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The Medford Star.
and Tri-County Index.
Wood & Son, Pubs.
MEDFORD,
OKLA.
Mr. Barnes,
American
By
Archibald Clavering Gunter
A Sequel to
Mr. Barnes of New York
Author of "Mr. Biraei of New York,"
"Mr. Potter of
"That Frenchman." Etc.
Then as Anstruther lights another
match, a shriek rises to them: "The
husband of Marina, Madre di Dlo!"
new vigor seem to enter each nerve,
each limb.
It Is now quite late in the afternoon.
"Tomasso!" exclaims Edwin, add I Burton soon passes the chestnut lands
ing: "In God's name, where is my
wife?"
"Dlavolo, of course, you have come
here to find her. At the fork of the
Bastia road, I thought, the 'Luccliese'
•captured my mistress and myself and
forced us to drive toward the east.
Coming over the mountains, their lan-
guage told me they were not 'Luch-
chese,' but Corsicans. 1 would have
told Marina, but when I got out to
water the horses at the little fountain
up near Pietra, two of them struck me
insensible and 1 awoke and found my-
self here. But, Signore, I beg you to
note one thing. Your true wife and
my honored mistress believes she was
rescued from the 'Luccliese' by Clprl-
ano Danella, and she is grateful to
him. Get me to the light that I may
aid you." The old Corsican has faint
of La Castagnlecla, still finding a few
faded cyclamen blooms to guide him
on his way. Hut now a little shock
thrills him. He chccks his horse ab-
ruptly, springs off and picks up a
bunch of the wild flowers. As he rides
along examining it he ejaculates:
"This is very extraordinary. This
branch, which 1 supposed Marina drop-
ped out of the carriage yesterday, was
certainly cut, this very morning."
Suspicion flashes through him as he
questions: "Can these flowers have
been strewn in the road by Cipriaao'S
agents to lend someone on?" and what
had been no warning to the easy-going
sailor becomes a danger signal to the
man of the world.
Yet, twist it how he will, Barnes can
see no reason why Danella should
want anyone near him save Marina.
Copyright, 1007. Doad Mead & Co.. N. V.
SYNOPSIS.
Bnrton H. Barnes, a wealthy American
touring Corsica, rescues the young Kn«-
llsli lieutenant, Edward Gerard Anstrutli-
.•r, ami Ills Corsifan bride, Marina,
laughter of the Paolls, from the mur-
derous vendetta, understanding that his
reward is to be the hand of the girl he
loves, Enid Anstruther, sister of the Eng-
lish lieutenant. The four fly from Ajac-
rlo to Marseilles on hoard the French
steamer Cunstantlne. The vendetta pur-
sues and as the quartet are about to
board the train fur London at Marseilles.
Marina Is handed a mysterious note
which causes her to collapse and necessi-
tates a postponement of Hie journey.
Barnes and Enid are married. Soon
after their wedding Barnes- bride dis-
appears. BarncB 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. Bnrie'S is compelled to depart for
Corsica without delay, and so he leaves
the search for Marina to her husband
while lie goes to hunt for Enid. Just be-
fore Barnes' boat lands on Corsica's
shore Marina i* 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. AVhen Barnes and Marina arrive
in Corsica he is given a note written by
Enid informing him that the kidnaping
is for the purpose of entrapping Barnes
so the vendetta may kill him. Barnes
and Marina have unusual adventures in
tlicit* search for Enid. They conic in
sight of her and her c aptors in the Corsi-
ly staggered up; a moment later he is If the Corsican's passion for that
pulled from the vault by the strong | young lady is what he thinks it is, he
hands of Anstruther and the detective, will prefer a free hand to deal with
"This is old Tomasso Monaldi," says her alone. "And yet it is evident some-
Edwin shortly, "who was supposed to body wanted somebody to follow this
be killed." cyclamen trail, and whether somebody
"Holy smoke, the fellow who was i wants it or not, I am here anyway,"
believed dead and they vendettaed thinks the American grimly. "And
Barnes about!" thanks to the divine Orezza water, I
"Yes." I am rather fit for fighting." Then care-
But Tomasso's words make them fully examining his revolver, the pistol
feel they have little time to lose. Be-1 shot remarks: "And that's fit also,
sides, Emory Is always whispering
with white lips: "This tower is
mined!" Together they go up the
stairs, carefully examining every ori-
fice in the building, but find them all
loopholes too small to permit the exit
thank God."
With this, resolutely but more cir-
cumspectly, Mr. Barnes continues his
way over the path marked by the cyc-
lamen branches.
By the time he has come out on the
of a man." and the masonry too solid hills looking down toward the Tuscan
to be broken through in any ordinary sea, it is very dark. There is no moon
time, as the building is bare of tools yet, but the light from the lone watch
and weapons. tower attracts him. The cyclamen
"There Is nothing but to get out of j flowers he occasionally picks up make
the upper chamber," says Edwin. "I'm him know this is the road Anstruther
a sailor. With half a chance, a single must have traveled.
vine, with even the assistance of our | Suddenly, but quietly, he turns his
can i
ountain willis just :
i thi
clothes torn Into lengths, I can scram
ble down. Some way I'll do it."
They have reached the upper room.
Anstruther has thrown off his coat
and vest, kicked off his shoes and
taken off his stockings. Toes will
cling to the rough stonework better
than boots. He picks up the letter
and the concluding sentences seem to
make him crazy. He springs to the
window and a muttered oath parts his
white lips, for he encounters a grillage
horse from the path, and in the seclu-
sion of a thicket of wild grapes, lis-
tens. Some dozen men are coming
from the east; he hears one of them
growl: "Why, there's no 'Lucchese'
nearer than Pietra to fight, though the
count ordered every man about the
farm to go out and protect the vines
from them."
"Well, there's some good reason for
Maestro Cipriano's orders. Perchance
the Italian laborers in the Green Orez
„ . -eking shelter
storm the couple enter a hermitage and
there to their amazement they discover
Tomasso, the foster fatiier of Marina,
who was supposed to have been killed by
J>(. Belloc's soldiers, anil for whose death
Barnes had been vendettaed. Tomasso
learns that Marina's husband did not
kill her brother. Many wrongs are right-
ed. Barnes is surprised In the hermitage
bv Roehinl and Romano, the two detest-
ed bandits, who had been searching for
him to murder him for his money. The
bandits attempt to take away Marina.
Barn. • darts .. ' Hie ,l...-r. The bandits
start to pursue, but as they reach the
door both are laid low by Barnes' revol-
ver. Members of the Bellaeoscia enter
and Barnes is honored for his great serv-
ice ti. the community in killing the bated
Rochiill and Romano. The release of
Enid Is promised. Barnes is conveyed 111
triumph to Hi.coKiiano. Marina acquaints
the Bellaeoscia with Saliceti's plot
against her husband and the people are
instructed to vot* 'against, him at the
coming election. Barnes is taken to the
mansion of the Faults to meet fcnid.
Marina receives a telegram. She starts
for Bastia to meet her husband. Enter-
ing the room to greet ills wife Barnes is
bewildered to Anil (lie adventuress l.a
Hclle Blackwood, but not Enid. She had
been substituted for the American's bride
bv a shrewd plot. Lieut. Anstruther ar-
rives to And Marina and learns that she
lias been lured away by the telegram
which had been sent by another without
his knowledge. The two start in search of
Marina Barnes and I'd win take different
roads in tlieir search. Edwin is trapped
in a tower where lie is made prisoner. In
endeavoring to escape lie opens a trap
door where he finds Emory, the detec-
tive, who had been imprisoned there pre-
viously.
CHAPTER XVI.—Continued.
"Oh, hang it, what have they done
to you, smarty?" growls the detective
angrily. Then lie cries: "Glory halle-
luiah! Bully for you!" for Edwin has
run down the ladder and is busy try-
ing to unloosen the irons from the
American's legs.
"They've got keys somewhere,"
snarls Emory. "Hang it, think of their
cheek, manacling a detective."
Edwin is up the ladder again. He
strikes another match and on the
ground story finds, after some little de-
lay, a bunch of keys hanging on the
wall.
After some trouble with the locks,
which are rusty, Elijah's legs are re-
leased and he ascends with Edwin, his
jaws almost snapping with rage as he
tells his wrongs.
"1 was playing the fisherman at St.
Tropez," he says. "I had got onto
them, all right. I knew the head devil,
the elder man, Cipriano, when, li^- a
fool, I went on board of that big,
cursed fishing felucca to them, pre-
tending to want to get a job, thinkiug
I would find out what the devil they
were driving at. That was the end of
me. I hadn't more than got in the
forecastle than 1 was covered with two
long knives, and that scar-faced fel-
low said to me: 'The first time, you
were warned to keep out of this affair.
This is the second time—' They were
savage enough to kill me, but they
simply corded me up and threw me in
night ap- | 0f heavy iron so securely fastened on za quarry have risen up," adds an-
the outside that, it is impossible for
him to make exit.
But even as Edwin struggles with
,the grating, he utters a low cry, half
of longing, half of despair.
Upon the portico of the modern por-
tion of the farmhouse, pleasant with
vines and flowers, almost reclining in
a hammock is Marina. Robed in
white, the young wife looks like a
dream of love to her despairing hus-
band. Her face is Hushed, if not hap-
pily, at least excitedly. To her, speak-
ing—the distance is too great for Ed-
win to understand the words, but ap-
parently from the gestures they are
those of amity—is Count Cipriano Da-
nella, his eyes sparkling vivaciously,
his costume the romantic one of Cor-
sica.
CHAPTER XVII.
* Whiffs in the Air.
Some time after midday, Mr. Barnes,
in pursuit of Anstruther, reaches
Ponte-alla-Lecchia, where the people
are now crowding about the polling
house. He doesn't stop here ani con-
I tiuues rapidly on, notwithstanding the
sun is very hot, the dust is very heavy.
| As he climbs the high bills toward Mo-
rosaglia, he commences to find cycla-
| men flowers, quite faded now and hav-
ing but little perfume.
JOHNSON 111 SHILOH
MINNESOTA EXECUTIVE MAKES
NOTABLE ADDRESS.
QUESTION OFSTATE RIGHTS
other.
"Perhaps with the lady he wishes
not to be disturbed," giggles a third
"The count lias musicians in a boat oft
the shore
The men have no sooner passed
than Barnes starts quickly down the
road. The "lady," he guesses, means
either Marina or his own bride, though
of the last he has slight hope. A sub
dtted light from the town guides him
in the darkness.
But when he is within less than
hundred yards of the building, his
horse, with a sudden snort of terror,
draws up right in the path, crouching
on his haunches, and Barnes peering
over his steed's head, gazes Into the
deep chasm that descends sheer to the
very sea. Springing from his trem
bling horse, the American finds thai
the bridge, which is a light, swinging
one not over 35 feet in length, has
been swung to the other side.
The scent of a fresh cyclamen bloom
enters his nostrils. He looks at the
removed bridge and remarks a.cutely:
"It's evident Cipriano lias got on the
other side the person he wished to fol
low these flowers."
So Barnes gazes across the chasm
he cannot pass. The night being very
still, he hears over the soft murmut
of the waves beneath him the sweet'
romantic music of CorsiCa rising from
a boat. 'Tis the playing of stringed in
struments accompanying a sweet na
tive love song, each stanza ending in
that curious prolonged note peculiai
to these island ditties.
"What the deuce is that bizarre,
crafty devil's game?" wonders the
American. Then he hears voices from
the low Corsican house. Beyond the
crevices he sees Marina in white robe
amid the lights and flowers of the
veranda. Her sweet tones are scarce
audible. Then Danella's voice reaches
him faintly in the soft night air.
He begins to understand and mut-
ters: "Good God!"
After a little cry of lo\'e yet despair
rends the heavens from the tower. It
is Anstruther's. 'Tis mingled with a
woman's shriek for mercy. "My hus-
band!" in Marina's voice.
Next.Barnes hears Cipriano's suave,
triumphant laugh, and he mutters:
"My God, for a pistol it's a fearfully
long shot, but it's the only way!"
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
This Glorious Orezza Water Will
Make You a New Man.
"By Jove," he remarks, "1 gave Ed-
win the right path. I should have
turned back and followed him las',
nifljit, not to-day."
This makes him hurry all the more,
the hold, and oh, what a time I had as | an(j j,js js quite exhausted when
their infernal vessel dashed about the j hc, descends the hill past the convent
Mediterranean after you. When they i an(1 pauses at the little inn near the
gave up chasing you they stopped J (funous water of Orezza.
here and put me away carefully in -phe American has heard of their
that hole down there. I curjous powers, and asks for some, as
Suddenly he cries: "What are you he gazes languidly on the communal
doing?" for Edwin has his hands in an ' of the little village, around whi^h the
iron ring and is trying to pull up an- j mPn are sljn clustering.
other trap door in the flooring. rpjle j,eat ji£a j,een tremendous; his
"I want tools by which we can break speed has been quite great; the hills
enough masonry from one of these have been precipitous. Barnes' face is
embrasures to get out!" says the I agajn covered with lines of fatigue,
sailor. "This glorious Orezza water will
But pulling up the trap door, both he make you a new man." chats the land-
and the American gaze astounded into i lord pleasantly; and never had the
the other vault. wondrous youth-giving chalybeate a
Two red flaming eyes encounter j better patient to work upon, for as the
theirs. "If you come to kill me. I'll die effervescent fluid, cold from the
like a Corsican, my teeth in your springs of the mountain, flies down
throat!" cries a low, hoarse voice. ' tic American's throat, new power,
Where Mark Twain Had Gone.
When Mark Twain was working
hard on one of his earlier books that
brought him fame he sailed for Eu-
rope with his family. He kept up his
writing on shipboard, leaving it only
for brief recreations. One day an ap-
proaching storm drove him to the
cabin, and as he retired to work he
left word with his daughter, then a
very little girl, to explain his absence.
"If they ask for me," he said to her,
j "say that 1 won't be long; I have only
gone to write an anecdote." A little
later a passenger accosted the child:
"Where has your father gone?" "He
won't be gone long " lisped the cnild;
"be'th only going to ride a naflny-
i goat."
The Glow of Glory.
We are all influenced by a desire of
praise, and the best men ~re the most
especially attracted by glory. Those
very philosophers, even in the books
which they write ab9ut despising
glory, put their own names on the ti-
tle-page. iu the very act of recording
their contempt for renown and noto-
r'ety, they desire to have their own
ppnips known and talked of.—Cicero.
Does Not Approve of Commonwealths
Being Made Subservient to In-
ferior Federal Court*—Would
Uphold Constitution.
Gov. John A. Johnson of Minnesota
delivered at the dedication of the Min-
nesota monument on Shiloh battle-
field, April 10, an address that will
rank as one of the ablest public de-
liverances of recent times. Spoken
on a battlefield that may be taken as
the symbol of the great war for the
union, the governor took occasion to
tell of the peril that threatens our fed-
eral form of governmen. This peril
was emphasized by the recent deci-
sion of the supreme court in the rail-
way cases going up from Minnesota
and North Carolina, which practi-
cally makes the state governments
subservient to the inferior federal
courts. The significance of these de-
cisions is widely understood, and they
have given rise to a general discus-
sion of the question of the rights of
the states, and Gov. Johnson's speech
will rank as an important contribu-
tion to that discussion. The dedica-
tory address in part follows:
Representing the people of the com-
monwealth of Minnesota, we are as-
sembled on one of the historic battle-
fields of the civil war to pay our trib-
ute of respect and affection to the
memory of the sons of Minnesota
who here yielded up their lives that
this might continue to be a united na-
tion. Their sacrifice was not for per-
sonal gain, but was in response to
duty, and a contribution to the civ-
ilization of the age, and for the pur-
pose of perpetuating the institution of
human liberty.
I appreciate that nothing which I
can say will add to or detract from
the glory of their achievement, which
in itself is an enduring monument to
the patriotism and heroism of the
American soldier. Their sacrifice,
however, was not different from that
which has been made throughout all
of the ages by those lovers of liberty
who believe in a government which
might give to all the people the right
to life, liberty and property. The
love of liberty was not born in this
country of ours; it was cradled along
the Danube and about the shores of
the Baltic, even when Rome had
reached the limit of her imperial
grandeur. Increasing in t*tensity
with the passing of the centuries, it
found its highest expression in the
older countries in the great English
charter of civil rights, which forever
guaranteed to the people of that land
immunity from the despotism of those
who cjalmed to rule by virtue of Di-
vine right.
One hundred and thirty-two years
ago the great contest of humanity was
transferred from the old world to the
new, and here, because of the isola-
tion of this country, because of the
high character of the man who es-
poused the cause of liberty, and be-
cause of the signal victory achieved
by them in that struggle, an opportu-
nity was afforded to crystallize into
written law the aspirations of the pa-
triots of all the ages. The men who
built the foundations of this govern-
ment were those who had submitted
to the supreme test of patriotism, for
those who inspired the constitution of
the United States were the same who
had pledged their lives, their proper-
ties and their sacred honor to the
cause of independence.
While the primary object of a writ
ten constitution is to define govern-
mental powers, and to limit govern-
mental departments, the overwhelm-
ing necessity for such an instrument
is to prevent insidious encroachments
upon the rights of the individual citi-
zen, both from those in oflice and
from those who by reason of their
wealth and power have an influence
far greater than that possessed by the
average citizen. And so the constitu-
tion of the United States was regarded
by its framers as an instrument of the
most sacred import, an alteration of
which could only be made by the peo-
ple themselves in whom all ultimate
power is vested, and then only after
the fullest discussion and widest pub-
licity.
Under the beneficent government so
established the nation has prospered
and the people are happy. One great
cloud came upon the nation in the
form of an awful civil war, in which
two sections of the country were in
conflict with each other. The heroes
who rest here gave their lives that
this nation might be maintained as it
came from our forefathers. On another
battlefield of that war, Abraham Lin-
coln said: "It is for us, the living,
rather, to be .dedicated to the un
finished work they have thus far so
nobly carried on. It is rather for us
to be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us; that from these
honored dead we take increased devo-
tion for that cause for which they here
gave the last full measure of devotion;
that we highly resolve that these dead
shall not have died in vain; that the
nation shall, under God. have a new
birth of freedom, and that the govern-
ment of the people, by the people, for
the people, shall not perish from the
earth."
Our concorn is not of the past, nor
wholly with the present, but much
with the future. If the destiny of the
republic is in the hands of the Amer-
ican of to-day, then It becomes him to
be guided and governed only by patri-
otic impulse and the desire to do that
which will most largely contribute to
the permanency of republican Institu-
tions. Advancing our civilization bc
that we will not. by recognizing the
false claims of selfish Interests, and
forgetting the American maxim that
our object should be to attain the
greatest good for the greatest number,
incur the penalty which other people
have paid, rather let us hold ever in
mind that those who framed our gov-
ernment believed In the equality of
the people and that the chief aim of
government Is to maintain that
equality.
Under our system of government
the nation has reached a material de-
velopment hitherto unknown. The
people have prospered beyond the
dreams of those who lived a century
ago. But with the development of the
country and changes in economic con-
ditions, and particularly with the
growth of great private corporations,
performing many of the functions of
government, has come the necessity
for the exercise of strict governmental
control, and a rigid enforcement of all
the laws enacted to restrain the rich
and powerful from encroaching upon
the natural and legal rights of the
poor and weak.
The constitution of the ancient re-
public of Rome, which for 500 years
had recognized the voice of the people
as supreme, was expanded by execu-
tive interpretation and contracted by
executive administration, until Rome
had so completely outgrown its demo-
cratic conditions as to become only
a tragedy and a tradition. Let us im-
plore the aid of Him on high to pre-
serve us from the errors which ruined
Rome, by the avoidance of which
America may travel on to that destiny
and realize that fulfillment which will
be the inspiration of right-thluklng
men of all ages yet to come.
Our government is divided into
three separate and distinct co-ordi-
nate branches: the legislative, the
executive and the judicial. Danger
will surely come to this republic when
any of these departments of govern-
ment attempt in the slightest degree
to usurp the functions of the other.
And while now and then it may be
that a court of the land, in construing
the constitution, may nullify a section
of it, I have the faith to feel that the peo-
ple of the country will rise above the
fallibility of judicial tribunals and
assert and preserve their own rights.
Our duty it not to criticise the execu-
tive, the legislature or the judiciary.
Very recently there has come from
the highest judicial tribunal in the
land a decision of vital Interest and
concern to the American people, be-
cause it has established a principle,
as stated by one member of the court,
which "would work a radical change
in our governmental system and would
inaugurate a new era in the Ameri-
can judicial system and in the rela-
tions of the national and state gov-
ernments. It would enable the subor-
dinate federal courts to supervise and
control the official action of the states
us (hough they were dependencies or
provinces. It would place the states
of the union in a condition of infer-
iority never dreamed of vhen the con-
stitution was adopted or when the
eleventh amendment was made a part
of the supreme law of the land." If
this is the result of this decision, It
is, to my mind, one of the unhappy
Incidents in the history of our repub-
lic, because the very theory of our
government Is based upon the right of
the states to control absolutely their
own domestic affairs.
y, then, our whole system of gov-
ernment is changed, have we not only
retarded the progress of the republic,
but have we not gone back a century
toward a centralized form of gov-
ernment which is not to the advan-
tage of the people?' What this gov-
ernment needs is not more power.
What it needs to-day is to so dis-
tribute the privileges under the gov-
ernment that all citizens will have
equal opportunity. America has been
called the land of opportunity. But
American opportunity should not
mean a granting of special privileges
to any class, but should afford all alike
the means for culture, education, pros-
perity and contentment.
For nearly a century and a half
America has presented to the world
the spectacle of a happy, prosperous
and intelligent people, maintaining a
pure democracy founded upon their
supreme will. The hallmark of a de-
mocracy is that the powers of gov-
ernment are close to the people.
Throughout the world, wherever de-
mocracy is advancing, its progress Is
marked by a greater measure of self-
government to each community. Will
the American people turn to the set-
ting rather than the rising sun? Shall
we now, because some laws are found
irksome by a class and interfere with
their selfish aims, commence to de-
prive our sovereign states of that
measure of home rule which until now
they have seen fit to reserve to them-
selves? I cannot believe it. Upon
the contrary I believe that the limita-
tions upon state and federal govern-
ments, the nice balancing of the pow-
ers of each, and of the different de-
partments in each, which have been
so efficacious in the past, will be
maintained in their full vigor in the
future.
Therefore, discharging al> of our
responsibilities as citizens of a coun-
try, refusing to surrender our rights
of citizenship in any degree, let us so
live that the heroism exemplified on
this and other American battlefield
may not be simply a tradition, and
the national wisdom of our forefa-
thers a mere legend, but that through
us and those to come America will
reach her full destiny in the perma-
nent establishment of a perfect union,
which shall be not for to-day nor for
to-morrow, but forever, and be so es-
tablished that it will be for all of
the people, and that their government
shall not perish.
Truth and
Quality
appeal to tho Well-informed in every
walk of life and are essent ial to permanent
success and creditable standing. Accor-
ingly, it is not claimed that Syrup of I'igf
and Elixir of Senna is the only remedy of
known value, but one of many reasons
why it is the best of personal and famil)
laxatives is the fact that it cleanses,
sweetens and relieves tho internal organs
on which it acts without any debilitating
after effects and without having to increase
tho quantity from time to time.
It acts pleasantly and naturally anc
truly as a laxative, and its component
parts are known to and approved by
physicians, as it is free from all objection-
able substances. To get its beneficial
effects always purchase the genuine-
manufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co., only, and for sale by all leading drug-
ONE LESSON WHOLLY WASTED.
Little Surprise Planned by Billiger
McSwat Not a Success.
"Lobelia," asked Mr. McSwat, who
was rummaging in one of the closets,
"have you done anything with that
old coat of mine that used to hang on
the last hook in here?"
"Yes," answered Mrs. McSwat "I
gave it to the Volunteers."
"You did, did you?" Well, you'll
be sorry to learn, perhaps, that there
was a five-dollar bill in it which 1
was going to give you if I found that
coat undisturbed at the beginning of
March."
"O, I think not, Billiger. I searched
it thoroughly before I gave it away."
"You're a pretty smart woman,
Lobelia, but it didn't occur to you to
look inside the lining."
"0, yes, it did, and I found the five-
dollar bill. I spent it for the rubber
plant in the front parlor that you have
admired so much and wondered how
I managed to buy out of my allowance.
You're a pretty smart man, Billiger.
but there are times when you don't
look the part."
There being no further business be-
fore the house, Mr. McSwat adjourned
without form.
Recommended His Wife.
• Trvin Cobb, humorist of New York,
was recommended to a lecture man-
agement. The latter sought an intro-
duction through a friend, Mr. McVeigh.
"Come here, Irvin, I want you to
meet a friend of mine," said McVeigh.
After a few minutes' conversation, the
lecture man broached the subject of
lecturing as follows:
"I was just wondering, Mr. Cobb,
what you would think of a proposition
to do some lecture work next sea-
son?"
Cobb looked at his questioner for
just a moment in blank amazement.
Evidently such a thought had never
entered his head before. Then reach-
ing out his hand confidentially, he
said:
"I've got it. My wife will do it. She
Is the best one I know."—Lyceum and
Talent.
THE MEAN MAN.
"I believe," his wife angrily de-
clared, "that if I were dead you
would be married again inside of a
year."
"Oh, no," the mean man replied,
"you are mistaken. Try me and I'll
prove it."
LOST $300.
Buying Medicine When Right Food
Was Needed.
Money spent for "tonics" and "brac-
ers" to relieve indigestion, while the .
poor old stomach is loaded with pas- i
try and pork, is worse than losing a
pocketbook containing the money.
If the money only is lost it's bad
enough, but with lost health from
wrong eating, it is hard to make the
money back.
A Mich, young lady lost money on
drugs but is thankful she found a
way to get back her health by proper i
food. She writes:
"I had been a victim of nervous dys- |
pepsia for six years and spent three j
hundred dollars for treatment in the j
attempt to get well. None of it did j
me any good.
"Finally I tried Grape-Nuts food,
and the results were such that, if it
coat a dollar a package, I would not 1
be without it. My trouble had been
caused by eating rich food such as
pastry and pork.
"The most wonderful thing that
ever happened to me, I am sure, was
the change in my condition after I
began to eat Grape-Nuts. I began to
improve at once and the first week
gained four pounds.
"I feel that I cannot express my-
self in terms that are worthy of the
benefit Grape-Nuts has brought to
me. and you are perfectly free to
publish this letter if it will send some
poor snfferer relief, such as has come
to me."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle I
Creek, Mich. Read, "The Road to Wellv
ville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason."
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