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CHAPTER xxlv-continued.


Ned" said the tall Irishman, rising
and laying hand upon his shoulder,
don't We behave I'll be LAWN We. I've
seen the world, an l must see 1t
again, but vance in a while I'll be
comm around here to see the best
mans country on the globe, an to
meet aain the best man liver knew.
III not till why behave 1t, for that
caa not do, but shure l do behave it,
this is the land for you. Don't be rest
less. but abide, an take We root here.
For Batty, it's no odds. He's seen the
werrld"
Battersleigh's words caused Frank
Inns face to grow still more grave, and
his friend saw and suspected the real
cause. Tut, tut! me boy" he said,
I well know how your wishes lie. It's
a noble gyurl we've chosen, as noble
man should do. She may change her
thought tomorrow. It's change is the
wan thing shure about woman"
Franklin shook his head mutely, but
Battersleigh showed only impatience
with him. go on with your plans.
man." said he, 'an' pay no attintion to
the gyurl! Make ready the house and
prepare the bridal garments. Talk
with her reasonable, an thin try un-
reasonable, and If she'll folly ye thin,
to the ind of the earth, an love We like
lamb. It's Batty has studied the
sex. Now vance there was a gyurl-
but no; I'll not yet thrust mesilf to
spake O. that. God rist her asy iver-
morei"
YES" said Franklin sadly, chat is
1t. That is what my own answer has
been. She tells me that there was
once another, who no longer lives
that no one else"
Battersleigh's face grew grave in
turn. There's no style of assault
more difficult than that same" said
he. yet she's young; she must have
been very young. With all respect.
it's the nature o. the race O. women to
| yield to the Twin, breathin' man above
the dead an honored."
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Control of Colonies.

In Germany the minister of foreign
affairs directs the government Of the
colonies of the empire as we'll as deals
with its relations to other countries.
Because of the increasing Importance
of the colonies German statesmen are
discussing the need of dividing the ed
partment and creating a new member
Of the cabinet, to be known as the CO.
lonial secretary. The British did this
years ago, says Youths Companion,
and they have secretary of state for
foreign affairs. The United States has
not had foreign dependencies long
enough to evolve any plan for their
management. The Philippine islands
and Porto Rico were acquired by con-
quest, treaty and purchase, and began
their relations to this country with
the secretary of war as the cabinet Of.
heer Immediately responsible for their
government. He has remained in
charge of them because no one has
thought of better way for superyis.
Ing their affairs.
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Faithful Dous.

The faithfulness of the dog is well
known, though not appreciated as it
should be. Perhaps most faithful of
all the species is the Eskimo dog.
We learn the following about this
animal from the writings of Frederick
Schwatka, who made a wonderful trip
on sledge from Hudson Bay to the
Arctic Ocean. The sledges were drawn
by the dogs, and he started out with
sixty of them, returning with only
nineteen, all the rest dying of starva-
ton en- route.
Says Schwatka:
They were, through all this terri.
BILE time, perfect respecters OF their
human allies, and the little children
used to go among them and play
with them by pelting them with toy
whips; yet the same dogs were starv-
ing, and should one of them die, his
comrades would eat him. l notice this
particularly, as some sensational writ.
ers have tried to make their readers
believe that the Eskimo dogs are Ii.
able to become dangerous fellows.
even to a powerfully built man, when
simply hungry. and to be worse than
wild beasts when ravenous. Any on.
slaught of Eskimo dogs is unknown
among the natives where travelled.
"It was pitiable in the extreme to
see their sufferings, as they devotedly
helped us along-many of them up to
the very minute they had to be taken
from the harness and abandoned along
the road. AS they dropped out along
the way, we harnessed ourselves in
their places to the sledge traces, and
it was thus we were not compelled to
leave certaln parts of our load"
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CHEAP COAL IN AUSTRALIA
Sells for Fifty Cents
Ton.

Fifty cents ton is the price they
pay for coal in New South Wales.
Coal is so abundant and cheap in New
South Wales that it can hardly be
said. in places. to add to the value of
the surface. IL is drawn out by ponies
Beside it are an inexhaustible field of
limestone and permanent water. both
on railway line. Rates of haulage
on minerals are extremely low. There
are enormous deposits of iron ore OF
richness varying from 60 to 80 per
cent.
The chemical composition has been
found satisfactory to experts in
Europe. and these deposits usually are
alongside deep water, thus facilitating
transport. At Burnie, IN Tasmania,
the deposit from water level up is es-
timated as 100000 tons. In New
South Wales the deposits within sight
are 100000 tons. The deposits
known as the Iron Knob and Iron
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surely set on. so that OF one thus Apgl
mented to his inner self it may be
mere accident which shall determine
whether 1t is to be great artist or great
artisan tha' is to be born again.
To Franklin, dreaming as he woke
or slept, there sometimes waved a
hand, there sometimes sounded a
Voice, as that which of old summoned
the prophet in the watches of the
night. Neither in his waking nor his
sleeping hours could he call this spirit
into naturalization. however much he
longed to wrestle with it finally. II
remained only to haunt him vaguely,
to join with the shade of Mary Ellen
the Cruel to set misery on life which
he had thought happily assured.
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81 had my hopes" said Franklin

Il had my hopes" said Franklin,
'but they're gone. Let it go that
way. I'll not wear my heart on my
sleeve-not for any woman in the
world"
Spoken like a man." said Batters-
leigh. IAN if yell stick to that ye're
the more like to win. Nivver chance
follyin' too close in campaign ag'inst
woman. Parallel an mine, but don't
uncover your forces. II We advance,
do SO by rushes, an not feelin' o. the
way. But tin to wan, if We lie still
under cover, she'll be sendin' out skir-
mishers to see where We are an what
We are doin'. Now, we love the gyurl,
l know, an so do /, an so does livery
man that liver saw her, for she's the
sort min can't help adorin But, mind
me, kape away. Go way she says to
you. an you go. Come back she
whispers to herself, an you don't hear
1t. Yet all the time she's wonderin'
pfwhy you don't!'
Franklin smiled in spite of himself
"Battersleigh's Tactics and Manual of
Strategy" he murmured. "A1l right,
old man. l thank you just the same.
| presume I'll live, at the worst. And
there's bit in life besides what we
want for ourselves, you know"
There's naught in life but what
we're ready to take for oursilvesi"
cried Battersleigh. "I'1l talk no fable
Of other fishes in the say for We. Take
what We want, If yell have 1t. An
hearken; there's more to Ned Franklin
than bein' a land agent and a petty
lawyer. It's not for we yersilf to sit
an NOPE, neyther to spind your life
diggin' In a musty desk. Ye're to
grow, man; ye're to grow! Git your
nose up, Ned, or you'll be unwittin'
classifyin' yesiif with the great slave
class which we lift behind not long
ago. but which is follyin' us hard and
far. Git your nose up, fer it's Batty
has been thinkin' we've Destiny inside
your skin. Listen to Batty the Fool,
and search your sowl. I'll tell We
this: I've the feelin' that I'll be
hearin' of We, in all the marches o. the
world. Don't disappoint me, Ned,
for the ould man has behaved in We
more than we've behaved in yersilf. AS
to the gyurl-bah!-go marry her
some day, av we've nothin' more impor-
thant on yer hands.
But, me dear boy, spakin' o. impor-
thant things, l ralely must be goin
now. I've certain IMPORTANT prepare
tons that are ESSENTIAL before I get
dhFnnk this avenin'--.
20 Battersleigh, do be seasible,'
sad Franklin. land do give up this
talk of getting drunk. Come over here
this evening and talk with me. It's
much better than getting druas<-"
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Battersleigh's hand was on the door
knob. The consate O. you." he said.
Thrue, ye're fine boy, Ned, an I
know of no conversayshun more en-
tertainin' than yer own, but fale that
II | didn't get dhrunk like a gintle-
man this avenin', I'd be violatin' me
July to me own conscience, as well as
settin' at naught the TRADITIONS o. the
Rile Irish. An so, II yen just excuse
me. I'll say goodbye till, say, to-mor-
row noon"
And now there still Jared on the
swift. sane empire of the West. The
rapid changes, the strivings, the &C.
complishments. the pretensions and
the failures of the new town blended
in the product of human progress.
Each man fell into his place in the
community as though appointed there
to, and the eyes of all were set for
ward. To Franklin the days and
months and years went by unpunctu-
ated, his life settling gradually into
the routine Of an unhappy calm. He
neglected too much the social side of
life. and rather held to his old friends
than busted himself with the search
for new. Battersleigh was gone,
swiftly and mysteriously gone, though
with the promise to return and with
the reiteration of his advice and his
well wishes. Curly was gone-gone
up the Trail into far and mysterious
country, though he, too, promised to
remember Ellisville, and had given
hostage for his promise His friends
of the Halfway House were gone. for
though he heard of them and knew
them to be prosperous, he felt him
self. by reason of Mary Ellen's deci-
sion, in propriety practically with
drawn from their personal acquain-
lance.
Because of his level common sense.
which is the main ingredient in the
success portion, he went easily into
the first councils of the community.
He made more and more money, since
at that time one OF his position and
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English Women Retroeraaine

A writer in the Standard of London
boldly asserts that the intellectual
level of English women has been low
cred In the last SO or 60 years and
bases his conclusion on a statement
that English women nowadays read
only the lighter forms of literature.
They read French novels and plays
and sensational English fiction gen.
orally. Their grandmothers, he de-
clares, used to read SCOTS poems and
romances, and they also read history
for It's own sake. Such girls now
would regularly read Freeman,
Froude, Carlyle and Stubs.
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CHAPTER XIV.
The Great co,d

INC 1FcSE GoIo.
The land lay trusting and defence
less under a cynical sky, which was
unthreatening but hooking. Dotting
a stretch Of country thirty miles on
either side of the railway, and extend
ing as far to the east and west along
its line, there were scattered hundreds
OF homes, though often these were
separated one from the other by many
miles OF open prairie. Most of them
contained families. Men had brought
hither their wives and children-little
children. sometimes babes, tender,
needful of warmth and care. Fo,
these stood guardian the gaunt coal
chutes OF the town, with the demands
OF population of twenty-five hundred,
to say nothing of the settlers round
about hundred tons for thousand
families, scattered, dwelling out along
breaks and coulees, and on worn hill
sides, and at the ends of long, faint.
wandering trails, which the first whirl
OF snow would softly and cruelty wipe
away.
Yet there was no snow. There had
been none the winter before. The
trappers and skin-hunters said that the
winter was rarely severe. The rail.
road men had ranged west all the win.
ter, threats exposed and coats left at
the wagons. 1t was a mild country. a
gentle, tender country. In this laugh.
ing sky who could see any cynicism?
One morning the sun rose with a
swift bound into cloudless field The
air was mild, dead absolutely silent
and motionless. The wires along the
railway alone sang loudly, as though
in warning-a warning unfounded and
without apparent cause. Yet the sigh
ing in the short grass was gone. In
the still air the smokes of the town
rose directly upright and answering
to them faint, thin spires rose here
and there far out over the prairies, all
straight, answering. ominous, ter
rible. There was a great hush,
calm, a pause upon all things The
sky was blue and cloudless, but at
last it could not conceal the mockery
it bore upon it's face, so that when
men looked at it and listened to the
singing of the wires they stopped, and
without conscious plan hurried on,
silent, to the nearest company.
Somewhere. high up in the air, I'M
heralded, invisible, there were pass
ing some thin inarticulate sounds, far
above the tops of the tallest smoke
spires, as though some Titan blew a
far jest across the continent to an
other near the sea, who answered
with a gusty laugh, sardonic grim,
foreknowing. Every horse free on the
range came into the coulees that morn
ing. and those which were fenced in
ran up and down excitedly. Men ate
and smoked, and women darned, and
babes played. In a thousand homes
there was content with this new land,
so wild at one time, but now SO quick
ly tanned, so calm, so gentle, so thor
oughly subdued.
ITO be continued.)
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HE CERTAINLY WAS tMEAN.
Made His Brag So Strong he EN-
barrassed the Credulous
Operator.

There is an exceedingly gullible
young girl working in Denver
branch telegraph office, says the Post
of that city. She is new at the busi-
ness. having telegraphed less than a
month. The other day young man
approached her desk and expressed
desire to know how the instruments
worked. With a noticeable air of SUI
perior knowledge the girl explained in
detail. Then she sent a message.
When she had finished the young man
handed her a paper bearing something
he had written.
What will it cost to send that mes
sage?" he asked.
She looked at it and blushed. It was
reproduction of the message she had
just sent. He had copied it from the
instruments.
so you are an operator, too. ehf''
she said.
my dear little GIRL" replied the
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| opportunities could hardly avoid doipy
SO. His place, In the business world
was assured. He had no occasion for
concern.
For most men this would have been
prosperity sufficient; yet never did Ed
ward Franklin lie down with the long
breath of the man content; and ever
In his dreams there came the vague
reckoning of hand still nalf unseen.
Haunting him with the sense of the
unfulhlled, the face of Mary Ellen
was ever in the shadow; of Mary
Ellen, who had sent him away forever !:
OF Mary Ellen, who was wasting her
life on a prairie ranch. with naught to
inspire and none to witness the flower
ing of her soul.
So much for the half-morbid frame
of mind due for the most part to the
reflex of body made sick by an IT.
regular and irrational life. This much.
too, Franklin could have established
of his own philosophy. Yet this was
not all, nor was the total SO easily
to be explained away.
Steadily, and with an insistence
somewhat horrible, there came to
Franklin's mind feeling that this
career which he saw before him would
not always serve to satisfy him. Losing
no touch of the democratic loyalty to
his fellow-men, he none the less clear.
ly saw himself in certain ways be-
coming inexorably separated from his
average fellow-man. The executive
instinct was still as strong within him,
but he felt it more creative, and he
longed for finer material than the
seamy side of mans petty strifes with
man, made possible under those artif-
cial laws which marked mans com
promise with Nature. Longing for the
satisfying, for the noble things, he
found himself irresistibly facing to-
ward the past, and irresistibly con-
vinced that in that past, as in the
swiftly marching present, theye might
be some lesson, not ignoble and not un.
comforting. Mortified that he could
not rest in the way that he had chosen,
distracted at these intangible desires,
he doubted at times his perfect sanity;
for though 1t seemed there was within
him the impulse to teach and to create,
he could not say to himself what or
how was to be the form, whether men,
tai or material, of the thing created
the thing typified, the thing which he
would teach.
OF such travail, of such mould, have
come great architects. great engineers,
great writer's, musicians, painters, in
deed great me of affairs. beings wko,
stand by the head and shoulders above
other men as leaders. The nature of
-uch men Is not always at the first as
sured. the imprimitive seal not always
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ton the eggs are pressed from the
mother to the pouch of the male. All
the eggs are not transferred at once.
After first transferrence all the egs
are In the upper part OF the pouch.
where no more can be received until
these are shaken down into the lower
end. These processes are repeatd I'M
til the pouch is filed. In about ten
days the young pipe fishes are
hatched.
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Farc.csi Meat Inspection.

Farc.cal Meat Inspection.
A constant menace to public life
and health In the stockyards of Chi
vcago is shown up by DR.. w. K.
Jaques. formerly director of the Chi
'cago Laboratory, and in charge of the
meat inspection at the stockyards, who
tells In Worlds Work of the ineffi-
cheney and corruption of the local in.
spection. Among other things, he
says: During the first month in
which I was city director, one meat
Inspector made only one condemna-
immature calf Another inspector
made no report to me of any work
done during my entire term Of Office,
and I was powerless to compel him
to do SO because of his political back
ing. 1t is needless to say that he
drew his salary regularly. Still an
other meat inspector was engaged in
profitable side line of buying quar-
antined beef for packers. The &C
curacy and thoroughness of the work
of government inspectors can be
judged when it is estimated that from
1000 to 1900 cattle are often killed
under the eye of single inspector in
day from eight to ten hours. Walk
ing back and forth through the kill
ing beds, the inspector can give only
the briefest glance at the animals that
are being converted into food. In this
glance he is supposed to- detect evil
dences of disease which Psychologists
pains to ascertain If the government
inspection were sufficient to guard
the public. To this end I made fire.
quent and unannounced visits to the
yards. On one occasion was there
at four o'clock in the morning and
visited the Standard Strengthening
company, the company which kills the
diseased animals condemned by the
city, government and state inspectors.
l saw a load of meat just leaving the
place, but was near enough to identify
1t. When l entered the house, there
was no one in sight; nor could l find
anyone for Is minutes. Then I found
the Waterman, who could not give me
any information about anything.
Hanging in the room in full sight, un-
guarded, and open to the public, were
two sides of beef having on them the
slashes of the state inspector and the
government tag of condemnation. But
the meat was not under lock and seal
as required by government regula-
tons, nor was there anyone to pre-.
vent its being carried off. sent one
of my inspectors to a slaughter house
with orders to kerosene all meat he
found unfit for use. He returned in
a state of great indignation and ex-
element, saying that the men fought
hard and long to keep him from using
kerosene. Why" said he, II drew
out seven hogs that were diseased with
cholera, and went to get my kerosene
can. When | returned, there were
only two left. Where are the other
FIVE? / asked, and the man replied
oh, they are in sausage by this
time"
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MALE FISH RAISES YOUNG.

The new man, in his role of nursery
maid, has long been in evidence in GER
tain piseatory families. The males
of the Strengthening pipe fishes take
charge Of the eggs. which are given
them by the female parents, and nurse
them in a special pouch on the under
side of their own bodies. 1t seems
that the male and female fishes inter-
Irvine their bodies in the form of a
double letter 8. and that in this posi-
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The proprietors of a Finnish news
paper in Fitchburg, Mass, engaged
last winter an editor named Heklila
to come over and work for them, bur
when he arrived at Ellis ilsand he was
captured by the immigration sleuths
and told that he must go straight back
to Finland. Our wonderful immiera-
ton laws are even more efficient in
keeping out foreigners of education
and talent than in excluding the idiot
ic amt insane. 1t appears from the
operation of the law in this case that
only American-born Films can hope to
aspire to do editorial work in this
country.
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youth without cracking smile, 81 am
Mr.. Morse. the man who invented teleg-
raphy." Then he left.
"0h, he embarrassed me So" said
the girl, telling of 1t later. Gust
think, there l was explaining teleg.
raphy to the man who invented IL"
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PERI civ True.

"He says he is in business for him.
self now manufacturing automobiles.s
eyes,"
"And he claims not one of his ma
chimes has ever been known to break
down on the road"
That's right; he hasn't sold any
yet"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-06-01
He Didn't Understand.

Where did Columbus first land?"
asked the teacher
Il don't know, num-" was the re-
Spouse of little Johnny textbook. az
didn't read de accounts of de MILL
Detroit Free Press
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-06-01

1t is reported that the disaster in
San Francisco has resulted in many
weddings. Women. driven out of their
homes and left destitute, have ap-
pealed to the men to whom they were
engaged. and marriages have been i'm
mediately effected.