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• * „ m Mistress Rosemary Allyn By MILLICENT E. MANN Cipyricht. ipm. in T,TTA?-U\ror,x oo. CHAPTER XIII. An Interview with the King. A door opened and a courtier (it was my bete noire, Sir Raoul Dwight) came from the anteroom, into which 1 was wafting to be admitted. It was evident that his . Majesty's mission had not retained him from court so long as. he had anticipated. A frown was on his brow and his head hiing. He would have passed me had not mv deep, look forced his eyes. The frown ^broadened, and a curse burst from] his sullen mouth. His hand slid to his sword. "Will not to-morrow he time •Bough, 'Cousin Raoul'?" I asked. , ^'Foire God! I'll kill you then," he growled venomously. ' "At your service," I said.' ' / -My name being called, I turned tny back upon him and walked to the room where I was to have my 'inter*. View with King Charles II. Had Raoul Dwight a knife then and no one been about I doqbt not but that I should have, felt it between; my Shoulders: His Majesty sat surrounded by his dogs, pulling the ears of one, slapping another over the nose with his lace kerchief, chiding yet another who would be too fond. Doing thus he kept me standing, inwardly chafing at the delay. At last, tired of this play, he con­ descended td speak; before doing so, however, he gave the dog nearest him a vicious twist of the ear, which sent him yelping back of his master's chair. "So." he said, "so this is the re­ doubtable Quentin Waters, son of that renegade Lord Waters of Long Haut, is it?" He looked at me long with a heavy frown on his thin face. Not an aus­ picious opening certainly. "Yes," I affirmed, "I am Quentin Waters at your command, sire." "And why does Quentin Waters, •on of Lord Waters, dare venture into London?" he questioned imperatively. "Why I have ventured into London, and seek this interview is--well--I am come upon my father's affairs," I managed to stammer. "I see," sarcasm rang in his voice. "Meanwhile you spend your time threatening a fair subject of mine With a meaningless piece of paper-- Master of the Bed Chamber to Charles I." The King- frowned, and I thought it best to get to the very gist of what I had to tell at once without any pref­ acing. "The two beings he held dearest in life were His Majesty King Charles I and his young wife.t One night--it was the night of the 16th of January, 1639--being stationed^ in an anteroom by the express command of the King, a page came to him, saying, \A mes­ sage from the King.' Thinking if only an ordinary missive pertaining to the business on hand, he took it from him, opened and read if Here is the paper." . _ • I took from a jeweled locket I wore fastened to my waistcoat by a ..rosette of ribbons" the paper I /had received from my father. I had kept it secure­ ly hidden in its jeweled receptacle--I did,.hot intend it should be stolen from me a second time. . . The King took it daintily, rather disdaining that old slip of paper. He opened it with a bored look; that look turned to animated interest when he saw it had his deceased father's sig­ net attached to it. "A love letter?" he asked. I nodded. "Read it, sire," I begged. "A forgery--cleverly done;--and signed with the King's signet!" he ejaculated when he had finished. "Who would have dared?" "A forgery, as you say," I said; "and so Lord Waters, my father, in his later years came to think, but not at the time. The artlessness of the page, young Kenneth, son of old Sir Longville (he is dead, so nothing can be proved) and the King knowing he was on duty out of the way, all tended at the time to lend \ confirmation to the deed. Lord Waters questioned the page. He told him that he had made ̂ a mistake, and handed him an­ other note, which proved to be merely a message from the King sending him upon a mission that should take him from the court for a few days. As he was delivering a cutting reproof to the careless page before letting him go, he saw something in the fellow's face that made him stop and ask him to whom he was to deliver the other note? The page stammered and ap­ peared so confused that Lord Waters was determined to be answered. His hand was not light and he soon knew f So," he said, "this is the redoubtable Quentin Waters?" business, indeed," he profitable sneered. Evidently Sir Raoul Dwight had not had the ear of the King for naughf "Not so," I replied; "you, sir, hare %«en misinformed. I threaten no lady." "Say you so?" he retorted. "Then where is this paper I have heard so much about--the court Is wearied to death with the various stories afloat concerning it--I would see it." "It It is the promise of marriage won from the lady's father you mean, I have it not in my possession," I said. "Promise of marriage," he repeated. •"Poof! it is nothing. I can do away with it as easily as I can squash this fly." He raised his hand and brought it 4dwn upon, he supposed, that trouble­ some insect, buzzing about so late In the season. When he raised his hand there was nothing under it; .the fly had flown to the wall. "It is not always so easy to squash even so mean a thing as a fly," I murmured. "Think so?" he questioned. He rang a bell. One of his guards came at its summons. ^ "There is a fly on the wall to the right; kill it," he commanded. The man proceeded upon the chase. It required some effort. His Majesty leaned back with half-closed eyes, waiting, while he fingered the long coat of one of his pets. Once he tapped his foot ;impati,ently at the man's delay. I watched the fellow with more interest than the case de- plhanded, and had I been in Any other presence than the King's I should have laughed at his frantic move­ ments and the cleverness of that small insect. At last be had him--his day was done--the mail held chit his hand to' his Majesty, and in his palm lay the crushed fly. "It is done, your Majesty," he said. The King commanded him to leave the room, and again resumed his play. "I see,'^ I said' after a pause. "A man's word goes for naught In King Charles' court. But your Majesty, if I have your permission, I will telf .you my reason, or rather my mission fin London." . : He nodded. Having successfully "demonstrated his object lesson he was in a good humor. "My father, you already know, Is Waters of Long Haut, and "He was much changed, sire," I said, "and affected the puritanical style, it was also dark and he wished to be unrecognized." "What strange creatures men are!" soliloquized his Mfejesty. "I would -have you know, sire," I continued, "that after that the old love for his King returned to Lord Waters. He resigned from Crom­ well's army, and went to his estate in Long Haut. There he obtained a divorce from his wife, and, after liv­ ing in retirement, married my mother, who died in childbirth. During the years of my; minority the thought that he might have wronged the King and his first wife never left him. It made hini what he has been ever since, a miserably sick man. Owing to his condition he was not able to come himself, so he sent me to lay the mat­ ter before your Majesty and plead for forgiveness." I had finished and I knelt before him. " 'Fore God! you shall have it," he cried, as he motioned me to rise;_ "but it seems to me that 'tis to Lady Dwight you should go as your father's emissary to plead for forgiveness." "Lady Dwight!" I exclaimed. I was top astonished to say more. ; "She is your father's divorced Wife/' he explained. "My. father's wife!".I .repeated. "Even so," he affirmed, none too pa­ tiently. **•" Light dawned upon me and I under­ stood my lady's fainting fit; she, too, was overcome by circumstances. "And. Sir Raoul Dwight?" I ques­ tioned fiercely. "Your half-brother," he answered; "born in France, six months after your father left in such importunate haste." "My God!" I cried. "And they talk about instinct; I had not the least in­ nate feeling toward him. Why, we were ever as cat and dog whenever we came in sight of one another." "Even brothers will quarrel over a woman," he smiled. "There need be no more quarreling upon that score," I replied; "he is welcome to the lady." "That is good, he enjoined. "You will return the paper at once to Lady Felton, and renounce all claim-to her hand." "Certainly," I replied. "I never in­ tended to keep her to it. I will get the paper from the person who has it and make her a present of it to-night before I. sleep. Had the lady been in town she would have had it before this." ] "Been in tbwn?" he began. "Ah, yes. So you shall gladden Raoul Dwight's heart; he but now went from here with a hanging head be­ cause I would promise him nothing." His Majesty yawned and then dis­ missed me. (To be continued.) -CJ - WORK FOR HEALTH Exercise Absolutely Necessary to Keep the Body in Proper Physical Condition TAYLOR HE KNEW THE CREED. what, he feared. It was intended for Lady Waters, the page confessed. You see, sire, the name In the note is Elaine--it was her name." . "Ah!" the King said. I should have been hard to please, Indeed, if I had not been satisfied with the King's change of manner. "Crazed he left the court, without seeing, either the King or his wife. 'Tis a matter of history how he joined Cromwell, forsaking the King." "Yes," he cried impatiently. "But why did he not see the King and hare the note authenticated? Why act like a jealous fool?" "Yes, why?" I said, "He was too sensitive, I think." "He had great provocation if it were true," he said, "but not enough, me- thinks, to join that assassin's army and give him service, and good serv­ ice, too." he finished bitterly. "Not so good, perhaps, as Cromwell would have wished, however," I ha­ stened to say, "else the war had been sooner ended and his Majesty a pris oner some months ere he was." "How so?" he asked. "After the battle of Marsden, Lord Waters had the honor of taking his Majesty a prisoner," I said. "No? An improbable tale," he cried. - "I have proofs," I retorted. I held out to him the tiny brooch. He took it with a shaking hand. "His! not a doubt of it," he whis­ pered; "the martyred Ring's!" He got up and paced the floor, look­ ing at the jewel in his palm. "Yes, as child I have seen him frear it," he ..murmured. "By what machttia^das did Ix>rd Waters obtain this brooeh?" he said cuttingly. "I told you, sire," I replied with dignity. He paced the floor with a more hur­ ried tread, while he frowned and knit his brow -in deep thought. He said: "Now, I remember having heard that after the battle of Marsden, being sep­ arated from ..his guards, he had been captured by a man "serving on the other side, but when the man found that it was the Ring he held, he had released him, even given him safe conduct to his men, so that he should not be retaken. It was told me by General Lauderdale, to whom my father had related the incident Strange! the King, my father, did not ^recognize familiar a man at court | as Lord Waters." Proved That at Some Time He Had Attended Sunday School. There is no clergyman who enjoys a good story more than Bishop Pot- even though it touches upon af­ fairs of the church. One of the recent occasions on which he indulged in a hearty laugh was while listening to the experience of a young man who is engaged in city mission work on the east side. Among those the young missionary tried to interest in church work, were two rather hardened characters, who in their boyhood days had, ^however, attended Sunday school. "Oh, that's all right, boss," said one, "I don't need no church going. I learned all that as a kid and so did Jim here. Why, I know the prayer book backward." f "Fll bet you don't," interrupted his friend. "I'll bet you a dollar you can't say the creed now." "That goes. I'll take you,'!*, was the reply. He then proceeded to repeat the Lord's prayer, laboriously but cor­ rectly, while his friend listened in as­ tonished silence. "Well, I'll give in," said he, when it was ended. "I don't see how your could remember the creed all these years. Here's your dollar, confound you!"--New York Herald. { ' V WATER GARDENS IN THE YARD A Plea for Something Different in the Small Home A small outdoor (water gardenis just the thing to make one's p^ace^if- ferent from the general run of com­ monplace gardens, says a writer in the Garden Magazine. Why not try some hardy water lilies this year. I have two pools in my garden, and both are a source of great pleasure to my family and myself, as well as the Stranger in my gates. One is planted with water lilies and the other with lotus. In the former we have flowers from early spring to lat$ autumn. The colors are white, yel­ low and pink. The lotus blooms for a peflod of aboujt two months, and I have nothing in my garden to cbm- pare with its flowers in beauty. If you are a lazy gardener try water lilies. They require no watering, when everything else is drying up, and no weeding at any time. T'hey multiply so fast with me that most of them have to be dug up every spring, and the increase sells at good prices. Do not grow geraniums, cannas, coleus and the like, when so many beautiful plants can be grown so different from your neighbors. The sedentary man is like a stag­ nant pool, while the active man is like the mountain stream. In the stag­ nant pool reptiles of many descrip­ tions crawl and croak, and from it noisome odors rise. "Thejnpun£ain stream is pure and sweet and crystal clear. The body is a form through which a stream of matter flows. Exercise is the means by which the movement of the stream is accelerated so that the blood is kept pure and the tissues clean. The Bible says that he that will not work shall not eat, and Na­ ture says the same. A man who in­ sists upon eating, even though he does not work, pays the penalty for his violation of natural law. The food he eats becomes poison In the tis­ sues; his body is not only like the stagnant pool, but it becomes even like a cesspool, and ready food for germs. Exercise increases the ability of the body to resist a disease. It encour­ ages every bodily function, creates appetite for food and the ability to digest when eaten. It strengthens the heart, clears the brain and enlivens the spirit. P How much must one exercise? How much muscular work must one do to maintain good health? According to recent English authorities the average man should do, daily, work equiva­ lent to climbing a perpendicular lad­ der one-half mile, or twenty-six hun­ dred feet high. If one lived In the vicinity of Leukerbad, Switzerland, or in the neighborhood of certain deep mines, he might actually climb such a ladder. Ordinarily, some other more convenient method of exercise must be adopted. It has been determined that walking twenty feet on a level, at the rate of three miles an hour, is equivalent to lifting the body perpen­ dicularly the distance of one foot. Hence, one may, if he chooses, walk ten miles, instead of climbing a lad­ der half a mile high. Of course, hill climbing and mountain climbing will accomplish the same thing as ladder climbing, and if one chooses to do the work indoors, he may work out his task in stair climbing. Going up and down a flight of stairs ten feet high is equivalent to falsing the body about twelve feet perpendicularly. Hence, one might do the required amount of work by going up and down such a flight "of stairs one hundred and sev­ enteen times. But, first, he may do the work while standing in a corner and raising himself on his toes. In such exercise the body is elevated about three inches. Hence, four heel- raisings would be equivalent to rais­ ing the body one foot, and to'raise the body half a mile, or twenty-six hun­ dred feet, it would be necessary to rise upon the toes ten thousand four hundred times. One might easily ex­ ecute this movement at the rate of one a second, which would be fifteen feet a minute, or nine hundred feet an hour. At this rate the day's task would be accomplished in about three hours. But it would be very tiresome to do the work in this way, for almost the entire amount of work would be thrown upon a single set of muscles. By placing the hands upon the back of a chair or upon a table the arms may be used to assist in lifting the body so that the movements can be executed much more easily. More or less weight can be thrown upon the arms; By raisingiupon the heels and bend­ ing the knees,, the body may be alter­ nately raised and lowered through a distance of about two feet. The exe­ cution of such a movement requires nearly four seconds, or fifteen to the minute. The body would thus be lift­ ed thirty times a minute, and an hour and ^fjhalf would be required to do the- iJay's work. By pl^ing 'Wights upon th^i shoulders the rate at) which the^S£oft$ ia^4©ne would be Uyoteased, and time shortened. But, on the whole; th£re |s no method of accomplishing the T^cik so good as walMng, and par­ ticularly climbing a hill with a mod­ erately st^p.grade. Bicycle Dieting, it not overdone, is excellent exercise, fto accomplish the same amount of work riding a bicy­ cle, one must/cove^j about fa^r thnes the distance j-equired Mr wal^M-! ; Most city p(eoplei otft^ide 'the Wir­ ing classes, takfc* f,1 itt 1 e okw; else. As aSresult th^Jd^fi^nt,, « Wj®*.' tlon of the bW wast# {Mi© 'Cu­ mulation of urfc acid and'ipth^r ti poisons after a V"# r^sutt in atism, neurasthe ture old age ami disorders which or less directl^ttf tion. v~ apopwy, p^ema^ a greatIv^riety of fjr be traced more *uric acid acb^mula- The Man Who Loves Words. < "Other folks, of course, have their, poor pleasures," says Richard Le Gal- lienne in Harper's, "but for a man who loves wQrdsvno Joy the world^ji, give equals lot1.'htaa the happin6ss of having ach id^err-a fine passage or a perfect line. ^ien Thackeray struck his fist On the table, as th^^ory goes, when he had fij^hfed-4he/scene of Col. Newcome's iteath, and exclaimed, 'By God, this is genius,' there was no em­ pire he would have accepted in ex­ change • for that motfient. We often hear that your true fttist is never sat­ isfied with his work. His ideal escapes him, the words seem poor and lifeless, etc.; compared with the dream. Who­ ever started that story knew very lit­ tle about the literary temperament or he would have known that--the words are the dream. The dream does not exist even as a dream, or only very imperfectly, till it is set down in words. Yes, th« words are the dream." Vital Statistics. Everyone who Is troubled with "symptoms" will, be interested in the statistics prepared by a leading life Insurance company showing at what ages different diseases may be expect­ ed to stop human machinery. The figures deal with a period of flfty- "Ours," Not "Mine." "It is mine!" "I tell you, you are mistaken; it is mine!" Divorce court. Which is a terse way of putting the sad history of many a m&rriage^ dis­ agreement over the things mine and thine and the domestic misery that fol­ lows: The way to settle such a dis­ agreement is for both parties to say, "It is ours!" Because of the struggle for mine and thine the records of his­ tory are rolled in blood, nations have fallen, barriers of hatred have been raised, brother has fought brother. Envy, dissension and division nave come because men have contended for that which is not theirs, but "ours."--- Minneapolis Journal. Ex-Bandit's Son Reading Law. Jesse Janres, only son of the famous Missouri bandit, is reading law and taking the three years' course in a Kansas City school of law. This is his first term. When the course is fin­ ished he will practice law. The pro­ fessors of the law school say that Jesse is a good student. Much of his time is spent in reading in the law library in the county courthouse. three years--1845-1898--during which time 46.525 ceaths passed under re? view. They, of course, tell nothing of individual cases, but of the average or typical cases they reveal much. Skilful physicians are connected with the large life insurance offices, to examine into the physical condition of applicants for insurance, and to make a careful investigation of the causes of death in cases of policy hold­ ers. The records of the company in ques­ tion show that the chances are about six to four that consumption will car­ ry off its victims before the age of forty-five. Fifty-nine per cent of suf­ ferers from this .--disease die before they reach this age. Above sixty, the per cent of cases is only twelve. In general diseases, such as small­ pox, diphtheria, measles, etc., the chances do not differ widely. Thirty per cent of the deaths from these dis­ eases occur under the age of forty- five ; 36 per cent, between forty-five* and sixty; 34 per cent, above sixty. Apoplexy, softening of the brain and paralysis chiefly afflict elderly people, 55 per cent of the deaths from these causes occurring above sixty, and only 12 per cent below forty-five. The probabilities are that sufferers from other nervous diseases will not reach the age of sixty, only 27 per cent of deaths from these causes oc­ curring after that age. Heart disease afflicts principally the elderly and middle aged, only 11 per cent of deaths from this cause occurring before forty-five years of age. Although pneumonia has been called "the old mail's disease," the chances are sixty-four to thirty-six against one dying of this disease after the age of sixty. Twenty-nine per cent of the deaths from pneumonia occur under forty-five, 35 per cent between forty- five and sixty, and but 36 per cent above sixty. Other respiratory dis­ eases, such as bronchitis, pleurisy, etc., grant a little longer lease of life. Derangements of the digestive sys­ tem do not glean from the aged a very large number of victims, the chances being more than two to one against those so afflicted reaching the age of sixty. Thirty per cent of the deaths from this class of diseases oc­ cur under the age of forty-five; 38 per cent, between forty-five and six­ ty; 32 per cent, above sixty. Victims of Bright's disease hjave a fair chance of reaching sixty, only M in 100 dying of this disease before forty-five. Complaints classified as "genito­ urinary" are old-age diseases, 77 per cent of the deaths from such cases oc­ curring at ages above sixty. Fifty per cent of the deaths from violent causes occur under forty-five. •Fully 68 per cent of the typhoid fe­ ver deaths occur under forty-five, and only 9 per cent at ages higher than sixty. 4 . HEALTHFUL RECIPES. Salad Sandwiches--Boil three eggs ten minutes; drop in cold water two minutes; peel, and while still warm, mash fine with silver fork, work in a tablespoonful of thick cream, two teaspoonfuls of lemon juice, salt to taste and a little watercress chopped fine. After cutting off the crust, but­ ter sparingly the end of a square loaf of good Graham bread; then, with a thin, sharp knife, cut as thin a slice aB possible. Butter and cut until, you have slices to make the required num­ ber of sandwiches. Spread a buttered slice with egg mixture, place over it a lettuce leaf washed and dried, then another slice and press well together. Trim the edges, removing tough crust; cut across twice diagonally, and ar­ range the triangles on lettuce leaves on a wooden bread plate. Toasted Granof<T FTakes With Nuts and Fruit Juice.--Toast the flakes In the oven delicately, but enough to crisp them well; sprinkle over them a cupful of ground pecan or otbe* nuts, dust lightly with sugar and serve with fruit juice. Baked Bananas--Beat two eggs and a <pup and a half of water together. Pffel one dozen bananas, dip in egg Jwtiifer, roll in granola or bread crumbs; repeat. Place in oiled pan, bake twenty minutes in hot oven. „£terve with-- XJrange Sauce--Mix thoroughly half a cupQof sugar and a rounded table- spoonful of cornstarch. Then add, in the following order, a tablespoonful of lemon juice, the juice of one orange, a little of the rind, three quar­ ters of a cup of boiling water. Cook in tfen minutes in double boiler, stirr ring constantly. Remove from flre, whip in the whites of two eggs beaten stiff. Nut Sponge Cake--Ingredients: Six eggs, 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, 2 table- spoonfuls lemon, juice, three-fourths cup chopped walnuts. Damages for Lessened "Capacity." Louis Gurber, a Philadelphia musi­ cian, sued a street railway company for injuries sustained through the de­ railing of a car. He wanted $5,000. On the, stand he declared that previ­ ous to his injuries he was able to drink fifty or sixty glasses of beer a day, but that now the best he can do is less than twenty. The court inquir­ ed gravely: "Would that be claimed as an element of damage" Gurber's counse^ithou^iJ^'it ought to be, and «|>- parentlytilejury thought so, too, for the plaintiff was given a verdict of 11,000 on account of his reduced ca­ pacity. . i 4 ELEVATED BY THE KAISER. College Chum of Emperor William Now fn Cabinet. Emperor William has called one of h's college chums to the Prussian cab­ inet. He has just appointed Dr. Von Bethmann-Holweg to the important portfolio of Prussian minister of the interior,: vice Baron Von Hammerstein, deceased. The new minister is one of the kaiser's warmest personal friends, dating from the days when they were students together at the University of Bonn. They were not only fellow students, but fraternity brothers, being members of that his- toric and ultra-exclusive "corps," the Borussia, to which . most of th,e princes and noblemen of Germany have belonged in university days. The kaiser, following the ideal upon which is supposed to rest the success of American politicians, has always "taken care of his friends" since he became emperor. Dozens of them are filling military, naval and civil offices of importance and rich emoluments and he delights to honor them. Dr. Von Bethmann-Holweg is two years the kaiser's senior, being 46 years old. FORMER G. A. R. HEAD DEAD. Gen. John Palmer Succumbs to Civil War Wound. Gen. John Palmer, former Secretary of State of New York and Commander in Chief of the G. A. R., died at his home in Albany, N. Y., April 15. His death resulted, from a wound at the spine, which he received in the civil war and which he suffered from since that conflict. He held 'many posts of trust and was one of Albany's most prominent citizens. Gen. Palmer was chiefly known through his connection with the G. A. R., of which he was elected com­ mander in 1891. He was born in Stat- en Island in March, 1842. He enlisted in the Ninety-first New York Volunteers, in Albany, He served in the Department of the Gulf and Red River campaign, and was se­ verely injured at the battle of Five Forks. He left the aomy with the rank of captain. He was among the originators of the Soldiers' Home at Bath, and was always identified with movements in the interests of the vet­ erans of the war. In 1893 he was elected Secretary of State on the Republican ticket. Of late he has taken but little part In politics. He was a painter and decorator, and V The Late Gen. Palmer. for years had made his home in Ai bany, where he leaves a wife and four ( children. Town Clerk for Half a efentury. Ira N. Goddard has been town clerk of Mljlbury, Mass., for fifty-two years and isbow the unanimous choice of the Republican caucus for another term. At the election last November he was chosen to represent his distrift^ in the state assembly. Mr. Goddard Is 75 years old, but looks fully fifteen years younger. He and his wife will celebrate their golden wedding this year. ' ' w Folly of the Fakir's Victims. The People who attempt to get rich quickly by putting their money in wild-cat schemes have been getting some hard lessons lately. If Investors would stop to consider that if the de- ceiverp who concoct these schemes and foist them upon the public had one-tenth part of the paying invest­ ments they advertise so liberally they would under no conditions part with the stock and fewer lambs would be shorn. A„ really good and profitable business does not need to advertise the sale of the stock to any great ex­ tent, as it will sell itself, and there are always plenty of shrewd investors willing and ready to purchase. It is a case of investors seeking the invest­ ment, not of investment seeking the investors.--Portland^Oregonian. The Mikado's Costly Advertisement. We predict a boom in Japan's com-- merce after the war. The country has been brought prominently before the world in a way that it has never been before, in spite ofx the stream Of tourist's which has poured into the country. Indeed, it may be doubted whether the tourist element has done the country any good and whether it has not created the impression that Japan is a land of dreams where a few pleasant months may be spent in idle­ ness.---Japan Herald. Japanese Generals. During the winter just past Japan's generals along the Shakhe spent their time variously. "Gen. Nodzu," ac­ cording to Japanese newspap|rs, "studied typewriting. Gen. Kuroki kept vbarnyard fowls. During the HeikautaK*mgagement GeneralK dam a scarcely*!!?; week, but did^ot seem one whit the worse'Xfo\ his1 ^experience.", Gen. Oyama was reported as being "the sagie Vo v'-itea iTeagentleman There Is no Rocheile 8altst Alum* Lime or Ammonia Infoodmadowitti-- Calumet Baking Powder HWWW THE BAKING POWDER TRUST-- It makes puro food. ANOTHER RECORD IN LAND HUNTING. This Spring's Exodus to Canada Greater Than Ever. 1 It was thought in 1903, when over forty-five thousand people went from the United States to Canada, that the limit of the yearly immigration to the wheat zone of the Continent had been reached. . But when in 1904 about as large a number of Ameri­ can citizens signified their intention of becoming settlers on Canadian lands, the general public were pre­ pared fbr the announcement of large numbers in 1905. No surprise there* fore will be caused when it is made known that predictions of fully fifty thousand more in i905 are warranted in the fact that the Spring movement Canada ward is greater than it has ever ;been. The special trains from Omaha, Chicago, St. Paul,1 Detroit,, and other gateways has been crowd­ ed. Many have gone to join friends and relatives who have prepared homes for them and others: have gone relying upon their own resources, satf isfied that what others have done can also be done by them. This year much new territory has been opened up' by the railroads which are extend­ ing their main lines and throwing out branches in their march across the best grain and grazing lands on the continent. This new territory has attractions for those desiring to home­ stead on the one hundred and sixty acres granted each settler by the Canadian Government. Many also take advantage of the opportunity to purchase lands at the low figures at which they arei now being offered. It does not require much thought to convince one that if Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and other lands, with a value of from fifty to one hundred and fifty dollars an acre will give a good living by producing ten to thirteen bushels of wheat to the acre and thir­ ty to fifty bushels of corn to the acre, the lands of Western Canada at seven to ten dollars an acre, producing from twenty to thirty bushels of a superior wheat to the acre should produce a competence to the ordinary fariner in a very few years. These are the facts as they confront the reader. There are millions of acres of such land in Western Canada in addition to the other millions that, are considered to be portion of the biggest and best ranges that ever in­ vited the cattle and horse producer of the North American continent. What is particularly evident in West­ ern Canada is the fact that the wheat lands, adjoining the grazing lands, make farming particularly agreeable and profitable. The agents of the Canadian Government, who are al­ ways willing to give information and advice to intending settlers, say that the acreage put under crop this sea­ son is greatly in excess of last sea­ son. Mrs. McKinley To-day. Mrs. McKinley has aged since that terrible blow; her hair is a little whiter, her gray eyes not quite so bright. Her expression is sad, and when she speaks there is a slight quiver of the lips that indicates some­ thing of the great grief ever present with her. She goes to drive nearly every day, and everywhere and by everyone is greeted with tender and sympathetic cordiality. Her general health is improving, and she is now able to take an interest in all tHe household matters connected with her home.--National Magazine. THE TEACHER'S FOE A LITE ALW HERV0 ,YS THREATENED BY PB0STBATI0N. *1 «On» Who Broke Down from Six Years of Overwork Tells How She Escaped Misery of Enforced Idleness. "I had been teaching in the city Bchools steadily for six years," said Miss James, whose recent return to the work from which she was driven by nervous collapse has attracted attention. "They were greatly overcrowded, especially iu the primary department of which I had charge, and I had been doing the work of two teachers. The strain was too much for my nerves and two years ago the crisis came. ' I was prostrated mentally and phy­ sically, sent in my resignation and never expected to be able to resume work. It seemed to me then that I was the most miserable woman on earth. I was tor­ tured by nervous headaches, worn out by inability to sleep, and had so little blood that I was as white as chalk. •'After my active life, it was hard to bear idleness, and terribly discouraging to keep paying out the saviugs of yeara for medicines which did me no good." "How did you get back your health ?" "A bare chance and a lot of faith led me to a cure. After I had suffered for many mouths, and when I was on the very verge of despair, I happened to read an account of some cures effected by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. The state­ ments were so convincing that I some­ how felt assured that these pills would help me. Most people, I think, buy only one box for a trial, but I purchased six boxes at once, and when I hatl "Used them up, I was indeed well aud had no need of more medicine. "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills enriched my thin blood, gave me back my sleep, re­ stored my appetite, gave me strength to Walk long distances without fatigue, iu fact free<t«ie from all mv mmierous ail­ ments. I have already t an p i 11 for severalA months, and I cannot * y enough in praise of Dr. Williams' Pi' 1* Fills." Miss Margaret M. James i* now living ' at No. 123 Clay strict, D»iytou(#.Qhifl^ ^ Many of her fellow teachers have also used Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and are enthusiastic about their merits. Sound digestion, strength, ambition, and cheer­ ful spirits quickly follow their use. They are sold iu every drug store in the world. .. . r