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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-04
Petersburg.

PETERSBURG, VA. August 2, a.mhM lr,
and Mrs, r, H; Mann ! leIt ~, on Mo's'as
Rev. L. A. Grace, professor of tn sI
ogy in Niaraga Uniyersityi \, N n%r,xe ot on
Is the guest of Dr. Joseph NJ. i'''the, ~
West Washington Street; =
Mr.. and Mrs, Robert W. Cameron, NJ o.
senees N, have been en- gpet1h' s,r Of home me-
on WASHINGTON street, during the pasl
week. They viii visit the jamestown
Exposition, ,., ~. chi,-
dren, has returned, after a two months
visit in New Jersey, 5,,.., sor
Mrs. John T. Pace ana lie'1 l''sih eos
Or, and Mrs. j. n. Moyler are s S,nnrnn
their daughter Mrs. Raymond searpeh'
| ter in Hyattsyille, NJ ,,,,ia NJ
Miss ' Grlz 4, e. Mullen viii spend Angus
at Blue Ridge summit. Pa, - has re,
Turned from visit to Murray bay
canada. 8
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-04
Providence Forge.

PROVIDENCE FORGE. VA. August
3.--Mrs. B. d. Coleman, Of Richmond,
who is visiting at Stirling, will leave
in few days for Charles City Court
house.
Mrs, ana Miss Clark. OF South Caro-
lima. are spending some time with
Captain and Mrs. L. G. Christian.
Mr.. Charlie Perdum Is home again,
after, nearly a year spent In West
Virginia.
Mrs. Clarence Freeman and Mrs
Lewis Anderson of Portsmouth. are
visiting their parents. Mr. and Mrs. j..
e. Robertson. Of this place
Mrs. Eddie Turner and little Chris
tan Turner, Of Richmond. are spending
some time with Mr.. and Mrs. j. II.
MI Henry cudlipp, OF Richmond, is
on a visit to Mr.. Harry Christian, OF
Charles City.
Mr. Richmond Christian, Of kich-
mond. after spending some time with
Captain and Mrs. Christian. has left
for the springs
Miss Mary Farra, Of Richmond and
Miss Buttcrworth. OF Dinwiddlc, are
spending some time with Miss Mary
IMounlcastle.
Mrs. Walter Eames, OF Newport
News, who has been visiting here, left
yesterday for home.
Miss Pauline Jerdone, of Baltimore
lis expected here In few days.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-04
ny WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-04

Since 1870 the above counties have
shown wonderful vitality and largely
overbalanced their losses by great
increase OF population.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-26

good bit yet. YOuS tony tOWnerS with
your such wonderful white hands
even on the men," she added, unable to
keep Il bit of contempt from her hon
est voice, while her eyes rested on Dr.
Kinross' capable looking but we'll kept
hands as lie daintily knocked off the
top of an eggshell, ''yous don't know
what work is. Anyhow. if it does
overdO me to take two more boarders
it'll be little on the make, too. you
see."
"Ah!" he exclaimed, his gloom lifting
a little. ''I'll pay you the price of
board for three if you'll send them
word not to come and let me continue
to have the run of the place in peace"
Mrs. Morningstar's fat face grew
long in astonishment. Such a reckless
and apparently pointless waste of
money was a thing incomprehensible
to the Pennsylvania Dutch mind
"Are you some bashful or what:"
she curiously inquired
Il guess I'm what. Come, will you
do it,"
care you passin' joke mebbe?" she
questioned uncertainty.
"Never was a man more serious
I'm willing to pay for the rare quiet
I've enjoyed out here the past ten
days. Will you send them word they
can't cOme?' he urged.
"Now, if you'd only spoke sooner
she said regretfully. ITO be sure, it
would of paid better to get the price
Of three fur one. But pop he, wrote
'em 4 postal in, last Saturdays already.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-26

denly dropped the subject of her f,s
ter child and returned to the more con
genial theme of her own daughter, as
she jealously observed that the mention
of Eunice seemed to arrest the wander
ing attention of her hearer. And Ollie
she knows just the right words to put
in-but sometimes she's so stubborn
headed fur me she won't converse
like what she's been since You come
But to be sure" she conceded, IF YOU
like 'em better quiet She paused
uncertainty, but her look and tone in
piled that that altered the case and III
vOlved her forgiveness of Ollie's oh,
stinacy in refusing to display her con.
versational powers.
"Eunice has had no schooling since
she was twelve years Old?" Kinros>
instantly asked when Mrs. Morning
stars pausing to take breath gave him
q chance to put in a question.
''NO, and she's wonderful DUNN to
ward what Ollie isl
''Humph!" he grunted.
Eyes, and that ongrateful she is fun
all we done fur her yet-us leavin' hel
go to school till she was twelf Already
and her not our own flesh and blood
and then when she had to come Off OF
school she took on; it was somepi:l
awfulr'
But a twelveyear-Old girl is hardly
capable of realizing what she is los
ing in having no schooling" he sail
queStiOningly.
''She was always wonderful IL.
studyin'-full much so. A body coulGn'i
get no work out of her oncet Size g.,
holt of Il book-and that's why pop x
sayed now she must come of school
he sayed, or she'd soon not be earnin
her feed
"Umph!' again grunted KinrosS, sur.
prised into a pang of pity for the flow
erlike girl who was the household
drudge to the farmers family
Say" Mrs. Morningstar abruptly de
manded, do you want fur me to tell
these here two young ladies' when they
come that you amt much fur sOcia bill
ity and that they're to leave you he
and not bother you any, you bein' some
queer?"
snow, Mrs. Morningstar,' he smiled,
you are friend in need. Suppose you
do warn them off. Where are they
frOm!"
"FrOm into town. Their names is
GeOrgiana Ellery and Daisy Parks
KinrOss lifted his head and looked at
Mrs. Morninsstar, surprise, annoyance.
CONSERVATION, in his face.
Goods and little fishes!'
He pulled his Panama hat over Li;
eyes, turned abruptly and strobe away
Mrs. Morningstar stood stolidly where
he left her, gazing after him as he
walked with long steps through the
orchard toward the woods where he
usually spent most of the day. and
finally she shook her head and drew a
long breath.
ut beats me what fur man he is.
anyhow
The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-26

'rNow, if she were an intelligent girl it
would be interesting to get her fresh
impression of newspaper
Suddenly, while he regarded her
speculatiyely, slipping his wafer with
deliberation and she returned his gaze
with q sort of fascinated cOncentra-
ton, the doorway was again dar,lened,
and this time it was he who started
with apprehension as Mr.. Morningstar
came into the springhOuse. KinrOss
was instantly aware of the fact that
the girl did not start now nor attempt
to hide the newspaper. On the con-
trary, the presence of the scrulby lit
tie farmer seemed suddenly to dissi-
pate the spell which he had evidently
cast upon her, for she rose quite de-
liberately and began to gather together
her crooks and cans, keeping the news
paper in her hand.
The small eyed farmer cast quick,
suspicious glance from one to another
Of them.
'Mom wants fur you to hurry on in
then" he gruffiy ordered the sirl ''She
conceited that you and Abe was spoon
in together out here. What fur does it
take you so wonderful long to fetch in
couple Of butter and milk yet?
Mom'n jaw you, you'll see oncet!
Herev'
He had caught sight Of the newspa-
per and jerked it from her hand.
whats this to do, heh?"
ut belongs to the gentleman" the
girl answered, quite unrufled.
"And you gev it to herY' the farmer
asked, looking reproachfully at Kin
ross
To be continued next week.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-26

tellin' 'em they have the dare to come
Wednesday dinners. So this dinner
he fetches 'em. There amt time no
more to send 'em word different"
"He has already gone in to the sta
ton for them?' Kinross asked in a
tragic voice.
"No, he starts at eleven. 1t amt no
eleven o'clock yet"
IF you had only told me before.
Well" he gave it up, rising from the
table, ''Pll have to bear up under it
or get out, l guess"
''Any other young feller as good a
locker and as tony as what you are yet
would be glad fur two young lady
bOarders comm Oncet' she reasoned.
following him to the door, her whole
person radiating her curious wonder.
KinrOss stopped short on the thresh-
old and turned upon her. "What! Two
girlsv'
The CONSERVATION in his face in
creased her wonder. well" she
argued, whats the matter with that?
A body can't help fur her sex, can
she?'
81 certainly didn't anticipate when
came here that I'd be bothered with
two girls on the place! They'll expect
me to be sitting around with them!"
''Och, WELL" she poked him playfully
with her elbow, you might be glad
If they do want you to set alongside
of 'em. Is it that you amt much fur
sociability that way?" she tried to
solve the problem. you never looked
scairt of Ollie or Eunice"
"They have some sense They don't
cackle at me. They let man alone.
The first girls ever saw who did"
Mrs. Morningstar laughed boisterous-
~. can here was tellin' Ollie every
day since you come why didn't she
perk up and speak some conversation
to you that way. 1t amt that Ollie's
ignorant that makes her keep so quiet
before you," she came to the defense of
her daughter. "But she's some back
ward, you bein' tOwner and her, she
was always country girl still.''
"She talks a good deal more than Eu-
hice does, though, doesn't she?'' he put
out feeler
"Och, her," she retorted contemptu-
Ously; "she's dummv (Stupid) But
Ollie she's got an elegant education,'
she affirmed, standing in the kitchen
doorway, with her barred arms resting
on her ample hips, while DR.. Kinross
leaned against pillar of the porch, his
eyes following the young chickens
which ran about on the grass. 81 left
her go to school till she was fifteen
already. Eunice she was more fur
books and studyin' and all like that
than what Ollie was, but" she said dis
paragingly, ''she amt got Ollie's nice
education, but her bein' just adopted
that way and not my own flesh and
blood took her out of school till she
was twelf. She cried wonderful to be
left keep on, but I tole her beggars
couldn't be choosers and she must earn
her livin'. So then she never said moth
in more about IL Ollie she can con-
VERSE pretty" Mrs. Morningstar sud-
The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-26

Sut a girl Of weak OF mean spirit would
permit herself to be- and he under
stood that her present sense OF guilt
was due to the contraband newspaper
she was found idly reading whel size
should have been hard at work. AS far
as he had observed, the girl was never
allowed ten minutes Of relaxation from
morning to night; also. Mr.. Morning
star had strictly forbidden his house
hold to touch the "gent'man boarder's''
daily paper. which he pronounced a
willy invention of Satan.
So it was only feeling of fear that
could rouse her from her lethargy
Its only L. he said apologetcally.
May come in and get a glass of wa
ter?"
She did not seem much reasSured hy
the fact that it was only he. She Sank
back Imply against the step as he came
forward and helped himself, but her
eyes as they followed him did not lose
their strained expression nor her face
regain it's color He watched her cur
Ously as he slowly drank glass of WI
ter The newspaper was crunIpled into
her lap, and her gaze seemed held by
his in sort of fascination.
Don't be afraid" he smiled upon her.
II won't tell
She did not answer. She seemed
spellbound. He wondered whether h
could make her talk. At least he had
made her look at him.
ITS one of my newspapers, isn't it,
he asked.
YES she breathCd.
"Old MoTningstar makes ne hand
them over to him to be burned every
morning. How did you rescue one:'
She swallowed hard as she managed
to answer in Il voice just above a Wits
per, ''He puts them in the stove to he
burned when I light the fire for break
fast. / take them out"
"Eh? And then snatch chaaces like
this for reading them|
''Yes.''
"Um-m"' he commented thoughtful
ly. Upon my wOrd.'
They looked at each other for an in
slant without speaking.
"You had never read newspaper, |
suppose. before ! came here?'
"No.''
"DO you find them amUsing?"
"Amusin@?" she repeated, the strain
ed expression in her eyes giving way
to puzzled look.
"Well." he conceded, perhaps YOU
don't find them that--a daily record of
crimes and accidents. Interesting. |
should have said. DO YOU Ike thcm?'
he added, grcpilS for words intellig-
BILE to her simplicity.
yes
But you can't read with much prof
1t or pleasure when You have to snatch
chance moments at them in this way:'
She did not reply.
"And much that YOU read would be
unintelligible to you. l should say, see
ing you are not accustomed to reading
newspapers. don't see how you get
enough out of it to pay for such a
fright as YOU had Just now when you
thought you were being caught
Still she Gid not answer.
"What a stupid creaturew he
thought, marveling that so dull dam
sci should have a pair of eyes that
shone like stars and Il cOuntenance OF
such extraordinary thoughtfuness-
The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-26
CHAPTER II.

II HALF hour later, his tall
"a length stretched under the
! trees of the wood that skirted
a u the north side of the Morn
| ingstar farm, DR.. Kinross gave vent to
| his vexation.
. "Georgiana Ellery and Daisy Parks!
The daughter Of old Prexy and his
niece! Could man have worse luck
Goodby to my liberty! No more doing
| as l please and being as uncivilzed
and bucolc as primitive man! What,
in the name of all the gods, possesses
two such highly civilized beings to
want to spend any time out here
Why, they can't eat the cooking; it's
out Of the question. l couldn't myself
If l didn't voluntarily suspend con-
sciOuSneSs while staving off starvation
"a small price to pay for such days Of
freedom as I've had! I'd think these
girls were pursuing me if didn't know
they were not. But" he groaned,
they'll think it Il jolly lark to find me
here! They'll get out of it all there is
in it. Damn He thumped the ground
L
little in it for them. Pm not going to
be bullyragged into spelling my vaca-
; ton by two cluclly girlsv'
Such the misanthropic sentiments and
such the language with which Peter
KinrOss faced a situation complicated
by the fact that the expected arrivals
were the daughter and niece respective
ly of the president of the college in
which he himself was the professor of
psychology.
DR.. KinrOss however, had never seen
either of these girls. inasmuch as dur
ing the past. year since he had taken
the chair of psychology they had both
been away at a woman's college. But
he had heard great deal about Miss
Ellery, the presidents daughter. And
some of Kinross' fellow professors who
were apt to badger him on his hard
ness Of heart toward the gentler sex
had predicted his speedy surrender to
the beauty, culture and wealth of Miss
Ellery when she should return to col
lege.
''It will do me good to see her turn
you down." the professor of literature
had declared with feeling, speaking out
Of the depth of his own bitter expert
ence at the hands of the fair Georgi-
ana
But these predictions had made SO
little impression upon Kinross that with
the immediate prospect of meeting Miss
Ellery the only interest he felt in her
was a curiosity to understand the mys-
terry of her having chosen to come to
the MOrningstar farm to spend her
summer vacation-a girl notoriously
fastidious in her tastes and so much Of
q belle among the clever men Of the
college faculty that her voluntarily
coming to bury herself in such an out
of the way place as this farm seemed
to him second mystery thrust upon
his unwilling contemplation and cal
culated to supersede that other mys-
terry OF the girl Eunice, which in the
past fortnight had been constantly ar
resting his attention.
The truth about DR.. KinrOss was that
he was afraid of young girls. All the
circumstances of his boyhood and youth
The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-26

~ Il. PETER KINROSS had just
been demanding rather irrita-
bly, of the shaggy little farm.
- er, his host, why a bathroom
had not been put into the house when
it was renovated for summer board
ers, and the farmer, standing over him
as he sat at his belated breakfast in
the kitchen, was replying with logic
which left his protagonist dumb.
"Firstly, it's contrary to Scripture"
"HOw the devil d. you make that
0ut?" Kinross inquired, unaware OF
how such epithets startled the unac-
customed ears of the farmers Wife
and of the girl, Eunice, who waited on
him.
'How l make that out?" Morning
star repeated. Because the Scriptures
is silent on the subject
Which of course left kinross with
nothing to say. He lifted his glass of
skinned milk and slipped with half
closed eyes.
Another reason Morningstar laid
1t off, there was less sickness among
our ancestors of bygone times in the
past than there is now when bath
rooms is the common lot Of ALL
kinrOss did not contradict it.
again, l Oncet heerd of a man being
drownded in a bathtub of hot water.''
KinrOss had no answer for an argu-
ment SO incontrovertible.
"And yet again, Gawd certainly in
tended fur the folks to wash in cold
water or he'd of made all the water
hot
kinrOss' silence apparently accepted
this dOgElltic statement.
kin You deny it," Morningstar tri-
umphed over him.
Il would not presume to-
II guess anyhow not Well, then,
you know why 1 don't have no bath
room. Ii folks would read more in the
Book and hesitate more they'd see how
sinful some things is. Folks is Just
little ignorant about some things.
They're not enough loosed Of the
world. Pride has come into the church
that it's something shameful. There's
100 much Joining church to enjoy our
oSA' 'So AASiS<.u VI " serve OdWQ.
And, swelling with his easy success,
Old Mornlnsstar shambled out of the
room, leaving his defeated boarder to
the contemplation Of his impossible
breakfast.
The kitchen in which he ate was also
the family living room, as all Penn
sylvania Dutch farmhouse kitchens
are. 1t was large, bright room, very
simply furnished, but spotlessly clean
and Of certain homely coziness.
The breakfast consisted of cold corn
ed beef, greasy sausage, several kinds
OF very pale, lardy looking pies and
plate piled High with iced cake.
! "Eunicew> Mrs. Morningstar shrilly
called to the young girl, her adopted
daughter, who had disappeared into
the outer kitchen. Here's the Doc
eatin' dry bread and butter vet!
Where's the spread?'
| The relevancy Of this inquiry not be-
ing apparent, spread in DR.. Kin
ross vocabulary being an outside cov-
The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-26
By HELEN r. MARTIN,
Author Of "Tillie A Mennonite Maid"

In the main this story is a
record of the adventures of a
young Doctor OF Philosophy who
conspires to play the humble role
of hired hand at Mr.. Morning.
stars farm boarding house, tha,
he may have opportunity for Sc
rious and scholarly neditations,
and avoid the Establishments of
fascinating young lady board
ers. The resulting complications
make a story as rich in hurnor,
as provocative of laughter as
any that has been written in re-
cent years. The characters are
as interesting as ones intimate
friends. In fact they shall be-
come the readers good friends
to be carried aferward in pleas
ant memory. There is lovely
and stately young woman who
would return to nature and incl
dentally uplJf mankind in the
returning, and there is viva
cious beauty who aspires to fol-
low this lofty example, but who
fails for reasons which will in
terest and delight the reader.
And there is another girl-LOrd
love her !-who shall give exam
pie of the heroism of humble
life and prove anew the old
truth that blood will teH As for
our hero, we shall love him in
spite OF his awkwardness, BASH
tulness and learning. There shall
enter also, Iafe in The history, a
woman of the great world, who
shall Pay with no hesitation The
debt that is due to honor and
q good old name. A charming
story, which shall exact the trib-
ute Of tears, as we'll as laughter,
and teach many a good moral
and leave the reader in q mood
at the end to invoke a blessing
upon the good and bright woman
who wrote it,
The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-26

glass Of water before going into the
kitchen.
It was with a sudden sharp thrill
that as he stepped into the cool, shady
stone room he unexpectedly found
himself alone with Eunice.
She was seated on the stone steps
by the we'll, bending laboriously over
a torn sheet of a newspaper
AS his figure suddenly darkened the
doorway she started violently as
though discovered in some shameful
guilt. He was held for an instant by
the picture she made, the grace Of her
youthful form in it's tense attitude of
actual fear, the beauty of her wide,
frightened eyes, the exquisite delicacy
Of her face in it's sudden whiteness.
But his second thought was not so
complimentary.
"What a craven little coward!' was
his mental comment, with an impulse
Of contemptuous pity, for he had not
lived here ten days without having
seen that this foster daughter of the
Morningstars was downtrodden as none
The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-26
CHAPTER III.

Y YHEN he reached the farm,
IA overheated from his rapid
\" walk in the sun, he stopped
at the sDrin ghOuse to get
The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-26
CHAPTER I.

~ X. PETER KINROSS had just
been demanding rather irrita-
bly, of the shaggy little farm.
= er, his host, why q bathroom
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-11-22

Nelson's friends say that they count
ed 81 cuts and bruises on his body, and
They didn't HAY TO take off Q stitch %
his clothes to lind them.
Ausgine a Wild Cat.
This happened in Colorado. JUST east
of Pixies Peak: John Seigel, the grouse
hunter 10 Whom ii happened, docs MOI
yet KNOW how he did it: and Edward
Smith, one of the TWO me who res
cned him. is still liable to wonder
whether il WAS not some sort "T i'll
fusion or hoaN. The facts, most siInp-
ly old, are these:
Seigei, with his eyes open fos
large Wild eat crouched in front of HIM
until the animal. s%prinsing for his
throat, landed squarely on his breast
Its claws We're outspread on botl
sides OF him. With the animafs Instinct
for securing II sure hold. for IT hac
gripped the MAJ as it might grip the
trunk of a tree.
less at such close quarters. MD he
dropped IL ins:inctively. AS instinct
lively, he shut his arms tightly upon the
wild cat. sp~read-eagling the animal
against his own body. SO that It's fou!
legs We're forced outward and right at
mis- sides. and it's head Was fiat against
his chest, the :glistening teeth u scant
half inch away from his throat.
Hugging TO him that living. ferocious
embodiment of death, Seigel began TO
trudge back along the trail. He actual
ly walked nine miles With the wild
cat squeezed tightly against his own
body, before he overlook two hunters.
They looked at him and laughed.
Wont you blow out this wild eats
b%rains?" Seigel asked them.
"l1ow old is ANN" inquired Edward
Smith. one of the strangers.
Say" Seigel pleaded, for Gods
sake shoot this wild cat"
"Cerlainly." remarked the other
stranger, pleasantly. why is a mouse
when it spins"
Seigel was in despair. but FORTH
nately, he had enough energy left in
him to become angry.
When o two iackasses get
through handing me etTetc conundrums
from the fated east, won't you put 8
load of shot into this animals ear:
After that, IN punch both heads of,
| of you"
So. then, m who thought h a pos
sibly the locoed stranger, who was ir
love With a stuffed wild cat. might
possibly be serious, obliged him. Afte,
that, it took the two of them 10 prA
| open Seigel's convulsively locked arms
Seigel himself said that it was ne
voluntary strength that he exerted il
holding the wild cat. His arms were
automatically shut upon it from thu
very horror of the first clutch he made
He cannot tell whether they would
have been loosened. if he had walked
on until he dropped dead from ex.
! hauStiOn.