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_W: g^gETAigSMAN PART 1. [ The Story of Doctor Dare, as Told to the Scribe. "It -was in the bazaar at Calcutta that a light tap touched my shoulder. Turn ing, I saw the wrinkled visage of Moham med Ben All. a merchant whose acquaint-* ance I had made the day before. " 'Sahib, a word with you,' he said. "I saw you buying curios in the shop opposite mine. Will you come with me for a few moments? I have a rare box I would like to sell you.' "Nothing loth. I went with the old man to his shop, where with an air of great se crecy he produced this box form y in spection. It was about six Inches square and contained an ivory tablet with some cabalistic figures engraved on it. " 'It Is very pretty,' I said, admiring Its workmanship. " 'True.' assented the merchant. 'But it has another value than its beauty.' " 'What?' " 'It is believed by the Brahmins to hold a talisman, which for seven years brings fortune and prosperity to the possessor. But if he retains it to the completion of that period, evil befalls him." " 'Pshaw!" I cried, contemptuously. " 'I'm not -a Brahmin, Sahib, but a true follower of the Prophet, and therefore no more a believer In the superstition than yourself. I bought it yesterday from a conscienceless thief who by some means had stolen 11 from the Brahmin temple in which it has been kept for years. I wish to get rid of It not because of the super stition attached to it, but because I fear assasslonation at the hands of the priests of the temple should it become known that it Is In my possession. If you wish It you may buy it at your own price, providing you promise secrecy as to where you got it.' "Accordingly I bought It, partly to test the truth of the superstition, but more particularly because of its beauty. "Whether or not It was owing to the talisman being in my keeping, I will not say, but certain it is, from that time forth, for the following two years I suc ceeded wonderfully in everything I under took. My fame as a successful medical practitioner, and of the difficult cures I had effected, rapidly extended over a great part of Bengal. I soon found myself grow ing rich, which Is ever an agreeable dis covery to make. M y practice was very large, and I numbered among my patients many of the wealthy native princes, as well as a large share of the upper class of the European quarter. "A month after the talisman came Into my posessslon I began to notice that I was being snadowed by an evil-looking fakir, who hung around my residence and dogged my footsteps wherever I went. "I gave the matter no thought until late one night 'I received a call to visit a patient. A * he lived near I set out onthen foot. My way led thru a narrow, dimly lighted street. While passing down it I was suddenly set upon by an unknown thug who leaped at me from a doorway and aimed a vicious blow at me with a knife, whoch I only just escaped by a quick move of my body. I grappled with my as sailant, who, however, slipped from my hold and ran off down the street but as he passed under the light I recognized in him the fakir who had been haunting my house. "The next day the fakir was nowhere to be seen. This awoke within me the sus picion that by some means the Brahmin priests had become acquainted with the fact that I had the talisman, and that the fakir was employed by them to effect my death and restore the box to its niche in the temple. But this made me all the more determined to retain possession of it. I kept it stored away under lock and key in a strong safe built in the wall of my private office. Believing myself to be a marked 'man I went armed and took care not to go,out at night any more than I could help. "However, as time passed without any similar occurrence, I began to think I was wrong in my surmise, and relaxing my watchful care of the talisman, used fre quently to remove it from the safe to show to friends and expatiate upon its virtues. "One evening, two years after purchas ing it from the merchant, I was at the house of a friend. There was no one with us save an old and trusted native servant, who apparently paid no heed to our talk, but passed unobtrusively in and out of the room attending to his duties. "The conversation turning upon the talisman, I promised to bring it with me the next night and show It to my friend. Accordingly, the following evening I stowed it safely in my pocket and set out for my friend's house, but I had not gone far when four thugs sprang upon me at a preconcerted signal. I was taken en - tirely off my guard, and. tho I made some show of resistance, I was knocked down and beaten into Insensibility. On rethe covering I discovered that I had been robbed of the talismanand tho I im - mediately offered a large reward for Its recovery, and employed several of the shrewdest detectives to ferret It out, no trace of it could be discovered. "Soon after, my good luck took a turn. I lost large sums of money In speculations which had heretofore proved very success ful" A number of my most wealthy patients died on my hands I lost prestige, and In four months was comparatively a poor man. "So I resolved to lea,ve Calcutta, and went to British Burmah in the hope of bettering my fortunes. Bu t in vainI We Know What Is goingtohappen to the little boy who is autffing hhnself with,green applet. A grown Stan couldn't be induced to try that experiment: and yet the grown man will overload himself with indigestible food for which be will pay a greater penalty than colic* It is this careless and thoughtless eating which is the be ginning of stomach trouble and all its painful consequences. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov ery cares dyspepsia and other forms of '*stomach trouble." It restores the weak and run-down man or woman to sound health. '- "Some time has elapsed since I have written rou in regard to the treatment I have been aktag under your instructions,''says Mr. E. P. dnaTMar*, of Minneapolis, Minn. "When first X commenced taking your remedies I was under treatment of a well-known specialist in this city (and had peen for four months), for catarrh, and especially stomach trouble, and I was rapidly getting worse. Got so bad that I could not sat anything that did not distress me terribly, and I was obliged to quit taking the doctor's treatment entirely. I was greatly re duced in flesh. As a last resort I wrote to y*fe and stated my case, and, iter receiving yonr in strnetions X followed Ibtm closely. After taking five bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical | \ Discovery and one vial'} of his ' Pleasant Pellets 1 - X oonunenoad to improve! % and decided to continue! the medicines and ob-,' serve your instructions ' regarding hygienic treaty,. tncnt. Itis now nearljfc , six months since I com'r sneftaed your treatment I can say that I ant an,d i - . well and never felt better Is my life. Am v*ry igratcful to youforwaat fyour median , (tor me. W Dr. Pierce's V&Polltts cure T ^'biUousness and v Hick headache. '''rf, I'M TUESDAY EVENING, By CLARENCE L. LOWEE fell into worse luck than ever, and heaven knows what-1 might ultimately have done gone to the dogs utterly, I guesshad not chance or destiny at the end of a year, directed my wandering footsteps back again to India and Calcutta. "One day# passing along a street, I chanced to come face to face with an old Hindoo woman whose husband had been my servant in Caloutta during the days of my prosperity. Our recognition was mutual. She fell upon her knees, and seizing my hand showered tears and kls3es upon it. - " 'Praised be Vishnu, that I see thee again!' she cried 'for now am I saved!' "I inquired the cause of her agitation. " *My husband lies sick unto death ot a fever,' she replied, 'and there be none who can cure him but thou, of that I am convinced so I_pray thee come with me and attend him. Should he die, I. as his widow, must be burnt alive beside his dead body on the ghaut!' "I at once accompanied the old woman to her bungalow. I found her husband lying very low with a fever which in a few days would have ended him had it been permitted to run its course un - checked. I gave him some medicine and visited him from time to time, and in a little while had brought him around all right. "On the occasion of my last visit I was unutterably astounded at beholding the silver box of the talisman reposing on the window ledge! I had not seen it there at any time of my former visits, and so I judged it to have come into the posses sion of the old couple since my previous visit, two days before, tho by what means I of course knew not. I recognized it at a glance and determined to regain pos session of it. But I said nothing, and suppressing my excitement, soon pro nounced the old man out of danger, whereupon his wife, seizing my hand, in her gratitude fell upon her knees, ex - claiming: " 'Name th y reward, sahib, and it is thine. Nought shall be refused thee.' " 'Then give me that little silver box you have there.' said I, pointing to it. "But at this both looked blank. " 'I would to heaven, sahib, you had asked for anything but that,' said the old woman. 'However, since I promised whatever you asked, you shall have It,' and rising, she brought the box to me. 'It is yours.' she said. "'It was left in our keeping yesternight by a strange Hindoo, who bore every indication of being a wealthy merchant, saying he was about to go on a journey, but that he would return for it at the end of seven days, and threatening us with instant death if we had it not when he came for it. But we will trust in the guardianship of the gods, and fear not his wrath." "I assured the old couple they had noth ing to fear on that account, and that I and there reinstated them in my service, a piece of news which they heard with great joy. Then, with the talisman In my custody, I returned to my lodging. "Two days later the three of us set out for Madras, for I dreaded the return of the Hindoo merchant, and wished to be as far away as possible against the time he came back. "In Madras, strange to say, I speedily retrieved my fallen fortunes, and in a few years had risen to the eminence I had formerly attained in Calcutta. "When I had been there four years, and while in the zenith of my good fortune, I one day made the alarming discovery that I was again being haunted by a fakir. "This gave me great uneasiness, and all my old-time caution returned. "But three months passed with no oc currence, and at the end of that period the fakir disappeared as mysteriously as he came. "I remained at Madras six years, at the end of which time I had amassed a fortune sufficiently large to enable me to retire from my practice and devote the remainder of my life to pleasure, which I have done. During the past year I have traveled extensively, bringing up at last here in old smoky London, where I intend remaining for a little time before going elsewhere. "But there are two things connected with it which I confess cause me greater uneasiness than I care to say. "One is, that during all my travels I have been unable to elude that Infernal fakir, who has turned up at odd intervals in whatever clime or country I have vis ited. H e has never offered me violence, but, after shadowing me for a few weeks, has mysteriously disappeared, only to turn up unexpectedly ai some other time or place. The other thing is, that there Is a tradition concerning the casket which says that upon the conclusion of seven years of unbroken possession of it evil is certain to befall the owner. Now. whether fakir is aware of this legend, and is waiting until the seven years are up be fore striking I cannot say, nor whether or not he is a paid assassin of the Hindoo I probably by the latter. merchant, or of the priests of the temple. ' I have been in England but three days and have not yet seen him, but as has followed m THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. Black Dress Goods ' - -*ffl Bargain, m 20 pieces of plain black London Twin Cloth, 52 inches wide, one of the most popular cloths of the season. Worth $1.25 and $1.50, cut for .Wednesday only, yard on Imported ^ Domestic Wash Goods* Opportunity comes your way Wednesday when we offer Fine Imported and Domestic Wash Goods bought from mill agents at half their cost to man- ufacture. The prices they are offered to you at Wednesday are half and less.1 n e o i the most Dress Ginghams -P Plece and finally accomplished his death and the theft of the talisman, was an assas sin hired for that purpose by the Hindoo merchant who had left the casket at theSecretary bungalow of the old couple, or by the Brahmin priests of the temple from which ^ it was originally stolenbut I think most he me wherever I have gone, it will not surprise me to behold him here as well. One thing is certain, nothing but good fortune has followed me as lone as I have had the talisman. The seven years of my unbroken possession of it will expire at 12 o'clock to-night and. as you see," consulting his watch, "it wants but five minutes of that time now." "Five minutes will decide the super stition of the talisman! If. evil is to be fall me. it will happen now or not at all'" And with a harsh laugh Dare filled glass and tossed it off at a swallow PART H. Conclusion of the Story, as Told by the Scribe. Just then there came a rap "on the door Investigation showed a bell boy on the threshold. "A gentleman wishes to see Mr. L. i the rotunda at once on urgent business," said he. Wondering what was wanted of me at that unseasonable hom\ I rose, and. bid ding Dare await my return, descended to the rotunda. To my surprise, I found no one awaiting me, and I applied to the clerk for infor mation. "There was a blackmoor came in a few minutes ago and asked for you," said the clerk "but he concluded he wouldn't wait for you here, and so he went upstairs just after I sent up the boy to tell you. You must have passed each other on the stairs He looked like an Indian." A blackmoor and an Indian! Like a flash it came to mo! I stayed to hear no more, but wheeling instantly, made up - stairs three steps at a bound to the un qualified amazement of the clerk. I er countered not a soul on my way, and rpeedily reached Dare's apartment. But too late! Tho I had been gone bare ly five minutes, as the clock on the man tel showed, the as&a?sin had had ample time in which to perform his work. On the floor lay Dr. Dare, his eyes wide open, fixed with a. glassy look of horror, his lips drawn back into a ghastly grin, his tongue swollen and protruding from his mouthstrangled to death at the hands of a thug, as the thin cord twisted tightly about his neck testified! I glanced mechanically from ,the corpse to- the table, on which the box containnig the talisman had reposed. - -. , t It was gone! liii^'"--'J\:^:', No one in the hotel had seen the Indian depart, and yet he had most completely disappeared. Tho the shrewdest detectives in Scotland Yard were put upon the case, no trace of the fakir was ever discovered. To .this day I share in the doubt ex - pressed by Dare, as to whether the fakir who had so persistently shadowed him n 87 c In addition to the purchase mentioned above we have added several of our regular lines which we have greatly reduced in price, and this just at the right time for you to supply wants for the coming season. --'-/'.- Silk Ginghams-l^Mf* ?/ 89 pink, blue, tan, green, lavender and white and black stripes none worth less than 50c. Choice Wednesday, at, per yard Silk MuiiS~^^ Pieces of Arnold Silk Mulls, in neat - Dresden patterns and polka dots, al- ways sell at 50c. While this lot lasts, Wednesday per yard FifiO TiSSUOS^-a^ Manufacturing Co., all this seasons new styles and colore - ings, 32 inches wide, sold every where at 25c, to closser thisP lot we say, per yard, only ** , Ginghams, all new styles, colors fast, 27 inches wide, cut special for Wednesday, only Special IV^New York and PhlladelphiT Cannot be more pleasantly reached than by the Grand Trunk-Lehigh Valley Route. Solid through trains, magnificent scenery. Descriptive literature sent free on appli cation to Advertising Department, Grand Trunk Railway System, 136 Adams st, Chicago, Geo. W . Vaux, A. G. P . & T. A.i v The Seashore Route From Chicago and the West. Atlantic City, Cape May and New Jersey Coast resorts are seashore terminals of Pennsylvania Short Lines. As k H. R. Derihg, A. G. P. Agt., No . 2 Sherman street, Chicago, about quick time to the Seashore from Chicago and the West. We will close out all that is left, of our finest White Dress Skirts and a few Suits about 50 pieces in all. Former prices $25.00 to $100.00, at......: Only. A grand opportuity of selecting a new, correct and exclusive style Summer Coat, Dress or Skirt at the height of the season with plenty of time to wear it. WE NEED THE ROOM* CAPITAL CULLINGS King Victor Emmanuel has sent to President Roosevelt a gift of books of rare value. Senator Nelson will accompany the subcom mittee on territories to Alaska, which leaves about June 20^ Stanford Newel, at present American minister to The Netherlands, has also been made minis ter to Luxemburg. Judge Henry C. Caldwell of the United States circuit court, retires under the age limit. His home is at. Little Rock. John D. Jackson, at present American minis ter to Greece. Rumania and Servia, has also been designated American diplomatic agent to Bulgaria. Wayne MacVeagh will represent only the Unit ed States and Venezuela in the Hague arbitration and not all the non-blockading nations which have claims to present. Next Monday has been set by the president for the reception of the committee appointed by the B'nai B'rlth to ask him to call Russia to account for the slaughter of Jews. Postmaster General Payne offers the suggestion that William H. Taft, now governor, of the Philippines, receive consideration by the repub licans as a vice presidential candidate. Wiliam Nelson Cromwell, geneial counsel of the Panama Canal company, states that while the debate may be prolonged the Colombian con gress will finally ratify the canal treaty. John C. Ingersoll. United States consul at Cartagena, Colombia, died' at Colon on Satur day. Mr. Ingersoll was a native of Illinois and a nephew of the late Robert G. Ingersoll. The saloons have been closed at Bremerton, Wash.., and It is probable that several of the ships of the Pacific squadron now at San Fran cisco will .go there for docking and repairs. " B. W. Stanton, -acting president of the Iowa agricultural college, conferred upon Frank B. Armstrong, assistant secretary of the - treasury, the honorary degree of master of philosophy. , At the request of the British government the navy department has ordered the South Atlan tic squadron to proceed to Valparaiso to protect American and British Interests during labor troubles. - General Bristow. fdurth assistant postmaster, ia devoting much time to a study of rural free delivery. He is not yet ready to announce bis Dlans further than" to say that there would be no serious interruption in the extension of the service. The place on the civil - service commission which the president offered to W. W..Heffelfln jrer will soon be given to a Massachusettsman, a Harvard graduate and a supporter of Senator Lodge. The name has not been announced, but the appointment has been agreed upon. jjr, y his Do not fail to visit Min neapolis' greatest Oar" _ nival. Industrial street, tflUNE F/VIRl replete with mercantile, u^ AN D *yi manufacturing and ope rative exhibits, alone will repay you for a trip go Minneapolis. ~ CARNIVAL) Offer Good for ono day only, WEDNESDAY. f??c v half silk, half cotton, m fancy, ^mh- .strjPe W^ce d o siikGmghams,ryou n ^ n e Tissuesonly, , 35 0 pieces fine Egyp- tian Tissue, made by s In Our Cloak Room. Special THE ''JOINT HIGH' Hay Takes Interest in Ca nadian Questions. Washington, June 9.Th'e active, inter est displayed among the people of the northwest in the movement for another joint high commission meeting this sum mer and some steps towards promoting the cause of reciprocity with Canada has .had its effect in the state department. Secretary Hay says it is unsettled whether the commission will have another meet ing this summer. A lively correspondence is in progress between Senator Fairbanks, chairman of the American commission, and Sir Wilfrid Laurier of the dominion commission, but nothing definite has been determined. Secretary Hay admits the deep interest he feels and asserts that notwithstanding the failure of congress to provide funds to pay the expenses of the American com mission, this will not be permitted to stand in the way of a meeting. Secretary Hay asserts there are at least eight questions of 'importance which should be taken up, chief among which'he names the reciprocity problem, the fish eries, arming on the lakes, the Lake of the Woods boundary, etc. But it is admitted that the outlook is not encouraging for reciprocity with Canada or with any other countries. "We. have sent to the senate at least ten reciprocity treaties," said an official of the department, "none of which has been ratified. It begins to look as if any industry in the country that feels ag - grieved, or has objections to specific pro visions of a reciprocity treaty can find one or more senators to oppose the treaty and one such objecting senator seems to be quite sufficient for the purpose." It is not disguised, that the friends of Canadian reciprocity are disturbed by the possible effect of Chamberlain's course in England with respect to British foreign trade generally and especially the trade of the mother country with her colonies. It is feared that the Chamberlain policy may be established with far-reaching ef fects upon Canadian trade before any arrangements can be effected for reci procity in trade relations between the United States and Canada. '"f^W^^'S'J . - ''''- ''-" **'-$&& v- ' ,-, Failure of Submarine Boats.'}/g!r|j From the amount of money spent and the articles written on submarine boats, one would think they had been a great success, but really they have been a com plete failure. The crews of submarine boats have been subjected to tortures which would have .been considered in - human a half century ago. The boats have proven unmanageable, with out defensive "qualities and of no great danger to an enemy. - For the good of the nation lessfattention should be given to submarine boats and more to golden grain .belt beer. This delicious tonic makes men strong and healthy, fit for the work of, Americans., Ypu^wlll, enjoy it in your homei^.. - 'V^^'^f^M^^. ." - __ Detroit $9.75. For the round trip via the Soo Line. A great opportunity. Call at,th.e,Ticket Of Ifice. U9 Third street S,^^|^ : sst white Broadcloth Coats, Etamine Coats, Pongee Coats, Fancy Exactly Hall Price Wednesday Matson's Baby Label Bread -Is the kind you will enjoy. It is wholesome, pure, nourishing, and will satisfy the most exacting taste. . Matson's Bakery is known by the bread it makes. 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