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HIS BATH NOT A SUCCESS.
Being in Hurry He Forgot to Take oR His Under-
 clothes.

It seems her husband had been out very late celebrating, and as he came home in the rose flush of the morning he thought 1t would be a capital idea to take bath be- fore getting into bed. First of all and most important it would contradict any wrong impression as to his condition, as his wife sometimes had wrong impressions when he had been out late at night. Women are so suspicious.
 So he went boldly to the bathroom and WAS soon spIashing around as gayly as a canary. In fact, he created such an un- usual commotio1 that hls wife woke up and went to see what was the matter.
 Suddenly he saw hee gazing through the da0r with look so cold and contempt uous that it struck q chill to his very heart But he made dive for the soap and went on industriously with his ablu- tions.
 "W6at are you doing there, Peter?9 she asked him.
 He made the effort of his life to appear debonair and perfectly sober.
 Cant you see what l am doing, my dear22 heauswered, with another prodlgious splash. Im taking bath
 Don't you think it would be a good idea for you to take off your undercFothes? she asked him, with frozen reflection, as she passed out of sight.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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STORY OF THE DEATH OF PRINCE
 RUDOLPH OF AUSTRIA.

brother and the archbishop of Vienna the emperor laid the pope's letter oe= fore Rudolph In the presence o1 WII= nesses he refused to speak-furthef tban to ask his fathers pardon for the grief he had caused him. When the emperor went to his room for the night Rudolph followed him, confessed hls love and the object of it.
 It was an all-night session. In the morning the crown prince came forth an altered man. his face haggard and drawn. like one who had left hope be- hind him. There was a dangerous light in his eyes. which betokened des= Derate man. Francis Joseph, the most vigorous of men, was found by hls valet. dressed in the clothes of the evening before, in a dead faint.
 The explanations and discoveries of that fatal night are too terrible, of too delicate a nature, to put into words. Suffice it to say that Francis Joseph had sinned and his sin had recoiIed upon Rudolph, his only son, who was dearer to him than life itself, and worked his ruin.
 The crown prince fled to Mayerling. It was here that his brother=in=laIF, Prince Phillip von coburg, and Count Hoyos were his guests and fayorlte hunting companions. Shooting in the woods was the programme for the day Pleading a cold, Rudolph excused him self from joining the prince and count and remained at the lodge.
 He had directed his coachman to drive into the city to certain fforis
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to health. My better judgment told me that a competent practicing phy. sieian who had graduated from high grade medical college and had devoted years to the study of diseases and their treatment knew more about anatomy, physiology, hygiene and materia med iea than all the street quacks in the universe l tried to extract hope from the fact that 1 had been cxamined.70r life insurance only a few days before and had been approved by board of physicians.
 It was of no use. That long-haired doctor had certain air of dignified authority and sincerity which com pelled respect and enforced belief.
 As l listened to him l was overcome by the conviction that I was a physical
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Ten years have rolled by since then. A woman, an anonymous writer, who loved the Empress Elizabeth as a woman rarely loves a woman, has told the sad story of her life -'Martyrdom,a 7 as she calls it, which involves the tragic tale of Mayerling.
 Rudolph had the misfortune to marry Stephanie, daughter of Leopold HE. of Belgium, woman of narrow mind, no culture, no beauty and of a shrewish, jealous temper. 1t was marriage of policy, not of love. Stephanie elated by her high position and marital rights, gave way to vulgar jealousy, even be- fore she had cause. She watched, fol- lowed, questioned her princeIy hus- band. descending to the lowest sort of espionage, even to questioning ser wants, searching pockets and opening letters. Naturally Rudolph was furious. When she tracked him to MaHerling and falsely accused him of going there to receive his fair friends, the hope of reconciliation or peace passed for ever.
 In 1SSS there was Polish ball given in Vienna, at which the emperor re- quested the crown prince 10 be pres ent. There he met Marie |etsera, a beautiful Greek girl. For the first time in his life he fell violently in love. Sin gularly enough, years before, the em- peror had much admired the girls mother and there had been some court scandal, all of which had been forgotten. A cousin of Rudolph S who had been brought up by the empress and had once hoped to be his bride, saw a chance of revenge for her disappointment. by fostering the liking of the prince for the fair Greek girl.
 For the first time, Stephanie had d rival. The cousin took special care that she should know it. Her anger knew no bounds Forgetting her sex and rank she heaped vulgar reproaches upon Rudolph and applied such cpl thets to Marie Yetsera that the prince in return gave way to hot resentment- vowed he was through with her and would never forgive her.
 Wretched and infatuated with love. Rudolph, with no thoughtof his prince ly rank, nor of the duties which it in Yolved, wrote the pope a private letter begging him to annul his marriage with Stephanie-topersuadethe emper- or to allow him to renounce his rioht of succession and retire to private life.
 Leo XIII. had a kindly heart. but is the last person in the world to sympa- thize with love tale, especially the love tale of married man, seeking a divorce, so strictly forbidden by the Catholic church. For answer he wrote the emperor, inclosing Rudolphs let ter. The horror and amazement of Francis Joseph cannot be told in words He had suspected the relations be- tween Rudolph and Stephanie were strained, but nothing more. This talk of legal separation and giving up the succession overwhelmed him.
 In the presence of his uncle, his
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five minutes and that talk cost him S275. Also l had cousin who called on a young lady one evening. put his arm around her waist, and talked 10 her less than two minutes, but before he got through with the breachzof-prom- ise suit he was set back nearly &, ,o0o. Thus it will be seen that talk is ex- pensive, whether you are the listener or the tall1er
 My uncle, who was taken in by the lightning rod agent, had the reputa- tion of being the nearest man in our whole neighborhood. He would rather have given up quart of blood. any day in the week, than part with half dollar. Somehow or other these tight men are always the easiest prey for q swindler. The confidence man taps around until he finds the weak spot in q mans nature and then he plays on that until something gives way.
 My uncle signed contract with that bold-faced robber because he (my uncle) thought he was going to get his lightning rods for about half of what
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Miss LoCkheart's s LETTER TO MRS. PINKHAM.
LETTER TO MRS. P1NxuAu NO. 6z,Io4l

lLETTER TO MRS. PINKHAM NO. 67,ro4I
 " I cannot express my gratitude to you for the good that Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound has done for me. I have taken five bottles of the Compound and two boxes of Liver Pills and feel better in every respect. l had suffered for years with dropsy; the veins in my limbs burst, caused from the pressure of the water. had the worst kind of kidney trouble, faint ing spells, and 1 could not stand long at time. also had female weakness and the doctor said there was a tumor in my left side. The pains I had to stand were something dreadful. A friend handed me little book of yours, so got your medicine and it has saved my life. l felt better from the first bottle. The bloating and the tumors have all gone and do not suffer any pain. am still using the Vegetable Compound and hope others may find relief as have done from it's use. ''- Mss N. J. LocKHEART, Box 16, ELIZA BETH, PA.
 Only the women who have suffered with female troubles can fully appre- ciate the gratitude of those who have been restored to health.
 Mrs. Pinkham responds quickly and withoutcharget to all letters from suffer- ing women. Her address is Lynn, Mass.
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fakirs separate trusting farm hands from their hard-earned wages, l learned this maxim: Never bet on another mans game"
 Ii is not probable that any man is go ing to travel long distance and pay fancy price for privilege, merely to have the pleasure of handing money to you.
 If any man gets in front of you and opens d small valise and begins. 10 demonstrate to you that he is your friend and wants to help you, don't be- lieve him. It is better not to listen to him nj all. for the ordinary confidence man is something of q hypnotist That accounts for his success. He will put you under the influence and talk the money right out of your pocket.
 always feel that such a man, if he had slightly larger development of conscience and could have enjoyed the advantages of education, might have made of himself great business pro moter," an adroit jury lawyer or high grade politician.
 don't contend that he would have ceased to be confidence man, but his rewards would have been larger and he would have enjoyed a more enyiable po- sition in society.
 The street doctor the one with the long hair and the broad white hat, can talk 10 crowd of 200 or more average citizens and convince every man in the crowd that he is suffering from Bright's disease. rheu matism, dys-
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He organizes a mining company with no backing except a lot of fancy sta tionery, or else he starts an insurance company that goes out of business be- fore any of the policy-holders have time to die, or perhaps he sells town lots that are located in a swamp and cannot be reached except by boat
 Any citizen of average intelligence is proof against the shell-game or three card monte, but he may fall if some elo- quent hustler takes him by the button hole and promises him ten dollars for one dollar in mining deal Some day or other, when he takes out those stock certificates and looks at them, he will wonder why he bit" and he won't be able to explain it. No one can explain the hypnotic influence of the success ful confidence man.
 JOHN IJAZELDEN,
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Recognized Ills Own TabIecIoth.

The head of one of the largest dry goods houses in Chicago noticed oie day recently in passing through his linen department a particularly beautiful table cloth. He and remarked to the clerk in charge of the counter that the cloth seemed to hm the handsomest they had ever had in stock Next day he noticed that the beautiful cloth was not in the show case and was told by the clerk Chat 1t had been sold. On the evening of the same day he dined at the house of a friend, who is prominent in social affairs. Passing through the linen department on the third morning he saw the splendid tabIeeloth again hanging in the. show case. T thought that cloth was sold, he said to the clerk sIt was, sir, but 1t was returned this morning as not satisfactory" T am surprised at that" was the answer, "for l dlned off that cloth last night and heard no fault found with it." Detroit Free Press.
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to await a lady carrying a bunch of yiolets and drive back with all haste. On her arrival Rudolph met her on the steps, drew her into the salon, which opened into his private apartments, and closed the door.
 What passed between the pair can, of course, never be known. By notes, however, written by Marie Yetsera to her mother and sister, it is plain that he told her of the insmmountable bar rier between them and of his promise to his father to separate from her for ever.
 Marie had a foreboding that she was to be separated from Rudolph, which seemed worse than death At no time had she had the hope, the confidence in the appeal to Leo that Rudolph had had She carried strYchnine about her person, so that if the awful fiat were pronounced she might end her desola- tion, her misery at once. In the tenn porary absence of the prince she swal- lowed it. Rudolph, already crushed by the trying interview, must have been crazed quite at seeing the girl he had loved so passionately dying before his eyes, dying, too, in his own private apartments. His honor compromised his life ruined, with no hope in the fu- ture, one should be slow to censure if he put bullet through his own brain
 An autopsy on the body of Marie showed she had been dead two hours when the fatal shot was fired. A note of Rudolph's ran thus:
 Dear Friend: I must die In honor l can do nothing else. GoOd-by. The bless ing of God be with you. RUDOLPH.7
 Narie's to her sister:
 He has told me all I cannot tell you what he did tell me. l can never be his now. l am alone for a moment while he l has gone to send away Bratfsch. l knew 1 that something dreadful would happen to prevent our being happy so l brought the poison with me, and am going to drink it. me, and l will die in his arms, happy to be with him till the last Forgive me. and love me pray for me. and take care of our you can think or know"
 In haste Count Hoyos went to Vienna. The empress was the first to whom the tale was told. Putting self aside, she claimed the right to tell the emperor. knowing he would bear the blow better if 1t came from her lips. Together they went to the salon of Stephanie. When she saw the pallor and misery written on their faces she diyined the worst. With shriell she fell at the empress feet, eXclaiming: Rudolph is dead, and it is l who have killed him."
 The body of Marie was taken from Mayerling by night with the greatest secrecy and sent to her family in Ven- ice, where her death was announced. Soon it was whispered that it was not at Venice, but at Mayerling she died. Then arose the story that she had died blythe hand of Rudolph, which has been current till this nameless woman has written and dedicated The Martyrdom of an Empress" "To my empress in loving and devoted memory of years gone by" LYDIA T. GORDON
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they would cost anyone else in the

they would cost anyone else in the neighborhood.
 Nine times out of ten, when a man is bunkoed he is trying to beat somebody else. Then when he is ripped up at his own game he hasn't any reasonable defense. All he can do is to go out into the darkness and club himself.
 You have seen the smooth citizen who perpetrates swindle known as the "shell game" He allows the little ball' to show under the edge of one of the shells and the so-ealled victim, :, seeing it there, believes that he can