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Mistress Rosemary By MILLICENT E. MANN Copyright. 1904, by IiUCAS LlXi'dLN CO. r r' CHAPTER VII--Continued. I plied him again and again with the liquor,, til! his hands dropped from Ike dice box. To make a long story ihori. while I drank him under the table Gil did the same to his fellows, fcn easy task fpr him. At home Unong heavy drinkers, he was known is the "white drinkf." We now looked openly at one an­ other. The men were snoring like a liter of pTg's. "What now?" he asked. • I pointed to the {wo miserable be- logs on the settle in the chimney COrnei --the man oblivious to every-, thing--the woman with a ruminating brow. •; -". -I called to • Jock, mine host. 1 Jle. Came hurrying into the room. "Yes. sir,"1 he said. "Your coat, llr," This he, put down on the settle and was. slipping out again when I (aid detaining hands on him. ;'T)l be b&ck in a moment, sir."! hev .added, "as soon ari they ar«? gOne_" ;: "Gone--wvho?" I, gasped, "Hush, sir, for God's sake," be said lltt a whisper. "Their ladyships. They are traveling incognito." ; "Incognito?" I repeated; "who?" "Hush, sir, nqt so loud," he begged. "Do you want to ruin me?" He would have jerked away from He, but I held him fast by'the shoul­ der. "Who are their ladyships?" I asked Jltm now. and this time I wasnot to be trifled with. "I thought you knew," he mur­ mured; "Lady Felton, and--" here he let his voice sink into an awe-struck whisper, "Mistress Nell Gwyn." "Lady Felton and Mistress Nell Q-wyn!" I ejaculated. "And does the magenta colored coach belong to them?" "Yes, yes, sir," be answered. "They are here; in God's name let me go." His excitement was amusing. With ft sudden jerk he pulled loose and moved with as fast a speed as he was capable of--fourteen stone being no light weight to move with rapidity. As he said, their ladyships were go­ ing. It was evident from the swish, 8wish, swash their silken petticoats made coming down th^, stairway. I sprang to the door, not waiting to m on my coat lest I miss seeing Lady Ffelton, whom fate had decreed should be my bride, and Mistress Gwyn, whom Charles II had begun to set aBjaorous eyes up. ISThey passed me at the entrance. Again I was disappointed; they both flltd masks over their pretty faces. I saw a purpose forming in the woman's movements^ "There is no need of haste, my good wotnan." I said. "If Gil can conjure up that other magenta-colored coach and four it is at your disposal." I flung my little joke at his head. "Otherwise you'll have to go as you came, on one of the constable's horses." At this she demurred, S9 I bought an old nag from Jock Swan. At first the woman acted dazed, but when she began to realize that we were making plans for "their escape, she said with a dignity out of keeping with her be­ draggled, condition: "I wiiltell you the man's history as I know it. truly as the God above hears mersir." She wiped a tear from fieT^i'es. "His name is Martin Toms. He came from Lyme. His family were Covenanters, but they are dead, God rest their souls, these many days. They were perhaps implicated with the others--I'm not saying they Were not--'tis a pity'one may not worship as one likes under God's bright sky, without being hectored to death, driv­ en to dd fanatic deeds;; but Martin wis not "with them at the time, and had not been for years. When a youth he had joined ^a troop of play actors who were passing through the town, and with them came up to Lon­ don. His people cast him off, rigid in their convictions; he was as dead to them as if they had nailed him in his coffin. He soon became proficient enough to play small parts at the Duke's theater. There he met me. I, too, was a play actor; I played minor parts, also children'^ parts, for I had a baby face. You may have heard of pretty Alice Lynson?" She spoke with pride as she asked her question, and her face gave promise of what it might be under happy circumstances, she was yet young. I nodded, although I never had. "No one would know me now, I am so changed." she continued sadly. "Well, we were married, and happy for a time. Martin was ever of a morbid temperament, and was not un­ usual for one brought up as bigotedly as he had been, feeling that his pa­ rent's curses followed him. The nfews reached him in London of the direful persecutions of the Covenanters of Lyme. H6 heard that his father had been hanged, his mother died of grief, and his younger brother whipped from one market place to another, then lodged in a putrid cell where he caught a loathsome disease from which he soon1 mercifully died. You see. sir, his family Vas wiped out of existence in a short time--all gone-- from the rain. The woman bowed her head and sobs convulsed her form. Jock Swan and I watched the old iiui sc aiu'uic Out Of eight. Gil W89 elsewhere employed. Pity and Indig­ nation stirred me; pity for the poor woman's plight, indignation at the con­ stable's persecution. I was undecided what to do with the constable--he certainly merited some punishment. I found that Gil had settled th«f question for me. He came out of the inn carrying on his back one of the fellows bound with ropes. "What are you doing with them, Gil?" I asked. "You'll find them down the road a bit, wallering in the mud, trussed for all the world like fowls ready for market." he answered with a grim look. "I think they will hesitate be­ fore persecuting a poor woman again," he added. "Good enough," I laughed. "But may not our host, good Jock Swan, suffer from the constable's anger?" "The fat one will take to his bed, I'm thinking, and perhaps it will teach him that he's too old to be running after women, the beast!" he said. "As for Jock he's no innocent; he will be able to make them think that he had naught to do with their plight. After they have-sobered up-a bit, which will not be long I take it in. this rain, he cin release them w$h a fitting taLe of Our being highwaymen, and anything else that comes to his lips." Jock having an equal confidence in his ability to convince the men of his innocence1, satisfied me that he was glad of this opportunity to pay off old scorgs. Some of that ribaldry which had fallen from the man's indecent tongue was not to be overlooked by Jock. Our horses saddled, we bade him good-bye, and went on our way satis­ fied that we were leaving them in such judicial hands, and that he was cap­ able of playing his part to our liking. We cautioned him above all things to put the constable and his men off the track of the escaped prisoner. And Gil added this: "Send them af­ ter us, if they're able to travel; we'll take care of them.' We decided to ride steadily through­ out the night, as the horses were fresh and we desirous of reaching London; also hopeful of overtaking the coach containing the redheaded maid of Mis­ tress Rosemary Allyn. There was a branch where th.e two roads, the river an.l the maii^road merged into one, and over this she must pass to reach London. We rode along at a jog trot for a time, being sparing of our horses, when presently the weather changed. The sun peeped out now and again lrom behind fleecy clouds like a pretty woman, coquetting. (To be continued.) FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE THOUGHTFUL A Tribute to Weather Conditions In Western Canada. TWO MEN NEW IN DIPLOMATIC SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES How to Take a Walk. Walking has the best value as gymnastics for the mind. "You shall never break down in a speech," said Sydney Smith, "on the day on which you have walked twelve . miles." In the English universities the reading men are daily performing their punc­ tual training in the boat clubs or a long gallop of many miles in the sad- diet or 4*iking their famed "constitu­ tionals"--walks of ejght and ten miles. "Walking," said Rousseau, has something which animates and vivifies my ideas." And Plato said of exercise that "it would almost cure a guilty conscience." "For the living out of doors and simple fare and gymnastic exercises and the morals of companions produce the greatest effect on the way of Virtue and of vice." Few men know how to take a walk. The qualifications of a professor are endurance, plain c'othes, old shoes; an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good, speech, good silence and nothing too much.--From Emer- sons's Lecture on the Country Life. They both had masks over their pret ty faces. Jock was. before me bowing and scraping. I pushed him aside with scant ceremony. I opened the coach door with an obeisance, while I strode to get a peek behind their masks. It was of no avail, it hid their beauty as the cloud oft hides the radiance of the sun. 1 caught the flash of spark­ ling e/es. We had it seems bepn misled after all; our being too sure had been our undoing. We had not run dowta our prey--in the game of hunt the slip­ per, we had reached the frigid zone. The coach that "We bad been pursuing aid not contain the black-eyed maid of Mistress Rosemary Allyn, but Lady Felton and Mistress Nell Gwyn. Words failed me. CHAPTER VIII. Jf ~put only himself left--it drove him mad." She was now weeping bitterly. Gil delivered himself of a few of the ex­ pletives hovering about his lips. "The night of the day--the day up­ on which he learned all this"--she spoke as if the horror of it was yet with her--"he had to go on and play his par., a small part in The Prince of Denr.iark. He was mad, but none knew it, riot even I. In the middle ot the second act he became raving, took the very words out of the star's mouth to that man's disgust ard the delight of the pit. They soon got him off the stage. That is all. except that be has been that way ever since. He is at times wild and wanders away as now. else the constable had not caught hini. Ah, sir, a sad life! a sad' life!" Sad indeed! but the saddest part, so it seemed to me. was that the woman's life was wrecked, and the sweetness of her not to complain, no, not one word aft the burden fate had thrust upon her. "But why should ihe constable both- . . , er him?" I asked. "I think instead and I sat me down and roared as 1 something should be done to relieve h ftt thp rlituriivit nn nil'« far»o tta 1 . . >ou-->our husband put away in an asylum" "In Bgdlani! My God! No!" she cried. "Have you ever seen thos' poor creatures huddled r together like beasts, manacled and chained to the floor, shrieking and wringing their hands? Never while I live. Why the constable hounds us is because of the grudge he thinks he owes me When I was 'pretty Alice Lynson' I knew the man--he wished himself my lover --he," her voice vibrated with scorn, "to think I would be dishonest for such as he." "I see," I said. "Is there any placs The Theft of Another Paper. returned to the tap room and on my -coat. Gil, who had fol­ lowed me out, now* followed jpe in, still sucking his pipe. Then the ludic- rousness of the happening burst upon me. much at the disgust on Gil's face as at our being so taken in. When I had eased myself of my merriment, which v, as soon--one does Hot care to laugh alone, laughter like wine needs company for one to enjoy Its flavor. to the uttermost, and Gil Ittept his lips on a set level--I said to liearten him: "Better luck in London." ^ "Luck's a jade," he muttered. "She showers her gifts as a woman her love with as little judgment, and her ill-- will with a partiality devoid of all rea­ soning. What in the devil did Tor- aine mean by saying that he saw a magenta-colored coach leave Castle Drout?" t, "Color blind," I replied flippantly. "Could there be two magenta-col- __©red coaches?" he mused. ' _ "Possibly," I returned, "but hardly two leaving Castle Drout." I dismissed the subject with a wave of the hand, and turned my Htfmtiori i to the woman and the prisoner, while . Gil bestow - d his upon the constable %( ht* jWen. Mrs. ChadwiclSs Diplomacy. In talking of Mrs. Chadwick's in­ fluence over men the other day in the Federal building, . Marshal Henkel laughingly declared himself a captive. "A newspaper photographer," he said, brought me a photograph ne took of her and me as I was taking her from the hotel. I showed her tha photograph. " 'What a handsome couple we make,' says she. Wouldn't that flab­ bergast you. After that I just had to be nic3 to her." Another thing that influenced the officials here in giving Mrs. Chad- wick great consideration was her ten­ derness for her son, Emil Hoover. Whenever the boy approached her she would brighten up and say: "There comes my dearest," and she would talk to him as if he were a baby.--New York Sun. Muscles That Shut Out Cold. "The muscles of the skin need train­ ing to educate them to contract vigor­ ously on the slightest cold," says a medical writer, "lo shut the blood out of the skin iki quickly that the pre­ cious body heat will not be lost. You notice that, when the skin is cold there-is- a 'goose-skin' appearance. This is due to the contraction of the little muscles of the skin. The con- Traction of the muscles compresses the external blood vesels and drives away the blood from the surface, hardening and thickening the skin, which thereby becomes a better non conductor. Thus -the body tempera? tu're is maintained. , , "It is because of the constant ex­ posure to cold that the Indian's body is 'all face.' The skin of his whole body, not only that of the face, har learned to take care of itself." During the early portion of Febru­ ary, of this year, the middle and Western States suffered severely with the intense cold and winter's storms. Trains were delayed, cattle suffered, and there was much general hardship. While this was the case, throughout Western Canada, now attracting so much attention,, the weather was per­ fect. • j One correspondent writes, "We are enjoying most beautiful weather, the gentlemen are going to church with­ out top coats, while the ladies require no heavier outer clothing than that afforded by light jackets. In contrast with this it is interesting to read in a St Paul paper of 13th February the following, in double head lines, and large bold-faced type: "WARM WAVE NEAR ARCTIC ZONE." "CALGARY MUCH WARMER THAN ST. PAUL:" "Balmy Breezes are Blowing in Northwestern Canada While People are Freezing to Death in Texas ana Other Southern Statu." where you can go and stay in hiding for a time?" "Yes, sir," she answered. "I have an aunt' living in, Shief, two shires from here; she will take us in. 'Tis a place where even the constable and his men care not to come oftener than necessary; the men are a rough lot. and will protect a kin to the death." The mare being ready we placed the' Ill-sorted pair upon her broad back. I protecting them as. well as we could Nothing Sensational. City editor--You got Mrs. Gassa- way's speech to the Woman's Rights club, didn't you? What did she say? Reporter--Oh, nothing Worth print­ ing. City editor--Why, she spoke for more than an hour. Reporter--I know..but what she said was quite sensible. -- Philadelphia Press. 5--- Few women are wise enough to ren der one little word sufficient. WARM IN CANADA; FREEZING IN TEXAS. St Paul 24 Omaha ..... .Y. i 16 St. Joseph .... i j 16 Fort Worth, Te*. .... i..... .Zero Burlington ' 7 Moorhead ;..... 10 Duluth 6 Havre, Mont 18 Willioton, N. D 18 Miles City, Mont - 2 Medicine Hat, Can .Zero Calgary, Can. ....... 24 Edmonton, Can 20 Leadville, Colo 32 During the month of January of this year the number of settlers who went to Canada was greater than any pre­ vious January. The movement north­ ward is increasing wonderfully. The vacant lands of Western Can­ ada are rapidly filling with an excel­ lent class of people. The Government Agents located at different points in the States, whose duty it is to direct settlers, are busier than ever. They have arranged for special excursions during the months of March and April, and will be pleased to give in­ tending settlers any desired informa­ tion. Occasionally we see a man who looks as if he had tried to preserve his di<nitv in alcohol. COMMISSIONER GARFIELD'S RE­ PORT ON BEEF INDUSTRY. The report of Commissioner Gar­ field on the beef industry has at last been published. It must be some­ what of a surprise to those who have been indulging in wholesale adverse criticism upon the methods of the Chicago packers, as it discloses facts and figures which clearly show that the great food producers have been innocent of the serious offenses with which they have been charged. They have been for a long time accused by newspapers all over the country of extortionate prices demanded, and ob­ tained, of depression of values of cat­ tle at th • \arious stockyards where their business is conducted, of enor­ mous proiii.s wholly disproportionate to the capital- employed, and, in gen­ eral, of so carrying on their business that the public, under an organized system of spoliation, were being r<jbbed for their exclusive benefit. We find now, however, that not a single one of these charges has been sustained but, on the, contrary, that rigid and searching investigation, of­ ficially made, has resulted in com­ plete acquittal. Instead of extortion it is shown that no industry can be found where so narrow a margin of profit prevails-- the actual records and original en­ tries, to which the commissioner had free access, showing that the high­ est net profit any of the packers made on their sales of beef was two and three-tenths per cent in 19U2 and in one instai.ee t.iat the profit realized in 1904 was one and eight-tenths per cent. The variations in the market prices for cattle art exhaustively treated and no evidence of any kind was dis­ covered, or even hinted at, tending to show that values of cattle are in the slightest degree improperly affected or controlled by packers at any of the chief centers of the industry. On the whole, the report completely dissipates the prevalent idea that great fortunes are being amassed by illegal and improper methods em­ ployed by western packers, showing that notwithstanding the high prices for beef prevailing in 1902 the busi­ ness was less remunerative than in years characterized by normal values, both for cattle and product. He says "that the year 1902, instead of being one of exorbitant profits, as has been commonly supposed, was less profit­ able than usual. In fact, during the months when the prices of beef were the highest, some, at least, of the leading packers were losing money on every head of cattle slaughtered. It was not possible to advance the prices of beef in full proportion to *he great advance in the prices of cattle at that time." After all that has been written re­ flecting upon the great business in­ terest engaged in the marketing and distribution of the product of one of the greatest of our national indus­ tries, it is gratifying to all fair minded people that the prejudiced^ attacks upon it have failed of verification; and the great western packers may be congratulated for having passed through such" a searching and thor­ ough official investigation unsmirched. The results of this investigation, based as it is upon exhaustive data, officially obtained and verified by United States government experts, must be accepted without hesitation, as the investigation was made under circumstances that guaranteed com­ plete accuracy with a possible dispo­ sition indeed, to arrive at entirely different results. 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Graves, appointed min­ ister to Sweden aijdt Norway by Presi­ dent Roosevelt, is a resident of Duluth, Minn. He is president of the Graves- Manley insurance agency, and presi­ dent of the Duluth Telephone comr pany. Mr. Graves succeeds W. W. Thomas of Maine, who has been min­ ister at Stockholm siftce 1880, with the exception of the three years from 1894 to 1897. Thomas J. O'Brien of Grand Rapids, Mich., the new minister to Denmark, is a lawyer, and for thirty years has been general counsel for the Grand Rapids and Indiiana railroad. He was the Republican candidate for Supreme Court judge in 1883, and has been a delegate to national conventions. Mr. O'Brien succeeds L. S. Swenson of Minnesota, who has represented the United States at Copenhagen since 1897. SALARIES PAID HEADS OF NATIONS Abdul Hamid --, Sultan of Turkey. Nicholas II., Czar of all the Russlas Wilhelm II., Kaiser of the German Empire Victor Emanuel III., King of Italy Franz Josef I., Emperor of Austria-Hungary Edward VII., King of Great Britain v Mutsuhito, Mikado of Japan Alfonso XIII., King of Spain Leopold II.-, King of Belgium * ..si*.. Christian IX., King of Denmark 1...., Oscar II., King of Sweden and Norway ........ ."S.. Carlos I., King of Portugal JI.., Georgios I., King of Greece Wilhelmina Maria, Queen of the Netherlands ..." Prithvi Shamsher Jang, Maharajah of Nepal Peter I., King of Servia .' Carol I., King of Roumania. .... Emile Loubet, President of France/. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States. Nicholas I., Prince of Montenegro Francesco Alvez, President of Brazil Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico....... Robert Comptesse. President of Switzerland Manuel Amador, President of Panama $10,000,000 7,500,000 4,000,000 3,080,000 2,775,000 2,300,000 2,250,000 1,400,000 A 700,000 700,000 700,000 630,000 575,000 300,000 . 250,000 240,000 237,000 150,000 50,000 41,500 40,000 40,000 35,000 10,000 DEATH CLAIMS A. M. PALMER. Man Prominent in Theatrical World Succumbs to Apoplexy. A. M. Palmer, the theatrical man- ager, who was stricken with apoplexy March 6, died next day in a hospital. He was 67 years old. Albert Marsham Palmer was thir­ ty-five years a manager of plays and players. In that time he rose from obscurity to national prominence, had fame and fortune also. A year ago he lost his fortune, went into bank­ ruptcy, and bis wife opened a milli­ ner's store in New York. A. M. Palmer was born in North Stonington, Conn., in 1838. He was graduated from the law department of the University of New York, but did not follow law. He appeared in the theatrical world about 1870. . " f For ten years beginning in 1872 he as manager of the Union Square the­ ater, and afterward « of Madison The Late A. M. Palmer. Square theater, and of Palmer's the­ ater. He was a founder and for four­ teen years president of the Actors' Fund of America, and one of the founders and vice president of the Players' club of this city. Lately he had been manager for Richard Mans­ field. When Bananas Were Unknown. Nowadays when bananas are so numerous it is difficult to realize that even twenty years ago they were still practically unknown to most English people. Queen Victoria tasted her first banana in the great conservatory at the royal botanical gardens. The prince consort, the president of the society, was in the council room, and the queen, according to her custom, was awaiting his return when the banana was handed to her. The in­ cident is chrqjjicled in the story of the gardens. CORN MOST IMPORTANT CROP. Already Enormous, the Product Could Easily Be I^publed. In round numbers the farmers of. the United States raise about 2,500,000 bushels of corn each year. The value of this crop usually exceeds $1,000,000,- 000. These figures are so enormous that in the abstract they almost sur­ pass conception. The American corn crop is the most important crop that is grown. But in spite of the enor- mousi figures which must be used in expressing the size of this crop, th6 agricultural department at Washing­ ton declares that it could be doubled without adding one acre to the pres­ ent producing area and without any bothersome increase of time, money or labor to the farmer. This wonderful undertaking could be accomplished, as the department has proved, simply by using pedigreed corn for seed. The average yield last year was twenty- five bushels to the acre, but ft large number of farmers who followed1 the guidance of science raised the yield on their farms to fifty and even 100 bushels to the acre.--Kansas City Journal. "Civil War" Official Designation. The senate has officially gone on record as preferring the words "civil W|ir" to designate the prolonged strug­ gle between the states. Those vigor­ ous patriots who still insist on talk­ ing about "the rebellion" may well take notice. While the senate was con­ sidering the postoffice appropriation bill Mr. McComas proposed an amend­ ment that will allow "soldiers of the war of the rebellion" a preference in the transfer of railway mail clerks to clerical service in the departments. "Make it soldiers of the civil war. It is more courteous," Senator Bacon of Georgia suggested. "That is entirely agreeable," replied Mr. McComas. "I should have drawn it that way at first," and the amendment as amend­ ed was forthwith^ adopted.--Chicago Chronicle. - Problem ta Figure Out. -- Here's a little problem for commut­ ers to work out coming in town In the morning, or, if they don't finish it then, going out again at night. A Boston man wanted a ticket to Spring­ field and had only a $2 bill. It re­ quired $3 to get the ticket. He took the $2 bill to a pawnshop and pawned it for $1.50. On his way back to the depot he met a friend to whom he sold the pawn ticket for |l-50. That gave him $3. Now, who's out that dol- V*r?--Boston Globe. A Citizen of the Freedom Day*: The brontosaurus, whose skeleton vas recently placed in position in the Museum of Natural History, New York, flourished in this good, green ei-rth 12,000,000 years ago--so the pro­ fessors say--in the wild days of free­ dom, when state and county taxes were unknown; when the gas bill was an unformed dream in the dltn coal caves and never a man was seen c'imbing to a six-story roof to sweep the horizon with a three foot spyglass for the form and features of a ten- toot bailiff--Atlanta Constitution. Widow of Gen. Anderson Dead. Mrs. Eliza Bayard Clinch Anderson, widow of Gen. Robert Anderson, the hero of Fort Sumter, died recently in Washington, D. C. When the attack on Fort Sumter began Mrs. Anderson, then living in New York, distinguished herself by seeking out a faithful ser­ geant, who had been with,her husband in Mexico, and in person escorting him througl the enemy's country to the beselged fortress, where he be­ came the personal attendant of he* husband. f , I HAD TO GIVE UP. Agonies from Kidney Cured awp 1 Kidney Pill Oeorgfc W. Renoff, of 1S531 11th st„ PnilK-' delphla, Pa., a man of good repe , u t a t i o n a n d ; standing, writes: - "Five years ago I was suffering S0\ with my back and kidneys that I often had to lay ­ off. The kidney s e c r e t i o n s w e r e unnatural, m y legs and stomach were swollen, and I had no appetite. When doctors failed to help me 1 began using Doan's Kidney Pills and improved until my back was strong and my appetite re­ turned. During thePfour years since 5 I stopped using them I have enjoyed excellent health. The cure was pep* manent." (Signed) George W. Renoff. A TRIAL FREES--Address Foster- Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y, For sale by all dealers. Price, 50 cents. Author Has His Troubles. Robert W. Chambers, who at times uses startling incidents in the con* struction of plots for his novels, lg v constantly receiving "crank" letters; Once a woman bombarded him with? letters for an entire year, saying thai she was spending her fortune to buy up and destroy all of his books be­ cause "The King in Yellow" had made her crazy, ominously adding that as soon as her money gave out she was coming to his home to murder him. Mr. Chambers, In telling this story, remarked that he was "pleased to see that her money still holds out." An­ other time a n:an sent him a model of a machine, declaring with oaths that the author must pay $10,000 for the privilege of inspecting it or he would have him poisoned. DISFIGURED BY ECZEMA. Wonderful Change in a Night--in a Month Face Was Clear as Ever --Another Cure by Cuticura. 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