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CHAPTER x.

sT1YlELL," said at last, 'lt IN" seems to me we're weaving - a pretty strong chain about
 A2a our friend Tremaine. But why should he have waited this long to look for the diamondT
 Perhaps he's just discovered its loss." suggested Godfrey.
 ''or perhaps this is the first oppor tunity he's had. I've never before left him alone here. and I keep the snap on So that the door locks itself whenever It's closed"
 Godfrey sat for full minutr motion less. his eyes fixed on the door.
 'Of course.- he said at last. it may not have been the diamond he was looking for. though I can't imagine what else 1t could be. But I've a the ory I want to test. Suppose we take c look at your bedroom"
 followed him In and turned up the light He glanced around keenly and went finally to the closet. which was almost opposite the door leading into the sitting room He entered the closet and closed the door behind him. After q moment heard a scrsping noise and perceived a knife blade working back and forth In a crack of the door Finally the blade was withdrawn. the door opened ard Godfrey came out. He examined the lock. tried it once or twice with the key. which was Ia 1t. then he turned t1 me.
 What time do you leave in the morrInSY- be asked.
 -About 730-
 -seven-thirty. very well Now I must be going Look for me in the morning.
 Wait said. for L too. had a s-sd den idea- %Yos have a pbotnzr.ph oi Thompson. I supposef Bring It up IT the morning with yvuL I shsud Ike tc Iook at it-
 -An nsnt- he ss'c. and after I hsd made sure slhaf the coast vas e3e1r he stole away Rsa tipt7e
 c nrnrrp1v vne of q ber uexf ugn-
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CHAPTER xr.

CdAf~IEh Al. NAY)HEN left the office at noon IVY next day took Q cross town
 6Ss5 car which eventually landed
 me at the foot of West Tenth street. where the rcd and black steam. CTS of the Quebec line load and un- load their West Indian cargoes. had found by reference to Q file of the Mar ltime Gazette that the Parima had ar rived on Feb. g and had sailed again on the 9th of March. and the paper of the day before showed me that she had just arrived in port again.
 I hunted up the purser without de lay.
 May I see your passenger list for your last trip north," asked, "the trip before this one?'
 Certainly" he responded, and pro duced 1t.
 It was not long one, and in mo ment I had found what I was looking for. Victor Tremaine and wife were 6fth on the list. But no I'll. Thomp- son" appeared there. However, I had a last resource. I had scarcely expect ed to find him entered among. the pas sengers.
 "Is the captain aboard?" inquired.
 Captain IIalre has gone over to his home on Long Island for day or two," answered the purser. 'The first officer. MT. Grice, Is forward, superin- tending the unloading"
 "Thank you," said, and hurried up to the deck. found MT. Grfce with out difficulty. tall, blond young man, with eyes of cerulean blue. Can you spare me momenty asked, after I had introduced myself.
 "Why, guess so. What Is it"
 "Did you ever see this man beforeY' Dnd produced the photograph Godfrey had given me.
 "Well. l should say so!' he cried at the first glance. And hope I'll never see him ag'in. Thompson his name Is, and we shipped him at Barbados, in place of one of our men who deserted there. He didn't have decent rag to his back, so we fitted him up with some old things out of the slop chest"
 nodded.
 "He only shipped as far as St. Pierre" continued the mate but after we'd got there he changed his mind and come on to New York. Whats he been doin'? Gettin' into more trouble? He's not been out of jail more'n three or four weeks.",
 "Out of jailY
 "Yes. He was Q regular fiend for booze. though we didn't find 1t out until after we left St. Pierre. Where he got 1t don't know. He didn't have any money t buy 1t, that's sure. I've kind O thought one of the passengers must "a give 1t to him. though I can't im- agine why. But anyway, he was half drunk three-fourths of the time and dead drunk the other fourth. Wed find him layln' in his berth and we'd yank him out and drop him into tub of water. He'd sober up quicker n any man I ever see, but he was never satis- fed unless he had pint or two inside him. When we tied up at the wharf
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gtTo be continued.)

Growth of Cotton Industry.
 In 1900 100000 bales of cotton would have lasted the Lancashire mills for "a year: now the same amount only feeds their spindles for a day and Q quarter.
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here." s'..f. 's.'--
 It was good guess; an adroit one.
 The question is," added Godfrey. looking about him. ''where did she hide themf"
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Presumption" of Death.
 An English court has just allowed the heirs of young man who went down with ship In storm in the Indian ocean in 1857 to presume that he Is dead. 8
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Uncle Eben.

Uncle Eben. "A person dat has mo money dan he knows what to do with." said Un. cle Eben. "'pears to be good deal like man wifi de dyspepsia In . house full O pie"
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being seen. That would be worth more to me than all, this theorizing. Then I'd have my feet on solid ground; l could-sh!-who's thatF"
 A door opened and step crossed the hall. There came tap at my door.
 Godfrey shot me one electric glance, then, lightly as panther, he seized coat and hat and disappeared into tho bedroom, leaving the door slightly aJar.
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Continued treatment cures cases of long standing.
 Doan's Kidney Pills are for the kidneys only. and contain no poison ous nor habit-forming drugs. .They relieve congestion and inflammation of the kidneys or bladder, heal and cure the kidney tissues. drive on uric poisons. dissolve and remove gravel. and rid the body of all watery waste.
 Thousands of cures prove the merit of Doan's Kidney Pills. Here is a case at home.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-09-26
A WATERBURY CASE.

R. R. Callender, of 90 Bishop Ste Waterbury. Conn. says: T have much confidence in Doan's Kidney Pills as remedy for backaehe- h my own case they brought freedom from every symptom of kidney trouble and rid me of pains in the back and the trouble has not return ed since stopped using this remedy. I procured the pills at the H. W. Lake Drug Co. and it gives nc pleasure to endorse such . reliable backache and kidney medicine."
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Try q Democrat Want.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-09-26

4VHYlELL," said at last, 'fi I"I seems to me we're weaving . a pretty strong chain about
 H1S our friend Tremaine. But
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-09-26

CHAPTER TX. sMYN HAVE come to thank you iX for your kindness of last @ night" said Tremaine as S&&) he entered. "It was in.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-09-26

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ing when there came light tap on my door and Godfrey slipped in the instapt I opened 1t.
 "I had few properties to arrange" !" he explained, smiling. land 50 thought I'd best come early"
 He went on into the bedroom and opened the closet door. Then.he took from his pocket Q stout bolt with screws and screw driver, and pro- ceeded to afilx 1t to the inside of the door.
 "Now. my dear Lester" he said. ris- Ing when the task was finished. "Iil have to ask you to run up this noon iuad let me out" !,
 "Let you out of where?'
 "Out of the closet. You see, unfor- tunately. this lock works only from the outside. 50 you'll have to lock me in before you go I've put on the bolt as an extra precaution."
 You mean you're going to spend the whole morning in that closetf"
 That's precisely what mean"
 But you'll suffocate."
 ''No-you see I've cut hole through. That will let in the air; besides, through 1t one can get an admirable view of the outer room"
 "Ah!" I said, beginning to under stand. "It's trapv
 "Yes, trap. Maybe we'll catch something and maybe we won't. What time do you usually go to lunch"
 About o'clock"
 ''That ought to bring you here by 1:30. Very well; lock me in and take the key with you"
 did as he bade me, though not with out some reluctance, and confess that I thought of little else during the morn ing.
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family commanded her in 1869. Charles
v Gridley in 1864, Henry Glass in 1850. A.
d. Brown i'm 1852. Bancroft Gherardi in
1870, s. b. Luce I'm 1883, c. j Train in 1856,
b. p. Lamberton in 1883, c. f.. Goodrich in
1891 and other honored names are linked
with hers. Representative Harry l. May
nard, Of the Norfork district, has set his
heart upon having warship built ut the
Norfork navy yard during the jamestown
exposition. He thinks that the millions
who come here will learn much from see
ing modern ship under construction and
that their interest in our splendid navy
and in the matter of its upbuiding will
thus be aroused
He has asked the congress to let Norfolk
build another warshp which he will name
Jamestown
The suggestion has fired the tidewater
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take my own treatment. 1t cured me

I take my own treatment. 1t cured me
after I suffered twenty years and took
enough pills, squills patent medicines and
predgested foods to fill a reservoir.
My Biscuit does business in two minutes
by the watch: yet It's made from fruits.
grain and vegetable products, combined
with proper blending agents, so that it $
acceptable to the most delicate stomach.
1t doesn't interfere with your doctors
treatment. nor anything else you may be
taking.
[ absolutely guarantee it contains no
opium morphine cocaine nor any other
narcotic drug, or forfeit $1,000 in gold
You don't understand II? Well, to be
frank with you. | don't either. But after
n long series of costly experiments
finally 'hit upon an idea" and made a
condensed biscuit that / thought would
help me, and it did; It cured melt cured
others, too. What's more. 1t cured dis
eases it wasn't made to cure.
[ accidentally producec something that
Intentions good deal like Columbus
when he started out for the East Indies
ana discovered America
I'm a chemist and a scientist, an author
and an ex-college professor. | have
studied medicine and am supposed to
know a thing or two about what kind of
remedies curei but | can't explain the
VAfN'
me-and | can't find anyone else who can
explain it to my satisfaction, either.
OF course, the biscuit contains concen-
trated pineapple. and pineapple has long
family history going back a hundred
years or so. as being good for the diges-
ton. Then there's pawpaw, the fruit of
the tropical melon tree; it looks like a
cantaloupe. and tastes like one. but it
grows on a tree. The ma tiVes eat it when
the stomach's too weak for anything else.
It's good food. though, any time; all the
time. It's in the biscuit. You have heard
your mother say figs were the best for
the bowels-well. they are there, con-
densed and compressed. seeds and all
The little seeds are harmless, but they
help do the business.
Your grandmother always told you Gel
cry was good for the nerves: well. It's in
the biscuit. Then. there are things to
wake up the liver and bowels and help the
kidneys. too, and so on. But when you
Sit down and add up all the different
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things the biscuit ought to do, the result
isn't half so large as what the biscuit
does do.
But the thing that concerns you is to
get well, You don't care how. The bis
cult is best for dyspepsia, stomach, liver
and bowel troubles, insomnia, pimples
blotches, nervousness melancholy
"blues," bad blood and rundown" con-
ditions of the system, but it's also a
wonder for diseases of the kidneys, heart.
skin and nervous system produced by
stomach troubles--and thousands of them
are.
Don't take my word. but read what 9TH
ers say. National Bank President Kinner
of Clean. n, Y, writes as follows: 1
have suffered from dyspepsia and stom-
ach trouble for five years. Recently it
got so bad that / was compelled to live
on matted milk, and even the matted milk
caused me considerable pain, and eating
any other kind of food was practically
out of the question. My attention was
called to Meals Dyspepsia Biscuit. and
obtained a package. After eating the
third biscuit | ate a piece of toast. an
egg and some fruit with no unpleasant
effects whatever | regard the results the
biscuit has produced as most marvellous.
1t is by far the best thing | have ever
tried
| would like you 10 read compli-
Strenuous Life" It's full of intensely
Interesting information for sick folks.
Most everybody is carried away with the
magazine, except the undertaken and the
sexton-and there's reason. I'm some
what in competition with them. My bust
ness is making folks we'll
Won9 you eat AT my expense? You
have probably been paying for your own
food good while. now let some one else
help pay for it.
I'll give you one large 25-cent package
of my Dyspepsia Biscuit and Fig Choco-
lates absolutely free If you will send 4
cents to paw the actual cost of postage
at merchandise rates. remember YOU pay
postage only: | give you the Biscuit pay
the expense of packing, etc. myself. This
is not small sample package. but a regu-
| lar 25-cent package. This offer is good to
one person for one time only. Fat my Bis
cult at my expense. then tell your friends
how you like them, what they did for you
that's all. Cut out and use coupon below
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Nirginians who have heard of it. They
are for jamestown John Smith. the de-
scendents Of Pocahontas and big navy
by an overwhelming majority.
The sloop of war jamestown received
Alaska from the Car Of Russia and put
the stars and stripes over that frozen
north which secretary Seward had just
bought from the Gar of the Russias and
was almost alone In considering a bargain
The jamestown on October s. 1867. lay
in the harbor of Sitka, while az the navy
recite, THE Russian flag was hauled
down and the American flag was hoisted
ON the government house"
Afterwards she loafed around the seas
for more than the lifetime of the ordn-
airy ship before she fetched up I'm thu
magnificent harbor whore she now lies
upon calm blue waters framed in green.
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Lesson in Japanese Courtesy.

| remember, many years ago, din
ner at the Palace-a great official din
ner-where among THE guests were
many of the old leaders of rebellions.
old upholders of the Shogunate; the
last Shotgun himself, says Mary Craw-
ford Frazier in the Worlds Work.
1 llnce Tokugawa, proud, silent, grim,
sat opposite to me, and | wondered II
any human emotion could show Itself
on that impassive face. At that mo
ment the Emperor raised his glass and
bowed in kindly smiling fashion to his
ancient opponent. The face changed
was suffused for one illuminating mo-
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81. and stood to sea thence on December
Ia under the head of unfinished business,
capturing the sloop Haveloek, and ON
NAV l. 1862, captured the prize brig IN
tended Then she came back 10 lamp
ton Roads. within few miles of her ma
tive home and threw shot at the Johnnies
on Sewells Point Many of these missiles
have been dug up since the excavatlng
for the exposition buildings was begun
there.
who is there who would have thought
that from this planting of shot such a
harvest would be reaped, and that on the
shore where the pines stood waiting WINE
tile Monitor and Merrmac were engaged
in their little shell game within the sound,
almost. of the whispering trees a city,
bright with wondorons light. would shine
upon the sea that born of the throes or
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ment with a glow of responsive fire.
1t seemed as if the Emperor were once
more thanking the Shotgun for his
splendialy patriouc art, when, after
years of struggle, he voluntarily laid
his powers and his prerogatives at the
Emperors feet for the good of the
country" and as il Prince Tokugawa,
looking back-and looking forward
for Japan said to himself once more,
1T was we'll done"
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ANCIENT WARSH|P
At THE EXPOSITION
viii be Feature of the James
town Show
ONCE SHELLED THE SPOT
Interesting Record of Uncle Sans
Warshlp With Historic Name
That Now Lies of Sew
ellis Point, Va.
ONCE SHELLED THE SPOT

Lying Just off Sewell's Point, Hampton
Roads. Virginia, within sight of an army
of men who are at work erecting build
ings on the beautiful site on which the
Jameston Exposition is to be held next
year, lies a veteran sloop of war whose
history is deeply interesting to all Amer
leans
She was warship carrying our flag on
the before the majority of those
now living were born. That she should
be- bearing the name she does. lying off
Sewell's Point, rocking herself to sleep
forever and by reason of another circum-
stance which soon shall be told. is a
strange coincidence. She is the United
States sloop of war jamestown, which
| was on the Sth day of May 1862, busily
throwing solid shot on a company of gem
tlemen in gray who were ensconced behind
sand hiliocks hastily raised on the spot
where the workers are erecting the expo
sition buildings.
/ A number of these gentlemen. their sons
and grandsons. who appear to have for
home plate on that May day are among
those who are preparing to commemor
ate there the landing of the English col
/ onists three hundred years ago, come next
! year, at point ON this inland sea a few
miles away and called the print of their
feet on the shore jamestown The ship
jamestown is still in the service of the
government having been stationed sew
eral years ago al the point where she now
| 70 he oYin n
service as quarantine station.
Launched in 1874.
| In the records which the navy depart
ment keeps and admirably, of our war
ships it is rected that she has not stood
to sea" since 1892. She was built at the
| Norfolk navy yard and launched in 1911,
and on the 18th of January sailed on her
maiden voyage, bound for the African sta
tion apd under command of r. B. Cum
| ningham.
She mounted 20 guns, was of 1850 reg
lister. 1853 feet long, with 80 foot beam. She
hasn't shrunk any since then but ships
of her rank in the navy built nowadays
are five TO ten times larger than she. She
was a laundering ship, though, when she
! was built and her battery must have been
| something dreadful, especially when her
/ armament was changed in 1861 and twenty
/ fear-inspiring monsters were put aboard
| and their noses poked through her ports.
| Fourteen of these each threw a S2-pound
| shot and six of them were S-inch smooth
| bores The first important service she
! was engaged in was in the cause of hu-
| mainly, and lest the Irish forget her
name will be dear to them forever. In
/ March, 1S47, when famine was raging in
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that combat splendid steel ships of foreign
nations would come and stand off Sewell s
Point across the water from Craney Is
land. where we had once misundcrst&nd-
ing with our English mother, To assist us in
COMMUNICATING the landing of the colon
lists and TO see the marvellous accomplish
ments of the descendants of that handful
of Englishmen whose emigration led %
the building of a new world and the light
ing of it by the torch of liberty-the indis-
inguishable fire which has fickered but
NJ. -nl. fnilnl
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A Rest.

people don't talk as much about fren-
zied finance as they used to-
No" answered young Mrs Torkins.
Not since the races went away"
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WONT YOU EAT WITH NE TOMORRl

With Histoycos $780,
Material Produce one-Tastes eood-ooes Good.
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The Biscuit Hits the Spot

Dyspepsia Doubles Like
Stomach Liver
No DIene-Eat My Biscuit hen Whatever You Please
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Nursery of Admirals.

The sloop of war jamestown was
nursery for admirals. AT times during her
long lifetime many men whose names are
famous in our naval history sailed in her.
". T. TruXton of the noted Nnrf nix
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| STOP PAIN IN TWO MINUTES
By the Watch, Without Morphine, Opium,
Cocaine or any Other Narcotics.
CURE DYSPEPSIA WITHOUT DRUG


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