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taken some plains to make sure O. yo~r
coming"
1T is very good Of YOU" Douglas
replied. II VIII come. OF course WIN
pleasure"
"At o'clock" she said, gathering
up her skirts into her. hand Now
good-by, young people.
She nodded pleasantly and turned
away. Douglas took the lamp and
hurried to the door.
You win let me see you to your
carriage" he said. "Cissy, l shall
only 3e moment Do you MIND the
darkness"
She answered him blithely. The
countess laid her delicate fingers upon
his arm and held up her skirts till he
could see her shapely feet with dla-
mond buckles. carefully feeling Tor
M friend" she exclaimed. what
i'll taste YOU have shown! You are
abominably lodged"
Il am not a clooser," he answered f;
but at least here / can pay my way
She laughed at him.
Maybe. / believe my ancestors
were shopkeepcrs.'
And the little cousin?" she said,
looking at him Sideways:
"She is the dearest little girl In the
world" he answered heartily.
81 am not sure that ! approve of
her, though" the countess said gaily;
mot. at any rate, II II has been she
who has kept you away from me all
this time"
There was a more personal note in
her conversation, the touch of her
fingers upon his arm was warm and
firm. Thinking of these things:
Douglas did not hear the rustic OF
skirt behind him as they stepped
out upon the pavement. The coun-
tess saw II, and kept him talking
there lightly for a moment. When
at last she let him go. and he ran
upstairs, he nearly dropped the lamp
he was carrying in surprise. For his
little room was empty. Clceiy was
gone.
A Continuation of This story Will
BE Found In TomorrOw's
Issue of The Times.
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MODERN HOUSE. bath room. wide veran-
das good water and fare: special arrange
ments for weekend; s hours from Washing
ton on Southern. Write MISS COMPTON.
BOX q. Front Royal. Va
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Horses can be inspected on
Sunday and every horse will
be sold for the high dollar.

AUCTION SALE of fixtures of bankrupt
stock OF John Ladda. Jeweler TO be sold at
1913 Pennsylvania ave. n. W. Monday. Junt
g. II a. m. consisting OF plate glass Sill
verware cases new safe. typewriter. desk.
chairs. trays. postal card rack. cash register,
etc Terms cash. 1913 Pa. ave. y. W.
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81. 600 DRUGLESS HEALERS IN the United
States ENFORCED-Testoring the-CIR-
CuLATIoN Of the BLOOD and ESSENTIAL
FLUIDS Of the BODY without Medicine or
dangerous operation) to the DISEASED
PART is an ACCEPTED and proven cure for
LocoMoToR-ATAXIA. Paralysis, INsoM-
TION. ANEMIA. MAL-NUTRITioN and all
Serious Ailments Of mankind. after every
other method has failed. BOOKLET Of
SCIENCE of HEALING-without Drugs-and
CONSULTATION at OFFICE or BY MAIL
FREE! LADY ASSISTANT. Hours 10 a. m
TO P: m. Sunday II to !. PROF: II. n, d.
PARKER, 1o22 9th st. N W.. washington
ID. c. READ my Big Ad-NON-MEDICAL
HEALING-in last Mondays Times.
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WANJED-SAlESMEN

sAI.EsMEN wanted; no experience required;
earn while learning: write today for list Of
hundreds Of positions now open paying 8. .ooo
TO 81 600 q year; address nearest office. Dept
ia National Saiesmen's Training Association
Chicago. New York. Kansas City San Fran
cisco, Toronto.
EXPERIENCED travelling salesmen by man
modern belt iacing devices, on salary or
commission; references required. Address
BOX n, westheld. Mass.
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A%A~N ~ I'LL
THROUGH THE TIMES
NORTHWEST.
Aeouith's Pharmacy. ISIS 18th g.
astoria Pharmacy. 3rd and c..
BaShrach Pharmacy; 9TH and Eye
Beller,s Pharmacy. 9Th and O.
Boyd Pharmacy. 1901 Georgia ave.
es1psasa k1fasss punsp sih "a AND and Gr
Christisni Pharmacy: 7th and n:
Concord Pharmacy. las N. II. ava
Day & Co.. 9Th and G.
Days Pharmacy, uth and Park ROAD
ssaS m AND AND ss.: ss
HsIvsrs faaInssy. iiss sns Harvard.
Hutton & Hilton. End and 1.
kann s. Sons & Co.. Dept. Store. sth
Ko.s Pharmacy. 7th and Florida ave.
Maltby's Pharmacy. 1867 Calvert st.
Msysrs fs.rmaeg. nal~afS Fla: i1 awe ann and s.h
Nichols Pharmacy. 18th and Pa ave.
Reh:s n1s ehsImssx nnsrnaSy; asS and ssh e sh' -
Rhode Island Pharmacy. LIST and r. I; ave-
aDSey. s;%e.o, Phs5masy; Ne,;h 5s cap and a.. r.
Times Sub. Station. tsh II.
Times Sub. Station. l407 T
yeitch's Pharmacy. 2oth and N.
Wagners Pharmacy. LIST and H.
Union Station G;hTlstiani Phsrmacy1
Blumer's Pharmacy. n. Cap. and R
Columbia Pharmacy. lith and =;
rurhman Pharmacy. sth and e. Cap.
Geiger Pharmacy. 9Th and B.
sIn Modei PHARMACY. rnassfs s,h any AND Il. Il. ave
Mechssnsy Meccssnsy josehim 5osehim sna ss sn snd T.
New York Ave. Pharmacy. N. Cap. and ".
FsEsi Fsv,sl Iims +; II ,3,s sns az F. s c.s e.,
Tyree Pharmacy 18th and II.
Times Sub. Station. s2I II.
Arth q Co.. $50 Pa. ave
Hawkins. Pharmacy. .th and s Va. ave.
Pyweii Pharmacy. lith and x.
Sprucebank. II. E. & Co. 9Th and E. Cap.
Times Sub Station. sth and X.
Times Sub. Station. N3 b.
weIler's. sth and Eys- Eve
Hs5Si; ar. fha5%asS; SS.ss,GT ;Id ,s1s and e .
Times Sub. Station. Is ~ st.
Rooster Pharmacy. 33rd and M:
Daniel II. Smith Pharmacy. 18th and Dun
Morssp;s 81 Fhsrmssy. s,la,o 900 sssl I',
wellers Pharmacy. 3sA NJ
ANACOSTIA.
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RRooKLAND.
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Total net. Nav. 1878. l3i. s3s
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SUNDAY.
Total gross May. lsi3-...-..............iss.5 SOS
Average gross. Nav. 1919. .T.l57
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SPECIAL NOTICE

One extra nice road horse, We
think the best style horse in the city.
Also one good carriage horse. 16
hands high, with great style and ac-
ton.
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Is head of Virginia horses, shipped
by private party. These horses have
been at work in the stone quarries
and the kind you want to put to
work.
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CHAPTER XIV.
The Countess, the Cousin an dthe
Hr;%,r

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ACCIDENTS AND THE WEATHER

A certain railroad has made an in
teresting investigation which shows
that on it's system the number of ac-
cidents was greater in the summer
months than in winter 1t was also
discovered that the number of engine
failures was affected in like manner.
On this railway special efforts had al
ways been made to prevent failures
during the severe winter season, and
the men were kept up to high pitch
in their efforts to reduce them to
minimum. When the warmer weather
set in and the elements were more
favorable it was found that these eff
forts were relaxed, with the result
that failures and accidents followed
Special steps were made to overcome
this tendency. and it is now the prac-
ticc as early as January and February
FOR the officials of the mechanical en-
gineers department to put in hand a
campaign guarding against failures
when the warmer weather sets in and
the operating conditions become more
favorable. 1t is said that the results
Of this action have been remarkable;
the failures and accidents now record
ed being much fewer than for the
corresponding period of previous
years before anything was done in
the matter.
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Edwin Mitchell, an Old Soldier, De-
sires a Listener for His
War Stories.

Cincinnati. O.-Edwin Mitchell, CIV
ing his address as the National Mill
tary home, Dayton, and styling him.
self "a handy thing to have around,
wants some woman to adopt him. Peo-
pie have adopted cats and dogs, but
here is a man, forty-four years old,
who says he loves his pipe and to-
bacco, and who wants to be adopted
by a wife. Peculiar propositions are
received by newspapers every day, but
this one is so far out of the ordinary
that it bears repeating. The letter is
as follows:
Dear Mr.. Editor: Will you please
publish this in your valuable paper.
wish to give some woman who can al
ford it an opportunity to adopt man.
| would like some woman to adopt me
Just to sit down in the evenings and
listen to me relate some of my expe-
riences at sea and foreign countries,
my three days battle at San Juan
Hill, Cuba, and then, I'm very handy
article to have around Can adapt
myself to most anything and l do not
wish any salary. But the lady who
adopts me must give in return for my
docility and faithfulness enough to eat
and a place to sleep.
Nov. who wants to adopt this Won
derful animal-the first come, the first
served
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RAINCOATS MADE OF GRASS

In certain provinces of both the
Philippines and Mexico grass rain.
coats are commonly worn by the ma
tives. In both countries the volume
of the rainfall from the tropical show
ers is difficult of comprehension for
people in the United States. The rain
descends in almost solid sheets and
ordinary umbrellas are of no use what.
ever. These rains sift through the
best umbrellas in a fine, dense mist
and soak the user as effectively as
though he were uncovered. Not SO
with the grass raincoat. Although APP
parently light and airy the grasses
are SO cleverly woven that the water
never penetrates to the inside of the
mesh. These grass coats give the ma
tive wearers a shaggy appearance.
which battles description. BY reason
of their natural" color and appear
ance they also enable the hunter to
successfully stalk game, while II he
assumes stationary position most
animals and birds will unhesitatingly
approach within easy range of gun
or of the bow and arrow of the wilder
tribes.
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ENGINE DRIVER is BEHEADED
Man Loses Life on Wedding Annlven
sary Day In Peculiar
Manner.

New York-Peter Hansen, engineer
of the observation locomotive Cats.
kill" used by the president and other
high officials of the West Shore rail
road on their inspection tours over the
system, lost his life at the Weehawken
terminal in a strange way. He was
beheaded by freight engine near the
roundhouse, but just how it happened
the police could not learn. The Han
sens had been married five years and
1t was the anniversary of the wedding.
1t is supposed he was walking on or
close by the track when he was hit by
a freight engine that was moving
backward. The engineer Of this en-
CINE said he did not know he had run
over anybody and suspected nothing
until he saw Hansen's head roll down
the bank from the tracks.
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FORCED TO DINE ON BOOKS

With the exception of minerals, it
is difficult for one to find on the
earth's surface substances that do not
tempt the appetite of some sort of
animal. The list of queer articles OF
diet includes the earth, which is
munched with satisfaction by the clay
eater, and the walrus hide, which the
Eskimo relishes as much as John Bull
his joint of beef
1t is not generally known, however,
that men, as well as mice and book
worms, have eaten dinners that have
consisted only Of books.
In 1870 'Barnabo de Visconti COM
PEELED two papal delegates to eat the
bull of accommodation which they
had brought him, together with it's
silken cords and leaden seal. AS the
bull was written on parchment, not
paper, 1T was all the more difficult to
digest.
There was also an American gen.
eral who had signed note for 1000
forms, and when it fell due COM
PEELED his creditors to eat it. The tar
tars. when books fall into their pos
session, eat them, that they may
acquire the knowledge contained in
them,
A scandinavian writer, the author
of political book, was compelled to
choose between being beheaded or
eating his manuscript boiled in broth.
Isaac Volmar, who wrote some spicy
satires against Bernard, duke of Sax
ony. was not allowed the courtesy of
the kitchen, but was forced to swal-
low them uncooked.
Still worse was the fate of Philip
Oldenburger, jurist of great renown,
who was condemned not only to eat
a pamphlet of his writing, but also to
be fiogged during his repast, with
orders that the f1ogging should not
cease until he had swallowed the last
crumb.
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STATE Of NICARAGUA
Has Greatest Area of Any In
Central America.
Facts About Character, Resources and
History of the Country for Which
a United States Protectorate
Is Proposed.

New York.-O. all the Central Asaer-
lean states, Nicaragua has the great
est area The country is almost exact
ly as large as New York state.
The population of Nicaragua is
about 100000; that would give about
twelve inhabitants to each square
mile. There are few Europeans in Mic
aragua. The great mass of its popula.
ton consists of Indians, negroes. mu-
lattoes and mixed races. The popula-
ton descends chiefly from the native
Indians, from their Spanish conquer
ors and from the slaves introduced
during the colonial period Intermar-
riage with other South Americans, and
also with Europeans, has further COM
p,lcated the race situation. Hence in
Nicaragua we find half-castes with Eu-
ropean features and Indians with fair
hair and blue eyes.
Despite the fact that there is hardly
any immigration the population is in
creasing with great rapidity. Among
the Europeans in Nicaragua the Span
sh element is naturally the most
prominent
The capital of Nicaragua is Mana
qua, a city of some $4,000 people. 1t
is situated on the Lake of Managua.
The largest city in the republic, how
ever, is Leon, with about $4,000 people.
The chief ports are San Juan del Sur
on the Pacific, and Bluefields and Grey
town-the latter known to the Mic
araguans as San Juan del Norte~-on
the Gulf of Mexico.
Nicaragua is a typically tropical
country. 1t is a very rich country nat
urally. It's three main sources Of
wealth are agriculture, timber and
mining. In agriculture the chief prod
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Facaae OF National Palace, Managua.

Facaae OF National Palace, Managua.
uct is coffee. The coffee estates are
largely in American and German,
hands. Another important agricultural
product is cocoa. It is grown chiefly
in the south along the Pacific coast.
Sugar is also widely cultivated. To-
bacco is also grown; the leaf is good,
but as it is not well'cured it is not ex-
ported. Like many another region bor-
dering the Caribbean sea, Nicaragua
finds a profitable export in bananas,
which are grown in large quantities,
especially near Bluefelds. on the Gulf
of Mexico. <...:,. .ts...
AS to timber, the Nicaraguan forests
contain splendid mahogany and cedar
trees, the wood from which is largely
exported The forests also contain
many valuable dye woods, gums and
medicinal plants. Rubber is also
grown there.
AS to mining, the gold mines are
very important and are worked by
American and British companies. The
gold export averages a million dollars
year.
Nicaragua trades with the outside
world, but the volume of commerce
might be greatly extended. Of the ex-j
ports about third come to this coun-
try; the rest go chiefly to Great Bril-
tain. Germany and France OF the inn
ports more than half come from this
country, and the remainder mostly.
from the three countries above men-'
toned &
At Corinto the steamers of four.
shipping companies, two American and
two German, now regularly visit the
port The only railway in Nicaragua
is the so-called National railway, an
American concern having a total
length of about ITO miles. The line
runs from Corinto to Leon Managua,
and other cities. On the various lakes
steamers ply as we'll as on the San
Juan river. These lakes furnish, from
end to end, about d hundred and fifty
miles of navigation. There are, un-.
fortunately, few good wagon roads in
Nicaragua-The Outlook.
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WHY OUR CLOTHES WEAR OUT

The answer is giver as follows in
recent issue of the Outfitter Non-
DOM: Most people would reply through
friction when in wear and the wash
tub when not in wear, but these are
not the main causes, according to ad-
vanced ideas. 1t is believed the great
er cause of the damage done by dirt is
due to minute plants called bacteria.
The acid in the perspiration gets much
more than it's due amount Of credit.
An American writes: 1.-THE real de-
struction comes from the fact that the
grease from the fat glands of the skin,
together with the Precipitation rubbed
off on the clothing, form fertile soil
in which these microscopic bacteria
flourish" Some of the bacteria de-
velop powerful acids-that class that
makes sweet milk sour and converts
wine into vinegar These tlbers of
wool and silk, or the vegetable fibers
of linen and cotton, and weaken them
SO that the fabric falls to pieces. OF
course, clothing can be, and is, de-
stroyed by laundries that use chem
icals too strong, which act upon the
fibers of the cloth Clothes that can
not be washed should be brushed and
aired frequently, as this tends to keep
the germs out to a certain extent. II
clothes are allowed to accumulate
dust in shop or fixture they get
rotten and tear easily, owing to the
acid-forming bacteria getting in with
the dirt. They should be frequently
brushed, and exposed as much as pos
sible to the air.
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THE CIGARS CAREER

There is appropriateness in the dis
tinction of the Havana cigar. Of
course, Havana cigars may be made
Of tobacco from any part of Cuba;
hence, 1t may be true that Havana
cigars should really be called Cuban
cigars. and the cigars which the So
called civilized world first knew about
were made and smoked in that region.
Frequent essays are made by anti
quarians to show that the use of to-
bacco was known to the Chinese, or
the Hindoostanee, or the Egyptian.
ETC., ages before the practice was OBJ
served by the sailors of Columbus. Eff
forts in this direction have not been
successful or impressive. In a bulletin
Of the census of 1900, which was pre-
pared by John H. CARRIER, is para
graph dealing with this phase of the to-
bacco question.
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Has History With Which Few
Smokers Are Familiar.
Was First Seen in New WorId-Na-
tives Used Dried Leaves Of the
Tobacco Plant Rolled in
Corn Shuck.

Washington.-Men smoke thought
lessly. BY some the cigar is looked on
or pulled as an aid to digestion, as an
aid to reflection or as nothing but a
smoke producer. A great deal OF
modern reflection that has achieved re-
suits has been with the aid or under
the influence of the cigar.
There is no disposition here to
minimize the influence on mankind of
the pipe or the quid, but the present
main consideration is the cigar. And
while men do so much Of their think
ing while cigar smoke watts and curls
and eddies from their lips and gives
pleasure to their nostrils, is it not
strange that SO little of this thinking is
addressed to the cigar-that is, to its
history and to the romance and all
that which is EMBODIED and enwrapped
in the little brown bundle of leaves :?
But so it is.
The cigar has long history. To-
bacco may have been used in cigar
form before it was burned in pipes,
shifted as snuff or taken as quid, but
on this point there is no proof. Two
of the sailors under Columbus on the
first voyage reported that they had
seen natives of the new found world
with firebrands in their mouths and
with smoke issuing from their lips.
1t was found that these natives were
smoking the dried leaves of a plant
hitherto unknown to the Europeans,
and that the leaves were rolled in
corn shuck. On the second voyage of
Columbus natives of the West Indies
were found who pulverized dry to-
bacco leaves and snuffed the powder
up their noses.
The practice was discovered by a
Franciscan friar, Roman Pane, who ac-
companied Columbus. In the voyage
of 1902, when Columbus reached the
mainland of South America, natives
were found who chewed the cured leaf
of the tobacco plant. The use of the
plant was subsequently found to be
universal among the American alb
origines from Cape Horn to Hudson
bay, and the custom was immemorial.
buC WnSCuSF Tie cigar Is S0ulOI "
the pipe or quid is a difficult Ques-
ton. Even if the first reported use of
tobacco was in the form of firebrands
it does not follow that this was the
oldest form in which the plant was
used. At the time of the coming of
the Europeans tobacco was consumed
in one form or another by the Indians
from Canada to Pataganio, and espe-
cially in the form of smoking. 1t was
a habit that had been practiced for
such ages that the Indians had no ira
dition as to it's origin.
In an old account of how the indians
smoked tobacco, as observed by Column
bus men, is this:
Investigation revealed that the fire.
brands were made from the leaves of
tobacco, rolled and buried in a sheath
of Indian corn, and that the smoke was
inhaled for sensations of pleasure and
exhilaration. The instrument used for
inhaling the smoke was made from hol-
low cane, forked in the shape of the
letter "Y," the small end being insert
ed in the nostrils and the large end ap-
piled to the burning leaves"
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ANIMALS DON'T NEED EYES

Animals do not depend upon their
eyesight in the same way as human
beings. Cats and dogs could get along
very we'll without eyes. A cat can
f1d her way with the aid of her
wniskers. These are the same width
as her body and connected with
nerves which. cause her to feel the
slightest touch.
Dogs can be entirely guided by
their sense of smell. Blind dogs have
been known to scent and find their
way to almost inaccessible places.
Their hearing is also preternaturally
sharp.
Rats can see very little, and depend
chiefly upon their noses. muscles,
touch, and hearing. In the case OF
most ANIMALS the senses of smell and
touch are more highly developed than
that of sight. and they dovnot require
to depend upon their sight nearly as
much as do human beings in regard to
safety.
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flee also reporting he had found no
traces of Schroeder-Stranz in North
east Land.
Lieutenant Schroeder-Stranz, with
three companions, left the other mem
bers of his party last year to make a
practice trip on sledges across North
east Land, and they have not been
heard of since.
The object of the expedition was
to try to discover a northeast passage
None OF the IL Germans and five Nor
wegians composing the party had had
any arctic experience.
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DREAMED OF PEARL; GOT IT

E. D. Wermuth, camping near La
Crosse, Wis, dreamed he saw large
pearl lying on the bottom of the river.
He was so much impressed by the
vision that he dived into the water
at the point where he had seen the
pearl in his dream and brought two
large CLANS to the surface. In one of
them he found pearl worth $500 and
in the other one worth $50