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:Wr • -r\:\ t<jqp mm. wm •• . aw =1 The Ward of King Canute A Romance of the Danish Conquest. By OTTILIE A. UUEKCRANTZ. author of Th« ThraN of U«f the Loeky. Copyright. by A. C, McCT.TKti & CO. CHAPTER XXV'U.--Continued. « gray--as though you had lost blool? The beauty that had been Sister j Lord, what has come near you? Wynfreda's hovered now about her mouth as fragrance around a dead rose. Her gaze was on a branch above them where a'little brown bird, call­ ing plaintively, was slipping from her nest. Over the wattled edge, two liny brown he«<J« were peeping like fuzzy beech nut rinds. "I wonder," she said, "what those little creatures up there will think when a few months hence the blue sky becomes leaden, such that no one of them ever before recollected it so dark, and the sun that |s wont to .-.creep to them through the leaves has gone out like a can­ dle before the winter winds? By rea­ son qf their youth, I suppose they will judiciously conclude with themselves that i:there is never going to be any blue sky again, that their lives will stretjjh before them in a dark-hued stress of weather, empty of all save leafless trees and frozen fields. My fledgeling, will they not be a litt'e ashamed of their short-sightedness when the spring has brought back the sufi?" The girl's lips parted before her quickening breath, and the old nun smiled at her tenderly as she moved away with h&r hands full of the green symbols of healing. "If you would 0e of use now, go gather the flowers for the Holy Table, and when themselves have drawn in holiness from the spot, then shall you bring them to the sicii woman oyer the hill." "Yes, Sister," the girl said submis­ sively. But when she had crossed the dai­ sied grass and opened the wicket gate and came out into the fragrant lane, something seemed to divide her mind :With the roses, for though she sent one glance toward the hedge, she sent another to the spot beyond--where the lane gave out upon the great Street to the City. "I wonder if I shall ever hunger for heaven as. I hunger for the sight of He could not conceal the sudden pleasure he got out of her alarm for him, even while he answered as light­ ly as he could that it was no more than the fatigue of his three days in the saddle; and a lack of food, per­ haps, as he had been somewhat press­ ed for time; Mid a lack of sleep be­ cause of-- But she was a warrior's daughter, and she would not t>e put off. Coming close to him. she pulled aside the dusty cloak, hot as a live coal iu the glare of the day, and there--behold!-- there were blood stains on the breast or his blue kirtle. Forgetful of every­ thing else, she flung her arms aroua<l- him as though to shield him. "Sebert, you are wounded! What is it?" Nothing that troubled him very touch, apparently, for his haggard face had grown radiant with gladness. Yet he was enough afraid of the reaction to answer her as gravely as possible: "It is Rothgar Lodbroksson,, whom I met coming from the city as I was journeying back from my errand in Northampton. Little affection has ever passed between us, and this time something more than usual seemed to have stirred him against me, for--" "He tried to kill you!" The words were not a question but a breathless assertion as she remembered the Jo* tun's last threat. "He tried to kill me," the marshal assented quietly. 'And his blade did manage to pierce my mail; he is a giant in strength as in other things. But it cut no more than flesh; and after that, fortune wheeled not toward hinr>" "You slew him!" Her lips were white as she gasped it, but he knew now that it was no love for the Jotun that moved her, and he answered promptly to her un­ spoken thought: "No, sweet-- for the king's sake I spared him. Before this, his men have taken him - aboard his 1 K o were blood stain* en,the breast of his blue kirtfo m," rite murmured as she gazed. standing so, it happened that she did not see the horseman who wad Jusjt gaining the crest of the nearest hill" between her and the city. The wind being from her, she did not even hear the hoof-beats until the hor-re had ttirnel from the glare of the sun Into the shadow of the fern-bordered lane. The first she knew of it, she glanced over her shoulder and saw the red-cloaked figure riding toward her along the grass-grown path. J^s naturally as a flower opens its beart at the coming of the sun, she leaned toward him, breathing his name; then in an impulse equally nat­ ural, as he leaped from his saddle be­ fore her, she drew back and half avert­ ed her face, flickering red and white like the blossoms she was clasping to her breast. He stopped abruptly, a short atretch of grass still between Lhem-- and it soothed her bruised pride a little that there was no longer any confident ease in his manner but only hesitation and uncertainty. His voice was greatly troubled as he spoke: "Never can I forgive myself for hav­ ing wounded you, sweetheart, yet had I hoped that you might forgive me, because I knew not what I did and because 1 have suffered so sorely for tt" "You have suffered," she repeated, with a little accent of bitterness. "I beseech you by my love that you do not doubt it!" Hesitation gave way before a warmth of reproach. "For a man to kt.ow that he has wounded what he wo<ild have died to shield-=- that he has wronged where he would have given lis life to honor--that it may be he has lost what is body and soul to him--what else is that but suffering?" Drawing softly near her, he spoke in noblest conciliation: "Is it your pride that cannot pardon me, Lady of Avalcomb? Do I seem to sue for grace too boldly because I forget to make my body match the humbleness of my heart?. Except in prayer or courtesy, we atfe not loose of knee, we Angles, but I would stoop as low as I lowest might if that could make you kinder, dear one." Baring his head, he knelt down at her feet--and the difference between this and the time when he had bent before her in the Abbey, was the difference between tender Jest and tenderer earnest. "Thus then do I ask you to give me back your love," he said gently--and would have said more but that she turned, stirred to a kind of generous shame. "It needs not that, lord! I know you did not mean it. And they have told me that--that I have no right to bo angry with you--" She broke off, •a looking into his face she saw some- tiling that startled her into forgetful- noas of all else. "Why are your cheeks 10 hollowshe &--•nded. "lad so fall, plCkl&g fiOiil xiiuOus liieui Willi srcat cars the- taircrrt of either '-lad, j while she, catching his mood, watched { him April-faced. | "This," he said gaily, "is the red ! rose of my heart. Battle fields lay 1 between us and tower walls, and the way was long and hard to find, yet can you deny, my elf, that yoa came in and plucked it and wore it away in your hair--to keep or to cast aside as pleased you?" Smiles and tears growing together, she caught the blossom from him and pressed it to her lips. "I will wear it in my bosom,' she answerod, "for my breast has been empty--since the day I saw you first." Smiling, he held out the white rose, but his mood had deepened until now he looked down upon her as he had looked down upon her in tne moonlit forest. "This, beloved, is the symbol of my faith," he said. "Your eyen took it from me that day at even­ song. I hold it the dearer of the two, for with it goes my conor that is as stainless as its petals^ It is worth more than life to me--ta it not worth some pricks to you?", ^ She took it from him reverently, to lay it beside the other, and as her faca was too proud for fear so was it too tender for jesting. "I am more hon­ ored," she told him, "than Canute hjr his crown; and I will live -as bravely to defend them." But as he Would have caught he? to him, she leaned back suddenly to stretch a hand toward a dark-robed figure standing under the moss-grown, arch, and her pride melted into a laugh of breathless happiness. "Sis­ ter Wynfreda, you were right," -she called softly, "the world can be so beautiful fhat one has no hunger *or heaven.". „ The End. ILLNESS RULED CY INCHES. London Physician Thinks Stature Has an Effect Upon Health. Among the most interesting of the papers read at a recent meeting of the British association at Cambridge was that of Dr. Shrubsall on the phy­ sical characters of hospital patients. Sufferers from tonsilitis, rheuma­ tism and heart disease, he said, are of a higher stature, and sufferers from tuberculosis, nervous, and malignant diseases of a lower stature than healthy individuals. A It appears that blonde sufferers from pulmonary tuberculosis respond to treatment better than brunettes, while in diseases of the heart the po­ sitions are reversed. It is believed that in successive generations of city life stature shows a progressive dimi­ nution and that there is an increase in brunette traits with each genera­ tion passing from rural to urban life. With increasing length of residence there is an increase of morbidity among the different classes of Lon­ doners. Some causes which tend to damage the quality of the race were reviewed in an interesting manner by H. Bal­ four in the anthropological section. Sir John Gorst spoke against the prevalence of early marriages, particu­ larly among the poorer classes. He declared that the race was being prop­ agated in undue proportion by the poorest and feeblest. ship and England is rid of hHn." Murmuring broken phrases of thanksgiving, she stood holding the cloak she had grasped, but he dreaded too much the moment of her awaken­ ing to await its coming inactive. Slip­ ping his arms around her, he begftn to speak swiftly, the moment her silence gave him an opening. "Never did I blame Rothgar much for his enmity against me, and now I thank him for this cut as for a gift, for through it I know that at least you have not outlawed me from your love. Dear one,, as you are not un­ kind in so slight a thing as this wound in my flesh, so neither be with­ out pity for the one that is so much deeper, in my heart! As the scratch stayed your anger for a while, so, in the gentleness of love, let this which is mortal stay it for all time." , With his arms around her, she could not shrink very far away--nor was it seen that she tried to--but all at once her words came in uneven rushes: "How can 1 hold anger against you when, with every breath, my lips sigh for your kisses? aou let no one wonder at it that I am fright­ ened. You cannot conceive what a lurking place for terrors the world looks to me! Never, I think, shall I see men sitting together that I shall not suspect them of having murder in their hearts. Never shall I see two friends clasp hands but my mind will run forward to a time when they shall part in wrath and loneliness. Nay, even of the sound of my own voice I am afraid, lest whomsoever is hear­ ing it--for all that he speak me fair ^be twisting the words in his mind into evils I have not dreamed of. Se- bert, I do not reproach you with it! I think«it all the fault of my own blunders--and therein I find a new terror. That one should suffer for wrong-doing is to be looked for, but if one is'to be dealt with so unspar­ ingly only for making mistakes, who knows where his position is or what to expect? Oh, my best friend, make me brave or I am likely to die' only through fearing to live! With ay ignorance my boidness went from me, urtil now my courage is lowly as a willow leaf. Love, make me brave again!" Trusting, in her very decla* ration of distrust, she clung to him to save her from herself. It was in the briar-pricked fingers, which he was pressing against his cheek, that he found his answer. Sud­ denly he spread them out in his palm before her, laughing with joyful light­ ness. "Randalin, the thorn wounded your hands the while that you strip­ ped yonder hedge, but did you stop for that? If I can prove to you that all these dark days you have been plucking roses, can you not bravely bear with the pricks?" Putting her gently from him, he gathered up the spoils she had let Pictures Drawn in Fire. Dissolve saltpeter-in cold watsr tlli the liquid is completely saturated with it. This can be seen by the fact that bits of the saltpeter will at last refuse to dissolve. Dip a fine brush or pointed stick into the solution and draw the outline of an animal or any other desired fig­ ure cn a piece of thin paper. Use pa­ per that has no printing on it. Let the paper dry thoroughly. The picture will be invisible vthen, or al­ most so. Now hold it flat, light a match, blow it out and touch a part of the drawing with the glowing end. The saltpeter will catch fire at once and the tiny flame will burn all along the lines of the drawing, leaving the paper intact. A Royal Treasure-House. The plate-room at Marlborough House contains what is probably the most valuable collection of treasures in any private house in England. The room is underground and is lighted by electricity, the walls being lined by bookcases containing many rare vol­ umes presented to King Edward and the Prince of Wales from time to time, forming a very valuable library. In big iron safes in the center of the room is stored away a wonderful col­ lection of gold and silver plate, includ­ ing two enormous silver pilgrim bot; ties presented by Alexander 111 of Russia to King Edward1, and a price­ less solid gold embossed shield, which was a present to the sovereign from a number of Indian princes. Kruger Statue Forgotten. ' Before the Beer war it had bees in­ tended by the people of the Transvaal to erect a colossal statue in honor of Kruger on an imposing pedestal in Church square, Pretoria: Only the base was erected, however. While the war was in progress the statue, ordered by the Transvaal government, was delivered by the sculptors at. Dela- goa bay. It was impossible to convey it then to Pretoria, so it was laid in a timber yard belonging to the Lo­ renzo Marquez Wharf company, and there, neglected and almost forgotten, it las since remained. When Regular Medical Treatment Failed, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Cured Her Rheumatism. Hundreds of people afflicted with rheu­ matism have spent years under the care of excellent physicians iu vain. Then' they have settled down to the conviction that it is fastened ou them for life. Mrs. Ditismore was not willing to joiu the ranks of the hopeless merely because her doctor did not know how to help her. Here is her story : " Four years ago I suffered greatly with rheumatism iu my hands and knees. After I had been sitting a while my limbs seemed so heavy I could hardly walk ou the first attempt. So long as I kept moving I was all right,'but just as soon as I stopped, something seemed to settle in my knees and make them ache. My hands were so bad I couldir't touch the palms of them on a flat surface; they were swollen and pained so," "Did you call iu a physician V* .. ^ "I doctored steadily for over a yekrf then one doctor said : ' You have taken medicine strong enough to kill almost anything.' Still, it did not kill we nor the-rheumatism," " How, then, did you get rid of it?" "At different times I had read in vari­ ous publications about Dr. Williams' wonderful Pink Pills for Pale People, and I finally decided to try them. I took them steadily for four months iu ac­ cordance with the directions. By thai time I was completely cured." " Have you been free from it erer since?" " Since then I have had but one slight return of my trouble, and a box or two of the same pills made me all right again." Mrs. F. A. Dinsmore lives in hearty enjoyment of her recovered health at Woburn, Mass., entirely freed from the grave anxieties that rheumatism always briu gs. When it appears iu but a single joint it shows that the blood is in a faulty state in the whole body. It may at any moment break out elsewhere, and one of the dangers is that it may break out in the heart and then the result must be fatal. The only security is to keep the blood all the time in a perfectly sound condition. Dr. Williams' Pinlc Pills make healthy blood. All other relief is superficial. ^IICTCKN ***>*» CATAWHH or UWM OUrfkl]lbu ao COMMON IH WIMTta. CURED BY PE-RU-NA. This is thorough, by all jdruggists. These pills are sold CAT PACKED IN MOTH BALLS. Darius Came Nearly Being Shipped With Mistress' Furs. Early last June a Washington wom­ an made ready to take her family to Maine and it was late in the evening before the departure that the woman finished packing her winter furs. The family furs and blankets went into a big cedar chest in the storeroom, says the Washington Post, and all was finished. The plan was to take the family cat to Maine, and a special basket had heen prejared for him, but when the hour for setting out came, the cat, whose name was Darius, was not to be found.' The four children gave them­ selves up to vociferous despair. "Let me think," said the mother, as if a woman could think with four chil­ dren crying and a man having duck fits for fear they would miss the train. "Let me think. I saw Darius last night,, when I was packing--Oh, my goodness!" Without another word she fled to the storeroom and flung open the cedar chest. Darius stepped out with noth­ ing more than a reproachful miaow to indicate that his night's imprison­ ment had annoyed him. It takes more than moth balls to kill a cat CAUSE AND CURE OF RHEUMATISM. 8hown by numerous cures made by Dodd's Kidney Pills. They cure the Kidneys and the Rheumatism cures itself--Remarkable case of Maggie E. Deckert. Eagle River, Wis., Jan. 16.--(Spe­ cial)--That rheumatism is caused by disordered kidneys is proved by the cures Dodd's Kidney Pillsvare making in every state in the Union. They cure the Kidneys and the Rheumatism cures Itself. A cure that has caused deep interest in this neighborhood is that of Maggie E. Deckert. In speak­ ing of it she says: "I had kidney trouble and rheuma­ tism and was so lame I could not. walk. I could not sleep for I ached all over. I was in a terrible state and firmly believe that if I had not used Dodd's Kidney Pills I would be dead. I took nine boxes of them and they have done me more good than all the other medicines I ever took. Now my aches are all gone, I can eat and sleep and I am feeling good. I want all the world to know that Dodd's Kidney Pills cured me." Difficulty of Lake Baikal. Russian soldiers are going around the bend of the southern shore of Lake Baikal, on the road just finished, at the rate of about a dozen miles an hour, which is slow wheeling, but bet­ ter than the slower ferrying or winter crossing on the blizzard-swept ice. How the new road will work in winter remains to be seen, there being more than a possibility that in such a wind# corner the track may be laid under drifts half as high as the Kremlin, to be covered over again as fast as they are due out esPBaa ^t.Why Adulteration Is General. The demand of the people fot "cheap" products Is the greatest cause of adulteration. Retailers demand something by which they can under­ sell their competitors, and when they buy adulterated goods they know it perfectly well. The demand of the re­ tailers makes a demand from the job­ bers, which all manufacturers hastes to grant. Doubtless there are many manufacturers who are willing to cheat, but it is doubtful whether their profits are greater on adulterated goods than on those which are pure. At any rate, as manufacturers, no more than wholesale or retail dealers, can afford to be undersold, all believe themselves compelled to cheat and as a rqie do cheat.--San Francisco Chron­ icle. SHAW'S WONDKB SALVE the beat remedy known for burns, cuts, chapped h«nd», Itching and pimply skin, chapped lip* end cold uores. We guarantee tills salve to Rive entire satisfaction or money refunded. We will send uue largo box of thi* naive postpaid to any address In th» United states or Canada upnu receipt of 25 rents In •taiape. Addrew CHiCAUO CO.. WO Lugley Are., Chicago. ' Subsoil for Fruit T"r«»iSi On the subsoil depends a great deal. The tree that is planted over an Im­ pervious subsoil may do well if -it is on a side-hill that will permit the water to run off through the soil that lies above the subsoil. But on other kinds of land the subsoil, if imper­ vious, will cause the trees to grow slowly and bear fruit lightly. Bad drainage and Impervious subsoils largely go together. We have seen land that was friable on top and down a little way was composed of a layer of stones and clay so closely inter­ mixed that it almost seemed that a great fire had melted them and they had run together. If such subsoil can­ not be Improved it is better to put the fruit trees in some other place. The surest way to improve the sub­ soil is by drainage. That lowers the water table in the soil in winter and lets the frost in to pulverize the ground. Where the land is undrained the water table protects all the soil below it from the action of frost. We have known of clay soils through which the drains were dug to a depth of four feet. For a year or two it did not seem to make much difference with the general character of the soil, for the frost had not had time to work. But after the frost for two or three winters had got in to the soil the whole character of the ground seemed to be changed. For the growing of apple trees es­ pecially It is best to select land where the subsoil is already in right condi­ tion, so that the roots may go down several feet if necessary. This makes it easy for the tree to send its roots deeply and to get down into a moist layer of soil. Trees in such locations .Stand drouth well and show green leaves when all things else seem to be turning brown with drouth, v Leaving the Tree to Nature. Every once in awhile we flnd a man that believes in leaving fruit trees alone, permitting nature to do as she wishes to with them. He generally says,that the sprouts on trees, espe­ cially the water sprouts should not be cut off. We think that if this man had to raise grapes he would get very few of them. Nature does not have to be fed and clothed, and therefore is not con­ cerned with Increasing the fruitfulness of trees and plants beyond the point where they will propagate themselves. But man has greater needs and forces the tree and plants to stop producing in one direction and go to producing in another. The great fruitfulness of trees cared fer by man is merely due to the diversion of growth forces from one direction to another. A tree that is planted and cared for by man does not take In more nourishment than does another tree that is left to the direction of nature. But the nourish­ ment that is taken in is made to go into the formation of things man can eat rather than into the formation of wood and leaves, which he cannot eat. The Creator has placed in the hands of man the power of directing the processes of nature to a consider- •able extent. Man prunes a tree only to make it expend its energies In the fruit buds and so gives him more fruit. We should not leave things to nature, for in the main nature cares nothing for us. There is no moral reason why man should follow the leadings of nature. His own intelligence is not a thing to be lightly set aside. ^ S Bees Useful to Farmers. .--"-V The great value and usefulness of the common honey bee on the farm has been tersely put by Prof. W. P. Hedrick of the agricultural college of Michigan. He says: The fruit grower who complains of bees is an ungrate­ ful wretch. At best fair exchange is no robbery, but the bees take nothing. A crop of honey removes no fertility from the soil, no substance nor flavor from the fruit, nor even the fragrance from the flower. Multitudes of bees may store their hives with "choicely culled sweets" from your orchard, and you may take it and feast yourself on the apple-blossom flavored honey, or you may sell it for dollars and cents, yet neither your trees nor your farm is the loser by one penny's Worth. If the bees take a little toil from the fruit, what of it? Should they not be repaid for officiating at the nuptials of your fruit blossoms. But do they take toll? 8ugar Beets In Colorado. The sugar beet campaign Is now on, In northeastern Colorado, and about 100,000 tons of beets will be sliced at the Fort Collins factory, alone, this fall. The beet crop this year will bring nearly $500,000 to the farmer* In the Fort Collins dlsf rm. ; . , . , ... - - .. . " " - ' : -J-'-f'. . , Emperor William confesses to spending $1,000,000 on theaters and operas during the last year. And he didn't see "East Lynne" or Tom's Cabin" at that. Those Who Have TpTil fli will use no other. Defiance Cold Wa« ter Starch has no equal in Quantity or Quality--IS ox. for 10 centa. Other brands contain only 12 os. Goodness is the only happiness. Sel­ fishness Is short-sighted.--J. F. D'Arcy. Disease in Potatoes. If an Irish potato in its rotting state Is left on the plot of land where it grew this year, the garden of that dis­ ease will remain in the soil all the winter and be ready to Impart the same disease to the potatoes next year. The Agriculturist advises its patrons to go over their potato lands and hafe all the decaying or scabby potatoes gathered up and destroyed. Disease will spread among plants as readily as smallpox among people , • - J Profits From Apple Growing. ~ M' New York state farmer says he gets more profit from his 20 acre or­ chard than from all bis 145 acres be­ sides. The average is about $1,000, or at the rate of $50 an acre, and the purchaser gathers and packs the fruit. His only expense is for fertilizing, spraying and pruning. Many sections in this state are as well adapted to orcharding as any in New York, and no good reason can be given why more of our farmers should not engage in the business, in a com­ mercial way. An exchange gives an account of less than two acres that gave over $100 net profit the present year; although the cost of caring for the trees, gathering and marketing the fruit, rental value of land, etc., amount to $40 or mpre. The owner 6prays thoroughly, and covers the ground with blue grass and clover, which he mows once or twice each season, and leaves on the ground as a mulch and fertilizer. What better use can the farmer put his rough ground to than an apple orchard treated in this way. After 10 or 12 years-it will pay him better than a like space In any of the Held crop*, several times over. HKADATTS.; Hmm FRANCfS'WILSflft A PLAIN TALK Plain Subject J*J&in Language. ^ The coming winter will cause at least one-half of the women to have catarrh, colds, coughs, pneumonia or consump­ tion. Thousands of women will lose their lives and tens of thousands will acquire some chronic ail­ ment from' which they will never recover. Unless you take the necessary precautions, the chances are that you (who read this) will be one of the unfortu­ nate ones. Little or no risk need be run if Peruna is kept in the house and at the first appearance of any symptom of catarrh taken as directed on the bottle. * Peruna is a safeguard, a preventative, a specific, a cure for all cases of catarrh, acute and chronic, coughs, oolds, con­ sumption, etc. For free medical advice, address. Dr. S. B. Hartman, President of The Hart- man Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. KEEP PERUNA IN THE HOUSE. A COLD ON THE LUNGS THREATENS TO BECOME SERIOUS. N-ru-na Brings Speedy Relief; Mrs. H. E. Adams, Ex-President Pal­ metto Club, of New Orleans, La., writes from 110 Garfield Court, South Bend, Ind., as follows: "I am pleased to endorse Peruna, aa I took it about a year ago and it soon brought me relief from a cold on my lungs which threatened to be serioaa. "The lungs were sore and inflamed, I coughed a couple of hours every night, and I felt that something must be done before my lungs became affected. "Peruna was suggested by some of my friends who had used it, and acting upon their advice I tried it and found that it was able to bring about a speedy cure. You have my highest endorse­ ment and thanks for the good it did me.* Sounding the Praises of Peruna. Mrs. Frances Wilson, 32 Nelson St, Clinton, Mass., writes: "Had you seen me at the time of my illness and now, you would not wonder that I take delight in sounding the praises of Peruna. "My ailment was a severe cold which attacked the bronchial tubes and lungs. "I followed your special direction and after using six bottles of Peruaa, I was on my feet again. / think Peruna a wonderful medicine.' ® - - American,Consul in Demand. 3. R. S. Langerman, American con­ sul at Tangier, now on a visit to his home in Philadelphia, has received a cablegram from the sultan of Moroc­ co urging him to return at once. The sultan has just dismissed a great many of his closest advisers and his message to Mr. Langerman is taken to mean that the latter is to be his chosen confidant. The consul, a vet­ eran in the service, is noted for his nerve and skill. He has had dealings in behalf of the United States with many semi-civilized rulers. Although firm in demanding the rights of his country, he has invariably succeeded in making himself popular with the foreign potentates. It was Mr. Langer­ man who secured the release of Ion Perdicaris from the bandit Raisuli... ;:r: A Modern Solomon. "This man and myself have had a dispute as to tne ownership of thie dog," said the tall man, as he and a short man and a dog entered the butcher shop. "You don't know choost who owns a dot dog?" asked the red-faced Ger­ man. "That's it; we want you to decide." "Veil, I vill cut him mit my cleaver in two, like dot vise man, Solomon." -"But what good would he be then?"- "Veil, I make him up in sausage and ef&h feller took a half." , ; Hotels Cater to Wom|j||^ . W ; New York's newest hotels have set an example in chivalry to the otfier restaurants which these many years have refused* to serve meals after 6 p. m. to women without male escorts. Hotels nowadays cater to women in every way. They have luxurious dress­ ing rooms and maids in attendance. Even the toilet articles are provided --powder and perfumes, smelling salts, pins, etc. More Flexible and Lasting, won't shake out or blow out; by using Defiance Starch you obtain better re­ sults than possible with any other brand and one-third more for same money. - It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent so much as the smallness of his wants.-- Cobbett. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAT Xak« Laxative Bromo Quinine Tabieta. All dm#- Sata refund tbe m-raey 1. it falls to cure. ]B. W. rove'* ilgnawre la on each box. 9#c. Honeymoons are often eclipsed try financial stringency. Serious Heart Disease |s Curable. rm t, -i-- It Cures Colds, Coughs, Sore Throat, Croup. Influenza, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma. A certain cure for Consumption in first stages, and a sure relief in advanced stages. Use at once.v You will see the excellent effect after taking the first dose. Sold by dealers every* where. Large bottles 25 cents and 50 cents. IgOTS'SINCLE *i|rm UST QUALITY KST MUUTY mm&cmR your Jobber or atreel BINDER ALWAYS RELIABLE trect from Factory, Peoria. IU. MEXICAN Mustang Liniment ' w*»ue Spraine and Straiius. .- for breakfast makes th§ worfc of the morning easier. WANTED-TRAVELING SALESMEN !n this county. Our men are making from 07# to Si#0 a month Belling our household aud stock remedies, flavoring extracts, spices and toilet article* direct W • couHuuiera. Exclusive territory. Goods are furnUhed on credit. NO CASH OUTLAY. I'lewant, profll- able, llle-Iong p<>NH!on. No experience necessary: we teach you. write tor Information. Don't del*r> Incorporated. THKS. O. CONFER MEDICAL COMPANY* Dept. C, ORANQEVILLE, ILL. 1% MONTHLY IFe pay Investors K monthly and ibartt profits; absolute security and live assets; mu ran Invest tlO to tl .000. Call or write for special "S for i" offer and free copy oat Raising In Mexico." flEXICAN QOAT A DAIRY |BO.« 121 Lb Saila Et., Ohioaso. Th« Eminent Specialist, Dr. Franklin Miles. Succeeds After 5 to 30 Wiystei&ns Failed. - $2.50 WORTH OF TREATMENT FREE. Heart diseases which a few years ago were Incurable now readily yield to treatment. Short breath, pain in the side, oppression in the chest, palpitation, smothering spells, weak or irregular pulse, puffing of the ankles or dropsy, whether complicated with stomach, liver and nervous troubles or not, can be speedily re­ lieved and soon cured. Dr. Miles gives 02.50 worth of treatment free to prove its wonderful powers. His treatments are specially prepared to suit each patient. .They relieve the worst oases In a day and quickly cure. These Treatments are the result of t5 years of close study, careful research and extraordinary success. They are far in advance of the medi­ cines used by the ordinary doctor and few show such faith m their remedies. Every sufferer should take advantage of this opportunity be­ fore it is too late. A thousand references to and testimonials from bishops, clergymen, bankers, farmers and their wives will be sent free on request. Send at once for Chart, Pamphlet, Opinion and Free Treatment to Franklin Miles, M. D. ' •• 'i&lp " " BUSINESS CHANGES in the Southwest are worth looking into. A comparatively new country, with a fertile soil and a wonderful produce of plants and crops, oil, gas, coal, etc.--a territory capable of sustaining a population many times that of the present, means opportunity if it means anything. We give you some of the facts and figures in.our pamphlet, "Business Chances." Isn't it worth your while to i% vestigate? Write for a copy of the pamphlet. Read it and think it over. We will gladly send yoa a pamphlet and any additional ta- formation you may want on request. Address M. K. & T. R'y TARN ST. Louis, MA ^ P I S O S C U R E F O = ? r Hill fltll IU tlK tllll. Bm Coagh Sjrrap. Tutei Good* u In time. Sold b asKEC '.-I,'