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Show HORSE KNEW LAND WAG NEAR. THE LION'S WHELP Animal's Instinct Better Than the Observation of Man. When Thomas McGulness, a well- known horseman of Philadelphia, went to Europe some time ago, he took a blooded hors with hliu. The animal was In a specially prepared tall on deck and enjoyed the trip despite the rough weather. When Mr. McGulness thought land should soon be sighted, he asked the captain how far the ship was from the Irish coast. The commander of the steamer, In his usual gruf manner, replied: "Your horse will tell you; watch him." "The owner of the animal could not understand what the captain meant, and he was not particularly pleased with the answer. Finally, however, a couple of hours before land was the horse, which was a magnificent bay, poked bis head through the grating and, stretching his neck, whined loudly. "There you are," said the captain to Mr. McGulness; "your horse smells the land." " The c&ptain. In explaining the odd occurrence, said that the thoroughbred detected the odor from pasture lands that was wafted far seaward, and that horses on board ocean steamers always give the first signal when land is near. A Story of Cromwell's Tim BY AMELIA E. BARR. Author of "The 5Vw of Orange Ribbon." "I. Thoj and the. Other One.' "The Maid of Maiden Lane." Etc. (Copyright, 1901, by Dodd, Mead li Comiaiy. All right reserved.) a"utmn found the family still at de CHAPTER XIII. (Continued.) Then he turned to Matilda and led Wick. Stephen had escaped, as had her to a sofa, and comforted her; and also his companion conspirators. Ma- the men-servan- ts t ame and took away son and Blythe; and Matilda could not the dead body and laid it, as Anthony but compliment herself a little on her share in securing their safety. wished, on his old master's bed. And in the great salon, now cleared Towards the middle of September of its offending visitors, Cymlin sat Sir Thomas roused himself from his for you, T am Incited! How can you bear it?" "I have cast over it the balm of prayer; I have tint it up in my heart, and given my heart to God. I have said to God, 'Do as thoff wilt with me.' r am content, and t have found light in sorrow, brighter than all the flaring lights of Joy." "Then you believe him to be dead?" "Yes. There is no help against such a conclusion, and yet, Matilda, there conies to me sometimes, such an instantaneous, penetrating sense of his presence, that I must believe he is not far away," and her confident heart's still fervor, her tremulous smile, her eyes like clear water full of the sky. affected Matilda with the same apprehending. And there was such a haunt ing sweetness about the chastened girl that Matilda looked round wran- deringly; it was aa if there were freshly gathered violets tn the room. She remained 6llent. and Jane, after a few minutes' pause, said, "I must go home, now, and rest a little. Tomorrow I am bid to Hampton Court." And you will come and tell me all about your visit. The world turned upside down is an entertaining spec tacle. Ann Clarges the market worn an In one place, and Elizabeth Crom well in another " "The Cromwells are my friends, Ma tilda. And I will assure you that namnton Court never saw a more worthy queen than Elizabeth Crom comforting Matilda and finally ques- life among flowers and 6hrubs, and tioned her in a way that compelled said he must go back to London. He her to rely, In some measure, upon had a sudden desire for his wharf and him. his office, and the bearded, outlandish "Stephen was here yesterday?" he men that he would meet there. And as the ladies also wished to return to asked. "Part of the day. He left here at London, the beautiful home quickly four In the afternoon." put on an air of desertion. Boxes lit mail-rldeunder the "Yet oath, tered the hall; they were only waiting should sworo this morning that it was Ste- until the September fit become roads the and pass away, phen who robbed the mall." for travel. She laughed queerly. At this unsettled time, and In a "But if it was not Stephen, who was looked with It?" he insisted, and he driving shower, Cymlin and Doctor such a steady, confident gaze Into Ma- Verity were seen galloping up the tilda's face that she crimsoned to he? avenue one evening. Every one wasThree Doctors' Opinions. finger-tips- . She could not meet his glad at the prospect of news and comBuffalo, N. Y., Feb. 15th. Physi- eyes, and she could not speak. pany, Sir Thomas so much so, that he cians have accepted Dodd'a Kidney Stewent to the door to meet tne Doctor. "I wonder who played at being Pills as the standard remedy for dis- phen de Wick." he said gently. And "Nobody could be more welcome," he eases of the Kidneys and kindred the silence between them was bo sen- said; "and pray, what good fortune complaints. II. H. Dunaway, M. D., sitive that neither accusation nor con- brings you here? of Benton. 111., says: "I come to put my two nephews in fession was necessary. "Dodd's Kidney Pills cured me of me. Huntingdon Grammar school. I want "I wish that you had trusted Diabetes after everything else had You inlpht have done so and you them to sit where Cromwell sat," he failed and I was given up to die. I know it." answered. have since prescribed them In my said "Ah! this great Cromwell!" was buried, his will After Anthony regular practice for every form of was read. He left everything he pos Lady Jevery; "but if he has the wily Kldnoy Trouble and have never as yet essed to the Lady Matilda de Wick, Mazarin at his disposal, why can he known them to fall." no one offered a word of dissent. not find out something about that poor Jesse I Limes, M. D.. St. John, and Has Col. Ayrton re Sir Thomas seemed unusually de- Lord Neville? Kansas, pays: also Is he or missing?" and his lady asked him "If he turned, "I prescribed Dodd's Kidney Pills pressed some time ago. He returned "He dissatisfied?" in was any way for the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. is the death discovered nothing of importance.' "It answered. be "No," McBrlde of this place who suffered "Then I suppose we shall see no the young Lord Neville that gives from Epileptic fits following Scarlot-lna- ; of more of Lord Neville. I am very sor constant me regret." results were miraculous; I have was a good youth, and he loved He "Is he dead? Alas! Alas! Such a ry. never seen anything like It." Swaffham very honestly. Incred Jane is It happy, handsome youth. Leland Williamson, M. D., this evening the A week after said ible." Jevery. Lady Ark., says: own house, and Main their were to the "I thought he had run away "Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best to Jane Swaffham word sent had tilda and my with your gold medicine I know of for all forms of Americas see her. She to wanted she that Matilda, 6aid aunt's Jewels," Kidney Disease. I believe In using on various heart him subjects her I opened "I wroneed him. wronged the remedy that relieves and cures my erlevouslv." answered Sir Thomas to Jane, more especially on Anthony and not or ethical whether patients, I always prescribe Dodd'a Kidney Pills and can testify that they In variably accomplish a permanent and perfect cure of all Kidney Coa, r, rain-stor- . York-tow- n, mplaint." Smallpox as "The Good Wife." To this day smallpox is alluded to in the outer Islands of the Hebrides as "bhean mhath" ("the good wife"), a form of cmphemism, the idea of which is that. In order to escape the ban of the disease, It should be spoken of respectfully. Caledonlaa Medical Journal. The Editor of th Ratal "w York Than whom there Is no belter Potato says: "Salzer'o Expert In the Country, earEarliest Potato Is the earliest of 38 liest sorts, tried by me. yte idlna- 4C4 bu. Wisconsin per acre." Halzer's Early 736 yielded for the Rural New Yorker bu. rT acre. Now Salzer has heavier yielding varieties than above. See Halxer'a catalog. iter saso lOo is stamps and this notice to the John A. Sftlicf Seed Co., I .a Crosse. Wis., and receive lots of farm need samples ana men Dig of rare catalog, which Is brim full and farmer, things for the Krrtener easily worth $100.00 to every wide- awake farmer. It describes Balzer'e Teonlnte. yieldacre, of rich rreen ing 160,000 lb. 1t fodder. 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Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wi., and they will send you free a sample of this Wheat and other farm seed, together with their (rest alone worth 1100 00 to any catalog, wide-awafarmer. (W. N. U.) ke Italian Newspapers. Italian newspapers have few subscribers. They are sold mostly la I he street. Money refunded for each package of rUTNAM FADELESS DYES If unsatisfactory. Potato Alcohol for Autos. The London Engineer says that the production of potatoes 1b Germany will bo evn more Important la the fotaro on account of the Increasing consumption of potato alcohol for automobile purposes. little brat "That wretch of a woman at The Lynn's dtamatlc life and death, and Hague never paid him a farthing, the money and land he had left her. never even saw him. She Intended to "Of course." she said. "It Is only temrob me and slay him for a thousand porary. When the King conies home, pounds, but under question of tho law Stephen will be Karl de Wick, and I shall will'ngly resign all to him. In she confessed her crime." 'I kissed the rosy "What do you think has happened "I think robbery and murder. Someone has known, or suspected, that he had treasure with him. He has been followed and nsfasslnaled. or he has fought and been killed, and little Jane Swaffham in slowly dying of grief and cruel suspense. She loves him, and they were betrothed." There was a short silence, and then Matilda said: "Many brave young lords have gone out from home and friends these past years, and never come back. Is Neville's life worth more than my brother's life, than thousands of other lives? I trow not!" But In the privacy of her room she could not preserve this temper. "1 wonder If Rupert slew him," she muttered. And anon "He would think It no wrong only a piece of good luck. "He might also be jealous of Cluny. X spoke often of the youth's beauty t did that out of simple mischief but Rupert is touchy, sometimes cruel always eager for gold. Poor Jane!" CHAPTER XIV. A Little Further On. y The settlement of the affair of Thomas Lynn occupied Sir naweh longer than ho expected, a)4 the An-tton- X oortlonatelv earlier. Ihe meantime I Intend to carry out Anthony's plan for the Improvement of the estate." When this subject had been taieI well over, Jane named cautiously the lover In Frame. Much to her surprise, Matilda pleased to enlarge on the topic. She spoke herself of Prince Hupert, and of the poverty and suffering Charles' Court were enduring, and she regretted with many strong expressions Hupert's presence there. "All he makes Is swallowed up In the bottomless Stuart pit," sue said; "even my youth and beauty have gone the same hopeless road." "There was a queer story abont 8tephen robbing the mail and tearing up the three warrants for Ihe arrest of Blythe and Mason and himself," said Jane. "Did you believe that. Jane?" "The mall was robbed. The warrants were never found. Stephen has a daredevil temper at times. When did you hear from him?" "I hear from him very often now, Jane, for It is the old, old story money, money, money. But I am not going to strip de Wick a second time for them," then drawing Jane ckse to her, and taking her hand she said with an impulsive tenderness: "Jane, dear Jane, I do not wish to open a wound afresh, hut I am son-- Cough ami Stop tho Oft' tlktl WnrLl l Laxative Broiuo Quiuino TaUota. Price 25a for Steamer. Low Prlco building a steamer recently made by a great English shipbuilder at tho rate of $28.75 per ton. This is probably the lowest price that has ever been quoted or accepted for a properly equipped cargo steamer, and is but very little more than half what would have been asked for such a vessel, two years ago. A contract for of 6,000 tons was Roothln Mr. Wlnilow'i reduon ta Forrtilldn-- WieiUIn, ofiu w thuiiumi, 5W botU. aaunuiaiiou, ally plu, curwi lad collu. "We were in London Rtreeta, somewhere near the waterside. Blake was with me and Blake is going to Portsmouth to take command of an expedition." "Where to?" asked Mrs. Claypole, "Well, Elizabeth, that is precisely the question this mob of women wanted me to answer, You are as bad as they were. But they had some ex cuse." "I'ray what excuse, sir, that I havo not?" "They were the wives of the sailor men going with our admiral on his expedition. And they got all around me, they did Indeed, and one handsome woman with a little lad in her arms-s- he told mo to look well at him because he was called Oliver after me took hold of my bridle and said, 'You won't trample me down. General, for the lad's take, and 'tla but natural for us lo want to know where you arc sending our husbands. Come, Genet al. tell us wives and mothers where the ship are going to? And there was Robert Blake laughing and thinking It fine sport, but I stood up in my stirrup and called out aa loud as I could, 'Women, ran you be quiet for one mirnte?' They said, 'Aye, to be sure we can. if you'll speak out. General.' Then I said to them, "You want to know where the ships and your men are going. Listen to me! Tje Ambassadors of France and Spain would, each of them, give a million pound to know that. Do you understand, women? And for a moment there was a dead silence, then a shout of comprehension and laughter, and the woman at my bridle lifted the boy Oliver to me and 1 took him In my arms and kissed the rosy little brat, and then another shout and tho mother said. General, you be right welcome to my share of the secret,' 'and mine!' "and mine!' 'and mine!' they ail shouted, and the voices of those women went to my heart and brsln like wine, they did that They titdo me glad; 1 believe t shouted with them." (To b continued. - Smum, Many Dinner Hours. Englishmen in Queen Elizabeth's time dined at 11 a. m. and Shakespeare rung up the curtain at the Globe theater at 1 p. m.. the performance ending between 5 and 6 o'clock. By the time of Charles II. dinner had advsnced to o'clock and the play began at 3 p. m., A century later as Pepys records. Horace Walpole complained of dinner being as late as 4 o'clock and evening not beginning until 6 o'clock. Up to tho middle of the last ceutury the the aters opened at fi:80, dinner being pro- - I have a saucy tongue, Jane do not mind when it backbites; there Is no one like you. I love you well!" These words with clasped hands and kisses between the two girls. Then Matilda's face became troubled and she sat down alone, with her brows drawn together and her hands tightly clasped. "Did Rupert kill Neville?" she ask ed herself. "Oh. me. I do fear it. He lied to me, then; of course he lied; but that was no new thing for him to do. What snail I do?" Sue went over and over this train of thought, and ended always with the same Irreso lute, anxious question, "What shall do?" The next day Jane went to Hampton Court. She was conducted to an anartmect in one of the suites for merly occupied by Queen Henrlett As she dressed herself she Maria. thought of the great men and women Who had lived and loved, and Joyed and sorrowed under the ancient roof of Wolsey's splendid palace. In a brilliantly lighted room Mr. and Mrs. Claypole and Mr. and Mrs. Rich ard Cromwell and Doctor John Owen, and Mr. Milton, and Dr. Verity were grouped around her highness the Protector's handsome wife. She sat at the Protector's right hand, and Jane Swaffham sat at his left. He was In an unusually happy mood and Doctor Owen, remarking It, Admiral Blake said. "They had been mobbed mobbed by women and tho Protector had the best of It and that was a thing to pleasure any man." Then Mrs. Cromwell laughed and said: "Your highness must tell us all now, or we shall be very discontented. whom vlotp von. to meet a mob of j to htm?" riso's Cure for Consumptloa is an Infallible J colds. N. Y. eiedleluo tor eoush Oceun drove. N. J., Feb. 17. 1U00. well . In-rar- Strange Use of a Suicide's Skull.. rather gruesome Highland prac tice for treating epilepsy is the drink ing out of a suicide's skull. In a cer tain churchyard there is a suicide's skull lying perdu, the exact where abouts beipg known only to one or wo. privileged individuals. It is In variably sent for when a caso of epi lepsy occurs. A a.VTOf a THE 8TREET3 OF PEKIN. Odd Sights Seen In the Dirtiest City In the World An American in the orient writes: "Pekln la said to be tbo filthiest city In the world and it Is. The Blreets, which apparently have never been re- paired, fairly swarm with human and of stately animal life; caravans camels from Mongolia and Tibet; tho Pekinese cart a creation of Its own, with no springs, but drawn by sleek mules in gyly caparisoned harness with outriders in mushroom hats and red plumes, the mafoo running along side or mounted on small donkeys; coolies without number bearing bur dens on t'.ielr heads or shoulders; richly adorned sedan chairs bearing some mandarian or high Chinese officlal; the biggest Chinamen riding the smallest of donkeys with Jingling bells: and throuch It all. underneath end around, swarmed a mass of Chinese men. women and children; the Manchu women In gorgeous ap parel with their peculiar headdress, and with faces rough and powdered. Such a sicht rannot be seen In any other country, nor in any other city r.ml.lnnl hm nf enreeoUSncSS ana filth, magnificence and squalor, and a!mt nnbel" enable." Phenomenon of the Tropics. curious phenomenon has been noticed in the tropics that can neverA mlnbe seen at higher latitudes. lro shaft at Sjimhrerete MfllfiC. Is almost exactly on the Tropic of can cer, and at noon on June 21 th sun shines to the Jotfom. lighting up tho well for a vertical depth of 1,100 feet or more. SURE A The Robust Physique Can Stand More Coffee Than a Weak One. A youne Yirplnlan says: "Harlot k naturally ro'ijusi constitution far above the average and not having a nervou temperament, my system was. able to resist the Inroads upon It by the use of coffee for some years but finally the strain began to tell. "For ten years I have been employ ed as telegraph operator and type writer by a railroad In thl section and until two years ago I had used cof- ree continually rrom tne lime I was eight years old, nearly 20 years. "The work of operating the tele graph key is a great strain upon tho nerves and after the day's work was over I would feel nervous. Irritable, run down and toward the Iat suffer ed greatly from insomnia and neu ralgia. As I never Indulged In Intoxi cating liquors, drugs or tobacco In any form I came to the conclusion that coffee and tea were causing tho of my nervous gradual break-dowsystem and having read an article In the Medical Magazine on the composi tion of coffee and Its toxic effect upo the system. I wa fully convinced that Coffee was the cause of my trouble. "Seeing Postnm spoken of as not having any of tho deteriorating effect of coffee I decided to give up tho ttimnlant and give Postum a trial. Tho result was agreeably surprising. After a time my nerves became wonderfully strong, I can do all my work at tbo telegraph key and typewriter with far greater ease than ever before. Ky weight has incrased 33 pounds, my general health keeping pace with It, and 1 am a new man and a better one.' Name given by Postum Co , Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Look In each pkg. for tho famous little book. 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