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rafflHnnM® rnLtLn®R Jiy CHARLES MORRIS BUTLER. 7/*e of /¥tvme,"̂ 7esre/rxy*/ 7?itp"J&q : ^ Copyright* 1905, by Morris C. Butler. t m*m* x " the Oetective, and His Great Scheme.- "! believe this Is Louis Lang?" .. . "It is." • ' ' "Wei!, how are you to-day?" "Oh, fairly well,"' replied the young •tan addressed as Lang. He was sit­ ting before a small table in one of the secluded corners of a high-class saloon on Clark street, Chicago. When first accosted, the youth looked up quite surprised at being spoken to, and saw k very gentlemanly-looking personage standing before him. "You certainly have, the* advantage of me,", lie replied, cautiously, eyeing jiis in­ terrogator enquiringly. "Whom have the honor of addressing?" The gentleman smiled, and drew up s chair beside the youth. "I am Jim Denver, lately from New York," he replied •somewhat harshly, then in an undertone he added abruptly, "who once arrested you on suspicion of hav­ ing committed a murder! It was a cruel stab, and Lang was lUstered for a moment, an angry flush spreading over his face. A shud­ der seemed to pass.through his fraiue, that passing, he composed himself almost immediately. "Well,. what's your 'lay' now?" he inquired. "Still have hard feelings against ®e, I see," said the detective, as if surprised at the bitter tone of the youth. : "I have no love for you, certainly-- and as far as that goes, no grudge against you, either,"* answered Lang. "The arrest was made in the line, of your duty--but I was innocent! You ean bet that you will have no further cause to 'take' me!" The subject was very painful to Lang. He fidgeted around ih his chair as if sitting on a led-hot gridiron. "Keep on In the way you are go- case ended. Becoming Interested in the windy city, and realizing the pos­ sibilities there for more rapid ad­ vancement than he had enjdyed in his home city under municipal employ nient; * attached himself to the staff of one of the leading private detect­ ive agencies, and settled down to pri­ vate business. Five years before, when in New "York, he had arrested Lang on suspicion of having committed murder. He !fad been attracted to the young man since meeting him in Chi­ cago, and imagined that he could use him to good advantage, the stain upon the youth's ifame being more of a desirable quality than hindrance in the case he had in view. Louis Lang is about .twenty-five years -of age. A broad-chested, me­ dium built German-American; fair of face and features, save where the marks of dissipation had -begun to show upon him. A few years before, while in. a saloon carousing with a number of his associates, he became involved in a drunken brawl. In the melee one of the participants was killed, and Lang had been arrested for the crime. . At the trial, Lang admit­ ted the possibility of his having killed the man; if he had. it was in self- defense. It was proven that the mur­ dered man had first drawn a knife upon Lang. Lang in his defense claimed to only have wrested the knife away from his antagonist. He might have accidentally wounded the man, but was sure he had not struck a blow which would have caused death. Lang's early association with the rougher and tougher element of New York society, made it extremely hard for him to prove the correctness of his assertion; but after a year of in­ carceration in the Tombs, with the lib­ eral spending of his brother's and his father's fortunes, he was liberated by one have hm ted at the possibility of the existence of such a place, and it to me more than reasonable. How else can we account for the many complete disappearances 6§ such men as Snell's murdarer (with $50,000 on his head) and the mutilator of Amelia Olsen? I would not be sur­ prised. if it could be proven that they there rest secure from the law they have outraged. Bombthrowers, mur­ derers, thieves---these are the col­ onists." "A select gathering," said Lang. "And- you imagined because these gentry cannot be traced to Canada or Mexico, that they have formed a col­ ony in some secluded part of the United States. Bearding the lions of the law in their dens, as it were." "That's my idea exactly. And the thing which is most to my liking," exr claimed Denver, "is the fact that these colonists must have a world of gold money in their possession! *1 have a scheme to rob a colony of th ievea of over a million dollars in gold.*' a jary, who brought in the old Scotch verdict of "Discharged for lack of evi­ dence to convict." This was not a vindication, and the stain on his repu­ tation remained. Being unable to face the ordeal of taunts and sneers which met him on every hand, the only thing left him to do was to leave the scenes of his early youth, and amid strange surroundings, attempt to live down his ignoble past. By a strange course of circumstances very recently he had been enabled to prove his entire inno­ cence, by discovering the tFQe mur­ derer. "Your vindication was a( pretty shrewd piece of detective work," said Denver, as he took his seat before a table in the little private room allot­ ted to their use. "I think you are the right kind of a man to make a good detective of." "If there is anything that I can do to aid you, you can depend on me," earn­ estly replied Louis. "You would have no fear, then of losing your life?" "Not if the object to be gained was worth the risk. I think I would be willing to attempt almost any desper­ ate scheme to prove my worth to the world. But, of course, you do not expect me to promise to do something blindly--to run into danger without fully realizing of what the danger con­ sists?" By way of answer, Denver replied: "Suppose a million dollars was the re­ ward--what would you do for a mil­ lion?" Anything!" exclaimed the young man. "Anything save to kill a man in cold blood! I draw the line there! No amount of money could tempt me to have the blood of an innocent man on my hands!" You would have no conscientious scruples against retaining any valu­ able plunder recovered from a thief, providing you did not know the owner? " "Not at all. But why all these queries?" the young man rather im­ patiently asked. "If you are not sure of me, why do you approach me on a subject of such vital importance?" I am getting at it," the detective replied calmly. He arose from his seat, making sure that no one was listening at the door, then ha leaned over the table and looked his com­ panion in the eyet I have a scheme to rob a colony of thieves of over a million dollars in gold!" he finally sal<k - tog," insinuated the detective, "and you will end in a different manned than you expect." **Oh! I don't care what becomes of ne!" said the young, man, moodily toying with the empty beer glass on the table before him. "Life, then, has no attraction for you?" "Not much!" answered Lang. "What would make life of interest to you?" asked the detective, as if in­ terested in the answer.' "To be able to lift up my head; to become respectable--wealthy," said the young man, fiercely. "Pardon me, Lang," said the de­ tective, quite earnestly, "if I seem to be reading you a lecture. But do you Imagine that you are going ahead in the right direction--to attain ail these --when you begin by throwing away what little respect and manhood you may have had left? You, and every­ one ewe, owe the world your best efforts. You are really a criminal, as much to be despised as a thief, when you sink to a low level!" "Fate!" sadly replied the yonth, taking the rebuke in good part, vainly striving to frame an excuse. "The best years of my life were taken away from me. I have no ambition to be­ gin over again. I have struggled to combat fate, but I am no better off low than I have ever been." "Fate, indeed," echoed Denver, con­ temptuously. "One would think, to fcear you 'talk that you were an old man looking back upon a life of fleet­ ing opportunities! Instead of striving and overcoming opposition, you make' your condition worse. Your dreams of wealth and honor, are they dead •owr • f-*-- "No! If I didn't dream, all hope would indeed be gone! I would put •B end to my existence now if I did •ot hope." "How, do you expect to realise this tope--to become rich, if you ,don't loll;, respectable, If you do not re­ spect yourself?" "I aon't. I have toiled, striven hard to please--but to no avail. Who wants ate in their employ? What kind of so­ ciety is open to me? Answer me that. It is for this that I am dis- souraged." "A hopeless case," said the detect­ ive shaking his head. "Yon brood ever a mere fancy--yet you say you Still hope! How many more days of dissipation do you think you can put tn on the money you now have?" "This Is my last night," sadly re­ plied the young man, as he gazed at a few stray coins brought to light from Us trousers' pocket. "Then what are you going to do?" "Haven't the least idea * In the world," "Are you open to a business propo­ rtion?" "I most certainly am." The detective arose. "Now that we kave a foundation to work on, I think that I can interest you. Let us retire to a private room where we will not lo disturbed." "Very well." Jim Denver was a noted New York ICvtective. Recently, while engaged in fronting down a noted forger, he had teen' brought to Chicago where the CHAPTER ||. "Where did you ^et your ideal?" "From a dying criminal, who con­ fessed to having a knowledge of such a place, though he could not tell me where it was located. It was de­ scribed as a barricaded town. For a certain sum of money prisoners or ac­ cused persons are assisted to escape from custody, and taken to this place to live. -The sum demanded as an admission fee Is so large that none but criminals of renown and wealth become 'colonists,' and as they can hardly have use for money in a place undoubtedly supported by co-operative effort, I estimate that they must have accumulated about this sum of money. Even if this is. not SQ, a vast fortune could be made by capturing or killing ten or twenty of those rascals for whom extra large rewards are offered, Tascott, for instance, and the ab­ ductor of young Cudahy, there's a hundred thousand dollars right there for some brave man to pick up. I want you to help me discover this place." "These 'colonists' must have a pow­ erful clique on the outside--agents in every city of importance in the Unit­ ed States," said Lang, "to recruit the colony in the way described by you." (To be continued.) SOME lt>EAS ABOUT WOMEN. By One Who Imagines He Knows the Softer Sex. The woman who knows Gre6k will still spend an hour and a half in dressing her hair for a party. I calcu­ late that if women Nvore their irair short a million unemployed hours woulil be thrown daily upon the world. The young couple with the grains of rice still upon them start blithely across the marriage links.' Much de­ pends on the way they negotiate their first disillusion--or bunker! iPassion wins maids and persevere ance widows. The rejected lover should never lope hope. In addressing the lady his tone should be soft, mellifluous--a south wind rustling over orange trees. Orange trees--not.cypresses! The man who sums women up in a sentence is the man whom women can fool with a phrase. It is a woman's most delightful quality that she is not interested in politics.--From "Mollentrave," popular London play. „ A Precocious Sportsman. "The Americans are great Sports­ men." said Sir Thomas Dewar, in re­ counting his impressions of America. "From their ? earliest years they take a consuming interest In all sorts of contests and races. "I remember one cold afternoon in New York seeing a poor little, ragged lad, with his nose glued against the window of a toy shop. I stopped be­ side him and looked down. But he paid no heed to me. His clear young eyes were intent on the window's bright and inviting contents. "Without a word I slipped a penny into his cold little hand. He looked at the penny, and then he looked at me. " 'Well, if this ain't luck,' he said. 'I've been wishin' for a cent, and here's one dropped right in me fist.' " 'What did you want the cent for, my lad?' said I. "The urchin answered: ' "'I wanted to get a night eatiy see wot's won. I've got a dollar oA Swallow in the third race." Ralph Waldo Emerson's Stove. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a man pt rare integrity, and very particular about small things. One day a new cooking stove had been provided for his house, and, although the stove came very highly recommended, it proved thoroughly unsatisfactory and most provoking, as it did everything but what it was expected to do. After a while the family were In despair, and some one suggested sending it to auction. "What!" exclaimed Emerson, "trans­ fer our own perplexity to another pair of shoulders? No, never! Unless the stove is labeled 'imperfect."' And so, "imperfect" it was labeled and sold at a great discount. 4: •* * The Theory of the Convict Country. "A colony of thieves?" questioned Lang. "Yes! A colony of thlevea!" said the detective. "No doubt you have often wondered where all of our rich defaulters and criminals go to in order to keep from falling into the hands of the law?" "It is commonly supposed that they take up their residence in Canada or other foreign countries." "I have every reason to believe that there exists a colony composed of 'escaped' or 'wanted' criminals--not in Canada, but right here in this freo and, enlightened republic! More than Familiar With the Disease. Dr. William Osier of Johns Hop­ kins and Oxford, tells this story: An old darky quack, well known in a certain section of the south, was pass­ ing the house of a planter, whose wife was reported to be dangerously ill. Stopping at the gate he called to one of the hands: "I say, Rastus, how's the missus?" "Well," replied Rastus, "the doctah done say dis mawnin' dat she conva­ lescent." "Humph! Dat ain't nothln', chile," said the old quack, with an air of superior wisdom. "Why, I've done cured convalescence in twenty-foah hours!" " • s Uncertainty of Liff., "Young man," said the clerical look­ ing passenger, addressing the beard­ less individual across the aisle, "do you ever consider when you lie down at night that you may never see the sun rise again." "No," replied the party at whom the query had been fired, "I can't say that I do; but every morning when I wake up I realize that I may not live to see another sunset." "You do?" queried the surprised a 1. p. "I do," answered the young man "You see. I'm a baseball umpire/W- Cipcinnatl Enquirer. MARKETING POTATO CROPS. In line with the classic case of the oyster shippers, cited by President" Hadley of Yale University in his book on Railroad Transportation, Is the case of the Aroostook potato growers brought by President Tuttle of the Boston and Maine Railroad before the fie^te Cyjnmittee on Interstate Com­ merce. Nothing could better show. _ how a railroad works for the interest ] of the localities which it serves. 1 A main dependence of the "farmers of the Aroostook region is the potato crop, aggregating annually eight to ten million bushels, which find a mar­ ket largely in Boston and the adjacent thickly settled regions of New %Eng land. The competition of cheap water transportation from Maine to all points along the New England coast keeps railroad freight rates on these pota­ toes always at a very low level. Potatoes are also a considerable out put of the truck farms of Michigan, their normal market being obtained in and through Detroit and Chicago and other communities of that region. Not many years ago favoring sun and rains brought a tremendous yield of potatoes from the Michigan fields. At normal rates' and prices there would have been a glut of the custom­ ary markets and the potatoes would have rotted oh! the farms. To help the pota.to growers the railroads from Michigan made unprecedentedly low rates on potatoes to every reachable market, even carrying them in large quantities to a place so remote as Bos­ ton. The Aroostook growers had to reduce the price on their potatoes and even then could not dispose of them unless the Boston and Maine Railroad reduced its already low rate, which it did. By means of these low rates, making possible low prices, the potato, crops of both Michigan and Maine were finally marketed. Everybody eats potatoes, and that year every­ body had all the potatoes he wanted. While the Michigan railroads made rates that would have been ruinous to the railroads, had they been applied to the movement of all potatoes at all times, to all* places, they helped their patrons to find markets then. The Boston and Maine Railroad suffered a decrease In Its revenue from potatoes, but it enabled the Aroostook farmers to market their crop and "thereby to obtain money which they spent for the varied supplies which the railroads brought to them. If the making of rates were subject to governmental adjustment such radical and prompt action could never have been taken, because it is well established that if a rate be once reduced by a railroad company it cannot be restored through the red tape of governmental proce­ dure. If the Michigan railroads and the Boston and Maine Railroad had been subjected to governmental limi­ tation they would have felt obliged to keep up their rates as do the railroads of France and England and Germany under governmental limitation and let the potatoes rot.--Exchange. • f . MIA 0 YEARS FOLLOWS MALARIA CONTRACTED H SPA NISH-A MF.Rin A>f WAR The White River Division of the Iron Mountain Route between New­ port, Arkansas and Carthage, Mo., is rapidly approaching completion, and reports of representatives of the Gen­ eral Passenger Deartment, who recent­ ly made complete trip over the line, indicates that through trains will be running inside of sixty days. "While several thousand tourists have already made the trip from each end of the completed line, and we have hauled during the month of Jtine over forty fishing parties from Car­ thage, who desired to make the five- day float from Galena to Branson, re­ turning on train in fifty minutes, for the complete daylight run over the new line," said Mr. H. C. Townsend, General Passenger Agent, "there will be a tourist travel unprecedented over any line in this part of the country. The fishing proposition is becoming so well-known that a Aimber of club­ houses on the James River, between Galena and Branson, are now com­ pleted and are taxed to their capacity. 'The romantic features of the new line are naturally the ones to attract the most general attention, but the agricultural and mineral possibilities of this new region are remarkable. "The road itself is a marvel of en­ gineering and the eighty-five pound rail with rock ballast promises the highest degree of speed and safety." Washington's Outlook Governor Mead of Washington says, in the Sunset Magazine for July, that Washington has nearly doubled in population In five years; that the peo­ ple of his state have an abiding faith in its resources and believe when they are exploited and the charms of climate and location become known, that the Pacific northwest will assume a commanding and perhaps a fore­ most position among the favored re­ gions of the world. The most advan­ tageous shipping point from the north­ west shore of the Pacific is Puget sound. Add to this the fact that with­ in the borders of the state of Wash­ ington are the timber, fishing, mineral, coal, pastoral, agricultural and horti­ cultural resources of an empire and a population drawn from the sturdi­ est and most progressive stock of this and other nations, Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.--one full pound--while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in %-pound pack­ ages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chem­ icals. If your grocer tries to sell you a 12-oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package In large let­ ters and figures "16 ozs." Demand De­ fiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron stick­ ing. Defiance never sticks. V « Homelike. "Why does Dr. Grumpse always buy openwork socks-" "He says that having been a bachel­ or for forty-five years the kind with holes in are the onljr ones in which hf feels natural." 1 -r I am sura Plso's Cure for Consumption my life three years ago.--Mas. THOS. ROBBIHS Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17,1000. Few boegts will. bring tears to • .man's eyes like a volume of smoke. and Mauve. Yellow and mauve is a combination we shall see Introduced into the smart­ est fashions this season, both in mil­ linery and dresses, and yellow straw hats with staded mauve and amethyst plumes are shown by the first houses. We have also mauve tinted roses, car­ nations, and other flowers adorning minute hats of banana-colored straw, and lovely gowns of tussore and yel­ low taffetas are on view on which the embroideries are carried out in deli cate shades of mauve, from th£ palest to the deepest tints. Embroidered tus­ sores will make not'a few of the most attractive summer frocks, and one of Egyptian make embroidered in blue was most effective, the embroidery skirting the hem to a depth of twelve inches, and also decorating the front panel as well as the whole of that portion of the material which formed the bodice and short Sleeves, the lat­ ter completed with frills of real old lace. . ' Light 8ilk House Dresses. Pretty house dresses are made from light-colored silks; one in white is made without a lining and is intended for summer dances or house wear. It is short-skirted on this account and is set on a flat yoke which is shallow but insures smoothness over the hips. From this point it is laid in medium width tucks, which are stitched part of the way to the knee and are then allowed to flare. These tucks are set in groups of threes and fives. The bodice is cut low and has a bertha of lace; the front Is laid in small tucks set in clusters and the back is stitched to a stout belt; the front is loose and is to be fastened in by this belt after the matter of a wash shirt­ waist. New Shades in Green. The greens are prbminent, both in millinery and fropks, and many new shades are shown, differing only enough from the old tones in some in­ stances to justify - the statement that they are new. All of the bronze-green tones from dark to light, the almond and willow greens, a line of elder green, a fresh spring-like tint, appro­ priately called printania, a warm, glowing,yellow moss green which is at times charming in its millinery uses or sparingly used in mere relieving touches upon a white or neutral frock --all these are fashionable, and there is a vivid Russian green, successful in Paris, though not yet taken up exten­ sively here. , The Ever Popular Wrap. A woman may have wraps in any length and in almost any material. They may be loose and full or semi- tight-fltting; they may be heavy or diaphanous; they may be black or white or may run the gamut of the popular colors, but she must have a wrap of some sort. One design is ex­ ceedingly unique and sure to please the woman who does not care for the elaborate styles. It has a shawl effect, scalloped all-around with very point­ ed fronts. The flat rolling collar and wide sleeves are also scalloped. Black taffeta was used in its construction and? the scallops on collar are beauti­ fully embroidered in black silk. New and Pretty Styles. The sacque coat with the sacque sleeves outlined with braid and bear­ ing a small square collar at the neck of crochet lace, is a pretty style which may be commended for comfort as well as elegance. But among the new­ est of the simple costumes is one in a narrow black and white stripe, look­ ing like a cashmere edition of our old friend galatea. This trimmed with strappings and bearing a turned-over collar and small waistcoat of white pique above a shirt of lace, must be quoted as eminently desirable. Indication of Fichu. A rose pink peau de reine is made with insets of lace and a deep bertha of soft lace which crosses in front after circling the shoulders and ends in long tabs like the old-fashioned fichu. On some of the summer gowns in wash materials one sees a revival of this same fichu. It is made of soft mull, sometimes lace-edged, oftener plain. The gown is cut away at the throat, leaving a V-shaped opening, and the fichu is brought down the front of the bodice in soft folds which ate caught just below 'the btilt, the ends hanging free. Crepe de Chine Waist. Blouse of white crepe de chine fathered and draped and passing un- % der a plain plastron which is trimmed with a band of embroidery In colors. A band of this embroidery, passing through slits cut in the material trims the sleeves, which are also gathered and draped and finished with turn­ over cuffs of the crepe de chine, trimmed with the embroidery. The life tie chemisette is of lace. shallow, so that with the very sheer fabric there is an airiness and light­ ness about t!ie voluminous skirt which 4s very effective. The bodice is of the sheerest mull, slightly ereamy in tinge and incrusted heavily with narrow Valenciennes lace, which is yellowed a trifle in order to give softness. The little coffee jacket is laid in shallow plaits over a foundation of violet silk and is jaunty In cut. The sleeves are three-quarter and are quite £ull, with an inset of mull, lace trimmed, giving the voile sleeves the effect of being slashed and showing the white bodicc .sleeve through the opening. Matinee of Batiste. Matinee of soft wool, or" batiste, made with a group of plaits In the middle of the front and back. The large shoulder collar is trimmed with bands of lace insertion and bordered with a ruffle of the same. The sleeves are full at the top. tucked on the inside at the elbow, then fitted in below and trimmed at the wrists with the insertion and ruffles For the Hot Day*. One very fetching gown fashioned fropn a beautiful shade of light violet chiffon voile has a sunburst skirt, tight fitting about the hips and very full about the hem. The plaltlngs are Close-Fittlng Bolero. The close-fitting bolero is a favorite idea for the afternoon visiting frock and is exceedingly well-liked for the dressiest of gowns worn at afternoon functions or for dinner and theater wear. A gown of pale gray taffeta chiffon is prettily built on these lines, and is particularly stylish. Puffings of silk make the collar, shoulder pieces and finish the bottom of jack et, which is also edged with a narrow ruffle of the material. The elbow* sleeves are similarly treated and fin is'hed with three tiny ruffles of white lace. Beautiful cut steel buttons dec orate the front. Five narrow ruffles of taffeta trim the bottom of skirt and small plaits .take away the full­ ness over hip. The hat accompanying this costume is gray Neapolitan, trim­ med with black velvet ribbon and black tips. v Outing Costumes. i Linen and pique are utilized for out­ ing costumes, not only of the shirt waist frock type, but also for coat and skirt costumes, cape and skirt cos­ tumes and many styles of frocks not intended for any special sport, but merely for attractive and comfortable outdoor wear. Two models shown here are. desirable ones for such service as this, provided one does not want to cling to absolute simplicity and se­ verity. The one of white fine linen worked all over with single eyelets and bor­ dered by heavy linen embroidery ap­ plied was simple in line, though ele­ gant in detail, and the little cape cos­ tume of ecru linen, trimmed in narow bands of ecru linen embroidered In red dots, was particularly chic, the a? justment of its red scarf being espe­ cially clever. Green Chiffon and Velvet. The draped bodice with girdle ot closely fitted waist curves and bust line higher than that of last season is triumphant for the dressy frock and makers are showing decided partiality for fullness laid in fine plaits at the shoulder. A pretty gown is modeled on these lines, showing the draped effect from side to side across front. The material is green chiffon voile and velvet, a shade darker, is used for the flat collar. Shield and stock are formed of white chiffon cloth and lace; a jabot of the latter fastens at bust line and gold buttons trim. The skirt is full and plain with fine vertical tucks over the hips. Colors of the Moment. The salmon or pompadour pinks, peach pink, melon pink, all the shades of rose, including dried rose leaf and old rose tones, the magenta pinks and reds, the old gold, apricot and banana yellows, with the orange tones shaded from mandarin to brown, t&e bluett blues and a very popular medium shade of blue called saxe, the beige and straw colorings, dove grays--there one has a list of the colorings most exploited this season, but one sees shades not on this Ust. Summa Silk. There is a novel weave In the popu­ lar raw silks that is known as summa silk, a silk that is light as air, and yet so firm of weave and texture that the fashionables are wearing the smartest of street frocks, shirt-waist suits, little afternoon toilets with a novel viste for the third piece of the costume, all of this lustrous silk; and even for the very smartest wraps that one uses in the evenings, this same summa silk Is quite the thing of the moment. Water Color Hat Trlmmlnj, When it is desired to exactly match in floral hat garniture some peculiar shade of blue in gown or ornament hand painting in water colors Is re­ sorted to. The painting is a work of art and one feminine, member of the local a*t colony has been particularly successful In filling orders of this kind. White velvet flowers are utilised as a foundation, the tinting being ex­ cellently done. X>r. Williams' Pink Pills, but * Cured in Four Moi he did not know that i a remedy for ataxia, Mr. Ariel endured four years of weakness, pain and the misery of thinking his case incurable. "At the outbreak of the Spanish- American war," he says, "I went with Company B, Eighth Regiment, M.f.M., into camp at Cliickauianga, and while there my system became thoroughly poisoned with malaria. When I was mustered out, I carried that disease home with me. After a while locomotor ataxia appeared." " How did the ataxia begin?" " I first noticed a pain iu my and knee joints. This was followed by a numb feeling in my legs. At times I had to drag myself around; my legs would shake or become perfectly I had constant trouble in getting about in the dark. I kept a light burning in my room at night as I could not balance myself in the darkness. Eveu with the aid of a light I wobbled, and would reach out and catch hold of chairs to prevent myself from falling?" " How long were you a sufferer ?" * " Four years in alL During the tail three years I was confined to bed, some­ times for a week, again, for three or four weeks at a time. When I was lying down the pain in my back was fre­ quently so severe that I had to be helped up and put in a chair to get a little re­ lief. I had considerable pain in my bowels and no control over my kidneys. The worst of all was that the doctor could give me no hope of recovery." "How were you cured?" "I read that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills had cured locomotor ataxia and one or two friends spoke to me about them. In the fall of 19031 began to take them for myself aud I had not used more than one box before I found tii^t the pains in my knees and ankles were greatly relieved. Four mouths after- Ward I became a perfectly well man, and I am today enjoying the best of health." Mr. Edward H. Ariel lives at No. 43 Powow street, Amesbury, Mass. Every sufferer from locomotor ataxia should try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills without delay# Any druggist can supply them. No Mfws from Port Arthur. Port Arthur seems to be more tight­ ly closed now than it was when Gen. Stoessel atfas in command there. It is only at rare intervals that a line of Xiews leaks out, and then the news la not of much importance. The world does not know what Japan is doing In the matter of rebuilding the city and rehabilitating the fortifications. It seems certain that the retention of Port Arthur will be one of Japan's de­ mands in the peaca negotiations, and in anticipation of permanent occu­ pancy is no doubt making the position one of the strongest. In the world.-- Savannah, Ga., News. Foes of the Jury System. The jury system finds its deepest unpopularity among citizens who ape summoned to sit on Juries. It is eoc- asperating to be called away from an occupation by which you are making money to listen to the troubles of two men who may be disputing over V drove of steers. Moreover, one or the * other may be litigous and bringing the matter into court out of spite. Such things happen. That twelve men may be drawn into court because people, they never heard of can't settle their, differences without going to law does not stir the admiration of the twelve for our judicial system. There is too much lawing, and those who find it profitable are generally the lawyers.--' St Louis Globe-Democrat. Inopportune Regrets. James Sauvage, the singer and music teacher, was wakened the other night at 12 o'clock by a messenger boy with a telegram. Coming at such an hour, it might mean something alarm­ ing, and Mrs. Sauvage felt certain that p. serious accident must have happened to her son. However, the message proved to be only a request for advice from one of Mr. Sauvage's pupils, who had miscalculated the time in sending. She was much an­ noyed, and, having need of more ex­ plicit advice, the following day she wrote a special delivery letter in which she expressed her regret. It was 1:30 at night when the letter was delivered, and this time Mrs. Sau­ vage, more excited than before, was certain that some terrible calamity had' occurred, and waited in agony while Mr. Sauvage tore off the en­ velope. Oh, it Is nothing," he said caso* ally as he read, "only Miss Blank writing to apologize for calling us up at 12 o'clock last night."--New York Times. *- WANTED TO SLEEP Curleue That a Tired Preacher Should Have Such Desire. A minister speaks of the curious ef­ fect of Grape Nuts food on him and how it has relieved him. You will doubtless understand how the suffering with indigestion with which I used to be troubled made my work an almost unendurable burde% and why It was that after my Sabbath duties had been performed, sleep waft stranger to my pillow till nearly daj£ light. "I had to he very careful as to what ate, and even with all my care I e*> perienced poignant physical distress after meals, and my food never sati#> fied me. Six months have elapsed since I began to use Grape-Nutsvfood, and the benefits I have derived from it aril very definite. I no longer suffer froqi indigestion, and I began to improv^ from the (Lime Grape-Nuts appeared o|t our table. I find that by eating a dis% of it after my Sabbath work is donj| (and I always do so now) my nerves are quieted and rest and refreshings sleep are ensured me. I feel that t could not possibly do without Grape» Nuts food, now that I know its value. It is Invariably on our table--we feefr- that we need it to complete the meal --and our children will eat Grape* Nuts when they cannot be persuade# : to touch anything else." Name give* by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Read the famous little book, »A Willlfllk-" in. fijur .v. , • . rrtl