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simist know no more comic figure than an undertaken. no more gigantic shaft of human egotism than tomb stone.
 Mr. Sidney, we found, had left brief but explicit directions for his burial This, in the case of a man with life so well conceived, was strange. but his wishes, as we found them, were simple and startling. He was to be buried by the river, close to the pool which had been invested with the add ed charm of a ghost-story. His grave was to be marked by an unostenta- tious stone. The inscription was to be as he directed in note in a sealed enclosure to be opened at the time Mrs. Sidney thought appropriate.
 It might be, he had written, that Mrs. Sidney would not want the stone erected during her life. Her wishes were to be consulted. When the grave was marked, If 1t ever was, the in- scription was to be as he directed. Ms. Sidney, acquainted with the terms of this extraordinary mortuary note, said that 1t was her wish to have the sealed envelope opened immediate ly and Its instructions carried out
 Christmas night had set in, and the place was a fairyland of glistening white. FaF-off-church-bells sounded faintly across the snow. In the in- creasing cold, following the abatement of the storm, timbers in the old house creaked and snapped, and when one of the people of the house, on an outdoor chore. passed within earshot, the sound of footsteps was audible and the crisp crunching which, even as does high wind, emphasizes the comfort of secure and warm shelter
 was in the office when Mrs. Sid ney's instructions to open the sealed enclosure were received.
 I proceeded to do so There was brief note, as follows:
 desire the marking on my gravestone. when it is put up. to read:
 ARTHUR DOBSON
 Born May 9, 1S40
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VxTASHINGTON.-S Secretary of State

vXTASHINGTON.-Secretary of State
 " Colby said that he would go to court to prevent the customs officials of the Treasury department from searching the baggage of diplomatic agents and officers of other countries arriving in the United States.
 The customs people were hunting for hOotch in the belongings of people coming to the land of the free, and they declined to recognize information al law, which makes the belongings of a diplomat immune.
 It is a wise law, at least for the United States, some people think. Our government has to deal with these notables and agents from other parts,
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CHAPTER XV.

Mir Sidney died between three and four o'clock Christmas morning. He passed so easily that Jed, sleeping in the lounge-chair beside him, did not know that death had gone through the chamber until an hour after the event. Jed awakened me Tn the case of such an expected happening as this the perceptions start slowly. The fact that the benignity which so im- perceptbly had dominated the house had ceased to exist took hours to as- sert itself.
 Jed was composed when he aroused me- Later when the sun came up to make radiant all the white witchery the storm left, his sense of loss began to assert itself, and acute as was the grief in the house, none was deeper seated or more profound than that of the rascally old servant.
 Mrs. Sidney accepted the event with n serenity which I discovered after ward was born of a long-fixed resolu- tion. For years her life had been a denial of her moral instincts-happy in spite of that, because of her great devotion to the wonderful man she loved The chapters which he domi- mated in her book were ended. With tenderness she laid them aside.
 Isobel did not permit herself in dulgence in any weakness. What had happened was written in the contract of life. In later full knowledge of Isobel, never ceased to admire the wonderful acceptivity with which she met her trials. Nothing came to her with catastrophe shock She had reality within her vision, and she per ceived
 For myself I saw the end of q mode of life which, even when unhappy. had been ecstatically so. My reason for being in Hartley house lay dead in bed.
 I should look back. I knew, many times, as a struggling practitioner, possibly in poorer districts of the city, possibly in small town, to the strange but beautiful time when was at Hartley This experience would be only an episode, remaining as the memory of a time when my life halted for wonderful moment, satisfying, rich and joyful, and-having had this moment-went on in the drab fashion ordained for it. An occasional kindly letter from Mrs. Sidney, or possibly from Isohel might quicken the mem- ory. lvut I and this period would fade from their lives as it never could from mine. I should be packing a pill case on late and improbable rounds in that soul-destroying routine with Its ceaseless invasion of the intimate personal economics of uninteresting people abnormally egoistic in the pain of a small or large disorder-the eheerless life of a small physician, serving his useful purpose l have no doubt but how little serving his own
 We got through Christmas day in dazed fashion The necessary offices for the dead compelled routine which relieved the tension. although they contributed a dulled terror to the day-those terrible, exacting practical details with which some one in the bereaved family must occupy himself. Mortuary details are jocose to the pes
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l was holding that document, star ing at it, and grasping for elusive threads of perception, when Jed came in. He carried a manuscript in his hand
 Jed drew a chair up to the fire by my side. It was with a strange feel ing of relief that I accepted the sig nificance of the manuscript he carried.
 I'm a strange man, doctor" he said by way of beginning. You'd never understand me. I'm strange man and I do strange things. I'm going to do one now. I've seemed conscience less, haven't I?"
 I've never tried to conceal my opinion of you," I said.
 "No, you haven't I like a candid man. That's why I've always liked you, although I can't say much for your intelligence. But you're honest. I'm not honest, but I'm intelligent. I've looked at my life as something to make the best of, and I haven't been foolish about scruples.
 i've managed my chances, and I have not allowed sentimentalism to stop me when something real was to be gained. It's real world, not a fanciful one. That's the way I think"
 Half the people would be swinging on gallows, I suggested, If your ami able ideas prevailed generally
 That's copy-book stuff that's so IT, ritating," he said. "The only thing extraordinary about me is my eandor. My ideas do prevail, but the people who adopt them have less frankness. But what I want to say is that I'm going to do strange thing. You'll probably think it an act of contrition. It isn't at all, but you'll think it so. However, that's unimportant.
 You may not know it, but I was very fond of Mir. Sidney. He was the best friend I ever had or ever shall have.
 Now, I have guarded against act ing impulsively or sentimentally. l know I am in an acutely emotional condition. I have guarded against that. I am still considering the world as a real world and myself as real creature in it. And here's the way l figure it. Mir. Sidney's death has taught me that materialism is not enough. It is necessary, but there is something else. I've got to find an- other something else. That's more important than any money or comforts -physical-that I can find.
 "Where is this something else to be found again if not right here in this family? l have determined to remain in your service after you marry Miss Sidney, and to take care of you and her and Mrs. Sidney. I couldn't leave, The roots are too deep. l could be cut down but not dug up. I'm too old. So as a real creature in a real world consult my real good, now as always, and I hope do not seem to you to be acting sentimentally."
 You seem to me to be wholly crazy" said. When you speak of Miss Sid neys marriage 10 me, you are not only ironic; you are cruel. l should think that this particular day might make you at least considerate."
 You're the blindest man l ever knew" said Jed. but I'm not dealing with what you think but with what I know. I told you once your engage ment was an unreal thing and that I did not consider it at all. Later l took that back. Now I can tell you that it is a very real thing, but 1t is different now with me. have suffered
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cHAPTER XlV-contInued.

b.
 He paused and looked at me as fl to see whether he was reaching any hidden spring which If touched and sprung would open the secret He did not believe l was truthful.
 MT. Sdney's life is open, honorable and full of nothing but good for fifty years back" Morgan continued. We have investigated very thoroughly But fifty years back, Mir. Sidney dis appears, evaporates. There is no MT. Sidney that can be found. We find q young man of twenty, and nothing back of him. There we stop. It is q blind alley. You come to nothing but wall. That stopped investiga- ton.
 Now, I 20 q good deal by lunches call it intuition, guessing, inspiration. It is not good detective method. l don't claim it's good detective work. I never work on hunch and neglect n rational method, but frequently when I do work on q bit of guessing we get results.
 five been working, around here, on a guess that was so wild when it first started that 1t seemed too preposter- ous even for me. I'll tell you that we are not Investigating Mr. Sidney any more. We are looking for another person, and I believe we are going to find him. Then we are going to find some one else. Doctor, I tell you, if you don't know 1t, as you say, it is the strangest case ever have known. It is one of hate. Mind, I'm only guessing"
 That touch was so impressive that I betrayed an emotion. He saw 1t.
 'T had you there,' he said
 "Mr. Morgan" said. you will not believe me, and for that reason 1t is useless for me to say and keep on say ing that I know of nothing here I could help you on. You suggested something to me just now. and you saw that you had done so. But that was because of a coincidence imma- terlal to what you call a case"
 every we'll" said Morgan. "T did not expect to get ahead by coming here, but want to be fair and reason able. You do not know anything, but I am not allowed to talk to any one who might know"
 You have talked to Jed" I said. You cannot reasonably expect to be allowed to annoy the ladies of the house or to futter the servants. MT. Sidney is very i'll and very weak. Even you would refrain from introduce ing your case to him if you saw him. If we seem to avoid your inquiries, tt Is unfortunate. We have nothing to avoid"
 q follow my hunch," said Morgan, getting to his feet "If I am right. something will be revealed that even could not compromise. I am afraid you must prepare yourself for some publicity"
 Il have told you before that you must select your own course" l re- piled, and Morgan took his leave, driv- ing away through the snow.
 We had our Christmas eve in Mir. Sidney's room. He was very feeble physically and could be raised on pill lows in bed but nothing more. But he was the spirit of joviality. He had Jed sit in a great armchair by his bed, and early in the evening he had bottle of claret opened for him. Nothing would do but Mrs. Sidney and Tsobel should hASe bottle of Madeira, and I had whisky toddy. great punch-bowl was brought in, and Jed mixed gallons of liquor and many spices In it.
 Four of the men servants came in with great log for the fire, and had
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Would it serve any useful purpose for me to read it, or should it not go di- rectly to the fire?
 q think you should read it, John," she said. 1T told Jed so. He is very shrewd His judgment and mine In this case agree"
 I went back to the office, put a log on the fire and sat down to read the diary.
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Why the Aspen Leaf oulv.rs

The aspen leaf quivers easily be- cause it is broad and placed on long very flexible stock. The upper part of the stalk is flattened. and, being at right angles with the leaf, is liable to be moved by the faintest breeze.
The Pulaskian., 1920-11-25

THE American hen may have her A weaknesses as an individual, but collectively she is a national institu- tion. If you doubt this, poise that upraised knife over the matutinal boiled egg and consider these facts
 America's hens cackled 23,484, ,OOO,- 000 times last year in proud an- nouncement. There were 1,957.OOO.- 000 dozen eggs produced in the United States. For these the farmer received an average price of 438 cents a dozen. or about $8500O0,000.
 Uncle Sam says himself so officially He furnished the information to the delegates to the National Poultry. But ter and Egg association convention.
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large cups of punch before they went out. Mr Sidney evidently was deter mined to corrupt the whole household
 I'll never be able to give an ade- quate idea of the joviality of that Christmas eve in the sick-room Mir. Sidney and Jed had conspired for some months to make festival
 Our dinner, served in Mir. Sidney's room. brought boar's head, carried hy laughing maid. Wine was sent 10 the servants Iscbel found a pearl
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-09-14
PARAGRAPHS
Il LITTLE NONSENSE NOW
AND THEN ~ RELISHED BY
TIE REST or MEN"

4 woman MAJ be ever so peaceable
and yet when it comes to shoes she
has spats.
The quickest way TO dry a Winnie
mueca woman's tears is to tell her
to keep on crying.
TIT
Most any farmer can tell you that
the freshest thing to be found on a
farm is a city boarder.
And with wheat increasing in
price flour will soon be too expensive
to use as face powder.
TIT
A clever Winnemucca girl IS one
who knows what you mean when yoa
say things you don't NEAR
TIT
The reason men boss the world is
because the hens lays eggs but can't
cackle as loud as the rooster.
TT
Some Winnemucca women don't
have to think very hard to tell their
husbands what they think of them.
TT
The trouble with sending a diplo-
matte note 10 the Russians is there
are so many of them who can't read
TIT
If France succeeds in having Ger
man GOAL mines worked maybe we
could get her to try her hand on
ours.
TT
We long ago found it is impos-
sible to suppress the Winnemucca man
who thinks he can tell a funny
story.
You have probably noticed by this
time thai the fellow who invented
war doesn't care anything about ex-
penses.
Any time a Winnemucca girl ac-
cuses a young nan of stealing her
heart you can bet she was an ac-
complete.
TIT
Our advice TO the young Winnie
mucca man hunting a wife is not
marry one with bobbed hair. In case
of a fight you've got nothing to drag
her around by.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-09-14
THE LINE OF
LEAST RESISTANCE
IFrom Elko Independent

Il lOAAA go
1t is easy to get along if you tickle
the other fellows chin, whether he
deserves it or not. Fortune and even
fame may be yours if you are willing
to lay aside your individuality, forget
your code of right and wrong, n
slick-inger you way through life by
honeyed and hypocritical caterings to
some booming lobster who needs
nothing more convincing that a swift
kick occasionally to make him under
stand that he isn't the whole show.
There may be a certain satisfaction
for some people in the belief that they
are on easy terms with everyone be-
cause they are continually catering
to everyone, whether it questions
their own self-respect or not, but as
a matter of fact if they but knew
what the fellow to whom they cater
really thinks of them, life for them
might be robbed of a portion OF It's
suave ~complacency.
In casting about over the field OF
publicity in this state a breath of this
m~ollycoddle characteristic is waited
TO us from one or two ink-spreading
forums that seem to decry the use of
substantial vertebrae in their selec-
ton of a place to light during the fall
campaign.
One or two newspapers in this state
are as the arrow before the wind,
shifting ever in the path of least re-
sistance. Every red-blooded news
paper in every red-blooded common
wealth ought to have sand enough to
get on one side or the other of poll
teal controversies. 1t is as essen
tia to an eighteen-carat newspaper
code to declare itself first, last and
all the time as it is essential 10 a
human TO be a man or a woman
rather than a Shiny, yielding piece OF
putty. 1t matters not whether you
stand before the people upon a !
hat wins or loses; you are unlVer-
sally respected if you stand with your
teeth to the wind, rather han allow
Yourself to be caught in the humlllat-
ing position of presenting a tast-
travelling stern to a gale that is whp-
ming past you with not one whit OF
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1t continues to look more and more
as if McAdoo's delight at his defeat
at San Francisco was justified.
TT
All you've got TO do to make the
Germans agree TO anything is to
to them that there's no way for
them to get out of it.
TT
Maybe the man who goes over Nj
arara Falls in a barrel only wants 10
show that there's still some use Tor .
barrel in this country.
T+f
The case is growing serious wheh
a Winnemueca girl can distinguish
the sound of ore fellows auto horn
from among all the rest.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-09-14

A hoop is about the only thing left
in this country that can make both
ends meet.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-09-14
WOOL MARKET
III

Announcement that ffty-two mills
of the American Wooden Mills Com
pany will resume operations Monday,
September 10, has brought forth a de-
cided optimism among wool growers,
buyers and sellers. The week prior
to the celebration of Labor Day saw
the wool market in its weakest con-
dition, not strong enough o record a
sale. Resumption of manufacture by
the American WOODEN Company will
result in a revival of buying of wool
so that after Monday there may be
seen a steadier market if not an in
creased demand for wool at higher
prices.-[Reno Journal.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-09-14

There is a small town in Nebraska
that has adopted a town creed. 1t
reads as follows:
"Ibeleive that the place where live
and bring up my family. and from
which | receive all that | have, is the
most important place in the world to
me.
Il believe that in proportion as ]
give of my thought, energy. and moral
and financial support in cooperative
effort to benefit my home town shall
receive benefits myself.
II believe that all unselfsh effort
brings a just reward. much of il very
tangible, therefore I'll work, not
weep: boost. not knock; do my part
not shirk. nor-leave it for George
to do
Il believe that if | set an example
in these matters, many others will
join me, and that we can make our
town a better town, a good town. :
real town-where life is worth liy'
ing"
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respect for your cowardly effort to
keep up with all sides of the tenn
pest. A newspaper that is nov Re
publican, now Democratic, and finally
nothing, is as generally respected as
a hypocritical and soft-tongued bull
conner who tries to keep "in" with
everybody by refusing to commit
himself in a way BETTING Americans.
The political sack sometimes puts
a bit of bone into the backs of these
%palavering snakes. A bit of the long
green has been known to cause men
to change everything but their inborn
hypocriey and has developed first
class Democrats from Republicans,
staunch Socialists from Democrats,
red-eyed Progressives from Socialists.
Wherever lies the dollar there may be
found their political favoritism.
But we can now offer thanks to
the god of politics that this ilk has
faded to an almost imperceptible min
GRITTY in this state-but there are
such things, never fear. The way to
handle them is by a consolidation of
all parties on one proposition re-
fuse to open the sack of any political
affiliation. The balance of the news
papers of this state seem willing to
surrogate the dollar that American
ism may continue to be proud of its
starry banner. Those papers offer
their columns for paid advertising
but their comment as expressed
through their comment are not to be
purchased.
To an American editor there can be
but one course, to decide for himself
which political party offers the most
constructive and honestly-serving
policy, back that party with all his
might and main, whether it be able to
reward him or not, and stand before
his people staunch in his beliefs, fair
and above board in his statements,
winning or losing as an American
patriot has always won or lost. To
do otherwise creates in the honored
profession of journalism a sneak and
a CRATER, and those are the ilk to
whom America means nothing.
A hoop is about the only thing left
in this country that can make both
ends meet
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WHAT
THEN!

When the workman W the work
shops; and the railroad men the
rails; and the grocery clerks the
groceries,; and the mail clerks own
the mails-when the preachers own
the pulpits; and the pressmen own
the shops, and the drillers W the
oil wells; and the jails are owned by
cops-when the conductors W the
street ears and each driver owns his
bus; will you tell us common people
whatinell becomes of us?-LSanta
Fe New Mexican"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-01
JOHN w. THOMPSON & CO.

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--Incorporated---
Chevy Chase, D. c.
n.Ssa & Conn b, s:nt 81 Il,
Entirely detached. This attractive s u home has
II iaEEs rooms. 3 baths: hot-Eater heat. cleo
Sleeping and breakfast porch. Garage for
PRICE. 5000
Wyoming Avenue
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Located on lot having frontage Of Is IT. by
baths. electric shs ef n.,sf
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Attrastive stone and brick home. having 0
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This modern home: located in saul's Addi.
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Cleveland Park.
Located on saith st. near Woodley Lane, on
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Front and rear porches. Weatherstripped;
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10Th Street Near r Street.
Within one block Of Conn. ave. car line.
this attractive modern home consisting of L.
rooms. baths. sleeping porch. hot-water heat
e'ee''e nfn' p faR p OF P9 sfssce. at
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Attractive modern home of IL rooms. 2
pered and painted. Third door is finished as
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PRICE. $4,000.
Que Street Near Eighteenth.
Constructed Of stone and brick. This home
can be purchased at very fair price. 10
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PRICE. SIC. coo
Lanier Street Near Seventeenth.
Lot has frontage Of q It. by depth Of 142
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heat. Garage for two cars. Weathers:fipped
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=. PRICE. $4,000.
Que Street Near Sheridan Circle.
In very best section Of city. within one
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PRICE. 81. 600.
Euclid Street Near Fourteenth.
8 rooms, / bath. hot-water heat. electric
Immediate possession.
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Gira ,!3.. Street r. Near r Thirteenth:
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FOR sALE-H0UsEs.
Continued.
AZ Z III
1405 Eye; Street.
-. Petuartl1,

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Attractive senii-detached:. six rooms. baih
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and awnings throughout: beautifully finished IN
In I'd wood: built in heated garage Price only
$4,000, with small cash payment.
McKEESER GOSS.
1905 Eye st. ~ Main 41o..
Chevy Chase.
A stucco home that is exceptionally at
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modern throughout: hot-water heat: cleo
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1905 Eye St. Main 4do2.
$3.50.
A newly papered aud painted home in good
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MckEENE
laos Eve Street.