.- Among the latter,
and probably most highly valued by
their fortunate owner, is one which
was originally worn by Queen Eliza
beth; another, which shows its royal
owner knew its use, was the property
of Princess Alice; still another dainty
conception in gold and enamel once
belonged to the Princess of Wales,
while most valued of all is one said
to have been used by Queen Victoria
when she was a girl.
►
Improbable.
Editor (severely)—Don’t you know
enough to w-rite facts Instead of fic
tion in this paper?”
Cub Reporter—Why, sir, my story
tells just what happened.
Editor—Tells w-hat happened? Why.
here in the first paragraph you say
that an automobile was going slowly
dow-n the street.
His Nasty Dig.
Mrs. Golswizzer—”Our new cook is
•a deaf and dumb old maid.”
Mr. Goldwizzer—“What else is the
matter with her besides being a deaf
mute?”
Mrs. G.—‘ Nothing at all.”
Mr. G.—‘‘Then 1 can’t understand
why she's an old maid.”
Caught in a Mis-Statement.
Homely Lecturer — Women, my
friends, are invariably hard please.
Voice in the audience—One mo
ment, please. Are you married?
Homely lecturer (irritably)—Yes,
sir. I am.
Voice—Is your wife happy?
Lecturer (proudly and indignantly)
—Yes. sir. she is!
Voice—Then, sir. you are a liar.
Exchange of Confidences.
‘Husband (during the honeymoon)—
I was awfully nervous when I pro
posed to you. I was afraid you would
not accept me.
Wife—And I was awfully nervous
for weeks before you proposed. I
was afraid you wouldn’t.
OUGHT TO EE SATISFIED.
Sallie—If I was dividing the cake I d give you the big piece.
Tommy—Then what yer kickin' about? I’ve got it, ain’t I?
X
Art and Geography.
Among the visitors at an art exhi
bition were two old ladies from the
country. They were examining with
great interest a bas-relief of a young
Greek shepherd, beneath which were
inscribed the words. "Executed in
terra cotta.”
‘‘I wonder where Terra Cotta is?
ventured the elder of the two, turn
ing to her companion.
“Well, now, I ought to know,” hesi
tated the other, “but 1 can't seem to
place it just now."
“Ah. well,” rejoined the first speak
er, as they passed on, “it must be a
dreadful place if they execute harm
less young boys like that there.
Youth's Companion.
Brotherly Advice.
“I wish I knew whether Tom really
loves me or not,” said the dear girl
as she toyed with her engagement
ring.
‘Til tell you how you can find out,”
said her big brother. “Next Thurs
day is his birthday: make him a pres
ent of a box of cigars like you gave
me last Christmas.”
“But how will that prove his love?”
asked the innocent maid.
"If he smokes them himself he
loves you.” answered the wise b. b.;
“and if he gives them to his friends
be doesn't.”
Sharp Rebuke From Cholly.
Cholly—I was weally seveah with a
wude fellah on the street cah today.
Dolly—What did you do. Cholly?
Cholly—Well, y’ see. the chap kept
staring at me horribly. So I finally
fixed my monocle upon him and said.
"1 say, me man, you must be dev’Bsh
liahd up for something to look at. y
know!” I could see fce was awfly
cut up. for he said: “I guess that's
right.”' _
A Long-Felt Want.
“I’ve got a patentable idea that 1
expect to make a fortune out of.
said the local inventor.
“What ’tis?" queried the party with
the rubber habit.
“A scarfpin shield that will prevent
a voting man from getting tangled up
in his best girl’s hair,’ answered the
genius.
It.
Cholly Sappey—“Such an odd girl,
don’t y’ know. When she was intro
duced to me she burst out laughing.”
Miss Peppery—“Yes, she’s hysteri
cal.”
Cholly Sappey—“Aw—really?”
Miss Peppery—“Yes, she frequently
laughs at nothing.’’
Further Information Wanted.
She—How did you spend your time
while yfcu were away?
Her Husband—I counted the min
utes until I could see you again.
She—Um—that would not take
long. What did you do with the min
utes after they were counted?
After the Party.
The Sister—She was fishing for
compliments, as usual.
The Brother—Well, I don’t know
what she was fishing for, but she
seems to have landed that fellow who
used to call on you.—Detroit Tribune.
One Secret She Keeps.
“She says she knows a few things
about you, but she refuses to tell what
they are.”
“Yes; she’s referring to a fewr truth
ful remarks I made about her.”
Only One of Her Kind.
“She is a marvelous woman.”
“What has she done—written a
booff?”
“No. She met a fellow with a cough
and didn’t tell him of a sure cure.”—
Illinois State Journal.
Common Complaint.
“How does he like his new job?”
“It only has one drawback."
“What’s that?”
“The work connected with it.”—
Illinois State Journal.
Don’t You Think That Jarred Him?
Miss Sharpe—Vera,” he began,
you must know why I’ve been calling
here so much; why I sit here in the
parlor with you night after night—’’
“I suppose, Mr. Kloseman,” the girl
interrupted, “it’s cheaper to do that
than take me out anywhere.”—Catho
lic Standard and Times.
Enterprise.
>.ordy—“Gasberry is such an en
terprising chap. Always first in the i
field.' ” ,
Butts—“What's he done now?”
Nordy—“Started a school of corre
spondence to teach people to conduct
schools of correspondence.”
He Was Satisfied.
Sister What! You engaged to
Miss } rettjun Why, she has no fam
ily tree!
Brother—Oh, I guess she has—and
jut;gin? from her appearance it must
be a peach!
Handicapped.
His Wife—The baby is awfully
backward about learning to talk.
Her Husband—Perhaps you don’t
give him a chance, my dear.
She Is So Light-Headed.
“I won tier why Mamie will load her
hat with such a lot of trimmings?”
Probably to keep her head from
blowing away.”
At the Sewing Circle.
Mrs. Cutter—W’hat do you^do when
you husband goes on a tear?
Mrs. Stitcher—Oh, I just let him
rip!
ACCOMMODATING.
Employer—Here! ¥/hat does this mean? My telephone's been taken
out.
Office Boy—Sure. De office bey next door said his boss would like to
use it, and I sent it in to him; but, say, I had a* av.ful time to git it off de
desk.
Rijhtly Defined. j
Teacher—What are the three per- i
sonal pronouns?
Pupil—He, she, and it.
Teacher—Give an example of their
use.
Pupil—Husband, wife, and baby.
The First Consideration.
“Where are you going to take your
vacation?”
“I don’t know. I want to be sure
T’m going to get it before I decide
where I’m going to take it.”
Judging His Worth.
Old Man—How can you afford to
smoke that 25-cent cigar?”
Young Man—Oh, to-day was pay
day.”
Old Man—And what did you do
with the other quarter?
Clearer Way of Putting It.
“Father asked Mr. Binks out last
evening.”
“I thought he didn’t like him.”
“He doesn’t. You don’t understand.
He asked him to get out.”
Ado^.’ens.
Don t you think that some men
make a mistake in adopting politics
as a career?”
"ies; bu* it isn’t as seriouN v the
mistake that politics makes in adopt
ing some men as its representatives."
All Changed.
How about Miss Sneering?” in
quired the returned traveler. “I Sup
Posaayou are still friends?”
No, indeed.” replied Sna«iley; ‘‘w’hy,
we’ve been married over a fear.”
Cultivated.
Mr. Blox—What a beautiful swan
like neck Mrs. Blank has!”
Mrs. Knox—No, wonder. Her kitchen
is in the basement and she has to
stretch it every time she looks out tc
see who's going by!”
Implicating Skaggs.
Baggs—I conceal nothing from m>
wife; I tell her everything.
Skaggs—Well, I wish you’d quit it
She runs right over and tells my wife
and I get a calling.
Punctilious as to Good Form.
Bah Jove, old fel, I was wanting
1.0 see you, you know. I had just had
my man call you up at j'<nr apart
ments, but got no answer. N it home,
I suppose?”
Oh yes, deah boy. But, you know,
mv man doesn’t like to answer the
phone when I am there myself. He
sajs it puts him too much in the light
a serving man, don’t cher know
And. of course. I could not think of
doing it myself when he's theah, old
fel.” replied Spendthrift.
Voice Culture.
Baby heard Leila say that one of
the girls in the choir had strained her
voice. A few days afterward Leila
went into the kitchen and there on
the floor sat Baby, holding the tea
strainer to her lips and singing
through it.
‘ Oh, Baby,” she said, ‘‘put up the
tea-strainer.”
But Baby answered. ‘‘No, I’m strain
ing my voice.”—Little Chronicle.
An Impolite Bill Collector.
Hunter—I sav, when can you find
it convenient to pay that little bill?
I've called at your place at least half
a dozen times.
Fox—And thereby betrayed your un
familiarity with polite customs. Hav
ing made one call, you should have
waited until it was returned before
making another.
Bridget's Trifling Mistake.
Lady—For goodness sakes, Bridget,
what kind of greens are these?
Bridget—The spinage was fed to the
cow by mistake, ma'am, so I cooked up
one o' them parlor palms. The guests
won’t know the difference.
Lady—But, Bridget! Those palms
were artificial.—Detroit Free Press.
More Serious Than He Thought.
Dr. Wipe—No, you haven’t got ap
pendicitis. Booze is all that ails you
—stop your drinking and you’ll soon
be well.
Lushington—Great heaven, doc,
don’t say that. Why I had no idea it
was so serious. I thought that all I
needed was an operation or two.
Practical Girl.
“Why do you waste so many hours
on beautifying devices?” inquired the
old-fashioned woman. “Why not de
viate that time to thinking beautiful
thoughts?”
“Oh, fudge!” retorted the modern
damsel. “My beau isn’t a mind-read
er.”
His Sense of Responsibility.
“You don’t quote me exactly,” said
the statesman.
“Certainly not.” answered the confi
dent reporter. “If I had confined my
self to your remarks the paper would
not have considered the article worth
priEting.”
Sounded Ominous.
Paw Hoptoad—I see this bigamist
Hoch is liable to get a habeas cor
pus.
Maw Hoptoad—Well. I don’t feel
sorry if he does. There ain’t nuthin'
too bad fer a man like him.
Whiffs of Spring.
“The scribe's pen has set the whole
village ag&g.”
“Is it so powerful?”
“Age! The villagers say that unless
it be removed they will poison the
hogs.”
CURE YOUR KIDNEYS.
V. hen the Back Aches and Bladder
ibles Set In, Get at tne Cause.
Luii’t make the mistake of believing
back ache and bladder ills to be local
ailments. Get at the cause and cure
the kidneys. Use
Doan’s Kidney
Pills, which have
cured thousands.
Captain S. D.
Hunter, of En
gine No. 14, Pitts
burg. Pa., Fire
Department, and
residing at 2729
Wylie avenue,
says:
“It was three years ago that I used
Doan’s Kidney Pills for an attack of
kidney trouble that was mostly back
ache, and they fixed me up fine. There
is no mistake about that, and if l
should ever be troubled again I would
get them first thing, as I know what
they are.”
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N.Y.
Getting Closer to Heaven.
Once in the Pacific coast forests,
the writer came upon a magnificent
sugar pine, the only tree of its kind
for miles around and a landmark even
in that region of giant trees. My
guide, as he looked up at the top.
which lifted itself almost into the
clouds, remarked: “If a man could
climb that tree on a Christmas morn
ing he could hear the church bells
ringing in heaven."—Exchange,
Find Buried Treasure.
In the immediate neighborhood of
the little to*rn of Klingman, in Swit
zerland, a case was found containing
an assortment of 829 gold coins. Most
of the coins are of the years from
1602 to 1704. It is thought that the
gold was buried at the time of the
Spanish war of succession. The gold
value of the coins is estimated at 35.
000, and the numismatic value at over
100,000 francs.
Bacilli Are Scarce in Egypt.
A German physician has discovered
that the air of the Egyptian desert is
about as free from bacterial life as
the polar regions or the high seas.
Tubercle bacilli are killed when ex
posed six hours in the sunlight. He
considers the desert especially suit
able for rheumatics and patients suf
fering from kidney diseases and tu
berculosis.
For Growing Girls.
West Pembroke, Me., April 24.—
Mrs. A. L. Smith, of this place, says
that Dodd’s Kidney Pills are the best
remedy for growing girls. Mrs. Smith
emphasizes her recommendation by
the following experience:
“My daughter was thirteen years old
last November and it is now two years
since she was first taken with Crazy
Spells that would last a week and
would then pass off. In a month she
would have the spells again. At these
times she w'ould eat very little and
was very yellow'; even the whites of
ter eyes would be yellow.
“The doctors gave us no encourage
ment, they all said they could not help
her. After taking one box of Dodd’s
Kidney Pills, she has not had one bad
spell. Of course, we continued the
I treatment until she had used in all
about a dozen boxes, and we still giv«
them to her occasionally, when she is
not feeling well. Dodd’s Kidney Pills
are certainly the best medicine for
growing girls.”
Mothers should heed the advice of
Mrs. Smith, for by so doing, they may
save their daughters much pain and
sickness and ensure a healthy, happy
future for them.
True Greatness.
True greatness, first of all,- is a
thing of the heart. It is all alive with
robust and generous sympathies. It
is neither behind its age nor too far
before it. It is up with its age. and
ahead of it only just so far as to be
able to lead its march. It cannot
slumber, for activity is a necessity of
its existence. It is no reservoir, but
a fountain.—President Roosevelt.
THE CITY SAVINGS BANK.
This bank was organized In 18S4
and has been In continuous operation
since. Through the trials and vicis
situdes of the last twenty years It has
proven to savers that its system is
thorough and its security unquestion
ed. It is governed by state law and
supervised by the State Banking
Board, its purpose is to assist those
who are systematic savers. How thor
oughly it is doing so is evidenced by
the 6,500 people who are its customers.
It pays 4 per cent, interest on depos
its and maintains strict secrecy in
its relations with its customers.
If you desire the opportunity of
laying aside a bit of money and re
ceive a liberal rate of interest for it
or desire to conduct your business
through an old established bank
where it will receive prompt and sat
isfactory attention, write for particu
lars to the City Savings Bank, 201 So.
16th St., Omaha, Nebraska.
Growth of Crystals.
There Is no limit to the minuteness
of fragments which may under favor
able conditions grow into perfect
crystals, no bounds as to the time
during which the crystaline growth
may be suspended and then continue
again.
For Rent or Sale, Two Ranches of
3,000 Acres Each.
Located in Custer county on South
Loup river; consists of 500 acres good
corn land, 60 alfalfa, 320 meadow and
the balance in pasture; good improve
ments. Inquire of Victor H. Coffman,
Omaha, Neb.
If all men were wise the gold brlcli
Industry wduld cease to flourish.
I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved
my life three years ago.—Mbs. Thus. Robbins^
Map e Street, Norwich, N. Y„ Feb. 17, 1900.
Love may not last long, but the
scars it leaves last forever.
“Dr. David Kennedy’* Favorite Remedy
•orrtl JIT wife of a terrible dtaea.ee. With pleasure I
tnttf}' to It* mAreeJou* efficacy.” J.aweet, Albany,N. V.
Never judge a avoman’s religion by
her Lenten devotions.
