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The Last Shot
FREDERICK PALMER
(Copyright. 1914, by
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8YNOP8I8.
At their homo on tlm frontier between
tho flrnwtm nml drays Murtti autliiml nml
her mother, cntcrlnliilnK Colonel Wester
llng of Mil! (Jrays, eu Captain Iunstron
of tint ItruvvtiH Injiiroil by u fall In hi
mcropluiio. Ten yours Inter. Westerllng,
nominal vice but real chlof of staff, ro-cn-forvoH
Bouth l.n Tlr utid meditates on wur,
Mnrta tells him of her teaching chllilren
tho KM He of wur nnd martial patriotism,
anil bcKB him to prevent wir while ho H
ohlnf or stuff. Uinstron calls on Murtti
at her homo. Sho tells l.anstion that sho
bollor Keller, tho imntencr, to bo u spy.
I.aiisinin roiifcsNi'.s it In trim nml shows
her n tulophono which Keller has con
cealed In u Hfcret passugo iimlcr tlm tower
for iifln to benellt tho Hrowrm In war
inurccncliut. l.uiistro:i declares his lovo
for Marlit. WistcrlliiK and thn (Irny tiro.
nilor plim to usn a trivial International
affair to foincnt warllko patriotism atld
Irllio brforo declaring wur. Pnrtow,
llrown rhlof of staff, ruveals bin plans to
Lanstron, mado vlco chlof. Tho dray
rmy crosses tho bordor lino and attacks,
Tho Itrowns chcclc them. Artillery, In
fantry, 04roplnneH and dirigibles cnuagu.
Mnrta lias her first glimpse of wnr in Iti
modern, cold, selentllle, inlirdcrons bru
tality. Tlm HrnWns fall back to tho Hal
land houhe. Murln sees a niKht attack.
Tho drays attack In force. Feller leaver
his secret telephone and goes buck to hit
Kuns. Hand to hand flKlitlnir. Tho Ilrowns
fall back again. Maria nsks I.anitron over
the phono to nppeal to Tartow to stop tho
nshtlnir. Vandalism In the Oalland house.
Westerllng and his stnlT occupy the Onl
land house nnd he begins to woo Mnrta,
who apparently throws her fortunes with
tile UraVS and nffcrit Vllllllllili Inrnrmnllnti
fiho culls up t.anstr(m on thn secret tele
phono and pluns to kIvo Westerllng Infor
mation Unit will trap the Uray aimy.
westerllng forms his plan of attack upon
whntlin iFiirni from her. Tho Grays tuko
Borrtlr.
CHAPTER XVI Continued.
"TJiIh la llko you tlko whnt 1 want
you to bo!" ho Bald. "You uro right"
Ho caught lior hand, Inclosing It en
tirely In IiIh grip, nnd fiho was sen
Iblo, In a kind of dazed horror, of tho
thrill of his strength. "Nothing enn
atop ua! Numbora will win! Hard
lighting In tho mercy of n quick end!"
ho declared with his old rigidity of
flvo agnliiBt Ihrco. which vjih welcome
to her. "Then," ho ndded "and
then"
"Then!" sho repeated, averting her
glanco. "Then" Thcro tho devil
endod tho sentence and alio withdrew
her hand and felt tho relief of ono es
caping auffocntlon, to find that ho had
realized thnt anything further during
that Interview would bo banality and
was rifling to go.
"I don't feel decent!" alio thought.
M8ocloty turned on Minna for a hu
man weakness, but I I'm not n human
being! I am ono of tho pawna of tho
uachlno of War!"
Walking alowly with lowered licad
aa alio lort tho arbor, alio almost ran
Into Houchtird, who apologized with
tho alnglo word "Pardon!" as ho lifted
hlB enp In overdono courtesy, which
hla BtoIId brovlty mndo tho moro COn
SplcUOUS. "MIbs Oalland, you aeem lost In nb
atractlon," ho snld In audden loquac
ity. "I am almost on tho point of
accualng you of being a poet."
"Accusing!" alio roplled. "Thon you
must think thnt I would write bad
poetry."
"On tho contrnry, I Bhould say ex
cellent using tho aonnot form," ho re
turned. "I might make a counter nccuBa
tlon, only that yours would bo the
epic form," answered Martn. "For you,
too, aeom fond of rambling."
Thero was n veiled challongo In tho
hawk eyes, which sho met with com
monplaco polltonraB in horB, before
bo again lifted his cap and proceeded
on bia way.
For tho noxt two weekB Mnrtn's rolo
resolved Itself Into a kind of routine.
Their cramped quartora became a
refuge to Mnrta In tho trial of her
Bocret work under tho very noso of
tho stafT. With llttlo Clarissa Elleon,
they formed tho only fenilulno society
In tho neighborhood. On suuuhlny
days Mra. Oalland was usually to bo
found In her favorite chair outsldo
tho tower door; and hero Minna sot
tho urn on a tnblo at four-thirty as In
tho old days.
No mombor of tho staff was more
froquontly present at Martn'a teas
than Bouchard, who wna developing
his social instinct lato In llfo by sit
ting In tho background nnd allowing
others to do tho talking whllo ho
watched and listened. In his hearing,
Mnrto'a attltudo toward tho progress
of tho war was aympathetlc but never
Interrogatory, whllo sho shared atten
tion with Clarissa Elleon, who was In
dangor of becoming spoiled by ofllcors
who had children of their own nt home.
After tho reports of killed nnd wound
ed, which came with such appalling
regularity. It wan a relief to hear of
tho day's casualties among Clarissa's
dolls. Tho chief of transportation
and supply rode her on his shoulder;
tho chlof of tactics played hide-and-seek
with hor; the chief engineer
built her a doll house of stones with
hla own hands; and tho chief medical
offlcor was as concerned when sho
caught cold as if tho hoalth of tho
army woro at stnko.
"We mustn't get too set up over all
thlB attontlon, Clarissa Elloen, my rl
ynl," auld Marta to tho child. "You
aro tho only llttlo girl and I am tho
mljr big girl within ronch. If thoro
wero Iota of others It would bo dif
ferent" Bouchard was losing flesh; his eyu
BT
Charles Scribner's Sons)
wero sinking dooper under a heavier
frown. IIIh duty bolng to get Infor
mation, ho was gnlnlng nono. Ills
duty being to keep tho Grays' socrots,
thoro wiih n leak somowhero in hla
own department. Ho quizzed subordi
nates; ho mudo abrupt transfers, to no
avail.
Meanwhllo, tho Grays wero taking
tho approaches to tho main Una of
defense, which had been thought rela
tively immaterial but had boon found
shrewdly placed and their vulnerabil
ity overestimated. Tho thunders of
batteries hammering them beenmo a
routlno of cxlHtcncd, llko tho imBsIng
of trains to ono living nenr a railroad.
Tho guns went on whllo tea wns bo
lng served; thoy ushered In dawn nnd
dnrknws; they woro going when sleep
en in o to those whom thoy later awak
ened with a atnrt. Fights aB desper
ate as tho ono 'around tho houso bo
catno reaturcB of this period, which
wns only n warming-up practlco for
tho wnr demon before tho orgy of
Impending assault on tho main lino.
Mnrta began to realize tho Immen
sity of tho chessboard and of tho
forces engaged In more than tho baro
Htatcmcnt of numbora nnd distance.
If a llrst attack on a position failed,
tho wires from tho Galland houso re
pented their orders to concontrato
moro guns nnd attack again. In tho
cud tho Drowns nlways yielded, but
grudgingly, calculatingly, never bo
lng taken by surprise. Tho few of
them who fell prisoners sold, "God
with us! We nhall win In tho end!"
nnd answered no questions. Gradually
tho Gray army began to feel that It
wns battling with a mystery which
wns lighting under cover, fulling back
under cover a tcnnclouu, watchful
mystery that sent sprays of death Into
every linger of llcsh that tho Grays
thrust forward In ussnult.
"Another position taken. Our ad
vnnco continues," was tho only news
that Westerllng gavo to tho army, his
people, nnd tho world, which forgot
its Hports and murders and divorce
cnscB In following tho progress of the
llrst great European war for two gen
erations. Ho mado no mention of the
costs; his casualty lists wero secret.
Tho Gray hosta wero sweeping for
ward as a slow, IrrcslBtiblo tldo; this
by Partow's own admission. Ho an
nounced tho loss of a poeltton as
promptly aa tho GroyB its taking. Ho
published a dnlly list of casualties so
meager in contrast to their own that
tho Grays thought It falao; ho made
known tho names of tho killed and
wounded to their relatives. Yet tho
seeming enndor of his press bureau
Included no straw of information of
military value to tho enemy.
Westerllng never wont to tea at tho
Gallands' with tho other ofllcers, for it
wob part of his cultivation of great
ness to keop aloof from his subordi
nates. Ills meetings with Marta hap
pened casually when ho went "out into
tho gnrdon. Only once had ho mndo
any reference to tho "And thou" of
their Interview In tho arbor.
"I am winning bnttles for you!" ho
hnd exclaimed with tho thing lu his
eyeB which sho loathed.
To hor It was equivalent to saying
that sho had tricked him Into sending
men to bo killed In ordor to please
her. Sho despised herself for the
way ho confided In her; yet sho had
to go on keeping his confidence, re
turning u tender glanco with ono that
held out hope. She learned not to
shuddor when ho spoko of a loss of
"only ten thousand." In order to rnlly
herself when sho grow faint-hearted
to hor task, sho learned to picture tho
lines of hia face hard-set with flvo-ugnlnst-threo
brutality, whllo In com
fort ho ordered 'multitudes to death,
and, in contrast, to recall tho smllo
of Dellnrme, who askod his soldiers to
undorgo no risk that ho would not
shore And after ovory success ho
would remark that he was so much
nearer Engadlr, that position of the
main lino of defenso whoso weakness
sho had rovenlod.
"Your Engadlr!" ho enmo to any.
"Then wo Bhall ngaln profit by your
information; that Is, unless they have
fortified since you received It."
"Thoy haven't. Thoy had already
fortified!" sho thought. Sho was al
waya seeing tho mockery of his words
In tho light of her own knowledgo and
her own part, which never escaped
her consciousness. One chamber of
her mind waB acting for him; a sec
anil chamber was perfectly awaro that
tho otlior was acting.
"Ono position moro tho Twin Uoul
dor Redoubt, It Is called," ho an
nounced nt last. "Wo shall not press
hard In front. Wo shall drlvo In
masses on either Bldo and storm tho
flanks."
This Bho wns tolophonlng to Lnn
stron n few minutes later nnd having,
in roturn, nil tho news of tho Drowns.
Tho sheer fascination of knowing what
both sides wero doing exerted Its spoil
In hooping hor to her part.
"Thoy'vo lost four hundred thousand
men now, Lanny," aho said.
"And wo only a hundred thousand.
We're whittling them down," answered
Lanstron.
"Whittling them down! What a
ghastly expression!" aha gasped. MYou
aro ns bad ns Westerllng nnd I am
worso than either of you! 1 I an
nounced the four hundred thousand n
If thoy were n score a Bcoro In a
game In our favor. I nm helping,
Lanny? All my sacrifice Isn't for
nothing?" sho asked for tho hun
dredth tlmo.
"Immeasurably. You have saved us
ninny lives!" ho replied.
"And cqpt thorn many?" eho askod.
"Yes, Marta, no doubt," ho admitted;
"but no moro than they would havo
lost In the end. It is only tho mount
ing up or their casualties thut can
end tho wnr. Thus tho lossou must
bo taught."
"And I enn bo of most help when the
nttack on tho main defenso Is begun?"
"Yes."
"And when Westerllng finds that my
Information is fnlso about Engadlr
then"
Sho had nover put tho question to
him In thla way boforo. What would
Westerllng do If ho found hor out?
"My God, Marta!" ho exclaimed. "If
I'd had any sonso I would havo thought
of thatSln tho beginning and torn out
tho 'phono! I'vo been mad, mad with
tho ono thought of tho nation Inhu
man in my greedy patriotism. I. will
not lot you go any furtherl"
It was a now thing for her to be
rallying Him; yet this sho did as tho
Btrango effect of bis protest on tho
abnormal sensibilities that her acting
had dovelopod.
"Thinking of mo llttlo mel" sho
called back. "Of ono person's com
fort when hundreds of thousands of
other women nro In terror; when tho
destiny of millions Is nt atako! Lanny,
you nro In a blue funk!" and sho was
laughing forcedly and hectically. "I'm
going on going on llko ono In a
trance who enn't aton If ha would.
I fa nil right, Lanny. I undertook' tho
task myself. I must seo It through!"
After Bho had hung np tho receiver
hor buoyancy vanished. Sho leaned
ngalnst tho wall of tho tunnel weakly.
Ycb, what If eho woro found out7 Sho
wns thinking of tho poeslblllty seri
ously for tho first tlmo. Yet, for only
a moment did she dwell upon It be
fore Bho dismissed It In sudden reac
tion. "No matter what thoy do to mo or
what becomes of mo!" she thought.
"I'm a loBt soul, anyway. Tho thing
Is to servo as long as I can and
then I don't caro!"
CHAPTER XVII.
Thumbs Down for Bouchard.
Haggard and at bay, Bouchard faced
tho circle of frowns around the pol
ished expanse of that precious heir
loom, tho dining-room table of tho Gal
lands. Tho dreaded reckoning of the
apprehensions which kopt him rest
lessly awake at night had como at the
next staft council after tho fall of the
Twin Uouldor Redoubt. With tho last
approach to tho main line of dofonao
cleared, ono chapter of the wnr was
finished. Hut the ofllcers did not man
Ifoat the elation that tho occnalon
called for, which is not enying that
thoy were discouraged. They had no
doubt that eventually the Grays would
dictate peace in tho Browns' capital.
Exactly stated, their mood was ono of
repressed professional Irritation, Nol
until tho third attempt was Twin Boul
der Redoubt taken. Ab far as resulta
wero concerned, tho nicely plnnned
first n.isault might havo beon a utroko
of strategy by tho Browns to drive
tho Grays Into an lmpassablo flro zone.
"Tho troublo la wo uro not In
formed!" exclaimed Turcas, opening
his thin lips even less than usual, but
twisting them In a algnlflcant manner
ae ho gavo his words a rasping em
phasis. Tho others hastened to follow
his lead with equal candor.
"Exnctly. Wo havo no reports of
tholr artillery atrength, which wo had
greatly underestimated," said the
chief of artillery.
"Our maps of tholr forts could not
bo less correct If rovenlod to ua for
purposes of deceit. Again and again
wo havo thought that wo had them
surprised, only to bo surprised our
selves. In short, thoy know what wo
are doing and we don't know what
thoy aro doing!" said tho tactical ex
port. Thoro tho chief of the aerostatic di
vision took tho defenslvo.
"They certainly don't loarn our plntiB
with tholr planes and dirigibles!" ho
dcclnrcd energetically.
"Hardly, when wo nover seo them
over our lines."
"Tho Browna nro acting on the de
fenslvo In tho air ae well as on tho
earth!"
"But our own planes and dirigibles
bring llttlo news.'l said Turcas. "I
moan, those that roturn," ho added
pungcntly.
"And fow do return. My men nro
not wanting In courngo!" replied tho
chler aorostatlc ofllcer. "Immediately
we got over the Brown lines tho
BrownB, who keep cruising to nnd fro,
nro on us llko hawks. Thoy risk any
thing to bring us down. When wo de
scend low wo strlko tho flro of tholr
hlgh-anglo guns, which are distributed
tho longth of tho frontior. I bellevo
both their aorlal fleet and their hlgh
anglo artillery wero greatly under
estimated. Finally, I cannot reduce
my forco too much In ecoutlng or they
might take tho offenslvo."
"Another enso of not being in
formed!" concluded Turcas, returning
grimly to his point
Ho looked at Bouchard, and every
ono began looking nt Bouchard. H tho
Gray tacticians had boen outplayed by
tholr. opponents, If their losses for tho
ground gained exceeded calculations,
thon It was good to havo a Bcape
goat for their professional mistakes.
Bouchard was Westerllng'a cholco for
chief of Intelligence. Hla blind loy
alty waa pleaalng to hla superior, who,
hitherto, bad promptly allenced any
suggestion of criticism by repenting
that tho defensive alwayB uppoared to
tho offenslvo to bo bettur Informed
than Itself. Hut this time Westerllng
lot thu conversation run on without a
word of excuse for his favorite.
Each fresh reproach from tho staff,
whoso opinion waB tho only god ho
know, was a dagger thrust to Hou
chard. At night ho hnd lain awnko
worrying about tho leak; by day ho
had sought to trace It, only to find
ovory clow leading back to tho staff.
Now ho waa as confused lu his sljnmo
aa n Bonsltlvo schoolboy. Vaguely,
In his distress, ho heard Westerllng
asking a quoetlon, whllo he snw all
those eyes Bturlng at him.
"What information have wo about
Engadlr7"
"I bellevo it to bo strongly forti
fied!" stammered Ilouchard.
"You bellevo! You havo no Infor
mation?" pursued Westerllng.
"No, sir," roplled Ilouchard. "Noth
ingnothing now!"
"We do soem to get little Informa
tion," suld Westerllng, looking hard
at Ilouchard In sllonco tlm com-
I blnod sllenco of tho wholo Btaff.
This public reproof could havo but
ono meaning. Ho uhould soon receive
a noto which' would thank him politely
ror nis services, in tho stereotyped
phrases always used for tho purpose,
boforo, announcing his transfer to a
less rcsponslblo poBt.
"Very llttlo, sir!" Uouchnrd replied
doggedly.
"Thero Ib that wo bad from ono of
our aviators whoso machlno camo
down In a smash Just aa ho got over
our infantry positions on his return,"
said tho chief aerostatic oulcor. "He
Bouchard Faced tho Circle of Frown.
was In a dying condition when wo
picked him up, and, .as he was speak
ing with the last breaths In his body,
naturally his account of what he had
seen was somowhat incoherent. It
would be of uso, howevor, If wo had
plans or tho forts that would cnablo
ua to chock off hia report Intelli
gently." "Yet, what ovldenco have we that
Partow or Lanstron has done moro
thau to mako a fortunato guess or
show military Insight?" Westerllng
asked. "Thero is the caso of my own
belief that Uordlr was weak, which
proved correct."
"Last night wo got u written tele
graphic Btaff messago from the body
of a dead ofllcer of tho Browna found
In tho Twin Boulder Redoubt," snld
tho vico-chief, "which showed that In
an hour after our plans woro transmit
ted to our own troops for tho first
attack they wero known to the en
emy." "That looks llko a leak!" exclaimed
Westerllng, "a leak, Bouchard, do you
hear?" He was frowning and his lips
woro drawn and his cheoks mottled
with red In a way not pleasant to see.
Stiffening In his chair, a flnsh of
desperation in his eye, Bouchard's
bouy, long hand gripped tho table
edgo. Every ono felt that a sonsa
tlon was coming.
"Yes, I havo known that thero was
a leak!" ho said with hoarso, painful
deliberation. "I have Bont out ovory
possible tracer. I have followed up
overy sort of clow. I havo trails
forrcd a. dozen men. I havo left noth
ing undone!"
"With no result?" persisted Westor
ling Impatiently.
"Yes, ulways tho same result: That
tho leak la hero In this houeo hero
In tho grand headquarters of tho army
under our very noses. I know It Is not
tho telegraphers or tho clerka. It 1b
a member of tho staff 1" ,
"Havo you gone out of your head?"
demanded Westorllng. "What staff
ofllcor? How does he get tho Infor
mation to tho enemy? Name the per
sons you suspect hore and now! Ex
plain, If you want to bo considered
sane!"
Here wa tho blackest accusation
that could bo mado against an ofllcer!
Tho chosen men of tho staff, tested
through many grades boforo they
reachod tho inner clrclo or cabinet se
crecy, lost tho composuro of a council.
All woro leaning forwnrd toward Bou
chard breathless for hla answer.
"There are three women on the
grounds," said Bouchard. "I havo boon
agalnat tholr staying from the first
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Ho got no further. His words were
drowned by tho outburst of one of the
younger members of tho staff, who
had either to laugh or choko at the
plcturo of tills decpeyed, spectral sort
of man, known as n woman-hater, In
his rovclntlon of tho farcical source
of his suspicions.
"Why not lncludo Clarissa Elleon?"
somo ono asked, starting a chorus of
sntirlcnl exclamations.
"How do they get through tho line?"
"Yes, past a wull of bayonetB?"
"When not even a soldier In uni
form Is allowed to move awuy from
his command without a pass?"
"By wireless?"
"Perhaps by tolepathy!"
"Unless." said tho chief or tho aero
static division, grinning, "Bouchard
Jenda them the uso or our own wires
through tho capital and around by the
neutral countries across tho Brown
frontior!"
"But tho correct plnns and location
of their forts and tho numbers of their
heavy guns and or their planeB and
dirigibles your failure to havo this
information is not tho result of any
lenk from our staff slnco tho war bo
gnn," said Turcae In his dry, pone
trattng voice, clearing tho nlr or the
smoko or scattered explosions.
"All wore BtitVing at Bouchard again.
What answer had ho to this? Ho was
In tho box, tho evidence stated by the
prosecutor. Let him speak!
He wos ralrly beside himself In a
paroxysm of rago nnd struck at the
air with his clenched list.
" Lanstron!" he cried.
"There'a no purposo In that. He
can't hear you!" oald Turcas, dryly as
ever.
"He might, through the leak." said
the chlof aerostatic ofllcer, who con
sidered that many of his gallant sub
ordinates had lost their lives through
Bouchard's Inefllclency. "Perhnpe Cla
rissa Eileen has already telopathlcally
wigwagged It to him."
To lose your temper at a staff coun
cil Is most unbecoming. Turcas would
have kopt his If hit In tho back by a
fool automoblllst. Westerllng had now
recovered his. Ho was again the su
perman In command.
"It Is for you nnd not for us to
locate tho leak; yes. for you!" ho
said. "That Is all on tho subject for
tho present," ho ndded In a tone of
mixed pity nnd contempt, which loft
Bouchard frcod from tho staro of his
colleagues and In tho miserable com
pany of his humiliation.
(to nra CONTINUED.)
NOTHING NEW IN JOKE LINE
Foolish Is the Humorist Who Would
Insist That This "Has Never
Been Sprung Before."
A reader of the Docket In New York
city cut out tho Item relating to the
dlsolutlon of partnership, In which
one partner makes the statement that
"those who owo the firm will settle
with him, and those that tho firm owes
will scttlo with Mose," and sends it
back to us with this notation: "Thla
was an old chestnut when I lived in
, which was In 1855."
To this charge wo enter a plea of
confession and avoldanco. Wo con
tend that tho courts will take Judicial
notice or tho fact that thero Is nothing
new under tho sun, and In our Judg
ment tho Jokesmlth Is well within
his rights In resurrecting a Joko
which was old In 1855.
Tho Incident brings to mlijd tho fol
lowing story: "Tho editor of a Minne
sota newspaper back In tho '80s con
cocted tho following: 'Yon Yonson put
four sticks or dynnmlte In tho stovo
last Sunday to thaw them out. Tho
handles wero nickel plated and only
cost $10.'" A proressor or EnglUh
literature In an eastern university
wrote very Interesting article on
this Joke, claiming that It represented
a distinctly American brand or humor,
and that It could not hnvo happened
In any other country or at any othor
tlmo.
But alas for tho professor of Eng
lish literature for there la nothing
now under tho sun. Reference to II
Chronicles, Chapter 10, Versos 12 and
13, produces tho following:
12. And Asa In tho thirty and
ninth year of his reign was diseased
In hla feet, until his disease was ex
ceedingly great: yet In his dlseaso
ho sought not to tho Lord, but to the
physicians.
13. And Asa slept with his fathers.
West's Docket.
Would Handle Wheat In Bulk.
Australian wheat, at the present
tlmo, Is transported In bngs, a system
which Involves not only a considerable
cost, but Is ulso uneconomical In the
uso of labor. In consequence, tho gov
ernments of New South Wnles and Vic
toria uro considering proposals for
handling It In bulk, based upon tho re
ports of engineers, who mado Inquiries
as to this method In Canada, tho Unl
tod States and South Africa. The ex
perts also say that tho chango would
result lu a largo extension of tho
growing areas. It Is understood, how
ever, that tho steamship lines, which
havo beon approached on the subject,
aro not agreed that under existing clr
cumBtanpes tho shipment of grain In
bulk Is practicable, though It la be
lioved that If ndequato supplies were
guaranteed tho necessary space would
bo readily forthcoming.
Arrest for Debt.
While Imprisonment for debt as It
nt ono tlmo existed In English nnd
Amerlcnn law, by which a debtor
might bo arrested and Imprisoned for
more liability to pay his creditor, no
longer exists In tho United States, tho
statutes of tho majority of tho statea
provldo for the arrest of a dofendant
In a civil action under certain condi
tions, such as rraud, or torts, or env
bazslement etc.
A POTATO KING
"If I wero n farmer boy, or a boy with
ut capital, nnd wanted nu early compe
tency. I'd start right out growing Pota
toes, said Henry h'chroedcr, the Potato
king of the Red River Valley, whose tory
in the John A. Sdlzcr Seed Co.'s Catalogue
reads utrjnKcr than a romance.
i That advice of Mr. Schrocder's, the self
made Potato kins, comes from n warm
heart, a level bead, a potato lung I
Price Kchrocder's Famous Ohio, bushel,
fl.75; ten bushels, $15.00.
Here's another advice of the Red River
Potato king. He says: "Plant a plenty
when potatoes are plenty," or cheap, like
they were last Fall That's sound doctrine.
Follow his advice thh year and coming
July and August nml all iall look out for
70c and 00c and fl.00 Potatoes!
CORN.
Who placed
Wisconsin on
the Corn
map, wny at
the top? Sal
zers crea
tions in field
Corns, Bar
ley, O a t s.k
Speltz, andjj
Clovers. Po-E
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ureat pnccial-'
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corn, listing-
over fortyr,
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among them the earliest, heaviest eared,
biggest yielders known.
For 10c In Postage
We gladly mail our Catalog
and sample package of Ten Fa
mous Farm Seeds, including
Speltz, "Tho Cereal Wonder;"
Rejuvenated Whito Bonanza
Oats, "The Prize Winner;" Bil
lion Dollar Grass; Teosiote,
the Silo Filler, etc., etc.
Or 8end 12c
And we will mail you our
big Catalog and six generous
packages of Early Cabbage,
Carrot, Cucumber, Lettuce,
Radish, Onion furnishing lots
and lots of juicy delicious
Vegetables during the early
Spring nnd Summer.
Or send to John A. Salzer
Seed Co., Box 703, La
Croaae, Wis., twenty cents
and receive both above collec
tions and their big caUlog.
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Only Fair.
"Do I understand you to Bay," asked
:ho Judge, "that his remarks were ac
rimonious?" "No, Judge, your honor, I didn't say
that. I said he Just swore at me. I
ain't a-goln' to claim that ho dona
what he didn't do." St James Ga
tetto. IF BACK HURTS CLEAN
KIDNEYS WITH SALTS
Drink Lots of Water and Stop Eating
Meat for a While If the Bladder
Bothera You.
Meat forms uric acid which excites
and overworks tho kidneys In their
efforts to filter It from tho system.
Regular caters of meat must flush the
kidneys occasionally. You' must re
lieve thorn like you relieve your bow
els; removing all the acids, waste and
poison, else you feel a dull misery in
the kidney region, sharp pains In the
back or sick headache, dizziness, your
stomach sours, tonguo Is coated and
when the weather la had you bars
rheumatlo twinges. Tho urine la
cloudy, full of sediment; the channels
often get Irritated, obliging you to get
up two or three times during the
night
To neutralize theao Irritating acids
and flush off the body's urinous waste
get about four ouncos of Jad Salts
from any pharmacy; take a table
spoonful In a glass of water before
breakfast for a few days and your kid
neys will then act fine and bladder
disorders disappear. This famous salts
is made from the add of grapes and
lemon Julco, combined with Uthla, and
has been used for generations to clean
and Btlmulato sluggish kidneys and
atop bladder Irritation. Jad Salts la
lnoxponslvo; harmless and makes a
delightful effervescent llthla-water
drink which millions of men and
women take now and then, thus avoid
ing serious kidney and bladdor dis
eases. Adv.
Feminine Charity.
Tho Man I understand that Miss
Angular cornea of a very old family.
Tho Maid Well, she certainly looks
ist JnTpor,a,Jt,!0 Mothers)
Examine carefully overy bottle ot
CASTORIA, a Bafo and sure remedy for
Infanta and children, and see that H
Bears tho ..m mm
Signature ot &4g&7
In Use For Over 30 Teanfc
Children Cry for Fletcher's Castori
Safety First.
"I'll let you Into my scheme on the
underground floor1'
"Aro thero any exits?"
Attention, Mothers!
Wrlto Wm. Wrlgloy Jr. Co.. 1304
Kcsnor 3Idg Chicago, III., for 28 page
beautifully colored "Mother Goose
Jingle Book," Sent freo to all read
ers or this paper. Adv.
How much easier to mako mistakes
. than to unscramble them.
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