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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-03-14
CHAPTER X.

Forget the Name Of the Name Voice
The day after Christine had van
'Ashed before his eyes in sort Of daz
element that still made him doubt the
evidence OF his senses, M. lie Vicomte
40 Chagny called to.inquire at Nam
ma Valerius'. He came upon a charm.
ing picture. Christine herself was
seated by the bedside OF the old lady,
who was sitting up against the pill
lows, knitting. The pink and white
had returned to the young girls
cheeks. The dark rings round her
eyes had disappeared. Raoul no longer
recognized the tragic face OF the day
before. II the veil of melancholy over
those adorable features had not still
appeared to the young man as the
last trace of the weird drama in whose
tolls that mysterious child was strug-
Cling, he could have believed that
Christine was not its heroine at all.
She rose, without showing any emo
ton, and offered him her hand. But
Raouls stupefactiOn was so great that
ne stood there dumfounded, without q
gesture, without word.
We'll, M. de Chagny," exclaimed
Mamma VaIerius, don't you know our
Christine? Her good genius has sent
her back to us!"
Mammal" the girl broke in prompt
-ly. while deep blush mantled to her
eyes. Il thought, mamma, that there
was to be no lore question OF that!
You know there Is no such thing as
the Angel of Music!"
''But, child, he gave You lessons for
three months!"
Mamma, have promised to ex-
plain everything to you one OF these
days; and hope to do so but
you have promised me, until that day, /
to be silent and ask me no more
questions whatever"
Provided that you promised never
TO leave me again! But have you
promised that, Christine?"
Mamma, all this cannot interest M.
de Chagny."
"On the contrary, mademoiselle,"
said the young man, in q voice which
he tried to make firm and brave, but
which still trembled, anything that
concerns you interests me to an en-
tent which perhaps you will one day
understand. do not deny that my
surprise equals my, pleasure at finding
you with your adopted mother and
that, after what happened between us
yesterday, after what you said and
what was able to guess, hardly ex-
Dected to see you here so soon. 1
should be the first TO delight at your
return, II you were not so bent on /
q secrecy that may be fatal
% you and have been your
friend too long not TO be alarmed. I
With Nine. Valerius, at a disastrous 1
adventure which will remain danger /
Ous 50 long as we have not unraveled {
lts threads and Of which you win GER I
Ininly end BY being the victim, Chris (
Itna."
AZ these words. Mamma valerIua
peaed ahout a. her bed. .
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to the stage ana MADE MIN SIT on tn,
wooden curb of well, In the doubt
full peace and GOODNESS OF a first scene
set for the evenings performance.
On another day, she wandered with
him, hand in hand, along the desert
ed paths of a garden whose creepers
had been cut out by a decorators
skillful hands. 1t was as though the
real sky, the real flowers, the real
earth were forbidden her for all time
and she condemned to breathe no
other air than that of the theater.
An occasional fireman passed, watch.
Ing over their melancholy idyIl from
afar. And she would drag him up
above the clouds, in the magnificent
disorder of the grid, where she loved
to make him giddy by running in
front of him along the frail bridges,
among the thousands of ropes fast
ened to the pulleys, the windlasses,
the rollers, in the midst Of a regular
forest of yards and masts. II he
hesitated, she said, with IAN adorable
pout of her lips:
"You, a sailor!"
And then they returned to terra
firma, that is to say, to some passage
that led them to the little girls dane
ing-school, where brats between six
and ten were practicing their steps, in
the hope of becoming great dancers
one day, covered with diamonds"
Meanwhile, Christine gave them
sweets instead
She took him to the wardrobe and
property-rooms, took him all over her
empire, which was artificial, but i'm |
mense, covering seventeen stories |
from the ground-floor to the roof and
inhabited by an army of subjects She
moved among them like a popular
queen, encouraging them in their
labors, sitting down in the workshops
giving words of advice to the work
men whose hands hesitated to cut in.
to the rich stuffs that were to clothe
heroes. There were inhabitants OF
that country who practiced every
trade. There were cobblers, there
were goldsmiths. All had learned tc
know her and to love her, for she al
ways interested herself in all their
troubles and all their little hobbies.
She knew unsupported corners thai
were secretly occupied by little old
couples. She knocked at their door
and introduced Raoul to them as
Prince Charming who had asked fol
her hand; and the two of them, sit
ting on some worm-eaten property
would listen to the legends of the
opera, even as, in their childhood
hey had listened to the old Breton
ales. Those old people remembered
nothing outside the opera. They haC
ived there for years without number
Past arrangements had forgotten
hem; palace revolutions had takeT
10 notice of them; the history oil
france had run it's course unknown
o them; and nobody recollected theiI
xistence.
CONTINUED next week.
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bowed 10 Christine and SAID: -
"Mademoiselle. / have the honor To
ask for your hand.
why, you have both OF them al
ready, my dear betrothed! .
oh, Raoul, how happy we shall bel
We must play at being en-
gagged all day long"
1t was the prettiest game in the
world and they enjoyed II like the
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sYNoPsIa

CHAPTER Y-Consternation 70 cause,
- the last night that the Opera 10 man
A@od by Debienne and Poligny because o
esn In evidence on several previous oc
iQAgtons. Later In the evening JOSEPH
Rnquet u found dead. having hangeC
himself.
CHAPTER II.-Christine Daae, q mem
er Of the opera company, Is called upon
> MI a very important part and scores
hls brother Raoul are among those who
applaud the singer Raoul tries to see
Chrietine In the dressing room, but 10
eanable to do 80 and later discovers that
famerges alone, and upon entering the
Uoom he nnds II empty.
CHAPTER III.-whiIe the farewell
fDoremony for the retiring managers 10
woang on, the Opera Ghost appears and
makes the announcement OF BuQuet's
Neath. Richard Ind Moncharmins the
ielauss in the contract which Stipulates
mat certain sum shall be paid to the
host and that box No. s shall be re-
barved for him.
CHAPTER Iv.-Box No. s is sold with
@leastrous results. The managers receive
letter from the Opera Ghost calling at
allied in and gives her experience with
ne ghost.
CHAPTER .v.-Christins Daae writes
1.aoul that she has gone to visit the
wonderful violin music IL heard. Raoui
u found next morning almost frozen.
CHAPTER vI.-Moncharmin and Rich.
80 investigate box No. s and decide to
so the performance OF Faust" from
&rOnt seats Of that box.
CHAPTER VII:-carlotta, who sings
Sn0 leading part in Faust, IL warned to
I've the part to Christine. CaTIotta. re.
4uslng, loses her voice in the middle of
song and the main chandelier crashes
Gown. killing woman and woundlnG
CHAPTER VIII.-Raoul searches for
Christine who has disappeared. He sees
ner at last, but does not speak, and later
. note is received from her making ar /
appointment for masked ball.
CHAPTER IX.-Raoul meets Christine
~ the pail and sees a person in the dis
gulse OF Red Death, OF whom he n teal.
gus. he hears her conversing with some
one whom she calls Erik. He makes his
known and Christine vanIshes
Through a mirror.
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4
Thereupon. seeing the hostiIit,
with which her ward had addresse,
the viscount. Mamma Valerius sud
denly took Christine's part
And, II she does love that man
monsieur lie vicomte, even then It II
no business of yours!"
ALAS, madame" Raoul humbIy re
piled, unable to restrain his tears
ALAS, believe that Christine really
does love him! :. But II is not
only that which drives me to despair;
for what am not certain OF, madame,
IS that the man whom Christine loves
Is worthy of her love!"
1T is for me to be the Judge OF
that. monsieur!" said Christine, look
ing Raoul angrily in the face.
When man." continued RaouI,
adopts such romantic methods to en-
tice young girls affections :"
"The man must be either a villain,
or the girl fool; is that it,"
"Christine?"
"Raoul, why do you condemn q man
whom you have never seen, whom no
one knows and about whom you your
self know nothing"
YES, Christine. Yes.
at least know the name that you
thought to keep from me for ever.
The name OF your Angel OF
Music, mademoiselle. is Erik"
Christine at once betrayed herself.
She turned as white as q sheet and
stammered:
Who told your"
You yourself!"
How do you mean?"
by plying him the other night, the
night Of the masked ball. When you
went to your dressing-room, did you
not say, Poor Erik Well, Christine,
there was poor Raoul who overheard
you"
This is the second time that you
have listened behind the door, M. de
Chagny!"
Il was not behind the door
was in the dressing-room, in the
nner room, mademoiselle."
"Oh. unhappy man." moaned the
drl, showing every sign OF unspeak-
bile terror. Unhappy man! Do you
want to be killed."
Perhaps"
Raoul uttered this perhaps" with
o much love and despair in his voice
hat Christine could not keep back a
OBJ. She took his hands and looked
I him with all the pure affection of
'hich she was capable. =
"Raoul," she said, forget the mans
dice and do not even remember its
anne. You must never try to
lthom the mystery of the. mans !
DICE"
rs the mystery so very terrible?" !
There is no more awful mystery on ,
lis earth. Swear to me that you :
Ill make no attempt to find out" /
lie insisted. Swear to me that you '
i'll never come to my dressing-room, q
Mess l send for you" +
Then you promise to send for me
'metimes. Christine?"
II promise"
"When?" =
Tomorrow" n
Then swear to do as you ask"
He kissed her hands and went away, =
rising Erik and resolving to be pa -,
snt. 81
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1t you haven't the time to exer-
else regularly Doan's Regulets will
prevent constipation. They induce
a mild, easy, healthful action Of the
bowels without gripping. Ask your
druggist for them. % cents.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-04-04

Manhattan Kansas 3d. 1912. The agricultural college be-
agronomy has formulated plan, which, carried
planting should this year.
operative germinator every is tn e
the crop experts campaign for seed testing the
COLLEGE, individual or local everv
responsibility obtaining gemnator
general for all the farmers of the community
bankers the already doing the
completed from the college will the
explain results
necessary agronomy department will the
being arranged for these seed testing
Although have been for the last months urging
make termination comparatively little has been
said ardine professor of agronomy to-day "n parts
onea of the saved for seed will grow
dry last and the immature
investigated the thoroughly
making termination of from various parts
With termination every believe within the few
seed the community is for planting
will Whoever undertakes conduct the should
buy gemnator make begin collect seed samples
agronomy department will furnish complete information
of the essential oowed
shallow box for the germnator The box should be filled with
divided squares driving small nails along the edge
asten cords both
dividing Number the samples and place several kernels
different parts corresponding square,
we'll keep the place. In five days
q examination may be made
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-04-04

Wednesday evening at the
opera house, the members of the
Arena Club gave very attract
i've entertainment and social
combined. Miss Buckley of the
Redpath firm gave number of
excellent readings. Vocal solos
by Mrs. Hamilton and Miss
Mackey, a selection by the quar-
tette composed of Messrs Sweet,
Marshall, Backe, and Paul, and
piano solo by Miss Fuhr, added
greatly to the evenings enter
tainment. After the musical
part of the program had been
completed, ice cream and cake
were served. Everyone spent a
pleasant evening.
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North Flats.

! Mr.. L. A. Carter lost a valuable
mule last week.
Wheat Is looking fine nowadays
and is growing good.
Mr.. Will Draper and family spent
Sunday at Kinsinger's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elwood Bird were
in Meade last Saturday.
The snow has about all disappear
ed and we wonder If spring has come
at last.
Miss Daphne Haigh spent Sunday
with Mrs. Fish and family over by
Plains.
Here it is the FIRST of April and no
spring work done yet. Last year
barley was up at this time.
Mr.. Goudy returned home from
Meade last Friday. He had been
called as one of the jurors.
Mr.. Teeter bought barn from
Gay Gates. Pete Kinsinger and
L. A. Carter helped him move it to
his home one day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. A. Carter were
over to Grandma and Grandpa
Carter's one day last week and
found them enjoying good health.
Grandma is real spry after her sick
ness last fall.
Miss Lila Kinsinger celebrated
her nth birthday Sunday March 81
Her school mates went over and
took dinner with her. Owing to
the condition of the weather not
manywere present, Those who
were present were: Eta, May and
Ernest Payton and George Carter.
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feel in myself the future life. l am like forest
cut down; the shoots stronger and lveier
than am rising, l know, toward the sky. The
sunshine s my head. The earth gives it's generous
sap, but heaven lights with reflection of unknown
worlds
You say the soul is nothing but the resultant of the
bodily powers. Why, then, is my soul more luminous
when my bodily powers begin to fal2 Winter is my
head but eternal spring is in my heart. There breathe
this hour the fragrance of the acs the voes and the
at twenty years.
When go down at the grave say like many
Others ~ have finished my days work." But cannot say
~ have finished my life" My days work will begin the
morning The tomb is not blind alley it is thor
oughfare 1t closes the twilight opens with the dawn
-VIctOr Hugo
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Cur Correspondents Department
Pick

Pick Ups
The Brinckman sale was well at.
tended and things sold well.
Mrs. Everett Davidson visited
with Mrs. Pavey Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Read were
trading at Uneda, Thursday.
Mrs. Tom Barragree and children
took dinner at E., Sengers last
Thursday.
Geo. Tolston bought wagon and
some chickens at the sale and bug.
gy from H. L. Howe.
Arthur Scott bought some hay
from 0. ]. Easton and hauled the
same to his home last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. M. Pillsbury at
tended the Brinkman ale Thurs
day and from there they visited
home folks awhile.
Everett Davidson, Arthur Scott,
Frank Block, Bonnie Buck, George
Tolston and son took dinner at Tom
Barragrees Sunday.
Next Sunday is Easter, but we are
of the opinion there will not be
many eggs hid away. Chickens
don't do very well this kind of
weather.
Bonnie Buck came over from
Beaver Saturday, where he had been
on business, and stopped over night
with Ed Riddle. Benrie has start
ed out as book agent. We pre-
sumo he thinks it is easier to talk
than to run pillow.
We had our tri-monthly storm
again. Sunday it clouded up and
sprinkled rain most of the day and
continued throughout the night and
Monday morning began showing,
and showed until the middle of the
afternoon. The temperature was
warm and the SNOW melted nearly as
fast as it fell.
MARY ANN.
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MARY ANN.

broom machinery, handles, and SO
on at ]. M. Myers that THERE'S to
be broom factory started.
This is another gloomy week but
we hope that after Easter we will
have more settled weather so we can
get to work in the fields.
We were misinformed as to the
birth of boy at Harry Kimber's
last week. Some people couldn't
tell the truth if they were to be
hung.
The Pleasant Hill Telephone Co.
was repairing their line north and
south past H. H. Eckhoff's and J..
W. Steele's Monday. New posts
were put in.
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Was He a CRATER or Not?

Sunday afternoon an old man
came INTO town from Gate, wear
ing a suit and cap like those
worn by the Salvation Army
workers. He gave his name as
Dickinson and said he was rep
resenting the Army in Kansas
City. When asked to show his
credentials he produced a slip OF
paper on which was written a
recommendation from some ma.
jor or colonel which is thought
to be fictictious.
Some time ago word was re
ceived here of a character of this
kind at large and to beware OF
him. When Captain Northur
arrived here ten or twelve days
ago it was known he was repre-
senting the Army at Wichita and
he was given as much assistance
as the people felt able to give.
1t is a lamentable fact that
there are people travelling
through the country claiming to
be representatives of various
charitable and benevolent organ
izations, soliciting money for
their personal use, and of such
we would acknowledgement
LeadeT-Tribune.
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Farmers Institute.
Special Prizes,

The following special prizes
offered by the merchants Of
Meade, will be awarded at the
Farmers Institute in Jan. 1913
Open to any pupil in the pub.
lie schools not over 18 years old
No. l. Best Booklet on, "The
Farm"
$3.50 Administer Rug, Fletch'
er Furniture Co.
No. 2. Best Drawing in the
perspective. 2 samples.
$500 Fountain Pen, M. &. M
Drug Co.
No. 3. Best Essay on Exam
sas." Over 500 words.
Pair slippers, F. W. Flick.
No. 4. Best pumpkin to be ex'
hibited at the fair.
A dollar Watch, Kelley Optical
Company.
No. s. Best cake made from
Kelley's Famous Flour.
$500 cake mixer. H. G. Mar.
shall.
Mr.. Marshall to have the cake.
No, 6. Best hand made Pill.
low slips.
$500 Ladies hand bag. Stew.
ems Watson Mer. Co.
MATTE J. HAIGH,
Co. Supt.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-04-04

Pleasant Valley
Fifteen Miles South
The hens are again busy.
w. C. Cordes lost fine mare last
week.
The wheat looks fine south OF
Meade.
J. w. Steele helped Mr.. Fetters
butcher last week.
Mr.. Howell of the Howell ranch
lost valuable mule last week.
Mrs. Everett Davidson was call
ing in Pleasant Valley last week.
The sale at Brinckman's was we'll
attended from this neighborhood.
Miss Pearl SPrott is staying with
Mrs. Harry Eldridgd while Harry
is in Haviland.
w. C. Cordes moved to the Ellis
place this week to be near his farm
upon which he intends to build.
We think from the looks of the
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-04-04

Llndsborg has sung its way
into the hearts of the people of
this nation and today The "Mes-
siah" week at Lindsborg is of
national Importance. The fes-
tival this year will be held March
81 to April 7th. 10 miscellaneous
concerts and recitals will be Civ
en- during the week.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-04-04

For Sale or Trade-One
thoroughbred Duroe Boar, 7 mo.
old, $50 ID. Phone sos.
r. M. GIFFoRD.
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Kansas currant, the only currant
bearing heavy crop annually here.
Yearling plants one dollar per dozen
MRS. E. D. SMITH, Phone 9os.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-04-04

The Messiah, will be held at
Lindsborg, Kansas from March
81 to April 7.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-04-04

Prize Winners White wyandott
eggs from my prize coop, one dollar
per setting.
MRS. E. d. SMIMH Phone 2os
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-02

Muslin Drawers. hemsitching and
fine .tucks above the hem. full cut;
all sizes from | to II years. \ M
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Eye t alks
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IN talks seem 70 be convincing
fu some respects. because greater
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ta. Today | have 10 reques; that.
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ART NeedQeWOrlk
On First Floor-The North Side

It's outline embroder the stamped you
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Day
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Montpelier examiner., 1912-02-16

Upton Sinclair has been working
as servant in Newport to get
material for a new book.)
scorched the roast;
The soup is pale and hopeless and the
rolls would do for toast;
The salad is tumble that nobody can
make out;
The coffee may be coffee. but it leaves US
all in doubt
The cook is doing novels. her typewriter's
on the range:
She says she'll treat us nicely in her book
'The Hours Of Change"
The maid is absent-minded; she is brood
ing half the time
About bunch of sonnets, and she wor-
ries for a rhyme:
She doing Odes on Labor and the Thren-
ody of Toll
She mixed the maple sirup with a pint of
salad oil,
She spilled dish of gravy on dear papa's
dinner coat,
But said she praised his manners in a
poem that she wrote.
The butler wears eyeglasses and has ink
stains on his thumb.
He has those Hall Caine whiskers and his
countenance is grum.
He eyes us with suspicion-but most Of
them do that
And make us think twice better to be liv-
ing in fiat;
We all use better grammar than we ever
did before,
For he is taking items from a spot be-
hind the door.
The chauffeur keeps the tool box filled
with greasy manuscript.
And talks about the fountains of the gods
from whence he slipped:
He's doing auto stories for the Screamer
Magazine,
Also a lot of essays on Docs Money
Make Men Mean"-
And yesterday he dumped us OF a sudden
in ditch,
Then wrote burning chapter on 1.-THE
Pleasures of the Rich"
The coachman had caller from the firm
of Puff & Print
He'll put us In a novel to be called ''The
Social Squaint:'
And so we've all turned writers. papa.
mamma and the rest
Collaborating daily on tale, 1.-THE Work
Ing Guest"
In which we tell the troubles that beset
us day and night
When we are served by servants who do
nothing else but write.
Montpelier examiner., 1912-02-16

The appearance Of dodder in clover
and alfalfa fields is generally most
dangerous to the crop.
The ordinary operations of moving,
raking and hauling tend to spread
this troublesome parasite, and with
every new center Of infection the
chances of the crop grow less.
A recent circular Of the New York
experiment station at Geneva de-
scribes the injury resulting from dod-
der in alfalfa fields, as follows:
Dodder is a yellow, thread-like
twining weed which is exceedingly
troublesome in alfalfa fields. 1t ap-
pears in circular spots to 80 feet or
more in diameter. At the center of
the spot the alfalfa is killed out, while
around the margin the ground is
covered with a mat Of yellow threads
which twine closely about the stems
OF the alfalfa plants and slowly stran-
gle them.
The spots increase in size from year
to year. Many fields have been COM
pletely ruined by dodder. 1t is not
often injurious to other crops Except
red clover), but once established in an
alfalfa field 1t is very difficult to eradi-
cate without killing the alfalfa.
As dodder is usually introduced
with clover and alfalfa seed, the pur-