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New-York tribune., 1908-01-19

seemed ALWAYS upon him had vanished utterly He
vas listening 70 every word with odd GREATNESS
intentness 50 strained suggest that Of a man
waiting hear the sentence which should make 'I
mar his life
And so. Browning went on slowly, when on
the night before he left for the 'front.'
For the front 80 there a sudden sharpness III
RansomeS voice he echoed The words, q sudden
look of pain lighted his cold, blue eyes Ills manne
was that OF vino all al once faces horrible S7-
r)lcion- "a suspicion which with all MS strength he
trie, and tries vainlv to subdue. 1t was with an
obvious effort that he continued. For the front.
ne said once more Then he Is a soldier
Browning nodded Yes, he Is a soldier. like you
and l. though do not know his name. Alice Wou'i
never tell II 10 me
ALICE" The strange note IN Kansome, TD.Ne
seemed have become intensified, the dreadful 7'-
1,cion was apparently growing stronger and stronger
Alice he repeated a voice 50 low thdt Il "a7
almost a whisper
AGAIN Browning nodded That is her name. ne
admitted, a sudden grave tenderness creeping Hlto @
his voice - / had not meant 70 speak II DuI slIeI
ali II does not matreT-nOw-
The other gave a queer little hopeless shrug-
No he agreed. 1t does not matter now ne
paused for and then added IN the Coid'
hard voice that usual with HIM, Nothing mat
tiers now -
\ silence fell between them. Il was Browning
7,re-entlv who broke it He was still utterly OBJ
i;z.ious to the strange change in the other manner
he seemed quite unconscious OF the furtlEe ahhoSI
frightened look n the cold, blue eyes. the dedu4E
pallor of the white. drawn face before MN
As was savna. he resumed, the nlght before
The other leaving for the front ne toia
Alice that he loved her He she has tod me
. codlv reserved man and up 10 that moment she
had had the least suspicion ~ the truth but
y,hen once the barriers had been swept away. ne
showed her that his feeling for her was very deep
and very strong l. almost frightened her To look
New-York tribune., 1908-01-19
RGE HOW ARD
Drawing oy 2 Y E. Ivory

v.s.olE. " She i pledged {.
marry another man- H
paused abrupt l.. sad .rr
distress
The Other s. cold. ever
voice came quickly 70 hi
rescue. Ner-Eet vpu
love ne and She lovc-
YOU he said. not IN ar
Inte-rogatiEe tone but a5
one who states d fact
Yes. Browning sud
denly sat upright and faced
him but you must not
think hardly ot her because
Of that he wcnt ,u hastily
Il was something IS hICh
neither she nor | could
help. something She fought
against very 5ravely with
all her strength
He ceased speaking and
began carefully u trace ~
elaborate pattern with ms
finger IN the thick dust that
covered the floor For q
long time the silence lasted
between them II was
Browning at last who broke
Il
You see. ne sad. she
gave her promise to the
other man before she knew
what love meant before
We had met each other
She knew OF course that
she did not love the other
man. he continued still
intent upon the figure he
was drawing but She
did not love anyone else,
and she was bound to HIM
by many ties. Since the
death Of her father and
mother he had been her
best. almost her only.
friend. b. his tender
thoughtfulness and care hc
had made her sad life
easier to bear You SEE
she owed hIm everything
Strangely enough, though
Browning $ averted eyes
did not observe II, q curious
change had come over his
listener The anathN which
New-York tribune., 1908-01-19

ToIDE che gloom ari deserted
church n vhIch the L--le -e--
rarv u soldiers aa9 5lEoua-nei
the night vas dark ami slle---=g
silent. indeed that n the Ee--
stiffness one found a menace. q
hint II some subtle. hidden trearE-
cry E---v man ~ them -e-r
this None apparently. Ea- al. ?
- thrust aside is s;nIste- ,ugges
t,o- i tense atmosphere IF sus-
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27
TRICKS OF WRITER'S.
A Ruse by Which kipIins Piqued His
Readers Curiosity.

"When l first began to read Kip
ling" said an admirer, my curiosity
was immensely piqued by the scraps
Of verse with which he usually headed
his early stories. They were all cred
tied to poems had never heard Of in
my life and were just such salient.
striking fragments as would naturally
whet ones appetite for the remainder.
For over year l tried hard to locate
those mysterious poems and enlisted
half a dozen book dealers in the
search. At last one Of them wrote me
that was wasting time and that the
alleged quotations were merely Mr..
Kipling's little joke.
I'm other words, he manufactured
'em to order and stuck them at the top
Of his tales for the sake Of the odor of
erudition they lent to the production.
I was mad for while, but when
cooled off I had good big laugh. OF
course you know Scott used to do the
same thing. and so, for that matter,
did Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was really
the worst quotation fakir Of the lot.
HE would write wise sounding de-
tached sentences and credit them to
Imaginary German philosophers with
long, outlandish and impressive names
However. don't know why the thing
should be punishable. The business of
writer Of fiction is to create an illu-
sion, and as long as he does it for
one am not particular what means he
employs to contribute to the end
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27
A DOCTORS PRESCRIPTION.

A Doctors prescription was taken to
q drug store at Superior, Wis, seven
years ago. The druggist filled" the
prescription then, put it on file and
numbered it 6OSS. Since that time
"sixty Eighty-Eight," as this great
medicine is called (608S) has cured
thousands Of cases Of rheumatism,
catarrh, backache, kidney trouble and
other blood disorders. Modern medical
science proves that a medicine which
purifies the blood, removing the uric
acid and other poisonous elements, is
the only kind that can actually drive
rheumatism out of the system. Lini-
ments may relieve the pain for a
time, but to cure, as 608S cures, the
blood must be purified. When the
blood is pure nature soon makes the
sufferer well.
John Mccoy of Duluth, tells the
story of what 608S did for him. He
wrote letter as follows:
II consider 1t my duty to my fellow
men, to recommend your great Blood
and Rheumatic Cure, 60SS, to any per-
son suffering with rheumatism, as 1t
has done me more good than anything
I ever took for that trouble I am
able to do a days work now, and
eighteen months ago was helpless
and suffering torrents.
(Signed) JOHN MCCOY.
Duluth, Minr."
druggists everywhere. ASK abou. our
tree trial. Sold and guaranteed by
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27
lmmiarant.' Purses,

The immigrants who stream into
New York all have different ways Of
carrying their money.
The Irish immigrant carries canvas
bag in which notes and coins are
crammed together.
The Germans wear money belt,
gay and costly, Of embroidered cha
mois.
The French and Italians carry brass
tubes with screw tops wherein they
keep their cash in twenty franc gold
pieces.
The Swede is sure to have an i'm
mense pocketbook of cowhide that has
been handed down from father to son
for generations.
The Slavs carry their money in their
high boots, along with a fork and
spoon.-New York Press.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27
Forest of Stone In Australia,

In Albany, in Australia, is to be seen
q stone forest-in other words, petrifed
trees. The trees are Of gray stone
1t Is suggested as an explanation of
the strange phenomenon that in the
depths of past ages the forest was in
full vegetation and then through some
upheaval of the earth it was buried in
sand. Little by little water acting on
the sand penetrated the branches and
solidified.
The wood gradually disappeared un-
der the layer of stone and in time took
Its form. Then in succeeding years
the winds again carried away the sand
and the forest appeared anew, but of
stone.-London Globe.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27
A LEGAL Thrust.

"The learned counsel for the de-
fense,' said the plaintiffs attorney,
appears to be afraid of losing his
case. Otherwise why isn't he ready to
60 on?"
give got good excuse" replied
counsel for the defense.
Nonsense! Ignorance of the law ex-
cuses no one. Philadelphia Press
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27

vNo 0tone AWt0atof swapping Turele
- . Fisherman.
There d canny reptile fisherman
which makes effective use Of the bait
which he carries in his own mouth.
This is the alligator swapping turtle. a
giant among reptiles. known to attain
q maximum weight Of IA pounds, with
Q length Of shell Of about twenty-eight
inches. It haunts rivers flowing into
the gulf Of Mexico. including the Mis-
sissippi, where it is common. In ap-
pearance and actions 1t is an enlarged
duplicate Of the common swapping tur-
tie. Its pale brown hues well match
the soft, muddy bottoms on which it
lies motionless, angling for fish with
the decoy. The bait Is attached inside
the lower jaw, close 70 the tongue, and
Is a we'll developed Hlament Of flesh,
white and distinct from the yellowish
mouth part and closely resembling a
large grub. While waiting the turtle
keeps this grub in motion, giving it
the aspect Of crawling about In small
circular course. Its mud colored she'll,
often studded with growth of fine,
waving moss. looks like great round
stone, and close to it is a second small
er stone, the head. Close to this small
er stone crawls the plump white grub.
A fish sees it and makes q natural
mistake, only to be seized by sudden
snap Of the powerful Jaws. The Jaws
are remarkably powerful. The COM
mon snapper, which attains only a
third Of the size of his larger relative,
will bite finger clean of. and the al
ligator snapper could bite through q
wrist or foot-Chicago Tribune.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27

DEFORE you build that Granary Barn,
would like to show you my materials and quote
you prices. Lumber is cheaper now than it will
be another year. The TRUST is tightening its
grip lam NOT IN THE TRUST
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27
No Longer a Secret.

$50 that great inventor is dead and
his wonderful secret is LOST
mot at all. He told it to his wife
just before he died"
Eyes; that's what l mean."-Philadel-
phia Press.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27
The TanGihln Part

The Village Idiot discovered tres
passing)-Yed better not bit me- Dye
know fowks say I'm not a. here. The
Farmer = Well, COON AVA DOT here
then. I'm a-goin' to gle good hidin'
to what Their is O ye!-London Opinion
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27

People seldom improve when they
have no model but themselves to copy
lfter.-Goldsmith.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27

own and control $4,000
acres of first class farm land S,
near Lethbridge, southern Al
berta.
This land is level open prai-
RE, close to market. Title
Guaranteed. These lands are
located in Townships where
homesteads are being developed,
settlements German and Scan
dinavian. 5000 acres recently
sold. At present price this
land will more than pay for it.
selfsswith first crop. Write for
particulars W.sM. Prince, Box
| 100, Grafton, N. d.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27
The srainy Bunch.
The only hish-ela,s
Baking Powder cold It
. modesahe ps;ee.

The Brainy Bunch.
Mr.. Sinic-Do you see those three
people walking together down there?
Mrs. Getup-Yes; who are they7 Mr..
Stnic-One is a somnambulist, one Is
q kleptomaniac and one is a plagiarist.
Mrs. Getup-Law sakes! never
dreamed we were going to meet 90
many brainy people In a bunch.-Kan.
sas City Newsbook.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27
The Fuller I.s Gets.

The Fuller Ho Gets.
"Bliggins Is very inconsistent
man."
I'm what way?'
"The later he stays out at night the
more he wants to sing Home. Sweet
Home "-Exchange.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27

A close friend is one who turns you
down when you want a small Loan
st. Joseph Eews-Press.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27

Conceit is the soap bubble Of life,
very large, very smooth and ascendant
until prickei.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-27
ENGLAND MUST RAISE WIND
Chancellor of the Exchequer Has
ThRnkless Task Ahead
of Him.

LONDON, Dec. Is Especially Lloyd
George, chancellor OF the e~xchequer. has
one of the biggest and most thankless tasks
nothing more or less than the devising
of new methods OF taxation to meet the
rapidly increasing national deficit. As he
himself has picturesQuely described II he
must look for new henroosts to rob" and
predictions are now in order and are being
widely made as TO the particular quarter
Of the barnyard he will turn his atten-
ton to.
Various schemes have been put forward.
more or less authoritatively, but in al
most every case 1t was evident that the
wish was father TO the thought. As far
as the chancellor himself Is concerned he
has but to examine the old records OF the
department over which he rules to find
an almost endless variety OF means of
raising the wind" all OF them tried and
found useful by his predecessors in office.
Chimney Money.
For instance. there was the chimney
money" In l62 Parliament voted a tax
OF 50 cents a year on every chimney in
England. Some idea OF the enormous
amount such a tax would yield today can
be gathered when 1t is said that a major
ity Of the houses of London and the other
big English cities boast as many as fiji
teen chimneys apiece. Few of them have
less than ten. That It proved a heavy
burden In those days is evident. for It was
Intensely unpopular. Pepys records three
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-27
LONDONS "POURED" BUILDINGS
Concrete Construction Great Mystery
20 COckneys to Whom ii Has
Been shown.

LONDON. Dec. 26.0special)-'Poured
buildings or reinforced concrete structures
are the latest wonders in London just now.
Though this process Of putting up buildings
has long been known in America, its ad-
vent in England is of recent date. and. for
various reasons. It is attracting a great
deal of public attention.
What has brought the question OF brick
less and shOneless buildings TO the fore
is the fact that the British government Is
putting up a great new win to the general
postoffice by the new process. There is
not a brick or stone in the entire structure:
and the speed with which the work is being
done 10 simply astonishing the natives.
From the trade union point OF view. the
government Is severely criticised for in
PRODUCING 8 '1~abOr-saving' building into
government contracts at a time when the
unemployed question IL so pressing, and
when more than y per cent OF ~unemploy-
meat is in the building trade itself. But
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-27
Pointed Paragraphs.

An ex-husband is apt to think that all
mony means all the money.
BY standing up for yourself others NAV
be prevented from sitting down on you.
II some women haven't anyone 10 talk
rusty.
A woman who wants TO make soap has
no Kick coming II her neighbors give her
the I've.
About the man who thinks he knows Il
all the worst thing is his inability 10
keep his mouth shut.
The coat may not make the man, but IL
certainly helps some when the mercury
is flirting with the zero marx.
Perhaps nothing makes a girl so angry
as the thought that a young man thinks
she would not resent being kissed.
A health Journal has an article on How
to Lie When Asleep" What we n6ad Is
tell the truth when awake-chicaEo
News.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-27

moved about with such precaution or such
luxury as has been bestowed upon Mrs.
Almeric Paget, who is one of the fore
most Americans in London and a member
Of the royal set. For several months now
Mrs. Paget has been seriously Ill. some
times being at deaths door. IL the
usual American she is so full of energy
that she makes a very bad patient and
directly she gets a little better she defies
doctors and nurses and does something
wildly indiscreet. She has had pneumonia,
pleurisy, congestion Of the lungs and a
variety OF other troubles all in the last
few months and was so weak from the
effects that two doctors and three nurses
accompanied her to Egypt where she now
is. For the most part the trip was made
by special trains and special boats. every
precaution having to be taken to save her
e~xertion. The patient is making a tour
up the banks OF the Nile and the party
have several dahabeahs in which they are
residing. Mr.. Almeric Paget has now left
to join his wife. having been detained in
London owing to important business. The
latest accounts OF Mrs. Paget are more
satisfactory, but It is generally known that
II she means to spend more years on this
planet she will have to be exceedingly
careful Of herself for the future.
Her children nave also gone out to her
as she refused TO be separated from them.
This means that their governesses and
nurses have had TO them, which
makes the party one Of the largest private
ones that has ever gone up the Nile. Mrs.
Paget is not expected back for six or
seven weeks. LADY MARY.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-27

months after the passing Of the law: Much
clamor against the chimney money and
the people say they will not pay it without
force
1t was not until October, 1866, however,
that 1t was successfully moved that the
chimney money might be taken from the
king and an equal revenue Of something
else might be found for the king, and
people be enjoined to buy off this tax of
chimney money forever at eight years
purchase, which will raise present money,
as they think, e1,6 COO, 900, and the state be
eased of an i'll burden and the king be
supplied of something as good or better
for his use"
Tax Upon TimeDieces.
A little over 100 years ago every clock.
either inside or outside a house, was taxed
SIS a year. II you were lucky enough to
own a gold watch and it came to the Off
cial notice you we're compelled to add $3.50
to the public ~exchequer. If your spending
money were limited and your timepiece
sported only a silver case. the sum of s1.75
was demanded of you Furthermore, your
jeweler was compelled to pay a tax of 90
cents a year for the privilege OF selling
such Injuries to you.
One OF the most curious of all taxes was
that imposed upon windows. This ranged
from 81 for one to six windows to $40 every
twelve months for $50 windows. The quite
natural result of this tax was the closing
up of many windows with bricks. Parlia-
ment promptly devised a trick worth two
OF nat and imposed a tax of SIS upon
every 1000 bricks. The legislators put
the lid on it," however, when they imposed
a tax of S a year or everybody who used
hair powder.
Dealers in women's hats were taxed $40
a year and in this connection an amusing
hint has been given TO the chancellor. In
the Olden days the individual hats were
taxed a varying amount dependent upon
their value. 1t has been suggested that if
the hat OF the moment be taxed at so much
per square inch there would be no neces-
sity for ''robbing any other henroosts' to
make up the estimated deficit of 100000 900.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-27

the government has been more influenced
by questions OF economy than by anything
else, and the poured building fills the
bill at about one-third less cost than an
ordinary structure, even in brick. In stone,
of course, the difference is almost two
thirds less in favor of pouring.
The new postoffice building is being
constructed according to the Hennebrique
system-a French invention, though 1t diff
fers little from the American application
Of the same principle. Great iron rods ex-
tend throughout the frame work, and
around these cement is poured, being kept
in place by boards until 1t is quite solid.
1t is claimed that the concrete solidifies
quite to the hardness of stone. and the
structure will last as long. and bear as
much weight as the strongest stone build
ings.
The new postoffice wing has tremendously
deep foundations, as 1t was found that the
soil near st. Paul's cathedral, where It is
situated, was not of the character to sup
port a great building, unless the founda-
tions were exceptionally we'll laid.
Considerable mystery has surrounded the
putting up of this new postoffiee wing,
The work has been delayed a long time,
anu dliuOuBu II SHOulu nave Deen given out
four years ago, nothing was lone until
quite recently. The secret of the delay
is to be found in the fact that the English
government was so hard hit over the Boer
war that they could not enlarge the post
office until II had recovered its financial
equilibrium. The government has been
promising to give out this work for so
long. and II has been so much delayed that
people began to think nothing would ever
be done. In the final adoption of the Hem
nebrtque system, the expectations Of out
of-work builders. bricklayeTs and contrac-
tors have been sorely disappointed. Though
several populations have waited on the
government and requested that an ordinary
stone building should be put up-similar
TO the new war office-the request was
turned down owing to reasons of economy.
The cost Of the new building is to be, on
completion, 10000.
Now that the government has gone in
for pouring" their buildings, private con-
tractors will take up the work. There are
already three or four big pouring build
ings in London, the largest being at So
Victoria street, a great office structure,
but, so far, the British contractor has not
taken to them very favorably. He was
hard 10 convince that they were not Of a
flimsy character. but It only needed the
government to set its seal of approval on
the process to give the new scheme a
chance.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-27

up to 81, 800 you can get into the royal en-
closure at the races. This is managed
by persons in high places who need money.
Several blue-blooded but impecunious mem
bers of the aristocracy have an inherited
right to tickets to all functions in which
royalty is expected to mix. They get these
tickets from the lord chamberlain's office,
and though they do not want to go to these
affairs themselves, the tickets have a high
commercial value. The nouveaux riches
are most anxious to Circulate" in the royal
set and the next best thing TO actually be-
ing a member of the exclusives. is to appear
to be one. Not long ago, King Edward
asked the name of a lady to whom he stood
quite close in the royal enclosure at Ascot.
The lord chamberlain's secretary was
greatly embarrassed to find that the lady
in question held a ticket which she had
acquired" from a member OF the aristoc-
racy. After that incident. the lord chamber
lain adopted the custom of marking the
tickets to many royal functions as mot
transferable" but even this has not put a
stop to the custom.
Money for 1ntrOducIn9s
There is another very flourishing Ting
for the depleted purse aristocracy, and they
work It for all It is worth2this Is '1ntroduo-
ing. This system is taken advantage OF by
many wealthy Americans. For Instance, ON
payment of a fee to a certain high society
dame, you can be guaranteed an invitation
for a weekend on board the yacht of a
real lord Of Cowes in the height Of the sea-
son. Many social entrees have been made
from the saloon deck Of some lords yacht.
The people who engineer these little mat
ters' are supposed to be absolutely beyond
approach, and It requires the greatest tact
and naturally the highest Of fees-to bring
them off successfully. "Introductions' cost
anywhere from 1900 a year up to Il .OO0
according to the particular "set" into which
one decides to force his way. Memberships
to exclusive" clubs are also obtained at
fixed fees.
Another extremely popular form OF achiev-
ing social distinction is the employment of
a press agent to manage publicity booms OF
a mild order. 1t is the duties OF this agent
to see that his principal is invited to all the
swell affairs, and to interview the reportera
giving them Information In which the name
OF his particular client figures largely. In
this way a large amount OF free advertising
Is obtained. Many press agents are women1
quite a number Of them occupying semi-im-
portant positions themselves IN society.