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had searched for you for days, he be-

had searched for you for days, he be-
ing chosen by Wilson for his friend
and said he had at last found you in
your lodgings. Egad! have mistook
your kidney completely. Never in
London was duel brought on so swift.
Fight? This afternoon!' said you.
Jove! but the young blocds laughed
when they heard of it. Bloody Scot
land is what they have christened you
at the Green Lion. He said to me-
said Charlie, that he was slow to fnd
a quarrel, but since this quarrel was
brought home to him, 'twere meet
'twere soon finished. He thought,
forsooth, that four o'clock OF the aft
ernoon were late enough Cad! But
you might have given Wilson time at
least for one more dinner"
What do you mean?" exclaimed
Law, mystlfied still.
Mean! Why, mean that I've been
securing London to find you. My
faith, man, but thou'rt sudden &C
tor! Where caught you this unseen
ly haste?"
"Sir Arthur" said the other, slowly,
" you do me too much justice. have
made no arrangement to meet Mr.. Will
son. nor have any wish to do So"
"Pish, man! You must not jest with
me in such case as this. IT'S no
masquerading. Let me tell you, Will
son has vicious sword, and temper
no less vicious. You have touched him
on his very sorest spot. He has gone
to meet you this very hour. His coach
will be at Bloomsbury square this
afternoon, and there he will await
you. promise you he is eager as
yourself. IT'S too late now to accom-
modate this matter, even had you not
swer."
81 have sent him no answer at ALL"
cried Law. Il have not seen Castleton
at ALL
ooh, comet" expostulated Sir Ar
thur, his face showing a flush of an
noyance.
.sSir Arthur" continued Law, as he
raised his head, 81 am of the misfor-
tune to be but young in London, and
am in need of your friendship. l
find myself pressed for rapid transport
tation. Pray you, give me your mount,
for must have speed. l shall not need
the service of your seconding. In
dnlge me now by asking no more, and
wait until we meet again. Give me
the horse, and quickly"
But you must be seconded" cried
the other. This is too unusual. Con-
sider!" Yet all the time he was CIV
ing hand at the stirrup of Law, who
sprang up and was off before he had
time to formulate his own wonder.
"Who and what is hep muttered the
young nobleman to himself as he gazed
after the retreating form. "He rides
we'll, at least, as he does everything
else we'll. Till l return forsooth, till
l return!' Cad! half wish you had
never come in the first place, my
Bloody Scotland!"
AS for Law, he rode swiftly, asking
at times his way, losing time here
gaining it again there, creating mucl
hatred among foot folk by his TEN.
pestuous speed, but giving little heet
to aught save his own purpose. Ii
time he reached BradweI street AM
flung himself from his painting hors,
in front of the dingy door of the lodg
ing house. He rushed up the stairs a
speed and threw open the door of thu
little room. 1t was empty.
There was no word to show wha
his brother had done, whittier he hal
gone, when he would return.
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CHAPTER TX.
IN SEARCH OF THE QUARREL

IN SEARCH OF THE QUARREL.
AS Law turned away from the door
OF the Knollys mansion, he walked
with head bent forward, not looking
upon the one hand or the other. He
raised his eyes only when a passing
horseman had called thrice to him.
What" cried Sir Arthur Pembroke.
II little looked to see you here, Mr..
Law. l thought it more likely you
We're engaged in other business"
Meaning by that"
What should mean. except that l
supposed you preparing for your little
affair with Wilson,"
my little AFFAIR.""
Certainly, with Wilson, as said.
saw our friend Castleton but now, and
he advised me of your promptness. He
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glory of became beggar truths sake suggests
the devoons and grad the aspirations five
dred and million Of for the of the Buddha pfu
he who taught men to be kind merciful and forgvng.
Over the of Alexander the name of Mace
dona terrible write the of Socrates the
private soldier the Grecian army His father
cutters his mother He his talking with
youths IN the market place. he death because his
But his impiety represented his love for TRUTH his
and after centuries his the greatest Greece
was the might of the right.
The bible of Chrendom contains the the humble
but they spoke truth pyramd and
overlay dynaies jeremiah exile Paul in prison.
these represent the mighty of history might lay
right which they championed
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azspa<sl12 &1ds G1zA0'
RigM Makes 1Mgbt'
BY REV. JENKIN LLOYD JONES,
Pastor All Souls Church, Chicago.

Right makes might History is simply YER
i6cation of it. What has become of the great
powers, the mighty cities, the dreaded con-
querors that you read of in your books? They
were mighty; they were populous; they were
rich; they were terrible. The names of the
far-off merchants, presidents and mayors, the
bankers and manufacturers are lost and their
work is forgotten, save few antiquities,
broken relics, scattered fragments that are left
us to tell us how the mighty have fallen. They
had not the right Of the might
Over against the names that are renen1-
bered only in pity and in disgrace put the
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-05-18
Touching the Pocket Nerve.

An English socialist, explaining to a
friend tie principles of socialism, re-
marked that all possessions should be
shared equally. "If you had two
horses" said the friend, would you
give me one?" "Of course" replied the
socialist. "And if you had two COWS
would you do the same?" "Of course
| should" We'll, supposing, now"
said the friend slowly. 'yo. had tive
pigs. would you give me one of them?'
Ell! Tha's gettin' over near home"
said the other. sly1y. "Tha know
I've got Two plga"
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certain limit help but the advantage stage
profession the applicant suited temperament
else for her work The stage like all other
always the top does have
ranks for advancement For painters writer's singers
to those who deserving and this hinge upon
the will of petty employer Even the dramatic schools grind
by the dozens to-day would discourage whom
thought had ability enter the profession Good
enough and the stage will be hurt by the addition number Of
bad if a few good be given
To girl who loves her work and realizes its seriousness would
all ahead But the young who looks upon
stage Of roc through life easy of gaining the
that she graves, should keep away from In ninety
nine of hundred the is the result of hard
calling the work hard
ing and the young who ontenpates making in this
should realize that she about profession which
hardshp disapponments work. timphsf they should
finally greater than other walk of life recall
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THE MISSISSIPPI
i, BUBBLE
By EMERSON HoUGH
Author of ''The Story of the Cowboy"
THE Girl at the Hallway House, Etc.
CHAPTER VIII.

Copyright, 1902, by Emerson Hough.,
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workers The astocracy
force and the arisocracy of birth disappearing the
ocracy of brains still remains
In the development of industrial system and degradation
of worker through this stoccy disappear
This process already taking place. The degraded
Rome her intellectual slaves, degraded
fact that they prosuted higher and possibilities The editor
whose directed from the counting the college professor
explain defend system gives
him his saary the clergyman who breaches pontes patudes p
ocratc pewshese of the types modern intellectual
slaves. The fact that they often utterly of their ev
ude hateng their they
degrees above the manual aorer point of feedon-a this only
vcals the depth of their degradation.
The growing realization OF this condition by the mental workers
ton of both manual and mental workers. through the social ownership
OF the of productions will do
usefulness alone will determine the dignity of labor and labor
will determine whether
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Opportunities Of THE Stage
By HENRIETTA CROSSMAN.
Playing Star Part In "Sweet Kitty Bellairs. p

he opportunities offered to young in the dramatic
profession more, think than in any other There is
always room at the top and presume that every young
who goes the stage has ambition to become
To young woman who has talent and that is not
difficult to discover, my advice would be adopt the profess
sion of the stage
When one looks at the myriad of young girls who are
working in stores, Offices and other places earning mere
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lNentnI and Manual Se,vitude
By DIR. HOWARD A. GIBBS, M. D.

He JOY OF work under the conditions which surround the
working class today is imposbiy, and hold up as
an ideal or duty is hollow nockery.
1t is generally conceded that mental work presupposes
higher degree Of development than manual work. but this
the real basis of the nsdious distinction which usually
drawn between them The distinction final analysis is
purely economic one. Manual work has become badge
of ervude and in fact lies the basis OF the distinction Per-
aps no class has been more ready to draw this distinction
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10

nailed up boxes. And all the rest ~
the time, except a mighty brief time
for sleep, we cultivated acuuaintan cas
and visited the people at their houses
In the course of three weeks we had
learned just one thing; that everybody
in the village knew about the secret
hat machine. and that the machinist
in the hat factory had made several
small parts for the Inventors" and
had become quite friendly with them.
The machinist had a little farm and
orchard just outside of the village We
visited it in a friendly way, and II
struck us at once that it was the most
convenient sort of a spot for a hiding
place.
The result was that I developed
cough that made it necessary for ME
to stop working in the factory: and
arranged with the machinist to work
for my board on his farm in order to
get the open air exercise.
That made two more weeks of "ro-
mantle" work-cleaning barns and
chicken houses. wedding. digging
trenches and painting the fence. And
in addition, of course. was the big work
of examining that farm infinitely for
traces of the bank notes and the
plate.
Well. I found them. I discovered
signs that the chicken house had been
moved at some recent time. 1t was
far too heavy for me to move alone
to look under it. I had the romantic"
experience of wriggling fiat on my face
into the feather and mouldering dirt
under it and cropping around in the
dark. But I found the counterfeit plate
there, all wrapped up in oiled paper
and packed in a case.
I left it there, and in three days
more / found the bank notes in an
other case buried under an old apple
tree. I left these in their hiding place
also, and communicated with my COM
rades.
We knew that the machinist was
honest that that the counterfeiters had
planted the stuff in his place with
out his knowledge. But we wanted to
catch the counterfeiters with the stuff,
so we used him for a tool.
That night 1 told him that I was
really private detective, hired by hat
manufacturers, and that I knew that
part of the newly invented machinery
was buried somewhere on his place I
told him that my employers were de-
termined to get hold of it, and offered
him a bride to show me the place of
concealment.
He did what 1 hoped he would do.
He told me to pack up and get out of
his house. Then he drove post-haste
up the road and warned the invent
ors" of the attempt.
They at once admitted to him that
they had buried parts of their lin
vention" on his farm. They arranged
with him to go there next day, pack
the stuff up and send it away.
We allowed them to do this in peace,
watching them with field glasses from
a piece of woods. Then, as they came
driving unsuspectingly along the road,
with the discriminating evidence in
their wagon, we surrounded them.
In another half hour we had packed
up the presses and other stuff in their
den" and before noon we had pris-
oners and air landed in Jail.
The romantic" part of it lasted
about one hour. The farm work and
box-nailing lasted five weeks.
THE END.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10
OUR CHIEF VENOMOUS SNAKES
And What to Do if Bitten by RattIesnake or
Copperhead

What do I know about snakes o.
said Pennsylvania Pike county noun
tain boy to me last summer. repeating
a question had asked him. We'll. I
know l kill every one come across
Why? Becuz they're liable to sting you
with their forged tongues, and they're
all more or less pizen.
You can't KILN ALT once. A snake
never dies fore sunset. no matter how
much he's battered up. And if a
snake kin git TO look any kind of
critter right in the eye, he kin put
spell on'm so they can't git away.
know a boy thet come across a
SNAKE with a lot OF young ones. When
she saw him she jest opened her
mouth wide es she could and all them
little snakes run down her throat
Yes, sir" he continued eagerly,
there's some curious kind of snakes
round on the other side of the lake.
They's a kinder snake there with "A
pizen sharp horn on the end Of his tail.
1t don't pizen him. though. He takes
it inter his mouth, meks hisself inter
d hoop and rolls hisself along like a
hcople.
If he sees man he chases him
and strikes him dead with his pizen
tail. Yes, sur, I ought fer to know
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10
ONE WAY TO LEARN SWIMMING.
An Expert Gives a Bit of Advice.

An Expert Gives a Bit of Advice.
MANY boys. and men. too, for that
matter" said a swimming teacher last
week. find 1t hard to learn to swim
because they cannot get so they
won't splitter and choke as soon
as their mouths or noses get
under water Their nervous sys-
TENS are such that the excite
ment of going in. even though they
may not realize it. makes them gasp
al the slightest provocatiOn. This nat
urally leads to a certain amount of
choking the moment they are sub
merged, and there is nothing more ter
rifying than this feeling.
Now. l had great trouble in over
coming this. l have had pupils who
were really not timid at all but they
did have this weakness that led to
gasping. And l found it hard to teach
such pupils 10 swim until | hit on a
very simple rule.
1T was not to bother about teach
ing them to swim / merely took them
into very shallow water, not deep
enough to reach above their hips
There l told them to knee down and
thrust their heads under water over
and over again, but without hurry,
keeping their eyes open. After they
had done this for a time, | told them
TO drop something to the bottom and
then grope around for it. Whenever
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more than two dogs in nine die after
being bitten by rattlesnakes.
The poison of the copperhead is less
virulent than that of the rattlesnaks,
and the copperhead is becoming one
Of the scarcest of American serpents.
The northern variety of rattlesnake
(Crotalus-a rattle; horridus-horrid)
grows TO "A length Of from three 10 five
feet. 1t varies from a yelowish brown
to almost a dead black above, with
three rows of irregular darker spots
running together in ziz-zag blotches,
The under parts are grayish yellow.
OF course, the specific feature of
rattlesnake is its rattle, which, as
everybody knows, is a series of honey
rings at the end of its tail.
1t has been generally supposed that
the number of these indicates the num-
Der of years the rattlesnake has lived,
but this is a delusion. More than one
rattle is occasionally produced in 4
year, and the snake is apt to lose rat
ties by accident.
The rattle of the snake sounds much
like the vibrating noise made by some
kinds of grasshOppers. If you hear
such a sound near you, it is just as
we'll to pause and look sharply. Il the
noise ceases gradually when you re-
main motionless and starts up again
when you move. it is evident that it
is not produced by an insect.
Fortunately, crotalus horridus is not
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er it quickly and kill it,"
Guided by the drops of blood shed
by the wounded monster, the servants
followed it to the door and out into
the garden, until at the farther end
they came upon a hole dug in an or
namental mound.
AS they stopped down to look, an
enormous spider appeared at. the en-
trance, and said: MY friends, do not
commit sacrilege by attacking the
Gods. But return to your master and
try to show him his error, and to per-
suade him to change his way of life
and overcome the terrible avaricious-
ness that has nearly caused his
DEATH"
The servants then knew that It was
none other than the powerful and be-
neticent God Inari. who had appeared
as a boZu, and was now, in the form
of a gigantic spider, condescending to
address them.
Trembling with fear, they Frustrated
themselves and promised to obey him.
When Raiko realized the real truth
of the matter he felt great remorse
for his conduct, and resolved that, if
his life were spared he would be as
generous as he had been covetous and
grasping.
Time fully proved the sincerity of
his repentance. and, giving away large
sums of money to the poor and unfor-
tunate, he lived to a good old age, re-
spected and beloved by all who knew
him.
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SOMETHING ABOUT DETECTIVE LIF
How the Counterfeits and the Plate Were Found
at Last
By AN EX-DETECTIVE.

What had happened was perfectly
clear to US. The gang had finished
printing the counterfeits and had sent
out few to see whether or not they
would be detected In the meanwhile
they had lost no time in hiding the
rest away. They had done the same
thing with the plate, and, having thus
rotten rid of the really discriminating
evidence, they were taking their time
about getting rid of the more bulky
presses, etc.
We held a council of war and decid-
ed on our plan. Two of us were to get
work in the hat factory in the village,
which, luckily. was at that moment
so short of hands that we had a good
chance, even though we knew moth
ing of hat-making. Thus we could
talk with the workmen and the other
villagers without exciting suspicion,
and seek for some clue to the possible
hiding place of the plate and the
notes.
We calculated that the chances were
that they had been buried and we
were pretty sure that they had been
buried somewhere where the counter
feiters could get at them easily and
at moments notice. Consequently
the likelihood was that the stuff was
concealed on somebody's ground, rath-
er than in the woods
The woods make better hiding places
in books than they do in real life
Finding a good hiding place, burying
the stuff so that nobody else can dis
cover it. and finding the hiding place
again afterward in any kind of storm
and darkness make practical difficult
ties that are only easy to overcome in
novels.
OF course the stuff might have been
hidden somewhere on the farm. So
one of our men was selected to hire
out as a farm hand there.
Meantime it was important to pre-
vent the counterfeiters from removing
their presses; yet we wished to do
this without arousing their suspicion,
and, above all, without being forced to
arrest them.
SO two of our men called at the
farmhouse one day, represented them
selves as hat manufacturers, and asked
to see the patent hat machine, with
view to purchasing it. OF course, the
counterfeiters refused to sell or show
1t. Thereupon our men, making believe
to be growing excited gradually, de-
clared that they had information that
the secret hat machine was really an
infringement on one of their own, and
they left, VOwing to set private detec-
tives to watch the place and get evil
dence for suit.
This killed two birds with one stone
1t enabled us to set men to watch the
counterfeiters without their suspect
ing what we really were after, and, of
course, as long as they were being
watched they dared not remove the
implements.
This gave the rest of us time to do
our romantic" detective work. In
the case of one man it consisted of
farm work, just like any other farm
hand. Only, instead of going to bed
when he was dog-tired. he had to
sneak around at all hours looking for
possible hiding places of bank notes.
My comrade and I became boxers"
in the hat factory. All day long, from
in the morning till 6 at night, we
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among dry leaves the sound made is
not unlike that made by a crOtalus
horridus shaking his ratties.
The copperhead (trigono-triangular
contortrix-twister), the only other
venonfous snake most people are
likely to meet outside of museums or
geological collections of animals in this
country, is closely allied to the rattle
snake.
Il has a thick body. from two to
three fee. long. a short tail. without
rattles, and is slow and clumsy in its
movements; but. lurking as it does in
moist and shadowy places. and giving
no warning of its proximity. ii is more
dreaded than the rattlesnake. The
copperhead is rather light, reddish
brown above. with series of trans
verse darker bands which widen on the
sides into patches
Its tail ends with horny point, but
it has no rattles. 1t is not seen so
often as the rattlesnake, and unless
one treads upon it it is not apt to
make an attack.
All other snakes in this section of
the continent of North America are
absolutely harmless.
The cure for snake bites in common
practice is to fill the patient full of
whisky which. in the opinion of the
writer, is great mistake, as the VEN
ON and the whisky together have a
much more violent action on the heart
than is safe, especially to one who is
subject to heart weakness.
one of the best remedies for the bite
of a venOmous snake is common
cooking soda, which has the advantage
of being a domestic article always
kept on hand. A cord is fastened
tightly above the wound to form a
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something about snakes. I've killed
a good many hundred of EN-"
And if the truth must be told, this
ignorant country lad knows fully as
much about snakes as the majority of
people do, and that is little or nothing
Intelligent folks, who would certain
ly refuse to credit such nonsensical
absurdities about any other animal, ac-
cept as gospel truth many of the most
ridiculous statements about snakes.
To begin there are only few varieties
of venomous snakes in this country.
The chief of them are the rattlesnake
and the copperhead. In the South is
to be found a. variety of rattlesnake,
the diamond-backed RATHER, and a va
riety of copperhead that lives around
ponds and river. called the water moe
casin. Farther west. on the other side
of the Mississippi river. there are sew
eral other varieties of rattlesnake
The power of the venom of the rat
tlesnake is not nearly as great as is
usually supposed
DR.. S. Weir Mitchell. who has made
life study of serpents, says that no