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Show he woi ked out here. I am hh wife. Here is my ring He left J foOc year ago and told me never to him, but I love him end have com Mvto. ask If he 111 not come g&ck to that itli me "Hammond EDITOR. rites the Mho The story ih Is 0: The 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 fiinnjgia,1 he , St(ialis Koysi Mir ? Mho write, of all Ami wonder how And prar , nils Kro irate lar Who keep M Ut Nt.ll And darep Before tht thu o.rtth tan h. ,, ,i lit. n p4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 in i u 1 ale h i (io ! , u t , i lit eui r r h- a And take ill I or wiiieh ti. pal KHdiuls i ' , ho ,hi m.h. , dl k a mi iiir r tv t ho e r It ti am Ini mi s Ami quires A helerogt in .iis do i rmt i n ,k. i hi ( mien -- le tn, old comiol t ' rM , tr , 1kv h rt t - j n K mans iunj mi a pound tints npt awav ti ,j editor crnnot, pay he in i I M'ho only asks if eer he tains The gate at whiih 8t lehr r. lens That he mat llnd a little apot here scribbU i, and their wares com-nof The editor Denver Mecca. V,','-- - 'ij ;r---.. 2lv' ''lihif v -- t - , Iff j Li-- fl 1 'i O would feel much superior to Hammond, who had never give Annette any-tln- g. Forest. BT LOUIS T. WEADOCK. (Copyright, JS01. by Dally Story Pub. Co ) Phil Paquette, woodsman, never loved any girl until be saw Annette, the brown-eye- d daughter of the boee of the Michigan lumber camp In which ho and a hundred other worked winter. He came upon her in a clearing one day where she va spreading a tout of grain before a floe of blrde. Vtth her was Hammond, the only 'man la the world that Paquette had time pnough to hate. Hammond was tall and falyend perfectly familiar with the.EtfJlab language. Phil was big. "V h broad shoulder and clear eyes and to th strong mans contempt the weak be added, the hate of a tan who thlnka be should have "tfie something that another has. i So he stoof with folded arms and watched the, girls snugly fitting Jacket brush close to Hammonds arm and mw her laugh Into Hammonds face, and bevowed that he would save the , jirftrom Hammond. Paquette had let Into his wild brain the Idea that th girl was is far above the assistant boss of the camp as the stars are above the Saginaw river, by whose banks he and the rest labored. So he watched Hammond. Hesaw that the girl talked to him often and carelessly he listened once or twice. The talk was about books of which he had heard but dimly, and of plays of which until then he had gayer heard at all. One day he said to Annettes father: T1I want to go to town today." He w&ated ta tell him hls. errand but refrained. In his pocket he had the savings of the winter, and he meant to spend It In books that he, too, might read and be worthy of talking to the boss' daughter. But he had never bought book before and he had often bought whisto ky. go to get courage enoughhe go book a aak for and spent a Into ahop some of his money for drink. Then ha postponed buying the books for an boar or two and drank more. Ha went Into n gambling place that . He found no friends In the gambling place, but he stayed and put hls money on the roulette wheel and In exactly twenty minutes be had only enough left to buy a very little book. When he walked out into the frosty air and saw the sleighs cut through th anow hls mind cleared itself of th fumea of -- room and ah would com In and find It and not know who had oent It Then bo could look at her when she wore It and say to himself that ah waa wearher ing something that b had given and then he knew that In hla mind he had eWut her. iiih vtrw or rr. "He Is my husband," she said prouq. ehe said, "tha old these "In ly "I love him with are characters always Marry,, aaylog confronted Then was Paquette but HI do thtV or "Marry, but IH do ' the opportunity of hls life. He k?Sw that that to bring the poor, tired woman to "What of it? he asked. the bright room in which Hammond Aviitq It seems such a funny word to nee." was sitting with Annette was to crush Hammond and to sae Annette. But "Not at all," he answered. "Toe what if Annette should love Hamsee, In the old days marry was a mond? it would break her heart t swear, word," he added, thoughtfully, . see this woman elalrn him. "I sometimes think that It still Push! The woodsman took off hla cap and to be." ran, hls fingers through hls curly hair. Later he apologised, lie had to de Hammond. he bald, as If trying to or eat In s restaurant. It is 14 it I am sorry, fcut think, "Hammond the road to a mans heart Mss that I there is no cne here by that name. his stomach, but the reeonroe-fu- l through am sure. But you have come too fat women knows that that lr not the and you ara tired Take mjr flacland only goal that ran be reached by that this mouey, and 1 11 go with you to th route. railroad station. During the walk he told her that.st V . n lhui for tfco Bettor. might find Hammond some place! Inherited half bave Now that WW yon town end the money he gave her K a million you'll reform, of course, said & more than she had seen in months. the jgood man. When the rear lights of th tral "Well, I certainly ahIl. never be a were swallowed up In the shadows thief again, replied th hardened toward town Paqueti walked slowly ' criminal.' back to camp. As he passed the lightroom h( ed windows of the front "Ah! but the old babltt Do yon looked In shamefacedly. Annette with think your good fortune will change flushed cheeks 'was talking to Ham- that? See office-boy hera Merchant (catching the kissing the typewnter) tnond and her hand vu in his. "Sure. It will make It kleptomanyoung man, I dont pay you to kiss my typewriter. and hi breath under swore Paquette ia. Philadelphia Preaa. Office Boy I know you dont, but Im willing to do t fcf nothing. bank. then walked fast to the river He flung his precious copy, of MonTHEIR FIRST TAKDF W H KK HE SLEETS. taigne far out into the black river and wee a discouraging answer that It then turned back to hls cabin. vu made to the doling parent a of a "Annette loves him, he said dogcountry boy who had gone to New I did right gedly. Tork under the patronage of a prosBOYCOTT THEIR MINISTER. perous grocer. After he had been away tor a fortIDs with Starvation Threatened By Hu the mother wrote to the boys night Diaaootlng Parlshlooon. son wu "no A remarkable boycott haa been be- employer, saying that her hand and ehe was to write letters," gun on the Uland of SL Hilda, off the coast of Scotland, against the Rev, Mr. anxious to know how he wu getting Fiddes. It la a forcible expression of on. "And do tell me where be sleep the opposition of hls pkrishloners to nights she pleaded earnestly at the the religious views of th minister, rod of the letter. To thla the grocer made answer who now Is threatened with starvation by reason of the refusal of the island- within a few days: ers to help him transport hla winter "Tour son sleeps in the store In the laytime. I dont know where he supply of provisions Mr. Fiddes, who was a minister of deeps nights." th Free Church of Scotland, Joined the majority of the General Assembly In PMillw to the CUatta forming the United Free Church alqxg "In the clear atmosphere of th with th United Presbyterians, "The west" the Immigration agent wu sayHighland congregations of the Free ing, "the distances are remarkably deChurch refused to Join th new bodyT ceptive." "But the atmosphere hunt Th people of SL Hilda have taken a an absolute monopoly in that line," similar stand, and bitterly resent replied the man In the dilapidated attitude adopted by Mr. Flddeoi p stilt K "Whenever a western blqycl Tha steadier Hebrides called, at Nebraska or Colorado farmer tells me Hilda on. .Thursday, with. V tour inilei ti the mwt town I al Islanders took away their Own good, ways have to ride about fourteen to Mrs. Seed Just look how them two people Is a keepln step. but stubbornly refused to take thr get there." Chicago Tribune. Mr. Seed And law, bow they do keep in step tewf ' ministers stoc of coal and provision ashore In the ferry. Consequently titf , j Implloftbl had to oe kept on the vesseLv f "Ho do you like this weather?" . Mr, Fiddes sent almessage to the of "I like It, but I cant understand It tain .stating that he would Mate m Wbat is there about It you cant to take the gook and boats waiting understand? "Well, I know of two on on the vessels arrival at Obbe, bsL s, three or four country when the steamer reached there bo om half s doaen picnics, and an old fairs, appeared, and the goods could not b settlers reunion," '"What of thatr. ' Unded. "Then theres s yacht race and a golf' l As this was the last trip of the tournament." "Yea. What of that?" f this season, Mr. Fiddes is in dangar-o"It doesnt rain!" Chicago Tribune. being left. without hls usual suppllat ' for nine months. Discovers. It is stated in Glasgow that tin "They had been married a year beUnited Free Chnrch will not allot fore anybody knew .it, and even then their representative' to remain in this their secret wu discovered only by awkward predicament, and that a reaccident." "Indeed "Tee, Mt lief expedition will be org&nlied. Nat evening at a card party, they thought-lessl- y Tork Press. played partners, and the way BALLOON EXPERIMENTS they quarreled let the whole thing out"-Det-roir Free ' Press. lam tm Fotat a Moral by Brlogtsf Vndeeorvo4 Compliment. CosUIUoos Orsdsslly How completely and honestly peopb Ispmi(, Easterner (on hls vacation)'"! becan deceive themselves, and- how risky lieve there Is leu of vice and crime it is for one to "believe hls own ears, among the Indians out here thea there wu Illustrated the other day by an ex Comused to be. Is there not?" periment of the Rev. Mr. Baicon, anche Pete "Youre right pard. Th Anglican clergyman, who Is engaged is halnt et many Injnns es they used to "Does she know that he hu a put?" experimenting with wireless telegraphy' be." Chicago Tribune. and war balloons for the British War "No; she is only looking at the present" Office. He sent notices to the paper! iMuawHa throughout the kingdom that he would on a certain date, at a certain hour, "What impressed you moot during ascend in a balloon from the Crystal your western visit?" they uked him after he had returned to Boston. Tn Palace and fire off a collection of fo signals from beneath hi car. Poop! ignorance' of the people."' promptly wers uked to listen for the sound! and decidedly answered toe college of the explosions and to report the re- professor. - "I saw a - man named sults of their observations. ) ' Chandler, S4 years old, who had never Mr. Bacon made hls aseenslon s8 learned the meaning and derivation of right, and when tome 100 feet above hls name." Chicago Tribune. the earth applied the electric current to one of hla bombs. The reault wu nit Gloat Caeortaiaty. "But how are we going to leave Hs tried another, and that too, refused to explode. In fact, no one of hls sig- tewn?" anxiously inquired the tragenals would work, and he descended to dian, after he bed learned that there were no railroads. earth again. . In dne time there came la to him . "Well, (.hat depends on the show, If ,the hoy from all over the country letters ftoa responded Amber Pete. persons who had heard th explosion get their moneys worth youll ride on wblob did not take place and who wars the coach; lt they dont, youll ride on a ran." able to give any amount of. data them. New Tork Preen. "Why la It Inquired the man who wu nosing around the docks, that gem toeeel English call it lifting th cup? In view of the enormously increasM "Because, sir said the dignified per-o- n activity la building apartment bouM with the mntton chop whiskers, In Nsw Tork In the last three ?ttrt "If it ever gets into our hands it will th statement of real estate deal Dr. Owl What can I do lor you? kete a better position in society." that th supply Is still Inadequate to Chicago Tribune. Mosquito I want to he vaccinated so that coal oil wont touch mm th demand is significant Moreovea prloea of apartments have Increase! - MVao MSB KHCOUBAGEMEHT. , Oa m! OC Bsevy' Glsry. very materially. An average apartAaklt I understand that that healer tell you, th British offiom have Bo you know," said tbs gushing "I ment. th average wu five years iden, "I should Just love to write who treated by the laying on o( hands heavy weights resting on their shoulago, might have rented for from S0d for th no prosperous hs used to be, ders," observed the mu with th papers, nnd I believ that I is not to ILOOO. Apartments that are nov could most of hls assist-ant- e. South African dispatches. and discharged hu do too." it, merely "average apartments" rent for "Yon meu on their bosoms," said, "My dear young woman," replied the nearly twice aa much. Of eouree, they off hls buds the cheerful cynic. "They dont wear hes Telit Yet, laying reason no ytopathetle "theres editor, are much more attractive and convesow Baltimore American. I the world their medals on their shoulders." why yon shouldnt" nient Not only is better taste shows she cried Really!" Is delightedly. jt la designing them, but more money A tbakeepeertoa. None at all," be asserted. "Any-c- n OniI 7 Sm4 pent in finishing them. For the best founder of Rome?" can writ for the papers; It's no "Who wss th "Well, Hal ton, did you tha Che apartments in New Tork on must pa? six or eight time that amount of rut trick at nIL Why. that wutebasket uked the teacher of ancient history. place where yon were boarding?" is half full of stuff that wu written Romeo! piped the small boy in the "No. Tbs only well-fe- d New, fork Sun.- thing UP the papers. rear seat Philadelphia Record, them were the mosquitoes." p'" -- -- Vv , tare.X'r camp-meeting- va-e- "I am lookin for Mr, Hammond." the drink "and hls conscience reproached him. "If she knew what an unworthy man I am, he said to himself bitterly, "she would not care if I never bought a book." He purchased a copy in English of Moptalgpe,. that.poet .ol. wham ha r membered that hlr father In Franc had often spoken, and all the way to the camp he tried to read by the unsteady kerosene lamp In the smoking car. He looked about for Annette as soon as he reached the camp, but she had gone to town, they told him. Then he looked to see If JHammond was about As be expected, Hammond was In town also. He flung the book into th snow and It lay there an hour before he went for It Every night after that he read the book or asked th men who knew Eng-M- il to heltf him. Every day he looked at Annette and aaw that the air of the pine forests waa making her more beautiful and that Hammond clung closer to her than ever. One night when' the stars were brighter than usual he lay out near the river bank and hugged himself for Joy. He had learned the meaning of every word in that book of; essays He could and there pronounce most were a great many he could spell in English off hand, durely, he thought. Anuette was closer to him than she ever had been. Besides he had not gone to town since that day he had lost hls chance to buy Annette a dress and be bad atved hla money till he had much more than ha had on that day. "Not only," he said proudly, "can I buy more books but l ean buy a gown better than the first and I eaa buy new Jackets for myself and new shoes to wear nights when I com ont of th woods and when she may see me." The crunch of footsteps on th snow dose to him brought him to his feet, A woman in ragged clothing and with lips almost blue retched out her band to him, then tumbled at hla feet Who can you be?" he asked. "Ton do not belong here. No, 1 never saw you before. How have yon come all the miles from the town?" She could not apeak and he poured whisky down her throat She revived a little. f "1 am looking for Mr. Hammond,1 he said. "They told me in th town of-the- With her was Hammond, bo knew. He wanted to see, be told were himself, If any of his friend waa there, bnt be knew that th truth to that be wanted to play long enoughable Increase bis savings till he was to buy th girl o fin gown he had seen la o window down u street He did not Intend to give It to her hlmeelt Ho meant to slip It Into the house and oak on of th women to put It in her Hammond1 She Sell back as If he ' sniff!; ji 'n' is;. In tlrn an r edi-o- d!Ioi "'..el.' do'y' r? th? Tm Mho yrsod rruirt be In pi inter- - lore Must iap.r, M. ...1 the door. foil And th. n be . t led , ll)lk 5H,ir 1 he 0 Y H Drn,.. pu. Ihe Paquette r u -- cm-darni- m u u -- fr ' " ' T i |