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•-;«s':£S! ? mmmmm N -X<v ®»cP >"* t **:;' ^ .Tp;1 •+ jr*..* v;<: ;&w» iwtf,,5-p"-'"-?j . '-jiĝ sKssrjssttit s*u*wcanr %-*<X3Fma3ZJBSZ * jxm/zs&i 4OXBW&* x * CHAPTER IX.--Continued. I looked a question, and she went on: "I have some worries, and then ,last night I $aw yo ̂ were all keeping )£ome had news from, me, and so I wouldn't sleep." "Then we did wrong to make a mys­ tery of it, Miss Cullen," I said, "for it really isn't anything to trouble s About. Mr. Camp is simply taking le­ gal steps to try to force me to de­ liver those letters to him." & J r % ̂ "And can he succeed?** *1 *" i;.: "No." iriv.. • ; ffi "How will you stop h!m?** at? "I don't know yet just what iwe l̂ hall do, bt|t if worse comes to worse v I will allow myself to be committed i,. for contempt of court." ip "What would they do with you?" v s "Give me free board for a time." v; "Not send you to prison?"1 Yes." ' Oh!" she cried, "that mustn't be. * You must not make such a sacrifice if*or us." 1 { "^ "I'd do more than that for you," f "'"•••^•••aid, and I couldn't help putting a lit- 7 . tie emphasis on the last word, though "II'll knew I had no right to do it. She understood me, and blushed » rosily, even while she protested, "It Is pi;;,---; too much " f; ^ "There's really no likelihood," I in* 'terrupted, "of my being able to as- ^^»'fi,?«ume a martyr's crown, Miss Cullen; i, ,> so don't begin to pity me till I'm be- ' ^'hind the bars." But I can't bear to think----*' §* ' > "Don't," I interrupted again, rejoic­ ing all the time at* her evident anxl- •f j;'f «ty, and blessing my stars for the "luck they had brought me. "Why, • Miss Cullen," I went on, "I've become -*!®° iiterested in your success and the £•' /licking of those fellows that I really - ' think I'd stand about anything rather than that they should win. Yester­ day when Mr. Camp threatened -yto " Then I stopped/as it suddenly K v > occurred to me that it was best not H . to tell Madge that I might lose my po- . ^sition, for It wpuld look like a kind '•ft' i:-'i(«f- bid for her favor, and, besides, ' \would only add bp her worries. "Threatened what?" asked Kin ICulIen. "Threatened to lbae his temper," I Answered. "You know that wasn't what yon ̂ were going to say," Madge said re­ proachfully. "No, it wasn't," I laughed. * "Then what was it?" £ "Nothing worth speaking about." * ' "But I want to know what he threat- •jened." ' "Really, Miss Cullen," I, began; . but ishe interrupted me bj saying anx- Viously: He can't hurt papa, c^xt, hf 'No," I replied. - . K "Or my brother*?" 'M «jje can>t touch any bf theih With- '•fout my help. And hell have work |to get that, I suspect." "Then why can't you tell me?" de­ manded Miss Cullen. "Your refusal makes me think you ar$,keeping back \v 3some danger to them." ̂ "Why, Miss Cullen," I said, "I * didn't like to tell his threat, because ^jit seemed--well, I may be wrong, but r,\. thought it might look like an at­ tempt--an appeal-- Oh, pshaw!" I faltered, like a donkeyr--"I can't My it as I want to put it." "Then tell me right out what lie threatened," begged Madge. "He threatened to get me dis­ charged." That made Madge look very sober, : and for a moment there was silence. • Then she said: "I never thought of what you were risking to help us, Mr. Gordon. And I'm afraid ft's too late to " "Don't worry about me," I hastened to interject. "I'm a long way from being discharged, and, even if I should s be, Miss Cullen, I know my business, and it won't be long before I have an- 'other place." / "But it's terrible to think of the Injury we may have caused you," foyjpSighetl Madge, sadly. "It makes me * ' hate the thought of money." , \ • "That's & very poor thing to hate," W said, "except the lack of it." "Are you so anxious to get rich?" asked Madge, looking* up at me quick- \ . ly, as we walked--for we had been pacing up and down the platform dur­ ing our chat ^ "I haven't been til! lately." r "And what made you cbiuigl!* ih« questioned. "Well," I said, fshing round for some reason other than the true one, "perhaps I want to take a rest." 'You are the worst man for fibs I $w»*v^ever knew," she laughed. * I felt myself getting red, while I Exclaimed, "Why, Miss Cullen, I nev- . jer set lip for a George Washington, Ibut I don't think I'm a bit worse liar than nine men in r ^ "Oh!" she cried, interrupting me, "I ' ^ Jdidn't mean that way. I meant that . ' Iwhen you try to fib you always do it juo badly that one sees right through -y^.ftyou. Now. acknowledge that'. you ^ SnddP . SX'u m" m "Well, no, I wouldn't," I owned up. "The truth is. Miss Cullen^ that I'd like to be rich, because--well, hang it, I don't care if I do say it--because I'm In love." Madge laughed at , my confusion, and asked, "With money T' "No," I said. 'With just the nicest, sweetest, prettiest girl in the world." Madge took a look at me out of the corner of her eye, and remarked, "It must be breakfast time." " Considering that it was about six- jfchirty, I wanted to ask who was tell­ ing a taradiddle now; but I resisted the temptation and replied: "No. And I promise not to bother you about my private affairs any more." c Madge laughed agsln merrily, say­ ing, "You are the most obvious man 1 ever met. Now why do you say that?" "I thought you were making break­ fast an excuse," I said, "because you didn't like the subject." "Yes, I was," said Madge frankly. "Tell me about the girl you are en­ gaged to." I was so taken aback that I stopped in my walk, and merely looked at her. "For instance," she asked coolly, when she saw that I was speechless, "what does she.look like?" "Like, like--* 1 stammered, still embarrassed by this hold carrying Of hhm - the war into my own camp--"like an angel." "Oh," said Madge, eagerly, "I've always wanted to know what angels were like. Describe her to me." ."Well," I said, petting my second wind, so to speak, "she has the blue- est eyes I've ever seen. Why, Misa Cullen, you said you'd never seen any­ thing so blue as the sky yesterday; but even the atmosphere of 'rainless Arizona' has to take a back seat when her eyes are around. And they are just like the atmosphere out here. You can look into them for a hun­ dred miles, but you can't get to the bottom." "The Arizona sky is wonderful," said Madge. ."How do the scientists account for it?" I wasn't going to have my descrip­ tion of Miss Cullen side-tracked, for, since 'she had given me the chance, I wanted her to know just what I thought of her. Therefore I didn't follow lead on the Arizona skies, but went on: "And I really think her hair is just as beautiful as her eyes. It's light brown, very curly, and--" "Her complexion!" Madge exclaim­ ed. "Is shera mulatto? And, If so, how can a complexion be curly?" "Her complexion," I said, not a bit rattled, "is another great beauty of hers. She has one of those skins--" "Furs are out of fashion at pres­ ent," she interjected, laughing wick­ edly. "Now look here. Miss Cullen," I cried, indignantly, "I'm not going to let even you make fun of her." "I can't help it," she laughed, "when you look so serious and intense." "It's something I feel intense about, Miss Cullen," I said, not a little pain­ ed, I confess, at the way she was jok­ ing. I don't mind a bit being laughed at, but Miss Cullen knew, about as well as I, whom I was talking about, and it seemed to me she was laughing a't my love for her. Under this im­ pression I went on, "I suppose it is funny to you; probably so many men have been in love with you that a man's love for a woman has come to mecn very little in your eyes. But out here we don't make a joke of iove and when we care, for a woman we care--well, it's hot to be put in words. Miss Cullen." "I really didn't mean to hurt your feelings, Mr. Gordon," said Madge jfently, and quite serious now. "I Ought not to have tried to tease you." "There!" I said, my irritation en­ tirely gone. "I had too right to lose my temper, and I'm sorry I spoke so Unkindly. The truth is, Miss Cullen, the girl I care for is in love with an­ other man, and so I'm bitter and ill- natured in these days." My companion stopped walking at the steps of 218, and asked, "Has she told you so?" , ? "No," I answered. "Bttt It's as plain as she's pretty," Madge ran up the steps and open­ ed the door of the car. As she turned to close it, she looked down at me with the oddest of expressions, and said: "How. dreadfully ugly shanyaat b^J this, I had seen too much to the con­ trary to take stock an the idea. Yet I couldn't believe Madge was a co­ quette; I became angry and hot with myself for even thinking it for a momentf Puzzle as I did over the word?, I managed to eat a good breakfast, and tb«in went into the Cullen's car and electrified the party by telling them of Camp's and Fred's dispatches, and how I had come to overhear the for­ mer. Mr. Cullen and Albert couldn't say enough about my cleverness in what had really been pure luck, and seemed to think I had sat up all night' In order to hear that telegram. The person for whose opinion I cared the most--Miss Cullen--didn't say anything, but she gave me a look that set my heart beating like a trip-ham- mer and made me put the most hope­ ful construction on that speech of hers. It seemed impossible that she didn't care for Lord Ralles, and that she might care for me; but, after hav­ ing had no hope whatsoever, the smallest crumb of a chance nearly lifted- me off my feet. We had a consultation over what was best to be done, but didn't reach any definite conclusion tUl the sta­ tion agent brought me a . telegram from the postmaster-general. Break­ ing it open, I read aloud: ' Do net allow service of writ, and retain possession of letters according to prior instructions. At the request of this department, the Secretary of War has directed the commanding of­ ficer at Port Whipple to furnish you with military protection, and you will call upon him at once, If in yohr judgment it is necessary. On no ac­ count surrender United States proper­ ty to Territorial authorities. Keep Department notified." • (To be continued,) STERNER SEX MAKING GAIN8 Will Soon Be More Numerous Than Women, It Is Thought. Frau Gnauck-Kuehne is one of the greatest German authorities on the modern feminist movements and af- "f*ter mature study and the collection of statistics she has come to the con­ clusion tha,t the superfluity of women in so many European countries is a fact which in the first place is in no sense an evil and in the second place is rapidly disappearing. In another twenty years, she be­ lieves, the tide will begin to turn the other way and the men will be in the majority even in such countries as England and Germany, where at the present time women immensely predominate. Some of her statistics are most interesting. In Luxembourg, tor example, in 1890, there were 1,- 002 women for every 1,000 men. There are now only 999. In Austria the proportion has been re­ duced in the same time from *1,044 to f,035, in Hungary from 1,016 to 1,009, in Switzerland from 1,05? to l,Gsoa in Sweden from 1,065 to 1,049, in Ger­ many from 1,040 to 1,032, in England from 1,055 to 1,047. She does not be­ lieve that any European nation except Russia will long continue to increase rapidly in proportion. 1&ngland has begun to follow the example of France and Germany will certainly follow in England's footsteps. In ail "advanced" European states the birth rate is either becoming,sta­ tionary or begins to show a back­ ward tendency. CHAPTER J- Watting for Help. If ewer a fel low was bewildered by a single speech, it was Richard Gor­ don. I walked up and down that platform till I was called to breakfast, trying to decide what Miss Cullea had meant to express, only to succeed in reading fifty different meanings into her parting six words. I want­ ed to think that It was her way of suggesting that I deceived myself In thinking that there was any- TOWN -ENTIRELY TOO HEALTHY Nothing Doing in Sober Man's Line In Pilneyviile. .i ' "Pilneyville, O.?" asks the man With the sober clothes. "I should say I have heard of that place. I was in business--or tried to be .in business --there for a year. That town is the healthiest place I ever knew." "Is that so?" we ask, with Interest. "Yes. I'm an undertaker, you see. I went ttyere and opened an establish­ ment on learning that there was no undertaker in the town. I didn't get a bit of business,' and along In the summer I started out to pick black­ berries for a living. They made me quit. They wouldn't even permit any blackberrying." .' We smile wanly. i ' "And that wasn't the strangest part. I didn't move out until after a man who had tried to operate a cleaning and coloring shop closed his doors and failed." "What had that to do with " "Was there £ny chance for an un- dertaker iq a town where there Could be no dyeing of any kind?" I " Lesson for Boy. , A small West Side boy, who was laboriously putting up a shelf for his mother in the back yard the other day,. received a free lesson in the proper way of putting in screws from a carpenter who happened to be pass­ ing along the alley. The boy was fastening the brackets to the fence by holding -each screw against the wood and turning it until he had dug a bole deep enough for the screw to bite. The carpenter took one of the screws, held it in position, and gave it two or three sharp taps with a hammer, just as if it was a nail. This gave it a good start and the rest was easy. Then, as a further lesson in time and labor saving, the knight of the saw and plane took all the remaining screws and drew them into position, one after the other before be­ ginning to use the screw driver. The boy forgot to say "thank you," but he looked as though he had leprngd something--Chicago InterOceaqp Where Her Thoughts Were;s Her husband had died very sud­ denly, and her friends were calling to comfort her. She listened very atten­ tively and seemed to be more cheer­ ful, but suddenly she' cried out, "All ynu'vtt told me is very true, but I'm sure I shall never vlove my second husband as much as I did the UMfoeott's Magazine. * _ Fin#MR,<n Wild **.'Gee, are those fellows crazypf*" .' : "What's uerong?" bw "Look at. their fingers gyrating. Gosh, they'll snop 'em off!" "No; it's all right They're a cou­ ple of deaf mute students giving their class yell." 'T r-'?, 'J- ; The poorest education that teaches se&coojtjeol is better than the best tSST ndgliWts it:--StiftbMf. -- ci MECHANICAL CARICATURES. • Trick in Photography Which la UmkI to |?roduoe Amusiijjg »* • l/:'... ^^icturiikJ " % U • : • • vt!&e' art of cafic'atur* Tl! to to performed mechanically, it would seem, with the aid of distorted photo­ graphic films. Such photographic monstrosities are even now appearing in the papers under the name of "jag- camera" photographs, or something of the kind. The process by which they are produced is said to be the inven­ tion of I. Ellsworth Hare, of Chicago. It is thus described in Popular Me­ chanics: "By the discovery of a practical ap­ plication of a well-known fact with re­ gard to the nature of photographic films and their actions under the in­ fluence of heat as well as the influence of certain well-known chemicals, Mr. Hare has succeeded in producing per­ fect specimens of caricatures by a purely photographic process. When It is taken into consideration what an Important part photography ort the one hand and caricature-sketching on the other have played in the develop­ ment of modern illustrating, the im­ portance of the new discovery becomes at once apparent. "As is well known to all photog­ raphers, the ordinary^ photographic plate is supplied with a,collodion film which, under ordinary conditons and at the ordinary temperature, is firm and insoluble. Such a film naturally will produce upon exposure an exact Im­ pression. If the film is subjected to a moderate degree of heat, however, it will become soluble and run. "In manufacturing ordinary photo­ graphic plates the collodion film is tr-m m E* MECHANICAL CARICATURE OF WIL­ LIAM J. SUVAN. flowed onto a plate that has- received a coat of gelatin. This causes it to ad­ here firmly to the glass plate. The caricature photograph, however, is pro­ duced by the use of wbat is known as a stripping plate, in which the film is flowed onto a plate whl.h has been merely edged with a gelatin coating. This leaves all of the plate but the edge plain ^lass to which the gelatin does n6t adhere. By the use of a knife blade the film in this kind of plate can be readily removed, which constitutes the first step in the process of cari­ cature photography. "By the application of heat from a gas. lamp the film can be easily stretched into almost any conceivable shape, with the drawback, however, as any amateur can testify, that the image is liable to be blurred and in fact hopelessly distorted. In order to control the stretching in such a way as to get the desired result, the film is treated with a chemical preparation the ingredients of which are a secret of the inventor of the process. The degree of success which has been at­ tained In applying this formula in ac­ curately controlling the reshaping of the image is shown in the illustration representing a man walking down the street. The figure of a man is repre sented In the picture caricatured^ while all of the other objects shoiyn retain their normal form. "Applying this principle* to a single figure of a human being, any portion of the person may be altered as desired, thus producing an accurate caricature. The possibilities are limited only to the ingenuity of the photographer. One ear may be elongated; the nose ex­ tended to ^appear a foot in length, while all the other features remain un­ changed; one cheek can be Inflated like a balloon, or the neck stretched to the size of a finger or ffarawn out longer than the body." WIRELESS4 *SY BIOttCLE. Portable Light Telegraph Apparatus Wbich German Army Will Use in Africa. * - "" : A fery light portable wireless out­ fit, to be used by the German army in Africa, is described by Dr. 'Alfred Gradenwitz, lit the Scientific Amer­ ican. Says the writer: "Chiefly remarkable in this .portablp outfit are the means of generating energy. A bicycle dynamo' is used. The constructive principle of the latter is simple, A small direct-current dynamo of about 100 watts output is fitted to a bicycle frame. *nxe. rider, if he may be so called, keeps the ma­ chine going by smart pedaling. From the sprocket of the bicycle frame the movement is transmitted to the dyna­ mo by means of a belt, driving a spe­ cially designed aluminum disk, the '•urn A BICYCLE GENKRATIKG STATION, ratio of transmission being so de­ signed as to have the dynamo produce sparks of four millimeters length in the Induction coil, in normal opera­ tion. As the dynamo is located in front of the operator^ the latter Is in a position at any moment to supervise Ita uniform activity. The weight of the dynamo outfit is 30 kilograms (66 pounds). In the place of the device above described, a stationary moto- cycle with a dynamo fitted on can be used. Apart from the dynamo a port­ able accumulator battery can be made use of to supply the energy required. The battery includes eight cells (16 volts), possessing a capacity of about 30 ampere-hours with a five hours* dis­ charge. The admissible limit of dis­ charging intensity is about 26 per cent greater than the energy necessary In normal working order. The cells are enclosed in an ebonite box, which is in turn divided into two compartments of 30 kilograms weight each.'* MANUFACTURED STONE. Improvements in Method of the Bloeks Is Its Use. Cement houses are growing increas­ ingly common, and both the soft, herein the cement Is applied to a framework, and that other construe* tion, in which cubes of cement are employed, find favor with architects. Now comes manufactured stone, which is said to be far superior to either form of cement construction. The factory has been established in British Columbia, but the process is of German origin, and is patented. If consists of mixing sand and quicklime in certain proportions,' the dry ma­ terial being packed into molds of proper size, in which a vacuum is formed. Water Is introduced, and there being no chance for the lime to expand, the bricks are pressed into a proper hardnesB. ThejK are then subjected to a heat for ten hours, dur­ ing which time the sand and lime form a chemical combination of hydro- silicate of lime, which is not only ex­ ceedingly hard, but practically im­ pervious to water, wherein it possesses a marked advantage over ordinary brick. --r American Carpenttr and Builder. CURIOUS ARCHED TREE. Oak Tree Near Wharton, O., Which Has Made Sost Striking Nat- i ,v ural Growth. John 8. Welter, of Upper Sanduaky, O., sends to the Scientific American the accompanying photograph of • an oak THE BOY AND THE JUgpE. lypical Instance of ra Denver Jt»> Celebrity's * % of rmth. tr -rM:: IteVcii years ago, beforfc Ihefe" was such a thing as a juvehile court, a boy of nine was arrested in Denver for burglary. He was brought into the criminal,.court, tried as a burglar, and sent to Jail. He served a term of years, during which he learned thoroughly the trade which he had been accused of ply­ ing. When he was released, writes Frances Maule Bjorkman, in Amer­ ican Monthly Review of Reviews, tie began to practice in earnest. He was rearrested, recommitted, and, after a second term, turned loose again, a more accomplished burglar than before. A few months ago he was shot at by thi Denver police in an attempt to escape a third arrest. Be was captured and brought into the juvenile court, still a mere child that ought to have been go­ ing to school. Judge "Ben" B. Lindsey, who presides over the tribunal, was confronted by a bold, hardened and unnaturally sharp young expert in crime who had mysti­ fied the police by telling half a dozen different stories. Judge Lindsey began by telling the boy that he didn't believe him to be half as "tough a kid" «s the poiice had made iim out, and that he would not be "sent up" if he was "square with the Court" and made a clean breast of his trouble with the "cops." This new treatment got from the boy his real story. He had been led into his first offense by a desire for a knife with which to make a kite. His father re­ fused to get him one, and he broke into a barber shop and took a razor. Ac­ cording to the letter of the criminal law, the boy had committed a burglary. As there was no "juvenile" law at the time, he was dealt with as a professional housebreaker. Asked about his first trial, he said to Judge Lindsey: "Aw, de guy wid de whiskers, wot sat up on de high bench looked over at do 'cop,' and de 'cop,' he says: *Dis is a very bad kid; he broke into SmitlT-i' barber shop and took a razor, and he ad­ mits it, yer honor. Den de guy on de high bench sends me up widout givin' me a chanet to say a wold." . Thus, the boy was well started on a criminal career before he was ten years 'old. Fortunately, he fell into the hands of the Denver juvenile court, which had •been established in the interval between his second and third arrest, while he was still able to "pull up." Instead of telling him that he was a bad boy and •ending him to jail again, Judge Lind­ sey told him that he was a "bully fel­ low" and set him free--no probation. To-day that boy is still going uphill as fast as he was going downhill before. NOT A REAL 8AFE PLACE. There Appeared to Be Too Xany Op- #?4^ti«sfor Eargest Steel Ingot. Olte of the largest steel ingots that has ever been made was recently cast at the Manchester foundries of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. The ingot weighing 120 tons was cast .on the well-known fluid pressure system of this firm. The molten metal, repre­ senting 120 tons in weight, was poured from the melting fqrnacea into a huge ingot mold box weighing 180 - tons. When the run was completed the mold- box was placed in a hydraulic press, the ram of which is six feet In diam­ eter, and subjected to a pressure of 6,720 pounds per square Inch. The in­ got is for the machinery of the new tnrbine Cunard liner now in course of construction on the Clyde, Hand Labor Again B<i^i. " In riveting with pneumatic hammers, two men and one heater average 600 rivets in ten hours, whereas by hand 250 rivets is a good day's work for three mea and one beater. The cost per rivet, according to the Engineer­ ing and Mining journal, was 1.62 cents by pneumatic t<mmer, and 3.68 cents -by hand. Or *3,480 rivets in a snip- yard at ChAca«o the machine cost was 1 oBAt to 2.6 costs; the hand coat 2.S cents to 4.5 cents. Ssette Destroying Timber. The Black Hlils beetle has killed be­ tween 700,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 feet of timber in the Black Hills lor- est reserve. It Is also doing a lo* of barm in Colorado and New Mexico. The government has Issued a yampniet «• the way to fight a Jbf feltta§ barking infested tnth y " ARCHED TREE OVER OHIO ROAD. tree which is a moat striking natural growth. The! tree is near the village of Whdrton, Wyandotte -county, O The roadway which It arches is 40 feet wide. At the base the diameter of tho tree measures fwo feet. Blind People as paa Consumers. "When it comes to consuming gas ,ln large quantities blind people take the lead," said an inspector of the gas company. "I know two families where both husband and wife are blind. Every jet is turned on full tilt in the»e homes at night and 1* kept going at that rate clear up to 12 o'clock. And that partiality for light is not a whim peculiar to those two couples. Al^ blind people feel that way. They demand the light, and in all private homes and institutions where the blind are cared for the gas ; f S P h y ^ c i l M M . "It broadens one's horizon? so to speak, does it not," inquired the man who was studying municipal condi­ tions, "to serve the eity in the capac­ ity of alderman?" "I don't know about that," answered the other man; "but I have noticed -Ckkoao Tritaif- •, ^ tm- to Trouble. 'Mr; Trent decided to ofay "a home in the south in which hn and his family could spend the spring months, during which they had found New England winds and leather to be try­ ing, he took a journey of investigation, relates Youth's Companion. Mr. Trent was accustomed to 'be treated as if his society were Eminent ly desirable, and it was therefore with a friendly and engaging smile that he addressed a melancholy person who was lounging on the piazza of the ho­ tel at his first southern stopping place. "I'm thinking of buying a place down here," said Mr. Trent, in a half-confi­ dential tone. "Now what part of the country would you particularly recom­ mend? The landlord tells me you've lived south for many years." "Yes, I've lived south a long spell,' admitted the melancholy man, "though I was raised north, and I'm willing to say right here and now that you couldn't find a more favorable nor a Jovelier spot In this whole state, sir, than this very town. I have lived here for five years, and if I'd had anything like a fair show I should have enjoyed every minute of the time." "You haven't had a Mir show?" asked the New Englander. "No," said the melancholy one. "This is a lovely spot, and if I'd had a fair show I'd have enjoyed It; but the first year I had fever end ague, and the next year I was bit by a shark, and the third year I had an awful fight with a snake, that shook up my' nerves, and last year--" "I dobbt if I should like this locali­ ty," said the New Englander, briskly. The melancholy man looked at him with mild astonishment ~ "Why, you know it's pretty danger­ ous living dnywliere, stranger," he said, Blowly, "If that's what you're thinking abodt" " r. What She Left Off. ATfeaicher in a certain Episcopal ten- day school had been Impressing on her girls the need of making some personal sacrifice during Lent. Accordingly, on the first Sunday of that penitential sea­ son, which happened to be a warm spring day, she took occasion to ask each of the class in turn what she hud given up for the sake of her religion. Everything went well and the answers were proving highly satisfactory until she came to the youngest member. "Well, Mary," Inquired the teacher, "what have you left off for Lent?" "Please, ma'am," stammered the child, somewhat confured, "I--I've left off my leggins."--Lippincott's. • Origin of "Store." "•*?%« word "slave," which is *apptty used seldom unless metaphorically in this country, is a word of brilliant his­ torical antededents. Its original, the Russian "slava," means glorious, and Is the title of that race which sub­ sumes the Russian people. But when the Germans reduced hosts of the Slavs to servitude, their name, from malice or accident, as Gibbon say ̂he* same synonymous with "servile,." Appeal to the Czar. Humors have reached Ihdia through Afghanistan that the S^ohassuiedans of the central Asian Khauates had ad­ dressed a petition to tlye e%ar through the amir of Bokhara, praying that th* promises made them by the Russian government durln&*the war might be fulfilled. The czar replied graciously, but the people "were becoming impa- Sent at th% lnMOOQ. ot the fclals. A..A. ,, „-r ,, - to- •r -«r * ? w.-Si A % v;?" > f J SORT OF SHERLOCK HOLMES ^Magistrate Who Can Tell the Calli^c of Persons by Distinguish­ ing Marks. * "A nan's occupation," aid a wrii trste, "marks him so unmistakably thai I can tell at a glance what he docs lor. • living. "There is, for instcnee, the vision*. You can tell a violinist froni the fact that he carries his head to one side., "The groom and the cavalryman ' hJwm bow legs, and, when they stand still tl|egr hold their legs wide apart, as though there was .a horse between them . "The painter may be detected by ft* nark of the palette hole in hLs thumb. "The pianist's enormous hands identify him. From constant practice they be­ come abnormal. ^Veber, you know, stretch two octaves. "Men who work amid the vapors of mer­ cury, copper or arsenic have given mucous membrane, and greenish >»»"• and skin. "The players of flutes and Clarinet* have thick, distended cneeks and tough and leathery lips. "The scrubbers of floors hare Swollest knees, and often, afflicted with the di: called housemaid's knee, they lima." The Favorite Boute East Passengers from Chicago to Ft. Waraew Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo, New York t'ity Bp6ton and all points east, will find it t» their interest by selecting for their iovi^ uey the NICKEL PLATE ROAD htm Chicago. Three through trains are ran daily with Modern Day Coaches and Laxsciooe Pullirmn Sleeping Cars to New York City, also through Sleeping Car Service to Bos­ ton and intermediate points. Rates always the lowest and no excess lares are ekuicd • P< -£• ' ; % *•",' ^ * v « of the trip. right up-to-date. Individual'*(§*b are served at prices ranging from 35 to $1.00; also meals a la carte. All leave Chicago from the La Salle St. Sta­ tion. For rail information address J. Y. Calahan, General Agent, 113 AdaM _ Chicago, III. Regarding Wine aad Men. "Some men are like wine, t)iey ispnw; with age." ] "Yes, but the likeness srast be perfsst.** • "How do you mean?" "Well, no wine can improve with sae that is drunk toe often. "--fhais4tl|pkas Press. (tow's TMaP VI) (Ctr Ooa Hundred Dollus MM of Catena that easoot fes csni ly Qtttfrh Cut*. _ r. j. cHKTntT a oo.. tbmsi.i We, Un sndsnlgBed. hsvs kam F. J, ci tor Um tart IS ram, sad beWTs Mm pstftwlly arable Is aU Hmm uiwrtwt aaA f •U* to carry oat aay obUfcsttaM m«j> *T 1 WiLsuo, KuntAX 4 Mar WTinlmaln DnMtftft. Haifa Catarrh Cnra la takes In ilrectljr upon the blood aad bmcom tystem. Teat! best]*. Take f, ' 3^5 V V - "in *•! J J , Taatlmoniula aaat CM*. Pltoe 1SSS|4i JMP < . «£§ •< An Accommodating Wooer.-f Her Father--Tin* fact is that I eanaafc give my daughter a dowry just at pne> ent. The Suitor--That's all right; I her for herself alone in tM i-- Meggendorfer Blaetter. To Clean Cane-Seated Chain. Cane-seated chairs may be cleaned tgr washing the cane on both sides with waisa Ivory Soap suds, and then putting these 3ut m the sun to dry. This treatsMnt nek only adds to the cleanliness oI the cane; but causes it to shrink, which iaprons ita lppcarance and makes it more wear-resist ing.. " . MJEANOK R. PASSS*. f A - i % I • * § I f.r<; •a .. v Odd, But True* "Duois «re not like brooks.* "Go on with the rest of it." "The shallower a book is, the harder . fef is to wade through it"--LuuiseiBi Courier Jeesaal. r ' As a blood-purifier Garfield Tea has SS • !( superior; it is a* natural ismedy. beiag / * composed wholly of her be. It porifiis „ the blood, cleanses the' systesa. cures li*s> * find kidney diseases, conetipetkm and >ask headache. " •" average youn&Seiiew ie wflbng te W id winner, but the tseabtt ii he lly marries a gist whe hss been essd. The a bread generally to pie.--Fuck. A girl hasn't much faith Sa a fortaaa teller who doesn't predict that she wift •tarry rich.--Chicago Daily News. Lewis' Single Binder straight Kcdftaria Eh! quality all the time. Your dealer or wis* Factory, Peoria, 11L The only difference between an ojkl audi and a bachelor gist is a iHiwin et opinion. . They Stand Aiooe. Standing outt to bold relief, all alSM% and as a conspieuew example of opaa» frank and honest deallDsr with the sMt and afflicted, are Dr. Pierce's FavoritMi! Prescription for weak, over-worked, da- bilitaied, nemeea. "«aa down," peto- rac ked womeny SmI Ihf. Pierce's GoMsfc Medical Diseases*, the famous remedy for weak itoiawV kaiHgrntion. or dja* pepsia, torpW Iwr, ur biliousness, all catarrhal aOeetiBBS, whether ol tfa«- stomacb, bowels, kitoep, bladder, nasal passages, threat, braac&ia, or other as- ;ous passages* aa effective remedy- for all diseases ariaisg from thin, watery ar impure bleed, as scrofulous and " affections. Each battle ef the above medicii bears upon its wrapper a badge of asty in the Ml list of ingredients --. posing in -- pjrinted l» ptaij* L'ngHtb*. This frank and open publicity plaos* these medictees im a class all oy ****** selvrs, and is the host guaranty of thslr merits. They eaaaot be classed as peteoA uor secret ssediofates for they are neithw --being o#*a<w* eompositum. Dr. Ptefte feels that he can afford) afe take the sffllntirft into his full conf yid lav all the ingredients of his •toes "freely before them becsuse ingredients are such as are endorsedM most stioncrty praised by scores cm most eminent medical writers as, «n for the dime sen for whkh thesem sines are recommended There*>r% de not have to rely staaa U| Dr. Weree*s recommendation S# to zuxetir* value of his laedidnea tain easily recognised dlseesss. , each bottle will ^towr^bat no ilwfcd spS. o* hansful o» tobit^formin# dnfs «M» •^<^twjg rholly eoinpoyndei ol HJWnt spwussp »f the roots 'of aativek plants. Thc^i i%re best _-- the cure ot'most llngsal^ eases. I>r,Ti. V. Piera% ean ha < rKSS. bw ad.dressfts( N. Y., w.id all a garded if* s^Qfedly i It ia ua *aay " much mtfrt o the of Piair.jA PleutBl tion. TTbey til'jg. One " 1. . .kluV.JT..A 'j i i ' > . ? i . • r . A ' , 4 • p " * ' , ' ' - v . / \ ^ A ' L -rJl ut . >