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CHAPTER w

There was one man On board the
Coloric to whom Wentworth had taken
In extreme dislike. His name was
Fleming, and he claimed to be New
York politician. AS none of his friends
or enemies asserted anything worse
about him, il may be assumed that Flem-
ing had designated his occupation cor
rcctly. If Wentworth were asked what
he most disliked about the man he
would probably have said his offensive
familiarity. Fleming seemed to think
himself genial good fellow, and he was
immensely popular with a certain class
in the smoking-room. He was lavishly
free with his invitations to drink, and
he always had case of good cigars
in his pocket, which he bestowed with
great liberality. He had the habit of
slapping man boisterously on the back
and saying: "Well, old fellow, how are
you? How's things?" He usually con-
fided to his listeners that he was self
made man, had landed at New York
without cent in his pocket, and look
at him now.
Wentworth was icy toward this man,
but frigidity had no effect whatever on
the exuberant spirits of the New York
politician.
"Well, old man." cried Fleming to
Wentworth, as he came up to the latter
and linked arms affectionately. "What
lovely weather we are having for winter
time"
1T is good" said Wentworth.
Good. It's. glorious! Who would
have thought, when leaving New York
in snowstorm as we did, that We would
run right into the heart of spring? I
hope you are enjoying your voyage?"
Il am"
"You ought to. by the way, why are
you SO awful stand-offish? Is it ma
tural. or merely put on for this occa-
sion only.'?"
Il do not know what you mean by
I 'stand-ofish.'
you know very well what I mean.
Why do you pretend to be so stiff and
formal with q fellow?
81 am never sim and formal with any
one unless d - lr6 n acqanint-
anee.n & E z y
Fleming - = =. = s4pPose
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ture Fleming. I'll get even with him
for this some day. / know what office
he is after, and the next time he wants
a good notice from the Argus he'll get
it; see if he don't. 1 know some things
about him that he would just as soon
not see in print. Why, what a fool the
man is! 1 suppose he told you out of
revenge, because 1 wouldn't speak to
him the other evening. Never mind, 1
can afford to wait"
'Then-then, Miss Brewster, it is
true"
Certainly it is true: is there any
thing wrong about it? hope you don't
think it is disreputable to belong to a
good newspaper"
ITO good newspaper, no; to a bad
newspaper, yes"
"Oh, don't think the Argus is bad
newspaper. It pays we'll"
Then it is to the Argus that you be-
long?"
Certainly"
"May 1 ask, Miss Brewster, if there
is anything have spoken to you about
that you intend to use in your paper?'
Again Miss Brewster laughed. 81
will be perfectly frank with you. I
never tell lie-it doesn't pay. Yes.
The reason am her is because you are
here. I am here to find out what your
report on those mines will be. also
what the report of your friend will be.
I have found out"
"And do you intend to use the infor-
nation you have thus obtained-;f I
may say thunder false pretenses?"
MY dear sir, you are forgetting your
self. You must remember that you are
talking to lady"
"a LADY," cried Wentworth in his
anguish.
Yes, sir, a lady; and you must be
careful how you talk to this lady.
There was no false pretense about it,
If You remember. What you told me
Was in conversation; / didn't ask you
for It. / didn't even make the first adj
venees toward your acquaintance"
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

A MACHINE which it is claimed will
take its place by the side of the phono-
graph has been invented by Louis
Kramer, a Missourian, who moved to
Binghamton, n. V, about year ago.
1t is used to receive and magnify odors
of all kinds and is called a scento-
graph. A patent is to be applied for,
but it has been already practically
tested. 1t will take liquid hereto
fore regarded as odorless and distill
the most delicate perfume. A drop of
perfumery or essence placed on the re-
ceiver will produce an odor that would
in a very short time cause symptoms of
Suffocation.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

A PARIsIAN has discovered the art of
taking colors in photographs. The
negative is developed in the ordinary
way and then positive is printed on
sensitized paper or a gelatine film, pre-
viously treated with secret prepara-
ton. The positive is washed over with
blue, green and red solutions and takes
mp at once the color in the parts which
Were presented before the camera.
Thus in a landscape the trees take
various hues of green. the sky becomes
blue, the flowers show their proper
colors and in portraits the flesh tints
come out well and the colors of the
costume are accurately given.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

THE cigars manufactured in Greater
New. York in 1895 placed end to end
would make a roll of tobacco 44,250
miles long, or long enough to encircle
the globe nearly ia times. Allowing
80 minutes as a reasonable time for
smoking each cigar, it would keep one
man smoking constantly day and night
for over 10000 years to consume this
single years product of the cigarmal-
ers of Greater New York. A similar
calculation applied to cigarettes would
make roll 81, 900 miles long.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

CLEAN, Ia, claims the champion big
family of the country, the head of
which is w. A. Field. He is the father
of "a children, 81 of whom live at home.
The father is but 81 years old and the in
teresting brood consists of three sets of
bankruptcies, five sets of triplets, three
sets of twins, while one by some
strange mishap came into the world
singly. Thirty-onc of the children
are living, eight being boys.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

A RECENT heavy fall of snow in New
York city was attacked at once by Col.
Warning at the head of an army of 5000
men and 400 carts and carried to
the dumps in the course of "a day and
NIGHT
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SOME idea of the magnitude of the
great Siberian railway, now in course
of construction by the Russian govern
ment, may be gathered from the fact
that by changing the route, 1000 miles
were saved. lis expected that through
trains will be run over the road within
two years.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

A LATE estimate of the famine in
India is that it will involve as large a
population as that of the United States
before running it's course. The SIS, OOO,
900 raised in England will only make a
beginning in the work of relief.
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tional Association of Insurance Men al
Des Moines, Ia, the secretary reported
that there were TAT mutual insurance
companies in the states, represented as
follows: Iowa, 1853; Illinois, 1877; Wis
consin, 1885,; Minnesota, SO; Nebraska,
Al; Michigan, 80; Ohio, so; Missouri, FL;
Kansas, 9.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

THE secretary of war recently trans
mitted to the senate an abstract of the
militia force of the United States for
the year 1896, according to the latest
returns received. The grand total of
all arms of the service is 1, lie, 1927, and
the number of men available for mill
tary duty (unorganized), 10, 149, 1874.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

INFORMATION has been received by
members of the chamber of commerce
of New York that President-elect Nc
Kinley will have a department of trade
and commerce created early in his. ad-
ministration and place a New Yorker
at the head of it. The work of the de-
partment, as outlined, will be chiefly
to look after foreign commerce and to
promote the American shipping indus
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

THE number of persons killed last
year by overhead wires was greater
than that of passengers killed on rail-
ways. A greater degree of caution in
handling the electric current is one of
the needs of the day, the st. Louis
Globe Democrat saws.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

THE direct appropriations of the
Fifty-Fourth congress will approx
mate $1,000, zoo. 900, and if to this is
added the indirect appropriations the
sum total for the two sessions will APP
proximate the startling sum of 81 ,20O,-
OOO 600
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

A NARRow-GAUGE railroad has been
invented which can be moved from
farm to farm when crops are to be
marketed. Five miles can be laid in a
day, and no grading is required.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

RHODE ISLAND started out to erect a
81 500, 900 capitol, and was recently in
formed that 81 ,674. 4s9 more was needed
to complete the building.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

THE brewers of ST. Louis recently
conveyed by letter to the Provident as
ISOLATION the munifcent gift of $50, 900
for the benefit of the suffering poor of
that city
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

The fire losses in the United States
for the last month amounted to nearly
ST., ZOO, 900, while the fire losses for jan
uary, 1896, were only So, 50O,O 900.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12
CURRENT COMMENT.

The inventors of the roller boat
promise to cross the ocean in three
DAYS.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

A package of this and big seed cata-
logue is sent you by the John A. Salzer
Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis, upon receipt
of Is cents stamps and this notice. [Kl
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

FITS stopped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first days use of DIR. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. Free Sc trial bottle Il
treatise. DIX. KLINE, 933 Arch st, Phtla., Pa
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

THE story is revived that John Wilkes
Booth, the murderer of President Lin
coin, is still in the land of the living.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

A. w. MCCORMICK 6 SoNs, Pension Attor-
neys, whose advertisement appears every
other week in this paper, are at Cincinnati,
Ohio, and Washington, d. e. They are thor
oughly reliable.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

"WHAT a small mind Mrs Venlynne has ~
Naturally. She has given her husband so
many pieces of it''-Tit-Bits
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JUST RIGHT FOR HIM.-"What did you
think of our new patrol wagons" asked the
living. "Great! l was carried away with
it."
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Over ADO, 900 cured. Why not let o-To-Bac
regulate or remove your desire for tobacco.
Saves money, makes health and manhood.
Cure guaranteed, SOC and 81 90, all druggists.
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BREArHLEss HUNTER-"I say, boy, did
you see a rabbit run by here" Boy-"Yes,
think it'll be three years next Christmas"-
Tit-Bits.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

KNOCKED out by lumbago! It's because
you don't cure it with st. jacobs Oil.
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s'THE pun" said some one to Henry Err
skine, an incurable at the practice. sis the
lowest Of all forms of wit" 'And there
fore the foundation of it all"
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

Actors, Vocaiists, Public Speakers praise
Hale's Honey Of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies T0othache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

Sure THING.-Hiply-''I do hope that l
can smoke in the next world Diply-'I've
no doubt that you will be accommodated"
Detroit Free Press
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

"CAN you read French!" "Er-not aloud. ("
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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The greatest obligation OF the parent to
the child is to give it asafe example.-Ram's
Horn.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

AN ounce of earnestness is worth more
than pound of rhetoric.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

WHEN bilious or costive, eat Cascaret
eandy cathartic, cure guaranteed, 10c, 25c.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

THE DEVILS hardest blows are aimed a
the home.-Ram's Horn.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

Cant cure my rheumatismw You can,
you must use st. Jacobs Oil.
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II stiff and sore. st. Jacobs Oil will cure
you. Won't lose a day. The cure is sure.
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T1ceS voIffCfeB HHu ffurHeSS
The Elkhart Carriage and Harness Mfg
Co. Elkhart, Ind, have for "a years been
selling their goods direct to consumers at
factory prices. Horse owners should send
for large, free catalogue that will save them
money.
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at is certainly wonderful how much
science can do for u.s." "Yes; Mrs. Front
row has learned to hypnotize her baby, and
she didn't miss club meeting the whole
week. "-Clevelaud Record.
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Mount Piiatus, in the Alps, is o.
os0 feet high.
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JUST try 1Oc. box of Cascarets candy ca
;hartic, finest liver and bowel regulator made
No-To-Bac TO. Fifty Cents.

To ROB it Of love is the greatest wrong
that can be done child.-Ram's Horn
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-12

THE breaking ice gorges of the Lick
ing river sunk 25 coal barges at Pom
eroy, O., and vicinity and like damages
were reported at other points along the
Ohio river.
THE number of failures in the United
States for the week ended the 5th were
3O5, according to Bradstreet's report,
as compared with 326 the previous
week and 33s in the corresponding
week of last year.
SHERIFF LEWIS, of Carrollton. Mo-.
has telegraphed to the California Off
GERS to release the man they suspected
of being George Taylor, the escaped
murderer of the Meeks family. as the
photograph received of the man looks
as much like Taylor as any quarter
breed Indian would look.
THERE was a small riot among the
prisoners in the federal Jail at Ard
more. T.. recently. One of them was
finally shot through the thigh by a
guard which quoted the rioters. The
men had been deprived of their meat
at dinner because of misconduct and
thew threw lamps and coal at the
-'~-7s and did other mischief
Thirty-five per cent. of the diseases
OF horses, IL mas Oteu Sdlus are mdtdQ1eS
of the foot, and there is little question
but that even the best shoeing, as it is
done now by burning the hoof, is in a
measure injurious
A Louisiana court sent a man to Jail
for six months for illegally branding a
razor-back hog, and another man for
ten days for an assault with intent to
kill. The hogs seem to have the call
in that locality.
While James K. Polk was president
he offered Spain 500, 900, 900 for Cuba
There are 800 BARRIERS and hair
dressers in this country.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-05-16
Cremation In England.

The report of the council of the Gre
nation Society of Eng I'D for 1896
shows that 1877 cremations were carried
out at Working during the year as COM
pared with 100 in 1895. The decrease
is not important, as the figures for 1896
still show material advance on any
previous year, 1895 excepted. The fol-
lowing table of the cremations at Wok-
ing from the commencement of opera
tions will show the growing popularity
of the disposal of bodies by incarceration:
1899 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1895
As "a 80 104 l01 l25 $50 1877
1t has to be remembered that three
crematories are now open in England
and Scotland besides that belonging to
the society at St. Johns, near Working
namely, at Manchester, where 90 Gre
nations took place during 1896; at
Glasgow, where there were II crema-
tions, and at Liverpool, where 2 crema-
lions have been performed. -Westmin-
ster Gazette.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-05-16
A Hopeless Case.

Carlyle was terribly bored by the per.
sistent optimism of his friend Emerson.
81 thought, he said, THAT would try
to cure him, so took him to some OF
the lowest parts of London and showed
him all that was going on there. This
done, 1 turned to him, saying, And
moo, man, dye believe in the deevil
noo?' oh. nor he replied. All these
people seem to me only parts of the
great machine, and on the whole
think they are doing their work very
satisfactorily Them" continued the
sage, II took him doun to the hoose O.
commons, where they put us under the
gallery. There I showed him ae chiel
getting up after anither and leeing and
leeing. Then turned to him and said,
And moo, man, dye believe in the dee
vii noo?' He made me, however, just
the same answer as before, and then
gave him up in despair. +"
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-05-16
NO MORE WATER.
One Sea Captain Who Will Take Another
Kind of Ballast Next Time.

One Sea Captain Who viii Take Another
Kind of Ballast Next Time.
Captain Keller brought his Dutch oil
tank steamer Brilliant into the port of
New York recently and stepped ashore
with the remark: THAT'S the last time
go to sea in vessel carrying water as
ballast.
1--WE got into an icefield off the
banks and had to steam south for near
ly two days to get around it. Icebergs
were as thick as ant hills We saw 70
of them altogether and 20 at one time.
Naturally we had freezing weather,
and most all the liquids Oh board froze,
and | began to get scared when the wa
ter ballast showed thin skin of ice on
top.
II thought to myself, IF we are 60
ing to run alongside ice for the rest of
our trip, that water ballast will be SOL
id ice and split open the ship. That
didn't come to pass, for we finally clear
ed the icefield. But l don't go to sea
again this time of year with water bal
last ~
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-05-16
Length, of the Extra Session.

Senator Roach of North Dakota tells
this story about the length of the extra
session:
"Some three or four weeks ago, !"
said he, az was out dining one night,
when the lady next to me asked me how
long l thought congress would be in
session.
'.'Oh, don't know, I replied in an
uncertain way.
"'The reason asked you, said she,
lis because was at dinIier with Sena-
tor Hanna the other night, and he said
congress would be away from here by
the LIST of June.
Madam, said ], looking around at
her and speaking with some delibera-
tion, Senator Hanna may know it all,
but, SO far as ! am concerned, / have
taken my house for all summer.
And it begins TO appear as if Senator
Roach appreciated what was to come.
Chicago Times Herald.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-05-16

Rosa Belle Davis of Delaware, O.,
arrested some time ago, in default of
bond was placed in the county Jail.
The grand jury found true bill against
her, and the defense appeared in court,
compelling the prosecuting attorney to
go to trial. This he could not do, SO he
recommended that the indictment be
quashed, which was done, and the wo-
man told to take advantage Of her free
dom. but she asked to be allowed to re-
main, preferring the cell to freedom
The sheriff has written to her brother
in Augusta, o., and if she does not con-
sent to go with him she will be COM
PEELED by process of law to get out of
the Jail. Commercial Trib-
me.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-05-16

In the county of Osman and town of Karete
A bad little boy rushed into the street
And struck every man he happened to meet,
Then raised an angry bawl
"Im the chap that nobody II dare to beat
For I'm so very small!'
He ran amuck through the startled town,
And his whip he fiourished up and down,
With the lash he answered his victims frowp
And threatened the strong and tall
"He ought to be spanked" said good Dame
Brown,
"But he is so very small. :"
He found a man too sick to stand,
And shouted You robber, get off from your
land"
And brickbat flung with a reckless hand,
And raised joyous squat:
81 hit him right into the head! That's grandl'
But he was SO very small!
From his fathers store he was able to add
A deadly gun to his chatting CAD,
Then he shot at the iowd and killed a Lad,
And the town cried Hasn't he gail2
1t is too bad! Exceedingly sadl
But then he's SO very smalll'
He lighted a torch and he carried it through
The town till n confagration grew
And his neighbors cried, 1--WE never knew
So wicked a boy at all
But we must let him do as he wants to do,
Because he's so very SMALL"
His name it was Greece heard them say,
And he walled and threatened them day by
day,
And they said, sin order to stop the ARRAY
And suppress the quarrel and brawl
Well let the little imp have his way
Because he's 30 very SMALL
Washington Post.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-05-16
She Saw Holm Adams.

At a recent celebration in Boston Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe "sweet and gracious
as ever" gave delightful Renaissance
of her once seeing John Adams, some
thing which," she said, perhaps no
one else in the company is old enough
to have done. When was 6 years old, I
was brought to visit my maternal grand
mother, living at Quincy. The children
of the Quincy family, in taking me
about the town, once led me into a room
in which there was man who locke
to me then very, very old. He wore
black silk skullcap. Ny guides, point
ing him out to me, said: 'Looki Lookl
That's John A ans, who has been pres
ident of the United States / don't
think the fact that he had been presi-
dent meant much to my mind then. but
his appearance and the manner of the
children made profound impression on
me. "-Woman's Journal
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-05-16
Cd by the praise accorded it on all sides.

ed by the praise accorded it ON all sides.
One word, however, puzzled him.
Beautiful" and "sweet" and ''ele-
gant''-all these terms were clear
enough, but when it came to "Frenchy"
he was at a loss to know what was
meant. "What does 'Frenchy' mean,
mammal he asked. What
is 'Frenchy?'" His mother therefore ex
planned that "Frenchy" meant all the
other nice things that had been said
about the hat and more too. 1t was the
weight Of worldly encomium. when
you wish to say that thing is partic-
ularly pretty and graceful and artistic,
when you want to give it the very high
est praise" she said, "you call it
'Frenchy.'"
To all Of which the 5-year-old listen
ed with that intent literalness indica-
tive of his species. Some days after
this, when the arrival Of the hat had
presumably been forgotten by every
one, the 5-year-old, with his aunt. at
tended divine service at a well known
ritualistic church for the first time. Up
on his return his mother asked him
what he thought of it all. "Oh, / liked
it so much'' was the answer. 1T was
so Frenchy''-St. Louis Globe-Dem-
OCrat