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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-16

Dear papa said Barbara, I am
afraid must add to them. / have
something unpleasant to commune
cate'
1. suppose said Mr. Jordan peev-
ishly, you are out of coffee, or the
lemons are mouldy, or the sheets
have been torn on the thorn hedge.
These matters do not trouble me-
He signed with his finger. They are
like black spots in the air, but in
nstea of floating they fly, and they
all fly one way-towards me-
Father, l am afraid of Eve!'
'What?' His face was full of terror.
What of her? What is there to fear?
Is she ill?'
1t is, dearest papa, as l foresaw.
She has set her heart on Mr.. Jasper,
and she meets him secretly. He asked
leave of you yesterday to go
home to Buckfastleigh; but he has
not gone there. He has not left the
neighborhood. He is secreting himself
somewhere, and this evening he met
darling Eve on the Raven Rock, when
he knew you were here i'll, and was
in the house with YOU
I cannot believe it,, said Mr.. Jor-
dan, with every token of distress,
wiping his wet brow with his thin
hands, ciasping his hands, plucking
at his waistcoat, biting his quivering
lips.
1t is true, dearest papa. Eve took
Jane with her as far as the gate, and
there an ugly boy, who, Eve tells me,
is Jasper's brother, scared the girl
away. l hurried off to the rock as
soon as told of this, and saw
through an opening of the trees some
one with Eve, and heard voice like
that of Mr.. Jasper. When I charged
Eve with having met him, she could
not deny it,
What does he want? Why did he
ask to leave?
I can put but one Interpretation
on his conduct. have for some time
suspected growing attachment be-
tween him and Eve. l suppose he
knows that you would never con.
sent
Never, never! He clenched his
hands, raised them over his head, ut
tered a cry, and dropped them.
| DO be careful, dear papa said
Barbara You forget your wound
you must not raise your right arm
1t cannot be! 1t cannot be! Never
never!' He was intensely moved, and
paid no heed to his daughters eau
ton She caught his right hand, held
it between her own firmly, and kissed
it. My God!' cried the unhappy man
Spare me this! 1t cannot be- The
black spots come thick as rain. He
waved his left hand as though ward
ing off something. Not as rain-as
bullets
No, papa, as you say, it never
| never can be-
'Never!' he said eagerly, his wild
eyes kindling with lambent terror
There stands between them a bar
rier that must cut them off the one
| from the other forever But of tha
you know nothing
Tt is so,' said Barbara; there does
| stand an impossible barrier between
them. know more than you suppose
1 dear papa. Knowing what / do
have wondered at your permitting hi.
4 presence in this house.
You know?' He looked at her, ant
pressed his brow. And Eve. does sh,
know?
She knows nothing answered
Barbara; I alone that is, you and
together-alone know all about him.
found out when he first came here
and was ILL.,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-16
Just a Matter of Business.

Friend-"Why were you so civil to
that good-for-nothing rascal?"
Master Glazier-"He breaks more
windows in his house than any other
man in the country. "-Meggendorfer
Batter
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-16
The Horsemen.

A veterinary surgeon pronounced a
hunter to be afflicted with an incur
able disease.
What had better do?" queried the
owner to his groom
Well, sir," was the reply, "con-
scientiously speaking, should part
with him to another gentleman"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-16
Would Hold Them.

The kaiser should hire our strenu-
Gus president to go across and use
the big stick on his obstreperous sub
jects.-Beloit News.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-16
Some1obaf Humorous
Mystery Explained.

Scott-"Wherever does Easily get
the idea that his jokes are fully"
Motion he tells them to young
women with pretty teeth"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-16
LOOKED GOOD TO HIM.

First Bystander twntchins two men
6gnting)-Can't somebody part them?
Second Bystantier- Let elm fight. One
Is a dentist and the other fellows
chiropodst.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-16
Encore.

Customer (who has ordered a
steak well done, waiter!"
Frenchman (not to be outdone)-
Bravo, garcon!"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-16
IL HIS YARD.

The Small Manufacturer ! raised the
wages of all my men this week
His Friend Indeed.
The Small Manufactures paid them
ali ia chickens ! had raised myself
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-16
Came to the Rescue.

Came TO the RESCUE.
He (impulsively)-" Darling,
rather thought of kissing you'll"
She-"How dare you? When you
know l Can't scream with so many
people about Punch
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-16


something
would suitable The is tucked
lin
scaop sleeves hreequarter
waist is adju by a material
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-16
His Status.

rs that ex-New Yorker who likes
London so well naturalized Eng
lishman?"
NO" answered Miss Cayenne,
merely a denatured American
Democratic Telegram.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-16
Where Diplomacy Failed.

Young man, was told today that
you were the worst boy in the neigh
borhood"
Gee! If | was a man and anyone
talked that way about my little boy,
someone would get licked"
Someone is going to get licked
now; take off your coat."-Houston
Post.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-16
Timely Warning.

John, John, there's a burglar in
the house. l hear him downstairs in
the cupboard
Where you put that pie?"
"Yes-Oh! John, where are you go
ing?"
I'm going down to save his life"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-16

The InQuirer-"But what is it you
men nave struck for?''
The Striker-"Well, I'm blest If ]
know, gunner, but we amt going
back till we've got 1.-THE Sketch.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-16
Would You Believe It?

Crisis No. 43,617 is now current in
the Balkans.-New York World.
We shouldn't wonder if it was Gov
ernor Haskell that embezzled our
Office umbrella.-Ohio State Journal.
Mr.. Roosevelt, however, ought to
reflect that public Office is not a
private Chicago News.
Really wide-awake ticket speculat-
ors should make good thing on seats
for the band wagon-Charleston Post
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-16
N NoAH's ARK.

kind
The Pg-W I'm
and Wen have
kill for ppskin
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-01
CHAPTER XIV.
The Open Window.
CHAPTER XVI.
Like a Thief In the Night.

spent itself, and with the diminution of
the rain, a crouching mist had crept
over the range from the west, from
which Smoky Mountain jutted like a
drenched emerald island. At length he
rose, threw open the door and stood
looking out upon the wind whipped TO-
liage and the drab desolation of the fog.
picked up his gold-pan and climbed
down the slope. Beneath all other prob.
lens must lie the sordid problem of his
daily food. He had uncovered crevice
in the bedrock at the end of his trench
the day before, and now he scraped a
pailful Of the soggy gravel it contained
and carried it back to the cabin. A
and, setting the heaped-up pan on the
doorstep, he re-entered the room.
With sigh be took off his damp coat
and threw log on the fire. He alb
stractedly watched it kindle, then filed
and lit his pipe and turned to the
bookshelf He ran his hand absently
along the row. Where had been that
wide, dim expanse Of library walls that
hovered like a mirage beyond his visual
sight7 He chose volume he had been
reading, and turned the pages.
All at once his hand clenched. He
gave choked cry. He was staring at a
Cancelled bank draft bearing his own
name-a draft across whose face was
written, in the cramped hand resembling
the signature, a word that seemed etched
in livid characters Of shame-Forgeryl
"Pay to Hugh Stires ''-"the sum OF
five thousand dollars he read the
phrases in hoarse, husky monotone,
every vein beating fercely, his body
hot with the heat of a forge. There
it was, a hideous chapter of it, the
damnable truth from which he had
shrunk. 81 may be thief f'-he had
said that to himself long ago. His
thought had clung. 1t had made him q
coward When the allegation had
passed before the jewelers. shop it had
stung the deeper for his dread. He had
been the beneficiary of that forgery. He
alone could have perpetTated 1t. The
popular suspicion was we'll grounded ;
he was a common criminall
Did the town knowi He snatched at
the draft and read the date. More than
for payment In distant city, the city
near which he had been picked up be.
side tho railroad track. Tho forged
name was the same rs his own. Who
was David Stires? His fatherG Had
that city been his homo once, and that
infamous act tho forerunner of his
flight or exile7 He looked at the paper
again with palnlu! lnJcnLnesS. IL was
anceed-therefore had been paid
without question. Yet the man il had
robbed had stamped it with that veno.
nous hallmark. Clearly the law had
not stepped in--for here be was at. lib
erty, owning his name. He had been
let go, then, disowned. to carry his
badge Of crime here into the wilder.
ness And how had he lived since
then7 Harry shuddered.
What nowG 1t was no longer ques'
tion of his life and repute here at
Smoky Mountain. The trail led infn-
itely further; it led to the greater
world, into which he had fondly
dreamed of going. The words Jessica
had spoken on the hillside sounded in
his ears: 'EWhat ever has been | have
faith in you now His face lightened.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-01
CHAPTER XVI.
Like a Thief In the Night.

Like Tnlef In the NlgnI.
Dawn had come with an unleashed
wind and the crash Of thunder The
electric storm, which had muttered and
menaced like a Sabbath of witches till
daylight, had broken at length and
turned the world to a raving turmoil,
pitilessly soaring the mountain and
deluging the gulches with cloudbrust.
In the cabin on the hillside Harry
had watched the rage Of the elements
with a dull sense of accord; it typi1ed
the wild range of feeling in which his
the keynote of a series of days and do
ings of which the tense awakening in
Jessica's chamber, with its supreme
moment of passion and longing, had
been weird elimination.
AS he made his way down the noun.
tain in the blank and heavy dark. cor
rectipg his path by the lightning, he
that dim room had become an imminent
demand,
"What if 7 love her! What right
have | to love her, with wretched
name like mine9 She has refinement, a
measure of wealth, no doubt, and I am
poor as poverty, dependent on the day s
grubbing in the ditch for tomorrow Is
stand in the way! l am no venal rogue,
angling for the loaves and fishes. What
ever else she cursed me with, Nature
gave me a brain, and culture and ex-
perience have educated it. With hand
or brain l can hew my own niche to
stand in! Must / put away the long
ing that drove me to her in sleep, with
her dawning love that shielded me7
And II, knowing all, she love me, must
the past, that is so unreal to me, block
my way to happiness7 j am putting it
deep underground, and its ghost shall
not rise. Time passes, regulations
change. Mine will change. And when
| have squared my living here, the
world is wide What does it matter
who she is, if she is the one woman
for me? What does it matter what 1
have been, If / shall be that no
longer?'
So he had argued, but his argument
ended always with the same stern and
uDanswerable conclusions: ''To drag
her down in order to lift myself Be
cause she plties me-pity is akin to
love!-shall | take advantage of her in
terest and innocence7 Shall I play upon
divine compassion and sinister pro-
pInqulty, like any mean adventurer who
lnveigles a romantic girl into marrying
rascal to reform him?'
In the cabin, through the long hours
TIL the dawn began to in6ltrate the
dark hollows of the wood he had lain
wlde-eyed, thinking. When day came
ne had cooked his breakfast and there
after sat watching the havoc of the
storm through the window. Hours passed
thus before the fury of the wind had
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-01

That assurance had swept the past ut
terly aside, had leaned only on the
present. His present, at least, was
cleanl
He drew sudden breath and the
color faded from his check; baleful
suggestion had irsinuated itself with
a narrowing pain. Was it clean7 He
night TO tread dark halls like thief
and he had laid that fattering
unction to his soul! Suppose he
had not gone there innocent of pur-
pose7 What if, not alone the memory,
but the lusts and vices of the former
man were reasserting themselves in
sleepf What if the new Hugh Stires,
was carrying on the deeds ef the old :
What if the town was right9 What If
there was, indeed, good reason for sus-
pecting him7
He stumbled to chair and sat down,
his frame rigid. He thought of the
robbed sluice In the gulch below, of his
own unhappy adventure of the night.
what he might do7 Minutes went by
as he sat motionlesss, his mind catching
strange Kaleidoscope pictures that fed
past him into the void. At length he
rose and went TO the window. Far down
the hillside faint line through the mist
Spanned the. gulch bottom. A groan
burst from his lips:
THAT is the hydraulic humc," he
said aloud. "Gold has been stolen there
in the past, again and again. Some was
stolen, two nights ago. How do I know
but that am the .thiefl" Was that
what Prendergast had meant by the
easiest wayp' A shiver ran over him.
"How do ! know7" he thought. t'I
can see myself-the evil side Of me
when tho dark had fallen, waking and
active see myself creeping
down there, stealing from shadow to
shadow, to scoop the gold from the
rifles when the moon is under a cloud.
sec men sitting from dark to daylight,
with loaded rifles across their knees,
watching. | see a flash of 6re
| hear q report. / see myself there by
the sluice boxes, dead, shot down in the
act of thief, making good the name
men know me byi'
The figure Of Jessica came before him,
standing in her soft white gown, her
hand against her cheek and the jasmin
odors about her. The dream he had
dreamed could not be-never, never,
neverl All that was left was surrender,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-01

ignominious fight to scenes barren of
suggestion.
To place where be could work and
save and repay! He looked at the slip
of bank paper in his hand.
At that instant shining point caught
his eye. 1t came from the pan Of gravel
Sns1 on the doorstep on which the d ran nad
his pocket and seized double handful
of the gravel. He plunged it into a
pail Of water and held it to the light.
1t sparkled with coarse, yellow flakes of
gold. He dropped the handful with a
sharp exclamation, threw on his coat
and rushed from the cabin.
All day, alone on the fog soaked bill.
side, Harry toiled in the trench without
food or rest.
(Tn Be Continual J
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-01

oct 18Th. looS.-Dear Doctors.-I am
sending you my photo today and want
YOU 10 publish my statement for the beue-
ht % others who suffer / did. had a
bad case Of Catarrh-w!th al the dis
agreeable symptoms, and tried many doc
tors and treatments in vain. was dis
cours ged until n lady friend, Mrs. II. SAN
dcrnlon. told me YOU had cured her and
wrote 20 YOU and began your trea tment
with some doubt as 10 IT'S success. !
treated three months and was completely
cured and have not had any trouble since,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-01
ATAN SANDERSON
s>s9ea4ez=za%ee@eBy HALLE ERMNIE

been there that night If she could
only tell him all the happy truth
He lay Nlent a moment. Then he
said: "If it could only have been Harry
you married instead of Hugh! For he
loved you, Jessica.'
She flushed as she said: "Ab, that
was fancy. too!'
1t was the first time since the day of
her marriage that no had spoken Hugh S
name.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-01
OF THE STOMAC n.

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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-01

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MISS MARTHA BUCKHOLZ.
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-01
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-01
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Read these symptoms and
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-01
OF THE EARS.

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ears. causing partial or complete
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us your hearing failing?"
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-01
DO YOU HAVE CATARRH T?
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rs the wax dry IN your ears?"
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rs your hearing worse when you
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-01
THE BRONCHIAL TUBES.

When catarrh OF tho head or throat
IS neglected or wrongfully treated It
extends down the wlndpipe into the
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-01

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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-03
6. A. R. Ladies
WILL INSTALL OFFICERS To-MoR
ROW AFTERNOON = JOINT
MEETING WITH G. A. r.
MEN.

Tomorrow afternoon the following
officers Of the Ladies' of the C. A. R.
WIN be Installed:
President-Mrs. S. A. Lloyd.
Senior vice President-AIrs. Han
nah b Jones.
JUNIOR vice Presldent-Mrs. Mary
Brown.
ChaplaIn-Mrs. T. B. Harden.
Conductor-Mrs. Linda Bonham.
Guide-Mrs. Belle Shroyer.
Treasurer-Nrs. Fannie Fletcher.
secretary-Mrs. Priscilla Merrlfeld.
The installation OF the officers of
the Ladies of the C. AR. will be in
conjunction with the installation Of
uiIcers of Meade Post C. a. r. and
WI take place in the Farmers Room
of the courthouse. Tempting re-
freshments will be served at the close
81 tho exercises.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-03
MHeIIo eiII."

George F. Hall in the new musical
farce Hello BILL" one of Frank W.
Nason's productions. is an ideal fo-
lovers OF comedy. and it's clever spe.-
cialties its side splitting climaxes and
situations will be the attraction an
nounced by Manager Powell at the
Grand and will be>extravagently pre-
scented, with scenery, costumes, etc.
The company is said to be a strong
one and contains many funny come
dians who appear in the numerous
roles as well as present their special
ties.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-03

on Tuesday, January 9TH. There Is
no actor or play before the American
public to-day that more thoroughly de-
lights the young folks, and the old
too. for that matter. than Thomas JEFF
erson and Grip Van Winkle,e We
have enjoyed his rip" time and time.
again, laughed at his quaint sayings.
and shared his sorrows. Our grand
fathers saw his grandfather in the
same character. Our fathers have
told us of his fathers delightful rip
and our hope is that our children and
grandchildren. too, VIII have the
pleasure of seeing Mr.. Jefferson's de.
lightful performance of this grand old
play.