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CHAPTER XXI.
[ FIND MY DUTIES VERY AGREE
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/ FIND MY DUTIES VERY AGREE
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The following day my duties began
1t was true the time spent with little
Jacob was a trifle monotonous and
irksome but the hours spent in in
structing Make were not at all tedious.
From the first l found pleasure in her
lesson period, and this pleasure grew
keener and keener. She was of a nat
urally happy disposition, mirthful and
witty. but at times melancholy fits
would come upon her, and she would
NOPE about the house with a sad. far
away look in her eyes. / could not un-
derstand these widely varying moods,
but 1 had a faint feeling that she was
being preyed upon by some secret
grief.
My time, aside from that devoted to
my pupils. was also we'll spent. The
climate was fresh and wholesome. the
environing scenery picturesque, a large
forest at a stones throw, and my many
hours of leisure afforded me ample
opportunity for meditation and day
dreams in which took infinite delight.
For Appearances sake / kept a volume
of Talmud in my room, though l never
opened it, and in it's stead l made good
use of a number of literary works
which 1 found in Makes library, as
we'll as of the Bible, which, in spite of
my skepticism, was my favorite book.
And at night, alone in my quiet cham
Der, l would lie awake and think
the past-always of the incidents OF
the past; the future stood ha2ily be-
fore me like a prophecy. on which l
never cared to dwell too long. In such
moments my thoughts would travel
back to Katia. and with one arm
thrown loosely over my eyes and my
face turned ceilingward 1 would muse
for hours. The remembrance of her
father, like a latter of cloud, would
soon begin to eclipse the happy light
of my mind, but each time 1 would
relegate this thought by sheer force of
will and continue my delightful rumin-
aticn undisturbed. At last my heaven
ly dream would end In a crushing
sense of hopelessness. l would become
conscious, as We so often do in dreams.
that l was merely dreaming a dream
that would never come true. And
slowly this charming vision would
move back, back, and then sink lower
and lower like a setting sun, and a new
phantasm would take its place.
Vaguely would begin to think of my
pupil; Indefinitely her expressive look
would stand before me; family her
voice, full of pathos. would ring In my
ears; and little by little / would be-
come possessed with a feeling desire,
as uncertain as the image in my minds
eye. / would thus continue to muse
until all else would leave my brain ex-
cept the thought of Make. The last
thought would lend speed to the beat
ing OF my heart and would stir my pas
sions. She seems to find no interest
in me" would fash through my mind.
And insignificant little incidents which
had passed between Make and me
would Immediately spring to memory
defining more clearly the thought that
had just crossed my mind. T..is
thought would I'LL me with burning
jealousy, and jealousy would arouse
my feelings. The more 1 thought Of
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CHAPTER XIX.
WANDER AGAIN.

When driven out of my Garden Of
Eden ] repaired to the synagogue. In
Lithuania the synagogue is a lyceum
where the most erudite of the Jewish
community come together of an even
ing to vie in advancing hair-splitting
arguments and technical rigmarole Of
the Talmud; a board of trade where
business men discuss market prices and
competition; a club where friends meet
to chat over a cigarette or a pipe;
center of gossip where everybody talks
of everybody else; place of refuge
for the poor against whom every other
place is closed; and sometimes an
arena where knotty fingers and matted
boards come in close contact, and hats,
like comets fly in the air.
So TO the synagogue l went to spend
the night. Now while l write l see
myself sitting in corner between two
tall bookcases crammed with ancient
volumes, and near the Dutch oven that
reached to the high ceiling. My eyes
are so blurred with tears that every
thing about me is watery and dark.
stare stupidity in front of me without
thinking Of anything in particular.
Fragments of the past come and go
like small tatters of clouds in a stormy
sky; they shift and float and drive
nothing definite. One moment l think
of the present, and my heart swells
with deadly hatred against the Jews
and their religion and their rabbis.
Another moment my anger against my
own people is allayed. I recall Judge
Bialnick; l think of the peasants con-
fession; / vaguely reflect upon the in
cidents of my fathers death. And
again my sore heart smarrs and burns
Wifi hot q Onf IN on ha httt
against the world that enslaved and
degraded them. And again the Jew
the old generation-the, young genera
tion-prejudice; and again my brain
burns with fever at the cruelty Of
their fanaticism. All, Katia. Katia!
like fash Of lightning that splits the
clouds asunder. her face. her voice,
the vivid recollections or her charm
ing ways recurred to my mind. All.
Katial Katia! the lapse intervening
between her and the present vanishes,
and my heart Is yearnIng, craving,
burning with anguish and desire to
see her, to talk to her, to ask her for
help.
Toward morning one desire took
definite shape amid the chaos of my
mind-a desire to emancIpate myself
from the Jewish bondage, to become
free-free, and cast off the yoke that
crushed my father, my grandfather,
and his father before him--to work
and work and work and become-not
a great rabbi who sinks In the mire of
superstition and fanaticism-but a
great man such as Katia wished to see
me, like Pushkin or Gog0l or Lennon
toff.
Thus my whole past flashed through
my mind. and the present stood before
me in all its grimpess. My heart be-
came oppressed with bitterness. /
wished 1 could cry aloud, so that the
big synagogue, the marketplace, the
town and the surrounding fields and
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CHAPTER Xxx.
1 BECOME A TEACHER.

/ had no difficulty in finding the
house of Mr.. Takiff for Reb Dovidle
had told me he was an keeper. and
that there was but one inn in this
struggling village. The long corridor
which ran through the center of the
inn to the bar-room was crowded with
half-drunken peasants, who jostled me
as ! picked my way through them.
and the bar-robm haxy with the smoke
OF vile tobacco was also filled with
vodka soaked muzhiks. VINO laughed
and jabbered and swore.
PLAY" q drunken peasant roared at
a fiaxen- haired lad who stood In the
middle of the room Tightening the keys
of a violin.
Play, Vanka, playi" several other
voices broke out impatiently at the
fiddler.
Hey, Vanka, kraskucha Ga peasant 6
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Makes Indifference to me, the more
/ desired her friendship-her anecllohs'
if possible.
These half jealous, half arduCus SEN
timents finally got full possession OF
my heart and brain. The lessons De
gan duly with the opening Of a book
but hardly ever proceeded further tnan
a few half-hearted questions and ann
less answers Then wa would TOrSet
the lesson and talk disjOintedly or re-
main silent, each engrCssed in secret
thoughts. Make would sit looking out
Of the window. her cheeks aglow with
feeling for which l could see no
cause. and I-poor bundle of senti-
ments-wouId interrupt this silence at
intervals only to t-lk as none but inn
beetles and lovers can, while the slum-
bering passions of a recluse stirred me
TO a fury.
She was always frank and natural
with me: she treated me much as she
might have treated a brother Of her
own age. She would pull my hair and
stroke my chin piayfully, and she
found great delight in teasing me. ]
resented both her sisterly attitude and
the tests at my expense. Frequently
her witty remarks made me writhe,
and | would decide that if she again
spoke in that way l would pay her
back in the same coin. But l never
did In her presence 1 was as submis-
sive as a faithful dog.
But there were some happy moments
when she would gaze dreamily at
me with those strange eyes Of hers,
her hair falling loosely over her white
forehead, her breast quickly heaving.
would beguile myself for a few
throbbing moments with the hope that
these locks betokened love for me, and
would forget all else. My ambition
to become a distinguished man. my
hopes to make a name for myself as
Katia wished me to dO-even thoughts
of katia, who had aroused in me this
ambitiOn-wCuld quickly vanish, and
my only desire would be TO stay in Du-
brovka and give instructions to this
country girl forever and ever.
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CHAPTER XVII.
I BEGIN TO DOUBT.

Faith is like heap Of dry sand; un-
molested it may lie for ages, but as
soon as one grain Of it is disturbed
by the slightest wind. it crumbles away
until there is no trace of it left.
Neither my stay with Judge Bial-
nick nor the fiery arguments of
Ephraim had shaken my belief in the
least. The exulting talk of Rosen-
cranz would likewise have had no per-
manent effect upon me had he not i'm
mediately begun TO take advantage of
the impression he had made. The fol-
lowing day he gave me Spinoza's
Ethics. That book shattered my
peaceful belief in a theological God.
The next bOok-which he borrowed for
me and brought to my lodgings hidden
under his coat-was The Blunderer in
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FACTS ON CANADIAN TRADE.

little definite statistical informa-
ton infused into many of the speeches
that are being made on Canadian
trade would greatly improve them.
From some of the deliverances on this
subject person would naturally in
Ter that our trade with Canada was in
a seriously depressed condition. In
fact some would have us believe that
this trade is growing worse from year
to year. They have seen in this Gre
alton of their own fancy a bugbear
which continued inspection has trans
formed into a monster, whose havoc
can only be averted by making mater
ial concessions through a reciproci-
ty treaty no matter what would be it's
effect to our home interests.
Persons who have listened to these
tales of calamity and who have not
acquainted themselves with the actual
conditions, would scarcely believe that
during the last calendar year our ex-
ports to Canada increased nearly $780,
100000, over the preceding year. This,
too, in face of the fact that during that
period the Canadian tariff gave to
British goods it's heaviest preference of
33 per cent. 1t was with delight the
Britishers saw their imports to Canada
increase from $43,O00,00O in 1901 to
$49,000,000 in 1902. This was hailed
as a great triumph for the preferential
policy. But in face of this hostility the
American exports to Canada last year
increased more than three times as
much as the British exports during the
year in question.
This showing indicates that the
American trade is taking care of it.
self in Canadian markets in way that
needs no assistance in the way of rec
iprocal treaties. The figures of our
exports to Canada and imports from
that country for the last five years
gives evidence of the healthful and
prosperous conditions of this trade.
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to the general conference. Probably
twenty-five have been commissioned
as delegates to Los Angeles. 1t was
also decided that the laymen. who for.
merly had only two representatives
from each conference, should hereafter
have the same representation as the
ministers, who have sent as high as
five or eight delegates from an annual
conference.
Among the matters to be considered
are the consolidation of the church's
benevolences and its publishing inter-
ests, the amusement question, the cleo
ton by conference of the presiding eld-
ers now appointed by the bishops and
the time limit problem. The time
limit was extended from one year to
two, then to three, then to five and
finally the last conference removed it
altogether. Some who advocated this
course are now in favor of restoring
the time limit of five years.
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rue eENERAL CONFERENCE.

In Los Angeles on May will open
one Of the largest national gatherings
TO be held this year and one that is of
supreme Importance to the millions
of members of the Methodist Episco-
nal church. On that date will convene
the uuadrennial general conference,
representing 100000 members, 10000
pastors, $4,000 lay preachers, $4,000
Sabbath schools with 2,750,0O0 scnol-
ars. $4,000 officers and teachers, It's
universities, colleges and seminarles.
Today this church holds property val
ued at s137, 100000 and raises for ex-
penses 100000 every. year, this be
ing exclusive Of the twentieth century
thank offering of $20,000,000.
In the beginning the general confer
ence consisted Of the entire ministry
and assembled annually. Since 1912,
when it became a delegate body it has
met every four years. In 1872 laymen
were admitted to it's deliberations.
Now every conference has one minis
terial delegate for every forty-five
members The lay delegates are chos-
en- by the lay electoral conference
which meets every four years.
The coming general assembly will
be novel one in several respects. 1t
will have written constitution. The
general conference in Chicago in 1900
also decided that women were eligible
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REPUBLICAN STAND is PLAIN.

To use slang expression there is
no possibility of the people of the
United States being in the dark as to
where the republican party is Eat" on
all questions of public policy this year
The past few years have demonstrated
beyond a doubt the wisdom Of republi-
can policies and the ability of the re-
publican officials entrusted with carry
ing out these policies The republi-
cans of the country have evidenced
their approval of existing conditions
and their desire that the republican
party shall be continued in power to
direct the affairs of the nation in their
accustomed able manner.
At the recent state republican con-
vention in New York Congressman Sc
reno E. Payne, chairman, in his ad-
dress referred to the inability of the
democratic party to bring together any
issues on which they could hope to CON
duct winning campaign. He called
attention to the marked contrast in
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IOWA is SOUND.

New Sharon star-If any re-
publican has entertained misgiv-
ings regarding what the feeling
of the rank and file of the party
is regarding the good doctrine of pro-
lection. If anyone has been In doubt as
to what the party declaration on that
point will be when the state platform
has been framed and adopted, most
certainly that individual has taken
council of the fears preached by those
who are not of the true faith. Nothing
is or can be more certain than that
Iowa republicans have not swerved one
jot or title, and when the state plat
form is read in convention the great
hall will echo and re-echo the enthusi-
astic cheers of men who, knowing what
protection is, what it has done and
what it will yet perform in behalf of
the highest interests Of the people of
this country, dare proclaim their faith
and swear to stand unflinchingly by it..
Iowa will be solidly in line with every
other state in the union on this great
question, and will be so represented in
the national convention. Protection is
not only a vital tenant of republican
faith, for without it no man can be a
republican, but is is also the mighty
fulcrum that has lifted this nation out
of democratic weakness and distress
and made it the richest and strongest
nation on earth. These are not idle
words. but the words of truth and sob
erness, and so patent is 1T that the
world at large so comprehends it. 1t
is simply absurdly impossible that
Iowa republicans can be thought cap
able of taking a backward step. Iowa
is sound to the core on the question Of
prot lection.
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THE FARMERS LIVING.

Joe Trigg-A farmer his wife, four
children and like enough one or two of
the old folks live on well conducted
farm. What amout of money does the
living of such a family represent for a
year? Ever figure it out? Well, they
have comfortable home, which if they
had to rent in a town would cost them
at least $3.50 a year; there is the board
Of seven people, and such board would
be cheap at SO per week or $500 per
year, for town people could not begin
to live so we'll for any such sum; then
the family is comfortably clothed,
which certainly could not be done for
less. than $3.50 per year. Now here is
the sum of $500 pei. year. or the equiv
alent Of what would be counted as a
pretty good salary for town man, OBJ
tanned by the farmer--an income which
he enjoys year in and year out and of
whichibut very small account is made
by most farmers in estimating the re-
turns of their business. 1t makes lots
of difference whether the good wife in
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ON WHAT RoosEvELT's FAME
WILL REST.

Kansas City Star.-In fifty years
from now the fame of Theodore Roose-
welt will not rest on the fact that, at
the age when he became president he
had crowded more into his life than
any other American, living or dead.
1t will not rest on his romantic
record as the gallant leader of the
Rough Riders" or his valor at San
Juan.
1t will not rest on his achievements
as man of letters or on any of the in
teresting books that he has produced.
1t will not rest on his strong and at
tractive individuality or on any of the
unique personal traits that have differ
entiated him from other public men.
But it will rest on the consistent hat
red he has shown for grating and the
fine courage he has displayed in clean
ing out the departments of the ma
tional government beginning, not at
the bottom, but at the top, where cor
rection may be administered to those
who have been guilty of the abuse of
power and of treachery to their high
trusts.
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SOME POLITICAL HISTORY.

Tabor Beacon-A very pleasant and
significant feature of the congressional
convention was the presence of a num-
Der of the gentlemen who We're dele
gates to the convention which first
nominated Colonel Hepburn at Coun-
ell Bluffs twenty-four years ago. In
that convention, held in 1880, Page
county the home of Colonel Hepburn,
had ten delegates. Five of the gentle
men who We're at the delegation are
still residents of Page county, and four
of them were in the. convention at
Creston as alternates, and occupied
seats with the Page county delegation.
They are John N. Miller, j. e. Hull,
Val Graft. all Of Clarinda, and j. w.
Turner, of Coin. The fifth man is John
Burrows, also of Clarinda, but who is
now in the south for his health and
was not able to be present. Four of
the ten have died since that memorable
convention of 1880, and one. J. B. Short,
has left the state and Is now q resident
Of Wisconsin. The names OF the de-
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Mr.. SULLIVAN AND HEARST.

Sioux City Journal: The Crestou
American Is panied to hear that Hon.
j. b. Sullivan. formerly Of Creston.
now Of Des Moines, Polk county
delegate to the democratic state con-
Ventton, though instructed for Hearst.
personally prefers Judge Parker. The
American reminds Mr. Sullivan, in the
familiar way Of an old neighber, that
ne mas been a warm political II IS s
Mr. BRYAN and that he earnestly at5yo-
Gated the platforms upon which Mr..
Bfyan twice contested for the presi-
dency. The American appears to in
innate that Mr.. Sullivan is In some
way doing injustice to Mr.. Bryan in
declaring against Mr.. Hearst as his
f1rst choice. But the American goes
further. 1t says that in Mr.. Sullivan's
candidacy for governor last year "Mr.
Hearst must have spent several thous-
and dollars In covering the state with
democratic literature advocating Mr..
Sullivan's election" It would appear,
then, that the American Is panied to
find Mr.. Sullivan both untrue to Mr..
Bryan and ungrateful to Mr.. Hearst.
1t is possible that Mr.. Sullivan may be
under the impression that the demo
cratic literature" circulated in the state
last year at the expense Of Mr.. Hearst
was more In advocacy Of the cause Of
Hearst than In support Of the election
of Mr.. Sullivan: and In that view 1t
may be Mr.. Sullivan does not under-
stand that he Is In debt to Mr.. Hearst,
which debt he should satisfy even at
the expense of his conscience. 1t Is not
improbable. however, that the view
represented by the American is the
view entertained by Mr.. Hearst. From
the beginning of his campaign for the
presidential nomination the Hearst
method has been to influence Judgment
and action by the expenditure of mons
ey. 1t is greatly to the credit Of Mr.,
Sullivan that personally he has held
himself superior to the Hearst
methods
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No Mistakes and No Failures.
ceased are Isaac Damewood, E. B.
Ioag, II. E. Clark and John S. Griffith.

ceased are Isaac Damewood, E. B.
Hoag. II. E. Clark and John S. Griffith.
The Council Bluffs convention was q
notable one. Pottawattamie county
was at that time in the eighth district,
and Colonel Sapp, a resident of that
county, was one of the leading candi-
dates; in fact the contest finally mar
rowed down to q struggle between Col
onel Hepburn and Colonel Sapp. The
convention was in session six days.
Four candidates entered the race-Col-
onel Hepburn, Colonel Sapp, A. r. An
derson and John Y. Stone. Three hun
dred and eighty-hve ballots We're taken
and it was on the 3S5th ballot that Col
onel Hepburn received the nomination.
The chairman of the convention was
Hon. Frank M. Davis of Adams county.
During all these years Mr.. Davis and
the five Page county gentlemen who
We're alternate delegates to the Creston
convention have been warm friends
and supporters of Colonel Hepburn,
and they are now proud of the part
they took in the 1880 convention which
first named Colonel Hepburn for con-
gress. The colonel is now serving his
tenth term in the house of representa-
tiyes and Tuesday received his elev-
enth nomination 1t Is a very signifi-
cant fact that the nomination was by
reclamation and without opposition,
something highly gratifying to the four
old-timers who sat in the convention as
alternate delegates and also to the dis
tinguished gentleman who presided at
the Council Bluffs convention, who was
an interested spectator, Hon. E. M.
Davis