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' " : \ : ^ . ' ' -. v r%" ->.!&«*• •£** 54- 40 C«3l̂ no HT m IMERfON HOUGH aitokimr. or Ttww MiS^itffipP* i»r»m r; 11 Lll*%t f£Af Il'K^ hfy Wi5' <*• JtvjL-ifc e&E>VrjiOJf5T" i9^9 f-TESRI'.l. CXiMP/iW STATE NEWS SYNOPSIS. $ -- Senator John Calhoun Is offered the portfolio of secretary of state in Tyler's cabinet. He declares that If he accepts it means that Texas and Oregon miist be added to the "Union. He plans to learn the Intentions of England with regard to Mexico, through Baroness Von Kitz, se­ cret spv and reputed mistress of the Knglish ambassador, Pakenham. He sends his secretary, Nicholas Trlst, to bring the baroness to his apartment. While searching for the baroness' home, a carriage drives up and he is invited to enter. The occupant is the baroness, who says ehe is being pursued. The pursuers are shaken off. The baroness consents to see Calhoun. Nicholas notes that she bas lost a slipper. She gives Nicholas the remaining slipper as a pledge that she w!l! tell Calhoun all, and, as security, "Nicholas gives her a trinket lie intended for his sweet heart. Elizabeth Churchill. Nichola« is ordered to leave at once for Montreal on state business, by Calhoun, who has become secretary of state, and plans to be married that night. Tyler warns Pakenham that interference by England in the affairs of this continent will not be tolerated. The west de­ mands that the joint occupancy of Ore­ gon with Great Britain cease, and has (raised the cry of "Fifty-four, Forty or flight." The baroness tells Nicholas she will do her best to prevent his marriage. She returns the trinket and he promises to return her slipper. Nicholas enlists the services of Congressman Dandridge, a rejected suitor of Elizabeth's, to assist In the arrangements for the wedding and entrusts him with the return of the slip­ per to the baroness. The congressman gets drunk and sends the slipper to Eliza­ beth. The wedding is declared off. and Nicholas is ordereit rrom m« huuf. l,;.~ Elizabeth's father. Nicholas is ordered to gain access to a meeuftg of the Hud­ son Bay directors in Montreal and learn England's intentions regarding Oregon. Nicholas sees the baroness leave the di­ rectors' meeting in Montreal, where he had failed to gain admission. She warns him that his life is in danger and he ac­ cepts an invitation to pass the night at her home. She quisnec him as to whether his wedding took place, and gets no sat­ isfaction. She tells him that the slipper she gave him contained a message from the attache of Texas to the British am­ bassador, saying that if the United States did not annex Texas within 30 days, she would lose both Texas and Oregon. He decides to take the message to Callionn. CHAPTER XVII.--Continued. lie smiled. "It iss not a chance, but a certainty," he said. "It wass only agreed last night. England will march this summer 700 men up the Peace river. In the fall' they will be across the Rockies. So! They can take boats easily jdown the streams to Oregon. You ask if there will be troubles. I tell you, yess." "What time can England make with her brigades, west-bound, my friend ?" I asked him casually. He an­ swered \iiith gratifying scientific pre­ cision. "Prom Edmonton to Fort Colville, west of the Rockies, it hass been done in six weeks, and five days, by Sir George himself. From Fort Colville down it iss easy by boats. It takes the voyageur three months to cross, or four months. It would take troops twice that long, or more. For you in the states, you can go faster. And ah! my friend, it iss worth the race, that Oregon. Believe me, it iss full of bugs--of new bugs; 12 news species I taaf discovered and named. It iss sometings of honor, iss it not?" "What you say interests me very much, sir," I said. "I am only an American trader, knocking around to see the world ei little bit. You seem to have been engaged in some scien­ tific pursuit in that country." "Yess," he said. "Mein own govern­ ment and mein own university, they send me to this country to do what hass not been done. I am insecto- loger. Shall I show you my bugs of Oregon? You shall see them yess? Come with me to my hotel. You shall see many bugs, such as science hass not yet known." I was willing enough to go with him; and true to his word he did show me such quantities of carefully pre­ pared and classified insects as I had not dreamed oilr own country offered. "Twelve new species!" he said, with pride. "Mein own country will gif me honor for this. Five years I spend. Now I go back home. "I shall not tell you what nickname they gif me in Oregon." he added, smiling; "but my real name iss Wol­ fram von Rittenhofen. Berlin, it wass last my home. Tell me, you go soon to Oregon?" "That Is very posslme," I answered; and this time at least I spoke the truth. "We are bound in opposite di­ rections, but if you are sailing for Europe this spring, you would save time and gain comfort by starting from New York. It would give us great pleasure if we could welcome so distinguished a scientist In Wash­ ington." "No, I am not yet distinguished. Only shall I be distinguished when I have shown my 12" new species to mein own university." But it would give me pleasure also to show you Washington. You should see also the government of those backwoodsmen who are crowding out' to Oregon. Would you not like to travel with me in America so far as that?" ile shook his head doubtfully. "Per- ! aps 1 make mistake to come by the St. I^awrtnce? It would be shorter to go by New York? Well, 1 haf no hurry I think it over, yess." "But tell me, where did you get that leetle thing?" he asked me again pres­ ently, taking up in his hand the In­ dian clasp. "I traded for it among the Crow In­ dians "You know what it iss. eh?" "No, except that it is Indian made." He scanni^d the round disks care­ fully. "Wait!" he exclaimed. "I show you sometings." • He reached for my pencil, drew toward him a piece of paper, taking from his pocket meantime a bit of string. Using the latter for a radius, ha drew a circle on the piece of paper. "Now look what I do!" he said, as I bpnt over curiously. "See, I draw a straight line through the circle. I di­ vide it in half, so. I divide it in half once more, and make a point. Now I "it string, one-half. On each side of my long line I make me a half circle--only half way round on the opposite sides. So, now, what 1 got, eh? You understand him?" 1 shook my head. . He pointed in turn to the rude ornamentation in the shell clasp. I declare that then I CCuH ooo o raonni hisses bvtWvvu thv two designs! "It is curious," I said. "Mein Gott! it iss morevthan curi­ ous. It iss vonderful! I haf two Ama- zonias collected by my own hands, and 12 species of my own discovery, yess, in butterflies alone. That iss much? Listen. It iss nosings! Here iss the discovery!" He took a pace or two excitedly, and came back to thump with his fore­ finger on the little desk. "What you see before you iss the sign of the Great Monad! It iss known in China, in Burmah, in all Asia, in all Japan. It iss sign of the great One, of the great Two. In your hand iss the Tah Gook--the Oriental symbol for life, for sex. Myself, I haf seen that in Sitka on Chinese brasses; I haf seen it on Japanese signs, in one land and in another land. But here you show it to me made by the hand ! of Dome termrant aborigine of this con­ tinent! On this continent, where it did not originate and does not belong! It iss a discovery! Science shall hear of it. It iss the link of Asia to Amer­ ica. It brings me fame!" He put his hand into a pocket, ana drew it out half filled with gold pieces and with raw gold in the form' of nuggets, as though he would offer exchange. I waved him back. "No," said I; "you are welcome to one of these disks, if you please. If you wish, I will take one little bit of these. But tell me, where did you find these pieces of raw gold?" "Those? They are notings. I recol- ' You haf perhaps studied the species of woman. Once, also I." We walked, my friend musing and babbling, myself still anxious and un­ easy. We turned out of narrow Notre Dame street, and into St. Law- ence Main street. As we strolled I noted without much interest the mot­ ley life about me, picturesque now with the activities of the advancing spring Presently, however, my idle gaze was drawn to two young Eng­ lishmen whose bearing in some way gave me the impression that they be­ longed in official or military life, al­ though they were in civilian garb. Presently the two halted, and sep­ arated. The taller kept on to the east, to the old French town. At length 1 saw him joined, as though by appoint­ ment, by another gentleman, one whose appearance at once gave me reason for a second look. He ac­ costed mv young Englishman, and without hesitation the two started off together. As they did so I gave an involuntary exclamation. The taller man 1 had seen once before, the shorter, very many times--in Wash­ ington ! Yess,' commented my old scientist calmly; so strange! They go to^ gether ' "Ah. you know them!'" I almost fell upon hilu. "Yess--last night. The tall one iss Mr. Peel, a young Englishman; the other is Mexican, they said--Senor Yturrio, of Mexico. He spoke much. Me, 1 wass sleepy then. But also that other tall one we saw go back--that wass ('apt. Parke, also of the British navy. His ship iss the war boat Modeste--a fine one. 1 see her often when I walk on the riffer front, there." 1 turned to him and made some ex­ cuse, saying that presently 1 would join him again at the hotel. Dream- plpe, as <hey turned In at the very gate which I knew, and knocked at the door which I had entered with my mysterious companion! The door opened without delay, they both entered. So, then, Helena von Ritz had other visitors! England and Mexico were in deed conferring here in Montreal There were matters going forward here in which my government was concerned. At the moment nothing better oc­ curred to me than to return to my room and wait for a time. It would serve no purpose for me to disclose myself, either in or om of the apart­ ments of the baroness, and it would not aid me to be seen idling about the neighborhood in a city where there was so much reason to suppose stran­ gers were watched. 1 resolved to waitfuntil the next morning, and to take my friend Von Rittenhofen with me. He need not know all that 1 knew, yet in case of any accident to myself or any sudden contretemps, he would serve both as a witness and as an excuse for disarming any sus­ picion which might be entertained re garding myself. ' The next day he readily enough fell in with my suggestion of a morning stroll, and again we sallied forth, at about nine o'clock having by that time finished a dejeuner a la four chette with Jacques Rertillon, which to my mind compared unfavorably with one certain other 1 had shared. A sense of uneasiness began to ojv press me. I knew not why, before 1 Bloomington.--Most of the men em­ ployed in the local shops .of the Chica­ go & Alton railroad in this city will re­ ceive two cents an hour increase as the result of tne amicable settlement Of a strike by the men. Rockford--Nicholas Maggio is un­ der arrest in this city charged with scattering kerosene coaked rolls of pa- | per in the basement of his store, carry­ ing out most of his stock and then set­ ting fire to the establishment. Alton.--Theodore Rosser, who has i been sought for the last eight years on J a charge of fatally assaulting Joseph | Jenkins near Alton at that time, has i Just been arrested and wiii be tried for | murder. j Ingalton--Three men were instantly | killed by the explosion of a boiler on I a locomotive on the Chicago Great | Western railroad near this place, and ! several persons were seriously injured I by flying debris. i Palmer.--The Meader school, located J about one-half mile north of Clarks- dale. has been closed on account of an epidemic of scarlet fever and diph­ theria raging in that neighborhood, j Blue Island. -- Three cement workers i were Instantly killed and six of their ' companions were seriously injured j when the roof over a large kiln upon i which th«y were working collapsed, crushing and suffocating the men be- . neath the mass of wet cement and j boards. Paxton.-- A fire at Ixida destroyed the Catholic parsonage Containing the books and valuable paintings belong­ ing to Rev. Father Healv, who was on a visit to Lincoln. | Chicago.-- Placing a long and nar- ' row plank so that it bridged tbe space between the second floor apartment home of E. B. Woolf. 4610 Drexel boulevard, the men--two of them, pre­ sumably--crawled across the perilous span and ransacked the bedrooms in the Woolf home while the family was j at dinner. Jewelry valued at more | than $1.4oO was taken. So noiseless- i ly did the robbers work that it was an BEAR GIVEN A WOMAN 1 BY BORNEO SAVAGES, WIFE OF A NfcW YORK ZOO MAN GETS PRESENT FROM CAN- NIBAL8. New. York.--All the way from the wildest parts of the Island of Borneo has journeyed a little black ball of teeth, claws, fur and bad temper, to look out of steel bars of a roological cage. Its ^iaine is Heldretos Malay- anus. but Keepers Landsberg and Kane in the small mammal house of the Bronx Zoo called it "Sunny" to­ day, because it is the cutest, round- eyed, sun bear cub that has ever been brought to the big animal inclosure. While in that portion of the Island of Borneo known as Sarawak, C Wil­ liam Beebe, the curator of birds of \ & 7 J \ H sr^ M.ttttV-.UUlfer"'// ^iiLt had gone half way down the little i hour after the family had finished din- M i L i 'Yes,' Commented My Old Scientist Calmly; gether." 'So Strange. They Co To- lect me I found these one day up on the Rogue river, not far from my cabin. I am pursuing a most beauti­ ful moth, such as I haf not in all my collection. So, I fall on a log; I skin me my leg. In the moss I find some bits of rock. I recollect me not where, but believe it wass somewhere there. But what I find now, here, by a stran­ ger--it iss worth more than gold! My friend, I thank you, I embrace you! I am favored by fate to meet you. Go with you to Washington? Yess, yess, I go!" CHAPTER XVIII. The Missing Slipper. There will always remain something to be said of woman as long as there is oAe on earth.--Bauflers. We passed the luncheon hour at the hostelry of my friend Jacques Bertil- lon; after which I suggested a stroll about the town for a time. Before we started, 1 asked him to step to my room, where I had left my pipe. My eye fell on the commode's top, casually. I saw that it was bare. I recalled the strange warning of the baroness the evening previous. I was watched! My apartment had been en­ tered in my absence. Property of mine had been taken. My perturbation must have been discoverable in my face. "What iss it?" asked the old man. "You forget something?" "No," said I, Stammering. "It is nothing." He looked at me dubiously. "Well," then," I admitted; "I miss something from my commode here. Some one has taken it." "It iss of value, perhaps?" he in­ quired politely. "Well, no; not of intrinsic value. 'Twas only a sllpp3r--of white satin, made by Braun of Pa^lB." "One slipper? Of what use--" ' It belonged to a lady--I was about to return it," I said; but I fear my face showed me none too ca^n. "Each man studies for himself hi* own specialty," mused the old man. ily as ever, he smiled and took his leave. Fbr myself, I walked on rapid­ ly after the two figures, then a block or so ahead of me. I saw them turn into a street which was familiar to myself. They passed on. turning from time to time among the old houses of the French quarter. Presently they entered the short side street which I myself had seen for the first time the previous night. 1 pretended to busy myself with my street from the corner where we turned. It was glootnv and dismal enough at the best, and on this morn­ ing an unusual apathy seemed to sit upon it, for few of the shutters were down, although the hour was now inid- morning. Something said to me that It would be as well for me to turn back 1 might as well have done so. We passed up the little walk, and 1 raised the knocker at the door; but even as it sounded 1 knew what would happen. There came to me that curious feeling which one experiences when one knocks at the door of a house which lacks human < occupancy. Even more strongly I had that strange feeling now, because this sound was not merely that of unoccupied rooms --it came from rooms empty and echo­ ing! I tried the door. It was not locked. 1 flung' it wide, and stepped within. At first 1 could not adjust my eyes to the dimness. Absolute si­ lence reigned. I pushed open a shut­ ter and looked about me. The rooms were not only unoccupied, but unfur­ nished! The walls and floors were ut­ terly bare! Not a sign of human oc­ cupancy existed. I hastened out to the little walk, and looked up and down the street, to satisfy myself that I had made no mistake. No, this was the number--this was the place. Followed by my wondering com­ panion, I made such iirtjuiry a si 1 could in the little neighborhood. 1 could learn nothing. "Sir," said 1 to my friend, at last; "I do not understand it. I have pursued, but it seems the butterfly has flown." So, both silent, myself morosely so, we turned and made our way back across the town. Half an hour later we were on the docks at the river front, where we could look out over the varied ship­ ping which lay there. My scientific friend counted one vessel after an­ other. and at last pointed to a gap in the line. "Yesterday I wass here," he said, "and I counted all the ships and their names. The steamer Modeste she lay there. Now she iss gone." I pulled up suddenly. This was the ship which carried Capt. Parke and his friend Lieut. Peel of the British navy. The secret council at Mon­ treal was, therefore, apparently end­ ed! There would be an English land expedition, across Canada to Oregon. Would there be also an expedition by sea? At least ray errand in Montreal, now finished, had not been in vain, even though it ended in a mye'erj and a query. • (TO BE CONTINUKO.) Castle A shby and Its Texts Castle Ashby. the residence ot the *- marquis of Northampton, stands alone among all the stately homes of Eng­ land" as embodying in its architectural features texts of Scripture in solid masortry set out for every one to see in the most prominent places possible. The porter's lodge at the entrance to the mansion bears on its cornice the inscription in Latin. "The Lord pro- serve thy coming in." and on the in­ ner cornice the text, "The l>jrd pre­ serve thy going out." The same ideas have been carried out in the design of the balustrades of the terraces sur­ rounding the lawns and flower beds, which make the gardens of Castle Ashby among the most beautiful in the country. The maiision itself is unique, as all its pediments are composed of texts of Scripture in Latin. Commencing at the south end of the west wing is the inscription, in bold letters, "Except the Lord, the Keeper, keep the house, in vain he watches who keeps it." Then follows another inscription dated 1624, the year t^ie house was completed, "Except the Lord build the house, they have labored in vain who build it." Along the outer balustrade we read, "Blessed are they who fear the Lord, who walk in bis ways. Praise ye the name of the Lord. Amen." Lord Northampton w, it may be stated, the president of tne Bible society. Modern Sardinia. King Victor's decision to pay Sar­ dinia his first visit since his accession is a reminder that this large Italian island still belong to the middle ages. It is hard to believe that Sardinia, known to the ancient Romans as the granary of the empire and its min­ eral treasure house, should so recently as 1828 have been entirely without roads. The beautiful highways over which, in Augustiun days, the goldep harvests had been wheeled to the coast had been lost since the fall ot the empire. Even feudalism retained Its hold on the life oi the Sardes till 1856. Pestilence due to neglected and undrained swamps has no doubt helped to retard the return to civiliza­ tion of the island which gave the crown to King Victor's house. We find many men who are great and some men who are good, but very few who are great and good.--Colton. I ner that their visit was discovered. The plank, still reaching from the sec- ond story window of the adjoining j new building to the window sill of the ; • Woolf home, told of the burglars' en- j ! trance. The Hyde Park police were at ; once notified of the burglary and a j , squad of detectives was put to work ; i in an effort to discover the identities j of these "plank" robbers. It is fig­ ured that at least two men are in- j | volved, as it would take at least that : number to place the plank in such a position that it spanned the space be­ tween the houses. Joliet.--A sudden rise in the Du Page river of eight feet flooded Elec­ tric park, a pretty summer resort at Plainfield, extensively patronized by ; Chicagoans, and cauBed great damage. 1 Nearly every shade tree was broken by the rush of ice and two dozen tele­ phone poles were swept away\ effec- I tually crippling the service in north- j western Will county. Dynamite is be- ; Ing used to break up a floe in Hickory creek, near the Joliet city water ! works. Rockford.--The smooth crook who ' swindled Beveral coal dealers at Au­ rora by ordering coal sent to a house telling them to send change for a twen­ ty dollar bill and then skipped out the back door with the change, has been i arrested in this city. j Chicago--John Sullivan of 3231 1 West Harrison street, a driver em­ ployed by the American Express com- I pany, suffered.probably fatal injuries i when his wagon was overturned by a ! Madison street car at West Madison j and Canal streets. Several ribs were . fractured and he suffered other inter- i nal injuries. Chicago.--Miss Caroline Wonn died ! suddenly In the home of her sister, i Mrs. J. G. Powers, 6037 Calumet ave- | nue. She returned home from a thea- I ter and suddenly became ill. A pby- l sician was called, but Bhe died before he arrived. Heart disease is believed to have been the cause of death. Bloomington.--Fred 'Davis, arrest­ ed at Rockford on a charge of operating a confidence game, answers the description of a man who operated here recently and who is believed to have swindled merchants in nearly every city of consequence in Illinois. Bloomington. -- Presbyterian home and foreign missions will profit to the extent of $70,000 by the will of Mrs. Phoebe Rose. She died at Dunlap in 1904 and ever since her will has been in the courts. Bloomington.--When a jury in the La Salle county circuit court gave Mrs. Ella Shepherd a judgment of $4,000 for the death of her hus­ band. who was killed in the Marquette coal mine, she became insane. Harrisburg.--Charles Hall, a New York Central conductor, who lives bere, was found probably fatally Wounded with a bullet hole jirtst be­ low his heart. He was taken to the hospital. One theory is that he shot himself after a quarrel with a young woman. Aurora.--The money which George Karasee took from Flora Salborn, "the queen of little Austria," in this city several days ago before he shot her six times, has been turned over to Chief of Police Miehales by Rev. Father Pop. who received It a confessional from the assassin. Peoria.--On a charge of selling 40 bull, pouts, someti nes called catfish, which were alleged to be under size, according to the standard set by a state law, W. A. Houston, an old-time resident of Peoria, knowif for his hon­ esty and uprightness, has been ar rested. Kewanee.--A kerosene lamp ex plod ed and fired the home of A. J. Nelson in this city, bu{ the flames crept to a grip containing patent medicine and the heat, causing the bottles to burst. ; the medicine extinguished the fire. Joliet--An accident that came near j costing the lives of two Chinese chil- J dren occurred when a lighted lamp was jerked from a table into*their bed over ! a Chinese laundry here setting firs to | the bed clothing. • Sandoval.--R. W. Snodgrass. whose j •on was killed In a mine accident here last December, was fatally injured bj | a premature explosion ia a loca* mLn» j Butcher Locks Debtor in Ice Box. when the butcher rushed out and de­ manded that he pay the bill. An ar­ gument ensued, and before Maleski could realize what was happening he was pulled into the store by his en- raged creditor. Youbas thrust him into a refrig­ erator and fastened the door from the outside The incident caused a com­ motion in the neighborhood. A squad *as sent from police headquartem and found Maleski still ia the icebox ou the verge of collapse. Dead Woman's Teeth Missing. I>awrenceburg. Ind.--Mrs. Sarah M. Botts. aged sixty five, a cook at th« Grand hotel, died suddenly after a brief illness It is believed her death was caused ty swallowing her false teeth The plate, with seven teeth in it. is missing and cannot be found. Yawns Her Jaw Out of Place. Westville, O--Miss Grace Brlggs. aged seventeen, and the daughter of Rev. J. Brlggs, yawned her jaw out of place, and a physician had to be called to restore it to proper posi­ tion. OTTIWA COLD STORAGE FOR DEBTOR Butcher Put a Man on lee When He Wouldn't Pay His Bill. Scranton. Pa.--Cold storage as a means of collecting a debt was used by Michael Youhas, a butcher of Scranton, to a point where the police came to the rescue of a shivering debtor. John Maleski was passing Youbas' eiofe, itCcurulug to iue pulicc, By Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound } Ottumwa, Iowa.--"Tor years I aln - -Miit sifferer from female trouble in all ita dreadful forms: shooting pains all over my body, sick h e a d a c h e , s p i n a l weakness, dizziness. depression, and everything that waa- hornd. I tried many doctors in different ^arts of the United states, but Lyd-a E- Pinkham's Vegeta- hfts Sun Bear Cub Given Curator's Wife. the Pronx Zoo. who 1s now on a two- year trip Into the unknown portions of the earth collecting rare specimens of bird life for exhibition here, was accompanied by Mrs. Beebe, as en­ thusiastic a naturalist as her hus* band. When the curator's party reached the region peopled by the Dyaks, the aboriginal race of that island, feared as the "wild men of Borneo" and known to be head hunters and canni> bals, Mrs. Beebe's presence in the wilds created great curiosity, for the head hunters beheld a white woman for the first time. While on the slopes of Mount Kim- balu, near the source of the River Kinabatangan, the naturalist's camp was suddenly surrounded by fierce looking Dyak chiefs, some robed In fan,t arctic garments made of birds* skins, some without clothes, some wreathed around the waist and tem­ ples with leaves and feathers. As Mr. Beebe noticed the head chief rush in the direction of Mrs. Beebe, the curator drew his automatic pistol and threw himself in a posture of de­ fense. But the precaution was un­ necessary, for the "wild man' merely laid a furry animated little bundle in the white woman's lap. It was a tiny, week-old sun bear held in great rev­ erence by the Dyaks. Mrs. Beebe carried the bear the rest of the jour­ ney and fed it from a bottle until the party reached Brunei, a seaport, from which the little cub was dispatched to the Bronx Zoo. ie Compound done more for me than all the doctor*. I feel it my duty to tell you these facts. My heart i'a full of gratitude to vou for my cure."--Mrs. Harriet E. Wampler, 524 S. Hansom Street Ottumwa, Iowa. Consider This Adrice. No woman should submit to a stirgjU cal operation, which may mean deauw antil she has given Lvdia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a fair trial. This famous medicine, made only from roots and herbs, has for thirty years proved to he the most valuable tonic and invigorator of the female organism. Women residing in almost every city and town in the United States bear willing testimony to the wonderful virtue of Lydia E. Pinfcp ham's VefrotahlA Cnrnnonnd Mrs. Pinkham, at T.ynn. Maiss^ Invites all sick women to writ« her for advice. Her advice is free, confidential, and always helpfuL si *1 # * P«orl«. 111. to remember when you need a remedy for COUGHS and COLr" His Head W»s Hard. It Is a common belief that the » gro's head Is hard, capable of standing almost any blow. The following story told of a promt nent young dentist of Danville, lit, would seem to indicate something of the kind, anyhow. Two negro men were employed on tearing down • three-story brick building; One n» gro was on top of the building taking off the bricks and sliding them down a narrow wooden chute to the ground, some thirty feet below, where the other was picking them up and piling them. When this latter negro was stoop­ ing over to pick up a brick, the forme* accidentally let one fall, striking hita directly on the head. Instead of its killing him, he merely looked up, without rising, and said: "What you doin' thar, nigger. yw» made me bite my tongue."--The Cir­ cle. , Scott's Rebecca in "Ivanhoe." The character of Rebecca, In Scott*® "Ivanhoe" was taken from a beautiful Jewess, Miss Rebecca Grsts cf Phila­ delphia. Her steadfastness to Juda­ ism, when related by Washington Ir­ ving to Scott, won his admiration and caused the creation of one ot his Att­ est characters. Commercial Anxiety. "A clockmaker must be the most as^- 6aey of manufacturers." "Why so?" "Because there is always the pro* pect of a strike In his works." Willie Knew the Quadrupeds. Teacher--Willie, are there i feathered quadrupeds" Willie--Yes. sir. Teacher--Name one. Willie--A feather bed. Domestic Amenities. Father--I think the baby looks Uk# you. Mother--Yes, it shuts ita eyes to awful lot. A man may go up when too kick him. but you cannot claim credit tot kindness Women Appreciate Step-savers and Time-aavers. Post Toasties roeo is fully cooked, ready to serve direct from the package with cream or milk, and is a deliciously good part oi any meal. A trial package usually establishes it as a favorite breakfast cereal. "The Memory Lingers1* rOSTVM CKRBAL CO, KM* SMtla Crash. Mtak JSLr.t'VT...