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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-05-22

wood. his face hardly older than when
he had come to Vicques, but sterner
and sadder; his still soldiery gait less
buoyant than it had been five years
ago.
He saw Alike and Pietro coming
joyfully toward him, running light.
heartedly, calling to him with excited
gay voices. 1t stabbed the generals
heart; quick thought came of that
other who had been always with them,
now dead or worse. of that other whom
these two had forgotten. And with
that they were upon him, and Alike
was kissing him, hugging him, push
Ing letter into his hand, up his
sleeve, into his face-anywhere.
"Fatherzgood news-the best news
almost the bestl Father, be ready
for the good news!'
I am ready" the general growled
impatiently. What is this foolery !?
Sabre de bois! What is your news,
then, you silly child?"
And Alike, shaking very much, laid
her hand on his cheek and looked
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-05-22
SYNOPSIS.

Francois Beaupre, a peasant babe of
three years, after an amusing incident in
Whlcn Marshal New figures is made a
tnevalier OF France by the Emperor Ma
PoIeon, VINO prophesied that the boy
might one day be marshal of France
under another Bonaparte At the age Of
ten Francois visits General Baron Gas
pard Gourgaud. who with Alike his
seVen-year-old daughter, lives at the
GSnateau. A soldier of the Empire under
with stories of his campaigns. The gem
eral oilers Francois home at the Cha
Ieau The boy refuses to leave his pa
rents, but in the end becomes a copyist
snip between the general and Marquis
Aappl, who campaigned with the general
under Napoleon. Marquis Zappi and his
son, Pletro, arrive at the Chateau. The
general agrees to care for the Marquis
son While the former goes to America
Inc Marquis before leaving for America
asked Francois to be a friend of his SON
The boy solemnly promises. Francois
goes to the Chateau to live Marquis
Zappi dies leaving Pietro as ward of
the general Alike. Pietro and Francois
meet a strange boy who proves to be
FRINGE Louis Napoleon. Francois saves
MS life. The general discovers Francois
loves Alike, and extracts a promise from
girl and Pietro. Francois goes to Italy
as secretary to Pietro. Queen Hortense
plans the escape of her son Louis Ma
poleon by Disgusting him and Marquis
Mappi as her lackeys. Francois takes
Marquis Zappfs place. who is i'll. in the
escape of Hortense and Louis. Dressed
as Louiss brother Francois lures the
Austrians frcm the hotel allowing the
prince and his mother to escape. Fran
co.'s is a prisoner of the Austrians for
five years in the castle owned by Pietro
In Italy. He discovers in his guard one of
Pfetro's old family servants.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-05-22

And to Francois. considering It. the
fact seemed an odd one. And then
the governor set to work drinking
Pietro's wins. and little thought, az
he urged 1t on his prisoner. how much
more right to it the prisoner had than
he. 1t was wonderful old liquid.
full Of a strange dim sparkle, and OF
most exquisite bouquet. AS he drank
1t Francois silently toasted it's owner
on his return to his own again. He
took SO little as to disgust the gov
ernor, but 1t put fresh life into him.
and when at last he could leave the
count, who was by that time more
than fairly drunk, he went up to his
cold prison under the roof quieter and
more at peace than he had been for
months.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-05-22
CHAPTER XVII.
A Loaf of Bread

The next morning Battista came in
with manner which to the observing
eye of his prisoner foretold distinctly
some event. He talked more than
usual, and more gruffiy and loudly, but
at last, after wandering about the
room some minutes, all the time talk
ing. scolding. he swooped on Francois
and thrust thick paper into his coat
and at the same instant his heavy left
hand was over Francois mouth.
Not word" he whispered, and
then THE loaf of bread"
Francois, struck dumb and blind,
turned hot and cold, and his shaking
hand in his coat pocket clutched the
letter
But Battista prodded him with his
hard forefnger. BE careful" he NUT
tered, and then again, THE bread
with sharp prod-"The loaf of bread"
and the door had changed Battista
was gone.
A strong man, who had not been
shut away from life, would likely have
read the letter instantly, would in
stantly have examined the long round
loaf lying before him. Francois was
Ill and weak and it was the first word
for five years from his own people,
which lay in his hand; he sat as if
turned to stone, touching the paper as
if that were enough; he sat perhaps
fifteen minutes.
Then suddenly a breathlessness
came over him that something might
he y, ;e,
writing which, whatever it should say,
meant life and death to him. Taking
care not to rustic the paper, deaden-
ing the sound under his bedclothes,
he read it, kneeling by the bed 1t was
four letters-from his mother and
Alexe and the general and Pietro;
but the first three were short He felt,
indeed, reading them, that no words
had been written, that only the arms
of the people he loved had strained
about him and their faces laid against
his, and that SO, wordlessly, they had
told him but one thing-their undying
love. Weak, lonely, his intense tenn
permanent stretched to the breaking
point by the last three months of fear
full hope, it was more than he could
bear He put the papers against his
cheek and his head dropped on the
bed, and storm of tears tore his soul.
and body. But it was da ,gerous; he
must not be off his guard he remem-
bered that swiftly, and With shaking
fingers he opened Pietros letter.
Pietro's letter which. yell ,wed and
faded but distinct yet, in the small
clear writing, is guarded today with
those other letters in the mahogany
desk in Virginia. 4
MY dear brother Francois" the let
Ter began, and quick tears came again
at that word brother" which said so
rpuch. My dear brother Francois
this is not to tell you how | have
searched for you and never forgotten
you. will tell you that when see
you. This is to tell you how to get
cut OF that house of mine which has
geld you as a prisoner when you ought
20 have been its welcome guest. When
italy is free we will do that over; but
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-05-22
CHAPTER XVI.
The Stone Staircase.

Battista's prisoner stood at the
barred window high up the steep side
of the castle and stared out wistfully
at the reeeding infinfty of blueness-
his meadow. In the three months
since his letter had gone to France, he
had grown old. The juices of his
youth seemed dried up; his eyes were
bloodshot, his skin yellow; there was
no flesh on him. The waiting and
hoping had worn on him more than
the dead level of the hopeless years
before. There was a new tenseness
in the. Hghtly-built figure, even in the
long. delicate, strong fingers. The
prisoner had caught whiff of the air
OF home and was choking for a fun
breath.
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CHAPTER XIV.
Good News.

GOOD News.
In the garden of the chateau of
V1cques, where the stiff, gray stone
vases spilled again their hearts blood
OF scarlet and etching of vines; where
the Two stately lines of them led down
to the sundial and the round lawn-on
one of the griffin-supported stone seats
Alike and Pietro sat, where Alike and
Francois had sat five years before.
AS they sat in the garden, they had
been going over the pros and cons of
his life or death for the thousandth
time. Pietro's quiet gray eyes were
sad as he looked away from Alike and
across the lawn to the beech wood.
God knows l would give my life
quickly if | could see him coming
through the trees there, as we used to
see him, mornings long ago, in his
patched homespun clothes"
Alike followed the glance consider
ingly, as if calling up the little, brown,
trudging figure SO well remembered.
Then she tossed up her head sharply
Who ?"-and then she laughed. 81
shall be seeing visions next, like Fran
co.'s" she said. Il thought it was he
back in the beech wood"
Il see no one" Pietro stared.
But you have no eyes, Pietro-I can
always see thing two minutes before
you" Alike threw at him. 'There-the
man
"Oh," said Pietro. "Your eyes are
more than natural, Alike. You see in
to wood; that is uncanny. Yes, l
see him now. Mon dieu! he is a big
fellow"
"A peasant-from some other vii
lage," Alike spoke carelessly. 81 do
not know him." and they went on talk
ing, as they had been doing, of Fran
co.'s.
And with that, here was Jean Phil
lippe Moison, forty now and fat, but
still beautiful in purple millinery, adj
vancing down the stone steps between
the tall gray vases, making a sym
paony of color with the rich red of the
flowers. He held silver tray; alet-
ter was on it.
For mademoiselle."
Mademoiselle took it calmly and
glanced at it, and with that both the
footman and the Marquis Zappi were
astonished to see her fall to SILVER
ing, as if in a sudden illness. She
caught Pietro's arm. The letter was
clutched in her other hand thrust back
of her.
"PietroI"
What is it. Alixe?" His voice was
quiet as ever, but his hand was arounc
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-05-22

her shaking fingers, and he held them
strongly. What is 1t, Alixe?''
She drew forward the other hand;
the letter shook. rustled with her
trembling. 1T is-from Francois!"
Jean Philippe Moison having
stayed to listen, as he ought not, lift
ed his eyes and his hands to heaven
and gave thanks in a general way,
volubly, unrebuked BY now the un-
steady fingers of Alike had opened the
paper, and her head and Pietro's were
bent over it, devouring the welI-known
writing. Alike. excited. French, ex.
ploded into disjointed running COM
ment
From prison-our Francofs-dear
Francois!" And then: Five years.
Pietro! Think-while we have been
ktss!" And then, with a swift clutch
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-05-22

we must get you free first. Francois,
am now within five miles of you
The man on his knees by the prison
bed gasped; the letters staggered be-
fore his eyes.
Il am living on ship, and I will
explain how | got it when | see you, in
a few days now, Francois. Every night
for a week, beginning with tonight,
there will be person watching for
you in Riders Hollow, from midnight
till daylight. After that we shall go
away for two weeks so as to avoid Civ
ing suspicion, and then repeat the ar
rangement again every night for
week. You do not know Riders Hol-
low. and it is unnecessary to tell you
more about it than that il is lonely
place hidden in trees, and supposed to
be haunted by ghosts OF men on horse
back; the people about will not go
there for love or money except by,
broad daylight.
CTO BE CONTINUED)
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U'1e may be better than his reputa-
tion or his conduct. but never better
than his NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
The Sentinel=record., 1914-02-18
TWO HOME WOMEN
 TALKED ABOUT HAIR

Two women met in our store the other day, when one of them said:
 My, how pretty your hair looks' What have you been doing to it?'
 Why, l have been using Harmony Hair Beautifier for the past two weeks was the reply.
 Why. Indeed!" replied the first woman that is just what l am using. Isn't it great. and don't you think my hair shows lot of improvement?'
 Harmony Hair Beautifler is becom' ing all the rage among both men and women who are particular in the care of their hair It is just what it is named--a har beautifier It seems to polish and burnsh the hair, making it glossy, silkysoft, and more easy to put up in graceful, wavy folds that "stay put" Contains no oil, and will not change color of hair nor darken it. Simply sprinkle q little on your hair each time before brushing it.
 To keep your hair and scalp free and clean, use Harmony Shampoo. This liquid shampoo gives an instan- taneous rich, foaming lather that im- mediately penetrates to every part of the hair and scalp. insuring d quick and thorough cleansing. It is washed off just as quickly the entire opera ton taking only a few moments liar mony Hair Beautifier, $1.00' liar mony Shampoo, soc Both guaranteed to satisfy you in every way, or your money back. Sold only at the more than 1000 Rexali Stores. and in this town only by us. Morris Drug Co. and Public Drug Co., Hot Springs, 1 Ark
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A REMARKABLE TRIBUTE.
To the sentlneI4Record's Enterprise

Yesterday was the sixth coupoA day for the great Heart Songs dis tribution now being made by the Sentinel-Record While we knew when we first joined the powerful syndicate Ef newspapers, all over the United States. in the present dis. tribution enterprise, that we were ren, dering a service unique in its adyant- age 10 our readers, we did not fully realize the extent to which they would go in seizing the opportunity
 But the first distribution day, yes. terday, discounted cur most sanguine estimates so greatly that We have been compelled to place rsuh orders with the publishers for copies far in excess of our previous allotment
 The popular reception of this uni sue volume, as evidenced yesterday, emphatically confirms our judgment. and we admonish our readers to lose no time in cutting their six couponA at once that they may be able Q NffHi0 AiltiA NOPg Niiitt tue HtpB4N called for by our contract is still available
 The publishers of this remarkable book spent four years in getting from all over the world expressions from 10000 people as to their fayorite songs. The final collection eompris- ing thousands of tuneful melodies that had their birth during the past century, was carefully and critically pruned by two of the most distinguish. ed American musicians, Victor Her bert and George w. Chadwick. ia. nous for their own compositions, and resulted in the book called by inspir ation Heart Songs" The announce ments, appearing almost daily in our advertising columns. fully and explic itly set forth the merits of the vol tune, and the coupon which appears daily in this paper, explains the terms on which it may be had.
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BONDS KEPT HERE.

Securities sold over the counter as method of providing funds for pub. lie necessities is the latest from St Paul, and shows what can be done by wlde-awake people when they get about it in the right way
 St Paul had to make a bond ssne. Under ordinary conditions the bonds woud have to be marketed in the money centers But St Paul decided 10 look after St Paul, so the bonds were put lover the counter in $l0 slices.
 iiot Springs Is tonight considering an improvement district plan to raise money for good roads, It will re- qulre a whole lot of money. A bond issue is the only way to raise lot of money. Besides. bond issue strings out the cost of permanent improvement in the manner it should be handled
 Suppose bonds are issued say per cent bonds Under the old pan they would be sold on premiums in the money centers But suppose the St. Paul plan Is adopted. and the bonds are dealt out in blocks Of $1O. and any citizen may invest?
 The advantage is this. A property owner whose property is the security for the bonds, may in turn make a and from the interest cn the bonds he holds, meet the expense of the extra assessment.
 The bonds St. Paul issued can be cashed in any minute for their face value, plus the interest earned be cause the security is sufficient to make the bonds always of full face value. In St. Paul 2,OOO citizens are bondholders in the city. Suppose 1000 citizens of this city were to in terest themselves in stock or bonds in behalf of good roads. It would mean large corporation of public men with their eyes on the work, and their hearts in the worE
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TO RENEW COMPLEXION
 WITHOUT COSMETICS
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tFFOm The Derl1atOlOglSI.
 If the excessive user of cosmetics only knew the impression her arti- ficality really makes upon others. she would quickly seek means of gaining a natural complexion. Let her ac- quire the mercolized wax habit, dis carding makeups entirely. and she will soon have the kind of complexion that women envy and men admire. It's so easy to get an ounce of mer- coized wax at any drugstore, use nightly like cold cream and wash it off mornings And the results are so remarkable Gradually the lifeless cuticle peels off, in almost invisible flaliy particles. In a week or SO there's brand new complexion, clear, velvety-soft of girlish colcr and texture The treatment is so simple, harmless and maryelously effective the wonder is that every woman whose skin is withered discolored, rough chapped, frecked CT pimpled, has not already adopted it.
 Let wrinkled women quit pastes and massage creams which mar the skin still more and try this more sensible treatment: Dissolve O. powdered saxolite in l-2 pint witch hazel; use as a face bath. Every line will quickly disappear
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Lester Home Hotel
Union House.

Union House.
 No runners or solicitors employed. The best meal in Hot Springs at the price. Board and room. $5,5O and $60O per week. Home cooking served family style; good, clean, large rooms, quiet and home like, close in. All wis itors and c. l. A. welcome.
 MRS. LESTER, Propiretreess. $40 Benton St. Phone 1872.
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GET TT AT HALLS.

Methodist Minister Recommends
 Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
 Rev. James A. Lewis, Milaea, Minn,, writes: Chamberlain Cough Rem edy has been a needed and welcome guest in our home for a number oi years. I highly recommend 1t to my fellows as being a medicine worthy of trial in cases of colds. coughs and croup" Give Chamberlain Cough Remedy a trial and we are confident you will find it very eftectual and continue to use it as occasion requires for years to come, as many others have done. For sale by all dealers.
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There will not he lacking uncharit- abie persons 10 say that the man who gave his automobile to the farmer whose horse he killed collided with the animal with malice aforethought.
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There is still a chance for the loyal Southern Democrat to get a bite at the pie. All of the jobs which Colonei Goethals was offered are refused will have to be filled by somebody or the other
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Norway has sent woman diplo' mat to be secretary of her delegation in Mexico, apparently moved to do so by the desire to offset the tacinrn John Lind
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From the Arkansas State Fair to the Panama-Paeific will not be iaf cry when Arkansas is really given credit for It's product
The Sentinel=record., 1914-02-18

Gahy des Lys has sued Gertrude Hoffman for damages on the ground that the fair Gertie was initiating the equally fair Gaby's dances, and there seems just a bare chance that she will win the suit.
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President Fordyce of the State Fair Association has spent so much time directing directors that his gnidng hand is bound to prove of far-reach' ing advantage
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Young Morgan is said to spend $40. GOO per annum at college Getting an education at college is always more expensive than getting it in col lege.
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An Oklahoma man looking for jog recently picked up bottle of mule liniment and drank 1t off by mistake. And like as not he has been kicking himself ever since.
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Some learned phiogist has discov- cred that dog latin is a dead Ian enase. and 1t is safe guess that i, didn't die Of hydrophobia, either
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MYERS & EDWARDS

Any parties desiring to let con tracts in stone, concrete or brick please submit your plans to us before awarding your contracts. Am now stopping at Townsend Hotel. VIII leave in a few days for Davenport, Okla, where you may reach me hy mail. or submit your plans in brief to w. E. Myers, Cushing. Okla.
 R. D. EDWARDS.
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The state fair can be staged again at least lend its endorsement
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But even al that Senator Gore wasn't SO slow for q blind man.
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Get out tonight and join in the good reads work.
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largest patronage when we have the best weather and most inviting resort.
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The Weather Man Is doing his part nobiy.
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LONGWORTH'S s MARKET, SIG Nal
 vern avenue Phone 2212. Prompt delivery. l-27-tf
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Of course we ought to have the
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TRUNKS AT HALLS.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-06-06
By James
j Corbeff
Former Heavyweight Champion
OF the, World.

round CWhether lucky OF not does not enter
into the argunent), and the champion was
succeeded in staying the fuTl- distance 1lud.-
TINS tremendous disadvantage is a tribute
10 ms ganeness and ring generalship.
IL was Just one OF those things that fire.
quently happen IN boxing and which SIM
Ply cant be explained satisfactorily
Match Called Off.
New York boxing fans were handed o,-
other lemon the other evening. About 1903
70 Jim IWyfOrd's new boxing uavIIior 10 -
trea w elsh and Johnny Dundee In a 10
round exhibition After several ureIlr1irsriss
had been fought Joe Humphries offIrf-I an
noC1cer, informed the crowd thar there
half the sum the MATCHMAKER had 49,
fused TO accept smaller sums
The boxers are not 10 be blamed for +be
fiasco- They were on the spot ready TO 1--we
up 10 their contracts The receipts a-7,71-,t-
were TO get SSOo0 between them me SIM
owners are the ones who should be called -
and 1t ought 10 be good and hard too ] don't
llke 70 see any one deprived Of his chance
to earn his living. but II ever a cTub Tesr~T-a5
TO lose its license the TWyford A. c. Is me
The boxing commissioners ought to punish
someone for the failure TO keep faith with
boxers and public II a boxer does not re-
shouldn't the sans treatment be handed 10
a promoter who refuses to make good?"
ScW York Is ssEasvs
New 4orkers ike 10 be bunked apparent
~ as they seldom make a big kick ne their
fellows IN other cities do when thew ara
slipped raspberry" The other night the
fans took the announcement without a
grumble and submitted To standing I'm line
several hours 10 get their money back There
Is no other city in the country where the
public Is made 10 like it, as IN Gotham
In Milwaukee the promoters Of the Ritchle-
White match lost several thousands OF dol
lars. but there was not a thought enter
tanned OF cancehng the match Tom An
M lie .Fr#
and let It go at that. But New York
matchmakers are not gated that way with
the possible exception OF Billy Gibson. and
what IS worse they get away with their
rough work time and again.