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"master of Humnn ntinipQ nm i m m m, ww Vtl II Jy Love, Fame and Fortune on my Footsteps Wail." . :" 'Ir Qll,,,ali,m fr(,,n ' 1 I am master of the Real Estate Business. Opportunities are constantly presenting themselves, and if you will only avail Ycirlvr, nf th.m i V , r - - Consult me to-day, Delay may mean untold losses to you. I have a competent force of assistants MESS S i B I R CH HA RR uJZnT all giving their exclusive services to my clientele. ' 1 ' " RR,S FRANK TH0RNT0N BOOKKEEPER, AND G. B. EDWARDS are It is possible that you have some surnlus rah nrf wanf it in u,rt, ;.. '.. 'l. v . AM THE ONLY REAL ESTATE SPECIALIST IN CAIRO, (l do ,ta I ; rj "l to ' 'roub.es. J Suite 7-8-9 Opera House Block REAL. ESTATE BROKER CAIRO, ILLINOIS IN THE BISHOP'S CARRIAGE By MIRIAM MICHELSON t Copyright, 1904, by TU Uobbt-Merrill Company). CHAPTER 1.- SYNOFSIS. IN THE . BISHOP'S CARRIAGE. -Nancy Olden, a p. -duct of the Philarlclnhia .wi fr,- tl.e Prevention of Cruelty to Children ind commonly known as "the Cruelty," is a New York confidence woman, the "pal-' of Tom Dcrum, s well known thief wjntd by the police on many charges. Dorgan '"lifts" a valuable wa'.ch from Edward Ramsey, millionaire man-about-town, and "passes" it to Nfnce. who being hard pressed by the police and with every other.avenue of escape closed, jumps into a bishop's carriage. In her "get. away" steals a handsome red b.-oadclcth coat and chinchilla collar from th ladies' waiting room' of the railway station in which the theft of the watch occurred and for the moment escapes suspicion on account of her changsd appearance. She is still in the carriage when the bishop en ters and, - without at first perceiving her, drives away to a fashionab'e residence which proves to belong to P.imsey and to whose wife shs i, en trusted by the bishop. She pretends mentcl derangement, giving the im prets.on that she is an overworked college girl. Ramsey comes home (I w. m Hi f ,'j'',lil,5s a Joke she de- ' . T almost dropped the cup when I saw him. The dowager took It from me, say ing: "Thre, dear, don't be nervous. It's only only " She got lost. It couldn't be my daddy the bishop was that. But It was her "husband, so who could it be? "Kvening, bishop. Hello. Henri Ita,; back, so soon from the opera?" roared Edward, In a big, husky voice .He d had more since we saw him, hut he walked straight as the fishop ; , 'Uimsel', and hp's a dear little ram rod. 'Ah!" his eyes lit up at sight if mp "ah, MianMiss of course, l'vo mnt tun vomit.' lady, Henrietta, but hang me If I haven't forgotten hpr nan"5." -MiKa Miss Mnripson," lied the old lady, glibly. "A a relative." "Why,-mummy!" I said, reproa-.-h fully. ' "Therethere. It's only Isn't it a joke, Kdward?" rounded, laughing uneasily. , Moke?" he repeated, with a hrarf bellow of laughter. "Best kind of a JfM. I. call it, to find bo pretty a glr! rlsM in your own house, eh, bishop?" :U-hy d0P3 ho call my father 'Dish op, mummy?'' I couldn't hulp it. The fun of hear In the dowager lie and knowing thF bir.hop beside hlmrelf with -the pain of deception was too much for m I could mee he didn't dare trust het Kdward . with i my sad story. . "Ho!, -ho! '.The btshop that's good No, my dear-Miss Murloson, If this lady's your mojheK why, 1 must he at least, I ought to be, your father As Ruch, , I'm going to have all 11k privileges of a parent bless mc, It I'm no;.". . r don't suppose he'd have done it if he'd ,ben sober, but there's, no tell Ing, when you rpmembpr (he reputa tlon. h;dowaspr had r.iven him. Hut he'd got no further than to put his arm around -me when both the bishop ' anrj the dowager flew- to the, rescue My, nut, they were shocked! f nouldn', help wondering what they'd have don . u imi ward naa happened to see - the bishop; in ' the amn ort of tableav earlier In 'the afternoon. ' But' I got a lucid interval Just thon ana 'distracted' their attention. I stood for a moment, my head bent as though i was tninking deeply. . '''I think I'll go now," I fiald at length. .,"11 don't understand exact ly now I got nere," I went on, looking , ,'! from-the bishop to the dowager and back again, "or how I happened tc miaa my father. I'm ever so imnch obliged to you, and. if you will glv ; mo my, hat, I'll tak the next train f back to college." "You'll do nothing nf the (tort," Paid the .dowager, promptly. jiy ., you're a aweet girl that's been study log too hard. You must go to : m room and reM" "And stay for dinner. Don't yon .care, i Sometimes-1 don't know how 1 pot here : mysdf." ' ; Edward winked Jovially.'. ' .i; Wei!,'- I -did.- ''while the' dow jger's back was tuvnod t gave him the littlest , e, in return foi; hit. It mad him drunker tltiin ever, "I think," said the bishop, gri inly, with a sigulfkant glance at the dow ager, as he turned Just then and saw the eld cock ogling jne. "the young lady Is. wiser than we. I'll lake ber to the station" The station! Ugh! Not Nance Old en, with the red coat still on. "Inipowdble, my dear bishop," ln : tempted t Jv dowager. "She can't bo permitted to go back on tha trail Mr. ." be out there, could they?" She walked to the window and put her head out. Hep , Hps tightened grimly.. "No, , nobody could be out there ahe said, breathing hard, "but you might got nervous Just thinking them mlRht.be. .We'll, go,, to. a room up. stairs." And go we, did, in spite of all I could plead about feeling well enough now to go. alone., and all the rest of it. How was I to get out of. a second or third-story window? I began to think about thp correc tion again as I followed her upstairs and after she'd left mo I Just sat wait ting for the doctor to eome. and nepii me there. I didn't much care, till I .remembered therblahop, ;.r could al most see big faro as it would loo'f when he'd he called to testify against r-ie, and I'd be standing in that rafled in prisoner's pen. In the middle of the courtroom, where .Dan Christensen stood when they tried him. . No. I couldn't bear that; ' not with out a fight, anyway. It was for the l ishop I'd got. into this part of the scrape. I'd get out of it so's be shouldn't know how bad a thing a girl can be. ,-. . ' , While I lay thinking it over, the same maid that had brought, me the tea came In. She was an uelv. thin mtin SOMETHING ABOUT THE RIVER GYPSIES AND THEIR LIVES "Why. Miss Miss Murieson, I'll see you back all the way to the college loor. ?;ot at all, not at all. Charmed. First, ve'll have dinner or, first I'll ielepho-.e out there and tell 'em you're with i j, so that if there's any rule ir anything of that sort " The telephone! This wretched Kd ward with half his wits gave mo. more trouble than the bishop and the dow iger put together. She jumped at the idea, and left the room, only to come back again to whisper to me: "What name, my dear?" "What name? What name?"; I re peated. Mankiy. What name, Indeed, f v.'iiid:'r how "Xance Olden" would have done. "Pon t hurry, dear, don't perplp yourself," she whispered, anxiously, noting my bewilderment. - "There's plenty of time, and it makes no differ "nee not. a particle, really." I put my hand to my head. "I can't think I can't think. There's ne. girl has nervous prostration, and "ler name's got mixed with mine, and I can't" "Hush, . Hush! Never mind. You -.hall come and lie "down in my room. You'll stay wilh us to-night, anyway, and we'll have a doctor in. bishop." "That's right," assented the bishop. "I'll go get, him mysolf." "You you're not going!" I cried . In dismay. It uos rr.il. I hated to see him go. "Nonsense 'phone." It was Rd. ward who went himself to telephone for the dotor. and I saw my time getting short. But tho h'siion bad to He looked out at his horses shivering In front of the honne, and tho sight iiurneu mm. "My child." 'ho said, taking mv hand. "Junt let Mrs. rtamsey taks enre Of you to-night. " fon't bother about, nnyth'n. but Just rest. I'll see von In tho morning," he went on, notic ing that 1 kind of clung to him. Well t did. "Can't Vou rempmhnr tvl.nt. T said to you In the carrlago-that I wished you were my daughter. I wlRh.you were, indeed I do. and that t could take you home with me nud keep you, child." . "Theu-to-night-lf if .when von nray-wlll you pray for me as if I was your own daughter?" ' Tom Dorgan, you think no' prayers but a priest'R are jiny good, vou bigot ed, snickering Catholic! ! toll you if .orufi day I rut looe from you and Rtart In over again, it'll be the bishop's prayers that'll do It. The dowager and I passed Edward In the hall. He. gave ma a. look be hind her back, and . t gave him one to, match It. Just practice, you know, Tom. j A girl can never know when nhe.'ll want to be expert In these things. . . She made me lie down on a pouch while she turned the lamp low, and then left, me Plone in a big ralnce of a bedroom 'filled with things. And I wanted everything t saw. if J could. I'd have lifted ryerrhlper In .f'ght. . Rut every minute brought that doe. tor nearer. Soon as I could ha really sure she was rone. I iRot. tip,'-and, hurrying' to tho long French windows that opened on the great, piazza, I un- I fastened them quietly, and inch by IniU I pushed them. open. There within ten' Iot of. me stood Edward. -No escape that way. ; H aaw me, and was tiptoeing heavily toward me, when I heard th door dick le!:ind n:n, and In walked the downr;er brv-k -again. I flew to her. . , ' ' "I tl.0':Iit I heard gome one out thc;" I r.aid. "It frightened mo so thing. If she's, a sample of the maids in that, house,, the -lot of them would 4-1 - n It 1 - 1 1 1 ft . . .. . I . . ...kK n.o Kiiih. uui o your pretty nair, ! times a complex fishing outfit imimua j. jrKan, i'.sq., late of the 1 there are his chick SnU Fn -1 Tl 0t Mya- anr even 1,1 p itances, pigs. He ' J thr hlaf P- j may bo marri vl and may be not. Tho me in rv set. mine nml the hi. - . . .. ' ' " o nu n or- or. iri'.wf vhn flni w voa Thou- who cry back to nalurp, and back to plain I viug, never had a bet ter oxainplo of what rwU life in than can be found .in tho river .syp.-.y, that CKiselos traveller on tho lucad b moiu of. Ujc fJhio and Mississippi, who spends lifo as it comes, at week here, H week there, and then gone, taking iiis. homo with b m. . Ask hiin how he lives and you will receive a .nn;io in reply. Ask bis neighbor how he lives and they will ;nswcr thoy don't know. Yet no one ever knw,u rivor gypsy to starve. Many t,f them do not sec the color of a piece of money larger than a sil ver dollar tho htasous through, - yet thought of money , does not -.worry Ih'jm; they arc happy, coutentod and care-free day in and out. Tuo almon-pure article of the river gypsy always owns n well built house boat, generally decorated lavV.iIy in rei, white and bin i paint. Perhaps ho thinky by ihls profuac way of mani footing patriotism to make reparation to the government, whose taxes he e?- .ipt-'i-. tie carn?s with h m at nil Then ens, dogs and cat don't. She had been sent to help me un- ! tiu to those who make their house-boat f r, lr ,x ,k liT.lt-, .... l ... l. ... , . . . 1 ' a imLii ,io tuo wanavnnc lite of 1rcss. she said, and make me corner . :T..T"'"l' -1'us. I8"'.,,s.r f,,,0,,t pfl"!" ble. The doctor lived iu.".t he corner, and would be in in a rain- ii.0. l'hew! She wasn't very promising, )iit she waa my only chauco. I took Ixcr, . - VI vally don't need any helji, thank you, Noi'tt," I said, chipper un u spar "ow, nnd remomliering the name the downger had called her by. "Aunt tlemietta. is too fussy, don't you ihink? Of course, you won't say a wtird against her. She told me tho other day that ahe'd never had a maid so sensible and , quick-witted, too, as her Nora. Do you know, I've a mind to play a joke on the doctor when he comes. You'll help me, won't you? Ch, I know you will!" Suddenly I re membered the bishop's bill. I took it out of my pocket. Yep, Totn, that's ft here it went. I had to choose between giving thai skinny maid the hlirgest 'ip site ever got In her life or Nance Olden to the correction. You needn't swear, Tom Dorgan. I fancy If I'd pot there, you'd got worse. No, you bully, you know I wouldn't toll; but the police sort of know how to pair, our kind. ' In her cap and apron I let. the doc tor in and myself out. ;, And I don't re gret, a thing up there Id the square except that lovely-red coat with the nigh collar and the hat with the fur on it. I'd give Tom. get. me, a coat like that and I'll marry you for life. No. there's one thing I could do bet ter if it was to be. done, over again. I could make that, dear little old bishoo wish harder I'd been his daughter. What am I mooning about? oh- nothing. There's the watch Ed, ward s watch. Take It. WORSE EVERY YEAR. Plenty of Cairo Readers Have the Same Experience. "Don't neglect an aching back. It will get worse every year. Backache is really kidney ache. To cure, the back you must cure the kidneys. If you don't, other kidney Ills fol low. Urinary troubles, diabetes, Iiright's disease. A Cairo cttien lolls you how the cure 1b easy. H.-nry C. Johnson, of 813 Twctiiy tii'rd street,-jobbing citipenicr, payis: "I have had attacks of kidney com plaint for ten or iwtdvo years. A groat many, of them leaving juut an ni.viileriotibly aa they t-arne. .To btoop, to straighten after stooping vr to. perform any act which' caused n strain, on tho muscles of (ho back not only pained but hurt novero.lv. There have been times when I would have given nil I possessed to gel: the nlinoHt Instantaneous relief, given bv Doan's Kldur.-y fills procured. 'fc'j!y, lfhtll,' Hrnff .tnvn XT... Jl ll r' they .dispose of the - backache, but trouble wilh the .kidney secretions which existed also disappeared." , , For sale by all dealers. Price HO conm- FoaVrMUburn .. Co.., -.Buffalo, New. York, uolo ugvnt for tho United States. Remember the name Doan's a bachelor's ca.sti South in, Winter, North in Summer. , The dead cf our wln'or finds iln gypsy's floating homo hov0 to along i-io lower MisHissippi. As np-ljg' ad vances ho forg.H iiurlh and up to Cie U.-ad of en MiwI-Mpp- r b-auches a!T uud pilaws up I ho Ohio by easy stages. I y the lime fall ko j tt ha j,c pm to drop back down tho river as (!: cold oncrr aches, until nt the end of the year he is clo: 0 back to.Tlu. place whera bc started. If you want to brush up nga'nst some true spoeiniens of the river gyp s lake a stroll along tho' Mississippi river bank, or even up rJie Ohio.-abovo t.ic Chicago mill. Horn you w'll a!-way;-, find ar least two t-r three of i iie U'.ais wlnl. on tho Mississippi bank there are usually moio. About a week ago, a number of "shanty boat-e.-s," driven from their mooring places near St. Louis by the Wiggins Kerry Company "dropped" down tha rive and stopped back of Cairo. Amonr this number was one "Jira" Beveridge' He is a rypical river gypsy and is tha solo owner and proprietor of a rather d-.'cent. little house on water, whic'i when visited by tho rppo-ter a few days ago was opposite the fo't of Twenty-first street. The setMo about Ine honso-ljoat and m ihu bank was one of idyllic and primitive repo-ie liarofoot(.-d, li s trousers , oiled up half way o liia kuc, ,.;i ny a Mi, k. ory shirt and n rag f a hat, Bevrrldg, wuk, pottering Hrtnin.i in Uio willow, m-ii.l.ng a , ,l(.t. Tw(J pip3 JlIiy ed hide and seek abruit on empty rlilek crop, tho feathered InninroK ,,f which wore, scattered tiirough. the' ! " uwV TZZ .b-rbruKh in ipiest of worms, nml bugs. In a small stake pen a small p Un rooted1 Idly in the mud. Tho boat caug.it tho breast of w waves and rucked wbli a peiceful, un dulating motion. On tho shadv end sat the mistr?HK of tho float ug citsile. Her hands were bus ed men ling a torn garment." She 1 Hiked the picture of domestic tranquility, dressed in sim ple calico wrapper, and with hor straight black hair drawn tigii.ly fiom her forehead and lied light in a w.id behind.. The terror of ever b;ing oul of ashion never bot.iered h or. A fish box, square and ef slats, float ! ed to tho down r.ver side of tho' house-boat.. This and a tub johnny-' boat completed the poystts ons of ihei river gypsies. i Beveridgn waa very voluble. Ho ex- plained tliat he fished all the time' with nets and traded Ilsh wilh the" farmers along thj river bank in return 1 for other edibles and a .little, 'small i change. His wife saved up enouga'; every six months to get her a new' dress and, at that, she had mnre clothes than she needed. How They Live. Beveridgn sa-3 that lie never ro aortdj to the all .too common practice of river tramps of appropriating for tho'r own us,e whatever tliey coul.r find on tho lands cleng tho river hirik. Of couive, If ho wanted a sack of apples or a few ears of cotn or a watermelon or biiceo he ju n lead, lor the fanner woul In't rare anyway. Kuel he goi from driftwood, liiki was his p.iilosqdiy of lifi). lie hafd thai ho earned Hie d'lgs aongwilh him to guar, Cio chieketis when they were l.)so and lieeiiuse his ,-.;r t i . . . . . , . . u.i.i in hi raise in the country ' whoro her fiilher krpi a pack ef coon degs, so she naturally felt more at heme with the pups about the b.-at. The pit,, he, raid, lie found ownerless a.d dosci-tfd In the wods. Ho would raise it. uiifl it got, large enough to sell. IJevery time he moved up or down the river the pi- was brought on board. When n iinv,- landing mnlo it was ' asy to cut, willow stakes and cr.-n-tii.riiet, a temporary pun. "D0 you every work?-' was nskf-d of Bet-ridge. "Wor.v? Certainly, mend my nets and sot 'ein. clean fish and carry water to the pig. That's work enough for me." As fur working for another man for hire Buveridge pleaded int. guilty ?o Mich a breach of rivey gypsy etiquette. Kurt her down the tivor was another house boat. If was occupied by three men, all related. On win lying asleep In the simde Hnd the other two were icpairlni; 1heir dinky - jhn boat. They sei mod to rer.ent the reporttr'a ineuiHitiveiietu'.. Ych, they bad lived on tho river the Stealer larl ol tite r liven. Oh, ihe.v dl In't know just, why only the water always bad a peculiar fascination for them and they found that they wen. u . , Fhone553. , 805 Commercial Ave, . A SHARE, OF YOUR BUSINESS SOLICITED. river than they were in a house in sumo-town, 'especially in the wminu-r lime. Tho most talkative of tho three men, n or a small twist of to-1 tho on0 that was a:d' ep bad awakened jm.t picked i, up anl went r.nhi that they n)ado a gor,i deal v tho fanner won n't cure .... f money by "manufacturing" rustic fur niture, chairs, tables, stands, hat racks, etc.. which ni-e made from yi'iin.-; sapling", painted black and gild ed cxtiagavantly. He tiKed to be an "air man," and proudly led the news paper man inside uv, exhibited a roll 01' patched stilt canvass, which hiw once been an expensive balloon. "Ual leonin' ain't what is us-ed to be," ho .said with a sigh. "It don't go no njore. but I just carry this along cause I hate to part, with it for one thing and then again I might be able iu pick up a piece of money in some town by giving an aweonmnn. "Yes, 1 used to be a show grafter, too, but I g:t out. of it. 'Twas too much like work." "You don't believe in work then?" naked the reporter, "H 11, no," he said with a tone and look that plainly showed that, he had but little regard for those that dtl. And with this nnswet- we Immediate ly made our get-a-way. Mot hem be careful of your children. There is no b,ihy medicine In the woild as good un Holllster's Uocky Mnimlaln Tea. II makes tin little flier, t.tniiis, he.ililiy ami act vo. II,". this. P. (.!. hiih & yon:-. (irand opuning oii' Saturday night, llet lunches Ua:ly J:W li 12 a. m Newton-Riddle. 7H Commercial ave nue. J.:. v I..' ,: ., . ' . . ,: ' i PICKED OUT ITS VICTIMS. Queer Prank Played by Lightning In ' Minnesota. . During a severe electrical storm yesterday afternoon lightning did som queer stunts about the" farm borne of Peter Jordan, eight milts northwest of this -city. Ilia three boys wero sitting in the barn doors, two below and one in the bay mow, walcbias? the big hailstones fall. Suddenly a bolt of lightning shot. down. It shat tered the sill on which the two beys were located, tearing hi? splinters from one end. Karl, the youngest l.id, had his back badly burned and his hair eaught. fire. The other brother naa not Injured Irt tho least, and was not long in going to the relief of K;tI. I Un lad in the hayloft received a pretty severe shock, his limbs being rtimbed to suih an extent that he had to he carried into the house. A physician was at once summoned by telephone from this oity, When he arrived at the farm htmo he found only the youngest hoy bad suffered Injury, the other two having recovered from the shock. But little F.nrl fared badly. Besides the painful burns, his eyesight is affoctnd, and tip to a late hour last night he could not pee at all. But it is thought thj boy wn! not permanently lose his eyesight. A very iitr,inf:o thing in connection with -the ircak bolt Is that on one tdde of the barn two horses were stand ing in a Mall, and ono of them a3 billed. On the other Eido of the barn two.rrther horses were rating hay. One of theoCWHt pho killed, fthile the other- was knocked down. Thete was no bay in the' barn Inft and no fire ensued. Vermillion Correspondence S- Paul Ulapatch. tim if . if ff tf .. im fi tm f .-I .- i if . if ? ,- f f ' If if .f COLD PRICES FOR HOT DAYS MUINUAY, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, AUGUSTS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9. if if urn f f f f f 17 Hs. rranu'eied S'ijar,oify IVocltir c (iambic's Napiha Soap, worth Sc, only Kirk's icrn:;i! .Motlicd oap. worlh 5c', Jbars for 2 bars t:ldcr Flower Soap, worili 10c, only 3 lbs. Lump Siartb, worth 15c, only 10 lbs. Uramilatcd ivujjar, worth 6Sc, only 100 Plain White Paper Napkins, worth 13c, only . .Uakes Laundry Wax, worth 10c, only 10 lbs. ArmourrYPurc Lard only. 4 -a.;.; Pudding Pan, worlh 10c, only , , 6 Knives and Forks, wooden handle, worth 60c. '"ly- - - . 6 Knives and Forks, iron handles, worlh 59c, only 99c 4c 10c - -Sc 57c 5c fic. 79c -.Sc 39c ; 35c Qmger Snaps, worlh lc lb. only . . ... . Hi., Lnamclcd Coffee Pot. wot Hi 25c, for 10-qt. Rclinned Rinsing Pans, worth 25c, only hnamclkd htcw Pans, wonh 15c, frr namcllcd Stew Pans, worlh 20c, ior ' . inamclled Stew Pans, worth 25c, for . 'tiaivamzcd Iron Foot Tubs," worlh 50c. for Preserving Kettles, worth 15c. for Jlilk or kicc Boilers, I qt. worlh 5(lc, for Her in Sauce Pans, covered, worth 30c, for Berlin .Sauce Pans, worlh 35c, for ... . . " ri!n Sauce Pa9i! worih tt cts. , ... -( . , Berlin Sauce Van unrth a- in Jone-lb, bars Armour's German Soap, worth 15c, for 10c ,5c 13c ISc. 9c 13c ISc 39c 9c '35c 19c 29c 35c 45c PiEXI i.- .a Raclcet-iSlore rjt!??!.!!f.fff Mf t MtiHtititiiMii f " f f f , f ; "' ' ' 'f f f . t' . .- f , - :: Uut I tut j ty ,;iUoa cuiildj11 n wor