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Nathaniel u« tb* shadows of met H* caught the aid »wui 1m t4 artta and went on bo.&r Ha panned ciuae to a thin tin* in na ting men aaa the faint glint of n-r^-tt or Mr rtfiea and staggering .—at Ibts un t_a .-nged with hia «*vgtt n* #t v»*f for a moment to knt bark Tba *ffact »a* atartiing 4td tba three great £r*-a tbat 1 ai'-^ *r _:.d tb* f - m; ie !> clearing • a* ha'i*d fn a w*a of light, in it* sowaalmex* of gat: tree# tb* tec.;4* •a* bansd la gknm From tbe gloom bandree cool men might slaughter C»a times their number charging acr-wa that death *-_*r. NathaUe. could not repress a stud der a* u loraed Screened iat ad •a* ; cf three fine* mat a cannon. Ka figured tbat tber* »er* more than a tsmdred r:2e» In that silent cordon of m*n What wa* tber* on tbe oppo site aide of tbe temple* He turned with tbe old woman and k*r-d tbe throng tbat waa seething about tbe temple door* There were some*. children and old m—n. crusb 'tg and crowd ng fighting with pamc atrvket fierceneaa for admittance to -he thick log wall* Through the doors there the low thunder of count lea* redoes pierced by tbe ahrlU cries sd little children. F»<d by foot Na thaniel fought hi* way up tb* steps dt the t'jp were drawn a doien men furm:hg barr.ers m.tb Their n2e* One a? them shored him back. ‘Not yowl* he shouted "This is for the women'" Nathan el fell back, filed with tor cor a g ii .♦ bad shown him tbe raat dimly lighted Interior of the temple packed to s.Socation What sins bad this people wrought that It thus feared Ih* vengeance of the men from the mainland' He felt the sweat break »ut upon hi* face a* he thought of Mark* being in -hat mob. tired and fainting with her terrible day s ex prrtaaca—pertgfw dying under the ;«tic *srJc*m feet at those stronger than barotdfi He hoped now for that which at first had filled him wf _h de spair—(hat Strang had hidden Marion awasr from tb* terror and suffocation • tins multi: if that fought for :ts breatr within tne terupie freeing “■■if of the c-t Ad he ran to the '-.rth*: iv of tne tusld.ng A fourth f-*' i ia’ \ in i s face But on this s..t there was no raiment; scarcely as ' ri.en were guarding the rear of the temple for a full m.u .:e .e sliced concealed U . • a..Ik d now that it * .,lh --'less to return to Otiadiah. 1 ■ • - imeiiot co iM probably have ■ .o r.:r_ ah Iha' he : ad discovered for ■’ !—**•;! that Marion Lad gone to the Me -.hat Strang .ntended to make her i t bride that Eight. But did '•tadah know that the castle had been abandoned? l>td he know that •t.e ; trig* w;t s tad bo .ght refuge in the temple, and d.c he know where Mar . n was modes? Nathaniel could aseure htnisel hut one answer: Oba d-an. st-. k down by h.s strange mad ness »ji tore gcorant than he hitr »•f what Lao oci .rred at St. James. fVthe he paused a heavy noise a- we Uxat q . kened his heart-beats ana «« it*- ... through his veins ;n wild ti itetnent Prom far down ty the shore there awe the roar of a cannon. It was closely followed by a *• nd and third, and hardly was •he night sbak--n ty their thunder than a m.ght v chee_:ng of men swept -P from the fir‘--r. turned coash The hattie had L gun' Nathaniel leaped ut :r.*o the g w of the great blazing fire t < yond the temple: he heard a w art -g shout as he carted past the rue:. f<T an instant he saw their white face t staring at him fruit, the firelight —heard a second shout, which he 'w » as a •< -in.and—ana was gone. Half a dozen r;fles cracked behind him and a yell of joyful d“fiance burst irons his throat as the bullets hissed ’ er h:s h- ad. The battle had begun! An 'ter hour ana the Mormon king dom would be at the merry of the «»Lr.tr host from the mainland— :»nd Marion would be his own for ewer' He heard again the deep rum t o of a h*a\y gun and from its sullen tie* nation he knew that it was fired ■' m a ship at sea A nearer crash of returning fire turned him into a de ferred street dow n which he ran wild ly on pas" the last houses of the •own. until he came to the foot of a fc!!I up which he climbed more slowly, panting like a wind“d animal. Prom its top be could look down upon the scene of battle. To the east ward stretched the harbor line with '.’s rim of fires a glance showed him that the fight was not to center about these They had served their purpose, had forced the mail.landers to seek a landing farther down the coast The light of dawn had already begun to disperse the thick gloom of t.gi.t, and an eighth of a mile below Nathaniel the Mormon forces were ere* ping Slow ly along the 6iiore. The pal* ghostly m;stin*ss of the sea hung like a curtain beta.en him and what was beyond, and even as he strained bis eyes to catch a glimpse of the *** gmg fleet a vivid light leaped out of the white distance, followed by the t1 under of a cant on He saw the head of the Mormon line laiter. In an in stant it had be*-n thrown into con fusion. A second shot from the sea— a storm ot cheering voices from out of that white chaos of mist—and the Mormon? fell back from the shore in a panic-stricken, fleeing mob. Were hose frightened cowards the fierce fighters of whom he had beard so -■ Were they the men who had madi themselves masters of a kieg d m in the land of their enemies— * i.ose me re ns me carried terror for a hundred ir.'lis along the coast? He tas stupefied, bewildered He made ■ so effort to conceal himself as thev approacbed the bill, but drew his pis tol. ready to fire down upon them as they came. Suddenly there was a change So quickly that he could -scarcely believe his eyes the flying Mormons had disappeared. Not a man was visible upon that narrow plain beraeen the hill and the sea. 1-ike a huge covey of quail they had dropped to the ground, their rifles lost in that ghostly gloom through which the voice* of the mainl&ndera came In fleice cries of triumph. Tt was mag nificent: Even as the crushing truth of what It all meant came to him, the fighting blood in his veins leaped at the sight of it—the pretehded effect of the shots from sea, the sham con fusion, the disorderly flight, the won derful quickness and precision with which the rabble of armed men had thrown itself into ambush! Would the mainlanders rush into the trap? Had some keen eye seen these shadowy forms dropping through the mist? Each instant the ghostly pall that shut out vision sea ward seemed drifting away. Nathan iel's staring eyes saw a vague shape appear in It. an Indistinct dirt-gray blotch, and he krew that it was a beat. Another followed, and then an other; he heard the sound of oars, the grinding of keels upon the sand, and where the Mo-tnons had been a few moments before the beach was now a’.ive with mainlanders. In the growing light le could make out the king's men below him, inanimate spots in the middle of the narrow plain. Helpless ho steed clutching his pistol, the horror in him growing with each breath. Could he give no warning! Could he do nothing—nothing— At least he could join in the fight! He ran down the hill, swinging to the left of the Mormons Halt way, and he Ftopped as a thundering cheei swept up irem the shore. The main tenders had stalled toward the hill! Without rank, without o, lor—shout ing their triumph as they came they were rushing blindly into the arms of the ambush’ A shriek of warning left Nathaniel's lips. It was drowned in a crash of rifle fire. Volley after vol ley burst from that shadowy stretch of plain Before the furious fire the van of the mainlanders crumpled into ruin. Hike chaff before a wind those behind u ore swept back. Apparently they were flying without waiting to lire a shot! Nathaniel dashed down into the plain. Ahead of him the Mor mons were charging in a solid line. _rd in another moment the shore had income a mass of fighting men. Far to the left he saw a gioup of the mainlanders running along the beach toward the conflict. If he couid only intercept them—and bring them into the rear! Like the wind he sped to cut them off. shouting and firing his i isto! He won by a hundred yards and stood panting as they came to ward him. Dawn had dispelled the mist-ghW>m and as the mainlanders drew- marer he discerned in their lead a figure that brought a cry of joy 'roa; Lis lips. Neil. he shouted. “Neil— He turned as Marlon's brother larted to his side “This way—from behind V The two led the way. side by side, loliowed by a dozen men. A glance tolu Nathaniel that nothing much less than a miracle could turn the tide of battle. Half of the mainlanders were fighting in the water. Others were struggling desperately to get aw ay in the boats. Foot by foot th® Mormons were crushing them back, their battle cries row turned into demoniac yells of victory. Into the rear of the strug gling mass, firing as they ran. charged the handful of men behind Captain Plum and Neil. For a little space the king s men gave way before them and with wild cheers the powerful fisher men from the coast fought their way toward their comrades. Many of them were armed with long knives: some had pistols: others used their empty rifles as clubs. A dozen more men and they would have split like a wedge through the Mormon mass. Above the din of battle Nathaniel's voice rose in thundering shouts to the men in the sea. and close beside him he heard Nell shrieking out a name between his blows. Like demons they fought straight ahead, slashing with their knives. The Mormon line was thinning. The mainlanders had turned and were fighting their way back, gaining foot by foot what they had lost. Suddenly there came a ter rific cheer from the plain and the hope that had flamed in Nathaniel's breast died out as he heard it. He knew what it meant—that the Mormons at St. James had come to reinforce their comrades. He fought now to reach the boats, calling to Neil, whom he could no longer see. Even in that mo ment he thought of Marion. His only chance was to escape with the others, his only hope of wresting her from the kingdom lay in his own freedom. He had waited too long. A crushing blow fell upon him from behind and with a last cry to Neil he sank under the trampling feet. Indistinctly there came to him the surging shock of the fresh body of Mormons. The din about him became fainter and fainter as though he was being carried rapid ly away from it: shouting voices came to him in whispers, and deadened sounds, like the quick tapping of a finger on bis forehead, were all that he heard of the steady rifle fire that pursued the defeated mainlanders In their flight. After a little he began struggling back into consciousness. There was a split ting pain somewhere in his head and he tried to reach his hand to it. "You won't have to carry him," he beard a voice say. "Give him a little water and he'll walk" I TO BE CONTINUED.) Tree Gives Back Watch. A pickpocket was discovered in the woods near Riverhead. Long Island, recently, but was not arrested. It was a twig. In December. 190S. L. M. Raynor of Riverhead was in the woods and unknown to him at the time a twig picked his pocket, neatly extracting his watch, relates the New York World. Ke did not know of his loss until he reached home and he did not know what had become of the watch Walking in the woods the other day Raynor saw his watch depending from a twig about the level of his head He believed he must have bent ths branch down while passing and that his pocket was picked at that time. The watch suffered no harm by Its year and a half exposure, but started ticking when he wound it up. Source of Real Consoliation. “The woman of today need not look dismal or dowdy when she wears mourning." \so runs a fashion note. This shows that the true oil of Joy for mourning is to be had of the dress maker. NEW INVENTION OF CURTISS, THE AVIATOR T.YS //Y&?C-A£fi2S>lA#r GLEX H. Cl'RTISS achievements with his hydroaeroplane a: San Diego Bay. Cal. have caused a marked sen sation in military and avtatorial circles. For the arst time in the history of modem Sight, the aviator rose :rcm the surface of the water on which his machine rested, made wide, circling sweeps, and then alighted on the hat with the grace and ease of a gull. The hydroplane, which is fastened to the bottom of the aeroplane, consists of a steel, airtight, shallow compartment, seven feet w ide and four feet long A similar but smaller hydroplane is placed under the front control of the aeroplane, outriggers being attached to the lower planes of the latter to prevent the whole arrangement from tilting sideways while rushing through the water. The army and the navy had representatives and assistant? present at Mr. Curtiss' flights with the new invention. SCIENCE IS LACKING Wore Care Taken in Siock Raising Than in Infants. Physician In Address Before Medical Society Asserts That Babies Are Being Neglected—Birth Rate Decreasing. Chicago.—Speaking before the Chi cago Medical society in the public li brary the other night. Dr. Isaac A. Abr made a plea for more scientific carp of infants, saying that “the hu man baby is better than a calf, but more science is applied to stock raising than to the care of infants." Doctor Abt's subject was "Recent Advances in Prevention of Infantile Diseases and Death Rate.” He spoke principally of the work of the Chicago milk commission, which recently was reorganized under the name of the In fant Welfare society. *' ith the birth rate constantly de creasing we must cope with this great est of all problems, the conservation of our bahies. The country is facing a crisis as never before in the matter of child raising." said the doctor. 'Re cent advances In scientific cattle and hog raising have been much more rapid than in scientific child raising. The situation should be reversed to give the child a square deal. There is a crying need for education in Amer ica along these lines and especially urgent is the need for such a reform in the great cities To do this a sys tematic educational campaign must be started under the leadership of the medical men of the great cities.” That the general health of the city of Chicago had improved materially during the past week and that 40 fewer cases of pneumonia were re ported than during the previous week was the information contained in the bulletin sent out by the city health de partment. But the bulletins stated that the pneumonia death rate had been high since November and would probably continue so until warm w eather came again. "It is hoped that the repeated and persistent warnings and advice of the department on the dirty air diseases, due always to bad indoor air, are be ginning to bear fruit." reads the bulle tin. "So long as people will continue to poison themselves with bad air. just so long will pneumonia prevail and the pneumania death rate be high. "Sleep with the windows open 12 to IS inches and hall door or transom open. An abundance of the lightest and finest bedding is cheaper than doctor and hospital bills. Don't shut your carriage or limousine up so tight. Demand better air in street, elevated and steam cars. Blow out house, of fice, factory or store several times a day. Blow yourselves out occasional ly by deep breathing three to five min utes before an open window or on a rear porch. When all are away from the home, return to an aired, cold house, rather than a hot, stuffy one. Burglar window stops and a little ex tra coal will reward you with better health.” Rainbow Sheep or Goat? New York.—Uno Topperwein of San Antonio. Tex., has a seven-colored sheep he wants to sell to the city. He has written to Mayor Gaynor saying that he got the sheep in Mexico and its Ceece is actually of seven distinct hues. He has sheared the sheep twice and has the colored wool to prove his story is true. tARTH AMD WARS ARE ALIVE All Other Worlds Dead and Dried Up, Says P\>f. Lowell in Lecture to Ns« Yorkers. Np'" ^ crk—"Mercury ar.d Venus n. c already dead ana dried up worlds, -•iars is rapidly approaching a state cf wrinkled age. and the earth is nest m the procession headed toward the extinction of all life," according to Dr. Percival Lowell, head of Lcwell ob servatory, who is in New Tork for a series of lectures before scientiSc bodies. "Mars is certainly inhabited bv seme character of organized life." Doe iOT I.cwell said in his opening lecture, and the Martians have far greater reason to deny that there is life on i»-e earth than we have that thev do not exist. But there is no life on anv other planets besides the earth and Mars, ail other members of the solar system be.eg either already dried up, so that life animal or vegetable, cannot exist, or e;?e. :;ke Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, are much too young in world evolution, and therefore much too hot from interior sources, to ad mit of life of any kind. "On Mars, the clearing of the at mosphere. which has teen going on since the paleozoic era, has reached perfection. Man indeed must be the ! sources of constant annoyance to an orderly Creator, for be is constantly interfering with the natural course of ■ events. "With city chimneys always belch ing forth smoke and making It rain, j man is responsible for more than half the tad weather of which he com plains. On Mars the sky Is perpetual ly clear from morning till night and from spring to fall. "While the water on the earth is slowly, but surely, disappearing through sublimation into the heavens, and sinking into the earth, on Mars the seas have already disappeared, though there appear to have been seas there ages ago.” MINER WEARS $150,000 LEG Returned Klondiker Thinks Cork Limb Best Depository for Wealth Accumulated. New York.—Lured by stories of the discovery of gold in the Klondike, Herbert O. Maniey of Washington, who was a street car conductor, drew from a savings bank $200. After ten years in the wilds of Alaska he has returned, and. according to his inti mate friends, should anyone succeed in “pulling his leg" they would find a roll of $150,000 fresh from the United States treasury. It would all depend, however, upon which leg is pulled. The man's left leg is of cork and the hollow portion of the calf of the artificial limb is used by Mr. Manley as a safe deposit vault ELECTRICITY AN AID Marvelous Device Furnishes Plants Siirr.uiants by Wire. Increase of 30 ~er Cent, in Electrical ly Shocked Field Is Not Consid ered nirh—Wires Stretch Across Fields. Birmingham , Eng.—Electric stocks for crops. Sunshine turned on by a switch.^ Stimulus by wire for plants. In the race lor efficiency between science and nature, science has taken another step forward, and the above marvels are already accomplished. You can now buy an electric appa ratus for shocking your crops into growth from a company of which Lionel Lodge is one of the directors. It has come ir. o being as the result of experiments conducted by Sir Oliver Lodge, the famous scientist, who is principal of B.-tningham university. Seven Installations have recently been erected in Germany, and there are two in Scotland, and two in Eng land and another now on the high seas on the way to Java, where it will be used to stimu'.ite tie growth of sugar cane. An association of the sugar growers there has bought it, and they are go ing to give it exhaustive trials, though it is realized hat the conditions cf the climate there are adverse. The stations in Great Britain. Mr. Lodge said, are more or less experi mental. but the German installations have been pu: up as commercial un dertakings. The principal Scottish station is on a farm at Balxakewan. Kincardine shire. and in England there is one on a farm at Salford Priors, and the other is at G. R. Newman's nursery, at Brit ton. near Bristol. The apparatus consists of an engine running a special machine, which sends only positive electricity along the wires. These wires are very thin, and there fore they discharge a lot of electricity into the air. The current is sent along them at very high pressure. The wires stretch across the field or garden at a height of 20 feet. The escaping current reaches the plants and stimulates their growth. An increase of 30 per cent, in the electrically-shocked crop as compared with one grown under ordinary condi tions, is not considered high. In the case of wheat, it has not yet been possible to get out figures show mg the profit resulting to the farmer, because in some cases the wheat is not yet threshed. An installation to electrify the crops on 300 acres could be fitted up for 17.500. The treatment is not good for peas or beans. It acts as a stimulant and not as a food, having the same effect on the plants as sunshine. Plants are always taking electricity from the air, and the apparatus only supplies them with more. It is worked from spring until the end of summer. George's Head on Coin*. London.—King George's head on the new coinage much more closely re sembles Prince Henry of Prussia than England's king. King Edward's coins were consid ered too French, but to be distinctly German King George regards as a calamity. Amazement is expressed that neither the king nor any of his advisors noticed the striking resem blance to Emperor William's brother. Then the dies might have been de stroyed. but the coins have now been issued and it is too late to recall them. EUYFLAXSEED IN ARGENTINA Minneapolis Mills in Unprecedented Deal for $1.100.0.30 Worth—Oil Industry Grows. Minneapolis. Minn.—The linseed oil it'ills of Minneapolis have bought in The Buenos Ayres market for ship ! n:ent to Minneapolis 400,000 busbels ■! flaxseed, of an approximate value of 51,100.000, making a transaction ! without precedent or parallel in the commercial history of the linked States. Located in the center of the great j est flax-producing portion of this | country, with the greatest flax-raising state at its doors, the Minneapolis oil industry will bring raw material 13,500 miles to its mills. The seed was bought on future contracts that mature in January and February. In so far as the mills are able to get seed in the United States, they will not Import the Argentine purchases, but will sell again in London or Ant *erp; but the domestic supply is so low that the .rospect Is, oil men sar. I ’hat the full 400.000 bushels or more I will be imported. I The seed may be loaded either at i Buenos Ayres, Argentina, or Rosario, 1 in Uruguay. It will move to Antwerp by the regular European grain route j irom South America, and thence it will come via Montreal or New York. ; as may be arranged. It is about 7.200 miles from Buenos Ayres to Antwerp, o.000 miles thence to New York, and 1,300 miles more to Minneapolis. Ocean and rail freights that will ag gregate about 20 cents a bushel will have to be paid, and the government 1 will collect 25 cents a bushel Import duty. •'■We hope to get back 3 to 5 cents a bushel of the import duty on what j we import," said E C. Warner, presi dent of a local linseed oil company, which has 250.000 bushels of the Ar gentine seed. "In whatever degree we afterward export the manufac tured product we are entitled to a j drawback, under the existing law, but this cannot be determined in advance. “As to paying for it. we ■will have to send the money. I understand, to London," Mr. Warner continued. "The present London market for Ar gentine seed is about $2.30 a bushel and the price of seed in Minneapolis is about $2.73. We use 15,000 bushels of seed a day in our mill, and as we have an cil trade that must be taken care Oi we have turned to Argentine seed ns a final source of supply against existing scarcity at home. North and South Dakota and Minne sota ought to raise 25.000,000 bushels of flaxseed in an ordinary season, but they have not done it of late,' and even at that the oil industry has grown so large that the home pro duction can hardly keep pace with it." Brain Like Phonograph. Boston.—That the human mind is the counterpart of a phonograph rec ord. every Impression and every ex perience being indelibly stamped, re maining available for future refer ence, was the declaration of Dr. Mor ton Prince of Boston, psychologist and mental experimenter, in his lec ture before the girls of Mount llolj oke college. A TRIAL WILL CONVINCE ANY ONE—THE GREAT KIDNEY REM EDY NEVER DISAPPOINTS A few rears ago I was troubled with C complication of kidney and stomach ail ments, and although I tried two or three dine rent doctors, 1 was unable to obtain a cure. Having heard a great deal about Swamp-Root, I decided to give it a trial and purchased a one dollar bottle of Mr. Alexander, the druggist. From the begin ning I could notice a change for the bene? and after taking eight bottles of your medi.ine, I felt entirely cured and have not had ar.y trouble since. Had 1 begun using Dr. Kilmer 6 Swamp Root sooner I would have been a few hun dred dollars to the good and saved my self a lot of suffering. You may use my testimonial any time you wish. Yours verv tm!v, CHARLES E.' HARRIS, 48b Sixth St., Marion, la. I certify thrt Charles E. Harr'e signed the above testimonial in my preesnee, be ing first duly sworn to the truth thereof this the ldth day of July, 19i'9. l m H-. kilaer Jk C*. ukaataa. N. T. D. R. IMYLEY, J. P. Prove What Swimp-Ro-st Y. ill Do For Yon Send to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bingham ton, X. Y.. f r a sample bottle. It will convince anyone. You will also receive a booklet of valuable information, telling all about the kidneys and bladder. When writing. 1* sure and men;ion this paper. For sale at all drug stores. Price tifty cents and one-dollar. Uncle Joe’s Check. Col. Henry Carson, sergeant-at-arms of the house of representatives, has the original check given by Speaker Joseph G. Cannon a few years ago to a book agent, and about which an in teresting Etory bas been told. An agent visited the speaker and in terested him in an elaborate edition of something which Uncle Joe didn't want, but bought. When the books arrived Uncle Joe examined them and decided at once that something had been put over on him. When the agent came for his money the speaker de termined to make him Indorse a terse sentiment on books, so he wrote out a check for JT3. the amount due. and on the back of it he inscribed: “Pay to the order of Mr. Blank, in full payment for an edition which was not worth a d—. and dear at that price, but for the ease and grace with which he put it over your Uncle Joe it was well worth the money."—Hu man Life. Critics. “Only competent critics can give competent criticisms." said Admiral Mahan, at the Immortals' recent recep tion in Xex York. "The ignobler the critic the ignobler the criticism—even of the very finest things—that he will pronounce. “A man in a bar was praising a fa mous American journalist, a Justly famous journalist, a journalist who gets out a really fine paper. “ 'Yes,' the bartender agreed, 'his paper is a good one. It picked two win ners last week.'" Is Mennonlte Minister. Miss Anna J. Allebaeh is the first woman to be elected a minister of th*s Mennonlte church in this country, al though there are two women in Hol land acting in that capacity. She is president of the New York University Philosophical society. Her ordination took place on January To in Philadel phia. Not Boasting of It. Theatrical Manager—I understand that you played with Booth. Mis9 Sereleaf? The Actress (with much spirit)— Well. I don't think it's anybody's busi ness how old I am! 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