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WANTED-A butcher as partner in
an up to date meat market, in a good,
thriving city Of 700 inhabitants, To-
Gated in North Dakota, on main line OF
Great Northern railroad. Address
437, care Forum.
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DRUGSTORE for sale in booming
town with twelve to twenty five mile
territory in best section Of North Da-
kota; only store in town; resident doc
tor writing prescriptions; large new
building; rent cheap; tf interested
write to No. 435. Forum.
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SLOW ACCOUNTS, notes, wages,
claims Of any description collected
on percentage anywhere. We can get
your money for YOU. Box Sc, Cassel-
ton, N. d.
COLLECTIONS attended to anywhere
in the United States or Canada;
send us your claims; succeed where
others fail; best OF references The
Cvergaard Law & Collection Agency,
Detroit, Mimi.
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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-Chicken coop. 1921 First
avenue north.
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LOTS FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-First class corner lots.
fine location for wholesale house
paved district and trackage. Ad.
dress 43l, care Forum.
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FOR RENT-Twenty-two room hotel
in thriving North Dakota town, rail-
road center, one road being built out
now; want TO rent on account OF other
business. Address 400, care Forum.
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HOUSES FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-Two houses. Inquire q
1903 First ayenu north.
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FLATS FOR RENT. IS

FOR RENT-Three-room modern Hat
Inquire 1923 Fifth avenue south,
Phone 511-L-2.
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CHANCES.

sAY-"I saw it in The Forum"
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WANTED-Woman to do washing
2 ironing. Enquire 707 Seventh
street south. Phone 77s.
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HOUSE AND SAFE MOVING.

III MAKE q speciality OF unusual and
heavy moving; houses, safes, raising
buildings: furnish everything. j. W..
Hodges. Phone 903.
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a0h NsoN ours hair for rs cent
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FOR SALE CnEAr--A aix-roon
drawer cabinet National cash regis
ter, guaranteed perfect condition. Cal
or address A. =. Cannon Ito Broad
way, Fargo.
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FOR SALE-only pool room In MOTIF
Dakota town with population OF 4VV
Address 421, care Forum.
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Forum want ADS Get quick results.
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ruR 100.

UnfurntSn@0 hconnS-NoFth Ids.
FOR RENT-Four nnfurnished rooms.
modern, for housekeeping, with use
of bath, laundry and screened porch:
reasonable. Phone 23e14La Of cell at
1017 Eleventh avenue north.
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. WILL RENT-For two months, 4
y 10 responsible party, the lower 4
q floor of a thoroughly modern Ave I
o room furnished home on the south 4
= side with garden, beautiful lawn,
y shade trees and r porchs<
y Address 436, care Forum.
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AGENTS WANTED.

-
AGENTS making $40 to $40 daily SELF
Ing Titanic Disaster book told by
survivors,; $50 pages; fifty illustra-
tions; price only 81; SO per cent COM
mission; cash prizes; freight paid.
credit given; outfit free. international
Bible House, Perry building, Dept 5.
] Philadelphia.
AGENTsEBig money; quick; selling
our 200-page story Of b Titanic
fust issued; gives illustrations OF the
principal characters OF the disaster,
ali poems and praise offerings to tho
gallant dead, views OF the sinking, In
atruction in life saving Ia time Of
accident: published In art folio styie
or leather; price ST. in paper OF $1.5O
cloth including a years subscription
to The Oklahoma Bulletin or Wide
West. send so cents for sample. Mani
ly B. Updike. Muskogee Okla.
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FOR SALE--Cheap ano on reasonable
terms, best newspaper In DiN.-s
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FIRST CLASS BLACKSMITH wanted
at once TO buy or rent BLACKSMITH
shop in good town. Record, Rolette
n. d.
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FOR SALE-A brand new eight-roon
fully modern house with basement
furnace heat excellent fire place
situated on a beautiful southside cas-
front lot 75x150 feet, with fine viea
Of Island park, two blocks to car Iinl
and school, less than a block to FARSI
college; win make bargain price Il
actual buyer. Address p. o. Box 3s5
Fargo. N. d.
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FOR SALE-House, six rooms witt
barn and five lots. Phone 1861
Moorhead.
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WHEN ANSWERING advertisements
in The Forum, please mention tna'
you saw II In The Forum.
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Forum want Ads Get Quick Results
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FOR SALE-Hotel with twenty rooms,
five lots, barn. l2ehouse, garden,
grove and etc address Chaa. ID. Bush
Prop. Braddock, ~. II.
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For SALE-on easy terms, fine 16o-
acre farm in Red river valley, one
mile from nearest town, sixteen miles
from Moorhead in Clay county, Min
nesota. All improvements. Farm all
seeded to wheat, y barley and
timothy; one-half crop goes with pur-
chase; $45 per acre; no trade. Ad-
dress 419, care Forum.
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LOST.

LOST.
LOsT-One black mare, branded Il. o.
on left shoulder. Reward offered.
Finder notify L. u. Tverson, Christina,
N. y.
LoST-Black purse containing Danske
coin OF I'LL and change. Finder
can have change Ii coin Is returned
TO Forum offiee. Owner wishea t3
recover coin 1s 1t is an heirloom.
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FOE sALE-FARms.

FOR sALE-14S acre farm, Az miles
north of Dawson, n. D., between two
lakes; unoccupied grazing land adj
joining; no ~incumbrance. For terms
address Box 1917, Fargo, N. d.
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FoR RENT


.FoR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. rooms, i06-
10S Ninth street south. Inquire at
Fargo Laundry
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FOR SALE-Dnly drugstore IA VAL
ley town, good country sro I'm
business, gooG eason fcf sellsnsj par
gain il taken at once. Address 4pS,
care Forum.
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WANTED TO RENr-HousE.

WANTED 10 AEMT~--A f~ive-rouui
modern cpese, ~ q permanent ten-
ant, myse. 5s 10 q COED naighhornood.
Address with full particulars. no
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IWANTEp-A good attorney In q i've
town, to handle our land and coll
Iections and will sell you our holdings
in ~Iandoffice and resident, or rent you
mart ~ fha office. with unlimited ter
ritory to practice In. Address AT,
care Forum.
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o s-ALE-Doos.

FOR SALE-Bull terrier puppies. 81
North Fifth street Phone 1921.
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IN ANSWERING all want adA glvuns
q certain number q = OF Tne ~Evt ~
be sure to address your aMsWsr sS. a.
number, in care OF koSuHs
sures prompt attention
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RESTAURANT for sale in Mandan,
N. D.; best restaurant in the city;
good deal and terms to right party;
must sell on account Of other BUSH
ness; fine prospects on count OF
railroad building. Address coonen's
Cafe, Mandan, N. d.
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FOR SALE-Drugstors on the Aneta
branch Of Great Northern, doing a
good business; Norwegian community;
medium size stock. 10 information
address asa, care Forum.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-06-28
How One Wife Put Stop to Her Hus'
bands Preoccupation With
the Game.

my husband used to be a solitaire
fiend," said a woman the other day.
He used to come home nights and
play several games while ] was pre-
pairing dinner. After eating-and be
would hurry that-he would rush to
his card table and play until late at
night. II this had happened only once
a week II would have been different
and ] would not have said a WORD
about 1t. AS It was, he would play ev'
cry night we were not going out to
gether.
II like card playing, but when 1t
comes to making the game Of solitaire
an occupation, | draw the line.
81 worried and fretted about the
proposition as | thought It was doing
my husband harm. as well as keeping
him from being sociable. until
thought ] would have gray hair. re
monstrated, argued, fought and shed
tears, but all to no avail Finally
hit upon a scheme.
"As was an unusually poor card
player my husband had criticized me
several times for my ignorance. good
humoredly, Of course. and decided to
learn to play solitaire also. bought
a pack of playing cards and n even
ing at dinner | told the SOLITAIRE fiend
that I wanted him to teach me the
game. He was delighted to think ] at
last had come to his side and he said
be would instruct me that very night
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-06-28

A touch Of the spur or a flick OF the
quirt signals the start, says the Ameri-
can Magazine, In an article Cd our
western horses. His knowledge Of
what to do must be a heritage from
his ancestors, for all horses do 1t, and
all American wild horses are sprung
from horses that once carried men.
He pops down his head and levitates
straight h~eavenward. While he and
you are high in the air be arches his
back and stiffens his body to iron rig.
idly. Thus be comes back to earth
The sensation to the rider Is as II his
spinal column had been struck by a
piledriver. The impression is not an.
alyzed at the time, for the horse goes
into the air again Immediately. He
swings to right or left, or he Changes
ends" completely while In the air. and
you ONE down facing southwark.
whereas you were facing northward
when you assembled,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-06-28

"She SEE thot befure he fought wild
We he'd taken measurements aV the
stone and made a wax mould aV I'll,
80 thot whin he failed to kill yersllf
and had got his strength back, he wlnt
to Paris and had an imitashun aV ut
made there--somehow be fusing chape
o together and all thot, behave
Twas ixpinsive an him tight up ior
money, so he takes Missus Prynne IN
to partnership and she puts up the
cash. Thin-they've been Watchln
yersilf all the time, sor--they setS
Cam Hole onto ye to get the stone
away. and he does 1t like ye know.
Afther ye escaped from the Peican'
he goes ashore and mates the lady
at her hotel and daylivers the stone
to her getting his pay and the imita-
shun into the bargain, he inslstin on
thot because he knows yen be comm
hack for the Pool av Flame, n nes
afraid ay ~ye--afraid yell kill him II
he can't turn over a ruby to ye ike
he wan he stole. So twas the fakeo
stone we TUX from him thot same
night and the same we brought aboard
the Rance and the same the serang
sthole from ye."
81 begin to see. But how about the
serapg? What did Cecile have TO say
in explanation Of him?"
she couldn't account for him az
all, sor, save thot mebbe the natives
in Ranroon had somehow got WIND av
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-06-28

Danny thought laboriously. Twas
this morn we lift tn Rance. sor?
L. Thin yestiddy was Wednes-
day"
And today Thursday, be logical
progress of reasoning, eh?"
Jaw. yiss, sor."
And what's the timer"
Danny consulted o'Rourke's watch
on the bureau. "A quarter av twilve."
"Then bestir yourself, ye lazy good
for-nothing, and pack up me things"
"Aw!" cried Danny, expostulant.
"Our train leaves at two. Ye have
an hour and a half"
Jaw, but yer honor, is ut no rist at
all we'll iver be hayin'?"
~Ye can rest on the train" said
OTRourke. i've Just ten days left In
which to reach Rangoon, where I've an
appointment to keep with a lady. Dan
ny, to wit, Madame O'Rourke. Dye
mind her. and do ye blame me. Dan
ny?"
Danny became suddenly extraordin-
arily busy. why die ye not say as
much to begin with, yer honor?" he
complained. AS If / wouldn't work
me hands to the stumps av
thin. .
"'Tis now Thursday noon," con-
tinued o'RouFke thoughtfully. THE
two o'clock trains scheduled to land
US In Calcutta at ten Saturday night.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-06-28

At eight Sunday morning a steamer
leaves Diamond Harbor for Rangoou.
scheduled for a f%air-weather passage
Of three days Thatn leave us a lit
tie leewa., barring accidents. But
we've I time to waste"
But how'll We be catching thot
steamer at Di'mind Harbor. sorc How
fairs that from Calcutta. now. an will
there be thrains at that hour av the
night?"
That's TO be dealt with as It turns
up, Danny. There's only forty miles
between the two places, and II there's
no train, we'll charter n motor-car or
a boat down the Hughli. ."
The latter e~xpedient o'Rourke final
ly adopted. although he could have at-
forded a comfortable night In a no
tel at Calcutta. had he deemed II wise.
But in the ffty-six hours OF unmitigat.
Cd sweltering that he and Danny en-.
dured in their fight across India he
had leisure to think matters over very
carefully, with the result that. all
things considered, he felt justified In
assuming the world to be in league
against him and in shaping his course
accordingly. Therefore It were I'm.
wise to permit himself to be seen and
recognized In Calcutta, or even TO lin,
ger on the soil of India m instant
longer than absolutely necessary.
Within an hour, then. OF his arrival
at Howrah. he had. by dint OF per,
sistence and rupees, succeeded In hir.
ing a launch to take him from the ter.
minus by water to the steamer at Dia.
mond %harbor-
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-06-28
Slmpilned Speli1nq.

I'VE find in the letters we receive"
said the correspondence clerk. some
marvellous examples of simpliHed spell.
ing, some Of these u~nconsciously pho.
netic, some evidently deliberately In.
tended, some that. though they serve
their purpose wonderfully, verge on
the comic. For instance, we received
yesterday a letter from a man who
starts of in this way:
"'What fx would follow" and 30
on.
"Of course, the meaning Of that was
perfectly plain, but the bookkeeper and
| had to smile over It for a moment,
and when we showed It to the stenog-
rapher be said that the man who
could write words like that ought not
to stop at simpliied spelling, he ought
to go right ahead and invent a new
shorthand system"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-06-28

mesilf, SCI, TITS strange enough 10
bear investigatin',' SCI, an I'll be
takin' a chanst at this II the masther
do be afther iayin' me alive. So |
calls Misther Dravos and gets him to
hould her fast while | takes out me
knife and cuts thot ribbon and pulls
the thing out widout any immodesty
whatever; and there on thot ribbon is
a chamois-case, all sewed I'D. and I'm
rippin' 1t open an inding-this!"
God In Heaven!" cried O'Rourke.
stupefied and agape; for Danny, hav-
ing worked up to his climax, had dra-
matically whipped from his pocket and
cast upon the table between them the
Pool of tlame.
He looked up, blind to the glee and
triumph in Danny's face.
How did We come be this?" he de.
manded, speaking slowly ar steadily,
as n who. having drunk more than
enough, listens to his own enunciation
to detect In 1t the slur that liquor
brings. Il meant mean-how could
ye have taken this from the woman
when 1t lay all the time at the bottom
of the sea-six hundred miles and
more behind u.s."
ASK Misther Drayos II ye do not
behave me, sol. How would | be hav-
In 1t at all. widout l got it like I've
told ye? . TITS the real Pool of
Flame ye're %handlin'; that's sure.
T'other one-the stone the serapg
flung into the say, sor, was a counter
felt"
How do ye know that?"
'Aisly enough, yer honor; be putin
the maid Cecile on the witness stand.
Twas this way: l TUX the stone from
Missus Prynne and Misther Dravos
and mesilf locked her In her cabin.
Thin afther talkin' things over we let
Cecile out and be dint av threats and
per%suashions, got her to tell what she
knew"
go on"
"She SEE thot Frinchman We kilt
back there in Algiers, sor. is at the
bottom av 1t all, only he's not did be-
cause 20 didn't make a clane jot av
ut, but lift him wild the Taste s%usphic-
ion av the breath av life In the body
av him."
"I was afraid Of that" nodded
O'Rourke. THE next time we meet,
Des Trebes and /, there'll be no mis-
take about it."
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-06-28
CHAPTER XVIII.

At a small hour of the morning they
made Diamond Harbor in pitch dark.
ness and without m~isadventure we're
successful In causing themselves to be
transhipped, bag and baggage, to the
twinscrew steamship Poonah, which
vessel rode at anchor In midstream.
Toward eight o'clock Of the white
hot forenoon that followed, O'Rourke,
in the shadow Of a long-boat on the
Poonah's promenade deck, stood fin.
ishing a matutinal cigar and watching
narrowly a tender ferry out a final
boatload of passengers from the east.
ern river bank.
Slowly the tender forged toward the
steamers side; and as 1t drew near,
O'Rourke forgot to smoke and bent
owe the rail to inspect with unremit.
ting interest those upon its decks.
The forward deck of the tender held
his regard but briefly; those who
waited there. cycling impassively the
towering tanks of the liner, were one
and all Of the east, of races, creeds
and types too numerous to catalogue.
These the adyenturer might not read,
save individually upon personal con,
tact. If trouble was to come from
them, collectively or individually. he
would not know until the blow had
fallen. On the other hand, he might
be able to hazard shrewd surmises as
to the potential animus inherent in
any n of the Europeans who were
to be his fellow passengers.
The latter were a mere handful;
half a dozen commercial travellers
from London, Paris, Berlin, their avo-
cations evident beyond dispute. a sal,
low English missionary with his with,
cred wife, sombre figures in the stark
sunlight, a red-faced deputy.sub-some
thing-or-other Of the Indian govern
ment, c%omplacent In white drill ant
new pith helmet with a gay puggaree
a lone English girl, and a Frenchman
The two latter held the lrishman'l
attention; the girl because, ever at 9
distance. her slim whitehead figure
and well-poised head seemed singu
larly fresh and attractive; the mar
because-well. because O'Rourke wal
susceptible to premonitlons.
He was a tall mar and broad, the
Frenchman-well-made, well-groomed
carrying himself with an indefnablt
air Of distinction. His face was rath
er pale land therefore notable In thai
concourse of dark SKINS, its features
strongly modelled, the mouth and CHR
masked by a neatly trimmed anc
pointed beard and mustache.
O'Rourke could not have said tina
he had ever seer the man before; yet
there was this and that about hin
which struck a spark OF reminiscenct
from his memory. A suspicion flashed
through his mind which he put aside
with disdain. as absurd and far-fetch
ed. On the other hand. HI
knit his brows In puzzlement.
The very fxity of his regard drew
the eyes of its object upwards. The!
encountered O'RoUrke's, fingered brief
ly in an unveiled, inquiring stare IL
which there was not to be detected
the least hint Of recognition. anr
passed onward casually, in%differently
ignoring the im]pertinence.
The tenders passengers began t.
stumble up the gang plank to a lowe.
deck of the liner; and O'Rourke. witt
a sober face. went below, taking som,
care to avoid contact with the lncom
ing crowd.
He found Danny was In his state
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-06-28
SYNOPSIS.

rs. story opens at Monte Carlo with
M Terence O'Rourke. a military free
~ and something Of a gambler. In his
WI \ leaning on the balcony he sees a
ss%sssptjful girl who suddenly enters the
ssvatnr and passes from sight. Al the
ssr,lng table O'Rourke notices two men
ratrhing him. One Is the Hon.; Berthe
snvrn while his companion Is Viscount
NJ Trebes, a duelist. The Tscount tells
m The French government has directed
EIT IN O'Rourke as a man who would
nnSsrtake a secret mission. At his apart
msnt. O'Rourke, who had agreed to un-
Strtake the mission. finds a mysterious
ktter. The viscount arrives, hands
ssaied package to O'Rourke, who Is not
y amen II until on the ocean. A pair of
SsInfy slippers are seen protruding from
srSsr A doorway curtain. The lrishman
snds the owner Of the mysterious feet to
n bs wife, Beatrix, from whom he had
nm away a year previous. They are
reconclled, and opening the letter he mas
bat q Rangoon law nrm oIlers nun
MWO pounds for a Jewel known as h
pcol Of Flame and left to him by a dy-
,,e friend, but now in keeping OF one
named Chambret in Algeria: ORourke
worsts the nobleman In q duel. The VIE
Sids 0'Rourke farewell and he promises
n soon return with the reward He as
covers both Glynn and the ~viscount on
hoard the snip, AS He liuo ~ho
tbere is an attack by bandits and MS
friend dies telling O'Rourke that he a
III The Pool of Flame with the governor
general. who at sight Of a signet ring
riyen the colonel will deliver over the
level, Arriving at Algeria the lrlshman
SndE the governor general away, Des
Trebes makes a mysterious appointment;
and tells O'Rourke that he has gained
possession Of the jewel by stealing 1t. In
4 duel O'Rourke masters the v~isoount'
secures possession Of the Pool Of Flame
and starts by ship for Rangoon, He hnds
he captain to be a smuggler who tries to
steal The Jewel. II is finally secured by
he captain and O'Rourke escapes TO
hnd, With the aid Of one Danny ana
hs sweetheart, O'Rourke RECEIVERS the
Pool Of Flame. On board ship once more,
bound for Rangoon, q mysterious lazy
appears. O'Rourke comes upon, a lascar
about to attack the lady, who Is a Mrs.
Prynne, and kicks the man into the hold.
Mrs, Prynne claims she is en- route for
Indiana on a mission for the KING.
0Rourke is attacked by the lascar, Who
secures the Pool of Flame, the captain
Il shot and the lascar jumps Into the sea,
The ship arrives In port.