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sort. It is a matter of common knowl-
edge that the patron of our street car
lines who knows the curves of the
route and has got what we may call
his "car legs on. reaches the end Of
his journey with fewer bruises than
the fresh chap from the country who
never enjoyed the experience before.
Now here is a man VINO, through some
special gift, knows how to fall all over
himself without hurt.
In such hanson accident as recent
ly befell Joseph Chamberlain, of Eng
land, for example. this man would
probably have shot out over the horse
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timber of the various kinds, also
showing the acreage of open land
and meadows. These reports, with
the general knowledge obtained
through their special operations, re-
lating to all conditions and develop
ments of the country, its railroad
prospects; ETC., enables this COM
pany to render great and valuable
assistance in securing the most de-
sirable tract obEainable.
Our various Offices are in posses
sion of information and are supplied
with plats. maps. reports and cor
rect knowledge of what land is va
cant. Our company can thereby as.
sist to secure the best quarter sec
ton in the best township in the best
district OF the state. and when such
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ordinary fees, however, for the
choicest claims average from $50 to
s65. On such claims deposit of
SIS will be required as part pay
ment on the lecating fee before go
ing to the land. Considering the
great convenience of selecting in
our Office, from our plats, maps and
reports, the best claim in the best
district, the cheap railroad trans
portation that We provide and the
guides and cruisers we furnish to
take the applicants directly upon
the land without delay and unneces-
sary expense. and the conveniences
and protection offered through cur
complete system OF operating, you
VIII readily see that the SIS SO re-
Quired In advance does not begin to
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Molten Wood.

A French forest inspector has achieved
wood" BY dry distillation and high pres
sure developing gases are prevented from
escaping and the molten" condition
thereby secured. When cooled the mass
assumes the character of coal without
showing traces of that materials organic
structure The new substance Is hard,
is fmperyious to water and acids, but
can be shaped and polished at viii.
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a claim has been serecrel from the
various reports and field notes, the
applicants are provided with half
rate transportation to the nearest
railroad point and sent out under
our directions, and at this point
they are taken care of by our To-
Gators, who provide for their COM
fort and pilot them upon the claims
with the best available facilities the
locality will permit
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Grand Opportunity
to Acquire Land.

Families or nedghbors with lit
tie means caH, under the existing
laws, take land under the home
stead laws and timber and stone act
together-320 acres. A mans wife
has a right to take land under the
timber and stone act. The sons and
daughters Of age have each a right
to take claims under the homestead
laws aud timber and stone act, etc.
1t can be readily seen that such a
proposition fs far better than buy
ing speculative land at speculative
prices
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FREE LAND.


FREE,
homestead
June s, annowm makean rhomesa entry.
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and that as far as the Northwest
ern Homestead Locating company
is concerned 1t is not in any way
benefited by reporting any tract bet
ter or worse than what 1t Is, you
will realize that 1t will be no ad-
vantage to the company to make
any misrepresentation or to exag-
gerate the reports in any way. The
travelling expenses to the land and
back will amount to from s15 to $50.
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CRIME OF A NEW
SORT DISCOVERED
contortionist Who Earned Damages"
by Falling From Street Cars.

A rather novel sort of crime is that
fer which a contortionist must shortly
stand trial at Philadelphia. An inge-
nious individual named Doran, having
discovered that as an expert tunbler
ne could without risk to life hurl HIM
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Available Land.

No1nfh MINNESOTA which
WithoutdO the and
last The land level cut with brooks and finest
Good splendid
shipping
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Developments Of the Land.

Our
in We thousan O. home rom
and the tdesabe
sfact wh o
mentlan
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| how many other citizens Of more lofty
mold. would be saved by such action.
and no one can deny that the act would
be one of the highest philanthropy and
utility.
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Government Fee.

The fling fees at the land Office
for homestead entry is $14.
There are no fling fees for tim-
her and stone entries.
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Timber Claims $3.50 Per Acre.

Women Incuded Entitled
'front.'
homste adjoining desired
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Locating Fee.

Our fee for locating claims and
assisting applicants vary in accord
ance with the value and location,
and range from $40 and up. Ou1
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lt. actually sent UuJ 10y the colonial
office at the age of twenty, to begin, as
he should. with his foot on the lowest
rung, and then to be left there, is not
common. After fifteen years he re-
manned a junior in this department; he
drew, it is true, two hundred and forty
pounds year, or double his original
paw. but he had been passed by all his
CONTEMPORARIES, and now remained
stuck fast, apparently forgotten. 1t
was said that there was some scandal
about him which stood in the way of
his promotion-somethin he had done.
What that was did not take definite
form. Here. however, was the fact:
An English gentleman. of good family,
left in the lower branches of the colo
NAL service, five-and-thirty years of
age, possessed of every quality that
should command success. What did it
mean?
There's some news in the CONNER
cial special" said the young fellow.
We've got new governor. He comes
out next mail. Here's the order"
He tossed it over. There was half
column hastily printed with summary
of this month. Longden glanced down
the paragraphs Suddenly he started,
sat up and dropped the paper.
Good Lord!" he cried
( What is it?" asked his companion.
T Longden sprang to hio feet. Then he
stepped out upon the little veranda be-
fore the cottage and began to walk up
M
his native land in an east wind.
Presently Longden came back and
took up the paper and read slowly a
second time the paragraph that had
startled him. "Sir Henry DIVERSION
Dunkeld, X. G. B., is the newly appoint
ed governor. Sir Henry DUP keld, the
eldest son of Maj. Gen. Dunkeld, K. A,
was educated at Trinity college, Cam
bridge, where he obtained a first class
and fellowship in the year 1875. lie
was called to the bar in 1877; he sat in
the house of commons for the borough
of Chester on the conservative side
from 1879 to 1882. He was then
appointed lieutenant governor OF
Benang; in 1884 he was made governor
of the Leeward islands. Sir Henry is
believed to possess great administrative
abilities. He is personally popular;
he is said to possess great charm OF
manners, and his sympathies with any
religious and philanthropic movements
are well known"
i Good Lord!' said Longden once
more. "And am an assistant clerk in
his audit Office"
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His excellency drew near. Jack
leaned forward little and lifted his
hat, not with the idea of catching his
eyes at all, but the governor saw him
saw him-and he stopped suddenly,
turned white and reeled.
ut is nothing" he said, recovering
quickly. 1.-The heart-a sudden faint
ness. Let us go on"
The procession went on. But the
governor looked back once more into
the crowd For he had seen, after
seventeen years, standing among the
common people, the old friend of his
youth, by whose act and deed he him
self was what he was and where he
was.
HE recognized me-" said Jonathan,
striding away. HE caught my eye
and he knew me. / saw him change
color and stop. Strange meeting after
so many years. He will send for me to-
morrow. and we shall have talk. Of
course he will trust me still. Should /
give him that paper? | think not"
So while the new governor enter
tanned the legislative council at ban
quet, his old friend sat at dinner in his
cabin and contentedly munched his cur
ried beef and drank his sour claret and
water and congratulated himself on the
beauty and the happiness of the wife
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CHAPTER II.

He stepped out again upon the veran-
da. The sea breeze had sprung up; the
was refreshed; he drew long breath
air and looked out into the darkness. His
memory went back some seventeen
years. A morning came back to him;
he saw what happened, not as he saw
it then, an actor ON the scene, but he
saw it, now from the outside, here as
the audience. The actors were two
specters of the past-young men both.
The face of one was radiant, his eyes
and cheeks flushed, his lips trembling
The other was also flushed but his eyes
were dropped, his head hung, his voice
faltered.
Jack" he murmured, II cannot lei
you do it. No friend can expect such {
thing of another"
Why" said Jack-Longden's name
in fact, was Jack, but it was fifteer
years since he had been called by his
Christian name, and he had almost for
gotten it-'why, man, what's the gooc
of being friends if we can't stand by
each other? Look here-it's a devil o:
a mess"
at is, indeed. To me it is ruin
everything-everything is lost, includ'
ing Eva. Good God! Who is to tel
her?"
/ well, Harry, sooner than Eva should
suffer-sooncr than you should suffer
would suffer myself. Now, look here:
I've done this thing-you know-not
you at all-not you at ALL" He laid his
hand upon his friends.
mo, mol cannot. Think of the con-
sequences"
There will be bit of shindy.
dare say it will blow over. My priR of
an elder brother will groan and say he
always knew; but you will be happy,
old man. and-and so-what is the use
of being friends, and sworn friends, too.
if we are not to bear the burdens OF
each other?'
The other protested, but weakly and
with tears and self-accusations; it was
too great sacrifice. He had been a
fool and wretch; he must take the con
sequences. Then Jack remarked that
there was another person to consider
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namely, certain Eva. Above all
things she was to be kept from the un-
happiness which would fall upon her if
she knew.
Then the other man gave way. But
he made a condition: so much grace was
left to him. He sat down. and he wrote
at headlong speed a certain little nara.
tive. This he signed. dated. read
through, folded and gave to his friend
Jack" he said. Il will accept your
sacrifice on one condition. Here is a
complete confession of the whole bust
ness Take it. Do what you like with
it. If you suffer from the consequences.
reveal it; am altogether in your hands.
If at any time in the future sou can
advance yourself by means of that pa
per, use it. You have the right to
use it."
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carry his message of remorse. He did
not die, but the message remains. Take
it. His prayer for forgiveness"
Yes, but he got BETTER" said Long
den. dryly. 80 he told you, did he?
1t was not well done. 1t was a breach
of confidence. Why, it was in the
thought that you would never know"
"And do know. Jack, nothing that
he can do or say could destroy the
wrong of all these years"
Nothing And yet, you see took
the consequences, whatever they might
be. They did turn out rather more I'M
pleasant than thought, but have not
complained"
IF you were to stand up tomorrow
and read aloud the confession which he
gave you, that would not give you back
those lost and ruined years.
mo-" said Jack 1T might astonish
people more than a bit. But it wouldn't
help me-"
Have you ever thought that-about
mon youth-that it would be wholly
destroyed and rendered worse than use
less were 1T to become known"
II do not understand / have al
ways, on the other hand, looked for
ward to time when, somehow or
other, my character should be set right
again-if only to disappoint my brother,
who is prig."
He who was then young man like
yourself. with his future all before him,
is now a man who has succeeded. He
has won distinction and reputation. He
has a wife and children-children, Jack.
If you ruin him-as you may-as you
can-you ruin the children and you de-
stroy the wife"
II see," he replied This is what
you wanted to say to me? To be sure
hadn't considered that"
when we landed he saw you on the
port and recognized you. He said moth
ing to meat the time. but ] perceived
that he was anxious and unhappy. 1t
is three months, and during the whole
time he has been in an agony of terror
and remorse. A few days ago he heard
the old story told again-the story that
he thought forgotten was repeated to
him, attached to your name. 1t is COM
mon property-the talk of his secreta-
ries lie is well-nigh mad with the rec
objection and the hideousness of it."
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CHAPTER VI.

The monotony of his life, broken in
this manner, began again. The cond :
tions were kept. The governor took no
notice of him at all. The time passed
by. Sir Henry Dunkeld drew near to the
end of his time; Jack was now forty,
still an assistant clerk; still, to outward
seeming, as contented as the most sue
cessful of men; still living in his
shanty near the seashore. Long since
the youngster who messed with him
when Sir Henry Dunkeld arrived had
passed him on the ladder of promotion,
and was in mess where they belonged
to society, and gave dinners and went
to balls.
One day, little while before this
governor left the colony, Jacks own
chief sent for him.
II ought to tell you, Longden," he
said, that an attempt has been made
with his excellency to recommend you
for the vacant post-it was that of as
sistant auditor general. 1t was pointed
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Come to the private gardens of Govern
ment house on Sunday morning at half
past eleven, when the governor and
everybody are at church. l will meet
you beside the basin. For the sake of
old times when we were all innocent
and hopeful together, do not fail.
Your old friend. Eva"
II wonder what she means2" Jack
finished the letter, which did notreuuire
a second reading. and replaced it in his
pocket. What can she meanp She did
not recognize me, though he did Peo-
pie don't talk about me at the Govern
ment house Who told her? If David
the king told her. DAVID the king must
have felt prickings. will CO."
Soon after eleven, when the governor,
his daughter, his daughters governess
and his aide-de-camp were in their long
pew at the cathedral and the bishop
was in his seat, and the civil chaplain
was reading the service, Jack Longden
found himself in the private grounds of
Government house. No one at all, not
even an Indian gardener, was in the
gardens.
He found bench in the shade and sat
down.
He had not long to wait. He heard
footstep, and rose to meet lady who
walked quickly along one of the paths
She was alone.
THANK you, jack" she said, giving
him her hand.
II am here, Lady Dunkeld," he be-
gan, but he broke down. Eva" he
cried, you have not forgotten me-the
man who disgraced himself!'
mo, no; you are here. / learned. it
only the other day, and you are quite
low down in the service. He told me.
1t is horrible! it is dreadful!''
''Nay-some must rise and some must
fall. And after that ugly business"
Jack, know ALL
What do you know? There was an
awful row about it, and my father
wouldn't have me in the house, and my
brother-you remember my brother
he was always an awful prig-he sur
passed himself and made reconciliation
impossible, and everything else, so they
found me place out here, and / sup
pose my brother kindly told them at the
colonial office, and SO the story came
out here, and-that's all. OF course
promotion is impossible for man with
such story as that behind him. Well,
Eva-Lady Dunkeld-that is all. What
does it matter now?" For his old friend
was looking strangely at him and the
tears were in her eyes.
oh" she repeated, sit is horrible!
1t is dreadful"
'No, not SO dreadful as you think.
! There is enough to live upon, and what
more can a man desire, a man with such
a story as that behind him?"
She sat down on the bench behind
him and bowed her head and wept
aloud.
May" he said, SIT is too much that /
should"
Jack" she sprang to her feet again.
"You tear my very heart, You tear me
to pieces-for I know all-all-all-I
tell you that know ALL"
I 'You cannot know all. 1t is impossi.
ble."
II have known it for ten years. He
fell i'll and was on the point of death
and confessed it all to me. promised
thinking he was on his deathbed, te
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CHAPTER III.

The monotony of life, praised so
highly. was rudely broken by this
strange event. The colony was so linn
tied as to size, the officials 50 small in
number, that the governor would GER
talnly know something about everyone
III the service. There was not the least
doubt but that King David would dis
cover Jonathan Henry DIVERSION
Dunkeld, king. would discover his old
friend John Lorlmer Longden among
the scribes to the palace. What would
the king say? Would he call for the
purple robe and wrap it round that
scribe. and send him forth upon white
horse richly caparisoned, with trum-
peter proclalming the honors done by
order of the king? Or should Jona-
than begin it? Should he bow himself
down upon the ground saying: 20 king,
live forever / am Jonathan, friend of
thy youth. and / am held down in low
estate by reason of thing" How would
that do?
Longden pondered the subject long
and doubtfully. What would happen?
AS for the confession, he had it still.
The papers lay among other papers in
desk. There was letter from his
father casting him off; one from his
brother preaching sermon as to a
condemned criminal. There was por-
trait of a girl-the Eva for whose sake
his friend had consented; there was an
other of his friend himself, gallant
youth, and some letters from that
friend. written before the fatal trans
fer-none after; and some verses writ
ten in praise of Eva, danclng-they
were after Herrick. IF at any time in
the future you can advance yourself by
using that paper, use it," The words
returned again and again. How should
he use it? lie might place the paper
into the hands of the governor, and
leave the matter to him. lie might
60 to him and say: II am your old
friend. We know what we know, but
we trust each other What | have
done have done" So thinking, his
heart grew soft to that old friend; ne
said to himself that he must have suf-
cred from thinking of what had been
done; but that for Evas sake-doubt-
less now his wife-the thing was well
done. He would do it again, whatever
happened.
With the rest of the world, with the
acting governor. the bishop, the colonel
comnandant, the legislative council
and the heads of departments, he went
down To the quay-he did not stand
with these iuustrlous persons, but well
behind them in the crowd-to receive
the governor.
Ills excellency, Sir Henry Dunkeld.
K. c. NJ. G.. came ashore in the harbor
masters launch. with all awning and a
crew of STA stout negroes. He was ac-
comPanIed by his wife. his daughter, n
child of ten. his daughters governess,
and his aide-dc-camp-
oh. yes. Jack Longden knew him at
once And Lady Dunkeld. too-Eva, of
course Then he had married Eva. There
she was. and after seventeen wears a
lorsly woman still. of course he would
have recognized her. too at once. His
heart become very soft, watching
these old friends of his youth.
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He certainly said that" murmured
the audience. HE said it-and have
the paper still-and he is governor and
am junior in his audit office"
Then he looked again and he saw a
girl. She turned her eyes from one to
the other in establishment A very
beautiful glrl she was, At the sight of
her the audience caught his breath.
why" she said, what is the matter
with you both?"
Eva" cried the man, whose burden
was to be transferred, but said no more.
Eva" said Jack, II am sorry you
have come at this moment. but you
may as well hear the truth at once"
TRUTH What truthP" She looked
quickly, not at Jack, but at the other.
THE truth is" said Jack, "that q
very disgraceful thing has been found
out, and that one of us is going to say
good by-most likely forever"
What is it, Harry?" She caught him
by the arm. why do you look like
thisP'
Because he is my friend, Eva. I
have shamed him. 1t is l who have
done this disgraceful thing. You had
better go now, both of YOU"
Eyes, he said that" murmured the
audience And they went away and
left the guilty man. And there was an
end of everythingr'
The guilty man folded the confession
and placed it in his pocketbook. "Well,"
he said, II would have don. more than
that for Eva's sake, not to speak of
Harry 1 don't suppose she will ever
know that have ever done it or why.
Now we must face the footlights.
The scene disappeared and the black
night returned. Longden was on the
veranda again looking out into the
darkness; he heard the gentle tapping
of the water on the coral reef and the
knell of the bell buoy tolling out at
sea beyond the harbor, and the filhaos
mourned and sighed in the fresh sea
breeze.
Yes" said Longden. HE was
eighteen. and he believed in friend
ship. What did the other man believe
imp
And he remembered how the thing
which he had assumed was really a
much more serious thing than he had
believed, in fact, thing which stains;
thing which will not wash off; thing
for which he was Immediately sent
home to his father who refused to re-
ceive him, for which in fact he was
bundled off to small clerkship in a
distant colony, with no farewells ex-
cept from his elder brother-the prig-
who informed him that it was never too
late to build up a new character on
the ruins of one which had been de-
stroyed.
when Jonathan died." .Longden
murmured, David wept and lamented
Suppose Jonathan had disappeared IL
disgrace only to be recovered when Da-
vid was king over Israeli"
He went to his room and to his bed
in the dark. But he slept little. and
when he woke in the morning it was
with an uneasy sense of having become
King David, and of having found his
old friend Jonathan adding up the &C
counts in the chief stewards chamber,
and of being embarrassed by the dis
covery.
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taken away the elder mans youth.
The united resources of this mess were
slender, and when the rent of twenty
rupees month had been paid and the
wages of their one servant and the
dhobie and the claret (which was dear
at sd the bottle) and the whisky and
the stringy beef and the skinny chicken
which graced their board. there really
was very little left for the minor lux
uries. Yet in lands where twice a wear
there falls no shade on any side of rock
or house, the minor luxuries are to most
the simplest necessities. On the two
sides of the room were two small bed
rooms, in each bed, mosquito cur
tain, an arm wire, chair and wash
stand. The room in front opened upon
a small veranda.
"Well, my boy" Longden went on,
'you shall have better luck; YOU shall
get promoted early; you shall leave me
and mess with other promotions, chief
clerk presently in your department:
acting head of department.; sent off to
some other colony as head; colonial sec
rotary somewhere else; lieutenant gov
ernor, c. M. G.; governor, N. C. NJ. G.
Heart up, sonny. The world is all be-
fore you"
The younger man was little discon-
certed at this outburst; when one is
twenty it is hard to understand that a
man of five-and-thirty, which seems an
age SO advanced, and man who has
''stuck" in his upward fight, and one
who is invariably cheerful and ap
parently contented, should ever have
had ambitions.
Longden's case was exceptional
There are plenty of shady Englishmer
who get taken on in the colony, in OBJ
seure branches of the government
service with never a chance or a hone
OF promotion; but for young man t.