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C.pyri!hl. 1930. by SYNOPSIS OF STORY. Chapter I Harry Wingfield, narator of the story, is tutor to Mary Javendish, a belle of the colony or "irginia in 16S2, and accompanies her n a ride to church. He discovers er implication in a conspiracy gainst the king. She has imported ms and ammunition to aid irthe lot. II and IH Wingfield's past life in ngland. Although heir to large esaies and well educated, he is now deported convict in Virginia. Wingield is devoted to his pupil. IV and V Sir Humphrey Hyde, In ove with Mary, is with her in the lot, which is laid for the purpose of utting down the young tobacco lants and thus depriving the king )f his revenue under the unjust navi gation act. VI and VII Mayday frolics at brake Hill, home of Wingfield and Mary. Catherine Cavendish beseech 3 the tutor to save her sister from articipation in the conspiracy. VIII Harry and Catherine conspire o keep knowledge of the plot from Sladam Cavendish, the girls' grand bother, who Is a stanch royalist. IX Mary is deceived by Wingfield into hinking that Catherine has purchased pnery for her, the real benefactor beng Wingfield his object being not on y to please her, but also to prevent Madam Cavendish from learninig of he disposition of Mary's own money, khich has been expended for the arms. X Catherine, who knows why Wingfield Is unjustly exiled, upbraids him for deceiving Mary. Planning to hid the arms and ammunition. XI Madam Cavendish, whose sience about W infields innocence ferine, wishes him to wed Mary. Wing' Meld is guided by a witch to a secure tiding place for the arms. XII The .crand ball at the governor's, with viary as belle. She reveals her at ection for Wingfield. That morning, when I met Mistress piary at the breakfast table, she was ale and distraught, and not only did ot speak to me nor look at me, but hen I ventured to speak In praise of jSir Humphrey's gallant looks at the Jbftll she turned upon me so fiercely fwith encomiums of my Lord Estes, rwhom I knew to be not worthy of her. that I held my tongue. But when Sir Humphrey came riding up a little later she greeted him with such warmth as at once put me to torture and Aroused that spirit of defense of her uigainst myself which hath been the oblest thing' in my poor life. So I left them. Mistress Catherine at the flax wheel and Mary out in the garden with Sir Humphrey, gathering roses for the potpourri jars and the distilling into rose water, for little Idle ness was permitted at Drake nill even after a ball. I got my horse, but as I started forth Madam Cavendish calleda stiffly resolute old figure stand ing in the great doorway and I dis mounted and went to her, leading my horse, which I had great ado to beep from nibbling the blossoms of a rose tree which grew over the porch. "Har ry," she said in a whisper, "where is Mary?" "In the garden with Sir Humphrey Hyde, I answered. Then Madam Cavendish frowned. "And why is she. not' at her lessons?" she asked sternly. The lessons are set for the after noon, and this morning she is gather ing rose leaves, madam," I answered. But that Madam Cavendish knew as well as I, having in truth so ordered the hours gf the lessons. "But" she said, hesitating. Then she stopped and looked at me with an angry indecision, and then at the garden, where the top. of Mary's golden head was just visible above the pink mist of the roses, and Sir Humphrey's fair one bending over it. "Harry," she aid. frowning, and yet with a piteous The r amily You know them; they are numerous. and make ' their presence felt everywhere. The. names of the family are Headache, . Toothache, Earache. Backache, Stomach ache, Neuralgia, etc. They are sentinels that warn you of any derangement of your system. When the brain - nerves become ex hausted or irritated, Headache makes ydvT- miserable; if the stomach nerves are weak, in-y digestion results. And vot double up w ith pain,nd if more prominent nervls are. fected, Neuralgia simrlv raj life unendurable. Th7 stop pain is to so strengthen the ne Miles' Anti-Pain Pill The whole Pain famil their influence. Ha taken as directed. 1 find Tr. Mils Anti-Pain Pill an excellent remedy for overcoming headache, neuralgia and distressing' pains of all ports. I have used them for the past peven years in this capacity with the tet of results." MRS. J OK, MERRILL. Peru. Ind. Dr. Mllee' Antl-Paln Fills are sold hy your druggist, who will guarantee that the first package will benefit. If It fails, he will return your money. 25 doses, 25 cents. Never sold In bulk. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind

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out into the garden and help to gather tain Jaynes came running forth, Capthe rose leaves?" ! tain Jaynes swearing in such wise that Then, before I could answer, as if it was beyond the understanding of anry with herself at her own felly, any man unversed in that lanjruage she called out to Mary's little black j of the high seas; and Nick Barry, maid, Sukey, to bid her mistress come I laughing wildly, and Dick, glooming, in from the earden and snln. Hut be-' as was the difference with the two

fore the maid started I said low in Madam Cavendish's ear, "Madam, think you not that the sweet air of the garden is better for her after the bail than the hot hall and the labor at the wheel?" And she gave one look at me, and called out to Sukey that she need not speak to her mistress, and went inside to her owa work and left me to go my way. I was relieved in my mind that she did not ask me whither, since If she had I should have been driven to one of those broadsides of falsehood In a good cause for which I regret the necessity, but admit it, and if It be to my soul's hurt I care not so long as I save the other party by it. I was bound for Barry Upper Branch and rode thither as fast as I could, for I contemplated asking the Barry brothers to aid me In the removel of Mistress Mary's contraband goods and was anxious to lose no more time about that than I could avoid. I was set upon Major Robert Beverly's tomb as a most desirable hiding place for them, and knowing that there was a meeting of the assembly that evening at the governor's to discuss some matters in private before he sailed for England, Major Beverly being clerk, I thought that before the moon was up would be a favorable time for; iue rcuiui, uuv wuiu uui uiuve iuc goods alone, remembering how those srtirdv Kiiilora tinrared at them and nnt tleeming it well to get any aid from the slaves.- ' So I rode straight t Barry Upper Branch, and a handsome black woman in a flaunting gown, with a great display of beads and an orange silk scarf twisted about her head, came to parley with me and told me that both the brothers were away, and added that she thought I should find them at the tavern. The tavern was a brick building abounding in sharp slants of roof and dimmed in outline by a spreading cloud of new leaved branches, and there was one great honey locust which was a marvel to be seen, and hummed with bees with a mighty drone as of all the spinning wheels in the country, and the sweetness of it blew down up on one passing under, like a wind of breath. And before the tavern were tied, stamping and shaking their heads for the early flies, many fine horses. and among them Parson Downs' and the Barry brothers', and from within the tavern came the sound of laughter in discordant shouts and now and then snatch of a song. Then a great hoarse rumble of voice would cap the rest, telling some loose story, then the ! laughter would follow enough, It seemed, to make the roof shake and all the time the hum of the bees In the honey locust outside went on." Before I entered the tavern out burst Parson Downs and caught hold of me with a great shout of welcome. Half drunk he was and yet with a marvel- t us steadiness on bis legs and . a com- i mand of his voice which would have done him credit in the pulpit. It was said that this great parson could drink ' more fiery liquor and not betray it than any other man in the colony, and Kick Barry, who was something of a wag, said that the parson's wrestlings with spirits of another sort had rendered him powerful in his encounters with these also. Be that as It may, ; though I doubt not Parson Downs had

drunk more than any man there, no ; worses and even offering 10 to boot sign of it was in his appearance ex- j wlien he saw the splendid long pace cept that his boisterousness was some- ' of mf thoroughbred flinging out his thing enhanced and his hand on my j ,e8 wlth that freest motion of anyshoulder fevered. j tQin& in the world unless It be the

"Good day, good day, Master Harry S Wingfield," he shouted. "How goes Tbe BaLrry brothers Lfid Ce.pt.in Jcynes the time with 3e, sir? And, I say. Master Wingfield, what will you take j for thy. horse there? One I have which can beat him on any course you will pick, with all the creeks in the country . to jump, and tbe devil himself to have a shy at, and even will I trade and elve thee twenty nounds ! of tobacco to boot. 'Tis a higher horse ! th9n ,!o TTo.i- t, . ! -f. !,. i ,., 1 iUV a VU V JLii Va, UJO . flliU ' four white feet, and thine but one. hich, as every one knoweth well, is not enougn. What say you, Marry r "Your reverence," I said, laughing, the horse Is not mine, as you know." "Nay, Harry," tie burst forth, "that we all know, and you know that we all know, is but a fable. Doth not Madam Cavendish treat you as a son, and are you not a convict in name only, so far as she is concerned? I say, Harry, yon can ride my horse to the winning on Royal Oak day at the races. What think you, Harry?" "Tour reverence," I said, I pray you to give me time." for well I knew there was no use in reasoning with the persistency to which frequent potations had given rise. Up to my horse he went with that oversteadiness of the man in his cups, who moves with the stiffness of a tre walking, as if every lift of a heavy foot was the uplifting of a root fast in the ground, and went stroking his head, when straightway my horse, either not liking his touch or the smell of his liquored breath, and Judging. mm was. his. wont that the fault must

by some means lie with his own race, straightway lashed out a viciou hind leg like a hammer and -came within an ace of the parson's own valuable horse not the one which he proposed trading for mine and the wind of the lash frightened the parson's horse, and he In his turn lashed out, and another horse at his side sprang aside. Straightway there was such a commotion in the tavern yard as never was, and slaves and white servants shouting and forcing rearing horses to their regular standing, and I stroking

my beast and striving as best I could to bring his pure horse wits to comprehend the strong pressure and responsibility of humanity for the situa- ' tion, and the Barry brothers and Capbrothers when in liquor. And the landlord, one John Ilalpln, stood in his tavern doorway with his eyebrows raised, but no other sign of consternation, knowing well enough that all this could not affect his custom and being one of the most toughly leather dried little men whom I have ever seen, and his face so hardened into Its final lines of experience that It had no power of changing under new ones. And behind him stood peering, some with wide eyes of terror and some with ready laughs at nothing, the few other roisterers in the tavern at that hour. Twas not the best time of day for the meeting of those choice spirits for the discussion of the other spirits which he raised, willy nilly. from the grape ,and the grain, for the enhancing of the joy of life and defiance of its miseries; but the Barrys and Captain Jaynes and the parson were nothing particular as to the time of day. When the horses were something quieted, I, desiring not to unfold my errand in the tavern, got hold of Parson Downs by his mighty arm and elbowed Dick Barry, who cursed at 'me for it, and cut short Captain Jaynes' last string of oaths, and hallooed to Nick Barry and asked if I could have a word with them. Captain Jaynes, tuougfaf a8 T hav saidj being ln the main curiously well disposed toward me, swore at first that he would be i hanged if he would stop better business to parley. with a convict tutor; but the end of it was that he and the Barry brothers and Parson Downs and I stood together under that mighty humming locust tree, and I unfolded my scheme of moving the powder and shot from Laurel Creek to Major Robert Beverly's tomb. Noel Jaynes stared' at me a second, with his hard red face agape, and then he clapped me upon the shoulder and shouted with laughter and swore that it should be done, and that it was a burning shame that the goods had been put where they were to the risk of a maid , of beauty like Mary Cavendish, and that he and the Barrys would be with me that very night be fore moonrise to move them. Then the parson, who had a poetical turn, especially when in his cups, added quite gravely that no safer place could there be for powder than the tomb of love whose last sparks had died out in ashes, and Dick Barry cried, with an oath, that it would serve , Robert Beverly rightly for his action against them in the Bacon rising, for though he was to the front with the I oppressed people in this his past foul treachery against them was not forgot. and well he remembered that when he was in hiding for his life But then his brother hushed him and said, with a shout of dry laughter, that the past was past, and no use indwelling upon it, but that when it came to a safe hiding place for goods 'which were to set the kingdom in a blaze and maybe hang the ringleaders be knew of none better than the tomb a first wife, which, when the second was in full power, was verily back of tne farthest back door of a man's memory. So it was arranged that the four were to meet me that very night after sunset and before moonrise and move 'tbe goods, and I mounted and rode . aw7t with Parson Downs shouting after "Is proposition to trade 8wlf 4 "Pard cleave of a bird when the fluttering of wing wherewith he hath gained his impetus hath ceased and nothing except that invincible rising is seen. CHAPTER XIV. HE first man my eyes fell upon was Parson Downs, lolling in a chair by the fireless hearth, for there was no T call for fire that May night. His bulk of body swept In a vast curve from his triple chin to tbe floor, and his great rosy face was so exaggerated with merriment and good cheer that it looked like one seen in tbe shining well of a silver tankard. When Nick Barry finished a roaring song, he stamped and clapped and shouted applause till it set off the otber applause of it, and the ; Place s a pandemonium. Then that same colored woman who had oar- : leyed with me the other dav and was i that night glowing like a savage prin- ! - - - i cess as in truth she may have been, for she had a high look as of an unquenched spirit, in spite of her degradation of body and estate went about with a free swinging motion of hips, bearing a tray filled with pewter mugs of strong spirits. Around this woman's neck glittered row on row of beads, and she wore a The colored woman wKo looked like a savage princess great flame colored turban, and long gold eardrops dangled to her shoulders aaainat the aiosar blackness of

her cneeks, ana oraceieis aiiKiea on her polished arms, which were mighty shapely, though black. In faith, the wench, hr.d she but possessed roses and lilies for her painting . instead of that duskiness as of the cheek of midnight, had been a beauty such as was seldom seen. Her dark face was instinct with mirth and jollity, and, withal, a fierce spark in the whitening roll cf her eyes under her flame colored turban made one think of a tiger cat and roused that knowledge of danger which adds a tingle to inter-

est. A man could scarce take his eyes from her, though there werx? other women there, and not uncomely oues. Another biaek wench there was, clnd as gayly, but sunk in a languorous calm like a great cat, with Nick Barry, now his song was done, lolling against her, and two white women, one young and well favored and the other harshly handsome, both with their husbands present, and I doubt not decent women enough, though something violent of temper. As I entered, Mistress Allgood, one of them, began a harangue at the top of her shrill voice, with her husband plucking vainiy at her sleeve to temper her vehemence.v Mistress Allgood was long and lean and gaunt, with red iires in the hollows of her cheeks and a compelling flash of black eyes under "straight frowning brows. "Gentlemen" said she. "Be quiet, John Allgood. My speech I will have, since thou, being a man, hath not the tongue of one. I pray ye, gentlemen, listen to my cause of complaint. Here my good man and me did come to this oppressed colony of Virginia seven years since, having together laid by fifty pound from the earnings of an Inn called the Jolly Yeoman hi Norfolkshire, in which for many years we had run long scores with little reMistress Longman evokes enthusiasm turn, and we bought a small portion of land and planted tobacco and set out trees. "Then came the terror of the Indians, and Governor Berkeley, always in wait for the word of the king and doing nothing, and once was oar house burned, and we escaped barely with our lives, and then came Nat Bacon, and blessings upon him, for he made the beginning of a good work. And then did the soldiers, riding to meet him, so tramnle down our tobacco fields -with horse hoofs that the leaves lay in a green pumice and that crop lost. And then this navigation act, which I understand but little of except that it be to fill the king's pockets and empty ours, has made our crops of no avail, since we but sent the tobacco as a gift to tbe king, so little we have got in re-, turn. And look, look!" she shrieked. "I pray ye look, and sure this is the best I have, and me always going as well attired as any of my station in England. I pray ye look! Sure 'tis past mending, and the stitches and the clth go together, as will the colony,

unless somewhat be done in season to! prevailed upon the three ladies to formend its state." So saying, up she ; bim his discourtesy, but hinted

Aung her arm, and all the under side of tne body of her gown was in rags, and up she flung the other, and that was In like case. Then the other woman, who was a strapping lass and had been a barmaid ere she came to Virginia in search of a husband, where she had found one Richard Long-man afraid not to do her bidding and wed her, since he was as small and mild a man as ever was, joined in. "I say with Mistress Allgood!" she shrieked out and flung her own buxom arms aloft with such dis closures that a roar of laughter spread through the hall, and her husband blushed purple, and a protest gurgled in his throat. But at that his wife, who verily was a shrew, seized upon him by both of his little shoulders and shook him until his face wagged 4ike a rag baby, with an utter limpness of helplessness, and shouted out, amid peals of laughter that seemed to shako the roof, that here was a pretty man; here, forsooth, was a pretty man. Ilere-was her own husband, who let his own lawful wife go clad in such wise and lifted not a finger! . Yes, lifted not a finger, and had to be dragged into the present doings by the very hair of his head by his wife, and that was not all. Yea, that was not all. Then, with that, up she flung one stout foot, and, lo, a great hole was in the heel of her stocking, and the other, and then she flirted the hem of her petticoat into sight, and that was all of a fringe with rags. "Look, look!" she shrieked out. "I tell ye, Richard Longman, I will have them look, and see to what a pass that cursed navigation act and the selling of the tobacco for naught hath brought a decent woman. How long is it since I had a new petticoat? How long, pray? Oh, Lord, had the men of this colony but the spirit of the women! Had but brave Nat Bacon lived!" that this woman, who had been Perchance drinking too much beer for ner head. though she was well used to it, burst into a storm of tears and pPang to her feet and cried out I in a wild voice like a furious cat's: "Up with ye, I 6ay! And why do ye stop and parley? And why do ye wait for my Lord Culpeper to sail? I trow the women be not afraid of the governor. If the men be! Up with ye. and this very night cut down the young tobacco plants and cheat the king of England, who reigns but to rob hia subjects. Who "cares for the governor of Virginia? Who caresCor the king? Up with ye, I say!" With that she snatched a sword from a peg on the wall and swungIt in a circle of flame around her head, and what with her glowing eyes and streaming black locks and burning beauty of cheeks and catlike shriek of voice, she wes enough to have made the governor and even the king himself quail had he been there, and all the time that mild husband of hers was plucking vainly at her gown. But the men only shouted with laughter, and presently the woman, with a savage glare at them, sank into her chair again and Mistress Allgood went up to her and the two whispered with handfitrmlr . waiLcixisr heads. Then

entered another woman, alter a clatter of horse's hoofs in the drive, and she had a presence that compelled all the men except one to their feet, though there was about her that foolishness which, in my mind, doth always hamper the extreme of enthusiasm. This woman. Madam Tabitha Story, was a widow of considerable property, owning a plantation and slave?, and a?uo untb us Wits Mfll KUUn'U, gOUe mad with zeal in the caue cf Nathaniel Bacon and had furnished him with money, and would herself have fought for hiia had she leen allowed. But Bacon, though no doubt with gratitude for her help, had. as I believe is the usual case with brave men when set about with adoring women, but little liking for her. It was, in faith, a curious sight she presented as she

entered' that hall of Barry Urt-er Branch with the men rising and bowing low and the other women eying her, half with defiant glares as of respectability ou the defense and half i with admiration and comradeship, for she was to tbe far front in this rebellion as in the other. Madam Story was a woman so tall that she exceeded the height of many a man, and she was clad in black and crowned with a great hat feathered with sable like a hearse, end her skin was of a whiteness more dazzling against the black than any color. Her face had boen handsome had it not been so elongated and strained out of its proper lines of beauty, and her forehead was of a wonderful height, a smooth expanse between bunches of black curls, and in the midst was set that curious patch which she had worn ever since Bacon's untimely death, it being, as I live1, nothing more nor less than a mourning coach and four horses, cut so cunningly out of black paper that it was a marvel of skill. She stared with scorn at the one black woman approaching her with the silver tray, then she turned and stared at Nick Barry, sitting half overcome with drink, lolling against the other. He cast a look of utter sheepishness at her and then straightened himself and rose like the other men, and Dick Barry motioned to both of the black women to withdraw, which they did, slinking out darkly, both with a flue rustle of silks. Then Madam Story saluted the other women, though somewhat stiffly, and Dick Barry, who was never lacking In a certain gloomy dignity, though they said him to be the worse of the two brothers,-stepped forward. "Madam," he said, "I pray you to be seated." "SVith that he led her with a courtly air to a great carved chair in which his father had been used to sit, and she therein, somewhat molli fied, her black length doubled on itself, and that mourning coach ou her fore head, was a wonderful sight. Then arrived Major Robert Beverly and another notable man, one of the burgesses, whose name I do to this ' day conceal in consequence of a vow i to that effect, and then two more, I Then Major Beverly, who was In fact running greater risks than almost any. Inasmuch as he was clcr of the assenibly and was betraying more of trust, after he had saluted Madam Story conferred privately with Dick ! Barry and my Lord Estes and Parson j Downs, with this effect. Dick Barry, with such a show of gallantry and seriousness as never was. broadly that In an enterprise rraugnt with so much danger it were best that none but the ruder sex should confer together, and they departed, Mistress Longman enjoining upon her husband to remain and deport himself like a man of spirit, and Mistress Allgood whispering with a sharp hiss Into her good man's alarmed ear, he nodding the while in token of assent. But Madam Tabitha Story paused on the threshold ere she departed, standing back on her heels with a marvelous dignity and waving one long, black draped arm. "Gentlemen of Virginia," said she in a voice of such solemnity5 as I had never heard excelled, "I beseech you to remember the example which that hero who has departed set you. I beseech you to form your proceedings after the fashion of those of the immortal Bacon, and remember that if the time cornea when a woman's arm is needed to strike for freedom, here is one at your service, while the heart which moves it beats true to liberty and the great dead." Nick Barry was chuckling in a maudlin fashion when the door closed j behind her, and Parson Downs' great face was curving upward with smiles like a wet new moon, but the rest were sober enough in spite of some overindulgence, for in truth It was a grave matter which they had met to decide and might mean the loss of life and liberty to one and all. Major Robert Beverly turned sharply upon m as soon as the women were gone aal accosted me civilly enough, though' the memory of my convict estate was in his tone. "Master Wingfield," said he, "may I inquire" "Sir," I replied, for I had so made up my mind, "I am with you in the cause, and will so swear if my oath be considered of sufficient moment." I know not how proudly and bitterly I said that last, but Major Beverly looked at me, and a kindly look came into his eyes. "Master Wingfield," be said, "the word. of any English gentleman is sufficient." AndVI could have blessed him for it and have ever jince had remorse for my taking advantage of his dark closet of an old love for the hiding of the secret of the ammunition. Then as we sat there in a blue cloud of tobacco smoke, through which the green bayberry candles gleamed faintly and which they could not overcome with their aromatic breath of burning, the plot for the rooting up of the young crop was discussed in all its bearings. I wondered somewhat to see Major Beverly and still others of the burgess- I es who presently arrived placing their lives ln jeopardy with men of such standing as some present. But a com- i mon cause makes common confldence, j and it might" well have been, hang one, hang all. Major Robert Beverly snok at some length, and his speech was, according to my mind, both wise and discreet, though probably somewhat inflamed by his own circumstances. , The greatest store of tobacco of any one in the colony had Major Robert Beverly, and a fair young wife who JovuS that , which the proceeds could

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recommended. The most eminent and leading medical teachers and writers of all the several schools of practice have endorsed esch of the ingredients entering into Pr. Pierce's medicines in the strongest possib!irtsrms. The makers of Dr. Pierce's medicines bdieveVhat intelligent people do it Vioh io ovn their mouths! like a lot f i vcung biiXs and jru'p down them, either in the wav oi or medicine, without knowing hing of the prooerties and harm character oi the asents eir.nloved Thev hejievq ths. health i too sr.cred a heritage to h exnmnLiivijyit!. ami that iistiple Dr. 1'ierce'e med!c!nesare made rv holly from the roots of plants found growing in the depths of our Americai torsst3. Ihev are so compounded tha cacti cannot do harm tn any ce, ere to the most aeltcate tcomnn or child, ti open publicity Dr. Pierce lias taken 1 medicines out of tne list oi secret n trums, or doubtiul merit, ana mtfie them REMEDIES OF KNOWN COJi siTiox. Iheyare therefore, in a gyiss ill by themseVcs, being absolutehxind a every sens ribn-sccret . By tnis boltte Dr. Pierce has fllown hat his formllasre of euch excaleace Jiat he is noAifraiq. to 6ubiect loem to .lie fullest scrutiny. Ihere i? a wtdge or honesttfMn every mottle of Dr. 1'ierce's mediciM'S in the u!l list of it 'lngredients yy attested is correct undV solemn oaMi. No other meoVinea pnynp for general ise through drumijjn make claim o any such distinction, and none other han Dr. Pierce's medicines have any uch professional endorsement of their ngredients. Sachvrofessional endorsement should have far more weight with he afiiicted than any amount of lay, or ion-professional, endorsement, or testinonials. Of course, the exact proportion of iach ingredient used in Dr. Pierce's nedicines as well as the working formula )r manner of preparing the same, and .he specially devised apparatus and appliances employed in their manufacture, jre withheld from publicity that Dr. Pierce's proprietary rights may be fullv protected from such unprincipled imitators as might be piratically inclined. The preparation of these medicines without the use of a drop of alcohol, so buy. And as he spoke there was a great uproar outside and the tramp of horses and jingle of swords and spurs, and a whole troop of horse came riding into the grounds of Barry Upper Branch. Amd some of those in tbe hall turned pale and looked about for an exit and some grasped their sword.3 and some laughed knowingly, and Major Beverly strode to the door and behind him Parson Downs and Citptain Noel Jaynes and the Barry brothers and some others, and I. pressing close, and there was a half whispered conference between Major Beverly and the leader of the horse. Then Major Beverly turned to us. "Gentlemen," he said, "I am assured that in case of a rising we have naught Drinking treason to ihe Icing a.nd success to the rebels to fear from the railitia, who are. In like case with the other sufferers from tbe proceedings of the government, being about to be disbanded in arrears of their pay. Gentlemen, I am assured by Captain Thomas Marvyn that his men ai-e with us In heart and purpose, and though they may not help unless the w-orse come to the worse, they will not hinder." Then such a cheer went up from the conspirators In the hall of Barry Upper Branch, and the troop of horse outside, as it seemed, might have been heard across tbe sea which divided us from that tyranny which ruled us, and Nick Barry shouted to some of his black slaves, and presently every man cf the soldiers was drinking cider made from the apples of Virginia, and with it treason to the king and success to tte rebels. Continued Monday.) MILTON. Milton, Nov. 16, (Spl.) Miss Nora Griffith is at Springfield, 111., with her sister Mrs. O. G. Scott. Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Morris are at Martinsville at Home Lawn Sanitarium. Mrs. M. S. Barton is at Indianapolis for a few days. j Ralph Lantz was at Cocnersville j Wednesday, I The ladies of M. E. church met with 'Mrs. Lewis F. Lantz Tuehday evening to make arrangements for their annual Thanksgiving dinner. Lafe Cross is Improving his residence. Mrs. Frank Wallace and Miss Hazel Ferguson are taking treatments for throat trouble at Richmond. j uord has been received from Mrs. 'Gertrude Oakes in Scottdale, Arizona tjat she Is Improving in health. Mrs. Martha Stover Is at Indianapolis. Mrs. Harry Manlove was at Indianapolis thi3 week. Martin Brown is just about half through gathering his corn crop. Thus far he has about three thousand bushels and expects about double that. Hiram Crooks corn yielded 75 bushels per acre. .

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gen"llvym ployed and yet so harmful, in ti 1JS run, to most invalids when its use if lone: continued, even in email doses, )St Dr. lierce several vears of carefu tudv and labor, with the aid of skilled pharmacists and chemist to assist un. aturauv, tie does not care to e away his scientific and exact proa es for preparing there medicines. bntiAe does want to deal in the most opa'l manner with all his patrons and Imihnte, and under this frank, open and ffet way of dealing, they may know erectly wnat tney are taking when using medicines. Vhat Do They Cure? This quesn is oiten asked concernine Dr. ierce's two leading medicines. r Golden ledical Discovery" and "Favorite Pres cription." The answer is fhat "Golden Medical Discovery " is a mofet potent alterative or blood-purifier, and tonic or invigorator and acta especiaus- favorably in a curative and healing way upon all the mucous lining surfaces as of the nasal passages, threat, bronchial tubes, stomach, bowvls and bladder, curing a large per cent, of catarrhal cases whether the disease affects the nasal passages, the throat, larynx, bronchia, rtomach (as catarrhal dysnepfia) , bowels (as mucous diarrhea), bladder, uterus or other pelvic organs. Even in the chronic or ulcerative stages of these affections, it is often successful in effecting cures. The "Favorite Prescription " is advised for tbe cure of one class of diseases only those peculiar weaknesses, derangements and. irregularities incident to women. It is a powerful yet gently acting invigorating tonio and strengthening nervine. I- or weak, wornout, over-worked women no matter what has caused the break -down, "Favorite Prescription n will be found most effective in building up the strength, regulating the womanly functions, subduing pain and bringing about a healthy, vigorous condition of the whole system. Women suffering from diseases of long standing, are invited to consult Doctor Pierce by letter, fret. Ail correspondence is "held as strictly private and sacredly confidential. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Pierce's Medical Adviser (1Q0O pages) is sent free on receipt of 21 gtoecent stamps for paper-covered, yf 81 stamps lor cloth-bound copy. as above. CABINET MA AND Make your ol like new ,a you want It, S. A. 9 South 6th. Little Pig Country Baked Ha Cream Backm (hip (thick and good) Kraut. PHONE 292, HADLEY BROS. PETITION FOR DIVORCE. State of Indiana, Wayne County, S. S: Louise Saxon vs. Wm. V. Saxon. Wayne Circuit Court. October Term 1906. No. 14,240 petition for divorce. Bo It known that on the 13 day of October, 1906 the above named Plaintiff, by her Attorney, filed in the office of the Clerk of the Wayne Circuit Court her petition against said de-! fendant for a divorce and change of name to Louise Shrader. Said plaintiff also filed with said complaint the affidavit -of Benj. N. Crump, a disinterested person showing that said Defendant is not a resident of this State and also her own affidavit showing that she is a nurse and a bonafide resident of Wayne County, Indiana for past 2 years, and that her causes for divorce, as stated In her said petition, are, abandonment and failure to provide. Said defendant is therefore hereby notified of the filing and pendency of such petition, and that unless he appears and answers or demurs thereto, on the calling of said cause on the 26th day of December, 1906, at the Term of said Court begun and held at the Court House in the City of Richmond, on the 1st Monday of October 1906, said cause will be heard and determined in hfa absence. Witness, the Clerk, and thY?eal of said Court, at the City of Ricumond.. this 23rd day of October 1906. Edgar M. Haas, Cierk. L. C. Abbott, Attorney for Plaintiff. dly -3-10-17. Cures baby's croup, "Willie's dally cuts and bruises, mama's sore throat, grandma's lameness Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil the great household remedy. Exploit Football Team. The forthcoming issue of the Earlbamlte will come from the press vember 24, will exploit the Qua! football team. There will be interest to the lover of athlceca la this issue of the Earlhamit lM ' WILLS your brurr Pllla is mn.-i met rnJrXlu Klbto. Tefc acker. hat cf voiv Di imi amrf afc for k for v mm' npiM w Bo. Safest. Af Relisht. Sola br Dnwrtets hg.

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