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8ATURDAY, July 18, 19CA
CHAPTER II. (continued).
"Look here," he said. "You don't
understand. I'm not joking. If my
mother is here, she knows all you
don't."
"As head of the family, I claim a
right to be told anything I ought to
know which I don't know."
Guy exhibited the first signs of im
patience.
"There are certain things which
can't be told. You're right. I'm a
fool, more fool than knave, perhaps,
although that.is not quite clear to mo.
I've made a mess of my life—and I
know it I mean I'm beginning to
khow it. When I left the court room
this afternoon I thought the worst
was over. It isn't. And I've dono
you an injury disgraced the name
which is yours and," he looked at
Cynthia, "hers. No man had ever
better chances. -Well, I'm sorry you
must always believe that."
"Always," said Cynthia the tears
were in her eyes.
"If you're really sorry," said Ed
ward, "come home with us, and begin
again."
Guy glanced from husband to wife.
The only home he had ever Known
belonged to them. The very word
caught at his heartstrings. Then he
skid heavily:
"I am to choose between her," he
glanced at the photograph, "and you."
"Yes," said Edward. "Between her
and—us."
"She is waiting for me now."
."You choose her'"
"Yes."
Cynthia rose quickly and glided be
tween the brothers. Edward was
tobout to explode fulminating inter
jections crackled on his lips. Cynthia
held up her finger, imposing silence
then she turned to Guy, holding out
both her hands.
"Guy, dear Guy, if you loved her, if
she loved you, I would say nothing,
not one word. But you don't love her,
do you?" He was silent. "And from
a mistaken idea of honor you are go
ing to commit suicide. Oh, it amounts
to that."
"She needs me,' muttered Guy. Ho
was very pale.
"Pooh!" said Edward. "She needs
your money, not you. That's the bru
tal truth."
"If phe needs my money it is hers."
Edward's face was purple. He had
fired his last shot.
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"Come," he said sharply to his
tfife.- "Let's get out of this it makes
rile sick no more wild goose chases
for me."
He hurried out of the room, mut
tering and stuttering with futile ex
auperation. Cynthia still looked eti
treatingly at Guy.
"That this should be the end!" she
sighed.
"You had better go," said Guy
hoarsely. He held out his hand, look
ing down, unable to meet the' distress
and sympathy in her kind eyes. Now,
when it seemed possiole that they
might never meet again, a thousand
memories of her rushed into hi8 mind.
He could see her plainly, vividly,
as she appeared when she catae home
to Saffron Charteris as a bride. Guy
was then a boy of seven, and a child
of imagination and sensibility. Prom
some foolish nursegirl he had absorb
ed a nightmare dread of this new sis
ter-in-law into whose hands, for good
or ill, he was about to be delivered.
He conceived her—let Heaven ex
plain why!—to be old, ugly, cruel
something just short of a witch. At
the psychological moment, prinked
out in black velvet, with red silk
stockings and a point-lace collar,
.placed by the butler In the center of
the great hall, his courage failed him.
He fled to his room, crawled under
the bed, and sobbed his heart out. And
Cynthia, a girl of eighteen, haled him
from his hiding place, and kissed away
his tears. And there and then they
nad sworn friendship. After that, for
years, Cynthia had been the one
bright particular star in his heaven
One may hazard a shrewd guess that
Cynthia herself was something of a
child, and only too willing to become
the sister and companion of an ex
ceptionally fascinating boy. Edward
from the first assumed the role of the
heavy father. On Sunday mornings
he would summon tnem peremptorily:
"Come, children, we shall be late!"
Later, when her own sons were born,
the maternal instinct asserted itself.
Guy as Etonian asked for advice as
Oxonian he sometimes deigned to take
it. She was the confidante of his
innocent love-affairs, which began
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when he attained the ripe age of nine!
She hunted and fished with them, and
taught him to play lawn tennis.
And now the end had come.
Was it partly her fault? She ask
ed herself this question, looking into
his pale, troubled face. They had
played together so often, caring for
nothing but\jhe pleasure of the pass
ing heur, because other hours were
so dull. Once she had attempted to
teach him his catechism, had scolded
him for carelessness and inattention.
He had burst out laughing and ex
claimed: "I'm never going to learn
any lessons from you."
After that she had salved Iwr con
science with the reflection that Ed
ward, and the vicar, and tfje vloar's
wife, not to mention the late Squire's
sisters .who lived in the Dower house,
would teach Guy his lessons. You
may be sure these worthy folk did not
shirk their duty Guy learnt many
lessons—too many. Now, with the
higher wisdom which seems to flood
the mind at certain crises in our lives,
Cynthia Charteris realised that love,
not respect, Is the teacher, the Heav
en-appointed teacher, of the lessons
that profit .us.
She put her hands upon his shoul
ders and kissed him.
"I have not lost faith in you," she
whispered. "That Is not the end."
With that, not waiting for an an
swer, she hurried from the room.
CHAPTER III.
Guy lit a cigarette as soon as he
was alone. A few hundred yards
away the woman was awaiting for him
with whom he expected to pass the
rest of his life. Nor was she one who
waited patiently for anything or any
body. The thought came to him sud
denly that if he waited a little longer
—an hour or two—the consummation
so devoutly desired by his brother Ed
ward might be accomplished. He pick
ed up the large framed photograph
and explained it quietly. Doing so,
his face hardened into the mask fa
miliar to the spectators in the galler
ies of the court room.
Once he had loved this woman.
Why?
Was the attraction purely physical?
Angela Tempest had great beauty, of
the most alluring kind but beauty
alone, he told himself, would not have
fired the spark in him. Aleo, slv.»
was clever, with that amazing mod
ern cleverness whose salient charac
teristic—selfishness—is obscured by a
pretty helplessness peculiarly femin
ine and exacting. She fascinated wom
en as much almost as men, just so
long as they believed in this kitten-like
claim upon their affection and pro
tection. There was the irresistible
"Come hither!" in the eye a melting
orb. Children adored her, and ani
mals. Mrs. Grundy, however, had
grown rather tired cf mentioning this
in palliation of conduct euphemistical
ly termed unconventional., Neverthe
less, up to the last—shall we say twen
ty-four hours before the terrible de
cree?—the sight of Mrs. Tempest,
with a lovely child on her lap and an
Intelligent terror gazing at her with
adoring eyes, was sufficient to turn
the head and heart of the unsophisti
cated to higher things. For some
years the clergy, to a curate, stood
his friend. Even Noncomformists re
fused to believe 111 of the wife of a
rich man who had given so much of
her husband's money to the poor. "Th.?
money comes from them"—she was
alluding airily to John Tempest's own
ership of slum property—"and it ought
to go back to them."
Guy recalled her p~rlor tricks. There
was that distracting little song of
Anna Held's, which Angela sang even
better, with more syren-like enchant
ment, than the French woman:
"Oh, won't you come and play wiz
me?
I have such a nice lettle way wiz
me!"
Guy put down the photograph with
an exclamation.
A few minutes later he was alone
with hep In the drawing room of th3
furnished flat which she had taken
after leaving her husband's house in
Grosvenor Square. The room as she
found it was quite Impossible. Her
hands had transformed it. This, in
deed, was her great, her incompar
able gift daily exercised, the ever
recurrent miracle, a delight alike to
friends and foes. Inanimate things
she could not teuch without adorning
them. Of her effects upon human be
ings, it is worth recording that those
who had suffered most at her hands
came back to kiss them. Poor young
TresBilian, for instance, in whom she
had fanned a flame which sent him
ablaze to South Airlca, left her all
his money. Unfortunately, it was nat
much. Had there been more loot—so
said the cynics—Tresslllan might have
been enoouraged to stay in England.
Guy thought of young Tresslllan
whenever Mrs. Tempest wore a cer
tain necklace of diamonds and opals.
It had been bought with the "loot."
She was lying back in a soft, look
ing like a picture by Romney or Gains
borough, when Guy was announced.
Those who did not know her might
have Buspected a pose. As a matter of
fact, she never posed. It was natural
to her to look her best, to assume the
most fitting, and therefore the most
becoming, attitude (and frock) at mo
ments when other women, less artis
tically endowed, are likely to disregard
appearances.
"You're rather late," she said, hold
ing out her hand. Guy sat down near
the sofa, but not on it, for the lady
occupied the exact middle of It, and
on each side there was not quite room
for another.
"I saw Edward first."
She laughed, not unkindly, with re
freshing appreciation of the nature of
Edward's errand. Then she added 'n
her sympathetic voice: "I am really
sorry for poor Edward: that he should
suffer for our Infirmities is such hard
luck. I hope you were nice to him.
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the same, I should have liked to have
heard him speak about poor little
me."
Guy smiled faintly.
"Edward," continued Mrs. Tem
pest, "is not a fool, but he behaves
like one on these sort of occasions."
"This is the first occasion."
"Don't pick me up, my dear friend.
You know what I mean. Edward
thinks It is his duty, as head of the
family, to break off our marriage. -And
he is perfectly right. If ever we meet
I shall tell him how he could have
done it. Had he asked me to spend
a quiet month at Saffron Charteris, I
should have gone there to be white
washed, and infallibly I should have
died before the month was up."
Her taking for granted the marriage
did not surprise Guy, although she
had never mentioned the word till to
day.
"John has been here," she added
softly, with a sidelong glance at Guy.
"Jack?"
She nodded.
That John Tempest should have vis
ited his wife was so amazing that Guy
betrayed his astonishment with a gasp
of Incredulity.
"He was very nice," she murmured.
"Nice?"
"Why do you look like an owl?
John owes me something for releas
ing him, and he owes me a lot for
keeping my mouth shut. If I had
made counter charges, eh?"
"But what brought him here?"
"His new motor. It's a dream. Ha
sat in the very chair you're In, and
offered to write a big check. It was
really nice of him."
"You accepted money from him?"
"No!
knew you, and your pre­
judices. Personally,
I
see no reason
whatever why I shouldn't take with a
humble and grateful heart as much as
John cares to give me."
"That he should have come here Is
the most astounding thing!"
"If you must know, I sent for him."
"You sent for him?"
"Why not? Let us discuss this rea
sonably. You have that ugly frown
on your face which you wore when
that horrid McAllister was asking you
questions. I wanted to ask John
about Poppet."
Poppet was the only child given by
the court into John Tempest's keep
ing. Guy shrugged his shoulders.
"Surely that sort of things ought to
be done through the lawyer!"
"How cold-blooded you are! Fancy
asking for permission to see one's own
darling child through a lawyer!"
"When does Poppet go to him?"
"In a day or two. Don't let's talk
about it! I cried my eyes out before
John."
There were indications of tears. n6t
unsightly red lids, but violet circles
under the eyes, and a drawn look
about the mouth. Good, easy John, a
sinner himself, had been sorry for her.
In his blundering, brutal way, he had
tried to dry those tears with a check,
knowing by long experience what a
tear-stvptic a check is to some wom
en. Even John, who knew, was sorry
for her.
And such is the power of beauty in
distress that Guy, too, felt a poignant
regret that things had not been order
ed otherwise so far rl he was con
cerned. Her irresponsibility quicken
ed the sense of responsibility dormant
in him. She must have guessed what
was passing in his mind. for. with a
sigh and a quiver of the lip. she aban
doned the central position on the
sofa, and, turning aside, hid her face
in a big silk cushion. Guy whispered
a few words of comfort.
Presently she spoke of her plans
with increasing satisfaction and assur
anco.
"You must nip off to Newfoundland
and shoot caribou. It's a comfort to
think we've the right sort of pals
isn't it?"
"Ye-es."
"In six months people will have for
gotten the trial. We must go very
canny at first but with the best cook
in London and the best shooting In
the country, all will yet be well. You
were so clever, Guy, as the devil's dis
ciple and it was dear of you to let
me appear as more sinned against
than sinning. You know, I'm thinking
of wearing half-mourning black and
white is becoming to fair women."
"Will you dine with me tonight?"
She laughed.
"Most certainly not! that would be
brasen. After this afternoon we don't
meet for six months. That Is in the
bond. Now, I'm going to ring for
Poppet. No don't run away. She
will be so disappointed if she misses
you. She simply adores you."
Poppet appeared within a minute.
The child, like her mother, was Ir
resistible but, unlike her mother, hap
pily unconscious of the fact. She hail
ed Guy with a soft little purr of satis-
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faction and cuddled close to him,
holding up her face to be kissed again
and again. The three on the sofa
might have been painted as "Domes
tic Bliss." A picture postcard en
titled: "Monsler, Madame, et Bebe,"
would have an enormous sale amongst
those who maintain that the family is
the unit of national life.
Guy, listening to Poppet's artless
prattle, feeling her lips upon his
cheek, her dimpled hands upon his
neck, told himself that he was a ser
pent In what should have been Eden.
Poppet could not see his scales but
when she did! Sooner or later—and
modern children learn these things
sooner than later—Poppet would
know everything and think—with hor
ror, perhaps—of the innocent kisses
she had lavished upon him. Suddenly
ne unclasped her clinging arms, put
h/ from him, and stood up. Angela
divined easily enough what was in his
mind. Where Edward had failed, a
child might succeed. Innocence
stood between her and twenty thou
sand a year. Why had she not fore
seen this situation?
"Uncle Guy is going abroad, Pop
pet. Kiss him good-bye, and run off."
"'Daddy said he was going abroad,
too."
She spoke very disconsolately, turn
ing large, troubled blue eyes from her
mother to Guy, who stood looking
down at her, tugging at his mustache.
"Yes we are all going abroad but
Uncle Guy is coming back, aren't
you?"
"Perhaps," said Guy gravely.
Mrs. Tempest gave vent to a tiny
cry of protest.
"How dare you tease the darling!"
She caught the child to her bosom.
Hashing an indignant and piteo«3
glance at Guy. Then holding her up
to kiss him, she said, cooing: "Make
him promise to come back as soon as
he can, Poppet. Make him swear—
do you hear?"
"You'll come back," said the child
earnestly.
"Yes."
"On your Sam?"
"On my Sam."
She kiBsed him and ran out of the
room. Guy waited a moment, and
then exploded. There was a leaven
in him of the old Squire.
"And one day—"
"ShuBh-h-h!" She placed her finger
npon his lips, her head unon his shoul
der and dissolved deplorably. He
heard her broken, almost inarticulate
phrases: "If you should not come
back—It would be too cruel—I have
no one left but you and Poppet, and
she is to be taken away!"
"I swore to Poppet "that I would
come back."
"And •we'll begin life again, dear:
we'll be awfully good, but we won't
be lonesome—model members of so
ciety, eh?"
"Yes, yes," Guy muttered nervous
ly. "Of course—certainly."
"It will be such fun drawing the
claws of the tabbies."
Having accomplished her purpose,
she slipped back upon the sofa, curl
ing herself up among the big cushions
with a sigh of relief but Guy saw
tears sparkling upon her long lashes.
Just then the door opened and the
child ran in.
"I quite forgot!" she exclaimed.
"Oh, mummie, I've a present for you.
I was to give it to you when we was
quite alone but Uncle Guy doesn't
count, does he?"
"Never did," said Guy.
The child held out a crumpled en
velope.
"Daddy gave It me this afternoon,
when he came up to the nursery to
say good-bye. He said you would
know what it was."
Mrs. Tempest took the envelope. A
faint blush—very faint—came and
went upon her cheeks.
"Why don't you oror it. mummie?"
"Yes," said Guy quietly. "Why
don't you open It?"
"It's so excitin,' Uncle Guy, isn't
it?"
"Very." said Guy, with his eyes on
the vanishing blush.
"O' course I know what's in the en
velope—a postal order, perhaps for
ten shillings. Do open it, mummie!"
She was at bay, but she did not
lose either her head or her charming
manners. With a gesture to the man,
she led the child towards the door,
opened the envelope, showed her what
was In it, laughed, kissed the expect
ant lips, and gently pushed Poppet
from the room. Then, closing the
door, she turned to face Guy.
"A check," said Guy grimly. There
was no Interrogation in his tone.
"Yes, a check."
"You—you fibbed just now."
"Yes. I fibbed. I couldn't tell you
the truth. I'm in debt. I've nothing
of my own: I was too proud to ask
you, so I sent for John."
"So you sent for John?"
"He's Poppet's father."
"I see."
"Not as clearly as I do."
"Quite clearly enough."
He walked to the window and look
ed out. Angela shrugged her should
ers, raised her delicate brows, and
held out her hands palm upwards—a
pretty gesture she had acquired in a
French finishing school, kept by a
marquise of the vieille souche. A
stranger might have inferred that she
was empty-handed, with a heart too
full for speech. When Guy reached
the window, she sank upon her knees
beside a stool between the sofa and
the door. The stool—a French tabour
et—was covered with a brocade of a
delicate pure color with weird
splatches of purple upon it. Upon
this was bowed the fair head, so that
the nape of the neck shone white
against the purple staining of the bro
cade. The kneeling figure suggested
a dethroned queen at the block, await
ing the stroke of the executioner. In
another woman such a pose might
have appeared stagey in her it was
natural. Guy felt this instinctively.
And he knew that John Tempest—
and how many others?—had strug
gled in vain against this supreme
manifestation of an unconscious' (or
sub-conscious?) art. Always she
aroused pity when another woman
would have excited indignation, or
even disgust, As Guy saw her now,
the unprotesting victim, mee'.ily kneel
ing upon the scaffold, so she appeared
to the judge, to the special jury, to
the whole of England.
For a moment he watchod her in
silence. Then he raised her gently.
In her abandonment her fingers had
remained tightly closed. Guy loosen-
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ed the fingers, and got possession of
the check. He glanced at it, tore it
up, and dropped the bits into the flro.
"I'll Bend you another tonight," he
said.
With that he moved towards the
door. Her voice arrested him as he
laid his fingers upon the handle.
"You will come back, Guy. This
has made no difference."
"In six months I shall come back."
She fluttered towards him.
"Are you furious, disgusted? Would
you like to wring my neck? In your
place, I'm sure I should not come
back."
"I shall come back," he said stead
ily.
CHAPTER IV.
Outside, he looked at his watch. It
was past seven. Suddenly he made
the discovery that he was hungry he
remembered that he had eaten no
lunch, no tea, and practically no break
fast. The mere physical craving for
food cleared his mind. To eat would
be something definite to do. The diffi
culty presented itself of selecting a
restaurant. He never dined at home
the clubs were out of the question
the well known restaurants equally
so. Then he recalled the name of a
popular place of entertainment in Pic
cadilly, where he would be as safe and
as much alone as in an oasis of the
Great Sahara. A hansom took him
there in five minutes.
Ushered into a finely proportioned
marble hall filled with happy diners,
not a vacant table could he see, and
but few empty chairs. A steward ex
plained that one chair was all that
could be expected no patron monop
olised a whole table. Guy, acquies
cing, found himself opposite a pleas
ant faced fellow of about his own age,
who nodded and pushed across a huge
bill of fare. Guy ordered his dinner,
and looked up, to find a pair of clear,
brown eyes regarding him curiously.
"Stranger here?"
"Yes," said Guy, not quite easv,
wondering whether he had been recog
nized:
"We don't often see your sort, sir,
but now and again and I always won
der how it strikes 'em. The food's
all right, and the attendance, and the
room, and the music but there's a dif
ference next door, eh?"
"In the bill," said Guy, smiling.
"In the crowd."
Guy looked at the crowd workers
to a man. Nobody was in evening
dress, except the waiters, who wore
mustaches, and spoke in guttural ac
cents. A napkin was alluded to as a
"serviette." An air of extreme re
spectability pervaded the air. Guy
noted these trifles almost mechanical
ly, but the faces of the men and wom
en challenged a sentiment deeper than
mere curiosity. They were coarse
featured noses, chins (especially
chins), ears, and eyebrows stuck out
aggressively. The hands busy con
veying food with extraordinary swift
ness to the mouths were badly model
led, but capable, as if they belonged,
as indeed they did, to persons of
trained executive ability. Snatches of
talk fell upon Guy's ears, business
talk, an unknown tongue to him—the
idler and wastrel. The women, par
ticularly the girls, affected certain
harmless airs and graces, culled pos
sibly from some manual of table etl
quiette. Tliey called each other
"dear," said "please" very frequently,
and paid particular attention to the
letter "h," obviously terrified lest It
should drop on to the floor and be
never recovered.
Watching the crowd, Guy was sens
ible that he in turn was being watch
ed.
"Hungry lot, ain't they?" remarked
the young man, as the waiti^r brought
soup. "Well, they come here because
they're hungry."
"Not because they're greedy."
"We eat to live. But the food is
good the best in London at the price.
That's why the place is full. And if
you come once you come again."
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(To be Continued.)
OAK RIDGE.
Oak Ridge.—A pleasant Fourth was
spent at the home of Charles Bliz.
Those present were Mr. and Mrs.
Bobimeyer and son Roily, Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Farrell and son Sam and
Mrs. Yager.
Mr. and Mrs. Mat Farrell and
daughter Elizabeth were callers at
Thomas Farrell's home Sunday.
Mrs. Shevlin and Mrs. Quinn wero
callers at, the home of Clias. Blitz Sun«
day.
Samuel Farrell. who has been vis
iting his parents for the past week
returned to his home Sunday in Gary
Ind.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Pomal and
family spent Sunday at the home
Mr. and Mrs. Bobimeyer.
A TREACHEROUS TROUBLE
DOAN'S-KIDNEY PILLS
Sold by &Q deoteas. Price lo cants. Co. BwCMb, H-Y„ Vngaten.
BONAPARTE.
Bonaparte.—Ed A. Egan of Burling
ton was a recent guest at the J. A.
Johnson home.
Robert Wilson has returned from a
two weeks' visit in Peoria, 111.
Mrs.
3.
K. Wilson of Dee Moines W
visiting her sister, Mrs. KU H. Meek.
Dr. Enlow returned to Chicago yes
terday after a week's visit with Mrs.
Anna Sherman and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Hferry Jones of Hills
boro visited over Sunday with the lat
ter's father Dr. E. P. Blackmer.
A. W. Carpenter of Memphis, Mo.,
was a business caller here Saturday.
Ed Peacock of Keosauqua has been
making a short visit with Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Beard.
S. V. Sherman was in Douds yester
day.
Mrs. Shelton of Bloomfleld is visiting
her sister Mrs. E. W. Chapman.
Mrs. Pearl Trude and son Alfred
of Chicago and Mrs. Claude Eastman
and baby of Keosauqua are the guests
of relatives here.
Mrs. William Seeley of Mt. Pleasant
is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Benjamin Ketchum.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Watts of Hillfl
boro spent Sunday here with relatives
Mrs. Henry Easling and son Stanley
have returned home from an extended
visit in Amarlllo, Tex.
Arthur Cocherlll was in Farmlngton
Saturday.
FAIRFIELD.
Fairfield.—The sale of Chautauqua
tickets began Monday morning and
while It Is yet too early to predict any
thing for certain in regard to the
number of tickets that will be sold,
the members of the- association feel
certain that the sale will be larger
than It has in any of the four preced
Ing years. The sale of lots and tents
for campers was begun Monday morn
ing, and 25 lots were reserved before
evening. This Is a larger sale than
for the same time of any previous
year. It is expected that the increase
In the number of tents will be propor
tionate to the Increase in former
years. Over 400 camped on the grounds
during last year's assembly.
This year's assembly is the fifth to
be held by the Fairfield Chautauqua
association. The dates are August 12
21. The program is an excellent one,
the leading numbers being Hon. C. W
Trickett, assistant attorney general of
Kansas, the man who closed the Kan
sas City. Kan., saloons Hbn. John
Sharp Williams, who recently resigned
the minority leadership of the housa
of representatives Father J. M.
Cleary, Gipsy Smith. the great
English evangelist: Mrs. Maud Bail
ington Booth Jacob, A. Riis, George
R. Wendling S. W. GUlllan and Sena
tor Robert M. LaFollette.
OBITUARY.
Hillsboro—George Cox, one of the
oldest persons in the county, was
buried Sunday afternoon from the Cox
home in west Hillsboro. He was born
in Highland county, Ohio, January 21
1814, and died July 10, 1908, aged 94
years, 5 months, and 19 days. He war
married to Catherine Lane January
12, 1837, and eleven years later they
came to Iowa, first settling On a farm
In Van Buren county. Several years
later he came to Hillsboro and moved
to the Cox home where he has lived
for more than half a century. His life
was remarkable in that he survived
his father's family he being third in
a family of ten, his own family of five,
three of whom died in childhood, David
in 1897, and John, June 21, 1906, and
his wife to whom he had been mar
ried more than 70 vears, who died
February 12, 1907. He had lived mors
than fifty years In the house in which
he died and for inanv T-ears was prob
ably the wealthiest man In Hillsboro.
Three years ago his mind began to
weaken and in fancy his home seemed
to be back in Ohio. Several month3
ago he suffered from a severe nervous
spell, followed several weeks later by
an attack of heart failure. Previous to
his demise he lav in a stupor for flv
days and Friday night at 11 o'clock,
he quietly slept away. Funeral serv
ices were conducted by Rev. Fix, of
the M. E. church of which he was a
member and the remains laid to rest
in the cemetery south of town.
ANNIE E. LAWSON TO SPEAK AT
ELDON ON MISSIONARY
Eldon.—Miss Anna E. Lawson, a
missionary who had lobared twenty
three years in India will address th"
people of Eldon Friday. July 17, at
the Methodist church. Program at 8
o'clock. Admission free. Miss Law
son will exhibit curios from India
which will be worth seeing. Ice
cream, caidy and lemonade kill
sold on church lawn for the benefit of
tho missions.
Other News of Interest.
The Standard Bearers held a picnic
at the fair grounds Monday afternoon
July 13. A sumptious supper was serv
ed at 6:30 in true picnic style and fill
did justice to same. The Standard
Bearers were chaperoned by some of
their mothers and all report a tine
time.
W.' T. Brown, wife and
SO,
to**
i"
niptae xwrffc and hertw that tav*
«dt*eat action on the kidneys. It was
tin secret 76 yean ago of an old
Qnifltw lady. was given to the
pobtk) by James Doan, a druggist, andi
1B now known and recommended the
whole wodd over.
Home cures prove the vahie of
Dowtti Kidney Pills to oar readers.
OTTOWfA
PROOF.
Urs. H. Lanansky, ITU East.
Mbia street, Ottumwa, Iowa, says:
"Mr. Lanansky suffered from kidney
trouble for a long time and though h*
doctored and used various remeate^
nothing helped him in the least H*
bad sbarp shooting pains in his back,
often extending up into the sboOUen,
making it Impossible tor him to stoop
or lift He apn bad -an annoying kid
ney weakness and the secretions plai»
ly showed by thetr unnatural appear
anse that his ktdaejw were at fault.
"When Doasrt KWney PUia wen
twought to his attention, l)e prooared
a box at Sargentfs drug store and
they gave htm more relief than any*
firing he had previously taken. After
using them a short dime he was cnre4
and has remained so up to the pressai
day*
daughter, Nell, Nick Lmtz and son,
Ned, Dr. D. A. Jay and J. J. Jaque*,
have returned from Den-er where they
attended the Democratic national con
vention.
The Cherokee Indians beat the local
ball team on the home grounds Sun
day by a score of 9 to 0. It was a
hard pill to swallow after Bloomflel.t
beating the red. H*ines and the homa
team will have to brace up and play
ball hereafter as the fans insist on
delivery of the goods for their money.
Mrs. D. W. Allman and Mrs. J.
It Is expected the Rock Island will
pay their employes here the 20th Ol
this month so the boys will hava
money to attend the Morrell packing
house picnic.
Eldon Baseball club will play the
ex-leagurers on the league grounds at
Ottumwa next Sunday. Tack White
is preparing to redeem the' reputation
of his bunch as ball plavers and in
cidentally to give the Eldon club a
good time.
SELMA.
Selma.—Mr. and Mrs. Griffith and
daughter of Davenport and Mr. and
Mrs. Pope and daughter of the same
place are spending the summer at the
Passmone farm having arrived July 3.
Harry and George Foster and sister
of Ottumwa all took supper at Pass«
more farm Saturday evening July 11,
BIDWELL.
Bidwell.—H. Cleveland, of Portland,
Oregon, is visiting his sister and hus"
band, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Rosecrans.
William Kerr and family, of nestl
Kirkaville, visited Wednesday with
relatives in this vicinity.
Miss Clara Lathrop, of South Ot«
tumwa, returned Wednesday evening
on No. 8, after a brief visit with rel
atives here.
Mrs. Catherine Johnston and son
Frank, visited Sunday at the William
Maldwell home near Munterville.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Chisman, of
South Ottumwa, visited a few days
last week at the Henry Oswald home.
Mrs. Elmer Rose and children, ol
Pleasant Home, visited Friday at tha
C. R. Chisman home.
W. J. Taylor was In Blakesburg
Wednesday on business.
C. H. Johnston, of South Ottumwa,
was a guest at the Jactes Johnston
home Wednesday.
Miss Bessie Fiske is visiting this
week with friends in Ottumwa.
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Johnston, oi
South Ottumwa, Is visiting relatives ia
this vicinity.
James Johnston visited relatives In
Blakesburg Tuesday.
Mrs. Dollie Fiske was called to tha
Fred Jones home of Pleasant Hoina
Sunday on account of the illness oi
Mrs. Jones.
HILLSBORO
Hillsboro.—J. B. Jordan and, family
of Salem spent Sunday in town.
Mrs. Clara Woolever of Fort Madi
son came up tills morntng to visit her
mother Mrs. Etka, who is quite sick.
W. F. Kopp of Mount Pleasant is a
business visitor In town today.
Uncle John Harlan and wife of
Stockport came down Saturday to at
tend the funeral of their old friend
George Cox.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Page of Bona
parte were Sunday guests of G. W.
Boley and wife.
L. E. Bryfon made a business trip
to Mt. Pleasant this morning.
Mrs. Belle Murdock of Chicago and
Mrs. Kate Edson of Chanute Kansas
were called here by the death of theif
grandfather George Cox.
Mrs. Ella Miller of Rose Hill was
called here Saturday morning to nurse
little Mary Logan who is very low
with flux.
Mrs. Florence Holmes returned t|
her home in Eldon this morning.
Mrs. Mabel Lynn and children cfi
Donnelson visited her parents Mr. and
Mrs. Joshua Harlan the past week.
Considerable sickness prevails
among children, probably caused by
the hot dry days and cool nights.
The oats crop Is about all harvest-,
ed but farmers are very busy in their
hay and corn plowing.
One way to make time pass quickly
is to sign a lease at an extravagant
rental.
I
1
3.
Flint and daughter were in Ottumwa
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Lininger of
Trenton are visiting Mrs. Llnlnga?'*
parents here.
Dave Nye returned to his home 1ft
Centerville Monday, due to the temp
orary closing or the "Lyric" of whtcb
he was manager.
The business men of Eldon met last
night and appointed committees to
meet and entertain the officers and
members of, the Morrell packing
house at their annual picnic here next
Tuesday and as "Uncle Billy" Crone
and his lieutenants never do things
by halves Ottumwans are assured cf
a royal time when they come to Eldon.
Mrs. W. E. Warren, who has beou
sick with peritonites for the past fe-V
days is slowly recovering.