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&< I* t'r JH ,/$#. Jv •:te -Sivf & •*'\l£r @fc" 4? A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. a Veteran Waa 8aved tha Am jf:| putation of a Limb. ''l%^%- B. Frank Doremus, veteran, of Roosevelt Ave., Indianapolis, Ind., says: "I had been showing symptoms of kidney trouble from the time I was mus tered out of the army, but in all my life I never suffered as in 1897. Head aches, dizziness and sleeplessness, first, and then dropsy. I was weak and help less, having run down from 180 to 125 pounds. I was having terrible pain in the kidneys, and the secretions passed almost involuntarily. My left leg swelled until it was 34 inches around, and the doctor tapped it night and morning until 1 could no longer stand it, and then he advised amputation. 1 refused, and began using Doan's Kid ney Pills. The swelling subsided gradually, the urine became natural, and all my pains and aches disap peared. I have been well now for nine, years since using Doan's Kidney Pills. For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. The best way to keep the robe ot righteousness from raggedness is to wear it every day. DISFIGURED WITH ECZEMA. Brushed Scales From Face Like Pow der—Under Physicians Grew Worse —Cuticura Works Wonders. "I suffered from eczema six months. I had tried three doctors, but did not get any better. It was on my body and on my feet so thick that I could hardly put a pin on me without touch ing eczema. My face was covered, my eyebrows came out, and then it got into my eye. 1 then went to anoth er doctor. He asked me what I was taking for it, and I told him Cuticura. He said that was a very good thing. cure. I felt so thankful I want ev- erybody far and wide to know what Cuticura can do. It is a sure cure for eczema. Mrs. Emma White, 641 Cherrier Place, Camden, N. J., April 25, 1905." It's usually a man's sense that en ables him to accomplish dollars. least and keep the machine from NO DAWDLING. a 40"year"o,(i him like a knot on a tree, chances are and determination remains in some men to the last day of their lives. When such men do find any habit of life has been doing them harm, they surprise the Oslerites by a degree of will power that is supposed to belong to men under 40 only. "I had been a user of coffee until three years ago—a period of 40 years —and am now 70," writes a N. Dak. man. "I was extremely nervous and debilitated, and saw plainly that I must make a change. "I am thankful to say I had the serve to quit coffee at once and take rat Postum ^without any dawdling, and experienced hotllNefreHte. On the con trary, I commenced to gain, losing my aorvousness within two months, also Coining strength and health otherwise. Tot a man of my age, I am very watfandlyearty. I sometimes meet ••wfco have not made their and don't like It But I to taji! it long enough, and can their attention to my Iuaedit, that hi'ilitl lAlu't lnliMf-r '(rr*ii?'-*'-ft-V-ftiX• I*-*- .• ftk'l trit i3 &C< *1 but that he thought that my face He was fifty miles from the scene of would be marked for life. But Cuti- IF NOT AIR, SAND. Life Saving Device of an Autoist Stranded in Jersey. "I find," said a man who has not yet come to own a buzz wagon, "that auto- CHAPTER XVI*—-(Continued.) But the mystery was susceptible ot an easy explanation after all. The murdered man, when he first learned that his footsteps were being dogged by the unwelcome person who had im portuned him at the railway station, was slowly wheeling a bicycle up hill. When he paused to speak he propped his wheel against a moss-grown mile stone. When the blow was stmck he was in the act of reaching for the handle-bar. He fell back, and the as sassin leaped upon him and stabbed him repeatedly with a ferocious vigor. He had but reached out a hand to rifle the dead man's pockets when Trus cott's shout for help sounded on his ears, and leaping on to the bicycle he rode at headlong speed down hill. He heard voices and running feet a hun dred yards away and made a desper ate effort to check himself with intent to hide. The wheel skidded, and it and he plunged, headlong into the ditch together. The racing feet went past him, and in a minute he was up «nd away again and into a side lane. Here the ruts shook him until they threatened to shake the machine to pieces, but in a while he came upon an open turnpike road, leading he knew hot whither. He passed now and then a horseman and now and then a farmer's cart or a pedestrian, but there was nothing in the way of impediment to traffic. The man rode fast and far, and did not slacken speed until the first gray premonition of the dawn was abroad. hls cura did its work, and my face is now The scattered houses of a hamlet lay Just as clear as it ever was. I told before him, and near him on the left all my friends about mv remarkable crime when he first slowed down, was a thIch 0n but a friend tells me he has seen it who has the day before him. As the done before and that sand in the tire day broadened it revealed him as a is better than nothing, that it will person of possibly respectable exteri cushion the tire in some measure at he'll stick to the habit till he dies. the signs of travel from his dress and But occasionally the spirit of youth then sat down to smoke and idle until til ll/kf I .. such time as the town before him should be astir. If he had any re morse for the deed so recently com* mitted, he gave no sign of it As the rays of the sun grew warmer, he. sought a patch of shadow, and, sitting there with his back against a gate post, he fell insensibly into a doze. I .tor* writing todo, of4gnx«a tocaat fjMl wp, W&MIS. mm ffimhm horsepond all overgrown with green scum. Beside this he dis- mounted and stood looking about him for a tlme with aPPeared a peering suspicion. There was not a soul in sight at that hour, and the earliest bird was not yet awake to disturb the heavy silence by a chirp. The man bared his head and smeared his moist forehead with his cap, whilst he stood apparently im mersed in thought. Suddenly he turned the machine in the direction of the pond, poised it upright on the downward slope, and released it. It carved a clean line through the thick green scum upon the surface and dis- The line grad- from sight. ua^y mobile tires ere sometimes filled with ^ealed other things than air. Down on the "Safest gone," he murmured under Jersey coast the other day I saw a his man filling a tire with sand. found with any of his property in my "This tire had apparently—for the possession." men in the auto appeared to be cool He went on again afoot, walking at and competent men who knew what an easy pace, and looking about him they were about—became broken in for some indication of his own where •uch a manner that it could not be re- abouts, for hitherto he had steered by paired to stand inflation on the spot, pure hazard, taking care only to but they wanted something in it and lengthen the distance between himself so they filled it with sand. At the and his pursuers. After a mile or place where they were when the tire two along a lonely lane he came to a collapsed the road ran close to the dilapidated signpost at four cross ocean front, and they took the tire off roads. He could just make out the the wheel and one of the men climbed blistered and faded lettering on one of with it down the bulkhead of the beach the three arms time and weather had and there he set to work. spared, and he learned that he was "When he had worked in a lot ot seven miles from Dover. sand he would hold the tire up and "Dover?" he said voicelessly. "Yes. shake the sand down in it and then he Dover will serve as well as another would put in some more, and so on place." till he had the tire filled. He filled and lit his pipe, and went 'This was something new to me. faded as if a wound were being breath. "It would not pay to be again, saunteringly, like the man Gr, possibly an artisan of the better c]ass. pounding down on that wheel with its tweed. His linen was a little frayed sheer dead weight." an(j He was dressed in decent gray disordered, and he was dusty from his ride, but there was nothing I in his aspect which would have drawn a second glance to him. A Man of 70 After Finding Coffee Hurt a. mile or so outside the town he Him, Stopped Short. drew a handful of hay from a stack 7 near the roadside and plaited it leis- When a man has lived to be 70 years urly into such a wisp as grooms some oW Y/,*''1 habit grown to1 times use to impart the last polish to a horse's coat. With this he brushed This deepened into slumber, and he did not awake until the, sound of church bells broke upon his ear. At this he arose and shook himself. "I am hungry," he said, half aloud, drawing a cheap watch from his pock et and turning it over in his palm. "This is all that I have, and it will not go for orach. It may find food for a day or two, and with the help of a night in the fields It may see nfo up, to London. And once there, hey for Mr. Brangwyn with a message from he a O a CHAPTER XVI If days later Alexia went gown tatotheeotmtryto pay duty c«U on Lilian, and, having failed to give the lady warning of bli coming he found himself in thepllghtof tamm am ...i.v.i rt1* ilus* "V 4 &V3 nir nr^iruxnjy greatly perturbed by this misfortune, though he made much ot his regret to Miss Lee's Aunt, and took his leave with a proper aspect of dejection. And as he went sauntering back to ward the station whom should he see but Truscott seated. In his motor car and tooling it slowly round the abrupt curve from his own drive to the road way. "Aha!" said Truscott, waving one hand toward him. "Going to town? Can I give you a lift?" "Why, thanks,", said ._Alexls,, "but, I'm not dressed for It." "Jump in," cried Truscott. "I'm not a road hog. Ten miles an hour is my pace, and you don't need to dress to drive with me. Besides, you can travel sheltered if you like. Antolne can drive. Let me offer you a cigar." Alexis accepted the invitation, and in another minute they were bowling smoothly toward London. "We had a rare sensation down here on Saturday," said Truscott. "I suppose you heard about it?" "Down here?" asked Alexis. "I never read the papers. What was it?" "It was a murder," Truscott an swered. "My wife and I were sitting in the grounds Saturday night just af ter dinner. Everything was calm and peaceful as you can fancy. Moon ris ing, nightingale singing, typical tran quil evening. Two fellows stopped in the lane ten yards away and began to talk in. French. I read French, of course, but I don't follow it when it's rapidly spoken. I made out that one of them was begging and that the other was refusing him, and that was about all.. But suddenly one of them let out a fearsome yell, and when I rushed out into the lane there was a great burly fellow lying in the moon light stone dead." "Heavens!" said Alexis. "What an adventure!" "The country was scoured for miles," Truscott went,on. "We gave warning at every railway station and every police station In the neighbor hood, but the assassin was gone and had left no trace behind. Amongst other things a newspaper man is a sort of merchant in murder. I've dis pensed a good deal of criminal in telligence in my time, but I was never so near the actual fact before, and I can assure you that it is really quite a scary kind of thing. My wife hasn't got over it yet, and won't forget the horror of it for some time, I'm afraid." "Who was the murdered man?" Alexis asked. "Mystery," said Truscott. "Pure mystery. It's the most amazing thing in modern life that a man can drop out of existence like that and not be missed. People are always disappear ing and being sought for, and lost in darkness. But here's a man mur dered at one's door, the fact .adver tised in a thousand journals the world over, the dead man's protograph cir culated broadcast by the illustrated papers, and not a soul found to identi fy him. Now that man must, have lived a curious isolation. I made out that he had come down by train from London. Scores of people must have seen him, unless he had the gift of fern-seed. He needn't have been long in London, of course, and he may have been the merest bird of passage, but it's an odd thing that nobody comes forward to say, 'That's So and So.'" "Yes," Alexis assented. "It's very odd." "This," said Truscott, drawing forth a pocketbook and searching among its contents, "is the photograph we print ed of him in the Record. It's a strik ing likeness, and I don't think anybody who had known the man could fail to recognize him from it." Alexis took the photograph from Truscott's hand and looked at It. He gave ever so little a start when his glance first fell upon it, but Truscott was setting the contents of his pocket book in order, and did not notice. When he looked up Alexis was study ing the face with an air of interest. The body of the murdered man lay upon a tablje, and to the waist it was covered with a sheet which had ap parently been turned down from the face by the photographer. The eyes were closed, and the man looked asleep. There was no pain or passion in his aspect. Alexis turned the little picture sideways so as to set the re cumbient figure upright, and sat look ing at it, for along time with his head thoughtfully on on$ side. "Yes," he said at last, Jbanding it back again "it looks strangely life like, don't you think?-It's a character istic face. There's a sort ot vulgar force in it One wouldn't haye! liked to have had that nuih fpr a %aster. You wouldn't have care£ ta fee&that yon were in his power. Look at tho mouth and jaw very pitiless* don't you think?" I,- "M'yes," said- Truscott believer in phrsiogpoi^. SraMwyn?' "We're aH b&lmr*jB'n|wi! whether -we think |o Alexis. "We ment on aad bere^a .. 4ak 'ty' pose of studying I don't find a face once in a blue inooflu: ouu iwiji, one of the moat Averting things life. The fobliih, tho bovine, and ill the varieties of each—the crttel foollib and the kindly foolish, the /angry bo viae and the plaetd bovine tl» iderl person whom you'd hM?e nelthef (far a friend nor an enemy if you could help it the kindly chap who te aa certain to go to ruin as he Is to go, sooner or later, to'his, grave the othcir aort. al kindly chap who means well to him self and to everybody else. Women, whose faces are an index of meanness, weakness,' vanity, spite women whose faces tell you at a glance that they have spent their lives in the love, of home and children. There's no studio like the omnibus." "But you wouldn't pass a real judg ment in that random way,, said Trus cott, rather seriously. "It might be a dangerous thing to live by first im pressions." "Dangerous or not," Alexis answer ed, "we all do it. And none of us can help it. You may check yourself it you like, and argue that it's unfair to be prejudiced by a look or a manner, but the prejudice is there, for good or evil. And the striking thing about it is that in nine cases out of ten the natural instinctive judgment is justi fied by a more familiar knowledge." "I like to hold my judgment in re serve," said Truscott. "One has to re member that one is oneself a bundle of preconceptions. Why on earth it should be so I can't even guess, but 1 have a natural antipathy to red-haired people. Now to give that antipathy a loose rein would be manifestly unjust and ridicu)ous, and, as a matter of fact, some one or two very fine fellows of my acquaintance are as ruddy as a fox." "Well, you see," Alexis answered, "complexion has a lot to do with tem perament, but temperament has very little to do with character. But to go back to what I was saying, that in stinctive knowledge of character which the first careful gaze at a new face conveys to you Is mutual. You not only know the man you will, like and trust, but you know the man who will like and trust you." "Are you sure of that?" laslced Trus cott. "As sure as I am of anything in the world," Said Alexis. It was very unlike Truscott t6 do so, but he spoke on impulse. "Take a case as a test. What about myself and you. Do you read trust and liking into my mental attitude toward yourself or mistrust and misliking?" Alexis accepted the inquiry without embarrassment. "Oh," he answered, "that's cleat enough. Your natural impulse is to on, with a laugh, "I do some credit to your discernment. I'm a likable sort of fellow, but I'm a weathercock. I don't know that it's in me to hold long to a purpose or an attachment. In the bottom ot your mind, now, don't you feel that I'm rather an agreeable sort of fellow as an acquaintance, but not quite the kind of man to go out with to shoot tigers? The tigers are meta phorical. I shouldn't leave a pal to face a tiger by himself, but I should drop him like a hot potato if I ceased to want him. Come! Be candid. Wasn't that your judgment? You can't offend me." "Well, you see," said guardedly, "I don't share your opinion as to the solidity of these impres sions. (To Be Continued.) like me. But it isn't your natural im- in silence. Then he said, with a grim pulse to trust me. You see," he went Truscott,' A PROFE8SOR OF FLEAS. Odd Profession in France —Troubles of One of the Impresarios. Among the curious professions which one meets with in this country from time to time is that of professor of fleas. What the professor trains his alert pupils to do I cannot imagine, writes the Paris correspondent of the London Globe, but every now and then at the shows which camp on the out skirts of Paris the flea professor has his booth. One of these strange Impresarios named Jocolino lately took up his resi dence in a lodging houSfe in the Rue St. Charles. Unfortunately Jocolino's pupils multiplied with far more rapid ity than he could train them to be well behaved, with the result that their active disposition led them to explore the adjoining rooms of the lodging bouse, where they performed on their own account. Their visits were not to the liking of the neighbors, and Jocolino was obliged to listen, to some very forcible remonstrances on the subject. The nuisance, however, did not abate, and finally one of the tenants, a plumber named Sauvin, decided to take the matter Into his own hands. Armed with a large quantity of insect powder, the irate plumber entered Jocolino's room in the absence cf the professor and sprinkled the exterminator in all directions. ~-k While he was so engaged, however,' the flea trainer returned, and nri^ak* ing the plumber for a burglar defedd a revolver and shot him in the bead. Sauvin is now lying in a hospital and' the trainer of the lively Ajea is iiicthe hands of the police. •, .1 i--i 1 Ropoft Vf. Cumback "What iMcaiifc:f& pretty ,MU» Dooanpr who dare she would-never mwcry 'bandsome^kniiht rbdo'latot^ fierce cbarger wlth a gHtt^i Queen Alexandra. tbey j|ay,: hu Of* :~«bUshed a fashion for the ftnpethysf,' 'dr. tiie reksons that it is cheap and that It will encourage tradfe 8Vr precisely the same reasons QuMfe Victoria tried to establish a fashion to I That effort of statesmanship failed of success, and there Is little reason to hope tor, success ^rlth the ame thyst. It Is tmly queMts and other folk assured station who can afford to be seen with cheap things oil. Tho3e who merely aspire iplst have the real goods. No suggestion is madd that Queen Alexandra had an ulterior motive in recommending this form of quartz. It symbolizes deep and pure love, it is the month stone of February and is consecrated to St. Matthew the Apos tle. Its wonder charm, that which gives it its name, is as a specific to ward off inebriety, a sort of mlneralog leal anti-brannigan amulet. Pliny the elder solemnly records "this feature in his treatise on all things knowable. Similar properties, of gems he records without any sort of qualification, but concerning the amethyst as a jag dispeller he says that such was the belief of the magi and by them handed down. One observes that Pliny was ad miral of the Roman fleet in the Bay of Naples, and as a sailor he may have doubted that mete jewelry could bring his men over the rail after shore lib erty with a clean and sober record. To secure the effect he says that the amethysl should be worn around the neck on a braid of hair from the dog faced baboon and the plume of the heron. Sudden Change of Mind. Puffing and blowing, the fat passen ger began to climb to the upper berth in the sleeping car. "Pretty hard work, isn't' it?" said the man in the lower berth. "It is," said the fat passenger, "for a man of my weight." "How much do you weigh, may I ask?" "Three hundred and eighty-seven pounds." "Hold on! Take this one!" ex claimed the other, his hair beginning to rise on end. "I'd rather steep in the upper berth, anyway. The ventila tion is better." Vain Appeal. When President Hadley of Yale was professor of political science there a student once offered him a poor ex cuse tor a bad examination paper. Prof. Hadley listened*to the excuse sn3iie: "That oxen is about as poor as th% one a criminal lawyer offered for his client in a case that had gone hard with him. "Gentlemen of the jury,' cried this lawyer, eloquently, 'remember- that my client is hard of hearing, and that, therefore, the voice of conscience appeals to him in vain!'" Scared Both of Them. When Mr. Justice Maule was on t!ie bench a bullying counsel waa one day browbeating an elderly female witness in a case before him. Having badgered her into a state of-utter speechlessness the lawyer appealed to the Judge to make her answer his questions. "Why do you not answer, madam?" asked the judge. "Because, my Lord, he scares me so," replied the trem bling woman. "So does he me, ma'am," said the judge. Pecuiierities of Long Island. A school teacher asked her geogra phy class: "What are some of the natural peculiarities of Long island?" The children thought hard, but none replied. Suddenly a boy raised his hand. "Well, what are they," asked the teacher. "Why," he exclaimed, triumphantly, "on the south side ycu see the sea and on the north side you hear the sound." Misunderstood. "Do you know the value of an oath?" demanded the district,attorney. "Sure!" replied the tough-looking witness for the defense in a ballot stuffing case. "You do know the value of an oath, eh?" "Eh, I t'ought yer said de 'value of a vote.'' /W s~ Hia Motto. Welldigger—Now we have found a mighty good veip of water, but there Is nothing, like b6lng doubly safe and sure of the supply.« Suppose' we dig it, say, twenty feet deeper? Owner—No. I have always had fpr my motto, "Let well enouigh, alone." NecsMMiry. ••A' -r-I: tpld you not 'to open iny 6|\feter^-YM, 1 ^Vv-V V/v :tii*:t I isgiiigi ^ppMy^fe. **®hM sHNhMaiw l^ltaolW rtnch of Mii. ttine, had no afr petite, my stoma&r wns otat,of ojfder Mark Twain's Toast. Mr. Titewodd—If I promised yon a dollar and your Uncle Joe promised you 25 cents, how much .would yoa have? Tommy Titewood—I'd have a prettj) good chance at de quarter. Important to Mothors.' Bimlns caietally evaiy bottle of CASTOSU, a aafe and ran lasudy lor infants sad chlldna. aad see that it Bean the Signature of Has For Orer 80 Tern, She Kind Yoa Have Atmgs How Very Simple. "You are a very successful proph et," we said. "Will you tell us the secret of your success?" "Certainly," the sage replied, in a kindly tone. "A-s it is always the un expected that happens, I merely prophesy the unexpected." (nil or Ono, Citt of Tolbdo, LUOA tUtf f: I felt nervous and unstrung. "Wfctlo.1 ®SpI fcadadootor* but raa%*nfliBhMiiior^,fibm theieon dlHio in which tho influpusa left me than I did from the disease itself. I felt generally wrstched aud miserable and Pf the least exposure to cold would make mevorse. I coutdtit't acfetri jto few Any better until I began to takeDr. COTOTr. •{..*,Mi Fsavk J. Camr mike* oath that be to eealw Banner of tbe firm of F. J. CuaKir Co., doing ImuImm In the Clt/ of Toledo, County and StatS aforeealjl. and that Mtd arm wtll pay tbe aum H»n'« sir. but we've got an inez^erlenced cookandhe said:he'd h&ye to:6pen them' to see if .they wiere b.: iS/^illiams Fiulfj^lls cured Mrs. Morrison because they actually make I®:' good, red blood. When the blood isted and, healthy there can be no debility. Mark Twain, who celebrated his seventieth birthday not long ago, is still able to enjoy life with the zest of a Peter Pan, nor has he apparently forgotten the delights of stolen sweets, for the other day, when temperance organizations were under discussion, his contribution to the debate (and whether he spoke for or against, he ycunit,?. left his audience to decide, as the/^at its true humorist always does) was thja'qoo.co-v brief remark: "Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it" PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. 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Tbanka to them I am now lit flue health iand havehadnoretnxnof my former trouble. 1$!S 1 recommend the pills to everyone Who is ailiug aud take every opportunity to *1 The relation "between the blood and nervous system is suoh tliat the pilla have a very decided action upon the nerves aud they have cured many severe *, nervous disorders, suoh as partial pa- ^5^ ralysis, locomotor ataxia and St. Titus' dance, that have not,yielded to ordiunry lyJ'' treatment. Their double action, on the blood and on the nerves, makes them an sfi ideal tonic. All druggists sell Dr.' Williams' Pink Pills, or they will be sent by mail post paid, on receipt of price, 60 ceiits_per ?f.%: box, six boxes for $2.60, bv the Dr. Wil liams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N.Y.. u. a Ivalent .j 's and 'ands land ind. ":ha ot ONE HUNDKED DOLLARS for each and -every caae of that cannot be cared by the u«e BAU.1*Catabbh Cataisx Comx. FBANK J. 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