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graceful figure in narrow green silk
gown lazily playing with a terrier,
and he smiled upon it as it rose to
greet him. But the smile was In
scrutable; even Eleanors mother
could not have said with certainty
that the young mans heart was
touched. And as the younger daugh.
ter Of the house did not appear until
few minutes before dinner was an.
nounced, she, too, was unable to de-
eide by first signs.
Dinner that evening was a merry
meal; and If, as was most unlikely,
the thought crossed John Verity's
mind that the menu was an extreme.
ly simple one, and that one country
looking maid to wait at table was
scarcely what might be expected in
a mansion the size Of Vendles, it GER
tainly did not weigh upon his spirits.
Colonel Lester, though as usual
quiet and undemonstrative, was OBJ
viously glad to talk to the son of his
school hero, Jack Verify. Mrs. Les
ter found a new comfort and hope in
the thought that Eleanor was having
chance. Eleanor, herself, smiled
and talked in her most bewitchingly
lazy manner, a manner which few
men were able to resist And Peggy,
poor, anxious Peggy, was for the
time quite gay and sparkling; for the
simple meal had been a success, no
accidents had happened, and 1t was
too soon to begin to worry about the
morrow.
1t was not till she was going to
bed that her responsibilities returned
to her. what jolly evening"" she
thought. Eleanor looked lovely.
MIR. Verify seems such good sort
He must admire her. surely. OH
with sudden recollection. LET me
see, boots to be cleaned, clothes
brushed, bath-water, shaving-water.
I'll grind the coffee myself, and make
the toast, while Jane cooks the
fish'jS- and so on, and so on; and
Peggy lay down upon her bed almost
wishing that the morning had come
that she might begin to do things.
Whatever are you doing, Miss
Peggy?"
1t was past noon OF the following
day, and the sun was blazing down,
as John Verify leaped over the stile.
Peggy, who had been struggling
across the meadow with a large
square basket in her arms, bumped
1t suddenly on the ground and sat
on 1t.
"Oh-I-I was carrying a basket"
she gasped, drawing her handkerchief
from her pocket and tanning her
cheeks.
yes. saw that. But why9 1t
is far to firing"
II thought it would be amusing to
have picnic luncheon down by the
river. Do you like the idea?"
Immensely. But why should you
be doing the worR?'
81 like doing It," declared Peggy
boldly. ut doesn't hurt me-"
well, I, too. like doing 1t, so we'll
do it together"
But where are the others? Do go
back to them"
"They don't want me-" he laughed.
The Colonel has gone to verify
date"-
And you left Eleanor alone?"
mo, Captain Drayton is with your
sister, lie said, his face becoming
quickly grave.
Peggy's face fell. ooh" she
thought Indignantly, already that
horrible man is spelling my plan"
She longed to say, please don't
take any notice of Captain Drayton;
he is not engaged to Eleanor. We
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'SieauoE! Elean0r!
But John Verify had stepped for.
ward sternly. and taking the bride in
his hand, Don't trouble, Miss Peggy"
he said in the same clear voice.
Your sister cannot marry Captain
Drayton because-he is n married
man already"
Wllite-faced and indignant. Eleanor
turned and fronted him. "You"-
She tried to say something to con.
tradict him, to silence him, but her
voice failed her.
IF you dno,t believe me-" said John
Verify gently, eve will ask him." and
he pointed toward where he knew
the cowardly deceiver was lurking.
But Eleanor's white hand slipped
from the pommel which she had been
grasping, and with heart-breaking
little cry she flung 1t out despairingly
toward George Farnham and slipped
unconscious to the ground.
The horse and man in the shadow
slipped quietly away.
She does not love him really;
don't believe it. 1t was mis- horrible
influence! If you love- her.
John Verify held UP his hand to
check Peggy's impulsive words.
Miss Peggy, don't think me unfeel-
Ing, but do not love your sister"
They had met, these two, in tho
library before breakfast on the fol-
lowing morning, and Peggy. after
slcepless night, had determined to
case John Verity's heart IL possible.
All" she said bitterly. you are
disguised by that nights scene!"
mo. l admire Miss Lester great
iy: but have never loved her.
couldn't
Because? Because what?"
Because l love you!"
Mel"
Yes, you. YOU; always you, only
you, from the moment you entered
the Ferrers' ballroom"
Met"
Yes. you, Peggy, darling. and I
want you; want you moro than any
thing else in the world to say you
VIII try to love me-"
For minutes Peggy stared at him,
and her brain seemed to whirl round
and round. Then quite suddenly
everything seemed to grow clear and
still, and coming close to him she
looked into his face with a great
amazement
"Why-why," she said in an awed
whisper, 81 verify believe have been
loving you for days!"
1T seems unfeeling, almost cruel,
TO be happy when Eleanor is suffer
ing So" said Peggy. coming back to
the trouble after half an hour OF
Lcrfect happiness.
Peggy dear, shall tell you some.
thing?"
Yes" said Peggy.
Did you happen to notice Farm
hams face when Eleanor turned on
us last night?"
NO" declared Peggy. IT saw only
Eiearor's."
well. there was love on his face
If ever there was on any mans, and,
judging from the way she turned to
him-not to you or to me--when the
blow fell, / feel sure, certain, posi-
tive. that in time she will be almost
(but not quite) as happy as you are,
my Peggy, and George will be as
proud and grateful as your own
lover"
well, neyer!" exclaimed Peggy.
ut isn't bit as ! planned 1t; but 1t
seems quite as good"
1T seems to me a million times
Letter" laughed John Verify, and he
held her closely to him.
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r/vvvTE must manage 1t, Peggy.
w We must do everything

W We must do everything
w nicely. 1t would be a
pleasure to your father, and-it would
give Eleanor chance"
Mrs. Lester looked Questioningly at
her sturdy second daughter. the
anxious lines of her once pretty face
deepening as she waited for Pegg's
comment.
Give Eleanor chance? repeated
Peggy vaguely, looking up from the
letter in hand. What do you mean,
mother?"
Mr.. Verify IS rich-and-surely he
could not help admiring Eleanor if
he came here to stay as he suggests;
nobody can help it,"
"Oh--oh, yes, of course. I'm afraid
my wits were wandering off to the
butcher and the wine merchant, and
was thinking Of the millionaire
only as serious inconvenience. But
if he'll fall in love with our Eleanor
and lift her out Of the struggle.
shall bless him all my days"
He admired her at the Ferries
dance, didn't hep"
81 think so. And he seemed quite
interested to find that father was at
Elton with his father. We had quite
long talk about it-but he never
limited to me he meant to invite him
self to stay with U.S."
You may be sure he fell in love
with Eleanor at first sight," declared
Mrs. Lester, with conviction. "And
that is why he wants to come. It's
the chance of lifetime for my poor,
lovely Eleanor If she will only take
it / do hope she won't be foolish
and waste her time flirting with
Captain Drayton."
Peggy's brows contracted. 81 can't
love that man." she said sharply. ri
wish Eleanor wouldn't let him haunt
the place So"
you mustn't blame your sister If
men admire her." protested Mrs.
Lester. eft is only natural she
should like to talk to a man some.
times!"
Cant she talk to George Farm.
ham7 George is a gentleman ut any
rate"
"Oh, George is SO quiet and dull,
and she has known him all her life.
I mean a man who admires her."
We'll, I've no time, mother,
darling, to worry over Eleanor and
her admirers now; for whether we
give her to Mr.. Verify or not, we
should give him something fit to eat.
Pm sure Jane wouldn't be able to
manage more than three courses for
dinner II the skies were to fall; and
how Martha Is to valet him as well
as father, don't know"
But you will manage something,
won't you, Peggy darling? It may
mean SO much
eyes, mother" promised Peggy,
with sigh. "And suppose father
can take him off our hands little"
Eyes. don't worry, darling. If he
has your father and Eleanor, he will
be quite well taken care of. You
really need scarcely appear at ALL
It's the cooking l am most worried
about"
ats the getting something to cook
I'm most worried about" thought
Peggy; but she did not utter the
words. Aloud she remarked, well,
if he really is coming this evening
I've busy day before me-" And with
a smiling nod she hurried off to in
terview Jane and Martha.
When John Verify entered the
shabby beautiful old drawing room
at Vendles that Summer evening be.
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civilized society one cannot say that
sort Of thing. 81 am sure Eleanor
would rather you had stayed" was
what she really did venture to say.
II am sure you need me more" he
said with smile, and he pointed to
the basket
Reluctantly she rose, and he lifted
it from the ground.
Arrived at the rivers bank, Peggy
temporarily forgot her anxiety. John
Verify was excellent company, mad
most useful in helping to lay the
cloth beneath the branches of the big
beech tree.
"How many knives and forks?" he
asked.
give" answered Peggy. ooh, no,
I suppose we shall be six if Captain
Drayton is here" she added sharply.
Your voice sounds as IL you would
rather be Ave." he laughed. "I
thought Captain Drayton was general
ly favorite."
do you know him?" she asked.
Just little, some time ago." he
replied quietly.
He is not favorite Of mine," she
declared. "And don't believe
Eleanor wants him."
John Verify did not contradict her,
but she could not feel sure that she
lad convinced him.
ooh, the annoying way of things"
thought poor Peggy. Gle probably
thinks there is an understanding be-
tween them. do wish Captain
Drayton would stay away"
you will want one more drink
Ing horn, one more knife, fork and
spoon-anything else?" he asked.
Tell me, and will go back to the
house with your message"
NO, no, said Peggy hastily. "I
would rather go myself"
please rest here, and let ME be
your messenger.
II can't"
please"
mo, II want to fetch the things
myself"
Independent person! Do you do
it because You have Views on the
whole duty OF woman?"
NO" she said, facing him frankly.
II do it because we have mo- servant
to spare. Martha is busy and
tlred"-
Poor Martha" he interrupted
kindly. Then, if You must go,
will go with you, and when the
basket is packed 1 will carry it. l
am never so happy as when 1 am
toiling for reward"
You call luncheon a reward 2"
she laughed
II call helping Martha-and you
reward" he replied, with that in
scrutab'e smile in his eyes.
The picnic by the river was gay
and rnceremonlous, and Peggy felt
strangely, unreasonably happy. 1t
seemed to her that she had never en-
joyed n picnic SO much In all her life
before. Even the presence of Captain
Drayton could not cloud her pleasure.
That bette noir was unusually quiet
and thoughtful. Eleanor, herself
looked beautiful in her simple pink
muslin gown, her sleepy violet eyes
resting smilingly first on one adj
mirer and then on the other. And
Peggy Rugged to herself the thought
Of the relief 1t would be if Eleanor
could only make rich, and at the
same time happy, marriage. How it
would lift the beauty of the family
out Of insufficient means. How it
would do away with the constant
difficulty of getting the longed-for
pretty new clothcs! How it would
enable her to live the happy, luxu-
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1914-09-03
WHAT PRESIDENT WILSON MEANS TO THE UNITED
STATES TO-DAY

fortunately" says the New York Herald 1--WE have a
the head OF the at this critical time man in whose
camness and judgment have great confidence &c in M
patriotism ~ " M
'Calmness and Judgment Great words EMPHASIZING
great qualities In the terrible storm that has bnrs+ o
sanity OF their chief magistrate
Since German autocracy deliberately nlnnpad c;vu+;
INTO blood we hear at an administration
chose wachfu waiting in preference to war We hear M
OF contempt for the presidents deasm and
Tor ms theories of service Those theories are no longer b
academic dreams Of the schoomaster In the light If tho
catastrophe the blatant lingo in the Jn;ted
states would not exchange Woodrow Wilson for any Enronaan
rartlzan blgots who professed to be ashamed of
thelr country have been silenced -
1t is fine to prate about ga vigorous foreign 1; ,, -
conscience sincerity and integrity have their place in
eht despite the Meench legend that still controls E
Pe cancelorles There plenty of vigorous fore;on M
III Berlin Vienna and St Petersburg; but there .s 49, &c
he gooa alth and common honesty that have shown
the diplomacy of Washington In consequence Erro - 81
war ana IS only IN the United States that the flame Of civil
patton burns steadily and brightly - '
VINO doubts that If of Woodrow Wilson's ros+;4
anu temperament had been at the head the German ooo
en tins crime OF the centuries would have been avo5
doubts either that the United States now had d ie 10
temperament this country would inevitably b
Drawn into the vortex of war; pe
More IMAM maps will be changed bv this conflict a.
serves Will be affected in respects neither financial
=; new standards OF craftsmanship will be established
IL is country as the American people contemnlao ~
abroad ~ inpeiiahstc ambitions
~ TIE historian 3O years hence the fact that Wod wv,
un was president In this crisis may seem no ess
,nan the fact that Abraham Lincoln was nro;d W
World. - 'ne oalance-New York
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1914-09-03
ASKING GOD TO BLESS sLAueHrEp

mas God to do with all the horror that seems oanno
e eyes OF an astonished word7 It pointed out in orr
, az es'' mat three pestc Emperors', expect he will
LOT men, and they have exhorted their snbiects 70
49, R LOT ald Before establishing hell on earth the pe
oa nngs commend their subjects God" observes the
aso tribune What they really do is to ssseek the Tord
sanction for the DEVILS work" Their real words .n.a
imagined: my piy are mere Wvldly
-; ana now commend you to God' said the Kaiser from
TO the people in the street Go to church and
.p eou ana pray for his help for gallant army
,;a. sna' farmer dragged from Saxon field shall h
eouler win bayonet thrust than winenakar taLan go
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1914-09-03

universal. A corrupt INSCRIPTIONS group of no;.-.
formerly controlled and disrupted it at the
in 1872 have been the faithful who have stuck to M
They still stick and invite you back. When Won ~. ne s
will control the party Of yore Although tb e oack
through calamity bowling and such tactics to lave
to drive voters back. they have been everasnp a
there. You expect nothing progressive fr appoint
clans as Cannon Mckinley Barnes Fairbanks ps sucn
and their like "I.et well enough alone, has au Sns
always Will be their cry That is the opinion general m
by even the more conservative, witness the folo
ment in an EDITORIAL from Golfers Weekly: wing Ahj
''The Lynchburg (va.) Advance-owned ;noa.-. i
democratic congressman, Carter Glass; who voted s
protective tariff lumber-says that Golfers will wi M
ing Roosevelt for president in 1916 Prophecy hs
pastme more entertaining than seriously valuable M
to spend few minutes in that amusement our guess I'VE
next president may be much the standnat . s
Roosevelt is But won't stand very strongly On th
We cam remember time when the future Of politics y
country was SO difficult to predict There was forecast
Chicago Tribune weeks ago. The Tribune Is oas'
what it hopes, but what it fears:
Undoubtedly the repudiated chiefs Of tho 49,.
can party have new confidence and animated by ,
nope They believe that there is to be a reaction against
cratic administration and legislation and that this
Will be impatient unreasoning, and probably violent
1t may be impatient in that the impulse will urpa !. NJ
tack upon all social reform theories and thus also
may be that public opinion, provoked and exaspea I
not discriminate but will turn toward the old masters -
cal affairs as to who did disturb business did M
turb conditions of employment and who whatever o a.
might do, did interrupt the ORDERLY processes If e
affairs. w na'00 L
There is unquestionably danger that for tho tim.
there Will be loss of ground in number of highly m
ant political movements which have little or nothing to d. Ia
the responsibility Of the democratic administration
cannon, Penrose, Mckinley, Barnes, etc. etc. are en-
dent that this revulsion will be to their benefit and thew m
astute observers 1t therefore becomes more important @
ever that there should be renewed opposition to them
, Unless the voters be blinded by their own mpahenj
ey Will not permit their dsrust and dsapproya of the dom
ocratc administration be urned to he advantage Of M ma
VINO made the establishment of democratic
evable by the disregard of the expressed will of the rep
can voters - - ~ Nf
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1914-09-03
THEIR COMMON GROUND.

Inc repuphcans want the federal offices held BY
The progressves want the federal offices now held "
democrats. e' nv" A''' Il
Inc TWO factions have hunger for place and
ana patronage but have they anything else comm
Both eagerly denounce the Underwood Smons tariff bH
'ere were republican progressive majority in congress
Mouo II undertake seriously to restore Payne
the Dngley scheulesi Would it undertake seriously ay Gen
eral scheme of tariff revisioni
Dotn are IN sympathy with the principle of central bank
u nere were republican progressive majority in congress
an sen'ure TO amend IN any important respect the new
currency and bankig laws that democratic administration
written into the statute books'
both sneer at President Wilson'S Mexican policy but
progressive administration abandon his Wis
humane attempt to establish permanent peace Mexico
y removing the cause Of revolt or would it turn distracted
W. ck 10 predatory privilege and predatory poverty
T ., .'i "oaid II enter upon of conquest'
Don complain OF the Wilson economic poicies would
party halt the investigation into
corruption would it refuse to enact laws giving the
t;a commerce commission power railroad capitalize
ou IL even repeal the proposed amendments to the
~ trust act in case they become law? Would give
TIE government back to Wall streetg
nos o 'he progressves and many of the republicans
oe .ne repeal of the Panama coastwiseexempon clause
her iactlon promise to tear up the Hay Paunce@e
- M ana give the coastwise monopoly ST 100000 veal
a. Tue expense of all the American peopleg
NAT mas President Wilson done that the republicans and
has 10 'hey We're returned to power, would undo' NI
s ne eft undone that they would do What has he done that
'ley would be likely to do betterY
ma;;4 Always easier for minority criticse than of
" ac and 1t is matter of record that other az
hlsration since the civil war has accomplished so much
'tu m PERIOD OF time as the Wilson administration
batv . luoamenta differences in principle that ex'
ese and the progressves in 1912 exist now
differences be forgotten Init tbav cannot be recon
ony oasis for compromise lies in the fact that NJ
@ - personally stronger than any candidate the repuO
Welt name and that without the republican Mr. R
se'' candidacy in 1916 would be farce
pot compromise between the republicans and progressive
That ] 20 the elementary question of dividing the spn
must inevitably be the great moral issue harmon
York Wr,a winch the two factions again unitedN
Awful flaming headlines announce "Terrible slaughter
,lame 'aAus killed, and none viii "
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1914-09-03
EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE FREE PREd

his vines in the Aube that Berlin lawyer shall be steadie
with the rifle than Moscow merchants that machine gu1
manned by Heidelberg students shall jam and that
worked by Paris carpenters shall
Pray that Bavaran hop grower, armed in quarrel il
which he has heart shall outmarch wheat grower from
Potava that Cossack from Don shall be ured barbed
wire entanements and caught by masked guns that
keeper of Sazburg shall blow the head off baker from the
Loire.
Go to church and pray for hepthat the hell shall be
hotter nocent Ardennes than it in equally innocent Hesen
that it shall be hotter in innocent Kovno than in equally
cent Posen.
And the pes Gar commends his subjects to God that
they may have strength of quarrel they do not under
stand that they may nc suferngs than they
qured to endure and the of Romano be greater than the
name of Hohenzoe that be greater than the
Hapsburg that its territories shall be wider and the territories
OF Hohenzollern and the territories of Hapsburg less
1.-The pietistic Emperor of Austria commends his subjects
to God to seek divine peasants of
va dragged from the wheated when it ready for the
scythe and given to the scythe themselves
The despair of indignant and helpless world is found
expressed in lines by Clinton Scoad that the New York Sun
used at the head of its editorial page Sunday August
THE RECKONING.
What do they reck who sit aloof on thrones
Or in the chambered chancelleres apart
Playing the game of state with subtle art,
II so they may win what wretched groans
Rise from red fields, what unrecorded bones
Bleach within shallow graves what bitter smart
P1erces the widowed or the orphaned heart
The unhOoded horror for which naught atones!
word, penstroke, anil this might not bel
But vengeance, power-ust, fostering jealousy
Triumph, and grim carnage stalks abroad
fiark! Hear that omnibus bugle on the wind
AND they who might have stayed it, shall they find
No reckoning within the courts of God?
1.-The human mind cannot yet begin to grasp the conse
quences one OF them however plainly written in the
book OF the future 1t is that after this most awful and most
wicked OF all wars is the power of life death over mil
mons OF men, the right to decree the ruin industry and
merce and finance with untold human misery STALKING
the land like plague will be taken away three men, No
prediction OF actual results of battle made Dynas
may crumbe before all done empires change their form
OF government But whatever happens, Europe-humanty-
VIII not settle back again into position enabling three Emper
OF them sene another subject meanchoa and the
oen showing signs of disturbed mental balanceto give
on Individual choice whm the signal destruction
and massacre Literary Digest
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1914-09-03
LOOKING AWAY AHEAD

nc ,epupncan backslider who is about r. ho ;;.,
PACK TO the fd Tor the a fall has not neb
past anil os 0od Old Party It's traditions things of tho
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-08-27
October.

80 -. -. -. -. =. 5:54 SD
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-08-27
MARRIED IN WASHINGTON.

Miss Hazel Jardine, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. S. D. Jardine, recently
returned from Washington, was mar
ried on Saturday, Aug. 1, just before
her parents left for Minnesota. The
following story of the happy event is
taken from the Auburn, Wash, Re-
publican, of Aug. 7: con Saturday af-
ternoon at three o'clock, Rev. Seeley
pronounced the words that united in
Mis- Hazel Jardine of Au-
burn and Mr.. Roy C. Matterson of Sc
attic. The wedding was quiet affair
with no attempts at display. The
bride wore travelling suit of blue
serge with white hat and gloves. AZ
ter wedding supper the young cou-
pie left for trip to North Yakima.
the. former home of the groom, and to
the mountains, before settling down
in Seattle, where Mr.. Matterson has
good position in the immigration Of
fce."