Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 3, Plymouth, Marshall County, 26 October 1905 — Page 3

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BY DAVID CHAPTER XIX. (Continued.) ' "Well," said Harrey, "I!m leaving everything, and I don't know why or wherefore. I leave it to you, but don't you think it time you let me know somethins definite?" - , . i "You may think me crazed, I dare ay." said Jethroe, "but I have what amounts to a fixed belief that if I speak my secret before the time I shall never live to profit by it You shall know all In good time, and meantime you've only got to believe that I mean well by you. I tell you, Harvey, I'm going to make you the wealthiest man in the world. In six months we can be back, prepared to buy up the Rothschilds I tween us, and when I'm gone you'll have my share as well as your own. There won't be an Emperor, my lord, who'll take airs with Harvey Jethroe the younger." Jethroe had booked' himself for the voyage as Richardson, and had entered Harrey under an alias also. He had purposely chosen a boat by which he had never sailed before. His confidence in his disguise was shaken, but he was prepared to face any and all suspicions with a perfect effrontery. It would have been a strong likeness indeed, which would have convicted him against the absolute sang froid of the denial with which he was ready. As it chanced, he wa not called upon for the denial at a!L There was a steward aboard the boat with whom he had traveled upon another line, and who from time to time looked at him curiously. But if the steward ever allied Jethroe and Richardson In his mind at all, he must have dismissed the fancy instantly, for the Mr. Jethroe he had known was a power in the State, and a man reputedly made of money, and why on earth should a millionaire have disguised himself and gone under an alias? The voyage passed without adventure. The lending was as uneventful; the journey up country passed without recognition r incident which calls for narration. But at last the two arrived at a station with great hills rising on the far horizon,, and they passed the night at a weatherboard shanty of a hotel witi a roof of corrugated zinc, on .which a rain shower played a thundering concerto is they lay abed. Before they slept Jethroe had been abroad bargain making, and in the morning there were two wiry saddle horses at the door, and a baggage cart laden with all manner of bags and boxes, with four upstanding mules harnessed to it. A half-breed had charge of the cart, and the small cavalc: 1e started in the cool of the day. Nobody in the sleepy township seemed to have noted either their coming or going. Those who had been 'approached in the way tt business had done their little bit of trade and had thought no more about it. As to the business of the travelers, whence they came and whither they were bound, there was no more interest in them than if they had been a pair of house flies. They came, they went out into the desert unregarded. There were a hundred places to wine" they might have been going, and the people who madu up the township did not care whether they were going to them all, or driving out to die in the wilder ness. . This absolute indifference suited Jethroe to admiration. Nothing could have suited his purpose better, and he mounted in high good humor. "Is the ti5e yet here?" asked Harvey, as they faced the vast prospect of the wilderness, which would have seemed interminable but for the blue barrier of the hills miles aid miles away. "Am I to know on what wise errand I am going?" "Now's the timer cried Jethroe. "I've taken pains to know that our guide behind us doesn't speak a word of English, and here, at least, we're pretty safe from listeners. All the same, we'll ride out of earshot. I shouldn't be in the least surprised to learn that one of the very mules was Little William in disguise." He put in spurs and galloped for some two or three hundred yards, and Harvey followed his lead. "Now," said Jethroe, turning on him with a glittering eye, "I can tell you. "I'm taking you, Harvey, to what poor old Zelkar christened Diamond "river, a rlace compared with which Sinbtrd's valley was not a circumstance." -Who was Zelkar?" asked narvey. He was mightily little moved as yet. "Zelkar," returned his uncle, "was a. Hungarian Jew, who was famous In his day as a chess player and now famous stiU as a constructor of chess problems. He was not the discoverer of Diamond river, and he never saw it, but he was in a sort of way the chronicler and cartographer of it. ' Let me begin at the beginning. "Game Wiley first came out to Brazil years and years ago long before my time. The natives were thorough-going savages then, but Wiley got along with 'em well enough, and he was in this region off and öl for three years. Got down to the coast tvice in all that time. Second time he was there back to some ort of wild approach to civilization he meets a fellow by the name of Raster, who was on the point of sailing for Europe with the very first big diamond ever found in Brazil. 'Is this diamond of yours in the rough?' says Wiley to Kaster. 'Yes,' says Kaster; 'but it's a fine big stone and it bids fair to be worth a lot o money. 'I should like to look at It spys Wiley, and Kaster mikes no ado about the matter at all, but just unpacks his kit and shows Wiley the stone. 'You don't mean to say that thing's a diamond? says Wiley. 'But I do, rather, says Kaster. 'Well,' says Wiley, TU have a spell up country and come back and buy out the Rothschilds. I know where there's thousands of 'em Kaster argued that it was easy to mistake a diamond that is, for an ignoramus like Wiley, vrho knew nothing in the world and cared for nothing in the world but big game shootings but Wiley stuck to It. He knew the bed of a dried-up river up country which was strewn thick with em. He'd picked 'em up,1 handled 'em and never dreamed that they had any special value. Not a bit like diamonds In a jeweler's window. It was likely enough that Wiley thought they were dug Op already cut and polished. "Well, Kaster took his one big stone to Europe. It was polished in Amsterdam. It sold for twelve thousand pounds. That piece of luck . killed Kaster; he couldn't stand It. , He went on one unbounded bender of a spres and died before he had spent a quarter of the money. 12 ut Wiley, meantime, went up country, tct believing much, so far a I can make est, ia the diamond Idea, bet quite perczadtd, all the that If Easter's ctc was a diamond, he could pick 'em r:tb!:a c a beach. Ht was exrty this tizie about a year and a hxlf, c ! rrL:a he got down to the cc&xt again

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MURRAY t got into close quarter? with a lion, and he was fairly spoiled for life. "I can't tell you half the story, but the natives had got fond of him for some reason or another, and they nursed him and they pulled him round in a measure, and they got him down to the coast again. The beast had spared his vitals, but he had no use of either leg or of his left arm. I never saw the man, but I know those who knew him well, and they have told me he had to be carried about, and dressed and undressed and put to bed and taken out again like a baby. "Wiley had plenty of money, and could have gone home and finished his career; but Brazil had got into the soul of him. I shall die here, Harvey; I shall have to be In reach of the mountains when my time comes. Wiley stuck on, and he was very queer. He used to laugh when he talked about it: but he told his tale about the river bed full of diamonds to anybody who cared to hear it, and the majority of people thought that on this particular point his wits were turned. "Well, now, old Zelkar comes upon the scene. Zelkar, as I told you, was a Hungarian Jew. He had been in trouble with Kossuth ages ago, and he had been In trouble with Mazzini, and he had been in half the prisons of the Continent for hatching treason of one sort or another, and at last, by some strange chance, he drifted out to Brazil, and so on until he lighted on Wiley. I knew Zelkar in his late days, as I shall tell you when I come to my own share in the story. Outside his politics he had only one interest in the world; it was the royal game of chess. I do believe that you might have lit a slow fire under old Zelkar when once he had fairly settled down to a game he got so astonishingly absorbed. Wiley turned out a sort of protector for him, and a local carpenter, who was clever at the lathe, turned em out a set of chessmen and a board; for there was nothing of that sort to be bought nearer than Rio Janeiro, and the two played together every day. It came out that Zelkar's great passion was the making of iess problems, and Wiley set him to work at It. All the problems you have seen and worked at were made by Zelkar, but the old man was kept in ignorance of the purpose he was working for. All he knew was that his patron would say to him: 'I want you to invent me a problem in which the black king shall be forced to such and such a square.' Zelkar thought this a mere caprice, and since Wiley always gave him a gold coin when he had tested and approved the problem, it served bis turn so well that he would have asked for nothing better all his life. "lie was working two or three problems a week it was no sort of Usk for him, for he had a perfect genius for the work and all on a sudden he made the discovery that he was working on a planHe found one day in Wiley's room between the title pago and the binding of n big Bible a sheet of cartridge paper marked out for a chess board, and each of its squares marked with a letter The whole alphabet was used up twice, and as far again as was needed to cover every square on the board. He had in his pocketbook the roughly penciled notes of his problems, and it occurred to him to go over them. He found that the letters on the successive squares on which the black king stood in the problems as they came In order spelled out words in reasonable sequence. He took a note of the board, for the letters were distributed all about it at haphazard. And so it came to pass, as they used to say In old times, that when all the problems were made that Wiley wanted, old Zelkar had got the whole inscription. Wiley, I ought to tell you, professed to have brought a score of the finest stones away with him, but he lost them when he got mauled by the lion. The natives who rescued him and took care of him had no idea of their value, and left them behind. CHAPTER XX. "Wiley, as I told you, had talked about his discovery to anybody and everybody, but he had never given a ghost of a hint as to where it lay. Nobody could have guessed within five hundred miles, even if anybody had taken the trouble. Most people took it for a craze, but old Zelkar believed it, and he made all theae problem drawings I have about me now, and the plan of the board with its letterings, and he used to go about offering to guide people if they would only find the money for the expedition and go halves with him. He couldn't find a soul to believe in him or his diamonds, and when it came to Wiliey's knowledge that the old Hebrew had offered to betray the treasure, he swore he'd shoot him at sight. That kept Zelkar out of Wiley's way, as you may very well imagine, and, with his only patron" gone, the problem worker was so hard up that he was without food for days together. "This Is where I come in. In those days it's fifteen years ago now I belonged to a syndicate which had arranged to prospect for gold. It was a measly sort of an affair, and it never came to much. It was called the Ezekiel Company, because an old Jew of that name had been its founder. There were a dozen of us altogether, and a bigger set of cut-throats than you could have found among us was never seen in the world. The whole crowd of us were down at a place called Ampsie together when I met Zelkar, and heard the story of the treasure the river-bed full of diamonds. I laughed at it. as everybody else had laughed, and I chaffed old Zelkar about it until I found that he was literally dying of starvation. I fed him up, of course, and we all went up-country for a week to look at a place we'd heard of. It turned out good for nothing, and we came back. Zelkar was on the hard pan once more. He offered me his problems on parchment, saying nothing, of course, about their meaning. I didn't want 'em, bHt finally, out of pity for the old chap, I bought 'em. The whole gang of the syndicate was there at the time. "The old boy used to hang about after this and hint and hint about some mysterious value that attached to his problems until I was sick of him. But one day, when he was bothering me, it occurred to me to say: 'Look here, old chap, I know all about it; you've sold me Diamond river.' It was the strangest thing that ever happened in my life. It wasn't even drawing a bow at a venture. What I said hadn't any real meaning to myself. It was a mere piece of silly banter. But I had no sooner spoken than Zelkar let out a cry, and came straight for me with a face as pals as ash ex How do you know? says he, all trembling and shaking and staring. You never saw a fellow in such a etat) cj ha was. I looked at tka very ctnl'lt, tzi I csIJ, 'We'd, Zelkar, I diia't know arythir-, t.t y:'va iT:n cj c:-:'-l!zj to tLIz. about. lie went away vritbo-t a ttci'j t-i t3 c:it ra ca cr t 3 c '

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happened to be there at the time were quite fixed in their own minds that there was a good deal in it. "The rext thing I knew .was that Wiley waj dead, and it was said that he J had put his problems and his plan into the hands of a young Englishman, a distant relative of his, and had explained everyt'iing to him. The youngster went up-country, but the native - tribes were at war among themselves, and the expedition came to grief. Problems and plan were lost in the wilderness. The lad was shot, but he managed to send down some kind of mutilated message. He had actually found Diamond river. There was no mistake about that. Perhaps it was through his fever, or he may have written in haste and flurry, but though hi3 one professed purpose in writing was to tell the whereabouts of the find, he gave no intelligence of it at all. And so the thing died out of remembrance for years and years. I thought that Zelkar must be dead for a certainty, for the legend of a dried up watercourse fall of diamonds as big as pigeon's eggs was common property, and he would have been able to find any number of men to back him. There were lots of men, too, who knew how Wiley had meant to lock up his secret in the chess problem. "It turned out that Zelkar was alive after all, but he was as helpless as if he had never had n inkling of the secret. He had never had an inkling of the secret. He in which he had kept a record of his problems, but the theft was useless, because the thief had failed to secure the key. When I lighted on Zelkar two years ago he was a wreck, senile, ragged, homeless. He was still maundering about his river of diamonds, and would get a drink from a new chum sometimes by showing his key to a puzzle which everybody supposed to be undecipherable until the day of judgment. He did not know me when we met, but he jumped at the chance of selling his worthless bit of parchment for a ten dollar note. I didn't act unfairly by him, for I bought him an annuity, which he didn't enjoy long, poor old beggar!" . "But the Ezekiel firm, and Little William, and Mr. Taylor?" tsked Harvey, when his uncle had made a seeming end of his story. (To be continued.) TERROR OF FRENCH HEELS. Doctors Tell of Harm Done by This Foolish Fashion in Shoes. "You might as well turn the stream of a garden hose against the wind, in the hope of stopping the blow, as to attempt to convince the average woman that the high French heel is injurious," said a practitioner whose patients are women almost exclusively to the New York Press, "but doctors see every day illustrations of the harm done ,by this absurd and, I may say, abominable following of a fashionable fad. The high heel I mean the ridiculous high heel, which lifts the rear cushion of the foot four inches from the ground and pitches the body forward is In direct defiance of the laws of nature. No woman who wears these abominations can expect to maintain an erect carriage, and when that becomes Impossible she way as well prepare herself for a scrawny, sunken throat as she grows older. The women of early Greece who wore sandals and let the soles of their feet He flat on the ground were noted for their beautiful throats and busts. Ugly as our Indian squaws are in facial contour, their -bust development is perfect, because they breathe naturally and the healthful and natural expansion of the lungs gives them a fullness and beauty at the throat that their civilized sisters would give anything to possess, but they never will get it so long as they attempt to imitate the kangaroo and strain muscles never intended to have such a burden put on them." Admiral Helen Gould. Miss Helen Gould was saluted with the two ruffles of an admiral as she boarded the battleship Alabama at the Brooklyn navy yard, says the New York World. A "ruffle" is a roll of the drum with the buglc3. The President of the United States receives three ruffles. It was the pretty compliment of the 700 Jackies to the woman who has done so much for them. Miss Gould had been invited to inspect the. ship, whicl Lieutenant Commander Schumacher told her was "the finest." With her were Miss Edith Hay, Klngdon Gould, 'aer nephew, and Chester Harrison, her cousin. . She was received on the quarter deck and every one of the jackies received a iiod of greeting from her as the line filed past in review. Rear Admiral Coghlan led the way in the inspection of the battleship. The only thing that went wrong was the dog, the mascot. The Rev. John F. Carson in a brief talk inadvertently spoke of the President as "Teddy." At this the dog set up a howl. The dog was banished from its place of honor and it was explained that it meant no harm, but was only saluting its own name. Whenever Miss Gould visits an army post the enlisted men salute' her as if 6he were an officer. The Retort Courteous. An excellent story about James McNeill mistier, which is thoroughly characteristic of "the gentle master of all that is fine and flippant in art," is going round in artlsti: circles. A certain gentleman whose portrait Whisther had parted failed to appreciate the work, aad finally remarked: "After all, Mr, Whistler, you can't call that a great work of art." "Perhaps not," replied the painter, "but then you can't call yourself a great work of nature!" Barring Out American Doctors. American , physicians and dentists, notwithstanding their famous skill and professional pre-eminence, now find it impossible to practice their profession? In the Transvaal without first obtaining a certificate of registration, and ' uch certificate cannot be obtained unI less the applicant possesses " British qualifications. Drunkards Sent Home in Carriages. In Denmark it is the law that all drunken persons shall be taken to their homes in carriages provided at the expense of the publican who sold them the last glass. A Correction by the Oy ale Presents maka the heart grow fenfsr. A man may a fccpslccs ldlct, but no vrcnaa vrill admit it alter ha has prcc;ci carries to her.

The Womanly. 'Woman Oh, that the Fates would all agree To render her less womanly! Would that mankind would find her grace A thing of brain and not of face. Would that her lover's heart might warm To rounded character not form. Would that her husband'b love might find Its satisfaction in her mini'. Thus might she 6ome day hope to gain Surcease of woman's woe and pain. Thus might she shortly come to be Of consequence the same as he. A wretched fact that she should be Accursed through being womanly. Laurana W. Sheldon. Home Duties for Girls. The mother of many daughters is neglecting her duty if she does not bring each of her girls up to fill a certain niche in the household, assigning to each certain little duties which will occupy a short time when their schooldays are past, and fit them In every respect to undertake the management of an establishment of their own in due time. Some would perhaps prefer to undertake the supervision of the bedrooms. They can assist with the making of beds, dust the various bedrooms, or prepare the rooms for their weekly cleaning. Every girl should be taught the art of cooking, which can only be successfully achieved through practice. As soon as she leaves the schoolroom three months would be well spent in the kitchen, where she will discover how much suet should go to each dumpling, and the proper kind of vegetables to prepare and serve with each meat. One daughter will probably be more apt with her needle than another, and to her care should be given the house and personal linen, and she should have her certain hours allotted to her for this particular task. No greater mistake can be made than allowing girl3 whose school days are over to idle and lounge about at homo. Draped Skirts. The draped bodice has been accepted as One of the leading modes of the season, and the separate draped skirt is its latest accompaniment A smart bodice of a medium shade of green ihiffon faille is suown, the body part jhirred to the seams, and a smart postillion effect in the back; chemisette and bertha of embroidered batiste. Skirt of the sp.me with embroidered flounces draped In festoon fashion, the upper flounce taking almost a panier form, and the whole skirt quite long. The Younjrest Heal" Daughter. Brooklinc, Mass., boasts the youngst "real" daughter of the American Revolution. She is Mrs. Victoria Rockwell Blanchard and is only 64 years old. Mrs. Blanchard was the daughter of her father's third wife, and her father was So years old when she was born. Her father was Jerem i a h Rockwell and her mother Abilene Stearns. Her father enlisted when he was MES. BLAXCHABD. only 19 at Lanesboro, Mass., and served at Bunker Hill, Dorchester Heights and Saratoga. He had twenty children, including the seven he adopted on his marriage to a widow, his second wife. Mrs. Blanchard remembers her father well,' as she was 11 when he died. She recalls the stories he used to tell her of the Revolution. - Fashion Note. The latest skirt model shows a draped effect in front Wraps for evening wear display the short shoulder-cape effect. A greater number of fancy shoes ar being worn than ever before. Lace robe gowns are shown now at a remarkably low figure, less than C3 being asked for a passable one. .Prime color and green are announced as two of the leading fall chades; the green is a Yivid, rich, dark: PciticcatJ are made very full, tt CT3 csrei &-d ßtti clcccly about ta

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SIMPLE ATTIRE FOR EVENING WEAR, New modes call still for the palest evening tones or else black, and while white lace is pre-eminently the fine material, and Is to be employed in vast quantities, it will to a great extent be blended with other textures. There are all lace skirts and all lace coats or bodices, but the gown entirely of lace seems to achieve, somehow, only a look of clumsiness. Two sorts or more, with the addition sometimes of several species of net, are likewise sometimes employed to give the lace garment a look of grace and lightness. Especially is this done with bodices, whose vests and undersleeves need to be very airy; but the lace skirt may only show additional little ruches of net or tulle, or applications of silk cloth or velvet Applications of thin cloth upon a rich lace background make a novel and effective treatment which will be employed for toilettes of a specially dressy nature. The skirt of such a gown may be made of the lace, and the entire jacket of the cloth, and if silk is used instead of the cloth the coloring may be delicately toned, or else In a most vivid shade. One gown in this last combination, for dinner and theater wear, and of remarkable beauty, had a lace skirt in deep cream, and a packet and skirt application of chiffon taffetas in a superb blue.

hips and are finished with a French band. Moire antique is to be very much used as a trimming and in accessories as well as for coats and entire gowns. Neat little checks or small plaid woolen suitings will make comfortable and practical school suits for misses. Bands of flowered ribbon set between Insertions of lace make an effective trimming for frocks of point d'esprit net The little hip jacket with ripples over the shoulders seems to be coming into favor. The empire coat will also be popular. Black is to be much worn and the fashionable woman aspires to at least three gowns of that hue one tailored, one for dinner and a third for evening. The Wise Wife. She knows that home is more than half what you make it, and that a builder of a happy home is a success indeed. She knows that it takes two to prolong a family quarrel; one can therefore terminate it She . knows that filling a house with bargains keeps a couple from owuin-j the house In which they place them. She knows that if we thought all we said we'd be wise, but if we said all we thought we'd be foolish. She knows that some people sneer at love in a cottage, but love that could wish to live anywhere else is not love. She knows that proud people seldom' have friends. In prosperity they know nobody; in adversity nobody knows them. She knows that to make long-lived friendships one must be slow in making them. She knows that "it is less pain to learn in youth than to be igorant in old age." She knows that if she cannot throw brightness over her home it is best not to throw a wet blanket over it. She knows that the wife who thinks she is perfect is generally the most imperfect The unwise wife may profit by studying what the wise woman knows. Work and Worry. Manual work is active, and carefully used it may take its place as a very proper substitute for worry. It may be confidently asserted that when worry and uncertainty have given place to a new and positive interest of a sound and proper sort, most of the other symptoms in uncomplicated cases of nervous prostration will vanish. That in brief, is the simple philosophy of work as a remedy for nervous strain and Its untoward results, now the principle may bear upon a given individual may not always be predicted. Only experience can tell what form. of work will be the best in a given case, and whether the treatment may be carried out at home or not Sometimes, of course, work or effort of any kind is impossible. But It is probable that in the great majority of cases coming under the head of nervous exhaustion or neurasthenia, the systematic use of work under favorable conditions wID, to say the least, be beneficial. Good Housekeep1 ing. Women bow Äs a rule when introduced to each other. Invitations Should be sent a week or more in advance of an entertainment . At a dinner The hostess rises first; this notifies the guests that the ditner is finished. The gentleman rises If seated, when introduced to either a lady or a Ctlcmn, Th.3 introduction A ycunsr vrcr

an or a younger man is always pre scnted to an older one. First invitation From a new acquaintance should always, where it ia possible, be accepted. When rising from table At a dinner, luncheon, etc., it is not necessary to replace one's chair. A written reply To the hostess Is required to a written invitation to i dinner, luncheon or card party. At the leave-taking It is permissible, and an act of friendship and courtesy, to shake hands with your hostess.

The Neck in Photographs. Women who go through the frightful agony of being photographed and after first youth it is nothing short of agony should pay particular attention to the dressing of the neck, for that the photographer's skillful hand cannot remedy, as it does the wrinkles. A stock is almost invariably out of fashion the next year. Ribbon bows disfigure the contour of the face. At the same time the neck must be distinctly "high or low" a surplus generally giving bad effects. Photographs have such a horrid habit of lasting. And people bring them out and laugh at them! Effective Street Costume. A soft rose tone of chiffon mohair fashions this extremely chic toilette for street or carriage wear. The coat bodice is one of those frivolous little affairs that are snug to the figure, display some draped folds around the waist Jine and finish with that smart little hip basque that adds so much to the slenderness of the waist line. The skirt is in three pieces, the top one shirred to the band, and falling over two flounces, the upper of whicb follows the pointed line of the overskirt Narrow ribbon is laid on In plain rows of trimming, while the trimming touches on the jacket bodice are In velvet For most youthful figures this is a fine costume. Successful Dry Cleaning-. A woman who home cleans her lace? and chiffons and other unwashable fol-de-rcls has great success in a dry cleaning process of her own invention. Filmy scarfs and their like are rubbed gently in a mixture of three parts starch and one of borax. Then they are covered with a clean layer of the starch and borax and left overnight The Dainty "Woman. A dainty woman will have all her bslongtng3 as finished and trim as possible and not the least of thesa are the drec3 protectors. In all her thin gowns she uses tne small size stltljj and puts a scant rude of narrow v c-cicznc3 bee trcu-d to c lz2

Gargoyles. Gargoyles are quaintly formed heads, faces or figures used In ancient times for decorative purposes and chiefly applied as the terminals of waterspouts upon roofs or gables. The rain stream was arranged to flow through the mouth, and the word gargoyle itself is an attempt to Imitate the "gurgl'ng" sound made by the water in passing through the throat of the grotesque monster. Gargoyles were the caricatures of mediaeval times. Many were carved by monkish masons, who took the opportunity of handing on to posterity the distorted lineaments of their fellows or even of their superiors, recognizable as likenesses from some prominent characteristics. The famous gargoyles of Notre Dame in Paris are supposed to have had some such origin, while others of supposedly the same origin are to be seen in churches throughout Brittany and Normandy as well as here and there In England. London Telegraph. Good News for AIL Bradford, Tenn., Oct 23. (Special.) Scientific research shows Kidney Trouble to be the father of so many diseases that news of & discovery of a sure cure for it cannot fail to be welcomed all over the country. And according to Mr. J. A. Davis of this place just such a cure is found in Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mr. Davis says: "Dodd's Kidney Tills are all that is claimed for them. They have done me more good than anything I have ever taken. I had Kidney Trouble very bad and after taking a few boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills I am completely cured. I cannot pralsa them too much." Kidney Complaint develops into Bright's Disease, Dropsy, Diabetes, Rheumatism and other painful and fatal diseases. The safeguard is to cure your kidneys with Dodd's Kidney Pills when they show the first symptom of disease.

A King's Punctuality. All men agree in the abstract that 'punctuality is the 6oul of business," but few act up to the maxim with tho strictness of the king of the Belgians. Wherever or however he may travel, whether the visit be of business, pleasure or ceremony, he Is punctual, not only to the hour, but to the minute it might also be said to the second. And yet his majesty Is never seen to consult a watch. But his familiars know that his habit of passing his hand along his flowing beard is only a device for glancing at a small watch which he wears fastened to his wrist London Globe. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease that science has bin able to cure la all Its stages, and that Is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is the enlj positive cure nowknown to the medical fraternity. Catarra being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, ectln directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and riving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature la doing Its work. The proprietors have so much faith In Its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any tase that it falls to cureSend for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists. 7rc. Take Hall's Family rills for constipation. Mach Timber Uncut. Across the great lakes in Canada there lies one of the world's largest reserves of timber. In spite of the tariff imposed much of this timber Is to-day coming to the United States. The forests of the Dominion are beginning to yield abundantly. More than 100.000,000 feet of pine sawlogs and square timber, during a recent season, were cut upon territory held under timber license from the crown. Much of Canada's timber land has not yet even been explored. In the newly developed districts of Algoma, which are close to the great lakes, it is estimated that there are more than 100.000,000 cords of spruce and pu!i wood, while in the districts of Thunder Bay and Rainy Blver there aro nearly 200,000.000 cords more. A belt tt least 3,000 miles long is believed to exist in Canada between Alaska and the Atlantic. It has been estimated that, at the present rate of cutting, the greatest timber resources of the United States those of the Pacific coast will be exhausted In less than half a century. The annual cut of shingles and lumber In these regions Is 4,500,000,000 feet The standing timber in Washington, Oregon and northern California at present Is twice that of the original timber lands of the northern woods. Washington produces about as many feet of shingles and other lumber as Oregon and California together. This State is noted for Its shingles, there being more than 1,000 shingle mills within Its borders. At Tacoma are located the largest 6awmills in tho United States. THE SECRET OF YOUTH. De Soto looked for the se;ret of youth in a spring of gushing, life-giving waters, which he was 6uk; lie would find in the New World. Alchemists and sages (thousands of them) have spent their 1 3 'es In quest of it, but It Is only found by those happy people who can digest and assimilate the right food which keeps the physical body perfect that peace and com fort are the sure results. A remarkable man of 94 says: "For many long years I suffered more or less with chronic costiveness and painful indigestion. This condition made life a great burden to me, as you may well Imagine. "Two years ago I began to nsa Grape-Nuts as food, and am thaf.kful that I did. It has been a blessing to me in every way. I first noticed that It had restored ny digestion. This was a great gain, but was nothing to compare in importance with the fact that ia a short tiir.e my bowels were retored to free and normal action. "The cure seemed to be complete; for two years I have had none of the old trouble. I use the Grape-Nut3 food very morning for breakfast and frequently eat nothing else. The nie has made me comfortable and hapjy, and although I will to 04 years oil next fall I have become strong and nuppla again, erect in figure and can .walk with anybody and enjoy it" Naca given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, tlici. "There's a reason." IUd the little book, "Tt r.cni t3 TJcllTillV ia every pac-scc