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O" 111.' ilr :i. f i.t I ii-. CT It, 1 I . 1 W II ti II l t.. On I!,. ... f.'tl will i:tll r. n In tin .1 l. 1 !! Uht sr:l -t In- liioiie- if lliiU'ii' ' ! Am. I T -t.tis 1 vi i.l n..t U'.'k file It l n IKA.(BElJirH! jst r i&iD (i'...tli;M. l'l'HV I.y I pol'.Ie Milhurn was the cutest and ' hat pii st and cosiest li'tle bride In alt Millville t!ie was so very youm? ati.t so vi ry i it iim-fii ' . so very inex periem ed. and altogether so saury and daticini; and childishly Irrespon sible, tliat th.' rdilT pills still un married nrenl that it was really a shame that mii h a rliit of a hi'.d shot;.! In- allowed to marry and real ly It must lie a tie. it trial to Harry. Harry. linwcir. managed to .-trtii;-pie almia very nicely under the load of his child if In fact. s-h.M-klim' as it may vm to appear, he seemed jos:tiely to lil.e I'. The truth I". Cupid li'tns. Ii had taken possession nf the Mill, in ii home and the youiu eotsple were livlnn one long dream of hlls. Of i (iiit-s Harry was com pelled to spend loni; hours down town doing foolish things In order that the home could he maintained. Hut that was only Incidental and to he put up with in order that the de lightful little doll's house could exist and have Its being. So Harry went whistling to his work among the musty law hooks ami Pollie ham; away the day serene In the assurance that he would soon return. One brlcht morning when nature It self seemed In the ecstatic mood of th young couple, Dollie stood on the I little front porch, watching for Har ry's last salute at the corner, whose turn lost him to vfew. she noticed wi'h the searching eye of love that he hail changed his clothes and wore the gray tweed Instead of the blue serge ho had been wearing of lat". Afterward In clearing up their bedroom, sure enough, she found the discarded blue serge suit plied heller skelter on a chair and left with the ( ait lesstiess characteristic of the sons of Adam. It was then that the great tragedy of her life happened. As she was picking up tl coat preparatory to hanging it neatly upon a frame, as was her loving custom, a letter dropped from one of the pockets, a dainty little square envelope such as women use, ami carrying the odor of delicate perfume. It fell addressed Bide up. anil the superscription lay there on the bed so close before hor eyes that she could not help seeing If. The address was written in a delicate feminine hand: "Harry Mil burn, Ksq., Room 93o, Security Build ing. City," and down in the corner was the word. "Personal." The Incident gave her t. distinct shock. She stopped her merry whistling In the middle of a liar ami looked at the hit of paper with an expression of annoyance growing on her face. What woman was this, writing scented notes to Harry? And w hy was It marked personal, ami why hail he not told her about It? She leaned forward and examined the date stamped on the envelope. It was four days old. And he had not said a word to her about It. Oood heavens! was he deceiving her? Was there another woman? Was he ua- A letter dropped from one of the pockets. true? She gave a little shriek at the very thought. Then she laughed. It was all most ridiculous. She was nervous or some thing and was making a mountain out of a mole-hill. Surely a lawyer lias to receive communicmlonH from clients and witnesses anil ami all sorts of people. Harry was a man of affairs mid not simply a plaything to have about the house. She started to whistle again, when the word "per sonal" caught her eye. She stopped again In the middle of a bar and her face apaln commenced to wrinkle with perplexity. "Forbidden' j .1,1 - l kf. I th- frP. f I ' I W II - W llll" 1 1 1 1 H - like l.T li.ilr. M....n- iii-i.ii Iht tin Men r i.f tic tiluht'a dii'p t w l Ko ! r fure. summer lnt pi it tfi". ria.40 t I k- I.i r UK, I Mil Mill iliz.tic. tolly Hiciry Tub. CV ) "I will rend the letter and find out," she said. Then she blushed and drew back. The very thought of such a thing filled her with shame. She determined to put the whole matter out of her mind and went on about her work. Hut the green-eyed monster hail slipped one little tenta cle Into her young heart and some how she could not whistle or sing as she worked, and her rebellious mind would forever turn to that hit of paper lying on the bed. for she had not had the courage to touch It. "Dolly," he said slowly, "I hoped you would not find It." I ate In the afternoon she made up her mind to give Harry a good fright anyway. Then he would explain and they would make up In the most love ly manner. And she smiled and blushed softly at the thought of the making up. So when Harry arrived nt erly dusk he found no outstretched arms to greet him on the little front porch. Mounding Inside In disappoint ment and alarm, he found Dollie on her knyes beside the bed, with her head in her arms, sobbing. "Dollie," he exclaimed, "what la It?" "I found the letter," she sobbed. "Oh, Harry, how could you?" He was strangely silent and when he ditl not come down beside her she glanced quickly up. A great fear en tered her soul as she saw his white face anil troubled eyes a fear beside which the worrylngs of the day were as nothing. "Dollie." ho said, slowly, "I hoped you would not find It. I knew I left It ami worried all day lest you should happen to find It. Oh, Dollie, Dollie, I was a blind fool, and the woman got me before I knew what happened, but I hoped to get through It without causing you any worry." A pall as of the grave settled upon her. She could not have moved If she wanted to. "Dollie," he said, "cheer up and we will get through this nil right." He i uihi ins iiaim on ner neau. She shrank from him and cried fiercely, "Don't touch nie. iXin't dare to touch me." He walked silently from the room and the house. She never moved. She did not know how long It was, ' but after a time he returned and 1 threw himself down beside her. "It surely Is not so serious as all ! that, Dollie." he said. "I am al most sure I can get the money In such a way that It will not make us pinch very hard. What hurts me most is to have been so gullible as to be fooled by a common adven turess and the Insolent note Is the last straw. Hut you see, Dollie, a man cannot always be wise and we learn some things only from experi ence. It Is a common thing, you know,, for a lawyer to go on a client's bond, ami I had no suspicion she would run away, with all her social connections here. Dollie looked up with a bewildered stare. "What ere you talking about?" she ashed. "Why I went on the bond of that Mrs. Talson who was arrested for stealing the furs at the Hlakcman house during the reception. And now she has run away and leaves me this insolent note saying that I can pay the money and add It to my hill for lees, and then frame the bill. I don't care so much for the money" "Money!" shrieked Dollie, spring. lng lo her feet. "Money! Is all this about money only money J" v-" I V V I i I . ': "Why what c!3e?" asked Harry, now bewildered himself. And a minute later It would have taken a very close analysis to tell which sas Dollie and which Harry. AMBITION CF AMERICAN BOYS. Satisfied With Aiming at Nothing Lett Than the Presidency. "There Isn't a decent servant to be had these days; no, not one, and why? .lust because every one Is so ambi tious," complained a comfortable look ing woman to her friend who was out In quest of a domestic. "All the American girls are too good to go Into service," she continued, "and the for eigners are fast getting Into the same way of thinking. Just to show you I he aspirations of the young genera tionyou know my husl and U Inter ested In hoys. Well, he likes all kinds of hoys, big and little, rich and poor. They all appeal to him, and whenever he gets a chance he enters Into a con versation with some youngster on the street. In a car. anywhere at all. When we were In England, and traveling on the Continent, it was the same way: he was always scraping acquaintance with the little boys, and he always asked them In the course of conversa tion what they wanted to be. In the case of the foreigners It was invari ably whatever their father happened to be. If he were a valet, why the boy had no ambition to be anything better than a valet, or a tailor, or shopkeeper, and so on up to a mem ber of Parliament. Whatever the father might be, that Ihlng was what the boy wanted to become. Now. In America l;'s different. There are only two things that the average American boy wants to be. Until he Is eleven he wants to be like the policeman on bis beat, but after that they always answer my husband, 'What do I want to be? Why. President of the United States.' Talk ubout ambition!" New York Times. Gave Him His Time. A Kentucky congressman tells an Interesting tale of the execution of a noted desperado In that state some years ago. Just before the sheriff adjusted the noose he asked the usual question whether the man had anything to say. "No. I think not," began the con victed one. when he was interrupted by a cheerful voice shouting: "Say, Hill, If you ain't got anything special to say would you mind giving me fifteen minutes of your time Just to let these good people know that I am a candidate for helr suffrages, and" "Hold on. there!" shouted the sher iff, "who's that?" "John Blank," volunteered some one. naming a rising young politician, who has since represented his state for a number of years In the House of Rep resentatlves at Washington. "Who did he say It was?" whisper ed the condemned man to the sheriff. "They say It's John niank." . "I thought I recognized John's voice." the desperado remarked calm ly. "Well, he can have my time, nil of It, hut go ahead and hang me first and let him talk afterward." Llppin cott's. My Force. I'm no s"lf-m.nlo mnn. for T rtenrty run True each force thnt fashi.incl me From the .tears Iuiik agu, when a bab new born t lay upon my mother's knee. Tben (iil alinve in bis beaten of love To thine iingi'ls pave control Mfe tinili'tlleil of this little child. Ami they breathed in me a soul. Then the love that lies In a mother's evei Woke Hint soul into active life. Ami from nil alarms her sheltering arms Protected me In the strife. Her tender care and her loving prnvel As the Imy grew into man. My nature drew to a full yiowth true, As only a mother van. a In nn college walls. In no lenrnel halls, found my brain its forming tool; But In the press of work's hard stress I learned In the world's (treat school. The god of life and the evil's strife 1 struggled on to find. And the Inhor to (tain, the work to attain, Sharpened and shaped my mind. Then Into life with Its hardships rife. When success was almost won Came a keener sight and n hrlghter llsht. As though clouds hurst the sun. Work lighter grew, rkles were blue, A new light seemed to start A heaven this of new-found hliss . And love awoke my heart! lialtimore American. Squire Taylor' Boots. Avery P. Taylor, or Squire Taylor. as he was commonly called, was a fre quent visitor at my father's store in Kiskdale, In the early sixties, and was almost invariably found with his feet high up on the old wood stove' and with stovepipe hat on the back of his head. One day while In this position John Daly entered the rtore with his son Johnny, a boy about 10 or 12 years of age, und asked to bo shown a pair of boots for the boy. The old squire turned around and asked the old man If it did not cost him considerable to shoe that boy. "Why," he said, "here Is a pair of boots I have had for years. and the taps are hardly worn yet." Young Johnny piped up In reply, to the great amusement of my father and the bystanders: "Yes, but If you had them on the seat of your punts they would have been worn out long ago," Boston Herald. Asked the Wrong Questions, A native of Erin who used to work near the boiler room of the power station of the Waltham Gas Light Company, Waltham. Mass., conceived the Idea that he would like to bo a fireman. All his spare time he spent with the fireman, and when he thought he was sufficiently posted ho applied for a fireman's license, and In duo time he wa3 notified to appear at the State House, Hoston, to be exam Ined. He failed to pass. Meeting him the next day, I asked him how the Inspector used him. "Oh. very well," he replied, "only he dlilnt asli me anything I knew " TO SMASH TARIFF PROPOSITION FOR WIDE OPEN SYSTEM OF RECIPROCITY. Bill Introduced Which Would Give the President the Exclusive Power to Reduce All Tariff Rates of Duty for a Period of Flvt Years. The Infinite possibilities of going wrong on the tariff question are strik ingly demonstrated In a bill Introduc ed Feb. 27, iy Representative Curtis of Kansas. WTien once the reciproc ity microbe or the tariff reform bacil lus gets busy in the system there Is no telling what may happen. Here Is a statesman serving his seventh con secutive term as a Republican In the House of Representatives. He is, moreover, a member of the Republi can majority of the Committee on Ways and Means. Yet he Is found .standing good for a proposition that would wholy take away from Con gress its constitutional function of tariff making and transfer that func tion to a single Individual. Here is the Curtis plan: A BILL. Authorizing the President of the United States to enter Into commer cial agreements, tnd for other pur poses. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives . of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be and he is hereby authorized, with a view to securing reciprocal trade with foreign coun tries, to enter Into commercial agree ments with any other country or countries concerning the admission Into any such country or countries of the products of the United States and their use and disposition therein, deemed to be for the Interest of the United States, and In agreement or agreements in consideration of the ad vantages accruing to the United States therefrom, shall provide for the reduction during a specified peri od, not exceeding five years, of the duties Imposed In an act entitled "An Act to Provide Revenue for the -Government and to encourage the indus tries of the United States." approved July 24. 1897. to the extent of not more than 20 percentum thereof, upon such goods, wares or merchan dise as may be designated therein of the country or countries with which such an agreement or .agreements shall be made as herein provided, or shall provide for the transfer during such period from the. dutiable list of said act to the free list thereof of such goods, wares and merchandise being the natural products of such for eign country or countries and not of the United States, or shall provide for the retention upon the free list of said act during a specified period, not exceeding five years, of such goods, wares and merchandise now Included In said free list as may be designated therein, and when any such agree ment shall have been entered Into 2nd public proclamation made thereof, then and thereafter the duties which shall be collected by the United States upon any of the designated goods, wares, merchandise and prod ucts from the foreign country with which such agreement has been made. shall, during the period, provided for. be the duties specified1 anil provided for In such agreement, and none other. This Is "playing it wide open," In deed. It would place tn the hands ot one man the power to smash to atoms the Dingley tariff law for a period of five years, and if, perchance, during a portion of that period, the one man should chance to be a free trade Democrat Mr. Bryan, for example while the Senate and House, either or both, were Republican, 'no special power of foresight is needed to tell what would happen to the policy of protection. Even though the one man were to be and continue a Republican and a protectionist, the Curtis plan would confer and impose a responsi bility which no pntriotic President would be willing to assume. Mr. Bry an might be glad of such a chance to Install free trade with the whole world with one stroke of his pen. Dro ver Cleveland would have gloried in such an opportunity. THE ONLY MOURNER. We suppose there are some reasons why Mr. Charles Curtis should have been seven times consecutively cho sen as representative In Congress irom nnnsas. lie may nave qualities and qualifications that are not to bt ascertained by examination of the Congressional Record, that are not visible to the naked eye. Let us hope so. It Is certain, however, that a fair ly Intelligent familiarity with the tariff question, to say nothing of a level headed grasp of the principles of pro tection, is not to be numbered among this statesman's claims to distinction. The terms and provisions of the Cur tis bill make this fact clear beyond peradventure. The bill should, If pos sible, be widely circulated and care fully 'digested In the First Congress district of Kansas prior to the nomi nation of a successor to the present Incumbent. All a Bluff. In one of the campaigns of the Clvlt War a Union general made elaborate plans of offense and defense against the enemy which was in front ot him and which he imagined was strongly fortified. One morning It was discov ered that the enemy had withdrawn during the night. The army opposed moved forward to take possession of the fortifications and guns. When the latter were reached It was seen that the most of the guns which bad looked out from these ramparts and caused the extra cautious general to cry vig orously for reinforcements and await their arrival were painted logs as harmless as wooden Indians. To he thus deceived was bad enough, but suppose that all along this general who was holding back his army had known that these huge muzzles stick ing out from these earthworks were but Impotent logs? Well, we very seldom build monuments to that kind of fighting men. This Incident Is recalled as we con template the German tariff bluff and the loud outcry from the noble array of patriots who were so scared of Ger many's wooden guns. The worst thing about these fellows was that most of them knew just how little there was behind this German demonstration. They knew there was nothing but form and paint there. Yet they de manded unconditional surreuder. Ce dar Rapids Republican. Welcome News -in Louisiana. The plan of the administration to sacrifice American interests for the benefit of its pet scheme with respect to the Philippines has met its just and proper due. It was a cold blooded scheme, pure and simple, without a single valid argument to commend It. It was railroaded through the House of Representatives by a liberal appli cation of the executive lash and with the assistance of complaisant Demo crats who failed to see the difference between bona fide tariff reduction In the Interests of the whole people and the sacrificing of a prosperous domes tic Industry In the Interest of a horde of semi-barbarous people who cordial ly detest everything American. The defeat of the Philippine tariff measure will be welcome news to the Louisiana sugar industry, aS It holds out the hope that at length congress has come to realize the unfairness of constantly sacrificing the domestic sugar producers In the Interest of the refiners' monopoly and of capitalists Interested in exploiting our distant possessions. - The reciprocity treaty, whereby Cuba was relieved of 20 per cent of the duties on her sugar, was a gross Injustice of much the same sort os the proposed Philippines meas ure, and the defeat of the latter holds out the hope that when the treaty ex pires at the end of the original five years the senate will refuse to renew It. New Orleans Picayune. A Better Way Should Be Found. This was a case In which the In terests of the American and the Fili pinos could not be reconciled. An Injustice had to be done to some one, and the Chieftain is glad that the Colorado beet growers were not se lected as a scape-goat to be laid upon the altar of national honor. We hope, however, thnt some method will be found by which the national obliga tions to the Filipinos may be dis charged without putting the cost upon such a promising Industry as beet sugar making. Pueblo Chieftain. EX-MAYOR CRUMBO RECOMMENDS PE-RU-NA. .nJf 2 My Endorsement of Pe-ru-na is Based On Its Merits." Ed. Crumbo. I.D. CRUMHO, Ex-Mayor of New .J Albany, Ind., writes from 611 K. Oak street: "My endorsement of Peruna Is based on its merits. " If a man is sick he looks anxiously for something which will cure him, and Peruna will do the work. "I know that it will cure catarrh of the head or stomach, indigestion, head ache and any weary or sick feeling. V It is bound to help anyone, if used according to directions. 'I also know dozens of men who speak in the highest terms of Peruna ana nave yet to hear oi anyone being' disappointed in it." - Mr. LrumtKj, in a later letter, dated Aug- 35, 1904, says : "Mr health In srood. at present. lnt If I should have to take any morn medi cine I will fall back on Peruna." FREE Oh, Boys! Oh, Boys! Etra Ithti newly larentod BRKECBJ LOADING GUN OrlHASK HALL Ol'T FIT, cotMlatlDK of Urin M'lt. Cap and fine Han Ball, bj aalitnit 84 (piendld lead penctla at So. eac h, tt'a dead eauri bora we trim toil Write for dcdcII and circular howina; Oun, Indian Suite. Tarfft anil nthar nr.mliim. Thirteenth Htrwet Iid Pencil Company, '. lit street. IIW YOKE. A Sure B (.IL u. relief for ASIRH13, Sold lir all Irutfiiiiiia . or oy man. rrnia, SIOWBLIi CO HftS. Otuileauwu. Maaf. r by mail. U rnla An undertaker never complains thut he Is worked to death. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully tmrj bottle of CA9TOTOA, a ufe and euro remedy for Infants and children, and tee Uut It Beer the Signature of ta IJea For Over SO Yean. Tbs Kind Yoo Hare Alwy Boufbt, No man cares to be the silent part ner in a matrimonial firm. Good Health! How ta ret it. How to maintain it: Take nature's 'medicine, Uarneld lea. the mild laxative. It le made of h"i. be. It purities the blood and establmhea a nor mal action oi liver. Kidneys, aioruacn ana bowels. Eva 1 hear that they eloped at midnight by a dark moon. Edna Yes: and her father detected the elopement and ran after them with a whip. Eva Gracious! And did he catch them? Edna Oh, he wasn't trying to catch them he was merely trying to speed the horse. Judge. The Best Guaranty of Merit Is Open Publicity. Every bottle of ' Dr. Pierce's world famed medicines leaving the great labo ratory at Buffalo, N. Y., has printed upon its wrapper ull the ingredients entering into its composition. This fact alone places Dr. Pierce's Family Medi cines in a eltut all by themnrlvti. They cannot be classed with patent or secret medicines because they are neither. This is why so many unprejudiced physicians prescribe them and recommend them to their patients. They know what they are composed of. and that the ingredients are those endorsed by the most eminent medical authorities. The further fnct that neither Dr. Plorce's Golden Medical Discovery, the great stomach tonic, liver invigorator, heart regulator and blood purifier, nor his Favorite Prescription" lor weak, over worked, broken-down, nervous women, contains any alcohol, alio entitles them to a place all by themselves. Many years ago. Dr. Pierce discovered that chemically pure glycerine, of proper strength, is a better sol'veut and preserv ative of tho medicinal principles resid ing In our indigenous, or native, medi cinal plants than is alcohol ; and, further more, thut it possesses valuable uiodiclnal properties of its own, being demulcent, nutritive, autlseptiu, and a most cftlciunt antiferment. Neither of the above medicines eon tains alcohol, or any harmful, habit forming drug. ns will be seen from a formula printed on each Tuey are sufu to use and glance at the bottle wrapper. potent to cure. Not only do physicians prescribe the above, nou-secret medicines largely, but tbe most iutelllpent people employ thom peoplo who would lint think of usitig tho ordinary patent, or secret medicines. Every ingredient entering into the coin- Iiosillon of Ir. Pierce's medicines has he strongest kind of an endorsement from louding medical writers of the several schools of practice. No other medicines put up fur like purposes has SUV such profrgnional endorsement. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pullets cure con Stipatinn. Constipation is the cause of many diseases. Cure the cause and you cure the disease. One "Pellet" is a gentle laxative, and two s mild cathartic Drug gists sell them, and nothing is ''just AS good." Easy to take as cuudy. ill vl