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ITO Be Continued
HAD PUT 1T TO PROOF.
Samuel Had Travelled Enough to be-
come Convinced of the FIatness
of the Earth.

Most of the men who went west in
1S49 were from the north. There
were, however, a few southerners,
among them Baltimore family who
took along an old slave, Samuel JEFF
ferson. Samuel was a patient trav-
eler on the long journey across the
plains, but very skeptical about the
success of his masters expedition. 1t
was not until his master became one
of the gold kings of California that
Samuel stopped shaking his head in
silent protest, relates Youths Com
panion.
Samuel lived to good old age, and
after the war was the special at
tendant of his masters children. One
day Hugh, the youngest son, was ex-
planning to Samuel the spherical
shape of the earth.
"If you should go straight ahead
far enough, you'd come right around
to where you started from"
Now look heah, chile, yo' cyan
mex me b'lieve dat. ain helped yo'
daddy tote his things all de way out
heah FIN Baltimo' FIR muffin. If what
yo' tells me was true, we'd "a come
back to Ma'ylan' about fo' times. 1
knows FIN 'sperience, honey, drivin'
cross dem plains, dat de worl' am
fiat out-fatter'n hoecake, clean till
yo' bump inter de ocean"
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Its a miracle" he said, giving her
full credit. "I'd like to know how
you did it,"
She laughed lightly and did not
deny her handiwork. "It was simple
enough. When we came here 7
found a lot of good people who had
fallen into way of boring one An
other, and few who hadn't; but
these last held aloof. We opened our
house to the many and tried to show
them that church sociable wasn't
exactly the acme of social enjoy
ment."
Griswold saw in his minds eve q
sharply etched picture of the rise of
a village magnate. Verify, Miss
Grierson had Imagination.
''It is all very grateful and delight
full to me-" he said. 81 have been
out of the social running for long
time, but 1 must confess that am
shamelessly epicurean by nature, and
only an ascetic of necessity"
81 know" she assented, with quick
appreciation. "An author has to be
both, hasn't he?-keen to enjoy and
hardened to endure"
I'm not an author" he corrected,
with vanity struggling to muzzle the
protest. II have written but one
book, and that has not yet seen the
light"
"But it WILL" she asserted, con-
fidently. "Tell me about it,"
Now, Griswold was no babbler, but
the charm of her personality was
upon him, and before he knew what
he was about he was telling her OF
the dead book, its purpose and it's
failure.
But you are not going to give 1t
up" she said, when he had made an end.
mo; it's my message, and 1 shall
yet deliver it."
bravo! That is the spirit that
wins always. And when you get
blue and discouraged, you must come
here and let me cheer you. Cheer
ing people is my mission, if l have
any"
ITO Be Continued
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Didn't Recognize Bible Quotation.

In spite of the strenuous efforts of
Prof. Kittridge, it would seem that
Harvard undergraduates still remain
ignorant of the Scriptures. Some one
once said: "A Harvard man knows all
literature but the Bible"-a startling
ly sweeping generality, but not with
out truth so far as the Bible is con-
cerned. A case in point came to light
the other day. Two Harvard men
were reading together some famous
modern orations, one of them eulogy.
The eulogy closed with the words: 20
death, where is thy sting? o grave,
where is thy victory?"
what beautiful closet" exclaimed
one of the students, enthusiastically.
"The man who wrote such a sentence
as that proves that the grand style in
prose did not die with the eighteenth
century"
1t should be added in fairness that
the other student was a churchman,
and said nothing.-N. Y. Tribune.
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A KnaVe Of
Con science
BY FRANCIS LYNDE.
Copyright 1900, by Francis Lynde.)
CHAPTER XIv.-CoNT1NUEp.

CHAI Eh hAlN.-IONTINUED.
Mrs. Raymer smiled. "The mere
fact of her having said such thing
to you ought to be a sufficient an
gwer, | should think"
81 don't see why" Raymer OBJ
5ected.
What would you think if Gertrude
did such thing?"
ooh, well; that is different. In the
first place Gerty wouldn't do it,;
and"
Precisely. And Miss Grierson
shouldn't have done it. But if you
really want to know why we haven't
cultivated her l can tell you. There
are a few of us who think she
wouldn't be a pleasant person to
know socially"
But why?" insisted the obtus-
one. 1t was his sister who under
took to make it plain to him.
at isn't anything she does, or
doesn't do, particularly; it is the
atmosphere in which she moves. If
1T wasn't for her fathers money she
would be-well, it is rather hard to
say just what she would be. But
she always makes one think of the
bonanza people-the pick and shovel
one day and a million the next. I
believe she is a frank little savage
at heart"
IL don't" said Raymer, doggedly.
~She may be a bit new and fresh for
Wahaska, but she is clever and
bright, and honest enough to ignore
= social code which makes q virtue
of hypocrisy. There isn't one young
woman in a thousand who would
Nave had the courage to do it."
'Or the impudence," added Mrs.
Raymer, when her son had left the
room. 81 do hope Edward isn't 60
ing to let that girl come between
him and Charlotte"
Gertrude laughed. 81 should say
there was room for a regiment to
march between them as it is. Char
zlotte has been home a week now,
and he hasn't been over yet"
But he is going over to dinner
with us tomorrow" amended Mrs.
Raymer, complacently. HE prom
ised me yesterday"
Gertrude was arranging the center
piece for the dinner table, and when
she spoke again it was of another
matter.
"Did you know Mrs. Holcomb has
FOUND a boarder at last?"
"No; who is hep"
"a young man who has been sick
at the st. James for two or three
weeks. He is from New York, be-
Iieve she said; but she didn't have
time to find out much about him.
He had relapse last night; and to-
day, when she sent for DR.. Farnham,
ae was delirious."
Dear me! That will be hard for
Martha. What is his name?"
Kenneth Griswold. She says he
is an author, but l don't recall the
name in any of our reading"
"Nor l." said Mrs. Raymer. "Poor
Martha! We must go over and see
If there is anything we can do"
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CHAPTER XVII.

On the way to Miss Grierson's
evening" Griswold amused himself
by speculating upon the probable
barbarism of a country reception
Without suspecting it, he was insu-
lar to a degree little short OF
Britannia; but he meant to be very
good-natured and charitable, and to
do what one man might toward
ameliorating the barbarisms.
Wherefore he was properly humili-
ated when they were met at the door
of the Grierson mansion by trained
servants and announced in the draw
ing-room with such pomp and cir
cumstance as was neither countri-
fled nor barbaric. In good truth the
revulsion was so great that it was
he and not Miss Grierson who was
embarrassed when Raymer intro
duced him.
How good of you to come to us
on your first day out, Mr.. Griswold
Let me make you comfortable" She
piled the cushions in corner of the
wide divan and made him sit down
"You are just to be an invalid this
evening, you know. I'm not going
to let anyone bore you.
Griswold gasped once OF twice, and
grappled manfully with the facts. A
young girl was at the piano; there
was a pleasant hum of conversation;
everybody, himself excepted, seemed
quite at ease; the lights were not
glaring; the furnishings were not in
bad taste; in word, the keynote
was altogether well-mannered and
urban and conventional.
And his hostess. Griswold had
met beautiful women, but none to
compare with her. She shone upon
and dazzled him. The charm was
purely sensuous, and he knew it, but
he basked in it like a lizard in the
sun. But he was forgetting to thank
her.
Forgive me, Miss Grierson; I'm
not usually tongue-tied. But it is all
so charmingly homelike; so vastly
She supplied the word with sill
very little laugh.
Different. | know. You thought
we were barbarians, and so we used
to be. But we're improving. l wish
you could have known the old Wa.
haska."
81 can imagine it," he said.
81 wonder if you can. They used
to sit around the edges of the room
and behave themselves just as hard
as they could, and bore each other
to death"
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CHAPTER XIV.


When Margery entered her IA
theirs private Office after her small
triumph at Raymer's expense, her
plan of campaign had taken a more
definite shape. The president was
busy at his desk, but he turned to
say: want to see me, Maggie p"
And when she nodded, he reached for
his check-book.
mo, it isn't money this time. Has
Mr.. Raymer an account with you?"
"Yes."
ais it an accommodation to you?"
Grierson's laugh was of contempt.
Hardly. The shoes on the other
foot"
"You mean that he has borrowed
from you?"
"Not yet, but he wants to-"
"What for?"
"To enlarge his plant. He's like
all the other fools; amt content to
grow with his capital"
"Are you going to stake him?"
Aargery waged relentless war with
her inclination to lapse into the
speech of the mining camps, but she
still stumbled now and then.
81 guess not; I've never had much
use for him"
"Why haven't you?"
"Oh, l don't know; it's a stand
off. He hasn't much use for me. /
offered to incorporate his outfit for
him six months ago, and told him
I'd take 81 per cent. of the stock my
self; but he wouldn't talk about it."
Margery's laugh might have meant
anything from applause to derision
Glow singular! But now he is
willing to let you help him?"
Not that way. He wants to bor-
row money of the bank and give a
mortgage on the plant. It's safe
enough, but / don't believe I'll do it,"
But 7 waat yCu to do it."
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the inevitable, allowing himself to
be put to bed in his room at the
st. James, with hot water bottles at
his feet and bag of chopped ice on
his head.
For a fortnight he hung tremulous
on the verge of collapse, and was
kept from tumbling in only by just
horror of being seriously ill in a
hotel. At the end of the fortnight
he made shift to go out and find a
boarding place; and the effort, cou-
pied with the conviction that he
might safely trust himself in the
hands of motherly Mrs. Holcomb,
pushed him over the verge.
Here DR.. Farnham found him toss
ing in delirium, and his verdict was
promptly pronounced.
"Typhoidmalaria, Mrs. Holcomb;
and a relapse, at that. What are
you going to do with him?"
"What should l do but take care
of him?" said the motherly one.
"You can't do it alone; it's no
wonan's job"
"Then we must get man. There's
Sven Oleson; he's out of work."
The doctor smiled. "Nobody but
you would ever think of making a
nurse out of that great, overgrown
child. But maybe he'll do. I'll hunt
him up and send him over. Where
did you say this young man halls
from?"
New York, he says"
"Humph! that's odd. I should say
he has been soaking himself full of
malaria in the YaZoo swamps. But
how about the expenses? Has he
any money!"
"Plenty, l think. He paid month
in advance, and when he went to bed
he told me where to find his pocket
book"
"Poor fellow! I guess he was glad
enough to find somebody he could
trust. Well, wen do what we can
for him, and I'll send Sven"
So it came about that the mild
eyed Swede was installed as Girls
wold's nurse. Luckily Oleson under
stood but little English, and the sick
mans rawlings about the bank rob-
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"The dickens you do! Say, little
girl, do you know you're carrying
things with pretty high hand?"
az haven't made you lose any
money yet, have II"
mo, guess not"
"Well, I'm not going to begin now.
Lend him what he wants; you say
the security is good"
"I'll be hanged if 1 can see what
you're driving at"
"You don't have to see," she said,
imperturbably But l don't mind
telling you. His mother and sister
have gone out of their way to put
me down."
Grierson's laugh was a guffaw.
"That won't work a little bit,
Maggie"
"Why won't it?"
because he amt the man to go to
his women when he gets into trou-
BILE. They'll go on blutfing you just
the same"
She looked at him through mar
rowing eyelids. "You know a good
deal, poppa mine, but you don't
know everything. Mr.. Raymer's in
terest in the iron works is only one
fourth. The other three-fourths be-
long to Mrs. Raymer and Gertrude" !"
The magnate nodded intelligence,
and made memorandum. 81 savez;
I'll break the syndicate for you"
"You will do nothing of the kind.
You'll let Mr.. Raymer get into deep
water, and then, when l say the
word, you'll pull him out"
"The mischief l will! Do you
know how much he wants to bor-
row?'
mo, and I don't care. The more
the better"
Jasper Grierson thought about it
for a moment. Then he made a
check-mark against the memoran-
dunn on the calendar pad.
"All right; go. ahead, but you'll
have to keep tab yourself, and say
when. I can't be bothered keeping
the run of your society tea parties" ;"
II don't want you to. Don't be
late to dinner tonight. The Rod
neys are coming"
When she was gone Jasper Grier-
son tilted back in the pivot-chair and
lighted a cigar. After a bit his re-
Elections found voice.
by jing! l believe she thought
she was fooling me! But it's too
thin. / suppose she does want to
make the women kowtow, but that
isn't all there is to it, by n jugful.
All the same, I'll back her to win"
Accordingly, when Mr.. Edward
Raymer came out of the bankers Of
flee the next morning he was tread
ing upon air, and in his minds eye
there was a picture of great in
dustry to be builded upon the ex-
tension of credit promised by Jasper
Grierson.
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berry meant nothing to him; but DR..
Farnham heard them and wondered
Curiously enough a small thing salts
fed the wonder, and that was the
mention made by Mrs. Holcomb of
his patients calling.
"H-m; an author, is he? That
accounts for his harping so contin-
ually upon that bank robbery story.
It's part of his plot"
1t was the first of May when Girls
void took possession of Mrs. Hol-
combs spare bedroom; and it was
full month later when DIR. Farm
ham pronounced him out of danger
and in fair way to recover if he
took care of himself.
During the weeks of convalescence
he met many of Mrs. Holcomb's
friends and neighbors, and among
them the Raymers. The mother
and daughter came with dainties for
the widows invalid; and later on
they brought Edward, who was book
ish enough in his leisure moments
to be interested in one who was even
a potential writer of books.
That acquaintance ripened into
friendship, and Griswold's first out
ing was ride in Raymer's buggy to
the iron works.
Here the two young men met upon
new common ground. Raymer was,
or he meant to be, a model employ
er; and when he found that the con-
valescent was an enthusiastic stu
dent of the vexed problem of mas
ter and man, he unbosomed himself
freely.
'I've been enlarging, as you see,"
he explained. "But when 1 get on
my feet and out of debt I'm going
to try a plan my father had in mind
-profit-sharing with the men,"
"Good," said Griswold. 81 wish I
might be in it with you. I'd like to
fail that out with you when I'm fit"
$50 you shall, but not yet" They
were on the way back to Mrs. Hol-
combs, and Raymer asked if the
drive had tired him.
"No indeed; L feel better for it."
Are you equal to an evening out p"
81 guess so, if it's sufficiently
mild"
It'll be mild enough. You know
we have a magnate here, Mr.. Jasper
Grierson?"
'Yes, I've heard of him."
'Well, he has a daughter, and this
is her evening I'm commanded to
produce you as soon as you're able"
'I'll go, though 1 shan't know any
one but your mother and Miss Ger
trude."
Raymer laughed, and then blushed.
"They won't be there. That is
Oh pshaw! / suppose I may as well
tell you first as last. There are two
social cliques here, a big one and
little one. Miss Grierson is la dame
d'honneur of the first, and my moth
er and Gertrude affiliate with the
other"
II see," said Griswold. "And you
hold an even balance between the
two"
"N-o-not exactly. But I'm under
obligations to Grierson, and can't af-
ford to be offish. But Miss Margery
is very clever little person, and we'll
worth knowing on her own account.
I'll call by for you with the buggy
at nine"
THANK you," said the GONZALES
cent; adding. as if it were an after
thought: "Will Miss Farnham be
there?"
Hardly" rejoined Raymer, gather
ing up the reins. "She is with the
minority, too. Queer little world,
isn't it? So long, till this evening.
Better go in and lie down awhile"
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Helping Papa Along

"Yes, 1 was engaged IA times dur.
ing the summer"
THE usual brittle affairs, I sup
pose?'
"Well, not exactly. Papa's going to
hold each of them to his plighted
word, one after the other, and guess
he'll make a pretty good thing out of
it. He said last summer that it paid to
be a damaged affection lawyer when
a man had such clever daughter to
drum up business" s."-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
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EpItaph of a Good Indian.

On a quantity contrived tombstone
in st. Augustine, Fla, is the following
unique epitaph, carved many years
ago:
Motifs
This Very Elaborate
Is Ereckted in Memory of
Tolomato
A Seminole Ingine Cheef whose wig
warm stood on this spot and sir.
roundirgs. Wee cherish his men,
cry as he was a good harted cheef.
He would knot take your scalp
without you begged him to do so or
pade him sum mummy. He always
akted more like a Christian gentle
man than a savage Ingine.
Let Him
r. /. p.
Chicago Chronicle.
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THE DAY OF THE SPECIALIST.

For each of us some task is planned
Some thing there is that you
May do more perfectly thanI
And far more deftly. too;
sOne doctor treats the ears or eyes.
And one the dreaded knife applies
Each has his work to do.
IT'S one mans lot to drive the OK
Along the winding trail;
The scholar might attempt to take
The drivers place and fail:
One paints, thus cheating wind and sun,
One lays the plaster on and one
Drives home the slender nall.
know one who has never put
The world much in his debt:
No art, no science e'er has been
Adorned by him asyet;
You might conclude, perhaps, that he
Excelled In naught, but you should see
Him roll a cigarette.
S. E Kiser, in Chicago Record Herald.
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"How do you feel?" asked the physi-
clan of the parson.
81 feel for-giving," replied the good
man.
"And you?" he asked the auctioneer.
GAS usual; for-bidding," answered
the red-fag follower.
"And you" queried the NJ. d. of the
Kentucky colonel.
"Oh, you know me, doc" replied the
Kentuckian. I'm always forget
full. l."-Chicago Daily News.
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CHAPTER XVI.

Griswold had landed in Wahaska
on the day following his fight from
st. Louis, too ill to care much about
anything. But he was sane enough
to find a bank, to rent safety de-
posit box and to lock the treasure
into it before he resigned himself to
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Asllal Chin, in Thibet, is the lake
which lies at greater height thar
any other in the world. Its level ID
10000 feet The lowest is the Dead
sea, 1,2OO feet below sea leyel.--Geo,
graphical Journal,
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Desoo the dcoverer of the Mississippi followed the
on May 3 1880 and began his march westward He treated the
mile in his He first the great from the bluffs
marched westward almost to the foothills of the
then returned the Mississippi, he died
buried the of the he had discovered
of expedition
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In-to-Dmte Refnrm

Crawford hear your minister is
taking an interest in public affairs
What is his partic dlar hobby?
Crabshaw-He Is trying to inven,
a system of wireless politics.-N. Y
Sun.
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the books of the issuing post Office
and any three of the four may be
destroyed and the government has still
something from which to recognize
its liability.
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If you had taken two of Carriers Little
Liver Pills before retiring you would not
have had that coated tongue or bad taste
in the mouth this morning. Keep a vial
with you for occasional use.
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CHAPTER XIII.
The MESSAGE.

To Will Law, as he turned away from
the prison gate upon the errand assigned
to him, the vast and shapeless shadows
of the night-covered city took the form
Of appalling monsters, relentless, remorse-
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the letter still fast within her hand. Will
Law had not time to ask it's contents.

"There Is need of haste" said she.
James, have up the calash at once. Mr..
Law, I crave your excuse for time. In
a moment I shall be ready to go with
you.'
In two minutes she was sobbing alone,
her face down upon the bed. In five, she
was at the door, dressed, cloaked, smiling
sweetly and ready for the journey. And
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thus it was that, Of two women who loved
John Law, that one Jared on to see him
for whom he had not sent.
(To be continued to-morrow.)
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Change Of Time on the Hastings & Da-
kota Division of the Milwaukee Road.

Commencing Sunday, Oct 10, the even
ing train on the c., M. & st. P. Ry. for
Granite Falls, Appleton, Montevideo, Or
tonville, Fargo, Milbank and Aberdeen
will leave at 700 p. m. instead Of 1888
%, M, as now. Don't get left.