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Show me about him; but I like him better even than I thought 1 should now Ive met him, Like Underwent Ordeal gut Collector la one of the Broadway hotels office prepared for a roasting. Before Later on, in the retirement of the All the Rest. much frequented by mercantile trav- he could say a word the head of the best spare bedroom, Dr. Cartwright specialist, to whom elers, a knot of drummers were seated firm said, My dear Mr. Johnes, we are A celebrated with himself: was communing am at gossip of the trade after dinner. delighted with the energy you have dine was literally money, and who was I had an Idea shed be a nice girl, What has become of Johnes? asked shown. It is true the returns have By A. L. Harris Author of Mins Own Familiar F rlsnd.' etc. possessed of a fiery temper, made it a and I wasn't far out If I'd said an unone. Havent you heard about him? o mp o a y. I 0 1 , a not been great, but we appreciate role that all patients should undress t by commonly nice girl, I should have PvblitMng Copyright, 3 t r o 1 $ 0 i , t A Have what you have done. As a reward for before entering his consulting room so replied the man addressed. by been nearer the mark. Seems a sensioot to waste any of his valuable you not heard of his rise and down- your Industry we Intend to raise your ble girl, too, this one. I should say fall? Well, It was this way. inches time. One day a meek looking little salary $300 a year. Hereafter you will her waist was quite twenty-twBut have you discovered anything clothes on. CHAPTER XVI. You all know Johnes was the best be paid weekly at that rate. And her Good gutn entered with all his to match! an and appetite relating to the past? anything to names May! Pretty name that What do you mean by coming in like seller Smithson & Co. had. Donald & day. show why he left England and went To For. Be Left Till Called Rathbone offered him a bigger salary that? asked the doctor, in a rage. Go Johnes nearly fainted and pinched short and sweet!" to America? Three the curtain weeks once. and later at if he would come with them, and he himself when he got outside the ofind strip At the same moment that the docof another to referred Mr. is It same scene. Sharp rising discloses the faltered the man. Cut I succumbed. Johnes was foxy and de- fice. At the end of the week Johnes was pursuing these reflections, tor I have him. the second interview between Mr. the documents before I tell you Ive no time to waste, manded a written contract for five drew his salary, which was computed Ted Burritt was Inserting the key rebeen hard at work ever since my gelled the doctor, and the poor man Into the lock of the study door. Duryears, which they gavehlm. It was a, the new rate, and signed the usual John Sharp and his new client. tho to up So you had my letter, sir? said turn to town, trying pick all this time, ho had allowed none $4,000 a year and expenses. jeft the room in haste. When his turn Well, receipt. A few days later ho received the former. I hope you didn't think thread. At last It occurred to me to ing Now, the first trip Johnes made he ran up a letter from the firm saying his sercame he re entered the room. enter to the room except himself. It I was wasting time? But the fact is, try and find out the photographer to him to be full of mysteriseemed then, said the doctor, thats better. against hard luck. Everything seem- vices were no longer required. Johnes me rather a largo order. the one who took this photograph What cau I do for you?" ed to go against him. When he got was thunderstruck. ous associations, which no outside He hurried to youI gave do not care how much time you selecting It from among the other arI called to collect your subscriptback he was ashamed to show Up at the office, flourished his contract and Influence should be allowed to disto my Somewhat him. take over the affair so long as you ticles before the office. He bad not made his sal- demanded an explanation. turb. ion for the benevolent society." still bring it to a successful issue. The surprise, I found the same firm let alone his expenses. But, to Your contract is no longer valid, ary, Nothing had been moved. Ills fathI dobusiness. explained on DONT FORGET carrying question is. what have you been his er's chair, pushed back against tbe said of the head and the firm, blandly. great surprise gratification, Rail Cross Red Rlne, only package ilaree ing? What have you discovered? And matters, and found them very obliging wall, remained Just as he had left It InInd. South Kuss his an Bead, The It him 'You broke Company, by accepting rapturousemployers greeted j Knts. do you think that you are on the right and willing to give any assistance in on the last time he had entered tbe We know how things go some- crease of salary. Good day. ly. track? their power. Of course, it was too room. Excitement. The pen lay beside the blotSearching reJohnes is temporarily out of the times, Mr. Johnes, they said, but nevmuch to expect that they would You shall see for yourself, sir, Hang these here motor cars, said er mind, we are perfectly satisfied business. He wants now to know said pad, and tbe dust had accumulatTo begin with, I member anything about a customer tingover the detective. sunburned Bult, lie placed the the man with the ed everything. with your work. And they sent him whether that Is good law or not. Is had to as back discover at which hotel the ( who came to them so far drew up a and table round shoulders and long beard. "1 the on a trip down South. upon lamp it? two gentlemen put up. I went first 1258; but they referred back to some think Ive gone up to no less chair. That trip was worse than the first. None of the assembled commercial and triumphantly of all to the Lord Warden, before of their books, than a dozen crowds, expectin to see When he got back he went into the travelers could tell him. Then he unlocked that same comthey found tho name and an address. trying any of the others, and In tho fight, and only found some fellow partment. removed the bundles of pavisitors book I found a couple of en- Here it is. doctorin a motor car. Stray Stories. pers as before, touched the spring him another Mr. John Sharp handed tries. both under the same date which opened the secret recesses and written an address had which S. and paper, April 24th James Ferrers A GUARANTEED CURE FOR FILES. took from It the burnt letter. to went I Blind. Bleeding. Protruding Pile. Drug. ItftitDK. this " on It, and continued, Burritt. Midstream neath the dead whitened scene I remember, an oft chosa Theres (HU nre authorized to refund money If PAZO . ronton-vllleAgain be took a sheet of paper and At this remarkable confirmation of place. No. 23 South Street, OUtIMi.Nl' full to cure In 8 to U day. 800. bough of the tree, en byway, a pen from the desk he would not oft In his glory the bold feathered his a in card be to Where the grass In midsummer was Wherefisher There happened suspicions, the young man could use that other which lay beside him, wavy and long. Evidence of Brains Activity. apartments not restrain a violent start, which the window announcing Swooped down on his prize, 'twas InAnd where, in Its Joy, was a bright little with the ink dried upon It and betended for I saw me, Talking to ones self is generally a for to let to gentleman. Mr. a single rler tribute Sharp received as While I. youthful the to write and That rippled and babbled and murmurangler, expectantly considered a sign of a weak brain, waited the profession In general and himself the landlady, an ancient party, and gan again ed its song. knew he which heart; words a by could be The of a river A rlear little, bright little mite of Impulse conveyed by the twinge says a doctor, but nothing led her back by degrees to the date In particular. the line Have not forgotten ... of twenty That sparkled and chattered and murgreater mistake. It Is a sign of an "I had not expected that you would in question, and found that she did in that clear little mite of a That hung mured along. ... on receiving this letter ... a be It years brain. active such some may river, extremely discover It so easily, murmured his remember a Mr. Ferrers, or was Whose more no bank treasure the on once acfor Dover . . . expect to reach And bright, at finny there grassy high strong or a weak intellect, but the client. It almost seems but never name, who was with her from fifty-eig- . . . There is that between us which may be mine. the beechwood, to cause this must be there date shadow Its that after elm But The to 'sixty. tivity caqt E'en now the gay butterfly flits oer the mind, go on! with eagerness. . . . not allow you to deny ... I ask around; peculiarity. That was the name of the gentle- he left her, and went to the West End . . . and water. Twas there too the silver leaved maple many . . . you alone can ... If sweet The bee wild to returns the did hear she was and growing, man who arrived first and secured a to live, scented flowers. I shall . . . that you ... as A round trip rate of $30 to California And the bright fiery tassels of sumach refuse, you What? was the question, short The summer born locust flings out of the private sitting room, mentioning at were found will be in effect all winter via the new ... of your youth . . . ", criminal the from the of shade fell others the which on While treetops and through patches See the same time that he expected a sharp, His shrill whistled praise of the bright, and popular Salt Lake Route. "J. and of sunshine. friend from London, who would re- lips. sunny hours; away, nearest agent or write for Information In ripple and eddy still dancing about half for me at this Invites Mr. now I Even a of continued the After mite working clear maple little Imagine did dear That 'She hear, Lake little, would main for the night and City. to J. L. Moore, D. P. A.. Salt require To come back and lounge In the depth river to add so able It came without how she an being by hour, though of the glen. a bedroom. Between six and seven, Sharp, Kept murm'rlng and singing the whole what he to a as the dear little, clear little mite of a be much That syllable that single summer subsequently she who didnt know, day. did Blunders. Inquired Some Amusing arrive, gentleman a river threw be a cloud. under deciphered, went had already abroad Is calling me back to the meadow again. If anyone of the name of Ferrers were robin was An English druggist gives the And there, too, the . Is all? his down pen. And that told his him waiter The singing. there. made of by blunders list The bluebird once swayed In the No more by the bend, where the water la stopping "I would give anything to be able That Is all at present, and not so Catch an eel, yes, that a gentleman of that name deepest. branches on high poorer customers: a needs few seekI the to be boy to discover the missing words, but It garments pile had arrived by the boat that morn- bad, I think. for cochineal; prosperous paste, for As If undecided which charms must wear. was now?" ing to be done is Is quite beyond the bounds of possi-blllt"And what of door 1 to him the for directed in and the pure gurging, grease it, plunge The green of the earth or the blue of No more may phosphorous paste; water And there Is no hope this time ling sky. creosote; fishy water, for Vichy wa- While the To sport with Its ripples, their coolstill from the depth of the shadiest Intervention any guiding Inof any "everlastto ness share. ter; "guitar, for catarrh; places. me to point out the from that far I'm direct to For to green never away fluence far, and With ceasing song, ripple ing," for effervescing. grassy meadow. run. voice to speak to of any spirit way time While slowly of a passes years into That dear little, bright little mite me and tell along, river Ask Your Druggist for Allens Foot-EasWhirled merrily Into the light of the But still in the distance that mite of a recentTaking up the sheet of paper again river I tried ALLEN'S FOOT-EASsun. voice of Its me back the with Is which be had been employed, he on calling another have and It supply. bought just ly song. And there leaped the trout through the has cured my corns, and the hot, burning saw, to his surprise, as he turned It Floyd IX Raze In Chicago Inter Ocean. rapids and shallows. and itching sensation in my feet which was over, that It was the same on whloh almost unbearable, and I would not be withhis father had written those words: Mrs. W. J. Walker, Camden, out it now. The letter which had TO "My dear N. J. Sold by all Druggists. 25a never been finished; It was strange he had not observed this beforel With the opening up of the section was always keeping an eye out for Blunder of a Divorcee. a in of the "strike Then he took up the pen which his way something In the of Province Ontario of the In these days of many divorces a a out in walk took the for father muBt have last used, with the himself, man should be careful about whom he neighborhood of North Bay, a couple forest around the strolled and traces t twk ria upon It. BWcmtt place, of the marries at least careful enough to of hundred miles directly north he put It away carefully as a relic? a because It made beaten along path see that he doesnt remarry a woman city of Toronto, all sorts of taletf have the easiest walking. He came to a Or should It remain where it was from whom he has been divorced. drifted down out of that country place where a big tree had fallen little longer? He dropped It and gave a That happened to a man in Montana about the mineral wealth it contains across the trail, but Instead of walkexpression to something between uncommonly recently. He fell In love, proposed Im a and and the lucky "strikes that have been ing around the tree, as every one else sigh. yawn feel and was accepted by a woman from made by prospectors. One of the had been In the habit of doing, he sleepy," he said, and yet I don't 1 whom he bad been divorced 23 years most romantic of these, and one that ducked under It to save himself that In the least Inclined to go to bed. I as before, but did not know It until after has the merit of having real wealth much distance. though of sort feeling have a the wedding. Los Angeles Times. to show for It, concerns W. G. Trethe-wahad to sit up for someone." lie gave As he bent his head to pass now a resident of Toronto, who a short laugh. "Suppose I tura la oa the prostrate trunk his eye Mrs. Window's Soothln Ryrnp. Is the possessor of a mine that has caught something that had been root Tor children teething, (ofiena the guru, reduce to the sofa for a bit? I wonder what SsmnuUun, allay pels, core wlmiooiM). nacabotu. F.' 'J. Initials with the a small cases him fortune, and makes me so sleepy? I didnt take of fall and he the ed the tree, already paid up by "Packages to bis found He on which he owing the down simply anything at dinner but a ground. dropped Further Details. room. The waiter the Impatient question. the sitting private closed, and In a few minutes some the it of habits. put earth, lazy gathered up toIn my opinion there Is Ills eyes A family residing In the east were dined sir. Well, me that Informed also they sound was asleep. A clock outside he In his pocket and returned to the At the time he made his strike visited by some relatives who lived In with at the table dhote, and seemed, only one thing. the half-hou- r struck hall gether In the At the earliest salesman station. a was opportunity traveling Tretheway And that Is?" a northwestern city. One of the visitmost amion the in his all to appearances, place fortaking out change went any through the necessary Walt and see what happens! ors while partaking of an oyster stew tor a wholesale shoe house and was he cable terms. The next morning they Another Interval of time condition. of to the amount malities of land, a certain possession of get remarked that his father, who was the possessed struck breakfasted together In their private passed and then the clock knowledge of chemicals and ores of and with the little money he possessed CHAPTER XVII. proprietor of a cafe, made immense room, and left by the 4:30 train In two three four five-- six One which to the work his he claim, again. Two ago kinds. began In various years stew the course mentioned quantities of oyster ten seven eight nine two the afternoon. The waiter At Twelva of the Clock. of a year enough, he said, to float a business route carried him to one of was a cobalt mine. In less than I take to be of which last stroke a the It circumstance, As elve! gave the new settlements on the Grand years he has cleared nearly $200,000 considerable Importance, which was It Is all very well to tell another battleship. Don't you think so, Cousstarted up. tha he has disand reduced mine from the North In the Bay Trunk railway, in Ed? appealing to one of his relathat one of the chambermaids told person to wait, but it Is not so easy (To be continued.) trict. called Cobalt, from the deposits price of cobalt about 40 per cent And him that, from the appearance of the for the other person. However, Tod tives. too walk to was he In because all found been lazy had that em"Yes, yes, replied the cousin; "and of that mineral bed, she believed that the gentleman Burritt had plenty to keep him OLIVE OF ANCIENT LINEAGE. Tretheway, who around a fallen tree. the battleship could float a week and the neighborhood. In No. 37 meaning the one who had ployed. not hit an oyster." There were all his father's affairs crossed by that boat had slept with Trees 2,000 Years Old Are Still Bear a pistol, or something, under his pil- to be settled, and arrangements made Ing Fruit low. Ah! you see the Importance of for carrying on the business in Timtbe bartender drops olive that The ber Lane. cocktail Is an old William F. Cody, Buffalo Bill, was that bit of evidence? the Into popular record for organized and worlds The conwords which to Tbe (unknown him) "The next thing I had to do, Do you use Schillings the most of famous drinkers thousands the Wine express the Pony made was by schedule riding his fatber bad spoken, such a very campaigner. "kid got tinued Mr. Sharp, was to discover liked It, and for centuries Lummls In riders and ns a F. C. of ago years says express, before to as Tony time his who short Best? death, tho boat by which the gentleman, Inno banquet has been considered comMcClures Magazine. Never before his first "job from the man who name of Ferrers, had ar- how this event would affect his famthe gave mads so Cody vented the carried express. all Pony we nor since has mall been What a pity I ily, were fully realised. They were, plete without It rived. This was easily done. round trip ride (neolea Europea, Is not only The fast, so far and so long merely by the record here a found that he had crossed from Calais at least, spared any anxloty as to tbo one of tree,oldest trees known to natu-rsltstof his the In relief) of usl killing cessitated not by error, I If am and the horse power, the Black Eyed Susan; that there future, and were not destined to sufbut Its longevity and produo-tlvltnever elsewhere have horses been so of 384 miles without stops, except to by been a lnrge amount of luggage fer those pecuniary trials which often had The Man with a Career. one to swallow and Several of horses change are astounding. in regular any steadfastly spurred which had all been sent ont to Lon- add so much to the sorrows of a beA man with a career can have no In cirmeal. carried feet over hasty twenty The Tony express these trees arrival. As reavement. tme to waste upon his wife or his service. scienAnother of the Pony express riders don to await tho owner's the to the east and California according cumference, mail between A reward had been offered by tbe soon as I ascertained this fact, I came 340 friends he has to devote himself miles run cenof a made a two for Jack a about foot of Keetley, calculation lor tific 1 obtained (at $5 per half ounce) perpolice authorities for any information bewholly to his enemies. John Oliver fruit been hours; and another, Jim back hero directly. the have must bearing It ran from Independence to In thirty-onto tury, lead of years. tho discovery luggage depot that might mission to inspect Hobbes. In fourteen miles 280 on talked rode time Its walked Moore, and miles. Savior 1,950 the fore San Francisco, He paused for the sake of tho murderer In what was now generand minutes. Olives. of mount was ten days and It never needed hours and forty-sithe of Dover as the affair known the ally Such men got $100 to $125 per month effect The olive baa been a symbol In eleven. It employed 500 of the fastCopies were posted up outGo on! go on!" exclaimed the express." was limited mall Their of "found. and found, could be more than one mythology. The dove est horses that oUce different all the stations side other. all western horses, 200 station to fifteen pounds. Postage was $5 per and presented themselves prominent- bringing the branch to the ark gave I found a number of largo packthe sta-tlosome then Wc take the risk of your rouse, ounce for time; 190 half had of the Orient as 80 riders. It inikeepers rfind with the marked cases ly to the view of anyone who hap- It to the Imagination or confidence redown the throat of the government ordered it cut down to $1 ages and of crowded emblem peaco an bo claimed. to pened to pass by. finding our tea as we say, at wilderness, 65 to 100 miles (or even per half ounce, at whlrh figure It staid tials J. F. still waiting directions was the One hundred pound reward!" and, stored. Among tho Greeks It upon telFrom tho marks and overland of the tho till water of ns completion tho power and according placid of opart, peace more) tho this sign detectives for tbo but advice, party they I made out that your grocers. The rider was allowed two egraph to San Francisco (Oct. 22, them, wisdom. chanced. Yoar gtnoar retaaaa yoar immj If jtm lial life of this gallant belonged to bud come from America, sum would have been doubled and Though a native of Syria, and posminutes to change horses and malls at 1801), ended the HI, MUilllIng tort. that he had visited Paris, and after- trebled by the' son of the murdered enterprise. a station. sibly of southern Greece, the olive wards crossed to Dover via Calais, man. nourishes anywhere In a mild climate. were Old Mother Nature. see nnd what Ills Walt claim will happens," luggage, he Now, either Western Asia, southern Europe, northIn tbo of a detection Nature Is an endless combination orarle tbe tho words person and by thnt means render South nnd repetition of a very few laws. She nothing ho ern Africa, southern England, mere matter of A. It, C, or he may de- of Mr. John Sharp. all theso place Mexlco-- ln InAmerica, whatof alarm tho hums the old air through excite the to done his property, cide to relinquish Is found In the circumthe olive grows readily, taking on an Harvey, who discovered the circula- of this view Innumerable variations. Emerson. ever Its value, as being, after all, less dividual under suplclon." able are blind tho even rethat stances ha to Is said InI tion of tho blood, to average seven years before bearing Dr. Jeremiah written Ted had own safety. his as witness exprecious than fruit. corded a dream In which a bumblebee to sco In dreams doctor's and the according to promise, recordod by Helen Keller, cline to tho latter view myself." Two hundred year ego It wa inU came, contained tbe clouded. when stung him In his left thigh, on a place periences fare answer, listener's Ills and Into California by priests troduced where a couple of days later appeared "Blind Tom." tho poet Milton,seems visit an news his apof approaching flylug Then It all depends upon tho re- others. Hence tho conclusion from Mexteo, and(there It ha thriven was which an to Your grocer and you have an ugly ulcer. Malesherbo. lindonexpedition the luggage? to (Jilin It Is only as pearing nowned French author, found lilmaelf to be unavoidable that mightily. In South Carolina It Is upon that, to combine business with pleasure. A good deal depends that common interest Tea is In a dream attacked by a rowdy who far as physical vision U concerned of hardy end fruitful, but unfortunately Under these circumstances, limits the and everything depends iim nothing the crop mature there Just when all to stabbed him In his left breast with a tho optic nerve guides and make Invited be must bo course, his suspicions. occurring to excite field of vision. In the cotton field. tho where area following good for you both. an In bis Hugger headquarters. labor I needed Above all things, we must keep quiet, Magnolia Ixnlge of This snino author arrives at tho defruit I too bitter to eat uuleas The was and Invitation should Tbe dispatched wtf evening be felt tho first attack return yonr nx'nry If yn dent authorities waking and if tho police Bk agbllllh a Ranging In also from an. aevere pneumonia. "The archives of duction that dreaming am) manlfo-latlon a visit, for tbo purpose of accepted, and, la due time, the doctor pickled. of you form and pay In Erall differ Axel Dr. e degree to scorn millarge plum, It I gathered says medical reports, Into tho matter, you arrived, gold rimmed spectacles, esand Inquiries In making not a principle of cases Bells only, Beit. Dumb Light green end placed In a strong solution and all complete. Gibson, are heavy with will remember to bo caulioui and not itary bearing consciousness, as the cussence. If you use dumb-bells- , Uke waking either or lye of wood eshes. Whn have which of state to that similar character, It Is hsrdly necessary poth but does give them tho least bint, or we shall tom of many la In these days of olive change odor this denotes tbe an home la at himself received no explanation at all or else he avers, tbo dream reveals, made be quite all the In papers, that sur- have It proclaimed not create. The same that the potash ha struck through trtnjtih and figure, don't have them hava been explained away entirely. bavo a cluo, and that astonishing short apace of time. Bur-rlttho Individual surpolice that t all heavy; and the same applies the to rounds waking the attention t calls tbe stone end they are placed la watI like your doctor," said May Dr. Gibson on bis guard at mao our viewwill t'.e to tho Indian clubs. It Is not weight put the only dreaming, rounds 1 liked him beer, renewed several time e day, foF fact that dreams depend on some other to her brother. tint exorcise of the musclca you want observation are ones of media nnd five ae the five dev. New York Herald known points told those what you media than I saw hint, from Ted asaontod to this, and asked, fore light, regular exerclae not to over-ti- n senses. A conclusive evidence In favor changed." It one time and neglect It then for DIDN'T COME FOR EXAMINATION. 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