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cred that he was being carried on
blanket by six men. Others of the COM
pany rode and led the horses of those
who were acting as bearers. A little
to the left rode Capt. Blue with Miss
Betty mounted on fine spirited horse,
at his side.
"What right had you," Miss Betty
was saying, Ito ride out of Concord
with these armed men? What is your
excuse for doing that. Capt. Blue?"
'We feared reprisa.s on account of
the courthouse" answered the captain,
stiffly, for to be taken to task by Miss
Betty was sorely against the grain.
eve were scouting, that's all. Just
scouting"
"The moment I heard that you had
trooped out along the Concord road
I galloped after YOU" went on Miss
Betty. ooh, l wish. I wish. l had
come up with you in time to prevent
this terrible meeting!" She looked
toward Guy, poignant regret show
ing in every line of her face. He
would not have been hurt if I had.
[ have felt all along that something
terrible would happen before we Sc
cured our rights in this county seat
fight. l have tried my best to keep
you from violence and you, Capt. Blue,
have disregardeG my expressed wish.
my strongest command. Who was
it fired the shot that wounded Mr..
Herbert?"
"The other side fired the first
shot, replied the captain, evasively.
IL know that, for l was close
enough to see it. But that shot did
no harm, and was no excuse for the
fusillade which you returned. You
were three times the number of the
other side and they We're fleeing as
fast as their horses could carry
them. My question was not an
swered, Capt. Blue. Can you tell me
whose bullet struck Mr.. Herbert??"
NO one could tell you that, Miss
| Vlandingham. A dozen shots We're
! fired simultaneously and it would be
impossible to tell which did the work"
! I'VE will inquire into that later.
I am going to push on so as to have
the doctor at our house and to
make ready for Mr.. Herbert. See
that you bring him as quickly and
as easily as you can"
at top speed and was quickly lost to
sight.
ITO Be Continued
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TO CHR|S1[N The CRUISER
Miss Elsie Macomber of This State
Selected as Sponsor for New
Ship Des Moines.
DEDICATION TO OCCUR SEPTEMBER 20.
Mass, Chosen to Assist In the Hon
or-Visit of President Roosevelt to
the Stntc-Vnrious Bits of interest
ing Iowa News.
Especial Correspondence

Des Moines, Ia, Sept. 15.-At the
dedication, launching and christening
of the cruiser Des Moines at Fore
River shipyard, at Quincy, Mass, Sat
urday, September 20, Miss Elsie Ma
comber, of Des Moines, will break the
bottle of wine over the bow of the
ship as she slips into the sea. Secre-
tary of the Navy Moody selected Miss
Clara n. Carleton, of Haverhill, Mass,
TO assist Miss Macomber, the young
ladies representing the two states.
Miss Carleton will sever the cord which
will release the ship at the moment
following which Miss Macomber will
spill the wine. Miss Macomber is the
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Jay Macom-
Der. of Des Moines. She is the oldest
of six children and is. brilliant and
cultured She has travelled abroad.
Her mother has taken several parties
of tourists through Europe and Mex
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CHAPTER XVI.

Of all life's mystery the mystery of
pain is the most profound and baf-
fling. Men on the battlefield have been
wounded most horribly and have yet
thought, at the first of it, that they
were injured only slightly, if at ALL
1t was so With Guy. When the bullet
entered his side his suffering was no
more than would have come from a
Pin prick and great was his surprise
to feel the quick weakness, the sud-
den sapping of his stength, the dizzy
whirl of everything about him. AS he
plunged head.ong to the ground the
darkness closed in and left not the
faintest ray ofreason.
This status was not of long dura ton
and for some time before he opened his
eyes he was conscious of a gentle for
ward molten as though he was being
carried. Voices were borne to him,
too-the sturdy voices of men with an
other, soft and musical in spite of its
undertone of Indignation and reproof.
The softer voice thrilled him TO his
hearts core. He did not mind The pain
so much, although it was steady and
intense. The realization that Miss
Betty was near was as balm t o him.
body and soul. Looking out from be-
tween his partly opened lids he discoy-
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records were stolen, the courthouse
was stolen and he himself had been
carried along with the rest of the
plumber
During that forenoon all Harmony
came to look into the Concord court
house and gloat over the prisoner.
Citizens, male and female, young and
old, felicitated themselves and cried
uncharitable things at the crushed
and melancholy man who had been the
head and front of all offending against
them. The Colonel kept his back to
the window, held his peace in the face
of great provocation and waited pa
tiently to learn what was to be done
with him..
The afternoon was marked by
dearth of curiosity seekers. No one
came to the window and it was pos
sible for the prisoner to rise and pace
the room, without running gauntlet
of SCOTS and gibes. While he was thus
wandering about the room, the key
scraped in the lock and the other half
of the knob-which had fallen outside
was thrust through the mechanism.
The catch was turned, the door opened
and Isaac Dingle stepped fearlessly
in. Keever rushed at him like whirl-
wind, but halted in trepidation at
sight of a quickly displayed revolver.
By a chance, Col. Dingle's natural eye
and it's artificial counterpart were
both fixed on the prisoner.
Careful" warned the rival editor
81 have not come here in anger, Col.
! Keever, but as messenger of peace.
| l wish to ask you to let bygones be
| bygones. The wheel of fortune has
turned against you, but we are both
editors and the art preservative is the
] tie that should bind us in good fellow
| ship 1 am here to extend a fraternal
hand and helpful one. Shall we bury
the Ratchet and smoke the pipe of
peace?"
Col. Keever was astounded. There
must be an Interior purpose back of
| this show of friendliness. That was
certain. 1t was equally certain, to
Keever's mind. that he had everything
f, to gain and nothing to lose by meet
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JUST A HINT.

Daughter, don't let mother do it:
Do not let her slave and toll,
While you sit useless idler,
Fearing your soft hands to soil:
Don't you see the heavy burdens
Daily she is wont to bear
Bring the lines upon her forehead,
Sprinkle silver in her hair?
Daughter. don't let mother do 1t.
Do not let her bake and broil
Through the long bright summer hours,
Share with her the heavy toll;
See, her eye has lost its brightness,
From the cheek the ruby glow,
And the step that once was buoyant
Now is feeble, weak, and slow
Daughter, don't let mother do it,
She has cared for you so long;
is 1t right the weak and feeble
Should be toiling for the strong?
Waken from your listless languor.
Seek her side to cheer and bless,
And your grief will be less bitter
When the sods above her press.
Daughter don't let mother do it.
You will never, never know
What was home without mother,
Till that mother lieth low;
Low beneath the budding daisies,
Free from earthly care and pain,
To the home so sad without her
Never to return again.
Z. Harry, in st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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DEATH OF ALEXANDER II.
Dramatic Description of the Assas-
sination of Russia's Former
Ruler by Nihilists.

Shall / ever forget it? 1t was on
Sunday, about two o'clock. We were
rehearsing a new play, writes Mile.
Rhea, in Century. Some of us were
in the green room, when the emperor
passed, escorted by his Cossacls. We
were standing at the window, and
with smile he gave us the military
salute we knew so well. He had
hardly turned the corner when we
heard an explosion. We looked at
one another and the same thought
crossed each mind-an attempt on
the emperor's life! We rushed out
and arrived at the corner of the
street just in time to see, 200 yards
from us, the explosion of the second
bomb, which proved to be the fatal
one The first had killed two Co.'S
sacks. While they were arresting the
assassin, the car, deaf to the en-
treaties of his coachman, who wanted
to drive on with all speed, came out
of his carriage to say word of SYM
pathy to his dying soldiers. He took
their hands, and addressing their
murderer, he said: Wretch, see
what you have done in your blind
fury" After a last look of pity at
his faithful servants, he was about to
reenter his carriage, when a man,
standing at the door, dropped anoth-
err bomb, which he had kept concealed
in his handkerchief, and that one not
only killed the nihilist himself, but
mortally wounded the emperor. In
a moment the street, before deserted,
was crowded with people coming
from every direction. Sleighs were
going to and fro, and all we heard
was: ''Thank God, the emperor lives'
His carriage being damaged, he was
placed in sleigh and driven to the
palace, where he expired a few hours
later. His legs had been shattered.
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His Friend,
The Enemy
By WILLIAM WALLACE COOK
Author of Rogers of Butte" THE Spur Of
Necessity, Mr.. Fit. Astroloeer," etc.
CHAPTER XIV.

Copyright, 1901, by the 8. s. Mcclure Cos
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is here, too, is he? And he came in on
me last night and tempered with my
rife!" He lifted his voice to it's
strongest. Cup Concordians! Hello!
Hey! The enemy, the enemy!"
AS he finished he hurled the Win
chester at Dingle and the resonant
call ended in the crash of glass. Keev-
been removed from the inside of the
lock and the door did not respond to
his furious pull. He hurled himself
upon it and struggled like a demon.
So furious was the onslaught that the
knob came away and the great man
was precipitated to the floor. A laugh
fioated in from the window. Gaining
his feet after an elephantine tussle,
he braced himself in a corner and
turned his cleaning eyes upon the
barred opening. Dingle had been
Joined by others, whose heads were
crowded together in the narrow
space; and when the Colonel had rec
ognized Capt. Blue, Mr.. Boomer, Maj.
Harp, Vlandingham, Barney and few
more, his brain became dizzy and he
staggered to the cot. Dropping down
there he buried his face in his hands.
Had it come to this? Was he finally
bewitched by the spirits of Kentucky
bourbon? He had been hard drink
er all his life, but so had his father
been before him and he had died in
his ninetieth year, of palsy. The
Colonel brought an impulsive heel
down on the empty flask.
81 don't know who you are, or
where l am" he said, hoarsely, peer
ing at the grinning faces in the win
dow, "but if there's a doctor among
you, send him to me. I'm going mad
l must be-
EAT this and you'll feel BETTER
said Barney, pushing through the bars
pasteboard box filled with eatables.
The Colonel got up and walked I'M
steadily across the room.
"Liscomb," he returned, "step up
to the office and tell Sampson l want
him.
"step up" exclaimed Barney. Its
quite step. Colonel-seven miles if
it's foot. You're in Harmony; don t
you know that??"
HARMONY" gasped the Colonel;
chow can that beg"
well" drawled Capt. Blue, eve
moved the whole shebang over last
night, during the storm. AS you hap
pened to be inside, we brought you
along"
That took the wind completely out
of the Colonel's sails. Very humbly
he received the box of luncheon out
of Barney's hands, went back to the
cot, turned his face from the crowd
and sat down. He ate the food and as
he ate he reflected.
Here was a masterpiece, indeed!
Beside this that affair of the weather
vane paled into utter insignifcance.
The Colonel had known all along that
Harmony was meditating some coup.
1t was for the purpose of discovering
what this was that he had prevailed
upon Guy to come to Harmony and at
tend the town meeting. Although the
theft of the weathervane had cha
grined the Colonel, it had lulled his
suspicious, for he believed that that
had been the contemplated stroke
What an awakening he now had! The
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The Listener ut the Door.

sDid she say: This is so suddeno' -
NO; her mother was listening at
the keyhole and she didn't dare to
throw on any frills.'
How do you know her mother was
there?"
Because STOPPING over shuts off
her wind, and you could hear her
gasping all over the room"
well, what did Minnie say?"
"She whispered: Cut it short,
Jack. ma is apoplectic.' "-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
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Might succumb to Royalty.

Two women sitting opposite the
writer in an electric car pitched their
voices SO high that every word of their
conversation could be heard by those
sitting near them. Matrimony was
evidently the subject of their CONVEX
sation, for one of them said:
Sometimes I think that if l was
single | wouldn't marry the prince O.
Wales hisself, an then ag'in / Dunno
eyes, that is so,' replied her com
panion. 81 feel just that may myself,
an | have as good a husband as the
averaidge, too"
$50 have THAT is, as men run now
adays''- Lippincotts Magazine.
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Her Sense of Humor.

A girl may laugh at a mans jokes,
but after she marries him he dscov-
ers that her sense of humor is bad
ly in need of moisture and needs Dig
cling around the roots.-Atchison
Globe.
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leo, as cnaperone. Mr.. Macomber is
practising law in Des A1oines, where
he was city collector for four years.
Miss Macomberwas born at Ames while
her father was professor of ply sizes in
the State Agricultural college. The
Iowa party at the launching was
planned to be composed of Gov. and
Mrs. A. B. Cummins, the governors
staff and Miss NLacomber The city of
Des Moines, for which the cruiser was
named, arranged to have no official rep
resentative at the launching, but the
governor and Miss Macomber both re-
side here.
Statement Denied.
The trustees of the state college
at Ames have announced that the pub
lished statement to the effect that
James Wilson had been invited to re-
sign his position in the cabinet of
President Roosevelt to accept the pres
idency of the institution to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of William
NJ. Beadshear, is incorrect and I'M
founded in fact. The trustees have
reached but one conclusion with re-
spect to the presidency of the institu-
ton. That is, not to fill it until next
year. Mr.. Wilson has not been asked
to resign his position in the cabinet
and to consider the Ames presidency.
There is bare possibility thathe may
be, but the trustees have not discussed
the, matter in their meetings. Henry
Wallace, of Des Moines, is one of the
prominent candidates for the place
in the sense that his name has been
pushed forward by his friends. He
is editor of the Wallace's Farmer.
| Will Meet President.
Gov. Cummins will meet President
Roosevelt when he enters the state
September 26, and will accompany him
throughout Iowa. The governor has
received permission to attach his spe-
cial car to the special train carrying
the president. He will go to Sioux
City to met the president September
26, accompany him that day to Deni-
SON and return to Des Moines, the
president going on into Nebraska. On
| September 80 he will meet the presi-
dent at Clarinda and accompany him
throughout the day on his tour to
Des Moines and then to Keokuk, going
south.
Elected to New Chair.
p. G. Holden, of Bloomington, ILL.,,
has been elected to the chair of agron-
omy in the State Agricultural college
of Iowa. This chair has been created
but recently. Its field embraces the
whole science of the production of
farm crops. For this, Professor Hol-
den has large, experience. He is a
graduate of Michigan Agricultural col
lege and has held professorships in
that institution and in the Illinois
Agricultural college. He organized
the Corn Breeders association of Hi
nois, was manager of the Pelin Beet
Sugar company's farms, and recently
has. been superintendent of the 81, 900
acres of seed corn farms of Funk Bros
at Bloomington. He comes to Iowa
solely because he is more interestedin
science than he is in making fortune
for himself His work at Ames will
be to develop the corn breeds. Corr
is useful FOR three principal purposes:
Food, oil, starch. Gluten is needed in
food corn, starch in corn to make
starch out of, and fat to make oils
Formerly there was but one kind OF
corn, prolific in some of these elements
deficient in others 1t is the business
of The agronomist, now, to discover
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A CrucI Blow.

Cllra-How long have you been enc,
mis- with her?
Maud--Ever since she accepted the
man | rejected. Detroit Free Press.
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The hard fought case at sibley of the
state VS.. d. b. and Arthur Collins,
charged with receiving stolen prop
erty, ended by the jury returning q
verdict Of not guilty.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-13
ION THE SLY. "
Patients Drink Contrary to Doc
tors Orders,

Patients Drink Contrary to Doc
tors Orders.
Bad food habits hurt the habitue
and sometimes affect others. A mother
was in such a miserable condition from
coffee drinking that when her baby
tale:
81 steadily grew worse. When baby
was born it was a skeleton of mere
bones, and so weak and puny that it's
little life soon ilickered out / had
been suffering for several years with
stomach trouble and nervous diseases,
the doctor said brought on by coffee.
At times l would swell up until
could herdly breathe. but / poohed
when the doctor told me coffee was the
cause of il all. Why, l had used coffee
for years without seeing that it did
me any harm, so the silly idea of a
fogy doctor was not going to make me
give up my favorite beverage and 1
kept. on using it on the sly unknown
to him. while he gave me every sort of
tonic and pills to attempt to cure me
and get my nerves in a healthy con-
dition.
After baby's death l was sick in bed
and the doctor insisted on keeping cof-
fee away from me. He put me on
Postum Food Coffee and Grape Nuts
1 shall never forget how l relished the
first cup of fragrant. black Postum
and how good the Grape-Nuts with
cream tasted. and, as if by magic, 1
began to sleep all night for the first
time in months.
Slowly l began to gain in strength
and flesh, and my mind began to clear
up. My stomach gave me no pain,
and the doctor was greatly surprised
at the change caused by the food and
drink and pleasantly named them the
magic nerve restorers. for he says
they built up my nerves and strength
as nothing else on earth could.
II seems to me I am twice as large
as l used to be, but it is good, healthy
tissue. l have been made a well wo-
man by Postum Food Coffee and
Grape-Nuts. Name given by Postum
Co, Battle Creek, Mich.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-13

against this form Of food overcome
new and profitable field of industry
would be opened up for our country
men.
Snails, frogs and mushrooms are all
worth the cultivating, as our friends
across the Channel well know, and it
is pity that our national prejudice
against these things has not been over
come sufficiently to cause the man
about town to make a trial of eating
them, for once they did so nine out
of ten men would rejoice in the dis
covery of new and nutritive delicacies,
and fresh fields would be opened UP.
Nearly all over the Continent these
things are eaten, for their popularity is
by no means confined to France, as
many people enormously suppose. To
imagine that snails and frogs must be
dirty is the hight of absurdty and ig-
norance, for both are cultivated under
conditions quite as clean as those under
which our poultry are reared, if not
much cleaner.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-13
LEISURELY THEFT.
Tennessee Blacksmith Gradual
Requirement of a Traction Engine.


From the Washington Post
I ours is a peaceful section" said
Col Dan Turner of Memphis, Tenn, to
a group of Western men who had been
discussing robberies, hold-ups and
crime in general. But when we do a
thing down. in Tennessee, we do it
right, and robbing people or corpor-
ations is done to the queens taste,
when one of our citizens sets out to
do it,
mot long ago it became necessary
for one of the railroads to build a
small branch line, and a traction en-
CINE was sent down there with the first
load of road building material to haul
ties on heavy trucks from a little
mountain hamlet near where the road
was being built When the workmen
had finished hauling the ties the ell
CINE was placed alongside the road un-
til 1t should be convenient to haul it
away. 1t remained beside the road
about six months, and when the con-
tractor came along to clear up, he was
rather amazed to find that nothing but
the boiler of the traction engine re-
manned where he had placed it. To
make matters worse, every bolt and
rivet that could be removed from the
boiler was missing, too. A search was
instituted but the missing parts of the
machine could not be found
Some time after the theft of his en-
CINE the contractor had occasion to
drive through the country again, and
stopped at a negro's blacksmith shop
to have shoe fastened on his horse
While the smithy was at work the con-
tractor walked around the shop, and to
his amazement, found in one corner of
the place, the missing parts of his en-
CINE. lie Immediately charged the ne
gro with stealing it, and the man adj
united his guilt When the contractor
had recovered from his surprise at the
find, he asked the smithy why he had
not taken the boiler, too and the lat
ter replied that he was making tackle
to take to the roadside and lift the
boiler into his wagon when the con-
tractor took the thing away.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-13
INCENDIARISM IN CHICAGO.
\ Series of Fires for Two Days In
Succession.


Succession.
Chicago. April 12.-After extinguish-
ing ten fires yesterday, most of them
close together and apparently of in
cendlary origin. the firemen of South
Chicago, at daybreak to-day. were
called upon to contend with another
series of blazes. the total loss from
which was $4,000.
AS the buildings were not near each
other the firemen declared that
the fires were the work of an incen-
diary. The people of South Chicago
were greatly alarmed by the rapid
work of the firebug and a careful
watch is being kept up to-day.
The financial loss in the fires of yes
terday aggregated $4,000. Evidence of
incendiarism was so convincing. how
ever. that citizens Joined the
police in patrolling the streets
in an effort to guard prop
erty and capture the incendiary,
or incendiaries. In spite of the ex-
ira precautions, however, to-days fires
were started.
A demented boy, supposed to be a
pyromaniac, is said by several resi-
dents to have been seen at all the
fires. He is about II years of age and
wears red sweater and a derby hat.
Three residents say they could identify
him. The police are looking for him.