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XXXII.
Continued.

"By the bye" he said, suddenly, as
if recollecting himself, Il will leave
this cross with you. 1t is the thing
Akryl bought from Win at KILL
Arvat. It is no good my taking it
out there again. l will fasten it to
your watchchain. Allow me-no one
is looking. 1t is all right
He made a movement as if to join
the others. 1t was a silent suggestion
that she should do the same; but she
remained motionless, and for some
reason he did not carry out his pur-
pose.
Charlie" she said, looking past
him into the deserted street, do you
remember one night long ago-it was
the first time that we danced so much
together-the first time we found out
how we'll we got on with each other?'
eyes," he replied, with a peculiar
dull look upon his face. Yes, ] re-
member"
"You look now just as you looked
then" she continued vaguely. There
is no change in your appearance; You
are as big and strong and-and relia-
BILE as ever. Your manner is appar-
emily the same. But there is a change
somewhere-there is a change in you
or in me. What is it-where is it
how is it, Charlie? Is it in you, or
is it in me-"
1T expect" he suggested, restless
", "that it is in both. We are getting
older, you see. People cannot grow
older without changing a little n 1t
is generally supposed to be a change
for the better"
"But-but this is not for the bet
ter"
II believe" he said, lightly, that
the whole thing is a creation of your
own Imagination. You admit that
am the same; ! know that you are
unaltered; where can the change
be-"
.Yet you must admit that there is
a difference. Things are not as they
used to be-"
'It Is the way of the world" he
replied, with a mirthless laugh.
Things never are as they used to be.
No, Lena, / admit nothing. There
is all old gentleman opening the
piano preparatory to asking you to
sing. l must go and help him"
Il am not going to sing the Fare
we'll tonight" she said, as he moved
away.
mo-" he replied, gravely. please
DON'T"
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Her Age Still Unknown.

Rather than tell her age, Miss
Tenie Fristoe went to Jail at Column
bus, Ohio. She was defendant in an
attachment suit, and one of the first
questions put to her was, How old
are you?"
"It's none of your business" Miss
Friscoe promptly replied.
The Court ordered the woman to
answer, but she steadfastly refused
and was sent to Jail for contempt.
She was released that afternoon on
a writ of habeas corpus, but her age
is still a mystery.
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Whole Town Has the Habit.

eff physicians are right when they
advocate plenty of fresh air in winter
and summer as a preventive and cure
for tuberculosis, then the people OF
Evanston, ILL.,, won't have to worry
much about the great white plague"
said John R. Donald, of that thriving
Chicago suburb, who is at the Plank
inton House. Nearly the entire city
has taken to sleeping out of doors OF
in tents. Their is an open-air tent in
nearly every yard, containing cots.
and the fresh-air fad is in full blast"
Milwaukee News.
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STRENGTH FOR THE DAP.

Strength for the day! At early dawn y
stand
Helpless and weak, and with unrested
eyes,
Watching for day. Before its portals lies
A low, black cloud-a heavy iron
Slowly the mist is lifted from the land,
And pearl and amber gleam across the
skies,
G~laddeningo my upward gaze with sweet
surprise.
I own the sign; I know that He whose
hand
Hath fringed these somhre clouds with
ruby ray
And changed that iron bar to molten gold
VIII to my wandering steps be Guide;
and Stay;
Breathe Ger my wavering heart His rest
for aye,
And give my waiting, folding palms to
His blessed morning boon-strength foy
y Rachel G. Alsop.
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The Goodness of God.

A remarkable fact in life Is that,
the very things which are darkest
which make us cry in an agony OF
doubt-are always accompanied by
the most striking proofs Of the truth
Of those things on which our faith
rests. No great catastrophe ever hap
pened that men did not afterward re-
call some great manifestation of the.
goodness Of God closely accompany
ing It. 81
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III E DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF NTEMPERANCE.

oem: Only, Only-Alcohol Consid
cred From q Medical Standpoint
: Its Use in Disease is Product
: i've of More Harm Than Good.
Only a glass in the barroom,
Only a single glass;
Only a lack of courage
Only the answer, eyes,"
Only an evil companion,
Slyly Turing him on
Only a "free-hearted Charlie"
And the fatal work is done.
Only "a little bit tipsy,"
Only bloodshot eyes;
Only a pleading mother,
Only a wife's surprise;
Only an aching forehead,
Only a bruised face;
Only a broken promise,
Only d deep disgrace.
Only a cherries shanty,
Without fire or wood
And the little half-clad children,
Waiting and crying for food;
Only curses for kisses,
Only sorrow for woe;
Only a drunken father,
Only all angry blow.
Only weeping children,
Only a dying wife.
Only another's promise.
Only a drunkard's life;
O. the woe and anguish
That mortal tongr.c can tell!
Only a glass in the barroom, ..
Only a drunkard's hell!
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Baby Hangs Himself at Play

Robert Hamilton, sixteen months
old, of No. T52 Avenue H, Chicago,
strangled himself with a clothes-line.
He playfully wrapped the line around
his neck. The other end was attached
to a hook in the kitchen. Then, in
response to his mothers call from
another room, he started to toddle
toward her. The rope became taut.
He was hurled to the floor and stran-
gled without uttering a cry. The
Mortified mother found the little dead
body when her baby did not RESPOND.
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The President Right.

President Roosevelt says: "The
LIQUOR business tends to produce
sriminality in the population at large
and law breaking among the saloon
keepers themselves. 1t debauches
not only the body social, but the BOD!
Dolitic as we'll" And he is right. nc
one can refute this damaging indlct'
ment.
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CHAPTER XXXIII.
Safe at Last.

So Charles Mistley TRANQUILITY be-
gan mis- simple arrangements for 4
journey he was destined never to
take.
S%uspense, like all mortal things,
must have an end; and for the watch
ers in Seymour street the end was
drawing near. 1t came at last, on
the Thursday morning, just twenty
four hours before the time fixed by
Charlie for his departure.
Lena was still in her room, al
though the punctual breakfast bell
had been rung some minutes before.
She was in the act of fixing a little
brooch at her throat, when there was
a hurried knock at the door, and the
sound of the colonel's voice, vibrating
with emotion, followed instantane-
ously.
"Lenai Lena!"
Eyes, papa" she answered, quietly
enough. Then she stood motionless,
with her back to the window, watch
ing the door.
May l come in, Lena?"
"Yesi"
She knew that there was news at
last.
Then the door opened. For a mo-
ment Lena experienced a strong de-
sire to laugh aloud. The colonel en-
tered the hastily; in one hand
he fourished a submarine telegraph
form, in the other was the bread
knife. with little scraps of brown
paper adhering to its edge.
'Mistley is at VIENNA" he gasped.
"He is at Vienna! Thank God for
this"
He threw the breadknife upon the
bed, and presently went there and
rashly sat down upon it.
Eyes," said Lena, quietly. She was
still engaged with her brooch, and
now she turned to look into the glass.
Lena" exclaimed her father.
"Do you hear me? Do YOU under
stand? He is at Vienna! He is
safe! Here is the telegram. They
nave just u II!
He held the paper toward her. She
saw the action, and noted mechan-
ically the slips of blue paper pasted
on to the white telegraph form. She
remembered wishing with all her
strength to step forward and take
that paper; then there came a sudden
blank, a sense of utter, boundless
vacuity, and she found her mothers
comforting arms around her.
At breakfast the telegram was dis
cussed word by word. 1t was not en-
tirely satisfactory upon closer invesLi-
CATION.
"Safe, hat quite Knocked up. Can
you come to me? Tell mater and
Charlie"
"'Can you came to me-" repeated
Colonel Wright, with 4 fierce look in
his eyes as he swallowed a hasty
breakfast. Can I go to him? That
is like Mistley. AS if the fellow did
not know-as if he didn't know!
And yet he puts it like that; it is
Mistley all through. You cannot tell
whether the fellow means to be
funny or pathetic. and somehow it is
both"
Mrs. Wright made no reply. Shs
merely laughed 4 low. gentle laugh,
and behind the friendly covert OF a
large fern which stood upon the
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$50 Skeletons Found.

Prospectors recently returned to
Nome, Alaska, from Lawrence Island
tell of finding the skeletons of a ma
tive tribe that persisted as a result
of famine twenty years ago. The $50
skeletons bore grim testimony to the
suffering which the natives endured
They had no firearms.
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As a Business. Proposition.

Peter II. Burnett, the first Gov.
ernor Of California, cultivated a thirst
for strong drink when ne was q young
man. He was good at mathematics,
and began to figure what his chances
were for dying a drunkard. He
found that out of 100 moderate
drinkers ten became sots within a
very snort time. He could find no
way of telling which len it would be.
and so concluded it would not be safe
for him to join the 100 moderate
drinkers. He said that no sensible
man would go into a business where
the chances were ten per cent. against
SUCCESS.
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Unproftable Labor.

a p~rayerless day of hard work son.
secrated by no holy moditatiou-oh,
what a dull, plodding, tramplins Day
it is! How do we spend money In
such a day for that which is not
bread and our labor for that which
satisfeth not! How does God In such
a day deal with us as with the Egyp-i
tians Of old, taking off the chariot
wheels from our work so that we
drive it heayily!-Edward M. Goul-
burn. .,xSsS-a's"
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| room. He was laden with sundry
wraps and packages, which he set
| down rather absently upon a polished
table.
1.-THE return of the prodigal,' he
| said, cheerfully. II do wish l liked
cold VEAL"
This brought Mrs. Wright's
thoughts back to practical matters.
Beef teal" she exclaimed. You
must have some beef tea"
VINEYARD pointed solemnly at the
colonel.
ASK him." he said. II know
nothing about it. The affair has lost
all interest for ME. He has taken
charge of the matter. I am not al
lowed to say what 1 like or what l
dislike-in fact, I am the bane OF my
own life"
Beef tea said Colonel Wright,
severely, as he drew off his gloves.
Yes, beef tea"
This was soon brought out, and the
whole party stood around the sick
man to see that he consumed it.
And have you done all you wanted
to do, VIM" asked Mrs. Mistley
presently.
ooh, yes replied he, br~eathlessly,
between the sips. Wont you let me
! off the rest? 1 am going down to the
| sediment now"
But Colonel Wright was not con-
tent with this laconic account OF his
pupils exploits.
HE has done that, and more!' he
said exultingly. He has done what
no man living las done before him,
or could hope to do again. He las
been right through to Peshawur and
back. He has mapped out every fea-
sible route, and noted the position
of every we'll, and obtained every i'm
aginable item of information that the
officer omm r.nding a division could
require. And that quite outside his
own diplomatic work, which has been
carried out to the letter."
Such was the home coming Of Win
yard Mistley.
It was only by degrees that they
extracted from him the details of his
perilous Journey. How he escaped
detection by the readiness of his wit.
How, encompassed ny danger.
treachery and fanaticism on every
side, he came through it all by sheer
, self-reliance and intrepidity. How
he lay for months i'll in a Turcoman
tent, nursed and tended by the SIM
ple nomads. How, time after time,
the combination seemed too strong
for him to fight against, and how his
good fortune attended him to the
very end. But all this had to be
guessed at by his loving listeners.
The story of that unique and wonder
full journey was never fully - told.
Partly by aid of their own magma
ton, partly by persistent questioning,
they succeeded in putting together a
more or less connected narrative;
but VINEYARDS own account was de-
cidedly unsatisfactory, as we'll might
have been expected. A man cannot
tell his own story advantageously.
There was no one else to tell the
tale of Vineyard Mistley's achieve
ment, and so it was .Eeve told. Far
away on the sands of the Khivaian
desert, out of the caravan route, in q
trackless waste untrodden by the feet
of man for years together, a few
whitened bones picked clean and
scattered by the %Quarreling vultures,
lay beneath the cleaning sun, wait
ing the end of all things. This, and
nothing more, was what remained OF
the young Englishman's daring COM
panion during the greater part of his
wonderful journey, and the story OF
it lay silent with those bones.
Go be c%ontinued.)
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An Editorial Side Line.

An editor out West has so much time
on his hands that lie has started the
side-business of raising ostriches.
What happy editorial conditions must
prevail there! How his Eastern
brethren envy him! How delightful it
would be to have even just one ostrich
around-to eat manuscripts, for i'll
stance; though some of them would kill
the bird quicker than would Il whole
keg Of nails.
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A Moving Man.

A. e. Kinner, who came hack to
Fredonia from Niagara Falls some
months ago. moved his family back
to the Falls yesterday. The moving
is of interest, inasmuch as it is the
ffty-ffth time that Kinner has
changed his residence. - Fredonia
Correspondence Buffalo Times.
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Humble Tasks Necessary.

If your faith in God is stronger for
every humble task in which you need
and get His aid, then that humble
task is necessary to the fulness OF
your faith in God. 1t will make the
music of your life more firm and
solid.-Phillips Brooks. /.
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A man would get hot if he had te
spend forty cents a day for ribbons
for his wife to put around her neck,
But he will spend that much for stun
to pour down the inside of his own
and think he has struck a barga1n.-
Osborne Farmer.
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NInst Re Stamped Out.

Tuberculosis and alcoholism are sc
closely associated that all measures
Of prevention and treatment must
recognize this relation If they sue
coed. Both of them can be stamped
out. the same as yellow and typhoid
feyers, and the work of the future
will be in this direction.
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On Street Cars in Germany.

In some towns in Germany chill
dren are allowed to travel free on the
street cars if they are under a GER
tain height, which is marked on the
doors of the vehicle.
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Water Power Development in Norway

E. S. Cunningham, Consul at Ber-
gen, states that an increased interest
has been manifested in Norway for
the development of water powers,
and it now seems certain that in the
near future several plants will be
built. Construction work is pro-
ceeding on a 0,%000-horse power en-
terprise on the Tysse River, in con-
nection with which a calcium car
bide factory will be one of the indus
frioc
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Awful!

He-"Neither male nor female
convicts in English prisons are per-
mitted to see a mirror during the
period of their incarceration"
She-"Oh, now, that's earring
punishment too far!"-Yonkers
Statesman.
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Arkansas Soldering Up.

Fully two-thirds of the counties o.
| Arkansas and large areas of the re
| naming third are now under Local
option.
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Fresh Grace Every Day.

must every day have fresh grace
from heaven, and I obtain it only In
direct waiting upon God Himself
Andrew Murray.
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For IT'S the Lind.

Ill qualities are contagious as we'll
as disease, and the mind is at least as
much liable to infection as the body.
success,
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Missionaries Must Fight Rum, Toe

A missionary of the A. B. G. F. M
reports that one Of the chief obsta'
cles to his efficiency at Beira, Portu,
guese East Africa, is, net fever, bu,
the liquor trade. Rum is sold to ma
tives without conscience and without
limit.
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Zine Robes Of Righteousness.

WV
a beautiful illustration. A naturalist
one day was studying a cocoon, in
which a butterfly was struggling to-
be free. He heard it beating against
the sides of its little prison, and his
heart went out in pity for the help
less creature. Taking o tiny lancet
he cut away the fragile walls and re-
leased the little captive. But to his
amazement it was not the< beautiful
creature that he had expected to see
It lay struggling upon the table, UNI
able to walk, unable to fly g. helpless
unlovely object. In place Of the lgor-.5
geously colored wings that he had e
pectsd to see, we're weak, shrtyeleG
members. rs
What was the matter with this
creature that. should have been So
fair? The prison gates had been
opened too soon, the obstacle nad'beenl
removed before the struggler had de-:
veloped sufficiently through the strug,
Cling to be ready Nor, its glorious
fight into the sunshiny skies end,
among the perfumed flowers.
o God, when the walls seem o
close about us, when we struggle andf
agonize to be free, wnen Thou dos3
not cut away the barriers, is 1t mol.
because, in Thine infinite wisdom,
Thou dost see that we are weak and
dost want US to become strong3
Then, at last, when the struggle is
finished, like the butterfly, we may
come forth, not perhaps in glorious
robes of splendid colors as 1t is, but
in the everlasting robes Of righteous
ness. - y
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Britain's Five Billions of Trade.

For the trade year 1906 the for
eign commerce Of Great Britain rose
to the stupendous total of more than
a thousand million pounds sterling.
say five billions of dollars.
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Boston's Use of Coal.

Boston bought 1,659,679 tons of
hard coal last year and 4,206,S7
tons of soft coal. "
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Trifing With Sin.

Text: Judges, xvi, 90 The man
who trified with sin In this chapter
was Samson. He was from q good
family, and his parents were deyouti
religious, praying people. He was
early dedicated to his work and had
he gone steadily forward would have
been successful, but he failed and fell
and becomes "a warning to men IN
every age.
What was the difficulty with this
man? He was presumptuous ana
thought God would certainly stand By
him, but God never stands bySa man
who is in the wrong. Not only this
but he followed the impulses OF his
passionate nature and was led astray.'
He trifled with sin. He told the Be-,
cret of his great strength to a wicked
woman, and this led to his downfall.
This man is a warning against the
influence of evil companions. These
are SURE to pull us down sooner or
later. Evil companions are winning
multitudes to-day in New York from
the right way.
There is q warning here also
against ill-assorted marriages. It's
quite probable that Delilah was at
tractive. Such. women are apt to
study how to allure. Wise men
should be on their. guard against the
seductive influences Of mere beauty
grace and wealth.
A warning Is also given here
against one-sided morality. This
man vowed in hisyouth that he would
never touch strong drink. and this,
/ was a good resolution, since science
and experience prove that temperance:
and abstinence are a great blessing.
The mistake made was that toolmucb'
dependence was put upon one virtue.
How much good will II do II a man
is temperate but dishonest, immoral.
selfish, a hard man, impulsive, with q
red hot temper, one who treats his
wife and children unkindly, II NOT
savagely; n who cheats his neigh
bors, one who Is untrnstworthy24 One
virtue will not save. It is of little;
value to keep the devil out from oaei
door and let him In at another. We
must watch the whole citadel Of orr
being.-David G.,Wylie, D.. D. ,sSeotch.
Presbyterian Church, New York, in,
the Sunday Herald.
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something of what may be expected
from Uncle Sans cavalry at the fair.
Fort Wingate. n. M. Sept. I6.
The Secretary. Territorial Fair Asso-
citation, Albuquerque. n. NJ.
Dear Sir;-Replying to your COM
~muhlcation of August %. the COM
ihandlng officer directs me TO inform
you h a it will be impossible for he
oase ball team to take part in the
base ball tournament, owing to the
TACT that the troops are so depleted.
necessitating almost double the
amount of work for each man. ii will
also be impossible for them to enter
the relay race for the same reason.
The following is a list of events.
given:
Roman race.
2.-Rescue race.
3.-Potato race (mounted).
Mounted wrestling by squads.
b-Packing, saddling and tent
pitching contest.
6--Fug Of var (mounted).
I.-Zigzag ace (mounted).
Further, it would be appreciated by
all the officers at this post, If YOU
could so arrange. TO have a dance Tor
the enlisted men of the command
during one OF the evenings. as YOU
know the enlisted men VIII practically
be strangers, and 1t would add inter-
and pleasure TO their work.
Hoping 10 hear from YOU in regard
TO the above. and To advise You that
Ne ar ever ready 10 consider any
suggestions that you may make, / re-
main, Yours truly
ID. j. GREGORY.
First Lieutenant ana SQUADRON Adju-
tant. Fifth Cavalry Adiutant.
Travelling Men Meet.
a meeting of the Albuquerque COM
mittee or arranga mcnts fur The travel
men reunion was held last night
In fair headquarters with a fun at
tendance Of the committee 1ru. The
plans for the reunion are moving for
VAR rapidly and Travelling Mems
day Is going to be one of the biggest
days this town has ever seen.
At last nights meeting consider
able money was raised and the COM
mittee was authorized not only to or
der the badges. but to proceed with
the whole program OF arrangements
as rapidly as possible.