The Times-journal., April 01, 1908, Image 2

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Mr.Bames,
American
By
Archibald Clavering Gunter
A Sequel to
Mr. Barnes of New York
&
Author of “Mr. Bamea of New York,”
“Mr. Potter of Texas,”
■ “That Frenchman,” Etc.
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Copyright, lUO7. Dodd Mead a Co.. N. Y.
SYNOPSIS.
Burton H. Barnes, a wealthy American
touring Corsica, rescues the young Eng
lish lieutenant, Edward Gerard Anstruth
er, and his Corsican bride, Marina,
daughter of the Paolis, from the mur
derous vendetta, understanding that his
reward is to be the hand of the girl lie
loves, Enid Anstruther, sister of the Eng
lish lieutenant. The four fly from Ajac
cio to Marseilles on board the French
steamer Constantine. The vendetta pur
sues and as the quartet are about to
board the train for London at Marseilles,
Marina is handed a mysterious note
which causes her to collapse and necessi
tates a postponement of the journey.
Barnes gets part of the mysterious note
and receives letters which inform him
that he Is marked by the vendetta. He
■employs an American detective and plans
to beat the vendetta at their own game.
For the purpose of securing the safety
of the women Barnes arranges to have
Lady Chartris lease a secluded villa at
Nice to which the party Is to be taken
In a yacht. Barnes and Enid make
arrangements for their marriage. The
net tightens about Barnes. He re
ceives a note from La Belle Blackwood,
th. American adventuress. Barnes hears
that Elijah Emory, his detective, has
been murdered by the Corsicans. He
learns that the man supposed to be Cor
regio, wiio followed the party on their
way to the boat, was Salieeti, a nephew
of the count, and that Count Correglo
had been in Nice for some time prior to
the party's arrival. The count warns
Barnes not to marry Enid unless he
would have her also Involved in the mur
derous feud. Barnes and Enid are mar
ried. Soon after their wedding Barnes'
bride disappears. Barnes discovers she
has been kidnaped and taken to Corsica.
The groom secures a fishing vessel and
Is about to start in pursuit of his bride’s
captors when he hears a scream from
the villa and rushes back to hear that
Anstruther's wife, Marina, is also miss
ing. Barnes is compelled to depart for
Corsica without delay, and so he leaves
the search for Marina to her husband
while he goes to hunt for Enid. Just be
fore Barnes’ boat lands on Corsica’s
shore Marina is discovered hiding in a
corner of the vessel. She explains her
action by saying she has come to help
Barnes rescue his wife from the Corsi
cans.
r CHAPTER XL—Continued.
“How many were there?” interjects
Barnes hurriedly.
"About four, Monsieur. Only one
know how to sail ze ship. But ze night
is fine and aftaire bringing me to
make ze breakfast during ze darkness,
ze one who knew ze coast steered us
here. Zen zey drop ze anchor and
■cry to me: 'Cook, stay on board. You
tell ze cursed Americano, Signore
Barnes of New York to come to Bocog
nano if he would rescue his wife. We
have greeting for him zere vitch he
vill not forget!’ Zay all take off zaire
hats, as ze young cavalier bring upon
deck your beautiful lady, who looked
like a goddess, so haughty, so noble.
To him as he bowed before her, she
says: ‘Monsieur Bernardo Salieeti,
you who were vere un gentilhomme a
few days ago and have now become a
kidnapper, tell your savages to keep
zaire hands off me and I vill go with
you.'
“To me she command as she stepped
into ze boat: ‘Loboeuf, have a good
meal for Mr. Barnes, who vill be com
ing soon;’ Zen she look at me with
her eyes. I know she means 1 am not
to forget something. Ah, your mariee
vas vaire brave. Only once in ze long
night, as I listen with my ears, I hear
from ze cabin a short, quick sob.”
“My wife's eyes told you to remem
ber something? What was it?” asks
Barnes very eagerly, though his gaze
is dim.
“Oh, voila! Vhen ze ruffians were
preparing ze boat for her, Madame
whispered in my ear: ‘Tell my hus
band to look in ze third drawer of ze
cabin locker.’ ”
Before the last words have left the
Frenchman’s lips, the American is
down the companionway and has torn
open the drawer indicated. He hur
riedly tosses aside the contents and
produces a note, the superscription of
which, in the dear hand he knows,
makes him falter. It is simply ad
dressed: “Mr. Burton H. Barnes," and
reads:
My Darling Husband: I have little
lime to write, for they are preparing to
Mke me on shore in a boat. We are
now anchored off Corsica somewhere.
Last evening, through some careless
■message of Thompson misinterpreted by
any own eagerness, I came on board the
yacht alone, thinking you had gone there
before me to avoid some encounter with
Danella that might delay our wedding
trip. A boat was waiting for me at the
landing place. In the darkness, during
the short hundred yards to the yacht,
I noticed nothing suspicious in the oars
men, probably because my thoughts were
so entirely of you.
Flying into the cabin, expecting to
meet you, I heard the doors close upon
me and a Voice in Corsican French say:
■“She is ours!” Then the slipping of
bolts outside told me I was a prisoner.
No cries of mine or commands were
heeded. The yacht got under way.
Ah. what a night I’ve passed here in
this cgbln that should have been our
honeymoon home, thinking of your mls
■ery when you found you had lost me.
But knowing by your love that you
will pursue and find me, I send you this
-warning, which Is of great importance.
I have learned by some careless French
conversation that has drifted in to me
♦hat I am to be made the lure to bring
you to the death of the vendetta in
Bocogriano. To me Salieeti has boasted
that they have notified you they take
me to Corsica. They are sure your af
fection for me will make you follow me,
rash and careless In your agony. There
Salieeti means to assassinate you, think
ing by that to gain the votes of his pe
culiar countrymen because he has nobly
fulfilled his diabolical oath of the hor
rible vendetta that they worship. There
fore, by your love for me, my husband,,
I charge you not to risk your dear life
unduly, and to bring with you enough
friends to protect you from these as
sassins. I hear the splash of the boat
put overboard: they will be coming for
me, so kiss the letter where I sign and
you’ll meet the lips of, in life or death,
always, YOUR WIFE.
Barnes reads this letter carefully
twice. Once he gazes up; but the
sight of the cabin decorated for his
honeymoon, about which are scatter
ed his wife's dainty belongings
brought on board for a nuptial voyage,
makes him close his misty eyes with
a shudder.
Leboeuf is now calling down the
companionway: "Monsieur, I have
obeyed your wife's commands. A good
meal is served on deck for you and
Madame Anstruther.”
He must eat to keep his strength up
for the work that is ahead of him. The
American steps alertly on deck and
tries to show his appreciation of the
French chef's art, but anguish is a bar
to appetite.
After a moment Barnes passes
Enid's letter over to Edwin's wife.
When she has read it, he says: “I
have been thinking if it wouldn't be
better to sail to Ajaccio and get De
Belloc and some of his troopers to go
with us to Bocognano.”
“With De Belloc and his troopers
you would never find her,” answers
Marina. “The sight of their cavalry
uniforms would be signalled up the
Valley of the Gravpna; Enid would not
be in Bocognano. In the mountain fast
nesses of Del Oro they would hide her
where you would never find her.”
“Then some honest countrymen,
from this neighborhood; they can be
hired?” suggests Barnes.
“But not by a foreigner to strike
against a Corsican,” replies Marina,
almost proudly. “To have any hope of
finding your wife we must go alone.
I’ll lead you by secret paths through
the mountains; on the main road did
they see you coming they would am
bush and kill you.” Her eyes look
eagerly upon the shore, she rises and
says, resolutely: “Come!”
Barnes, more eager than she, quick
ly dresses himself in the simple hunt
ing suit he has brought with him.
"Oh, you must look more Corsican,”
cries the girl, and deftly puts a cock's
feather plucked from one of his bride’s
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“We Have the Beasts for a Week at
Thirty Francs Apiece.”
bonnets tn his hat. "Some soot, Felix,”
she commands the cook, "to make
Monsieur’s eyebrows darker and his
moustache black.”
“Yes, that's it!” she adds eagerly.
“And you?” asks Barnes placing his
eyes on Marina's white Parisian fete
dress.
"Oh, I’ve brought a Corsican peas
ant’s costume with me," and the lady
calls to Graham to bring on board a
little bundle she had left upon the
deck of the fishing smack.
Then Marina runs down the com
panionway and secludes herself in the
salon while Baines gives his direc
tions to Graham. "You had better re
turn that fishing boat to Villefranche
by two of your crew.”
"Yes, even a land lubber can sail
her across in this fine weather without
any trouble,” answers the mate.
“I am sorry, my gallant fellow, I
cannot take you with me,” says the
American; “only Marina and I must
go.”
"Hoot, man! not lone wi’ that deli
cate lassie.”
“We are safer alone than with a
few," replies Barnes. "But have the
yacht ready to sail and a sharp look
out kept for me. During the night have
a boat ashore there with a couple of
men in it, so that, if necessary, 1 may
immediately come on board of you."
"Aye, aye! Night and day I'll look
for you,” answers the mate.
“Now, bring the boat alongside."
"Not yet, Monsieur,” cries Leboeuf,
issuing from the galley, "not without
something to eat, to support you and
Madame,” and he produces a big hav
ersack filled with provisions.
“You’re right. By evening we shall
be hungry, if not before,” answers the
American, "and it will be best to avoid
as much as possible native inns.” He
calls: “Madame Anstruther, I am
ready!”
“And so am I.” And Marina trips to
the deck, a peasant girl of her Island
—her dark brown tresses shaded by
the graceful mandile and a faldetta of
grey cloth draping her agile figure.
Her short skirts disclose her delicate
feet shod in strong country shoes fit
for use over the stones of mountala
paths.
Both are eager. Within five min
utes they are in the boat, and pulled
by two Scotch tars, soon land upon the
rocky shore. As Marina’s feet touch
the soil, she looks at it passionately
and murmurs bitterly: "To think that
I come back to my native island with
the hands of so many of the friends
of my childhood against me, with so
many hearts that once turned toward
me turned away.” Then she draws her
self up and says desperately, yet
proudly: “But I will show to them my
hands are free of the blood of To
masso Monaldi.”
Clambering over the sea-washed
rocks, they reach the green woodland,
and soon through its soft foliage of
ilex, beech and wild citron, tread a
romantic path that leads them to the
more dusty highway which skirts the
coast, slightly to the south of the lit
tle quay of Sagone. This Marina says
is fortunate, that they need not excite
curiosity by passing through the sea
side village to reach the road to Vico,
by which they will strike east to reach
the vast glen between Monte Rotondo
and Monte Del Oro.
A little while along this road, roast
ing beneath the hot sun and stifled
by the dust of early summer, when
Marina says, pointing to a farmer’s
house: "Stay here and I'll bargain for
the use of two of the native ponies I
see in his barnyard.”
A few minutes of apparently excited
gesticulation and talk with the peas
ant who is hoeing in his field, and she
brings into the road two sturdy, shag
gy brown ponies.
Mounting astride one of these, Cor
sican fashion, Marina says almost
gaily: “We have the beasts for a week
at 30 francs apiece. Now I feel at
home again.”
Upon the other Barnes would dash
forward, but some very serious words
from his companion stop him. “It was
lucky I saw that farmer. He said: ‘I
would give you a more gentle beast,
girl, had not four men three hours ago
engaged my gentle Mandalina for a
lady’s use. Os course, my best was at
Signore Salicetl’s order. I had heard
him speak up in the mountains at the
polling booth great words on the glory
of Corsica, which had given France
a Bonaparte and one day would give
her another.’ ’’
Suddenly the girl calls: “But you
cannot overtake Enid in a second,” for
the American’s heels are beating a tat
too on the sides of his sturdy little
cob, and he is hurrying forward mut
tering: “Three hours ahead of me.
Perhaps we can overtake my darling
before night!”
“Don’t ride so fast,” exclaims his
companion, galloping her pony to him.
Then her voice growing very solemn,
she says warnlngly: “From some hill
top, should we get too near, they will
see us coming, and in a vendetta am
bush, some knife might reach not only
your heart but—Enid’s. When you
have enemies in Corsica, beware the
path ahead of you!”
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Machine was all right.
Figured So Well Merchant Decided
That He Needed Two.
“Sir,” said the man as he entered
the office, “I wish to exhibit to you
my universal calculating machine—
a thing that should be found in the
counting room of every business man.
It will add, subtract, divide, multiply,
and there is no such thing as failure.”
“I have heard of it,” replied the mer
chant, “but I never understood it was
much of a success.” "O, sir, but it is
perfection! Give me any example
you will, and I will guarantee a cor
rect solution.” “Very well. I bought
two dozen leghorn chickens at $3
each. I built a coop at an expense
of S3O. In one year I bought $25
worth of feed. In the same year I
got six eggs. What was my profit or
loss for the year?' “Why, you paid
out $127 and got back about 20 cents.
In actual figures, your loss was
$126.80.” “I guess that’s correct,”
sighed the merchant, “and you may
leave me two machines. I’ll keep one
busy on my chickens and the other
figuring out how r uch profit I make
in raising my own celery and cu
cumbers.”
Beautiful Eyes.
The almost universal habit of turn
ing the head in whichever direction
you look deprives the eye of the exer
cise to which it is entitled. The law
of vision is such that, when your eyes
are set straight to the front you can
see in almost every direction, except
behind your head. Every now and
then you see a woman with eyes that
seem to roll in their sockets, taking
in everything without a suggestion of
head movement. Those are the eyes
that drive men to distraction. Ox
eyes. Honest eyes. Usually brown
eyes. Open eyes. Altogether different
from the small, ferret eyes of the de
tective, which pretend to be looking
at the ground, yet see sidewise out of
both slits.
Butcher's Inference.
One day Emperor Francis Joseph
was entering a village in his domain
on horseback and was met on the out
skirts by a butcher who had gone out
in hope of catching an early glimpse
of the Austrian kaiser. The emperor
asked the butcher the way to an inn,
and after directions had been given
the butcher in turn Inquired: “Have
you seen the kaiser?” “Very recent
ly,” answered Francis Joseph. “Are
you sure? Do you know him certain
ly?” asked the eager butcher. “Well,
1 ought to,” replied the monarch,
puffing out his chest. “I have shaved
him often enough.” “Ah, and you are
the court barber," said the abashed
butcher in awestruck tones, as he
doffed his cap and backed to the roa-P
side.
| State Capital Notes
Department Won’t Pardon Deserter.
Governor Pindall has received a let
ter from the War Department to the
effect that that department, together
with high officials of the government,
could not see fit to pardon Jas. J. At
kins, who is wanted at El Dorado this
month to stand trial, but who is now
serving a term of imprisonment at
Alcatraz island. Cal-, for desertion.
The petition for pardon was made in
order to help Atkins’ bondsmen out
of a predicament, as they will likely
be compelled to pay the bond they
furnish for Atkins unless he shows
up at El Dorado for trial this month.
It is possible, however, that they will
not be relieved from the payment of
the bond by the governor, considering
the circur|stances in the case.
Atkins was tried on the charge of
desertion from the army at Fort Slo
cum, N. Y., August 16, 1906, and sen
tenced to 15 months’ imprisonment and
hard labor at the Pacific branch of
the United States military prison on
Alcatraz island, Cal. His term will
expire November 19.
Transcript Filed.
The transcript in three cases on ap
peal from the Sebastian County Cir
cuit Court in which the Kansas City
Southern Railway Company brings
suit to condemn property, was filed
with the Supreme Court Thursday.
The railroad company is plaintiff in
each case with the following as de
fendants: Mary M. Barnes, in the first
case; D. A. Anderson, in the second
case, and Catherine K. Boles and oth
ers in the third case. In the lower
courts the defendants were awarded
the following amounts respectively:
SB,OOO, $12,000 and $32,500.
Coapany Incorporates.
Articles of agreement and incorpor
ation have been filed with the secre
tary of state by the Union Ware
house Company which will engage in
a general warehouse business at Ash
down. The incorporators are: T. J.
Lott, Charles P. Smith, P. M. McCard,
H. P. Haizlip, J. H. Shaw, A. Gold-
H. L. Toland & Co., W. O. Sims, J.
Smith, Ashdown Hardware Company,
M. Johnson, C. N. Thill, A. D. Dulaney,
W. M. Sykes, R. M. Price and others.
The company incorporates with a capi
tal stock of $3,500, of which $1,325 has
been subscribed.
Suit Over whiskey Freight.
The freight on a car of whiskey
from Pennsylvania to Little Rock, ac
cording to a suit filed in the Circuit
Court Thursday, is $528. The Rock
Island railway filed a suit for that
amount against the Bloch-Lyon Com
pany, alleging it to be the amount
due for freight on a car of whiskey
shipped over its lines from Pennsyl
vania to Herman Kahn, whose busi
ness was taken over by the Bloch-
Lyon Company.
Pardons Granted.
Governor Pindall has granted par
dons to the following:
Rufus Lawley, who was convicted
at the January, 1908, term of the Clark
County Circuit Court of Sabbath break
ing, and who was fined SSO.
Tony Homer, who was convicted at
the September term, 1907, of the St.
Francis County Circuit Court of grand
larceny and sentenced to one year in
the penitentiary.
State Agent In Little Rock.
J. A. Evans, state agent of the
Farmers’ Co-operative Demonstration
work, was at the state house Thurs
day going over demonstration work
in Arkansas with Special A.gent A.
y. Swaty. Mr. Evans’ visit to Ar
kansas is of no significance, as he is
attending to routine matters only.
Schools Close Soon.
State Superintendent of Instruction
J. J. Doyne returned Thursday from
a trip to Leslie, where he inspected
the public schools of that place.
These schools will close next week
for the summer vacation. A new
school building is to be erected soon
at Leslie.
Charity Board Case In April.
The State Board of Charities ouster
suit has been set for trial in the Su
preme Court for April 20. The case,
being an important one, was advanc
ed on the docket as far as possible
in order to give it an early hearing.
The attorneys are preparing their
briefs and will file them soon.
New Insurance Company.
State Auditor Avery E. Moore has
issued a license to the St. Louis Na
tional Life Insurance Company, incor
porated under the laws of Missouri,
which will operate in Arkansas. A
license was also granted the Columbia
Insurance Company, incorporated un
der the laws of New Jersey.
Many Visitors Tuesday.
The following visited the office of
Commissioner of Agriculture Guy B.
Tucker Tuesday: Mr. and Mrs. S.
Legg of Topeka, Kan., Miss Gladys
Coyne rof Topeka, Kan., Miss Laura
M. Johnson of Frank, Mrs. F. B. Chap
man of St. Paul, Minn., and A. M.
Werstline of St. Charles, Minn.
Good Name.
Pip-aPipp is the name of a Filipino
Loy who will be educated at Port
Hope, Ontario, for the Episcopal min
istry.
Paul Little Answers Rumors.
Paul Little, secretary to Acting Gov
ernor X. O. Pindall and son of Gover
nor John S. Little of Greenwood, Tues
day issued a statement to the effect
that his father would never be permit
ted by either his family or physicians
to return to the office of governor of
Arkansas during the present term to
which he has been elected and, furth
ermore, that rumors to the effect that
Governor Little was recovering at
such a rapid rate that he Intended to
return to his office within the next 60
days were the work of state politi
cians, who desired to gain votes and
profit in the present Democratic pri
mary by the rumor.
Paul Little’s statement, which was
issued Monday, was as follows:
“March 23, 1908.
“To the Public—From communica
tions and statements which Governor
Pindall is receiving in his office, he
and I are convinced that the various
reports concerning my father’s condi
tion, which have recently appeared in
the public press are being circulated
for political effect throughout the
state. It seems almost inhuman that
I should be expected to be constant
ly called upon to deny these false
rumors, concerning a matter in which
the people, the press, the politicians
and the public should at least consid
er my feelings. My father’s unfor
tunate condition is not political prop
erty, and no friend of mine, nor any
just man would seek to use his condi
tion for political advantage.
“To a kind and generous public,
however, now that the matter has
again been brought up for discussion,
I desire to state for their satisfaction,
that though my father is greatly im
proved, and may, with the help of
God, completely recover, yet he will
never be permitted by his family and
physicians to at any time again take
up the arduous duties of the gover
nor’s office during his present tenure
in that office. Very respectfully,
Paul Little.”
Transcripts Filed.
The transcripts in the following
cases have been filed with the Su
preme Court:
The transcript in the case of Wil
liam Caton against the Western Clay
Drainage District, D. Hepson, A. H.
B. McKinney and H. H. Williams, on
appeal from the Clay County Chan
cery Court, has been filed with the
Supreme Court. The case i s one in
which the plaintiff prays judgment en
joining the defendants from collecting
a tax of two cents per acre and from
assessing and collecting any assess
ment against said lands in the drainage
district in Clay county for any pur
pose whatever. The constitutionality
of the act which established the drain
age district in Clay county and which
created the drainage district direc
tors, is also attacked in the same
case on several different grounds.
Requisition Issued.
Acting Governor Pindall Tuesday
issued a requisition for John Wool
fork, alias Will Smith, who is wanted
in Pulaski county on the charge of mur
der in the first degree. He is charged
with killing Tony Leas in October,
1907. Detective S. L. Morgan of the
Little Rock Detective Department
went after Woolfork, who is said to
be in Louisiana. The requisition was
Issued for the governor of that state
to sign.
Tuesday a Dull Day.
Tuesday was one of the most quiet
days that has been seen at the state
house for some time. More than half
of the state officials, clerks and of
fice employes left for their respective
homes in the morning to vote and
practically no business was transact
ed in the state capitol building.
Nothing but politics and the prob
able outcome of the Democratic pri
mary were discussed in any of the of
fices.
Company Files Articles.
The Texas Life Insurance Company,
incorporated under the laws of Tex
as, has filed a copy of its articles of
agreement and incorporation with the
secretary of state. The company
claims to have $256,564.42 assets and
$206,226.20 liabilities. It also claims
to have SIOO,OOO invested in Arkan
sas. The company will have its offices
at Texarkana and names as its agent
in Arkansas, S. J. Seaburn.
Commission Issued.
The secreary of state Tuesday is
sued the following commissions: No
tary public, J. O. Tippett of Nattens,
J. T. Newberry of Finch, J. R. Brown
of Van Buren, A. B. Gould of Fort
Smith, and Joseph Greenhaw of New
port. justice of the peace, I. M. Gray
of Hardy, D. F. Brawley of Mena, T.
W. Reyburn of Pocahontas and I. S.
Gingrich of Beirne.
Reward Offered.
Acting Governor X. O. Pindall is
sued a proclamation offering $25 re
ward for the capture and conviction
of John Woolfork, alias Will Smith,
who is wanted on the charge of kill
ing Toney Leas in Pulaski county, Oc
tober 31, 1907.
Ernest Ludwig, son of Secretary of
State O. C. Ludwig, is seriously ill with
pneumonia. He has been ill for the
past ten weeks. Secretary Ludwig
was called from his office Tuesday on
account of his son’s illness,
AN INTERESTING
CHEMICAL EXPERIMENT
Any Child Can Do It—The Result I*
Almost Like Magic—Useful, Too.
Anything in the nature of a chem
ical experiment is always interesting
and usually educative. Here is a sim
ple experiment which any child can
perform and which is instructive in a
very practical way: Get a bit of White
Lead about the size of a pea, a piece
of charcoal, a common candle in a
candlestick, and a blow-pipe. Scoop
out a little hollow in the charcoal to
hold the White Lead, then light the
candle, take the charcoal and lead in
one hand and the blow-pipe in the
other, with the large end of the blow
pipe between the lips; blow the flame
of the candle steadily against the bit
of White Lead on the charcoal and if
the White Lead is pure it will pres
ently resolve itself into little shining
globules of metallic lead, under the
intense heat of the blow-pipe, leaving
no residue.
If, however, the White Lead is adul
terated in the slightest degree, it will
not wholly change into lead. So, It
will be seen, that this experiment is
not only an entertaining chemical
demonstration, but also of practical
use in the home. White Lead is the
most important ingredient of paint.
It should be bought pure and unadul
terated and njixed with pure linseed
oil. That is the best paint. The
above easy experiment enables any
one to know whether the paint is the
kind which will wear or not.
The National Lead Company guar
antee that white lead taken from a
package bearing their “Dutch Boy
Painter” trade-mark will prove abso
lutely pure under the blow-pipe test;
and to encourage people to make the
test and prove the purity of paint be
fore using it, they will send free a
blow-pipe and a valuable booklet on
paint to anyone writing them asking
for Test Equipment. Address Na
tional Lead Company, Woodbridge
Building, New York City.
CLASSIFIED.
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Printer—Where shall I put the an
nouncement of Aiderman Dodger’s re
tirement?
Editor — Under “Public Improve
ments.”
LANGUID AND WEAK.
A Condition Common with Kidney
Trouble and Backache.
Mrs. Marie Sipfle, 416 Miller St.,
Helena, Mont., says: "Three years ago
Smy back grew weak
and lame and I
could not stoop
without a sharp
pain. It was just
as bad when I tried
to get up from a
chair. I was lan
guid and listless
and had much pain
and trouble with the kidney secretions.
This was my state when I began with
Doan’s Kidney Pills. They helped me
from the first and four boxes made a
complete, lasting cure.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a
box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
WELL.
Huh! Your mother takes in wash-
In’.” w
"You didn't suppose she’d leave it
hanging out forever did you?”
How Her Life Was Saved When Bit
ten By a Large Snake.
How few people there are who are
not afraid of spakes. Not long .ago a
harmless little garter snake fell on
the wheel of an automobile which was
being driven by a woman. The woman
promptly fainted and the car, left to
its own resources, ran into a stone
wall and caused a serious accident.
The bite of a poisonous snake needs
prompt attention. Mrs. K. M. Fishel, '
Route No. 1, Box 40, Dillsburg, Pa„
tells how she saved her life when bit
ten by a large snake.
“On August 29, 1906, I was bitten
on the hand twice by a large copper
head snake. Being a distance from
any medical aid, as a last resort I
used Sloan's Liniment, and to my as
tonishment found it killed all pain and
was the means of saving my life. I
am the mother of four children and
am never without your Liniment.”
Too Risky.
“Where is old Postmaster Daniel?”
asked the drummer.
“Resigned last week,” drawled the
loafer in the Beacon Ridge post office.
“What caused the old man to re
sign?”
“Why, he read in the paper that the
Florida people were shipping live alli
gators through the mail. Said he
could stand queen bees, but when It
came to live alligators he drew the
Une, because he had never learned to
be a circus trainer, be gosh.”
An easy-going man is apt to make
it hard going for his wife.