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of Lancaster Is chairman Of the insur.
ancc committee In the senate aud Rep.
rosCntativo IT, w. Brown is chairman
In the house
Hart of York introduced u rcsolu.
ton for the appointment of com.
mittcc To draft joint resolution for
Il constitutional amendment creating a
board of pardons, The resolution was
laid over one day under the rules.
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SLOGAN OF "PRoeREsslVEs"
Governor Sheldon Has Clear Cut Ideas
About Bills.


Lincoln. Neb., Jan. 12.-Special 90
The News: "The state platform .and
the pledges contained therein mHst be
enacted into stable law according to
the promises made to the people last
fan"
This is the slogan of the real prog
ressives" of the house and senate. Be.
fore the Joint committees of the house
and senate the matter will be argued
ont discussed al length.
II is expected that there will be
some demurriug from the general plan.
There may be many false cries of
railroad tool" and there will be CON
fusion galore. However, the real
"Drogs" will gather under the banner
of Governor Shcldon's campaign Dledg-
os and labor earnestly to enact all into
| law.
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ANOTHER MAN CAUGHT.
Man Captured at oakdaIe Charged
With Horse Stealing.

Oakdale, Neb., Jan. Especial to
The News: C.. Il. Larson, charged with
stealing a horse and SIS in money at
Albion, has been placed under arrest
here by Sheriff Evans of Boone county
and taken back there for trial.
Larson is alleged to have sold the
stolen horse here for $40. When cap
tured he had $3.50 in his pocket, a
ticket for st. Paul, Mimi, and a 3S-
calibre revolver. He bought suit of
clothes here. He is charged with hav-
ing stolen the horse from an uncle and
the money from a cousin.
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rHoRoUeHeReDs ARE SOLD.
TWO Of Rays Good Horses Go to Phil.
adelpha.

Neigh Ncb Jan. III Special to
The News: John Kay has disposed of
Lady Boattic" and Coon" couple
of fast travelling horses whose names
are familiar in Neigh and vicinity, to
Pcryis Henry iro of Philadelphia. The
animals will be shipped in charge of
E. E. Gray to llinsdalc, H., and from
there will go TO their new home in Phil
adclphia 1t Is understood that Mr.
Kay received a fancy price for his two
hOrsCs
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UNDER A HORSE.
Ainsworth Man Receives Broken Leg
in Mix Up.

in Mix Up.
Ainsworth, Ncb, Jan. H. Special to
The News: Yesterday morning John
Sazcman saddlod up his horse to go
out and attend his cattle. He put one
foot in the sJirrup and as he went to
raise himself into the saddle the foot
ON the ground slipped and he fell, and
the horse started to run. The man
was drawn under the animal which
kicked him ON the right leg, breaking
il above the knee aud at the Same
time broke the knee joint
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Mary r. Huse.

The state OF Nebraska, Madison
county, SIS.
on this Sd day Of January, 1907, be-
fore me, a notary public in and for
said county and state, duly commits
stoned and qualified personally APP
peared the above named persons, per-
sonally known to me to be the iden-
teal persons whose names are affixed
to the foregoing articles of lncorpo.
ration and each for themselves ack-
nowledged the same to be their yolun-
tary act and deed.
In witness whereof have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal OF
my Office the day and year last above
written.
Carl Wilde,
Notary Public.
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CHAPTER VII.
Countess sarahoff Wins and Loses.

81
The next morning, when l first
awoke, | wondered vaguely why this
day seemed to be so different from
the long and dreary succession of
yesterdays-why it promised eager
hopes and eager interests to be full
filed. Then l remembered, and my
pulses beat faster. Yesterday l de-
SPARED; to-day l hoped.
a woman had come into my life
a goddesS-Diana of the silver bow
Chaste and cold as the SHOWS on the
Alpine heights | could not see from
my window in the blue distance, yet
she had called, she had spoken to me-
Then, disdainfully cruel. she had gone
as she had come. But l was to pur-
sue.
The very audacity of my resolution
gave to it its charm. was net to rest
until had accomplished my uncertain
mission. That it was by its very ma
ture so incredibly difficult did not
daunt me. But how was I to set
about it? A life for life To save
to the world a strong and buoyant
soul for the strong and buoyant soul
that had persisted because of my help
lessness and my weakness. However
romantic, it was a tangible enough
ideal.
But was / to wander about, like a
knight of MEDIEVAL times, seeking to
succor one in peril and distress-to
rescue beautiful maidens from grim
ogres and terrible dragons? I smiled
at the absurd resemblance of my un-
certain task TO theirs.
(To BE CONTINUED.)
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The Triumph of Sweets.

Old notions must give way before
modern ideas, if the contention OF GER
tain physicians is sound For genera
lions parents and other guardians Of
children have warned the little ones
against the evils of too great and fire.
Iuent indulgence in sweets. Yet here
comes a London doctor who says that
candy is good thing, and everybody
should eat not less than a quarter of
n pound every day, while larger guam
titles would do no harm. And the
doctor makes his argument favorable
10 utilitarian purpose. He asserts
that nothing is more Strengthening
than sugar, and adds: 1T is possible
to work for hours after eating four
ounces Of chocolate without feeling
the slightest fatigue. If / had my way
every soldier in the British army
should be allowed a quarter of a
pound of sweets every day" AS to the
danger of toothache, the doctor says
all he can recommend is that people
clean their teeth oftener Whatever
may be the general view of the doc
tors teaching, remarks Troy Times,
there is no doubt the candymakers will
give him vote of thanks.
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aided me. as & aids r.ost adventurous

aided me, as It aids peost adventurous
souls, 1 would seek her out, though
1 searched the wide world for her.
And then, perhaps
l crushed in my hand the pro-
gramme of music that lay on the Ia
BILE. Pshaw, it was the woman, then.
that gave to this fantastic mission its
vague thrill; not the idea of the mis-
sion itself! 1t was the woman whom
I had wronged. and who hated me,
that called. She sat in the lists; in
her hands was the laurel wreath; for
her 1 would endure the shock of bat
tie.
1 sat quietly, still staring out into
the night. The lights of green and
red and blue had burned away long.
ago. The lake, rocked in its cradle
of shadowy mountains, stirred gently
under the moon. The terrace was al
most deserted, and still l fingered.
Disillusionment must come too soon,
and with the morrow inevitable de-
preston.
Suddenly I became ill at ease.
turned slowly in my seat. 1 looked
furtively about me. 1t was as if
had spoken a secret thought aloud,
and one were listening, watching.
Was watched. and with curious
intentness that was almost savage. A
woman was seated at the window of
the writing room. She held rigidly in
both hands the English journal in
which my photograph had appeared.
Our eyes met. gaZed at her stand
ing perfectly still. 1t was not embar-
rassment or anger that held me; it
was rather wonder. For on the face
of this woman was the same intent,
curious surprise that had astonished
me so much earlier in the evening,
when 1 first met Mrs. Brett and her
daughter.
A measure of surprise is natural
enough, when the original of a photo
graph Unexpectedly appears before
one. But I knew that this fact alone
did not explain the strained look of
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the woman at the open window. De-
fiance Cor was it sheer anXiety?)
flashed from the burning depths of
these eyes that held me fascinated.
She stirred. I saw her toss the pa
per lightly to the table. Then she dis
appeared.
l entered the hotel I paused un-
certainly in the hall, then walked
swiftly into the reading room. APP
parently it was deserted.
l reached for the paper; 1 tore out
the page in which my photograph APP
peared; | crushed it savagely in my
hand
There was a light, hooking laugh
l looked up, startled. 1t was the
woman again.
She stood almost in shadow One
bare arm was placed lightly on her
hips; the other stretched its white
length on the low mantel and sup
ported her.
|. There was something oriental in her
magnificent costume. The dress was
black velvet. About her neck hung a
narrow stole of Eastern embroidery,
studded at intervals with turuuoises
From the extended arm draped scarf
of shimmering gold thread. About the
left arm, both at the wrist and above
the elbow, were several bracelets of
bizarre design. The corsage, too,
flashed with gems as she breathed
slowly and deeply. Her pose, as her
costume, had something almost bar
barrie in its sensuous extravaganza.
The small head, exquisitely coiffured,
was turned slightly, thrown back so
that her white throat cleaned out of
the shadow. The lips were parted.
still smiling; and more sensuous, more
brilliant, more devouring than the
CLEAN of the jewels about her person,
was the fame that burned in her
eyes.
She laughed again. 1t was impossi-
BILE not to know that she was chal-
longing me. The pose. the look, the
laugh-all were a challenge. But i
was in no mind to accept it, and
glanced idly at the papers ON the ia
BILE. Presently walked toward the
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Where Fielding Is Buried.

The father of the English novel,
the two hundredth anniversary OF
whose birth fell the other day, lies
buried amid the cypress trees of the
English cemetery of Lisbon. Not long
after his death a tomb was erected TO.
mark the spot-a memorial which an
English visitor in 1772 found nearly
concealed by weeds and nettles." Ia
1880, through the eXertions Of tks
then British chaplain, large sar-
cophagus was substituted. which
about 80 years ago was repaired and
the inscriptions, a long one in Latin
on the front, and the words on the
back, "Luget Britannia gremio RcD
dari fovere natum," carefully re-
stored.
AS he tells us in the "Bible in
SPAIN" Borrow visited and revereht
" kissed 1.-The cold tomb or
the author of Amelia the most siHsp-
lar which (this) island ever produced
whose works it has long been the fash
ion to abuse in. public and TO read
in secret" In 1859 TennnysoB, then
on visit to Lisbon. attempted TO visit
the tomb, but could find no one 10 let
him into the cemetery, in which, it
may be added. another noted Eng
lishman = Philip Dodddridge = lies
ied.-Westminster Gazette.
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OONRcaH Noo By lA2REzW 6 CoezadA11

step. 1t is true that the divine mad
ness too soon passes; the reaction
comes; one is restored sharply to the
normal poise by the rude awakening
that comes with failure or with self
consciousness. But sometimes conse-
quences are already set in motion.
and it is too late to draw back: there
is nothing for it but to be borne on
ward with the tide.
So it was with me. l might return
to America-take up the threads of
life where had left them-laugh at
the newspaper accounts of the tragedy
deny them, or at least live them
down. If l did that, / should know
exactly what would happen to me. l
could count upon just how much ham
piness would come to my life, how
much interest routine and duty would
yield me.
But my imagination had been set
afiame. A world of chivalry and TO
nance beckoned to me allurinelv.
And if l trod the mazes of that fairy
world, there would be none to ridicule.
for there would be none to know that
| had set out to find it. If it proved
to be only a world of dreams and fan.
tasy, I should at least have had the
delicious excitement of seeking it. of
playing make-belieVe-the most fas.
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TALES OF HORROR
FROM THE NORTH CAROLINA
HILL COUNTRY.
Diseased Mind of Fratricide Move
for Himself a Ferful Punishment
Sitting for Hours with
Silent Ghost.

A man named Shelton of Cherokee
county in the mountains of North
Carolina, few years ago in some
drunken brawl killed his own brother
Escaping somehow the punishment OK
the law, he was given over TO the
horror of what he had done and from
his own mind wove for himself q
frightful punishment. He believed
and asserted as fact that every
night hair was drawn from his head
by his slain brother, coming through
the night from the unseen regions OK
the hereafter for that purpose. 1t 10
known fact that Shelton did become
bald little by little until not hair
was left; and some of his neigbbora
believed in the nightly visitation OF
the dead man as firmly as the slayer
himself. No explanation was offered
and no deductions were made THAI
| nightly coming, the silent pluckins OF
the hair, and the departure were &C
| copied stoically as a thing actually
and undoubtedly happening and part
of the mans regular life and expert
ence Shelton died recently after hay
! ing allowed himself with his gro
| tesQuely barred head to be exhibited
in a tent through mountain hamlets
| as The Modern CAIN" and the local.
newspapers recall his story.
1t was another mountaineer, living
| many miles from Shelton and de-
barred of any possibility of knowing
about him, who told the mountains
girl he was about TO marry that she
must reconcile herself to nightly
visit from a man he had killed. who.
! he said, walked to his bedside and
sat with him an hour after mid
night The stout-hearted bride mar.
red in firm expectation of the ghOstly
vigil at her couch and, according To.
| her sworn evidence in court. ELECTED
| incidentally in the trial of another
case and in the presence of an audi
| ence of Mortified, stiffened and breath
| less mountain people, she was not dis
| appointed She swore that regularly
every night the murdered man kept
his tryst, and that she and her groom
lay awake and looked at him. 1t was
another man of this same neighbor-
hood who committed murder and
undertook to dismember and hide the
body of his victim. He told his friend
that while he was carrying the sew
cred head in a bag over his shoulder
across certain wide hill where the
broom hedge was growing in the late,
| autumn. the head suddenly began to-
whistle a tune which was a favorite
with the dead man.
What morbid poet or romancsr
could conceive a more CHASTITY thought
| than this-the severed head emitting
suddenly the whistling of a lively
tune, on a bleak broom hedge hillside
| in the solitude of an autumn midnight
| with the moon looking coldly down?
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cinating game, after all is said, for
boy or man.
| had come to Europe secretly
cherishing the hope that just such an
adventure would come to me as had
happened tonight. The 33 years of
my life had been passed in an atmo-
sphere unusually dead and prosaic.
When 1 had left the university, /
had acted as secretary to an uncle, a
multi-millionaire who lived in an OBJ
scure town of the middle West. l had
trudged the dreary and stupid circle
of business routine, my eyes bent SOM
berly to earth. Success had come. or
what world calls success-money and
a measure of respect that is given to
one with a substantial bank account.
But that is not life.
And then one day l awoke. 1 real
lied with start that life was Slip
ping away from me; and with the
hours the golden aspirations and de.
lights that make life worth while. |
was simply machine, rather a cog
in the huge machine of business
MIN ~ OhC UTOhG CQ0
shackles that bound me. l was free
My life was at last my very own.
could do with It what l pleased.
could go where | wished.
And so l had come to Europe I
had Rugged to my breast the common
but pathetic delusion that across the
seas / should find something-iust
what | did not kuCw-somethinp that
would make life more joyous, give to
it charm and interest
/ had searched diligently for the
magic talisman in strange cities. and
of course had not found it. The blue
flower is not to be plucked so easily
Instead of happiness and diversion,
disgrace and misery had come. Should
| return home, then. imbittered. avert.
| ing the eyes? Or should avail NV.
self of the way of escape which this
woman had lightly suggested?
And If chose to consider it a ouest
challenge, there was none. not even
she, to forbid, though she, of all the
people in the world, would be the last
! to consider it such. And If fortune
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Smoothing the Workers Way.

The up-todate employer has come
to realize that it is quite as important,
from business point of view, to have
well-preserved workman as a we'll
oiled machine, and he carries. an in
surance fund for his people, just as
he maintains fund for breakage and
repairs on his engines. This insurance
fund for the bodies and minds of en-
ployes is now officially known as wei
fare work, says Circle Magazine. 1t
means. first and foremost, a provision
for the physical comfort of the man
and woman who works in the shop.
and this means plenty of light and air,
good drainage and pure water sup
ply. 1t means, further, elevators and
seats for women workers, baths for
the dirty and lunches for the hungry.
II may mean. later, picnics and balls,
public lectures. clubhouses and cook
ing schools; but for the present the
demands Of the body are paramount.
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Departmentary Commissioners.
KANSAS

Departmentary Commissioners.
The most sensible and businesslike
phn is that of the interstate COM
merce commission providing for de-
partmentary commissioners at places
remote from Washington. Under the
old regime, in which the commission
crs themselves travelled all over the
country TO hear complaints-many OF
them OF comparatively small conse-
Quence-the shipping interests suf-
fered intolerable delays Many months
often interviewed between hearings on
the same complaint Inquiries were
interrupted by the multifarious &C.
mands on the time Of the commission
eTss and business suffered correspond
ingly. While all the plans for the
new regime have not been completed,
II is expected, says System Magazine,
that the departmentary commissioners
will be assigned to groups of states
remote from Washington, and that Of
fees will be opened in such cities as
Chicago, st. Louis, San Francisco and
st. Paul. The deputy commissioners
Will keep in touch with railroad mat
tiers and will have authority to con-
duct hearings on complaints and to
adjust minor difficulties. The depu-
ties, Of course, will have no rate-hXing
power, but will report testimony to
the commission itself, somewhat as a
master in chancery conducts court
hearings. The interstate commerce
commission is fairly buried in COM
plants that have been piling up for
months. and although it has been ac-
lively at work, the task still ahead of
1t appeared hopeless.
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CHAPTER vi.
The Other Woman.

There is no enemy that the aver
age man must crush more ruthlessly
beneath the iron heel than his imagin.
alton. The ties OF home, of society
the necessity of earning his daily
bread-these are barriers that hem
him in the narrow rut of routine and
duty. He dare not look over the no.
nance that beckon alluringly. Or. il
he daAe. he must throw prudence and
sometimes conscience TO the wind.
But occasionally a cataclysm. both
physical and mental, thrusts one with.
out the familiar landmarks. The
habits of a lifetime are forgotten
then. 1t is then that one dares the
impossible. and refuses to see to VIVA,
extravagant and fantastic extremes he
is recklessly plunging.
From dreaming to action is but .
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TraveI of Pennsylvania Teacher.

Milan Walker, son of ex-Sherin
Miles Walker of Center county. WIG,
last June graduated from the Belle
fonte high school, just closed his firse
term of teaching school. and with Is
he has made quite a record
His school was at Rock Forge.
which is seven miles from Bellefonte.
preferring to board at home. he walk
ed these IA miles each day, with the
exception of IA trips which he made
on a bicycle The distance covered
during the term was 2,156 miles, and.
taking from that the $50 miles which
he travelled on his bike" leaves ,5ss
miles which he walked. He left Belle
fonte early in the morning, and quite
often the thermometer registered 10 "a
Ia degrees below zero. In addition he
broke his way through the snow to
the school house and made fire. bay-
ing the room warm before school wsx
called at nine ociock.-PhiladeIph
Record.