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Show SERIALS STORV H J FOOlTlf A FOR LOVE By FRANCIS LYNDE A.::.cr of "Tn Grafter. ' Ess. I And besides. It was meant to De a scolding." "I have no doubt Adams sent the Or. it v ire. but he didn t v.rlto It. he did. he also wrote our invitation to dinner They are in the fame ha:id. you knov." She laughed again. "I think it b quite time we were going In." sh( av rred, and he opened the door foi t bat. 1 her. If Mr. John Winton. C. K.. :'iood in need Of B moral tonic, a Adams ha so delicately intimated to Miss ii It administered was quantity sufficient before he slept oe . !'.i night of I" u a clear-eye- d Teehnologian. free and abb from all Bessi-Cartere- l lCopr,t m. t,vj I'. .ppiniitCt.l CHAPTER VIII. Continued. But Mr. Darrah (Hatted on. affably and after a time Win- n began to upbraid himself (or th ulterior motive. By no ord or Lint did the vice president efer to the ;tnggie pen. lent between i he two companies or to the warlike Incident of 'he morning. And when he Snail; rose to excuse himself on a g plea, his leave-takinwas that of the genial host reluctant to part company with his guest. "I've enjoyed your conve'sation. Most seh; enjoyed it right much. happy to have had tbe pleasure Ol your company, Misteh Winton. May I hope you will faveh us often while we are neighbors?" Winton rose, made the proper acand ' would have knowledgments, crossed the compartment to make his adleux to Mrs. Carteret. But at that moment Virginia, taking advantage of Adams' handshaking with the Rajah, ame between. "You re not going yet, are you. Mr. Winton? Don't hurry. If you are lying to smoke a pipe, as Mr. Adams ays you are, we can go out on the platform. It isn't too cold, is It?" Not the words themselves, but ner manner of saying them, warmed him so suddenly that an Arctic winter's night would not have been prohibitory. "It Is clear and frosty, a beautiful night," he hastened to say. ''May I help you with your coat?" She suffered him, but in the height g of the glow gave him a cold douche ir. a word to Bessie. "Won't you come, too, Bessie, dear?" he asked: and Winton set the whole oattery of his will at work to fend )ff the threatened calamity. Happily, it averted itself. Miss Bessie was quite comfortable as she was and begged to be excuse.!. Mrs. Car-erin her capacity of chaperon ooked askance at Virginia, was met y a glance of the resolute brown eyes Aiiioh she had come to obey without and contented 'ully understanding, aerself Wn a monitory: "Don't stay jut too long, Virginia. It is dreadful-- ; cold." So presently Winton had his heart's lesire, which was to be alone with Virginia; alone, we say, though the privacy of the square railed platform ras that of the ear only. For the of the Rosemary, with jathering-rcoIts lights- and eyes, gave directly upon :he rear platform through the two windows and the glass g letter-writin- for what yon said to me the other evening." I dou t know why you should; you didn't need it in the least." she pro-t- sted. "If 1 had known then what I know now. should have said something quite different." "Say it now. if you w ish " "May 1? But I have no right. Besides, it would sound like the IMMM of recanf ations." N vertheless. I should "Would it? ike to hear it." She n red l;er-el- f for the plunge her uncle's plunge doubting more hau ever "Your part in the building of this ot' pr railroad is purely B business affair, is it not?" Sly personal interst? Quite so; a mere matter of dollar- and cents, you may say." Sh- - went on. entirely missing the irony in his reply. ' You did not know the difficulties before you came here?" I knew "Omy in a general way there was opposition, and- - well. I'm not just a novice in this sort of thing, and if I may be allowed Jo boast a was little. I knew my appointment owing to Mr. Callowell's belief in my ability to carry it through " "You are not smoking," she said. "Haven't you your pipe?" She was finding it desperately hard to go on. "If you don't mind," he returned: but when he had pipe and tobacco in hand she plunged again. "You say your interest in this, other railroad your personal interest is only that of of an employe. If you should have another offer, from some other company " He smiled. "Put yourself in my would What place. Miss Virginia. g dinnei-givings- to grasp the unsentimental fact, th enemy's new plan of campaign wrott Itself quite legibly. With his pick ex and choice among the pedients the Rajah could scarcely have found one more to his purpos than the private car Rosemary, in eluding In its passenger list a Miss There would be Virginia Carteret. more dinners and social diversions; other procrastinations like this ol neglecting to look after the consign ment of steel which, by the by. was not yet to be seen or even definitely beard from: and in the end. defeat. All of which Adams, substituting friendly frankness for the disciplinary traditions of the service, set forth in good Bostonian English for the benefit and behoof of his chief, and was an swered according to his deserts with scoffing:: and deridings. "I wasn't born yesterday, Morty, and I'm not so desperately asinine as you seem to think." was the besotted the "I know one's summing up. Rajah doesn't split hairs in a busi-you do?" ness fight, but he is hardly unscrupu-- i She tried to think it out, and in lous enough to use Miss Carteret as the process the doubt grew and over- a whelmed her. But Adams would not be scoffed "I I don't know," she faltered. aside. "You're off in your estimate of Mr. "If, as you say, it Is only a question of so much money to be earned " Darrah, Jack, 'way off. I know the - time-killin- -- j cat's-paw.- door. Now in whatsoever aspect the moun- cart-hors- r-'- I 1 NOTES Two masked men, one carrying B shotgun and the other a revolver, held up The inn. a Goldfield saloon, about midni tin. taking Sti50 from the ' rap table and $1S from th cash register. An increase of about la per cent on an average for all of the Wyoming coal fields Is the demand that will be presented to the mine owners at the meeting with the representatives of the United Mine Workers of America, which will open this treat in Denver. In a circular to its patrons in Butte the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone that ii "may company amicunces have to discontinue sen it e" because of the strike of linemen and operators in sympathy with the I'tah unions. The system is paralyzed in Butte. H. O. Morrigan, a notorious Montana highwayman, died of chronic alcolhol-isat Das Vegas, Nov.. last week. He was arrested and convicted la 889, and afterward fell heir to $29,04)0. For the last three months, commencing at Goldfield. he has been trying to drink up all the whisky on Hie desert. Seventy-fivGreek laborers on the Laramie. Hahn's Peak &. Pacific railroad have struck. They claim that some of their number bad to pay fare traveling from Laramie to the grading camp at Centennial and refuse to to work until the money has been refunded their brethren. Mrs. Lorena Mcbainster, an aged Inmate of the Patton Home for the Aged, in Portland, was so severely burned that she died two hours after the accident. The woman, who was 88 years old, had been smoking her her dress pipe, and it is probable caught fire from the pipe. Guy Button and Charles Forquis', prospectors, were stiff ocated by fire damp in the shaft of an abandoned The coal mine near Cokeville. Wyo. two men who met their death in the mine were in a party of four prosvarious pectors whr were visiting prrnrties near Cokeville. A jury in the United States court returned a verdict finding F. D. CoopMontana northern er, a stockman and former member of the board of commissioners of Cascade county, guilty of unlawful fencing of government lands. Sentence will be announced later by Judge Hunt. Postmaster Watson Schriner of Spanway, Wash., awoke abotii 2 o'clock in the morning, to find a The robber burglar in his room. dealt, him a stunning blow, cutting an ugly gash in his forehead and The robber knocking him senseless. took $74 from under the pillow and escaped. Three burglars, one a woman, dynamited the safe in the postofrlee at Columbia, a suburb of Goldfield, Nevada. Officers attacked them and two of them got away in a fusillade from automatic pistols. Charles Morton, the third burglar, fell and drew his gun but he was overpowered before be could fire a shot. An autopsy at Billings, Mont., on the body of G. H. Crandall, a telegraph operator, discloses that the man was foully murdered. Crandall was brought in a dying condition to a hotel conducted by Chinese, by two unknown men, a room was engaged and the unconscious form of Crandall thrust into it on the floor, the iperpetrators of the crime then fleeing. "We are quite certain that the reach & Tidewater road will Rhyolite in October," is what G. J. Ennis. general agent for the Smith road, Is quoted as saying a few days ago: "Construction work is proceeding rapidly, and unless something unforeseen happens, we will be here at the appointed time." The United States iand office has received the report from Special Agents Scott and Alton of an examination made of land enclosures of the WaiTen Livestock company, Wyoming. It completely exonerates Senator Warren's company from the charge of illegally fencing government lands in that state. Word comes from Portland that Barney Oldfield tried to commit suicide after being arrested in Portland on the charge of faking automobile races. Oldfield took the matter to heart and brooded over the troubles until at 2 o'clock at night, the day after his arrest, when ho attempted to Jump out of a window. .T. Larson, liveryman and garage owner of Belllngham. Wash., was . erushed to death In an automobile He attempted to turn the machines in a narrow road and backed embankment. Glenn over a forty-foo- t Hyatt, a capitalist, and D. E. Biggs, a local physician, who accompanied Larson, were not seriously injured. The large Armour icing plant at Las Vegas, Nevada, was entirely destroyed by fire on the 11th. For a Ime the entire tow n was endangered, but the wind, which had been blowing hard for several days, had subsided. The many large warehouse- - narrowly escaped only on account of the abb' work of the local fire department. 1 e re-'tu- well-know- heart-warmin- tain skyland presents itself and its aspects are numberless that of a starlit winter night, when the heaven-light- s burn clear in a black dome for which the mighty peaks themselves are the visible supports, is not the least impressive. So, for a little time, awe challenging awe in these two had much in common, tongue and lip were silent, and when they spoke it was of the immensities. "Does your profession often open such wide doors to you. Mr. Winton?" It gave him an exquisite thrill to know that her mood marched so evenly with his own. "Outside of the office work, which I have always evaded when I could, the doors are all pretty wide. One year I was on the Mexican boundary survey you can picture those silent nights in the desert Another time I was with the Geodetic on the coast; since that winter the booming of the surf has been the constant undertone for me in all music.'' You must love "Ah, yes, in music. music If you can associate it with this." "I do. indeed. I would build it the I grandest of the temples, though should be only a mute in it myself." She smiled. "That temple must always have two high priests, one who I prophesies and one who interprets. can't play without a sympathetic listener." "I wish you might play for me sometime. You would have to' be very exacting If you could And fault with my appreciation." "Would I? But we are riding away on my hobby after we had fairly mounted yours." He laughed. "Mine Is only a heavy not lit for riding," he said. It is a "You shouldn't say that. man's work yours." And he made sure there was a note of regret in her oire when she added: "No woman an ever share It with you, or help you in it." "I should be sorry to believe that." "The best part tie rejoined, quickly. )f any man's work may be shared by the woman who wills and dares." a flitting glance of She gave Intelligence. "How strancely chance whips us ibout from post to piliar. Two even ngs Rgo I was foolish enough to did. And now you know what ve have changed pbn-- s and you are elling me what a woman may do If the dare." But he would noi admit the prem sea. "If the one w re foolish, so is CMl'l allow that to he other. But I shall o'way be the ! tter tand NORTHWEST HE OPENED THE He started as if she struck him DOOR FOR HER. tradition that a southern gentleman is all chivalry when it comes to a with a whip. "That is not your argument; it is matter touching his womankind, and Mr. Darrah's." Then his voice took I don't controvert it as a general a deeper tone that thrilled her till proposition. But the Rajah has been she wanted to cry out. "Don't say a fighting western railroad magnate you want me to give up; please don't so long that his accent is about the say that. I think I have been putting only southern asset he has retained. you on a pedestal these last two days. If I'm any good at guessing, he wilt You know well enough stick at nothing to gain his end." Miss Carteret. Winton admitted the Impeachment what is involved honor, integrity, good faith, everything a man values, without prejudice to his own point of or should value. I was only jesting view. : that is when I spoke of the "Perhaps you are right. But fore I can't believe you would warned is forearmed. And Miss Virnothing. ask such a sacrifice of me of any ginia Is not going to lend herself to man." any such nefarious scheme." "Not consciously, perhaps; but you The brown eyes met his fairly, and it was not Mr. Somerville Darrah's don't know her yet. If she saw a confederate who said: "Indeed, I do good chance to take the conceit out of not ask It, Mr. Winton. I see now you. she'd improve it without thinkhow impossible it would be for you ing overmuch of the possible conseshe stopped short, and leaving quences to the Utah company." "Pshaw!" said Winton. "That is the sentence in the air, began again.' "But it is only fair that you should another of your literary Inferences. have your warning, and I'm going to I've met her only twice, yet I vengive It to you. My uncle will leave ture to say I know her better than you do. If she cared anything for me no stone unturned to defeat you." which she doesn't " He was still looking into her eyes, "Oh. go to sleep!" said Adams, who and so had courage to say what came not minded to argue further with was uppermost. man a besotted; and so the matter I "I don't care. shall fight him as hard as I can, but I shall always be went by default for the time. It was very deftly done, and even his debtor for this evening. Do you could not help Adams, the clear-eyed- , understand?" Rajah's skillful finesse. and turned admiring the She broke the Of formal d'.nncr-givlngthere might away quickly. ' been an end. since the she easily have "You must not come again," construction camp had nothing to said. in return. But 'offer the formalities "But I shall as often as I may. were studiously Ignored, and the two Mr. And as to the railway tussle, young men were put upon a footing Darrah may take it out of me as he of intimacy and encouraged to come pleases from sunrise to sunset, if he and go as they pleased. me to dinner here Invite will only (TO HE CONTINUED i now and then." In a flash her mood changed and Tributes to the Departed. she laughed lightly. Corn and bread are still offered by "Who would think If of you, Mr. the pious Basques of the Pyrenees to Of all men I should have the dear departed on their death an Winton! A traveler said you were the last to care to nlversary. In Spain de Shall scribes how, at San Sebastian, he ha-- i much for the social diversions. we go In?" often seen some poor fisherman's "If we must: but not until I have daughter praying In a church for a thanked you for vour timely hint of dead relative "amid baskets full of It saved me no fruit, loaves of bread and corn, and yesterday morning end of trouble." kneeling upon U tomb of her ar Mr Adams sent ceslora" "The telegram? day-pay- to" eye-hol- s acci-lent- Captain Jack Colton Summer, a plo neer Indian scout, whose name is connected with much of the early hiscountry, tory of the Intermountaln died on .Inly fi at Vernal. Utah, The body of the old Indian lighter was taken to Denver foi burial. Four children of Mr and Mrs. Jatnm at O. Field, who Ibe Rogersvllle. Wis., were burned to death by the exOne plosion of a gasoline stove. thlld was saved Ml Field, who w.i- preparlng breakfast, stepped oul Into the garden, and when she returned the house was In (lames ud the chil dren could not be sa ad AUTOGRAPH IS PRIZED SIGNATURE OF IN GREAT leinpi 10 kiep pace with the abounding prosierity of the country. Hut there is work for the register He must sign to do, nevertheless. by hand every registered bond of the Tutted States, anil millions and millions of dollars' worth of these have been Issued since he took the oath These range of office in June. 1906. in ralue between $100 $10,000. lie usual denomination being $1,000 Vernon has signed hundreds of the $10,000 bonds with the same easy nonchalance that he would write his name to be engarved for a $1 bill. He was born 36 years ago In a log cabin on plantation near Lebanon. Mo., ot parents who had been slaves He went to work In the fields drag glng hay at the age of eight. When V. T. VERNON DEMAND. As Much as $10,000 Has Been Paid for One of Them Craving Is Universal Secret of Their Great Value. Washington. Ten thousand dollars seems a tabulous price to pay for an autograph, yet men who can get for nothing the autograph of the greatest potentates on earth will willingly exchange that amount in gold for the signature of William T. Vernon of the United States. Collectors of the signatures of famous men, who will pay high prices for single specimens of those of Qeorge Washington. Napoleon Bonaparte or Oliver Cromwell, feel their ambition realized if they can connect with one of each, but for the auto graph of Vernon they have a hunger that ends only with death. Men And the hunger is universal. and women who ordinarily care nothing for the autographs craved by OOllectors will exchange their all for Lives are spent in those of Vernon. drudgery, men will die, cheat, steal, light, kill and brave all death In a thousand ways with no hope and no as purpose save that of acquiring of these signamany as possible tures. Vernon is in the autograph business. He niakes his living by putting He caters to a his name on paper. His sig clientele that . insatiable. natures are all alike, but vary in price from $1 to $10,000. according to the paper on which they are written. Still, no one ever tries to beat him down, tor the $10,000 kind is ten thousand fold more desirable than the $1 kind Who is this man Vernon and What is the secret of the great value of his Those who have a gold autograph? or a silver certificate or a national bank note issued by Uncle Sam sub sequent to June, 1900, may answer this question by looking at the neat, businesslike signature on the lower corner, just over the words This is llegistei of the Treasury." Vernon, William T. Vernon, the man without whose name Uncle Sam's paper currency and bonds would not pass muster in the world's financial hopper. ll mustn't be supposed that Vernon puts his "list" to every bank or treasury note that is issued. 11 he were a million times multiplied he would have a hard lime doing that. His name is engraved upon a plate from one of several samples which he furnished, and this signature is stamped upon the notes by the wonderful presses at the bureau of engraving and printing, which are grinding out money day and night in a vain at- - ad i.-- WILLIAM e Chimney-Lik- A 15 yeara Of age ha began his educatlon at a school for negroes in Mis souri. finishing his couise of study at 15. He taught school in Missouri for six years, and then took charge of Western university, a school for ne gross, at Qulndaro, Kan. Mr. Vernon was then the only teacher, and his pupils numbered six. When he left the institution last June he had 14 teachers and 250 pupils. The college property consists of 130 acres of land, with buildings valued at $175,000 He is affiliated with leading negro - left-han- d 'DEVIL'S TOWER" , ; organizations, has had the degree of master of arts and doctor of laws con-- f erred upon him, and as an educator, an orator, a writer and a leader of the people up to the light of a hlgh-- j er plane of life, he is classed with the famous teacher of Tuskegee. THEATER RESERVE. Mountain Set Aside as National Monument. Sundance, Wyo. President has set aside as a national monument and federal reserve the great T. VERNON. (Negro Whose Signature Is in Very Great Demand ) , Twenty-Fou- tures RUN BY PRIESTS. Exits One of the Fea- or a New Chicago Playhouse. r Chicago Chicago's newest play house, the College theater, was dedicated the other night. This theater has been built at St. Vincent college at Webster and Sheffield avenues and will be managed by the priests of that The building cost $.100 institution. 000. The theater was opened to the pubwith the performance of "Otho Viscounte," an opera by Frederick Grant Gleason, a Chicago composer, who died four years ago. The building possesses 24 exits and the deadly emergency exit is not Included in the number. In order that persons in the audience may reach these exits as speedily as possible, the aisle space Is Increased towards the doors. Another feature is the abIn sence of balconies and galleries. place of these, 2S boxes, 14 of them Upper and 10 lower, have been fur- lic I , w, , j Devil's Tower in Wyoming. "Devil's Tower," the most peculiar formation in the west. Two thousand acres surrounding the tower have been withdrawn from settlement and a small national park has been created, with the tower In the center. Devil's tower is a chimney like mountain of rock rising 800 feet above the surrounding country, and for almost 500 feet Is nearly perpendicular and devoid of vegetation or The top of the tower Is growth. large enough to play a game of baseball upon and Is covered with soil formed from disintegrated rock. Two men are known to have climbed the tower at the risk of their lives One of these. Jack Rogers, an old of las os cowboy, used a number Which he threw over projecting coin's o" rocks, afterward climbing tlv ropes The other climber was an engineer of the Honiostuke mining company. The tower stands on the bank of the upper Belle Fouche river and has It can been a Inndmark for years. be seen from the Burlington railroad, SO miles away, when the sun Is shin- C New Chicago Theater. Dialled, with a total seating capacity of 250. The principal seating accommodations are on the main floor, which has room for 1,075 persona. President's Favorite Cartoon. The president's favorite cartoon was drawn by Cartoonist Dowry, who until recently was connected with the staff of the Chicago Chronicle. The cartoon Is called "His Favorite Auing. a farmer thor." and it represents Devil's Tower Is the famous "Inyan half lying and half sitting at ease in where Sioux Indians, Karya" of the of a roaring tire and there readthe evil spirits dwelt. The Sioux, as front "The President's Message." The well as other northwest Indians, look ing reason that the president likes this ed upon the mountain as haunted, cartoon above others is to be found and It was a place of terrot to them. in the artist's conception of the farmtheir It in a berth wide They gave er. He Is not In any sense the carihunts. The formation of the tower Is a catured farmer, the hayseed of the comic Journal. Mr. Roosevelt thinks black basalt molded into regular pristhat the farmer more nearly reprematic columns similar to those in the sents the idea of the plain people than Giants' Causeway of Ireland. any other pictui" which be has seen mar It Is estimated that 3,000 riages are performed dally through nut the world. The roads, paths and walks of Cen tral park, New fork, are 45 miles Jong |