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jm-w +* e^r,mc-m • • m. jam 'AUTHOR OF 1SMACJNESCA," "A#£TrtlASA"£7C0C JLLUSWAUOm^/ SQ.ME7L> ' - OPYJUCHT J997 B* fi\ ATAAJOAt CAAWrOAD ̂ CKJ SYNOPSIS. Baraks, a Tartar girl, became enamored of a golden bearded stranger who was prospecting and studying herbs !n the vicinity of h^r home In central Asia, and revealed to liim the location of a mine of rubies hoping that the stranger would love her in „return for her disclosure. They were followed to the cave by^ the girl's relatives, who blocked up the" en­ trance, and drew off the water supply, leaving the couple to die. Baraka's cousin Saad, her betrothed, attempted to climb down a cliff overlooking the mine; but the traveler shot him. The stranger was revived from a water gourd Saad car­ ried, dug his way out of the tunnel, and departed, deserting the girl and carrying a bag of rubies. Baraka gathered all the gems she could carry, and started in pur­ suit. Margaret Donne (Margarita da Cordova), a famous prima donna, became engaged in London to Konstantin Lo- ffotlieti. a wealthy Greek (inancier. Her intimate friend was Countess Leven, ^known as Lady Maud, whose husband Bad been killed by a bomb in St. Peters® burg; and Lady Maud's most Intimate friend was Rufus Van Torp, an Ameri­ can. who had become one of the richest sen in the world. Van Torp was in love with Margaret, and rushed to London as •oon a.s he heard of her betrothal. He olTer^il Lady Maud $5,000,000 for her pet charity if she would aid him In winning the singrer from Logotheti. Baraka ap­ proached Logotheti at Versailles with rubies to gel! He presented a ruby to Margaret. Van Torp bought a yacht and sent it to Venice. He was visited by Baraka in male attire. She gave him a ruby after the American had told her ol having seen In the United States a man answering the description of the one she loved. The American followed Margarei to the Bayreuth "Parsifal" festival. Mar­ garet took a iiking to Van Torp, who pre­ sented her with the ruby Baraka had givon him. Count Kralinsky, a Russian, arrived at Bayreuth. Van Torp believed him to be the one Baraka was pursuing. Baraka was arrested in London on the chflrge of stealing from Pinney, a jew­ eler, the ruby she had sold to Logotheti. Two strangers were the thieves. Lady Maud believed that Logotheti's o^ssocia- tions with BaraTta were open to suspi­ cion, and so informed Margaret. Van Tort> believed that Kralinsky was the cowboy he had known in his young man­ hood. Logotheti secured Baraka's re­ lease, and then, with her as his puest. went to.sea on his yacht Erinna. Baraka explains her plans for revenge on the man who had deserted her and left her to die. LogoUieti succeeds in moderating her rage. 'Lady Maud arrived in Bay­ reuth. Margaret and Van Torp entered Into an agreement to build a tremendous |opcra house in'[New. York. The thief who /stole the ruby .from Mr. Pinney was ar­ rested in New! Ynrk and the stone re­ covered.- Ludy! Maud confided to Van Torp that she believed Kralinsky to be the husband she had believed dead. Van Torp promised his help to unravel * the mystery. CHAPTER XIII.--Continued. Neither Margaret nor Mrs. Rush- more had ever seen Leven, and they had not the least idea of what was really going on under their eyes. They only saw that Lady Maud was making ' a dead set at the count, and if Mar­ garet wondered whether she had mis­ judged her friend's character, the el­ der lady had no doubt as to what was hap iening. "My deaf child," she said to Mar­ garet, "your friend is going to console herSelf. Widows of that kge general­ ly do, ray dear. I myself could never understand how one could marry aghin. I should always feel that dear Mr. Rushmore was in the room. It quite makes me blush to think of it! Yet it is an undeniable fact that many young widows marry again. Mark my words. Margaret, your friend is going to console herself before long. If it is not thig one, it will be an­ other. My dear, I am quite positive about it." Wtyen the sun went down that even­ ing the yacht had passed Otranto and the 9a pe, and her course had been changed & head her for Cape Sparti- vento and the Straits of Messina, having, done in 24 hours as much as the little Italian mail steamers do in 48,. and nearly half as much again as the Erinna could have done at her highest speed. As Mr. Van Torp had predicted, his engines had "warmed up4: and were beatto£ their own record. The gale mad#by the vessel's way waB stronger than a woman could stand in with any regard to her ap­ pearance, but as the weather contin­ ued to be calm It was from dead ahead, and there was plenty of shel­ ter on the promenade deck abaft the wheelhouse, on condition of not going too near the rail. After dinner Kralinsky and Mrs. Rushmore walked a little, as on the previous evening, and Lady Maud sat with Margaret and Van Torp. But before the two walkers went off to sit down (in the quiet corner they had found' yesterday, Lady Maud rose, went half way aft, and deliberately placed herself where they were obliged to pass close to her at each turn, standing and leaning against the bright white side of the engine sky­ light, which was as high as the wheel- house itself, and broke in aft, where the big ventilating fans were situated, making a square corner inward. She stood there, and as it was not Yery dark in the clear starlight, Kra­ linsky saw in passing that she fol­ lowed his face with her eyes, turning her head $0 look at him when he was coming towards her, and turning It very slowly back again as he came near and went by. It was impossible to convey more clearly an invitation to get rid of bis companion and join her, and he was the last man in the world to misunderstand it. But Mrs. Rushmore saw it too, and as she considered him a lion, and therefore entitled to have his own way, she made It oasy for him. "My dear count," she said blandly, after passing Lady Maud twice, "I have really had enough now, and If you will promise to finish your walk alone, I think I will go and sit with the others." He left her with Margaret and Van Torp and went back to Lady Maud, who moved as he came up to her, made two steps besid$ him, and then suddenly slipped into the recess where the fanhouse joined the engine skylight. She stood still, and he in­ stantly ranged bJmself beside her. They were qigte out of sight of the others, and of®the bridge, and even if 1t had been daylfcht fhey could not have beec seen %xce(Srt by some one coming from aft. ; "I want to speak to you," she said. 4n a low. steady voice. "Please listen 4jut*e quietly, for some of them teg; :i to walk again." & Kralinsky' bent his bead twice, Ud then inclined it towards her, to hear better what she was going to say. "It has pleased you to keep up this comedy for 24 hours," she began. He made a slight movement, which was natural under the circumstances. "I do not understand," he said, in his oily voice. "What comedy? I real­ ly have no--** "Don't go on," she answered, inter­ rupting him sharply. "Listen to what I am going to tell you, and then de­ cide what you will do. I don't think your decision will make very much difference to me, but it will make a difference to the world and to your­ self. I ssri& you from a window when yeu brought Mr. Van Torp to the hotel in Bayreuth, and I recognized you at once. Since this afternoon I have no doubt left." "I never saw you till last night," said Kralinsky, with some little sur­ prise in his tone, and with perfect as­ surance. "Do you really think you can de­ ceive me any longer?" she asked. "I told you this afternoon that if you could come back from the dead, and know the truth, we should probably forgive each other, though we had many differences. Shall we?" • She paused a moment, and by his quick change of position she saw that he was much moved. "I don't mean that we should ever go back to the old life, for we were not suited to each other from the first, you and I. You wanted to marry me because I was pretty and smart, and I married you 'because I wanted to be married, and you were better looking than most men, and seemed to have what I thought was necessary--fortune and a decent position. No, don't interrupt lips again. She had done what she believed most firmly to be right, and it had not been easy. She bad not been surprised by his patient silence while she had been talking; for she had felt that it was hers to speak and his to listen. "Thank you," she said now. "I shall never go back to what I have said, and neither <of us need ever allude to old times again during this trip. It will not last long, for I shall probably go home by land from the first port we touch, and it is not likely that we shall ever meet again. If we do* I shall behave as if you were Count* Kralinsky, whom I have met abroad, neither more nor less. I suppose you will have conscience enough not to marry. Perhaps, if I thought another woman's happiness depended, on it, I Would consent to divorce you, but you shall never divorce me." "No power could make me wish to," Kralinsky answered, still deeply moved. "I was ^ad in those diiys, Maud; I was beside myself, between my debts and my entanglements with women not fit to touch your shoes. I've seen it all since. That is the chief reason why I chose to disappear from society when I had the chance, and become some one else! I swear to you, on my mother's soul in heaven, that I thought of nothing but that-- to set you free and begin life over again as another man. No thought of marrying has ever crossed my mind! Do you think I could be as bad as that? But I'm not defending myself --how could I? All the right is on your side, and all the wrong on mine. And now--I would give heaven and earth to undo it all and to come back to you!" Lady Maud drew as far as she could into the corner where the fanhouse joined the engine skylight, fihe hod not expected this; it was too much re­ pentance; it was too like a real at­ tempt to win her again. He had not seen her for more ihan three months; she knew she was very beautiful; his you back to be my husband again. Never. That is finished, for good and aH." "Ah, Maud, listen to me--^" But she had already slipped out of the corner and was walking slowly away from him, not towards the oth­ ers, but aft, so that he might join her quietly before going back to them. He was a man of the world and under­ stood her, and did what was expected of him. Almost as soon as he was be­ side her, she turned to go forward with her lelsurel& careless grace. "We've been standing a long time," she said, as if the conversation had bden about the weather. "I want to sit down." "I am in earnest," he said, very low. "So am I," answered Lady They Went on towards the wheel- house side by side, without haste, and not very near together, like two or­ dinary acquaintances. CHAPTER XIV. While the Lancashire Lass was ra- cihg down to the Straits of Messina the Erinna was heading for the same point from the opposite direction, no longer dawdling along at half-speed, but going her full 16 knots, after coal­ ing at Naples, and any navigator who knew the positions and respective speeds of the two yachts could have calculated with approximate precision the point at which they would prob­ ably sight each other. Logotheti had given up the idea of taking Baraka to Paris, if he had ever really entertained it at all. He as­ sured her that Naples was a great city, too, and that there was a first- class French dress-making establish­ ment there, and that the Ville de Lyon would turn her out almost as smartly as the Ri»e de la Paix itself. He took Baraka ashore and placed her for half a day in the hands of Mme. Anna, who undertook to do ill i that money could do in about a fort- some right to be. with the fashionable standards of Samarkand, Tifiis, and Constantinople, and she meekly acquiesced to every­ thing that Logotheti and Mme. Anna .proposed, after putting their heads to­ gether. Logotheti seemed to know a great deal/about it. It was nearly dark when the naph­ tha launch took them out to the yacht, which lay under the mole where the big English ajid German passenger steamers and the men-of-war are moored. Logotheti bad at last received Mar­ garet's telegram asking him to meet her at once. It had failed to reach him in Gibraltar, and ha"^ been tele­ graphed on thence to Naples, and When he read it he was considerably, disturbed. He wrote a long message explanations and excuses, and sent t to the prima donna at Bayreuth, tripling the number of words she had prepaid for his answer. But no reply came, for Margaret was herself at sea and nothing could reach her. He sent one of his own men from the yacht to spend the day at the tele­ graph office, with instructions for finding him if any message came. The man found him three times, and brought three telegrams; and each time as he tore open the little folded brown paper he felt mere uncomfor­ table, but he was relieved to find each time that the message was only a business one from London or Paris, giving him the latest confidential news about a government lea- in "which he was largely interested. When he reached the yacht he sent another man to wait till midnight at the office. The diva was angry, he thought; that was clear, perhaps she had The tone of her N \ I s s- Then Suddenly Clipped Into the Recess. He Sent Another Man to Walt TJII Midnight at the Office. me. We soon found out that we did not care for each other. You went your way, and I went mine. I don't mean to reproach you, for when I say you were beginning to be tired of me I did nothing to keep you. I my­ self was tired of it already. But What­ ever you may have thought, I was a faithful wife. Mr. Van Torp had given me a great deal of money for my charity, and does still. I can ac­ count for it. I never used a penny of it for myself, and never shall; and he never was, and never will be, any more than a trusted friend. I dqn't know why you chose to disappear when the man who had your pocket- book was killed and you were said to be dead. It's not my business, and if you choose to go on living under an­ other name, now that "you are rich again, I shall not betray you, and few people will recognize you, at least In England, so long as you wear that fleeting passion had come to life again, as he had. But her old repul­ sion for him was ten times stronger than when they had parted, and she shrank back as far as she could, with­ out speaking. From far below the noiseless engines sent a Quick vibra­ tion up to the ironwork of the sky­ light. She felt it, but could hardly tell it from the beatings of her own heart. He saw her shrinking from him and was wise. "Don't be afraid of me!" he cried, in a low and pleading tone. "Not that! Oh, please not that! I will not come nearer; I will not put out my hand to touch yours, I swear it to you! But I love you as I never loved you be­ fore; I never knew how beautiful you were till I had lost you, and now that I have found you again you are a thousand times more beautiful than in my dreams! No, I ask nothing! I have no right to aisle for what I have beard. But you had it v. hen we were | thrown away! You do not even pity me, married, and I knew you at once, and when I heard you were to be of the party here, I made UR my mind at once that I would accept the invita­ tion and come too, and speak to you as I'm speaking now. When I be­ lieved you were dead I forgave you everything, though I was glad you were gone; frankly, I did not wish jrou alive again, but since you are, God forbid that I should wish you dead. You owe me two things in ex­ change'for my forgiveness: First, yours, if I treated you ungenerously or unkindly; and, secondly, you ought to take back every word you ever said to me about Mr. Van Torp, for there( was not a shadow of truth in what you thought. *Will you do that? I ask nothing else." "Indeed I will, my dear Maud," said Count Kralinsky, in a voice full of emotion. Lady Maud drew a long breath, that trembled a little as It left her heated I think! Why should you? You were free when you thought me dead, and I have come back to be a burden and a weight on your life. Forgive me, forgive me, my lost darling, lor the sake of all that might have been, but don't fear me! Pity me, if you can, but don't be afraid of me! Say that you pity me a Httle, and I shall be sat­ isfied. and grateful, too!" Lady Maud was silent for a few sec­ onds, while he stood turned towards her. his hands clasped in a dramatic gesture, as tf .still imploring her com­ miseration. "I do pity you," she said at last, quite steadily, for just then she did not fear that he/would try to touch even her hand, 'fixity you, if you are really in love with me again. I pity you Ptill more if tikis' is a passing thing thatXjm^ taken hold of you merely because you still think me handsome. But I will never take . night. He had the effrontery to say that Baraka was a niece of his from Constantinople, whose mother was on board the yacht, but had unfortunate­ ly sprained her ankle in falling down the companion during a gale, and could therefore not accompany her daughter on shore. The young lady, he said, spoke only Turkish. Mme. Anna, grave and magnificently calm under all circumstances, had a vague recollection of having seen the hand­ some oriental gentleman already with another niece, who spoke only French; but that was none of her business. When would the young lady try on the things? On any day Mme. Anna chose to name; but in the mean­ time her uncle would take her down to Sicily, as the weather wa$ so won­ derfully fine and it was still so hot. Mme. Anna therefore named a day, and promised, moreover, to see the best linen-drapers and seamstresses herself, and to provide the young lady with as complete an outfit as if she were going }o be married. She shou'd have all th'ings visible and invisible in the ^hdi|test possible time. Logo­ theti, wno (Considered himself a stran­ ger, insisted on putting down a thou­ sand franc note merely as a guarantee of good faith. The dressmaker pro­ tested almost furiously and took the money,, still protesting. So that was settled, and Baraka was to be out­ wardly changed into a beautiful Fer- inghi lady without delay. To tell the truth, the establishment is really a smart one, and she was favorably im­ pressed by the many pretty frocks and gowns that were tried on several pretty young woman in order that she might make her choice. Baraka would have Uked a blue satin skirt with a yt»M6w train and a bright green gilfc-Uody, bw-^fn her travels she had not&ed that the taste of .Feringhi ladies was for telegram had been peremptory in the extreme, and now that he had an swered it after a delay of several days, she refused to take any notice of him. It was not possible that such a personage as she was should have left Bayreuth without leaving clear in­ structions for sending on any tele­ grams that might come after sh$ left. At this time of year, as he knew, she was beset with offers of engagements to sing, and they had to be answered. From eight o'clock in the morning to midnight there were 16 hours, ample time for a retransmitted message to reach her anywhere in Europe and to be answered. Logotheti felt a sensa­ tion of deep relief whag the man came aboard at a quarter-past midnight and reported himself empty handed; but he resolved to wait till the following evening before definitely leaving Naples for the ten days which must elapse before Baraka could try on her beautiful Feringhi clothes. He told her anything he liked, and she believed him, or was indifferent; for the idea that she must be as well dre§££jj.-.,jis any European woman when she met the man she was seek­ ing had appealed strongly to her, and the sight of the pretty things at Mme. Anna's had made her ashamed of her simple Httle ready-made serges and blouses. Logotheti assured her that Kralinsky was within easy reach, and showed no inclination to travel far. There was news of him in the tele­ grams received that day, the Greek said. Spies were about him and were watching him for her, and so fax be had snowu no inclin»tiof} to admire any I 'eringhi beau^ Baraka accepted-"'#:: these inven­ tions without doubting their \eraeity. In her eyes LogotVe'i was a great man, something like a king, and vast­ ly more than a Tartar chieftain. He could, send men to the ends of the very sober or gentle colors, compared earth if he chose. Now that he was iag?"--kustoi. Journal. sure of where Kralinsky was, he could no doubt have him seized secretly and brought to her, if she desired it earn­ estly of him. But she did not wish to see the man, free or a prisoner, till she had her beautiful new clothes. Then he should look upon her, and judge whether he had done well to despise her love, and to leave her to be done to death by her own people and her body left to the vulture that had waited so long on a jutting point of rock over her head three years ago. It was a dreamy and sense-compell­ ing life that she led on the yacht, sur­ rounded with every luxury she had ever heard of, and constantly waited on by the only clever man she had ever really talked with, excepting the old Persian merchant in Stamboul. The vision of the golden-bearded giant who had left her to her fate after treating her with stony indifference was still before her, but the reality was nearer i,n the shape of a visible "greatman," who could do anything he chose, who caused her to be treated like a queen, and who was un­ deniably handsome. She wondered whether he had a wife. Judging marriage from her point of view, there probably had been one put away in that beautiful house in Paris. He was an oriental, she told herself, and he would not parade his wife as the Feringhis did. But she was one, too, and she consid­ ered that it would b^ an insult to ask him about such things. Spiro knew, no doubt, but she could not demean herself to inquire of a servant. Per­ haps Gula Mad found out already, for the girl had a way of finding out whatever she wanted to know, ap­ parently by explaining things to the second mate. Possibly Gula could be made to teil what she had learned without being directly questioned. Hut after all, Baraka decided that it did not matter, since she meant to marry the £girf)eafd as soon as she had her prefljr clothes. Yet she be­ came conscious that if he had not ex­ isted, she would think it very satis­ factory to marry the great man who could do anything he liked, though if he had a wife already, as he probably had, she would refuse to be the second in- his house. The Koran allowed a man four, it was said.nbut the idea was hateful to her, and moreover the Persian merchant's wife had told her that it was old fash ioned to have more than one, mainly because living had grown so expen sive. Logotheti sat beside her for hours under the awnings, talking or not, as she chose, and always reading when she was silent, though h often looked up to see if she wanted anything. He told her when they left Naples that he would show her beautiful islands and other sights, and the great fire- mountains of the south, Etna and Stromboli, which she had heard of on her voyage to Marseilles, but had not seen because the steamer had passed them at night. The fire-mountain at Naples had been quiet, only sending out thin wreaths of smoke, which Ba­ raka insisted came from fires made by shepherds. "Moreover," she said, as they watched Vesuvius receding when they left Naples, "your mountains are not mountains, but ant-hills, and I do not care for ,|hem. But your sea has the Colors of Iftatfy sherbets, rose4eafand violet, an#* lemon and orange, and sometimes even of pale yellow peach- sherbet, which is good. Let me al­ ways see the sea till the fine dresses are ready to be tried on." "This sea,* answered Logotheti, "la always most beautiful near land and amongst islands, and the big Are- mountain of Sicily looks as tall as Kasbek, because it rises from the wa­ ter's edge to the sky." "Then take ipe to it, and I will tell you, for my eyes have looked on the Altai, and I wish to see a real moun­ tain again. After that we will go back and get the fine dresses. Will Gula know how to fasten the fine dresses at the back, do you think?" "You shall have a woman who does, and who can talk with Gula, and the two will fasten the fine dresses for you." Logotheti spoke with becoming gravity. "Yes," Baraka answered. "Spend money for me, that I may be good to see, Also, I wish to have many serv­ ants. My father has a hundred, per­ haps a thousand, but now I have only two, Gula and Spiro. The man I seek will think I am poor, and that will be a shame. While I was searching for him, it was different; and besides, you are teaching me how the rich Franks live in their world. It is not like ours. You know, for you are more like us, though you are a king here." She spoke slowly and lazily, paus­ ing between her phrases, and turning her eyes to him now and then without moving her head; and her talk amused him much more than that of European women, though it was so very simple, like that of a gifted child brought suddenly to a new country, or to see a fairy pantomime. "Tell me," he said after a time, "if it were the portion of Kralinsky to be gathered to his fathers before you saw him, what would you do?" Baraka now turned not only her eyes to him but her face. "Why do you ask me this? Is It b* cause he is dead,'and you are afraid to tell me?" (TO BE CONTINUED.) Test Your Corn Don't risk a crop failure by taking the 4. Word of some one else as to the reliabi litjr , -$ jj of your seed corn. Test jour own corn -- every ear of it--and know, before the planting is begun, that the seed you use will grow. Geo. II. 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ARE TOU LOOKING FOB A GOOD HOICKF Tou may be nl.-ely located where you arc. trot If yon could better yourself by rnovinn to a country where you could make more money, with the same eflort. than you can where you are now. and at the same time «et Into a section where the climate is mild and pleavmt all the year around: free from sickness, water perfect, good schools and churches, and close lo a Trunk Line ltallroad; would you t urn down the chance? This is the opportunity we are offering you. We wiil sell you one of these pleasant!>• located farms where the soil Is as rich as the best garden 8pot you ever saw; with only a small cash payment down, and the balance on long, easy terms, « e own over :4I,(X*I acres in good, old, sunny Kansas, Prices will soon advance. Uet In on the ground floor. Can you afford to miss this chancer Then wriieioday for our description of these Ix'uuiiful Hotai- Farms," with the prices and easy term payment plan. Don t put it off. 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Money refunded/ It not i Sin * Klklns, Owners, Houston, Tej itfBTTK HE for particulars shout rich TV ii^kota wheat tinus. These farms ate in Kan»<m County, North Dakota, the center of tto» richest wheat-growing country in the world. Sur­ rounding farms are selling for from $4A to ,«w, an acre. To force Immediate and quick ati* I offer tour Improved farms at tho surprisingly low pno» of ©&• an acre. These* ., to 640,480. SN and H9 respectively. My terms are very easy. Write today for psirfieiilsrs. 1 have soma facta about farms that will interest you. ownar, WaiNt U. Williamson, Box 30, Lisbon. N. IX POLORADO-Writ* for Illustrated tnokMk garden and poultry tracts adjoining Denver. Under the Great Antero Irrigation Sv-'ein. Tha best, surest and safest in»estnjenl ou the market. Denver 1 s the best market in tho world, o. It) and #>- acre tracts sold on the easy paimert plan. Will pay for themselves in a few rears. HW.UOO.OU worth sold in the past 6 months. We give you the names of 10U who have t-ougbt. for reference. Indorsed by the Governor, refer to local banks. AltumFarnia, *10 IdeJI Bid#.. Denver, Col. GUARANTEED LAND Grant Count; •ota, good buildings, tlT„SS0. 130 acres pra man Con:ity. Minnesota, 160 acres native soil. 130 acres prairie. Nor- Llncoln County, Nebraska. (3.000. Good halt-section, 1'residU County, Texas, Cote & Company, Kocku-rd, ill. NORTH DAKOTA FARMS vestment, f o r settlement or speculation, if bought now. Will you let us demonstrate.' 1; cost* jou uoiUlnjj. Write today. Blaisdelt-Blid Company. Mlaot, aL Oak Katanlished lllUtk IIOVT VN.l moner-maklBr lands. Aw? ttm 1*1 tract. Musselshell district Everything new. Two rsii\n.*ads. Hest soil, markets* cUaa*ii*K fof wheat* dairyiu#, hogs, poultry. I&up. So c,n-iOM> Com* or w riu\. Ai. Cus&ui&n. MoutaoMk AKXUlire FARM BARGAINS In tb» beaatf* VJ Oourk Kegion ITO banner CMUAIY VF Central South Misi*>nrt. where you «kia <*ojoy haopinoss in ihtj u»tdst of * 4 Jens Mtchael^n. Salem, Missouri. fTHK "IIOMESKKKKRS GTIDK** 1 find a bou;» on government or iptculatcri xajKY in lb Kasi. West, North. South; lit l nit*4 Stafc** Canada. Mexico, Cuba, prosptctaa !*•#. Jkdarmm J.M. Nelson. Welsh. La. She Had Had Enough. At the Unitarian church in Bcver ly, a sweet little miss was at the senr ice with her mother recently. The lit­ tle one didn't seem to comprehend the s°rnion » '-.tie bit, although the pas tor was her grandfather, and after e restless half hour stfe turned to her mamma and said in an audil>!e whl:- ner: "Why don't grandl* slot .ta'W UTOM1KR11 L.1VOSUKRH'L W ASH1X6- " TON. K;iw lands, truit. wheat, dairy awl stock la iits. t'rvKiuction unexcelled Best refer- ence. Girthofler, »* Ala-uris:*. k»ue Was*. ON EASY STREET fi) "̂umiTSou Ui *"«(?'. Tela* frtcvlRW per. ujjiieott*r. owner