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THAT GIRL of JOHNSON'S s _ ay J£AA 1CA fC r, 1/ 2>£, VM, i *f~jM • CW'i Aftpw." Jfe. * BntereA According to Act of Congress in tha Ys*r 1890 t>y Street & Smith, la the Office of the Librarian of Concress, at Washincton, D. C. g | CHAPTER VIII.--Continued. , ' The woman came to meet them as K : they rode up. Foam dripped from the SC*"'.; mouths of their horses, and their ^•4. heads hurfg listlessly, while their flanks were covered with swe^t. The W k men dismounted and loosened the sad- j$£t';die girths. |'H v Had Johnson returned? they asked " her. j^;T- Not that she had heard pf, she re- plied. Did they want Johnson? Had they been searching for him? $&<"'• Yes, they replied, they wanted John- son; he was summoned to appear in the town Jn the Green case; it was believed he could tell considerable about the matter; should be not ap- ^ pear to-day, they must waft. What if he were dead? she asked, - curiously; if he had fallen into some one of the dangerous places on the ' I m o u n t a i n ? %' } if he were dead, they said--well, If y^he were dead that would put a differ- ' v'eBt face upon the matter; they hoped he was not dead, for the law should not be baffled. Did she think he was dead? Had she cause to think so? No, she knew no reason why John­ son should be dead unless he had fallen in some of the dangerous places on the mountain; .they must know this, for they had been there; for her part she knew nothing about it save from what she heard those say who had been there. They paid her liberally and rode away. Dolores was still sitting at the gate under the pines with her haggard face and idle hands, and the eyes that watched for what did not come. Johnson was not there, she said, quietly, and they never questioned her word, but instinctively lifted their hats as they rode away. \ CHAPTER IX. ' A More Thorough Search. Dolores, worn with watching and Sh' faint from lack of food, fell asleep at the door-way, and slept the whole night through; the dawning had deep- ' ened to broad light when she waked. ' She bathed her face with cool £?. * water from the well and brushed her ',1 'soft hair back, winding it in a heavy ' coll at the back of her head. The table was set as she had left it * the day before, and when she hung the kettle over the fire she took the pail and went out to milk Brindle. Lodie came up for water; he hesi- H' (jy tated as he saw Dolores, but she rose »'$ up bravely to meet him. She did not ^Vc.'V speak, bat her eyes asked him a ques- tion. jr$ , "Ther case were postponed," he said, slowly, "Ther jedge were put - out consid'rable, but as 't couldn't be jX'ihelped he said they'd hev ter wait tell Slf'v* yer feyther kems." K&\. - He did not linger; he dared not JsV;.; linger when she was watching him. , :He could not tell her of the roused p|i§ - suspicion regarding Johnson's non- appearance. He left a full bucket on . the edge of the well for her. I;*1., ' Dolores was unused to attention; |';f ' this slight act touched her strangely; . she watched him go down the road, IV' and his slouching figure had a sort of If ,, grace in her eyes. She arose and carried the pall in- side. Then she prepared a pot of ' coffee strong and clear; and drank a > cupful. She fried some bacon and ;; eggs, and ate them determinedly. She ;was impelled by her hidden purpose, < and ate that she should have strength. When she had finished she filled a large bottle with rich new milk, and hung it at her side with a slender rope across her shoulders; she knew -that she would have need of both her ; ; hands. Then she closed the door and , west down the path with a firm step. As she pushed the rickety gate up .and fastened it with its swinging rope, • '.and turned to go down the road, a ' . step crunched the gravel at her side.. n and a familiar voice sounded in her ears, a voice that hitherto had held such sweetness to her shut as a Us Ik \ \n: r.W;. £' ,c: ̂ •= u\ will walk," she said simply, had always been in her hard life. But •he turned now with the free look dying from her face and eyes. "Dolores!" exclaimed young Oreen, eagerly, a warm light in his kindly eyes as he went up to her with out­ stretched hands. "I came over to see about your father. You have heard nothing from him yet, Miss Johnson?" "I shall find him to-day," she said, •teadlly. For the first time he noticed the bottle at her waist and the strange, sad expression of her face. A knowl­ edge of her errand flashed upon him. He touched her arm gently to detain ker. Too are going to find him, Miss Johnson--Dolores? You believe he is lest over on yonder mountain? What fools we were not to have thought of that befere. Let me go with you; May I? What could you do should jnau find him?" He used no softening >. T--»ii to bar; ha knew she compre- fe: hended the possible ending to their search. "You mast ride my horse, Miss Johnson. The way is long and rough, and--" "I will walk," she said, simply. Her lips had lost their warm red color; her wide eyes were on his face in their strange wistfulness. ^ "Then I will leave him at the tav­ ern," he said, quietly, to comfort her. A group of men were around the door of the tavern as they approached and were talking over the events of the previous day. When young Green and Dolores appeared their glances were suggestive, and they listened in silence , when the young man spoke. When he finished an ominous silence fe'l upon them. Then Lodie arose. Of them all he was the most angular and uncouth, but among them he was nobler than they. "Ther deputies dedn't know ther mounting," he said gravely. "Theys might hev a'ms* stepped on 'em o'thout knowin* et. Ef he hev met with an acc'dent he mayn't be able ter kem an' '11 die 'thout help kem ter 'em. Ef tbet gal o' Johnsing's kenqgo ower thar ter hunt 'em, I reckon we un8 ken do "t" His slow, heavy words roused an Interest in his listeners as all Green's words could not do, and they arose at once to their duty with many a word of grumbling that passed unnoticed because each understood that this was simply their way of showing the depth of their interest. The strange party moved along the ghostly mist of the valley road and across the bridge like spirits of the mountain. The ascent was hard and toilsome, and Dolores was unused to .such exertion; young Green was ath­ letic, but he also had never so had his strength put to the proof. They paused many times to rest and re­ cover breath. By and by Green helped Dolores. Her recent lack of food and sleep had unfitted her for such exer­ tion. She was panting and weak, but she smiled her slow, brave smile, and Bhook her head when he offered to take her home if she wished. She came to find her father, she said quietly, and she would find him; she felt certain of that. Up in the blue space a vulture hov­ ered; the dull flap of his wings was audible in the dead stillness and hol­ low below. Dolores saw him, and her eyes dilated. "See!" she cried, her sweet, strange­ ly penetrating voice full of terror echoing down the misty hollow. "See! Why is he there? They follow where there are wounded. He is not there for nothing." * . Their eyes followed hers; her terror was reflected in their faces, used as they were to such scenes, and young Green instinctively drew her nearer himself as though to shield her from what might follow. , There was noth­ ing certain about the vulture's prey; it might be a wounded hare, a stag, or--a man! That it was something was certairLbjiomething, too, that was wounded, hot dead. They stood in silence a moment with awe-struck faces, while the bird of death hovering above them had a terrible meaning for them. Dolores clung to young Green with trembling hands in the first wild moment; she did not feel his strong arm about her; there was a look in her eyes he could never forget. Then she loosened her hold of him, and stood alone slender and stately on the brink of the yawn­ ing gulf. It was marvelous how she impressed those about her with her personality. Many a time afterward the young man was wakened in the night with the memory of her as she stood there in her utter self-forgetful- ness, her feet touching the edge of the gulf opening before her, her ten­ der face grand with its brave soul "I will call him," she said, gravely. "He may answer, for he is there, I know." "leaned above the void filled In with ghostly mist and gruesome shad­ ows; youDg Green's hand was upon her arm, but she did not know it. She called aloud, and her voice rang down the silence, waking the echoes from rock to rock "Father! Father!" The bird of death overhead flapped his heavy wings and uttered a fierce cry as a panther might that has lost Its young. They waited and listened; no sound disturbed the hush of the mountain's heart save the echoes fainting farther and farther into the mysterious depths below. "Father! Father!" "He did not hear," said Dolores, quietly. "Or perhaps he cannot an­ swer. I will call again." That he was there she did not doubt; whether, dead or Alive she would find him; she believed that, too. She placed her hands to her mouth, and her voice again woke the echoes like the tones of a flute "Father! Father!" The vulture whirred down in front of them with its fierce cry. Then suddenly up from the depths, yet not far from them, floated a faint call, half moan, half answer. They listened as though in doubt, afraid to believe lest they be mistaken. But again the faint voice sounded not far distant, but weak. Green stretched himself flat on the ground, and leaned far over the perilous edge. About tweiity feet below a sharp ledge projected, forming a flat shelf; this was covered with a tangle of shrubs and bushes. The mist hung about it like a phantom shroud, and even to Green's clear eye it was but faintly discernible. Whether or not Johnson was there, he could not tell, He called cheerily, and again the weak voice replied; the bushes below were stirred slightly, and ' a feeble hand appeared for an instant Green arose swiftly to his feet; he uncoiled the rope with swift sweeps of his muscular young arm£, and fast­ ening one end around his waist se­ cured tha other end to a .sturdy sap­ ling ntar. Tha man under**4**! his . ... • '-'t: ... design without words, and obeyed hflu orders promptly. Dolores watched them with dilating eyes and her lips close shut, aa though to stifle a cry. When she saw what young Qreen was about to do, she came forward, a world of wonder and horror and pleading in her eyes that were larger and darker than usual as they met the steady blaa onaa above her. "Do not go/' she said, slowly, aa though the words would not come. "Let me go; it is my duty; but you --you must not risk your Ufa for him." He replied hurriedly. There was a swift flashing smile in his eyes as they met hers. It was pleasant to him that she cared for his safety, and he answered her with a swift, brave smile. He spoke to the men cheerily, but clearly and concisely; he told them to hold hard and mind their work. They were ready, and obeyed him at once, and without words. As he turned to let himself down over the edge he looked toward Do­ lores. She was standing apart from them white and silent, her slender, H "Let me go; it is my duty." graceful figure in its homely- print gown sharply defined against the drooping pine boughs that swung low down; her brown eyes were on hln* with a great wonder in their depths. At the time he did not understand, but he smiled at her, and the smile was so grave and tender and steady that it seemed to her afterward when, she thought of it that he had spoken. She neither moved nor spoke; he believed that she did not see him though her eyes were on him till he disappeared over the edge, the rope making a dull whir through the grass that stifled all thought in her mind but the possibility of danger to him. (To be continued.) DANGER OF FEMALE 8UFFRAQE. Op-Why Conservative Citizen Was posed to Women Voting. "No," said the Conservative Citi­ zen, "I am not swayed by prejudice, but I shudder when I think what will happen to this country if women are ever allowed to vote and become really interested in politics." "What's the matter? Think they'd neglect their home duties?" "No, it isn't that. I suppose they'd take good care of their homes and ba­ bies--if there are any babies in these progressive days--but it isn't that." "Afraid they wouldn't vote as intel­ ligently as men?" "No, I don't see how they could make any more blunders in that line than we do. When I think of the chumps that I, with delirious enthu­ siasm, have helped to put into office, I don't feel competene. to ariticise other voters, present or prospective." "Well, what are you afraid of?" "Why, I'm afraid they'd get to bet­ ting on elections. Just suppose that in the course of an excited political discussion Mrs. Brown should say to Mrs. Jones, "I'll bet you a hat that Mrs. Robinson will be snowed under!" It's bad enough when a man bets a hat--or even when he bets half a dozen hats. There's some limit to the cost But if women get to betting hats, why, sir, the country will be im­ poverished by its millinery bills!" Soiirce of Nervous Impulse. ^ The theory of Loeb and Matthews that the nervous impulse, although it brings in electricity, is far from re­ garding tne transmission of that im­ pulse as identical with a simple elec­ trical current. In a medical journal, Dr. O'Brien advocates the old theory that nervous, current and electrical current are identical, because, first, electricity is always present when nerves act; second, electricity Is the form of lorce which would do the work required; third, because the ter­ minal and central mechanisms con­ nected with the nerves correspond to the terminal and central mechanisms connected with electrical system of communication, and do similar work in sending, receiving, relaying, switch­ ing, transforming, accumulating, re­ tarding, distributing and translating impressions, and, fourth, because elec­ tricity, with such construction of con­ ductors and .of torraiual mechanisms, is the only form of force we know of that would do all the work required ff STATUS OF ROOSTER '$fb' •r^>"3Tarmer Wants Court to Define the Limits of Thefa* JLiberty--Peace of Rural Neighborhood Is at Stake I met Jellerson down in one of the market restaurants near Faneuil hall ona day this week. X went there be­ cause they always have plenty to eat, even though it is served any old way. Jellerson was there because he is now a farmer. He was a State street bookkeeper until April of this year. Then he got hold of an abandoned Vital Statistics of London. Greater London, which Includes all the suburbs, has a population of 6,581,' 372, an increase of just under 1,000,000 in ten years, more than half of which occurred in the "outer ring." At the ages of nineteen, twenty, twenty-one to twenty-five, and twenty-five to thir­ ty, there are more than twice as many females as males. It is pointed out in considering the excess of females over males, account must be taken of the large number of female domestic serv­ ants who are brought into London from the country. London has 234,- 398 female servants, and only 15,425 men servants. London has less chil dren than it has had for many years, but it has more people over forty-flve tfryn ever, before. More Eloquent Than Words. "I don't preach no long sermons In de summer time," said the colored brother, "I deB calls de "tention er de sinners ter de state er de thermome­ ter, en bless God, <iey knows what'fi a- comln't "--Atlanta Conatitotlo* • >v ..5 „ . • ' , ,+. Staggered to the Window." farm in Vermont and went up there with his wife. I looked him over with a bit of in­ terest as I unfolded my napkin. His rose was peeling. He said he had shed about fifteen coats of skin al­ ready. But he didn't seem to be down to the end of the wrappings. The back of his neck was the color •f a dark russet shoe and he had allowed the hair to grow on it. I can remember when Jellison had his hands manicured once a week.' He caught me looking at the grime on them and asked with some impatience I thought that farming had any relation to knitting lace edging. The country is all right," said he, *but some of the people that live there are cussed narrow. That's the 1 rouble in this case. They need to be waked up to the rights of others. That's what has brought me down here to-day. I am here to see a law­ yer. I am going to fight a test case. It's this way: The nearest neigh­ bor I have is a man named Randall Cole. I have not got time to go into Cole's character. But he's bow-legged in mind and body--warped as a tophet. And he owns an old yaller rooster that looks just like him even to the red whiskers under the chin. Blamdest looking rooster that you ever did see. He has lost every feath­ er off his breast--picked clean as a whistle. And for tail feathers he has got only a few bristly spills that look like a distant view of a derrick yard. And he has got a crow on him that is rougher than his tail-patch. "The first night we slept In the house on our farm I had got well asleep when I thought I heard some­ one hollering 'Fire.' After awhile I got hall awake and staggered over to the window. Cole's henpen is right up close to my line fence. «That old yal­ ler rooster had his head stuck out of the little window and was hooting, Ur-r-r, rick--ur-r-r-r, rawk--ur-r-r, raw-w-w!" "Thinks I to myself, this is a tlamed dark xaprning if it's time for the early ^chanticleer to get in his. work. Then I looked at the clock and !t was just 1:45. That infernal hiyoo- pus kept up that hooting for half an hour. I calmed myself by figuring that it was probably simply a little mis­ take in the rooster's judgment--that his vittles had disagreed with him or something had occurred to wake him up and he was mixed as to time. Of course he was at it again at the first peep o' day just when I wanted my extra hour of sleep that I had lost in the' night--but it tfas time for roosters to begin crowing and so I didn't grum­ ble. On the second night I was routed up just the same by that old yoller skeeugle. Worst yawp I ever heard-- that of his was! At it again for an­ other hour. Next night just the same. Now, I don't know rooster talk, you understand, and I probably never shall learn. But I am positive that that rooster was chawing over the worst language that he could lay his tongue to. 'At last my rooster got swearing back, and when he did that the two kept at it nigh all night. The lan­ guage was something awful. And the hens mooned around the yard croon­ ing over and over "Oh-h-h-h, oh-h-h-h- o-o-o-h!' in that melancholy way of theirs. They, looked sorrowful and ^ollow-eyed, and I could see that they felt that the morals of the chickens were being ruined just as fast as they could be. And there I was! I got to swear­ ing so much every night that my wife went around looking aiB mournful as the hens. And we were both broken 8trange Loss of Memory. A few months ago an English mis­ sionary in South Africa experienced a shock from the cold water when bathing and his memory left him. He was discovered weeks afterward working as a teamster, quite oblivi­ ous of having had another ^cation. He was fortunate in making a recov­ ery more quickly than a wumau whose case Dr. Forbes-Winslow records. She lost her memory after a boating ac­ cident and had to relearn everything she had ever known. For a whole year she continued in this condition. Then violent excitement brought on a fit and when she came round her mind was cleared and she was un­ aware that a year had elapsed be­ tween h^r immersion in the water and the day of her restoration to {uU session of her faculties. of our rest so much that we couldn't do justice to the work in the day­ time. "I arranged for an interview with Cole across the fence. I told him all about it He said that I'd get used to his rooster in time. Said that for the first year or so the rooster kept him awake, but that now the crowing was a regular lullaby that kept him asleep. I offered to buy the rooster. " 'What! Me sell Thomas Jeffer­ son?' he cried. (Cole is a Democrat.) 'Wal, I guess not muchy! S'pose I want to have ha'f my chickens stole by hawks? S'pose I want to have other roosters leadin' hens in to claw up my garding sass and runnin' riot? Wal, I guess not. Flghtin' hawks and trespassin' roosters is what has cleaned off Thomas Jefferson's feath­ ers and reduced him to his present state of fussiness. And do you reckin that now after all these years I'm goinr to let him be took to the choppin' block? If I thought ye reely had as mean an Impression of me as that I'd swat ye once, ye stuck up city, knittin' work farmer!' "Of course, there was an excellent chance to have a scrap with Cole. He wanted to fight. He shifted end with his hoe handle and waited for me to come on. But I concluded that I'd get up a little more muscle and find out a bit more about Cole's abili­ ty as a slugger. It's a bad idea to let your neighbor find out for -sure that he can lick you. I thought I'd keep Cole guessing awhile. At least, he would stay on his own side of the fence. "Well, things ran along for some time. Then Jim Stafford came up chunk out of Thomas's breast and the blood followed. Then Fltxy flew up and shuffled and gave Thomas a dig in the ribs that made him squawk. "Cole stood up then. He began to get interested. *Gol dura your pelt, Thomas,' he yelped, 'what did ye let him pink ye for? Even a hawk hain't been able ;to do that for t.hiH three year!' ir "Thomas straightened np and cocked his head over to one side and took a good long look at Fitzy. He was interested. Fitzy was certainly slick to look at. He had long, smooth legs and polished spurs and every feather lay as though it yere oiled down. Then Thomas, after prolonged scrutiny, canted his head the other way and topk another look. Then ha crowed. "We never knew what ha said to Fitzy, but it must have been some­ thing awful bad. Anyway, Fitzy made a running jump his way and went in­ to the air. He shot out his feet in front of him and brought those spurs together like the click of a steel trap. But Thomas wasn't where any well regulated rooster would be if he were fighting fair. Any other rooster would have been in the air shuffling, too. What did Thomas do? He threw himself right back, on those tail quills and sat on them. They stuck right into the ground. That left Thomas with both feet and his head free. Fitzy was so surprised when he didn't counter that he fell down onto Thom­ as and Thomas grabbed him by the neck with both claws and with his bill yanked Fitzy's head off. It was all over quicker'n you could say scat. "Cole stood up and stretched. 'Ye M TTv. V "Shot Out H Ir Feet." Needs of Alasfca. Alaska needs 10,006 miles of rail- ,696 miles of wa9M»r*Mts and lines, and ean, as test as transportation is available, give homes and employment a popula­ tion et 10.000400. .P •.ic:. - • from Boston to stay over Sunday with me. Jim is quite a sport, you know. When Jim understood just how Alger­ non and I were fixed, and after he had been kept awake one night by that rooster's colloquy, starting at 1:30 a. m., he offered a suggestion. " 'I'll send down to the city,' said he, 'and have them send up my yel­ low-legged, high-station, red-topped game cock and we'll see whether that old bald-headed bunch of gristle and stub feathers is going to run the com­ munity here. You just wait till Fitzy gets here. He won't leave enough of Thomas to make one plate of thin chicken soup.' "Therefore, Fitzy came up from Boston, his head stuck up through the bars of a crate and very evident­ ly looking for trouble. Jim put him into training right away * "On the second day after wa had seen Thomas walk up and down his side of the fence a few times and sass Algernon with his regular morn­ ing batch of abuse, we ruffled Fitzy's head feathers and let him Sm. Fitzy started right for the fence. He had been I'stening to Thomas, and it was apparent that some of the remarks he had heard made him fussy. Cole was sitting over side of his barn rel­ ishing the conversation that Thomas was letting out of him. "Fitzy certainly didn't waste any time. He dodged under the fence, stuck his leg out, ran- his wing down over it and then let out a yawk that you could hear for a mile. Then he and Thomas stood and looked at each other. Thomas was some, as­ tonished. But Fitzy was a good deal more so. Ho stood and fairly gawped at tl^E bare breast and those stubby tail feathers. Then he said some­ thing like 'Ohell, I thought you were something!' and turned around dis­ dainfully and started to walk away. But Thomas was pretty mad. He stuck his neck out, and came for Fitzy on the dead run. Fitzy turned and bristled his back feathers and the two stood there a solid minute. "Cole took his pipe out of his month and hollered, 'Eat him up, Thomas Jefferson, wnat's the matter with you anyhow?' "Thomas stopped, and when he did Fitzy cut in at him. He nipped a Where to Use Rouge. It is said that Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia may be made a cardinal. This prelate has a delightful humor. A young girl one day said to him: *"1 have been told, sir, that a touch of rouge heightens a woman's charm wonderfully, but I have also been told that to use rouge Is wrong. Will you give me your opinion on this tuat- ter?" _ "Some," said the archbishop, "hold that there is nothing pernicious in a little rouge, while others regard the use of this cosmetic as vulgar. To me it seems best to steer a middle course between those two opinions, and I would advise, you, therefore, to use rouge upon one cheek only/* 1 • ---- r*""* Yucatan The state of Yucatan produces an- anally M0,000 bales (100,000 tons) of haeegwaa, or sisal, hemp, valued at $12|S0M00. AmI this is pesaible ia a dhrtrlet with lalwr almost wefctain- aMe. In twenty yea*s Yu#afcan has exported ever 1.000,000 tons of this fiber, worth approximately $100,000,- kin come over an' git your hen,' said he; 'I won't tax ye for trespassin'.' But Jim didn't want the remains. He walked away, and I after him. "'I didn't engage to fight bald- headed eagles,' said he, 'not the kind that 3it on their tail feathers and play butcher. I'm going home.' And home he went. "That's the way the thing stands," concluded Jellerson. "I'm down here to find out what the law is on a rooster's crowing nights and spoiling my temper and breaking up my wife's health and ruining my morals and keeping my hens so stirred up that they haven't got strength to scratch "Grabbed Him by the Neck." day times. I think it's a public nuis­ ance and I'm going into law and es­ tablish a precedent." It is clear, therefore, that the fall term of court in at least one county is going to be considerably enlivened. --Boston Journal. . {Electoral Commission Survivors. Only three of the fifteen members of the famous electoral commission of 1877 survive--ex-Senator Edmunds, Senator Hoar and General Eppa Hun- ton of Virginia--the two last having been chosen on the part of the House of Representatives. All of the five justices of the Supreme court who sat on tha commission long since passed away. of Turned the Joke. When off duty Prgf. Richards Yale enjoys a joke, and his pupils often come to him when they have heard a new one. He adds to the fun sometimes with a witticism of his own. Such was the case when one of the students perpetrated the following antiquity: "Professor, wouldn't you like a good recipe for catching rabbits? "Why, yes," replied the Profeaaor. "What is it?" "Well, you crouch down behind a thick stone wall and make a noise like a turnip," answered the youth, giggling in ecstasy. Quick as a flash came the reply: "Oh, a better way than that would be for you to go and sit quietly in a bed of cabbage heads and look natur- al."-~Haw York Times. :'FS -Peru's Area. Peru Is often syken ef as the "lit­ tle repaMW but the flaat remains that Peru has an area three and a half times that of dermaay and a density of population but as one ta sixty oompared with Qermamy. THE, LAWS OF COURTESY. How f» Reach Offendera Against Them Is a Problem. Courtesy forbids us to tell tha eat net truth; in fact, a judge gave aa aa official ruling recently the statement that the truth should not be spoken at all times, when he made it a crime to call a woman an old maid. Other­ wise we might settle the case of self- invited guests by a few unpalatable perhaps, but wholesome truths. Thera is no doubt that they would work a reform, but discourtesy should not ba encouraged. There is already to* much of it in the world, and to reach the common sense of the offendera against the real laws of hospitality is preferable, says the Boston Traveler. How to do it I am not prepared to say, for I was a victim of one of the number some time, because I found no pleasant way out of the dlf> Acuity. The offender was & critical friend who used to drop In' at meal time and calmly announce her Inten­ tion of honoring me. Distance finally solved this particular question--I moved away where she could not raac?i me in less time than a day. A Boy'c «lcto.y. Crossroads, Tenn., Sept. 14th.--Op- bra Young, the ten year-old son of Les­ ter Young of this place, is a bright boy, and one who is rprj weU liked by all who know him. For some years Orbra' has suffered a great deal with a form of Kidney Trou­ ble which was very annoying, and which made him miserable all tha time. He had to get up three or four times every night, almost all his llfa. His father heard of a remedy called Dodd's Kidney Pills, and bought soma for the little fellow with tha result that he is now completely cured of the old trouble. He says: "Dodd's Kidney Pills soon gava ma great relief, and now I can sleep all night without having to get up. Wa will alwars praice Dodd's Kidney Pills." There are many children suffering from Kidney and Urinary troubles. These disorders should be promptly corrected. Dodd's Kidney Pills Is a safe and sure remedy for til such da* rangements. Master Orbra Young conquered his troubles and made a well boy of him­ self- by using Dodd's Kidney Pills, and any one may do the same by tha same means. Parents should see to it that their children are given a fair chance in life, and there is nothing that can undermine the health of a growing child as much as Kidney and Urinary derangements. Rescued by Meana of Kite. F. Devillo Sanders of Belmont, Al­ legheny county, climbed the steeple of the Episcopal church in Genesee, New York, :to examine the damage done by lightning. When he was near tha top of the steeple his rope caught so that he could not move up or down, and it was necessary to get another rope to him. The nearest place to Sanders that could be reached was sixty feet be­ low where he was dangling. Ezekiel Willis, a boy, got out hla kite and flew it so that Sanders could grasp the string. Then pieces of cord of gradually Increasing size were at­ tached to the kite string until San­ ders got a rope and came down. AMERICAN BANKERS' ASSOCIATION. 8an Francisco, October 20-23, 1903. The Santa Fe offers for the above named occasion rates so low as to make the trip possible for everybody. Ticket limits are ample, and full pro­ vision has been made for Inexpensive side rides. The rates are open to all, whether delegates or not. For full particulars address Geo. T. Nicholson, P. T. 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