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pocket small shirt stud of unique de-
sign and handed it to Mrs. Hamilton.
II found it on the desk just as it
would have fallen if it had become
loosened from hisSshirt 'front.'
"Oh. Tony! What does it meant"
cried Mrs. Hamilton, with white lips.
What can it meant It is his I gave
him the set myself, and had them
marked with his initials See, this
is "" "
81 noticed it, said Tony, quietly,
land was sure it was his. Now,
how did it. happen to be on his desk
this morning, unless it dropped out
last night?"
Perhaps it has laid there, unno-
ticed, since he went away. . So.
Impossible. I have busted and put
everything in order daily.
Tony's habits of order were incon-
trovertible. Cannot you recoHect
whether he spoke Of missing one be-
fore he went away, Mrs. Hamilton %
No, he said nothing about missing
one.''
Then you will find that am right, .
said Tony. MIR. Hamilton was at the
bank last night about 8 o'clock. He
must have been detained somewhere,
You may expect to see him coming
up the street any moment" he con-
cluded, reassuringly, for he saw that
she was terribly shaken.
II hope you are right, but have
felt worried ever since he went away y
"Oh, he's all right, sound as trump.
/ wouldn't worry, if I were YOU" and
Tony went down the stairs, but paused
to ask, Shall I go around to the mill
and ask Mr.. Carter if he has seen any
thing Of him?"
Yes, please do, and ask Uncle Car
ter to come UP to see me, If Vane
isn't there
"All right and he turned away
81 wish everything were all right, but
I'm afraid it isn't he muttered.
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FORGOT IT WAS HORsELEss
New York Tribune.

The horsemen of this city who have
not yet surrendered to the automo-
bile's wiles are laughing heartily at
the mishap which overlook one Of
their number whose affection for the
equine flyers did not prove so ada
mantine. He purchased an expensive
electric runabout, and. altho an ardent
horseman, became much interested in
manipulating his new toy. It took
him several days to get over that
gone feeling which attacked him
whenever he looked over the DASH
board and saw only the road in front,
but he hoped in time to forget the
absence Of the accustomed horse It
was this forgetfulness which caused
the trouble.
He took a pleasant little spin one
night last week and returned along
familiar roads. The automobile ran
with smoothness, and his mind was
untroubled. He swung up the wagon
road, saw the barn doors standing
wide open, and with the machine at
the third power rolled swiftly over
the threshold. AS the wheels touched
the floor he tossed his hand off the
steering bar and shouted in his old
! time voice:
"Whoa!"
When he dared look, he found that
the machine had bucked it's way thru
a thin partition between the carriage
floor and the stalls, and was trying to
eat hay out of the feedbox His friends
declare that his second of forgetful-
ness cost him $500.
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whereas, it is the belief of each
and every citizen of the said town OF
Fairstake that some great misfortune
has befallen the said honored and es-
teemed Hankodorous Barlow; now,
therefore, be it
"Resolved, That a committee of
three law-abiding citizens, consisting
Of Parson Hiram Merriwell. Deacon
Calvin Pennybaker and Doc Jorgan,
shall proceed in the most orderly and
friendly manner to the house of the
said honored and esteemed Hanko-
dorous Barlow and ascertain by the
most gentle and polite interrogating
the true cause of the city's sad be-
reavement, and report the same to the
citizens in waiting.
Vested with the aforementioned
paragraphs of official authority and
an elegant suffciency of sBuck-ague,
the committee humbly approached the
house of the honored and esteemed
citizen. Hank was found seated upon
the back steps with his face between
his hands and a sad, far-away ex-
preston in his eyes. He was a
changed man.
After an exchange of hellos, Parson
Merriwell gently placed his hand upon
| the shoulder Of the honored and ,es-
the shoulder Of the honored
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institutions
prove
the and countless throng Of other leaders Of the han
against the claim that stalks the heels Of that
untrammeed
with but with
ow power
The family a a
therefore
than his brethren
married. and other security could
plus earnings with certain knowledge
shea
portion my pay said to me one day nd
enjoy
For the mortgage
married."
I'm not" he replied
He had hit philosophy
nu na a see e S nab nn an orosR girl poverty
You it on card.
a man. married"
Now that mprovident badly
"narred' single as welded Marriage
The who is married something
competence to insure the
incentive of
the holiest
economy
pise and
every invention the world has ever known
lays his weekly anwance
happiness Weibsng Of hose
which he had bent
not make good hanciers Marriage by
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CHAPTER H.-Continued.
A Green Haired Woman.


IF it hadn't "a been for your folks"
she said to Constance, Billy m Ben
m Jim might "a ben poor, shiftless
creeters like their father; they might
"a drinked up all their earnin's, same's
he did. Billy did git at it once, but
of i'm an talked i'm out ont. Wall,
j can't never do enough for your
folks, Miss Hamilton; and your man,
too, has been turrible good to me an
mine. I sha'n't never forgit it,
And she never did. She had washed
and ironed Constances frills and rifles
when a girl, and she now did the same
for Glare, tho, as she said, she done
for three mill boarders besides her
J own sons, and occasionally helped in
the hotel laundry
With her improved circumstances,
Mrs. F'ryd cultivateda lisp in her speech
as the most available step toward the
gentility which her soul craved, for
she was active and enterprising in
mind as well as body. She was sin
gularly successful, and the result was
one of supreme satisfaction to herself
if surprise to her former pat
rons. s., Still. as the lisp appeared
bonnet and stiff black silk
dress, 1t did not much matter
except to the good lady herself; and as
she may not don her silk dress at all
In these annals the lisp shall not be
thrust upon the reader. She brought
to Mrs. Hamilton a basket of freshly
ironed muslins the day after Mr.. Ham
ilton's departure, and Immediately
launched forth in description of
the green haired woman.
"The queerest sight! tho there's no
denyin' she's dreadful pretty woman.
4 / never see the like, but Mis- Maloney
says she did once. Twas when she
came over In the immigrant vessel
That one was Irish. Mis- Maloney said
twas good luck to have such hair,
they thought, and the other women
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held up their babies to touch 1t SOS
to be successful in life. Wors'n the
blarney-stone, that is, an so 7 told
Mis- MaIoney.''
IT cannot see how a woman with
green hair can be pretty, said Mrs.
Hamilton.
"You would the moment you saw
her. But you can ask Me. Hamilton.
He saw her and knew her, too, I
guess
Are you sure?"
was a comm to the laundry an he a
comm down the street to take the
train. You here?' she says. You
are mistaken, says he. oh, yes, she
says, I didn't think an she looked
round at me. Mr.. Hamilton looked at
her pretty close, as if sort Of thinkin'
spoke again, but what it was he said
I didn't hear, because of course,
'twa'n't none of my business. Be
sides, he spoke too low
Probably she was insane
mo, / guess not. She seemed kinder
troubled, tho, and folks in trouble al
Or thelse she knew him. Whichever
twas, she was a nice, modest woman,
an a dreadful pretty one
What; Mrs. Fry teld her was but
little more than Constance had already
heard, but it gave her much to think
about for several days, indeed, until a
week had passed. But at the end of
that time an incident occurred which
surprised and alarmed her not little.
One morning, hearing the door bell
ring, Mrs. Hamilton opened it herself,
lilly being busy, and was surprised to
see Tony Osborn standing there, idly
Ticking the dust from his boot with q
small cane.
"Ah, good morning, Mrs. Hamilton
jolly weather. isn't it?''
Very pleasant. Will you come in
Tony? ?"
Thanks, no. just want to see
j Mr.. Hamilton"
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bank? BY George! hope nothing
happened to him after he left it..
Locked all right" looking at Tony.
Yes, sir. Mr.. Hamilton has keys
of his own
.Mr. Carter, your niece would like
to have you step up to the house
Worried, hey! Well, Henderson,
you just fix that mater as we talked.
It seems we must get along without
Vane a while longer. I hope moth
ing has happened to him, as you say.
I'll just go up to see Constance. If
we only knew the nature of his bust
ness away, or his Whereabouts, but we
DON'T; and with a worried air Mr..
Carter followed Tony.
Constance was greatly excited when
he reached the house.
ooh, uncle, something dreadful has
happened to Vane!'' she exclaimed, as
soon as she saw him.
ooh, no, Constance, guess not. I
guess he had business at the bank,
something connected with the deposit
vault in Boston. He may have been
hurried, and didn't want to alarm
you"
'tBut after he had spoken to Tony.
uncle, he must have known I should
worry
eyes, so you would. vane ought to
have thought Of that, but men are in
considerate. Very inconsiderate men
are, my dear
'svane isn't. He would know I
should worry. am, sure something
has happened to him.
Cant you write anywhere to find
out?''
"He gave me an address in Boston.
the same always write to when he is
away. but it amounts to but little
| S. by r? IS
BECAUSE, as sVane explained he
might be miles away, tho in the
course of ,asweek a letter. so addressed
was pretty sure to reach him. ~
"At all events. it will do no harm
| to write"
IT will, at once: but he ought to be
home in a week, now, whether he
was at the bank last night or not.
- Eyes, he should. Let's see; you got
Ia letter from him slast~Meelk ~ ~
mo, and he usually writes from
Boston the day after he arrives
..And you have heard nothing since
he went away?"
Nothing. I wondered at it, for /
usually receive a line from him at
least four times in the two weeks he
| is absent
Constance, has it never struck you
as a strange matter that he should go
away alone every year In May and stay
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All of which went to prove that some
thing powerful was ailing Hank.
After debating the question at great
length it was resolved that:
Whereas, it has come to be known
to the citizens of the town Of Fair
stake, in the County Of Yuma, in the
Territory Of Arizona, that their hon
ored and esteemed fellow citizen,
Hankodorous Barlow, has not APP
peared upon the streets and thero-
fares of the said metropolis for a
period Of six days, and
Whereas, it is known to the said
citizens of the said town of Fairstake
| in the said county of Yuma, in the
said Territory of Arizona, that lis not
the custom, habit or practice of the
said honored and esteemed Hanko-
dorous Barlow to absent himself from
the said streets and thorofares Of sai6
metropolis for such an extended
period, and
whereas, it is a matter Of officia
record that there has not been {
single death by violence in the saie
town Of Fairstake during the weel
ending Saturday, October the thirty
first and
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: was directed to his office, a comfort
able enough apartment at the rear of

was directed to his office, comfort
able enough apartment at the rear Of
the building.
Il am UP to my ears in business, he
growled, as he recognized Tony, and
then he fell to sorting letters. What
do you make Of that now" holding
UP the signature of one to Tony.
Barclay & Co.," he read.
BARCLAY and-dirt! Why can't a
man write instead of making tracks
like that?''
.Mr. Carter, have you seen Mr..
Hamilton, this morning-or last
night 2"
Seen Mr.. Hamilton! What do you
mean, young man !? You ought to
know i haven't, Without asking he
said irritably. Tho Mr.. Carter was the
best natured Of men, as was Mr.. Hen
derson, ALSO they reminded Tony of
couple of hens ruffed by a breeze.
They could do nothing but cluck an
grily at this enforced attendance upon
business they usually managed to
shirk.
"Mr. Hamilton was at the bank last
night, that's ALL said Tony.
And never came near the mill!
Look here, Henderson," he called.
"Vane has come, and we can get him
to straighten that consignment mat
ter
"By George, I'm glad of it. You
know, Carter, said this morning he
was likely to walk in at any time
.sBut it seems he hasn't" said
Tony, coolly, amused, in spite of his
anxiety, at their readiness to shuttle off
their responsibilities. And then he
told them the facts as he had done to
Mrs. Hamilton.
by George! That looks bad, don't
| it, Carter 2"
eyes, where can he be now?''
That's the question. Perhaps he
came back after something, and didn't
want to trouble Constance by going
there. She, of course, would object to
his going away again, and he knows
| it. He knows very WELL too, that his
mysterious Journeys vex her. as well
they might"
Where does he go. Carter. every
year in May 2?
'You know as well as do. I only
hope there's no danger in it, that's all.
Seems as IL there must be, or he would
tell Constance.
What! doesn't she know?,'
| Not a word, no more than YOU or
II
| mot much like my wife, or she
would have had the secret before this.
What could he have wanted at the
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Mr.. Hamilton! Surely you have
forgotten that he is away
But hasn't he got home ?''
Certainly not. 1 don't expect him
for a week.
He was at the bank last night, Mrs.
Hamilton. Of chat am certain
Then where can he be now?
don't know. I supposed he was
here, and called over to see him as
he didn't come to the bank. Perhaps
he is at the MILL
Without coming home, Tony 2"
Young Osborn bit his lips and
thought deeply, but each moment
grew more bewildered.
did you speak to him ~ asked Mrs.
Hamilton.
eyes, and he spoke to me. Banking
hours are over at 4, you know, and
it was just after dark that I saw him
going into the bank as I was passing.
sHullo!' said. It was the first thing
I thought to say, for I was surprised to
see him so soon .Hullo,' he said, and
laughed little. Didn't expect me
back so soon, did you mo, I said,
T didn't Then he went in and shut
Tony, that couldn't have been Mr..
Hamilton
cit certainly was. It was his voice
I heard, and his form, features, gait,
everything. Icouldn't have been mis-
taken
Tony" said Mrs. Hamilton, in a
low terrified voice, II am afraid you
have been deceived. 1t must have
beer burglar"
..Oh. no. there isn't the least doubt
in the world that it was Mr.. Hanil-
ton; none at all.
.eWas everything right this morn
ing 2"
Yes
Nothing missing ~
mo, nothing at all. All that sur
prises me is that he isn't here
HE would certainly have been IL he
had come home. That makes me
think you have been deceived
For answer Tony took from his vest
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I two weeks?" Mr.. Carter looked sober
tly into his niece's face as he asked the
question.
stYes it seems very strange, very
mysterious, doubly so in the light OF
present affairs. -
sWell, a, week will soon pass, and no
doubt Vane will return safe and we'll
But let me advise you, Constance.
question him about his journeys, where
he goes. You have a right to know
Il had decided to, uncle; for. as
you say, [ have right to know
AS 1 have said, the time did not
pass very quickly, for time lags to
hearts wearied or worried. Constance
dispatched her letter to the Boston
address, and inquiries were made in
Grovedale concerning Mr.. Ham1lton's
appearance there on the 22d OF May,
which was the time alleged by young
Osborn as the date when he saw and
spoke to him.
But no one had seen him, or any
person particularly resembling him.
| This was strange circumstance, as at
| that hour the streets We're never de-
serted, and the electric lights, one Of
which cleaned at the corner not far
| from the bank, made it seem impossl-
| BILE that he could have approached
the bank, entered it, and gone away
unseen.
But pTOVlQlIlS tle Ildu uOllS 81, Wlids
was his object, and why did he neg
lect to go to his own home, only a
few rods distant. Some people in
Grovedale discredited Osborn's state
ment, while others averred that he
must have been mistaken, tho, with
out doubt, they said, he thought he
was correct in making 1t. On the
other hand, many believed the harm
had come to the cashier after he left
the building, while the bank officials
Thought the matter quite serious
enough to call a meeting and look over
the books, deposits, and collaterats OF
the bank. People who had money In
the savings institution got. wind of the
matter, and the pass-books began to
come in so rapidly the directors pub
{ilicly announced that all should be att
tended to in due season. but that no
irregularities had thus far been dis
covered, nor did they expect to find
any. Mr.. Hamilton was expected in
three days now, when, no doubt, mat
tiers would settle in their old place.
The bank examiner, meanwhile,
would in any case soon be there. For
1 the rest, Mr.. Hamflton's bondsmen,
Carter, Henderson, and Deane, we're
responsible men.
| (To be continued tomorrow.
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TALE OF THE BAD MAN
WHO MET HIS MATCH
By BILLY BURGUNDY

ons for one Hank Barlow, on hoof OF
dressed, +. o. b. Fairstake.
No one seemed to be inpressing need
of that amount of money; at least
they showed no sign Of it if they did
so Hank pursued the even tenor of his
way.
One morning when the villagers
backed up against the east side of
the General Store to thaw out in the
young sunshine and talk over the lat
est news from Washington and the
Chicago Stock Yards, it was discov-
cred that Hank, had been shy for six
days. Then like a flash it dawned
upon the members of the Out Door
Session that there had not been a MUIR
der in town for nigh on to week.
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PEELED to call all bets off in Fairstake,
and the general store had to lay in
a job lot of black-bordered paper and
envelopes.
Whenever Hank astepped into the
Gin Mill and reduced the visible sup
ply of Bourbon Dew couple Of pints,
a sickening silence would spread over
the town: the stores would close for
the day; men would hide under count
ers; women would drag their children
into cyclone cellars; dogs would howl
pathetically; suspense would hang
heavy in the air, and the marshal
would recall that he had a very press
ing engagement about three miles
down the Pike. 54
When Hank finished playing his
hand out and had gone home to
sleep it off, the coroner and undertak-
er would come from under cover to es-
innate the mortality and notify the
survivors that there was not the slight
est occasion for alarm.
When Hank had practically ex-
haused the supply Iof voters in Fair
stake the Governor came to the con-
sclusion that he was carrying the joke
too far, so he offered a reward OF
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and esteemed citizen and said:
Brother Hank, I've has riz TO
the conclusion that semethin' mighty
unusual has overcome We, an
we air here to ascertain how come We
air no longer your former self. Air
we sore?''
'Taint tibet Use got any grudge
agin the gang, Parson. Use married
that little ninety-pound gal we see
peeling potatoes an eff I lef' dis we're
yard for anything more excitin' than
a couple of pork chops, she'd blow my
lights out. That's all thet ais me-,
Moral: You can't estimate a wom-
ans influence by her weight.
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do with it? In rare instances he banks it..
But for what? For rainy day or for old
age-two contingencies that seem vaguely
distant to the normal worker and offer few
inducements for the earning or the amass-
ing of wealth.
Oftener money slips thru the single
mans fingers or vanishes into thin air.
What becomes of it? He seldom asks. AS
long as means for present necessities or
pleasures are forthcoming, why should he
look into the future? Why should he ex-
pend brain and on new schemes which
might bring additional wealth?
A percentage of the few single men who
hoard money are misers 1t is necessary to
have an object for which to lay UP wealth.
They abnormally make wealth it's own OBJ
ject, and put by money in bank or invest
ments that it may beget more money. 1t
becomes a life passion, flliM the place in
the heart that should have belonged to wife
and child. The miser one day dies. Dis
TO 1afi he Of ic n fb.o
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disease; and the erstwhile man about
town becomes at last of real use In the
business community.

| " ~
The little home, the woman in
whose pure eyes he is hero and can
do no wrong, the children whose joy
Gus shout answers the click of his
latchkey in the door-if these do not
form a trinity of incentives to bring
out all that is best in business man,
then nothing short of miracle from
on high could urge him on.
This same trinity do more to save
the integrity Of business houses than
do all the laws and police forces and
prisons ever created. Where the sin
gle man may fall into financial temp
tation, the married man will think
twice before he brings shame on the
woman who adores him, and disgrace
on the children who look on him as a
god. The statistics showing the vast
preponderance of single over married
men in prisons will substantiate this.
In days, too, of hardships and ILL
fortune such vicissitudes are robbed
of half their sting when shared or
soothed by a good woman.
| Marry. 1t is the best business in
vestment that has ever come within
my experience.
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Perhaps the Oldest ferry in the world is the
has been in existence for more than twenty CEN
turtles, and the vessels which have been engaged
Caesars high peaked galleys propelled by banks
Of oars, to the new turbine steamer.
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The first American baby born In the island Of
Guam is the daughter of Eugene Dewey Ryan.
paymaster in the United States army. The dis
tingushed little stranger is now between and
months old Paymaster Ryan, whoSwas on the
Concord at the battle of Manila, has been in
Guam abOunt q year. .--z J. Z 49,. -.
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lVE
S notg o a number Of
But
at
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It is stated that nine Of the most successful Of
modern novels aggregated a sale of over 1,600.-
900 copies. The paper on which these books were
printed was made of wood fber-cellulose-a
quired about 1000 trees to furnish this paper.
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Such has been the improvement in engine
boilers and fire boxes that the power derived
from pound Of coal to-day is nearly three times
as great as it was fifty years ago.
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The Baroness Won Ketteler, widow Of the Ger
man minister to China, who was killed at Pc.
king, has just sailed for New York.
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Copyright, 1908. by steve Floyd, N. z.

Copyright, 1903, by Steve Floyd, N. Z.
- NCE upon a time there lived in
the town OF Fairstake, Arr
IONA. guy who possessed a
combustible disposition, an
improving affection for booze
and a perfect contempt for municipal
tranquility and the criminal code.
His name was Hank Barlow.
Hank put in most Of his time alb
sorbing firewater and supplying the
town with a brand of excitement
which kept the coroner working over
time and made the local Death Col
umn'' look like an itemized account of
a Macedonian massacre.
He did his work so well that the
Life Insurance Companies were COM