Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1907 — Page 6

A SMILING VILLAIN.

CHAPTER XV.—(Continued.) “Don’t be angry}" be whispered pasnionately. She could feel his quickened breath on her cheek. Her “hand fluttered like a bird’s wing in his grasp, then lay quiescent. “On my honor, I won't try to -keep you against rout will.’’ “I’m not angry, but ” "Yes, I know. This sha'n't count. It's |ust my foolishness. I won't try to influ-•nce-ywa,™ "But M is really wrong,” Aileen protested weakly. “You see, it’s of no godd. I—l don’t mean anything, and it seems such a pity you—you should waste — your—affect ions." Billy drew her a little closer. “Hang the future!” he said nk’klessly. “I mean to make the most of the present. It does not matter— afterwards when I have to pay the piper.” Perhaps something of the same spirit animated Aileen, for she made no_fuxiherprotest. lint, as they the avenue. Aileen suddenly stopped with a little cry. A bright light was streaming from the school room window, and it had been momentarily obscured by a man s shadow. ~.> “One of the servants,” Billy said reassuringly. “No servant would go by the schoolroom window to Jhe back door,” she said. “It tramp. Bride will be ter T ~‘ But they met no one, nor was there any response an Billy called the servants’ names. It was too dark to see any one, and he suggested a visitor as he rang the bell. Hammond, who was putting refreshments on the.dining room table, answered the summons promptly. No —no one had railed, and she had just been : into the school room with some hot milk for Miss Bride, who was much bettor. “It was cook's shadow you saw,” Billy said reassuringly; but Aileen did not aeem altogether satisfied with the explanation.

Bride glanced up with her usual welcoming smile as they entered. The milk was on the table beside her, and she was looking at the Sketch. There was a beautiful fire, and the room was the embodiment of comfort. Billy was not surprised that Aileen said nothing to her of her suspicions. He sat for some time talking about the evoning’a proceedings and making plans for the forthcoming dance, in which Bride was deeply interested. "IT will be your first grown-up dance, Bride.” Aileen said, stooping to piek up something from the floor. "White satin and pearls. I suppose?” "Moyra said silk would be quite suitable for me. llow mauy people are you going to have?" "Oh, about sixty or seventy, so as not to crowd the rooms! I hope you’ll give t me some dances. Bride? Do you think Robertson will be back in time? You might let me have his address, and I’ll send him a card. Is there any one either ot you would like invited? Of course Lewisson is to be asked. By the way. he added good-naturedly, "1 might ask Mr.—Mr.—what is his name?—Charteris.*' Bride's face flushed with pleasure, but Aileen interposed quickly. "It might add to some people’s enjoyment, but it would certainly take away all Moyra's,” she said rather coldly. "If I have any influence in the matter, please don’t ask him." "Oh. Aileen!” Bride exclaimed, her eyes filling with tears. But Aileen was obdurate, and Bitty, feeling that there was more behind than he knew, changed the subject. When jhf sound of footsteps outside told of the others* return, he rose to go, and as lje •hook hands with Aileen, said laughingly: "There was nothing wrong after all. We need not have hurried.” But Aileen drew her hand away with a jerk. "Everything is wrong," she said tragically. “1 wish I had never gone to that wretched party!” And then, seeing his blank look, she added more kindly;. “I—J don't mean anything in connection with you." ,

CHAPTER XVI. Tin re wa* undoubted sharpness in the domestic atmosphere at the Rectory the nest morning. Every one was tired, and Aileen was undeniably cross and snappish with every one. She sent a message to the big house to say she was too tired to skate that morning, and after being s<j sarcastic to Bride concerning some writing she ought To have donO for her fa ther that the child was reduced to tears, she shut herself up in the school room with the overflowing contents of Moyra's mending basket. The school room "crew” and Vera went off to the pools. Terry went into town to lunrh with a college "chum.” and Moyra, after finishing her housework, joined Aileen. and found that the illhumor had been worked off on a pile of mended garments and darned stockings. Moyra drew her chair beside Ailoon's, and for the nest two hours they talked and sewed, the bright needles flashing to and fro in their skillful hands. "Bertram Charted* used to be our very great friend in those days." Aileen remarked as she threaded her needle. "What awful holes Terry does make.' And how his laundress does cobble! What caused him —Bertram, I mean —to go away in such a burry. Moyra ? I reniem- ' her so little about it, but I've got the Impression that he was obliged to go.” She looked at her sister inquiringly. The color rose in Moyra’s face, and she bowed her bead over Lulu's torn frock. "He was obliged to go, Aileen,” she said in a very low tone. “I can’t tell you about it; I wish I could forget it. But it was disgraceful. I don't know how he conld come back, but every one seems to have forgotten about it except me.” She paused for a second, as if she were tryiag to come to a mental decision. "Do you care for him, AileenT’ "No. I don't !” Aiken answered very decidedly. “He is vary attractive, very agreeable, and very handsome, but to my \ v - / v- #, . '

By VIOLET M. FLINN.

mind he does not ring true. I don’t know I should mistrust him- so much—at least I have some suspicions. I do not think he is at all sincere. Ha is too superficial ; he wants ballas.;." "He always did,” Moyra answered, with a sigh. “He was ambitious : be wanted to be rich, and yet he would not work or settle to anything, and he was weaker than water. They were sad faults in a young, fellow, they are worse in a man. Aileen, did you eyer know I was once engaged to him?” Aileen dropped her work with an amazed exclamation. “Yes —for a week Only. It was just. before mother died that —that it- was. broken off. I sometimes think. thq worry and anxiety of that time helped towards her death. It is a thought that does, not make me like him better, I was only seventeen, and we had been always to--jj<*tber?t-a4HHie—yes, I think he was very fond of me, and every one said I .had his future in my hands, and I was very young and inexperience,d, and somehow I lot myself be persuaded. Father and mol her both said I was far too young, but old Mr. Charteris—he was alive then —was very anxious for the engagement.” You see,” she said, in a lower tone, “he knew about —well, -there was another girl, and —and^—ph, Aileen, you know !’* “What a shame! Never mind, dearcst ! I understand.” “Well, the engagement lasted just a week, and no one was to know :■ but T suppose the servants got an idea of it, and talked, and—and then the girl's mother came to father. Oh, Aileen, to this day I hate to go into father’s study! It all comes back to me so vividly. Old Mr. diarteris' was awfully angry about thC engagement being broken off, and Bertram went away for a few days. And while he was a Way I was told—and I knew —something else, and—and his father would not let him return. I can’t tell you What else came out, Aileen, because I am the only one here who knows, even father was not told, though I think at the time be had bis suspicions. But then we were all in such trouble about mother, and, although I seemed to feel the loss of Bertram, I felt the shame and the degradation still more, and there was Lulu to take his place.” There was a little pause; then Aileen said slowly, as,if she were pondering over many things: “I can't understand how he could come back and be so. friendly, and—and forgetful.” »

“lie was always like that. lie had never any thought beyond the gratification of a momentary whim, and when he forgot any trouble or vexation, be thought every oue had done the same. I remembor mother’s once saying that he should have been named Reuben. ‘Unstable as water, thou shall not excel,’ she quoted. But you understand now, Aileen, why I feel so unhappy about his taking any notice of Bride. It pleases him to do so at the time, and when he has tired of her he'll go off quite gaily and easily, and care nothing that be has made her like him and 'that her heart is broken.”

“t >h. 1 hope it -won’t be so had as that!” Aileen was frowning; her firm lips were closely pressed together. ■ Her own thoughts were far from reassuring. She looked once or twice at Moyra, and then decided to keep them to herself for a little while. “I think we had better send her away for a few weeks,” she said. “She's really so extraordinarily pretty she ought to marry very well. Only she is so simple.” “She can't go before the Fentons’ dance: but that is suite soon now. After that she can easily go to the Ilamiltons for a time. She likes being there. I wish I ley wood Fenton would fall in love with her, don’t you? She looked so sweet in all those wonderful diamonds,” Moyra went on. without noticing that her wisli did not seem to meet with warm response.

The'mending was finished when the bell for luncheon pealed sonorously through the house. Aileeu rose and stretched herself lazily. “1 think I’ll go to ‘the pools’ for an hour this afternoon,” she said. "By the way, MOyra, 1 ley wood Fenton” —Aileen never spoke of him in any other way, and ■plways addressed him as Mr. Fenton, whereas all the others used the familiar "Billy"—"is laboring under the impression that Angus is an acquaintance of Bertram’s.”

“They have never met here. I don’t think so. Although I remember that Mr. Robertson was once looking through the album and saw a photo of Bertram takeu years ago, and at first he thought it was a man he knew; but when he heard the name he did not know it. I.think Billy must be mistaken. ■ "Very likely," Aileen assented. As soon as luncheon was concluded she dressed and wont off to “the pools," which lay on the other side of the low hill that rose from the river’s edge. It was a warm, bright day. and there was a sweetness in the air that did not promise much more skating to the enthusiasts whom she could see skimming over the chain of shallow marsh waters known locally as the pools. She could sec Lulu in her scarlet hat disporting herself merrily. and as she drew nearer she could distinguish one or another whom she knew; hut it was not until she was quite* close to -tlie but,< beside which a fire was burning, that she saw Bride sitting on a chair anC .alking very earnestly to Bili,.

. “It is too bad!” Aileen heard her say. "Moyra and Aileen are always stopping my pleasure.” She - looked up eagerly as Aileen approached. and a look of disappointment came over her face as she saw who it was. Billy, on the contrary, was radiant. "llow late you arc!” he cried. “Don’t let us waste any more time" —and he hastened to put on her skates. They were skimming over the ice together. when Aileen said abruptly: “Was Bride asking you about inviting Mr. Chartori *7" “Yes. poor child! I was awfully sorry to refuse; she seemed so set on it I

say, if V told you something”—glancing at her doubtfully—“l’m afraid you’d ba annoyed.” ' Aileen looked at him anxiously. “Is it about——” she began.,, “Last night,” Billy concluded, biting his lip. They skated towards a deserted part of the pool. WL=L-hope-yomfonT think me interfering, or anything of that, but I Ithow you and Moyra don’t liks Chtfrteris, and I_ think he'i awfully low class myself. You rem'ember last night! Well; after I left you I thought I'd just gp round the circle and, .the shrubberies and satisfy myself that there was no one there. So I 'Went round by your-kitchen garden and our glass houses, atfd‘ by the time I gotback to the a yen ue the uioon was well out, and I saw some one going up the avenue walking on the grass. I wouldn’t swear to it, but my first impression was that it was Charteris. Of course I may have been mistaken, but—* — “You were not,” Aileen said quickly. She put her hand into her pocket and, taking out her purse, produced the broken half of a gold sleeve link with an entwined "B. C.” engraved on it. “I pickedf that up on the school room floor,” she said, with a sob that seemed forced from her. “He was there last night,, and she never told u.s !” ,—■- -• ‘ Billy did not know what to say toiler. He had no doubt that the man he had seen was Charteris, who had evidently been desirous of not being recognized. Yet. what could have been ifc&jggfp in maintaining such secrecy? He had not .been forbidden the Bouse, nor was he Bride’s acknowledged lover. They might be mistaken, he said aloud. Perhaps Bride had kept the broken link as a love token, and had "if unwittingly. But Aileen put aside such explanations impatiently. - -“The truth is we have all gone the wrong way w.ith Bride,” she said. “Angus said we coddled her too much, and it’s quite true. We ought to have let her get her experience for herself, instead o Label* tring her from even.vtliHig disagteante an 3 uncomfortable. The result is that she Is bound to be controlled by a stronger will, and when that will comes in the form of a young and fascinating man she submits to it at once. You beard what she said about Moyra and me. Do you think that Bride —Bride, of all people, would liavs ever said such a thing or thought it if the idea had not been put into her mind first? And do you think that she, who is as open as the day, would ever hold her tongue about any one’s calling unless it had been suggested to her to do so? Aileen stamped her foot. “We are so powerless, she cried. “Suppose I tell father; ha would only forbid him the house, and Bride would consider herself still more ill-used, and he’fl still make opportunities to see her. But Bride, Bride- - Oh, Billy, help me! Tell me what I am to do!” -=- He could hardly believe his ears. 10 think that Aileen, always so self-pos-sessed, so confident of her own powers, should come to him for advice and help, and show so plainly that she thought he could give it, was bewildering enough to drive away every idea he had. But he made a vigorous attempt to keep his senses about him and to think deeply. _ “I don’t for a second think there’s any likelihood of her eloping with him or anything of that sort,” he announced slowly. "But she’s immensely taken with him, and she’s very simple, easily led, and fascinated by his superficiality. And she’s awfully romantic, and no doubt imagines herself the heroine of a three-vol-ume novel; and of course any opposition would only feed her ideas. If I were you I’d pack her off somewhere, and not give Charteris any chance of knowing where she is, and then if he really means anything ” “But he does not, and he knows that father would never countenance such a thing.” “Well, then, send her away for a change, and until she goes I'll help 'you to see that Charteris is kept as much at arm’s length as we can manage.”' Aileen’s face brightened, she looked at him gratefully. There was a smile on her lips aiul a friendliness in her manner that made Billy bold. , "Suppose for the next few days I enter the lists against Charteris?" he said, watching the varying expressions that flitted over her mobile,face. ‘Tlowjvould that do?” Aileen scratched a hole in the ice with her skate blade. - “l>o you think you are likely to be victorious?” she asked demurely. “You are very conceited. I'm afraid.' "I could bowl Charteris out if I set myself to work; but in such a case I should expect a fitting reward.” She looked at him archly and skated awa . v i/W looked lovely in those diamonds," ihe said over her shoulder. (To be continued.)

Cows Cross the Sea.

The arrival in Tokyo of fifty valuable American cows, with the expectation of a flo£k of sheep, may go far toward minimizing the friction ..between the American and Japanese governments. Experiments in provisions tried during the Russo-Japanese war have convinced the Tokyo authorities that the Japanese army and navy badly need a meat diet. Meat diet is particularly the enemy of the beriberi, by which pest so many thousands of Japanese recruits have been incapacitated. It is singular that. so far. uo large scheme of cold storage has been adopted in Japan, and this would appear to be n profitable opening for American and Australian cnpital. Mutton is hardly known throughout the whole of Japan. There are no native sheep, the pasturage being altogether unfit for them. r Any are purchased mainly for the foreigu residents, are brought from China and killed In Japan. Not one Japanese in a hundred thousand has probably ever tasted mutton, and amoug the foreign population this meat is so prized that to send n shoulder of mutton to a friend is considered quite a delicate attention.— Tokyo Cable to the New Y’ork Times.

From coal refuse are obtained 400 colors, many perfumes, several explosives, a great number of wffds and medicines of incalculable value, saccharin, asphalt, numerous insecticides; salts, fruit flavors, lubricating oils and varnish. 2—r- 25,

FARM AND GARDEN

Pigs will thrive on skim milk as on nothing else. , Eggs and mites are never plentiful on Wie same farm at the same time. There are no tonics better for the calf than plenty of sunshine and pure air. It is the unproductive things—tliings--that are neither growing tßuTproducing—that keep a farmer down. No animal will deteriorate so rapidly from neglect or show so marked an Improvement for / good as a well bred Streep. * v The Angora goat breeders of Oregon say that the annual clips from their flocks amount to nearby $150,000, while the value of their yearly increase approx 1m a tes $550,000. WWlirPorn and at fa 1 fahny vrttl "prertiuee excellent beef, the addition of cottonseed meal,‘"even if you have to pay $23 to $25 per ton, will make a quality that will bring more money. . * Why farmers who can readily’ grow or buy corn stover and hay at low' cost continue to purchase some of the low grade oat and other feeds which are little richer in protein than oat straw, they only can answer. After cream becomes soufl, the more ripening tfie more it depreciates. The sooner it Is churned the better, bat IT should not be churned while too new. The best stage for churning is when acidity begins to become apparent.

Heifer calves intended for the dairy mnst be kept growing continually, as any check in their growth is a cause of loss in size and development of the digestive organs and consequently affects the future value of the animal.

Feeding and general care and management have as much to do with increasing the product of individual animals as breeding or blood. But it must not be forgotten that undue forcing shortens the life and usefulness of the cow' very rapidly.

Fall pigs do better if they can have plenty of range. Exercise and variety of feed will keep them in good health. If the farmer will give his pigs a fair show for exercise along with suitable shelter and feed he will find two litters per year will pay better than one.

The rural school too commonly suffers for want of variety. This Is not because this condition cannot be alleviated, but simply because it Is not. The general course of Instruction needs brightening with what might be said to be laboratory work or practical studies in thlngs to be found on and about the farm.

One of the most harmless and bene ficlal foods Is linseed meal. When the flock appears droopy and seems to lose appetite, the fowls may be restored to health very readily by giving them linseed meal and this soft food once a day. A gill of liuseed meal to every ten hens is sufficient. It should not, however, be used as a regular'diet.

If you do not believe the cows look upon a strange dog as an enemy, just watch them when such an animal comes Into the yard. The horns of every one will be high In the air. You can hear the cattle sniff, and while some will charge on the dog, others will turn tall and run like deer. Every such Invasion costs more than iyou know In the flow of milk as well as Its goodness.

A most successful dairyman says he can make dairying pay good returns when he can grow and market his potatoes for enough cash to pay all of his feed hills. lie Is making about 120 gallons of 12-cent milk every day in the year and hires two men "and one boy. At present he Is working 112 acres of land and outside of his dairy Income he has sold more than SI,OOO worth of hay from h!s farm this year and 3,000 bushels of potatoes.

Gobbler Hutches i'kb* Because an'old gobbler always ehused off the turkey hens that were trying to do their duty in hatching out a brood of young turkeys, Mrs. John Btoudt of Alburtls, Pa., took the twen-ty-two eggs and put them under the old gobbler, shutting him in to his task. The latter has now been on the Job for two weeks and gives no signs of weakening. He is very cross, though, and no doubt will make a poor mother for the brood.

Sowing I'rlmnon Clover. Crimson clover gives the best results when sown In late summer, preferably from July 15 to Sept. 1. It Is most commonly planted in corn or following « small grain crop. In the latter case the land should be plowed and pat in good condition before seeding. Considerable difficulty Is often experienced in a stand of crimson clever.

Indeed, it is a common sayingthat U must be sown between showers in oi> der to be assured of a stand. It is important always to use fresh seed, at the germinating power deteriorates rapidly. Ordinarily twelve to fifteen pound!., per acre are used, but good results hava been obtained with smaller quantities. In some cases the failure to obtain a stand has been, attributed to the lack of inoculation. In any event it is always desirable to Inoculate the seed or the soil before planting on, land for the first time. Even if a Stand is only obtained two times out of three, crimson clover is still a very profitable crop to grow. —C. V. Piper. $ ’ 1 Selecting the Brooil Sow*. Some sows which have been good mothers may be getting old and careless. It is best to discard these. A tried brood sow which has fulfilled all the requirements i§ worth keeping for several years or as long as she continues to be profitable. In the selection of the gilts, study' first the dam, giving the preference to those from the large, even having the desired qualities. It is well,, to look to the breeding of the sire, for, while the boar probably has but little influence upon the number of pigs per litter of his immediate- offspring, a sire of large litters would be likely to transspring. ThoVv out the short, chubby gilts and those that have contracted heart girth or are narrow between the eyes. The gilt most likely to make a good brood sow will be well developed and vigorous, broad between the eyes, with a good heart girth, fair length, good depth of body and standing on strong legs and feet. With such methods as these in the selection of breeding stock, coupled with rational care in their feeding and management, writes George C. Wheeler in Kimball’s Dairy Farmer, we would hear far less complaint of the sort so common. 2

Sheep on the Farm. One of the main advantages in the keeping of sheep is that they leave the land in better condition than before it was occupied by them. Every farmer who will properly manage his flock can improve the fertility of his soil from the resources of his farm by means of his shepe until every acre of land of prime quality will produce 100 bushels of Indian corn, shelled. It Is demonstrable as a general proposition, true of nearly all kinds of fanning, that every kind of domestic animal, up to a certain limit, can be kept more profitably than It can be dispensed with by farmers. This is especially true In relation to sheep, which are more general feeders than any domestic animal except the goat, as sheep will eat nearly every vegetable product with a good relish. Sheep will lyowse on brush and kill out the wild grasses. They will get abundant food from the scattered grata and springing of weeds on the grain stubble. They are good scavengers of weeds and fallen apples in the orchard, while during all this they are making mutton and -wool out of weeds anti waste. The cost of keeping up to the point where all this waste matter is consumed consists only in the Incidental expenses, while the returns are manure, ‘muttom wool ancT Increase of the flock. 11l addition to doing service In utilizing weeds and waste on 'the farm sheep will accept foods-lri winter that may not be relished by cattle. But little grain is necessary to keep a sheep from fall until spring, provided comfortable quarters and an abundance of hay are allowed.

Renewal of Old Orchard*. An Ohio bulletin contains practical lessons In orchard renewal as conducted at the Ohio Experiment Station, where a block of run-down apple orchard planted some forty years ago was brought into profitable fruit production, In order to cover the Interval from the time of planting young trees until they should come into full bearing! The various phases of the treatment are discussed and Illustrated by several figures. Based upon the treatment of this orchard, the autbbr Is of the opinion that old orchards can be renewed In such a way as to produce fine fruit for home and market while the young trees are growing and that the plan of renewal, which Is a process of pruning down the trees, brings about conditions under which Insects and fungi can lie so easily and effectually combated ams controlled as to a minimum the danger of their spread to younger plantations. •• During the first season of renewal the topmost branches should be cut out, leaving all healthy side branches. The next season the horizontal branches may b« pruned jo as to promote a uniform, well-rounded, symmetrical head and top. Suggestions are given as to the method of pruning and dressing large wounds caused by severe pruning. Heading back should be followed up by discriminate thinning of the new shoots and by cutting back those selected for future fruit bearing. Renewal of orchards may be profitably accompanied toy the addition o( stable manure, either worked In the soil or allowed to remain upon the surface mixed with straw as a mulcts Suggestions are also given for the n* Mrwal of orchards other than apple.

Some Queer Indian Names.

| However ‘rapidly the Indian Is traveling the path of civilization, it is plain from a casual reading of the notices in the South Dakota newspapers of inherited Indian lands for sale that their .names do not change. In one of thesa advertisements appear the following: Edward Snow Boy, Emily Crow Dog, Joseph Red Leaf, Little Bird, R. Spotted Eagle, Lob Long Ear, Lizzie Lon* Bull, Jonah Iron Whip, Sampel Four Star, John Omaha, Julia Humming Bird, J. Pretty Feather, Jonah One Elk, R. Crazy Eyes, Lizzie Long Ear, Medicine Born, Feather-in-the-Ear. Cecilia Guriy Feather, Robert Kill Bear. Probably a fourth of these Indian heirs bear the names of white fathers. Half a century ago a colony of Frenchmen settled in the vicinity of the Mandans and Brule Sioux and nearly every : one of them married an Indian. Their progeny are represented by such names as Pieotte, Arcihambeau, Arconge, De Fond, Brunot, Dezera, Tasgye, Bruyer.

TIRED BACKS.

The kidneys have a great work to do in keeping the blood pure. When

they get out of order it causes backache, headaches, dizziness, languor and distressing urinary troubles. / Keep the kidneys well and all these sufferings will be saved you! Mrs. S. A. Moore, proprietor of a restaurant at Waterville, Mo., says:

“Before jising Doan’s Kidney Pills I ’ suffered everything from kidney trou--hlfrs-fer--a-wear-and a-halL_ I had pain 1 in the back; and head, and almost con- ! llnuous in the loins and felt weary all ! the time. A few doses of Doan’s KidI Bey Pills brought great relief, and I | kept on taking them until in a short time I was cured. I think Doan’s Ivldaey Pills are wonderful.” For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.

Scheming Girl.

The matron of a home fqr Immigrant girls, says the New York Sun, discov- | ered that one young woman who 'had I spent three nights in the institution ; was not in reality a newcomer, but had had several jobs in New York. “Why did you come here and try to pass yourself off as an inexperienced girl?” asked the nva.trin vexation. “So I’d get better treatment from my next employer,” said the maid. “Green . ! girls of all nationalities are humored J much more thanjjirls Who are supposed ;to be used to New York ways. They jdoa*t have to work so 'hard, because the ! mistress of the botise in breaking them ; in does half the work herself.”

Didn’t Like the Elder.

Rev. 11. A. Cleveland, D. D., some •* years ago, was pastor of one of the Methodise churches in Taunton* Mass. He was a strong, eloquent preacher, and a man of independent mints At one time' he had some trouble with the ] presiding elder of the district, and duning his sermon the following Sunday he indirectly referred to the controversy, and remarked: i “Why, If the Savior was to appear on earth tomorrow some little presiding elder would pop up and demand his , credentials.”

FURIOUS HUMOR ON CHILD.

Itching, Bleeding Sores Covered Body—Nothing Helped Her—Cullen rn Cnres Her In Five Days. “After my granddaughter of about seven years had been cured of the measles, she was attacked about a fortnight later by a furldus itching and painful eruptions all over her body, _ especially the upper part of it, forming watery and bleeding sores, especially under the arms, of considerable size. She suffered a great deal and for three weeks we nursed her every night, ' using all the remedies we could think of. Nothing would help. We tried this Cutleura Remedies and after twenty- , four hours we noted considerable improvement, and after using only one ; complete set of the Cutleura Remedies, j in five consecutive days the little one, much to our joy, had been entirely j cured, and has been well for a long • time. Mrs. F. Ruefenaeht, R. F. D. No. ! 3, Bakersfield, Cal., June 25 and July ! 20, I'JOG.”

Reasonable Enough.

“I’m told,” said the rector, sternly, “tlikt you play golf on the Sabbath,” “Yes," replied Miss Pert, “but I only use the clubs that I won at our church fair.” —Philadelphia Press.

The Erie Railroad has not killed or fatally 'injured a passenger for more than a year. The road carried 58,196,1.13 passengers from March 1. I!to.*>, to Jnty 31, 1907. and i(s record is said to be the best In the United States.

His Day of Vindication.

Long Suffering Wife—Avery.. Gayman, you’re no good on earth ! The Husband —My dear, you’ll change voor ralnd when yon hear the funeral sermon that will be prenehed over me soma day. Lewis’ "Single Binder” straight 5c cigar. The Highest price 5c cigar to the dealer and the highest quality for tha smoker. Lewis’ Factory. Peoria. 11l

Plenty of It in the Family.

Raynor—What Ninkum seems to lack is individuality and self-assertiveness. Shyne—That only shows that never met buy wife. - - - F| -f» o SI. Titan' Danra and all H«r»w Dlwm, 9 10 I’tranKalll) andlq Dr. tllm tUnu Karra Raatarar. Sand fa* Krrr *S ul.l I—tala aod taaataaa PR. R U. KMNK. I*. HI Sark Mraai. FfciUdalpkia, r» The salmon i& the swiftest of the fish family. Xrn. Winslow • Soorawo Strut far CMMrt% vm itfsr* 11 -’ *