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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-17
CHAPTER X.-Continued.

SI1AT EN- <N.--COnIluucu.
"If the will is really lost, and there
is no copy, l am not my uncle's heir
ess," she said.
Colonel Branscombe's wishes"
began.
'But the law am asking you what
is the law" she interrupted, impatient
ly. Il shall not be allowed to take
everything if the will cannot be
found?"
ut will in that case be a deadlock"
l returned reluctantly.
"And the heir-at-law will come in?"
she queried, with a touch of incon-
sclous triumph in her tone.
THE trustee will oppose-there Will
be probably long and tedious law
suit; the matter will not be so easily
settled. And-pardon me, Miss Brans-
combe-that the wishes Of the tesla
tor, the known wishes in this case
should not be carried out must sure
ly be matter of regret"
My dear uncle" she said gently,
did not, l know, mean to be unjust,
but he was mistaken. / think II ne
could know-dear uncle!-he would be
glad that an accident should prevent
the carrying out of a great injus-
ticev'
She was absolutely infatuated, and
the unprincipled scoundrel, Charlie
Branscombe, was trading on the noble
generosity, the too trustful simplicity
of his lovely cousin. A rush of jeal-
GUS indignation choked my utterance.
How she must love this wretched
scapegrace to do so much for him!-
that was my predominant thought.
She stood still, struggling with the
tears which the mention of her uncle s
name had brought; then she recoV-
cred her composure and held out her
hand timidly to me.
You have been very kind, Mr.:
Fort" she began; then a faint pink
blush tinged her cheek She hesitated,
and finally broke down in confusion;
whilst |, 1 think, lost my head, and,
with her soft trembling hand. in mine,
cast duty, professional reputation, all
to the winds, and vowed in my in
most heart to guard her secret, even
at the cost of all l had hitherto held
dear.
I left Forest Lea the next morning
AS l drove away, slim, black-robed
figure glided to the side of Miss Elms-
lie, who was standing at the hall door
speeding the departing guest, and a
farewell smile, breaking like a ray OF
light through a dark cloud, sent me
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-17
away with my heart beating furiously
and my head in whirl.

"Date. July Sd; time, 11:40 a. m.
Kindly describe your fellow passen-
gers, sir"
Mr.. WiLdrington, from Scotland
Yard, paused, notebook in hand ana
pen suspended, his keen dark eyes
fixed upon my face. My partner, MI
Rowton, Sr.-now convalescent-sat III
an arm chair by the fire, looking more
disturbed than I had ever seen him.
"A couple of country gentlemen" l
replied in answer to Mr.. Widdrington'
question. e-aged-nothing par
ticular about them; they talked poll
tics and local gossip-and lady"
The lady whose bag was exchanged
for yours? She got in at Wiyenhoe,"
referring to his notes.
Yes"
There was no other Lady,"
"No-none."
THE country gentlemen travelled
with you the whole way to London"
Yes"
"And they had neither of them a
Gladstone bag?"
mot to my knowledge"
"The bag left with you contained ar
ticles of lady's clothing?"
Yes
"And has never been claimed?"
mo"
"The lady got out att"
"At Motion Junction"
"Precisely-at Motion Junction. She
had Gladstone bag with her when
she entered the carriage?"
Yes"
"And she took one away with her
when she left?"
Eyes"
Can you describe the LADY,"
"She was thickly veiled," l replied.
81 did not see her features"
"Was she young or old?"
81 believe she was young"
Dark or fair?''
''She had fair hair. She sat on the
same side Of the carriage as myself,
and, as said before, she was closely
yelled. I had no opportunity of study
ing her features"
II believe you made every inquiry at
Molton?"
eyes"
And the railway officials in Lon
DOM"
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Candid.

A bachelor farmer little past his
prime, finding himself hard up, thought
the best thing he could do would be
to marry a neighbor OF his who was
reputed to have some bawbees. Meet
ing with no obstacle to his wooing he
soon got married. One Of his first
purchases he made with part of her
money was a horse. When he brought
it home he called out to his wife to
see it. After admiring it she said:
well, Sam, II it hadna been for my
siller it wadna haze been here" "Jen-
n.y." Sam replied, "if it hadna been fer
yer siller we wadna haze been here YER
sell !''-London Answers.
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Had Been Studying Up.

Father" said one of that type Of
young men that Is likened to the lily,
"you have frequently advised me to
emulate the busy bee" "Yes, and with
very unsatisfactory results" We'll,
I've concluded to follow your advice.
| have just read here, from one Of the
most distinguished scientists of the
age, that the busy bee never works
to exceed three hours day."-Detroit
Free Press,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-17

$50 you desire to enlist In the Fill
pino army" said the recruiting officer.
Yes" answered the native.
you are not afraid of trouble them"
well, to tell the truth, am. can't
feel sure I'm doing all that's possible
to keep out of danger unless get right
next to Aguinaldo. Washington Star.
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She Had Known.

"You have never known the pangs
OF poverty" he exclaimed, bitterly.
The heiress' eyes softened, though
liquid to begin with.
Indeed, ! have" said She warmly.
II went to a bargain sale where no one
knew me, and found ! had left my
purse at home. Indianapolis Journal,
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J. Shaker-Tell you what, I'm nerv-
aus today. I'm to call on Miss Lovillpz
tonight to get her final answer.
I. Baker-You needn't be afraid. I
saw her at the statloner's yesterday.
She left an order for visiting cards In
the name OF Mrs. J. Shaker. -Phila-
delphia Record.
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Why Musicians Tune in Public.

1t has often puzzled the uninitiated
to give a reason why musicians tune
their instruments in public and not be,
fore they enter the orchestra. If they
tuned their instruments before enter
ing the theater or concert room the
temperature is very apt to be different
in the place of performance, and, there.
fore, the instruments would not be in
tune. A piano which is in tune in a
cold room would get out of tune If the
room were suddenly heated.
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Kept His Vow.

The LADY, don't believe you would
work II you could.
Dismal Dawson--I'd do any kind OF
work that didn't interfere with me
principles. Ihad chanst to be a wait
er onst, only I'd swore solemn oath
to never wear spiketail coat.--Indian-
apolls Journal.
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"oH IT DOESN'T MATTER" SAID

tain. You know We had a case in '55-
will lost. l refused to prove on the
draft; five years later the original will
turned up in an old box in the under
takers workshop! And nobody ever
knew how it got there-was discov-
cred by the merest chance, too-the
mcrcst chance"
I'VE must hope for the same good
luck this time" l replied. Il am more
sorry than 1 can say. sir"
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A Warrior Bold.

Did your husband take an active
part in the war against Spain, Mrs.
Parvenu?'
did he? Well, rather; he run an
army canteen single-handed from tue
beginnin' till the Spaniards laid down
their arms. detroit Free Press.
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Never Touched Him.

Hello! old man. you're looking
WELL" said the chronic borrower to al
acquaintance.
Yes" replied the other. and | at
tribute 1t to the fact that / have re-
Gently given up my worst habit"
Indeed And what was that?"
asked the C. b.
Il gave up giving up" was the To-
comic reply.
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American Live Stock Exhibits at ParI


The Washington correspondent Of
Farmers Review writes: The various
chiefs of the department of agricul-
ture are getting down to work in
preparation for the agricultural ex-
hibits at the Paris Exposition. Word
has been received that the live stock
section will be restricted to the show
ing Of horses and poultry and that cat
tie will be shut out and the exhibits
confined to breeding animals This is
exactly what the farmers of this coun-
try will not want. 1t is not probable
that Americans would care to take
over their fine studs and brood mares,
and bring them back again, whereas
1t is believed that American exhibits
Of attractive proportions could be
made of fat stock and work animals.
Commissioner Peck, with his usual en-
ergy, is directing his endeavors toward
a modification Of these restrictions, to
allow the showing Of such classes Of
American stock as will be most read
fly furnished by American exhibitors.
An interesting feature of the Amer
lean exhibit will be an immense trans
parent refrigerator, which Is being
planned for by the Bureau Of Animal
Industry. 1t will probably be Of an
octagonal shape, as large as a small
room, ard contain all sorts of refrig-
Grated products-meats of various
sorts and cuts in tempting array,
dairy products, etc. All the work pos
sible in connection with the exposition
Is to be done in this country. The
exhibition cases are being made here
and will be shipped, knocked down
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-17

Aline--Wouldn't you hate to be a
preachers wife?
Anna-No, indeed. Just think of be-
ing able to make him cut his sermons
short.-Kansas City Independent.
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Amalble Hogs,

Different breeds of hogs vary in the
degree of their amiability when it
comes to handling them, so do differ
ent animals of the same breed, says
A. n. Springer in Land and Living"
Much OF their seeming fierceness is due
to fear that you will harm them or
their brood. Once they have perfect
confidence in you, all restiveness will
vanish, as a rule, and you can do for
them whatever necessity demands. So
far as Is possible, one should always
select pigs to raise for brood sows from
a gentle SOW. Then their treatment
should be Of the kindest. no dogs
should be allowed to worry them, and
they should never be chased about with
sticks or clods. They should really be
made pets of, and with little time
and trouble it can be done. Begin by
rubbing them when eating or drinking,
keep this up at intervals until they
seem to expect and enjoy it, and the
task is about completed.
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Untold Misery.

There's no estimating the amount oil
misery entailed by this loose system Of
divorce" said the earnest man.
mo, sir!" cried the sour-faced one.
MANY a divorced man marries again.
-Philadel2hia North American.
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Protect the Colts from the Flies
In the increase Of insect pests the pas
turing of horses and colts becomes a
serious problem. 1t surely will not pay
to allow them to be raced to death by
flies, for it is as true in the pasture as
barn that IL the colt is not gaining 1t
is losing and the loss can never be
regained. For this reason, IL the flies
give trouble, keep the colts in the
barn during the day and turn them out
at night. 1t will well pay for the ex-
ira trouble.-Colman's Rural World.
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rhought He Meant Campfire.

Denny-Th captain told me to kaps
away from tn inemys foire.
LArry-Phwat did We tell him?
Denny told him the inemy wuz 50
busy shootin' they hodn't made iny
foire yit.-Chicago News.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-17

Miss Breeze-It costs considerable to
send your son to college, doesn't it?
Goetz DUNN should say so. Last
year he wore out two football suits, a
baseball suit, broke 10 hockey sticks.
and now he wants set of golf clubs"
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A KIND DEED SAVED A LIFE.

That wealth is not always deaf to
case of a poor young soldier who was
lately pronounced by the surgeons at
st. Johns Hospital in Brooklyn to be
on the road to recovery. He was AL
bert Duncan of the Second United
States infantry, who had been linger-
ing between life and death for weeks,
and was only saved the physicians
say, by the joy of seeing his father
and mother.
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A woman never minds a made-oyei
dress so long as 1t is made over silk.
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Now that our soldiers are being
brought face to face with climatic con-
ditions to which they are totally UNI
accustomed, 1t ought to be impressed
on them INCREASINGLY that they cannot
afford to underrate the value of slum-
Der. The Medical News OF New York
says on this very subject: ut Is well
known that heat prostrations are due
much more to the exhaustion incident
to insufficient sleep on successive hot
nights than to the actual intensity OF
the daily heat. Anything that Is cal
culated to add further to nocturnal
disturbance and wakefulness deserves
especial attention during the heated
season." Such advice of course, Is not
needed for the veteran, but so many
of our regiments are made up OF raw
material that their commanding of,
ficers taking them to the hot climate
of the Philippines will do we'll to OBJ
serve the warning sounded by the
medical journal.
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say, by the joy of seeing his father
and mother.
Duncan had been sent to the hospi-
tai in the late autumn, suffering from
fever and assesses. He became so
i'll that the hospital authorities wrote
to his parents, who live near Ashland.
KY, that if they wished to see their
son alive they must come on at once.
The father, poor farmer, was with
out money to pay his own and his
wife's way to New York. He hoped
to obtain it soon somehow; but the
days went by, the sick soldier growing
worse, profoundly discouraged as he
was because he thought he should
never see his father and mother again
A visitor at the hospital, lady,
heard of the case, and asked Miss
Helen Gould to investigate it, Miss
Gould did so promptly, with the result
that she sent money to the Duncans at
Ashland. They started for Brooklyn
on the first train after receiving it, and
were quickly admitted to see the son.
The joy of the sight of them acted
as tonic to him, and, much to the
surprise of the doctors, who had given
him up, he began to improve. The
mother came daily to see him, and re-
manned each day as long as she was
permitted. The son, constantly happy
where he had been seemingly hopeless,
gained steadily.
Through Miss Gould's generosity the
mother remained near the hospital I'M
til her son was able to travel.
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When the serious work OF the cam.
paign is on. however, he soon finds that
sleep is too valuable to be trifed with.
Even If he does not think so himself
he Is soon made to understand 1t by
the strong protests of his comrades
When Lieut.. John McClintock. U. s. A.,
was last year recruiting regiment In
one of the New York city armories he
found that the recruits were making
night hideous with their horseplay.
The men were appearing each day
more and more run down, and finally
Lieut., McClintock lined the command
up and made little speech to them
on the value OF sleep. All listened with
listless ears until the speaker said;
Remember that Gen. Grant once said;
Two hours sleep is worth heavy re-
endorsements This was enough to
let light into the tousled heads OF the
recruits. and that night the armory was
as still as a graveyard,
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SLEEP is NEEDFUL.

The belief that Is slowly making It's
way into the metropolitan mind OF
New York that half of the noises OF
its streets are preventable is due to a
growing appreciation Of the value of
sleep as restorative The prevailing
lack OF knowledge on the benefits OF
sleep is well shown by the conduct OF
the average volunteer regiment before
1t gets whipped into shape" says the
Army and Navy Journal. The COM
mon idea in the mind OF the recruit is
that II he can't kill the country's
enemies, at least he is to initiate Mac
beth and murder sleep, This he pro-
ceeds to do with the usual enthusiasm
of the recruit.
The evening times., 1899-07-01
FIFTY THOUSAND MEN IDLE.
Nearly Every TinpIate Mill in the
Country Closed.

Pittsburg, Pa, July All except four
tinplate mills in the country closed down
at midnight and nearly $4,000 workmen
are now idle the situation, however. Is
not as serious as has been painted and the
prediction was made today that the scale
would be signed and all the mills resume
operations within ten days or two weeks
The headquarters of the trust is in Chica-
go, but it is known here that the concern
is willing to grant an increase of wages
and will do so soon.
1t is the custom to shut down aDout this
time each year for repairs and stock TAX
ing and when the joint scale committee
failed to agree at the recent Chicago con-
ference the Amalgamated association S
representatives unayoidatlv played into
the trusts hands by asking for a post
ponement- Had the scale been signed the
plants would probably have been closet
within few weeks and the trust was not
inconvenienced by shutting down earlier
The Amalgamated Association commit
tees report is being considered at special
meetings today by all the local unions each
of which will notify Secretary Williams OF
its wishes in the matter. Well-informed
labor leaders say that the unions will stick
to The demand for a 20 per cent increase.
aud II is believed that this will be granted
by the trust as soon as the various plants
are Fat in good running order. The re-
ports CT the various unions may not bs
known until next Wednesday
The evening times., 1899-07-01
CRUISE OF THE NAVAL CADETS
Annapolis Youngsters Inspect Four
Battleships at the Cramps Yard.

Philadelphia, Pa, July 1.-The practice
ship Annapolis. carrying the frst-class ca
dets from the United States Naval Acad
emy at Annapolis, arrived here Thursday.
After a short stop at League Island navy
yard, where Rear Admiral Caseys flag
was saluted, she steamed up the river and
lies anchored of Vine Street
Commander r. r. Ingersoll is in charge.
and his crew is very much interested in
their visit here, as they will study the
construction of battieships as illustrated
by the work now on hand at Cramps ship
yard. What is regarded as of the greatest
value to the cadets among the sights TO be
seen at Cramps are the four big battle
ships now under way. They are so varied
in stages of completion that they prac-
tically represent four periods in the con-
struction of these mammoth floating fort
resses.
The Annapolis left the Academy on June
8. Passing down the Chesapeake, some
time was spent at Norfolk and Newport
News, during which all Government work
was examined, while the great plant Of
the Newport News Ship and Engine Build
ing Company came in for a full share CT
attention. Her next stopping place will be
Brooklyn, after which she will return 10
Annapolis. arriving about August rs.
Leave will be given TO this class from
September / TO the first Monday in October,
on which date the fall term of the Academy
will begin. Those now on board the An
napolis will have two years at sea before
final graduation.
The evening times., 1899-07-01
A Blind Man Wins First Honors,

Columbia. 5. c., July IA nephew of
Senator B. R. Tillman, who has not seen a
gleam Of light since he was a child, has
been graduated from the South Carolina
College as first honor man with the high
est record ever made in that institution
The young man is poor and cannot pursue
his studies further in university, the COL
lege having no fund to use for that pur-
pose. ]. E. Swearingen is from Edgefield
He came to college with friend four
years ago. The friend read aloud the text
books in his hearing. He absorbed the
lectures, and could repeat them fully, us
ing his own language. He was highly
distinguished" in every study for the en-
tire four years. Chaplain ]. William
Flynn, who is also a professor in the COL
lege, says the fact of his being blind has
not interfered with his progress for a mo-
ment. In PSYCHOLOGY, astronomy and
mathematics he had not a particle of trou-
BILE. His conception of things as they are
is astonishingly correct.
The evening times., 1899-07-01
MILLIONS FOR IMPROVEMENTS.
Large Outlay by baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Receivers

Baltimore, Md, July mo formality
marked the ending of the receivership of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which
terminated at IL O'Clock last night, when
the property was turned over to the stock
holders. John X. Cowen and Oscar G.
Murray were appointed receivers OF the
company on February %. 1896. by the
United States Court for the District of
Maryland.
During their administration the receiv-
ers purchased Il. $50 box cars, $3.50 wooden
goa3ola cars. 5000 pressed-steel cars, $40
miscellaneous freight cars, postal, express.
and dining car equipment at total cost
of S17 600, 600. The 21S locomotives cost
nearly two and one-half million dollars.
The steel rail purchased amounted to 123,
Ol0 tons, costing 81, l42, l32, and there were
bought over 5000, 900 crossties, costing ST.
zoe. 600, and 75O. 900 cubic yards of ballast,
amounting to $525, 600. New steel bridges
aggregate in value $3.50, COO, and fully as
much more was spent in improving the
several terminals, erecting new buildings,
reducing grades and changing the align
ment. Maintenance of way payrolls, or
the amount paid directly to men employed
in making improvements on the tracks,
etc. in three years was nearly s12. 900, 900.
The total amounts TO about $35, DOC, 600.
of which about 5000, 900 was secured by
the issuance of receivers certificates. and
the balance through car trusts. earnings
from the property and from the reorgani-
zation managers. Most of the purchases
of equipment and rail were made when
material was low in price and manufac-
turing concerns were in great need of
orders TO keep their plants in operation.
Steel rails are worth now from Sc to
50 a ton more than when the receivers
made their purchases, and locomotives
have advanced from 81 900 to $4,000 in
price. The equipment alone, if purchas-
ed today. would cost $5,000,0 600 more, and
the other improvements 81, 900, 600 more
President Cowen has issued a circular
announcing the retention of all the en-
pioyes of the receivers in the service
of the company. No official changes Of
Importance are said TO be contemplated.