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The Ward of King Canute A Romance of the Danish Conquest, By 0TTIL1E A. LILJENCRANTZ, author of The Thrall of LM the tucfcy. Copyright, by A. C. McCLURG & CO. CHAPTER IV. ; Before the king. tUHhen the curtain had fallen behind bis advisers, the young king threw himself back upon his rude high seat and rested motionless among his cush­ ions, his head hanging heavily upon his breast. Crouching on her bench near the door, Randalin watched him as ft fly caught in a web watches the approach­ ing spider. Her eyes followed his roving glance from spear to banner, from floor to ceiling, in terrible antici­ pation. It approached her; it turned aside; it passed above her, hesitated, sank, touched her! Ashen white, she staggered to her feet and faced him. •'In the Troll's name, who are you?" he ejaculated. "I|ow came you here?" * The pale lips moved, but no sound came from them. He made a petulant gesture toward the half-filled goblet. "Why do you stand there making mouths? Drink that and get a man's voice into your throat, if you have anything to say to me." "A man's voice!" The girl stared at him. "A man's voice?" Then, like lungfuls of fresh air, it entered into her that she was not really the paked fledgeling she felt herself. She was in the toils, surely, but there was a shell around her. Glad to hide her face for a moment, she seized the goblet and drained it slowly to the last drop. Leaning back in his seat, the king took frowning measure of his guest, from the toe of her spurred riding boot to the top of the green cap which she had forgotten to remove. With her last swallow, he repeated his chal­ lenge. "Are you capable now of giving me any reason why I should not have you flogged from the camp? Is it your opinion " that because I choose to will be willing to give me justice on his man." "Justice?" The King's mind came back to her slowly, as from an im­ mense distance. "By Thor, I had for­ gotten! Yes, certainly; I will be kinglilfe once. Stand here before me, while I question you." She caught her breath rather sharp­ ly as she stepped forward. Would she be able to tell a straight story? "Tell me first how you are called?" "I am called Fridtjof Frodesson." "Frode of Avalcomb! Now I know where I have heard that name; my father spoke it often, and always with great respect. It will go hard with me if I must return an unfavorable answer to his son. Tell me how his doath was brought about." .Randalin thrust the sobs back from her throat; the tears back from her eves. She began slowly: "Leofwln- esson set upon him last night, at the gate of the castle, and slew him. He had flve-and-fifty men, and my father but twelve--besides me; he--we-- had just come in from hunting. Then he rode over my father's body into the castle.'.' She stopped uncertainly to glance at her listener. "Go on and tell me the rest. How comes it that yon escaped un­ harmed?" With Gram's experience to follow, it was not hard to frame that an­ swer. "They knocked me on the head with a spear-butt and left me for dead. When I got my senses again, I found my way to the nuns of St. Mildred's; and they gave me food, and I rode hither." "It is the Troll's luck! I--yet, go on. The day will come! Did they further harm within the castle? Have you women-kin?" Randalin hesitated. Would it not be safer if she could deny altogether the existence of a daughter of Frode? But no, that was not possible, in the Ml will have your tongue if you lie to me!' W5.V behave foolishly before my friends, I am desirous to have tale-bearing boys listening?" She managed to stammer out, "I en­ treat you not to be angry, Lord King. I did not understand six of the words yon spoke--I beseech you to believe It- Did you think you had fallen into a bear pit?" the king asked with a faint smile, that sharpened swiftly to bitterness. "After all, it would mat­ ter little what anyone told of me. Without doubt ypur kin have already jftaught you to call me thrall-bred and witless." ^ That from the warrier whose foot Was already planted on the neck of iSngland! In her surprise, Randalin's eyes met his squarely. 'By no means, King Canute; my, father called you the highest-minded man . in the world." \ The young leader\flushed scarlet, flushed till he felt the burning, and averted his face to hide it. He said in a low voice, "Many things have been told of me that I count for naught, but this--this has not been Bald of me before. Tell me his name." "He was called Frode, the Dane of Avalcomb." The red mouth trembled a little. "He is dead now. He was slain last night, by Norman Leof- winesson. who is Edric Jarl's thane." As both horseman and sentinel had started at that name, so now the Kins straightened into alertness, for­ getting everything else. "Leofwinesson? What know you of him or his Jarl? Where are they? When saw you them?" "Last night; when they lay drunk jii my father's castle at Avalcomb. R was spoken among them that they WOuld join you at sunset to-day " Canute's hand shot out and gripped her arm and shook it. "You know this for certain? I will have your tongue if you lie to me! You are cure that they intend coming--that it is not their intention to play me false and return to Edmund?" "I know what I heard them say, ' Lord King. They said that Edric larl had marched on to St. A!ban's to He there over-night. Leofwines­ son stopped at Avalcomb because he wished to vent his spite upon my father. They will be here before the sun is set." Canute released her arm to reach for his goblet. He looked at her with a half-smile as he refilled his cup, motioning toward the other fusion. Till up, and we will drink a toast to . ilieir loyalty and to your beard; they appear to be equally in need of en­ couragement." Draining it off, he sat , gtaring down Into the dregs, twirling the stem thoughtfully between his fingers. / By the time sb£ had shifted her Are you listening?" He paused, for ' the slim figure had suddenly become I so statue-like that he suspected it of i plotting another attack on the door. ! The boy answered very low, "Yes, ! Lord King, I am listening." Canute went on Again: "I say if you were a maiden--if you Were your sister, to tell it shortly--I could easily dispose of you in marriage, would wed you to my foster-brothel, Rothgar Lodbroksson, and thus bring good to both of--Are you finding fault with that also?!' But the' lad stood before him like a stone. If a faint cry had come from him, it was not repeated; and there was nothing offensive about a bidden face and shaking limbs. The King continued more gently: "But since you were so simple as to be born a boy, such good luck is not to be expected. It is the best that I can do to offer you to become my ward and follow me as my page, un­ til the sword's game has decided be­ tween me and Edmund of England. What say you, Fridtjof the Bold?" For a time it looked as if "Fridt­ jof the Bold" did not know what to say. Silence filled the tent, while from outside leaked in the noise of the revel. Then, through that noise or above it there became audible the notes of far-away horns. Edric Jarl was fulfilling his pledge. An ex­ clamation broke from the King's lips, and he leaped up. At that moment, "Fridtjof the Bold" fell at^is feet with claspdd hands and supplicating eyes. "Let me go, Lord King," he be­ sought passionately. "Let me go, and I will ask nothing further of you. I will never trouble you again. Let me go!--only let me go!" Canute of Denmark is not to be blamed that he stamped with ex­ hausted patience. ^ ' By the head of Odin, it would serve you well did I take you at your word! It would serve you right did I turn you out to starve. Were it not for your father's sake, and for the ^sake of my own honor, I vow I would! Now hearken to this." Bending, he picked the boy up by his collar and shook him. I shall not let you go, and you shall be my ward, whether you will or no. And if you answer me now or anger me further--but I will not say that, for it is your misfor­ tune that makes you unruly, and you are weak-spirited from hunger. Take this bread now for your meal, and that bench yonder for your bed, and trouble me no more to-night. I must meet with the Jarl! Go! Do you heed my orders?" Only one answer was possible. Af­ ter a moment the page "gave it in a low voice. "Yes, Lord King," he whispered, and crept away to his corner. (To be continued.) HAS 8IMPLE FIRE ESCAPE. weight twice for each foot, the petl- Honer ventured to recall him. "It gives me some hope, to hear What you say about suspecting Edric Jarl," she said timidly; "for that jukes it appear more likely that yon face of what Norman might reveal. Sho began very, very carefully: "It happened that my mother died before we came to Avalcomb; and my father had but one daughter. She was called Randalin. A--her thrall-woman told me that Leofwinesson pursued her to a chamber in the wall. And--and be­ cause she could not escape from him --she--she threw herself from the window, and the stones below caused her death." The King's hands clenched con­ vulsively. "It is like them!" he mut­ tered. "It has happened as I sup­ posed. Have no fear but that I will avenge your kinswoman. Those of her own blood-ties could do no more. And Frode also. You shall see! Have patience, and you shall see!" Upon burning ears the word "pa­ tience" falls coldly. "Patience!" the child of Frode re­ peated. The bitterness of failure had swept over her and . maddened her. Was she mistaken, then, about every­ thing? Could those trembling old women behind the broken wall read the world like witches? Was every­ one false or a beast? Oh, how her father had been wronged! She shook off the King's hand kad faced him with blazing eyes, seekln^\fpr words that should bite like her thoughts. Then she became conscious that a word would precipitate a flood of hys­ terical tears, to the eternal disgrace of her warrior kin. All that was left for her was to get away without speaking. Out in the woods there would be no one to see; and the grass would hide the quivering, of her lips. She put up her hand now to hide it, and, struggling to her feet, began groping toward the door. She did not stop when Canute's voice called after her--not until she had reached the entrance, and the rattle of crossing spears, without, had told her that her way was barred. Then she whirled back with a sharp cry. "Let me go! I hate you! Let me go!" He did not bid bis guards kill her, as she half expected. Instead, he said patiently, "I foresaw that you would take it 111; there is the great­ est excu <e for you. In your place I should be equally unruly. I will grant you boon In time to come; so sure as I live, I will. And until then, since all your stock has been cut off, I will be your guardian and you shall be my ward, as though you were my own brother. Come, sit here, and I will tell you." She repulsed him sharply. "No, no, you shall do nothing for me! I am going back. I ask you tQ let me 8°;" Leaning at his ease in the great chair, the young King regarded his wafri thoughtfully. "It is not possible that the son of Frode the Fearless should be a cow­ ard," he said at last; "but you are over-peevish, boy. Listen now to the **uth of the. matter. If you were a maiden, it would be easy for me to-- Englishman's Invention 8eems to Fill Long-felt Want. An Englishman has devised an in­ genious traveling-bag fire escape. It can be made at any trunkmaker's for little more than an ordinary port­ manteau of the same kind would cost. Moreover, the fire-escape part of it does not interfere to any extent with Its capacity for holding your dress suit, boots, shirts or other things requisite for the traveler. In one small com­ partment will be found hundreds of feet of fine, light rope used by moun­ taineers in the Swiss Alps for roping themselves together while crossing glaciers and climbing precipitous ice slopes. There is also a particularly ingenious little brake arrangement and two pairs of steel snap hooks. If an alarm of fire Is given in a hotel in the dead of night and the flames cut off every means of communication with the outside the possessor of this portmanteau simply slips out of bed, snaps one set of hooks round the bed leg or other substantial piece of furni­ ture, and the other set to the sides of the portmanteau. This last be then throws out the window, gets into It himself, and then lowers himself as as quicklyoor as slowly as he pleases by means of the brake. . ' Book He Was Quoting From. Melvin Chapman, the well known lawyer and ex-mayor of Oakland, tells of the late Attorney George W. Tyler and Joseph McKenna, the latter now one of the justices of the United States supreme court. Tyler once went to Fairchild, Cal., to argue a demurrer to a complaint. McKenna was the attorney for the plaintiff. After. Tyler had talked to the court for two weary hours Mc­ Kenna, in that gentle manner for which he has always been famous, suggested that he thought "counsel had failed utterly to discuss the es­ sential features of the matter." Tyler retorted in his gruffest tones: "Mr. McKenna, what you don't know about law--and what I don't know-- would fill a very large volume." The little gentleman retorted: "Yes, Judge Tyler, and that is the work from which you have been quoting all morning."--Rochester Herald. Joke Was on Mrs. Manning. At a social gathering the other even­ ing of persons who were prominent during the first Cleveland administra­ tion somebody told of a dinner given by Daniel Manning, then secretary of the treasury. William L. Trenholm, comptroller of the currency, was a guest, and between courses he took from his pocket a folded pocket hand­ kerchief intending to wipe his glasses. On unfolding it he found that it was badly torn and dilapidated, so he hastily thrust It out of sight. After dinner Mrs. Manning mentioned the matter to her husband, who burst Into a roar of laughter as ba replied: "Good Lord! The butler t did me Tren­ holm had forgotten to bring a hand­ kerchief, so I sent him one of mine." Vi j. . «.• -..i" V. •> John Sharp Williams* Temporary Chairman of Democratic Convention; Tells of the ® Aims of His Political Associates. Addressing the democratic national convention at St. Louis July 6 Tempo­ rary Chairman John -Sharp Williams said: "There have always been two great parties which, since the first national political conventions, have elected delegates to conventions for the pur­ pose of selecting a candidate and pro­ mulgating a platform. One of these parties has gone through its party election of delegates, has selected a candidate and announced a platform. It was one of the quietest and 'most unanimous' occasions that the muses cf history have recorded. Everything seemed to have been Bxed before­ hand. There are some conveniences about a convention of that sort. One of them is that the temporary chair­ man knows six or nine months before­ hand that he is going to be tempo­ rary chairman. He alsol knows what he Is wanted to say, compared with what he wants to say. The platform comes ready written--no discussion about it--and is perhaps revised by the candidate himself, who has also begp agreed upon. "The address of the temporary chairman of the Republican national convention was, in one sense, histor­ ical. Mr. Root knew how to pay a debt. The country has not yet forgot­ ten when Mr. Roosevelt paid a glow­ ing tribute to his cabinet, which wound up with the sentiment, 'And the greatest of these is Root.'" Here the speaker quoted the president as saying: "Elihu Root is the ablest^ man I have known in our government­ al service. I will go further. He is the greatest man that has appeared in the public life of any country, in any position, on either side of the ocean, in my time." Charges Plagiarism. In this wonderful mutual admira­ tion society of 'me, too, Teddy, and me, too, 'Lihu,' is the return-rhapsody of Mr. Root's peroration at all ex­ travagant--considered from the stand­ point of repayment, of course," the cnairman continued. "Is it?Jany wonder that he was the man selected by the candidate to 'lay it on fetrong?' A man of ability, too, Mr. Root. He had defended Tweed. Why not defend the Republican party in its hour of non-action, passivity, negation and mere obstruction? In­ deed, he and the president have had minds so much alike that they have been suspected of 'unconscious iden­ tity of cerebration'--of thinking the same thoughts in the same words." At this point, to convict the presi­ dent of plagiarism, the chairman read from a speech purporting to have been made by Secretary Root in New York in 1902 and then read an al­ leged parallel uttered by the presi­ dent one year later, during his west­ ern trip. Claim* Antitrust Credit. "The temporary chairman then told the country that the act to expedite hearings of the trust cases--namely, the act of Feb. .11, 1903, was 'repub­ lican legislation.' He forgot to Bay that every Democrat voted for it, and yet that is my recollection. I have never known a more ingenious mind than that of ex-Secretary Root His ingenuity is never so marvelous as when its power is illustrated by the things which he forgets to mention. Verily he is the 'Root of all evil' when it comes to making the worst appear the better side of reason. "The Republican platform, like the temporary chairman's speech, deals chiefly in the boast that the Republi­ can party is responsible for every­ thing good which has happened. It also deals much in ancient history. "The platform in speaking of the accession of the Republican party to power after Mr. Cleveland's second ad­ ministration had expired, uses this language: 'We then found the country, after four years of Democratic rule in evil plight oppressed with misfortune and doubtful of the future. Public credit has been lowered, revenues were declining, the debt was growing, the administration's attitude toward Spain was feeble and mortifying, its standard of values was threatened and uncertain. Labor was unemployed. The panic which has devastated the world was relentlessly approaching our shores. A long saturnalia of ex­ travagance, public and private, and of reckless speculation had been already followed by depression. ,jiCorn was burned for fuel in Kansas and else­ where in the west in 1890, and after. Cotton was at or below the price of production. The acute reaction which we call panic was inevitably approach­ ing even before Mr. Cleveland was elected. Cause of Depression. "Why pretend to have forgotten all this? it Is true that after the election of Mr. Cleveland the chronic business 8PREAD OF ELECTRIC POWER. Chile Rich In Mineral Wealth. According to the United States con­ sul at Callao, Peru, that country has many rich, large mineral deposits of gold, silver, copper, mercury, lead, sulphur, coal, salt and petroleum, not to name those of less importance. He further states that the only things necessary to develop these vast de­ posits arfi capital and labor, which would make the republic as renowned for its mineral wealth as California, Australia add South Africa. Development In Past Few Years Has Been Wonderful. Recent discussion of plans for the development of electric power in the drainage canal at Lockport, 111., and Its transmission to the Chicago will give more than ordinary interest to the very comprehensive review of 9lectric * power development in the July number of Cassler's Magazine. It appears from a recent United Spates census bulletin that the aggre­ gate output of dynamos installed in central stations which supply power exclusively for lighting and power purposes Is 3,738. The number of arc lamps supplied is 419,561 and the num­ ber of incandescent lamps is 19,636,- 729. The total income from the sale of current is $90,458,420 per year. In America the first Important at­ tempt at transmitting power for com­ mercial purposes at a potential ex­ ceeding 3,000 volts was the installa­ tion of the plant at San Bernardino and Pomona, Cal. The potential used was 10,000 volts and the distance from this water power to 8an Bernardino depression continued. It is true that it became acute--in a word, reached the banks--and then the fright or panic of 1893 came, which was not a local or American condition. Then with the panic upon us more nostrums of a national character were suggested to cure an evil of world character. One of them was th6 repeal of the pup> chasing clause of the Sherman act. The Democratic administration, with a sufficient number of votes of both par­ ties in thfe two houses behind it, secur­ ed the passage of the act repealing the purchasing clause of the Sherman act, thereby for the first time practi­ cally establishing the gold standard in the United States. Famine Brought Aid. "The process of recovery was aided by many fortuitous circumstances. The first of these wa^ famine in India. Simultaneously with an immense American crop of wheat and small crops elsewhere, wheat rose from about 48 to about 70 cents in a few weeks during the Bryan-McKinley campaign, while Cleveland was yet president When wheat went up dur­ ing the campaign, while silver bullion went down, there was thereby furnish­ ed a seeming object lesson of the in­ accuracy of the contention of Mr. Bryan and his followers, of whom I was one, that there was necessarily a connection in price between the two. A greater falsehood was never utter­ ed than that wheat, or anything else, went up 'because Mr. McKlnley was elected.'" 1 At this point the speaker disposed of the Spanish war question, declar- [JOHN Ing the war was the result of over­ whelming popular war sentiment, and denying that the Republican party was entitled to all the glory. Again on the subject of anti-tnist action, he declared that the first at­ tack begun on combinations of capi­ tal was made by President Cleveland. On the subject of business depression he said: "Of course this platform had to con­ tain the msual historical untruth, to wit, that 'a Democratic tariff has al­ ways been followed by business adver­ sity--a Republican tariff by business prosperity.' Designing and ignorant men have repeated that so often that I am afraid there really are a good many people who believe It, and yet it is bad history ag n." .Thereupon, beginning with 1873, the temporary chairman gave his analysis of the causes of al' the panics that have attacked i .is coun­ try, denying that Democratic rule had anything to do with thsmi^ "Facts" of Foreign Trade. Mr. Williams, discussing the "for­ eign market" plank, said: "Plainly, our foreign commerce has grown, not because of, but In spite of, the ob­ structions which have been placed In the current of trade." A "8tand-Pat" Order. In concluding his address, the speaker said: "The Republican platform, to sum it all up, obeys the people to 'stand pat' in every respect except one, and that is a respect in which well enough might very well have been left alone. That is the plank in which thi3 lan­ guage is used: 'We favor sucn con­ gressional action as shall determine whether by special discrimination the elective franchise in any state has been unconstitutionally limited,' fol­ lowed by the promise made, In that event, to reduce southern representa­ tion in the two houses of congress and in the electoral college. The pledge Is to reduce representation if it is found that the suffrage has been 'unconstitutionally limited.' The ad- •"/r ferb 'unconstitutionally is useless and fools nobody, especially when one re- members that the author of the Dnrase. or at least the voice that read it, was the author of the old 'force bill.'" Thinks Danger Ahead. "Let hot the business interests Of the country deceive itself; let those controlling it prepare, if Roosevelt is elected on this platform, for another period of uncertainty, unrest, business disturbance and. race war in the Southern states, instead of that peace and prosperity which both races now enjoy and which has been rendered possible only by home rule and D$- white supremacy. Let the South not deceive itself, either. If the Repub­ lican party were sincere in its prop­ osition to reduce Southern representa­ tion on the ground of the disfranchise­ ment or pretended 'unconstitutional limitation' Itself it would accompany that proposition with another, to wit, the proposition to /epeal the Fifteenth amendment. Pledgee the Nominee. "But enough about the other party. Some things about ourselves--one thing the country can rely upon; the( democracy will nominate for presi­ dent a man trained in the ways of the constitution, who will not usurp legislative or judicial functions; who will not recklessly violate internation­ al usages, even with the weakest na­ tion, no matter how tempting the profit to be reaped/by it; who will not keep people guessing about what he Is going to do or say next. Will Act on Tariff. "It will not falter when it comes to ^$feclarlng for a reduction of tariff taxa­ tion on trust-produced articles to the point where foreign competition may enter the American market when com­ bines seeking monopoly, raise their prices to the American consumer to the point of extortion, nor will it fal­ ter in declaring for reduction where American concerns habitually charge American consumers higher prices than those charged foreigners for identical articles. "It will denounce the heedless and reckless utterances of the candidate of the Republican party for President in his letter to ex-Secretary Root upon the second anniversary of Cuban Ind* pendence. - «• , "It will announce in no unmistak> able way that we have no duty of any sort to 'Intervene in' the Internal af­ fairs of other countries because they 'do not conduct themselves well' or be­ cause they do not know how to act with decency in industrial and politi­ cal matters,' or because they 'do nci keep order' or because they 'do not pay their obligations.' We will an­ nounce unmistakably to the world and to the nations of Europe that we will not make of the army and navy of the United States a constabulary fbr the collection of their debts from the governments or peoples of South and Central America. Where there Is 'bru­ tal wrongdoing or impotency which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society,' the American people will regret it and will extend every aid in the way of enlightenment and example to the people thus 'flying in darkness,' but they decline to ad- mlnlsterthe affairs of such peoples or to take upon the United States treas* ury the burden of their internal refor» mation. New Era for Cubans. "A Democratic administration will find In our treatment of Cuba an ex­ ample of American courage, justice and magnanimity, an example to be Imitated as soon as It can be wisely ami safely done in the Philippines, ultimately leaving them, and giving them the promise now thus to leave them, free and independent, to work out their own destiny, in accordance with their own race traits, tendencies and capabilities. "The Demograqy, in my opinion, be­ lieves that tb? white man will have trouble enough to maintain in Its full Integrity the white man's civilization In all parts of his own country, and it is neither his duty nor his right to superimpose his civilization by force upon the brown man in the brown man's country. "A Democratic President, such as he whom we shall nominate, will de­ vote himself to the faithful execution of the laws of the United States, as they are written, without executive construction or usurpation, whether under the pretext of necessity or under the pretext of superior wisdom, and will leave to the legislative branch of the government the duty of making and unmaking and amending laws." was twenty-nine miles. In 1893 the Pomona circuit was connected in series with that to San Bernardino, making a distance of forty-two and one-half miles, this being by far the greatest distance attained In America up to that time. In the same year Bell of the General Electric company Installed what Is known to engineers as the first "three-phase plant" at Red- lands, Cal. From the autumn of 1892 to Octyiber, 1893, engineers were at work on the plan for harnessing the Niagara cataract, the greatest achievement in modern electrical en­ gineering. One of the most remarkable engin­ eering triumphs in this country is the harnessing of Shawinigan falls in the St. Maurice river, not far from where It empties into the St. Law­ rence river and about half way be­ tween Montreal and Quebec. This plant was installed for the sale of power In Montreal, eighty-four miles away. It is Intended, however, to supply power at points all along the line of factories and for lighting. In the light of recent development It It reasonable to expeot that the utilization of water powers will con­ tinue until practically all of any con­ siderable magnitude will be put to work. It is even now proposed to transmit electric power from the Alps to Paris. The only limitation upon power transmission appears to be the point at which it cannot be delivered at a profit. peputy Governor of India. During Lord Curzon's absence from India the viceregal functions will, it is understood, be performed by Lord Ampthill. A leading jourtal, which apparently sets out to enlarge upon Lord AmpthiU'8 singular fitness for his exalted post, does not seem to be able to say more about him than that he Is a crack swimmer and an cars- man with a distinguished rpcard. Test of Good Work. k F. Hopkinson Smith recently re­ marked : "If I can tell the whole story of my novel In five minutes at a din­ ner table and secure the undivided attention of my listeners I know that It is good. If I fell to do this my work will be I9 valiv" FREE TO tWENTY-FIVJ LADIES." 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Teacher--Tommy, can y<^u tell us which birds are extinct? Tommy--Yes, ma'am. The dodo and the dove of peace. Hundreds of dealers say the extra quantity and superior quality of De­ fiance Starch Is fast taking place of all other brands. Others say they can­ not sell any other starch. NEW USE FOR ALUMINUM. It Replaces Wood in the Making of Bobbins for Factories. According to "La Metallurgie, at a recent meeting of the "Societe d'En- couragement pour i'lndustre National," an interesting paper was read on the substitution of aluminum for wod in the machinery of spinning mills, reports Consul Guenther. In the tex­ tile Industries--spinning, dyeing, and silk weaving, among others--a wooden bobbin Is generally used. This is cheap and easily worked, but it' has many drawbacks. Being very hygro- metr'c, it suffers from variations of temperature; this accounts for the fact that in spinning factories where the atmosphere is full of humidity the bobbins revolve irregularly, causing jerks which slacken the speed and Occasion the threads to break. The reeult. is waste of stuff and loss of time in joining the threads again. It has been proposed to substitute alumi­ num for wood. Bobbins made of this metal revolve in any temperature and any degree of humidity; their relative lightness (five aluminum bobbins weigh no more than two wooden ones) allows the machines carrying them to move more quickly, or an equal speed may be obtained at less expense of motive power; finally, the smaller vol­ ume of the bobbin diminishes the cost of transport. It was stated that sev­ eral firms tad adopted the use of ' aluminum bobbins and bad found that they possessed many advantages* WRONG TRACK Had To Swlfetf, Even the most careful person Is apt to get on the wrong track regarding food sometimes and has to switch over. When the right food ft selected the host of ails that come from Improper food and drink disappear, even where the trouble has been of lifelong stand­ ing. "From a child I was never strong and had a capricious appetite and I was allowed to eat whatever I fancied --rich cake, highly seasoned food, hot biscuit, etc.--so It was not surprising that my digestion was soon out of order and at the age of twenty-three I was on the verge of nervous prostra­ tion. I had no appetite and as I had been losing strength (because I didn't get nourishment in my dally food to repair the wear and tear on body and brain) I had no reserve force to fall back on. lost flesh rapidly and no med­ icine helped me. "Then it was a wise physician or­ dered Grape-Nuts and cream, and saw to it that I gave this food (new to me) a proper trial and it showed he knew what he was about, because I got bet­ ter by bounds from the very first That was in the summer and by win­ ter I was In better health than ever before In my life, had gained in flesh and weight and felt like a new person altogether in mind as well as body, all due to nourishing and completely digestible food, Grape-Nuts. "This happened three years ago and never since then have I had any but perfect health, for I stick tvf my Grape-Nuts food and cfeam and still think it delicious. I eat It every day. I never tire of this food and I can en- Joy a saucer of Grape-Nuts and cream when nothing else satisfies my appe­ tite and it's surprising how sustained and strong a small saucerful will mfcke one feel for hours." Name giv­ en by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. True food that carries one along and "there's a reason." 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