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l) ~B HAMLIN CO P Y RS G H T, 1905, Bl CHAPTER VIII. T; last there came a day when the doctor permitted his pa- j tient to be clothed and seat- j ed in an easy chair, and. j ^tS??ig Mfs. Barnett to him, Raymond j %tilft&v you thins- Miss Rupert will ; feft now?" %? >J&H ask herr' replied Jeannette, , (iPf?b '<&ie appreciation of the romantic *ose to comply, with a little XJ? unpleasant excitement. She ^sfel want to see him, and yet she ^fc^&l feel -decently refuse. 4^ the -door of the sitting room Mrs. ^^Ss?x stopped, and the girl walked %&&e, her face set in lines of cold S&^toond sat in a big, padded chair, . back to the window and the *V&&ght streaming over his head. He handsome gray dressing gown, $he linen at his neck and wrists ^$%3i Spotlessly clean. His hands were .^?Bi^-Aalmost delicate in effect-and vetean shaven face and his well ^&&ed, abundant brown hair gave ^^??nee of a most careful toilet ^fcae?fethiiLg -mystically solemn and ^^ifet was in his eyes, and his lips ? !5&??&?ed <?s he greeted her. "This is j \^?y ^?od ot you. Pardon me, won't ? -am forbidden 'to stand." " i ^^'you, do not think of it" ??"SDsfcre i ask you to be seated? I ^???3tt*to *aank you more suitably than : m %Mkve ?keen abie to do for what you ] ^?^orme." I *&*ease don't; Mr. Raymond. I as- i ^\?*e -you I deserve no credit I went j %ere under compulsion, and. what ! 3& was deteimnhed by pressure of j ''^^?Bastances. I'm not a bit of a hero- ? 'fc^^tfcd I ?o not like praise." ?fe was chilled by her tone and for a j ^B&B&it hesitated. "A sick man may j W ?oigiven some things," he began to j ^tet 4ast "1 may as well confess j - ^Jt?lfc hav? been bonging to see you. I j been trying for many days to rise ; -?ress in order that I might have j x^ome in. You must let me ask j 3?&3r forgiveness for the rude way in j ^*V*ch I received you that day. All that j X. seems incredible to me now, like | "^tei^ection of another man." *V^ieam of amusement crossed Ann's ^*e$v "I didn't blame you. I'm willing ^ ^dmit.that your position was try . . Was too exalted of mood to re *^?&d to her quizzical tone. "I had for years quite apart from any . 'Sfc^t?t association with cultivated peo ;?h?* besides I had begun to feel ?'was wasting my life and had be .. ^a?e irritable. I went to the ranch to 3^x>ff a debt and I-well, I had fallen .'*0&**?. groove. You recalled me to bet ^"ihmgs"" .'^5[ <and the bullet" she said rather ^^ahtly; foi* she was becoming appre '^??sive 6f the trend of his confidences. ?Sfc ignored her interruption, or, rath- j ^S?> &e plowed across it with something j --2?^ ol(* time resolution. "It is due .s W?5tS)Bte know-or at any rate I desire *b know-that 2 -am not a fugitive justice. Baker thought he was '^^f?nny." . x am not so dull as you think, Mr. %?$t?ond. I understood him perfect am glad you did. It is true I am "twanged ?rom my family, but it is not - My faults have never been crim "Otease do not feel it necessary to ^gfein," interrupted Ann. "It is pain? ts. you, and-and it is wholly unnec "Wlfi^. I beg you to desist I hope you understand that I am in no sense you." "shadow bf pain crossed his face. I ^^aebow the reality of their meeting 1 ^?*s"nbt as he had imagined it. on her part, was angry and dis- j <?**fe$ed with herself and resentful of j implied social equality, and yet he ; ^?S^M? the gentleman, and his face ! Very handsome, very moving in I *fes **ear pallor. Suffering had infinite- j % denned its lines, but she could not 1 his services as cook and cow- j ?nd, besides, she hated being per w^l. 'She resolutely changed the ; . ^?^r. Braide says you are getting on | ^?g??adidly and that you will soon be ! ^WSttnmg to the ranch." j Cocked and chilled by her manner, j plainly abandoned all further ^fes&ght of confiding in her and an ^^ced, wearily and sadly: "It will be v* tim*> before I return to the life ^.s %3e ranch. I have other plans 4K&feTh':tI? regretted her action and as 'rose said, with a smiling assump '?$?f ..'"nsT. friendly interest which : ?23?i worse than anj-tblng she had ito spoken: "I think it wonderful , Mfe=ay yo? aire coming on. VYe will j ... dinner in a few days." **?t?.sr^< you. I shall be down at the j ^?H^t moment," lie quietly replied j **xxs. beaned back in his chair, white i :<*fferimg, his eyes closed, his lips j A>.<*?. ^vas well aware that she had not | to her higher self in this in- : ^c'<r^w- and tliat she had beon cruelly ! ^f^.r>rvnsive and distant with him. j .v??t I don't see how I could have . iifferentl3r." she argued with ; $$g > t.?!/>r self. "He must not g-> vu. : '^Sfe?fefc&S?g Lae more deeply interested in i -^U.'.i?-. thaxi l really am." S$V? T?an.er' was impatiently wait- j Wv bea return. GARLAND r HAMLIN GARLAND asked. "I'm dying to know?' Arin answered with evasive indiffer? ence. "He thanked me again for my heroic action and begged pardon for his rudeness, all of which he might have spared himself the trouble of re? peating." Mrs. Barnett was on the scent for romance. "What else?" "Nothing else." "Poor fellow! He has been strug? gling toward this event for days. Only the doctor's express orders kept him from getting up ten days ago. He has j been all the morning dressing for it, J and now you tell me in that supercil- j ious tone that nothing happened." Ann fired into anger. "What could happen? * You needn't speak in riddles, j Jeannette. What do you think should | have happened? Come, now, you silly, j romantic thing!" ... Some note in her voice touched Mrs. Barnett, and she slowly replied: "Ann j Rupert, you are the coldest, cruelest I creature I ever knew. I know what you did to that poor fellow. You un- ; mercifully snubbed him; you froze his , gratitude on his lips. Of course you are infinitely his superior"-she became weakly sarcastic at this point-"but , you are not justified in stabbing a sick j man to the hearty J "You're quite mistaken. I was very ; nice^to him." * "2sice! Tve seen you nice to young men before. Oh, I'd like to see some , man crush youl Td enjoy seeing you j crawl!" j "Mrs. Barnett went immediately to ! Raymond's door and knocked. At his word she entered. He sat where Ann ? had left him, but Louis was beside j him, showing him a hew drawing. "Isn't that wonderful!" said Ray- ! mond, holding the sketch in the air, his eyes aglow with pride in the boy. "If I j could do that I would never be lone? some or restless. I wish I knew my j use in the world as certainly as Louis I does." The young artist flushed with the i pleasure. "It's just as wonderful to j ride the way you do and throw a rope i and all that. I'll teach you to draw if yon want me to." Raymond turned to Mrs. Barnett with a look in which amusement and a ] certain sorrow met. "I'm long past 1 such instruction, lad. I haven't sense j enough to keep out of mischief. You ' draw, and I'll do the posing. I'm a ] good poser. Don't you think so, Mrs. j Barnett?" "I don't know what you mean," said - she, feeling vaguely his pain and dis- j couragement-his disillusionment. "I posed as a farmer and deceived good Don Barnett. 'I made up for a cowboy and fooled Baker and the rest ' of the squad. And now I'm posing as j an invalid when I ought to be out on j the ranch again. It's time I rode away to a new range." Mrs. Barnett was alarmed at the undertone of bitterness in his words. "You must not think of even walking downstairs for a week." "But I can't sit here and sink deeper ! and deeper into obligation to you," he j answered. "What rights have I in ' this room? I'm only a poor, wander- I ing ne'er-do-well, and your beautiful J home makes me ashamed-more than ashamed-it fills me with a sense of . guilt. I can walk now. and I ought j not to stay another day." Mrs. Barnett knew very well that his mood was due to Ann's icy dis- ! dain, and she realized, too, how diffi- ! cult the task of diverting his mind j from this foolish purpose would be. j She said gently: "You were injured in j our service, Robert, and it is our duty j to look after you; You must not utter j another word of this sort of talk to j me or I will call Don, and then you j will hear a voice that will make you ; quake. I tell you frankly I will not j listen to your walking out of this room ! for a week." Louis, who had been sitting in some ? wonder, trying to catch the undercur? rent of this talk, put his hand on Ray- I mon d's knee and said: "When you go, | I go too. Remember that." It was interesting to Jeannette to ? observe that evening dress changed Ann's estimate of Raymond's charac? ter. The girl had to admit that he looked surprisingly well as he came J rlowly into the library just before the little Chinese chime sounded for din- j ner. Every trace of the cowboy, the j man of sun smit, wind swept plain, was gone Ile was pak, languid, but j self con ta i nf'd and wore his dinner suit I with easy grace. His manner Toward Ann was that of ' a polite acquaintance merely, and her j fear ul" something-she hardly knew ! what-instantly vanished. Mishearing i duri::- dinner .-md throughout the even- ! lng made her forge: the kind of person ' he hud hitherto seemed i > ber, and she began to study him in his true charae- ! ter. He dropped al! his ?ranch life1 phrases and, putting aside Ins reserve, ; talked willi emin- intellectual freedom, ; showing a knowledge of books and <>r comnumitios remarkable in any man. Once or twice as she encountered l is glance a mysterious movement ran about her heart and her breath quick? ened. As they rose from dinner and while he stood to allow her to pas-; be said: "You are very beautiful tonight. Moun- ; tain air has il one wonders foi* you." "You are very courteous," she re? sponded, and lier eyes fell exasp?r?t sense of having revealed a weakness. He carne into the drawing room hi an hour later to say good night to 1 hostess, looking very tired and pa and when be took Ann's hand his ey were burning with deep inner passic "Good night" he said, "and forgive r for any impertinence." She scarce had time to reply, to ask his mer.nl:: for Mrs. Barnett ordered him instan i to bed. No voice responded to Louis' kno< at Kay mon J's door next morning, an hurrying 1:0 Barnett's room, Loi called excitedly, "Cousin Don, have y< seen Rob?" Barnett, splashing in his tub, shot ed_: "No. Can't you find him?" "He isn't in his room." "He's goue down to breakfast, the Hurry alp.ig and keep him compan Don't let him go out." Louis rushed into the breakfast rooi but found it empty. The maid sai "Are you looking for Mr. Raymom He came down very early and said ] was going out for a walk." The boy hurried outdoors, filled wi dismay. "He shouldn't be out alon He might get dizzy and fall." He rc round the block, eagerly seeking Ra mond, who was nowhere in sigh When Barnett entered Rob's room 1 found two letters lying on the litt desk. Ons was addressed to Don ar one to Ann. Barnett broke the seal and read h note almost at a.glance: Dear Ba.-nett-I'm sorry to pull out this way, but I am afraid it's my on way. . I have been very uncomfortable b cause of my growing indebtedness to ye and Mrs. Barnett, and so I have cut loos Please don't think me ungrateful. It because I feel so deeply ycur kindne; that I go. Don't look for me. I'm goir to hole up for a few days till I gi strong. If you happen to get any clew 1 where Tva gone, don't tell the boy. can see that his sister does not approx of his foniness for me, and she is quii right. Tn not a proper companion for boy of his sort. I inclose a check, whic squares us: so far as money can, but yoi kindness :!n other ways, and especial! Mrs. Barnett's care and assistance, I aj In despair of ever paying. I slide out b< cause it would be difficult and painful 1 say goodby, and, besides, I feel that must cut loose from the boy. Raymond's note to Ann was shor almost ct rt: Since my thanks are a- burden to yo; the least I can do is to take myself 01 of your life and beg pardon ^fpr havin entered it. Had I attended to my dutie that night of the fire, you would not hav been troubled by me. I stayed becaus you were beautiful, and that is the whol truth. It is not the first time a man ha neglected his duties for a woman, and th pain I new suffer in giving up all hop of meetinjr you again is a just punishmen for my presumption. I am sorry to g without saying goodby io Louis, but it i best. I k MOW you do not like his growin; regard foi' me, and you are quite right. Louis ?ame to her door and crie< out dolefully, "Ann, Rob has gon away!" "I know it Come in." He entered with troubled, tearfu face and in deeply aggrieved tone said "He went without saying goodby. want to go hunt him and bring hin back, but Uncle Don says that w< must respect his wish. All the same I like him, and I want him back. No I djon't-I want to go with him." "And tea vc me?" His resentment, lor.g smoldering burst fo::th: "Yes, I would! Don't yoi suppose I have seen how you treatec hyn? Y:>u think because you're fron New York you can snub a man Iik< Rob, bu: you're not up to him. You'n not half as good as he is." ? Ann listened in astonishment to this outburst from her brother and ther cuttingly remarked: "One would think I had taken awa; some plaything of yours. Go out of mj room and stay out till you can treat me with respect." "I'm going, and you'll never see me again. I'm going to follow Rob. I don't care what you say." With this defiant cry he rushed from the room. A keen ache of jealousy ran through the proud girl's heart. The one soul of vital interest in her life, her sweet little brother, seemed about to pass from her hands to that of an adventurer. Her resentment of his influence blazed hot within lier. "I will defeat him with his own weapons," she said. "I will win him back to me. I w^ll go wherever be wishes :o go." But Louis did not return to lunch, and she was greatly troubled. He did not appear at dinner, and at last, open? ly alarmed, Ann told Mrs. Barnett of Louis' Ditter accusation and of his threat that he would never return. "Don't worry. Don will find him. He'll get tired of it and come back. These boyish tantrums don't last." "It s?ares me to think of that poor, innocent lad spending the ifight alone in a big, wicked western city. I wish Don would hurry home. Can't I go down 1o his office?" "Oh, no; there's no need of your going. I'll telephone him at once." When Barnett returned, Aim, white witli anxiety, poured out her story. He comforted her by saying: "You take it too seriously. I will notify the police at Cinnabar and Mogalyon. They'll locate him in an hour." Thej did not find him. and Ann pass? ed a miserable night imagining all sorts of ill adventures into which Louis might be led, and would have \ accompanied P>arnett on his quest next j day but for his firm command: "Don't | be absurd. I can find him alone much j quicker." 1 "Bri ig him back if you have to use force!" she cried. And then, with a knowledge of Raymond's power, she added: "If von find Mr. Ravmond I please tell him to send ?addie home. ! Say I wish it." With those words in his ear Barnett i took Iiis way to his office. At lunch he ? was more concerned. "He's not in Cinnabar nor any of the surrounding towns. He may have ? me back to tie ranch. I will wire out there this j aftern ?on. Did he baye any money V" "Yes. 1 had just given him his al- j low.--.:: e. He must have had nearly $200" . i Don whistled: "A smart boy can . hide cut a good while on that. How? ever, he'll <? >:..>. back when his pet j V. C. '. (il,.. 'Even though Raymond tad taken ? himself bodily out of ,her life, his j power to disturb and thwart Ann's f will remained. She began to fear him j "?You're not half as good as he is." a littie. He was bigger, more power- ; ful, than she had thought him. Could j she have found him in the days which followed-days of increasing unrest j and anxiety-she would have humbly asked him to find the runaway and ! bring him back to her, but he had dis appeared as utterly as if he had never ' been. I CHAPTER IX. MEANWHILE, during Ray- i niond's days on the ranch, j while the cattle w^ere wither- ! ing away on the plains and the long trail from the south was fill- j ing with grass, a most notable settle- j ment had been forming like some new ? kind of parasitic growth on the west ward shoulder of old Mogalyon, the mighty peak to the west In the midst of the mountains, in the lap of two smooth, grassy domes, old Philip Le Beau established a cow ; camp in the early seventies and called ? it Belle Alarie, after his wife. This, ! however, proved to be too fanciful for I his cowboy neighbors, who promptly called it "Le Bean's Hole," and in the j end it was known among cattlemen as j Bozle Creek. . Just west of Le Beau's camp, and 1 sentinel to the valley of the Loup, stood j a sj'mmetrical peak which some mis- I sionary to the red people had called j Mount Horeb. About the year 1870 some persons not missionaries planted j gold in the soil in convenient places at ' the base of this hill and raised a mighty shout over the discovery of a ? new El Dorado. ? rush took place, and ! ?0 thej>utjide_world the region became ! known as "thc Mount Horeb mining district" and was alluded to with deep ! seated resentment, with curses. But there were miners whom neither ; the dogmatic opinions of geologists nor j the tricks of schemers could turn aside from a faith that somewhere on the j mighty slopes of Mogalyon lay veins of ' gold, and these continued to chip and to dig and to hammer. Valley Springs was becoming known as a pleasant health resort, and the wa- j ters of its springs were being bottled 1 and shipped to the eastern cities. Each j year a larger number of stricken ones ? came to find respite, if not recovery, in j its gloriously bright sunlight and pure ' air. For years it remained a village and its business men merely shopk?ep ers and resident ranch owners, but as its fame spread families of wealth and social position in the east began to set? tle along the bank of the Bear and to build homes into which the sunlight streamed with healing magic, and the men of these families began to look about for business and for investment, and not a few of them were in the mood to listen when rough bearded men began to plod down the "trail from Bozle Creek bringing sacks of promis? ing ore. j Returns from these samples, sent j away to be assayed, started a flight of ; golden eagles east and west. Again the adventurous ;youth, the skilled pros? pector, the gambler and all the uneasy and shifting elements that follow such lures poured into the valley and toiled : over the trail to the grassy hills of Bozle. \ At first, though short of breath by j reason of the altitude, two full miles above the sea. some of these incomers j laughed and some were angry. "Gold! ; In these grassy hills? Impossible!" And ; they went away again with bitter : words. It was Mount Horeb repeated I on a large scale. j But the assayers, the men of learn- ; ing. persisted and in their little mor- ? tars brayed the ore and in tiny porta- j ble furnaces smelted for many a stur- ! dy miner minute buttons of shining metal. The gold was there, and at last even the most skeptical believed. ! Then the inflow began in earnest i The trail was beaten smooth by ' swarming feet It became a stage road. A groat railroad sent survey? ors toiling up each of the deep and ? winding canyons in the attempt to reach the mighty camp whose fame was beginning to shine throughout j the world. The beautiful grassy hills I were blotched with eruptions of red ; cana. Paths appeared leading (TOVA burrow to burrow Uko runways in a town of prairie dogs. The main street of Bozle was 10,000 feet above the sea, but at last, on the j top of i'in.- mountain, a vein of ore rum,?ag $2.000 to the ton was discov- \ ered, and another town arose-full 11, 000 feet above sea level-^the highest ! town in all America, and this became ; ui celebrated above all others and was called Skytown. In the end Skytown dominated the whole camp and gave name to it. Bo? gle, Grass Mountain, Pin Gulch. Hoff? man, all were subordinate in fame as they were topographically, and the press alluded to the region as the Sky town mining district in those days the barroom of the Mountain House in Bozle was the cen? tral siock exchange of the whole camp. It s.-arined of an evening with busi? ness men from Denver, Kansas City, Chicago, Salt Lake City, San Francis? co and New York. Every great news? paper had its representative there, alert and indefatigable, seeking the latest word of strikes and sales. At the time when Raymond entered it Skytown was tbe busiest, most vital and in some ways the most pictur? esque mining district in the world. It was at its height as a poor man's camp. New territory was being open? ed up each day. Each evening brought - stories of strikes-scores of them. The streets of Bozle were graceless and grassless. but Valley Springs was a bower of trees and growing vines. The houses of the peak were tents; slab shacks and cabins of aspen poles, and remained so, while splendid stone pal? aces had already appeared in the val? ley, and every comfort and nearly ev? ery luxury of the east was obtainable, almost common. Skytown was the cupola of Sky camp. It surveyed the whole field, dominated only by the glittering crest of Mogalyon, which rose nearly 4,000 feet higher into the thin and lieckless air. Bozle and Hoffman and Indian Creek and Eureka and a half dozen other villages lay below. This was the town, the camp, toward which Raymond had been gazing in longing and irresolution for two years and to which he directed his steps as soon as he was able to walk with something of his old time vigor.. j For a week he did nothing but stroll slowly up and down the streets of Bo? zle, studying his surroundings, listen? ing to all that was said and asking I searching questions of every man who ? seemed to know anything of mining j matters. Tbe altitude at first troubled him greatly, but he ate well and slept I well, and day by dayjiis strength and native resolution expanded within him, and he began to definitely seek la place whereon to try his hands at labor. I One night as he sat toasting his shins before the big fire in the hotel he be? came immensely interested in the grand physical proportions and easy, unstud? ied grace of a middle aged miner who stood with his back to the fire replying to the rapid questions of a young re? porter whose head was bent absorbedly above his notebook and pencil. The prospector satisfied every requisite of a ? mountaineer. His massive head, cov? ered with grizzled hair; his handsome, weather beaten, smiling face; his worn laced boots, spattered with mud; his j rusty brown jacket and his broad hat, worn with careless yet unfailing grace, i made him easily the most picturesque j figure in the room, and when some one ! clapped him on the back and called ! out "Hello, Kelly!" Raymond realized, ! with a pleasant warming of the heart, that he was looking upon Rocky Moun? tain Kelly, who knew the ranges of the west as intimately as the lines on the palm of his hand. Seeking opportunity, he touched the big mari on the shoulden "Are you ; Matthew Kelly?" Kelly turned his keen gray eyes on his- questioner. "I am, sir. What can I do for ye?" "I've heard you're a good natured man," began Raymond. Kelly slid his hand into his pocket "How much is it?" Raymond laughed. "Do I look like . that?" "You look like a sick man," replied Kelly, scrutinizing him. "And a hun? gry man." "I'm neither," Raymond smilingly re? plied. "I've just eaten the supper they serve here, and I'm fairly com? fortable, but I want to ask your ad? vice about a business matter. If you had a little money and wanted to break into mining, what would you do?" "Take out a lease," answered Kelly promptly. "Do you know of a promising prop? erty to lease?" "? do." "Will you show it to me?" "I will." Raymond was amused by the crisp succinctness of these replies. It was plain that the prospector was sizing him up. and favorably. Kelly indicated a chair. "Sit down, man: ye look like a citizen with a lung faded. Where are ye from?" "I'm a rancher from the plains." "And y,e want to mine?" "Yes." "Its ninety-nine chances to one ye lose y'r wad." "I know it" "Have ye a wife?" "I have not" "Any one dependin' on ye?" "No one." Kelly relaxed, and his eyes began to gleam friendlily. "Very well, then, I I consent to rob ye. I'm the owner of one mine into which I've put me last dollar, but I know a dandy proposition which I'd like to display. I'll take ye with me over the hills when ye're a lit? tle better 'acquainted with me. and when ye've seen the mine we'll talk the terms of partnership. The bankers ail know me, and the faro dealers likewise, tlie more shame to me." A smile of sin? gular charm curved his handsome lips. "But never mind chat. Matt Kelly nev? er tuck advantage of any man. and that. I think, yell lind me neighbors agreed upon. I'll not say I like the looks of ye- that would sound like blamey-the truth bein' I'm seekin' a partner, hut in a ?lay or two I'll lay me scheme before 3 e." [TO BE COXnXTJED.J A little sorrow may teach more than many sermons.-Chicago Tribune, FIVE JAPANESE SHOT. AMERICAN GUARDS KILL SEAL COACHERS ALENTIAN IS? LANDS. Trouble With Japanese Government Not Anticipated as a Result of the Incident But the Situation Is Ex? tremely Delicate. Washington, Aug. 7.-News reached the State Department this morning that five Japanese were shot by United States guards and twelve Jap? anese, two of .whom were seriously wounded were taken prisoners as a result of a raid made by Japanese schooners on the Alaska Seal rook? eries. The affair occurred on Attu Island the most western of the Aleu? tian group. The report comes from Edwin W. Sims, solicitor for the Department of the Commerce and Labor, who is in Alaska to enforce the law prohibit? ing all persons, not citizens of the nited States, from fishing in Alaskan waters. The prisoners have been taken on the United States revjiue cutter Mc? Cullough, commanded by Capt. J. C. Cantwell, from Attu to Dutch Har? bor. Acting secretary of State Bacon, will immediately communicate the Japanese Ambassador the facts, and will express regret that the Jap? anese poachers were so summarily dealt with by the Americans. There ' is no reason to expect in-? ternational complications as a result of the incident, but there is no ques? tion but that the situation in the Aleutian Islands, especially as it ef? fects Japanese, is so delicate that numerous difficulties are almost cer? tain to be encountered" in enforcing the laws protecting American citizens and their rights. NORTH CAROLINA PEONAGE. Tlie Italian Government Pushing I'rosccution of Contractors Who Are Budding South Western Rail? road. - ?... . Raleigh, X. C., Aug. 9-Untied States District Attorney Moiton today went to Marion, N. C., where he will represent the United States Govern? ment before the United States Com? missioner there in the peonages cases brought against the South and West? ern Railway Construction Company. These cas s are part of the results growing out of the acquitta! of the Italian laborers last wreit on the charge cf conspiracy. The Italian Embassy is bf hind these prosecutions. It is claimed that a number of the large force of Italians employed on the construction force who were bought South fom New York ' and other Northern points ae being held under guard and made to continue work although they wanted to return to New York. ; ^ ? Given Vp to' Die. *B. Spiegel, 1204 N. Virginia St., Evansville, Ind., writes: "For over five years I was troubled with kid? ney and bladder affections which caused' me much pain and worry. I lost flesh and was all run down. I had three of the best physicians who did me no good and I was practically given up to die. Foley's Kidney Cure was recommended and the first bot? tle gave me great relief, and after taking the second bottle I was en? tirely cured." Durant's Pharmacy. PAX AMERICAN CONGRESS. Mexican Delegates Make Important Proposal on Railroad Question. Rio De Janero, Aug. .-The Mexi? can delegates to the Pan American Congress will propose a reorganiza? tion of the whole railway scheme, dividing the project into three sec? tions, first to include Mexico and Central America, second United States, Panama and Colombia and the third Argentina, Peru* Ecuador and Bolivia. Each section will hold a aparate railroad conference and re? port to the congress. The Committee on Commerce has decided not to touch the question of Port Laws and regulations. Instead will advocate the appointment of an expert to make a condification of all po: : laws with the object of forming a basis for an intelligent discussion at the next meeting of the congress. There is nothing so pleasant as that bright, cheerful, at-peace-with-1 thc-world feeling when you sit down to your breakfast. There is nothing so e inducive to good work and good resuits. The healthy man with a healthy mind and body is a better feHow, a better workman, a better citizen than the man or woman who is handicapped by some disability, however slight. A slight disorder of tlie stomach will derange your body, your th .. -1 .. and your disposition. Cet ?t-. the morbidness and thc I > your stomach in tune vour brain and body will :Jttle indiscretions of overe bo easily corrected a ad : surprised to see how inucb 1 you are. Try a lit? tle Dyspepsia after your