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tered the word gang" Now, as he
tried to breathe he heard a soft rustic,
and looking up saw, all clad in white,
and with hair disheveled, his handsome
neighbor.
Madam" he gasped, "this-this
burglar-tried-tri to get into-your
house. saw him-he tried to shoot
me. His pistol is somewhere-in the
grass Find it, please-fire it-fast
make an alarm-bring help"
But the woman, instead of looking
looked at as much of the mans face as
was visible and moaned:
sob, Arthur
Then she sprang to her feet and
Kissed rapidly:
''IIe's no burglar, man. Let him go
do you hear me? He's no burglar, /
say. He is my husband
"Your husband!' gasped Zenas, re-
Taxing his hold, a movement of which
the PROSTATE man endeavored to take
advantage.
"Yes-yes! Hasn't a man a right to
enter his own house any way he
CIlOOSSS, "llcu Il6 uOU GAp0cGeu-udS
no key? Let him go. Don't you hear
me say he is my husband?"
Eyes, madam, and sorry l am to hear
it, for I've heard of your husbands"
"Agnes," moaned the captive, find
my pistol, quick, and shoot the fellow.
Put it close to his arm and fire; then
break the other in the same way-that
will make the devil loose his hold. l
hear men running-they are coming this
way"
Help! Murder! Help!' roared Zenas,
who also heard quick footsteps on a
sidewalk not far away. Then he said
quickly: Madam, before you can find
that pistol can kill this man, with my
hands at his throat. I've had to fight
savage animals with my hands,"
God have mercy!" exclaimed the
woman, again dropping on her knees
beside the two men. 'Listen to me,
man! AS God lives my husband is in
nocent of the charges against him-I
know he isl know all the facts. He's
the victim of a conspiracy that must be
exposed before long. He has risked
everything tonight for the sake of see
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vain, too, did she display her children,
who really were pretty and well
dressed, when her neighbor walked
alone through the well-kept garden
which the Bortleys coveted for its rare
display of flowers; Mrs. Maytham
seemed to ignore the very existence of
the well-behaved children for whom an
emperor might have been glad to ex-
change his crown.
Zenas, however, had no idea of giving
up, and the unexpected lack of new ac-
quaintances-a popularity of suburban
villages-added to his determination to
know his nearest neighbor. While wa
tering his late lettuce one Saturday af-
ternoon and felicitating himself upon
his success during hot weather with this
succulent but capricious vegetable, he
suddenly climbed tree and inspected
his neighbours kitchen garden. just as
he had suspected, the only lettuce there
had run to seed. In a moment Zenas
was upon the ground again, and pulled
some finely blanched plants which he
took to his neighbours kitchen door,
saying to the cook:
nope uOu lHGEuucs UuU SOOu leu
tuce is scarce at this time of the year,
and as mine is very fine thought per-
haps your mistress would enjoy
some"
The servant took the crisp present
without word. After moving several
steps toward home, Zenas stopped sud-
denly to admire a brilliant clump of
tritomas. AS he stood gazing he heard
a window blind open and a voice call
ing in a low tone:
Bridget"
Mem" ''' I
"Who was that?" ,
"Misther Bortley, men,
"The owner of that gang next door?
Yes, men,"
'Umph!" The last expression was
emphasized by so vigorous closing of
the window blind that the catch fast
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bell, and broke the news as gently as
possible to his wondering neighbor.
''You will excuse me, trust, madam,
if present you to my wife when you
come over? She is the head of the fam
lily when she is at home.''
II shall do myself the honor to tel
Mrs. Bortley how loyal a neighbor, how
brave soul and how noble man her
husband is" said Mrs. Mayhem, land
shall beg her to let me be her husbands
devoted friend-and hers-forever
So the Bortleys came to know their
next-door neighbors after all.
THE END.
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DO NOT SEEK OFFICE.
1t Is Disappointment When Obtained,
and Makes Men Unhappy.

--e~NN~O
Albert G. Brown, of Mississippi, cir
cult judge, three times in congress,
three times a senator, twice governor.
brigadier general of militia. and captain
in the confederate, army, just before his
death wrote the following to young
friend: True, as you say, l had many
offices. Indeed, may say that l never
knew defeat in any of my aspirations.
And it is just because / had success
which people call wonderful that feel
confident to administer a word of eau
ton to the men of this generation. Nv
young friend do not be deceived by the
glitter of Office. l am now past nv
three-score years, and am fast travelling
into the ten. 1 have held almost every
office in the gift of the people, and
can truly say with the preacher: 1T is
all vanity and veXation of spirit Look
ing back over long and hope not un-
successful life, l can say with a clear
conscience my greatest regret is that /
have ever made a political speech or
held an Office. There is fascination in
office which beguiles man, but be as
sured, my young friend, it is the fascina-
ton of serpent; or, to change the fig
IRE, it is the ignis fatuus which coaxes
you to inevitable ruin. 1 speak of that
which l know. If my young friends
will be governed by my advice, have
this to say, after all my successes as
public man, now, when my head is
blossoming for the grave, 1 feel that it
would have been better for me If 1 had
followed the occupation of my father
and beena farmer"
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ing his wife-his wife, do you hear me?
Imagine yourself in his place-for Your
wife's sake-for the one person alive
who trusts you"
Its no use, Agnes" groaned the
man. 1.-The fellows brute. Those
men are almost here-Im too weak to
run far if try-Im gone"
''Oh, God!' the woman moaned. HAS
Heaven no mercy for the innocent?"
Zenas looked into the face before
him-a woman's upturned face, full of
agony, the moon shining SO full upon it
that its every line was visible Then
he said softly and quickly:
Eyes, madam; Heaven has mercy, as
man will show YOU" He relaxed his
hold and thrust hand into his pocket,
continuing to talk fast. ~.
"Mr. Maytham, you say you're too
weak to run far; you won't be safe in
your own house-hurry into mine
here's the key to the back door-go up
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neighborS-an experience she never had
been granted in the city. Mrs. Bortley,
born and reared in thickly settled
portion of the metropolis, believed her
husbands statement, for had not Zenas
always been a country boy until he
came to New York to make his fortune?
Had he not described to her, again and
again, the ideal society of his native
village of Grasshopper Falls, where
everybody knew everybody elsewhere
one man was as good as another so long
as he earned his living, paid his bills
and went to church on Sunday, and
where every woman was a lady if she
had black silk dress, no matter how
plain, in which to receive calls? Had
not Zenas' own mother, wife of the
bookkeeper of the local lumber COM
pany, been asked by the congressman's
wife to help entertain some distin-
guished guests from another state? And
it had been so delightful when Mrs.
Ienas had been ill or feeble, in her
little fiat in the city, to hear her hus-
band tell how in the country any man
whose wife was feeling poorly could
borrow a neighbours carriage or sleigh
and take the dear woman out for an air
ing. Mrs. Zenas never had an outing
except in horse car, for her husband,
though strong in affection and self-sac-
rifice, had but small salary and the
olive branches which were the family's
only riches always needed something
which cost about as much as carriage
for an hour or two.
So the Bortleys went to the country,
and blessed change they found it.
The children began to grow like weeds,
their mothers cheeks became fuller of
roses than the garden, and Zenas him
self, though he was obliged to break
fast early and sup late in order to make
a full day at the store in which he was
entry clerk, found his asthma disappear
ing with unexpected rapidity. His cot
tage cost less per month than city fiat;
he had little garden which, thanks to
his boyhood's experience, yielded many
vegetables which tasted better than any
he had ever bought from a grocer; the
children had swing under an old APP
pie tree and rolled in the grass to their
hearts content; the pastor of a church
called after seeing the heads of the fam
lily in his congregation, and Zenas was
invited to join the local club of his po-
litical party, and also to subscribe to a
course of lectures to be delivered in the
local academy of music during the fol-
lowing winter.
Yet Zenas was not happy. The neigh
borly utilization which he had promised
his wife did not come about. He wait
ed for it few weeks, for he was dig
nitied little fellow, and had some knowl-
edge of the manners of good society,
but when his wife reminded him that
the summer had nearly passed and no
one had called who had not some semi
business purpose, he informed himself,
with a mighty pull at all his faculties,
that something ought to be done What
most irritated him was that his next,
door neighbor, handsome woman
whose husband, so the agent of Bortley
cottage had said, would be obliged to
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be away from home for some time, had
never called. Mrs. Maytham, the lady
in question, was distinguished looking
rs well as handsome; her house was a
palace compared with the house which
ZenaS had hired, and she drove almost
daily behind a fine pair of horses. She
was good woman. too, or Zenas was
no judge of human nature, and as she
had no children the little man, who
could not imagine that anyone regard
ed boys and girls except with the adora-
ton which he bestowed upon his dar-
lings, was sure that if Mrs. Maytham
could know his brood she would in her
loneliness have an unfailing source of
consolation. AS for Mrs. Bort1ey,
Zenas' loyal soul profoundly pitied any
one and everyone who did not know
that estimable woman.
Yet the two women did not become
acquainted, Mrs. Maytham did not call,
and, when Mrs. Bortley felt hurt, her
husband suggested that perhaps the
older resident was from one of the
southern states in which calls must
first be made by newcomers upon the
old families. Mrs. Bortley acted upon
this suggestion, but was unfortunate to
select an hour when her neighbor was
out; she made supplementary effort
when her husband explained thSt coun-
try people usually became acquainted
by borrowing small necessities from
one another, but when Mrs. Bortlcy
begged the loan of a cup of ground cof-
fee one morning she saw only her neigh
boris servant, and the same result at
tended the payment of the loan. In
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Ill Il N u e n a S
Bortley moved
from the city to
a suburban viii
lage, in search
of better air for
the children and
for h is ow n
a S t h m a t j C
lungs, he told
his wife that
now she could
have the pleas
ure of knowing
her neXt-door
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NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBORS.
BY JOHN HABBERTON.

Copyright, 1890 All Rights Reserved
CHAPTER l.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-09

you set the dog on and shot full of rock
salt? Just thought I'd drop in on the
old town and see how things look"
And then you planned to pay off the
mortgage on Jones' farm, leave money
for a new library, buy uniforms for the
"'Umpah, Umpah Cornet Band" and
slather money around like prince.
Plenty of men have had those dreams.
Few can carry them out. Mr.. Schwab
could; and, as dramatic as you please,
he planked down $4,000 of good Steel
Trust money in payment of the Bald
wins he stole many years ago. Every
man who has wanted to go back and
make good" will envy Mr.. Schwab
the sensation and the pleasure he got
out Of the gift.
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made at the Oxygen hospital, London.
The gas is used for the cure of quite
a number of diseases. A woman was
disease, and one Of her arms had for
many days been placed in a light air.
tight box filed with the gas. It was
soon noticed that on that part of the
arm that was unaffected by the dis
ease the growth of hair was much
stimulated; and this naturally suggest
ed oxygen as a cure for badness.
The first experiment was made upon
a woman who had completely lost her
hair, and it was found that after few
weeks treatment there was quite a
strong growth. The gas is used in a
very similar manner, hollow flexible
cup being placed over the head This
is connected by means of an india rub
Der tube to a small gas bag, and is
worn day after day until cure is af-
fected.
But by far the greatest service that
oxygen is to perform is in the cure of
consumption. The patients inhale the
gas for 10 hours every day and find
almost immediate relief. The germs
Of the disease cannot exist in oxygen
alone, though in common air they
multiply rapidly. This is, at present,
the only weak point of the system, for
it is found that in practice the patient
loses during the night almost all tho
benefit that he has derived from the
inhalation of oxygen during the day.
But this objection is to be swept away
when a new laboratory has been built
where consumptives will be made to
breathe the gas day and night until
cure has been affected.
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English Tongues Supremacy.

Two thirds of all the letters which
pass through the post offices Of the
world are written by and sent to peo-
pie who speak English, says Brad
streets. There are substantially $780,
100000 persons speaking colloquially
one or other of the ten or twelve chief
modern languages, and of these abont
% per cent, or 125,000,000 persons,
speak English. About 100000 speak
Russian, 100000 German, 100000
French, 100000 Spanish, 35,0OO,0O0
Italian, and 100000 Portuguese, and
the balance Hungarian, Dutch, Polish,
Flemish, Bohemian, Gaelic, Rouma-
nian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and
Norwegian. Thus, while only one-quar-
ter of those who employ the facilities
of the postal departments of civilized
governments speak as their native
tongue English, two-thirds of those who
correspond do so In the English Ian
guage. There are, for instance, more
than 10000 post offices in India, the
business of which in letters and papers
aggregates more than 300,0O0,0O0
year, and the business Of these Offices
is done chiefly in English, though of
Indias total population, which is nearly
300,O00,000, fewer than 100000 persons
either speak or understand English.
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Living walking Sticks

Quite the largest of all the ~
sticks" as insects Of a certal
that initiate twigs are called j
found in Brazil. 1t coTnterfes
tie branch quite wonderfully
the joints.
Of course, the object Of n&
making these creatures so like "
to enable them to conceal tne
from their enemies, such as bI1
have no other means Of defer
If they were conspicuous the!
very quickly be gobbled up.
The walking sticks" vary o
ably in appearance, always coa5
ing the twigs of the kind Of
which they happen to live. h
knots and the bark are COPIED
rately that it is almost tmpoS
distinguish the creatures, even
looking for them.
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sacre were untrue. He also declared
that he could get a message through
from Secretary Hay to Minister Con-
ger in Pekin. Hay, however, had little
confidence in Wu's representations, but
finally gave the Chinese minister a
cipher message to Minister Conger
which nobody else in China could un-
derstand or answer. It was placed
in Minister Conger's hands In besieged
Pekin, and when the reply reached
Secretary Hay in Washington the CIV
ilized world learned Tor the first time
that the legations in Pekin still were
intact, and that they yet could be
saved. Then 1t was that General Chat
fee led the march to Pekin under or
ders from Washington relieved the le-
cations and saved the lives of all the
foreigners there.
This action, however, though 1t was
Of inestimable aid to the civilized
world, made bitter enemies for Minis
ter WI In China This fact gives much
weight to the report that Minister WI
may not return to China, but will re-
main in this country and practice law.
He will not however, make known his
intentions at present and all reports of
that nature are without foundation.
WI Ting Fang has unquestionab1v
raised the Chinese embassy at Wash
ington to high diplomatic and social
plane, in that respect having far sur
passed all his predecessors. He is a
witty and entertaining public speaker
and also established a high reputation
as an after-dinner talker His loss viii
be serious one to the diplomatic corps
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-09

Prophecies of gypsies, astrologers and
other readers of the future, foretelling
the calamity that recently befel King
Edward, are being resurrected, or man.
ufactured after the event, and present
ed TO the credulous with becoming
gravity. These pretended prophecies
are reminders Of the pagan past, when
the gods took an intimate and respect
full interest in the fate Of kings. Por-
tents were seen in the skies warning
men that something dire was about to
happen to his Majesty, and when he
died earthquakes and storms testified
to the sympathy Of nature with an
event SO tremendous. Those were the
days when king was king, and very
few had any doubt Of his divine ap-
pointment to Office. Now only the sort
of minds capable Of crediting gypsy
prophets can look upon monarchy as a
heavenly institution. Peoples no longer
exist for their kings, but kings for their
peoples. The old-fashioned despot is
the dodo Of politics. Respecting those
yestigial remnants Of the superstitious
past, the prophets, 1t is OBVIOUS that
their self-denial Is even more wonder
full than their powers. 1t perhaps has
not occurred to those who still take
them seriously that if there existed
class Of men capable of foretelling the
date Of a kings death months or years
in advance Of it's occurrence little
things like the outcome of horse races
and the ups and downs of the stock
market would be as clear as print to
them. In that case, Of course, they
would soon own the wealth Of the
earth. But as prophets-gypsies as
trologers, clairvoyants and the rest
are never billionaires, it follows either
that they are frauds or the most I'M
selfish beings in q generally selfish
world.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-09
Russian Kettle Bridges.

Perhaps the most remarkable bridges
in the world are the kettle bridges, of
which COssack soldiers are expert
builders. The materials of which they
are constructed are the soldiers lances
and cooking kettles. Seven or eight
lances are passed under the handles of
number of kettles and fastened by
means of ropes to form raft. A sufi-
eient number of these RATS, each of
which will bear weight Of half ton.
are fastened together, and in the space
OF an hour bridge is formed on which
any army may cross with confidence
and safety.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-09

On a day early in June Of this yeer
man named Hawkins committed q
crime at Marysyille, Mo-, and then
tried to run away from it. Hawkins
was a real estate dealer, and left the
town because he had forged paper to
the amount of $4,000. When he left
Marysville, Hawkins was a fine-loek-
ing, middle-aged gentleman, with hair
slightly tinged with gray. At the end
of two weeks he came back white
haired, broken-bodied old man. In the
interval the man had wandered from
place to place pursued by the hourly
fear that he would be tracked by
bloodhounds. The fear deepened into
an overmastering terror. He hid him
self in the woods. Finally the fear be-
came unbearable. He returned to
Marysville and gave himself up. Tween
ty years, he said, had been added to his
life in less than twenty days. He well
coined the penitentiary as a blessed re-
lief. It is the old story. In seeking to
dodge a financial trouble he took upon
his shoulders a greater one. The new
trouble was so heavy that a prison
seemed a heaven of rest after the hell
into which he had plunged. When will
menlearn that Justice is never cheated?
That every crime brings it's penalty,
soon or late? When will men learn they
are not smarter than fate? There are
other bloodhounds than those Of flesh
and blood that pursue the man who
breaks the law. The bloodhounds Of
conscience will ever bay deep-mouthed
to the soul that sinneth. whatsoever
man soweth, that also shall he reap"
That is the inevitable law. If man
sows to the flesh he shall of the flesh
reap corruption. And he will reap more
than he sows. The law Of increase
holds in the DEVILS domain as it does
in the fields of God.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-09
RECALL OF WI TING FANG.

Chinese Minister to the United States
Leaves Washington.
The recall Of WI Ting Fang, CHI
aese minister to the United States, has
occasioned sincere regret throughout
official circles in Washington. The loss
Of Minister WI and the appointment
Of his successor have been anticipated
in Washington for some time. Some
time ago Mr. WI was selected to as
sist In the Qualifications Of the laws Of
China, and since then it has been
known that it was only a question Of
time till he would leave. Besides be-
ing an accomplished diplomat, Mr.. WI
is a lawyer Of ability and was chosen
for the important work because of his
special fitness for such duty.
Minister WI has long been one of the
most popular diplomats at the national
capital. During the dark days of the
Boxer Instruction in China he became
especially prominent. His diplomacy
at that time marked him as the friend
not only Of this country, but Of the civ
ilized world 1t was he who persuaded
Secretary Hay to believe that the min
listers In the foreign legation at Pekin
had not been massacred, while nearly
all the world believed otherwise He
repeatedly assured Secretary Hay that
he had received authentic messages
which convinced him that the reports
which had reached London Of the mas
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disastrous Franco-Prussian War was

disastrous Franco-Prussan War was
also characterized by one of the great
est catastropnes which has ever be-
fallen any community of this country.
That was the year of the great Chicago
fire, which in the short space of 80
hours made more than half a million
persons homeless and destitute. The
Chamber of Commerce met the occa-
sion with such energy that it succeed
ed in raising 81 ,O44, 751.
In 1889 the chamber contributed $780,
900 to the famine sufferers in northern
China; it sent $4,000 to famine suffer
ers in Russia, in 1862; it gave $4,000
in 1895, to the victims Of Mohammed-
an oppression In Armenia; two years
later it's contribution to other Moslem
victims in Crete was $4,000; in 1897
1t sent 100000 to Cuba.
In our domestic calamities it has
been prompt and generous in it's phil
anthropy. It gave $4,000, in 1878,
for the relief Of the sufferers by the
yellow fever in the southwest; in 1879
it sent $4,000 to yellow fever suffer
ers in Memphis; it gave 100000 to the
Johnstown food sufferers and S121 900
to the surviving victims Of the Calves
ton calamity. Altogether the total of
its benefactions amounts to a round
S3,O0O,OO0-a tangible proof that the
brotherhood Of man is more than a
glittering term.