I fear my country's glory—fear the reign
Of dull security and joy of gain;
The thrifty turmoil of successful trade,
The war and barter and the ambuscade
Of conquering commerce and of countmg-
That°°bulld one palacc and a hundred
tombs.
I fear my country's pride, free competi-
tion , . .
And license for the money-maker s mis-
sion, ,, , ,
Chains are not stronger than their weak-
est link.
Nor nations richer than their poor, me-
thlnks. ,
Nor wealth, nor glory can more lofty be,
Than wealth and glory through equality.
—Selected.
hue
J5rs'4-777rz?4vy'
(Coryrlgtat, 1905, by Daily Story Pub. Co.l
"Agnes!"
"Mr. Fremont! You—here?"
"Where should I be but by your
side?"
"You have no right there—now."
"Only the right of a love that will
not down —that knows no rest or
peace but in your presence."
"You must not speak of love."
"I cannot speak of aught beside.
Agnes " u
"Mrs. Maryland, you must call me.
"I can n^ver call you that."
"It is an honorable name. It is more
than you ever offered to me, Mr. "Fre-
mont." M
"You know I could not—then.
"Yet you were not compelled to of-
fer me—the other."
- "Listen, Agnes. That Is two years
ag0—great heaven! It seems twenty
years since last I saw you. I was
young and wild. I loved you. I would
have asked you to become my wife
bad such a thing been possible. But
that is all changed, now. My father Is
dead. I am rich. I can live only for
you. I love you as you can never be
loved by another." " (
"And you again offer dishonor."
"As the world counts it—perhaps.
But what affinity—what natural affec-
tion—can there be between you and
this very respectable x>ld gentleman
whom you call yoifr husband? Think,
Agnes, of the possibilities of your na-
ture—of the joy that your bright
young life is capable of knowing, of
bestowing. Then tell me, if you can,
that the stupid frown of a censorous
world is too dear a price to pay for
the only good thing that the world has
to offer you and me—our love for one
another."
"It is two years since you saw me,
Mr. Fremont. If you have waited so
long you can wait longer."
"No, Agnes—I cannot wait. It must
be to-night. A few steps across the
bridge and we are in Canada. To-night
we can be happy. Over the border,
and you are free."
From her steady contemplation of
the raging cataract of Niagara, tht
woman turned to look upto the face
of her companion.
In his eyes she thought she read the
love and devotion she had yearned for
all her life—and wavered.
"I cannot go now," she said in a low
tone.
"An hour—two hours—from now;
will you meet me here at sunset?"
After a momentary hesitation, she
gave the man her hand in token of
assent, and the two walked away in
opposite directions.
The woman found her husband
asleep in an easy chair in his room at
the hotel overlooking the rapids.
Something of pity for the old man s
loneliness or of remorse for the wrong
meet the woman advancing in the
gathering dusk. He would have clasped
her in his arms, but she waved him
back. „ .
"I cannot go with you," she said.
"My husband died an hour ago.
She waited, but as the man did not
speak she added:
•'I am free now."
"Yes."
"And—so are you—Charles.'
"But, Agnes—your promise?"
"His death absolves you. It would
be no conquest worthy of the winning
powers of Charles Fremont to gain a
widow—would it?"
Raising her arm, she pointed to the
Canadian side. Fremont turned upon
his heel wAhout a word and left her.
She watched him until he was over
the border.
Then she went back to her dead,
and Wept.
HAS HUMAN ADVERTISING CARD
COTTON MARKET
New Orleans Spots
Ordinary, 8 11-16; good ordinary,  
14-16; low middling, 10 12-16; good
middling, 11 12-16; middling fair, 1-
1-16.
Galveston Spots
Low ordinary, 8 4-16; ordinary, 8
9-16; good ordinary, 9 13-16; low mid-
dling, 10 13-16; middling, 11 8-16; good
middling, 11 14-16; middling, 12 4-16.
CA8H GRAIN MARKET
Chicago
WHEAT—No. 2 red, 87c; No. 3 red,
85@ §6c; No. 2 hard, 84@86c; No. 3
hard, 80@84c.
CORN—No. 3 mixed, 42c; No. &
white 42@43c.
OATS—No. 2 mixed, 30@31c; No. t
white, 32@33c. •
that first night I saw you at the thea
ter? Was it love, or pity, or self pity
that prompted me to seek you out? I
do not know. Selfishness of some sort
no doubt. But there was an air of
purity aind refinement and melancholy
about you that made you seem out of
place in that Bohemian throng. I saw
at once that you were born and fitted
for a better sphere. It seemed to me
a wrong thing that you should be com-
pelled to make an exhibition of your
charms in a subordinate role in order
to obtain the mere necessities of life.
I thought that I eould offer you a home
and pleasant surroundings, in which
Lifeless clay.
' You have no right here—now.
she was contemplating prompted her
to stroke the silver locks on the
bowed head of the sleeper, who awoke
with a start. With grave courtesy and
tenderness Mr. Marsland took in his
own the hand that had rested on his
bead and drew his young wife down
Into a chair beside him.
"Ah Agnes," he said, "I am glad
you have come. 1 was thinking of you
to-night—as I am always-before I
went to sleep. I don't know, child,
whether I did right by yon in asking .
v«u to be mr wife. Do you remember
your true nature might develop and
expand, untrammeled by an unconge-
nial environment and the hard neces-
sity of husbanding a wretched weekly
pittance. t
"And then I thought of myself—of
my lonely, loveless age. I thought it
would be pleasant to have one so fair
and sweet and beautiful \o look upon
and call my own. Do you know, Ag-
nes, in my time I have been famous?
I achieved fame both by pen and
sword. I have never told you much of
my life; but if you read the history of
the civil war you will find that my
name was not without prominence
amoug officers of the Federal
aimy. And in my library at
home you will find upwards
of a score of volumes—essays,
poems, stories, philosophical treatises
—that I wrote years ago, and which
had many readers in their day. I have
had my share, child, of popular ap-
plause. But now I am forgotten.
Looking back over a long life, I can-
not point to any intimate friendship
that I ever formed or say that I was
loved by a single fellow creature. I
thought, Agnes, that I could make you
happy, and that in time you might
learn to love me. But it was all a
mistake—the foolish dream of a self-
ish old man. I had no right to tie
your life to my declining age. You
have been kind and good and forbear-
ing with me, but It was not we* to
look to you for love."
'Oh, don't say that, my husband
dear! Indeed—indeed, I love you!"
"You do?" the old man cried with
joy. aud folded her in his arms.
Submitting graciously to the em-
brace. the woman forgot the hand-
some lover pacing to and fro impa-
tiently upon the bridge.
Presently the arms relaxed their
clasp, the old man's head drooped
upon his breast, and Agnes Marsland
found herself clinging to the lifeless
clay of him who had rescued her from
drudgery and want to clothe her
round with luxury and beauty.
The big hearted man. who had
fought for his country and thought
and written much for the advance-
ment of humanity on its toilsome pil-
grimage to an uncertain goal, having
outlived the gratitude of hiB genera-
tion and the memory of his fellows,
had realised his cherished dream at
last, and died, happy in the knowl-
edge of a woman's love, before anoth-
er came to wrest from him the prize
so hardly won.
He had gone over the border. He
was free, and happy.
Chicagoan Hat Found Novel Way to
Increase Business.
A young and energetic coal mer
chant of the northwest side has in
vented a new way to advertise his
business. It is probably the most
modern one of its kind, and to say the
least, it is attractive to the eye—es-
pecially to those of the masculiae per-
suasion.
His invention is a petite brunette
of nineteen summers, as pretty as a
fairy queen, and the only fear of the
coal merchant is that some of his cus-
charms, will marry her and take her
away before he can amass a fortune
at the coal business by having her in
the office as a drawing card.
This young man is the employer of
the "human advertising card" and the
owner of the fuel store said that he
concluded previous to buying the
place that the only thing that would
draw trade would be a beautiful young
girl in the office whose sole duties
were to sit in front of the window and
look happy. But her orders upon
starting at her newly appointed posi-
tion were these: "Do not flirt; sft
and look wise."
This is all the young woman has to
do all day, as the energetic young
coal merchant attends to all the office
duties. Of course, there is no danger
of the employer becoming infatuated
with his help. Several sign painters
have called at the place demanding
that she join their union, alleging for
a reason that her presence in the of-
fice does away with the necessity of
lettering the windows. — Chicago
Chronicle.
Stop At'.os With Dust.
Some of the farmer boys on the
Cong Island roads have hit upon a
plan to "get even" with the hated
automobilists who slaughter pet dogs
and chickens in their wild bursts of
speed. The "get even" plan is not un-
attended with danger for the pro-
jectors, but they seem to relish it.
The apparatus is simplicity itself,
consisting of an old buggy, a good,
stvong horse capable of getting over
the road at a fair rate, and a young
cedar tree. The latter is tied be-
hind the buggy and allowed to drag
along the road, which at the point se-
lected for operations is especially
dusty. , .
When the boys see an auto coming
they whip up their horse, taking the
same direction as the approaching
machine. When the old horse is
urged into a gallop the amount of
dust raised would do credit to a small
cyclone.
When they meet the "cloud of dust
the autoists generally speed up iu
hopes of passing the supposed farm-i
and giving him a little taste of h*
own medicine. After trying this ruse
for about thirty yards, they general!*
slow up in order to get the dirt out of
their lungs.
• Kansas City
WHEAT—No. 2 hard, 81@84c; No.
4 hard, 75@80c; No. 2 red, 85@91c;
No. 3 red, 84@85c; No. 4 red, 78@84c.
CORN—No. 2, 41c; No. 3, 41c; No.
4, 40c; No. 2 yellow, 41c; No. 3 yel-
low, 41c; No. 2 white, 41c; No. 3 white
41c.
OATS—No. 2, 30@31c; No. 3, 30@
31c; No. 3 white, 32@33; No. 3 white
31c.  
LIVE STOCK MARKET
Chicago
CATTLE—Beeves, f 3.00@6.70; cows,
$1.40®4.50; heifers, $2.25@4.90; calves
$5.00@7.00; good to prime steers, $5.35
@6.70; poor to medium, $3,30@5.25;
stockers and feeders, $2.20@4.15.
HOGS—Mixed and butchers, $4.95@
5.00; good heavy, $4.85@5.00; rough
heavy, $4.65@4.80; light, $4.60@4.90;
pigs, $4,150/4.85; bulk of sales, $4.85
@4.95.
SHEEP—Sheep, $3.50@5.80; year-
lings, *t>.4U©'b.it>; tamos, «•<«>•
GOOD BLOOD FOR BAD
"SKEWS byO*' wmSm?'j
: Pink pm«. ~
•In th® lead mines I was at work on my
knee* with my elbows pressed against
rook walls, in dampue8fl and «treniesof
oold." said Mr. J. G. Meukel, of 2975
Jackson avenue, Dnbuque, Iowa, > "de-
scribing his experience to * reP°rt®£
"and it is not surprising that I con
tooted rheumatism. For three years I
had attacks affecting tlie jo^ of my
ankles, knees aud elbows. My auKies
aud knees became so swollen I could
scarcely walk ou uneven ground and a
little pressure from a stono onder my
feet would cause me so much pain that i
w^uid SSrly sink down, I'was often
obliged to lie iu bed for several days at a
time. My friends who were similarly
troubled were getting no relief from
doctor, and I did not feel encouraged to
throw money away for J®*
chance I read the story of Robert Yates,
of the Klauer Manufacturing Oo., of
Dubuqn., who bad a very £d «u  o«
rheumatism. I decided to try Dr. Wu
hams' Pink Pills for Pale People. the
remedy he had used. In three or four
weeks after beginning to use the pills, I
was much better and in tbree mouths l
was well. The swelling of the joints
aud the tenderness disappeared, I could
work steadily and for eight years1.have
had no return of the trouble. My whole
family believe in Dr. Williams' *nk
Pills. Both my sons use them, vve
consider them a household remedy thai
WWhftt8Dr.Williams' Pink Pills did foi
Mr. Meukel they are doing for hundred*
of others. Every dose sends gal «P "g
through the veins, pure, strong, rich, red
blood that strikes straight at the cauM of
all ill health. The new blood restorei
regularity, and braces all the organs fM
their special tasks. Get the geiiuu'e Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills at your druggists
or direct from the Dr. William* Medi-
cine Co., Schenectady.N. i.
After a woman has had to cut her
husband's finger nails on the right
hand for him she begins to talk •
great deal of the helplessness of the
men.--Chicago News.
Kansas City C. P. Daly, passenger traffic mana-
CATTLE—Choice export and dressed ger of the New J^^^LynVh,
beef steers $5.25@6.25; fair to good, west of Buffalo, and Warren y  
$3.75@5.10; westem steers ^a.OO® ^^^"^^Tew York recent-
4.90; stockers and feeders, $2.50@4.50, , erence with president New-
southern steers, $2.50@4.25; ! *an A plan is gaid to be on foot to
cows, $2.00©3.25; native cows, $2.00@ ^ Mr Daly t0 New York as
3.90; native heifers, $2.50@5.00; bulls, eQger traffic manager of the New
$2.00@4.00; calves, $2.50@6.50. York Central, to give Mr. Lynch th 
HOGS—Bulk of sales, $4.85@4.95; Chicag0 p08t, to retire George Daniels,
heavy, $4.90@5.00; packers, $4.85@ generai passenger agent of the Itew
4 97% ■ Pigs and lights, $4.70@4.90. York Central, and to make H. J. Rheln
' SHEEP-Native lambs, $5.50@7.25; now general passenger agent of the
western lambs, $5.50@7.25; ewes and Lake Erie and Westera.gyera! p
yearlings $4.50@6.00; western clipped senger agent of the Big Fo .
yearling , * ^ western clipped Daniels has confirmed the report as to
yearlings, $5.50@6.00, western ci piw retirement. He will be made gen-
abeep, *4.50«5.75; stockers and feed- ^«^slng manlger ,he
ers, $3.50@4.75. tgm
Twelve ships a week, on the aver-
age, are wrecked on the oceans of the
i world.
COTTON MARKET UNEASY
Report of Government's Experts
Anxiously Awaited
NEW ORLEANS: The eve of the
publishing of the government annual
Her Good Advice.
pub.iabing o. tie govern-eo_ ™b"
crop estimate finds the trade gema< Ringworm and similar afflic-
public at large more concerned over ^ always recommend Hunt s
the probable size of the crop than ^ure_ j consider it the surest rem-
about the enormous consuming capaci- edy for itching troubles of any char-
ty of the world. At best the report can *cter, there is made."
be better tban a moderate one. Mr,. J. I. H^tower^
say about 10,750,000 bales, and the pos-    
siblities for it being a short yield, say A girl shouid never say sue is "go-
Fremont sprang forward eagerly to
French Care of Children.
I will not go into such a vexed ques-
tion as the French theory with regard
to the limitation of the population;
suffice It here to say that it is ground-
ed, whether right or wrong, on a
great and solemn sense of the respon-
sibility of parenthood.
No true, honest, honorable French-
man or Frenchwoman thinks it justi-
fiable to bring children into the world
without having a fair certainty of
these children having their chance of
p happy and prosperous life.
For a Frenchman to leave a daugh-
ter, brought up in comfort and even
luxury, without means and the slave
ot destiny, would be a crime which
he would regard as almost the worst
of sins.
I have heard an Irishwoman who
had lived nearly all her life in France
say. in good-humored exaggeration,
that a Frenchman could be tempted
to almost any crime to leave his
daughter a proper dot. T. P. s Week-
ly.  
Reward for Faithful Service.
A. H. McLeod, freight traffic man-
ager of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton, is to retire from that position,
which he has held for thirty years. In
appreciation of his long and efficient
service he will be given the title of
general agent of the freight depart-
ment on the Erie, which will carry
with It a comfortable salary. Thla
place he will hold for life.
less than 10,250,000 are not lacking.
The average estimate of members
of the Liverpool Cotton association of
10,765.000 and of the members of the
New York cotton exchange 10,658,000.
There is a feeling of uneasiness lest
the bureau estimate the season's
growth at about 10.500,000, reports
having gained currency to the effect
that such figures would cause a sharp
break in the market on account of a
prominent operator claiming to have
covered his short contracts, fearing an
official estimate of less than 10,000,000
bales, although his revised and final
estimate is for a commercial crop of
11,451,000, having placed the actual
xv s111 °"WUiU —~ " 7
(ngM with a fellow unless she has him
measured for the harness.
Are You Tired, Nervous
and Sleepless?
Nervousness and sleeplessness are us-
ually due to the fact that the nerves are
not fed on properly nourishing blood;
they are starved nerves. Dr. Pierce a
Golden Medical Discovery makes pure,
rich blood, and thereby the nerves are
properly nourished and all the organs of
the body are run as smoothly as machin-
ery which runs in oil. In this way you
feel clean, strong and strenuous—you are
toned up and invigorated, and you are
good for a whole lot of physical or mental
work. Best of all, the strength and iu-
estimate a* —  worK. isest 01 an, aut-uRm
11 451000. having placed the actual crease jn vitality and health are Iqstinq.
~ \ _t 10 g63 ooo If the yield per The trouble with most tonics and med-
growth at lo.sw.wu. « J * , whjch have R ,arge< booming sale
ine trouDie wun most wmw mcy.-
   , th jcincs which have a large, booming sale
acre is not above the normal of tne for a short time, is that they are largely
* vmr« it is not at all i®- composed of alcohol holding the drugs in
past five years, it is noi j This aicohol shrinks up the red
probable for the estimate to be les ^lood corpuscles, and in the long run
than 10,000,000. The acreage of this greatly injures the system. . One may feel
year was about 27,000,000 acres, last
year 31,700,000 and revised report ol
December 3 of last year, upon which
the estimate was based, was reduced
to 30,000,000 on account of land aban-
doned. This year tuere may be a
blood corpuscles, ana in me iui«s
greatly injures the system. One may feel
exhilarated and better for the time being,
yet in the end weakened and with vitality
decreased. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery contains no alcohol. Every
bottle of it bears upon ila wrapper Tha
Badae of Honesty, in a full list of all its
several ingredients. For the druggist to
offer you something he claims is "just as
good " Is to insult your intelligence.
r,.n n inffwulSont. Into thd
auueu. — j— i Every ingredient entering into the
like proportion of the original acreage j wor|(i.^anlea " Gulden Medical Discovery
,hr„«n out on account of the contlnu- fSSffiffi
ous rains during the planting season, 0f an the several schools of practice No
t. „ thpir cultivation and the other medicine sold through druggists for
preventing their cuimauou uu Hke purpo^s has any such endorsement,
revised report of Monday may show ^ n g^[en Medical Discovery' not
no more than 28.000,000 acres picked
Golden Seal
and to be picked, or about 4,000,000 ^ ln an stomach, liver and bowel
  urn Qiiri who knows troubles, as in dyspepsia, biliousness, con-
less than one year ago. and who knows
but that the yield per acre is below
the normal of the past five years, say
about 195 pounds. As to the matter of
consumption, spinners' takings up to
date are larger than one year ago by
374 000 bales now standing at 3.436,-
000 against 3.163.000. thus placing Uie
season's prospective takings at 12.709 -
000 bales, compared with 12,425.000
the position of the staple on Its own
last season.
root, in ail siomacn. n>rr
troubles, as in dyspepsia, biliousness, con-
stipation, ulceration of stomach and
bowels and kindred ailments, but the
Golden Seal root used in Its compound-
ing Is greatly enhanced in its curative ac-
tion by other Ingredients such as Stone
root. Black Cherrybark, B oodroot. Man-
drake root and chemically pure trlple-
•The Common Sense Medical Adviser/
6 sent free in paper o#ven on iwlpt o(
one-cent  lamps to pay the cost of^ mall-
Pel1*1* cor,M*
sttpatlon. biliousness and headach*.