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good thing when you see it, eh, Mr..
Thorndylle?"
Philip bowed his Acknowledgements
and asked the price.
Sixteen thousand apiece; and that's
cheap"
"A month ago L should have laughed
at you, Mr.. Fench; now, shall only say
that l think you're a little ahead of the
market"
Whereupon the manager leaned back,
threw one leg over the arm of his chair,
and proceeded to demonstrate by an
argument in which volubility outran
itself that the price asked was conser-
vative rather than speculative; that
MeSsrs. This and That, of Cincinnati,
and Senator The Other, of Michigan,
owners of the property on either side of
the lots in question, had refused fabu-
lous offers for their holdings-and
much more to the same effect,
punctuated and emphasized by Mr..
Fenchis right forefinger laid impress
lively in the palm of his left hand.
The visitor listened patiently, and for
once in his life-having definite object
in view-forgot to be bored. When the
manager ran out of breath, Philip said:
81 still think your figure is too high.
but we can talk of that later; l shall
want little time for investigation and
for an examination of the title"
He was watching his antagonist to
mark the first sign of discomposure. 1t
came at the word title. Fench suddenly
fost interest, and the self-assertive leg
slid Imply down from the arm of the
chair.
Eyes, yes-of course; you'll want to
know about these things, and I'd like to
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When that was done, Philip found
tainties, but he made another journey
10 the courthouse for the purpose of
copying the missing documents from
the records. For two days he pored
over these copies in his room at the ho-
tel, searching with infinite patience for
some clew' that would point the way
out of the tangle. A copy of copy
proved to be barren of suggestion, but
he made a memorandum of the attest
ing notary's name, and on the third day
he paid a visit to Squire Pragmore.
Nothing came of it, however. The
notary's replies grew more indefinite
as the inquiry progressed. His memory
was at fault; he had acknowledged so
many papers for the town company
that he could not be expected to recol-
lect the details of any one transaction.
Thorndyke called attention to the fact
that the older deed antedated b. sew
eral years the beginning of the rush of
business brought by the transfers of
the town company; whereupon Prag-
more took another tack. 1t was too
long ago. He had doubtless acknowl-
edged Kilgrow's signature, but he
could remember none of the circum-
stances.
Thorndyke was baffled again, but an
other clew came to the surface when he
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his Woodworking father. began to, pos
sess him, breaking the bonds of habit
and lifting him out of the rut of in
trospection. One morning he forgot
to count his pulse, and the daily analy.
sis of his symptoms was omitted for
the first time in weeks; and that night
he slept with open windows, through
which the cool breeze from the noun
tain blew across the bed, and no harm
came OF 1T. He was too busy to think
much about his infirmity at the time,
but week later he stepped upon the
patent weighing-machine in the ro-
tunda of the Johannesburg, and when
the pointer failed to record the usual
decrease he went to his room and
dropped the half-used bottle of hypo-
Phosphites into the CRATE. That was
the turning of the tide, and by the
time his Acknowledgements in the exotic
city were beginning to wilt under the
fervid summer sun, Philip was growing
stronger in body and saner in mind;
finding a certain tonic in a series of de-
feats which were sharp enough to slim
ulate without being heavy enough to
crush.
And while he wrestled with the diff
ficulties of the legal problem, the fire
burned within him, consuming some
rubbish and shedding new light into
the dusky corners of the soul-chamber
hitherto obscured by the shadows of i'll
health and morbidness. The light was
not altogether welcome, though it ma
terially lessened the distance between
the ostensible Philip and Philip the
real. For one thing, it belittled the mo-
tive which was responsible for his
work. Allowing the promptings of
common humanity their full weight,
the fact remained that his enthusiasm
had for its starting-point a desire to
win the approval of Elsie Duncan.
That was the new ideal, and his saner
thought told him that it was wretched-
ly inadequate; that it sprang from i'm
pulse and was degraded in the hour
of its birth by unfaith. Unworthy as
it was, it was still an ideal, and Philip
dashed himself into a small fury Of
self-contempt when he discovered that
it was no longer the motive for his
exertions; that Elsie's appreciation and
Kilgrow's wrongs were secondary con-
siderations in comparison with the
strenuous urgings of newly aroused
ambition squirting him on to wiring VIZ
tory out of defeat for victory's sake.
fro BE CONTINUED
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SHE INSISTED UPON BLACK.
Troubles of a Woman Where Mourning
Goods Were Scarce.

Troubles of Woman Where Mourning
Goods Were Scarce.
ION my first circuit l had lesson in
human nature that l have never for
gotten" said Methodist minister.
1.-The circuit was in the mountains CT
West Virginia and among the members
Of my church was a widow, who, in a.1-
dition to the loss of her husband, had
suffered final earthly parting with fo;Ir
of her children, leaving but two, girl
and boy, nearly grown.
Zone night L was asked to hasten to
her cabin, which l did, reaching there
just in time to be with her son when he
died from the effects of an accident.
''The mother, though deeply grieved,
acted more calmly than 1 expected and
early in the morning l went home, re
widow in a paroXysm of tears. 1 tried
to comfort her with the usual Christian
consolation. Finally she quieted down
enough to say:
s. 'Tain't only thet he died. know
he's heap better Off
What is it, them?
"'We KANT hev no funeral
"'No funeral?'
"'No. SAILS jess got back from tn sto'
an not ya'd O. black hev they got.
never did tend no funeral 'thout black
an l amt goin' ter now. He kin git
long ter be buried 'thout a funeral bet
tern 1 kin bemean myself hav'n one
when L amt got nothin' fifteen to war.
And Jim was buried with no one
present except his mother, his sister
and me."-St. Louis Star.
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FREE GRATIS.
Every Teller in the nation

Every Teller in the nation
Has upon his private list
Some peculiar Jet temptation,
That he finds Eie can't resist,
Some one thing ne can't say mo" TO;
But this one seems queer to me;
All the fuss some folks H go to
Just to get thing that's free.
P'raps some DE, goods feller's givin'
Colored picture cards away.
Amt no use to 4lo one livin',
Crowds IL wait in line all day.
Theaters! HcW they do abhor 'em,
Modern plays aren't fit to see"
Tell 'em you've some passes for 'em,
Are they goin'? Sure! It's free.
To the church their vows are plighted,
In their seats they're always found;
And they seem to be sharp-sighted
Till the box is passed around.
Then it does beat all creation
How ALFRED blind they be,
Seems as if they'd got salvation
Coz the parson said twas free.
Joe Lincoln, ia l.. A. w. Bulletin.
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XIII.
LOSS AND GAIN.

1t was early in July when Philip
began the campaign of restoration. He
made up his mind in the beginning
that it was to be a race with death.
and, believing this, he did not spare
himself, though the heat during the
weeks that followed was terrific. 1t
vas a dry summer, and in a drought
the climate of the Chiwassee valley is,
to say the least, something less than
invigorating. For the first fortnight
Philip went about with the feeling that
the next day would finish him. Then.
as the barriers hedging him on the
side toward accomplishment grew into
respectable mountains of difficulty, q
winged spirit of energy, which was,
perhaps, only an unused heritage from
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Their First Quarrel.

She-Wen, am ready to start now.
Oliver, but look like a perfect fright
in this hat.
He-O, no, ClaraI / can't allow you
to think so. You
She-Indeed, sir! You can't allow
me! You might as well understand
right now, Mr.. Peduncle, that am ac-
customed to thinking as I pleased
Chicago Tribune.
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Suspected a Mistake.

"Sim Wilkison has two mighty smart
boys" remarked Mrs. Corntossel. Zone
of 'em hez gone to town an learnt to
paint; they say he puts a lot of at
mosphere in his work."
MANDY, amt you thinkin' about the
other boy?"
His brother?"
eyes. The one tibet learnt to play
the cornet." Washington Star.
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Doctors Orders.

The young woman who takes mu-
sic lessons and practices scales an
nounced to her friends that she was go
ing away.
Isn't it a rather sudden determiIa-
tion?"
eyes. It's the doctors orders"
"Why, you don't look bit ILL.,"
ooh, I'm perfectly well. Auntie is
the one who is l."-Philadelphia Post,
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New OccuDatiOn.

Miss Bikeface- you have given UP
advocating woman's rights?
Miss Passe-Yes, now 60 in for
women's lefts.
Miss Bikeface - Women's leftsi
What's that?
Miss Passe-WidOwers.-
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An Awful DrOD,

why does Miss Elder always drop
her eyes when she meets your"
IF you will never give it away, l will
tell you. She drops her eyes because
saw her drop her teeth one day."-Cin,
cinnati ENQUIRER
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Mad as n March Hare.

LAS you say my daughter is willing
to marry you, must tell you a secret.
There is madness in our family"
Indeed! You alarm me! What is
your daughters mania?"
Her mania, sir, consists in her will
ingness to marry you!"-Tit-Bits
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Mabel, the doctor says you drink
entirely too much coffee. 1t is not good
for you"
why, mamma, it doesn't hurt me a
particle, and 1 like it too well to quit
using it. l just couldn't get along with
out my coffee"
And Nine. Loockes, the celebrated
authority on beauty, says it is ruinous
to the complexion"
20, well, if the doctor thinks 1 ought
not to drink it any more I'll drop it, of
course. Chicago Tribune.
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reached the hotel and found a note
from Sharpless asking him to call at
the company's Office. He went, was re-
ceived with cordially born of the IA
vorable answer to the telegram sent by
Fench to Col. Van Colt, and was shown
the missing deeds with an air of re
proachful frankness that almost dis
armed him.
Since you made point of it, l wired
our secretary to send. them down."
Sbarpless explained; and as Philip read
them he thought he could never be Suf-
ficiently grateful for the impulse that
had led him to make the copies from the
records. In porting over them he had
well-nigh committed them to memory,
and a single reading of the pretended
originals convinced him that these
were recent forgeries. The notary's at
testation was genuine-a fact that at
once implicated Pragmore-and if any
further damnatory proof had been
needed, it was supplied by single cir
Cumstance in the acknowledgment.
Pragmore had used a rubber stamp with
a dotted line for his signature, and the
words notary public" beneath it, and
the gummy ink of the stamp was still
fresh enough to be blurred by the
thumb of the reader.
Philip read the papers leisurely a
second time and handed them back to
the attorney.
I'm sorry you went to so much
trouble" he said. II have given up the
idea of buying inside, and have been
thinking more particularly of trying
something in the resident district"
Sharpless met him half way, and
Philip thought he surprised q fleeting
expression of relief on the shrewd face
of the lawyer. That's Il sensible change.
Between us, and leaving Mr.. Fench out
Of the question, believe there's more
money to be made in Cheltenham
Heights than on Broadway. I've scat
tered my own little bit of capital
around on the edges"
Philip got away as soon as he could
decently, and went back to his room to
piece together the deductions which
might fairly be drawn from the inter-
view. The first point made clear was
the urdoubted guilt of the conspira
tors; if they had committed forgery for
the purpose of imposing on a single
customer, it was reasonable to conclude
that they had not hesitated when the
necessity was far more urgent. An
ether deduction was of even greater i'm
portance. Fench and Sharpless had
/, confederate in Pragmore, and here
vas a vulnerable point. Ii the notary
set price upon his silence, he might
also be induced to speak, if it were
made sufficiently profitable for him to
do so. A third Inference was that the
original forgery and the deed from
Gates had disappeared; otherwise the
cOnspirators would not have been at
the trouble of fabricating new ones.
Philip sat up late that night, study
ing the problem and trying to deter
mine what he should do next, but his
perseverance was rewarded only by the
turning of one more conjecture into a
! certainty. The note which had called
ann to the attorneys Office was in
| typewriting, and a comparison of its
mechanical inaccuracies with those in
the anonymous letter to Duncan proved
! that both were written on the same ma
chine.
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A Fair Offer.

Hotel Clerk-Very sorry, sir, but l
can't let your trunk go until your bill
is paid.
Stranger-You can't? Why, I'm
city official of Chicago.
"Must have the cash."
"Well, 1 haven't any money with me.
but I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll give
Weekly.
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ThR Verdict

Wont you try the chicken SOUP,
judge?" asked Mrs. Small of her board
er, not noticing that he had gone be-
You'd the soup stage in his dinner.
Il have tried it, madam" replied the
judge. "The chicken has proved An
abb. IN. Y. Truth
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No Eject.

Patient-But suppose your diagnosis
should prove incorrect?
Physician-O Oh, well, that would have
no injurious effect on the disease.-up
fo-Date.
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Wiped 1t I'm Himself.

'You needn't sweep the back yard to-
day, Bridget" said Mrs. Cumso.
why, mum?"
your master bought bicycle yes
terday, and he's been out there for all
hour trying to learn to ride. "-Phila
delphia North American.
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Her Taste.

parkinson says his wife buys his
ties, and they are never worn OUT
THAT explains it."
Explains what?"
"Why he never wears them out. His
wife buys them."-Cincinnati CONNER
cial
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THE CAUSE OF HIS SADNESS.

Mr. Hardup-I always feel misero bie
when | come out here on the beach.
Miss Easie-I don't see why YOU
should
Mr.. Hardup-But do. 1T makes me-
feel sad when | think of my financial
condition, and then see the oceans roll.
-Up-to-Date
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Loves Thermnmeter

No matter where the mercury stands,
Sly Cupid'S game is played
Oftenest when the temperature
Shows just two in the shade
Chicago Times Herald
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Drawing the Line.

why have you never tried to get
Gabler to join your secret society,""
Because it wouldn't be a secret So
ciety after he had joined it."-Chicago
Tribune.
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Shifting ResponsibiIity

THAT Billings has more mean traits
than any other man | ever knew"
II suspected it from the way he was
always talking about heredity."-Chi-
cavO JOGrna:
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Drowning Them

Il can't understand why she wears
such fearfully loud clothes"
Maybe it's so she can't hear things
people say about her."-Chicago Jour-
nal
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Minister-Wcll, Donald, what sort of
day is it going to be?
Donald-Weel, sir, I'm no quite sure.
You see, you prayed for fine weather
yesterday, but my rheumaticks tells me
it's goin' to rain, so guess it's toss
up.-Pick-Me-Up.
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The Voice of Experience.

Newpop-What can do to keep my
baby from crying at night?
Oldpop-Turn on the gas full blast
He'll think it's daylight and go Ia
sleepy. y. World.
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She-Your friend is certainly hand
some fellow and, they say, very deep
one.
He-Any man who was shallow could
never hold as much as be does.-Detroit
free Press.
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A Different Tint.

me CHAP who aims TO paint things -ed''
Should heed this friendly warning:
Whene'er he uses red at night
He'll feel blue in the morning
Chicago Times-Herald
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The Height of COurte

Cobble-Sadie Slimson is polite, ism t
she?
Stone-How so?
Cobble-Last night 1 asked her to
take the big chair, and she said: After
yOu."-Puck
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He Had Seen One Made.

Teacher-What Is faith?
Johnny-That which enables folks
to enjoy eating clam chowder.-Up-to-
Date.
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Other Peoples Money.

Mrs. Crabshaw-Do you know, my
dear, why woman is always more care
full of her wedding dress than of any
other?
Crabshaw-l suppose it is because she
has to pay for it herself.-N. Y. Journal.
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Oh, when will folks remember
That tits fearful crime
To forget that every rusty gun
Is loaded all the timei
Cleveland Leader.
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town where his horses werr put up and
kept till morning.
The handsome new NJ. T.. Church
which h; just been finished will bc dcd-
iratcd on January ,. Presiding Elders
Barrett ui the Wilmington District,
and Adams of Dover, will preach morn
ing and evening respectively. In the al
tcrnnun addresses will Lc made by for
mcr pastors Of Syaioru charge and Rev.
". +. England will preach on Monday
evening.
On Tuc.day evening services will hc
Jed by {. W. 'r-lyman, =. H., aud "n
"Wednesday afternoon Presiding EIdcr
AduuI- viii oil 'iulr at the laying Of Ia"
corner stone,
Services will BE- held each evening our
iug the Ncyk and the following viii br
present and assist in the services: Rev.
T. +. Terry rrc.tIing Elder MWtinda!r,
and Rev. II. &. Eudd. The new church
j. one "l the finest ON the peninsula.
1t Is heated 10y steam and ligIhrd
hy arcly,oMr ga, and j. sup
posed t. hHvc cost abpuj $1,000.
They have also r"urdcIIrd amt painted
the parsonage which adjoin- tn" chur'h.
The hrll which weighs 1909 pounds was
donated and pat in place hy members "i
Junior League.
The Hotel sussex i-npW iiLhtrd with
ucriy2nc ga, in place "l the uIi style ga
and it is claimed that it is Il decided ad-
vantage over the old style not only in
cost but It. lie light from he arc>yicnc
ga~ j. much brighter and can b" used at
abp.it onr-trnth til" cost ui III" Other
kind.
Christmas exercises were held in tn"
respective churches. Saturday evening,
Some very fine programs had been ar.
ranged.
Charles NJ. Harris oi the First Na,ion-
al Bank spent hi- Christmas with his
parents in trcrnNuud Del.
Mpd-ain Willis and wife and W. II.
Miller and wife spent Christmas day i'll
Bridgcvllc.
Camden.
MIR. and Mrs. Il. {. CarroN have re-
turned from their trip to New York,
phiIadolph and Washington.
Miss Florence Mllln, Of rhilairIp pha,
j. visiting here.
Mr. and Mr.. X, J. Campbell are in
Dover.
Mrs. :. =. Sardc and son, are in VII.
low Grove.
levi scott, Of Philadelphia, and rbls-
scott, Of Fat New Market Md. are in
town.
Harry Norris, Of Dover, i. in town.
Mr., and Mrs. W.r. f. gaze Christ
ma- dinner To- several If their friends on
saturday.
ir, and Mrs. v. r. poNIpS gave 4
Christmas dinner tD several ct their
friends on Saturday.
\ few nights ago, Eiwoud Warren
vino lives with hi" son. James Warren.
on "A-hr,ai!' farm, the largest peach
farm in this section, was awakened by
tie barking oi his dog. The father call
cd his son and securing lantern went
out in the orchard, and as they ncarcd
the object it jumped out Of the tree and
The sun., 1897-12-27
CAUGHT JUST N TINE.
An Dntcrr Nearly Lose, Half His
Turkey.

Officer Mcdaniel CAUSED his brother
officers at tlc patrol station to be very
enylpus Of him un Christmas afternoon
by his conversation in regard to his
Christmas dinner.
lie clHim1i to- have one ut the lary,,i
and finest turkeys in tie city. AIr. Me-
Daniel coGId manayr IT, dis pose Of only
one ha'i OF lis prize iJw 1t dinner and
l." talked all ia" ai,rluuun ahout what
Il" was going To- dr t. the other ha,i at
supper lltc.
Ihc patrol crew wa. very hjny Christ
, lni~ afternoon auI the hero 81. t.rlul-
Key Iwl aroused in't" an appetite. amt
when hr ""- r.l-.,d iruiu ,,nN Lr
started "n H. way h"mn aNH ro1d .y,
| nolhin" trjow 'lm u# 'thn r'm.
"n% g".u. q that turh"r,
TO use hi~ u0u ,>1o.-ion. imagine
ill. ~nIr,~" W!,u f., arrived home to-
Iln'I Il strange person rtaWding over the
refrigerator J">l IN the aU oi taking tie
lnlr! Thought I'll turkey. Mr. McDm-
| l"'~ II" Was aroused in an instant. and
he grabbed the world he tlnri hy tire
wrist amI .ajd, "IIotd ON here dom,
tax" that. After III" turkey Wa- drn,,-
pet g." hungry advrn,ur@r was dis
! covered t. b"a WoMan, and Mr. Me-
Daniel wa 50 glad over having .aycd the
turkey he let the cuIprt of wltha severe
/ Icpriuand.
The sun., 1897-12-27

beat the dog. Then the animal went
Of the lantern apprehcndcd it,
it ped again to the
ground and the dog received another
beat. Then the animal went up an
other tree and before it could leap out
again Mr.. Warren pulled the trigger OF
his gun and the animal fell to the ground
dead. Upon investigation it was proved
60 be wild cat which is something not
usually found in this section "f the
country.
4 live pigeon and ebay bail shooting
contest took p!ac" at the Wan. Evans
farm, Saturday aitrrnoon, which was
largely attended.
\ free hsht occurred at the BayarA
House un Christmas Eve night among
some whit"and cpIprrd individuals. vino
had INDUCED too freely in "bHg juice"
Cove Wright is in Wilmington.
CoI. james {. Wirkr>, OF the Smyrna
Gail, was in town Saturday,
William >utter1ir'd spent Sunday in
Camden.
There was ~ Christmas day that even
had :, many drunken people in town a>
today.
Frank Wingatc wa~ in Smyrna Satur.
day, and Arthur Clark at Frrdcrca,
The Misses Shaw are in Wilmington.
\ warrant was issued this afternoon
ipr ,Jak" FriSby. colurd, for Slashing til,
face OF Lizzic Mosby. The parties met
on the street and after II few moments
conversation became involved III Il pUal.
rel, when l'riSby struck her Il lcrrib;
| blow.
Mrs. George Y. Massey and daughter
are spending the holidays here.
Charlas Drnnry, Of Philadelphia, i:
viting here.
Frank IIamn has returned from Mil
ford.
Miss Lizzie {, IIamm has returned
from Il visit to Milford
Mrs. Joseph WickcS. ST., is visiting
in Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. r. Mansfield hay,
returned from visit to Philadelphia.
The Methodist Protestant Church her,
was the scene Friday Of u very pretty
| Christmas entertainment. On the stag,
was an o|d time sitting room, surround
cd with holly, evergreen, etc, and stock
ings were hung up. and the large crowd
present pronounced it the most success
! iul Christmas entertainment ever lrl,
! in tuWn.