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Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-31

father. ] have found n more refined revenge to
infiict upon this prince, one which would wound
him more deeply than the death of one of his
eight sons"
''Well, and what is your revenge?"
"First answer me this: What would be the
feelings of this proud and arrogant prince if
his idolzed heir were to be guilty of that very
fault for which he exiled his samurai?"
'What fault?"
"The fault of marrying into degraded and
outcast class"
fitted across his thin face.
Ills pride would fall. Such calamity would
crusl--bend-kill him"
"True. Then if his pride is such, let us strike
at it before his heart. ! think / see way by
which this can be accomplished"
"How?
Bring this young prince hither. Leave him
to mel"
"To you'll
She went very close to her father and raised
her face upward so that he might see 1t per-
fectly.
Look upon me, honorable parent. Am I not
fair? Bring hither this son Of an evil prince,
and in twenty-four hours he will be ready to
wed an Eta maiden"
"An Eta maidenlp suddenly shrieked her
aunt "Who? Not" She made indescrib'
able gesture towards the girl
81" said Wstara, throwing back her head
81 am am Eta maiden, my lady" She bowed
very low, then moved towards the door. Be-
fore passing out she turned
81 CO." she said "to garb myself in the dress
Of an Eta maiden. But do not believe, my
lady aunt. that | shall have lost that beauty
with which the gods have blessed me, and with
which 1 shall win and wed this Mori prince to
the disaster of his household and the triumph
Of my fathers"
With that she was gone from the room. They
heard her light feet flying up to her chamber
above.
1T will crush--bend-kill the father" NUT
tered the samurai, softly. ut is well!"
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How long she lay thus she could not have told
GRADUALLY she became conscious that some one
was kneeing beside her, and that soft and
tender hand was smoothing back the wild hair
that escaped about her face A gentle voice
whispered:
The gods arc good--good! Take heart! They
will not desert usl The gods are goodl"
Then the proud Lady of Catzu raising herself
TO kneeling posture, gazing up into the bend
ing, pitying face above her, saw her niece, whom
she had vindictively persocuted. Before she
could speak one word, Wistaria drew her hand
to her breast. Then the bereaved mother gave
way to passion Of tears of weakness and des
pair
"You arc calmer now, dear aunt" said the
Lady Wistaria after a WHILE "Weep no more
| pray you But try rather to bring your mind
to think clearly with mine. We must conceive
some way by which we can outwit my honor.
able parent. We have yet two hours before the
time when my father will depart for--for his
prisoner"
But the aftereffects of weeping, great sighs
rendered the Lady Evening Glory speechless
She could only shake her head hopelessly, help
lessly.
"All night long," said Wistaria, 'I have kept
vigil. ] have thought and thought and thought
until my brains has seemed ready to burst
too, my lady, have yielded myself to such des
pair as you now feel. / suffer more than the
pain of one who loses beloved, for | am tor.
tured with the knowledge that am guilty. Oh
lady, was it not 1 who betrayed this prince, and
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"You forget that while have had the holy
Joy of executing the six murderers Of my wife,
their prince still lives"
"Ahl"
"Oncc l served under him, honored him above
all men, now / desire nothing else on earth but
to bow his head in the dust He is great
prince, beyond my reach but have sought and
found better means OF striking at him. For
this purpose, my daughter, | need your aid"
"You mean" she began.
"This Prince of Mori is the man. Now you
understand. His heart, his whole life, is wrap
ped mp in his son. But yesterday, my daughter
caught that son in the trap which set
through you. Tomorrow he pays the penalty
of the sins of his father" =.
Wistaria tottered to her feet. Then she fell
on her knees and crept upon them to her father.
Father, dear, my father / beg, l implore you
to show mercy"
"For whom do you ask mercy my LADY, ask
cd the father.
"For the innocent-for this young Prince OF
Mor"
"You-you ask mercy for this prince!--you,
the daughter of a murdered womanl In an
instant she was sitting up stiff and rigid.
"NIy lord" she said, 81 am, indeed, too in
significant and unworthy to be thy daughter,
but for one small moment | did forget our
wrongs and fain would have spared my soul the
sacrifice Of innocent blood"
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/ would have scorned 10 touch. Instead Of bright.
cning the pallor of her face, however, il only
heightened its haggardness.
Wistaria sat in the centre of tho chill empty
guest-room. She was smiling. She had been
smiling ever since she had descended from her
chamber. Her eyes were CLASSY and shared not
in that forced bghting smile which she wore
upon her lips. Very still, like an automatic
puppot with the works unwound within it, she
sat
The lady Evening Glory, on tho other hand,
fitted back and forth like restless spirit.
Sometimes she paused by the little, waiting fig
1re, stroking the shining head. But in her heart
the proud Lady of Catzu had little sympathy
for the one who was to be sacrificed to the
vengeance of samurai. When she recalled that
her niece was renouncing her lover to whom she
had pledged herself TO all eternity, she thought.
with the selfish egotism of who has out
grown her own heart, that in marrying a prince,
even though she won him by trickery, certainly
her niece would be faring better than il she
had bestowed herself on one of his vassals.
Then, too, Wistaria, after ALL was merely a
fe1nalean Eta maiden. SO the ladys selfish
mind fed itself upon ono thought, mingled hope
and suspense for the fate of her son.
When the sound of tramping feet was heard
without. the Lady Wistsria did not stir, but
the cold and stately Lady of Catzu went rush
ing across the room to fling herself against the
window The tramp of feet grew louder, deep
er, heavier. They smote upon Wistarias cars
like the beat Of Shinto drums at a funeral Still
she did not stir, not even when the doors OF
the house were pushed wide apart and the
trainping feet entered, passed through the outer
room, and then into the guest-room. The set
smile upon her face deepened. Wistaria laid
her head to the mats, prostrated herself in ex
qusite humble greeting.
Thus, for some time, she courtesied low.
Some pulled her sleeve. She sat up and
stared at the figure the stretcher. They had
set it down beside her on the floor. Somewhere
in another part of the house she heard dim
voices, above them all her fathers deep, hollow
voice, sounding strange-clear.
A sort of awe and horrible reverence fell upon
her as she clutchcd her aunt's hand. Then the
two half crept, half crawled, close to the stretch
or. Wistaria looked at the face, looked and
looked, and looked again. A heart-rending shrek
burst from her lips. She fell across her lovers
body, spreading the wings of her sleeve over aud
about him, as though to shield and protect him
from all harm.
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would not be the indirect cause of dear Toro 5
death also? Therefore il is my task to save the
life of this prince, if that can be done"
But il cannot-cannot," moaned the Lady
Evening Glory. "Thou knowest not thy father"
"And yet" said Wistaria, slowly, ~ have
thought of one way"
"Anata!"
"Tell me first, my lady, is it not so--that one
who marries an Eta is forever after disgraced--
branded"
Eyes, yes, that is true-but-"
at is of Importance that know all this Now
is it not also true that my fathers chief ambi.
tion is to break the pride and spirit OF the old
Lord Mori?"
'"Yes, it is so. it is So"
"Then, my lady, be comforted MayhOp shall
find solution to all our troubles"
Arising, gently she took her arms from about
her aunt to hasten into the adjoining chamber.
Her voice addressing the Madame Mume came
to the Lady Evening Glory
"Tell my honorable father" she said, "that !
beg for just one minute of his honorable time" !"
When she returned to her aunt her face had
wan little smile of hope on it. The samurai
Shimadzu followed her into the room. Wis
taria prostrated herself before him with the
utmost humility.
"You have asked for an audience, my lady,
Speak quickly, for | have work TO do ere long"
"Honored parent" said Wistaria, with her
eyes upon his, 81 have thought much upon what
thou vert pleased to tell me last night"
Indeed"
"And my father, the more I have thought of
the matter the greater have the wrongs of my
father and mine, those OF our house, appeared to
me TO be"
"Thou speakest now" said the samurai quiet,
ly, ''as becomes an honorable daughter"
"Oh, my father, so deeply do l feel the wrongs
of our house that ! have felt that even the very
death of this young prince would not be suf-
fcent vengeance"
She was speaking slowly and distinctly, SO
that each sentence should take effect upon Der
father
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Having broken the heart and spirit of my
enemy" said Shmadzu, II shall have accom-
pished ALL 1t will be sufficient, ond my work.
my duty, will then be consummated."
But think you, my father, that by the kill
ing of this prince YOU will indeed have broken
the heart and spirit of your enemyY
"Ay! For l shall have robbed him of that
thing which he prizes above all else on earth
his sonl"
But has he not seven other sons who would
quickly fill the place Of this one?"
That is so. Were it possible for me to have
seven instead of one Mor prince for execution
this day, would be seven times the happier"
August father, you have taught me, and
have learned, that death is not the greatest OF
sorrows that can befal u.s. Execute this prince
and he will quickly pass into another world
where the fates may befriend him He will be
beyond our reach. In the eyes Of his parent he
will have died an heroic and exalted death, since
he gives up his life for what he deems a noble
cause. Oh, my father, in all the empire of JO
pan, what Imperialist would not envy him such
a death? No, the death of this prince would be
inadequate revenge for the wrongs we have suf
fered Far better if he could be forced to live
so that he might suffer the devils of pain to
gnaw at his heart all the rest Of his life"
"Thou wouldst have him spared for purposes
Of torture?
Eyes, honored father"
"Thou art indeed a woman" said the samu
raj. "Yet a sumarais sword has never been
turned to such a purpose"
"That is right, for your honorable sword il
not sufficiently sharp, my father"
"Thou speakest. darkly, my daughter"
ri have thought darkly Of our wrongs, my
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at is well' repeated his sister, but in a
different tone.
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C CHAPTER XVI

BROTHER, you were surely blind that
h you did not recognize your prisoner"
- said the Lady Evening Glory, after
Et the lovers had been carried from the
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CHAP Err XIV

T~7ARLY in the morning the inhabitants
of the little Eta village were startled
by the unusual sound in the streets
S9il1@I of the "clipclop" of palanquin run
Iers' sandals Tho Eta were not
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CHAPTER XIII

T~1IIE death Of the mother of Wistaris had
I taken place the day after the girls
iz=zs birth. Her father had left his young
lgz2egRI Eta wife to go to the village to pur-
chnen ,,,ed;c;noe and Good Sba was
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ITN HE young Prince Of Mon, no longer tho
II Shining Prince Keiki lay hudded II
lSS-TSsSs a corner of his dungeon. Vainly he
lsSsgaAI had thrown his weight against the
The Lamar register., 1905-03-08
~ Mrs. L M Lang and mrs. S. Ereke

OF nll the diseases known, with
which women are afflicted, kidney dis
ease is the most fatal. In fact, unless
early and correct treatment is applied,
the weary patient seldom survives.
Being fully aware of this, Mrs. Pink
ham. early in her career, gave exhaust
ave study TO the subject, and in pro-
ducing her great remedy for woman's S
ills Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound-wasc careful to see that it
contained the correct combination of
herbs which was sure to control that
fatal disease, woman's kidney troubles.
The Vegetable Compound acts in har-
mony with the laws that govern the
entire female system, and while there
are many so called remedies for kidney
troubles, Lydia +. Pinkhams Vege-
table Compound is the only one espe-
cially prepared for women. and thou
sands have been cured of serious kidney
arrangements by it. Derangements of
the feminine organs quickly affect the
kidneys, and when n woman has such
symptoms as pain or weight in the
loins, baclsache, bearing down pains.
urine too frequent. scanty or high col
ored, producing scalding or burning,
or deposits like brick dust in it; un-
usual thirst. swelling of hands and feet,
swelling under the eyes or sharp pains
in the back running down the inside
of her groin. she may be sure her kid
neys are affected and should lose no
time in combating the disease with
Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, the woman's remedy for wo-
mans ills.
The following letters show how
marvelously successful it is.
lydia E. Pinkham's ve1ctable Csnpsunf
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must be one of cordial and sincere
friendship. We must show not only
in our words but in our deeds that
We are earnestly desirous of secur-
ing their good will by acting toward
them in a spirit of just and generous
recognition of all their rights. But
justice and generosity in nation, as
In an individual. count most when
shown not by the weak but by the
strong. While ever careful to refrain
from wronging others. we must be no
less insistent that we are not wronged
ourselves. We wish peace; but we
wish the peace of justice, the peace
of righteousness. We wish 1t because
we think it is right and not because
we are afraid. No weak nation that
acts manfuiiy and justly should ever
have cause to fear us, and no strong
power should ever be able to single
us out as subject for insolent ag-
gression.
Our relations with the other pow
ers of the world are important: but
still more important are our relations
among ourselves. Such growth in
wealth. in population. and in power
as this nation has seen during the cen
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INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
Short Speech Delivered by Chief Executive After
Taking the Oath of Office Our Duties
Nation O the World and to Ourselves.

After taking the oath of office dur
ing the inauguration ceremonies at
Washington March 4, President Roose-
welt delivered the following speech:
My Fellow Citizens:
No people on earth have more
cause to be thankful than ours, and
this is said reverently, in no spirit
of boastfulness in our own strength,
but with gratitude to the Giver of
Good, who has blessed us with the
conditions which have enabled us to
achieve so large a measure of we'll
being and of happiness. To us as
people it has been granted to lay the
foundations of our national life in a
new continent We are the heirs of
the ages, and yet we have had to
pay few of the penalties which in old
countries are exacted by the dead
hand of bygone civilization. We
have not been Obliged TO fight for
ouI existence against any alien race
and yet our life has called for the
vigor and effort without which the
manlier and harder virtues wither
away. Under such conditions it
would be our own fault If we failed;
th' SuNteSS WHICH we nave Hdu
in the past, the success which we con-
fidently believe the future will bring,
should cause in us no feeling of vain
glory, but rather a deep and abiding
realization of all which life has Of
fered us; full acknowledgment of
the responsibility which is ours; and
fixed determination to show that
under free government mighty
people can thrive best. alike as re-
CARDS the things of the body and the
things of the soul.
Much has been given to MS. and
much will rightfully be expected from
MS. We have duties to others and
duties to ourselves; and we can shirk
neither, We have become great ma
tion. forced by the fact of its great
ness into relations with the other ma
tions of the earth; and we must be-
have as beseems a people with such
responsibilities. Toward all other
nations, large and small, our attitude
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en- and these problems faced, If our
duty Is to be well done, remains essen.
TALLY unchanged. We know that self.
government is difficult. We know that
no people needs such high traits of
character as that people which seeks
to govern its affairs Alright through
the freely expressed will of the free
men who compose it. But we have
faith that We shall not prove false to
the memories of the men of the
mighty past. They did their work.
they left us the splendid heritage we
now enjoy. We in our turn have an
assured confidence that we shall be
able to leave this heritage unwasted
and enlarged to our children and our
children's children. To do so we must
show, not merely in great crises, but
in the everyday affairs of life, the
qualities of practical intelligence, of
courage, of hardihood and endurance.
and above all the power of devotion
to lofty ideal, which made great the
men who founded this republic in the
days of Washington. which made
great the men who preserved this
republic in the days of Abraham Lin
coin
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tury and a quarter of its national life
is inevitably accompanied by like
growth in the problems which are
ever before every nation that rises
to greatness. Power invariably means
both responsibility and danger. Our
forefathers faced certain perils which
we have outgrown. We now face 9TH
er perils the very existence of which
it was impossible that they should
foresee. Modern life is both complex
and intense. and the tremendous
changes wrought by the extraordinary
Industrial developments of the last
half century are felt in every fiber of
our social and political being. Never
before have men tried SO vast and for
midable an experiment as that of ad-
ministering the affairs of a continent
under the forms of democratic re-
public The conditions which have
told for our marvellous material we'll
being, which have developed to a very
high degree our energy self-reliance,
ana individual initiative, have also
brought the care and anxiety INSOFAR
able from the accumulation of great
wealth in industrial centers. Upon
the success of our experiment much
depends: not only as regards our own
welfare. but as regards the welfare of
mankind. If we fail, the cause of free
self-Sovernment throughout the world
will rock to its foundations; and
therefore our responsibility is heavy,
to ourselves to the world as it is to-
day, and to the generations yet un-
born. There is no good reason why
we should fear the future, but
there is every reason why we
should face it seriously, neither
hiding from ourselves the gravity of
the problems before us nor fearing
to approach these problems with the
unbending, unfiinching purpose to
solve them Alright
Yet. after all, though the problems
are new, though the tasks set before
us differ from the tasks set before
our fathers who founded and pre-
served this republic, the spirit in
which these tasks must be undertake
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THE TRICKS.
Coffee Plays on Some.

1t hardly pays to laugh before you
are certain of facts. for 1t is some
times humiliating to think Of after
wards. {.
When I was a young girl I was
lover Of coffee but was sick so much
the doctor told me to quit and did
but after my marriage my husband
begged me to drink It again as he
did not think it was the coffee caused
the troubles.
80 commenced 1t again and con-
,tipued about 6 months until my stoh.'
ach commenced acting bad and chok-
ing as II had swallowed something
the size of an egg. One doctor said
1t was neuralgia and indigestion.
"One day l took drive with my
husband three miles in the country
and drank a cup OF coffee for dinner.
il thought sure would die before got
back to town to a doctor. I was drawn
double in the buggy aad when my
husband hitched the horse to get me
out into the doctors Office, misery
came up in my throat and seemed
to shut my breath off entirely, then
left all in a flash and went to my
heart. The doctor pronounced it rer-
.vous heart trouble and when l got
home I was so weak | could not sit
up.
my husband brought my supper to
my bedside with nice cup OF hot cof-
fee but said Take that back. dear,
I will never drink another cup of cof-
fee If you gave me everything you are
worth, for it is just killing me- He
and the others laughed at me and
said:
1.-The idea of coffee killing any
body
well said, 1T is nothing else
but coffee that is doing it
I'm the grocery one day my hus-
band was persuaded to buy box OF
Postum which he brought home and
l made it for dinner and we both
thought how good it was but said
nothing to the hired men and they
thought they had drunk coffee until
we laughed and told them. Well we
kept on with Postum and it was not
long before the color came back to
my cheeks and I got stout and felt
as good as I ever did In my life.
have no more stomach trouble and
kAow owe It all to Postum in place
of coffee.
MY husband has gained good health
on Postum, as well as baby and l, and
We all think nothing is too good to say
about IT," Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
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ROYAL Women in Feud.

The present czarina and the dow
aeer empress do not merely look ask
ance at one another. They have been
at open war for years. The latter
found it very hard to surrender first
place among the women of the en-
pire, but of course had to do so. This
was especially irritating to the i'm
perious dowager. inasmuch as the wo-
man who displaced her hates every
thing in the way of display, cares
naught for court intrigue and is al
most painfully shy.
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Every housekeener sbou,d kn

Every housekeeper should know
that II they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save not only time, because 1t
never sticks to the iron. but because
each package contains 16 Ozone full
pound-while all other Cold Water
Starches are put up in H-pound pack
ages. and the price Is the same. 10
cents. Then again because Defiance
Starch is free from all injurious chem
icals. II your grocer tries to sell you
a l2-oz. package 1t is because he has
stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose Of before he puts in Defiance.
He knows that Defiance Starch has
printed on every package in large let
ters and figures "16 ozs." Demand De-
fance and save much time and money
and the annoyance of the iron stick.
ing. Defiance never sticks.
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Breathing Spaces in Cities.

American cities have grown rapidly.
They have also grown irregularly and
according to the system. By the time
the residents in them have come to
recognize the Importance of spacious
parks, wide streets, uniform buildings,
the benefits of boulevards along river
and lake fronts. the opportunities to
acquire the necessary land are either
gone or the expense involved is pow
erful deterrent. At the same time
there is an increasing belief that such
benefits will become more impractical
BILE in the future.-Detroit Free Press.
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An Intelligent Dog.

John Chase, stage driver between
Saratoga and Dillon. Wyoming, Is the
owner of a shepherd dog Of more than
ordinary canine intelligence. Recently
Chase was snowbound in the noun
tains. His horses were down and night
was coming on. Not thinking the dog
would understand. but being desperate.
Chase told the brute to go back on the
trail to a miners cabin and summon
assistance. The dog trotted on.
reached the cabin, scratched On the
door and barked and attracted the In
mates. The dog then ran out on the
trail in the direction Of his snowbound
master. and the miners were made to
understand. THAT something was wrong.
They at once followed the dog and as
sisted Chase in getting out Of the snow.
Chase would not sell the dog at any
price.