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Duhamel, Jan "a, 1900.
Dear Sir and Friend:
We had lucky trip, made good con.
nections and got to Wetaskiwin Mon
day afternoon, stayed there all night,
bought pony and saddle for the boy
and hired three-seated rig for the
balance of us and got home to dinner
next day; caught the boys cleaning up
and getting ready to come after us.
Wednesday the snow was all gone and
wehad bare ground and bright sunshine
for month, and it has been pleasant
weather ever since. The ground is
frozen about two feet and about six
inches of snow-just enough for sleigh
ing. We had one cold spell in Deem
Der. The thermometer went down to
80 below zero; but we did not suffer
with the cold at all. We have worked
every day all winter, are all we'll and
feeling we'll. Have built log house
1sx1s, two log stables 16x1s, and are
now busy on well. We have ten cows,
three other cattle and six head g.
horses. The boys send their best re-
spects to Mr.. Huchison, and say they
will talk to him enough to pay for not
writing when he gets up here. Will
write you again next Spring and tell
you all about the Winter. We all unite
in sending you and family our best
wishes and respects and hope this will
find you all well.
Yours very respectfully,
(SigneO THOMAS TATE,
Duhamel, Alberta, Canada.
P. S. It has been down to zero this
month; it is 20 above now.
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CHAPTER Nj.

On the afternoon of the 5th of De-
cember, 1898, Stanton stood upon the
wharf at New York.
He went first to a florists. Then re-
peating Miss Braddon's words, II want
to be alone" he went to hotel and took
a room without registering.
It was useless precaution, however,
for the morning papers announced his
arrival in a way to indicate Miss Brad
don's prophecy correct.
His Office was besieged when he
reached it in the morning. He was
astonished that business men could be
so cordial. In spite of every effort, it
was noon before he reached his home,
where Sam and his wife made their
timid greetings as expressive as they
dared.
They were amazed by the hearty re-
Spouse they received, for since his baby
days they had never known the young
master say so much and say it so kind
ly to them.
There were many messages and
cards of welcome. DR.. Borden had al
ready called, and left word that he
should call again. The good man might
chide his friend if he thought him in
the wrong, but he was enough of true
man to be all the more his friend for
that.
One envelope Stanton caught eagerly
from the pile and with it hurried to his
room. There he opened it and in blank
establishment stood staring at the card
it contained.
Across the center was the name "Es-
Their Thorndike." In the corner was
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'mong pirates an tigers an neatnen
kings an old bricks, as you've reao
about in the papers, that young man
has gone daft. He just made them
leaves fly till he struck what he wanted,
an then he read out to me bout chains
an Babylon an Christopher Columbus,
an up he jumped and down them stairs
an out doors like rat with cat be-
hind
''Sho, Samuel" his wife said, strug-
Cling to be calm. might be you was Il
leetle daft yourself. Christopher CO.
lumbus amt one O. the Bible folks.
You know that, Samuel"
I'm not so sure I do, M'ria," Sam
said, doubtfully. II know he come on
later, but I have my doubts if he didn't
take his name outer the Bible, same's
I did. He read it all out plain, and the
very last was Christopher Columbus.
Books open just as he left it, Mira
You just so see."
Mira climbed the stairs and studied
and studied till she came to the verse
which Sam recognized.
That's it! That's it," he exclaimed.
snow begin back and read it ALL
So Mira read, slowly and solemnly,
as was BETTING one who could not read
we'll at the best, and was reading from
the Bible:
"And now, behold, I loose thee this
day from the chains which were upon
thine hand. If it seem good unto thee
to come with me into Babylon, come,
and will look well unto thee; but If it
seem i'll unto thee to come with me into
Babylon, forbear; behold, all the land
is before thee; whittier it seemeth good
and convenient for thee to go, thither
CO." But there was never word con-
corning Christopher Columbus at the
close, and the good wife remarked. as
many and many time she had done
before:
Samuel, told you So"
In the meantime Stanton had crossed
the city of Brooklyn and found the door
of Thaddeus Braddon's mansion opened
for him by the bankers daughter, even
before he rang the bell.
He never knew precisely what took
place, but he always remembered the
flash of the diamond set in pearls, and
the words:
II didn't want to love you. I didn't
want to love anyone. / ran away from
you in Jerusalem and Paris, for, until
you bowed to me in Naples, felt sure
that you must have found out who it
was, and knew that if you looked into
my eyes they would betray me and you
would know that THAT I was only a
woman and loved you"
| THE END,
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''If you and Esther should try to be
more to each other, and fail, it would
be worse than it is now. You cannot
possibly be sure that you love her. l
will tell her all I know, but let it rest
this way. You said that you were to
reach home on the 9th of December.
1t is the first anniversary CT the mar
riage. Think it over TIL then. If you
feel as you have said to-day, send some
flowers to papa's bank for her that day.
If you find that you have single doubt,
oh, beg of you, for her sake, not to
do it. She will think it over, too, and if
the flowers come to her she will send
some message to your home in Brook
Ign, telling you what she feels in her
heart is best. If you do not send the
flowers, it will only be that you wish to
be honest and true. If she returns some
message which you do not wish, re-
member it is because she, too, is trying
to be honest with herself and you.
'Now, don't think it rude in me.
am only woman, and 1 want to be
alone. You have said good-by to papa,
Please let me say it right here; and may
the best of life be yours always!"
Before he could speak, she was gone,
Stanton stood in bewildered astonish'
ment and watched the carriage drive
away.
At least she was not angry. She did
not look it. Yet the carriage disap'
peared and she had not looked back.
To- IL. 80 ~,
his ears as Stanton took worn card
from his pocket and read: MAY the
best of life be yours, always! Esther
Thorndike."
He replaced it with troubled sigh
and turned his face toward America.
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Mr.. Braddon's home address, and above
the name was written: Jeremiah 40:4.'
'She might have said what she had
to say without the help of Jeremiah, y
he muttered, and, folding his arms,
stood looking down at the little card
as it lay on the table. 1t must have
been for some time that he stood there,
and the. knife was cutting deep, for
tears gistened in his eyes, when tap
on the door reused him and Sans white
head appeared.
Sam had come with a simple message
from his wife concerning the hour
when the master would have the first
meal served; but the sight of the mas
ter's face obliterated it, simple as it
was, and to an incoherent effort on
Sans part to say something, Stanton
replied:
Bring me Bible, Sam"
Sans wife stood anxiously waiting
at the foot of the stairs, for she pro-
posed to have that first meal the master
piece of her life.
''He don't seem to want to eat, Mira, y
Sam said, when he was safely landed at
the bottom. His arms was folded and
his hair standin' up, and when l asked
him how 'twould be bout eatin', says
he: Bring me Bible, Sam Now, dc
you go fish one up, Mira, an fish it live.
ly; for he didn't look like he cared tc
wait for one to grow out in the garden
The good woman knew the locality
of everything in the house except the
books. Books without pictures had nc
charms for her.
1t happened, however, that there was
one Bible, a colossal affair, overbur.
dened with illustrations, resting upon
a plush cushion, under embroidered
velvet, in the library. In calmer mo.
ments she might have recalled the
whereabouts of some smaller copy, fol-
there were Bibles enough about the
house; but her mind was centered on
soups, broiled chicken and condiments
pies, cakes and buildings, with bread
turned upside down in the oven for just
a last touch of brown on the bottom
She recalled only this one copy, and
started for it at u rolling waddle which
really was not resultant in such rapid
transit as her ordinary gait, but was
more in harmony with the general idea
of haste.
She busted the huge volume with her
apron and came back to Sam, bending
under the burden.
When the verse was found. Stanton
unconsciously read aloud. The print
was colossal; in common, instructive
consistency. silent perusal would not
have COPIED with it.
When Sam returned to his waiting
wife he said:
''Now. Mira, you mark my words
What with waIde-in' in urgodlv ~arts
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AN 1RATE BoER.
How q Dense Dutchman Was Neatly
Taken In by Three Sma rt Brit
ixh HuntSmen.

The ignorance of the Boer farmer of
everything outside the narrow sur
roundings in which he lives is proverb-
ial, and much has been said and writ
ten at different times on the subject.
but the following anecdote will be
found to exemplify the truth of the
statement that for information other
than is contained in the pages of the
Bible the average Boer is as ignorant
as newborn babe.
Some four or five months since, and
just, perhaps, when racefeeling was at
it's worst in the Transvaal, three of
the British South Africa company's
men, returning from distant shoot
ing excursion, found themselves on
Boer territory, and what was infinite
ly worse, overtaken on the open karoo
by a heavy rainstorm. For miles
round no shelter was obtainable except
at a Boer farm some little distance
ahead.
Unpleasant as the prospect was of
having to beg shelter from Transvaal
farmer, it was just one remove better
than spending shelterless night on
the open sandy plain.
One of the party, however, Geordie
Ferguson by name, had had many
years experience of the country and
it's inhabitants, both native and Dutch,
and he undertook to bring matters to n
successful termination and provide the
others with shelter for the night pro-
viding they did not betray their ma
tionality. So, riding past the stone
kraals and outbuildings to the red
brick farmhouse beyond, the trio were
encountered by tall, shaggy, bearded
specimen of the Boer farmer, rifle in
hand, and with suspicion and hostility
very much apparent in his ill-favored
visage.
Ferguson explained in his best Cape
Dutch and most conciliatory tones.
to which the Boer listened without
budging from the doorway.
"What countryman are your" he de-
manded, gazing intently into their
dark, unshaven faces, and scrutinizing
their rough ensemble infinitely to dis
cover their nationality if possible.
"I'm CALIFORNIAN" replied Fer
guson, to his companions utter aston
ishment, who thought he had given the
game away.
"Ugh!" grunted the Boer. "And he?"
pointing to Dan Flatherty.
Hes a Celt."
"And that one?"
"He--oh, he's Cymric."
you can all enter replied the Boer.
more complacently, tucking his rife
under his arm, "but if any of you had
been of that cursed English nation no
shelter would you have had from me or
mine this night."-Cincinnati Enquirer.
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what Happened in Bo.ton.

sWhen I was in Boston the other
day" said the man with the bushy whis-
kers, when was in Boston the other
day"
"You went up to the Bunker Hill mon
ument, of course?" interrupted the
man with the scar on his chin.
''No, sir"
"You saw the subway?'
"No, sir"
"You walked across the commons?'
'No, sir. As l was about to remark.
when I was in Boston the other day,
"You went to the old South church p
''No, SIR
''You rode out to Brookline?'
''No, sir"
"Went to the college grounds? ?"
"No, sir"
'Visited the Charlestown navy
yard?'
mo. sir. I started out to say when
I was in Boston the other day
"You went to the new Academy of
Design"
mo, didn't
''Took trip to Plymouth Rock?"
mo. sir"
"Then what on earth did You do?''
''I have been trying TO tell you.
found the best nickel cigar 1 ever
smoked for the money, and if you are
smoker I'll ask you to try one and
give me your opinion,"-Wasllingto
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PERSONAL AND IMpERsoNAL.

Franklin Farrell, the millionaire
manufacturer of Connecticut, has an
energetic and businesslike daughter
in Miss Elsie Farrell, who acts as her
fathers stenographer and typewriter.
Sir Ford North, retired from the ju-
dicial bench of England on pension
of E3,5OO a year, states that he will
devote his remaining days to the pur-
suit of beetles, moths and butterflies.
as etymology has always been his
hobby.
Servant girls in Boston who read
Homer, Goethe and Schiller, are spok-
en- of in the labor bulletins of Massa-
chusetts just issued. Boston kitchens
showed that while cook books of vari-
Gus makes are the most common, that
good books of other kinds were not at
all unusual.
John Campbell, of Warren, o., first
cousin of the president and familiarly
referred to as ''Uncle john" is can
didate for postmaster at Warren. He
is the proprietor of famous eating
house, and is said to bear remark
ably close resemblance to the presi-
dent. His father was brother of the
presidents mother.
When Good Stomach one of the
Sioux Indians with the Noveau
cirque in Paris, was picked up in the
street drunk and inarticulate, the po
lice spent the time in which he was
Soldering up in hunting all over the
city and surrounding country for AZ
interpreter of the Sioux language
They did not find one. When the no
BILE red man regained the mastery o.
his vocal chords it was found that hi
spoke nothing but English.
How little Ruslin was known
among the people in the lake country
Of England where he passed so much
of his time is illustrated by this Incl
dent: A London tourist entered ;
bookstore at Brentwood and asked O
the female attendant if Ruskin!
books were in great demand. She an
swered in the negative, adding tina
the people whereabouts didn't seem tt
trouble much about ''the old gentle
man who only had a clean collar once
q week."
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Enel.na,. Armorea rra,n..

England in her war with the Beers will trans
port her troops, protect bridges and tele-
graphic communications in about the same
way that Hostetters Stomach Hitters drives
dyspepsia from the human stomach and then
mounts guard that it does not return. The
Bitters has won in every case of Indigestion,
billousness, liver and kidney trouble for the
post fifty years. 1t is invaluable at all times
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Punfshment,

"Did your wife scold when you came home
so late last night?"
"You don't know what it is to have a
wife who was once school-teacher. She
simply made me write 100 times on slate
I must be at home by ten o'clock IN.
Y. World.
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Guarnsey Cattle in America.

There are between 700 and 500
breeders of Guernsey cattle in this
country. and the cattle number about
$4,000 head.-N. Y. Journal
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Some men never realize how mean they
have been until they run for otfice-Chica.
60 Daily News.
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Physical Reaction,

Brown-How do you feel about Sunday
golf?
Jones-Don't tell that I said so, but I
have heard sermons SO long lately that they
made me want to 60 out and take whack
at something. Indianapolis Journal
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We refund lOc for every package of
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES that fails
to give satisfaction. Monroe Drug Co.,
KNOXVILLE, Mo. Sold by all druggists.
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Savings Bank of Roman Children.

The children of the Romans used to
put their pennies into savings banks
lust as the children of the Yankees do
to-day. In 1856, when Prof. Thomas
Wilson, of the Smithsonian institute,
was wandering about Osnia, the seaport
of ancient Rome, he found a group of
peasants eScavating. They had dug
out of the sand number of pots and
jars that had been buried for ages; one
of them had found a child's savingS
bank which contained IT'S silver coins
issued by the emperors of Rome be-
tween the years 200 and 10 e. C. AS
none Of the later date were found, it is
to be assumed that some child lost this
bank shortly before our era, and it was
covered fer 10 centuries by the en-
croaching sand.
The little savings bank was almost
perfect when it was uncovered, but the
peasant who found it broke it open to
get the coins within. Prof. Wilson
found most of the pieces, however, and
has been able to put it together. 1t
consists Of a single piece of pottery
about three inches wide. with a slit in
the top through which the money was
dropped.-Chicagu Record.
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To Cure Cold I'm One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinne Tablets. All
druggists refund money II it fails to cure. Csc
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He who does not love honesty is thief
at hcart-L. A. w. Bulletin.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-05-03

In the spring man forgets where he puts
things, and places the blame on the house.
cleaning. Globe.
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Gettinr Al Ina Fnct..

Wife latter the honeymoon)-Why did
you deceive me about your income?
Husband-I didn't, my dear.
eyes, you did. You told me you were
getting $50 a week when you asked me to
marry you.
"You evidently misunderstood me. I said
but for some reason best known to the boss
he gives me only ten dollars" - Chicago
Evening News.
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do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump.
ton has an equal for coughs and colds
John F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb
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The charms of solitude depend largely on
the man who is to be charmed.-Chicago
Democrat.
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~ thc Head of His Class.

~ can tell a lie the minute I hear
it,
"You can beat that, Lisrby. You can
tell one the minute you think OF it,
Town Topics.
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In teaching the young, be careful not to
deceive them; they will catch you at it,
Atchison Globe.
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Wise is the man who acts as if he ex-
pected to live hundred years, but is pre-
pared to shuttle off o-morrow.-Chicago
Daily News.
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HE LIKES WESTERN CANADA,

Sound Judgment.-The bandmaster's.-
Harlem Life
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Not Intimate Enough.

Miss Maison-Excuse my ignorance, but
sught to call you Mr. Bones or DR.. Bones
The Doctor (irasciblyl-Oh, call me any
thing you like. Some Of my friends call me
an old idiot.
"Ah, but those are only people who know
you intimately. London Tit-Bits.
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SOME QUAINT SAYINGS.
Amusing Passages Penned by the
Humorous Author of ''David
H0run."

Of a mother, Edward Noyes West
colt said: "She has baby, most
persuasive one, which permeates and
colors her conversation so that she
sees all things through baby darkly."
AT one time he wrote: Il have come
TO think that the thing most desire
l shall never have, so now with super
stitious dread l try to cheat fate by
refraining from setting my heart on
anything lest it escape me-"
Again he writes: If were ten years
younger" that phrase was almost
habitual with him, II might find an in
terest in flowers here" Asheyille, April,
1894, but all the flowers that l have
cared for, or ever shall, bloomed long
ago. If there be one immortelle among
the lot, l am glad and thankful-and
God bless the person who keeps it for
my sake"
''But what is consistency? It ismere-
ly living up to others conception Of
our natural course of conduct. We say
should ever have thought would do
that!' whereas the mental and moral
progress or retrogression of that man,
going on within himself, has led most
logically to the sequence SO unexpect-
ed to others. Now what could you ex-
pect of me?" he supplemented, whim-
sically, "a man whose name is No
Yes" and then he laughed in the self
humoring way of one who repeats a
joke oft told before. Look at my
hands, too," he added, holding them
out frankly for inspection. "One is
strong, well-developed, capable; the
other is almost effeminate. Could any
thing be more inconsistent"
Heaven is full of days, all coming
this way!" He wrote this once in a
birthday book opposite his own date,
September "a, with an air of victory
and defiance of the future-although
such moods were rare.
He was more prone to say: "Let us
enjoy ourselves, and let nothing good
get away, for when we are dead, we are
so very dead" and then would follow
a gentle laugh at his own philosophy.
"You are old enough to know BETTER"
is the way a friend once reproached
him.
"Old enough to know BETTER" he re-
peated; ''are we ever old enough for
that?"
OF death:
death is hard fact to face and does
never look like our imaginings. Tears
will overflow philosophy. All love in
wolves and ends in them; but we weep
for the most part, and, in one view of
it, always for ourselves. ''-Ainslee's.
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A powder to shake into your shoes. Itrests
the feet. CuresC orns Bunions, Swollen, Sore,
Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating feet and In
growing Nails. Aliens Foot-Ease makes
and shoe stores, CSC. Sample mailed FREE
Address Allen s. Olmsted, LIE Roy, N. Y.
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The source of many a large river is but
small spring-Chicago Daily News.
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SPELLS. Dromus. Rape. Corn. Oats.

| Five remarkable things. Bound to make
you rich, Mr.. Farmer. Salzer's catalog tells
the, story. Send Sc. postage and this notice
to-day for catalog to John A. Salzer Seed
Co., La Crosse, Wis. [k]