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Mistress Rosemary Allyn By MILLICENT E. MANN Copyright, 1904, by j i-i"4c ivroi.x CO. CHAPTER XII. "Had I Wist Before I Kist.» I returned to the Blue Boar, my spirits again soaring. I found there awaiting me a footboy, with a scjsnted note. It was from Lady Dwight, and In it she invited me to her bouse upon the following day. What should Lady fiwight, a person I had never seen, and the mother of the man who was my cherished foe, want of meM conjectured. up. Another surprise! Lady Dwight was the world-worn beauty vrhom I had Escorted into London! She was exquisitely attired in some sort of gray cloth, soft and clinging, embroidered in delicate pink buds. She never wore any other color.- and I learned how many varying shades of gray there were, and how one might wear but one color and yet have^ a diversity of attire. Her hair was dressed a la negligence. Beauti­ ful gray hair! and she had patches The next afternoon, as I dressed to i on her face. She was also rouged, go there, putting on white satin * kissed the hand she extende I to lyreeches,flowered waistcoat and !,1116 V trusted she had not heard of point lace. Oil watched me •with a j the enmity between her son and my- "teober face, lending a helping hahd'St"'t; * evenfelt my heait soften a Whenever I needed one. , Presently "lie J little toward hifti for this mother s took a rapier from the rack against l sake. . : \ •/ tjie wall, and «triking: an attitude"!. ")Hast found London to your liking, went •thfon.e.h many; of the old tricks ! Mister Waters? she asked, after she we had oft practiced-at home, saying, had. greeted me. ^ r*rVAC> rAniAimhor tliic n nd ' •"hie*"* . •*.' I Ind66(i, \ 0S, X 'Dost remeipbex .this and this' I was undecided bet ween two era- ly interesting.' „v»tsI' tried bn .first one'a'Rd then the other, finally (le» i(iing-up<i)n. the first. When I ha>1 knotted it to'my sa'isfacv- tiori I looked at him lazily His so­ licitation was becoming annoying, and all on account of thf duel 1 had told him I. was booked for. "Have done. Gil. have done." T cried petulantly. "The glitter oI that "With what do yofl occupy your­ self?" she questioned. ' Need you ask in London?? I said with a smile. "As the other sparks, no doubt; wine, womer^ and ihusic?" she said. 1 shrugged my shoulders. "Or. perhaps, you are more serious­ ly inclined--you have a reason for steel makes my eyes to water, j being here in this maelstrom of dissi- Wouldst have n-.e atterd on f.ady \ pation?' she still questioned, flight--who?ver in' the devil she is' I laughingly disclaimed having any Then, as hevirtues other than the rest of my --with red evelid^?" perseyfred.»I -demanded. "Hast no con­ fidence in thy pupil?" "I like it not," he said: "if vou should give him his quietus there would be a hue and cry throughout London, and then I would not give a pinch of salt for the reinstating of the house of Waters." "Ah; I see. 'Tis not over your pupil, you ars so concerned, but over the other fellow." I said banteringly. "I kind She changed the subject. Wast learned anything of that ras- callion who stole my jewels?" she said. . "Nothing, Lady Dwight," I replied. "But 1 do not doubt that in time he will be brought to justice if he" does not stop his depredations." I saw. that the lady had something she wished to say to me--it was ever hovering about her lips--but she kept promise yon I will not kill him. as you delaying i t , and consequently the con- §re so anxious. Gil. He must be one versation lagged. mmm. M told you, sire," I replied with dignity. your old friends' sons methlnks, i jsou are so mawkish over him." ' > "Kill him and be damned, for all I Bare," he said. "It is about Lord Waters I am concerned." i) "You are right." 1 nodded, turning piyself about before the glass, and I •hall only slightly wound him; for fee sake of a pair of blue eyes I would not like to put an end to the butt ?rfly existence oT 'Cousin Raoul.' A good­ ly dose of steel, however, might lim­ ber up some of his cursed pride." "Men are not always so fortunate In doing exactly as they wish when fighting for their lives, he retorted. "Men are as well versed in dueling bere in Londop as in the old Manor of Long Haut. It is all they do know outside of love-making--in that they we equally expert." I would not take time to argue the point, and went to the street, Gil following. My sedan chair was wait­ ing afcd I put myself into it, al­ though I liked not its swaying mo­ tion. It was like a ship rolling on the ccean, or a dromedary loping along the sandy desert, and its'smallness of irterior made me feel as though mewnl in a church pew. But I was (oo fastidious to go on foot and off we started, leaving Gil leaning against ! the lintel of the inn door, with a long ! face. As we turned th^ corner I j looked back. I saw him give a shrug < to his shoulder and re-enter the inn. In other words, he threw responsibif- ity to the winds. I gave the order to the chairmen, "Lady Dwight's." They seemed fa­ miliar with the lady's name and resl- aence. When they set the chair down • and I stepped forth I was surprised t® find that they had stopped in front of the house I-had, visited yesterday--. the one where Mistress Rosemary Allyn had held her levee, /jThe men assured me that.it was the 'residence of Lady Dwight. and I was abashed for the moment. 1 trusted I should not again meet that lady's son. What position did Mistress Rose- ] On a sudden we were interrupted-- it was most welcome t© me--by a merry laugh, and the sound of a slap. They both came from the hallway. Lady Dwight frowned. I heard--I was waiting breathlessly for it-- "Out of the way, you imp of darkness. Wouldst bar my passage?"„ It was the voice of Rosemary Allyn. I would know it among a thousand. The door was thrown back with a bang ar.d the lady I delighted in en­ tered. k "Pardon, Aunt Elaine." she said courtesying, "Blaekie grows more self-important„every day. Art keep­ ing a tryst that the dqor is barred from Rosemary?" Now. although the lady had seen me the moment she entered the room, if she did not know I was there all the time, she took not the slightest notice of me. "Nay. Rosemarj-," answered Lady Dwight, "you are always welcome; but to-day I told Blaekie not to admit anyone--I thought you tad gone to Richmond. He was but obeying or­ ders." • "I did not care to gp/' she "said. "As you wish to be alone, I will leave you.!' • She turned to'w'S'rd the door and as she did so gave me one swift glance from under eyelids fringed with long dark eyelashes saucily curling up­ ward. My face, no doubt, looked mv cha­ grin--to Iwive such an opportunity to he introduced in due form and to have it come to naught. I was ready to do anything desperate; I sprang to open the door for her, Dwight said: "Stay, Rosemary." .She turned and came bacy. "Rosemary, this is^ Master Quentin Waters, of whom you have beard me speak," she said. To me, "My niece, Mistress Rosemary Allyn." ; The lady made me a low courtesy. I returned it with quite as Idw a bow "Oh, lud!" she ejaculated, "what a mistake." To me, "Wilt pardon me?" "With pleasure," I answered; "for he was a gallant slip'of a fellow." "Without doubt," said she. "Aunt quite lost her heart, and If he be brought to London to hang op" Ty­ burn 'twould be the ending of her, I do believe." "Hush, Rfosemary," cried her aunt; "cease your tittle-tattle." "You know, Aunt Blaine, you did say that he had both grace and dar­ ing, an4 was so handsome." she con­ tinued, unheeding. "Oh, to meet a man like that some day--our London­ ers are but women dressed in men's clothes." "It is hard to obtain favor In Mis­ tress Rosemary Allyn's eyes," I said. •'-And you can do not else than let thy tongue run, Rosemary, let it run to a purpose," said Lady Dwight, gent­ ly, "Get thy lute and sing for us." The spoiled beauty made a moue at me as she took her lute from the cor­ ner nearby. She sat down facing us and began to sing,, lightly touching the strings of her instrument with her fingers. ^ "But had I wist before T kist, That love had been sae ill to win,< . I had lockt my heart in a ease of go^ra. And. pinned it with a siller pin," Lady Dwight now took the oppor­ tunity to ask me many questions abbut my home. She should have stopped that silvery babble flowing from those wine-colqred lips of my love had she wanted rational answers. --You said you came from what part of England ?" she queried. I did not at first hear hei* and she had to repeat her question. - "The southern part of Sussex," I managed to say. "One of the Waters of East India fame?" she asked. "No. I believe we do not boast of descending from that branch of the family," I murmured; "V®aters of Long Haut." "Your father," she whispered, "is he dead? I cannot bring him to mind." t "No madame," I answered, "but he has not been in London for years-- Roderick Waters." "And I myself were dead and gane! And the green grass growing over me." The sweet voice sang on; my eyes were glued to her face. With a little cry she flung down her lute. I fol­ lowed her glance of distress. It rest­ ed on Lady Dwight, fallen back in her chair jn a dead faint. For a second there was great ex­ citement, maids rushing hither and thither with smelling salts, wine and spirits; calls for a chirurgeon. Upon the lady's regaining consciousness I made my adieus, with Rosemary's anxious face before me and her words. "What did you say to her?--she has not fainted so in years," ringing in my ears. • ' * (To be continued.) BIT OF REED'S HISTORY. 'Building Where He Once. Taught School in California. Until recently there stood in a pret­ ty oak grove in the heart of Stock­ ton, Calif., a forlorn-looking brick building, which perhaps in its palmy days had some architectural beauty to recommend it; but fcr a long time, as age and neglect began to show dis­ figuring hands upon the structure, its windows stjared blankly and its shut­ ters creaked upon their rusty hinges until people fancied the old place was | haunted. " ! If the old walls could have spoken, what interesting anecdotes they would | have been able to relate of bygone days.! What "tales might be told out of school"; for this building was once Van Dorn hall, "built expressly for school purposes," and famous as the place where Thomas B. Reed, late speaker of the house of representa* tives. taught school for several months. He was then a young man. a giant in size and strength, fresh from Bow- doin college, and he came to Stockton to fill the position vacated by his for­ mer classmate, W. E. Greene, who rec­ ommended him highly as his success­ or. It was the first and last position held by Tom Reed as a school teach­ er; for soon afterward he received the appointment of assistant paymaster in the U. S. navy, and he then returned in 1864 to his eastern home.--William S. Rice in Sunset Magazine. FORTUNE IN PILLOW CASE. Ohio Hffl OREJKS HIM HOW HE GOT £10 OF HIS OBSTINATE MUSOULAB RHEUMATISM. Mr. Jonr* Tells of the Way by Which Ht Treated Himself Successfully When Doctors Failed. Six physicians, all of them good, one of them a specialist, had done their best for Mr. Jones at different times during three years, and still he suffered fear­ fully from the tortures of rheumatism. The rheumatism that had been dor­ mant in. his system was suddenly brought to an acute stage by exposure while ho was drawing ice in February, 1901. From that time on for a period of more than three years he was a con­ stant sufferer. He tried many hinds of treatment, but the rheumatism wouldn't budge. When regular doctors failed, and one remedy after another proved useless, many said: "I should think he would give it up and save his money." Of his condition at this time, Mr. Jones says: " My rheumatism started in my right thigh, but in time it ap­ peared in every muscle of my body. I lost the use of my left arm« en­ tirely and nearly lost the nse of my right one. My feet were badly affected, especially the bottoms of the heels. When my right side was affected there was swelling, but the left side didn't swell when the disease settled there. The internal organs didn't seem to bo involved at all. The trouble was all in the muscles and the nerves." Among the few who still encouraged Mr. Jones to think that a enre might yet be found was a friend who had rea­ son for great confidence in Dr. Wil­ liams' Pink Pills, and actiug on her advice he bought a box of tliem in Sep­ tember, 1904. The story of what fol­ lowed is briefi but nothing could be more satisfactory. " When I was on the third box," says Mr. Jones, " I could realize n change for the better. I felt sure then that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills were the right medicine for my case. I kept on with them for several weeks longer and now I am entirely well, and everybody is asking what I took." Mr. William Jones lives Oxford, Mich. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills effect wonderful cures in rheumatism, because they work directly on the blood which is the seat of the disease. They are sold by every druggist. THE VICE OF IDLENESS. Foundation of All Bad Habits Which Afflict Mankind Of all vices to which young men be­ come slaves^ldleness is by no means the least. It is a vi<5e easily contract­ ed in youth and hard to throw off in manhood or old age. Unfortunately, it is not generally looked upon as an evil in the sense that drinking, gam­ bling and debauchery are evils, yet its influence is no less certain in breaking down character and sapping physical and intellectual strength. It is out of idleness largely, that other vices grow, and, this one avoided, there is small danger of the child be­ coming addicted to others. Men who contribute neither physical nor intel­ lectual effort toward supplying the wants of the world are too often made the pets of society. The idler is a dishorest debtor, be he rich or poor, for he refuses to pay the obligation he owes to the world for the necessi­ ties, pleasures and comforts it affords him.--Portland Oregonian. mary Allyn occupy in that household? « hand upon my heart. Thus was I It looked not at all like a dependent or degraded one^ Gads zook! it mat­ tered not to me. "Were I King Clop- introduced to my Mis-tress. 'Lud. Aunt! not the gallant high­ wayman with "frhom you danced the hetua and she the .beggar maid I j m*nuet? she cried. "Know, sir," she would still wip her love, and be hon­ ored by it. I followed the footman In buff and gold livery to the door of her boudoir. There, crouching on a fur rug, was the quaintes^ little page Imaginable, a negro black as'ebony and all of a grin. - < "The goraman am 'spected." he said, rolling his eyes and bowing to the floor. He opened a door. "The genaman. Missy,'- he cried, and again making his bow lower, if pos­ sible, than before, vanished. The lady was seated before the fireplace. A hand screen protected her delicate face from the 'rosy glow of its flame. r - t bowed before bier ahd then Irofced 10 continued to me, "you were honored, indeed. Lady Dwight is the toast of five counties around for her grace and beauty." . ' "Nay, Rosemary, was, my dear, was," she admitted with pride. "That time is long past--long past. I now yield my place to you, my dear." , "WThen you are no more, dear Aunt Elaine." she said, kissing the still smooth cheek of her aunt, "not till thqn shall I bear the palm." "And, Rosemary, you certainly know that this gentleman is not the highwayman, but he who escorted me into London after' the robbery," she explained. "You would not expect to meet a highwayman here--you are but trifling, as~t!Stfirr" Man Carried His Distrust *01 Banks to Extremes. The money counters in the United States treasury were startled one day by the appearance of a remarkable- looking "fat man" who entered the de­ partment ard told a strange tale. He slid he was an Ohio farmer and did not believe in banks, and so had bur­ ied his money in the ground for safe- keepirg. He had dug it up, and was horrified to find that it was slowly turning to dust, as notes will when long buried. Pan'c-ctncken, he-gathered the dis­ integrated tmoney Into an old pillow- case. bmirki it around his waist be­ neath his clothes and started for when I>ady | Washington. Ho traveled rart of the way on horsejj^ck, part of the way on an Ohio river steamboat and part of the way by train. During the journeyhe never once took off the pillowcase. He even slept with it on. The offlc'als of the treasury department found !t difficult to make him f"rt 'vifh it. He did not wart to go wit* v e'erk to a hotel fpr fear the cl.er'- *-!tht rcb him. but as it was manifestly f*~ ]ns-ible for him to dicrobe in lhe office he had finally to submit. They got the mcney at last, and the concition of it was so bad that Mrs. Leonard h"»d to be called to decipher it. So great was her skill that the farmer lost/onlv a few hundred dollars out of jPl3,00<1.--Everybody's Maga­ zine. y Bluestocking Fond of Gayety. Miss Sallie Heath White Carroll, a Baltimore bell and one of the Carrolls of Carrolltcn, graduated from the New York university law school a few days ago in brilliant style and will be­ gin the practice of her professioi^ there shortly. As a child she had the run of the finest law libraries, in Amer­ ica, collected by generations of Car- rolls, "for which her father refused an enormous sum. All those volumes go to Miss Carrol], every other member of her family having generously waived his right to tliem. She is no blue stocking, but a society girl who likes dancing as heartily as every healthy young woman must, and re­ fuses to become poky merely because she is learned. Old Men Still in Demand. At least one London editor seems 'o be unimpressed by Dr. Osier's theory as to the uselessness of men after the age of 40. He advertises in the Globe as follows: "Editor-reporter wanted for old-established weekly, experienced in public affairs, and must be between 40 and 50; young and 'brainy' applicants need not ap­ ply." HONEST CONFESSION. HISTORY OF WAR Task for Whoever Will Write Descriptions of Recent Battles in the East "The histories that will" tell of the fighting about Mukden will not be printed in my time," said the veteran second-hand book dealer. "Of course war histories are not written now as they were when I was a youngster. I fancy that the war in the far East will have no such historians as Headley and John S. C. Abbott. Our own civil war, out of which such countless stories have been woven, never had such historians. Maybe it Is well that it, is so. They were not sticklers for facts. But they were artists. They painted pictures which one could nev­ er forget. "Zola's 'Le Debacle' gave one the nightmare, but still I sold more copies of that work than I ever did of Car*# lyle's French Revolution. _ But both will be eclipsed by some future his­ torian who shall tell its . of Mukden and the retreat to Tieling. "The nomenclature of the battles in the far East will, operate, for a time at least, against the historian who shall undertake the work- But the next generation will in time become familiar with the names ^rhich now puzzle and distract. We do not even know the geography of that country vet. We now speak of Pultowa as readily as we do of Gettysburg, but when the former battle was fought I imagine the name was a jawbreaker to all except the natives. "The Japanese, as we all agree, are marvelous fighters, but will they ever give us their side cf this waj"? You may depend upon it, the Russians will never tell their side. WTho will be the historians of this greatest contest af the world? "It will be possible to obtain certain iiata. We «hall know the numbers en­ gaged; we shall be told, in a general way, how many were slain. But it will be a long time before we shall have any such histories of the strug­ gle as we have had of other wars. JEST MET SWIFT REBUKE. Ill-Timed Pleasantry of (Jr. Brady Re­ sented by Ministers. As field agent of the Preachers' A'.d society Dr. Brady was reading his re­ port to the New England Methodist conference at Melrose, Mass. "I am engaged to Helen Gould--" here Dr. Brady paused. After glancirg around at his audience he continued: "En- ga'ged to Hel£n Gould--to meet, her and discuss the needs of our work for superannuated preachers." After quiet had been secured Dr. Brady was voted out of office by the stewards' com­ mittee. The Franco-Prussian war had tfie quickest history of^ any conflict, £ut then it was quickly fought. "Historians and others were writing about our civil war for more than a quarter of a century after the surren­ der at Appomattox. Then came the spat we had with Spain. I am as good an American as lives, but when we think of the war which has made Jap­ an the wonder of mankind we forget the spanning we gave Spain, and have to go back to the civil war to find any­ thing in our war history worth talking about. The American Revolution does not look very big now, does it? "The historians who wrote about Napoleon's retreat from Moscow gave us the most dramatic incidents in war- history. I don't know how many were true. I used to believe with all my heart that Marshal Ney did fire the latt gun as he crossed the Beresina, and that he did enter/the tent of his master, powder-stained anil ragged, and that he really exclaimed when Na­ poleon asked him who he was: 'I am the last cf the rear guard of the grand army.' And I also believed that Na­ poleon embraced him and said; 'Bet­ ter is an army of deer commanded by a lion than an army of lions command­ ed by a deer.' "Historians of the Abbott school re­ corded' these incidents, and they and other incidents sold books for fifty years. • "But all that has been wiped out ia the last few weeks. It has hurt my business. I picked up Victor Hugo's description of Waterloo the other day and tried to read it. Maybe my pre- digested breakfast food was not up to the mark, but r threw the book aside and found myself jeading the pitiful fragments cf censored news about Nogi's veterans as they hurled themselves against the Russian le­ gions with the cry: 'Clear the way. We are from Port Arthur!'--New York Press. MOVE TO THE NORTHWEST. Stream^of Immigration Into Canadian Territory. „ New England is likely.to contribute this year more freely than ever be­ fore to the stream of immigration pouring into the Canadian northwest. For some years the eastern farmers have gone north and exchanged their improved farms for a prairie holding, but the easterner this spring has caught the infection, and not a week passes but several families from Bos­ ton and its neighborhood apply for the certificates of the Canadian gov­ ernment thftt entitles them to trans­ portation to the northwest at greatly reduced rates, It would, however, be a mistake to consider them Ameri- cansi in the full sense of , the term. Many of them hail from Canada or England and have come to the United States with no particular success. To them Canada is not a foreign land, and the change of allegiance, if change there be, comes more natur­ ally than to an American of several generations' standing.--Boston Trans­ cript; FAI.R MODEL IN TROUBLE. Beautiful New York Woman Co­ respondent in Divorce Suit. C-larp. Betz. the. beautiful model who is' named as co-respondent in a divorce suit brought by Mrs. M^ry Frances Hutchinson of New York against her husband, a wealthy sho<^ maker, is probably the best known model in the juvorld. She has pofted ENDURANCE OF THE JAPS. No Trouble About Prayers. "Mother." cried six-year-old Frank, eagerly, "I want Jack here to stay all night. N?o we can' get our sleds out earlv." "No, Frank: rurse wouldn't stay if s^e ljtad the trouble of taking care of arother boy," replied the parent. "I don't see what trouble Jack wotild be," grumbled Frank. "He "washes and dresses himself, and he doesn't say any prayers." • A Doctor's Talk on Food: There are* no fairer set of men oa earth than the doctors, and when they find they have been in error they are usually {fct to make honest and man­ ly confession of the fact. -1 A case in point is that of an emi­ nent practitioner, one of the good old school, who lives in Texas. His plain, unvarnished tale needs no dressing up: "I had always had an Intense preju­ dice, which I can now see was un­ warrantable and unreasonable, against all muchly advertised foods. Hence, I never read a line of the many 'ads.' of Grape-Nuts, nor tested the food till last winter. . "While in Corpus Christ! for my health, and vfsiting my youngest son, who has four of the ruddiest, health­ iest little boys I ever saw. I ate my first dish of Grape-Nuts food for supper with my little grand­ sons. I became exceedingly fond of it and have eaten a pack­ age of it every week since, and find it a delicious, refreshing and strengthen­ ing food, leaving no ill effects whatever, causing no eructations (with which I was formerly much troubled), no sense of fullness, nausea, nor distress of stomach in any way. "There is no other food that agrees with me so well, or^sits as lightly or pleasantly upon m/ stomach as this* does, I am stronger and morcf active since I began the use of Grape-Nuts than I have been for ,10 years, and am no longer tronbled with nausea and indigestion." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. . There's a reason, ; Look in each pkg. for tb« famous little book. "Ti e Rpad to Wellvllle." Point That Has Most Surprised the Medical Observers. To medical observers the most sur- I rising revelation of the war is the endurance of the Japanese. Apart from his immunity from disease, the reports of which aj-e incredible, the Japanese, with a gun upon his shoul­ der has accomplished feats never thought by physiologists to be possi­ ble. "In the Qrietu." observes a med­ ical man. "there is a new art of war dt-pending upon the new styles of physique .of a race which has never before been put to this work." The Japanese soldier is short, stocky and blessed with muscles big enough for a ! r uch taller man, and, consequently. ' he is atT!e to do more work than a Furopeau or American of equal" weight." -The rural letter carriers of Japan think little of a distance for which we demand horses and the rick­ shaw man has been known to trot forty miles a day. dragging his pas­ senger behind-him. "America." says a medical periodical, "opened this land to Western civilization, and placed modern weapons in the hands of 50,- 000,000 such bodies," and so set up rew problems. Failed to Pan Out Right. "If every man would take home a bunch of flowers or a box of candy oc- casiorally," remarked the bache'or, "it would make wedded l'te move along a good deal more smoothly." r "That shows what you know about it," retorted McRobinscn. "I tried that once and my wife promptly went into hysterics over the horrible confession she thought was coming and I only got/out of it by admitting that I was drunk, and I hadn't touched a drop for over three months, by hooky!"-- Louisville Courier-Journal. " for almost every artist of any promi­ nence, both for photographic pur­ poses and for ideal pictures. Her liv­ ing picture po«ts some years ago in "Yankee Doodle Dandy" are still re­ membered along Broadway. She posed for a statue exhibited by George Bar­ nard at St. Iou'ls. Whistler often painted her and she was the model tor"Carll Blenner's "Spring." New Lake Vessels. - Twenty-four steel carriers of the larger class witt' join the ore and .coal fleets of the great lakes during the coming season. They are mainly steamboats over five hundred feet long, chly thr?6 of the two dozen big ones -L.'ing in the four-hundred-foot class--one four hundred feet long over all. and tv^o 464 feet long over n'l. These figures are interesting as sl owing^ the tendency of marine in- -vestment on the great lakes, jrsnlcas Wisconsin. -Mil- Lemons as Big as Pumpkins. "When I Uld my acquaintances about the big len ors down in southern Mexico they wouldn't believe me. but now I have the pronf," said G. W. O. Martin, as he exhibited a lemon that in size resembled a medium-sized pumpkin or a prize sweet potato at a country fair. The monster specimen of the genus citrus measures 26 inches .in circiim- ference the longer way and 23 inches the shorter riimensions of the oVal. its weight b^ing f<~ur i'tid t\\o-fhiids jiounds--tfl Paso lleraid. Reward of Duty Done. I honor any man, anywhere, who, in the .conscientious discharge of what he believes to be hfs duty, dares ;to stand alone. The world, with ignor- ane and intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenance# of com­ panions may be averted, the hearts of friends may grow cold, but the consciousness of duty done shall be sweeter than The applause of the world, than the countenance of com- panfon or the heart of -friend.-- Charles Sumner. ALL BROKEN DOWN. tinual Backache. Joseph McCaUley, of 144 Sholto street, Chicago, Sachem of Tecumseh Lodge, says: "Two years ago my health was com­ pletely broken down. My back ached and was so lame that at times I was hardly able to dress myself. I lost my appetite and was unable to sleep. There seemed to be no relief until" I took Doan's Kid­ ney Pills; but four boxes of this rem­ edy effected a complete and .perma­ nent cure. If suffering humanity knew the value <5f Doan's Kidney Pills they would use nothing else, tut it is the only positive cure I know," For §ale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.Y. Big Will Contest in Order. Mrs. Mary Floyd McAdoo of Knox- ville, Tenn., mother.of W. G. McAdoo, Jr;, of the Jersey City Tunnel Com­ pany, is one of the contestants of the will of Mrs. Harry A. Floyd Gopcevic of San Francisco, ^ho left more than $600,000 of her fortune to a street car motorman whom she married four months before her death. It is said that the lawyers for the contestants believo the will can be broken and the big fortune left by the late Capt. R. S. Floyd will be divided'among his rela­ tives. Mrs. McAdoo is one of the two sisters of Capt. Floyd. About one- third of the estate will go to her and her children if the will does not stand. BABY'S AWFUL ECZEMA. Face Like Raw Beef--Thought She Would Lose Her Ear--Healed Without a Blemish--Moth­ er Thanki Cuticura. "My little girl had eczema very bad when she was ten months old. 1 thought she would lose her fight ear. It had turned black, and her face was like a piece of raw meat, and very sore. It would bleed when I washed her, and I had to keep cloths on It day and night. There was not a clear spot on her face when I began using Cuticura Soap and Ointment, and now it is completely healed, without scar or blemish, which is more than I had hoped for. (Signed) Mrs. Rose Ether, 291 Eckford St., Brooklyn, N. Y." Boy Had Surplus of Watches. Ignace Paderewski is a great ad­ mirer of Von Vecsey, the boy pianist, and thinks that in the future the boy's powers will make him a great per­ former. Paderewski wanted to send the lad a present from New York the other day and consulted Daniel Froh- man, suggesting a watch as a suitable gift. Mjr. Frohman was able to recall s^ven watches that had been present­ ed to Von Vecsey this season, so M. Paderewski selected a gold knife. 1 In the "Review of Reviews" Dr. Ed­ ward Dana Durand, one of the expert examiners employed by the Bureau of Corporations in the beef investigation, describes the methods by which that inquiry was conducted. In the same magazine the Kansas oil situation, which is also to be Investigated by the Government, Is the subject of an article by Mr. C. M. •Harger. To Work for Christian Sunday. • The archbishop of Canterbury is said to be engaged in the formation of a league for the obliteration of the godless Sunday from society. The as­ sociation is to consist exclusively of matrons in high life and Lady Wim- borne is to be president. Cold dinners will be one of the rules insisted upon. Important to Mothers. Bxamfoe carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, & safe ami sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Pears the Signature of b Use For Over SO Year*. The Kind Yoa Bave Always Bought Official Map of Paris. An official map of Paris on a large scale has just been finished. It is twenty-five yards, long and nearly twenty yards wide. Every building in Paris--altogether 88,5®0-- is recogniz­ able. Many Children Are Sickly. Mother Gray s Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children 's Home,New York, Cure Feverishness, Head­ ache, Stomach Troubles. Teething Dis- orders,Break up Colds and Destroy Worms. Ata11Dru(jRists".25c. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Arabian Coffee» Crop. The Arabian coffee crop is said to be of extraordinarily fine quality this season. Many merchants from Eng­ land have arrived jU Aden. Quality Brings the Business. Seven million (7.000.000) I^ewis' -'Single Binder" straight fto cigur now sold annu­ ally. Made of ext/ru quality tobacco. Many who formerly smokt*? 10c cisrars are no^ smoking Lewis' Single Factory, Peoria, 111. Still a Mystery. We are told that Cain goCviriruried When he tired of single lifts. But some people still As to where he got his wife. All Up-to-Date Housekeepers fMe Defiance Cold Water Stajrch. be. cause it is better, and 4 ox. more of it tor same money. Both man and womankind belie their nature when they are not kind.-- BalUey. v ft,, ^ PLEASANT THE NEXT MOSN1NG I FEEL BRIGHT AND NEW AND Mr COMPLEXION IS BETTER. VJ doctor «*jr§ it act® fcmthr on the utomarh, lirvr 1*1 kidui*)'* and A I U P A art Inxw and i (tt. It is c*U<xi Tea1 tiv«. T'.ia driTik it ueo Att 14 LANE'S FAMILY MEDICINE A l l dniRgistaor hjr m* i l 3R cte. and SOct*. Buy t<» d a y . l . i n t ' ' * F a m i l y . H r H i e i n p u « T f a t h « MWfU etrh imv. In f-rder to h«*hhy thiHii •MMtowy. MnwU.. h. Wwiwrt, M.I. .. ' " • ' .-/-Jr