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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-01-08
you MUST LIE PERFECTLY STILL" SHE

nothing but the vitality, fostered by
vengeance, to support me. In the
meantime Bradley had been invaded
home, and, knowing that he had been
born in Somersville, thither raced to
crafty the burning desire for revenge
that had nursed for six months.
There, in brief, is the reason why
was on board this express. 1t was the
end Of the chase, and was hot on the
trail of the false friend who betrayed
country and comrade with equal readi-
ness, the one at the behest Of dark
eyed rebel witch, the other to save his
own worthless neck.
The motion of the express exhilarat-
ed me beyond measure. The hundred
and one plans for vengeance that had
plotted across the Pacific I reviewed
again and again, yet decided upon
none I would let the circumstances
Of our meeting be the arbiter Of what
ignomy inflicted upon him before kill
ing him.
Suddenly the air was filed with a
monster groan. A roar and shock con-
fused my senses, and the car in which
rode seemed to rise with bound into
the air, and then knew no more.
I awakened in the white bed Of a
hospital. There had been dreadful
wreck, an entire train derailed and al
most crushed to atoms within q few
hundred yards of Somersville. The To-
cal hospital, generally an almost empty
institution, was now filled with the i'll
jured, and ambulance trains had car
ried scores Of others to Dalton, the
next station on the line.
awoke to the sight of sweet face
bending tenderly over me, and soft
voice babe me be quiet as opened my
lips to ask a question.
"Now, you must lie perfectly still.
You are not badly hurt-a broken arm
and little shock. You will be up and
about very soon If you obey me i'm
! plicitly. | am your nurse. l know
you will be obedient because you are a
soldier and accustomed to obey"
nodded feebly and closed my eyes
again. Can you understand how sweet
is the sight Of fair. tender American
face after nearly two years in the
swamps and wilds Of the Philippines!
The note of compassion in her voice.
the pure grace of her face, bound me 8
slave to my nurse, and her gentle pres
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-01-08

SAiOuSVf SAu shaAuptOu- uaO Dceu III the
business lorg enough to know what
that meant. Even on the one nights
the ushers We're worthy of their hire.
Temple had been getting at least
three curtain calls at every perform.
ance. Everybody knew that. Temple
used to say that photograph would
get round on his last speech. And
Hampton, after ten years of work, got
the ushers.
Every one in the company was sure
he was pleased since he got through it
without spelling the scene, since he had
was not to be found, for the first time
in his life, when the drop went up on
the fourth act.
Hampton wasn't on in the fourth,
but he took such time to get into his
street clothes that he wasn't ready to
leave until the others were, and he
went out with his hat in his hand.
Grasping the cold iron rail, he guided
himself to the blaze of electric lights
that marked the lobby entrance and
seemed to be spelling out the name up
OH it. That was the last time the COM
pany saw him.
If it hadn't been for Mrs. Bowler,
from whom Hampton rented his little
flat, and if it hadn't been that flats
are built with thin walls, the company
would have altogether forgotten about
Hampton. But Mrs. Bowler knew Bus
coe, and she came down the next after
noon with u message. Mrs. Jennie
Hampton was dead
Mrs. Bowler had heard Hampton
come in about half past II the night
before. She had heard the doctor,
who was still there, tell him some
thing. Then it became SO quiet that
she fell asleep, although she had in
tended to remain awake and offer
what help she could if anything hap
pened. She didn't awaken until the
sun crept through the window in the
morning Still it was quiet in the next
room.
Then. she said, Hampton began to
speak. Mrs. Bowler couldn't repeat
what he said, but she knew that he
was explaining about the play the
night before-how, at the end of the
third act, the audience called for him;
how they called for him until the cur
tain was raised and he bowed to them;
how he took the leading woman by the
hand and led her to-the footlights, and
finally how he had gone out in front
of the curtain and bowed to them
again. Mrs. Bowler knew enough about
the theater to know what curtain calls
were, and Hampton was telling Jennie
that he had six, while the most that
Temple ever had was four. In fact,
Mrs. Bowler became so excited that
she actually went into the room to
congratulate Hampton upon his sue
cess.
When she opened the door, she saw
Jennie smiling feebly and Hampton
at the foot of the bed, animated, ear
nest, convincing, happy. And Jennie
was beaming. She was still smiling,
Mrs. Bowler said, when she fell back
on the pillow and closed her eyes
Hampton shivered and stopped his
story. Is
So Mrs. Bowler came down fol
Hampton to tell Buscoe that Jennie
was dead and to bring one other mes
sage, which no one but Buscoe seemed
to understand. AS she told it, it was
like this: ''Tell Buscoe that I've made
my one hit''
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-01-08
A Great speech.

A lawyer whose eloquence was of
the spread eagle sort was addressing
the jury at great length, and his legal
opponent, growing weary, went out
side to rest.
"Mr. B. is making great speech"
said a friend to the bored counsel.
"Oh, yes; Mr.. b. always makes a
great speech. If you or had occasion
to announce that two and two make
four, we'd be just fools enough to blurt
it right out. Not SO Mr.. B. He would
say:
"If, by that arithmetical rule known
as addition, we desired to arrive at the
sum of two integers added to two in.
tegers, we should Finland assert
this boldly, sir, and without the fear Of
aa.nnAssfial acknowledgements repeat,
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should find by the particular ar1thmet-
ical formula before Northumberland,
sir, hold myself perfectly responsible
for the assertion am about to make
that the sum of the two given integers
added to the two other integers would
be fouri"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-01-08

first time over the parts he showed
that he knew what the center of the
stage was, and he got it every time,
and when they discovered that he knew
all the business, and Temples business
at that, they naturally wondered where
Buscoe had found him.
But Buscoe was not talkative stage
manager. He sat at the prompt table
and held the book, but he had nothing
to say to Hampton. He had evidently
said it before he called the first act.
None in the company knew him. A
man with a sick wife on his hands and
five years of one night stands on the
road as his latest record usually isn't
on intimate terms with a picked cast
for big metropolitan revival. But
Buscoe knew him. Buscoe and Hamp-
ton had done one nights together more
than five years ago, and Buscoe knew
that Hampton's one ambition was to
4 play Temples part, just as well as
Hampton knew that Buscoe's hope was
a trip to London to stage some big
production or other. Naturally enough,
when Temple wired that he couldn't go
'S-n that night, Buscoe had telephoned
Ito the agencies, located Hampton and
n two hours afterward handed him Tenn
iple's part.
II Hampton took the part home and
\ laid it on Jennie's bed. Then he cried.
Jennie hs5l been crying a good deal
4 anyway, because she felt herself slip
lping away from the world. She saw
The name on the outside cover of the
7part. She knew that the biggest re-
1vival of the season was being played
yand that Temple had made the hit Of
jhis career by simply reading that thir-
|lty-two pages of manuscript. She had
ever ceased to be sure that if Dick
yer had a chance he would do the
anne thing. 1t meant good deal to
| lick woman who hadn't much longer
70 wait for him to get the part.
And it meant good deal to him, too,
since he had rehearsed it with her
times innumerable In the certain hope
Ehat some day he would be given a
fhance to play it. Five years Of one
lights didn't seem long just then. To-
borrow, after he had made his one hit,
|: would be almost a joke. After they
mad finished crying Dick kissed her,
and they both laughed, Dick with
laugh he had used for two seasons in
YsThe Red Scarf"
Then he propped her up in the bed,
handed to her the manuscript and ask
I'd for the first cue. So the rehearsal
chat Hampton had that afternoon at
the theater wasn't by any means the
Lairst one.
Hampton was fairly startled when
the overture began. 1t may have been
because on the one nights he was ac-
customed to two violins and piano
or maybe only to piano. Then he
pulled himself together, and when the
boy called "places" he stood in the side
entrance as cool as the prompter and
waited for the drop to go on. The next
minute he heard his cue. Well, what
happened after that no one has ever
tried to explain. No one in the COM
pany ever thought enough about it to
think an explanation necessary, and of
course Hampton couldn't explain it If
he tried jil Ia
The one big scene that Temple had
at the end of the third act fell fiat
played by Hampton. 1t went over the
audiences head or was thrown too d.
rectly into their teeth. Anyway when
Hampton made his exit there was no
applause except from the back OF the
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-01-08
Feminine Egotism.

Husband during the spat)-I must
have been a fool when l married you.
Wife Undoubtedly. But the old
adage still holds good.
Observation-Disclosures that?
Wife-A fool for luz
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-01-08

nervous irritable mother often the Mysteries
unit children; it chlds
upon herself The trouble between children and their mothers
too often due to the fact that the mother has
and she entirely unfit to bear the strain
that child involves; impossible anything
calmly She cannot help her condition
shattered caused arrangement Of the system
with backach headache and all verge
of nervous prostration
When mother finds that she
children that condition attention.
Lydia b. Pinhams Vegetable Compound
enable her to calmly handle isobent child without
will realize the difference and their
will themselves become quiet -
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the avenue. Reaching it, the planter
| gate which opened on to the granite
| steps leading up the terrace. 1t was
now quite dark. Obeying a sudden
| impulse, the old man irresolutely
| passed by the gate and walked farther
up the street.
Somehow l don't feel one bit like
BIT" he unused. 81 couldn't tell Will
| liam. He'd think l wanted to borrow
money an 'ud git skeerd right off. He
always was afeerd I'd mismanage
An then I'd hate to Spite Adele's
visit, an she could tell thar was
sOmen wrong by me bein heer in sech
furry. / reckon | do show it. How
could body hep it? oh, my Lord,
have mercy! It's all gone, all-all men
Betsy has saved"
He turned at the corner of his broth
ers property and slowly retraced his
hating steps to the gate, but he did
not pause, continuing his way back to-
ward the station. A glance at the
house showed that all the lower rooms
were lighted, as well as the big pris-
matte lamp that hung over the front
door. Bishop saw forms in light sum-
mer clothing on the wide veranda
"I'll bet that tallest one is Sis" he
said pathetically. 81 jest wish | could
see 'er a little while. Maybe 1t 'ud
look at 'er an heer 'er laugh like she
always did at home She'd be brave;
she wouldn't cry an take ON, but it
would hurt 'er away down in 'er heart,
especially when she's mixin' with sech
high tiiers an money spenders. Lord,
whatll | do fer cash to send 'er next
month? I'm the land porest man in
my county"
Reaching the station, he inquired
about train to barley and was told
that one left at midnight. He decided
to take it and sat in one of the iron
armed seats without moving till he
heard his train announced. Then he
went into the smoking car and sat
down in corner.
He reached barley at half past 3 in
the morning and went to the only hotel
in the place. The sleepy night clerk
rose from his lounge behind the coun-
ter in the Office and assigned him to
room, to which a colored boy, vigor-
ously rubbing his eyes, conducted him.
Left alone in his room, he sat down
on the edge of his bed and started to
undress, but with sigh he stopped.
whats the use O. me lynn down al
most at daybreak?" he asked himself.
81 meught as well be on the way home.
| cayn't sleep nohow."
Blowing out his lamp, he went down
stairs and reused the clerk again. "Will
have to pay fer that bed eff don't
use it?' he questioned.
"Why, no. Mr.. Bishop" said the clerk.
"Well, believe I'll start out home"
''Is your team in town?" asked the
clerk.
"The team I'm a-goin' to use is I'm
goin to foot it. I've done the like be-
fore this"
"Well, it's a purity tough stretch"
smiled the clerk, "but the roads are
good"
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Morton's four thousand acres"

Moptons four thousand acres"
'The farm you was going to deed to
AlanY gasped his wife. You didn't
include that?"
Not in that DEAL" groaned Bishop.
II snapped that to Phil Parsons fer
his poplar an cypress belt"
The words seemed to cut raspingly
into the silence of the big room. Abner
Daniel was the only one who seemed
unmeved by the confession. He filed
his pipe from the bowl on the mantel-
piece and pressed the tobacco down
with his forefnger; then he kicked the
ashes in the chimney till he uncovered
small live coal. He eyed it for a
moment, then dipped it up in the SHOW
ell, rolled it into his pipe and began to
smoke.
so | amt a-goin' to git no yeerly
pass over the new road" he said, his
object being to draw his brother-in-
law back to Perkins action in the mat
ter.
Perkins was a-lyin' to me-" an
swered Bishop. Gle hain't admitted
IL yet, but he was a-lytn'. His object
was to hep the Tompllins sell out fer
a decent price, but he can't be han
died. He's got me on the hip
e NO." said Abner. I'D ruther keep
on swappin' gold dollars fer mountain
land an lettin' it go fer taxes an to
try to beat a lawyer at his own game
A courthouse is like the DEVILS abode,
easy to git into, no outlet an nothin
but scorch while you are thar
Hush, fer the name O. goodnessp'
cried Mrs Bishop, looking at her hus-
band. Don't you see he's dyin' from
it? Are you all a-goin' to kill i'm?
What does a few acres O. land ur
debts amount to beside KILN a man
ats been tryin' to help us all? Alfred,
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!
E8s Z The family had just left the
Es@@zssssss sS breakfast table when Bishop
pssAg@J walked in. His shoes and
trousers were damp with dew and COW
cred with the dust of the road His
wife saw him entering the gate and
called out to him from the hall:
"Well, l declare! Didn't you go to
Atlanta?"
He came slowly up the steps drag
Eing his feet after him. He had the ap-
pearance of a man beaten by every
storm that could fall upon a human
being.
Eyes, | went" he said doggedly. He
passed her and went into the sitting
room, where his brother-in-law stood at
the fireplace lighting his pipe with a
live coal of fire on the tip of a stick.
Abner Daniel looked at him critically.
his brows raised a little as he puifed,
but he said nothing. Mrs. Bishop came
in behind her husband. sweeping him
from head to foot with Nher searching
eyes.
you don't mean to tell me you
walked out heer this mornin'," she
cried. Lord have mercy"
Il don't know as I've prepared any
set speech on the subject said her
husband testify, "but | walked. l
could "a gone to livery an or
dered out a team. but believe thar's
more'n one way O. wearin' sackcloth
an ashes, an the sooner l begin the
better III feel"
Abner Daniel winkcd. The Scrip
tural allusion appealed to his fancy,
ans he smiled impulsively.
"That thar is" he said. "Thar's
whole way an a half way. Some folks
jest wear it next to the skin whar it
don't show, with broadcloth ur silk on
the outside. They think eff it scratches
little that'll satisfy the Lord an
hoodwink othor folks. But | believe
he meant it to be the whole hog or
none"
Mrs. Bishop was deaf to this phtlos-
ophy. 81 don't See" she said in her
own field of re1ection-"I don't see,
say, how you got to Atlanta, attended
to business, seed Adele an got back
heer at sunrise Why, Alfred
But Bishop interrupted her. "IEave
you all had prayers yet"
"No; you know we hain't," said his
wife. wondering over his strange man
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CHAPTER ".

T was a little after sunrise.
The family had just left the
breakfast table when Bishop
walked in. His shoes and
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it amt so mighty awful. You know it
amt! What did me an you have when
we started out but log house boarded
up on the outside, an now we've got
our Children educated an all of us in
good health | rally believe it's a sin
agin Gods mercy fer us to moan an
fret under thing like this"
That's the talk" exclaimed Abner
Daniel enthusiastically. Now you
are gittin' down to brass lacks. I've
always contended"-
For Gods sake don't talk that
wayw said Bishop to his wife. You
don't mean a word of it. You are jest
a-sayin' it to try to keep me from
seem what a fool am"
"You needn't worry about me, ia
Their" said Alan firmly. 81 am able to
look out foT myself and for you and
mother. It's done, and the best thing
to do is to look at it in sensible way
Besides, a man with 10000 acres of
mountain land paid for is not broken
by long jump"
"Yes, I'm gone" said Bishop, a
wavering look of gratitude in his eye
as he turned to his son. 81 figured on
it all last night. I can't pay the heavy
interest an come out. | was playin'
for big stakes an got left. Thar's
nothin' to do but give up. Me buyin
so much land has made it rise little
but when l begin to try to sell l won't
be able to give it away"
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Jury Declares Clay Insane

Lexington, Ky, July 9.-Gcncral
Cassius Nj. Clay has been pronounced
by jury at Richmond to be of I'M
sound mind. He will be sent to an
asylum, this action being taken 10
protect his property The aged nan
was net in court. Physicians testified
as to his nent;Ll condition.
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BOARD OF LICENSE COMMISSIONERS.

NoTICE is hereby given that W. NJ. ADAMS
of Stowe, VT, has applied for License of the
SIX tn CLASS to sell Intoxicating liquors at
retail in the Summit House on Mt. Mansfield,
during the summer season of 1908, and that
public hearing will be given at the said ho-
tel, in said town on Saturday, July IL, 1908,
at one O'Clock in the afternoon.
Dated at stowe aforesaid this 22d day of
June A. D 1908.
c. l.. MCMAHON, Stowe
j. L. STAFFORD. License
SO II. h. SHAW, Commissi Jners.,
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RUTLAND RAILROAD,
Time Table Corrected to June ID, 1893
Trains Leave Burlington
GOING SOUTH AND EAST.

DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY UNLESS OTHERWISE
NOTED.
$50 A. M.-EXPRESS MAIL due Rutland
10 so a. m, Troy AS p. M, Albany 2:O5
p. M, New York $3.50 p. M, Bellows
Falls 10 p. M, Boston 5;45 p. m, Provi.
dence 7:25 p. m Worcester 4:59 p. m.
Springfield 4:10 p. In.
IL As NOON-GREEN MOUNTAIN FLYER
due Rutland 2:3O p. M, Troy 500 p. M.
Albany 5 :25 p. IN. New York 9:20 p. M,
Bellows Falls Ais p. M, Boston 500 p
M, Worcester 1882 p. m. Pullman par
lor cars AM coaches toBostoI and New
York,
400 p. M. Passenger for Albany and
intermediate stations, dr. Rutland :05
pm. Troy 9:lO p. M, Albany 80 p. m.
7.55 Pm. Local passenger for RUTLAND and
intermediate stations, due Rutland 10 zee
PM.
1920 P. M.-Pullman sleeping car Bun lingten
to New York and Boston oall,, due
Rutland 1910 a. M, Troy 2:t0 a. m.
New York 20 a. M. Boston 100 a. M.
Worcester 6:2c a. M, Providence 1925
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{ To be continued. }

Years of suffering relieved in a night. Itch
ing piles yield at once to the curative proper
ties Of Doan's Ointment. Never fails. At any
drug store, so cents.
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Daily, Daily except Sundays. Trains leave
Burlington II 05 a. m. Sundays only, arrives
AlUurg 1925 p. m.
c. B. HIBBARD, Gen'l Passenger Agt.
GEO. T. JARVIS. Gen. Manager.
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