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THE LAST DREAM.
°"N»y, Rive me back my spinning wheel,"
She prayed: "Ah, look, nty hands are
strong,
Give back the spindle and the reel —
My needs to the dead past belong—
The old-time fancies round me throng
And make me >*oung and blithe once itvore
With my spinning wheel beside the door.
"For one, upon a time like this
Came up the old, sweet orchard way.
And took our first betrothal kiss;
An hour like this, all warm and gray,
With shadows flung like dreams at play.
And long he would not go, but stayed
for love of me. his spinning maid.
"He came up through the pir.xter blows—
He lovtd the soft, unfolding flowers,
4ki.u even now, when Hesperus glows
Through the faint shadowed, fragrant
hours,
When things are sweet with drifting
showers,
i hear his step, again I feel
The ,ost thrtll of my spinning w heel.
"lie said he loved this leafy place,
And lovi d the old wheel's drowsy tunef
•Hi had the poet's tender grace—
"J'was like a—something old—a rur.e,
Some hymn-like thing, like Bonnie Doon,
While up and down, with joyous tread
1 walked and'drew my long white thread.
"And w hen 1 htar the one great call
That bids me hence, thls4s my prayer—
Togo when night's first shadows fall —
They'll hide my old gray face, ai d hair,
They'll take me in this homely chair
To where my lost love lies, ar.d make
til y grave by hi^—for old love's s.ike."
Her heart beat with the happy press
Of old remembered dreams ar.d sighs,
flrr lips were sweet with tenderness
Of love that never 112 ides or dies.
The love light of the sunset skies
t'rept up ar.d' kissed her faded eyes,
Ar.d as the white head trembled down,
Wove round it the saint's shlr.lng crown.
—Millie \V. Carpenter, in Springfield CMass.)
Republican.
A Knave of
j Conscience
I By FRANCIS LYNDE.
I
ICopyright I'JW, by Fraud* Lymlu.)
CHAPTER XVII.—CoNTiNt'ED.
Griswold's pale face flushed, and
his finger-tips tingled again. "You
«re very kind; kind and charitable.
I think sympathy has been an un
known quantity in my equation.
May I really come to see you as a
friend?"
"Haven't I said it?" she asked; and
<she might have emphasized it had
not Raymer come to take Griswold
borne.
Raymer's sorrel had covered half
the distance from the lake edge to
Mrs. Holcomb's before its owner
said:
"Well, how near do we come to
aping the manners of the effete
east?"
"I'm no authority," said Griswold;
adding as a salve: "I enjoyed it."
"Then you weren't bored?"
"1 fancy Miss Grierson doesn't
often bore people, does she?"
"No; she has a knack of stroking
you the right way. It takes her fa
ther to do the other thing."
"The magnate? I thought you
said he was a public benefactor."
"Did 1? We've told ourselves that
till we've come to believe it. But
he's principally for Jasper Grierson
at bottom."
"Naturally. Greed is the Jupfjpr
naut of this end of the century."
"Bah! That's a sheer platitude in
your mouth, Griswold. You don't
know anything about it, you men of
Setters and leisure. It's simply a
savage fight, for survival, and the
man with the money wins."
"Yes? I believe I've said some
such thing myself. But I've been
hoping you'd manage to escape."
"I might have escaped. I was do
ing well enough, but I coulcfh't
stand it to see the town growing
away from me. So I borrowed
money and spread myself; and now
I'm fighting for dear life with the
rest of them."
Griswold's comment was brief and
to the point. "Tell me about it,"he
caid.
"It's a short horse and soon cur
ried," said the iron master, bitter-
I.v. "Two months ago I borrowed
$0.1,000 of Jasper Grierson's bank. I
gave him a 00-day note and a mort
gage, with the verbal understanding
that I was to have my own time for
payment. The d 0 days will be up
Tuesday, and he has notified me that
1 must lift a third of the indebted
ness on that day."
"A third!"
es, Of course it's preposterous.
He knew all the circumstances at
the time; that the loan was a build
ing fund which couldn't bear fruit
until it was planted."
Griswold shook his head. "You
certainly took tertilic chances."
"Didn t I? It proves what a man
will do when he is greed-bitten.
And the Worst of it is that three
fourths of the original capital be
long to my •lother ami sister, and
they were both distrustful of the
•spread-eagle move with Grierson as a
backer."
Griswold was silent while the sor
rel was measuring a full square.
Then he said: "What is Grierson's
object?"
"I don't know. To break me or to
own me, 1 suppose."
"There may be an alternative;
what was it you told me this morn
ing about the little social melee?"
Raymer pulled the sorrel up short.
"Heavens! you don't suppose she
has put him up to it for that!"
"1 suppose nothing that involves
sHmk Grierson. But isn't it possible
that her father may be resentful for
her? I believe if you could persuade
your mother and Miss Gertrude t«
rail
teev liter's laugh was not mirthful.
"Votl would be the hist man in the
world to act upon a sugge th»n of
*h it, «sort yourii-lf. Griswold."
"Oh, I don't know. If it is only a
little social friction —"
"It's more than that; though why
it should be I don't know. I Relieve
my mother and Gerty would face
beggary cheerfully before they
would pay that price. Anyway, I
shant' ask them."
"What will you do?"
"If I knew 1 shouldn't be unload
ing my grief on you."
They hud reached Mrs. Holcomb's
gate and Raymer cramped the buggy
at the curb. But Griswold did not
get out. Instead he put one hand on
Raymer's knee and said: "Have you
ever thought of taking a partner?"
Raymer's smile was a mere grim
ace.
"It begins to look as if I should
have te one that 1 don't want."
"It needn't come to that. I have
some money which 1 want to invest
where it will do the most good to
the greatest number. You spoke
this morning of some plans you had
in view for the betterment of your
workmen. If you will carry them
out, and let me help, we can arrange
a little surprise for Mr. Grierson."
Raymer was stupefied, as he had a
good right to be. But lie managed
to ask how.
"In the simplest way imaginable.
Come to me to-morrow morning and
I will give you the money to take
up your note and the mortgage."
"You? But, Griswold, man, you
didn't understand me. It's ninety—
five—thousand dollars!" lie said it
slowly, so that the misunderstanding;
might be removed.
Griswold climbed out of the buggy
carefully, as befitted his weakness.
But when he turned to say good
night his grasp was the grasp of an
athlete.
"1 understand you perfectly, my
dear fellow. You shall have it all,
and a little more, if you need it.
And when you've broken the Grier
son s>"rip we'll talk about the part
nership. Good night."
CHAPTER XVIIT.
After all, it was Raymer who was
responsible for Griswold's introduc
tion to Charlotte and her aunt. It
was after the partnership—a silent
partnership by Griswold's express
condition—had been formed and
Griswold had been taken into the
Raymer household as well as into
the Raymer firm.
It was thus that he found him
self included in a family invitation
to the doctor's, and it was thus that
Raymer became his sponsor. Not
that a sponsor was greatly needed.
The good doctor had come to know
and to love his some-time patient,
and the invitation to Griswold in his
proper person had not been lacking.
It was inevitable that he should
meet Miss Farnham with some de
gree of restraint, and that the en
tire evening should scarcely suffice
for its efTaeement. As a matter of
fact it was not properly effaced un
til the time came for an adjourn
ment to the broad veranda, and the
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"YOU SHALL HAVE IT ALL."
darkness of the stariit night helped
him. lie fancied, and assured him
self a hundred times that it was
only fancy, that he could now and
then surprise a vague question in
the cool gray eyes; and with the
eyes in abeyance he felt more at
ease.
"You are new to our northern
summers, aren't you, Mr. Griswold?"
she asked, when they were comfort
ably established out of doors an<l
the general talk had subsided suf
ficienlly to admit of dialogue.
"Altogether new; and they are
very delightful, if this is an earnest.
What a charming prospect you have
here with the lake for a vista. But
for that matter, Waliaska is an ideal
place."
Her laugh had not in it the tin
kle of silver bells, like Miss Grier
son's, but it was as honest as the
gray eyes.
"ideal?—after New York?"
"After any great city. I firmly be
lieve the time will come when none
but the sordid ones will live in the
great centers."
"That would be ideal, surely. Hut
; I can't argue with you. I don't know
] any of the cities, to really know
; them. I'assintf through isn't even a
| speaking acquaintance."
"No; and yet they impress one
even at sight."
"Ves. And after all, their units
I are the units of humanity, and hu
! inanity is the same. For instance, 1
| imagine one could go over there and
Cet a very good idea of the human
1 side of New Orleans." She pointed
i to the summer resort hotel on the
i point beyond the Grierson mansion
I which had been opened within the
week.
"I presume so," he assented; and
then he asked if they ever met any
of the summer people.
"Not intentionally," she laughed,
, "They bring their own hoeial atuioi
|)liere with them and ask little <if
us. We did meet one young man la t
miminer; a Mr. Lucius llainbridge."
"Bit In bridge ?" echoed liii wold.
I "VVIM I I now that is er i UM-II to
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9 1902.
know some Bainbridges in New
York."
"Did you? Mr. Lucius Bainbridge
was from New York originally, I be
lieve. Be is a newspaper man in
New Orleans."
Griswold was struck dumb with
this fresh proof of the extreme nar
rowness of the world, and wondered
what would happen if Bainbridge
"Should perchance come again and
find him in Wahaska. He changed
the subject with a violent wrench,
and said:
"The new opera house is to be
opened next week. I wonder if the
company will be worth going to
see?"
"You surprise me," she said.
"Haven't you heard that Mr. Grier
son is to import it especially for this
occasion?"
"I hadn't heard. Ts your aunt able
togo out in the evening?"
"Not to anything as prolonged as
an opera sitting."
"Oh; I'm sorry." He turned to
Mrs. Haymcr. "Mrs. liaymer, could
you be induced to chaperon a thea
ter party next Monday evening?"
"You're too late,"was the reply.
"We are all going, and you arc in
cluded."
Griswold turned quickly to Char
lotte.
"May I call for you and your fa
ther?" She gave him permission,
and after that the tete-a-tete passed
to other things; to a gay party
steaming past in a lighted launch,
for one.
"Is that the hotel launch?" he
asked.
"No, indeed; you are quite behind
the times. That is Mr. Grierson's
boat with a party from Mereside."
The Farnham lawn sloped quickly
to the waterside, and the launch was
steaming slowly along within a
stone's throw of the group on the
veranda. The little steamer carried
its own dynamo, anil was ablaze with
electric lights. Griswold saw the
party as it passed in review; saw
Miss Grierson at the wheel in the
bow, and saw the banker lounging
in the stern sheets. With the ex
ception of her father and one other
Miss Grierson's guests were nil
young people; but Griswold caught
his breath when he recognized the
portly figure sitting erect beside the
banker. Truly, he had seen the
clean-shaven face with its long up
per lip but once, but that once was
enough. It was Mr. Andrew Gal
braith.
CHAPTER XIX.
The robbery of the Bayou bank
was already an old story when De
tective Griffin returned to New Or
leans from bis voyage to Guatemala.
He was a successful man in his call
ing, and he took up the case of the
bank robbery at once; not only foi
the reward, but because he was will
ing to try if he could not send the
shaft home after his St. Louis col
leagues had sped their arrow and
missed the mark.
lie did not begin where the St.
Louis officers had left off. lie saw
at once that the real identity of the
robber bad not been established by
the anonymous letter describing one
John Gavitt. lie suspected that the
name was a mere mask, and the
proof of this was shortly clinched
by evidence easily procured that the
real John Gavitt had died in the lit
tle lowa river town which was his
home, a short fortnight after the
date of the robbery.
Ilence it followed that Gavitt had
been impersonated in the Belle
Julie's crew by tlie escaping culprit,
and with President Galbraith's de
scription of the man for a starting
point, Griffin first searched the
"Kogues' Gallery" for a face which
might stand for the original. This
search, though it was made as care
fully as if he fully expected to find
the man's portrait in the criminal
records, was as barren of results as
he expected it would be.
"It is just about as 1 put it up,"
he said, at the end of the photo
graph inspection. "The fellow isn't
a professional at. all; be is some
hare-brained crank, and this is his
first break."
This point established, there were
two courses open; to try to trace
the man in New Orleans, and so to
determine his identity; or to take
up the lost clew in St. Louis. Since
it asked for less time, Griffin did the
latter first, and succeeded in besting
the St. Louis officers by one move.
For them the fugitive had disap
peared, handcuffed, in the runaway
carriage; for Griffin he reappeared a
little later at Mr. Abram Sonne
schein's emporium, but was lost
again when he left with his pur
chases.
Griffin went back to New Orleans,
baffled but not discouraged. As be
fore, the case turned upon llie pivot
of identity. When he should have
learned the man's name and place in
the world it would be an easy mat
ter to truck him down.
Accordingly he went to the bank
and asked again for the anonymous
letter.
"You have tried every means to
place the writer of this, Mr. Gal
braithV" he queried.
"Kverything we could think of. Tt.
might be any one of the hundred
transient customers we served that
day."
"It is a woman," hazarded Griffin,
at a venture.
"Doilbt less."
"Was there a woman in the bank
when you went with the fellow to
cash DM eh—k?"
"There was. She was nt the
teller's window."
"Did you notice her particularly?"
"Not well enough to be able t.<:
describe her. I had other things to
think of just then."
"Sure enough. What was >ht do
inifV"
"Getting- a draft cashed, I pre
sumed."
"Where would that draft be now?"
"In the possession of the issuing
bank, and probably cancelled long
since. It couldn't be traced or
identified. We've been over all that."
"Of course; but I was hoping we
might stumble upon something tiiat
had been overlooked. May I use the
'phone?"
"Certainly."
Griffin shut himself into the
'phone-box and called up the wharf
master's office on the levee.
"Ilello! Is this Kobertson? Ray,
Dick, where is the Belle Julie njw?
Up-river, you say? All right; I ain
eo/r.iug down to get you to wire
Capt. Mayfield for me."
The "wire" sent a littlo later from
the wharf-master's office asked for
a list of the Belle Julie's lady pas
sengers on that voyage which began
on the day of the robbery. GrjtTin
was not above swearing a little when
the answer came. It was a string of
twenty-odd names, and to have
speech with these twenty-odd women
meant weeks of continuous travel
for the detective.
That being the next move in the
game, however, he set about making
it methodically, beginning with
those most accessible, and working
through the list from name to
name; and at the end of weeks he
had interviewed every woman on the
list save two. These two lived in
a small inland city in Minnesota, and
when he turned his face northward
to try the final cast of the die he
was weary enough to be disheart
ened, if disheartenment had been
admissible.
It, was evening when he reached
Wahaska, and since it was too late
to do anything he promised himself
that he would smoke but a single
cigar and goto bed. But when the
cigar was alight he left the hotel to
smoke it fn the open. There was
an unusual stir in the streets, and a
question asked of a chance passer-by
evoked the reason. The new Grier
son opera house was to be opened
that night by a company imported
from Chicago for the occasion, and
everybody was going to the theater
[To Be Continued.]
THAT SETTLED HIM.
A S<n trnnin ii*m Happy Met hod of Dis
posing of Troublesome
rint'c Hunters.
A celebrated statesman had a liappy
way of ridding' himself of applicants
for diplomatic and other posts. The
son of an old friend called upon him
one day to bespeak his influence in
getting him an important embassy,
relates London Tit-Bits.
"Mr. F ," said the minister, mo
tioning his visitor to a chair, "I am
glad you called."
"Thank you, my lord."
"You are one of the few people to
whom I feel under obligation."
"It's very good of you to say so. J
called to see—"
"It is an obligation which T feel deep
ly, and which I always hope to feel."
"Perhaps you exaggerate," the hope
ful visitor said, in an effort to be mod
est.
"Xo; I don't. You are one of the few
people of my acquaintance who nevei
asked me for an appointment."
And the applicant was so embar
rassed that in a few moments he took
his hat and left.
Humor of Major Yennble.
Maj. Bichard M. Venable, of Balti
more, is one of the leading lawyers
of the south, and one of the most
distinguished lecturers on law in
Maryland. He is a Virginian who
went to Baltimore after the war, and
who has become identified with the
city. In the recent reform move
ment, which won, and which saved
the people a great deal of money, lie
was elected to one of the most re
sponsible positions in the municipal
legislature, the presidency of tlin
council branch which had to do with
the budget. There is probably no
keener wit in the whole country. He
has the dry, solemn manner which ac
centuates his points, and some of
his puns have, become famous. For
instance, after u trip to England and
Egypt he was speaking of the things
that impressed him in both coun
tries—in one, of fields and flowers;
in the other, the rows of preserved
bodies. "Indeed," he said, very sober
ly, "the mummies of Egypt Seemed to
be almost as numerous as the pop
pies of England."—Harper's Weekly.
A Medieval Snrvlvnl.
The inhabitants of a far-away vil
lage in Surrey have been enjoying a
quaint medieval survival in the sale
by auction of a local meadow. Long
ago, when the world was not so busy
as it is to-day, the landlord of the
"White Brown Meadow" at Bourne
bequeathed the meadow subject to
an auction sale which every now and
again adds to the gayety of this
rural population. At each bid a boy
sets out to run ton given point, and
the "White Brown Meadow" is let to
the bidder whose offer is unchal
lenged when the last boy returns.
Equally curious is the candle-light
auction at Wharton in Warwickshire,
where the rig-lit of grazing upon the
roadside and the common lands is
sold each year to the men who blda
highest before the last flicker of a
candle dies away. As the tallow
candle burns away the Lidding be
gins, and the road-surveyor, who nets
as auctioneer, encourages the bidder*
with such phrases as "(let oil, gen
tlemen, please; the light's burning."
—St. .lames' (iuzette.
\«-LN II liorl Y I. HYP.
No man on earth can love hi*
neighbor as himself if he has a gar
deu and the aforesaid neighbor
keens chickens. ( hiciufo ikuilv New .
DURABILITY OF WOODS.
SclenUflc Experiment* from llif lie
lulu of Which Many ('radical
Reason* May lie Lrurncd.
Experiments have been lately made
by driving sticks, made of different
woods, each two feet long and one and
one-half inches square, into the
ground, only one-half an inch project
ing outward. It was found that in five
years all those made of oak, elm, ash,
fir, soft mahogany, and nearly every
varioty of pine, were totally rotten.
Larch, hard pine and teak wood were
decayed 011 the outside only; while
acacia, with the exception of being
also slightly attacked 011 the exterior,
was otherwise sound. Hard mahogany
and cedar of Lebanon were in tolerably
good condition; Virginia ce
dar was found as good as when putin
the ground. This is of some impor
tance to builders, showing what woods
should be avoided and what others
used by preference in underground
work. The duration of wood when
kept drj" is very great, as beams still
exist which are known to be nearly
1,100 years old. I'iies driven by the
Itomans prior to the Christ ian era have
been examined of late and found to be
perfectly sound after an immersion of
nearly 2,000 years. The wood of some
tools will last longer than the metals,
as in spades, hoes ami plows. In other
tools the wood is first gone, as in wag
ons, wheelbarrows and machines. Such
wood should be painted or oiled; the
paint not only looks well, but pre
serves the wood. Petroleum oil is as
good as any other. Hardwood stumps
decay r in five or six years,' spruce
stumps decay in about the same time,
hemlock stumps in eight to nine years,
cedar eight to nine years, pine stump.-:
never. Cedar, oak, yellow pine and
chestnut are the, most durable woods
in dry places.—Boston Budget.
Some Facts About Mom.
A familiar belief is that moss grows
chiefly on the north side of trees. The
notion is not established by science,
and an examination of many trees has
shown Prof. Henry Kraemer, a Phila
delphia botanist, that ten per cent,
had the moss on the west side, ten per
cent, on the northwest side, ten per
cent, on the north side, 20 per cent,
on the northeast side. 35 per cent, on
the east side, and 15 per cent, on the
southeast side.
FLAT-ROOFED MOUSE FOR NARROW LOT
ErjaMrE perspective view and floor plans This house as here shown ear. be erected
II as here showr. represent plans ar.d dc- In most locations for about $1,200.
signs for a very r.i-at. attractive and The floors throughout are of hard N. O.
low priced Hat-roof dwelling house, suit- pine flooring boards, tir.ely tongued ar.d
able for a narrow lot. grooved.
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A LOW-PRICED HOUSE FOU XARIIOW TOWN LOT.
Ther? Is a cellar under the entire hous* | The walls are all plastered with patent
built of brick walls, with ceniLiit lloors, ; plaster white finish. .
etc., complete. All of the trim throughout Is of cypress,
The entire frame is built of hemlock tim- I finished in the natural wood, with oiu gouU
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b rari! unktl I >n*pl#t«, wlliilwtM Mil . n 11 rs and two good ooata ol
•Uied. |i ip< r«<t and shlnglnd as *ho«n In Interior varnish.
ih<- ph I' >- 'or ihl- 1 hi •• are
Tlu ti.ili root I covertd with tin, a#. , u b> St.u.ii :• A I* unU, architect, ol
Veieh I ami "l<sl. |aw Uro if, Kcw Vorfc city.
ROTARY CONCRETE MIXZR.
Deal Kited to Replnre (hp It 1,1 Iky and
Clumsy MISIIIK Hoards >nvv iu
General I ic,
VVJiile the apparatus shown below
may look a little like a cannon, it is
intended for the more peaceful service
of laying and repairing- street pave
ments. With the machine concrete
can be mixed rapidly and discharged
at intervals as needed, the feeding of
the material and rotation of ilio
mixer not intereferingin any way \\ ith
the delivery. As will be seen, a rotary
drum i* mounted 011 rollers on a sup
porting carriage, with a discharge out
let at one end and a charging opening
at the other. The stone, cement and
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IMPROVED CONCRETE MIXEK.
water are fed into the hopper at the
rear end as tlie-drum is revolved, power
being obtained either from a electric
motor connected to the trolley wire
or from a steam engine. As the mate
rial becomes thoroughly mixed and
ready for discharge the pivoted beam
on which the drum rests is tilted for
ward. without interfering with the
rotation of the mixer, which then de
livers a portion of its contents into
a barrow set beneath the mouth, to
be wheeled to the exact spot where it
is needed in preparing the roadway,
or by keeping the machine in close
touch with the workmen the concrete
may be delivered direct to the road
bed without further handling. As the
machine can be built with a large ca
pacity and is thorough in its work it
will probably be found more econom
ical in use than the flat mixing boards
on which the concrete is now com
monly mixed with hoes in the handa
of laborers. William J. Judd, of New
York city, is the patentee.—Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Conking ItcilaooN Men! Hulk.
Meat in cooking loses much of
its bulk from evaporation small
pieces more than large. In late experi
ments a pound piece of lean beef lost
45.0 per cent, in weight, but a five
pound piece was reduced only 30.8 per
cent. Loss in nutrition was mueli less
than this would indicate.