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Russian lessons, and ever there had
been constantly in his mind the
thought that this was her language.
again, he would be able to talk with
her in her own tongue.
Now, however, he was distracted by
the scowling faces of the early viii
layers whom he met on the streets.
The raft-like ferry was crowded and
he noticed that the passengers drew
away from himself and Mordecai; as
though fearing some contagion. These
people muttered, repeating the words.
THE Jewl The Jew!" with loathing
and fear such as Hardy had never
heard put into human speech before.
AS uttered by them the word itself
become an epithet of hate and super
stitious horror, the most opprobrious
insult that could be hurled at fellow
creature.
Hardy glanced at Mordecai. His
companion stood silent, looking down,
nervously clasping one hand in the
other, the collar of his long cloak
turned up about his ears. Once he
looked up, feeting glance, and there
was baleful light. half hate. half fear,
in his reddsh-brown eyes.
On the country road which they
took after leaving the ferry, they
passed several telegas, or long
wagons, coming into town, and Hardy
observed that the drivers of these
also eyed him and his companion
with looks of loathing, and again he
heard, above the rattle of the wheels,
that ancient cry of hate, THE Jew!
The Jew"
They sat down beneath a tree on
the side of a hill commanding view
of the town and the winding Shilka,
up whose rapid current a steamer was
now shouldering it's way, leaving be-
hind a trailing plume of black smoke
of incredible size They conversed in
| Russian for awhile, Mordecai skill
fully leading the dialogue. without any
reference to the unpleasant incidents
of the morning. When, however,
Hardy arose at last to return to the
| shore, the Jew said.
|
dear pupil. You will now be able to
get along by yourself. or by the help
of Russian teacher, who does not
know any English
Il do not desire to make change
replied Hardy; Il am more than sat
isfied with my present teacher"
Nevertheless insisted Baruch
"the time has come when 1t will be
no longer safe for you to go on with
me. have wanted to speak of this
for several days, but IL has been SO
pleasant to me to have the society OF
a human being here in this country OF
wolves and dogs that have not been
able to bring myself to the point Be
sides, need the money that you pay
me. | greatly fear that another Jew
ish persecution is about to break out
have seen the storm brewing fol
some time. If 1t were not for my
old mother. for whose sake came
back to this accursed country, woulC
quietly leave. At any rate, there Il
no need of your becoming involved IL
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CHAPTER XXI.
,,a, Receives TWO Letters.


Tho store at Stryetensk was a low
rambling building, constructed ID lhe
shane of a capital e without the hllu'
die bar A high board fence connect
inc the extremities OF the two "lhss WINES,
irclosed one side of a square yaru
which contained outbuildlngs anu
sheds for horses, droshky or TWO,
and several of the long ooatshapeu
ta,acas that do duty in that country
os draws In the clubhouse, moreover
WAS kent a supply of plows ana o'ne.
ogricutural implements, while !ne
store itself was stocked with an ~
,,onse and motley assortment OF gen,
anal merchandise suited to the retali
demand of the region, and Tor wn i'a
soIe shipments to the towns eione
tbe shilka river, on when s'e"'
strvetensk is located, ,, aoorv
81 9ardy found the city itself DEAR
IN the extreme. consisting merely "a % "
objection of raw, sQualid houses 10 .,
ootad m dusty or muddy streets, l.
80 aos as new and rough as the he"e ',
r %op town in America ana hop y,
,essly unattractive, despite the , tT.'
t tTsS'I II was surrounded by noble mus
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our trouble, perhaps losing your life.
The people do not understand your as
sociating with me. II is even whis-
pered that you are of Jewish descent"
Hardy laughed.
MY dear fellow" he said, sc is no
body's business whom employ for
Russian teacher, | shall pursue the
course that seems best to me- and
shall not allow these people to inter-
fere with my private affairs. If nee
essary, we will warn the authorities
that trouble is brewing"
Baruch sprang to his feet and
looked over toward Stryetensk, his
eyes blazing with hate.
"Oh, the authorities!" he cried; do
you know that the prosecutions of the
Jews in Russia are connived at by the
authorities, and tolerated even by the
car himself? Could not the authori-
ties, If they wished, uproot and dlspel
the superstitions that make the Jews
hated and feared? The people of
Russia are mere animals. ignorant and
ferocious, and they do what they are
told. But there will be day of reck-
oning for Unholy Russia. The God
who opened the Red sea for Israel;
who led them through the wilderness
with pillar of cloud by day and of
fire by night; who talked with Moses
in the burning bush: who was with
his people Of old in Nineveh; the God
who has made Rothschild king OF
kings; who inspired the brains Of
ha 90
| Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer, and the
heart of Montefiore-he will make
this rabble pay for the blood of his
| chosen race. All the miseries of the
| Pale and the Ghetto, all the degrade
ton and suffering, the starvation. the
| blows, the massacre and pillage, are
they not written down in the books OF
| Recording Angel? The old law of an
| eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth,
was written for you, o Unholy Russia,
and when your day of judgment comes
your ruin will be more terrible than
! that of Babylonl Draw out the score.
heap high the mountains of wrong,
but be sure that the mills of God
grind very fine, not matter how slowly
they turn"
AS Mordecai said these words,
something of the power of an ancient
seer crept into his bearing, his red
eyes flashed fire. his shabby cloak
seemed the robe of prophet, and his
thin, hooked nose and Semitic fea-
lures took on the dignity of the an.
cient and glorious race whose insignia
they were.
Hardy arose I'VE will walk back
together, Mordecai," he said, quietly.
On his return to the store he found
awaiting him letter from Moscow.
1t was addressed in Russian, but the
epistle itself was written in French
and bore at its head princely crest.
He trembled and his face paled AZ he
turned back and glanced eagerly at
the signature, "Elizabetha Ro.
manovna"
"Mordecai." said he, "come early
this evening. | am going to try to
write a letter In Russian. and | shall
want you to straighten II out for mei'
(To BE CONTGNUED)
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CHAPTER XXI.
Knight Errant.


Fuys Journey down the swift,
n mysterious river that night
|@ experience never to be for
olten, as he chung to his little
uS Knees would scrape on the
Nuu, and Just as frequently he
swing Off into deep water and
suspended above depths where
ssnl easily drown, should he
tramp or lose his nerve. Sew
sleS ne grounded on sand-banks
: oOiged to drag off his wooden
matter of no little difficulty
vas partly water-logged and
~aW Once he drifted close to
~u found himself in n counter
mat actually was taking him
'aru the Pushkin, and 1t was
swimming at right angles to
swing his raft frequent Wig
issues that he managed at last
= wy INTO the downward sweep
stream.
uOurS after leaving the boat
Oa the military road that
dlmly gray, between the
"'ent black of the Siberian
suu the star-sprinkled, wills
= ssk OF the river.
Vaed the military station--a
building of square, hewn
i sAea by several small struc-
~ W., ten O'clock, and, break
S','e' gave his dispatch to a
~ and corpulent soldier
ay red face, whose frayed
Uniform proved him a petty
aOlae sort, This man glanced
paper with wondering
read 1t aloud to Il monde
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CHAPTER XIII.
The Hated Jew.

The Hated Jew.
One morning, as Hardy was busy
at his desk in the rear of the principal
room of the store, Vasili came and
stood beside him, smiling supercili-
ously.
Are there many Jews in American"
he asked.
Hardy, believing that this was sim
ply another attempt on the part of his
clerk to take an English lesson, re-
piled sharply:
Il don't know. Don't talk to me
now, please, I'm busy"
But Vasili, contrary to his custom,
when he was coolly received, per-
sisted:
THE Jews are very numerous in
Russia. They are much hated by the
Christians. They crucifled our
Saviour and they sacrifice young chill
dren to their heather rites
This was rather an extended effort
for Vasili, and, though it had a de-
cided Ollendorfian ring, there was
something in his manner that indi-
Gated a deeper purpose than the mere
desire to profit by his superior's Eng
fish.
"Nonsense!" exclaimed Hardy with
any such folly. That is all an idle
superstition unworthy to be enter
tanned by man of your intelli-
gence."
Nonsense, is it?" sneered Vasili.
My father hates the Jews, and my
uncle hates them worse than my ia
Their. Do the Americans love the
Jews?"
No, they do not love them, neither
do they hate them Some of our best
citizens are Jews. There is no such
thing as religious persecution in
America. Any man is respected in
that country who earns his living hon
estly."
Vasili went about his work, but re-
turned later with the remark:
| The people of this town want the
Jews to go. They do not understand
why you are seen so much with the
Jew, Mordecai. 1t might be dangerous
! for you, If there should be trouble
Some say that you are an American
! Jew
Hardy dropped his pen and looked
up with interest A slight flush, a red
spot, crept into his cheek.
You may tell my esteemed and
somewhat meddlesome neighbors, fol
me-" he drawled, that am neither q
lew nor Choctaw Indian, and thai
when | need their advice in my priv
ate affairs, shall call them in"
II am Russian" persisted Vasili
! do you love Jews better than Rus
sians?"
My dear Vasili, when you persist
| in making a nuisance OF yourself, al
at present, am quite sure that | like
the Jews better than the Russians, or
at least, than some Russians. If you
have anything to do, will you kindly
go about it? ! never felt better abb,
to endure your absence than at this
very instant
Vasili moved away, smiling, but /
was an evil smile.
Hardy returned to his accounts ant
tried to dismiss his clerks remarks
from his mind He succeeded for tn,
time being, as the work before hin
was engrossing, but later in the da!
the Russians observations persistent
ly REQUIRED to him, and caused hin
considerable annoyance. He fancie,
that the retail trade had been fallinl
OFF somewhat, and wondered II thi
were result of the Russian lesson
with the Jew rhe next morning h
took long walk with Mordecai. cross
ing the ferry that is ingeniously rul
ny the force of the rivers current
and struck out into the hills. Hithert
he bad, been deeply absorbed in tn
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convention. Gialeing about them.
even the Conover deleg; tes on the
floor discovered here an there va
cant chairs, gaps in the own solid
ranks, where some one, weaker per-
haps than the others perhaps
stronger-had been moved by the
furious oratory of Give Standish to
join that procession which even now
was rolling out of the front door into
the quiet, gaslit street like living
avalanche.
Bourke managed to pull the rem
nants of the convention back into
some sort of shape. The delegates
went through the form of nominating
Conover. A quantity of handmade
enthusiasm burst forth; and then,
without speech from the successful
nominee, the great occasion wound up
in roar of cheers, shouts and blaring
music.
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What's up?" he demanded of Give.
Speak out, can't your"
But It was Anice Lanier who re-
piled.
''Mr. Conover," she said, you recol-
lect the unsigned letter, enclosing
some of your campaign plans, that
was sent back to you by Mr.. Standisn
last week?"
Caleb's red hair bristled.
Eyes" he answered, deep in his
throat. ''Have you found out who
sent it,"
81 have" she returned, in the same
level voice. "Also the sender of two
other letters of the sort, earlier in the
campaign. One of these was to Mr..
Standish. 1t contained a description
of your plan for the county caucuses
and of the meausres you had framed
against bis upstate tour. Mr.. STAN
dish destroyed that letter and refused
to act ON it's suggestion"
more fool he. Who wrote it,"
"The second letter was to Mr.. An
SELL" went on Anice. ''It gave HIM
the idea for scattering issues of an
out-of-State paper along the speech
route, with advertisements and report
Of
"Who wrote it, asked your"
"The same person wrote all three"
"Then Who"
''I did"
"This isn't thing to joke about.
There's a leak somewhere pretty high
up, and must find"
81 wrote them
She spoke slowly, as though i'm
parting O lesson. The Railroader's
eyes searched her face one instant.
Then he dropped back, heavy and in
ert, into the farthest recess of his
chair.
Good Lord!" he whispered, star
ing at her blankly.
"I wrote Them" reiterated Anice.
"No one knew, not even Mr.. STAN
dish, until to-day. | brought him here
this evening, because something that
is to be said must be said in his hear
ing. / have his promise not to inter
fere in this interview, but to let me
take my own course. 1t was I, too, at
whose advice he bolted the ticket
at"
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ask. tell you my mind is made up.
This convention has been a mockery,
a farce You know how many voters
were with us, and you know the deal
our delegates got The times come
in this State to draw up new Declar
alton of independence. And right
now, Pm going to be the man to start
the ball rolling"
"But, hold on" began Ansel. Give
did not hear Brushing past the lank
manager, he walked out of the room
and made his way to the front OF the
platform Karl, muttering perplexed-
ly, followed him.
AS the young candidates tall figure
emerged from the wings, a buzz OF
wonder went up from the delegates on
the floor below, for, as Ansel had
said, such an advent at such time
was without precedent. But there
was neither Kisses from the ConoVer
crowd nor cheers from the corner
where the survivors of the Standish
hope sat- The delegates were too as
tonished to make any demonstration.
Straight across the stage Standish
strode Shevlin, hurrying out from
Conover's room, made as though TO
bar his way, but gave place before the
others greater bulk, and fed to tell
the Railroader what was afoot.
With Ansel still behind him, STAN
dish kept on until he reached the
table beside which the chairman sat.
At his coming Bourke jumped nerv-
ously to his feet.
"Hey! This amt regular" he be-
words. 'The nominations just goin'
to begin, and We
But he could get no further. Stan
dish pushed him aside, ignoring the
chairman as completely as If he were
one of the battered stage properties.
Dropping one hand upon the table,
he faced the crowd, his whole being
alert with tense nervous. force. A low
murmur, like a ground swell, ran from
row to row of seats, and found It's
echo in the galleries, where hundreds
of the townspeople had packed them
selves to hear the nominating speeches
and to witness, with varying emotions,
the browning victory of Caleb Con-
over.
In the midst of silence in which
the fall of the proverbial pin would
have sounded like the early morning
milk wagon, Give Standish began the
most unusual speech that Mountain
State convention had ever heard.
"My friends"
From Shevlin's rooters came vol
ley of Kisses and cat-calls, but the dis
turbance and the disturbers were
speedily squelched.
"My friends" repeated Standish, his
powerful voice echoing from floor to
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USES OF SALIDUST.
Too Valuable now to Be Put to the
Uses j; Once Served.


Uses : Once Served.
Many are the uses of sawdust. In
the days when the sawdust wagon
made its numbering rounds through
the streets of most large cities two
commercial uses of sawdust were to
sprinkle floors and to shelter lead
pipes from cold and glass bottles from
breakage.
Near every sawmill was a vat for
the sawdust and 1t was carted away
free by any one who had any use for
it. In this era of Ahe use Of by-pro-
ducts sawdust has commercial
value. 1t is no longer given away,
but is sold.
One of the recent uses of sawdust
is it's GiStillation, resulting in acetic
acid, wood naphtha, wood alcohol and
tar Sawdust may also be burned in
special furnaces or mixed with other
material for fuel.
Sawdust, when saturated with
chemicals, can be effectively used In
the manufacture of explosives, but 1t
is more particularly in demand in
paper making than for any other pur-
pose. Such thing as sawdust on
the floor of room as a substitute for
a rug or carpet is now practically un-
known. Sawdust has joined sand In
this respect.
Cotton felt mas been substituted for
sawdust as a non-conductor of cold In
dust. 1t is also used for briquettes,
/. e., blocks of compressed sawdust
and wood chips burned for fuel. Even
in the protection of glassware against
breakage sawdust has been suppressed
ed by excelsior, sawdust being regard
ed as too valuable for such use.
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CALFBCON0VfR
1 esi So sss '.'F RAILROADER
ice
,s,rao q ~ "a STORY OF LOVE POLITICS INTRIGUE
People or A RICH g. POWERFUL BOSS
$500 AND AZ INTREPID YoONe
~ IS MP BY ALBERT PAYS0N TERHONE.
S-4As-rS%lI 4A~So~ TESHo~E9

irregular as the boiling user, gong
out there and making speech. No
face to the convention until after the
nomination is made. You know that,
don't you? Then, after the nomina-
ton he comes out either to accept it
or to promise his support to the win
ner. You'll bust the party traditions
all to finders
very WE'LL" assented Give, eff
can smash the Machine, too, it's all
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(To BE CONTINUED

"I admit l have the fault you men,
ton" said the conceited man, self
complacently, "but it's the only fault
I have. and it's small one" yes"
replied Knox, "just like the small hole
that makes plugged nickel no good"
Catholic Standard and Times.
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For Better or Worse.

'I'm tired of this eternal philosoph-
ical scrap about the respective infiu-
ences of heredity and environment"
saws the Philosopher of Folly. eff
heredity brings a man enough money,
he can make his own environment"
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Where FaIsehood is JustifiabIe.

There are two occasions when the
most veraciouss man is likely to pre-
varicate-when he tells a love ro-
nance or a bunting story.-Paris FL
caro-.
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500 Line
TIME TABLE

GOING EAST.
No. 84-LocaI- Elk. Sunday. 2:Zl I NJ Na
No. 8-Atlantic Express II ~ M.
No. 22-Freight. .......... o:1o a. w.
GOING WEST.
No. 85- Locale Sunday l2:l3 s M.
No. Pacific Express -. 4:32 a M nI
No. 2l-Freight -. 40 l. W.
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Done for.

A New York woman has used q
whip instead of the divorce courts.
She has ruined her matrimonial fut-
ure. --Washington Post
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u. S. POstOffiCe
OFFICE HOURS
7:30 A NJ to 500 P. M.
Sundays from 900 A. NJ. to 1000 A. M.
CLOSING OF MAIL
West-11: 80 A. M. East-2:OO T. NJ.
East and west, night trains, 500 t. nj.
Rural Route-8:00 A. M.
Port Arthur 800 A. M.
Sheldon 700 P. M.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-03
Fourth Of July and
the American Flag

The Fourth OF July will take away
have remained in town on account OF
the unusually cool weather through
June. Trunks are being packed for
seaside resorts and mountain hotels,
and Tomorrow fireworks will fash,
toasts will be drunk, and the Star
spangled Banner" will wave over tho
land Of the free and the home of the
brave, proudly conscious that 1t has .
unique history and that 1t Is older
than the present nag Of Great Britain,
than the German Empire standard.
than the present flag of France, Spain
or Of China and Japan.
The first legislative movement to-
ward the adoption OF u national flag
was taken In June OF 1875, when, by
resolution of Congress, commission
OF three was appointed to decide upon
design and it's adoption. The COM
mission met at Cambridge, Mass, to
discharge It's duties in October OF
1775, Benjamin Franklin being mem
Der Of the commission. The design cho-
sen showed the colors OF the King OF
England. the crosses of ST. George and
ST. Andrew, with thirteen horizontal
red and white stripes.
This flag was first unfurled eFer the
I Continental camp at Cambridge In
January OF i776. and was flying when
Washington took command of the
American army under the big elms on
/ Cambridge green. 1t seems strange
that II should have borne royal en-
blems and yet have been the choice
/ OF the most ardent of American patri-
OTIS. The British Register OF 1875. In
! commenting on th!s earliest OF Amer
lean flags, said:
THE rebels burnt the Kings speech
and changed the flag from a plaip ban
ner TO one bearing thirteen stripes, as
symbol OF the number and union OF
the colonies"
Washington's coat OF arms bears
ooth stars and stripes, SO while tho
origin OF the introduction OF stars on
the blue field OF the star spangled
Banner" is uncertain. the coincidence
is pleasing. The designer OF the ban.
I ner is not clearly indicated, IL the
honor belongs exclusively TO a single
individual. but the maker OF the frst
official United States standard is we'll
Z known. For 1t was in July OF 1916 tina,
General Washington. Robert Morris ana
colonel Ross went to see Mrs Betsy
Ross. a seamstress living in Arch Street,
fH.AadeipHla, ana gave her orders for
1.-THE making OF several flags after the
| pattern OF a rough sketch which they
had in hand.
In the first drawing the stars were
six-pointed. Mrs. Ross advised that
the i've points be used instead Her
suggestion was adopted. and General
Washington. while seated in her back
parlor. made the necessary change in
the sketch. The flag. as fashioned by
/ her. was submitted and unanimously
adopted by Congress.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-03
The Abundantly Instructed
Womanhood of the Present Day

hood would be speedily developed.
The line of conduct and RESPONSE
bility is laid down by square and
measure for all conceivable emergen-
cies and situations. 1t is true there
are left some women who are so
fine by nature. as to their interpreta-
ton and manifestation OF the social
amenities. that no amount of train
ing could make them any finer.
These may be left out OF calculation
In the estimate drawn by the social
arbiter and in her use OF her measure
ing instruments. There are others be-
longing to the insurgent class who
rebel against all tenets OF conventions
alism and are hopeless in the eyes Of
the type-maker to order,
There are hostesses, even Of to-day,
who ask their friends to their homes,
not because the invitation discharges
a social obligation or promtes pur-
pose, but because they really desire
to have such friends share their
home life and review the ties OF ac-
quaintanceship and association, In
such a case formallty Is hanished.
Visitors are made heartily and sim
cerely welcome and left free Of will
and inclination.
There are mothers who do not de-
sire their children to be cut by a
universal pattern. who are not dis
posed to grumble over harmless In
'fldngemenas of rules for parceling
out the day, who prefer playing with
their babies and guiding them past
the preliminary steps OF infancy and
helpless childhood, rather than giving
them into other and less Loving hands
than their own.
In short, there are types and women
And between the two there Is about
the same difference as between a
cheap ready-made suit and fine
tailored costume. The one is the pros
duct Of superfeial!ty and the other
,.gst EsRutneAega. I