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THE GIRL AT THE f H A L F W A Y H O U S E C«t * r i gk t t d , 1S0S. 19 D . A t t l t f n Cam t any , New V* rk CHAPTER XIV. *v "• Another Hour. "But It seems as though I had al­ ways known you," said Franklin, turn- In* again toward the tall figure at the window. There was no reply to this, neither was there wavering in the at­ titude of the head whose glossy back vii turned to him at that moment. "It was like some forgotten strain of music!" he blundered on, feeling how hopeless, how distinctly absurd was all his speech. "I surely must Always have known you, somewhere!" Mary Ellen still gazed out of the window. In her mind there was a scene strangely different from this which . she beheld. She recalled the green forests and the yellow farms of Louisburg, the droning bees, the broken flowers and all the details of that sodden, stricken field. With a shudder there came over her a swift resentment at meeting here, near at hand, one who had had a share in that scene of desolation. She turned toward him slowly at length, and so far from seeming se­ rious, her features bore the traces of a smile. "Do you know," said she, *'l think I heard of a stage-driver-- wasn't It somewhere out west--who was taking a schoolteacher from the railroad to the schoolhouse--and he-- well, he said things, you know. Now, he had never seen the schoolteacher before." "Yes, I have heard of that story," •aid Franklin. "I don't just recollect all about it" "It seems to me that the stage- driver said something--er, like--may­ be he said it was 'like forgotten mu­ sic' to him." Franklin colored. "The story was an absurdity, like many others about the west," he said. "But," he bright­ ened, "the stage-driver had never seen the schoolteacher before." "I don't quite understand," said Mary Ellen coldly. "In my country It may, here in this new country: but f o r remembering--why, I can remember nothing else, day or night, but Louis- burg!" "You stood so," said Franklin, dog­ gedly and fatuously, "Just as you did last night. You were leaning on the arm of your mother " Mary Ellen's eyes dilated. "It was not my mother," she said. "We were seeking for my friend, her son. I--Captain Franklin, I know of no rea­ son why we should speak of such things at all, but it was my--I was to have been married to the man for whom we were seeking, and whom we found! That is what Louisburg means to me." Franklin bowed hfs head between his hands and half groaned over the pain which he had^cost Then slow­ ly and crushingly iis own hurt came home to him. In his brain he could feel the parting one by one of the strings which but now sang in unison. Discord, darkness, dismay, sat on all the world. The leisurely foot of Buford sound­ ed on the stair, and he knocked gaily on the door jam as he entered. "Well, niece," said he, "Mrs. Buford thinks we ought to be starting bapk for home right soon now." \ Mary Ellen rose' and bowed to Franklin as she parsed to leave the room; but Derhaps neither she nor Franklin was fully conscious of the leave-taking. Buford saw nothing out of the way, but turned and held out his hand. "By the way, Captain Franklin," said he, "I'm mighty glad to meet you, sir--mighty glad. We shall want you to come down and see us often. It isn't very far--only about twenty-five miles south. They call our place the Halfway Ranch, and it's not a bad name, for it's only about half­ way as good a place as you and I have always been used to; but it's ours, and you will be welcome there. We shall depend on seeing you now and then." ScST !5r£ tS: . m \ "You blame me as though it were personal." was not customary for gentlemen to •tell ladies when they met for the first time that it was like a strain of for­ gotten music'--not the first time." "Music never forgotten, then!" said Franklin impetuously. "This is at least not the first time we have met." In any ordinary duel of small talk this had not been so bad an attack, yet now the results were something which neither could have foreseen. To the mind of the girl the words were shock- tog, rude, brutal. They brought up again the whole scene of the battle­ field. She shuddered, and upon her face there fell the shadow of an ha­ bitual sadness. "You have spoken of this before. Captain Franklin," said she, "and if what you say is true, and if indeed jroa did see me--there--at that place --I can see no significance in that, ex­ cept the lesson that the world is a very small one. I have no recollec­ tion of meeting yout But, Captain Franklin, had we ever really met, and If you really cared to bring up some pleasant thought about the meeting, you surely would never recall the fact that you met me upon that day!" Franklin felt his heart stop. He looked aside, his face paling as the even tones went on: I "That was the day of all my life the saddest, the most terrible. 1 have been trying ever since then to forget it. I dare not think of it It was the day when--when my life ended-- when I lost everything, everything on earth I had. Because of Louisburg-- why, this--Ellisville! This is the re­ sult of that day! And you refer to it with eagerness." ' Poor.Franklin groaned at this. "I know--I could have known," he blun­ dered--"I should not be so rude as to suppose that--ah, it was only you that I remembered! The war is past and gone. The world, as you say. is very Bmall. It was only that I was glad " "Ah, sir," said Mary Ellen, and her voltje now held a plalntiyeness which was the stronger from the droop of the tenderly curving lips--"ah, sir, but you must remember! To lose your relatives, even in a war for right and principle--and the South was right!" (this with a flash of the eye late pen­ sive)--"that is hard enough. But for me it was not one thing or another; It was the sum of a thousand mis­ fortunes. I wonder that I am alive. It is no wonder that those of us left alive went away, anywhere, as far as we could, that we gave up our coun­ try--that we came even here!" ,, "You blame me as though it were personal!" broke in Franklin; but Bhe Ignored him. "My father, my mpther, my two brothers, nearly every relative I had, killed In the war or by the war--our home destroyed--our property taken by first one army and then the other-- you should not wonder if I am bitter! kit was the field of Louisburg which eost me everything. I lost all--all-- on that day which you wish me to re­ member. Why, sir, If you wished me to hate you, you could do no better ^--and I do not wish to hate any one. .»J to have many friends as we "I trust we shall be friends," mum­ bled Franklin. "Friends?" said Buford cheerily, the smiling wrinkles of his own thin face signifying his sincerity; "why, man, here is a place where one needs friends, and where he can have friends. There is time enough and room enough, and--well, you'll come, won't you?" And Franklin, dazed and missing all the light which had recent­ ly made glad the earth, was vaguely conscious that he had promised to visit the home of the girl who had certainly given him no invitation to come further into her life, but for whose word of welcome he knew that he should always long. BOOK III. The Day of the Cattle. CHAPTER XV. Ellisville the Red. Gourdlike, Ellisville grew up in a night. It was not, and lo! it was. Silently, steadily, the people came to this rallying place, dropping in from every corner of the stars. The long street spun out still longer its string of toylike wooden houses. The Cot­ tage Hotel had long since lost its key. and day and night there went on vast revelry among the men of the wild, wide West, then seeing for the first time what seemed to them the joy and glory of life. Land and cattle, cattle and land. These themes were upon the Hps of all, and in those days were topics of peace and harmony. The cattleman still stood for the nomadic and un- trammeled West, the West of wild and glorious tradition. The man who sought for land was not yet recog­ nized as the homesteader, the man of anchored craft, of settled convictions, of adventures ended. For one brief, glorious season the nomad and the home dweller Bhook hands in amity, not pausing to consider wherein their interests might differ. For both, this was the West, the free, unbounded, illimitable, exhaustless West--Homer­ ic, Titanic, scornful of metes and bounds, having no Bcale of little things. The horizon of life was wide. There was no time for small exact­ ness. A newspaper, so called, cost a quarter Of a dollar. The postmaster gave no change when one bought a postage stamp. A shave was worth a quarter of a dollar, or a half, or a dollar, as that might be. The price of a single drink was never estab­ lished, since that was something never called for. By day and by night, ceaseless, crude, barbaric, there went on a contlnuoue carousal, which would have been joyless backed by a vitality I less superb, an experience less young. Money and life--these two things we | guard most sacredly In the older societies, the first most Jealously, the latter with a lesser care. The transient population of Ellis­ ville, the cattle sellers and cattle buy­ ers and land seekers, outnumbered three to one the resident or perma­ nent population, which oatered to floating trade, and which supplied its commercial or professional wants. The resident one-third was the nu­ cleus of the real Ellisville that was to be. The social compact was still In embryo. Life was very simple. It was the day of the individual, the day before the law. With this rude setting there was to be enacted a rapid drama of material progress such as the world has never elsewhere seen; but first there must be played the wild prologue of the West, never at any time to have a more lurid scene than here at the Halfway Hotise of a continent, at the intersection of the grand transcontl nental trails, the bloody angle of the plains. Eight men in a day, a score In a week, met death by violence. The street In the cemetery doubled before that of the town. There were more graves than houses. This su­ perbly wasteful day, how could it presage that which was to come? In this riotous army of invasion, who could have foreseen the population which was to follow, adventurous yet tenacious, resolved first upon inde­ pendence, and next upon knowledge, and then upon the fruits of knowl­ edge? Nay, perhaps, after all, the! prescience of this coming time lay over Ellisville the Red, so that it roared the more tempestuously on through its brief, brazen day. (To be continued.) THE LANGUAGE OF SHELLFISH* Warn One Another of Danger by Weird Clicking 8ounds. Most seamen will tell of curious clicking sounds heard on calm nights at sea, and the origin of the noise seems so altogether unaccountable that it has often created some alarm among superstitious fishermen. A distinguished naturalist made a careful study of the sounds on many occasions, and found that it was not a sustained note, but made up of a mul­ titude of tiny ones, each clear and dis­ tinct in itself, and ranging from a high treble down to a bass. When the ear was applied to the gunwale of the boat, the sound grew more intense, and in some places, as the boat moved on, it could not be heard at all. On other occasions the sounds re­ sembled the tolling of bells, the boom­ ing of guns and the notes of an .ASolian harp. For a long time he was unable to trace the cause, but at length discov­ ered that the sounds were made by shellfish, hundreds of them opening their shells and closing them with sharp snaps. The noise, partly muffled by the water, sounded indescribably weird. He was finally led to the conclusion that, as the shellfish made the sounds, they probably had some meaning, and that the clicka might possibly be a warning of danger when the shallow water was disturbed' by the boat Czar Arrested--For a Minute. Motorists .will be amused to hear of an adventure which befell the czar when he was staying at Darmstadt a short time ago. The czar was driving in a motor car with Prince and Prin­ cess Henry of Prussia and the Grand Duke of Hesse, and, when passing through Bockenhelm, a suburb of Frankfort, the car slipped on the greasy cobble-stones and came in con­ tact with the wall of a house. Happily no harm was done, but the car had hardly been backed into the road again when a policeman stopped It and de­ manded the name of the owner. The czar replied "I am the Emperor of Russia," and the policeman was so taken aback that he let the car go on without taking any further Bteps. The czarina was much amused at the in­ cident, and it is said that she has made the momentary arrest of the czar the subject of one of her carlca- tures.--London Sketch. Steel Dolls. A factory In New Jersey has gone to making steel tolls, A steel doll is an indestructible doll that some par­ ents may fancy is the right doll to buy. \ou can't yank the leg from a steel doll, nor dislocate its arms, nor twist its neck, nor dent its nose. You can have very little fun with a steel doll. I', may do to batter the piano legs, or raise lumps on the head of your In­ fant companion, but it can't be com­ pared with a rag dollie for genuine comfort. Every normal child wants a doll that can be punctured and that will lose its stuffing through the punc­ ture. A steel doll, bah! What healthy ir.fant outside of New Jersey would care to coddle a steel doll, or put it to sleep, or dress it, or give it sugar pel­ lets? Not one. No, indeed. The man who invented the steel doll was no friend of infantile humanity.-- Cleveland Plain Dealer. ALEXIEFF MUCH LIKE DEWEY. ttOLD-SEAMED PAVING 8 TONE 8. Dumas' Love for His Porthos. Like Balzac, Dumas was fond of his own creations. Among them all he loved Porthos best The great, strong, vain hero was a child after his own heart. One afternoon, it is related, his son found Dumas careworn, wretched, overwhelmed. "What has happened to you? Are you sick?" asked Dumas flls. "No," replied Dumas pere. "Well, what is It, then?" "I am miserable." "Why?" "This morning I killed Porthos. Poor Porthos! Oh, what trouble I have had to make up my mind to do Jftl But there must be an end to all things. Yet when I saw him sink beneath the ruins, crying "It is too heavy for me!' .1 swear to you that I cried." And he wiped away a tear with the sleeve of his dressing gown. Blood of the Filipinos. Ethnologists of the Smithsonian In­ stitution have investigated the Philip­ pines, with results that are of rare interest to science. They have called attention to the fact that in the veins of the tribes of the archipelago flows the blood of all the races and varie­ ties of mankind. Bar the Kiss. But two nations, the Japanese and the South Sea islanders, do not use the kiss as a form of expression, • Trotting Record. JUst 100 years were occupied In lowering the mile trotting record 4ran three to tfo plant** Ryssian Newspaper Pays Viceroy • High Compliment. Admiral Alexieff is thus described by the Russian Advance: "He Is per­ haps 50 years of age and instinct with nervous energy. His step is impetu ous. The whole movement of the man is full of dash. His talk is the vocalization of force; his attitude, even when sitting In conversation,, is that of bolt upright lntentness. Alex­ ieff is informed, very frank, open, never hesitating to formulate a reply and giving you his opinion quite off­ hand. He is as quick as Admiral Dewey, of whom again and again you are reminded when talking to him. His days are full of toil; indeed, most of his nights are full of toll also." Billion Dollar Own When we introduced this remarkable grass three years ago, little did we dream it would be the most talked-of grass in America, the biggest, quick, hay producer on earth; but this has come to pass. Agr. Editors wrote about It, Agr. Col­ lege Professors lectured about it, Agr. Institute Orators talked about it, while In the farm home by the quiet fireside, in the corner grocery, in the village postoffice, at the creamery, at the de­ pot; in fact wherever farmers gath­ ered, Salzer's Billion Dollar Grass, that wonderful grass, good for 6 to 14 tons per acre, and lots of pasture besides, is always a theme worthy of the farm­ er's voice. Then comes BromUs Inermls, than which there is no better grass or bet­ ter permanent hay producer on earth. Grows wherever soil is found. Then the farmer talks about Salzer's Teo- slnte, which will produce ICO stocks from one kernel of seed, 11 ft. high, in 100 days, rich In nutrition and greedily eaten by cattle, hogs, etc.. and is good for 80 tons of green food per acre. Victoria Rape, which can be grown at 25c a ton, and Speltz at 20c a bu., both great food for cattle, also come in for their share In the discussion. JUST SKKD 10o IN STAMPS and this notice to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., for their big cat­ alog and farm seed samples. (W. K. U.) Japan's Need of Korea. Japan cannot afford to surrender Korea, says the World's Work. It Is historically and of necessity the main artery of her vital connection with Asia. *To yield Korea to a hostile power is to expose herself to peril along the whole western side of her territory. She needs Korea as a com­ mercial outlet. She had both Korea and Manchuria as a result of the war with China, and has now surrendered one, and by far the larger and more profitable of these. She has strug­ gled to lead dhlna and Korea oat into civilization. She now sees the Rus­ sian glacier slowly moving across both of them, walling her out from her natural destiny and barring before her any entrance to the continent of which she has dreamed that she was to be the savior. Concrete-Covered Steel. The reports of tests of structural steel at the Boston insurance experi­ ment station show that if structural steel is fncased in a sound covering of good concrete, it is proof against corrosion for a period of years, which is so long as to make the subject of more interest to our great grandchil­ dren's children than to us. Steel, properly covered with concrete, may be expected to last until the substitu­ tion of a yet more modern construc­ tion necessitates the removal of the building. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any Me of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Uall'a Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENTJY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the nnderalgned, have known F. J. Cheney fgrtbelant 15 yearn, and believe him perfectly hon­ orable In all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by hit firm. WALDING. KINNAJ* & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. O. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of tbe system. Testimonials sent free. Price 73 cents pax bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take HaU's Family Pflla for constipation. Rich Girl a Philanthropist. One of the hardest workers in an east side settlement,' New York, is Dr. Margaret Long, the daughter of John D. Long, former secretary of the navy. She was graduated as a physi­ cian at the medical school of Johns Hopkins university in June, 1898, and during the last year she has found her greatest pleasure in ministering to the wants of the poor. NEW RUGS FROM OLD CARPET. We make the best rug on the mar­ ket from old carpet. Want agents in every county seat- The spring rush is now coming on. so don't wait, but write at once. Good for $600.00 easy this spring. METROPOLITAN RUO WORKS. 159 So. Western Ave., Chicago. Iron Railway Ties. On all railways in French colonies near the tropics the ties are generally of iron, timber being destroyed in a very short time by the climate or in­ sects. In Cochin, China, iron is used exclusively. In West Africa a very hard native wOod Is occasionally em­ ployed. Mother Cray's Sweet Powder* for Children. Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Children's Home in New York, cure Constipation, Feverisbness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. At all druggists, 25c. Sample FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. Land of the Morning Sun. The true name of Korea is "Cho- son," meaning "land of the morning sun.'* It is by this name that the country is designated in diplomatic papers at the State Department at Washington. Wiggle*Stick LAUNDRY BLOB Won't spill, break, freeze nor spot clothes. Costs 10 cents and equals 20 cents worth of any other bluing. If your grocer does no# keep it send 10c for sample to The Laundry Blue Co., 14 Michigan Street, Chicago. Routs American Flour. Flour from Harbin, Manchuria, Is driving American flour from the far Eastern market. Superior Quality and extra quantity must win. This Is why Defiance 8tarch Is taking the place of all others. So Mr. Hanna left only $*,000,000! As fortunes go nowadays he was com­ paratively » poor man. Tel' your troubles to the druggist. IIO-KO BALM eve* instant relief to bruised, sore, tired, et. Cures boils. BO cents Russian naval officers have an inter­ national reputation for unbottllng any- fao.w- France Claims to Have Found the New El Dorsdo. The fthrer which seized Paris at the recent discovery of rich gold veins at Genest, in the department of May* enne, continues to spread, and hun­ dreds of men are daily leaving for the gold fields. In Genest the greatest excitement prevails, and local landowners are al­ ready regarding themselves as mill­ ionaires. The gold was discovered by M. Her- renschmidt, a mining engineer, in charge of an antimony mine. He was analyzing the refuse from the mine when he discovered gold, and soon satisfied himself that the ore yielded 60 grammes per ton (a gramme Is about 15 grains). This Induced him to prospect the district, with the result that he found a gold-bearing reef several miles in extent, which, he says, is as rich as many of the reefs in Australia, where he worked for 14 years. The mineral is not payable at the surface, but 15 feet down M. Herren- schmidt obtained 22 grammes of gold to the ton. At present the styne is being used, for paving the local roads. Several paving stones, picked haphazard, pro- duced 30 to 40 grammes per ton. From! washed mud taken In the district from 30 to 40 grammes of gold to the ton were recovered.--New York Journal, ^ptamp Bold for $7,250. At afi auction recently held at Lei­ cester Square a 2d. blue "Postofflce" Mauritius stamp (unused) was sold tor the record price of $7,250. The owner of this rare prize secured the stamp forty years ago when making a boy's collection at school. The value of this particular stamp results from the fact that by an en­ graver's error the words "Post Of­ fice" were substi­ tuted for "Post Paid." This was soon discovered, the issue recalled and the plates destroyed, but meanwhile a few copies of the stamp had got into pub* lio use. Electric Fan Cause of Disaster. This cross section of the Iroquois theater, destroyed by fire,at Chicago with fearful loss of lite, shows a ven­ tilating shaft at the east end of the building, and, close to the tall air shaft, an electric fan now believed to have been running when the fire started. The fan caused a powerful draft In the direction of the arrows. Bo Intense was the heat that the bladefe of the fan were melted. Travels of Whales. Addressing the Academy of Science of Christian ia, Professor Goldlob said reeently that the whales that swim about the island which lie off the coast of Norway and Finland in March and April travel immense distances. In May they turn up at the Azores or even at the Bermudas, and sometimes pay a visit to the West Indies. They swim fast, for in June they are back again off Norway. Some of these whales have been known to bring back evidences of where they have been, for harpoons of the peculiar kind used off the coast of South America have been found Stuck in them. Alarm Clock for Deaf. An alarm clock for the deaf is an Interesting bit of work by Tommy Stringer, the blind, deaf and dumb scientific student of Boston. The alarm attachment utilizes several means of awakening the sleeper. It shakes a pillow in his face, Its lights a small incandescent lamp having a mirror focusing the rays Into his eyes, and it explodes a fulminating cap with a shock perceptible by the deaf at close range. The apparatus may also serve as a burglar alarm or to give Indications of a fire by eleotrio thermostats. In the Interest of Morality. New patent waltzing harness, war­ ranted to rob that seductive dance of Its most dangerous features.--Le Rire. Found Historical Documents. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Thayer of Brock­ ton, Mass., bought an old secretary at auction some time ago, and in look­ ing It over found a number of antique papers which were of especial inter­ est. Among them were bills issued by John Qulncy Adams, when he was to business, and bearing his signature In receipt of the money paid. They were dated 1812. Flyers Issued when Mr. Adams was candidate for gover­ nor of this state were also there. A complete record of the town of Ran­ dolph for 1836 and other books and pa­ pers, all in manuscript written by Jason Holbrook of Randolph at the age o! It, wjsre included in the 1UL WESTERN CANADA'S RESOURCE*. farming Very Successful. By Western or Northwest Canada is usually meant the great agricultural country west of Ontario, and north of Minnesota, North Dakota, and Mon­ tana. Part of it is agricultural prairie, treeless In places, park like in others, part is genuine plains, well adapted to cattle ranches; part requires irriga­ tion for successful tillage, most of it does not. The political divisions of this region are the Province of Mani­ toba and the territorial district of As- siniboia, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Athabaska. At present, however, the latter is too remote for immediate practical purposes. The general character ,of the BOII of Western Canada is a rich, black, clay loam with a clay subsoil. Such a soil is particularly rich in food for the wheat plant. The subsoil is a clay, which retains the winter frost until It is thawed out by the warm rays of the sun and drawn upward to stimu­ late the growth of the young wheat, so that even in dry seasons wheat Is a good crop. The clay soil also retains the heat of the sun later in the sum­ mer and assists in the early ripening of the grain. Itjis claimed that cul­ tivation has the effect of increasing the temperature of the soil several degrees, as well as the air above it Western Canada climate is good cold in winter, hot in stammer, but with cool nights. Violent storms of any kind are rare. The rainfall Is not heavy. It varies with places, but aver­ ages about 17 inches. It falls usually at the time the growing crops need it. The Department of the Interior, Ot­ tawa, Canada, has agents established at different points throughout the United States who will be pleased tc forward an Atlas of Western Canada and give such other information as to railway rate, etc., as may be required. That agriculture in Western Canada pays Is shown by the number of testi­ monials given by farmers. The .fbt lowing is an extract made from a lefr ter from a farmer near Moose Jaw: "At the. present time I own sixteen hundred aci es of land, fifty horses and a large pasture fenced containing a thousand acres. These horses run out all winter and come in in the spring quite fat. A man with money judi­ ciously expended will make a compe­ tence very shortly. I consider in the last six years the increase in the value of my land has netted me forty thousand dollars." Miniona la Oats. Sailer's New National Oats yielded in 1903 in Mich., 240 bu., in Mo., 256 bu., in N. D., 210 bu., and in 30 other states from 150 to 300 bu. per acre. Now this Oat if generally grown in 1904, will add millions of bushels to the yield, and millions of dollars to the farmer's purse. Try it for 1904. Larg­ est Seed Potato and Alfalfa Clover growers in America. Salzer's Speltz, Beardless Barley, Home Builder Corn, Macaroni Wheat, Pea Oat, Billion Dollar Grass and Eaf"' lieqt Canes are money makers for you, Mr." Farmer. JUST SBKD THIS KOTICS AND 10c in stamps to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., and receive in return their big catalog and lots of farm seed samples. (W. N. U.) The Care of the Eyes. The eyes are the most wonderful and delicate optical Instruments In the world, and there are few eyes that are not caused unnecessary and detrimen­ tal strain. The appearance of the eyes can often be materially improved by proper care, and the surrounding tissues and features so modified as to and greatly to the looks. Excellent in­ formation on the care of the eyes is given by Dr. Grace Peckham Murray in the March Delineator. To the housewife who has not yet become acquainted - with the new things of everyday use in the market and who is reasonably satisfied with the old, we would suggest that a trial of Defiance Cold Water Starch be made at once. Not alone because It is guaranteed by the manufacturers to be superior to any other brand, but because each 10c package con­ tains 16 078., while all the other kinds contain but 12 ozs. It Is safe to say that the lady who once uses Defiance Starch will use no other. ' Quality and quantity must win. Doors Made of Paper. Doors made entirely of paper are used in some of the modern dwellings in French cities. They are finished to resemble any kind of wood, and there is no warping, shrinking or cracking. a+if Tour Dealer For Allen's Toot-Ease, A powder. It rests the feet. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes newor light shoes easy. At all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25 cents. Ac­ cept no substitute. Sample mailed FRBB. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. The New York Mall and Express says there has been an error In nat­ ural history--the Baltimore oriole turns out to be a phoenix* Lewis'" Single Binder " straight So cigar. No other brand of cigars is so popular with the smoker. He has learned to rely upon its uniform high quality. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, 11L The army of Colombia has been overlooked in the turmoil. Some one should promptly ascertain if he is still on the isthmus. No chromos or cheap premiums, but a better quality and one-third more of Defiance Starch for the same price of other starches. Parsifal blue is the newest color. No relation to Rheingold or Goetter- daemmerung scarlet. Piao'S Owe for Conaumptlon la MI lofalltbU medictyfc tor ooughs AND oolda-N. W. BAMVU. Ocean breve. N. J.. Feb. 17. iooa Love letter poetry is abont as genu­ ine as stomach repentance. To Cure a Oold in One day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if ltfailstooure. 96 The number of cattle in Argentina is estimated at 25,000,000. FOB RKNT OR SA?t Oa Om Faym«nU. BEVKRAL OBOICS TAXMB. SeaAfarUat. J.MBl.Hil.UglwaMty, Ten-elevenths of the world's people are north of the equator. Mr*. Wlnalow'a Soothing Rjnip. Vor children teething, aoftena tbe ffuma, reanaaa ^ Saau&aUon,allajripate,carta windooltu. KcabotU*. Air famine is the common cause of pneumonia. ROOM TO BREATHE. A startling item cl news coma* from Manhattan. *A recent report of the Commissioner of Education ae- serfs that the average rate of in­ crease in the number of births in New York has grown from five to eleven per hour; that Is to say, there Is one baby born abont every five and one-half minutes. When one stops to consider that this is in New York alone, the appalling growth in popu­ lation is brought home with convinc­ ing force. Added to this "home prod­ uct" is the ever increasing number of immigrants from foreign lands, who swarm to our shores like flies to mo­ lasses. Naturally the question arises, where will these people who are so rapidly coming into the United States find room for growth and development? Surely not in the confines of the already overcrowded eastern states and cities, where every line of activ­ ity in the commercial and Industrial world Is woefully overrun with com­ petitors. No, we must look to the great West­ ern section of our country, and par­ ticularly the Southwestern portion, for relief. The boundless acres of what has heretofore been arid and untenable land are fast being brought into a state of cultivation and production. In the great Southwest a man gets a chance to breathe. Here he does not absorb the smoke and dust of an over populated, unhealthy community with hfs every movement. He drops his quick and nervous gait, leaves behind his hunted look and naturally and readily assumes the easy air of the self-confident, hearty westerner. His skin takes on a ruddy hue and his chest expands. His whole being makes a quick transition from a de­ plorable state of poor health and over­ strained nerves to the fnll, vigorous freedom of the perfect man. The transportation lines which make it possible for the surplus popu­ lation of the over-crowded East to seek new fields of enterprise at a cost within the reach of the most meager purse, are engaged in a hu­ manitarian work. Thousands and thousands are availing themselves of the opportunity offered to go where health and happiness awaits them. The great tracts of fertile farming land in Oklahoma and Texas, the high and dry table lands of New Mexi­ co and Arizona, the warm and sunny climate of Southern California, com­ bine to form a vast sanitarium, whose doors are always open and whose capacity will not be appreciably taxed for a great many years to come. Those who are so unfortunate as to suffer from the invidious attacks of tuber­ culosis and other ailments of the flesh due to close confinement, will find in the climate of any of these localities a panacea for all their ills. Dally we reaa In the papers advice to young men to go west Very many take heed, but there still remain many to be convinced. If a young man, or any man, ever intends to migrate to these lands of promise and plenty, it be­ hooves him to delay not a moment, for opportunities that will never return are -daily .passing into history. C. L. Browned Off to the Orient. Clarence L. Brownell, the author of "The Heart of Japan," was among the first of the London newspaper men to be Bent as a correspondent for the expected war in China between Rus­ sia and Japan. Dispatches announce his arrival at Tlen-Tsin on January 14th. Mr. Brownell is equipped for his task by a knowledge of the Ja­ panese and their language, such as few foreigners have ever obtained. He spent more than five years in Japan living right with the people. Mr. Brownell knows thoroughly the Japanese mind and he says that loyal­ ty and devotion to a principle is a strong element in Japanese nature. Men and women are ready to sacrifice anything if a principle which they think Just is involved, an observation which throws a good deal of light upon the Japanese attitude In the re­ cent diplomatic negotiations. Cheap Excursiona to the South. On February ifi, March 1 and lBw the Kansas City Southern railway will offer to the public the extremely low rate of $10.00 for the round trip to all points on the Port Arthur Route, la* eluding Beaumont, Port Arthur, Lake Charles, Shreveport, Texarkana, Fori 8mlth, Mena, De Queen and all inter­ mediate points. The return limit oa these tickets will be twenty-one days from date of sale, with stopover prlvl* leges at all points south of Kansas City on the going trip. Any Informs^ tion desired by the public relative to these cheap excursions will be cheer* fully furnished upon application to 9. G. Warner, Q. P. and T. A~, fiMM City, Mo. His Highness, Yoshlhlto, Crown Prince of Japan. In the March Pearson's is a charac­ ter sketch, by Florence Eldridge, of the young Crown Prince of Japan, who, aa heir to the throne of Japan, is destined to become a ruler who must be reckoned with in the settle ment of great international questions. Prince Yoshihito is now in his twenty- tuth year. He has been most care­ fully educated and after a more demo­ cratic fashion than is usual with Ja­ panese royalty, but, so. far, the Crown Prince has been screened from the public eye. Particularly appropriate for the ter season are the Mosaic Essays oa Happiness, Success, Nature and Friendship, by Paul Elder (San Fran­ cisco). A compilation of quotations from many philosophers, selected and so arranged as to present the subjeot in its highest interpretation--mee» sages of good cheer and encourage­ ment Each essay Is richly printed and tastefully bound. The third edition of Henry Rar- land's romance of Italy. "My Friend Prosper©," (McCIure-Philli?s), is now on the press. This Is a giy. buoyant snd delightfully clever storv the hero a "witty Englishman." fh«? heroine a beautiful young woman f»e meets In mountains of northern Italy. The description of the love affair running through it keeps one guessing as to its termination. Wall street does not care if it la shy on patriotism, so. It is long oa plunks.