BY “Two thousand a year Is not a great | Income,” said Lady Jane, ironically, | “Still, it rescues dear Noel from abso lute want. It was so nice of mother—always a most unassuming person, too; indeed, 1 mistook her for the dressmaker on one occasion when she came to calland I am afraid she slipped off my visiting list quite a year ago.” “That is a pity, since the whole fam- fly are inclined to canonize her now!” sald Signa dryly. “However, she does not seem to have borne malice, a8 she has promoted Noel to the position of an eligible.” “Hardly eligible, my dear! ELL EE EL LL LL ELL EL EERE] THE SCANDAL OF SIGNA. applauding joining in of the his god=- seemed no Two | WYLLARD. men and women into laughing, human beings, not above that last swinging chorus others, and one could seeeta more a drawing room in Pont street, but the cotton-fields of Louisiana. Lady Bloomtfield’'s own high cackle high above the volces of others and one warm rose the | could see the men drawing breath to encore, even as she flushed with the excitement of from the piano, and heard, all across the room the wana- ger ask who she was, Two minutes later, someone brought him over and introduced him, and they stood by the demand an rose, her SUCCESS, she { Bracebridge of the Guards, who was | sitting between Noel Verney and Mrs, Chiltren Hundreds, almost sprang up- right In his seat, ‘By Jove!” he sald. “Its Signa!” The house did not recognize her all at once and the boxes apparently not ut all. But even the awful presence of the duchess and the appalling consequences which loomed In the near future could not restrain the men. They laughed at every wicked point in the song and when he was off the stage they yelled to have him back again. It sounded as if the whole hall were one confused, imper- lous demand, and though they did not call her by name, it was obvious that Signa was recognized, I wondered what she would do, and almost held my breath when the small ragged figure returned for a brief moment, but only Just in sight at the most passing of the realization of eyes—in expression | them. Either the citement, or the DRINK GALLONS OF WATER. Practice Said to Acconnt for Japs’ Hardihood, The Nichi-Nichi, a prominent Jap- anese paper, in commenting on the re markable health of the Japanese sol dier in the field attributes not a small degree of his endurance and Immunity from. disease to his habit of drinking about a gallon of water every day of | his life. "The statement was verified | by an attache of the Japanese treaty commission who studied medicine at Harvard and practiced at home, “The Japanese soldier is not per mitted to drink much water on the march, He merely wets his lips, rin ses his mouth, and takes a small swallow now and then. But In camp he drinks freely, A quart immediate ex~ her {ly on rising, more after breakfast: and on | & 1 Wings. | several quarts during the evening. Of There was a growing terror In Signa 81 eourse it is largely habit. He has not alien Oo | studied Lue ld 8 rooaire un i i COFFEE DOES HURT Make the trial yourself—leave off Coffee 10 days and use own daring, or else that clamoring audience, was terrifying her. She bowed hastily and pattered off, in| spite of the cries to her to sing | again, I feared the demand was ong, and that they would force » come back, and I turned to und for Verney. But he had ) aired, and he was not In the box, though I looked there with fear and trembling. Her grace still sitting, calm and smiling, at the front of box: there was mething ominous in her tacit refu everyone knew. thousand goes such a very little way | lustrument, talking quickly and earn unless one lives in Bayswater or the | ily country. Poor Noel!” “Oh, 1 did not mean among us!” Bigna, with a laughing sneer and a glance out of the window at the re- spectable Sloane street trees, decorous- ly dusty though just in bud. “But possibly some young person in the middle classes may take pity on him | now, even though it means so deep in conversation, indeed, nn would not be ipterrupted to sing again, It was only when wked past his broad back that caught sight of Verney, nonchalant, eyeglass In eye, evidently not at all upset by her reckless interpretation of the notorious negro ni lody. “Yes, of course willl” said Signa the manager * should like it." | water!™ and she nodded to re wer his Lady Jane glanced rather uneasily | shoulder Her | at Signa's straight young back, which Half London was in the stalls of the was all that presented itself to her to | Bacchante on the great benefit niet \! to recognize what ! . '¥ help out Signa's meaning. And Lady and the boxes were taken by lect Lady Jane's face was like a mask; Jane was often ata loss to know parties who thought the auditorium t Lady Leamington hi fi whether Signa was In earnest or iron- | a little public the light « her p prin ical. She was beginning to think, | presence. 1 was tickled to sce yd with despair, that when her youngest | duchess levelling her glasses at P'onny : to appland and daughter talked {lo Marchant when that young la rey. It through. Put se many off street and the duchess t {danced the ' in 1 ¢ m vi \ it it looked | meant sense—the Sloane revolt, and would end in Signa | of the charity, and admired the doing some aded and unconvention- | ance of her attitude Lady J al thing, such as wanting to take up tl \ a profession or refusing a really sound offer, for Instance. Soins " his godmother had behaved in really laudable manner—she with a sigh. that Year and Bayswater wot than an awful ml lived in terror. &R poor man, bx somehow, so sa family, than one with whom said she too her look dis- she POSTUM FOOD COFFEE duchess days- | to smile br int in its place, {or Ny als ROO the lat, though t That's the only way to find out. Sense ol CONEer-pslnanw Postum is a sure rebuilder and when you cut out the coffee and use Postum instead, you get a taste of health, for the aches and ails begin to leave, You may I HINK you know, but you don't, : after the trial, ~ Hmes-—-since such a thought until Remember ~ even Ww “There’s a Reason.” Cet the little book, “The Road 10 Wellsville," 1n each pkg. THE RACYCLE SPROCKETS Like No. 2 Grindstone are Hung Between the Bearings (itn LL ST Net (Bicycles) Nez (H Ratydle) Which Stone will Turn Easier? The Racycle Rides Further with one-quarter less work \ year?". said Signa irrevantly. Nei- [bathing are natio MIAMI'CYCLE & MFC. CO. ther of them noticed mi eve that cleanliness of the interna MIDDLETOWN, OHIO. cues 18 as pecousary tg health ane r OLDSMOBILES for 1905 . he waste materials of the bhaody Highest Workmanship. 1 mean tha iis time?” “How dare you have thousand C4 + mn yon thought you wonld fling your Independence of my opinlon stl Me Once ’ ind see If 1 could be “So often polsonous. Their retent itise of many sleepnles : that" i : } THE CAR THAT GOES ws rheumatic p Water 0 I Wash Inside And Out, : 3 as! and pure as 1 ntain br k As strong as the |} the sea: as broad as the wind swept rice flelds You shall held yeur head in the stars and your life shall be as peac frighten her pero » : Man A nleg ' ' © 14 Decauss it Pears a ’ : Lady Jane is dear ood & * , ’ been ; i lund and | she is accustom es ‘ + in her oad fr. " ent ter ‘ on sed management of Sign : lowe ted roun clety through the pri breach th vhich Signa her new appro \ . the Hitherto she had ! usinly in he I I'he pros b Ange n the disg a frock treatment of | ) TT wi ) h ! Py 5 It the Derformet ne efit sunt or that m " “ cured. tude—-and whe black in the comforted her Yyantages N Her temper ta since ( nto hat *Bayswater Ine life sweet would summer day s———— - The largest pin 1 ' the world | & not as has stated in the | : ited but in Birmingham fat ing where 70000 (xx) are manu cont | ifactured working day. All the ’ ) - ™ that | othe: torles In Eogland turn i out 19°00 (00 been Ntates Cars for Immediate Delivery. Olds Motor Works DETROIT, MICH. growing 1 ernity of her | I © h hi r st ! . - | ang a are every pin fa« about ance tol 1 I was the cine that the yffailr acknowl ———— How to Become Disease Proof. that Sig It has already was naa tion of 1} the appendix should be removed from Fund Benefit y will every infant as a routine measure. But | one had heard Bi vot 4 Mownpdh, to the wedd I : this is clearly insuffi lent, says the ood | all tried to hum J y of make her bow and retire | British Medical Journal I'he surgery that was ripe ORAS: OF thi bil war with right and proper of the future must include far more She found It ! omfleld's | bare In f of the Wi yressnt Jan this. The tonsils and tufbinate afternoon cru wi ' borhie in rigged Lond m gamin han of the hose must be cut out . be- element was mingling v ' BOY his yadent dirty fa cause they may harbor germs, What ly social, and every iy discuss diene th tl Arbuthnot Lane calls the “human cess Ing the great “Benefit pool™ (that is the large Intestine), Bacchante Theatre of must be removed along with a consider. of the War Fund able part of the upper portion of the a very superior music hall alimentary canal, because it won't be Jent a zest to the way in whic needed wonen we begin to live on M. ene was buying tickets Berthelot's tabloids and pills. The charity! reality-—he was a instance, Is the cause of the Kin. pi adi CI er oD There was a fat man In a long frock. | Is ought stralebt out | he skys’ princely rank in Austria. It | pu out in early life and the germ coat standing In he centre of the without a dab of that during the midst of some hi store variety inserted. The failing group of We smartest women | il be great court function at Vienna the Em- ho hn eye will be anticipated by . pectacles In early youth, Deficient when Sig riv h jaunty and Ins press Maria Theresa had the misfor moral sense and degeneracy will be and the originator of the benefit mes \ here | hall, or, for a few stray copper ' great embarrassment. In the midst of Thus protected against the perils of bad mo nde nd |} eyes, roams=| side, and Batsbure ’ ' up | stepped thin p ¥ Hight a a dd clever assumption of Intense mortifica through life to defy the countless ene been suggested that | ¢ great have to £. on which occasion | War International Harvester Co. 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It thought of the fat curls in her mind down at the plane volunteered a song. There had going on all of that after Nigna's performance Powers of Darkness to was not with any man n : that he it and Pweve n Bow ONY sie but ed. and other Indeed, crowded In fro rooms to hear fhe the has a einguiarly clear voles, strong enough | the to fill a concerteroom, and trained hy Da Capri He never thought that his excellent training would go to help Bigna to give Lady Bloomfield's unk a Jom agen as that perform Abee of ‘ur there le y fit I oii there! Clear the road They were a nols Bigna's singing ha formed them from andlence when suddenly trans well-dressed luke the * wns | entirely different, and everyone listen: | that It eanght on nnd Was ge t quite personal on One concluded thnt the urchin had heen eo hed by who did know Batshurg | among these people f in con ection with the benefit, and. th migh, his use of his knowledge might doubtful taste, there was no wl! sOMeOne el wen weeks w in denying the stalls roared nn ene h stinging remark, pointed by one grimy forefinger came « leary footlights through the tusle, Buddenly the boy began ta dance n kind of double-shuMe and, to the which the band still played softly, broke into a song, Introducing the names of people In front of him His volce was a sweet. troe boy's Hip but marred hy that awful East ‘Nad Accent, and It rang through the theatre loud and strong. RR oung NeToss Jaunty nir {of one of his «yon, : for his breach of god manners The Empress received his apology with not only good grace, but gratitude, and be fore long the young nobleman was be stowed with high court honors and decorations, Another story 17 told how the Em. peror Napoweon 111 when out nunting one day, being a very poor marksman, fired at a pheasant, but instead hit General Massena, destroying the sight No one could doubt who had fired the shot, but General Massena turned round and soundly be : | rated General Berthier, who hed been standing behind him, which eastigation Berthler at once accepted and appeared overcome with remorse, Napoleon was grateful to both for thus shielding him, and overwhelmed them both with honors and dignity. mies that seek to rob him of health sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. ———— FRONTIER HOSPITALITY, The PrairieDog mid to the Snake, * Your home is my hole, prithee make, I'll ask the Owl ton, And ‘twixt us and you A rattling good game we will shake" 7 Monroe Street - “1. 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