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your idea is good, but it might not work. Jackson Smith is sharp. He'd see, right through it, but if if you would be willing we could drive over to Squire Hall's this afternoon and get married. I wouldn't trouble you any. Sarah. We could go on just the same, and I'll never want to marry any one else, and if you should you could get a divorce, you know. " "Oh, you're sure it makes no differ ence you don t mind, John?" Her tone was eager. "No, I don't mind. I'd help you any way I could, Sarah. It's nigh noon now. I'll drive over for you in the buggy right after dinner." "I'll be ready, and I wouldn't have asked you, John, only only you un understand - derstand understand how it is, don't you?" Her face was red again. "Why, Sarah, where have yon been? You look as rosy as a poppy, " and Mrs. Smith wiped the tears from her eyea as she gazed at her daughter's face. "I've been attending to business for us, mother. You will not leave the placa I'm going over to Squire Hall's this evening. John Howard is coming to take me in the buggy. " The sun was sinking low in the west when John Howard and Sarah returned from the squire's. Will you come in, John, and stay about some? I'd I'd rather you'd tell him, if you don't mind," Sarah said. John hitched the horse and went in. He walked to the bedside of Jackson Smith and sat down. "Uncle Jackson," he began, "I've come to tell you what I've dona You know that I've ofteu warned yon that some day you would lose the most valu valuable - able valuable possession you had" "It a the brindle heifer," interrupted Jackson Smith, his eyea snapping an angrily. - grily. angrily. "John Howard, yon think be because - cause because I am on my deathbed that you can do as you please, but I'll show you. It's ust like you to shoot a neighbor's heifer just because she jumped into your wheat. I don't expect anything better of you the whole party is made up of thieves and cutthroats but I'll leave it in my will. Jackson Goggan shall law and law until" He sank back exhausted from hia outburst "If you get that angry over that brindle heifer, Uncle Jackson, I don't know what you will say when I tell you that I have not touched the heifer, but I have married Sarah. " "Married Sarah I" and Jackson Smith's eyet dilated. "Married Sarah 1" he said, under his breath. "John, give me your hand. I knew Saiah was a Smith. Why, there nover was an old maid in the Smith family, hut it did seem she meant to take after the Walk ers her mother was a Walker. Sarah married 1 1 can go in peace, John, now that you have lifted the disgrace from the Smith family. Call Sarah. I want to give her the brindle heifer. " When the lawyer came the next day, he wrote a will bequeathing all, save a life interest to- Mrs. Smith, to his be loved daughter, Sarah, who had glad dened the last hours of his life. A few days later, with all due cere mony, Jackson Smith was laid away by the side of other Smiths. John Howard went home with his wife and her moth mother. - er. mother. At the porch he halted awkwardly, seeing which Sarah turned. "Will you come in, John?" she asked. "I'm afraid it would only pester you if I did. " I reckon I ought to go home, but I hate to leave you you women folks alone and you'll be kind of lone lonesome - some lonesome now. " You might stay. We would fix up father's room real comfortable if you would just as soon," said Sarah, begin beginning - ning beginning to realize the awkwardness of her position. I'd like to, Sarah. I could tend the crop just as welli but i d feel as u 1 was living off of yon women, and and you might get to hate me if I hung around. " You needn't be afraid of. that John," said Sarah, tapping her foot nervously on the porch floor. "It would be the easiest way out of our our1 di lemma, but, if you'd rather not stay we could explain to folks how it was that you just married me to save the farm. " "But Sarah, if we told that it would be a lia I took advantage of your trouble to get you married to me, and you didn't suspect me, but now I feel mean and as if you will not respect me when I tell you the truth. " Sarah gazed at him in wonder. What could he mean, she thought, but no sound came from her lips, and he continued: "I've been, trying for ten years to ask you to marry me, but I never could do it and when yon came to me in your trouble I jumped at the chance, Sarah, because I wanted you I've always wanted you, but now I feel I can't stay unless you can take me for your husband in earnest " His eyes did not lift to her face. "John 1 Her eyes were open wide in amaze, and the face so lately tear stain stained - ed stained became radiant with unexpected joy. "You love mo?" she questioned in glad unbelief. "Why, I have loved you all this time, too," she whispered. Cin Cincinnati - cinnati Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. The Worrying Habit. A prime necessity of our permanent freedom from worrying is the possession of the personal quality commonly known as sand. If a man has not been endowed with sand by nature, he must pick it up ' for himself. Nobody is going to give, him any, but he can do this easier than he thinks. Most of the things we worry over are only bugbears that fade and disappear upon the first attack. Herein lies the first secret of success in attack and the great secret lies in persistence, in -keeping always at work. The man who actually does this, wasting no time, will find the first thing he knows that he's' stopped worrying, uud he laughs a lit little - tle little as he says to himself that he's got no time to worry, and the next thing he knows he finds his sandbox is no longer empty, he's aotually got some sand of his own, and then he is somebody and begins to find some solid satisfaction in Ufa New York Sun.

(A modern complication. 1 met a little girl one day, the was eiKht years old, she said : A hat that was made in a wonderful way Eose high above her head. Bhe had a fin de siecle air, And she was richly clad. Her eyes were black, her face was fair, Her beauty made me glad. "Bisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be?" "Bow many? Seven in all," she said. And, wondering, looked at me. "And where are they T I pray you, tell. " She answered: "Seven are we. And two of ns with mother dwell, And two with pa and me. "And two came into the family Along with my second mother: A boy and girL so they, you see, Are my sister and my brother." - "Ton say that two with y onr mother dwell And two with your pa and you. - So far it's all as clear as a bell. But what of the other two?" Then did the little maid reply: "Seven boys and girls are we: Four and two are six, and 1 Make the seventh. - Don't you seeT" "You've got it wrong, my little maid. As sure as you're alive. Subtract your new stepmother's-two And ye are only five. " "My ma and pa live far apart, Each married to another. My ma has two to cheer her heart. My sister and my brother. "My father took my sister Jane, My brother John and me. If you can count, it must be plain Enough that he has three. "Three and two are five, yon know, And then those other two Make seven in all. Now I must go, Since I've made it plain to you. " "Those two your stepma brought will not Have seats with you In heaven." Twas throwing words away, for she With pitying looks regarded me And answvred, "We are seven)" Chicago News. SAVED THE FARM. John Smith had a hobby, an uncon querable aversion to old maids. And yet as in very mockery of his pet an tipathy, his only child, Sarah, had de veloped into the hated object, right in his own household. Sarah was tall and angular, like her father, but her face was pleasing and her disposition mild and amiable. She had never revolted against anything in her life not even against the injustice of spending her youth in making pre serves, apple butter or piecing quilts while other girls were making merry. One day Jackson Smith received hurt, and when Dr. Brown was called in he told Jackson his days were num bered. Then it was that his hatred for old maids proved itself. "I'll never leave this place to a woman that can't get a husband, " he said fiercely. But, father, Sarah's never had no chance; we've always kept her down, remonstrated his weeping wife. He waved his hand to silence her. "Woman, no old maid shall inherit my placa I've sent by the doctor for Law Lawyer - yer Lawyer Clarke, and he'll come tomorrow. There's money enough in bank for you, but I'll fix it so that at your death it will go with the farm. Jackson Goggan, my namesake, shall get it all. " Tearfully Mrs. Smith imparted the facts to Sarah. 'Mother, would he turn you out of the old place just because he hates me?" and Sarah looked incredulous. The elder woman nodded ; then Sarah kissed the round, sunburned face and said: "Mother, I never have revolted agamst father, but 1 m going to save the place for you. I wouldn't mind so much, but you shall never leave your home. I'm going out now to think it over," and putting on her pink sun bon net she went out the back door. When some distance from the house, she sat down in the shade of a tree, and while her heart beat loudly over her father's contemplated injustice she resolved to outwit him. ' "There's Josh Mullin, he might but I can't bear Josh; he chews tobacco, and his mouth always looks dirty." She cast her eyes over the landscape, and on the next farm she saw the figure of a man in tne neio. res, mere s jonn Howard, but" and her faoe grew pink "I hate somehow to ask it of him. " Then the tear stained face of her "mother passed before her mental vision, and, giving a jerk to her sunbonnet, she started down the path across the mead ow, John Howard was hoeing corn. When he saw Surah approaching, he stopped and leaned on his hoe, a look of concern on his face. 'Is the .old man worse, Sarah?" he asked. Yes. Dr. Brown says he can't live more than two or three days, and oh, John, it's awful the way he is! "Yes, but you have been a good, sac rificiug daughter, Sarah, and you can't blame yourself for anything, you" "Oh, you don t understand, John He's going to leave everything to to Jackson Goggan, and mother'!! have to leave the place," she half sobbed. You can t mean it Sarah I Why why, that would bo outrageous. What makes him talk of such a thing?" "Because because 1 am an old maid; he hates all old maids," and her face grew pinker than the sunbonnet John Howard shifted the hoe to the other arm and looked down. "John, I've come to ask you oh, John, don't think me brazen; it s for mother's sake. 1 can't stand to see her turned out, and for my fault, and if you will only help me and and come up to the house and pretend that we are to be married just until after the will is made it wouldn't be so very wrong, John not so bad as letting mother be put out of hor home. " She caught her breath in short gasps, but when John was silent her pink face suddenly paled. "I reckon it's asking a heap too much of you, John, but don't hold it against me. I couldn't see any other way. Good by, John. " She was turning away,

Adaptation Item Gretik prose of Philostra- tus. j Thou blaraest me because 1 sent No rosea unto thee, But never slight to thee was meant, Nor lack of love m me. Nay, but 1 thought thine auburn hair A carland more divine, And crowned with thy roses fair," Thou hadst no need of mine. In Homer Meleager claims No wreath but tresses bright. Roses were name upon the names Or light adorning light. The rose Is jealous, know it well, And soon it falls and dies, And legend saith its birth befell In melancholy wise. For Cypris, hasting on liar way. Was pierced oy a tnoru. And from her blood, the Cyprians say. The cruel rose was born. Wonldst thou be crowned ? Oh, beware Those blossoms pitiless! They spared not Cypris. Would they spare Thy fragrant loveliness ? Then blame me not because 1 sent No roses unto thee. for never slight to thee was meant, Nor lack of love m met Percy Osborn in Fortnightly Eevw. A DASH F011 NEWS. I was the only American operator in eastern Cuba in February and March, 1898, which were very busy months in the cable office at Santiago, where I had been for four years. In the early part of 1895 we seldom handled more than 80 messages a day, but after the insurrec tion began the number rose to 90 and 100 daily, increasing a little every month. The cable from Santiago to Spain goes under sea first to Kingston, Ja maica, thence to Porto Rico, thence to St Croix, and from there to Paramaribo and Pernambuco in Brazil. Cables from Pemambuco cross the south Atlantic to St. Vincent, Cape Verde islands, and from St Vincent other cables extend to Madeira, thence to Lisbon, and overland to Madrid. There is also a less direct cable from Pernambuco to St Louis, in Senegal, Africa, and thence to the Ca nary islands and Cadiz. Beside myself there was but one other operator in the Santiago office, Laurin Itterode, a young Spaniard, who had learned cablo work at Lisbon.- We thought that 100 messages daily made work enough, but over 800 passed the day after the Maine was blown up in Havana harbor. Four more operators were needed, and we called to Havana for help, but no notice was taken of our appeal, and rather than desert our posts and leave the company's business undone we slaved night and day, al ways hoping the pressure would moder ate. One day we sent 13,742 words in over 1, 100 dispatches, yet we were two hours back" at midnight, with Havana fum ing at us over the land wire, and still hurrying messages through the Cienfue- gos cable. There were Spanish govern ment cipher messages from Sagasta to Blanco, and Blanco cipher to Sagasta; reams of bombast from the Cuban corre spondents of the Imparcial and Correo for Madrid, followed by more cipher to Weyler at Barcelona from his brother officers at Havana, and then the bank ers and merchants quoting, selling and ordering 1 To add to our vexations the mouse mill" of the siphon recorder gave trou trouble - ble trouble constantly, and the clockwork that carries the record tape broke down every day or two. Now, a Spaniard is utterly without native ingenuity. Merode was a tolerably good operator, but when it came to rectifying faults of the instru ment he was an infant, and all such tasks fell on me. Anything like clockwork I can "tint er, " but tne mouse mill that works the siphon pen is a very delicate bit of mechanism, which assists the faint elec tric impulses that come great distances through the cable to move the ink point of the recorder to and fro on the tape. I suppose I had taken the record tape clockwork and mouse mill apart 20 dif ferent times, and on the evening of the 2d of April, after Merode relieved me, I set to work to wind a new motor coil for the mouse mill, which had worked so very badly all day that rather than struggle with it longer I had determined to sit up all night and build a new mill. The cable house at Santiago is a most lonesome place, particularly at night, but a Spanish sentinel was supposed to pass the door every turee minutes. xnose poor xeiiows were rareiy paiu, and often looked in at the door to beg a ciaarette. So when the outside door opened behind ns that evening I sup posed the incomer was the sentinel, and I did not even look around till an amused voice exclaimed, "Aha, scnors, I bucnos noches 1 A Spanish sentinel begging a cigarette does not speak in that tone, so Merode and I faced round with a jump. There i stood a rather tall, good looking young fellow, in a whito duck suit and wbite cap, regarding ns keenly, and a step be hind him was a typical (Juban rebel sombrero, long rnustachios, broad belt, long boots, revolver and machete. In an instant Merode was on nis teet and shouted, "Sentinelal at which our unexpected visitors laughed good humoredly, and tbo Cuban said, "I must beg the seuor telegrafero not to distress himself concerning the worthy sentinel, for tnat watchlul soldier is now lying comfortably on his back out side, with a gag in his mouth, and his hands are tied to his feet." 'Well, who are yon and what do you want here? I exclaimed in Spanish 'The young man in white duck laughed. "Yon are an American; any- body could tell that by your Spanish. Oh, I know about you. Speak English "Certainly," I replied. "What do you want here?" "The news. " What news?" "Are the Spanish warships, Vizcaya and Oquendo, still at Porto Rico? Has the torpedo flotilla arrived there, or has

know anything about. " Don't let the cipher trouble yon," he replied laughing. "I have the key to their cipher all right " As to who I am, " he continued, my name's Macomber. I am the cor respondent of the . " Ho named an American journal. "News as to the whereabouts of the Spanish torpedo boats and those cruisers would be valu valuable - able valuable just now, not only to my paper, but to the American navy at Key West. Now, you are an American, and a good patriot, I dare say. Will you help ns out?" "I'm a good patriot," said L "And I am also an honest man, employed here to do a certain duty, which I will not betray." You will not help me, then? Very well, I shall examine your tapes by force. It is not my business to fight for Spain," said L "I have no force to re resist - sist resist you, hut I will not help you. " 'Thanks. That's all I ask. Just yon sit quiet. Do you think you can read our tapes?" I asked incredulously. Sure. I was a cable operator three years." ".But where did you get your cipher key?" That's a matter that was arranged in Havana three months ago. Your tape bobbins for the current week are in the table drawer, I presume?" Look for yourself,"! said. "But my fellow operator here is a SpaniaiA I do not speak for him. Senor Merode, " I said in Spanish, "these gentlemen wish to see the record tapes. " Merode had stood listening, making out what we said with difficulty. Nunca I" (never) he exclaimed excited' Iy and made a jump for the big table drawer, with some notion, I think, of destroying the tapes. He was a plucky fellow. But the Cuban seized him by the collar before he could open the drawer, flung him violently backward on the floor and drew his machete. Don't hurt him, Luiz," shouted Macomber,.. and then, after a steady glance at me, he stepped to the drawer himself and took out .the rolls of tape. This will be a somewhat long and tedious business," he remarked, begin ning to unroll one of them. " You might help me if you would, but at least oblige me by turning up the lamp a lit tle and placing it on the table here. "Thanks, " he went on when I had complied, and lie began rapidly unrolling the tape through his fingers. He read well and fast, and his running comment amused me. Oh, this is a dandy siphon of yours, isn't it?" "What ails your mouse mill?" "Say, friend, your record here looks like the teeth of an old, dull buck saw. "Your ink's coagulated. " J sat back and quietly looked on. Merode still lay on the floor. The Cu ban stood watching us both. If Merode stirred, he shook his machete at him. Thus fully an hour passed. It seemed much more than an hour indeed before our American visitor found what he sought. Ah I" he exclaimed at last "Here we are. So tne V lzcaya ana uquenao left Porto Rico for St Vincent last Sunday. Good. Blanco is informed that the torpedo flotilla is going to St Vin cent, too, instead of coming to Havana. That's all I wanted to know," he continued, turning to me.. "Sorry to leave your tapes in such a mess, but I really cannot stop to roll them up again, for I must be well out to sea be fore daylight Oblige us now, both of you, by remaining quiet here after we bid you good night But just then there was a new noise ontside. The door opening to the street was flung back, and there stood a Span ish lieutenant from the fort, with hall a dozen soldiers at his back, for the Spanish sentry a boy of 18 whom they had gagged and tied up outside of the house, had proved more nimble than they had thought him. He had worked himself loose and had run to the fort for aid. The Cuban turned instantly, killed the lieutenant with a swing of his ma chete and was -at once shot down by a soldier who fired over the shoulder of his falling officer. Macomber showed better judgment if less courage. He dashed the lamp out and grasped me by the arm. "Help me out, " he said. It would be difficult for any one to resist the appeal of a fellow countryman at such a time. While the soldiers rushed in, tramping and falling over the slain men and Merode, I pulled the American after . me through a door, back of the tables, which opened into our battery room. In this back room was a window looking out on the harbor side, from which Macomber swung in an instant and decamped without a word. I had time to get forward into the cable room before Merode, who had regained his feet, struck a match and relighted the lamp. Of the grewsome spectacle which the light revealed I will not speak. After the manner of Spanish justice, both Merode and myself were put- un der arrest pending an investigation, which showed that neither of us knew anvthing about the affair. Yet the com maudant at Santiago suspected that I had planned it and sent me under ar rest to Havana by steamer the following evening. 1 expected to remain in Las Cabanas for the rest of my days, but was dis dismissed - missed dismissed without trial the second day after arriving there and left Havana along with 180 other Americans on the following Sunday. Youth's Compan ion. All She Required. Agent Has your piano an automatio attachment, madam? Woman No, it ain't, but it's got a sheriff's attachment, an I reckon that'll j do for the present New York Truth.

he Peoples' National Bank AT BELLEFONTAINE, In the State of Ohio, at the Close of Busi ness, September SO, 1893. RESOURCES. DOLLARS. I , 231.974 12 Loans and discounts- Overdrafts, secured and unsecured... 7,121 09 2r,000 00 17.AOO 00 2,212 50 18,213 09 . isonas to secure circulation...... S. Bonds on hand Premiums on U. 8. Bonds Stocks, securities, etc lanking-nouse, lurniture, ana dx- tures 3,000 CO Due from State Banks and Bankers.. Due lrom approved reserve agents... 112,578 17 6,309 46 267 29 43,631 00 Checks and other cash items - S. Revenue StamDB Notes of other National Banks Fractional paper currency, nickels, ana cents 137 48 LAWFUL MONEY RESERVE IN BANK, VIZ: Specie 24,723 06 24,723 05 Redemption fund with TJ. S. Treas'r tf per cent, ot circulation) 1,12a uo I Total 491,590 76 I LIABILITIES. DOLLARS. Capital stock paid in 100,0(10 00 Surplus fund 25,000 CO I Un divided profits, less expenses and led pa taxes aid 16.31 82 National Bank notes outstanding...- 22.5(10 00 I Due to other National Banks 1,797 44 Due to State Banks and Bankers 21,982 01 Individual deposits subject to check 231,057 55 I uemana certincates oi deposit.. ta,vzz a Total 494,590 76 I State op Ohio, County of Logan, si I. B. B. Keller. Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above state- I ment is true to the best ol my Knowmege ana belief. B. B. KELLER. Cashier. , ' , ) Subscribed and sworn to before me, seal tms 27tn aay ol September, W. A. WEST, Notary Public. ROBERT LAMB, JNO. M. RIDDLE, J. B. WILLIAMS, Directors. Coebect Attest: September 30, :898. SeLancTs "Gap Sheaf " Brand Soda. THE IN THE WORLD, s NATIONAL. FLAGS. , Set of thirty cards showing the nation al flags of the principal nations of the? .world. One of these cards is packed inX ch large package of cap sheaf soda. flf a complete set Is desired, we will mail same on receipt of five one pound Cap ) Sheaf wrappert. Give your name and 4 post offlce plainly written. SoLANS CO., Fairport, N. T. CARTER BROTHERS, Agents, Bellefontaine, Ohio. xremain's Insurance Agency, Offlce 1 and 2 Empire Block, No. 125 South Main Street, Bellefontaine, Insures against Loss or Damage by Fire, Lightning, Tornadoes and Wind Storms. mantes In this agency, which has been established for 20 yean. W. C. TREMAIN, Agent 4-20-98-lyr THE. Union Central Loan Agency. W. A. WEST, Agent. Five and ten year Loans on first mortgage farm security. Interest at seven per cent.. MvAhlA annu&llv. Borrower charired no com' mission, nor to be at any expense except for or connected with abstract of title, and mak ing mortgage and may repay in any year oiie- nrta of tne principal. Office Opposite West Door of Court House. MAIN STB RET. BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO July 12, lfcDS if AlTTlir rrr T n 1 M 1YL U IN Ji I 1 U LtKJ A L At 6 Per Cent. On Farm Security and Papers promptly prepared with no unnecessary delays. A. Jay Miller, Offices 8 and 9 Empire Block, September 27, 1898. Bellefontaine, Oh o. I1N fOR7VmTI01N !

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