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stay in the Hunt, therefore | have
come to Town which has just Begun.
Believe me, dear Ned. it is the begin
here, am Sure as do not exist in any
other Land, for behind this land is all
the Richer and older Parts, which are
but waiting to pour money and men
hither so soon as the Ry. shall be
Fully completed. have heard OF
many men who have made Fortunes
since the War. 1t is truly rapid
Land
Il am persuaded, my dear boy, that
this is the place for you to come.
There are an Hundred ways in which
one may earn Respectable living,
and l find here no Glass Distinction.
1t is an extraordinary fact that no
man and no profession ranks another
here. One man is quite good as an
other.
"A year from now. as | am told,
we shall have 1000 Persons living
here, and in five years this will be
City. Conceive the opportunity mean
time. The Cattle business is bound to
grow, and l am advised that all this
land will Ultimately be farmed and
prove rich as that through which |
Past in coming out. You are welcome,
my dear Ned, as l am sure you know,
to half my blankets and ratons dur
ing your stay here, however long same
may be, and I most cordially invite
you to come out and look over this
country, nor do l have the smallest
doubt that it will seem to you quite
as it does TO me. and shall hope that
we make Citizen of you.
II am but new here as yet myself,
but am fully disposed, as they say in
the strange language here. to drive
my Stake. I want you. my dear boy,
also to drive Yours beside me. and to
that Effect beg to extend you what
ever Aid may lie in my Power.
Hoping that you may receive this
communication duly. and make reply
to Same, and hoping above all things
that may soon meet again my Com
panion of the 47th. beg to subscribe
myself my dear boy, ever your Obdt
d Affect. Friend
"Battersleigh
"P. spray Herild your advent by
Il letter & bring about 4 lbs. or lbs.
of your Favourire Tea, as | am Short
of Same"
The letter ended with Battersleigh $
hest flourish. Franklin turned it over
again and again in his hand and read
it more than once as he pondered
upon it's message. Dear old fellow, "
he said; hes good deal Of Don
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A Mans Time to Die,

When man appeared the other day
before Justice Blume, in Chicago. and
asked for protection against some
neighbors who had threatened to kill
him, the justice refused to grant the
request. When asked for his reasons
he said that when it came a mans
time to die he would die, and not be-
fore. He announced himself as n
fatalist and said belief came from his
own experiences. He says he has
passed through seven accidents, three
hold-ups, one fire, two drownings, $50
falls, pneumonia. concusson of the
brain. and all the dangers of several
battles of the civil war. "If all these
things won't kill man" said the
justice. there is special Providence
looking after him"
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Hazy Impressions.

He was hunting for certain man in
tall building and was told to go 10
room on the fourteenth floor Wher
he got there he was told to go to +
certain room on the eighth floor and
there he went and waited and waited
till he gave up and decided to cons
another day.
The another day came and he asked
the elevator man where a certain MAJ
was and the fourteenth floor was
given him.
He went to the enu of the hall ald
turned down side hall and ents1e:
an Office, but everything was strange
to him, then he noticed the names OF
the door and the name of the man he
was after was not there. After think.
ing he remembered the number of the
room on the fourteenth floor, but did
not understand why he was mixed on
location. The room with the right
number was strange to him also and
yet the firm name on the door was
right, but the name of his man was
was trying to find, and the clerk gave
him the eighth floor as the place
Mention of the eighth floor cleared
his head and down there he found the
room in which he had waited so long
He found a man who told him What he
wanted to know. though the original
man was not in this time, either. After
it was all over he began to see that
his long wait on the eighth floor had
washed out his impressions of how he
first got there, and lett him in the
dark.
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Successfully Grated a New Lip.

DR.. c. S. Durand of this city has
just completed a surgical operation
which has caused considerable COM
ment in this city. The operation was
performed upon Charles Skillern The
dreaded malady, cancer. had de.
stroyed the whole lower lip. DR.. Du-
rand took the case under treatment
and successfully grated a new lip
from the inner side of Mr.. Skillern's 8
cheeks. Mr.. Skillern is now out on
the streets after confinement of a
few weeks and the results of the op.
Grafton are scarcely noticeable
Chattanooga News.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-01-15
There are helps that help
US tell whether to wait or
return,

When the person you call on is busy
or out. aad yea are likely to
be able to see tnen at any mo-
ment by waiting and you wait
little while and begin to won.
der whether you were wise or not in
wait'ts at all, and you do not know
whether to go or remain. you are in
a condition of mind which hundreds
Of people are in every day.
This is now being written at the
desk OF man want to see, and he
is in the next room talking with sew
eral men over an important subject.
When sat down here l thought l
had time enough to wait and write till
he came out, but as l think of the
things to do before taking the right
train for home l begin to doubt and
look at the clock and wonder and
reaaon.
A solicitor for job printing in Penn
sylvania told me he never waited for
people but out and hustled aroun1
for awhile. then came back again, or
called on a later day.
Few people would have just exactly
the same conditions to reason from
or be Influenced by, yet every one
might have view useful to others in
making up their decisions on waiting
or not. Each person can dig out Of
each experience thought to put with
another thought from another expert.
ence and build up basis to help in
future decisions. The people who are
getting to the front in thought and
action are either consciously or un.
consciously learning from others and
themselves more and more and more
about the little things of every day.
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CHAPTER vi.
Edward Franklin, Lawyer.

Co"dfu @o"yS''
Edward Franklin had taken up his
law studies in the office of Judge
Bradley, the leading lawyer of the lit
tie village of Bloomsbury, where
Franklin was born, and where he had
spent most of his life previous to the
time of his enlistment in the army
Judge Bradley was successful. as such
matters go in such communities, and
it was his open boast that he owed
his success to himself and no one else.
Thirty-fve years earlier, raw
youth from old Vermont, Hollis n.
Bradley had walked into the embry-
onic settlement of Bloomsbury with
a single law book under his arm and
naught but down upon his chin. He
pleaded his first cause before Judge
who rode circuit over territory now
divided into three congressional dis
tricts. He won his first case, for his
antagonist was even more ignorant
than he. AS civilization advanced he
defended fewer men for stealing hogs
and more for murder and adultery.
His practice grew with the growth of
the population of the country about
him. He was elected county attorney.
local counsel for the railroad, and
judge of the Circuit Court. He was
mentioned for gubernatorial honors,
and would perhaps have received the
party nomination but for the breaking
out of the civil war. Not fancying
the personal risks of the army, he
hired substitute. and this sealed his
political fate. for Illinois at that time
did not put in power men who sent
substitutes to the war.
1t was an immemorial custom in
Bloomsbury for the youth who had
aspirations for legal career to read
law" in Judge Bradley's office. Two
of his students had dropped their
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Plumber Hunting Pointers.

One morning man wanted to see
his plumber, and when he reached the
plumbers place he found his man had
moved and that it was now some other
persons place. He saw this without
crossing the street, and passed on to
the shoe store for call, then when
he got to the corner he called to learn
about the plumbers new location, ara
was told that it was in the center Of
the square, so back he went.
By the shoe store he entered a
plumbing shop and found it the wrong
one. On back he walked and found
his man opposite the old place. Will.
he was facing where the plumber was
his back saw where the plumber is.
Now. this mans back had no eyes.
so the mans legs had to travel to
make up for the deficiency. Fore
thought is the name of the eyes that
help the owner to see in every direc.
ton.
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The Diet Fad.

Apropos, the diet craze of the last
two or three years may not and does
not perform all that it promises for
those who listen to the voice of the
medical or other faddist says the on
don World, but from its extravagances
may come ultimate good, and another
generation may reap happily where we
have sown. The time may come, a
great continental doctor believes,
when the science of dieting will be
so perfected that we shall not merely
be able. as we do now. to keep people
alive much longer, but we shall like
wise keep them in useful condition.
Octogenarians Wilt retain their fac
ulties to the full, senility will be avoid
ed, and if, perhaps, grandfathers and
grandmothers do not contrive to pre-
serve their youthful appearance to
the end, they will at least, so we are
assured, be as clear-brained at II as
at 81, and thus. with the advantage
of ripe experience. they will help on
the work of more youthful brains and
temper the follies of the rising gener.
alton.
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books to take up rifles, and they came
not back to their places. They we're
forgotten, save once a year upon Dec
oration Day, when Judge Bradley
made eloquent tribute above their
graves.
1t was therefore Predetermined that
Edward Franklin should go into the
Office of Judge Bradley to begin his
law studies, after he had decided that
the profession of the law was the one
likely to offer him the best career.
1t was one of the unvarying rules of
Judge Bradley's office and indeed this
was almost the only rule which he
imposed, that the law student within
his gates, no matter what his age or
earlier servitude, should each morn
ing sweep out the office, and should,
papers needing to be executed in
duplicate. So long as a student did
these things, he was welcome as long
as he cared to stay.
Edward Franklin accepted his seat
in Judge Bradleys Office without any
reservations, and he paid his daily
fee of tenure as had all the other
students before him, scorning not the
broom. Ardent, ambitious and reso-
Lutte. he fell upon Blackstone. Chitty
and Kent as though he were asked to
carry redoubt. He read six, eight,
ten hours a day, until his head buZZed.
and he forgot what he had read. Then
at it all over again. with teeth set
Thus through more than a year he
toiled, lashed forward by his own de-
termination, until at length he began
to see some of the beautiful first prin-
ciples Of the law. So in his second
year Franklin Jared somewhat beyond
principles merely. and got into notes
and bills. tortS. contracts and rene
dies. He learned with a shiver how a
promise might legally be broken. hCw
gift should De regarded with suspi
cion, how sacred legacy might be
set aside He read these things again
and again. and forced them into his
brain, SO that they might never be for
gotten; yet this part of the law he
loved not so much as its grand first
principles of truth and justice.
One morning, after Franklin had fin
ished his task of sweeping down the
stairs. he sat him down by the window
With BattersleiSh's letter in his hand: !:
for this was now the third day since
he had received this letter, and it had
been in his mind more vividly present
than the pages of the work on CON
tracts with which he was then occu-
pied. 1t was a bright. fresh morning
III the early spring A long and haZy
The Grit-advocate., 1904-01-15
We are not the only
ones on earth to see
blue days and obstruc.
tiOnS.

Whether you and l are really bene-
flied or not by hearing about the trou-
bles of others is debatable subject.
Simply to hear about them is not very
helpful, as | see it. but to hear how
others profited by blue days and sur.
mounted distractions surely is useful.
Every day in every community there
are those who have blue days and in.
vest them wisely. also those who see OBJ.
structions and either 90 around. over
or under them or if they meet the OBJ
structions the distractions get the
worst of the encounter. A little OBJ
servation or investigation will prove
this statement to be true.
The minute we see that blue days
are subjective rather than objective
We get close to preventing their com
ing on us. You had your most en-
joyable days during the most dismal
weather, and why? Because the sun
was shining inside of you and when
that happens external things do no:
amount to so very much
Notice how nature leads children to
seek, and also built obstructions in Or
der to get exercise in overcoming
them. A few minutes ago l saw
three year old trying to get broken
tricycle. up stairway in the most DIFF
ticult way in order to do 1t that way
and unconsciously to be ready to do
something difficult later on when un-
eXpected'y confronted.
We should guard against hothouse
protection and too easy paths in early
life. A young attorney told me about
one elderly man who had had pro-
tected position for years and then
seemed to go to pieces before COLI
mon case of punched trouble, while
another elderly man. a lawyer, who
had been in so much trouble all his
life and conquered SO many times
that even at eightyfour years of ae.
young men had no longing to NEE:
him in a battle before judges. If w
can gain muscle by using dumb bei:.
why can not we gain mind by usirg
every day one or two perpleXities IS
exercises. even if we have to make
them in artificial shape in order to
have them to contend with?
You have heard about not crossing
the bridge till you came to it. but
have you heard that some claim that
nine-tenths of the trouble in this
world is imaginary? If you think
there are too many distractions in
your path you can be sure that some
Of them are to melt before you get to
them. Plan ahead, live day at /.
time, but live it with all your might.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-01-15
SQUIRRELS SAVED HIS LIFE.
Crippled in an Old Hut, He Kept
Alive on Store of Nuts.

Ii Albert Denslow recovers from a
VT. he will owe his life to a family
OF gray squirrels.
Denslow is chopper. and a couple
OF weeks ago went to a woodlot to
cut stovewood. He took provisions
enough to last him a week, and on
Saturday noon left camp to spend
sunday in town.
He had gone about a mile and
half when he slipped, fell and
wrenched his right hip SO badly that
he could not bear his weight on his
leg. After lying in the snow until
dusk. when his leg becoming more
painful every moment, he became des-
perate.
There was not human being with
in miles. and to spend night in the
forest in his condition meant certain
death. Finally, remembering an old
log hut half a mile north OF him, he
began to crawl to it.
He reached the cabin at ! O'Clock in
the morning and built fire in an old
hearth. Then he bathed his thigh
and, propping himself up in front of
the congenial blaze, went to sleep.
He awoke in the morning stiff, sore
and ravenously hungry. His leg was
still swelling and every move caused
him great pain. 1t would be several
days before he could hope to leave,
and the chopper was staring starva-
ton in the face when he noticed
gray squirrel on the floor and anoth-
er on rafter over his head. They
were observing him curiously and
chattering.
A loose stone lay near his hand and
he secured it. Then, carefully getting
arm room, he hurled the missile at
the squirrel. The stone hit the floor
at the animals feet, caromed to the
wall and struck a loose board.
There was rattling in the parti-
ton. and from a hole at the top Of
the Dashboard rolled a well-dried but
ternut. The squirrel had disappeared
like shot, leaving the choppers eyes
riveted on the nut.
1t required but few moments to
crawl across the room and procure IT,
In another moment 1t had been
cracked with the stone intended for
the squirrel and the meat lay in Dens.
lows hand.
Squirrels don't hide single nuts,
and, trembling with anticipation, the
chopper tore out a board in the wall
and out tumbled at least bushel of
the nuts. There were more back Of
another board and Denslow made a
hearty meal.
Then he melted some snow in an
old tin can, took long drink and re-
plenished the fire.
There was no use trying to move.
so the man remained quiet, bathing
his leg in snow-water and keeping as
warm as he could. During the day
he discovered an old discarded over
coat. and that night had a more com.
Portable sleep.
All the next day he dined on nuts
and water, and the swelling beGcu to
go down. 1t was two more days be-
fore he could bear his weight on the
limb to get to the village. When he
did reach here he was in bad con.
but it is believed he will pull through
in a few days.
DenslOw used to be a great squr.
rel hunter. but he will never take an
other shot at the animals, he says
New York World.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-01-15
Games for Growth.

As you review your youth which
game do you think did you the most
good, either physically. mentally Or
spiritually? l came near writing NOR.
ally for spiritually, then wondered if
morality were not an element of men.
tality rather than of spirituality. Once
a minister told me it was.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-01-15
For Cloudy Weather.

Not all days are June mornings and
October afternoons. We need dark
backgrounds to enjoy our best days
the way we should. But during the
cloudy weather, when we see nothing
but background, we need our memory
and self-contro. -sar at han, =, put
to uss.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-01-15
Expect SURPRISES.

Some of the great cities OF the
world have been built in unthought of
localities on a swamp foundation and
some of the useful people of the world
have had unpromising beginnings. We
must expect surprises among our as
sociates as the years so by and some
find greater good fortune than scent ed
in store for them. Congratulate theu,
The Grit-advocate., 1904-01-15

Quixote. but he never forsets friend.
Buffalo and Indians, railroads and ho-
tels-it must at least be a land OF con
trasts!"
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The d. g. Dept. OF AEricn1ture.

The u. g. Dept. OF Agriculture.
Gives to Salzer's Oats It's heartiest en-
dorsement. Salzer's New National Oats
yielded in 1903 from $50 to 500 bu. per
acre in 80 different States, and you. Mr.
Farmer, can beat this In 1904, If you
will. Salzer's seeds are pedigree seeds,
bred up through careful selection to big
yields.
Per Acre.
salzer's Beardless Barley yielded .121 bu
Salzer's Home Builder Corn.... 800 bu.
Speltz and Macaroni Wheat..... SObu.
Salzer's Victoria Rape...... 10000 lbs
Salzer's Teosinte. the quick grow
ing fodder wonder....... 100000 lbs
Salzer's Billion Dollar Grass. $4,000 lbs
Salzer's Pedigree Potatoes. 1000 bu.
Now such yields pay and you can have
them, Mr.. Farmer, in 1904.
SEND Zoe IN STAMPS
and this notice to the John A. Salzer
Seed Co, La Crosse, Wis, and you will
get their big catalogue and lots Of farm
seed samples free. &c. N. %
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THE OLDEST MAN IN AMERICA
Tells How He Escaped the Terrors Of Many Winters
by Using Pe-rll-I1a.

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Ouf tony enffre satisfaction Is fhe
n-n.. ts;.~ NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Pl7UP Il sA ~ y a1iA = - aAua ~
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ai .1.9 ssa 6,ii7 yeals HAvs
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man my IS i sosrsa o sahia = 9 - ,tb neI littis
affections Wadcha are due to snddsa
Ifhnanges} !, =. re elp3aae and .emperatur.
great many HsIsedies for couehs, colds. ~
land d%iarrhoea..
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.I,egs FOR ALUMINIUM.
s ss5,...aI In WsldinS Rail Joint.
n;val OF Copper.

lSsss-Rival Sof Goppef.
.., srnbune: When aluminium
ggss1. cheap it was employed for
a@e.sythirg besides the manufacture utrrulpr
esyssausehold utensils and . class
sssa,sand useful ARTICLES OF which
rnfchbox So atype. Its next
49, .srvice was to compete with
6t tassasn electrical conductor Be-
a.s.ara and Ruffalo and In several
1Nls n the countryss.it has dem
6spas =. technical and economic value
1sasGs - work beyond adoubt. A
lH1sts, usefulness has more recent
RAss.aaned up. To this the atten-
@gssnssican la fuat now directed by
sse1gSisit OF Or. Hans Goldschmldt
kest.sd states. His lecture at CO.
ii University last Friday revealed
ssSbHses for the metal, which, c
nsssschenllsts Is Q abundant
ls.sother IN the earth's crust.
esas 3 lie function which aluminium
llM asssaAAmetaliurgy and engineering Is
I!sss,n4 remarkable heat that Is sud
yss.sioTet whenait is burned. Com
lSsifSWtli be remembered, is simply
gssssof aSgiven element with oxygen.
1919 or coalais set on fire the car
ss@ssnes with that gas and produces
ssEnxide, Aluminium will not unite
sssnsnheric oxygen. though. It is
ksr 70 supply the element In a solid
eesShsSox!de of some other metal fur
gshis. II equal parts Of aluminium
sSsaYide OF iron, both pulverized and
nlaced in a crucib1e andsa tiny
Easfhe right kind Is applied q mar
@ssNect Is produced. The receptacle
~ 4 furnace. BY purely chemical
ESstemperature is induced which RI
Essatsof the electric arc. Within q
sssTor two iron and the latter is
ss#If. IN advance and with a view
ss4herl operations, the iron Is charged
NM @proper amount OF carbon or
a,her element the product Is a steel
s~sjngsaua}ities that adapt 1t to some
ba services. i
shighIy practical operation made fea-
shysthe process here described is tho
asr aof rails on trolley roads. In orr
III employ both the main track and
ehird$ rail {f there be one) as electri-
mudhctors 1t Is customary to do n
Mn things. Either a copper bond is
sa4d to the ends of adjacent rails at
mint or a little molten iron Is poured
M the cold steel there. The latter
a,on. as formerly conducted, invoiyed
usa Of cumbrous and expensive APP
ne. ii Europe aluminium Is nov used
=, extent instead. A small portable
gMhs.B tapering to a point. Is adjusted
eshe right spot, a mold Is formed
"a The Joint to be welded, the proper
fars is ignited and almost immedi-
q supply Of liquid steel Is ready to
snStnto place. So intense Is the heat
\ latter that 1t dissolves part OF the
Il of which the rail is composed and
Iintf OF surprising strength Is created.
again, aluminium figures as a rival
Iuper, and 1t promises to make the old
Eof bond unnecessary.
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speMina Reform.

Highwaymcn are ce2surable. But SPELL
Ing refornaers, like pirates, can well be
called the enemies Of mankind. Devices
to make entrance to kno wledge OF the
English language easy are to be resented.
The knowledge is desirable. But all his
history Is proof that knowledge easy to
obtain is soon forgotten, while that hard
to acquire is permanently appreciated.