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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-02-14
BY CHARLOTTE N. BRAEr1E.
CHAPTER xL1.-(continued.)

CHAPTER XL1.-(Continued)
Every we'll. my dear; do just as you
Ike; you know best, of course. I will
ny that you do not feel very we'll. Go
Ia yonr room, by all means. hope
you Will soon be better. Now try to
cheer up: it will be all right. l will
see to this difhculty with your hus-
band Tor you.''
She looked up at him proudly.
''You must not tinterfere, papa. l
shall never return to him now!'
He looked pityingly at the white
caSe.
you appear very ill, Hildred. Is
0ere nothing that I can do for your"
aNothing," she replied, coldly. In
her heart she felt bitterly angry with
her father. She had trusted him; he
had misled her. She did not offer to
kiss him or to touch his hand, but went
quietly out of the room and upstairs,
leaNng him with some very unpleas-
ant thoughts.
It had not been an agreeable inter-
s1lpsion to his breakfast, but he tried
tossthink little Of it. 1t was only a
quarre}, after all, and his daughter had
dbne nothing wrong. He should make
it4all right in few seconds when he
saw the earl He wrote to him before
he went to the city, telling him that ms
wife had reached home safely, but was
idbking very i'll.
The rest of that day Hildred remain
cd in her room, and on the morning
following she did not come downstairs.
It was afternoon when Arley Ransome,
With face as pale as death, asked Tor
admfttance to her apartment. She
bAde him enter, and he did so, with
an open letter in his hand. 1t was her
husbands writing, she perceived.
''You have deceived me-" said her
father, sternly; you told me that you
had hidden nothing from me. Your
husband tells me that he has hidden
you here because you shot Lady Ham
ilton on the evening of the thirty-first
shot her with intent to murder, and
that you confessed your guilt"
Without word or murmur she
looked at him, and then fell like one
lead at his feet.
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fancied that something went whirring
through the trees. That something
was the ball that had been fired at La
dy Hamilton, which pierced her Shout
der and would have pierced her heart
had 1t gone in the direction in which
It had been aimed. For the moment
Lord Caraven had been too bewildered
to know what had happened; what he
was saying in reality to his guest was
that he liked his wife's maiden name
better than any he had ever heard.
Lady Hamilton, who never liked to
hear any one praised but herself, asked
at once what it was. He had an
swered, Mildred Ransome;;" and those
were the words Lady Caraven had
heard. They had been no sooner ut
tered than Lady Hamilton fell on his
shoulder with a faint, low cry-a cry
that seemed almost simultaneous with
the firing of the shot.
The earl knew she had been shot, but
hy whom or why he could not guess
he laid her down for one minute while
ha looked around; then it was that he
saw. the white face of his wife. He
jumped to the conclusion that she had
done It: she. and no other, was there.
ON tho spot. She had even to himself
ayowed her jealousy. She had follow
I'd them, and in the madness of her fol-
~ had shot Lady Hamilton. No other
idea occurred to him. He said to him
self Ut once that it was so, and he i'm
picttly believed it. He had rushed to
her and told her that she was "a guilty
woman" She had owned it. But
they were speaking of different kinds of
guilt. He meant the guilt of murder;
che meant the guilt of being a spy up
on him. No doubt Of her guilt relieved
his mind. Even in that first bewilder-
ID moment he had said to himself that
she should never enter his house again,
but that he would shield her because
she bore his name. He had told her
to remain where she was while he car
rfsd the senseless lady to the house.
There was terrible CONSERVATION. He
had the presence of mind to throw the
adtated inquirers off the scent. He
said that the poachers were out-must
b out, for a chance shot fired in the
woods had wounded Lady Hamilton.
Same Of the gentlemen staying at the
house went with the keepers to scour
the woods. Dire were the threats OF
vsAgsGaco as to the rogue who had
done the mischief. Meanwhile groom
xas dispatched to Court Raven to sum
m6a Z Doctor the wounded lady had
59sns tSken to her room and laid on the
! ~ A. nrst the earl was frightened
NJ ths wound should prove mortal;
{ INT ono o. the ladies staying at the cas-
n who knew something OF surgery,
G@ciared that the wound was not dan
gSfous, and that the ball could soon be
sItracted. After hearing that The earl
sssturned 70 his unhappy young wife.
Hi ArSt great fear that she had been
gdlIty Of murder had been removed;
&hArs rsmained the fear lsst the wound
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and it FLASHED across him that the wife
he had neglected and despised was,
notwithstanding what she had done,
one Of the noblest women in the world.
II it had but been different: if ID had
but thought more OF her before this
happened! How she must have loved
him to let herself drift into such a
crime! Was there any one who had
ever loved him half so we'll?
Il wish 1t had never happened, he
said to himself. ''She Is a noble WON
an in spite Of all, and well, Il could
have loved her, but now she must new
er return"
Yet it showed how strongly his feel
ings were swayed when he thought far
less of wounded Lady Hamilton than
of the fact that hts wife loved him.
He could not sleep or rest. Never
had his pillow seemed so hard, his
thoughts so troublesome. The excite
ment had been too much for him.
Wherever he went, whatever he did,
his thoughts were with Mildred. Had
she reached Arley Ransome's house?
Had he acted wisely in letting her go
alone? Would any clew to her guilt
ever be found? These questions fol-
lowed him, haunted him, pursued him.
If he went to talk to any of his visitors,
the conversation was sure to turn up
on the poachers and Lady Hamilton.
Wearied of it all he sought refuge
with Sir Raeul in his room; and the
old soldier noted with concern how
worn and haggard the handsome earl
looked.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-02-14
SEVERAL NEW POSTOEFlCIcS.
Better Mail Facilities AuSxurcd Sc
tiers In Nlrd l,nl1a lfH

Better Mail Facilities Auxxurcd Set
tiers i'm Ward County.
The rapid settlement of Ward county
has made it exp.dient to establish sew
eral new postof1ices, in order to accom-
mediate the new settlers who are con-
tinually peopllng distant parts Maj.
Murphy has been in correspondence
with Congressman Marshall relative to
opening several new offices. and late
dispatches from Washington are to the
effect that postoffice service will be
established at Lynch, with J. Staulnand
as postmaster: Markiilie, With William
B. Markjllie, postmaster; Bjelland, II.
hudson. postmaster; Itenville, Frank
Mcdonald postmaster: Hail. M. O..
Hall, postmaster. Many new settlers
will be benefited, as mail facilities are,
in many cases, very neager.
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Photos sPoIL THE Il MYSTERY FRY,

CasseltOn suspects Are NOT Miss Eel
5 and Nephew. 81
The reported finding Of Miss F'lorers
Ely and her nephew, Frank Ely Rogers
In Casselton, is q mistake. The mysi
terry surrounding the location Of til
Evanston youth and his kidnappi.a.
iarnt is still unsolved. A number. 4
special correspondents for Eastern pa
pers have reached Casselton, certai
that there would be some Sensation
developments. III II 4i%
1t was learned that the photographs
of the missing. pair had rot arrived
but. later, the photos Were delivered t
the police by special messenger iror
the postoff1ce, and at glance at theY
resulted In q negative motion of TIL
chiefs head a shade of disappointment
passing over his face. &
The photos We're handed to Chief Bal
lard's son, who Immediately stated th7.
they were not those of the lady and DO
under surveillance. The facts whic'
led the chief to suspect the woman wer
reasonable. She is reported to be til
guest of relatives near Casselton, and 4
accomI afiied by a boy answering TIL
description of Frank Rogers, whose re
lationship the lady is sometimes report
ed as defining as nephew, and again a..
brother. After first seeing them, thu
officer looked up the newspaper cuts
and, becoming more convinced o. Z,
identity of the two, he immediatel-
wired Chief O'Neill for photographs. tt
confirm the suspicion and get the PAL
under surveillance.
The fact that the Chicago official
gave out the story of the capture and
the Identification as positive made tn
Casse!ton chief extremely indignant.
He was never convinced of the identity
of the woman and the boy. The sue,
cess of the chief in former detective
WORK lent credence to the report that
he had located the Evanston pair, and
Casselton people We're considerably ex-
cited over the matter until the arrival
Of the photos established the fact that
it was a case Of mistaken identity The
names Of the suspected lady and boy
are kept secret, for obvious reasons.
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800 q, Reward L s1o1.

lenrn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure In all It's
stages. and that Is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being q constitu-
tional disease, requires constitutional treat
mens. Halls Catarrh Cure iB taken internally
faces Of the system. thereby destroying tho
foundation Of the disease and giving the pattens
strength by building up the constitution ana
prietors have SO much faith in Its curative
powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for
any case that 1t fails to cure. Send for list Of
Address +. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O
Sold by druggists 75c
Halls Family Pills are the best
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His nenn,Hou.

Paw" asked Elmer Grayneck, who
had an inquiring mind, what IL Q
cycloramo?" TITS mighty good fhfng
to keep away from. that's what It isa''
replied that astute agrioulturist. Ills
father. Don't you remember that
contraption that you seen a sharper
worldn' at the county fair. where yOu
put your money on different eulored
spots, an the swindler whi1fed .
p'inter around. an the more ysild prt
down the less you tonk ups WA4l,
that was cycloranla 4, New york
Journal. 81 Il.
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MRS. JENNIE r. o,poNNELI.

MRS. JENNIE f. O'DONNELL,
President Of Oakland Womans Riding Club.
the wonderful curative value of Lydia
e. Pinklam's Vegetable Conn
pound. For eight years I had female
trouble, falling Of the womb and other
complications. During that time was
more or less of an invalid and not much
good for anything, until one day I
found a book in my hall telling Of
the cures you could perform. became
interested I bought a bottle of Lydia
E. Pinlkha1n's Vegetable Com
pound and was helped; continued its
use and in seven months was cured, and
since that time I have had perfect
health. Thanks, dear Mrs. Pinkham
again, for the health now enjoy."-
Mrs. JENNIE O'DoNNELL, 27s East 31st
St., Chicago, Ill. 90 $4,000 forfeit II above
Testimonial is not genuine.
Women suffering from any
form of female ills can be cured
by Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound. That's sure.
Mrs. Pinkham advises sick wO-
men free. Address, Lynn, Mass.
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PATENTS.

List of Patents Issued Inst Week to
Northwestern Inventors.
Louis Randemer, Plato, Mimi, wire
stretcher; Thomas Huberdeau, Lari-
more, N. d., breast strap slide; John
J. LIE Due, Kerns, Mimi, steam boiler
furnace; Martin Leatherman, Garden
City. Mimi, vehicle drag; John Mueller,
Lisbon, N. D. tool handle; Otto Sues,
Sioux Falls, S. D., cuspidor; Celophas
Vandall, Eveleth, Mimi, pipe jointer.
Iothrop & johnson, patent attorneys oil &
e12 Pioneer Press Bldg. ST. Paul. MINI.
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So he would see her until he
died. He felt as though she had been
stranger to him until then. The
passionate love which had famed into
hot jealousy had been hidden under q
cold. calm exterior. How she loved
him. He had never seen any woman.s
face light up SO splendidly. For the
first time In his life he had owned to
himself that by the side OF her mag
nif1cent beauty blonde loveAness faded
into nothing. He wondered uaat he
had lived SO long in the house with her.
so long under one roof. yet he had not
noticed that which every one else re-
marked.
& He was struck most Of all BY the fact
that she loved him. Il did not matter
about ANYTHING elsa He had read l,slEr
truth and love In her faeo. She loved
him % no one else sver would orvoult.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-02-14
FIRE AT EDINBURGH,
Losses of Over $4,000 in n Small
DukDtn Town.

LOAseS OF OVPr Tts.WV III n SnsaI1
Dakota Town. -
Fire, originating in the drug store of
Hanson e. Co. at Edinburgh. practical
ly destroyed the business portion of the
village. The flames gained rapidly,
ard before any help could be procured
the drug store, together with. all it's
contents. WaS a mass of ruins. The
high winds carried burning lumber to
the general store OF Melstad Bros, and
1t WAS also destroyed. An unoccupied
store building was the third to sue
cumb to the flames. Tho cause of the
fire is unknown. Losscs: Melstad
Bros. $4,000. Hanson & Co, $1,000: an
uroccup,ed buii:.ing. owner unknown,
$500 All the buildings were partially
insured.
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The Careful Sportsman.

NE VUrVIu1 SpOE00N1Hne
Jimson-Where are you going?
Billson-Only Cor days shooting.
Jimson-Great snakes! With that
car load of freight?
Billson-These boxes contain books
the largest and most complete COM
pendulum of the game laws of the state.
don't want to shoot anything out Of
season.-New York Weekly.
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! So Happy.

s5sg 3eis So Happy. & Sl55s
she1 was SO happy ! just had to go
around telling everybody about our en-
gagement. .js, Z Ii 5S$fS 56s
p He-That just proves the old saying.
E Love makes the world go round
Shell said / went round. not
\ He-Well. you're all the world to me.
-Philadelphia Record. ss
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CHAPTER Kill.

HE young count
ess, as she stood
behind the alder
trees of Ravens
mere, had heard
the sound Of the
shot; she was too
dazed with her own
grief and misery to
note the direction
from which it ilad
Droreedad She had
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HE DIDN'T EsIl,EzzLE.

Col. Lukenbill of tho Scnb6nrd Air
Line 1s Acquitted.
{ Fernandina, Fla, Feb. 1.-THE jury
IN the Lukenbill embezzlement case,
after being out two hours brought in a
verdict of not guilty. Col. Lukenbill
was formerly agent of the Seaboard
Air Line, and was charged with en-
bezzling large sums of the company's
money.
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MRS. ]. E. 0'D0NNELL
Was Sick Eight Years with
Female Trouble and Finally
Cured by Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.

"DEAR Mrs. P1NKHAM have
never in my life given q testimonial
before, but you have done SO much for
me that feel called upon to give you
this unsolicited acknowledgement Of
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CONNOLLY WILL LIVE.
splinter From a Broken Chair En-
tered His Brain. VI.

Elk Point, S. D., Feb. Richard
Connolly, into whose head splinter
rarl three inches, Will live. When the
splintered stick was pulled from his
brain it was covered with brain matter.
DR.. Rhoden now believes, that danger
from blood poisoning Is past. It is said
a chair collapsed and that splinter
from the broken back entered the
brain. Is. ssi@ g.g iGt
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CHAPTER XLIII.

EFT me stay with
you. Raoul," said
the earl on enter
ing his room; my
guests tease me to
death. One hears
of nothing: but La
dy Hamilton and
the poschers. I
have had to tell the
story over and
over again, until /
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Woman is like the reed that bends to
every breeze, but breaks not in the
Whately.
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Popularity is more likely to be due to
what a man doesn't say than to what
he does.
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A Pro,,,,,ter

what &c a promoter, Jim?"
well, a promoter is one of those fell
lows that can sell you collander for
wash BASIN"
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Garfield Headache Powders are especially adapted
70 the needs Of nervous women. Try them.
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She Young men claim to be the salt
or the earth. 3 81 .5s 4 II 55 81 I
He (mildly But, my dear, we have
never denied your claim to being the
pepper. San Francisco Bulletin.
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Ungratcful Woman.

love. # 33s
II don't. eh Il Haven't + been to ev-
cry play, read every popular novel In
the last six mont this, got into debt hope
lessly. had my appendix removed and /.
ali for your sake ?''-Life. h RAJ.
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Few people would be satisfied II stheS
got all that rs coming to them. VI 93s
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An Acceptable Neirbbor

An Acceptable NeiEbbOr.
Blizzer-How does your wife like that
lady who moved in next door?
Ruzzar-Oh, all right! She hasn't as
many gowns as my wife,"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-28
Feared he Would be Lynched,
Cherokee Scout

]. p. Carringer, deputy sheriff of Swain
county, has placed a white man named
Tom OWenby in our Jail for safe keeping
as it was feared he would be lynched il
he remained in Swain county, The cause
leading up to this state of affairs is
about as follows: Owenby was charged
with stealing some cattle from Bill Bum
garner. a prominent citizen of that coun-
ty, and driving them to Tennessee and
selling them OWcnby was arrested and
bound over to court. Bumgarner, in
searching for money obtained from the
sale of his cattle, found grip con-
tanning some money and pistol. He put
the pistol in his inside coat pocket, and
STOPPING over at a branch to wash his
hands, it dropped out and struck rock,
causing it to fire, the ball entering the
pit of his stomach. and he died in a few
hours. We learned this much from the
officers, who say that Owenby breathed
freer when locked up in our jail.
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tiful run of 60 yards off left tackle for
a touchdown. Robson kicks goal
Score, "a to 0. Time, "a minutes
Richmond kicks to Beebe % yards,
who returns Is yards. Neal gets 10 yards
off left tackle. Carpenter gets 10 yards
off right tackle. Tucker gets 10 yards
off right tackle. Gulley goes around
left end for 90 wards Shannonhouse goes
through line for s yards Tucker makes
5 yards through line. Second down
yards from goal. Carpenter plunges off
right tackle for touch down. Robson
kicks goal.
Score. 80 to 0. Time minutes.
Morgan, for Richmond, kicks 80 yards
to Darden. who returns II yards. Neal
goes off left tackle for yards. Shan
nonhouse gets Is yards off right tackle.
Tucker follows with yard. Carpenter
then goes off left tackle for I yards.
Here the ball was fumbled and went to
Richmond on the quarter back running
with ball. Landlord goes / yard around
right end Rowe around left end Tor L
yard. Third down and yards to gain
Morgan kicks 50 yards to Darden, who
returns 10 yards. Gulley tries off right
tackle for no gain. Carpenter makes .
yards. Third down and yards to gain.
Gulley trips to make the required gain
off left tackle, but falls and here the
ball went over to Richmond for the first
and only time during the game. Spill
man goes around left end for u yard.
Landlord fails to make gain around left
end. Third down and ~ yards to gain.
Morgan tries for a drop kick for goal
but failed, the ball being blocked
Richmond. however, falls on the ball
Then Landlord makes y yards off left
tackle. Morgan fails to gain through
line. Third down and 31a yards to gain
Richmond again tries for a field goal
but the bali is again blocked, and again
Richmond falls on the ball Hudgins
makes p yard off right tackle. A. and
NJ. gets eff side and Richmond is given 5
yards, which puts them in 10 yards of
goal line. Here was the most exciting
part of the game, for time and time
again did Richmond hit A. and NJ s line
but each time with no gain. Richmond
dill some very pretty work right here,
| on each third down, a field goal was
tried but each time was blocked and
/ tdCll TIME IAiCHlUOuu GeStiueu the YAH
! a. and VI. makes another Off side play
/ and was paralyzed, putting Richmond
in four yards of goal Morgan, now for
/ the fourth time. tries for a field goal
/ and the ball goes over.
/ Score. A. and NJ 80: Richmond. 0.
! With 11a minutes to play, Robson,
/ for A. and NJ. kicks IS yards. Rich
mond returns is yards. Spilman makes
3 yards off right tackle. Powell tries
! left end for no gain.
/ Time up with a. and NJ. in % yards
! of Richmonds goal.
! Score, A and NJ, 30; Richmond, 5.
/ Time of halves, % and 20 minutes.
! For A. and M. Darden, Tucker. Gull
/ ley, Welsh and Robeson's kicking the
! goal against strong wind was also a
/ feature of the game.
! For Richmond, Landlord. Spilman,
/ Hudgins and Rowe played good ball.