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MW© DONALD DONALDSON. JR. Copyright, ICte. bv Clmi Wo all suu-ted, as lr detected in a crime, and there stood Dr. Whiting at Donaldson's elbow. "1 passed the door just now," said he, "and had a glimpse of your back, but recognition didn't dawn upon me until twas half way down stairs to the cafe. I should have looked you up later." lie gnvc us greeting, and we in vited him to take the vacant place at the table. were speaking of your friend's remarkable experience," said I. Whiting glanced hastily at Donald j— son. ul don't know how you got him to mention it," he said. "After the first wonder of it had passed away he al ways avoided the subject with me. Be ond question, Mr. Harrington, that was the most completely marvelous thing that ever happened on this earth. Why, he described to me"— "Don't, old.chap," groaned Donald son. "I hate to thluk of it. I have ex plained to these gentlemen that it was wholly isolated occurrence, that 1 really have no unusual powers"— "Let us be the judges of that," said I. "Give Dr. Whiting i&wission to tell the story." "You hfive been very courteous and sincere in this matter," said Donaldson earnestly, "and I am unwilling to dis oblige you. Toll just what happened, Iliiroid, as briefly as you cau and get it over with." Ife&tlie disgrace that he had kept out of erybody's way. My communication him about Donald was stolen by the T-deteclives. He received no word at ^•^.all, and, as we discovered long after tfJ.Mward' he was led into the distressing error of supposing that Donald wo* jSjF^disloyai to him in this trouble. Noth could have been further from thn •. 'truth. "Wlieu Henry did nfit MBO to Bee 1 as we liad^xpected, Donald got 44The Ml i, v*1 *1 devil!" he muttered. "This is odd!" out of bed, though he couid hardly stand upon his feet, and went out to find his brother. But Henry was far away by that time, and not even the detectives themselves were more ig norant than we were as to his where abouts. "For a week or more the newspapers located him in fifty different places, and Donald himself got wind of many idle rumors?* That sort of thing is agonizing. 1 don't like to think of what Donald suffered. Finally we learned that the detectives in the case had reached the conviction that Henry had committed suicide by leaping from an ocean steamer. Some poor fellow made that pitiful euding, and for my ow'u part I firmly believed that it was Henry Donaldson. "Almost a year later, however, wo got word that Henry had been seen in a lumber camp in the northwest. I heard of it first and secretly attempted an investigation, sending a detective out into that region. His first commu nication to me seemed favorable, and I decided that it would be worth while for Donald to go out there. I took two or three fellows whom I could trust Into my confidence, and we agreed to put up the necessary money. We all wanted Henry Donaldson to come back and face bis accusers, and we be lieved that we could clear him. "Wo made a plan to lunch together and have Douald with us and then dis close the whole subject to him. So we met about noon one day and went to a private room in Hobart's restaurant up town. Donald did not know what was in the wind, but for some days his jniud had been running upon his brot&i Being a True Record onii Explanation of the Seven Mysteries Now Associated With Ills Name In (he Public MM, and of on Eolith, Which Is Die Key of thc_Scvcn By HOWARD FIELDING er, and he looked all broken up with it. As he and I were going to Hobart's that day ho said to me: 4I am sick with anxiety about Har ry.* 'You don't believe that he is dead?' said I. 'I never have/ he replied. *1 can't.' "Nothing more was said upon the subject just then, aud it was not men tioned while we were eating luncheon. This was by agreement. Donald was very silent during the meal. He ate scarcely anything. He was pale and in a peculiar state of nervous tension. I observed him with considerable anxi ety, for he looked like a man who is going to break down. "We had reached the cigars, and the waiter was well out of the way. One of the fellows made a sign to me to open the subject that was ou our minds. I turned toward Donald. He started as if from a dream and said in a hurried, strange voice: 'Harry is all right.' "Then the color rushed into his face, which had been very pale. He reeled in his chair, and I put up my hand to catch him. 'What do you meanV 1 asl ed 44 Ho subsided iuto an attitude of pas sive endurance. •These are the facts," said Whiting. "Donaldson was in Harvard when I Mas a student in the medical school •md a proctor in one of the buildings. 'J hat's how 1 came to know him." "Broke up a riot in my room," inter-, Jeeted Donaldson. "We had knocked down the chandelier. It's a proctor's duty to preserve order. Whiting came in with an Indian club in each hand awl preserved it." After graduation he came to New York," continued Whiting. "His broth er was licre—Itenry, about ten years older than Donald. I was taking a spe cial course of study in this city at the time. Henry Donaldson was a note •*%}. teller in the Dey Street bank, and he 1 had the misfortune to become Involved In the trouble there about three years :9H ago. 5ou mnj* remember it & "Not definitely," said I. "Somebody got away with $150,000," 1 said Whiting. "Of course I need not say that Henry Doualdson was entire ly innocent, but circumstances, and men, too, conspired against him. He was arrested and almost immediately reused, but only that he might be dogged by detectives. "He was abnormally sensitive re garding anything that affected his good name, and he was always easily dis couraged. He was convinced that the combination against him was too strong and—thai he must eventually be dis graced and ruined. He could not bear the prospect, and so he took a false step to avoid it He fled, and nobody had the least idea where he had gone. "Donaldson was ill in bed in some rooms of mine up town. We supposed jv-«^that Henry knew where he was, but £§»&\tho poor fellow had been so hounded afoMup and down and was 60 oppressed,ly 'I saw him,' he said, 'I sajv him. He's all right. He's coming home.' "That was all that we could get out of him at first, and we did not know what to make of it. Finally I told him frankly just why we were there and what we had learned. 'No,' he said 'It's all a mistake. He's not in any lumber camp. 1 don't know where he Is. I never saw any such place before. I think it's in China from the look of it/ *Of course we tormented him with questions, and at last we got an ac curate description of what he had seen. Why, he even described the furniture in the room and the view from the window. 44 'There was a man sitting at a table whom I think I should have known if he hadn't been back to me,' said he. 'My brother was sitting opposite, and there was some sort of document on the table between them. My brother has grown a beard. By heavens!' he cried sud denly. 'The other man was Joe Vinal!' "Vinal was receiving teller of the Dey Street bank, nc had been slight ly implicated in the robbery and had lost his place in the bank ou account of it, but had not been arrested. That he should have joined Henry Donald son in a far corner of the world was not altogether a favorable circum stance, and I asked Donald why he had said so confidently that his brother was all right. 'I know l^y the look of him,' he re plied, 'and I heard him say that he was coming home.' "Donald pledged us all to secrecy in this matter, and I think the promise has been fairly well kept. That after noon Donald and I made an investiga tion into the case of Vinal and learned that he had left New York and that his whereabouts were unkuown. His wife, who was a beautiful woman of tine descent, was living in this city, but she had had no word of her husband in six weeks. She told me that he had left the city suddenly upon some mat ter of business which she did not un derstand. He had been in very bad health, and she was extremely anxious tbout him. "That was all the information that we could get. About a week later Donald got a cable message from his brother. It came from Hongkong and was addressed to my apartments. It .said: 'Am comiug home westward, iiverything all right.' "By subsequent messages we traced him to the Mediterranean aud Gibral tar and learned what steamer was bringing him to this country. He was ill of acute gastritis wheu he arrived, and I thought that we should hardly get him off the steamer alive. But he rallied and seemed ou the road to mend. "It appeared that he had gone from this country to Japan and had lived in one of the smaller cities. He brought photographs of his abode there and of a view from a certain window. I have ncvej||tten able to be a skeptic upon tliins^®*!Vult since seeing that photo graph. He told us that ha had lived almost in secret that he had never dared communicate with Donald for fear that the message would fall into wrong hands aud reveal his hiding place. "One day he was amazed to see Joe Vinal at his door. How this man traced him he never learned. Vinal was dying. Only his purpose had sup ported him through the latter part of the journey. He made a complete rev elation of the inner facts of the bank robbery, in which he himself was the principal criminal. This statement was sworn to before the American consul, and few days later Vinal died. Hen ry Donaldson went to Hongkong and theuce home, bringing tho statement which was put into the hands of the bank's officials, who used it to extort cs complete restitution as possible from Vinal's accomplices, and the matter was kept quiet through the usual In fluences, except that a card was pub lished exonerating Donald's brother. He seemed to be perfectly satisfied with this, though it was not very defi nite. Really the poor fellow was done with earth. He died as many men and women die who might live, but Tiave not the will. "In conclusion I have only this to say: So far as wo can learn Donald's vision was perfectly accurate. It show ed Vinal laying his written confession before Henry Donaldson. But tho vi sion occurred about eight hours before the event. I leave the explanation of this phenomenon to any one who thinks himself competent. I am not. "You may be disposed to suggest that Henry Doualdson had communi cated with his brother unknown to me. In regard to this I have not only Donald's word, but Henry's, and you will bear in mind that I attended Hen ry in his last illness, so that, aside from the lack of motive for his telling me a falsehood, we must consider alBo the respect that? is usually accorded to the statement of a dying man. "Moreover, Henry could uot have communicated the fact of the confes sion, because he knew nothing about it himself until some hours after it was known to us. It must be remem bered also that Donald was entirely ignorant of his brother's whereabouts even after he had had the vision. Ho had the sensation of being, in thqt mmm YK room and of looking across tho table toward the window, and from tho as pect of the country lit? supposed that the scene was in China." CHAPTER IV. Alf EXCEPTIONAL JfATCH, ASa we've found yet, John," said* he. "Have you ever tried to figure the thing out in your own mind, Mr. Donaldson?" The young man shook his head. "I know what I saw," he said, "but I don't know what was back of it, and I am inclined to think," he added, with a smile, "that It is much the same with all we see, however simple. There is a mystery behind that teacup which no man alive can solve." "We know that it will hold our tea," said Hackett, "but this psychic busi ness doesn't seem to have any bottom." I asked whether any one knew why Vinal had not made his confession in this country. "He went to beg my brother's par don* and to die forgiven," said Donald- 'r) They were married in my house. eon. "He 'lis confession iuto the hands of the man who had been wronged." A general conversation followed in which Donaldson appeared to far greater advantage than before. The telling of the story seemed to have tak en a weight off his mind. Both Hack ett „and myself were pleased with him, aud we resolved to carry out our orig inal intentiou of taking him into our employ. We did not speak of the mat ter until after* Whiting had left us. He had said in the beginning that he could be with us not more than half an hour. When he had gone, I explained to Donaldson that we had been con sidering him with reference to a posi tion of importance in our business, and I named the duties, the salary and the prospects. He was to be Mr. Hackett's assistant inourdepartmeutof sales. Wewerethen introducing a system of disposing of our goods which was entirely unique in this country, and we required a young man of good appearance, of cultivated mind and manner and especially of that quick, intuitive perception which is so valuable in dealing with the high est grade of merchants. The right man, coming to us with the proper en ergy and ability, might hope for any thing, up to an interest in our business, that would make him more than well to do. It all depended upon himself. Donaldson received this proposal with a solemnity which justified his college nickname of "deacon," by which we had heard Dr. Whiting ad dress him. "It is useless for me to deny," said he, "that what you suggest is a great advance for me. In my present place I am like a diver walking with leaden soled shoes in a medium of high resist ance aud having everything pumped down to me from above. I can't get to the top, and nobody is going to pull me up. I make a few signals by pull ing on a striifg, but nobody answers them. I'm sunk that's the truth about me. "Therefore," hecontluued, looklngfirst to Hackett and then to me, "I am more than ready to accept your offer, but there is one difficulty—1 perceive that you have another motive in making it." "Another motive?" said I, lookiug across at my partner. Young Mr. Donaldson laid his clinch ed right hand upon the table. "From this day forth," said he, "if I have any power or means of knowl edge that Is different from the aver age I will make no display of it and no use of it. That is my irrevocable decision. You will never learn more of that subject from me thau you will know tonight when the sun goes down. But, since I have cast away restraint today, let me continue in that folly. "I know perfectly well that you have another object in making this propos al to me that it is a part of a fautus tic dream. You hope to mate me with a young woman whom you believe to possess the same powers that arc in me. You think that you are acting in the Interests of the advance of human knowledge and that posterity, with the probable exception of my posterity, will rise up and call you blessed." I was motionless, dumfouuded. I could not have cried "Fire!" if the blaze had broken out in my own pock et. Ten thousand messages from Ja pan were not to be thought of in com parison with this phenomenon. For the secret that he had touched upon was absolutely ours. My own private speculations upon the subject and my brief and inconsequential talks with Hackett summed up the wliiole of it. Neither of us had ever suggested that Donaldson and Miss Vaughn might make a match of it, jTet the idea had tlltted through my mind now and then, and I found out after ward that it had been in Hackett's. "I don't mean to say," continued Don aldson, "that you would use any influ ence or hold out any inducements to bring such a marriage about, but you will look for tt, and you will be disap pointed. Why, Mr, Harrington, if I knew that a girl was what is called a psychic 1 could no more love her than I could love a girl with two noses. No, sir I am opposed to superfluity. Tho ordinary mental and physical endow ments are enough for me. If you at« tempt to make any such match for me, I shall run." "But have you any reason to sup pose that such a girl exists?" I de manded. "Who is she?" '•7 ^ave no Si^P '-%m Whiting ceased Ilackett drew long breath and looked at me. "A little ahead of anything intimation as to who she is," he replied, addressing me directly. "I perceive no more than that she Is some one for whom you have a high regard, and it Is doubtless a great hou or for me to be coupled with her in your thoughts. But I ask you to think of it no more." "You have read from a closed book," said I, "and it is a marvelous thing to But you have r$a4 only a. single ML tt-ni 1 paragraph and have failed to grasp the sense of the whole volume. We want your head in o\^ business. Mr. Douald son, and are wiling to pay for It, but your heart is your own, and I should be the first to dissuade you from a mar riage, however advantageous It might seem to be, that was based upon any other impulse than tho love of a good woman." "I am a melancholy fellow," said Donaldbon, with evident feeling, "and unfit for matrimony. Only cheerful people should marry. A rich man's money may bless or curse his children. At the best. It. i,s not j-'O good as a happy disposition at the \vor:t, it leads to nothing tltstt is half so bad as hered itary sourncxs of heart. You will for givt*" me f'T mentioning this subject. Really, 1 wap afrr.id that I might be beguiled into some sort of an experi ment. It may have been a cranky no tion. but til:'.** v.ii or.(jversation has been siu-h a weird mixture of business and ghosts!" The big clock In the corner struck 2 and surprised us iiU with tho lateness of the hour. It was necessary for Don aldaon to reu i-n .i iieu to his office* and so we could not ask him the ques tions which were pressing for utter ance. I may say, however, that when we had abundant opportunity there after we obtained sean£ information. Donaldson either could not or WOUIL not tell how he obtained his psychic messages. "It is like suddenly remem bering something that you have always known," was the usual way in which lie dodged the question, and he would never weak upon the subject at all when he could avoid doing so. Upon the matter of Donaldson's rec ognition of his friend Whiting's pres ence we made one discovery before leaving the restaurant. Ilackett sat dowu In the chair which our young friend had occupied and immediately perceived that owing to the position of a hat tree upon which our coats were hung the mirror in the wall could not explain the phenomenon, I could see around one side of this obstruc tion and Hackett around the other side, but it was precisely in the necessary line of Donaldson's vision. About two weeks after this remark able luncheon Deacon Donaldson was added to our working force at Tun bridge and became a member of my household, and there a singular and amuslug complication presently came about. Mrs. Jane Harriugton, whose husband is a cousin of mine and has charge of a branch of our business In the west, came to visit me, bringing her daughter, a very charming young woman of twenty. In some mysterious manner Doualdson got the notion that Millie Harrington was the beautiful psychic whose union with himself was secretly plotted by the wily Stephen Ilackett and me. He had never been able to rid himself of the idea that something of the sort was in the wind, but he was entirely ignorant of the facts in the ease of Dorothy Vaughn. In fact, nobody in Tunbrldge except Hackett and me knew that Dorothy's comiug to teach our school had any connection with our quest of mysteries. It was far more likely that Donaldson should suspect Millie, who was there upon my direct invitation and seem ingly thrown Into his way with malice aforethought, than Dorothy, who lived on the other side of the town and was merely the schoolteacher. Millie was a flirt, I'm afraid, and as the deacon was the most attractive young man in her vicinity she pro ceeded to practice her iunocent arl upon bim. I think he was not n: rally timid in such matters. He had1 very easy and graceful manner in the company of ladies, and not even so simple an old fellow as myself could fail to see that he had learned his les son in Ihc school of experience. Mil lie found him an admirable cavalier, and she kept him busy in her service. That night after the house had be come quiet I was slttiug before the fire iu the library alone when Donald son dropped in to keep me company. At my invitation he took a cigar, se lecting one that was black and stroug, and when he had lighted it I perceived that there was something on his mind. A man who wishes to conceal his men tal state should not smoke iu the pres ence of a smoker. "Mr. Harrington," said he at last, "you have been very good to me. You have put mo in a fine way of business, so that my future is assured—if I be have myself. I am very grateful in ev ery way, and I'm going to please you if I can. But, by jingo," he cried, sudden ly springing up, "I can't!" "Why not?" I asked as gently as pos sible. He dried the palms of his hands upon his handkerchief. "It's a great liouor," he said, trying to be calm, "I told you so long ago at Bertram's. Of course I didn't then know that the young lady would be related to you. I couldn't foresee how beautiful she would be, how admira ble in every way. She doesn't care a penny for me, to be sure, but I'm not speaking of that. I'm speaking of my own sentiments. She's got the most wonderful eyes—dark, mysterious, mar velous eyes. By Jove, I can well be lieve that she's the true psychic! And perhaps that's what's the matter." "Are you speaking of Miss Harring ton?" I inquired as he paused. And he replied with a quick nod of affirmation. "I'll tell you the truth!" he cried, wheeling toward me suddenly. "The psychic matter hasn't anything to do with it. It's because I'm in love with somebody else. I've got uo business to be in love, but I am. On the chance that the woman I love may love me I ought to go and drown myself—in her interest—but I won't. I will 6tay rlgli here and win her if I can. I'm selfish enough to do it, vain enough to think I may succecd, and it seemed to be my duty to tell you about it, Mr. Harriug ton, conslderiug the very peculiar cir cumstances of the case." "Who is the young lady?" I inquired. For some strange reason a flood of emotion choked him as ho tried to speak her .name. He strucrciod with t* ijgfg IP 899WfflWfl8p3 ^Tlpwiwws-^.sw^ mi iiiisuuji nnn tnen answered me by throwing out his right arm so that he pointed to the window and across tho broad lawn and nearly the whole town beyond it, half a mile or more in all, to the house where Dorothy lived. It was to be a long engagement. Dorothy had mentioned two years, I believe. But In the late spring wo planned to send Donaldson abroad, with the result that Dorothy decided to go too. So they were married in my house, which was rose bedecked for tho occasion. There were festivities which lasted until sundown, aud then while some of the youuger guests were tying telltale ribbons to the carriage that waited before my door the two lovers escaped by another way and ran hand in hand like children across the fields through the sweet June even ing. It appeared that they had secret ly sent all their baggage to the railroad station earlier in the day. (TO BB CONTINUED,! Limited Choice. Father—Johnny, I see your little brother has the smaller apple. Bid you give him his choice, as I sug gested. Johnny—Yes, father I told him he could have his choice—the little one or none—and he took the little one,— Chums. Fnttier nnd Son. What a father can do, if he will, is to make his own experience and knowl edge an inseparable part of the intel lectual and spiritual equipment of his son, but he can do this only when he cares so much about it as to make It a daily, hourly object of his life, says the Cosmopolitan. So many fathers shirk the undertaking so many of them stand aloof and let the precious years go by, willing to give anything nnd everything except themselves. The first and great reward of course is the one that comes when he sees the boy upon the verge of manhood golug out Into the world to face the inevitable dangers which confront the novice, for the life of a man differs from the life of a woman In this respect—that at some time or other, sooner or later, the time must come when he shall stand alone, relying on his own strength to conquer If he bo sound and brave, to fall if he be weak and cowardly. Where Conncctlcnt Got Its Name* It might bo imagined that Connecti cut is called the "land of steady hab account of the exemplary con of its citizens. But it obtained le in a different manner. A citi zen of that "state explains the mutter thus: "In the early colonial times it was the custom to provide every one who assisted at a dedication, church building or bam raising with a 'hooker' of good Jamaica rum. Those functions, needless to say. were popular. When the charter creating Connecticut a crown colony arrived, there was, of course, a celebration. The first govern or, John Wlnthrop, refused to provide rum and in his inaugural address de plored the custom of tippling, saying 'it did not lead to steady habits.' There* upon the Nutmeg State had a title to hand down to posterity."—New York Tribune. CUL IS art&^» on ldTP^Uki It may have been five weeks that Millie and lier mother were at my house, and the place was so gay that I did not feel at home. In the even ings there would be music and danc ing, and I would sit in a comer alono except when Hackett strayed into thiri scene of unaccustomed revelry or when Dorothy could be persuaded to come over after tho school. She was in mourning for her aunt, of course, and could not join in the sport, but she held it uo harm to sit in sober black and watelr the others. Wo had some great talks in this way, but it seemed to me that she was uot in so good spir its after this brief season of festivity got well under way. Indeed it must have been a trial for a young and pret ty girl, as I thought more thanonce. It never occurred to mo that there could be any special trouble. Even when she advanced tl opinion one evening that she was not doing very well with the school aud perhaps it might be better for her to go away I totally fail ed to comprehend. Can Yon See AlrV If air cannot be seen, what is it that we see quivering above a field on a hot summer day or even above a hot stove in the house? That question has puz zled many a head, both old aud young. The answer usually given is that it is the heat, but heat caunot be seen and therefore it is not the heat. The explanation of the phenomenon is really quite simple, like all such things, when we hear it. As a matter of fact, it is air that we see quivering, but heat makes it visible. The quiver ing is caused by the upward passage, close by each other, of small currents of air of different temperatures in which the rays of light are irregularly refracted, and this makes the currents visible. Vnlne of Capital. Once upon a time two utter bank rupts were considering ways and means of getting needed money. "I know how we can make $9," said one. "How?" asked the other. "Raise a dollar note to ten by placing a cipher after the one." "Where will we raise the dollar?" Then the scheme failed for want of capital. Moral.—The great financial difficulty Is in raising the first dollar.—New York Herald. Cbonsed Hid Ticket. An entertaining story is told of a railway manager in Wales whose iden tity was not known to the ticket col lector of an outlying station. He was. walking through the station door when the collector surprised him with a re quest for his ticket. "My face is my ticket," be said, with much pleasantry. "Oh," said tho collector, "my orders are to punch all tickets!" A Story of Robespierre. The story is told of Robespierre that at one time, w*hen at the height of his power, a lady called upon him, be seeching him to spare her husband's life. He scornfully refused. As she turned away she happened to tread Upon the paw of his pet dog. He turned upon her and asked, "Madam, have you no humanity?" Revenge. Small Boy—Give me a. large bottle of the worst medicine you've got in your store. Druggist—Whafs the matter? "Well, I've been left all alone with grandma, and she's suddenly been tak en sick, and I'm going to get even with her 1"—Life. A Mean Thrust. Nance—Jack Morton proposes in this letter. I wonder if he really loves me. He has^only known me a week. The Brother—Oh, then, pcrh&ps he docsk An Irish authority thus define* as expert the effects of a well dcllv CUIRO "The belief among the an- ercd I understood him perfectly. "You couldn't please mo better than that," said I. "With all my heart I wish you well." Irish was that a curse once pro duced must fall in soiuu direction, it has been deserved by him ou horn It is pronounced, It. will fall on sooner or later, but If It has not If him then 1 Some days latei1 Dorothy told mo that she was much more encouraged about the school and that she had quite given up the idea of going away. She was devoted to the work, and yet I knew that it was not her success there in which had so lightened lier heart. When Hackett learned how matters stood, he insisted that my theory about a natural antipathy between psychics was overthrown, but I preferred to re gard the case as merely exceptional. Obviously the rule cannot be ironclad, for if such were the fact occult powers would disappear from the world. At any rate, this was a true love match if ever there was one. Their happiness brought out tho noblest qual ities of their hearts. They did wonder ful work that winter, both of them, justifying my best hopes and winning my warmest good will. It will return upon the person who pronounced it. They compare it to a wedge with which a woodman cleaves timber. If it has room to go, It will go and cleave the wood, but If it has not it will flj- out and strike the woodman himself, who is driving it, between the eyes." Thoie ate three altars Inside the cashel at Innlsnuirray, Ireland, built square of rough loose stones and hav ing on the top of them a number of curious, round, smooth stones. These have been used for cursing by turning them, and the natives are very super stitious about them. One mode of averting the curse was tor the person against whom the stones were turned to have a grave dug, to cause himself to bo laid In it and to have three shovelfuls of earth cast over him. the grnvQdiggers at the same time reciting rhymes. Pneumonia and La Grippe. Coughs cured quickly by Foley's Honey and Tar. liefUBe substitutes sold by Denton & Ward. The newest lighthouse on the French cosBt Bhows a beam visible at a dis tance of 39 nautical miles in clear weather. It is situated on the Isl* Vicrge, off the French coast, to the northeast ot Uehant, the lantern beinp 2(4 feet above sea level. The many friends of G. II. Hausan engineer L. E. & W. H. 1{„ at present living in Lima, O will be pleased to know of hiB recovery from threatened kidney disease. He writes: "1 WBB cur ed by UBing Foley's Kidney Cure, whicl' I recommend to all, especially tralnmer, who are usually similarly afflicted" bold by Denton & Ward. Better lose your argument than your friend.—Ram's Horn. Fatal kidney and bladder troubles can always be prevented by the use of I'olev's Kidney Cure. Sold by Denton ite Ward. An industrial and agricultural school for colored youths of Maryland witu opened last month near Laurel, in that state. A Life at Stake. _^lf you but knew theBplendid merit of toley's lloney and Tar you would never be without it. A dose or two will prevent an attack of pneumonia or la grippe. It may savo your life. Sold by Denton & Ward. A repent report shows that 2,5'Ji' Christians were murdered in 1'JOI by the Turks. In only 61 cases were the murderers punished, and then with not more than four yearE' imprisonment. Stop It. A neglected cough or cold may lead to serious bronchial or lung troubles Don't take chances wheu Foley's Hone* and Tar elforda peil'ect security froiii serious effects of a cold. Sold Li Denton & Ward. In France it is illegal to catch frogs at night. In Bed Four Weeks With La Urippo. We have received the following lettei from Mr. Hoy Kemp, of Angola, Ind. '-J was in bed four weeks with la grippe aud 1 tried many remedies and spent considerable for treatment with physi cians, but I received no relief until 1 tried Foley's Honey and Tar. The crowned heads of every nation. The rich men, poor men and misers. All join in paying tribute to DeWitt's I.ittle Early Risers, H. Williams, San Antonio, Tex writes: Little Karly Riser I'iils are the best 1 ever used in my family. I unhesitat ingly recommend them to everybody. They cure Constipation, Billiousness, Sick Headache, Torpid Liver, Jaundice, malaria and all other liver troubles. Smith Bros. A melon patch in ti cornheld will sometimes neutralize the work of the local Sunday school. A Scientific discovery, Kodol does for the etomach that which it is unable to do for itself, even wheu but slightly disordered or over loaded. Koilol supplies the natural juic es of digestion aud does the work of the stomach, relaxing the nervous tension, while the inllamed muscles of that or iran are allowed to rest aud heal". Kodol digests what you eat and enables the stomach aud digestive orgaus to trans form oil food iuto rich red blood Smith UroB. The largest dome in the world is that of the Lutheran church at WarBaw. Its interior diameter is 200 feet. That of the British museum library is 13o feet. Unconscious From Oroup. During a sudden and terrible attack of croup our little giri was unconscious from strangulation, says A. L. Spafford, poBtmaster, Chester, Mich and a dose of One Jlinute Cough Cure was admin istered and repeated often. It reduced the swelling and inllammation, cut the mucus and shortly the child was resting e«By and speedily recovered. It cureB Coughs, Colds,La Grippe.and all Throat and Lung troubles. One Minute Cough Cure lingers in the throat and chest and enables the lungs to contribute pure, health glvlug oxygen to the blood Smith Bros. Meat originally meant any kind of food. One Hundred Dollars a Sox is the value H. A. Tiadale, Summer ton, S. C., places on DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. He says: "I had the piles for 20 years. I tried many doctors and medicines, but all failed except De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. It cured me." It is a combination of the heal ing proprieties of/Witch Hazel with antiseptics and emollients relieves and permanently cures piles, sores, cuts, bruises, eczema, salt rheum and all skin diseases. Smith Bros, WANTED—Manager for Delaware county. S20 per week, with chance of advancement. 314,000 cleared in three years by one of our manageTB. Send stamp for particulars aud booklet "Pluck Not Luck, Wins." AddresB W. A. Wright & Co., Des Moines, Iowa. Mm Illinois ntral EXCURSION RATES. f^S'T.1011..'1, w'"snM "y,lie in[noi& Central, to tho points. »uul at rates, HS follows Fare and ouc-t)xii*«I mi Orfiffratfl PMn New Orleans, l/i.,—Anmml fonvfutiou Natio nal Hardware Awa, Novemhi-r P)-21 tt Urlwl,,is- onu.il Met'Uui? American Public Health ASS'JJ, P» C. 813. 21. HOLLISTER 5 LUMBER COMPANY. 1 Two small bottles of this medicine cured raw ami now I use it exclusively In my family Take no substitutes. Sold by Denti & Ward. The records left by the l'hoeneciane, Assyrians and ancient Persians show that among all thote nations the use of perfumes waB very common. 8 OPLX RATR OK ONK FAHH PLUS $2-0fl Home-RiM-kprs' Kx«ur»lonH,Wp.«t. Pouth South Hast ami Noath-west Nov. 4 "lulls, Hoc nml 10. Jan fi md au, t- ob. a ami 17, March 3 ami 17 April" nnd IjKSS T!lAN OXK FAUR. On* Way, Secoml-cla-is, Colonists' Rates to jviluts in tho.Houth,«outi»-ea*tan.t South-went, «t a latoof omvlmlfof the H»-nt-dass one* way THU-S. plus $•_'0:i, ticket ou s:\lo Nov. 4 and JS Dec 2and it». .Ian. hwI 20, Feb. aud 17 March ami 17, April 7 aud *21. «J. V. tohhuv Asst. (i^ll. "Pass. Atfent, l.'iibUQUu, Iowa Farm For Sale. A flno Stocl and l»a?ry farm of 20n acres nules south or Mam-luster, mile from railroad station and ensum-vy Comfortabl. house. L'OIUI horse and cow bain, hou IJOUSH corn cribs and other out buihlhiKS a Uuo well ot water with wind mid attached, in acres of splendid timber3mile.vea-t of farm win s-old with HMUO if desired. Tor tonus l- qui™ ot AIINKK DUNHAM OK O. A. DUNHAM, 3Gtf Manchester, Iowa. TIRRILL & PIERCE aro Loaning Money as cheap ns any person or corporation. DOUGLASS, the Photo grapher. Goto Douglass For FINF, PICTURES I at present is that of Coal We have on hand a choice assortment of the most desirable grades of soft coal at the lowest prices consistent with the market. All"1 coal promises to be scarce later in the season nud prices will rule higher. *, The Regular and Reliable Chi cago Specialist will be at Man chester, Clarence House, Monday, January 26, one day only and return once every 28 dnys. Office hours 8 a. in. to 6 p. m. Independence, Gedney Hotel, Tuesday, January 27. •ants imitmmenny rne cases no miflortafips mi scuds to imnn'aWe nonie without takhiR ft uroiuthein. This la why ho conttuues his «Its year after. r, wlulo other doctors lutvo i'Jo a fovr visits and stopped. Pr. Shallenbcr* is an eminently successful specialist In all .roulo diseases, proven hy%£Lo many cures linked In chronic oasos which vo baffled tho illot all other physicians. Jiis hospital ox. rlenco and extenslYo pr 1 :m, 'co have mado him protieiout that he cau nauio and locatv a dis isj in a le mlnutas. Treats all -able -.cs of Catarrh, Noso, hroat and .u-'g v.scases. X'yo iid L..r, umach, Liver aud Kl .neys, Giavel, euma« Paralysis,NruraMa, Nervous and Ifoart leases. Blood .. S..in ases, J, liepsy, right's JDisoaso Co* umptlon in* early tt?" diseases itliaiiladaor amirmal- Organs, Muorand Tobacco luibit. Statnmerin0 cured :'lsuro methods to prevent its recurrence given. A tiever-fafilns remedy Bl'i Ncck. riMSS, an.. KUPTUltE cuaran ",*il cured without detention from business. .- seelal attention Riven to ull Surgical I-.XXC'.H, nnd ull dtsenaes of tlio Eye, Kav, .'ioKMaml Throat. fUUit ami KtiuranteecJ. Granulated iMs.Cataract, Cross i£yei stralsMened without NERVOUS DEBILITY. Are you nervous nud despondent: weak and uohiUtated tired mornings: no ambitlon-life i.«*t memory poor easily latisrued excitable and irritabie eyes'sunken, red and blurred pimples ou face dreams and nl^ht losses rest Jess, haepard looking: weak back deposit In v.viuo and drains at stool: dlstnisMW* «-'»nt of oufldcncci lack of energy and strength? Private Diseases a Spec ialty, Iitood' Poison, Norvousnoss, Plz/lness," De« octive Memory ami other atlmeuts which ruin body and inlud positively cured. WOR3DESSR9L CURES Perfected In old cases which iiavo been ne?. lectod or imskiiifully treated. No experiments or failures. Ho undertakes no Incurable eases, but euro thousands given up to die. Consultation Free and Confidential. Address, 50w8 DR. WILBERT SHflLLEHBEHGER, 146 Oakwood Blvd., Chlouno. Reference: Drexel State Bank, &»?.^s: 1 M. 1' I.KItOY Prc.it. IT. A, GRANGER Cashier. K. lIESNIiK, Asst. Cashier A. II. BI.AKI2,1st. V. Proslden H. c. HAEI1ERLE, 2nd.<p></p>National first V. President, BANK, MANCHESTER. IOWA. CAPITAL. $50,000 Conerat Banking Business TrsuBftOtfrd. Interest Paid on Time Deposits. SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES rOR RENT. .. .. .. DIEECTOEa. R. R. RoblQBOD, LARAT £M.C«r, H-f- £T"?fer' A- a Blake, H. O. Haeberle C0BIUSSP01TSE2TTS. First National Bank, Dubuque, Iowa. Central National Baak New York City Commercial National Bank. Chicago. Ilia, Compound Vapor and Sham poo Baths. Most all dis* eases are caused by poisonous soc retions, which clog the wheels of NATURE. Baths The name and the Bymptoms may be different Vapor and Shampoo. but"tie OUIM of disease can us ually be traced to tne imperioct aotlon ot the millions of pores of the haman body. A bath in accordance with scientific require mcnta is tho best preventative and remedy known. Tho methods employ ed by mo are the most scientific ever invented or diseoveied (or dispelling disease. Results tell ttio dtory. Give me a trial. This is the Conant Bystem of baths. A competent lady attendant In charge of the ladies department. Office and bath rooms on Franklin street, opposite Globe Hotel. G. D. QATSS. W. N. BOYNTON, HAS Ladies and dents Gold Watches in all sizes kinds and styles, Ladies, Gents and Cbrildrens Rings from DIAMONDS, OPALS, EMER- ALDS, PEARLS,ETC., down tO PLAIN GOLD BANDS. WEDDING RINGS. SOLID STERLING SILVER FORKS, TABLE, DESERT and TEA SPOONS, NAPKIN RINGS, ETC., ETC., ETC Also large line of Best Brands of— SILVER PLATED SPOONS, FORKS, KNIVES, TEA SETS, WATER SETS CAKE BASKETS, BUTTER DISHES, ETC., ETC. CARVING KNIVES and FORKS, LADIES GUARD CHAINS, GENTS VEST CHAINS, EMBLEM RINGS, CIIAUMS, LOCK ETS, GOLD SPECTACLES, MAN TEL CLOCKS, SILK TIMBREL LAS, GOLD PENS. Come and see the many things we have not Bpace to list. w. lSr.^eOYNpDN^--_ Delaware County I* ft* 3-3 Manchester, Iowa. Capital and Surplus $90,000. OFF1CER8 WM, C. CAWLEY, President M?8ldent C. W. khA(.\, Ass't, Cashier. DIRECTOR8 wWrCrwvS^Y' K' W" TIRRILL. tt. li. hfclSlON. H. F, ARNOLD i'I'sFKr»S,ST°N' nE£ W.DUNHAM, A noucral bankluff business transacted ID all *0M. payablo anywhere la the Uimcd States, huftfand, Ireland and Europe. Tnterest paid on Time Deposits at ui)tut mUj6} which can be made in any nam from one dollar up. Deposit HOXCH for rent, for tho storage of vahiublo impui.s, etc.. all guarded by time locks. Mpumslup Tickets for salo to and from all parts of huropo. Private personal chocking accounts received from ludles. The banking business of the public Is respect fully solicited, unU we ussure all our customers 1 ery accommodation conslstont with good husl noss methods. When you want Fine Furniture Al' Fair Prices GO TO Werkmeistei-s AT Earlville. Undertaking Solicited F. WERKMEISTER, Earlville, Iowa *"l V.