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Mrs. Emma Stolt, of App.eton, Wisconsin "A Neighbor Advised Me to Use Peruna. I began to Irr prove nt Once." MRS. EMMA STOLT Mrs. Emma Stolt, 1069 Oneida St., Appleton, Wis., writes: "Peruna baa done me a great deal of good since 1 began taking it and I am always glad to speak a good word for it. "Three years ago I was in a wretched condition with backaches, bearing down pains, and at-times was so sore and lame that I could not move about. I had inflammation and iiritation, and al though 1 used different remedies, they did me no good. ' "A neighbor who had been using Pe runa advised me to try it, and I am glad that I did. I began to improve as eoon as 1 took it and I felt much better. "I thank yon for your fine remedy. It is certainly a godsend to sick women." Catarrh of the Internal Organs Mies Theresa Bertles, White Church, Mo., writes: "I suffered with catarrh of the sto mach, bowels and internal organs. Ev erything I ate seemed to hurt me. 1 never bad a passage of the bowels with out taking medicine. I was so tired mornings, and ached all over. I had a pain in my left side, and the least ex ertion or excitement made me short ol breath. ''Now, after taking Peruna for sii months, I am as well as I ever was. Peruna has worked wonders for me. I el ieve Peruna is the best medicine in (he world, and I recommend it to my friends." At Culross Abbey In Fife, Scotland, a tombstone has been found which is be lieved to date from the fourth century of the Christian era. Sometimes It Does. Teacher Tommy, do you know what an epic is? ' Tommy Tucker Yes'm. It's something n ,aIpk flint m.laa .tiii aiB n vaii, ' jruil lone luai luamn jvu b.va jvui tummick. ' No Chance. "Poes your husband Indulge In games ot chance?" "'No, Indeed." ""But I thought he played the races?" "So he does." "But that's a game of chance." -"Not with him." Houston Post. Then They Clinched. Floorwalker I'd be ashamed to let -my trousers bag as yours do. You ought 'to have them creased once In a while. Bookkeeper If my shius were as sharp us yours I wouldn't have any more trou ble in keeping my trousers creased than you do. Chicago Tribune. Going- Too Far. "Look here," exclaimed the leading man, as be entered the green room; "when I kissed you In the third act uome of the coloring came off your cheeks and got on my face.' "You villain 1" snapped the Irate leading lady. "Ob, that's all right, madam. I don't mind being a villain, but I don't want to be a deep-dyed villain." i Determined OptlmUm. "Grandfather, how have you managed to retain your hopefulness and your faith in human nature?" "My dear, I avoid modern fiction, nev er go to see a society drama, and read nothing in the newspapers that has a dis play head over It." . How Marble Are Made. Most of the stone marbles used by boys fire made In Germany. The refuse only of the marble and agate quarries is em ployed, and this is treated in such a way that' there is practically no waste. Men and boys are employed to break the refuse stone into small cubes, and with their hammers they acquire a mar velous dexterity. The little cubes are then thrown into a mill consisting of a jrrooved bedstone and a revolving runner. M'ater Is fed to the mill and the runner Is rapidly revolved, while the friction does the rest. . In half an hour the mill Is stopped and a bushel or so of perfectly rounded marbles are taken out. The whole pro cess costs the merest trifle. Philadelphia ltecord. Uncle Allen. ' 'A man may smile and smile, and be villain still,' quoted Uncle Allen Sparks; "but I've known crooked men that could keep their faces just at straight as anybody else." The town of Torquay, England, has adopted a bylaw to prohibit people from using bad laaiuajfs even In their own Louses. . s . I THE GIRL WITH A MILLION By D. C. Murray CHAPTER V. (Continued.) . lie carried the little secretaire up stairs and there, locked In his own room, he wrote a letter which was destined for St. Petersburg, but traveled in the first Instance f to the care of one Dr. Brun, of Hollington place, London. In the soli tude of his own chamber Mr. Zeno per mitted himself an accurate and intimate acquaintance with the French language, little of it as he allowed himself for his present purposes to know outside. Meanwhile things were going more pleasantly In the garden. Angela, with a little twinge of conscience, had Informed Austin that Major Butler would be de lighted to meet him and had expressed his great regret that he had been unable to make the call he had contemplated that day. The fact that the major had charg ed her with this message did not help her much, for she knew Its hollowness. iThe major rather dreaded the advent of a man who wrote books and regarded Aus tin as a fellow who would be likely to know a lot of things and expect other people to know them also. "Ol'd meek wun of the porty meself," said Eraser, with his own invaluable sang frold, "but ol've meed up me moind to go back to-morrow." ' "To-morrow?" said O'Rourke. 'That's a little sudden, Isn't it?" "I wish you'd come, O'Rourke," said Maskelyne. "But Major Butler Is a dreadful Tory, and I am not sure that you'd care to meet each other." I "Major Butler might convert me, per haps," said O'Rourke. "No, no. Clearly I am impossible." He spoke with sq per fect a gayety and good humor that he hurt nobody. But a little later he con trived to get Maskelyne apart, and to question him about a matter which had puzzled him a good deal. "How does your dreadful Tory's niece, contrive to be fa miliar with Dobroskl, when a mere Home Ruler like myself Is quite too terrible for the old gentleman? I call him the old gentleman with po dishrespect," he added, with , bis delightful smile. "And, of course, he may be a young gentleman, and still be the lady's uncle, though, again, he is her guardian, and probably elderly." "Dobroskl and Miss Butler's father were dear friends," said Maskelyne, re peating what he bad beard from Angela. "When Dobroskl escaped from Siberia be landed in England without funds or friends. Miss Butler's father found him out, maintained him, so far as I can learn, for years, and was a stanch friend to him. She has known him from child hood, and has a great affection and ven eration for him. It Is a difficult posi tion, for he and her uncle are at daggers now. But Dobroskl seems to worship her." "Yes, I can see that," O'Rourke an swered. "A charming girl," he added, softly, and in so natural a way that Mas kelyne supposed him to be Ignorant of his own Interest In her. "There's ro mance In the situation, too," he continued, in a lighter tone., Maskelyne, with a mere nod In answer, made a move In Angela's direction. "No," said O'Rourke, putting an arm through one of his. "You don't escape me in that way. I have something to say to you, and I know that you will be shifty and evasive and underhanded in your ways until I have said it Let me speak, old fellow. We shall both be easier. I can't tell you what I think and feel about that splendid loan of yours. I was really desperate. I don't know what I should have done without it." "Very well," said Maskelyne, pressing his companion's arm with a gesture of affection, but speaking very dryly; "it Is over now?" "No, my friend of outward marble and Inward tenderness, It is not over.. And it never will be." "Once for all, O'Rourke, bury that con founded thing, and have done with it. "Well, there, the thing is burled. I'll say no more till I can pay you back again. But I suppose you don't forbid me to think of It in the meantime? It was the only kindness in that way I ever had or ever wanted. I sha'n't forget it; that's all. And now it's burled." On the following day O'Rourke took a quiet walk by unknown ways across the fields. He was a born townsman, and had but little love for rural tranquillities by nature, but he was already weary of the work of the session, and was glad to es cape to fresh air and silence for awhile. One gentle little hill after another drew htm on. He would see what lay beyond this gentle eminence, and then he would see what lay beyond the next, and In this fashion he sauntered on until he came in sight of a most exaggeratedly castellated house of gray stone standing in the midst of a dark pine woods. The building was of a moderate size, but its peaks and tur rets dwarfed it, and from a little dis tance made It look at least as much like a child's toy as a dwelling house for real people. This was the chateau of Roufoy, and the present residence of Major But ler. The wanderer, who had fairly good taste in most things, stood for a moment to smile at this preposterous edifice, and then walked on again. It was a day ot cloudy soft light, and the air was won derfully sweet. The woods were in the freshness of their greenery, and the dark hues of the contrasting pines set off the tighter foliage. A few hundred yards be fore him lay the first link of a river which went winding In a rounded ilgsag until it lost Itself to view behind the shoulder of a wood-clad hill. He strolled down to the river side, and there cast himself upon the grass, and stared up at the soft motionless clouds. The stream ran through narrower banks than common near where he lay, and kept up a pleasant drowsy gurgle. Listening to this, he lay there enjoying all the de lights of leisure after labor In every fiber of his body, until he fell into a light ' dose., From this he was awakened by a rustle and the sound of an execration gently breathed. Sitting up he was aware of a gentleman of British aspect, florid, sturdy and ' well set, who stood on the other side of the river, rod in hand, per suasively pulling at a fly which had lodg ed in one of the branches of a bush. Ly ing down he had been hidden from the angler, who, Beeing him rise, gave some thing of a start. "Pardon me, sir," said the stranger, in labored and very English sounding French, "can you detach that fly for me?" "Major Butler," said O'Rourke to him self. "Is this Major Butler, I wonder?" He answered, also speaking in French, that he would do his best, and walked to the bush. O'Rourke secured the branch to which the fly was attached, and cut it away, .after which be disentangled the hook, and the angler and he raised their hats to each other. Major Butler, for O'Rourke's not un natural guess had hit the mark, express ed his obligations with some little diffi culty, and O'Rourke, who was Paris bred, responded that he was infinitely delighted to be of service. If this were Major But ler, thought Vt. O'Rourke, It would be good fun to conquer his prejudices, and apart from the amusement, it would be agreeable to have a country house to call at during his stay. Then he thought of that charming girl. He began by asking after sport, and the qualy of the stream and the fish, and the major, who was an accessible and friendly soul when once the Ice was brok en with him, displayed his take, and floun dered on with his French In a very cour ageous and adventurous manner. Presently he hooked a half-pounder, who behaved in a very lively manner, and was finally grassed workman-like. O'Rourke looked on with Interest. "They give plenty of sport," he said. "Capital sport," replied Butler, heart ily. "They're not feeding well to-day, though. 'Two or three days ago a young friend of mine, an American, who's stay ing at my place, fetched out seven pounds In half an hour. Used a fly quite strange to the water, too, a gaudy American thing, but very killing." I "There can't be any Americans over here." ."Only one that I know of," said the mijor. i "Maskelyne." He had time enough to think that this was the novel ist, ten to one, and a very different sort of fellow from the man he had expected. "Pleased to meet you," he said. "Shall be glad if you'll look me up." "Thank you," said O'Rourke, sweetly. "Thank you very much Indeed. Maske lyne and I are very old friends." "Not the novelist," said -.the major, si lently. "Of course not Spoke much too intimately from the first mention of him only to have met him yesterday." "You are Major Butler?" asked O'Rourke. There are ways and ways of putting this sort of interrogatory. But ler bowed assent. "Maskelyne told me with whom be was staying. My name is O'Rourke." ' "Oh !" said the major, blankly ; "you're not the " "I'm afraid I am," answered O'Rourke, with so admirable a good humor that But ler could not refrain from a smile. "We needn't talk politics If we differ, as I dare say we do." Honestly, If Major Butler could have withdrawn bis invitation he would have done so, and he was a little annoyed with himself for having given it. But he bethought him, the man was a friend of Maskelyne's, and Maskelyne spoke of him In the very highest terms. But then again, there was something about people talked they said the Irish members were here to make terms with that infamous old scoundrel Dobroskl, a rascal who thirsted for royal blood and wanted chaos to come again. "Do you stay long?" asked Butler, with a diplomatic purpose. J. "Yes, a week or two, perhaps more. A friend of mine I dare say you know him he's really a very distinguished man Farley, the novelist is staying in the same hotel with me at Janenne, and so long as he stays I shall stay." Angela and Maskelyne were each a good deal surprised half an hour later to see Major Butler coming down the avenue toward the chateau side by side with O'Rourke. Perhaps at bottom the major himself was a little surprised, but he was certainly vanquished. He confessed that he had never met a pleasanter man in his life than this Home Ruler, whom in ad vance he had been prepared to detest. CHAPTER VI. Dobroskl and O'Rourke sat together In a chamber of the Cheval Blanc "You thought my scheme a madman's vision when you beard it first," said the old man, In his tired and tranquil way. "But now? Speak without fear, and with perfect candor." "I see a practical possibility In it," returned the other. "A bare possibility, but still a possibility." "Possibility enough to make It worth while to strike when the time comes?" "Possibility enough to make It worth while to strike when the time comes. Yes," There was something In O'Rourke's manner of repeating the phraso which made the repetition soem weighty, rufloc tlve,' and full of respect .for Doliroski'i years and qualities. "Hut " Ho paus ed with a look of thought, and drummed upon the tnhle with his fingers. 'Hut?" said DohroNkl. "We must not Ions the cause. We must not lose for want of a little enndor. You havb laid your scheme before me given me fncts, names, numbers. You tell me that I have your perfect confidence, and that I know now all you have to tell." "There are details," answered Dob roskl "countless details. But the main facts are yours." "I am not disputing, sir," said O'Rourke, with a smile which seemed to say how impossible that would be. "I am ouly recapitulating. But you see, Mr. Dobroskl, I get these things from the fountain-head, and I am assured of their verity. But when you ask me to be your emissary at home you forget that I have neither your years, your first-hand knowl edge, your history, nor your authority. In short, I am Hector O Kourke, and you are John Dobroskl. If I carry this pro digious scheme to the men in England and In Ireland who would be ready to receive It and to take Dart In It what credentials have I?" Dobroskl turned his mournful eyes full upon O'Rourke' and regarded hi in in si lence for a time. O'Rourke bore the scrutiny with an admirable candor and modesty. . "That does not speak well for your opinion of the scheme," said Dobroskl, after a noticeable pause. "I know, and no man knows better, that when we strike we strike for life or death. I know that a single indiscretion may ruin us. I have weighed, the chances and counted the cost for years." "I recognize the dangers, too, said O'Rourke, "but we must face them and outface them." He spoke lightly, but with an underlying resolve so clearly indicated that there was no doubting him. No, it is not the danger of the scheme i that gives me pause. But it needed all your close and intimate knowledge, all the authority you carry in your name and your career, to make the existence of so vast a plan seem possible. I accept the scheme," he said, vividly, half rising from his seat "I bind myself to it without reserve. Win or lose I But, except upon the fullest exposition, I would not have taken it Except upon the loftiest au thority, I would not have given credence to It. No, Mr. Dobroskl, you must come yourself to England. Leave me behind to work as your lieutenant there, if you think me worthy of "the post, but come yourself and bear the news and make the first appeal." "I will go," said Dobroskl, "if you think It needful." "I think it actually needful," O'Rourke answered. "I -will write and will make arrangements. We had better not travel together." f ' "Good," said Dobroskl. "I will start to-night. The longer the interval be tween my going and your following the j less cause to suspect that we have a com mon errand. Perhaps I can be doing something, in the meantime. I may tell your friend Mr. Frost that the plan car ried your adherence with it? Your entire approval?" "That It carries- my entire approval with it," O'Rourke answered, slowly and weightily ; "because it - promises nothing precipitate, because it promises cool and cautious preparation, and good general ship." "You think he stands In need of that warning?" f ' "Most of us stand in need of it," said O'Rourke. "We are too eager. We frit ter our chances on affairs of outposts. That has always been our trouble." "I understand," said Dobroskl. "I will not forget your warning. ' But now, sir, I will say farewell. We shall meet again in a little while, I trust. We have not seen much of each other as yet, but I am not slow to read a true man, and I know that I have done well in trusting you. I have fought in this war for now this forty years and more. We have done but little, but at last the hour Is coming, and all will soon be done or undone." When he first said farewell he took O'Rourke by the hand and held him so until he had spoken his last word. O'Rourke looked back into the sad and passionate eyes that gazed Into his own, and his glance was affectionate and wor shipful. . . . " The little toy train at the toy railway station at Panenne was getting up steam to be gone, and was making as much noise of preparation as if it had a thousand miles before it' Dobroskl emerged from the doorway of the Cheval Blanc, followed by a stout female domestic, who bore a portmanteau ' in either hand. The old man caught sight of O'Rourke and bowed to him. O'Rourke returned the salute, and turning round when Dobroskl had disappeared, saw Austin at his open win dow. ' 1 "Farley," he said, "I believe our old revolutionist is leaving us. He has just gone off to the station with a couple of portmanteaus. Has he said nothing to you about It?" i j 1 "Nothing," said Farley, , smijing. "Doesn't he take his fellow-conspirator into confidence?" "Well, you see," returned O'Rourke, smiling also, "I haven't asked him for his confidence. And even if I did, he might prefer to keep It." "Likely enough," said Farley, smiling still. "Hillo I Here are our friends from Houfoy. 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