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rOREM AIN YOUTHFUL E ✓ IEWS OF AN ADVOCATE OF AMERI CANIZED DELSARTE. U. S. Gov t Baking Powder Tests. Khe T e l l s H o w O l d I T i 6 l L E A V E N IN O « A S . All OTHER PO W D E R S TE STE D are reported to con tain both lime and sulphuric acid, and the best of them to be of the following strengths respectively. Per cent. Cubic in. per oi. 13.06 12.58 11.13 10.26 160.6 •5*-* 133-6 123.2 114. in . 6 9 .5 3 9.29 8.03 7.28 . S to ry of a W e a lt h y 5 F 87.4 Alt ROVAL BAKING POWDER CO.. 106 WALL ST., NEW-VORK. ‘ rT S a l » y ”*3«A x P a th e tic Ï a 96 5 These tests, m ade in the G o v t L ab oratory, b y im partial and unprejudiced official chemists, furnish the highest evid en ce that the “ R o y a l ” is the best bakin g pow der. 1 J A LITTLE SOLDIER. HER ATONEMENT. W o m a n ’* T h e f t , C o n fe s s io n a n d R e s t it u t io n . 1 W e were all boys when the war began, I beard a little story today that makes or rather “ broke out,” to use the common it seem conscience, Christianity and self phrase. O f course everything connected abasement are something more than with it was o f interest to us. N ot one mere words, after all, and it is so nice, was too small to feel the enthusiasm which swept the whole country. The baby in its too, to hear such a story of a distress nurse's arms would he seen with a flag in ingly rich woman. The heroine— and its hand; the toddling boy would have a .he is a genuine heroine— none other lath to represent a sword or a tobacco conld do as she did— is the w ife of a stick for a musket. The oldest o f us was Richard, or Rich, magnate whose wealth is inestimable, whose income is incalculable. She lives as we affectionately called him. He was In one of the moet gorgeous mansions | lfl, though rather small for that age. A t sf the metropolis and is famed for her .the sight o f a soldier his eyes glistened. We bad looked on with pride once when piety and charity. Bnt she was not a l a member o f the captain’s company, dur ways rich— indeed she once was actual ing a pause in the exercises, had lent Rich ly poor. When she was a girl at board his musket and put him through some of ing school, she had probably less pock the movements. “ H e'll make a soldier be et money than any of her clasemates. fore very lo n g,’ ’ the man said. “ A in ’t One time a collection was taken np finite tall enough yet to get out of a mud- among the girls for a most worthy and hole if he falls in marching ’long the | road.” Rich winced a little at this, but needy object. Onr young heroine longer i felt all right when another soldier said: to help, and she was so ashamed not to I “ Boys like that ain ’t got no liett^r sense lie able. A schoolgirl’s pride is a dis ’an to fight. Yankee got to k ill ’em or crip torted, disproportionate sentiment any ple ’em once to stop ’em figh tin g.’ ’ This and much more was said, all of how. So, in a moment of temptation and weakness, she stole $3 from ber which was marked by us and report o f it chum, who was the richest girl in school. made when w e got home that day. Child The latter, with the happy careless as I was, there is one thing I still remem | ber about it. When it w as told at the ness of a petted child, who has more i tabie w here we were all seated, I happened than she wants, never even missed the to look from Rich's proud face to his moth money at all. The end of the term came, e r’s, and I saw on it such a look o f sadness and the girls all went borne. The rich that it perplexed me until I was old enough girl never returned. She became lost to know what it meant. * * * * * * * to the ken of her former schoolmates— In a month Rich was to become a soldier. all save one, who remembered her with Tim e never crept more slow ly than it did agonizing and conscience qnickened dis through those 30 days, so Rich thought, tinctness though I do not think that his mother F inally, in the course of many years, ( thought so. No lover ever counted the days our poor heroine had become the wife when his sweetheart was to he his bride of one of A m erica’s richest men, and more anxiously than Rich counted those one day she heard that the girl she had days. A i last the day came. We were all never relinquished the search for was to see him off, and our cousins from the poor, ill and a widow, with little chil neighborhood were assembled to dine with the young soldier. Uncle B illy led the sor dren. She hunted her up, invited her rel colt up to the gate. It was a Planet to come to dinner, and withont telling colt, and Rich had broken it himself, not her invited also 20 o f the friends whose without several falls, however. The blan friendship and esteem she most valued, ket rolled up behind the saddle looked very among them ber pastor. . soldierlike. Rich kissed all the g irls and A fter dinner, to every one's amaze shook hands with us 1 k > vs . W e felt that ment, she had every servant summoned we were in the presence of a hero. The to the draw ing room. There, before last person he said good by to was his moth er. I wondered then w hy she held him so ber most cherished friends and her paid long in her arms and still more why there subordinates, she confessed her petty were tears in her eyes. I remember that pilfering of 30 years before and ended all she said when she let him go was, lf Be her confession simply, " B u t I w ill pay a good boy, my darling, and say your hack the money tonighL ” There wasn’t prayers.” She knew as well as we did, a dry eye in that stately drawing room so we thought, that Rich would be a good when she finished, hot only very few soldier and would kill a whole lot o f Yan who listened to her self abasement knew kees and come back home a general. We had finished supper and were all to that the widowed friend took home f 1.- gether in the little room and were having 000 for the pilfered $5, and besides a a good time. We were listening to one of promise of education and subsequent Cousin Fanny’s ghost stories, and R ich ’s mother, who had been going in and out care for her three 1 ttle children. Don’t yon think my heroine had in doing a thousand things, had just taken her the spirit of the early martyrs— or, her seat, for she said she wanted to hear indeed, I believe it a higher type of the story too. The fire was so low that she leaned over soul? to count the stitches on her needle, and I God bless her!— Mollie Knickerbock heard her say— hut that was becauge I was er in New York Recorder. so close to her and was leaning on her PREHISTORIC REMAINS. T h e S k e le t o n o f A n o t h e r T a l l M a n B e e e n t - l j D is c o v e re d N e a r M en to n e. Fresh discoveries of human remains, probably prehistoric, were found this week on the Italian frontier near Men tone. Two years ago the skeleton of a man more than 8 feet high was unearth ed at the same spot nnder the direction of an English archasilogist. Workmen in a cave iecently uncovered several slabs of stone which seemed to form a part of a dolmen. The earth contained many bones of animals, broken evi dently, for the extraction of the mar row, and there were indications of fire close by. Several small, pierced shells which once formed a chaplet and a row of stag's teeth were near at band. The skeleton of a man 6 feet 2 inches in height was lying on its back. The legs were crossed below the knee. The right aim was extended and bent back ward toward the head. The hand was clinched. The left hand was placed under the head. The same position has been frequently observed in early neo lithic hnriala. A fine crystal of carbon ate of lim e beside the skeleton was prob ably a talisman. Further excavations in the cavern revealed innumerable bones of animals, notably a fine verte b ra of a mammoth. Still another find is a flint implement, which appears to be of palaeolithic age.— I’aris Letter. T o B e T r i e d F « » M a 'M n g B i b l e O u o t a t io n * . Its W r in k le s and iV e t ” and F o llo w O n t th e P h y s ic a l E x p re s s io n o f T h a t Id e a . 'H R rep ort o f the analyses o f Baking Pow ders, made b y the U. S G overn m en t (C h em ical D ivision , A g ’ l D e p 't), shows the R o y a l superior to all other powders, and giv e s its leaven in g strength and the strength o f each o f the other cream o f tartar pow ders tested as fo llo w s : ROYAL, Absolutely Pure, A ge and M a y B e C o m b a te d — “ L e t G o th e W o r r y shoulder when she whispered it to hereelf — “ W ith heavy cavalry boots it w ill take 10 more stitches.” An d just then the door opened, and there before us was R ich ’s ghost. I knew’ it was a ghost and did not find out that it was Rich until he threw himself into his m other’s arms and burst out crying. Then I knew* it was not a ghost, for Cousin Fanny always said a ghost did not shed tears. And this was the way it happened: As Rich was ridin g m errily down the road and was about to gallop across the bridge, i which he would not have done except that he was so anxious to get to the army, two men stepped out and said. “ What are you in such a hurry about, sonny? Seen any Yankees?” And Rich said no; he only wished he could. Then one of the men said, “ Good many o f ’em about, ain ’t there?” A n d Rich said, “ They better not be about where our men are, for they won't be there long.” “ W hy not?” asked the man. And Rich said, u ’ Cause w e’ll I drive them a w ay.” But the biggest man I said, “ Maybe they are like that colt that ain ’t got any collar mark on him and w on 't d rive.” But Rich said: “ Yes, they w ill, and I ’ m goin g over to help drive them now. And I haven’ t got any more time to lose, and I must g o .” But the man with the blue overcoat on said, “ Sonny, you can drive Vm fast enough on foot and don’t need a horse, so get dow n.” A t first Rich said he w ouldn’t, but the point of the bayonet looked very sharp and was so close to his face. So Rich got down. But he told the man he would report him to General Lee; that General Lee was his mother’s cousin. Bnt the man said General Lee was a great friend o f his and said Rich must give his love to General Lee and tell him his friend Charles Demoines from Iowa sent his love to him. Then it came to Rich for the first time that the Yankees had him, and that he was a prisoner. He wondered what they would do with him. W ould they march him off to prison, or would they carry him before their general, like the soldiers did the young Roman in history? He did not have to w ait long though, for one of the men go» on R ich ’s colt and rode away very fast, and the other man said to Rich: “ I t ’s time boys like you was in bed. L e ’ me see how fast you can drive ’long that road you jest come and give my love to General Lee when you see him .” — Roswell Page in Philadelphia Press. A case of unusual interest in which the United States is prosecutor and A n thony Beerpass is defendant w ill be tried soon m the United States court. Beerpass was violently enamored of Ce lia Urassby. In a fit of anger and je a l ousy the lover wrote Celia a very ob jectionable letter. The girl promptly turned the letter over to the proper au thorities, and Beeipam was arrested for sending obscene matter through the mails. He acknowledged sending the letter, but claims he cannot be made to suffer for it, as every sentence in it is a quotation from the Bible, which he readily proved. The defendant says that, as the Bible is mailable matter, he had T h e N e w C h i c a g o R e li g i o n . a perfect tight to use the mails for We learn from Chicago that the new transmitting a few quotations from it. Chicago religion is nearly ready for the — Trim ble (Tenn.) Correspondent. i market. One of the doctors engaged in compounding it says it is made of H O W S T H IS ? j the choice elements of Mosaism, Chris We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward tianity, Buddhism, ethical culturism, for any case of Catarrh that cannot be Mohammedanism, Renan ism, Confu cured bv Hall’s Catarrh Cure! cianism and other beliefs, both ancient F. J. CHENEY A CO.. Props., and modern. Assurance of its solidity Toledo, Ohio. We, the undersigned, have known F. 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Why I could not get along without Piso’s not end the trouble and struggle at once Cure for Consumption. It always cures.— and give the new religion a boom by M r s . E. C. M o u l t o n , Needham. Mass,, calling it Cbicagoism ?— New York San, Oct. 22. li m . A s a rule, Delsarte and theosophy strike the uninitiated with terror. L ife seems loo short to delve into their aw ful m yste ries, and so to the average mind theosophy lignifles clever sleight of hand tricks, and Delsarte is ever associated w ith wabbling, wild eyed women who pose in greenery yallery tea gowns and talk vaguely about “ the cu lt.” But when you hear a sweet faced, soft voiced little woman in a dream of an ivory crape gown, with cunning lit tle silk bow knots all over it and great, puffy sleeves that suggest the wings of Sandolphin, the angel of glory, talk down right sensible things about health and grace and the relation of the body to dress and how to keep from grow ing old and ugly and fat, and when she tells you this is “ Americanized Delsarte” you begin to think that maybe, after all, there’s some thing in it, and that Francois Delsarte knew what he was talking about. Mrs. Em ily M. Bishop, who is tlie teach er and expounder of Delsarte and physical self culture at the great Chautauqua sum mer school, lias been lecturing at Pratt in stitute, Brooklyn, on these questions of so vital interest to women. For breathes there a woman w ith soul so dead who does not long to keep young and slim and at tractive? Mrs. Bishop, who is a striking illus tration of the logic and good sense o f her precepts, is not a hit o f a faddist. She does not attitudinize, nor does she wear costumes calculated to give any self re specting scarecrow an attack o f nervous prostration. She is a tiny woman, full of fire and dew— a sort o f unpatented phys ical dynamo. Her department at Chautau qua is the largest numerically and finan cially, having achieved tw ice the revenue ever secured by any special class of work there, and that, too, in spite of the handi cap by certain limitations in the organi zation. I saw* Mrs. Bishop at the close o f one o f her lectures and asked her. “ How may women keep from grow ing old?” “ Old age is going out of fashion.” laughed the lady. “ Seventy-five now, you know, is only considered a reasonable m a turity. Old age is not, the lines on the face that are the carving o f thought and erudition nor the soft halo of w hite hair. It is rather the loss o f elasticity of the body, o f the pow er to do physical acts that were once as play to us. If people w ill think old age and expect it, they w ill not be disappointed. Many a woman of 40 has the form and expression of a w oman o f SO. We can keep our bodies young by system atic exercise. Muscles that are not duly exercised, you know, lose their shape, firmness and strength. Look at the dancer who at 75 has the flexibility o f a young girl. It is a well known fact that women who are actively engaged in literary, so cial and reform movements remain young longer than those whose lives run in un eventful, narrow grooves. This is not so much the difference in the kind of work, bnt the difference in the thoughts back of the work, for when one’s thoughts are not given to general interests one becomes ab sorbed in self. F le x ib ility, the distin guishing characteristic of youth, may lie preserved by certain physical exercises. Obesity, that foe o f women, should not be starved away, but routed by certain exer cises. Above all, expel thoughts of infirm ity and tim e.” “ W ill you give some exercise for the m itigation of abdominal corpulency?” “ Yes. Stand normally. S ligb tly but firm ly contract the abdominal muscles Raise the arms laterally to the level o f the shoulders, with the hands extended, palms upward. K eeping the arms and hands in this position, slow ly bend the torso to the righ t side. A fte r holding the position a moment, raise the torso to its normal poise; then let the arms sink to the sides as the breath is gently exhaled. N ext in hale and raise the arms as before, tw ist the torso to the right and bend backw ard in a direct liue with the right arm. A fte r holding the position for a moment, raise the torso, untwist it and then let the arms sink to the sides as the breath is exhaled. These bending and tw isting exercises de velop flexib ility, give a rounded contour to the waist and prevent an undue accu mulation of adipose over the hips.” “ You have given an exercise to prevent adipose. Can you suggest something for wrinkles?” “ One o f the places w here the marks of age are first seen,” replied Mrs. Bishop, “ is in the muscles of the neck. From lack o f exercise these muscles become w eak ami flaccid. A very good exercise is this: Sit erect, keeping the head w’ell poised and the arms and legs relaxed. S low ly turn the head until it is directly over the right shoulder; then bend it backward diago nally until the face is turned directly to ward the ceiling, and then rotate the head around to the other shoulder ; then slowly lift it and turn it forward and to the right shoulder again. “ This is an excellent remedy not only for wrinkled necks, but for nervous headaches and pain at the base o f the brain.” “ W hat other advice do you give women with which to fight off old age?” “ Stop w orryin g,” promptly and em phatically answered the lady. “ Many a woman fidgets herself nearly frantic use lessly— stews, as they call it in remote ru ral districts. I f women would hut trust— learn the beauty and the power of repose. Think how much nerve force is frittered away in little meaningless movements— tapping the feet, hitching the shoulders, drumming with the fingers, jerking the head, clasping and unclasping tlie hands, working the lips, contracting and elevat ing the eyebrows. The m ajority o f wom en are in a state o f chronic tension. Ten sion causes fatigue, inability, self con sciousness, nervousness and insomnia, and these ills are enough to make any woman old and ugly before her time. The gospel o f relaxation is the message to be preach ed to the nervous, tense, high strung American woman of today. There are many exercises to assist and accomplish this relaxation. The hands, being the d i rect agents o f the mind, by their tension and restlessness report the mental strain and agitation. Therefore they are the first members to deal with. Let the arms hang heavily at the sides and agitate the hands until they feel lifeless. Shake them for ward and backward, laterally and in cir cles. from each other and toward each oth er. When the hands become relaxed, raise the arms above the head. Hold the po sition for a m om ent; then drop the arms like dead weights. There are many other exercises for relaxation of which there is not tim e to speak. But every exercise is a physical expression of the idea ‘ Let go! Let go the worry and fr e t ! Drop it now— relax, rest!’ ” — New York Herald. Not h D evoted H u sban d . Our etrangest mistakes are due to o f ficial red tape. A story was told in a London district court last week of a man who was unable to support his in valid w ife at home. He secured for ber admission to an infirmary seven years ago and paid 5 shillings weekly main tenance till a few weeks ago, when he learned that the woman died a few days after entering the infirmary, and he had been a widower seven years. Instead of finishing his conjugal neg lect by losing seven years’ contribu tions, the magistrate ordered the au thorities to repay the fu ll sum. A PRAIRIE TRAGEDY. A N ebrask a S e t t le r ’s P itifu l of D r o u g h t , D e a t li a n d D e s e r t io n . It was not like most prairie schooners, which a s a rule impress one as being com fortable and picturesque. In the first place there were no children in this wagon, and generally one sees little faces peering from front and rear and under the flapping can vas at the sides. The sticks supporting the canopy bulged through the brown, tattered cover, their outlines distinct as the ribs of the starving horses craw ling along through the white blur o f dust, says a w riter in the Chicago Tribune. The wagon lurched slowly up the main street o f the little Nebraska town, the fierce wind swooping down from the bluffs in the south, and rending the rotten canvas into fantastic fringe. No stock followed. A dejected dog slunk be tween the rear wheels in an apologetic at tempt to efface himself. The man on the creaking seat leaned forward, holding the slack lines in lan guid hands. He was about 40, thin and stooping of shoulder. His sallow face was lined. His hair was streaked w ith gray. He drove on to the outskirts of the town. There a great oak tempted him. He drew up under its shade and turned the lean horses loose. He took a little flat pi<*ce of sheet iron 2 feet long, and under it built a fire of tw igs and sticks. He went down to the creek tw in k lin g near, a mere thread in its parched grave, and came back with a tin o f water. He put a handful of ground coffee in a skillet, poured water on it and set the utensil on the prim itive stove. When the coffee had boiled several minutes, he strained it, wiped out the pan w ith a newspaper and laid in it a few slices o f fat pork. These cooked, he took from the interior of the wagon a hag of soda crackers and sat down to his lonely meal. A young farmer, jo ggin g by on horse back, nodded to him, sent him also a glance o f curiosity. “ Campers” were a common sight. O f late they had been pass in g through in droves, but few had appear ed so forlorn as this man. “ H ow fu r,” called out the camper, “ is it to the next town east?” “ Tw elve m iles.” “ Bad road?” The young fellow stopped his horse, swung half round. “ Middlin. Goin fur?” “ Back to Io w y .” “ Burnt out?” hazarded the other. “ Yep; corn whar I come from in west ern Nebraska only fit fur fuel. Everything SOMETHING ABOUT ENGLAND’S CUR AN O C C U R E N C E T H A T W AS M A R RENT TROUBLE AND ITS CAUSES. VELOUS The M eh tar of C h i t r a l, t h e S w a t , I 'r a r a K h a n , S h e r O th e r Q u e e r ly N a m e d P e rs o n a g e s F ig u r e It would be necessary to go through a course o f close study as to England’s Asi- stic possessions and the frontier territory between them and -hat tributary to the Russian czar to. understand England's cur rent “ little w ar,” b i;t in a general way the facts are about as follow s: The scene of the disturbance is known as Kashgar, or Chitral. which lies north o f the m ilita ry station of Peshaw ur, west of the Swat valley and east o f Ka Tristan. The princi pal town o f the region is also known as Chitral. I t is situated near the Dora pass, on the southern slope of the w ild and well nigh impassable Hindu-Kush mountains, about 5,000 feet above sea level and 200 miles or thereabouts north o f Peshawur, th<; most advanced post of the British in India. This may not be very enlightening, but the situation w ill I k ; clarified by tho state ment that the Hindu-Kush mountains are the great harrier between John B ill1 and the Russian l>ear in Asia, and that it Is through the Dora pass that the Russians w ill pour if they ever succeed in swooping down on the British in India, unless the advance is made through Afghanistan. T im e was when the Russians certainly A ll along the Bowery the pawnshop windows are filled with pistols, says the New York Sun. Every kind of a pistol can be found there, from the tiny pepper box to the long navy. Besides these there are hundreds of hunting knives, daggers and diA s and plenty of weapons less fa miliar, such as slungshots, blackjacks, brass or iron knuckles and loaded clubs. That they are there in the pawnshops is evidence that they have been used, most of them in all probability recently. Yet any one carrying any of these weapons ex cept the pistols is liable to penalties set by law, and d o man is permitted to carry a pistol unless he carries it openly or has a permit. Less than B00 permits to carry concealed pistols an* issued annually. At a conservative estimate, the estimate of an officer who has had long experience with all classes of men in the city, 12,000 New Yorkers carry weapons unlawfully, either weapons which an; forbidden by law or pistols without a permit. B u d d h i s m I n P a r is . T h e F u r n a c e C o ld A i r B o x . A fresh propaganda of Buddhism is being undertaken in Paris, says a corre spondent. It is asserted that 30,000 P a risians now profess the ancient religion. Many well known women describe them- felves as eclectic Buddhists. A little volume gives a summary of tlie doc trines of the new creed. It has jnst been printed, and large numbers have been bought by wealthy neophytes and w ill be distributed next week among all classes. The converts are not expected to deseit the churches of which they are members. The copies of the book have been bound in black morocco, g ild ed to resemble prayer books. How many women, I wonder, know where the cold air box o f the furnace that heats their house ends? It should not end, according to a sanitary authority, either under a piazza, where decaying leaves and other refuses have drifted, nor where cats and rats make their abiding place, nor near a place where food is stored, nor should it end underground, where there is any chance for neighboring drains and damp, impure air to be carired into the furnace. I f you find that- your supply of cold air is from a box with the end raised 4 or 5 feet, “ with an upward Iiend and an opening at the side protected by w ire net tin g ,” and where the air cannot be con taminated in any way, your health w ill probably be secured in at least one impor tant direction.— Nation. Y ork . S a v e d b y an Ir o n in g ; B o a r d . H e r F a it h L e d to D e a t h . Smoke from the hallw ay of 216 East Eighty-ninth street at 4 a. m. yester day woke Feligo Carnego, who lives with his fam ily on the ground floor. The flames prevented egress by the door. Carnego rose to the occasion and passed his w ite’s ironing board from the w in dow across the area to the iron railing. Over this improvised bridge his own and several other fam ilies reached the sidewalk in safety. Others escaped by the roof.— New York World. Mrs. W illiam Se»identopf died Satur day from the effects of a dose of poison, which she spread on a piece of bread and then deliberately ate. Mrs. Seiden- topf was a Christian science believer, and it is thought that she ate the poi son to prove ber faith. Even after the agony resultant from the action of the poison had begun, she refused to allow a doctor to be called and was beyond hope of saving when one was summon ed.— Council Bluffs (la.) Dispatch. Not M e r e ly cant B e lie f A ilm e n t , F ro m But an a In s ig iiiH - H um an L ife In v o lv e d . P r o m in e n t ly . would have adopted the latter route, bu* that is long passed. The ameer o f Afghan* istan, though he and his people are nomi nally independent o f either o f the g n a t powers, is nowand for some years has been friendly to the English. It was about ten years ago that the British discovered the value Chitral m ight some tim e lie to them. Then; was then some danger o f a war between Russia and the English in In dia on account o f w hat is known as the Penjdeh incident. Just what the latter amounted to does not m at ter at this time, but the complications to which it gave rise were so serious as to cause the establishment of a British resi dence at Chitral and the extension of a su zerainty over the region, whose sovereign’s title is that of mehtar. The Kashgar region is only a part of the greater territory termed Yagiiistan, which includes Swat, ruled by an ahkoond and peopled by the Swatis, the lands of the Yu- sufzais, the Utm an Kinds and the Mo- inands and the countries known as Bajaur and Dir. Am ir-ul-M ulk, a younger son in the reign in g house o f Chitral, had to leave the country some years ago on ac count o f political complications and his elder brother, Xizam -ul-M ulk, was mehtar in Chitral until recently. The younger brother, however, who had fallen into a religious life— paganly religious, o f course — somewhere in southern India, dreamed that he was to reign in his elder brother’s stead. So he hastened to Chitral, hid 1 h *- hiud a rock pile near which the mehtar must pass, shot the unfortunate ruler dead aud proclaimed him self mehtar. Then one Sher A fzu l, an uncle o f the t wo, appeared and said he had abetter righ t to be mehtar of Chitral than had Am ir-ul-M ulk. Sher A fzu l got help from U m ra Khan, the sav age ruler o f Jhandol, and the combined forces o f the tw o attacked the British resi dence o f Chitral and cut off the supplies of Mr. Robertson, the resident there, and his garrison. There was danger that R obert son and his supporting force would be wiped out, and it was this that caused General S ir Robert C. L o w to be sent to Chitral from Peshawar. A t the latter place and the nearby sta tions o f Kowshera and H o ti about 13,000 British troops, including the historic guide corps founded by Colonel Lumsden, have been regularly stationed for some years. A s is usual in sim ilar British expeditious the guide corps preceded the main body of troops on the march to Chitral, and before the advance had been pushed very far the gallant little corps, under command of Colonel Battye, was completely annihilat ed by the natives. The method adopted in this annihilation was peculiar to the territory and the hos tile forces which compassed it. The entire region through which the relief party had to pass is o f the most broken description and abounds in narrow, dark defiles be tween precipitous heights. While Colonel Battye and his men were m arching through one o f these straitened passages a body of natives massed at the top o f the cliffs and rolled down a perfect torrent o f bowlders upon the devoted heads of the British, not one o f whom was left alive. However, in spite o f this and other setliacks, the B rit ish have succeeded in relieving Mr. Robert son and the little garrison at Chitral, Sher A fzu l has been captured and an alliance has !>oen made with the khan o f Dir. The trouble may therefore now l>e considered at an end, for the present at least, and the British w ill no doubt proceed to thorough ly subjugate tho Swats and other tribes which assisted Sher A fzu l and Um ra Khan. This w ill not be an easy task, how ever, since the natives are of the most w ar like temperament, o f splendid physical constitution and not at a ll inclined to be ruled by anybody. U n til about 20 years ago the Swats were very powerful. Then the greatest ahkoond who ever ruled over them was called away by death, after a reign of 60 years. It was this ahkoond whose death inspired the late George T. Lanigan to w rite that extraordi nary piece o f versification which alone has made fame for the name of the ahkoond o f Swat in the civilized world. It is likely that the first th in g that the British w ill do to strengthen themselves in the territory they have now safely en tered w ill be to extend the railroad north from the terminus at Peshawar, since good roads are always found to have the strong est sort of influence in thoroughly subdu ing savage tribes. out thar dried up like a drunkard’ s throat. ” “ Did ye hev much to lose?” The camper took a gulp o f the coffee and choked a bit. “ Only 300 acres, an a wife, an a child.” “ Eh?” queried the young farmer stupid ly. H e had ridden up close to tlia wagon, and now lifted one le g over the mare’s head and wheeled around in the saddle. The camper forgot his supper. He clinch ed tw o gnarled brown hands around his knees as he sat on the grass. “ I went out west when I got married, four years ago, ’ ’ he said, g-ad in a way to break tl. i silence of days. “ She wus lots younger n me an pretty ez you ever see. H er fo il s said ez how she’d lie sorry for takin mo. She wus.” H e sat silent a few minutes. When he looked up, he went on hastily, with a kind o f twitch in his voice. “ I don't know why I'm tellin you this. I ain ’ t never seen you before. Ennyhow things went wrong. First there come hog cholery. Then thar wus chinch bugs. I had to mortgage the farm. A ll the time Mary kep’ gittin more’ n more discontented. Even the comin of the little girl, that heartened me up so powerful, seemed a worriment to her. This spring she says: ‘ E f thar’ s a crop this year so’ s we kin live easy,.we stay togeth er. E f thar ain't, we don’t . ’ Gittin a wet spring made us hopeful. Things wus lookin fine when that cookin hot weather come along. The everlastin hot winds kep’ a-blowin an a-bio win. The corn curled up an crackled like pai>er. What wus left wouldn’t make decent fodder. I t ’ ud make the heart of a man ache to see the stalks that meant peace an love an happi ness to him a dyin a slow death, an him a hopin till the last ear wus shriveled. Thinkin, too, all the tim e that a middlin rain ’ ud save it, an Godlemiglity bavin floods up thar to sweep other men’s farms aw a y!” A meadow lark chirped its little treble noted song in the stubble near. The abash ed dog cast an insinuating eye at the skil let. “ M ary,’ ’ the camper continued, “ kep’ her word. She went off with a drummer that wus stayin at the town hotel. The little girl did w ell fur awhile. Then— doc tor said ’ twas m alairy; the neighbors said frettiu fur her mother— whichever ’twas she died. The mortgage on the farm wus foreclosed; the furniture wus sold. H alf paid fur the cuffing, the other half fu r a new dress her mother got before she went aw ay.” He began gathering up his traps, pre paring to resume his journey. “ Y o u ’re goin g bock east— what to do?” asked his confidant. The camper climbed wearily* up to the creaking seat. “ God know s!” he answered. “ I don’t, sn I don’t care much.” IN D E E D . A hkoond of A .z u l a n d D i v e r s G E N E R A L LOW , C O M M AND ER OF T H E CH IT R A L E X P E D IT IO N . C o n c e a le d W e a p o n s I n N e w EXTRAORDINARY ! T H E W A li IN C H IT R A L T a le N o b le E n o u g h . Miss— O f course you know, l>aron, tbal m y father is not in the remotest degree e nobleman? He— Say no more, beautiful one. A man who w ill give his daughter a dowry o f a m illion is noble enough for me.— London M illion. D r. P rice 's C r e a m B a l i n g P o w d e r. World’s F a ir Highest Medal and 0 ploma. The newsgatherer on hit daily search for items of interest often comes across happenings of more than passing note. It was during a recent conversation w ith Mr. A . H. Cransby, the w ell- known commercial traveler, w ith the Cochran Lumber Company, that a re porter of the Commercial learned of a wonderful case. Mr. Cransby is w ell known in Memphis aud surrounding country, and now resides at 158 Ken- street. “ Just ten years ago ,” said he, “ my w ife noticed a small lump in her breast. She thought nothing of it, but it increased in size rapidly, aud soon broke through the skin, and com menced to discharge. She was pnt under treatment of the best physicians, bnt they very soon found that they could do her no good, aud sim ply pre scribed antiseptics to keep the place clean. Both her grandmother and aunt, by the w ay, had died w ith can cer, and when apprised of this fact, the doctors told me that they would not attempt to save her; that she was incurable. A lthough the cancer had by this time become deep seated, aud her health very low, I had one of the most noted specialists of New York to treat her. A fte r treating her awhile, this doctor admitted that the case was hopeless aud further treatment useless. It is difficult to imagine how despond ent w e a ll became, knowing that she must die, aud unable to give her any relief. 1 had spent over five hundred dollars w ith the best medical skill to lie had, aud felt that there was no fu r ther hope. “ One day I happened to read an ad vertisement of 8. 8. 8., recommending this remedy for cancer, aud in view of the failure of the most em inent physi cians in the country I confess I had lit tle faith left in any human agency. However, I purchased a bottle of 8. 8. S ., and to my delight it seemed to ben efit her; after she had taken a couple of bottles, the cancer liegau to heal, and as astonishing as it may seem a few bottles more cured her entirely. You can probably better understand how remarkable this cure was when 1 explain that the cancer had eaten two holes in the breast two inches deep. These healed up entirely aud although ten years have elapsed, not a sign of the disease has ever returned aud we are assured of the permanence of the enre, w hich we at first doubted. “ I certainly regard S. S. S. as the most wonderful remedy in the world, and it is tru ly a God-send to those afflicted w ith this terrible disease. Yes, s ir,” he concluded, “ you m ay be sure that I shall alw ays be grateful to that remedy, for w ithout it my home would now be desolate and my children m o th e r le s s .M e m p h is , Tenn., Com mercial. L IK E A SI KM C. T h e c h ie f fu n c tio n o f the kid n ey s is to sep- ara e from the blood, in 0 « passage th rou gh them , o f ce rta in im p u ritie s an d w a t -r v particles w h ie n m a k e their final e x it through the M ad. dcr. T h e retention o f these, iu c n eetp ien o e o f in a c tiv ity o f the k id u ey s. Is p it d u C t i' e of B rig h t's disease, d ro p sy , d iabetes, a lb u o iin u rta a n d oth er m a la d ie s w ith a fatal tendency. H o e tetter's Stom ach B it ers, a h ig h ly sanctioned d iu re tic an d b lo o d d ep u reu t. im p e ls the kid n eys w h e n in a c tiv e to en ew th eir siftin g fu n c tio n , a n d strain from the vital cu rren t im p u r i ties w h ic h in fe st it an d th reaten th eir o w n ex istence as o rg a n s o f the bo d y . C ata rrh o f the b la d d e r, g ra v e l an d retention o f the u r iu e m e also m a la d ie s arrested o r averted by (h is ben ieu irom oier a n d r c s t o r a ih e o f o rg a n ic action . Ma aria, rh eu m atism , c o n s tiim c o u . biliou sn ess an d d ysp e p sia also y ie ld to tbe B .tie rs, w h ic h Is also sp e c a ily benefit ial to the w e a k an d n e r vous. F •'W e lt,' said the m o n k e y to the o rg a n -g rin d e r as he sar on the top f the o rg a n , " I 'm sim ply arrie d a w a y w it h toe m u sic ." 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