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fortune. His first thought had beer OF
the girl he loved. He was rich; they
need not wait longer; happiness was
theirs. He could see her face there. in
the hollow of the fire-not full of rejoic-
ing, but of a sudden sharp pain.
~ lady to see you SIR" Farrants
voice recalled him.
IAN urgent case?"
Il don't think she is Ill, sir; tust
drove up in a brougham," replied Far
rant, Offering a card on which was in
scribed Mrs. Casillis.''
Gasillis! This must be Dicks actress,
although he had said nothing of her be-
ing a widow. Anyhow he would see
her.
The outler ushered in a tall, elegantly
dressed woman, who advanced with
an easy grace into the freight, saying
as h did so-with a very slight
American accent: II must apologize
for this late visit, but, to tell you the
truth, 1 rather fancied you would be
disengaged at this hour. and I wanted
to see you particularly.
Mr.. Earle may AVE mentioned my
name-nay, do not turn the lamp
higher; it is so nice to talk in the fire.
light. Won't you sit down againo"
The doctor had been skeptical about
Dicks actress-but this woman was a
revelation.
DICK wrote to me about his engage
ment," he replied, feeling almost recon
ciled to his adopted sons choice, but
judging that the lady must be at least
ten year tina impatient lovers senior
he was just seven-and-twenty.
H will have told you that he has
only known my little girl a very short
time"
1t was her daughter, then! He stifed
an exclamation Just in time.
HI mentioned that the acquaintance
was a short one" :.
ut is. So without saying a word to
anyone, I thought 1 would come and
talk 1t over with you. He is your son
by adoption, he tells me-"
Yes; his father-poor Earle-was
my greatest friend. Dicks mother died
when he was born, and Earle Just
twelve years ago, when the lad was
showing himself full OF promise. He
had no relations-and 1 was a bachelor
with no ties-so he came to me, ard
We have been constant companions ever
since"
Perhaps you would like to see my
little girls Demonstrating a small
morocco case from her pocket, which,
on being opened, disclosed the ming
ture OF a girls head.
DR.. Trentham took the case turning
up the lamp to its ull height as he
did so. The miniature represented a
girl with soft curly brown hair, and
sweet trust:ni hazel eyes,. A pink sun
bonnet Wan pushed back 30 that the
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curtis fell In a cluster on her white fore
head. His hand trembled and his pulse
beat quickly. Mrs. Casillis had risen
and was standing beside him.
Does she-remind you Of anyone?"
AT the sound of her voice he was in
the bayfield, again-a young, eager
Understanding
And you didn't Know me, Willie? l
should have known you II you had been
in another world"
But you have come back-I always
knew you would-my love-my love-"
He had taken both her hands in his
and held them tight against his breast.
II was dreaming of o tonight, Rosie"
he went on, "an of that day we were
haymaking-you remember-and now
l am an old man,"
cause of the great love in his v
"Old. dear? You have altered less
h / thought. I must have changed
sadly that you did not know me-"
You forget that in the dim light I
hardly saw you-and in the old days it
was a pink cotton frock."
She laughed again, she was so very
happy.
Clothes do alter one. don't they
"Yes-but it is the same Rosie, the
same voice, too, now"
II was afraid hat my voice would
betraS me"
'Now-what of all these years? What
of my ruined, lonely life? 1 have a
right to some explanation after all
these years. Why did o go away when
our happiness was in our own keep
ing?'
Still holding her hand, DIR. Trentham
sat beside her on the sofa.
Il thought as you do, Willie, that a
wife is a mistake to a rising young
an
But you were very wrong-very
wicked"
But you said so just now yourself
ah, my dear"-very seriously-.'it was
so hard, 1T nearly broke my heart"
He drew her gently to him and their
lips met; then, quickly recovering her
self, for the tears We're very near her
eyes, she went on:
Il was only a farmers daughter, you
know"
And 1 a country doctors son."
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Il had to look after the house and
dairy"-
And 1 had to go about in an old
threadbare suit all the year."
Until the money came-that made all
the difference. I was wiser than you,
Decause l was a woman, and l loved it
1T would have ruined your career
then, Willie, to have married an igno-
rant girl, brought up in the Fens, with
no education. Sol went away. There
: instead of being a great surgeon, my
dear, with a wsGid-wide reputation, a
nous in Harley street and goodness
knows what all-why you might have
been only an ordinary practitioner,
wasting your time over measles and
rheumatism. on. you've a great deal
to thank me for"
I'm not a bit grateful. Go on"
Il couldn't bear the idea of iving
you up altogether-so / took up nurs-
Ing, Which seemed in a humble way to
be following in your footsteps. I was
strong and energetic and lac no trou-
BILE in getting int St. Dunstan's as a
propationer. spent some time there
and then went to America as matron
OF q nursing home in Boston,"
And there o married?"
"Yes-the doctor who had founded
the home. l knew you were getting
on-and-and rumor spoke Of your
marriage with an earl'S daughter
whose life you had saved"
You knew 1t was not likely to be
true"
II couldh't be sure"
But this mar you married?"
Z can only speak of him with re-
spect. Willie; he was many years
older than la clever, wonderfully
good man. He has been dead some
years"
SO, with your child to live foe, you
forgot me?"
She smiled. but did not contradict
him.
BY DR.. CasilIs' wish she was edu-
Gated in Boston. However, when she
left college last year.. she begged me
to let her go on the stage-she has a
lovely votce-and I-foolishly, perhaps.
consented-partly because Mr.. Ender-
wick offered her a part in the company
he was bringing to England-and /
lonsed to return.
Then we met Dick-it was some
time before l heard from his lips thai
he vas your adopted son-and a great
long1ng came over me to see YOU.
Willie, to NOW whether you had for
gotten me-"
The deep voice OF the clock in the
hal beat out the hour-eleven!
Surely not eleven!" she cried. rising.
Il am forgetting everythins-but YOU
Il was due at Lady Aysgarth's at ten
and I promised to send the brough-
am back for Eva"
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The Tree crop.

New York Times: Rapid growth in our
trees and the extent OF our woodlands
have always encouraged an optimism
with regard to the exhaustion of our for
ests against which based on
statistics make little impression. Yet few
things are better grounded thar he warn
ings of experts in forestry against the
laisser faire policy with regard to the Adj
~rondacks. the Catskills, etc, and the
planting of public roads. 1t is useless to
blink at facts. To preserve our water
supply and keep our climate in order we
must make provision for the proper man
agement Of our trees. Moreover the enor-
mouse waste of wood will have to be
checked, II we wish to avoid such a rise
In the price of t:inber and wood pulp pa
per as will seriously cripple many indus
tries.
1t is hard to realize that the seaboard
states are already in thu condition of
large parts OF Europe, where the best
talent Is employed to protect from fire
the forests that exist, forests regularly
planted, to cut off ripe trees for the mar
ket and plant with young trees the acres
deforested. This cannot be done without
serious blows to the picturesqueness of
those regions where a new crop of trees
Is to be established. "Woodman. spare
that tree" as the old ballad sings. Il an
appeal to tho heart which was intended al
an appeal to the intellect also; but alas,
the forest cannot be spared when the time
of harvest comes. The only thing we can
do is 20 arrange the cropping and planting
in such a way az to disturb as little as
the general aspect of the land
scape. Certainly to leave the cutting to
individual fancy and corporate cupidity is
a thousand times worse. Deforestati ton
entirely In the hands OF commercialism Is
a shocking waste OF a public treasure and
q danger to public well being. while II
does not provide for new forests and de-
stroyes the beauty of the landscape to
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II expect Dick will look after her;
I am not going to lose you again. Att
feel as If l cannot let you out of my
sight
She laughed merrily.
I'm afraid I must go. Come and
dine with us tomorrow. Dick is COM
ing-and a few friends of my little
Eirls-some Americans. We
having a little dance-and some music
perhaps
The music of your voice is all
Shall ever want to hear" he replied,
placing the rich fur cloak round her
shoulders n gazing lovingly into her
ewes,
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]. SARAH A., wife of John Bell.
2. SARAH f., wife of John Bell.
3. SARAH P, wife of John Bell.
4. SARAH NJ, wife of John Bell.
O.. SARAH L.. wife of John Bell.
They We're all good wives, and Il hope t.
meet them all In heaven.

The genuine negro is a powerful hard
customer TO down. says Representative
Griggs of Georgia. lie is an inventive
g~enlus-invents yarns to suit the demand
OF the occasion. l remember hearing a
story about two negroes who were owned
by a gentleman in my state. We will call
them Tobias and Caesar. Their master
gave them Sunday afternoon off alter
nately. The old gentleman soon discov-
ered that Caesar was not toting fair with
Iobias-that he was off every Sunday,
and leaving Tobias to answer his masters
calls. Finally Tobias was called upon by
the old gentleman to say why IL was that
Caesar was off every Sabbath afternoon.
Oats er business tranacshun wild
Caesar an myself. master. He pays me
ter stay home an do de work. was the
negro's reply.
Pays you?' asked the master. Where
does he get the money to pay your
Don't know, master, but he gifts it,
Relieving that something was going
wrong, the master decided to make a
further investigation of Caesars money!
making habits. so he called the negro 10
account, desiring to know how and where
he spent his time on the SUNDAY after
Moons off. For some time Caesar hest
tated to tell his master, but declared he
was not engaged In anything d~ishonorable
or disgraceful.
The gentleman insisted on knowing
now he managed to earn the money with
whlch ne paid Tobias for doing double
duty. Finally Caesar said:
Well, master, I breaches fer IT,
on, You preach, DO you? What do
they give you. Caesar?'
Well. master, dat ponds on de lee
ton; sometimes half a dollar, an some
times a dollar
That's awful poor pay. Caesar, for
1T am. master. but den it's awful po'
preaching, too.'"
Failure Of a page to do something which
senator Cullom OF Illinois had requested
caused that gentleman to relate the fol-
loving story regarding q good minister
who lived near Moline. his state:
."hen hear anyone say L forgot I
am always reminded OF how a preacher
got mat word tangled up. He was not
a Very well read man and went into his
mt in a heller SHELTER fashion. on
thls particular Sabbath morning the min
ister selected his text from the first chap
Ter OIL Matthew. second verse, and read
out:
Abraham forgot Isaac. and Isaac for
his brethren d
Right from the jump the expounder Of
the scriptures seemed to get in deep wa
Ter. not only in his reading OF the verse.
put when he made his attempt to analyze
ana draw his conclusions. he said: "My
trends, the passage of scripture is put
~ This book to teach US the shortuess. O;
lunan memory; the Old and the young
,ofset IN this day and generation. and c
Toes appear to me that them Old uetra-
were powerful forg,tful.'
II forget. myself. sometimes" added |
ne senator. "and 1 cannot conscientiously !
mo very great faul with others who do +
same, always remembering The words
the good old minister. them old patra- !
rks were powerful forK.tful.'"
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Town Topics: You can't make a chick
en- thies believe that a bird In the hand IL
worth two IN the busi. II he is caught
With the goods on him.
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The average annual contribution In
American Protestant churches 10 iii.
per capita.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-04-15

$50 now when I hear anything about
trouble in the postoffice department my
mind goes back to the held for postage
notice
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-04-15

Discussing the recent visit of Booker
Warrington to this city and the great
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-04-15

Shooting irons. as the boys out my
way call firearms, have been the cause
of many Deaths" said Representative
Gregg of Texas, and I never read of a
death by this route that I am not re-
minded of an inscription which can be
found on a tombstone in one of the
churchyards in the state Of Arkansas. 1t
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"'Don't you he scarf, chi!e,'r said So
%journer, fer mos likely de good Lawd
nebber hearn of YOU"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-12-09

runners at the front end | took run
ners from an old keystone planter
and fastened them from the bottom
so as to have them run about six or
seven inches from the rows of corn.
For knives, / took two blades off an
old stalk cutter. The platform may
be either nailed or bolted down. The
wheels are old planter wheels. On the
table 1 have buck fastened to the
platform so one can sit or lean upon
1t when tired. Below this had pail
large enough to hold ball Of binder
twine. AS soon as 1 have an armful
of corn it is compressed with the de-
vice shown and tied ready for putting
In the shock"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-12-09
Poultry Pickings.

Roup is produced by bad cold
being neglected.
If eggs for Matching are desired, use
2-year-old hens.
Granulated is the form in which to
supply bone to poultry.
To make poultry business success
1t must have attention,
All perches should be on the same
level, none higher than the others
1t Is very essential that the poultry
house should be well ventilated.
Whole wheat is an excellent food
for the hens, but should not be used
exclusively.
Bone meal contains lime and also
animal matter which is Of value.
Some green food is indispensable to
ducks after they are two weeks old.
The use Of food is to sustain life
and maintain warmth and good condi-
ton Of body.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-12-09
WOMEN As WORKERS.
Some Figures that, After All, Are Not
DiscOuraging.


A statlstician has gone to the trou-
BILE to ascertain that 90 per cent of all
the divorced women, 80 per cent Of
the widowed and 81 per cent of the
single women are engaged in gainful
pursuits, says the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Only about 6 per cent of the married
women are similarly situated. While
the great body of married women are
at home attending to the domestic du-
ties which are naturally set down for
them, there is some hope still that the
old order of things is not going to be
completely overthrown. The world
will not be without homes. The fig
ures indicate that 94 per cent of the
married men are supporting their
wives, though the women are, of
course, doing their full share in MAIN
tanning domestic establishments which
are bulwarks of morals and good order
and which keep the race from dying
out.
On surface analysis 1t may seem
wonderful that 94 per cent of the mar
ried men find enough to do to support
| families, when so many women are in
mems occupa tons, but the earth is big
and the ordinary attempt at compre-
hending the things to be done and the
number of people to do them Is puny
indeed. In the long run there appears
to be room for everybody-the home
woman, the new" woman, etc, like
wise for the womanish man and the
men who depends on the labor and
shrewdness of their wives to keep
them going.
The mixture of the sexes in the act
i've business affairs of to-day would
have scared writer's on political econo-
my twenty-five years ago. 1t seems
plain enough, for example, that when
man on salary gets work for his
daughter in the same occupation at
perhaps smaller compensation than he
receives he is sapping the foundation
Of his own employment and prosperl-
ty; that, in the long run, he will be
simply dividing up his salary among
the members of his own family and
driving other men out Of employment.
The results of widespread changes
Of this sort look, apparently, to an en-
tire revoutionlzing of society. But
people are not stopping to study the
textbooks. They are going ahead with
the fashions Of the time, leaving the
pessimists and those who have moth
ing to DO but study to read up on po-
lltical economy. A great many wise
books have been impracticable in rela-
ton to business affairs. If society is
going wrong in putting the gentler sex
in the lines of employment that were
formerly exclusively for men the mis-
take will manifest itself some day in
serious way. Money panics result
from overwrought ambition to get rich
quick and then follows the travail of
liquidation. And so 1t is with othey
affairs.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-12-09
AUTUMN IN THE COUNTRY.

Pumpkin pie and apple cider!
Cut 'er loose and open wider!
Amt no time like fruitful autumn;
Hick'ry nuts in river bottom!
Who said fall was melancholy?
Just the time to be real jolly!
Stir that steaming apple butter;
Fry them doughnuts-hear 'em sputter
See them trees with apples laden;
See the buxom country maidenl
Scenes of plenty, bliss Arcad'n.
Sparkling eyes and rosy features!
Joyous, blessed, happy creatures;
Apple snits and pumpkin slices;
Eggs and butter bring good prices!
Gran'ries full and runnin' over;
Bulging haymOws sweet with clover.
Country sausage! Goodness land sakes
Hurry up them buckwheat pancakes.
My, oh, my! But don't we pity
Poor folks livin' in the city!
-Punxsutawney Spirit.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-12-09
The AVenger.

CD HE windows of the grill room
were open, and through them
- came the grateful GOODNESS of
the salt breeze and the less welcome
clatter of the streets below.
In one corner, at table, under the
great stags head, Thomas Weldon lis
tened with smile more or less cyni-
cal to the eager voice Of young Fenton
Tisdale ON the other side of the Ia
BILE.
Presently Tisdale's almost pleading
tones ceased. Weldon coolly lighted a
cigar and took several whiffs before
he essayed a reply.
"Fenton," he said, looking at the
other sharply, "are you sure this is not
purely personal enmity?"
Tisdale regarded his interlocutor
steadily.
"I'll admit, Tommy" he said, 81
was one Of the first to succumb, and l
may as we'll confess was pretty hard
hit; but the enormity Of the thing
didn't strike me until Jonesy started
for the Lord knows where in South
America; and Ted Brine remembered
rather suddenly-some relatives Of
his in Alaska, where he might find a
haven Of oblivion.
"The worst, though, was when
Snow-good old George Snow-got his
coup-de-grace. He sat around for two
days. Then all at once he went-no
one knows where.
"Think of what she's done to the
stag corner coterie, Tommy. Think
of dinner this winter and no Ted 10
tell a story; with no Jonesy to find
fault; with no George Snow to mix a
salad She's scattered them like chaff
before the wind, there's only you and
l left"
AS Weldon listened the smile broad
ened.
"And you suggest" he said slowly
between puffs, that go up there and
avenge your wrOngs-encounter this
Circe and sail away with laugh, as
it were? Fenton, have you stopped to
think the laugh might be with her in
stead of at her? It's 100 to 1 shot
that fail"
"No, Tommy" Tisdale said, "I've
weighed the chances, and think you
are bound to win. In the first place,
the woman isn't born who could make
you look at her twice. That Is a draw
ing card in your favor, especially with
such women as she is; then there's
your money, AMI, finally, that devil
may-care way of yours, which you can
put on and off like cloak.
"What with these and your good
looks-no, I'm not fiattering you. I'm
quite frank-you should make an easy
conquest Of It."
Weldon shook his head.
'It all sounds very plausible, but it's
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-12-09

Shocking Corn.
One Of the great objections farmers
have to harvesting corn fodder is that
the grain is seriously damaged by the
operation. In fact, they say oftentimes
it will not germinate, and is always
more or less chaffy, light in weight,
and otherwise not equal to corn per-
mitted to remain in the field, or until
after several frosts. A casual exam
ipation Of the way the shocks are
made on many farms would convince
one that complaints made about get
ting an inferior grain might be expect
ed, for the shock will not turn water,
will not let water that happens to get
in to the shock out quickly, and is, in
fact, so much on the ground that it Is
practically wet all the time. 1t is not
difficult task so to handle both fod-
der and corn as to have a fine forage
from the fodder and still secure the
grain that Is in every way equal to
standing grain.
The corn crop Is often cut too green.
Frequently the stalk becomes brown,
the blades turning yellow and the ear
still soft and full of sap. In such in
stances the cutting should be slow,
putting up quarter and half shocks
over the entire area, giving the inside
center Of the shock an opportunity to
dry, then later finish the shock. Where
the corn binder Is used the harvesting
should be such as to save the fodder
with as little damage to the corn as
possible. This requires judgment.
Then in shocking set four bundles in
the four corners made by the horse,
tie them tightly near the top, remove
horse and place a bundle on each of
the four sides In the center. This
leaves a corner between the four bun
dies so located that it may be made
to contain two bundles each. When
the center bundles are placed around
the first four eight bundles are up and
the shock is one-half finished. Fill
| ing between with two bundles makes
! the shock, which contains sixteen bun
| ules. Inc snock is small, well bal
anced, and when drawn we'll together
near the top it is tied twice. The bun
dies in such a shock may be set well
apart at the bottom, permitting good
ventilation. The binder cuts such a
low stub that the ear in the shock is
high from the ground. In cutting by
hand the careless shocker usually cuts
high stubs, then he throws the fodder
together. The high cutting causes the
ear on the stalk to be near the ground
or more probably on the ground, caus,
ing serious damage to the grain. Corn
fodder should be cut as low as posi-
BILE, that the grain may stand a good
distance from the ground while in the
shock.-W. B. Anderson, in Indianap-
oils News.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-12-09
knowledge Increases Crops.


During the past twenty-five years
the increase in the yield of grain crops
In Denmark per acre has been over
IL per cent for barley, II per cent for
oats, 25 per cent for wheat. Potatoes
have increased SO per cent in yield per
acre. Danish authorities credit the in
crease largely to government instruc-
tions and teaching in the best meth
ods Of agriculture. The Hungarian
government also Is coming to the front
in its encouragement of agriculture.
The state Institutions include great
academy for the higher branches of
agriculture, four farm colleges, twen-
ty-one village farm schools, and win
ter schools for farmers, a great agri-
cultural museum and eighty model
farms. Twenty-Five state orchards
have been established, and during the
past three years 37S,OO0 grated
stocks and over two million seedlings
have been distributed. Hungarian
agriculture has grown at surprising
rate, the export Of poultry and eggs
having increased so per cent in five
years, and dairy products having
gained at an even larger rate.