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BY A. CONAN DOYLE.
' , PART II Chapter VI -Continued.
"He gazed at me with bleared,
drunken eyes for a moment, and then
I saw a horror spring up in them and
convulse hit whole features, which
showed me that he knew me. I
"I had always known that ven
geance would be sweet, but had never
hoped for the contentment of soul
which now possessed rne. I
"You dog' I aald, "I hava hunted
you from Salt Lake City to St. Pet
ersburg, and you hava alwaya escaped
me. Now at last your wanderinga
have come to an end, tor either you
or ( shall never see tomorrow's sun
Use.
- "He shrank still further away as
I spoke, and I could aee on his face
that he thought 1 waa mad. So I waa
for the time. The pulses in my tem
ples beat like sledgehammers, and I
believe I would have had a fit of some
Sort It the blood had not gushed from
my nose and relieved me.
"He staggered back with a livid face,
and I aaw the perspiration break out
unnn Mo hm wMlo hla tpfth shat
tered. Al ma sight. I leaned my back
against the door and laughed loud and
long. - ,
"'What do yon think of Lucy Fer
rier now?" I cried, locking the door
and shaking the key In hla face. 'Pun
ishment haa been slow In coming, but
It has overtaken you at last'
"I saw his coward Upa tremble aa I
spoke. He would have begged for hU
life, but he knew well that it waa use
less. ""Would you murder met he stam
mered. "There Is no murder,' I answered.
Who talks of murdering a mad dog?
"- What mercy had you upon my poor
darlinghen you dragged her from
her slaughtered, father and bore her
away to your accursed and shameless
harem r
- 'It was not I who killed her father.'
he cried.
" But It was you who broke her in
nocent heart,' I shrieked, thrusting
the box before him. 'Let the high God
Judge between us. Choose and eat
There is death in one and life in the
other. I shall take what you leave.
Let us see it there is Justice upon the
earth, or if we are ruled by chance.'
"He cowered away with wild cries
and prayers for mercy, but I drew my
knife and held it to his throat until he
had obeyed me.
"Then I awaaowed the other, and
we stood facing each other, in silence
for a minute or more, waiting to see
which was to live and which was to
die.
"Shall I ever forget the look which
came over his face when the first
warning pangs told him that the pois
on was in his system? I laughed as
I saw it, and held Lucy's marriage
ring in front of his eyes.
"It was but for a moment, for the
action of the alkaloid is rapid. A
spasm of pain contorted his features;
he threw his hands out in front of
him, staggered and then, with a
hoarse cry, fell heavily . upon the
floor. . .
"I turned him over with my foot
and placed my hand upon his heart.
-There-was no .movement. He waa
dead!
"The blood had been streaming
from my nose, but I had taken no no
tice of it I don't know what it waa
that put it into my head to write up
on the wall with it
"Perhaps it was some mischievous
idea of putting the police upon a
wrong track, for I felt light hearted
and cheerful, I remembered a Ger
man being found in New York with
rache' written up above him. and it
was argued at the time in the news
papers that the secret societies must
have done it.
"I guessed that what puzzled the
New Yorkers would puzzle the Lon
doners, so I dipped my finger In my
own blood and printed it on a conven
ient place on the wall.
Then I walked down to my cab
and found that there was nobody
about and that the night was still
very wild. I had driven some dis
tance, when I put my nand into the
pocket in which I usually kept Lucy'i
ring, and found that it was not there.
"I was thunderstruck at this, for it
was the only memento that I had "f
her. Thinking that I might have
dropped it when I stooped over Dreb
ber's body, I drove back, and leaving
my cab in a side street I went boldly
up to the house for I was ready to
dare anything rather .than lose the
ring. ,.,!''"'"'
"Whon T arrived there I walked
Tlgtit Into the arms of a police officer
who was coming out, and only man
aged to disarm his suspicions by pre
tending to be hopelessly drunk.
"That was how Enocn Drebber came
tn his end. All I had to do then was
to do as much for Stangerson, and so
pay off John' Ferrier's debt
"I knew that he was staying at Hal
llday's private hotel, and I hung
about all day but he never came out,
I fancy that he suspected something
when Drebber failed to put in an ap
pearance. "He was cunning, was Stangerson,'
and always on his guard. If he
; thought he could keep me oft by stay
ing In doors he waa very much mis
taken. ' I soon found out which was
the window of his bedroom, and early
next morning I took advantage of
some ladders which were lying in the
lane behind the hotel, and so made
. my way into his room in the. gray of
the dawn.
"I woke him up and told him that
the hour had come when he was to
answer for the life he uad taken so
long before. I described Drebber's
death to him, and I gave him the
same choice of the poisoned pills.
Instead of grasping at the chance
of safety which that offered him, he
sprang from his bed and flew at my
throat In self-defense I stabbed him
to the heart It would have been the
same in any case, for Providence
would never have allowed his guilty
hand to pick out anything but uie
poison.
"I have little more to say, and it's
as well, for I am about done up. I
' went on cabbing it for a day or so,
intending to keep at it until I couli
save enough to take me back to
America. '
"I was standing In the yard when a
ragged youngster asked if there was
a cabby there called Jefferson Hope,
and said that his cab was wanted by
' a gentleman at 221B Baker street.
"I went round, suspecting no harm,
and the next thing I knew, this young
man here had the bracelets on my
wrists, and as neatly shackled aa ever
! was in my life.
"That's the whole of my story, gen
tlemen. You may consider me to be
Wa?a!MWSM?W &i&?4a????u7
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a murderer, but I hold that I am Just
as much an officer of Justice as you
are."
So thrilling had the man's narra
tive been, and his manner waa so im
pressive, that we had sat silent and
absorbed.
Even the professional detectives,
blase as they were in every detail of
crime, appeared to be keenly inter
ested In the man's story.
When he had finished we sat for
some minutes in a stillness which was
only broken by the scratching of Lea
trade's pencil aa he gave the finish
ing touchea to his shorthand account
"There is only one point on which
I should like a little more informa
tion," Sherlock Holmes said at last
"Who was your accomplice who came
for the ring which I advertised?"
The prisoner winked at my friend
Jocosely.
"I can tell my own secrets," he
said, "but I dont get other people in
to trouble. I aaw your advertisement
and I thought It might be a plant or
it might be the ring I wanted. My
friend volunteered to go and see. 1
think you'll own he did it smartly."
"Not a doubt of that" aald Holmes,
heartily.
"Now, gentlemen," the inspector re
marked, gravely, "the forms ot the
law must be complied with. On
Thursday the prisoner will be brought
before the magistrates, and your at
tendance will be required. Until then
I will be responsible for him."
He rang the bell as he spoke, and
Jefferson Hope waa led off by a couple
of warders, while my friend and I
made our way out of the station and
took a cab back to Baker street
CHAPTER VII.
We had all been warned to appear
before the magistrates upon the
Thursday; but when the Thursday
came there was no occasion tor our
testimony.
A higher Judge had taken the mat
ter in hand, and Jefferson Hope had
been summoned before a tribunal
where strict justice would be meted
out to him.
On the very night after his capture
the aneurism burst and he was found
In the morning stretched upon the
floor of the cell, with a placid smile
upon his face, as though he had been
able in his dying moments to look
back upon a useful life, and on work
well done.
"Gregson and Lestrade will be wild
about his death," Holmes remarked,
as we chatted it over next morning.
"Where will their grand advertise
ment be now?"
"I don't see that they had very
much to do with his capture," I an
swered. "What you do In this world Is a
matter of no consequence," returned
my companion, bitterly. "The ques
tion is, what can you make people
believe that you have done? Never
mind," he continued, more brightly,
after a pause, "I would not have
missed the Investigation for anything.
There has been no better case with
in my recollection. Simple as it was.
there were several most instructive
points about it"
"Simple?" I ejaculated.
"Well, really, it can hardly be de
scribed as otherwise," -said Sherlock
Holmes, smiling at my surprise. "The
proof of its intrinsic simplicity is that
without any help, save a few very or
dinary deductions, I was able to lay
my hand upon the criminal within
three days."
"That is true," said L
"I have already explained to you
that what Is out of the common is us
ually a guide rather than a hindrance.
In solving a problem of this sort the
grand thing is to be able to reason
backward. That is a very useful ac
complishment and a very easy one,
but people do not practice it much.
Ir. the every day affairs of life it is
more useful to reason forward, and
so the other comes to be neglected.
There are fifty who can reason syn
thetically for one who can reason an
alytically." "I confess," said L "that I do not
quite follow you."
"I hardly expected that you would.
Let me see if I can make it clear.
Most people, if you describe a train
of events to them, will tell you what
the result would be. They can put
those events together in their minds,
and argue from them that something
will come to pass. There are few peo
ple, however, who, if you told them a
result would be able to evolve from
their inner consciousness what the
steps were which led up to that re
sult This power is what I mean
when I talk of reasoning backward,
or analytically." v
"I understand," said I.
"Now, this was a case in which you
were given the result and had to find
everything else for yourself. Now,
let me endeavor to show you the dif
ferent steps in my reasoning. To be
gin at the beginning. I approached
the house, as you know, on foot, and
with my mind entirely free from all
impressions. I naturally begun by
examining the roadway, and there, as
I have already explained to you, I
saw clearly the marks a cab,' which,
I ascertained by inquiry, must have
been made there during the night I
satisfied myself that it was a cab and
not a private carriage by the narrow
gauge of the wheels. The ordinary
London growler is considerably less
wide than a gentleman's brougham.
"That was the first point gained. I
then walked slowly down the garden
path, which happened to be composed
of a clay soil, peculiarly suitable for
taking Impressions, No doubt it ap
peared to you to be a mere trampled
line of slush, but to my trained eyes
every mark upon its surface had a
meaning.
"There is no branch of detective
science which is so important and so
much neglected as the art of tracing
footsteps. Happily, I have always laid
great stress upon it, and much prac
tice has made it second nature to me.
"I saw the heavy footmarks of the
constables, but I saw also the tracks
of the two men who bad first passed
through the garden. It was easy to
tell that they had been before the
others, because in places their marks
had been entirely obliterated by the
others coming upon the top of them.
"On entering the house this last in
ference was confirmed. My well-booted
man lay before me. The tall one,
then, had done the murder, if murder
there was.
"There was no wound upon the
dead man's person, but the agitated
expression upon his face assured me
that he had foreseen his fate before
it came upon him. Men who die from
heart disease or any sudden natural
cause never by any chance exhfc.t
agitation upon their features.
"Having sniffed the dead man's lips,
I detected a slightly sour smell, and
I came to the conclusion that he had
had poison forced upon him. Again
I argued that it had been forced upon
him. from the natrea ana rear ex
pressed upon his face,
"By the method of exclusion I ar
rived at this result for no other hy
pothesis would mwt the facts. Do
not imagine that it was a very unheard-of
idea. The forcible adminis
tration ot poison Is by no means a
now thing in criminal annals. The
casea ot Dolsky, in Odessa, and ot
Leturier, in Montpllcr, will occur at
once to any toxlcologlst
"And now came the great question
aa to the reason why. Robbery had
not been the object of the murder, for
Lathing waa taken. Waa it politics,
then, or waa it a woman?
"That waa the question which con
fronted me. I waa inclined from the
first to the latter supposition. Politi
cal assassins are only too glad to do
their work and to fly.
"It must have been a private wrong.
and not a political one, which called
for such a methodical revenge. When
the inscription waa discovered upoa
the wall I was more inclined than
ever to my opinion.
"The thing was too evidently a
blind. When the ring was founcl,
however, it settled the question.
Clearly the murderer has used it ;o
remind his victim ot some dead or ab
sent woman.
"I had already come to the conclu
sion, since there were no signs ot a
struggle, that the blood which covere l
the floor had burst from the murder's
nose in his excitement
"I could perceive that the track of
blood coincided with the track of his
feet It is seldom that any man, un
less he is very full-blooded, breaks
out tn this way through emotion, so I
hazarded the opinion that the crlmlntf
was probably a robust and ruddy
faced man. Events proved that I
judged correctly.
"Having left the house, I proceeded
to do what Gregson had neglected. 1
telegraphed to the head of the police
at Cleveland, limiting my inquiry to
the circumstances connected with the
marriage of Enoch Drebber. The an
swer was conclusive.
"It told me that Drebber had ap
plied .for the protection ot the law
against an old rival In love, named
Jefferson Hope, and that this same
Hope was at present in Europe. I
knew now that I held the clew to the
mystery In my hand, and all that re
mained was to secure the murderer.
"I had already determined in my
own mind that the man who had
walked into the house with Drebber
was none other than the man who had
driven the cab.
"The marks in the road showed me
that the horse had wandered on in a
way which would have been impossi
ble had there been any one in charge
of it
"Where, then, could the driver be,
unless he were Inside the house?
Again, it is absurd to suppose that
any sane man would carry out a de
liberate crime under the very eyes, as
it were, of a third person, who was
sure to betray him.
"Lastly, supposing one man wished
to dog another through London, what
better means could be adopted than
turn cab driver? All these considera
tions led me to the Irresistible conclu
sion that Jefferson Hope was to oe
found among the jarveys of the me
tropolis. "If he had been one there was no
reason to believe that he had ceased
to be. On the contrary, from his
point of view, any sudden change
would be likely to draw attention to
himself.
"He would probably, for a time at
least, continue to perform his duties.
There was no reason to suppose that
he was going under an assumed name.
"Why should he change his' name in
a country where no one knew his
original one? I therefore organized
my street arab detective corps, and
sent them systematically to every
cab proprietor in London until they
ferreted out the man that I wanted.
"How well they Succeeded and how
quickly I took advantage of It are still
fresh in your recollection. The mur
der of Stangerson was an incident
which was entirely unexpected, but
which could hardly In any case have
been prevented.
"Through it, as you know, I came
into possession of the pills, the exist
ence of which I had already surmised.
You see, the whole thing is a chain of
logical sequences without a break or
flaw."
"It is wonderful!" I cried. "Your
merits should be publicly recognized.
You should publish an account of the
case. If you wont, I will for you."
"You may do what .you like, doctor,"
he answered. "See here!" he con
tinued, handing a paper over to me;
"look at this!"
It was the Echo for the day, and the
paragraph to which he pointed was
devoted to the case in question.
"The public," it said, have lost a
sensational treat through the sudden
death of the man Hope, who was sus
pected of the murder of Mr. Enoch
Drebber and of Mr. Joseph Stanger
son. "The details of the case will prob
ably never be known now, though we
are informed upon good authority
that the crime was the result of an
old-standing and romantic feud. In
which love and Mormonlsm bore a
part.
"It seems that both the victims be
longed, in their younger days, to the
Latter-Day Saints, and Hope, the de
ceased prisoner, hails also from Salt
Lake City. If the case had had no
other effect it at least brings out in
the most striking manner the effic
iency of our detective force, and will
serve as a lesson to all foreigners
that they will do wisely to settle their
feuds at home, and not to carry them
on to British soil.
"It is an open secret that the credit
of this smart capture belongs entirely
to the well-known Scotland Yard of
ficials, Messrs. Lestrade and Gregson.
The man was apprehended, it appears,
in the rooms of a certain Mr. Sher
lock Holmes, who has himself, as an
amateur, shown some talent in the
detective line, and who, with such in
structors, may hope in time to attain
some degree of their skill.
"It is expected that a testimonial of
some sort will be presented to the
two officers as a fitting recognition of
their services."
"Didn't I tell you so when we start
ed V cried Sherlock Holmes, with a
laagh. . "That's the result of all our
Study in Scarlet to get them a testi
monial!" "Never mind," I answered ; "I have
all the facts in my Journal, and tho
publie shall know them. In the mean
time you must make yourself con
tented by the consciousness of suc
cess, like the Roman miser
" 'Populus me slbllat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi slnul ac nummos con
templar in area.'"
. THE END,
LONE TRICE OF ESKIMOS
There has been discovered upon one
of the islands ot the Hudson Bay, the
rvmnnnt ot a lost tribe of Eskimos, a
community which has been for centu
ries without tutercoura with any oth
er representatives of the human spe
cies, and whose member never, uutlt
quite recently, had an opportunity of
seeing a white man. The facts of the
discovery are well established, having
been reported to the Federal authorities
at Ottawa by the Rev. A. W. Bucklaud.
Mr. Buckland says that these strange
people will virtually tlvt iu the stone
age, knowing no metals. Their habi
tations are built entirely of the skulls
of whales.
The home of the tribe is upon South
amptou Island, a piece ot water-gtrt
land nearly aa large as the State ot
Maine, lying at the extreme north end
of Hudson Bay. These people or their
ancestors have undoubtedly Inhabited
the island ever since pre-Columbian
days, and at the present time they ex
ist exactly as they must have done
then. Having been Isolated for so loug
a period it Is natural that they should
possess many peculiarities. A very re
markable collection of their utensils,
weapons ot the chase, and other ob
jects, was secured by Mr. Buckland,
but to the great regret of the Canadian
authorities, it was allowed by him to
pass Into the hands of private persons.
The huts on the Island are built by
putting together the great jaws of
whales and then covering them with
skins. In the middle of the primitive
dwellings Is a Blight elevation, on
which stands the stone lamp, employed
for lighting, heating, cooking, aud melt.
Ing snow and drying clothes. This
lamp Is nothing more than an open dish
ot whale oil, with a wick of dry moss
soaked in fat
The whale is the chief means of
subsistence of these poor people. They
use the bone for many purposes, mak
ing plates aud cups and toboggan-like
sleds. They also' manufacture sledges
of walrus tusks, with deer antlers for
crosspleces. The members speak a di
alect peculiar to themselves and they
are the most daring of hunters. Not
more than sixteen members of the trlbo
now survive.
Mr. Buckland agrees with the explor
ers who believe the story that Audree
was murdered by the Eskimos. He has
lived for years with these people In
their tents, and can not say too much
for the kindliness of disposition and
readiness to assist strangers. He
explains the finding by them of
instruments and other property by the
hypothesis that they belonged to the
Tyrell brothers, who in 1SW, nearly
lost their lives near Marble Island,
Hudson Bay, and left many valuable
articles behind, Including their cameras,
plates, etc..
Mr. Buckland Is confident that An
dree will never again be heard from.
When he was asked by the Norwegian
government last year to undertake a
search for him, he declined, believing
that to do so would simply mean a
waste of time and money. New York
Sun. " "'
THIS ELEPHANT IS NOf REAL
Here is a "freak" photograph. At
first glance one would suppose that it
was a picture of a young lady riding
on a baby elephant
But it is not a real elephant It is a
mere silhouette cut out of boards and
is intended for an advertisement A
sign being painted on It The lap-robe
of a carriage is thrown over the sign
to conceal It and the young lady is
managing herself with difficulty on the
sharp edge of the elephant's back
for all that he looks comfortable.
The photograph was taken in the out
skirts of the City of Washington, the
elephant being set up by the roadside.
A Convenient Deafness.
Mrs. llall was just wishing she had
some one to send down town after a
spool of silk with which to finish her
sewing, when her neighbor's little six-year-old
boy came in.
"Well, Bobbie," said Mrs. HalL "If
I pay you 8 cents will you go down to
Stone's and get me a spool of silk?"
Robert was very willing to go and
waited while Mrs. Hall wrote the num
ber and color of the silk she wanted,
and as she handed him the slip Robbie
said:
"Mrs. Hall, I guess I must be a little
hard of hearing, but did you say 4
cents?" Little Chronicle.
Aluminum as a Substitute for Paper.
It is stated that experiments with
aluminum as a substitute for paper
are now under way in France. It is
now possible to roll aluminum Into
sheets four-thousandths of an inch in
thickness, in which form it weighs less
than paper. By the adoption of suit
able machinery these sheets can be
made even thinner and can be used for
book and writing paper. The metal
will not oxidize, is practically fire and
water proof, and is indestructible by
worms.
Like Papa.
"I saw Klumsey's baby yesterday.
It's a regular chip off the old block."
"Why, I couldn't see any resemblance
atalL"
"No? Well, when I saw the kid it
had Just opened Its mouth and put its
foot in lt"-Phlladelphia Press.
A wife can read her husband's mind
all right The difficulty is In getting
him to acknowledge that she reads
him right
IAa Excellent Reason.
Aa old sea captain, under the im
.presalon that lie waa laying a good
thing, asked a lady passenger why
i men never kiss one another, while
ladies waste a world of kisses on femi
nine faces.
Because," tha lady replied, "the
men have something better to klas and
the women haven't"
For forty yaar's Tito's Cur for Con
sumption bus eurwd rouphi aud oolda. At
druggist. Prlc 25 cent.
j Showed Profound Conceit.
rhyHls Harry is the most con
ceited man I ever met.
Maud What makes you think so?
, Phyllis Why, he first asterts that I
. am the most adorable woman In the
world, the most beautiful, ii.tellevtual.
' and in every respect a paraxon, aud
then he wants me to marry him I
rtTft NnMUMiU Caraa si me mummm
lit aAar Aral U'i inf Ir, Hlia.'nilnat Nor-
aurr. Band for 9 U B K S i SO liW h.mt nJ lr
in. !.. a &um. UA..VU awn ,f atlaiblyola. U
Anything But Funny.
Myer The average maa takes lift
much too seriously.
Oyer Oh, I don't know. It's no
Joke to be arrested for murder.
Millions ot sufferers use Hamlin's Wis
ard Oil for pain every year and call it
blessed. Ask your druggist, lie knows.
Giving Papa Awsy,
"Mamma," said S-rear-oId Tommy,
"I'll bet my pony can beat yon."
"Why, dear, what do you mean?"
asked the astonished mother.
"I mean in a race," replied the
Youngster. "I heard papa ray that you
could talk faster than a horse can trot."
Eats Cora Oft the Cob.
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A Natural Question.
"At your age I never told stories,"
said Mvron LefEngwell to the youthful
' one who had been "yarning" as is a
I war sometimes with imaginative
youngsters,
j "At what age did you begin, papa?"
was the disconcerting answer. New
York Times.
How the Miracle Occurred.
"Why did the evil spirits enter into
the swine?" asked the Sunday school
teacher.
" 'Cause hogs will eat any old
thing," replied little Sammy.
Must Forget One.
Flannigan Fhat's the matter
wid
Hogan these days?
Hooligan lie invinted an armor
that nothing can pierce, and a shell
that will pierce any armor, and he
doesn't know which to fcrgit.- New
York Times.
Shoes Wouldn't Fit.
Clerk So you want to exchange
these shoes becsuse they aren't mates?
Mrs. Hogan 01 do. Firrht Oi put
wan on me left foot an' 'twor made for
the roight; an' thin Oi put wan on me
roight foot, an' 'twor made for the left.
The Truth Will Out.
The Faison (to straneer) This is the
first time I have had the pleasure of
seeing you at our church. Where is
your regular place of worship, may I
ask.
Young Man Why, er at her fath
er's house, to be sure.
The Kind You JIavo Always
ture of Chas. II. Fletcher, and has been made under his
personal supervision for over SO years. Allow no one
to deceive you in this. Counterfeits, Imitations and
Just-as-gootl " are but Experiments, and endanger tho
health of Children Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing: Syrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its ape is its guarantee. It destroys 'Worms -and
allays FcvcrLslmess. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Toethinar Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates tho
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
In Use For
thi eiNT.ua oowmhv. tt
Dark Hair
" I have used Ayer'a Hair Vigor
for treat nuny years, and al
though I am past slghty years of
age, yet I hats not a gray hair in
my head." '
Geo. Yellott, Towson, Md.
Wc mean all that rich,
dark color vour hair used
to have. If It's gray now,
no matter; for Aycr's
Hair Vigor always re
stores color to gray hair.
Sometimes it makes the
hair grow very heavy and
long; and it stops falling
of the hair, too.
tl.Ktkrillt. AH nrrrlrta.
If your 4ritfrtt wniwl tply yon,
ent aa on Mlr and will aipraai
you statu. Ite aura ami tle the uaiue
Ot XM ararm'xprmjtomc. AdilroM,
J . C. A V ku CO., LoU, Hmm.
Kt$ ftftUt All U
uih ttjraa. Tm
lim. Bom v nrtut
Lady Prompters. -
Women prompters have been tried at
tha Berlin theaters with success, as it
has been found that their voice carry
bettor across the state and are loss
audible in the auditorium.
TmCm O.I Allan's fool Kaa ritEB.
Writ Allan 8. 01uitit. UKoj, N. Y tor a
fraa mile ot Allan's Kuol Kim. It cutri chll
blln, iweatliiK, damp, awollvn, avhliic tat.
It makaii nnw or tliht unota eaujr. A rtrtain
rur lor Corn and Hunluni. All drugHlaUauU
tl. Dou't avcant any tubaUtut.
tils Choke Jury.
Lawyer Brief I sea that caso of
yours is on. Jury drawn yetT
Lawyer Skluner Yes, and it's a
splendid one.
Lawyer Brief Above the average iu
Intelligence, ehT
Lawyer Skinner No; way below it.
False Economy.
It la the eiperienre of every good
housewife that to practice economy on
aucb articles a spices, baking powder
and the like is generally at the rUk i t
health and comfort. The few rent
possibly ssved msy be very esptnsive
if they result in impure and Indigest
ible foods. If you want to be sure
you are getting only the very purest
and strongest spices and baking powder
made, see to it that your grocer sup-
, plies you only with .lie Monopo's
brand. It your dealer Uoesn t handle
them sand m hla name. Wadhams &
Kerr Bros., Portland, Or.
Preference.
"You say that young woman com
plimented my singing?" he exclaimed,
anxiously. 1
"In a way," the young woman re
plied. "She said she would rather
hoar you try to sing than try to con
v ne." Washington tar.
TP
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muv aTacrr, ntw'Voaa art.
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I "Because it al a ays comes Into the
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Mother will find Mrs. fflnslow's Booth
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Somewhat Uncertain.
"He's what you'd call a professional
public speaker, isn't he?"
"Well, I don't know. Ha speaks in
public every chance ha can get, but
the public never waits to hear him."
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