Linn County Democrat from Mound City, Kansas • 2

I i LINN COUNTY DKMOCUAT that lasted a hundred years. And Sir Roger's lady was a Caldwell." Merton Caldwell found his welcome singularly unaffected and warm. After a pleasant evening he was Invited to By C. E. DALLAS.

LITTLE MISS BROWN I'ANIiMS AMI SCH lOL. Children aie goiii hack to school Kith, I) yii ulize i I't 1 1 1 1 1 lance .1 I hi Do yon appreciate the fact that the school o'ri aiid school grounds are the home of the hoy and girl for approximately two-thirds of their Subscription $1.00 a year in advance or a year if not paid in advance She Made Atonement for Wrong FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, I The Linn County School Books are now on distribution at the Van Ness Drug Store. Committed Eighi Hundred Years Before. By H. M.

EGBERT. n' hurj, live iys in. the Entered in the Postollice at Mound City, for traiiHiiiiHHion through the mails an Beeond-claHH matter. si Little Miss lirown had one bright spot In her otherwise drab life; that A 15IG LINK 0F week? Do you fully comprehend that your chill's physical welfare and mental development hinge, very largely on environment and make the castle his headquarters, and the upshot was that, a week later, he was still a guest there, and his host, the squire, resolutely refused to let him depart, at least until the relationship had been cleared up. "I think," he said, "that you and Lucy are twenty-ninth cousins." Lucy was the most delightful cousin he had ever had.

She proved a mine of genealogy. "Why, I do believe I didn't finish that story of the legend," she said day, when they stood sidu by side at the tomb. "You know Ludy Iirow tie was really a bad woman. She ran away to Lyonesse, In the west somewhere a mythical country far out in the Atlantic while Sir Roger was in the Holy Land. When he came back he prophesied that In eight hundred years she would come back to him, and he would recognize her and rise out of the grave and pardon her.

Hut I must say It doesn't look as conditions of that school and school Tablets, Slates, Pens, Pencils, Ink, Ink Ifrasers, Crayola, Chalk, all kind and colors, Drawing books and Tablets. Now is the time to think of these matters which are of paramount in terest to you! STATMXHHY a com- To what sort of a school building are you going to send your children plete lino ot the linest Stationery in the county and at prices that can't he duplicated cither in nice or (iiality. Conic in and let us prove to yon the ahovi' is correct. next month? Is it well equipped from a sani tary standpoint? Is it healthfully situated in the city? Has it proper grounds wherein the children mav have suitable out E. B.

VAN NESS. i door exercise? Is it supplied with proper lire escape-? If you do not know the answer. was her friendship for Merton Caldwell. She was decidedly an old maid, as New England reckoning goes. She looked thirty; she was actually thirty-five.

Caldwell was thirty-seven, but then a man more slowly than a woman. On her thirtieth birthday Miss lirown had looked at her reflection In her mirror and Bald: "Now I do not expect ever to marry." Caldwell was no hero; he was just a New York business man. He spent his summer vacation at Cape Cod, In i lie village where the little schoolmistress taught. The lirowns were of an old family, and had settled in Massachusetts very soon after the Pilgrims landed. The friendship which spiaiiR up between Miss Elizabeth and the visitor was so spontaneous, so naturally renewed each year for those hree weeks of Caldwell's vacation, that it was accepted by both as the most ordinary thing In the world.

Some of the neighbors gossiped, but that was what neighbors always did, lirown reflected. "I shall not bo here next summer, Mbs Trown," said Caldwell one bright afternoon in August. They had been strolling together along the shore. The wind had caught the schoolmistress' hair and blown it about her tanned cheeks. She looketl the picture of health and beauty but Caldwell did not see anything unusual, lie was a silent, Introspective man; she might have assumed the contour and aspect of a Venus and ho would not have noticed.

"I am going to take six weeks and visit England," he continued, not knowing that Miss lirown was suddenly quiet. "I am going to take in al the old Northumberland castles and" "Northumberland!" echoed Miss lirown. "Ycb. My family came from there." "lint so did mine," said Miss Drown quickly. "The Urownes of Constable and cannot find out now, go to the school the first day or the first week and learn! Show yoiir personal interest in I TO p't busissI your child by acquainting yourself with conditions and jegistering a ei'ily protests against wrong ones.

Let you children have a fair IS I wish to announce to my customers that on account of attending school it will be necessary for me to give up my Cleaning and Pressing business after Saturday, August 30; therefore if you have work in my line, please bring it in at once. chance to develop his brain and muscle. Make il your business to see that the school environment and the school life, indoors and out, will build him up into strong mental, moral and physical manhood. (lo to school and learn your lesson, too, if need he! Wichita LYNN CHESTER First door West of l'ostoffice. lie Could Heat It.

Last Sunday C. I), dleason took Hnnlnlil a trip out into the country to see though he was going to fulfill his promise, for eight hundred years were up five years ago." The glamor of the English countryside bewitched Caldwell. He could have lived there forever. Hut the short vacation was drawing toward its end. And a singular difficulty was troubling him.

He loved Lucy. A shy, reserved man, he had never thought of marriage until her Bweet face and pleasant, simple ways attracted him. Would she come back with him? Or should he abandon everything, settle in England, and trust to being able to succeed there and to maintain her in her accustomed manner of life? That night he dreamed of her among the garden flowers; he seemed to see In them the renewal of the ancient league between the two families; he wandered through the castle grounds, happy In his newly-found resolution. There was a newcomer at dinner a Caldwell. He was a young fellow just down from Cambridge evidently an old friend.

"I'd have known you for a Caldwell any day," he said to Merton. "Do you know you are the exact image of Sir Roger?" "Why, so he is!" exclaimed the squire. "How odd how extraordinarily odd! Don't you see it, Lucy?" Everybody did, and the recognition seemed an omen to Merton. Perhaps he, then, was the old knight, re born to win his lady In a new world, to wipe out the unhappiness of the past. He would speak to Lucy that evening.

After dinner the squire took him aside. "I ought to tell you," he said, innocently, "that Mr. Caldwell and Lucy are to be married next autumn. They have been engaged for a year. So if they are a little inhospitable you you'll understand, eh?" "Yes," "answered Merton, dismally.

An hour later he was in the Norman church, beside the tomb. How soon his hopes had been dashed down! What he had taken for dawning love was notihng but friendship, sincere and unaffected. He must not betray himself! He must leave on the morrow. A beam of moonlight broke through a cleft in the wall and shone full upon the figures of stone. It lit up the ancient lady's marble face, and, as it did so, Caldwell started back with an exclamation of amazement.

The face of the knight was his so much he had seen. But that of the lady was not Lucy's, but Miss Brown's. The family type had been re-created in her as though those eight centuries had been wiped out completely. There she lay, the little schoolmistress, with her delicate features, the effigy of her who had wandered away "to Lyonesse a mythical country far out in the Atlantic." Then the full significance of the old story struck Caldwell like a lightning flash. It was coincidence, of course; he did not believe that the legend was to be fulfilled in them.

But for the first time he thought of Miss Brown, his friend of five summers, patient, lovable; he remembered her face that day she said good-by, and her hair, whipped back by the wind. Half an hour afterward he was bidding his host good-by In the hall of the castle. about the corn crop, and finding some very good corn in a Held belonging John Harding he "swiped'' six ears and on Monthly morn MOUND CITY v. ing hung them out. in front of his store to show that there was some THE MANTEY PICNIC.

The Old Settlers and M. V. A. picnic at Mantey hint Kiidny fuirel)' was a succesH in npite of the dry weather. Tlio program consiHting of addresses, vocal and instrumental music liy choirs and individuals from Mound City and Fulton, was rendered and was Appreciated hy all; likewise the bouk hy the In-ekeep little girls and (ho musical play hy the nine little and boys, directed hy Mrs.

Ida In-skeep. The "talks'' were made hy Judge Dingus, T. C. Johnston, II. P.

Clay and II I). Nickelson, the latter being connected with the state penitentiary at Lansing, and who made an especially forceful plea for better sanitation ami belter conditions generally at that and other penal institutions. The election of officers resulted in the selection of the following to to serve for the ensuing year: President, W. II. Holmes, Prcsc tl; 1st vice-President, T.

C. Johnston, Mapleton; 2nd vice-President, Win. DeAtley, Mapleton; vice-Pre si-dent, Frank (iray, HattlehVId; 4th Vice-President, II. P. Clay, Mantey; 5th vice-President, Miles Lamb.

Prescott; Executive Committee. B. F. Lomax, L. J.

Higgins, I). II. Carr; Treasurer, I). Walrod; Secretary John Carr. Forty-five old settlers were reported having died during the past year, and the committee on resolutions, consisting of I lev.

Seigle, Ji. I). Nickelson and T. C. Johnson, reported the following, which were adopted: Whkkeas, The Supreme Ruler of universe linn Heen lit to remove from our midst during the pant year a number of our members, in respect to the departed ones and (heir lidelity to our organizatiou we respectfully subniil the following: Be it Rksom i-i), That we the members of the Old Settlers' Picnic Association do offer to the relatives and friends of the departed our heartfelt sympathy in their bereavement and assure them, though departed, their memory shall stillbecherish-ed by the members of our Association.

Bk it Fvktiikr Kesoiakp, That copy of these resolutions be placed in the minutes of the meetingand a copy of the same he sent to the families or relatives of each of the deceased. Bk it Khsoiaki) That a copy of these resolutions, with the names of the departed he published in the Linn County papers. Mrs. Manluve Charles Haller 0. Manlove Mrs.

Win. Wasson J. L. Brown Ansel k'irby Webber D. M.

Miller Rev. Gardner John Kpler A. J. Jackson Mrs. Rose H.

C. Johnston Daniel Ernest J. T. Holmes Jacob Shade Mrs. E.

Miller Frank Williams Wm. Ham Preston Trolles Robert Osborn Alfred ISeth Mrs. Kobt. Ouborn Martha Beth Murrey Mrs. Mary Curry J.

0. Wasson Mrs, M. Smith Mrs J. Torrey Mrs. James Tyson D.Carter Mrs.

J. Weatherby Mrs. Wm, Hicks Mrs. J. 1).

Me Rue Andrew Lambest Josie Underbill W. B. Perkins Mrs. (). A.

Rankin Chas. Campbell James Richardson Geo. W. Barnes Mell M. Robbins Peter Nickelson John Thompson W.

H. T. Wakefield Mrs. Jno. Frasher Mrs.

Dora Walmsdeldorf Morrison. The visitors from abroad were: Mrs. Armilda Barrick of Fort Scott, and daughter, Mrs. Olson of Wichita, Frank Burton and two children of Moran, Guy Walton, Miss Bron-nenberg and Mrs. Essie Faller of Oklahoma.

The Prescott Cornet Band furnished a Gne quality of music and deserve the thanks of everybody present for their efforts and gentlemanly conduct. The managers wish to thank all who helped with the program, for Feed apd Grist Mill. I carry Bran, Shorts, Oil Meal, Cotton Gake, Mixed Chicken Feed, Hay, Mill Stuffs and Feed of all kinds. LET ME BO YOUR GRINDING. gootl com in the country yet.

John came along shoitly after and asked: "Where'd you get that corn?" "Oh, out, in the replied dleason. 1 can beat that had out at my said John. When dlea-son told hint that that was where he got il John still claimed that he could beat it and maybe he could. It is very good corn and shows but little elVccts of the drought. WHAT'S TINS HKASON? Il It -L i J.

aL JL I I A. JL II Miss "Northumberland!" Echoed Brown." Many Mound ily IWphi in I'uor llcnllli Without Knowing the niisc. There are scores of people who drag out a miserable existence without re alizing the cause of their sullering Dav after day they are racked with backache and hwiiiacbe; suffer from nervousness, dizziness, weakness, languor and depression. Perhaps the kidneys have fallen behind in their work of filtering the blood and that may be the the root of the trouble, book to your kidneys, assist them in their work -give them the help they need. Vou can nse no more highly reeomended remedy than Doan's Kid ney Pills endorsed by people all over the country and by your neighbors in Mound City.

Mrs. J. Hawkins, Mound City, says: "I have used Doan's Kidney Tills at different times and I cnnsuier ineui a rciiatue medicne lor kidney trouble. My kidneys did not do their work as they should and caused my back to ache intensely. 1 took Doan's Kidney Tills as directed and before long they brought relief.

You are welcome to publish this statement," For sale by all dealers. Trice 50 cents. Foster-Millburn HulTalo, New York, sole agents for the United States Remember the name Doan's and ike no other. 1 "A business uidttcr, and positively We will remind you that you can get the DEMOCRAT frcm now until January 1914 for 25 Cents castle are supposed to be relatives of mine. If you go there you must visit the place, and tell me all about it.

It is one of the show seats of the county." They parted soon after. Miss Brown went back to her school, and Caldwell to his office. Next summer he sailed for England, and in due time found himself at Constable castle. The castle was itself notable, but more so the old Norman church. Eight hundred years ago It had been founded by Sir Koger Browne, the Crusader, who lay beneath the marble effigy of himself and his lady inside the building.

The sexton, a grumpy old fellow, expatiated upon the history of the statue with shrewd calculation that the American visitor would bestow largess upon him. "That's the tomb of Sir Roger," he croaked. "Ho lays there all but his heart, which is burled in Jerusalem. But his lady don't ire by him. She went off with another knight while he was away, and they say" his voice sank into a whisper calculated to awe "they say that after eight hundred years has passed she'll come back to him, and he'll rise up out of them stones and forgive her." "Now, John, you're telling the story wrong," interrupted a laughing voice, and Caldwell turned to find himself gazing into the eyes of a singularly pretty girl of twenty years or so.

"You are Mr. Caldwell?" she inquired. "Ye heard about you In the castle, and my father wants you to come up to 'dinner and make our acquaintance. He thinks you must be connected with the Caldwells of High Ness." "I was," said Merton, smiling. "But that was nearly two hundred yeara ago." "That isn't much," said the girl, laughing heartily.

"We have long memories in this part of the country. Won't you come and let us talk over our ancestors? You know, the Caldwells and the Brownes had a feud not to be avoided," he explained. "Yes, I take the early morning train. I'll be up before you are down." If Miss Lucy had guessed his feeling she would have thought herself mistaken when she looked into his frank face. "I hope you will both be very happy," he said.

'And perhaps the old alliance between the Brownes and Caldwells will he repeated many a time." They did not quite understand until they received his wedding announcement. For, Important as his business might have been, Merton Caldwell hurried first to Cape Cod. And he found Miss Elizabeth walking upon the sands alone. She stopped and looked at him in astonishment the color flamed in her cheeks. "You have come back?" she stammered.

"You didn't like England, then?" He laughed. "I love it," he answered, "because because did you ever hear about the legend of Sir Roger Browne?" he asked. "No," said Miss Elizabeth, innocently. "Why?" "I'll tell you on our honeymoon," he answered Impudently. "You see, you committed a great wrong eight hundred years ago, and now you've got to atone for it by marrying me." (Copyright, 1913, by W.

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