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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-06-11

Fine feathers will not make tine
birds, and Mary's masculine attire
could no more make her look like a
man than harness can disguise the
! graces of q gaZelle. Nothing could
conceal her intense, exquisite woman.
hood. With our looks of establishment
| and admiration Mary's bushes deep.
| ened.
"What is the matter? Is anything
wrong?" she asked.
Nothing is wrong" answered Bran
don, smiling in spite Of himself. "Noth-
ing on earth is wrong with you, you
may be sure. You are perfect-that is
for Woman-and one who thinks there
is anything wrong about a perfect
woman is hard to please. But if YOU
| fatter yourself that you in any way
resemble man or that your dress in
the faintest degree conceals your sex
you are mistaken. It makes it only
more apparent"
''How can that be?'' asked Mary in
comical tribulaton. Els not this a
mans doublet and hose, and this hat
is it not a mans hat? They are all for
man. Then why do I not look like
one, I ask? Tell me what is wrong.
Oh, I thought looked just like a man.
I thought the disguise was perfect"
'Well,' returned Brandon, 'if you
will permit me to say so, you are en-
trely too symmetrical and shapely
ever to pass for man."
The flaming color was in her cheeks
as Brandon went on: "Your feet are
too small, even for a boys feet. I
don't think you could be made to look
like a man if you worked from now
till doomsday."
Brandon spoke in a troubled tone,
for he was beginning to see in Mary's
perfect and irrepressible womanhood
an insurmountable difficulty right
across his path.
"As to your feet, you might find
larger shoes, or, better still, jack boots,
and, as to your hose, you might wear
longer trunks, but what to do about
the doublet I am sure I do not know"
Mary looked up helpless and forlorn,
and the hot face went into her Bonded
elbow as a realization Of the situation
seemed to dawn upon her.
ooh, I wish I had not come! But
wanted to grow accustomed, so that I
could wear them before Others I be-
lieve I could bear it more easily with
any one else. I did not think of it in
that way" And she snatched her
cloak from where it had fallen on the
floor and threw it around her.
"What way, Mary?" asked Brandon
gently and receiving no answer. But
you will have to bear my looking at
you all the time if you so with me-"
II don't believe I can do ito
mo, no." answered he, bravely at
tempting cheerfulness; eve may as
we'll give it up. I have had no hope
from the first. I knew it could not be
done, and it should not I was both
insane and criminal to think of per-
hitting you to try it,
Brandon's forced cheerfulness died
out with his words, and he sank into a
chair, with his elbows on his knees and
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Thu chaperons forgot their govt and
each other, and Jane, who was the
most affected of all, had genuine ex-
cuse for giving vent to her grief and
went to bed-by far the safest place
for her.
What was to be done? First, we sent
a message to the king, who would
probably have US all f1ayed alive, fear
which the chaperons shared to the full
est extent. Next, an armed party rode
back to look again for Mary and, if
possible, rescue her.
The fact that l had been out the en-
tire night before, together with the
small repute in which I was held for
deeds of arms, excused me from taking
part in this bootless errand, SO again I
profted by the small esteem in which
was held. l say l profted, for I
stayed at the castle with Jane. hoping
to find my opportunity in the absence
of everybody else. All the ladies but
Jane had ridden out, and the knights
who had been with me securing the
forest were sleeping, since they had not
my incentive to remain awake. They
had no message to deliver, no duty to
perform for an absent friend. A thou
sand! Only think of it! 1 wished it
had been a million, and so faithful was
l to my trust that l swore in my soul
l would deliver them, every one.
And Jane loved me! No more walk
Ing on the hard, prosaic earth now.
From this time forth I would fly; that
was the only sensible method of loco
motion. Mary had said, "She told me
So" Could it really be true? You
will at once see what an advantage
this bit of information was to me.
TO BE CONTINUED.
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his face in his hands. Mary ran to him
at once. There had been a little mo-
ment Of faltering, but there was no
real surrender in her.
Dropping on her knee beside him, she
said coaxingly: Don't give up. You
are a man; you must not surrender
and let me, a girl, prove the stronger.
Shame upon you when I look up to
you so much and expect you to help me
be brave! I will go. will arrange
myself in some way. Oh, why am I
not different? I wish were as straight
as the queen" And for that first time
in her life she bewailed her beauty be-
cause it stood between her and Bran
don.
She soon coaxed him out of his de-
spondency, and we began again to plan
the matter in detail.
The girls sat on Brandon's cloak and
he and I on the camp stool and a box.
Mary's time was we'll occupied in
vain attempts to keep herself covered
with the cloak, which seemed to have
right good will toward Brandon and
me, but she kept track of our plans,
which, in brief, were as follows: AS
to her costume, we would substitute
long trunks and jack boots for shoes
and hose, and, as to doublet, Mary
laughed and blushingly said she had
plan which she would secretly impart
to Jane, but would not tell us. She
whispered it to Jane, who, as serious
as the lord chancellor, gave judgment
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o MAKE A NAN OF HER.
0 it was all arranged, and I
converted part Of Mary's jew
els into money. She said she
was sorry how she had not
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-06-11

lg small party to go over to
Windsor for a few weeks during the
warm weather.
There were ten or twelve of US, in
Guiding two chaperons, the old Earl Of
Hartford and the dowager Duchess Of
Kent Henry might as we'll have sent
along pair of spaniels to act as chap
erons-it would have taken an army
to guard Mary alone-and to tell you
the truth our old chaperons needed
watching more than any Of us. It was
scandalous. Each of them had a touch
of govt, and when they made wry
faces it was a standing inquiry among
us whether they were leering at each
other or felt a twinge-whether it was
their feet or their hearts that troubled
them.
Mary led them a pretty life at all
times, even at home in the palace, and
l know they would rather have gone
off with a pack of imps than with US.
The inducement was that it gave them
better opportunities to be together, an
arrangement connived at by the queen,
I think, and they were satisfied. The
earl had a wife, but he fancied the old
dOwager and she fancied him, and
probably the wife fancied somebody
else, so they were all happy. 1t great
~ amused the young people, you may
be sure, and Mary said probably with
out telling the exact truth, that every
night she prayed God to pity and for
give their ugliness. One day the prin-
cess said she was becoming alarmed.
Their ugliness was SO intense she fear
ed it might be contagious and spread.
Then, with most comical seriousness,
she added:
Mon Dieu, Sir Edwin, what if 1
should catch it? Master Charles would
not take me-"
mo danger of that, my lady. He is
too devoted to see anything but beauty
in you, no matter how much you might
change"
"Do you really think so? He says
so little about it that sometimes I al
most doubt
Therein she spoke the secret of Bran
don's success with her, at least in the
beginning, for there is wonderful DO
tency in the stimulus of a healthy lit
tie doubt.
We had a delightful canter over to
Windsor, riding with Mary most of
the way. I was not averse to this ar
rangement, as I not only relished Ma
rvs mirth and joyousness, which were
at their height, but hoped might give,
my little Lady Jane a twinge or two
Of jealousy, perchance to fertilize her
sentiments toward me.
Mary talked and laughed and sang,
for her soul was fountain Of glad
ness that dubbed up the instant pres
sure was removed. She spoke of little
but our last trip over this same road,
and, as we passed objects on the way;
told me Of what Brandon had said att
this place and that. She laughed and
dimpled exquisitely in relating how
she had deliberately made opportuni-
lies for him to fatter her until at last
he smiled in her face and told her she
was the most beautiful creature liy-
ing, but that, after all, ''beauty was as
beauty did,
'Thatsmade me angry" said she. IL
pouted for awhile and two or three
times was on the point of Diminishing
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The Scranton Pa.) justice who fined
woman for doing the family washing
on Sunday evidently does not sub
scribe to the proposition that cleanli-
ness is next to goodness.
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CHAPTER XV-COntinued,

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TO BE CONTINUED.

After all, it seems likely that Mrs.
Molineux is not going on the stage.
The season is now too far advanced for
new enterprise of that kind, and by
next season she will probably have
been forgotten.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-06-11
CHAPTER XVI.

a HAWKING PARTY,
FEW days after Brandon's
departure, Mary, with the
kings consent, organized a
small party to 60 over to
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05

Greatest cereal food on
enrth-S0 bus. grain and 4
tons magnificent hay per
acre. That Paws.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05
$1,000 for Ioc.

"a EtN SeXztf13 We wish you TO try our
MN ASNF,|EE7Kreat farm seeds, hence
,5Sk2H ARANJ>@4zY offer to send 10 farm seed
AN N5V%11I(hY samples, Macaroni Wheat,
M SNNINHW TeoSinte, Rape. Giant
Clover. Speltz. etc, (worth
||\NS>|ED t10 to get n START with our
'.7>S&$W greatcatalog,fo for 1oc postage.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05
Few Old Men Can Saw This.


Lakefeld, MINI, Feb. 2d.-Wm. E.
Gentry of this place makes the follow
ing statement:
For over forty years I suffered
with misery in my back and at times
could not pass water without great
pain and burning sensation. I have
had to make water as often as sixteen
times during one night-just a little
at a time. tried many kinds of kid
ney medicines. but all without any
good result. till at last l tried Dodd's
Kidney Pills, and my pains are all
gone"
Il took six boxes and I am cured
completely. am II years of age and 1
feel better now than l have for over
fifty years and 1 attribute it all to
Dodd's Kidney Pills"
Dodd's Kidney Pills have made some
remarkable cures in this part of the
state, and many old men and women
are praising them highly as a cure for
lame back, kidney and bladder trou-
bles.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05

makes It possible to grow
hogs. sheep and cattle at
q cost of but 1c O ID. Mar
velously prolific, does well
Everywhere. That Pays
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05
ROCK ISLAND AND SANTA f.
Close Traffic Arrangements With
Joint Use Of Some Lines.
CONNECTION AT LIBERAL.

Santa Fe, n. NJ, Jan. 31.-The an
nounC.ment that the Santa Fe will
not build the New Mexico Eastern to
a connection with it's Pecos Valley, but
only from Rio Puerco by way of Belen
to connection with the Rock Island,
is looked upon here as con frmation of
the recent reports that the Rock Island
has acquired large interest in the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and may
eventually take over the entire system.
Santa Fe surveyors are in the field
surveying a line seventy-five miles long
from Dodge City to Liberal, Kansas,
to connect the two systems From
Liberal the Santa Fe will use the Rock
. Island tracks for its trans-con tinental
business to Liano station, where its
New Mexico Eastern cutoff viii have
its eastern terminus. The Rock Island
will use the same route in place of the
Southern Pacific line from Ell Paso, as
at present. Such traffic arrangement
means virtual consolidation of the
two systems, and would indicate that
the deal which has caused much specu-
lation in the railroad world has heen
put through. Last reports were that
the Rock Island had made an offer for
an interest in the Santa Fe with the
alternative that if it were not accepted
it would build its own line to the coast.
Of course it is not known absolutely
here what the relations between the
two roads are, but from present indica-
tons, if the Rock Island has not Sc
cured an interest in the Santa Fc
holdings and the first step taken
toward a merger, then a close traffic
arrangement has been made if the
above outlined plans are carried out.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05

Topeka, Jan. 3O.--At the time House
employees were being selected it was
found there were S men and women for
whom no special work could be found.
They were assigned as engrossing
clerks and ordered to report to the
Secretary of State. Burrow refused to
have anything to do with them and
sent them back to the House Under
the law Burrow and not the legislature
has the authority to appoint engross-
ing clerks. Just what the house will
do is not known. Burrow has named
bunch of his own.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05

Greatest wheat on earth
for arid, dry, hot soils
yields 63 bus. per acre. In.
troduced by U. 8. Dept. OF
Agriculture. It's q wonder.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05
HIGH RAILROAD POSITION
FOR JOHN SEBASTIAN,

John Sebastian. one of the best
known railroad men in the United
States and who for number of years
has been connected with the Rock Is
land systems various roads, has just
received an appointment which great
ly enlarges his powers and places him
practically at the head Of one of the
great railway systems of the country.
He has been made passenger traffic
manager of the entire Rock Island
system, comprising. in addition to
those formerly under his manage
ment, the following roads: Choctaw.
Gulf &c Oklahoma Railroad and the
st. Louis, Kansas City & Colorado
Railroad.
John Sebastian entered the railroad
service thirty-four years ago as a
ticket clerk on the Santa Fe.-Chica-
go Examiner
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05
A Months Extra Pay.

Topeka, Jan. 2s.-After the Spanish
American war was over congress passed
Il law giving the volunteer soldiers a
months extra pay. On account of some
technical ruling of the department of
justice the Kansas volunteer soldiers
were deprived of their allowance
Senator Householder introduced res
olution urging congress to pass another
appropriation bill giving the Kansas
soldiers months extra pay, which
the others got on the former law pass
ed by congress.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05
RecruitInr Finhnstera

Joplin, Mo-, Jan. 27.-An office has
been opened up in this city purporting
to be the agency of a Venezuelan col
onization company. The concern adj
vertises for able-bodied men, with a
preference for men who have had
military training or who have seen
military service 1t is known that
this agency is in communication with
other similar agencies in the East, and
it is doubtless filibustering effort to
aid President Castro should he con-
tinue to hold out against the powers
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05

by local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion OF the ear. There is only one
way to cure deafness. and that is by consti-
tutional remedies Deafness Is caused by an
tnfamed condition Of the mucous lining OF the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube is in6amed
you have rum bling sound or imperfect hear
ing. and when 1t Is entirely closed deafness is
the result, and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this Tube restored TO its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed forever:
nine cases out OF ten are caused by catarrh
which Is nothing but an infiamed condition Of
the mucus surfaces
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case
OF Deafness Caused by catarrh) that cannot
be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars, free.
F. ]. CHENEY CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists TIC
Bells Famil.r Pills are the best
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05
Hoar,s Subtle EIattery.

Chauncey Depew always. did have a
high opinion of -Senator.Hoar, but his
admiration was much increased few
days ago. The New Yorker was pre-
siding in the Senate temporarily when
Mr.. Hoar was speaking on the trusts.
In the course of his remarks the aged
Massachusetts man said: You, Mr..
President, although young man, can
remember. etc" Chauncey blushed and
everybody else smiled broadly.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05

IL TIC Z ACSASClSu
Read how to cure the kidneys and
keep them well.
Mrs. James Beck of 314 West
Whitesboro street, Rome, N. Y. says:
81 was troubled with my kidneys for
eight or nine years; had much pain in
my back; as time went on l could
hardly endure it; I could not stand
except for a few moments at a time; l
grew weak and exhausted; l could not
even 40 light housework, let alone
washing and ironing; could not stoop
or bend; my head ached severely;
was in pain from my head down to my
heels; centering in the kidneys it was
a heavy, steady, sickening ache; l
could not rest nights, and got up morn
ings weak and tired. l thought was
about done for. when l saw Doan's
Kidney Pills advertised for kidney
complaints, and got them at Broughton
& Graves drug store. Within week
after commencing their use began to
improve, and from that time on rapidly
grew better. l used five boxes in all
and was cured. | have recommended
Doan's Kidney Pills to many others,
ar my case ought to convince the
most skeptical sufferer to give them a
fair trial.
A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney
medicine, which cured Mrs. James
Beck, will be mailed on application to
any part of the United States. Ad-
dress Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.
Y. For sale by all druggists. Price,
so cents per box.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05

Topeka, Jan. 29.-In the senate the
bill to give women the right TO vote
for president, there is strong senti-
ment for. Such measure does not
require a constitutional amendment.
In the house, though the bill has
prestige, there is strong though I'M
organized sentiment against it. There
are three elements in the contest; the
men who are for the bill seriously; the
men who will vote for it as good
joke, and the men who are against it.
1t is not Mt all unlikely that the good
joke element will hold the balance of
mower.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05
Irish and Scotch Landlords.

There are in Ireland twenty lswo
landlords owning over $4,000 acres,
while there are in Scotland forty
seven. One of the .broadest-acred of
the Scottish landlords is the prime
minister, who owns just 10000 acres,
with rent roll of some 800, 900. The
laird of lairds is, of course, the Duke
of Sutherland, who possesses over a
million and quarter acres. which
bring him in some $350,000 per annum
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05

Wichita, Jan. 30.-Silas Z. Gardner
called at Mrs. Shields Office and
asked for aid. He said that he was n
member of company A, First Wiscon-
sin. He has his discharge papers
showing that he was a captain in that
regiment. He told Mrs. Shields that
he had had nothing to eat for two
days. Mrs. Shields hunted up the
members of The Relief Corps, who gave
him food and clothing and paid the
various posts of the city will pay the
expense of having him sent to SOL
diers' home.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05
Fifty Dollars an Acre.

Topeka, Jan. 7.-Representative
Kennison of Finney, went home to
look after an alfalfa seed deal. He has
nve car loads on hand now and the
price is so high that he is tempted to
sell. 1t hovers around Sc, 60 a bushel
This is about 81 900 a car or $50, 900 for
the five cars. ''We had an unusually
good seed crop last year" said he.
"Some alfalfa raisers got two seed
crops during the season. This yielded
them about $50 an acre for seed alone,
to say nothing Of the hay"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05
Fullblood. Troublesome.

Ardmore, 1. T., Jan. 29.-Federal
officials were notified that several
hundred Indians near Stonewau were
threatening to rise. These fullblood
Indians are dissatisfied with condi-
tions and will not permit the allot-
ment of lands. They threatened to
tear up the Frisco railroad tracks aud
shoot the whites.
Officers will be sent to the fullblood
settlement to quiet them. Much ex-
element prevails in that portion of the
territory
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05

Topeka. Jan. 31.-The house COM
,mittee on elections has adopted rule
requiring all contestants for seats in
the house to put up bond for costs, and
unless the bond in each case is fur
nished within the next ten days that
contest will be thrown out. In the
past, the state has been footing all
costs in legislative contest cases. 1t
paid attorneys fees, witnesses fees,
mileage and per diem on both sides. AS
a result, anyone with the least SEM
blance of an excuse would contest.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05
Ice Banked SO Feet High.

Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. 2.-Hemmed in
by an ice gorge packed solidly for five
miles the water of the YouShiogheny
river has backed up into the small
streams of the valley and caused the
suspension of mines and other indus
trials along the river and the obstrue-
ton of the Pittsburg, MeKeesport &
Connellsville tracks.
From McKeesport to West Newton,
the ice is backed into a barrier which
reaches height of fifty feet in some
places.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05
Quay Secures Another Ties. Vote.

Washington, Jan. EX-SENATOR Quay
continuous session to consider the
statehood bill,' but failed to hold
quorum and was compelled to allow
the senate to adjourn at $50 p. m. de
secured another ballot, however, to
test the sentiment of the senate, the
vote standing IT to 30 in his favor.
The day spent in consideration of the
statehood bill with the exception of an
hour devoted to speech by Mr.. Scott of
Vest Virginia on the pension laws.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05
Hanna Not Afraid - s,.rIs

Somebody asked Senator Hanna if
he was not afraid because of the letter
he had from an Ohio pensioner which
said the writer had cast a spell of
rheumatism on the Senator because
he had not secured an increase in pen
sion for the Ohioan. "Pshaw." said
Hanna. eff l could get rid of my
rheumatism by getting pensions l
would camp out at the pension Office"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05
Original Package BIZ.

Washington, Jan. 2s.-The judiciary
committee of the house favorably re-
ported bill to meet the conditions
brought about by the original package
decision of the supreme court, which
decision was in effect that the states,
in the exercise of their public powers,
could not interfere with the introduce
ton of liquors in original packages.
The decision prevented the enforce
ment of prohibition laws enacted. by
various states. The bill seeks to cor
rect this by its provisions
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-05
Free Coal For Hawaii.

Honolulu, Feb. 1.-The treasury de-
partment has cabled instructions TO
the Collector of Port Stackable to ad-
NIT coal at this port free of duty in
compliance with the recent congress-
ional act, removing the duty on for
eign coal to all American ports and
receiving centers. Thirty-four cargoes
of cUal are now en- route here from
Newcastle, n S. W., and the cabled
instructions will result in saving to
the shippers of 1000, which would
have been collected here.