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Wrffe6e belle wDeu. 8anfen I ben
lille gp 2ofe Backgammon, 80 MiI
fra Superior, bIen Rat til 20oe bs.
rspet. Ger bsrtes ire forifieaige Or.
~pIofiener, Der p9ffebe belle gpen, men
mon nnroseSe fla iffe meS at unoer.
isae aarfagen til bette HabaIeer. @s-
serne antaaes at babe bemgafiaet fla
omfrent ST TOO. gneeI 9abirbenge
er maaife, BIeben sseIaat beS. erpIe.
fionerne, sa Ser fansfes 2ebnineer al
BengeieSfer rnnsf @anfen.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1908-10-23

Niitebe fin Arm. 8uooIpb NeI.
ION, SO aar garnmeI og boenoe I
Jol Greet, fiji forIeben Dag fin enc
arm iaa foroGrpet / en- Corn Sbreo-
Ger, at Der maatte foretages Ell slnn-
putation peo MIbnen.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1908-10-23

Fa,o Ointment earantsres at iurere bpert I'll.
t9loe az flsenbe, blinbe blsbenoe ener frcmftdden be
Htles 10 Ill u 1aae ener filbaaebetale Benaene. soc
3ilbereot al PARIS MEDICINE CO., st. Louis, Mo.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1908-10-23

ut SeTbreoe en- SorfisIsIie paa en 7aa.
Gag Sarntipt gromo Euiriue Tablets. Qae apo,
thetere iilbd9eberaler BVaene, hpts be Teller at bel
brebe. q. %. Grooves g1dunttrGt err pda bier 9gTte. 25c.
SiIberebt al PARIS MEDICINE CO., st. Louis, Mo.
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or q book agent. Whatever character
he assumed he acted it to perfection
and never made a false play in ali his
record until he tangled up with lanky
swamp-angel from louisiana
Hank had been down there selling
patent churns. and at a county seat
some distance from the railroad he had
spotted "a victim named Simon Boggs
The sharp characteristic of Boggs' ma
ture was his suspicion of everything
and everybody. He must have been
of Missouri ancestry, If there is any
thing i'm the slang expression that is
current today. \ really suspicious man
is the easiest victim of a swindle in
the world. He is so careful to inves-
tigate every detail of proposition
before he bites at it that if you can
once satisfy him in this investigation
he takes everything for granted after
that and you don't have any further
trouble with him.
Boggs had been written just the right
sort of letter. Ii was a masterpiece.
It is over there in one of my scrap
books, and you can read it some time
If you think il will interest you. II
had the desired effect, for Boggs an
swered with cautious letter, in which
he said that he would have TO be
shown" before he would invest in the
money. but that he would take a small
quantity if IL was the real stuff Boggs
had more ready money than any man
in his parish, and Hank knew that if
he could rope Boggs in he would prove
We'll worth the plucking.
An appointment was made with the
willy Boggs and he came on 70 New
York to look the situation over, Hank
met him at the depot and took him to
his rooms by a roundabout way in a
hooded carriage so that Boggs would
never find il again. He was carried
into a room where money seemed TO
be the cheapest commodity in the world.
1t lay about in piles on tables and
chairs and the bed and floor were lit
tered with it, His eyes grew as big as
saucers at this vulgar disregard for
Uncle Sans currency
He was told the customary gag about
the stolen plates and the difficulty in
working the money off in too large
quantities in New York city. but was
assured that every bill i'm the room
would pass at the government treas
ury or any bank in the city Boggs
had to be shown. He was directed to
pick out three or four bills at random
from the litter of the room. This he
did. being careful to get four, the lary-
est number mentioned, and also being
nation. He was then spirited back to
the uptown district, and he and Hank
made a circuit of the banks where the
bills were changed for those of small
er denomination without a murmur as
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! they were as genuine as any that ever
! left the bureau of engraving and print
ing.
Boggs was very much pleased with
| this. Next he wanted to see the plate:
from which they were printed and the
printing plant This was something thai
Hank hadn't counted on. He said il
was impossible. but Boggs was as ada
mant and refused to invest a dollar an
! less they showed him. Hank agreed
to do so the next day, and during the
night he bought small hand press and
some ink and had half-tone plates made
of both sides of the three denomina-
items of the bills that he was purport-
ing to have in such profusion. tens
twenties and fifties. He figured that
Boggs wouldn't know the difference be-
tween half-tone plate and a stee
plate. There was one matter he over
| looked, and that was the paper on
which to print his bills.
Boggs was conducted. with great Sc
crecy. to the printing plant which, as
matter of fact, was on the, floor above
the room where the profusion of money
was displayed. He examined every
thing minutely and expressed his salts
faction with everything. Then he
wanted to see the stock of paper. hav-
ing learned somehow that government
bills We're printed on a specially pre-
pared paper. Here he seemed to have
Hank, but that gentleman was ready
for the emergency. He regretted eX-
ceedingly that his paper supply was ex-
hausted. Indeed. he said. it was a spe-
cially prepared paper, and his eonfed-
crates We're then engaged in manufac-
turing a large quantity of it. but II
would not be ready for use for some two
or three weeks.
This seemed TO satisfy Boggs for the
time but he wanted TO see the paper
being made. Hank was stumped here
for fair and had to decline saying the
process was so secret that even he had
never visited the place. Boggs ac-
cepted this explanation to all appear
ances, but as a matter of fact he was
not satisfied in his own mind His sus-
picion was aroused to the last degree
and he made a resolution to see the
paper before he invested heavily.
Nevertheless. he invested 800 in the
money, part of the 5000 he had Sc
cured in having the four bills changed
getting for it $1,000 which he counted
with great care, examining each bill as
it was handed over to him. Hank had
carelessly thrust a bundle containing
thousand dollars at Boggs. but the
farmer had united il and looked al
every bill on both sides before he paid
over the 500 agreed upon. He returned
10 his swamps and passed the money
with 50 little difficulty that he soon
wrote Hank and arranged to come on
70 New York and take his entire stocb
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,lre evening when I looked in on Cap
cain Dickson, who had but recently re-
tired from a position high in the Unit
al states secret service. l found him
seriously engaged in reading the after
noon paper.
amazing yarns you newspaper men
write" he greeted me cheeriiy.
What gives you that thouSht2'
oueried. thinking how much more
amazing were the experiences in the life
nj this man than anything he was like
ly 20 Ind in the paper which he held
crumpled in his hands, and hoping 10
7et him started telling one of his adj
ventures.
Il was just reading about a green
goods swindle pulled off in New York
civ Yesterday. II is strange how men,
who have sense enough to accumulate
4 sum of money. can be so foolhardy
as 90 part with it on a palpable swim
die ike this one. And yet you know,
be continued, there are some shrewd
business men roped in on this. self-same
proposition-men who are respected IN
their home community for their busi-
ness sense"
] knew IN moment there was a
story ready for me, so l quietly filled
my pipe. he pushed over the bottle of
favorite sherry. and this came from
him:
The king Of the green goods sharks
was Hank Bonner. alias Red, "Madi-
SON shorty" and a hundred others.
He worked I'm New York city and IL was
my pleasure to make his acquaintance
i'm a picturesque manner.
Hank didn't do indiscriminate adver-
Using as do the green goods sharks of
the present time. Not Hank. He picked
out his victims with care and made
The selection of them a personal mat
Ter. He would make a tour through
the provinces as he expressed it, and
one Of these tours that failed to land
two or three victims was the rankest
sort OF a failure. When Hank had
spotted his man he would return to the
city and write him a personal letter. in
which he hit out to a dot the man s
weakest point CT character, whether it
was cupidity, vanity or downright Grim
inality Hank wasn't taking chances
I'm these letters. for he had seen his
victim. talked with him. tried him out,
and 50 studied him at close range that
Hank generally knew more about the
man than the latter knew about him
self
He kept a close tab on the men whom
no had worked and never tried to pull
off two jobs in the same neighborhOOd
H. would nab a sucker from Maine one
week and one from Texas the next
In making his tours he assumed diff
terent characters. sometimes a gentle
man Of wealth seeking o bit OF recre-
alton, sometimes an itinerant minister
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a higher regard for Boggs because of

it. They gave me a good description of
Boggs and told me of several little pc
culiarities of speech and manner which
he possessed, and l am sure that l met
UP with him down in Mexico some years
later. He was a highly respected man
ufacturer and ranch owner then, and
reputed to be the wealthiest man in the
state of Sonora. l tried to draw him
out or trap him into saying something
about the incident with the men in
New York, but he was too smooth for
that ruse TO work. He spoke of New
York freely. but never without laugh
ing, and l am sure that his mirth was
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induced by the memory of the trick he
turned there on the green-goods men.
Copyright. 1908. by w. g. Chapman.
Copyright in Great Britain.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-07-24

stronger, as II each foot were teth.
cred by an india-rubber cable, which
pulled harder with every inch he
rose.
AT last he knew he could not pos-
sibly raise himself another mill.
metre. He opened his eyes and
glanced down. The ledge was about
half up TO his knees. Lifting his toes.
he swung them in. and rested them
on the rock.
The relief was inexpressible. The
strain was off his arms, although the
horrible emptiness yet yawned under
his heels.
The top was still nearly ten feet
off. His arms became suddenly
weak. All grew black round him.
He swayed dizzily. A little more.
and he would tumble backward.
Hold on, Dam"
The shout from above gave him
spurt Of courage. He opened his
eyes just as a moose dangled down
past his face. Kline above. fat on
his stomach, his head projecting
| over the edge, engineered the rope
down below Handy's knees.
Put your feet through IT," he
directed; and the drillman obeyed
Soon he was seated in the loon.
Letting go the hose. he grasped the
line. But the heat OF the sun on
his head had been too much for him:
he was losing consciousness. Kline
saw the danger.
Hoist away. quick!" shouted he
to the men behind him. Up came
the line. Just as Handy lost con-
sciousness and lurched backward.
the sailor caught him by the wrists.
Youths Companion.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-07-24
Remedial Value of Food.

If people understood more about
the medicinal use OF food, much suf.
fering and pain would be spared. IN.
deed, some writer's claim that time
will come when medicine will only
be given in sudden. and acute attacks
OF illness, and that disease will yet
be cured by foods.
Spinach and dandelions are good
for kidney trouble. Celery is good
for rheumatism, neuralgia, diseases
OF the nerves and nervous dyspepsia
Lettuce and cucumbers cool the sys-
tenn, and a leaf OF lettuce eaten be-
fore retiring Will produce sleep. II
one wants 10 perspire freely. TO re-
lieve the system OF impurities, try
gestion. Tomatoes are excellent for
liver trouble, Notwithstanding the
popular fallacy that they produce
cancer.
There is nothing 80 useful In cases
of nervous prostratlon as the onion.
n Is almost the best nervine known.
and is most useful in coughs, colds
and influenza. Soup made from
onions is regarded by the French as
an excellent restorative I'm weakness
Of the digestive organs. Eaten every
other day, they have "A most clearing
and whitening effect on the complex
ion
Beets and turnips are excellent APP
petizers. For malaria and erysipelas
nothing is better than cranberrles.
Lemons are useful in cases OF low
fever, rheumatism, feverish thirst,
coughs, colds and liver complaints.
Honey is wholesome, strengthening.
healing and useful in affections OF
the throat
Eggs contain large amount OF nu-
triment In "A compact, quickly avail.
able form. Especially the yolks are
useful in iaundices. Beaten up raw,
they are used 20 clear and strength
en- the voice. with sugar and lemon
Juice the beaten white will cure
hoarseness. Fresh. ripe fruit is ex-
cellent for purifying the blood and
tonlng up the system.
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More Wasps Than He Wanted.

The announcement that the Hay
wards Heath Horticultural Society
was prepared TO pay a penny for
every queen wasp brought 10 the sum-
mer show has caused the secretary TO
be inundated with wasps from all
parts Of England Some OF the sendl
ers have requested that the money
they consider due them should be for
warded by return OF post. The Sec
retary, however. wishes IL 20 be un-
derstood by senders that only persons
living within the radius OF the show
will be paid for their wasps.-LondoD
Evening Standard.
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BY ALBERT w. TOLMAN.
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70 hold up two men and twelve hun.
dred pounds of steel. 1t must give
way somewhere. But where? BE-
low the men or above? The reply
meant life or death.
For the bare fraction Of a second
the drill hung at their feet, its sharp
point whirling madly. The exhaust
pipe detonated like a Gatling. Then.
crack! The nipple to which the hose
was coupled had broken in the
thread just outside the steam-chest
Down went the machine, ringing
against the cliff, leaving them dang
ling alone on the rubber tube. the
steam squirting from its torn end.
There was breathless silence for
moment Then from far below rose
the dull crash of the avalanche. fol-
lowed by the fainter clang Of the
drill. They shivered at the narrow
ness OF their escape.
But they were in appalling peril,
swinging over the abyss against the
smooth bluff, devoid OF foothold
When a man has warning to brace
himself against disaster, he can meet
1t better. But the complete unex-
pectedness of this catastrophe had
left them limp and weak.
Forty feet above. the hose bent
over the crest. The only thing for
them to do was to climb It; and
there was no time to waste. The
hot pipe burned their hands fright
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fully, but it offered their only road
to life.
Both could not climb together;
one must get above the other.
Go first, SAM" muttered Handy
to his lighter mate. 1t was no time
far debate; life depended on prompt
action. Sam swarmed up the hose
above the drill-runner's head.
When the machine fell, leaving
the pipe-end open, the Kissing steam
began to play on Handy's leg. Ener-
gized by the pain from the scalding
Jet, the big man, for a short distance,
kept close below the other, lifting
bis two hundred and forty pounds
so fast that a blow from one OF
kline's shuffling feet kicked off his
cap. Soon he climbed more slowly,
and the sailor began TO outstrip him.
Weakened by the jerk of the drill.
the hose had burst in spots. 1t
sagged ominously. Through little
holes the steam spurted out, threat
ening hands and faces. With avert
ed heads they climbed in silence.
toes Gathering against the smooth
rock, awed by the deepening empti-
ness beneath, tormented with the
dread that the couplings above
might break.
Now mans muscles may be very
strong for some purposes, and very
weak for others. Kline, the sailor.
accustomed TO swaying upon ropes.
was a far better climber than Handy.
Besides, the latter had a hundred
pounds more to lift. He began 20 be
conscious OF a fearful ache In his
biceps.
AS the hose rubbed and cut into
the soil on the edge OF the BLUM,
a shower OF earth fell on the heads
OF the imperiled men. Kline got
most OF this. but enough struck
Handy's bare crown and face 10
cause him serious discomfort. Be-
sides. the sailors shaking OF the rope
made 1t harder for the man below
to climb.
Suddenly steam ceased TO pour
from the hose. II had evidently
been shut of by the engineer, warned
by the crash and his dropping gage
that something was wrong. There
were footsteps above. and a shout:
Hello. down there"
Neither man replied; they we're
too busy. Then over the edge peered
the engineers Mortified face. n dis
appeared quickly; and a shouting
and running told that he was gone
to bring help.
Kline had now almost reached the
top. He heard his mate painting. and
looking down, saw him several feet
below.
Can you make Il. DAM" he
asked.
Groaned Handy. II don't know"
Hold tight; I'll help you as soon
as | get up" cried the other. en-
couragingly. 4 few seconds more.
and a final shaking OF the hose and
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-07-24
suoEMAKERs OF OLD EGYPT.
All the Stages of Development Shown
i'm "a Berlin Museum

In the mural drawings found in
ancient Egyptian tombs every imagi-
nable kind OF handiworker Is de-
picted, and among them the shoe
maker. In these pictures OF three or
four thousand years ago the cobbler
is shown seated on his three-legged
stool. In one painting he holds in
the left hand leather sole while
with IN awl I'm his right he is MAX
ing holes in the edge OF the sole.
His companion I'm the same picture
is pulling with his teeth thong OF
leather through the holes bored in
another sole. In the shop are shown
knives, avis. shavers. needles. ham
mers, mallets and rough leather,
while cut soles hang on the wall.
The shoemaker's trade was not so
highly developed in ancient Egypt as
many OF the other trades; this was
due, doubtless, to the fact that tho
great majority OF people went bare
foot. Among those who did wear
foot coverings. sandals were mostly
used. These did not always consist
Of leather sole; they used also
linen, palm flbres. 2apyrus and
marsh grass. They were fastened TO
the feet by two handsome over the
instep, the other between the toes.
As a protection TO the toes the point
Of the sole was sometimes prolonged,
curved upwards and fastened at the
instep. Later sandals are shown with
side strips, which eventually led TO
the low shoe. and from that was de-
veloped gradually the laced leather
shoe. All these stages In the de-
velopment OF the shoe are shown in
the Egyptian Museum in Berlin,
where there are numerous specimens
Of sandals OF palm leaf, papyrus,
linen and leather, as we'll as a pair
Of Egyptian laced shoes.
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shout OF triumph. The earth
showered over the drill-runner.
"Ill get rope!" exclaimed the
sailor. and disappeared.
Handy climbed doggedly. II
means work 10 support two hundred
and forty pounds with one hand.
while you raise the other for a fresh
hold. Each time he reached a
shorter distance. Gradually his pro-
gress became series OF mere
bitches. Each time he felt that he
could not make another. And the
top was still fifteen feet of.
Inch by inch he rose. The roar OF
the crusher was suddenly cut of.
Voices from below came 10 him.
He knew that men were watching his
fight for life. His senses were never
keener. Every little sound was
magnifed. The pulling OF a tug
reached his ears. He heard the cry
of a bird. His eyes stared at the
rock before him; he could trace
every little vein, every discoloration.
He had not realized II could be
~ AN''i AN'@' NV Inc sun bCdl on
his shoulder-blades. An intense
thirst tormented him. His mouth
and throat were parched. Although
Kline was gone, the earth still fell
upon him from above.
Insects hummed round. rejoicing
in their wings. A painted butterfly
fluttered before his face. A swarm
Of flies, taking advantage OF the fact
that his hands were busy, buzzed
about his bald head, biting him in
tolerably.
At last he felt that he could not
climb another inch. Just then, right
on level with his bloodshot eyes,
appeared a narrow ledge. Could he
but raise himself his own height
and get his toe-tips on that scanty
shelf. freeing his arms from the un.
endurable strain, he might have a
chance yet.
The agony OF the next two min.
utes was comparable with nothing
which the drillman had ever expert.
| enced before. He knew that he
must climb quickly. for he could not
last much longer.
Shutting his eyes and throwing all
his strength into his arms, he lifted
himself by a succession OF short,
| quick jerks. He experienced pc.
culiar dragging sensation, gradually