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VOLUME XXXVII. ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11,1910 NUMBER 20.

M a r n a g ts . D s a th s . Leuten Regulations. The Library Social. GRAHAM—OVERY. M Its. ELIZA BETH FOSDICK. The Lenten regulations for the dio­ The basket social held at Tilt G? On Tuesday morning at eight The death of Mrs. Elizabeth Fos- cese of Peoria read last Sunday from on Tuesday evening for the benefit of o’clock, at St. Joseph’s Catholic dlck, relict of Sanjuel Fosdick, for the pulpits of all the Catholic the public library was a decided suc­ ohurch In Reynolds, Indiana, occurred years a resident of Chatsworth, occur- churches in the diocese are as follows: cess A short literary and musical the marriage of Miss Bridget C. ed at her late home in Chicago, on All days of Lent from Ash Wednes­ program was given, Willie Beckman Graham and Mr. Arthur Overy, Rev. Tuesday, February 8. at the advanced day (Feb. 9) to Easter Sunday (March and Vernon Bushway having recita­ Father Kock officiating. MissEatella age of nearly 93 years. 27), Sundays excepted, are fast days. tions; Misses Aurelia Haberkorn and Graham, sister of the bride, The Fosdiokssettled in Germanville By dispensation, flesh-meat may be Gertie Bork, vocal selections; Mias bridesmaid and Mr. Martin Overy, township in 1868, and they moved Into used at the principal meal on Mon­ Irene Ryan, accompanist. After tho brother of the groom, acted aB best the villiuge of Chatsworth In 1864, Mr. days, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur­ program the baskets were sold, the man. A small gathering of friends Fosdick being engaged in the practice days, except the Saturdays in Ember prize for the prettiest basket, donat­ witnessed the ceremony. law. and Holy week. The use of fish and ed by Mr. L. J. Haberkorn, being The bride was attired in a beautiful A number of years ago the family re­ flesh-meat is forbidden at the same awarded to Miss Brown, the judges embroidery dress and carried a bou­ moved to Chicago, where the death of meal even on Sundays during Lent. being Messrs. John Q. Puffer,-James M quet of bridal roses. The bridesmaid Mr. Fosdick occurred, since which All the faithful who have attained Duffy and Edward Herr. The sum of was attired in a beautiful gown of time the mother and only daughter, their twenty-first year are obliged to $61.40 was realized from th e sale of Alice Blue, trimmed in white lace. Miss Mary, had made their home to­ fast and abstain on the days appointed th e baskets, $4.00 incidental expenses, Following the congratulations the gether. unless otherwise dispensed by their m aking a n et profit of $57.40 for th e wedding party repaired to the home The remains were t- jught to this pastor. library, which will be used in of th e bride, in YPest P o in t township, city on the afternoon train today, and The sick, the very poor, pregnant ,’i'irchasing of new books. where a three-course dinner was funeral services were held at the Will­ women, those nursing infants, and in The library board wishes to extend served. The day was spent in social iam Cowling home, at the corner of genera] all who because of old age (60 thanks to all those who so kindly con­ enjoyments. MRS.'AOETA BECKMAN, Maple and Fifth streets. The inter­ years), weakly constitutions or bard MR MARTIN KUEFFNKR, tributed in making this social a suc- The bride is the fourth daughter of who celebrated her 93rd birthday one ment was beside the remains of Mr. labor cannot fast without detriment who celebrated, his 85tii birthday on i^ss, especially thanking the manage­ Mr and Mrs. Joseph Graham, former week ago today. Fosdick in the Chatsworth cemetery. to their health, are exempted from Saturday, January 29 ment of The Grand for the donation Chatsworth residents. The groom is [This portrait was intended to appear with fasting. Those exempted are not re­ [This portrait was intended to appear with the article in last weoVs i6sue. but was delayed GEORGE COLLINS. of the hall. The people of Chats­ the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. George stricted in the use of meat on days the article iu last week’s issue, hut was delayed worth should be proud in the iu trausportatiou from the ODKrarers.] Last Friday afternoon, at his late iu trausportatiou from the engravers ] • Overy and they are well and favorably home in Cullom, occurred the death when it is allowed by dispensation at sion of a library, of which few towns Seed and Soil Special Tomorrw. the principal meal. known to a large circle of friends of George Collins, a resident of this Notice. of the size of Chatsworth can boast, They were the recipients of many T he T., P. & W. Seed and Soil corner of the county since 1866 He Those obliged to fast are restricted and they should be equally interested to one full meal in the day, which Herman Gerdes. Charlotte tax-col­ beautiful gifts After a short wed­ Special is due to arrive in Chatsworth was a native of Kentucky, having lector, will be at The,Commercial Na­ with the library board in furthering ding trip they will be at home on a tomorrow (Saturday) at 2:15 o'clock in been born September 15, 1833. He is should not ordinarily be taken before tional Bank, in Chatsworth, every its progress, as it is for them and farm south of Wolcott. tile afternoon. The train will stop survived by his wife, one daughter noon, aud to a collation in the evening Saturday, all other days at his store their families that the library was es­ T he P l a in d e a l e r joins th e m any near the T., P. & W. station and will and two step-sons. not exceeding the fourth part of an at Charlotte. I6tf tablished. L ibr friends of the bride in extending con­ carry coaches, where comfortable The funeral services were held at ordinary meal. Custom permits the gratulations and good wishes. seats will be available to those who the Cullom Mennonite church on Sun­ taking of tea, coffee or chocolate with BLACKMORE—MOORE. desire to hear the lectures and avail day afternoon. a small peice of bread not exceeding Miss Etta Blackmore and Mr. Ed­ themselves of the opportunity of lis­ two ounces in the morning. ward Moore were married on Thurs­ tening to some of the best-known and Wreck at Charlotte. Lard, the fat rendered from any day evening at five o’clock by Rev. O. ablest agricultural specialists in the The south-bound freight, No. 359, kind of meat, may be used in prepar­ M. Dunlevy, the ceremony taking country. on the Illinois Central was derailed ing food on all days during Lent and on all days of fast and abstinance Not How Cheap place at the M. E. parsonage and be­ TheT., P. & W. railroad company early Wednesday morning at Char­ ing witnessed by George Meisenhclder is going to a large expense to run this lotte on account of a broken truck throughout the year. and Miss Laura Moore. train and the only benefit derived under an oil tank car Three loaded The Holy See has granted to work­ Both the young people have many from it is the increasing of the crops box cars and one tank car were entire- ingmen and their families a special friends in this community, where they raised in the territory tributary to thrown off the track near the Farmers’ indult permitting them to eat meat have lived since childhood, and they the railroad. elevator, tearing and twisting the once a day on all days of fast and ab Hut How Good unite in wishing them much joy and Every farmer should arrange to be rails for a distance of about t welve stinance throughout the year, except happiness. The bride is a daughter in town and hear some of the lectures rods The truck broke down on the Fridays. Ash Wednesday. Wednesday of Lincoln Blackmore, of this city, by the men who will accompany the north side of the Vermillion river and Saturday in Holy Week, and the while the groom is a son of Mr. and train . bridge, which is about a mile from the Vigil of Christmas. Working men and their families a- Mrs. S. Moore and has been engaged Bowling Match, Last Evening. scene of the derailment, cutting the with P C. Tayler in repairing and ends of the ties all the way into Char­ vailing themselves of tills indult are The most important question to con In a bowling match on Burns’ al­ making wells. lotte and on bitting the frog at the not ajlowed th e use of fish and tiesh- leys last evening between Forrest and meat at the same meal. It is the KAGKL—KINELLY. switch the front end of the tank car sider in buying your Groceries is the Chatsworth the latter team was vic­ earnest desire of the Holy See, and On Monday morning at ten o’clock was thrown over on the siding, cut­ torious, winning by 16 pins. The fol­ ours as well, that they perform some at the SS. Peter and Paul's church ting it free from the front end of the lowing is the score: other act of self-denial, such as ab­ occurred the marriage of Mr. Martin train, which remained on the track. CHATSWORTH. staining from intoxicating liquors. D. Kinelly and Miss Mary Kagel. both A force of trackmen put in new QUALITY H a lla m ...... 172 162 149— 483 The time for fulfiling the Easter of Peoria. There was no attendance rails and the evening trains were not B ald w in ...... 162 158 144— 468 Duty extends from the first Sunday of and the regular choir furnished the d e l a y e d . ______Bork...... 198 141 146— 485 Lent to Trinity Sunday, both Sundays music. Rev. Father W‘. J. Burke per­ Melsenhelder...... 164 146 148— 458 Sayler Trial, March 14. included. and not the Q,TTAiN’T IT Y ’. formed the ceremony and the couple H a b e rk o rn ...... 142 134 148— 424 Dr. William F. Miller, Lucy Sayler The annual collection for the Negro left on the noon train to make their and her father, John Grunder, indict­ and Indian Missions will be taken up home in Peoria. T o tals...... 838 741 735-2314 ed on the charge of Murdering John the first Sunday of Lent in all the I endeavor to keep on hand at all times The contracting parties are both FORREST. Byron Sayler, the Crescent City bank­ L a ird ...... 94 157 1 6 6 - 417 churches of the diocese. Please an­ friends of the pastor who married er, last summer, will be tried at the the BSST Groceries that are produced H u m p h rey ...... 129 141 177— 447 nounce this collection to your people Wiem, the groom having, visited here March term of court in Watseka. the Kelso...... 128 166 173- 462 on the preceeding Sunday, explaining and sell them as cheap as others sell in­ last summer. trial to begin March 14. This arrange­ W endle...... 189 170 160— 519 its importance to them, and kindly 8TUOU8R—TRAUB. ment has been agreed to by attorneys Buckley...... 152 135 166— 453 forward the amount collected at your ferior goods. The marriage of Miss Carrie K. for both sides. earliest convenience to the Rev. Chan­ Btrouse, of Delavan, and Mr. Henry T otals...... 687 769 842—2298 Judge Hooper, who is a resident of cellor E d m u n d M. D u n n e , Traub, of Ltnooln, was celebrated at Iroquois county, before whom the Bishop of Peoria. My constant aim is to give satisfaction high noon by Rabbi A. J. Messing, of Gets Damages to Amount of $232. case would regularly come, has re­ Bloomington, on Thursday at the The jury in the case of C. N. Patty quested that another judge preside Church Announcements. to my customers, both in GOODS and home of the bride’s mother in Dela­ et al. vs. Thomas Carney et al.. re­ and State’s Attorney Pallissard, for Baptist.—Preaching at 10:00 a. m. van, only the immediate relatives be­ turned a verdict on Thursday award­ the prosecution, and Attorneys Free and 7:30 p. m., Sunday school a t 11:00 PRICES. ing present. ing the plaintiff damages in the sum P. Morris and J. W. Kern, for the de­ a. tn —N. A. Ilarkness. pastor. The groom is a brother of William of $232. It will be remembered that fense, have joined in a request that Met liodist.—Sunday school, 10:00 a. Traub, of this city, and has many the case was brought to recover dam­ Judge Dibell act. m.; preaching, 11:00 a. m ; Junior If you have never traded at my store, friends here who extend congratula­ ages for Frank Scott, who had his League, 2:30 p rn.; Epworth League, tions. ______foot mangled under an I. C. train last Cullom Woman Wants Divorce. 6:30 p. m.; preaching. 7:30 p. in. you are not familiar with my goods and Mrs. Mary Tuggle, of Cullom, has A Pleasant Event. summer while In an alleged intoxicat­ Next Sunday at 11 a m. the birth­ filed a bill for divorce against her hus­ prices. Give me a call and I will attend On Monday evening five candidates ed condition. day of Lincoln will he appropriately band, Calvin H. Tuggle, and asks the were initiated into the mysteries of observed'by a program prepared es­ R. N. of A. Notice. custody of their child. She alleges to your wants promptly. the R. -N. of A. Lodge, after which a pecially for tlie occasion, consisting of habitual drunkenness and recites that valentine social was held. An elabor­ A special meeting will be held on songs, responsive service and an ad­ Yours to please, he attempted her life, shooting her ate lunch was served, the tables being Tuesday evening, Feb. 15. As there dress by the pastor All are earnestly through tiie arm with a pistol on decorated in hearts, and the place Is important business to be transact­ solicited to be present. Septem ber 19. 1908. cards were valentines. In the games ed. all members are requested to be The subject, of the evening sermon present. M a r g a r e t Me ib t e k , will be “The Effects of Bad Habits.” first prize was awarded to Mrs. A. Lenten Services In SS. Peter and Paul’s. Van Alstyne. The committee In Recorder. —O. M. Dunley, pastor. I. E. BALDWIN charge consisted of Mesdames W. P. Masses on Sunday at 8 and 10 a m.; Notice. masses on week days a t 7:30 a. m : Residence at Auction. MoHenry, Geo Watson, Jas. Fields, evening devotions on Sunday and Misses Ella Culkins and Nellie O’Mal­ Win, Lee, Germanville tax-collector, I will sell at auction on Saturday,, will be at The Commercial National Friday at 7:30. Literature on the Feb. 12. at 2:30 o’clock, my residence ley. ______Bank, in Chatsworth, every Saturday, doctrines of the Catholic church will located one block soul It and one-half ’Phone 34 THE 6R0CER block east of Brown’s feed yard. There A few healing stoves on hand to be and at The Farmers National Bank, be distributed gratis. All are wel­ is a good well and good cistern. sold at attractive prices.—Burns Bros. in Strawn, every Friday. 16-22 come. W . J . B u r k e , Pastor. A d o l p h Z a r b o Ck .

On Saturday, February 12, at 9 o’clock we will place on sale every Ladies’ and Misses’ Winter Cloak and Suit in the store (not one reserved, and all of them this season’s most approved styles)—your choice for —regular price of the suits, $15, $18.50 and $20; regular price of the coats, $12.50, $15, $18.50 and $20. Think of it, the linings and buttons are worth more than five dollars—your choice, Saturday, Feb. 12, and only for Saturday, Feb. 12, at BUSHWAY COMPANY —..

y v & n >> fH — - ______. ■ ...... Z. Passenger No. 2«," nothing mar*. BOY'S SUCCESS WITH DUCKS Estelle waa lounging In the summer house, dressed on a simple pink frock, Progressive California Boy Rapklly with a volume of Browning in her Building Up a Profitable Busi­ Engine No. 26 lap. nas*—Good Manager. "The Impertinence," she cried, with a flash of her dark eyes, as she glanced (BY M. T. lUTTENHOUSE.) By JEANNETTE WALDEN Miss Kittie’s Mistake at the card. One of my California boy friends "He semed very respectful," plead­ POULTRY NOTES. who has for the last four years raised (Copyright, U0S by Associated Literary ed Nona, assuming a fine seriousness. guineas, which have netted him a By CLUD1NE SISSON Praaa.) "He probably wants to get your ad­ It pays to breed from vigorous neat little Bum, has now added ducks W- birds. vice on the railroaders’ strike, or _-3_ “It wasn't a flirtation!” declared Ea- something of that sort—you must re­ The poultry business will never telle, her strong, Independent chin (Copyright, IMS by Associated Literary P ress) member the little wlfey and the nest meet the demand. tilting disdainfully. "I was compelled of—" Though the veranda waa small. It charming and that her arms and neck to stand there and wait for the train Many poultrymen feed alfalfa every “Tell him I wish to be excused." Es­ had an air of space, because It was so were whiter than Kitty's own. to croas the trestle. It was running day In the year. telle resumed her book with an air of conveniently arranged. Louise and ‘Tm so glad you are pleased,” Louis* rather slowly, and I looked right Into Look after the little things and your finality. her mother used their veranda a great said, and she kept her blue eyea for a The cab before I thought. The en­ success will be great. “He said It was Important business," deal, because they were both delicate long time on Kitty’s dasallng face In gineer, In a very dignified and respect­ Never keep chicks on a board floor. lied Nona, in desperation. women and believed In fresh air. a look that was at once gratified and ful manner raised his cap.” It develops leg weakness. "What does he look like?” Estelle All the time they worked Indefatl- wistful. If Kitty had not been too “What did you do?" quizzed Noona Resolve to keep the poultry house was weakening. gably. Louise embroidered and her much absorbed In herself she would Bray ton. perfectly clean this year. “Blond and handsome." mother made lace. There was an In­ have seen that George Van Tota* eyea “ I d id the only thing possible, un­ "Blond! why, that engineer was If we want extra good layers we creasing demand for their work and, were not for her but for the girl who d e r the circumstances,” defended Es­ very dark—I don’t understand—" must breed this trait into the hens. fortunutely, they both bad excellent had helped make her beautiful. Kitty te lle , a slight flush enlivening the "Well, It’s your duty to unravel the Bread thoroughly dried and rolled nerves and eyesight They earned was very gracious. She first let Louise O liv e of her cheeks. "I acknowledged mystery. If this man has come to Into fine crumbs is excellent chick enough to keep them In comfort and smell the fragrance of her rosea, then h i s courtesy." steal the silver plate—” To prevent food. also to lay aside a bit for that Inev­ pulled one from the long-stemmed Nona Brayton's laugh rippled out in further objection, Nona, went bond­ The Isolating coop should take care itable rainy day of which they had al­ eheaf for her. They were George Van W I tantalizing merriment. ing to the house. of every bird that Is off feed or un­ ready uad some experience. Tross’ rosea! Then and there he re­ "What are you laughing at?” Eb- In a few seconds. Engineer, X. Y. healthy. During the day they did their most solved that the little Louise should te l l e 's dark eyes looked a narrow and Z., No. 26, presented himself at Es­ Feed breeding ducks a crumbly have some roses of her own. k e e n reproof at her friend, through A Money Producer. difficult work. The easier work was telle’s bower and after the first start mash twice a day, morning and done at night In the light of candles. One damp evening he took them to the silken veil of their lashes. of astonishment, she looked at him evening. to his poultry yard. He has found that They used candles because they were her. Her delight and astonishment at "At the success of your Isolation If we want to get eggs In winter they In no way interfere with the care scheme,” giggled the Impish Nona. with that "Well—what-can-I-do-for- cheap and because, to, they had an received them and seeing him pleased you?" expression, of which she was we must breed from hens that lay of his guineas and have more than old-fashioned aversion for modern him as he had never before been “You Insist upon farming yourself out. well In winter. doubled his profits. In this unheard-of place, where there complete mistress. ways of veranda lighting. They made pleased by any woman He sat down He was all that Nora had said he Coop the fowls intended for market This boy got his first stock of ducks an unusual and strikingly serene and and talked with her and her mother. are only a piece of a house, a barn, and give them all they will eat of rich by exchanging two of his guineas for and a corner store, and one train a was—blonde, handsome and very re­ graceful picture on a dark night, sit­ And then, since be must frame some spectful, but. In the wistfulness of his food for a week or two. a setting of 14 eggs, which he placed d a y , to escape the importunities of so­ ting behind the vines working while excuse for his visit, be asked her to The pens should be kept clean and under two hens in sittings of seven ciety—especially the masculine contin­ clear blue eyes there lurked an ex­ the candles made a delicate radiance make r luncheon set for his slBter. She pression that was half triumphant sanitary; a provision should be made each. Out of the 14 eggs 11 sturdy gent; and it Isn’t three days—■" round them. They were both small was to do the best work she was capa­ With a casual word of greeting for to admit plenty of sunlight. ducklings were hatched. women and much alike, even though ble of and her mother was to make the "You are terribly silly, Nonle, If you Cut bone or meat meal take the im agine I would stand on the trestle Estelle he stooped and got his arm Last year this boy set 180 duck one was young and the other elderly. lace for the Inserts and edging. He left about the dog, who, in marked con­ place of the now absent insect diet so eggs. Of these 152 eggs hatched. Their faces were of that delicate the design to her. Louise gleefully told and hold my breath, waiting for recog­ necessary to egg production. nition from a train hand. Besides, I trast to the girl’s manner, welcomed Later two were carried away by rats. plainness which Is far more attractive Kitty next day. him like an old friend. Hens prefer seclusion when they are Eight more died before the boy than mere coarse prettiness. Their “He wants to be kind," Kitty said, never pretend to claim any attention laying, and they are not likely to as directed to me when Sagwa Is Estelle was moved, though the only learned that his water-loving ducks real beauty was their eyes—blue eyes, amiably. "He is Interested In you on evidence was a slight quiver of her break eggs and get Into the habit of could withstand even less dampness perfectly lidded and lashed. Yet many my account. I have told him a lot along.” eating them If the nests are kept She stooped and patted the beautiful nostrils. than the ordinary chick. looked at them, wondering what made about you. How Is my own luncheon dark. pointer lying at her feet. “He was "What am I to understand by ‘En­ Ducks are ready for the market at their faces so pleasant, without once set coming on? I must have It for the A farm er's wife will not find It hard speaking to you, wasn't he, Sagwa?” gineer, Passenger No. 26?” ’ she In­ 11 weeks, sometimes a trifle earlier. thinking about their eyes, which were 23d, you know." to get private customers in town, for "Well, I'm almost afraid you’re quired, looking critically at the card He sorts over the young broods and as unobtrusively charming as their "I shall be ready,” Louise promised. genuine fresh eggs are seldom to be hopeless, Estelle,” deplored Nona. she still held. always markets his green ducks be­ voices and manners. George Van Tross seemed very anx­ had there. "But I foresee a sequel, nevertheless.” "That Is the evening train which has fore they reach five pounds. They had lived In Westmore about ious that the luncheon set he had or­ For watering poultry the best meth­ the good fortune to pass through this He has never sold any of his ducks four years, yet they had so little to say dered should be perfectly satisfactory, After this prediction, Nona, was as od Is to use the gallon fountains and forsaken hamlet," explained the man, for less than $5.50 per dozen. Last about themselves that people knew and he came a good many times to see while he strove to check the smile of fill with warm water every morning. fall he sold two ducks and a drake for very little concerning them. They about It Always he brought flowers amusemc-nt which flickered to his lips. These fountains are made of galvan­ seven dollars for the three. They kept their heart affairs. If they had or bonbons, and always he lingered to ized Iron and can be carried In and Estelle flushed crimson. "Do you were hfs choicest stock, however, and any. to themselves, and apparently chat with Louise and her mother. set on the kitchen stove if they freeze pretend to be that man? Why, he Is had won the prize at the county fair. lived lives of the utmost placidity and Once he asked her as be watched her older, and—and large and strong, and up. simplicity. Kitty West said that a visit busily at work, for she sometimes very dark!” He has sold quite a number of sit­ tings and has never received less to them acted upon excited nerves went on embroidering in his presence: The engineer laughed, a hearty, with the soothing effect of a mild nar­ A musical laugh. "Don't 1 correspond In CRACKER BOX FOR TRAP NEST than 50 cents per dozen for them. "Do you like to do that?” His ducks began laying the latter cotic—one went away calmed and She only smiled. bulk?" he asked, drawing himself up cooled and agreeably drowsy. “And as for complexion, engineers ar» Self-Setting Contrivance and Re­ part of February. He says this Is "You will ruin your eyes.” Some­ quires No Watching— Any Poul­ because they are well sheltered and Louise regarded Kitty West as her how he was always thinking about her permitted to Wash, you know, when dearest friend. Kitty was a gay girl, try Raiser Can Make One. well fed. eyes. off duty.” very pretty and popular. Her ac­ Estelle smiled. It was a frank little The first week after the ducklings “No. really, my eyes are very Any farmer or fnrmer’a wife may ; are hatched he keeps them in a coop, quaintance with Louise and her smile of acknowledged defeat, but mother had begun over an order for strong." there was a reservation In her fathoin- make a trap nest out of a cracker taking great care that its floor is per­ Next day Kitty showed him her box, or any other box of suitable size. ! fectly dry. After the second week some embroidery. Since then Louise les eyes. and her mother had constantly been luncheon set and told him that she "Couldn't you," pursued the young should be 12 or 14 inches square by they may be allowed to run at large was to Initiate It on the 23d—“All in charge, of course, of the mother doing things for Kitty at reduced man, growing serious, "couldn't you prices, for Kitty had wheedling ways girls. No men allowed," she ended, transfer to me just a little of your duck or the stepmother her. but they gayly must not be turned out while the dew and always planned to make her al­ esteem for that engineer—Estelle?" lowance go as fat as it could. She "That shuts me out. But 1 suppose The girl started. It had been long Is on. They will, of their own accord, your little triend of the needle will be return home to supper and to bed be­ made love to Louise and In return since Harvey Pherson had spoken her there." fore the dew falls. Innocent, grateful Louise did for her first name. her finest work. And no one knew "Louise? Why, 1 wouldn’t ask her. "Hut you are only posing,” she ob­ For the first week the hoy feeds the young ducks nothing hut coarse yel­ that Kitty did not pay her as much No one cares to know her. She Is well jected, coldly. as she could. Kitty salved her con­ enough In her place, but her place "Posing?" He glanced down at his low cornmeal scalded with water or milk. After that state bread crumbs, science by thinking that if Louise was isn't at my luncheon table.” She work-stained hands. "I've renounced laughed again, but with Irritation this beef scraps chopped very fine, ground satisfied with the bargains they made my Income until I shall have gone there should he no cause for dlscoin- time. What business had George Van through the whole catalogue of rail­ oats, chopped green clover or any finely chopped green feed can be for on her part. Tross tc he mentioning such a person roading, earning each promotion by At present Lotiis< was embroidering as Louise to her? my own skill and deserving ’’ added to their bill of fare. Trap Nest Open. Later he adds cracked corn, crushed a robe for Kitty, while her mother The next time she went to see Louise "I think that is perfectly fine!" ap- 1 barley and table srraps. In a quart made some delicnte lace for It. Louise she found pink roses on the sewing proved the girl with an enthusiasm 20 or 24 inches long and is identical of their food he mixes from one to had been a' work upon it for a long table. George Van Tross has dis­ that made her suddenly beautiful. with the traps we used to catch T S i. three tahlespoonfuls of Sand. time, and now Kitty was hurrying her covered that Louise loved pink roses. It was just an accident that he hap- j prairie chickens with. to get It done, as sh° wanted It to wear "So you have an admirer.” Kitty -j-acjf t^rE -a * Even the very young ducks are not JftE- pened to be kneeling at her feet, for ! The slats should be nailed to a fed oftener than four times a day, and upon a certain occasion—the Ardens' quizzed. S* ‘T’ ‘T’/te- l he had thrown himself down to caress crosspiece about one-quarter the dis­ after the fourth week, If they have a party, in fact, which was certain to be "Oh. no. Mr. Van Tross sent those. the dog. But he seized her hands and tance from the top. A couple of nails run where there is plenty of plantain, a great affair, since news of It had gone 1 am doing some work for his sister, covered them with kisses. are driven through the box and into clover, dock or fresh green grass, they forth so far ahead. Kitty felt exult­ you know!” Then she bent her face to meet his the crosspiece to swing on. writes O. antly that her dress would be the finest "O !” But Kitty bit her lip. She much elated ns she was mystified and will only need to be fed each night O. Larson, in Missouri Valley Farmer. thing there—finer even than anything felt a strpng desire to Btnb uncon­ dumfounded to see her dignified friend and morning on a mixed feed of bran, Half way back, on the Inside, a nar­ Mrs. Holt would wear, and costing scious Louise with one of her own overleap h'T reserve one evening, by crunched barley or the cracked corn ACTOR WORRIED OVER NOSE row piece of board Is nailed, back of so little, too. slender embroidery needles. It was suddenly lilting her hand to wave a mixed with table scraps, nnd still which the nest is made. reach the market weight between ten One evening she took George Van a long time before she went to see fluttering bit of lace-edged linen in Coquelin Had Much Trouble in Fitting To set the trap simply raise the Tross with her when she went to see the face of the passing train and eleven weeks. Louise again. But George Van Tross Cyrano with the Proper slats inward from the bottom eight how Louise was getting on with the kept on coming even after the lunoh- Estelle and her dog were standing at Proboscis. or nine inches high and place a small work. George Van Tross was the man ; eon „et was finished and delivered. the edge of a slough at quite a dis­ stick under one of the slats. As the Dry Feed for Poultry. Kitty meant to marry. He was an at­ One evening he found Louise alone. tance front the trestle, wondering how The mention of the difficulties en hen enters, the door is raised off the There are many advantages in feed­ tractive bachelor, with large means, She said her mother was “setting the> should get across. Nona, far in countered in connection with the stage stick, which falls to the floor. I have ing dry feed over the mash method, and of late he had been paying her bread" for to-morrow’B baking. This the tear, hastened to overtake them, accessories of M. Rostand’s latest play made only three slats because I am a says the New England Homestead. In some attention, which was distinctly time George had brought, not flowers an ilt.tnt jibe ready on her lips. But reminds me of the trouble poor Coque- poor draftsman, but there should be the first place. It is labor-saving. No encouraging, since he gave very little or bonbons, but a book for Louise— *he ound her friend bent over the dog. lin had to find a nose which would about five for a box 12 or 14 inches In Inconsiderable amount of labor is re­ ttaie to women’s society. an exquisitely bound volume of his f '” '1 'ng his silken hair with that deep fittingly represent the nasal organ of width, slats close against Inch strip quired to prepare a mash in a proper That particular evening it chanced favorite poems. He opened It at ran­ thoughtfulness which she had learned Cyrano During the final rehearsals, at bottom. manner. It is heavier to carry and that Louise was alone upon the dom and began to read some love not to disturb. when the important question of the I use this kind of trap most of the more trouble lo feed. The fowls do veranda, working by the light of her lyric which he had always meant one !■> telle looked up and read the ques­ famous nose was still unsettled, time, except when I want to separate not gorge themselves so heavily on candles. Her mother had gone to bed day to read to the woman who should tioning in Nona’s eyes. Coquelin was In a very irritable mood. the layers from the drones; then I usa whole grain scattered in litter, nor with a headache. It was a warm night be all the world to him. He was not "You are shocked?" she half inter­ Not once but several times a day his one with double doors, the back door on dry feed taken direct from hop­ and she had on a little black gown, cut quite sure of Louise. But. suddenly rogated. "So am I; It's such a com­ manservant would appear at the stage pers. Consequently, more food may square at the nock and with short glancing up, he saw that she had mon thing to do. But he took me so door. be given at a time and fewer times a sleeves. Her fair hair was coiled loosely ceased working and was watching him by surprise. I wasn’t thinking of the "Monsieur!" day. Bran, cut bone and ground at the nape of her neck In a girlish with wide eyes that told the whole train at all—just happened to look up, "W hat? W hat Is It?" Coquelin would grains of all kinds can be fed with way. A yellow aura flared round her story of her heart. The book fell as and—my acknowledgment was abso­ little labor. The fowls are heavier from the candles. She looked like an lutely spontaneous.” ask Impatiently. "Who wants me? I he caught her hand. \ told you I did not want to be disturbed than where much mash Is used. They Industrious little saint. George Van “Louise!” he said. Then Nona danced In glee. "He’s —didn't i» Well, can't you leave me eat the dry feed as readily as the wet. Tross sat on the steps and watched her Then the screen door flapped be­ your fate!" she chanted, pointing a In peace?" Results are equally favorable, as our curiously, while he waited for Kitty. tragic finger. hind them and Louise’s mother came "I beg monsieur's pardon, but It is experiments have proved. He had never observed Louise before, out. 8he started back amazed at what “No doubt, he has a little wlfey and for monsieur’s nose.” though he had known about her. She a nest of young railroaders at home,” she saw. George Van Tross, still "Why didn’t you say so at first, you W in te r Poultry Feed. was distinctly out of his sphere. Her Estelle retorted. ’Furthermore, he has holding Louise's hands, turned to her. imbecile?” blue eyes, her little vanishing smile, a peculiar dignity and, I think, a good Tn cold weather I feed oats and "I want your daughter. She 1b will And, Instantly calmed and smiling, her low voice were opposed to Kitty's physique, though I didn’t see him very bran mixed with milk or warm water, lng. May I have her?” Coquelin would hurry out to try on his opulent style of young beauty. As they clearly. I really don’t mind confessing, says a writer In the Baltimore Ameri­ Three months later Kitty went to nose. He tried them of all shapes, of Nest Closed. went away he said to Kitty: Nona, If the men I know were like can. I allow the mixture to stand call upon the new Mrs. George Van all substances, of all makes, straight, over night, and feed warm tn the "You have an Interesting little friend Tross, who had returned from her that, I never should have run away." opens as the front one closes, allow­ there." aquiline and flat, In cardboard, canvas ing the hen to go out that way Into morning. In the afternoon I feed honeymoon and was living with her Nona continued to give significance and goldbeaters’ skin, sent to him by Kitty laughed. "Why, she Isn’t a to the Incident as the two girls walked another inclosure after laying. It Is corn. I keep ground bone In a box husband and mother In the old .Van makers of masks, toy-makers and friend exactly In the sense you mean. back In the June twilight to the farm­ self-setting and requires no watching. where the fowls can have free access Tross mansion. theatrical hairdressers. If he tried ten But I like her. And then she Is singu­ house where they were staying. to It. Occasionally I also supply oys­ “It seems so odd to see you with­ he tried 100, and every day there waa larly gifted with the needle. I pay her *'I declare to you, there Is an ele­ ter shell. The chill is taken off the out a piece of embroidery In your a regular procession of nose special­ Work Among Poultry. a good deal of money." ment of destiny lurking In these drinking water. The floor of the coop hands," she said. "You must feel lost ists, whose object was to fit a suitable The cheapest eggs, like the cheap­ ”1 dare say. But that Intricate parts.” She suddenly rumpled her Is bedded with straw or other Utter. I without It. Aren't you going to do nasal appendlce to Cyrano. The nose est butter and cheese, are made by needlework must be very hard on the pompadour and gazed at the myriads have pullets that were hatched In any more?” on which Coquelln’s choice finally fell, the man with plenty of land. The eyes.” And then it struck him that of fireflies dancing over the sward. July that began laying in January. She did not mean that Louise, which did not interfere with his facial farmer who will pay due attention to One pullet in particular began Decem­ Louise's eyes were the most wonderful though elevated thus suddenly to the “Cassandra says that this strange hap­ care of his poultry and to marketing he had ever seen. In the days that fol­ pening will bear fruit anon.” expression, did not alter '.he sound of ber 20, and Is still laying. highest plane of society should for­ his voice, and did not affect the play the product, need not fear the compe­ lowed he did not forget them get her origin. “Oh, you silly child," ridiculed Es­ tition of the village lot nnd the city The night of the Ardens' party he telle. "1 shall not go near the tracks of hla eyes was a noae in diachylum, Watch the Poultry. George answered his wife. “No, which, being Interpreted, means a backyard. The farmer lays out no escorted Kitty, who wore the wonder­ Bhe Isn’t going to do any more," he •gain In the evening. My dog Is too money for fancy buildings or fences. I kept close watch of my flock, and ful embroidered robe. Considerately, conspicuous.” plaster originally composed of the said. "She Is done with It forever. Juices of herbs, now made of olive oil His birds forage part of their own the hens that began to lay first after Kitty led him tound by way of the Nona was not more surprised than I have thrown away all her needles and finely pounded litharge. living and improve In vigor. They molting I put Into separate pens. From veranda that Louise might have a pleased, when, a week or so later, a these pens I gathered my eggs for and hidden all her scissors." find for themselves what the town glimpse of her In all the glory of that "But that seems cruel, since ahe well-groomed, athletic and blond poultry-keeper has to buy at much ex­ hatching, and by so doing I have won­ amazing piece of handiwork. They yonng man presented hlmHelf one Sun­ Automatically Cuta Matches. derfully Improved the laying qualities was so fond of embroidering," Kitty pense, only to find his flock surely found Louise and her mother both at said. day at the farmhouse, asking for Miss A match-cutting machine la an au­ losing vitality after a year or two In of my flock, says a writer In the Balti­ work. Again Louise wore the little Eatele May. tomatic curiosity. It cuta 10,000,000 more American. This mating has also Louise smiled Into her husband's close quarters; yet some farmers con­ black dregs and though Kitty's stature eyes and for the first time told the It waa Nona's exultant duty to find sticks a day, and then arranges them tinue to throw away their advantage been tbe means of rearing birds with Jwarfed her and Kitty's radiance ex­ Estelle and deliver the card, upon truth about herself. “But i wasn’t over a vat, where the beads are pnt by treating their hens as If form land stronger constitutions—more hardy tinguished here. George Van Troea which war scribbled, “Engineer, X. T. fond of IL I only did It because I bad en at a surprising rate of speed ■old at about one dollar a foot. and vigorous. .toilet'd that her own expression waa ' . . to. I—loathe it,” ahe aald.

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. Nellie had forgotten Billy, forgotten BUILDING GOOD ICEHOUSE herself, forgotten everything but the O fortunes of this quaint little pair, Work Oan Bo Done by Homo Labor BILLY’S these living, breathing children of the and It Will Provo to Bo a n E x­ past which seemed so long ago. She cellent Investmont. PROPOSAL smiled again over the description of RDEN The Lost Laird and His their merry games, but her throat (BY J. W. GRIFFIN.) B y M. PHILLIPS ached and her eyes smarted with the ** o v a '' Five years ago we built an ice sorrow of their first and only quarrel, ■**3 house after the following plan and (Copyright, 1M» by Associated Literary so genuinely was It portrayed. have found it to be all that could be By C ELLIS P ress.) The narrative swept on to the out­ expected. We excavated four feet, FARM NOTES. There was no good reason, except­ break of the Spanish war, Billy's en­ listment, his return to Montauk Point (Copyrighted by Short Stories Co., Ltd.) ing his own overpowering bashful­ Celery is getting to be the best pay­ ness, why Billy De Voe should not from Cuba, fever-stricken and weak; along the road and then back again to of Nellie's coming to the long, cot- ing crop the garden grows. In a wild, mountainous district of marry Nellie Melrose. Billy loved Hard-shelled pumpkins resist bugs Argyleahlre, not far from the head of ua. If he had been able to speak bo her devotedly, while the girl, the belle fllted hospital tent where he lay. The could not have told us In plainer lan­ girl and her mother had cut short a better than "Yankee” kinds. Loch Fyne, was situated the sheep of Hornvllle and with numerous ad­ farm where on many occasions I bad guage that be wanted ua to come with mirers, had unmistakably shown her visit In New York to find him. She Did you mulch the strawberry bed? him, and so we drew our caps cloee smelled the horrid medicine again and been a welcome guest. The farm­ preference for the quiet Billy. If not, better do It late than never. around our ears and, buttonlrfg our heard the raving of the delirium as house was pleasantly located at the Billy’s Income was sufficient for Jonathan was the best ylelder of all foot of a long glen and sheltered by coats tighter, we started to follow tho two. He was bookkeeper in the Horn­ she read. Her eyes filled when she apple varieties In the west last year. dog. It was bitterly cold and tho saw how he treasured the memory some fine old fir trees from the blasts vllle Department store, and besides, Bees winter better if they have which In winter swept down the val­ snow, which was still falling, lay moro had recently taken to writing short of her kiss that day, the only kiss part honey and part sugar to live on than ankle-deep. We were able to poor bashful Billy had ever claimed. ley. stories which sold well and which during cold weather. It was a fine winter day when I and make out the road only by keeping caused the Alton County Courier to The story took up the soldier's ulti­ Says a practical farmer: “Buy the the dark waters of the loch on our mate recovery and return to his home a friend arrived at Loch Goll-head, refer to him as "our rising young au­ manure spreader first and the piano where our host, or, as he was called, left well In view, all landmarks were thor.” town to find that his childhood sweet­ will come easier.'' i i1 V i. i 1 iTx± obliterated, and otherwise we had to heart was now considered grown up— V------t v ------the laird, had appointed to meet us, The young man's bashfulnesa Never start tomato and cabbage trust to the guidance of the dog. she was 17—and was going away to /«' and we received a right hearty wel­ amounted almost to a fear of every­ plants In the same box, as the tomato For more than an hour we tolled school. It told of her four-years' ab­ Front of Ice House. come on landing from the steamer. He thing feminine, excepting MIsb Mel­ likes hotter locations and does not along through the wild night, Caeaar sence, with brief visits to her home, had with him his favorite collie, Cae­ rose, whom he had known and loved start into growth as soon as the cab­ never for a moment relaxing his «f-_ when both the boy and girl were In a then laid a six-inch drain tile on a sar, which 1 had known as a puppy, all his life. And this Idiosyncrasy pre­ forts to hasten our progress, and kepi state of transition. Although the old bage. level with the bottom of the excava­ but whatever claim he had to beauty vented his asking her to be his wife. hurrying on before us and barking. comradeship was there still, surface The farmer can become his own tion, gave the tile two inches fall each In his youth had vanished. He had For a year he had been trying to get So we left the road and faced tho changes, the girl’s new surroundings builder as soon as he understands the ten feet. then a fine, glossy coat of black and out the momentous question. Each steep hill. The ascent was very ardu­ and acquaintances, had made them al­ mixing of concrete and the making of The site for the icehouse was on white, his face was well marked and time he started for his tri-weekly visit ous, no path of any kind to guide ua, most strangers. forms to mold it in. Its use Is un­ rolling ground, so we only had to a bushy tall hung “o’er his hurdles.” to the girl's home, Billy would prom­ and often we were up to our knees to The story went to tell how Billy, limited on the farm. make the drain about 60 feet long. Now, alas! that appendage was sadly ise himself, "It will surely be to­ snow. We were entirely at the mercy ever hampered by his bashfulness, set With a shade tree It Is not only de­ Imperfect, his ears were “ribboned,” night.” Then he would, in Imagina­ We filled in with coarse broken of the dog, who continued to bark ae out to win again the girl who had sirable to have a mass of foliage in stone one foot after the excavation his face scarred In many places and tion, build a conversation which led, he plunged through the drifts, always, given him her frank young affections. summer, but Its branches should be he had but one eye left. Caesar now as a pathway, right up to the storm­ was walled up with stone, one foot however, coming back as If to encour­ Billy poured out his hopes and his arranged that It will have a pleasing above the level of the surrounding looked anything but an amiable beau­ ing of the citadel. effect in winter. ty. His master was, however, proud age us. In this way we proceeded for' fears. He narrated how In the read­ ground. more than half an hour up the hill', With commendable persistence he Don’t buy a heavy colony with few of him as a sheep dog. justment after the four years of their The wall was Just one foot thick, when Caesar suddenly made another followed the conversation previously bees; buy a colony that has honey Soon afterward we did ample Justice practical separation she bad seemed the thickness of the sides of the rush away. We stood still and list­ planned to the last redoubt, to the more distant and unattainable than enough to last until the honey flow to a substantial meal of sheep’s head point where the final desperate charge wooden framework above the ground. ened; in a few minutes we heard at ever. Still, it was not so bad until sets In, and see that the colony has broth and roast mutton, over which was needed. Then, when generalities The advantages of putting the ice­ some distance off the same dismal- the rival had come who seemed des­ plenty of bees. we discussed our plans for spending began to give way to personalities and house two or three feet in the ground howl which had first drawn us from tined to be the victor, all because the The farmer who uses his farm for are several. We give a system of the next few days. Our host promised constraining little pauses, the bat­ us some good sport if we were pre­ the comfortable fireside at the Inn. old lover was tongue-tied by a morbid banking fertility from his animals, is drainage without getting a direct cur­ We increased ov.r pace as much an talion of Billy’s courage broke and self-consclouBness. pared to face the hills, where the wiser than the man who sells off rent of air on the ice, and it is more we could, although It was no easy fled to the safe and dreary fields or white hares were plentiful; and we On the next few paragraphs Billy everything to swell the figures in his convenient to fill and to get out the matter, ploughing through the deep' the commonplace again—the weather gladly availed ourselves of the offer. had expended many anxious hours. bank book. ice. drifts of snow and stumbling over the or the next church social. With mingled hope and fears he had Billy, berating himself soundly, as High priced feeds make farm scales The frame is made of 2x4 Inch stuff On one of our walks, when we were boulders and rocks which lay hidden watched the girl’s expressive face— far up on the hills and several miles he went home one night after another n -cessary. It did not matter so much sided up with broad plank one-inch beneath, but we made the best of our its smiles and tears—as she turned from the farmhouse, the laird marked Inglorious failure, realized that mat­ with corn at 20 cents per bushel, but stuff, and the cracks stuffed with way to where the sound came from. page after page of the manuscript. a sheep, telling us at the same time ters could not go on as they were for­ non if an animal is not making a four-inch strips. The size of this out­ As we approached nearer we hen'd And now the climax was a proposal, that he would on the morrow give us ever. Dick Parsons, for Instance, had profit on 60-vent corn you should find side framework is 14 feet square and a man's voice and we almost bre' the sort of proposal he had long an example of Caesar's skill. The begun to appear In the Melroses' par- It out. 12 feet tall to the eaves. Into a run, stumbling and falling t dreamed of making, but bad not If you want to do a little early win­ There Is an inside frame 12 feet sheep was selected as a contribution every step. Caesar now bounded '<»■ dared. dow gardening, now Is the time to square and 12 -feet talL This leaves to the dinner which was to be given meet us and Immediately hurried tw ’c Billy was proud of that paper pro­ send for a pack of early tomato seed to the shepherds and their families at to a place where he scraped ar<| posal; It was Idyllic and tender, elo­ and get the ground ready, for If you Calrndhu on New Year’s day. scratched away the snow, clearing a quent and impetuous. It pleaded for wait until ready to sow it you may At breakfast next morning the laird large space round the prostrate form Billy as he could not plead for him­ not have either on hand. told us that Caesar was to fetch down of a man. self; It fairly breathed of love and Three weeks In dry salt, four weeks the marked sheep from the hills. "Thank God,” he muttered in a longing. And with the last sentence In brine and a week of good smoking, "There is a gate,” he said, “about four feeble voice, “that you have come at of that wonderful proposal, "Sweet­ makes two months to cure the hams miles dowu the loch side and by the last; It has seemed a long time to me, •i heart, will you marry me, that 1 may and shoulders for next summer, so time we get there the dog and the but I knew you were coming by tho wear your love always, like a rose you had better not put off butchering sheep will not be far off." barking of the dog. I feared It was upon my heart?” the manuscript ab­ another day If It is not already done. We went out Into the yard and his to be my last night on earth, and so- ruptly ended. ------A master having spoken a few words in it would have been, had It not been' Nellie drew a long breath at the Gaelic to the dog away Caesar went, for that good and faithful creature.”' end. "Why, Billy," she said, enthus CHEAP GATE FOR THE FIELD / II«WI" clearing the rough stone dikes In Long before he had finished speak­ iastlcally, "that's the best thing you single bounds, as he ran up the moun­ ing we had recognized our host, the ever did.” Was there a twinkle in Leading from One Field to Another Chute to Ice House. tain. Away he went, higher and laird. her eye as she went on? “I seem to Need Not Be So Substantial as higher, until we lost sight of him al­ “What has happened and how came have read, or heard, a story like this Those for Stock. an opening between the walls of ten together and only a distant bark you to be here?” we exclaimed to­ before, but it was different, too. The Inches to be filled with sawdust. Be­ echoed at Intervals down the glen. gether. heroine In that story wasn't the per­ (BY J. W. GIBSON.) fore putting in the sawdust we wired An hour’s brisk walk brought -us to "I’m afraid my leg Is broken,” h e fect creature of this. And I don't It Is essential to have the end posts the frames together as shown In the the appointed place and, sure enough, replied; “I am quite helpless.” think you've done your hero justice.” of all wire fences well braced. If not, picture. Then when the Ice was there was Caesar with his charge safe I did all in my power to render the Billy opened his mouth twice before when the end post gives ever so little packed in the sawdust there was no and sound. To one only slightly ac­ laird comfortable until assistance ar­ he could speak, and hts heart poundea the entire fence will sag. bulging of the walls. quainted with the working of collies rived and again I had an opportunity as he asked, huskily: “But—but her Oates leading Into cultivated fields In front there is a continuous door­ It seemed marvelous how the dog of observing the sagacity of Caeaar, answer? Do you think the story or from one field to another need not way three feet wide. For this open­ could have singled out and brought In for.between the Interval of scraping- should end unhappily?” ing there are eight doors three feet the sheep from so great a distance In away the snow he came and crouched The girl cast down her eyes de­ square, four for each wall; there are so short a time. down beside his master In order to mure, while a blush stole over her strips nailed to each side of the open­ "Ah," said the laird, “it needs a bit Impart to him what warmth he could xyscj* THJLE- /HBnrTOHT cheeks. "I think It too beautiful a ing to hold them in position till saw­ of generalship to do It. but Caesar, rAre- ro /rre o r from his own body. story,” she faltered, “to—to end un­ dust is placed between them, as the like his namesake, Is a great general. In due course our friend returned happily.” house is filled. He knew perfectly well what was from Calrndhu, bringing with him * lor altogether too frequently, and We cut the cakes of Ice two feet wanted when I marked that sheep yes­ medical gentleman whom he was for­ Dick’s personal attractions, he humbly FASCINATION OF THE SHOE square. This makes five rows of terday, and this morning, when I start­ tunate enough to have found at the admitted, far outweighed his own. cakes across each way of the house ed him off, he made straight for the Inn, and with other willing hands we Must he sit Idly by and see another and leaves a space of one foot around place where It was likely to be found; were soon able to carry the laird Both 8exes in History Have Shown the wall of one foot to be filled with his difficulty then was to separate It charge straight on to victory? Never; Vanity In the Selection of home. something had to be done. sawdust. from the rest of the flock, for, as you Caesar's exploit gained for bln, a Their Footwear. know, sheep always follow each other. Aroused by this fancied danger of The cakes are all sawed the same great reputtatlon and he lived for Cheap Field Gate. To manage this he gets between the losing Nellie, Billy’s brain worked size and laid in tins so the cracks be­ many years afterward the most re­ Solomon, perhaps, like Restlf de la marked sheep and the others and, by feverishly. All sorts of schemes for be so substantial as are the gates at tween the tins will be continuous, so spected collie In the d istrict Bretonne, knew the fascination of a the water from melting will run off crouching down among the bracken outwitting his bashfulness until he well-made little boot, for a woman's lots where stock runs at all times. The gate shown in the sketch is easily and not melt the Ice so rapidly and starting up suddenly when the The Common Cold. could propose were tried and rejectee, boot is a fetich to certain amorists, sheep approach he frightens them and made of 12 pieces 1x4 Inches and as If let run over and stand on the It has probably occurred to innum­ until a great idea burst on his brain whether It be new or old, bronze, by constantly repeating this strata­ with the suddenness of a comet. Its nailed with eight-penny wire nails, Ice any length of time. erable sufferers from what is general­ black, tan or white. There Is a manta gem he gradually Increases the dis­ brilliancy and daring were appalling. and if painted will last many years. After filling In four or five feet ly known as the "common cold" that or a disease for stealing women'B tance between the flock and the single In the full glow of his new-found en­ The posts are set four Inches In the deep with Ice, sawdust Is packed in It Is about time for medical science, shoes, and Germans, who take life sheep. When the separation Is ac­ thusiasm he set to work that very ground. \ large stone at the foot of tight between the ice and the wall, which has coped successfully with leisurely, name It “Frauenschustehle complished his task becomes easy night, fearing that time would dim each and two legs between them— and so on until the house is full, then much more serious problems In dis­ —monomanie.” Women themselves and he has then only to drive the ani­ its brightness an^ lead again to fail­ one at the bottom of the posts and the about one foot deep of sawdust is put ease, to abate a distressing malady have been capricious and inexorable mal to the appointed place. ure. other Just under the ground. If the on top. which has been aptly designated “the in the shape and the material. Queen Caesar must have gone through an Miss Melrose thought it nothing out posts are well tamped when put in There is a door in each end of the scourge of the north.” In every house­ Mary restricted the width of the toe amazing amount of work In that short of the ordinary when, a few evenings to six Inches. The stern Spartans af­ they will never give. house near the comb three feet square hold there is a favorite remedy, but, later, Billy diffidently drew a neat, for ventilation, a screen of fine wire time, but he seemed thoroughly to ap­ as a matter of fact, no effectual cure fected red shoes. But the wife of preciate his master’s account of his typewritten manuscript from his is put on the inside of each door to is known. bimon Eyre, representing the women HANDY IMPLEMENT FOR FARM performance as he lay on the grass, pocket. He had frequently requested of her period, exclaimed in the play: keep out sparrows and other birds In a recent issue of the British Med­ his tongue hanging out and his tail ical Journal it Is pointed out that the her to pass judgment on his stories, “Roger, thou know'st the size of my that would be likely to roost inside. wagging with satisfaction and relied greatly upon her opinion. Vise, Which May be Raised or Low­ disease is not one, but many, Ita foot; as It Is none of the biggest, so, Meanwhile the snow bad been and "I can’t seem to get an ending to ered to Suit Work—Illustra­ symptoms being due to various germs. I thank God, It is handsome enough; Cropping Sod Land. was falling fast; It lay several Inches suit me for this one, Nellie," he said; tion Shows One. The widespread belief in cold baths prithee, let me have a pair of shoes Sod land is very good for almost all deep on the road outside and a keen "I don't know whether to make It a and the process called "hardening” 1b made, cork, good Roger, wooden heel, crops if the season is seasonably wet happy or an unhappy one. I wlsn This Is a good farm er’s vise, which north wind was blowing which would rejected. Even the hope held out too." But men have shown a like and other conditions are favorable. cause heavy drifts on the mountains, you'd tell me what you think about may be raised or lowered to suit work. sometime ago by Dr. Benham, In his care. An Englishman of renown In One of the worst troubles with corn so the laird congratulated himself I t" There must be an report to the British Medical associa­ the time when It was fashionable to In sod land Is that the cutworms living upon having got his flocks to safer A young woman Is quick to feel agl extra post with tion, that a vaccine may cut short i d dine at ten a. m. gave his undivided shelters In time. As the fall of snow tation In the man who loves her, no dovetail strip In the sod destroy much of the young attack or make It tolerable, Is not attention to the extension of toe- corn. By plowing sod land for corn Beemed likely to continue, he proposed matter what her own feelings toward points twisted like a ram's horn. The planted on to fit received with favor because the mi­ him may be. The girl knew that some­ In late fall or winter many of the cut­ making his way bnck to the farm and magistrates of Rome were also fussy. the dovetail strip sending a trap to convey us home crobe of the common cold is not al­ thing out of the ordinary was astir, worms will be destroyed. Also, when At Athens when Alclbiades set the or tongue planted later on. ways the same; hence It would be and she took the manuscript with In­ the land Is plowed at this time the sod necessary first to discover the Identity fashions, shoes were named after on back of vise Fully two hours elapsed and we terest. "All right, Billy,” she replied, will have more time to settle and de­ of the particular bug or use a mixed him, as Henry Clay, Robert Burns, jaw, writes C. C. were now waiting somewhat anxiously smiling, “we'll see what’s the best Farm er’s V ise. cay, and the corn next season will vaccine. William Cullen Bryant and Chester Marshall, in Mis­ for the arrival of the trap, when we thing to do for It. But you know the stand dry weather better. If the sod A. Arthur gave their names to cigars; souri Valley Farmer. The illustration beard the most dismal howling of a best stories, the ones people remem­ must be plowed again next spring, no Bread Costly In Sweden. as cravats have been named after shows top of bench with vise let down dog outside. At first we took no par­ ber longest, often end unhappily.” harm, but much good, will be done. popular actors. The American woman level ticular notice of it, but after a time Consular reports show that In no Billy did not seem particularly Plowing any land twice for a crop or may be pardoned after all for pre­ one of the men came in and told us place In Europe Is bread so high as to pleased at this bit of opinion, for he disking well after plowing Is labor ferring a boot to dazzling bareness, The Farm Wagon. that Caesar seemed to be looking for Sweden, and particularly In Stock­ nodded glumly and fidgeted nervously well spent. for over a century ago the London someone. The man hfmself was un­ holm. The wheat bread varies In in his chair. Is the heavy wagon getting a little Chronicle stated that shoes for women der the Influence of the "dew" of his weight and price according to the Miss Melrose soon discovered the rusty? Let It go and It may be spoiled were made at Lynn, Mass., which ex­ Advance In Farming. native mountains and as we opened whim of the baker, and the conditions reason for Billy’s agitation. Before by the weather In a few years. But ceeded In durability and beauty any Farming will advance for the pres­ the door to admit the dog he stumbled are so exacting that a law Is demand­ she had read a dozen lines the girl you can paint It yourself. Take It all that were made In London. ent faster In the direction of system back to the shed, where the pipes con­ ed by the authorities of Stockholm realized that, although the names apart on the barn floor, where you can and management rather than in the tinued to skirt. Caesar shook the calling for sale by weight. A kilo (2.2 were changed, it was her own story shut the doors and keep out the cold; Too M u ch of a L a rk . get some nice smooth wagon paint and line of Improvement In care of crops half-melted snow from his back, but pounds) of bread, selling In Sweden and his that Billy had put on paper. and animals, according to Prof. F. W. for 13.4 cents, costs In Belgium C.C The captain of a well-known foot­ a good brush, roll up your sleeves, put no words would pacify him and he The tale was written with the power Card. Certainly the business side has cents; In England, 8 cents; In F rance, ball club had a turkey presented to on a pair of old overalls and go at It. continued to give vent to the moat un­ of the true artist. It began with their been much neglected by average farm­ earthly howls and at the same time 7.3 cents; In Holland, 4.6 cents; to childhood, when Billy carried her him as a Christmas gift by the mem­ ers. Few farms have been laid out bers of the team. On going to the bag kept making for the door, as if to In­ Russia, 8.8 cents, and In Germany, 9.S books to school or hauled her proudly The Seed Bed. with due thought. Its saving labor and duce us to follow him. In which he had deposited the turkey cents. The duty on wheat In France on his sled. It recalled the day when The seed bed Is an all-important cost, and with proper study of condi­ “I am afraid there Is something the 1s 33 per cent higher than In Swedea. Bud Howard, the school bully, had he found that “the bird had flown." thing in sowing either alfalfa or the tions, especially the markets. Many He suspected three Jovial acquaint­ matter,” said my companion; "we had but the price of bread la 76 per cept. stolen Billy's lunch, and how, after small grains. Be sure you have the a farm that falls to pay needs not bet­ better go out and see what Caesar lower, and In Germany 43 per cent. Billy had thrashed him, Nellie had ances, and, on asking one of them, re­ seed bed In the condition where the ter soil or better location, but only a ceived the reply: “It was only a lafk.” wants." While the price of bread In Europe shared her own two apples and four seed will germinate and the plants will better manager. Some of the best­ No sooner had we put on out coats “Lark be bothered I” cried the cap­ has risen steadily for the last tea slices of bread and butter with the grow to best advantage. Unless the paying farms have very poor oner and caps and opened the door than tain; "It weighed 20 pounds.”—Tit- years. In Sweden It has Increased M victor. seed bed Is In favorable condition, right beside them, both taken out of Caeaar began to bark and jump about Blta. per cent,, of which 21 per c e n t la du*« Before the first page was termed. there will not be a good stand. the same chunk of natura. la a wild state of excitement, runnlnc Ing the last four years

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Foot-warmers at cut prices. Wm. Lawless was a Peoria Chataujortb flaim leaU t. Bros. on Sunday. m o w s JAW A. SMITH A SO N ...... When in need of groceries call on I)r. T. C. Serlght was a Pontiac vis­ Proprietor, . J. W. Reilly. itor on Tuesday. CLARENCE H. SMITH ...... 11 ELLINGWOOD, M. D, J. E Roach was a passenger to Chi­ Highest prices paid for produce at OBeoin iheSmltti Building, SUBSCRIPTION RATES ... |l.SO A YEAR cago on Monday. Dorsey's grocery. i' CHATSWORTH, ILL. Wedding Ring goods for sale at Ira Knight was a passenger to Rob­ Telephone*: R«»ldence.No.IS; OSes.No.J*. ADVERTISING RATES Local business notices ten cents par line; Dorsey’s grocery. erts on Thursday. rates for standing ads, furnished on applica­ tion. All advertisements unaccompanied hy John Kerrins was a county seat vis­ T. F. Desmond was a passenger to W . T. B E L L directions restricting them will be kept iu un til ordered out. and charged accordingly itor on Wednesday. Fairbury on Tuesday. DENTIST. Anonymous communications will not be Perry Eby was a business visitor in Adant Elllnger was a visitor in noticed. OFPICBOVKK UUUNti BROS HAKOWABE Chicago on Monday. Culiom on Wednesday. STUBS. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11. 1910. Geo Strobel was a business visitor Mike Streun, of Cropsey, visited in CHATSWORTH. ILLINOIS. in Robertson Thursday town the last of the week. S B . M. H. KYLE See our line of cutlery.—Burns Bros. Carl Knifel was a passenger to Mi- C. II. Rohde was a passenger to Chi­ P. C. Taylor was a Pontiac visitor nonk on Tuesday evening. cago on Thursday evening. Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist the forepart of the week. P. FI. Freehill went to Pontiac on Mrs B. Carney was a Fairbury shop­ Graduate of tbe Chicago Veterinary College, Miss Jennie Bangs was the guest of also member of the Chicago Veteri­ Monday to serve on the jury. per on Thursday afternoon. nary Aasoclatlou. Gilman friends on Tuesday. Call* a at we rod promptly, day or night. Mr and Mrs. Wm. Lighty and fam­ Highest market price paid for but­ Reasonable charges Wm. Klover attended a dance in ily spent Sunday in Fairbury. te r and eggs.—J. W. Reilly. Office and operating table at Carney Bros.' Pontiac on Tuesday evening. CB ATS WORTH. ILL. Dr. M. V. Gunn, of Piper City, was C. O. Landwehr was a business vis­ Miss Myrtle Linn left this morning in town on Thursday morning. itor in Watseka on Thursday. for Colfax to spend a few days. Col. N. G. Plank, of Piper City, was John Brown was transacting busi­ WILLIAM H. HANNA W. P. McHenry was attending to a business visitor here on Monday. ness in Piper City on Thursday. Veterinary Surgeon business in Fairbury on Tuesday. John Knittles was a Peoria visitor Mrs. Patrick Boyle spent the week a l l k in d s o f v b t b b in a k y w o k k Rev. E. A Drake, of Cabery, was in on business the forepart of the week. end with relatives in Bloomington. PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. town between trains this morning. Mr. and Mrs J. C. Corbett and son, Chas. Berberich, of near Culiom, Residence three blocks east of Antique Hotel. ’Phone 126. Mr. and Mrs. E. Smith and daugh­ Thomas, were Chicago visitors over was a Chatsworth caller on Monday. ter, were Piper City visitors on Thurs­ Sunday Call on the new Cash Grocery, one When in the market for a piano or musical instrument of F I E i B , day. Miss Annette Carney departed on door east of Citizens Bank.—J. W. any kind, come to musical ■■ ■ ( l r n i / n D I H C Improve your tinaneiai education by Saturday for Grant Park to spend a R eilly. LigMiiE-Life. Tornado & iccideni reading The Commercial National few days headquarters, and get the HflKrKKIlKN X Mrs. A. J. Sneyd entertained the full value of your money. l l r l l J l B l I l m w i l l 1 w X 1ST S t r R A . IsT C E Bank ad. T. E Baldwin returned the fore­ Needle club at her home on Tuesday writlenin* full line ot old.reliablecompaniei by Mr and Mrs. Jas. S. Dully and Wm. part of the week after visiting at afternoon. ROBT. RUMBOLD. Agt. Caughiin were Fairbury visitors on Galesbu rg ^ Found—A fur boa Owner can se­ Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Chas Cline went to cure same a t th is office by paying for The Livingston Connty T. P. Langdon spent part of the Cropsey on Tuesday to visit relatives th is not ice. week among relatives and friends at for a few days. ^ Ross Ila'oerkorn and H. C. Van Al- A FULL LINE OF Title Abstract Office Jacksonville. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Lowe and son, styne were in Charlotte on Wednes­ PONTIAC, ILL. Miss Margaret Martins, of Anchor, Lee, of Fairbury, were visiting friends day morning. Abstracts of Title to Land and Town I nta was the guest of Miss Alberta Wal­ here on Monday. la LWingaton county carefully pri-pare-l and Elmer Nafzigerattended the auto­ tent out on short notice. Deeds. Mortgages ter over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Duffy spent a few mobile show in Chicago the latter m i u u p i t h y m e i i c i i e s and other papers neatly and carefully drawn. A ddress Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rennet returned days last week visiting relatives and part of the week A.W. COWAN. from a short visit in Bloomington on friends in Piper City Mrs. J. E. Roach and son, Emmet, DRUGS AND SUNDRIES Tuesday afternoon Miss Frances Glennen. of Fairbury, went to Chicago on Saturday last to Mrs. John Broadhead spent Satur­ was a guest at the Wm. Lawless home visit for a few days ABSTRACTS day the guest of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. the first of the week. always on hand. made by Mrs. Gsge Cross, of Anchor came on W hite in Piper City. Miss Minnie Jackson, of Lovington. Saturday last to visit relatives in this Livingston County Abstract Co, Chas T Burns attended the Hard­ is the guest of her grandmother, Mrs. vicinity for a few days. ware Dealers' convention in Bloom­ Eliza Jackson this week. The practice of Dr. A. B Middleton a • are reliable and up-to-date. ington on Thursday. The dance at The Grand on Mon­ in PontiaC. 111., is limited to eye. ear, \ Wall Paper, Paints, Varnishes E. HOOBLER. • Secy, and IWgr. The dance at Carney's hall on Mon­ LateCircuitClerkand Recorder day evening was a decided success and nose and throat diseases. 5-tf Brushes, etc. * of Livingston County. day evening failed to occur because a good time was reported. Mrs John Bergan and child, of music could not t>e obtained. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rocke and son Piper City, visited relatives hereon Wm Carney, Louis Clodi and Dave departed on Wednesday to attend the Wednesday and Thursday. F A R M L O A N S Alby were witnesses in the county automobile show in Chicago Borrowers of money upon good Illinoisa J a James A. Smith spent part of the laud as security, consult their best inter J court at Pontiac on Tuesday. Geo. J. Walter departed on Tuesday week in Chicago attending to busi L eats by dealing direct w.tb ue a i Valentines & Valentine Postals ii Liberal rates and term -ru delay. j E H. Rumbold, of West Pullman, to attend the National Brick Makers ness and visiting relatives. visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. ATTRACTIVE INVESTMENTS j Convention at Pittsburg, Penn. Mrs J F. Ryan and Misses Ora and Rumbold on Thursday and Friday. now on sale. There is. no safer or more convenient f Mrs A F. Walter returned home Margaret Ryan were passengers to way to invest money than buying } Jas. Baldwin was a passenger to Thompson Farm Loans. I from Eureka on Wednesday after vis­ Bloomington on Wednesday. Beet returns available—security con- A Chicago on Tuesday in the interests of iting relatives there for about a week. Dr and Mrs. C. V. Ellingwood at­ sidered. i Garrity & Bald win's clothing store. No expense for payment <>f principal or j Mrs F. Beckman departed this tended the auto show and visited in interest. > C. J. Bell and DeWitt Bel), of Pon­ Our services and advice free to in- J morning for Del Rey to spend a few Chicago the forepart of the week. 'Phone 67u. H. ROYAL & CO. vestore. t tiac, were guests of Mrs. Eliza Jack- days with her sister, Mrs. M. Maddin. Correspondence and personal inter- f John Knittles and Miss Mary Har­ views invited. I son on Friday en route to Champaign William Bork and a former neigh­ rington attended the home talent "►en JNO. I. THOMPSON, • Mrs. Wm. Herple arrived on Sat­ bor from the vicinity of Thawvlllc play in Strawn on Monday evening...... I: LACON. ILLINOIS. I ______-.J urday from Washington to visit at were pleasant callers at our office on T. F Carney, F. Kaiser, S. L. Mar­ - | the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Glabe and Saturday tin and Chas. Brown were business l ♦ ♦ ♦ I « !■ 4 t ♦ * t » » ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ »-♦ _ - . . . family II. L. Kessler departed this noon visitors to the county seal on Tuesday There was work in the third degree to attend a meeting of the School­ Mrs O. M. Dunlevy, Misses Mary REPAIRING in the Masonic lodge last evening, and master's Club at Peoria this evening and Plmily Ilodgeson and James E. and follow ing th e work a supper was and Saturday. Cording were Healey visitors on Under I Stevens j Studio All those having discs to sharpen, indulged in. Willliam Monehan, of Omaha, Neb , Thursday. cultivator, plow and repair work Edward Cooney returned to his is visiting relatives and friends in should bring them in before March 18 Mr and Mrs. William Haberkiser, DO YOU LIKE YOUR FACE? home in Tremont on Tuesday after this community while looking after We will allow ten per cent, discount of Buckingham, spent Saturday and being the guest of Miss Nell Baldwin business interests for cash. We make this proposition Sunday at the home of Mr and Mrs. If you do. why not preserve it? Our business is preserv­ for a few days O. F, Braddock returned to his home John Fischer. in order to keep out of the way of the ! ing faces. We have a knack of bringing out the pleasing ex­ rush. Take advantage of it We pos-1 Mr. and Mrs. Chas Cline, of Linn- at Watseka on Tuesday after visiting Mrs. James Cline departed for her itively guaranteee a!! work. ville. Ia., arrived on Saturday last his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and new home in Rich Hill, Mo , on Mon­ pressions. Our pictures have quality, and they are guaranteed to visit at the home of Mrs. America Mrs Spray near Ilealy. day Her husband preceeded her Hahn's Shoeing Shop Cline and daughter. Mrs. Mary Dann and daughter, Miss there two weeks ago permanent. Our Motto: “WE STUDY TO PLEASE.” Miss Theresa Pool, of Chicago, who Jessie, returned home on Monday Miss Frances Koss returned to her and Repair Work had been the guest of Mrs. Jas. Mc­ from a few weeks visit with relatives home in Strawn on Saturday last af WM. ROSE. Assistant Mahon, -Jr., for some tim e, departed in Saunemin and Pontiac. ter being the guest of Miss Mary Har­ for her home on Tuesday. Miss Julia Barrett departed,for her rington for about a week. S H. Wershing, of Galesburg, ar­ home in Tampico on Tuesday after Philip Rohman.of Medaryville, Ind. rived in thiscity and went to Healey spending a few days at the home of came the forepart of the week to vis­ Illinois Central H. R ,son Thursday evening, where he gave Mrs. Catherine Feely and daughter. it at the home of his brother-in-law Dr. T. C. SerightA " I f f ™ FLORIDA a lecture on the local option question Mrs. Noah L Bess, of Logansport, and sister, Mr. and Mrs. John Meister. Via the "Centra. H ■ iu- to Florida and Office In Serlght Block, Cuba New f-oiid fast tiir igh daily tram. I Harry M. Cline, station agent for I. Ind., visited during the past week Mrs Kate Halloday departed for Antiseptic, Invigorating "Seminole Limited.' carry ;ng observation . Treats successfully all Eye. Ear, sleeping car. ten-8€*ction two drawing-room C at Cropsey, resumed his duties the with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. her home in Creston, Iowa, on Sat­ sleeping car. t ree reclining < nan oar and forepart of the week, after being laid Perkins, and other Chatsworth rela­ Nose. Throat. Female and Surgical Ask For It. ' Try It couch. Chicago t«» .1 at k^inviuf. Fia. Sere; ' urday after spending some time the noie Limited. St n JaeksouvilJe. t off for some time on account of sick­ tives. guest of hersister, Mrs. Mary Chittum. Diseases. Eyes Tested Free and Ladies Pronounce It Best Fla. Through blfepmg car from I'eorm . ness. Glasses Correctly Fitted. every Tuesday. All 'neais en route in din­ John Gelmers.Jr., John Rosenboom. Mrs. P. Sampson relumed home on ing car Connection? at o>;.;uibus with I through ng car tur Sa vac nan. also at | Mrs. M. (juinn and son. William, Henry Iiosenhoom and Fred Tanner T uesday from a few days visit w ilh Used and for sale at Ja :kson»iit»- with train? f<»r H 1 i FI and daughter-in-law. Mrs. Frank attended tlie automobile show held her son-in-law and daughter, Mr and GALLS ANSWERED PROMPTLY point? irut •'teamr-mp i[’• -ft O'><•?»on- for Havana, rida . V hojcr- »f Mrs Marj Fitzmaurice returned to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Dassow, Henry route? f"i' t no?c* tiesmug tf» '.‘Isit New < »r- Mi»s Josephene Game returned to leans en route, st arneh>p rvlie f mm I her home in Chicago on Tuesday after Dassow and Miss Hanna Dassow at­ R k s id k n c e P h o n e . N o . 6 3 . EXCLUSIVE AGENCY that port to Hiivuna a hour »veirv ten nays i.er studies at the University of Illin­ j visiting the homes of her daughters, For those w i-.hing t-> visit Fion in en mule tended the funeral of their cousin, ois on Monclay after spending a short j Mrs T C Seright and Mrs Kate the late Charles Gerst, in Chicago Mr and Mrs John Meister return­ entirely by daylight: also : »ur mailings j vacation with her parents. Mr. and | Rot ie over Sunday on Saturday. I ed from Peoria the forepart of the per week from Fort Tatui a for ii- Mrs Henry Game. Mr and Mrs. F. Koestner returned Iuatrated folder on I'.’uba. Strayed—Two red cows and a heifer, week after attending the funeral of Mrs. A. N. Maxwell, of Devil’s Lake, to their home in Vandalia, Mo., on OLD MEXICO, from my place near Strawn. One cow Mrs. Meister’s step-mother, the late Reached direct by rail route? through New • North Dakota, departed for Tremont Tuesday after attending the funeral ROACH & O’NEIL Orleans: thus affording an opportunity to dehorned. Heifer red, with white Mrs. Gertrude Robman. visit that unique city without additional i on Thursday after spending about a of the late Mrs. Michael Koestner and spot on face and also flank.—Edward expense in tbe matter nl car fare All tick- Elton Garrison, who presides over a eta admit ot stopover at New Orleans week the guest of her cousin, Mrs. J. visiting for a few days at the Gustave Lynch, Jr., Strawn, 111. chair in I’. Sampson’s barber shop, PANAMA. B. Grotevant and family. Koehler home Miss Nellie Endres departed for her will depart the forepart of next week Illinois Central to New Orleans and from Mesdames J. II. Scott, John Pen- Mrs. Anna Ahlirich, of Deland and Furniture thence by weekly steamship direct to mi- I home in Palisade. Neb., on Monday for Minonk, where he has accepted a on, connecting with railroad for City of dergast and J. B. Green, of Peoria, son, Aleck, of Monticello, and Mrs. after spending a few weeks with rel­ Panam a Six ub new ships -now in service position, and will be succeeded by Mr. —built expressly for this tropical travel, spent the latter part of last week the Minnie Williams, of Royal, departed atives in this vicinity. John Rein- elegant!) equipped with roomy accommo­ Cooney, of Tremont. dations Send for folder entitled "Panama guests of Mrs. Mary Chittum. The for Royal on Thursday after spending ford accompanied her to that etty to The Leader Laundry, of Blooming­ and Central America via New Orleans.” two first named are daughters of Mrs. some time at the home of Mrs. Con­^Aisit for a few days. VICKSBURG. MISS.. C hittum . rad and other relatives. ton, the largest and best equipped "ns Vicksburg National Military and Mrs. Jas. Bergan departed laundry in central Illinois, has engag­ ommemoratlnir the siege and rte- The box social and program given When you travel, keep track of I Of the city. An interesting place to this morning for Bourbonnais having ed Messrs. Watson and Busby, of the 1 route to New Orleans Send for in district number 30, Miss Gladys HARPER signs. You will find Har­ received word that their son, Jerome, Chatsworth Pantatorium, as agents. bmely Illustrated book, entitled Blaine, teacher, on Friday evening per whiskey on sale In practically Isburg for the Tourist." who had been attending St. Vlateur’s Satisfactory work guaranteed Send iast was a decided success, the boxes every town, city and village where Undertaking H O f SPRINGS. ARK., college before his recent attack of a trial package. 19-20 Quickest time from Chicago. Dally elec- selling from sixty cents to *4.00, and trlc-lighted sleeping car the year round whiskey can lawfully he sold. This pneumonia, had suffered a relapse and through without change. Chicago to Hot the program being excellent. The re­ world-wide popularity means some­ was not expected to live. Carl Kneifel, w ho has conducted a Bprlogs Dining car serriee. Send for Il­ pantatorium in Chatsworth for a lustrated folder describing Hot Springs. ceipts from the sale of boxes and .the thing—it means you should buy Mr. and Mrs. Mike Streun, whore- TEXAS. door line netted #34.45. HARPER whiskey from Frank side on the Herr farm, near Cropsey, number of years, lately being located Picture Framing > Via New Orleans and the Illinois Central. in th e P l a i n d e a l e r building, 1s Through electric lighted sleeptngcardaily. Joseph Welnand, of Danbury, Iowa, Kaiser, Chatsworth. 111. and expect to move to their farm in Chicago to Houston, dan Antonio, Texas, Clarence Barry, a young man who packing his effects preparatory to and Intermediate points. Through tourist has been visiting C'hatsworth rela­ Charlotte township before March 1, sloeplngcar every Monday to Houston. tives during the past week, having has been working for Fred Snyder for were surprised by a party of neighbors moving to Minonk, where he expects San Antonio and Rl Faso. Texas, en route to exgage in the same business. He to California. Ask for copy of Texas come In response to word announcing some time, met with an accident on and friends last Saturday evening. ’Phone 228 Folder, Interesting alike to tourist and the critical illness of his brother, Tuesday evening. While engaged In The occasion was in the nature of a has been making weekly trips to Mi­ homes eeker. nonk to do remodeling for the mer­ Louis W. W elnand, who Is In the feeding the horses he fell from the farewell party, and a very pleasant render* chants, and has decided that he will Al of the Above llteratore Fret for tbe Ashing. Chatsworth sanitarium convalescing hay-mow, striking his head, time was spent by those present. The Rates, train time, tickets and all particulars from an operation. We are pleased ing him unconscious. He was taken locate there. His many friends here f Illinois Central agents and those of con­ to the Chatsworth sanitarium on people of the neighborhood where futing lines. regret his departure, bat hope he will Chatsworth, III. A H. HANSON. P.T. M.. Chicago. III. to be able to state that the patient Is Wednesday, where It was found that they have resided for several years, 1. O HATCH. O. P. A.,Chicago, til. 17-r reported as getting along nicely. his skull had been fractured. will lose excellent neighbors. meet with success. - . A < - bt - J P __ ' ' I w w ■ >v 5k r V ** * ' ' S r * * ® -!■■■' ' ...... — - CORRESPONDENCE. STRAW* Frank Somers, of Kankakee, was in PIPER CITY. town on Wednesday. W e w ill furnish your Miss Verona Free, of Chicago, is at H. C Stege. of Matteson, was here KING OF ALL the home of Dr. and Mrs. Whitmore. on business on Tuesday. Miss Elizabeth Galligan, of Forrest, Ed. Lynch resigned the office of furnishings MrDresser. is a visitor at the E. D. Cook home. police magistrate on Monday night at Miss Lurlene Stedman lias as Iter the meeting of the village board. THROAT & LUNG guest Miss Alva Worby, of Dwight. Roy Singer will have a basket social * Mrs John Broadhead, of Chats­ at tln^ Leopold school house on Tues­ REMEDIE 8 worth, was the guest of Mrs. 1>. M. day evening, Feb. 22. White last Saturday. Charles Myers has a new team which Mr. and Mrs L. E. Lucas went to liepurchased nearOnarga. He brought Remington, Ind., on Wednesday for a them home on Tuesday. visit w iili relatives Mrs. J. J. Gostelli lias been enter­ DR. RING’S Henry Korits, of Thawville. has taining her brother, Joliu Osborn, of been spending the week with his daugh­ Chilloeotbe, during the past week. ter, Mrs. R. Chafey. Guy Amaehercame up from Bloom­ Miss Pearl Stuckey, of Gilman, is be­ ington and spent Saturday and Sun­ ing entertained at the A. S. Wilson day witli his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I). NEW DISCOVERY home. Amacher. Dr. J. W. Fiizzelle and wife, of Kan­ Miss Kate Raines, who had been the kakee, were entertained at the home guest of J. Cbittiaden for the past two QUICKE 8 T, SAFEST, 8 URE 8T of Rev. M P. Lackland last Ttiursday. weeks, went to Sagauard, Michigan, Charles Chafey,of Winatache, Wash, on Tuesday. is visiting at the home of his brother, The chicken pie supper given last COUGH and COLD Russell Chafey. Thursday evening at the tow n liali by Mr. and Mrs V 8. Morrison went to the ladies of the Congregational church ------CURE------Marion, Ind., on Wednesday for a few was largely attended. days’ visit with Mrs.Morrison’s parents. The Home Talent DramUtieCo. gave AND HEALER OF ALL DI8 EA 8 E 8 O F LUNG S* Mrs. Martha Beryhaus, of Steger, is the play, “Hazel Kirke,” at the town THROAT AND CHEST visiting her father, Jacob Wagner, of hall on Monday evening to a crowded house. The production was very cred iqe > our city. itahle considering the short time of . C. C. Kissack, of Watseka, was an OURED BY HALF A BOTTLE preparation. y ? ■ O •* 7* “+ “ over Sunday visitor at the home of his A large number from here attended meat of H alf a bottle of Dr. King’s New Discovery cored me of the daughter, Mrs. Ed Penwitt tlie Kerrick sale at Sibley on Monday. A worst cold and cough I ever had.— J. R. Pitt, Rocky Mount, N. C. Mesdames A K iblinger and C. B It was the largest and prices the high­ Heller are visiting friends in Chicago est that has been held in this section of MR. DRESSER:— II this week. the state for some time. PRICE SOo AND 81.00 Miss Frona Sharp, of Roberts, is at Mrs. Nick Krebs and little daughter, If the laundry has knocked out your shirts and SOLO AND GUARANTEED BY the home of her sister, Mrs. Charles Etta, returned to their home in Chats­ w k w,■. «)vxwi Drilling. worth on Saturday, after visiting at the broken your collars around the edges, played havoc F. O. Walrich went to Paxton on home of the former’s parents, Mr. and m Saturday, where he took the civil ser­ Mrs. Busard with your cuffs; if you have made holes in the toes ______« vice examination for census enumer­ Miss Clara List, one of the teachers ator. in the Cullom public schools, lias been 1 Prof. Rudolph, county superintend­ at home during the past week, the of your socks and are not lucky enough to have ent of schools, conducted an examina­ school being dismissed because of the JF €» R JL K tion for the senior class in school on blowing up of the steam boiler, used somebody to darn them for you; if you have drop­ Friday. for heating the building. Fortunate­ Mrs S. I) Heavener went to Mo- ly no one was injured when the boiler ped something on each one of your neckties or if Bargains In Farm Lands mence Friday and visited until Mon­ blew up. day with her son, who is employed in WING AND VICINITY. your collar has “cut;” or if you need any furnish­ the city schools of Momence. on good terms, good black soil, in healthful communities, at Frank Poole transacted business in Mr and Mrs. J. P. Glass and Miss Fairhury last Saturday. ings for your body come to us. ■ ■§ prices that will double In value in the next 10 years. These farms Alice Glass were called to Streator on are in Hancock county, Iowa. Friday by a telegram announcing the Tlios. Quigley returded home from Peoria last Sunday. We sell 320-acre farm with 16,000 w orth of im provem ents, nearly new, death of Mrs. Geo Glass, whose burial took place on Sunday. T. Bollier spent a few days with his and has 1.200 rods of tile; 3 miles to a good market. This farm is A jolly crowd of young people went fattier in Seafield, Iud., last week. GEO. P. IDE & CO.’S SHIRTS a good producer any yenr. Price, #76.00 an acre. out to the country home of Thomas Walter Beahler is visiting his broth­ 320 acres; good, fair improvements; 4 miles from town. Price. Molloy on Monday evening and had a er. Otto, in Chicago this week CUTLER & CROSSETTE NECKTIES #65.00 an acre. O w ner will take a #5,000.00 paym ent on this farm very pleasant evening. They were the Farmers are now busy finishing up lie s delighted guests of Wm. Molloy. their delayed corn husking. and give 10 years’ time at 51 per cent, on balance r Mr. and Mrs. S E. Wells. Nellie Miss Maggie Bargman is taking STALEY UNDERWEAR 160 acres; good improvements; a fine quarter. Price, #75 00 Ross and Anna Hancock are taking in medical treatment in Lexington this an acre #3,000.00 down, balance 10 year's tim e at 51 per cent. the sights of Chicago this week and. week. incidentally, the automobile show, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hoppe spent All 25-cent socks and 50-cent neckties are not which is on in the city at this time Sunday with Mr. and Mrs Cap. Barg- I have 160 acres 51 miles from Cbatsworth. with good im­ Mrs. James Jaek went to Kankakee man and family. the same quality. provements and tiled, at #126.50 per acre. This is a snap at the on Saturday to visit her children. She Miss Bertha Bauman returned home price. was accompanied by Miss Velma Alli­ last Monday after spending a few days Let us furnish your body and make it fit to son, who has been making her home in Seafield. I have several houses here in Chatsworth ranging in price here with her grandparents. Mr and from #975.00 to #8.000.00. A large crowd attended the dance at live in. Mrs. Jack the home of Thos. Quigley last Mon­ Come and see or write to Mr. and Mrs. F. 1. Casad.of Topeka. day night. Kan. arrived in our city on Wednes­ day for a visit with relatives and Mrs. Fred Beahler, of Convov, Ohio, J. A. KERRINS friends. Mrs. Casad was a Miss Mon- ia spending a few days with relatives Garrity & Baldwin telius, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Ed and friends this week. ward Montelius Wm. Elhers, Jr., returned to Chica­ Elmer Koestner, Piper City’s famous go on Saturday after spending a few CLOTHZSRS TO AX*X*. ball player, reports for duty at Ale- days witli his brother. iMGGGGWGGGWGaWEWWWWWIIIWNWWWWWHWNWIBWWHHWGiAOTWUtOTiaUWUWKiS faudria! Louisiana, February 19. He Quite a few from this vicinity attend­ is in fine form and we expect great ed the combination sale in Saunemin things of him the coming season anil last Satin day. KEMPT0N. Naomi, were passengers to Kankakee + ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ + + *** / feet sure we shall not be disappointed The F. L S. went over and surprised F. Carey was in Cabery on business on Monday. ♦ G I) Montelius was in Springfield Mrs. Jas. Gibb last Tuesday, as Mr. on Saturday evening Rev. Father White, of Cullom, was on Wednesday in the capacity of Pres­ and Mrs. Gibb are going to leave Wing in calling upon friends here, Wednesday. in the spring to live on a farm Miss Gertrude Kiley Sundayed ident of the Illinois Grain Dealers’ As­ Cullom with home folks. Rev. Nesbitt w as a Kankakee visitor sociation. They had a hearing before Mrs. Omally Cudderback returned to on Monday. the railroad and warehouse com­ her home in Fairhury last Monday Otto Genther, who has been danger missioners in regards to a weighing after spending a week with her broth­ ously ill, is improving slowly. L. J. Frink, of Peoria, transacted station. er and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Mor­ Mrs. Beecher Olson visited tier sis­ business with F. Carey on Tuesday. Hollywood & Mouritzen j ton . ______ter near Cabery last week. F. Carey was in Cabery on Wednes­ Among the social events during the day evening. past week was a six o’clock dinner FORREST."^..... Mr. and Mrs. George Porter returned given by Mrs. D. A. Kloethe on T h u rs­ to their home in Cabery on Saturday. T. C. Rickard's many friends were ireserv- Miss Mary Francis is a Saunemin glad to see him in his office on T h u rs­ day. Mrs R. A Jennings also gave a visitor this week. Mike T ’Benske was a Saunemin vis­ six o'clock dinner to a number of la­ itor on Sunday. day. ing ex- dies the same afternoon, and on Fri­ Miss Mary Carter is spending this Quite a number from here attended s Our : week in Bloomington. Thomas Drew and daughter, Lily, day afternoon Mrs. F. C Ehrhardt en­ were passengers to Chicago, Tuesday tlie funeral of the late Patrick Flynn ranteed tertained the ladies of the Mt. Melich Miss Gertrude Bryant went to Pon­ at Cullom on Thursday, Jan. 27. cl ul*. tiac on Wednesday to visit for a few Mrs. E. K. Bute was in Ivankakeeon Home Smoked Hams and Bacon - Thursday. Miss Elrie Haag is visiting her sis­ ♦ Andrew Heeht. w ho resided south of days with her sister. ter, Mrs. C. Goodpasture, near Eming- town, died on Monday, Feb. 7. at Kan­ Mr. and Mrs. Slocome and Mr and W. P. Cavanugh was a business vis­ ton. this week s a s City, Mo., where he was operated Mrs Fred Burchandson. Robert, were itor to Flannigau on Saturday. J. W. Drew will cry a sale for W 11. Miss Mildred Seyster. who is attend­ Home Made Bologna * on for cancer of the bowels. The Fairhury callers today ing school at Champaign, is visiting body was brought to Piper City on Mr. and Mrs Geo. Decker invited a Gilhourneon Wednesday next home folks this week. Wednesday and the funeral took place few of their friends to a dinner on Dr. Whitmore, of Gardner, was here on Thursday. Feb. 10, at 10:30 An­ J . A. Kettle, who is salesman for a Home Killed Beef, Veal & Mutton : Sunday All reported a good time on Wednesday on business Chicago shoe firm, spent Sunday here drew Heeht was horn at Irxleben, Dr. Dally, of Pontiac, w as here on mm Germany, in 1860. In 1889 lie came to Mrs. McDowell was in Champaign with his family. Monday evening. this country and had been a resident a couple of days visiting her daughter Mr and Mrs. Arthur Kneal and Are the Best *of Piper City ever since. In 1892 he who attends school there. Mrs. J. T. Corkiil entertained tier children went to Galva on Thursday married Miss Emma Oppernian. of Pi- The Forrest high school basket ball Sunday s c h o o l class on Friday evening. tor a week's visit. g o r a tin g jer City. lie leaves to mourn his loss team will go to Gibson City on Satur­ Miss Charlotte Olson is visiting at Mrs C. E. Bute and nephew, Paul Your trade is appreciated here ; lis wife, three children, a brother re­ day to play a game. tlie home ot Mis Oscar Peterson. Kemp attended tlie funeral of tlie late T ry It siding at Laketield. Minn , besides his Miss Grace Pool, of Chicago, was a Mrs Foster Wick returned home Nelson Adams at Cabery on Tuesday, ------" 4 parents, one brother and three sisters guest at the Alstadt home a few days 2 It B e s t from Kankakee on Monday evening. | Mrs H. A. Watts, of Melvin, who is in Germany. _____ this week She returned to her home George Weaver went to I’rhana on j visiting her parents here, went to Ca- / in Chicago this afternoon C h a r l o t t e . Tuesday. He will move his family bery on Saturday, returning to this e at Miss Hazel Johnson, who had been Laundry basket goes next week. there about tlie first of March. I place on Monday. in Chicago for some time, returned Miss Margaret McMahon, oi Milks Mr. and Mr«. George West and Mrs Jacob Jacobs was in Chatsworth home last week. She is improving rap- on business on Monday. Grove, called on Mrs. F. Carey on j children, ol Grand Island. Neb., are Hollywood & Mouritzen ! | idly from her recent operation on her Monday ! the guests of their uncle. H H. Weirs, Geo. Flessner was a passenger to throat Mrs W P Cavanugh and Mrs. F I-'"d aunts. Mrs. Delia Stewart and EE SHOP Chatsworth on Saturday. The Piper, City basket hall team ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ >444 Carey drove to Cullom on Tuesday aft- j Mrs. Lida Plum, of this place Quite a number of our people are played the home team here on Tlmr.s ernoon to call on friends. i Rev. Nesbitt held a reception for tlie EXCY sick with the grip at this writing. day evening last, the score being 32 to Mrs H A. Watts, wlm lias been »ew members who joined the M E. The farmers of this locality w ho have 9 In favor of the home team It was the first game won by the home team visiting her parents, Mr Mini Mrs. II I church during the recent revival meet- corn in the Held are getting all the 11. Weirs, returned to her home in! "‘gs A large number were present, Building Estimates help they can to get it cribbed. this season. Melvin on Thursday. j lunch was served and ail spent a pleas- Mr. and Mrs. H. Jacobs and family PLEASANT RI0GE. All the new members who wen t ik-1 Hl1* ricning. were passengers to Dant'ortli on Satur­ Miss Anna Horine visited in Fair­ en into the M. E. church during the re­ Mrs. F Carey was in Cabery be­ day last. hury last week. cent revival meetings were baptised at tween trains on Saturday evening. •N Mr and Mrs Wm. Niemyer, of Cul- Saunemin on Sunday. Rev. Nesbitt She was accompanied home by her Miss Gladys Melvin spent Saturday ]om, visited at the Wm Hoppe home and Sunday at her home near Wing. accompanied them. granddaughters, Mary and Genevieve 3 i» over Sunday. Nugent, who returned to their homo on Mrs Ray Melvin and Miss Bernice Mrs T. C Rickards arrived home Monday morning Andy Haag loaded and shipped a Melvin were guests at the Quantoek from Chicago on Monday. She has car from Chatsworth on Thursday last home on Thursday. been at a hospital for some time taking Mr and Mrs. Wilbur Kemp spent Tuesday at the home of tlie latter’s to Indiana, where he will occupy a The following were entertained at treatment. Her many friends will he m farm. glad to know that she is better parents, Mr and Mrs. J. W. Bute. the home of Mrs. Catherine Boeder on While there fortv of their relatives and Mrs. Geo. Fidgen and daughter, Ida, .Sunday: Ed. Boeder and family. A. L. Mrs. W. M. Songer entertained thir­ returned to their home at Secor on friends, with well-tilled baskets, sur­ Best and family and Mrs. E. Brantz, ty girls at a six o’clock dinnei on Sat­ prised them in honor of their wedding Storm King Monday after spending several days in of Forrest. urday in honor of Miss Myrtle Ander- this community. deraon, who will leave soon for her anniversary. A four-course dinner iVA A basket social and entertainment was served, after which games of vari­ The Charlotte farmers held a union will he held at the Weiliei miller school new home in Michigan. All spent the ous kinds were indulged in and all had t r o n g e s t , w»rme»t, and telephone meeting on Monday to dis­ house district number 205 on Friday evening very pleasantly. ti general good time. All left for their S longest-wearing, medium cuss the matter of central connections. evening, Feb. 11. All are given a [Too lain for last wink, ] homes at five o’clock, wishing Mr. and price Horse Blanket made. A committee of four was appointed to cordial invitation to attend. , Harold McDermott, of Peoria, w as Mrs. Kemp many happy returns of the Large size—84 x 90 inches— confer with a Cullom ceutral com­ nere on business on Friday. day, and nil unite in saying th a t Mr. covers the horse thoroughly. mittee. President Helps Orphans. Miss Laura Fulton, of Cullom, nnil Mrs. Bute excel as entertainers. will soon require much attention from Closely woven with strong and Robert Spieclier is a busy fellow Hundreds of orphans have been help­ here netween trains on Monday. heavy threads. Protects the Mr and Mrs. Kemp received some „ contractors ftnd carpenters Familiar­ these days, as lie lias a harness repair ed by the President of the Industrial Born, to Mr. and Mrs. George An- beautiful presents. ity with the excellent quality of our horse in all kinds of weather shop in Charlotte and is busy from and Orphans Home at Macon, Ga . and is great for length of wear.; derson. on Saturday. Jan. 29, a son. 1 LUMWR. MOUWNGS, IATH, SHNGUS. early morning to night. His work­ who writes: “We have used Electric Won’t Need A Crutch. Direct from factory to us. manship is good and. all who have Bitters In this Institution for nine Mr9. Mary Jones was a passenger to SASHtS, DOORS. BUtWNGPAPfR.ETC. Kankakee on Saturday. When Editor J. P Sossman, of Cor­ Buy a 5A BIm Girth (or tha Stable. harness to repair think of Robert, as years. It has proved a most excellent nelius, N. C., bruised his leg badly, it and the prices at which we sell \vill Buy a 5A Square for tha Street. he thinks a “stitch in time saves nine ” medicine for Stomach, Liver and Kid­ Mr. and Mrs. Amos Heavisides were started an ugly sore. Many salves and permit the use of good material in all John Johnson, our village black­ ney troubles. We regard it as one of in Kankakee on Saturday on business. ointments proved worthless. Then > work and close figuring on contracts. ----- We Sell T h e m — - smith, has added an addition to his the best family medicines on earth.” Mrs. H. A. W atts and children, of Bucklen’s Arnica Salve healed it thoro­ Special attention is directed to figur­ shop, installed some uew machinery It invigorates all vital organs, purifies Melvin, are visiting her parents here. ughly. Nothing is so prompt and sure ing and giving estimates. and is now ready to do all kinds of the blood, aids digestion, creates ap­ Miss Lottie Heavisides spent Satur­ for Ulcers. Boils, Burns, Bruises, Cuts work. Disc sharpening is 10 cents a petite. To strengthen and build up day In Kankakee. Corns, Sores, Pimples, Eczema or Piles. wheel, work guaranteed. He has pale, thin, weak children or rundown 25c. at Wm. C. Q uinn’s. Edward Robbins I lot of.iif storenfore ^ii m.ni a’.ioishould people It has no equal Best for fe- Mrs Helen Devereaux was a pas- J. G. CORBETT A CO. I hrlhg in their tools. 1 male complaints. OOnly 50c. at Wm sehger to Kankakee on Friday. Get calling cards at the P l a in d k a l - ’PnoNB No. 20 CHATSWORTH. TIJ*. I ««rk begins annd glve him a trial. '’’•linn's firug store G. Weaver and little duughter, k u office

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of mind. FARM HORSE IS NEGLECTED “Come right In, Harry, and don’t* mind me.** Animal Should Bo Groomed Often to NAMES "Oh, It’s you!" he said, looking very Stimulate Respiratory System much relieved. and Increase It* Vigor. DAT "Looks like the same,” said I. “Hope I didn't Interrupt.” (B T W. It OILBERT.) The Magic Mirror By CONSTANCE “Not at all. We were Just settling Some farmers think It a waste of things," I said. "Margaret and I—” time to groom work horses In order B y “Why such formality?" she laughed. LIVE 8TOCK N0TE8. to make them look sleek and ahlny PHILIP KEAN (Copyrighted by Short Storlea Co., Ltd.) "Meg, then,” said I. and would rather leave them In their M iss Carter was at home the butler "That’s better. Go on." Nowadays draft horses must be natural state. (Copyright, 180* by Associated Literary Press.) •aid as he opened the door. As I “Well, then, Meg and I were Just matched to sell well. It should be remembered that in passed on my way to the library I deciding a momentous question.” It Is a mistake not to grow the pigs the domestic horse more Is demanded The Halloween festivities at the But they laughed at her, and at last caught a glimpse of myself In the "Can't you guess?" said Miss Carter. rapidly from birth to market. than is the wild animal, and conse­ Country club were In full blast. The she entered Into the spirit of It mirror. Why will people always hang "I might," he said. If a pig has a languid appetite there quently he requires a little more fos­ men in pink coats and the women In “Don’t be afraid," Barry told her, their looking-glasses In the most un­ "It will be the fourteenth of Janu­ Is something wrong somewhere. tering to supply the wear of this ea- exquisite finery had romped and as she stood on the wide porch amid becoming light? I wondered If she ary. I invite you now, but don't tell tra demand. played like a company of children, and the laughing crowd, and looked out would think me changed, if she would any one on peril of your life, for 1 A variety of feed is advisable but And grooming does not mean mere­ now at midnight were to come the Into the darkness of the night “I’ll notice how much grayer my hair had want to tell my secrets myself." This radical changes are to be avoided. ly cultivating a “sleeky" appearance, final tests. keep close behind you.” become during my year and a half of from Miss Carter. It is a mistake to feed pigs sour although I do not mean to deprecate absence, and if the deepening of the "Your secret?" I said. “I like that. milk when they are learning to eat. “In the little room at the south The well at the end of the path was lines around my mouth would be as Where do I come In? I thought It was Choose for the breeding mare a end," the cotillion leader announced, lighted by an electric bulb, set In s apparent to her as they were to me at my affair." Bolid color,—dark bay, black or chest­ “Is a mirror. The favors for this fig­ quaint lantern. In the glimmering the particular moment. I had noticed "Oh!" she said. "Well, you Just nut. ure will be candles, and if every mala pool each maiden gazed and then fled before how pronounced they were. wait till you see the papers the next In countries where colts run out the will go alone Into the little room with In affected fright, to be escorted back By the time that I had finished day. You'll wonder If you were there year around, the mature horses have her lighted candle, she will see, look­ to the porch by the man who had these reflections my Journey across at all for all the attention they’ll pay much stronger legs. ing over her shoulder, the man of her peeped over her shoulder. h eart’s desire." the hail was over, and with the con­ you when they see my dress." The sheep barn must be dry and Bui as Stephalne, knowing that Bar­ fronting assurance that gray hair is “Did you design that in the ten min­ well ventilated. Foul odors and too “Oh, Barry, Barry Coulter," Ste­ ry was following not far behind, bent distingue and that deep lines add that utes, too?" much heat bring on pneumonia. phanie Van Alen murmured, by his over the water, she saw not a face side, “I hope you will gaze back at but—a long slim hand that reached priceless embellishment—character— “No. Long before." In selecting the brood sows avoid me from the magic mirror." out and caught at the string of pearl* to a man’s face, I entered and stood "White?" those with low weak backs for they Barry laughed. "If I thought you thal swung from her neck—milk whit* before her. “Of course. What did you suppose, usually Indicate weakness of consti­ meant It, I’d Invoke all the help of the To my distinct disappointment, she black?" tution. under the light of the lantern. • - was not alone. There were two of "I hoped not.” witches." It was all over In a moment, the The fact that a hog will eat almost them, and they bore the trade-mark, "You're polite, when I’m wearing Prize Winning Draft Mare. “Of course I mean It," she said, as snapping of the chain that held the anything and turn It Into meat does black this very minute.” they danced together down the length “Made in Society," which makes fur­ not Imply that anything will do for the virtue of those who take a pride pearls, the eager hand that gathered ther comment superfluous. 1 was so "I am aware," I said. of the long room. them In, the sudden glimpse of the the hog. In keeping their horses in fine coat put out at their being there when I "Don't you like my frock?" and condition. "Of course you don’t," he said. foreign face, Stephanie’s screams, Bar­ “Too old for you." i All straw, stalks, etc., used for lit­ wanted to be alone with her that 1 It means a stimulating of the res­ “Haven't I asked you to marry me ry's arms about her, the rushing ol didn't properly appreciate at the time "I suppose you consider me a baby ter In the sheep barn should be run piratory system and consequently in­ every week for a year?" many feet down the path from th* what a cordial welcome she gave me, still." through a cutter to increase the power porch, the babble of excited voices. of absorption. creased vigor to the health of the Her blue eyes laughed up at him. or how plainly she showed that she “No, I wish I could," for at the mo­ “If I were perfectly sure you were "Somebody has robbed me,” Steha- A Juicy wether hung up In a cold, horse. was unfeignedly glad to see me. ment 1 felt positively ancient. my fate," she demurred, "1 might nle par* id, "my pearls—’’ dry place will provide choice dinners Secretions are continually going on Being informed that I was a lately For she had grown older. I had make a different answer.” And when at last she had mads for the family until It Is used up. in the glands of the skin, which are returned traveler, the manufactured felt It even more keenly after he had them understand, they ie, rched the Don’t forget to have mashed turnips given ofT in the form of perspiration, "Well," he stated, as he left her at articles did the manufactured polite, come into the room, and as I said be­ grounds everywhere, but the man and butter with it. and this secretive action increases the door of the little room, ’if fate but as 1 refused to be Baedeker un­ fore, she showed It. For she had with the black beard had disappeared. One must give some thought to the more rapidly the better tho animal is doesn't show you my face In the mir­ abridged, they soon gave it up and reached that period of life which Is ror, 1 shall defy fate, and carry you “He was the one I saw In the little the only time the modern woman feeding methods of the farm these fed or the harder he Is worked, so left me to sit back and appreciate ofT anyhow.” room with the magic mirror," Stepha­ shows her age. She was a debutante. days. The stock should have excel­ that by perspiring freely nature comes her. The little room was very dark, with nie said, tremulously. “I told you "Look what he brought me," she lent care for two months yet, in order to the assistance in preventing the That she, too, had changed was thick, soft curtains shutting out the then, Barry, and he would have stolen said, showing him the ring on her to tide over the most severe part of pores of the skin being choked. apparent; that she had grown older lights from the other room. Even the them If I hadn’t dropped the candle." was plain—very plain, and she showed right hand. Then she turned to me. the year. But the fatty fluid which comes "Now. I’ll give you another hug and If you are in doubt, kill the bigger from the glands In the form of sweat laughter and the music seemed hushed “I shall never forgive myself," Bar­ her age—even the beautiful black vel­ as Stephanie raised her candle high kiss for being the very dearest uncle hog, for It makes better meat and the is apt to consolidate again at the ry said, warm and tired, after his pur­ vet dress she wore, and the large above her head and stared Into the that ever brought his niece a lovely ham of a light hog is hardly worth roots of the hair and form a covering suit of the burglar. "I shall never for­ pearls in her ears, did not conceal it. great gold-framed glass, smiling ex­ ring from abroad, and offered to give eurlng if you are fond of meat, for it of dandruff which clogs the circulat­ give myself for letting you go down And the buoyancy of her manner em­ pectant. phasized it still further. “And," I her a coming-out dance. There—and dwindles far too rapidly. ing action through the pores of the that path alone, Stephanie.” now you don’t mind going back to pa­ A good rack for feeding sheep can ■kin. For a moment everything was blank, He carried her back to the club­ pa for a little while—do you? for there be made by almost any sensible farm­ When a horse is doing no work and and then there flashed into the mirror house, and for a moment they were is something very important I want to er. About all that is needed Is a sup­ grazing in the open this Is of no harm, a face—and It was not the face of alone In the great reception room, say to Harry." port for the hay so that It shall not as it helps to keep out the cold and Barry Coulter, nor of any one that while the excited crowd chattered on fall to the ground and be wasted and consequently grooming is not needed; Stephalne had ever seen! the porch “Oh,” she gasped, and, for a moment DRANK POISON IN DARKNESS also be handy for the sheep to get at. but, on the other hand, the working "I shall dream of that face all my Water is as much a necessity for animal requires to be kept In better gazed straight Into the DIack eyes that life," Stephanie sobbed. "It was stock as In the warmer days of sum­ vigor, and besides ike labor and more looked out from beneath a curled dreadful. Barry." Amateur Photographer the Victim of mer, If you would keep the stuff nitrogenous food usually given In­ shock of black hair that matched the "1 know," he said as his comforting Momentary Forgetfulness— His thrifty and comfortable. Some peo­ duces more excessive perspiration. pointed ebony beard. hands were fastening her wrap. For Pathetic Message. ple forget the poultry water supply, When he comes into the stable eith­ "Oh.” she gasped again as she a moment, they rested on her shoul­ even If they are careful about the er wet or perspiring he should be well dropped her candle and fled back to ders "But I wish you would dream A tragic story of an amateur photog­ tanks and troughs that afford water rubbed down at once with a handful the ballroom. of mine, Instead. It Isn't much of a rapher’s death by misadventure in his for the larger animals of the farm. of straw or hay and get a good feed. At the curtained doorway she face, but It is better than that for­ darkroom was told at an Inquest at After he Is dry a thorough groom­ bumped Into Barry Coulter. eigner’s." Portsmouth, an English exchange COLD WEATHER SHEEP FEED ing will well repay the labor, and In “Oh, look here,” he admonished her. "But how am I to know that you are says. those districts where the care of tho "why didn’t you give me time? You really my fate?" she demurred. The facts are few, but by their very horse is a feature of the farm I have are supposed to stay In there three He whirled her around so that sh* Allowed to Run on Coldest Days of brevity acquire a more dramatic char­ often heard It said that a good groom­ m inutes.” faced the great mirror above the man­ acter. Erwin J. T. Webb was a well- W inter and Fed Clover Hay, ing twice a day was worth a feed of But she was clinging to his arm, tel. "Look." he said, smiling over her known solicitor in Portsmouth, and with Corn Fodder. oats. "Oh. Barry, Barry," sne said, ‘‘I saw shoulder, "you are JuBt as high *8 my one of biB favorite hobbies was ama­ a face—a queer foreign face with a heart, Stephanie." teur photography. He had fitted up a Nearly all the shelter sheep need beard—’’ In the winter time Is to keep off rain She leaned back against him with a darkroom In the cellar of his house PROVIDING SHELTER FOR HOGS "Oh. 1 say," Barry argued, “you little tremulous laugh. "Now 1 shall and had gone down there to develop j and snow. I have always allowed couldn't have seen anything like that, them to stay out in the coldest weath- dream of your face B m lllng at me," some plates. Illustration Shows Form of Straw- you know. Why, none of the fellows she said, "dear boy.” -our He opened a bottle of beer in the Pile for 8wine That Is Proving looks like that, and, or course, every­ But when, a little later, they went u 'ts. cellar and poured out a glass to drink Satisfactory for Many. body knows that one or us men slips to Join the crowd on the porch, she re­ while at work. Becoming absorbed in In and looks over the shoulder of the membered the pearU. "To think I JX&AC&rir girl we like.” his task, he mistook the beer and put In some respects, there Is no better have lost them,” she sighed.' “Well, I did see It,” Stephalne In­ Into It some cyanide of potassium. For way of sheltering hogs in real cold He bent his head to hers. "But a time he went on working, ignorant weather than to give them the run of sisted; ’’a white face with a black beard and big black eyes. It was think what you have exchanged," he of his mistake. the straw pile. Of course, this plan teased, "and you shall have another thought. “If I have aged, so has she.” Then he remembered the beer and Is open to very serious objections If dreadful, Barry.” He laughed. “You imagine It,” he string of pearls for your wedding, But again—"site has improved—vastly drank some of it. suitable accommodations are not pro­ sweetheart.” —have I’" It was really very puz­ Instantly he realized the terrible vided. To merely turn a large drove Insisted. “Come on over here and zling, and I was very glad that at that mistake he had made and while life of hogs against an average sized talk to me while the other girls try moment she sent the articles to the was still his, snatched up a scrap of straw pile without making proper pro­ IL” RICH “POOR MAN’S DIGGINGS" other end of the room to hunt for a photographic paper and on it scrib­ \ ^ y y / / y 7 7 7 visions for their comfort Is to makt The other girls, following Stephalne, book. bled a message to his wife. It was "piling" easy and death by suffoca­ had commonplace experiences. Then Strike 8*id to Have Been Made In She said, "They oughtn't to have read at the Inquest and ran as fol­ Sheep Feeding Rack. tion or Injury probable. Without the men who looked over tbelr shoulders the Innoko Country In been here In the first place. Didn't lows: expenditure of much money or labor were the ones they wanted, or, at A laak a. you get my note?" j er If It was not stormy, writes O. F. least, their faces were familiar, and "In semi-darkness have made awful Taylor In Orange Judd Farmer. How­ good shelters may be made In straw She spoke again "Of course, I did." not one reported having been con­ According to the current stories mistake. ever, I never under any circumstances fronted by a stranger with a black from Alaska, poor man's diggings of "Then you knew that I wanted to “Must have poured cyanide Into ale allow them to take rains and snows see you alone " beard. great promise have been struck In the "Only a few seconds to live. In winter. At this season I give them “I can't get It off my mind," Steph­ "You said so." Innoko country, southeast of Norton “Cannot call. good clover hay, and In addition, a anie told Barry as they sat at supper. "Then why—?" "God help you, my pet. Sound, and there Is a general stam­ little silage or corn fodder about "Suppose I should have to marry a pede to the new camp. This Is the “Don't he cross. I couldn't help it. "Brain reels. three times a week. I feed twice a man like that! I should feel as If 1 third season of prospecting In that Papa is in his den." This last with day In the yard or on the ground If "Tell . . . ” were tied to a Bluebeard." region, and each report received telle such a radiant smile that l wanted It Is frozen, but when the ground Is The writing toward the end of the - _ "Marry me,” Barry suggested of rich strikes made In the shallow to kiss her on the spot But the ar­ message was almost undecipherable. not frozen I fed In racks In the sheep promptly, "and I'll save you from your ticles had found the book, so I went Straw-Pile Shelter. diggings which give it its character­ After writing this hurried message, barn. I feed a little entire grain, fate." istic of a poor man's camp. to Vr Carter instead. mostly oats, to tho breeding ewes. Mr. Webb apparently tried to crawl piles. The accompanying Illustration "It makes me positively supersti­ What has made Alaska and the "Time'’ You dear, old goose. I had My feed troughs are made of three upstairs, but he fell dead at the foot will give the reader an Idea of on- tious." Stephalne confessed. "Suppose British Yukon ts the poor man’s dig­ It all settled in my own mind ten min­ hoards eight feet long. The bottom life should have something like that of the stairs, where later his wife very common type of a straw-pi’e hog gings The original prospectors had utes after I received your letter from one is ten Inches wide and the sides In store for me, Barry?” found him. pen. Two or three forked po ts are none of them money enough to buy the steamer " six inches, as shown in the illustra­ “Oh. forget It," Barry said, slangily. The medical evidence went to show set securely in the ground and In the machinery or to transport It Into that "Well, when is It to be?" tion. I scatter the oats thinly In “As long as I am here to prevent It, that after taking the poison Mr. Webb forks of these a strong rail is placed country of magnificent distances ana "1 thought that the fourteenth—” these troughs and the sheep cannot no stranger with a beard shall carry would lose the power of locomotion to support the slanting timbers which ro transportation facilities. Neither "Not next month?" and would not be able to call out, get a large mouthful. Thus better you off." rest upon the ground. The rails are would capital have been enlisted dur­ “No. Nor the month after, but the though he would live long enough to mastication of the grain is secured Sthphalne looked at him gratefully. held securely In place by the straw ing the present generation In develop­ month after that." be able to write the note found. It than if the sheep were permitted to "You are a tower of strength, Barry which Is piled or stacked about and ment work on mines In Alaska had It "Tanuary. Isn't that rather long to was the testimony that he was of take large moutnfuls. I have fed boy," she said. "Some day I’m going w ait" above them. To prevent all shifting not been for the Immense wealth cheerful temperament and had no threshed oats to my sheep for a good to think seriously about marrying “My dear man. I must have some of the rails they may be dug Into tho taken out by the men or no capital financial or business worry. many years, and have not experienced yon.” clothes and I want to be all through ground. This form of shelter Is prow save their brawn and energy. The A verdict of death by misadventure anything but the most pleasing re­ And with that he had to be content. Klondike was a poor man's camp In with dressmakers and all their kind was returned. lng satisfactory with many corn belt The fun at the supper table waxed sults. I feed oats until after lambing Its Inception and paid the original b e fo re I start on what will be a new Mr. Webb was one of the best- feeders. fast and furious. Weird pumpkin time, than I add about one ear of locators from the grass roots down. life for me." known solicitors practicing In the faces grinned through the windows, corn, shelled, to one pint of oats a day So rich were the claims that the first We discussed the new life. I men­ local courts and was known through­ Oleo as a Calf Food. rows of black cats flashed their elec­ for each sheep. After many years of miners got money sufficient to pur­ tioned December. out a large part of Hampshire. He New hope appears for the oleo- tric lighted green glasses on the mer­ experience In raising sheep, I have chase their supplies during the first “I gave you good reasons." she said. was a native of the Isle of Wight. makers In recent tests at an experi­ rymakers, and at the end a witch In a found that It pays to keep sheep on winter after discovery by panning the “Dressmakers rush for no man at this pointed cap appeared and served the general farm, provided they are ment farm In Italy. It was found that dirt off their dumps with melted snow. season. And, besides, Julia won’t be from the steaming caldron a certain Tombstone Used as Doorstep. kept well. Those who do not do this the best feeding material for calves 8ome of the best discoveries lf^ back till the twelfth, and I've set my was a mixture of skim milk with oleo­ brew that tasted suspiciously like heart on having her here for what will A tombstone requisitioned as • are very apt to condemn the breed Alaska of recent years have been at m argarine. The calves are not likely godd black coffee. be the ha plert moment of my life. doorstep has been discovered In s of sheep which they may happen to such depth In the frozen ground that to object to this substitute for the And 8tephanl*. all a glltter In silver- I said, "You really think It will be?" lonely farmhouse situated near to have, or the breeding which they It was useless for a man without cap­ natural food, and It would seem that spangled cblffoA, with a rope of pears "I know 1;," she answered. Casslobury Park. Watford, England. have purchased for the improvement ital to attempt to open a claim. It re­ This stone, a fine piece of Portland, of their flock, when the fault Is really the oleo oil, If It could be bought at a about her neck, led the funmaking, Then I remembered what was In my and chanted for the benefit of the up­ quired money to put In the appliance pocket. serves as a doorstep leading from the their own. price low enough, would be Just the for thawing the frozen ground and dining-room to the conservatory, and thing to even up the composition of roarious table the witches’ song from ‘‘I’ve got something for you." Macbeth. sinking to considerable depth. But ’’Really," she said, trying to look is lying face downward. Workmen en­ Salt for 8tock. skim milk. It is claimed that a men with capital are now willing to gaged In carrying out certain repair* good quality of veal can be made on And by the time she went to the surprised. Salt Is necessary to the health and dressing room to get her wraps she take over all such properties and de­ and alterations came upon this stone, this ration at a low cost. velopment proceeds apace. "Yes. And this Is It,” I said, and I thrift of domestlo animals, and they had forgotten all about the bearded took her hand and placed it on the which bears the Inscription, "In lov­ should have It In winter as well as In If reports should prove to be true, ing memory of -----the beloved foreign face that she had seen In the fourth finger. summer. They need more of It, prob­ Care .of 8tock. magic mirror. the Innoko country promises to gtve wife,” etc. They were Instructed by Oo down to the barn every night "What a darling!" she said, looking ably, during the period of abundant When she came down, radiant In the poor man a chance to make • the owner, who occupies the bouse, after supper and see that everything at- It. The next minute her arms were succulent feed, but the animal sys­ her long white wrap, she found there mine — Seattle Post Intelligencer. around my neck. to replace it, and the tombstone la Is all right with the stock. Better tem requires more or less of It all tho was to be one more test Just then a man appeared In the again fulfilling Its somewhat novel time. A good plan Is to keep salt sell half the stock and give all of purpose. "We are going to run down to the Get Even with Deadhead*. doorway. He was a young man—very In sheltered boxes, where the stock the feed to what remains than to little well at the end of the path," one swung, very good looking and, for the stint the whole herd. How many In Russia photographers are In tb# can get at it at will. This Is a safe­ of the girls told her, “and look for our habit of paying out any customer wbe moment, very much embarrassed. World’* Botanist* to M**t. guard against neglect, and being ac­ thousands of dollars are farmer* go lovere’ faces In the water." Strange to say, Miss Carter was, also. refuses to pay up by hangtng bis por­ An international botanical congrea* customed to It at pleasure, there Is lng to lose during the present win Stephalne shivered. ”1 don't want I was the only ona with any presanoa trait upside down In a consolcuoae will be held at Brusaela In May. Bo danger that too much will be taken. tar by letting the stock run down 7 to see any more faces," she said. portion of their shop efe,;-1

1 " ..JM 2 = s e — "Mr. Lindsley was even worst than two, without being molested, and he wap almost like singing. In • vibrant, ••'No one.* 1 had Imagined. bad given orders to the servants ac­ minor key. “He was apparentlyly very muck pus “Mrs. I indsley, ab, bow can an old cordingly. “ 'I follow, two year, three year. I sled, but finally agreedsed with our Mm man like me tell what she was.” “It was nearly two o’clock l» the follow, follow. Then I find, and he that it was a aort of a fit, and permjt- The old detective drew n long morning when I saw the figure again, knows I find, and he Is afraid. Also ted ua to carry the body home. We breath, and stopped. He seemed for by the hedge. she pleases him- She Is his slave, found then that a small Inner pocket an instant to brood over a memory “It was a dark night, without a and he does as he wills. He teaches In his vest had been cut out cleanly aa Abulfath o f the though with a sharp knife. So there that was very vivid'to him. Then he moon, and I was close beside him be­ her his tongue; He calls her the went on quickly. fore he saw me. When he did see English Mrs., but—she is his slave. He you have ft “She was very small and brown and me, however, his black eyes flashed hurry to America. I follow, but “I told the police what I knew of the Hill Country shy, with an accent that was most for Into mine with a wordless challenge It Is another year when I find Hindoo afterward, for It bothered me. elgn, and a look in her eyes' some­ that I made haste to answer. them again. I am growing the date “They found him living quietly in times that made me think of a little “ 'She sends me,’ I said. tree at a big show, for the people to a Bohemian boarding place In 8L Lu­ helpless child who, by some chance “Instantly he made a strange ges­ see, and watching, watching, and then cia, 50 miles away. The man who By M. WOODRUFF NEWELL had wandered very far from home, ture as one before a shrine, and said I see her. Now, I am here. She is roomed next to him swore on a cruci­ and did not know the way back. some words that I did not know, un­ afraid I kill, and the American Judge fix th at the Hindoo was shut up In “Mr. Lindsley took my friend for a der his breath. will hang me. She need not be afraid. his room all that day that Lindsley look over the house, but I chose to “ 'She says to go back home. She I am of the hill country, beyond Del­ died. In fact, the Hindoo had appar­ (Copyright. 1909, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) stay to talk with my hostess. did not understand, and the thing is hi. I know ways. I make shadows— ently been suffering from some kind “ ‘That is a strange Jewel,’ I said, done. Go back home without her and and strange things, and death comes. of a collapse, for, bearing strange very far from his own grounds unat­ B had been talking of casually, after they were gone, speak­ the Jewel. The sahib carries that And It is well. But I take her back noises In his room, they had entered, the latest murder sen* tended. They have got three servants with him night and day, under his and the stone that he hides near his that look like prize fighters, and two ing of a pin she wore in her hair, a and found him on the bed, and they l Ration, Daw and young barbaric thing of red and purple and arm. She Is afraid you will be killed heart. Tell her. I lose her not again. It could not rouse him. They had sent I Fanshaw and I, as we great hounds. I understand he has gold. If you hurt him.' is the end. I take her back to for a doctor, but he was late in com­ been a great traveler.' “His strange seamed face worked Dhang, and life la yet young. Go l-r W “ ‘8he looks very foreign,’ * re­ “ ‘Ah, these, yes. It come from— ing, and when he did get there, about | sat smoking, after din­ very far.’ for an instant. ’You are her friend?' now.’ eight In the evening the Hindoo had ner. In the big billiard marked. “ 'Yes,' I said, thinking of her piti­ “I went, obediently. His colossal “ ‘Yes. I heard her talking to one of “ ’India?’ revived. The boarding house propri­ room of the Courtland ful eyes, and Llndsley’s boated, pur figure stunned me. His singing voice, the dogs one night, out by the hedge, “Her eyes flashed Into mine. etor also volunteered the Information club. Robert Breen, pie face. bis story, all seemed for a little to and It sounded the way a Chinese sign “ "Who say—India?’ that the Hindoo had eaten next to once a great detective, “I came close to her. “ 'Did she tell you—all?’ paralyze all my reason and common nothing for a week or more before but an old man now, looks.’ “ ‘Only the message.’ , sense. I went back to the house like "My friend's disgust was evident “ ‘I saw one like it once, In a sword- that, and he was so thin that his ‘soul had been listening si­ “He stood silent for a minute or a chidden child. I seemed to forget He has no use for any other language h ilt’ fair fell out of his eyes.’ lently. He seldom more. that it was the twentieth century, and than his own, ‘"Yes. Very long ago?’ 8he spoke . "All that, of course, cleared the spoke of any of the rapidly. "Then he spoke swiftly. this was America, and I was a pro- Hindoo. "Late that night I awoke suddenly, sale old man. My wits were gone mysteries and scandals ” ‘It was in the sword of a big Hin­ “ ‘I will tell you. I am Abulfath of “A week afterwards Mrs. Lindsley and without apparent reason. The completely. with which he had doo who made a green tree grow for the hill country beyond Dhangun, Pun­ closed the house and went away. Abul­ moonlight made the room very light, "Afterward as I sat in my room, and been concerned In his a big crowd to wonder at.’ jab, in Hindustan. I am of Rajput fath left St. Lucia about the same but I could see nothing unusual, and got back to normal. I tried to reason “ 50 odd years, but now, “ ‘Yes, I know. I see, too.' (royal descent). time, and 1 have never seen them there.was no sound. The whole house the thing out, and see what I must do stirred, perhaps, by some small paral­ “ ‘I think he is now far away—now,' " 'The little one, Sadra, live there, since. And last week the doctor wh* was very still. Presently I got up to prevent what was coming. lel thing In the case of which Daw I said, softly. too, with her father. He—her father had examined Llndsley's body after he and looked out. The ground was cov­ "The Hindoo must be confined, or was speaking, he roused suddenly. "She faced me with Imperious eyes. —Is a priest and full of years. He was dead told me what had really ered with a light snow, and every ob­ closely watched, or there would be "The picture of thlB woman reminds “ ’Where?’ keeps watch of the stone of the three killed him.” me of Mrs. Lindsley,” he said mus­ ject was plain in the moonlight, the murder done. I had no especial liking " ’Here, last night. Did you not hear mysteries. Sadra knows many ing. "Do any of you remember that narrow hedge between our place and for Lindsley, especially after what I "What was it?" demanded Fan­ the three calls?’ tongues. Is wise In Sanscrit. But In shaw, as the old man hesitated. case?" the Llndsley’s, and beyond it the now knew, but, at least, he was Eng­ square Lindsley house, dark and si­ “Then she broke down. other things she Is yet a child. And “It is over and done with, and Ab- We shook our heads. it is well. I wait two year, perhaps lish, a countryman, and I could not lent. ” 'Ah, yees, I hear. But he must sit by and see him deliberately mur­ dulfath and the little one are undoubt­ "I'd like to remember it,” said Fan- three years, then she will be mine, for “Then something moving by the go. He must go back home. Allah, dered without trying to stop it. edly safe in the hill country beyond shaw, hurriedly, eager for a story. life. hedge caught my eye. It was a man, without me and the Jewel. Tell him. "In the morning I told the Hindoo's Dhangun—or I should not tell you. Robert Breen smiled. “ 'One day I go on long hunting trip, “Some of the strangest cases with large of stature, bent a little, and yet You see him. He will come again, story to John. Llndsley's back was broken in two strangely graceful. three nights and call. It was the old to the hills In the north. I am gone "He only said ’The devil,’ and asked, places.” which I have had to do, I stumbled four, five month. I come back. upon quite by accident. It was so “I watched him, doubting what I had way. Tell him the sahib will kill him, me what I was going to do. But I best do. He was making no pretense and also me. It is too late. The Allah! Sadra is gone, and the stone couldn’t answer, because I did not Not a Candidate. with the Lindsley case.” of the three mysteries. He shook his head slowly, thinking. of concealment. He could therefore thing Is done. I did not understand. know myself. There was no definite Secretary F. D. Coburn recently re­ “ ‘The sahib, may his soul shrivel, "I should like to go to India,” he scarcely be a burglar. As I watched, Tell him, you. This is not the Punjab charge that I could bring against the turned from a trip to Virginia and passing by to see the temple at Delhi, brings back with him this story. A said, apropos, apparently, of nothing. hesitating, he raised both arms above country. The sahib carry the Jewel Hindoo as yet. The police would only and hear the conch, has seen her. He "I have been studying a little lately his head, then bringing his hands to under his arm all day and night The laugh at me, crying 'wolf,' when there Virginia planter found himself short about their priests and fakirs. It Is was no wolf to be seen; but I knew; of hands one day and went to Rich­ mond to look up help. Failing to find wonderful how close some of their it was In the air. men at the employment bureaus he wise men have come to understand­ "Then before I could decide what went out on the street and tried to ing that slender thread that holds the was best to be done, the thing was scare up aid from the curbstone con­ spirit and the body together. They over. In less than 48 hours, the end tingent. He found a young buck know more of the laws of the Unseen had come. "John and I went into town that negro, strong as a horse, lazily sun­ than they do of the Seen.” ning himself against a telephone pole. He stopped and relighted his cigar, next day, and were coming back about The Senegambian's eyes were almost then resumed his story slowly. five o'clock. It had been an ugly day, closed in chronic sleepiness; the atti­ “1 came into touch with the Ltnds- dull and raw, and cold, and it was growing dark early. We were almost tude of his body showed complete leys first on a wet, dismal night in repose and entire scorn of nervous early January. Since you have for­ in sight of the house when John energy. Though the crown of his hat gotten about it I will not bring It back turned suddenly and looked back of A him, then facing me again exclaimed: was gone and his toes peeded from his —4 to you again, by telling the year. shoes, and there were plenty of other "Being a lone bachelor, I hai a trick, " 'Great Scott, I could have sworn I ventilating flues in his clothes—the then, of wandering about town nights saw a big black fellow in a flaming condition worried him not The sun until all hours, and upon this par­ turban pass us just now; but there was warm and that was about all he ticular night I .__ ! &one into the Bi­ isn't a soul in sight. I must be see­ cared for. jou, a smoky, shabby little nickel mov­ ing things.' “Hey, there!" said the planter loud­ ing picture place. "I laughed uneasily, looking back 'The usual ill-smelling crowd was also at the deserted road. ly, coming up to the negro. there, but after a second I forgot them ” 'I didn't see anyone,’ said, tfc'nk- “What—wha—yassir—yassir—boss!” In the film unrolling before my eyes. It ing of the Hindoo, and feeling a trifle ejaculated the negro with a series of .pictured a small wooden stage, and creepy at the back of my neck, in starts, as he roused himself out of his upon this rude platform, which was spite of myself. 1 don't like things sleep. •vldently located in some amusement that you can’t see. "Yassah, boss!” and by the time he place, perhaps Coney Island or Won­ "We cantered on rapidly—we were got that out he was at least making a derland, a tall Hindoo, In flowing cos­ on horseback—and had gone several desperate attempt to stand on his feet tume and turban was performing his rods when we met Lindsley walking. "Want to work?” asked the planter tricks Before him clustered the au­ “ 'Hi,' he called, as he saw us com­ sharply. dience, a swaying, curious, Jostling ing, and waited for us to reach him. "Wha—wha—nosah, nosah, boss," " 'Haven’t seen anything of my fur crowd. was the stammering reply. "Nosah, "He was a most striking figure, an gloves lying in the road, as you came don't want no work long's Ah kin git extraordinarily large man, his face along, have you?’ he questioned anx­ surnpin’ else to did!”—New York long and thin and greatly seamed. He iously, as we stopped beside him. Journal. was somewhere between 30 and 40, " 'No.' we said. I should Judge. It fairly made me " 'Funny thing,' he complained, 'just Napoleon’s Vanity. dizzy to watch his great, swift-moving came in from a drive and missed It was Napoleon's desire to have a bands, and his eyes haunted me for a them. Hate to lose them. Got those royal emblem more ancient even than week. They were like black velvet, gloves In India. Fine gloves. Thought (he fleur-de-lis that led to the adop­ and Indescribably eager. He had the i d just walk back a ways—as far as tion of the bee. To this end he sought look of a man eternally seeking. the bridge, anyway, and see if I far and wide, finally accepting the bee "As the crowd before him thinned couldn't find them. Fine gloves.' under these circumstances: out and filled in again he scanned each His pompous, purple face was When the tomb of Childeric. father new face, and I knew that not one in screwed into irritable lines, as John of Clovis (founder of the French king­ the throng escaped him. and I went on again. dom) was opened in 1653 there were "He was doing the trick of the grow­ "I turned back once or twice, and found, besides the skeletons of his ing date tree when the thing hap­ saw him each time, plodding stubborn horse and page and the arms he wore pened. The tiny twig had shot up ly on. It was the first time John ever in battle, more than 300 of what the into the half-grown tree, when his remembered having seen him out of French heralds mistook (or bees "of restless eyes stopped suddenly, and his own grounds aione. We were can the purest gold, their wings being in­ out of their velvet shot a flame that tering in at the gate as John spoke laid with red stone like carnelian." made me catch my breath. of that fact, and I stopped suddenly. These ornaments resembling bees “I knew at that instant that this " 'John,' I said, ‘let's go back for were really w hat are called in French was no fake performance, but a bit of Lindsley.’ fleurons, supposed to have been at­ roal life, that, by some strange chance, "John hesitated a second, and scold­ tached as ornaments to the harness bad happened Into some photog­ ed my old woman nonsense, but he of Childeric's war horse. turned with me at last and we swept rapher's film. The "bees" were sent to Louts back down the road again. "My eyes followed his, down Into XIV., but it remained for the vain Na­ the crowd, and I saw what he saw, a “We had not far to go, but we were poleon to have them sprinkled over too late. girl richly dressed, but yet with a the imperial robes as emblematic of "As we reached the little incline to strangely foreign face, and in her the triumph and activity of the Na­ the bridge we saw Lindsley there in wide eyes a look as though she also poleonic dynasty. The modern opin­ the half darkness, but he paid us no held her breath. ion is that the French fleur-de-lis is attention. “Then I saw that a gentleman was really a bee with its wings out­ "He was acting like a man in a fit, with her, a gross, portly man, and stretched, which would make the royal or as though he were grappling with there was a look of fear on his puffy and imperial emblems identical, but some one of enormous strength; but face as he saw the Hindoo upon the differently interpreted. platform. Then he snatched at her he was quite alone, bending and arm to hurry her away, and the plo- plunging and swaying back and forth Forces Pipe Through Ground. ture moved on, taking them with It, across the narrow bridge. It almost By the means of a new piece of ap- and the whole Incident was over. It seemed as though he were being bent paratus designed principally for tha was a small thing, without beginning backward until his spine must crack plumbers' use a great deal of trench or end, but ][ could not forget It. in two. digging may be avoided. It is called "About a month later I went down "John leaped from his horse, and as a pipe-forcing jack, and by digging a to visit an old friend of mine in Ston- he did so the animal bolted. Mine ditch long enough to take the jack Ington. He had quite an estate was snorting and sweating in appar­ and start the first length of pipe it la there, recently purchased, and he had ent deadly fear, and at last, in spite possible to lay almost any length of been long urging me to come. The of me, dashed away after the other. service pipe. This means that the second day I was there we were enter­ "John reached Lindsley first, but jack will save the user the expense even as he did bo the purple face ing In at the big front gate, after a “He Was Quits Dead.” incurred In digging the trench and re­ long tramp, when a carriage passed us, strained upwards, a s though forced up filling it when laying service or pipe­ and as the lady and gentleman with­ his lips, made a strange sound three big white guard will kill him If he try sees, too, the great Jewel of the three by a fearful force, and he seemed to lines. The Jack is capable of driv­ in returned my friend’s greeting, I times. It was very low, like a bird to hurt the sahib. This Is another mysteries, and he covets It. He tells bend backward until he was bent like ing pipe up to four-inch diameter, and a bow. Then he fell. glanced casually at them. It was the calling Its mate. Then I saw that country. This Is not Punjab.’ her many lies. Then he says. I am as great a length as 280 feet of two "He was quite dead." girl I had seen In the moving pic­ he wore a turban and long loose "Then we could say no more, for the hurt, up in the hills. She must come and one-half inch pipe has been forced quickly. She does not understand Fanshaw wet his dry lips and Daw ture of the crowd before the Hindoo, ■leeves. It was the Hindoo. men came In, but as I took my leave through the ground by It. and the man with the puffy face was She knows Sanscrit, and things of sky moved his chair noisily. "The picture I had seen a few weeks of her she spoke two words under her and air, but—she is a child. She be­ "Well, gentlemen, the tale draws with her. breath. , Halibut Frequent Deep W ater, “ *To tell you the truth I don’t know before flashed vividly before my old lieves, and brings the stone to him near an end. Our horses coming home " ’Tell him.’ In the beginning of last century much about them,’ my friend said, eyes. This was something more than and goes with him, to find me and riderless startled the men at the barn, “ 'I felt then that I was In for a frankly, as I hastily questioned him. burglary. bring me back from the other world. and hurrying out they soon found us. halibut emigrated to deeper and deep­ tragedy. It was In the-«tr. I knew ” ‘It's a Mr. Lindsley and his wife. "For an hour he stood there, silent So he takeR her, away, no one can Lindsley could not be moved, of er water, until they are novk caught the feeling." They have bought the place next to and motionless. He did not call find where—and also the stone. Her course, until the coroner came, so we In depths of 150 to 350 fathom s, in mine and are living there very quietly. again, Rut no one came or answered Robert Breetae spoke grimly. father Is old, blind. His heart dies. all waited there together while some deep sea valleys. Halibut capture cod The man is three times her age, and that I could discover, and at last he "That night I did not go to bed at 4Only I follow, step by step. I find one went back to tell Mrs. Lindsl«v by stunni * them wbh strokes of the look" like a beast She Is apparently strode away Into the shadows toward all. I waited downstairs, In the dark, they go by boat, and she cries, and he and get news to town. tail. The je of a 350-pound hallb.it afraid to death of him, and he Is ap­ the roadway, and I crept, cola and with coat and cap ready In my struck, her. Allah.’ "John and I were questioned pretty weighed 44 pounds, was oYer two feot parently afraid to death of some one shaktng, back to bed. hand. "The Hindoo seemed to hold onto closely when the medical examiner long and contained more than 2,000,- else, { don't know who or what. “The next day I made my friend *1 had told my host that I wanted himself by a great effort. After a came. 000 eggs, says Prof David Starr Jor* They're a funny couple. 8he never take me to call upon our neighbors. the run of the house for a night or little he went on, In a low voice that " ‘You saw no one with him?’ d in. ■tire ont alone, and he seldom goea , a*?*'. .'Vw _ — m i mkttmimuimuuuHuuuuuuuuuuM luuuuuuuuum A Letter fro* Tenet Paebaodle. PUBLISHERS P lAINDBALXR, ChatS- P i m m worth, 111.—Deer Sire:—1Tty* it the great southwest end, as I have reed many letters from other parts of the George Nimmo’s Hog Sale I country, I will write you of our Thirty head of full-hioodfutl-hiood Poland China andi oountry. Dnroe Jerseyereey hogs hogs at at my my farm, farm, 1 1 mile mile west west of Prices That Talk Pairbnry,f on We were not blessed with the big­ 10c Tm day, February 15. 1 can of Peaches for gest crops here last year, but our lands These hogs are as well bred as any in the Increased in value, so we have no state. I bought the sires and dam s out of the . 8 packages of Corn Flake for 25c best herds in the state and you can And no kick coming. In reading a letter purer bred hogs anywhere. I do not look for 1 can of Fancy Red Salmon for 15c any big prices, but will turn them loose at the h from Iowa about a year ago, written prfees you bid for them. The sale will com­ 25c by Theron McCrystal, he used the mence at 1 o’clock and will be held under cor 3 pounds of Prunes for er, and there will be seats for all. words “thinking machinery,” and Trains will be met at station, and parties 1 pound of Gunpowder Tea for 35c from a distance who cannot get home on day of It was the proper word In the right sale will be kept at my expense at my home. 1 quart of Olives for 30c place. But while he spoke of good Dinner will be given at noon for people from s distance at farm. Crates furnished for stock 1 quart of Apple Butter for 25c people who used the machinery, we shipped and loaded without cost to purchaser. lack that kind. My neighbor east of Following is a description of the stock: [ Poland Chinas:—Three gilts out of Lady 3 bottles of Catsup for 25c Special ,106300. Lady Special was sired by CLEARING SALE I; me has four grown boys and 286 cows. Goodrich Special 121111. by Chief perfection 2d; 2 pounds of Dried Apricots for 25c I expect that 100 of them have little dam, Constanco337512, by On and On 94868. The Kf. sire of these gilts was Hanker 127649, state fair Wedding Ring Peas, 2 cans for 25c calves, but the family have no milk winner 1907. Four gilts out of Latest Creation for their coffee and buy their butter 373690. by llauker; dam. Chamois Skill 364018; by Spellbinder 93317; gilts sired by Next-iu-Line Wishbone Corn, 3 cans for 25c at the store at 40 cents per pound. 109075. Eight gilts sired by my herd boar Con­ This country has the most milch cows sternation 140307; by Chief Perfection 2d. These v ■ Wishbone Tomatoes, per can 10c gilts are bred to Indianaliana Perfection 156531 and SUITS AND OVERCOATS | I ever saw and so much farming land L adies’es’ Bov 156533. 10c Durockrock Jersey RReds;—1 edsFifteen Duroc gilts out 1!: Wishbone Beans, per can and so few farmers, and there is out ofif sows sired by Prince Print Wonder 210233, Tip % Ton Notcher 20729 and Gold Finch Fancy, by scarcely any farm machinery to Gold Finch 7549. These gilts were sired by In at a reduction of 25 per cent., or i ^ faTm w ith. vader 8115ft. and my head boar, Proud Advance Highest Market Price for your Butter and Buddy 744til. These gilts aro bred to Dwight We have some very large herds of Boy 91521.1 off the regular price. Eggs. Pedigrees will be shown on date of sale. cattle in this section. The Four-Six Also about twenty bushels of nice, clean ranch is w intering about 9,000 head, clover seed. Terms of Sale:—Sums of 120 and under, cash. Cording Bros. the XIT ranch has nearly 15,000, and Sums over ££0, a credit of six mouths will be $10.00 Overcoats reduced to $ 7.50 given, purchaser giving bankable note drawing there are lots of small herds of 500 to 6 per cent, from date. Two per cent, discount for cash on time sales. GEORGE NIMMO. 15.00 Overcoats reduced to 11.25 rHHn TTffTm n m irmHnnTHyTFmHTmffTmHyym m Tmm nnHnnHfTTTmmmTTmT?* 1,000 head. Col. W. L. Baity. Col. R. B. Newburn. auc Our farm work is in full swing now, tioneers. 20.00 Overcoats reduced to 15.00 Pti sowing spring wheat and speltz,. We will sow oats about February 10th to Lawless and Wilson 25.00 Overcoats reduced to 18.75 •* 20th, will plant corn about the last of M o n e y t o B u r n ! , - \ March, and Kaffir corn and milo Heavy Horse Sale at P. J. Lawless’ residence at the east side of maize from that time on up till July. the village of Chatsworth, The same reduction is made on THAT'S W HAT YOU HAVE) Our wheat is looking green now and a Saturday. March 5. better prospect was never before us. all Suits. On Overcoats and Suits 1F&1TOU K EEP IT IN^ 1 don’t want to make my letter too long, but will say that I think the WHY NOT STOP THAT $TCH? from fall and winter of 1908, of man who ought to use his “thinking H E H O U S E Indisputable proof has now been which we have but few of each, we ♦♦ machinery” is the good Illinois farm­ found that eczema can be cured—not er, the young man, the renter, and al­ in one or two cases, but in the worst make a reduction of 35 per cent. so tile man with growing up boys cases of many years standing. They should not let the opportunity We would, of course, not think of Odds and Ends are reduced 50 slip to get some of this good farming making such a recommendation to our neighbors and patrons, were it land before the prices get high. All not that years and years of success per cent. ?♦ people who see this country will with D. D. D. Prescription enable us bow to it. to speak of this remedy with con­ As my subscription has expired, I fidence. It is a gentle, soothing wash ------enclose my check on the Strawn Farm­ with the mild oil of wintergreen .as This is a fair and square reduction sale. a base. All the cures seem to be ers National Bank. permanent; at any rate, a trial bottle Traub meaus what he says. Take advantage of My wife and seif may not live here at 25 cents will take away the itch this Cut Price Sale. Save 25, 35 and 50 per cent. ** the full year, as we are now fixing our at once—instantly. We are sure of farm to rent out, as we have done this on all Suits, Overcoats and Gents’ Furnishings, ♦ H R o y a l & Co. THE BANK with our farm at Strawn ______Wishing you and all P laindjsaler Probate Court Proceeding*. readers success. I remain. Estate of Philip Weller, deceased; h Yours truly, Cbas. Storr, executor: report of Anton F. M. CURYBA. Storr, executor of will of Chaa, Storr, T R A I J B i i all funds and effects in his hands be­ • i Saved F ro * Awful Peril. longing tt estate of Philip Weller and IF YOlT put your money in our bank it can’t burn up; you won’t spent ‘•fi never felt so near my grave,” take and file receipts therefor; upon it foolishly: yon won't have to lend it to your f*.r-weather friends- writes Lewis Cliamblin. of Manches­ CHATSWORTH ILLINOIS ♦« ter. Ohio, R. R. No. 3. “as when a filing such receipts said estate of Chas. Y O U ’V E GOT IT: it will gr..\v ************************** frightful cough and lung trouble pulled Storr to be discharged from further We pay you 3 per cent on eerlifieat' i-o ♦ ♦ * ************* *********** me down to 115 pouuds in spite of many liability. Have you tried a checking account' Handiest and sa'est way to pay L> remedies and the best doctors. And Estate of John H. Lutson, deceased; t tills that I am alive today is due solely to petition by Martha Lutson (widow) for I)r. King's New Discovery, which com­ appointment of Thomas Askew as ad­ pletely cured me. Now I weigh 1G0 ministrator de bonis non with wil| an­ V- f THE COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK nexed: petition allowed; bond, $3,000, J pounds and can work hard. It also cured my four children of croup.’’ In­ filed and approved; oath filed. C ftk n t w « » * • t ! • . fallible for Coughs and Colds, its the Estate of Philip Weller, deceased; Closing Out Sale most certain remedy for LaGrippe, Chas. Storr, administrator: final receipt Asthma, desperate lung trouble and of John Weller, administrator de bonis all bronchial affections, 50c and $1.00. non as per former order, herein filed, A trial bottle free. Guaranteed by estate of Chas. Storr and his bonds­ We still have good things to eat at greatly Wm. C Quinn. men released from further liability. reduced prices. You need the tea and coffee; we Winter Tourist Fares In re estate of A. II. Haag, deceased; are now in effect via the Official Proceedings bond of Caroline Haag, life tenant, need the money. Why not trade? We have the CHICAGO AND ALTON RAILROAD Of the board of trustees of the vil­ filed and approved. tea and coffee, and you have the money. See lage of Chatsworth, 111., at a regular Estate of Philip Weller, deceased; how easy? E A ST T0K)1NTS WEST meeting held in the council room on Charles Storr, administrator; report by Tuesday evening, Feb. 8, 1910. Mem­ Anton Storr, executor of will of Chas. Wedding Ring Japan Tea, per pound - 40c SOUTHEAST SOUTHWEST Storr, of condition of estate of Philip bers present: President Bushway and Wedding Ring Peas, 13c a can; 2 cans for 25c We would like to figure with you on any journey you have planned or Messrs. Shols, Kueffrier, Sneyd, Har- Weller, deceased, at death of Charles plan any journey upon which you have figured. Our attrac­ beke, Slater and Dorsey. Storr, deceased; appearance of John Wedding Ring Corn, per can - - - 11c tive routes, fast time and through service point Weller, administrator de bonis non of The minutes of the last regular Pet Milk, baby size, per can - - 4c t h e : w a y i n w h i c h t o r e a c h t h e : meeting were read and approved. estate of Philip Weller for purpose of After hearing the reports of the corsenting to approval of reportof An­ Elephant Tomatoes, per can . . . jQc ton Storr as above; report approved; Leading Rest &, Health Resorts different committees, on motion of Any 10c article - 8c Slater the board adjourned. ordered that said Anton Storr turn We suggest Hot Springs. Mobile, San Antonio, Mexico, Florida, over to said John Weller showing con­ Any 5c article - 4c perhaps stopping en route at intermediate points, J ohn T aogkut, Clerk. or making little side trips dition of estate at time of death of Everything in proportion except Sugar and Chatsworth Markets. Charles Storr showing $121.41 and two ALONG THE GULf COAST . •. IP SOME SOUTHERN RIVER notes aggregating $1,100 as am ount of Flour. Corrected each Friday afternoon. personal property in hands of Charles or to Shooting and Fishing Grounds Corn, white No 3...... 57 Storr at time of his death; John Weller, Where Winter Sport Can Be Pound In Abundance Corn, yellow No. 3 ...... 60 administrator de bonis non with will REISING & HARBEKE Oats—No. 3 w hite ...... 44 Just call upon or address Mr. H. I>. Drennan, Ticket Agent C. & A. B u tte r...... annexed, enters his appearance and K. R ., Chenoa, III. E ggs...... consents to approval of report; report IH-20 22 WHO W ILL DO THE: REST! H ens...... approved; estate of said Chajles Storr, to be released from further liability C h ick s...... 13 FAIRBURY OfflCt NfVlR OPIN THURSDAYS upon the filing of a receipt from said C ox...... 5 Remember the Thomas Askew for above amounts. Ducks ...... 13 Estate of F. M. Patton, deceased; T urkeys...... 16 (cb 18 petition for probate of will and for Old Gobblers...... 12 @ 15 letters testamentary: entry of appear­ G eese...... 8 (a) 9 25 St Discount ance of all heirs and legatees; hearing on petition filed; cause heard in open Homeseekers'ReiluceilFares Took All His Money. hi. Often all a man earns goes to doctors court; Hugh VV, Pence and E. Thorne, Or 1-4 Off '1 ho popular means of reaching practically subscribing witnesses, testify in open or for medicines, to cure a Stomach, on all the 60c goods and over which a a i court: proof of heirship made; all testi­ Liver or kidney trouble that Dr. King’s were advertised in January 28 ami Feb­ mony ordered written up and filed; or­ New Rife Pills would quickly cure at ruary 4 issues, such as Decorated China All Points in the Territory Embraced dered that letters issue to Marshall slight cost. Best for Dyspepsia, Indi­ Dishes, Beautiful Decorated Water or in (he States of Gordon as executor upori his taking re­ gestion, Billiotisness, Constipation, Lemonade Sets. Picture Frames, Toil quired oath, but without bond, Same Alabama Kansas Nevada Jaundice, Malaria and Debility, 25c et Cases, Albums, Novels,etc., grouped Tennessee waived -by terms of will; oatli filed; Shur-On Bye-glasses Arizona Louisiana New Mexico Texas at Wm. C. Quinn's drug store. together on a counter. Also all Tin. A rkansas Mexico letters ordered. won’t fall off North Carolina Utah Iron and Wooden Toys and Dolls, Colorado M icliigan North 1 lakota Virginia Buy White Pe$rl Flour at Dorsey’s Estate of John Jones, deceased; pe­ Shake your head, and Florida which low selling price was 60c and Mississippi Oklahoma VViscon.il n grocery. Every sack guaranteed, tition for probate of will and for letters Georgia Missouri over, will he sold at cost. Also all- laugh, and jump around South Carolina Wyoming testim entary; entry of appearance ofvill Idalm Nebraska •South Dakota priced Valentines, Woolen Hosiery as much as you want- heirs and legatees, all being adults; and Mittens at cost The rare chance Shnr-Otis are on to stay. TICKETS SOLD BY THE. T h e L a d i e S’ H o m e J o u r n a l hearing on petition heard in open court; oil the above holds good 3 more days— anil THE SATURDAY EVENINO I. M. Lisii, P. II. Lannon and L. A. Not only hold right, but February 12,14 and 15. POST want ft man or woman in Miller, subscribing witnesses,.testify in feel right and look right. Ciiatbwobth and vicinity to look I now ask my friends and patrons to CHICAGO & ALTON RAILROAD open opart; prpof of heirship made; all Stop iu aud see them. after subscription renewols^nd to I come at once and supply your wants— testimony ordered filed; will proven forward new business. A guaran­ benefit to you and a favor to me, to teed weekly salary, the amount and admitted to probate-and O'dered The First and Third Tuesdays of Each Month close out the above goods, as l do not depending on the work done, and recorded; ordered that letters issue to a commission on each order. Ex­ care to buy any more goods at a higher Dr. Pendergast Almost 160 Railroads with which tho C. & A. R. It. connects have Merteo II. Jones and Bertha M. Jones perience unnecessary. Any one price to sell above 26c retail. OPTICIAN joined with us on this proposition to give the land-seeker, the visitor, can buRd up a permanent paying as executors w ithout bond; oath filed. etc., these gerfuine transportation bargains. business without capital. Com­ Big reductions have also been made on most all staples retailing above 60c. l n W B N i : s ' 'i.’VS; plete outfit and instructions free. Tho Northwestern Mutual Life In­ Call upon or write to II. L Drennan, Ticket Agent, C & A It. R. A Renta* Division . Chenoa, III., for details of fares, conditions and complete particulars. The Curtis -Publishing Company surance Qo., of M ilwaukee—reliable, Next Date, Thursday, Feb. 24. AM! ___ 935 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pn. honest policies—is represented by The C. H. Rohde Commercial National Bank. East End, Chatsw orth, III. At Ghatsworth, Dorsey Sisters’ Store i l

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