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, i Bi31-rT? c asAtaar:"T'ncSTrff"'t t''mgiaiiiaaii iWLJ u. , x -r ""T" v flgSJBrtf53W6St N V. J -Si PRfr r ! i A'l ! Ir. mi -if af"t ftaaam . a r THE EBDOFJHE GRIP HEAOHED APTEB EIGHT YEAES OP COMPLICATED TROUBLES. -Deafnra. HUnlng-Sotintls In Ilratl, Stomack Uieordrr, I'alpitatiun of Heart and Debility Orrrcnme at Laat. Mr. Newman certainly had a very tongh time with the grip, and it is no "wonder that he thinks that the remedy that cured him can't be beat. His case shows how profoundly grip poisons the system and how obstinately it resists all ordinary efforts to eradicate it. Few cases cm bo worse than Mr. New man's for ho had head, heart and stom ach troubles combined with great weak ness. He recently said : " The attack of'grip which I had eight years ago left me in a very bad fix. I became nearly deaf and my head ached continually and was filled with hissing ami roaring sounds. My heart fluttered and had regular ruuning-away spells. My stomach was so sore that I could hardly bear a touch on that part of my body. I had a great deal of pain in the region of my liver and the doctor said that organ was enlarged. My kidneys ached so at times that I could hardly stand." " Didn't you give up and go to bed?" he was asked. "No, I simply wouldn't. My head and my back ached dreadfully, but I obstinately dragged iiiyxdf nlwut, kept growing wor. and finally ran down to almost nothing." " What did you do to get relief?" " First I tried a doctor, but he did mo no good. Then I took all kinds of ad vert i.-ed preparation but nothingproved helpful until I began lousy Dr. Williams' 1'ink Pills-. As .soon as I got tlium I knew that I had at List hit tho right remedy for my cae. Tho very first box did more for mo than anything ebo I had ever taken. They gavo mo relief right away and in three months they IxjMtively cured me. I think I was scarcely ever in better health in my life than I am at present." . Mi;. William A. Newman is a well known Camden county farmer, living at Hagrada. Missouri. His caso w:is a sc reio test for any remedy, but Dr. Wil liams' Pink Pills met every requirement. Other remedies merely drive the poison of the grip into hiding, but Dr. Williams' Pink Pills drive it out of the system. They arc bold by every dmrjgist. Wear Symbols of Prowess. The Iiorans, inhabitants of South ern Aby.-siuia, wear heavy bracelets of metal and ivory, each of which represents some dnugerous animal or man killed bv tho wearer. Indian Head. N. W. T Jan. COtli. 1904. Immigration Branch. Department of the Interior, Ottawa, Canada: Am sending you the return of two fields of wheat grown on my home farm yast year. These returns are perfectly accurate, and not over-estimated. I summer-fallow about one-third of my farm every year, and afterward take off two crops and summer-fallow again. The summer-fallow is ploughed twice during the summer, first shal low, afterwards deep and no weed al lowed to grow. The stubble is left as long as possible when cutting the first crop, and is burned the following spring, drilled directly afterwards, and harrowed after drilling. This gives much better result than fall-ploughing. Field No. 1. Quarter-section fal lowed IflO:!. yield 37 bushels per acre. This wheat is netting at present time SSc per bushel. For "S7 bushels, per acre Per acre. Cost of summer-fallowing in IPO.". $4.20 Seed wheat and seeding. l.Hrt harvesting Co Threshing (owner's ma chine). 2c per buh... .74 Hauling to elevators at 2c per bush 74 $32.5G 57.C3 Profit after allowing expenses, nor acre $24.93 Field No. 2. Stubble field. SO acres. Have sold the wheat at SSc per bushel. Yield per acre 23 bushels, per Cost: Per acre. Seed wheat and seeding.$l.F0 Cutting, stacking 03 Threshing (owner's ma chine). 2c per bush .50 Hauling to elevator, 2c per bush 50 $3.15 Profit after expense. $1S.S5 Profit from one plowing I43.7S I am sending you the yield of these two fields which are both in my home farm. I thought they might be inter esting reading for you. Had 19.500 bushels of wheat on my different farms, and between 5,000 and 6,000 of oats and barley. I remain. Yours very truly. (Sgd) Alfred Wilson. Agents of the Government of Cana da will be pleased to furnish full in formation as to rates. Racing in Abyssinia. The first racing meeting ever held in Abyssinia came off at Adis Abeba recently. The chief event was won 'by one of Emperor Menelik's horses. Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defmace Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz. one full pound while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in "i -pound pack ages, and the price is the same. 10 rents. Then asain because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chem icals. If your grocer tries to sell you a 12-oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large let ters and figures "16 ozs." Demand De fiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron stick ing. Defiance never sticks. The wise man shapes himself ac cording to his environment, as water to the shape of the vessel into which it is noured. Dealers say that as soon as a cus tomer tries Defiance Starch it is im possible to sell them any other cold water starch. It can be used cold or boiled. Worldly joy is a sunflower, which shuts when the gleam of prosperity is over; spiritual joy is an evergreen, an unfading plant Racine. Storekeepers report that the extra quantitv. together with the superior qualitv of Defiance Starch makes It next to impossible to sell any other brand. Take care of your pennies while young and give some chap a chance to bunko you out of your dollars when you get old. Chicago News. If you don't pet the biggest and best it's your own fan' Delance Starch Is for sala every N ' there Is posi tively nothing ' -Uty ox tjantity. A IWistress Rosemary Allyrt By MILLICENT E. MANN Copyright. 18M. by CHAPTER XX Continued. " 'Cease at once.' I commanded. 'Would you add insult to injury? What is your love to me?' 'Have a care, Rosemary, he cried. 'Do not drive a man to extremes. Quentin Waters has bewitched you with his dark foreign face and he had grace, I will acknowledge; but am I alto gether without charm?' 'Leave, Oh, leave me,' I begged. T am wearied with you all.' 'I will molest you no more, if you will but promise to think of me,' he pleaded. 'Oh, Rosemary, listen to my love.' He stretched out his arms to draw me to his breast. 'I will intercede with Lord Felton: you shall not leave town if you care to stay only love me a little.' "You listened,' I cried; 'I am find ing out some of the characteristics of my cousin to-night I hate you and if Quentin Waters is dead, I shall be his bride in heaven. 'So you said be fore to-night.' he retorted. I saw that he was holding his temper in check. 'You liked me well enough before this upstart came to town you shall like nay, more than like me again when time shall have healed the wou .d. Adieu, my coz; I hope you will find your sojourn in France to your taste. 'Fairly well, if I do not see the face of my Cousin Itaoul Dwight.' I returned. 'That you will have to put up with to some extent, he observed, 'since Lord Felton has asked me to attend him. I had no words to say to this, and 1 motioned him from my presence. " T have almost finished.' at this point the lady said, and her voice broke like a harp that had but one string. 'Here is the locket and the paper is inside of it Tell Mister Waters, if you find him alive, what I have told you, since it is impossible for me to meet him. If dead, place it uiKtii his breast and whisper to him that it has Iain uon my heart all the time. "She had ended and there were tears m her eyes as she nave tliP locket into my broad palm. Then she lelt me, nor would she let me see her home, saying that her maid awaited her at the corner. I took the precau tion to follow her, however, and saw that she reached her home safely." Gil had finished, and I saw that he was well satisfied with himself that he had done his task so well. He handed me the locket, I took it me chanically. My proud lady had done penance, indeed, in confessing all this to Gil, so that it should be repeated to me. I looked at the bare back, where the mirror had been that could soon be fixed and then Rosemary should wear it among the frills of her gown jl -lll iPFi'iiiii1!1 Leave, oh, leave me I begged. 'I am weary with you all. whenever- she chose. While idly fing ering it, I pressed the spring, which was uninjured. The thin gold flew out and instinctively my hand opened to catch the paper as it fell. It clutched emptiness. Then I turned the locket this way and that, up and down, while I looked for what was not 'here. CHAPTER XXI. We Leave London, Beset by the Plague. "And you say you stitched the locket in your jerkin pocket," I re peated in a weak voice. Gil replied, as he had many times before: "Yes. and I never took off the jerkin either night r day, until I saw you." His deep voice trembled in his de sire to render its tones soft, and he spoke as a person would humoring one who had passed through the shadow of death. We had been going over the same thing again and again, for I made him repeat, not once, but many times, what Lady Felton had said to him when she delivered the locket into his hands, hoping thereby to find a clue to the missing paper. And each day after talking, for very weakness, I would fall asleep Tn thP Inn- hours of mv delirium, so Gil told me. I talked and raved of nothing but Rosemary and the lost locket Oft I started up after lying with wide open sightless eyes crying out: "She is innocent, I swear to God, she is innocent; look at her face; could deceit dwell there?" Again I was before the King crying out: "She is innocent, your Majesty, I swear it Imprison me, but let one so sweet go." So time dragged on until at last I regained consciousness, only to repeat when asleep from sheer weakness, 'She is innoent innocent." How wearying it was to him. poor Gil! those long hours in which I raved, for he blamed himself greatly that he had not waited until I was stronger before he had told me about the locket or given it to me, and also restrained himself when speaking of Lady Felton. I forgave him that in deed I never referred to it, his hu mility was so sincere. I knew him well enough to know that he meant nothing, his bark was ever worse than his bite, witness what he did for "pretty Alice Lynson" and her daft mate. He sent them on to Bristol es corted by Torraine and Pat, when he had need of them both. He also paid their passage in a "essel soon to sail for the States, and heartened their trip with a well-filled purse. "The house on Bow Street is closed, you say, Gil?" I asked, "and also Lady Folton's. Ton are sure the servants left In charge know nothing of their whereabouts?" "As sure as I am that my mother's bones lie in St Swithin's church LUCAS - HXCOLX CO. yard." he said grimly. "My lord," he added after a pause, "do you thins you will be able to travel by the end of the week, so we can go to Lone Haut?" "There is no need to (hasten now, Gil," I replied. "Lord Waters has been laid been laid to rest a week agone at least I did not see his face. calm, I hope, in death; after his life's restless wave of turbulency may he sleep well. Ah! me! my errand into London as far as my father's message is concerned was of little avail. Lady Dwight has left town; God knows when I shall see her again!" "Since she has waited so many years, a longer wait will not matter," said he with the patience of an older man. "It matters much for my peace of mind," I returned. "If she should die and she is not a young woman without my father's message let me not think of it," I cried petulantly. "To the dead all things are known, they say," he said. "I lingered too long over my own affairs." I continued. "My punishment is this: My lady mourns me dead, and I know not where she bides." "You should thank God fasting that she is out of this pest-ridden place," Gil jerked out, seeing me so down in the mouth. "What do you mean?" I quickly asked "The plague!" he replied "Ah! that is the reason for this exodus from town at the height of the season," I said. "Forty more to-day, they tell me," he said carelessly. "St. Olaves' church yard begins to be full and they are dumping the bodies into the town ditch. But what is more to us, the fools think you have it and I cannot get one of them to come nigh the place." "Is Mistress Nell Gwyn still in ; town?" I asked. "I must see her before we leave and find out what she knows regarding Lady Felton." "Xn" he replied, "she has gone to Richmond. And she knows little. I sent Torraine while you were yet un conscious to ask her where Lady Fel ton had gone. He found her on the eve of flitting. She told him that she had seen Lady Felton, and that, al though tearful at her enforced de parture and fearful of your fate, she yet held herself brave and ready for anything. She herself did not know where her father's destination was, but thought it might be France per haps a convent there, if she was not complaisant concerning the marriage with her Cousin Raoul Dwight" "God's blood!" I cried; "then tP nance 1 Will go. "As you will," he replied patiently "But why not on the war stop at Long Haut?" Nostalgia was upon Gil and, I will confess it, upon me also Long Haut, where the fall flowers would bo bending their heads before the strong breezes from the sea, where the Manor House covered with ivy would look like a picture. "Yes. I replied, "I would visit the chapel at home and rest my eyes upon the suot where my father lies." It took us no longer to leave Lon don than it had Long Haut. But this time instead of the quick men, one was worn with vigils, and the other sick, whom all shunned for fear the plague had laid her clammy fingers on him. We skirted the town, especially the plague-stricken spots in it. We heard the crier cry, "Bring out your dead," a gruesome sound. But more grue some was the sight of his cart piled high with corpses on the way to dump them into St. Olave's church yard. Let us hasten out or that city of fearsome sights; grim with its hor rors, putrid with its smells and hasten to the clean, pure atmosphere of Long Haut. The only thing that enlivened us on the Journey were the remarks unnn me open country made by that cock ney. Pat the linkman, who had never been outside of London. We reached Long Haut in the even ing. The sun setting in brilliancy where were sunsets more brilliant than in that south country? threw its light upon the windows of the huts, and the village looked aflame. How pleasantly the smells of the sea came to our nostrils, after the close breath of the town' How good its earthy smell! How good the smell of the hay in the fields! We reached the hall and passed into the kitchen. Before the fire, crooning oer it, sat old Nance, the same as ever, with perhaps a few more wrink les added. She did not even start upon seeing us. "I was but now dreaming you were here, dear lord," she said as" she hob bled toward me. I took her withered shape In my arms and gave her a sounding kiss upon her brown cheeks. "Tis half killed they have von in that pesky hole." she muttered. "Sit ye down while I see to your bed and give you something decent to eat," and she mothered me like I were a babe. I laughed for Joy at being home again. CHAPTER XXII. "Pray, How Comes Love?" I was up early the next morning. Ah! as Gil said, there was nothing like this air fresh from the sea to put new life into one. At once I was strengthened. My blood ran quicker through my veins. All lassitude fell from me, and I longed to do out rageous things, even as a boy escaped from restraint might I left Gil snoring in his bed, sleep ing the sleep a man feels he is en titled to after having spent days and nights of vigil with an exacting pa tient, now that he has brought him safe home. I did justice to the bowl of porridge and home-brewed ale Nance set be "ore me, and ir spite of her protests that I was not strong enough went to the chapel. I looked about me. How still it was in that house of prayer and how familiar, save my father's seat draped in black and that newly carved stone resting upon all that re mained of him whose name I bore. Candles burned upon the altar, while through the stained memorial win dow the light softly fell. I thought of the dead resting beneath those flag stones life has so much to give to some, so little to others how would it be with me? I account every man responsible for what his life Is whether he make or mar it. But mostly I thought of the newly buried, and while I said a prayer for the peace of his soul, I vowed that never should my feet rest until I had found Lady Dwight and delivered my fath er's message. After that was done, I should seek the lady of my heart, and by all the laws of nature she should be mine, though all the world should say me nay. I went down the bridle path and took the short cut through the woods, which led past Castle Drout Castle Drout that in the distance and the gray mist of the early morn looked like a fairy's house. (To be continued.) Extraordinary Debtors' Law. The French debtors law is, indeed, extraordinary, and the following case deserves to stand as a record, says the London Chronicle. M. Rembert-Favre, a small farmer living at St. Romain-de-Benet, owed the sum of 90 francs, and, being sued for the debt, was sentenced to pay the money with costs, making in all 100 francs. M. Rembert-Favre, who did not understand much about legal i. matters, either could not or would not pay the money at once, and thought that his creditor would wait until after the harvest, but the order of the Court was peremptory, and it was decided to distrain. The bailiff instead of seizing the furnitui", which would have been ample for the pur pose, seized the debtor's farm of ahout lo.OOOf. ($::,000). The bailiff's last bill amounted to SOf. C0c, within a few francs of the original debt. All tnis was done legally, in the presence of the public prosecutor, and the luckless M. Rembert-Favre is now ruined for a debt of 90 francs. Old Time Fishing. Tears ago the writer was invited to accompany two or three friends to fish for pickerel at night in a rather shallow millpond, located in a Mas sachusetts town. A flat-bottomed boat was used, and an iron rod about four feet long was attached to the bow of the beat in a perpendicular posi tion. On the upper end of the rod was placed an iron receptacle containing a fire. "Pitch pine knots" were used, which burn for a long time and sup ply a sufficient amount of light to en able the man at the bow of the boat to see the bottom of the pond. A spear with four or five barbed prongs was used, the boat being gently pro pelled by one of the part-. The man at the how with spear in readiness kept a sharp lookout. When a pick erel was seen a quick thrust was made with the spear. The man had prac tically a sure thing of it, the pickerel having little chance to escape from the unsportsmanlike procedure. I A. Spencer in Recreation. Considerate Barry. Little Barry, aged 6, and Mr. Russe, of much maturer years, had been great chums; so, when the latter died, Barry's parents decided to keep him in ignorance of his loss. A few days after the funeral, how ever, Barry's parents took him along to pay a visit to the bereaved widow, but before entering the house the youngster was admonished to refrain from mentioning "Bud's" name for such was Barry's nickname for his friend. Shortly after the formal greetings had been exchanged the tearful widow produced a tintype of her late lament ed husband; then, affectionately em bracing the lad and pointing to Bud's picture, she asked: "Who is that. Bar ry9" to which the obedient child, in a sympathetic whisper, replied, "I'll tell you to-morrow." Ticket for a Cow. While I was station agent on the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, a few years ago, a Portu geese and companion came to the ticket window one day, and the spokesman, Antone Rose by name, called for a "teeket to Fall Reev." I sold him the required "teeket" but he still seemed to have something bothering him, and shortly came to the window again, and said something which sounded like "two." Thinking his friend wanted to go to "all Reev," I naturally thought he wanted the second "teeket," and forthwith sold him one. It transpired he had an able-bodied cow outside awaiting shipment to Fall River, and what he really said was "coo," instead of "two." I had sold him a ticket for the transpor tation of a cow. Boston Herald. As He Understood It. "During the taking of a religious census of the District of Columbia the past winter," relates a representa tive from Tennessee, "a couple of young ladies who were engaged in the work stopped at my home on Capitol Kill, and when the bell rang it was answered by the negro boy I brought from Tennessee with me. The ladies asked him: " 'Will you please tell me who lives here?' "'Yessum; Mistah Johnsing,' was the answer. "Ts he a Christian?' "'No, ma'am. He's er Congress man from Tennersee.' " Two Mottoes. John Kendrick Bangs was Invited to dine at the New York Yacht club, and of the event the Sun tells this' story. The medallion and motto of the Yale club just across the street at tracted Mr. Bangs attention. "That's very nice," he said. "That gives an air to that building that at tracts me. Lux et Veritas. Why don't you yacht club chaps pat a motto on your own door?" "Possibly because we don't happen to have one," answered the host "Nonsense; said Mr. Bangs. "If the Yale club can use Lnx et Veritas, tfhy can't yon fellows use Ducks et demltasse? It's quite as appropriate." Mistress Rosemary Allyn By MILLICENT E. MANi Copyright. 1901. by CHAPTER XXII. Continued. I sat down on the boulder outside of the postern gate. How long ago it seemed though in reality not so many weeks since I had sat in that same place, and unconsciously I as sumed the same attitude of that other time when I had watched and waited even as a Silvius for his Phoebe. Here Nell Gwyn, in all a serving maid's masqueradery, had purposely surprised me. Had I then seen her as I did later up the stage doing her inimitable mimicry I had not been so taken in, for once seen she was never to be mistaken for anyone else. I called to mind another and a pret tier picture sweet Rosemary in her farthingales! Rosemary (had ever name so pleasant a sound?) as she appeared when I killed her falcon. Some day she should have another like unto it, I thought fondly, and my lips curved as I recalled how she had flouted me. The rose in her hair had paled in beauty beside her, its cream tint not so delicate as the skin which it caressed. I heard a little quivering sigh or sob. It was so like that other day of which I was thinking that I started up. There in the pathway she stood; out of the mist she grew, until from a wraith in pale cerem?r.ts she came to be Rosemary of flesh and blood. Rosemary with eager eyes dilated and hands fluttering toward me. "You!" she whispered. "They told me you were dead." "Quick enough, love," I cried, as I took her trembling hands in mine and drew her to my breast. For a mo ment she lay there. "I felt you were alive." she cried joyfully. "Would earth be so sweet if you were dead? Oh, no! I told my self so again and again, while I yet eluded myself for being gay when they assured me that you were no more!" I would have taken her again to my heart, but she held me off. "You are pale and thin you have been ill?" she asked. "A fever from the blow I received on the head after I left you the night of the London fog," I explained. "I am well now." "111!" she repeated, "ill! and they would have wedded me to Cousin Raoul even Aunt Elaine forsook me. Oh, it has been a hateful time! Dreading the worst for you spirited away, at first I knew not where shut up in yonder house subject to sur veillance most of the time I came near to hating them all! What is that?" she added in a whisper. "Come back in here among these bushes. If "You!" she whispered. "They told me you were dead!" they find you here, I doubt not but they'll kill you." "Rosemary, be not afraid for me," I said. "I would not, indeed; I would match you against them all," she said with a proud toss of her head. Then, noting my pale face, "if you were yourself." To satisfy her I drew back in among the bushes, while she walked a short way off and listened. Hear ing nothing, she came back. "But you have not told me hew it happenHl?" she said. "I know very little myself," i re plied. "I was found unconscious out side of Dream House the night after I left you." "Some rascallion about town, bent on robbery?" she suggested. "I think not." I said, "for I was robbed of nothing. I remember pass ing the pillars at the entrance. I be lieve on them are carved the armonial bearings of the Dwight's and its motto, 'I strike hard,' " I added dryly. "I had been followed the blow was intended for me there is no doubt of that." "You did not recognize anyone?" she queried. "No," I replied. "The men were masked; I saw so much from the light of a torch which was swung before my eyes, and it blinded me so I could not grasp my sword ere the blow fell." "Oh. no!" she cried. Her tone was pleading. "It could not be?" "What distresses you, dear?" I asked. "No. I will not think of it." she said proudly. "One could not be so cow ardly." ."You suspect someone?" I inquired. "Do not ask me, sir." she answered. "We Feltons are not loath to stand up before one we deem our enemy but we could not strike a blow in the dark." "No doubt of that, love," I said to still her suspicions, which, while she yet silenced, cut her to the heart; "witness how a slender youth stood before my long arm and rapier, and made me do penance for the killing of a falcon." "Yes," she cried, throwing off her depression; "and to think you did not recognize me. I trembled in my boots for fear you might The next time when Nell and I were at the White Swan and passed you, we were on our guard, for from the window wo had seen you enter the court yard. Immediately I gave the order for our coach to be gotten ready, although'we had intended to rest there most oi the day. How we chuckled when you let us go, for in my pocket snug and safe lay the little paper you had won in sq disgraceful a manner fie, sir, how could you?" She shook her finjer at me,. and before I could reply in a man ner that permitted of no words, she added: "I thought, we shall see whether Mister Quentin Waters gets so mnch enjoyment out of that piece LUCAS - LINCOLN CO. of paper as he expects to in I adon town. I will acknowledge, sir, that I did not love you then." "And I loved you from the 2rst mo ment my eyes lighted upon you," I said, reproachfully. "And I, sir, I know not when," she said. "There is an old verse, old but true; I have oft heard It I will re peat it for you: "Pray how comes love? Love comes unsought, unsent. Pray how goes love? That was not love that went." "Now it is proverbially known that we Feltons are good haters, still this is the time when the exception proves the rule. I began by being angry with you about the falcon, and when I found the paper on the floor oh, I assure you I was wild! I decided to punish you by not letting you know who I really was. The fops of Lon don thought It a good joke and en tered into the sport with a zest, even Nell lent a hand. "It might have had a sad ending had I killed Raoul Dwight in that duel which we were to fight." I said. "Ah! I believe in the luck of the Feltons," she laughed. "Nevertheless. I thank God, provi dence, or the King, that it never came to pass," I said heartily. "I think you have to thank my fath er for that," she returned dryly; "he it was who induced the King to forget his promise and have you impris oned." Then she added tenderly: "I shall have to make amends to you, Quentin" my name fell softly from her lips "all my life, if you please." "Ah, Rosemary!" I cried, "your name fits you like the petals of the rose its golden center." I drew her to me and kissed her blushing face. For awhile we stood hand in hand absorbed in each other. Then I bethought me of Gil and his chagrin over the missing paper; also the vow I had made at my father's grave. CHAPTER XXIII. "It Was the Night Lord Waters Left Me." "Rosemary, tell me about the locket," said I. "Ah there! it came near to being your undoing a woman's vanity," she sighed, yet looked archly at me as though demanding that I contradict her. "Was the paper in it when you gave it to Gil?" I asked. "Did I tell Gil so when I gave it to him?" she replied. "It is lost, I said, "and Gil asserts that the locket never left his person until he placed it in my hands and there was none in it then." "What matters it?" she asked light ly. " 'Twas naught but an old bit of paper." "It was valuable to me," I said. "You would keep it?" she asked jealously. "Indeed I would, if I could but find it," I answered. "Do you know who wrote it?" she questioned. "No." I replied. "My father gave it to me to find out, it possible, the writer it is strange where it could have disappeared to." "I am sure I could not have lost it," she affirmed. "I slept with it at tached to a slender chain about my neck." "You are sure you never laid It down?" I still persistently inquired. "Yes, sure," she began, and then stopped. "Once, now I remember, while at my bath it lay for a few mo ments on my dressing table' she added. "Could anyone have entered your room then?" I asked. "No one but my maid or Aunt Elaine," she admitted. "Then rest assured that one or the other of them have it," I returned. "What would either of them want with that old love letter?" she said; "besides I heard no one at the time " "You say that Lady Dwight is with you? I said. "I must see her at once I have a message from the dead which admits of no delay I have also to claim Kaoul Dwight as a brother "Brother!" she exclaimed. "Yes," I nodded. "Let us hasten to the Castle too long has this news been on the way-there you shull learn all." "It is dangerous," she returned "for if the men see you they would set upon you and" she shuddered "I shall try to hold my own. I grim ly said; "but against Raoul Dwiht I will never lift hand nor sword I would be no second Cain." "Ah, you would not, but would not ne? she asked. "He hates you'" "Yes," I sighed, "we were ever bit ing and snarling. I WOuld I had known sooner that he was my brother. I long to take his hand in good fellow ship." "With him love and hate war equal ly, as good and evil do, but then, you must remprnhni- t u?i. . . me, she whispered. "I would he did not-I would he did not," I said. "Tnen It wouW be comparatively easy sailing. He would understand when he knew all But how can he help it?" I looked it her with all a lover's fondness. I deemed the world might envy me and "with cause. She laughed deliciously at mv look lifted her high (I was not such a weakling but I could do that) and kissed hr lingeringly on her month. "Come let us to Ladv Dwieb " I ! said soberly, when I bad pat hqr down. She led the way through a disused kitchen and I followed. We met no one. The few servants were busy in the rear. We could hear them talk ing as we mounted the staircase. l We had hardly reached the landing when Rosemary cried: "Quick, in here." She opened the door of a large room and we passed hurriedly in. Then I heard the sound of a man's heavy tread. She pushed me behind a hanging arras and stepped beside me, pulling the curtains together. I could almost hear her heart beat "I say you do wrong." said a high voice. It was Lady Dwight who was speaking. "I care not if he is my son you shall not force her into a distasteful marriage I shall not con sent to it" "Wrong! not at all. Madame." the strenuous voice of Lord Felton re? plied. "You should be pleased she will bring to your empty coffers much gold." His tone was ironical in tho ex treme. "Gold gold is not all In this world, let me tell you, my Lord Felton," she said. "Moreover, it is outrageous to keep us here in this ruinous old place. The damp is like to kill us V felt a twinge of rheumatism yester day." "I am sorry, Madame," he said po litely. "Why need you stay? The door is open." (To be continued.) His Thin Sandwich. "Tim" Callahan was an old time race track follower and frequenter of horse sales. Ho was In Madison Square garden when ex-Fire Commis sioner Scannell bought The Abbot for $2t,500. and the price staggered Cal lahan so that he borrowed a dollar and wandered into the restaurant to revive himself. He ordered a chicken sandwich, and. when the carver put in a slice of chicken as thin as tissue paper, threw him the dollar bill, receiving sixty cents in change. "Tim" looked at the chicken sandwich, then at the change, and finally put fifty cents on the coun ter and the remaining dime in his pocket. "Here! You've paid for your sand wich. I don't want this," said tho carver. "Well, I'll bet you," said "Tim," sol emnly. "Bet me! Bet me what?" Inquired the carver. "I'll bet you the fifty cents that that chicken brings as much as The Abbott," said Callahan. New York Sun. Senile Conceit James B. Hammond of New York, the noted typewriter inventor, was de scribing a conceited man. "He is as conceited," Mr. Hammond said, "as an old fellow who lived in Germany while I was a student at the University of Halle. "This old fellow sat one night In conversation with a group of men, and the talk turned to greatness. "Numerous instances were men tioned in proof of the fact that the great die young. Finally It was agreed that there was more truth in this claim than there is in most prov erbs. " 'Yes.' said the leading spirit of the party, 'it ought to be a proverb, for it is true. The great die young. There is no doubt of it. The great, alas, die young.' "The old man, who had sat silent and impatient for a long time, now spoke up: "'If I'm not dead already. Is it my fault?' he said." Bright Doggie. M. M. Williams, of this place, has a very fine thoroughbred Fields water spaniel (imported) that is truly a wonder in his way. says the Titus ville (Fla.) Star. He can do almost anything except talk, and is able to find a lost article on being sent for it by his acute sense of smell. An il lustration was given a member of the Star staff, who witnessed an exhibi tion of his acuteness in this direction recently. Mr. Williams took from h's vest pocket a good sized roll of bills, and, going away from his dog a dis tance of 1:10 yards, hid his money and returned. Upon being told to bring it hack, the spaniel went straight and returned immediately to his master with the lost greenbacks intact, not a single bill missing. This fine specimen of canine intelligence recently recovered a very valuable and highly prized gold hunting case watch for Isaac Jenkins, a very heavy grain buyer of Jacksonville. Farming in the White House. Mrs. Jackson died just before the general's first administration, and dur ing the eight years that he was at the White House he practically managed the plantation himself from Washing ton, says Oliver Bronson Capen In Country Life in America. As a farm er Andrew Jackson was more success ful than George Washington, and as a breeder of hor?es he was more suc cessful than Henry Clay. And yet, so great wer his achievements in pur suits as far removed from the pastoral as the polc. that popular tradition does not reel-on with on of the most important -;'!es of his character. Lawyer, pol;:ician, judge, statesman, soldier! closer to his heart than all these were a country home and a farm. No Veto Power in England. The king 1 is really no power as Is commonly s' rposed to veto a bill which was passed through both houses of t '.rliament He can only exercise tlr privilege on the advice of hft mini " rs, in which case it Is not a mere1 prrsonal act. As a mat ter of fact, Vr royal assent to a bill is given a a matter of course, and has never '"n refused since Queen Anne put ' r royal foot down on a Scotch mil 'ia bill nearly two cen turies ago. i-'o really powerless is the sovereign in 'h's matter that the au thor of "Th Knglish Constitution," writng of Qurf-n Victoria, said: "She must sign Iit own death warraot if the two housf unanimously send it np to her." Philadelphia Ledger. Senator Hoar's Granddaughter. While visiting out In the New tons a few years ago. Senator Hoar told the story of his little grand daughter. Her older brother was to give a show ns he called it), and. In addition, th patrons were to receive a light luncf1 The little girl was to advertise tl show throughout the own, and in the meanwhile the tick ets were to e printed by hT brother. In her c lildish earnestness she stopped at 'he minister's house first, and asked 'he minister's wife if she would like to help the show along. The child said, "I know the show will be lovely; you ought to see how big the tickefe are." A VOICE FROM THE PULPIT. Rev. Jacob D. Van Doren, of 57 Sixth street. Fond Du Lac. Wis.. Pres byterian clergyman, says: "I had at tacks of kidney disor ders which kept me ia the house for days, at a time, unable to do anything. What I suf fered can hardly b told. Complications set in. the particulars of which I wiU ha pleased to give is a personal interview to any one who requires information. This I can conscientiously say, Doan's Kidney Pills caused a general improvement in my health. They brought great relief by lessening the pain and correcting tho action of the kidney secretions." Doan's Kidney Pills for sale by all dealers. Price. 50 cents. Foster-MU-burn Co., Buffalo. N. Y. Liberty and Education. When Texas revolted from Mexico Its declaration of independence con tained the following: "It (Mexico) has failed to establish any public sys tem of education, although possessed of almost unlimited resources (tho public domain), and although it is an axiom in political science that un less a people are educated and en lightened it is idle to expect tho con tinuance of civil liberty or the capa city for self-government." First Uses of Perfumery. The use of perfumery among tho nations of antiquity was iu the na ture of respect and delicate homage. It had sacred attributes and was & "confection, after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, puro and holy." Later, perfumery becamo associated with luxurious indolenco and sensuous relaxations. Its con tinued use to the present time is a survival of tho latest impulses. The Happy Child. Thero is nothing like light-heartcd-ness to make a child a favorite. No one likes the cross, ill-tempered boy or girl. A ragged, barefoot boy sell ing papers on the street will often attract one just because he Is so jolly, so happy, although it might seem aa though he had much to grumblu about Do not encourage tears and bad temper, but rather smiles and pleasant words. A Great Discovery. Clayton, Tex., May 1st (Special) That a genuine cure for Diabetes has been discovered is the opinion of Mr. J. H. Bailey of this place. Speak ing of the matter, Mr. Bailey says: "I believe Dodd'a Kidney Pills is the beat remedy for Diabetes and the only one that" has ever been discover ed that will cure Diabetes. "I have s genuine case of Diabetes. I have taken seven boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills and am still taking then. They have helped me so much that I am now up and able to work some. I believe that if I had conformed strict ly to a Diabetes diet I would now have been completely cured." Dodd's Kidney Pills have cured hun dreds of cases of Diabetes and never once failed. It is an old saying that what will cure Diabetes will cure any form of Kidney Disease and that's Just exactly what Dodd's Kidney Pills do. They cure all kidney diseases from Backache to Bright's Disease. Primitive Corn-Grinding Methods. In the old Babylonian days, the wheat and corn were crushed by hand mills made from two circular flat stones, the upper stone moving on a flat wooden pivot, and turned with a wooden handle. Protesting Against Rate Reduction. Atlanta, Ga. The recent proposi tion of J. Pope Brown. Chairman of the Georgia Railroad commission, to l educe the passenger rate in Georgia from three to two cents per mile was protested against by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, tho Order of Railway Conductors, and unions of the blacksmiths, machinists and teleg raphers, boilormakers, railway train Lien, carpenters and joiners, clerks and car men. These organizations em ployed an attorney especially to rep lescr.t them, who urgfd that such a reduction would work against tho prosperity of the state and lead to a reduction in the number of railroad employes, as well as of their wages. The Travelers Protective Association also protested that a reduction, as proposed, would result in fewer trains and poorer service. H?ro is Destitute. Capt Benton, an English sailor, 82 years old, who has saved forty-nino persons from drowning, is to have a street organ Dought for him, so that he can earn a living. ECZEMA FOR TWO YEARS. Little Girl's Awful Suffering With Ter rible Skin Humor Sleepless Nights for Mother Speedy Cure by Cuticura. "My little sit', had been suffering; for two years fri ni eczema, and dur ing that tim I uld not get a night's sleep, as her fulni'-nt was very severe. I had tried to many remedies, deriv ing no benefit. I had given up all hope. But as a last r-ort I was persuaded to try Cuticura. and one box of tho Ointment and fwo bottles of the Re solvent, tog iher with the Soap, ef fected a pom.anent cure. Mrs. I. B. Jones, Ad(iir.-"on. Ind. T." Donates tibrary to Town. John Q. Ia-khard. a rich Californt an, is hav.ng a $73,000 library build ing erecvd for Marysviile. Cal.. be cause he gf his "start in life" there. 5100 Reward, SI0O. The ret'lT- .f !. paper win be pie a-l to learn thai there 1- at i-.ii n- lriilril dl;-tc Iliot rclrocs ha. t-cu l cu-e la all It oiaveo, ami ibal la Catarrh. Ha t alarrh Cure N ttie only p1:!t cure Q7 kno d t trio meil'cal fraternity. Catarrh bliiit a r.nlfuUu3t dl -aj.e. re!itre a etmUlu tlonal tre.t:mat. HaH" Catarrh Ct;re 1 taSen la temaily. arilcri'Irecuy upon the 11uh1 ami mucoaa surface of tt syiem, tnerehy dttroylnic tfca fuundatlon f th- ii!eoe. and flv!n tbe patten treanrth by titt.llnic up tr-e co:i'U:ut!on and a--lt-lng na'ur? tn dulnic It wort. The pr prletort bnv o ranch f!th la lt curative p.er that ttty tZtt One Hundred Dollars for any c:ir thai tl tUa ( cure, bend for llnof testimonials. Addre,. K. J. CHENKV & CO.. Toledo. O. 8o:d by ail l)nsy:litf.'5c. Take Hall' Family 111 U for conttlpatloav German Silver. German silver derives its rffmo from the fact that it was iirst manu factured at Hildburghausen, Germany. It is an alloy of copper, zinc and nickel. It is variable in composition, according to the requirements of the manufacture, but may be stated for general purposes to consist of of' parts of copper, 30 of zinc and 20 of nickel. Lots of folks find it more to their liking to argue about Christianity , than to practice it lfjJ "-L A ""&TCW"'' -Sp Cb :- il M i J '4 iibMfl3Wi r-js - a a "-o a i Lf BESe