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Show to fancy. It would be tantamount driving me to extremities." can do "If you will tell me how it 'definitely,' I shall be most happy to drive you to extremities, or anywhere else out of my way." she said, frigidly. he "Oh. I think not," rejoined. "You wouldn't want me to go and tell Mr. Darrah how you have betrayed him 10 Winton. I had the singular good fortune to overhear your conversation yours and Winton's, you know: and if Mr Darrah knew, he would cut you out of his will with very little compunction, don't you think' And. really, you mustn't throw yourself away on that Sentimental Tommy of an engineer, Miss Virginia. He'll never be able to give you the position you're fitted for." Since French was a dead language to Mr Arthur Jastrow. he never knew what it was that Miss Carteret named him. But she left him in no doubt as to her immediate purpose. "If that be the case, we would better go and find my uncle at once," she gaid in her softest tone: and before he could obi' cl she had led the way to the Rajah's working-destateroom. Mr. Darrah was deep in one of the cipher telegrams when they entered, and he looked up to glare fiercely at one and theu the other of the Intruders. Virginia gave her persecutor no time to lodge his accusation. 'Uncle Somerville, Mr. Winton was here an hour ago, as you know, and told him what you had done -- what 1 STORY FORFLOVE I By FRANCIS LYNDE J (CsyjriKbt. 1.06. tiy j. r. LippincouCo.) CHAPTER X Continued. Calvert acquiesced eagerly, scenting possibilities. But when they were out under the frosty stars he had the good sense to walk her up and down in the healing silence and darkness for five full minutes before he ventured to say what was in his mind. When lie spoke it was earnestly and to the purpose, not without eloquence. He loved her: had always loved her, he thought. Could she not. with time and the will to try, learn to love him? not as a cousin? She turned quickly and put both hands on his shoulders. "Oh Cousin Billy don't! " she faltered brokenly; and he, seeing at once that he had played the housebreaker where he would fain have been the welcome guest, took his punishment manfully, drawing her arm in his and walking her yet other turns up and down the long platform until his patience and the silence had wrought their perfect work. "Does it hurt much?" she asked, softly, after a long time. "You would have to change places with me to know just how much It hurts," he answered. "And yet you haven't left me quite desolate, Virginia. I still have something left all I've ever had, 1 fancy." "And that It "My love for you, you know. isn't at all contingent upon yojir yes or no; or upon possession it never has been, I think. It has never asked much except the right to be." She was silent for a moment. Then she said: "Cousin Billy. I do believe that you are the best niftu that ever lived. And I am ashamed ashamed!" "What for?" "If I have spoiled you, ever so little, for some truer, worthier woman." "Y'ou haven't; you mustn't take that I am decently in love view of it. with my work a work that not a men have agreed could best be done alone. I don't think there will Y'ou see. there be any other woman. is only one Virginia. Shall we go in now?" She nodded, but when they reached the Rosemary the returning engine was rattling upon the open siding. Virginia drew back. "I don't want to meet Uncle Somer-villJust now," she confessed. "Can't we climb up to the observation platform at the other end of the car?" He said yes, and made the affirmative good by lifting her in his arms over the high railing. Once safely on the car. she bade him leave her. She was shivering a little in the chill wind sliding down from the , yet she would not go in until she had made sure. In a little time her patience was rewarded. The huge engine came storming up ths grade on the new line, pushing its three which were black with clinging men. On the car nearest the locomotive, where the dazzling beam of the headlight pricked him out for her, stood Winton, braced against the lurchings of the train over the uneven track. "God speed you, my love!" she murmured, softly; and when the gloom of the upper canyon cleft had engulfed man and men and storming engine she turned to go in. She was groping for the doorknob in the darkness made thicker by the glare of the passing headlight when a voice, disembodied for the moment, said: "Wait a minute. Miss Carteret; I'd like to have a word with you." She drew back quickly. "Is it you, Mr. Jastrow? Let me go in, please." "In one moment. I have something to say to you something you ought to hear." "Can't it be said on the other side of the door? I am cold very cold, Mr. Jastrow." It was his saving hint, hut he would not take it. "No, it must he said to you alone. We have at least one thing in common, Miss Carteret you and I. That is a proper appreciation of the successful realities. I " She stopped him with a quick little gesture of Impatience. "Will you be good enough to stand aside and let me go in?" The keea breath of the snow-capwas summer warm in comparison with the chilling iciness of her manner: but the secretarv went on 'unmoved: "Success Is the only thing worth while In this world. Winton will fail, but I shan't. And when I do succeed. I shall marry a woman who can wear the purple becomingly " "I hope you may. I'm sure," she answered, wearily. "Y'et you will excuse me If I say that I don't under stand how It concerns me. or why you should keep me out here In the cold to tell me about It." "Don't you" It concerns you very Miss nearly. You are the woman. Carteret." the And If I decline "Indeed? honor?" The contingency was one for which the sultoi seemd not entirely prepared. Yet he evinced a wtTHnfrneM to meet the hypothesis in a spirit of perfect candor "You wouldn't ih' that, deflnllelj, I is" n 1 I had helped you do. Also. I sen; him about his business; which is. to win his railroad fight if he can. Mr. Jastrow overheard the conversation, purposely, and as he threatens to turn informer, I am saving him the trouble. Perhaps I ought to add that he offered to hold his peace if I would promise to marry him." What the unlucky Jastrow might have said in his own behalf is not to be here set down in peaceful black With the final word of and white. Virginia's explanation the fierce old master of men was up and clutching lor the secretary's throat, and the working complement of the Rosemary suffered instant loss. 'rushed' tb guarded engine, ari l ditched it." that she ought to be Virginia deeorous'y sorry for relationship's sake, but the effort ended in a littlu paean of j y. "But Unci Somerville what will he do?" "He is with McGratk on the engln. getting ntmai If and us to the front in a hurry, as you perceive." "Isn't it too late to stop Mr. Winton now?" "I don't know Croat what I could overhear gathered that the diteheil engine is still in the way. that they are trying to roll it over Into the creek. Bless me! McQratfa is getttlnf.-terriblreckless!" this as a spiteful lurch of the car flung them both across the compartment. "Say Uncle Somerville," she amended. "Don't charge it to Mr. McGrath Can't we go out on the platform?" "It's as much as your life is worth," he asserted, but he opeued the door ' for her. .M The shrilling wheels were tracking around a curve into a scanty widening of the canyon. To the left, on the rails of the new line, the big decapod in the was heaving and grunting midst of an army of workmen swarming thick upon the overturned guard engine. "Goodness! It's like a battle.'" shs As she spoke the Roseshuddered. mary stopped with a jerk and fireman darted past to set the spur-tracswitch. , and The points were the Ireman wrestled with the lever, saying wonds. The delay was meas urable in heart-beats- , but it sufficed. The big decapod coughed thrice like a mighty giant in a ConsumptiOB; the clustering workmen scattered like chaff to a ringing shout of "Stand clear!" and the obstructing mass of iron and steel rolled, wallowing and hissing, into the stream. "Rails to the front! Hammermen!" yelled Winton: and the scattered force rallied instantly. But now the wrestling fireman had thrown the switch, and at the Rajah's command the Rosemary shot out on the disputed crossing, STANDARD FINED nohtiinykst notes! COW ALL LAW Rockefeller's Company Assessed Heaviest Fine of Record, Judge Landis Fixing the Sum at $29,240,000. Chicago Judge Kenesaw M. Landis on Saturday in the United States district couit fined the Standard Oil company of Indiana $29,240,000 for violations of the law against accepting rebates from railroads. The flue is the largest ever assessed against any individual or any corporation in the history of American jurisprudence, and Is slightly more than 131 times as great as the amount received by the company through its rebating operations. The case will be carried to the higher courts by the defendant company. The Impost d on the company Eh! nlaximuEn' "permitted under flie law, and it was announced at the end of a long (minion in which the methods and practices of the Oil Standard company were mercilessly scored. The judge, in fact, declared in his opinion that the officials of the Standard Oil company who were responsible for the practices of which the corporation was found guilty were no better than counterfeiters and thieves. Under the seven indictments still pending against the Standard Oil company, an additional fine amounting to $S8.44o.ooo may be levied against the company if it is found guilty on trial. There are in these seven Indictments a total of 4,422 counts and the maximum fine on each count would be . snow-clogged- $20,000. Riverside. Cal. In an address delivered before the chamber of commerce, James R Garfield, secretary of the interior, alluded to the fine imposed upon the Standard Oil company at Chicago. In the course of his speech he said: "The decision and fine are the end of a long fight, and will teach people of this country that no man, big or little, is above the law. The Standard Oil company and others like that great corporation, have gone ahead on the theory that they were so powerful that they could do things the ordinary citizen could not. We are showing them that they cannot." Asked If the prosecution could colGarfield relect the fine, Secretary plied: "You may be assured we can. There are 10,000 more counts hanging over them in which similar fines can be levied." Oyster Bay. President. Roosevelt received with great interest the news that Judge Landis in the United States district court in Chicago had decided against the Standard .Oil company of Indiana and had imposed fines aggregating $29,040,000. The president had no comment to make upon the e Cleveland John D. Rockefeller, Ipon learning of the fine Imposed upon the Standard Oil company by Judge Landis at Chicago, said he had no comment whatever to make concerning the matter. KILLED snow-peaks- BY LIGHTNING. Meet Death Duping Electrical Storm. Logan, Utah According to advices received here, two persons met death at Hyrum. a village near here, during the electric storm of Saturday. They were lira, Henry Ames and the Mrs. son of Hans Jorgensen. Ames was sealed near the electric light drop, when a bolt struck the house, descended the wire, shattering the globe and instantly killing her. Her sister at the time was ironing In the kitchen and the shock threw her against the stove, severely burning her. The Jorgensen boy met death in a similar manner, the lightning following the electric wire in the house and running into a lamp near which he was playing. He died Instantly. Two Utah People flat-car- if . "t;or" "You'll spy upon a membeh of my family, will you, seh!" he stormed. "Out with you, bag and baggage, befo' I lose my terapeh and forget what is due to this young lady you have Insulted, seh, with your infamous prowhile posals! Faveh me instantly, you have a leg to run with! Go!" Jastrow disappeared; and when the door closed behind him Virginia faced f her irate bravely. "He was a spy. and he would have been a traitor for a consideration. Uncle Somerville. But I am little bet ter. What will you do to me?" "So It was a case of the trappeh trapped, was It, my dealt? I'm sor ry right sorry. I might have known how it would be; a youngeh man would have known. But you have mischief. done no unpahdonable Mlsteh Winton would have found out for himself in a few hours at furthest, and we are ready for him now." "Then be "Oh, dear!" she said. will be beaten?" Faveh me by go"Unquestionably. ing to bed, my deah. Your roses will suffeh sadly for all this excitement. I feah. Good night." clan-chie- CHAPTER XI. It seemed to Virginia lhat she had but Just fallen ashep when she was rudely awakened by the jar and grind of the Rosemary's wheels on rails. Drawing the curtain, she found that a new day was come, gray and misty white in the gusty . swirl of a mountain the Without disturbing sleeping Bessie, she dressed quickly and slipped out to see what the enrly morning change of ha' portended. The com mon room was empty when she en tered It. but before she could cross to the door the Reverend Billy came in. stamping the snow from his feet. "What Is It?" she asked, eagerly ' "Are we off for California?" "No. It's some more of the war. Winton has outgeneraled us. During track up to he night he pushed snow-covere- snow-squall- the spur to be thrust with locked brakes fairly into the breach left defenseless by the ditched engine. With a mob-roa- r of wrath the infuriated track-layer- s made a rush for the new obstruction. But Winton was before them. "Hold on!" he shouted, bearing them back with outflung arms. "Hold on. men. for God's sake! There are women in that car!" The wrathful wave broke and eddied murmurous while a old man with fierce eyes and huge white mustaches, and with an extinct cigar between his teeth, clambered down from the Rosemary's engine to say: "Hah! a ratheh close connection, eh, Misteh Winton? Faveh me with a I match. If you please, seh. May assume that you won't tumble my private car Into the ditch?" Winton was white-hot- , but he found a light for the Rajah's cigar, easing his mind only as he might with Virginia looking on. "I shall be more considerate of the safety of the ladles than you seem to be, Mr. KHnvk," he retorted. "You are taking long chances in this gam, square-shouldere- sir." The Rajah's laugh rumbled deep In his throat. "Not so vehy much longer than you have been taking during the But past fo'tnlght, my deah seh. neveh mind; all's fair In love or war, and we appcah to be having a little of both up heah in Qua'tz creek, hah?" Winton flush d angrily. It was no light thing to be mocked before his men. to say nothing of Miss Carteret landing within arm's reach on the railed platform of the Rosemary. "Perhaps I shall give you back that word before we nre through. Mr. he snapped Then to the eddyTools up. boys. We ing mob wave; camp here for breakfast. F'anagan. send the til down for the cook's outDar-itb.- " fit." (To BE CONTINi'KD ning a hornets' nest started Billingham, Wash., that many residences and was only subdued after a terrible fight by almost the entire population of the town. A. A. Smith a prominent shingle manufacturer of Evetvtt, Wash, was killed on the 30th by the overturning oT TiL automobile. Two companions, Duncan M Kiuuon and John Nelson, were injured. The daughter of W. E. Fitch, who lives near Vale, Ore., was shot and Instantly killed by her brother, who was playing with a revolver, which was accidentally discharged in his hand. formations underlie a larger proportion of Wyoming than of any other of the Rocky mountain states. It Is tire second largest producing state in the Rocky mountain region, Colorado ranking first. J. H. Hawley, one of the prosecutors In the murder charges against Haywood, Mover and Petti bone, accompanied by Mrs. Hawley, has gone to Honolulu in search of relaxation and rest before returning to Boise in October to resume the prosecution. Reports are received of a serious forest fire near Ashford, Wash., at the base of Mount Tacoma. While the blaze has been confined thus far to logged-of- f land, there is a probability that it may reach the vast stretch of heavy timber in that vicinity. Alarm is felt for the ranchers iu the danger Bo-- ALLOWS s in a tire at few-wis- s Oil I Russians Win From Japs This Time. Victoria. B. C. Advices have been received here of an attempted sealing raid by the Japanese sealing schoonMidori and Maru ers Kalke Maru on June 1 on the seaj rockery at Cooper Island, guarded by Russians T'ie schooner Kalke Maru has returned to Moyako, Rlchuku province, Japan, and reported three of her sealing boats and twelve men captured by Russians. The other Japanese sealing scnooner, the Midori Maru. which had been achored close to the Kalke Maru, had been fired upon by the Russian rookery guard. Accident Ends Raee. Bordeaux, France. Four men were killed and two mortally wounded In an automobile accident Saturday. One of the cars was competing In the Criterion cup race. It collided while running at full speed with a touring car. Among the men killed are the editors of two newspapers. On account of this md other accidents resulting from the to make Torts of the contestants ieed, the government had ordered the criterion cup race come to an end. ' Filipinos Want Independence. Manila The election returns are Mill Incomplete, but sufficient returns re in to assure a safe majority for the Nationalists. It Is estimated that over AO per cent of those that voted. The leaders already are the policy to he followed snd the demands that will be made of 'lie assembly. They want Indepen-nee, fitted om to carry arms, Jury trials, and demand readjustment of the native members of the Philippine m miss on so as to give the Nation n'ists representation on the rog-I'ere- 1 I four-year-ol- seven-ye- ar-old Coal-bearin- g HIVING A SWARM, Methods Followed by a Keeper. " Bee Suc'--ssf- --w 3 When bees get to hanging out on the hive, I raise it from the bottom board one inch, and then if they dc not stop raise them higher, explain.? a bee keeper In Farm and Home. 1 think that raising them Is a very good preventative of swarming. A certain percentage of colonies will swarm ia spite of anything that may be done It takes but little to induce swarming during a good honey harvest. Bees left to themselves will generally send out one swarm In a season, often a second swarm, sometimes a third. In hiving swarms it frequently happens that the bees take wing when dumped in front of their new hive instead of crawling into it. We have had a few swarms go back and cluster on the same limb after they had zone. For the purpose, it is believed, of thwarting the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul from securing a right of way westward from Helena over the Rocky mountains, the Northern Pacific has let a contract to Shepard, Sims & Co., for the building of a cutoff between Helena and Elliston, by way of McDonald pass. Reports are again current that preliminary surveys are being made for an extension of the Nevada & California from its southern terminus at Keeler, Cal., south of Mojave, about 120 miles. Such an extension would Pacific a much give the Southern shorter route to Los Angeles and southern California. G. Clarence Hastings, a Butte miner, implicated by George Towner in of the North Coast Limthe hold-uited near Welch's spur on May 7 last, and the murder of Engineer Clow, has been captured near Sappiugton, a station on the Nothern Pacific, a few miles east of Butte. Hastings would not talk about the crime. In their ascent of Mount Tacoma, Washington, a scientific party from ice of Chicago discovered in the of Urania glacier millions small Worms. The worms are about an Inch in length and the size of a hair and presented a wriggling, squirming mass in the solid ice. In places the ice was almost black with them. A "Jack, the Slasher," was arrested in Denver, after he had slashed the dresses of nearly thirty women and girls on the streets. He was caught in the act and when searched a keen knife and a number of bits of slashed dresses were found on his person. He gave his name as Peter Magoffin and his occupation as laborer. Ho couid not explain his actions. Five thousand Anaconda mill and smeltermen joined in a monster in celebration of the acquittal of William D, Haywood at Boise. Three bands headed the procession, which traversed every street in the city. Throughout the line were banners with pictures of Haywood bearing the words, "Not Guilty," "We Are Undesirable Citizens, but the Flag and Country Are Safe." Scores of little girls carried transparencies reading Will They Hang Our Papas? No." A special from Virginia City, Mont., tells of the drowning of W. R. Baldof the win, a well known rancher Upper Madison valley, before the eyes of his wife. Baldwin while attempting stream to ford a swollen became stranded in Cutting the horses loose from the wagon, he attempted to swim to the bank with the animals, but lost the reins and was drowned while his wife sat helpless on the high wagon seat with the water touching her feet. Thousands of Coloradoans, coming from all parts of the State, joined the people of Denver on August 1st in annicelebration of the thirty-firs- t versary of the admission of Colorado to the union. The surviving pioneers held the position of honor in the pa rade. Because he imagined the Almighty ordered him to do so, a crazed sheep-herde- r derailed passenger train No. 3 on the Great Northern at Toledo station, seven miles east of Havre. Mont., causing the death of the fireman and slightly injuring a number of passengers. Charles D. Hogge, pleaded guilty to forging a check on a bank at Florence, Colo., and was sentenced to the penitentiary for fourteen years. Hogge told the court that he had practiced forgery for fifteen years and had secured more than $750,000 during that time. The number of men employed in the of Montana Increased coal mines from 2,181 In 1905 to 2,394 In 1900. the average number of working days being the name (243) In both years. The average production per man In 19U0 was 704.4 short tons, against p mid-rive- 753.7 In 1005. Charles Butler was killed and JoRoberts seriously injured by a Ijnamite explosion while working on Hob a railway grade noar Helena. erts struck his pick against the piim r which had been berled in the mire and which was covered with dirt. Tbu blast dischargi d In their faces. seph The Swarm Catcher. been carried to the hive two or three times. We recently got the thought that a little spraying would overcome this difficulty. We have tried it on a few swarms with good results. While the cluster Is yet hanging on the tree take a small spray pump, or syringe, and wet the cluster of bees with one or two quarts of cold water, then take your swarm catcher shown in the cut and turn it up under the cluster and get them into it. They will cling together while you carry them to the hive, ami when dumped in fiout of it they will not readily take wing again, but will run into it. Swarms that have been hived a few hours and seem restless, or cluster mostly on the outside of their hive, can also be made more tractable by a little spraying. Bees need a great quantityof water during summer, and the beekeeper can supply their needs iu a few minutes where it would require hours for the bees to gather it themselves. Put the new hive containing the swarm on the old stand, exactly where the old hive stood and place the old hive close beside the new one. The next morning as the bees go forth from this hive to work, they will nearly all return to the old place and enter the other hive, making that colony very strong, and in condition to store a great crop. The other colony will be so reduced in numbers that the bees will not be moved to swarm again and will fall in with the first queen that hatches and probably give much surplus. It will make a good, strong colony by the close of , the season. CARE FOR THE NEST. Ways in Which You Can Encourage the Hens to Lay. Do you know that you can train a hen to be a poor layer? Do you know that she can and will keep her eggs when ready to lay for a whole day? If this condition is allowed to continue she may and probably will and fewer eggs, finally becoming an indifferent layer, hence the necessity of having plenty of clean, comfortable nests. Did you ever notice how shyly the young pullet will go about looking for a secret place whore she may stealthily deposit her precious eggs? How very particular she Is about it! If there is an insufficient number of nests, or if they are uncle m, or too much exposed she Is likely, after some delay, to lay the egg on the floor and among the other bens, which may lead to egg eating. Comfort. Is one of the essentials of egg productions, and what is more necessary than handy, clean and com fortable nests0 Keeping Colony Record. The star colony In a bee keeper's apiary is the one that gives the most surplus honey and keeps it up the By this test every one of longest. us must test our colonies and try to bring all the rest up to Its standard, or at least as nearly so as possible. A record should be kept of all colonies, each hive having a number, says Bee Culture. In offering an apiary of over 70 colonies of bees recent"I have every ly, the owner wrote: queen clipped, and every queen and colony numbered, and keep a record of them, and know of what strain each queen Is, and what Is the record of each colony." But how many bee keepers think this worth while and do It? Look for Head Lice. Watch the little chicks for head lice. This Is the time of (he year when When the bird Is that pest thrives moping around and dragging its wings, it should not be doctored for choleta till the attendant is sure that there are no large lice on It. Three lice ran suck BOrC vitality from the H chick tbiin nil its feed can sup ply. |