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»r JMERJ'ON ilOU.H J) THB MJSfifflPPl n i m n o N r i v M A « . N U > O . < « s « - - a t . tuvywium' 190^ Jayr SO- i~ iu OOiHt nr\jr* Jr I SYNOPSIS. Senator John Calhoun is invited to be­ come secretary of state in Tyler's cab­ inet. l ie declares that if he accepts Trxa» and Oregon must be added to the Union. He sends his secretary, Nicholas Trist, to ask the Baroness von Ritz, spy of the British ambassador, Pakenham, to call at his apartments. While searching for the baroness' home, a carriage drives up and Nicholas is invited to enter. The occupant is the baroness, and she asks Nicholas to assist in evading pursuers. Nicholas notes that the baroness has lost a slipper. She Bivos hi in the remaining slipper as a pledge (hat she will tell 4 'alhoun what he wants to know regarding F-ngland's in­ tentions toward Mexico. As security Nicholas gives her a trinket he intended for his sweetheart, Elizabeth Churchill . Calhoun becomes secretary of state. He orders Nicholas to Montreal on state business, and the latter plans to be mar­ ried that night. The baroness says she wiil try to prevent the marriage. A drunk:n congressman whom Nicholas asks to assist in the wedding arrange­ ments Fends the baroness' slipper to Elizabeth, by mistake, and the wedding is declared off. Nicholas finds the baron­ ess in Montreal, she having succeeded, where lip failed, In discovering England's intentions regarding Oregon. She tells him ihat the slipper he had iri his pos­ session contained a note from the attache of Texas (o the British ambassador, say­ ing tl:at if the United States did not an­ nex Texas within :>'l days, she would lose both Texas ;trui Oregon. Nicholas meets a naturalist Von Uittenhofen, who gives hint information about Oregon. Thq| baroness and a British warship disappear^ from Montreal simultaneously. Caihpun order? Nicholas to head .1 party of set­ tlers bound for Oregon. Calhoun excites the jealousy of Senora Yturrio and there­ by secures the signature 01 the Texas at­ tache to a treaty of annexation. Nicholas starts for Oregon. He wins the race over the British party. A British warship ar­ rives with the baroness as a passenger. She tells Nil holas that she placed a note- In the slipper which caused the breaking ofT of his marriage, and that she Intends to return to Washington to repair the damage she has done. Nicholas decides to follow her. CHAPTER XXX.--Continued. The captain stood at the head of the front team, his hand resting on the yoke as he leaned against the bowed neck of one of tl^e oxen. The men and women were thin almost as the beasts •which dragged the wagons. These lat­ ter stood with lolling tongues even thus early in the day, for water here­ about was scarce and bitter to the taste. So, at first almost in silence, we made the salutations of the desert. So, presently, we exchanged the news • Of east and west. There is to-day no news of the qual­ ity which we then communicated. They knew nothing of Oregon. I knew nothing of the east. A national election had been held, regarding which I knew not even the names of the candidates of either party, not to mention results. All I could do was to guess and to point to the inscrip­ tion on the white top of the foretnost wagon: "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight'" "Is Polk elected?" I asked the cap­ tain of the train, He nodded. "He shore is," said he. "We're comin' out to take Oregon. What's the news?" My own grim news was that Oregon was ours and must be ours. I shook hands with a hundred men on that, our hands clasped in stern and silent «rip. Then, after a time, I urged •other questions foremost in my own mind. Had they seen a small party east-bound? Yes, I had answer. They had passed this light outfit east of Bridger's post. There was one chance in a hundred they might get over the South pass that fall, for they were traveling light and fast, with good animals, and old Joe Meek was sure he would make it through. The women? Well, one was a preacher's wife, another an old Gypsy, and another the most beautiful woman ever seen on the trail or any­ where else. • Then they began to question me re­ garding Oregon. How was the land? Would it raise wheat and corn and hogs? How was the weather? Was there much game? Would it take much labor to clear a farm? Of course it came to politics. Yes, Texas had been annexed, somehow, not by regular vote of the senate. There was some hitch about that. My leader reckoned there was no regular treaty. It had just been done by joint resolution of the house--done by Ty­ ler and Calhoun, just in time to take the feather out of old Polk's cap! The treaty of annexation--why, yes, it was ratitied by congress, and everything signed up March 3, just one day be­ fore Polk's inaugural! Polk was on the warpath, according to my gaunt leader. There was going to be war as sure as shooting, unless we got all mmm iiilliWMii '%• h mmiii/min w< 'h im;a mi ¥ 'Fifty-Four Forty or Fight! That's Us!' baroness had already beaten me al­ most by a month! Further word was, of course, now unobtainable, for no trains or wagons would come west §0 late, and there were then no stages carrying mail across the great plains. There was nothing for me to do ex­ cept to wait and eat out my heart at old Fort Laramie, in the society of In­ dians and trappers, half-breeds and traders. The winter seemed years in length, so gladly I wake its story brief. It was now the spring of 1846, and I was in my second year away from Washington. Glad enough I was when in the first sunshine of spring I started east, taking my chances of getting over the plains. At last, to make the long journey also brief, I did reach Fort Leavenworth, by this time a five months' loser in the trans­ continental race. As to the baroness, she had long since left Fort Leavenworth for the east. I followed still with what speed I could employ. I could not reach Washington now until long after the first buds would be out and the creep­ ers growing green on the gallery of Mr. Calhoun's residence. Yes, green also on all the lattices of Elmhurst mansion. What had happened there for me? CHAPTER XXXI. The Payment. What man seeks In love Is woman; what woman seeks in man la love.-- Houssaye. When I reached Washington It was indeed spring, warm, sweet spring. In the wide avenue the straggling trees were doing their best to dignify the city, and flowers were blooming every­ where. Wonderful enough did all this seem to me after thousands of miles of rude scenery of bare valleys and rocky hills, wild landscapes, seen oft­ en through cold and blinding storms amid peaks and gorges, or on the drear, forbidding plains. Used more, of late, to these wilder scenes, I felt awkward and still half savage. I did not at oncfe seek out my own friends. My first wish was to get in touch with Mr. Calhoun, for I knew that so I would most quickly arrive at the heart of events. He was away when I called at his of Oregon. residence on Georgetown Heights, but "Do you seen th^t writin on my .0 ® wagon top?" asked the captain. "Fifty- Four Forty or Fight. That's us!" And so they went on to tell us how this cry was spreading, south and west, and over the north as well; al­ though the Whigs did not dare cry It quite so loudly. And so at last we parted, each the better for the information gained, each to resume what would to-day seem "practically an endless journey. Our farewells were as careless, as confi­ dent, as had been our greetings. Thou­ sands of miles of unsettled country lay east and frest of us, and all around us, our empire, not then won. I made the journey across the South pass, the snow being now beaten down on the trails more than usual by the west-bound animals and vehicles. Of all these now coming on, none would get farther west that Fort Hall that year. Our own party, although over the Rockies, had yet the plains to cross. I was glad enough when we staggered into old t^ort Laramie in the midst of a blinding snowstorm. Winter had caught us fair and full. I had lost the race! Here, then, I must winter. Yet I learned that Joe Meek had outfitted lit Laramie almost a month earlier, with new animals; had bought a little grain, and, under escort of a cavalry troop which had come west with the wagon train, had started east in time, perhaps, to make it through to the .Missouri. In a race of 1,000 miles, the at last I heard the wheels of his old omnibus, and presently he entered with his usual companion. Dr. Sam­ uel Ward. When they saw me there, then indeed I received a greeting which repaid me for many things! This over, we all three broke out in laughter at my uncouth appearance. I was clad still in such clothing as I could pick up in western towns as I hurried on from the Missouri east­ ward; and I had as yet found no time for barbers. "We have had no word from you, Nicholas," said Mr. Calhoun presently, "since that from Laramie, in the fall of eighteen forty-four. This is in the spring of eighteen forty-six! Mean­ time, we might all have been dead and buried and none of us the wiser. What a country! 'Tis more enormous than the mind of any of us can grasp." "You should travel across It to learn that," I grinned. "Many things have happened since you left. You know that I am back in the senate once more?" I nodded. "And about Texas ?" I began. "Texas is ours," said he, smiling grimly. "You have heard how? It was a hard fight enough--a bitter, Sel­ fish, sectional fight among politicians. But there is going to be war. Our troops crossed the Sabine more than a year ago. They will cross the Rio Grande before this year is done. The Mexican minister has asked for his passports. The administration has ordered Gen. Taylor to advance. Mr. Polk is carrying out annexation with a vengeance. Seeing a chance for qjore territory, now that Texas is safe from England, he plans war on helpless and deserted Mexico! We may hear of a battle now at any time. But the war with Mexico may yet mean war with England. That, of course, en­ dangers our chance to gain all or any of that great Oregon chantry. Tell me, what have you learned?" I hurried on now with my own news, briefly as I might. I told them of the ships of England's navy waiting in Oregon waters; of the growing suspi­ cion of the Hudson bay people; of the changes in the management at Fort Vancouver; of the change also from a conciliatory policy to one of half hos­ tility. I told them of* our wagon trains going west, and of the strength of our frontiersmen; but offset this, justly as I might, by giving facts also regarding the opposition these might meet. "Precisely," said Calhoun, walking up and down, his head bent. "Eng­ land is preparing for war! How much are we prepared? It would cost us the revenues of a quarter of a cen­ tury to go to war with her to-day. It would cost us 50,000 lives. We would need an army of 250,000 men. Where is all that to come from? Can we transport our army there in time? But had all this bluster ceased, then we could have deferred this war with Mexico; could have bought with coin what now will cost us blood; and we could also have bought Oregon without the cost of either coin or blood. Delay was what we needed! All of Oregon should have been ours!" "But, surely, this is not all news to you?" I began. "Have you not seen the Baroness von Ritz? Has she not made her report?" "The baroness?" queried Calhoun. "That stormv petrel--that advance agent of events! Did she indeed sail with the British ships from Montreal? Did you find her there--4n Oregon?" "Yes, and lost her there! She started east last summer, and beat me fairly in the race. Has she not made known her presence here? She told me she was goin§[ to Washington." He shook his head in surprise. "Trouble now, I fear! Pakenham has hack his best ally, our worst antagon­ ist." That certainly i« strange," said I. "She had five months the start of me, and in that time there is no teiling what she has done or undone. Surely, she is somewhere here, in Washing­ ton! She held Texas in her shoes. I tell you she holds Oregon in her gloves to-day!" I started up, my story half untold. "Where are you going?" asked Mr. Calhoun of me. Dr. Ward looked at me, smiling. "He does not inquire of a certain young lady--" "1 am going to find the Baroness von Ritz!" said I. I flushed red under my tan, I doubt not; but I would not ask a word regarding Elizabeth. Dr. Ward came and laid a hand on my siiould'T. "Republics forget," said he, "but men from South Carolina do not. Neither do girls from Maryland. Do you think so?" "That is what I am going to find out." "IIow, then? Are you going to Elm­ hurst as you look now?" "No. I shall find out many things by first finding the Baroness von Ritz." And before they could make further protests I was out and away. I hurried now to a certain side street, of which I have made mention, and knocked confidently at a door I knew. The neighborhood was asleep in i>he warm sun. I knocked a second time, and began to doubt, but at last I heard slow footsteps. There appeared at the crack of the door the wrinkled visage of the old serving woman, Threlka. I knew that she would be there in precisely this way, because there was every reason in the world why it should not have been. She paused, scanning me close­ ly, then quickly opened the door and allowed me to step inside, vanishing as was her wont. I heard another step in the half-hidden hallway be­ yond, but this was not the step which I awaited; it was that of a man, slow, feeble, hesitating. I started forward as a face appeared at the parted cur­ tains. A glad cry welcomed me in turn. A tall, bent form approached me, and an arm was thrown about my shoulder. It was my whilom friend, our ancient scientist, Van Rittenhofen! I did not pause to ask how he hap­ pened to be there. It was quite natur­ al, since it was wholly impossible. I made no wonder at the Chinese dog Chow, or the little Indian maid, who both came, stared, and silently van­ ished. Seeing these, J knew that their strange protector must also have won through safe. "Ach Gott! Gesegneter Gott! I see you again, my friend!" Thus the old doctor. « }} "But tell me," I interrupted, "where is the mistress of this house, the Baroness von Ritz?" He looked at me In his mild way. "You mean my daughter Helena?" Now at last I smiled. Ilis daughter! This at least was too incredible. He turned and reached behind him i.o a little table. He held up before6 my eyes my little blanket clasp of shell. Then I knew that this last and most impossible thing also was true, and that in some way these two had found each other! But why? What could he now mean? "Listen now," he began, "and I shall tell you. I wass In the street one day. When I walk alone, I do not much no­ tice. But now, as I walk, before my eyes on the street, I see what? This-- this, the Tah Gook! At first, 1 see nothing but it. Then I look up. Be­ fore me iss a woman, young and beau­ tiful. Ach! what should I do but take her in my arms!" "It was she; it was--" (TO BB CONTINUED.) STATE NEWS Fine Growth of Potatoes. A remarkable potato has attracted some attention at Annbank, in Ayr­ shire, Scotland. Amongst some rose bushes which Mr. Morran, the station master, got from France, one potato plant appeared, which he allowed to come to maturity. When it was dug in the autumn of last year it was found that there were at the root 48 potatoes which weighed fully 14 pounds. The potato is of fine quality, with shallow eyes and a beautiful skin. As He Understood It. Jason Juby (telling of his trip to New York)--An' another interestin' sight wuz them there curb brokers doin' business. Hiram Whiffle--Seems to me I once heerd tell uv them fellers--what do they do? Jason Juby--Why, they buy all the seats in the stock exchange and then sell 'em again to suckers at a dollar er two higher price.--Illustrated Sun­ day Magazine. Sure to Help. No stream from its source flows seaward, however lonely its course, but that some land Is gladdened. No life can be pure in itB purpose and strong In its strife, and all life not be purer and stronger thereby.--Mere­ dith. Bribe Taking an Ancient Vic*. Exodus 13:8---Thou shalt take no gift, for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the just. Deut. 22:25--Cursed be he that taketh a bribe. Chron. 19:6, 7 -- (Jehoshaphat) said to the judges> take heed what you do; for you judge not for man, but for God, who is with you in judg­ ment. Wherefore let the fear of God be upon you; take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with God. aor re­ spect of persons, nor taking of gifts. Isaiah 1:23--Thy princes are com­ panions of Thieves; every one loveth gifts and runs after rewards. Isaiah 5:23--Woe unto them that justify the wicked for reward, and deprive the righteous of justice. Prov. 17.23--A wicked man ta­ keth a gift out of the bosom (pocket) to pervert the ways of judgment. A New Orchid. From New Guinea comes a new orchid shaped like a cradle and found in a recent orchid hunting expedition in the island. The flower has a white margin, with reddish chocolate mark- lugs and a yellow lip. N6t Up-to-Date. "Was theirs a fashionable wedding?" '1 guess not. They didn't have to call I out the police to keep the crowds 1 back."--Detroit Free Press. Aurora.--Miss Mary Todd, for 39 years a teacher In the West Aurora public schools, who never slapped a pupil, has resigned. In point of years of service, she Is believed the oldest teacher In Kane county. All of her pupils, and they -are legion, swear by her. Rockford.--Rev. James M. Taber of Rockford is a real baseball fan. For nearly an hour and a half he ad­ dressed an audience in that city on "Three Strikes and Out; the National Game and the Game of Life." It was a defense, from start to finish, of the great American game. Litchfield.--One of the surprise wed­ ding of the season took place at the Presbyterian parsonage when Miss Mattie Pullen of North Montgomery avenue and W. T. Kinzer, a promi­ nent lumber dealer of Sorento were united in marriage. Rev. D. K. Miller officiated. Sterling.--There are 22 saloonkeep­ ers in the cities of Sterling and Rock j Falls who are trembling with indig- j nation and at every opportunity are J telling their friends of the injustice j of the Illinois election Jaws and es- | pecially of a Ntechnicallty that will i force them to Vemain closed all day i just because the term of the township school trustee expires and it will be [ necessary to elect a new one. I Quincy.--A dangerous looking evil- i faced negro is locked up at the police ' station. He ran amuck out on Sev- ! enth street at the home of William Londress, and imagined that he was i uesiirwvi to kill off the inhabitants cf | the city as fast as they appeared. He had a ,38-caliber revolver and a j plentiful supply of cartridges and was i proceeding to puncture the atmos- | phere and various walls of the Lon- i dress home preparatory to drilling I some holes in somebody's anatomy, i when he got wind that the police werq j on his trail and escaped. Sycamore.-- vVord has been received I here that the Insane rancher near | Burlington, Wash., who killed three men, then committed suicide, was a Sycamore boy, Otis Weeden, born and raised here. Warren Weeden, his fa­ ther. is one o£ the pioneer farmers of DeKalb county. Le Claire.--After his wife had shot him in the forehead, the bullet knock­ ing him to the floor and stunning him, George Yates killed her by shooting her through the forehead and then cut­ ting her throat. With the bullet still imbedded in his head, Yates locked up his home and walked a mile to Ed- wardsville, where he surrendered to the police. According to Yates' story, he returned from work and found his wife absent. 8he came home a few minutes later, and, after a sharp quar­ rel, seized a revolver and fired, the bullet striking him between the eyes and spreading. He arose in a rage, he said, and, wrenching the revolver from her, shot her through the head. Then, with a butcher knife, he cut her throat. Yates gave his keys to a po­ liceman, who found Mrs. Yates lying across a bed in the condition described by her husband. Bloomington.--The Illinois Post- Graduate association, composed of Methodist ministers, adjourned its three-days session devoted to Bible study after electing officers as fol­ lows: President, Rev. John H. Ryan, Pontiac; vice-president, Rev. C. M. Burton, Leroy; corresponding secre­ tary, Rev. F. A. McCarthy, Jackson­ ville; recording secretary and treas­ urer, Rev. E. F. Roe, Bradford. Chicago.--William D. Page, who shot and killed Frederick Meyers in the Fifth avenue and Madison street elevated station on March 9, was found liiaaue by a jury iu Judge Kersten's court and sent to the asy­ lum for the criminal insane at Ches­ ter. Meyers, who was a ticket agent, was shot In a quarrel over the pur­ chase of a bag of peanuts; Rloomington.--The first annual meeting of the Post Graduate associ­ ation of central Illinois started with a session at the Wesleyan university and the attendance for the first day far surpassed t^ expectations of all. There were about forty ministers from the various parts of this section of the county. Quincy.--Benjamin Jones, probably the oldest resident of Quincy, suc­ cumbed at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. W. Parker. Death terminated from senility. Mr. Jones was born in Sing Sing, N. Y., ninety-one years, two months and three days ago, and at the age of fourteen came to Illi­ nois, locating in Quincy one year later. At that time land near Wash­ ington park was selling for $1 per acre and buyers were hard to find. Savannah.--Sam Papoes, a Greek interpreter, employed with a gang in the Burlington yards, was robbed of $115, the money being taken from his clothing. The thieves had placed a ladder to the window of the bunk car, and after gaining an entrance went through his clothes and took the money. Avon.--Men with guns were in evi­ dence in the Kepler neighborhood. A dog was noticed by some of the peo­ ple to be mad. The fact soon be­ came generally known and a posse of men with guns started in pursuit of the animal, which was soon overta­ ken and killed, not, however, till it had done considerable damage by biting other dogs and maybe other animals. Jacksonville -- At State Street church, Dr. A. B. Morey preached the final sermon of his 60 years of minis­ try, 26 of which he has spent as pas­ tor of State Street church. Decatur.--Lightning is blamed for a $1,000 fire at the North Broadway plant of the Decatur Ice company. The damage was chiefly to the walls and roof of the big storage house, the fire in some cases burning its way through four and five thicknesses of flooring and into the moss and min­ eral wool that preserves an equable temperature in the building. Kankakee.--Roy Goutcher, em­ ployed as a porter at the Nels Ang- lois saloon, narrowly escaped having his brains dashed out when he pitched headlong from the roof of the build­ ing at the rear of the saloon- HI FOR LIFE IN THE CLOUDS DRUNKEN MAN GIVES AERONAUT HAIR-RAISINQ EXPERIENCE IN 8KY. HURLS MADMAN TO EARTH Ascent Was One of the Most Speo- iacuiar in Balloon Days, but It Was the Last for the Daring Robert F. Scan Ion. New York.--There is living in this city today a man who has gone through the whole thrilling, horror- filled experience of killing a man in the clouds. Once he was the most daring and even foolhardy aeronaut and parachute jumper in the country. Rarely was a day too windy or a dis­ trict too dangerous for him to make his ascension according to contract and on time. Now he is as afraid as death of a balloon, and will scarcely look at a flying machine in the air. His nerves are completely gone and< he declares his nights are made hideous by dreams of something fall­ ing, falling and waving its hands. It was during fair week at Cohokia, 111., back in the 90's that Robert F. Scanlon, then known widely through­ out the middle west, was scheduled to make an ascent. His balloon was filled with gas and the order had been to "cut loose," when & drunken knan rushed through the crowd and grabbed Scanlon by the neck as the trapoze was jerked from the ground and mousing skyward. The crowd stood too L irrifled to move as the two struggling men kept going up and up, loading a balloon ti»t was to carry only 150 pound* with double Its capacity, '*Let go or you will be killed," cried Scanlon, squirming In the man's grasp and kicking as best he could. But the man held on grimly without answer ing a word. Rapidly, but with stately dignity, the balloon rose into the air, each second adding to the distance that either Sainton or his unwelcome f p F* r A trial package of Munyon's Paw Paw Pills will be sent free to anyone on re­ quest. Address Professor Munyon, 53d A Jefferson St.s., Philadelphia, Pa. If you are in need of medical advice, do not fail to write Professor Munyon. Your communi­ cation will be treated in strict confidence, and your case will be diagnosed as care­ fully as though you had a personal inter­ view. Munyon's Paw Paw Pills are unlike all other laxatives or cathartics. They coax the liver into activity by gentle methods. They do not scour, they do not gripe, they do not weaken, but they do start all the secretions of the liver and stomach in a way that soon puts these organs in a healthy CuuditioD and collects constipation. In my opinion constipation is responsible for most ail­ ments. There are 26 feet of human bowels, which is really a sewer pipe. When this pipe becomes clogged the whole system becomes poisoned, caus­ ing biliousness, indigestion and impure blood, which often produce rbpumatiim and kidney ailments. No woman who suffers with constipation or any liver ailment can ^xjyct Java a clear comple)"**"* 1 had }rt, men in of nine now be , • a soon din McHenry setting »nd so come to rec- fuae t purgatjLY RISER" Mun ,. to the" merit. in vigor rich t it; the the po into it. Thes< dope; y •timulaf to act Vi Regular size bottle, containing 45 pilk^ 25 cents. Munyon's Laboratory, 53d A Jefferson Sts., Philadelphia. WHAT DID HE MEAN? Hurled Him to the Earth. guest must fall. Squirming, kicking and struggling, the two hung on the rones and the trapese, Scanlon. des­ perate In his fear that the air-cooled gas might cause both to drop because of their excessive weight, and his passenger, sobered by fear, almost ex­ hausted and nearly helpless in his flght against the trained aeronaut. Finally seeing one last chance of safety Scanlon ordered the stranger to sit by him on the trapeze. There, shoulder to shoulder, they continued their ascent as Scanlon cursed the man whose foolhardy trick might cause the death of both. A slight ripping sound over their heads electrified Scanlon, but to his unwelcome passenger it meant noth­ ing. Scanlon glanced up; his worst fears were confirmed. One of the ropes on the side of the balloon and supporting the parachute had ripped down a few Inches and the gas and smoke were pouring out. The bar rocked back and forth again and the rent enlarged. The only chance of safety was for one of them to go down in the para­ chute, and self-preservation is the first law of nature. Scanlon made a last desperate effort and the next in­ stant his wild and struggling passen­ ger was dropping like a shot through the air. He darted down and down until his form struck the earth and fairly buried itself. His courage al­ most gone, Scanlon cut the rope that severed the parachute from the bal­ loon and dropped to the ground. He was so weak he could scarcely stand. That night he was arrested on charge of murder, but was acquitted. But it was Scanlon's last ascension. City Man--Grow all your own vege* tableB, I suppose? Farmer Grouch--Most of 'em. W, get some cabbage heads from the city. Will Be World Representation. When the International Congress om Tuberculosis meets at Rome next Sep­ tember, representatives of over 30 national and provincial associations organized to fight tuberculosis will be present. Among the associations which will be represented are the United States, Canada, Cuba, Trinidad, England, Wales, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Germany, Belgium, Holland, France, Switzer­ land, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Bul­ garia, Hungary, Austria, New Zea­ land, Japan, Cape Colony, Argentina. Brazil, Chile, Newfoundland. Ro»- mania, Uruguay and Venezuela. Feeds Baby on Alfalfa. Hot Springs, S. D.--It has remained for Mark C. Rich, an alfalfa enthusi­ ast here, to discover that alfalfa la as good for fattening human beings as It is for adding weight to horses, cattle, hogs and sheep. He gave his experi­ ence at a banquet of the local Com­ mercial club, on his return from Pierre, where he attended the dry farming congress. To test his theory he made tea of carefully selected leaves, and drank the brew as he would coffee or tea. He says the addi­ tion of alfalfa extract to his ration caused a gain of ten and one-half pounds in two weeks. He then tried it on the baby, who because of her slxe has been nick-named "Midget," and says she showed a decided gain. He also points out that this will ef­ fectually solve the high cost of liv­ ing, unless hay should go up to an enormous figure through Increased de­ mands. Chllllsome. "I once proposed to a girl In a conservatory." "With what result?" "A lot of expensive plants were nipt by frost."--Washington Herald. 8ure. "What is a co-worker?" "One who helps you work body, of course." a It Does The Heart Good To see bow die little folks enjoy Post Toasties with cream Sweet, crisp bits of pearly white corn, rolled and toasted to an appetizing brown. "The Memory Lingers" POSTUM CBKKAL CO.. Ui.. B*ttU Crwk. Micfck J JSl