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Oc Willisfam '.ftwphit R. C. Copkland, Publisher. a •WILLISTON. N. DAK. OUISB THORNTON sat at a table in I the dining-room* of a Denver ho tel! Despite the fact that she was mak ing her first trip to the far West, in company with her parents, she ,was feeling a little lonely as she gazed about the big room: and encountered a aea of faces. Suddenly,she wait seized With a lit tle thrill of excitement and pleasure as she saw the waiter ushering to a neighboring table her friend Elton Gray. He had' formerly lived in the city in which she resided, and though, some months ago, he had taken a po sition with a large manufacturing firm in Chicago, their friendship had been continued by a frequent interchange of letters. This trip of the Thorntons had been very sudden and unexpected, and Louise had only notified him of their plans while en route. She looked fixedly at him until, seeming to feel her gaze, he turned his «yes in her direction. His face light ed with pleasure, and he hastened to her table. After the usual greetings explanations followed. He had not received her letter before he left Chi cago, and he accounted for his pres ence by informing her that he had been slightly overworked, and had been advised to take a rest and a change. The house had suggested that he should go. "on the road" for two or three months and combine pleasure with selling goods. "Will you be in Denver long?" he asked. "No we leave to-night," said Mr. Thornton. Elton's face fell. "I have to remain here a few days," he said, "but let's compare itineraries and see if I cannot make some of your prospective stops at the same time." A comparison of routes showed that they could not effect a meeting HER ANSWER COLDLY AND FOR MALLY WRITTEN. until they were in San Francisco. After dinner he took Louise for a drive. He had reached the proposing pointin his affection, but he could not quite summon sufficient courage to gain or lose, that afternoon, so he decided that he would meet his fate when he escorted them to the train that night A few moments before they were all to go in to supper together, Louise went down* to the public parlor to meet El ton, as agreed. He had not yet made his appearance, and she went into one of the annexes to wait for him. Presently she heard a man's voice ring out: "Why, halloa, Gray! Never oxpected to see you off here. What doing? Haven't left your firm, have you?" "How are you, Dick? Like you, I am now a traveling man—only pro tem.. though." While she was deliberating whether to enter the parlor where they were, or await the departure of Elton's com panion, she heard the latter say: "Traveling alone?" "Gladys is with me," was the start ling reply. "Really!" cried Dick, in a tone of interest, "and is she as beautiful as ever?" "Exactly. Her hair is simply a ver ltable crown of glory still." "Bless her heart! I'd like to see her, Elton, for old times' sake, if you'll al low me." "Sure! Come to my rooms to-night about nine o'clock, and Gladys shall show you what a help she has been to me." "All right So long." The newcomer withdrew. So did Louise. Slipping into the ccrridor, she swiftly glided to her room, where she remained until train time, agi tatedly considering the import of the conversation she had overheard. To think she could have been so mistaken in Elton Gray! Hereafter she would have faith in no man. What could he mean by such bold action? Her first thought had been that he was married and Gladys his wife, but the famil iar jesting tone of the two men in discussing the woman and her beauty told her she was mistaken in this theory. Meantime the subject of her thoughts was anxiously inquiring from her par ents the cause of h«r absence. "Louise has a headache, and has or* dered her supper sent to her room," ex plained Mrs. Thornton. Thereupon he was too solicitous to finish his supper. Hastening to the office, he sent her a note asking her to walk to the station with him, as it was but a short distance from the hotel. He assured her the walk would be a panacea for a headache, and in formed he/ that he wished to talk more confidentially than would be per mitted if they drove with her par ents. "Confidentially!" thought Louise, bitterly, as she read the note. "Wants to tell me of Gladys, maybe!" Her answer, coldly and formally writ ten, was to the effect that she pre ferred to ride to the train. Elton's heart sank when he read the note. She had seemed so frientfiy tbat afternoon. Well, women were mere weathercocks, after ail. Never con sistent—except Gladys—he reflected. Mr. Thornton buttonholed him and talked politics until train time, when he suggested that they walk to the train and send the ladies down in a carriage. There was scarcely a moment be fore the departure of their train. Louise's farewell to him consisted of an inaudible good-by—the lowering of eyelashes and the hesitating extension of a gloved hand, and—she was away! Even the beauties of Yellowstone park failed to appeal to Louise Thorn ton as with heavy heart she acknowl edged that she must have cared a great deal for Elton to be so disappointed in him. Finally they arrived at San Francisco, and her heart beat a little faster, as she realized that be must be there, too, and that she might see him, unless be had accepted her snub bing as final. Soon after their arrival Louise vis ited a manicure and hair dressing es tablishment. She found she would be obliged to wait her turn, so she seat ed herself at a table covered with mag azines where she was screened from tiew. In a few moments she heard Elton Gray's voice saying: "Well, you see I have returned. Hope you can do that work for me now." His voice was such music to her ears that she was strongly tempted to come forth. But, alas! his next re mark aroused all her indignation. "I have brought Gladys this time, and I want you to do her hair in the most ultra degree of fashion." "1 am so anxious to see her hair, aft er your description. It must be su perb," said the hairdresser. "Wait a moment, and I'll bring her in," he declared. There was a moment's alienee. Then she heard his voice again. "There, behold! Our own Gladys!" Louise cautiously peeped around a corner of the screen and saw Elton Gray holding aloft the waxen head and shoulders of a woman with an elabo rate coiffure. .Louise came from her place of con cealment and walked up to him. "Elton!" "Why, Louise!" he exclaimed, near ly dropping the model in his surprise. "I am so glad to see you!" "I am really glad to see you, too, El ton." "Really, Louise?" he asked, tender ly, if somewhat skeptically. She flushed silently. "Yes," she murmured. "Then may I walk to your hotel with you?" Receiving an affirmative reply, he left Gladys in the hands of the hair dresser and walked forth with Louise. "Elton," she asked, "what do you carry that figure around with you for?" "Why, that's what I am taking or ders for, Louise. Our firm manufac-r tures show cases, store fittings, win dow displays, etc. This model we all thought the best looking one of the lot The boys named her Gladys, and each wanted to take her as a sample, but I was the lucky mem ber." "Oh!" was the faint response. "Louise, I want to know why you treated me so cavalierly that after-, noon after our drive. You promised to come to the parlor before supper." "I did come," she Interrupted, and then stopped in dismay. He looked at her wonderingly, his memory struggling with the events of that afternoon. Then he remem bered. "See here, Louise, were you in hear ing when a friend of mine was Jolly ing me about Gladys?" "Yes," she said, shamefacedly, "and I thought—but how could I help it?" He laughed delightedly. "Well. Gladys and I are out after this! The other boys may have her." They had now reached her hotel and she asked him to come up to their parlor. "I will, Louise," he replied, earnest ly, "if you will let me say to you what I wished to say that night in Denver." "I will." she said, lifting beautiful and contrite eyes to his.—N. O. Times Democrat Big Animals Disappearing. The Indian rhinoceros is nearly ex tinct. There are two specimens in the London Zoological gardens and two on the European continent Very few are left in a wild state in India and Assam, and unless special measures be taken for their preservation they will soon disappear. The Inventive Tankee. Down in Connecticut there is a man who is using the motor of his automo bile this winter to operate a churn and run a fodder cutter. There's no use trying to keep down Yankee ingenuity. EUROPE IN OUR MARKET. Wonderful Absorbtive Power of the Old World for American Products. In an article in World's Work on "What Europe Means to Us" J. D. Whelp ley says: "Always buying more than it sells, lending more than it borrows, and in every way apparently giving more than it takes, Europe's constantly increasing population, wealth and power, form a mystery, for they are the most wonder ful and fascinating of all economic phe nomena. "The United States has a population of 22 to the square mile. In. the last 100 years Europe has sent 40,000,000 people to the United States and other new coun tries, and yet to-day has a population of 103 to the square mile, or nearly twice as many as when this emigration tegan. In the meantime wageB have increased, wealth has piled up, trade has quad rupled and the purchasing power of the people of Europe has more than kept pace with all these advances. "Even to estimate the anuual domes tic exchanges of Europe is beyond the reach of intelligible figures. The for eign exchange is a quantity which can be determined with more or less accu racy, however, and Its amount—14,000, 000,000, annually—conveys an idea of the tide of commerce that flows through this heart of the world. "The Imports of these 18 countries amount to $8,000,000,000, the exports to $6,000,000,000, showing an excess of pur chases over sales amounting to $2,000, 000,000. The imports from abroad, mean ing from countries other than European, are to supply European deficiencies, and these are largely of food and raw mate rials. "About 65 per cent of the total exjtbrta from the United States are of agricul tural products, though much of this might be regarded as manufactured goods because many agricultural prod ucts are put through manufacturing processes. Roughly speaking, the American people sell $900,000,000 worth of such products a year to foreign buy ers. Nearly 90 per cent, goes to Europe, hence about four-fifths of the American goods sent to Europe Bupply food and raw material. "American products feed the opera tives in European mills and factories who are making goods for all the world. They provision the foreign ships which carry the world's commerce, and keep down the cost of living in Europe by sup plementing the comparatively scanty supply of home-grown foods. These ag ricultural products of America are now so necessary to Europeans that they are admitted without serious restrictions to nearly all European markets." STORY OF A PHYSICIAN. Patient Who Sacrificed Her Life for Love of Her Abundant Hair. Physicians hear strange thingsr#A physician said the other day: "Mrs. Smith is dead. If she had con sented to have her hair cut off she would still be allVe. Her heavy hair killed her. "When I told her that she must lose her hair, she said she would rather die. But her husband didn't want her to die, and he made up his mind to cut off her hair while she slept One night he car ried to bed with him a big pair of shears. "With some difficulty he hid the shears under his pillow. Then, In the-mlddle of the night, he took them out cautious ly, and he advanced them toward his wife's long, thick braid. She lay on her side with her back to him, but just as he was about to snip off the braid close to her head, she sighed uneasily, and she turned over on her back, with the braid safe under her. "He swore below his breath, and wait ed, shears in hand, for an hour. But she never stirred. "For three nights Smith took the shears to bed with him, and each time that he would go for his sleeping wife's hair with them, she would move out of the way. The thing seemed almost su pernatural. The woman, asleep, pro tected her hair from the shears quite as well as she could have protected it if she had been awake. "The morning after the third night Smith forgot about the shears when he got up. He left them under his pillow and went off to work. Naturally, Mrs. 8mith found them. You took those shears to bed with jrou to cut off my hair with,' she said to him on his return. 'If you had done it, I'd never have spoken to you again.' "Smith gave up after that, and hit poor wife kept her hair, but not her life." Retaliation at a Dance. She was young. It was her first sea son, and It pleased her to snub her cub cousin most unmercifully whenever ho asked her for-a dance. "No," she protested, one evening, "you can't see my programme—it's all full." "But there'll be extras. Can't I have an extra?" "Ye—es," returned the young wom an, grudgingly, relinquishing her card, "but don't take the first one, it's prom ised." Later in the evening, when she looked to see which dance her cousin had ap propriated she found that she had food tor reflection. The young man bad pat his name down for the four hundred ninety-ninth extra.—Sunday. Favorite Coaling Depot. Angra Pegeuna, on the African coast, where Admiral Rojestvensky was lately reported as coaling the squadron, was a favorite resort of the confederate com merce destroyers for similar purposes. Woman's Swimming Record. Miss McLaughlin made a new world's record for women swimmers at Glas gow, November 25. She swam 5G yards In 37 seconds, which is a second faster than the previous record. WHITE ROBINS. Bare Birds Hatched in the Yard of a Denver (Col.) Man Grow to Maturity. White1 robins are almost as scarce as white blackbirds, but for some rea son this season has been tavorable for this kind of a "sport" from nature, and several white nestlings have been reported in Denver and vicinity. The only white robins to reach ma turity are those belonging to C. A. Lyman, of 1902 Race street, says the Denver Republican. The eggs from which they came looked just like the other two. There were three robins hatched, but one was just like his fa ther and mother, an ordinary red breast. The white robins were es pecial favorites with the parent birda and grew more rapidly. After they had begun to fly out of their nest in an elm tree in his back yard, Mr. Ly ir.an caged, the fledglings, but the mother continued to feed them until about a week ago. Since she quit them they have become quite tame, and eat out of their owner's hand. The white robins are the same size and shape as the redbreasts, but every feather is snowy white and they have blight pink eyes. As is the case with most albino animals their sight is not very good, and they will peck at a worm several' times before finally getting it in their mouths. Three years ago a white robin was hatched out in a nest in the same tree, but it died before reaching maturity. The pair of robins which hatched these white birds are old birds, and Mr. Lyman thinks they are the same as those which hatched the white bird three years ago. LONG TROUSERS I've got 'em on at last, but say— I hate to go outside As soon as I show up in 'em I know that I'll be guyed O' course I like 'em, but I wisht I'd wore 'em sev'ral days, The kids ull make me feel blamed cheap, In half a dozen ways. "Hey, Jim, them britches shows yer wrists," Ull likely come frum Joe, While Skinney Smith ull Josh me 'bout Highwater pants, I know An' proVly somethin' 'bout like this, Ull come frum Billy Brown: "Yer feet should give a party an' Invite yer britches down." Well, anyway, I won't be called Jim Spindleshankv no more. An' stockin' holes won't show up like They alius did before feel an' look jiat like a man, That there can't denied, I've got 'em on at last, but say— 1 hate to go outside. —Bide Dudley, in Kansas City Star. FARMER LADS STURDIER. Statistics Which Show They Are Physically Much Superior to Boys of the Cities. Statistics compiled by Dr. D. C. Hud son, director of the gym. at Ohio state university, satisfy him that the coun try boy is the physical superior of the city lad. Two hundred and fifty members of the freshmad class at the university have been subjected to a thorough physical examination. The average country lad at the time he enters the university is 67.5 inches In height, and weighs a half pound less than 140. The city-bred young man is an inch and a half taller, and weighs two and one-half pounds more. The boy from the country, however, is of the more sturdy build. Six oui of every ten are evenly developed that is. the right and the left sides will not vary more than four-tenths of an inch, while only two out of every ten city lads come within this class. Most of the boys from the city have one hip high and one shoulder a little low, with the result of a slight curvature of the spine. The countryman is practically free from this deformity, and his muscular action is stronger, although somewhat slower, than that of the city student Seven out of every ten .city freshmen use tobacco in some form, while but three out of ten from the rural districts are addicted to the habit How to Make a Flute. Wrap a piece of paper around a pen cil. Paste the edge down, making a tube. To one end fasten a triangular piece of paper somewhat larger than the opening. To play draw in your breath through the open end of the tube. To Promote Longevity. The Chicken—What advloe would you give a chicken, pa? The Rooster—I'd advise him to try to grow tough.—Puck. THE NEW SIGNET FAD. How One May Make a Novel and In-, teresting Collection for Boom Decoration. This fad Is the gathering of signets.. The outfit necessary to begin needs only to consist of a dozen sticks of sealing wax. Red, white, brown, gold, greei^ and black will be the rahge of colors. A light wooden box to keep the equipment in, a white taper cut into several pieces to permit Its insertion into the box, a box of matches, and a stock of un* ruled writing paper complete the outfit, The paper should be cut into various shapes such as squares, ovals, oblongs, etc., in sizes varying from one-half inch} to a couple of inches in length. Now you are ready for your quest Just keep your eyes open for the dis covery of rings or watch charms adorn- MAKING THE SEAL. lng your friends or acquaintances, which have a figure or symbol engraved upon them. You will be surprised to see how many curious seal rings and fobs you will find, and when you come across those which you desire to begin your col lection with, ask for permission to ob tain your impression. This is done by laying apiece of your writing paper on a Solid, smooth surface. A table is the best support Hold a light ed match to your sealing wax stick till it melts, then rub the sealing wax quickly over the middle of the paper. Then wet the seal with the tongue so that it will not stick to the burning wax press it into the yielding mass a second or so being careful to lift it straight up when removed, thus securing a clean cut edge. Repeat the operation as many times as you* wish duplicates, for if it is a par ticularly fine "signet you will have little trouble in trailing your duplicate for others which you may not be able to pro cure except by this means, says the Chi cago Inter Ocean. When you have enough to make a good showing, then comes the time to mount your collection for exhibition. This is done to the best advantage by pasting your specimens on a stiff card board, say 16 to 22 inches in size, and if you combine your colors and sizes hap pily you may achieve quite a tasteful, artistic effect and add an attractive, in teresting ornament to your room by framing the group of signets and hang ing them on the wall. DOG THAT CLIMBS. Scotch Collie Who Is Easily Cham pion in Performing This Feat. To climb straight up a tree is not the easiest thing in the world for a dog to do. In fact there is perhaps not another dog in the United States that can ac complish what a Scotch collie does in a western town many times a day, says the New York Herald. He is petted and feasted by his admirers and struts as proudly through the streets as does the most prominent citizen. The peculiar THE CLIMBING DOG. thing about the dog is that he will not climb any other tree than that shown in the picture, and he will not climb more than once without an intermission. When he has reached the knot on the tree, which he grips with his teeth, he lets himself down gently and trots off with his nose In the air, and any amount of entreaty or coaxing will not tempt him to come back until he has taken a turn around three squares. If on his re turn his audience still awaits him he will climb again, but if the bystander* have gone he lookfe a bit sheepish and trot* briskly to his kennel and sleeps away his wounded vanity. A Dog's Faithful Vigil When John Weakley walked from his home- a few miles from Vineland, N. J., io Newfield, to catch a train for Philadelphia the other day, he laid upon the platform while he bought a ticket a package he was carrying. The train came, he boarded it and forgot all about the package. When he re turned in the evening Weakley found his dog, which had followed him to the station, guarding the package. The animal had stuck to it all day, snap ping at anyone who*attempted to take it—Philadelphia Record. ALWAYS CALL FOR A CIGAR BY ITS NAME "CREM0 MEANS MORE THAN ANY OTHER NAME BROWN BANDS GOOD FOR PRESENTS Larfut S«H«r to th» WwM." JEST AND JOLLITY. Softleigh—I ssy, doctah, do you—aw —think I have the bwain fevah? Doctor—No, indeed but you have the fever, all right "Did you ever attend a cooking school?" asked the Chicago girl. "No," replied her Boston cousin, "but I graduated from a college of gastron omy." "I manage to keep my boarders, long er than you do," said the first landlady. "Oh, I don't know," rejoined the other. "You keep them so thin that they look longer than they really are." "You are sweet enough to eat," said the very young man who imagined he bad the love market cornered. "Thanks," rejoined the matter-of fact maid. "There's a small restaurant just around the corner." "I'm afraid you're not very wise," said the fair girl. "Why?" demanded the persistent suitor. "Because 'a word to the wise is suf ficient' and I have said 'No!' to you." "Yes, but I'm wise enough to know that a woman's 'No' may eventually mean 'yea'" "Can't yer do a little somethin' fer an old soldier?" whined Tired Tiffins. "Well, I don't know," replied the portly citizen. "If you can show your discharge papers, I may do something for you." "I hain't been discharged yet, boss," replied the hobo. "It's a soldier of fortune I am." WHAT WOMEN ABE DOING. The position of assistant chemist in a New Jersey chemical manufacturing establishment is filled by a member of the class of '04, of Wellesley. Mrs. E. Weatherred's specialty is representing her native state, Oregon, at expositions. Having performed this service at the Pan-American and St. Louis fairs, she will now give her time next year to the Lewis and Clark exposition, to be held at Portland, Ore. An odd mission for a woman has Just been undertaken by Miss Gwen dolyn S. Hamilton. She has gone to Kingston, Jamaica, at the behest of the new British Cotton Growing asso ciation to report on the possibilities for cotton growing in the West Indies. She is only 24, but has written consid erably on scientific topics. Mrs. H. E. Root has not many com petitors in her line, namely, bill post er. As the manager of an opera house in a Wyoming town she employs sev eral bill posters, and when circum stances a few years ago left her minus her help, she started in to do the work herself, until she could teach a new set of helpers the secret of pasting lithographs on billboards. In a recent address relative to the progress of the woman movement an Ohio clergyman said: "There are over 430,000 professional women in the United States. There are 1,000 law yers, 2,000 journalists, 3,000 clergymen, 7,000 physicians, 8,000 government of ficials, 34,000 merchants and 328,000 tetachers and college professors. And women are gaining on men in almost all the occupations, save, strange to •ay, those of domestic servants, laun derers, milliners and saloonkeepers." MIGHT HAVE SAVED IT. A Lot of Trouble from Too Much Starchy Food. A little boy of eight years whose parents did not feed him on the right kind of food, was always nervous and suffered from a weak condition of the stomach and bowels. Finally he was taken down with appendicitis and after the operation the doctor, knowing that his intestinal digestion was very weak, put him on Grape-Nuts twice a day. He rapidly recovered and about two months thereafter, his Father states, "He has grown to be strong, muscular, and sleeps soundly, weighs 62 pounds, and his whole system is In a fine condition of health." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. It is plain that if he had been put on Grape-Nuts at an earlier period in his life, and kept from the use of foods that he could not digest, he never would have had appendicitis. That disease is caused by undigested food decaying in the stomach and bowels, causing irritation and making for the growth of all kinds of microbes, set-* ting up a diseased condition which is the active cause of appendicitis, and this is more marked with people who do not properly digest white bread. Grape-Nuts is made of the selected parts of wheat and barley and by the peculiar processes of the cooking at the factory, all of tte starch is turned into sugar ready for immediate digestion and tne more perfect nourishment of all parts of the body, particularly the brain and nerve centres. Read the little book, "The Road to Well villa" found in each pkg.