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Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05

looked at the firm hands that held the
book. A year ago those hands had held
hers; she trembled at the memory of
their touch. She looked at his lips
firm, smooth, pale lips, set in a thin
line. A year ago those lips
1t was at this moment that he raised
his eyes and looked at her. A hot
blush covered her face and ears and
neck He looked at her for one brief
instant-a faint amusement in his half
closed eyes-and resumed his read.
ing
"Oh, don't read!" she said desper.
ately. "The train doesn't stop for
hours. Surely you won't keep three
hours silence with an old acquaint-
ance just because"
He laid down the book at once.
81 beg your pardon he said courte.
ously. You were SO we'll provided
with travelling companions that !
feared to force the conversation of an
other on you"
His glance rested on her papers for
an instant, and-for a longer instant
on the violets she carried.
She laid the flowers on the cushion
beside her.
Il am going to be married on Mon
day. she said abruptly.
"a thousand congratulations" he
said smiling.
Il am to be Lady Leamington." she
said.
"You are going to marry him?" The
scorn in his voice stung her like a
whip.
She raised her head proudly.
II consider myself extremely fortu.
nate," she said, and took up a maya.
zine.
And now it was he who watched
her, with gaze so fixed that she felt
1t in every nerve. Suddenly he
shrugged his shoulders and moved to
the seat opposite hers. Then he
spoke.
"Of all the virtues, l have always
supposed reticence to be the most ad
mirable, as it is the rarest. l have
striven to practice it. Therefore. when
you broke off our engagement, did
not seek to justify myself. Pride ma,
have been for something in my silence
also-1 scorn to deny it. l own tina,
my pride suffered when l found thai
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05
In Danger.

Bobby will develop into joke
writer If he is not squelched," said
Bobby's father with the gleeful ex-
preston which always accompanies a
my-child story. eve have been dis
cussing the South's going dry pretty
frequently lately, and that may &C.
count for his choice Of subject. At
table last night he said: Papa, why
is a postage stamp not a prohibition.
ist?' Give it up, son. Because said
kid, it sticks to its icker.' Not bad
for a ten-year,old, was it,"
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05
REUNITED BY
AN'ACCIDENT
By :. NEsBlr.
(Copyright.)

A jar. whistle, flag waved, and
the train began to shudder and to
move The man kissed the smoothly
gloved hand that lay on the window
and drew back. AS he did so, another
man came up the platform running
with great strides, caught. at the han
die of the door, shook it, and as it re-
sisted, leaped on the step of the car
riage, amid the shouts of porters, and
was borne out of the station clinging
to the carriage door.
The doors locked. she said from
Within.
The man on the step thrust bag
through the window on to the seat and
felt in his pocket. Then he moved a
couple of feet past the carriage door,
unlocked it with railway key, stepped
into the carriage and. closed the door
after him..
"That was near thing!"' he said
And now for the first time the fellow
travellers looked in each others face.
His mouth grew stern. THE pink
faded from her face and greenish
pallor :crept up to the blue eyes. {,
''You!" she said. -.
He looked at her critically-raised
his hat without speaking, and busted
himself with the straps of his bag.
From this he took a book and in it
read sedulous1y, never raising his
eyes. -; -.
She watched him by stolen glanees,
met always by the defense Of his
dropped lids. "A handsome man-big
and hroad-shouldered.
Grown bolder, she watched him now
no more by fleet, snatched instants,
but steadily, as the train; ratified. and
swung in its gathering speed. She
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05
FRIENDS HELP.
St. Paul PARK Incident.

after drinking coffee for breakfast
always felt languid and dull, having
no ambition to get to my morning
duties. Then in about an hour or so
a weak, nervous arrangement of the
heart and stomach would come over
me with such force would frequently
have to lie down.
AT other times I had severe head
aches; stomach finally became af-
fected and digestion so impaired that
I had serious chronic dyspepsia and
constipation. A lady, for many years
State President of the w. G. T. u,
told me she had been greatly benefited
by quitting coffee and using Postum
Food Coffee; she was troubled for
years with asthma She said it was
no cross to quit coffee when she
found she could have as delicious an
article Is Postum.
Another lady who had been trou.
bled with chronic dyspepsia for years,
found immediate relief on ceasing cof-
fee and beginning Postum twice a
day. She was wholly cured. Still
another friend told me that Postum
Food Coffee was a Godsend to her, her
heart trouble having been relieved
after leaving off coffee and taking on
Postum
so many such cases came to my
notice that l concluded coffee was
the cause of my trouble and quit and
took up Postum. l am more than
pleased to say that my days of trouble
have disappeared. / am we'll and
happy There's Reason" Read
''The Road to Wellville" in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full Of human
interest.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05

When the sufferers were one by one
drawn out of the wreck, he and she
were among the last to be released.
He regained his consciousness in the
anguish of that release.
They bound up his arm and her
head and, clinging to each other, they
tottered out Of the tunnel by the light
of the torches and climbed into the
relief train. 1t was crowded with pale,
bandaged faces and limbs swathed in
white.
Il shall get out at the first station"
he said, and his voice was coldly po-
lite. "By the way, didn't quite I'M
derstand. Does your wedding take
place in the morning?"
She leaned a little against his unin-
jured shoulder, and so closely was the
carriage packed that he could not draw
away.
IF you wish it," she said.
II beg your pardon?" he questioned
courteously.
ooh, hush!" she whispered. "You
cannot go on pretending any more
now. When you thought l was dead,
you called me your darling. Do you
remember"
"You are mistaken" he said, but she
answered with eyes that laughed at
him from under the white bandage.
Don't scowl at me. l am not bit
afraid of you. Nothing matters now /
know that you love me. You will see
Il shall have everything my own
way"
Under the sables, her hand, in its
torn, grimy glove slipped into his. He
clasped it and: "You have exercised
the DEVIL he said softly, and her
fingers chung to his.
'Say it again-now you know that l
am not dead"
So he whispered in her ear in that
crowded carriage the most banal OF
loves banalities: "My darling!"
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05
GREASY FOODS.

At times even in the best regulated
families it is impossible to have the
food brought to the table free from
grease. Often it is not the cooks
fault, for frequently the fault lies with
the mixing of substances which are
not quite fresh, having been kept at
the grocer's Tor some time. Soup in
particular is the hardest to get clear,
and often the housekeeper notices a
slight scum on the top. This can cas-
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05

raise my hand above my head. The
doctor held out no hope of my re-
covery. and I had given up, but at last
started using Doan's Kidney Pills and
made rapid gain. After three months
use was we'll and at work again."
Sold by all dealers. so cents box
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05

HOYTs HEADACHE AND NEURALGIA
COLOGNE.
A harmless and refreshing remedy
that quickly relieves headache, neu-
ralgia. nervousness, faintness, exhaus-
ton. sleeplessness; used only by in
haling and outward application. For
sale by all druggists. rs and soc bot
ties.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05
Il Cures While You Walk.

Aliens Foot-Ease is certain cure for
hot, sweating, callous, and swollen, aching
accept any substitute. Trial package FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted. LIE Roy, N. Y.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05
INSTRUMENTAL Music.

IIoet0TIS1tedI WUSlC.
Hogan-Hoy We hear-rd me daugh.
ter Mona sing lately?
.Dugan-Both lately an earlier, be.
dad! IT'S tn fine instrumental music
she do make. 49,.
( Hogan-Ye ignoramus. shure sing
in, amt insthruminal music!
Dugan - Begoory, thin, Keegan
towld me it wuz' instrumental in
causin' him t. move two blocks away
from yer house!
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05

invalid with kidney
troubles. and often
wished death might
end my awful suffer-
ings. The secretions
were thick with sedi-
ment, my linn b S
swollen and my right
side so nearly par
alyzed I could not
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05
At the Ticker,

Mr.. Stockton Bonds-Noah was a
wonderful financier.
Mr.. Dustin Stax-How so?
Mr.. Stockton Bonds-He floated q
stock company when every one else
was forced into involuntary liquida-
ton.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05
STATE OF OHIO. CITY OF TOLEDO, [ ..
I.nGAR G0IYTY. W

srAF1 OF I Tnlo; COZ co1rp o. TOLEDO %.
FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he 10 senior
partner Of the hrm Of f. j. CHENEY q Co., doing
business in the City Of Toledo. County and State
aforesaid, and that said firm win pay tho sum OF
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every
case Of CArARRH that cannot be cured by the Of
HALLS CATARRH CURE
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence.
this 9th day Of December, A. D., 1856.
1:ss5t : ': se eaaa1 PUBLIC.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces Of the
system. Send for testimonials free.
F.J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by all Druggists, CSC.
Take Hairs Family PILLS for constipation.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05

lily be removed before serving by plac-
ing clean piece of brown paper upon
the surface of the liquid; let it remain
for a few seconds, and on removing
one will find that the grease has stuck
to the paper and the soup has become
as clear as it should be. This method
is often useful in making Welsh rare.
bit when the cheese is too fresh.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05

STACK COVERS; AWNINGS, TENTS.
Flags etc. For information and prices, write
American Tent & Awning Co.. Minneapolis
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05
ALMOST A MIRACLE.
Raised Up When Science Said There
Was No Hope.

g. W. L. Nesbitt, Depot Street,
Marion. Ky., writes: II was a chronic
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05
Feminine lrrelexance.

He-Yes, by owe, for six months I
have been under your thumb-but, ha.
ha! the worm has turned at last!
She-Nasty wriggly thing!
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05

People with that tired feeling are
sure to make others tired.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05
An Unfamiliar Aspect.

MI Ot101111VIdI ENoPSVIs
what makes this grub look so out
landish?" demanded the man in the
restaurant.
"The pure food law" answered the
head waiter. with courtly bow.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05
'lMPUDENcE.'

Mr.. Rooster-Gee! But you look
frowsy.
Mr.. Poodle-Sure; lend me your
comb, will you?
It is the tragedy of life that the
tighter we hold love. the more frantic
it is to get away from us, and the cas-
Ter it slips between our fingers.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05
MIGHT Be Either.

Mrs. Baker-My old school friend,
Mrs. Jones, writes me that she is just
beginning to live.
Miss Ann Teek-Widowed or d.
yorced.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05

You can easily flatter man by tell.
in. him he can't be easily flattayc1
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-06-05

important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-19

heard in the olden time. Filled with
the memories of days passed in these
sacred surroundings, they landed and
mounted to the shrine AS each tree
and landmark known of old fixed their
delighted gaze a familiar looking, gray
nosed old squirrel scolded them from
an adjoining red birch. and they vowed
that he remembered them and was de-
livering an address of welcome While
they sat filled with the delight of the
moment the omnipresent moose birds
came sailing across from the opposite
shore, 1ured by the smoke of their fire.
and presently doe and fawn emerged
from the woods and walked daintily
into the lake at the mouth OF their
Arcadian brook. Dipping two velvet
noses into the crystal water they stood
drinking until. as the breeze shifted.
they looked up, with pointed ears and
extended nostrils. at the island.
"Oh. see them cried the Shadow
Girl delightedly They know we have
come back to Already" The deer eyed
them for moment longer and then.
with white tails erected, bounded into
the forest.
I am sure I can hear the Little Red
Gods chanting far away in the hills.
Oh, 1T is so good to be back with you in
Arcady. she exclaimed, as she gazed
down the shimmering length of the
lake to the far hills beyond
DO You remember how we used to
conjure up dream valleys over those
red trimmed hills, Dream Man?" she
finally said, "and how We promised our
selves that some day we would go and
md them? But we never found time to
leave our own vale of Already"
And SO they passed the northland
August day, listening in turns to tales
OF her life in the French convent school
and OF summers in Switzerland and
Normandy, and of his journeys to the
east and hunting trips to Alaska and
the Canadian Rockies Other DAYS fol-
lowed-days of unalloyed joy for both
The Red Gods, sought out in their lair
made them their cleverest magic, while
the forest voices again sweetened their
ears with the songs of nature If the
Shadow Girl as child had charmed the
youth with the witchery of her person
ality. her budding womanhood held the
man enthralled. The affection he had
given her in the earlier years of their
friendship was akin to the loving care
of an elder brother, and until he had
returned again to Already she has ever
been to him the beautiful wonder child.
his little dream sister; but when first
he saw her standing In the forest In her
fast maturing loveliness of form and
feature he knew his little dream friend
had taken wing forever to the far land
of memory, and he wondered, almost
with fear, if the Shadow Girl had for
gotten the Dream Man.
The Shadow Girl and the Dream Man
were spending their last day on the
Island of Enchantment. Trouble was
brewing on the other side of the world,
and the Dream Man had been ordered
by his paper to the scene of action.
They had wandered to the rock capped
crest of the island where was the
shrine of the Little Red Gods. The girl
was much depressed at the Dream
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other world, so complex and intaig-
ible and yet so sympathetically alluring
was her child nature. So the summer
passed and the Shadow Girl learned
to know the voices of the forest and
the ways of their owners, and many
a brood of partridge chicks and often
a spotted fawn did her delighted eyes
behold, while the friendship cemented
by the common bonds of imagination
and sympathy between the child of
Z and the youth of 20 was formed
which was to endure.
Other summers followed, filled with
happy days in Already and wanderings
into the fand of the Little Red Gods
As she grew older what delicious hu-
NOR and fancy came to be hersI And
what letters he wrote her. letters which
none but a Shadow Girl could under
stand and a Dream Man write, and
what answers from Fairyland he re-
ceived in return.
So the years came and went. and
the Dream Man left college and passed
into the world to seek his fortune
and the Shadow Girl was sent abroad
to school; but she still wrote him dream
letters, which sometimes baffled the
understanding of even dream man.
with their moods as evanescent and
variable as the wind that whispered
in the pines of the Enchanted Island
One bright morning in late August,
as the sweet breeze from the balsam
fringed shore rippled mountain lake
and the purple ridges cut the sky in
sharp outline, as is seen only in the
clear air of the north, bronzed young
man Of gray flannel shirt was making
canoe fly through the water with vigor-
Gus stroke of his paddle. Presently,
as he neared point of the shore thick
w grown with hirches with q t,,r,,
of the blade he stopped the headway
of the canoe apd as the slender craft
slowly grounded he stretched his length
and pulled impatiently at the briar
clenched in his teeth. He had hardly
assumed this position when a rustling
behind him betokened the presence of
some creature moving in the brush
Sitting up the man looked in the di-
rection of the sound. to see surveying
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him from a large birch two alluring
brown eyes beneath a mass of chestnut
ha1r, only to quickly disappear.
The pipe fell neglected as the man
sprang from the canoe and rushed into
the tangled brush toward the tree from
which had peeped the eyes. AS he went
he gave the call of the mother par
fridge, and then there stepped into view
from her hiding place the lovely owner
of the eyes and hair, who with a rad
liant smile approached him. Dream
Man., she cried. as she gave him her
two hands Shadow Girl" he an
swered, as his eyes hungrily took her
in, "or is it the fairy queen? Shadow
Girl, can 1T be your
"Oh, yes, Dream Man." she laughed.
with eyes glistening. 1T is your little
Shadow Girl, and a very, very glad one
too! How excited I was as came
down the trail. fearing that 1 might
be late and then, with sigh, I'm
so happy to be back in Arcadyp,
He stood looking down at her with
her hands still in his, too stirred to
speak. AS he gazed he saw that the
Shadow Girl had grown into exquisite
womanhood, and it was with touch
of sadness that he realized that his
dear little playmate of old had gone.
never to return, and in her place had
woman.
Well.'' she said at last, why don't
you say you are glad to see me?
Haven't you stared a me long enough 2"
Glad to see you, Shadow Girl. Why,
| have been dreaming of this moment
ever since 1 received your letter in San
Francisco. Glad to see youl 1t will
take days to tell you how glad to see
you 1 am, and what beautiful Dream
Lady the Shadow Girl has grown to
be. My, almost foot taller" said he,
in mock amazement, and oh, such a
grand lady with her hair up and long
skirts, But come. the Little Red Gods
are wild to see her, and we must not
keep them waiting"
AS they once again sought the King
dom of Already she told him of her
years of travel and study abroad, while
he took her to the ends of the world
in his travels as correspondent for a
New York newspaper. Soon, far in the
distance, they beheld, rising from the
lake, the beckoning pines and feathered
balsam of the Island of Enchantment
AS she gazed the Shadow Girl softly
said: Dream Man, you little know
how much | owe the island and YOU
All these years abroad my thoughts
have constantly wandered back to our
Already. 1t was here I learned from
you the great delight and wonder of
this queer old world of ours. What
should have done without. you?''
"oh hut II was Won who made it an
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they landed on the island, and swing
ing the Shadow Girl TO his shoulder
the Dream Man mounted to a large
rock on it's most elevated portion, from
which the blue waters of the lake
could be seen miles to the southwark
sparkling in the June sun. There he
told her wonderful tales of the little
brothers Of the air and woods. How
at sunrise a few mornings before he
had seen a white doe and two spotted
fawns drinking at the mouth of the
brook across the cove, and how the
white deer were beloved above all
others by the fairies, because they were
so rare. That the fairy queen when
making a long journey always rode
between the silken ears>of a white doe
and held fast by each hand as her
feet footed minion bounded through
the forest and over the hills Then the
entranced Shadow Girl learned that the
owls came out and gossiped all night
because the sunlight hurt their eyes
but at the first sign of dawn in the
east they would say to one another
'Oh. my. how late IL is growing. 1t is
high time we respectable folks were
home and abed, lest some spiteful per-
son critcise our habits and with that
they would fly away home and sleep
all day.
Vivid as was his imagination it could
scarcely keep pace with the demands
put upon IL by the divine curiosity of
his little companion. She taxed to the
utmost his knowledge OF the habits of
the creatures of the forest but the ro-
nance and mysticism in his nature,
allied to his quick sympathy with her
moods, which were at times as elusive
as the sunbeams on the waves or the
shadows OF the clouds on the trees,
enabled him to conjure up around them
a Northland Already and create a
dream world of their own in the Island
of Enchantment. And so the horns of
Elfland sounded throughout the golden
summer days for the Dream Man and
the Shadow Girl
AS the summer waned he fell more
and more under the spell Of the sor-
ceress. who seemed less a creature of
this earth than a tiny spirit from an
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ing tea with the Little Red Gods and
you were really true then"
You are no more real than L." he
laughed, and / am sure that your home
is in fairyland, and that you dance
every bright night on the moonbeams."
do fairies dance on the moon
beams?" she asked in amazement.
"Oh, yes, and all the little girls who
love them dance, too
'Oh, 1 wish l were fairyr' cried the
child.
You are a Shadow Girl, little sis
ter Of the fairies. and that is nicer, for
I have met many fairies and you are
the only Shadow Girl l know Now
we are going TO set sail for the en-
chanted island where live the little
red gods And so the Dream Man and
the Shadow Girl embarked for the
Island of Enchantment
In a deep cove, miles away. at the
head of the lake, lay the object of.
their quest. AS a boy Wainwright had
frequented the spot, lured by the nat
ural beauty of the cove and the island
itself. Here he had passed many a
bIissful hour in a dream world of his
own. and ii was to the Island of En-
chantment that his thoughts had in
stinctively turned as the natural scene
for the Introduction of the Shadow Girl
into Already.
AS they noiselessly rounded the
shoulder of shore that guarded the
realm. and turned into the cove they
surprised a family of teal in the midst
of a swimming lesson, and the Shadow
Girl gasped with delight as, led by the
old bird, the brood scampered off, beat
ing the water with feet and wings in
a wild scramble for safety. Yet little
they knew how safe they were in the
presence of a shadow girl and a dream
man. Further on they were scolded by
an indignant mink, whose inquisitive
face peeping for an instant from the
far side OF a log betokened his re-
sentiment at the Intrusion of strangers
on his private domain.
After circling the shore of the cove