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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-15

just as Joe Balfour went bullying by,
head down, with a little satchel in
his hand
Chaudron sprang up and stopped
him
What's the matter. Felix? I
thought you hadn't come to meet me-
Is anything wrong?"
Yes, come along; there's a little
restaurant right around the corner
where we can sit and talk. 1 simply
must have a cup of coffee, I'm dead
on my feet
The two men settled themselves at
table and ordered coffee. Joe did
not ask a question, but he had it firm
ly fixed in his mind that Noel Duke
had come to New Orleans and got
into some kind of trouble. He sat
there studying an ugly looking stain
on the tablecloth. : and waiting for
Chaudron to begin. And when Chau-
dron did begin, the first sentence
startled Joe beyond his power OF
thinking.
Mrs. Ashton has disappeared. She
came down here with Miss Cameron
and Miss Ashton last night-that is,
Thursday night. They went to little
hotel, or pension, down in French
town. Mrs. Ashton was assigned to
one room and the young ladies to an
other. The young ladies saw her GO
to bed, and left her for the night.
This morning-Friday morning
when they knocked on her door she
did not answer. They kept knocking
and knocking until they got fright
ened, and had the door opened from
the outside. Mrs. Ashton was not
there; and there was no sign of her
ever having been there. 1t was not
the same room.
Both the young ladies' remember
perfectly the furnishings of the room
in which they left Mrs. Ashton, down
to the minutest details.
"And, Joe, there is not room in
that house which answers to theiI
description. 1 just cannot understand
it. Miss Cameron is the clearest
headed girl 1 ever saw, yet she seems
confused and uncertain in her recol
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economical allowance of words was
quite sufficient for Joe.
At 1910 Chaudron hurried into the
waiting-room at the station. Thirty
minutes late, SIR the station master
answered his inquiry as to the train
He dropped into seat, too tired and
disappointed to swear. He sat in full
view of the clock-most unwise. A
clock, like a negro, never seems so
tries to urge it along.
Let me see,'' he unused to himself;
sit has just been IA hours since Vance
and l went down to that Internal
hotel. And now / can't remember the
time wnen I wasn't talking with de-
tectives, and searching around town
for lost woman
Try as he might, he could not think
of thing that had happened yester-
day. or the day before, or last week
or upon any previous occasion To
him there were simply no previous
occasions-only this. He knew there
had been a yesterday, and possibly a
day before that, but they must have
been blanks.
He fixed his eyes on the clock, just
to keep them occupied so they would
stay open until that train chose to
come sauntering in. He fell asleep
several times, and each time, it
seemed, a meddlesome fellow in a
blue uniform rushed to the blackboard
again, and posted the train 20 minutes
| later.
The hands seemed glued to the face
of the clock and scarcely moved at
| all Once he dozed off at seven min
utes past two; his head fell forward,
he woke with a jerk, and looked at
the clock-it was still seven minutes
past two.
When the train did roll in, with a
clamor and jangle to make up for
past delinquencies. the only man that
it caught asleep was Felix Chaudron.
Men. women and children rushed
around like ants in threatened nest.
but this man slept Passengers crowd
ed out from the train and he walked
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-15
WHY HE ROSE.

1t was raining hard and the electric
tered
The men sat farther back in their
seats and evinced a determination to
keep a position of sedentary comfort.
Mrs. Blank ran her eye down the
car, and at the same time man in
the corner started to rise
Don't said the man next to him,
holding his arm. That's Mrs. Blank.
Don't you know her? She believes in
woman's rights, suffrage, equality OF
sex, etc, you know"
The man in the corner smiled and
got uD
Come said the speaker, still more
importunate, you're not going to get
up, are you? If she thinks she's equal
to a man then let her stand. Give
her a dose of her own medicine
But Mrs. Blank had taken the mans
seat, greatly to the discontinue of the
other, who wanted TO see her stand
Next day he met the stranger on
the street.
'Halloa." he said you're the man
that gave up your seat to Mrs. Blank
You missed a good chance to take her
down a peg. There wasn't another
man in the car who would have given
way. Wasn't impolite, you know Just
a little joke. What made you get up
Did she hypnotic you?"
Il say" said the man addressed, 81
conclude you do not know me-
Cant say that l do; who are your
81 am Mr. Blank"
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GAINED 81 POUNDS
Persistent Ansemia Cured by Dr..
Williams Pink Pills After Other
Remedies Had Failed.

ssWhen began taking DIR. Williams
Pink Pills. says Mrs. Nathaniel Field
of St. Adams, Somerset county, Maine,
CT was the palest, most bloodless person
you could imagine. My tongue and
gums were colorless and my fingers and
ears were like wax had two doctors
and they pronounced my trouble anemia.
Ihad spells of vomiting. could not eat.
III fact, did not dare to, 1 had such dis
tress after eating. My stomach was flied
with gas which caused me awful agony
The backache L suffered was at times
almost unbearable and the least exertiois
made my heart beat SO fast that j could
hardly breathe But the worst of all was
the splitting neuralgia headache which
never left me for sevenweeks. about thiz
time had had several numb spells M
limbs would be cold and without ans
feeling and the most deathly sensations
would come over me-
Nothing had helped me until i begaL
taking Dr-Williams' Pink Pills, in fact.
had grown worse every day. After
had taken the pills e short time i could
see that they We're benefiting me and
one morning awoke entirely free from
pain The distress after eating disap-
peared and in three weeks could eat
anything wanted and suffer no incon-
venience. I also slept sountfly. have
taken several boxes OF the pills and have
gained in weight from 100 to 154 pounda
and am perfectly well now,
DR.. Williams Pink Pills cure anmnie
because they actually make new blood
For rheumatism, indigestion, nervoua
headaches and many forms of weakne1S
they are recommended even If osf1inarsV
medicines have failed. They are sid -
all druggists. or viii be sent postpaid. ON
receipt Of price, so cents Per box. III
boxes Tor 9-b0. by the Dr.. William
Medicine Company. Schenectady. n. q.
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Keen in Good Health.

There are many thousands of peo-
pie all over the world who can at
tribute their good health to taking one
of two Brandreth's Pills every night.
These pills cleanse the stomach and
bowels, stimulate the kidneys and
liver and purify the blood. They are
the same fine laxative tonic pills your
grandparents used, and being purely
vegetable they are adapted to children
and old people, as we'll as those in
the vigor of manhood and womanhood.
Brandreth's Pills have been in use
for over a century and are for sale
everywhere, plain or sugar-coated.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-15

wait a minute, please" Anita
begged; MIR. Chaudron, 1 wish you
would telegraph Mr.. J. E. Balfour, at
cksburg-you know joe Ask him
to come down here at once He is
Mrs. Ashton's lawyer, and I'm sure
she would want him."
Chaudron gazed after the disap-
pearing carriage. Then he and Vance
walked off little way to consult, and
another man watched them from his
post at the window across the street.
characterization spoke with de-
liberate conviction crook
ed is going on in yonder."
YES; they ought TO arrest that
Frenchman, maybe the girl My God!
we ought to do something"
No; Fitzgerald says we have no
proof against them yet; we had bet
ter let them alone, not appear to sus-
pect them. He'll watch them close,
and they can't get away. The minute
Victor bats his eye, Fitz says he'll clap
him in jail"
I'VE ought to arrest somebody"
Vance kept insisting.
well, l can't explain it exactly"
Chaudron continued, ''but I'm not sat
isfied I'm going to get a detective
of my own, an Englishman l know,
named Baker; he's sharp as tacks.
business if anybody can You stay
around here and watch things until
l send this telegram. Then I'll get
hold of Baker and start him to work. !"
Late that afternoon a dapperlook-
ing Engishman, with tweed suit,
fore-and-aft cap, and a valise plas-
and he'll get at the bottom of this
tered over with foreign hotel labels,
took a room at the Hotel Louis lie
Grande.
Neither Chaudron nor Vance gave
any sign of recognition as they passed
Mr.. Henry Baker in the entry.
CHAPTER XII.
IN SUSPENSE.
During the afternoon Felix Chau-
dron received this prompt and char
acteristic message:
Mr.. Felix Chaudron, New Orleans, La.
Arrive 1915. Meet me.
]. E. BALFOUR-
Even in a telegram one-half the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-15
Rfqfd Rules for chauffeurs.

According to new regulations IN
France, no one will in future be grant
ed an automobile license who is not
able to prove, In addition to the pos
session of the necessary technical
knowledge, exemption from any physi-
cal inf1rmity which would tend to in
volve unfitness for the control of an
automobile. Persons whose eyesight
is impaired, whose hearing is not
acute, whose hand is rendered I'M
steady by drinking habits or who suffer
from fits of nervousness will not be
allowed to add to the list of accidents
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-15
pepew Writes "reminiscences.

While Senator Chauncey M. Depew
was enjoying his long rest at Ardsley-
on-the-Hudson he did a good deal Of
work on his "reminiscences. He is not
sure that they will ever be published
his idea being that they might be of
interest to his SON. In his fifty years
of public life Mr.. Depew has known
a great many prominent personages
and his "reminiscences can hardly fail
to be exceedingly readable.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-15
Evidently in Earnest.

Gotham Dame-Do you think Mr..
Nicefellow is in earnest?
Daughter guess SO. He asked ms
last evening which one of your daugh-
tiers was your pet, and l told him ]
thought if all three were married
you would rather live with Clara OF
Dora than men y. Weekly.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-15
Perfectly Clear.

His Coachman-Professor why is it
hat the moon allus shows the same
face?
The Professor-That is due to the
circumstances that its revolution upon
its axis is coincide1t with the revolu-
ton it makes in its orbit.
The Coachman- I thort
it was somethin' like that.-Chicago
Tribune
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-15

With a smooth IRON and Defiance
Starch, you can launder your shirt
waist just as well at home as the
steam laundry can; it will have the
proper stiffness and finish, there will
be less wear and tear of the goods,
and it will be a positive pleasure to
use a Starch that does not stick to the
iron.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-15
Matter of Choice.

Women" growlcd old Baldwin.
have long hair because they are not
yet civilized
WELL" rejoined Mrs Baldwin. ..if
you call that head of yours. which
reminds me of a quinfne capsule, a
product of civilization, prefer to re-
main a savage."-Chicago News
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-15

Mr.. Rounder-Does your Cousin
George take as much interest in horse
racing as he used to?
Mrs. Rounder-Yes, indeed, George
can always tell the day before race
which horse ought to win, and the day
after why he didn't-Rochester Dem
ocrat
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Not Convinced.

Mrs Naggs-So you have moved to
Blank street Is the neighborhood re-
spectable?
Mrs Jaggs-Why, I live there.
Mrs Naggs-Oh, we'll you needn't
answer my question il you don't want
to-Chicago Daily News
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-15

Corrected.

Corrected.
Yeast-Do you go fishing in boat!
rimsonbeak-Never.
But I saw you yesterday. fishing in
a boat
No, you didn't. 1 was sitting in the
boat, but 1 was fishing in the river"
-Yonkers Statesman.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-15
That's RIGHT.

Better get you a new suit of
clothes"
Il haven't any money"
Il know it; that's the reason you
can't afford to dress as if you hadn't .
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-15

About the only difference between a
family jar and family row is that
the jar is trif1e smaller.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-15
Boil Them Loose.

Look here, waiter, where are thooa
soft boiled eggs 1 ordered."
DE cook boiled 'em 80 hard. sab. 20
he had to boil 'em over again. MIL
yankee Sentinel
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-15
Changed Now.

Bacon-Is that a popular song your
daughter is playing?
Egbert-It was before she began
playing it-Yonkers Statesman
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-15

Sharpe-Have you read the new
football rules?
Wise-No How many players are
they allowed to kill in a game now?-
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-01-20

I'm in from the road on account
of rheumatism and neuralgia.
If you want good Rubber Stamps
or anything in that line, please
call at 216 Orange ST., cor. John
son, or drop me a postal, and
much oblige.
Yours respectfully,
Chas. A. Kirke,
Confederate Veteran.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-01-20

In the DAYS of the Spanish
American war a plan originated
in the Enterprise office and the
plan was carried out, whereby
everyone of the soldiers from
this colony who served IN that
war was furnished an identlhca-
ton badge with their full name,
home address and company and
regiment. A silken cord was
attached and our soldier boys
wore those badges around the
neck under the clothing. While
P. S. Cummings Of western Neb-
raska was here on account of his
fathers illness, he Informed us
that he still had his badge and
treasured it highly. Another
Spanish-American war veteran
on the street spoke up and said
Money could not buy mlne."
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-01-20

China cake plates, were SOC this sale Csc
China Salad bowls, were Csc and SOC,
this SALE. ...............l5c and Aoc
Cups and saucers, we're 85c set, this sale soc
Cups and Saucers, we're 60c set, this sale 40c
China Plates, were 85c set, this sale. Soc
Dinner plates, were COO set this. 40c
Cups and Saucers, we're Csc each, this sale 15c
China Bowls, were 15c each, this sale. &c
Steak Dishes. were 15c each this sale. 10c
China sauce dishes, we're SC, this sale. &c
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-01-20

IF the money speot for lIqdo
in this county last year were
spent for beef the farmer
would get nearly seven'y ceo;s a
pound for his cat1ic--it spent
for flour he woula get So g.
per bushel for his wheat II
spent for ca!i:o it would b.lng
the farmers VIII raise Gotten
$500 per blle for taeir product, .
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-01-20
Look Them
In the Eve

When they tell you there is
any other cigar quite half as
good as our G. B. S. Sc Smoker.
It is the most pleasing of all.
after dinner smokes and guar
anteed satisfactory in every way.
C.. A. JOHNSON,
Manufacturer.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-01-20

ENTERPRISE OFFICE.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-01-20

whenever the people who
claim to be living Christian lives
make up their mt1ds 10 rise up
and say, Stop! TIE liquor
business would stop that very
day."
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-01-20

For SALE: A 20 horse power
locomotive boiler and a Is horse
power Corliss engine. Will sell
for $3.50. cash or $500. on credit.
Apply to J. E. MERCER.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-01-20

We have the Hansen Sand
Lime Brick for sale. AS pretty
and fine as the pressed brick, at
the same price as the common
mud brick.
317-tf ENTERPRISE OFFICE.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-01-20

1t was left for a bachelor 10
introduce the waipp,ug post
bill for Ohio wife beaters. The
author is Representative r. C.
Huey,of Youngstown. When The
clerk read the measure 10 day
it provides thar any "mAle pers-
on" who shall oear, brulse or
muti1ate his wife, shall be whip
ped with a lasa or whip, three
DAYS after his convictions.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-01-20

Smoke the Made in Fitzgerald"
kind. They are the best smok-
ers. If.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-01-20

II like to see brave man in
the home. / like 10 see a father
fl ing his place in the home as
a father ought to fill it. You
know today lnat there are lots
of perplexing social questions
comeing up for decision. Don't
throw ali the burdens on your
wife. Don't send the children to
the wife when they ask about
something of that kind. Don't
decide these questions by what
your neighbors may think or
say. Decide it on the basis Of
whether it is right or wrong.
Keep your children on the right
side of social questions. Don't
let the boy CAD the streets at
night with a whole lot Of bucks.
that are going the pace. Say No
to him. Don't let your girl go
with a man whose reputatic d
would make black mark on a
piece of coal. Don't care wheth-
err it will offend some Of your
neighbors, or some of the
elite of the town.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-01-20

The average sermon viii rat
tie off most church m m ber's
backs like rain off sheep. One
shake and they are dry again.
You have 10 iab = peorle with
the prod OF truth just like the
elephant man does his huge
beasts at the circus. You may
take q camel's hair brush and
dip it IN Mrs. Winslow''s Soofh-
ing Syrup ard gently dab it on
these tnick skinned sinners and
it wont even tickle them. They
have to be prodded and prodded
good aud hard. One of the great
est curses Of the day is not
what we do, but what we fail to
do.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1906-12-27
HAS RESIGNED

Prosecuting Attorney r. NJ. Burba n X
Leaves ONCE To Care for Family
On account of serious illness in the fam
lily Of Frank M Burbank. who are now in
California endeavcring to get relief from
consumption, daughter being afflicted,
he has decided to 60 there in order to be
with them and expects to remain for some
time.
His resignation will leave the office va
can't and successor will be appointed by
Judge Davis. Several names have been
mentioned in connection with the office
among them being Dwight c. Sheldon.
The many friends of Mr.. Sheldon through
out the county hope that he will receive
the appointment.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1906-12-27
The Plutocratic Couch.

Coughs and colds appear to be plu
tocratic ailments" remarked an OBJ
servant young man yesterday, This
fact was impressed upon me the other
evening, when | attended working.
mans meeting, was struck by the
silence which prevailed during the
evening. there being none of the
coughing which Is so disturbing al
most indoor assemblages at this sea.
son OF the year, The audience was
composed OF the class who are used to
roughtng II at their work and al
home, and TO this I attributed their
immunity from coughs and colds. |
could not help remarking the freedom
OF this audience from throat and lung
affections. because the evening before
I had attended one of the leading
theaters II was almost impossible
TO follow mes at times on account
Of the oh OF coughing. Yet the
theater al nee was composed OF the
well-to-do IS, whose health is sup.
po guarded by comfort. /,
seeL- me that the pampering they
are subjected to leaves them suscep.
tible 10 coughs and colds. "-Philadel.
phia Record.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1906-12-27

and would not directly or indirectly help
the.growers Of cane anywhere within the
area Of American interests And another
suggestion Of Importance is given through
these recent large payments to Michigan
sugar producers, and that is that more
beets and fewer potatoes should be pro-
duced in this state. especially in the north
ern section of the lower peninsula. Pota'
to prices throuhout the state are now be-
low the cost Of their production. and this is
a periodical afflicton. 1t would near
millions more for Michigan if the potato
farmers who would include sugar beets as
one of their larger crops.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1906-12-27
He is THE TALLEsT SOLDIER.
Lieutenant In kaiser's Bodyguard 10
Over Seven Feet Tall.


Undoubtedly the tallest soldier In
the world Is Josef Handel, who has
recently been made lieutenant In the
kaiser's famous bodyguard. During
the past year and before he became a
soldier he was exhibited under the
simple name OF der lange JOSEF In
the Berlin Panopjtikon and other
places OF interest In the large cities
OF Germany as the tallest youth on
earth, distinction to which he Is
easily entitled. says the Cincinnati
Enquirer
Handel is not % years old. yet he
stands feet 8 inches in his stockings.
Though he was earning big salary
he did not hesitate moment when
the kaiser called him to his body
guard In Potsdam. He would never
have been given the honor II the kali
ser's physicians had not pronounced
him perfectly proportional physically
and of sound health. remarkable
fact Is that Handel's parents, who
live In Leipzig, are people of ordinary
size, as are also his brothers and sis
ters, of whom there are seven. Handel
makes picturesque figure In his
guard uniform and the high helmet
makes him look a veritable Goliath.
Frederick the Great would have given
his best pipe to have added such a
giant to his guard OF tall soldiers.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1906-12-27
Dcath of Mrs. L. Nudge.

Mary L. Nudge, wife Of Rev. E. Nudge
the well known minister and ex-state sen
ator of Maple Rapids. died on Tuesday
morning after long illness from cancer
She was an estimable woman and lorg
time resident of that vicinity ard carried
the honor Of havirg taught the first sehoc
in Gratiot county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nudge we're residents
here about twenty-five years ago while
he was pastor of the Christian church anc
editor Of the Belding Home News.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1906-12-27
When Friends Are Needed.

The late Thomas Coldwell. inventor
Of the lawn mower, was noted in New
burg for his chsfity. A citizen OF
Newburg once stole some money. He
was bitterly attacked l. consequence
But Mr.. Coldwell stood by him and
to a certain rnan who vas malignins
him he said one day: You, ! see
are a fair-ueAther friend, George
Well, you are not singular there
Most friends are like you. There was
q man who said to a convict: Always
do right ard your frierds will stand
:. you
Yes. the convict answered bitter
iy. but the time man needs friends
to stand by him 10 when he does
wrong"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1906-12-27
RAISE SUGAR BETS

The distribution Of several million dollars
to the farme, Of Michigan on sugar beet
account, already this season, with more
pay days yet to come, makes it quite plain
that it was good business sense and not
mere sentiment or politics that caused
several of our Michigan congressman to
urge against tariff concessions that would
weaken sugar beet values in Michigan
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1906-12-27
War" Crease.

A girl patient In London hospital
asked one morning whether she
might have an extra allowance OF
butter. The house surgeon. to whom
the request was made. felt rather in.
jured. But don't You get enough but
teri" he replied. We'll. you see. sir,
answered the girl. with a shy but
happy smile, my Herbert is coming
to see me to-day. and ! want my hair
to look nice"