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has gotten out, Mrs Bender has had many offers of marriage-many of them through the mails from men she has never seen, although they all claim to be devoted to her and willing to marry her :" if she had not cent.' But common sense seems to have been another in heritance of this comedy widow not yet 40 years of age, and she laughs at Sher pro posals."
 To one and all she makes the response that her name is Mrs Bender, and Mrs. Bender it will remain. My husband was a good man and kind to me- she said. "Though he was not nay first love nor my choice, shall keep his name until I die. Now I want to show my respect for him by getting. tombstone and fixing up the burial lot 50 that when the end comes we may both rest together.>~I ask for no better epitaph than that have been . good wife and mother"
 Until the time for her to go to Montana Mrs. Bender will continue to scrub and clean and to live in the same simple way that has been her custom for several months and only when the money is paid into her hands vis she change her mode of life.
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"I was just young girl living in Indian apolis when I fell in love with Frank Man dell" said Mrs Bender, "and we became en- gagged and would have. married but for the objections of my parents. Frank was seven teen years older than I, and that was why they objected. l didn't want to give him up. Frank said then that he would always love me even if we couldn't marry-and it looks as if he kept his word.
 "A little later was married to Mir. Ben der. and from then Franks life and mine were entirely separate. My husband and removed to the Dakotas where Mir. Bender went into the stock business Frank and his sister, Mrs. Helen Potter, remained in Indianapolis until the death of their father. They inherited S3.000 apiece from the estate and removed to Montana. Mrs. Potter put her money into a ranch, while Frank invested in gold and sil- yer mine. The wiseacres said he was ,. sucker for making the purchase but the fact that it was from this mine that he made his fortune shows who was really foolish
 "I had no time to think of my girlhood days With the birth of our children and th@ work on the farm my husband and I were too brsy to give thought to any old romanccs. And we were happy and prosperous for time. Then came misfortune The barns and the cattle in them burned, and with other esi4r.i r-e-'v ru she ~a~i-@s cs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17
Often Liped on Dollar a Week.

It is in little four room apartment-.the lower portion of a two story cottage-that this heroine of a modern romance lives, and the struggle against poverty is evident. One than the living room, the two tiny bedrooms. and the kitchen, with their simple furnishings.
 During the last year Mrs. Bender has been in such poor health that she has been abh to earn but $3 or $4 week. and she says that often she has managed to live on S1 a week
 The fare for herself and her children is limited to oatmeal and potatoes for breakfast; pota. tees hreea e~ena sarce. rrS F~Tc- fr- sh~
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that calamity I was able to keep my children from poverty. worked as bookkeeper for a time at salary of 500 month, but i'll heilth forced me to give this up. Poverty is a t4rri- ble thing and the world seemed mighty dark when this good news ofssmy fortune cams to me. Now the sky is clear of all clouds, and only hope that l may help others to ligiten their burdens"
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est daughter she explained, and so wrote to Mrs Potter, Franks sister, who has always been my good friend, asking her if she would not take the child-I was desperate. It was by this letter Mrs. Potter learned of my ad- dress, and she at once wrote me telling me of my inheritance."
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Laughs at Marriage Proposals.


 In short time Mrs. Bender will go to Montana to establish her rights under the will. After she has secured her money she will invest portion of the fortune in govern ment bonds for her children, and with part of the remainder will buy stock farm either in Kansas or Nebraska. There will be no foolish expenditures. Instead Mrs Bender will de- and children to charity. "I'll not forget the days of my poverty" she said. and shall do all can to provide for women and children who are in need of a helping hand. It's home missionary work shall do, nor shall forget those who have been kind to me in these past dark days"
 Of coursel since the news of her inheritance
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years. We saved what little we could and came to Chicago. Un- til the death of my husband some time ago we got along we'll, and even for a time following
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17

# million bequeathed to her by tranh Handell of Helena, Moa., who died last
 April and who was Mrs. Renders first
 ,weetheart in the days of her girlhood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17

All three are multi-millionaires. They are all young and hand some.
 All are leaders in athletics and sports.
 Two are married. and one is single.
 All three are graduates of Yale. All are prominent in society and club life.
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EARLY every has heard of Harry Payne Whitney M Payne Whitney, and Harry Whitney but comparatively I few persons know which is which. Do you?
 Harry Payne Whitney graduated from Yale in 1894 and captain champion polo team of the world
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explaining as he drew:
"The triangle is of the oldest symbes,n history.
today in the pyramids and certain secret societies
that rooted in antiquity The base lne mans
physical nature, the right hand line his Soul and the
left his spirit Any kind OF man may be- represented
by varying the length OF these lines ;hut Nhe sy
of equal length they indicate man farrnonoasly de
veloped What IS true to the man is tTuesas6; as to
the actions that record his always
the invisible man himself and the symbol may be used
therefore to illustrate any experience Of his life flowing
from inner causes.
"Now when the stories of what you gentlemen agreed
was coincidence related by yourself and friends,
in my mind they grouped themselves about man;
in yours about three. In fact the in my mind
seemed to blossom memory. | reasoned that, II
this indeed true, it susceptible of dconstra
ton by the rangles of your three lives if they could
be placed in their proper relations to each other This
was the starting point and this reached by abstract
reasoning. The gentleman Of the disk touched the in
visible fourth life with his spiritual sde since in yielding
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the coffin Of-eourse, I won. BY my intervention
your friend of the disk sent him express package,
and the skeleton Of his midnight visitor is longer
headess If it is indeed true some ignorant Eastern
people contend, that whose head separate from
his body cannot be rencarnated the poor gentleman
able, perhaps, TO be about again
The doctor silently offered cigars from box at his
elbow.
THANK you'll" said the guest, taking one. presently
smoke. In the meantime should like to show you
diagram
He leaned across the table under the lamp and taking
prescription pad drew it three trianges. His long,
white, flexible fingers moved with easy quickness and
precision perfect that the trangles not only
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THE MAN BEHIND
BY JOHN r. MCMAHON
Entry No. 100 in Our Prize Story Competition

fellow for he thought it probably OF beg
gary. He knew there men in New York pleasure
zone who made living by warning subjects of espionage.
But there was reason why he should be pursued.
When he reached the vestibue of his bachelor apart
and looked casually down the block he had
traversed he He went to his den threw off
his opera clothes and settling shirtseeved into great
armchair feet to the gaslog and hands to cherished
meerschaum unused on the gories of Wagnerian sound.
Walhalla! The wild daughters of the gods!
A FEW nights later, looking out of window toward
Gramercy Park before retiring, Leonard thought
there unusual thickness to the vestbule pillar
of unoccuped mansion the street Was it the
shadow of the pillar there a shadow-techni-
cally speaking-behind the pillar?
1t happened next that the face OF a man he had
ticed in Broadway restaurant was reflected back to
him in a Fth-ave shop window where the seemed
to be studying display of etchings. Leonard had
walked down the avenue; he turned back and the
window-rehected face
There were other Incidents at once vague and well
defined, that correspondent to the general experience
Doubtless of these oruitouS; but all of
them. Separately almost meaningless like the strokes
of craftsman they presented IN combination an IN
escapable intention.
When he left office or apartment and went into the
street he had a peculiar feeling There someone
behind There someone after him. The sensation
became localized in his shouderbades There
itchy feeling in his back, which recalled sensation,
due specific and material cause, that he had
when he soldier in the Spanish American War;
He was at length annoyed He had a desire to turn
and confront the follower and smite him in the face.
But he knew would be useless to turn. The be-
hind intangible, unidentifable sheathed in
ming hidden in the human tide that surges ceaselessly
in New York streets.
"Why am being shadowed?" In his effort get the
to this question Leonard brain fever
He little past thirty, college man, inheritor
of small fortune, and partner a modest business
ship brokerage. His inherited income and what he
made by few hours daily attention to business sufced
for young man by means extravaganza, studlous IN
his tastes, and not in immediate danger of matrmony
Leaving college enlist in the Spanish American War;
Leonard had adventured in Cuba and the Philippines,
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THOR two weeks conviction that he under
IT. pionage had been forcing itself on Leonard White
field. Someone tracking him. Wherever he
went from his bachelor quarters off Gramercy Park to
his office on Liberty-st. from his club to theater
the houses of friends, he always felt that there
man behind him. He felt it. He did not have absolute
proof.
after the OPERA and the fire music of Die Waktre'
made him oblvous the iscordant clangor of 34tst
An understood, shabby sided up to him and said
something. Leonard mechanically dipped his goved
hand into the coin pocket of his fur lined overcoa and
handed over some change.
SAINT it worth dollar, Sir?' whined the
whats that? What's worth dollar?"
@Why tipping you off that you're being Swallowed,
Sir
Leonard added few coins, chiefly to be rid of the
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up his medal doubtless highly priced, he aotuaed
by generosity, sympathy, and self sacrihce,-al spirit
ua graces The gentleman of the pact made in Paris
touched him with the psychological SIDE since the pact
was soul contract
8" therefore placed their respective trianglcs the
right and left, space of course, remaining between,
and for demonstration | draw the controlling lines
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sores: hage not drawn line of his triangle: but it
is there glance shows him. dead For the triangle
verted torch Strange and sadly beautiful 1t is logic
that this triangle should be inverted. 1t inevitable,
inevitable the existence of hidden square root
in every number For only by inversion could soul line
blend with soul line the spiritual with the spiritual and
the physical with the physical No human intellect
place these figures otherwise and express the same mean
ing They obey law fixed gravitation mag
netsm chemical affinity. Is it not beautiful? Be
lieve me, it this that paved the way for the
toration of the broken skull to the waiting bones the
lone sepulcher by the gulf
The pad was in the doctors hand, and the index
finger of the speaker still the diagram, when
Continued page is
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Now, you who, in your
animal youth, under the in
fluences of physical wanton-
ness, run wild in drink,
touched the invisible fourth
man with and on the physi-
cal plane: that is. YOU deS-
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two. And there | put It, thus:
"Observe now the beauty,
the, perfection, Of the demon
stration. Hemmed in by a
physical, a psychological, and
a spiritual line from three
other lives, i'm the center APP
pears the triangle of a fourth
man, the man talked about
without naming, and with
out CONSCIOUSNESS that one
nianonlNexisted for the three
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ecrated his body with your physical touch-there
but place for your triangle, you will pres
emily perceive, and that the points of the other
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-08-08
HONEY CREEK AND SUMPTER.

Miss Josephine Pickar returned
home from Madison the latter part of
last week.
Mrs. John Miller entertained several
relatives and friends at her home Sun
day evening in honor of her birthday.
Harvest is closing and the hum of
the threshing machine is heard.
Miss Elizabeth Colvin of Sank City
is visiting with friends in this vicinity.
Miss Nellie Jacoby has returned
from Madison.
Walter and Julius Alvin were pres
emf at surprise party for Willie AL
win of Baraboo Saturday evening.
Miss Lena Alvin is spending the
week with Mr. and Mrs. Julius AL
win.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Kaufman and
family spent Sunday at Sank City.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Huber spent
Sunday at red Alwin's.
Patrick Welk of Baraboo spent Sun
day at the Anton Jacoby home.
Miss Nellie Jacoby entertained
guests at dinner Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Steuber
spent Sunday at l.. Birgen's.
Mrs. Lehman and children and Miss
Ida Post have returned to, Milwaukee
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Ab[EMAN.

Mrs. Pauline Glassel and cnildren
also her sister, Mrs. Minnie Ellerton,
and children of Chicago came up Sun
day to visit with their brothers, Wm.
and Julius Gall, and sister, Mrs. Ed.
Wiseman, and families.
E. Bender is visiting his daughter,
Mrs. Albert Kelm, at Sleepy Eye,
Mimi, week.
Relatives and friends of Mrs. Ed.
Warren gave her birthday surprise
last Saturday evening. A fine supper
and coffee was served at midnight.
Those present were Mr.. and Mrs. Ed.
Wiseman and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Paff and family, Miss Lena Paff,
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Judevlne, Bara-
boo, Mrs. Minnie Warren, Mrs. G.
Wiseman, Mr.. and Mrs. Gust
Scharnke and Gust F. Scharnke.
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NORTH FREEDOM.

Rev. Sanborn of DE Pierre came to
attend the fune raj of Mr.. Call. He is a
brother of Mrs. Call.
Myrtle Him of Baraboo visited his
grandmother, Mrs. Mary Harkins,
Tuesday.
Mrs. VIM. Lyons, who has bee Wis
iting relatives at Minneapolis, came
home the first of the week.
Rev. Levin went TO Witwen Tues
day to spend few days with about q
dozen of his boy scouts.
Mrs. Louis Blu DAhn and three chill
dren of Eau Claire are here visiting at
the home of her brother, VIM. Gunni-
son, and other relatives.
Fora Du Bots of La Rue, who was
quite badly hurt when his team ran
away two weeks ago, is able to be out
around again.
Mr.. and Mrs. Verge Douglass of Bar
aboo spent the week here with relatives
and friends.
fined to the house with big boil on
his knee, is able to be out by using
cane.
j. n. Doug ass and sons of Belvidere,
Illinois, are visiting lis brother, q. j.,
and other relatives. They formerly re-
sided here, be bel. in the mercantile
business.
Mrs. LinnelI, who has been here Wis
iting friends few days, returned to
Baraboo Thursday and will go from
there to her nome in MiIw aukee.
Mr. and Mrs. VIM. Hackett went 10
Briggsville Sunday to try their fishing
tackle as others have been doing.
Mrs. Gust Schellenberger sold her
household goods at auction sale Satuy-
day. She will go to Minnesota to Wis t
friends and relatives then to join Mr..
Schellenberger in Canada.
Ernest Weinke, who is attending
the summer school at Reedsburg
spent Saturday and Sunday at home
E. L.. Powell of North Freedom was
in Baraboo on Monday and stated that
he had purch ase the interest of Bartle
Ragatz in the firm of Powell & Ragatz.
Mr.. Powell will conduct the store in
the future. Mr.. Ragatz has been in
business al North Freedom for about
twenty years and expects to remain g
resident Of The village.
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NORTH DELLONA AND LYNDOn

Fortyfour people attended the Sun
day school picnic at Fern Dell Tues
day, July 80. A very enjoyable day
was spent by all. Glasses one and two
are to have a picnic at Stand Rock
next Thursday.
The Misses Guernsey returned to
their home at Shakopee, MINI esots,
last Monday. They were accompanir d
by Mis-. William Scott ana son, Gale.
The Ladies' Aid meets with Mrs. T..
Conan Thursday, August s.
Relatives from Milwaukee are visit
ing al P. II Gunderman'~.
Miss Emma La Fonteine spent - few
days last week with Miss Amber
Reckon.
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I'm A BAD WAY"
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If urinary troubles set in,
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Local evidence proves their merit.
Mrs. Jacob R1tzenthaler, 115 Blake
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trouble. There was constant, dull
pain in my loins and L had such Sc
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times that could hardly drag myself
about. The least cold caught settled
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They went to the root of my trouble
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1905 L gave public account of my ex-
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that Doan's Kidney Pills are good for
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For sale by all dealers. Price SO
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Remember the name-Doan's and
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LOGANV|LLE

Mrs. M. E. Fiske and daughter,
Mrs. John Accola, David Ware and
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Ware spent Sun
day at the w. H. Ware farm.
Mrs. Joe Davis or Juliet, ILL.,, and
Frieda Kohlmeyer and two girl friends
of Chicago came Sunday and are visit
ing at the F. w. Kohlmeyer home.
The harvest dance held at Westedt's
Thursday evening, Aug. l, was we'll
attended One hundred and thirty.
eight numbers were sold.
Miss Elizabeth Fisher and Bert
Lecher were in Cazenovia Sunday.
Irene Baumgarten expects to go to
Madison Tuesday where she will be
employed.
George Hoeverman has resumed his
duties at the store after weeks vaca-
ton.
VIM. Retzlaf was very pleasantly
surp rised Saturday evening when a
number of friends gathered at the
Westedt hall and then sent for him.
The evening was spent in dancing, the
occasion being his birthday.
Mrs. VIM. Bergman of Minneapolis,
Mimi, is visiting friends here.
Ethel Weslenhaver returned TO her
work at Belolt after spending weeks
vacation with her parents.
Amanda lick is visiting at her
home.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-08-08
GREENFIELD.
Farmers are busy cutting grain.

Farmers are busy cutting grain.
Miss / la Gardner of Reedsburg
spent week with Mr.. and Mrs. Her.
man Meyer.
Miss Martha Gregol is employed at
the William Hitler home in Baraboo.
Mrs. Elizabeth Peck and daughters,
Myrtle and Olive, returned home Mon
day after weeks visit with her son
and daughter.in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
Oval Peck, near Delton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Steinke are the
proud parents of little son which ar
rived July "a.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Meyer speD t
Sunday at the De Witt Emery home
in Fairfield
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SANDUSKY.

Mrs. Joseph Weitzel and Mrs. Jacob
Weitzel visited at the home of the
formers sister, MIS-. William Earll, in
Bear valley ore day last week.
Miss Edith Nelson Of Tracy, Mimi,
wa7 guess al the home of her cousin,
Mrs N"T Angeles, last week.
Bert Fish returned Sunday after
spent ing few days at Viola at tie
home Of his parents.
Nettle end Owe Prouty visited rela-
tives at Richlands Center and Lone
Rock last week.
Mrs. Eva Powell and daughter,
Sarah, e0t t. Lime Ridge Saturday.
Mr.. snt Mrs. EdN ard Markham
and MI. ano Mrs. Arthur Markham
and family spent Sunday al the Fred
Powell home near Lime Ridge.
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YONS

Miss Sadie WARREN of Gillinghan
Wis, visited Mrs. e. J. Curry Sun
day.
Louisa Beck, of Madison is the guest
of Miss Eva Prime.
There will not be any services or
Sunday school at the Lyons church
until September first.
Mrs. Ell. Wickus and son of Madison
spett Sunday with Miss Mary San
sum.
Mrs. g. M. Dubois and Mrs. l..
Nutting entertained the l.. 3. 9. OF
Lyons and the Burden Sharers' Circle
of Kirkwoo at the home of the for
mer Thursday afternoon. A very in
teresting program was rendered and a
very delightful social hour spent af.er
which light refreshments were served
by the hostesses, assisted by Mrs.
Joan Edwards and Miss Vera DuBois.
Miss Harriet Sansum is spending a
few days in Fairfield guest of M e.
Frank ReardsIey.
Mrs. Brownley and daughter, Jessie
of Jump River, Wis, is visiting Mrs.
Fred Farwell,
Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Terry and son of
Reed>burg spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Cleveland,
Jay Farwell spent Saturday and
Sunday in Madison.
Mrs. J. A. Harris and children are
visiting relatives in Kilbourn.
William Berkeley and Max Hill
spent Saturday in Madison.
Mrs. K. Brown, who has been visit
ing her niece Mrs. Wilbur Berkeley
has gone to Websters Prairie to spend
a few days with friends.
/ Work has commenced on Pearce
sSansum's new home. w. HASTEN has
] the contract.
I Mrs. CT orge Howard has returned
from Baker, Montana.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Prime and
family spent Sunday in Excelsior
with Mr.. Primes brother, Richard
Prime.
Mrs. w. Kimball and daughter,
Ruth, are visiting relatives in Oregon,
Wis.
Mrs. Marcus Brown and children Of
Chicago, ILL.,, Marion Brown anc
daughter, Madison, Mrs. Jake Kramcr
Mrs. Williams and Orange Brown Of
Baraboo spent Thursday with Mrs.
Wilbur Berkeley
Miss Hattie Huntington of Baraboc
was a caller at the home of her grand
parents, Mr.. ana Mrs. @. w. Hunt.
ing)on
Mis-. G. Laird and children Of Bara-
boo spent Thursday with Mrs. w
Shepard.
Paul ChamberIin has returned from
Warren, Wis, wht re he has been Wis. t.
ing relatives.
l.. Nuttlng is building barn for
&. Jeffrles on Websters Prairie.
Mrs Ed. Martindale and son, Fran.
yis, viii return to their home in
Thomson, ILL.,, Thursday after several
weeks visit at the home of the for
mer's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. David
SanSum. They will be accompanied by
Miss Margaret Sansum, who will
spend three weeks at their home
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FAIRFIELD.

81. Engebretson, wife and son OF
Kilbourn ate Sunday G.nner with
Mrs. Atkinson. Miss Eva Wilcox of
Bars boo and Miss Vena Pierson OF
Nj adison were also present.
Mrs. ]. n. Wing of Baraboo spent
last week at Mrs. Atkinson's.
Grandma Brown is visiting at r.
Nc farland's.
Grub worms are damaging the corn
in tins vicinity.
Ed. Thomas is the first man TO have
Lhieshing done in this vicinity.
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Eagle Company Reunion,

Company Z, Eighth Wisconsin vol
unteers, held reunion at Eau Claire
on Saturday. This is the company
which carried Old Abe through the
war and the reunion was on the
fiftieth anniversary of the battle of
Corinth. There are twenty-five men,
bers of the gallenC band still living.