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^ ^. TWIL ry HEN ICY W. The twilight is sad and cloudy. The wind blows loud and free. Arid like the wings of the seabirds Flash the whitecaps of the sea. l>nt in the fisherman's cottage There shines a ruddier light, And a little face at the window Beers out into the night. Close, close it is pressed to the window, As if those childish eves Were looking into the darkness To see some form arise. St * | The Ex MARTIN BL I I ?? j = By Franklin V r * ?fe> - I nawjpmg??BB?????3BBK S*' ^r:. rpr?t>33\E evening I stepped into is! Isll Alex Kolley's store, which was also the agency postoffice, to await the slow {^j {S|} coming of the mail, and . ' found that the proprietor had gone out to supper and left the door unlocked. He had no clerk, and inside were a number of "blanket Indians" seated upon boxes and barrels, very much at home. I knew that Government employes at all the Sioux agencies were notoriously negligent in the matter of locks and keys, yet I was surprised at Kelley's supreme confidence in these Indians. When we were alone that evening I spoke to him about the matter. "Oh," he replied, in his easy way, "if there are Indians in the store when I'm ready for meals, I don't send theni oufi Show a Sioux that you have perfect confidence in lilin, and you can trust him with anything you've got. The best c-ierk I had, in the days when my trade needed help, was an Indian ?Martin Blueshield. Martin saved me from loss by thievery several times; the thieves were whites. "I'll tell you of Martin's fracas with 'Big* Kosky. Kosky had a timber claim over here on Laroot Creek. He was some kind of a foreigner and had worked in the pineries; he was the biggest and the meanest man that ever came into these parts. He was a tremendous fellow in size, with a neck and chest like a bull's, and he had a black beard as coarse as straw, that ? .1 lll?/V rt K Arp' C" "V*T*T 1 Aw' aiUUU l Ul 1UC ?l IAV9 O UIAOUVC. "At that time the Indians here, who have always been peaceable, were feeling very timid. It was the year after the Custer fight, and the people of the settlements hereabouts were not well disposed toward the Indians. "I don't know how it is," said Kelley. reflectively, "but most white people don't seem to know the difference between a good Indian and a bad one. Fully nine-tenths of the Sioux have never taken part in any hostile move against our people. Yet this nineleuths have been made ,.0 suffer greater privations than the fellows who did the fighting. "Well, Big Ivosky and some others took advantage of the situation here, and robbed the Indian.: whenever they had half a chance. Xosky, at Laroot Creek, was close to the reservation line, and he had a keen eye for stray - ponies. I suppose he stole and sold a dozen or fifteen of them in a year. I After every loss the Indians would herd their ponies closer for a time: then they'd get a little careless and more stock would disappear. It did not the slightest good to complain; both I and the missionary here went to the sheriffs in the adjoining counties, and tried to get them to put a stop to the robbery. "The Indians :oon came to fear Big Kosky ranch as some people fear evil spirits. They thought he hail a wakan" ?big medicine or spirit?"which protected liim.. They said he could look right through a person and see what was behind him. He usually carried a two-bitted ax with a long handle, which the Indians looked upon as his war-weapon; and they supposed he could throw this through a man at a very long distance. "He used to come to my store now and then to trade, and the Indians always kept away from him, for he hated them and would glare at them like a mad beast. But my clerk, who had been educated in white schools, had lost his fear of wakan men, and it was amusing to me to watch the play between them. " 'Good day, Mr. Koskyr Martin would say, very politely. 'Will you have some rope to-day, or will you have one of these fine knives?' and he would hold up a butcher-knife or a coil of rope for inspection. "Big Kosky's eyes would blaze, and then he'd mutter something in his own language and turn to me for what he wanted. Probably, though, there would have been no fracas between Martin and Kosky if I hadn't been called to Fort Berthold on business. Kosky V came over the next day with a cart and N. yoke of oxen after some flour. When ^ie entered the store he glared at Martifc. as usual, and finding I was to be goncKTor a week or two, he turned on his heH-aE(* walked out. "A littlK^hile afterward an Indian came in anH. t?M Martin that the big medicine was^hun"?white man?"had taken one of ponies, which was picketed in a raving uesiae the road. The old scamp suppofc^d it "svas an Indian's pony. N. "Martin said nothing, bui^^cked the store, saddled his pony, and vi^at after Big Kosky. About two miles mtm the store he overtook the fellow, witbs^J horse tied behind his cart. Then theltP was a lively time. Kosky got off his s cart with his axe and charged Martin, yelling like a wild man. The boy dodged on his spry pony and watched for an openiug. 'Tie circled swiftly around the cart and oxen until Big Kosky was pretty well blown trying to get at him. Then, when Kosky was at the opposite side of the cart, Martin made a sudden dash at the oxen and belabored them with a stockwhip. It needed only a cut or two to set them off at a jump, and Kosky, puffed and tired, was left to shout after the runaways. "Martin ran the oxen to a safe distance. then cut the led pony's rope, and drove the animal homeward, with Bin Kosky shouting after him all kinds of threats. "The old rascal didn't make vain threats, either. Two days later he came on the reservation with a couple of cowboys who hadn't any too good reputations. and drove off a bunch of fifty odd ponies which an Indian boy was herding on Short Pine Creek. "They wouldn't have dared attempt so bold a theft if either I or the rnisv-S IGHT. LONGFELLOW. And a woman's waving shadow Is passing to and fro. Now rising to the ceiling. Now bowing and bending low. What talc do the roaring ocean And the night wind, bleak and wild, I As they heat at the crazy casement, Tell to that little child? ( *?nd why do the roaring ocean And the night wind wild and bleak. As they beat at the heart of the mother, Drive the color from her cheek? ~ % ploit of i UESCHiELD. | /e-Ies Calkjis. I I M [ i sionnry, Mr. Williams, had been 611 the wcorvntlnn Knt ns it wns tliov onlv * I had to (lrivo these ponies to the nearest railroad town and sell them at $10 i or $15 each, and the complaints of the 1 Indians would avail nothing. Such ; robberies of the Sioux were frequent in j those days, and kept even the friend- j liest of them in a state of hostile feeling. "I don't suppose that Martin even j would have dared to follow the ras- j cals if they hadn't run oil" four of my i ponies in the bunch they stampeded. But I had left him in charge of my property, and when a runner came in with news of the loss ho again locked the store, and leaving some Indians c.: i ?. guard, mounted his pony and followed | the rustlers. lie was careful, after striking their trail, not- to come in sight of them until after dark. "About two hours after sunset he i came up with them in the coulee of Chapenu Creek. The" had just made i camp, having run the stock more than forty miles over an unsettled district, j Martin saw them without being seen. I He picketed his pony beyond ear-shot, and then crept close to their camp, j hiding in some bushes where lie could keep an eye on every movement. "The three men were sitting about a j small fire, eating their supper. Their i ponies were picketed close by, and j their guns, two Winchesters belonging ! to the cow-men and an old shotgun which Ivosky carried, lay against their saddles within their reach. "The moon was shining brightly into the coulee, and just below the rustlers ; Martin saw the pony herd in a close j bnncli. most of them lying at rest. "The Indian settled himself to wait, ; and presently Big Kosky got up. ! saddled his horse, took his gun and i vent to look after the herd, while the others unrolled their blankets, laid ! their Winchesters beside them, and j stretched themselves at their fire. "They had been talking together and i laughing, and were evidently pretty ; well contented with their catch: they ; seemed to fool pretty sure about get- } ting off with the herd. Martin watched the fellows like a lynx, and when they \ were sound asleep and Kosky was out 1 of sight looking after the herd, he j crawled into their camp and get both their guns. Then he crawled away j again. "The guns he carried up the creek ! and strapped to his pony's saddle. Thou J he came back just as slyly to look after Big Kosky and the ponies. So far everything had gone to his liking, and now to get rid of that rascally herder. ' "Kosky kept the horses in a elo?e bunch, riding about them with his gun across his saddle, and Martin's prospect for running off any of them looked pretty poor. Whatever he did must he done before the fellows in camp were awakened, for the discovery of the less ^ n .... a..m a.i. ..4 ul uitru guns nuuiu autrm tuew ui j once. "The ponies, however, themselves j settled Martin's plan of action. They'd been watered at Lame Man's Creek, ; some miles back, and toward midnight i they began to want drink, and to drop ; into the bed of the Chapcau to look for j it. The creek was dry, with only a pool here and there in dips of the ehan- i uel; and Kosky, to quiet their uneasi- | uess. worked the bunch along up to one i of the sunken ponds some two hundred yards above Ids rustlers' camp. "Martin followed closely, keeping ! out of sight in the dry channel. Very soon he heard the ponies slipping down a steep bank into the pond; and peer- j ing out of the cover of tall grass, he i saw Kosky ride his own horse down tc drink. Martin could just see the j horse's rump as the animal stood, hall : on end, and the man's head and shoulders, as he sat braced in his saddle. j "There was the boy's opportunity, j and lie took it as quick as lightning, j He crawled slyly out of the grass and got directly behind the rustler. Then, j using the stock of his carbine as a bat- j tering-ram, he made a running jump, striking the man squarely between the shoulders. "Kosky was hurled as if kicked by a mule. He struck the water with a splash and sank like a sack of sand. Martin landed behind his saddle, and i the rustler's horse slid into the water, where he floundered over his breathless master. "The ponies were startled into snorting a little, but they were too thirsty to run, and Martin kept his seat and rode out upon the bank. He tied his : captured horse to some willows, and then waded In and dragged Kosky out into the dry bed of the creek. There | he turned the man upon his face and j slapped his back until he began to . show signs of life; then he tied him, I hands and feet, and left him there to come to and reflect upon the uncertainties of rustling. \"The ponies were now grazing quietlyN^nd Martin moved them up-stream to wb?re his horse was tied, and then drove rapidly home. "That experience settled the accounts of Big Kosky^n these parts. I reckon the whole business was rather mysterious to him. iJe never came on the reservation again, fai our knowledge, and soon after abaud&Jjed his claim. Martin's handling of hira^ave the Indians here some heart to pft>teet their property, and there was less stealing f fri?ntr "\ T 111 51 ui uitrijL oiuvft. J. utj * t *uuw? ? long name?they called him Strikes-N?eBig-Medicine-White-Man.'' ? Youtlnk Companion. > Accidents on Canadian Railways. The number of accidents on the Canadian railroads for the past year, according to the annual report of the Department of Railways, which has just been published in Ottawa, has been very high. There were 330 killed, an increase of 13 per cent, over the previous year, and 1328 injured, an increase of 11 per cent, over 1901. . j IN A STATE OF DOUBT. "You claim to be a law-abiding citizen, don't you?" asked the man who argues. "I don't know whether I am or not," answered Mr. Sirlus Barke. "There'e a lot of laws and police regulations that I never read. I can't be sure that ! I'm not violatin' some of 'em every ? day.?Washington Star. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous* ness after llrst day's use of Dr. Kline's Great i NerveRestorer. Atrial bottleand treatise tree i Dr. H.H.Klinb, Ltd., i>31 Arch St.. Phll&.,P* Some people never put anything by for a rainy day until they see the clcfuas gathering.* Use Allen'* root-Knee. It is tlio only euro for Swollen, Smarting, Tired, Aching, Hot, Sweating Feet,Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder I to be shaken into the shoes. Cures while you walk. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. j Don't accept any substitute. Samplo sent Fiiee. Addross, Allen S. Olmsted. Leltoy, N.Y. The fellow who has. nothing to 6ay generally manages to say it at great length. Fruit acids will not stain goods dyed with Putnam Fadeless Dyes. 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The June number of The Smart Set opens with a novelette by Jame3 Branch Cabell, entitled, "The Husbands' Corned}-." t The story is strikingly distinctive, and as clever as fiction hi ay be. Among the sixteen short stories of the number, the most important are, "The Diary of Dewdrop," an exquisite idyl of Japan, by Onoto Watana; "The Artful Arabella," an ingenious and intimate narrative of an episode at a true house-party, by Margaret Vinton Hamilton, and "A Man, a Horse and a Girl." a strong story of the plains, by Molly Elliott Seawell. A high standard of excellence, as well as of variety, is attained in the other stories of the number, among the contributors being Lady Colin Campbell, Robert C. V. Meyers, Zoe AndersonNorris, Richard D. Ware, Juliet Wilbor Tompkins and Etnel Sigsbee Small. The verse maintains that merit which has won for The Smart Set its literary prestige. The poems 'of the number include Edgar Fawcett, Victor Plarr. Frank Dempster Sherman, Charlotte Becker, William Hamilton Hayne, Elsa Barker, Theodosia Garrison, Clinton Seollard, Minna Irving, Frank Roe Batchelder and a dozen others. The humor throughout is of the best, and there is, too, an essay, "The Passing of the Aristocrat," by Elizabeth Duer, which is of unusual interesr. MAKING LIGHT OF IT. Scribbler?Would you call yourself a poet or simply a versifier? Scrawler?Well, when the editor lights his pipe with my stuff, its a c^se nf vorco pfirp?Philadelnhia. Record. THOUGHTFUL OF THEM. Bacon?Why is it that the landlords won't let children in their flats? Egbert?Oh, I suppose they're afraid the janitors' dogs may bite them.? Yonkers Statesman. His Practice. Knicker?How did he become an expert accountant? Bocker?Proving to his wife that it was twelve when he came home at three.?June Smart Set. mm * Many women and doctors do not recognize the real symptoms of' derangement of the female organs nntil too late. " I had terrible pains along my spinal cord for two years and suffered j dreadfully. I was given different ! medicines,S wore plasters; none of these things helped me. Reading of the cures that Lydia E. Flnkham's ? Vegetable Compound has brought about, I somehow felt that it was what I needed and bought a bottle to take. ' How glad I am that I did so; two bottles brought me immense relief, and after using thijee bottles more I felt new life and blood surging through my veins. It seemed as though there had been a regular house cleaning through my system, that all the sickness ana poison had been taken out and new life given me instead. I have advised dozens of my friends to use Xydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Good health is indispehgiable to complete happiness, and Lydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compbund has secured this to me." ? Mrs. L. Bremer, Crown Point, Indian Secretary Ladies Relief Corps. ? 15000 If original of abooe Utter proving genuineness ebfiiot be produced. Every sick wofran who does not understand lierXilmenf should write Mrs. Pinkbam. Lynn. Mass. Her advice X *ree an<* always helpful. X V v n HE KEEPS AWAKE NOW. Actor Didn't Know Where He M'v From or Was Going. A comedian who is staying at tht Regent, when talking with some fellowactors about the funny experiences they each had in traveling from one city to another, told of a thing that happened to him when doing one-night stands throughout a State last week. "We had actually traveled so much, playing always to one-night stands, that I finally gave up trying to remember names, and just trusted to the majiager to get there. I was usually worn out whenever we reached wherever we were to play, and if we didn't have to give a performance as soon as we lauded I went tb bed and stayed there until we did. Consequently. I saw little or nothing of the city, and as tor names?well, names never did interest me, and it was just this lack of interest that got me into trouble and was the cause of a whole carload of people believing pie a crazy man. We were just leaving' some place to go somewhere else. The train being very much crowded, I was grateful to occupy a seat with an elderly and very talkative woman, but I didn't know that until afterward. She asked me ? - - ti.t -k many questions, auu as i um nui for an extended conversation, 1 made very brief answers, which iterhaps <iid not fulfill the requirements. Finally I was startled ljy her question: 'Where are you going, young manV There wasn't anything very strange about that; but it was the first time 1 realized that I did not know, and so 1 said: 'Really, madame, I do not know.' Of course, her amazement was complete. '"Well, where did you come from?' came back at me. " 'And even that I don't know,' 1 answered; but by that time she had vacated the seat and the hasty glance I gave the passengers proved to me that she had confided to a few, at least, that she had ridden for miles next to 9. crazy man. "Since then I have managed to keep awake long enough to get the names of towns we leave and are to visit." ?Washington Tost. WORDS OF WISDOV. The earnestness of life is the only passport to the satisfaction of life.? Parker. One thorn of experience Is worth a whole wilderness of warning.?Jaiuef Russell Lowell. Let us cherish a sober mind and take for granted that in our best performances there are latent mnvy errors which in their own time v til come to light.?Gladstone. . . The comfortable and comforting people arc [those who look on the bright side or lire, garnering us lust-s mm sunshine and making the most that happens seem the best.?Dorothy Dix. Demand of every common thing of life, whether it be your lody or your money or your daily experience, that it shall bloom Into line results in your own soul and in your influence on the world.?Phillips Brooks. The truest lives are cut rosc-d-ainond fashion, with many facets adhering to the many planed aspects of th-? world about them; and society is alwffys trying in some way or another t-3 grind us down to a single flat surface.- -Oliver Wendell Holmes. In our higher and happier moods, 1 think we all have visions of the truth that we never are nor can be paM for our best save only in the doing of it. Our finest devotion is never recompensed in terms of the market. It never can be. Wc give ourselves, and find in return our larger life.?Frederick L. Hosmcr. The man who spends his years cu earth In shallow enjoyment or selfish case, careless of the world's sorrow aud indifferent of its sin, blind to its finest beauties and most thrilling tragedies. moved by no great love, actuated by 110 high hope, stirreil by 110 holy enthusiasm, is ignorant of all true lift*.? C. J. Perry. Soapsuds For Snakes. There was considerable excitement In the south part of town Thursday afternoon over the discovery of a den of snakes in Miss Ella Beckleen's yard. For several days previous Miss Beckleen had seen a number of snakes near her house, some of which she killed. Upon the afternoon named she discovered a snake emerging from a hole near the slough in the rear of the yard. Thinking perhaps there might be more reptiles burrowed in the ground, she called to her sister-in-law, Mrs. Olof Beckleen, and other nearby Women to come to her assistance. Together with various weapons of destruction they started out to wage war upon the snakes. They carried a tub of hot soapsuds, which they poured into the hole, and the excitement commenced sooner than the women anticipated. The hot water had done Its work Well, and the snakes fairly crawled over each other as they emerged from the hole. Tli way those women flourished their hoes and clubs, with which they were well armed, as they cliased the reptiles about the yard, caused passersby to stop and wonder what W3s going on. But the ladies were brave, ana wnen tne connict ceasea and an Inventory was taken they found they "had killed ten snakes.?Avon (111.) Sentinel. Austria's State Secrets. . The Austrian imperial archives have been lately conveyed from the Hofburg to the great house built for them adjoining the Foreign Office. - They will later on be opened for public inspection, from the most ancient documents down to those of 1840. The rooms containing the secret archives are of ironwork, each story being completely separated from the next one, so that neither fire nor water can penetrate. Hose supplying abundance of water is fixed In every direction, the windows can neither be melted by fire nor destroyed by blows, and the ornamental ironwork before each window can be unlocked in case of emergency. It is remembered when Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Austria and established himself at Schronbrunn, with what terrible haste the secret archives were carried off to Budapest, to the Ofen stronghold, these being the first things secured when all else was left. Among the iron cases stands a plain brown wooden box, which will not be opened for fifty years. It contains the letters and papers of the late Crown Prince Rudolph, hurriedly collected at Mayerling on the day of the disaster, and placed in a boxbought in the adjoining village.?London Telegraph. An Unfortunate Heir. 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There Is nothing more common Uin:i to hear farmers in ail the eastern section of the country say "we cannot jrow apples any more as we once <31d.:' Now, the climate is not to blame for this, and If'apples once grew well with you is it not worth while to study the cause of their failure now? Men realize that for the growing of Ihclr annual crops they must cultivate well and keep up the fertility of the soli, ?ney go hoc cry 10 grow wm i and wheat at the same time on the same field, for they know that It cannot be done successfully, but when it | comes to the orchard they assume that j a tree can not only take care of itself j like the trees In the forest, hut that j they can crop the land for other things ' at the same time and still get crops of apples. Herein lies the greatest of all the (roubles in apple growing, go long as the soil was a virgin soil and abounding In plant food the trees throve in spite of neglect, but as they gradually robbed the soil assisted hr the crops planted among them there was soon a" failure, foy trees a3 w?l! as other erop3 used plenty of available plant food in the soil. Akothef thing that apple trees especially need Is an abundance of soil moisture. It Is useless to apply fertilizers to any plant If there Is not moisture enough in the soil to dissolve them. Hence the importance for providing a soil abounding in vegetable decay to retain the moisture needed for the solution of the plant food applied. Few growers fully realize the amount of the various forms of plant food that an apple orchard takes from the soil. At the recent American Apple Groovers' Congress In St. Louis Professor Clothier gave some very striking figures In this regard which were taken from the experiments made at the Agricultural Experiment Station of Cornell University. He showed that with an average yield (and this is a small one in a good orchard) of 200 bushels per acre, that this 200 bushels of fruit would remove from tlie soil thirteen pounds of Ditrogen, only one pound of phosphoric acid and nineteen pounds of potash, ^nd the ap:fies alone would remove from each acre ?2.4o worth of plant food. Then the growth of the wood and the leaves of the tree must be taken into account, and it takes a very considerabl; amount of food to keep up the activity of a large tree. Altogether there was in the orchard a demand for plant food to a total value of $9.01 per acre. He compared this with a crop of corn making fifty bushels per acre, and * 1 l/i.1 A showed tiiat mo corn removeu ihulmore than the fruit trees, end ret every farmer knows that ho cannot expect fifty bushels of corn per acre unless ho keeps up the fertility of the soil, and j yet we see the same men try in/? to get apples from a soil that has boon drained by the trees in this way for a generation, and not only drained by llie trees, but called upOn to grow a hay crop cr to pasture stock. Is it any wonder that we Cannot grow apples as well as we on?e did? The statement we have given shows that the demand for phosphoric add is very small as compared with that for nitrogen and potash, and the trees will demand more potash than a crop of corn of fifty bushejs per acre, and demand it every year, for there can be no rotation Of erops here. In their young state, when growth is what we ; want, applications of stable manure j will bo of great help, not only in fur- I nishlng nitrogen but in giving some hu- . mus making matter to the soil. If Kainit has been used in the preservation of this manure it will not only make the manure better in preventing tbe loss of nitTOgen, but it will add potash that is needed. When the trees have reached maturity we advise the seeding down to grass, .But Dot in grass to be cut for hay, but grass to be cut only as a mulch for the trees and left on the ground, cutting it several times during the season. Then give the grass a top dressing annually of a fertilizer composed of 800 pounds of acid phosphate, 800 pounds of cottonseed meal and 400 pounds of muriate of potash to make a ton. Use this liberally and get a good growth of grass and every time you cut the gross spread it to decay under the trees as far as the limbs extend and a little further. Then if you attend to the spraying you can grow apples just like you did in your hoyhood and probably better.?W. F. Maseey. k FOLLOWING ORDERS. Mr-. Hiram Offen?Here, Bridget, i see how dusty it is under the bed. Bridget?Yes'm. Mrs. Hiram Offen?Haven't I im- . pressed uposr-yoti that you must swee^ under the beds? Bridget?Av coorse, ma'am, anhow could the dust get there if I had not swept it under??Philadelphia Press. A ROMANCE OF THE PERIOD. Edwin and Angelina, Strictly Up to Date. ("From New York we hear of a lover who does his wooing with a revolver. It is alleged that he put one arm around the lady's waist, and with the other held a revolver to her face. Then he threatened that If she did not agree to marry him he would shoot her."? Daily Paper.) . . . Edwin crept noiselessly and on all fours to the half-opened door cf the armor-plated drawing room. His heart leapt within him. Angelina, dreamily gazing into the fire, was ofT guard! Sliding the door gently forward, he advanced slowly, still upon hands and knees, until he was within the firing line. Then, rising quickly and cocking his revolver, he whispered tenderly, "Angelina!" The next moment the fair object of his desires was upon her feet ready to give the alarm. "Do not, dearest Angelina," he cried. "But listen to me. I love you dearly; you are the light of my eyes, the object of my most devoted admiration ?and if you move in any but one direction you are a dead woman." "And that direction is?" "Into these arms, darling," he re plied. "No! I do not mean these firearms, but these human, that long to take you captive." He paused for a moment and then continued softly: "Immediately hand over the key of your heart, or I shall have to open fire upon you." For a moment the beautiful girl was uncertain what to do. She knew that if her father were communicated with he would quickly bring the family howitzer?which had already accounted for fourteen swains?to boar upon the enemy. Even now he might be marching to her relief. Her brother, too, she thought, was only in the garden, and might be reconnoitering the enemy's position from the outside. She must held cut at all costs. Putting her hand into her pocket, she drew forth her handkerchief and waved it aloft. "The white flag!" he exclaimed; "well, what do you want?" "An armistice for a quarter of an hour," replied the brave girl. "Ha!" he said. "I see. You are locking for re-enforcements. But my brother George is covering your brother's advance from the garden, and your father is already in the hospital. Must I open fire?" He added the last words in a tremulous tone. She looked around her for any aid. But there was none in prospect. "I surrender," she said. The next moment Edwin had taken her prisoner.?London Punch. a? II A DANGER SPOT. A dangerous spot for ^ pain is the small ey, Bright's Discase. Cure KMney and Bladder troubles before they reaeh the serious stage. Read how easily it can be done. W. J. Hill, of 40 South Union street Concord, K. C., proprietor of hardware and liarness store, Justice of the Peace, and one of the best known residents of that city, says: "Doan's Kidney Pills proved a very efficient remedy in my case. I got a box at the. Gibson Drug Store and used tliein for disordered kidneys and backache, from T bo/1 n orrno f /lool ? llllil a 1kh1 uvvvt ti vut uvu* of annoyance, trouble and pain. The kidney secretions had bothered me for a long while, were very irregular, dark colored and full of sediment. The Pills cleared It all up and I have not had an ache in my back since taking the last dose. My back Is much stronger and my health generally is improved a great deal. I am glad to make a public endorsement of the Tills, trusting that it may be the means of relieving some other sufferer." A Free Trial of this great kidney medicine which cured Mr. Hill will be mailed to any part of the United States on application. Address Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, X. Y. For sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per box. When Rich and Careworn. Of course this .Is a wicked old world, a troubled old world, and always will be, but in It there is more unhappiness than there need be, (nvloootlfloj' oil^h atlinlh 1<4 7v IT1UI O 1VOOUV.UU, UUV.M unhappiness and joylessness. If people would only open their eyes cultivate their senses, use the gifts at hand, instead of repining, envying, sleeping lifo away. Are you rich and careworn? Well, that is too bad, and no light trouble either; but you can help yourself. Each day take, by fair means or foul, an hour or two to yourself, writes Katherine Pope in the Pilgrim. Walk, walk, walk, miles up and down. If it be "singing, weather," find some secluded spot, on soft green grass or warm sands by the water, lie flat on your back, stretch out to your full extent, and take in long, deep breaths. Virtue will enter in to you from mother earth. Your tingling nerves j will gradually quiet down; little by little the^ lines on j*our face soften, I and by and by your whole being will relax and mayhap you will fall asleep in the sun. I? 8 FF STUART'S"" rfltbCINand BUCHU To all who softer, or to the friends of tho^e who suffer with Kidney, Liver, Heart, Bladder or Blood Disease, a sample bottle of Stuart's Gin and Buejiu, the great southern Kidney and Liver Medicine, will be sent absolutely free of cost. Mention this paper. Address STUART DRUG M'FG CO., 23_Wall St., Atlanta, Ga. I wwmMPs&ivI | | ! cartridges and shot shells I are made in the largest and | best equipped ammunition I I factory in the world. AMMUNITION !of U. M. 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"I had often heard of Peruna s an excellent tonic, so I bought bottle to see what it would do :>r me, and, it certainly took hold ? my system and rejuvenated - - .. ii . le, and in bess than two Tannins was in perfect health, and now . dren I feel worn oat or tired a ose or two of Fern,na is all that need."--Mrs. J. E. Finn. Catarrh Cansrs Female Irtseage*. v ,>-> America is the land of nervous women, lie great majority of nervous women an . i because they are suffering from some ' ^ rm or female disease. By tar the great* ' - v t number Of feulale troubles are caused rectly by catarrh. These women despair recovery. Female trouble is so common, i prevalent, that they accept it as almost inevitable. The greatest obstacle in the. ^ ay of recovery is that they do not ?rt?and that It is catarrh which is the ' ~ urce of their illness. In female complaint ninety-nine cases it of one hundred are nothing bat car ;rrh. Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. OL CARTRIDGES, . hit that count. 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DYSPEPSIA -j* , j "Having taken vonr wonderful "Oaacaret*" faff bree month* and heine entirely cured of stomaejt ."i atarrh and dyspepsia,I think a word of praiee U ui to "Caacaret-s'rfor thelrwonoe-fal composition, have taken numerous other ao-callcd remedied ut without avail and I find that Caccarets relieve tore in a day than all tho others I have taken rould In a year." James McGune, 106 Hercer St., Jersey City, & J, ^3^ The bowels ^ CANDY CATMAXT1C Pleasant, Palatablo, Potent, Twte Good, Do Good, ferer Sicken, V?*aken or Gripe. 10c. Sejte. Kerfr old In bulk. The genuine tablet stamped OOv* g ruarantced to euro or your money back. * . ' ' Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N.Y. jgi . imnnmu. tii mma, ism 'ROHTABLE EMPLOVIENT If you can (or think you can) solicit _IFE INSURANCE, - Write (trith references) for terms to . F. SHEDDEN, Manager, Atlanta, Ga, ; *?j The Mutual Life Insurance Company of Nov ork.?Assets over $382,000,000.00. . > - . 7