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- . . ^ . ."-f ' " '* yr̂ ^w -̂ WW Wmw: .:-?• '••-•• f* HE IRO?f WAJf < v A tale of the builders •i*b% aapoB&zr^rv J.ciA&CJ&£*5C* f > cxKstao SYNOPSIS. The story opens during a trip of the •^Overland Mall" through thie Rocky mountains. "Uncle Billy" Dodge, stage driver, Alfred Vincent, a young man, and Phineas Cadwallader, introduced. They / tome across the remains o£ a massacre. ,J ' Later at Anthony's station they find the •redskins have carried their destructive work there also. Stella Anthony, daugh­ ter of Anthony, keeper of station, is^ in­ troduced. Anthony has been killed. Vincent is assigned his work in unearth­ ing plans of enemies of railroad being built. He returns to Stella, each show­ ing signs of love for the other. Stella hears from her lover, Gideon, and of his phenomenal success^ Finds letter of im­ portance involving plans of opposition road. Plot to destroy company's ship Klora is unearthed ' and Incriminating evidence against Cadwallader found. Phineas Cadwallader faces prison on charge of wire tapping. A perfect chain of. evidence connects him with plot to "blow up "Flora," Banquet in railroad town is scene of monopolization of Alfred by a Miss Hamilton. Mrs. "Sally" Ber­ nard announces riches. Gideon makes threat against Alfred's life. Quickly leaves town on best procurable horse in search of Vincent. Race to beat opposi­ tion company's stage a success. Stella fails to hear of Gideon. Stella receives a letter: "Promise to marry Gideon In­ gram or Alfred Vincent will die." After conference Stella decides to flee. Years pass. Stella becomes known as Esther Anthony, becomes a rich woman, edu­ cates herself at Vassar and steps into highest San Francisco society. Kidnap­ ing changes Alfred greatly and when he and Stella meet in 'Frisco society, she passes him Without recognition. Stella's love for Alfred and his for her is revived. However, neither shows recognition of . the fact to the other. Anthony romance 1s unfolded, showing Gideon, who loved Stella, to be her own cousin. Alvin Car­ ter, Viola's lover when the Bernards were poor, visits them and Sally B. consents to their marriage, despite the fact that several sons of rich sires are asking the girl's hand. The Bernards lose their riches and Sally B. again becomes a ho- telkeeper, Viola marrying Alvin Carter. Stella visits Sally B. and sees "Uncle JBilly." CHAPTER XXIX.--Continued. "Oh, surely not for stealing!" In­ stantly Esther's mind flew back to the desert station, the overland journey, the scene on the hillside, to many lesser visions of him, even to her last meeting at Judge Harmon's. Always the same aversion to him, the same -wonder that the company trusted him. "Yes, stealin'. They gave him a pas- «enger out of Sacramento, an' he didn't run it three weeks till they caught him. "The boys say there's something back of that, too, an' it'll go hard with him. Pore devil! He via.s bright 'nough fur -meanness; pity he couldn't a' tried be- in' white. Come on. I got to go to the kitchen." Here again reigned Yic Wah, the im­ perturbable "Do you like it here?" Esther asked iiim. He grinned. "You bettee! Heap .good. One dollah man out here; no two bittee man. Heap plenty loom. You likee say 'damn,' all light. No matter." "Yic got converted down in Oak­ land," Sally B. said when out of his hearing. "It'll give ye a crick in yer «ide to hear him singin' 'sams. He's the best holierer Charley Crocker's got. McLane's comin' through to-night. '"The boys has stuffed Yic with a lot About Mac, told him Mac's goin' to do •up Crocker's railroad; and I'm power­ ful 'fraid Yic'll sass Mac." There was a. trifle of worry in Sally B.'s laugh. "How can he hinder our company now?" "He cain't hinder 'em, but he kin pes­ ter 'em a heap, him an' the gang he's actin' fur. He ain't any wuss'n the rest, only smarter. He's on his way home from Washington and New York now. Been tryin' to fix congress agin, I'll lay. But I bet Collis P. beats him! I bet on Collis P. every time. . Read this;" She tumbled over a pile of papers, found a recent copy of the Clarion and pointed out a short tele­ graphic dispatch. "Read it aloud, honey. I like to listen when our fellers apouts at the government powwow." It was an appeal from Mr. Hunting­ ton to Andrew Johnson, as the head of the outgoing administration, on behalf of the Central Pacific railroad. "Likely it's ter spike that gun, that Jhfac's been east. The boys says so. But I bet on Collis P. all the same. Ding that Clarion!", she continued, whipping from one topic to another with astonishing suddenness. "They're cluckin' to the U. P.'s now to pass us and come on to Californy; an' howlin' .about pushin' the Southern Pacific to bust the C. P. If I was Gov. Stanford I'd mortgage my chance o" heaven, maybe a little bit o' the other place, but what I'd git holt o' that Southern Pacific." "What is the Southern Pacific ex­ pecting to do?" "Build across the continent and have * competin' line." "What? Two railroads? Surely, «me will be enough/' "If them four git a holt of it, they'll put it aerost all right. One line? They'll be half a dozen some day. An' you bet the C. P.'s won't let nobody git the start of them if they only git a fair show." The strange town stirred Esther's Imagination. Like a flock of vagrant, ugly birds, the shacks and flimsy wooden houses squatted on the inhos­ pitable mountain top or huddled be­ side the brawling stream. The most pretentious places were saloons. A. •very long tent caught Esther's eye. "That's the dancehouse," Sally B •aid. "They've got an extra big troupe of hurdy-gurdies in now--there's the place where they sleep just to the left there. Sufferin' ears! They make a racket at night, they an' the men. Ain't nothin' so bad's you might think 'bout them girls, though. Most of 'em comes from furrin parts, where their Job ain't considered disrespectable." All in the town carried arms, and there were occasional brawls; yet no stranger was molested who did not • % first molest. Night drew on, and the . sleepy town awoke. Wood teams from . 5 the mountain chopping camps rattled - 'In. The clatter of animals feeding, human and otherwise, stirred the air. The evening train whistled in from the •.»--gpwgogfc, % ;<»w workmen, much forage and supplies. "Collis P.'s done the job!" cried the first trainman to enter the hotel. "His little game o' talk with the president won the tin. The bonds are issued!" "When was it?" asked Sally B., ex citedly. "Oh, weeks ago, probably. It was done 'fore Andy Johnson went out of the White House, anyway."* "How much bonds?" "Two million four hundred thou sand," the man said, rolling out the words slowly and respectfully. A small Sum enough for eyes that read to-day. Yet to a railroad of the clink of glasses, the rbythmlc beat of many feet, the voices of the dancing girls between sets. How had she shown thankfulness for the boon of health, of friends, training, wealth-- all that was between her and these poor girls? Had she not wasted her days in idle longing ? Among even the noisy dancers yonder might there not be some one better, according to her miserable opportunity, than she her- Belf had been with her wider chance? It should be so no longer! When the last tie was laid she Would return to her home, her city. She would cease her foolish waiting for Alfred; and somehow, wherever the way opened, she would work for those less fortu­ nate than herself, would put. herself on record for the better side of life. A peace long unknown stole over her; and she slept tranquilly. CHAPTER XXX. The Stroke of the Fang. The days ran happily by for Esther, so far as she remained in her own lit­ tle world. It was a joy to be with Uncle Billy a short late hour every other night when his train was in and his reports made; a joy to Know-that her presence comforted Sally B., whose heart, despite her busy life, longed for her only child, and grieved for the present, forty millions could not mean older child who dogged her footsteps, more than that sum meant to the j did her errands, followed her with struggling Central Pacific. The train came in from the Front, a lot of empty cars bumping over un­ settled track. To-night came Louis McLane, a distinguished-looking gen­ tleman; yet great man as he was, and earnestly as Sally B. tried to make him comfortable, other matters over­ shadowed hini. , "Them U. P. fellers laid seven and a half miles of track the other day." The story ran from lip to lip. "Huh! • I bet a game rooster George Gregory'll beat that when the Iron meek, trustful eyes. The spell of the desert, and her ever deferred hope of seeing A'lfred, still .held Esther. Gid- deon was in the town, though he kept out of Esther's way. Sally B. met him abruptly one day, forced a kind word upon him and asked him of his stay; but he evaded her with a half-coherent reply about seeing the raili-oad through. She mentally substituted Esther for the railroad, knowing it was for chance glimpses of her he hung around the town.1 The grading was finished. Engi- 'Drop That Gun, Pardnirt" comes. It's on the way now, they say." Sally B. looked challenglngly about. Waiting at table did not prevent her keeping up with all the railroad news, it rather aided her in doing so; and her comments were a sort of daily oral editorial that most of her patrons be­ lieved in, and all enjoyed. "The U. P.'s discharged 12 engi­ neers 'cause they wouldn't run at night," another loquacious diner re­ marked. "Don't wonder they refused," a man from the east replied. "The grades are ticklish; the track ain't half fin­ ished, to say nothin' o' being settled; and the Injuns are raisin' Cain in triplets." "That's the way it's been all the time over on the U. P.," a second stranger added. "Workmen never have had the proper protection. I was en the Denver line, and the chief of con­ struction telegraphed for more force, saying, 'I have to fight while I dig.* But the company didn't help him out. Why, we had ten Injun fights in tea weeks. From one to seven white men killed every time. It wasn't fun, you can bet!" Esther was in the dining room and heard. The dreadful day at the -stage station came to her. Across the way violins began to twang, arousing Esther from her reverie. The caller's voice came clear, and the low, seduc­ tive rumble of dancing feet. One by one the men finished eating and went out The voice of the town called louder and louder. Esther wondered, were she a man, if the calls would seem hideous as now; or would she, •in the very joy of masculine freedom, look around, join the fringe of the curious onlookers, be caught by the siren, Temptation, and drawn into the human, vortex, carried down-- down!- Of all the guests, Mr. McLane alone was left. He ate slowly in dignified silence, pried upon intermittently by Yic Wah. The wheedling voice of the town had no fascination for Mr. Mc­ Lane. He went at once to his room, attended by 8ally B. Then the two women chatted a little longer, when Esther, still tired from her night spent sitting 19 in the car. went to her bed. But not to sleep. Unhindered by tent walls the drone of the fiddles i» at ber open window ; and the neers, their occupation gone, had al­ ready started for new barrens to meas­ ure. Bridge builders followed. Men of the pickax and shovel, drillers, strikers, teamsters, Chinese, cooks, scullions, camp-movers--a long pro­ cession faced westward toward "Cali­ forny. God's country." It was the morning before George Gregory's great day, the day he was to outdo the Union Pacific feat of laying seven and a half miles of track at one stretch. He had chosen the flat spaces eastward by Kelton, where the grade was easy, culverts and bridges few. Everything was in readiness. The iron was coming--on the road-- due at the Front that afternoon. All along the line betting ran high. In­ terest and excitement pervaded town, camp and home; touched even women and children. The supply train backed, switched, loaded freight brought in tne night be­ fore; yet did not pull out for the Front as usual, but side-tracked K&d waited. The iron was coming! It was due at noon. Hotel patrons had eaten and gone. Bill Bernard was out on an errand; and the bouse was deserted save for the cook and scullion, and the two women at their late breakfast. The sun had not yet thawed the frost of the night when a shot rang out from Sally B.'s barroom. She caught her pistol from some near nook and rushed out, Esther fly­ ing after her. "Go back, child!" Sally B. said stern­ ly, from the doorway! "Not unless ySu go," Esther re­ turned in a voice as 'firm. "Foller still; then," the other whis­ pered, seeing opposition useless: and they entered the barroom' noiselessly. A man with beetling brows and fierce, resentful eyes stood with his back to them, holding a big revolver somewhat unsteadily over Shack New- begin, whose hands were high in air. The intruder's clothes were soiled, his boots dusty, and cut from much walk­ ing over roek. Notwithstanding his vicious, threatening attitude, his body drooped as from intense fatigue. He did not hear the women; find his savage, low-spoken command showed him dangerously sure of himself. "Give me ten dollars out of that till. Do it quick, and keep still. And don't try shooting next time When a man asks you for money; you might get your wooden overcoat sooner'n you'd like. Hurry up, there!" "Drop that gun, pardner!" Sally B. said quietly. She had waited barely a breath on the threshold, yet Esther had smelled burned powder, seen Shack's pistol on the floor, his dishevelled hair and the bullet hole in the marauder's hat. Shack had had the first shot. How had the other mastered the situation? The man wheeled, with biasing eyes, to meet Sally B.'s pistol barrel almost at his head. His own weapon, uncon­ sciously lowered, left him helpless, though he made a slight motion as if to lift it. "Drop it, I say! Let go!" Her re­ volver touched his temple, and her black eyes blazed a message that com­ pelled obedience. He returned her look for an instant, lowered his eyes sullenly, glanced covertly about, and, stooping, laid the pistol on the floor. "Now, git Inter that cheer!" Again he looked at her resentfully; but only for a breath, when he bent stiffly, and dropped heavily down. "Tie him, Shack, to the cheer; an' his hands behind him, an' his feet to­ gether. How'd he git the drop on ye? I see ye got the first shot." "Yes. But I reckoned he was only a drunk, an' wasn't lookln' fur him to fight. I only shot to skeer; but he jumped me like greased lightnin'." "He looks holler; I 'low grub ain't ben plenty. Had anything to eat late­ ly?" she asked her prisoner. He shook his head sulkily. "I thought so. Watch him, Shack," she ordered, and after the tying was done to her satisfaction, the two Wom­ en went out. They returned shortly, Sally B. with a generous breakfast; Esther, who re­ fused to let her come alone, carrying the coffee. They arranged the food on a chair, and Sally B. took ap her re­ volver again. "Untie his hands, Shack." "You're the beatin'est," Shack be­ gan, obeying her order reluctantly, "to go an' feed a man that's tried to rob ye." "No matter. He's hungry. I wouldn't turn a hungry dog off without a bone. Get to work, now," she said gruflly to the bandit, "An' while yo re busy, tell what yon wanted of ten dol­ lars. Why didn't ye ask fur the hull till?" "Because I wanted to be white an' take only enough to get out of the country with." Esther thought his face softened a trifle. "Why don't ye work for it? The Boss wants choppers; an' everybody's flyin' west like ole Nick, was after 'em." "That's nfy business. I want to leave the country, not chop wood." The sul­ len look deepened. "If yo're that partlc'lar, you git that grub out o' sight, an' git! I earn my money workin', an' you can yourn." He scowled at her; and no one saw the gleam in his wicked eye as he caught the flash from Esther's soli­ taire. It was the only ornament of value Bhe wore In this rude place. She had bought it for protection, and it bad served its purpose well. Most people supposed it an engagement ring, a supposition she tacitly encouraged. (TO BE CONTINUED.) OADA,N| 0 8} GUARD AGAINST FALLING TONGUE Good Way to Prevent a Frtqeunt Cause of Trouble. To prevent the wagon tongue that Is not bolted to the neck yoke from fall­ ing down when the tugs come un­ hitched or the doubletrees or single­ trees break causing runaways or other trouble, simply drill holes through the end of the tongue Irons and bore out the wood. Have a narrow piece of Iron one-half inch thick made to fit on the lower side of ttoa tongue with holes to correspond with the holes in the tongue irons. The front end of the iron should be Guard for Neck Yoke. tapering, while the end in front of the neck yoke shouid have a shoulder one inch long so the neck yoke ring can pass under in case of the tugs becom­ ing unfastened. This safety iron will catch the ring every time, yet the neck yoke can be put 06 or taken off over It in ordinary cases where rings are of the usual size. We consider this a better ar­ rangement, says the Prairie Farmer, than springs or a loose bolt through the tongue that will get bent and make trouble. ROAD3 ON HILLS. How They May Be Protected Gullying. from OILING PUBLIC ROADS. Where the road is built on a steep grade some provision should be made to prevent the washing of the gutters into deep gullies. This can be done by paving the bottoms and sides of the gutters with brick or field stones. In order to make the flow as small as possible in side ditches It Is often ad­ visable to construct frequent outlets Into the adjacent fields or streams, or, if possible, to lay underground pipes or blind drains with screened open­ ings into side ditches at frequent in­ tervals. The size of side ditched should depend upon the amount of water they are expected to carry. If possible they should be located at least three feet from the edge of the traveled roadway. All side ditches should have a grad­ ual fall of at least half a foot in every 100 feet. Their sides, particu­ larly those sloping toward the road­ way, should be broad and flaring, so as to prevent accidents as well as the caving In of their banks. Their bot­ toms should be wide enough to carry the largest amount of water that Is llkel to flow through them at any one itlme. Sometimes the only ditches necessary to carry off the surface water are those made with the road machine. The blade of the machine may be set at any desired angle, and when drawn along by horses or by a traction engine cuts Into the surface and spreads the earth uniformly over the traveled way.--Bulletin Depart -ment of Agriculture. Proving One of the Best' Means ef Producing a Oustless Highway. The application of crude oil to dirt roads has been experimented with in several states and it is now agreed that it affords one of the best means of producing a solid, dustless highway that will not break through in wet weather. Where the roads are very "sandy, an application of heavy loam or clay is necessary. The road is graded and well firmed, being first plowed and pulverized to a depth of four or five inches. Oil is applied with a sprinkler and a harrow follows the sprinkler to mix the soil and oil. In tests in Kansas, says the Farm and Home, heavy oiling was given about October 1 to the amount of about one gallon for each square yard. The road was harrowed after the sprinkler and a week later a 12-ton steam roller was run over the road several times, making it thoroughly firm. After being closed one week, the road was opened to ali kinds of heavy trafflc and proved to be firm but not dusty. Fast horses did not tear up the soil with their shoes. This roae was not affected by winter freezing, the coating of oil keeping the road dry and preventing heaving by froBt The following June the surface, on becoming dry, carried a light coat of dust which required one-half gallon of oil per square yard to thoroughly set­ tle. The road stood heavy traffic dur­ ing the entire season and was prac­ tically free from dust. Light applica­ tions of oil after merely grading up a road with the scraper and later roll­ ing It down heavily have given ex­ cellent results, the most satisfactory features being that these roads were almost entirely dustless. The oil used on the tests In Kansas cost one and one-half cents per gallon at the refinery or three cents when ap­ plied. The cost of grading and oiling the road varied from $500 to $1,300 per mile, according to distance from shipping point, cost of labor, etc.. PERUNA A TONIC OF GREAT USEFULNESS. . 1 HANDY LOW TllUCK. Made from Front Part of an Ordinary Wagon. Here Is a handy low truck made from the front part of an ordinary wagon. A strong oak reach about a foot long replaces the longer one. To the rear end of this is bolted an Iron clevis that holds a crossplece, as MAKING CEMENT BRICt<. tV. Farmer Who Has Made Them Tells of His Methods. I bought two second-hand brick molds and used them to mold cement b r i c k s . T h e y worked well and I experienced no trouble, but found mixing the sand and cement the hardest part. I had an old vinegar barrel put to use b y p l a c i n g a grindstone crank on one end and a pinion on the other. Two strong posts Were set in the ground and the barrel hung over two pieces of round Iron driven into the posts, Bays Farm and Home. A square hole was cut on side of barrel and covered with a piece of sheet iron hinged and a button to fasten. The sand and cement were damp­ ened, shoveled Into the barrel and a boy turned the crank. The mixing was done U3 fast as two men could mold, with a boy to sprinkle the brick to prevent drying too fast. Enough brick were made in two days to build a shed 16xl€ reet. The cost was not half that of lumber. The bricklayer who laid the brick The Low-Down Wagon. shown. For the platform, explains Farm Journal, two poles 15 feet long are used. At two feet from the upper end holes are bored and the poles are pinned to the crossplece, the ends rest­ ing on the bolster about two Inches from the standards. The rear wheels are 15 Inches in diameter, put on an iron tale. FARM NOTE3. See that no one disturbs the birds on your farm. They are your best friends. Sell off a few of the common rams If you are raising sheep and Invest the money In one good animal. While blackstrap molasses can be safely fed to grown cattle or horses, care should be exercised in feeding it to young stock. Flies in daytime and mosquitoes at night make stock lose flesh. Stables can easily be screened and at nominal cost. Sunlight and air and cleanliness are the cheapest of all disinfectants. Black knot In plums and apple can­ ker can be cured by judicious pruning and spraying. Keep the garden free from weeds until after frost. For the protection of. the weaker members of the flock giain Bhould be well scattered when feeding fowl*. Clean up the poultry he uses and whitewash them before frost. MOW, B, 55, THARIN. Hon. R. S. Tharin, Attorney at Lew and counsel for Anti-Trust League, writes from Pennsylvania Ave., N. Washing-ton, D. C., as follows: "Having1 used Peruna for catarrhal disorders, I am able to testify to its great remedial excellence and do not hesitate to give it my emphatic endorse­ ment and earnest recommendation to all persons affected by that disorder, it is also a tonic of great usefulness." Mr. T. Barneeott, West Aylmer, Ontario, Can., writes: "Last winter I was ill with pneumonia after having la grippe. I took Peruna for two months, when I became quite well. I also in­ duced a young lady, who was alt run down and confined to the house, to take Peruna, and after taking Peruna for three months she is able to follow her trade of tailoring. I can recommend Peruna for all such who are ill and re­ quire a tonic." • Pe-re-na Tablets. Some people prefer to take rather than to take medicine in a fluid form. Such people can obtain Peruna tablets which represent the solid me­ dicinal ingredients of Peruna. Each tablet is equivalent to one average dose of Peruna. .M A NEW CUBE. said they were the best he ever laid. Laughter Not Always Good Evidences of Merriment Sometimes by No Means Satisfying. "Of course, you have heard," said the man with a sensitive ear, "a laugh that jarred. I don't mean," he con­ tinued, "so much a laugh at an inop­ portune time--I imagine We have all heard such laughn--as a laugh the quality of which Is unpleasant. There Is something contagious in laughter of the right kind, even though you may be the object of It. It bubbles' from the well of good humor; there Is no hidden thought, or 'arrlere pensee,' as the French say, behind It. It is the essence of frankness; It Is spontane­ ous and wholesouled, and It cleanses the system of the laughter, and* too, of the hearer, like a spiritual bath. "But there are other kinds of laugh­ ter. The sneering laugh is perhaps the most familiar. Then there is a quiet laugh--a sibilant secretive Bort of laugh that is quite as certain to mean mischief. Another laugh, dis­ agreeable In its nature, is the high- pitched, nervous eachination that comes ettfcerfnoweuibwrassowftt ox , . ' ' : >' ... V . - • '.*> "•JKP?"-S. •• ,-*U 4-v ... ' ' .1 . 'H " " , ' Is a mere vocal habit. The worst laugh of all, however, to my mind. Is that mirthless sound provoked by the distress or embarrassment of others, and It rasps, naturally, most of all, the object calling it forth. A person laughed at and hurt never forgets the experience." More Than He Wanted. "Sometimes ladies thank me when I give up my seat to them," the young man said, "and sometimes they do not, and then occasionally something unusual happens. This morning when I gave up my seat to a lady she thanked me effusively. " 'Thank you very much,' she said; 'very acceptable, I assure you.' This speech attracted the attention of all around, and really' I think I would prefer not to be thanked at all rather than to be thanked so generously. "If It would be polite for me to In­ dicate just how I'd like to be thanked for giving my seat I should say that just a little smile with a slight inclination of the head, would be the acknowledgment that wo*fd please 9M .fefpt of all." Limit to His Generosity. The lady secretary of a charity told the supporters at an annual meeting recently this story of a generous sub­ scriber. Interested in one particular case, an expansive gentleman waited upon the secretary, said everything necessary must be done at any cost, and handed over a blank check. "What am I to do with this?" said the lady. "Pay whatever expense you are put to," replied the donor. By way of a test the lady called iat the bank named on the face of the draft aind asked whether It would be honored If filled in and presented. The banker was reticent; such Information was never given, to ask it was unusual. But the lady was persistent, and he finally referred to his books and dryly remarked: "Well, I wouldn't fill it in for more than $5, if I were you." Treat Smutty Seed Wheat. If it is necessary to sow seed wheat from a crop which has been attacked by stinking 6mut the seed should first be treated with formalin. One pint of formalin in 40 gallons water will treat 50 bushels of wheat. 8pread it out on a clean, tight floor previously sterilized, with the formalin solution. Sprinkle thoroughly until every ker­ nel is wet Sprinkling should be re­ peated until at least three quarts of i solution per bushel of grain have been absorbed. Cover the pile with cld|h or canvas for two hours, then shovel the grain over at intervals to dry it and sow at once. All bags and shovels used in handling the grain must be carefully disinfected. Addressing the Monarch. The other day a foreigner at the races addressed the good King Ed­ ward: "Hello, king, how do you feel?" "Fine!"' replied his majesty. "That's good, old boy; keep It up." That isn't as bad as the salutation of a Swiss to Queen Victoria. You know the Swiss are nearly as conceited as the Japanese. Both nations have been terribly spoiled by the world's adula­ tion. One morning a statesman of the little republic, walking in Hyde Park, saw her majesty approaching in her carriage of state. Stepping briskly to the edge of the drive he lifted his hat and said: "Good day, Mme. queen." It Is not on record" what the queen said in reply. If she was un­ civil to her own ambassador, Lord Ly­ ons, what could a Swiss politician ex­ pect? Jim---What's J&ck rheumatism, Bill? 1 x Bill--Swearing. ; BREAKS A COLD PROMPTLY The following formula Is a utermt falling remedy for colds: One ounce of Compound Syrup of Sarsaparilla, one ounce Torls Com­ pound and one-half pint of good whiskey, mix and shake thoroughly each time and use in doses of a table- spoonful every four- hours. This it followed up will cure aa acute cold in 24 hours. The ingre­ dients can be gotten at any drug store. Warning Against Wasted If it is lawful and expedient for thee to speak, speak those things which may edify.--Gurdon. Pettit's Eye Salve Restores. No matter how badlv the eye# may be diseased or injured. All druggists or How­ ard Bros1., Buffalo, N. Y. Every time the owner of ft pocket knife sees a grindstone he thinks H Is up to him to get busy. ; Lewis' Single Binder straight Se cigar made of rich, mellow tobacco. Your deal­ er or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, ID. Even in fishing for compliments it's the big ones that generally get away. Mrs. W Inflow's Soothing Syrop. For children teething, aoftenc the gums, redness 1 IsaunsUon.silicap*in,cur*swlndwlki. It costs more to get out of trouble than It does to keep out. If Your Feet Ache or Barn C«t • Ve Mcknge of Allen'* Foot-Mss>. Ik giVM ««iek rsltsr. Two million packages soltf yawl#. The keener the critic the more cafe th>g the criticism. DODD'S K I D N E Y / , P ILLS Handling the 8traw Stack. Have the stacking yard as near the barn as possible and fence It off from the barnyard. Clean up around the bottom of the straw stack so the stock will begin to eat there. Do not allow any stock to sleep in the stack yard at night. By keeping it clean around the stack the cattle will lick up all | the chaff and grain and at night you | will have about enough loose straw ; to bed down the stock, which will j leave the stack yard clean for the j next morning. There is no waste of j straw by this method and it is con­ verted into feed and manure with no extra labor. Ai . v Vwov"- D|$f Y1- K'DNEY D J, W IPHT S 0i SICK HEADACHE Saving Choice Seed. I have found it a good plan to save my own vegetable seed. One not only saves many pennies, but knows just what he is planting. The finest choice tomatoes, cucumbers, etc.. are saved for seed. Seed cucumbers growing near the roots produce better and shed less of their blossoms. I never pick a bean to use off of hills kept for seed and those beans growing farthest from the main vines are rejected. The result is beans from the roots to the tip ends of the vines. Cabbage, beets, radishes, turnips, etc., are planted out early In spring to produtc seed actf the tops are staked to prevent ifalltag to the ground. [CARTERS •PlTTt H I V E I"!1 •••• ITTLE IVER PILLS. Positively cured by these Little Pills* Tbejr also reiiere M»> tresa from digestion an<i Too Hearty Eating. A perfect reo» edy tor Dizziueas, Nats s»fa, Drowsiness, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coat­ ed Tongue, t iiiu in Utt Side, TORPID LIVER. 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