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entangle myself in moment from the
belief in which / had entered the house
that 1t was Louis de Pavannes' house.
But I seemed vaguely to suspect that
Beers had swept him aside and taken
his place. Ny first impulse, therefore
-obeyed on the instant-was to stride
to the vidame's side and grasp his arm.
"What have you donc?" l cried, my
voice sounding hoarsely even in my
own ears. what have you done with
NJ. de Pavannes? Answer mel
He showed just little more Of his
sharp white teeth as he looked down
at my face-a flushed and troubled
face, doubtless. "Nothing-yet," he re-
piled, very mildly. And he shook me
off.
"Then," retorted, chow do you come
here?" lie glanced at Croisette and
shrugged his shoulders, as If had been
q spoiled child. IN. Anne does not
seem to understand" he said, with
mock courtesy, shat have the honor
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TINE BEST
SPRING ME:DiClNs.,;

w sS1HvG WA kr kJhNSsaNlh
Is SIMMONS LIVER REGULAToR--dcn'
forget to take it. The Liver gets sluggish
during the Winter, just like all nature
and the system becomes choked up by
the accumulated waste, which brings or
Malaria, Fever and Ague and Rheuma
tism. You want to wake up your Livel
now, but be sure you take SIMMONS
LIVER REGULATOR to do It. It also
regulates the Liver-keeps It properly al
work, when your system will be free from
poison and the whole body invlgorated.
You get THE BESK BLOOD when
your system is in AL condition, and thai
will only be when the Liver is kept active.
Try Liver Remedy once and note the
difference. But take only SIMMONS
lvER REGULATOR-it is SIMMONS
LIVER REGULATOR which makes the
difference. Take it in powder or in liquid
already prepared, or make tea Of (the
powder; but take SIMMONS LIVER REGU-
LATOR. You'll find the RED Z on every
package. Look for it.
J. II. Zeilin q Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
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REVENGE HIS OBJECT.

JEFFERSON Cry, Mo-, June Gas
Sera Raybourne, head guard in the
dining room Of the penitentiary, was
going to work this morning Convict
Norvell, who had been released from
the penitentiary yesterday noon, shot
him in the abdomen with shotgun.
Before his release Norvell had been
sent to the post by Raybourne for DISC
bedience, and revenge was his object.
Bloodhounds were placed on his track
and caught him two miles east of the
scene of the crime Raybourne Is not
in danger, but his wound may result
seriously later.
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ITO BE- CONTINUED
CLEVELAND BARRED OUT.
Members Of Congress Did Not Want His
Portrait In the ( apitOI ROtunda.

Members Of Congress Did Not Want His
Portrait In the apitol R0tunda.
WASHINGTON, June 6.-President
Cleveland's portrait and portly figure
will not adorn the historic frieze in
the rotunda Of the capitol. Congress
has sat down hard on the suggestion
Of the joint committee on library that
one Of the two vacant panels in the
frieze be devoted TO a picture Of the
scenes when the worlds fair was form
ally opened. Ever since Chairman
Hansbrough, Of the library committee,
suggested this sketch he has been COM
PEELED TO stand a hot fire Of criticism,
most Of which comes from democrats,
though many republicans have Joined
in the protest, As a result Of the feel
ing aroused by the proposal to place
Mr.. Cleveland in the frieze, where the
face Of no other president is seen, the
library committee has been compelled
to abandon its project
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HOW FOOD is DIGEsTED.
Facts Of Interest to Those Afflicted with
Dyspepsia.

Facts Of Interest to Those Afflicted with
Dyspepsia.
One of the most fruitful causes Of
starchy indigestion is insufficient masti-
cation and insalivation. We live in an
age Of nervous hurry, and have ceased
to take sufficient time to eat decently.
We rush through our meals as though
everything depended on the rapid dis
position Of the food. Restaurants bear
the sign: give Minute Lunches and
railways announce: "Ten minutes for
refreshments. Dry foods which can
lot be swallowed readily are washed
down. This practice relieves the sail
vary glands Of their proper work, and
starchy Indigestion Is sooner or later
likely to give us trouble. The efficiency
of after digestion depends largely upon
the thoroughness with which the food
is chewed and mixed with saliva. No
amount Of pepsin taken as medicine
will compensate for the lack of this.
Therefore, say, what has already been
implied-thoroughly chew your food.
This old admonition has been repeated
so often that it has become platitude
observed as often in the breach as in
the fulfllment. Undoubtedly this is
due to the lack of a proper sense Of the
Importance of mastication and insaliya
ton. Now that my readers understand
the proper relation Of these acts to the
whole process of digestion, let us hope
that the suggestion will be observed.
Fresh bread or any food which is
apt to form into doughty or gluey mass
is impervious to the digestive juices and
should be avoided.
The liastase of the saliva is incapable
of changing starch to sugar if either
the starch is uncooked or the saliva not
alkaline. Breakfast foods and other
siarchy cereals, therefore, should be
well cooked, and vinegar pickles should
be sparingly used or salivary digestion
will be impaired
The thinner the gastric juice the more
rapid and efficient will be the digestion
Of meats and other proteins. The pres
ence of digested food in the stomach
binders the action Of the gastric juice
on the undigested portion. Digested
food should therefore be removed as
quickly as possible. Nothing accom-
plishes this SO well as water. Hence it
is good to drink plenty of water with
our meals. Don't wash down the food
with it. Swallow the food and then
drink as much wateras you like. II team
Ito no harm. wish to emphasize this
because believe the prevailing notion
Is that little or no water should be
drunk at our meals. This error has
probably arisen from misunderstand-
ing or misstatement of the intended
advice not to take water into the mouth
before the food is swallowed, as this
practice would certainly lessen the flow
of saliva and hence impede DIGESTION
Prof. Thomas Grant Allen. NJ. A., in
Chautauquan.
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MISSOURI PoPULIsTs.
Chairman ROselle Issues q Call for tn
State Convention at SedaIla July 80.

Chairman ROselle Issues a Call for the
State Convention at sedalla July 80.
ST. LOUIS, June 6--Chairman Ro-
selle, Of the state committee OF the
peoples party, has issued call for
the state convention to be held at Sc.
dalia July 80 Seven hundred dele
gates will be present Chairman Ro-
selle declares that all talk Of pos
sible fusion Of populists and democrats
in this state is unfounded. I'VE will
put up complete ticket from A to
lizard, with not one candidate on it
who is not beyond question thor
oughbred populist." One feature OF
the convention will DO the organiza-
ton Of wagon tours from interior
counties.
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pierce's Golden Medical Discovery was
made for her. The former Is for the Ills
distinctly feminine, the other for her gen.
tral system. Together they supply scien.
tihc and successful coarse Of treatment
The Favofite Prescription restores
healthy, regular action to the organs dis
tinetly feminine. II forces out all impuri.
ties, strengthens the tissues allays inflau-
nation. The Golden Medical Discov-
cry" makes appetite, helps digestion,
promotes assimilation, fills out the hollows
In cheeks and neck with good solid flesh
and brings back the gladsone glow Of girl.
hood. With these remedies there Is no
need Of detested examinations"
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NOT THOROUGHLY KANSAS" NOW

Heavy Rains Cause Great Damage In the
Western Portion Of the state.
SALINA, Kan, June 6-Nearly six
inches of water fell here during last
night and as consequence cellars are
flooded and creeks are overlooking
their banks, The rain extended as far
west as Ellsworth, where it was nearly
equal to the flood which swept that
town year ago. At Chico, southeast
Of here, Gypsum creek is mile wide
and three feet deep on the bottom
lands. At Lindsborg the Smoky Hill
has risen 10 feet and is rapidly rising.
Great fears are entertained here lest
last years flood may be repeated.
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CHAPTER ".
ENTRAPPED.

There was u long silence. We stood
glaring at him, and he smiled upon us
las cat smiles. Crosette told me
afterwards that he could have died Of
mortifcation-of shamcand anger that
we had been so outwitted. For my
self did not at once grasp the position.
I did not understand ! could not dis
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hg went dh, smoothly. 'and heas whssI
am going to do. lam going 70 keep you
ere, young grnuemen, untii You can
serve me by carrying TO mademolselle,
your cousin, some news Of her be-
trothed. oh. l shall not detain you
long," he added, with an evil smile.
"You have arrived at Paris at fortu-
nate moment. There is going to be a.
well, there Is little scheme on foot APP
pointed for ENTHUSIASTICALLY lucky
you are!-for removing some objection
able people. some friends Of ours, per-
haps among them. NJ. Anne. That is
all. You will hear shots, cries, perhaps
screams. Take no notice. You will be
in no danger. For NJ. de payannes," he
continued, his voice sinking, Il think
that by morning | shall be able to give
you-a--a more particular account OF
him to take to Caylus-to mademoiselle,
you understand"
For q moment the mask was of. His
face took sombre brightness. He
moistcned his lips with his tongue as
though he saw his vengeance worked
out then and there before him, and were
gloating over the picture. The idea that
this was SO took such a hold upon me
that ! shrank back, shuddering; read
ing, too, in Croisette's face the same
thoughtr-and late repentance. Nay,
the malignity of Beers tone, the saw
age CLEAN Of joy in his eyes. appalled,
me to such an extent that | tancied
for moment saw in him the devil
incarnate.
Inn mn rONrrNtrrn
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Poor BILL said the tramp, sorrow
fully.
"Wot's the matter?" asked his tat,
tered companion.
Gone" said the tramp.
"Jugged?"
Worse; but he died happy and pros
porous"
"Prosp'rous?"
yep That's why he died. lie
couldn't stand prosperity. He was ac.
eidentally locked i'm a saloon over
night"-Chicago Post.
To dream OF cutting yonr finger
means. yon will shortly have a law
suit.
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Sometimes It seems

Sometimes It seems
to weary woman that
she must certainly
give up. The sim.
: plest and easiest
= work becomes an
almost insurmount-
able task. Nervous
ness, sleeplessuess
and pain harass her
and life seems hardly
worth the living,
DR.. Pierce's lfavcr.
lite Prescription was
t,a1a FIR har Dr
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-13
Rich and the Poor.

Here now comes up this thoroughly
un-American question of the rich against
the poor. Some criticism is already lev
eled at this movement because those en-
gagged in it are representatives of proper
ty in their respective localities. 1t is
characterized as the rich mans move
ment. Property is banding together to
carry it's ends and those ends are mimi
cal to the wage-earner and the farmer.
This simply is criminal nonsense. There
is not the slightest warrant in reason for
any such statement. The paramount is
sue of the campaign is business issue.
ness-whether that blood shall be puri-
fed and kept pure. or vitiated and inn
poverished. Surely that proposition
reaches and interests everybody. And
another point. What authority is there
for the assumption that in moving in his
own interests the business man is NOV
ing against the interests of other men
Under a tree government all interests
are allied. The business man cannot
prosper 1t the wage-earner and the farm
err 90 not. 1t is impossible. If the crops
rail- and the mines and factories are idle,
so that the farmer and the wage-earner
have. no money, how can the merchant,
or the banker, or the manufacturer
thrive! Where is business to come
from! On the other hand, if times are
good and confidence prevails all feel the
Dement'S alike. Not all in equal degree,
OF course: That could not be. That
never has been. That never will be. But
TO the extent of their stake in the game,
When the winnings are large, the farmer
with the business ashington
STAR
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guarantee it legal tender. with gold I'M
der it. 1t would take $500, 100000 to
do thistle to l. Can we do it?'
''How about Mexican and India sill
ver?" asked the Populist
"Ah, that would come to us like q
deluge! We have no tariff against sill
ver 1t would pour in upon us; 200
100000 people would unload on 10000
900. There has been mined during, the
last 400 years $1O,OOO,OOO,O worth OF
silver. The world mined 5000, 165. O0C
worth of 5O-cent silver last year This
would come rushing in upon us. We
would be the dumping ground OF the
world. We could not coin it, and when
we stopped our guarantee all our coined
silver would fall back from 16 to l tc
80 to 1. We would have the 5O-cent
dollars of China and Japan. with no gold
in our treasury. and be the laughing
stock of the world
"Wen, who would be benefited by free
coinageT asked the POpulist
"Well no one but the mine owners
There are 5000 of them. Their work:
men are paid in silver. paper or gold
dollars worth 100 cents in gold. The
worth So cents. The farmer is getting
money as good as gold for his wheat
and cotton now. With free silver he
could get no more for his produce MOI
no better money than he is getting
And. by and by, if we went on coming
silver ad libitum, silver would go down
like the old greenbacks in 1868. That
went down to 80 cents on dollar
while gold stood still You could buy
wheat then for $3.50 in greenbacks OF
S5 cents in gold. You could buy farm
in 1863 for $50 an acre in greenbacks OF
500 in gold. Do you want that to occur
again.
The Populist was silent.
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remember in 1864, after his dreadful
wound. we did not suppose we would
have him with us again-we have with
MS today that brave soldier comrade. Col.
Russell 3. Hastings. IApplause.l I
was glad to note in the eloquent speech
of my comrade, Capt Ellen, that the
old Twenty-third Ohio stands in 1896
as it stood in 1861, for the country and
the country's flag. [Great applause and
cries For Mckinley, too. Nobody
could have doubted that. knowing the
metal from which this old regiment was
made.
My comrades, you are just as loyal to
country now as you were loyal to country
then, and as you stood from 1861 to 1860
for the preservation of the government
of the United States, you stand today
just as unitedly for the honor of the
government and the preservation of its
credit and currency. LCheers.J
Protection and Sound Money.
Y l do not know what you think about
it, but | believe that it is good deal
better to open up the mills of the Unit
ed States to the labor of America than
to open up the mints of the United
States to the silver Of the world. [Great
cheering and cries of 'You are right"
Washington told us over and over again
that there was nothing so important
to preserve as the nations honor. He
said that the most important source of
strength was the public credit and that
the best method of preserving it was to
use it as sparingly as possible. No gov
eminent can get on without it and pre-
serve its honor. No government is great
enough to get on without it. In the
darkest days of the revolution, Robert
Morris, it's financier, went to one of his
friends in Philadelphia after he had in
volved himself as a debtor for a large
sum of money on account of the gov,
eminent and said to him: Il must have
81, 100000 for the continental army"
His friend said. What security can
name and my honor" Quick came the
reply: Robert, thou shalt have it."
[Applause.] And from that hour until
now the country's honor has been our
sheet anchor in every storm.
Lincoln pledged it, when, in time of
war, we issued paper money. He said:
Every dollar of that money shall be
Rutherford B. Hayes, your old colonel,
as President of the United States, to ex--
ecute the promise in the resumption of
specie payments in 1879. [Cheering and
applause.] When Robert Morris said
that they had nothing to give but their
honor there was behind his word 3,OOO,-
600 Of struggling patriots. Today behind
the nations honor are 100000 of free
men, who mean to keep this government
and it's honor and integrity and credit
unquestioned. [Great applause.]
I thank you, my comrades, for this
call Nothing has given me greater
pleasure Nothing gives me greater
pride than to have been a private soldier
with you in that great Civil war. APP
plause.] l bid you welcome to my home.
You already have my heart; you have
had it for more than thirty years [Great
cheeringl 1t will give Mrs. Mckinley
and myself much pleasure. / assure you,
to have you come into our home. lap
plause and three cheers for McI<nley]
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Japan and Mexico.

IF silver is such an abominable curse,
prosperity?'-J. X, Amber, Mich
No one says that silver is an
''abominable curse" The project of go
ing to the silver standard is one which
would bring on an era of panic and
financial disaster; but to say this
project is bad is not to say silver is a
curse" Try to apply reason to the
subject, not prejudice and emotion. The
question is a plain one of business and
only common sense is needed to settle it
rightly.
You say Japan and Mexico are ''boom-
ing with prosperity How do you
know this? Prosperity is an extremely
relative term. In both countries the
wages of the working class are so low
that an American workingman would
deem them starvation wages. he could
not live. Mexico is far more prosperous
than she has been for many years. put
it is because under President Diaz,
there has been peace. The country mas
not been the scene of chronic revolution,
as it was up to few years ago. Wages
are very low, and manufacturing IS
profitable. Japan is just adopting the
use of machinery in manufactures, ana
is yet far behind us in everything
! Toledo Blade.
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THE WISE KANSANS.
How They Sought to Increase Their
Wealth by Legislative
Enactment.

F. A. Stillwell has prepared leaflet
purporting to give history of certain
events occurring near the close of the
Nineteenth century. 1t was declared to
be a period of depression, during which
it occurred to the wise men of Kansas
that they could legislate themselves into
aff1uence. The governor assembled the
wise men and said:
A Kansas policy for Kansas is the
raise, and the yield is light and uncer-
tain; but we are great on corn. Make
We, therefore, a law in accordance with
which sovereign and august statute corn
shall be put upon par with wheat.
They shall be interchangeable, and the
price of corn shall be the same as the
price of wheat.
The wise men passed the law as the
governor had advised and all the people
of the state rejoioed for their cribs were
full of corn. They could hardly contain
themselves till the governor had signed
the bill which raised the price of Kansas
corn from Is cents to As cents bushel.
bought many luXuries and the most of
them went in debt. Then the farmers
from other states began hauling their
corn to Kansas. 1t seemed as if the coun-
try was all corn and it was all headed
for Kansas. The, people of Kansas took
corn and gave up their wheat.
The farmers from the other states
thought Kansas people were queer, but
they kept bringing them their corn. Corn
came in and wheat went out.
When the other states saw this vast
accumulation, the price of corn began to
decline till it could be purchased any,
where except in Kansas for 10 cents
bushel. In Kansas the price was still
40 cents, which was the price Of wheat,
but there were no buyers. When the
autumn came the Kansas people did not
have any wheat for seed. Then they
sent to the neighboring states and i'm
plored farmers to exchange wheat at
parity with corn. But the farmers said:
"We will exchange one bushel of wheat
for four and one-half bushels of corn"
Our law" replied the Kansas people.
puts corn and wheat at a parity. They
are equal, for our wise men said they
should be-" And the farmers replied:
Your wise men are asses; let them eat
your corn" So the Kansans went back
home and all their people were in de-
spair
Then the governor again assembled
the wise men and said to Them Most
cOnsummate, picturesque and glittering
COLL darned fools. There is but one
bigger fool than yourselves. 1t is he
who addresses you.
1--WE thought we could bluff the ever
lasting law of supply and demand with
| our statute. We thought we could leg
| islate value into thing and make our.
people rich by a law. We thought
we were patriotic. We were idiotic.
| Let us honestly acknowledge our as
| sininity, repeal our fool law. get back
| into line with the other states and imag-
| inc no more that we are wiser than the
whole world. Do this, and may we live
| long enough to know that the other
states have ceased laughing at our folly
and that our own state has ceased curs-
| ing us for it,
| Then the wise men repealed the law,
| but it was many years before the peo-
| pie recovered from the effects of the corn
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dollar, he says, that has brought down
all this alleged calamity upon us.
Nobody but the mine owner would be
benefited if silver should go up from
So to 129 cents per ounce. and we can
hardly suppose that Mr.. Bryan is rum
ming this silver crusade for the sole and
exclusive benefit of handful of million
aire mine owners.
His whole argument is for cheaper
dollars if it has any sense or point at all.
He entices farmers to join in the cru
SADIE by suggesting that they can pay
their debts easier with cheap dollars.
He is like the unjust steward who SAID
to the debtor who owed his lord hun
dred measures of oil, take thy bill and
sit down quickly and write fifty
He tells the wage-earners that it would
be a good thing for them to get their
pay in cheaper dollars and that in some
roundabout way cheaper dollars would
give them steadier employment.
He tells the holders of insurance poll
cies that it would be blessed thing for
them to have their losses paid in cheaper
lose. more than they (the policyholders)
would, the aggregate of premiums ex-
ceeding the aggregate of losses, and the
premiums being paid in cheaper dollars.
He tells the depositors in savings
banks that it would be nice thing for
them TO draw out cheaper uOllaIS lIlal
they put in because if they don't they
may not be able to draw out anything,
or they may find it necessary to draw
out all their money to meet living ex-
penses.
By such puerilities he seeks to induce
people to swallow the free silver pill.
But we observe one strange oversight.
Mr.. Bryan did not explain how cheaper
dollars would benefit pensioners. He
might have told them that they could
more than make up their loss by dead
beating their landlords and butchers and
grocers. But he lost his opportunity.
|, Perhaps he will attend to that in his
formal letter.
When it comes to that he may think
it best to make it little clearer, if he
can, how workingmen, policy holders, de-
positors in savings banks and investors
in building and loan associations would
be benefited by getting their pay in dol
lars worth anywhere from 10 to SO per
cent. less than the dollars they are now
getting, or the dollars they deposited, in
vested or paid in premiums.
There is ground remaining to be COW
cred in that formal letter." though the
informal speech was two hours long
Chicago Chronicle Dem.).,