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Vv:Vi •> | ! v _2fe.' a. 1 • -> , _.- ,«^y A ^r (fr, ^.a- Mictrocc Dn«pm^rv Allvn ITIItJU lll/jviiiUijf i » i i j H By MILLICENT E. MANN Con^ripht )Q/u h» I.UCAS 1,1 N CHAPTER VIIK--Continued. Oil being wrapped in his thoughts aai his pipe, I bethought me of the letter given me by my father. I had been so busy getting ready, and occu­ pied with one thing and another that I had barely read it. It had a great interest for me. I had placed it in an envelope, sealed, and marked it with th6 word "Private." Then I had put It carefully away in an inside pocket of my coat. Some man--possibly he might be Head--when he wrote those few words pn that slip of paper committed as foul a crime as any in the category of pins. Should I ever ran him down, and tie be living, I would remember my lather and my hand should not fall lightly. I wondered if perchance there iwas anything about the paper over­ looked by which the perpetrator might be discovered. I would take it out again and examine it more closely-- m i n u t e l y . ' • V . t put my hand into my pocket, which wan a deep onef it ifr&s empty; void as the air. I gasped with astonishment.. A*! no - doubt heedlessly I had changed It to another pocket. I began a Search for it. No use, it was gone. 1 i-eiiied up my horse. ftil came ddiag back. •'What is it?" he asked. "My God!"" I exclaimed, "I have lost my letter!" ."Letter?" he repeated, and looked as if he thought me daft "Why thrash over the same ground? If the girl ;Who stole the paper is not to be found, *ad you want the lady for a bride, wrfty--we'll see what force can do." "Devil take that piece of paper," I mattered in my distress; "'tis of the letter given me by my father I am speaking." • "Ah-h-h!" he said, and his guttural utterance was. expressive of many things. "It is of the greatest, importance, Gii," I said; "in fact, on it hangs the reason Lord Waters sends me to Lon- a chair. In your eagerness to see the ladies into their 'magenta colored coach' you did not put it on until you returned to the mom after their de­ parture. I also went out, but I came back again to see 'pretty Alice Lyn- son' jump, rather too suspiciously, quick away from your coat when she heard me, and color over her pretty fare, wfien you said that something was gone, I remembered the incident; and as I had not forgotten the other maid and the other paper--well, wom­ en are great imitators, but poor strate­ gists. I ran tihem down about five miles from the inn. I told her in a few words, but to the point, to give up what she had stolen or be taken Back t<* the constable, who, no doubt, was quite ready to resume operations where they had been cut off, and this time she could come in for her share since she had winked at a prisoner's escape; She cried--she-- My God; these women! they are bom to cajole poor men till they get what they want; and then the devil may take you far a thank' you." • "Yes, yes, what then?" I asked im­ patiently. "The crying wouldn't down a bit-- paper or jail, said. I," he continued. "Then she, gave it up and I read her a lesson on woman, and woman's grat­ itude. She told me this--you must take it for what it is worth; I believe no woman. She had been -bought by the enemy, Sir Raoul Dwight. He knew her, no doubt, as 'pretty Alice Lynson.' It was for him she was to get a paper you had hidden on your person. Such had been her object when she left him yesterday, but on the way to the inn she had fallen in with the constable, who "had just ar­ rested her husband, Martin Toms. All thought of the paper was forgotten in the greater calamity, until we hap­ pened in at the White Swan. She said that if she had known that we' were going to be so kind to her she would not have taken the paper for all the a ' "Ah, I see," she said, sarcastically. :<M|k ^Iboik I might as well Raoul Dwights in the world go)back to Long Haut. My God! I am afraid it will be the death of liim." "Taken in again," puttered Gil, "aftd tiy petticoats." "What do you mean?" I demanded severely. "This Is no time for jok­ ing." "Ride on and put np at the Golden Acorn," he retorted. "See that there is another horse awaiting for me. I will be back in five hours." fl had better go with you; two pairs of jpyes are better than one. Anyway, without the paper I can accomplish nothing," I returned dolefully. * '"Ho, if one isn't enough, two will be no better," he replied. "I can attend to the business. If I am not success­ ful we can then both go back home. Be sure the horses are in good condi­ tion ready to start upon my return." So saying he turned his horse's head and went back ovef the road that we had just come. There was an old grandfather's clock standing in the corner of the tap room where I sat moodily waiting. When the clock should strike seven the five hours given Gil by himself for the accomplishing of his purpose would be up? I assure you I had no hope; I had carelessly lost the paper on the way and this time the rain and the mud had blotted it out of all re­ semblance to the thing it had been. I was a discreet person to send upon a serious mission. I was loading myself with contumely. The clock began to clang the hour. I started (although J had on an average glanced at that clock every five minutes since enter­ ing the tap room), and looked up from the blazing log where my eyes haa J>een fixed in thought whtie my ears were strained for the sound of a horse's hoofs clattering on the brick courtyard. The door opened and showed me Gil Standing In the hallway lighting his pipe. Gil, in a state little short of de­ moralization; clothes half torn from off him, and a wound in his head from which the blood flowed. I was too crushed to do aught but gaze at him. HIS condition certainly did not be­ speak success--it tfas impossible that he could have found it. • He walked over to where I sat and laid a paper on the table at my right. I picked it up. It was the paper with­ out doubt, minus the envelope, perfect­ ly dry, only a little crumpled. "Ily elastic nature rebounded at •nee. I jumped up and hugged him. "You are a jewel of the first water, Gil," I cried. "Where did you find It?" Before he could answer I added: "But first before you begin let me look to that cut. You are hurt." "Not much. I left those behind hurt worse," he answered, dabbing his woun£ with a napkin. "It will soon heal .-Yes, I found the paper without much tr sable following the clue I had. You remember at the White Swan, when Jeck brought in your coat 'Jkriished and dried he laid it down on «=> . You un­ derstand she said this, I but repeat her words. She added with more blub­ bering that after she Jeft the inn, instead of keeping to the main road she had branched off to Trefford, where she was to meet Raoul Dwight's man. Jle was waiting for her. She gave him the paper. He opened it, and then he damned her for a fool and threw It back at her." "I see. Sir Raoul Dwight had in some way learned that we were to go over this road to London," I Bald. "He thought to gain the promise of mar­ riage. Strange he didn't come after it himself." Gil mused. Presently he said aprop­ os of nothing, "Pretty Alice Lynson" by her indiscretion having started him on his favorite theme---women: "Woman is like a sparkling glass of wine, you feel as thpugh you .could never get enough, but God! how heavy they both pall upon you next day. Landlord, your MIL Come, let us be off." . "But you* have not told me how you received that scratch?" I asked him. A fierceness came over his eye. /'I fell in with the constable's fel­ lows," he replied to the point, "and they recognized me. They were com­ ing from housing the constable." "I wish I had been with you," I said. "It was too one-sided--three against one." / "It was brief. If I trussed them before, I finished my work by carbon- adoeing them now," he said, and laughed. CHAPTER IX. rolling heath and hill, while the taper­ ing road wound in and out like the del­ icate tracery on a piece of tapestry. The boastings were hardly from his mouth, when he added: "Hasten, there is trouble ahead!" and put spurs to his horse. I knew from his exclamation that his piercing eyes had caught sight of an object my more obtuse ones had ] not yet seen; what I was not long in finding out going at the pace we were. We kept to the sides of the road so that the noise of the horses' feet com* ing on the turf should not be heard. When we had ridden near enough, we stopped in the sheltering shade of a clump of trees. It hid us from view. To the side of the road a post coach was standing on the two wheels of one side. The other two were in the air looking woefully out of place. The six horses plunged and trembled. At their heads were masked men--high­ waymen--bold fellows, too, to be about their business in so open a spot on the country's face. "Not the 'Magenta colored coach,*'* ejaculated Gil. In the stillness of the atmosphere we heard the high clear thread of a patrician voice. "Pray, good sir, go easy," it said. " 'Tis not so I have heard it said that gentlemen who take to the road are wont to treat the gentler sex. They use them courteously. I assure you." "Your pardon, Madame,' Answered a deeply musical voice. It came from the rogue standing by the coach door.: "Allow me. Only one moment shall I inconvenience you, for Which I again crave pardon." With that the scamp helped the lady out of the coach and proceeded to search it. "Ah, I see,"'she said sarcastically, "you are truly one of those gallant ohes who lighten the purses of way­ farers." "By my faith," said he, "some need relieving." ! "That's as it may be," she retorted. "Men must take the chances of war. I care only where it affects myself. Now if-you would imitate that world- renowned highwayman, Claude Duval, you would request the honor of a dance on the green, and in pay­ ment--" She gave a suggestive shrug and wave of her hand. Then she lift­ ed her dress in one hand to show her feet, and most wantonly took a few steps in the minuet. Her manner was bewitching. (To be continued.) THE ROLL IN THE ROLL. FAGTS AND REUS OF THE -ttflin IN-THE EAST Showing Progress of the Titanic Struggle for Supremacy Be­ tween Russia and Japan PE-RH-NA CONQUERS CATARRH THE WORLD OVER. True Use of the Pompadour Disclosed in a Railroad Dining Car. "We live to learn," said the travel­ ing man. "For the past four or five years I have admired the pompadour style of dressing woman's hair; but until recently it had never occurred to me that this mode of arranging the locks might possess practical utility as well. "I was in the diner of a train about as hour out of Chicago whon I per­ ceived a particularly stylish brunette with a girl friend sitting at the table just ahead of me. What especially caught my eye was the mass of beau­ tiful hair piled up on that girl's head. "'While the arrangement of it was entirely becoming to the comely young woman, yet I'll venture to say that her pompadour rose to the height of some eight inches from the fore­ head. "The two young women had about finished their dinner when I entered the car and were fumbling in their purses for the wherewithal to pay- for the meal. Between them they man­ aged to rake up some 56 cents. " 'Well,' observed the stunning brunette with the big pompadour, 'it looks like I shall have to go into my roll.' "And with that the glorious creature calmly removed her hat, ran her fin­ gers through the mass of dusky hair aftd fished out a bundle of money. " 'There,' she exclaimed when the operation had been completed, 'I have itj I always carry my money in my hair when I'm traveling. It's so much safer than any other way.'" A World Worn Beauty. Only one day's journey from Lon­ don! A day I felt that for me would stretch itself out even unto twelve times- its original length before we should reach our 'biding place, but, God willing, we hoped to hear the bells of Bow church ring out their evening chime. We had been in the saddle all night, and I was galled from riding in spite of the many ways I had of easing my­ self. I was now riding with my legs hanging over one side as I had seen market men do to balance the weight of their horses. It was yet early in the morning, the dew was on the gossamer. Gil be­ guiled those last hours of the early morn with reminiscences of the times he had bad in Lohdon, that "hotbed of iniquity." The road had been for miles through a forest tract where the trees were so dense that, although [ the sun shone brightly, splashes of light were seen only In places. We came out abrupt­ ly into the open space. So clean cut was thfe division, it was as if a giant's knife had separated the woods from the open country. We were upon an elevation and looking down (we could see <*• itctair &s our eyes became accus­ tomed to the glare) great length? of PRISONERS CAGED IN COtfttT. Irt Italy Criminals on Trial Are Close­ ly Confined. To the foreigner and especially the Italian the air of peace which prevails in an American criminal court of jus­ tice is a strange study, says a Detroit Npws-Tribune correspondent, and the absence of bolts and bars and armed men arouses his wonder and surprise. Except for a policeman or two, the prisoner is unguarded and sits beside his attorney with no more apparent Re­ straint than though he was merely a defendant in a little action for debt. In Italy it is very different, for at a trial at assizes the prisoners are placed in cages from which escape is Impossible. In American courts three or four prisoners are often seen together, and no bars or bolts are necessary to keep them within the bounds of court de­ corum. But in Italian courts the hot temperaments of the prisoners require the restraints of gendarmes, rifles and iron bars, for not.infrequently they are desperate men, who would not hesi­ tate to make a bold fight for liberty;or visit death uqpn their accusers. Fishermen's Clocks Alwa^f Fast. The commissioners who a/e holding the board ol trade inquiry at Hull have been much puzzled to ascertain the ex­ act Greenwich time of the happenings on the Dogger Bank. The fishermen who have been called have confusing­ ly spoken of "the time" and "the right time." The explanation is a peculiar one. The clocks on the fishing trawlers are timed one hour in advance of Green­ wich, and the reason for this is that the trawlers may always take their catch of fish In good time to the "mark"- boat, so that the carriers which ply between the mark..boat (or receiving boat) and Hull may not be late for the markets. The managing director of the Game­ cock fleet was questioned about it. "Surely," he was asked, "if the fisher­ men know that their clocks are fast there Is nothing gaine^by the prac­ tice." Mr. Beeching replied " that It was an old cuMom, and only those who fully understood the fishermen could understand Ms Influence.*---Westmin­ ster Gazette. Dates and Seenea of Principal Battles In the War. Cheng-ja, Korea (first land skirmish), March 28. 1904. Yalu River (Kluliencheng), May 1, 1904. Fenfrwangeheng. May 7, 1904. Kinchow, May 26, 1904. Polandien, May 26. 1904. Nanshan Hill. May 27, 1904. Biuyen. June 8..1904. * Sajmatze, June*§. 1904. .. .. „AA. Vafangow, or TAlissu, June 14-lv, 1904. Motien Pass, 26, 1904. Kaiping, July 5.- 1904. • < Tatehekiao, July 25, 1904. Haicheng, Aug. 1. 1904. Llao-Yang, Aug. 24-Sept. 4, 1904; this- includes the desperate engagements at Anplng, Anshanshan and Hiatun and the.' final capture of Llao-Yang. Sha River, Oct. G-13, 1904; Russians make a descent against the Japanese, but are driven back with great loss. Lone Tree Hill, Dec. 2, 1904; Japanese suffer a severe repulse, P.aid made by Russian troops to New- chwang and Tatehekiao, Jan-. 9-10, 1905.' Siege guns from Port Arthur reach the Oyama forces on the Sha river, Jan. 18, 1905. Sandepas and Hekoutal, Jan. 30-Feb. 8, 1905, resulting in heavy losses to both- sides. Sinmintun, Feb. 22. 1905, Russians out­ flanked and driven out. Mukden--Actual movement, in the nght began Feb. 19, -when General Kuroki, Dfc- gan ills northern movement against Ren- nenHhmpff's corps; Japanese enter the old Manchu capital March 10. Losses in Manehurlan Battles. The following shows approximately the number of troops engaged and the losses on both sides in the principal land bat­ tles fought thus far in Manchuria: MUKDEN. Japanese. Russians. Forces engaged- 500,000 Losses 30,000 SHA RIVER. Forces engaged 250,000 Losses 35,000 LIAO-YANG. Forces engaged 200,000 Losses 18,000 PORT ARTHUR. Forces engaged 100,000 Losses 47.000 YALU RIVER. Forces engaged 60,000 Losses 1,000 Distances at the Theater of War. Miles. Llao-Yang to Mukden 50 Mukden to Sinmintun (west)........ 37 Mukden to Tieling. or Tie Pass. 37 Tieling to Kaiyuen 30 Kaiyuen to Klrin (northeast). 175 Kaiyuen to Harbin .......... 275 Harbin to Vladivostok 400 St. Petersburg to Harbin * 5,307 St. Petersburg to Mukden..., 5,632 Causes That Impelled Japan to Begin the War. Russia's refusal to recognize' China's complete sovereignty over Manchuria. Russia's refusal to recognize the full commercial rights of other . nations in Manchuria. Russia's refusal to recognize Japan's paramount interests in Korea. Japan's dependence upon Korea for food supply and upon Manchuria for a market for her manufactured products. Russia's efforts to close Manchuria to the commerce of all nations upon equal terms, and her encroachment on terri­ tory along the Yalu. High Russian Officers Killed. During the war the Russians have lost the following high officers: GENERALS KILLED--Smolensk!, Kel- lar, Kondratenko, Kialinkln and Ruthovln- BlAjDMIRALS KILLED--Makaroft and Witsoeft. Gen. Grippenberg retired from his com­ mand under a cloud and Gens. Sassalitch and Orlotf were practically relieved of their commands tor inettlciency in the field. ' Summary of the War. War in progress (began Feb. 8, 1904), days % 894 Principal land battles exclusive of Port Arthur i 19 Number of important sea fights ...6 Russia's loss in war vessels... .$90,000,000 Japan's loss in war vessels 12,000,000 Number of big Russian war craft sunk or destroyed 14 Number of big Japanese war ships sunk or destroyed . . . 4 Port Arthur ships sunk or destroyed. .13 Vladivostok ship sunk .1 Russian ships that have taken ref­ uge in foreign ports -- 4 COst of the war thus far to Rus­ sia ....,...$475,000,000 Cost to Japan 365,000,000 KIPLING SYSTEMATIC WORKER. English Author Puts in Ten Hours a Day at His Deik. Kipling's method of work presents a direct antithesis to that of the Ger­ man scholar. The English scholar spends only about ten hours a day at his desk, but he is a systematic work­ er, going about his writing at the same time every morning. A friend of the author who has seen him late­ ly says that he has grown very thin and looks much more than the thirty- nine years that stand to his account. It would seem that he has never quite recovered from his serious illness in New York and that the death of his little daughter' had deepened his spir­ ituality. Kipling's favorite form of recreation is motoring, and he takes a boyish delight in rediscovering Eng­ land with his hand on the brake. An American author who met him last summer warned him to be careful not to let his enthusiasm make him run his machine off the island. Mexicans Fond hf Cigarettes. The consumption c 1 cigarettes In Mexico during 1904 reached the enor­ mous number of 3,456,000,000. This was over 100,000,000 more than were consumed in the United States during the same year, and Mexico's popula­ tion Is less than one-fifth that of the United States. Three of the largest cigarette factories in the world are located in Mexico City. In the larg­ est of these cigarettes are manufac­ tured at the rate of 12,000 a minute. Last year the sales of this factory amounted to $3,770,000. Ten years ago the sales amounted to but $1,- 059,337, showing a big increase in consumption. -- -Carnegie Writing Life of Waft.- Andrew Carnegie has been at work for six months on a life of James Watt, the Scotchman who first real­ ized the power of steam while watch­ ing the lid of a kettle bob up and down. Mr. Carnegie has gathered an immense amount of Information about his famous countryman, and it is said he has written a really sympa­ thetic and clever biography. Enjoys Life at 108. London's oldest inhabitant is John McNally, bom in Ireland 108 years ago, and. a scaffolder by trade. At the age of 60 he came to this country, where he lived twenty-one years. He is now an inmate of a Roman Cath­ olic home for the aged. He is still fully possessed of all his faculties, is an inveterate smoker and fond of chatting with visitors. -HP" I r SO ' y iJLit. -'ir' ' V - Americans in Neglected Grave*; Oeorge M. De Waters of New York, a recent visitor to Havana, says -he found the only neglected spot In Co­ lon cemetery to be that In which scores of our b^ttle hip Maine's vic­ tims were buried. J-li ' ' JL .. •" "• • £ The Population the Earth *1,400,000 One Million Dm AnnuMy^of Catarrh. 'A All over the world Peiruna Is known and used for catarrhal ** diseases. The Peruna Girl has traveled 'round the globe. Her face is familiar everywhere that civilization reaches. Ualvenally Praised. From Africa to Greenlax^, from Man­ churia to Patagonia, the face of the Pernna girl is familiar and the praises of Peruna as a catarrh remedy are heard. Successful la North mad South. Peruna crossed the Eqnator several years ago, to find in the Sonthern Hemisphere the same triumphant suc­ cess that has marked its career in the Northern Hemisphere. f A Standard. \ Peruna is a standard catarrh remedy the world over. It cures catarrh by eradicating it from the system. Permanent Cure. , It obviates the necessity of all local treatment and its relief is of permanent character. ^ Without a Pew. . ' No other remedy has so completely dominated the whole earth as Peruna; la Every Tongue. In all languages its glowing testi­ monials are written. in all climes the deman^^or Pernna increase. *Am Aa Extensive Laboratory. To supply this remedy to the whole world taxes to the ntmost one of the best laboratories in the United States. A Word Prom Auatralta. Walter H. Woodward, Bomadier Royal Australian. Artillery, Hobart, Tasmania, writes: "I suffered for several years with a distressing condition of the head and throat, caused by continual colds. "My head and nostrils were stopped up most of the time and there was a discharge, and my sense of smell was affected badly. "After two weeks use of Peruna I found this condition quite changed, and so I continued to use this remarkable medicine for over a month, "l am very glad to say that at the end of that time I was cured and felt in fine health generally, and am pleased to give Peiuna my honest endorse­ ment.*' Prom Hawaii Prince Jonah Kalanianaole, delegate in Congress from Hawaii, writes from Washington, D. C., as follows: "I can cheerfully recommend your Peruna as a very effective remedy for coughs, colds and catarrhal trouble." A Cubaa Minister. Senor Quesada, Cuban Minister to th* United States, writes from Washington, D. C.t as follows: "Peruna I can recommend as a very good medicine. It is an excellent strengthening tonic, and is also an efficacious cure for the almost universal complaint of catarrh."--Gonzalo De Quesada. From All Quartan ot the Olobe. We have on file thousands of test!* monials like those given above. We can give our readers only a slight glimpse of the vast number of grateful letters Dr. Hartman is constantly receiving from all quarters of the globe in behalf of his famous catarrh remedy, Peruna. How Fish Eat. The curious ways in which fishes eat form a study. Some fishes have teeth, and some have none at all. In some the teeth are found upon the tongue, in some in the throat, and in some in the stomach. Some draw in their food by suction; the sturgeon is one of this class. The jellyfish absorbs its food by wrapping its body around the prey it covets. The starfish fas­ tens itself to its victim, turns its stom­ ach wrong side out and engulfs its dinner without the formality of swal­ lowing it through a mouth first, much less asking permission. Then there is a peculiar little crab --the horseshoe crab--which chews up Its food with its legs or claws be­ fore it passes the morsels over to its mouth, while other crabs and lobsters masticate their food with their jaws, and afterward complete the work with an extra set cf teeth which they find conveniently located in their stomachs. So there are all sorts of methods for those regularly toothless, and. the fishes which have teeth show almost as great a diversity in the number, style and arrangement of them. The ray or skate "has a mouth set trans­ versely across its head. An Ex-Sheriff Talks, Scott City, Kan., Mlarch 20th--(Spe­ cial.)--Almost every newspaper tells of cures of the most deadly of kidney diseases by Dodd's Kidney Pills, Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Rheuma­ tism and Bladder troubles, in fact any disease that is of the kidneys or caus­ ed by disordered kidneys is- readily cured by this great American remedy. But it is in curing the earlier stages of kidney complaint that Dodd's Kid­ ney Pills are doing their greatest work. They are preventing* thousands of cases of Bright's disease and other deadly ailments by curing Kidney Dis­ ease when 4t first shows its presence in the body. Speaking of this work Ex-Sheriff James Scott of Scott County, says: "I have used eight boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills and must s^y thht they are just the thing for Kidney Disease. We have tried many kidney medicines but Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best of all." • Tell a married woman she Is a mar­ tyr and she will be supremely happy. A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES. Itctalntf. Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Pile*. Your will refund money If PAZO OINTMESf* fell* to cure you in 6 to it day*. 50c. Good intentions are often like an alarm clock that doesn't go off. Smokers find Lewis' "Single Binder" straight 5c cigar better quality than most lOo brands. Lewis' Factory, Peojria, 111. As a man is within so he judges what is Without.--A'Kempis, Citarrh of the Bladder and Kidney Trouble absolutely cured by Dr. D»via Kennedy"* F&rorlM Ramedv. World famotia for over SO years. (1 a bottle. Golf. - England, it is said, IS stHl the head­ quarters of golf. She has 119 more clubs than America and 247 more than Scotland, the cradle of the game. There are probably at least 1,000,000 players the world over; and the an­ nual cost of the game may b* £ut down at $50,000,000. Millions of Vegetables. When the Editor read 10,000 plants for 16c, he could hardly believe it, but upon second reading finds that the John. A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., than whom there are no more reliable and ex­ tensive seed growers in the world, makes D O Y O U COUCH D O W T D E L A V BALSAM I this offer which is made to get you to test Salzer's Warranted Vegetable Seeds. They will send you their Dig plant and seed catalog, together with enough seed to grow 1,000 fine, solid Cabbages, 2,000 rich, juicy Turnips, 2,000 blanching, nutty Celsry. .. r-i 2,000 rich, buttery Lettuce, < v 1,000 splendid Onions, 1,000 rare, luscious Radishes, 5 !< 1,000 gloriously brilliant Flowers. ALL FOB BUT 16c POSTAGE/ * \ ' providing you will return this notice, awST if vou will send them 20c in postage, they will, add to the above a package of fa­ mous Berliner Cauliflower. [W. N. U.] A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.--Edge- worth.1 It Cures Colds, Coughs, Sore Throat, Croup, Influenza, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma. A certain cure ioi Consumption in first stages, and a sure relief in advanced stages. Use at once. You will see the excellent effect after taking- the first dose. Sold by dealers every* Wltoze. Large bottles 35 cents and 50 cents. RKAK BSTATK. *• TEXAS LANDS--For a limited time I can sell a few choice sec!Inns of Panhandle lauds near Amarlllo tit remarkably low figures, considering prices of Im­ proved adjoining lands. All level, prairie, near ihrtf railroads. Some for cash, some on time. Healthy ,(cllmate, tine soil, good water. Mercury below zero %>uee this winter. Wby freeze In the North? Pro* jpecttve purchaser's pleaBe loclone poHtage fur answer and descriptive matter. R.B.Heweome, Amanllo.Tl. FOR Q&i F ^ne °f tl)e l,e8t producing 120-acre i VII farms In Southern Michigan, situated 5 miles northwest of Kalamazoo. Good buildings and well, fences good, soil rich clay loam. Terma, small caMh payment, balance time. Enqatrs Wm. XoORSOOR. Manton, Kloh.,1 Wexford, Oo. Raaiitiful IaudC 134-acre farm *50 per acre at DBdUlllUI ICVCI Ashtabula, Ohio. Good large, nearly new buildings, strong toil, best markets near, good fruit aud water. Nearly all can be plowed except 12-acr« wood lot. Liberal terms. 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SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE "WOOISON SPIOE CO., Toledo, Ohio. Whin St. Jacobs Oil The old monk cure, strong, straight, sur*, tackles Hurts, Sprains; Braises The muscles flex, the kinks untwist, the soreness dies out. Price 25c. juid 50c. <> Sim CENTS WORTH OF SEEDS FREE Send ai 25c for 10 packots vezet&ble »eoc,» It- eluding Beet. Cabbage. Carrot, Cucumber, LettoQS, Onion, Par»u!p, liadUh. Spinach, Tomato, vary cbolceit varletle*, and two packets 8UPEKB Sweet Pea*. Keturn amj one of the packet*, when r>mptr, and we will accept It as 25c on aHy orrier nraonattas to 90s or more, making the above absolute!/ "f Catalog on request. STANDARD SEED COMPANY. VALPARAISO. 1MB, on or on J. HOLHALL, FARMS For Sa,e I fillIVIV j. kulhall. aii W. N. U., CHICAGO, NO. 12, 190S. When Answering Advertisement Kindly Mention This Paper. ;:t^y {