Woman's Foot Crowing Larger.
Shoe manufacturers claim that the
American woman's foot is growing
larger. The numuer two shoe is al
most ob 1 'te, they say, am) sizes four
and five are much commoner than
three. The explanation seems to be
that the phenomenon is due to the in
creased use of the feminine foot as
means of locomotion. The constantly
increasing number of women enraged
in ini'uatiy and the growth in popular
ity of tennis, gulf and walking have
had t! eir inevitable result, and com
mon sense has done much to abolish
the we iring of pinching shs. The
tradition that small fet are an excel
1. nt t'irg in women has persisted long
and w ill not die without a struggle.
Conservatives need not fear that wo
men will cirry this matter too far;
tney know when to step. Success
Magazine.
Distemper
la all it forms, among nil are of brret
r nd tit :.". curt-d and others in tie same sta
ble pr vent d from having the dieae with
tponn's lhs-tctpper Cure, Kviry btt!
p .araiitef"!. Ovir.-iX(XO bottle sold last
i nr. $.0 and l.'1. Cron I druet. or
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Contagious Disea-cs, Goshen, Iud.
A Quick Recovery,
"Mamma," said Johnny, "if you
will let me go just this one time I
won't ask for anything to eat."
"All right," said his mother. "Get
your hat."
Johnny, perched on the edge of a
big chair, became restless as savory
odors came from the region of the
kitchen. At last he blurted out :
"There's lots of pie and cake in this
boue. "
The admonishing face of his mother
recalled his promise, and he added:
"But what's that to me?" Success
Magazine.
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nd Eye Advice Free by Mail.
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Correcting Willie.
Papa and mamma and son Willie
were crossing the ocean. Willie had
done something for which his mother
thought be needed correction, but not
feeling equal to the occasion she
turned to her husband.
"John," she said, "can't you speak
to Willie?"
Papa replied in a thin, weak voice,
"Howd'y, Willie." Success Mag
azine. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets first put
op 40 years ago. They regulate and
invigorate stomach, liver and bowels.
Sugar-coated, tiny granules.
Decision Reversed.
The cook, who had held sway long
enough to be established as family au
tocrat, was sent out to buy the Christ
mas turkey. She returned with two
fine, plump chickens. "Why, Mary,"
her mistress remonstrated, "I told
you to get a turkey, not chickens."
"I know, mum," she answered,
"but I don't like turkey." Success
Magazine.
"His wife is a business woman, all
.right."
"What makes you say that?"
"'She's installed a time clock in the
'hall and be has to punch it when he
goes out nights and when he gets
back." Detroit Free Press.
Tumors, Goiters, Rheumatism
TThronk, Nervous and female Diseases
Ara curfd without th knife. Thoroughly
equipped Sna?onum, Bairiul locatxm. Kau
the lowest. Write for literature.
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vnt)d in cam-s ff InttammntorT Kiiuujtt-
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As We Speak It.
A German who had come to America
to master our language was being
ahown behind the scenes of a vaude
ville theater by one of his American
friends.
"That man," said the American,
indicating; an actor with a wave of his
hand, "is taking off his make-up to
make up for another take-off."
The German departed, sputtering.
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for COUCH
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SERIAL
STORY
2
Courtship
oMiles
Standish
With Illustrations
Chandler Christy
tCupf rlhl, VUm Hoi,.- Morrill coiutNUirl
Sailing of
. the Mayflower
Just In the gray of the dawn, as the
mists uprose fro-n the meadows.
There was a stir and a sound In the
slumbering village of Plymouth;
Clanging and clicking of arms, and
the order Imperative. "Forward!"
Clven In tore suppressed, a tramp of
feet, and then, si'ence.
Figure ten. In the mist, marched
slowly out of the village.
Standish the stalwart It was, with
eight of his valorous army,
Led by their Indian guide, by Hobo
mok, friend of the white men,
Northward marching to quell the sud
den revolt of the savage.
Giants they seemed In the mist, or the
mighty men of King David;
Giants in heart they were, who be
lieved in God and the Bible.
Aye, who be'.leved In the smiling of
Mldianltes and Philistines.
t-tS X. -"sr-- a.
Take His Musket, and So Stride Out.
Over them gleamrd far eff the crim
son banners of morning;
Under them loud on the sands, the
serried billows, advancing,
Fired along the line and In regular
order retreated.
Many a mile had thpy marched,
when at length the village of Ply
mouth Woke from Its sleep, and arose, in
tent on Its mnnifold labors.
Swett was the air and soft; and slow-
ly the snnki) from the chimneys
Rose over roofs of thatch, and polnt-
ed steadily eastward;
lien came forth from the doors, and
I paused and talked of the weather.
Said that the wind had changed, and
I was blowing fair for the May
I flower;
Talked of their Captain's departure.
I and all the dangers that menaced,
lie telng gone, the town, and whai
should be done in his absence.
.Merrily sang the birds, and the ten
der voices of women
! Coneecrated with hymns the common
cares of the household.
Out of the sea rose the sun, and the
billows rejoiced at bis coming;
Beautiful were his feet on the pur
ple tops of the mountains;
Beautiful on the sails of the May
flower riding at anchor,
Battered and blackened and worn by
all the storms of the winter.
LooHely against her masts was hang
ing and flapping her canvas,
Rent by so many gales, and patched
by the hands of the sailors.
Suddenly from her side, as the sun
rose over the ocean.
Darted a puff of smoke, and floated
seaward; anon rang
Loud over field and forest the can
non's roar, and the echoes
Heard and repeated the sound, the sig
nal gun of departure!
AM but with louder echoes replied
the hearts of the people!
Meekly, In voices subdued, the chap
ter was read from the Bible,
Meekly the prayer was begun, but
ended in fervent entreaty!
Then from their bouses In haste came
forth the Pilgrims of Plymouth,
Men and women and children, all hur
rying down to the sea shore.
Eager, with tearful eyes, to say fare
well to the Mayflower,
Homeward bound o'er the sea and
leaving them here In the desert.
Vtoremost among them was Alden.
All night be bad lain without
lumber,
IS
'imp
Turning aM tossing about In the beat
and unrest of his fever.
He bad beheld Miles Standish. who
came back late from the council.
Stalking Into the room, and heard him
mutter and murmur,
Sometime it seemed a prayer, and
sometimes It sounded like swear
lug. Once he had come to the bed, and
stood there a moment In silence;
Then be bad turned away, and said:
"I will not wake htm;
Let him sleep on, It Is best; for what
Is the use of more talking!"
Then he exttngulxhed the light, and
threw himself down on his pallet.
Dressed as he was. and ready to Btart
at the break of the morning.
Covered himself with the cloak he
had worn in bis campaign In
Flanders,
Slept a a soldier sleeps In bis
bivouac, ready for action.
But with the dawn he arose; In the
twilight A kirn beheld blm
Put on his corselet of tel, and alt
the rest of his armor.
Buckle about his waist his trusty
blade of Damascus,
Take from the corner his musket, and
so stride out of the chamber.
Often the heart of the youth bad
turned and yearned to embrace
him.
Often his Hps had essayed to speak,
Imploring for pardon;
All the old friendship came bark.
with its tinder and grateful emo
tions;
But his pride overmastered the nobler
nature within him,
Pride, and the sense of bis wrong,
and the burning Are of the Insult.
So he beheld h!s friend departing in
anger, but spake not.
Saw him go forth to daneer, perhaps
to death, and be spake not!
Then he arose from his bed. and
heard what the people were say
ing. Joined In the talk at the door, with
Stephen and Richard and Ollbert,
Joined In the morning prayer, and In
the reading of Scripture,
And, with the others, in baste went
hurrying down to the sea shore,
Down to the Plymouth Hock, that had
been to their feet a a doorstep
Into a world unknown, the corner
stone of a nation!
There with his boat was the Master,
already a little Impatient
Lest be Bhould lose the tide, or the
wind might shift to the eastward.
Square-built, hearty, and strong, with
an odor of ocean about blm.
Speaking with this one and that, and
cramming letters and parcels
Into his pockets capacious, and mes
sages mingled together
Into bis narrow brain, till at last be
was wholly bewildered.
Nearer the boat stood Alden, with one
foot placed on the gunwale.
One still firm on the rock, and talking
at times with the sailors.
Seated erect on the thwarts, all ready
and eager for starting.
He, too, was eager to go. and thus
put an end to his anguish.
Thinking to fly from despair, that
swifter than keel Is or canvas.
Thinking to drown in the sea the
ghost that would rise and pursue
blm.
But as be gazed on the crowd, be be
held the form of Priscllla
Standing dejected among them, uncon
scious of all that was passing.
Fixed were ber eyes upon his, as If
she divined bis Intention,
Fixed with a look so sad, so reproach
ful, imploring and patient.
That with a sudden revulsion his
heart recoiled from Its purpose.
As from the verge of a crag, where
one step more Is destruction.
Strange Is the ht art of man, with Its
quick, mysterious instincts!
ft
Standing Dejected, Unconscious of All.
Strange Is the life of man, and fatal
or fated are moments.
Whereupon turn, as on binges, the
gates of the wall adamantine!
"Here I remain!" he exclaimed, as he
looked at the heavens above blm.
Thanking the Lord whose breath bad
scattered the mist and the mad
ness, Wherein, blind and lost, to death be
was staggering headlong.
"Yonder snow-white cloud, that floats
In the ether above me,
Seems like a band that U pointing
' rf
fan
and beckoning over the ocean.
There Is another hand, that la not so
spectral and ghost like,
Holding me. drawing me back, and
clasping mine for protection.
Float, O hand of cloud, and vanloh
away In the ethert
Roll thyself up like a fist, to threaten
and daunt me; I beed not
Klther your warning or menace, or
any omen of evil!
There Is no land so sacred, no air so
pure and so wholesome.
As I the air she breathe, and the
sill that is pressed by her foot
steps. Here for her sake will I stay, and like
an Invisible presence
Hover around her for ever, protecting,
supporting her weakness;
Yes! a my foot was the first that
stepped on this rock at the land
ing. So. wiih the blesflng of Oiwl. shnll It
be the last at the leaving!"
Meanwhile the Master alert, but
with dignified air and Important.
Scanning with watchful eye the tide
and the wind and the weather.
Walked about on the sands; aud the
leople crowded around him
jfefrS-; I
. . ,ecg -i- ' I
How Good You Have Been to Me.
Saying a few last words, and enforo
lng bis careful remembrance.
Then, taking each by tbe band, as If
he were grasping a tiller.
Into the boat he sprang, and In baste
shoved off to his vessel.
Glad In his heart to get rid of all this
worry and flurry.
Glad to be gone from a land of sand
and sickness and sorrow,
Short allowance of victuals and plenty
of nothing but Goiipel!
Lost In the sound of the oars was tbe
last farewell of the I'llgrlms.
O strong hearts and true! not one
went ba-k In the Mayflower!
No, not one looked bark, who had set
bis band to this plowing!
Soon were hesrd on board the
shouts and songs of the sailors
Heaving the windlass round, and
hoisting the ponderous anchor
Then the yards were brand, and all
sails set to the west wind.
Blowing steady and strong; and the
Mayflower sailed from the harbor.
Rounded the point of the Gurnet, and
leaving far to the southward
Island and rape of sand, and the Field
of the First Encounter,
Took the wind on h r iiirter, and
stood for the open Atlantic,
Borne on the end of the s a, and the
swelling hearts of the i'llgrlms.
I Xing In silence they watched the re
ctdlng sail of the vessel,
Much endeared to them all, as some
tiling living and human;
Then, as If filled with the spirit, and
rapt In a vision prophetic.
Baring his hoary head, the excellent
Elder of Plymouth
Said, "Iet us pray!" and they prayed
and thanked the Lord and took
courage.
Mournfully sobbed the waves at the
base of the rock, and above them
Bowed and whispered the wheat on
the hill of death, and their kin
dred Seemed to awake In their graves, and
to Join In the prayer that they ut
tered. Sun-Illumed and white, on the east
em verge of the ocean
Oleamed the departing sail, like a
marble slab In a graveyard;
Burled bet eath It lay for ever all hop
of escaping.
Lot as they turned to depart, they
saw tbe form of an Indian,
Watching them from the hill; but
while they spake with each other.
Pointing with outstretched hands, and
saying, "Look!" he had vanished.
So they returned to their homes; but
Alden lingered a little,
Musing alone on the shore, and
watching the wash of the billows
Round the base of the rock, and ths
sparkle and flash of the sun
shine. Like the spirit of Ood, moving visibly
over the waters.
(TO HE CONTINUED.)
Height of Feme.
"And bow Is your son Henry get
ting on In literature?" asked the visi
tor. "Oh, he's doing famously," said th
proud mother. "His autograph
brought f 10 the other day."
"Really r
"Yes signed to a promissory not
for three hundred. I bought U my
sell" Harper'i Weekly.
TALE OF HORROR TOLD
MISSIONARY TELLS Of AWfUL
CHINESE PUNISHMENT.
Tortures of Prisoners and Almost Un
believable Penalties Exacted by
Official Sanction How De
serting Soldiers Were
Disciplined.
Kansas CUy. Mo.-Chinese military
discipline Is something fierce, aueoid
lng to Dr. A. L. Sheltmi, of Anthony,
Kan., who tin Just returned from the
land of the pigtail. The doctor Mi
this bloodcurdling t,,ry ,f cruelty
practiced upon u good friend of bis
who wus a major In the Chine
army:
'Three companies of Chinese sol
diers under the major's command, but
stationed In a different city, rebelled
and deserted, taking tbelr arms nnd
ammunition. As the Chinese army
i In t ht main made up of men who
accept the service 111 place of a penal
sentence, the most rltld rules are en
forced heartlessly to gt a minimum
of service and discipline They are
paid the equivalent of I- 40 a mouth,
on which they must subsist To them
starvation Is always Imminent and a
dead dog or mule or other animal,
even when dead of disease, I greed
ily cooked nnd eaten
"The major was held responsible
fur Ms rebellious troops, and only the
Intercession of the commanding gen
eral of the district, who got down on
hi kne and beKged for the life of
his subordinate to the civil governor,
saved bis head.
"The punishment was modified to
dismissal from th army and 2 OU0
light blows from a small pndillo. The
paddle used Is from one to one and a
half Inches wide. 18 Inches long and
probably the eighth of un hu h thick.
In administering It the thighs are
bared, and Unlit, even blows are
struck on the thick flesh between the
hip and knee, the victim lying pros
trate on bl face. The paddle Is used
with a sort of a flip and for some
time makes no Impression ; M0
blows make the flesh red and puffy,
1.B00 brlnn the tlesh to a Jelly Ilk
consistency, and 2.0") marks the limit
of torture a strong man may endure
and live.
"Often gangrene sets In and the vic
tim dies; with the best of treatment
it Is months before thn man paddled
ran use his leits naturally. In the
case of the major the flesh slouxhed
off his thigh an Inch and a half deep,
five Inches broad and 17 Inches long.
He expected to get well, but his legs
would always be crippled. The re
bellious troops were pursued, 20 of
them were killed In action and the
balance brought to camp for behead
ing. Eighteen of the soldiers were
given swords and required to cut
gashes In the flesh of their captain
who was unable to prevent their ro
hellion, then they were beheaded be
fore the captain.
"To stimulate other officers to great
er zeal In handling their men the cap
tain was then taken In hand by the
official executioner who hail bound
him to a big stake for the men to
gash with swords. With a keen knife
the Hps of the captain were sliced oft,
then his nose, Inter bis eyelids were
cut off and his eyeballs wero exposed
to thn pitiless sun. After a few hours
the skin of the forehead was rut swny
and allowed to drop over the blinded
eyes, banging by the corner nines.
Then later the breasts were cut off.
all but the skin at the lower edge,
and allowed to hatiK; If the victim sur
vived that, and the raptatn did. then
the flesh covering the bowels was rut
away and allowed to hat.g apron fash
ion while tbe wind and sun dried, and
files and vermin fed upon the blood
and cut flesh. In this case the rap
tain, long unronsiious. died wl'h dis
emboweling; In case where a man
survives that, then a knife Is plunged
In his heart at the end of the day of
horrible torture."
v
AN OLD CRIME IS REVEALED
Bones of Long Burled Woman Found
Beneath the Brick Floor of
a House.
Klkton, Md Bones of a woman,
with several faded bits of red silk, two
remnants of what were once side
comb and a gold plated pin, appar
ently evidence of a murder which
probably never will be unraveled,
were unearthed from beneath tbe
brick flooring In the kitchen of dm
Thompson property at Cenlervlllo
Landing, by William J. Ellers, a car
penter, who was removing the bricks
preparatory to laying a wooden floor.
When the bricks were removed Kb
lers noticed a black subsoil. Bilging
down he unearthed decayed pieces of
wood and old hand mnde nails, then
pieces of bones began to mnke their
Bppearance. The condition of the
bones Indicated that they had been
burled half a century or more, hut th
oldest residents of the locality can re
call no mysterious disappearance of
a woman.
Woman of 96 Weds Man of 24.
Troy, Mo. Mrs. Nancy Kdey, 8A
years old, has beeomo a bride for th
sixth time, her newest husband being
Re Indow. 24 years old. The bride's
fifth husband died six weeks previous
at the county poor farm here.
Dynsmlts Cursd His Earache.
Rhreveport, I-a Fellow workmen In
the employ of the Dollnger Lumber
company told James Donovan dyna
mite would cure earache. It did. Don
ovan used one application and was
burled two days later.
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The president, startl.-l by a bit"
the steam pipes, went in f"1
tha mlli ianitor. Being UnW1'"
with his new surrounding, b"""
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