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RAR ALAAZZALZ > > > >> > > > > CHAPTER III.—Continued. “It’s not a little bit nice of ‘you,” young Hayter of the Woods and For- ests murmuring to her at this very moment. “You might have stayed out this cold weather anyway. What is the Badminton going to do, and the dramatic society? We shan’t have the heart even to get up a picnic.” Ursula laughed. She was a very pretty girl, of the healthy, happy Eng- lish type—a type hard to beat. Eng- lishmen would tell you. She looked up at him with clear blue eyes that had a dancing light in them. “I hay- en’t a doubt the Badminton will flour- ish, and the plays will go as well as they always do. You can’t make me suppose I am indispensable.” “But why, why should you go?” He thought he had lowered‘ his tone sen- timentally to a pitch that precluded other listeners, but Colonel Hamilton overheard and answered. “Well, you see, the fact is I’m ex- pecting my promotion within the year, and I’ve laid my plans to get leave first and see a little bit of the home country before I take up my march abroad again. I want my girl to go home first and be there to welcome me. She’s got a lot of cousins and the like who are all calling out for a visit from her, and if she doesn’t get home and pay them off before I come I sha’n’t have a sight of her while I’m there. Selfish, like all parents. Is that what you're thinking, eh, Kennett? Say it out, man; I'll forgive you.” And Colonel Hamilton’s hearty laugh rang through the open windows. Outside the blue-black sky was as full of shining stars as it could hold. The tropical night breathed its rich and heavy sweetness. The faint clam- our of tom-tom and gong came from the native quarter, and the weird, distant yelp of a jackal greeted the it sailed out from a-mist of moon scattered palms and took the sky with its stately presence. Colonel Hamil- ton looked at his daughter, and she smiled and rose in answer to his look. He got up with her. We'll all take our coffee on the eh? There are no ladies to- ada ht to withdraw with Ursa.” He ed his arm through that of his and they all went together out > veranda, most another room, with lamps and its hammocks, » wicker chairs and couches. on the table, and the papers and Ursul: work basket. Everyone dropped y into the nearest and most comfortable seat; cigarettes were passed about, and the boy came with a silver tray of coffee. Ursula was too used, in her capacity of hostess, the only lady to be in the cious of it. She had been of her father’s house since me out*to India from school five years ago. He and she were quite content with each other’s companion- ship, and she had lost her mother.too early in life to have felt much need of her. “Your regiment won the cricket match to-day, didn’t it?” asked the Woods and Forests man of one of the Daleshire subalterns who was present. “I didn’t get back from my shoot in time to see the finish. Good score, eh? I think it was expected.” “Moderately. Not so good as it ought to have been. The fellow who pulled us through made the only good score of the day; he carried us out on his bat, in point of fact.” “What fellow was that—Bullen?” “Oh, no. A chap called Baverstock —a Tommy in my company. He's about the best cricketer we have in the regiment; in fact, he could do most things well, if he wasn’t such a fool of a fellow.” “A fool, and yet make the score of the day! Oh, come! I don’t believe that!” “I don’t mean he’s a fool at cricket, or at anything else, for that matter. He’s as clever a chap as there is in to brin the regiment, if he’d only give himself | a chance. But he’s just one of those chaps that set the whole company by the ears and demoralize it. He's al- ways in trouble—always fighting, or unruly, or breaking regulations—he spends half his time in the guard room, I vow he does; and there’s no doing anything with him.” “That kind of soldier is hopeless,” broke in a captain of the East Anglia, who was listening. “You'll never make anything of him, and he simply ruins discipline among the others. Better get rid of him somehow, that’s my advice to you.” “He makes you want to hit him,” said Mr. Tasker, who was a subaltern honestly and painstakingly devoted to his work and anxious to do his best in it. “I can stand an ass, and I can put up with a fellow who wants a heavy hand on him, and I know how to treat a scrimshanker; but a chap like this, who constantly gets into hot water and doesn’t care twopence, who seems to have no sense of shame about him, and is just the very imp of mis- chief in most ways—if it wasn’t that he can bring the regiment safe through any cricket match if he chooses I'd ask the colonel to ship him off to the other battalion, and think it a blessed riddance.” “Let me see—have I seen him play? Do I know him?” “Oh, you must! He plays for our Captain’s Double By LILLIAS CAMPBELL DAVIDSON 300d ddddcdbbobbb oo CObOe side whenever we can be sure he won't be in the cells. A tall, good-looking chap, with darkish hair and moustache and broad shoulders. Looks like a gentleman.” “Yes, yes; I know the man you mean. I’ve noticed him. “Curious look of his, as you say. He’s not a gentle- man ranker by any chance?” “Lord, no! not a bit of it. Ranker pure and simple, without the gentle- man. Good blood somewhere, though, I shouldn’t wonder. Should you, sir?” “Strain of it. Not a doubt, I should say. Odd, in my experience, that dash makes th every worst material to han- die. Give me a man either from’ the upper class or from the lower, and you can do what you like with him. Mix ’em, and you ruin both articles.” “Dear me! This seems a very in- teresting person,” said Miss Hamilton. “Do I know him, by any chance, dad- dy?” “I don’t suppose you ever picked him out from the rank and file, my little Bear. And you never go to see crick- et matches if you can help it. You'd know him again—Baverstock—if you once saw him. A handsome fellow, well set up. You can admire his per- sonal appearance, if you don’t know any more of him.” The captain of the East Anglia laughed sympathetically.’ “You see too much of him in connection with punishment sheets, I expect, sir.” His host rubbed his head with a rueful hand, and nodded. “So much, that I’ve sworn the very next dime he does anything outrageous he shall be made an example of. He’s got a tem- per like powder and matches, and a lie is his meat and drink—not that that’s exceptional. But it’s his clev- erness that’s the worst of him; it’s that that makes him so mortal dan- gerous. Crafty as a jackal, dangerous as a mad dog, there you have him.” Ursula’s face looked serious, as she played with the flower she had pulled from her waistband. “Yet, I suppose, the things that are his very worst might have been his best, if he had had other chances. That always seems so strange in life— so pitiful. It makes one wonder——” She stopped, and her father put out his big hand and patted her small white one. “There, there, don’t bother your dear little head with moralizing. You and I, and any of us, can’t alter life as it stands, you may be quite certain. The fellow might have been an orna- ment to society if he’d been born into a God-fearing family, no doubt—taught right and wrong; licked for telling a lie; made to understand what the world expects of him. Instead, he was born in a gutter and brought up there—taught to serve his own inter- ests at any cost, and nobody else’s. The strain of good blood we ascribe to him is just enough to make him idle and discontented, and too clever for his position. There’s no putting that kind of thing right in any other way than by making him over again.” “I wonder if anyone has tried to in- fluence him?” It was Ursula who spoke again. The men about her ex- changed secret, slightly amused glan- ces. They thought it sweet and wom- anly and charming of her to be bother- ing herself over the lot and the des- tiny of a Tommy she had never even seen cover his regiment with cricket- ing glory. But they also thought that women’s ways would somewhat over- turn the world if once they got the upper hand in it. “Influence him?” Her father laughed again and regarded her fondly. “He’s been influenced with the cell and with punishment drill till he must be pretty sick of them. We shall have to influ- ence him with the ‘cat’ if we mean to make any lasting impression.” Ursula shook the hand that still held hers reprovingly. “Don’t say horrid, heartless things that you don’t mean, daddy. You know I never allow you to be flippant —I object to it. I only wandered if anyone had ever tried to make him feel he had a friend in tht world, where everybody's hand seems against him.” “T’ve talked to him like a father!” cried young Tasker, “and so has Va- sey.” He was eager to commend him- self to her good opinion. “It isn’t as much use as it would be talking to a brick wall, for all one can see.” “Oh, come, Tasker!” remonstrated his brother Me capes a boy named Quinton, who had not yet spoken. “Don’t you remember it was that fel- low who ran five miles to take your place for you in a regimental match when you had fever?” Mr. Tasker looked somewhat taken aback at the reminder. “Well, he did that—so he did.- But I don’t know that it showed he had taken much good from my wiggings.” “He wouldn’t have done it for any- one he didn’t have a liking for. If it had been that sergeant of yours he’d have let him hang first.” “Yes, I believe he’d knife Herriot if he had the chance.” ‘ “At all events, Herriot has scored off him at last,” said Colonel Hamil- ton, reaching out his hand for another cigarette. “That next time I’ve talked: of has come at last,.and the public ex- ample is to follow. Herriot has re- ported Baverstock to me today for abandonment of duty. He was on Papa—An acquittal, I should gentleman as he came back, as jaun- tily as if he were just off to a picnic. He ‘refused to give a word of excuse or explanation. I hope there’s no im- portant cricket fixture on for the next week, Tasker, for the bat of the regi- ment will-be doing defaulter’s drill in the sight of the barracks.” CHAPTER IV. A Special Pleader. “I say!’ ‘exclaimed Mr. Tasker. Col. Hamilton smiled rather grimly. “You will be able to see the hero of this evening’s conversation, Ursa, after all. He'll have a special interest for you after this, most likely. You’re com- ing to breakfast at the mess to-morrow with the ladies’ part. Well, you'll only have to look out of the messroom win- dow to see the disgraced and degraded defaulter (rather tellingly put, that, eh?) doing punishment drill for the ladies of the station to look at.” Ursula’s face flushed crimson. “Dad- dy, it sounds like a gladiator’s show in -old Rome,” she said. “It is horrible! Do, do let the poor man off such an exhibition. I know if I had done any- thing wrong and felt my punishment was being seen by the whole station it would drive me into wanting to mur- der the man who had brought it on me. Don’t be so cruel; it isn’t like you.” “Eh? What?” Col. Hamilton was slightly startled by her sudden attack. He had thought his idea rather a good one. If Baverstock had earned the ut- most severity of barrack law, it was only fit that évery additional effect should be given to it. “I said he should be made an example of, and so he ought to be.” “Not in that way. I don’t believe in covering people with public shame. It’s a relic of the pillory and the stocks, and quite unworthy of a nineteenth- century enlightenment. Dear daddy, do let it be something less severe— something that won’t enrage a man so dreadfully!” Her father looked at her with a quaint helplessness. “Did anybody ever hear the like?” he demanded. “Am I commanding this battalion in the absence of my superior officer, or am I not? Will anybody tell me?” “Your one commanding officer is shooting big game in Travancore,” said his daughter, charmingly. “But the other one is here, and she insists that you obey her.” There was a faint clap and applause from the subalterns. “Upon my soul,” said Col. Hamilton, with mock indignation, “I'll tell Ath- erton when he comes back that he’d better hand the regiment over to you. You seem to have taken the head of it.” “Daddy, dead daddy, I’m going to Eng- land so soon, I shall have so few chances to ask you any favors.” “The mischief is in a girl when she wants her own way and means to have it,” groaned the colonel. (To Be Continued.) As to Health. The young scholar who wrote the following essay on “Health” was in the third class of a London board school: “Health means feeling all right and able to work and like your meals. If everybody lived in good health until they died the doctors would not get a living. I have never been ill and I never felt any pain except smacking, which doctors don’t count. “The teacher says as the best way to keep healthy is to keep clean, and to keep your feet warm; and she al- so told that poytry to us, Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise. “When I said that poytry to my father he said he knew it before either me or the school board, but he said as he didn’t believe in it for all that. He said as he was forced to be up early and forced to be healthy, too, else he would get the sack; and that it was them who.laid in bed and cote the 10 o’clock trains who was the wisest and the best off.” Knew a Little About Floods. A man, wishing admittance to heav- en, knocked at the celestial port. St. Peter responded and demanded cre- dentials. ‘ “Oh,” said the applicant. “I am Mr. Johnstown, of Johnstown flood fame.” He was admitted, and in a few days St. Peter met Mr. Johnstown again and asked. him how he liked heaven and his neighbors. “All but the old party with the long, white beard. Whenever I tell about the Johnstown flood he always says, ‘Oh, rats!” St. Peter smiled. “The bearded man,” he said, “is Noah.” A Useful Hen. A New York boy learned many things during a visit to the country. Everything on the farm was new to ‘| the little fellow, and he especially de- lighted the live stock. When he found out that hens made eggs he was anx- ious to see one of them at work. Being a patient waiter, his desire was finally gratified. Proudly seizing the product of the cackling fowl, he marched into the house with his prize. “Let me have it,” said his aunt, “and we will cook it for your dinner. “Oh, ’taint necessary,” replied the boy. “The hen cooked it. It’s still warm.” : Sure. Daughter (looking up from her nov- el)—Papa, in time of trial, what do you suppose brings the most comfort to a man ei think. Severe Congestion of the Kidneys Soon Cured by Doan’s Kidney Pills. Richard M. Pearce, a prominent business man of 231 So. Orange St., Newark, N. J., says: “Working nights during bad weather brought on a heavy cold, aching of the limbs and pain in the back and kidneys. Severe congestion of the kidneys followed. Besides the terrific aching there were whirling headaches, and I became exceed- ingly weak. My doc- tor could not help me, and I turned to Doan’s Kidney Pills, with the re- sult that the kidney congestion dis- appeared and, with it, all the other symptoms. What is more, the cure has lasted for eight years.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Didn’t Make Good. Tess—Don’t you think Mr. Galley is awfully handsome? Jess—Huh! “Handsome is as hand- some does.” He told me last evening that he was going to kiss me before he left. Tess—The idea! dignant? Jess—I should say I was. When a man promises anything he ought to keep his word. Weren't you in- The Curse of Shiftlessness. Whether shiftnessness is a vice that is incurable or a habit that can be overcome, it is, anyhow, a condition that perplexes and irritates relieving officials. Shiftlessness is paying one’s last 50 cents for a circus ticket with- out learning where to-morrow’s break- fast is coming from. It is a refusal to repair the leak in the roof when the sun shines. It is killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. It takes no thought of the sorrow. It never lays up anything for a rainy day. It always ignores opportunities. It prefers to rely on neighborhood bounty to hustling for itself. It won’t work except under the pressure of necessity. It never gets ahead. Not Going to Roll ’Em Home. A newsbpy walked into a drug store and said to the clerk: “Gimme a half- dozen quinine pills.” The clerk thought he. would have a little fun with him and said: “Do you want them in a box?” , The newsboy replied: “Aw, what you think, I’m goin’ to roll ’em home?” Right. Irate Wife—I want to know, sir, what time it was when you got home last night! Husband (meekly)—A quarter of twelve, my -dear. Irate Wife—Twelve nothing! clock had just struck three and—” Husband (triumphantly) — Well, ain’t that a quarter of twelve?—Judge. The | ” Tough. "That steak looks pretty thin to me,” observed the customer, who was watching the butcher cut it off. “Wait till you bite into it,” said the butcher, “and you'll think it’s thick enough!” In a Pinch, Use ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE. A powder. It cures painful, smart- ing, nervous feet and ingrowingnails. It’s the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Makes new shoes easy. A certain cure for sweating feet. Sold by all druggists, 25c. Trial package, FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Would Buy Aerial Cruisers. The right of the minister of war to buy aerial cruisers is questioned by the London Daily News, though it ad- mits that they are not within the prov- ince of the admiralty, either. It sug- gests the establishment of a new de- partment, the aerialty. A Spring Suggestion! Take Garfield Tea in the morning or be- fore retiring; its use insures pure blood and a natural action of the liver, kidneys, stomach and bowels. It has a beneficial effect on the entire system. It is made of Herbs. Great political reforms are set in motion by the hand that rocks the cradle. FITS permanent cares. Bo ntsor nervousness after Se. 8° Keiuen beds ott arch Sorect, Philadelphia, Pa Tongue Twisters. Some elocutionist has made a col- lection of more than two hundred “tongue-twisters.” “A growing gleam glowing green.” “The bleak breeze blighted the bright broom blossoms.” “Flesh of freshly dried flying fish.” “Six thick thistle sticks.” “Two toads tried to trot to Ted- bury.” i “Give Grimes Jim’s great gilt gig whip.” \ “Strict, strong Stephen Stringer snared slickly six sickly silky snakes.” “She stood at the door of Mrs. Smith’s fish sauce shop welcoming him in.” The first three are the gems of the collection. It is said to be impossible for any one to repeat them rapidly. Latest Fad. Gritty George—Lady, would yer mind writing off a list of all de things in dis cold meal on a slip of paper. The Lady (in surprise)—What for, my poor man? Gritty George—Well, yer see, mum, I am collectin’ menus along me trav- els an’ every one helps. A Real Old Actor. Jenks—Your father was an actor, you say? Bragg—Certainly; Bragg, the trage- dian, you know. Jenks—Funny I never heard of him. He played Hamlet, of course. Peruna is Exempt. , The internal revenue commiasion- er has decided that Pe-ru-na as now manufactured is exempt from internal revenue license. The highest medical and pharma- ceutical authorities in the United States have passed upon the product. It must be highly gratifying to the many friends of Pe-Tu-na and the local commercial world that the product which has carried Columbus’ name into all continents, again: enjoys the same fixed status as any other recog- nized medicine—Columbus Dispatch. King‘s Sporting Record. Few people are aware that there are hardly any wild beasts that come within the sportsman’s category that have not fallen to King Edward's rifle. But he has never shot a hyena, though when in Egypt, many years ago, he re- mained up all night on more than one occasion to kill a specimen. STATE OF OBIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, | gg Lucas County. . Frank J. CuzNeY makes oath that he is sentor artner of the firm of F. J. Cagney & Co., doing usiness in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that sald firm will pay the sum of ONE H RED DOLLARS for each and every case of CATARRM that cannot be cured by the use of Hat's Caranru Curse. FRANK J. CHENEY- Sworn to before me and subscribed in ny pres ence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. Vial A.W. GLEASON, SEAL z Notary Pusuic. Hall's Catarrh Cure {s taken internally and acts directly on the bloud and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for test!montals, free. ¥F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pilis for constipation. Presence of Mind. The audience was at the bated breath period. Suddenly was heard an ominous crackling. Incipient panic reared its horrid head. At this instant the heroine advanced to the edge of the stage and glanced toward the gallery. * “If youse fellows can’t eat peanuts quietly,” she said, “you'd better buy *em already shucked.” Only a few words, but the press agent is authority for the statement that they did the business. Proof to the Contrary. “No,” she said, as she glanced down the column of marriage notices, “it cannot be true that marriage is a lot- tery.” ” “And why not?” queried the young in the parlor scene. “Because,” she replied, pointing to the column in question, “there is a law prohibiting the advertising of lotteries, and just look at this.” Racket Maker. “Johnny,” called the mother, stern- ly, “what is all that noise in the base- ment?” “Why, mamma,” replied Johnny, blandly, “I am playing President Roosevelt and chasing bears.” “Well, it occurs to me you are play- ing President Castro and need a spank- ing.” . The Coffee Debate. The published statements of a num- ber of coffeeimporters and roasters indicate a “waspy” feeling towards us for daring to say that coffee is harm- ful to a percentage of the people. A frank public discussion of the sub- ject is quite agreeable to us and can certainly do no harm; on the contrary when all the facts on both sides of any question are spread before the people they can thereupon decide and act in- telligently. will take care of themselves. We demand facts in this coffee dis- cussion and propose to see that the facts are brought clearly before the people. A number of coffee importers and roasters have joined a movement to boom coffee and stop the use of Pos- tum Food Coffee and in their newspa- per statements undertake to deceive by false assertions. Their first is that coffee is not harm- fu. We assert that one in every three coffee users has some form of incipi- once eee eee ent or cbronic disease; realize for one a moment what a terrible menace to a nation of civilized people, when one kind of beverage cripples the energies and health of one-third the people who use it. We make the assertion advisedly and suggest that the reader secure his own proof by personal inquiry among coffee users. Ask your coffee drinking friends if they keep free from any sort of aches and ails. You will be startled at the percentage and will very naturally seek to place the cause of disorder on something aside from coffee, whether food, inherited tendencies or some- thing else. Go deever in your search for facts. If your friend admits occasional neu- ralgia, rheumatism, heart weakness, stomach or bowel trouble, kidney com- plaint, weak eyes or approaching nerv- ‘ous prostration induce him or her to make the experiment of leaving off coffee for 10 days and using Postum Food Coffee,and observe the result. It will startle you and give your friend something to think of. Of course, if the person’ is one of the weak ones and says “I can’t quit” you will have discovered one of the slaves of the cof- fee importer. Treat such kindly, for they seem absolutely powerless to stop the gradual but sure destruction of body and health. Nature has a way of destroying a part of the people to make room for the stronger. It is the old law of “the survival of the fittest” at work, and the victims are many. We repeat the assertion that coffee does harm many people, not all, but an army large enough to appal the in- vestigator and searcher for facts. The next prevarication of the coffee importers and roasters is their state- ment that Postum Food Coffee is made of roasted peas, beans or corn, and mixed with a low grade of ‘coffee and that it contains no nourishment. We have previously offered*to wager $100,000.00 with them that their state- ments are absolutely false. They have not accepted our wager and they will not. We will gladly make a present of $25,000.00 to any roaster or importer of old-fashioned coffee who will accept that wager. Free inspection of our factories and methods is made by thousands of peo- ple each month and the coffee import- ers themselves are cordially invited. Both Postum and Grape-Nuts are abso- lutely pure and made exactly as stated. The formula of Postum and the an- alysis made by one of the foremost chemists of Boston has been printed on every package for many years and is absolutely accurate. 7 Now as to the food value of Postum. It contains the parts of the wheat ber- ry which carry the elemental salts, such as lime, iron, potash, silica, etc., etc., used by the life forces to rebuild the cellular tissue, and this is particu- larly true of the phosphate of potash, also found in Graps-Nuts, which com- bines in the human body with albu- men and this combination, together with water, rebuilds the worn-out gray matter in the delicate nerve centers all over the body and throughout the prain and solar plexus. Ordinary. coffee stimulates in an un- natural way, but with many people it slowly and surely destroys and does not rebuild this gray substance so vitally important to the well being of every human being. These are eternal facts, proven, well authenticated and known to every properly educated physician, chemist and food expert. Please remember we never say or- dinary coffee hurts everyone. Some people use it regularly and seem strong enough to withstand its attacks, but there is misery and dis- ease in store for the man or woman who persists in its use when nature protests, by heart weakness, stomach and bowel troubles, kidney disease, weak eyes or gencral nervous prostra- tion. The remedy is obvious. The drug caffeine, contained in all ordinary coffee, must be discontinued absolute- ly or the disease will continue in spite of any medicine and will grow worse. It is easy to leave off the old-fash- ioned coffee by adopting Postum Food Coffee, for in it one finds a pleasing hot breakfast or dinner beverage that has the deep seal brown color, chang- ing to a rich golden brown when good cream is added. When boiled long enough (15 minutes) the flavor is not that of rank Rio coffee but very like the milder, smooth and high-grade Java, but entirely lacking the drug effect of ordinary coffee. Anyone suffering from disorders set up by coffee drinking (and there is an extensive variety) can absolutely de- pend upon some measure of relief by quitting coffee and using Postum Food Coffee, If the disease has not become too strongly rooted, one can with good rea- son expect it to disappear entirely in a reasonable time after the active cause of the trouble is removed and the cellular tissue has time to natural- ly rebuild with the elements furnished by Postum and good food. It’s only just plain old common sense. Now, with the exact facts before the reader, he or she can decide the wise course, looking to health and the power to do things. If you have any doubt as to the cause of any ache or ail you may have, remember the far-reaching telegrams of a hurt nervous system travel from heel to head, and it may be well worth your while to make the experiment of leaving off coffee entirely for ten days and using Postum in its place. You will probably gather some good solid Zacts, worth more than a gold mine, for health can make gold and sickness lose it. Besides there’s all the fun, for it’s like a continuous ine ternal frolic to be perfectly well. © There’s a reason for POSTUM Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich