St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 3, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 5 August 1893 — Page 2

= - ST & ,"f'\ -—J—,-/J {7 }-/»¢‘. (o, < . . T\ —d ;Z AT O SN o " / '%E\ Y ‘f—*"m‘v—- ) W, - LT ~ T e ) Wik ’ AR LG 2 /A 2 R / S LPR A R ;‘ré NP E R )RR DAY . v W '74,:,': "# TFe s w;;_,‘?’,fi ISt P A sl : Ga\PF‘Or raond §Tele CHAPTER XXVlll—Continued. It was rot a time for formality. The hearest to h'm, Ellen, was caught in his ; arms and kissed, and then he folded Lea | to his heart. i “Oh, Ralph,” said Teca, “we have ! passcd a night of horror. But we care { not now for that. How has gone the ' Laitle:” i “God has prospered the right,” replied | the Captain. I - “And you have won?” asked lLoth, eagerly. “My gallant men have won, and Un- | tilia’s hand will this day raise the flag | of our province above our prize, the pi- / rates’ ship,” : Tae giris gave thanks to God, and then asked for their frie ds. : “Mr. Dayton is safe, but Hedges, gal- ! lant Hedges, is wounded; not seriously | I hope, for I want the world to knowg that to him, more than any one else | under heaven, we owa our splendid vie- I tory.” While the captain was speaking, the | companionway became darkened and | Untilla, Valentine Davton and the Sur- i geon came down, supporting Lieutenant Hedges. ' They laid him cn a lounge, anl when | Lea and Untilla knelt tezide him and took his hands, he said, with a sweeci smile cn his bronzed face: i “It is only the loss of blcod, my | dears. Bless your noble hearts, I shall | soon be ready for sea again. But what | matters it. We have won; we have ' beaten Captain Kidd, the pira‘e. and | even ceath is not horrible in the face o. | . such suecess. Hwrah' Hur——" ' The Lieutenant raised his right| hand, showing that the hilt of a broken sword still hung to it, and he would | have gone on with his cheer ng had not | the Surgeon rushed to his side and | rositively forbade it. l “I tell you, Val-——l mean Mr. Dayton,”’ i said the Lieutenant, when Untilla had ‘ takerm the fragment from his wrist, and he gave his nephew his hand, “you did ! gailantly, my lad. You fought the old ; Sea Hawk just as I knew you would. | "But we cculdn’t have won, not; even with Captain Denham’s timely aid, if is hadn't been for Untilla. 1If; I were King I'd share my throne with | hoy. : i “But you are a king, uncle, and if at the right time the offer is made, who | knows,”” laughed Valentne. | Both ships were badly shattered, and | Captain Denham, with the eye of a true | sailor, saw the necessity of getting ! them to the quiet waters while the wind and tide were favorable. 1 ile gave the order to clear the decks. | The pirata dead were put in weighted | - lam nocks, ani dropped overboard, and f the wounded were cared for as wellas | those of ihe Sea Hawi. | In ten minutes more Valentine Day- | ton, to whom the generous captain gave ' the command of the Sea Hawk, would have ordered up the anchors. as Ralph had done on the Wanderer, had not the attention of all been attracted by signa's from the sho.e. | Through h's telescope, Ralph Den- ! ham saw Doctor Hedges and his com- | panions ctowding down on the heach of | Gardner’'s Island, and he took in the . sifuation. | Doctor Hedges hal witnessed the | fight between the ships, and his firin be- | lief was that Lea was killed at the first ! fire; and he felt, to the end of the con{est, until he saw Fox making for the shore near by, that the pirate must win. He and h's {riends were soon after taken on board the two ships. Dr. Hedges was crushed. After em- E bracing his caughter, which he did with | an affecticu that was strong and genu- l ine, he sat apartin silence, and wat-hed | Captain DLenham as he came in and went out. I At length the Doctor rose, and, ex- | tending his hand, he said, in tremulous | accents: ! “Captain Ralph Denham, sir——" i “Speak, Doctor; I am your friend,” i gaid Ralph. ‘ “I know you are, Captain; but, Sir; T | do not deserve such a friend. lam un- | worthy your regard, and Squire Condit | should never speak to me again. lam afraid I am a fool.” “Not at all, Doctor. This fellow Kidd | deceived us all.” ‘ “Will ke get away?” | “He can’t. I have sent amessenger to |- Mr. Gardner, and_he will soon be cap- l tured. But see, Doctor; we are enter- f ] ing Sazy Harbor again, and from the |- ciowds of people we shall have a-hearty | welcome.” 1 The Captain {urned away to direct his | S ship. . : a - Bide by side, as when first they en- | I tered the beautiful bayx, Loth vessels | came to anchor, and the crowds on! T chore, seeing the provinecial flag on the D Wanderer's peak, cheered themselves I hoarse, and although it was broad day- ; t light the boys lit Lonfires. 1 CHAPTER XXIX. ;Il LGIID AND LADY PALITON. I Captain Denham’s first duty, after he got clear of the delighted crowds that ! 1 besetr him, was to dispatch a well- - mounted rider to New York with the | news of his success. This rider was the ' man Fox had so arbitrarily arrested and imprisoned on hoard the Wanderer, | ] where the Sea Hawk men found him. | It may be said that in the meantime Squire Condit had captured Thrasher, ! and held him to await the action of the | authcrities, who subsequently punished him with'the pirates, many of whom | were hanged in New York harbor. | Lieutenant Hedges was ca:ried azhore | and in the same boat came Don from | the Wanderer and Othello from the Sea Hawk, and when the part the youths had played in the struggle became known they were lionized anl made much of in away that would have | t rned erdinary heads. : The wounded Montauks, at Dr. Hedges' urgent recuest, were taken to his house. It may be that his brother, the lieutenant, suggested this, for, being clo e to the wounded w ‘rrior=, he would | e sure to see a great deal of Untilla, . and in th's he was right. |

s The wounded men of the Sea Hawk, in response to the prayers of friends, were sent to their own houses, where all subsequently recovered. But while the ships were coming to anchor and the people and the sailors were cheering on ship and shore, a differons scene was taking place in the main room of the King's Arms Inn. There were assembled Col. Graham, Lady Paliton, the young pro .incial officer who had accompanied her, and old Dinah, and for a part of the time, Squire Condit. . They had been some time in consu!tation, and Ol'! Dinah had just finished her strange story when Graham said, with a sneer; { “If Lady Paliton chooses to believe | the wild sto'y of a crazy o'd negress to | that of herdead husband's brother, well land good. She is a free agent.” { “A free agent,” repeated the lady, - sfarting to her feet and throwing back the long black veil that so far had ipai‘tly covered her pale face. “Sinco i the day of my husband’s deaih you have prevented my being a free agent.” ‘ “How so, malam?” “How ¢o, sir? Shalll repeat the acts 1 of all theze years of cruelty, the stories of your spies, your attoe npts on my life, /and your eforts to prove me insane, because ——” “Because, madam, you persisted ‘n claim ng that your son, my nephew, | was not drowned at the same time as 1 your husband, my brother. More than { that, mada:m, you persisted in assuring | the worid that I conspired agalust the lives of both.” “En de lady was right,” eried Dinah. “Kidd ’ee knowd it, en I knowd it, en I folled de chile har, to dis Long Island, [ on Ize been har ebber sense,” ' Colonel G:aham raised his hand to l his lips as if to hide a yawn, an | \_\'ithi out taking the slightest notice of Dinah, | he said: | “Os course, you believe this!” ! “I do, sir, and you will learn before | the day passes that others believe it, i toe.” i Turning to the young provineial officer ;fwho had accomypanied her from New i York, Lady Paliton said: . “Fe pleased to call Sqiire Condit.” ' The 5 uire, who was waiting ou'side ' came in, and, in obedience to the laly’s request, he told of the co ning of Ralph ' Denham to his house twenty-one years ' betore. . “And you remember the man who brought him to you?” asked Lady Palitan. “I do, madam; it was this man, Col. Graham, and every year since then he has sent me money for the care of the lad, not ono penny of which have I spent, but have it all at interest. The boy became a; dear to my heart as if he were my own, anl God wijl bar me witness that Ralph Denham is a young man that a king need not be ashawmed to acknowledge for his son.” “You hear this, sir,” said the lady. “Have you any reply?” “lI have none, madam. You have no right to question me, and I only yield in order to humor the mania that has possessed you iike an evil spirit for i years,” said Graham. ° i Aturacted by the shouting of the peo { ple outside, tor the chips were anchor- | ing in the bay, the Squire left-the room. | Up to ths time Graham firmiy believed that FFox had told him the truth -about Ralph Denham, and that the lat- ' ter was dead. Andl just then he would have rejoiced to know that the pirate had met a similar fate. As if in re- ' sponse to his wish, he heard a man shouting in the street: ~ “Hurrah! hurrah! the pirate Kidd is beaten and his ship eaptured!” “Kidd would never surrender, ” thought Graham, and for a moment he thought the fates were siding with him. “De ind is comin’; I feel de ind is comin’,” said Dinah, going to the window and drawing back the curtaing so tha' those in the room could see the ships as if they were painted and set in a irame. “See,” she continued. “Darv's Ralph Den’am’s ship, en soon ye'll see Ralph Den’am hisselt.” “Ralph Denham!” exclaimed Graham; then conscious that he made a mistake in not keeptng h s feelings under restraint, he arched his brows and said lightly, “I shall be pleased to see the gentleman.” Com'ng quickly back Dinanh pointeda long finger at him, andshe fairiy hissed - as she said: - YAh, ye tink- Kidd he kill Ralph Den’am? Ho, ho, Isaw ’'im in de tomb, but me en Untilla sabed ’im. Look cut ‘atdarship. Ralph Den’am’s on 'er dis bress’d minit.” “No, Dinah, Ralph Denham is here,” said a strong, manly voice at the door. All turned to the place and there stood Captain Denham, very pale and very handsome, and beside him was Squire Condit, The instant Ralph Denham came ashore, the Sqguire, who had learned the story of his adopted son’s life the night hefore from Lady Paliton and Dinah, tcok him to one side, and, without waiting to congratulate him on his magnificent victory, he told him the story of his birth as briefly as possible, announcing the fact that his mother, Lady Paliton, was then at the inn. During all the trials and the combat, Ralph» Denham never lost his head, but now he was weak as a child. He gave no thought to the wealth and honors that might be his by right of birth, but the ithought that he, wiho remembered nothing of a father’s care or a mother’s love, should have a mother living overpowered him. He permitted the Squire to lead him to the inn and he replied to Dinah’'s words, but beyond that for some his Lrain and heart were in a whirl, and his recollection of events very dim at best. He recalled the cry. “My son! Oh, heaven be praised, my son!” And he recallied the fact that he held the form of a womanin black in his arms, and that he kissed the closed eyes and the white face, till she looked up again and cried, “My son, Ralph, my son!” | Not even in the war with the motherland —whieh came just eighty years alter this— was Sag Harbor so much excited as at this t'me. There were not wanting those who kad alwavys believed that the day would come when it would be shown that Ralph Denham, now Lord Paliton, was of noble descent. = Ur. Hedges was not one of thesze people. Indeed, Dr. Hedges, though thankful that all had turned out so well, was a humbled man, for ha confessed to the Squire that he had nade * a plaguel fool” of himself. He never expected Lord Paliton would marry his daughter, but it was not for this he cared. 1t was the fact that he

V. T e had courted an outiay whom | i i know, and rejected a gentlenian whom he did know, that galled him, . 1 % Those who waited on Colonal Graham in his room at the inn said that from the time Ralph Denham entered ‘the. place till the Colonel’s death, two days. afterward, he never spoke, Dr. Hed; ";":‘*jl ! | attende | him, but he never could fall. > the dicease the man died of, ap dthef w " who knew his black history. made no ! inquiries. AT > Within the week a letter egaq% * from the Governor of the ovinee, " than’ ing Captain Denham nnd?hisi"‘f"fif."* > for his brilliant exploit, anl annoaggfl%. g .the fact that IFox—or Kidd—nad been » " captured and sent to Boston, from whigh » poin. he would be returned to England L for trial. e ’i It is a malter of history that Kidd | was afterwar!s hung in London; bat, - | strangely enoug), the erime of piracy L could no: 1o su-tained against him, and ' the charge on which he was convieted | was for murdering an I'nilish £ailor op ' | the isl nd of Madagascar., LR 1 | The governor also ordered Captain || Denham to bring his own ship and the | prize to New York, and to come byway | of the Sound, r il A week after the capture the shipsg | were repaired so laras to make saili ‘.“‘? | safe, and on the morning of their g [ | parture some notable evenis happer } | ’ Valentine Dayton was married § & ' Ellen Condit and too' his wife on hogigd ‘ihia sh'p. Lieutenant Hedges said Bo | would like to go to New York, andife | quite- strong enough, if only NN ' } would comos a'ony (o help care for hip" and she consented. *”‘ifi%:% i Lady »Paiton feared that har soiil | ! affections were (ngaged, but hen Judl | I came to know lea Hedges, her fear :-.xf came a delight, and kissing her, after | | Ralph hal told of his engugemex;_ti,xa‘h%: | said: ’ “I have found a son and a daughter, I am blessel " . it Ralph i enham took his wife and mother on board the Wanderer, and he l insisted that his adopted fa'her and | mother should come too. He also pres l vailed on Dr. Hedges and wile to ba | of the purly: and h:brought along Loy ! | and Otheilo to wait oh them. ‘ In New York Bay !alph, to continug the name !y which we know him Ls i met with a royal reception. . The ships) in the harbor were dressel with Hlagsg | all the guns in the battery at the south+] | ern end of Manhattan ‘slaund thunl dered out a welecome. i When the story of his rom.ntic life - became known, the people .orgot the | brilliant exploits ol the past, and the | older members of society recalled the ! fate o the Covernor of Bermuda aud | the loss of his son. % | Doctor Hedges was still humbled, i though the father-in-law of a rich lord;y { but Squire Condit took the whole rat- ‘ ter for granted, and went on ecalling | “his boy” lialph, and behaving n thai; | sturdy, manly way that always distin- | guished him. i j | Ta'ph gave his share of the prize. - money 1o the men, and soon after that | there were more marriages in Sag Har- . bor than ever tcok place in the same period before or since. | At Lady PYaliton's—the mother’'s—- | suggestion, the Wanderer wa3s purs | chased to conviy her sen and daughter | to England, though subsejuently the - beautiiul shipmade a vovage to Amearis | ca every year, when Ralph, hi: wile and .| inereasing ramily came to see their old dear triends, | Don, the cabin boy, went {o Englaod . with the captaln, and his mobhor _gdms- ~ ing to see him, they both remained all . their lives in the service of generoug : : Lord Paliton. : , i Othelio went into the service ol Squire Condit, and though he showad a strong disposition to marry, Dinah would not permit it while she lived, But he was only forecei to live single for a year, : t the enl of which time the old woman d ed and was buried among the Montauks. Uncas never recovered from his humiliation. He took {o drink and was soun gathered to his fathera. : Until a stiil raled the tribe. She {ook a great interest in Mr. Hedges, and after a year became his wife. The Wanderer came back from England as the time, anl on her return- Captaid | Hedge and his Leautiful wife were on board, the guests of lord and Lady Paliton. : And thus it came about that a pest ofl the ocean, a wolf in sheep's clo hing, wa: destroyed by the very devices he had set for the ru'n of othera. 4 And thus it came to p ss, tue noblel by nature was shown to be a noble by! birth; and so proving that “worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow.” [THE ©£ND.! 5 Selling Eggs by Weight. The question of changing the mode ot selling eggs has oftentimes been freely discusse |. Many argus in favor of selling by weight ratlier than by the dozen. But old established ecustoms are very hard to change. There aig reasons in favor of the change. To the strongz argument that eggs differ muech in weight, it may be answered that when they are sold by the dozen it is to those who have their eyes open, and who, therefore, need not pay prices which they consider too dear for egus of a certain quality. To this it may he ! answered that very many eggs are con- | tinually changing hands which are rngt | ' seen at all, the parties who suffer beinkr ! the consumers. “As things are,” say# a writer in the Household Compau:vly “it would certainly pay the producdr b““'fl‘l‘ to keep some variety of fflWll which lays a large quantity of egzs in- | stea !of large sized when they are to' be sold irrespective of size. i An Unfortuniate Suggestion, : In a sn.all New England town there is | an old negio, Pompey by name, ant g l wood-sawyer by profession. He was | complaining to one of his customers one | day about his sufferings Jrom dyspep- | sla, an-l attribufed them to the fact e o L 0 lile Tact that | as he had no teeth, he was una’le to | masticate his {ood properly, 1 “Mell, J.()ml‘wy," caid the gentleman { to whom he had been stating his aijl- t mnents, “why don’t you get a set of false | teclh? They wouldn’t cost you much.” | “False tees!” e¢ried Pompey. * No. | sah, not much, sah! I’se had all de . tees I want in my mouf, suttin sure! | I’se suffered more wid tees-ache dan. 1] do wid de 'spepsy, an’ I was mighty | Jytul to get shet ob my tees. .-\'()bo(":yi won’t git no mo’ tees into my mout, not | while I lib, sah!” i CoLoNEL T. E. DAwSsON, of Grand ‘: Forks, N. D., owns the first military | order issued by General Grant. Itigp | simple document, is No. 1, daled July | 2, 1851, appcinting Mr. Dawson quartermaster and commissary of the Twen-ty-first Illinois. It is signed Colonel U, S. Grant, Springfield, 111, Mr. Dawsop has refused $3,000 for it. :

3§ / HOW ALEXANDER DiED. 4§ mfi “‘ot the Killing of the Czar. {F A pamphlet purporting to give the ‘| brie details of the as-assination of A lex: _,.%}., of Russia, has been %S& lished in Europe by Nikpolaus Notowich. The title of the | pamphlet is *‘Czar Alexander 11l ‘|and His Entourage.” The part of it ?‘; to the tragedy of March 1, |:1881, tells the following story: ‘ zbs last days ¢f February, 1881, | St. Petersburg was !n a fever of un|rest. The people talked and acted W‘“; f calamity pervaded the air. On | Pebraary .8 there was a family dinIner at the imperial palace. During | the conversation the Czar Lecame ir1| ritated by a frivolous lemark by one igw grand dukes, and reproved him fopenly. As the present Czar made g_“fa*"excuse for the embarrassed | young man, Alexander IL com- | marded: | | *Silence! Nobody asked for your\ ?,\;‘mion"' You would do better to oc%fiy your mind with affairs of state. 1 To-mcrrow yeu may reign.” | I After the dinner Count Loris-Mili- | koit appeared and rejuested Princess | Juriewski to persuade the Czar not. 4to attend a certain military parade jpon the following day, butto defer the TXcvicw in deerence to the impression : fifsmn March 1 an attempt would be ;fimde upon his life. A little later { the Czar informed the Grand Duchess | | Alexandra Josephowna that he would | not attend the parade. | “Loris has condemned me to im- . | prisonment,” were his words. | | “How unfertunate!” exelaimed the | | Grand Duchess. *“To-morrow my:’ Son was to be presented to you in his | new capacity of Ouicer of Ordin- | aflce-" | ; '“Humgh! 1 never thoughtof that.” | replied the Czar. “In that case I| will not obey Loris, for nothing in| the world could induce me to cause ! you needless disappointment.” l On March 1 the Czar worked with j Count Loris-Melikoff until i1 a. m. . i and signed the ukase concerning the | intreduction of the constitution. He | then went to his wife, cmbraced her, | and promised to be cautious during | his absence. As he would leave his! little daughter Katherina caucht him by the coat, erying: ‘E *Papa, you have not given me a | single Kiss to-day.” ; “What a terrible creditor you are,” | sald the Czar, laughingly. *You do| pot trust me at all Well, give me! your kiss, and may it bring me luck.” | The Czar rode cut in a close car- | riage, surrounded by C s acks «f the guard. The imperial pa ty ¢ o sed, | on their way to the parade gound, the Mala a Sadowaja street, under ! which a mine had been laid 1v the nihilists, although as vet its existence was not suspe-ted. The peaple along | the route checred th: Czar as usual, | and he recovered from the it of mel- ! anehoiy into which the apprehensions | of his fumily and wministars had thrown himi. The review was undisturbed Ly aceideat. The Czar re-| ceived and congratulated the o:d-| nance oflicer, son of the Grand Duch- | ess Alexaunder, and sent to the Grand | Iruchess word that ali had goue well, | and that the apprehended atticg upon | him appemred to have leen cotemplated vy nobody. After the review | the Czar passed 2, few minutes with | kis old aunt, the Grand Duchess| Katharina Michailowna; thence Y. | proceeded homeward. The coachman, | at his command, drove through the ! less frequented streets, where the leasy danger from the nihilists was apnrehended. At the guay of the Kath:-| rina Canal a young man disguised as @ peasant threw the first bomb. | . Theré was a terrific report. The imp - perial carriage lay in ruins on Lh'!t pavement. The Cossack who had sat | beside the coachman was dead. Two | of the mounteu guards were lifeless | on the ground, and not far away lay " the lody of a little boy with the basket of meat that he had carried ! scattered in fragments round him. | The Czar, pale tut sound, emerged from the wreck of his carriuvze. General Dworiewskl, who had driven up ! in his sleigh immediately, approached the Czar on foot, saluted, and | egged | bis Majesty to hasten with him from the spot. ? My place is by the side of the | wounded,’’ responded the Czar firmly, | as he turned toward the lodies of the | men who were stretched on the red- | dened snow. The crowd had caught ! the murderer and he was bro ght by two Cossacks to the Czar. **Your name!” commanded Alexander. The man jyave an assumed name. f*Are you not ashamed of yoursel{2?” The man refurned no answer. As ‘the Czar was atout to enter Genceral | Dworjewski’s sleigh he asked an ofti- | cer: ‘‘Are you wounded??” ! “‘No, thank God!” was the reply. ‘ “‘L’o not thank God toosoon!” cried ! a man, disguised as a peasant, from | the crowd, and a lomb fell at the Czar’s feet. TFor a moment all was hidden in fire and smoke. When the air cleared the Czar was lying in a'! pool of Llood. | i) am cold,” he sighed, as he | struggled to a sitting po-ture. He was spattered with blood, and his uniform was in tatters. Aronnd him lay ten ofticers and soldiers, some dead. | the rest dying. The uninjured :ol- | diers carried the C.ar to a sleigch. ‘ Eo¢lam cold,” he sighed again, as they laid him among the robes. A soldier covered the Czar’s face with a | handkerchief. The young Count ! Gendrikoff mounted tehind, covered the Czar’s head with his helmet. and held his shoulders. Capt. Kou'ebia- | kien, severely wounded, knelt and steadied the body. 1 **You are wounded, my Koulebia- | . kien?” inquired the Czar faintly. g - My God!” exclaimed the Captain, | weeping, ‘‘what must be your Ma. | jesty’s sufferings!” | The sleigh had hardlystarted when | the Grand Duke Michael hurried up, | ¢ his face distorted and white. ||

IT TR R T I ' “Sacha,” he called, using the Czar's ’ pet name, ‘‘are you wounded:” *“My son, oh! where is my son?” ‘ moaned the Czar. A few minutes | later hie died. : ; | Meantime Cnunt:, Loris-Melikoff sat gconsumng with his coileagues asto i the prociamation of the constitution. iThe fir<t explosion sounded in tne t room like distant thunder. i “What was that?” asked a mini ister. l “Nothing that we nged fear,” .e---i plied Count Loris. ‘Y assume the | responsibility for to-day. Everything i is quiet and safe, and the Czar runs { no risk whatever.” Nevertheless, the | Count sent out Gen. Fedoroff to asjcertain whether he was well. Tke | Generul, sharing the Count’s assur!ancc, walked away leisurely, hum‘ming a song. Hejhad gone but a few ' steps when the second and heavier l explos’on came. The shock broke the | windows and rattled the contents of It,he. room. Every minister sprang from his seat. l ““A carriage! Harness!” shouted Count Loris, his lips white and his larms swinging wildly. Refore the - carriage came, Capt. Koch, spatiered ; With Dblood and staggering, threw lopen the door. He had just come ifrom the quay of the Katharina i canal. l ¢ His Majesty is mortally wounded,”? i gasped Koch. He tried to say more, but his words were uninteiligible. i Count Loris-Melikofl's white tace be- ; came scarlet, then purple, and he i sank unconscious to the floor. ; Prehistoric Diamond Drills. | E During a residence of twg vears fin a tomb at Gizeh, Wilheim Bl Flinders Petrie collected evidence | ' showing that the tools used in work- ‘ Ling 1,600 years ago we:e made with i the jeweled cutting edges, as is the | modern custom. He has given his | reasons for coming to these conclu- ' sions and proves in a very satisfac- ! tory manner that the pyramid build- f i(‘rs used solid and tubular drills, | I straight and circular saws, and many ; - other supposed modern tools 1n erect- | ing that greatest of buildings. He also showed that their lathe tools! iwerc set with jewels and that they | did work with them that would puz- | zle the modern artisans. In one | '!})1:1('0 he found where the lines of | cutting on a granite core made by a v tubular drill, form a uniform depth | throughout, showing that the cut- § ting point was not worn as the work ~ | advanced. The regular tape: of the | core would also go te prove that the | drill wasset with jewels on the in- | ~side and on the outside alike, thereby ; facilitating its removal In some ! specimens of granite he found that | the drill bad sunk 1-10 of an inch at | cach revolution, the pre sure neces- | sary to accomplish this must have | bLeen at least two tons. The cupuc-g ity of the tool and the skill of the | workmen are Illustrated by the clean ‘ cut they made through the soft ani | hard mater als alike, there bein: no | difference in the width of the groo—e | when it passes through soft sand | stone and g.anite hard as iron. Nothing is known econcerning the ma-‘ terial of which their tools are made, * nor how the jewels were set. The | dianmond was very scarce at that time | therefore the only logical conclusion is that they used corundum.—Great | Divide. i Annoying Correcctions. 1 If the malority of people talked less, the peace of so many households would not be disturbed by petty disagieements. Unasked foradvice, anpecessary questionsand comment, are sure to create trouble. Strong-willed folk can live together in peace only when each enjoys periect liberty of action. The spirit of contrad ction is a fruitful cause of quarrels. There 15 a household fiend with a memo-y for dates and detalls, who can never sip still and bear papa say he went down town on Monday at e ght, w thout correcting the statement with the remark that the hour was half‘past. 1f mamma happens to allude - to Cousin Jennv’'s visit as having occurred last Thursday, this wasplike impersonation of accuracy interposes ' with the statement that it “was Friday, not Thursday, which brought ' Cousin Jane. A dozen times a day ‘exaspe ating frictions are caused by | needless corections of this sorg, referring to matters where exactness is 'not really imperative, the affairs in 'question being unimportant, and no v.olation of truth being for an in- ' stant intended. A manifest bit of household wisdom is to refrain from criticism of food. The sauce may not be qu'te piquant enough, the salad may be wilted, but in the name ol decency say nochine about it in cither case. Silence is golden in nearly every instance where a defect obtains 1n the home economy. To‘, abstain from superfluous apologies is | also the habit of discretion. There | should seldom be the occasion for apology in the honsehold, where all would do well and wi-ely to be censtantly gentle and courteous. Meortal Insigniticance. After all, nobody counts for very much in tais world. When he received the news ot Senator Stanford’s death C. P. Hunt ' ngton said vhat his | death “would mike no diiffercnce in the management and affairs of the sSouthern and Central Pacific Railroads,” of which he was one of the | principal owners. Yet Senator Stan- ;' ford was worth at least $35,000,000, | and was considered a very important l factor in the affairs of his railroad companies while he was alive. IL] was Henry Ward Beeclier, we believe, | who said: “If you want to know how much you wiil e missed when yon die poke your flnger in a bowl of water, pull it up, and look at the ho e.””—Charleston Newsand Courier. IN a family group at a picnic, the father always looks proud of his children, but the mother seems proud of , her children and their father, too.

T ———— et s i | i WONDERFUL GROWTH j e ——————— i FROM 10,000 TO 1,000,000 IN TEN , YEARS. ’bR e- - l Bubstantial Evidence of Public Apprecia~ tion — Rapid Extension of a Business : Founded on Merit—When Newspaper Advertising Is Valuable. : The mark of public appreciation | which best indicates the meritorious | character of an article for public use, + is the evidence shown by the necessity _‘of enlargement of business facilities | connected with the production of the "article. The Kickapoo Indian Medi- | eine Company, lccated at Now Haven, | Conn., owning and manufacturing from | the original formulas of the Kickapoo | Indians the famcus medicines of that | celebrated tribe,have found it necessary | to make a substantial enlargement of | their factory by the purchase of }a. six-story brick building, containing | about thirty thousand square feet of floor space, for conducting the enormous and still increasing business of supplying their remedies tq the public. 'This growth has all been witnin the past ten years; and this is the third l time the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. have outgrown their quarters since the | first intreduction of the Kickapoo Remedies among the white people. Their , | business has grown in a ratio of one to ) a hundred; or in other words they are now doing annnally ore hundred times the amount of business they did the first year. Merit a Necessary Basis. This success resulted mainly from the intrinsic merit of the Kickapoo Remedies: since their introduction was ' largely attained with comparatively | little or no advertising, and that principally consisting of parties of Indians with their interpreters traveling from { town to town erecting their camps and [ showing the people just what the ‘ Kickapco Remedies were, and their use. | It was only within the past two years | that the Kickapoo Remedies have been { advertised in the newspapers, and then | only at first in certain sections after | their rale had been established, so a3 to keep the merits of the Kickapoo 1 Remedies bafore the people. This | newspayer advertising, however, has { been of much Lenefit to the sale of ! these famous medicines, and has been Elurgely instrumental in effectinrg the 'need of additional facilities. Many ' people who were not reached before rare now using the Kickapoo Indian | Remedies, and some really astonishing | cures have been wrought by these sim- ' ple compounds of roots, barks and | herbs. When Newspaper Advertising Pays. ' Healy & Bigelow, the agents for the Kickapco Indian Medicine Com‘pany, appreciate and indorse most ' heartily the value of the newspaper advertising for a meritorious article, ‘and say: “We find that newspaper 'readers are very diseriminating, and (inclined to be skeptical at first, but | after you have established confidence | in your goods and the people find that ! your statements are reliable then gour | business is bound to inerease and ex- | tend.” | The Kickapoco Remedies consist of only five articles, all ¢f which are fpuaoly e paoduot as pants harles, gums, leaves and flowers. They are absolutely free from mineral or othe deleterious substances, as attested to ‘after a chemical analysis by R. H. | Crittendon, Professor cf Physiclogical | Chemistry at Yale College. | Kickapoo Inuian Sagwa is a blood, | liver and stomach remedy. Kickapoo | Indian Oil is a quick cure for all pains, | stiffness, soreness, rheumatism ard the | like. Kickapoo Indian Ccugh Cure, as | its name implies, is for throat and lung | difficulties. Kickapoo Indian Salve is | an excellent remedy for cuts, wounds, | cores, eczema, eto., and Kickapco In- | dian Worm Killer is a harmless and ' absolutely certain remedy for those | troubles so frequently met with among | children, viz: Seat, pin and stcmach | worms. The Sagwa retails for $1 a | bottle; the Cough Cure 50 cants; and the other remedies at 25 cents a bottle | or package. . | There is probably not a drug store in ' the United States to-day where the | Kickapoo remedies are not obtainable, | and we are pleased to say that Messrs, | Healy & Bigelow have published in | this paper, and will continue doing so, | some really marvelous cures effected | by the Kickapoo Indian Remedies, and | also unimpeachable evidence of the ab- | solute vegetable purity of these simple vet effectual compounds, that, as some | one Las said, bring “Long life and | Good Health.” { UNLUCKY THIRTEEN. :A Superstition Said to Extend Back te ‘ King Arthur’s Time. ;’ The superstition of thirteen at table | being unlucky, it is said, extends away | back to the time of King Arthur. | When the good British King fcunded the famous round table he requested Merlin, the enchanter, to arrange the seats. Merlin arranged one set of seats to represent the apostles: twelve were for the faithful adherents of Jesus Christ, and the thirteenth for the trait{or Judas. The first were never occu- { pied save by the knights distinguished i for their achievements, and when s | death occurred among them the seal llremained vacant until a knight sur i passing him in heroic and warlike at- | tainments should be considered worthy | to fill the place. If an unworthy knight | sought the vacant chair he was re | pelled by some magic power. The | thirteenth seat was never occupied | but once. The story goes that a | hauchty and insolent Saracen knight ' sat down upon it and was immediately | swallowed up by the earth. Ever after | it was known as the “perilous seat," | and, brave as the celebrated knights ' of the round table are said to have | been, not one ever had the courage ta | sit on the thirteenth chair, and the Ii superstition against it still survives. | Miss LuTiE LESLIE, of Seymour, Ind., aged about 16 years, an only j daughter, fearing a threatened punish- { ment for an alleged indiscretion, took a fatal dose of arsenic. She told her mother of what she had done, saying that she preferred death to being whipped. THE Carnegie rod, nail, and rai} mills at Pittsburg have closed down unexpectedly. Supt. Wrigley says the plants will resume in a sow weeks after necessary repairs have been made, but ’ the 800 employes are fearful of a long shut-down.