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VASSECB AND HIS JEWELS.
As Fairfax walked back toward
Yassenr's, he was fillod with a sense
of indescribable satisfaction. The
whole world jnst then was, so far as
liiti feelin#3 went, condensed so that
*11 its essential delights were pressed
together in this lonely nook, as flower
petals are sometimes pressed into a
potpourri.
He was old enough and certainly
stalwart enough to be a man -his age
was twenty-six?but just now he
Sauntered and smiled like a great
pleased boy. His latest adventure
had been of a sort to dash into his
pxperienoe a good strong element of
fche tender strain of romance so dear I
to vonnff men.
Hot did Mr. Vernon know that he
was the son of the late Colonel Stirling
Fairfax? Of coarse, our young
friend was not aware of the means of
knowledge sometimes possessed by a
xaan whose wealth and peculiar influence
control far-reaching and comprehensive
combinations of force and intelligence.
From Mr. Vernon lie had heard the '
story of old Burns, the preacher, and
that, too, was adding its thrill of
strangeness and pathos to his reflections.
But most of all, he thought of
Pauline. Her beauty of form and
face had captivated liim, and the
sound of her voice was yet echoing
through his heart with a certain
finftbre which no other voice ever had.
It was past sundown when he
retched Vasseur's, and he heard the
? ? i./.-kir/lfl Anfinrv lamlorlT in fliA
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magnolias as be entered tbe low, oddly
constructed bouse. A little way
eft tbe sea was pounding on tbe
beach with a heavy throbbing and
washing.
Vasseor himself met him at tho
door.
"Mo'sieu baa had a good day, I
hope," the little oreole said, in bis
oft, insinuating voice. "It vare fine
wetter zis day."
Fairfax looked down at him with a
comprehensive eraile, bqtonly nodded
a response. Be flung aside bis bur- 1
jT den of implements and weapons.
"Alo'sieu is vare 'uugry, is it not? !
Suppaire it dome soon," Vasseur went i
on, rubbing his biown little bauds together
and grimacing violently.
*' "Xo; I dined late and well," said j
Fairfax, in French. "I am not at all
.hungry."
It was one of Yasseur'a bobbies to 1
. -speak English. He pretended to j
fancy himself quite at borne in that
language.
. Fairfax had become sincerely fond
-of the little dark man, whoso restless
eyes, bushy, black hair and singularly
mobile month in some way reminded
.. lum of the descriptions he had read of
certain fascinat:ng outlaws famous in j
Martinique?men of half or quarter j
breed, at once gentle, soft-voiced and ,
murderous, who would die for you one
day aud rob you the next.
Taeseur looked no particular sge. ;
He was fifty, perhaps, though not a
gray hair or a wrinkle pro:laimed the
.years. A long, narrow forehead,
slender black brows, deep-set black
wyes, a high straight nose, a mouth
small and expressive and a protruding
chin made his face one to be remembered.
In stature he was below the
medium, but he was strong, tough,
supple, restlessly active. Jt would
seem contradictory to add that Yas- j
sear's general air was that of extreme j
indolence, bat such a contradiction ;
. I existed in the man's make-up. He
was not indolent, and yet his greatest
activity was seen through an at- i
-Biosphere of languor and indifference. !
Fairfax fouud Vasseur's house a
-delightful lodge. It was built of pine
logs and covered with long, rough
boards; its rooms, large and airy,
were yet huddled in appearance, aud i
seemed to have no system in their |
arrangement, lhe noors?tcero was
l>nt one story?were of dried mortar, j
smooth and even, and the walls were
liung with a great variety of dressed
wkins, "while the chairs and tables, the
bedsteads and the armoires were of
-every grade of finish, from a rude
-etool to the most exquisitely carved
piece of mahogany. It was plain that
this heterogeneous furniture had beeu
obtained,, piece by piece, in the course
of a life devoted to snatching treasures
from the sea; flotsam and jetsam
bad found their way iuto the house
oi the Creole; and the mishaps of
others had in this degree, at least, i
contributed to his enrichment. The
reputation of having once beeu a
pirate clung to Yasseur, though he
utontly denied it. But how came he
by all the odd and valuable things in
HIS possession, cspcL-iuujr iuc premium
stones? These latter he had shown
to Fairfax?diamonds, rubies, emeralds,
topazes, sapphires, opals, amethysts?hundreds
of them, none of
the more precious ones large or very
valuable; but still, in the aggregate,
the lot was worth qaito a pretty sum.
One amethyst, however, was remarkably
large and biautiful. cud had been
cat to the form of a cross; the workmanship
showed that a master hand
had done it, and the color of the stone,
almost a sapphire blue, was exquisite,
clear as a summer sky uud as transparent
as the parest water.
If Vasseur loved anything with passionate
steadfastness ? was tkia treasP.;.
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nre of jewels, ami above all, the amethyst
cross was prized--nay, indeed it
was worshiped. This he kept separate,
inclosed in a ranch-soiled but
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souuu oiu ivniuer case, uuiuu uu iairied
in an inside pocket of bid waistcoat.
It amused Fairfax to encourage the
man iu bis raptures over the beautiful
stone cross; and, like any other
mau with a bobby, Vasseur was delighted
to find au appreciative listener,
while he expatiated on the
merits of his property; but when
Fairfax demanded the gem's history,
its owner suddenly became contused
for a moment and had some trouble to
resume his air of half-jaunty indifference.
Of course, this was not surprising;
it only led Fairfax to suspect that
there was a good deal of truth in the
rumor about Yasseur's antecedents.
The man said that he bought the cross
in Seville; but Fairfax thought he saw
that it was not a very clear lie that he
was telling.
That night something happen*-*
wVJ/il, />onon/4 \rneaoiiT>'a itfirola OTI.t
especially the amethyst cross, to enter
as an important factor into the hotly
of our story.
CHAPTER HI.
THE CAVALIERS.
At the time of which wo write, there
was n road, or, more correctly speakiug,
c, trail, leading from the west
shore of the bay of Saint Louis in a
direction somewhat west of north
through a wild country to the wilder
region of the upper Pearl River. This
trail, which was known as the Biackwolf
Trail, had been a highway for
the Indians as fnr back as tradition
went?a road which led from their
hunting-grounds to the breezy bluffs
of the gulf, where they spent the hot
season, like the philosophers that
they were, in bathing, fishing, eating
and-smoking.
Since the coming of the white men,
the Black-wolf Trail had been put to
othar uses. Soldiers, horses audcanrou
had followed it; caravans of settlers,
with their oxen, their mules,
their servants and their household appliances,
bad mado it the road to new
nomes nud a life of hardy and lordly
independence.
.Large plantations were opened and
comfortable, even spacious and, in a
degree, luxurious houses built on tho
beautiful and fertile lauds once tilled
by tho aborigines, whose descendants
still skulked iu the swamps aud held
the fastnesses of cane-brake aud
cypress-jungle all around the coast.
Many other trails, less distinct and
more meandering, came into the Blackurnlf
Troil nn its wav frnm thft hicrh
lands to tbo coast, and he was an alert
aud experienced woodman who could
go among these crossing and apparently
entauglcd paths without bewilderment.
In those days, all of the ways of the
woods were ways of danger; for not
only were the Indians treacherous and
savage in the extreme, there were
white men more to be feared than tue
red ones; reckless knights of adventure
devoted to a life of utter lawlessness
?bold riders whose dashing exploits
would havo bceu themes of song and
story if done some centuries earlier?
Claude Duvals, Hob in Hoods, "Wolfstanes
of the new land, all seeking the
excitement of desperate emprise, and
all defying every wcrd and letter of
law, hnman or divine.
The wood-paths were known to
these men as familiarly as the cowpaths
of his father's farm arc known
to the country lad to-day in the same
Vi 1U OLUUll
these self-reliant freebooters rode beneath
the piuos aud the wide-spreading
oaks; the Indian heard their
horses' feet beating the yellow saud
aud their careless songs echoing
through the brakes. It was not for
the red man to attack the outlaws; a
sort of bond held between them, both
being enemies to the settlers. Moreover,
the Indians feared the "riders,"
as they named them, and were glad to.
slink away whenever those pieturesquo
cavaliers made their appearance.
Most of the "riders" made pretense
of being traders, bnyers of cattle,furs,
skins, cotton?anything, indeed; and
sometimes they aid buy, when buying
seemed safer thau taking by force;
but robbery in cue form or another
was their main business.
Fcarl River, as far up as Iloney Island,
afforded a waterway by which
vessels of considerable draft could be
used to bear the pluuder of the cavaliers
to New Orleans, by way of the
Rigolets and Lake Pontchartrain; aud
the "traders" who mauaged these ves
sela shared in the ricti prouts. indeed,
no small part of the traffic of
the city at that time came from this
and somewhat similar sources. With
the Lafittes, the de Jourdaiun and the
Mascots on one side, and the confrers
of Pierre Bamean on the other
side, New Orleans was fed by constant
streams of ill-gotteu wealth.
As. for Rauieau and his immediate
associates, they preferred, for prudential
reasons, to do most of their
boldest and most remunerative work
at a long distance from their headquarters;
wherefore, a greater part of
the booty, shipped down Pearl
River came from Alabama, Georgia,'
Tennessee, and even as far away as the
Caiolinas. while in the onm?T7 *?nad.
about Honey Island, within a radiue
of fifty or sixty miles, people and
their property were not molested to
any great degree. It was tiiis policy,
enforced by Eaineitu, which bad so
long protected him and his followers:
for while common rumor established
liim as king of the island, and kept
afloat startling stories of his prowesa
and dariDg, almost nothing had beeu
done toward investigating the situation.
The main fact was that wealthy
and influential men in New Orleans,
locrru oliorora in a nt\lml%* v
nuuican tuv Kk ki LA\J IJ ICVCUUO,
were standing behind the outlaws and
affording them the protection which
it was so easy to give so long as the
power of the civil and military government
was almost paralyzed in
Louisiana, and so long ns these very
citizens controlled directly or indirectly
the government itself, either by
corrupting the officials or by holding
official positions themselves.
With a glance at the foregoing
slight sketch of tLo situation of
thiugs in the Gulf-coast region, tho
readers of this story, which, in all its
parts, is histoiically true, will be able
to understand why a party of horsemen
should be following tho Blackwolf
Trail in the direction of the
bay of St. Louis at a late hour in the
night. The road in most places was
wide enough for two of the cavaliers
to go side by side, and four of them
chatted as they rode, while the fifth,
who evidently was the leader, held
his way somewhat in advance, sitting
on bis horse like a statue, and maintaining
a strict and apparently moody
silence.
Keen in the deep gloom of the wood,
the moving figures were wore like
shadows than realities, and but for
the heavy tramp of the horses and the
occasional sharp jingle cf a spur or
the clink of a bridle-bit, they might
have been regarded by a superstitious
fancy as ghosts of the followers
of De Soto or Bienville. Their voices,
however, were evidently real, and
what they were sayiDg referred to tho
present.
"The king is breaking his own law
to-night," said one to another, "and I
don't expect anything out of it that'll
pay for the trouble. What have these
people down here got that's worth going
after?"
"You might wager your head," remarked
the other, "that the king
knows what he is about. When did
he ever fail to do just what he wanted
to? There's more'n we dream of at
the end of this ride."
"Maybe so; I don't say there
ain't; but it's a queer move, you may
say that."
"All of our moves aro qieer
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CliUU^U, XUI lUUb iUUUCU
"Yes, bat "
"Uat?bat?what's the nse of yer
'bnts?' Yer a constitntioual grumbler,
Tom Newkirk?a chronic, incurable
growler."
"Mebbe so, bat "
"Oil, grumble at my foot, my head
aches!''
At this point the last speaker burst
forth singing in a low mellow voice an
old and not very elegant ditty about
a maid who?
"Went away, went a-wa-y ?
With her love to a fair countrK"
He had reached what was perhapf
the last stanza and was droning oat
the fact that?
"Her lover was false and cold was his
heart,
And she died by his cruel hand,"
when tho leader suddenly exclaimed
iu a tone that indicated irritation:
"I'm tired of that. Stop it! This
is no time for your songs."
The singer obeyed promptly; but
could not refrain from muttering
under his breath:
"Awful particular all at once; mast
be ailing!"
"Who's got tho grumbles now?"
said his companion, tauntingly. "Told
you that something queer was at the
bottom of this here move."
"Humph! I'll admit that when
the king gets so particular that he
won't let a fellow sing, there must be
something kind o' bilious on hand."
At a certain place at the edge of a
marsl), over which there came a sharp
tinge of salt air and a far-away boom
of sea-water, the leader of the cavaliers
drew up his horse and called the
others around him, so that his strikingly
tall and shapely figure made the
centre of a dark group sketched
against tLu marsh rushes and the
shining line of the bay.
"What is done to-night," ho said,
"is between us; not another so:tl upon
earth is ever to know even a hint of
it. I have chosen yon four, as the
best of my men, to join me in an a.TV.ic
of great importauco to me. It may
turn out profitable in itself; it may
not; but, in any event, you four will
be well paid."
The men drew closer, leaning toward
him over their saddles, as he
.proceeded to describe his plan and its
'purpose. Like most leaders, he deceived
bis followers, while at the
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RaiDO TllLlO 11U IUIU IU13U1 IUC uuiu aj
far as bo went.
Ho was going to rob Yassenr; that
much was openly avowed. He bad
good reason t3 believe, be said, tbat
Yaaseur had in bis bouse a treasure
of precious stones, probably of great
value, besides a large omouut of gold
coin. How this information bad been
obtained be did not say, nor did the
men inquire; they were in the habit
of taking bis word without question
and were ready now to follow him
without fear.
''One thing is to be borne in mind,"
be went cn: "Thero is to be no personal
hurt done to the man or to any
cf bis household. We are to gain our
point by clever work."
(to be convinced.)
Th( Spanish among the most
charitable people on earth. Without
a poor tax, Spanish communities of
iifty thousand self-supporters feed a
j pauper population of live thousand or
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Joel Chandler Harrl3 says that "easy
reaaing is nara writing ana sneriuan
gives the antithesis when he says,
"You write with ease to show your
breeding.
But easy writing is curst hard reading."
I am too sick to write easy, but I
don't wish to be curst about it. This
gloomy weather takes away all my
hilarity. Lowell says, "Oh, what's so
rare as a day in June." It has rained
every day and every night since the
1st and we didn't like it at my house,
for it was my wife's birthday and we
hoped it would be bright and balmy,
for the poor woman don't get but two
maternal feasts in a year and two paternal
kisses. I was sick the night before
and she was up with me half the
night and slept late. I had creeped In
to breakfast and slipped a five-dollar
gold piece under her plate and Intended
to rise and kiss her unwrinkled
brow when she appeared, but she slip
ped up behind me and kissed me first.
She never did it that way before and
the boys hint that she saw the goid
shining and it excited her labial views
and oscillatory glands and she couldn't
refrain.
"Gold, gold, gold, gold,
Bright and yellow, hard and cold,
Heavy to get and light to hold.
Spent by the young but hugged by the
old
To save to ruin, to curse or to bless,
Nov.- stamped with the image of good
Queen Bess
And now of bloody Mary."
But she got more than I gave her
and nobody get a kiss but me. "Children,"
said I. "this is your mother's
seventy-second birthday. You know
that the stars fell seventy-two years
ago and that's the reason they did fall.
They knew that a brighter light was
coming and so they paled their Ineffectual
fires and fell to the ground and
expired.
"I am only 71,* said my wife. "Why
do you try to make me 72?" "Because,"
6aid I, "you have had seventy-two
birth days. You had one the day you
was uuiu. Yvutu yuu wwc a jcai v.?iu
you had had two.'
Then she gave it up.
These birthdays are the mile stones
that measures the journey of life.
Next Monday I will be 72. On the 23rd
one of the girls will be 40. On the 24th
my mother was born and so was my
little, grandchild. Caroline, who waT
named for her. My wife can tell the
birthday of every child and grand
child, but I know only half a dozen.
Well the Mexican boy did come and
for a whole week we have feasted ou
his presence and listened to the same
old songs he used to sing. He is a fine
singer and has plenty of help from
the children and grandchildren.
And the night was filled with music
And the cares that infest the day
Folded their tents like the Arabs
And silently stole away.
And the little boy. who is only 20
months old, and looks like me. joins iu
the hilarity and tries to sing, and holds
up his skirt and dances the cakewalk
and kicks up his feet and bows to the
audience with great solemnity. He
plays monkey In the show, and his
vnnnir m ntl^or Iktnl/e ho I a amortOSf
I and prelticst child In all the world, and
j I think so, for they say he is ju3t like
me. What kind of a world would this
be without these little children, and
yet the last census says they are not
wanted r.p in New England any more.
They say that Roosevelt loves children
and wants to encourage maternity.
Well. I'll give him credit for that when
be retracts and apologizes. Our Mexican
boy says the peons of Mexico have
them by the score. Their abode houses
have but one big room with a dirt floor,
and you will see a man and his wife
and a flock of dirty, lousy, greasy children
and half a dozen dogs all gathered
there by day and roosting there by
night. A peon is the biggest vagabond
on earth. He will work one or two
days in a week for 37 cents a day and j
hp nairf fn \Tp*ipnn ailvpr that fs wnrfh I
only half what ours is, and he and the
family and the dog3 will live on this
for a week. They will steal everything
that is in sight and not locked up;
says ho has known them to break into j
a car that was sidetracked a ad steal
and carry off 2.009 pounds of machinery.
They will get It to the city some
way and sell It to a junk shop for a
dollar cr two. The Americans do all
the manufacturing; the Germans all
the hardware business; the French all
fhc silk and fine goods, and the natives
all the little shop business and
run the saloons. Besides the archbishops
and bishops, no less than
twenty-flve priests officiate around the
chnncel in the great cathedral every
day. Somebody must stay there to receive
the offerings and grant absolution
and remission of sins. This is the
largest cathedral in the world except
three. It is 46 feet long, 440 feet wide
and 110 feet from the floor to the ceiling.
and the walls are literally overlaid
with gold and silver images and
crucifixes. The church Is rich and con
trols President Diaz. Diaz controls the
Castillians and the police all over the
towns and cities, and the police control
the peons and the common people.
So at the last it is the priesthood that
dominates the government. Liberal
concessions are given to Americans to
build railroads and dig canals and to
mine for precious metals. The charter
under which the Me.cican National was
built requires seventeen members of
the board of directors, and five of them
must live In Mexico; the others may
live anywhere. Our boy Carl is a Mexican
director, having lived there long
enough to become eligible, and that ia
licw he was called to New York last
week to a meeting of the hoard and got
a chance to come by home and sfc ua
lor a week. A'nd now the time of tribulations
is near at hand, and he v.ill
leave us and we may never see him
again. Such Is life, tr.d only death will
it.?Bill Arp ia Atlanta Con.-iito>
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Fifty Millions For HIk1iw?j?.
"X?\(*~T HEN Colonel Brownlow,
\ A / of Tennessee, iutrodduced
Y \ a kill |Q Congress appro
printing $20,000,000 as a
fund for National aid to road improvement
in the United States, a
good many people were startled at tin
ci7A nf thrt ftornroa Tho nmnimt hrt\V<
ever, seems very small compared witli
the sum that a single State now proposes
to raise and spend. The New
York Legislature has adopted a constitutional
amendment proposing to
raise and spend $3,000,000 annually
for ten years, or $30,000,000 in all,
This amendment must pass the Legislature
again in 1905, and then it will
go before the people for ratification or
rejection. It can reasonably be expected
that the measure will meet with
popular favor. The people of New
York have given the principle of State
aid a thorough trial and the result?
have been highly satisfactory.
One of the objections most loudly
urged against both State and National
aid is that it will encourage local communities
to neglect the improvement
of their roads and depend on the State
and the Federal Government to do the
work for them. But this objection tins
proven to be purely imaginary. In nc
place where State aid has been applied
has any such result appeared. On the
contrary, aid from the State treasury
only stimulates self help. It arouses
warm competition among the counties
and townships to secure a share o* tlu
State aid funds. Instead of sitting
down and folding their hands as predicted,
the local communities are raising
a great deal more money under the
stimulus of State aid than they did
before.
A very Important advantage thai
comes from State aid is intelligent supervision
in laying out roads, select
ing materials, and in methods of construction.
This-may mean all the dif
ference between success and failure
Every year millions of the people's
hard-earned dollars are wasted, virtu
ally thrown away, in fruitless at
tempts to patch up bad roads, to till
mud holes, and to improve roads with
unnecessary steep grades, all because
there is no one in charge with the
knowledge, judgment and authority tc
do the work as It ought to be done.
What is said of the advantages of
State aid applies all the more forcibly
to National aid. Its effect will he farreaching.
It will quicken the pulse of
the whole nation. It will arouse universal
activity. ' "Good Itoads" will
become the people's watchword
throughout the length and breadth of
the land. A quarter of a century ol
work under National and State aid
should give the I'nited States the best
system of roads in the world, Instead
of almost the worst, as at present.
It looks now as if National aid is
bound to come in the near future
Already the State Legislatures of Alabama,
Tennessee, Wisconsin, New
Mexico, Missouri and Minnesota havt
put themselves on record in its favor
Hardly an Argument.
In his address before the Good Roads
Congress, Mr. Bryan advanred as an
argument that the permanent Improvement
of the roads was a matter ol
justice to the people who live in the
country, saying that it was a well
known fact that the people In the
country, while paying their full share
of county. State and Federal taxes,
receive as a rule only the general benefits
of government, while the people in
the cities have, in addition to the protection
afforded, the advantage arising
from the erpenditure of pnbllc money
In their midst. But this does not apply
to the Improvement of highways. The
city streets are constructed at the cost
of the locality. The trouble with the
country districts has often been & df
tinct disinclination, as was shown in
the rednetion of the local proportion
of payment under the recently enacted
SpronI act in this State, to do anything
to improve the roads. And it
must not be forgotten that the cities
will pay a largo proportnon of the $l>,500,000
to be expended under that act
in improving highways wholly outside
the city limits.
The good roads movement Is to he
encouraged, not upon the theory that
if will % benefit one class of the community
or another, but because it will
be to the advantage of the whole people.
whether residents of the rural 01
urban districts.?Pittsbu-g Dispatch.
Stun Poit?.
Ooverno.' Odeil. in his recent message.
calls attention to the fact that in
Vermont summer visitors spend $5.000,(100
a year during the summer sen__
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son as irausiciu vimiuin iu iw ......v.
antl suggests that ilic forestry department
he authorized to spend money to
advertise the summer advantages of
New York .State, with the purpose of
bringing to this Stale a portion of this
large summer traflle. Most of this
money woukl be paid to hotel keepers
and people taking hoarders for the
summer. This elass of people could not
be ta..en care of in New York State unless
tlie highway commissioners will
take the trctihle to erect in each town
mile stones and guide boards in order
to tell their visitors toward what place
they are going and how far away they
have got from their summer home. It
seems but a little thing to do. yet for
the benefit of a stranger it Is just as
important as having street signs at the
comer of the streets in a city and
makes your visitors feel instantly at
homo In your locality.
Under the patronage of llie Carnegie
Institute the vegetation of the arid
regions will be studied.
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FITS permanently cured.Ko flts or nerroa*neu
after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
NeryeHe3torer.*2trl*l bottleandtreatiaefrea
Dr. B.H.KLixr., Ltd.. ?31 Arch St.. Phlla.,L>a
The owl may have a reputation for wis- """ -
doni, and yet he never looka on the bright
side of life.
Use Allen's root-Kate.
It Is tho only cure for Swollen, Smarting,
j Tired, Aching, Hot. Sweating Feet,Corns and
Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, u powder
to be shaken into the shoes. Cures while you
t walk. At all Druggists aud Shoe Stores, 26c.
Don't accept any substitute. Sample sent
Fbkk. Address.Allen S. Olmsted, Leltoy. N.Y.
Capt. Richard Pearson Hobson, of
oscillatory fame, has been piuk-teaed
1 and dined lavishly by society in San
Francisco. At one dinner, described by
a local paper at length, "exquisite
- bridesmaid roses formed the centrei
piece and pink-shaded candelabra.
with quantities of pink and white tulle,
combined to make a particularly preP|
ty and pleasing ensemble."
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I'lso'sCurelsttae best medicine we ever u*el
for all affections of throat and iaugs.?Wit.
O. E.ndblky, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900.
The fellows who are adepts at making
love don't make the best huebands.
"My hair was falling out very
, fast and I was greatly alarmed. I
, then tried Ayer's Hair Vigor and
I my hair stopped falling at once."?
Mrs. G. A. McVay, Alexandria, O.
The trouble is your hair
Idoes not have life enough. N
Act promptly. Save your
hair. Feed it with Ayer's
, Hair Vigor. If the gray
hairs are beginning to
show, Ayer's Hair Vigor
will restore color every
time. Sl.Ce a bottle. All drank**.
If your druggist cannot supply you,
send us one dollar and we will expren
7ou a bottle. Be sure and give tbe nam*
I of rour nearest express office. Address,
J. C. AYES CO., Lowell, Mass. |
Grandma is I
if Generally Right E
Take advantage of K
SEp her vast experience 0
j-v* and ask her what is
best for your Liver, H
Kidney and Elood Troubles. We H
think she will recommend
D3. THACNER'S LIVER AND I
BLOOD SYRUP J
because she has tried it and knows it H
cures. Been on market 50 years and is H
reliable. You try it H
6flc and J1 00 at food druggists. Dr. K
Thacher'aI.iver Medicine (dry), 2fi cents. p
Yea. your druggist, sells it. Be sure H
it's Dr. Thicher's, though. / jER
Write our Consultation Department, H
explaining symptoms, and receive free II
confidential advice.
m THACHEH MEDICINE COMfANT, M
> M Chattanooga. Tenn. n
RIFANS Tabules"
: Doctors find
A good prescription
For mankind.
Tie 5-cent packet ! enough fof
I an ordinary occasion. The
family bottle (price 60 cents)
J ? Constipated
Reliable"; been in use since i&m.
" It's Effervescent"; just the thing for hot
weather.
' It's Non-irritant"; contains no narcotic
or dangerous drug.
"It's Pleasant"; a nice Remedy (or nice
people.
It Relieves Constipation, Ihodnehe,
Biliousness. Sour Stomach. luAiyestion, iu
the most effective, common sense way.
At Druggists, IOC. nnd 8 l.OO, or by mail ft*m
THE TARRANT CO..
21 Jtvy Stroot, Now York*
eS25 Every Day
Can bo eaaily made with oar
Well Augers & Drills t ,
One man and one horse regal red. W>
are the only makers of the TlOn WeU?
Borinj and Bock-Dnlllj* ldaohini.
KarnatH the Best ea Forth 1
if any of onr onatomers make from HO to $40 dajfc
Boos ?nj Uxoulara FKBK. Addroas,
LOOMIS WACHIKE CO., TIFflll, OMIO.
rt AM PrD GUKLO VYtittOUT CUTTMGh
l.mVUQn * *fcw Vegetable Remedy.
i i Also I'ilo--. Klsrnia nnrt Sore*.
Cere Guaranteed in Every Case Treated.
NATIONAL CANCER ME I) If INK COMl'ANY,
Austell Btliliiln:.'. AllallUl, <>a
So. 2o.
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M Best Uiuah oyruu. Taste* Good. Dee ffl
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