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GREAT SPEAR HEAD CONTEST.
Ons Hundred and Seveni;-TI;ree Thousand Two Hundred and Fill) Dollars,
$173,250.00
In valuable Presents to be Civen Away in Return for
SPEAR HEAD TAGS.
1,155 STEM WINDING ELGIN GOLD WATCHES.834,G50 00
5,775 FINE IMPORTED FRENCH OPERA GLASSES, MOROCCO BODY,
BLACK ENAMEL TRIMMINGS, GUARANTEED ACHROMATIC... 28.S75 00
23,100 IMPORTED GERMAN BUCKHORN HANDLE, FOUR BLADED
POCKET KNIVES. 23,100 00
1 1 5,500 ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM ROTARY TELESCOPE TOOTH
PICKS. 57,750 00
1 1 5,500 LARGE PICTURES <14x28 inches) IN ELEVEN COLORS, for framing,
no advertising on them. 28.875 00
261,030 Prizes, amounting to.$173,250 oo
The above articles will be distributed, by conntien, among parties who chew SPEAR
HEAD Plug Tobacco, and return to us the TIN TAGS taken therefrom.
We will distribute 226 of these prizes in this county as follows:
To THE PARTY sending us the greatest number of SPEAR HEAD
TAGS from this county we will give.1 GOLD WATCH.
To the FIVE PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of
SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each, 1 OPERA GLASS....5 OPERA GLASSES.
To the TWENTY PARTIES sending us the next greatest number
of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1 POCKET
KNIFE.20 POCKET KNIVES.
To the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest
number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1
ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM TOOTH PICK.100 TOOTH PICKS.
io the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest
number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each l
LARGE PICTURE IN ELEVEN COLORS.100 PICTURES.
Total Number of Prizes for tbis County, 228.
CAUTION.—No Tags will be received before January 1st, 1894, nor after February 1st,
1894. Each package containing tags must be marked plainly with Name of Sender, Town,
County, State, and Number of Tags In each package. All charges on packages must be
prepaid.
READ.—SPEAR HEAD possesses more qualities of intrinsic value than any other
piug tobacco produced. It is the sweetest, the toughest, the richest. SPEAR HEAD is
absolutely, positively and distinctively different in flavor from any other plug tobacco.
A trial will convince the most skeptical of tbis fact. It is the largest seller of any similar
shape and style on earth, which proves that it has caught the popular taste and pleases the
people. Try it, and participate in the contest for prizes. See that a TIN TAG is on every
10 cent piece of SPEAR HEAD you buy. Seud In the tags, no matter how small the
miantity. \ ery sincerely,
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A list <>f the people obtaining these prizes in this county will bo published in this
paper immediately after February 1st, 1S94.
don't :e;;d any Tio beto-ie mm.i 1.is34.
••In spite of you all,” she cried, de
fiantly, ••! will give my soul to have
him safe!”
Sometuing was close to her. She
turned and saw Koyork Arabian at
her elbow. There was an odd smite
on his usually unexpressive face.
“Th*n give me that soul of yours,
if you please,” he &aid. "Ifo is quite
safe and peacefully asleep. You must
have grown a little nervous while I
was away.”
CHAPTER X.
NORN A let
herself sink in
to a chair. She
stared almost
vacantly at Ke
york, then
glanced uneasi
ly at the mo
tionless speci
mens, then
stared at him
again.
“Yes,” she
said at last.
“Perhaps I was
a little nervous.
Why did you
lock me in? I
wouia nave gone witn you. i would
have helped you.”
“An accident—quite an accident,”
answered Keyork, divesting himself
of his fur coat. “The lock is a pecul
iar one, and in my hurry I forgot to
show you the trick of it.”
“I tried to get out,” said Unorna
with a forced laugh “I tried to
break the door down with a club, I
am afraid I have hurt one of your
specimens.”
She looked about the room. Kvery
thing was in its usual position except
the body of the African. She was
quite sure that when she had heard
that unearthly cry the dead faces had
all been turned toward her.
“It is no matter,” replied Keyork
in a tone of indifference which was
genuine. “I wish somebody would
take iqjr collection off my hands. I
should have room to walk about with
out elbowing a failure at every step.”
“I wish you would bury them all,”
suggested Unorna, with a slight shud
der.
Keyork looked at her keenly.
* ‘Do you mean to say that those
dead things frightened you?” he
asked, incredulously.
“No; I do not. I am not easily
frightened. But something odd hap
pened—the second strange thing that
has happened this evening. Is there
any one concealed in this room?”
“Not a rat—much less a human be
ing. Rats dislike creosote and cor
rosive sublimate, and as for human
beings-■”
He shrugged his shoulders and
smiled.
“Then-I have been dreaming,” said
Unorna, attempting to look relieved.
“Tell me about him. Where is he?”
“In bed—at his hotel. He will be
perfectly well to-morrow”.
“Did he wake?” she asked anxious
ly
“Yes. We talked together.”
“And he was in his right mind?”
“Apparently. But he seemed to
have forgotten something.”
“Forgotten! What? That I had
made him sleep?”
“Yes, he has forgotten that, too.”
“In heaven's name, Keyork, tell
me what you mean! Do not keep
me—”
“How impatient women are!” ex
claimed Keyork, with exasperating
calm. “What is that you most want
him to forget?”
“You cannot mean—”
“I can and I do. Ho has forgotten
Beatrice. For a witch—well, you are
a very remarkable one, Unorna. As
a woman of business-” He shook
his head.
‘ What did you mean this time?
What did you say?” Her questions
came in a strained tone and she
seemed to have difficulty in concen
trating her attention, or in controlling
her emotions, or both.
“You paid a large price for the in
formation,” observed Keyork.
What price? What are you speak
ing of? 1 do not understand.”
“Your soul,” he answered, with a
laugh. ‘ -That was what you offered
to any one who would tell you that
the Wanderer was safe. I immedi
ately closed with your offer. It was
an excellent one for me.”
Unorna tapped the table impatient
ly
“I am tired of your kind of wit,”
she said.
“The kind of wit which is called
wisdom is said to be fatiguing,” he
retorted.
“I wish you would give me an
opportunity of being wearied in that
way.”
“Begin by opening your eyes to
facts, then. It is you who are trying
to jest. It is I who am in earnest.
Did you, or did you not, offer youx
soul for a certain piece of informa
tion? Did you, or did you not, hear
those dead things moan and cry?
Did you, or did you not, see them
move?”
“llow absurd!” cried Unorna.
“You might as well ask whether, when
one is giddy, the room is really going
round. Is there any practical differ
ence, so far as sensation goes, be
tween a mummy and a block of
wood?”
“That, my dear lady, is precisely
what we do not know and what we
most wish to know.”
“But how do you know what hap
pens when decay is not only arrested
but prevented before it has begun?
How can you foretell what may hap
pen when a skillful hand has restored
the tissues of the body to their orig
inal flexibility or preserved them in
the state in which they were last sen
sitive?”
“Nothing can ever make me be
lieve that a mummy can suddenly
hear and understand, said Unorna;
“much less that it can move and pro
ft
duce a sound. 1 know that the idea
has possessed you for many years,
but nothing will make mo believe it
possible."
“And on the ground of temporary
insanity you would repudiate the bar
gain?”
Unorna shrugged her shoulders im
patiently and bi 1 not answer. Keyork
relinquished the fencing.
“Keyork, do you believe that the
souls of the dead can come back to
us? she filially asked.
Keyork Arabian was silent for a
few seconds.
“I know nothing about it," he an
swered.
“But what do you think?”
“Nothing. Either it is possible or
it is not, and until the one proposition
or the other is proved I suspend my
judgment. Have you seen a ghost?”
“I do not know. I have seen some
thing—” she stopped, as though the
recollections were unpleasant.
“Then,” said Keyork, the probabil
ity is that you saw a living person.
Shall I sura up the question of ghosts
forvou?”
“I wish you would, in some way
that I can understand.’’
“We are, then, in precisely the
same position with regard to the be
lief in ghosts, which we occupy tow
ard such questions as the abolition of
death. The argument in both cases
is inductive and all but conclusive.
We do not know of any case, in the
200 generations of men, more or less,
with whose history we are in
some degree acquainted, of any in
dividual who has escaped death. We
conclude that all men must die. Sim
ilarly we do not know certainly—not
from real, irrefutable evidence, at
least—that the soul of any man or
woman dead has ever returned visibly
to earth. We conclude, therefore,
that none ever will. There is a differ
ence in the two cases which throws a
slight balance of probability on the
side of the ghost. Many persons have
asserted that they have seen ghosts,
though none have ever asserted that
men do not die. For my own part, I
have had a very wide, practical and
intimate acquaintance with dead peo
ple—sometimes in very queer places—
but I have never seen anything even
faintly suggestive of a ghost. There
fore, my dear lady, 1 advise you to
take it for granted that you have seen
a living person.”
“I never shivered with cold nor felt
my hair rise upon my head at the sight
of any living thing,” said Unorna,
dreamily, and still shading her eyes
with Her hand.
“You are quite sure that it was not
really a woman?”
“Would awoman—and of all women
that one—have come and gone with
out a word?”
“Not unless she is a very singularly
reticent person," answered Keyork,
with a laugh. “But you need not go
so far as the ghost theory for an ex
planation. You were hypnotized, my
dear friend, and he made you see her.
That is as simple as anything need
be.”
“But that is impossible—because
—” Unorna stopped and changed
color.
“Because you had hypnotized him
already,” suggested Keyork, gravely.
“The thing is not possible,” Unorna
repeated, looking away from him.
“I believe it to be the only natural
explanation. You had made him
sleep. You tried to force his mind to
something contrary to its firmest be
liefs. I have seen you do it. He is
a strong subject. Ilis mind rebelled,
yielded, then made a final and des
perate effort and then collapsed. That
effort was so terrible that it moment
arily forced your will back upon it
self, and impressed his vision on your
sight. There are no ghosts, my dear
colleague. There are only souls and
bodies. If the soul can be defined as
anything it can be defined as pure
being in the mode of individuality,
but quite removed from the mode of
matter.”
“You are a most comforting person,
Keyork,” said Unorna, with a faint
smile. -T only wish I could believe
everything you tell me.”
“You must believe me or renounce
all claim to intelligence,” answered
the little man climbing from his chair
and sitting upon the table at her el
bow. His short, sturdy legs swung
at a considerable height above the
floor, and he pla nted his hands firmly
upon the boards on each side of him.
The attitude was that of an idle boy.
and was so oddly out of keeping with
his ago and expression that Unorna
almost laughed as she looked at him.
“At all events,” he continued, “you
do not doubt my absolute sincerity.
You come to me for an explanation.
I give you the only sensible one that
exists, and the only one that can have
a sedative effect upon your excite
ment. Of course, if you have any
special object in believing in ghosts—
if it affords you any great and lasting
pleasure to associate, in imagination,
with specters, wraiths and airly ma
licious shadows—I will not cross your
fancy.”
“Perhaps you are right.
“Will you allow rue to say some
thing frank, Unorna?” said Keyork
with unusual diffidence.
“If you can manage to be frank
without being brutal.”
“It will be short, at all events. It
is this. I think you are becoming
superstitious.” He watched her close
ly to see what effect the speech would
produce. She looked up quickly.
“Am I? What is superstition?”
“Gratuitous belief in things not
proved.”
“I expected a different definition
from you.”
“Seriously, Unorna, I am not the
devil. I can prove it to you conclu
sively on theological grounds.”
“Can you? They ray that his maj
esty is a lawyer, and a successful one,
in good practice.”
[Continued on page 5.]
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