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*V^ * 4 s 4 imssm \ * - y > .t^uss* ^ .> * > *« ^w-- &-.'-. V* The Ward of King Canute A Romance of the Danish Conquest. By OTTILIE A. L1LJENCRANTZ, author of The Thrall of Lief the Lucky. Copyripht, 1003, by A. O. McCLUKG & CO. CHAPTER XXVI.--Continued. Anger leaped from the young noble's eyes as, in his turn, he came between t<?r and the Jarl. He said forcefully, "No one shall ask anything of you that yon do not want, nor shall any king compel you. Yet I thiojt I have a right to know what his vwill (8 with you." v "You have not," the Dane contra­ dicted. "Do you think the king's pur­ poses are to be opened to tne sight of every Angle who becomes his man? End this talk, maiden, and giva me your promise t.o be obedient." bfce gave it i,n a cry of despair, "I must--I know I must!" then sought to make peace with her lover by lay­ ing caressing hands on his breast. But for once the Etheling's will did not bend to her coaxing; his mouth was doggedly set as he looked down upon her. 'T trust no man I do not know," he answered, "and I do not know Canute the man. You have no cause to reproach me with lack of faith in you, Randalin, for when every happening--even your own words- made it appear as if it were love for Rothgar Lodbroksson which brought you into the camp, I looked into your eyes and believed them against til else." "Love for Rothgar Lodbroksson?" she repeated, drawing back. "Then you did believe that I could love Roth­ gar?" Her voice rose sharply. "You believed that I followed him!" Too late he saw what he had done. "'I said that I did not believe it," he cri&l hastily. "What I thought at first in my bewilderment--jthat could not be called belief.' But she did not aeem to hear hia ex­ planation as she stood there gazing at him. her mind leaping lightning- iike from point to point. "It was that which made you behave so strangely fn the garden." she said, and she spoke each phrase with a kind of breathless finality. "Ton thought faithfulness to you that I afterward destroyed him." Out of the stillness that followed, a voice cried, "Are you mad?" and there was the grating of chairs thrust hastily back. But, after a great wrench, her heart stood still within her as through the madness she per­ ceived thepurpose. As well as Edric of Mercia she knew that the young Viking's vulnerable point was his longing for his own self-esteem, a craving so unreckoning in its fervor that--should he have the guilty con^ sciousness the traitor counted on-- rather than endure his own reproach "or cowardice he would be equal to the wild brazenness of flinging the avowal in the teeth of bis assembled court.. Her pulses began to pound in a furious dance as the same flash of intuition showed her the rock upon which the Gainer's audacious steering was going to wreck him. For no skulking guilt was in the face of the new king of England as Ire met the startled glances, but in­ stead a kind of savage joy that widen­ ed his nostrils and drew his lips away from his teeth in a terrible smile. "Now much do I thank whatever god has moved you to open speech," he said, "for with every fiber of my body have I long wanted to requite you for that faithfulness. Knowing that you were coming to-night to ask. it, I have the reward ready. Never was recompense given with a better will." Leaping to his feet, he hurled the goblet in his hand against the op­ posite wall so that it was shattered on the stone behind the embroidered hangings. At the signal the tapestry was lifted, and in the light stood Eric of Norway, leaning on a mighty battle-axe. To him the king cried in a loud voice, all the irony gone from it, leaving it awfuj,. as the voice of Thor at Ragnarok. "Do your work where all can see you, Eric Jarl. that no man shall accuse me of being \ m £' n ' to Whose hifltw»lii«Wn®w I trusted^everything t havel*?-T %as lH?e those--those other iwomen in the camp. And what are you thinking of me now? Do you bare to dream that the king--" Turn­ ing, she confronted the old warrior fiercely. "Thorkel Jarl, i ask you to tell the Lord of Ivarsdale as quick as you 'can what the king wants with toe." "That I will not do," the Jarl said fiuickly. "You know no prudence, vnaiden. The Lord of Ivarsdale is also English; a mishap might occupy If--" She flung the words at him; "I care not"If i lose Canute his crown! If you wilt not risk it, I will tell him that the king settles to-night with Edric of Mercia and his men, and that It is to witness the punishment of my kins­ men's murderer that he has sent for me. As for my camp life, ask Rothgar himself, or Elfgiva, or tho king, or any soldier of the host! Of them all, you alone have thought such thoughts of me." She flung up her hands against him in a kind of heart-broken rage. "You! To whose high-minded- fiess I trusted everything I have!" Hiding her face, she ran from them, robbing, Into the house. CHAPTER XXVII. n "I welcome yon to your own, Lady of Avalcomb," he answered as he re­ turned her salutation. Leaning against the window frame he stood a long while looking at her In silence--- so long that she was startled when at last he spoke. "Yet for the good of the realm, I must lay on your odal one burden, Frode's daughter." "What is that, King?" "It is that before the year is out you take a husband who shall be able to defend your land in time of need." Her white cheeks went very red before him and then grew very pale again, while her breast rose and fell convulsively. But she clasped her hands over It as though to still its protest and, suddenly, she flung up her head in a kind of trembling de­ fiance. "What does It matter? King, I know what a Danish woman owes her race. Choose you the man and this shall, like other things, be as you wish." It was evident that her answer took him by surprise, for he bent from the wall to observe her. "I choose!" he repeated. "Have you then ho choice?" - She tried to say "No"; she tried desperately to say it; but already her courage was crumbling under her. All at once she took her hands from her breast to hold them out pleadingly, and her voice was broken: "Lord, let me go back to Avalcomb--now--to­ day!" "Wherefore to-day?" he asked. "I had thought you would remain here for awhile and get honor froqi Queen Emma." A moment he looked away from her, out of the window at the drifting clouds. "I can tell you, Frode's daughter, that while she is noble in her birth, she is still nobler in her mind," he said gravely. "Lit­ tle would there be in her service for you to 'take ill. I think it possible that she might be highly helpful to you. There is that about her which makes the good in one come out and bask like a snake in the sun, while the evil slinks away shadow-like--" S|he interrupted him with a cry that was half a sob. "Lord King, I cannot bear it to see more people that are strange to me! Since I left my fath­ er's bouse I have felt the starkness of strangers, and now--now I can endure it no longer. My heart within me is as though it were bruised blapk and blue. Let me go baclc where all know me--where none will hold me off at arm's length to challenge me with his eyes, but all love me and place faith in me because they know me. Lord, give me leave to go home --pray it of you! Beseech it of ypu!" Entreating, she would have fallen at his feet If he had not caught her hands and stayed her. (To be continued.) MEN WITH GREAT MEMORIES. Th* Twilight of the Gods. * As she had seen it from the gal­ lery where the king's soldiers had tfiidden her, Randalin saw again the great stone hall, enshrining a feast­ ing table around which a throng of nobles In their gorgeous dresses and their Jewels and their diadems made * glittering halo. At the farther end, the king sat in his shining gilded <chair. Just below her was Edric of |fercla with Norman Leofwinesson beside him. The light from the taper «which a page was holding behind Nor­ man of Baddeby fell upon the gemmed •oollar that was his principal orna­ ment. The collar had be%n her fath- , «er's; she could not look at it without nosing again his ruddy old face with 4.ts grim mouth and faded kindly •ayes. Beside this vision rose another *-^the vision ef this beloved face dead la the moonlight, with Fridtjof's near ft, bis brave smile frozen on his young tips. From that moment, softness and shrinking died out in her bearing as out of her heart, and her blood wan turned to fire within her--the liquid fiia of the North. When the wave* of good-will and fel­ lowship had reached its height, like one who would ride In upon the crest the Gainer rose to his feet and be­ gan speaking to the king. The flrst %ords Randalin heard distinctly were Canute's, as he paused with upraised goblet to look at the Mercian. "Strangely do you ask," he said. "*Why should I give you more than (Bdmund gave you?" 1 She had no difficulty In hearing IBOrlc this time. Aggressively honest, Ibis words rang out with startling {sharpness. "Because it was for you jfcatJ against Elrinnnri. and frw Au* iifii w ZttmmMWmr* afraid to bear my deeds. And let Nor­ man Bteofwinesson die with his lord for the slaying of Frode of Aval­ comb." A roar of hideous sound--a con­ fusion of overturned lights, of screech­ ing servants, of writhing struggling bodies--above it all, the visiion of titat glittering axe poised in the air--then flashing downward--Randalin's recol­ lections blurred, ran together, and faded out in broken snatches. She recalled a brief space of some­ thing like sleep-walking as the sol­ diers led her through branching cor­ ridors to this room, and fetched for her attendant the only woman avail­ able, a wench they had taken from trencher-washing in the royal kitch­ en. She remembered irritably re­ jecting the woman's clumsy services and sending her to sleep on her pal­ let, while" she herself walked to and fro with her surging thoughts until sheer physical exhaustion forced her to throw herself upon the bed. After that she remembered--nothing. "I am glad that I did not disgrace my kin by screaming or fainting," she reflected now, as she raised herself stiffly. "I am glad. I did that much credit to ifly name." She flushed as her hand, touching the pillow, found it wet, and for an instant the bearing of her head was less erect. "I do not remember what I dreamed," she murmured, "but full well I know that it was not because Norman Leof­ winesson is slain that I shed tears In my sleep." For a while she drooped there, her eyes on the open window, outside of which a robin was singing blithely among the cherries. But all at once she seized the pillow with a kind of fierceness, and turned it over and piled the others on top of It, Cry­ ing under her breath, "How dared he! How dared he! I will shed no tears for him while I am awake. I will remember only that I am my father's daughter and ther Lady of Avalcomb." Proudly as became an Odal-woman. she followed the page when he came to call her to the royal presence. The great stone hall In which the king awaited the arrival of his Norman bride was the same room In which he had feasted the night before, but tables and dishes now were gone, gold-weighted tapestries hung once more over the door by which Edric of Norway had made his entrance, and a rich-hued rug from au eastern loom lay over the spot where she had seen the axe rise and fall. Forcing herself to tread the rug with steady step, she came where the king stood by an open window. He was as changed as the room, though in honor of his bride he wore again state robes of silk and cloth-of-gold, for the fire of the Northern lights was gone out of his face, leaving it dull and lusterless. His ward courtesled deeply before him. "For your justice, King Canute, I- give you thanks drawn from the JgMtiTfcD" PARAGRAPHS. as?. •" The "best some men can do Is to place themselves on selfmade pedes­ tals. When love sets the task the laborer never thinks pi ( demanding shorter hours. A preferred creditor Is one who Is willing to wait until ysu-gpi ready to settle. Some young pien are stage-struck and some others are only soubrette- struck. Happiness is one thing a man con­ tinues to search for after he has found it. j Absence makes the heart grow fond j er. And It's so much cheaper than presents. No woman can wear a new dress without In some Way advertising Its newness. Don't be dissatisfied with your lot. Hang on to it and pray for a real estate boom. Every man favors honest govern­ ment as long as it doesn't Interfere with his interests. It;s only when a piece of property is offered for a song that a man dis­ covers he can't sing. Shouting Their Praises. Kirkland, 111., Jan. 2nd.--(Special) --Cured of the terrible Rheumatic pains that made him a cripple for years, Mr, Richard R. Greenhon, an old and respected resident of this place is shouting the praises of the remedy that cured him, Dodd's Kid­ ney Pills. "I had the rheumatism In my left limb so that I could not walk over ten to fifteen rods at a time, and that by the use of two canes," Mr. Greenhon says. "I would have to sit or lie down on the ground when I was out trying to walk and the sweat would run down my face, with so much pain. I could not sleep at night for about five or six weeks. "I tried different doctors' .medicines, but they were all no good. Then I sent for Dodd's Kidney Pills and almost from the flrst they brought relief. By the time I had taken four­ teen boxes of them my rheumatism was all gone ajid I can truly say I feel better than I have in the last twenty-five years." Mlssissippian Vouches for Two Very Remarkable Cases. Somehow the talk shifted to won­ derful memories. The man from Mis­ sissippi, who had been trying to. get the word, at last succeeded. "I rath­ er flatter myself," he remarked, "I can tell you a couple of the most remark­ able cases on record. The first was that of an old negro, born and reared in slavery, unable either to read or write. His task on the plantation at dusk was to weigh the cotton baskets of the two score or more negroes who came home every night from the fields. He relied solely" on his memo­ ry, had no record of any sort, and made his report to the overseer every Saturday evening. He could tell the amount of cotton each one had picked for the six days in the week, and was never known to make an error. "The other case is told in an Inter­ esting article in the 'Publication of the Mississippi Historical Society.' The Indian agents of the federal gov­ ernment, just after the treaty of Dan­ cing Rabbit creek, had a census taken of certain Choctaw villages. The task was performed by a member of the tribe, who recorded the number of males, females, ahd children og notched sticks. Some months later the records were burned and the In­ dian, without the slightest hesitation, reproduced them entirely from mem­ ory. There were over 5,000 souls enumerated by him, if I recall correct­ ly. And there was no question as to his accuracy. A test made in a village or two proved that his new notched sticks, made from memory, were as accurate as the old ones."'--New Or­ leans Times-Democrat. £* A Dream Dispelled. There was once an observing young woman who took note of the fact that the men seemed to be abashed when in the presence of the maid who ruled the kitchen. So she went to cooking school and took a thorough course in culinary science, graduating with honors. On a time she married a man, and she insisted upon getting the meals herself. But, alas! instead of standing in awe of her and allowing her to boss the house he was quarrelsome and dictatorial, and she was little better than a slave. At last she threw herself at his feet an'd begged him to tell her why a man waB not as much afraid of his wife as he was of the cook. "Huh!" he responded. "I'm not afraid you'll quit your job and disor-» ganize the household system." This shows us that conditions knock the plausilblity out of theories right along. Break It Gently. lUeliard Le Galllenne spends mnch of his time in New York. He affects a decidedly pdetlcal fashion in his hair, which calls for a sparing use of the shears. Near his lodgings is a German barber shop, where he fre­ quently drops in to have his shoes polished, but never for tonsorial' at­ tention, much to the disgust of the proprietor, who is possessed of the true barber hair-destroying instinct. The other day as the poet left, after one of his usual visits, a customer heard the barber say to the boy: "See here, Fritz, der next dime dot ehentlemans comes in to get his shine I vants you to say somedings to him aboudt dot shameless hair he got. Doan get fresh, and make some of­ fenses--shust hint delicate. Say, 'Boss, you looks like a shackasses wid dot hair; vhy doan you |'t h)M sat, w ; T- Picturesque Senator 3tewart. With his flowing patriarchal beard, white as a snow bank, and massive figure, but little bent in spite of his three score years and seventeen, Sen­ ator Stewart. of Nevada is a man whom visitors in the senate galleries look at more than once. Generally he is enveloped in a capacious frock coat that falls to his knees pnd adds to his stately appearance. But of late the senator has adopted a more conspicu­ ous attire. He wears a dinky little blue coat, not half as long ap his coats of former days, and a waistcoat white as his linen shirt front or his abundant beard. The doorkeepers have been on the point of stopping the Nevadan more than once, thinking it altogether a different man. CUTICURA SOAP The World's Greatest Skin 8oaR--'The Standard of Every Nation -of the Earth. Millions of the world's best people Use Cuticura Soap, assisted by Cati- cura Ointment, the purest and sweet­ est of emolient skin cures, for preserv­ ing, purifying and beautifying the skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales and dandruff, and the stopping of falling hair, for softening, whiten­ ing and soothing red, rough and sore hands, for baby rashes, itchings and chaflngs, and many sanative, antisep­ tic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women, especially mothers, as well as for all the pur­ poses of the toilet, bath and nursery. Prince a Successful Artist. Prince Eugen of Sweden, youngest! of King Oscar's four sons, is regarded as one of the most accomplished land­ scape painters on the continent. He spends most of the time in his hand­ some Paris studio. At the last salon he exhibited three pictures under an assumed name. The artistic world acknowledged their merit, so now, having won praise for his work and not because of his royal birth, he no longer conceals his Identity. New York & Philadelphia cannot be more pleasantly or conve­ niently reached than by the Grand Trunk-Lehigh Valley Route. Solid through trains, magnificent scenery, all trains run via Niagara Falls. De­ scriptive literature sent free on appli­ cation to Advertising Department, Grand Trunk Railway System, 135 Adams St., Chicago, 111., Geo. W. Vaux, A. G. ft T. A. . Jsking Up Public Land. More than 22,824,299 acres of'the public lands were turned over to pri­ vate Individuals last year. This means that an area almost equal to that of the state of Indiana has within that time been added to the productive re­ gions of the United States^ Most of these newly opened lands were home- steaded by farmers. Bovine 8teeds. Attempts are being made In France to train oxen for saddle riding, and several races have been organized to test their capacity. They have been trained not only as racers on "the flat," but alap as successful jumpers. The bridle and saddle used are almost similar in general design to those for hunters. Important to Mothers. carefully erecy bottle of CASTORIA, a Mfe ami nn remedy for Infanta and children, and Me that It Bear* the Signature of h Cao For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Bam Always Bought Schoolboys In Prison. For various misdemeanors, sixty- four schoolboys in Berlin were con­ demned last year to imprisonment lor from two to ten months. Harvard to Study Stars Pr:lr DIAGRAM CONSTRUCT!#* --*0]p» faSTnunc*? Pat Crowe* Is probably not so much surprised at the amount Cassie got as he is at the fact that she secured i* without once pulling a gin , Preparations are being made at the Harvard observatory for the emplace­ ment of the largest practical reflector telescope in the world* There is a larger one in Ireland, but it Is said to be unsatisfactory. The Lick and Yerkes telescopes are big and power­ ful, but they are refracting telescopes, the distinction between the two being that there is no lense at the receiving end of a reflector for the light to pass through. This new engine for pulling secrets down from the heavens will be estab­ lished at Harvard out of doors, the telescope being encased in a long square casing of metal to protect it Didn't Think Much of the Lot. Representative Brownlow looks likfe the Tennessee mountaineer that he is. Stocky and broad, he tips}.the scales at considerably over 200, as does Representative Sims, to whom he was talking yesterday. "When I flrst ran for Congress," said he, "there were several candi­ dates in the race. We had all assem­ bled at a certain town, and were on one platform at a public meeting. There was a rough old fellow in the audience, who was looking the aspir­ ants over with a critical eye. One of them had done him several favors, and he felt In duty bound to Vote for that man, who, however, he had never seen before. * " 'Not a very promising lot, are they?' observed this mountaineer philosopher after a while. 'Them's only the kind we used to run for con­ stable when I was a boy. Thar's my candidate. I've got ter vote for him. I'd given $10 if I hadn't seen him first'"--Washington Post On Lack of Harmony. Secretary Morton of the navy in extending his congratulations to the naval engineers on the harmony which marked their recent meeting forsook the beaten path. "I have been greatly pleased," he said, "to note that you conducted your business along well organized lines and under recognized rules. Most scientific bod­ ies are all too prone to pull in oppo­ site directions, every member think­ ing that he is carrying the whole weight of the deliberations upon his own shoulders. "I have seen a great number of scientific gatherings in my life," he concluded, "and this is one of the flrst which did not remind me of a short story I once heard. A lot of water bugs once assembled for the purpose of making a trip down the Mississippi on a log. The trip was never taken because every one of the bugs thought he ought to do the steering."--New York Times. The Matter of Drinks. In H. G. Wells' Utopia he discusses beverages lis follows: "Under no cir­ cumstances can I think of my Uto­ pians maintaining their fine order of life on ginger ale and lemonade. Those terrible temperance drinks, so­ lutions of qualified sugar mixed with vast volumes of gas, as for example soda, seltzer, lemonade and 'flre-ex- tlncteurs,' hand grenades--'minerals' they call such stuff in England--fill a man with wind and self-righteousness --Indeed they do! "Coffee destroys brain and kidney-- a fact now universally recognized and advertised throughout America. Tea, except for a kind of green tea best used with discretion in punch, tans the entrails and turns honest stomach Into leather bags. "No! If we are to hate ale in Utopia, give me the one clean temper­ ance drink that Is worthy to set be­ side wine, and that Is simple water. Best it,is when not quite purs, for then it tastes and sparkles." fWise" From the Bible. A minister of New York had oc­ casion to attend an out of town meet­ ing one day, and had told his wife that he would be home the same night As he was a man of his word, and knew that his wife would become alarmed should he stay away, he wired her as follows when he found that he could not get home: Mrs. A. B. C., New York--Psalm V, j. See first clause of verse. A. B. C. The mystified wife turned to the verse and read: "My voice shalt thou hear in the morning." . Profit in Diversified Crop*. "tt takes a hard blow at the pocket- book, such as a crop failure, to show some people the advantages of divers­ ified farming. Every poor wheat year has been followed by the greatest at­ tention to other crops in the localities Where the failure was most felt. These experiences have taught the farmers that wheat land will do splendidly for other thinigs besides wheat, and that some of the other crops bring more re- ttaWe returns.--Minneapolis JoumfL flow th^ Big Reflector Will Loftl: Wfieri Completed. from the weather. It will be hinged on a float which will be buoyed in c tank of water let into the earth. The tank will be of concrete and cement. Work is now in progress, and whet all Is finished, observers operating thif great reflector will find star and planet study in cold weather much more comfortable than similar quest­ ing with refracting telescopes. Why? Well, with the refracting kind of instruments--it being necessary that all telescopes should be operated in this same temperature as the warmth or chill outside--the operator must, of course, do his observing in the cold if a good night for star study should happen to be frosty. These telescopes are mounted indoors, and the mechanism which swings the great cylinder to keep the glass on the object also swings the observer. The reflector telescope may be mounted outside and be operated from inside. This is made possible by a system of mirrors which enables the operator, in a fixed position indoors, to keep the object in view while the telescope swings to keep in touch with the object. * The Dirigible Torpedb. An invention which, if the weather be in Its favor is extremely deadly is the dirigible torpedo, controlled by wireless electricity from ship or shore. It is merely the ordinary torpedo, loaded with its big charge of gun cot­ ton and a firing pin the head to ex­ plode the torpedo when It strikes, fit­ ted with double rudders, o.he horizon­ tal blade to steer up or down, one of vertical to steer right or left; a stor­ age battery for ordinary use and pro­ pulsion, a wireless current transmitter and motpr for dirigible propulsion, and an elevated tube to discharge a small Jet of sea water forced through It by an electric pump. An observer completely sheltered be­ hind earthworks could send out such a torpedo from shore, make it go miles out to sea, wait for a battle ship of the enemy, swim around it, dive und^r it, and with certainty ram its armored bottom with the firing-pin head. One such station could defend the Sandy Hook entrance to New York harbor if the weather were always good.--- Everybody's Magazine. Wouldn't Work While Doctor Looked. A physician in South Baltimore, having decided that a flagpole on his house would add to^Jts good appear­ ance, employed a man to rig tlbe staff to his roof. This man had for his as­ sistant a six-foot negro imbued with all the superstitions of his race. The big staff had been hoisted to the roof and was nearly in place when the negro happened to glance down at the crowd that had collected in the street to view the work. The physician, desiring to see how the work of setting up the pole was progressing, had gone to the opposite corner to see the work, when the ne­ gro saw him. The crowd saw the darky stop working and say some­ thing to his employer. Then the ne­ gro left the roof, and the work was postponed. The negro had said: "Look, boss, dere's dat doctor down dare, lookin' fo' a job. I knows I'se agwine to fall off dls roof and dat man'll cut me up. 'Deed, I ain't agwine to strike another lick o' work while dat man's down dere." Sad Bereavement. At the time of Mrs. Cleveland's residence in Washington Leo Wheat was her pet pianist. She rarely gave an entertainment at which he did not play. One day she met him on, the street, and saw that he looked very sad. "What Is it Mr. Wheat?" she asked, in accents of concern. Leo drew his hand across his eyes. "I am sad, Mrs. Cleveland," he re­ plied. "Very, very sad. As a matter of fact, I have lost my wife." "I am sorry," Baid Mrs. Cleveland, somewhat surprised that he was not in mourning. "When did it happen?" Mr. Wheat sighed heavily. "My wife got a divorce a year ago from me," he explained, "and I have only Just heard of it."--New York Times. Carnegie Balked at $20,000. Some citizens of Enid, Okla., asked Andrew Carnegie for money with which to build a library and he offered to give $10,000 if the town would raise $1,000 a year for its support But Enid told Mr. Carnegie that $20,000 would be about the right sum. His private secretary replied: "Mr. Car­ negie notes that one mill on the valua­ tion bings in $876, which you have been Bpending in support of your library, also that the library facilities given have been one room 18x20. He con­ siders that a jump from an 18x20 to a $10,000 building might suffice for some time."--Chicago Chronicle. -.<• ?y Religious Services In tftfterfc Rev. Henry Marsh Warren has be­ gun the holding of religious services in New York hotels every Sunday and is meeing with great success. He uses the dining-rooms, which on all occasions are crowded. Having shown that his idea is feasible and popular, he is about to arrange a regijlar sched­ ule of services among the hote?.« Mr. Warren at one time was pastor of the fifth A-veoue J^ptist church. Powder Perfect in quality^ Moderate In price. Not a Skeptic. "They say," remarked the typewrit­ er boarder, "that geese often travel 9,000 miles In migrating." "I guess that's right," rejoined the old bachelor at the pedal extremity of the mahogany. „ "A. friend of mine traveled fully that distance. on his wedding trip." Insist on Getting It. Some grocers say they dont Defiance Starch. This is because they have a stock on hand of other brands containing only 12 oz in a package, which they won't be able to sell first, because Defiance contains 18 os. for the same money. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 OS. for same money? Then buy Defia&oe Starch. Requires no cooking. Still Bind Girls' Feet. H In a memorial to the throne, the _ £2 Governor of Shantung complains thatt notwithstanding the issue of the Ein- press' strict commands forbidding the practice of foot-binding, he finds that only about one in every ten families in his province has obeyed. They fear that If their female children are al­ lowed to have natural-sized feet it would be impossible to get them mar­ ried. History of Petroleum. George P. Grimsley, formerly of Washburn College and now assistant state geologist of West Virginia, has been selected by the Carnegie Insti­ tute of Washington, as one of the eight contributors of a voluminous , economic history of the United States. He will write on the, history of petrol­ eum and gas development in the United States from the flrst discovery to the present time. World's Greatest Linguist, Alfredo Trombettl of Bologna en­ joys an International reputation as the world's greatest linguist He speaks 400 different languages and dialects and is still adding to his knowledge of strange tongues. Ever since he was 14 years of age he has been mastering the various languages of the world, and he intends shortly to come to America to complete hia knowledge of the dialects of th^ Indi­ ans of the Rockies. BTATB or OHIO, CITT OR TOLEDO, R LUCAS COTTNTT. ( FRAKK J. CHRMCY makes oath that he ta center partner of the firm of F. J. CHINIY ft CO., doing business In tbe City of Toledo, County and Stats aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of CATARRH that cannot be cured by the use Ox HALL'S CATARRH CURB. FRANK J. CHENEY.* Sworn to before me and subscribed In my pres­ ence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. .--SRI A. W. GLEASON, . - 1 T NOTARY TUBLIO. Rail's Catarrh Cnre Is taken Internally and acta directly on the blood and muceus surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY ft CO., Toledo, OL Sold by all Drugrfsts, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Promptitude. Clement W. Andrews, of Chicago, during the convention of the Ameri­ can Library association at St. Louis, visited a number of St Louis fac­ tories. In one of these inspections noon struck in the cardroom of a certain mill, and all the cardroom boys put by their work and disappeared as If by magic. "Do all the boys," said Mr. Andrews, smiling, "drop their tools the Instant the whistle bloxvs?" "Oh, no, not all of them," said the cardroom boss. "The more orderly ones have their tools put away before that time." - Railroading in East Africa* * A collision recently occurred' on thS Uganda railway, British east Africa, that would be possible nowhere else on earth. A huge bull rhinoceros rushed out of the bush and charged at full speed the so-called "up mixed" train, which was slowing down as it approaching the station Sultan Ham- ond, 218 miles from Mombasa. The train was stopped and the "rhino" was discovered about 100 yards down the track. Slowly he returned to the jungle and was lost to sight. He did not escape unharmed, for pieces of his thick skin were found adhering to the train, but the fierceness of his assault smashed the engine step and splin­ tered the inch and a half footboard of the first carriage. : > HABIT'S CHAIN Certain Habits Unconsciously Formal and l*ard to Break. Aa j^etJous philosopher estimates that the amount of will power neces­ sary tv> break * life-long habit would* if it could be transformed, lift % weight of many tons. It sometimes requires a higher de­ gree of heroism to break the chains of a pernicious habit than to lead * forlorn hope in a bloody battle. £ lady writes from an Indiana town: "From my earliest childhood I was a lover of coffee. Before I was out of iny teens I was a miserable dys­ peptic. suffering terribly at times with my stomach^ "I was convinoed that it was coffee that was causing the trouble and yet I could not deny myself a cup for' breakfart. At the age of 26 I was In very poor health, indeed. My sis­ ter told me I was in danger of becom­ ing a coffee drunkard. "But I never could give up drink­ ing coffee for breakfast although it kept me constantly ill, until I tried Po8tum. I learned to make it prop­ erly according to directions, and now we can hardly do without Postum for breakfast, and care nothing at all Jos <felfee. "I a<m no longer troubled with dys* pers'a, c'o not have spells of suffering with my stomach that used to trouble me so when I drank coffee." Name given by Postum Co,, Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each pkg. for the fa moos little hook, "The Road to Wellville.'*