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CHAPTER xv.-continued.

In the swift current of humanity
then streaming up and down the cattle
range. the reputation of the Halfway
House was carried far and near; and
for fifty miles east and west, for five
hundred miles north and south. the
beauty OF the girl at the Halfway
House was matter of general story.
About her there grew a saga of the
cow range, and she was spoken of with
awe from the BraZos to the Blue.
Many rude cowman made long pill
grimage to verify rumors he had
heard Of the personal beauty, the per-
sonal sweetness of nature, the personal
kindness of heart, and yet the personal
reserve and dignity of this new god
dess, whose like was not to be found
in all the wide realms of the range.
For each of these rude, silent, awk-
ward range riders, who stammered in
all speech except to men or horses,
and who stumbled in all locomotion but
that Of the saddle, Mary Ellen had
kind spot in her soul, never ceasing
to wonder as she did at the customs
and traditions OF their life. Pain they
knew not, fear they had not, and duty
was their only god. They told her,
simply as children, of deeds which
now caused shudder, now set ting
ling the full blood of enthusiasm, and
opened up unconsciously to her view
rude field OF knight-errantry, whose
principles sat strangely close with the
best traditions of her own earlier land
and time. They were knights-errant
and for all on the Ellisville trail there
was but one lady.
AS for Edward Franklin himself, he
could not in his moments of widest
egotism assign himself to a place any
better than that accorded each mem.
Der Of the clans who rallied about this
Southern lady transplanted to the
Western plains. Repulsed in his first
unskilled, impetuous advance; hurt,
stung, cut to the quick as much at his
own clumsiness and fauure to make
himself understood as at the actual
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rebuff received, Franklin none the less
lin time recovered sufficient equanimity
to seek to avail himself of such advan-
tages as still remained; and he re-
solved grimly that he would persist un-
til at least he had been accepted as
something better than blundering
boor. Under Major Buford's invita-
tion he called now and again at the
Halfway Ranch and the major was
glad each time to see him. Mrs. Bu-
ford also received Franklin with pleas
ure. and Mary Ellen certainly always
with politeness. Yet, fatal sign Mary
Ellen never ran for her mirror when
she knew that Franklin was coming.
OF lovers Mary Ellen would hear of
none, and this was Franklin's sole con-
ISOLATION. Yet all day as he labored
there was present in his subconscious-
ness the personality of this proud and
sweet-faced girl Her name was
spelled large upon the sky. was voiced
by all the birds. 1t was indeed her
face that looked up from tho printed
page. He dared not hope. and yet
shrunX from the thought that he must
not, knowing what lethargy must else
ingulf his soul. He heard so clearly
the sweet, imperious summons which
is the second command put upon ami
mate nature: First to prevail, Co
live; second. to love, to survive. As
tree whispers unto tree, as flower
yearns to flower, so came the mandate
to his being in that undying speech
that knows no change from the begin
ming to the end Of time.
Against this overwhelming desire of
an impetuous love there was raised but
one barrier-the enduring resistance of
a woman's WILL silent, not strenuous.
nnprotesting, but unchanged. To all
his renewed pleadings the girl simply
said that she had no heart to give
that her hope of happiness lay buried
on the field of Louisburg, in the far,
Of land that she had known in young.
- and less troubled days. Leaving
that land, orphaned, penniless, her life
crushed down at the very portal of
Nomanhood, her friends scattered her
family broken and destroyed her
whole world overturned, she had lef,
also all hope Of later happiness.
There remained to her only the mem.
ory~of past. the honor that she
priced, the traditions which she must
maintain. She was ''unreconstruct.
ed" as she admitted bitterly. More
over, so she said. even could it lie in
her heart ever to prove unfaithful to
her lover who had died upon the field
of duty, never could 1t happen that she
would care for one of those who had
murdered him, who had murdered her
happiness, who had ruined her home,
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Even mental appe-
tites will run away with
our caution If 9iven a
chance.

My eye is always ready to see an
object with a story in it if it is in the
interest of forethought.
When a man showed me his inven-
tion and told me about his hopes and
how it cost him hundred dollars to
add to his invention the discovery that
he could not get it patented-then my
appetite for objects ran away with
my caution and l asked him to give
me the hundred dollar model for my
accuracy exhibit.
To my surprise he gave it to me.
asked in confidence yet was surprised
in getting it. Why should that be pos
sible?
1t was box with handle on top
and as lifted it lesson was taught
me-lift things before you ask for
them. 1t was too heavy for my use
My zeal went down right there
enough to postpone carrying 1t away
that day and each time thought of the
box either wondered how to use it or
how to gracefully get out of taking it.
The other day incidentally remarked
W lHe iHNeutol thdl my use lOT lue
box might be limited to writing about
it. Just SO long as have a chance to
leave the box and hold on to his offer
it is wise to do SO as any day l may
discover how to make good use of his
discovery. Never give up on account
of fear or discouragement or regret or
ignorance. If I knew more l might
sustain my zeal that acquired per-
plexity.
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Advice leads us up to
a stone wall tn r O u h
which few of us are able
to pound a passage.

Many times l have wished that l
could write you more closely on the
scenes where some of my lunch hour
talks are given.
This month spent half hour at
noon with some thirty mill men and
while l interested them some they in
terested me much.
1t would be great recreation for me
to have bench in that mill and spend
a half day week at it making con-
venient things for the house or play
things for the children.
1t does me good to work with work
ers and think with thinkers. Once l
sat on the bench with a judge. An
other time l sat in pulpit with a
minister. Again l helped a farmer
burn the brush in his apple orchard.
For a few weeks took charge of a
college friends medical practice in a
village while he went to California for
a vacation. wish I could do your
work for week and let you do the
things you wish to.
What would you do if y ,u had plenty
of time and money? What do you
want to know more about? This is
what l want to know more about
how to help people get beyond that
stone wall up to which good advice
leads them and there leaves them.
1t seems to me l am too slow in in
teresting them in self-effort and l
know too little about the tools and how
to use them. Just when am ready to
give up some one tells me that I have
helped him or her get through and
then l begin with a new breath to en-
courage others and explain the plan
Of action.
For long time have thought that
Providence pushed me into this and
that trouble to have me learn how to
get out in order to tell others. how to
get out, but now l am beginning to see
that He jerks me out when am ready
to give up and sink.
If He is willing to jerk me out he
certainly must be willing to do the
same by you or any one else provided
there is desire to live to do some
thing worth doing.
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The greatest dangers
do notSive us our great
est fears---why be fear
full?

Little, harmless things make people
Jump and then these same people will
never move a muscle in fear when.
facing real terrors.
Can we exercise our muscle-mind in
a way to be toughened to the point of.
resisting any kind of unexpected
events?
Have you tried tests with others,
either games or exercises, to grow
self-control that retains itself before
startling things?
Children seem to be naturally in
clined to do tricks and surprises to
train each other in self-control.
Wise adults get their best informa-
tion by studying children and those
who enjoy old age are young in heart
and ready for recreations.
Study out for yourself some recrea-
tion which will benefit you and your
frierAls-there is more pleasure in a
beneficial than an injurious enter
tainment provided you put life into it.
Some excellent games have been
pushed aside, by young and old who
need them, because they were con-
Quoted in a half-hearted manner.
Those who wish to do good should
hunt up, bring out and animate these
entertaining and useful pasttimes
which have been shelved by mistake.
Our ancestors knew two or three
things we might learn to our benefit.
For half dozen thousand years
there have been families somewhere
in the world that had forethought
enough to pass along from generation
to generation knowledge of life and
its daily sources but even to-day not
one family in hundred is living as
wisely as they might live if little
more attention were given to syste
matte cheerfulness.
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How We Influence Others.

A man with some heavy bundles
left his home to take the nearest
street car line.
AS he passed the house of a neigh
Dor the latter came out to Join him
and offered to carry one of the bundles
If he would walk down to the second
car line and catch an express train.
The first man decided to do SO and
then third man came out of his
house as the two men passed
The third man intended to take the
first car line but decided to walk down
to the fast train service after the first
man had reported his convention to
taking a walk.
Then one man said that he supposed
it was all right to cheat the street
cars that way. The first car line only
took them to junction where they
would have taken the fast train which
they walked to.
Another Of the men said that it
was all right to cheat the kind of car
service the first line was giving. Now
that is a very common remark and
probably all Of us have made such
speeches.
But that first car line is not max
Ing any money and it is a ane friend
when there is storm or you have a
bundle that's heavy and no one to
help you carry 1t. We should give
even corporations justice or we will
ihJure our own judgment.
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lN-ss~~0N-s~0Ness--s1N~~.1N-

| destroyed her people, and banished
her in this far wandering from the
land that bore her.
Providence did not bring me here
to marry you," she said to Franklin
keenly, but to tell you that l would
never marry you-never, not even
though l loved you, as do not. l am
still Southerner, am still rebel.
Moreover. l have learned my lesson.
shall never love again"
ever the best salve known for a hurt
ing heart. Franklin betook him to his
daily work. and he saw success attend
his labors. He felt growing in his
heart the stubbornness of the man of
property, the landholding man, the
man who even unconsciously plans a
home. resolved to cling to that which
he has taken of the earth's surface for
his own. He knew that this pe-2ervid
time could not endure, knew that the
sweep Of American civilization must
occupy all this land as it had all the
lands from the Alleghenies to the
plains. He foresaw in this crude new
region the scene of great material
activity, vast industrial develop
ment. 1t needed no great foresight
to realize that all this land, now so
wild and cheap, could not long remain
wild and cheap, but must follow the
history of values as 1t had been writ
ten up to the edge Of that time and
place.
OF law business OF an actual sort
there was next to none at Ellisville, all
the transactions being in wild lands
and wild cattle, but. as did all attor-
neys of the time, Franklin became
broker before he grew to be profes
sional man. Fortunate in securing the
handling of the railroad lands, he sold
block after block Of wild land to the
pushing men who came out to the
front" in search of farms and cattle
ranches. His own profits he invested
again in land Thus he early found
himself making much more than live
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Emergency Telegraph Equipment.

emergency Ieie9raPn equipment.
It's far cry from Manila to Balti.
more, but the war in the Philippines
taught telegraph companies a trick
that came in handy at the big con-
flagration.
The exigencies of the campaign Of
our troops in the Eastern archipelago
necessitated the organization of the
most elaborate emergency telegraph
lines. A clever electrician devised
apparatus that was collapsible and re-
ducible to an extent which would
make forty-mile telegraph line fit
into an army wagon.
This outfit included not only full
stand Of quadruplex instruments and
fittings sufficient to permit operators
to work, but dynamo and kerosene
engine to run it, together with fuel
for the engine. 1t only remained to
string the wires to trees or any other
projections, and the line was ready.
When the office of the telegraph
companies were burned out complete.
ly in Baltimore these emergency
plants were used with good effect.
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HINTS FOR eaIpEeRooms.
Plenty Of Advice for Brides. but Not a
Word for the Poor Men.


Word for the Poor Men.
A thoughtful young man of Wash
ington was heard to decry the other
day the fact that while there is q
deluge of "don'ts" and "d0s" for the
bride to follow, the bridegroom must
shift for himself.
There is absolutely nothing to
guide man but his own awkward
self. 1t isn't fair" he said. From
the time girl is old enough to detect
sound she understands the import
ance Of having things done properly
at wedding. while the prospective
groom is only something necessary to
complete the picture. Nothing short
of inspiration can get a man through
marriage ceremony gracefully.
I'm order to impress the bride and
spectators that he is enthusiastic
about it, he appears with a sort of
frozen grin on his face that you ex-
pect to melt at any moment and run
down his collar. II he is too fright
ened to respond in a loud voice some
Of the brides girl friends will whisper
that 1t was plainly evident he was
unwilling from the start Again, IL
he replies in loud. stern voice, an
other bunch in another direction of
the church will huddle together and
express how glad they are that they
are not marrying him, while the atti-
tude Of many is that they are signing
away their life and all worth living
for. So l, for one, think it high time
that somebody wrote few hints on
how to behave. that we men may ap-
pear enthusiastic about being mar.
ried without being ridiculous and
proving target for the world in gen.
eral to knock at."-Washington Post.
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The face OF Ma

herds of the buffalo. The face OF Ma
ture was changing. The tremendous
drama of the West was going on in all
its giant action. This torrent of rude
life. against which the hands OF the
law were still SO weak and unayail,ng,
had set for it in the ways of things a
limit for its flood and a time for its
receding.
The West was a noble country. and
it asked of each man what nobility
there was in his soul. Franklin began
to grow. As he looked beyond the day
of cattle and foresaw the time of the
plough. SO also he gazed far forward
into the avenues OF his own life. now
opening more clearly before him. He
rapidly forecast the possibilities of the
profession which he had chosen, and
with grim self-confidence felt them
well within his power. Beyond that
then, he asked himself, in his curious
self-questioning manner, what was
there to be? Wherein was he to gain
that calmness and that satisfaction
which ought to attend each human
soul, and ent1tle it to the words well
done?" Odd enough were some of
these selfsearchings which went on
betimes in the little Office of this
pl9insman lawyer; and strangest of all
to Franklin's mind was the feeling
that, as his heart had not yet gained
that which was its right. neither had
his hand yet fallen upon that which
it was to do.
Franklin rebelled from the technical
side of the law, not SO much by reason
Of its dry difficulty as through scorn of
its admitted weakness. its inability to
do more than compromise; through
contempt Of its pretended beneficences
and its frequent ineff1ciency and harm.
fulness. In the law he saw plainly the
lash of the taskmaster, driving all
those yoked together in the horrid
compact Of society, a master inexor-
able, stone-faced, cruel. In it he found
no comprehension, seeing that it re,
garded humanity either as herd of
slaves or a pack Of wolves, and not
as brethren laboring, suffering, per.
forming common destiny, yielding to
common fate. He saw In the law
no actual recognition of the individual
but only the acknowledgment of the
social body. Thus. set down in a day
miraculously clear, placed among
strong characters who had never yet
yielded up their souls, witnessing tina,
time which knew the last blaze of the
spirit OF men absolutely free, Franklin
felt his own soul leap into prayer
for the continuance of that day. See.
ing then that this might not be, he fell
sometimes to the dreaming of how
he might some day, If blessed by the
pitying and understanding spirit OF
things, bring out these types, per,
petuate these times, and SO at last set
them lovingly before world which
might at least wonder, though it did
not understand. Such were his vague
dreams, unformulated; but, happily,
meantime he was not content merely
to dream.
Ito be continued.)
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Resist not evil but re-
sist temPtatio n an d
make discoveriesb better
than gold.

There are God mines more precious
than gold or diamonds.
When you get into a bowling mad
ness against any person. place, thing
or conditions. write all the bad things
you can think and send it to memo
other place.
In my Arcade Index library of manu-
scripts and printed letters l have a
place for hot shot or shot too hot to
fire, except for some Fourth Of July
day, and then in the air.
While your letter of adjectiyes and
advents is ON the way to me you will
be thinking out an original plan which
will be ten times better than firing
your vehemence toward a mark. If
you should fire and hit the mark it
might rebound to your disadvantage,
and if you should not hit the mark
it might give you rheumatism of tho
memory.
This morning thought that I would
write certain man final letter. The
man is about as nice every other time
l see him as a mad bull.
He treats you according to condi-
tioAo oNel WHICH SOl nave uO COuIIOl
but he is not the only person in the
world who has this element of CYCLIC
pedia human nature.
In place of writing him that final
letter l pulled in my excitement and
rested my head.
And what came to me! Just the
best idea that l have ever had for
that changeable acquaintance.
1t is the missing link in our negotia.
tions and will make us both good ma
tured as it lifts our muddled subjects
out Of the swamp on the mountain
side.
Had l written him the final letter it
would have been polite and dignified
affair, but with some sarcasm between
the lines.
Would you rather get directly sar-l
castle letter than one with cultured
sarcasm? 1t seems to me that would
but rather than get either kind I pre-.
fer useful and original idea that is a
winner.
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Ito be continued.)
PARIS sLEUTHs WERE SLY.
Convinced Russia's Emperor That
They Were Awake and Active.

They Were Awake and Active.
The Paris correspondent of London
Truth tells this story of the manner
in which the Russian government test
ed the efficiency of the French detec-
tive police when the czar was about
to visit Paris. The chief Of the Rus.
sian police went secretly to the
French capital, with orders to lie
quietly by in hotel and only to re-
port himself at the embassy after a
stay of a week. But he had not been
three hours in Paris before the pre-.
feet of police learned Of his arrival
from French detective. At St. Pc.
tersburg they thought this satsfac.
tory result, and the imperial pair
ventured to go to Paris and drive
down the Champs Elysees without
cavalry around their carriage.
A similar test applied in Rome had
different consequences. The head OF
the Russian police remained there for
a whole week without his arrival be-
ing suspected. On the evening of the
sixth day he called on Count Nelidoff
to report himself, to the great aston.
ishment of that ambassador. They
both agreed that if the Roman police
had not scented out the head of the
greatest police force in the world they
could not be depended upon to know
much about the goings on OF anarch
lists and nihilists. This Is alleged to
be the true reason why the czar de-
clined to trust himself in the king Of
Italy's dominions.
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CAPTURED Unknown Bird,

Elisha Read of Allingtown, Conn.,,
discovered an exhausted bird in his
yard which is apparently a newcomer
in that region. 1t Is blackbird with
gold on the end of each wing feather
and each tail feather. 1t is supposed
to be one of the foreign birds which
were deposited on Long island for
destruction of the insects on fruit
trees, and the violent winds are sup
posed to account for its presence.
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Tortoise Centuries Old.

lands sway in Ceylon is living crea-
ture, a grand old tortoise, supposed to
have belonged to one Of the Dutch
governors some 200 years ago. He is
very docile and ever ready to attract
the attention of anyone who is likely
to offer him plaintain. The tortoise is
so large that he can carry several
boys on his back at one time.
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Day by Day.

Walking with patience where the way
is rough,
Resting In quiet when the storm is
nigh,
Knowing that love Divine is strong
enough
To bear me up a. weary days so by:
Trusting that sorrow is but loves dis
guise,
And all withholding. yet another way
OF making richer by what love denies
So grows the soul a little. day by day.
Mary q s~wxrd. in The Independent
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Miniature Typewriter.

The smallest typewriter ever manu-
factured was made in America four
teen years ago. 1t was four Inches
by three inches and weighed four and
a half ounces
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Trades Unions Grow.

Unionism in the United States
has grown in nine years from soo. 900
to 100000.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-01-08
Una iinianliia /

Ciertos elementos er6tic0S, aliados
con algunos tipOs de alma r4qu1tica ma
cidos en- este pueblo; hombres reptiles
scostumbrAdos & reyolcarse en- ell tango
de Ia corruption; han pretendido des-
prestigiarme Y hundirme, apelando para
clio, & la calumnis cob&rde, Is difama-
ci6n rastrera.
Estos malvsdos, careciendo dc v&lor
para combatirme de frente, azuzsn & los
inconsistencies los utiiizan como instru-
mento para realizsr sus maquiagelicos
planes satisAcer sus deseos de ven-
ganza.
Ultimamente sobornaron & IN joven
infeliz, al cual, sin respetar la honra de
una sefIorits, nj daFse cuenta del delito
en- que incurrfa, compareci6, dicen, ante
el sefior Juez de Paz jur6 una denun-
cia completanente falsa contra ell sus-
cribiente.
Por tai motivo fai detenido ell dfa
81 de Dicier7bre por ell pundonoroso ca
DO de la polcia insular, sef1or Manzana-
res, en- virtud de mapdamiento expedido
por ell senor Juez de Barros, sieno. con-
ducino dicho pueblo ingresando en- Ia
que fol puesto en- libertad mediante fan
"a de ldos mil Sdollars.l que prestsron
los sefiores don Ventura Forts don
Tom4s. Pagan Aponte.
Tan est1pids, tan NAL tramada re-
sult6 In infame acusacion, que ell Juez,
despuGs de OR los testgos de cargo,
acord6 ell sobreseimiento de las diligen-
cias v Ia cauceiac6n de la fanza.
Be han lucido mis- cobardes ene-
migos,
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-01-08
AIOs feder ahs
de HumaCaO

Debiendo procederse Ia renova-
ci6n annual del Comit6 local del Partido
Federal Americana de la ciudad de Hu-
macao, Sc ruegs encarecidamente todos
los sefIores afiIiados a esta patri6tica
agrupaci6n polftica, que Sc dignen con-
currir la asamblea, que con ell fin in
dicado, tendra lugar ell Domingo 10 de
los corrientes las de su tarde, en- ell
edificio aImacen de don Manuel Argiieso,
ci6n de este solemne acta,
Humacao, de Enero de 1904
JUAN Was OcHoTEco.
PresidenEe del Comite.