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In Its issuo of February 24th, 191 G,
tho Wadena (Minn.) Pioncor Journal
has tho following
Onto
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Per Acre.
letter from West
ern Canada written
by Wulter Glocdcu,
ttho Is renewing
his subscription to his homo paper:
"Tho times we nro ImvliiB np hero
are vary good In splto of tho war. 1
havo had very good crops this fall
mid wc nro having 'cry good markets
for It all. Wheat went from 30 to fill '
hu. to tho acre, oats from 50 to 100 bu. j
to the ncro. 1 had nn ISacrc field of ,
oats which yielded mo 115 bu. per acre '
by machine measure, so I think this
Is a pretty prosperous country. I
have purchased nnnhor quarter sec
tion, which makes mo now tho owner
of three-quarters of a section of
land. Tho weather was very nlco this
fall up to Christmas, then wo had qulta
spvoro weather, but at tho prcsonl
tlmo It Is very nice again."
"I lived many years In Alberta; fllca
a homestead In tho Edmonton district;
own property In
several parts of Al
berta. I found it
ono of tho best
countries I ever
One of the
Best Countries
I Ever Saw.
saw; its banking system is better than
that of tho United States; one quarter
section I own, with about $1,000.00
worth of improvements, pays $18.00 a
year taxes. All tax is on tho land; Im
plements and personals are not taxed.
I waB Bccrctary-treasurer of Aspelund
echool district for two years. My du
ties wero to assess all tho land in tho
district, collect tho tax, expend it ($1,
000.00 a year), hiro a teacher, etc., for
the sum of $25.00 a year. Somo econ
omy, eh!
"All school nnd road taxes arc ex
ponded in tho districts where they aro
collected. There aro no other taxes.
Land titles nro guaranteed by tho gov
ernment and an abstract costs fifty
cents. Half of the population of Al
berta nro Americans or from Eastern
Canada. (Sgd.) WILT. TRUCKEN
MILLER." Advertisement.
Most Unkind.
"Miss Sorcleaf says sho Is going to
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CHAPTER XI Continued.
10
Thu trusty, sisterly, sensible voice,
half bantering but altogether kind,
genuinely Interested if the least bit
nquisltlvc. too, would have gone to n
liarder or more hardened heart than
Wt on nianchu's balcony that night
Yet aa Caznlet lighted his plpo ho
looked old enough to bo her father.
"I'll tell you Bomo time," he imffcd.
"It's only a case of two heads," said
Blanche. "I know you're bothered,
ind I should like to help, that's all."
"You couldn't."
"How do you know? I belle vo you'ro
going to devote yourself to this poor
nian if you enn get him off 1 mean,
when you do."
"Well?" ho said.
"Surely I could help you thcro!
Especially if he's 111," cried Dlanche.
encouraged by his silence. "I'm not
half a bad nurso, really!"
"I'm certain you'ro not."
"Does ho look very ill?"
Sho hnd been trying to avoid tho
dlroct question as far as possible, but
this ono seemed so harmless YoWt
was received in a stony sllcnco unlike
any that had gone before It was as
though Cazalct neither moved nor
breathed, whereas he bad been all
sighs and fidgets just before. Ills pipe
was out already that was tho one
merit of bush tobneco, It required
constant attention and he did not
look llko lighting it again.
Until tonight they had not men
tioned Scruton since tho motoring bc-
gan. That had been a tacit rule of tho
road, of wayside talk and Indoor orgy.
But Dlanche had always assumed that
Cnzalet had been to see him in tho
prison; and now ho told her that ho
never had.
"I can't fnco him," he cried under
his In oath, "nnd that's tho truth! Let
tne get him out of this hole, and I'm
his man forever; but until I do, while
there's a chonco of falling, I simply
can't face tho fellow. It Isn't as If
he'd asked to sco mo Why should I
force myself upon him?"
"Ho hnsn't nsked to see you becauso
he doesn't know what you'ro doing for
him!" Blanche leaned forward as en
gerly as she was speaking, all her re
pressed feelings coming to their own
In hotfor Just a moment. "Ho doesn't
know because I do believe you
wouldn't have him told that you'd ar
rived, lest he should suspect! You
aro a brick, Sweep, you really are!"
Ho was too much of ono to sit still
under tho name. He sprang up, beat
ing his handB. "Why shouldn't I be
"Look Here, Blanchel If You Had a
Friend, Wouldn't You Do It?"
to him to a poor devil who's been
through all he's been through? Ten
years! Just think of it; no, It's un
thinkable to you or me. And It all
started In our ofllco; wo wero to blame
for not keeping our eyes open; things
couldn't have como to such a pass if
wo'd dono our part, my poor old father
for one 1 can't help saying it and I
myself for nnothcr. Talk about con
tributory negligence! Wo wore neg
ligent, as well as blind. Wo didn't
know a villain when we saw one, and
we let him tnako another villain un
der our noses; and tho second one
was tho only one wo could see In his
truo colors, even then. Do you think
wo owo him nothing now? Don't you
think I owe him something, as the
only roan left to pay?"
But Blancho made no attempt to
answer his passionate questions, He
had let himself go at last; it relieved
her also in a way, for it was tho natu
ral man back again on her balcony.
Butane had set Blancho off thinking on
other lines than ho Intended
"I'm thinking of what he must have
felt ho owed Mr. Craven and and
Ethel!" sho owned.
"1 don't bother my head over either
of them," returned Cazalot harshly
"He was never a white man in his
lifetime, and she was every Inch his
daughter Scruton's tho one I pity
because I'vo suffered so much from
that man myself."
"But you don't think h did It!"
toe03 -AVCHRtu cafmy
Blancho was sharp enough to inter
rupt. "No-no-but If he had!"
"You'd still stand b him?"
"I've told you so before. I meant
to take him buck to Auatrnllu with mo
I never told you that but I meant
to take him, nnd not n soul out there
to know who ho was." He sighed aloud
over tho tragic stopper on that plan.
"And would jou still?" sho asked.
"If I could get him off."
"Guilty or not guilty?"
"Bather! "
There was neither shamo, pose, nor
hesitation about that. Blancho went
through Into tho room without a word,
but her eyes shone finely In tho lamp
light. Then sho returned with a book,
nnd stood hnlf lit tho balcony, framed
as In a panel, looking tor a place.
"You remind mo of 'The Thousandth
Man,'" she told him us sho found It.
"Who was ho?"
"Ho'b every man who doos a thou
sandth part of what you'ro doing!"
said Blancho with confidence. And
then sho read, rnthor shyly and not
too well:
"One mitn In a thousand," Solomon snyi,
"Will stick moru closo than a brother.
And It'H worth while seeking hint hair
your duys
If you find him before tho other.
Nino hundred and ninety-nine depend
On what tho world Bees In you,
Hut the Tliousnmlth Man will stund your
friend
With tho wholo round world nln you."
"I should hopo ho would," Bald Cnza
let. "If he's n man at all."
"But this Is tho bit for you," said
Blancho:
"Mb wrong's your wrong;, and liln right'
your rlh'lit.
In Reason or out of sensnn.
Stund up and back It In nil men's slfiht
With that for your only reason!
Nino hundred nnd nlncty-nlno can't bids
Thi! shiiino or iiinckliu; or laughter,
Hut tho ThuiiHandth Man will stund by
your side
To tho nulIottH-foot and after!"
Tho last words wero Italics In
Hlancho's voice, nnd It trembled, but
so did Cnzalefs as ho cried out In his
formula:
"That's the finest thing I ever heard
in nil my life! But it's true, and so
It should be. I don't tuko any credit
for it."
"Then you'ro all tho more tho thou
sandth man!"
Ho caught her suddenly by the
shoulders. His rough hands trembled;
his Jaw worked. "Look here, Blancho!
If you had n friend, wouldn't you do
tho same?"
"Yes, If I'd such a friend as all
that," sho faltered.
"You'd stand by his side 'to tho gallows-foot'
if ho was swino enough to
let you?"
"I dare say I might."
"However bad a thing it was mur
der, If you like and howovcr much
ho was mixed up In It not like poor
Scruton?"'
"I'd try to stick to him," sho snld
simply.
"Then you'ro tho thousandth wom
an," said Cazalet. "God bless you,
Blanchlo!"
Ho turned 6n his heel In tho bal
cony, nnd a mlnuto later found tho
room behind him empty. He entered,
stood thinking, and suddenly began
looking all over for tho photograph of
himself, with a beard, which ho bad
seen thcro a week before.
CHAPTER XII.
Quid pro Quo.
It was his blessing that hnd done
it; up to then she had controlled her
feelings In a fashion worthy of tho
tltlo Just bestowed upon her. If only
ho had stopped at that, and kept his
blessing to himself! It sounded so
very much moro llko a knoll that
Blanche had begun first to laugh, nnd
then to mako such a fool of herself
(as sho herself reiterated) that she
was obliged to run away in tho worst
posslblo ordor.
But that was not the end of those
four superfluous words of final bono
diction; beforo tho night was out they
had solved, to Blanche's satisfaction,
the hitherto Impenetrable mystery of
Cazalct's conduct
Ho had done something In Austra
lia, something that flxod a gulf be
tween him and her. Blancho did not
mean something wrong, much less a
crime, least of all any sort of com
pllclty In tho groat crime which had
been committed while ho was on bis
way home. But sho believed tho
worst ho had dono wns to emulate
his friend. Mr. Potts, and to get en
gaged or porhnps actually married to
somebody In tho bush.
There was no reason why ho should
not; thcro never hnd been any sort
or kind of understanding between her
self nnd him; it was only as lifelong
friends that they had written to each
other, and that only once a year. Life
long friendships nro traditionally fatal
to romance Thoy had both been
freo as air; and If ho was free no
longer, sho had absolutely no cause
for complaint, ovon If sho was fool
enough to feel It.
All this she saw quite cloarly In her
very honest heart And yet, he might
have told her; he need not nave flown
to sco her, tho Instant Tto landed or
set mod mi overjoyed, and such n boy
again, or made so much of her and
their common memories! Ho need not
have begun begging her, In a mlnuto,
to go out to Australia, and then never
have mentioned It again: he might
JtiHt as well havo told her If he had ot
hoped to havo n wife to welcome Iter!
Of course ho saw It afterward, him
self; that was why tho wholo subject
of Australia had been dropped so sud
denly and for good. Moat likely ho
had married beneath htm; if so, sho
was very sorry, but he might havo said
that ho was married.
Curiously enough, It wns over Mar
tha that sho felt least able to forglvo
him. Mnrtlm would say nothing, but
her unspoken denunciations of Caza
let would bo only ltss Intolerable than
her unspoken sympathy with Blancho.
Martha had been perfectly awful about
the wholo thing. And Mnrtha had com
mitted tho lliial outrage of being per
fectly right, from her Idiotic point of
view.
Now among all these meditations of
n long night, and of a still longer day,
In which nobody even troubled to send
her word of tho caso tit Kingston, it
would be too much to say that no
thought of Hilton Toye ever entered
the mind of Blnncho. Sho could not
help liking him; ho amused her Im
mensely; nnd ho hnd proposed to her
twice, and warned her ho would agnln
Sho felt the forco of his warning, be
causo bIio felt his forco of character
"I Guess I'm Not Fit to Speak to You,"
He Said.
and will. ' Sho literally felt these
forces, as actual emanatlonu from tho
strongest personality that had ever
impinged upon her own.
In tho day of reaction, such consid
erations wero bound to steal In as
slnglu spies, each with a certain con
solation, not altogether Innocent of
comparisons. But tho battalion of
Toyo's virtues only marched on
Blancho when Mnrtha camo to her, on
tho llttlo green rug of a' lawn behind
tho house, to say that Mr. Toyo him
solf hnd called and was In tho drawing-room
Blancho stole up past tho door, and
quickly made herself smarter than sho
had ever dono by day for Wulter Caza
lot; at least sho put on n "dressy"
blouse, her calling skirt (which al
ways looked now), nnd did what sho
could to her hair. All this wns only
becnuso Mr. Toyo always camo down
as if it wero Mayfatr, and It wus rotten
to mako people feel awkward If you
could help It. So In sailed Blnncho.
In her very best for tho light of day,
to bo followed as soon as posslblo by
tho silver teapot, though sho hnd Just
had tea herself. And thcro stood Hil
ton Toye, chin bluo and collar black,
his trousers all kneos and creases, ex
actly as ho had Jumped out of tho boat
train. "I guess I'm not fit to speak to you,"
ho Bald, "but that's Just what I've
como to do for tho third tlmo!"
"Oh, Mr. Toyo!" cried Blanche,
really frightened by the face that
mado his meaning clear. It relaxed
a little as sho shrank Involuntarily,
but tho compassion In his eyes and
mouth did not lesson their steady de
termination. "I didn't have tlmo to mako myself
presentable," ho explained. "I thought
you wouldn't havemo waste a moment
If you understood tho situation. I
want you to promise to marry me
right now!"
Blanche began to breatho again.
Evidently he was on the eve of yet an
other of hlB Journeys, probably back
to America, and ho wanted to go over
engaged; at first she had thought he
had bad news to break to her, but thli
was no worso than sho had heard be
fore. Only It was moro dlfllcult to
cope with him; everything was differ
cnt, and ho so much moro pressing
and precipitate Sho had never mot
thla Hilton Toyo beforo. Yes; she
wna distinctly friEhtenod by him. But
in a minute sho had ceased to bo
frlghtoned of horsolf; Bho know her
own mind once more, and spoko It
much aa ho had spoken his, qulto com
passionately, but Just as tcrBely to
tho point.
"Ono moment," he Interrupted. "I
said nothing about my feelings, be
cause thoy'ro a kind of Btale proposi
tion by this tlmo; but for form's sako
1 may stato thero's no chungo there,
except in tho only direction I gucBS a
porson'fl feelings nro llnblo to chango
toward you, Miss Blanche! I'm a worso
case than over, if that makcB any dif
ference." Blanche shook her yellow head.
"Nothing can," sho said. "Thcro must
be no possible mistake about It this
time, because I want you to be Try
good and novor ask me again.
(TO BB CONTINUED.)
ill IN b' I IIW- 1XJL
BACKACHE AND KIDNEYS
Dear Mr. Editor:
For the benefit of others, 1 gladly
glvo this statement regarding tho
merits of "Anurlc." Am nearly 7(5
years of ago. I suffered from back
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kidneys. I can safely say thnt "An
urlc," tho now discovery of Dr. Plcrco,
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I havo ever taken for thuBo nlltncntn.
Signed Mrs. N. M. Flint.
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BTd" WAR BRIBES ON RECORD
Tempting Offers Made to Command-
inn Officers That Have Deen
Occasionally Accepted.
Tho biggest war In history has been
responsible for some of thu biggest
bribes In history. Germany, for In
stance, gave Turkey .C 10.000.000 In
hard cash nnd tho promise of hugn
territorial possessions for coming In
on her Bide. Wo offered to make over
Cyprus to Greece If sho would side
with us; but tho bribe, apparently,
was not considered big enough, Lou
don Tit-Bits says,
Toward the end of tho Uussn-Jap-nncHu
war It was freely asserted that
General Stoesnol was bribed Into Bur
rendering Port Arthur. Tho accusa
tion sounds ridiculous enough on tho
fnco of It. Yet It must not bo forgot
ten thnt tho same thing was said about
Marshal llazalue's surrender of the
fortress or Metz In tho war of 1870-71.
Tho unhappy olllcer was put upon his
trlul nnd a lot of ovldenco bearing
upon tho matter was brought forward,
tho actual amount pnld over ns a brlbo
by tho German Intelligence olllcer who
engineered tho deal being put ut nq
less n sum than : 21 0,000.
Ilnalne was found guilty and sen
tenced tt) denth, but ho wnn never ex
ecuted, and Investigation undertaken
long afterward would seem to show that
ho was tho victim of n mlscnrrlngo
of Justice. Thero is no doubt, though,
about tho surrender of Sclo to tho
Turks In lSL'L' for a bribe of X 170,000
a colossal crime, and ono that was
directly responsible for ono of tho
most frlghtlul musimcrcH recorded In
modern history.
Flncm Besplce.
Swlggs Poor old .IngHby is no
niorq.
Brlggs Died from drink, I supposo?
Swlggs Yes; iipliltud away, as It
wore
All He Wanted and More.
"Did you ever have all yer wanted
of anything?"
"Yes; two things ad vico and wa
That "Wade Right In"
Feeling
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the whole wheat and malted barley food, provides all
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mineral salts phosphate of potash, etc. lacking in the
diet of many, but which are necessary for balanced up
keep of body, brain and nerves.
Grape-Nuts has a delicate nut-like flavour; 3 always
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tt
There's
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TOO SEVERE A PUNISHMENT
Tramp Objected to So Long a Sojourn
In a Town That Shall Re
main Nameless.
A certain town not tho ono you live
In, dear reader, but It's nearest nnd
dearest rival- was noted for being
dead slow. Thero was no amusement
In thu place, not even so much as a
movlng-plcturo show, anil ovcrybody
want to bed at nlnu o'clock every night
because there was no other plnco to
go.
Ono dny n tramp was caught beg
ging In the streets of this town and
was promptly arrested and arraigned
boforo tho Justice of tho pence.
After hearing the ovldenco tho mn
Istratu put on his sternest look and
said: "It appears fro.n thu testimony
presented hero thnt you aro n vngrant
without visible menus of support In
order that you may not become a
charge upon tho taxpayers ot a ro
spcctublo community I sentenco you to
lenvo this town in tbrco hours."
"Aw Judge," pleaded tho tramp,
with a look of abject terror on hla
fnco, "have a heart, won't yer? I
didn't do nutlilu' but ask a guy for a
nickel. Plenso don't ranko mo stuy la
dls burg all dat tlmo. Mako It throe
minutes, .ludgo, can't ycrV"
Out of the State.
A dlshevuled citizen rushed Into a
pnllco stutlon urn! shouted for vongo
mice. "Tho nutomobllo that hit mo II vo
minutes ago wait No. 111-11," ho splut
tered. "I can prove that hu was exceeding
tho speed limit, and I want 1 want "
"You want a warrant for his ar
rest?" "Warrant nothing! What good
would a warrant do mo nt thu rata
ho was going? I want extradition pa
pers." Frank A. Vnnderllp, president of tho
National City bank In Now York city,
is a machinist by trndo.
If you nro In a hurry uvold the train
of thought
a Reason"
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