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Aud if voar druggist hasn't It we will send It by mall oh receipt or 25 cents In stamps. Address, CARPENTER & CO., Louisville, Ky. Give t$e name of this paper when writing to advertisers?(At42-3) JfSlillSKff in time. Sold by druggists. (St ir?ininl'Mfiy [ THE GRUBS' i _ IilSOXER gives his name ' as Jones," said the officer. P chuckling. "He's ironed JL hand and foot, for fear of ^ accidents; but mind, if he " goes for you, yell, and 1*11 let you out." So the policeman threw open the grated door. "Prisoner, hcrc'n yer lawyer; and 1 warn you if you smash him up you won't get another." The door swung to behind me, but so dark was the cell that at first 1 could see nothiug of "Mr. .Tones." "Good afternoon?ahem!" said I, feebly. One never knows what may happen in the Bitter Itoot City Jail. "I ain't going to hurt you," growled the prisoner. ^Sit down; make yourself at home." The voice was manly, resonant: the man was a young athlete; I could just see that his boots were the dainty, high-heeled Wellingtons of a cowboy; while the rest of his dress?a sombrero, shirt, overalls, a broad web belt, and silk handkerchief round the neck?bore out the character. The man's presence already brought up some faint memory; indeed I felt that I knew him, but not under the surname of Jones. Surely this sunburnt young frontiersman was some old friend. "I can't offer you any refreshments, Mr. Lawyer," said the boy, drowsily. "The accommodations, in fact, are slim?very slim. "Why," he woke up, "what the deuce are you staring at?" "Jack Brancepeth," I ventured, "don't you know me?" "What? Williams, major? Hurrah! Shake, you duffer!" It was not easy to shake hands, for my old schoolfellow was shackled ' spread-eagle fashion to the bed. "Yes," he laughed, "they've got me roped for branding, and then they'll clip my pars and coral me all to myself, lest I corrupt the good mauuers , of the other victims." ' "Well." said I, frankly, "it jolly well ( serves you right. A fool who amuses himself shooting the stockbrokers on 'Change bught to be " "Smacked," said Jack. "I knocked ' out three deputy marshals, damaged ' one sheriff, bored a few holes through things generally. I wish I could chew up some more police by way of dessert. ! I feel as happy as a chip." 1 "Look here, we're civilized people in ] Bitter Root City; we're not used to 1 cow-punchers." "Well, you don't amount to shucks, ! as you say. Look here, I want you to 1 let'down the bars of this corral?I've ! been lonesome." ' r ^How ean I get you out? Don't you Bee these, stockbrokers are not used to being shot at?" ] "Yes," he groaned, "that's what's ' the matter. I've offended their.'little J local prejudices. But that's all right!" ' "All right for State Prison," I explained. He only chuckled. * "Well, I did mfle 'em up some. But, as I say,, that's all right. I'H'telLyou the straight yarn?then you can turn it into the night kind of lies, and have 1 them swoijrn to. See?" "Go on,* said I. 1 "Well, to begin with. I got me a tract f 3f meadow land up Wild Creek, back c >f Branchville, Idaho?do you know f the place? Xo? "Well, I stocked theJ1 ranch out of what Td iared, wif? as sliorthorn bull by >ClihiaX together? with thirty-ninejtead of scrub cattl^ ind a band of: ponies. Since then, whenever I've happened upon mavericks?unbranded cattle, you know? l ve adopted the poor orphans, clapped m my little Q?that's my brand?and turned 'em into the pasture. There's teen some* satisfaction in annexing old Silas Hewson's calves, but even then it ain't over and above square dealing, besides which it's slow work building up wealth out of strays. So I suppose \ hundred head all told would make up the sum of what I had last fall, though since then I've been laying by my thirty dollars a month cow-punching for the 'Square Triangle' outfit down Boise way, which money I've put into Improvements on my Wild Creek ranch." I "You seem to have been on the make?" jj. "Vac ? To/-.l? lioovivl ti cront sicli. ACO? UUVA UVU ? VV4 *.v p* v? w "But it came deuced tough. Why, I've sworn off- poker, quit* getting drunk, c sven tried to worry along without cusslug." . t "But why all this virtue?" 1 "Why, don't you see, you loon?you < pilgrim? -I'm in love!" 3 "Ob!" "It was all for Kitty's sake." ] "Who's Kitty?" i . i "She's my girl. Say, do you know 1 old man Hewson?down to Idaho 1 Flats?" "What,. the capitalist who Coated < the Grubstake mine?" . . i "The same. A right smart hole in ] the ground is the Grubstake. Why;'I ] guess the old man must be worth his 3 cool five millions now. Any way, he's 1 got six head of young fillies, that there < ain't the like of west of the Bitter Root < Mountains, calkers, and away up at 1 that." i "Blooded?" "I should smile. Out of the very ] best Virginian. There's Kittie, Saph, < Matred, Nehusta, Zebudah ar.d Mehit able, all raised on the ranch, all tended the same school at Wild Crock." "School!" I howled;; "do you mean 1 the man's daughters?" 1 "Well, rather! You see a man needs ? 1 - -? 1X1. X X ,1 x^ 1 , lots or weanu to preicuu iu ?iuj ui these girls, for Silas is like them Old 1 Testament chiefs who'd se lords and dukes sniffing around the lodge, and : let the dogs at 'em because they ain't kings. She's too good, any way, for a ] comnjon scrub cowboy like me. Oil, < man, but you should see her sit a bucking horse! She's like the west wind riding a cloud, with the bright hair flying around her head and her eyes like stars. The broncho tears up the < ground, but she laughs as she drives home the spur, and there's no fear in her. I've fought two men for fooling around her, already?one with rifles on : horseback; he's in the hospital; the other, shooting at sight with guns, but : I hunted him out of the country." Jack Brancepetli always was bandsome, but now as he laughed in triumph I felt that Miss Kitty had no need to rue her choice, for this gallant, simple, boyish lover had the face of a Galahad. "Yes, that's why I've been trying to keep straight. Why, I'd be a mangy hermit if I could make myself good enough for her. Bm, as she said, the old man would never let me have her unless I'd lots of wealth. I tried hard enough, but then we'd been engaged more or less for two whole years without my makiug my pile.*' "But," said I, "this doesn't seem to : have much bearing on the present 1 trouble?" Js TAKE MINE "It hasn't, eh? Well, you reach your hand into the left pocket of my belt, and you'll find her letters. There,that's right; iio\v read the one on top." So I found myself glancing over the first of a batch of letters in u fine round school girl hand like a strlngful of knots. The letter read! "Dear .Tack?If you want me don't be a fool. Here's Fa favoring Daddy Longlegs, who wants me awful bad. He's given Daddy Longlegs a straight tip how to make his fortune. Pa told him that they've just found a treuien* dons lot of ore in the Grubstake mine, but the principal owners are lying low, and saying bad things about the mine until they can rope in all the stock, whatever that means. Any way, IboTr'vck hrrUrrm Hmvn tho rmmns r?n nilf pose to let the works get flooded, so as to hide what they've found. Daddy Longlegs has sense enough to speculate in Grubstakes; you haven't. "KITTY." "Yes," continued Jack. "Kitty's pretty straight goods, and when she says a things she means it. If Daddy Longlegs had a thousand dollars, I was worth two thousand; at least that's what I realized in hard cash by selling my ranch to a tenderfoot. So I rode clown here to Bitter Root City, went to Kitty's uncle, Hi Hewson, the stockbroker, planked down my roll of bills, and said: 'Buy Grubstakes.' " " 'You hadn't ought to buy outright,' says Hewson; 'you should margin.' " 'What's that?' said I. | " 'It means,' said he, 'that'you "plank down your money; I run the show; if the stock goes up. I sell out when you think yon're pretty well fixed for lffe: if the stock goes down two thousand dollars' worth, you lose all you have ?ot: : " 'I'll gamble,' said I, 'with all I can told down by sitting straddle.' "Well, .you .should have seen the brokers guying Hi Hewson in the Min ing Exchange, and afterward I heard them talking among themselves in the Coffee Palace. " 'What,' says one smart Aleck, 'you think Hi Hewsou's working for Silas, ?h! You must think Silas P. Hewson's xone loco! The old man confessed only last week to a friend of mine that the mine's played out. Why, the works ire chock a block with water, and no tunneling facilities to drain it; the pumps have broken down and of real pay ore there isn't a dollar in sight.' " 'A level head has old man Silas,' says another; 'as to Hi Hewson, he's ;oped in a sucker who thinks he can gamble?some fool of a cowboy, he jays.' 4 ... j iffi " 'There was another sucker last iveek.' says smart Aleck; 'Daddy Longlegs they call him ? planked down a thousand dollars on a falling market, is, be! Well,* lie's busted now; margin ail run out.' "At that they all drank a toast, 'Long ive the suckers;' but?well?I laughed. "Now read the second letter," said ront ^ . * < - i I. "You're a daisy," I read. "Daddy Longlegs has come back dead broke; tnd his language is just disgraceful. 3old on. keep right hold, Jack, for pa jays he'll, soop. be letting the. cat oat >f the bag, co if the stock goes down tny more you must keep a good heart rafr hold on. KITTY." ^That's aright.".^id Jack, "hut >y the ti&e I got the letter on Monday norSing my margin-* was rmrpiiig out J oo.^ Says' Hi, 'It's all your oWn fault;* roil never took the trouble to ask my idvice, or you wouldn't have bought mtil to-day;' but that was poor consoation, for I was like to be as big a fool is Daddy Loriglegs. "When the Ex liauge closed ou Monday the Grub>take was quoted at forty-three, and f it went a point lower my two thousand dollars would be lost Read the bird letter." "Hold on to the stock," I read. "You leedu't have been jealous of Daddy. 2c ain't>in it. never was. 'for I love on, old boy. On Wednesday morning he news will be in all the papers that he Grubstake was flooded on purpose o keep the secret of a great bonanza; our stock will be worth a fortune. Told on for my sake, darling. Hold on for all you're worth. KITTY." "At that I plucked up courage," said lack, cheerfully, "sold my horse, sadlle, rifle, coat, 'shaps,' lariat, spurs, vatcb, everything; and planked down be cash with Hi Hewsou. I could lold on now, he told me, till the stock Iropped to forty and a half; but if if vent below that I was lost. "On Tuesday I went to the Mining Exchange Building with my heart in ny mouth. The stock opened at fortyhree, then a little was sold at forty :wo, and at noon it stood at forty-one md a half. Scared almost crazy, I rrabbed hold of a reporter, stood the rinks, and loaded him up with news. [ told him to say in his paper that the [lewson outfit was bearing down the narket, that Silas had flooded the mine to hide his bonanza until the moment ?arae to shout. But the reporter made mt that the next edition came out at four o'clock, and the Exchange closed it half-past three. " 'Get out the posters early,' I told liirn, 'bribe the printers, work the ropes somehow, and if I win my game, 1 won't forget you.' "The reporter winked, and started to write out his news; but when the mar^ . - t ? i.i.A kei openeu a gum m we mitruwu, tbere seemed to be no hope left, for the stock was at forty-one and a quarter, with only three-qufirters of a point between me and perdition. "From where I stood in the public gallery, I saw the brokers whispering, for a rumor had got wind from the printers that made them crazy. Some of them were offering forty-three, forty-four, even up to fifty for Grubstake stock; but there wasn't a dollar for sale. 'Twas old Hewson's broker that started the counter rumor making out that the newspaper yarn was some fool's canard?or else a tale gotten up so the holders could sell out in a hurry. I was paralyzed when the bidding stopped short; I didn't know one more move that could save the game; I was ready to kill myself. "Hi Hewson sent up a clerk to say he hated to see me ruined?I'd better sell. It was decent of him, but I told the clerk to go to blazes and further, befnrA T'rt threw nn mv hand like a white-livered coward. "At three o'clock came a telegram from Kitty that said: " 'Be brave. Pa has bought all the stock he wants, and wired his broker to quit "bearing."' "Oh, man, but she was worth fighting for. She's an angel out of heaven, and I'd rather have died than broken faith with her. "The clock was going so slow that it seemed to have stopped. Five past three, ten past, quarter-past three; the stock at forty-one I Twenty past three, twenty-throe past! I was saying ?? prayers with my revolver ready in lay hand for death if I lost in the game. There Was a commotion down in ths hall?a rumor was spreading through the crowd, till it rippled up into the gallery, and I heard the news?the Grubstake syndicate bankrupt! "I knew it could only be a lie gotten up by old Hewson's broker. I knew that in another moment the newspaper posters would be fastened up at tko door. I knew that if the market held still another three minutes I'd saved my game. ' The fool at the blackboard was marking the closing prices on Tigers, Poorman, Coeur d'Alene, Eagle of Murderer's Bar, Grubstake. He'd wiped out the old figures to write down Grubstake at the price of a bankrupt mine; the brokers were yelling like demons; the place shook with the uproar; the clock ticked at twenty-nine past; the fool was writing the figures that meant ruin?despair?death! "Raising my gun, I fired right n't hi; fingers, missed, fired again, but the fool was gone. I fired again and again, then once again, and flung my revolver at the blackboard across an empty hall. Yes, I'd stampeded the brokers, I'd stampeded the whole confounded outfit?the ruck of them was screeching with panic against the doors?and I stood.alone in the gallery. The game was won! ' - t "What matter if I did get excited? < What matter if I did knock a few deputy marshals out of the gallery? What r matter if I did damage a city official? h or a dozen?or scores? 1 "The news is out; I've won me a t wife and a fortune; I'm boss of the r range; and Kitty shall live like a queen t because I love her?because I've loved s her like a man?and she's mine!"? t Waverley Magazine. 0 ADULTERATED FLOWERS NOW. a A ir'avnafUnii Mo.lo nf Tiipnln nnd T)vpfl r With Acid Magenta. j Man}7 persons have been rudely E shocked to find that a flower for which g perhaps they gave a considerable sum ^ and which they took to be genuine f proved subsequently to be artificial iu every-particular. Within our own ex- v perience not long ago the attention of L a gentleman sitting at dinner was drawn to the fact that his shirt front and coat were gradually being covered .with streaks of a brilliant red ' colory He was wearing a bright carnation in his buttonhole whic&ht quite 3 a short distance, as it appeared suiise- * quontly, deceived perfectly. Even the 1 perfume was admired. The "flower" * "had .Just been watered to freshen it t and jit was then seen that on the water s drops detaching themselves they were of a brilliant red color, while the "car- i negated appearajjee owing to some of i the coloring .matter being ;wa?h^rt'cut a General incredulity was expressi that, at first sight the icwof ccmfil \ be anything but Mroal..^ A^abbrafory I { examination, ho^vfer, ' soon brought ? +a nnrt tlio PC me ir uuic uuiu iw ..&Uv, suits ~are remarkable and certainly a credit to the ingenuity of the designer. There was not the vestige of a carnation ibout it. The "flower" consisted of slftjes of turnip neatly cut and dyed 1 with^aeid magenta; the stems and ? leaves were of twisted cloth dyed a dark green with chromium, the bloom f was "ift very fine starch powder delicately dusted over the stems and ? leavea; and the support to the whole clever fabric was a concealed iron ^ wire.*' A synthetic amber-colored oil known as "oeillet" completed the de- ? ception in giving a perfume wonderfully imitative of the genuine carnation, j ^Altogether we can hardly conceive of , ;a cleverer deceit and it is satisfactory ^o be tible to add that so far as our observations went it is free from positive harm except to wearing apparel. ^ On carefully searching the various materials for irritating substances and c poisonous metals we could not obtain ' the slightest evidence that such were * present. It is clearly possible, how- 1 " '* ?* "" I oVKflmn! 1 ever, that me coiois u?eu ivi flowers may contain substances Injurious to health, such as, for example, arsenic.?Lancet. 4 i 1 * ' i Corporation Banks. The-largest banks in New York are, for all practical purposes, corporation , banks; Some of them frankly state, j that they do not care for small customers, by which is meant depositors whose? accounts average from orfe to twenty thousand dollars; and all of them cultivate principally the business of the larger corporations and .of out- < of-town banks. These features of their policy entail certain important results. It is a well known fact that deposits of a small or moderate size are moro stable than "millionaire" accounts, which are likely to be drawn down very rapidly when money is high. Only a short time ago one of the big banks was notified, an hour before closing for the day, that a check for $.">,000,000 had been drawn against a large .account. WitiL."a little skirmishing," sd a reliable financial paper states, "the situation was met in a few minutes;" but the incident illustrates the conditions , under which the operations of such institutions must be conducted. The same tendencies exist also in the case of the deposits by country duuks. jli the approach of anything resembling a panic these are withdrawn with great rapidity; so that they have been justly called the "explosive element" of our banking system. It is evident, 1 therefore, that more than ordinary con- , servatism will be required if the I largest banks are to exercise a steady- j ing influence in times of actual or im- ] pending danger.?Atlantic Monthly. Brick Versus Wooden Dwellings. ! Experience shows that the average \ two and one-half story house with the usual fittings can be built for three or four dollars per square foot of ground covered, according to the qual- j ity of finish desired. The advance in ( the cost of building bus been from twenty to thirty per cent, in the past ten years. Many architects urge their clients, where they can afford it, to build of brick rather than wood. The cost of brick Is relatively less 10-any uiau it used to be. Wood shrinks, and swells, and burns. Wood has to be painted, and grows shabby with time. Brick takes on a better tone and texture with time; does not- shrink and swell, and won't burn. Vines will ( grow 011 the brick wall; repairs are j less; insurance rates are less; the brick ( house is cooler in summer and much , more economically heated in winter, and built with a hollow wall it is entirely free from dampness. The cost J of a brick over a wooden house is ten ' to fifteen per cent., as a general thing. ' But the difference is made up in smaller bills for coal and paint.?Good ' Housekeeping. ( Indian Ten. The number of persons employed in the tea industry throughout British India was, in 1002, G0G.830 permanently and 90,940 temporarily. It is said that a capital of more than $200,000,I 000 is invested in the Indian tea indus1 try. ADMIF ^ V* iiSk p Pe-ru-na Drug C< Gentlemen:ru-na and I believ Admiral schley, one of the foi century. a name that starts terror of steady nerve, clear head, undaui Approached by a friend recently, hi: Peruna, the national catarrh-remedy, this remedy his endorsement It appe has been used in bis family, where it is Such endorsements serve to indica upon the minds of the American people and famous a man as Admiral Schley his endorsement to Peruna than his pc that he says it is. The Newspapers and Good Roads. One of the most hopeful signs for he future of Good Roads in North Jarclina is the attitude of the newspaiers all over the state toward this pubic question. Editors, like politicians, ive with one ear on the ground to tear the first rumblings of an ap roaching popular uprising; and are he first to detect the qualites that inure permanency and popular favor to he movements affecting the masses if our population. The good roads proposition has been .gitated long enough to enable our ;eople to determine whether or not it s a good thing, and the fact that our lewspapers constantly advocate a pro;ressive policy along this line is a ;ood indication of its permanency as a )ublic question. Several of our leading papers deote each week considerable space to lie subject, ana upon any puonc oc:asion when good roads are to be dis:ussed, special representatives of the >ress are sent, sometimes long disances, in order to secure complete md accurate reports of the proceedings. i A few days ago such a meeting fas- held at Lakeview, in Moore couny (N. C.) 'and the leading dailies on he following morning contained a full Lccount of what was done there. Upon -the publicity afforded by.an ntelligent press must the advocates rf^fBfcd roads depend for the educa-. ion and inspiration of our citizens;njd it is believed that through this n&dium?more than any other?will >$ brought about the ultimate reform V. . t : ?'? : . n,our public road system at present idvocated by a rapidly increasing milority.?Exchange. f. , Suicide and Poetry. Nesbit Pinehurst had returned from' he Adirondacks and was relating iorne of his-experiences/ > t.< "Yes, Sydney," he said, "she made ools of both of us." "What!" said Sydney. "In one short summer?" .. 4 "No," said Nesbit, "in two. short veeks." "What did George do?" inquired Sydney. "George, poor fellow," rerlied Nes)it, "threw himself into Lake Cham)lain." "Drowned himself?" "Drowned himself!" "Well, what did you do, Nesbit, old )oy?" "What did I do? I didn't do a thing, 3yiLne>; 1 wrote some verses about he affair and sent them to a maga:ine."?Silas Xavier Floyd, in October -ippincott's. I * | Overheard. - It -was at one of those delightfully festive and exhilarating affairs, an afternon tea, and a guest was about to member-'*me'to your daughter" "when you wrijp. wen*t youtf' / f j A j "Oh, Jfes^d^i! fesnnde^q! $he *111 be ldejightcd . to. have me..dp s.o. OiilUC iUVIlllg M I. M|/ VMV . . ~ interested. in the most trifling thing here at home."?Woman's Home Companion, .J *1 * ** ? . 8? 1 I SHE CANT GET AWAY. "Ho'wfldo the ? BiglerB manage'to keep that hired girl of theirs at such a looesome place In the country?" "Thej^wonT pay her a cent of wages, sad it is seventeen miles over a poor iroad to town."?Cleveland ^lain Dealer. 9 _________ Jv A Sermon in a Sentence. If you are morose, moody or despondent; if you have a ha bit of worrying or fretting ..about things, or any other progress, think persistently of the opposite virtue and practice it uqtil it is yours by force of 1iabit--0." S. Mnfden, in Success. " Deafness Cannot Be Cured1' by local applications as they cannot reach the iiseased portion of the oar. There Is only one ivftv to otire deafness, and that Is by conatt- - tutional remedies. Deafness is caused by au Inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube Is inflamed you havo a rumbling sound orimperlect hearing, and when It is entirely closed Deafness Is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out aud this tube re-' stored to Its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, whicbis nothing bat aa inflamed condition of the igneous surfaces,. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness(oausedby catarrh) that canaot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cafe. Send for drculars free.* F. J. Chexet&Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, 75c.' 1 Kail's Family Pills are the best. More Snuff Used Now. The snuff users of the United States have increased in number about sir per cent, a year for several years, taking the annual consumption of siruff as the basis-of calculation. The aggregate weight of pinches of snuff taken last year was 18,000,000 pounds. Mr. Ray Stannard Baker's articles in "The Great Northwest," which lave been appearing in The Century luring the past year, succeeding his series on 'The Great SoulTiwest," which that magazine published the year before, will continue his notes on those regions in occasional papers to appear during 1904 in the same magazine. He will discuss "The Railroad" as a feature of Western life; also "The Western Spirit of Restlessness," and ather "characteristics." : . - . . To cure, or m * % / ?AL SC J DORS Columbus, Ohi( -"I can cheerfully e with good effect emost, notable heroes of the nineteenth in the heart of every Spaniard. A man nted courage and prompt decision. s opinion was asked as to the efficacy of ivuhniit thp sliehtest hesitation he gave ared on later conversation that Peruna a favorite remedy. te the wonderful hold that Peruna has . It is out of the question that so great could have any other reason for giving >sitive conviction that the remedy is all . I HIS EXCLUSIVENESS. "You don't seem to mingle much i with the friends of your early youth," said the visitor, in a reproachful tone. "Are you ashamed of them?" "No, sir," answered Mr. Cumrox, stoutly. "But they wouldn't understand this cake walk and vegetable party business that we're cultivable', and I don't want 'em to be ashamed of me."?Washington Star. When Her Cup Is Brewed. One oflhemost attractive tea rooms In Paris, France, provides a tiny timekeeper with each pot of tea. It is in the form of an hourglass, but smaller, and by its help the customer may know to a "t" when her cup is brew ed. 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The natural timldit giving endorsements to any remedy is ; help others has inspired thousands of p< runa who heretofore would not have coi Never before in the annals of medic of national and international reputatioi and public endorsements to a propriety could have accomplished such a result " ?fxt vhatovor nhflK reruua i;uirB vawnu v? . w. ? r is why it receives so many notable and Address The Peruna Drug M'f g Co catarrh. A Southern Twilight. A little shallow silver urn, High in the east the new moon hung; Amid the palms a fountain hung Its snowy hoss, and there, above, With its impassioned unconcern, A hidden bird discoursed of love. I felt your hand upon my arm Flutter as doth a thrush's wing, Then tighten. Sweet, how small a thing Draws kindred spirits heart to heart! More was that hour's elusive charm To us than eloquence or art ?Clinton Scollard, in October Smart Set. 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