Marshall County Independent, Volume 4, Number 19, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 April 1898 — Page 6

AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS. "We are assorting in the courts our rlsrht to the Occlusive use of the word "CASTOKIA. and "PITCHER'S CASTOKIA. as our Trade Mark. I, Dr. Samu"l Pitcher, of Hyannis. MamatLusetts. was the originator of "PITCHER'S CASTOKIA." the same that has borne and does eow bear tne fac-simile signature of ("HAS. H. FLETCHER en every wrapper. This is the criminal PITCH ER S CASTOKIA" which has been used in the homes of .he mothers of America for over thirty years. Look carefully at the wrarper and see that it is " the kind you have always bought." and has the signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER OB ?he Wrapper. No one has authority from me to DM my name except The C -ntaur Company, of which Chas IL fltttlf is President. March t, 1807. SAMUEL PITCHER, at IX

Hobsmi w lial Milüed. ' You say that I am the first man you have kissed!" he exclaimed rapturously. "This week." she added in an explanatory tone. "You must remember that this is not the first time we have had good sleighing this winter." It is never wise for a young man to get the idea that he is the only one who drives a gentle horse to a narrow cutter. Chicago Post. Merit Means Money Made. You f'Hunot advertise money out of peojle"s J u ket all the time; you may do it Dow and then, but if you don't give them something of absolute merit in return, advertising will never prove successful. The kind of advertising that pays is advertising a coed thiuK As it has merit the people wul use it agniu and again. Never has this been better illustrated thau in the (Treat success uf Ca-carets. caudv cathartic, that we hn e been lately advertising in this paper. All druggists call 'ascarets. repeater. . that is. people buy them, like them, and bu ' them acaiu and recommend them to their friends. Cascarets are guaranteed to ' ure constipation or money refunded, and are a delightful laxative and liver stimulant: the best medicine ever made. We recummeud all our readers to try them. Ouite Another Thing. "May 1 ask which of the city's political factions you belong to?'' said the stranger. The boss looked at him iternly, and then responded: "What you doubtless mean to ask, sir, is which political faction belongs to me." Washington Star. To Cure Const ipat ion Forever. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. If C C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money. Tp.ke your friends, as all else, to God and leave them there. Ex. Sfar Tobacco is the leading brand of the world, because it is the best. In Australian markets rabbits sell at I cents apiece.

BLOOD POISONING.

A Nurse's There are thousands of people suffering Mem blood poisoning who have almost (eggared themselves 10 buying medicines ftom which they have obtained no help. There are thousands of others who first or last have tried Dr. Aver' Sarsaparilla and lound perfect healing. One of these ethers, Mrs. A. F. Taylor, of Knglevale, Jf. Dak. relates the following experience : "About two years ago, I nursed a lady who was suffering ( and finally died . from t.-.od poisoning. I must have contracted Hi r disease from her ; for shortly after her de: th. I had four large sores or ulcers, break, out on my person. I doctored for a long time, both bv external application and with various blood medicines ; but, in spite of all that I could do. the sores would avot heal. They were obstinate, very painful, annoying, and only getting worse all the time. At last, I purchased six bottles of ?tt Ayer's Sarsaparilla, thinking I would g'.e it a thorough trial. Before the first Dottle was takcu, I noticed a decided improvement in mv general health : my appetite was quickened, and I felt better ir.d stronger than I had for some time. While using the second bottle. I noticed that the sores had begun to look healthier

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Stomach Trouble. Rev. Geo. Brown, Knierson. Ia., write: Some time ago I found myself in a very distressed condition from dyspepsia ; every article of food seemed to ferment in my stomach, and a square meal was a forerunner of agony, so that 1 feared cancer of the stomach or swine kindred evil, but the ue of your Dr. Kn s Henovator after two or three doses brought relief, and three boxes straightened me out so that with reasonable prudence I have no trouble." Stomach trouble" can be cured by Dr. Kay's Kenovator when all other remedies fail. It reuovntes ami remov es the cause, and tbe disease is cured. As n spring medicine it has uo equal. For constipation, liver and kiduey disease ft affects a permanent cure. A valuable book sent tree. Druggist sail Dr. Kay 's Renovator at 35c and 1, or six for '.". but if they do not have it. do not take any substitute they may say is "just as good," for it has no equal. Von can get it from ih by return mail. Dr. B. J. Kay Medical Co., Omaha, Neb.

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CHAPTER XXVI. (Continued.) little drawing-room, and as she poshed open the door, suddenly tlitrc Hashed across her mind a remembrance of the fact that a large portrait of Dick was standing on a little table near the fireplace. Quick as thought she walked straight to the table and turned the portrait face downwards, carelessly throwing over it the pretty lace trifle which adorned the top of a little chair which stood close by. She flattered herself that the old lord had not seen or at any rate noiiced the action, and turned to him eager to hear what had happened to Barbara. "Tell me, is she much hurt?" she asked. "My poor old Barbara. How BBS it?" He told her then exactly how the accident had happened, and how they had taken the old lady (as he failed Barbara, with an air of being himself quite a boy) off to St. George's, she being insensible and not able to tell where she lived. "To St. George's! Is that a hospital?" Dorothy cried. "Oh, my poor Barbara! She will think that the end of the world has come." "Oh, no. She is much better off than she would be in any private house." said Ivord Aylmer, soothingly. "But I am most grieved and sorry to tell you that her leg is broken, and he is naturally very anxious that you should hear of her. and, if possible, that she should see you." "Oh. I'll go. m go at once," Dorothy cried. "Would you be kind enotigh to get me a cab? I won't lose another minute. Oh, my poor, dear old Barbara!" "May I drive you there? I have my carriage at the door," he asked. In an uncontrollable burst of gratitude Dorothy put out her two little trembling hands and took his. "Oh, Lord Afliuer." she cried, "how good you are! I won't keep you waiting a minute. I will be ready before you know that I have gone." She ran out of the room and came back with her bonnet on and a dustcloak over her smart tea-gown, but not before Lord Aylmer had quietly gone to the table and looked at the portrait which she had so adroitly hidden. Yes. as he had suspected from her movements, it was a portrait of .Master Dick! He put it down again and walked to the window, where he stood looking at his handsome carriage, with its satin-coated horses and the two tall servants in their resplendent liveries. Ixrd Aylmer wondered how long the fascinations of a photograph would hold out against the fascinations of Buch a turn-out as that. And Dorothy all the time was thinking how lucky it was that it was not Lord Aylmer who had picked up Barbara, and how. now that she had got in touch with him, she would be able to work things into a straight and comfortable state and send for her darling home again, instead of going out to India to join him. "I haven't been long, have I?" she said, as she came in. "Very quick, indeed." he answered ppr. vingly. and added to himself. 'Pon my word, but Master Dick has ery fair taste knows the right sort hen he sees it." "I will put my gloves on as we go; do not let us lose any time," she said, going toward the door. He handed her into the carriage with an air of deference he might have shown to a princess, then he got in himself and sat beside her. "Back to St. George's Hospital," he said to Charles. "Yes, m'lord," said Charles. And. as ill-luck would have it, at that very instant the lady with the serene eyes who lived on the floor above Dorothy's flat came down the street in time to see them conic out and the old gentleman hand her into the carriage - nay. In time to hear Charles' reply of "Yes. m'lord." As if by instinct the two women looked at one another- there was no expression in the serene face of the lady who was on foot, nothing noticeable about her excepting a cold severity in her eyes; it was but the glance of a moment, yet Dorothy, who guessed what was in the mind of the other, grew scarlet from chin to brow and turned her head away that Lord Aylmer migh; not see that her eyes were filled with tears. "Will you be able to get on without your old servant?" Lord Aylmer asked, as they drove along. "I must, for the present," answered Dorothy. "But I meant - have you that is " "You meant have I another servant?" she finished. "No, I have not. I must see about some one to take her place for the time. I won 'er where I shall go to look for one?" "You don't know this part of Ixmdon well, then?" he asked. "I don't know London well at all," lVrothy answered, "for I lived in the country all my life until I was married." There was a scarcely not ceable hesitation before she uttered the word mar ried, and Lord Aylmer interpreted it in his own way. "If you could trust me to find out about it, I think I know j.ist the very person," he said. "My valet's wife she

is an excellent cook and a very clever capable servant in every way." "But would she come?" "I think so." "But to a little flat like mine, with nobody to do anything but herself. I am afraid she is a person accustomed to a very large establishment" "I think that will be all right. I will make it worth her while to come. No. don't look so. my dear Mrs. Harris; it will only be just and right that I should pny for your temporary domestic it must bp a frightful inconvenience, and of course it was my fault. If I hadn't been there, the old lady wouldn't have come to grief." "You are too good." murmured Dorothy, gratefully. She could not help wondering, as they drove along through the mellow autumn air. flbw it was that Dick had so mistaken his uncle. It seemed to her that he was all that was charming and considerate the sort of old gentleman who does not seem old. although his hair is white and he must have lived years enough for the world to call old. It ,vas evident to her sweet and simple soul that Dick had never really got at his uncle's inmost nature- which was true, and all the better for Dick that he hadn't. He could not. she argued, be such a savage as Dick had always made out. for why should he t:ike so much trouble for an insignificant stranger like herself, or for an old woman like Barbara, even if his carriage did happen to have knocked her down and broken her leg? That had nothing, or next to nothing, to do with it oh. it sraa plain to her that Dick had never managed his uncle properly, and very likely Lady Aylmer had never managed him properly either. So by the time they had reached the hospital. Dorothy had thought herself into quite a blissful frame of mind. She had built up a wonderful castle in the air, when Lord Aylmer should express a wish. "Oh. my dear, I do wish that you were my daughter!" when she would throw off her disguise and say. "I am the next thing to your daughter." "How?" "Why. I'm Dick's wife." She was so engrossed in her dream that she did not notice that they had reached their destination, until a smooth voice at her elbow said, "Now, dear lady." Somehow the tone jarred on her dream, but her eyes were still radiant as she turned them toward him. "I HANDED HER IN. did not notice where we were." she said in a voice still tinged with the brightness of her dream. "Happy thoughts." he said, as he helped her to the ground. "Very happy ones," she answered, smiling. They did not permit her to stay very long. Barbara was lying still, very faint and weak from the shock of the accident and the pain of her leg. She was worrying and anxious about her young mistress, and Dorothy hastened to reassure her. "Dear Barbara." she said, "don't worry the least little bit about me. not a little bit. I shall be just as well looked after as if you were there. Lord Aylmer is going to send at once to his valet's wife, a very respectable, middleaged woman, very clever and a good cook. And Miss Esther may be here any day now. you know; so that I shall get on beautifully. All you have to do. dear Barbara, is to possess your soul in patience, and get well as quickly as ever you can." "I can't think what the master will say," fretted Barbara. "The master! Why. he will be as sorry as if I had broken my leg. or very nearly," Dorothy cried. "Now. dear, here is the nurse looking at me with a threatening eye, 1 must go. Good-by, my dearest old Barbara, and don't worry, because I shall have my new help in tonight." She stayed to ask a few questions of the nurse, chiefly about what things Barbara would need, then they drove quietly back to Kensington. For a little way Dorothy was silent. "Poor old Barbara!" she burst out at length. "I don t believe she was ever ill in all her life before; at least. I never knew her to be ill. never." And you have known her long?" "Ever lines I could remember anything." Dorothy replied. Lord Aylmer assumed an expression of surprise, mingled with assent he had wonderful variety of facial impel sonations. he could even assume goodness on occasion. "Comfort that old lady is safe in St. George's." he said to himself, as he watched Dorothy's lovely mobile "face.

She turned again to him. "How scon do you think the woman you spoke of will be able to come:" she a-ked. "Tonight, I hope," he replied. "Any way. I will go and see her and let you know." "But what a trouble for you!" "Not at all a great pleasure, I can assure you." gallantly. "How good you are!" she cried, for the twentieth time. It is very easy to be good, if I am good," he said, smiling; "but I am afraid you judge me too kindly altogether. Then I will drop you at your house and go and see this good woman at once, come back and let you know 'he result." "Yes. if you will," said Dorothy. He helped her to alight and saw hei safe in the house, then got into the carriage again. "To Grosmont Road," he said. "Yes, m'lord." Charles replied. "Where to now?" asked Barker, who was getting tired and generally desperate. "Grosmont Road." "Oh. my!" muttered Barker. "I wasn't surprised when broken legs didn't put im orf Mrs. 'Arris; but when Mrs. 'Arris don't put him orf Grosmont Road, it is a pretty go." Meantime, Dorothy had gone in to the entrance hall of Palace Mansions, where the porter of the establishment met her. "A lady for you. ma'am," he said. Then there was a pause, a rush, and a glad cry of "Oh, Esther! Esther!"

CHAPTER XXVII. T would be impossible for me to tel! you what a relief it was for Dorothy to find her cousin. Estun aouiiiiig iivi on her return home. She cried a little, of course, and then managed to tell her all about poor Barbara's accident. "Just as well for you that I turned up when I did. my dear." said Esther, dryly; "it might have been very awkward for you to be left alone long." "Oh. but Lord Aylmer was so kind," Dorothy ( ried. "He not only took me to the hospital to see Barbara and brought me back again, but he has actually gone off now to see his valet'3 wife, who is the very person to stay with me till Barbara is able to come home again." "Yes. that is really very good of him," Esther admitted. "But now, my poor little excited pale-face. I am going to make you a cup of tea. Show me the way.'" So Dorothy took her into Barbara's neat little kitchen, and Miss Brand established her cousin in a chair, while she put the tea-things together and made all ready. The n she carried the tray into the drawing room and made Dorothy sit in a big arm chair while she waited upon her and gave her everything that she needed for her comfort. "I suppose this Lord Aylmer is a smart man-about-town sort of person," she remarked presently, as she slowly stirred her own tea round and round. "Oh, awfully old." answered Dorothy "at least he doesn't seem old, you know, but at the same time he is old. His hair is as white as snow, and he has a delicious, old-fashioned, halffatherly sort of manner. And so kind, so thoughtful." "Ah. well, it is a very good thing. Really, the world isn't half so bad as it sometimes seems." Esther said, dreamily. "Well." with a quick change of tone, "and this Dick of yours he is perfection, of course?" (To be continued.) TOOK IT FOR GRANTED. Worthy Couple Thought the Wedding License Settled All. A lawyer told a few days ago of a strange state of affairs that came to his notice several years ago whiis practicing in the eastern part of the state, says the Sioux City Journal. He had not been out of college very long, and to start in gave considerable attention to pension claims. One day an old woman, possibly 80 years of age, canio to his office. She was a widow of a soldier of the war of 1ML'. and wanted him to look up her pension claim. He asked her to show proof of marriage. The applpattt said somewhere in her house she had the marriage license that had been issued to her in one of the eastern states before that war. But she had not been able to find it. She was told then that she must secure affidavits of some people who had known her husband, and of the fact that they had lived together for years and had brought up a family. One of the grown-up sons was with her at the time and he secured the necessary information. But to be sure that everything was all right the lawyer wrote to the clerk of the courts of the county in which the original license had been it-sued. That officer replied that the license had been issued, but that uo return of the marriage had ever been made. In a few days the 'old woman tame back to see her lawyer about the matter, and by that time she had found the worn marriage, license. But that was all she did have. It afterward developed that the couple had understood that when the license was issued to them that it was all that was necessary. They never called in a preacher to perform the ceremony and had lived together for all these years and had brought up a large family. H IViiHiiee. Wilkins Are you keeping Lent? Harper Yes; 1 always do. My wife has her mother spend the month before Easter with her every year.

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SUBDUING THE BICYCLE.

K-nt.il and Physical Struggles of th Man Who Learned Late. From the Kansas City Star: Accompanying the other harbinger of spring, the robin, the game of marble In the alley, the tan shoe, comes th learner on the bicycle. The cool, bracing air of an evening and the long stretches of smooth roadway tempt him, and in his mind's eye he pictures spins into the country, healthful, lnvorgating exercise and an appetite llks that of a plowman. But above all he is impelled to learn by a dread of being considered a faddist. All of his friends ride. Already hi imagines they look upon him askance and speak of him as a sort of Philip Noland a man without a wheel. For six ;ccesslvs seasons he has held out against the temptation and now he c .'.mself for his pains. Why didn't he learn then, when everybody was learning, Instead of postponing the ordeal until now. when all are past masters In the art? So he may be seen every fine evening upon the level, asphalt paved side streets struggling to subdue an untamed steed of the patents of '95, which costs him 25 cents an hour, with a $2 indemnity against breakage. All this Is gali and wormwood to the modest man. Xot that he cares for the knocks and bruises. He would gladly doubis their number could he but escape the prying eyes, the derisive guffaws and half-suppressed sniggers of the msn and women who have passed through it all years, years before. For these reasons he is a creature of apprehension and agony. After discovering the fallacy of the theory that the art can be acquired in a back kitchen with the curtains drawn he remembers a particularly unfrequented side street, lined with trees that help to obscure the light of moon and lamps. He takes off the handle bars of his machine to give the impression that the machine is out of order and that he is on his way with it to the repair shop. This furnishes him with an excuse for net riding. Then he sallies forth, leading his wheel. The unfrequented by-street Is due north, so of course he goes south, and tacks back to the windward side, like a yacht, and beats and maneuvers and hauls down his halyards and reeves the binnacle and so on and finally he heaves to in front of a livery stable, which he goes through till hs reaches the alley and then by a sudden port movement he emerges trembling and demoralized upon the darkened thoroughfare. Of course, everyi body stops to watch him tangle him self in his wheel. They gather in little groups along the driveway, and when he falls and appears about to slide, bicycle and all. into the catch basin of a swer, they can between spasms of illtimed mirth tender him assistance. It is well to leave him at such a time as this to settle with the man from whom he rented the bicycle and with his Maker. PLIABLE GLASS PLATES. Chinese Work Which wbskM One of OlA Pliny's Stories l'rob.t Mr. From the Strand Magazine: It appears that the Chinese have the art of making pliable glass plates. They are not solid, but plaited from spun glass and made gorgeous by brilliant oriental coloring. The strangest thing about them is that, although they arf-e made of glass, one can bend them backward and forward as if they were putty or pliable clay. In hearing of these strange plates one is reminded of a story originally by Pliny in his Natural History, and popular during the mlddie ages. As narrated in the "Oesta Romanorum" that strange repository of monkish lore the tale runs thus: "It happened that a certain artificer fabricated a plate which, being exhibited before the emperor (Tiberius), he attempted, but ineffectively, to break it. It bent, however, beneath his efforts, and the artificer, applying a hammer and working upon the glass as upon copper, presently restored it to its level. Tiberius inquired by what art this was effected, and the other replied that it was a secret not to be disdosed. Immediately he was ordered to the block, the emperor alleging that if such an art should be practiced gold and silver would be reckoned as nothing." The "Gesta Romanorum" pretends to be nothing but a collection of amusing stories, and in it Pliny fact and myth are so mingled that it is hard to separate them. In this particular case, however, it appears that the old Roman naturalist might have been telling the truth after all. Floors of Wood Pulp. Ordinary floors were condemned hy scientific men because they retain dust, in which dangerous germs are fosterpd and make it hold their virulence for a long time. Cement floors are safer, but less agreeable to the feet M. Capitau. a French hygienist, recommends wood pulp floors, which have no cracks, are soft to the feet and are bad conductors of heat and sound, while their cost is considerably less than that of ordinary flooring. It is believed that such floors will prove very durable. The dried pulp, mixed with a little cement to add resistance to the floor, is transported in powder, and after being mads into a gelatinous mass is parsed between rollers. The floors are painted to imitate oak or other wood. Circumstances Alter Caaea. Watts Just got a letter from an old schoolmate. It is pleasant to hesxr from the friends of one s youth. Potts It is pleasant to hear from them when they arc doing well, and pleasant to hear of them when they are not. Indianapolis Journal. Iloth. Yabsley Now. here is a suit that I paid only $11 for. The price Is really absurd. Wlckwirs So is the suit. Indianapolis JournaL