A
H a ir
Dressing
Nearly every one likes a fine
hair dressing. Something to
make the hair more manage*
able; to keep it from being
too rough, or from splitting
at the ends. Something, too,
that will feed the hair at the
same time, a regular hair-food.
Well-fedhair will bestrong, and
will remain where it belongs —
on the head, not on the comb!
well supplied with water. His dam Is
a cheap affair, built entirely by labor
on the fatui, and largely reconstructed
each year. It has no storage capacity,
tiie irrigation depending entirely upon
the regular flow.”
W ith the loes of no time or labor and
at considerably lees expense could this
farmer have secured the same, and even
lietter, results bv the hydraulic ratti.
It works automatically after once being
started, both nights and Sundays, too,
I just the same as interest and just as
safely. It requires no attention what
ever, and need not be rebuilt every
year as does the dam. It does more
than merely to furnish water for ir r i
gating purposes. Ture water for the
house and barn is also supplied
Every enterprising farmer should in
vestigate this ram subject if it is only
with the view of supplying water to the
house to make it easier for his wife.
t ’l l A PTK lt X IX .
The mutineers of the Osprey had been
long since given up ms »lend, and the
story of their desperate eecape had ha-
come Indistinct to the general public
mind. Now that they had been raptured
In a remarkable manner, popular belief
Invested them with all sorts of strange
surroundings. They had been—accord
ing to report— kings over savage Island
ers. chiefs of lawless and ferocious pi
rates, respectable married men In Java,
merchants in Singapore, ami swindlers
In Hongkong.
Their adventures had
been dramatised at a theater, and the
popular novelist of that day was engag
ed In a work descriptive of their won
drous fortunes,
John Hex. the ringleader, was related.
It was said, to a noble family. He had
•vary prospect of being satisfactorily
hanged, however, for even the most out
spoken admirers of his skill and courage
could not but admit that he had com
mitted an offense which was death by
the law. The already crowded prison
was recramnied with half a dosen life-
sentence men, (trought up from Port
Arthur to identify the prisoner*. Among
thia number was stated to be the “no
torious D aw es.”
This statement gave fresh food for
recollection nnd invention. It was re
membered
notorious
u i e m o e r e u t that
h a t “the
th e n
o to r io u s D
P a aw
w e es”
s
was the absconder who had been brought
tradlct him, never fear. Oh, and I
thought she was dead all this while!”
The judge had got hia answer from
the cl«rk by this time. “ Mlsa Vickers
had been seriously III, had fainted Just
now In the court. Her only memories
of the convict who had been with her In
the boat were those of terror. The sight
of hint Just now had most seriously a f
fected h«r. The convict himself waa an
Inveterate liar and schemer, aud hia
story had htvn already disproved by
Captain Erere, Rufus D anes, still en
deavoring to speak, was clanked away
with amidst a blitz of remark ami sur
mise.
The trial progressed without further
Incident. The defenae set lip by Reg
was most Ingenious. lie was guilty of
absconding, but hts moderation might
plead an excuse for that. Ills only ob
ject was his freedom, and, having gain
ed It, he had lived honestly for nearly
three years, as he could prove, lie waa
charged with plraticnlly seising the Os
prey, and he urged that the brig Osprey,
having been built by convicta Nt Mac
quarie llarlror, and never entered In
any shipping list, could not bo said to
be “piratlrally aelaed,” In the
strict
meaning of the term. The court admit
ted the force of this objection, and. 111*
financed doubtless by t'aptalu Erore’a
evidence, the fact that five years had
passed since the mutiny, and that th«
two men moot guilty had been executed
In England, sentenced Rex and his three
companions to transportation for life io
the penal settlem ents of the colony.
At this happy conclusion of his la
bors, Erere wont down to comfort the
girl for whose sake he had suffered Rex
to escape the gallows. He found Vick
ers In the garden, and at once begged
him not to talk about the "business” to
hie daughter.
“You saw how bad she was to d a y ,
Vickers. For g«»odn«-**’ sake, dou’t lin k s
her Ul again!”
“ My dear sir.” says poor Vickers. "I
won’t refer to the subject. Hhe’s been
very unwell ever since.
Nervous ami
unstrung, Go In and see h e r ”
So Erere went In. ami s.»othad the
excited girl, with real sorrow at her
suffering. "It’s all right now. Poppet,”
Don’t think of It any
h« said to
more. Put It out of y<mr mind, dear.”
“ It was foolish of me, Maurice, I
Thw
know. but I could not help It.
««»und of— t f -that niau’a voice seemed
to bring (mck to me some great pity f*»r
something or some one. I don’t explain
what I mean, I know; but 1 felt that I
was just <»n the verge <>f remembering
a atory of some great wrong, just al»out
to hear some dreadful revelation that
should make me turn from all the |M«opla
whom I ought most to love. I >»» you un
derstand ?”
“ I think I know what you mean.” saya
Erere. with averted face, “ Hut that’s
all nonaense, you know.”
“Of course.“ returned she. with a
touch of her oh, childish manner of
dl«p,i«lng of questions out of hsAd.
"Everyb«»dy knows It’s all nonsense.
Hut then we do think such things
It
seems to me that I am double, that I
have lived anmewhere before, and have
had another life a dreetndlfe.”
“ What a romantic girl you are!” asid
the other, dimly comprehending her
meaning.
“ How could you have a
dream-life?"
“D f co,irse, not really. Hut In thought,
you know. I dream such atrange things
now and then.
1 am alw ays falling
down precipices and Into cataracts, amt
being pushed Into great caverna In
enormous rocks. Horrible dreams! And
In these dreams," continued Hylvla,
“there la one strange thing. You ara
always there, M aurice”
“Com«, that’s all right,” says Man-
in the boat, dear,” says Vickers, grave
ly. “The prisoner.”
I he eager light died out of her eyes,
• ml in its place came a look of dlaap
pointmeut and pain. ” 1 thought It was
a good man,” she said, holding by the
e.lge of the doorway. “ It sounded like
a good voice.”
And then ahep reased her handa over
her eyes and shuddered. "There, there.”
says \ Ickers, soothingly, “don't
he
afraid, Poppet; he can’t hurt you now.”
The colloquy In the court went on,
D i d n 't W r i t e to H e r .
“Do you know the prisoners in the
The beat kind of a testim onial —
dock?”
Little Dorothy came hurrying home
“ Sold for over six ty years.*'
“ Yee. ”
from school to tell in glowing terms
“ Who are they?”
• Sr J. C A j t r Co.. Lrowoll.
about her new teacher, says the New
▲loo - u n u to tu r to of
“John Rex, John Hhlers. Janie« Lesly
York
World.
SiRSAPABILLÁ.
and, and— I’m not sure aliout the last
“What’s her name?”
PILLS.
man.”
CMtKRV PECTORAL.
"I dou’t know.” hl id IXirothy.
b u t are not sure about the last man.
“Why, then, how do you address
Will you swear to the three others?“
her?”
“I was In the chain gang at Macqua
“Why.” answered Dorothy, “we do
rie Harbor with them for three years.”
A Farmer’s Irrigation.
Sylvia. hearing this hideous reason for
not write to her.”—New Orleans Pica
Under above caption in a recent is yune
acquaintance, gave a low cry, and fell
sue of The Furrow, the following a rti
Into her father’s arms.
cle appeared:
“Oh, papa, take me away! I feel as If
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
“ There is at least one man in the
I was going to remember something ter
b y lo c a l a p p lic a tio n s as th e y c a n n o t re a c h t h e
rible!”
rain belt region of the United States d is e a s e d p o r tio n o f t h e e a r . T b e re is o u ly o n e
Amidst the deep alienee that prevailed
who has solved the drouth problem, * ay c u r e <**a-ness. a m i t h a t i s b y c o n s t it u -
. « •
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x
, ’ t lo n a l r e m e d ie s . lie a f n e s s is c a u s e d by a n In-
the cry of the poor girl was distinctly
and in overcoming his drouth night- tiamcd c o n d it io n o f t h e m u c o u s l i u i n g o f t h e
audible in the court, and all heads turn
mare he has somewhat unexpectedly' E u ,t * cfaia“ T u b e. W h en t h is t u t « is in tia m e d
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ea r r-
ed to the do<>r. In the general wonder
discovered that every year brings a Jng..ndwhen l»l.sn tlrelvcb »ae< l‘ssfnsasls
no one noticed the change that passed
diouth. to a greater or less extent
‘ I *he r e s u u , a n d u n le s s t h e In fla m m a tio n c a n t « _
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a i l n w a a y w b y ( a I’l a i »> - F -W
rere.
and . who
Lisa
WW» —
— — - owed
— -
over Rufus Dawes.
His face flushed
n a v e p u t i n , as you see, he said to me, c o n d itio n , h e a r in g w i l l b e d e s tr o y e d fo r e v e r ; such fettered life as he possessed to til
scarlet, great drops of sweat stood on
•» simple pl.Q ol >,r.g»tlng .ome of my
, * rt " ! • ' • * »*“<’ .......... . <•>•<»'"
rw
ptain F
I-'rere
his forehead. and hia black eyes glared
l&Dil from a little Btrssm running therm u c o u t iur? a res.
i to mnke the wonderful I »oat in which In the direction from whence the sound
through the place which I thought 1 w ® w iU g iv e O n e H u n d r ed D o lla r s for a n y the marooned party escaped.
It wa
came, as though they would pierce the
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c a s e o f l> e a fn e s s ( c a u s e d by c a ta r r h ) t h a t can *
would give me crop insurance during n o t be c u r e d by H a ll's C atarrh C u re. s e m i for remembered, also, how- sullen and morose envious w im m I that separated him from
he had been on his trial five years (n-fore
dry years; but it has taught me that c ir c u la r s ,fr e e r „ , v . , V A r n
n
the woman whose voice he had heard
and how he had laughed when the com
never a year goes by that there is not i Sold by Druggists,
.. o e , .
Maurice Erere sprang up and pushed his
1KK101 75c.
mutation of his death sentence was au
U a ll's F a m ily 1111« are th e beat.
way through the crowd under the l»ench
some period or periods of greater or less
nounced to him.
“ H hat’s this?” he said to Vickers, al
extent that a watering does not greatly
Indianapolis Banking Facilities.
Mlsa Sylvia Vickers also received an most brutally. “ What «lid you bring her
increase the crop. I can observe accu
There are in Indianapolis, where the additional share of public attention. Her here for? She is not wanted. I told
rately, because I have ray irrigated
crops growing
practically alongside National Editorial aaaociation convenes romantic rescue by the hemic Erere. who you that.”
“ I considered it niy duty, sir,” says
those which get only rainfall for their in June, seven national banks with a waa »hortly to reap the reward of his de
Vickers with stately rebuke.
total
capital
of
15,000,000
and
total
de-
r
°ti°n
In
the
g«nsl
old
fashion,
made
her
watering.’
“That ruffian Dawes frightened her.’
poeits of 133,400,000. The total sur- a,mo#t aa Arnona as the villain Dawes
“ This farmer’s discovery of the effi
said Meekin. “ A gush of rec«»||ectli>n
i or hia confederate monster, John IDx
pins
and
undivided
profits
are
$2,725,-
ciency and ease of irrigating was in a
poor child.
There, there, calm your
It was reported that she was to give evl
measure accidental. A little stream 000. In addition there are six trust dcnce on the trial, together with her self. Miss Vickers. He la quite safe.*
companies
with
a
total
capital
of
$2,-
which showed a capacity— in July-—of
"Frightened her, eh?”
affianced husband, they being the only
about six cubic feet per eecond, or say, 475,000; the surplus and undivided two living witnesses who could apeak
“ Y’ee,” said Sylvia, faintly, "he fright
2,500 gallons a minute, which is a profits, t l , 210,000, and total deposits, to the facta of the mutiny. It was re ened me, Maurice. I needn’t stop any
longer, dear, need I-”
much smaller stream than the figures $10,300,000. A ll the banks of Indian ported. also, that her lover waa. nat
"No.” saya Erere. the cloud passing
would indicate to the unwary, runs apolis are in excellent condition, earn urally, <bx«t anxious that she should not
“ Major, I beg your
with a slight fall through a piece of ing fair dividends and entirely worthy give evidence, as ahe was affected deep from hia face.
of
all
confidence.
par,Ion,
hut
I
was
hasty.
Take her home
ly
by
the
illness
consequent
on
the
suf
rich bottom land and at one point near
at once. Thia sort of thing Is too much
fering she had undergone, and In
its lower end had been dammed by the
Q sees« T a lle r (h a s K la * s .
atate of pitiable mental confusion as to for her.” And i t he went back again
boys to form a bathing pool. Several
There is hardly a king in Christen the whole business. These reports caus to hia place, wiping his brow, and breath
years ago, while in the midst of a de dom to-day whose wife does not over
Ing hard, as one who had Just es<a|>ed
ed the court, on the day of the trial
structive drouth which was burning up
top him by a head.
to be crowded with spectator«, and as from tome near peril.
the crops even on this usually moist
Rufus Dawes had remained In the
King Edward Is quite six inches the various particulars of the marvelous
bottom land, the farmer raised this
same attitude until the figure of Erere,
history of this double escape were Je
shorter than Queen Alexandra.
dam by throwing in earth with the
The Czar is overtopped a full head tailed, the excitement grew more intense. passing through the doorway, roused
help of a plow and scoops, and crudely
The aspect of the four heavily Iron pris him. “ Who la ahe?” he as Id. In a Io
flooded several acres of cabbages, mel by the Czarina.
oners eauaed a sensation which, in that hoarse voice, to the constable behind
Kaiser Wilhelm Is of the medium city of the Ironed, was quite novel, and him.
ons and some recently planted late
height,
but the German Empress Is (»eta were offered and taken as to the
corn. The result was so satisfactory
“Mlsa Vickers,” said the man, shortly,
and the idea of overcoming nature so tall, and that la why the proud Kaiser line of defense which they would adopt. flinging the Information at him as one
Mr. Meekin, sitting in the body of the might fling a (»one to a dangerous «log
fascinating, that the next year, after will never consent to be photographed
“ Mlsa Vickers!“ repealed the convict,
the spring high water season, a more beside his wife, unless she sits while he court, felt his religious prejudices sadly
shocked by a sight of John Hex. “A per
■till staring In a sort of bewildered
substantial dam wan put in at the head stands.
The King of Italy, short and squat, feet wild beast, my dear Miss Vickers,” agony. “They told me ahe waa dead
of the field which enabled the flooding
he said, returning. In a pause during the
The constable sniffed contemptuously
of the entire bottom, with a little hardly conies up to the shoulders of
examination of the convicts who had ■ t thia preposterous conclusion, as who
rough surveying to find the levels. The the tall, athletic Queen Helena.
(teen brought to identify the prisoner, to
The King of Portugal, though fat the little room where Sylvia and her should say: “ If you know all about It,
yield is stated to have been enormous,
animal, why did you ask?" And then,
and while the farmer’s tendency has ter. Is less tall than his Queen.
father were waiting. “He has quite a feeling that the fixed gaze of hia Inter
rica.
been to over-irrigate, he is learning
Even the Prince of Wales in shorter tigerish look about him.”
rogator demanded some reply, added
"Ah. but not kind ami good as you
more than he ever knew before about a good four Inches than the Princess.
"Poor man.”’ said Sylvia, with a shud “ Yon thort she was, I’ve no doubt. You
are, ( ’aptnln Bruin, hut scowling, and
the great productive capacity of land
The young King of Spain is several der.
did your beat to make her so, I’ve
threatening, ami angry, so that I am
which has enough water at the right inches shorter than his new bride.
The major tapped his fingers im pa heard.”
afraid of you."
time, and also the great response which
The
convict
raised
both
hia
hands
with
tiently.
“Come
here.
Poppet,"
he
said,
The Queen of Denmark towers above
"Hut that la only In a dream, darling.”
comes from heavily manured soil when her royal spouse.
“and look through this door. You can sudden action of wrathful despair, as
“ Rut you looked Just so to-«lay In tha
see them from here, and If you do not though he would seize the other, despite court. Maurice, ami I think that’s what
recognize any of them, I can’t see what the loaded muskets, but, cheeking him made me so a llly ."
self with sudden Impulse, wheeled round
la the use of putting you in the box.”
“ My darling! There! Hush— don’t
Geutle-
The raised dork was just opposite to to the court. “Yonr honor!
cry!“
the door of the room In which they were i. en! I want to apeak.”
Hut she had hurst Into a passion of
sitting, and the four manacled men, each
The change In the tone of his voice,
sol»s and tears that shook her slight fig
with an armed warder behind him, were n » less than the wndden loudness of teh
ure In his arms.
visible above the heads of th ecrowd.
exclamation, made the face«, hitherto
“Oh, Maurice, I ntn a wicked girl! I
“ No, papa,” she said, with a sigh of l»ent upon the door through which Mr.
don't
know tny own mind. I think some
relief; “I can’t recognize them nt all.”
Erere had passed, turn round Again. To times 1 don’t love you ns I ,night you
As she was turning from the door, a many there It seemed that the “notorious who have nave»! me nml nursed me."
Put tne wonderful KC Bak
voice from the witness box behind her Dawes" was no longer In the box, for in
“There, never rnlml about that," mut
made her suddenly pale, nnd pause to place of the upright and defiant vlllnln tered Maurice Erere, with a sort of
ing Powder to the test. Get a
look
again.
The
court
itself
appeared,
nt
who stood there an Instnnt back was a choking in his throat.
can on approval. Your money
that moment, affected, for a murmur ran white-faced, nervous, agitated creature,
will be returned if you don’t
Hhe grew more componed presently,
through it, and some official cried, “Si bending forward in an attitude nlmost of
nml
said, after a while, lifting her fnee;
agree that all we claim is true.
lence:”
supplication, one hand grasping the rail, "Tell me, Maurice, did you ever, In
The notorious criminal, Rufus Dawes, as though to save himself from falling, those «lays of which you have spoken to
^OUNCES Fp,- You’ll be delighted with the de
licious, wholesome things that
the desperado of Port Arthur, the wild the other outstretched toward the bench. me— when you nursed tne ns a little
beast whom the newspapers had judged “ Your honor, there has been some dread chibl in your arms, nml fed me. ami
f \ B A K IN G
not fit to live, had Just entered the wit ful mistake made. I want to explain starved for tne—did you ever think wo
W POW DER
ness box. H e was a man of thirty, in altfuit myself. I explained before, when should be married?”
the prime of life, with a torso whose first I was sent to Port Arthur, but the
“ I don’t know,” says Maurice. “W hy?”
will bring to life in your oven.
muscular grandeur not even the Ill-fit letters were never forwarded by the com
“ I think you must have thought so,
K C Baking Powder is two-
ting yellow jacket could altogether con mandant. O f course, that’s the rule, and because— It’s not vanity, dear—you
I
can’t
complain.
I've
been
sent
there
thirds cheaper and makes purer,
ceal, with strong, embrowned and nerv
would not else have been so kind and
ous hands, and upright carriage, and a unjustly, your honor. 1 made that boat, gentle nnd devoted.”
'kw ■/’’•CAO® . (C*. better, mpre healthful food than
\^O«S MJ»«**
pair of fierce black eyes that roamed your honor. I saved the major's wife
“ Nonsense, Poppet!” he said, with hia
other powders anywhere near
nnd daughter. I was the man; I did It eyes resolutely averted.
oveT the court hungrily.
K C Quality. 25 ounces for
Not all the weight of the double irons all myself, and my liberty was sworn
“ No, but you have been; ami I nm
25 cents. Qet it to-day 1
I very pettish, sometimes.
swaying from the leathern thong around away by a vlllnln who hated me.
Papa
has
his massive loins, could mar that ele thought until now that no one knew the apoilod tne.
JAQUES MFC. CO.
You are alw ays Affec
gance of attitude which comes only from truth, for they told me that she was tionate, nnd those worrying ways of
Chicago
His rapid utterance took the yours, which I get nngry at, nil come
perfect muscular development. Not all dead.”
Send a p ostal fo
"Bouk or Preaeota.*
the frowning faces bent upon him could court so much by surprise that no one from love for me, don't they?”
frown an accent of respect Into the con interrupted him. “ I was sentenced to
“ I hope so,” sab, Maurice, with on
temptuous tones in which he answered death for bolting, sir. nnd they reprieved unwonted moisture in his eyes.
to his name, “Rufus Dawes, prisoner of me (»ecause I helped <hem In the boat.
ÍT<» t»« 4-nnttntied.»
Helped them! Why, I made It! She
the crown.”
Is the oldest of all
A K n ock .
Pulling Teeth
“Come away, my darling,” said Vick will tell you so. I nursed her, I carried
ers, alarmed at his daughter’s blanched her In my arms, I starved myself for
nothing that mod«-rn d«*ntlstrr has accom
‘He wnntn nie to buy his clnlm ,” snld
her. She was fond of me, air. She was,
plished Is greater than extractin g teeth
face and eager eyes.
the newcomer In Aliiskn; ’’«nya It’s tlio
without pain. W e have 18 years’ exp eri
She called nio ‘Good Mr.
“ W ait,” she said, Impatiently, listen Indeed.
beat In H ila d istrict.”
ence in doing th s. We can h on estly extract
D
aw
es.’
”
ing for the voice whose owner she could
a sore tooth w ithout h urting you. Dr.
“Huh!” snorted Chllkoot Charlie,
At thia a coarse langh broke out,
H turdevant, sp ecialist on ch ild ren 's teeth
not see. “Rufus D aw es! Oh, I have
lie’s
trying to throw gold dust in your
and regulating.
which waa Instantly checked. The Judge
heard that name before:”
"You are a prisoner of the crown at bent over to ask, “Does he mean Miss eyes.”—Philadelphia Press.
the penal settlement of Port Arthur?” Vickers?” and In thia Interval Rufus
WISE BROTHERS
G«io4 Music.
Dawes, looking down Into the court,
“ Yes.”
“Those people nre very good, aren’t
saw
Maurice
Erere
staring
up
at
him
...DENTISTS...
Sylvia turned to her father with
they?”
breathless Inquiry In her eyes.
“Oh, with terror In his eyes.
F alling B uilding, Tblrd and W ashington
Good! They’re so good they wouldn’t
I
see
you.
Captain
Erere,
coward
and
papa, who is that speaking? I know the
I 1 , g M t P. M. Sundays 9 to IL
liar! Put him In the box, gentlemen, have anything In their house but an
namtl I know the voice!”
“That la the man who waa with you and make him tell his story. She’ll con- upright piano.”— Baltimore American,
A i/ers
Prove It
By the Oven Fire
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