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"Help!" The unnerving, harrow ing screams of a strong man, whose strength and manhood have collap sed beneath the sudden strain of some deadly fear, some overpowering Agony. The river looked placidly beautiful A growing circle of wavelets swept slowly over its calm surface?swept sway as though, shrinking in horror from the grewsome bubbles that came sputtering up where the swim mer had sunk like lead. A minute before Vernon Dale had stopped to admire the solitary swim mer's strength and grace as he cut through the water like some fabu lous sea creature, with a beautifal ?lde stroke. "Help!" Dale started and looked back. The swimmer had disappeared, but a tiny whirlpool on the peaceful face of tht river Bhowed where the young man had been Torced to yl^ld. "Cramp!" muttered Dale i Dale was a strong swimmer him self. He flung off his coat and vest and was tearing madly at his heavy walking boots, when be stopped and seemed suddenly as if turned to stone. He had thought of Nina! "I can't do it!" he said hoarsely, cj> if to the man whose life had been choked and stifled out of him some where down among the dark loath some weeds and slime. "I can't do It. I daren't risk it I might kill the woman I lore!" Mechanically Dale put on his coat and vest again. No one would ever know!' "We will keep our secret well?we two!" he said in a horrible whisper, looking down as if he could see some thing at the bottom of the dark riv er. Then h ? glanced hastily left and r ght. Someone might heve been watching after all. An hour after when Vernon Dale arrived faint, sick and pallid, at the parsonage, he knew that he dared not keep his terrible secret Until that day his life had been clean and he had been accounted au honorable man. He must tell some one, and that very soon. "Is you brother in?" he asked her soon. "No, Vernon, he is out walking, but he will be in soon. I am so sure you and Claude will be real friends? oh. Veinon, something is the matter with you?tell me what It is!" He buried his face in his hands. Be was undergoing torture, for he knew he could not keep silenc*. much longer. Nina was on her knees besile him. He felt her soft face touch his arms and her arms twine around his. "Vernon, if there is anything on your mind tell me. No cue can help you as I can, for no one loves you as I do!" "You are right, Nina," he answer ed In a noarse broken? voice. "I will tell you?I must." She waited. Her eye swere fixed on him In mute agony. "As I was coming along the bank on my way here, there was a man swimming. I passed him, and when I was about a hundred yardB from him, he gave a cry and aank " "How horrible!" she murmured with a Bhudder. "But?bui that is not all?" "No, iJina. I ran back to the place where he sank, but I did not try to save him for your sake. I was Just od the point of plunging in when I thought of you. end of all I am to you?and then I couldn't. God forgive me if I did wrong, but it seemed to me at the time that It was Tight." ? ? ? She rose to her feet and staggered to a chair, white as death. "If you had died!" she said, clenching her hands and looking at him wildly. "II you had died ? ? I could have borne It 1 should have known I loved a brave man!" "Have mercy on me, Nina!" he gasped loosing his hold of her. She rose and stood belore him, looking at him with eyes that neither Teproacned pitied, nor pardoned him. He stretched out his hands to her In an aguny of appeal. "And I will try to love you again." She flung herself down upon a sofa and gave way to an agony of weep ing. "Oh. Clajd*! Claude!" she wailed. "Very well," said Vernon grimly, *T will abide by your orother's de ,iion." A crunching of heavy teet on the gravel walk beneath the window. The subdupd hum of hushed voices. Veruon sprang to the window ia an agony of vague fear. "What is that? Who are they?' screamed Nina in an agony of horror. He did not answer. He was look ing out at something a couple of men were slowly carrying up to the house. Something covered with a tarpaulin that they bore on a stret, b er. "Something hap happened?I must go and see. He moved forward to resi: im her, but rhe went Oat oi the room. He str.od there by himself, tremb ling violently in every aerve, a c Jd perspiration bursting from every pore. In his agony he cried a!oad. And Vernon Dalo learned the ver dict. The lifeless body of Nina'8 brother proclaimed htm guilty. Delay in taking Foley's Kidney Remedy if you have backache, kid ney or bladder trouble, fastens the disease upon you and makes a cure more difficult. Commence taking Foley's Kidney Remedy today and yon will soon be well. Why risk a serious malady? Lowman Drug Co.; A. C. Dukes. For mild easy action of the bow else, a single dose of Doan's Ree;u lets is enough. Treatment cures habitual constipation. 25 cents a box. Ask your druggist for them. One Touch of Nature "J*?paper, e.r?" It was such a >tlful, weak, fright ened little wail that Dwtght Maynard did not heed it until he felt a slight tug at his coat, and the words were repeated accompanied by an unmis takable sob. Dwight turned. At his elbow stood a forlorn little p'fce of humanity, with long go'den curls and a pair of deep brown eyes, look ing mournfully out from a face wbtcb probably was white, but which now bore a very streaked appearance, a* if a pair of dirty, chubby lists had been frequently rubbed across It. "Paper?" repeated Dwight. "A little lad like you selling papers?" He took the unres'sting hand in his am lea the boy forward where an elec tric light gave him a clearer view end a low whistle escaped his Hps a? he saw the youngster was cad n a suit of rich black velvet, the lace co lar and cuffs of which matched th?* tiny face in colorings "Say, there's something wrong here! You're onh a baby and an aristocratic one at that! Where do you live? Your mamm*, and probably half a do^en servants, are very likely nearl. fran tic searching for you. What's your name?" "} don't want to tell. I'm not a baby, either, now?and no?no one la looking fcr me." The quiver ng Hps could hardly frame the words, and in spite of hruself Dwight felt a big lump rise In hlB throat as the pit. lful little wall came again. "W?will you please buy a paper?" "Sure I will," was the ready an swer, as Dwight took the .iroffered paper; then, as his eye rested on the date, "Look here, this is nearly a month eld." "Is It? I corldn't find any newe> ones. Does?does that make any difference? Oh won't you please buy it?" and without waiting for a reply the curly head went forward against Dwight's knee and the flood gates opened. "Nov. now, sonny." raising the child until the golden curls rested on his shoulder, "teil me all about it and maybe we'll find a v.ay out of tbi* awful predicament," and he marched along the street to h:s rooms carry ing the heartbioken little news ven der with him. Not a word was said until the door cosed behind them, snd ?eating him self in the b'g iounging chair he gently rocked the tired boy to and fro until the quivering sighs almost ceased and then he said softly: "Now, laddie, out with it Why were you selling papers?" *T?I had to make my living some how, and th-that was the oniy way I knew." "Make year living! Where are your father and mother?" "Home?b-but there's scmeo-f else tbere, too?a baby sister! Sift corned last nignt. and she's going U stay always! And there's something the matter with my nose, 'cause rursle said so. Mamma didn't com. to hear my pra/err. last night, a^r* when I asked papa why. he said. 'My little chap Isn't mamma's baby an;, more?he'll have to shift for him self.' That was just what tie said, so I runned away and I'm not go ng back there ever again!" For - moment Dwight said noth ing. He well reme.jbered those mis erable first days when he himself had learned ne was no longer "baby," and he understood just bow great anc overpowering was the pain In :hir tiny lad's heart. Then he told hin of his own little Bister, of the good times they had had1 growing up to gether?he tried, in his tangling way, to show him how mack better It is to be the man than the baby o' the family. He finally convinced him there was love enough for him and the new sister, too, an i he wat rewarded by hearing the sighs ceasf entirely and a resigned little volet say: "Well, if that's all a baby tlster Is, I guess perhaps I'd better go back and try it again. Do you s'pose vor could show me the way?" "If you tell me your name I think I can." "Harold Winfleld." "And is Jack Wiafield your papa?" 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First 600 Yards?To be 2 feet high, 21 feet wide at the base and 18 feet wide at the surface. Materials, Corduroy, composed of green poles and logs 15 feet long, not less thai: three inches in diame ter, and to be laid crosswise on the road bed to a thickness of eight inches. To be laid so as to leave a space of three feet inter vening between the ends of the corduroy and the outer edge of the cauesway, on the Northwes tern boundary thereof; and an in tervening space of two feet be tween the ends of the corduroy and the outer edge of the cause way, on the Southeastern boun dary thereof. EARTH?compos ed of sand and clay, to be placed on top of the corduroy to a depth of sixteen inches, making the causeway for the first 660 yards, when completed, two feet high. The dirt to be used in constructing the said causeway to be taken from the place (Hill) designated on plat. Next 624 Yards?To be four feet high, 22 feet wide at base and 18 feet wide at surface. MA TERIALS?Corduroy, composed of green poles and logs 15 feet long, and not less than 3 inches in di ameter, to be laid cross-wise on road bed to a thickness of 18 In ches. To be laid so as to leave a space of three feet intervening between the ends of the corduroy and the outer edge of the cause way, on the Northwestern boun dary thereof; and an intervening space of two feet 'between the ends of the corduroy and the out er edge of the causeway, cn the Southwestern boundary thereof; and not to extend nearer to a bridge than five feet from the last row of piling. EARTH?compos ed of sand and clay, to be placed on top of the corduroy to a thick ness of two (and one-half feet, making the causeway ror the des ignated 624 yards four feet high, when completed. The dirt to be used in constructing the said causeway to be taken from a place (Hill)- designated on plat. Trees and stumps on entire road bed to be cut off even with the ground. Bridging 80 Yards?Bridges to be four feet high to correspond with height of causeway; and to be placed at the points where desig nated by Supervisor F. J. D. Fel der, or Township Commissioner J. J. Douglas, as shown on plat. Piling?To be nine inches by nine inches, and as long as necessary. To be driven in the ground 4 feet deep, except in soft places, where they shall be driven deep enough to penetrate 4 feet cf solid earth. Three piles to be placed under each cap, one in the center, or equi-distant from the ends of the cap, and one on each side of the center piie and eight inches there from. Caps?To be ten inches by ten In ches by 18 feet long. To be laid so that they will extend, on each side, one-half inch over the outer edge of the piling; and to be fas tened to the Piling by a bolt driv en through the cap and penetrat ing the piling to a distance of three inches. Spans?Spans must be a distance of 18 feet in length. Sills?To be 5 inches by 20 feet. Five to be placed in each span. To be laid, one in the center, and two on each side of the center piece, the first four feet and the second eight <md one-half feet, re spectively, from the center piece. Abutments?To be 2 inches by S or 10 inches by 20 feet. To be plac ed so as to rest against the piling. Lumber?All lumber to be long leaf, heart pine, free from rot or dote. Grading Hill?The hill shown on plat at the end of the causeway to he dug out to a grade as desig nated by plat; and not to be dug deeper thru designated by plat, and not to be disfigured in any way so as to mar the looks of road when completed. If any work, material to the com pletion of the proposed road, covered by these specifications, the said work, if ordered done by the Super visor, is to be performed by the contractor, the same as if said work were included in the specifications; and if the remuneration thereof can not be agreed upon by the said Sup ervisor and the said Contractor, the adjustment of the said remumera tion shall be left to a committee composed of Messrs. A. F. Fairey, .las. H. Fanning and X. \V. Wertz; provided that in case any member of the foregoing committee shall bo come interested in any manner in the construction of 'he proposed road, then the remaining two mem bers of tin* committee shall appoint a third member thereof to make the the said adjustment. These specifications to bo subject to slight alterations pending the day of letting the contract. F. J. D. FELDER, Supervisor. Notice of Discharge. On the 24th day of August, 1900, I will file my final account as ad ministrator of the estate of J. 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