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suits leisurely class like you Eng
lish-and the equally slow and DELHI
crate inhabitants of India.
'Oh, I say, now!" broke in Wayne,
but his interruption was unheeded
save by smile from Cortice.
Some such remark I made to my
new friend, Mr.. Bharat Serang, as we
came away. He smiled softly and
replied:
Very true; we of the older races
do not count time like you Americans.
A thousand-ten 'thousand-years are
nothing in comparison to the sum total
Of human life lived on this planet
"I suppose not-when you're a long
time dead l remarked, carelessly.
"But life goes On, in centuries, and
cycles, and aeons. We in India take
no count of the atoms-we survey the
whole round. We think in centuries ;
you reckon by weeks!'
well, this was mighty interesting
to me, as you may imagine, but
kept mum, although Of course knew
that to these Brahmins and Hindoos
a belief in re-incarnation is part OF
their religion. They accept it as I'M
questioningly as the western peoples
admit that two and two make four.
1--WE dined at the Langham, Serang
and l, that night, and over the coffee
and cigars we continued our dis
cussion. To illustrate a certain re
mark he said:
"Let me tell you story, Mr.. Cor
tice. In one of the chief temples in
the holy city of Benares, there is a
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never be suspected and wait until the
hue and cry had died away. Then |
could probably recover the loot with
immunity and dispose of it. This l
did-and where do you suppose l Sc
creted the ruby? But-Tll tell you
that later.
well, as l sat there, facing Bharat
Serang, the whole episode came back
to me, clearly and wildly, every detail
clean and sharp as an intaglio Of the
memory What should / do? Make
confession and restitution? For l had
little doubt but that the blazing ruby
even now was where I had secreted
it in my scare-a most cunningly-de
vised hiding-place, yet very simple
one.
""The story interests your suavely
inquired Serang.
Intensely l admitted, for reasons
with which you are perhaps familiar.
Be candid with mellow much do you
know, or suspect?' For my own salts
faction, you see, wanted to be able
to test the matter.
'Pardon,-I do not comprehend,
said he.
"'Perhaps you DON'T I muttered
| under my breath, then aloud:
"I'll give you Roland for your Oil
yer, Mr.. Serang,' said, if you under
stand the allusion.'
"He smiled pleasantly and bowed.
You mean you will give me another
good story in exchange for mine?'
Il nodded, watching him very close
ly, but could discover not the slightest
sign indicating foreknowledge on his
part of what l was going to say, then:
"'Of course, you believe in this re-
incarnation theory-that it would be
possible for a poor servants soul to
BE- reborn and remember what he
Dip
1T is no theory, Mr. Cortice,' he re.
marked gravely We know. Our
adopts are living witnesses! Every
soul on earth has experienced several
existences, but only to very few
one here and there in thousands of
generations-is it given to recall
those previous lives.
"'Weu, Mr.. Serang, I happen to be
in my own person, here and now, one
| OF those few men,
"He looked at me with some cour.
teous accretion of interest and slight
flushing of his dusky complexion; 9th
erwise my statement seemed to occa
sion no surprise. But his only answer
| was to stretch his hand over the table
and shake mine, English fashion.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-07-30
THE GREAT BUDDHA RUBY


barton Cortice, a young New England
er of Scotch-Irish descent, gifted with an
altogether uncommon mentality, possesses
the unusual and uncanny power OF VlVld!y
recalling recOllections of his Ego passed in
former reincarnations, centuries apart, IN
Guiding many strange adventures by Hoou
and field, some of them connected with
long forgotten treasure-hoards, concerning
which, by virtue of his weird gift, ne IS
able to instance definite dates and exact
localities. At the time these narratives pc
London, practically penniless, although
potentially he commands millions. lie is
reaching out for man of means and or
integrity who will evince sufficient faith
in his queer story to advance the neces-
sary capital for a critical and actual test
Such an angel turns up in the person or
Lord Westbury Wayne, marquis of Scars
dale. young peer of great wealth, VINO
is eccentrcally fond of bizarre underta-
kings. Retta Cortice, Rarton's sister, a
surpassingly beautiful = girl; De, depe hrth
er, having committed to writing certain
stories which fall from his lips during his
trance-obsessons. After successfully To-
eating and recovering the great treas
ure Of King John, identifying a re-hs-
toric gold mine in the Peruvian Andes,
and rescuing some valuable FAMILY Jew
els hidden during the French revolutlon'
come quite wealthy; the fourth adventure
consisted Of an attempt to dig up some
piratical loot buried on the coast of North
Carolina, while the fifth story takes our
young dreamer to Scotland, where he is
instrumental in recovering some valuable
documents hidden in medieval castle.
After that comes re-discovery of a long
forgotten but immensely valuable pearl
fishery in the Pacific; two weird expert
ences in Italy, which recall the day when
Cortice was a Roman 1egionary; an ad-
venture with an airship while ransacking
an Aztec treasure temple; startling cpl
sode in the Egyptian desert In quest
for Pharoah's mummy. while the tenth
story takes our young dreamer to India. ]
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t:,S- r. [

Let me give you one or two proofs,
with chapter and verse; / went on,
then, If you're satisfied, We'll talk
about your ruby
$50 in a dozen sentences l told him
a few things which, had they been
spoken aloud to the assembled diners
there in the Langham, would have
caused those highly respectable and
normal people to regnrd your humble
servant as a gibbering idiot.
But Bharat Serang smiled seriously
at it all, as his inimitable Boodha
might have done.
1t is what you call "caviare to the
general he commented quietly, but
almost commonplace to those who
know. But you had somew hat special
to tell me about this missing ruby?
May have your confidence?'
That's what I've been leading up
to, Mr.. Serang,' said. You've accept
ed as truth what I've told you already.
Perhaps even this will not startle you
And then gave him the yarn, but
I kept back all mention of the place
where I'd hidden the ruby. That I
wanted to use as a dramatic sequel.
Whatever surprise I may mani
fest, Mr.. Cortice,' he remarked quietly,
is not at your story, or because of
your facts, but is occasioned by my
amazing good fortune in making your
acquaintance. May I have the honor
OF accompanying you to Benares-for
] take it you will want to make a lit.
tie experiment in certain temple
there-and can facilitate matters for
you greatly
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form across the table to his sister.
this was the abrupt way in which he
obeyed Barton's request to "explain"
to the lady.
Isn't 1t rather sudden?" she in
quired in tones that were fairly steady,
though an acute feminine eye would
have detected an agitated futtering
of the lacy covering at neck and
bosom
Student" calculated her brother.
II should say SO! Apparently he's
gone off alone-Jack Dare's in New
York and Retta's in London. l don't
half like it,"
Surely you do not fear" quavered
the pretty widow, this time with un.
disguised concern in her query.
ooh, I'm not exactly afraid of his
safety" asserted Scarsdale stoutly.
"Bartons able to take care of himself
under ordinary conditions
Then what makes you anxious?"
she persisted.
"Only that his peculiar gift is apt to
lead him into some extraordinary stu
alton where he might find himself in
danger"
Then you think this quick trip to
India has something to do with those
horrid dreams of his?" said Lady
Blanche.
"'Fraid nothing else would start
Barton off that way. But his dreams,
as you call them, are woven of pretty
substantial stuff-they've made him a
rich man, you know"
II do wish you'd stop encouraging
HIM" petulantly exclaimed Lady
Blanche, rising from her untasted
breakfast, and going to the window to
hide her emotion. She stood in the
wide embrasure nervously coiling and
untwisting her handkerchief between
her jeweled fingers.
Her brother looked at her straight
and shapely back with puzzled frown.
Something suspiciously like sob and
a sniff reached his ears, and the wonl-
ans shoulders quivered.
"By Jove!" he muttered under his
breath, rising and going to her side
:. Look here, old girl" he said, with
rough, yet brotherly kindness, putting
his arm around her, and striving to
tilt her chin so that he could see her
eyes.
But Lady Blanche persistently avert
ed her face, yet two pearly tears
dropped on her clasped hands.
81 didn't know it was like that,
dear" he whispered comfortingly and
Understandings. I'll run up to town
by the next train. If necessary I'll
follow and bring him back safe and
sound"
There was no response-how could
there be?-for thus IA. Barton Cortice
had spoken no word of love to Lady
Blanche Deering. But sometimes two
hearts arrive at complete and satisfac-
tory understanding without the inter-
mediary of speech.
BY three o'clock that same after
noon Wayne was at the Cortice apart.
ment on the Embankment, and shak-
ing hands with Retta. On the way to
town, in the seclusion of first-class
coupe, he had done little thinking
on his own account.
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tionings flashed through my brain.
How much did he know or suspect?
Had he singled me out and told me
the story with a definite purpose?
Was l a marked man under the sur
veillance of those priests of Boodha
and their secret emissaries?
For, you see, I was the man who
millennium ago had looted that very
same great Boodha Ruby, and knew
where it probably was at that very
minute! While Bharat Serang had
been telling his strange story, the
whole transaction REQUIRED to me, /
recalled how /, the poor servant Of
one of the priests, had crawled, half
naked, On my belly into the temple
after nightfall, and, crouching in ter.
ror for hours in the shadows, had
made a sudden swift rush, climbed
sacrilegiously and ruthlessly into the
very lap of the god, pried out the ruby
with my dagger, tucked it in the folds
of my loin-cloth, and then scurried to
a shadowy corner to wait in fear and
trembling till the temple gates should
be opened in the morning.
while I lay there groveling and
momenta.ily expecting to be palsied
and withered by the lightning of the
offended deity, a new fear came over
me: suppose the stone were missed
by the first priest who entered the
sanctuary? An instant alarm would
be given, the doors would be closed,
and every one present would be
searched!
Better would it be for me to hide
the prize in some place that would
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Germany and maybe you happen to
be in saloon with. him. The bar
keep asks what he'll have and of
course he says, Beer Got so used
to it, I can't drink anything else,' he
tells you. Not a line of whisky or
that other stuff since 1 struck the
Fatherland,' he remarks.
"He asks for some special kind of
beer with his very correctest German
accent, so that the bartender, who
probably was raised on the Bowery
or in the Bronx, has to have it trans
lated. Thea when he gets the beer
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go to bed. just little sleepy, but
wake up In the a. m. feeling all to the
good And so on.
Then when everybody else has
finished his drink, this guy'Il be SIP
ping away at his stuff and making a
lot out of it. Another explanation:
lover there in Germany they amt
in on this quick drinking thing. They
take their time over the suds, and
they don't lap it up as If they were
afraid some one was going to corner
the supply before they could get
enough. Yes, sir those Germans they
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sit around hours over one hooker and
talk and smoke quietly and act as If
they had plenty of time. They don't
have any walters coming around and
hopping up the table and moving the
glass and asking who the rounds on
or things like that. No, STREE
THAT does him until it comes to
paying the check. Then he delivers
another talk on the price of liquor in
the old country and how they gouge
it out of you on beer here. It's tire
some until he rolls of the seat on the
beer wagon
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he holds it up to the light and smells
it, then sips it.
What kind of beer do you call
this?' he asks the barkeep qulzzically.
Don't you know what you asked
for p that citizen is likely to come
back with; and then the customer let's
it loose.
Cant get any of the real stuff in
this country. They sell lot of things
they call German beer here, but it
amt like got in good old Bodenbach-
on-the-Elbe. Gee, used to sit up
nights and swallow gallons and then
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Beer Bore From Germany

"The man who has travelled and in
sists on telling all about it is always
a nuisance" said a saloonkeeper, "but
there is one of the kind for whom |
feel a special aversion. He is the
beer bore.
you know the folks who go to Ger
MANY and drink lot of the beer
there. When they come back, it's al
ways the thing to say to them in q
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HIS was the rather
startling telegram
which Lord w avn e
read at the breakfast
table one morning at
Raynham castle:
Am sailing for India
to-day by P. & O. boat.
Please explain to Lady
Blanche and look after
Retta. Will write or
wire.
BARTON CORTICE.
cad! What do you
think of that" ex-
claimed the marquis,
tossing the filmy blue
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sly sort of way. well, I guess you
Tapped up a lot of the beer over there,
what?' That is likely to start them
of and they tell you what you already
know pretty well, having heard it
about thousand times from other
travellers, that the beer over there is
different.
We'll, you take one of those fell
lows who has just come back from
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PROOF ks the
Ma,s,xaix1gy

We tell you about how good you'll
feel after taking CASCARET-
that millions Of people-buy, use
and recommend them-BEt that's
talk-you bug q box now-take as
directed to-night and get the proof
In the morning-After you know
CASCARETS you'll never be
without them. q
cAscARETs 1oc box for a weeks
treatment all druggists. Biggest seller
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ard feel SO we'll InaI ~ 1.ad mo an
a ss,,chl and 1 gladly recommenMa your
WWoua gni HE Compound: MRS. WILLIE
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14 Nne aN Of the greatest trlumphSs go OF
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IF YOU would like special ADVICE
aboHt YOUR case write conflden.
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JustifiabIe Suspicion.

The Husband-How would you like
me to get you beautiful new opera
cloak?
The Wife-Oh, Tom! What awful
thing have you been doing now
Cleveland Leader.
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That Was Evident.

There's man who always weighs
things carefully before he puts his
hand in.~
Then can plainly see that he's
not butcher"
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/ had a tumor, and |
had an operation,
but was soon as bad
aagainasevesr E!." nds
began to take Lydia
E. Pinkham's Veg;
etable Compounld
as you told me to
do. I am glad to
say that now l look
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Love, when true, faithful aud we'll
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o0nn 1soshln. -,
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A rich mans children seem to think
1t is UP to them to make a fioisS In
the world. .ss
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diplomacy is the art Of making 9TH
ers believe you are interested In
them, when in reality they make you
weary.
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TUMOR OF
YEARS
GROWTH
Removed by Lydia E. Pink,
hham,sVeqetable COMPOUND

Holly Springs, Miss IS exp " oauS what hat
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-07-30

YOU OUGHT TO KNOW ABOUT TT. N'sa
CATION; railroad, canals. Court house bank. school,
brick business houses. People needed to build its
Tor booklet Il, quick Chaplin Townsite TO-, Chapns Tar
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-12-16
1T is SERIOUS.
Some MONTGOMERY City People Fail To
Realize the Seriousness OF
A Bad Back.

w. 1. Laird, Montgomery City,
Mo-. says: "Before began u.s.
ing Doan's Kidney Pills, which l
procured at Crump 4 KidwelPs
Drug Store, I was greatly troubled
by my back. My kidneys were
also disordered and suffered from
attacks of Lumoago. The kidney
secretions passed too frequently
contained sediment aud were at
times painful when being Voided,
I was much run down in healtl
and felt miserable at the time
Doan's Kidney Pills were brough,
to my attention. They gave me
prompt relief and l am now with
out a symptom of my former tro.
uble." statement given in June
1906.
On November IA, 1908, Mr.. Laird
confirmed the above statement,
he said:. "The testimonial gave
TWO years ago in favor of Doan's
Kidney Pills was correct in every
detail. l gladly give Doan's
Kidney Pills the credit for my
continued freedom from kidney
trouble"
For sale by all dealers. Price
SOC. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the u
nited States.
Remem Der the name-Doan's-
md take no other.
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-12-16
ONE.DOLLAR BARGAIN

The Twice-A-Week Republic of
st. Louis, Mo-, is making special
Christmas offer of three-year
subscription to their paper for 81.
This rate will positively not be
good after December 81, 1910. Any
number of subscriptions will be
accepted:at this low price while
the rate is in effect, from Decem-
ber !st to the 31st, but positively
no premiums or cash commission
will be allowed. The S1.00 price is
absolutely net.
The Twice-A- Week Republic is
the oldest, biggest and best metro
politian semiweekly newspaper In
the Southwest. You should take
advantage of this liberal offer and
tell your friends and neighbors
about It..
Send your money to The st,
Louis Republic, st. Louis, Mo-,
without delay.
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-12-16
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S
SALE In PARTITION
WARNER LEWIS, Plaintiff,

VS.,
Il. G.. LEITCH, Defendant.
In the Circuit Court of Montgomery
County, Missouri.
BY VIRTUE and authority Of a Decree and
Order of Sale made by the said Court in the
above entitled cause, and of a certified copy
thereof dated November 10th, 1910. will on
Thursday, December 10Th, 1910. between tho
hours OF Nine o'clock in the forenoon and
Five o'clock in the afternoon of that day, at
the front door of the Court House, in the city
of Montgomery in Montgomery County, Mis-
souri,, sell at public vendue; to the highest
bidder. the following described Real Estate,
viz:
10 acres tho West half Q-2) OF the West half
Q.2) of the Northwest fourth U-D of the
Northwest quarter 90 OF Section Thirty
six (36) Township Forty-Nine (49) North, of
Range Six (6 west; except strip 20 feet in
width along the South line thereof and which
- feet is reserved by the said defendant
Leitch for road purposes.
Terms of Sale as follows, viz: CASH,
GEORGE E. EARNEST, She iff.
(First pub. Dec. =; last pub, Dec. 23)
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-12-16
Forester Nigh. At The Airdome.

This time it is the lady mem bers
of court Montgomery No. 256 are
going to entertain at the Airdome
on Thursday night December %.
We have full set of slides show
ing the beautiful team work of the
Forester Society Como and see
them. Same Old admission 10cts.
Buy tickets of the Members, fe "
special numbers outside of tke
regular pictures will be given. A
big night, come
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-12-16
Preserxlnn Autumn L.sv.,.

A lady writes that she has pre-
served autumn leaves In the follow.
ing manner: Taks a book with rather
heavy cover whsn you 70 to gather
the leaves and place them in II
smoothly. The next day or 80 give
them q coat Of ysrnish such a. ID
used for photographs. have made
very pretty osntsrpiecsa by cutting a
piece Of cardboard any shape desired
and arranging the leaves a. a lace or
smbroidsred osntsrplsos. For pref
" dish for the middle out OF oar.
rots about IN inch and q half In
length and put them In 4 pretty glass
dish with little water and Z few
places Of charcoal, They grow and
look like ferns.
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-12-16
Hunters Take Notice.

Notice is hereby given that no
hunting will be allowed on the
premises of the undersigned. Any
violations Of the law will be pun
ished to tbs full extent of the law.
S. WehTnan
Oliver Mitchell
John Hutsel,
Fred Wehrman.
S. M. Baker.
B. H. Worland.
(names added during the season
25 cents.)
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-12-16
FINAL SETTLEMENT NOTICE

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN to all cred
itors and others interested in the estate OF
CLARA G. Stewart, deceased, that l, w. T.
Nardin Executor of said estate intend to
make final settlement thereof at the next
term Of the Probate Court Of Montgomery
County, Missouri to be held at the Court
House in the City of Montgomery, County OF
Montgomery and State Of Missouri ON the
third Monday In January, 1911. to-wit Jan
uary 10, 1911,
w. T. Nardin, Exr. estate OF
Clara O. Stewart.
(First inst. Dec. 9th 1907
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-12-16
Notice..

All parties knowing themselves
indebted to I. Fl. Britt & Son will
please call and settle at once.
T. H. Britt & Son.
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-12-16
THE COURTS.
CIRCUIT COURT.

CIRCUIT COUNT.
Montgomery City first Monday In May ana
aecond Monday IN November Danville. 4th
Monday In April and first Monday In NOV.
COUNTY COUNT.
Montpomery Uity First Monday in March,
ynne Septcrnber and December. Danville,
first Monday In February. May, August ana
November.
PROBATE COURT.
Mon touiery City, third Monday IN Janu.
any a nril July and October. Danville, iirst
Monday in March June, september ana pe-
cember.