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On the march iB^lth the 5Sd of the Erowna Private Stran- aky. anarchist, decries war and played- •jut patriotism and is placed under arrest. Colonel Lanstron everhearing. begs him Off. I/Rnstron calls on Marta at her home. H* talks wKh Feller, the gardner. Marta tells I^anstron that she believes Feller to . ®e a epy. .Lanstron confesses it is true. CHAPTER VI--Continued. ... "Oh, It's you. Lanny--Colonel Laa- •toon?" he exclaimed thickly. 'T saw that some one had come in here and naturally I was alarmed, as nobody but myself ever enters. And Miss Gal­ l&nd!" He removed his hat deferential­ ly and bowed; hie stoop returned and the lines of his face drooped. "I was •o stupid; it did not occur to me that you might be showing the tower to •Colonel Lanstron." "We are sorry to have given you a fright!" said Marta very gently. "Eh? Eh!" queried Feller, again deaf "Fright? Oh. no. no fright. It might have been some boys from the town marauding." He was about to withdraw, in keep­ ing with his^, circumspect adherence to his part, which he played with a sincerity that half-convinced even hlm- •aelf at times that he was really deaf, when the fire flickered back suddenly to his eyes and he glanced from Lan­ stron to the stairway in desperate In­ quiry. "Wait. Felleir! Three of us share the secret now. These are Miss Gal- land's premises. I thought best that 0he should know everything," said Lan­ stron. "Everything!" exclaimed Feller. ^Everything--" the word caught in his tjhroat. "You mean my story, too?" He •as neither young nor old now. "She knows who I am?" he asked. "His story!" exclaimed Marta, with a puzzled look to Lanstron before she turned to Feller with a look of warm sympathy. "Why, there is no story! You came with excellent recommenda­ tions. You are our very efficient gar­ dener. That is all we need to know. Isn't that the way you wish it. Mr. Feller?" "Yes, Just that!" hs said softly, rais­ ing his eyes to her. "Thank you. Miss Galland!" He was going after another "Thank you!" and a bow; going with the slow step and stoop of his part, when Lan­ stron, with a masculine roughness of Impulse which may be sublime gentle­ ness, swung him around and Seized his bauds iu a firm careso. "Forgive me, Gustave!" he begged. "Forgive the most brutal of all in­ juries--that which wounds s friend's sensibilities." "Why, there is nothing 1 could ever have to forgfve you, Lanny," he said, returning Lanetron's pressure while for an instant his quickening muscles gave him a soldierly erectness. Then his attitude changed to one of doubt and Inquiry. "And you found out that I was not deaf when you had that fall on the terrace?" he asked, turning to Marta. "That is how you happened to get the whole story? Tell me, hon­ estly!" "Yes." "You saw so much more of me than the others, Miss Galland," he said with a charming bow, "and you are so quick to observe. I am sorry"--he paused with head down for an Instant--"very sorry to have deceived you." "But you are still a deaf gardener to me," said Marta, finding consolation tn pleasing him, "Eh? Eh?" He pat his hand to bis ear as he resumed his stoop. "Yes. yes," he added, as a deaf man will -when understanding of a remark which tactical line of our defenses. Never­ theless, there will be hard fighting here. The Browns will fall bick step by step, and we mean, with relatively small cost to ourselves, to make the Grays pay a heavy price for each step --just as heavy as we can." "You need not use euphonious terms," she said without lifting her lashes or any movement except a quick, nervous gesture of h^r free hand. "What you mean is that you will kill as many as possible of the Grays, isn't is? And if-you could kill five for every man you lost, that would he splendid, wouldn't it?" "I don't think of it as splendid. There is nothing splendid about war," he ob­ jected; "not to me, Marta." "And after you have made them j>ay Ave to one or ten to one in human lives for the tangent, what then? Go on! I want to look at war face to face, free of the will-o'-the-wisp glamour that draws on soldiers." "We fall back to our first line of de- dense, fighting all the time. The Grays occupy La Tir, which will be out of the reach of our guns. Your house will no longer be in danger, and we happen to know that Westerling means to make it hie headquarters." "Our house Westerling's headquar­ ters!" she repeated. With a start that brought her up erect, alert, challeng- ihg, her lashes flickering, she recalled that Westerling had said at parting that he should see her if war came. This corroborated Lanstron's informa­ tion. One side wanted a spy in the garden; the other a general in the house. Was she expected to make a choice? He had ceased to be Lanny. He personified war. Westerling per­ sonified war. "I suppose you have spies under his very nose--in his very staff offices?" she asked. "And probably he has in ours," said Lanstron, "though we do our best to prevent it." "What ,a pretty example of trust among civilized nations!" she ex­ claimed. "You say that Westerling, who commands the killing on his side, will be in no danger. And, Lanny, are you a person of such distinction in the business of killing that you also will be out of danger?" She did not see, as her eyes poured her hot indignation into his, that his maimed hand was twitching or how he bit his lips and flushed before he re­ plied : "Each one goes where he is sent, link by link, down from the chief of staff. Only in this way can you have that solidarity, that harmonious effi­ ciency which means victory?" "An autocracy, a tyranny over- the lives of all the adult males in countries that boast of the ballot and self-gov-' erning institutions!" she put in. "'But I hope," he went on, with the quickening pulse and eager smile that used to greet a call from Feller to "set things going" in their cadet days, "that I may take out a squadron of dirigibles. After all this spy business, that would be to my taste." "And if you caught a regiment in close formation with a shower of bombs, that would be positively heav­ enly, wouldn't it?" She bent nearer to him, her eyes flaming demand and satire. "No! War--necessary, horrible, hell­ ish!" he replied. Something in her seemed to draw out the brutal truth she had asked for in place of euphoni­ ous terms. "When I became chief of intelligence I found that an underground wire had been laid to the castle from the Eighth division headquarters, which will be our general staff headquarters In time of war. The purpose was the same as now, but abandoned as chimerical. All that was necessary was to Install the Instrument, which Feller did. I, too, saw the plan as chimerical, yet it was a chance--the one out of a thousand. If it should happen to succeed we should play with our cards concealed and theirs on the table. "The rest of Feller's part you have guessed already," he concluded. "You he failed at first to catch-comes to him I can Bee how a deaf, inoffensive old IB •, W*--: In an echo. "Yes, the gardener has no past." he declared in the gentle old gardener's voice, "when all the flow­ ers die every year and he thinks only of next year's blossoms--of the ru- ture!" Now the air of the room seemed to be stifling him, that of the roofless world of the garden calling him. The bent figure disappeared around a turn in the path and they listened without moving until the sound of his slow, dragging footfalls had died away. "When he is serving those of his pwn social station I can see how it would be easier for him not to havte me know," said Marta. "Sensitive. "Yet if they should win and wester­ ling finds that I have been party to this trgachery, as I shall be now that I am In the secret, think of the posi­ tion of my mother and myself!" she continued. "Has that occurred to you, a friend, In making our property, our garden, our neutrality, which is our only defense, a factor in one of your plans without our permission?" Her eyes, blue-black in appeal and r e p r o a c h , r e v e a l e d t h e d e p t h s o f , a wound as they had on the terrace steps before luncheon, when he had been apprised of a feeling for him by seeing it dead under hie blow. The logic of the chief of intelligence withered. He understood how a friendship to her was, indeed, more sacred than patriotic passion. He realized the shame of what he had done now that he was free of professional influences. "You are right, Marta!" he replied. "It was beastly of me--there is no ex­ cuse." He looked around to see an orderly from the nearest military wireless sta­ tion. "I was told it was urgent, sir," said the orderly, in excuse for his intrusion, as he passed a telegram to Lanstron. Immediately Lanstron felt the touch of the paper his features seemed to take -on a mask that concealed hie thought as he read: "Take night express. Come direct from station to me. Partow." This meant that he would be ex­ pected at Partow's office at eight the next morning. He wrote his answer; the orderly saluted and departed at a rapid pace; and then, as a matter of habit of the same kind that makes some men wipe their pens when lay­ ing them down, he struck a match and set fire to one corner of the paper, which burned to his Angers' ends be- fore he tossed the charred remains away. Marta imagined what he would be like with the havoc of war raging around him--all self-possession and mastery; but actually he was trying to reassure himself that he ought not to feel petulant over a holiday cut Bhort. "I shall have to go at once," he said. "Marta, if there were to be war very soon--within a week or two weeks-- what would be your attitude about Fel­ ler's remaining?" "To carry out his plan, you mean?" "Yes." There was a perceptible pause on her part. "Let him stay," she answered. "I shall have time to decide even dfter war begins." "But instantly war begins you must go!" he declared urgently. "You forget a precedent," she re­ minded him. "The Galland women have never deserted the Galland house!"" "I know the precedent But this time the house^rill be in the thick of the fighting." ) "It has been in the thick of the fight­ ing before," she said, with a gesture of impatience. "Marta, you will promise not to re­ main ?" he urged. "Isn't that my affair?" she asked. "Aren't you willing to leave even that to me after'all you have been telling Not " gardener would hardly seem to know a Gray soldier from a Brown; how it might no more occur to Westerling to send him away than the family dog or cat; how he might retain his quarters in the tower; how he could judge the atmosphere of the staff, whether elated or depressed, pick up scraps of conver­ sation, and, as a trained officer, know the value of what he heard and report it over the phone to Partow's head­ quarters." "But what about the aeroplanes?" she asked. "I thought you were to de­ pend on them for scouting." "We shall use them, but they are the least tried of all the new re- IP 3?M' proud and Intense--" and. a looH* of sources," he said. "A Gray aeroplane Jiorror appeared In her eyes. "As he 1 may cut a Brown aeroplane down be­ came across the room his face was 1 fore it returns with the news we want, transformed. I imagine it was like j At most, when the aviator may descend that of a man giving no quarter in a l°w enough for accurate observation bayonet charge!" \ he can see only what is actually being Feller had won the day for himself done. Feller would know Westerling's Sphere a friend's pleas might have j plans before they were even in the failed. This was as it should be. Lan- j first steps of execution. This"--play- stron thought. I ing the thought happily--"this would The right view--the view that jrou be the ideal arrangement, while our were bound to take!" he eald 1 planes and dirigibles were kept over And yet, 1 don't know your plans our lines to strike down theirs. An<l. lor him, Lanny. There is another thing Marta, that i« all," he concluded to consider." she replied, with an ab- "If there Is war, the moment that rupt change of tone. "But first let us j Keller's ruse is discovered he will be leave Feller's quarters. We are In- : shot as a spy ?" she asked. .traders here." "A man playing deaf; a secret tele-' phone installed on our premises with-1 out o»ir consent.--this is all I know so 1 tar," said Mafta, seated opposite j Lanstron at one end of the circular-1 seat in the arbor of Mercury. | -Of course, with our 3,000,000 I against their 5,000,000, the Grays will ! "Aua all ilils um upset rnc," she went on Incoherently. "We've both been cruel without meaning to be, and we're in the shadow of a nightmaref and next time you come perhaps all the war talk will be over and'--oh, this is enough for today!" She turned quickly in veritable flight and hurried toward the house. "If it ever comes," she called, "I'll let ^ou know! I'll fly to you in a chariot of fire bearing my flame--I am that bold, that braxen, that reckless! For I am not an old maid, yet They've moved the age limit up to thirty. But you can't drill love Into me as you drill discipline into armies--no, no more than I can argue peace into armies!" For a while, motionless, Lanstron watched the point where she had dis­ appeared. CHAPTER tittf'j 'I warned ^im of that,' said Lan- Btron. "He is a soldier, with a sol' dier b fatalism. He Bees no more dan der in this than in commanding a bat­ tery in a crisis." Suppose that the GrayB win? Sup­ pose that La Tir Is permanently theirs?" They Bhall not win! They must km v mmm •sS i take the offensive," he said. "For us. ! not!" Lanstron exclaimed, his tone as the defensive. La Tir is In an angle ' ~ flf tees aot hstaag ta| the perm&no* rigid as Westerling's toward her sec­ ond prophecy how you are to make a redoubt of our lawn, inviting the shells of the enemy into our drawing-room?" What could he say? Only call up from the depths the two passions of his life in an outburst, with all the force of his nature in play. 'I love this soil, my country's soil, ours by right--and I love you! I would be true to both!" "Love! What mockery to mention that now!" she cried chokingly. "It's monstrous!" "I--I--" He was making an effort to keep his nerves under control. This time the stiffening elbow failed. With a lurching abruptness he swung his right hand around and seized the wrist of that trembling, injured band that would not be still. She could not fail to noice the movement, and the sight was a magic that struck anger out of her. "Lanny, I am hurting you!" she cried miserably. "A little," he said, will finally domi­ nant over its servant, and he was smiling as when, half stunned and In agony--and ashamed of the fact--he had risen from the debris of cloth and twisted braces. "It's all right," he con­ cluded. She threw back her arms, her head raised, with a certain abandon as If she would bare her heart. "Lanny, there have been moments when I would have liked to fly to your arms. There have been foments when I have had the call that conies to ev^ry woman In answer to a desire. Yet I was not ready. When I really go It must be in a flame, in answer to your flame!" "You mean--1--" But if the flame were about to butst forth sho smothered it in the, Making a War. Hed worth Westerling would hav6 said twenty to one if he had been asked the odds against war when he was parting from Marta Galland in the hotel reception room. Before he reached home he would have changed them to ten to onfe. A scare bulletin about the Bodlapoo affair compelling attention as his car halted to let the traffic of a cross street pass, he bought a newspaper thrust in at the car win­ dow that contained the answer of the government. of the Browns to a dis­ patch of the Grays about the dispute that had arisen in the distant African jungle. This he had already read two days previously, by courtesy of the premier. It was moderate in tone, as became a power that had 3,000,000 sol­ diers against its opponent's 5,000,000; nevertheless, it firmly pointed out that the territory of the Browns had been- overtly invaded, on the pretext of se­ curing a deserter who had escaped across the line, by Gray colonial troops who had raised the Gray flag in place of the Brown flag and remained defiantly in occupation of the outpost they had taken. As yet, the Browns had not attempt­ ed to repel the aggressor by armB for fear of complications, but were relying on the Gray government to order a withdrawal of the Gray force and the repudiation of a commander who had been guilty of so grave an international affront. The surprising and illuminat­ ing thing to Westerling was the in­ spired statement to the press from the Gray foreign office, adroitly appealing to Gray chauvinism and justifying the "intrepidity" of the Gray commander in response to so-called "pin-pricking" exasperations. At the door of his apartment, Fran- cols, .his valet and factotum, gave Wes­ terling a letter. "Important, sir," said Francois. Westerling knew by a glance that it was, for it was addressed and marked "Personal" in the premier's own hand­ writing. A conference for ten that evening was requested In a manner that left no doubt of its urgency. Curiosity made him a little ahead of time, but he found the premier await­ ing him in his study, free from inter­ ruption or eavesdropping. In the shadow of the table lamp the old. premier looked his year*. From youth he had been In politics, ever a bold figure and a daring player, but now beginning to feel th<- pressure of younger men's elbows. Fonder even of power, which had become a habit, than in his twenties, hs saw ft slipping from his grasp at an age when the downfall of his govesnment meant that he should never hold the reins again. He had been called an ambitious dem­ agogue and a makeshift opportunist by his enemies, but the crowd liked him for his ready strategy, his genius for appealing phrases, and for the gam­ bler's virtue which hitherto had made him a good loser. "You saw our communique tonight that went with the publication of the Browns' dispatch?" he remarked. "Yes, and I am glad that I had been careful to send a spirited commander to that region," Westerling replied. "So you guess my intention, I see." The premier smiled. He picked up a long, thin ivory paper-knife and softly patted the palm of his hand with it. "Certainly!" Westerling replied in his ready, confident manner. "We hear a great deal about the pre­ cision and power of modern arms as favoring the defensive," said the pre­ mier. "I have read somewhere that it will enable the Browns to hold us back, despite our advantage of numbers. Also, that they can completely man every part of their frontier and that their ability to move their reserves rapidly, thanks to modern facilities, makes a powerful flanking attack in surprise out of the question." "Some half-truths in that," an- Westerling. "One axiom, that must hold good through all time, is that the aggressive which keeps at It always wins. We take the aggressive. In the space where Napoleon deployed a di­ vision, we deploy a battalion today. The precision and power of modern arms require this. With such immense forces and present-day tactics, the line of battle will practically cover the length of the frontier. Along their range the Browns have a series of fortresses commanding natural open­ ings for our attack. These are almost impregnable. But there are pregnab»e points between them. Here, our method will be the same that the Japa­ nese followed and that they learned from European armies. We shall con­ centrate in masses and throw in wave after wave of attack until we have gained the positions we desire. Once we have a tenable foothold on the crest of the range the Brown army must fall back and the rest will be a matter of skillful pursuit." The premier, as he listened, rolled the paper knife over and over, regard­ ing its polished sides, which were like Westerling's manner of facile state­ ment of a program certain of fulfill­ ment. "How long will it take to mobilize?" "Less than a week after the rail­ roads are put entirely at our service, with three preceding days of scattered movements," answered Westerling. "Deliberate mobilizations are all right for a diplomatic threat that creates t» furore in the newspapers and a de­ pression In the stock market, but which 1* Tint, to be carried out. When A it yon ssssa »W spesA and the tw fever at white heat." "You would have made a good poll tician, Westerling," the premier re­ marked, with a twitching uplift 'of the brows and a knowing gleam in, his shrewd old eyeB. "Thank you," replied Westerling, "a man who is able to lead in anything must be something of a politician." "Very true, indeed. Terhaps I had that partly in mind In making you vice-chief of staff," responded.the pre­ mier. v " "Then it (III goes back to the publlo --to that enormous body of human­ ity out there!" lie swung the paper knife avopnd with outstretched arm toward the walls of the room. "To public opinion--as does everything else in this afe-^-to the people--our masters, your and mine! For no man can stand against them when they say no or yep." "Yon know the keys to play on, thongh," remarked WeBterllng with a complimentary smils. "No one knows quite so well." "And you are sure--sure we can win?" the premier asked with a long, tense look at Westerling, who was steady under the scrutiny. "Absolutely!" he answered. "Five millions against three! It's mathe­ matics, or our courage and skill are not equal to theirs. Absolutely! We have the power, why not use it? We do not live1 In a dream age!" From a sudden, unwitting exertion of his strength the knife which had been the recipient of his emotions snapped in two. Rather carefully ths premier laid the pieces on the table before he rose and turned to Wester­ ling, his decision made.. "If the people respond with the yrar fever, then it is war," he said.. "I take you at your word that you will win!" "A condition!" Westerling an­ nounced. "From the moment war be­ gins the army is master of all intelli­ gence, All communication, all re­ sources. Everything we require goes into ths crucible!" (TO BE CONTINUED.) SHOW GRATITUDE FOR RELIEF Elephants Cured of Toothache Glvs ' Cvsry Demonstration of Thank­ fulness to ths Dentist. It is not easy to tell when an ele­ phant has got the toothache, but it is best to keep out of his way when you do kuow it. A London surgeon, who had been for many years in India, says' he would sooner risk a railway acci­ dent than meet an elephant with tooth­ ache. It appears that toothache affects an elephant in a more severe manner than it does any other animal. Elephants have very sensitive nerves, and a touch of toothache often brings on madness. Providing you are able to cha}n down an elephant and draw out the offending tooth, the brute is certain to be affectionate to you afterward Here Is an instance. / An elephant in Bengal, India, became affected with toothache, but the keejh era managed to secure it while a den­ tist drew a decayed tooth--the cause of the trouble. After a time the ele­ phant seemed to understand that the dentiBt was trying to do something for his pain, and he gave every evidence of appreciating the attention. When the operation was over he frisked round the dentist like a young lamb. Origin of Dust. It has been estimated that an aver­ age puff of smoke from a cigarette contains about four thousand millions of particles of dust. • single grain of indigo will Impart color to a ton of water. It follows, therefore, that every drop of this water takes over on Immense number of ultra-micro scopic particles of Indigo. A few grains of fluorescein, a sub­ stance derived from coal tar, will pro­ duce a distinct fluorescense. To pro duce this result the fluorescein under­ goes. of course, divisions Into count­ less billions of particles. Almost every substancs enters into the composition of dust. Street dust shows morsels of iron snd steel from the tires of wagons, horseshoes and the nails of men's boo|s, bits of leather from the har­ ness, fragments of wood, cotton,, wool, hair, paper, clay, sand, bacteria, eta 8sve the Dog* The Oregon state board of health bulletin says wisely With reference to mad dogs, "never kill the animal that bit you, save it with the greatest care," for the condition that dog de­ velops is of the greatest consequence to the person bitten. If the dog is killed, the negri bodies, which are of importance in the diagnosis, may not be developed and no one will ever know whether the dog was or was not rabid. But If the dog Is saved he will himself within a week or ten days show whether or not be Is rabid. If he proves himself clear of rabies the man bitten need give the matter no further consideration from that side, and if it prove that he be rabid, there is still plenty of time for the man to take the proper remedies. If a dog bites you, save the dog. Why Flowers Flash. The strange phenomenon exhibited by some red flowers of seeming to flash in the twilight, but only when the flower comes sideways into the range of vision, is explained by Prof. F. A. W. Thomas of Iena. He says twilight makes red seem brighter and green duller than in full daylight. As the Image of the red flower moves from the peripheral part of the retina, where the rods are red-blind, to ths fovea, the red is perceived more vivid­ ly than before, and this Image coin­ cides with the Purkinje after-image of the surroundings, giving th^e impre* slon of a flash. Quslified Rebuke. Five-year-old Marie likes to see the funny pictures. She had the paper spread out on the floor looking at it when her father turned out the light Mary was angry at this, and said, "You've got your nerve," ljut as shs realized immediately whom she was talking to she hastily added, "Bat yo« know your rights."5 ; R Illinois: " Brevitie# / '• -r,,,, Pontlac.--Joseph T. Kane, brooding over fancied wrongs, took his own life at his home a half mile east .of Car­ diff, shooting himself with a shotgun. Duquoin.--Blain Fisher was killed and Edwin Hail was dangerously in­ jured when an automobile which they were driving from Duquoin to Hinck- neyville dashed over an embankment. St. Charles.--A burglar overlooked |220 in money at the home of John T. Langell when the house was bur­ glarized and articles valued at |75 were stolen. Paris.--The continued <Jry Feather has forced closing of the waterworks here to general consumers. WThat lit­ tle water there is is being reserved for use in case of fire. Eaet St. Louis.--Because she did not know whether she already had a hus­ band or not, a marriage license was refused to Charles Smothers, aged thirty-two, and Anna Nunfi, thirty-one, both of East St. Louis. East St. Louis.--Failure of lone Matlack of East St. Louis to appear in Justice Louis E. Wangelin's court in Bellevue to answer charges pending against her, resulted id the court de­ claring a forteiture of her $300 bond. Gillespie.--'Gillespie has experienced a building boom in 1914. that has few equals for its size. There have been 72 buildings of different descriptions, such as bungalows and/ business places, erected. / Danville.--Dan Holland, alleged de­ serter from the United States army, was taken to Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis.' Holland deserted from the government hospital at Hot Springs, Ark., It is charged. Bloomingtotn.--Rev. Lofiis Huff an­ nounced his acceptance of a call to Centennial Christian church here. He will be succeeded at Mount Sterling church by ReV. A. T. Shaw of Ma­ comb. Plainfleld.--Charged with disorderly conduct by his son, Henry Shoger Michael Shoger, well known Wheat land farmer, has vowed he woulo spend $5,000, If necessary, to fight the charge preferred by his son. Pana.--The case of Harley Baity and the Toledo, Peorii Western Railway company has been begun in the branch circuit court. Baity lost both legs in an accident on the To­ ledo, Peoria & Westert and is suing the company for $50,000 East St. Louis.--Fr*nk Metzger, eighteen years old, died at St. Mary's hospital from injuries l^ceived when a Southern switch en&lne ran him down, severing both legs at the knees. Springfield.--The locomotive fire­ men and engineers, through their state legislative board, will seek a change in the federal law so as to reduce the hours of trainmen from 16 to 10 a day. Cairo.^--The towboat Joseph B. W1 llama caught fire, burned to the wi. ter's edge and sank in the middle at the Ohio river. The Williams was one of the largest towboats on inland war ters. She was 210 feet long and had a 40-foot beam and 6.5 depth of hull. She was built in Pittsburgh in 1876, and was rebuilt several years ago. Jacksonville. -- Firing a revolver, which he thought was unloaded, at his sweetheart In fun, Arthur Templin in­ stantly killed Miss Irene Fanning, daughter of Sherman Fanning. Al­ bert Prewit, who was calling on the dead girl's sister at the time, had put two cartridges back in the gun which had^been previously emptied by .Templin. A coroner's jury gave a verdict of accidental shooting. Alton.--An order for ammunition received by a local cartsidge company will necessitate the employment o! several hundred additional hands and the operation of the factory day and night for six months. The order was placed by a New York banking firm, which did not disclose the identity of its client. The ammunition is to be delivered at New York. The shells ordered correspond to .43-caliber bul­ lets and will carry lead bullets not steel jacketed. The clugs will be wrapped in paper before they are placed in the shells. Danville.--A big reward is offered by the commissioners of Fountain county for the arrest of the persons who fired the long wagon bridge aeross the Wabash river. Fountain county is completely isolated from Warren and Vermilion counties, its principal tributaries. The commission has succeeded in leasing a big barge that has been used as a ferry at La­ fayette since the big floods of last year, and it will be started down the river at once. The nearest bridges across the Wabash are at At­ tica, 18 miles north by river and Perrysville, 14 miles south. The bridge, erected in 1854 as a toll bridge, was owned by Enos Nebeker, afterwards treasurer of the United States and made him immensely wealthy, before the county purchased it and made it free. Springfield--The Illinois board of health has sent experts to Carbondale to investigate an epidemic of strep- tococous sore throat. It is suspected that infected milk Is to blame. Duquoin.--One man, Richard Webb, a shift hand, was killed in the powder explosion in the Majestic mine near here. Alton.--George Nevlin, an Upper Al­ um business man, has quit tobacco after using it 40 years. He smoked and chewed to such an extent that it impaired his health. His physicians advised him to use will power in stop­ ping, and he succeeded. Gslesburg.--Abingdon has started a move for "square-up-day," wnich has gained favor rapidly throughout the county. Designating January 1 as "square-up-day," it is proposed that everybody settle his financial obliga­ tions, social difficulties and petty quar­ rels. thus creating a proper spirit of good will on starting the new year. Springfield.--Mrs. Emma L. Schrake has instituted a suit in the circuit court for herself and nine children, in which she wishes damages of $5,000 from Bartol Ramshack and Joseph Gro- bellnk, as a result of their selling liq- fOT to her husband, John D. Schrake. The Cause Laid Bare Tea and coffee drinkers often notice backache, headache, rheumatic pain, dia- zlneaa. drowsy, tired feelings, disturbed urination and other nigns of kldnpy weak­ ness. The constant use of narcotic or al­ coholic drinks 1B very apt to Irritate the kidneys, and weak kidneys need prompt help to avert a!) danger of dropsy, gravel or fatal Brlght's disease. Avoid the use of stimulants, drink more water, get more r«'8t, fresh air and exerblse. To tone and strengthen the rlred kidneys, use Doan 's Kidney Pills, the most successful and highly recommended kidney remedy. Ail Illinois Case Mrs. .T. R. Plttston. 902 Chestnut St., Montlfcello, 111., says: "For twelve years I had kidney trouble and I suffered so severely that I had to give up entirely. For a month I was almost helpless. My whole body was sore and I had cold chills ar>d hot flashes. Doc­ tors said I had grav­ el. My husband in­ sisted on my trylngj Doan's Kidney Pills and X dfd. Five boxes completely rid me of th« pain and made me feel like a different person. I can't be too grateful." Crt Dotrfi at Any Star*. SOe • Baa DOAN'S «„va*T FOSTER-MILBURN CO, - LS BUFFALO. N. Y« The Wretchedness of Constipation Can quickly be overcome by CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. Purely vegetable ---act surely and fiently on the iver. Cure Biliousness, H e a d ­ a c h e , D i z z i ­ ness, and Indigestion. They do their duty. SHALL PILL. SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE* Genuine mu$t bear Signature HOLSTEIN CATTLE CARTERS ITTLE IVER PILLS. In the next 80 days I will offer forsale200 bead of high- grade llolsiein heifers running In age from 1 to 8 years old, a number of tliem sprinKlntf bag to freshen now, well marked and in good condition. They will run T-s and 16-16 Holsteln and are bred to registered bulla. Will also offer 1U0 head of fully developed, heavf milkilit cows. nart. of t.hom fresh nn<l balance due tit freshen noon. Also have 25 head of registered and high-grade bulls of no relation to the above cows of helf ers. 1 will have a few choice heifer and bull calves to offer In the near future that are 15-16 and Bl-82 Holsteln, at $16.00 each. First draft takes them. Write me your wants. JAMES DORSEY. DEPT. W. N„ GILBERTS. KANE COUNTY. ILLINOIS RIGHT WHERE SHE BELONGED Department Store Manager Found No Difficulty In Placing Nice Look­ ing but 8tupld Girl "I am afraid," a&ld the assistant manager of the mammoth metropoli­ tan department Btore, "the young woman who has just inquired for a job Isn't up to our standard." "I thought she seamed like a very nice-looking person," said the man­ ager. "You know It pays to have good- looking people back of the counter. Have you ever considered that point?" "Yes, I have. I agree with you. But she struck me as being extremely stupid. She certainly was not very well educated." "Could she read and write?" "Barely." "Did she have any knowledge of literature?" "Apparently hone whatever." The manager's face brightened up. "She's too nice looking a person to let go by. In that case, why don't you employe her as a saleswoman In our book department?" The Outdoor Habit. Here is a valuable bit of adviee from the bulletin of the Chicago department of health: "Do you begrudlge your boy a ball game on the vacant lot after school hours? The strenuous exercise he will get in the open air after his day in the classroom will do him good. In other words, do all you can to encour­ age the outdoor habit." Life ie no Joke to the fellow who trie* to live by his wits. FOUND OUT. A Trained Nurae Dlaooverod Italfleet. No one Is in better position to know the value of food and drink than a trained nurse. Speaking of coffee, a nurse In Pa., writes: "I used to drink strong cof­ fee myself, and, suffered greatly from headaches and indigestion. "While on a visit to my brothers I had a good chance to try Poatum. for they drank it altogether In place of coffee. After using Postum two weeks I found I whb much benefited anu Anally my headaches disappeared and also the indigestion. "Naturally I have since used Postum among my patients, anu have noticed a marked benefit where coffee has been left off "id Postum used. "I observe a Curious fact abont Postum when used by mothers. It greatly helps the flow of milk in case* where coffee Is Inclined to dry it up, and where tea causes nervousness. "I find trouble in getting servants to make Postum properly. But when it is prepared according to directions on package and served hot with cream, It Is certainly a delicious bev­ erage. ' Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek. Mich. Read "The Road' to Wellville, in pkgs. Postum comes in two forms: Regular Postum--must be .weE boiled. 15c and 2m packages. Instant Postum--it a soluble powder. A ftoaapoonful dissolves quickly in a cup of hot water and. with cream and sugar, made a delicious beverage in* atantly. 30c Jind 60c tins. The cost per cup of both kinds la •bout tho same. "There's a fteason" for t*oetum. --•old by Grocei*.