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Show 1 IA HISTORY H A FOOL FOR LOVE u ! By FRANCIS LYNDE J (Cuj'y: U .:' . by w " Presently. An I was saying, MM I ready Occupies oy a DrMBB would mist- the chance of marrying the orado & i.rana ruer "Still, I don't see why there snouia best man in the world for the sake Morebe any scrap." Of taking a rise out of him. "Don't you? If the Rajah's road can over, sue coiiies of old cavalier stock back with an English earldom at the keep the new line out of Carbonate of it, and she is inordinately proud of till the six mouths have expired, it the met; while you er you've given will have a monopoly of all the carryme to understand that you are a man ing trade of the camp. By consequence it can force every shipper in the disof the people, haven't you?" contracts, so trict to make iron-cla- d VVinton nodded absently. finally comis line the I'tah when "Well, that settles it definitely," was that be able to secure any won't it pleted Carthe Bosionian's comment. "Miss teret is of the sang azure. The man who freight for a year at least." "Oho! that's the game, is it? I marries her will have to know his to savvy the burro; that's the prop a grandfather's middle name and er phrase, isn't it? And what are our more besides." bit good ' chances?" Winion's laugh was mockingly good- "We have about one in a hundred natured. as near as I could make out from Mr "You have missed your calling by Callamoll'c if the Case. Til" something more than a nand's-breadt- h C. & G. R. people are moving heaven Morty. You should have been a novel- and earth to obstruct us in the can ist. Give you a spike and a cross-ti- e If they can delay the work a lit yon. and you'd infer a whole railroad. But tie longer, the weather will do tne you pique my curiosity. Where are rest. With the first heavy snow in these American royalties of yours go- the mountains, which usually come-foning in the Rosemary.?" before this, tne Utah will have to "To California. The car belongs to put up its tools and wait till next Mr. Somurville Darrah, who is vice summer." president and manager in fact of the Adams lighted another cigarette. Colorado & Grand River road; the "Pardon me if I am inquisitive," he 'Rajah,' they call him. He is a rela- said, "but for the life of me I can" tive of the Carterets, and the party is understand what these obstructionist, on its way to spend the winter on the can do. Of course, they can't use. Pacific coast." force." "And the little lady in the widow's Winton's smile was grim. "Can't ' cap; is she Miss Carteret's mother?-they? Wait till you get on the groun it "Miss Bessie Carteret's mother and But the Jirst move was pe,aeeab Miss Virginia's aunt. She is the chap- enough. They got an injunction from eron." the courts restraining the new line Winton was silent while the "Lim- from encroaching on their right ol ited" was roaring through a village on way." "Which was a thing that nobody the Kansas side of the river. "I have heard somewhat of the Ra- wanted to do," said Adams, between jah," he said, half musingly. "In fact, inha'ations. He is what the "Which was a thing the Utah had to 1 know him, by sight. maga.inists are fond of calling an do," corrected Wimo.i. "The canyon parts 'industry colonel,' a born leader who is a narrow gorge a mere slit inus." has fought his way to the front. If of it. This is where they have "Uh, well; I eupposa we took an the Quartz Creek row is anything more than a stiff bluff on the part of appeal and asked to have the C. & G. R. it will be quite as well junction set aside?" "We did, promptly; and that is the for us if Mr. Somerville Darrah is safely at the other side of the conti- present status of the fight. The appeal nent and well out of reach of the decision has not yet been handed wires." down; and in the meantime we go on a building railroad, incurring all the Adams came to attention with attempt to galvanize an allies for contempt of court with Do every shovelful of earth moved. interest in the business affair. Gossip of People and Things in the Great Metropolis THE DRAGGING OF ROADS. With Very Little Work a Good bed May Be Maintained J. IM.ipi.ineutr OoJ STANDARD Once more we take up our parable and insist on farmers making preparations to make the best possible roads they can out of the materia! at hand, which is just plain dirt, and the more clay in it the better. Farmers are fooling away the great. oils in bulk of their road nouneed scarcity of taxes every year the Pennsylvania, Ohio ami Indiana a drag. The road drag not by using districts, due to the enormous In- may be made out of any light wood crease in the demand for by product!-- , pine, cedar, cottouwood. soft maple, of petroleum, and it is believed it will box elder, if a post or log is used it not be many years before the Stand should be seven feet long, about six or ard Oil company will be depending eight Inches thick, sawed in two more upon western than eastern oils. lengthwise, the two pieces put split The same results can not be obtainside foremost about three and a half as from the feet ed from the apart, held together by pieces of oils and it will be neceshard wood or steel rods. A log chain sary for the compa iy to increase its should be attached to the front and refining and pipe line capacity as It the team hitched to it in such a way becomes more dependent upon the that the drag is drawn at an angle of products of the Texas. California. 45 degrees. The drag should be drawn Kansas and Oklahoma fields. As soon up one side of the road and down the Standas the litigation in which the other when the roads are soft. The ard Oil Company is involved is out of the way the question of increasing the capital stock to a figure that will M more in harmony with the market valuation of the securities will be taken up for consideration. Standard Oil representatives are more confident than ever that the corporation will come out victorious In the suits instituted against it. They hold that practically all the charges against the company are based on technicalities. OIL TO MAKE NEW RECORD FOR PROFITS i tures and saturated skies and the Chicago & Alton's fast train, dripping from the rush through the wet night, had steamed briskly to its terminal in the Union station at Kansas City. Two men, one smoking a snort pipe mtkA tho in hf.i- - Diiennlns tho rwh frnm a . scented cigarette, stood aloot from the hurrying throngs on the platorm looking on with the measured interest of those who are in a melee but not of it. "More delay," said the cignrettist. glancing at his watch. "We a fa over an hour late now. Do we get any of it back on the run to Denverr" The pipe smoker shook his Jiead. "Hardly. I should say. The 'Limited' Is a pretty heavy train to pick up lost time. But it won't make any particular difference. The western connections all wait for the 'Limited,' and we shall reach the seat of war tomorrow night, according to the Boston g itinerary." Mr. Morton P. Adams flung, away the unburned half of his cigarette and masked a yawn behind his hand. "It's no end of a bore, Winton, and that is the plain, unlacquered fact, he protested. "I think the governor owes I worried through the me something. Tech because he insisted that I should have a profession; and now I am going in for field work with you in a howling winter wilderness because he insists on a practical demonstration." ''Humph! it's too bad about you," Hs was a said the other, ironically. and vigfit figure of a man, clean-corous, from the steadfast outlook of the gray eyes and the close clip of the Van Dyck beard to the square fingertips of the strong hands, and his smiie "As d was of contempt. com filial on an it is outrage you say, y olaisanee. All the same, with the tight in prospect, Quart. Creek :anyon may not prove to be such a Look out, valley of dry bones as ' in-th- e KW YORK. high-grad- there!" Al-o- out-soun- d OWNED ANTIQUES BY ONCE Before WHITE SOLD g chit-taron- e high-wate- r THAW JURRORS SUFFERED LOSSES BY LONG TRIAL After Dragging and d, third. was taller than either of her companions tall and straight and lithe; a charming embodiment of health and. strength and beauty; clear- a very goddess ekinned, brown-eyefresh from the bath, in Winton's inof her, and her stant summing-u- p d hair helped out the crown of simile. Now thus far in his thirty-yea- r John Winton, man and boy, had lived the intense life of a'.work-iuhermit so far as the social gods and goddesses were concerned. Yet he had a pang of disappointment or pointed jealousy, or something akin to both when Adams lifted his hat to this particular goddess, and was rewarded by a little cry of recognition. "She is a friend of yours, then?" he said, when Adams had taken the baited hook open-eyeThe tei hnologian modified the as- sumption. ' Not quite in your sense of the word, met her a number of times I fancy. at the houses Of mutual friends in Boston. She was studying at the conShe d red-gol- g - 1 servatory." "But she isn't a Bostonlan," said Winton, confidently. She is a "Miss trglnia? hardly. Carteret ot the Carterets; Virginia-born- , bred, and named. Stunning girl, isn't she?" "No," said Winton, shortly, resenthe ing the slang tor no reason that could have set forth in words. of the Adnms lighted another n scented villainies, and his face wrinkled itaolf into a slow smile "Which, means that she has winged you at sight. I suppose, as she does most men." Then he added, calmly: "It's no go." "What's 'no go ?" Adams laughed unfeelingly. "You remind rae of the table ibtwt see g os;rlcli. Didn't the were you staring at her " as If you Hut it la about to ha o a in no Us go, She isn't I at tell you; the marrying kind. If you Knew her. she'd be nice to you till she got a good chance to (lay you alive" "Break It oCT'." gio'ied WJotun. clean-shave- 1 head-bidin- m Dragging should be the heaviest, slowest-movinteam on the farm. The use of this will in the first place front of the green velvet curtains he smooth the roads down, filling up the swept the strings across the buttons holes, taking off the bumps, and dragof his waistcoat. A mellow wall like ging a little dirt to the middle of tho the breath of an aeolian harp went road. In the second place It will allow forth from the hollow throat of the the wfnds to blow over it and the sun e to shine on it; and the dragged road ancient instrument. The tuneful will be dry a day or two, and, if it has brother a and $135, brought sold for $175 because he was moulded many ruts in it, sometimes a week, before the undragged will be dry. on more outre lines. Do not, however, expect the drag to Another strange instrument was the dulcimer, a contrivance which looked do any good in sand or in muck, or like a modern zither inclosed in a where there are stones in the road or giant glove box. When the attendants stumps or much grass, or where the set it on the stand and let down the water stands in the ditches en either side. The road drag declares Walfour sides of the box, each depicting main-taine- r delightful pastoral scenes wherein lace's Farmer, is the best road that 'has ever been discovered, kirtled shepherdesses toyed with bo: ribboned crooks, the creator of the and not only the best, but the cheapthe to came again atmosphere stage fore and dropped $300 before the lure Then they of those shepherdesses. sold 11 harps, most of them sans strings and partially broken by infirmity, but all antiques. The lowest price paid for a harp was $85 and $230 was mark. the team used resi-renc- 20-to- ti e MUSICAL d right-of-wa- e low-grad- e high-grad- there was not more than two niin- itea of chaffering on each article be fore it was snapped up by eager purchasers. Harps without strings went for $100 because they were made in France In the reign of Louis XIV.. Italian armchairs sold and for $i so because of the abiding faitli of the purchasers in their antiquity The sale opened with an offering of weird musical instruments such as the novels of the romance days speak about familiarly. A sitar which looked lib ai: elongated soup ladle went for $5. Then the crowd of purchasers in the music room at the White saw more value in sitars and two others went at $15 and $11 each. The attendants held up an attenuated lute, whose fretboard stuck out like the handle of a gardener's spade. This was a chittarone, English, middle of the sixteenth century. As the livery lifted negro In the bottle-greethe chittarone up to the little stand in good-nature- The shifting engine had cut a car rear of the lately arrived and was sending it down the track to a coupling with the Adams "Limited." Transcontinental stepped back and let it miss him by and as the car was a hand's-breadth- , read the name on the Winton passing panelling. somebody's "The 'Rosemary:' private outfit. That cooks our last chance of making up any lost time be tween this and He broke off abruptly. On the square rear observation platform of the pri- villa car were three ladies. One of with them was small and blue-eyewavy little puffs of snowy hair peeping out under, her dainty widow's cap. with Another was small and blue-eyevavy masses of flaxen hair caught up from a face which might have served as a model for the most exquisite bisque figure that ever came out of But Winton saw only the France. The earnings of the Standard Oil company for some time have been establishing new high records. The net earnings for the current year are expected to reach a figure between $75,000,000 and $100,000,-000- , or twice the amount required to pay dividends at last year's rate of $40 a shale. The litigation in which the company is involved is the only thing that prevents the Standard Oil company from increasing its disbursements to shareholders. It is said in the event of a satisfactory conclusion of this litigation there will be a melon cutting of no small proportions. That the management of the Standard Oil companv does not beliove the present market price of the securities is too high is evident from the fact that the stock Is down on the books at a valuatin f $500 a share. Included in the assets are more than $100,000,-00of government bonds. Producers of oil are sharing In the prosperity of the Standard Oil company. Eastern as well as western oils have witnessed a sharp advance, which has served to stimulate production materially. There is a pro- - N t ut - Road- he-gi- n CHAPTER 1. It was a December morning the Missouri December of mild tempera- Tom the Round About New York -I It will not take the place of the grader in making the road in the first place, nor will it take the place of the side ditch which carries off the water, est. if i wmrnA all of the jurors n EARLY Thaw trial, who recently In the failed to reach a verdict in the long drawn out case, experienced severe financial loss While the in sitting on the case. jurors presumed at the outset that; were in for a long siege of it, none of them had any idea that the case would extend the length of time It did. During the trial many of the, jurors; prevented from attending to business affairs with their accustomed regularity, suffered losses they can WINTON TURNED AND WALKED AWAY. never recoup. Others fell far behind In their work, and it will be months "Tell tne more about this mysterious you still think you will be in danger before they can catch up. jangle we are heading for," he re- of ossifying?" Besides this, the houses by which Adams let the question rest while he some of the as joined. "Have I enlisted for a soldier jurors are employed ca-when I thought I was only going Into asked one of his own. in or other responsible managers "How do you come to be mixed up pacifies found their affairs sadly lagpeaceful exile as an assistant engineer a the Utah Short in it, Jack? A week ago some one ging, of construction and financial losses that canLine?" told me you were going to South not easily be estimated have resulted Win"That remains to be seen." America to build a railroad In the There were only t wo jurors who did Andes. What switched you?' ton took a leaf from his pocket memorandum and drew a rough outline Winton shook his head. "Fate, i map. "Here is Denver, and here is guess; that and a wire from PresiCarbonate," he explained. "At present dent Callowell, of the Utah, offering the Utah is running into Carbonate me this. Chief Of Construction Kvarts, this way over the rails of the C. & in charge of the work in Quartz Creek G. R. on a joint track agreement Which canyon, said What you said a few either line may terminate by giving minutes ago that he had not hired six months' notice of Its intention to out for a soldier. He resigned, and the other. Got that?" I'm taking his berth." a fondness for "To have and to hold," said Adams Adams rose and buttoned his coat. SOME one with that the sum discovered has on." "Go "By all of which It seems that we in this clt) flowers for Easter "Well, on the first day of September two are in for a good bit more than spent This to almost $1,000,000. amounts & the Utah G. R. C. And gave 'he ossifying exile," he remarked. people the ol canvass a on is based estimate then: "1 i.m going back into the Rosemanagement notice to quit." cor the near as Is and flower shops "They are bloated monopolists," said mary to pay my respects to Miss Virrect figure as can be arrived at with Adams, ententiotisly. "Still, I don't ginia CartareL Won t you come alonK?" out a great deal of time and labor be "No," s ild Winton, mflre shortly than see why there should he any snaping spent on the task. That society in ping over the line in Quartz Creek the Invitation warranted: and the Is becoming more extravagant went his way alone, canyon." ai is the floral decoration every "No? You ar not up In monopostatement made by one of the florists CHAPTER U, listic method'. In six months from This Banie "Scuse me, sab; private cab, lab." to the Four Hundred. September 1st the Utah people will aside from the It was the porters challenge In the florist says that be shut out of Carbonate business, vestibule of the Rosemary. amount of money spent at Adams which Is all that keeps that part ol Sound a card. there Is more money put up dally for their line alive If they want a share that to Miss Carteret Miss flowers than ever before. There are "Take of that traffic alter March 1st, they In the Virginia Carteret." he directed, and also more expensive (lowers will have to have a road of their own waited till the man came back with market than there ver were li.'f.into tarry It over." because so many of the country gen his welcome. "Precisely," said Adams, stilling a The ext. usion table In the open far llemen hereabouts, with line conserva yawn. "They are building one, areu'i third of the private car was cl.ised torles, are constantly bringing out theyTJivj to Its smallest dimensions, and the newer and hlgbei grades of flowers for the market as well as for the "Trying to," Winton amended. "But. movable LqrnUhings were disposed unfortunately, IhC only practical rouie ......ir the compartment to make It a pleasure of raising them. For Instance. Mr. II McK. Twombly. who through the mountains Is up Quartz comfortable lounging room. d the canyon Is aj- .11 .Madison, N. ., baa u lii;.- Creek canyon fi"' UK UNTlM'Kf ' 1 I i not suffer seriously by the long period of immurement. They are retired merchant and independently wealthy, The fact that the jurors, from the death of the wife of Juror Joseph B. Bolton, time weeks after the trial gan, were allowed to go at the close in part, of each day, helped only Those who availed themselves of the Opportunity to go to their offices were with work that it so ovei whelmed was a severe strain on them. Before the death of Juror Bolton's wife the jurors, when not In the court room, were locked up In the BroadAfter that they way Central hotel. were given their freedom after the adjournment each day. Kach adjouen ment Invariably found the majority of the jurors hustling to their offices, to work until late at night. The jurors received two dollars for each day's service during the trial. be-the-y EASTER FLOWER BILL OF GOTHAM $1,000,000 has this year brought out some very fine orchids. These orchids have been retailing for two dollars each. On the surfaor: It would appear that the poor would be able to get little pleasure out of llowors at Faster, but the truth Is they git more real pleasure out of them than the rich. In the first place, the poor appreciate them more when they get them, and the fact that they do not get them until the day after Faster does not make them enjoy them any the less. There are many societies here lor the special purpose flowers among thf of distributing which poor, and after any event at 'hey are used profuse,,, tne mem tiers 'oiled MI'MIl 1HK1 (lismuuie H.em tftoag 'he hospital, institutions and he poor of the tenement house dls Irlcts. Thus. If New York spends a million dollars on Easter flowers, th poor and unfortunate of the city get of them the nexl fully day. and It Is only those of moderate means who get left. i two-third- s nor will it do in any undrained land. It is not everything in but for the maintenance of the road after it has once been put in shape it excels every other implement ever yet invented. If farmers don't take hold of this road drag It will not be many years before an attempt will be made to levy on them the expense of making macadamized roads, about three to five thousand dollars per mllle, and these macadamized roads will cost more to maintain them than it will to make and maintain a good dirt road with the materials and tools they have on hand. road-makin- LOW DOWN It Will WAGONS. Prove a Most Handy on the Farm. Wagon I own a low down wagon and will say that It Is rightly named by being called a handy wagon, writes a corre spondent of Orange Judd Farmer. I would not do without one for twice the price of It If I could not get another one. Of course there Is a great difference In different makes, as well as In any other thing. As I own a manure spreader I never use my wagon for that purpose, but I always keep the rack on It. For haying, threshing or shredding they cannot be beaten as the pitchers would tell you, for when my wagon comes to tho field they all want to pitch for me. As to draft, well, they do draw a little harder In some places. Take a gravel road, the wide tires strike more stones than a narrow tire, and a low wheel is harder to roll over a stone than a high, which any sensible man can see, but In the field I can pull my load easier. The tires on my wagon are font Inches wide and I can get over the soft ground better thnn I ever did be tore I had It. In short, the handy wagon Is all right if you have the right kind, b.nt some of my neighbors have low wheeled wagons which a team ot horses can hardly move whea aot loaded. |