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IN oTaER LANDS.

An electric railway will probably
soon connect Moscow with st. Peters
burg.
In the insane asylums Of Germany
more than thire of the patients owe
their condition to strong drink.
Last year there were 1921 millions
matches sold in France, bringing into
that uation's treasury S5,216,950, this
being state monopoly.
A man of so, elected a Judge for
Frutigen. Switzerland, is to go through
a university course in order to enable
him to pass the examination required
by law.
A proposal to eaact that no newspa-
per shall be edited. composed or print
ed from Saturday midnight until sun
rise on Monday liorning, has been
negetived in the French senate.
Denmark holds the record among
nations iC. thriftiness. Her inhabit-
ants have, ON an average, $40 9s.
apiece in the savings banks: English
people have only G3 Is. head.
I In Australian gold mines it is con-
sidered that ventilation becomes bad
when the proportion of oxygen falls
below 20 per cent, or less than 20
cubic feet of air minute Is supplied
Tor every man working in a mine.
The city of London's chief inspector
OF weights and measures reports that
the weight of all loads CT coal test
I'd last year was satisfactory, ana t..at
in most cases the weight exceeded
the amount specified on. the ticket"
Gle of the labor party's members OF
the new house Of commons lately re-
ceived from g constituent who thought
he had grievance to which the gov
eminent should give attention, let
ter of no less than 100 closely-writ-
zen pages.
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Mindful of Hi. watch.

A pedestrian along one of the streets
of Philadelphia found boy sitting on
the curbing of the pavement and a
companion enjoying himself on long
smooth ice-slide that had been formed
on the asphalt. An ambulance came
rushing and changing down the street
the sliding boy grew flustered and fell
and the boy on the curb leaped out
grasped his chum and hauled him to
safety on the sidewalk The pedes-
trian walked over and said to the res
cuer: do you know that you saved
this boy from being trampled to death
by that ambulance horse?" yes
guess did, replied the lad "Well
you're brave boy" went on the man.
"Tell me-what did you think as you
rushed out into the street to save
him?" "Why. saw that the horse
might run over him; and it just struck
me that he was wearing my watch
which loaned him SO he could make
front before his girl when he took
her home from school 'safternoon-
that's ALL That boy certainly dis
played heroism of the most practical
kind-Golden Days.
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THE
CRAFTERS |
By
FRAN CTS Lynn DE
, Copyright. 1904. by The BObbs-Merrill Co
CHAPTER Xv.-CoNr1NUED.

Enough to know that it is big
thing; the biggest since the Pernsyl-
vania discoveries, according to all ac-
counts"
"And the people of the state are en-
thusiastic about it, thinking that now
the long tyranny of the oil monopoly
will be broken?"
THAT is the way most of the news
papers talk, and there seems to be
some little ground for it, granting the
powers of the new law"
She laid the tips of her fingers on his
arm and knotted the thread of sug-
gestion in single sentence.
I'm the present state of affairs
with the present party as yet on trial,
and the public mind ready to take
fire at the merest hint of foreign
capitalistic monopoly in the state-tell
me what would happen to the man
who would let the Universal Oil COM
pany into the Belmount field in de-
fiance of the new trust and corporation
law"
by Jove!" Kent exclaimed, sitting
up as if the shapely hand had given
him buffet. "It would ruin him po-
litically, world without end! Tell me;
is Bucks. going to do that?"
She laughed softly.
THAT is for you to find out, Mr.
David Kent; not by hearsay, but in
good, solid terms of fact that will ap.
peal to a level-headed, conservative
newspaper editor like-well, like Mr.
: Hildreth, of the Argus, let us say. Are
you big enough to do it?"
81 am desperate enough to try" wa.
the slow-spoken answer.
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Bill Twenty-nine hasco. Where do we

Bill Twenty-Five fiasco. Where do we
come in?"
No; you shall come in on the ground
floor this time; though may ask you
to hold your hand until have used
my leverage. And If you'll go into it
to stay, you sha'n't be alone. Giving
the Argus precedence in any item of
news, I'll engage to have every other
opposition editor in the state ready
to back you"
"Glad! you're growing, Kent. Do
you mean to down the Bucks crowd
ded-defnitely?" demanded the editor,
who stammered little under excitable
proyocation. Bigger men than you
have tried it-and failed"
But no one of them with half my
obstinacy, Hildreth. 1t can be done,
and am going to do it."
''The secretary of states Office is the
place you want to watch" said Hill
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dreth. New oil companies are incor-
porating every day. Pretty soon one
of these will swallow up all the others:
that one will be the Universal under
another name. and in it's application
for charter you'll find askings big
enough to cover all the rights and
privileges of the original monopoly"
THAT is a good idea," said Kent,
who already had clerk in the secre-
tary of states Office in his pay.
And on that road he had travelled
far, thanks to keen wit, to Portia
Van Brooks incessant promptings,
and to the help of the leaky clerk jim
Hendricks office; so far, indeed, that
he had found the ''stool pigeon oil
company, to which Hildreth's hint had
pointed-a company composed, with a
single exception. Of men of STRAW"
the exception being the man Rumford,
whose conferences with the governor
and the attorney general had aroused
his suspicious.
1t was about this time that Hunni-
colt reported the sale, of the CASTOR
lots at rather fancy cash figure5 and
the money came in good play.
1.-TWO things remain to be proved"
said Portia, in one of their many con-
nings of the intricate course; "twO
things that must be proved before you
can attack openly: that Rumford is
really representing the Universal Oil
company; and that he is bribing the
junto to let the Universal incorporate
under. the mask of his straw com.
pany. Now is the time when you can
not afford to be economical. Have you
money!"
Since it was the day after the Hun
nicott remittance, Kent could answer
yes with a good conscience.
Then spend it, she said; and he
awake nights to devise new ways OF
employing it.
And for the abutments of the arch
of proof the money-spending sufficed
By dint of a warm and somewh al
costly wire investigation of Rumford's
antecedents, Kent succeeded in placins
the Belmount promoter unquestionably
as one of the trusted lieutenants Of
the UNIVERSAL and the leaky clerk in
the secretary of states Office gave the
| text of the application for the straw
company charter, showing that the
! powers asked for were as despotic a.
the great monopoly could desire.
But for the keystone of the arch
the criminal implication of the plot
tiers themselves, he was indebted to !:
fit of ill-considered anger and to /.
/ chapter of accidents.
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Into HI. Hand.

Senator Dubois, of Idaho, was prac-
ticing once in Boise City, and, becom-
ing too vehement one day,-was fined
$50 for contempt of court. The next
day, according TO custom followed
in the Idaho courts, the judge called
upon Mr. Dubois to occupy the bench
for him during the transaction of some
comparatively unimportant business.
After the judges departure from the
court room, and before anything else
could come UP. Mr.. Dubois exhibited
an instance, of that remarkable pres
ence of mind for which he has ever
been noted. The future senator said
to the clerk Of the court: Turning
to the records of this court for yester-
day, Mr.. Clerk, you win observe re-
corded a fine of $50 against one Fred
erick T. Dubois You viii kindly make
note to the effect that such fine
has been RENTED by order of the
court -Argonaut.
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When Andrew Lang was student
at st. Andrews he edited a weekly
college magazine. the greater part OF
which he had to write himself. All
kinds of work came from his pen
novels. poems, translations. essays,
reviews, etc.-And he also drew some
Df the illustrations. 1t is said that
Mr.. Lang made point of reviewing
very severely any books written by
his professors while he was editor.
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and she is often the bread-winner of
the family. Whether she is sick or
well, whether it rains or shines, she
must get to her place of employment.
perform the duties exacted of her
emile and be agreeable.
Among this class the symptoms of
female diseases are early manifest by
weak and aching backs, pain in the
lower limbs and lower part Of the
stomach. In consequence of frequent
wetting of the feet, periods become
there are faint and dizzy spells, with
loss of appetite, until life is burden.
All these symptoms point to de-
rangement of the female organism
which can be easily and promptly
cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound.
Miss Abby f. Barrows, Jacksonville.
Athens Co., Ohio, tells what this great
medicine did for her. She writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
81 feel it my duty to tell you the good
Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound
and Blood Purifier have done for me- Before
| took them I was very nervous, had dull
headaches, pains in back, and periods were
irree ular, had been to several doctors, and
they did me no good.
s'Your medicine has made me well and
strong. l can do most any kind of work
| without complaint, and my periods are all
right.
Il am in better health than ever was,
| and know it is all due to your remedies. I
recommend your advice and medicine to all
who suffer-"
It is to such girls that Mrs. Pink
ham holds out helping hand and ex-
| tends cordial invitation to correspond
with her. She is daughter-in-law of
Lydia E. Pinkham and for twenty five
years has been advising sick women
| free of charge. Her long record of
success in treating woman's ills makes
her letters of advice Of untold value to
every ailing working girl. Address,
Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass.
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Forgive me-" he said quickly. ..But

Forgive me-" he said quickly. But
from something Ormsby said"
He should not have spoken of it;
I have given him no right" she said
coldly.
you make me twice sorry: once If
am trespasser, and again il have
unwittingly broken confidence"
He rose and said goodnight, and was
halfway to the next corner before he
realized how inexcusably abrupt his
leave-taking had been.
When he did realize it, he was of
two minds whether to go back or let
the apology excuse another call the
following evening. Then the insistent
prompting seized him again; and when
next he came to competent sense of
things present he was standing oppo-
site the capitol building, staring fixed
~ up at pair of lighted windows in
the second story.
They were the windows of the gov
ernor's room; and David Kent's brain
cleared suddenly. In the earliest be-
| ginnings of the determinate plan to
wrest the Trans-Western out. of the
| grasp of the junto he had known that
it must come finally to some desper-
ate duel with the master-spirit of the
ringsters. Was Jasper Bucks behind
those lighted windows-alone?
Kent had not meant to make the
| open attack until he should have a
| weapon in his hands which would arm
| him to win. But now as he stood
looking up at the reckoning windows
a mad desire to have it out once for
| all with the robber-in-chief sent the
blood tingling to his flnger-tips. True.
he had nothing as yet in the oil-field
conspiracy that the newspapers or the
public would accept as evidence Of
fraud and corruption. But on the
other hand, Bucks was only man
after all; a man with buccaneers
record, and by consequence Vulnerable
beneath the brazen armor of assur-
ance. If the attack were bold enough
| Kent did not stop to argue it out
When a mans blood is up the odds
against him shrink and become as
naught. Two minutes later he was in
| the upper corridor of the capitol, strid.
ing swiftly to the door of the lighted
| room.
| ITO Be Continued
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CHAPTER XVII.
THE CONSPIRATORS.

1t was chiefly due to Portals urgings
that Kent took Ormsby into his con-
fldence when the campaign was fair
ly opened. She put it automatically
on the ground of charity to an exiled
millionaire, temporarily out of Job;
but her real reason went deeper.
From its inception as one-man fight
against political chicanery in high
places, the criticism of Bucks formula
was. beginning to- shape itself in re-
adjustment of party lines in the field
of state politics; and Miss Van Brock,
whose designs upon Kent's future ran
far in advance of her admissions to
him, was anxi0usiy casting about for
a managerial promoter.
A little practice-play in municipal
politics made the need apparent. IL
came in the midst of things, basing
itself upon the year-gone triumph of
agrarianism in the state. In the up
heaval, the capital city had partici-
pated to the extent of electing a ma
jority of the aldermen on the Bucks
party ticket; and before long it de-
yeloped that a majority of this al
dermanic majority could be counted
among the spoilsmen-was in fact a
creature for the larger ring.
Late in the summer an ordinance
was proposed by the terms of which
single corporation was to be given
franchise granting complete mo-
nopoly of the streets for gas and water
mains and transit rights of way
| Thereunon a bitter struggle ensued
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THE APOLOGETIC CHINAMAN.
High officer of State Noted for Good
Service Belitt1es His Efforts
in Office.

In China as in Japan custom requires
that one who has performed a. meri-
torious service should belittle it, \and
one who has been selected for honors
should declare himself unworthy. Who
can imagine, asks Youths Companion,
an American ofice-holder writing such
letter of acceptance as this, which
the biographer of Ii Hung-Chang
quotes from Tseng Kwo-fan, appointed
Viceroy of Marking?
Being of no ability, and having,
notwithstanding, been entrusted with
the most important duties, I have, as
l tottered along, failed to do anything
meritorious.
when, some years ago, l went to
Shantung, 1 did not succeed in subdu-
ing the Nienfel, but returned to Nan
king, and was ever after ashamed of
myself. Last year I was graciously
nominated Viceroy of Chilli, but made
unsuitable appointments, mismanaged
the army, and failed to do. any good
for the Yellow river. I tremble as I
think Of my blunders, and in conse-
quence l am overwhelmed by the
gracious order which directs me to re-
sumo my former important post and
thus displays your majesty's confidence
in me, instead, as would be just of rep
ROTATING me for my worthlessness and
dismissing me-"
AS it happened, this was from one
of the most honest and best beloved
Chinese who ever governed Marking,
and was almost worshiped by the peo-
pie of that province.
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CHAPTER XVI.
SHARPENING THE SWORD.

In the beginning of the new cam
paign of investigation David Kent
wisely discounted the help of paid pro-
fessional spies-or rather he deferred
1t to later stage-by taking counsel
with Jeffrey Hildreth, night editor of
the Argus. Here, If anywhere, practi-
cal help was to be had; and the tender
of it was cheerfully hearty and enthu-
Siastic.
"Most assuredly you may depend
on the Argus, horse, foot and artil-
lery," said the editor, when Kent had
guardedly outlined some portion of his
plan. I'VE are on your side of the
fence. and have been ever since Bucks
was sprung as candidate on the con-
vention. But you've no case. OF
course. it's an open secret that the
Universal people are trying to break
through the fence of the new law and
establish themselves in the Belmount
: field without losing their identity or
any of their monopolistic privileges.
And Il is equally a matter. of course
to some of us that the Bucks ring will
sell the state out if the price is right.
But to implicate Bucks and the capitol
gang in printable shape is quite an
other matter"
Il know" Kent admitted But it
isn't impossible; it has got to be posi-
Bile"
The night editor sat back in his chair
and ehewed his cigar refiectively. Sud-
denly he asked:
What's your object, Kent? It isn't
purely pro bono publico,- l take it?'
Kent could no longer say truthfully
that it was, and he did not lie about
it
mo. it's purely personal. guess
need TO get grip on Bucks and
mean to do 1t. y
Hildreth laughed.
''And. having got it. you'll telephone
me to let up-as you did in the House
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WASTED 70 A SHADOW.

But Found Cure After Fifteen Years
Of Suffering.
A. H. Stotts. messenger at the State
Capitol. Columbus. O.. says:
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wasted away in bed for ten weeks.
After being given up, began using
Deans Kidney Pills. In couple OF
months I regained my old health,
and now weigh 1873 pounds. Twelve
boxes did it, and I have been we'll
two years."
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y.
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rof uteen years
I had kidney trou-
bles, and though I
doctored faithfully.
could not find a
cure. / had heavy
backaches, dizzy
headaches and terri
BILE urinary disor-
ders. One day !
collapsed, fell In
sensible on the side
walk. and then
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-23
CORDIAL INVITATION
ADDREsSEDTOW0RKlNG GIRLS
Miss Barrows Tells How Mrs. Pink
hams Advice Helps Working Girls.

Girls who work
a r e particularly
susceptible to fe-
m a l e disorders,
especially those
who are obliged
to stand on their
feet from morn
ing until night in
stores or facto-
ries.
Day in and day
out the girl tolls,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-03
MANY UNION MEN
ARE GOING TO
PADUCAH
TODAY TO AID IN TIE LABOR
DAY CELEeRATiON-No Oh
sERVANCE OF DAY HERE

Today Is Labor Day, but aside from
the customary closing Of banks, pu<
lie buildings, etc, the day will not be
observed in Cairo. A big celebration
has been arranged for in Paducah by
the labor unions OF that city and a
number of local union MEM will 60
there TO help celebrate the day. The
program includes picnic and parade
and other amusemenis II Is eXpeeted
that over hundred members Of the
Cairo Central Labor union viii at
tend
Labor Day is he only legal Nation
al holiday in the United States Sew
eral other holidays il is true, are
observed by the nation, but Labor
Day is the only one that has been
made holiday by act OF congress.
July 4 is observed as the anniyers.
airy of the nations birth. Custom
has made il practice with the prest-
dent. the governors and mayors TO
issue procamations for a holiday on
each recurrence of the anniversary,
Congress, recognizing the dignity OF
labor. set apart the first Monday in
September, as a day of rest and call
ed upon all the people to observe it,
1t is now 1870 years since the ma
items birth. and in all that long time,
only the one holiday has been pro
claimed by any congressional enact
ment.
As a consequence the whole nation
takes holiday on Labor Day
In Cairo the banks will close and
there will be only one delivery OF
mail
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-03
GIRL s LONG SLEEP
Battles Physicians Of Kokomo, Ind
Is New Entering Seventh Week
of Her Trance.

Kokcmo Ind. Sept 2.-Mis Maude
Snow. OF Jackson township. Eastern
Howard COUNT. has completed the
sixth week OF a mysterious sleep.
which has banled all physicians who
have seen her, and starts today upon
the seventh week slightly improved
Six weeks ago tonight he said To
her parents that she believed she
would lie down and for them net 10
allow her TO go TO sleep. far. II they
di1. she would not awaken. The i'm
port of the remark was NOT under
stood. naturally. and she was allowed
to 90 TO leep. She slept through the
night and be next morning every e.
fort TO arouse her was futile. In
alarm her parents Sent % Conycfse
for a physician.
To awaken her employed a needle.
starting at the feet and going upward
on the body. The young woman ala
not vince until the armpits were
reached. when she manifested a sen.
sitivcness 20 the Operation. She was
finally aroused but Only for short
time. when she 81 "a fell asleep.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-03
JUROR IS IN JAIL
Unusual Situation in Circuit Court O.
jackson County This Week Con-
fronts Judge Butler.

The Free Press Of Carbonate has
Judge Butler billed" for an engage
ment in Murphysboro this week IN
addition TO the various other dates
which the Judge has to fiji, as record
ed in yesterdays Bulletin. A curious
circumstance will confront the Judge
a. Nmrphysboro. One Of the grand
mror, chosen for this term 10 lit in
Judgment upon the sins of other peo-
ple. is in Jail charged with rape. and
his place on the inqui.itorial body
viii have TO be filled by some one
Use. There are fifteen prisoners in the
Jackson county Jail and the most
serious ofense is that Of Baby, the
grand juror. upon whom the body OF
which be wa. chosen a member must
10 i'm Judgment.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-03
GUN CLUBS MEET
Riverside Of Cairo Entert1ins Mounds
Gun Club-Prizes Won Followed
BY Luncheon.

The River.ise club Of Cairo. hal #.
regular meet yesterday and enter
aimed the Mounds Gun club in q man
rer tha the visitor seemed % a.,
p-eciat1 thorore aiy. Tie members &
me latter organizations were Arch
Burr. Alb Teer Frcl Snerle. ! 3
Trotter Chas. Lanean and Wm. Best
gen.
I'll. meeting was held on the
Grounds Of the Riverside club in the
upner part Of the city Three prizes
rere offered which were Won as fol
s.. First Prize. Dr. Russell Cairo.
econd d ize. Arch Burr. Mound
third prize. Waller Sammo-s Cairo
some EXCELLENT scores were made.
After the meeting the visitors were
favaliy entertained with luncheon an
refreshments.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-03
FATAL ACCIDENT
Negro Killed Be- Street Car on Upper
Sycamore-Man Was Drunk ard
IGNORED Signals.

A deplorable accident occurred last
evening on the north end OF the Syca-
more street car line. A negro, whose
name could not be learned, was killed
by car in charge Of Motorman Ira
Kennedy and Collector G. r. Prince
The car was going north and came
upon the man when about 100 feet
of the north end Of the line. Being
so near the end of the line II does
not seem likely that the car was 60,
ing at a high rate of speed, and the
testimony is that it was not. The mo
torman says he rang the bell anu
when he saw that the man paid no a.
tention 10 It he shouted to him. When
the car was almost upon him the man
sprang. but instead of getting off the
track he sprang toward the center
and was caught by the car. He was
not cut By the wheels bur seemed TO
have been struck by the car box aud
( doubled mp under the car in such q
way that the body could not be re.
moved without lacking mp the car.
This was done and the body allowed
TO remain tin Coroner McManus could
take charge Of il, and he conveyed il
TO the undertaking establishment Of
Mrs. Feith An inquest will be held
today.
Some witnesses stated that the man
was deaf and could not hear the car
or the bell or the conductors shout
ing. but this does moi seem 10 have
q been the case. as be did hear it. ap-
/ parently. when it was TOO late.
4 Other witnesses stated that they
saw the man walking along the track
a short time before the car came %.
and that he was drunk singing and
shouting as be went along. The con
2 census Of opinion seemed TO be that
the motorman was not to blame.
Among the dead mans per onal
Effects was a large pistol