Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1904 — Page 6

The Secret Dispatch

CHAPTER lll.—(Continued.) “Nay. if lie was to perish tints, suspijeton might too readily fall upon me; for ike is a favorite officer of the Empress, land of We.vmam, too. Mv plan is this: [1 may get the dispatch to-uiglit iu yonder castle.” “And if not?” “Then I shall again hire and mislead Balgonie, and bring him here in the Sight." “What then?” asked the woodman, doggedly. "How dull ive are, Panlaritch, We •hall drug and drown him; Unis shall he •die without a wound. I will take back the dispatch to Novgorod, nnd you enn • carry the body on his horse to St. Petcrs’barg, where a sum will be given you for finding it. The poor stranger, they will . aay, has perished amid our keen Russian Jrosts, and that will be all. Nicholas fipaulovitch. the carcass will be well rvorth twenty roubles to thee.” “And thy fifty?” “You shall receive when the affair is •Ter, and when you come to me at Novgorod, where I am quartered.” “By the bones of my tribe, 1 am with goo, Podatchkine!” exclaimed the hnlfjbreed with ferocious joy. Then they ■hook heartily their hard and dingy hands —hands that had wrought many a deed •f merciless cruelty. A few minutes more nnd these worthy compatriots had separated. There was a third person who had •verheard the first savage Plot, and who felt her heart stirred with pity and terror for Balgonie, who had given her a silver kopec at Krejko but yesterday—the gypsy girl, Olga Paulowua. the sister of Nicholas Fauloviteh; and she resolved to baffle both conspirators if site could.

CHAPTER IV. Corporal Podatclikine was an admirable specimen of his own type of Russian. His thick black scrubby hair was cut straight across the forehead in a line with the eyebrows, and at each side it hung perpendicularly down below the ears, and was,. moreover, cut square •cross the neck behind; and he kept alternately scratching* and smoothing liis rugged front, nervously and assiduously, when he removed his fur Cossack cap; and, full of affected concern, even to exhibiting tears in his small, cunning eyes, presented himself to Natalie Mierowhn next morning, and besought her to have him “conducted to the chamber of his brave, his beloved captain, his comrade •nd brother, who was, he now learned, •eriously ill, helpless and delirious" — •nd, in fact, just as the cunning corporal wished him to bc % , There he found Btngonie. certainly too ill and weak either to recognize him or understand what he was about; so the faithful Cossack made a rapid and skillful investigation of all the officer's pockets for the dispatch. Not a vestige of lit was to be found. “What can he have done with it?” [muttered the bewildered corporal; “can ftie have lost it in the river, or swallowfed it?” The truth is that Natalie Mierowna |fcnd her doubts about the fidelity of PoIdntehkine, and even of some of her own 'domestics, and aware of the risk rtln liy the stranger if he lost a dispatch of the empress, she had, prior to the introduction of the corporal, secured the document, and at that moment it was hidden in her own fair bosom until she could seen re it in n safer place. Poor Natalie! Alas, she little knew its contents, and the horrors they were yet to produce. Raffled thus in his attempt to secure tt. there was no resource for the faithful warrior of the steppes now but to take up his quarters which he was; nothing loath to do. at the Castle of the I.oiiga, •nd there quietly await the recovery or ti death, he cared not which, of Bulgnui< and to concert furjjier measures with the huge gypsy. Nicholas Pauloviteh, whom he saw daily. It was no feverish dream or Balgonie that Natalie Mierowna had been hovering about his bedside; for she and her cousin Mariolizza had been his especial nurses.

In loss than three days the feverish delirium subsided, sense completely returned, and the young captain appeared to be laboring under a species of influenza. "ily dispatch!” he frequently said aloud —''1 must he gone with my dispatch !” “Mighr it not be intrusted to Corporal I’odutehkineV" asked Natalie one morning, as she personally gave him his warm and soothing drink with her own hand, Katmka. the maid, standing demurely by with a silver salver. "Impossible. Hosphozn, for so I may rail you; an otlleer alone can carry n dispatch for the empress. Its coutootst-are most urgent; this delay, over which I have no control, may be visited by royal disfavor, even punishment; and I fear that the air of Tobolsk or Arkutsk would 111 suit a Scotsman's lungs, Natalie Miefow na.” "Yet tarry here you must.” she said, with a smile, the beauty of which proved very bewildering; “the Longa is coated with ice this morning, but not so thick, however, that it might not he broken by throwing a stone from here; but to travel jet would only kill you, Carl lvanovitch, •ml cannot be thought of just now.” Then she glided away, with her-beam-ing smile, her white hands bnd taper • tun, her rustling dress or scarlet silk trimmed with snowy miniver, and all the •ense of perfume that pervaded her. Bnlgooie sighed wearily yet pleasantly, and half thought that beautiful figure • dream, ns he turned on his sort and luxurious pillow and marveled whether his past or his present existence was the vaal one. CHAPTER V. CkariM Rulgonie, son of John R*l gouie of Htratkcaru, had come into the world during that which was perhaps the ■MBt stupid, lifeless and impoverished •mi of Scottish existence, the middle of Iks reign of George 11. By the early death of his parents. fJharUa had been cast, in his extreme

By JAMES GRANT

boyhood, upon the tender mercies of a bachelor uncle, Mr. Gamaliel Balgonie, a hard-hearted, grasping, avaricious merchant in Dundee. In the lovely vale of Strnthearn stood the home of Charlie Balgonie. On the death of his parents his small paternal estate of a few hundred per annum would have become his inheritance, but the relation before mentioned —the paternal uncle, Gamaliel, suddenly produced a will, by which, to the profound astonishment of all, the entire estate was left to him as a return for certain loans and sums advanced to the deceased, of which, however, no proOf could he found; but it was a veritable deathbed will; written accurately by a notary, and duly signed. Though tremulous and shaky, strangely so —and rather unlike the usual signature of the deceased laird, three men there were, accounted good, worthy and religious men, who solemnly deposed to having seen “the hand of the dead man pen those words.” It was a case which made some noise in those days, because thirty-six hours after the alleged signature was given John Balgonie died. The law of Scotland requires that, lifter framing, nnd signing such a deed, the testator must have been able to go once at least to church or market. How it came to pass we know not now, but the dispute, though without a basis, was brought before the supreme court by spam friends of the orphan, for there were not a few persons in Stratliearn who alleged that John Balgonie’s hand had certainly traced the signature which was sworn to so solemnly as his—but had dono so after death; the pen. being placed in the fingers of the corpse, which Were guided by those of the pious and worthy merchant of Dundee, who Wanted his nephew’s little patrimony in aid of certain speculations of his own. Fending a decision, the bereaved boy was removed to the busy town on Tayside, and was left to solace his sorrows at school, “prior, as he supposed, to becoming a drudge in his affectionate uncle's counting house, when the last of his slender inheritance had been frittered away in the fangs of the law. One day his worthy uncle Gam returned to Edinburgh by the packet. The ease had been decided against him," and the court was about to name trustees to look after the estate of the orphan boy. Mr. Gamaliel Balgonie was unusually grave, stern and abstracted; but he deliberately seated himself at his desk, ind while humming,, as was his wont, a of a psalm, lie penned a letter addressed to the captain of a vessel then lying in the harbor, and gave it to his nephew for immediate delivery, desiring him to wait for the answer.

The boy, then in his fifteenth year, started on his errand with alacrity. He soon found the ship, which was moored at some distance from the shore, with her fore-topsails loose, to indicate that she was ready for sea; yet Charlie had no suspicion of the trap into which lie was running or the cruel fate that awaited him. The skipper, a-rough, surly and brutal looking man. eyed the boy keenly, while tearing the letter into minute fragments, after Ire had perused it, with a grim smile of satisfaction. He then went to a locker, whore lie poured out a glass of milk. “Drink that, my lad.” said lie, “while I write an answer to your uncle,” Charlie drained the glass; hut scarcely had lie done so when the cabin seemed to he whirling round him; he thought that he was becoming seasick, and was in the act of staggering toward the cabin stairs when lie was felled to the floor by a blow from the skipper's heavy band —a blow dealt cruelly and unsparingly. He recovered consciousness some time after, to find himself—stiff, sore and bloody, front a wound in the temple—lying on deck in the moonlight, with some twenty-five other boys, several of whom were in the same state of stupor in which they had been brought on board. To bis horror and dismay, Charlie now found that *tlie ship was at sea, and running between the dangerous reef known as the Bell Rock and the Hat sandy shore of Barrig; and that, through the machinations of Uncle Gamaliel, bo had been lured into the hands of one of the most notorious plantation crimps that ever infested the Scottish coast, Captain Znehariah > Coffin of New England, whose Craft, the I’iscatona, was a letter of marque, carrying twelve six-pounders and fighting her own way. After this the Piscatonn was' liauled up, in order to go north about by Cape Wrath, having on board nearly fifty boys. Storms came on when the Piseatona entered the Pcntland Firth, and four days after Dunnet Head with its flinty brow, 400 feet in height, had vanished into the wrack and mist astern, a sudden cry of tire caused every heart to i thrill on board the lawless vessel. Whether an act of treachery or not, it was Impossible to ascertain; but it had j broken out near tin; ship's magazine, to j wliich.lt Mtnniunieated with f-rigliPhd raj pidity, for suddenly, while the crew were I all running fore and aft with buckets, | h dreadful explosion seemed to rend the [ Piscntoiia in tuo. Half of the main deck was blown away with two of the ! boats. A whirlwind of fragments flew I in every direction, and then the flames shot into the air in scorching volumes. Discipline, or such a system of it as Zaclnmnli Cotfln maintained on board, was totally at an end. Some of the crow lowered the only remaining boat and fought like wild beasts for possession of it, knocking each other into the water without mercy. Captain ,Curtin cocked liis pistols at the gangway, shot one iiinu dead and swore that lie would kill the next man who dared to precede him; but he was struck from behind by an iron marline spike and, falling, together with his savage dog, into the flaming gulf that yawned amidships, was seen no more. Some of the crew ultimately pushed off the boat; others sprang overboard and held on to the spirrs and booms. But these perished miscrifhly after being half scorched. Some were crushed to death by the falling yards and masts. Many

held oh to the fore and main chains, till these became so unbearably hot that they had to drop off, with screams of despair —when they sank, faint, weary and helpless, to the bottom at last How it all happened Charlie Balgonie never kuew. hours after the whole affair was over and the detested Piscotona had burned down to her waterline and sank, leaving all the sea around her discolored and covered with floating pieces of charred wood anil the buoyant parts of her cargo, he found himself adrift in the wide and stormy Fentland Firth, but wedged with comparative safety in a large fragment of the foretop, to which, the yard being still attached by the sling, a certain amount of steadiness was given; yet his heart leaped painfully each lime when the fragment of wreck rose on the summit of a green glassy wave or went surging down into the dark nnd watery trough between. To add to the terrors of his lonely situation, the sun had sunk amid gloomy purplo clouds and a rainy night was drawing on. Half drowned, the poor boy soon became faint and exhausted, nnd would seem to have dropped into a species of stupor, for when roused by the sound of strange voices he found himself close by a groat nnd towering ship, which lay to, now right in'the wind’s eye with her mainyard aback nnd her gur.ports' and hammock nettings full of weather beaten faces, gazing at Kim with eagerness agid curiosity in the twilight, while a boat was lowered and pulled steadily toward him by six sailors clad in dark green. She proved to be a Russian fifty-gun ship, the Anne Ivanowna, commanded by Thomas Mackenzie, one of the many Scottish admirals who have bravely carried the Russian flag in the Baltic and the Black sen. His youthful countryman became his protege. The worthy admiral sought to make a sailor of Charlie, but the latter had seen quite enough of the sea while on board the Pisoatonn, and while he was clinging like a limpet or barnacle to the piece of drifting wreck; so he became.a soldier, end served under General Ochterlony, of Gtiynd, in the Regiment of Smolensko, where as n cadet his superior smartnosa, intelligence ami education, not less than his courage, soon distinguished him among his thiek-pated Russiap Thus in less than ten years lie becamo, as vve find him, Captain Carl Ivanovitck Balgonie, the most trusted aide-de-camp of Lieutenant General Weymarn, commander-in-chief of the city and district of Bt. Petersburg.

CHAPTER VI. “You can neve; 1 kndw. Ivanovitch Balgonie,. how much I pitied you ” “You, lady?” was the joyous response. “That is, I nad Ma riolizza.” said NaTaTie Alierowna, iliglitly blushing,/“when we found you sunk on a fever bed in a foreign land, so far from your country, your friends, your mother perhaps, for you are young enough, I think, to miss lier still at sut,h a time, although a soldier.” “Far, indeed, in many ways!” replied Balgonie, with n bitter smile, as he thought of I'ncla Gam, or perhaps it was illness that had weakened him. “I have a country, to which it is more than probable I shall never return; but father, mother or friends I have none there —all who loved me once have gone to the silent grave before me.” “AH?” “Yes, lady.” “But ypu are making many friends in Russia,” said Mariolixza cheerfully; “there are my cousin, Basil Mierowitz, and my brother, Apollo Usakoff, who bolh, I know, love you as a brother.” “True, and most grateful am I'to them for their regard, for Ixjtli are polished gentlemen. I have old General Weyinarn, too, though I know not what lie will think of this delay in delivering the imperial dispatch.” “Alas, that most tiresome dispatch!” exclaimed Natalie. “But I forgot,” she added, with a curl of her short upper lip; “those who proceed on the errands of the Empress Catharine would need seven-league hoots, or the carpet of the prince in the fairy tale, which transports ed the owner at a wish.” “Hush, cousin,” said Ma riolizza, glancing timidly around. But no one was imar, save Corporal I’odatchkine, who was at a little distance on the terrace, when this conversation took place two days after Balgonie became convalescent, and fully a week since tbe niglit of peril on which he swam the I.ouga. “I cannot describe to yflu, ladies, the relief that came to ray mind ill discovering that it had neither been lost nor stolen, but was safe ” ‘“ln Natalie’s bosom!” said Mariolizza, laughing. (To be continued.)

NEW WAY TO RAISE BABIES.

Hospital Managers Have Devised nn Eminently Successful Method. Hospital methods arc adopted mory each year in the. private treatment of babies—the methods, that is to say, of the superior modern hospital conducted updpr the best medical supervision. The cradle is doomed and all its rocking memories. The child lies upon its bed and is not picked up and carried about the room even when H yells. Visitors and relatives art* no longer encouraged to pound it in the idbs, pinch its chin or transfer microbes to it.s lips. This strictness Is laughed at by rilmlil outsiders and resented by critics of the old time regime, which, like every oilier fossil, is attributed to nature, no doubt, with justice, but without relevance. Actually, tlds intelligent trchtifient of infancy is doing much to check nervousness In our children, to protect them from—find habits and needless exactions and to make them selfreliant. Babyhood, indeed, is the best conducted age at present. When the child grows older it meets undoubted loss in the substitution of nurse's for mother's care, a tendency encouraged by the new activities of women and! by* city life. At the beginning, however, the first weeks and months of liis existence, when change and development are more rapid than at any oilier period, the human being has never lied such decent treatment as it is the linppy fashion to bestow upon him now. He is treat ext for his own welfare instead of for the amusement of UJa friends.—Colller’a Weekly.

Not Far Wrong.

A school teacher was trying to make the children define the word “bovine.” “It applies to an animal,” she saltL “Can any one tell me what animal?” There was the silence of confessed Ignorance. The teacher began to throV out leading hints. “The animal that gives us meat” Still silence. < ‘ And shoes,” she added. No light broke on the puzzled countenances, “And the straps that you carry your books in.” “Ob, I know!” cried a young voice, with explosive eagerness. “Well; James, what animal is it?” “Father!”

The Most Common Disease.

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His Own Way.

“Do you ever have your own way?” asked the cynical near relative. “Yes,” answered Mr. Meekton. “Sometimes I hare my own way, hut not without consulting Henrietta very carefully before I make up my mind.”—Washington Star.

Catarrh Cannot bE Cured

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LETTER RATES IN ITLAY.

Postage Reduced on Account of Action , of International Congress. Stamp collectors will soon have another Italian stamp to add to their collections —that of 15 centimes —and It Is thought, after the postal congress In April, will attach more value to that of 25 centimes, as it will likely go out of circulation. Italy is now obliged to reduce her internal letter rates (hitherto very high) from 2 pence to 1% pence, as the law already passed prescribes, of course thereby reducing her revenue very considerably; but she was constrained to do so, or otherwise she would have been placed in a very peculiar position at the coming congress, which will be held in Rome. There it will be proposed to reduce International letter rates from 2\'j pence to 2 pence, so if Italy held to her former rates her citizens would pay as much lor a letter from Rome to Frascati (an hour by rail) as from Rome to India. As tin' home rates are to bo reduced there are some who would like a radical change, making it a uniform penny postage, as in England, while now, although it is 2 pence in the provinces, It is only a half penny in the city. This, however, Is far too radical for the Italians, who like to come to their Improvements in a gradual way or when they are dragged out of them by the force of circumstances. Apropos of the high letter rates, a peasant once went Into a Rome postofflee to send a letter to Frascati. When he was told it would be 2 pence he thought it more "than he could afford and then said: “I’ll tell you what I’ll do. If you will send it for a penny it may go.” And to this day he considers himself very badly used because his offer was declined.

DOCTOR’S COFFEE

And His Daughter Matched Him, Coffee drinking troubled the family of a physician of Grafton, VV. Va., who describes the situation briefly: “Having suffered quite a while from vertigo, palpitation of the heart and many other derangements of the nervous system and finding no relief from usual methods of treatment, I thought to see how much there was In the Postum argument against coffee. “So I resorted to Postum, cutting off the coffee, and to my surprise and satisfaction have found entire relief from all"my sufferings, proving conclusively the baneful effect of coffee and the way to be rid of It. “I have found Postum completely takes the place of coffee both in flavor and in taste. It is becoming more popular eVery day with many of our people and Is having great demand hero. “My daughter, Mrs. Long, has been a sufferer for a long tlrad from attacks of acute indigestion. By the dismissal of coffee and using Fostum in its placo site.lias obtained complete relief, “I have also heard from many others who have used your Postum very favorable accounts of its good effects. *‘l prescribe Postum In place of coffee In a great many cases and I believe that upon its merits Postum will come into general use.” Name given by Postum Co., Creek, Mich. I*>ok for the*fartfbus little book “The Rond to Wellville,” in each pkg.

Teaching School In Persia.

Persian servants are always summoned and addressed by their masters as “children.” When Mr. Wilfrid Sparrow became tutor to the children of the royal family of Persia he was greatly amused by the daily customs of the little princes. He tells of his first day in the schoolroom: We were in the middle of a lesson when Akbar Mirza, the magnificent, laying down his pen and taking off his spectacles, complained of the heat, which was 105 degrees in the shade. “It is too hot, yes, sail-,” he said. I made no reply, whereupon he resumed his work; but in a moment he lifted up his voice once more. This time his tone was loud and imperious. “’Bachaha” (child)! he cried. To my amazement, in stepped the stately general, find stood in an attitude of grave humility at a respectful distance, his head bowed and his hands folded at the waist. “Ab-i----khmerdan” (drinking water)! was Abkar's word, and smart the sartip's action. Out he went, and back he came with a silver teapot in his hand. Very solemnly and slowly he went the round of the class, and raising the spout to each thirsty little mouth in turn, waited in patient silence until the imperial thirst had been , queuched. While one little prince was being served his neighbor, eying the silver nipple, sucked his lips in anticipation of the refreshing draft. As for me, it was mine to revel in the humor of the scene, which was followed soon after by an interlude in which our friend, the major, in full dress, was summoned by Bahrain Mirza, the imperious, (o clean his slate. These interruptions tickled my sense of humor, undoubtedly, but they achieved a more useful end than that. They were the means of showing me that the first thing I should have to teach these youthful Ivajars was not modern languages nor mathematics nor science, but rather the first principles of self-help, self-reliance, self-depend-ence.

Pot and Kettle.

The following educational Incident takes fair rank among the humor of the age;— A young German studying in this country had received back his theme from his Instructor in English. Oil It were some notes in red Ink, which the student could not decipher. Accordingly he took it to the tutor In order that lie might not miss some Important advice. “I beg your pardon, sir,” he said, “hut I can’t make out this correction here. It’s —it’s a little hard to read.” The instructor took the theme, scowled at it critically, and then sahl r with some show of irritation,— “Why, it says, ’Write more legibly’!”

80 Bu. Macaroni Wheat Per A.

Introduced by the U. S. Dept, of Agr. It is a tremendous cropper, yielding in good land SO bushels per acre, and on dry, arid lands, such as are found in Montana, Idaho, the Dakotas, Colorado, etc., it will yield from 40 to 00 bushels. This Wheat and Speltz and Hanna Barley and Bromus Inermis and Billion Dollar Grass makes it possible to grow and fatten lings and cattle whercTer soil is found. JUST SEND 10c AND THIS NOTICE to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crpsse, Wls., and they will send you free a sample of this Wheat and other farm seeds, together with their great catalogue, alone worth SIOO.OO to any wide-awake fafrner. (C. N. U.)

In the Poles.

1 *ay,” asked Dqnremy, who is interested in all kinds of birds, “what do you suppose red headed woodpeekers find in old, seasoned telephone poles? You can hear them battering away in tbe grubloss sticks all around my house?” “Delayed messages, perhaps,” suggested Suudojvn. W$ are never without a bottle of I’iso’s Cure for Consumption in our house.— Mrs. E. M. Swayze, Wakita, Okla., April 17. 1901. It lias been discovered that the streets of Dawson, Alaska, are lined with gold that it will pay to work. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES produce the brightest aud fastest colors. To write a check is one thing; to have it honored depends on a variety of circumstances. —Anthony Hope. riTO PermaiieiitlyOuiiwl. No flu or nerToiune««arter l*| | o find day’ll u*e of Or. Kline’* Great Nervo Remoter. Srnd for FIiEK ••.<lO trial bottle and treatise. DR. R. H. KLINE, Ltd., »3I Arch St., RhUadelpßla. Pa. Bulgaria corresponds in area to Oklahoma and in population to Missouri. Mrs. Winslows Soothing Atrcf for Children t oat til tiff i aultmia the gu ma, reduces Inflammation, allay* pain, euros wind oolio. 23 cenU a bottle.

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Billion Dollar Grass,

When we introduced this remarkabl* grass three years ago, little did we dream it would be the most talked of grass in America, the biggest, quick, hay producer on earth, but this has cornc to pass* Agr. Editors wrote about it,, Agr. College Professors lectured about it, Agr. l Institute Orators talked about_ it, while in the farm home by the quiet fireside, in the corner grocery, in the village postoffice, at the creamery, at the depot, in fact wherever farmers gathered, Salzer’a Billion Dollar Grass, that wonderful grass, good for 5 to 14 tons per acre, und lots of pasture besides, is always a theme worthy of the farmer’s voice. Then comes Bromus Inermis, than which "there is no better grass or better permanent hay producer on earth. Grows! wherever soil is found. Then the farmer talks about Salzer’s Teosinte, which will produce 100 stocks from ong kernel of seed, 11 feet high, in 100 days, rich, in nutrition and greedily eaten by caitle, hogs, etc., and is good for 80 tons of green food per acre. Victoria Rape, which can be grown at 25c a ton, and Speltz at 20c a bushel, both great food for cattle, also come in for their share in the discussion. JUST SEND THIS NOTICE AND 10a IN STAMPS to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., I.« Crosse, Wis., and receive their big catalogue and lota of farm seed sample* free. (C. N. U.>

Pleased With the Sea.

ITer ladyship—Well, Mrs: Parkins* and what did you tbluk of the jeal Mrs. Parkins (who has been on a visit to her daughter at Margate)—There, m’Lady, I didn’t think ’twas anything like so big, an’ our Annie sh® tells me as I didn't see a half on’t’.—« Punch.

Yea, Verily.

The world is like an apple barrel, If you to think will stop; The biggest men and biggest fruit Are always found on top.

Many School Children Are Sickly.

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Capsicum Vaseline Put Up in Collapsible Tubes. A Substitute for and Superior to Mustard or any* other pi lister, and vrill not blister the most delicate skin. The pain allaying end curative qualities of this article are wondsrful. It will stop the toothache at once, and relieve headache and sciatica. We recommend it as the best and safest external, counter-irritant known, also as an external remedy for pains in the chest and stomach and all rheumatic, / neuralgic and gouty complaints': A trial will prove what we claim for it, and it will be found to bo invaluable in the household. Many people suy “It is the best of all your preparations." Price Ift cents, at all druggists, or other dealer*, or by i sending this amount to us in postage atamps, we will send you a tube by mail. ... No article should be accepted by the public unlees the same carries our label, as otherwise it is not genuine.< CHESEBROIGH MANUFACTURING CO 17 State Street, New York City. , PTsSorKsl K 500.000 BUSHELS KUfOR SALE CHEAPJJ| Larteil setd potato growers in tht IrorlJ / §■ Klegant Block. Tremendous yields. BH tM Ftom 400 40 1000 Lusliela P*r acre. ft FOR 10 CENTS u *nd tills notice we send you lota of f«rm i,f? Jjjg aend ssnoplco and hlg catalogue, telling S‘i4: yH all shout Teoelnte, Spelts, Peaoat. Aerld IM Land Itarley, Macaroni Wheat. Ilroniun. M W Earliest Cano. etc. bend for same today. V DON’T OVERLOOK THISI THK MIETZ AND WEI 8« OIL AND CAB ENGINES Why pay anenonnoosoHoeforjasollne whan yen m4‘ oparata the Mlets aad Weiss Eociuaoa fuel ousting •a par gallon- eeonomleal and setae* powai known. Marine anginas. dynamos. Send for Cat*, lonae. Dag*.M, AogMt Mtats, 12) Uott St., Hair lark