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V tt -i.f r ' TJ-Cf-Vi' ,vs -S vv -.-" "-V-'t-V? . -'..- -dr ri -"-'-,i V w-Tr' -s-" " f -m.s Wv " -t"i . Vi 'I - .3, If - " H H4 -.:. .? i- U :- '---, - to- t- f- k.-:-- M - .- i -- ! i - IfcC CdMhS JOtTMl . COLUMBUS JOURNAL CO. Could Not Be Bribed. "A good story is told of A. C. Mac Laren, a well known cricket player. He was playing a picnic match "up country" in Australia when one of the batsmen skied a hall very high between the wickets. MacLaren was waiting for the catch, hut the striker la running past cried, "Oh. Archie, drop it. do. and I'll allow you to kiss my sister." MacLaren, it is added, was proof against the attempted brib ery. Home for Aged Animals. A wealthy Frenchman receives in His park near Paris aged animals and bird6. The oldest inmate is a mule of seventy-three, whose affectionate companion in retirement is a goose of tnirt-seeu. Amng the other In states Is a cow. aged thirty-six. a hog of twenty-seven, a bullfinch which has reached the ripe ago of twenty-eight, and a sparrow that stepped from the egg in 1819. Not the Man The Son. When a man has to support his grown-up ron. his mother says he has an artistic temperament. New York I'ress. Six Doctors Failed. South Bend. Ind.. Oct. 24 (Special) After suffering from Kidney Disease for three years: after taking treat ment from six different doctors with out petting relief. Mr. J. O. Ijiudeman of thin place found not only relief but a speedy and complete cure in Dodd's Kidney Pills. Speaking of his cure Kr. Latideroan says: "Yc. I suffered from Kidney Trouble for three years and tried six doctors to no good. Then 1 took just tio boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills and they not only cured my kidneys, but gave me better health in general. Of course I recommended Dodd's Kidney Pills 1 others and I know a number now who are using them with good re sults." Mr. Laudeman's case is not an ex ception. Thousands give similar ex periences, For there never yt was a rase of Kidney Trouble from Backache to Bright's DieaM that Dodd's Kid ney Mils could not. cure. They are the only remedy that ever cured Bright' disease. Occupied Queer Pulpit .A curious pulpit was that used by Bishop Bickerstcth. who once occu pied the lantern-space of a lighthouse In which to deliver a short address to a smaii gathering of visitors and the lighthouse men themselves. On an other occasion the saintly old 'man preached in the operating theater of a hospital to a congregation of pa tients. Undertook Too Much. Herbert Spencer, in "An Autobiog raphy." tells of a gentleman who. bav in adopted a boy with a view to edu cating him after a system of his own. found that he bad underestimated the magnitude of the undertaking. He therefore cast about for a wife, whom be gave clearly to understand that his principal reason for marriage was to secure a fit person to rear the boy. Increased Varieties of Fruit. "Man will eat 20 or 1500 more foods In the year 2m0 than be eais now." aid a chemist. "A movement is on foot among the world's griVTimients to increase the varieties of our fiwds. end every week, from somewhere or other, a new vegetable or fruit or nut Is added Jo the international bill of fare." Year of Ocean Disasters. The worM year on record for trage dies; or the deep was 1881-82. when the list of "miJ.sing" was swoolen by the enormous addition of one hundred and forty-seven ships, with an aggre gate tonnage of 41.!77 tons: and the loss of life was terrible. Pretty Japanese Custom. There is a pretty custom connected with a Japanese'marriaw which Euro peans might well ropj. Instead of ending wedding cake, a we western ers d. the Japanese distribute to their friends sugir flowers heautifully made and delicately colore!. Church on Mountain Ten. It is proposed to buil.t a small con crete church on the too of Croagh Patrick. County Mayo. Ireland!, for the celebration of the annual pilgrimage mass. The church will be almost 2.600 feet above the sea level. True Friendship. The good friend is tne friend that lnow.s. not thinks, of fancies, or imag ines, or hopes, but knows that he can tell us what he thinks and how he feels with perfect freedom and aban don. The Useful Alphabet. "There's one good thing about it." chuckled the ancient Phoenician as he Invented the alphabet, "some of those politicians' will be sure to write let ters now that will knock them into a cocked hat when they run fur office." Pointers for Statesman. If we were a statcmau we never should "begin an interview with: "My attention has been called to an article concerning,' etc. W wonld not want people to think we didn't read the papers. Giraffe Unable to Swim. The giraffe is the only animal which Is unable to swim. Tnis is on account ot its long neck. Every other animal can, if put to it. manage to keep itself afloat. Oil on Roads Prevents Mud. " The practice of oiling the roads has been introduced in India, at Bombay. It is found that if the oil is allowed ta to soak in slowly no obnoxious mud is produced, and the result is a successs. New Use for Breakfast Food. " A near-sighted Milwaukee man who loves bis pipe recently smoked up three packages of breakfast food be iore discovering his error. Heaven on Earth. If husbands and m-Ives were always sweethearts there would be no long ings for another and better world. What Men Desire. If the -man who represented the ma jority of men .were -asked . what -he most. liked in women his answer would be: Give me beauty, all beauty, to walk and to frivol with: sympathy, 11 sympathy, to talk and to lira THE ARMY FRONT ALONG WHICH THERE IS SAID TO BE SHARP FIGHTING. TROOPS HOLD OLD POSITIONS Russians Are Entrenching the Ground Recently Occupied by Them. They Are Expected to Resume the Of fensive Within a Few Days. MUKDEN Sharp fighting contin ues along the front. The Rnssians are entrenching ground recently occupied by thm. While no pitched battle has occurred during the last few days, the two armies are kept in touch with one an other, holding the positions they oc cupied when the big battle ended. There is no evidence that the Russian arrav will rush north, as was the case after the battle of Liao Yang. In fact, the Russians have another line of de fenses to fall back on in the event that they are forced out of their pres ent positions. During the last few days there has been frequent artillery fire, occasional infantry attacks and daily clashes be tween outposts and scouts. Unless the Japanese take the initia tive soon the Russians, it is expected, will resume the offensive and en deavor to drive the Japanese back, for the mirnose of injuring the safety of their winter quarters, which un doubtedly will be north of Mukden unless a southward advance is suc cessful. Another bic battle is expected short ly, as the weather is already turning cold. It will be impracticable for the two armies to winter in their present positions midway between Mukden and Liao Yang. Many incidents are coming to light showin gthe bravery of the Russian soldiers during their stubborn resist ance to the .Tapanee advance and in their attempts to drive the Japanese lwk. The men foueht night and day without rest and afterwards worked for hours carrying the wounded to the hospitals. When the Russian troops recaptured I-one Tree hill they retook several guns and a quantity of am munition which the Japanese had pre viously captured. They aln took sev eral Japanese guns in addition. At the conclusion of the fight the hill was covered with the dead and wounded of both armies. The Japanese prisoners were treated by the Russians with the greatest kindness. At one hospital visited by the Associated Press eorresiondent Japanese pri vates were found in their officers' ward. The army hosoital corps and the Red Cross societies did splendid work. The wounded were dressed and forwarded to the hospitals with the grcitest expedition. Th Russian commissariat also was admirably handled. Portable soun kit chens wr mo-t useful, going under fire to feed the men. ARIZONA POPULATION INCREASE Governor's Annual Reaort Says It is Nfw Over 165,000. WASHINGTON The annual re port of the governor of Arizona to the secret aiy of the interior says that the territorial population has Increased considerably and that the tofl impu tation now is between 1 05.000 and 170.000. It expresses a desire on the part of the people of Arizona for state hood, hut says: "Finding themselves confronted with a plin to unite their territory with New Mexico, the people of Ari zona have protested vigorously and will continue to do so until they have defeated this repugnant scheme. They would perfer that their common wealth remain a territory indefinitely rather than be joined with New Mexi co." The governor adds his belief that the merger would not be acceptable to the mas of people of either territory. The report says the floating indebtedness of Arizona, which on .lime 3ft. 1903. was $92,341. has been wiped out and a balance of $20,849 remained in the general fund at the cloe of the last fiscal yir. The taxable property in the territory has gained $ 1.981 505 dur ing the year. The total taxable prop erty of the various counties is S-JH.-ft.545. Substantial progress in other directions is reiorted. Russians Retake SHakhe Station. ST. PETERSBURG Shakhe sta tion, or what is left of it. has been recaptured by the Russians, who will reopen it for railway trahic with Muk den. It is reported that the Japanese made a furious attempt to take a wooded hill near Da pass. The firing began at 11 o'clock and continued with rifle and cannon through the night. This action probably was a part of an attempt by the Japanese who were already in Kssesion of small hills in the plain to rush the center along the foothills at the Shakhe river. The Outlook in China. LONDON Bennett Burleigh, after careful inquiry into the situation, ca bles the Daily Telegraph from Shang hai that the ;olitical outlook in China is worse now than prior to the "boxer outbreak in 1900." Widespread oper at'ons of secret societies, he says show a dangerous recrudescence of anti-foreign feeling. Drilling of large bodies of well equipped troops is pro ceeding day and night in many dis tricts of southern and middle prov inces and the Chinese authorities are buying military equipment. COLON. News reached here Fri day evening that about 200 armed men. who are thought to be malcon tent Panama citizens, rather than Co lombian soldiers, have been seen in the neighborhood of Culbra. threaten ing hostilities against the Panama government. As soon as the American authorities of the canal zone became cognizant of this force, marines were sent out to ascertain their purpose. It is rumored that a skirmish occurred inland, in which several were k'lled. but there is no confirmation of this report Valuable Horse Dies. ST. LOUIS Commodore, a 2-year-old chestnut colt, by The Commoner Rosa Masso. one of the crack St. Louis race horses, died here from in flammation of the stomach. The own ers. J. C. Milam & Co.. had refused an offer of $10,000 for the horse. Runs Vladivostok Blockade. SHANGHAI News has been re ceived that the steamer Canton, which ailed from this port has successfully m the blockade at Vladivostok. CAPTURE LONE TREE HILL. Japs Driven From a Point of Great Advantage. ST. PETERSBURG Despite the feeling of bitter disappointment over the failure of the Russian offensive and the complete miscarriage of Gen eral Kuropatkin's plans, the battle continues and his defeat does not ap pear to be so crushing and disastrous as the Tokio telegrams led the Rus sian public to suppose. While the tales of death and slaugh ter have plunged the nation into grief, and the exact situation of Kuropat kin's army, especially the left, is not clear, but probably must be regarded as critical, it is evident that the wild stories of a rout and of the cutting ofT of a whole corps, etc.. are baseless. - Kuropatkin is still doggedly trying to stem the tide and there is nothing but admiration for the heroic figure of the Russian commander personally directing the fight to save his batter ed legions. Indeed, the latest official dispatches almost revive the hope that he does not consider the battle to be Irre-, rlveably lost, as he has personally launched attack after attack against the strong Japanese position on Lone Tree hill, south of Sbakhe. at last carrying it by storm and obtaining some revenge for the loss of the Third artillery brigade, by capturing eleven field pieces and one machine gtin. But whether this offensiveness of Kuropatkin was forced in order to ex tricate his flanks is not revealed, the war office affirming that it is unable to communicate precise information re garding what is occurring on the left. Eveo'thing proves tnat not since the time of the ancients, and certaln- j ly not within a hundred years, has the world witnessed such desperate fight ing. The slaughter doubtless Is ap palling, but the war office contends that the Tokio reports are exagger ated. UNION PACIFIC'S REPORT Company Shows Net Earnings of Over Twenty-Six Million Dollars. NEW YORK The pamphlet re port of the Union Pacific Railroad company for the fiscal year ended June 30, last, issued, shows: Gross earnings. $55,279,231. increase. $1. 204.042: operating expenses. $29,026. 007. increase. $l.fi86.723: net earnings. $2C.252.C24. increase. $2,517,319. After receipt of other income and payment of total charges, there remains a sun-' plus for the year of $4,713,456. a de crease of $230,018. The report sets forth that owing to the decree in the Northern Securities company suit the Oreeon Short Line has been unable to collect its North ern Securities dividends since Feb ruary 1. last. There were sold during the year $10,000,000 face value Union Pacific company's 5 per cent collateral notes maturing February 1. 1905: the pro ceeds were used In further advance' to the Southern Pacific company in' the construction of or investment in new lires. in the completion of the steamships Manchuria and Mongolia and in the purchase of other equip ment. BIG MONEY ORDER BUSINESS Big Increase in the Domestic and In ternational Orders. WASHINGTON The total numbet o money orders Issued by this gov ernment during the last fiscal yeat passed the 50.00it.ft00 mark for the first time in history, as shown by the annual report of the superintendent o ihe money order system. The net revenue of the money order business was $2,528,403. an increase of $288,494. as compared with the pre vious fiscal year. The gross revenue was $3.t'2.C76. an increase of $37'.282 The number of domestic orders is sued was 50 392.554 aggregating $378. 778,488. and international money or dors issued numbered -.208.344. aggre gating 42.550.150. The issue of domestic orders in creased 4,450.873 in number, and $25, 15o.840 in amount while internation al orders issued increased 294.195 and $7.31 2.215 respectively. JAMES CALLANAN'S PROPERTY Must Be Converted Into Cash Within Five Years. DES MOINES The millions of dol lars of stocks and other property ol the late James Callanan must be con verted into cash within the next five years, according to the provisions of the will which has been filed here. Mr. Callanan's wealth Is estimated at $3. 000.000 or $6,000,000. He owned great amounts of stock in industrial com panies both local and national. He al so owned extensive iron mines in Arizona and gold mines in other parts of the west. According to the will this must all be sold and a considerable quantity of the money will be deposit ed with the Iowa Loan and Trust com pany of Des Moines to pay annuities and carry out other provisions of the will. Release Causes No Surprise. ST. PETERSBURG The newspa pers publish lull reports of the trial by the admiralty council of the case of the S-itish steamer AIlanton4 -seized June 16 by the Vladivostok squad ron, and her cargo, but abstain from comment on the council's annulment of the judgment of the Vladivostok prize court. The decision causes no surprise. The demand of the owners of the Allanton for indemnity for the detention of the ship probably will have to be the subject of negotiations through the foreign office. Port Arthur Squadron Out. ST. PETERSBURG A, correspond ent of the Bourse Gazette has tele graphed to that paper from Che Fod that the Port Arthur squadron is an chored in the roadstead, from which statement there has originated a ru mor that the squadon has gone out to sea. Of this reiort there is no confirmation. It is believed the cor respondent has made an error in us ing the word "roadstead" for anchor age, which coincides with bis state ment that the Japanese are bombard ing the warships from mortars. Greeks Kill Bulgarians. SAIXNICA. European Turkey Twenty Bulgarians were killed by Greeks near Fiorina on Oceober 19. A band of sixty Bulgarians approached thirty Greeks who were posted on a hill, supposing them to be friends. Burrows Breaks a Record. MONl'REAL-Tom-- Burrows, the English athlete, broke his own world's record for -continuous club swinging of forty-two hoars by swinging them forty-uree hoars. and. six minutes. The Ward of A Romance off the y OTTILIE A. UUENCBAHTZ. aatttr at Tfca Tarell at Lief the Lucky. CupyriK&t, 1803, by A. CHAPTER XXIII Continued. The guard' discreetly held his tongue but he likewise held his po sition. Elfglva's bosom was begin ning to heave in hysterical menace when a second soldier, lounging against the wall behind the first, ven tured a soothing word. "For your own safety, noble one, ask it not. The King is listening to a quarrel between an Englishman and a Dane; and by reason of it. there are many in the room whose tempers anay " Randalin, who alone of all the maid ens had remained undauntedly at her mistress elbow, caught that elbow In a vice-like grip. "Take the gallery, then, lady!" she urged in a piercing whisper. "The gallery as quick as you can." After a moment's bridling, Elfgiva whirled back with an angry flounce of her draperies. "The gallery, then, dog! I shall reach my lord's ear from that, which will be an unlucky thing for you." Whatever its shortcomings as a show-case, the balcony was excellent ly adapted both for spectators and for eavesdroppers. Its distance from the floor being little more than twice a man's height, while the fire which doled its light so stingily, lavished a glory of brightness on the spot where the King's massive chair stood beside the chimney-piece. Encircled by a martial throng, so massed and indistinct that they made a background like embroidered tap estry, three figures were the center of attention the figure of the young King in bis raised chair, and the forms of the Dane and the Angle who fronted each other before his foot stool. Shielded from the heat by his palm, Canute's face was in the shadow, and the giant shape of the son of Lo.1 brok was a blot against the flames, but the glare lay strong on Sebert of Ivarsdalc, revealing a picture that caused one spectator to catch her breath in a sob. Equally aloof from English thane and Danish noble, the Etheling in the palace of his native king stood a stranger and alone, while his swordless sheath showed him to be also a prisoner. He bore himself proudly, one of his blood could scarcely have done otherwise, but his fine face was white with mis ery, and despair darkened his eyes as they stared unseeingly before him. t-ZuvS- "Vmlimi'iCsfa sr rfafeBr,lStfSft- V lwBm JrSs mi rriTJ'r.jfti "z?-?i2ZEB&.-:v x s ... mMb -"tesrdF 7 TBw Wj Wl VCsw J zzmz? ? vz&s''ss k & r8 -v Fancy placed a scarlet-cloaked figure at his feet and raised at his knee a face of sweetest friendliness. Answering a question trom tne King. Rothgar began to speak, his heavy voice seeming to fill all the space from floor to ceiling: "By all the laws of war. King Canute, the Odal of Ivarsdale should come to me. The first son of Lodhrok took the land before ever this Angle's kin had seen it. He built the tower that stands on it, and the name it bears to this day is the name of his giving. Under Guthrum. a weak-kneed sen of his son ot his lost it to the English Alfred, and we fell out of our fortunes with the tipping of the scales, and Angles have sat since then in the seat of Lod brok's sfins. But now the scales have risen again. Under Canute. Ivars dale, with all other English property, comes back to Danish hands. By all the laws of war, my kinsman's inheri tance should be my share of tl e spoil." Ending roundly, he drew himself up in an attitude of bold' assurance. Wherever a group of scarlet cloaks made a bright patch upon the human arras, there was a flutter of approval. 'In the shadow of his hand, Canute nodded slowly. "By all the laws of war," he affirmed, "your kinsman's in heritance should be your share of the spoil." Again an approving murmur rose from Danish throats; and Rothgar was opening his lips to voice a grate ful answer, when a gesture of the royal hand checked him. "Recollect, however, that just now I am not only a war-chief, but also a law-man. I think it right, therefore, to hear what the Englishman has to say for his side. Sebet Oswaldsson, speak in your defense." "I have nothing to say. Your jus tice may most rightly be meted out." "Nothing to say?" The King's measured voice sounded sharply through the hush. For the iirst time, he lowered his hand and bent for ward where the fire-glow could touch him. As she caught sight of his face Elf giva shrank and clutched at her wom en. "Ah. Saints. I am thankful now that it is dark!" she murmured. Sebert sustained the look with proud steadiness. "Nothing that, would be of use to me,' he said;' "and I do not choo3e to pleasure you -by setting up a weak plea for you to inock down again. If your messen gers had not taken me by sur prise " He paused, witli an odd curl to his lips that could hardly be called a smile; but Canute gave" him command to finish, and he obeyed with rising color. "If your messen gers bad not come upon me as I was riding on the Watling street and brought me here, a prisoner. I wonld have argued the matter with arrows,, and you would needs have battered down the defense of stone walls to convince me." Mutters of mingled admiration end censure buzzed around.- -Through it all ' Canute eat motionless, studying the Etheling with his bright colorless eyes. King Canute Danish Conquest. ' C. McCLUKG & OCX At last he said unexpectedly, "If you would not obey my summons until my men had dealt with you by force. It cannot be said that you have much respect for my authority. Do you not then acknowledge me as king of the English?" Rothgar betrayed impatience at this branching aside. Sebert himsek showed surprise. He said hesitatingly. "I I cannot deny that. You have the same right that Cerdic had over the Britons. Nay, you hav.e more, for you are the for mal choice of the Witan. I cannot rightly deny that you are king of the Angles." "U you acknowledge me to be that." Canute said. "1 do not see why you have not an argument for your de fense." While all stared at him he rose slowly and" stood before them, a daz- i zling figure as the light caught the steel of his ring-mail and turned his polished helm to a fiery dome. "Sebert Oswaldsson," he said slow ly. "I did not feel much love toward you the first time I saw ycu. and it is hard for me not to hate you now, when I see what you are going to Le the cause of. If your case had come be fore Canute the man, ou would have received the answer ycu expect. But it is your iuck that Canute the man is dead, and you stand before Canute the King. Hear then my answer: By all the laws of war, the land belongs to Ivar's ?on; and had he regained it J while war ruled, 1 had not taken it , from him, though the Witan itself commanded me. But instead of re gaining it, he lost it." He stretched a forbidding hand toward Rothgar, feeling without seping his angry im pulse. "By what means matters not: battles have turned on a smaller I thing, and the royalty cf those we I have protected is a lawful weapon to ' defend ourselves with. The kinsman 1 of Ivar a second time lost his inheri tance, and the opportunity passed forever. What concerns war time is a thing by itself; as ruler oA'er laws and land-rights, I cannot give one man's lands to another, though the one be a man I care little for, and the other is my foster-brother. Go back therefore, unhindered. Lord of Ivars dale. and live in peace henceforth. Or var, 1 want yon to re tore to him his weapon and see him on his way in satetv. Your life shall answer for 1 any harm done to him." if. x W J5i TZ-, .1 -t. 3 W-yy .' a w With one hand, he struck down the murmur that was rising; with the other he made an urgent gesture ot haste, which Orvar seemed to under stand. Even while he was returning to the Lord of Ivarsdale his sword, he eied him by the arm and hurr'ed him down the room, the Etheling walking like a man i:i a dream. From the dusk of the rafters, the ?irl who hived him stretched out her hands to him in tender farewell, but there was no mqre of anguish in the gesture. Gazing after him. the tear rose slowly to her eyes and rolled siowly down ber chcol.s. but on her mouth was a little smile whose won dering joy mounted to exaltation. The murmur below was growing, despite the king's restraining hand: and now. crashing through it in hide ous discord, came a ourct of jeering laughter from the Jotun. What won's he also spoke they could i ot catch, but they heard tl:e Danish cries sink and die. aghast, and they saw a score of English thanes spring upon him and drag him backward. Above the noise of their scuffling, the king's voice sounded stern and cold. "While I act as law-man in my judgment hall, I will hear no disput ing of n." judgmerts. Whoso comes to me in my private chamber, as friend to friend, may tell his mind; but now I speak as king, and what I have spoken shall stand." Struggling with those who would have forced him from the room, Roth gar had no breath to retort with, but the words did not go unsaid because of that. Wherever scarlet cloaks made a bright patch, the human arras sway ed and shook violently, and then fell apart into groups of angry men whose voices rose in resentful chorus: "Such judgment by a Danish king is unexampled!" "King, are we all to expect this treatment?" "This is the third time you have ruled against your own men." "You are our chief, whose kingship we have held up with our lives." "What are these Eng lish to you?" Snarling more and more openly, they surged forward, closing round the dais in a fiery mass. Canute's sword was no more bril liantly hard than his face, and his eyes were glittering points. The ring ot steel was in his voice as he an- I swered: "You speak as yon have a right- but you speak as men who have swines' memories. , Was it jour sup port or your courage that won me the English crown? It may be that if I had waited until pyre and fire you would have done so. but it happened that before that time the Ergiish Witan gave it to me as a gift, i.i re turn for my pledge to rule them just ly. My meaning in this judgment, and the others that you dislike, is that I am going to keep that pledge. I tell you now. openly and without deceit, that henceforth there is to be but one rule for Angle and Dane alike; and I shall be. as much their king as yours;' and they shall share equally is or justice. You mar; Ha F7 J it of not. but that is what will take place." How they liked it was suggested by a bursting roar, and the scuffling of many feet as the English leaped for ward to protect their new king and the Danes whirled to meet them, but the women in the gallery did not wait to see the outcome. In a frenzy of terror, Elfgiva dragged up the kneel ing maids and herded them throucn tne door. "Go before they get Into the ante room!' she gasped. "Do you not see that he is no longer human? We should be pleading with iron. Go! Before1 they tear down the walls!" (To be continued.) SAW VISION OF HIS DEATH. , War Artist Believes He Has Had Pre monition of His Fate. Friends of a distinguished war art ist now in Manchuria are said to be taking an almost uncanny interest in his return trom the scene of war. It rises out of a strange story told by the artist himself. Years before the artist began his long record of cam paigns he was out walking along a quiet square in his native city when, looking down, he suddenly saw a pool of blood on the pavt'.nent. Instantly, the story goes, from the shock of the sight, he went off into a sort of trance. He was on a bleak plain, running for his life from three pursuing horsemen. He saw their faces, knew tnat his efforts to escape were hopeless and then a swift blade descended and cut off his head. Af ter that he came to himself and re sumed his walk, but he has always had a conviction that this vision fore boded the manner of his death. Once during a campaign in the Su dan, when the British square was broken, he was pursued. It was with relief that he recognized that the mounted pursuers were not his men, the men of the vision. He wonders still when he will meet them. Non-Voluntary Volunteers. S. Osgood Pell sat in the smoking room of the Windsor at Saratoga. "Count Tolstoi." he said, "is right in his statement that the Russian peasants are averse to war. and go to war unwillingly. If these peasants could have had their way. there would have been no trouble with Japan. "The Russian press, of course claims that the plain people arc sup porting the government heartily, and that on every hand enthusiastic volun teers pour in. But that is not true. A friend of mine in Moscow wrote me the other day of a joke that is being quietly circulated, and this joke shows pretty clearly the different views that the government and the common peo ple take of the war. "Two men, according to the story, were out walking, when they saw a crowd jostling and shoving, while from within the crowd came loud sobs, cries of pain, oaths and blows. 'What on earth is the matter?' said the first man. " 'Oh.' said his companion, indiffer ently, 'it is only a government officer forcing a peasant to turn volunteer.'" Boston Post. West Indian Folklore Stories. A woman who has struck upon an unusual way to bring in the pennies is Miss Pamela Colman Smith, who is entertaining London audiences with West Indian folklore stories. Clad In a loose, flame colored robe, she sits in Eastern fashion on the floor. "Be fore her is the board on which she manipulates the toys which represent the dramatis personae of her stories," says the Lady's Home Magazine. In front of the board are two candles fox footlights, while in the background a urate fire "sheds a warm, red glow ' (ver the weird picture." Every story begins with the formu la: "In a long-before time before Queen Victoria came to reign ovei we" which takes the place of oui "Once upon a time." Among the figures are the Chim chim Bird. Brodda Gingy Fly and tht liibby Dibby Tree; but most import ant of ail is Annancy, the spidei fn. the evil spirit that figures ir every one of Miss Smith's thirtj stories. All of these tales came from Jamaica, where the story teller lived for several years when a child. Scientific English Farming. At Faringdon. Berkshire, farming has been raised to a science. Mr. George Adams, of the royal prize farm. Wndley house, farms some 4.000 acres, if which about half is arable and hall pasture. He employs from 200 to 250 laborers-, milks jiOO cows daily, keeps about forty Shire brood mares, a score ot breeding sows, and from 3.000 to 4.00U laying hens, grows about 1.000 acres of grain, besides attending to other multifarious items in the ordi nary course of farm practice. About 1.000 acres of meadow hay are har vested annually. All the work, irnt ting. carrying and ricking, is done by piecework. Tid-Bits. Auntie's Keen Scent. Ex-Congressman Lafe Pence tells a story of an old lady who always knew everything before anybody else. One day her niece saw her passing the houcand ran out to meet her. "Do come in. Aunty." she begged, "and help us. We are making cha rades." "Certainly I will." answered the old lady. "I knew you were making them, because I smelt them as I came along." New York Times. S'.'ch a Combination. 'No." said the cheerful Idiot as he lighted a cigar. "I never use tobacco." "Why. man. you are smoking now." the new boarder cried. "That's not tobacco," said the idiot. "Wl-at is it then?" "Well, don't know just what you would call it. but the filler is rom Connecticut and the wrapper from Mrs. Wiggs' cabbage patch. Have one?"Clcv eland Plain Dealer. A Soldier's Busy Moment. Emil Douche, sergeant of troop E at Fort Meade, while in a field was thrown to the ground and burned Lj a lightning bolt. While the soldier lay prostrate a cow. frightened by thf flash, kicked him in the jaw. H's in juries are serious, but not fatal. Aiilwankee- Wisconsin. The Woman of It. She I had a splendid half honr? chat with young Simpkins last even ing. He Indeed! Why, everybody says he is stupid and never says anything. She True; but he's an excellent listener. British Conservatism. The conservatism of the British mind is indicated by the tender regret with which the newspapers record the I demolitionof "England's highest wind J mill." which was built at Yarmouth as ' short a time ago as 1812. I NOTE The following article has been widely published and is one or the most remarkable illustrations of the value of careful' marshalling and analysis of facts in presenting a sub ject to the public. LEVELERS. The Mission of Whiskey, Tobacco and Coffee. The Creator made all things, we be lieve. If so. he must have made these. We know what he made food and water for. and air and sunshine, but why Whiskey. Tobacco 'and Coffee? They are here, sure enough, and each performing its work. There must be some great plan be hind it all; the thoughtful man seeks to understand something of that plan and thereby to judge these articles for their true worth. Let us not say "bad" or "good" with out taking testimony. There are times and conditions when it certainly seems to the casual observer that these stimulant narcot ics are real blessings. Right there is the ambush that con ceals a "killing" enemy. One can slip into the habit of either whiskey, tobacco or coflee easy enough, but to "untangle" is often a fearful struggle. it seems plain that there are cir cumstances when the narcotic effect of these poisons is for the moment beneficial but the fearful argument against them is that seldom ever does one find a steady user of either whis key, coffee or tobacco free from dis ease of some kind. Certainly powerful elements in their effect on the human race. n is a matter of daily history tes tified to by literally millions of peo ple that Whiskey. Tobacco and Coffee are smiling, promising, beguiling friends on the start, but always false as hell Itself In the end. once they get firm hold enough to show their strength, they insist upon governing and drive the victim steadily towards ill health in some form; if permitted to continue to rule, they will not let up until physical and mental ruin sets in. A man under that spell (and "under the spell" is correct), of any one of these drugs, frequently assures him self and his friends. "Why. 1 can leave off any time I want to. I did quit for a week just to show 1 could." It is-' a sure mark of the slave when one gets to that stage. He wiggled through a week fighting every day to break the spell, was finally whipped, and began his slavery all over again. The slave (Coffee slave as well as Tobacco and Whiskey) daily reviews his condition. ses perfectly plain the steady encroachments of disease, how the nerves get weaker day by day. and demand the drug that seems to smile and offer relief for a few minutes and then leave the diseased condition plainer to view than ever and growing worse. Many times the Coffee slave realizes that he is between two fires. He feels bad if he leaves off and a little worse if he drinks and allows the effect to wear off. So it goes on from day to day. Every night the struggling victim promises himself that he will break the habit and next day when he feels a little bad (as he is quite sure to) breaks, not the habit, but his own resolution. It Is nearly always a tough tight, with disaster ahead sure if the habit wins-. There have been hundreds of thou sands of people driven to their graves through disease brought on by coffee drinking alone, and it is quite certain that more human misery is caused by coffee and tobacco than by whiskey, for the two first are more widely used, and more hidden and insidious in the effect on nerves, heart and other vital organs, and are thus unsuspected until much of the dangerous work is done. Now. Reader, what is your opinion as to the real use the Creator has tor these things? Take a look at the ques tion from this point of view. There is a law of Nature and of Nature's God that things slowly evolve trom lower planes to higher, a sturdy, steady and dignified advance toward more perfect things in both the Physi cal and Spiritual world. The ponder ous tread of evolutionary develop ment is fixed by the Infinite and will not be quickened out of natural law by any of man's methods. Therefore we see many illustrations showing how nature checks too rapid advance. Illinois raises phenomenal crops of corn for two or three jears. If she continued to do so every year her farmers would advance in wealth j far beyond those of other sections or j countries. So Nature interposes a bar I every three or four years and brings on a "bad year." Here vre see the leveling influence at work. A man is prosperous in his business for a number of years and grows rich. Then Nature sets the "leveling in fluence" at work on him. Some of his I investments lose, he becomes luxu rious and lazy. Perhaps it Is whiskey, tobacco, coffee, women, gambling, or some other form. The intent and pur pose is to level him. Keep him from evolving too far ahead of the mases. A nation becomes prosperous and great like .indent Rome. If no level ing influence sets in she would domi nate the world perhaps for all time. But Dame Nature sets her army of "levelers" at work. Luxury, over eating and drinking, licentiousness, waste and extravagance indulgences of all kinds, then comes the wreck. Sure. Sure, Sure. The law of the unit is the law of the mass. Man goes through the same process. Weakness (in childhood), gradual growth ot strength, energy, thrift, probity, prosperity, wealth, com fort, ease, relaxation, self-indulgence, luxury, idleness, waste, debauchery, disease, and the wreck follows. The "levelers" are in the bushes along tne pathway of every successful man and woman and they bag the major ity. Only now and then can a man stand out against these "levelers" and hold his fortune, fame and health to the end. So the Creator has use for Whiskey, Tobacco and Coffee to level down the successful ones and those who show signs of being successful, and keep them back in the race, so that the great "field" (the masses) may not be left too far behind. And yet we must admit that same ail wise Creator has placed it in the power of man to stand upright, clothed in the armor of a clean cut steady mind and say unto himself, "1 decline to exchange my birthright for a mess of pottage.' "I will not deaden my senses, weaken my grip on affairs and keep myself cheap, common and behind in fortune and fame by drugging with whiskey, tobacco or coffee, life is too short. It is bard enough to win the good things, without any sort of handicap, so a man is certainly a 'fool trader when he trades strength, health, money and the good-things that come with power, for the half asleep condition of the "Urugger"- with the certainty of sickness and disease ahead " . It is a matter each individual must . decide for himself. He. can be a leader and semi-god if .he- will., or he. can go along through life a drugged clown, a cheap-"hewer of wood or car rier of water." Certain it is that while the Great Father of us all does not seem to "mind" if some of his children are foolish and slupid. he seems to select others (perhaps those he intends for some special work) and allows them to be threshed and castigated most fearfully by these "levelers." If a man tries flirting with theser leelers awhile, and gets a few slaps as a hint, he had better take the hint or a good solid blow will follow. When a man tries to live upright, clean, thrifty, sober and undrngged. manifesting ;is near as he knows what the Creator intends he should, happi ness, health and peace seem to cume to him. Does it pay? This article was written to set w pie thinking to rouse the "God with in" for every highly organized man and woman has times when they feel a something calling from within for them to press to the- Trout, and "be about the Father's business." don't mistake it: the spark of the infinite is there and it pays in every way. health, happiness, peace, ami even worldly prosperity, to break off the habits and strip clean for the work cut out for us. It has been the business of the writer to provide a practical and easy way for people to break away from the coffee habit and be assured of a luturn to health and all of the good things that brings, provided the abnse has not gone too far. and even then the cases where the body has been rebuilt on a basis of strength ami health run into the thousands. It is an easy and comfortable step to stop coffee instantly by havir-g well-made Potum Food Coffee served rich and hot with good cream, for the color and flavor is there, but none of the caffeine or other nerve destroying elements of ordinary coffee. On the contrary the most powerful lehuihling elements furnished by Xa turo are in Postum and they quickly set about repairing the damage. Sel dom i, it more than 2 days after lu change is made before the old stomach or bowel troubles or complaiuts of kid neys, heart, head or nerve?, show du mistakablc evidence of getting better and ten days time changes things wou derfully. Literally millions of brain working Americans to-day use Postum. having found the value and common sense iu the change. C. W. POST. WHAT THE KING CANNOT DO. Royal Prerogative in England Has Its Limitations. It is a prevalent and popular notion that the power possessed by the mon arch is absolute and almost without limitation, says the Hour Glass. This is a fallacy, as the following facts will attest. The privileges and pow ers relegated to royalty are manifold and peculiar, but there are certain things that a king may not do. While it is quite within the prov ince of Hie royal prerigatii to dis pute of the entire army or nay and also to declare war without roiisulting anvbody. yet our king cutild not util ize a penny of the public- finds with out permihsion from parliament. How ever excellent and beneficent bis mo t;v may be for so doing, the king is debarreil from communicating with any of his loyal subjects and the sumo limitation prohibits him from accept ing gifts from any of his people ex cept in cases where the offerings are presented through the medium of an officer of the .state or an intimate friend of his majesty. After an in dividual has been elected by his con stituents to take hi? seat in the Brit ish senate at Westminster it is not in the power of the king himself to pre vent the member from occupying his place in that august assembly. Ot his own royal prerogative King Edward possesses full power to par don a murderer, even after he lias been foand guilty and sentenced to death by the representatives of th law. Yet. by a curious statute, of one of the Georges, the kinu is prevented from exhibiting mercy or grace tu a willful sabbath-breaker. To render ev ery new law absolute and irrevocable the royal autograph must be invaria bly attached thereto, nor is his ma jesty ever permitted to perform his duty by proxy. Even the salaries of the king's servants are fixed by state and he cannot raise the salary of his own butler except by permission or out or his own private purse. That the king can do no wrong is obviously tne view taken by his counselors, for by the laws that hedge the throne no person can take action against bis majesty and he cannot ie arrestee! by the emissaries of the law on any pre text whatever. A Distinction. Ellen Glasgow, the novelist, has a charming residence in Richmond. Va. Among her ancestors several clergy men are numbered, and of one of these clergymen she said recently: "He was noted for his sermons originality, quairttness and humor. I remember a story that a great-aunt of mine used to tel about an Im portant address that he delivered be fore a certain governor. "His women folks bad urged him to be eloquent and flowery in this ad dress, like a rival named blank. Elo quence and high-flown rhetoric were far. however, from his style; and when he rose, fixing his eye on the. anxious women, he began dryly: " 'When Dr. Blank, the eloquent and flowery, speaks, the plowman leaves his plow, the tradesman his shop, the sailor his ship, and the shoemaker his bench. But when I, in my matter-of-fact- way, speak, I set things to rights again, and everyone attends to his own business.' " . Freddie Sizes Up His Ma. The teacher was endeavoring to give her pupils enlightenment on the question of agnosticism. "Now, Freddy," she said, "we will suppose that your father doesn't go to church and never says his prayers. But he isn't sure that there is not a God or a heaven, where-angels are. He says there may be or there may not be ke doesn't know. That make:: him an agnostic. If he said he did not believe in God, then he would b an infidel. But he doesn't go that far. He just confesses that he uoes not know: Now, do you understand what an agnostic is?" "Yes," Freddy answered, "and know what ma is, too." ' "What is she, Freddy V "Well, from the way ma goes on al the time she must be a aagnostic." - ..- )1 '.PI I w S r mJ'itii-v r- - r"r- - v f-S-' --f .rr.;ss,Tw ..,, --.-
