" -MW-i fX PIONEER OF HAREM SKIRT Household Remedy Taken In tho Spring for Years. Ralph Rust, Willis, Mich., writeat "Hood's Snrsaparill.i has been a house hold remedy in our home B9 lon as I can remember. I havo taken it in th ipring for revural years. It has no equal for cleansing tho blood nnd ex pcllin;? the humor that accumulate dtir intt the winter, llcing a fanner nnd ex posed to bad weather, my nyctcin i9 often ftflctted, nnd I often take Hood's Sana parilla with Rood results." Hood's .Sarfnparill.i is Peculiar to Itself. There is no "just ns Rood." Get it todav in uual liquid form or ?hoculntcd tablets called Sorsntobo. ' Woman Fell In With Dloomer Craze Forty Years Ago, and Has Kept It Up. Jersey City. Talking of your Broad way beauties In their freakish harem skirts, why not glvo n llttlo nttcntlon to this old lndy, who has worn 'em for ever slneo tho early bloomer move ment long before thoso Hroadway freaks were born and wears 'em with entire satisfaction to hersolf nt least to this very day. Sho Is Miss Fowler of Vinoland N. J. She donned the cos tume sho Is seen wearing in tho lllus- 'J I iv ml ' I 1 "WIT d", TrTfTT-V K K BY EMERSON HOUGH JS 'Maa 8 I AUTHOR. OF THE MlftflftttPPX BUBJBOS I J5$$ NtQaW ffwfcv i I I IUBJTRATIOW Uy WAGNUtT O.ICETTNER- I I J$M NSwiOT w i i iYNUI'wia ,tti) n fnl'irnn I"'' nni'-i m rdmy of "Mli- In T li'i i.'ililm-t Willi tin- HM'il it- rinltiiilloii t" iti iitf Imlli T'ahh n ml Oioriiii. N'lrlinhiN TriM. IiIh Kii'iolitiy, Ih M'lil Willi a ini'wuiK" I" tli" Unroll' m vuli I'.IIZ. MpV llllll IV 1 1 1 1 c-l llllftlil nf the lliltlrtli mliilMi-r, I'iiI.miIiiiiii Trim n-i-minli'is the liiirotifiw iiml ikhInIk ln-r In fsi'iiplnif f r mil put Miicr.4. HIh- hkhth to urn (alliiiun, ninl ii lili'ilKi' I 'ml Hln' Mill tell lilin wlitit h" wuiiIh I" Uli'W ii f.milliiK tin' lnli'iilliiiiH of CiiKlmi'l iMW.inl Ati-xko. hIio Kin Tilni ii nllppiT. tin' Miii of whli Ii Iihh In rn lust TiimI Is r-ilon-il In .Mulitti-nl on hlnli- IiiikIih-hh. HUM otrmiKi'i to In' iimrrli'il n I :iizil-tli Cliiirclillt ln-fnif tli'pillllliK Tin' li.ilotli'SM ruyn filio will try In ptrwnt tin- iu.it rlnKi-. A lllllllkl'll I'llllKHHIIIlllll. Who IS (IHKlHlllIK TrlHl In hW wi'ililln iirnuiKi'iii' nW. Iilun ilillUKly Hi'iula the Imhiiii'mh' nllppnr to Kllzulii'th Insli'fiil nr ihf uwiii-r. .mil lln itiuiilii!i In ik'ilnii'il orr. NMmliiH llnds the Imniiii'M 111 Montri'iil. nlm IiiuIiik hh -reeded, wIumi' lie falli'il, In dim nvi'iliiu i:filaiurn liiinitloim p'ttiinllim iik-kuii Hhe li-IW lilin tho iillppi-r In- Iiml. i'oii tnltipil a noli- from tin- Ti iim nilni In- to I'aki'iihimi. fii.Uiii; Unit If tin I'lilti'd HtutoH ill 1 1 mil iiniifS T mis wUlilii "ii iIuvm ulio would !"' Imlli Ti-MiM anil i iri'Kuii. I'allioiui nnliTw Trlst to lu'iiil a putty lioiind for oti'Kon. ('nullum I'M'lti'H tin' Jeiiluiiry of Si'iioiiv Ylurrlo. and tin ri-bv HiHiiti'H tln HlKtialiirn of tin- TiAiih tu larin' in n tri'iiiy of itnni-Mitl'in Nirhulim nt rives In Dri'Kon. Later lln- lirimrns ur liven nu a lliltliili ar.iili Sin- nils Nicholas Hint u nolo hIh- pl.i''"d In lirr ulipppi- iium il tlio Iiii'iiKIhk "IT of lili man lam-, anil that hIh IntciuN to ri'luin to Waxlilnmnn In ti'imli iln wroiiK. NIi'IioI.ih IiiIIowh Iiit. Ilo If. hum on Hid way Hint l'nlk lia Ihm-ii flu lid and Ti'nK annc"il, and thai tln-if Ih to In' war with Mf.loo. Tim lianmi'HM ti-llx Trlst that In ntiiili for a i oiuprninNii of llio Oti'Kon lioiindarv on tln foily-nltilli ili'Krui', Hhe has sold hcrm'lf to rnki'iilimu. Slio iflN him tho Htory or hi-r lif. Trlst liirnhH I'lihi-nliaiu'ii ki-y to tliu baroness' aiiurtini'iilw. CHAPTER XXXIV. Continued. 1'nlo ninl calm, alio rcniipcarotl at (In partcil ilrnpcrlcs. 1 llfloil tlio ImiUh of my two doninni'ra into vk'v at my slilo poi'lcotb, nml at u ulaiioo from her. lnirrloilly steppcil Into tliu opposite room. After a time I hoanl her open the iloor In response to ii KOfond knoeU. 1 could not poo her from my utatlon, but the very kIIoiico kuvo me a pie (uro of her HtandliiK, pnle, forbid ding, rclinlcliiK the Unit rude exclama tion of his nvdor. "Come now, Is ho Rime? Is tho place Enfo at last?" ho demanded. "Kntor, my lord," uhe t-ald, simply. "This Is the hour you Haiti," he bo Kan; and nho answered: "My lord, it is the hour." "Hut come, what Is the matter, then? You act tmlemn, as though this were a funeral, and not -Just n kiss," I heard him add. lie must have advanced toward her Continually I was upou the point of stepping out from my concealment, but as continually she left that not quite possible by some word or look or gesture of her own with him. "Oh. hang It!" I heard him grumble, at length: "how can one tell what a womun'll do? Damn It, Helen!" "'Madam,' you mean!" "Well, then, madam, why all this holghty-toighty? Haven't I stood flouts and Indignities enough from you? Didn't you make a show of mo before that ass, Tyler, when I was at the very point of my greatest coup? You denied knowledge that I knew you had. Hut did I discard you for that? 1 lmo found you since then playing with Mexico. Texas, Tnlted States all at once? Have 1 punished you for that? No; 1 have only shown you tho tnoro legard." "My lord, you punish me most when you most show me your regard." "Well. God bless my soul, listen at that! Listen at that here, now, when I've madam, you shock me, you grlovo mo. I could I have a glass of wlno?" I henrd her ring for Throlka, heard her fasten tho door behind her as she left, henrd him gulp over his glass. For myself, although I did not yet ills eloso myself. I felt no doubt that I should kill Pnkenham In those rooms. 1 oven pondered whether I should shoot him through tho temple and cut oit his consciousness, or through tho chest and so lot hint know why ho died. After a tlmo ho seemed to look about tho room, his oyo falling upon the Uttered floor. "My key!" ho exclaimed; "brokon! Who did that? I enn't uso it now!" "You will not need to use It, my lord." "Hut I bought It, yostordny! Had I given you all of tho Oregon country It would not havo been worth 20,000. What I'll havo to-night whnt I'll take will bo worth twlco that. Hut I bought that key, and what I buy I heap." I heard a struggle, but sho repulsed him onco more In some way. Still my tlmo had not come. Ho seemed now to stoop, grunting, to pick up something from flio floor. "How now? My memorandum of treaty, and torn In two! Oh, I see I see," ho mused. "You wish to glvo It back to me to bo wholly freo! It means only that you wish to lovo mo for myself, for what 1 nm! You minx!" "You mistake, my lord," aald her calm, cold voice. "At least, 'twaa no mlstako thnt I offered you this damned country nt Tlsk of my own head. Are you then with England und Sir Richard Pnken 1mm? Will you glvo my family a chance for rovougo on these accursed in .. l. . . I. .. iii-rl'nns'' Conic, ilo I thai, and I leave this place with you, and ipilt diplomacy lor good. We'll travel the continent, we'll go the world over, you and I. I'll quit my estates, my family for you. Come, now, why do you delay?" "Still you misunderstand, my lord." "Tell mo then what you do moan." "Our old bargain over this Is bro ken, my lord. Wo must inako un til her" Ills linger rose. "What? You want more? You're trying to lead mo on with your tliuuned courtezan tricks!" I heard her voice rise high and bhrlll, even as I started forward. "Monsieur," she cried, "back with you!" Pakenham, angered ns he was, seemed half to hear my footsteps, semed half to know tho swinging of tho draperies, even as I stepped back 'in obedience to her gesture. Her wit was as iptlclc as over. "My lord," she said, "pray close yonder window. The draft in bad, and, moreover, we should have se crecy." lie obeyed her, and she led him still further from tho thought of Invest IgulIiiB his surroundings. "Now, my lord," sho said, "take back what you have just said!" "ruder penalty?" he sneered. "Of your life, yes." "So!" he gt tinted admiringly; "well, now, 1 like lire in a woman, even a deceiving lli;ht-o"-lovn like you!" "Monsieur!" her voice cried again; and onco more It lestralned me in my hiding. "You devil!" he resumed, sneering now In all hl3 ugliness of wlno and fill life b y J J bm wL "What Do You Mean7 Have You Lied to Me? Do You Mean to Break Your Word Your Promise?" rage of disappointment. "What were you? Mistress of tho prince of Fiance! Toy of a scoru of nobles! Slave of that Infamous rake, your husband! Much you've got In your Hie to make you uppish now with mo!" "My lord," sho said evenly, "retract that. If you do not, you shall not leavo this place alive." In some way she mastered him, even In his ugly mood. "Well, well," ho growled, "I admit wo don't get on very well In our llttlo lovo affair; but I swear you drlvo me out of my mind. I'll never lliul anoth er woman In the world like you. It's Sir Richard Pakenham asks you to be gin a new future with himself." "Wo begin no future, my lord." "What do you menu? Have you lied to mo? Do you mean to break your word your promise?" "It Is within tho hour that I havo loarned whnt the truth is." "God damn my soul!" 1 heard his curse, growling "Yes, my lord." she answered, "God will dnmn your soul In to far as It Is that of a brute and not that of a gen tleman or n stnteamnn." I henrd him drop Into a chair. "This from one of your sort!" ho half whim pered. "Stop, now!" sho cried. "Not ono word more of that! I eny within tho hour I have learned what is tho truth. I am Helena vou Rltz, thief on tho cross, and at last clean!" "Uod A'mlghty, madam! How pious'" he Hiicori'tl "HmuothliiK'it bo- liltul nil this. I know your record. What woman of tho court of Austria or Franco comes out with morals? Wo used you here because you had none. And now, when It comes to tho settle ment between you and me, you talk like a nun. As though a trifle from virtue such as yours would be missed!" "Ah, my God!" I heard her murmur. Then again sho called to mo, as ho thought to himself; so thnt all was as It had been, for the time. A sllenco fell before she went on. "Sir Ulchnrd," sho said at length, "wo do not meet again. I await now your full apology for these things you havo said. Such secrets ns I have learned of Fngland'H, you know will remain safe with me. Also your own secret will bo safe. Retract, then, what you havo said, of my personal life!" "Oh, well, then," ho grumbled, "I admit I've had u bit of wine today. I don't mean much of anything by It. Hut here now, I have come, nml by your own Invitation your own agree ment. Doing hero, I find this treaty regarding Oregon torn In two and you gone nun all a-suddeu." "Yes, my lord, It Is torn in two. The consideration moving to It was not valid. . Hut now I wish you to amend that treaty onco more, nntl for a con sideration valid In every way. My lord, 1 promised that which was not mine to give myself! Did you lay a hand on me now, I should dlo. If you klEscd me, 1 should kill you and myself! As you say, I took yonder price, the devil's bhllling. Did I go on, I would bo enlisting for the dam- nation of my soul; but I will not go on. I reennt!" "Hut, good God! woman, whnt nro you nsklng now? Do you wnnt me to let you hnve this paper anyhow, to show old John Calhoun? I'm no such ass as that. I apologize for what I've said about you. I'll bo your friend, be cnuse I can't lot you go. Hut ns to this paper here, I'll put It In my pocket." "My lord, you will do nothing of tho kind. Uoforo you lenvo this room there shall bo two miracles done. You shall admit that ono has gone on In me; I shall seo thnt you yourself havo dono another." "What guessing game do you pro pose, madam?" ho sneorcd. Ho seemed to toss tho torn pnpor on tho tnble, none tho less. "Tho condition Is for feited," ho begun. "No, It Is not forfeited except by your own word, my lord," rejoined tho same even, Icy voice. "You shall seo now tho first mlrncle!" "I'ndor duress?" ho sneored again. "Yes, then! Under duress of what has often como to tho surfaco in you, Sir Richard. I ask you to do truth, and not treason, my lord! Sho who was Helena von Rltz is dead has passed nwny. Thero enn bo no ques tion of forfeit between you nml her. Look, my lord!" I henrd n half sob from him. I heard a faint rustling of sllko and laces. Still her oven, ley volco went on. "Rlso, now, Sir Richard," sho said. "Unfasten my girdle, If you llko! Un- do my clasps, If you can. You say you know my past T 11 me. do you see me now? inglrd ire. Kir Rich ard! Look nt me! Covet me! Take me!" Apparently he half rose, shufllcil toward her and stopped with a stilled bound, half a sob. half a growl. I dined not picture to myself whnt he must havo seen as she stood front ing him, her hands, ns I Imagined, at her bosom, tearing back her robes. Again I heard her voice go on, chal lenging him. "Strip mo now, Sir Rlcluird, if you enn! Tnko now whnt you bought, If you And it here. You cannot? You do not? Ah. then tell me thnt miracle lias been done! She who was Helena von Rltz. as you knew her, or as you thought you knew her. Is not here!" Now fell long silence. I could hoar the breathing of them both, where I Mood in the farther corner of my room. I had dropped both the der ringers back In my pockets now, be cause I knew there would bo no need for them. Her voice was softer ns she went on. "Tell me. Sir Richard, has not that mliacle been done?" she domnnded. "Might not In great stress that thief upon tho cross have been a woman? Tell me, Sir Richard, am I not clean?" lie flung his body Into n sent, his arm across the table. I heard his gtiian. "God! Woman! What are you?" ho exclaimed. "Clean? Hy God, yea, as a lily! I wish 1 were half as white myself." "Sir Richard, did you ever lovo a woinnn?" "One other, besldo yourself, Ions ago." "May not wo two ask that other miracle of yourself?" "How do you mean? You have boat en me already." "Why. then, this! If I could keep my promise, I would. If I could giro you myself, I wsuld. Failing that, I may glvo you gratitude. Sir Richard, 1 would glvo you gratitude, did you restore this treaty as It was, for that new i opslderatlon. Como, now, thoso sauige. here aro the same savages who once took that llttlo Island for you yonder. Twice they have def cut oil you. Do you wish a third war? You say Fngland wishes slavery abol ished. As you know, Texas is wholly lost to England. The armies of America havo swept Texas from your reach forever, oven nt this hour. Hut If you give a new state In tho north to these same savages, you go so far against oppression, agnlnst slavery you do that much for the doctrine of England and her nltrulsm In the world. Sir Richard, never did I be lieve in hard bargains nml never did any great soul believe In such. I own to you thnt when I asked you here this afternoon I Intended to wheedle from you nil of Oregon to fit degrees, 10 minutes. I find In you done home such miracle as In myself Neither of us is to bad as tho world has thought, as we ourselves havo thought. Do, then, that other mlraclo for me. Let us compose our quarrel, and so part friends." "How do you mean, mndam?" "Let us divide our dispute and stand on this treaty as you wrote it yester day. Sir Richard, you aro minister with extraordinary powers. Your govern ment ratilles your acts without ques tion. Your signature is binding and there It is, writ already on the scroll. Seo, there arc wafers thero on the table beforo you. Tnke them. Patch together this treaty for mo. That will bo your miracle, Sir Richard, and 'twill be the mending of our quarrel. Sir, 1 offered you my body and you would not take It. I offer you my hand. Will you have that, my lord? I ask this of a gentleman of England." It was not my right to hear tho sounds of a man's shnmo and humilia tion; or of h,ls rising resolvo, of his reformed manhood; but I did hear It all. 1 think that he took her hand and kissed It. Presently I henrd sonio sort of shuluing and crinkling of pa per on the table. I heard him sigh, ns though he stood mid looked at Ills work. His heavy footfalls crossed tho room us though he sought hat nnd stick. Her lighter feet, ns I heard, followed him, ns though sho held out both hoi hands to him. Thero wns a pause, and yet another; nnd so, with n growling half sob, nt Inst ho passed out of the door; and he closed it soft ly after him. When I entered, sho was standing, her nrma spread out across tho door, her fnco pale, her eyes largo and dark, her attlro still dlsarrnyed. On tho table, as I saw, lay n parchment mend ed with wafers. Slowly she camo and put her two arms across my shoulders. "Mon sieur!" she said, "Monsieur!" (TO VK CONT1NUDD.) Large Equipment Needed. Llttlo Robert, aged live, had often watched his mother, who was n milli ner, sow tho linings in hats. Ho was walking along tho boardwalk In Atlan tic City with his grandma ono day. "Just think, ovory ono of thoso clouds has a silver lining, Hcrtlo," said grnndma. "Gracious, but God must hnve a big needle," was Dertlc's reply, 111 Forty Years In Bloomers. trntlon at the tlmo tho bloomer move-1 incut Unit started 10 years or moro ago. What has become of the other blooniorlies no one knows, but this I particular blooinerlto blooms on In her quaint old costume, and doesn't conde-1 seend to notlco skittish rivals who j pranco up Hrondwny wearing duds that I nro fecblo variations of hor original dross. CATTLE GUARD IS EFFECTIVE Novel Device Prevcnta Cow From Wandering on Ralls and Meeting Injury. Chicago. The old story about somo one asking George Stephenson, tho In ventor of the locomotive, what would happen to a train if u cow wandered on the line, to which tho latter re plied he would "bo very sorry for the cow," seems to have found a sym pathetic echo in tho western states in the form of a novel cattlo guard on railways, tho prnctlcnl utility of which is demonstrated in tho Illustration. The device claims to effectually pre vent cattle straying up tho rallwny line nnd thus meeting with Injury or death from oncoming trains. As tho cow walks along tho track sho meets w2ms& CTnv"iYr " t .VV a sfr fc&L& Novel Cattle Guard, a tilting platform between the rnlls which tips up as she steps upon It. Tho cow, Imagining her progress to bo barred and not endowed by nature with a supernbundanco of Intelligence a fact which tho wily Inventor must havo borno In mind Instead of walk ing round the obstruction proceeds to compliment tho exceeding Ingenuity nnd foresight of its originator by walk ing off tho lino altogether. SAUERKRAUT LONGEVITY AID Rev. Flynn of California Makes Some Peppery Remarko on Diet and Fat Two Meala Enough. Cincinnati. "Any mnn who 1b so fat that ho cannot seo his feot whllo walking, ought to bo nrrostod," said tho Rov. Earl Flynn of Berkeley, Cal., to a Y. M. C. A. nudlenco tho other day. "Two menls a day aro enough for tho average person to ent nnd remain In n healthy condition. Tho person who eats threo meals a day needs 12 hours Bleep to refresh him self." Mr. Flynn, who 1b 75 years old, con tinued: "Tho food which collects tho long evity germ Is sauerkraut. Tho man or woman who keeps on a diet of this kind, ought to llvo n century or moro Sauerkraut Is very nutritious nnd Bhouhl bo on tho tablo of everybody." Continuing his health talk, Mr Flynn wound up with saying: "To bo healthy every mlnlBtor must sweat twlco a week. A good many minis ters only sweat onco n month, when they draw th6lr salaries." Ks H s;3.-tj&s y9&3nrn&Kr4pm wi5hN OwsawSK"" m"- . --- w -ni 4?.jdB8csr3ae Kit' YuXXuMr mmm I Tho Pleasure of LMnsrln tho Country or Hmall Town it Greatly Enhanced by a fovr City Convenience, tho Mot Neccary And Comfort Diving of which is u Sail, factory Gat Supply, Gu to Llcht with. Gu to Cook with. Gas for Laundry pnrpotci. Gas to heat water (or tho balh and other utei. Gas to oporata a sag eozino lor pumplnc nnd other purposes. . You can havonll.'thcso con- iitEsV vctilcnccs cheaply aim (tUWMIIU.Il.tllJ' UJ Ui" stalling tho Will not InerefcM Tour Inrartnca I nlci. Oathiiiiifk,toTtr lOvtrt. Nora thin 1J.OXI In u, In lUil. ntDCn,btort i, FftCtorki,Churcbi, Helionlt, CollK. Moduli II will 1'5T Von folnTntltate. WjIUui loiiT KUW putt-tud. IssSSSESr DETROITIIEATINQa UGIIIIHQ CO. 41 J Willi Iiml, Ditrtll, Kiel. llriitfrt frtMiHm la rfastiri m iloatras; Creamery Go. Tays the highest price for s BALSAM s Hi tu!r. rrawth. i Hover Tails to Jtm'.oro Oray Hair In ll Vmilhful PnlnT 3 Cum fcslp d.itttM U hair lalluij. at.tu s '" i.iugyiti Somo women are like sumo old hens set In their ways. Tito Mti fying qunlitv in Lewis' Sinjjlo Hinders found in no other Co ciuar. Thero Is nothing so cany but that It becomes dllllcult when you do It with reluctance. Terence. The Ignorance of Casey. Casey Phwat kind av a horao Is cob? Mulligan It's wan thot'3 boon raised iutolrely on eorn, yo Ignoramus. Labrador'c Future. According to statements mado tho other day by Dr. Grcnfell of Labrador, tho Cinderella of British possessions has a brilliant future beforo It. Dr. Grcnfell, who has lived twenty years In that miowy country, says that In dayo to como It will carry a popula tion as easily as Norway does today. It Is, ho says, a better country than Iceland, and to bo greatly preferred to Lapland, Finland, Siberia and Northern Alaska. Absent-Minded Bridegroom. John Adams has always been ab sent minded, cays tho Kansas City Journal. Yesterday ho wont with Ida Lee, of Kansas City, Mo., to Kansas City, Kan., to bo married by Pnul Huff, noting probato Judgo. When Judge Huff nsked him if ho would "tnko this woman to bo your lawfully wedded wife," ho was looking out of tho window and didn't rjiswer. "If you'vo any doubts about It wo will Btop right horo," tho brldo said defiantly. Adama protested that ho had not hesitated at all, but had merely been thinking about something else. Tho ceremony aB completed without further hitch. " DAME NATURE HINT8 When the Food Is Not Suited. When Naturo glvea her signal thai something Is wrong It is genorally with tho food; tho old Dnmo Is always faithful and ono should act at onco. To put off tho cliango la to risk that which, may bo lrroparable. An Ari zona man Bays: "For years I could not safely cat any breakfast I tried all kinds of breakfast foods, but they woro all loft, starchy mosses, which gavo mo distressing headachos. I drank strong coffeo, too, which appeared to bonotlt mo at tho tlmo, but added to tho hood aches afterwards. Toast and coffeo woro no bettor, for I found tho toast Very constipating. "A friend persuaded mo to quit cof feo and tho starchy breakfast foods, and ueo Postum and Grapo-Nuts In stead. I shall nover rogret taking his advlco. "Tho chango they havo worked Id mo Is wonderful. I now havo no moro of tho distressing sensations In my stomach after eating, and I novor have any liondachcs. I havo gained 13 pounds in weight nnd feel hotter In ovory way. Grapo-Nuts mako a do lleloua aa well na a nutritious dish, and I find that Postum Is easily di gested and novor produces dyspepsia symptoms." Namo given by Postum Co., Battle Creok, Mich. Got tho little- book, "Tho Road to Wollvillo," In pkgs. "Thoro's a Reason." Krer renfl tho booth lettert A new odo appears from tlmo to time. Tlntv uferel;EU,,,C'' lrU"' " U" "f hu" ) I w I ll II I & u u -i . t t f v- 1. V .fjmiV '