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Show ; sifunss In tne coat over sti . vtiCul with odds and ends snout art and politics and the "latest lit-- i b'Bi and on her lu ad was a Hat looked a her (eet the ersture, heavy and light " On Tues- tu11" h . I M 1 A P. S AND 31 1 N I vn CAUGHT LIKE RATS IN days ands Fridavs she had an indiwhatever that gent gentlewoman.' may be, come to her to teach her t how to converse and otherwise herself according to the stand Joe used ards of polite society to give luiitaiious of those eoinersa mats of lion lessous that raised laughter round the poker table, the louder because so many of the other men had wives with the same ambitions and the game methods of at tending them Airs ltall came bo k- - to the sub ject of Anita "I am glad you are going to settle DAVID GRAHAM PHHURS, Author THECQS&tc with She such a charming gill. czrz&zvy? (c&r&&r sscs tvst BoaBs-nzeeizI comes of such a charming Tamil) in th? hall, Go in, Allie CHAPTER XXI Continued. It's O. K.:" have never happened to meet any of The appearance of the man who heard the door slam, knew we should them We are in the West Side set tpened the door for Anita and me soon have some soit of minister wth you know, while they move In the East Side set, and New York is so suggested that our ring had roused us Allie" euteied the drawing-room- . aim fioni a bed where he had deposit large that one almost never meets 1 re- ad himself without bothering to take had not seen her in six years any one outside one's own set." This ff his clothes At the sound of my nieinhered her unpleasantly as a smooth snobbishness, said in the afvoice, I, all peered out of his private! gieal, lainy, floiid child, unable to fected "society tone, was as out of suiokingroom, at the far end of the stand still or to sit still, or to keep place In her as rouge and hair-dy- e He started forward; then, see- - her tongue still, full of aimless ques- - in a wholesome, honest old grandhall ing how I was accompanied, stopped tioos and giggles and silly remarks - mother I began to pace the flooor "Can with, mouth tuatv He had on a ragged that she and her mother thought tunsmoking jacket, a pair of shapeless old ny f saw her now, grown fnto a hand- ft be," r fretted aloud, ' "that StWa Romeo slippeis, his ordinary business some young woman, with enough racing round looking for an Epis- waistcoat and trousers. He was wear beauty Mlnts for an honorable men 1,copalian pieacher, when there was lag neither tie nor collar, and a short. tion. if not for a prize straight and a Methodist at hand?" "I'm sure he wouldnt bring any- black pipe was between his lingers strong and rounded, with a brow and We had evidently caught the house- - a keen look out of the eyes which It thing hut a Church of England hold stripped of lugs, and sunk iu seemed a pity should be wasted on a, priest," Mrs. Hall assured me loftily, slovenliness woman the Why, Miss Ellersi.v wouldn t think Mrs she was marked, if she hadn't Mr. Hall was "From what Is Joe said, which called "comfort, crimson with confusion, and was Ball was gushing affectedly to Anita priest of her own church " 1 "I an Idea that well, to alter got hand his free really, stroke, My temper got the bit In Its teeth. using I stopped befoi;e her, and fixed her nately, his shiny bald head and his didn't know what to think." Anita looked as If she were about to with an eye that must have had heavy brown mustache. He got himlm not marrying self together sufficiently, after a few suffocate. Allie came to the rescue. some fire In it to Mr. a fool, Mrs Hall. said I. "You seconds, to disappear into his den "Not very complimentary said she mustn't judge her by her brtnging-uWhen he came out again, pipe and Blacklock, mother, Children have a Then to Anita, with a by her family ragged jacket were gone, and he rushed for us in a gorgeous velvet simple friendliness there was no re- way of bringing themselves up, lu Wouldnt you like to come spite of damn fool parents." jacket with dark red facings, and a sisting: She weakened so promptly that I up to my room for a few minutes? showy pair of slippers. Oh, thank you! responded Anita, was ashamed of myself. My only Glad to Bee you, Mr. Blacklock In his own home he always addressed after a quick, but thorough inspection apology for getting out of patience every man as Mister, just as "Mrs. of Alva's face, to make sure she was with her is that I had Been her Bel B. always called him Mister Ball, and he called her Mrs Ball" before company." "Come right Into the front parlor. Billy, turn on the elec trie lights. Anita had been standing with her head down. She now looked round with shame and terror In those ex eyes of hers, her pressive blue-graI delicate nostrils were quivering Ball her to introduce to hastened Her impulse to fly passed, her lifelong training In doing the conventional thing asserted itself her head again, murmured an in of Joe s udlble acknowledgment eou-duc- THE of Jy 1 - j down-to-the-he- - y She-lowere- d greeting. "Your wife is at home?" said I. If nne was at home In the evening, the Other was also, and both were always there, unless they were at, some ater except on , Sunday night, when ii sbanato. because many fashionable people did tt They had eo friends and few acquaintances. In their humbler and happy days they had had many friends, but had lost them when they moved away from Brooklyn and went to live, like unvisitors. In their easy, grand house, pretending to be what they longed to be, longing to be what they pretended to be, and as discontented as they deserved. "Oh, yes, Mrs. B.'s at home." Joe "I guess she and Alva answered. were about to go to bed." Alva was their one child. She had been christened Malvina, after Joe's mother; but when the Balls "blossomed out they renamed her Alva, which they somehow had got the impression was i ' I pretended not to hear "Rout 'em nut," said I to Joe "Then, tak my electric and bring the nearest parson There's going to be a wedding right here." And I looked round the long salon, with everything draped for the summer departure. Joe whisked the sover off one chair, his man took off another. "Ill have ihe women-folTHE WEDDING. down in two minutes." he cried. Then to the man: "Get a move on you, like her voice. I had not counted on dom in the last few years, had forI had been assuming that Anita gotten how her afBilly. Stir em up in the ktchen. Do this; would not be out of my sight until we fectation and snobbery were, and the best you can about supper and were It was on the tip of how little they Interfered with her put a lot of clminpaigne on the ice. ray married. interfere to when she being a good mother and a good wife, tongue That's the main thing at a wedding. looked at me for permission to go! up to the limits of her brain capacity. Anita had seated herself listlessly ,Q her Bald , Im aure, Mr. Blacklock," Bhe Bald In one of the uncovered chairs. The t0 Alva kwp and th were I only wished to Bay plaintively, wrap slipped back from her shoulders ..,low far off ,, the nearegt churchr what was pleasant and nice about was of her! ,Joe ( and how proud cut in. your fiancee. I know she's a lovely gazed, took advantage of her not lookOnly two blocks that is, the Meth- girl. I've often admired her at the ing up to slap me on the back and to odist church, she replied. "But 1 opera. She goes a great deal in Mrs. Jerk bis head in enthusiastic approval. know Mr. Ball will an Episco- Langdon's box, and Mrs. Langdon and bring Then he. too. disappeaied. ! are together on the hoard of manpalian " A few minutes of and there "Why, 1 thought you were a de- agers of the Magdalene - Hotpe, and was a rustling ou the stairs. She voted for Presbyterian," said I, recalling also on the board of the started, up, Lew filing. looked round, how in their Brooklyn daya she used Unfortunate Gentlefolk. Hospital And so on,, as if seeking some wav to escape or 10 insist on Joe's going twice every and on. some place to bide. Joe was In the j Sunday to sleep Through long I walked up and down among those holding aside one of the cur mon9- wrapped-up- , ghostly chairs and tables a talna. There entered in beribboned I was and cabinets and statues many time she looked uncomfortable. and beflounced tea sown, a pretty, if j reared Presbyterian," she explained before Joe arrived with the minister rather ordinary, woman of forty, with confusedly, "but yon know how it Is and he was a Methodist, McCabe by a petulant baby fare .She was trying ia New York. And when we came name. You should have seen Mrs to look reserved and severe. She t8 Uve here, we got out of the habit Ball's look as he advanced his portly hardly-glancat.mv before .fastening! church-going..,,- , ed And aJlAlvq's Jit-- for?,. andL round .lac a. with its sbavrs were aharp, suspicious eyes on Anita. friends tie Episcopalians.. So upper lip into the drawing-rooMrs. Ball." said I, "this Is Miss I drifted toward that church. I find She tried to be cordial, but she the service so satisfying so elegant couldnt her mind was on A', If. ElJersly. "Miss Ellersly!" she exclaimed, her And one sees there the people one nd tbe horror that would fill her face changing. And she advanced and sees socially." when she discovered that she was to "How is your cultun class T' I In- be married by a took both Anita's hands "Mr. Ball Is preacher of a sect so atnpid, she went on. with that quired. deliberately malicious, In my unknown to fashionable circles "All I ask of you," said I to him. amusingly affected accent which is Impatience and nervousness." And 0o you still take conversation lessons? the "Sunday clothes, of speech. "It that you cut it as short as posShe was furiously annoyed. "Oh, sible. Miss 1 didnt catfh the name, my dear," Ellersly is tired and those old jokes of Joes, she said, nervous." " This Toe stammered. while we were shak. , Be off," said I, aside, to him. "Get affecting disdainful amusement ing hands after Joea introduction In fact, they were anything bat Alva and she were coming down the the nearest, preacher and bustle him On Mondays and Thursdays stairway. I was amazed " jokes. here with his tools at sight l used to attend a class for women her.' Her 1 had one eye on Anita all the time, she dress bad given evening to be place to a pretty blue street suit with and I saw her gazY follow Joe k he who, likeon herself, wished culture and all that sort a short skirt White showing at her hurried out: and her expression made him saying of thing." They hired. a teacher to wrists, at her neck and through ur heart ache k - matter-of-surfac- e . 1 -- i j ' -- te Tt had been ren!.i"ed by boots, e just right lot her." said 'h. APU "4 l i in w ll! - b ' t It was good s,ii!it-- i sinhad fo- -i iid wiih Joes one of those sudden friend-at!- t lii i so gieat and so uvid that the rftlf in.d lot g aftet the passing ot tl at of the euteigi-nethat tired tlPa. 'Iis Hall saw It also, and was rail ' ' t h giddied into a soit of 1 oi ran Imagine Ihe vis W it eoiijuted I've no doubt she tikw house oil the east side of the prk Hi loo that very night, before a let him sleep However Anitas fito was set tons enough when we mu '.tees before the minister, h! is inti e black hound lunik open yd a. he tend in a voie that was i tk those words make unimpres saw Met paleness blanch ini w o saw the dusk creep round tin'll thev wete iikt&stars n h rlv in foie the gtay lace' anlru 4 ! U hen thev closed and hei I wrendrert- - her pad i.-- n To no u in And so we stood, dtb tt Im round bet. site leaning tUh a a i net my shouldei. Horan-yerg w mere movements of tb lv (nai' tt no itnpiesslve w.i ee could r - i 1 e !ps At tie end when kissed her cheek e laid "Is It over" "Yes Met 'a he answeiedshe was toklng it him wish you all And kpptn. s s, Mis Blacklock ' At that name, her new name, shs at him with great wondering I - 1 tad car form relaxed :ffp; fed hei to a hair Jo (time with 1 KiSes of ( hanipagne. elm drank nit of it and it brought life hack kr face, and. some color. With I Mtin a ness (hat deceived even me hr llx moment, she smiled up at Joe as she handed him the glass. "In kind luck, she asked, "for me to be he first to drink my own health? ind she stood, looking tranquil' at ve rj one except me I took McCabe Into the hall and t tmii Imt I I paid him off Vken we came back, said. "Now e feust he going " "Ob, hut surely you'll stay for sup-yer-f cried loe's wife "So," replied I, in a tone that made It Inpossible to Insist "We appre-da- t your kindness, but we've ImAnd 1 shMk posed on it enough hank with her and with Allie and the vlahter, and, linking Joe's arm In BiiM) made for the door. I gave the eoeisary directions to my chauffeur VhU we were waiting for Anita to total down the steps. Joe's daughter Was close beside her, and they titled each other good by, Alva on the not suggest-in- g veifis of team, Anita any emotion of any sort. sure,' Anita' said to her. tshe answered : - Y ee,' Infleed iki as you telephone me." And so w were off a shower of rice rattling on the roof of the brougham had thrown th slatternly It from the midst of the group oi servants. ' Neither of us spoke. I watched hef face without seeming to do so ani by the light of occasional street lamps saw Tier studying me furtively At last she said: "I wish to go to my ancles now. We are going home," said I But- - tbe bouse will be shut up, said she, "and every one will be in bed. Its nearly midnight. Besides, they might hot " She came to s fall stop. 'We are going home, I repeated "To the Willoughby. She gave me a look that was meant to scorch and It did. But I showed at the surface no sign of how t was wincing and shrinking. 8he drew farther into her corner, and out of its darkness came, in a low voice: How I hate you!" like tbe whisper of a bullet. T kept silent until I had control of myself. Then, as If talking of a matter that had been finally and amlo ably settled, I began: "The apart mbnt isnt exactly ready for us, but Joe's Just about .now telephoning mj man that we are coming, and tele phoning yonr people to send youi maid down there. "I wish to go to my uncles, she repeated. "My wife will go with me, said I quietly and gently. "I am considerate of her, not of her unwise impulses." A long pause, then from her, in Icy calmness: "I am In your power just now. But I warn you that, If you do not take me to my uncle's you will wish you had never seen me, Tve wished that many times already, said I sadly "I've wished tt from the bottom of my heart this whole evening, when step by step fate has been forcing me on to do things that are even more hateful to me than to you. For they not only make me bate myself, but make I laid my hand you hate, me, too. on her arm and held It there, though he- - trted"-tdfswi away. "''Antta,'"- - i I said, would do anything for you liYe for you, .die for you. But theres fhat something Inside me you've felt it; and when it says 'must, I can't disobey you know I can't And though you might break my heart 1 st jould not break that will. If Bauch my master as it is yours " We shall said. , see sh (To be Continued.) Not Used to Em. "Those Nwrifeh people dont know how to treat inferiors. Well, you couldn't expect tbm to You see, they haven't bad any Inferi or very long." Clcvctand Leader. ii hangc, a tual of the ch mao Sn f.n know it the tlrM coal pio-ded lu t ho -- tate of Montana was mined in ltxvi in txhirh year the uiiniiiited to 2"4 tons Nuilv oioi)li(Hly In Ylrgen City, Toqtiert tile and St George has se-- i u rod lands In the oil reglou and they in mlnl'u i nt i pic-- of Engineer passengers Forty tailroad car and tSe i nglie-e- r of tlu train w ere drowned acci-deSunday afternoon in a railroad thiee miles east of this towu. The locomotive of a crowded local train the trck when enterlug tho Junie--ihe river Loire at ! over bridge Ponte, The stone railing gave way and the engine plunged into the river fifty feet below, dragging down with ii its tender and ihe barrage and third class cal's Forlunatclv no other cars went Into the water a the coupling between the second and third cars broke. The conductor and fireman were saved. They escaped by swimming The third class car was well filled with passengers, but although part of the roof was blown off bv the confined air. a it sank, not a single passenger extiii aied himself and all were dtowneil like rats In a trap l.i a I ..I i and Passenger Tram ViiKus. France Forty was following in glance. not mi tall a:ed nv most and de- wa- hat she seemed to man-serva- e smarter." At Joe's blundering confession that the females of the family were in no condition to receive, Anita said to me to a low voice; Let us go." sJI's i, TRAV - I th'rd ( la-,- s d are now all dreaming of becoming nillllonail es It U announced that Jielnze will make the I'nited Copper company the parent bod of a great coalition of mining, milling and smelting companies to flgat the Amalgamated company Copper sulphides have been in nearly every prospect Nevada hole sunk by the Empire Copper company, at Yerington. The character of the ore is good and carto 6 per cent copper. ries Thomas taiwson.'of Boston, now owns the Humlaildt smelter near Hre-et, Arizona, having secured possession mi .Inly 9 o all hut 25.000 shares of ihe capital stock of the Consolidated Arizona Smelting com- HAYWOOD 1 WELCOMED HOME. Pre- Lateness of Arrival In Denv vents Demonstration in Hia Honor. hVv er Celebraf ion of the return home of William D. llavwood. secretary-tof the Western Federareasurer tion of Miners, who was acquitted at Boise, Idaho, of the charge of conspirSteun-enbet'ing to murder former Governor curtailed was considerably Sunday night by reason of the lateness of the hour at which he arrived. Pians for a great gathering of people at the union station to be followed by a monster open air meeting were abandoned when it became known that Mr. Haywood postponed his departure from Salt Lake a day on account of the condition of John H. Murphy, general counsel to the federation, who was reported dying Instead a committee of 100 labor unionists, representing practically all the labor organizations of the city, was selected to welcome Haywood in the name of the unions. 1 ot pany The area of .Montana underlain by coal beds la estimated at 32,000 square The coals vary In character miles from lignite to bituminous, some of the latter being fair toklng coals, and the producing areas lie In somewhat widely separated fields There are good coal Indications twenty miles southwest fronj Oakley, A talr quality of lignite has Idaho. been uncovered, which Improves With depth, though the development ia but This lignite has been used slight as fuel by people In that section. Most of the mines in Montana are In 1905 worked eight hours a day. twenty-thremines, employing 1.290 men, reported eight hours to the working day; five mines, employing 193 men, reported eight hours for miners and ten hours for day men One mli), worked men, working eighty-fivnine hours. Park City organizations whose ores contain a liberal sprinkling of zinc values, are confidently anticipating the completion and operation of the Gras-sellChemical company's new plant on or near the property of the Daly Judge company. It ia expected that this new plant will solve the zinc prole lem for the Pgrk people An experimental run la being made at the Potosl, at Silver City, Idaho. The ore goes through the battery at .the rate of one ton per hour, with 40 meabu acaeena, and with scarcely any slimes saving" a considerable percenta jrarnTgaTnatin g age' of "gold plates, but the saving in tbe pans baa not been considered satisfactory. The Calumet and Hecla company, from 1900 to 1906, inclusive, baa paid a total of $35,000,-00to' in dividends. In the same period, the Amalgamated Copper company has paid $42,325,000, and the Anaconda The C. A H. Is now pay$22,650,000. al the rate of $8,-- " stockholdeis to ing 000,000 a year. Amalgamated Copper $12,400,010, and Anaconda $8,400,000. The discovery of the Dry Gulch digVer-zagings was made in 1877 by John and others, and in the first two as credited to years over $100,000 the district by Wells Fargo A Co., as being sent the refineries through their Since that office at Ward, Nevada time the total production has been between four and five million dollar. According to "Mineral Resources of the United States," Issued annually by the United States Geological Survey, the commercial production of tungsten ores and concent in teg during 1905 amounted to 803 short tons, valued at $268,676, as compared with 740 short tons, valued at $184,000, in 1904 and 292 short tons, valued at $43,639, in e e y GHOULS AT CASABLANCA. From Corpaaa of Christiana Vaults and Burn Thsm. Tangier. Another steamer has arrived here bringing 400 refuges fiorn Cusahlanca. These refugees were not permitted by the natives to leave iu peace. In spite of the presence in the harbor of the French cruiser Gal-ilea large body of Moore attacked the Europeans aa they' were embarking. They appeared, however, to fear reprisals, for they soon desisted and proceeded to the Christian cemetery. There they dragged out a number of corpses from the vaults and began to burn them. A body of troops arrived and fired on the Moors, A number of them "were killed and the band was dispersed. At the request- the - eoeawiaft-fcorpa.- , , here" the Galilee desisted from, bom barding the villages and her landing party. The consuls feared , ' - reprisals. 0 n 1903. A PREDICTED. lomlng Wmte Will Witnssa Sarcity of Coil Intha Northwest Cleveland, O. The northwest will suffer a more severe coal famine the coming winter than the one last year, according to ctfal shippers here. Discussing the situv tion, a prominent mine owner said; There are now 100 big ore carriers up the lake waiting cargoes.. They cannot get away until tha ore reaches the docks, which means a delay of perhaps ten days. These huge vessels when they reach Ohio porta with ore are not going to take back coal. No vessel owner who ia not under contract to carry coal will wait for a coal load, so the north-we- st probable, even with 12,000,000 tons of coal in the docks liy the first of December, will experience another fuel famine before next spring. record-breakin- g Machine to Catch Grasshoppers. A machine for the dehas been struction of grasshoppers tried here and pronounced a success. The machine Is composed of a lignt wlred-nettebox In front of which ia high flare of tin, which slopes back to this netted box. Thfr machine ia shout sixteen or eighteen feet wide and horses are hitched at both etida. A' field of lucern or hay la cut, but three of four strips a rod wide afo left uncut, and the grasshoppers get into this glass as soon as the other falls. Then the machine i - j driven down these strips. As the ndppera jump upward they encounter the smooth tin flare and slide back into the netted bor. From here they-are taken and put In sacks and drowned. A big deal has Just been closed by which Butte capitalists, represented by H. S. Clark and Adolph Gorten-mollewith Lewiston, Mont., partle. became the owners of the McDonald Coal Creek mine, located some ten The Central miles from Montana Coal rompany has been formed and will at once build s between the city and the mines. Estimated production of the Butte mines for July was 27.157,395 pounds pf copper fronj 413.485 tons of ore. This is an Increase of nearly l,000,iM0 over the June output, but Is pound 5.819,575 pounds less than for July, For the first seven months of 19oG the current year Butte camp ha shown a return of 181 605,007 pounds as compared with 215,822.400 pounds for the same period last year, a decrease of pro-du- e 34 217.391. or more than a year' rad-roa- Ion. The action of the copper stock markets of throughout the eastern late has been quite a disappointment ,iolhe wet Jn several ways, jentalling financial lossYnd 'uncertainty. Topper mining circles are beginning to wonder what the Immediate future has In store The report of the Steel corporation for the quarter ending June SO last showed net earnings of $45,503,705, as compared --with $39,122,492 for the quarter ending March 31, 1907, and the corresponding $4'i 125,033 in quarter of 1906. and $30,205,116 In 1 FUEL FAMINE 9o5. One of the governing factor in the declining tendency of copper ia the Increased production in the United State. The Statistical guesses, which have been published, showing a decrease In the production during the first stx month of tbP vear, have been Incorrect. Iigan, Utah -- southeastern Iron v Mountain, in Wyoming. Is again coming to the front The district is about forty miles northwest of Cheyenne, and tron ore was discovered there In 1840 and eight or ten years ago ore was shipped to, PMekto,,,.but Jhe work has been. abandoned since. Preparations are now being made to resume shipment. Judges Dont Suit Bribe Giver. San Francisco. William- - M. Abbott, In connection indicted for bribe-givinwith the United. Railroad deal, and William I. Brobeck, indicted for a similar offense In tbe Parkslde deal, have applead to the supreme court tor write ot prohibition. Abbott's application I directed against the superior court and Judge Lawlor, before whom he is to be tried; while Brotepk'aja' directed against Judge Dunfie. No action on these writs willritaken before Moo-dawhen the tofto me- court s.ts. g - -- |