Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1907 — Page 2

The Child of the Cave

CHAPTER XXL Sir Henry did not return that night as le had prom'sed. I could not conceive »f old Peter carrying such a contemptibly insignificant looking weapon as a modern revolver, otherwise I should have feared that the shot I heard had been fired by him, and that Sir Henry was bit. I attributed thi shot rather to poachers in Sir Henry's preserves, and his absence to the pursuit of them. All doubt as to his safety was removed by his coming over to the cottage the following morning. He was quite self-possessed; his manner, indeed, was almost apathetic as he gave me his haud, and then dropped into the scat on the lawn The only trace of that agitation which had unmanned him the previous night was in the haggard, worn and old expression of his face; he looked like a gambler who has played long and lost Till. “There was a shot in the park last Bight,” he began. "You may have beard It. I thought my daughter might be alarmed and so went in. Quite as well, gou will say, f-ceing that I was not more fit to be at large than a maniac. She knew what was the matter with me, and brought me round as only she can,” he repeated slowly, "as only she can! One at these davs, Mr. Thorne, you may know OTe value of my daughter Ethel; then, should you be threatened with the loss of her, you will understand my feeling, !■ ancy. if a man came insolently to you and said he loved your wife and meant to take her from you if he could, how you would feel toward that man; and if. in addition to that, your wife admitted the probability of being taken from you, how —would you feel toward the whole world ?" “You are speaking now of. the love of a man for his wife.” “Well, sir,’’ he returned sharply, “may not the love of a father for his daughter be as deep and strong as that of a husband for his wife? The love I bore her mother is centered in my daughter—all the love of my heart.” He turned his back upon me for a moment: then, glancing round the garden, he asked: “Where is she —that other unloved ■oul?” 1 explained how she slept during the day, being unable to endure the light as“Twelve years without light oiTTiOve, he said, visibly moved. “A month would kill me. She loves you, Ethel tells me.” “That is only natural, as she knows cone but me. ’ “It never occurred to you that she might be your wife?” “How could it occur to mo, loviug your daughter as I do?" He knitted his brows as he burled his face in his hand, his elbow resting on his knee. Raising his head after a minute's silence, be said: “It isn't rignt that the girl should live here alone with you. I am not speaking from any conventional consideration of propriety, but with regard to the girl's future. You ate strengthening the tie of affection which presently is to be snapped. You ought to weaken it, so that when the shock comes it may not break her heart." “1 hope to find her family or friends; until then she must stay with me." “Not necessarily." he said, his eye brightening. "Let her come to us. Ethel is deeply interested in her. Let her dangerous affection for you be .replaced by a sister's love.” “With all my heart! I can wish Psyche no greater happhiOss than to live with your daughter." "It would be a healthier life for her,” he continued, with growing excitement. “She would get to know the world she is to live in. We could take her abroad while you are h-cking for her friends.” He looked eagerly into my eyes while he made this inquisition. There was awonderful change in the-expression of his face; apathy hac changed to keen interest. ft was still a gambler's face, but ft wore the look of one who sees the way to retrieve a fortune by poaching a < pigeon. For the first time doubt of his honesty rose in my mind. I believe he saw it, for his eye quailed before mine, and be rose, muttering something in a deep self-deprecatory tone that I could not catch. He paced across the lawn ■with his bead l» nt. and when he returned the evil look was gom from his face. As be reseated himself again beside me he said: “It wouldn't do. Thorne. I understand Fnd sympathize with the girl's feelings more than you can believe. She must not leave you at once like this. What have you done toward finding her family r ‘ I told him of the advertisement I had published and the answer I received. “You had no other answer?” he asked., “No." “And what do you propose to do now?" “Advertise again, if I find no further notice taken of the last. There may bo a letter at the i>ostoffice now. I shall go over presently and see." “Yes, it’s not unlikely. Some sharp lawyer may see his way to making money through it. The man who got rid of the child would be only too glad, one may •uppoae, to claim her and put her out of the way more securely Have you thought of that?" “Yes. I am not certain that I have pot already played into the hands of that man or bis agents." “I dare say you have.” he replied, cheerily. “At any rate, you see the dangei of advertising in that way. It would be far safer *o put tjre aff-ir into the hands of a good solicitor. Lk you know •mF “Only your solicitor, Mr. Andrews, nt Bonport.” “A goqd man, but not at all suitefl to •n tavestigation of Ibis kind. You had

By FRANK BARRETT

better leave it,to me. I will see Andrews and ask him who is the best man in the profession to employ, if you like." I accepted the offer at once. 4 “Then you will take no further steps a■ present?” “I shall be very happy to leave-it entirely in- your bands.” * • "Good.” He seemed pleased with my renewed confidence in him. He was leaning forward, with his elbows.on his knees, looking on the ground. After a mcment's pause, without raising his head, he said : “Some one will be going up from the house to Towerbridge in the course of the morning. Shall he inquire at the postoffice if there is any letter for you?” I assented to this, giving him the name to "which answers were to be addressed. “Very well, that is settled,” he said, drawing a Jong breath and rising to his feet. —“Jret us wait Tlrere is something else I want to say to you. You told me you had found some sort of treasure in those caves. What do you value it at?” "Roughly, I think about ten thousand pounds.” “More or less. The ground in which the caves are, and the cottage on the cliff Is your freehold.” ' \ -7 """V > ' J “Yes.” -“If I give youa cheek for twenty thousand pounds, will you let me have the freehold and full possession of all that is tp be found in the caves—remember, you may have found but part of the treasifre;” “You are welcome to the rest.” “Then that is a bargain, and I may take possession as soon as I please, after p ■< y i ng.” .... ’ , "Certainly.” 2- ■ , , “Why did you hesitate?” “Because your offer seemed too generous.” “It is not generous. I want those caves, and should have paid twice as much to get them." “My grandfather inhabits the cottage,” I said. “I know he does. He may live there as long as he pleases. I will arrange with him.” ..We took another turn in silence, for bis strange contradictory behavior bewildered me. Opposite the wicket he , B .tyU?£dx . ~.?s nil I here so ray now.,’’ he said ; “come over this evening. The check will be ready for you. Bring Psyche with you. There is no time to lose.”

CHAPTER XXII. When the sun had set we went to the Chase, Psyche and I. she agreeing to pay this visit far more readily than I anticipated. “Shall you be glad to see Ethel?” I a>ked, the wish prompting the question. “Yes,” she answered, nodding lief head. “There is so much 1 want to ask her that I can’t ask you, so much I want to learn. I can't talk much to you because I don't know enough words, and sCmetimes I say the wrong one and it makes you laugh and shows me how foolish 1 am. But 1 think a great deal when my eyes are shut.” “Can you tall me what you think?” “So many things! I think how beautiful it is to sit and listen to you speak, and I think if I could learn more words I could talk to you and make you happy, just as you make me happy. Sometimes 1 think I am no more than the little creatures in the garden that we forget the next day because they cannot tell us what they think and feel. And I want to be asking more that? what you know !" There was a pathetic vibration in her voice as it sank in this last phrase; then in a firmer tone she added : "So I want to see all that Ethel can do. and learn how to do it very soon—very soon.” We met Ethel and her father in the drive, and walked together through the flower garden and the conservatories, 1 there being still light, enough to reveal the tints of the blooms even to ordinary eyes. Under bis daughter's influence Sir Henry was always reasonable, and at most times amiable and interesting; but this evening I was struck by the tender interest he took in Psyche. He devoted himself almost exclusively to her, and betrayed no \vmptom of jealousy or suspicion when Ethel and I lingered in the room. The manner of this extraordinary man was now as opposed to his brusquelie of the mortung as that to the quaking agitation of the night before. Selecting seine of the blooms that Psyche most admired, be arranged them with taste in a spray, goasip’.ng at the same time in a simple way that she could understand, r.nd fastened it upon her dress. Psyche was delighted, pointing out to me that it was like the spray that Ethel wore. “I had no ilea the girl was so intelligint,” he said to me when Psyche had drawn Ethel away with the serious view she had in mind, “and how exceedingly sweet her manner is! She shall learn rfl that she wishes to know. I will adopt hei as my own daughter." , "If her real parents are not found,” I suggested. ‘‘True, but I da mot think they will be found " he said, in ?”• odd- drv tone. “By the bye, flier i was no letter for you at TowerbriJge. I saw Andrews this afternoon, and put the case hypothetical Iv before him. He in distinctly of opinion that, so Tar as the girl's welfare is concerned, the best thing to be done is to d nothing. The great thing to be feared is that the ra’n who put her out of the v ay twelve yetirw ago will get her into his hands again in order to put her away i-ffecruatly and forever. There can be no doubt that the crime was attempted with a mercenary Li?tivr the child coming between this tnin and a fortune. If that was so. Psyebe is still the rightful heiress, and more dangerous tc the man now than rhe was as a child. At any rate, It

would be most unwise to do anything tn a hurry. There io no necessity for haste. I intend, with the blessing of heaven,” he murmured, fervently, “to repair the wrong that has been done tB that poor girl, and to be to her a better fiiend than those who suffered her to be carried away." There was im awkward pause. I could not account satisfactorily to myself for the feeling of embarrassment that made me silent. “You can’s make it out,” said-Bir Hen- ’ ry, jibserving my silence. “That does not sniprise me. To you it must seem that my conduct Las been that of a maniac •rather than a sane man, and nothing must appear more mad than my proposal to adopt as a daughter a girl 1 savt for the first time last night. Every effect it inexplicable until the cause that produced stands revealed. My quickly changing moots are inexplicable. Held vc me, not one of these moods would ‘appear more unaccountable than the phases in an eclipse if you knew, of the shadow cast > pon my life. That shadow is nearly past. One of these days—not now —you shall know all.” As he spoke the last words he opened his note book and took out a paper, wbteh he now put in my hand. “This is the check for the property you wore good enough to let me have," he said, in a tone of real gratitude. “With it. Bernard, I give you permission to ask my daughter to be your wife.” This was as unexpected as anything he had yet said or done, his tone betraying none of,, that bitter sense of deprivation he had before displayed. “In giving you my daughter,” he continued, “you may perbaps find some reason for my eager desire to adopt-Jfeyeae.” If I had not been blinded by a lover’s emotion I might have found another reason, and seen that I was taking a bribe. We found poor Psyche in the library, looking with pained at an open book, and striving to understand that each collection of black marks meant a word, and that these words taken together told oi something that people wanted to know. From the book she loked round the rooms at the shelves from floor to ceiling filled with simß.tr books. "Are they all the same’” she asked. “No; see, this is quite different,” re-plied-Ethel, opening anotfter-and telling her the story it contained in a few easy, words. But the story failed to charm Phyche, for she had a very serious object in making these ino.uiries. “Can you read them all—all these little words in all these books?” she asked in awe. “Yes, Ethel can read them all, and so will you be able to read them one of these days,” said Sir Henry, kindly. Psyche drew a long-breath in silence. Then turping to Ethel, she said: “Now I want to hear you sing. ~ A song with words!” Ethel took her into the drawing room anff sitting down to the piano sung a simple baHad to he - own accompaniment. “Oh, that is beautiful,” said Psyche, after listening in rapt attention. “I want to hear it again. le* me do it.” And seat.ng herself before the piano she pressed the notes as she had seen Ethel press them; but when nothing bdt discord came fiom her touch she drew back frightened, and looked round to see if we were htugbirig’at her folly. But the poor child’s ignorance and dismay moved us in another way. “You will have to learn a long while, dear, before you can pkfy,” said Ethel, sitting down beside her and taking her hand. “I have been learning since I was quite a little child.” (To be continued.)

What Convinced Him.

The “one touch of nature" that “makes the whole world kin” was added accidentally by a man who, when he was running for tire Legislature# endeavored in vaiu to enlist by his argument the sympathies of a certain old Irishman. This Irishman had great influence with his neighlrors, and it was therefore with some disappointment that the political aspirant saw Patrick IlalfOraiTs expression of stubborn disapproval at the close of an hour's conversation held close to the Halloran pig pen. In the end. however. Patrick and all his friends voted for the man. and one day, wlren his election was secure, the representative called again on Mr. Has loran. “I thought you were against me, Patilvk.” he <aid. "I was." said Mr. Halloran, frankly. "I had no use for your argym. nts that day you stud so long over the pig pen. But whin I minded aftliorwards how whiles you talked you scratebeil the back of the pig till he lay down wid tire pleasures of it. 1 said to mesilf, ’He's all right, no matther If we do disagree on some few p'lnts,’ I said.” Geta Historic Helle. The University of Illinois has lately added a number of relics to its Abraham Lincoln collection. Among other treasures In the university's possession is an ox yoke made by IJmvln at New Salem, 111., in 1830, when he was 21 years old. It remained there until 1849, just after Lincoln's return from his only term in Congress. Then Lincoln and his brother-in-law. Clark M. Smith, visited New Salem together. While there tire two aftonded an auction sale of farm chattels, among which was the ox yoke. When the yoke was ottfreT for sale it was treated aa a made by a Congressman. Lincoln acknowledged having made the yoke, and Mr. Smith bld it off, saying “it was worth taking home as a souvenir because made by bis brother-in-law and a member of Congress."— Milwaukee Wisconsin.

Increased Responsibility.

Uncle —What's that, my lad? You tell me your employer has forced an interest In his business upon you and you only with him six months? Nephew—Yes. sir-; be said if I didn’t take an Interest in the business I’d have to get out—Boston Transcript When nn engagement is announced people are always sure to say: “Well, I think it's about time."

HAVOC IN FOUR STATES.

Flood in Ohio, Indiana and West Virginia. With an estimated property damage of the' enforced Idleness of over H)0,000 persons, almost the complete suspension of Pittsburg's world famous manufacturing plants,"the sacrtflee of two score lives, which probably will be increased; train service annulled, trolley service otit of commission. telegraph and telephone lines crippled. between 20,000 and 30,000 persons homeless? hundreds of homes undermined and ready to collapse, theaters, dosed, guests marooned in hotels, families living in tile second' stories of their homes and nearly all the downtown section of Pittsburg under water, is the record established by a sudden rise in the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio, Youghiogheny, Kiskhninetas and. Clarion rivers, which were swollen abnormally by the combination of warm weather, melting snows and general rain throuhout western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The record of the greatest flood in the history of Pittsburg, which was in IS.">2. was passed, with the . rivers still rapidly rising at. a foot an hour. All predictions, prophecies and guesses have already been shattered and every stream in western Pennsylvania and West Virginia is on the rampage. Tp mid to the confusion in Pittsburg numerous small fires occurred in the IllJotied territory, and_tbe fl remen ha d great difficulty in reaching them. In addition to this, most of the fire engines are engaged in different sections of the city assisting in keeping electric qflants free from water in order- that lights may not fail. The town of Majorsville, W. Va., a community of sixty houses, was entireswept away by the waters of Big wheeling Creek, all the houses were destroyed, but the people had sufficient time to flee to higher ground. Viola was partly destroyed, twenty homes being carried off by tire flood, but the people escaped to the hills. • In Wheeling and the -surrounding towns of Benwood, Martin’s Ferry, Bridgeport, Bellaire, McMechen and Moundsville it is estimated that the flood has wholly or partially submerged fully 3,000 houses, and that nearly 15,000 people have been driven from their homes or to upper floors.

Almost similar conditions are reported throughout western Pennsylvania. The losses in the Connellsville coke region, where mines are flooded and all industries suspended, are estimated at $2,000,000. Johnstowji is reiwrtefl to be practically 0 ke, with the stage of water aF eighteen feet, a foot higher than any known record. Many points’in Ohio are experiencing the most disastrous floods in several years. The Miami and Muskingum valleys so far are the worst sufferers from the flood. At Zanesville three persons were drowned. In Springfield and vicinity more than SIOO,OOO damage has resulted to property and 200 families have been made homeless by tire sudden rise of Mad River and its tributaries. At Findlay flood conditions have been serious. Lima, Hamilton, Dayton and Middleton also report great damage. Seven business houses at Gloucester were swept away and carried down tire river with their contents. All mines in that vicinity are flooded.

Government by Cross-Examination.

An interesting precedent in executive methods was made by Gov. Hughes of New York, when he called to his office Superintendent of Insurance Kelsey, and there, in the presence of stenographers, reporters and public men, subjected him to a rigid cross-examination as to the conduct of the insurance department, thus bringing from Kelsey’s own lips the admission that he had kept subordinates in office whoso false reports had already been exposed, and that he. himself, was ill inYcrmed about existing conditions. This pared the way for the Governor's formal recommendation for the removal of Kelsey on the ground of unfitness, which went into the. State Senate. Tl.i s the Governor, by making good his pre-election pledge to the people, put the matter squarely up to the lawmaking body.

Japan Apparently Satisfied.

Dispatches from Tokio after the passage of the American exclusion bill report the tone of the leading newspapers as eminently pacific and quiet. Foreign Minister Hayashi has explained that af•ter the present treaty shall be concluded Japan will then seek to remove consular jurisdiction, and for this some sacrifice will be necessary. The news was not taken quite so calmly by the populace, and especially the Japanese in Hawaii were wroth. The latter held a mass meeting at Honolulu and cabled a resolution to President Roosevelt protesting in the name of humanity and liberty agninst the prohibition of their immigration to the United States, as it enslaved them permanently to the Hawaiian capitalists.

Roosevelt on Family Life.

That a woman cannot do the best work in her home and for her husband if she occupies a merely servile attitude toward him, is one of the ideas contained in the recent letter written by President Roosevelt to the New Y'ork State mother’s assembly. He urges that woman should have the same right as man to train her mind, and that she should have wholly outside interests and occupations in addition to her home work occasionally.

The New Forest Reserves.

The additions to the nation's forest reserves made by presidential proclamation since March 1 are located as follows: State. Acre®. Colorado 3,022.720 Idaho 966.960 Montana 3,350,140 Oregon 4,052,000 Washington 4,291.000 Wyoming 137,000 Tctal |16,819,820

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1521—Island of Guam discovered by Magellan. 156 G—David Rizzio, secretary to Mary Queen of Scots, murdered by Lord Darnley. 1678 —Ghent surrendered to Louis XIV. of Frances 1702—King William 111. died and Queen Anne came to the throne of England. 1732—Kouli Khan usurped the Persian throne. . 1765— The stamp act passed by the British House of Lords. 1792 —Gustavus 111. of Sweden assassinated. 1801—British naval and military expedition arrived in Aboukir Bay, Egypt. ... . British defeated the French at battle of Aboukir, Egypt. ...James Madison of Virginia became Secretary of State. 1811—British defeated French at battle of Barrosa, in Spain. 1814—-Lord"Wellington defeated the French and entered Bordeaux.... Battle of Laon, in which Napoleon was defeated by Marshal Blucher. 1822—President Monroe recommended recognition of independence of Mexico and the South American States. 1825—Henry Clay of Kentucky became , Secretary of State. . 1829 — Catholic emancipation proposed in England.... John McPherson Berrien of Georgia became Attorney Generab of United States. 1830 — -Petroleum discovered in Kentucky, bottled and sc<d as a medicine.... The “Book of Mormon,” written by Solomon Spaulding, published in New York.. First gold from Georgia mines received at United States mint. 1836 — Arkansas adopted a constitution. .... Massacre of the Alamo. 1837- —Bank of British North America opened its first office at Montreal. 1842 —Income tax proposed by Sir Robert Peel. 1844 John C. Calhoun of South Carolina became Secretary of State.... First issue of the Toronto Globe. 1845 Steamboat Swallow wrecked in Hudson river, with loss of many lives. 1847 —Battle of Vera Cruz. 1849 — Thomas Ewing of Ohio took office as first Secretary of the Interior. 1850— Robert Stephenson sent the first locomotive through the Britannia tubular bridge over the Menai straits. 1853 — Jefferson Davis of Mississippi became Secretary of War. 1854 — Election riots in Milwaukee ' be-, tween Germans and Irish. 1855 — First steam fire engine exhibited in Baltimore. 1856 — Co vent Garden theater, London, destroyed by fire. 1859—Aaron V. Brown of Tennessee became Postmaster General of the United States. 1861— Gen. Beauregard took command of the troops at Charleston. 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge... .Battle of the Merrimac and Monitor in Hampton Roads.... Gen. McClellan took command of the Army of the Potomac. 1863 — Princess Alexandra of Denmark arrived in England to become the bride of the Prince of Wales. 1864 — Reservoir near Sheffield, England, burst, and 270 persons drowned. 1866—Queen Victoria instituted the Albert medal as reward for heroic actions among mariners. 1868 —Impeachment court convened to try President Johnson; 1871 —Treaty of Washington, between the United States and England. 1874 —First meeting of the Prince Edward Island Legislature. 1878 — Steamer Sphinx burned and sunk on Island of Cyprus; 700 lives lost. 1879 — Peruvian port of Iquique blockaded by Chile. 1866—Knights of Labor strike on the Gould South Western railroad systern.

1889 —King Milan of Servia abdicated in favor of his son. 1891 —France consented to arbitration on Newfoundland fisheries question. 1895—Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt secured an absolute divorce from her husband... .Harry Hayward convicted in Minneapolis of the murder of Catherine Ging. 1897 — Queen Ranavalona 111. of Madagascar exiled by the French. 1898 — China leased Port Arthur to Russia for ninety-nine years. 1900 — Theater Francais in Paris destroyed by fire. 1901— Great Britain declined to accept Senate amendments to Hay-Paunce-fote treaty. *’ 1905 General strike of elevated railroad employes in New York City. 1906 American troops killed 600 Moros in battle near Jolo. Howard M. Shaw, now in custody at Brooklyn as an absconder with $5,000 from the Jenkins Trust Company, saved the life of his captor. President Tomlinson of the Empire State Surety Company, when be fell overboard from a boat In Chesapeake bay.

rAfr Tore Hi» Faee. After he stepped out of his machine at Ormond, Friflay, two miles beyond the finish. Marriott said: ' "The pressure of the air fairly tore my face. My eves felt as though they were melting, even 4 under my wind glasses. .... ._ “I gripped the steering wheel like the, last thread of life, croubhed so that nothing but my goggles were above the top of the hooded car, ami clung-there till I thought it was over. I- didp’t see the finish or hear the crack of the pistol. My ears w’ere stricken -•numb for the time being, and all senses but one—to hold the steering wheel, steady—left me. “Toward the end it seemed as though the top of my head would be taken away.”—New Y’ork World.

FADED TO A SHADOW.

Worn Down by Five Yenra of Suffering; from Kidney Complaint. Mrs. Remethe Myers, of 180 South Tenth St., Ironton, 0., says: “I have

worked hard in my time and have been expo se d again and again to changes of weather. It Is no wonder my kidneys gave out and I went all to pieces at last. For five years I was fading away and

finally so weak that for six months I could not get out of the house. I was nervous, restless and sleepless at night, and lame and sore in the morning. Sometimes everything would whirl and blur before me. I bloated so badly I could not wear tight clothing, and had to put on shoes two sizes larger than usual. The urine was disordered and passages were dreadfully frequent. I got help from the first box of Doan’s Kidney Pills, however, and by the time I had taken four boxes the pain and bloating was gone. IJiaye been in good health ever since.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y.

Better than Dying.

When the drunken tramp tried to steal a valise from the Santa Fe train at Holliday a few nights ago he caused a panic among the passengers. In the quiet interval that followed tire firing of the first shot a woman in the ehair car threw her arms around her husband’s neck and : “Oh, John, let’s’die together.” “Oh, shucks!” responded the prosy husband, “let’s get down behind the seat.”—- Kansas City Journal.

Few Know This.

A well-known specialist Is authority that Kidney and Bladder Troubles of all kinds are in nearly every instance readily relieved by taking a few doses of the following simple home-made mixture: Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. The dose is a teaspoonful after meals ind at bedtime. These ingredients can be obtained at any good pharmacy, and are’mixed by shaking well in a bottle. Victims of Kidney, Bladder and Urinary diseases of any kind should not hesitate to make this prescription up and try it. It comes highly recommended and doesn’t cost much to prepare.

In the Glorious Future.

Prominent Club Woman (flicking the ashes from her cigar)—lsn’t this movement for man suffrage supremely ridiculous ! Still, we shall have to look out for that young Klipperbilt. He’s becoming decidedly effeminate these days. Fellow Member—l shouldn’t put it quite so forcibly as that. But he certainly does show signs of becoming a strong minded man.

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His Limitations.

Capt. Kidd, who had been swearing at his crew,- was apologizing to his passenger, an aristocratic gentleman whom he had captured on the high seas and was holding for ransom. "1 know I do it awkwardly,” he said. “I can only swear like a pirate. I can’t swear like a Chicago teamster.”

Stood the Test.

Allcock’s Plasters have successfully tftood the test of sixty years’ use by the public; their virtues have never been equalled by the unscrupulous imitators who have sought to trade upon the reputation of Aileock's by malting plasters with holes in them, and claiming them to be “just as go« 4 as Allcock’s.” Allcock’s plasters stand to-day indorsed by not only the highest medical authorities, but by millions of grateful patients who have proved their efficacy as a household remedy.

Not Far from It.

“I have heard it said that Mibbsley’e fortune is close to $1,000,000.” “Correct as blazes. It consists of the two ciphers that follow immediately after the decimal point."

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