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*1, 4 m * ' I' 7- Your Grocer Sells GREEN TEA B87a Have Tou tried it? The tiny ricK* flavored lestves and tips are sealed air*ti|^Kt. Finer tHan any Japan or Gunpovirder. Insist upon SALADA. rv NERVE By MARTIN KNAPP. PART 111. Ben reported that it had begun to rain apain and that the water hadn't Kone down any. Watching him it seemed to me that he had something on hi.s mind. He .seemed suddenly lilte quite a different individual from the on«« who only a few minutes before had been writhing and twisting under iiixby's K'bes. He kept smiling to himself and . -eiiS^tpmK hi.s hat vigorously against his knee, as though emphasizing some thought. After smiling for a while, ha suddenly got up, put on his faded overcoat and went out. It was raining hard, I noticed, as I opened my window for the night. Karly in the morning I was aroused by what seemed unusual noises in the village street belowâ€" men's voices, and more feet than usual on the sidewalk. As .soon as I camo down the stairs I reali/x;d that something was up. Am- brose Peck was not in his usual place and p.n air of desertion hung over the hotel. "Where is everyone?" I a.sked a3 my breakfa.st was being brought in. "Why, ain't you he-ird?" the wait- ress demanded breathlessly. "We got a real flood. The water's up over the road to Ih^ station and the bridge is clean gone. Everybody's down there lookin' at it. You Iwtter hustle through your breakfiust (juick as you can and go right down there. They Bay it's a sight." I ate as quickly as possible and set off toward the valley. What the girl had said was true. Most of the town of Woodstock lined the banks of what was now a broad brown river, filling all the lowlands. It was not an especially angry tor- rent; the ground wa.s too flat for that, j Itathor it was a slow-flowing stream ! of muddy water on which floated branches, logs nnd now and then a CI ate. One end of the bridge was vis- ible, but the other had entirely dis- appeared. As 1 joined the group at the point where the road ducked under the water, I was immediately .surroundeil by a proud citizenry. "Ain't it a sight?" Thomas asked. 'â- ]>id you ever seen anythin' like it? Higher'n it was in ly02." I don't know how long we had been there, marveling at the work of Na- ture, when the sound of an approach- ing vehicle made u.-i all turn and we saw Hixby driving down the road in a buggy with the top rai.^ed. He drew up with a flourish, and it was evident that he wa.s surprised nnd somewhat concerned. "I've got to get over to the rail- road," he explnined. "Got to get out to the city." I .Seth Thomas laughed. "Ought to ' have the railroad on this side, Earl.", •'Would I have time to drive up tho I «ast road and get across at Bingly?" "Ka.st road's closed up. You can't i get through." "Say, that's right," Bixby admitted. "Y'ou might go up over the hill," someone suggested. "What good would that do me?" he demanded cro.s&ly. "Would take me ejaculated, "I hadn't thought of that 'was a whistlin' fer. Sheni be here in That 8 u good idea. If you was to a minute." own tlve boat and run it, why I' They all crowded around him. I saw wouldn t be Uable, now would I?" 'a drop of rain drip from his hat brim The Sarge man, hanging over the down on a bit of pink paper in "the waU-r, tried to squeese the exaspara- folding cheque book which he had ex- tion out of his voice. traeted from an inside pocket. As he iM. '. course you wouldn't, Ben. ' scratched marks on the paper, tho 1 11 tako a;l the chances. Come on prow of Ben's ancient vessel grounded now; hurry up! How much do you on tha road. want for the old thing? I'll give you i The crowd opened up and the pink twenty-five dollars." ;slip passed «to Ben's hand, which My goodness, harl," Hooper ex-' tumbled plained^ "I couldn't sell for that. I ] had this here boat fer a long time, It's just about all I own. I wouldn't want to part with it fer that." "There, you old bandit,'' Bixby said. "I guess that evens us up!" I thought that the edge of a smile twitched the corners of his small eyes "AH right, ail right! How much?", ironically. He was that .sort of a man. "Well, quite a spell ago I learned 'â-  There were things he understood, re- that boats was pretty expensive. This'speted He could understand coer- one ought to be worth quite a lot to ' cion. vou. Yqu could probably make pretty | Ben Hooper's mouth opened and oig interest on it. I guess, take it aS'fhut but no words came, only a sort in all " I of gasp. Unable to contain himself any long- 'The big man thriist him aside and er, Bixby shouted: "Never mind! c'inibed gingerly into the wet boat. Never mind all thatl Tell me how The oars made terrible splashings and much you want and I'll pay you." | for a moment I wa.s afraid he might For some moments Ben sat thought- 1 no)_ be able to manage the craft in the ful. In the group on the shore, men | yoilow current. But, after all, he'd nudged each other and grinned. We been brought up in the country and wasn't so helpless as he seemed. Gradually the boat headed around and sidled, like an angry crab, toward the other shore. The oars came up very high and spatted the water savagely when they went down. "Rarl wouldn't never win no boat races," Thomas observed, and the all waited. At last Hooper said: "Now, Earl, I don't want to be unreasonable. But 1 got a lot invested in boats. If I don't get back outn this one what I got invested in the others, why, I won't get another chance, I guess. I two hours to get to Nelson over that i reckon if you'd give me twenty-five rotten road and I'd be further away hundred dollars fer it, why, I'd sell." I croy/d chuckled. Everyone on shore gasped. They hung at the water's edge, mur- "Twenty-fivp hundred dollars!"] muring, intent. The train could be, roared Bixby. "Say, what do you ' seen creeping under the opposite hills. think I am? You can't hold me up!"jA white ball rose a& it whistled. We "Oh, I don't want to, Earl. I don't 'saw Bixby turn round and then bend But you see, I put twelve j to his task more vigorously. There nto boats ten years j was something exceedingly humorous about the way he sidled along. He from the railroad than I am now." The men nodded. "Better telephone," Peck suggested. Bixby looked at him disdainfully,!' remarking, "What I got to do can't ' want to. be done over any telephone. I got one hundred dollars big deal on, I tell you. I got to get ago and 1 thought I'd git 10 per cent, out to town and I'm goin' to. That'^: '"tcest on that. You told me your- me. That's why 1 am where I am to- f^f I, would. Weil, I didn't, and all d«y. When I got business to do, I do L??' '"-'{^ '' ""'' ^'"'^ ""^^ ^"^^ " ' it git twenty-five hundred dollars for her see? I don't stand around and t/f, -I-pVUe^erast iigure, and hoHer It can t be done. i j,ad all the worry and anxiety all The men shifted about, exchanging these years." glances. Bixby took a few steps up "You must think I'm crazy!" Bixby the road and came back. shouted across the water. "You can't "Anyl)ody got a boat?" he asked. hold me up for money like that." I saw a smile slide across Ambrose! . Hooper took up the oars. "Oh, all Peck's mouth and disappear behind "^^'v^^'^'"'- ^ *''«"f'"°'^,you wouldn't ,. ,, J u- 11. J want to pay that much. He began h.s ear Ho opened his mouth and^t„ ^^^^ '^^e boat slowly away from ^o^^'i 't- the fence posts. Jabe Ellis said slowly, "What'd| "Here, wait a minute, you old fool. anybody have a boat fer? You couldn't; I'll give you a hundred dollars, and float a boat on the creek usually." j that's robbery." "Now, see here," Bixby explained,' "No, Earl, my price is twenty-five as though no one realized the situa-, hundred, just as £sa^id.'^ tion, "this is serious. I'll pay well if I ""j". you can get me across there. There, .<v,^„ ..„;j „ ™„« i,„j <„ i *»,_i. , I „ lou said a man had to have that. must be some way. | you said yourself that most men didn't The group shrugged and shook get nowhere becau.se they didn't have their heads. | any nerve. I got a lot of respect for I .Haw red creeping up the back of, your opinion. Earl." The boat began Bixby's neck. Ho exploded into a ' to move ofl' into the stream.. tirade against the elements, the coun- Earl Bixby stood with the brown you sure have got some try, and his foolishness in coming up wa*-" 'apping his .shoen. He cajoled, ,. 4 .. • .â- __ , ,, I abu.sed, threatened and gesticulated. there at this time of the year. ^Irl nJn Hnnm.r „n,l hU hnnt ,^^v»rt , Old Ben Hooper and his boat moved '^^'i slowly away, the â€" ~ " The people listened pracidly great sorrow was evidenced at the| Then Bixby went back to the buggy plight of their fellow citizen. With and started to get in when faintly, far them, what could not be done to-day up the valley, a train whistled. Tho could be done to-morrow. The rain etfccl on Bixby was much the same : :â-  kept drizzling down and Bixby con- though an electric current had pas->J tinually hitched his collar up al)out his ' ^'"•""•'?^ ''""• "« stiffened and took neck to keep it out. landed with a jolt just as the train pulled in nnd we saw him wave his arms and scramble out. He stood up, turned around and gave the poor old boat a bitter kick which sent it sail- ing out into the stream where it float- ed stolidly away. The crowd relaxed then. They slap- ped Ben on the back and all talked at once. Everyone but Hooper. He seemed completely overwhelmed. All he could do war to take oflf that old hat and F.'iip it violently against his thigh in splio of the rain. A sort of triumphant procession of which he was the centre streamed back uptown. Ben seemed trying to say somethin,;, but he stammered a good deal. 1 i couldn't make out the words at first,' but finally his voice grew stronger. "Gosh ! Don't know as I ought o' done that," he was saying. "I didn't ' calc'late to 1)6 mean to Earl. But I reckoned I'd never get another chance' to make up to Nettie fer all â€" fer ' all " He broke off and I saw there were tears in his eyes. (The End.) A M ejljj GAMBLING or INVESTIKC? Wliea you buy speculative sihares which have no G^amtng Record and no Market Value you are simply gambling, â€" with the overwhelming probability that you will lose your money. 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The crowd instantly was at atten- tion. Ceming down stream some distance off was a squat object with oars ris- ing and falling tempestuously. Bixby's voice was one great hymn of triumph. "There!" he ejaculated. "1 knew something would turn up. I tell you, boys, it always does if you think it will, see. 1 never see it fail."j The boat drew nearer. Some of tlie men shouted, but Ben Hooper's vigor- ously propelling back never wavered. Meeker danced about, crying, "Well, i tho old coot! He got that old tub of hisn. Guess hell Ix; able to lend it to somelKidy now." On the fast-flowing tide the old flat- l)ottomed l)oat came on rapidly. A short di.stance from the shore Ben turned around, guided the boat deftly up against two fence posts and rested on his oars. Y'ou got a strangle you old robber! hold on me, ton this morning and that's ail there is to it." Ben Hooper slowly pulled the boat around and brought it close to the shore. "Don't buy her if you don't think she's worth it to you. Earl." Bon tried hard to keep the excitement out of his voice. "Oh, shut up!" Bixby grunted. I "Bring your old tub in here!" "Well, when do 1 get -the money?" i "Oh, I'll pay you arl right. Don't worry about that." j "1 ain't exactly worryin', but I got \ to get the money right away." ' I "You don't think V\e got twenty- five hundred dollars on me, do you?" i "Well, niebbe not, but you just give i nie a cheque so as 1 can get it cashed uptown to the bank soon as it opens and 'fore you get a chance to change your mind." It may have been iny imagination, I but Bixby actually seemed to have grown smaller. He si]uirmed and Being Bored. Those who aae bored have meager !n;plleotuaI resources. An education is ineffectual if it does not make a man a good companion for himself. The oomrade.=;hip we cannot shake off, our own society, makes the larger part of the difference between an en- joyable life and a dull one. "The eye sees what it brings the I means of seeing," and a mind per- I got to get out to Bromp-| ^^pi^ea or a heart feels to the measure I of Its own capacity. It !s an indict- ment often brought against our age that the present generation must be constantly thrilled and stiinuUited. But there never was an ei-a in which there were not elders who deplored the mad rush of ihelr Juniors in the light-heeled naln of folly. No period has had a monopoly either of^the sober PLAITS AND BUTTO.N"S PARA- MOUNT IN FALL FASHIONS. 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Pull up and; "You better hurrv up, Karl," Thorn- take me acros.s. 1 got to got the nine- . .us urged; "that was Bingly the train forty-five." | ^___ Hooper dabbled the creaking oara I ^===========3= in the water. "Never see the water so high in all my life," ho announced. "Hey, pull up!" Bixby urged. Hooper did not .seem to hear. "Awful strong current," he inform- ed us. "Pretty hard to handle a boat out here." Various remarks came from the crowd. Karl Bixby stood leaning far out over the edge of the water. "Hey, I ain't got much time, I tell i you. I'ui'l up here." j Ben Bplashe<l the oars. "Say, v.hat's the matter? I'll give you ten dollars, Ben, to take me across." j "Why, Earl, you want to get ovei'i to the other side?" Ben's mild voica iiKpiired. ".Sure, I want to!" "Well, now I tell you, Earl. It's kind of risky out here. Awful strong current. I don't jest know as I'd want \<i take the risk of gettin' you across. .-Xin't there soinethln' in the law 'Ixiut bciiiL' liab'i.- wlwn you undertuke to carry folks for pay? You're a pretty impoitaiit man. Earl, and I'd hate to be liable if anything happened to you." "dome on, romp on! You'll make me miss my train. I'll take the ri.sk." |Ie laughed, gusto. "No," Bon answered. "I can't take n chance on bein' liable." Bixby wnv<'<l his arms over the edge of the water. "Well, what «k> you want? I'll buy yo-ir liarnod old l»oat and row myself ncrosii." A bright r-mile spread over Ben Hooper's face. "Well ijpw, Karl," he riieir recreation Is crowded into the intervals hetween working hours of Intense coiieentnition. Vacntions are enjoyable because they have been richly earned. What does rest "mean to a man who has always been rest- ing? What does amusoiiicnt mean to ono who devotes his time to it? 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