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is your errand? To ask uuestions?'
A patient smile crossed the face OF
the Corsican.
The war master turned upon his
visitor with almost savageness.
"Who--who sent you?" he cried.
"Jan Bedanow." replied the Corsi
can. The war masters shoulders
raised in suspense, fell to their nor
NAL angle.
Il do not remember him." he said.
"You never knew him." said the Cor
sican. His name is not In any book
that you have SEEN"
You knew him?" asked the wal
master, "fn-in life?"
Il killed him." said the Corsican.
II hanged his SON at Lonceville be.
cause he would not guide US through
an ambushed valley. He was a peas
ant. His father was an old man, and
bedridden. The shock, administered
by me, killed him"
"And now?" said the war master.
"Now," said the Corsican, Jan
Bedanow sends me on the errand to
YOU"
The war master took a step for.
ward.
You! You are at the beck and
call of peasants fathers?"
Where l come FROM" said the Cor.
sican's even voice, there are no peas.
ants, no war MASTERS, no first con.
suls."
But this errand for Jan Bedanow,"
said the war master.
1T will help me-" replied the Cor.
sican. ito repair the wrong. In an.
other hundred years, or a thousand,
or a million-as men count time-I
may do something more. If occasion
fortunately should arise. to make
amends"
i see,' conceded the war master
And what of other-of other things
which are in the histories?"
Each in its turn" said the Corsi.
can, but Jan Bedanow's matter first"
The war master leaned across the
map-strewn pine table. his eyes
afiame.
you mean," he choked, that that
is all-all there is-beyond-for one
like you-or-"
"Or you," said the Corsican in his
even tone. 1T is all the same for all.
The South American who kills with
his blowgun is on even footing with
the chancellor who kills with his pen.
All the trappings and the titles remain
here-for Inheritance"
The war master stood up.
Il shall not change my plans" he
said stiffiy.
Il do not ask you to-" said the Cor
sican. my business is not yours, but
Jan Bedanow's."
"AnG that" said the war master.
SIS what?"
con the road near Effneau," an.
swered the Corsican, you will find
at the crossroads beside the corner
of the Gray Forest, little triangle
in which there is a grave. 1t is the
grave of Jan Bedanow's wife. When
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WONDERFUL REMEDY IN
TIME TO SAVE WOMAN
Mira. Williams Gets on Way 70 Health
After First Dose Of
Treatment.

Mrs. Peter Williams Of 2749 Eight.
eenth st., s. Minneapolis, was desper-
stely III with stomach trouble. She
laced the probability of an operation.
After taking Mayr's Wonderful
Remedy, discovered for her by a kind
friend, she found herself on the way
back to health. Mrs. Williams wrote:
Il have taken Mayrs Wonderful
Remedy for the fourth time and am
feeling like new woman. / am en-.
trely out OF pain. had been sick
for eighteen months and four of our
best doctors could do nothing for me.
They all agreed that an operation
was the only thing. One day a man
told my husband Of your remedy and
that night he brought It nome to me-"
Mayr's Wonderful Remedy gives per-
manent results for stomach, liver and
Intestinal ailments. Eat as much and
whatever you like. No more distress
after eating. pressure Of gas in the
stomach and around the heart. Get one
bottle Of your druggist now and try Il
on an absolute guarantee-if not salts
factory money will be returned.-Adv.
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am a blower of glass. Yet France
calls US together, perhaps to die side
by side, even Jean Renault the great
and Antoine Marceau who earns ten
francs the day. Such is fate. So
France Wills
Van der Wypt spoke up. What is
the fee for the release of conscript ~
he asked the officer. Il will gladly
pay any sum you ask to free Nj. Re-
nault from service. / will buy sub
stitute for him"
The soldier smiled. There will be
no substitute" he said. IF there
were men available for substitution
We would draft them, too. France
calls all-rich and poor alike"
Renault paled. Then the dramatic
side of the situation appealed to him.
He turned to Alys.
Dear heart" he said, Il go to war.
| go for France and for thee. No
longer shall be a soldier of the foot
lights-a make-believe warrior with
tin sword against a singing enemy.
From this moment am a soldier Of
France. / shall show them. 1, Jean
Renault, shall return to thee not only
the greatest Of living tenors. but a
wearer of the Legion d'Honneur-a
hero of this war with Germany. Bah.
May l encounter this boaster Berg.
hoff. He is less than the shadow of
a dog-a miserable whining conscr,pt
who cannot even beat time with a
baton let alone parry the sword
thrusts of Jean Renault!"
Then, with the instinct of a dra-
matte exit, he strobe from the garden
while the saber of the soldier accom-.
panying him clanked against the
stones.
A few hours later Jean Renault,
who had not seen military service for
five years. stood uniformed and armed
at the railway station, not In the cen.
ter of the stage, but one of a COM
pany of pale-faced, nervous recruits
about to entrain for the frontier. Yet
even under these conditions Renault
enjoyed a certain distinction. His
companions knew him, held him in
awe, the greatest of French tenors.
They boarded the cars. The train
moved, and Jean Renault, soldier of
France, was being hurried toward the
enemy.
The journeys end arrived. The
men were hastily formed into line be-
side the railroad track. There was
a sharp command and the company
moved on toward the site chosen for
their camp.
Night came, and with It a feeling
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your majesty's troops pass that way
they would naturally, owing to the
width of the column, ride across this
triangle of grass. They would, per
haps without meaning to, break down
| the wooden emblem-an emblem ia.
miliar to us both-which lies almost
hidden in the weeds"
Yes" said the war master.
What 1 ask, on behalf of Jan Beda.
| now, is that this be avoided"
"On the road, near Effneau," repeat.
ed the war master.
YES" said the Corsican, you must
pass it on your way to" He did
not speak the word, but his shadowy
finger pointed to a place on the map.
The war master sprang back as If
from a blow
How do you know" he cried. that
l am going there?"
The Corsican smiled YEARLY.
Il would have known" he said,
even if | did not come from where
everything is known. / would have
because l knew, in the years ago, the
minds of men who plan on paper
would have known that you were GO
ing there. And /, at the other end.
would have been waiting for you"
will they be ready for me to.
morrow whispered the war master.
The Corsican shrugged his shout.
ders.
Have they my mind?" he coun
tered; "or even Wellingtcn's?"
But tell mel" cried the war master
1T were better for the whole world
"The whole world" Knocked the
Corsican. "A tiny, whirling thing or
which there is nothing so important
to me now as the grave of Jan Bed
anow's wiSe. Goodnight. your mai
esty!"
The tent flaps fluttered as he went
Now it was darker and the eye of the
war master could not follow. H.l
seized the telephone.
won Zohn," he said - the marsha
at the other end of the line, 81 have
decided to ride at the head of the col
umn in the morning-at least as faJ
as the corner of the Gray Forest"
Then he leaned back and let lis
gaze, once more Unlicensed, fall rpor
the lane of the guard. The noon
light. seeping through the disappear
ing haze, glowed feebly on the brass
eagles OF the helmeted giants.
And that is all?" he mu.tered
Nothing more than that? / wonder,'
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Rose Tree eioomed at chrls,ma..

Rose Tree Bfoomed at Christmas.
A pretty story Of a rose which
bloomed at Christmas In front of some
trenches occupied by German regi-
ment OF guards In France is told In
the Frankfurter Zeftung. The rose
bush was growing in huge hole torn
by q shell in front OF the guards
trenches. The little plant soon be-
came the Jealous care Of every man
OF the company before whose trench
1t grew. To their intense delight, on
Christmas eve the rose tree bloomed.
The company decided to send the rose
to the emperor. The kaiser was de-
lighted and promptly ordered the poet,
Richard Voss, to write poem about
the incident. The poem has now
been printed, and copy of IL Is to
be sent to every guardsman con-
cerned In the affair.
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feet and what did do was by great
effort. / could not sleep at night and
of course felt very bad in the morning.
and had a steady headache.
"After taking the second bottle no
ticed that the headache was not so bad,
rested better, and my nerves were
stronger. / continued its use until ie
made q new woman Of me, and now
can hardly realize that I am able to do
80 much as do. Whenever know any
woman in need Of a good medicine
highly praise Lydia E Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound Mrs. FRANK
CLARK, 9146 N. Tulip St., Richmond, Pa.
Women Have Been Telling Women
for forty years how Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has restored their
health when suffering with female ills.
This accounts for the enormous demand
for it from coast to coast If you are
troubled with any ailment peculiar to
women why don't you try Lydia E
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound? Il
will pay you to do so. Lydia e. Pink
ham Medicine Co., Lynn. Mass.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-04-16
WOMAN WOULD
NOT give UP
Though Sickand Suffering; At
Last Found Help in Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound.
Richmond, Pa. =" When started
taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable

Compound Twas in q
dreadfully rundown
state Of h health.
b ad internal trou-
bles, and was 80 ex-
tremely nervous and
Frustrated that if /
had given in to my
fe elings I would
have been IN bed
AS it W $ / b ad
hardly strength at
fip,oa 90 ho IN u,v,
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II men were judged by their neck
ties not more than one In every 500
would pass an examination.
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eHort' began some conciliatory speech,
Ine young girl smiled with a certain
SAD patience, and, turning toward
Judge OStrander, said as she softly
withdrew:
You have been very kind to allow
me to mention a name and discuss q
subject you have expressly forbidden
want to show my gratitude, Judge
Ostrander, by never referring to it
again without your permission. That
you KNOW my mind"-here her head
rose with a sort of lofty pride which
lent a dazzling quality to her usually
quiet beauty-"and that | know yours
is quite enough for me-"
"A noble girl! a mate for the best!"
Tell from the judges lips after a 81.
ience disturbed only by the faint, far
OH murmur OF slowly dispensing
throng,
Deborah made no answer. She
could not yet trust her courage or
her voice.
Inc judge, who was STANDING. near,
concentrated his look upon her fea-
lures "Madam!"-he was searching
her eyes, searching her very soul, as
h4Pn seldom search the mind of an
other. You believe in the truth Of
these calumnies that have Just been
shouted in our ears. You believe
what they say of Oliver. You, with
every prejudice in his favor; with ev-
cry desire to recognize his worth!
you, who have shown yourself ready
10 drop your husbands cause though
you consider It an honest one, when
you saw what havoc it would entail
to my boys repute. You belieye-and
On what eyidence?" he broke in. Be
cause Of the picture and the Coincl.
dence Of his presence in the ravine?"
Yes"
But these are puerile reasons" He
was speaking peremptorily now and
with all the weight Of master mind.
And you are not the woman to be
satisfied with anything puerile. There
is something back of all this; some
thing you have not impaired. What
is that something? Tell-tell-"'
oliver was a mere boy in those
days and a very passionate one. He
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DETERMINED TO LIVE LONG
Prof. Metchnikoff Has Proved That
Early Death Need Not Be
Matter of Heredity.

Professor Metchnikoff of the French
Pasteur institute takes such a per-
sonal interest in the question of the
pTOlOngatiOn of life that some Of his
brother scientists in moments of ex-
pansion make sarcastic remarks, de-
clarfng that such anxiety betrays
weakness unworthy of true scientific
investigator
When Professor Metchnikoff cele.
brated his SEVENTEEN birthday recent
ly many Of his coworkers gathered in.
formally in his laboratory and wished
him many happy returns. The profess
6or made little speech in which he
said that his own life was an example
of what could be done by science in
combating a hereditary tendency to
die young,
All his ancestors died very young
and he himself believed he was about
to die at the age of f1fty-two when he
was stricken by a malady usually
fatal. From that time he determined
10 try to live long. He set up to work
to study the causes Of the bodys wear.
ing out and fought every destructive
agent that he could discover. He fol-
lowed very strict regime and now
feels we'll and thinks he may live sev.
eral, perhaps many, years more.
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Wrong DIAGNOSIS.

One Of the prominent clubs of this
city gave contract for the decoration
of their building in honor of the visit
of the fleet, and the decorator con-
ceived the idea that the word wei
come" spelled out in signal flags would
be an appropriate and beautiful design
for the front wall, over the entrance.
He asked naval officer for directions,
and, following the code which said
officer wrote cut for him, very inter
esting result was obtained. Judge of
the surprise of the contractor when an
army officer, happening by, asked: do
you know what you have written?"
why, welcome" stammered the
decorator.
Not by long shot" said the army
officer. "You have got up there, ITO
h with the army. Life.
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SYNOPSIS

,,rc crowd of neighbors invade
il.n-ious home of Judge Ostrdnder,
s,dge and eccentric recluse, fol-
". NY yelled woman VINO proves 10 De
sls ;,ov Of a man tried before the Judge
e sIu,,rocuted for murder years before.
% ' issnaSter is engaged to the judges
~ sar ,e whom he is estranged, but the
. Y. ll'II IL between the lovers, She plans
lsa bsr husbands memory and asks
w I Aid. Deborah ScOville reads
% w.. ,stsnaper clippings telling the story
2 ls9 r,pprder of Algernon Etheridge by
!. Seville In Dark Hollow, twelve
!. before The judge and Mrs. SEQ
~ ssat al SpenCer's Folly and she
Elm lin how. on the day Of the muir
wv w saw the shadow of a man, whit
stck and wearing a long peaked
me Ne iydge engages her and her
~ psuther to live with him in his
i.s ..sus home. Deborah and her law
g''i u,sk 90 to the police station and
rs stick used to murder Etherldge,
5,eoyers broken knife-blade point
sisj in Il. Deborah and Reuther go
iIys WITH the judge. Deborah sees a
s.sit n Oliver, the Judges son, with a
M b,Ha painted across the eyes, That
", s sss finds, In divers room, a cap
n +, M rsak like the Swallowed one. and
IN. NTH broken blade-pOint. Anon
l nm letters and a talk with Miss
r ~. Increase her suspicions and fears,
1. sr6s that Oliver was In the raVtne
!. no murder night. Black warns her
! \ shows her other anonymous letters
,4rg at divers guilt. In the court
IN ibe Judge is handed an anonymous
n me note is picked up and read
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
WAVES HIGH UP IN RANK
Sufferer From Effects of High Sea
Was Designating Them as He
Watched Their Approach.

A New York man was crossing the
Atlantic with an army officer who suf.
fered greatly from seasickness.
On entering the stateroom one par.
ticularly rough day he found the off,
Ger tossing in his berth, muttering in
what at first appeared to be a sort of
delirium.
STOPPING over to catch his words,
the friend heard him say: Sergeant
major sergeant major
-. brigadier general =. ugh, lieuten-
ant general ;. a-a-a-h!"
What are you saying?" asked the
friend in some alarm, as the sufferer
looked piteously up at him after his
last gasping "a-a-ah!"
Assigning the waves their ran6,"
said the military man, rolling toward
the wall again. There have been
eight lieutenant generals within the
last twenty minutes"
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police headquarters. and there in rnt
wood detected and pointed out .
trife of steel which never came from
the unbroken blades Of the knife taken
from Johns pocket"
Fallen was the proud head now and
fallen the great mans aspect. If he
spoke it was to utter a low "Oiver!
Oliver"
The pathOs of 1.-THE heart-rending
wonder in the tone brought the tears
to Deborahs eyes and made her last
words very difficult.
But the one great thing which
gives to these facts their really dan.
gerous point is the mystery you have
made Of your life and of this so-caled
hermitage. If you can clear up that,
you can afford to ignore the rest"
The misfortunes of my housed" was
his sole response. The miSfortunes
OF my hOuse!"
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hated Etheridge-the obtrusive men.
tor who came between him and your.
self"
"Hated?"
Yes, there is proof"
He did not ask where. Possibly he
knew. And because he did not ask
she did not tell him, holding On to her
secret in vague hope that SO much
at least might never see light.
Il knew the boy shrank sometimes
from Algernon's company" the judge
admitted, after another glance at her
face; but that means nothing In a
boy full of his own affairs. What else
have you against him? Speak up!
can bear 1t ALL
He handled the stick that-that-"
Never! Now you have gone mad,
madam"
81 would be willing to end my days
in an asylum If that would disprove
this fact"
But, madam, what proof-what rec.
son can you have for an assertion so
monstrous?"
You remember the shadow | saw
which was not that Of John Scoville"
The person who made that shadow
was whiting stick; that was a trick
of divers. have heard that he even
whitfield furniture"
Good Cod" The judges panoply
was pierced at last.
They tried to prove, as you will
remember, that 1t was John who thus
disfgured the bludgeon he always car
ried with pride. But the argument
was a sorry one and In itself would
have broken down the prosecution had
he been man of better repute. Now,
those few chips taken from the handle
of this weapon will carry different
significance. For In my folly asked
to see this stick. which still exists at
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
Conhictinu.

What is the matter with the par
son and the doctor that they cannot
agree?"
1.-THE parson says the doctor is so
contrary. Just as soon as he gets a
man properly prepared for the next
world the doctor goes to work and
cures him."
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
SHOULD COOL OFF GRADUALLY
Mistake to Turn The Hose on Per-
spring Team, Is the Assertion
of Veterinarian.

In this hot weather there are al
ways number of fools who think
they are kind to their horses when
they turn hose on them and drench
them with cold water to thoroughly
cool them off, said a veterinarian as
he stopped a driver from throwing
water over his perspiring team. If
the horse is oVerheated,' he contin-
ued, the shock of such bath on
the region where the kidneys are sit
uated is enough to kill it, and even if
1t does no apparent harm the horse
will succumb much more readily to
the heat afterWard. After a horse has
been working in the broiling sun It
should be cooled off as gradually as
possible. The first thing to do is to
take sponge and wash out its mouth.
This removes the saliva, which is poi
sonous, and refreshes the animal
greatly, before it can be allowed to
have drink. After this the horse
should have its four legs bathed-the
hind ones as far as its launches, the
front ones up to the chest. Then it
Is safe to wet its head, neck and the
part OF its back Immediately behind
the neck. Care should be taken, how
ever, to keep the region of the kid
neys perfectly dry. This habit of
driving team up before fire en-
CINE house and playing hose irdis-
criminately over their bodies is &C
countable for the death of many good
horses every summer"
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(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Destroying the Mosquito.

The way to destroy the mosquito In
It's larval stage is to pour little ker.
osene on the surface of the pool or
stream inhabited by the Industrious
wiggler, The oil shuts out the sup
ply of oxygen from the water be-
meath. The Wiggler rises tail first to
the surface and tries to force his
breathing tube through the thin layer
of oil. He fails and promptly dies
from suffocation--a suitable deatL for
SO fratricidal an insect.
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interesting Comparison.

1T beats all how luck does play ia.
vorites," remarked Farmer Corntossel.
Il 1es' been to see Ezra Hankins."
"How's he gettin along since he hurt
his foot7"
Hes purity glum. The doctor
charged him a hundred dollars fur cut.
tin his foot off. An when the rail.
road cut Uncle Jake's foot the com.
pany paid him six hundred in cash.
Maybe these great corporations amt
as graspin' as some people says"
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steams within a hundred yards of the
whale. A man with steady nerves and
quick aim is at the cannon, and In an
instant there is a fash and the great
harpoon is hurled through the air
With unerring aim 1t plunges into the
whales side, the wings on the cross
bar suddenly flying horizontal and the
exploding proiectiles generating great
volumes of gas that keep the body
afoat. Death is very speedy and al
most without suffering If the range is
not too close.
When the cannon is fired at close
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
More Important.

Fine feathers do not make fine
BIRDS" said the ready-made philoso-
pher.
NO." replied Mr.. Growcher; their
responsibilities are greater. They are
depended on to make fine human be-
ings."
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09

quarters and the whale happens to be
young, with tender, thin hide, the har-
poon flies through the body, the rope
holding the wounded creature fast
and men are dispatched In boats to
spear the prisoner. The whale is
towed into the harbor and moored, to
be dragged by steam power and log
ging chains up the slippery, slanting
wharf.
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Sad Part Of the Alienation.

Every darn fool in this town thinks
he could run newspaper better than
l CAM" grumbled the editor of the
Torpidyille Tocsin and Guardian of the
Hearthstone, the price whereof was
dollar a year and the time to sub
scribe now.
"Ey-yah!" replied Mortimer Morose.
And the worst of it is, a good many
of 'em could!"-Kansas City Star.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09

from the hand Of some trained Eski-
mo, but an immense iron bar, more
than six feet long, with great wings,
or flanges, a few feet from the end,
like the bars of a cross, except that
they are folded back close to the main
shaft, Is now fired from a cannon on
the ship. There is a large proiectile
at the end, filed sharp and pointed SO
as to penetrate the whales body 1t is
loaded with combustibles that gener
ate volumes of gas.
The work done by the whaling ship
is automatically exact. The vessel
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
Shocking and InexcusabIe Waste.

OIfVNN'TTy anu IUSNSuSdUI0 W dSLTS
"The plaintiff in recent suit for di.
vorce," related the simp, declared
that he awoke In the night to find his
bed soaked with alcohol and his wife
hunting for match"
"Ar-r-r-r!' grumbled DeLeary NJ.
Tnmmins, that was heck of way
to waste alcohol, wasn't it?"-Kansas
City Star.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
Looking Backward.

Madge-The present styles make
one look very girlish.
Marjorie-Why shouldn't they? My
skirts are about the same length as
the ones | wore when was twelve
Puck.