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Show r N - ; ' THE LIONS WHELP A Story of Cromwell s Time Author of BY AMELIA E. BARR. Th. BowofO Th (CPTriltht- - m' Mid Rjbbop . by DodJ. Mead CHAPTER IV. (Continued.) Neville had asked to be called early, and before daybreak he came into the Some ready for his Journey. broiled beef, a manehet of white bread and a black jar of spiced ale, stirred with a rosemary branch, was waiting for him; and Mrs. Swaffham and Jane sat at his side while he eat and drank. Soon Nevilles horse came clotter-into the door. He clasped Janes hand as it hung by her side, and they walked thus to the threshold. Snow was falling; the steps were white with it, and the east wind blew it gently in their faces. Mrs. Swaffham laughed and drew her shawl over her head, and Neville laughed also, and with a cheerful word, leaped to his saddle, his dark figure growing more and more phantom-likthrough the dim dawn and the white veil of the snow. At the gate he wheeled his horse, and, saluting them, vanished into the gray obscurity, which made all things as if they were not. He did not say much of the Cromwells. Ill warrant they will forget you in their rising state. "Far away from it. Mary and Frances sent me many good words, and they are very persuasive with me to come to London and share their state. "You cannot go just yet, Jane. Your father is opposed to it, until Gen. Cromwell returns there. Then, if it so please God we shall all go at least for a season. Then the mother and daughter and Jane went to her friend's room. She was languidly brushing out her long black hair, and Jane tried to kiss a smile into her melancholy face. And as she lifted her head, she had a momentary glance at a beautiful miniature lying upon the dressing table. The face was that of a youth with flowing locks and a falling collar of lace. In that same moment, Matilda moved her ribbons and kerchief in a hurried way, contriving in so doing to cover the picture. Oh, Jane, Jane! In truth, I am a g e I. Thou .nd L4(e,H Etc. Company. ,h. Oth.r On.,- - All right, roaorved ) Dear Jane! how I love you! Darling Jane! Oh, Hie words came without intent. But the heart is a ready scholar when lore teaches, and as they slowly passed through the fields of yellow fullness, finding their happy way among the Standing sheaves, Jane heard and understood that heavenly tale which Cluny knew so well how to tell her. Not until they reached Swaffham did they remember that they two were not the whole round world. Hut words of care and wonder and eager inquiry about war, and rumor of war, soon broke the heavenly trance of feeling in which they had found an hour of Paradise. So the blissful truce was over, and Jane and Cluny were part of the weary, warring, working world again. Cluny knew nothing which could allay fear. He had just come from London. "And what of the General's family? asked Mrs. Swaffham; "are they not afraid? They are concerned and anxious, but not fearful. Indeed, the old Lady Cromwell astonished me beyond words. She smiled at the panic in the city, and said It is the beginning of triumph. I have seen, I have heard. Rest on my assurance, and until triumph comes, retire to Him who is a sure hiding place.' And the light of her aged face was wonderful. It is the substance of the thing we hope for. the evidence of what we shall all yet see, he cried in a tone of exaltation. "And now give me a strong, fresh horse; I will ride all night! Then he turned to Jane. Darling Jane! My Jane! and kissing her, he said boldly to Mrs. Swaffham. I ask your favor, madame. Jane has this hour promised to be my wife. Jane has then been very forward, answered Mrs. Swaffham with annoyI am grieved. ance. And Janes father has not been spoken to, and he is first of all. I can say neither yea nor nay in the matter. But you will surely speak for us. Give me a kind word, madame, ere I bold of the stirrups of the riders, ran with them to the halting place. So, with his ten thousand troops augmented to thirty thousand, he reached Warwick, and making his headquarters at the pretty village of Keynton near by, he gave his men time to draw breath and called a council of war. Cromwell sat at the upper end of a long table. A rough map of the country around Worcester lay before him, and Harrison, Lambert, Israel Swaffham and Lord Evesham were his companions. There were two tallow candles on the table, and their light shone on the tace of Cromwell. At that moment it was full of melancholy, but he saw In an instant the entrance of Neville, and with an almost imperceptible movement commanded his approach. Neville laid the letters of which he was the bearer before Cromwell, and his large hand immediately covered Is all well? he asked and them. reading the answer in the youths face, added, I thank God! What then of the city?" Its panic is beyond describing, answered Neville. Parliament Is beside itself. But London is manifestly with the Commonwealth, and every man in it is looking to you and to the army for protection. Some, indeed, I met who had lost heart, and who thought it better that Charles Stuart should come back than that England should become a graveyard fighting him. Such men are suckled slaves, said I would hang them withLambert. out word or warrant for it. Yea, said Cromwell, for Freedom is dead in them. From here there are two courses open to us, a right one and a wrong one. What say you, Lambert? I say it were well to turn our noses to London, and to let the rogues know we are coming. What is your thought, Harrison? Worcester is well defended," he answered musingly. "It has Wales beWe cannot fight Charles hind it. Stuart till we compass the city, and to do that we must be on both sides of the river." Fight him, said Lord Evesham, better now than later.' Fight him! That, I tell you, is my mind also, said Cromwell strking the table with his clinched hand. Some may judge otherwise, but I think while we hold Charles Stuart safe, London is safe also. God has chosen this battlefield for us, as He chose Dunbar. But there must be no slackness. The work is to be thorough, and not to do over again. The cation wishes it so, I know it. The plain truth is we will march straight on Worcester; we will cut off Charles Stuart from all hope of London; we will fight him from both sides of the river, and bring this matter of the Stuarts to an end. (To be continued.) WAITERS BY THE BOATLOAD. of the Olympia Secured Italian Servitors. Along in 1836. said a New Yorker who resigned from the navy to go into business, I was serving on a cruiser attached to the North Atlantic squadron. Our old tub, which, by the way, played quite a respectable part in the war with Spain for she was the Olympia had been cruising in the Mediterranean. When we anchored in the Bay of Naples we found we .were shy several men who were supposed to wait on the officers mess. It was decided to advertise for waiters in Naples, and you never saw a help wanted' notice bring forth so many responses as did our little advertisement. Applicants came by the boatload, each man asserting he was a menibei of the most noble family in Italy. 1 dont think any one below the grade of count had the nerve to ask for a job as waiter, and all were willing to put up with the small pay fixed by Uncle Sam. We officers felt that an American citizen was a sure enough monarch when we had these Italian scions of nobility standing behind our chairs. The men, however, did not regard the blue blooded servitors with such kindly feelings. One day while I was on watch I heard a deafening crash of crockery, mixed with a fan farronnade of shrill Neapolitan oaths. What in the world is that? I asked of a sailor. He gave a hitch to his trousers and cocked his weather eye in a quizzical fashion. Oi think, sor, he said, with an ill repressed grin of satisfaction, its wan o thim dommed Eyetalian looks thats hit a reef head on with a cargo o New York Press. crockery. How Officers Cromwell Sat at the Table. wretched girl, this morning. I have been dreaming of calamities and my speech is too small for my heart. Very soon this lucky Cromwell family will coax you to London to see all their glory, and I shall be left in de Wick with no better company than a lock; for my father speaks to me about once an hour, and the Chaplain not at all, unless to reprove me. But you shall come to London also." Do you think so ill of me as to believe I would leave my father in the loneliness of de Wick? And she stood up and kissed her friend, and in a little while they went downstairs together, and Matilda had some boiled milk and bread and a slice of venison. Then she asked Mrs. Swaffham to let her hare a coach to go home in. Mrs. Swaffham kissed her for answer, and they sent her away with and comsuch confidence of good-wiing happiness that the girl almost believed days might be hers in the future as full of joy as days in the past had been. After this visit it was cold winter weather, and Cluny Neville came no more until the pale windy spring was over the land. And this visit was so short that Mrs. Swaffham, who had gone to Ely, did not see him at all. For he merely rested while a fresh horse was prepared for him, eating a little bread and meat almost from Janes hand as he waited. Yet in that half hours stress and hurry, love overleaped a space that had not been taken without It; for as ho stood with one hand on his saddle, ready to leap Into It, Jane trembling and pale at his side, he saw unshed tears In her eyes and felt the unspoken love on her lips, and as he clasped her hand his heart sprang to his tongue, and he said with a passionate tenderness: Farewell, .Jane! Darling Jane! then, afraid of his own temerity, he was away ere he could see the wonder and Joy called into her face by the meet familiar words. When be came again, it was harvest time; the reapers were in the wheat-lleldand as he neared Swaffham he saw Jane standing among the bound sheaves, serving the men and women with meat and drink. He tied his horse at the gate and went to her side, end oh, how fair and sweet he found her! Never had she looked, never had any woman looked In his eyes so The charm of the quiet enthralling. moon was over all; there was no noise, indeed rather a pastoral melancholy with a gentle ripple of talk threading It about plowing and sowing And rural affairs. In a short time the men and women scattered to their work, and Cluny, turning his bright face to Janes, took both her hands in his and said with esger delight: And she could not resist the youths beauty and sweet nature, nor yet the thought in her heart that It might perhaps be bis last request She go. drew down his face to hers and kissed and blessed him, saying, as Saul said to David, Go, and the Lord be with thee. Then he leaped into the saddle, and the horse caught his impatience and shared his martial passion, and with a loud neigh went flying over the land. Silently the two women watched the dark figure grow more and more indistinct in the soft, mysterious moonshine, until at length it was a mere shadow that blended with the indistinctness of the horizon. Thank you, dear mother," said Jane ' softly, and the mother answered, When Neville has done his duty, he will come for you. He can no more bear to live without you than without his eyes. I see that. CHAPTER V. Sheathed Swords. ' This long winter had been one of great suffering to Gen. Cromwell. After making himself master of the whole country south of Forth and Clyde, he had a severe illness, and He lay often at the point of death. took the field in June, throwing the main part of his army into Fife, in order to cut off the enemy's victual This move forced the hand of Charles Stuart. His army was in mutiny for want of provisions, the North country was already drained, he durst not risk a battle but the road into England was clear. Cromwell himself had gone northward to Perth, and on the second of August he took possession of that city, but while entered it was told that Charles Stuart, with fourteen thousand men, had suddenly left Stirling and was marching towards westEngland. Charles had taken the ern road by Carlisle, and it was thought he would make for London. He went at a flying speed past York, Nottingham, Coventry, until he reached the borders of Shropshire. At Shrewsbury he found the gates shut against him and his men were so disheartened that the king turned westward to Worcester, a elty reported to be loyal, where he was received with every show of honor and affection. Meanwhile Cromwell was following Charles with a steady swiftness that was had something fateful in it. This to be the last battle of the civil war, was in and Cromwell knew it There assurance his soul, even at Perth, the of victory, and as he passed through of England, the towns and villages man would not be restrained. They and the Bpade threw down the sickle in the forge, in the field, the hammer and catching the olane at the bench, ' THE POPULATION OF CHINA. Contains Worlds Population. Some doubt has been thrown by recent travelers upon the correctness of the accepted notion that China Is a land of teeming population. It has been asserted that the human hives along the seaboard and the great rivers of China ought not to be taken as a basis for estimates; that In those parts of the empire which lie off the main routes of traffic (the natural and artificial water courses,) the popula tion of China is comparatively thin A census recently taken by the Pekinf government for the purpose of assess lng taxes to meet the indemnity pay ments seems, however, to prove th Thi accuracy of the older estimates. census shows that the eighteen pros inces of China proper contain inhabitants; that Manchuria has 8,600,000, and Mongolia, Thibet and Chinese Turkestan a little over The total population of 10,000,000. the empire is 426,447,326, according The absolute to this enumeration. reliability of Asiatic statistics is .questioned; nevertheless, the agreement of the results of the census with the accepted estimates is so close as to invite confidence. The statement that the Chinese empire contains of the human race will hereafter he regarded more than ever as an approximate truth. Little Doubt It One-Thir- d one-thir- d His Belief. Bread Is the staff of life, remarked the man with the quotation habit "Perhaps it is, rejoined the skepti cal person, but that doesn't justify s man In making his existence one con tlnuous loaf." WYOMING CATTLEMAN KILLED. OUR REGULAR ARMY. Accidentally Slain While Pulling Gun Over Wire Fence. A dispatch from Billings, Mont , say3: Otto Fianc, a well known cat tleman of the Big Hole Basin, just across the Wyoming line, accidentally shot himself Monday afternoon ahd was instantly killed. It appears Mr. Franc left his home ranch to go to the feeding pens. He was carrying a shotgun, and in passing through a wire fence pulled the gun after him, muzzle first The trigger caught in the wire and both barrels went off, the full charge striking him in the breast with fatal results. His mangled body was found later in the day beside the fence. The WyomMr. ing coroner is investigating. Franc was one of the best known cattlemen in these parts. double-barrele- d GERMAN PRINCESS IN SCANDAL. Wife of Frederick of Schonberg-Wa- l denburg Leaves Her Husband. It is reported Princess Alice, wife of Prince Frederick of has eloped with her coachman. The elopement, according to the story, took place two weeks ago, and the police have thus far been unable to trace the couple. Princess Alice is the youngest Schonberg-Waldenbur- daughter of Don Carlos of Bourbon, pretender to the throne of Spain, who recently relinquished his rights to his son,' Don Jaime. The princess was married to Prince Frederick in 1897. She lj 27 years old and has one son, aged 18 months. Her home is in Meissen, Prussia. Her sister Beatrice two years ago attempted suicide. Her sister, Princess Elvira, it will be remembered, created a sensation several years ago by eloping with the painter Folchi, whereupon Don Carlos She Is no repudiated her, declaring: daughter of mine. Don Carlos, father of the fugitive princess, is duke of Madrid, and claimed the title of Charles VII. His father was the brother of Don Carlos. Charles VI. PEABODY AND MITCHELL CONFER Colorados Governor and Labor Leader Talk Over Strike Situation. President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers of America and Governor Peabody had a conference s of an hour Sunlasting day, yet the settlement of the strike Is as far distant as ever. Mr. Mitchell informed the governor that the strike will continue to the bitter end, and the governor just as positively informed the strike leader that he will tolerate no violence, but will order out the troops at the first provocation. While the conference came to Protecting Claims With Guns. naught, both Governor Peabody and N. themA special from Rincon, M., says President Mitchell expressed three men, badly wounded, were selves as pleased with the interview, each he had a better concepbrought to Rincon from the new gold tion ofsajing the position of the other. fields at Apache canyon for treatment Colorado Press Muzzled. They had been shot in conflicts over A censorship of the press has been claims. It Is reported several other established at Victor, Colo, men have been shot. A mining Major who was sent to Apache canyon Naylor called at the office of the VicHe re- tor Dally Record, the only dally paper to Investigate has returned. ports that the field Is very rich, but in Victor, and Informed its editor and limited In extent. No development proprietor that a censorship had been work has been done as yet, as every placed upon the columns of the Recman who has been fortunate enough ord. Editor Kyner was told that he to secure a claim Is protecting . it must not publish anything hut ordifrom late comers. There are now nary news matter, and was compelled 2,500 men on the ground and more to show his proofs. Major Naylor prohibited the publishing of the leadarriving daily. ing editorial Jr. Kyner had written He Many People en Their Way Back to commenting on the situation. likewise forbid the editor to print the Old England. Fifteen hundred steerage passen- official statement of the miners executive committe?. gers sailed on the White Star liner Cedric, which left New York City Had Nose Bitten Off By Dog. This is Wednesday for Liverpool. When John Culp, a miner of Shamo-kin- , the largest number of steerage pasPa., opened his stable Sunday sengers ever carried from a United morning to feed his horse, a strange The States port on any steamer. tramp dog leaped from the manger French line steamer La Touraine, and clung to his shoulders. Savagely 100 which sailed Thursday, carried on the surprised man, the dog turning steerage passengers, and it was esti- then tore off Culps nose and chewed 200 over mated that steerage passen- at his neck. After a hard struggle gers with tickets were left on the Culp shook off the dog and it fled. It accomto the dock, owing overselling is not known whether the animal was modations. mad. Culp is in a serious condition. Uncle 8am May Take a Hand. Jilted Missourian Shoots Sweetheart The state department has been inEnraged because Miss Annie Hartformed that already a new revoluman, whom he had secured a license In been movement has begun tionary to wed, would not marry him. Frank San Domingo, even before the pro- Dawson of Mo., shot and fatally that ousted wounded hisParis, visional government sweetheart and seriously Wos y Gil has been able to solidify wounded his successful rival, Obe Itself into a permanent government. The repeated uprisings In the face of Hughes. The shooting occurred at a Minister Powell's warnings has conprivate dance at Madison, Dawson encentrated the attention of the Wash- tering the room and firing without ington authorities upon the islands, where much American capital Is in- warning. Dawsons family is promivested, and it is likely the United nent. States may take a hand in the matter. Boy Murders Companion in Quarrel Over a Cigarette. Murdered by Highwaymen. Antone Contario, aged 18, shot and Emil De Schmidt was shot and killed by highwaymen Thursday night killed Godfrey McNeill, aged 14, in a in the Maple saloon at Van Asselt, a cabin in the mountains west of Butte few miles south of Seattle. The bold-upearly Saturday morning. The boys two in number, entered the saloon ran away Friday, taking a and provisions. They and ordered the twelve men in It to Winchester over a cigarette, when Con' hold up their hands. De Schmidt and quarreled tario took up the rifle and shot Mcanother man started for the robbers Neill three times at short range, literDe Schmidt was shot with chairs. head off. The murhis ally blowing was chair brain. The through the derer Both the boys are knocked from the other mans hand residentsescaped. of Butte and have parents and the highwaymen then made their there. escape, without securing any booty. Birds of Husbands. Governor Says Lawlessness Must Stop. Mrs. William Robbln of Louisville, ' Governor Peabody of Colorado declares he will take steps to nullify the Ky., has been married to David Buzaction of the court at Cripple Creek zard. It was her fourth matrimonial venture. She was a Miss Martin. She should it liberate any of the bull-pefirst married Robert Crow. He died lawThe of the prisoners. reign she married John Sparrow six breaking element of the Western Fed- and She and Mr, eration of Mine Workers has got to months afterward. end in this state, said the governor. Sparrow did not agree, and a divorce Attorney General Miller has advised followed. Mrs. Sparrow then became the governor to Instruct the military Mrs. William Robbin, but again a dito rearrest and hold at Camp Gold- vorce was found advisable. After a field any of the prisoners charged with year of lonely life, Mrs. Robbin has crimes who may be set free by the become Mrs. David Buzzard. Civil authorities at Cripple Creek. three-quarter- ex-pe- rt s, n UNDKIi MAIlIlAlj Ji.VW Secretary of War Submits Report to MILITIA IN POSSESSION OF CRIPthe President PLE CREEK, COLO. Secretary of War Root, in submitting his annual report to the president ssys that on the 1st of December, Governor of Colorado Declares Famous Gold Camp Is in a State of 1902, the date of the last annual reInsurrection and Rebellion. port, the army of the United Slates consisted of 3.5S6 officers and 66,003 enlisted men, & total of 69,589. In adGovernor Peabody of Colorado has dition, there were in the service 3.59S issued a proclamation declaring Cripmen of the hospital corps excluded by ple Creek under martial law and susthe act of March 1, 1SS7, from classipending the writ of habeas corpus. He fication as part of the enlisted force declares that the gold camp Is In a of the army. There were also In the stale of insurrection and rebellion and service 182 volunteer medical officers that the ciil authorities are powerand 4,978 enlisted men of the Philipless. pine scouts and twenty nine officers In support of his action the govand 840 enlisted men 'of the Porto ernor cites the blowing up of the porAt the date of the tion of the Vindicator mine and other Rico regiment. last reports received from the military acts of lawlessness, and ho declares departments. October 15, 1903, the that it is impossible to control the turactual strength of the regular army bulence of the camp by ordinary was 3,681 officers and 55,500 enlisted peaceable methods. men, of which 843 officers and 14,667 The proclamation does not state In enlisted men were iu tne Philippines. so many words that martial law has The expenditures for the year endbeen declared and that the writ of ed June 30th last were $108,577,762; habeas corpus has been suspended, appropriations for year ending June but officials at the state house say 30, 1904, are $121,917,345, and the esthat both these things are intended. timates for 1905 are $125,929,393. The military will now deal with all GIRL WAS GAME. alleged offenders and try and punish them. Brave Telegraph Girl Shoots to Death Governor Peabody bases his dean Outlaw. cision to declare limited martial law Alone In a railway tower at on the decision of the Idaho supreme Thacker, W Va., Sunday night, while court, which declared that the act of performing her duties as telegraph the governor of Idaho in putting Into operator for the Norfolk & Western force to a limited extent martial law railroad. Miss Kate Rouburgh, 20 In the Coeur d'Alene was in thorough years old, shot and mortally wounded harmony with the constitution of that The constitutional provision William Howardson, an alleged out- state. to the writ of habeas corpus law, Howardson had entered the relating In this state is similar to that of the tower and attempted to embrace Miss Idaho constitution. Wholesale arrests of strikers supRouburgh. Breaking away from him she secured her revolver and fired posed to be Implicated In the Vindifour shots at the Intruder. One shot cator explosion and other cases of violence, will. It Is thought, be made. The took effect, penetrating Howardsons bullpen will be enlarged so as to acchest, and he fell to the floor with a commodate several hundred persons. groan. After deliberately relating her SHAWS DAUGHTER A WRITER. experience to the telegraph operator at the next station, she walked a Young Poetess Will 8oon Be Present, quarter of a mile In the dark to the ed to Washington Society. Miss Enid Shaw, daughter of the magistrates house and surrendered. She was released on her own recogsecretary of the treasury, will be presented to Bociety at a large reception nizance. COLLEGE BOYS AND THE NEW. 3 5 - g Baths for School Children. have a portion of the ground floor appropriated for baths. Each class bathes about once a fortnight, summer and winter. Soap is used, and a warm bath is followed by a cooler one. Sick children and those having skin diseases are excluded. Brlght'e Disease Cured. Whitehall, 111., Dec. 7. Acase haa been recorded in this place recently, which upsets the theory of many physicians that Bright's Disease is incurable. It la the case of Mr. Lon Manley, whom the doctors told that he could never recover. Mr. Manley tells th story of his case and how he was cured In this way: I began using Dodd's Kidney Pills after the doctors had given, me up. For four or five years I had Kidney, Stomach and Liver Troubles; I was a general wreck and at times I would get down with my back so bad that I could not turn myself In bed for thre or four days at a time. I had several doctors and at last , they told me I had Brights Disease I and that I could never get well. commenced to use Dodds Kidney Pills end I am now able to do all my work and am all right. I most heartily recommend Dodd's Kidney Pills and am very thankful for the cure they worked in my case. They saved my life after the doctors had given me up. , OF RIFLE BALL. Writer Tells of Extraordinary Shot H Once Made. I myself made the most extraordinary shot at an antelope that I ever heard of, which, however, has nothing to do with good shooting, but rather with the erratic course that a rlfia ball may take. With several scouts, white men and Indians, I rode over a hill, to see three or four buck ante-lor- e spring to their feei, run a short I distance and then stop to look, which mado a quirk shot at one, dropped, and on going to him I found him not dead, though desperately wounded. The animal had been standing broadside on his face toward my left. The bail had struck the left elbow, splintering the olecranon, passed through the brisket, broken the right humerus, turned at right angles and gone back, cutting several ribs, at the Arlington hotel, Washington, broken the right femur, then turned December 16. A thousand invitations at right angles and came ont will be issued and all of the women again the inside of the leg, and of the cabinet will assist in receiving through the left hook joint, which it disthe guests. The president and Mrs. struck located and twisted off, so that it hung Roosevelt will attend the reception a very narrow string of hide. I and all of the diplomatic and higher by never again expect to see so extraordofficials. Miss Shaw has decided lita course for a rifle ball. Outerary tastes and has already written inary ing. several short poems of considerable merit NOT TO BE CAUGHT. Short Cotton Crop Will Cause Factories to Close Down. of a That widespread curtailment production by cotton mills in the United States will be found necessary during the next few months on account of the great cost of raw material is the opinion of leading mill men in Boston, from which the policy of many cotton mills In the north is directed. The market for finished material has been unsatisfactory for months and prices with have not risen correspondingly those of cotton. The mills in New England employ fully 175,000 hands, 65,000 of whom have had their wages reduced 10 per cent this fall, and 75,000 additional will be cut within the next two weeks. Railroad Porter Who Was Almost Too Sharp. Prof. D , a well known ventril oquist, was bidding adieu to soma friends, when one of them presented him with a little fox terrior, to which he had taken a great fancy. The train began to move, and there was no tim to get a dog ticket; so when the cry was heard at a few staTickets! tions farther on. Prof. D popped the dog into a small hamper, which was labeled, Prof. D , Ventrilo quist. In bold letters. The dog began barking, which drew the porters attention to the hamper. The porter read the label, then said to the proI'm not taking any just now, fessor: mister; Ive been caught Ilk that before. ABOUT FEAR WILLIAM SPRINGER DEAD. Comes From Lack of Right Food. Napoleon said that the best fed soldiers were his best soldiers, for fear and nervousness come quickly when the stomach Is not nourished. Nervous fear Is a sure sign that th body Is not supplied with the right food. A Connecticut For lady says: many years I had been a sufferer from Indigestion and heart trouble and In almost constant fear of sudden death, the most acute suffering possible. Dieting brought on weakness, emaciation and nervous exhaustion and t was a complete wreck physically and almost a wreck mentally. I tried many foods, but could not avoid the terrible nausea followed by vomiting that came after eating until 1 tried Grape-NutThis food agreed with my palate and stomach from th start This was about a year ago. Steadily and surely a change from sickness to health came until now I have no symptoms of dyspepsia and can walk 10 miles a day without being greatly fatigued. I have not taken s drop of medicine since I began th and people say 1 use of Grape-Nutlook many years younger than 1 really am. My poor old sick body has been made over and 1 feel as though my bead had been too. Life is worth living now and I expect to enjoy It for many years to come If I can keep away from bad foods and have Grape-NutName given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Theres a reason. Look in each package for a copy of the famous little book, fTh Road to Vi ell ville. t-Often Distinguished Democratic Statesman Succumbs to Pneumonia. .Former Representative William M. Springer of Illinois, a Democratic leader conspicuous in the house of the Forty-fourt- h representatives during to Fifty-thircongresses. Inclusive, and once chairman of the ways and means committee of the house, died at hts residence in 'Washington, D. C., Friday, aged 64 years. His death was due to pneumonia contracted in Chicago Thanksgiving day. d "Wrapped in Two Flags. Wrapped in the flags of the United States and Panama, the canal treaty was on the 4th officially delivered into the hands of United States Consul General Gudger. The transfer took place at the palace in the presence of the members of the Junta, the minister of the republic. United States Vice Consul Hermann and other prominent persona. From the palace the chest containing the treaty was carried by two policemen to the consulate general, where it will be kept until shipped to the United States. Tried to Bribe Prison Guard. One of the Chicago car barn bandits, Peter Neidermeier, attempted to bribe Patrick Donnelly, one of the guards at the county jail, to allow him to escafA promising him $25,000. Donnelly asTed him where he would get the money and secelved the answer, Ill get It all right Chief of Police ONeil has received a contribution of $5,000 from the Chi-cago City Railway company to aid the widows of the policemen who lost their lives In the pursuit of the s I I t All new schools in Switzerland QUEER DOINGS f. ? i Care for Little Outside of Their Own Small World. There is hardly anything more absurd than the way college student read the newspapers, remarked the Ae graduate at the University club. a rule they ignore the live news of the day and read only the sporting page. I remember when I was in college there were several events that took place, but the boys took no interest in them. In fact, they practically did not discuss them at all. When the Maine was blown up there was a Blight ripple of excitement and a few expressions of anger, but within a day or two the students were again deep in the sporting page. And even on the sporting page the interest was limited to college contests. It was almost absurd to see how ws were wrapped up In our little world. Fortunately, however, as soon as a college boy is graduated he rapidly broadens out and soon looks back to his college life as merely an Incident 'n his career and not the most Important New York Times. part of It. epoch-makin- 4 ' . 'A.,. |