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Show IS ABRUZZI CHICAGO MERCHANT MAKES STATEMENT. United States Next Spring and Get Miss Elkins Final Answer. Duke Will Visit jFJTOlU ' n,0 After Spending Thousand of Dollars and Consulting the Most Eminent Physicians, He Was Desperate. CHICAGO, ILLS. Mr. J. G. Becker, of 134 Van Buren St., a wholesale dry goods dealer, states as follows: I have had catarrh for more than thirty years. Have tried everything on earth end spent thousands of dollars for other medicines and with physicians, ROBERT well-kno- The duke of the Washington ni..i, Idler to a friend, declares in a his recent jiroiiintinu to the of the luiiiati navy will not iuierfeve with bis jilnnx to visit tills country early in the spring. According to iirraiigeiiieniK lie will real'll here III March. 1'llilt-- till' of tinNational Geographic Mutely he will give lour lectures oil ilie ascension of tlie Asiatic mountain range. These lectures will lie given In New York, Biotoii. Ihiliideljihia and Washington. It is reported that this visit will take jilnci- with the nndersiiindiiig ( AMBS REXSET f r iLmmTmjYmYmTffl rorrnc.r ,.- sr c N'.cluac fcce. - - v without getting any lasting relief, and can say to you that I have found Peruna the only remedy that has cured me per BACK COMING to siiirt off fur liolia. wlien ws have sailed straight to England! Wave-Toeseis humble! huiTilde! And my and Caataway. anil all -- It eutimii be iiiissilile!" Tray, do not excite joitrseif, my manently. Mis Genevieve. Tlu-iear troubles has "Peruna also cured my Er Gawd litis taken Hiv all over. wife of catarrh. She always keeps them to Him, you know." It in the house for an attack of lll-bi ginning was at Cujie 'But tin- - pily ot it! To lie drowned cold, which it invariably cures in and when lllake Town, so a very short time.' far from home!" the boarded Wini lirnpe A!i, if that's ail you're worrying steamer as follow passengers with ahum'--- I must say I'd like to know Lady Bayrose and her parly. how we'll get a smirk for breakfast. HER POINT OF VIEW. This was a week afier Wlnthrojie I'm Iningiy a a er groom. " had arrived on the tramp steamer How rail you think of ex"Eat from India, ami her ladyship had hibit'd lu Miss Leslie that it was eating, Mr. Winlltrop:-- amt nil the oihers drowned'.' This suti is hemmus well for her not io be too hasty in ing dreadfully hot. Ii is i.'ihonruhle! ncrep ling his attentions. To be sure, ('tin ,ou not j'lit up some Und of an he was an Englishman, bis dress and aw ning?" manners were irreproachable, and lie was In the prime of ripem-i- l "Woll, now, 1 must say, I was never youth. much conscienof a hand at such tilings, anil Yet l.iidy .ay rose was lix tious a, rhapofnn to be fully satisfied te.'illy I can't Imagine what one could with her eountryman's hare assertion rig up. There might have been a bit of sail in tlie boat, Inn one rati'l see that he was engaged on a diplomatic u sign of it. I fancy it was stutisliL'd.'' mission requiring reticence regarding Miss ventured u gltmee at his identity. She did not see why this Blake. still ling as lie had from him should Though confiding prevent Sweet Maid You must remember in his drunkenness, there was In her. Kjirawh-ours a was summer that engagement. a comforting suggest ion of jmwer In Notwithstanding tills, Winthrojie The Man That means, if you see his broad shoulders and square jaw. came aboard ship virtually as a membreak It? like Duke of the Abruzxf. anyone you better, you'll "Is he still in that condition?" ber of ber ladyship's party. lie was Sweet Maid Yes. "Musi have fdcjit it off by ibis time, that he will not lie treated as a visThe Man And if I see anyone I so quick, so thoughtful of her comfort, and there's no more in the flask." an- iting member of a more attention to so much and paid tike, better royal house. This to Miss Leslie, that her ladyswered Winthrope. Reaching over information Is said by bis friends to Sweet Maid I'll sue you for breach her than with Ids foot, he pushed against indicate a desire to receive a reply ship had decided to tolerate hint, even of promise. lllake's hark. before Blake became a factor In the from Miss Katharine Elkina. One of situation. Huh! All right, the her closest friends is authority for grunted On. Goes Fight Against Plague From the moment he crossed the sleejier, and sat up, as had Wlnthrojie, the statement that she will have made Although the survey of the past the American engineer en half dazed. Then he Ktured around uji her mind by that time aa to whethgangway work shows year's routine of drinking a tered upon him, Hnd rose to his feet. Well, what er she will yield her hand or not daily the been much has that reports and done, varied in hell! Say, this Is damn cheerful!' by gambling, only attempts The rejKirt that no lesa a personage from all parts of the country Indicate strike up an I fancy we are in a nasty fix. Hut than acquaintance King Edward was responsible for that this year the amount of money to to was , with Miss Ijoslle. This I say, my man, there is a woman jires-ent- the additional difficulties In the troube expended, and the actual number opportunity, and his clever and your language, you know " bled course of the duke's love makof patients that will be treated will be of what Lady Bayrose frustration Blake turned and fixed the Englishof the double more ihan ing has gained credence from the anpast termed that low bounder's that impu man with a cold stare. nouncement or the duke's expected year. For Instance, special appropria- donee served to Install him In the "Ijook hero, you bloomin' lud," he visit to America. tions have been made In the various as well as good graces of her ladyship said, "ihere's just one thing you're municipalities for next year's In the favor of the American heiress. . going to understand, right here and KERENS work, aggregating $3,976,-00HONORED BY TAFT Sleeping the Sleep of the Juet and the Drunkard. Such, at least, was what Winthrope now. I'm not your ntan. and were not In addition to these appropria- Intimated to the engineer persistent to his reedy vegetation beaten flat by the going to have any of that kind of blab tions over $4,000,000 has been set with a of tone and turned over, and staggered St. Louisan, Who Haa Long Been Reterrific storm. He himself was beaten down ter. Any fool can see we're In one aside by the different state legisla- manner superciliousness of the feet. Instantly even a that would have stung and light hole, and we're like to keep comwind-blast- s terrific a and tures for the campaign against tuberback broad by gust. his Panting struck publican "Wheel Horse," Apto resentment. To British culosis this year. Besides these sums Blake Itlackey sent him spinning for yards. He trembling, he waited for the wind to pany for a while probably long as we pointed Minister to Austria. He was supremely gulling. a in lioje that he might obtain a last. beside lull, shallow a large number of the present exist- could not in a pool, up brought rejoin In kind, and the clearer view of his surroundings. Be"What ab may I Rsk, do you mean ing Institutions and associations are slightest attempt at physical retort hummock. Richard G. Kerens, St. lamia. fore of their dared rise to his feet, hv lit at? work, the of knai' 'Kmp PMli1anf TsW li planning' enlargements lay .coufire-menlee Under t. , the have Irons. meant would and troideal with down , darkness and Austria-Hungaryswept Blake laughed harshly, la one jminted minister to and new organisations are being and Miss Leslie. Though It was a British ship. Behind out and blurred vast suddenness everything. to the sea tlie from homes" of the Reold of "wheel the formed daily. bruised and were both draggled behind was Bayrose; Lady Winthrope The effect of the whisky soon stretches of desolate marsh. Far In- publican party In Miasourl. He has her ladyship, as a matter, of course, and beaten to exhaustion. They were nnd Winthroiie huddled be- land, across miles of brackish lagoons battled for years for the success of After the Hunt. come passed, had was all the despotic authority 'of the together because they Provided with some trophies of the his tween comimnlous, drenched and and reedy mud flats, could be seen his party, both as a leader and In the In the circumstances, it was ashore together. When the bout caphe could hear Miss grotijis of scrubby, chase in the shape of rabbits, Rev. captain. exhausted. trees; ranks. Thrice has an attempt been Though been .had Miss fluug Leslie that the American sized, was too miserable ten or twelve mill a to the southward made to elect hlin United States senar he Sanford C. Hearn, pastor of the First not surprising Leslie moaning, had tlie Englishman, and they successive each after against heavier drank do a rooky headland Jutted out into the tor. Methodist Episcopal church, Yonkers, held fast to each other with the des- himself to inquire whether he could goading. for her. water; otherwise there was nothing In proceeded to dress them for dinner In anything When the Rejiubllcan party gained Meantime the ship, having touched perate clutch of drowning persons. If it could control of the state the parsonage cellar. His small son Inti sea ami swaniii. the that aware became he sight how recalled ever Presently of them Neither legislature In on the steamed Port at up Natal, it lie termed a sea-viewatened the fathers work with interwind was falling. The center of the mu !in.i-il(he election at which Jnsejih W. Folk, chan- they gained the shelter of the humthe east Into coast, Mozambique est. Going upstairs, the yonngster a Democrat, was elected governor, cyclonu hail jiassed before the shiji wns at least a very wet landscape. mock. nel. called his mother. . 'Fine prosjiect, remarked Blake, some jiersons believed Kerens would waist-dee- p struck, and they were now In the out the in Blake On the day of the cyclone, Blake, sitting do what said he, vast whirlwind. dryly. "Well Ik- In lack If til" fever finally achieve tlie honor be had Oh, mamma, had withdrawn Into his stateroom with pool, blinked at them benignly with erniost circle of the of this change dont gel tlie last of ns inside a sought, but wit bout avail. In the Demyou suppose papa is doing? consciousness With the the and and blue of his number bottles, produced eyes, throughout pale "I can't guess, child. What Is hs a for the Wlntbrojie's month; and hs for you two. you'd have ocratic legislatures. belter, that fearful afternoon was blissfully quart flask, still a third full of whisky. doing? as much show of lasting a month as Thomas L. Nledringhaua, who was "ha' nerves rolaxed and he fell into of the danger. Even 1 shay, frens, unconscious he observed, Well, hes just skinning, shaving a toad with a rattlesnake, if it wasn't national committeeman that year. heavy sleep. on the went steamer reef, when the cos' shent me. Won one on you and cutting up cats. for Tom Blake that's my name Tom he was only partially roused by tlie notta re slicnt!" II. CHAPTER Blake and as long as this sltipdy shock. You fuddled lout!" shouted Hia Discovery. you're welcome to eall me Tom lasts, a from took a He quart long pull out of had household that "Come pool. The swell son of the But unWilderness. whichever suits. Than or Worse Blake, with flask the flask of whisky, placed Wassama'er pool? Pool's allti'! , Just been initiated into the art of not to have we're derstand. going care in his hip pocket, and The Englishman squinted through cleaning his own teeth with the soft great more of your bloody, bloomin' any doorout the lurched open through little brush his mother had bought the driving scud at the intoxicate Aboard ship English condescension. way. There he reeled headlong against, man with an anxious frown. In all him. bud the drop on me, and could you below with had rushed who the mate, few a i2L Hearing the baby cry lustily probability he felt no commiseration liile on dog till the rows came home. minutes later the mother ran into the three of the crew to bring up Miss for the American; but it was no light tV AIL from .Miss Leslie Men- 9 I'm Blake and you're Wln-- t virmatter to be flung up barehanded on nursery, only to find the nursing bottle Leslie. The mate cursed him roused the Englishman out It rope. orsame breath the and in ulently, on the floor and Johnny, toothbrush, in the most unhealthful and savage of a dream In which he had ( "Believe me. .Mr. Blake, I quite men to fetch him up hand, leaning over the crib '.of.' the dered two of the Stretch of the Mozambique coast, and been swimming for lire across a sen t he--situation. And now, iate deck. on out Blake might be able to help them screaming Infant of boiling oil. He sat up and gazed I fancy that, Instead of wasting The sea was breaking over the of their he cried, anxiously, To leave him about him. Oh, muvver! The- cyclone predicament. In torrents; but between In the pool was therefore not to be baby must have been borned wlfout steamer a dead calm, and time" followed been had by waves Blake was dragged across to "It'a about time .vou Introduced me of.So soon as he had drained the sun, already well above the horiany toofs! to the lady. InternijUed Blake, and the side and flung over Into the bot- thought and lie would thi down, his bottle, he them over he 8tared at them half defiantly, yet tom of the one remaining boat. He that would be the end of him. As any zon, was blazing ujon WHEN DINNER COME8 surfaces of the dying swells with a twinkle in his eyes. glassy to break the cushion fall as a served out was Ont Ought to Have a Good Appetite. him to move forcibly attempt with fierce heat flushed. of Miss Leslie, who was tossed In of Miss liPxlio Winthrope the question, the situation demanded Winthrope felt about Tor Ills hat . It same the Win him. At after time, A good appetite Is the best sauce, that Winthrope justify his Intimations had beeji blown off when, at th" stri- swore softly, and hit Ills lip. Aboard ship, hacked by Lady Bayrose and the It goes a long way toward helping in thrope, frantic with fear, scrambled of diplomatic training. After ronxid of the steamer, he had rushed the digestive process, and that Is abso- Into the bows and cut loose. One of ering the problem for several minutes, kingon deck. As he remembered, he captain, lie had goaded the American up but fell short and he met It in a the sitlutely essential to health and strength. the sailors leaped, way that proved he was straightened, and looked at his com- at jileasurc. Now, however, of within arm's went down and Both was reversed. title uation s length Grape-Nutfound and that at least not lacking In shrewdness Many persons have Blake lay snoring where panions. hud been Rwcpt away by authority food is not only nourishing hut Miss Leslie. tact. he had first outstretched himself, tlm storm, and he was left to shift fot She and Wlnthrojie saw the steam Richard C. Kerens. is a great appetizer. Even children "See here, Blake, he called. In an- sleeping the sleep of the just and of himself reef and sink back the from er the man who had slip against like the taste of It and grow strong was lull between the shrieking gusts, the drunkard. The girl, however, Into deep water, carrying down In the other reason to hale him for his over however, wanted the place for him and rosy from Its use. "the lady is fatigued. You're too much already awake. She sat with her every insolence. Worse still, both self. He entered the lists against and few remain vortex the mate the hearing to food make It Is especially the of a gentleman to ask ber to come hands clasped In her lap, while the lie und Miss were now dejtcn-ilen- t Kerens and dtere was a deadlock weak stomach strong and create an Ing sailors. After that all was chaos over there." tears rolled slowly down her eheeks. bewhich lusted some time. Finally there were ashore driven to them. In all the American, They ujion dinner. appetite for some momenta for this Miss Genevieve, wns h compromise which resulted in It ah dear of required the the a terrific was fore biiter It "My itself. life for cyclone, gusls I am 57 years old, writes a Tenn. brain. exclaimed fuddled Blake's to Is ter?" mat the election of William H. Warner the what drift to the blinded penetrate to swallow. stinging spoon pill and hard grandmother, and have had a weak all elite by Aft'-a futile attempt to gain his h'ct, of Kunsas hell of breakers and but City. Warner's term will the was slow the to not Blake observe stomach from childhood. By great care he crawled out of the pool on all fours, ask. when we nr" Englishman's hesitancy. He gtluncd. be up next year and should the Matter? I)o whose midst swirled yon in reefs coral they aa to my diet I enjoyed a reasonable so dizzily. And through It all Blake ami, with tears In his eyes, pressed hi here on this wretched coast, and may regain control of the legis"Every dog has his day, and 1 guesi degree of health, but never found anySite shrank not get away for weeks? Oh. I did so this It was believed Kerens would Miss flask Italic. lature on the tiottom upon huddled boards said. Is lay he Take s mine," your as a thing to equal Grape-Nutdn-w- ' count on the laindon season this year time. If It comes hard. I can imagine have a good chance. This may be gurgling blithely of spicy zephyr and away from him, shuddering, and standby. I should limbs flaccid in of that herself huddle a of the reasons for his selection as up Lady Bayrose jiromised a pn.(,y jS(. j0P your Jmlnlilp. one When I hare no appetite for break- swaying hammocks. an final mo- and limp garments. Wlnthrojie. how- be among those j.rosentcd.' came the envoy. There nn seemingly l!llf wll. friIl.n hades ,y fast and Just eat to keep up my Mr. Kerens is a ment when the bout went spinning ever', not only accepted the flask, but "Well, I ah fancy. lately Bayrove lady should nbjert to an instrength, I take 4 teaspoonfuls of stern over prow. unh-sIt. ll come 119 to near draining more will do no years, and Ills home Is In nged who's a iirosen'iig goto lion rod in countryman Grape-Nut- s with good rich milk and ISl.ike squinted at the diminished may he to the heavenly choir, you ing to do his level i place, a thoroughfare Blake opened his eyes to stive her Yamh-ventowhendinner comes I am hungry. n Kh.iie" know." in which none hut cast and blocks three contents, him. hesitated, about long He stared and from the self solemnly little hyenas While If I go without any breakfast I .Miss mean. He was a member inuudl-beur-iiie.at Jive. millionaires of do what to time was his little take mlkintry p heats me. "Why, jou given never fed like eating dinner. Grape-Nut- s l me that she and ( idled, closer than b fore, in of the lti juiblioiin national executive Site toi Yon lay A came of broken surf smother Wlnthrojie? the wimln-opthan redder flushed to seems a make for breakfast . to Her joinve nnd a committee from 1 the maids bad he-joit i't 'he largest, seething up front one of the great ii dravclel healthy appetite for dinner. her. Blake stared member of the ltcimbHcnn natininl ;i' him to over roll ami sleep. lueakers. scrape mur Mr. he had "Mixs Blake," grandson Leslie, My . from Ik'i'j to BUM. lie made flask extendi d waverlngtv before bi:n. My dear MsaC.et.cvle e oumus un cnJ tQ ,h hern very sick with stomach trouble j him a little farther tip the mudly and remember that I am a dijomnt. It it in railroad hniliiing nnd Ids lie hi'Hi to :ht Ids Then fort mi" lips, IUod tlio him shore. There deposited during the past summer, nnl Anally wo , offlee of importance out the last drop. harrow in;;, I sitir.tto'i. imldic rotfl-qul-tnon-etiftill the tititll was dtj.ir.fd a only It sufficiently fur . gather Now . he is put him on Grajie-XutsLot yet ltiake j.crt.i.-t'-dwas ns me of the thren Indeed. nt i;.urr.h;o-1we:e. ever aid he he io." assure "Time turn hack and to him fowe sv They you. drag rp ill: ;i i:t . growing plump and well. When ask' d tq.i r. ly IT.Iti-In the hraeki-l- i boa' States couimisMoners on the Beastly into Hi" ! ,c,',v'!l" M a s; raw:"d fu!! If be wenis 1.1s mtrso or Grape-Nutmi ts," he sn:d, "I know the i inter continental railway commission. 1.'"You see, a tuat" waited for MI into !.:it ly WlTle he die! la.i'i" ,l!"1 ril'1 u,1 no", he hrlglitcns up and points to the orreet tiling fju'.to as nm. ii us your Mr. Kerens is a Catholic nnd in high f,O fetch vnt, the boa: was crut.li' d "If I not to the dancer drunken stupor. cupboard. He was no 1 rouble In wean knew ail ulon-- : vou were favor nt tlie Vatican. He was the redrowned." nlung.-dd",it ImcE. in ' WiiiMj'-oji"t!: i.i.d tut. ail 1" o B invigorated f,f Hc.-- d at all thanks to Grajm-Niits.I ran a survey for your -: r Oil. Jenny "Drowned! drum no K and jeer'd around cipient ur tin Lactarc medal from thfl hi i rejoin. II" hi'd r- :irl,t.d tlio ros-.- ' to hi the little book, "T!'.'.. Until to V ar was nmnljmla'.iiiij University of Notre Dame in 1904. when h? so traveled And i liell IJinro-a;am! jiaj.ii scud was to It the Lady o'jfiir.ake fit 7". Ii" grunted a i.ruie.-s!i:;.jnsi.hIo lu pkg.. "Titer"' a Reii'-on.Mhyj the Q. T. railroad, and ho did me out Mr. Ivcrens has one daughter whosu bn much oil. oh. I' is horrible! the flood seethed up the slioic. ' Fon:u!:ili from the furious urn Kin mil the ilwvf Irllvrf vb-i-t tho a to me friends predict for her a brilliant caof did she a to 1 ho leeward it time. l.lm rolled the persuade C'uio?j of my pay.' caught ar ippran from time la glimpse way from hey sad danger. srr tnulif, reer in Austrian society. ('to lit: CONIIXL'LP.) (rue, and fall of This was too much! lie set his law.i mandi flooded with salt water, it It was ouly to bo with her And thenj fur u might Oh. it maid, CHAPTER I. d In-r- - l in-;- - 1 off-han- d Win-thrope- is . a1" reef-strew- n holf-leafle- fear-racke- d Win-throp- e. up-n-- ah half-daze- - prob-ubilil- Win-(tuci- r multi-millionair- Atii'-ricn- s Half-sobere- - la-s- sir:-gesti-- r 1 . bo!' ( ! l j lo-l- V s. mirl-tli--- 1 : 1 l!-- i I.e-di- ! . " Ac-ii- lalnnl. hva ; d-- j |
