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"Huh?" inquired he who had dined well. "R'port m'?" "Say, what are you? -A bellboy or a detective or what?" "I'm a haberdasher." answered the other, with a pleasant smile. The other snorted and withdrew. Not His Business. "Pow'ful fertile country daoun theh In Texas." said the colonel. "Yes, seh! Why, seb, 1 know spots daoun theh where the trees grow so close togetheh that you-all couldn't shove youh hand between theh trunks. And game, seh! Why, seh, I've seen Fehginyuh deeah in those saflie forests with antlehs eight feet spread! Yes, seh!" At this point some meddlesome Idiot asked the colonel how such deer ever managed to get their antlers between such tree trunks. "Thet, seh," said the colonel, draw ing himself up with squelching dig nity, "is theh business!" Everybody's Magazine. Eyes Are Relieved By Murine when Irntatrd by Chalk Dust and Eye Strain, incident to the average School Itoom. A recent Census of New York City reveals the fact that in that City alone 17.U2S School Children needed Eye Care, Why not try Murine Eye Kemedy for Red, Weak. Weary. Watery Eyes. Granulation, Pink Eye and Eye Strain? Murine Doesn't Smart: Soothes Eye Pain. Is Compounded by Experienced Physi cians; Contains no Injurious or Prohibit ed Drugs. Trv Murine for Your Eye Troubles: You Will Like Murine, Try It in Babv's Eyes for Scaly Eyelids. Drug rfsts Sell Murine at 50c The Murine Evo Remedy Co.. ChlcHRT. Will Send You In teresting Eye Books Free. Cow Never Said a Word. When one of the fenders of the City railway cars picked up a young heifer at the corner of Third and Jersey streets the conductor filled out the re quired report blank to Superintendent Edward Howell. In answer to the question: "What did the victim say?" the employe wrote: "She was car ried along on the fender for a short distance, then rolled off and ran away without saying a word." Dayton Co lumbus Dispatch. Ctate or mo Crrr or Toledo. Lucas Cocntt. f " Fbavk J. Chexet makes oath that he Is senior partner of the firm of K. J. CiiF.NEr A Co.. doing busimxH In the City of Toledo. County and State aforesaid, and that mid Arm will pay the sum ol OVE nUNDRKD DOLLARS for each and every case of Catakru that cannot be cured by the use ol Hall's catakbu Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sirom to brfore me and enbecrlbed In my presence this Cth day ot December. A. D.. 1886. j l A. W. CLE SON. 1 -". J NOTAItV PCBLIC. BalTs Catarrh Cure Is takrn Internally and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces ot the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY CO.. Toledo. O- Sold by an PruTKL-ts. 71c lUe Hall's Family 1'ilis for constipation. Fattest French Soldiers. Occasionally our Paris contemporar ies entertain their readers with an ac count of the tallest and the shortest conscript. Now a journal has gone one better and discovered the fat test recruit in the French army, who has been found at Corbeil. This hon orable distinction belongs to M. La verdit, the son of a merchant In the lo cality. The young man turns the scale at 2G8 pounds, avoirdupois, or rather over 19 stone. Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine wash goods when new, owe much of their attractiveness to the way they are laundered, this bemg done in a manner to enhance their textile beau ty. Home laundering would be equal ly satisfactory if proper attention was given to starching, the first essential being good Starch, which has sufficient strength to stiffen, without thickening the goods. Try Defiance Starch and you will be pleasantly surprised at the improved appearance of your work. Tactless or Tactful7 "Walters who hire out for parties ought to be trained for that," said one who has suffered. "Last night at a little party I was giving a waiter I thought knew his business walked up to a distinguished singer, who was in the midst of a song, and insisted upon her taking a plate of salad and a glass of punch. She had to stop the song to get ridiof him." The Burnt Cnild. Stern Parent Bobby, I thought I told you to order that trunk sent around richt away, all ready to use. The trunk has come, but there is no strap. "Well, pa. I told the man he needn't mind sending the strap." Breaking Up Colds. , A cold may Le t-trpped at the start bv a couple of Lane's l'leacaut Tablet-?. Ever in cares where a cold ha seemed to gair fo strosig a hold that nothing could break it. then? tablet? have ilone it in an houroi two. .AH drusrgisU aud dealers ?ell them at 25 cents, a box. If you cannot pet them fend to the proprietor, Orator F. Wood ward, Le Hoy, ;X. Y. Sample free. A Natural Conclusion. "Do you think Bangs will succeed In the work he has taken up?" "He hasn't the ghost of a chance." "Why not?" "Because he hasn't the spirit" Use Allen's Foot-Ease. It Is the only rhef for Swollen Smart ing; Tired. Aching, Hot. Sweating Feet, Coras and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Fool Ease, a powder to be --shaken Into the shoes. Cures w h:le you walk. At all Drug- gists and Shoe Stores, 23c Don't accept any substitute. Sample sent FREE. Ad- J dress, Allen S. Olmsted, .Leuoy, . x. Seme men are content not to do mean actions, I want to become in capable of a mean thought or feeling. SYNOPSIS. "Vanishing Fleets." a story of "what mleht have happened," opens in Wash ington with the United States and Japan near war. Guy Hillier. secretary of the British embassy, and Miss Norma Rob erts, chief aide of Inventor Roberts, are introduced as lovers. Japan declares war and takes the Philippines. Guy Hillier starts for England. Norma Roberts leaves Washington for Ihe Florida coast. Hawaii Is captured by the Japs. All ports are closed. Tokyo learns of missing Jap ancstj fleet and whole world becomes con vinced that United States has powerful war agency. England decides to send a fleet to American waters as a Canadian protection against what the British sup pose is a terrible submarine flotilla. Hil lier is sent with it message. Fleet mys teriouslv disappears. The kaiser is miss ing. King Edward, of England is con fronted bv Admiral Kevins of the United States. The Dreadnaught, biggest of Eng land's warships, is discovered at an im passable point In the Thames. Tlie story now goes back to u time many months before the war breaks out, and Inventor Roberts visits f be president and 'cabinet. telling of and exhibiting a metal produc tion. This overcomes fricttop when elec trified and Is to be applied to vessels. A city for the manufacture of the mys terious discovery is built. The mys tery of true levitation Is solved. Roberts evolves a great flying ma chine. The cabinet plans a radioplane war against Japanese. The start for the scene of conflict with a large lleet of mon ster airships Is made with Norma In com mand. CHAPTER XVIII. Continued. "Number One will engage the cruis er on the extreme right. Two will at tack the battle ship on the port bow of the flagship. Three will take the battleship on the extreme left," and so on, ending with the declaration that the Norma would open the engage ment by striking the Ito at the head of the triangle. Fighting Bevins turned away from his signal box when the last confirma tion of his instructions had been re ceived and looked at the girl in the hood. At that high altitude the early rays of the sun were shivering the gloom of the Interior through the glass ports in the dome. As if in a glory of silver she stood before him, out wardly calm and emotionless; but in the splendid poise of her body, the ex pectant waiting of her bands, and the steady scrutiny of the dials before her, she was the embodiment of sufficiency. Feeling his lcok and waiting for his command, she moved her head till her face was turned full upon him, and in her eyes shone the fire which through all the ages has led valiant warriors to fields of victory. The glory of youth, the inspiration of patriotism, and the determination of fearlessness were blended in tteir light and ex ultantly waiting the battle call. Accustomed as he was to the ter rible intoxication of fierce conflict, the gray old admiral felt himself enthused by this slip of a girl. He was a man making the last fight of his life with tne incarnation of the Goddess of War at his elbow and mutely cheering him on to the charge. Every nerve within him strung itself in tensity, the mus cles ot his body seemed to contract until his head fairly shrank between his massive shoulders, his resolute jaw set with a snap, and his short hair seemed to bristle as he leaped toward ber, gave way to his excitement and fajrly shouted: "Now! Go to them! Quick, hard and fast! At them!" He jumped back to his point of ob servation, and even as he did so the great radioplane shivered with a sur charge of energy, reeled druckenly through every fiber for the fraction of a second, gathered itself, and in one terrific plunge shot downward at such an awful rate of speed that the en gineers by the dynamos instinctively threw themselves to the floor, the man on the lookout seized the bars before him, gasping for breath, and the ad miral, startled, whirled toward the figure in the hood, fearing that some fatal accident had occurred. There, erect, triumphant, and fierce, stood the woman glorified who was striking the first blow for her coun try's honor and her father's exaltation. She was fairly hurling the machine through space, her hands grasping the levers of descent and her eyes on the periscope which portrayed the posi tion of their helpless victims. Bevins, in a fury of excitement, shouted his approval with storms of oaths, completely swept out of himself by the fierceness of the assault. "Good, good!" he shouted. "That's right! Open her up wide. They're ours! They're ours!" Outside the hissing air was torn by a whirlwind of small shells fired in a panic-stricken attempt to fend off this adversary which was driving down ward upon the Ito. It was their last hope at defense. They had tested their guns repeatedly at long range, and proved them ineffectual against an enemy that could tra-el with a speed beside which that of the swiftest bird of prey was insignificant. They had watched those strange uncanny things lift themselves to a prodigious altitude with incomparable ease, carry away and rejuvenate a wounded com panion which had been struck by the merest chance, turn toward each other as if in communication, whirl out in long lines betokening the perfection of control, had waited for a downpour of missiles; and then, when amazement at this marvelous demonstration had reached its climax, they had witnessed the sudden s swoop in their direction. Now in hopeless impotence 'the men on the deck of the doomed Ito lost their heads and ran frantically to and fro. Up to the very last, one or two of the gun crews elevated and fired elevated and fired with methodical precision like men in a trance and actuated' by habit only. The panic-stricken swallow vainly winging his 'way through the air in wild endeavor to escape the talons of w&zMSSSm Scream of Shot and Shell the darting hawk would have had more chance than they before this on slaught. This gigantic embodiment of doom was leaping down upon them with such terrific velocity and at such an angle of flight as to preclude all possibility of defense. Irresistible, implacable, and noiseless, it was plunging for the final thrust. Its very method of attack was so surprising and so unexpected that they were awed with fear, helpless, benumbed, despairing and conquered. They were men done to death and suffering the agonies of wounds before the blow had fallen. It was all accomplished with such rapidity that not even the most terrified had time to rush to the rails and throw himself into the sea. When the instant of death seemed imminent, they were paralyzed into inaction and cowered together, waiting for the shock of annihilation. And their suspense, although of a different nature, was scarcely more keen and heartbreaking than that of those in the radioplane which was hurtling at them. The admiral was still crouching like a man prepared for a blow, when Nor ma with quick energy tilted over an other lever and checked the descent Those within the shell felt their hearts come back to the normal and were once more able to breathe freely. It was like the application of a powerful brake to a falling elevator, save that there was no abrupt jar, no discordant sound of steel on steel, and no shock of friction. "Look out! Look out!" they heard her call. "Hold fast! We're going to strike!" And then, even as they sought po sitions of security, the great radio- j)lane felt a sudden, sharp concussion of impact as the top of the fighting mast struck its bottom plate, crumpled like a match, and went crashing down ward, a debris of twisted, useless steel. Even within the chamber there penetrated to them the terrified shieks and despairing cries of the men of Japan. Another quick smashing blow almost threw those at the dynamos from their feet, more cries were heard without, and then, for the small part of a sec ond there was silence and immobility. Even the storm of fire from the other ships bad ceased. Norma alone seemed endowed with power of movement, and sprang quick ly from lever to lever and switch to switch, issuing her battle cry. "The dynamos! The dynamos!" she 'called. "Full speed, and stand clear for fear of accident! I've thrown the magnet currents! Quick! all your power be fore others can train a gun on us!" Her voice was sharp and decisive, and her words snapped like lashes, driving them to action. "Steady, steady!" With almost the instantaneousness of its stop, the radioplane shivered and throbbed with increased energy. The dynamos -hummed and roared; the Norma quivered like a race horse under a cruel whip, then steadied itself, seemed to gather its forces to gether, gave one mighty lift, and be gan to ascend. The frightened cries from without subsided in stupefaction. The fighting admiral with clenched fists was running the length of the radioplane, staring through the lower ports, and hoarsely voicing his exulta tion, his eyes flaming with the joy of victory. Out on the sluggish "waves which had now changed to a coldly gleaming gray the other vessels of the Japanese Broke Into a Pandemonium. fleet witnessed the beginnings of catastrophe. They had seen this in credibly monstrous thing drop from ether upon their flagship, crumple its upper works like paper, attach itself to the turrets, and then with phenom enal power actually lift from the ocean 20,000 tons of steel a floating fortress believed but an hour ago to be invincible and bear it away. Even as they watched they saw this strange god which had grasped the pride of Japan in his clutch deliberately sha ping his flight higher and higher into the great void cf the heavens and passing out of their world. Of what use were guns against these strange visitants, whose only human mark was the flag of the de spised enemy? In hopeless screams of terror their sirens awoke the echoes with weird, despairing wails, and their engines under full speed sent the screws lashing through the water in a last desperate effort to escape by flight. And while their prows tore the waves the superstitious sailors took their disaster as an omen of heavenly wrath, reverted to the religion of their ancestors, and prostrated themselves in an agony of prayer; but every chance was denied them, and even their trust in speed to evade seizure was ineffectual. Even as the Ito, held fast by the Norma, was becoming a speck against the disk of the morning sky, another of those strange creatures made a scarcely less abrupt descent upon the Kashima. Stacks and masts went down with a crash as had those oth ers. The great wingless terror picked her up into the air before her engines could be stopped, and, with her screw beating the atmosphere like the flut tering fins of a fish captured by a marauding eagle, sailed oC with her into the blue above. Once more they tried the effect of l w-i-i m m .t -, - -n ijMr-LQrtjjxn-injTnjnrUTj'jxnjBjijs Might Have Puzzled Solomon Decision Over Which Country Squire Is Still Deliberating. "That is a complicated question." said a statesman of a certain practical proposal. "It reminds me of a question that was once put to old Squire Brlggs. "The squire was noted for his long. Solomon-like head, and he was fre quently asked to settle disputes. " 'Squire,' said a farmer to him one day at the tavern, 'there's a difficult point I want you to settle, and what ever you say I'll abide by.' "'Well, fire away.' said the squire, good humoredly; 'and I'll see what I can do for you.' " 'It's like this,' said the man. 'Blank son wants to trade farms with me, but we can't agree on terms. His land is better than mine, but I've got twice as many cranberry vines; his corn Is all stacked and mine ain't, but I've got screens to four windows and two doors to the shack. There's less stones in his meadow land than there is in mine, but there's more bog.' "The man paused and took breath. Then he went on: "'Now, I won't tell you which Is which, but one of us thinks Blankson's pointer dog ought to be thrown in. and the other one thinks that my heifer gunnery, when the Katori was threat ened; but it was futile, and, reading their doom, they waited their turn. It wasnot long in coming; for now by .twos and threes they were torn from the ocean and lifted aloft. The col liers were the las to succumb, and their crews, realizing that the hulls alone would come in. contact with the implacable demons above, ran scream ing below decks to continue their sup plications to the deaf gods who had deserted them. From the thick glass of his port the admiral looked down upon his con quered foemen and wctched the pre cision with which his orders were be ing obeyed. Each time a victim was seized he shouted: "Three's done her work!" or "Good boy, Seven! You've got him!" and so on enumerating each success. Some movement on the deck of the Ito close at hand arrested bis atten tion. His brows came together again In a fierce scowl. "Stand by the mag net levers, Miss Norma." he com manded, "because of these fellows be low mean to' show the least resistance whatever, we'll drop 'em!" She had been standing serenely In her hood, her head thrown back, revel ing in the glories of triumph. When the fate of the battle had hung upon her performance, and when her own life was threatened, she had thrown herself body and soul into the fray, wide eyed, unrcsistant, and without a tremor; but now, at the thought of be ing the executioner of perhaps a thou sand men, Iter face blanched, her limbs trembled, and her hands forgot their task and clasped together in ini ploration. She was the woman again, ready to plead for the lives of those she had conquered. "My God! You wouldn't do that, would you?" she Bald. The old gladiator of the sea turned upon her fiercely. "Do it? Do it? I'd drop them to hell as quick as I would to the bottom of the Pacific if they show fight!" he responded. "We're out here to teach a lesson, and they 'deserve all that's coming to 'em! War is no child's game," he concluded grim ly, "and the first ship that wants trouble goes down like a thunder bolt." As if to emphasize his remark, he sprang to the signal box and issued this sanguinary order to every radio plane in the fleet, while Norma, faint and sick at heart, shut her teeth and with a look of inexpressible pain turned back to her levers. But she was spared this dreadful work. The Japanese officers and men had learned the absolute futility of re sistance, and doubted the efficacy of appeal! Their one hope for life now rested in the humanity and leniency of those who held them in thrall. It took no longrchain of reasoning to conclude that an enemy who could pluck them from the seas and without visible effort lift them more than a mile high could as readily release his hold and send them to destruction with meteorlike speed. Even were it possible to destroy those monsters which clutched them, to do so would be self-annihilation. They were ignored, cut off from those above, and divorced from the waters beneath as if they were crea tures of no importance, to be' treated like mere troublesome insects, exter minated or spared as their captor's whim might dictate. The glory of an easy conquest in the Philippines, the boastings which had followed the sub jugation of Hawaii, the pomp and cir cumstance of previous conquests all were obliterated, all erased from the scroll of valorous deeds by an action which had lasted less than an hour. And now, like beaten legionaries chained to the victor's car, they were being carried away toward the rising sun and an unknown fate. (TO BE COCTINUED.) would just about even things up. Now what do you say is fair?' "At last accounts the squire was still deliberating. The Rural Guest. "So this is a first-class hotel?" drawled Uncle Hiram Hardapple as he carefully flung his weather-stained hat on the corner of a radiator. "Yes, sir," replied the polite waiter with a low bow. 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