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awMa WmT~" 'idjjgsSsxam&BitBt . . . « . , .mp> tfraMou ILbUSTR^TlONS BY FtAf UiA4T=f<£> SYNOPSIS. Comtesee Elise, daughter of the ^overn- •or of the Mount, has chance encounter "with a Deasant boy. The "Mount," a email Tock-bound Island, stood In vast bay on ithe northwestern coast of France, and •during the time of Louis XVI. was a gov- <«rnment stronghold. Develops that the peasant boy was the son of Selgrneur De- iiaurac, nobleman. Young Desaurac deter- #r<ln#s to secure an education and became ® gentleman; sees the governor's daugh­ ter depart for Paris. Lady Eliee returns after seven years' schooling, and enter­ tains many nobles. Her Ladyship dances •with strange fisherman, and a call to Arms la made In an effort, to capture a mysterious Le Seigneur No|r. He escapes. Ladv Elise is caught in the "Grand" tide. Tha Black Seigneur rescues and takes her to his retreat. Elise discovers tha». her savior was the boy with the qsn. Sanches, the Seigneur's servant. Is ar­ rested and brought before the governor. I,ady Elise has Sanche* set free. Seig­ neur and a priest at the "Cockles. San- ehej tells Desaurac that Lady Elise be­ trayed him. but la not believed. The Selrneur plans to releaae prisoners at tne Mount. Lady Elise pleads with her fath­ er to spare the lives of condemned Pris­ oners. Disguised as a peasant *jaay J5I»ge mingle3 with the people and hears some startling facts. A Jn>'ster'°"! Mountebank starts a riot. He Is arrested and locked up after making close obser­ vations of the citadel, and is afterwards summoned before the governor s daugn- The governor enters the room during the Interview with the Mountebank. As a miserable buffoon, the Mountebank is re­ leased by order of the governor. De- eaurac overpowers guard and dons sol­ dier's uniform. The Seigneur successfully passes guards and finds the Great Wheel " Jacques, the jailer, forced to tread the wheel and bring up enemies of the governor. The Black Seigneur liber­ ates the prisoners. The Seigneur a*aln made prisoner. The Marquis de Beau-, vlllers visits the Mount. The ladies and nobles inspect the dungeons. Elise visits the Seigneur. lAdy Elise engages Na­ nette. daughter of Pierre Laroche. friend of the Black Seigneur, as maid. Nanette plans the release of the Black Seigneur. The Marquis and Lady Elise ride Into an ambush. Lady Elise is held as hostage. Prisoners are exchanged. My Lady for the Seigneur The people storm the Mount and the Black Seigneur tries to save Elise. CHAPTER XXXII. • Near the Altar. "Morblen! Here's a madman!" Ere the Black Seigneur could unsheathe his sword, that of the MarqulB had pieroed slightly his shoulder. "Put up your blade, my Lord!" As quickly springing back and drawing his own, he held himself in an attitude of de­ fense. "In tliis matter are we, or should we be--of a mind!" ' "We!" My lord's weapon played In fierce curves and flashes; he laughed derisively. "1 am here to serve her ladyship-- If I can!" "You!" A rapid coup de tierce was the Marquis' reply. "You! Whose out­ laws carried her off before! You are pleased to jest. Monsieur Bandit!" "No Jest, my Lord!" coolly. "More­ over, it is you who serve her ladyship ill at such a moment in--" "Mon Dieu! You instruct!" "I have no wish for this combat. Monsieur le Marquis!" As he spoke, the Black Seigneur retreated slowly ; toward the door. "But if you press too close--** "Ma foi! You talk very brave, but I notioe your legs take you backward. However, it will mot serve; you shall not escape." "No?" His back now against the door, the Black Seigneur defended himself with his right hand, the while his left felt behind for a bolt which It found; shot into place. "Then let us remove temptation by locking the door!" "What! You did, then, Intend--" A sudden fierce pounding frdm with­ out on the door, interrupted. "It was necessary to keep tjiem out --but it will be only for a moment. 80 put up your blade!" peremptorily, "There is no time to lose." "You are right!" The Marquis' face expressed scorn and unreasoning anger; his sword leaped to an accel­ erated tempo. "There is no time to loae. I shall honor you! The Mar­ quis de Beauvillers will stoop to cheat 'physical?--that seemed to beat down "her will, left no choice but to obey. Darkness gave way to waves of light; reflections of flame surrounded them; black trails of smoke colled around. The girl's strength went; her breath came faster. A thick cloud choked her; she wished only to stop, when arms closed about her. Upward! Still upward! By wind­ ing stairs, through passages and door­ ways, vaguely she felt herself borne,, until a cold breath of air. blowing suddenly In her face, revived her; awoke her to a confused realisation of the plaoe they had at last reached-- the upper platform at the head of the long, open stairway of granite. And with that consciousness, shu again sought to free herself; but, for an In­ stant the Arms held tighter, while a dark faoe bent close, scanning her features, then abruptly he released her. "Your Ladyship is uninjured?" "Yea; yes!" "One moment!" Turning, he - left her, and walking to the verge of that open space, searched quickly the waste of darkness below, far out to sea. The girl's glance followed him; wavered; her first apprehension awoke anew. Her father! Where was he? She clasped her hands despairingly as she gazed down the Mount; then around her. Suddenly, a bright patch of light--open doorway to the church-- caught her eye and she Btarted. At the picture, framed by the masonry, which the glow revealed, a low excla­ mation fell from her lips, and crossing the platform, and descending a few steps, she ran to the entranoe of the sacred edifice. * "Eh, your Excellency; has your Ex­ cellency any orders?" sounded a^oice. There, before an altar, in the dim flicker of candles and the variegated gleaming from the ancient stained- glass windows, she saw at last him she sought; in one of the chapels, near the white marble monument to her mother, was his Excellency; but, not alone! Before him stood, or half crouched, the man Sanchez, who now was speaking. "Shall I ring for your Excellency's servants and have the noise stopped?" Grotesquely he bowed, the while watch­ ing like an animal studying its prey. "Beppo! Where are you--fat rascal? Consign these swine to the gibbets! What! You can't obey because your ears have been cut off and your throat slit? That's too bad!" Fiercely the man laughed; then waved Mb arm toward the window, as if calling the Governor's attention to the sounds of demolition; the abrupt breaking of glass! "Patter! Patter! Merry little bullets, presents from the people, your Exoellency! Metayage, your High­ ness!" Still the other said no word; a fig­ ure, so 'motionless and white, it seemed but a wraith pausing at the side of its own "narrow house." A louder clamor without; a more vivid brightness of the red, yellow and purple hues, like a sudden wealth of strange flowers strewn on the marble floor, and again Sanchez laughed. "Too bad! But 'tis I who must pay first! Who owe so much! Has your Exoellency his strong box with him? Ah, he leans on it! Such a fine one, all of marble! Not easily broken into--or out of! Eh, your Ex­ cellency?" Swinging back something bright "Full payment, this time! Not coppers, or round bits of lead, but steel, beautiful steel!" Held to the spot by the abrupt ter­ ror and fascination of the scene, the Governor's daughter had made no sound, fearful of hastening the inevi­ table; but at the moment the man, with a last taunting word, launched Wiul auiiHd vL ijuttotJ value! In the chapel, an aumbry and a piBcina were struck; around the Governor, glass began to clatter and break into bits on the pavement, when suddenly he wavered; his hand sought his heart, then felt for and clung to the monument, as If abruptly seek­ ing support. "Why did you do it, Seigneur?" As my lady, exclaiming wildly, ran to her father, Sanchez, from where he lay, looked up to his master. "Call out, I mean? Not that it mat­ ters much now!" His Implacable glance, swerving to the Governor, lighted wllu satisfaction, "The people have paid. And twas I--showed them the way!" "It was you, then--who broke faith in the negotiations tor the exchange of prisoners?" A smile came to the faoe of the old servant. "I had to," he said simply. "I alone am to blame. No one knew; except, perhaps, the poet, who may have surmised! It was treachery for treachery!" with sudden fierceness. "You could not have done it, nor your father, nor any of the seigneurs be­ fore him!" The young man seemed scarcely to bear; his glance had again sought my lady. "But I am only a servant--and in dealing wltA a viper I used its own tricks! Did you think I had forgotten those stripes? Or the blow he gave your father--in the back?* A moment Sanchez* band fumbled at his coat; drew out a bag of oilskin. "Here Is something that belonged to your father. I took it from his breast the day he died, think­ ing some time--I can't tell what--only it contains a letter from the former lady of the Mount! When my master got it, he told me to pack a few be­ longings--that we were going--never to return!" Sanchez' voice broke off; again he strove to speak; could not; put out his hand. Mechanically the Black Seigneur's closed on that of the old servant; even as it did so, the tatter's fingers clutched suddenly; ceased to move. In the church now all was silent, but without arose discordant sounds, cries, harsh and vengeful, for the Governor! Starting, the Black Seigneur gaaed about, toward him they wefe clamor­ ing for, now lying still, at the base of the monument. Then releasing the fingers, that seemed yet to hold him, the young man sprang forward, as my lady threw herself wildly, protfecting- ly, over her father. At that touch, jthe Governor's eyes opened; met hers; the Black Seigneur's! y. xjaj. lliu young then, passed to his daughter; as they did so, slowly the light, more human and appealing than any that had ever shone there before, went* out of them. My lady's fair head dropped until it lay on her father's breast; uncon­ scious, she seemed yet to shield him with figure inert. But only for a mo­ ment! "Et la belle comtesse!" Stooping, the Black Seigneur snatched the slender form to his breast; ran back to the altar. < There, looking around him, as one who made himself familiar with the plaoe, his clcaee "i'r"rcntly found whet it eetigfet --a small stairway, entranoe to the crypt. At the same time he started to deecend, the people g^ept iatq^Uj® churolL. . - fcHAPTCR XXXfH* On the Sands. A man, bearing in his arms the mo­ tionless form of a woman, paused later that night in the shadow of a low stone hovel, near the lower gate of the Mount. As he crouched beneath the thatch projecting like the rim of an old h&t above him his eyes, eager, fierce, studied the distance he had yet to traverse from the end of t.he nar­ row alley, where he had stopped, to the open entrance at the base of the rock to the sands. The goal was not far; but a few moments would have sufficed to reach it; only between him and the point he had so long been striving to attain, an obstacle, or group of obstacles, intervened. Before a bonfire of wreckage of stuff--furniture and household goods--several' ragged, dissolute fellows sat with bottles be­ fore them, drinking hard and quarrel­ ing the while over a number of glitter­ ing gems, gold snuffboxes and trinkets of all kinds. "This bit of ivory for the white stone!" "Add the brooch!" "Not I! Look a( the picture! Her ladyship, perhaps!" "They have not found her?" "No; for all the searching! But she Is somewhere; can't have escaped from the Mount. And when the drabs and trulls lay hands on her!" "Ay, when!" casting the dice. The man, peering from the alley, hesitated no longer; behind sonnded the footsteps of others, and gather­ ing his burden more firmly, he strode boldly forth toward the group and the gate. At his approach, their talk-- a jargon of "thieves' Latin" that smacked more of the cabarets of Paris the fourches patibulalres!" And my ) forward, a cry, half articulate, burst lord lunged, a dangerous and clever thrust that was met; answered. From the Marquis' hand the blade flew; struck the pavement; at the same time, a rending and tearing of wood eame from the door. The Black Seigneur leaped forward; but the stroke his adversary, now dis­ armed, expected, fell not on him; di­ rected toward a lamp overhead, sole source of illumination of the corri­ dor, the weapon struck hard. Shat­ tered by the blow, the ornamental con­ trivance crashed to the floor; the place was plunged in darkness. "Save yourself, my Lord!" said a calm voice, and my lady, standing, as It were, In the center of a vortex of wildly rushing figures, felt her waist suddenly clasped; herself swept on! Onoe or twice she struggled; resisted, hardly knowing what she did; but the sound of a low, determined voice, not upfamlliar to her, and the conscious­ ness of a physical force--or was it all from her lips. It was drowned by an­ other voice, loud and commanding, which rang out from the entranoe to the church. "Sanchez! Perhaps the call disconcerted him; robbed the old servant's eye of its cer­ titude ; his arm of its sureness, for the blow aimed at his Exoellency the lat­ ter was enabled to evade. At the same time, as with Singular agility he moved aside to save himself, the hand the Governor had been holding to his breast, shot out like an adder. It struck viciously; stung deep--full in the side of his tormentor. "That for your metayage!" But a momentary expression of sat­ isfaction was, however, permitted his Excellency; the petty tragedy became overshadowed by the greater! "The Bastile!b Our Bastile! And again a shower of bullets, -di­ rected in hatred, fell upon the church, because its windows were priceless; V * 'Hen» !• Something That Belonged te Y?ur Father.1 Where Life Is Very Cheap Danger of Getting in Front of Guns During Russian War Maneuvers. the m ' m' p If'" 0-} hf •Hm ti'K .MiV..:-. '-"if."'"' Forty-two soldiers were shot during the recent maneuvers of the Russian army. The announcement is stolidly made by the minister of war. He adds, "These men were in advance of the guns." As guns do not ordinarily shoot backward, the minister's cryptic ex­ planation may be considered super­ fluous. The incident is, perhaps, in­ teresting chiefly because of the light It throw# on Russia's official attitude toward the Talus of human life. It "fits In aptJy with the reports of exe­ cutions, imprisonments and exiles which, coming from all parts of the Mar's domains, keep the world -in­ formed of the progress of heartless oppression. .It is not surprising that the empire la rocked with discontent, that ob­ servers believe the government faceB another costly revolution. A nation cannot place so low a value on the lives of its subjects without ultimately reaping its reward in blood and ter­ ror. Accidents in military maneuvers are not uncommon. They have occurred in the United States, and, doubtless, will continue to occur from time to time as long as military training is held a neoessary part of every na­ tion's list of obligations. It has re­ mained for Russia, however, to send soldiers "in advance of the guns" to be shot, and for a minister of the czar's government to announce the blunder to the world with as much unconcern, apparently, as he might announce the departure of a detach­ ment for patrol duty on the Persian frontier. Nearer the door, now rang the shouts. His Excellency seemed to listen; to realize what they meant; to him--his daughter-- "The Governor! The Governor!" "Tremblez tyrans! Trembles!" An ironical flash lit up, for an in­ stant, the dying eyes. He, soon, would be beyond reach of these dogs--ca­ naille! But she? His gaze again rested on the Black Seigneur; in that tense, fleeting second, seemed reading his very soul! "Et la belle comtesse, sa fille!" cried the menacing voices. A tremor crossed the Governor's face; his pale lips moved. "Forget! Save her!" Ah instant his eyes lin- i Her Vicarious Babies. A young New York woman just past girlhood, who has an ample Income, wished to assume the guardianship of some child without taking It into her own home, whioh, under the circum­ stances, was impossible. After some looking about the association hit upon a struggling mother who was so very poor that she bad practically made up her mind to yield to an institution her two children, a girl and a boy. These children, who were very promising, were shown to the fairy godmother, who undertook to pay for their sup­ port and education. By this miraculous means the moth­ er is able to keep her children with her and they themselves, now that they are properly cared for and en­ couraged, are blossoming into unex­ pected charms.--Harper's Bazar. ft Making Peanuts Digestible. { , Some people cannot eat peanuts be- . I cause of difficulty in digesting them. A Gentle Hit. " k| If they take a half-spoonta! of salt in She--What flowers do you think are | a little water after eating peanuts no best for pressing? 1 trouble of any kind, will be He--I preig^Q . " 1 tiencied. • .v.. >. ~ • tiicso have," j&ss**"s "you but stamp your- than those of the coast--momentarily ceased; beneath lowering brows, tbey stared hard. What have you there, comrade?' said one. Look and see!" answered the man in a rough tone. Poor booty! A woman!' quoted an­ other with a harsh laugh. "You're easily pleased. As if wenches were not plentiful enough on other occa­ sions, without wasting time on a night like this, when diamonds and gold are to be dfcad for the searching!" 'And silver plates and watches and rare liquc !" cried a third in knaves' argot. "Every one, however, to his taste; An you prefer a light-of-love to Hsht such as with the gems, self a fool." "You're welcome to your opinion, my friend!" The man with the bur­ den spoke bruBkiy, "Good night!" "Stay; why ffech haste? You seem not a bad fcOov. Set the wench down. We'll tfire sight of her, and, perhaps," witfc. coarse expletives, "if ahe's a pretty face, and a taste for this fiery liquor the old monks laid down, we'll find a gewgaw or two to her liking!" 'But the mail made no answer; was about to pass on, when the speaker noticed for the first time the women's cmd *~"mrT? 1 poiic© "What's this? More Jewels?" His ex­ clamation was caught up by the oth­ ers. "Not so fast, comrade! This puts a different faoe to the matter. Set down the booty, and," springing to his feet, "we'll see what it's worth." "I'll not stop!" The man looked at him steadily. "On the Mount is, or should be, plenty lor all! Go seek for yourself!" "Pardi!" softly. "Here's one dares speak his mind! "I speak plainly," in a tone of au­ thority, "and you would do well to heed!" "Perhaps," interposing. "What say you, comrades?" Evil smiles illumined evil faces; they, who had just been on the point of blows among themselves, now re­ garded one another with common un­ derstanding. One weighed tentatively that delicate weapon, a spontoon; a second stroked his halberd, as liking' to feel the smoothness of the Bhaft, while a third reached for a gleaming "Folard's Partizhn." And' in the glare of the fine every implement Bhowed sign It had been used that night The point of the spontoon was as steel crusted O'er; the ax of the halberd might have come from a boucherle; the blade of the "Partisan", resembled a great leaf at autumn-time. This last wavered perilously near the uncon­ scious burden; had the man made a movement to resist, would have struck; but the black eyes, only, combated--held the blood-shot ones. Though not for long; again the weap­ on seemed about to dart forth; the man about to hurl himself and his bur­ den desperately aside, when, from above, came the sound of hoarse laughter and singing, and simultane­ ously a number of peasants, Bretons" by their dress, bfirst into view. "Eh, cockatoo, what now!" "Eh, cockatoo!" shrilly. "Who would you be killing?" "A selfish fellow that refuses to share!" answered he of the halberd, as if little pleased at the interruption. "Refuses to share, does he?" a)ie repeated, and, swaggering down, peered forward; only to a tart back. "The Black Seigneur!" "The Black Seigneur!" Those who accompanied her--a rough rabble frpm field and forest-- gazed, not without surprise, or uncouth admiration, at one whose name and fame were well known on that north­ ern coast; but theBe evidences of rough approval were not shared by the alien rogues. On my lady's finger the gem sparkled; held their eyes like a lure. Black Seigneur, or not, they muttered sullenly, what knew they of her he had with him; whose hand was not that of cinder-wench or scullery maid? Let them look at her faoe! She might be a great lady--ch? might be the Governor's daughter herself! "The Governor's daughter!" All, alike, caught at the word. "And if she were!" fiercely the Black Seigneur confronted them. While, hesitating, they sought for a reply, quickly he went on. Who had a better right to her? The Black Seigneur! The Lady Elise! Harshly he laughed. Was It not fair spoil? His Excellency's enemy; his Excellency's daughter. Did they think treasure sweeter than revenge? Let them try to rob him of it! As tor the ring? Contemptuously he took It from my lady's haod; threw it among them. A few scrambled, others were still for finishing the tragedy then. . The people versus the lords and their spawn. "Kill at onoe!" the Injunc­ tion had gefne forth from Paris. As he spoke, one of the fiercest yet out bis hand; touched my lady, when the fingers of the Black Seigneur gripped hard his throat; hurled him so violently back, he lay still. Com­ panions sprang to his aid; certain of the peasants interffred. "Let him alone!"1 "He speaks fair!" "Bah! Tonight all are equal." "Your Black Seigneur Is no better than others!" "You lie!" In a high tone the wom­ an with the great lady's hat broke la. "At them, my chickens! JBeat well these Paris rogues, who come only for the picking!" "Yes; beat them well!" But the runagateB of the great city were not of a kind to submit lightly; curses and blows were exchanged; knives gleamed and swords flashed. Amid a scene of confusion, the cause of it stayed not to witness t?ie .out­ come; running down the sloping way, soon found himself on the sands; then keeping to the shadows, passed around the corner of the wall. (TO BIB CONTINUED.) 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Both cars continued at terrific speed toward Chicago, and Jones tele­ phoned to the South Chicago police to have the 92nd street bridge swung open to prevent the automobilists from proceeding further. The bridge- tender refused to open the draw, but stretched the chains across and stop­ ped twenty automobiles. Jones was unable to identify any of these. EEL DRAGS BOY INTO WATER Fish Puta Up Fight and Young Fish­ erman Only Is 8aved by Friend. Hastings on Hudson, N. Y.--"Joe" Williams, twelve years old. was at­ tacked the other day by an eel when llshing In the Hudson fiver. Williamc caught the eel just back of the head. He thought it was exhausted, but the eel was very much alive. It slapped its tall around Williams' legs and knocked him off his feet, and he and the eel fell into water three feet deep. A companion of the fisherman man­ aged to get him out of the water with the eel's tail Btill around Williams' right leg. The eel weighs 5 younds, is 3 feet long and 3 Inches in diam­ eter at the largest part Milk Inspection Is No Fun Incident Showing How Hard It Is to Force Sanitary Rulea en Dirty People. The trials and tribulations of a milk Inspector trying to force Insanitary people to live according to sanitarj rules are shown io the issue of the HealthologiBt, the official organ of the Milwaukee, health department The story follower A Milwaukee milk inspector during a farm inspection, came upon a place hopelessly filthy, disorderly and run down. A motherly person with a big heart, but firm and weird convictions, listened to the young man'a sugges­ tions. Then looking over her spec­ tacles pityingly, she said: "Boy, my mother was ninety-seven years old when she died. She was dirtier than I am, and lived In a dirtier house and drank dirtier milk. It she could Btand it I guess there r#*a't mo reaaea why ! aaA tfce eity folks that get milk from this ..farm can't stand It too." And not being able to answer that argument, the milk Inspector left her --kindly withal, but yet voicing her indignation ever "them there new fangled ldees of cleanlineaft" How He Treated Her. A certain osteopath was treating a young woman who had very weak ankles and wrists. As she lived In a town quite a distance from his own city, he was forced to leave the city Saturday of each week and go to the town In which the young woman lived, give her the treatment Sunday, and return to the office Monday. A friend once asked the osteopath how he had arranged to give the young woman the treatment for her ankles and wrists when she lived at such s instance, and the osteopath replied: "Oh, I go out and treat her . week ; end*."--Upplncott'j! Magazine. 1 BEANS COOKED BY LIGHTNING Truck- Farmer on Outskirts of the National Capital Almost Out* Burbanks Burbank. Washington.--A farmer In Wash­ ington's outskirts has contributed the latest aid to a reduced cost of living. He is William Williams, a trucker, who went out to gather some string beans fdr the family table the other day. Much to his surprise, he discov­ ered that they were deliciously cook­ ed. He thought for a time that he had out-Burbanked Burba%k, but a little reflection divulged the reason. In planting he had placed wires be­ tween the poles, and during a recent storm lightning Btruck the wtreB and cooked the beans. SHE TAKES HER OWN TIME NeW York Woman Tells Judge She Carries Alarm Clock Always Lest She Oversleep. New York.--Patrolman Hellmuth was passing Jefferson Market court the other morning, in Greenwich ave­ nue, when he was startled by the clangor of an alarm clock. On the sidewalk close to the wall reclined a woman of middle age, who sat up and rubbed her eyes. The policeman took the woman to the station house, and later in the day she was arraigned be­ fore Magistrate Breen, the alarm clock still attached to her wrist. Shega,ve her name as Myrtle Reed. "This is my little alarm clock," said the woman in reply to the magistrate. "I am apt to fall asleep wherever I may be, and as I am a very ljeavy sleeper, I always keep the alarm set an hour ahead. When I go to sleep un­ der the stars I like to be waked by the clock better than by a police­ man's nightstick whanging on the soles of my shoes." Not having the wherewithal to pay a fine of one dollar, the woman was led to a cell, and as she left the court­ room the clock rang again. Died Trying to 8ave Two, Port Worth, Tex--John Moon, thlr- ty-flve years old and the father of live children, sacrificed his life In trying to save two girls from drowning. Mrs. Elsie Moon, his sister-in-law, fif­ teen years old, a bride of two weeks, also lost her life, being one of the two he attempted to save. Moon attempt­ ed to drag the girls ashore and in their excitement they grabbed him around the -neck and all went dowa. When your shoes wear out what do you do -- kick and go barefooted? No, you get new ones. < If your land's play­ ed out, growling about it Won't help. Look around and see where you can do better. Maybe you're just in a rut and don't know it Some of the best land in this universe is along the lines of the STANDARD ROAD OP THE WIST Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Colorado, Utah and Nevada. A good deal has been settled and there's a good deal to be settled yet If you will write to R. A. Smith, Coloniza­ tion Agent, Union Pa­ cific, Omaha, Nebraska, and tell him what you want, whether you want one acre, five, ten or a thousand acres, he will tell you what the soil will produce -- what it won't produce --where the best apple country is--where the best truck farming country is, etc. and the price. The interest this great system has in this country is to settle it with people who will be a credit to the country and to see that those people have a full and complete knowledge of con* ditions before they go out. That's why it appointed Smith. After you hove found out all you want to know, go out there and see it. The Union Pacific has made Reduced Fares for Colonists •ffectiv* September 25th to October 10th. Special trains carrying tourist cars only will Invi Omaha September 26,27, 26, October 9, 10 and 11 at 4;4S p. m. for San Francisco. For the fare from yoar home town and for writetufinutlL VIRGINIA FARMS and TIMBER If you want H larpe farm or a umall farm In • good Beotlon of the country where we have a nod market, fluent climate! and when. fulluren are unknown, write for my free list. Wm> J. Bloater, U. C.D.No.7, South Richmond, Va. "GOING SOUTH." Then Don't Fall to aee the rich pralriea •round Okolona on laatn line Mobile and Ohio Railway. Splendid opportunities for the farmer of «mail means. Hornet mad.' t-aay. Write for more information. W. A. Hountoa, Reference First ~Nat'l Rank, Okolona. MIm. 10% PER ANNUM GUARANTEE* (withadditional proflts)wellestabliBbed,hifrhlT p*>f- Itablo business controlled by hankers. 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