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around in a tornado of events, and
landed In situation so grotesquc and
yet so horrible that YOU laugh even
while You are groaning, and straining
ut its hOpelessness2 Mcknight says
that is hysterIa, and that no man worthy
of the name ever admits to it,
Also, as Mcknight says, it sounds
like tank drama. Just as the rovolv-
ing saw is about to cut the hero into
stove lengths, the second villain blows
mp the sawmill. The hero goes up
through the roof and alights on the
bank of stream at the feet of his
lady love, who is making daisy chains.
Nevertheless. when ] was safely home
again, with Mrs. Klopton brewing
strange drinks that came in paper pack,
cts from the pharmacy, and that
smellcd to heaven, I remember stag
gering 10 the door and closing it. and
then going back to bed and bowling out
the absurdity and the madness of the
whole thing. And while ] laughed my
very soul was sick, for the girl was
gone by that time, and l knew by all
the loyalty that answers between men
of honor that / would have to put her
out Of my mind.
And yet, all the night that followed,
filed rs it was with the shrielling de
mons of pain, I saw her as | had seen
her last, in The queer hat with green
ribbons j told the doctor this, guard
cdly, the next morning, and he said it
was the morphia, and that | was lucky
not TO have seen row Of devils with
green tails.
I dom u know anything about the
wreck of September ninth last. You
who swallowed the details with your
coffee and digested the horrors with
your chop, probably know great deal
more than ] do. I remember very dis
tInctly that the jumping and throbbing
in my arm brought me back to a world
that at first was nothing but sky. a
heap of clouds that ] thought hazily
were the meringue on n blue charlotte
russo. AS the sense Of hearing was
slowly added TO vision, heard woman
near me sobbing that she had lost her
hatpin, and she couldn't keep her hat
on
] think 7 dropped back into uncon-
sciousness again, for the next thing ]
remember was of my blue patch of sky
clouded with smoke, Of n strange roar
ing and cracking, of n rain of fiery
sparks on my face and of somebody
beating at me with feeble hands !
opened my eyes and closed them again:
the girl in blue was bending over me,
With that impcrviousness to big things
and kcenness to small that is the first
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| and the porter from our car were in
close conversation. IustinctiVely my
hand went to my cigarette pocket and
came out empty, She saw the ges-
turc.
''If You want to smoke, you may"
she said 81 have n big cousin who
smokes all the time. lie says l am
'kippcred.' -
i drew out the gun-metal case and
opened it, But this most commonplace
action had an extraordinary result; the
girl beside mo stopped dead still and
stood staring at it with fascinated
'"Is-where did You get that?" she
demanded, with a catch IN her voice;
her gaze still fixed on the cigarette
case.
"Thon you haven't heard the rest
of the traecdygN ! asked, holding out
the case. "It's frightfully bad luck
for me, but it makes a good story.
You see
At that moment the conductor and
porter ceased their colloquy The con
ductor camo directly toward me, tug
ging as he came at his bristling gray
mustache.
S1T would like to talk to you in the
car.n he said to me, with a curious
glance ut the young lady:
Can u it waltz / objected. We
are on our way TO n cup of cotleo and
a slice Of bacon. BE merciful, as you
are powerful.
"i'm afraid the breakfast viii have
TO watt he replied Il won't keep
thority IN his voice which l resented;
but, after all, the circumstances were
unusual.
wen have to defer that cup of
coffee for while.' / said to the girl;
90 but don't. despair; there's breakfast
somewhere. -
AS we entered the car, she stood
aside, but / felt rather than saw that
she followed us. l was surprised to
see a half dozen men gathered around
the berth IN which ] had awakened
number seven. IT had not yet been
made up.
As we passed along the aisle I was
conscious of a new expression on the
faces of the passengers The tall woman
who had tainted was searching my
face with narrowed ewes, while the
stout woman of the kindly heart avoid
ed my gaze, and pretended TO look out
the window.
As we pushed our way through the
group ! fancied that it closed around
me ominously,. The conductor said
nothing, but led the way without cere
mony to the side of the berth.
"What s the matter?' l inquired,
I was puzzled, but not apprehensiyc,,
"uave you some Of my things? ia
be thankful even for my shoes; these
are confoundedly tight
Nobody spoke, and ] fell silent, too,
For one of the pillows had been turned
over and the under side Of the white
case was strcaked with brownish stains.
l think ii was n perceptible time be-
fore ] realized that the stains were
blood, and that the faces around were
filed with suspicion and distrust.
"Why, it-that looks like Blood
/ said vacuously. There was an in
cessant pounding in my ears, and the
conductor s voice came from far off.
.'It is blood" he asserted grimly.
tempt at nonchalance. "Even if it
is, I demonstrated, "surcly You don u
suppose for n moment that [ know
anything about itl''
The amateur detective elbowed his
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CHAPTER VII.
A Fine Gold Chain.

, The conductor held it out to me, his
face sternly accusing.
Is this another coincidence he
asked. 'sDid the man who left YOU
his clothes and the barred silk hand
lSerchief and the tight shoes leave you
the spoil Of the murder2''
The men standing around had drawn
off little, and | saw tine absolute fu-
tility of any remonstrance. Have you
ever seen a fly, who, in these hygicnic
days, finding no cobwebs TO entangle
him, is caught in n sheet of fly paper
finds himself more and more mired, and
is finally quiet with the sticky still.
ness of despair?
Well, was the fly. T had seen too
much Of circumst tantial evidence to
have any belief that the establishing
Of my identity would weigh much
against the other incriminating details
1t meant Imprisonment and trial. prob
ably, with all the notoriety and loss
of practice they would entail A man
thinks quickly at time like that
All the probable consequences of the
finding of that poc)letbook flashed
through my mind as | extended my
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The Girl in Blue, a Fine Gold
Chain and the Second Section
Figure in Three Chapters

up. "Now, il you can pin my sleeve
to my coat, it VIII support the arm So
we can get away from here.''
"Thc pin might give" she ohioc..
ed, ",and the Jerk would be terrible y
got up, coming back in minute win
Il draggled, partly scorehed sheet This
she tore into large square, and aftcr
she had folded it, She slipped il nnde,
the broken arm and tied it securely ~
the back of my neck. -
The relief was immediate, and, nicL.
ing up the scalskin bag, / walked Slow.
ly beside her, away from the track
The first act was over: the curtain
fallen. The scene was "struck.''
ITO be continued
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The sincere and truthful Of Mrs Pamers letter impress
every who reads She had suffered with the Of Rheu
masm for twenty years. and when she found medicine that proved
It's worth by curing her. humane others who suffering
from the disease prompted her recommend it.
Rheumatism diseased condition Of the blood cells and
copuSceS brought about by the circulation
This urac mpury the blood usually because of systemic
Irregularities such constipation imperfect kidney Indigestion
and other stomach disturbances These ailments pre-
vent the working Of the ennatve MEMBERS
percentage Of the refuse which should pass off left
system and form acid which absorbed the blood
Then the corpusces of the circulation which ordinarily furnish
nourhmen TO the body saturated with the urac mpu which
they deposit into the muscles bones and joints This
Inflammation and the palms. aches stiffness Of Rheumatism
External applications such pasters nments hot applications
etc. cannot have effect Rheumatism Temporary
relief from its pains afforded by measures
old cause always work in the blood and the local
treatment is left of every symptom will return
There RheumiSm, TO
boodcleanse the circulation acid mpuriy goes
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HOW SHE CURED
HER HERRHE:,lI.yyMIlAIISM z i

wish every rheumatic sufferer to know what s. S. S. did
for had been afflicted with Rheumatism for twenty years.
sometimes being entirely laid up by il, and always lame
some part Of body 1t grew until misery
attempt to walk at all; my right knee nearly twice its
natural and UP considerably
other friend advised to take S. S. S., which
menced. 1 had tried many things that I say
little faith that it would do any good but willing
to anything that promised relief Before had been using
it long greatly continuing
found entirely cured The lameness and
all left and straighten, bend my leg we'll
am sixyhve years DID, but have had symptoms
OF Rheumatism since S. S. S. cured
MRS. IDA NJ PALMER.
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the acrd mputy enriched and hkened the circulation then the
queed the muscles become elastic blood
cooled and the hot versh flesh soohed and made comfortable
Nothing equals blood purifier and for this nothing
equals for rheumatism Book Rheumatism any
medical adycefree THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA GA
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CHAPTER VIII.
The Second Section,

Have You ever been picked up out
Of your hree-mcals-a-day life, whlrled
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into the blood and al
tacks the disease at its
head, and by removing
every particle Of the
inflammatory uratic
matter, and building up
the blood TO a healthful
condition, this medi-
cine destroys the cause
and cures Rheumatism.
w h en- S, S. S. has
cleanced tha hIpod of
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Tho Aurora Borealis,

The aurora borealis, or northern
light is something that we have all
heard about, but very few, perhaps,
can give any explanation Of 1t. No
one definitely knows what causes it,
but the scientists are pretty well
agreed that 1t is due to electricity.
They believe that the light is made by
the decomposition of the positive and
negative electricity always in the up
per and lower strata Of air, respec-
lively. NJ. Lenstrom made an inter-
esting experiment in Finland in 1882,
his object being to determine the ma
ture Of the aurora. He had the peak
Of mountain surrounded by a cop
per wire. pointed at intervals with
tin nibs. When he had charged the
wire with electricity a yellow light
appeared on the tin tips. and an ex-
animation Of the light by the spec
troscope revealed the greenish yellow
ray that is marked feature Of th"
aurora. This evidence among SCI
entists is almost convincing, for it
Is by means Of the spectroscope that
we discover the constituent parts of
the sun and the stars.-Exchange.
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Tho Thirteen Chicks.

How difficult it is to pick out truth
or fiction from apparently straightfor-
ward recitaIs of the actions Of animals
is well shown in Communication sent
to one Of our foreign exchanges by a
man who lays claim to long expert
ence in breeding game birds. He stat
ed in all seriousness that only two of
his pheasant hens had hatched out
seventeen of the eighteen eggs placed
under each one in the nests. ut Is
curious fact" he continues that both
Matched off on the same day, and each
hen Immediately killed thirteen out Of
her seventeen live chicks by pecking
their brains and laid them in row in
front Of her, each exactly in the same
way shall be glad to know whether
such singular case has ever been
noted before"
SO shall l.; but, at any rate, in this
case at least, thirteen was an unlucky
number for both the chicks and their
owners.-Forest and Stream.
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THE WRONG NOTE.
Mozart's Outbreak at an Opera Per
formance at Marseilles.

Mozart's Outbreak at an Opera Per-
formance at Marseilles.
Mozart, being once on a visit at
Marseilles, went incognito to hear the
performance Of his "Villanella Rapita."
He had reason to be tolerably well
satisfied till in the midst of the princi
pal aria the orchestra, through some
error in the copying Of the score,
sounded D natural where the COM
poser had written D sharp. This sub
stitution did not injure the harmony,
but gave commonplace character to
the phrase and obscured the sentiment
of the composer.
Mozart no sooner heard it than he
started up vehemently and from the
middle of The pit cried out in voice
of thunder, "Will you play D sharp.
you wretches"
The sensation produced in the thea
ter may be imagined. The actors were
astounded, the lady who was singing
stopped short, the orchestra followed
her example, and the audience. with
loud EXPLANATIONS. demanded the ex-
pulsion Of the offender. He was ac-
ccrdingly seized and required to name
himself. He did so, and at the name
of Mozart the clamor subsidized and
was succeeded by shouts of applause
from all sides.
1t was insisted that the opera should
be recommended Mozart was installed
in the orchestra and directed the
whole performance. This time the D
sharp was played in It's proper place.
and the musicians themselves were
surprised at the superior effect pro
duaed ter the opera Mozart was
conducted In tridmph 70 hfs hotel :
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NANNIE'S
PICTURE.
By BAYARD TRUSTON.
Copyrighted, 1908, by Associated
Literary Press.

"She's coming tomorrow, announced
Billy Singleton. Tom Harvard smiled.
"She'' could be none other than his
"picture girl" as he had learned to call
her, and ever since he b! arrived at
Glenoak, Harvard had been lost in day
dreams, in which "the picture girl"
was ever the central figure.
1t was Harvard's first visit to the
Singleton place, named Glenoak, and
for the first time he had seen the re-
suits of Mrs. Singleton's artistic skill
with camera.
That hospitable matron had more
than passing fad for photography
and in well equipped studio in the
back yard had turned out many prize
winning pictures. The most success
full had been Of "the picture girl" 9TH
erwise Mamie Prescott, Mrs. Single
toms niece.
1t had been taken some years before
and showed child with soul that
shone through the thick lashed eyes.
The small, sensitive mouth, delicate
molding of the chin. the perfect oval of
the face and the high white brow all
combined to make picture almost
perfect, yet Harvard seemed to see only
| the eyes, with their inscrutable ques-
tioning of the life just beginning to un.
| fold.
| Singleton had surprised Harvard be.
fore the picture half a dozen times, and
Harvard WINGED at the jests his chum
made about his infatuation for the pho
tograph, but even Mrs. Singleton's as.
surance that the original now looked
vastly different from the big eyed girl
of the picture did not abate his interest
in the handsome carbon print.
Nan has scandalous fondness fol
picked pigs feet" went on Singleton
lest Harvard's joy should grow too
great. You never saw an ideal with
an appetite, did you, Tom?'
He lodged the book Harvard threw
at his head and stepped out through
the French windows on to the porch
still chuckling over the fun he antici
pated having
1t was Singleton who drove to the
station to meet Miss Prescott and who
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Succession Sale.
Succession Of John F. Delaney, deceased.
In District Court, BOssier Parish, La.

Succession of John F. Delaney, deceased.
In District Court, Bossier Parish, La.
DY virtue of an order of sale to me
ID directed from the Honorable Dis
trict Court in and for the Parish of
Bossier, l will on Wednesday, April IA,
1909, at the Court House, in the town Of
Benton, La, within the legal hours of
sale, proceed to sell at public auction,
to the last and highest bidder, the fol-
lowing described property, to-wit:
The west half of southwest quarter of
section Z, township %, range 13, and
east half OF southeast quarter, northwest
quarter Of southeast quarter and north
east quarter of southwest quarter of sec
ton II, township %, range IA; 240 acres.
Also, half interest in and to the west
half of east half and northeast quarter Of
northwest quarter of section 6, township
%, range 10; west half of southeast
quarter and southeast quarter of south
west quarter of section 81, township %,
range 13, and east half of northwest
quarter of section II, township %, range
13; containing 500 acres (the half being
160 acres) and situated in Bossier Par
ish, La.
Terms of Sale-Cash, if the appraise-
ment or two-thirds thereof be bid, else
on credit of twelve months, according
| to law. i. F. EDWARDS,
Sheriff and ex-offcio Auctioneer.
Benton, La, March ii, 1909. aprs
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Sllerif's Sale.

Board of Commissioners Of Bossier Levee Dis-
trict versus Stacey & Braden. No. 5,O04. il
Second District Court, Bossier Parish, La
DY virtue Of a writ Of feri facias.
- issued in the above entitled suit.
and to me directed, l have seized and
will proceed to sell at public auction. d
the last and highest bidder, at the front
door of the Court House, in the town 81
Benton, La, on Saturday, April 10, 1909.
the following described property, to-wit:
Lot 8 in section 5, containing 265t
acres, and lots 10, ii and II in section
4, containing 1854 acres (according 10
map and survey made by G. D. Alexan-
der and J. M. Davies, duly recorded III
conveyances of Bossier Parish, La.)
said lands lying and being within the
traverse of Red Chute Lake, in township
Is, range IL, Bossier Parish, La.
Terms of Sale - Cash, without the
benefit of appraisement, to pay and sat-
isfy the sum of $3.50. 20, with s per cent
per annum interest thereon from Feb. 1,
1905; $930.22, with 8 per cent per anunm
interest thereon from April I, 1904;
$232.55, with s per cent per annum in
terest thereon from Jan. 81, 1906, less .
credit of $3.50, paid Feb. s, 1906, and'in
the further sum of $232.55, with peE
cent per annum interest thereon from
April Z. 1905. as is moro fully ehown BY
the four notes of the said Stacey /
Bladen-two for the sum of $3.50 %, each
dated April Z, 1904, due one and two
years after date, and two for the sum oi
$22.55, dated April Z, 1904, due one and
two years after date-together with all
costs of suit.
]. F. EDWARDS, Sheriff.
Benton, La, March 4, 1903. APPS
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basely betrayed Harvard's passion to
the girl who shared his seat in the
dogcart.
'It's not you," explained Singleton,
with brutal frankness; Its the picture
that he's in love with. I'll bet when he
sees what plump and husky person
you've grown to be he'll decide to stick
to the picture"
There was much more to the same
effect, and so it came to pass that
when the introduction was accom-
plished on the Singleton porch and
Harvard guarded his expression from
any betraying glance of qualification
Miss Prescott decided that this man
who loved her picture and was disap-
pointed in the original was a very un-
pleasant person whose presence at
Glenoak would make her vacation q
miserable one indeed.
Mrs. Singleton endeavored tactfully
to counteract the effect of her sons
disclosures, but Mamie resented even
this we'll meant effort. 1t was intolera-
Bile to her that they should suppose she
cared In the least what Mr.. Harvard
thought Of her.
If he was disappointed that the an
giles of fourteen had rounded into the
curves of nineteen it was no concern
of hers. and to show how little she
cared she devoted herself industriously
to snubbing poor Harvard at every
possible opportunity.
And Harvard, manlike, suffered
keenly from the treatment and went
about saying savage things to and Of
Billy, and he looked no more than he
could help either at the picture or Miss
Prescott herself
So matters continued for nearly a
month. when a business letter gave
Harvard welcome excuse for quitting
the field of defeat. He had longed to
retire, but he would not retreat igno-
miniDusly and without excuse
He managed to slip away from the
housr without being detected by his
watchful chum and made his way to-
ward glen from which Gienoak took
its name. He would have a farewell
quiet hour. 1t was favorite resort of
bis. and he climbed up the cool shades
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FOOD FOR THE SEINE.
An incident Of Whistier's Student
DAYS In Paris,

An incident Of Whistier's Student
Days In Paris.
The early scenes in "Trilby" have
shown us the hilarious squalor Of the
student life In Paris when Whistler
joined the studio that Gleyre carried
on in succession to Delaroche. 1t was
the Bohemia, barely modernized, Of
Murger's novel, and the shifts to
which these raw recruits in art de-
scended furnished Whistler for life
with some of his raciest stories. Once
when an American friend unearthed
him Whistler was living on the pro-
ceeds Of wardrobe One hot day he
pawned his coat for an iced drink.
Invited once to the American embassy,
he had to borrow Poynter's dress suit.
But the best story Of these frolicsome
days arises from the eternal copying
In the Louvre, either on commission
or on "spec." which kept them alive
between remittances. Whistler's chum,
Ernest Delannoy, had done gorgeous
replica of Veronese's Marriage Feast
at Cana" that took when framed the
pair Of, them to carry it. They tried
1t on every dealer up and down both
sides Of the Seine until the first price
Of 500 francs had dropped with sew
eral thuds to 100, then 20, then 10,
then 8. Suddenly the dignity of art
asserted itself.
On the Pont des Arts they lifted the
huge canvas. "Un," they said, with
great swing, "deux, trois-v'lanv'
and over 1t went into the water with a
splash. Sergents de vile came run
ming, omnibuses stopped. and boats
pushed out on the river Altogether
1t was an immense success. and they
went home enchanted.-Pall Mall Ga.
Zette.
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Curing a Fish.

A curious experiment was tried a
short time ago to determine the brain
power Of the pike. One Of these vo-
racious fish was placed in a tank with
some minnows with glass partitions
separating the one from the other
The pike for three months made fruit
less attempts to catch the minnows. r.
peatedly dashing its nose against the
glass. At last. having come to the
conclusion that Its efforts were of no
use, 1t fdally discontinued them. The
glass was then removed. but the ideas
firmly established in the pike never
became disestablished. for It never aft
erward attacked the minnows. thougl,
1t fed voracious!y on all other kinds
Of fish.-London Telegraph.
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Our Oldest Permanent City

Albany, capital Of the great Empire
State, claims to be the Oldest perma-
nent settlement within the limits of
our thirteen colonies, but has greater
historical significance on account Of It's
strategic Importance during the cen
tury of conflict between the English
and French in America and in the
American Revolution. In 1924 Yer
razzano, a French navigator. sailed UP
the Hudson, and about 1910 French
trading post was set up near the pres
ent site Of Albany. The continuous
history Of the place dates from tn"
discovery of these regions by Henr:
Hudson In 1909, who was followed by
Dutch traders, who in 1914 establishe
a trading station on Castle island un-
der the name Of Fort Nassau. In 1864,
after the transfer of New Netherlands
to the English. the name of Albany
was given to the settlement In honor
Of the Duke of York and Albany. att.
erward James I.-Leslie's Weekly.