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overland special. And joy go with
you. But come back soon to us. Wei,
have good job for you"
Thank you. Mr.. Crocker," Alfred
said earnestly, wringing the offered
hand, and Fastening of to find Esther.
She was coming down the steps OF
Gregory's car.
Read that" He thrust the letter
into her hand, and stood by her side
while she looked it over. 1t was
dated at Boston.
Dear Alfred: My Aunt Alc2ira is
dead. and has left me three thousand
dollars. With this I've been able to,
pay the last dollar; and my statement
is to be forwarded to your father to-
night. He is travelling in the west;
but his Saint Louis address is the
same as formerly. l am now released
from my promise of secrecy, and by
the time you receive this your father
win know how unjust he has been to
you, how kind to the real criminal.
At last I have indicated you, But
for you I should be in prison, or
worse; my father dead of sorrow, my
family disgraced. l shall waste no
words in thanking you God alone
knows what you have been to me; /
cannot tell it
Ever your humble, grateful,
Max"
''Mr. Alfred Vincent Osborn
Now this!" Alfred thrust the tele-
gram into her hand before she could
speak. 1t was sent from Saint Louis,
and signed. George Osborn"
Have just learned all from Max
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II you can forgive your. father. come
at once. / win await you here"

II you can forgive your father. come
at once. win await you here
Esther looked up. but her eyes were
too misty for seeing. Poor Max!
Poor Al-no, no! Noble Alfredi"
He was too overweight for atten-
ton. even for gentleness. He caught
both her hands, Needless of passing
eyes. Il want you to marry me! To-
night. To start home-home with me
on the first train after the jubilee
No, don't speak yeti" he added quick
ly as she opened her lips. Let me
tell you! I'll telegraph for the Epis-
copalian missionary at Ogden-there'll
be time. If he can't come, I'll wire
Billy Dodge to pick up minister
somewhere on his trip to-day. Wei
take the Harmons, Mrs. Gregory, if
she'll go, and be at Sally BIS in four
hours. While run down to Elko for
the license,-Mr. Crocker'll let me
have the engine, l know,-you can be
packing. I'll follow Uncle Billy in
and we'll be married.! 1t won't be
much of a wedding, but-do we care
for dry-goods and ceremony" He
looked eagerly into her face.
"Oh, Alfred, how she began
TREMENDOUSLY
Don't, dearest! Don't speak yet!
If you'll only think just minute
know it will be 'Yes'!"
She smiled at his impetuosity, as
tonished at this unwonted vehemence
This was a new, a free Alfred. He
was coming into his own, taking pos
session; and of her with the rest. All
her being yielded gladly to his i'm
portuning; yielded with that deep
gratitude for strength and support
that only large, strong woman can
feel, upon whom many have leaned,
and whom none have considered.
Yes, Alfred. At once, and any
where with you,"
She walked in a dream up the car
steps; he shot off blithely to execute
his plans.
They carried successfully; and that
night in Sally BIS rude home, on the
mountain-top and under desert stars,
the simple marriage was celebrated.
Uncle Billy gave the bride away, and
Inourned because he had no wedding
bonnet for his darling. If his old
heart was heavy, and the sun had
dropped out of his sky, ne dissembied
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cricket dates from the reign of
Queen Elizabeth. and had its origin in
FOUNDERS and stool-ball. Lord Chester.
held was the first man OF weight to
take 1t up seriously and Elton the first
pIohc school. In those days scores
were notched upon tally-sticks, the
hall had heavy cross seams. the bats
we're curved and the fielders stood al.
most in Indian file. The early laws of
the game had their inception at the
Star and Garter Inn. Pail Mall. and
one of the few of these original laws
which obtains to-day is that of the
toss-up. The wickets were % inches
high and the bail six inches in length.
The first county match was when Kent
played England, in I'LL, and on this
occasion vast sums OF money changed
hands.
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Mrs. Lenora Bodenhamer, r. r. d. l.
Box 90, Kernersville, N. c., writes:
II suffered with stomach trouble and
indigestion for some time, and nothing
that l ate agreed with me. was very
nervous and experienced continual
feeling of Uneasiness and fear. took
medicine from the doctor, but it did me
no good.
81 found in one of your Peruna books
description of my symptoms. l then
wrote to DR.. Hartman for advice. He
said l had catarrh of the stomach.
took Peruna and Manalin and followed
his directions and can now say that
feel as we'll as l ever did.
Il hope that all who are afflicted with
the same symptoms will take Peruna.
as it has certainly cured me-"
The above is only one of hundreds
who have written similar letters to DR..
Hartman. just one such case as this
entities Peruna to the candid consider
alton of every one similarly afflicted. II
this be true of the testimony of one per-
son what ought to be the testimony Of
hundreds, yes thousands, of honest, sin.
cere people. We have in our files .
great many other testimonials.
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HAVE RIGHT TO RETAIN NAME
Advantage English Women Possess
Over American Sister.

THE English woman has at least
one advantage over her American sis
ter" said a young woman who has
just returned from two years stay
in London. The English law does
not require a wife to take her hus-
bands surname. She can please her.
self. The point was settled several
years ago when Mrs. Fenwick Miller
was elected on the London school
board. She had never taken her hus-
bands name, merely altering Miss
into Mrs. and a formal protest was
entered against her election because
it was claimed that she had not stood
under her legal name. This protest
was referred to the law officers of
the crown and they decided in her IA
vor. Now, there are large number
OF society women in England, most Of
them widows. who have never taken
the names of their husbands. They
refuse to give up the title and position
they already possess for the sake of
using their husbands names. OF
course, the question of changing the
name and thus losing their identity
in marriage is even more important
to the professional woman whose
well-known name is often of CONNER
cial value. In America, where the
women use one name for business pur-
poses and another for society. it
would seem dreadful never TO take
the husbands name at all, yet it is
much simpler. and the almost invari-
able rule among English women"
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Fighting PreventabIe Disease.

IL is much too early to attempt, even
were it possible, to appraise the value
of the conferences of the expert SAM
tarians. Psychologists and physicians of
the world, held in this city and at
Washington, says the Philadelphia
Ledger, upon the united war which
the civilized nations are waging upon
tuberculosis. The scientific signifi-
canoe of the communications which
nave been made and of the facts de-
Veloped in the discussions can only be
determined by time and experience,
but it is safe TO say that these meet
ings have carried forward the cam
paign of education further than any
single agency employed in the past.
Even the daily eports-fragmentar
and imperfect as they necessarily
have been-have carried to thousands
of minds hitherto ignorant and indif
ferent some glimmering appreciation
of the magnitude of the task to be per-
formed before the waste and the dis
grace of the white scourge" shall be
banished, and of the weight of the OBJ.
hgation which rests upon modern So
ciety to carry the war to the end.
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Must charoe to Get Crowd.

The Ladies' guild of certain New
York church had planned an evening
entertainment and reception, and
asked the rector to make announce
ment of it on the Sunday preceding.
This is all right" he said, but you
must charge admission"
why this is just a social evening"
they protested. We are inviting peo-
pie"
They won't come, said the rector.
because they wN think it is not
worth while. But charge small ad-
mission and you will have a good
crowd" So the women gave in, and
subsequent events proved the rector
was right.
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postmaster General Meyer has sent
a circular letter to postmasters
throughout the United States instruct
Ing them to confer with the local
school authorities, with view to ar
ranging talks or other method OF In
struction on how to address letters
and on the working of the postal sys-
TEN. The occasion for the letter is the
fact that last year more than 13,OOO,-
600 pieces OF mail matter were sent
10 the dead-letter Office, most of them.
q course. because they were not prop
'erly addressed.
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CHAPTER xxxIIi.-continued.

No man among them all had worked
as hard as he had worked. Month
by month his flesh had dropped away,
his cheek tanned darker, as he fought
his way from ocean to inland sea. The
spare, square frame and the scanned
face had changed him, aged him sad
ly. He had paid in heart and body on
this tremendous project. And to his
anxious wife. praying for this con-
hlct to end, no less than to the eX-
hausted men, his cry came like a
glad clarion.
Its ten miles, boys. Ten miles
in one day! There's their camp! Wen
touch Union Pacific rails tomorrow
at Promontory!"
"Hooray! Another stride of the Cen
trail Paciic's seven-league boots to-
ward Brigham's drove of tender
ewes!" cried some inpertinent voice.
Hammers dropped. Backs unbent
nor rocked Of pain. Cheer after cheer
rent the still night. Ten miles, Ten
miles! The greatest days work in the
worlds railroad history!
Gregory went to his car happv.
kissed his wife, joined his guests in
jolly supper, and slept-slept as he
had not for months
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so CALAMITY that even Esther was de.
ceived. Mrs. Harmon rejoiced, though
two of her dear children had become
one" Judge Harmon clustered little
incoherently about the theft of This
dear girl" but deluded no one.
But Sally B.. happy in Esther's hap
piness, was yet bereft Later she
sobbed out her loneliness against her
husbands breast. That was his mo-
ment of illumination. Pore little crit
ter! Ye've got Bin left, We know.
Well prospect the rest of life On the
same lead, won't we, honey? Git
bright. It'll be sun-up soon, honeyi"
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CHAPTER Xxxv.
The Wedding of the Rails.

inc wedding OF Ihe haiIS.
A glorious, eloudless day. The tenth
of May, 1859.
Beside the majestic inland sea, gath
cred there from near and from half
the world away, men and women had
come to celebrate the elimination of
two tremendous enterprises.
Against calumny, against plot and
counterpart, against the power of
money and bribery, against old Time
himself, had the Central Pacific rail-
road come to completion. On pork,
beans, "licey," and pluck had it been
builded. teaching the world its great
est lesson in iron.
Surmounting similar obstacles the
Union Pacific had come westward to
meet it. And here. in the heart of
the continent. amidst cheers. speech
es. and the screaming Of Whistles, the
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-11-18

The order for the construction of 80
aeroplanes, the total cost OF which
will be not less than 100000. by 4
French concern attests in practical
fashion belief in that method of ayia.
ton, and incidentally adds to the tri-
umphs won by the American inven-
tors. Flying machines, even though
they have not attained perfection, de-
clares the Troy On. " Times. are rec.
ognized as having ccpmercial value,
Tor exhibition and Experimental Dur.
poses If for nothing else, and great
deal of money has already been in.
vested in this manner Several COM
Ianies with capital proportionate to
anticipated needs have been formed
In this country. Count Zeppelin, after
The destruction of his dirigible balloon.
was quickly put upon his feet fnan-
cially through the contributions that
came pouring in. and he has set aside
over $1,000.000 with which to capital.
ize his German company, with a com.
Portable sum remaining for the use of
himself and family. Constructing air.
ships is coming TO be recognized as a
regular business. though whether it is
generally profitable in a commercial
Eense remains TO be ascertained.
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SYNOPSIS.

The story opens during a trip OF the
overland Mall through the Rocky
mountains: Uncle Billy Dodge. stage
driver, Alfred Vincent, a young man. and
Phineas Cadwallader. introduced. They
come across the remains of a massacre.
Later. at Anthony's station they find the
redskins have carried their destructive
work there also. Stella Anthony, daugh-
ter OF Anthony. keeper of station, is in
Vincent is assigned his work in unearth-
ing plans of enemies of railroad being
built. He returns to Stella, each show
ing signs of love for the other Stella
phenomenal success. Finds letter Of inn
portance involving plans of opposition
Flora is unearthed and discriminating
evidence against Cadwalader found.
Phineas Cadwallader faces prison, on
OF o6 Fe 5aPR him %f6 6,G cha
blow up Flora" Banquet in railroad
town is scene of monopolization of Alfred
by Miss Hamilton. Mrs. Sally Ber-
threat against Alfred's life Quickly
leaves town on best procurable horse in
search of Vincent. Race to beat opposi-
fails to hear of Gideon. Stella receives
letter letter: Promise to marry Gideon In
conference Stella decides to flee. Years
pass. Stella becomes known as Esther
anthony, becomes a rich woman, edu-
highest San Francisco society. Kidnapo
ing changes Alfred greatly and when
he and Stella meet in Frisco society, she
passes him without recognition Stella's
love for Alfred and his for her is revived
However. neither shows recognition of
the fact TO the other. Anthony romance
Is unfolded. showing Gideon, who loved
stella TO be her own cousin. Alvin Car
ter, Viola's lover when the Bernards were
poor, visits them and Sally B. consents
to their marriage, despite the fact that
several sons OF rich sires are asking the
g1rfs hand. The Bernards lose their
riches and Sally B. again becomes a no.
telkeeper. Viola marrying Alvin Carter.
stella visits Sally b. and sees Uncle
Billy Decides to cease waiting for
Alfred and says she will devote her life
70 charity. Stella is held up by vagrant
she befriended. but succeeds in escap-
ing. Train bearing iron. which was to
pc the salvation of the Central Pacific. is
wrecked Alfred and Stella are reunited.
wren former acts the hero in wreck of
IRON train. Alfred tells tale of being dis
owned by father for befriendinC school
mate. Gideon Ingram dies. forgiven by
stella Central Pacific workers make
great progress upon arrival of iron. build
ing ten miles in one day
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tnsuitcd.

Andrew Thomas was a great ''for>
getter." He forgot to pay the money
he owed, and to give people back the
things he borrowed. Moreover, he waa
"touchy' on the subject, SO that few
of his friends liked to hint that he had
any of their property in his posses
sion One day one Of them took his
courage in his hand.
Where's that five dollars you Dor
rowed Of me last month, Andrew" he
asked. Il don't want to seem tight
but I've just got to"
Andrew replied with dignity: DID
you ever see anything didn't returnf
No, l guess you didn't."-Youth's Com,
panion.
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When a man boasts of his honesty
it is apt TO become mere affectation.
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Hot, Hot, Ginger Snaps-a treat fos
the children. sc. at your Grocer's
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
PARIS ORGANS.
Organ Grinding in the Streets Is to
Be Stopped.

Organ Grinding in the Streets Is to
Be Stopped.
Compared with the streets of Lon.
don the streets of Paris are intoler-
ably noisy. Wood pavement is not so
popular with our neighbors as it is
with us, and the cobble stones with
which so many streets are paved in
medieval fashion lay the foundation
of noise which would drive us mad.
But there is one noise which is about
to be stopped by the slow process OF
extinction, and that is the street or
gan, which has come under the ban
of the omnipotent NJ. Lepine. The
organ grinders have been permitted
in the streets of Paris because they
are in some sort musical artists. Beg
ging is forbidden by the police, but
the turning of an organ handle is, as
in London, a kind Of profession. For
some time past the organ has disap-
peared from the more crowded thor
oughfares, for it would not be heard
in the general clatter, and its grinder
ran a very fair risk Of being knocked
down by the traffic. Therefore it has
taken refuge in the quiet by-streets
in which literary men, artists and
other of the Brotherhood of Silence
have their abode, much to the fury OF
the unfortunates who have to listen
to the horrible sounds. But now II
is said that NJ. Lepine has decided
to issue no fresh licenses to organ
grinders. Those who have already re.
ceived permission to torture house
holders will not be interfered with
but the next ruffian who demands per-
mission to grind an organ will be
shown the door Of the Project OF
Police. In the course of time, there
fore, the organ grinders of Paris
will die out. We congratulate the
Parisians on the prospect before them.
1t is a step in advance and will en-
courage those who are pleading for
less noise in other big cities.-London
Globe.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
The Bath in France.

An Englishman will do we'll, espe-
cially if he goes to stay in an old
fashioned house, to bring his gutta-
percha tub with him. l was staying
many years ago in a French country
house, and had neglected to do so.
asked for one in the morning. The
footman said he would look, and came
back in triumph with one. What
10 they do here?" / asked. Madame
la Marquise takes the big bath regu-
larly once a month and Monsieur
lie Marquis?'' / asked. HE never
uses it." 1t would, however, be
mistake to imagine from this that
Frenchmen are not so clean as we
are. This horror of the tub is not
necessarily an objection to cleanli
ness. The Frenchman washes him
self in compartments under the i'm
preston that the water which cleanses
one part of his body has fulfilled its
duty and must not be used for another.
1t is a long and tedious process; in
deed, a Frenchman once told me he
could not finish his toilet under an
hour and mali; but In the long
run he is as clean, if not cleaner
than we are. It is, however, a terri
BILE waste of time. In most French
houses the tub has now, to the hor-
ror of all the more conservative
French, become an institution; but
there are many left where it is as
well to be provided against emergen-
cies. 1 was, some time ago, staying
in Lower Brittany and asked the
usual question. l was told might
go to the 'SSalle des Bains," 400 yards
off, l was in a hurry and could not
manage this, so had to put up with
a large footpan. l was subsequently
laughed at for my naivete: What,
you expected a bath in Lower Brit
tany? But such things do not exist"
Saturday Review.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
AGRICULTURAL STUDIES LOSING
CHARM.

was amused to find that the pro
portion of girls to boys attending the
agricultural colleges diminished gTadu-
ally as one came from west to east.
Out in Minnesota, which used to be
the extreme west, but is now the mid
die west, the proportion is three to
five. Down in Wisconsin only a few
girls have taken the full agricultural
course. In fact, with the courses for
the girls, the colleges have really been
trying to straddle two chairs. If the
girl wishes to take the full course,
it is open to her. If not, she can
select and fill out her curriculum with
a course in what is called domestic
science-the science of everything in
the home, from cooking and laundry
ing to dressmaking and millinery.
This may or may not be a weakness in
the course, for any girl with knOwl-
edge of physiology and chemistry and
bacteriology can pick up the trick OF
kitchen work in her own home if she
has gumption, and if she hasn't gump-
ton, the school can't give it to her.
Whereas, a girl will not be less
daughterly daughter to her farmer
father or less wifely wife to her farm
er-husiband for possessing a knowl-
edge of animal physiology AMI chemis-
try and field botany and agronomy and
sanitary plumbing. In fact, if she pos
sesses the knowledge, there will be
times when she can cav part o. the
mans burden and be a better comrade
for doing so; and if father or husband
be removed by death, she will be
qualified to direct the hired help. /
do not say this to advocate a fore
gone conclusion in the American girls
makeup. It is because l nave an abso-
lutte horror of seeing an unqualified
woman thrown on her own resources.
However, many of the girls in these
western agricultural schools are from
foreign homes, and in the colleges
they can learn both the graces and
the utilities of Ameri IAN homelife.
1--WE want these girls % be able
to make their own hats and to make
their own clothes and to carry them
selves and to look as well as their
city sisters" said one of the college
principals. He might have added.
land at tenth of the expense the
city girls cost. Agnes G. Laut, in
the Outing Magazine.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
MADE A FORTUNE.

Miss Clau liza lie Blanc, of Fall Riv-
er, Mass, though still under n, has
already made a fortune of more than
100000. She came to Massachusetts
from Quebec with her parents when
a small child At 13 she ran away
from school and found employment in
a fruit store in Lowell. Later she
went to work in a hosiery mill as a
loom girl.
With the money she earned in this
mill she paid for a course in a COM
mercial school, then she borrowed
money and opened shoe store in
Lowell at the age of 10. From the
earnings of this store, after return
ing her borrowed capital, she bought
real estate and gradually worked into
the real estate business. From this
she branched into brokerage. Her
employees number 476, and she al
ways gives the preference to women.
Besides owning thirty-one tenemehts
in Fall River she owns thirty in Lo-
well and six stores and many farms
in other parts of New England. Dur
ing the great Fall River strike Miss
lie Blanc won the love of the work
ing people by throwing open all her
thirty-one tenements, rent free to
needy strikers.-New York Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
The AGENTS.

When a large bewhiskered agent
comes a-snooping to your door, you
can sic the dog upon him, you may
pound him with the floor, you may
send for all your neighbors, who, if
they are wideawake, will quite cheer.
fully assist you when you burn him
at the stake But alas! you're left
refenseless when the lady agent
comes, when with white bejeweled fin
gers on your humble door she drums;
for it would not do to swat her with
the poker or broom, and you simply
have to show her to your little sitting
room. Then that female LADY agent"
her old telescope unstraps, and she
shows a lot of samples of a lot of
useless traps; and she springs a tear
full story of misfortunes she has
known, and her sad, resigned express
sion, it would melt a heart of stone;
and she soaks you for tenner for a
book not worth wheel, and you hire
a hall and lecture on THE Ladies'
Age of Steal."-EmpOria (Kan.) Ga
zette.