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sr/wz/£tzzzp/m?. G¥MBt£9ZJ&& &• S fi££&SftCa?T <&XBar~-' CZW&&ZJ89Z i<r &WJWZ> { C&T&&V731 &*•% CHAPTER III.--Continued. "*l don't see what difference either •rmkes in their chance of escaping," •aid Lord Ralles. While he was speaking, I ticked off the news of our being held up, and : asked the agent if there had been any men about Sanders, or If he had seen •'0 any one board the train there. His answer was positive that no one could have done so, and that settled it as to t Sanders. I asked the same questions of Allantown and Wingate, which were the only places we had stopped at after leaving Coolidge, getting the same answers. That eight men could 5;' have remained concealed on any of the platforms from that point was im­ possible, and I began to suspect magic. Then I called Coolidge, and told of the holding up, after which I telegraphed the agent at Navajo Springs to notify • the commander at Fort Defiance, for f .1 suspected the road agents would make for the Navajo reservation. Finally I called Flagstaff as I had Coolidge, directed that the authorities U be notified of the facts, and ordered v an extra to bring out the sheriff and ^ posse. "I don't think," said Miss Cullen, 1 "that I am a bit more curious than ,*noat people, but it has nearly made - «ne frantic tohave yoa t'ck away on 'that little machine and hear it tick back, and not understand a word." After that I had to tell her what I bad said and learned. "How clever of you to think of counting the tickets and finding out where people got on and off! I never should have thought of either," she •aid. "It hasn't helped me much," I laugh­ ed, rather grimly, "except to elimi­ nate every possible clue." •"They probably did steal on at one 'Of the stops," suggested a passenger. I shook my head. "There isn't a •tick of timber nor a place of conceal­ ment on these alkali plains," I replied , **and it was bright moonlight till an k hour ago. It would be hard enough (or one man to 'get within a mile of : the station without being seen, and It would be impossible for seven or «ight." "How do you know the number?" asked a passenger. ' "I don't," I said. "That's the num- • t»er the crew think there were; but I myself don't believe it." "Why don't you believe the men?" •eked Miss Cullen. "First, because there is always a / tendency to magnify and next, be­ cause the road agents ran away BO quickly. "I counted at least seven," asserted r Lord Ralles. -Well, Lord Ralles," I sail,' 'I don't F want to dispute your eyesight; but if they Ijad been that strong they would ^®e*er have bolted, and if you want to t; lay a bottle of wine, I'll wager that when I catch those chaps we'll find v?>there weren't more than three or four them." • "Done!" he snapped. - •Leaving the group, I west forward to get the report of the mail agent. iHe had put the things to right, and told me that, though the mail had been pretty badly mixed up, only one pouch at worst had been rifled. This --the one for registered mail--had "been cut open, but, as if to increase • the mystery, the letters had been scat­ tered, unopened, about the car, only r three out of the whole being- missing, and those very probably had fallen Into the pigeon-holes and would be .found on a more careful search. I 1 confess I breathed easier to think that the road agents had got away "with nothing, and was so pleased that *t went back to the wire to send the s»ews of it, that the fact might be in- <eladed in the press dispatches. The moon had set, and it was so dark that X had some difficulty in finding the / pole. When I found It, Miss Cullen was still standing there. What was more, a man was close beside her, I didn't want to please myself, but to do only what I thought she would wish, and so restrained myself. Before I had time "to finish an apol­ ogy to Miss Cullen the fellow was up on his feet, and came at me with an exclamation of anger. In my sur­ prise at recognizing the voice as that of Lord Ralles, I almost neglected to take care of myself; but though he was quick with his fists, I caught him by the wrists as he closed, and he had no chance after that against a fellow of my weight. "Oh, don't quarrel!" cried Miss Cullen. - • •, ^ Holding him, I said, "Lord Ralles, I overheard what Miss Culien was say­ ing, and, supposing some man was in­ sulting her, I acted as I did." Then I let go of him, and, turning, T continued, "I am very sorry, Miss Cullen, if I did anything the circumstances did not warrant," while cursing myself for my precipitancy and for not thinking that Miss Cullen would never have been caught in such a plight with a man unless she had been half willing; sag "Yes," I confessed, "I was frightened into bravery." for a girl does not merely threaten to call for help if she really wants aid. Lord Ralles wasnt much mollified by my explanation. "You're too much in a hurry, ray man," he growled, sneaking to me as if I were a savant. "Be a bit more careful in the future." I think I should have retorted--tor his manner was enough - to make a saint mad--if Miss Cullen hadn't spoken. "You tried to help me, Mr. Gordon, and I am deeply, :grateful for that," she said. • The - words look simple enough set down here. But the tone in which she said them, and the ex­ tended hand and the grateful little squeeze she gave my fingers, all seem­ ed to express so jpuch that I was more puzzled over them than I was over the robbery. • ! ? ' CHAPTER IV. Want staggering back as if struck by t, a^ cow-catcher. iMd as I came up I heard her say, in­ dignantly-- "I will not allow It It Is unfair to (take such advantage of me. Take proar arm away, or I shall call for (help." J That was enough fpr me. One step (carried my hundred and sixty pounds Tver the Intervening ground, and, tsing the momentum of the stride to ielp, i pUt the flat of my hand against lie shoulder of the man and gave him shove. There are three or four Har- rard men who can tell what that |means, and they were braced for it, *rhleh this fellow wasn't. He went ptaggering back as if struck by a cow- jcatcher, and lay down on the ground k good fifteen feet away. His having |Us arm around Miss Cullen's waist wnateadied her so that she would have fallen too, if I hadn't put my (hand against her shoulder. I longed £• put It about her, but by this time "The shells are as hollo v ai feel," laughed Miss Cullen. "Your suggestion reminds me that I am desperately hungry," I said. "Sup­ pose we go back and end^the famine.1' - Most of the passengers had long Sit ce returned to their seats or berths and Mr. Cullen's party had apparently done the same, for 218 showed no signs of life. One of my darkies was awake and he broiled a steak and made us some coffee in no time, and just as they were ready Albert Cul­ len appeared, and so we made a very jolly little breakfast. He told me at length the part he and the Britishers had borne and only made me marvel the more that any one of them was alive, for apparently they had jumped off the car without the slightest pre­ caution, and had stood grouped to­ gether, even after they had called at­ tention to themselves by Lord Ralles* shots. Cullen had to confess that he neard the whistle of the four bullets unpleasantly close. "You have a right to be proud, sir. Cullen," I said, "You fellows did a tremendously plucky thing, -and, thanks to you, we didn't lose any­ thing."' . "But you went to^help, too, Mr. Gor­ don," added Miss Cullen. That made me color up, and after a moment's hesitation, I said: "I'm not going to sail under false colors, Miss Cullen. When I went for­ ward I didn't think I could do any­ thing. I supposed whoever had pitch­ ed into the robbers was dead, and I ftxrected to be the same Inside of ten minutes." "Then why did you risk your life?" she asked, "if you thought it was use­ less?" I laughed, and, though ashamed to U-Jl it, replied: "I didn't want you to think that the Britishers had more pluck than I had." She took my confession better than I hoped she would, laughing at me, and then said, "Well, that was cour­ ageous, after all." "Yes," I confessed, "I was frighten­ ed into bravery." (To be continued.) «SSE0*WlTH WESTERN CANADA, Pegged Boots Worn in Canada. There art few, if any, pegged boots made in the factories of the United States, while fifty years ago the sew­ ing machine was yet uninvented and nearly all shoes save the hand-sq,wed were hobnailed or pegged. In Canada there are a few scatter­ ing factories producing pegged boots for men and boys. Adam Bertsch, a Rochester pattern manufacturer, re­ cently ran across one at St. John's, N. F. Mr. Bertsch was interested in the quaint manner in which the boots anC shoes are manufactured, the machin­ ery in use being long out of date as compared with the pfesent standard in the United Statep. There are no up-to-date methods, and one might easily imagine in step­ ping into this factory that the cycle of time had turned back forty or fifty years. ' 'The pegged boots are high cut, such as men wore generally before the war, and find a ready sale in Newfoundland and in .Canada.--Shoe Retailer. i t - :>!%. ,**u\ . Some Rather Queer Road Agents. "You had better come back to the car, Miss Cullen," s-emarked Lord Ralles, after a pause. But she declined to do so, saying she wanted to know what I was going to telegraph; and he left us, for which I wasn't sorry. I told her of the good news I had to-send, and she wanted to know if now we would try to catch the road agents. I set her .mind at rest on that score. "I think they'll give us very little trouble to bag," I added, "for they are so green that it's almost pitiful." "In not cutting the wires?" she. asked. "In everything," I replied. "But the worst botch Is their waiting till we had just passed the Arizona line. If they had held us up an hour earlier it would only have been atate'a prison." <• "And what will it be now?" "Hanging." "What?" cried Miss Cullen. "In New Mexico train robbing is not capital, but In Arizona it Is," I told her. "And if you catch them they'll be hung?" she asked. "Yes." "That sems very hard." The first signs of dawn were begin­ ning to show by this time, and as the sky brightened I told Miss Cullen that I was going to look for the trail of the fugitives. She .said she would walk with me If not in the way, and my assurance was very positive on that roint And here I want to remark that it's saying a good deal If a girl €ftn be up all night in such excite­ ment and still look fresh and pretty, and that she did. I ordered the crew to look about, and then began a big circle around the train. Finding nothing, I swung a bigger one. That being equally un­ availing, I did a larger third. Not a trace of foot or hoof within a half- mile of the cars! 1 had heard of blankets laid down to conceal a trail, of swathed feet, even of leathern horse-boots with cattle hoofs on the bottom, but none of these.could have been used for such a distance, let alone the entire absence of any signs of a place where the horses had been hobbled. Returning to the train, the report of the men was the same. "We've ghost road agents to deal with. Miss Cullen," I laughed. "They come from nowhere, bullets touch them not, their lead hurts nobody, they take nothing, and they disappear without touching the ground." "How curious it is!" she exclaimed "One would almost suppose It a dream." "Hold on, " I said, "We have some­ thing tangible, for if they disappeared th<»v left their shells behind them." And I pointed to. some cartridge shells that lay on the ground beside the mall car. "My theory of aerial bullets won't do." No Delayed Dinners for Her. A Massachusetts woman who was living in Washington had occasioft to employ a cook. From among the many applicants she selected a good-natured looking colored woman. The employer, while entertaining callers, detected the odor of cooking. After the callers left she thought she would look into the kitchen and see how the new cook was getting on. Much to her amazement she found dinner all cooked and ready to be served. "Why. Aunt Liza," she exclaimed,' "what does this mean? You know our dinner hour is 6 o'clock, and here it ir only 4." Smoothing her apron and looking at the mistress with the serenest smile, she replied: "Yes, honey, but don'I you know gentlemans gets powerful mad sometimes when der meals ain't ready on time." How She Helped Him to Propose. After a woman is happily married she is usually willing to admit that she had a good deal to do with the "proposing." A pretty young Atchison married woman confesses that she managed her only proposal In this way: One evening the man she after­ ward married attempted to kiss her. She drew back, saying: "The only man who can ever kiss me is the man I expect to marry." The young man laughed and said: "Well, Miss Alice, is that a hint?" The girl replied: "Well, that is the only condition under which you can kiss me." The man kissed her, and she began the next day working on her trous­ seau.--Atchison Globe. Exception. The wandering minstrel stepped off the accommodation and accosted the oldest inhabitant, who was sitting on a nail keg chewing a piece of sassafras bark. "Guess every one is acquainted in this town,"" ventured the minstrel man. "Reckon .they be," drawled the old man, "seeing that there ain't sc many of us." * "And gossips! I dare say they are plentiful?" » "Everybody fa, town la a gossip but old Dan." "Ah, I admire Dan. I bet he is con­ scientious. Now, isn't that why he doesn't gossip?" "NO, stranger; Dan don't gossip be­ cause he Is dead. Been dead a month," Says Our Prairies Will Bi Filled Up In Ten Years. L, A. Stock well of Indianapolis, a United States land man who made an extensive tour of Inspection in the west, wrote the following article, un­ der date of Jan. 8, for an Indiana pub­ lication: "States." In this letter I propose to show by extracts from my note book that thousands who have come up here from the "States" have suc­ ceeded far beyond their most san­ guine expectations. Mr. N. E. Beaumunk of Brazil, In­ diana, was earning $100.00 per month with a coal company. At About the age of 40 he had saved about $3,000. Four years ago he landed near Han- ley, Sask. He now owns 480 acres of land. Last fall /1905) he threshed 4,700 bushels of wheat and 8,1430 bush­ els of oats. His wheat alone brought him over $4,000, which would have paid for the acres that it grew on. He is to-day worth $15,000. / i. -< This Is Making M^ney.Faat,\ u In Feb. 1902, J. G. Smith & were weavers in a big cotton mill in Lancashire, England; Coming here they arrived in Wapella, Sask., with only $750.00 between them. They were so "green" and inexperienced that all they could earn the first sum­ mer was $6.00 per month, and the first winter they had to work for their board. The next year, 1903, they took homesteads, and by working for neigh- tors, they got a few acres broken out, upon which the next year they raised a few hundred bushels of wheat and oats. They also bought a team and broke out about sixty acres more. In 1905 they threshed 1700 bushels of wheat from It, and 1300 bushels of oats. Their success being then as­ sured they borrowed some money, built a good house, barn and Imple­ ment shed, and bought a cream sepa­ rator, etc. They now have a dozen cows, some full-blooded pigs and chickens, good teams and implements to match, and are on the high road to prosperity. Here are three cases selected from my note book from among a score of others. One a mine boss, one a farmer, and one a factory operator. With each of them I took tea and listened to their story. "I hoped to better my condition." said one. "I thoight in time I might make a home," said another. "I had high expectations," said the other, and all said that "I never dreamed it possible to succeed as I have." Like Arabian Nights. Everywhere, on the trains, at the hotels apd in the family I have been told successes that reminded me more of the stories in the Arabian Nights than of this matter-of-fact workaday world. Yields of wheat from, 35 to 53 bushels per acre, and of oats of from 60 to 100 bushels, are numerous in every locality and well authenti­ cated. At Moose Jaw, Lethbridge, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Brandon, Hanley and many intermediate places I saw cattle and young horses fat as our grain-fed animals of the "States" that had never tasted grain, and whose cost to their owners was almost nothing. At Moosomin I saw a train load of 1,400 steers en route to England, that were shaky fat, raised as above stated. If the older genera­ tion of farmers In Indiana, who have spent their lives in a contest with logs and stumps as did their fathers before them, could see these broad prairies dotted with comfortable homes, large red barns, and straw piles Innumerable, and the thriving towns with their towering elevators jammed to the roof with "No. 1 hard," and then remember that four or five years ago these plains were tenantless but for the badger and coyote, they would marvel at the transformation. Then if they followe^ the crowds as they emerged from the trains and hurried to the land offices, standing in line until their respective turns to be waited on came, and saw with what rapidity these lands are being taken, they would certainly catch the "disease" and want some of it too. If these lands are beautiful in mid­ winter, with their long stretches of yellow stubble standing high above the snow, what must they be in sum­ mer time when covered with growing or ripening grains? Speaking of win­ ter reminds me that our Hoosier friends shrug their shoulders when they read in the Chicago and Minne­ apolis dallies of the temperature up here. For that very reason I am here this winter. The Canadian literature, with its pictures, half tones and sta­ tistics, gives a good idea of her re­ sources, but thirty or forty degrees below zero sounds dangerous to a Hoozler, who nearly freezes in a tem­ perature of five above, especially when accompanied Jby a wind, as it often is, but the fact Is, when it is very cold here ft is still and the air being dry the cold is not felt as it is in our lower latitudes, where there is more humidity in the atmosphere. .1 am 56 and I never saw a finer winter than the one I am spending up here. I arrived in Winnipeg Nov. 9, and have not had the bottoms of my overshoes wet since I entered Canada. Under a cloudless sky I have ridden in sleighs nearly a thousand miles, averaging a drive every other day. Stone masons have not lost a week's time so far this winter. Building of all kinds goes right ahead in every city and hamlet, as though winter were never heard of. Information concerning homestead lands In Western Canada can be had from any authorized Canadian Gov­ ernment Agent whose advertisement appears elsewhere in this paper. v - Honest 8upporf. "I thought," said the young man Who was having his first experience as a candidate for ofllce, "that you were going to give me honest sup­ port." "Yes," replied the editor of the Trumpet, "that's what we're trying to do. I want to see you elected." "Well, It's queer you haven't a line In this morning's paper about the speech J delivered last night." "Not at all, my boy, not at all. I was ther* myself and heard It. Aa I said befvr+v we want to help yoa In every w<# we can."--Chicago Tri buna. Relative War of France Strength fv and Germany economical Decoration. „ **DId you hear about the uniqti< In which old Titespuds decorated his new home?" asks our friend. We confess ignorance as well as a thirst for information. "Instead of spending money for plo- tures and bric-a-brac he wrote checks for the amount that each thing would cost him, stopped payment on the checks, and put them on the walla and mantelpieces." ^ r. - - J-*-*- ir a 11*' * > /' £} j ' " ' ' a : S U * ; • •>' t > 'A v (PXMMJDry JLATTZZSJOORT. mitt MX.*>TJZ.C£rEJBa/3 ' VBJITXXS V \;, > ^ ", *. v;' ^ j.V,5 rjLJUsrcx w . o j r o s j j n c x j i j u > f > ± . « 7 a o r i i r z i t s TELEPHONE THAT TELLS TALES. Will In Be Invaluable Acqolaition Detective Work. A tell tale telephone is the dicto­ graph, and the most remarkable of Its wonderful race. One can stand ten feet away and whisper a message, or when thirty feet distant speak in an ordinary tone of voice and the mes­ sage will be clearly and audibly trans­ mitted. Its construction is the invent­ or's bright particular secret. It can be easily used by an employer for dic­ tating to a shorthand writer, as the latter can take the dictation at any distance from the speaker without having to hold a receiver to the ear. It works both ways so that both peo­ ple can converse equally well. This explains the name dictograph. In de­ tective work it promises to prove an invaluable acquisition. When a third person is desired to hear an interview between two others it will no longer be necessary for the witness to hide behind the screens and in other con­ venient places. The dictograph can be hung behind a picture or under a desk, or even placed 'n a partly open drawer of the desk, and will transmit faithfully the entire conver­ sation to one or more witnesses la another room, or to a stenographer. Many Kinds of Liberals. It is evidently going to be some­ what difficult to keep posted on the intricacies of British politics, in view of the multitude of groups into- which parties are divided. There are no less than six differing groups of liber­ als, and there are three groups of con­ servatives, which are appropriately designated as the backs, the forwards and the halters. The backs are the uncompromising free trade unionists, a select group who have been shouting since the wreckage of the elections that theirs is the only life raft that will float. The forwards are the hun­ dred or more followers of Mr. Cham­ berlain, who base faith in their prin­ ciples and are determined to stand by them, even if they are forced to form a party of their own. The halters are the Balfour tacticians, who have not known their own minds on the tariff question and who are wabbling yet, notwithstanding Balfour's latest flop. --Boston Herald. Prince Kropotkin as He Is. Prince Kropotkin, the famous Rus­ sian exile, is one of the few who have ever succeeded in escaping from that grim stronghold the bastile of St. Pe­ tersburg, known as the Fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul. Personally the prince is a man of the simplest tastes and highest Ideals, and by all who know him is not less loved than he is respected. In a little cottage of the simplest kind in a town in the south of England he has lived for years the existence of a student, and no one un­ acquainted with the facts would ever dream that this thoughtful, gentle, courteous savant, with the thin, nerv­ ous hands and the scholar's stoop, was the dangerous firebrand and revolu­ tionary he Is supposed* to be in Russia. A Paris dealer, according to a spe­ cial cable dispatch, has purchased for $5,400 a Limoges enamel dish of the sixteenth century--worthy even to .jprre baked beans Largest American Farm. The largest field of corn In the United States, if not in the world, was that on the Adams farm, in Sac coun­ ty, near Odebolt. One hundred and five men working with 200 horses and thirty-seven corn cutters, have shuck­ ed corn to the estimated amount of 300,000 bushels. Mr. Adams, the own­ er of the farm, spends most of his time in Chicago, where he resides with his family, operating his large farm by expert foremen.--St. Paul Dispatch. ' • More Trouble for Humanity. New, York Is threatened with an epi­ demic of "hyperacustB." This, accord­ ing to late medical authorities, is an extraordinary acuteness of the sense of hearing. It may be symptomatic of hysteria, facial paralysis with loss of power In the stapedius muscle and hypnotls. Allied with hyperacusls is dysacusis, the causing of unpleasant sensations by ordinary sounds. The noise and bustle of city life are said to be responsible for the new-fangled JAPAN TO PAY DEBTS QUICKLY. Arrangements Made for Liquidation in Short Time. Some recent critics of Japan's finan­ cial administration will have to revise their comments and complaints. They were saying that the Tokio govern­ ment was making too small an ap­ propriation for the sinking fund, and was planning to let Its debts, and es­ pecially its Russian war debt, run too far into the indefinite future. It would seem pardonable in Japan considering her comparative lack of wealth, if she did decide to let the burden of indebt­ edness remain for gradual discharge through future years. But it seems now that such is not to be the case. The war debts, which amount to more than $900,000,000, are all to be paid off in thirty-three years, while the domestic Indebtedness, amounting to $87,500,000, is to be entirely discharg­ ed in thirty-six years. This program of Japan's must be regarded as un­ commonly ambitious and as marking something like a new era in national finance. That this debt-paying pro­ gram will be fulfilled is confidently to be expected. Japan has long had the habit of paying her debts, not merely on time, but often ahead of time.--New York Tribune. Theological Poaer. { ' * Congressman John Sharpe IflfttTlatiiS tells of the difficulties encountered by a darky preacher in Mississippi In en­ deavoring to "snatch a brand from the burning": in the shape of one Mose Baker, who steadfastly refused to at­ tend divine service. The preacher's arguments were met by a discouraging silence on the part of Mose. Finally the latter condescended to speak to the extent of asking a question. "Wot are we all heah for?" he growled morosely. "We Is heah to help odders, Moses," responded the old clergyman, a kindly smile illuminating his dusky features. "Ef dat's so," added Moses, with a maliciously triumphant "wot (s de odders heah for?" '•' Alfonso Born a King. There is a fact about King Alfonso well worth knowing. , Of all the kings who have ever lived, with the sole ex­ ception of Jean I of France, who lived but a few hours, he is the only one to be a king from the moment of his first breath--a veritable "born king." And since he is much spoken of these days, it is not amiss to know his name, which Is Hi£ Most Catholic Majesty Don Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, of Castile, of Leon, of Navarre, of Gibral­ tar, of the Western and Eastern Indies, of the Oceanic Continent, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, of Brabant and Milan, Count of Hapsburg, of Flan­ ders, of the Tyrol and Grand Master of thj Golden Fleece. . Made Good in Forlorn Hope. x nils J. Garrett, the new congress­ man from the Ninth Tennessee dis­ trict, seemed to have been a forlorn hope when he entered the race against Rice A. Pierce, who had been in congress fourteen years. But he took the stump, arrayed in a decidedly rusty suit of clothes, on the single issue that Mr. Pierce had had enough and that the good things of life should be passed around. The voters of the district agreed with this, their sym­ pathies being with the seedy-looking but evidently brainy youth, and Gar- won out. * , Z Two Canny Scotsmen. ' When Andrew Carnegie first spoke of taking up golf he was advised by Balllle MacKenzle of Edinburgh -to lay out a golf course at Skibo castle. "If you take to golf," said the balllle. "you will add ten years to your life." "Do you say so?" said Mr. Carnegie. "If you can add ten years to my life I will make you a present of two millions." "Well," replied the canny magistrat, "I can't exactly do that, but I'll play you for two millions over your own green." This handsome of­ fer was not accepted. Expert Blindfold Typewriter. Miss May Carrington of Springfield, Mass., has broken all records for blindfold typewriting from dictation, writing 2,690 words the first half hour and 2,531 the second, a total of 5,221 words In cfce hour exclusive of er-j rors, for each of which five words] were deducted. This gave an average; of a little more than eighty-seven words a minute. The best previous of-] flcial record was 3,830 words in anj hour, a trifle over sixty-three words« a minute. <• Ghastly Religious Ceremony. Mohammedans of the Caucasus have a religions ceremony called "Chucksee Wucksee." It Is a eere- mony in which the fanatics cut and wound themselves in the following ghastly fashion, according to a trav­ eler: "Each man, grasping a kinjal In his hand, brought it up in front] and down on the crown of his head.] Almost at *every stroke the blood] gushed forth and soon one man after] another became a staggering, blood-1 soaked figure." NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA A Desperately Serious Case Cured!i£ " Dr. Williams' Pink Pilia. Brought to tlio very verge of start** t(ou by the rejection of all nourishment* her vitality almost destroyed, the re­ covery of Mrs. J, A." Wyatt, of No. 1189 Seventh street, <Des MuitiuS, Iowa, seemed hopeless. Her physicians utterly failed to reach the seafe nf the difficulty and death must have resnlted if she had not pursued an independent course staff' gested by her sister's experience. Mrs. Wyatt says: " I had pain in tha region of the heart, palpitation and shortness of breath so that I could not walk very fast. My head ached very badly aud I was seized with vomiting spells whenever I took any food. A doc­ tor was called who pronounced tha trouble gastritis, but he gave me no re­ lief. Then I tried a second doctor with­ out benefit. By this time I had become very weak. I could not keep the most delicate broth on my stomach, aud at the end of a month I was scarcely mora than skin and bone and was really starv- iugto death. "Then I recalled how much benefit m» sister had got from Dr. Williams* Pinit' Pills and decided to take them in place of the doctor's medicine. It proved a wise decision for they helped ine as nothing else had done. Soon I could- take weak tea and crackers and steadily more nourishment. In two Weeks I was able to leave my bed. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills were the only thing that checked th e vomiting and as soon as that was stopped my other difficulties left me. I have a vigorous appetite now and am able to attend to all the duties of my home. I praise Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People to all my friends because I am thoroughly convinced of their merit." Dr. Williams'Pink Pills are sold by all druggists aud by the Dr. Williams Me4> loins Co., Schenectady, N.Y. 1,1 1 . 1 3 °r A Flight of Fancy./J J "How are you getting on with your flying machine?" "I am progressing splendidly," an­ swered the Inventor. "Every time I launch it I find something wrong with it that I had previously overlooked.1* II £• • - -T •"* /-I- * 'i i. •;< Many Children are Sickly* Mother Gray's Sweet Powders forChildren, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, cure Feverishness, Head­ ache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Dis­ orders, Break up Colds and Destroy Worms. At all Druggists',25c. Sample mailed FREES, Allan S. Olmsted, Le Boy, N. Y« Nature Recovering Its Own. It was once the common practice ot tourists to shoot birds and alligators from the decks of steamboats on Flor­ ida rivers and lakes. This abominable, because cruel and useless, warfare was waged until the supply of victims for the brutality was nearly exhausted. The development of the Florida rail­ way system, by which the tide of travel has been directed from the water courses, has had a direct and marked effect on the wild life of tha- country. Instead of the leisurely prog­ ress by water craft, tourists ane now whirled through the country by rail, and the bloodthirsty contingent has no opportunity to deal out death at every turn. The waters and the shores are once again becoming populated with- birds of plume and even the alligator is coming again into peaceful posses­ sion of hla mudbank.---Forest> iig| Stream. r3^ First Paper Made in England. The first English paper maker was John Tate, who founded a mill at Hertford at the close of the fifteenth century. Tate made a fine thin paper, having for a watermark an eight pointed star within a double circle. White coarse paper was made by Sir John Speilman, a German at Dartford in 1580, and here the first English paper mills on a large scale were erected. Till 1690, however, when William IH. passed an act to encour­ age the home manufacture of white paper, all the best paper for writing and printing was imported from Hol­ land and France. A PERFECT HAND. • ... t ] . . . i w.S?'.,. ... .. jHow Its Appearance Became FamllJir to the Public. The story of how probably tha most perfect feminine hand in Ameri­ ca became known to the people it rather Interesting. As the story goes the possessor ot the hand was with some friends in a photographer's ohe day and while talking, held up a piece of candy. The pose of the hand with its per­ fect contour and faultless shape at­ tracted the attention of the artist who proposed to photograph it The re­ sult was a beautiful picture kept in the family until one day, after read­ ing a letter from someone inquiring as to who wrote the Postum and Grape-Nuts advertisements. 'Mr. Post said to his wife, "We receive so many inquiries of this kind, that it is evident some people are curious to know, suppose we let the advertls- tislng department have that picture of your hand to print and name it "K Helping Hand." (Mrs. Post has as­ sisted him in preparation of some the most famous advertisements)> There was a natural shrinking from the publicity, but with an agre^ ment that no name would accompany the picture its use was granted. The case was presented in the light of extending a welcoming hand toxhe friends of Postum and Grape-Nuts, so the picture appeared on the bapk covers of many of the January and February magazines and became known to millions of people. artists have commented upon robably the most perfect hand world. | advertising dept. of the Post- did not seem able to resist the tlon to enlist the curiosity of blic, by refraining from giving ae of the owner when the pic- (ppeared but stated that tha rould be given later in one of Swspaper announcements, thus ^to Induce the readers to look read the forthcoming adver* to leam the name of tha |combinatlon of art and conk* |nd the multitude of Inquiries fes an excellent illustration of Brest the fniblic takes In the and family life of large oturers whose names become old words through extensive ontinuous announcements ^ era and periodicals. . ... .