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ee a THE SECOND DANDY CHATER By Tom Ww . y Gallon. eA RAR hea eee CHAPTER Xili—Continued. He mentioned, as between friends, that he had a warrant in his pocket, to be used if necessary, against a certair person whom he would not name; pro- claimed himself a cautious man; but hinted at murder, and darkly suggest- ed that a certain person would find him a re—mark—ably tough fellow to get over. The inspector had his glass replen- ished for the fourth time, and was so well pleased with himself that he had begun to wag his head and wink upon Mrs. Siggs, when another strange thing happened. Clara, who had been sitting all this time looking, for the most part, at the fire, and occasionally at the inspector, suddenly seemed to ery out; checked the cry with a fit of hysterical laughter, which may have been induced by some remark of Toke ly’s, and ran, still laughing in that strange fashion, from the room. The inspector, after recovering from the little shock occasioned by Clara’s behavior, appeared to be: falling asleep. Betty Siggs, with a watchful eye upon him, drew mearer to her hus- band. “To she whispered, breathlessly, stretching out a hand to draw him to- ward her, and still keeping an eye upon Tokely, “‘e’s come back again. Clara must ’ave seed ’im.” “Can't think w’y ’e should be a~ang- ing about ‘ere, a-shovin’ ‘is ‘ead into danger like this,’ whispered Toby, in reply. ‘’E’s ’ad a long start, an’ might ‘ave bin miles away afore this. Where's Clara gone?” Betty Siggs made a hasty move- ment with her hand to silence him, for Tokely was waking up again. At the same moment a noise was heard in the rear of the house, and the next instant a small door in the farther corner of ihe room was thrust open, and Harry Routley burst in. He was wild-looking and in a fearful state of excitement. Without pause he bound- ed into the middle of the room and faced the astonished Tokely, who had risen hurriedly to his feet. Betty Siggs must have seen that in his face which appalled her, for she cried out sudden- ly, and covered her eyes with her hands. “Is there a man here,” cried Harry, looking round upon them all, “who wants to find the murderer of Patience Miller?” Before any one could speak, and while the energy of the lad still held them dumb, a figure darted in at the open doorway, caught him in its arms, and fell at his feet. It was Clara Siggs. “Harry,” she cried, hiding her face against his leg, and still clutching him desperately, “for the love of heaven, be silent! For the love of all the good engels, don’t betray him!” A sort of fierce struggle seemed to go on, for a moment, in the lat’s ! saying again and again that he wanted to see you—that he could not go away without seeing you. And, in spite of all they have said, I could not believe, somehow, when I looked into his eyes, that he could have done such a cruel and wicked deed as that.” Here her sobs broke out afresh, so that Betty had much ado to comfort her. “There, there; don’t ery, child,” she said. “Crying never mended anything yet. Wot else did ’e say?” “He asked who the man was with us, and when I told him he laughed, and said he would give hima run for his money, anyway “Spoke like a Chater, that was!” cried Betty, with considerable pride. “Then wot ’appened?” “Master Dandy said that, as it wouldn’t be safe to see you, he would make across the fields, so as to get clear of Bamberton, and walk on the way to London. Then, as I was crying, he put his arm round my shoulders— indeed, indeed, there was no shame in it mother, dear—and told me not to mind, for he would clear himself yet. And just.at that moment I heard a rustling in the hedge, and Harry jump- ed through.” Toby Siggs looked long at his daugh- ter, slowly shook his head, and deliv- ered himself of this piece of wisdom: “The good Lord, with the willin’ ’elp of yer mother, made ye fair-lookin’, an’ put bright eyes into your face; but nei- ther the good Lord nor your mother meant as ’ow they should be a snare or in any way deludin’. One lad is good enough for the best o’ gels. Go to bed and think well on it!” Clara, still sobbing, took her way slowly up-stairs. For a Toby Siggs and his wife sat in whis- pered conversation; Toby saying but little, but probably thinking the more. The shadow of that crime in the wobd seemed to have fallen even on that quiet household. Betty Siggs watched the dying fire, and her mind traveled back, through the years, to the farm | in Australia, on the edge of the bush, and to the bright-faced lad that cruel bush had swallowed up and snatched from her. Old Toby Siggs knew the story, for when first he had met her, she had had to account for the pres- ence of the child; but Toby was a silent man, and the lost boy was as far back in the mists of the dead years as in the mists of Toby’s brain. “It’s all been! a muddle, Toby,” said Mrs. Siggs, at last, still in the same cautious whisper. “If the old squire could only know what has happened I think ’e’d be a bit sorry ’e cast that boy loose an’ took up with the young- er. Lor, Toby, what a boy ’e was.” Toby nodded his head slowly. “Ah!” he ejaculated. “There ain’t'no upset- tin’ about me, or about you, ole gal; we knows ourselves for ordinary folk. But that boy moved, and talked, and breast; finally looking down at her, he stooped and caught her half-roughly by the arm and released himself, step- ping back a little, so that she trailed over the floor after him. ' “Harry! Harry!” was all she said, with a sort of sob in her voice. “Is there a man here who wants the murderer of Patience Miller?” he cried again. “I've seen him, not a moment since; | know which way he’s T found him talking with this— gone. this girl. I'll lead any man to him; [ll track him down anywhere. Who wants him?” | , “Ym your man,” cried Tokely, ad- vancing to him, sobered by the scene he had witnessed. “Who's the man?” “Harry! Harry!” wailed the girl again, without rising or looking up. The lad seemed to choke down something in his throat before he spoke. “Dandy Chater,” he said, after @ moment’s pause. “That’s my man,” cried Tokely, bringing his fist down heavily on the table. “And for a thousand pounds Y’ll have Dandy Chater to-night before i sleep! Come on!”' Catching Harry by the arm, and snatching up his own hat, he hurried with him out of the still open door, and vanished in the darkness. CHAPTER XIV. Betty Siggs Dreams a Dream. The girl rose slowly from the ground after the two men had disappeared, and, sobbing heavily, made her way toward the door which led to the up- per part of the house. But her moth- er, brought to herself by the movye- ment, advanced rapidly and caught ber by the arms. “Child,” she said, in a sort of gasp, “this ain’t no time for callin’ folks names, or talkin’ about rights and wrongs. Quick—what’s i’ the wind? { see Master Dandy a-lookin’ in at that winder—straight at me; what’s i’ the wind, child—and w’ere have they gone?” For some moments ‘Clara Siggs could not speak; her sobs seemed to shake her from head to foot. But ,af- ter a little time, she grew more calm and told what she knew. i a “It saw him—looking in at the win- dow; he beckoned to me. Then, when I slipped out to him, I was frightened pat first, because he seemed so worn- looking and so strange. But he kept ‘eld ‘isself like a gen’elman.” “That ‘e did!” replied Betty, with a vigorous nod. “Lor’, Toby, if ’e’d ’ave bin in the "All we’d ‘ave ‘ad no talks about pore ruined gals, no policemen in the ’ouse, no ‘unting an’ dodgin’ an’ ‘idin’ like this. ‘Evin’ knows ‘ow it’s all goin’ to end, Toby.” The ‘house had been shut, so far as its public capacity was concerned, for some time. Knowing, however, that the inspector must presently make his appearance, and that in any case, his bed was reserved for him, Mrs. Siggs and her husband sat on over the fire, each filled with sad thoughts, and ready, from the events of the evening, for anything which could happen. Presently there came a heavy knock at the front door. Mrs. Siggs, with a hand on her ample bosom, started, and looked appealingly at Toby. That gentleman, rising with a determined countenance, proceeded to the door and flung it open. was prepared to see it is impossible to say, but he was certainly not pre- pared for the sight which met his eyes. Out of the darkness there staggered into the place a solitary figure—that of Inspector Tokely. His hat was gone, one side of his face was grazed and pleeding, he was covered with mud and water almost from head to foot, and his coat was torn right across one shoulder. Gasping and weary, he shook a fist in the face of the aston- ished Toby Siggs and snapped out his wrath at that innocent mafi. “You scoundrel!” he shouted. “You infernal villain! This is all a plot—a you know it is! I’m lured place, and go racing and chasing across country, where there are no street lamps, as there ought to be, qnd no constables to whistle for. I bark my face against a tree—put there on purpose, I’ve no doubt, for me to run my head against; J fell into a ditch, which which ought to have been drained long ago; I lose my hat, which cost nine-and-sixpence; | tear my coat on a barbed wire fence, which ought never to have been put up. And to crown it all I lose my prisoner!” Betty Siggs, who had come to the door of the little parlor, suddenly clapped her hands and cried out, with an exclamation of so much relief, that the inspector turned savagely upon her. : “Yes, ma’am, laugh, giggle, clap your hands, scream with joy, ma’am! I like it—it does me good! How will you jike it when yeu appear in the dock— long time |. Exactly what he; the dock, ma’am!—on a charge of aid- ing and abetting a prisoner to escape? What about windows covered with cur- tains?” “What would you ’ave ’em covered with?” retorted Betty, with a laugh. “Wallpaper?” “Never mind, ma’am—never mind,” retorted Tokely, viciously. “At the present moment, ma’am, I will go to bed. The law, ma’am, can wait. Pre- pare yourself, ma’am, for the dock~ for the dock, I say!” With these words, and utterly scorn- ful of Betty Siggs’s peals of laughter, the inspector made his way up stairs to his chamber, leaving a trail of mud- dy water to mark his passage. “That chap’s done me good!” ex- claimed Betty, wiping her eyes and turning to Toby, who was staring in ludicrous amazement after Tokely. “I just wanted something to stir me up, I did, an’ that chap’s done it!” “You take care, ole gal, that ’e don’t stir you up,” retorted Toby, shaking his head. “The law ’as got a ’eap be’ind it—an’ you ain’t got the figger to be redooced to skilly, nor the fing- ers for oakumpickin’, An’, mark my words, that’s what you'll come to, ole gal, if you mocks at the law!” Betty Siggs, however, was in foo good a humor to Heed any such warn- ing; she gaily locked up the house, ex- tinguished the lights, and pushed Toby upstairs to bed. “Blow the law!” she exclaimed, kissing him. “You an’ me won’t sleep the less sound because the law ’as got its face scratched and lost its ’at—will we, Toby?” Nevertheless, Betty’s prediction proved to be, so far as she was con- cerned, a false one; sleep refused to come to her, no matter how she wooed it. Living, as she always had done, a good, brisk, hard-working, blameless life, with a conscience as clear as her own healthy skin, Betty had known nothing of the terrors of insomnia; yet to-night she lay blinking at the stars peeping in through the uncur- tained window, thinking of many things—thinking most of all, perhaps, of the unhappy man flying for his life, hiding in ditches and under hedges, and trembling at every sound. Betty's tender heart melted a little when she thought of him, and she sadly cried herself into a state of quiet exhaustion and so fell into a troubled sleep. And in that sleep she dreamed a dream. She was back again in the old days in Australia, at Tallapoona Farm the farm which had never paid, and from which her bright-faced boy Philip had wandered out one morning never to return. Yet the curious part of Bet- ty’s dream was this: that, although the sights and sounds beyond the win- dows were as she had known them over a quarter of a century ago, the house bore a curious resemblance to the Chater Arms; indeed, faces famil- jar to her later days in Bamberton passed to and fro before the windows, and the slow Bamberton drawl was in her ears. But in her dream night came swiftly on, and the place was in darkness. She thought she stood again in the lit- tle parlor alone; and, drawing back the curtain from before the window, looked out upon the sandy bridle- tracks, and wild vegetation which fringed the denser growth. Suddenly, out of this, and coming straight to the window, she saw the child, just as she had known him eighteen long years be- fore. So vivid was the dream, and so clearly did she see his face and recog- nize it, that—waking with a cry upon her lips—she found herself out of bed and standing on the floor in the faint light of the stars. Betty Siggs was more troubled than ever. She looked round the room, as though half expecting to see her dream realized, rubbed her eyes, and began to tremble a little. Toby’s regular, breathing reassured her somewhat; but still she felt uneasy. The window at which she had seen the face of thé man that night, haunted her; she felt that she must go to it—must as? sure herself that there was nothing on the other side of it. ‘ (To Be Continued.) His Only Relative. Dr. Gillespie met a ragged urchin, ten years of age, on the streets of Glasgow, when the following conver- sation took place: “Who looks after you, my little lad- die?” “Naebuddy.” “Have you no father?” “Father's dead.” “And your mother?” “No livin’.” “No sister?” “Naw.” “Any brothers?” “Ay, yin.” “Well, can’t he Where is he?” “In Glesea college.” “How long has he been there?” “Three years.” “Dear me, three years at the univer- sity and can’t help his little brother. What is he doing in the college?” “Please, sir, he’s in a bottle.” “In a bottle? What do you mean?” “Ay,he’s in a bottle. He was born wi’ twa heads.” look after you? Fact. Bystander—Who’s that man who’s waving his arms around and yelling for reform and saying that the trusts must be curbed? ‘ Native—That’s the candidate for deputy coroner. 1 Bystander—And who's that man that says that everything is all right and that nobody should complain? Native—Oh, that’s our United States senator. The Rate Per Cent. “Smith takes more interest In bis business than any one I know.” “What’s his business?” “He runs a pawnshop.” LAW WOULD SHUT RANGE SCHOOLS MINNESOTA IRON COUNTRY IS IN ARMS AGAINST THE PROPOS- ED TONNAGE TAX. SCHOOLS DEPEND ON MINES CITIZENS PROTEST AGAINST LAW WHICH WOULD DESTROY EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM. Hibbing, Minn., Feb. 18.—Threatened by legislation which would be totally de- structive of the public school system of the iron ranges of Minnesota, the people of the mining country in St. Louis and Itasca counties have combined to make an appeal to the legislature and the state at large. The excited state of public feel- ing here is not comprehensible to the people of the state generally, for in urban and rural communities questions affecting taxation have not the vital in- terest for people of every condition that the same topic has here. Confronted by the proposition now before the legislature that a tonnage tax be imposed on iron ore, the people of the ranges are aroused because by the operation of such a tax system practically the entire source of revenue for the maintenance of the pub- lic schools would be removed from the local assessment rolls. There is no difference of opinion on the ranges regarding this tax proposition and its effect. The range towns have been wrought to the pitch of holding mass meetings—not perfunctory affairs attend- ed by a few taxpayers, but gatherings in which hundreds of people take part and speeches and resolutions setting forth the sentiments of the participants are, indulg- ed. There is a good deal of bitterness shown in some of the speeches, but thost of them deplore the ignorance of condi- tions here which is responsible for the proposed taxation. The protest that has taken form in these meetings comes alto- gether from the people. The mining com- panies have no material igterest in the proposed law, for it makes no difference to them whether they pay their taxes to the county or to the state. They are but incidentally interested in the matter by reason of the fact that the maintenance of the public schools contributes to the betterment of living conditions and pr motes the progress in intelligence of the mining population. It is everywhere ob- servable that the resolutions passed do | not complain about the evident desire of | the members of the legislature to secure | a larger state revenue from the iron mining industry, but they do object to a change ‘in the manner of collecting the taxes. The contention is made tha tonnage tax is imposed it will nece carry with it the exemption of the from the realty assessment. and thus te away from St. Louis county 9 per ¢ nt of tie assessed valuation outside of the city of Duluth. ‘The towns on the ranges do not re sent any very considerable es! uation, while some of the school di assessed have an enormous \ Here at Hibbing is a case in) point. In the school district here the mines are down on the assessment roll | for nearly $27,000,000, while the total as- | sessment, including the village of Hib- bing, is but $700,000 more. The schouls and 3 are centered at the town here the | school population is out of all proportion to the taxable value of the property, with the mines excepted. Same Conditions Everywhere. The situation at Hibbing fairly typifies that on the ranges generally. At Eveleth ,000 is raised annually for school pu Taking the mines out of the ses. eesement, the property left subject to taxation would yield $540 annually for At Ely, on the Vermil- ol_ purposes. 1 Poe neerthe oldest mining community in the iron district, and where property values outside of the mines might be ex- pected to have attained a maximum of Pelue, 88 per cent of the assessment js represented by the mines. At Virginia 86 per cent of the assessed valuation is in the mines; at Chisholm 96 per cent. One- third of the entire assessed valuation of hich is not generally ne ‘sa great iron county-is in the that county where there is an $85,000 iets, and only 6 per cent of the assessed valuation is outside of the mines. ‘With these conditions, it is not to be wondered at that the people on the Janges are protesting and making prep- aration to assail the legislature by means Braldelegations and appeal to the fair- mindedness of the people of the state to help them to avert the impending calam- ity. There is everywhere the feeling that the enactment of such a measure as the propesed tonnage tax would not be pos- sible if the conditions were understood of the people at large. There is no attempt at tax dodging, no disposition to say that | the state is not entitled to the revenue it the,ts from the mines; everybody | is Billing to. subscribe. to ‘the proposition that the assessment on the mines might pe increased and a, larger revenue had be State purposes. The valuation of the mines in St. Louis county was raised to §75,000,000 last year, and the mining com- panies would interpose no serious ‘objec- tion to a further raise. The people would hand to prevent such an in- } crease as the authorities might propose. But there is a profound feeling of indig- nation here over the possibility of the legislature passing 4@ law that will be destructive of these communities—for the range communities must fall if the schools are closed, and the schools must close if the revenue from the mines is taken by the state. There fs po wealth | on the ranges except that in the mine; brought to the point of assimilation by ucation of the OnE of education would throw this vast body of ignorant foreigners back to the state in which they lived in Austria, Hungary, Italy and other countries of central Europe. That would inevitably pring about a condition of anarchy. ‘The people interested in the schools, the district officials and superintendents, fave undertaken the enlightenment of the people of the rest of the state as to conditions here. These men represent the pest citizenship on the ranges. They have created a remarkably efficient and mod- ern system of schools. They have puild- Ch largely and well, and the schools are | of the best modern type. Now confront- ed by the probability that their schoo may Ne destroyed they have gone actively to work to show the people of bee sota that the proposed legislation wow be as perniciously tyrannical as any ever for the destruction of a people. Their. ‘appeal will be to the people , supplementing t! through the press. ittecs that have been the committees Soren to labor with the legislature etly. a Charles B, Young who was widely wn in southern and western Minne- na in educational work before ings ord to the range, is superintendent of e Hibbing schools. He has sent out an apy ‘and protest to the press of the state in which he says: Hibbing’s Protest. “Apart from Duluth we have on the fron ranges of this county four high school towns, which employ 158 teachers and enroll over 5,000 pupils; also cight 4 school towns employing 68 teach- ers and enrolling over 2,500 pupils; also. 58 rural districts. In this district of Hibbi of the high school districts. We contain a territory of 279 square miles, main- taining two brick and six frame scTiools With 41 instructors and enrolling this year 1,350 pupils. The school building erected during the’ past ten years cost, $190,000 and of this $65,000 are still due to the State of Minnesota on building loans. “The children in the schools represent over twenty nations, are in a great ma- jority of ‘foreign birth and the enroll- ment has been growing at the rate of 35 per cent per annum. Within the dis- trict practically all of the assessable property is in the mines, except in the village of Hibbing where there is some value in the form of frame_ buildings and personal property. ‘The town has no Other industry than mining; the timber has all been removed from the adjacent land and to-day more than 92 per cent of the taxes are paid on the mines. If all of the mining property should be exempt from the school taxes, as under the proposed law, the schools of the Hib- bing district will have to be closed next year. Under the conditions that will fol- low the proposed law the district will be left burdened with a bonded debt to meet which will require all the available school revenue. If the board levies the maximum rate of school tax we will re- ceive too little to pay the state claims for interest and payment on the prin- cipal of the debt due the state funds. t is the educational and not the political question that is alarming this region. To turn loose upon the streets of these mining towns the children of nearly 100,000 people, mostly foreigners, who have more than the average eager- ness for an American education, is an act that is fraught with future disgrace and peril for the entire State of Minnesota.”” At the first of a of meetings to be held here to give expression to the feeling of the people and take such steps as may be necessary to preserve the schools, 200 people were present and committees to meet the junketing com- mittee from the legislature, to draw resolutions, to solicit funds for carrying on the work to go to St. Paul were ap- | The delegation that will go to | pointed. St. Paul from St. Louis county will in- elude five prominent citizens of Hibbing. At the meeting $553 were collected in small sums and this has been increased to nearly $800. Chisholm is Wrought Up. Chisholm, Minn., Feb.——A defense fund of has been’ raised to pay the ex- penses of a committee to go to St. Paul and protest to the legislature against the passage of the proposed tonnage tax which would destroy the schools of, Chi holm. The excitement that was caused by the discussion at the mass meeting on the tax question is somewhat abated by the belief that the legislature will not exercise its power to confiscate the revenjles of this school district by im- posing a tonnage tax when it is Informed of what the local conditions are. School Superintendent Minch is preparing a statement of the conditions which will show how utterly this district is de- pendent on the mines for the, mainte ance of the schoo! W. G. Shane, vi lage recorder sa} “We have nothing to tax but the mines. The population is almost wholly foreign. If we lose the revenues from the mines bankruptcy is sure and anarchy will fol- low the closing of the schools, Life would be impossible here without the schools. We will send a strong delega- tion to St. Paul and will make such a showing to the legislature as must avert this impending evil.” The assessed valuation of Chisholm, in- cluding the mines in the village is 13,166. Without the mines there would ? a valuation of about 3 per cent of this Means Death to Ely. Minn., Feb. —Following the ap- nent of a committee to go to St. against a return to the tonnage tax system of securing revenue for the state from the mines, Sehdol Superintendent C. L. Newberry has sent out an appeal (o the state. Mr. Newberry says: “Any attempt to withdraw iron proper- from taxation by ordinary methods, y attempt to divert monies raised taxation on iron properties for the pport of schools and local government, nnet be regarded as other than sound- ing the ath-knell of our public schools and public improvements in the great mining region of Northern Minnesota. “In withdrawing the iron mines from local taxation, or the taxes on iron prop- erties from local use, eight-ninths of Ely taxable property is withdrawn. The a a uation in the city is now $3, value outside of iron properties is $421,747. On this named sum would fall the burden of 1x sufficient to ous 1,000 children. point Paul to protest e the amount needed to run the Ely schools last year was $45,000, a school x of cent would be imposed. could not possibly stand this tax the sch ‘ax is imposed, enue from the method of direct tax ne to impose a tax of mills for all purposes if the mir taken out of the ass such a tax would be con alarming qu proposed law ‘will devastate our towns. The measure will starv dwarf our schools and public will necessitate the immediate clo: the schools in all the range towns.” Eveleth Joins the Prot'es' Eveleth, Minn., Feb. .—The experssed by the leading men of Eve ss meeting. held to take steps to prevent the enactment of a tonnage ‘tax law.is subsiding in the knowledge that eflective action is being taken to put the case of the range towns fairly a more minin; before the people of Minnesota. The various committees appointed by the ing have organized and practically business man is a committee of one to send out letters to friends through- out the state asking that information as to effect of a tonnage tax be spread. The Eveleth Business Men’s association is sending out literature showing the local conditions and the c effect of such ‘It would be ju Jessmore, “to pai upon the production of the fields of South- ern Minnesota and take the revenue for state purpose as to impose this nage tax and take from the communiti here, in which the weal i the ‘sources of their It is matter of life or death with these mining communities.” The school board is getting actively into the work of spreading information as to the actual conditions here, inspired by the knowledge that its present revenue of $58,000 for school purposes would be reduced under a tonnage law to about $540. Mayor Jessmore will head the delegation to St. Paul. Itasca County Would Be Hard Hit. _ Grand Rapids, Minn., Feb. .—Follow- ing the expression of feeling indulged in at the mass meeting held here Monday night to protest against the passage of the tonnage tax law Hattie F. Booth, county superintendent of schools, has sent out a statement of school conditions which shows that the proposed law would de- stroy the schdéols in this county in the districts where they are most needed. Says Mrs. Booth: “The mining property stands for one- third of the assessed valuation of the county. In Districts No. 2 and No. 9 there is practically no revenue except from the mines. In District 2 there is an assessed valuation of $2,828,431, of which 94 per cent is in the mines. ‘he state has loaned the district $100,000 to carry on the school work, and the re- moval of the mines from the assessment roll would close up the schools and bank- rupt the district. In Districts 2 and 9 mining is the one occupation of the peo- ple, and ¥ the bill becomes a law we will have to Close the schools. The effect of this would be the raising of a class of children who would become criminals and the state would have to support them in institutions.’ Itasca county is interested in the ton- nage tax as a business proposition to a reater extent than St. Louis county. ‘he mines here are just being developed at a high cost, much of the ore requiring special treatment. It is assumed that under a tonnage tax no new mines would be opened and the operating companies would not prosecute the development of low grade properties for many years, not until the ones which are less expensive in the mining had been removed from the ois ss i county will send a big delega- tion to St. Paul to fight the passage’ of the tonnage tax law. size and conditions ing is a fair sample ertain and pernicious ; PINE TREE BREAD. KAMSCHATKANS USE THE INNER BARK OF PINE TREES. Macerate It in Water and Bake Good, Wholesome Bread—The Pine Keeps the Blood Pure and The Body Healthy. In Kamschatka the people live in earth-covered pits. Mr. Kennan com- pares the sound of their language to that of water running out of a narrow- mouth jug. Their bread is made from . the inner bark of the Pine Tree, mace- rated in water and baked without flour They are a hardy race, the Pine keep- ing the blood pure and the various or- gans of the body in a healthy con tion. Consumption is unknown among them. t A noted specialist in throat and lung trouble, who established a camp for consumptives in the Pine Woods of Maine, and whose remarkable cures there have attracted great attention from the medical world, says that one- half ounce of the Pure Virgin Oil of Pine, mixed with two ounces of Gly- cerine and one-half pint of good Whis- ky and used in teaspoonful doses, will heal and strengthen the lungs, break up a cold in twenty-four hours, and cure any cough that is curable. The ingredients can be secured from any prescription druggist at small cost. Inquiry at the prescription depart- | ment of a leading local druggist elicit- ed the information that the Pure Vir- gin Oil of Pine is put up only in haif- ounce vials for dispensing. Each vial is securely sealed in a round wooden case, with engraved wrapper, showing the name—Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure) guaranteed under the Food and Drug act, June 30, 1906. Prepared only by. the Leach Chemical Co., Cincinnati, O. —plainly printed thereon. There are many rank imitations of Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure), which are being put out under various names, such as Con- centrated Oil of Pine, Pine Balsam, ete. Never accept these as a substi- tute for the Pure Virgin Oil of Pine, as they will invariably produce nausea and never effect the desired results. Anything for a Change. Greening—I thought your doctor recommended a change of climate for you. Browning—So he did; but as 1! couldn’t arrange my affairs so I could get away, I changed doctors. DON’T DESPAIR. Read the Experience of a Minnesota Woman and Take Heart. If your back aches, and you fee! | sick, languid, weak and miserable day after day — don't worry. Doan’s Kid- ney Pills have cured thousands of women in the same condition. Mrs. A. Heiman of Stillwater, Minn., says: “But for Doan’s Kidney Pills I would not be living now. They cured me in, 1899 and I’ve been! I used to have such pain The kidney secretions were much disor dered, and I was so far gone that I was thought to be at death’s door. Since Doan’s Kidney Pills cured me I feel as if I had been pulled back from the tomb.” ' Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box | Fester-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. well since. in my back that once I fainted. Where He Failed. Mrs. Harper—Your husband is an expert accountant, isn’t he? 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