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There Is no Rochelle Saite, Alum, Limeor Ammonia in food made with: Calumet Baking Powder Health— Economy. Not Likely. A young man and a maiden were newly betrothed. “I love thee,” said the young man. “So great is my devotion that if an- other should but cast loving glances at thee a fearful thing would happen.” “What might it be?” quoth the maiden. “I woutd kill him. Dost thou believe me?” “No,” quoth the maiden. “No? But I protest that if another were to make love to thee, his life should pay the forfeit! By yonder moon I swear! Dost believe me now?” bi ’ quoth the maiden. w, what meanest thou? Why believest thou not that I would kill the villain?” “Because,” quoth the maiden, “thou wouldst not know aught about it.” Chance to Swim. “I hear that your suburban place is for sale, Harker. Do you think it would suit me?” “Yes, if you have the proper kind of feet.” “What kind of feet will I need?” “Web.” Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORTA, a safe and sure remedy for infants.and children, and see that it et Bears the In Use For Over 30 Years. ‘The Kind You Have Always Bought. COMPULSORY INSURANCE. How It Works Out in Practice With Working People. From 1885 to 1809 the sum of $482,- 500,000 was expended by the various insurance systems in Germany for the restoration of the health of working- men and their families. One-third of this sum was paid in by the employ- ers. There is no doubt, says Vice Consul Schlemmer of Mannheim, that it would have cost double if the men bad been compelled to pay everything out of their own pockets, the moder- ate medical charges now being regu- lated by these insurance laws. As a matter of fact, people would not other- wise be able to spend so much money for medical treatment, and a great many would perish or be permanently disabled for lack of proper treatment: and the disabled ones would remain a permanent burden on the commun- ity. It also appears that physical and intellectual conditions of the laboring elasses generally have been greatly improved by this protective insurance system, as evidenced by the reduction of mortality at industrial centers, which now is only 21 per 1,000 inhabi- tants, again 27% before the law took Although food products are ch higher in price than formerly, consumption has increased in quantity six per cent per capital, showing that the buying power of the people has been greatly increased through the in- surance funds and higher wages. | BUILDING FOOD To Bring the Babies Around. When a little human machine (or a large one) goes wrong, nothing is so important as the selection of food to bring it around again. My little’ baby boy fifteen months oid had pneumonia, then came brain fever, and no sooner had he got over these than he began to cut teeth and, being so weak, he was frequently thrown into convulsions,” says a Colo- yado mother. “I decided a change might help, so jook him to Kansas City for a visit. When we got there he was so very weak when he would cry he would sink away and seemed like he would die. “When I reached my sister's home she said immediately that we must feed him Grape-Nuts and, although I had never used the food we got some and for a few days gave him just the juice of Grape-Nuts and milk. He got stronger so quickly we were soon feed- ing him the Grape-Nuts itself and in a wonderfully short time he fattened right up and became strong and well. “That showed me something worth knowing and, when later on my girl came, I raised her on Grape-Nuts and she is a strong healthy baby and has been. You will see from the little pho- tograph I send you what a_ strong, chubby youngster the boy is now, but he didn’t look anything like that be- fore we found this nourishing food. Grape-Nuts nourished him back to strength when he was so weak he couldn’t keep any other food on his stomach.” Name given by Postum €o., Battle Creek, Mich. All children can be built to a more sturdy and healthy condition upon Grape-Nuts and cream. The food con- CHAPTER XIV. In the Conservatory. He came across the room with his swingng step. The baron started slightly and fell back. Winstanley passed him by without noticing him more than if he had been the hearth- rug. “This room is hot,” he said to Ursula, under, his breath. “Will you come to the conservatory?” He walk- ed to the glass door and opened it. The scent of warm flowers rushed out, like a breath of spring. She gave him a grateful look and passed in without speaking. He carefully shut the door after them. Inside there were colored lamps burning, and low cane seats lurked among the plants and banks of blos- som. It was rather a habit of the house to use it for an after-dinner smoking room. The admiral was not a smoker, and he gave the conserva- tory up to his guests. Winstanley showed no signs of putting the place to its usual purpose, however, as he and Ursula turned the corner of the tall palms and found themselves on a space of tiled floor, with a gay rug or two spread out on it. She sank down on the little wicker bench, as he stood close beside ‘her, towering from his six feet of height. “I hope I a mmistaken in fancying that little brute was disagreeable.” His voice threatened unutterable things if his suspicions be true. ‘He seemed slightly excited at dinner, and one never can tell what the effect of excitement is on some people. He} hasn’t much of a head.” Ursula looked up with a smile that was half apologetic. She reached up and drew down a bunch of heliotrope to the level where it could be smeli. “He was horrid—rather,” she admit- ted. “He was speaking about you.” “About me! Good heavens!” rue- fully. “I hope that was not the grounds of his offense.” | She shook her head, half laughing. “It was, an dit wasn’t. He said nice things about you, to begin with, and then odious ones.” “Confound him! It is always open to one to go back and punch his head.” “No, no, not that sort of thing. He only wanted me to ask you impertinent questions, and didn’t seem to think there was any reason why I should not.” “There are no questions you could ask me that could ever deserve that name.” There had come a sudden hush to his voice, and his look, bent down upon her, was full of something that vibrated and glowed. “Nothing— you know it—that you would not honor me by the asking. Do I need to as- sure you of that?” Her heart leaped at the thrill in his own tones; she could not raise her eyes from the heliotrope spray. “This was something no one had a right to ask.” “You have all rights.” “No, no—you don’t understand; it was vulgar curiosity—he wanted me to ask you about the general’s discov- ery.” Winstanley made a low sound of surprise, of incredulity. “What in heaven’s name has he to do with that? The prying curiosity of some imperti- nent people is past believing. He had really the cheek to say that? He had} better address his questions straight to me another time; I shall have an answer ready for him. I don’t think he'll ask another, probably.” “Very likely he didn’t know he was impertinent,” said Ursula. ‘That strange new thrill that filled her with rapture made her feel suddenly kind, even to the baron. “Perhaps not. Anyway, he shan’t repeat it. And yet, do you know, the questions are not all asked or answer- ed. I have one I want to ask you. Will you call that an impertinent one, I wonder?” “How can I tell ,till I know what it is?” bend his head now to eateh it But he did not gather discouragement from ite breathlessness. “You are going to know it this very ‘moment. Do you really need to be told in words? Ursula, don’t you know what I want to ask you? Don’t you know you are the whole world to Capes s Double By LILLIAS CAMPBELL DAVIDSON Her voice was so low he had to) me! May | hope?” There was no response in words. But she turned her glowing face up to him with the answer in it. He was so tall above her that he could not re- main there. He dropped on one knee by her side ,like a medieval lover—a better position with regard to eyes in the drawing room behind. Her lips did not shrink from his whispered “Let me!” One long. long moment seemed to them as brief as a flash, as extended as an aeon of years. Never had the old conservatory at Nutwood listened to a sweeter story than the one those wordless lips told. feel ‘in a mood for waiting. I am not an over-patient man at the best of times.” “He sails next week. It’s too short a time for a letter to reach.” “Can't I cable?” But Ursula shook her head. “it would say so little,” she said. “I want him to know you, and hear all about it; he won't say ‘yes’ till he does, in any case.” “And you don’t think he’ll make any objection? I know it’s awfully selfish of me to want to take you away from him.” i “Papa always does what he knows will make me happy,” said Ursula, with simple conviction, for which Win- stanley gave thanks in a_ fashion which was becoming familiar to both. “Then we're not to! tell people? I can’t let the world see what a happy man I am?” “There’s really nothing to tell them, is there, except that we—well, we care for each other? We can’t be engaged till papa says ‘yes.’ I should feel as if I mustn’t even hint it to the dear, kind Shuttléwaites, for it would be so un- fair to tell them before papa knows. We must just go on as we have been doing—be great friends, and no more, till papa lands at Plymouth and we have a right to feel ourselves more.” “Great friends! That’s rather an impossibility after to-night. Do you niean we are to be Miss Hamilton and Capt. Winstanley, and talk small talk, and dance together three times at dances, and that’s all?” “Well, Miss Hamilton and Capt. Winstanley in public, certainly. We needn’t be quite so formal, perhaps, when we are alone. Even only great friends call themselves by their Chris- tian names sometimes, and we shall know, though other people don’t.” “Yes, we shall know. I wonder if knowing will be more of a consolation or atantilization, when jt ends there? Can’t we play we are engaged ,even if we're not quite yet? A kind of private rehearsal, you know.” “Well, perhaps when we are alone, like this; but nothing to make people talk, you know. It would hurt my dear old daddy dreadfully if he thought I felt it was settled without his having been consulted.” “When we are alone. Like this. All right. I’ve a genius for getting people alone, when I like. A sort of hemi- demi-semi-engagement, is that the sort of thing it is? Mind, darling, I expect a doubly tight tied engagement—an engagement with half the usual length to it ,to make up for this.” “Time enough to talk of that after- wards. As long as we know, it’s all right ,don’t you think?” “T think that people who say that friendship is as good a thing as love are deluded old idiots. Let them ‘go through this sort of thing and see if they don’t alter their minds.” “If you would rather not be friends,” suggested Miss Hamilton, who had a genius for teasing sometimes. “If I, Udsula—if you are going to make speeches like that to me I vow I shall kiss you in public, and then the game will be up!” The sound of the door behind them opening sent Winstanley two yards away with a spring. It was the ad- miral’s loud and genial voice that ac- costed them. “Taken Winstanley out to let him smoke, my little maid? That’s right. Come in and give us a song when he’s done.” He shut the door again, and Winstanly guiltily clutched at his cigarette case and his match box. But even a cigarette cannot be made to last forever, and it was all too soon that Ursula firmly said they must re- turn. The group in the drawing room hailed her with pleasure, for they were waiting for one of her songs. The very observant might have noticed a new kind of appropriation in the manner of Capt. Winstanley as he followed Miss Hamilton to the piano and turned her Jeaves, Baron Taxonia, approaching, found himself shouldered away by a firm though unconcerted movement. and had to withdraw again It was after the ladies had retired that he sidled up to Winstanley. “Ah. what a good time we have had here together!” hé began, affectionately. “Pleasant house. this, and pleasant people We seem quite like old friends, you and I. I shall be so glad if you wil) do me the kindness tomorrow that you did me this morning up the hill. I shall thank yon for the seat in the dog cart as far as the station at Cosham. or even to Portsmouth town.” Winstanley looked down at him from his higher inches with serenity “Now, am I going te be made a cop venience of by this little orute. or am I not?” he inguired of himself Appar- ently, the answer came easily. “Sorry. I'm afraid I can't offer you a seat this time,” he responded, with a level voice “I fancy our ways won't lie together after this Ne doubt the admiral will send» you down in his trap.” The baron stared. then scowled was just driving from the door. Mist -Hamilton and the.admiral stood watch ing its vanishing back, and Miss Ham ilton’s cheeks were rosy. Who can say what had been whispered in the mo ment of adieu? The baron went back to Cosham sta tion in the Nutwood cart, together with a hamper or two of game, on ite| way to the station as well. He did! not give up the conquest of the gen eral’s aide-de-camp with that one re buff, but none of his farther attempts were of the faintest avail. He called at the lodge of Government house more than once, but the answer was unvaryingly “Not at home” to his in- quiries for Capt. Winstanley. He tried to waylay him at the club or in the street, but Winstanley barely acknowl- edged him. Suddenly the baron van- ished and Southsea knew him ' no more. “The chief's first tool has broken in his hand,” said a member of the name- Jess society, as he came out in stealth and darkness from the next meeting in the little house at Portsea, late at night. “Now he means to try the sec- ond. Well, let him try. He will not give me the chance because he fears me, because he knows I am his rival, and will have his place yet. Let him try his pasteboard countess as he tried his straw baron; he will come to me and be glad of my help when she, too, fails. To choose such a man for his purpose, the baron—a thing without sense or skill. Bah! the chief grows in his dotage; we had better have a child to drive the coach for us. His chair must soon be vacant for a better man. The powder is still undiscover- ed ,the secret eludes us yet. You merely lose time, my friend the Sig- nor, and the society does not love those who seem to mock at it!” Where the baron had gone, and why he left without leave-taking, no one might say. He was deplored by some enthusiastic young people, and a few hopeful mammas, who had their ex- pectations raised by the arrival of a foreign baron in Southsea society, but that was all. (To Be Continued.) gS Re ae A NEW YORK SKYSCRAPER. Elevators Carry More Than Street Cars of a City Like Nashville. Wherever the fame of the New York skyscrapers has spread some vague idea of the enormous capacity of these colossal structures must have been formed, but it is not improbable that few persons living right in the metrop- olis have ever made a careful study of the activities of these commercial centers. Perhaps there are those who would laugh to scorn the statement that a single building in New York is entered daily by 50,000 persons, cr as many as the entire population of Harrisburg, Pa. jor other similar cities of the Unite@ States, like Houston, ‘vex., Akron, Ohio, Lincoln, Neb., and more than there are persons in cities of the size of Montgomery, Ala. Wherever such a statement may be discredited, it is necessary only to point out the fact that an accurate count was made one day by F. T. H. Bacon, superintendent of the Park Row Syndicate building, one of the most conspicuovs of. the New York skyscrapers, of every person who en- tered the elevators in that edifice. It was a simple matter to station guards at every entrance to tke building and give each person entering a ticket, which ticket was takea up by the ele- vator drivers. At the close of the day these tickets were counted, and it was found that something more than 50,00@ persons had ridden on the ele- vators that day. This is said to ex- ceed the number of fares collected by the entire street car system of Nash- ville, Tenn., in a single day, this in- formation coming from a former su- perintendent of the trolley service of that city who was subsequently em- ployed as one of the agents of the Park Row skyscrapers. LIKE A PEANUT. Queer Shape of a Dog for Which-Po- lice Are Asked to Search. Miss Marie B. Potter, the fourteer- year-old daughter of E. C. Potter, a broker at 36 Wall street, who lives at the Country club, Throges Neck, has enlisted the police of the Westchester station, from Captain Gray down to the doorman, in h2r search for her; dacksaund puppy Peanut, who has, been missing since Saturday. She! calls him Peanut because of his shape. He isn’t of particularly high pedigree, but Miss Potter says his character and general excellence as a dog more than make up for his tack sf absoluteiy blue blood. After posting notices, offering $5 re- ward and ne questions asked, and, hearing nothing from her dog, she asked Captain Gray to send out an alarm for him. The captain has told every man in the precinct to keep an eye out for Peanut. Not Da gerous. Englishmen—“Just tack from Amer-, ica. eb? Did you see many ‘white ; caps?" Second Englishman—“Lots of them, deab boy.” First Englishman—“And were they vicious? Did they go around flogging people?” Second Englishman—“Ob, no. The rea! ‘whitecaps’ over in America are cooks” "(As It Sometimes Happens. jan, widow of one of the BARBER MADE BAD GUESS, |KIDNEY TROUBLE “Sized” a Cheyenne Saloonkeeper for | Suffered Two Years—Relteved In Three a Preacher and Felt ‘ Proud, “Yes,” said the barber, as he combed the man’s hair, “I can usually tell about what a man’s business is by noticing his head. The bumps tell me. It’s a sort of phrenology, I guess. 9, I ain’t claiming to be a phrenolo- gist, but still, I guess I am a kind of one. A man bet me the price of a oaircut, shave and shampoo the other day that I couldn’t tell his business in three guesses. I guessed ‘cattle- man’ the first time. He said that was wrong, so I said ‘sheep-raiser.’ That ime I hit it. That bet cost him 90 cents.” “Try guessing my business,” gested the man in the chair. The barber looked in the other's face, then he felt the bumps on his sustom’s head. “Well,” he said, “you’re a preacher, I’d say.” “Wonderful!” came from the cus- tomer. The barber smiled. “I knew I could guess it,” he said. When the customer left the shop a few minutes later he was touched on the arm by a man who had been in the next chair. “Pardon me,” said the other, “but how do you account for that barber’s guess?’ “O, it was just a guess and a bad one at that,” said the man accosted. “Bad one?” “Yes. I’m a Cheyenne saloonkeep- are The other showed surprise. “But,” he said, “you said ‘Wonderful!’ when he called you a preacher?” “Well, it is wonderful what a chump a man can be when he tries,” con- cluded the other. SOME GEM SUPERSTITIONS Power of the Talisman Believed to Be Enhanced by En- graving. sug: A jeweler who has made a study of the superstitions of gems has dis- covered that the power of the talis- man is believed to be_ greatly en- hanced by having an appropriate em- blem engraved on the particular stone chosen. Thus, the bloodstone—sacred to peo- ple born in the month of March— should be engraved with a snake’s head, as its function is to preserve from snake bites. The garnet (April) is a protection against fire, especially if engraved with a lion. Other stones, with their months and appropriate devices, are as follows: Sapphire (January), a ram; ame- thyst (February), a bear; emerald (May), a sparrow; agate (June), a dagger; carnelian (July), a man with a scepter; sardonyx (August), an eagle; chrysolite (September), an ass; electrine (October), a human hand; topaz (November), a falcon; coral (December), a man bearing a sword. It may be remarked that this list differs from the ordinary list of stones appropriate to each month of the year. This, however, the authority more than one stone peculiar to it, and those selected above are the most suitable for engraving. WAS A STRANGER IN TOWN “Town’’ on the Mississippi That Was Not Overcrowded with Residents. Fifteen miles below the head of the passes of the Mississippi, and not far from where Southwest pass loses itself in the Gulf of Mexico, a little stream no wider than a village street curves away from the main “pass.” Along both sides are tiny landings, and back of each there is a cottage, relates Youth’s Companion. The cot- tages are now neglected and forlorn, but once they were palm-shaded, rose- guarded and lovely. There, in the days when Southwest pass was the principal mouth of the Mississippi, dwelt the pilots who carried ships across the bar. “Old Pilot-town” is hidden from the traveler on the pass by a dense cane- brake, and.strangers seldom enter its bayou. One who did came down the river in a skiff, and turned into “Old Pilot-town bayou” at noon for din- ner. He found a ready meal at the first cottage, where dwelt an old wom- old-time pilots. As the meal progressed, one by one interested neighbors dropped in to see the stranger, till a dozen were braced against the walls. “How many people live here now, Mrs. B- 2” asked the visitor. “I thought the bayou was rather de- serted.” Mrs. B—— looked round the room and took account of stock. “You can count them for yourself,” she said. “They’re all here.” An “Anonymous” Letter. A certain congressman from Vir- ginia has long retained in his employ a colored man by the name of Ezekiel. One morning the master left the house, leaving behind him a letter he had for- gotten. Some time in the afternoon ex- plained, is because each month has altogether. I bless the day | picked up thelittle bool and read of your Peruna.’ It is the business of the kidneys to remove from the blood all poisonous Months. R. C. B. FIZER, Mt. Sterling, Ky., writes: bladder trouble for ten years past. “Last March I commenced using Peruna and continued for three months. I have not used it since, nor have I felt a pain. *I believe that I am welland I there- fore give my highest commendation to the curative qualities of Peruna.” Pe-ru-na for Kidney Trouble. Mrs. Geo. H. Simser, Grant, Ontario, . writes : " **Lhad not been well for about four years. I had kidney trouble, and, in fact, felt badly nearly all the time. “This summer I got so very bad I thought I would try Peruna, so I wrote to yon and began at once to take Peruna and Manalin. “I took only two bottles of Peruna and one of Manalin, and now I feel better than I have for some time. “I feel that Peruna and Manalin cured me und made a different woman of me materials. ‘Chey must be active all the time, else the system sffers. There are times when they need alittle assistance. this sort of a rem- edy. It has saved many people from disaster by rendering the kidneys ser- vice at a time when they were not able to bear their own burdens. » Peruna is exactl. FiRST CLASS TUMBLERS. They Were Without a Stand and Ac- tually “Tumbled” When Set Down. The Anglo-Saxon always used a glass or horn without a stand, so that once filled the vessel must be emptied be- fore being set down. Hence the old proverb “When the wine is poured out it must be drunk,” and the modern certain vows, he filled his drinking glass. At the first the Anglo-Saxons used a horn, and long after glass cups were introduced for use among the upper classes the horn still retained its semireligious character in transactions with regard to land. Inheritances of land passed by the transfer of a horn, and estates were held in fee by the same means. For example, the fa- mous horn of Ulphus. The. story is, briefly, that Ulphus intended to divide his estate among his sons before his death. The sons, however, quarreled so much about their respective shares that the old man made a journey to York cathedral, where, having made certain vows, he filled his drinking horn with wine, and, kneeling before the altar, drank off the contents in a breath in token that he gave his land forever to the church. That was in the time of Canute. Many of the horns were worked beautifully with gold and silver, one fine example be- ing in the British museum at the pres- ent time. Withe the introduction of glasswork in A. D. 600, when Abbott Benedict brought —_ foreign workmen over, changes were made in the shape of the drinking vessels. What is be- lieved to be the earliest glass tumbler is shown in one of the accompanying It dates from A. D. 625-¢ pictures. C50. BRAINS TO THE FRONT. Comment on the Knox Boom for the Presidency. It is a source of gratification for the people of Pennsylvania that, in looking about for presidential timber, Senator Philander C. Knox is favorably named by influential members of the Repub- lican party. Pennsylvania has often had “complimentary mention” candi- dates and “political exigency” candi- dates put in the field chiefly for trad ing purposes, but there has been no serious attempt on the part of the m2- jority party to name a Pennsylvanian for the last forty years. The state has been so securely Re- publican that it did not need coaxing by that party, and offered no strong in- ducement to coaxing by the other. It has ‘also been without any serious in- fluence except its dead weight in the count of the vote in determining poli- cies in legislation. Dexterous schem- ers, after the pattern of the elder Cam- eron and the later Quay, have ruled the roost and have permitted no ques- tion of their supremacy. The advent of Knox in the senate has set a new fashion. Brains are again at the front. he remembered the communication, | It is an encouraging sign of the times, and, as it was of some importance, he) hastened back home, only to find that the letter was nowhere to be seen in his library. He had a distinct recol- lection that the letter had been left on a table. He summoned Ezekiel and! asked if he had seen the letter. “Yassah, yo’ lef’ it on ye’ table.” “Then where is it now?” “I mailed it, sab.” Breakage “I have promised my friends to _ break silence,” said the smoked-out songster. “Go slow,” commented the shrewd adviser. If you’re bound to break something, better break that promise. May Eat His Words Instead. ¢ “I have suffered with kidney and— + panei tains the elements nature demands, “My 1 And do you love me?” h, but Winstanley turned off “ y darling y in wrath, bu y. “Yo 4 Zeke nad from whieh to make the soft gray fill:| «petter than anything else in the| composedly, and left him by the fire | [ll never take a girl to the ball nop Sa ne aaa ee Se oe aan ot stywee4 ing in oe pairs eee and brain. A’ whole world! Only—only—we ought |"When he came down to his — tardy.| game again.” envelope!” 7 ATRL a . well fed brain and strong, | sturdy | not to belong to each other till papa breakfast—he could not reconcile him. | “Kept hop, Dee emis the en ieee sah! I thought it was one| “Wouldn't that be nic” “If nature had made me an os’ nerves absolutely insure a healthy body ! oom ‘and says I yw" "| self to the barb s English habit of maar e eet = ride Byatt Per ag’ f f anonymous ‘American his imperturable ie * Look in pkgs. for the famous Little | a eT 0 suppose | asser ound t the earl “No; I was ke a sa Brien fe oe ae ee “4 ee : pook, “The Road to Wellville.” . mort Stel E 5 2 » 42 4 43