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Show 7 " P' in BEST EVER WRITTEN s!ivJ'-r- t woull b- - my only resource. ! I was silent after tMs. looking out l The si in me Is eminently Glenartnlaa! ' toward the sea lh.it had called me And ho 1 t is s wuilbltva house, a since my earliest dreams of the world hundred acres of land, $10,003. and . that lay beyond It. iloul.t ill claim igatnsl a Protestant Its a poor stake, Glenarm," renun who hoodwinked my grandfather marked Pick-rin- g consolingly, and 1 Into setting up s school for her. Hies; wheeled upon Mm. 1 suppose you think it a poor stake! you heart, man. bo far as my Inheri-- ; tancs Is concerned It would have bee-- i I suprose you can't see anything la Outside the rain came down in a money in my pocket to have stayed in that old man's Kf-- i bdjond bis money; It was gentle, persistent drizzle. but I don't care a curse wnat my inAfrica. heritance is! 1 never obeyed any of a gray day and n gray world and the "Thiit's about the else of It last of the season at the summer re"But the personal property la all my grandfather's wlahes In his lifesort. mine, anything that's loose on the, time, but now that he's dead his last Umph!" mourned the girl with unwish ! is I'm out mandatory. going place. Perhaps my grandfather plant-nerves. I foresee a happy 24 steady ed old plate and government bonds' there to sitend a year if I die for 1L hours. All the magazines in the Just to pique the curiosity of his heirs, Do you get my Idea? house are read and there are no sup' be! You successors and assigns It would "Humph! always were a with In the plies to experiment I fancy In keeping!" stormy petrel, he sneered. chafing-disline, all through our I had walked to the window and. it will be safer to keep our most agreenerveless habit of eating at the holooked out across the city. As I turned ; able acquaintance on a strictly busitel. The bridge fiends will begin to I ness If terms basis found the bent you accept suddenly Pickerings eye get In their deadly work presently, of the will" upon me with curious Intentness. II and then I shall go quite mad! Would Of course I accept them! Do you bad never llkd his eyes; they were! that somebody would ask me to do too steady. When a man always meets think I am going to make a row, resomething sensible, so that I might your gaze tranquilly and readily, it is fuse to fulfill that old man's last wish! really enjoy myself! j I gave him enough trouble In his life Just as well to be wary of him. without him in his ralThere was a sharp ring at the rudisappointing Yes; no doubt you will find the After a brief and extelephone. place literally packed with treasure, j grave. I suppose youd like to have clamatory conversation with that inhe said, and laughed. "When you find me fight the will; but I'm going to disstrument she rushed madly in various j appoint you. anything you might wire me." an elderly mackHe amlled; the idea seemed to give! lie said nothing, but played with hia directions, grabbing rubbers and other outdoor supintosh, . so him never I had disliked him pleasure. pencil. plies snd falling Into them simultaAre you sure there's nothing else?" j heartily; he was so smug and comfortI asked. No substitute, no codicil?" j able. His office breathed the very neously, while she answered the irritable questions of the rest of the if you know of anything of the kind spirit of prosperity. I wished to finish household. It's your duly to produce It We have my business and get away. "Well, gasped the girl who was I suppose the region out there has exhausted the possibilities. I'll admit curled up In the window seat in a that the provisions of the will are un- a high death rate. Howa the masilk snd chiffon house gown, with a usual; your grandfather waa a pecu- laria?" box of candy near, I'm glad to disunderNot alarmingly prevalent, I , liar man in many respects; but he cover was thoroughly sane and his faculties stand. Theres a summer resort over ment your idea of sensible amuseon a wet and horrid day! on one side of Lake Annandale. The were all sound to the last. Yon're crazy! "He treated me a lot better than I place is really supposed to be whole"Bosh! politely replied tho girl in some. I believe a J heartache with grandyour said, deserved, dqn't ragged mackintosh and disrepthat I had not known often in my irre- father had homicide in mind In send- the utable souwester hat Just before she sponsible life; but I could not afford ing you there. slammed out of the door and splashto show feeling before Arthur Picker"No, he probably thought the rusti- ed down to the dock extending Into cation would make a man of me. Must ing. . I picked up the copy or the will and I do my own victualing? I suppose Ill the Inland bay. "We're not going to fish in here they're going to sail the examined it It was undoubtedly au- be allowed to eat Bates can cook for you. Hall sup Black' Cat out into Lake Michigan. thentic; it bore the certificate ol the And the perch are biting fine! Out of the wet grayness the Black Cat swept up to the dock, her sails dripping, her crew Jubilant At the tiller sat the skipper, disguised from head to foot in violent yellow oilskins. Perched by the mainmast in attire matching the first young woman's was the girl with the aggravating curly hair. The tall man and the man with the pipe, being green bands and city landlubbers, did weird things with ropes under the impression that they were helping sail the A TALENTED WRITER g-- r ! PRESCRIPTION CAN EASILY STORYS ANYONE WHICH MIX. Said to Promptly Overcomo Kidney and Bladder Affllctlone Shako Simple Ingredients Well In Bottle. THE HOUSE OF THOUSAND A CANDLES Mix the following by shaking well tn a bottle, and take In teaspoonful doses after meals and at bedtime: fluid Kxlract Dandelion, one-hal- f ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. A prominent physiclun is the authority that these simple, harmless Ingredients can be obtained at nominal cost from any druggist even in the smaller towns. The mixture Is said to cleanse and strengthen the dogged and Inactive Kidneys, overcoming Ilackache, Bladder weak uess and Urinary trouble of all kinds. If taken before the stage of O rights disease. Those who have tried thin say It positively overcomes pain in the back, cloara the urine of sediment snd regulates urination, especially st night, Icuring even the worot forms of bladder weakness I Every man or woman here who feels a trial, as It Is said to do wonders for many persons The Scranton (Ps) Times was first to print this remarkable prescription. In October, of 1906, since when all the leading newspapers of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburg and other cities have made many announcements of it to their readers Helping Impecunious Man. "If you happen to have theater tickets that haven't coat yon anything," said the bachelor girl, "and don't want te take a woman, you must diplomatically go about asking some man you know If you want bis company. If be is a man without money, and be generally is If ho Is very interesting, he will have a dosen engagements that prevent his accompanying you. He wants to go, you understnnd, but "This is what you must do. You must explain to him quickly, In the samo breath that you ask him, that you have a dinner engagement beforehand and that yon must come home straight after the theater. Yon cant possibly atop anywhere for anything in the way of refreshments It la out of the question. "You'll be surprised to see tbe magical suddenness with which his previous engagements taka to themselves wings and disappear." New York Press Husbands Ghost Stops Wadding. Declaring that her dead huahand had oome to her In spirit and warned her against marrying again. Mrs. Mary Lincoln of Wilmerdlng, widow of Charles Lincoln, refused, to proceed with her intended marriage to Pa it, also of Wilmerdlng, and the guests were dismissed, says a Pittsburg dfs.atch to the New York Times A little over a year ago her husband died. After a brief period of mourning aha agreed to marry Mr. Parker, lie furnished a bouse and invitations were Issued. The other afternoon Mr. Parker found her in tears Her mother said that some time during the previous night her daughter had come sobbing into her room and declared that she had Just been visited by He tbe spirit of her dead husband. bad warned her against marrying again, she said, and when she protested the spirit had taken hold of her arms and held her until ahe promised that ahe would give up the marriage. She asserted that her arms ached from the encounter. Jo-aep- h Fashionable Crass of Switxerland. Lunch and dinner parties above the douds in Bwitserland. Prince Pie f Savoy recently gave a lunch in honor of Prince and' Princess Nicola at Greece, at the Bernina hospice, - feet high, overlooking St Mor-it7,6llbceully a Mr. and Mrs. II. Murray entertained a party on the tup of the Brevent, 8,285 feet above Chamonix, each guest receiving a bunch of edelweiss as a souvenir. Alpine parties have also been given this season on the Pilatus, Rochers d Nays, Brienser Bothell snd Gornergrat. s yrupffigs OmrifSeraia Cleanse the Swtcm I Effect-ually.JJispo- LS Isolds and neait ar.lics Jug to Coivstmntion; Acts naturally, acts Truly as a Laxativb. I3est forMenv(imrn and Child and Old. et its jtenpjicial Effect m rro-ybu- nd AIwqvs Luv tlie (renmne t hid lias ilie full name of tiic Com- - "CALIFORNIA Ea Syrup Co. byufwm it i& Pont manufactured. printed on toe norkic, ofpvMry SOLD BT ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS onm aize only, regular price 50fF bottles I taker el TAB HAIR bAtttKU.N. MOU rlKfcl IMm bf C II MCE." ZEL0A tic. iLiitM'JMMTiil Co. CHAPTER I. Continued. I had no Intention of allowing him to see that I was irritated. 1 drew out my cigarette case and passed It across, the table. After you! Theyre made quite for me in Madrid." "You forget that 1 never use tobacco In any form. You always dbl miss a good deal of the Joy of living," I observed, throwing my smoking match into bis waste-pape- r basket, to hts obvious annoyance. "Well, I'm the bad boy of the ; but I'm really sorry my Inheritance lias a string tied to It. I'm about out of money. 1 suppose you wouldn't advance me a few thousands on my expectation "Not a cent." he declared, with quite unnecessary vigor; and I laughed again, remembering that in my old appraisement of him goneroslty had not been represented in large figures. "It's not In keeping with your grandfather's wishes that I should do so. You must have spent .a good bit of money In your tiger hunting exploits," be added. I have spent all I had," I replied amiably. "Thank God, I'm not a clam! I've seen the world and paid tor it, and I ask nothing of yon. You undoubtedly share my grandfathers idea of me, that I'm a wild man who cant sit still or lead an orderly, decent life; but I'm going to give you a terrible What's the also of dlsapiiointmenL the estate?" Pickering eyed me uneasily, I thought and began playing with a pencil. I never liked Pickerings hands; they were thick and white and better kept than I like to see a man's hands. I fear it's going to be disappointing, boxes here I in his have been able to find only about ten thousand dollars' worth of securities. Possibly quite possibly we were all lecelved In the amount of his fortune. Sister Theresa wheedled large fjumi ut of him, and he spent, as you will see, a small fortune on the hotjse at Annandale without flnlahlng At. It wasn't a cheap proposition, an In its unfinished condition valueless. You must filenarm gave away money in his lifetime. Moreover, he established your father. You know what he left, It was not a annul fortune as those things are reckoned." I waa restless under this recitill. My father's estate had been of reapifctable size, and I had dissiiiated the whole of It My conscience pricked mb as I recalled an Item of fiO.OOO that I had spent somewhere grandly on an expedition that I led, with considerable to myself, at least, satisfaction through the Sudan. But Pickering's words smaxed me. IyCt me understand you, I said, bending toward him. My grandfather was supposed to be rich, and yet you tell me you find little property. Sister Thereat got money from him to help build a school. How much waa that? Fifty thousand dollars. It was an open account. Ills books show the advances, but he took no notes. And that claim Is worth T "It is good as against her individually. But ahe contends Yea, go on! I had struck the right note. He was annoyed by my persistence and hia apparent discomfort pleased me. She refuses to imy. She says Mr. Glenarm made her a gift of the money.'' That's possible. Isnt it? lie was forever making gifts to churches. Schools snd ' eologlcal seminaries were a sort oi weakness with him." We'll iKtss that. If yon got this money th- - --state is worth 860.003, plus lie value of the land out thee- - at Is Annand-- U and Glenarm Hous pia-lall- slory-ltooks- that the kidneys are not strong nr acting in a healthy manner should mix thLi prescription at home and give it -- NICHOLSON By MEREDITH 1 h ! ; ! - boat Down the bay the boat fled as if anxious to leave behind the dreary monotony of the shore. As she melted through the channel out Into the big lake and began to dip down into the swells, while the fresh brdezr struck them full in the face, how her crew sighed with Joy. Out a half mile, they went to the end of the breakwater that huge government loomed above them like the wall of a Then came a gymnastic Interval while they escaladed that forbidden height Finally all five landed on the great board walk on top of it, breathless. It was ten minutes later that tho girl with the curly hair took a comprehensive survey of herself and the others and chuckled. The five sat in a decorous row at the extreme end of the breakwater, their feet dangling 20 feet above the wavea Five fishpoles bent outward and a slanting rain beat against their rubber coats and brigandish hats. Before them stretched Lake Michigan to a faint horizon line, as venturesome craft marring the threatening expanse of its forbidding waves, that were tumbling and hamiqpring against the stanch wall beneath them. A shrieking gull flashed across their heads and shot out into the lake. And to think, murmured the girl in the ragged mackintosh in the awed tones of one delivered from a great horror, "that back at the cottage in room they are playing that shut-ubridge and thinking they are having a good time! Oh, something has eaten the minnow off my hook! Tbe hours wore on and the lake The capricious perch grew rougher. bad business elsewhere, and sturdily refused all lures. "Fish. remarked the man In the yellow oilskins, decisively, are really the least necessary thing when you I don't rare if I never go fishing. catch any. The man with the pipe Jeered. Yon're Jealous. he said, for he alone To be sure. I've robbed had a bite. tho cradle of this four-incperch, but I shall string it on an Inch rope and take It home. It represents a half day's hard work by five insane Individuals, and so it merits consideration." Down the slippery wall they slid to the deck of tho Black Cat and with one accord headed her directly out Into Lake Michigan for a breathless spin. The waves rolled over her side and splashed her draggled crew. She dlp-le- d her nose under the water and, recovering, shook herself like a water The dog before she plunged again. sails strained in the lively wind. Tho skipper hauled at the tiller, the green hands Jumped faithfully for the main and jib sheets at his shouts, anil there was nothing In the world but rushing water and wind and themselves diving through it. The girl In the ragged mackintosh utened the cottage door gayly. I far wet hair straggled into her eyes, her wet coat clung and she was a very dfs reputable sight. Tre had the time of my life, she told tbe card players toasting by tbe open fire, who regarded her with dis- trust-compan- y worth" "Thor i.u have me!" '.he first lightness he had It put me on guard. It wa shown, I should like an Idea of its value. Even nn unfinished house la worth something. "Land out there Is worth from $100 to $150 an acre. There's an even hundred acres. I'll be glad to have your appraisement of the house when you get there." Humph! You defter my Judgment. The loose stuff there is Pickering. worth how murh?" It's all in the library. Your grandfather's weakness was architecture " I Interposed, re"So I remember! calling my stormy Interviews with John Marsha!! Glenarm over my choire of a profession. lit his last years he turned more and more tu his tmoks. lie placed out there what is, I suppose, the finest col lection of books relating tn archliec-lur- e to be found In this country. That was Ids chief hobby, after church affairs, as you may remember, and It hard. But he derived a great deal of satisfaction front his studies." I laughed again; It was easier tn laugh than to cry over the situation. "I suvposn he wanted me to sit down there, surrounded by works ou architecture, with the bins that a study of MRS. E. IM. TINNEY Mrs. E. M. Tinttey, story wHter, E. N ueva BL, San Antonio, Tea., 80S writes During I'.IOI I suffered form nasal eaturrh, s hirli various other remedies failed to relieve.. Six bolLlus if Benina, which I took, entirely cored mo, tlie catarrh disaiipearing and never returniur. u 1 therefore cheerfully mum mend Peruns to all similarly slliiiaed. Mrs. Ellen Nagle, 414 4th street, Green Bay, 14 in, writes: I have often heard Be runs and it ia more widely known here than sny other medicine, fait I never knew what a splendid medicine it really was until a few weeks ago when I caught a bail cold which nettled all over me. The doctor wanted to prahcrilie, but I told bun I was going to try Reruns and sent for a bottle and tried iL "1 felt much 1 letter the next morning and within five days Lliad not a truce of any lameness or anv cough. I consider it the finest cough rem tdy.r lKnrtTA. Tabi.jets: Some people prefer to take tablets, rather than to take medicine in a fluid form. Such people can obtain IVrnna tablets, which represent the solid medicinal ingredients of Peru ns. Model for Rest of the Force.. While OU City cannot, perhaps,, boast of being a strictly cold-wattown, she can, we believe, lay claim to having among her residents the champion, temperance man of the state, if not of the entire country. Not only has he never drank any kind of splritous or malt liquors, but he has never allowed any tea, coffee, soup or any kind of milk to ass his lips since he was a child. He is a colored man, waa born in slavery, and because his father frequently drank more whisky than was good for him, he resolved when a boy to never drink anything but water. And he has reliHe is a giously kept the resolution. member of the Oil City police force and his name Is Major Franklin. OU City (Pa.) Billiard r. Found Pickering's I Eyes Bent Upon Me With Curloue Intentness. clerk of W'abana county, Indiana. The ply the necessities. I'll Instruct him witnesses were Thomas Bates and to obey your orders. I assume you'll not have many guests, in fact. he Arthur Pickering. "Who Is Bates T I asked, pointing to studied the back of his hand intently, "while that Isn't stipulated, I doubt tho man's signature. it was your grandfather's idea whether discovOne of your grandfathers eries He's In charge of the house out that yon should surround yourself With boisterous companions!" I there, and a trustworthy fellow. He's a fair cook, among other things. I supplied the words In my cheerfullest don't know where Mr. Glenarm got tone. "No; my conduct shall be ex- Bates, but he had every confidence in emplary, Mr. Pickering," I added, with him. The man was with him at the affable irony. He picked up a single sheet of thin end. paper and passed It across typewritten A picture of my grandfather dying, It was a formal acquiestable; tbe alone with a servant while I, his only cence in the provisions of the wliL kinsman, wandered In strange lands, had prepared it in advance was not one that I could contemplate Pickering of my coming, and this assumption with much satisfaction. My grandI would accept the terms irritated father had been an odd little figure of that me. Assumptions as to what I should wore a long black do under :l man. who always given conditions had always coat, ailk hat, and rarrie.1 a curious annoyed me, and accounted, in a large silver-headestaff, and said puzzling measure, for my proneuess to surprise thing, at which everybody was sfnild I and dlsa,ipolnt people. Pickering sum-eithto laugh r to cry. The thought moned a clork to wUneM my BlgnaF of him touched me now. I was glad to , ture -- ,iow teel that his money had never been ihall you take posset--a lure to me. It did not matter whether B,onr he agked x have to make a ' waa his estate great or small. I could. ote o( -nt least easo my conscience by ohny-- ! j ahalI Btart fop Indlana Ing the behest of the old man whoso row j aty.wered name I bore, and whose Interest in the Aa i roe to go Pickering said: finer th.ngs of l.fo and art had given "it will be sufficient if you drop me him an undeniable distinction. a line, say once a month, to let me I should like to know something of know you are there. The postofflee is Mr. Glenanu's lust days," 1 said ah- - j Annandale." I ruptly. i supimse I might file a supply of "lie wished to visit tlie village where postal cards In the village and arrange ho was born, aud Bates, his companion for the mailing of one every month." aud servant, went to Vermont with "It might be done that way, he anand was swered evenly. him. He died quite au:l , buried beside his fath-- r in the old vll- We may perhaps meet again, if I lage cemetery. I saw ruin last, early dont die of starvation or ennui. GoodI was away from in the summer. by. home and ul.l not know of his death (TO BE CONTINUED.) -until it was ull over. Bates ram to it to me, and to sign the nor osWasnt 8ure. sa ry papers In probating the will. It Mamma You should be polite, dear, haij to be dime In the place of th- - de- and offer to share your candy with cedent's residence, and wo went to- papa. Little Margie I wonld, mamma. If gether to Wahnna. the seat of tho county in which Annan lo Ilea. I was aura he'd be polite and refuse 1L p h d er . I lc-dy- i -- may. "You 1 are simply crazy! repeated the girl In the silk and chiffon. Just crazy!" Chicago Bully News. To Err la Human. Robert Browning once found himself at a dinner, at a great English house, sitting next to a lady who waa connected with the highest aristocracy. She was very graciously inclined, and did her utmost to make conversation. Are you not a poet?" ahe finally asked. Well," said Browning, "people are sometimes kind enough to say that I am. "Oh, please don't mind my having mentioned It, the duchess hastened to say, with the kindest of smiles. "You know Byron and Tennyson and others were poets. Too Many Islands. Larry Me friend Casey has made a lot av money awn gone to splnd th summer in th Thousand islands. H Invited me np. Denny Faith, phoy don't yex go? Larry Bedad, he didn't say which island awn Of might have to hunt ovei noine hundred and nolnty-noin-e be fore Oi found him. ' By that time me vacation would be over. HER A Woman -- BEST FRIEND. Thus Speaks of Postum. We usually consider our best friends those who treat us best Some iiersons think coffee a real Mend, but watch it carefully awhile and observe that It is one of the meanest of all enemies for It stabs one while professing friendship. Coffee contains a poisonous drug-caff- eine which Injures the delicate nervous system and frequently sets up disease In one or more organa of the body, if its use Is persisted In. "I had heart palpitation and nervousness for four years and the doctor told me the trouble was caused by coffee. He advised me to leave It off, but I thought I could not," writes a Wia lady. "On the advice of a friend I tried Postum Flood Coffee and it so satisfied me that I did not care for coffee after a few days' trial of Postum. As weeks went by and I continued to use Postum my weight Increased from 98 to 118 pounds, and the heart trouble left me. I have used It a year now, and am stronger than I ever waa I can hustle np stairs without any heart palpitation, and I am cured of nervousness. My children are very fond of Post-urand it agrees with them. My sister liked It when she drank it at my house, but not when she made It at her own home. Now Bhe lias learned to make It right, boll It according to directions, and has become very fond of it. Yon may use my name if you ulsh, as I am not ashamed of praising my best friend lft stum.' Name given by IYytuni Co., Battle Creek. Mich. Iliad "The Hoad to Wellvlllo, fa vt.rsu "VUrc's a lie " . ' son, n |