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PAGE SIX THE SP1UNGFIELD NEWS Copvrivt.'All Rights Reserved CHAPTER XIII Continued. ;-' j "Most extraordinary." said the eoro 'per. Strychnine. doubtless. We can't do much for Mm, I'm afraid. We might try "some mustard and hot wa ter. Mrs. Arthurs." "Take your time. Llf whispered Arthurs. "You may save your coun try a Ions board bill." But Lilian Arthurs' abhorrence of Gardiner's per fidy had been overwhelmed In a wave Of sympathy for a suffering fellow be ing. She hurried to the kitchen, whtle the men of the party filed down the stairs and out luto the yard. John 'Harris was the last to leave the bouse, and he walked slowly, with bare, bowed head. Into the group who were excitedly discussing the amarlng ntnr events had taken. He took no part In their conversation, but stood a little apart, plunged deep In his own Inward struggle. At last he turned and called his wife In the kitchen door. "Bring Beu lah." he said. The two women Joined him. At first Harris stood with face averted, but In a moment be spoke In a clear, quiet voice, "I havent played the gome fair with you two." he said, "and I want to say so now. Perhaps It would be truer to say that I played the wrong game. Twenty-five years have proved it was the wrong game. Now. without a penny, I cun start Just where I start ed 25 years ago. The only difference la that I am an old man Instead of a young oue. I'm going .to take an other homestead and start again, at Ihe right game. If Mary will start with me." She put her hand In his, and her eyes were bright ngaln with the Are of youth. "You know there Is only one answer, John," she whispered. Harris called Travers over from the group of metK "There's one thing more." he con tinued. "When I started I had only a wife to keep, and I don't Intend to take any bigger responsibility now. Allan will be having a homestead of his own. Jim Travers, I am speaking to you! I owe you an apology for some things and an explanation for some things, but I'm going to square the debt with the only gift I have left." The light breeze tossed the hair of Beulab's uncovered head, and the light of love and health glowed In her face and thrilled through the fine symmetry of her figure. "Take her, Jim," he said. "She Is a goodly gift," said the young man reverently. "You think so now," said her father. "You know nothing about It. In twenty-five years you will .know Just bow great a gift she Is or she will not be worthy of her mother." ' Harris and his wife were gazing with unseeing eyes Into the mountains when Arthurs handed them a letter. "It came In the mall which the boys brought out this morning," be said, "and I forgot all about It until this minute." It was from Bradshaw. narrls opened It Indifferently, but the first few lines aroused his Interest, and be read It eagerly to the end. "My dear Harris," It ran, "on re ceipt of your telegram I Immediately opened negotiations through my con nections looking to the sale of your farm with Its crop and equipment, complete as a going concern. I suc ceeded in getting an offer of the $40, 000 you Fet on It, und had all the pa mpers drawn up. when I discovered that ) among us we hnd made a serious emis sion. You will remember that, a good many years ago, when you were tak ing on 60tne fresh obligations, you transferred the homestead Into your wife's name. I assured the purchaser v that there would be no difficulty about getting title from your wife, but ah all the buildings are on the homestead ' quarter he would agree to nothing bet ter than paying $20,000 for the rest of your land, leaving the homestead ' quarter, with the buildings, stock end Implements out of the transaction. As ? bis price seemed a fair one for the : balance of the property, and as I as sumed your peed of the money was urgent, I closed a deal on that basis, cashed the agreement and remitted 1 the proceeds to you at once by wire. ' I trust my actions in the matter met ; witb your approval. " 'Yours sincerely, "GEORGE) BltADSnAW." ' Harris placed the letter In the . hands of bis wife. She tried to read It, but .great, happiness enveloped hmr as a flood"- sod the tvoe written A.iifif at 3 TKt tow RinchenTfC UluftrcrtionJ fry Irwin yerr characters seemed to swim before her. "What does It mean. John?" she asked, noting hU restrained excitement. "What does It mean?" "It means that the homestead quar ter was not sold after all that It la still yours, with the buildings, and ma chinery, and stock, and this ear's crop Just ready for cutting." She raised her eyes to his. "Si til cum, John, you mean. Still ours." In the rapid succession cf events everyone seemed to have forgotten, or disregarded, Gardiner. But at this moment the doctor came rushing out of the house. "Gardiner's gone I" he . exclaimed, as he came up to the men. Some of the party removed their bats. "Oh. not that way not thut way!" exclaimed the doctor. "I mean he's gone .skipped beat It, If you under stand. Most extraordinary I I was taking his pulse.' It was about normal, and he seemed resting easier,' so I slipped downstairs for the antidote. When I went back I was only gone a moment there wasn't a alght or sound of him." Sergeant Grey conducted a swift examination, not of Gardiner's room, hut of the one In which Allan was ly ing. , He was rewarded by finding the little slip of paper, with a few crys tals of powder still clinging to It. The coroner examined the crystals through his magnifying glass; then, somewhat dubiously, raised them on a moistened finger to his tongue, and after a mo ment's hesitation swallowed In an Im pressive, scholarly fuslilon. "Saccharum album!" be exclaimed. "Common w hite sugar I Most extraor dinary!" But Sergeant Grey was at the open window. It was only un eight-foot drop to the soft earth, and to the po liceman there was no longer any mys tery In Gardiner's disappearance. The mock suicide was a carefully-plunned ruse to be employed by Gardiner If the worst came to the worst. ' "I want all of you men, and n horse for each," said Grey, quickly, turning upon them like a general marshaling his officers. "There are a dozen differ ent trails he may follow, and ne must put a man on each. I will give Imme diate pursuit. In the hope of riding him down before he can throw us off the scent and I will leave It to you, Mr. Arthurs, to organize the po-e and scour the whole country until he Is lo cated." Grey knew that the main rond. If followed far enough, dwindled Into a pack trail, which In turn seined to lose Itself In the fastnesses of the moun tains, but In reality opened Into a pass leading through the range. He gave Gardiner credit for knowing as much, and concluded that the fugitive would make a bolt straight througa the mountains. An hour's hard riding brought him Into a tremendously rough country, where the trail at times was nothing more than a narrow defile or ledge, and sheer walls of rock rose thou sands of feet above, their giant edges cutting the blue sky like the teeth of a mighty saw. Fur below, a ribbon of green, and white, the river rolled In Its canyon. Here and there a thin stream of water sprayed down the mountain side, cutting n damp, treacherous belt across the trull. But at one such spot Grey's heartf leaped within hlra, for there, unmistakably clear In the thin soil and soft rock, were the marks of a horse's shoe, not an hour old. A few minutes later he saw Gardiner swinging round a pur of rock half s mile further up the pass. Suddenly, at a turn In the path, bis eye caught a sight which made him throw his horse back on his tracks. A sheer precipice fell away a thousand feet below him. and beetling cliffs cut off the sky above. Across the path trickled a little stream. And there In the stream, so clear they could not be misread, were the marks cut by a horse's feet sliding over the preci pice. The policeman dismounted carefully. There was scarcily room for him to pass bis horse on the narrow ledge. Where the stream bad worn It It sloped downwards at an uncomforta ble angle. He knelf beside It and traced the marks of the shoe-calks with bis finger. They led over the edge. Eighteen Inches down the mountain side was a fresh scar where steel had struck a projecting corner of rock. - A thousand feet below the green water slid and swirled In tlio bed of the canyon. , TUB END. MitMtnitiinttHHtttMiHitfninitiHMiiniiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiHtiniHtmHiunminniiiiinw SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT By F A. WALKER n i iTTiTItiniTrn 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 fu i ii Ifi i ft 1 1 1 1 iTili 1 1 tnTmTilTtTn lTiTi I i ill in 1 1 1 li 1 1 i i il fi til f HI it 1 1 1 1 iH l'ACIMJ THE Ml'.HIC. I t'ST when or under what rlrcum J stances the expression "facing the music," originated Is, so fur as I know, unrelated history, hut one thing Is certain. It Is one of the most cxprcs slve of the many pungent American Isms that a nation apt la coining phrases has originated. I suspect that It had some sort of a military application In the begin ning, that It meant that a soldier should always face the front where the band was playing sod where Ihe action was going on. There are, us I understand If, only Vvo explanations for a soldier being stmt In the back. One Is that one of his own men, too excited to lake proper aim, wound ed him unintentionally. The other Is that he hnd Ids buck to the enemy and was running away. The fellow that Is facing tho music never gets hit In the buck. That Is Just as true off the field of battle as It Is on It. And It proves that there Is only one way to fight and thut Is facing the foe squarely. You never can evade REAL trou ble. You may defeat It. You may overcome what seems Insuperable. But to do that you have to FIGHT It. not KEAK It. Anj t lie best way to battle any thing Is to fuce It squarely, fight It fairly. ( If you ever saw two boxer In the ring and one of them fought with the side of his body towards the other, you wilt have noticed perhaps thut the man who fouyht sideways never lauded a blow with the hand that was farthest from his opponent. If .he tried to strike with It his competitor knew long enough In ad vnnce t thoroughly guard himself against its effects. The well-trained boxer faces the music. He stands squarely In front of Ida adversary where either hand will have to travel the shortest pos sible distance to land. I Tlie man who turns away from trouble, who thinks to escape It by ovolilance, who doesn't face It brave ly and manfully Indicates a lack of courage und an absence of Judgment. Nothing will give your adversary more encouragement than the evi dence which you may display of a desire to quit. Many a man has won a fight after be has lost It simply because his op ponent gave up when ho was not de feated. There was only one man on the ships of Columbus who really made the trip from Spain to Ihe new world and that was Columbus himself. All the others quit days before the shore of San Salvador was sighted. Col umbus won because he never turned his back to the dangers, never took his eyes from looking forward, be always faced the music. There are two splendid memorials to this exhibition of sheer courage. One Is the statue of Cofurnbus In front of the great tennlnal station at Wash ington ; the other the Inspiring poem "Sail On" by Joaquin Miller. If you p!l Mother's I Cook jjTXv Book ' I Of all the earthly music that reaches farthest Into heaven, Is the beating of a truly luvlng heart. II. W. Beecher. FOOD FOR THE FAMILY. GIVE the children carrots; the young tender carrot Is rich In Iron and other minerals needed In the blood. Serve them once or twice a week In dif ferent ways so that the family will not tire of them. Cooked in as little water as possible and served with butter In their own sauce, with per haps a dash of lemon Juice and a grutlng of nutmeg, no vegetable I more wholesome or aupetlzlng. String Beans and Tomatoes. Take freshly cooked string beans end put Into a baking dish with some olive oil, chopped onion, parsley, salt and pepper. Cook slowly. As the beans dry out add the strained Juice of tomatoes. Cheese With Tomatoes. Take one cupful of. stewed tomatoes, one-half slice) of onion chopped, and one cupful of cheese cut in bits; cook cannot go to see one you can surely read the other without great trouble. If danger threaten-) joti FACE IT. If adversity threaten you FACE IT. If you hate lost your Job or your money or even your sweetheart put on the best front you know bow and battle whatever circumstance presents Itself face to face. It Is related by Sir Charles Napier that by fearlessly facing (I tiger he sent It cowering buck Into the Jungle. If he had turned away In the slightest degree bo would have been killed. The I'salmNt says. "Thou madest him (man) to have dominion over the works of Thy hand. Thou hast put all things tinder bis feet." One of the truest things ever snld by a politician was the telegram which a state of Maine man sent to a despairing candidate "Iteutember God hates a quitter." Everybody bates a quitter. A man may love and gain applause but a quitter doesn't get even sympathy. Face the music. Fight a good fight. Then, win or lose, you will have done yourself the credit of trying the best you knew how, of giving the lest that was In you. or being down, perhaps, but never out. (Copyright ) THE ROMANCE OF WOROS "SINCERE." - 'i AT FlItST glance Ihe English word "sincere" until up pear to Inixe little connection with "wax" but, by reason of a custom pretulcnt nmoiig Itotnim builder, that U precise ly where M came from. In inn lent Home workmen fre quetitly took short cut and skimped their labor. It Mug a common practice for marble worker t apply n pleco of wax to a chipped part of the stone In order to coincnl the defect made by n l haty or too care, less stroke. When the melted the wax. tho defect In the s'utuo or column or pedestal would be lit unco apparent. Meanwhile, however, the laborer hud I n paid and the purchaser would find himself with a dam aged article on his band. In time, the words "sine rem" (without wax) Ix-gun to apHar In building agreements, thu stipulating Hint the work would Im curried out by skilled workmen and completed without tho e of camouflage, Grodu ally tho term book on a broader inclining and was applied to per sona who were believed to be free from defects, who were genuine and who might bo safely trusted. In English, therefore, all that I expressed lu tho one word "sincere." Cop)rrl1l. SCHOOL DAYS corrreffr until soft and then add a teaspoonful of salt and the same amount of pap rika. Serve on toast or hot crackers. Orange Sherbet Use a pint of orange Juice, a quar ter of a cup of lemon Juice, sugar to sweeten and add one pint of cream. Freeze and serve with a garnish of candled peel or orange marmalade. ((), lSl, Wtilero Nwip.r UniuQ.) Should Have Been Pinched. Two London policemen, In order to obtain evidence against n club, played poker therein, but it was a piker's game. They lost on'y nine i-hllllngs between them. Boston Transcript. O Bear Dream Not Alarming. To dream you see a bear signifies you huve.a rich enemy, but not cun ning. To be attacked by a bear de notes persecution, which you will over throw when it seems moat hopeless. O THE CHEERFUL CHERU5 Tke world's tAl cluttered vptwitk folks I crvt escvpe- tkenr trvy plt.ee, But tKer except ir w. .J- J . cruwucu i.u j a I rt-ther like. im" a LYRICS OF LIFE By DOUCLA3 MALLOCII THE LITTLE GODS. IS MAN nil error, God all truth? I sometimes wonder. Why does God I'ut noble hearts In coats uncouth And silken raiment on a clod? Bugs for the Innocent to wear And for Ihe Jade tho salln bliuwl I see such error everywhere ' I sometimes wonder, after all. And yet I do not wonder long: This topsy-turvy Is not Ills The world of right, the world of wrong. The same today nud ever Is. If sin wears satin, virtue rugs, TIs not God's fault It Is because We sit upon our money-bag And dure to change God's very laws. Our little time we play the lord, Forgetting God, ourselves are gods. And virtue punish, sin reward, While Judgment slumbers, - Justice IIOllH, And then some duy a mighty hand ' Shall sweep us from our stolen t. throne No little gods shall rule tho land, -But. God shall rule, and men atone. The little gods are many lust, -Extravagance and Idleness, " And greed thut bathes Itself In dust. And flippant speech. Immodest nnit The lltfle gods ahull rule qwhlle Their little women, Utile men And then the Only God will smile And set tTe world to rights again, vCopyrlgat.) - .